M. Naudin, imagined.

The Purdnas^ the Chaldsean and Egyptian fragments, and also the Chinese traditions, all show an agreement with the Secret Doctrine as to the process and order of evolution. We find in them the corrobora- tion of almost all our teaching: for instance, the statement concerning the oviparous mode of procreation of the Third Race, and even a hint It a less innocent mode of procreation of the first mammal forms. **Gigan/zc, iranspareni, dumb and monstrous ihey were^^ says the Com- mentary'. Study in this connection the stories of the several Rishis and their multifarious progeny. Pulastya is the father of all the Serpents and NSgas — an oviparous brood; Kashyapa is grandsire, through his wife Tinird. of the birds and { Garuda, king of the feathered tribe; while by his wife Surabhi, he was the parent of cows and buffaloes, etc.
In the Secret Doctrine, the fijst NSgas — Beings wiser than Serpents — are the "Sons of Will and Yoga," born before the complete separa- tion of the sexes, •' matured in the man-bearing eggsf produced by
* An aJlcKorical rcfcreacc lo Uie"SacTrd AnlmiUs" of the Zodiac aod oUier hc&venly bodies. Some ^*l»lirt» tee in thnn the prototypes of Uie animali.
• III Hestod, Zcuft crratcs hi* Third Kace of men out of ash-treet. In the F^ypol I'uh the Third Race Vnra Is created out of the tree Txita and the morrow of the reed called Slbnc. But Sibac nicaiM
't(|" in the mystery lanifuagr of the Artufas, or Initiation caves. In a report »ent in iSii to the Cwte« by Don Oaptiata Pino it ij said : " Ail the Puebtoa have their Artufaa— ao the natirca caH sub-
^*T«Dean rooms with only a single door where they (sccreilyl assemble These are im-
Pcortnblc temples .... and the doora are always clo«cd to the Spaniards They
*d«f the Sun and Moon .... fire and the gicat Snmkt (Uie creative power), whose eg^s arc ^QedSitMC."
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the power (Kriy^shakti) of the holy Sages" of the early ThiV-c Race^
"In these were incarnated the Lords of the three [upper] worlds — the various classes of Rudras, who had been Tushitas, who had been Jayas. who are Adityas;" for, as explained by Parishara: *'There area, hundred appellations of the immeasurably mighty Rudras."
Some of the descendants of the primitive Nagas, the Serpent; o(^ "Wisdom, peopled America, when its continent arose during the palmr days of the great Atlantis; America being the Pataia or Antipodes ofj Jatnbu-dvipa. not of BhSrata-varsha. Otherwise, whence the traditions and legends — the latter always more true ikan history^ as says Augustin Thierr>' — and even the identity in the names of certain "medicine men" and priests, who exist to this day in Mexico? We shall have to say something of the Nargals and the Nagals, and also of Nagalism, called "devil-worship" by the missionaries. i
In almost all the Purdnas, the story of the "Sacrifice of Daksha"is given, the oldest account of which is to be found in the Vdyti Puran^ Allegorical as it is, there is more meaniug and biological revelation in it to a Naturalist, than in all the pseudo-scientific vagaries, which are regarded as learned theories and hypotheses.
Daksha, who is regarded as the Chief Progenitor, is, moreoveft pointed out as the creator of physical man, in the "fable" which makcJ him lose his head from his body in the general strife between the Gods and the Raumas. This head, being burnt in the fire, is replaced by tbc head of a ram, according to the KSshi Khanda of the Skanda Purdii^' Now the ram's head and horns are ever the symbol of generating' power and of reproductive force, and are phallic. As we have shown, it is Daksha who establishes the era of men engendered by sexual intercourse. This mode of procreation did not occur suddenly, ho^' €ver, as one might think, but required long ages before it became tl*^ one "natural" way. Therefore, Daksha's sacrifice to the Gods **" shown to have been interfered with by Shiva — the Destroying. Deit?*! Evoluiioji and Progress perso7iified^ who is the Regenerator at the time; who destroys things under one form but to recall them to li
• Tliere Is a notable difference tiottrically between the words Sarpa and NAga. though ihey arelKF*^' used indiscrinunolely. Sarpa, serpent, is from the root srip, to creep, compare. Lat., s€rp-o; uid ib^-' are called Alii, from ha, to tbondon. The Sarpos were produced from Brahmi's hair, which, owing ' Ilia fright at bebotding^ the Vakahas, whom he had created horrible to behold, fell off from the bca^' each hair bccominic a serpent. They arc called "Sarpa from their creeping and Ahi because had deserted the head." (Wilson, i. 83.) But the Na^aft, in the allegories, their aerpcut's taU noS wlthatanding, do not creep, but manage to walk, run and fight.
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diKler another more perfect type. Shiva-Rudra creates the terrible ^Irabhadra, born of his breath, the ** thousand-headed, thousand- armed" monster, and commissions him to destroy the sacrifice pre- I pared by Daksha. Then Virabhadra, "abiding in the region of ghosts (ethereal men) .... created from the pores of his shin (Roma- knpas) powerful Raumas/' ■ Now. however mythical the allegor>% the Mahabhdrata^ — which is as much history as is the Jliad — shows the
Eias and other races springing in the same manner from the Roma- s. hair or skin pores. This allegorical description of Daksha's ifice'* is full of significance to the students of the Secret Doctrine ■wboknowof the "Sweat-bom."
