CHAPTER XIV.

THE OCCULT ANALYSIS OF GENESIS.

Limitations of the Bible.

IN our study thus far, previous to Chapter XIII, com-
paratively little reference has been made to the Bible,
but we shall now devote our attention to it for some
time. Not that it is intended to attempt a vindication of
the Bible (in the form in which it is commonly known
to us at the present day) as the only true and inspired
Word of God, nevertheless it is true that it contains much
valuable occult knowledge. This is, to a great extent,
hidden beneath interpolations and obscured by the arbi-
trary withholding of certain parts as being "apocryphal."
The occult scientist, who knows the intended meaning,
can, of course, easily see which portions are original and
which have been interpolated. Yet, if we take the first
chapter of Genesis even as it stands, in the best transla-
tions we possess, we shall find that it unfolds the identical
scheme of evolution which has been explained in the pre-
ceding portion of this work and harmonizes quite well
with the occult information in regard to Periods, Revo-
lutions, Races, etc. The outlines given are necessarily
of the briefest and most condensed character, an entire
Period being covered in a score of words — nevertheless, the
outlines are there.

Before proceeding with an analysis it is necessary to
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say that the words of the Hebrew language, particularly
the old style, run into one another and are not divided as
are those of our language. Add to this that there is a
custom of leaving out vowels from the writing, so that in
reading much depends upon where and how they are
inserted, and it will be seen how great are the difficulties
to be surmounted in ascertaining the original meaning.
A slight change may entirely alter the signification of
almost any sentence.

In addition to these great difficulties we must also
bear in mind that of the forty-seven translators of the
King James' version (that most commonly used in Eng-
land and America), only three were Hebrew scholars, and
of those three, two died before the Psalms had been trans-
lated ! We must still further take into consideration that
the Act which authorized the translation prohibited the
translators from any rendition that would greatly deviate
from or tend to disturb the already existing belief. It
is evident, therefore, that the chances of getting a correct
translation were very small indeed.

Nor were conditions much more favorable in Germany,
for there Martin Luther was the sole translator and even
he did not translate from the original Hebrew, but merely
from a Latin text. Most of the versions used in Conti-
nental Protestant countries today are simply translations,
into the different languages, of Luther's translation.

True, there have been revisions, but they have not
greatly improved matters. Moreover, there is a large num-
ber of people in this country who insist that the English
text of the King James version is absolutely correct from
cover to cover, as though the Bible had been originally
written in English, and the King James version were a
certified copy of the original manuscript. So the old

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mistakes are still there, in spite of the efforts which have
been made to eradicate them.

It must also be noted that those who originally wrote
the Bible did not intend to give out the truth in such
plain form that he who ran might read. Nothing was
further from their thoughts than to write an "open book
of God." The great occultists who wrote the Zohar are
very emphatic upon this point. The secrets of the Thorah
were not to be understood by all, as the following quotation
will show:

"Woe to the man who sees in the Thorah (the law)
only simple recitals and ordinary words! Because, if in
truth it contained only these, we would even today be able
to compose a Thorah much more worthy of admiration.
But it is not so. Each word of the Thorah contains an
elevated meaning and a sublime mystery. . . . The
recitals of the Thorah are the vestments of the Thorah.
Woe to him who takes this vestment of the Thorah for
the Thorah itself ! . . . The simple take notice of the
garments and recitals of the Thorah alone. They know
no other thing. They see not that which is concealed
under the vestment. The more instructed men do not pay
attention to the vestment, but to the body which it en-
velops."

In the preceding words the allegorical meanings are
plainly implied. Paul also unequivocally says that the
story of Abraham and the two sons whom he had by Sarah
and Hagar is purely allegorical (Gal. iv:22-26). Many
passages are veiled; others are to be taken verbatim; and
no one who has not the occult key is able to find the deep
truth hidden in what is often a very hideous garment.

The secrecy regarding these deep matters and the in-
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were permitted to come in contact with occult truths will
also be apparent from the practice of Christ, who always
spoke to the multitude in parables, afterward privately
explaining to His disciples the deeper meaning contained
therein. On several occasions He imposed secrecy upon
them with regard to such private teachings.

Paul's methods .are also in harmony with this, for he
gives "milk" or the more elementary teaching to the
"babes" in the faith, reserving the "meat" or deeper teach-
ing for the "strong" — those who had qualified themselves
to understand and receive them.

The Jewish Bible was originally written in Hebrew,
but we do not possess one single line of the original writ-
ings. As early as 280 B. C. the Septuagint, a translation
into Greek, was brought forth. Even in the time of Christ
there was already the utmost confusion and diversity of
opinion regarding what was to be admitted as original,
and what had been interpolated.

It was not until the return from the Babylonian exile
that the scribes began to piece together the different writ-
ings, and not until about 500 A. D. did the Talmud ap-
pear, giving the first text resembling the present one,
which, in view of the foregoing facts, cannot be perfect.

The Talmud was then taken in hand by the Masorete
school, which from 590 to about 800 A. D. was principally
in Tiberias. With great and painstaking labor, a Hebrew
Old Testament was produced, which is the nearest to the
original we have at the present time.

This Masoretic text will be used in the following elucida-
tion of Genesis, and, not relying upon the work of one
translator, it will be supplemented by a German transla-
tion, the work of three eminent Hebrew scholars — H. Am-

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heim, M. Sachs, and Jul. Furst, who co-operated with a
fourth, Dr. Zunz, the latter being also the editor.

IN THE BEGINNING

The opening sentence of Genesis is a very good example
of what has been stated about the interpretation of the
Hebrew text, which may be changed by differently placing
the vowels and dividing the words in another way.

There are two well-recognized methods of reading this
sentence. One is: "In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth"; the other is: "Out of the ever-
existing essence [of space] the twofold energy formed the
double heaven."

Much has been said and written as to which of these
two interpretations is correct. The difficulty is, that peo-
ple want something settled and definite. They take the
stand that, if a certain explanation is true, all others
must be wrong. But, emphatically, this is not the way
to get at truth, which is many sided and multiplex. Each
occult truth requires examination from many different
points of view; each viewpoint presents a certain phase
of the truth, and all of them are necessary to get a com-
plete, definite conception of whatever is under considera-
tion.

The very fact that this sentence and many others in the
vestment of the Thorah can thus be made to yield many
meanings, while confusing to the uninitiated, is illumina-
tive to those who have the key, and the transcendental
wisdom of the wonderful Intelligences Who inspired the
Thorah is thereby shown. Had the vowels been inserted,
and a division made into words, there would have been
only one way of reading it and these grand and sublime
mysteries could not have been hidden therein. That would

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have been the proper method to pursue if the authors had
meant to write an "open" book of God ; but that was not
their purpose. It was written solely for the initiated,
and can be read understandingly by them only. It would
have required much less skill to have written the book
plainly than to have concealed its meaning. No pains
are ever spared, however, to bring the information, in due
time, to those who are entitled to it, while withholding
it from those who have not yet earned the right to pos-
sess it.

THE NEBULAR THEORY.

Regarded by the light thrown upon the genesis and
evolution of our system, it is plain that both renderings of
the opening sentence in the Book of Genesis are necessary
to an understanding of the subject. The first tells that
there was a beginning of our evolution, in which the
heavens were created ; the other interpretation supplements
the first statement by adding that the heavens and the
earth were created out of the "ever-existing essence," not
out of "nothing," as is jeeringly pointed out by the ma-
terialist. The Cosmic Root-substance is gathered together
and set in motion. The rings formed by the inertia of the
revolving mass break away from the central part, forming
planets, etc., as the modern scientist, with remarkable in-
genuity, has reasoned out. Occult and modern science are
in perfect harmony as to the modus operandi. There is
nothing in these statements inconsistent with the two
theories, as will presently be shown. Occult science teaches
that God instituted the process of formation and is con-
stantly guiding the System in a definite path. The modern
scientist, in refutation of what he calls a foolish idea, and
to demonstrate that a God is not necessary, takes a basin

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of water and pours a little oil into it. The water and the
oil represent space and fire-mist respectively. He now
commences to turn the oil around with a needle, bringing
it into the form -of a sphere. This, he explains, repre-
sents the Central Sun. As he turns the oil-ball faster and
faster, it bulges at the equator and throws off a ring; the
ring breaks and the fragments coalesce, forming a smaller
ball, which circles around the central mass as a planet
circles around the Sun. Then he pityingly asks the occult
scientist, "Do you not see how it is done? There is no
need for your God, or any supernatural force."

