chapter is the spiritual, therefore pure androgyne, Adam Kadmon. ^lien woman

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ifRies from the left rib of the second Adsm {of dust), the pure Virgo is separated, »iDd falling inlo •'generation," or the downward cycle, becomes Scorpio, emblem of and matter. While the ascending cycle points to the purely Spiritual Races, or ten Prcdiluvian Patriarchs^ the Praj&patis and Sephiroth, led on by the crca- 'lifc Deity itself, who is Adam Kadmon or Yodcheva, [spiritually,] the lower one Qdiovah] is that of the Terrestrial Races, led on by Enoch or Libra, the seventh; vho, because be is half-dinne. half-terrestrial, is said to have been taken by God iliTC. Enoch, or Hennes, or Libra, are one.*
This is only one of the several tneanings. No need to remind the scholar that Scorpio is the astrological sign of the organs of reproduc- tion. Like the Indian Rishis, the Patriarchs are all convertible in their numbers, as well as interchangeable. According to the subject to which they relate they become ten, twelve, seven or five, and even JovLfUen^ and they have the same Esoteric meaning as the Manns or Rishis.
Moreover, Jehovah, as may be shown, has a variety of etymologies,
but only those are true which are found in the Kabalah. mrp (leva)
is the Old Testament term, and was pronounced Ya-va. Inman
suggests that it is contracted from the two words rr ^r^^ Yaho-Iah,
Jaho-Jah, or Jaho is Jah. Punctuated it is rnrn, which is, however, a
Rabbinical caprice to associate it with the name Adoni, or ""JW, which
has the same points. It is curious, and indeed hardly conceivable,
ibat the Jews anciently read the name miT Adoni, when they had so
many names of which Jeho, and Jah, and lah, constituted a part. But
io it was; and Philo Byblus, who gives us the so-called fragment of
Sanchuniathon, spelt it in Greek letters Icuw, Javo or Jevo. Theodoret
Siys that the Samaritans pronounced it Yahva, and the Jews Yaho.
Prof. Gibbs, however, suggests its punctuation thus: rniT^ (Yc-hou-\'ih);
and he cut the Gordian knot of its true Occult meaning. For in this
^hst form, as a Hebrew verb, it means "he will — be."t It was also
^^cri\'ed from the Chaldaic verb win, or rnn. eue (eve), or eua (eva),
"to be." And so it was, since from Enosh, the '*Son of Man," only,
were the truly hiunau Races to begin and "to be," as males and
females. This statement receives further corroboration, inasmuch as
Parkhurst makes the verb rrn to meau» (i) '*to fall down" {i.e. into
generation or Matter); and (2) "to be, to continue" — as a race. The
aspirate of the word eua (Eva), "to be," being mn, Heve (Eve),
which is the feminine of mrh, and the same as Hebe, the Grecian
• JUi VmvfiUd, VL 4«t. 4«^5.
6ce for comparisoD Houa^ xii. 6, wbere It U so puactoated.
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Goddess of youth and the Olympian bride of Heracles, makes the name Jehovah appear still more clearly in its primitive double-sexed form.
Finding in Sanskrit such syllables as Jah and Yah, t.g., Jfth-navi, "Gauges," and Jagan-natha, "Lord of the World." it becomes clear why Mr. Rawlinson is so very confident in his works of an Ar>-an or Vedic influence on the early mythology of Babylon. Nor is it to be much wondered at that the alleged ten tribes of Israel disappeared during the captivity period, without leaving a trace behind them, when we are informed that the Jews had de /ado but two tribes — those ot^ Judah and of Levi. The Levites, moreover, were not a tribe at all, but, a priestly caste. The descendants have only followed their progeni-^ tors, the various patriarchs, into thin, sidereal air. There were Brahms\ and A'brahms, in days of old, truly, and before the first Jew had beeaj born. Every nation held Its first God and Gods to be androg>'nous; nor could it be otherwise, since they regarded their distant primeval^ progenitors, their dual-sexed ancestors, as divine Beings and Gods, jus! as do the Chinese to this day. And they were divine in one sense, as also| was their first human progeny, the "mind-born" primitive humanity»l which was most assuredly bi-sexual, as all the more ancieut sjTnbolsj and traditions show.
Under the emblematical devices and peculiar phraseology of the priesthood 01 old, lie latent hints of sciences as yet undiscovered during the present cycle. Well acquainted as may be a scholar with the hieratic writing and hieroglyph ical system of the Egyptians, he must first of all Icani to sift their records. He has to as8ui« himself, compasses and rule in hand, that the picture-writing he is examining fi to a line, certain fixed geometrical figures which are the hidden keys to such reo before he ventures on an interpretation.
But there are myths which speak for themselves. In this class we may inclu the double-scxed first creators of every Cosmogony. The Greek Zeus-Zt^n {^therj and Chthonia (the Chaotic Earth) and Metis (Water), his wives; Osiris and Ists- Latona — the former God also representing ^ther, the first emanation of the Supreme Deity, Amun, the primeval source of Light; the Goddess Earth and Water again; Mithras, the rock-born God, the symbol of the male Mundane Fire, or the personified Primordial Light, and Milhra, the Fire-Goddess, at once his mother and his wife; the pure element of Fire (the active, or male principle) regarded as light and heat, in conjunction with Earth and Water, or Matter (the .emale or passive element of cosmical generation).*
All these are records of the primeval divine Hermaphrodite.
THK SWAN AND THE EGG.
STANZA VI. THE EVOLUTION OF THE *• SWEAT- BORN."
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tz. The evolntion of the three Races continued. 33. The Second Race creaies the Third and perishes.
22. Then thb Second evolvbd the Egg-born, the Third.* The Sweat grew, its Drops grew, and the Drops became hard AND ROUND. The Son warmed it; the Moon cooled and shaped XT; THE Wind fed it until its ripeness. The White Swan prom THE Starry Vault! overshadowed the big Drop. The Egg or THE Future Race, the M.-vn-swanJ op the later Third (a). First male-female, then man and woman (^).
(a) The text of the Stanza clearly implies that the human embryo was nourished ab extra by Cosmic Forces, and that the "Father- Mother" furnished apparently the germ that ripened ; in all probability a "sweat-bom egg," to be hatched out, in some mysterious way, dis- connected from the "double" parent. It is comparatively easy to conceive of an oviparous humanity, since even now man is, in one sense, "egg-bom." Magendie, moreover, in his Precis ^limentaire de Physiologic^ citing
A case where the umbilical cord was ruptnred and perfectly cicatrized, yet the infant was born alive, pertinently asks:
How was the circulation carried on in this orgau ?