Id the Vdyti PurdncCs account of the sacrifice, moreover, it is said
to have taken place in the presence of creatures bam from the egg, from
the vapour, vegetation, pores of the skin, and, finally only, from the
Womb.*
Daksha typifies the early Third Race, holy and pure, as yet devoid of
t^lndindual Ego, and po.ssessing passive capacities only. Brahmfi, Crefore, commands him to create (in the exoteric texts); when, ^ying the command, he made ''inferior and superior" (Avara and ■ka) progeny (Putra), bipeds and quadr^ipeds; and by his will^ gave wtL to females, to the Gods, the Daityas (Giants of the Fourth Race), j^ snake-gods, animals, cattle and the Danavas (Titans and Demon H^cians) and other beings.
1'toin that period Torward, living creatures were nigendered by sexual iniereourse, Sefort the tifne of Daksha, they were varimisly propagated — by the will., by sight, by tonch, and by the influence of religious austerities practised by devout sages aud *iol> saints.^
^And now comes the simply zoological teaching.
1% AlOMAXS WITH BONES, DRAGONS OF THB DEEP, AND FLYING ^AS|| WERE ADDED TO THE CREEPING THINGS. ThBV THAT CREEP ^'^ THE GROUND GOT WINGS. TuEV OP THE LONG NECKS IN THE ^^TER BECAME THE PROGENITORS OF THE FOWLS OF THE AIR.
This is a point on which the teachings and modem biological specu-
*Vii9oa timnslatca the word as "demisoda** (^uAav i^ttana, \. 130); but Raniiuu arc simply a
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lation are in perfect accord. The missing links representing this transition process between reptile and bird are apparent to the veriest bigot, especially iu the Omithoscelidae, Hesperomis, and the Archae- opteryx of Vogt.
30. During thk Third* the boneless animals grew and
CHANGED ; THEY BECAME ANIMALS WITH BONES, THEIR ChH AYA3 BECAME SOLID.f
Vertebrates, and after that mammalians. Before that the animals were also ethereal proto-organisms, just as man was.
31. The ANIMALS SEPARATED THE FIRST. f ThEY BEGAN TO BREED.
The TWO-FOLD man§ separated ALSO. HE|| said: **Let us AS they; let us unite and make creatures.*' They did. . . .
32. And those which had no Spark^ took huge sue- animals UNTO them. They begat upon them dumb races. Dumb thev**
WERE themselves. BuT THEIR TONGUES UNTIED. ft ThE TONGUES OF THEIR PROGENY REMAINED STILL. MONSTERS THEY BRED. A RACE OF CROOKED RED-HAIR-COVERED MONSTERS GOING ON AIX FOURS.JJ A DUMB RACE. TO KEEP THE SHAME UNTOLD.§§
The fact of former hermaphrodite mammals and the subsequent separation of .sexes is now indisputable, even from the standpoint of Biolog>'. As Prof. Oscar Schmidt, an avowed Darwinist, shows:
Use and disuse, combiaed with selection, elucidate [?] ihg separation of (he sexes^ and the existence, otherwise totally incomprcheusible, of rudimentary sexual organs. In the Vertebrata especially, each se.t possesses such distinci traces of the reproductive apparatus characteristic of the other^ \.\is.\. even antiquity assumed hcnnaphroditistn as a natural primxval condition of mankind. . . . The tenacity with which these nuliments of sexual orj mammals, actual hermaphroditism is unheard of, although through the whole
• Race.
t Also.
t Into male aud Temale. I Then. I Man.
*i( The " narrow- headed." Compare Shioka 94. ■• The " tinrrow-headcd." tt See Commentary on Shioka 36.
1: Ttaete "animal.4," or monsters, are not the anthropoid or any other ape», but verily what Ih; /inthropologistft might call the "miiuitig link," the primitive lower man. H The ahame of iheir animal ori^n which our modem Scientist* would cmphii.
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pmod of their development they drag along with them these residues, borne by ikiir unktuntm atuestry, no one can say how long.*
The animals separated the first," says Shloka 31. Bear in mind that
It that period men were different* even physiologically, to what they
[ire now; the middle point of the Fifth Race being already passed. We
not told what the "huge she-animals" were; but they certainly
ireas different from any we now know, as were the "men" from the
ten of to-day.
This was the first physical "fall into matter" of some of the then sting and lower races. Bear in mind Shloka 24. The "Sons of Tisdom" had spurned the rarty Third Race, i.e., the non-developed, id are shown incarnating in, and thereby endowing with intellect, the («/er Third Race. Thus the sin of the brainless or "mindless" Races, rhohad no "spark" and were irresponsible, fell upon those who failed lioby them their Karmic duty.
WHAT MAY BE THE OBJECTIONS TO THE FOREGOING.
Thus Occultism rejects the idea that Nature developed man from the
or even from an ancestor common to both; but, on the contrary, some of the most anthropoid species to the Third Race man of
early Atlantean Period. As this proposition will be maintained and fended elsewhere, a few words more are all that are needed at present,
greater clearness, however, we shall repeat in brief what was said
iously in V^olume I, Stanza VI. Our teachings show that, while it is quite correct to say that Nature
at one time, built round the human astral form an ape-iike exftntal ipc it is also as correct that this shape was no more that of the 'missing link." than were the multitudinous other coverings of that Iral form, during the course of its natural evolution through all the igdoras of Nature. Nor was it, as has been shown, on this Fourth »mid Planet that such evolution took place, but only during the First,
ind, and Third Rounds, when Man was, in turn, "a stone, a plant,
an animal" until he became what he was in the First Root-Race present Humanity. The real line of evolution differs from the inian, and the two systems are irreconcilable, unless the latter divorced from the dogmas of "natural selection** and the like.