The occultist readily agrees that a Solar System may
be formed in approximately the manner illustrated. But
he marvels greatly that a man possessing the clear in-
tuition enabling him to perceive with such accuracy the
operation of Cosmic processes, and the intellect to con-
ceive this brilliant demonstration of his monumental
theory, should at the same time be quite unable to see
that in his demonstration he himself plays the part of
God. His was the extraneous power that placed the oil
in the water, where it would have remained inert and
shapeless through all eternity had he not supplied the
force that set it in motion, thereby causing it to shape
itself into a representation of Sun and planets. His was
the Thought which designed the experiment, using the
oil, water and force, thus illustrating in a splendid man-
ner the Triune God working in Cosmic substance to form
a Solar System.

The attributes of God are Will, Wisdom, and Activity.
(See diagram 6. Note carefully what the name "God"
signifies in this terminology.) The scientist has Will to
make the experiment. He has ingenuity to supply ways
and means for the demonstration. This ingenuity corre-

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spends to Wisdom, the second attribute of God. He has
also the muscular force necessary to perform the action,
corresponding to Activity, which is the third attribute of
God.

Further, the universe is not a vast perpetual-motion ma-
chine, which, when once set going, keeps on without any
internal cause or guiding force. That also is proven by
the experiment of the scientist, for the moment he ceases
to turn the oil-ball the orderly motion of his miniature
planets also ceases and all returns to a shapeless mass of
oil floating on the water. In a corresponding manner, the
universe would at once dissolve into "thin space" if God
for one moment ceased to exert His all-embracing care
and energizing activity.

The second interpretation of Genesis is marvelously exact
in its description of a twofold formative energy. It does
not specifically state that God is Triune. The reader's
knowledge of that fact is taken for granted. It states the
exact truth when it says that only two forces are active in
the formation of a universe.

When the first aspect of the Triune God manifests as
the Will to create, It arouses the second aspect (which is
Wisdom) to design a plan for the future universe. This
first manifestation of Force is Imagination. After this
primal Force of Imagination has conceived the Idea of a
universe, the third aspect (which is Activity), working in
Cosmic substance, produces Motion. This is the second
manifestation of Force. Motion alone, however, is not
sufficient. To form a system of worlds, it must be orderly
motion. Wisdom is therefore necessary to guide Motion
in an intelligent manner to produce definite results.

Thus we find the opening sentence of the Book of

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Genesis tells us that in the beginning, orderly, rhythmic
motion, in Cosmic Root-substance, formed the universe.

THE CREATIVE HIERARCHIES.

The second interpretation of the opening sentence also
gives us a fuller idea of God when it speaks of the "two-
fold energy," pointing to the positive and negative phases
of the One Spirit of God in manifestation. In harmony
with the teaching of occult science, God is represented as
a composite Being. This is accentuated in the remaining
verses of the chapter.

In addition to the creative Hierarchies which worked
voluntarily in our evolution, there are seven others which
belong to our evolution, and are co-workers with God in
the formation of the universe. In the first chapter of
Genesis these Hierarchies are called "Elohim." The name
signifies a host of dual or double-sexed Beings. The first
part of the word is "Eloh," which is a feminine noun, the
letter "h" indicating the gender. If a single feminine Be-
ing were meant, the word "Eloh" would have been used.
The feminine plural is "oth," so if the intention had been
to indicate a number of Gods of the feminine gender, the
correct word to use would have been "Elooth." Instead of
either of those forms, however, we. find the masculine,
plural ending, "im," added to the feminine noun, "Eloh,"
indicating a host of male-female, double-sexed Beings, ex-
pressions of the dual, positive-negative, creative energy.

The plurality of Creators is again implied in the latter
part of the chapter, where these words are ascribed to the
Elohim : "Let us make man in our image ;" after which
it is inconsistently added, "He made them male and fe-
male."

The translators have here rendered the puzzling word

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"Elohim" (which was decidedly not only a plural woid
but also both masculine and feminine) as being the equiva-
lent of the singular, sexless word, "God." Yet could they
have done differently, even had they known? They were
forbidden to disturb existing ideas. It was not truth at
any price, but peace at any price that King James desired,
his sole anxiety being to avoid any controversy that might
create a disturbance in his kingdom.

The plural "them" is also used where the creation of man
is mentioned, clearly indicating that the reference is to
the creation of ADM, the human species, and not Adam,
the individual.

We have shown that six creative Hierarchies (besides
the Lords of Flame, the Cherubim, the Seraphim, and the
two unnamed Hierarchies which have passed into libera-
tion) were active in assisting the virgin spirits which in
themselves form a seventh Hierarchy.

The Cherubim and the Seraphim had nothing to do
with the creation of Form; therefore they are not men-
tioned in the chapter under consideration, which deals
principally with the Form-side of Creation. Here we
find mentioned only the seven creative Hierarchies which
did the actual work of bringing man to where he acquired
a dense physical forln, through which the indwelling spirit
could work.

After a description of each part of the work of Creation
it is said: "and Elohim saw that it was good." This is
said seven times, the last time being on the sixth day,
when the human form had been created.

It is stated that on the seventh day "Elohim rested."
This is all in accord with our occult teaching of the part
taken by each of the creative Hierarchies in the work of
evolution down to the present Period. It is also taught

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that in the present Epoch the Gods and creative
Hierarchies have withdrawn from active participation, that
man may work out his own salvation, leaving the neces-
sary guidance of ordinary humanity to the "Elder
Brothers," who are now the mediators between man and
the Gods.

THE SATURN PERIOD.

Having satisfied ourselves that the beginning of our
System and the work of the creative Hierarchies, as de-
scribed by occult science, harmonize with the teachings of
the Bible, we will now examine the Bible account of the
different "Days of Creation" and see how they agree with
the occult teachings relative to the Saturn, Sun, and Moon
Periods; the three and one-half Revolutions of the Earth
Period; and the Polarian, Hyperborean, Lemurian, and
Atlantean Epochs, which have preceded the present Aryan
Epoch.

Naturally, a detailed account could not be given in a
few lines like the first chapter of Genesis, but the main
points are there in orderly succession, very much like an
algebraical formula for Creation.

The second verse proceeds: "The Earth was waste and
uninhabited, and darkness rested upon the face of the deep ;
and the Spirits of the Elohim floated above the deep." In
the beginning of manifestation that which is now the
Earth was in the Saturn Period, and in exactly the condi-
tion described, as may be seen by referring to the descrip-
tions already given of that Period. It was not "without
form and void," as expressed in the King James version.
It was hot, and thus well-defined and separate from the
deep of space, which was cold. It is true that it was
dark, but it could be dark and still be hot, for "dark"

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heat necessarily precedes glowing or visible heat. Above
this dark Earth of the Saturn Period floated the creative
Hierarchies. They worked upon it from the outside and
molded it. The Bible refers to them as the "Spirits of the
Elohim."

THE SUN PERIOD.

The Sun Period is well described in the third verse,
which says, "And the Elohim said, Let there be Light;
and there was Light." This passage has been jeered at as
the most ridiculous nonsense. The scornful query has been
put, How could there be light upon the Earth when the
Sun was not made until the fourth day? The Bible nar-
rator, however, is not speaking of the Earth alone. He
is speaking of the central "Fire-mist," from which were
formed the planets of our system, including the Earth.
Thus when the nebula reached a state of glowing heat,
which it did in the Sun Period, there was no necessity
for an outside illuminant; the Light was within.

In the fourth verse we read : "The Elohim differentiated
between the light and the darkness." Necessarily, for the
outside space was dark, in contradistinction to the glow-
ing nebula which existed during the Sun Period

THE MOON PERIOD.

The Moon Period is described in the sixth verse, as fol-
lows : "and Elohim said, Let there be an expansion [trans-
lated "firmament" in other versions] in the waters, to di-
vide the water from the water." This exactly describes
conditions in the Moon Period, when the heat of the glow-
ing fire-mist and the cold of outside space had formed a
body of water around the fiery core. The contact of fire
and water generated steam, which is water in expansion,

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as our verse describes. It was different from the com-
paratively cool water, which constantly gravitated toward
the hot, fiery core, to replace the outrushing steam. Thus
there was a constant circulation of the water held in sus-
pension, and also an expansion, as the steam, rushing
outward from the fiery core, formed an atmosphere of
"fire-fog" condensed by contact with outside space,
returning again to the core to be reheated and perform
another cycle. Thus there were two kinds of water, and
a division between them, as stated in the Bible. The dense
water was nearest the fiery core; the expanded water or
steam was on the outside.

