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nbsp; xliii
The “very old Book” is the
original work from which the many volumes of Kiu-ti were compiled.
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SD1-I-1-Stanza V
STANZA
V.
1. THE PRIMORDIAL SEVEN, THE FIRST
SEVEN BREATHS OF THE DRAGON OF WISDOM, PRODUCE IN THEIR TURN FROM THEIR HOLY
CIRCUMGYRATING BREATHS THE FIERY WHIRLWIND (a).
=
COMMENTARY.
(a) This is, perhaps, the most difficult of all the Stanzas=
to
explain. Its language =
is
comprehensible only to him who is thoroughly versed in Eastern allegory and=
its
purposely obscure phraseology. The
question will surely be asked, “Do the Occultists believe in all these
‘Builders,’ ‘Lipika,’ and ‘Sons of Light̵=
7;
as Entities, or are they merely imageries?” To this the answer is giv=
en
as plainly: “Aft=
er due
allowance for the imagery of personified Powers, we must admit the existenc=
e of
these Entities, if we would not reject the existence of spiritual humanity
within physical mankind. <=
/b>For
the hosts of these Sons of Light and ‘Mind-born Sons’ of the fi=
rst
manifested Ray of the UNKNOWN ALL, are the very root of spiritual man.”
Unless we want to believe the unphilosophical dogma of a specially created =
soul
for every human birth—a fresh supply of these pouring in daily, since
“Adam”—we have to admit the occult teachings. This will be explained in its =
place. Let us see, now, what may be t=
he
occult meaning of this Stanza.
The Doctrine teaches that, in order to become a divine, fully
conscious god,—aye, even the highest—the Spiritual primeval
INTELLIGENCES must pass through the human stage. And when we say human, this do=
es not
apply merely to our terrestrial humanity, but to the mortals that inhabit a=
ny
world, i.e., to those Intelligences that have reached =
the
appropriate equilibrium between matter and spirit, as we have now, s=
ince
the middle point of
the Fourth Root Race of the Fourth Round was passed. Each Entity must have won for =
itself
the right of becoming divine, through self-experience. Hegel, the great German thinke=
r,
must have known or sensed intuitionally this truth when saying, as he did, =
that
the Unconscious evolved the Universe only “in the hope of attaining c=
lear
self-consciousness,” of becoming, in other words, MAN; for this is al=
so
the secret meaning of the usual Purânic phrase about
<=
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<=
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&nbs=
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nbsp; NO
MAN—NO GOD. &=
nbsp; &nbs=
p; &=
nbsp; &nbs=
p; 107
=
=
=
Brahmâ
being constantly “moved by the desire to create.” This
explains also the hidden Kabalistic meaning of the saying: “The Breath becom=
es a
stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man=
, a
spirit; and the spirit, a god.” The Mind-born Sons, the Rishis, the
Builders, etc., were all men—of whatever forms and shapes̵=
2;in
other worlds and the preceding Manvantaras.
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SD1-I-1-Explanations concerning the Globes and the Monads:
The student hardly needs any further explanation on the part playe=
d by
the fourth Globe and the fourth Round in the scheme of evolution.
From the preceding diagrams, which are applicable, mutatis muta=
ndis,
to Rounds, Globes or Races, it will be seen that the fourth member of a ser=
ies
occupies a unique position.
Unlike the others, the Fourth has no “sister” Globe on t=
he
same plane as itself, and it thus forms the fulcrum of the
“balance” represented by the whole chain. It is the sphere of final evolutio=
nary
adjustments, the world of Karmic scales, the Hall of Justice, where the bal=
ance
is struck which determines the future course of the Monad during the remain=
der
of its incarnations in the cycle.&n=
bsp;
And therefore it is, that, after this central turning-point has been
passed in the Great Cycle,—i.e., after the middle point of the
Fourth Race in the Fourth Round on our Globe—no more Monads can enter=
the
human kingdom. The doo=
r is
closed for this Cycle and the balance struck. For were it otherwise—had th=
ere
been a new soul
<=
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. &=
nbsp; &nbs=
p; 183
=
=
=
created
for each of the countless milliards of human beings that have passed away, =
and
had there been no reincarnation—it would become difficult indeed to
provide room for the disembodied “Spirits;” nor could the origin
and cause of suffering ever be accounted for. It is the ignorance of the occult =
tenets
and the enforcement of false conceptions under the guise of religious
education, which have created materialism and atheism as a protest against =
the
asserted divine order of things.
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SD1-I-1-Stanza VI
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192 &=
nbsp; &nbs=
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THE
SECRET DOCTRINE.
(a) That which is meant by the qualification the
“Fourth” is explained as the “fourth Round” only on=
the
authority of the Commentaries.
It can equally mean fourth “Eternity” as “Fourth
Round,” or even the fourth (our) Globe. For, as will repeatedly be shown, =
it is
the fourth Sphere on the fourth or lowest plane of material life.
“The holy youths (the gods) refused to mult=
iply
and create species after their likeness, after their kind.
They had to suffer for it in later births. How the punishment reached the god=
s will
be seen in the second volume.
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=
SD1-I-2-XIII The Seven Creations
<=
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style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD'>(IV.)=
The Mukhya,
the Primary as it begins the series of four. Neither the word
“inanimate” bodies nor yet immovable things, as translat=
ed
by Wilson, gives a correct idea of the Sanskrit terms used. Esoteric
philosophy is not the only one to reject the idea of any atom being inor=
ganic,
for it is found also in orthodox Hinduism. Moreover, Wilson himself =
says
(in his collected Works, vol. iii., p=
.
