SECTION VII.

Scientific and Geological Proofs of the Existence of several Submerged Con- tinents .......... 832
Geology Corroborates Occultism ....... 823
Tradition as True as History ........ 825
Atlantis, Necessary to Ethnology ....... 827
Astnea falls on her Head ........ 829
Ingenious Explanations . . . . . . . .831
Haeckel for once is Right ........ 833
Final and Irrefutable Evidence ....... 835.
Enough has now been said ........ 837
Hear both sides .......... 839
The Prologue to Esoteric Truth ....... 841
Uy dJcttiM it not niaa, bat him thai wat mo.
John tU. iflL
UoDEftK Science insista npon the doctrine of ertdittton; so do htunsn reason and the Secret Doctrine, and the ides is corroborated by the ancient l^r^ida and myths, and even by the Bibie itself, when it is read between the lines. We see a flower slowly developing from a bud, and the bnd froBx its seed. But whence the latter, with all its predetermined programme of pfa}-sical transforma- tion, and its invisible, therefore spiriiual, forces which grsduaUy develop its form, colour, and odour? The word evolution speaks far itself. The germ of the present human race must have preexisted in the parent of this race, as the seed, in which lies hidden the flower of next summer, was developed in the capsule of its parent flower; the parent may be but jli(f JU/y difibrent, but it still diflfera from its future progeny. The antediluvian ancestors of the present elephant and lisanl were, perhaps, the mammoth and the ptesiosaurus; why should not the progenitors of onr human race have been the "giants" of the Vedas, the l^'^luspa, and the Book of Genesis f While it is podtively absurd to believe the "transformation of species" to have taken place according to some of the more nuterial- istic views of the Evolutionists, it is but nRtuml to think that each frennft, beginning with the molluscs and enditis; with monkoy-man, has modified from its own primordial and distinctive form. — Isis Un\-eiled, L 151-3.
PRELIMINARY NOTES
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fEE Archaic Stanzas, and the Four Pre-Historic Continents.
Psde* lotlus anivenl, qaotnTis Infi&itis modis varivt. MAiKt tunni MfnpcT eadrm.— SrutozA.
fHE Stanzas, with the Commentaries thereon, in this Volume, are drawn from the same Archaic Records as the Stanzas on Cosmogony in Volume I. As far as possible a verbatim translation is given: but some of the Stanzas are too obsicure to be understood without explana- tion, and therefore, as in Volume I, they are first given in full as they Stand, and then, when taken verse by verse with their Commeutaries, an attempt is made to make them clearer, by words added in foot-notes, in anticipation of the fuller explanation of the Commentar>'.
As regards the Evolutiou of mankind, the Secret Doctrine postulates three new propositions, which stand in direct antagonism to Modem Science as well as to current religious dogmas. It teaches: {a) the simultaneous evolution of seven human Groups on seven different portions of our globe; {b) the birth of the astrai, before the physical body, the former being a model for the latter; and {c) that man, in this Round, preceded ever>' mammalian — the anthropoids included — in the animal kingdom.^
The Secret Doctrine is not alone in speaking of primeval Men bom simultaneously on the seven divisions of our Globe. In the Divine Pymandcr of Hermes Trismegistus. we find the same seven primeval
* Sec Gtmesi* H. 19. Adftm is formed In \-ene 7, and in versr 19 it is Mid : **Out of the ffroiind the l/wd God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought theni onto Adam to «ee«lHt be would call them." Thus man wa5 created before the auimal«; for the animals mentioned in chapter i are the si^nsoftiie Zodiac, while thr mati, "nude and female," ianot man, hut the Host of dK Sct>hirotb, Forces, or Angels, "made in his COod's] imafcc and after hJs likcaess." The Adam, mati, ii bM mode in that likeness, nor i» It «o aaAerted in the Bibtr. Morrovcr, the Second Adnm is Eiwteri- critty a septenary which reprebenta seven men, or rAtber groups of men. Por ttic Hr^t Adnm. the IkMlmaa, U the lynlbesis of the ten Sephiroth. Of Ihr&e, the upper Trind rrmnin^ in the Archet>-jKiI Vocld aa the future "Trinity," while the seven Imver Sephiroth create the raaidfevted material world; and Uds septennutc 1* the Second Adam. Gtnesis, and the myslrrle;! upon which it waa fabricated, caae Cram Eg^Tt- The "Cod" of the lit chapter of Genaii tft the LOKoe, and the "Lord God'* of ibK ttd chapter the Creative Elohim, the loner I'owcni^
THE SECKKT DOCTRIKB.