This also harmonizes with the scientific theory of mod-
ern times. First the dark heat; then the glowing nebula;
later the outside moisture and inside heat; and, finally,
incrustation.

THE EARTH PERIOD.

The Earth Period is next described. Before we take
up its description, however, we have to deal with the Re-
capitulations. The verses quoted and the descriptions given
will also correspond to the recapitulatory Periods. Thus
what is said of the Saturn Period describes also the con-
dition of the System when it emerges from any of the rest
Periods. The descriptions of the Saturn, Sun, and Moon
Periods would therefore correspond to the first three Revo-
lutions of our present Earth Period, and the following
would correspond with conditions on Earth in the present
Revolution.

In the ninth verse, we read: "And Elohim said, Let
the waters be divided from the dry land . . . and
Elohim called the dry land Earth." This refers to the

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first firm incrustation. Heat and moisture had generated
the solid body of our present Globe.

The Polarian Epoch: The ninth verse, which describes
the Earth Period in this fourth Ee volution (where the
real Earth Period work commenced), also describes the
formation of the mineral kingdom and the Eecapitulation
by man of the mineral stage in the Polarian Epoch. Each
Epoch is also a Eecapitulation of the previous stage. Just
as there are Eecapitulations of Globes, Eevolutions, and
Periods, so there are on each Globe, recapitulations of all
that has gone before. These Eecapitulations are endless.
There is always a spiral within a spiral — in the atom, in
the Globe, and in all other phases of evolution.

Complicated and bewildering as this may appear at
first, it is really not so difficult to understand. There is
an orderly method running through it all and in time one
is able to perceive and follow the workings of this method,
as a clue leading through the maze. Analogy is one of the
best helps to an understanding of evolution.

The Hyperborean Epoch is described in verses 11 to 19,
as the work of the fourth day. It is here recorded that
Elohim created the plant kingdom, the Sun, the Moon,
and the stars.

The Bible agrees with the teaching of modern science
that plants succeeded the mineral. The difference be-
tween the two teachings is in regard to the time when the
Earth was thrown off from the central mass. Science as-
serts that it was before the formation of any incrustation
which could be called mineral and plant. If we mean
such minerals and plants as we have today, that assertion
is correct. There was no dense material substance, but
nevertheless the first incrustation that took place in the
central Sun was mineral. The Bible narrator gives only

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the principal incidents. It is not recorded that the in-
crustation melted when it was thrown off from the central
mass as a ring which broke, the fragments afterward
coalescing. In a body as small as our Earth, the time re-
quired for recrystallization was so comparatively short that
the historian does not mention it, nor the further sub-
sidiary fact that the melting process took place once more
when the Moon was thrown off from the Earth. He prob-
ably reasons that one who is entitled to occult information
is already in possession of such minor details as those.

The plants of the incrustation of the central fire-mist
were ethereal, therefore the melting processes did not de-
stroy them. As the lines of force along which the ice
crystals form are present in the water, so when the Earth
crystallized, were those ethereal plant-forms present in it.
They were the molds which drew to themselves the dense
material forming the plant-bodies of the present day and
also of the plant-forms of the past, which are embedded
in the geological strata of our Earth globe.

These ethereal plant-forms were aided in their forma-
tion when the heat came from outside, after the separa-
tion of the Earth from Sun and Moon. That heat gave
them the vital force to draw to themselves the denser sub-
stance.

The Lemurian Epoch is described in the work of the
fifth day. This Epoch, being the third, is in a sense a
Recapitulation of the Moon Period, and in the Biblical
narrative we find described such conditions as obtained in
the Moon Period — water, fire-fog, and the first attempts
at moving, breathing life.

Verses 20 and 21 tell us that "Elohim said, Let the
waters bring forth life-breathing things . . . and
fowl . . . ; and Elohim formed the great amphibians

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and all life-breathing things according to their species, and
all fowl with wings."

This also harmonizes with the teaching of material sci-
ence that the amphibians preceded the birds.

The student is invited to note particularly that the
things that were formed were not Life. It does not say
that Life was created, but "things" that breathe or inhale
life. . . . The Hebrew word for that which they in-
hale is nephesh, and it should be carefully noted, as we
shall meet it in a new dress later.

The Atlantean Epoch is dealt with in the work of the
sixth day. In verse 24 the creation of mammals is men-
tioned, and there the word nephesh again occurs, explain-
ing that the mammals "breathed life." "Elohim said, Let
the earth bring forth life-breathing things . . . mam-
mals ... ;" and in verse 27, "Elohim formed man
in their likeness; male and female made they [Elohim]
them."

The Bible historian here omits the a-sexual and
hermaphrodite human stages and comes to the two sepa-
rate sexes, as we know them now. He could not do other-
wise, as he is describing the Atlantean Epoch, and by the
time that stage in evolution was reached there were neither
sexless men nor hermaphrodites, the differentiation of the
sexes having taken place earlier — in the Lemurian Epoch.
That which afterward became man could hardly be spoken
of as man in the earlier stages of its development, as it
differed but little from the animals. Therefore the Bible
narrator is doing no violence to facts when he states that
man was formed in the Atlantean Epoch.

In verse 28 (all versions) will be found a very small
prefix, with a very great significance: "Elohim said, Be
fruitful and RE-plenish the earth." This plainly shows

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that the scribe who wrote it was cognizant of the occult
teaching that the life wave had evolved here, on Globe D
of the Earth Period, in previous Eevolutions.

The Aryan Epoch corresponds to the seventh day of
Creation, when the Elohim rested from their labors as
Creators and Guides, and humanity had been launched
upon an independent career.

This ends the story of the manner in which the Forms
were produced. In the following chapter the story is
told from the point of view which deals a little more with
the Life side.

JEHOVAH AND His MISSION.

There has been much learned discussion concerning the
discrepancy between, and especially the authorship of, the
creation story of the first chapter and that which starts at
the fourth verse of the second chapter. It is asserted that
the two accounts were written by different men, because
the Being or Beings, the name of Whom the translators
have rendered as "God" in both the first and second chap-
ters of the English version, are, in the Hebrew text, called
"Elohim" in the first chapter, and "Jehovah" in the sec-
ond chapter. It is argued that the same narrator would
not have named God in two different ways.

Had he meant the same God in both cases, he probably
would not, but he was not a monotheist. He knew better
than to think of God as simply a superior Man, using the
sky for a throne and the earth for a footstool. When he
wrote of Jehovah he meant the Leader Who had charge
of the particular part of the work of Creation which was
then being described. Jehovah was and is one of the Elo-
him. He is the Leader of the Angels who were the human-
ity of the Moon, and He is Regent of our present Moon.

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The reader is referred to diagram 14 for an accurate under-
standing of the position and constitution of Jehovah.

As Regent of our Moon, He has charge of the degen-
erate, evil Beings there, and He also rules the Angels.
With Him are some of the Archangels, who were the hu-
manity of the Sun. They are called the "Race-spirits."

It is the work of Jehovah to build concrete bodies or
forms, by means of the hardening, crystallizing Moon
forces. Therefore He is the giver of children and the
Angels are His messengers in this work. It is well known
to physiologists that the Moon is connected with gestation ;
at least, they have observed that it measures and governs
the periods of intra-uterine life and other physiological
functions.

The Archangels, as Spirits and Leaders of a Race, are
known to fight for or against a people, as the exigencies
of the evolution of that Race demand. In Daniel x:20,
an Archangel, speaking to Daniel, says, "And now will I
return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am
gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come."

The Archangel Michael is the Race-spirit of the Jews
(Daniel xiirl), but Jehovah is not the God of the Jews
alone; He is the Author of all Race-religions which led up
to Christianity. Nevertheless, it is true that He did take
a special interest in the progenitors of the present degen-
erate Jews — the Original Semites, the "seed-race" for the
seven races of the Aryan Epoch. Jehovah, of course, takes
special care of a seed-race, in which are to be inculcated
the embryonic faculties of the humanity of a new Epoch.
For that reason He was particularly concerned with the
Original Semites. They were His "chosen people" — chosen
to be the seed for a new Race, which was to inherit the

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"Promised Land" — not merely insignificant Palestine, but
the entire Earth, as it is at present.