' 7\f Doctrimf s/ 2}f%c^nt amd DarmtHism, ^. itt>, xi-j. The "unknowii ancestry" referred to u* : prtmavat aalral prototypca.
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Indeed, between the Moneron of Haeckel and the Sartsripa of Maii^ there lies an impassable chasm in the shape of the Jiva ; for th "human" Monad, whether '•immetallized" in the stone-atom, or '4 vegetalized" in the plant, or "inaniraalizcd" in the animal, is still ew* a divine, hence also a humari Mouad. It ceases to be human only when it becomes absolutely divine. The terms "mineral," "vegetable" and "animal" Monad arc intended to create a snperficial distinction : is no such thing as a Monad (Jiva) other than divine, and consequei having once been, or having in the future to become, human. latter term has to remain meaningless unless this diflference is understood. The Monad is a drop out of the Shoreless Ocean beyt or, to be correct, within, the plane of primaeval differentiation. divifte in its higher and human in its lower condition — the adject "higher" and "lower" being used for lack of better words— but Mouad it remains at all times, save in the Nirvanic state, under wl ever conditions, or whatever external forms. As the Logos reflects Universe in the Divine Mind, and the Manifested Universe refl( itself in each of its Monads, as Leibnitz put it repeating an East teaching, so the Monad has, during the cycle of its incarnations, reflect in itself every root-fomi of each kingdom. Therefore, the Ki lists say correctly that "Man becomes a stone, a plant, an anil a man, a spirit, and finally God," thus accomplishing his cycle circuit and returning to the point from which he had started as Heaveftly Man. But by "Man" the Divine Mouad is meant, and the Thinking Entity, much less his Physical Body. The men Science now try to trace the immortal Soul, while rejecting its e) tence, through a series of animal forms from the lowest to the high whereas, in truth, all the present fauna are the descendants of primordial monsters of which the Stanzas speak. The animal* creeping beasts and those in the waters that preceded Man in Fourth Round, as well as those contemporary with the Third and again the mammalia that are posterior to the Third and Foi Races — all are either directly or indirectly the mutital and correlat product, physically, of Man. It is correct to say that the man of Manvantara. x.f., of the three preceding Rounds, has passed throt all the kingdoms of Nature. That he was "a stone, a plant, an anh But {a) these stones, plants, and animals were the protot>'pes. filmy presentments of those of the Fourth Round; and {h) even tl at the beginning of the Fourth Round were the astral shadows, as
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Occnldsts express it, of the present stones, plants and animals. And ^nally, neither the forms nor genera of either man. animal, or plant 0ere what they became later. Thus the astral prototypes of the lower kings of the animal kingdom of the Fourth Round, which precet/ediht ^M3yas of Men» were the consolidated, though still very ethereal Blto/^ of the still more ethereal forms, or models, produced at the Bse of the Third Round on Globe D, as set forth in Esoteric Buddhism ; produced "from the residue of the substance; matter from dead bodies of men and [other r-r//wr/] animals of the Wheel before," or the previous T%ird Round — as Shloka 28 tells us. Hence, while the nondescript "animals" that preceded the Astral Man at the beginning of this Life- cycle on our Earth were still, so to speak, the progeny of the Mau of the Third Round, the mammalians of this Round owe their existence, in a great measure, to Man again. Moreover, the "ancestor** of the present anthropoid animal, the ape, is the direct production of the yet 'mindless Man. who desecrated his human dignity by putting himself ph>'sically on the level of an animal.
The above accounts for some of the alleged phj'siological proofs, _bR)Ught for\vard by the Anthropologists as a demonstration of the tt of man from the animals, le point most insisted upon by the Kvolutionists is that, *'The
lory of the embr>'0 is an epitome of that of the race." That:
organum. in it« development from the egg, runs through a series of forms, ;h which, in like succession, it^ ancestors have passed in the long course of I'i history.* The history of the embryo .... is a picture in little, and of that of the race. This conception forms the gist of our fundamental tic law, which we are obliged io place at the head of tfte study of the funda- ^^tntal taw of organic devclopmentA
This modem theory was known as a fact to, and far more philo- *phically expressed by, the Sages and Occultists from the remotest
***A»Pry vtrong argoment in favour of variability is supplied by the science of Miibryologry. I* • *S4h brancbiic a mammal with a tail, lastly a primate [/] and a biped? 2t li acarcely possible not to *Sfniie m the embryonic evolutjou a rapid sketch, a faithful aummary, of the entire org^aic **B." |l>ei>vre. Philoiophy, p. 4H4.)
nc mmmMTj alluded to is, however, only that of the store 0/ iypts hoarded up In man, the micro* iBM. Tbta aimple explaiiation meeti all such objectioan, aa the presence of the rudimentary tail in I^Aetoa— a. tiact triumphantly paraded by liarckel and Darwin as conclusively in favour of the Apc- •*talor Theory. It may also be pointed out thot tkf pretence of a vegetable with teajteis in the MAryooic stages is mot explained on ordinary e\oIutioiii»t principles. Darwinists have not traced U throogh the vegetable, but Occultiatd have. Why then this feature in the embryo, and how do he lonDcr explain It ? y*Tbe ProolJi of Bvolution." a lecture by HscckeL
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ages. A passage from /sis Unveilt'd may here be cited to furnish a few points of comparison. It was asked why, with all their great learning, Physiologists were unable to explain teratological phenomena?
Any Anatomist who has made the development and growth of the embryo . . .