On the next page he says:
Nothing is at present known respecting the use of digestion in the fcetus.
And respecting its nutrition, he propounds this query:
What, then, can we say of the nutrition of the foetus ? Physiological works con- tain only vague conjectures on this point.
"Ah. but," the sceptic may urge, "Magendie's book belongs to the l?st generation, and Science has since made such strides that his stigma of ignorance can no longer be fixed upon the profession." Indeed; then let us turn to a very great authority upon Physiology, viz., Sir Michael Foster, and, to the disadvantage of Modem Science, we shall find him saying:
lUcc.
* The Moon.
t Hamsa.
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THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
Concerning the rise and development of tlie functional activities of the embrj'o, our knowledge is almost a blank. We know scarcely anything about the various steps by which the primary fundamental qualities of the protoplasm of the ovum are differentiated into the complex phenomena which we have attempted in this book to explain.*
The Students of Trin. Coll. Cantab, will now kindly draw a vdl before the statue of Hygieia and bandage the eyes of the busts of Galen and Hippocrates, lest they look reproachfully at their degenerate descendants. One further fact we must note. Sir Michael Foster is discreetly silent about the case of the ruptured umbilical cord cited by his great French confrere.
(b) This is a very curious statement as explained in the Commen- taries. To make it clear; The First Race having created the Secoi by '* budding/' as explained above, the Second Race gives birth to Third — which itself is separated into three distinct divisions, consistinj of men differently procreated. The first two of these are produced b] an oviparous metliod, presumably unknown to modem Natural History, While the early sub-races of the Third Humanity procreated thei species by a kind of exudation of moisture or vital fluid, the drops ol which coalescing formed an oviform ball — or shall we say egg — that served as an extraneous vehicle for the generation therein of a foetus and child, the mode of procreation by the later sub-races changed, in its results at all events. The little ones of the earlier sub-races were entirely sexless — shapeless even for all one knows ;t but those of the later sub-races were born androgynous. It is in the Third Race that the separation of sexes occurred. From being previously a-sexual, HunianitA' became distinctly hermaphrodite or bi-sexual; and finally the man-bearing Eggs began to give birth, gradually and almost im- perceptibly in their evolutionary development, first, to beings in which- one sex predominated over the other, and. finally, to distinct men and- ■cvomen. And now let us search for corroboration of these statements in the religious legends of East and West. Let us take the "Egg-born Race" first. Think of Kashyapa, the Vedic sage, and the most prolific of creators. He was the son of Marichi, BrahmS's Mind-bom Son; and he is made to become the father of the Ndgas, or Serpents, among other beings. Exoterically, the Nagas are semi-divine beings which have a human face and the tail of a serpent. Yet there was a race of Nagas, said to be a thousand in number only, born or rather sprung
* Ttxt-Book 0/ Phytiotogy, Tblrd BdltioD, 1879, p. 623.
T sec the Timmuz.
BI-SEXUAL RBPRODTOTIOK.
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from Kadru, Kashyapa's wife, for the pitrpose 0/ peopling Pataia^ which
is undeniably America, as will be shown; and there was a Naga-Dvipa,
one of the seven divisions of Bharatavarsha, India, inhabited by a
ipeople bearing the same name, who are allowed, even by some
iOrientalists, to be hUtorical, and to have left many a trace behind them
^this day.
Now the point most insisted upon at present is that, whatever origin be claimed for man, his evolution took place in this order: (i) sexless, as all the earlier forms are; (2) then, by a natural transition, he became a "solitar>' hermaphrodite," a bi-sexual being; and (3) finally ^^eparated and became what he is now. Science teaches us that all the pnmitive forms, though sexless, "still retained the power of under- going the processes of a-sexual multiplication"; why, then, should man be excluded from that law of Nature ? Bi-sexual reproduction is an evolution, a specialized and perfected form on the scale of Matter of the fissiparous act of reproduction. Occult teachings are preeminently panspermic, and the early histor>' of humanity is hidden only "from ordinary mortals" ; nor is the histor)' of the primitive Races buried for the Initiates in the tomb of time, as it is for profane Science. There- ibre, supported on the one hand by that Science which shows us pro-
Igressive development and an internal cause for every external modifica- tioti, as a law in Nature; and, on the other hand, by an implicit faith iathe Wisdom — we may say Pansophia even — of the universal traditions pthcred and preserved by the Initiates, who have perfected them into an almost faultless system — thus supported, we venture to state the doctrine clearly.
In an able article, written some fifteen years ago, our learned and respected friend Prof. Alexander Wilder, of New York, shows the absolute logic and necessity of believing "The Primeval Race Double- Sexed," and gives a number of scientific reasons for it.* He argues firstly, that a large part of the vegetable creation exhibits the pheno- menon of bi-sexualily. the Linnaean classification enumerating thus Lmost all plants. This is the case in the superior families of the vegetable kingdoms as much as in the lower forms, from the hemp to the Lombardy poplar and ailanthus. In the animal kingdom also it is the same. In insect life, the moth generates a worm, and the worm becomes a moth, as in the Mysteries the great secret was expressed —
* Sec Bxtncta from that Basay in The Thtoiophist, of Febmuy, zS&3, from which the fallowing is
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THE SECRRT DOCTRINK.
Taurus Dracorunt genuit, et Taurum Draco. The coral-producing- family, which, according to Agassiz, has spent many hundreds of thou- sands of years, during the present geological period, in building out the peninsula of Florida, produce their offspring from themselves like the buds and ramifications in a tree. Bees are somewhat in the same line. The aphides, or plant lice, keep house like Amazons, and virgin parents perpetuate the race for ten successive generations.
What say the old Sages, the Philosopher-teachers of antiquity? Aristophanes speaks thus on the subject in Plato's Banquet:
Our natare of old W3fi not the same aa it is now. It was androgynous; the fomi and name partaking of, and being common to both the male and female. Their bodies . , . were round, and tlie manner of their running circular.*] They were terrible in force and strength and had prodigious ambition. Hen( Zeus divided each of tliem into two, making them weaker; Apollo, under hii direction, closed up the skin.
Meshia and Meshiane were but a single individual with the ol Persians.
They also taught that man was the product of the Tree of Ufe, growing in- drogyoons pairs, till they were separated at a subsequent modification of human form.