He did not lead them out of Egypt. That story orig-
inated with their descendants and is a confused account
of their journey eastward through flood and disaster out
of the doomed Atlantis into the "wilderness" (the Desert
of Gobi in Central Asia), there to wander during the
cabalistic forty years, until they could enter the Promised
Land. There is a double and peculiar significance to the
descriptive word "promised" in this connection. The land
was called the "promised Land" because, as land or earth
suitable for human occupation, it did not exist at the time
the "chosen people" were led into the "wilderness." Part
of the Earth had been submerged by floods and other parts
changed by volcanic eruptions, hence it was necessary that
a period of time elapse before the new Earth was in a
fit condition to become the possession of the Aryan Race.

The Original Semites were set apart and forbidden to
marry into other tribes or peoples, but they were a stiff-
necked and hard people, being yet led almost exclusively
by desire and cunning, therefore they disobeyed the com-
mand. Their Bible records that the sons of God married
the daughters of man — the lower grades of their Atlantean
compatriots. They thus frustrated the designs of Jehovah
and were cast off, the fruit of such cross-breeding being
useless as seed for the coming Race.

These cross-breeds were the progenitors of the present
Jews, who now speak of "lost tribes." They know that
some of the original number left them and went another
way, but they do not know that those were the few who
remained true. The story of the ten tribes being lost is a
fable. Most of them perished, but the faithful ones sur-

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vived, and from that faithful remnant have descended the
present Aryan Eaces.

The contention of the opponents of the Bible, that it is a
mere mutilation of the original writings, is cheerfully
agreed to by occult science. Parts of it are even conceded
to be entire fabrications and no attempt is made to prove
its authenticity as a whole, in the form we now have it.
The present effort is simply an attempt to exhume a few
kernels of occult truth from the bewildering mass of mis-
leading and incorrect interpretations under which they
have been buried by the various translators and revisors.

INVOLUTION, EVOLUTION AND EPIGENESIS.

Having in the foregoing paragraphs disentangled from
the general confusion the identity and mission of Jehovah,
it may be that we can now find harmony in the two seem-
ingly contradictory accounts of the creation of man, as
recorded in the first and second chapters of Genesis, in the
first of which it is written that he was the last, and in the
second that he was the first created of all living things.

We note that the first chapter deals chiefly with the
creation of Form, the second chapter is devoted to the
consideration of Life, while the fifth chapter deals with
Consciousness. The key to the meaning, then, is that we
must differentiate sharply between the physical Form, and
the Life that builds that Form for its own expression. Al-
though the order of the creation of the other kingdoms is
not as correctly given in the second chapter as in the first,
it is true that if we consider man from the Life side, he
was created first, but if we consider him from the stand-
point of Form, as is done in the first chapter, he was
created last.

All through the course of evolution — through Periods,

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Globes, Revolutions and Races — those who do not improve
by the formation of new characteristics are held back and
immediately begin to degenerate. Only that which re-
mains plastic and pliable and adaptable for molding into
new Forms suitable for the expression of the expanding
consciousness; only the Life which is capable of outgrow-
ing the possibilities for improvement inhering in the
forms it ensouls, can evolve with the pioneers of any life
wave. All else must straggle on behind.

This is the kernel of the occult teaching. Progress is
not simply unfoldment; not simply Involution and Evolu-
tion. There is a third factor, making a triad — Involution,
Evolution, and — Epigenesis.

The first two words are familiar to all who have studied
Life and Form, but while it is generally admitted that the
involution of spirit into matter takes place in order that
Form may be built, it is not so commonly recognized that
the Involution of Spirit runs side by side with the Evolu-
tion of Form.

From the very beginning of the Saturn Period up to the
time in the Atlantean Epoch when "man's eyes were
opened" by the Lucifer Spirits, and as a consequence the
activities of man — or the Life-force which has become man
— were chiefly directed inward ; that very same force which
he now sends out from himself to build railways, steam-
boats, etc., was used internally in building a vehicle through
which to manifest himself. This vehicle is threefold, like
the spirit which built it.

The same power by which man is now improving outside
conditions was used during Involution for purposes of in-
ternal growth.

The Form was built by Evolution; the Spirit built and

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entered it by Involution; but the means for devising im-
provements is Epigenesis.

There is a strong tendency to regard all that is, as the
result of something that has been; all improvements on
previously existing forms, as being present in all forms
as latencies; to regard Evolution as simply the unfolding
of germinal improvements. Such a conception excludes
Epigenesis from the scheme of things. It allows no possi-
bility for the building of anything new, no scope for orig-
inality.

The occultist believes the purpose of evolution to be the
development of man from a static to a dynamic God — a
Creator. If the development he is at present undergoing
is to be his education and if, during its progress, he is
simply unfolding latent actualities, where does he learn
to CREATE?

If man's development consists solely in learning to build
better and better Forms, according to models already exist-
ing in his Creator's mind, he can become, at best, only a
good imitator — never a creator.

In order that he may become an independent, original
Creator, it is necessary that his training should include
sufficient latitude for the exercise of the individual orig-
inality which distinguishes creation from imitation. So
long as certain features of the old Form meet the require-
ments of progression they are retained, but at each re-
incarnation the evolving Life adds such original improve-
ments as are necessary for its further expression.

The pioneers of science are constantly brought face to
face with Epigenesis as a fact in all departments of
nature. As early as 1759, Caspar Wohf published his
"Theoria Generationis," in which he shows that in the
human ovum there is absolutely no trace of the coming

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organism ; that its evolution consists of the addition of new
formations; a building of something which is not latent
in the ovum.

Haeckel (that great and fearless student of nature as he
sees it, and very near to knowledge of the complete truth
regarding evolution) says of the "Theoria Generations" :
"Despite its small compass and difficult terminology, it is
one of the most valuable works in the whole literature of
biology."

Haeckel's own views we find thus stated in his '' An-
thropogenic" : "Nowadays we are hardly justified in call-
ing Epigenesis an hypothesis, as we have fully convinced
ourselves of its being a FACT and are able at any moment
to demonstrate it by the help of the microscope."

A builder would be but a sorry craftsman were his abili-
ties limited to the building of houses after only one par-
ticular model, which, during his apprenticeship, his master
had taught him to imitate, but which he is unable to alter
to meet new requirements. To be successful he must be
capable of designing new and better houses, improving
that which experience teaches was not serviceable in the
earlier buildings. The same force which the builder now
directs outward to build houses better adapted to new
conditions was used in past Periods to build new and bet-
ter vehicles for the evolution of the Ego.

Starting with the simplest organisms, the Life which is
now Man built the Form to suit its necessities. In due
time, as the entity progressed, it became evident that new
improvements must be added which conflicted with the
lines previously followed. A new start must be given it in
a new species, where it could retrieve any previous mis-
takes which experience taught would preclude further de-
velopment if the old lines were adhered to, and thus the

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evolving life would be enabled to progress further in a
new species. When later experience proved that the new
form also was inadequate, inasmuch as it could not adapt
itself to some improvement necessary to the progress of the
evolving life, it too was discarded and still another de-
parture made, in a form adaptable to the necessary im-
provement.

Thus by successive steps does the evolving Life improve
its vehicles, and the improvement is still going on. Man,
who is in the vanguard of progress, has built his bodies,
from the similitude of the amceba up to the human form
of the savage, and from that up through the various grades
until the most advanced races are now using the best and
most highly organized bodies on Earth. Between deaths
and rebirths we are constantly building bodies in which to
function during our lives and a far greater degree of ef-
ficiency than the present will yet be reached. If we make
mistakes in building between incarnations, they become
evident when we are using the body in Earth-life, and it is
well for us if we are able to perceive and realize our mis-
takes, that we may avoid making them afresh life after
life.

