In the promotion and continuance of the Greater Teaching and Illumination of mind and body in both the denser non-physical planes and Earth, there is a process which includes the establishment of religious or spiritual orders and their organizations through which the function of the Teaching can express.
Orders are established for many different specific reasons, but always under the umbrella purposes of continuing and updating the Teaching. The outer forms they express themselves through then become the organization or visible structure. The means to do that reflect the purposes - made coherent to the time, place, and people.
From the point of view of earthly man, these orders may seem disjointed and contradictory. However, from another point of view, they are complementary and continuous. It is from that point of view that the process of creation of orders is initiated, or commences.
Before getting into the process of this creation of orders, let us consider a broader perspective. The Divine primordial Being creates of itself all that exists, layer upon - or within - layer from the undefined into the densest. In the course of doing this it takes on different functions, each corresponding to the level or sphere of fineness and harmony, together with the corresponding purpose.
As there is denseness without form or structure, there is the layer of heart - defined yet not separate - unified yet not All. From there more definition begins and One can behold Itself. In this level of mind, One becomes separate enough to mirror Itself. As this goes deeper into greater solidity and definition, sphere upon sphere, spiral upon spiral, world within world, we find the increase in definition and apparent separation of form. It is here that the heavens and earth exist.
Also existing, and carried deeper within Itself and mind is the One Being differentiating Itself as through the mirror of experience of self-beholding. It is through separation that mind can perceive itself. Breath becomes the vehicle for the Divine One to move. The spirit-breath connects and carries. It is reflected from and within layer to layer, until, in the human it shows itself in the breath - which is not the real breath, but only an organ or vehicle to use to connect to the true Breath. In the process of this densification there are many kingdoms.
The level of Heart we have mentioned. It is undifferentiated. The mind is denser and reflects itself as whole. The level of pattern provides the space, or akasha, to accommodate the movement of mind. That spirit-stuff accumulates and the next layer forms. That provides another accommodation for reflection. Eventually cells within the structure of mind become dense enough to form what may be called bodies. There is then a corresponding tonal quality, light quality, breath quality, and consciousness. It is there we may call the heavens and the bodies of the universe.
Within that are wide, broad, deep, interspersed and intertwined qualities and purposes - with their corresponding points of view. Some are more inclusive than others. Some differentiate even more, and as they do there is a corresponding accumulation of spirit-stuff in form and denseness. These are the vehicles that Oneself builds through which It functions, corresponding in density to the plane or level, or vibration. When the two, the vehicle and the level are at relative solidity, one can affect the other directly. It is here, in the levels of mind that mind affects and perceives itself; in the level of pattern in which through intent, breath, and direction of feeling, that creation furthers; and so forth until in the level of the dense earth, the human body can interact. Yet the external structure and differentiated levels, from the finest to the deepest still are contained in, permeate, and make up all that is unseen and seen in the human. We may think of it as a cell within the being of the infinite body of the Divine, cloaked in shell upon shell, ending with the physical form.
As each layer and depth gets more solid, and as each reflection and mirror becomes more distinct, there is the corresponding tendency for the mind-stuff to accumulate and define itself as that form or structure, along with the corresponding purpose.
At one level there is the perception and feeling that one can get "lost" in this differentiation and possibly "forget" itself. And so, in infinite wisdom, or self-protection, the One provides the vehicle and process for itself to perceive and act as the intermediary, with the tools to reach both density and unmanifest, through Breath the connector and Heart the perceiver. It is this that become the Spirit of Guidance; Self-guidance to itself.
As the denseness and differentiation continues in natural order, so too is the means provided to remind oneself and guide oneself back. This is the function of that Spirit - or Being - conscious of itself both as undifferentiated on one end of the spectrum and dense separation on the other; with the vehicles of mind, feeling, thought, and sense through which to function, and the tool of breath through which to connect. There then are also the corresponding smaller bodies or cells that reflect these qualities of higher heavens. They are found in each of the layers, and as what are sometimes called the bodies of man. In reality these are only reflections of the divine personality. Symbolically they are the lower triangle of the 6 pointed star. But when the identification is with them, they are perceived as oneself and then one's vehicle, until finally, through re-memberance and expanding oneself in Return the identification and body grows back to itself.
So from the smaller differentiated form and consciousness, the aspect of being which guides is at one time considered external and later is rejoined. The point of view and identity has also a corresponding change.
It is from this point of view then that the "orders" are brought forth. They are some of the means used to reawaken oneself. They are some of the vehicles - through the human being - that the Divine All-One acts and reaches through to awaken itself. It is through these - the ordering of light, love, and harmony that a stage of development or Teaching is brought and is then updated; as long as the connection and receiver is still available. If not, then another means is found. And it is here that an additional ordering is brought into place, as a means to accomplish the next needed step or to satisfy an existing need.
From the point of view of the person who is attached to his body as himself this may appear haphazard. but from the point of view of That Which Guides Itself, it makes sense and is apparently natural.