In the Book of the Generations {TokdutK) of Adam, the verse
God created {bara, brought forth) man in his image, in the image of God he him, male and female created he them,
— if read Esoterically will yield the true sense, viz.:
The Elohim [Gods] brought forth from themselves [by modification] man in their] image .... created ihey him [collective Humanity, or Adam], male female created he [collective Deity] them.t
This will show the Esoteric point. The Sexless Race was their first) production, a modification of awA from themselves, the pure Spiritual Existences; aud this was Adam solus. Thence came the Second Race; Adam-Eve, or Jod-Heva. inactive Androg>'ues; and finally the TkirdJ^ or the "^'if/ara^/wj^ Hermaphrodite," Cain and Abel, who produce the' Fourth, Seth-Enos. etc. It is this Third, the last semi-spiritual Race,.'
* Compare fis^iel's v\a/um (chap. 1) of the four Divine Bcinsr* who "bad tbe ttkencM of a mao'*^ and y«l had the ■ppeorance of a wheel, " when they went, they weot upon their four sides for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."
t Eueibinus, a Chnstiau, and the Rabbia Soinuel, Mcnassch ben Israel, and Mainmntdes taught that " Adam had itw faces and oHf person, and from the bcfrinnln? he was both male and fctoale-— 'j analc ou one side and femaJe on the other [like Manu's Brahmi] ; but uAcrwards tbe parts \ separated." The one hundred and thirty-nintb Psalm of Kavid was dted by Habbl Jeremiah BUssu* as evldcnoe of this : "Thou hast /ai Ai'omi/ me behind and b^ore," not btset as in the SiMt, which is absurd and raeaniugleaa. and this ahows, as Prof. Wilder thinks, "that the primeval form of ' •iftiitinri was aodrogynous."
THB BI-SBXTJAL THIRD RACE.
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which was also the last vehicle of the divine and innate Wisdom, in- geoerate in the Enochs, the Seers of that Mankind. The Fourth^ which had tasted of the fruit of the Tree of Good and Evil — Wisdom I already united to earthy, and therefore impure, intelligence* — had consequently to acquire that Wisdom by initiation and great struggle. And the union of Wisdom and Intelligence, the former ruling the latter, is called in the Hermetic books **the God possessing the double fecundity of the two sexes.'*
Mystically Jesus was held to be man-woman. So also in the Orphic HjTnns, sung during the Mysteries, we find: "Zeus is a male, Zeus is an immortal maid." The Egyptian Ammon was the Goddess Ne'ith. in his other half. Jupiter has female breasts, Venus is bearded in some of her statues, and III, the Goddess, is also Su-dyumna, the God, as Vaivasvata's progeny.
Says Professor Wilder :
The name Adam, or man, iUelf implies this double form of existeace. It is identical with Athama^, or Thomas (Tamil, Tam\ wliich is rendered by the Greek Didumos, a twin ; if, therefore, the first woman was formed subsequently to the first Bian, she must, as a logical necessity, be "taken out of man.'* Accordingly we TnA'. "And the side which the Lord God [Elohim] had taken from man, made he a wnnan," The Hebrew word here used is Tzain, whicli bears the translation we lure given. It is easy to trace the legend in Bcrosus. who Bays that Thalattk (the Omardka, or Lady of Urka) was the beginning of creation. She was also Telita (? Mclita], the queen of the Moon. . . .
The two memorable twin-births of Genesis, that of Cain and Abel, and of Esan and Jacob, shadow the same idea. The name Hebel is the same as Eve, and its characteristic seems to be feminine. ** Unto thee shall be his desire," said the Lord God to Caiu; " and thou shalt rule over him." The same language had been altered to Eve: *'Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
kThus the pristine bi-sexual unity of the human Third Root-Race is tn axiom in the Secret Doctrine. Its virgin individuals were raised to 'Gods," because that Race represented their "Dixnne Dynasty." The nodenis are satisfied with worshipping the male heroes of the Fourth Race, who created Gods after their own sexual image, whereas the Gods of primeval mankind were " male aw*/ female." As stated in Volume I, the Humanities developed coordinately, and
• Ser the anion of Chokinah, Wl*doim, with Biniih, IntcUigExicc, or Jehovih, the Demiurjfr, called rkHlentAodiziff In Uic Prnvfrbs of Solomon ivii). Cnto men wisdom (divine Occult Wisdom) criclta : **Ob. jrc simpte. undentand Witdom; and ye fools, be of an understandiDg beart." It is Spirit and Xattar, the Noiia and the Psyche ; of tbe latter of 'which St. James says that it ia " earthly, seasnal.
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on parallel lines with the four Elements, every new Race being physio-1 logically adapted to meet the additional Element. Our Fifth RaceisI rapidly approaching the Fifth Element — call it interstellar ether, if will — which has more to do, however, with psychology than with physics. We men have learned to live in every climate, whether frigiij or tropical, but the first two Races had nought to do with climate, narl were they subservient to any temperature or change therein. Aaii thus, we are taught, men lived down to the close of the Third Root-| Race, when eternal spring reigned over the whole Globe, such as \s\ now enjoyed by the inhabitants of Jupiter; a world, which, as Camille Flammarion says:
Is not subject like our own to the vicissitudeG of seasons nor to abrupt alt tions of temperature, but is enriched with all the treasures of eternal spring.
Those Astronomers who maintain that Jupiter is in a raoUen
condition, in our sense of the terra, are invited to settle their dis-i
pute with this learned French Astronomer.f It must, however^ ^ — ■ ■ — ' • ■ ^-— ^.^^_
* IfuraliU tUs Mondet, p. 69.
T A hypothesis evolved io 1S81 by Mr. W. MatUea WllUams aeema to have hnprewed Astronc but litUe. Says the Author of "The Fuel of the Sun," in Kno:i/Iedgf. Dec. z^i, 1881 :
"Appljring' now the rwcarchea of l>r. Andrews to the condition*, of Bolarcxifitenc* .... I chide that the sun hoa no nucleus, either solid, liquid, tr gaseous, bat is compoeed of matter tn the critical state, aurrouiidcd. first, by b flamiug envelope, due to the rccoinbi nation of' diasodated matter, and outside of this, by another envelope of vapours due to this combination.