But just as the builder of houses would lag commercially
if he did not constantly improve his methods to meet the
exigencies of his business, so those who persistently adhere
to the old forms fail to rise above the species and are left
behind, as stragglers. These stragglers take the forms
outgrown by the pioneers, as previously explained, and they
compose the lower Eaces and species of any kingdom in
which they are evolving. As the Life which is now Man
passed through stages analagous to the mineral, plant, and
animal kingdoms and through the lower human Eaces,
stragglers were left all along the way who had failed to

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reach the necessary standard to keep abreast of the crest-
wave of evolution. They took the discarded Forms of the
pioneers and used them as stepping-stones, by means of
which they tried to overtake the others, but the advanced
Forms did not stand still. In the progress of Evolution
there is no halting-place. In evolving Life, as in com-
merce, there is no such thing as merely "holding your
own." Progression or Retrogression is the Law. The
Form that is not capable of further improvement must
Degenerate.

Therefore there is one line of improving forms ensouled
by the pioneers of the evolving Life, and another line of
degenerating forms, outgrown by the pioneers, but en-
souled by the stragglers, as long as there are any strag-
glers of that particular life wave to which those forms
originally belonged.

When there are no more stragglers, the species gradually
dies out. The Forms have been crystallized beyond the
possibility of being improved by tenants of increasing in-
ability. They therefore return to the mineral kingdom,
fossilize and are added to the different strata of the Earth's
crust.

The assertion of material science that man has ascended
through the different kingdoms of plant and animal which
exist about us now to anthropoid and thence to man, is not
quite correct. Man has never inhabited forms identical
with those of our present-day animals, nor the present-day
anthropoid species ; but he has inhabited forms which were
similar to but higher than those of the present anthropoids.

The scientist sees that there is an anatomical likeness
between man and the monkey, and as the evolutionary im-
pulse always makes for improvement, he concludes that man
must have descended from the monkey, but he is always

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baffled in his efforts to find the "missing link" connecting
the two.

From the point where the pioneers of our life wave (The
Aryan Races) occupied ape-like forms, they have progressed
to their present stage of development, while the Forms
(which were the "missing link") have degenerated and are
now ensouled by the last stragglers of the Saturn Period.

The lower monkeys, instead of being the progenitors of
the higher species, are stragglers occupying the most de-
generated specimens of what was once the human form.
Instead of man having ascended from the anthropoids, the
reverse is true — the anthropoids have degenerated from
man. Material science, dealing only with Form, has thus
misled itself and drawn erroneous conclusions in this mat-
ter.

The same relative conditions are to be found in the ani-
mal kingdom. The pioneers of the life wave which en-
tered evolution in the Sun Period are our present-day
mammals. The different grades correspond to the steps
once taken by man, but the forms are all degenerating
under the management of the stragglers. Similarly, the
pioneers of the life wave which entered evolution in the
Moon Period are found among the fruit trees, while the
stragglers of that life wave ensoul all other plant-forms.

Each life wave, however, remains definitely confined
within its own borders. The anthropoids may overtake us
and become human beings, but no other animals will reach
our particular point of development. They will reach a
similar stage, but under different conditions, in the Jupiter
Period. The present plants will be the humanity of the
Venus Period, under a still greater difference of condition,
and our minerals will reach the human stage under the
conditions of the A7ulcan Period.

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It will be noted that the modern evolutionary theory,
particularly that of Haeckel, would, if it were completely
reversed, be in almost perfect accord with the knowledge
of occult science.

The monkey has degenerated from the man.

The polyps are the last degeneration left behind by the
mammals.

The mosses are the lowest degenerations of the plant
kingdom.

The mineral kingdom is the final goal of the forms
of all the kingdoms when they have reached the acme
of degeneration.

A corroboration of this is found in coal, which was once
vegetable or plant forms; also in petrified wood and fos-
silized remains of various animal forms. Common stone
or rock, which no scientist would admit had its origin in
another kingdom, is to the occult investigator as truly
mineralized plants as coal itself. The mineralogist will
learnedly explain that it is composed of hornblende, feld-
spar and mica, but the trained clairvoyant, who can trace
it back in the memory of Nature, through millions of years,
can supplement that statement by adding : Yes, and that
which you call hornblende and feldspar are the leaves and
stems of prehistoric flowers, and the mica is all that remains
of their petals.

The occult teaching of evolution is also corroborated
by the science of embryology in the ante-natal recapitula-
tion of all past stages of development. The difference be-
tween the ovum of a human being and of some of the higher
mammals, and even of the higher developments in the plant
kingdom, is indistinguishable, even under the microscope.
Experts are unable to tell which is animal and which is
human. Even after several of the initial ante-natal stages

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have been passed through the experts cannot differentiate
between animal and human embryo.

But if the animal ovum is studied through the entire
period of gestation, it will be observed that it passes
through the mineral and plant stages only, and is born
when it reaches the animal stage. This is because the
Life ensouling such an ovum passed through its mineral
' evolution in the Sun Period, its plant life in the Moon
Period, and is now forced to stop at the animal stage in
-the Earth Period.

On the other hand, the Life which uses the human ovum
had its mineral existence in the Saturn Period, its plant
existence in the Sun Period, passed the animal stage in the
Moon Period, has still some scope for Epigenesis after it
has reached the animal stage and therefore goes on to the
human — nor does it stop there. The father and mother
give the substance of their bodies for the building of the
child's body, but, particularly in the higher races, Epi-
genesis makes it possible to add something which makes
the child different from the parents.

Where Epigenesis is inactive in the individual, family,
nation or Eace — there evolution ceases and denegeration
commences.

A LIVING SOUL?

Thus the two Creation stories harmonize very well.

One deals with Form, which was built up through min-
eral, plant and animal and reached the human last.

The other tells us that the Life which now ensouls human
forms was manifested anterior to the Life which ensouls
the forms of the other kingdoms.

One of these accounts of Creation would not have been
sufficient. There are important particulars hidden behind

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the narrative of man's creation, in the second chapter;
the verse reads: "Then Jehovah formed man from the
dust of the Earth, and blew into his nostrils the breath
[ncphesh], and man became a breathing creature [nephesh
chayim}"

In other places in the King James version nephesh is
translated "life," but in this particular instance (Gen. ii:7)
it is rendered "living soul," thus conveying the idea that
there was a distinction made between the life that ensouled
the human form and that which ensouled inferior creations.
There is no authority whatever for this difference in trans-
lation, which is purely arbitrary. The life-breath
(nephesh) is the same in man and beast. This can be
shown even to those who stand firmly upon the Bible as
authority, for even the King James version distinctly states
(Eccles. iii:19, 20) : "... as the one dieth, so dieth
the other ; yea, they all have one breath [nephesh] ; so that
a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: . . . All
go unto one place."

The animals are but our "younger brothers," and though
they are not now so finely organized, they will eventually
reach a state as high as our own, and we shall then have
ascended still higher.

If it is contended that man received his soul in the way
described in this seventh verse of the second chapter of
Genesis, and that he could have received it in no other
way, it is pertinent to ask where and how woman received
her soul?

The meaning of the chapter, and of the inspiration of
the breath of life by Jehovah, is very plain and clear when
we use the occult key, and it has the further and immense
advantage of being logical.

The fact that the Regent of the Moon (Jehovah), with

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His Angels and Archangels, were the principals in this
action fixes the time when this creation occurred. It was
between the early and the middle parts of the Lemurian
Epoch, and must have been after the Moon was thrown
out from the Earth, because Jehovah had nothing to do
with the generation of bodies before the Moon was thrown
off. The forms were then more ethereal. There were no
dense and concrete bodies. It is possible to make such
bodies only by means of the hardening and crystallizing
Moon-forces. It must have been in the first half of the
Lemurian Epoch, because the separation of the sexes,
which is recorded later, took place in the middle of that
epoch.

At that time man-in-the-making had not yet commenced
to breathe by means of lungs. He had the gill-like ap-
paratus still present in the human embryo while passing
through the stage of ante-natal life corresponding to that
Epoch. He had no warm, red blood, for at that stage there
Was no individual spirit, the entire form was soft and
pliable and the skeleton soft like cartilage. Before the
later date, when it became necessary to separate humanity
into sexes, the skeleton had grown firm and solid.

The work done by Jehovah was to build dense, hard bone
substance into the soft bodies already existing. Previous
to this time, i. e., during the Polarian and Hyperborean
Epochs, neither animal nor man had bones.

ADAM'S RIB.

