PART I.

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Anth ropogenksis.
STANZA 1.
Twelve Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan . . , . , .15
Commentaries .
. 25
Beginnings of Sentient Life
25
Cosmic Ultimates
27
Dragon and Serpent
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• 39
Meicnry and the Sun .
. 31
The Celestial Governors of Humanity
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33
Shokra and the Earth .
35
The One and the Many
37
The "Seven" Mystery .
39
The Three Kinds of Light
41
The Numbers of Creation
43
Evolution not Creation
45
Adam Kadmon .
47
The First War in Heaven
49
N&rada and Asuramaya
Si
The Mirror of Futurity
53
STANZA II.
Nature Unaided Fails ......... 55
What the Earth- Whirl Produced ,....,. 55
The Monsters of Chaos . . ■ . , . . . .57
VI coNxairrs.
Unaided Physical Nature Fails ....... 59
Creation of Divine Beings in the Szoteric Accounts . . . . 6z
The Bodies of BrahnUL ........ 61
The Four Clasn^^H of Creators ........ 63
What the Gnostics say ........* 65
Who are the Flames? ......... 67
Divine Will becomes Er6s ........ 69
The Chronology of the Brfthmans ....... 69
The Race that Never Dies ........ 71
Yugas and Kalpas - . • 73
Variations of Bxact Science ........ 75
Cosmogony an Intelligent Plan ....... 77
STANZA III.
Attempts to Create Man ........ 76
The Lords of the Moon ........ 79
The Various Classes of Creators ....... 81
The I4ving Spiritual Fire ........ 85
Man a God in Animal Fonn ........ ^
"Fires," "Sparks," and "Flames" 87
The Son of Yah fr
STANZA IV.
Creation of the Fint Races .....••, 90
Man not Created Perfect ......•• 91
On the Identity and Differences of the Incarnating Powers . . • 9S
Pitris of the Gods and Demons ....... 9$
Progenitors of Men .......•• 9$
The Refusal to Create ......... 97
What Prometheus Symbolized •«..... 99
Records of Ancient Races ........ loi
The Svastika .......... 103
A Prophecy of the Seventh Race ....... 105
Primitive Man a Failure ........ 107
Perplexity of the Assyriologists ....... S09
What Hydrogen really is ....... . iit
The Evolution of the Senses ........ xi$
STANZA V.
The Evolution of the Second Race ....... 1x5
The Tabula Smaragdina ........ 115
The "Shells" of Sheba Hachaloth 117
The Secret Work of Chiram ........ 119
CONTENTS. Vll
PAOB
The Fire Deity .......... Z3i
Modes of Reproduction . . . . .133
Darwin on Androgynous Forms ....... 135
Nandin*s Primordial Blastema ....... 137
The Allegory of Castor and Pollnx ....... 139
The Dirine Hermaphrodite ........ 131
The Riddle of the Sphinx ........ Z31
Jah-Hovah Androgynous ........ 133
The Esoteric Cain ......... 135
The Jewish God-Name. ........ 137
STANZA VI.
The Evolution of the Sweat-Bom ....... 139
The Swan and the Egg ........ 139
Bi-Sexual Reproduction ........ 141
The Bi-Sexual Third Race ........ 143
The Shadow Image of Elohim ....... 145
A few Words about "Deluges" and " Noahs*' 147
The Ark of Manu ......... 147
The "Deluge" a Universal Tradition ...... 149
The Arkite Symbols ......... X51
The Jewish Noah and the Chaldsan Nuah . . . . • 153
The "White Island" 155
How old is Humanity? ........ 157
Could Men exist 18,000^000 Years Ago? ...... 157
Adam-Galatea .......... 159
What is Evolution? ......... 161
An "Oiganiam without Organs'* ....... 163
Science is Silent ......... 165
"Spontaneous Generation" ........ 167
Oceana of Carbonic Acid? ........ 169
STANZA VII.
Prom the Semi-Divine down to the First Human Races . . 170
The"BUckFire"of the"Zohar" 171
The "Adversaries" of the Gods . . . . • . 173
Primal Modes of Reproduction ....... 175
Monads and Rounds . . . . 177
How the First Mammals were Produced . . . - I79
The Gods are Deified Men ........ t8l
ChhftyA*Birth 183
The Story of Kandu and Pramlochft explained . .185
"Sweat-Bom" and Androg3mes ....... 187
The Birthdays of the Dhyants ....... 189
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CONTBNTS.
STANZA VIIL
Evolution of the Animal Mammalians: the First Fall
Men, the Progenitors of Animals
Archaic Zoology . . . ■
The Sin of the Mindless Men
What may be the Objections to the Foregoing
The Darwinists Mistaken
The Real Primseval Man
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STANZA IX.
The Final Creation of Man ........ 201
The Caose of Degeneration ........ 301
The Boneless Race ......... 303
Hybridization .......... 1205
The Separation of Sexes ........ 207
Primeval Language ......... 309
The Transformation of the Earth . . . . , . .311
Edens, Serpents and Dragons * . . . . .212
The Garden of Eden, a College ....... 313
Flying Camels .......... 315
Kircher's Dragon ......... 317
Has Satan any Reality? ........ 319
Two Schools of Magic . . . . . . . . . 321
The Seventh Son of the Seventh Son ...... 323
Buddha's Great Mountain ........ 335
Scientific Belief in "Dragons" . . . . . - . . 237
Flying Dragons . . . . . . . 339
The "Sons of God " and the "Sacred Island" ..... 330
The Continent of the Gods ........ 331
The Testimony of JacoUiot ........ 333
The Colossi of Bamian ........ 335
STANZA X.