''a subject of special study," can tell, witliout much brain-work, what daily rience and the evidence of his own eyes show hini, viz., that up to a certain pe the human embryo is a facsimile of a young batrachtan in its first remove from spawn— a tadpole. But no Phj-siologist or Anatomist seems to have had the i of applying to the development of the human being — from the first instant of physical appearance as a ^nn to its ultimate formation and birth — the P)'th gorean esoteric doctrine of metempsychosis, so erroneously interpreted by criti The meaniug of the Kabalistic axiom: **A stone becomes a plant; a plant, a bci a beast, a man," etc., was mentioned in another place in relation to the spin and physical evolution of men on this Earth, We will now add a few more w( to make the matter clearer.
What is the primitive shape of the future man? A grain, a corpuscle, sajsi Physiologists; a molecule, au ovum of the ovum, say others. If it could be al lyzed — by the microscope or otherwise — of what ought we to expect to find composed? Analogically, we should say, of a nucleus of inorganic matter, i posited from the circulation at the germinating point, aud united with a deposit organic matter. In other words, this infinitesimal nucleus of the future nuW composed of the same elements as a stone — of the same elements as the E which the man is destined to inhabit. Moses is cited by the Kabalists as authod for the remark, that it required earth and water to make a lining being, and tbiifl may be said that man first appears as a stone.
At the end of three or four weeks the ovum has assumed a plant.like appeana one extremity having become spheroidal and the other tapering, like a coni XJpon dissection it is found to be composed, like an ouiou, of very delicate lafflil or coats, enclosing a liquid. The lamina approach each other at the lower cfl aud the embryo hangs from the root of the umbilicus almost like the fruit from t bough. The stone has now become changed, by "metempsychosis," into a plC Then the embryonic creature begins to shoot out, from the inside outward, limbs, and develops its features. The eyes are visible as two black dots; theM nose, and mouth form depressions, like the points of a pineapple, before they to project The embryo develops into an animal-like foetus — the shape of a pole— and, like an amphibious reptile, lives in water and develops from it. monad has not yet become either human or immortal, for the Kabalists tell us this only occurs at the "fourth hour." One by one the fcetus assumes the chai teristics of the human being, tlic first flutter of the immortal breath passes thiol its being: it moves: . . . aud the divine essence settles in the iufant frame, wh it will inhabit until the moment of physical death, when man becomes a spirit.
This mysterious process of a nine-months' formation, the Kabalists call the cos^ pletion of the "individual cycle of evolution." As the fcetus develops amidst Hquor amnii in the womb, so the Earths germinate in the Universal Ether,
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Fluid, in the Womb of the Universe. These cosmic children, Hlce their ly inhabitants, are first nuclei; then ovules; then gradually mature: and Incoming mothers, in their turn, develop mineral, vegetable, animal, and human Ibnns. From centre to circumference, from the imperceptible vesicle to the utter- nost conceivable bounds of the cosmos, those glorious thinkers, the Occultists, trace cycle merging into cycle, containing and contained in an endless series. The enbryo evolving in its pre-natal sphere, the individual in his family, the family in itbestate, the state in mankind, the earth in our system, that system in its central Bfeverse, the universe in the Kosmos, and the Kosmos in the Okb Causs — the VmMiless and Endless.*
Thus runs their philosophy of evolution, dififering as we see, frocD
rof Hseckel. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and (Parabrahm) the Soul-
Thcse are the proofs of Occultism, and they are rejected by Science. But how is the chasm between the mind of man and animal to be
idged in this case? How, if the anthropoid and homo primigenius
\argumenii ^aiia^z. tlov!i^3^ovi ancestor — in the way modern specu- m puts it — how did the two groups diverge so widely from one ther as regards mental capacity? True, the Occultist may be told in every case Occultism does what Science repeats; it g^ves a ion ancestor to ape and man, since it makes the former issue from iceval Man. Aye, but that *' Primaeval Man** was man only in tttcmal form. He was mindless and souliess at the time he begot, with 4 female animal monster, the forefather of a series of apes. This speculation — if speculation it be — is at least logfical, and fills the chasm ^een the mind of man and animal. Thus it accounts for and opUins the hitherto unaccountable and inexplicable. The fact— of 'Jlnch Science is almost certain — that, in the present stage of evolu- tion, no issue can follow from the union of man and animal, is con- sidered and explained elsewhere.
Now what is the fundamental difference between the accepted (or learly so) conclusions — as enunciated in The Pedigree of Afati — that Btn and ape have a common ancestor, and the teachings of Occultism, tliich deny this conclusion and accept the fact that all things and all Sring beings have originated from one common source? Materialistic Saence makes man evolve gradually to what fte is now. Starting from fie first protoplasmic speck called Moneron — which we arc told has, Ike the rest, "originated in the course of immeasurable ages from a
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few, or from one simple, spontaneously arising original form, that \l'* obeyed one law of evolution" — he is made to pass through •'unknowTi and unknowable" types up to the ape, and thence to the human being. Where the transitional shapes are discoverable we are not told; for the simple reason that no **missiug-liaks" between man and the apes have ever yet been found, though this fact in no way prevents men like Haeckel from inventing them ad libitum.