The grotesque and impossible manner in which the sep-
aration of the sexes is said to have been accomplished (as
described in the common versions of the Bible and, in this
particular case, in the Masoretic text also) is another ex-
ample of what may be done by changing vowels in the old

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Hebrew text. Read in one way, the word is "rib"; but in
another, which has at least as good a claim to considera-
tion, with the additional advantage of being common-sense,
it reads "side." If we interpret this to mean that man
was male-female and that Jehovah caused one side or sex
in each being to remain latent, we shall not be doing vio-
lence to our reason, as we would by accepting the "rib"
story.

When this alteration is made, the occult teaching as
previously given harmonizes with that of the Bible and both
agree with the teaching of modern science that man was
bi-sexual at one time, before he developed one sex at the
expense of the other. In corroboration of this, it is pointed
out that the foetus is bi-sexual up to a certain point ; there-
after one sex predominates, while the other remains in
abeyance, so that each person still has the opposite sex-
organs in a rudimentary form and therefore is really bi-
sexual, as was primitive man.

Apparently the Bible narrator does not wish to give, in
this second creation account, an accurate picture of the
whole of evolution, but rather to particularize a little more
what was said in the first chapter. He tells us that man
did not always breathe as he does now; that there was a
time when he was not separated into sexes ; and that it was
Jehovah Who effected the change, thus fixing the time of
the occurrence. As we proceed, it will be found that much
further information is given.

GUARDIAN ANGELS.

During the earlier Epochs and Periods the great creative
Hierarchies had worked upon humanity as it was uncon-
sciously evolving. There had been only one common con-

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sciousness among ALL human beings; one group-spirit
for all mankind, as it were.

In the Lemurian Epoch a new step was taken. Bodies
had been definitely formed, but they must have warm, red
blood before they could be ensouled and become the abode
of indwelling spirits.

In nature no process is sudden. We would get a wrong
idea were we to imagine that air blown into the nostrils
could put a soul into an image of clay and galvanize it into
life as a sentient, thinking being.

The individual spirit was very weak and impotent and
quite unfitted for the task of guiding its dense vehicle.
In that respect it is not yet very strong. To any qualified
observer, it is evident that the desire body rules the per-
sonality more than does the spirit, even at our present
stage of advancement. But in the middle of the Lemurian
Epoch, when the lower personality — the threefold body —
was to be endowed with the light of the Ego, the latter,
if left to itself, would have been absolutely powerless to
guide its instrument.

Therefore it was necessary for someone much more highly
evolved to help the individual spirit and gradually prepare
the way for its complete union with its instruments. It
was analogous to a new nation, over which, until it be-
comes capable of forming a stable government for itself,
some stronger power establishes a protectorate, guarding it
alike from external dangers and internal indiscretions.
Such a protectorate was exercised over evolving humanity
by the Race-spirit, and is exercised over the animals by the
group-spirit, in a somewhat different way.

Jehovah is the Most High. He is Race-God, as one
might express it, having dominion over all Form. He is
the Chief Ruler and the highest Power in maintaining the

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form and exercising an orderly government over it. The
Archangels are the Race-spirits, each having dominion
over a certain group of people. They also have dominion
over animals, while the Angels have dominion over the
plants.

The Archangels have dominion over races or groups of
people and also over the animals, for these two kingdoms
have desire bodies and the Archangels are expert architects
of desire matter, because in the Sun Period the densest
globe was composed of that material, and the humanity of
that period, who are now Archangels, learned to build their
densest vehicles of desire stuff as we are now learning to
build our bodies of the chemical elements whereof our
Earth-globe is composed. Thus it will be readily under-
stood that the Archangels are peculiarly qualified to help
later life waves through the stage where they learn to
build and control a desire body.

For analogous reasons the Angels work in the vital
bodies of man, animal and plant. Their densest bodies
are composed of ether and so was the Globe D in the Moon
Period when they were human.

Jehovah and His Archangels, therefore, hold a similar
relation to Races that the group-spirit does to animals.
When individual members of a Race have evolved entire
self-control and government, they are emancipated from
the influence of the Race-spirit and kindred beings.

As we have seen, the point of vantage of the group-spirit,
as of any Ego in the dense body, is in the blood. The
Masoretic text shows that this knowledge was possessed by
the writer of Leviticus. In the fourteenth verse of the
seventeenth chapter the Jews are prohibited from eating
blood because "... the soul of all flesh is in the
blood ;" and in the eleventh verse of the same

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chapter we find these words: "... for the soul of
the flesh is in the blood . . . the blood itself mediates
for the soul/' which shows that this applies to both man
and beast, for the word here used in the Hebrew is
neshamah and means "soul" — not "life/' as it is rendered
in the King James version.

The Ego works directly through the blood. The Race-
spirit guides the Races by working in the blood, as the
group-spirit guides the animals of its species through the
blood. So also does the Ego control its own vehicle, but
with a difference.

The Ego operates by means of the heat of the blood,
while the Race (i. e., tribal, or family) spirit works by
means of the air, as it is drawn into the lungs. That is
why Jehovah, or His messengers, "breathed into man's
nostrils," thereby securing admission for the Race-spirit,
Community-spirits, etc.

The different classes of Race-spirits guided their peoples
to various climates and different parts of the Earth. To
the trained clairvoyant, a tribal-spirit appears as a cloud
enveloping and permeating the atmosphere of the whole
country inhabited by the people under its dominion. Thus
are produced the different peoples and nations. Paul spoke
of "The Prince of the Power of the Air" ; of "principalities
and powers," etc., showing that he knew of the Race-spirits,
but now not even an attempt is made to understand what
they mean, although their influence is strongly felt. Patriot-
ism is one of the sentiments emanating from and fostered
by them. It has not now so much power over people as
formerly. There are some who are being liberated from
the Race-spirit and can say with Thomas Paine, "The
world is my country." There are those who can leave
father and mother and look upon all men as brothers.

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They are being liberated from the Family-spirit, or spirit
of the Clan, which is different from the race-spirit, an
etheric entity. Others again, who are deep in the toils of
the Eace- or Family-spirit, will suffer the most dreadful
depression if they leave home or country and breathe the
air of another Eace- or Family-spirit.

At the time the Eace-spirit entered human bodies the
individualized Ego commenced to get some slight control
of its vehicles. Each human entity became more and more
conscious of being separate and distinct from other men,
yet for ages he did not think of himself primarily as an
individual, but as belonging to a tribe or a family. The
affix "son" to many present-day surnames is a remnant of
this feeling. A man was not simply "John/' or "James."
He was John Bobertson, or James Williamson. In some
countries a woman was not "Mary," or "Martha." She was
Mary Marthasdaughter, Martha Marysdaughter. This cus-
tom was continued in some European countries until with-
in a few generations of the present time; the "son" affix
remains with us yet and the family name is still much
honored.

Among the Jews, even down to the time of Christ, the
Eace-spirit was stronger than the individual spirit. Every
Jew thought of himself first as belonging to a certain tribe
or family. His proudest boast was that he was of the
"Seed of Abraham." All this was the work of the Eace-
spirit.

Previous to the advent of Jehovah, when the Earth was
yet a part of the Sun, there was one common group-spirit,
composed of all the creative Hierarchies, which controlled
the entire human family, but it was intended that each
body should be the temple and pliable instrument of an in-

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dwelling spirit and that meant an infinite division of
rulership.

Jehovah came with His Angels and Archangels and made
the first great division into Races, giving to each group the
guiding influence of a Race-spirit — an Archangel. For
each Ego He appointed one of the Angels to act as guardian
until the individual spirit had grown strong enough to be-
come emancipated from all outside influence.

MIXING BLOOD IN MARRIAGE.

Christ came to prepare the way for the emancipation
of humanity from the guidance of the differentiating Race-
and Family-spirit, and to unite the whole human family
in One Universal Brotherhood.

He taught that "Abraham's seed" referred to the bodies
only, and called their attention to the fact that before
Abraham lived [the] "I" — the Ego — was in existence. The
threefold individual spirit had its being before all Tribes
and Races and it will remain when they have passed away
and even the memory of them is no more.

The threefold spirit in man, the Ego, is the God within,
whom the personal, bodily man must learn to follow.
Therefore did Christ say that, to be His disciple, a man
must forsake all that he had. His teaching points to the
emancipation of the God within. He calls upon man to
exercise his prerogative as an individual and rise above
family, tribe, and nation. Not that he is to disregard kin
and country. He must fulfill all duties, but he is to cease
identifying himself with part and must recognize an equat
kinship with all the world. That is the ideal given to
mankind by the Christ.