This ifl a novel theory to be added to other hypotheses, ali scitntifie and orthodox. The mesninc ' the "critical stale " ts explained by Mr. W. Mnttieu Williams in Uie s.ime joiininl (Dec. q. i88i>, Ini article on "Solids. Liquids, and Gases." Spealdne of au experiment by Or. Andrews on acid, the Sdenttst itayt) that :
" \A*bcn 88" is reached, the boundar>- between liquid and gas vanishes; liquid and )fas have into one mysterious intermediate fluid: an indefinite fluctuating' something is there filling the wl of the tube— an ethereallzed liquid or a visible gas. Hold a red-hot poker between your eye and 1 light ; you will see an upflowing wave of movement of what appears like liquid air. The apj of the hybrid fluid in the tube resembles this, but is sensibly denser, and e^'idc^tIy «.tiind« bet the liquid and gaseous states of matter, as pitch or treacle stands betweeu solid and liquid.*
Tlic temperature at which this occurn has been named by Dr. AndrcwH the "critical temperature ''t here the gaseous and the hquid states are "continuous." and it is probable that alt other sut»tances capable of existing in l>oth states have their own particular critical tciuperaturcs.
Speculating further upon this "critical" state, Mr. W. Mattieu Willinms emits some quite Occult theories about Jupiter and other Planets. Uc Mk>'S :
" Our notinns of solids, liquids, and gaitcs are Jerived from our experiences of the state of mi here upon this Earth. Could we be rrmoved to another planet, they would be curiously changed. Mercury water would rank as one of the condensible goaes; on Mar«. as a fusible solid ; but •mtim Jupiter?
" Recent observations justify us in regarding this as a miniature sun, with an external fntgkipe cloudy matter, apparently of partially-condensexl water, but red-hot, or probably Mill hotter wit Hia vaporous atmosphere Is evidently of enormous dejiih, and the force of gravitation being^ oa visible outer surface twa-and-a*hnir times greater than that on our carth'-t surface, the titraocpt pressure, in deacending below this visible surface, must soon reach that at which the vapour of wal would be brought to its critical condition. Therefore we may Infer that the oceans of Jupiter ar* neither of froxeu, liquid, nor gaseous wotcr, but are oceans, or atmospheres of ct-t'tinai water. If fish or birds swim or fly therein. Lhey must be very critically organised."
.:1c Uic whole mass of Jupiter la 300 timc!» greater thaji thai of the Earth, and iU
*HE SHADOW IMAGE OF ELOHIM.
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always borne in mind that the "eternal spring" referred to is only a condition cognized as suck by the /avians . It is not "spring," r^ we know ii. In this reservation is to be found the reconcilia- tion between the two theories here cited. Both embrace partial truths.
It is thus a universal tradition that mankind has evolved gradtially into its present shape from an almost transparent condition of tex- ture, and neither by miracle nor by sexual intercourse. Moreover, this is in full accord with the ancient Philosophies; from those of Egypt and India, with their Divine Dynasties, down to that of Plato. And all these universal beliefs must be classed with the '* pre- sentiments" and ** obstinate conceptions." some of them ineradic- able, in popular faiths. Such beliefs, as remarked by Louis Figuier^ are
Frequently the ontcome of the wisdom and observation of an infinite number of generations of men. . . . [Por], a tradition which has a uniform and universal existence, has all the weight of scientific testimony.^
And there is more than one such tradition in the PaurSnic allegories, as has been shown. Moreover, the doctrine that the First Race of man- kind was formed out of the ChhlySs, or Astral Images, of the Pitris, is fully corroborated in the Zohar:
In the Tseiem^ shadow image of Blohini [the Pitris], He made Adam (man).t
It has been repeatedly urged as an objection that, however high the degree of metaphysical thought in ancient India, yet the old Egyptians had nothing but crass idolatry and zoolatr>- to boast of; Hermes, as alleged, being the work of Greek Mystics who lived in Egypt. To this, an answer can be given: a direct proof that the Egyptians believed in
JiCTgy tfjwttrds the centre proportional to this, its m:itcrials, if ainular to thoec of the Earth, and no Hotter, would tic corwidemlily more dense, and the whole planet would liavr n higher specific KTm\-ity; OVt we know by the muTenieut of its satellites that, instead of this, its specific jn^vity is le^s than n rourtli of that of the Earth . This justifies the conclusion that it is iatciucly hot ; for even hydrogen. If cold, would become denser than Jupiter under such pressure.
"As oil elementary substances may exist aa aolids. liquids, or {paars, or, critically, according to the conditions of temperature and pressnie, I am justified in b>'potbetically concladiu? that Jupiter is neither a solid, a liquid, nor a gaarous planet, but a crilual planet, or an orb composed internally of associated elemeats in the cutical state, and surrounded by a denae atmosphere of their vapours and IhofiC of some of their compounds buch as water. The same reasonine applies to Saturn and other large and rarefied planets."
Xt is gratifying^ to see how "scientific imagination" approaches ewiy year more doacly to the borderland of our Occult Teachings.
• 7Tu Day afUr Death, p. 23. Cremooa Bd., iii. 76a ; Brody Bd., Ui. 159a; Qabtaiak. Xsuc Myer, p. 440.
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the Secret Doctrine is, that it was taught to them at Initiation. IH"tlie objectors open the Edoga Physica et Ethicts of Stobaeus, the Greek com- piler of ancient fragments, who lived in the fifth century, a.d, TJwsj following is a transcription by him of an old Hermetic fragment showing the Egyptian theory of the Soul. Translated word for word, it says :
From one Soul, that of All, spring all the souls, which spread themselves as if purposely distributed through the world. These souls undergo many tronsfomiA- lions; those which bxk already creeping creatures turn into aquatic animals; from these aquatic animals are derived land animals; and from the latter the btnU From the beings who live aloft in the air (heaven) men are born. On reaching till status of men, the souls receive the principle of {conscioos) Immortality, become spirits, then pass into the choir of Gods. |,
23. The Sklf-born werb the ChhAyas, the Shadows from thb Bodies of the Sons of Twilight. Neither water nor fiek i,
COULD DESTROY THEM. ThEIR SONS WKRB.*
This verse cannot be understood without the help of the Commf taries. It means that the First Root- Race, the "Shadows" of Progenitors, could not be injured, or destroyed by death. Being ethereal and so little human in constitution, they could not be affe by any element — flood or fire. But their "Sons," the Second R( Race, could be and were so destroyed. As the Progenitors m -wholly in their own Astral Bodies, which were their progeny, so progeny was absorbed in its descendants, the "Sweat-bom." Th were the Second Humanity — composed of the most heterogen* gigantic semi-human monsters — the first attempts of material nat at building human bodies. The ever-blooming lands (Greenli among others) of the Second Continent were transformed, su sively, from Edens with their eternal spring, into hyperborean Ha ■This transformation was due to the displacement of the g^eat wat of the Globe, to oceans changing their beds; and the bulk of Second Race perished in this first great throe of the evolution consolidation of the Globe during the human period. Of such cataclysms there have already been four.f And we may expect a for ourselves in due course of time.