Nor will they ever be met with: simply, again, because that lii which unites man with his real ancestry is searched for on the objectii plane and in the material world of forms, whereas it is safely hidd from the microscope and dissecting knife within the animal tabeniac of man himself. We repeat what we have said in Ms Unveiled:
All thiugs had Iheir origin in Spirit — evolution having originally begun fro»] above and proceeded downward, instead of the reverse, as taught in the Darwioi theory. In other words, there has been a gradual materialization of fomts until fixed ultimate of debasement is reached. This point is that at which the doclrinsi of modem evolution enters into the arena of speculative hypothesis. Arrived it^ this period we shall find it easier to understand Hacckers Anlhropogfny. whicii traces the pedigree of man " from its protoplasmic root, sodden in the mud of setfj which existed before the oldest of the fossiliferons rocks were deposited/' ing to Mr. Huxley's exposition. We may more easily still believe man (of tfcfti Third Round) evolved "by gradual modification of an [astral] mammal of ape-UUj organization," when we remember that the same theory, in a more coudeusedan*] less elegaut, but equally comprehensible, phraseology, was said by Bcrosus tob*v been taught many thousands of years before his time by the man-fish Oannes Dagon, the semi-demon of Babylonia* (though on somewhat modified lines).
But what lies back of the Darwinian line of descent? So far as Uarwin ucofl* cerned nothing but "unverifiable hypotheses." l-'or, as he puts it, he views beings "as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before first bed of the Silurian .system was deposited." t He does not attempt to showi what these "few beings" were. But it answers our purpose quite as well, for, the bare admission of l}ieir existence, recourse to the ancients for corroborai and elaboration of the idea receives the stamp of scientific approbation.!
Truly, as we said in our first work, if we accept Darwin's theory the development of species, we find that his starling-point lies in fr of an open door. We are at liberty either to remain within with hii or cross the threshold, beyond which lies the limitless and the it comprehensible, or rather the Unutterable. If our mortal langui is inadequate to express what our spirit — while on this earth— dim|
• See Cory, Ana'tnt Fragments, pp. ii, et st^. t Origin of Species, pp. 4^8, 449, first edition. X Vol. i. p. 154.
THE CAUSE OF DEGENERATION.
foresees in the great "Bej'oad," it must realize it at some point in the
timeless Eteniity. But what lies "beyond" Hseckel's tbeoo'? Why
^&thybias Heeckelii, and no more!
STANZA IX. THE FINAL EVOLUTION OF MAN.
I
jj. The creators repent. 34. They atone for their neglect 35. Men become tsdowed with minds. j6. The Fourth Race develops perfect speech. 37. Every ttdrogynous unit is separated and becomes bisexual.
33. Seeing which,* the LHAsf who had not BuaT men.J wept,
SAYING:
54. "The Aaianasa§ have defiled our future abodes. This IS K.uuiA. Let us dwell in the others. Let us teach them better, lest worse should happen." tliey did. . . . 35. Then all men became endowed with Manas.|| They saw The sin of the mindless. Hfiat they had already separated, before the ray of di\'ine reason had PWighteued the dark region of their hitherto slumbering minds, and had sinned. That is to say, they had committed evil unconsciously, by producing an effect which was unnatural. Yet, like the other six primitive brother or fellow races, even so this seventh, henceforth ; Otnt on account of the sin committed — even this race will find itself w the last day on one of the Seven Paths. For: The Wsse^ guard the home of nature's order, they assume excellent forms in
'9tti committed vith thr animals. SpiriU, Ihc " Sonii of Wisdom." bad refused to "create."
fHiH Tcnc in the Riz Veda \x. 5. 6) : " The Seven Wise Ones [Resrs of Wisdom, Dhyinta] fashion
faibs [or Liurf, and aliM Races in another sense]. To one of these may the distressed mortal
"— « vcTse interpreted solely from the astronoinical and cosmic a-sprct, is one of the most
il in occult meaning. The "Paths" may mean Lines (Maryldih), but they are primarily
l4ght falling on the Paths leading to Wisdom. (See Rig i-'edit, iv. 5-13.) It meau!* "Ways"
They are. iu short, the 8e\-en KayH which fall free from the M.icroco»inic Centre, the SCvcn
in the metaphysical, the seven Kaces in the pbysiail sense. All depends upon the key
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But we must see whether the *• animals'* tampered with, were of the same kind as those known to Zo6Iog>'.
The "Fair* occurred, according to the testimony of ancient Wisdom and the old records, as soon as Daksha — the reincarnated Creator of men and things in the early Third Race — disappeared to make room for thai portion of mankind which had "separated." This is how one Commentary explains the details that preceded the "Fall":
In the initial period of man*5 Fourth Evolution, the hitman kingdom branched off in several and various directions. The outward shape of its first specimens was not uniform, for the vehicles \Jhc egg-HkCt external shells, in which the future fully physical man gcstated] were of ten tampered unihy before they hardened, by huge aiiimals, of species ?ww unknown^ and belonging to the tentative efforts of Nature. The result was that inter- mediate races of monsters^ half animals, half mat, were produced. But as they were failures, they were not allowed to breathe long and livCt although, the intrinsically paramount power of psychic over physical nature being yet very weak, and hardly established, the ^* Egg-bom" Sons had takett several of their females unto themselves as mates, and bred other human monsters. Later, animal species and human races becoming gradually cquilibrised, they separated, a?id mated 710 longer. Man created no more — he begot. But he also begot animals as well as mert, in days of old. Therefore the Sages [or wise men], who speak of males 7vho had no more will-begotten offspring, but begat various animals along with Ddnavas [G^/aw/j] on females of other species — animals being as \^or in the manner of^ sons putatii'e to them; and they [the humaji males] refusingin time to beregarded as [putative] fathers of dumb creatures — spoke truthfully and wisely. Upon seeing this [slate of things], the ICings and Lords of the last Races [of the Third and the Fourth] placed the seal of prohibition upon the sinful intercourse. It interfered with Karma, it developed new [Karma].* They [tlie Divine Kings] struck the culprits with sterility. They destroyed the Red and Blue Races.j
lu another we find:
There were blue and red-faced animal-men even in later times; nol from actual intercourse [betweett the human afid animal species], but by descent.
