COSMIC HARDWARE · AN IDEA, UP CLOSE
THE STEP-DOWN
Several teachings say you are a smaller piece of something larger, handed down in steps. Here is how that idea is meant to work, with a real machine beside it.
Two ladders
THE TEACHING
- MONAD
- SOUL
- PERSON
THE MACHINE
- POWER PLANT · 10–25 KV
- SUBSTATION
- STREET
- YOUR WALL · 120 V
"Each step down loses something, and gains somewhere to land."
The teaching
In C. W. Leadbeater's telling, the Monad puts down part of itself, the soul, and the soul puts down part of itself: the person. Each is "a small part and an imperfect expression" of the one above. You are the last step.
"A fragment of a fragment." — C. W. Leadbeater, A Textbook of Theosophy (1912)
The machine beside it
Power plants generate about 10,000–25,000 volts. Transformers step it up for the long journey, then down again and again (substation, street, house) to the 120 volts at your wall. Each step trades voltage for current, so the thing at the end survives. About five percent is lost on the way.
A comparison, not a proof. Sources: OpenStax University Physics 2 §15.6; U.S. EIA.
The model on this site: one of 20,736
MODEL HALF
Keylontic Science (Ashayana Deane) gives the step-down a count. Each level divides into twelve: 1 → 12 → 144 → 1,728 → 20,736. In this model, every incarnate self is one of 20,736 from a single Rishi.
THE KEYLONTIC MODEL
- RISHI · 1
- AVATAR · 12
- OVERSOUL · 144
- SOUL · 1,728
- INCARNATE · 20,736
It is a belief, not a measurement. Nobody has counted it. We put it beside real physics to examine it, not to ask you to accept it.
Go deeper
Section II of the journal, The Step-Down, takes this further: eight prompts, a step map, and one question. What would count?