• So destroyed.
T The fint occurred when wbtl ia aow the NorUi Pole wms Mparatcd from the later CaatUkcnts.
TKB ARK OF MANU.
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A FEW WORDS ABOUT "DBLUGES" AND "NOAHS."
The accounts in the various Purdnas about our Progenitors are as contradictor}', in their details, as everything else. Thus while, in the Rig Veda, IdS, or Ili, is called the Instructress of Vaivasvata Manu, Sayana makes of her a Goddess presiding over the Earth, and the Shatapatha Brahmana shows her to be the Manu^s daughter, an off- spring of his sacrifice, and later on, his (Vaivasvata's) wife, by wh^m he begat the race of Manus. In the Purdnas she is, again, Vaivasvata's daughter, yet the wife of Budha (Wisdom), the illegitimate son of the Moon (Soma) and the planet Jupiter's (Brihaspati's) wife, TSrd. All this, which seems a jumble to the profane, is full of philo- sophical meaning to the Occultist. On the veo' face of the narrative a secret and sacred meaning is perceivable; all the details, how- ever, being so purposely mixed up that the experienced eye of an Initiate alone can follow them and place the events in their proper order.
The story as told in the Mahdbhdrata strikes the key-note, and yet it needs to be explained by the secret sense contained in the Bhagavad Git&. It is ihG proiogiie io the drama of our (Fifth) Humanity. While Vaivasvata was engaged in devotion on the river bank, a fish craves his protection from a bigger fish. He saves it and places it in ajar; where, growing larger and larger, it communicates to him the news of the forthcoming Deluge. This Fish is the well-known Matsya Avatfira, the first Avatara of Vishnu, the Dagon* of the Chaldsean Xisuthrus, and many other things besides. The story is too well known to need repetition. Vishnu orders a ship to be built, in which Manu is saved along with the seven Rishis. according to the Mahdbhdrata; this, however, being absent from other texts. Here the seven Rishis stand for the seven Races, the seven Principles, and various other things; for there is again a double mystery involved in this manifold allegory.
We have said elsewhere that the Great Flood had several meanings, and that it referred, as also does the "Fall," to both spiritual and -physical, both cosmic and terrestrial, events: as above, so it is below. The Ship or Ark — Navis — in short, being the symbol of the female
* We muAt mneinl>er thst at the hnd of all the Babyloaiau Gods were Ba, Auu, aud the primeval Bel; uid thRt Ea. the first, waa the God or WUdom, the fp«at "God of Ujfht" and of the Deep, and that he was idenUSed villi Oaones, or the Biblical Z>apoo— the Mad- Fish who row out of the Peniao Cnlf.
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generative Principle, is t>'pified in the heavens by the Moon, and on Earth by the Womb; both being the vessels and bearers of the seeds of life and being, which the Sun, or Vishnu, the male Principle, \'ivi- fies and fructifies. The First Cosmic Flood refers to Primordial Crea- tion, or the formation of Heaven and the Earths; in which case Chaos and the great Deep stand for the "Flood," and the Moon for the "Mother," from whom proceed all the life-germs * But the Terrestrial Deluge and its story has also its dual application. In one case it has reference to that mystery when mankind was saved from utter destiuc- tion. by the mortal woman being made the receptacle of the hiuuan seed at the end of the Third Race,t and in the other to the real and historical Atlantean Submersion. In both cases the '*Host" — or the Manu which saved the *'seed" — is called Vaiva.svata Manu. Heoce the diversity between the Pauranic and other versions; while in the Shalapalha Drahmana^ Vaivasvata produces a daughter and begets from her the race of Manu — a reference to the first human Manu&liyas. who had to create women by Will (KriySshakti), before they weit j naturally born from the Hermaphrodites as an independent sex, and were, therefore, regarded as their creator's "daughters." The PaurSniC accounts make Ida, or IIS, the wife of Budha (Wisdom), This version refers to the events of the Atlantean Flood, when Vaivasvata, the grcit Sage on Earth, saved the Fifth Root-Race from being destroyed along with the remnants of the Fourth.
This is shown very clearly in the Bhagavad GUd, where Krishna i* made to say:
The seven Great RiahiA. the/our preceding Mantis, partaking of my essence. «tie bom from my mind: from them sprang (was bom) the hnmau race and the world. J
Here the four preceding Manus, out of the seven, are the fottf
• It i» far later on that the Moon became a ninlc God : with the Hindus it was Soma, with the Chil* deeans Nanak or Nanar, and Sin. the iH)n of Miilit, the older Del. The Akkadiaju called him thC " l,ord of Ghosts" ; and he was the Cod of Nipur (Niflcr) in northern Babylonia, tt is Miihl wh» cauaed the waters of the Flood to fall from Heaven on Earth. becauM of which Xisuthrus would not allow him to approach his altar. As the mndcni AssN-riolo^sts have now ascertained, it is t]M northern Nipur which is the centre whence Chaldican (niaclc\ Magic spread; and KHdu ithr SoathcrvK which was the primitive seat of the wonibip of the culture Cod, the God of Divitte Wisdom— the S«» God tK-ing the Suptrme Deity even-where. With the Jews, the Mooa is connected with lotiCn Jeho\'ah and htN said to have come from Ur. when from A-bm(h1m. he t>ecorae9 Abraham.
t When NSrada, the virgin -ascetic, threatened to put an end to the htmian race by pr Dakaha't sons from procreating it.
; z. 6.
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^ces* which have already lived, for Krishna belongs to the Fifth Uace, his death having inaugurated the Kali Yuga. Thus Vaivasvata Manu. the son of Sur>'a. the Sun. and the Saviour of our Race, is con- MCted with the "Seed of Life," both physicall}' and spiritually. But» at present, while speaking of all, we have to concern ourselves only with the first two.