And still another passage mentions:
Red-haired, swarthy men going on all-fours, who bend and unbend [stand erect and fall on their hands again], who speak as their forefathers^ and run on their hands as their giant fore-mothers.
* It i> next to impoAsiblc to translate verbally some of theiw old Commenlariea. We arc oAea oMifcd to give the meaning only, and thus retrantlate the verbatim tranalationi. ■t Radra, u ■ Kuinirm, U NilalDhita— red and blue.
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Perchance in these specimens Hseckclians might recognize, not the "Homo Primigenius,*' but some of the lower tribes, such as some tribes of the Australian savages. Nevertheless, even these are not descended from the anthropoid apes, but from human fathers and semi-human mothers, or, to speak more correctly, from human monsters — ^those "failures** mentioned in the first Commentary. The real anthropoids, HaeckeVs Catarrhini and Platyrrhini, came far later, in the closing times of Atlantis. The Orang-Outang, the Gorilla, the Chimpanzee and Cynocephalus are the latest and purely physical evolutions from lower anthropoid mammalians. They have a spark of the purely human essence in them; man on the other band, has not one drop of pithe- coid* blood in his veins. Thus saith old Wisdom and universal tradi- tion.
How was the separation of sexes effected? it is asked. Are we to believe in the old Jewish fable of the rib of Adam yielding Eve? Even such belief is more logical and reasonable than the descent of man from the Quadnimana without any reservation; as the former hides an Esoteric truth under a fabulous version, while the latter conceals no deeper fact than a desire to force upon mankind a materialistic fiction. The rib is bone, and when we read iu Geru'sis that Eve was made out of the rib, it only means that the Race "with bones" was produced out of a previous Race and Races, which were "boneless." This is an Esoteric tenet spread far and wide. It is almost universal under its various forms. A Tahitian tradition states that man was created out of Araea, **red earth.'* Taaroa, the Creative Power, the chief God, **put man to sleep for long years, for several lives." This means racial periods, and
* This, rc^ardlen of modem nuterialistic evolallon, which BpccuUtcs in this viae: "The primi- tive bunua fonu, whence u wc think oU human species spranft, has perished this lou^ time. [This we deny : il has oniy decreased in aizc and changed in icxturc.j But many facts point to the conclu- sion that it was hairy and daUchoccphalic [African races are cwn naxtr dolichocephalic In a grreat measure, but the palaeolithic Neanderthal akuU, the oldest we know of. i» of a large size, and nu nearer to the capacity of the ijoriUa's cranium than that of any other now-IiviuR man.j Let us, for the time beinc:, call this hypothetical species hemic prtmigenius. . . . This first species, or the apc-mon, the ancestor of all the others, probably arose in the tropical regions of the old world from anthropoid aprj." A^tlccd for proofs, the Evolutionist, not the least daunted, replica: "Of these no /outl rrmatns art as yet known to us, but thty wtre probably akm to the GartUa and Otang of the present day. ^' And then the Papuan negro is mentioned as the probable descendant In the first line. \Ptdigret of Man, p. to.)
UKCkel holds fast to Lemuria, which, with East Africa and South Asia alfio, he mentions as the poaaible cradle of the primitive ape-men. So al&o do many Ueulogist». Mr. A. K. Wallace admits its reality, thoug^h in a rather modified sense, in his Geogwaphical DtstribuUon 0/ Animals. Bnt let not iCvoIutiontsts speak 90 UgrhUy of the comparative sise of the brains of man and the ape, for this b very unscientific, especially when they pretend to aee no diiTerence between the two, or very Uttic at any rate. Far Vogi himself showed that, while the highest of the apes, the Gorilla, baa a brain of only 30 to 51 cubic inches, the brain of the lowest of the AuatraUan abcfflglaes amounts to 99-35 cubic inches. The fomtcr is thus " not taali* of the tiae of the brain of a ncw-bom babe/' aays Pfaff.
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is a reference to his menial sleep, as shown elsewhere. During that time the deity pulled an Ivi (bone) out of man and she became a woiuan.*
Nevertheless, whatever the allegory may signify, even its exoteric meaning necessitates a divine Builder of man — a *' Progenitor." Do we then believe in such ''supernatural" Beings? We say: No. Oc- cultism has never believed in anything, whether animate or inanimate, outside Nature. Nor are we Cosmolaters or Polytheists for believing in "Heavenly Man" and Divine Men, for we have the accumulated testi- mony of the ages, with its unvarying evidence on every essential point, to support us in this; the Wisdom of the Ancients and universal tradi- tion. We reject, however, such groundless and baseless traditions as have outgrown strict allegor>' and symbolism, although they may have found acceptance in exoteric creeds. But that which is preserved in unanimous tradition, only the wilfully blind could reject. Hence we believe in races of Beings other than our own in far remote geological periods; in races of ethereal, following incorporeal (Arupa) Men, with form but no solid substance, giants who preceded ns pigmies; in Dynasties of Divine Beings, those Kings and Instructors of the Third Race in arts and sciences, compared with which our little Modem Science stands less chance than elementary arithmetic with geometry.