be found as plainly, as they are in Pymander and in the Book of the con- cealed Mystery of the Kabatah. In the latter Adam Kadmon is the Sephirolhal Tree, as also the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil." And that Tree, says verse 32, " hath around it seven columns or palaces, of the seven creative Angels operating in the Spheres of the seven Planets on our Globe, As Adam Kadmon is a collective name, so also is the name of the man Adam. Sa>'s George Smith, in his Chal- dean Account 0/ Genesis:
The word Adam nsed io these legends for tlie first human being is evidently a prvper name^ ihU is omfy used as a term for mankind. Adam appears as a proper name in Genesis, bat certainly in some passages is only used in the same sense
a& the AAsj'rian word.*
Moreover, neither the Chaldaean nor the Biblical Deluge, with their stories of Xisuthnis and Noah, is based on the universal or even on the Atlanteau Deluges, recorded in the Indian allegory of Vaivas\'ata Mauu. They are the exoteric allegories based on the Esoteric Mysteries oi' Samothrace. If the older Chaldseans knew the Esoteric truth concealed in the Purtnic legends, the other nations were aware only of the Samothracian Mysten*. and allegorized it. They adapted it to their astronomical and anthropological, or rather phallic, notions. Samo- thrace is known historically to have been famous in antiquity for a deluge, which submerged the country and reached the top of the highest mountains; an event which happened before the age of the Argonauts. It was overflowed very suddenly by waters from the Euxine. which had been regarded up to that time as a lakcf But the Israelites had, moreover, another legend upon which to base their allegor>% the legena of the Deluge, that transformed the present Gobi Desert into a sea /or the last time, some 10,000 or 12,000 year- ago, and which drove many Noahs and their families to the surround- ing mountains. As the Babylonian accounts are only now restored from hundreds of thousands of broken fragments — the mound of Kouyunjik alone hailing yielded from Layard's excavations upwards of twenty thousand fragments of inscriptions — the proofs here cited are comparatively scanty; yet such as they are, they corroborate almost every one of our teachings; three most certainly, at the very least. These are :
(i) That the race which was the first to ^1 into generation was
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dark race (zalmat-qaqadi), which they call the Adamu or Dark Race, and that Sarku, or the Light Race, remained pure for a long while subsequently.
12) That the Babylonians recognized two principal Races at the time of the FaU. the Race of the Gods, the Ethereal Doubles of the Pitris. hsving preceded these two. This is Sir H. Rawlinson's opinion. These Races arc our Second and Third Root- Races.
(3) That these seven Gods, each of whom created a Man. or Croup ofmen« were "the Gods imprisoned or incarnated." These Gods were: the God 2i; the God Zi-ku, Noble Life, Director of Purity: the God Mir-ku, Noble Crown, "Saviour from death of the Gods [later on] imprisoned," and the creator of "the dark races which his hand has made"; the God Libzu, "wise among the Gods*'; the God Ni.ssi; the God Suhhab; and Hea or Sa, their s>-nthesis, the God of Wisdom and of the Deep, identified with Oannes-Dagon, at the time of the Fall, and called, collectively, the Demiurge, or Creator.*
There are two "Creations" so-called, in the Babylonian fragments, and as Getush has adhered to this, we find its first two chapters distin- ' .'d as the Elohite and the Jehovite Creations. Their proper order, ver, is not preserved in these or in any other exoteric accounts. Now these "Creations," accordingtotheOccult Teachings, refer respec- tively to the formation of the primordial seven Men by the Progenitors, ^^ic Pilris. or Elohini. and to that of the human Groups after the Fall. ^HAll this will be examined in the light of Science and comparisons ^Kawn from the scriptures of all the ancient nations, the BibU included, ^b we proceed. Meanwhile, before we turn to the Anlhropogenesis of the prehistoric Races, it may be useful to agree upon the names to be given to the Continents on which the four great Races, which preceded our Adamic Race, were born, lived, and died. Their archaic and Esoteric names were many, and varied with the language of the nation vhich mentioned them in its annals and scriptures. That which in the Vendiddd^ for instance, is referred to as Airjana Vaejof wherein was boni the original Zoroaster.^ is called in the Puranic literature Shvcta Dvipa, Mount Meru, the Abode of Vishnu, etc.; and in the Secret
* Cfc«itfM« Acatunt of Gnuxiz, p. 8>.
■ Bee Smmd.. ??, n. ' . , ■ ,
t By " orisrinal " wrtoean the Amsliasp^nd, called "ZnrnthtiKhtro, the lord and ruler of the Vara
mde by Tlma in Uiat land." Thrre were several 7.arathu!«lilnis or ZrrtuvtB, the DabnUtn aluue
t— iimating tliinem ; but tltc#e were all rrTncnrualfons of the fintt one. The last Zorouter wai the
itmAa of Hie Fire-tcmplc or Aiarekfth, and Uie writer of the work» on the priintr\-al SAcnd Magian
I ilirtinjTil by Atcxiuider.
THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
Doctrine is simply named the "Land of the Gods." under their chiefe, the "Spirits of this Planet." M^
Therefore, in view of the possible, and even very probable conftisioi^^ that may arise, it is considered more convenient to adopt, for each of the four Continents constantly referred to» a name more familiar to the cultured reader. It is proiwsed. then, to call the first Continent, or rather the first terra firma on which the First Race was evolved by the di^nne Progenitors:
I, The Imperishable Sacred Land. The reason for the name is tliat it is stated that: this "Imperishable
Sacred Land" never shared the fate of the other Continents, because is the only one whose destiny it is to last from the beginning to the" eud of the Manvantara throughout each Round. It is the cradle of th^ first man and the dwelling of the last divine mortal, chosen as a ShishI for the future seed of humanit\'. Of this mysterious and sacred land ver>' little can be said, except, perhaps, according to a poetical expres- sion in one of the Commentaries, that the "^Poie-siar has Us watchful eye upon it^ from the dawn to the close of the twilight of a Day of the Great Brcathr^