The "Deluge" is undeniably a "universal tradition." "Glacial Periods" were numerous, and so were the "Deluges," for various reasons. Stockwell and CroU enumerate some half-dozen Glacial Periods and subsequent Deluges — the earliest of all being dated by them 850,000, and the last about 100,000 years ago.f But which was «fr Deluge? Assuredly the former, the cue which to this date remains recorded in the traditions of all the peoples from the remotest anti- quity; the one that finally swept away the last peninsulas of Atlantis, beginning with Ruta and Daitya and ending \\4th the comparatively II imall Lslaud mentioned by Plato. This is shown by the agreement of Hirtain details in all the legends. It was the last of its gigantic ^wiaracter. The little delupe, the traces of which Baron Bunsen found ^a Central Asia, and which he places at about 10,000 years B.C.. had H^ing to do with either the semt-umversa\ Deluge, or Noah's Flood — ^le Utter being a purely mythical rendering of old traditions — nor even with the submersion of the last Atlantean island; or, at least, having with them only a moral connection. Our Fifth Race — the non-initiated portions of it — hearing of many
m
TM« U corTobarBtrd by a learned Brilhman. In his moHl excellent Lccttsret on the Bkagavod
Tkt^topkist. April. 1887. p- -Wr the lecturer says:
**T>i«r is a peculiarity lo which I muBt coll your atlealioti. He [Krifthnn] itpealcs here of four
Ujoiu^ Wliy docs he speak of four.' We arc now in the se\Tnth Manvantara— that of Vaifutsvats.
V te ia tpeoklDir of the past Manus, he oufirtit to speak of six, but he only nientiotia four. In Home
ao attempt tins tirm niailc to interpret tin* in a peculiar niannrr.
Chatrftrah' ia separated from the word 'Mannvah.' and is mode to refer to Sanaka, SanatkumAra, and Sanatsujflta. who were also included ainong^ the mind-bora sons of
*BBf lUb interpretation will lead to a most absurd conclusiou, and make the sentence contradict
taC Tbe persons alluded to in the text have a qualifyinj^ clause in the sentence. It is well knowD
■od the other three refuned to crrnte, though the other sons had consented to do so;
in speaking of thoae persons from whom humanity has sprung into existence, it would be
to include the«e four also in the list. The passaer must be Interpreted without «phttinfr the
' into two nonn«. The number of Manus will then be four, and the statement would then
the Paurlnie account, though it would \ie in harmony with the Occult theory. Von will
that it is stated [in occultism] that we are now in the PiRb Root-Kace. Hach Root-Kace i«
as the Santatt of a particular Msnu. Now, the Fourth Race has passed, or. in other
thcTT li«>« been four pMt Manus."
Pkwell, Smtthionian Cantributifms to KnowUdgg. xviii.; R. W. McParUad, Amencan Journat *f. III. id. x'^: and Croll's CltmaU aud TUme, l^emuria was not submerged by a flood, but Eioyed 1:^ volcanU: action, and afterwards sank.
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Deluges, have confused them, and now know of but one. This one altered the whole aspect of the Globe in its interchange, and shifting. of land and sea. We may compare the tradition of the Peruvians that : The Incas^ sntm in number, have repeopled the earth after the deluge.* Humboldt mentions the Mexican version of the same legend, \mt\ confuses somewhat the details of the still-preserved legend concerning the American Noah. Nevertheless, the eminent Naturalist mentions itvice seven companions and the "divine bird" which preceded the boat of the Aztecs, and thus makes fifteen elect instead of the seven and the fourteen. This was written probably under some involuntary remini- scence of Moses, who is said to have mentioned fifteen grandsons of Noah, who escaped with their grandsire. Then agaiu Xisuthnis, the Chaldsean Noah, is saved and translated "alive" to heaven — like Enoch — with the seven Gods, the Kabirim, or the seven divine Titans. Again the Chinese Yao has seven figures which sail with him and which hfr will "animate" when he lands, and use for "human seed.** Osiris* when he enters the Ark, or Solar Boat, takes seven Rays with him, etc Sanchuniathon makes the Aletae or Titans (the Kabirim) contem porary with Agmerus, the great Phcenician God — ^whom Faber sotig' to identify with Noah;t further, it is suspected that the name "T is derived from Tit-Ain, — ^the "fountains of the chaotic abyss"} Theus, or Tityus is the "divine deluge"); and thus the Titans, who- are sei>en, are shown to be connected with the Flood and the seven Rishis saved by Vaivasvata Manu.§
These Titans are the sons of Kronos, Time, and Rhea, the Earth; and as Agmerus, Saturn and Sydyk are oue and the same personage and as the seven Kabiri arc also said to be the sons of Sydyk or Kronos Saturn, the Kabiri and Titans are identical. For once the pious Fab was right in his conclusions when he wrote:
1 have no doubt of the seven Titans or Cabin being the same also as the Rishis of the Hindoo mythology (?), who are said to have escaped in a boat with Menu the head (?) of the familyj
• Coete, I. IT. 19.
i Apiiemi is KjoncM, or Saturn, nod Uie prototype or the I»niKtitlsfa Jehovah. Afl connected ' Argha, the Moon or A.rk of salvation, Noah Is mythologically one with Saturn. But then this 1 relate to the terrestrial flood. (Sec Paber's Cattiri, I. 35. 43, and 45.)
J IbitL. U. 340.
( Sanchuniathon aayn that the Titans were the sons of Kronos, and seven in number ; and be i them firc-woTBhippera, Aletse t&oas of Agni i) and diJuviana. Al-aii is the God of Fire.
Il ibid., i. i30( note.
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But he is less fortunate iu his speculations when he adds:
The Hindoos, in their wild legends have variously perverted the history of the Noschids f?f), yet it is remarkable that they seem to have religiously adhered to Ihennmber seven:* hence Capt. Wilford very judiciously observes, that, " perhaps, fte seven Menus, the seven Brahmddicas, with the seven Rishis, are the same, and B*ke only seven individual persons.t The seven BrahmAdicas were /ra/'J^/w. or iorda of the prajas, or creatures. From them mankind was bom. and they are probably the same with the seven Menus. . . These seven grand ancestors of the bnman race were . . . created for the purpose of replenishing the earth with inhabitants." 7 The mutual resemblance of the Cabiri, the Titans, the Rishis, and the Noetic family, is too striking to be the effect of mere accident^
Faber was led into this mistake, and subsequently built his entire theory concerning the Kabiri, on the fact that the name of the scrip- tural Japhet is on the list of the Titans contained in a verse of the Orphic Hymns. According to Orpheus the names of the seven Arkite Titans — whom Fabcr refuses to identify with the impious Titans, their descendants — were Kceus. Krosus, Phorcys, Cronus. Oceanus, Hyperion, and lapetus.
k Kofov Tc, Kpotov TC fieyav, ^opicvv t
Kat KpoyoVf ^Qxtiivov ^, 'Ytrtptova t\ 'loircrov r€.\\
But why could not the Babylonian Ezra have adopted the name of lapetus for one of Noah's sous? The Kabiri, who are the Titans, are also called Manes and their mother Mania, according to Amobius.\ The Hindus can therefore claim with far more reason that the Manes tnean their Manus, and that Mania is Xh^/eniaU Mauu of the Rdmdyana. Mania is Ila, or IdS, the wife and daughter of Vaivasvata Manu, from whom "he begat the race of Manus.*' Like Rhea, the mother of the Titans, she is the Earth — Sdyana making her the Goddess of the Earth —and she is but the second edition and repetition of Vich. Both Idi and Vach are turned into males and females; IdS becoming Sudyumna, and Vach, the ** female Vir3j/' turning into a woman in order to punish the Gandharvas; one version referring to cosmic and divine Theogony,
* or which MTOtn, let ai remark, the Arymn*, and not the Semites, wgie the oHginalors, whUe the f Wtfot that number frtmi the Cbnldnrans.