No. certainly not. We do not believe in supernatural but only in superhuman^ or rather inlcrhuman, intelligences. One can easily appre- ciate the feeling of reluctance that an educated person would have to being classed with the superstitious and ignorant; and even realize the great truth uttered by Kenan when he says that:
The supernatural has become tike the original sin, a blemish that everyone seems ashamed of — even those most religious persons who refuse in our (tay lo accept be it a minimum of Bible miracles in all their cnidencss, and who, seeking to reduce them to the minimum, hide and conceal it in the furthermost comers of the paat.t
But the "supernatural" of Renan belongs to dogma and its dead letter, It has nought to do with its spirit nor with the reality of facts in Nature. If Theology asks us to believe that it was only four or five thousand years ago that men lived 900 years and more, that a portion of mankind, the enemies of the people of Israel exclusively, was com-
• Ellis' Pttlyntrian Reuarches, Vol. tl, p. 38, Miwionarics •«m to have pounced upon Ihif. name /vi and made of it Eve. But, as ihown by Prortraaur Max Mfillrr. Eve la not thcr Hebrew name but a European traaaformation of TV\T^, Chivnh, life, or mother of all Uving; "while the Tohitian im', and the Maori, wkeva, meant bone, and bone only." UnttoductioH to tM« Scunce 0/ Jieltgion, p. 304. >
♦ Chaire itHiintu aw CoIUge de France, p. jo.
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posed of giants and monsters, we decline to believe tliat such a thing existed in Nature only five thousand years back. For Nature never proceeds by jumps and starts, and logic and common sense, besides Geology, Anthropology and Ethnologj', have justly rebelled against such assertions. But if this same Theology, gi\'ing up her fantastic chronology, had claimed that men lived 969 years — the age of Methu- selah— five miilion years ago, we should have nothing to say against the claim. For in those days the physical frame of men was, compared to the present human body, as that of a Mcgalosaurus to a common lizard.
A Naturalist suggests another difficulty. The human is the only species which, however unequal in its races, can breed together, "There is no question of selection between human races" say the anti- Danrinists, and no Evolutionist can deny the argument — one which veiy triumphantly proves specific unity. How then can Occultism insist that a portion of the Fourth Race humanity begot young ones from females of another, only semi-human, if not quite an animal, race; the hybrids resulting from which union not only bred freely but pro- flticed the ancestors of the modem anthropoid apes? Esoteric Science replies to this that it was in the very beginnings of physical man. Since then, Nature has changed her wa>'s. and sterility is the only re- sult of the crime of man's bestiality. But we have even to-day proofs of this. The Secret Doctrine teaches that the specific unity of mankind is not without exceptions even now. For there are, or rather still were * few years ago, descendants of these half-animal tribes or races, both of remote Lemurian and Lemuro-Atlantean origin. The world knows them as Tasmanians (now extinct). Australians, Andaman Islanders, The descent of the Tasmanians can be almost proved by a fact,
lich struck Darwin a good deal, without his being able to make any-
ling of it. This fact deserves notice.
De Quatrefages and other Naturalists, who seek to prove Mono-
iesis by the very fact of every race of mankind being capable of iing with every other, have left out of their calculations exceptions,
ich do not in this case confirm the rule. Human crossing may
ive been a general rule from the time of the separation of sexes, bot this does not prevent another law "asserting itself, viz., sterility between two human races, just as between two animal species of different kinds, in those rare cases when a European, condescending to 5ee in a female of a savage tribe a mate, happens to choose a member of
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such mixed tribes.* Darwin notes such a case in a Tasmanlan tribe, whose women were suddenly struck with sterility, ai ntasse, some time after the arrival among them of European colonists. The great Naturalist tried to explain this fact by change of diet, food conditions, etc.. but finally gave up the solution of the mystery. For the Occultist it is ver>' evident. •'Crossing," as it is called, of Europeans with Tos- manian women — i.e.., the representatives of a race, whose progenitors were a "soulless" f and mindless monster, with a real human, though still as mindless a man — brought on sterility; and this, not only as a consequence of a physiological law, but also as a decree of Karmic evo- lution in the question of further survival of the abnormal race. In no one point of the above is Science prepared to believe as yet — but it will have to in the long run. Esoteric Philosophy, let us remember, only fills the gaps left by Science and corrects her false premisses.
Yet, in this particular, Geology and even Botany and Zoology sup- port the Esoteric Teachings. It has been suggested by many Geolo- gists that the Australian native — coexisting as he does with an archaic fauna and flora — must date back to an enormous antiquity. The whole environment of this mysterious race, about whose origin Ethnology is silent, is a testimony to the truth of the Esoteric position. As Jukes says:
It ia a very curious fact Ibat not only these marsupial animals [the mammals found in the Oxfordshire Stone-ficld Slates], but several of the shells — as for iu- stance, the Trigonias and even some of the plants found fossil in the Oolitic rock^ — much more nearly resemble those now living in Australia than the living forms of any other part of the globe. This might be explained on the supposition that, since the Oolitic [Jurassic] period i^s change has taken place in Australia ttian else- where, and that the Australian flora and fanna consequently retain something of
' or such »cmi-nntmiil creaLum, ihe »ale remnants known to Klhnology were Uie Tumaniuu. a portion of the Australians and a tnountaiD tribe in China, the raen and womeo of which art entirely ctivered with hair. They were the lost descendant* in a dirrrt Hue or the iicnii-amnial latterdny Lemurians referred to. Tliere are, however, considerable nutnbrrs of the mixed Ivemnro- Atlantean peoples produced by various croa»in|pi **^th anch semi-human atodu— tf,f .. the wild meii of Borneo, the Veddhas of Ceylon, classed by Prof. Flower among Aryans (!), most of the remaioinc AuiUmlinnii, Ilu
The Australians of the Gulf of St. Vincent and the nejgbtmurhood of Adelaide are very kairy, and the brown down on the sLin of boys of five or six yean of age assumes a furry appearance. They are, however, degraded men ; not the closest approximation to the "pithecoid man," as Hecckcl wo ssrceplngly affirms. Only a purliou of these men arc a I^murian relic. { i^. Esoteric Huddkism, pp. 64 ei i^g.]