Under the rule of the Race-spirit, the nation, tribe or
family was considered first — the individual last. The fain-

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ily must be kept intact. If any man died -without leaving
offspring to perpetuate his name, his brother must "carry
seed" to the widow, that there might be no dying out (Deu.
xxv:5-10). Marrying out of the family was regarded
with horror in the earliest times. A member of one tribe
could not become connected with another without losing
caste in his own. It was not an easy matter to become a
member of another family. Not only among the Jews
and other early nations was the integrity of the family
insisted upon, but also in more modern times. As previ-
ously mentioned, the Scots, even in comparatively recent
times, clung tenaciously to their Clan, and the old Norse
Vikings would take no one into their families without
first "mixing blood" with him, for the spiritual effects of
haemolysis, which are unknown to material science, were
known of old.

All these customs resulted from the working of the Race-
and tribal-spirit in the common blood. To admit as a mem-
ber one in whom that common blood did not flow would
have caused "confusion of caste." The closer the inbreed-
ing, the greater the power of the Race-spirit, and the
stronger the ties that bound the individual to the tribe,
because the vital force of the man is in his blood. Mem-
ory is intimately connected with the blood, which is the
highest expression of the vital body.

The brain and the nervous system are the highest ex-
pressions of the desire body. They call up pictures of the
outside world, but in mental image-making, i. e., imagina-
tion, the blood brings the material for the pictures; there-
fore when the thought is active the blood flows to the
head.

When the same unmixed strain of blood flows in the
veins of a family for generations, the same mental pictures

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made by great-grandfather, grandfather and father are re-
produced in the son by the family-spirit which lived in the
haemaglobin of the blood. He sees himself as the continu-
ation of a long line of ancestors who live in him. He sees
all the events of the past lives of the family as though he
had been present, therefore he does not realize himself as
an Ego. He is not simply "David," but "the son of Abra-
ham"; not "Joseph," but "the son of David."

By means of this common blood men are said to have
lived for many generations, because through the blood their
descendants had access to the memory of nature, in which
the records of the lives of their ancestors were preserved.
That is why, in the fifth chapter of Genesis, it is stated
that the patriarchs lived for centuries. Adam, Methuselah
and the other patriarchs did not personally attain to such
great age, but they lived in the consciousness of their de-
scendants, who saw the lives of their ancestors as if they
had lived them. After the expiration of the period stated,
the descendants did not think of themselves as Adam or
Methuselah. Memory of those ancestors faded and so it
is said they died.

The "second sight" of the Scotch Highlanders shows
that by means of endogamy the consciousness of the inner
Worlds is retained. They have practiced marrying in the
Clan until recent times ; also in Gipsies, who always marry
in the tribe. The smaller the tribe and the closer the in-
breeding, the more pronounced is the "sight."

The earlier Races would not have dared to disobey the
injunction issued by the tribal God, not to marry outside
of the tribe, nor had they any inclination to do so, for
they had no mind of their own.

The Original Semites were the first to evolve Will, and
they at once married the daughters of the men of other

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tribes, frustrating temporarily the design of their Race-
spirit and being promptly ejected as evil-doers who had
"gone a-whoring after strange gods," thereby rendering
themselves unfit to give the "seed" for the seven Races of
our present Aryan Epoch. The Original Semites were, for
the time being, the last Race that the Race-spirit cared to
keep separate.

Later, man was given free will. The time had come
when he was to be prepared for individualization. The
former "common" consciousness, the involuntary clairvoy-
ance or second-sight which constantly held before a tribes-
man the pictures of his ancestors' lives and caused him
to feel most closely identified with the tribe or family,
was to be replaced for a time by a strictly individual con-
sciousness confined to the material world, so as to break
up the nations into individuals, that the Brotherhood of
Man regardless of exterior circumstances may become a
fact. This is on the same principle that if we have a
number of buildings and wish to make them into one
large structure, it is necessary to break them up into sep-
arate bricks. Only then can the large building be con-
structed.

In order to accomplish this separation of nations into
individuals, laws were given which prohibited endogamy
or marriage in the family and henceforth incestuous mar-
riages gradually came to be regarded with horror. Strange
blood has thus been introduced into all the families of the
Earth and it has gradually wiped out the involuntary clair-
voyance which promoted the clannish feeling and segre-
gated humanity into groups. Altruism is superseding
patriotism, and loyalty to the family is disappearing in
consequence of the mixture of blood.

Science has lately discovered that hasmolysis results from

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the inoculation of the blood of one individual into the
veins of another of a different species, causing the death
of the lower of the two. Thus any animal inoculated with
the blood of a man dies. The blood of a dog transfused
into the veins of a bird kills the bird, but it will not hurt
the dog to have the bird's blood inoculated into its veins.
Science merely states the fact, the occult scientist gives
the reason. The blood is the vantage ground of the spirit,
as shown elsewhere. The Ego in man works in its own
vehicles by means of the heat of the blood ; the race, family
or community spirit gains entrance to the blood by means
of the air we inspire. In the animals are also both the
separate spirit of the animal and the group-spirit of the
species to which it belongs, but the spirit of the animal is
not individualized and does not work self-consciously with
its vehicles as does the Ego, hence it is altogether domi-
nated by the group-spirit which works in the blood.

When the blood of a higher animal is inoculated into
the veins of one from a lower species, the spirit in the
blood of the higher animal is of course stronger than the
spirit of the less evolved; hence when it endeavors to as-
sert itself it kills the imprisoning form and liberates itself.
When, on the other hand, the blood of a lower species is
inoculated into the veins of a higher animal, the higher
spirit is capable of ousting the less evolved spirit in the
strange blood and assimilating the blood to its own pur-
poses, therefore no visible catastrophe ensues.

The group-spirit always aims to preserve the integrity
of its domain in the blood of the species under its charge.
Like the human Race-God, it resents the marriage of its
subjects into other species and visits the sins of the fathers
upon the children as we see in the case of hybrids. Where
a horse and a donkey produce a mule for instance, the

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mixture of the strange blood destroys the propagative fac-
ulty so as not to perpetuate the hybrid which is an abomi-
nation from the standpoint of the group-spirit, for the
mule is not so definitely under the dominion of the group-
spirit of the horses or of the group-spirit of the donkeys
as the pure breed, yet it is not so far away as to be en-
tirely exempt from their influence. If two mules could
mate, their offspring would be still less under the dominion
of either of these group-spirits, and so a new species
WITHOUT A GROUP-SPIRIT would result. That would
be an anomaly in nature, an impossibility until the sep-
arate animal-spirits should have become sufficiently evolved
to be self -sufficient. Such a species, could it be produced,
would be without the guiding instinct, so-called, which is
in reality the promptings of the group-spirit; they would
be in an analogous position to a litter of kittens removed
from the mother's womb prior to birth. They could not
possibly shift for themselves, so they would die.

Therefore, as it is the group-spirit of the animals that
sends the separate spirits of the animals into incarnation,
it simply withholds the fertilizing seed-atom when animals
of widely differing species are mated. It permits one of
its charges to take advantage of an opportunity for in-
carnation where two animals of nearly the same nature
are mated, but refuses to let the hybrids perpetuate them-
selves. Thus we see that the infusion of strange blood
weakens the hold of the group-spirit and that therefore it
either destroys the form or the propagative faculty where
it has the power.

The human spirit is individualized, an Ego, it is evolv-
ing free will and responsibility. It is drawn to incarna-
tion by the irresistible law of Consequence, so that it is
beyond the power of the race, community or family spirit

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to keep it out of incarnation at the present stage of human
development, and by the admixture of strange blood, by
intermarriage of the individuals of different tribes or
nations, the leaders of man are gradually helping him to
oust the family, tribal or national spirit from the blood,
but with it has necessarily gone the involuntary clairvoy-
ance which was due to its working in the blood, whereby
it fostered the family traditions in its charges, and so we
see that also in the case of man a faculty was destroyed
by the mixture of blood. That loss was a gain, however,
for it has concentrated man's energy on the material world
and he is better able to master its lessons than if he were
still distracted by the visions of the higher realms.

As man becomes emancipated he gradually ceases to
think of himself as "Abraham's Seed," as a "Clan Stewart
Man," as a "Brahmin" or a "Levite"; lie is learning to
think more of himself as an individual, an "I." The more
he cultivates that "Self," the more he frees himself from
the family- and national-spirit in the blood, the more he
becomes a self-sufficient citizen of the world.