* Srven individual Sons of God. or Piianu, Pitris ; al50 in thiit coae the sons of Kronos or Saturn 'KiU. "Time") and Arlcites, like the Kabiri and Titans, as their name — "Lunar Ancestora" — ahows; tte Koon beinf the Ark, or Argho. on the Watery Abyu of Space.
^b Anaiic fttatarclus, t. 146. ^HiTdAin, ibid.^ toe. cit.
I Orphf u« apad Proclum in Timtrum, v. 195.
^ Ar^u^tt*, Ccnira G
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the other to the later period. The Manes and Mania of Amobius ai names of Indian origin, appropriated by the Greeks and Iratins an* disfigured by them.
Thus it is no accident, but the result of one archaic doctrine, common to all, of which the Israelites, through Ezra, the author of the modern- ized Mosaic books, were the latest adapters. So unceremonious wei they with other people's property, that the Pseudo-Berosus.* shoi that Titaea— of whom Diodorus Siculusf makes the mother of the^ Titans or Diluvians — was the wife of Noah. Faber calls liim th( "Pseudo-Berosus," yet accepts the information in order to register one proof more that the Pagans have borrowed all their Gods from the, yews, by transforming patriarchal material. According to our humbli opinion, this is one of the best proofs possible of exactly the reverse It shows as clearly as facts can show, that it is the Biblical pseud* personages which are all borrowed from Pagan myths, if myths th must be. It shows, at any rate, that Berosus was well aware of source of Genesis, and that it bore the same cosmic astronomic^ character as the allegories of Isis-Osiris, and the Ark, and other old* "Arkite" symbols. For, Berosus says that *'Titaea Magna" was after- wards called Aretia.I and worshipped with the Earth; and this identi" fies Tita^a, Noah's consort, with Rhea, the Mother of the Titans, an with IdS; both being Goddesses who preside over the Earth, and thi Mothers of the Manus and Manes, or Titan-Kabiri. And Titaea-Aretii was worshipped as Horchia, says the same Berosus, and this is a title of Vesta, Goddess of the Earth.
Sicanus deificavit Aretiani, et nominavit earn lin^A Janigenft Horchiam.f
Scarcely an ancient poet of historic or prehistoric days fails to mi tion the sinking of the tw»o continents — often called isles — in one forai; or another. Hence the destruction, besides Atlantis, of the Phlegyaaj Island. Pausanius and Nonnus both tell how:
• Ant., m. 8.
♦ Bibt., \\X. i;o. } Arrlift is the frraalr form of Artrs. the Eg^'ptlan Mars. Thenw the Chnldmn (and now Hebmil]
word nN (Arrt»J, "Earth." Scyffarth. the ntithor of Beih'&ge :ur Kenntniss (unde-r ",^r/«," Jlfat ouotes as follows: "Addit Cednrtius (Saltzi. I. c): Stella Martls nb VBfiyptiJit vocAtur Krtost (planUrt^j jeaerare). Si^ificat autetn hoc oniuU generis procreatioaem cl vivificaltontm, omntsque substani ct materia: naturam et vim ordinanlcm atqne procirantcm." It Ih Earth aa "source of being"; or. cjcplaincd by the author of The Sourcf of Measures (p. iM), Arts is ihc jwme In Hebrew and Egryplii and both "combine tlie primal Idea of tarth ax source; precisely as in the Hebrew it«elf, undcrj another form, Adam and Mddim, Mars, ore the aamc, and combine the idea of earth, with Adai tinder the form of h-adam'h." ' >lii/..v. 64.
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From its deep-rcwted base the Phlegyan isle
Stern Neptune shook, and plunged beneath the waves
lis impious inhabitants.*
Faber felt convinced that the Phlegyan Island was Atlantis. Put all such allegories arc more or less distorted echoes of the Hindu tradition about that great Cataclysm, which befell the Fourth, really human,
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though gigantic. Race, the one which preceded the Ar>^an. Yet, as just said, like all other legends, the legend of the Deluge has more than one meaning. It refers, in Theogony, to prc-cosmic iransforma- tions^ to spiritual correlations — however absurd the terra may sound to a scientific ear — and also to subsequent Cosmogony; to the great Flood of Waters (Matter) in Chaos, awakened and fructified by those Spirit- Rays which were swamped by, and perished in, the mysterious differen- tialion — a pre-cosmic mystery, the Prologue to the drama of Being. Anu, Bel, and Noah preceded Adam Kadmon, Adam the Red, and Noah; just as Brahmi, Vishnu, and Shiva preceded Vaivasvata and the rest.f
All this goes to show that the ^«v«/-universal deluge known to Geology — the first Glacial Period — must have occurred just at the time allotted to it by the Secret Doctrine: namely, 200,000 years, in round numbers, after the commencement of our Fifth Race, or about the time assigned by Messrs. Croll and Stockwell for the first Glacial Period: i.^., about 850.000 years ago. Thus, as the latter disturbance is attributed by Geologists and Astronomers to "an extreme eccentricity of the earth's orbit," and as the Secret Doctrine attributes it to the same source, but with the addition of another factor, the shifting of the Earth's axis — a proof of which may be found in the Book 0/ En^ch^X if the veiled language of the Purdnas be not understood — all this should tend to show that the Ancients knew something of the "modern discoveries" of Science. Enoch, when speaking of "the great inclina- tion of the Earth," which "is in travail," is quite significant and clear.