t In calling the animal "soulless" we do not deprive the beast, from the humblest to the higtiesl species, of a Soul, but only of a conscious surviving Egu-Suul, i.e., that principle which survives after a man. and refncamatcs lu a like man. The animal has an Astral Body, that survives the physical form for a short period; nevertheless its Unimali Monad does not reincarnate in the some, but in s higher species, and has no " Devachan" of course. It has the jsaIi of all the human prlo- ctples tn itaelf. but they arc tat*iU.
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the Oolitic type, whiU ii had been altogeiker supplanted and replaced on the rest of
Aeglobe{\ ! ]■•
Now why has less change taken place in Australia than elsewhere? Where is the raison d*Hre for such a "curse of retardation"? It is simply because the nature of the environment develops pari passu with the race concerned. Correspondences rule in every quarter. The survivors of those later Lemurians, who escaped the destruction of their fellows when the main Continent was submerged, became the ancestors of a portion of the present native tribes. Beiug a very low sub-race, begotten originally of aaimals, of monsters, whose very fossils are now resting miles under the sea floors, their stock has since existed in an environment strongly subjected to the law of retardation. Australia is one of the oldest lands now above the waters, and in the senile decrepitude of old age, its ** virgin soil" notwithstanding. It can produce no new forms, unless helped by new and fresh races, and artificial cultivation and breeding.
To return once more, however, to the history of the Third Race, the "Sweat-bom," the ** Egg-bearing," and the *'Androg>'ne." Almost sexless, in its early beginnings, it became bisexual or androgynous; very gradually of course. The passage from the first to the last trans- formation required numberless generations, during which the simple cell that issued from the earliest parent (the two in oue), first developed into a bisexual being; and then the cell, becoming a regular egg, gave forth a unisexual creature. The Third Race mankind is the most mysterious of all the five hitherto developed Races. The mystery of the "How" of the generation of the distinct sexes must, of course, be very obscure here, as it is the business of an embr>'ologist and a specialist; the present work giving only faint outlines of the process. But it is evident that the imits of the Third Race humanity began to separate in their pre-natal shells, or eggs.f and to issue out of them as distinct male and female babes, ages after the appearance of its early progenitors. And, as time rolled on its geological periods, the newly bom sub-races began to lose their natal capacities. Toward the end of the fourth sub-race of the Third Race, the babe lost its faculty of walking as soon as liberated from its shell, and by the end of the fifth,
* Mammat of Gntlcgy, p. jfa.
t Tbc ** fables " and "myths" aboat Lcda and Japiter, and such like, could never have sprung up in propk'n fancy, had not thcaUr^ory rrstrd on n fact in Nature. E^'oIution« gradually transfonnins: man ra^ a niammal, did in his case only what it did Jn that of other animals. But this does uot pre- vent roan from havine always «tood at the head of the animal world and other org^anic ipedea, aa4 from having preceded the fonoer.
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mankind was bom under the same conditions and by identically the same process as our historical generations. This required, of course, millions of years. The reader has been made acquainted with the approximate figures, at least of the exoteric calculations *
We are approaching the turning-point of the evolution of the Races. Let us see what Occult Philosophy says on the origin of language.
36. The Fourth Race developed speech.
The Commentaries explain that the First Race — the ethereal or astral Sons of Yoga, also called "Self-born" — was. in our sense, speechless, for it was devoid of mind on our plane. The Second Race had a "sound-language," to wit, chant-like sounds composed of vowels alone. The Third Race developed in the beginning a kind of language which was only a .slight improvement on the various sounds in Nature, on the cry of gigantic insects and of the first animals, which, however, were hardly nascent in the day of the "Sweal-born" or the early Third Race. In its second half, when the ** Sweat-born" gave birth to the "Egg-born," the middle Third Race; and when these, instead of "hatching out" — may the reader pardon the rather ridiculous ex- pression when applied to human beings in our age — as androg>'nous beings, began to evolve into separate males and females; and when the same law of evolution led them to reproduce their kind sexually — an act which forced the Creative Gods, compelled by Karmic law, to in- carnate in mindUss men; then only was speech developed. But even then it was still no better than a tentative effort. The whole human race was at that time of *'onc language and of one lip." This did not prevent the last two sub-races of the Third Racef from building cities, and sowing far and wide the first seeds of civilization under the guidance of their Divine Instructors,! and their own already awakened minds. I^et the reader also bear in mind that, as each of the seven Races is divided into four Ages^the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron Age — so is every smallest division of such Races. Speech then de- veloped, according to Occult Teaching, in the following order:
• See Ihc Section on "The Chronoloffy of the BrAhmnns," p. b9.
* To avoid confuftion. let the render remember that the trrm Kool- Race Applies to one of the : ipreat Kaces, 8ub-nce to one of iti irre«t Branches, and (amily-raoe (o one of the aub-flivUioBS, which include nntionn and lar^ triben.
X In the Section on "The Fifth Race and itH IHvine Instnicton." in the Commentary on Staiua XSL, the nature of thoae "Instructors" Li cjcplaincd.
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