The History of the Fourth Race ....... 237
The Moon-Coloured Race ........ 237
The Mysteries among the Mayas ....... 339
Satanic Myths ......--*. 241
Holy Satan .......... 343
Caput AftKelfrnim ......... 347
Theologicitl Hnuffers ......... 249
"Principles" explained ........ 251
Man» the V»]e .Hhatlow of God ....... 253
Satan, a Centripetal Force ........ 255
The Sacrifice of the Fiery Angels ... ^ ... 257
CONTENTS.
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The "Conscious Entity"
Answers to Objections .
Archaic Teachings in the "Purdnas" and "Oenesis." Physical
Mr. Gladstone kills "Genesis"
A Lesson in Natural History .
The Contradictions of Science
The "Absolute Rule" of Science not Borne Out by Pacts
The Inherent Law of Progressive Development
Nature is Uniform
Millions of Years Hence
A Panoramic View of the Early Races
Bailly and Faber
The Natural "Fall" . . \
The Symbolism of Cronus
The Races in Greek Mythology
The Golden Age
No Devils outside Humanity .
The Giants ....
Are Giants a Fiction? .
The Testimony of Antiquity .
Fourth Race Giants
The Sacred Four
The Children of Brahm&
Human and Animal Cross- Breeding .
The Dumb Man who Walks on All Fours
The Races with the "Third Eye" .
Man, the Storehouse of all the Seeds of Life
Mazdean Symbolism .
"Three-Eyed" Mortals
Occult Physiology
The Seat of the Soul .
The Evolution of the Eye
The Odd Eye is now a Gland
The Number of Monads is Limited
The hAVf of Retribution
The Primeval Manus of Humanity
The Seven and Fourteen Manus
The "Blinds" of Exotericism
The Four Earlier Races
The Esoteric MeaniUg of "Fish"
The Inner Man in the "Zohar"
Evolution
STANZA XL The Civilization and Destruction of the Fourth and Fifth Races Presentments of Truths ......
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CONTRHTS.
of Mankiiid >-••..,, 333
The Hindft STmboUsation •••••... 335
The Magi in the Days of Kriahna •••.... 337
The Atlantic Ocean-Flow ........ 330
Ob Foot acroai the Oceans ........ 3^
Changca of Climate .■•••... 3^
Cydea within Cycles ..••...., xa$
The Old Continents --....... xaj
The Secret Annals ......... 3^0
Standing Witneiaes to Submerged Continents . . • 351
The Bamian Statues 3^
The Handiwork of Initiates >....... 355
Cyclopean Rnins and Colossal Stones as Witnesses to Giants 356
Animated Stones ••-...... 357
The ** Rocking Stones" in Europe ....... 35^
Ltringr Speaking, and Moving Stones ...... 361
CniTcnal Witnesses ......... 363
It takes a God to become a Man ....... 355
STANZA XII.
The Fifth Race and its Divine Instructors
The "Great Dragon" and the '*SerpenU''
The Poles hare been Thrice Inverted
Serpents and Dragons under Different Symbolisms
The Naasenian Gnostics
The Sidereal and Cosmic Glyphs
The Two Mystic Poles .
God and Nature Anthropomorphized
Who were Buoch and the Others?
The Poles, the ** Heavenly Measure"
The Dragon Human yet Divine
Oar Divine Instmctors.
Hermes in Astronomy and Elsewhere
What the Priests told Herodotus
What are "Spirits " ? .
Plato's Idea of Evil
Wheat brought down by the Gods
The Mystery of Azazel .
Drunken Indra .
The Origin of the Satanic Myth
The Secret of the Dragon
Agni, the Fire-God
Merodach-Micfaael
The Sun-Gods, Creative Powers
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PAOS
Who first Created Woman ........ 405
Jehovah-OphiomorphoB ........ 407
Noah was a Kabir, hence he most have been a Demon . . , . 408
The Flood Legends ......... 409
The Oldest Persian Traditions about the Polar, and the Submerged Continents 411
The Legends of Iran . . . . 41X
Esoteric Chronology ......... 413
The Persian Phcenix ........ 415
The Arctic Continent ......... 417
The Unreachable Land ........ 419
Western Speculations, founded on the Greek and Paurftnic Traditions 490
Orientalists in the Wrong Box ....... 431
Future Continents, Symbolized ....... 423
The Puzzles of Antiquity . . . . ' . . . . 425
What Marcellus says ......... 437
The "Curse" from a Philosophical Point of View ..... 438
The Ancient and the Modem Man ....... 439
The Travesty of Prometheus ........ 431
Christ connected with Epaphos ....... 433
The Mistake of Arrian explained ....... 435
Was ^schylus Initiated? ........ 437
The Gift of Prometheus ........ 439
Additional Fragments from a Commentary on the Verses of Stanza XII . 441
The " Buddhas of Confession ".....,. 441
The Oldest Records about Atlantis ....... 443
The Doom of Atlantis ......... 445
The "Eastern Ethiopians" ........ 447
The Egyptian Zodiacs ......... 449
Theories of a Self-Made Adept ......*. 451
The Genealogical Tree of onr Race ....... 453
The Egyptian Labyrinth . . . . . . . . 455
CONCLUSION.
History "Written in the Stars" ....... 457
Wholesale Denial ......... 459
Historical "Liars" ......... 461
The Coming New Race ... . . . . . . 4613
The Future Mankind ......... 465