There is much foolish, even dangerous, talk of giving
up the Self to the Not-Self; only when we have cultivated
a "Self" can we sacrifice ourselves and give up the Self to
the WHOLE. So long as we can only love our own family
or nation we are incapable of loving others. We are bound
by the tie of kin and country. When we have burst the
tie of blood and asserted ourselves and become self-suffi-
cient may we become unselfish helpers of humanity. When
a man has reached that stage he will find that, instead of
having lost his own family, he has gained all the families
in the world, for they will have become his sisters and
brothers, his fathers and mothers to care for and to help.

Then he will regain the viewpoint of the Spiritual World

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which he lost by the mixing of blood, but it will be a
higher faculty an intelligent, voluntary clairvoyance where
he can see what he wills and not merely the negative fac-
ulty imprinted in his blood by the family-spirit which
bound him to the family to the exclusion of all other
families. His viewpoint will be universal, to be used for
universal good.

For aforementioned reasons, intertribal, and later inter-
' national, marriages came gradually to be regarded as de-
sirable and preferable to close intermarriages.

As man progressed through these stages, and gradually
lost touch with the inner world, he sorrowed over the loss
and longed for a return of the "inner" vision. But by
degrees he forgot, and the material world gradually loomed
up before his mind as the only reality, until at last he has
come to scout the idea that such inner Worlds exist and
to regard a belief in them as foolish superstition.

The four causes contributing to this condition were:

(1) The clearing of the foggy atmosphere of the At-
lantean continent.

(2) The indrawing of the vital body, so that a point
at the root of the nose corresponds to a similar point in
the vital body.

(3) The elimination of inbreeding and the substitu-
tion therefor of marriages outside the family and tribe.

(4) The use of intoxicants.

The Race-spirits still exist in and work with man, but
the more advanced the nation, the more freedom is given
the individual. In countries where people are most fet-
tered, the Race-spirit is strongest. The more in harmony
a man is with the law of Love, and the higher his ideals,
the more he frees himself from the spirit of the Race.

Patriotism, while good in itself, is a tie of the Race-

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spirit. The ideal of Universal Brotherhood, which identi-
fies itself with neither country nor race, is the only path
which leads to emancipation.

Christ came to reunite the separated races in bonds of
peace and good-will, wherein all will willingly and con-
sciously follow the law of Love.

The present Christianity is not even a shadow of the
true religion of Christ. That will remain in abeyance
until all race-feeling shall have been overcome. In the
Sixth Epoch there will be but one Universal Brotherhood,
under the Leadership of the Returned Christ, but the day
and the hour no man knows, for it is not fixed, but de-
pends upon how soon a sufficient number of people shall
have commenced to live the life of Fellowship and Love,
which is to be the hall-mark of the new dispensation.

THE FALL OF MAN.

In connection with the analysis of Genesis, a few more
words must be said about "The Fall," which is the back-
bone and sinew of popular Christianity. Had there been
no "Fall," there would have been no need for the "plan
of salvation."

When, in the middle of the Lemurian Epoch, the separa-
tion of the sexes occurred (in which work Jehovah and His
Angels were active), the Ego began to work slightly upon
the dense body, building organs within. Man was not at
that time the wide-awake conscious being he is at present,
but by means of half the sex force, he was building a brain
for the expression of thought as previously described. He
was more awake in the Spiritual World than in the physi-
cal; hardly saw his body and was not conscious of the act
of propagation. The Bible statement that Jehovah put
man to sleep when he was to bring forth is correct. There

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was no pain nor trouble connected with childbirth; nor
(because of man's exceedingly dim consciousness of his
physical surroundings) did he know anything of the loss
of his dense body by death, or of his installment in a new
dense vehicle at birth.

It will be remembered that the Lucifers were a part of
the humanity of the Moon Period; they are the stragglers
of the life wave of the Angels, too far advanced to take a
dense physical body, yet they needed an "inner" organ for
the acquisition of knowledge. Moreover, they could work
through a physical brain, which the Angels or Jehovah
could not.

These spirits entered the spinal cord and brain and
spoke to the woman, whose Imagination, as explained else-
where, had been aroused by the training of the Lemurian
Race. As her consciousness was principally internal, a
picture-consciousness of them was received by her, and she
saw them as serpents, for they had entered her brain by
the serpentine spinal cord.

The training of the women included watching the peril-
ous feats and fights of the Men in developing Will, in
which fights bodies were necessarily often killed. The dim
consciousness of something unusual set the imagination of
the woman to wondering why she saw these strange things.
She was conscious of the spirits of those who had lost their
bodies, but her imperfect sense of the Physical World
failed to reveal these friends whose dense bodies had been
destroyed.

The Lucifers solved the problem for her by "opening
her eyes." They revealed to her her own body and that of
the man and taught her how, together, they might conquer
death by creating new bodies. Thus death could not touch
them for they, like Jehovah, could create at will.

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Lucifer opened the eyes of woman. She sought the help
of man and opened his eyes. Thus, in a real though dim
way, they first "knew" or became aware of one another and
also of the Physical World. They became conscious of death
and pain and by this knowledge they learned to differentiate
between the inner man and the outer garment he wears and
renews each time it is necessary to take his next step in
evolution. They ceased to be automatons and became free
thinking beings at the cost of freedom from pain, sickness
and death.

That the interpretation of the eating of the fruit as a
symbol of the generative act is not a far-fetched idea, is
shown by the declaration of Jehovah (which is not a
curse at all, but simply a statement of the consequences
that would follow the act) that they will die and that the
woman will bear her children in pain and suffering. He
knew that, as man's attention had now been called to his
physical garment, he would become aware of its loss by
death. He also knew that man had not yet wisdom to
bridle his passion and regulate sexual intercourse by the
positions of the planets, therefore pain in childbirth must
follow his ignorant abuse of the function.

It has always been a sore puzzle to Bible commentators
what connection there could possibly be between the eating
of fruit and the bearing of children, but if we under-
stand that the eating of the fruit is symbolical of the gen-
erative act whereby man becomes "like God" inasmuch as
he knows his kind and is thus able to generate new beings,
the solution is easy.

In the latter part of the Lemurian Epoch when man
arrogated to himself the prerogative of performing the
generative act when he pleased, it was his then-powerful
will that enabled him to do so. By "eating of the tree

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of knowledge" at any and all times he was able to create
a new body whenever he lost an old vehicle.

We usually think of death as something to be dreaded.
Had man also "eaten of the tree of life," had he learned
the secret of how to perpetually vitalize his body, there
would have been a worse condition. We know that our
bodies are not perfect today and in those ancient days they
were exceedingly primitive. Therefore the anxiety of the
creative Hierarchies lest man "eat of the tree of life also,"
and become capable of renewing his vital body, was well
founded. Had he done so he would have been immortal
indeed, but would never have been able to progress. The
evolution of the Ego depends upon its vehicles and if it
could not get new and improving ones by death and birth,
there would be stagnation. It is an occult maxim that
the oftener we die the better we are able to live, for every
birth gives us a new chance.

We have seen that brain-knowledge, with its concomitant
selfishness, was bought by man at the cost of the power to
create from himself alone. He bought his free will at
the cost of pain and death ; but when man learns to use his
intellect for the good of humanity, he will gain spiritual
power over life and in addition, will be guided by an innate
knowledge as much higher than the present brain-conscious-
ness as that is higher than the lowest animal consciousness.

The fall into generation was necessary to build the
brain, but that is, at best, only an indirect way of gaining
knowledge and will be superseded by direct touch with the
Wisdom of Nature, which man, without any co-operation,
will then be able to use for the generation of new bodies.
The larnyx will again speak "the lost Word," the "creative
Fiat," which, under the guidance of great Teachers, was

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used in ancient Lemuria in the creation of plants and
animals.

Man will then be a creator in very truth. Not in the
slow and toilsome manner of the present day, but by the
use of the proper word or magical formula, will he be able
to create a body.

All that was manifested during the descending period
of involution remains until the corresponding point on the
ascending arc of evolution has been reached. The present
generative organs will degenerate and atrophy. The female
organ was the first to come into existence as a separate
unit and, according to the law that "the first shall be
last," will be the last to atrophy. The male organ was
differentiated last and is even now commencing to divide
itself from the body. Diagram 13 will make this clear.

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