Is not this evident? Nuah is Noah, floating on the waters in his ark; the latter being the emblem of the Argha, or Moon, the feminine Principle; Noah is t}ie "Spirit" falling into Matter, We find him, as soon as he desc:ends upon the Earth, planting a vineyard, drinking of the wine, and getting drunk thereon, i.^., the pure Spirit becomes intoxicated as soon as it is finally imprisoned in Matter, The seventh chapter of Genesis is only another version of the firsL Thus, while tlie
* Nonnii*, Vicnja., xvlil. 319. Qnotrd by Faber, op. cii., l. 3^8.
* See /sis CmveiUd, II. 400 } Chap. Ixiv fSecL xi}.
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latter reads: "And darkness was upon tbe face of the deep. And the Spirit of moved apon the face of the waters"; in the former it ia said: "And the watt prevailed; . . . and the ark went [with Noah, the Spirit] upon the face of thf •waters." Thus Noah, if identical with the Chaldffian Nuah, is the Spirit vivifying Matter, which latter is Chaos, represented by the Deep, or the Waters of the Flood. In the Babylonian legend (the pre-cosmica! blended with the terrestrial event) it Istar (Ashteroth, or Venus, the Lunflr Goddess) who is shut up in the ark and seat out a dove in search of dry land.*
George Smith notes in the "Tablets," first the creation of the Moon, and tht that of the San : " Its beauty and perfection are extolled, and the regularity of it orbit, which led to its being considered the tj-pe of a judge and the regulator: the world.'* If this story related simply to a cosmogonical cataclysm — even this latter universal — ^why should the goddess Istar or Ashteroth, the ^Sloon, of the creation of the sun after the deluge? The waters might have reached high as the mountain of Nizir of the Chaldaean version, or Jebel Djudi, the delof mountains of the Arabian legend, or yet Ararat of the Biblical narrative, and ere the IlimAlaya of the ITindfl tradition, and yet not have reached the Sun; the Bibkl itself stopped short of such a miracle! It is e\'ident that the deluge to the people] who first recorded it had another meaning, less problematical and far more philc sophicol than that of a universal deluge, of which there are no geological whatever, t
As all such Cataclysms are periodical and cyclical^ and as Mani Vaivasvata figures as a getieric character, under various circurastanc* and events, there seems to be no serious objection to the suppositioi that the first "great flood*' had an allegorical, as well as a cosmi meaning, and that it happened at the end of the Satya Yuga, the "Aj of Truth," when the Second Root- Race, **the Manu with bones," mi its primeval appearance as the *' Sweat- born."
The Second Flood — the so-called "universal" — which affected Fourth Root-Race — now conveniently regarded by Theology as **\ accursed race of grants/' the Cainites, and the "sons of Ham" — is flood which was first perceived by Geolog>'. If one carefully compai the accounts in the various legends of the Chaldees and other exotei works of the nations, it will be found that all of them ag^ee with orthodox narratives given in the Brahmanical books. And it may perceived that while, in the first account, "there is no God or moi yet on Earth/' when Manu Vaiva.svata lands on Himavan» in second, the Seven Rishis are allowed to keep him company; thi showing that whereas some accounts refer to the Sidereal and Cosi Flood before the so-called "Creation," the others treat, one of
* laii VnveiUd, n. 41^, 4x4.
t ibid., 03, Bote.
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reat Flood of Matter ou Earth, and the other of a real watery' deluge. I Uie Shatapatha Brdhmana, Mauu finds that the Flood had swept jray all living creatures, and he alone was left — i.e,^ the seed of life kuie remained from the previous Dissolution of the Universe, or Aahapralaya. after a "Day of BrahmS.*'; and the Mahabharata refers Bimply to the geological cataclysm which swept away nearly all the Fourth Race to make room for the Fifth. Therefore is Vaivasvata Mauu shown under three distinct attributes in our Esoteric Cosmo- gony:* as the "Root-Manu," on Globe A, iu the First Round; (^) as fte^^A-i/ of Life," on Globe D, in the Fourth Round; and {c) as the "Seed of Man," at the beginning of eveo' Root-Race — in our Fifth Race especially. The ver>' commencement of the latter witnesses, during the Dvapara Yuga,t the destruction of the accursed sorcerers;
Of tliat uland [Plato speaks only of its last islandj beyoud the Pillars of Herculci^ ic the Atlantic Ocean, from which there was an easy Lraasiliou to other islands in „ IheueightKPurbood of another large continent [America].
WBX is this Atlantic Land which was connected with the ** White ^land." and this White Island was Ruta; but it was not the Atala and the "U'hite De^nl" of Colonel Wilford,J as already shown. It may well be remarked here that the Dvapara Yuga lasts 864,000 years, according to the Sanskrit texts; and that, if the Kali Yuga began only about 5,000 years ago, that it is just 869,000 years since that destruction took
* Odc has to ranctuber Uiat, in Uie UindA rbilo»of»hy, every diflierrtiUatcd unit Is stich only Uirough tkt C^ks of Miyl, being one in \%a cmchcc vrith the Supreme or One Spirit. Hence arises Uie seem- taXoo&fiuBDa and contradiction in the various PurAmxi, and at times in the same f^tana, about the ■iae individual. Vishnu— as the many-rurmod Urahmi, and as Brahma (neuter)— is one, and yet he ki^ ta be all the twrnty-eifrhl VyUas.
"la every I>vlpan (or third) age, Vishnu, in the pctvon of Vyiaa, dividea Uie Veda, which is Ipnpcily, b«t) one, into many poTtton«. . . . Tweuty-ei{;ht times have the Vedaa been arranged ^tbettevt Kishis in the Vaivasvata Monvautara. in the Dvlpara age; and, consequently, elKfat and Maty Vy&aas have passed away." ( I'iiknu Hurin^, ili. 3; Wilson's 1>uu., iii. 33. 34.) " [They who ifrc aU] in Uie form of Veda-Vyl»a ; who were Uic Vyiaas of their respective eras." \Ibid., toe. cil., Xjj.) "This world ia Brahmft, in Brahmi, from Urabma . . . nothing further to be known." An. again, in the NarivamsJka .■ "There were (in the first Manvantnra) seven celebrated sond of YnwIirliLi. who tin the thttd Manvantara) were suns uf Brahmi {i.e., Kishis). the illustrious progeny tf Di)i.** \/ht)i., iii. 6, note.) This is plain: the Humanity of the First Manvantam is that of the and of all the intermediate one*. The Mankind of the First Koot-Koce is the mankind of 1, Third, Fourth, PifUi, etc. To the last it forms a cyclic and constant rdticamaUon of the tug to the DhyAn Chohans of our Planetary Chain, ipara Yuga differs for each Race. All Kaces have thdr own Cycka. which fact causes a