381): “All the Hindu systems consider vegetable bodies as endo=
wed
with life . . .” Charâchara, or the
synonymous sthâvara and jangama, is, therefore,
inaccurately rendered by “animate and inanimate,” “sentie=
nt
beings,” and “unconscious,” or “conscious and
unconscious beings,” etc., etc. “Locomotive and
fixed” would be better, since trees are considered to possess souls
—————
* “The three
Creations beginning with Intelligence are elemental, but the six creations
which proceed from the series of which Intellect is the first are the work =
of
Brahmâ (Vâyu-Purâna), Here “creations”
mean everywhere stages of Evolution, Mahat, “Intellect&=
#8221;
or mind (which corresponds with Manas, the former being on the Cosmi=
c,
and the latter on the human plane) stands here, too, lower than Buddhi
or Supra-divine Intelligence. Therefore, when we read in Linga
Purâna that “the first Creation was that of Mahat, Intellect
being the first in manifestation,” we must refer that (specified)
creation to the first evolution of our system or even our Earth, none of the
preceding ones being discussed in the Purânas, but only
occasionally hinted at.
—————
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nbsp; &nbs=
p; =
CREATIONS
CONTINUED. &n=
bsp; =
; 455
objective kingdom of minerals, in which
latter that apperception is entirely latent, to re-develop only in the plan=
ts).
The mukhya “Creation,” then, is the middle point between the three lower and
the three higher kingdoms, which represent the seven esoteric kingdoms of
Kosmos, as of Earth.
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SD1-I-3-XIV-Forces -Modes of Motion or Intelligences?
When we speak, therefore, as in Book II., of men who inhabi=
ted
this globe 18,000,000 years back, we have in the mind neither the men of our
present races, nor the present atmospheric laws, thermal conditions, etc=
.
The Earth and mankind, like the Sun, Moon, and planets, have all their grow=
th,
changes, developments, and gradual evolution in their life-periods; they are
born, become infants, then children, adolescents, grown-up bodies, grow old,
and finally die. Why should not Mankind be also under this
universal law? Says Uriel to Enoch: “Behold, I have showed thee
all things. Thou seest the Sun, Moon, and those which conduct the st=
ars
of heaven, which cause all their operations, seasons, and arrivals to
return. . . . In the days of sinners the
years shall be shortened . . . everything done on Earth
shall be subverted . . . the moon shall change its
laws” . . . etc. Ch. lxxix<=
b>.)
The “days of Sinners” meant the days when matter would=
be
in its full sway on Earth, and man would have reached the apex of physical
development in stature and animality. That came to pass during the
period of the Atlanteans, about the middle point of their Race (the 4th), which was drowned as
prophesied by Uriel. Since then man began decreasing in physical
stature, strength, and years, as will be shown in
=
=
=
610 &=
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p; &=
nbsp; &nbs=
p; THE
SECRET DOCTRINE.
Book II. But as we are in the mid-point of our sub-race<=
/i>
of the Fifth Root Race—the acme of materiality in each—therefore
the animal propensities, though more refined, are not the less developed for
that: and they are so chiefly in civilized countries.
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SD2-II-1-Stanza VI
The Secret Doctrine maintains that, notwithstanding the general
cataclysms and disturbances of our globe, which—owing to its being the
period of its greatest physical development, for the Fourth Round is the
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SD2-II-1-Stan=
za
VIII
EVOLUTION OF <=
b>THE
ANIMAL MAMMALIANS.—THE FIRST FALL.
&=
nbsp; §§
(28) How the first mammals were produced. (29) A quasi-Darwinian Evolution
&=
nbsp; 28. FROM THE DROPS OF SWEAT (a)=
; FROM
THE RESIDUE OF THE SUBSTANCE; MATTER FROM DEAD BODIES AND ANIMALS OF THE WH=
EEL
BEFORE (previous, Third Round); AND FROM CAST-OFF DUST; THE F=
IRST
ANIMALS (of this Round) WERE PRODUCED.
&=
nbsp; (a)
The Occult doctrine maintains that, in this Round, the mammalians were a la=
ter
work of evolution than man.
Evolution proceeds in cycles. The great Manvantaric cycle of Sev=
en
Rounds, beginning in the First Round with mineral, vegetable, and animal,
brings its evolutionary work on the descending arc to a dead stop in the mi=
ddle
of the Fourth Race, at the close of the first half of the Fourth =
Round. It is on our Earth, then, (the Fou=
rth
sphere and the lowest) and in the present Round, that this middle point has be=
en
reached. And since the=
Monad
has passed, after its “first inmetallization” on Globe A, throu=
gh
the mineral, vegetable, and animal worlds in every degree of the three stat=
es
of matter, except the last degree of the third or solid state, which it rea=
ched
only at the “mid-point of evolution,” it is but logical =
and
natural that at the beginning of the Fourth Round on Globe D, Man should be=
the
first to appear; and also that his frame should be of the most tenuous matt=
er
that is compatible with objectivity. To make it still clearer:
&=
nbsp; &nbs=
p; &=
nbsp; MEN,
THE PROGENITORS OF ANIMALS. &nb=
sp; =
181
free from matter and all its qualities =
as
it was in the beginning; having gained in addition the experience and wisdo=
m,
the fruition of all its personal lives, without their evil and temptations<=
b>.
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SD2-II-1—The Races with the Third Eye
<=
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style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD'>Questions wi=
th
regard to Karma and re-births are constantly offered, and a g=
reat
confusion seems to exist upon this subject. Those who are born and b=
red
in the Christian faith, and have been trained in the idea
—————R=
12;—
<=
span
style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD'>* Karma is a=
word
of many meanings, and has a special term for almost every one of its aspect=
s.
It means, as a synonym of sin, the performance of some action for the
attainment of an object of worldly, hence selfish, =
desire,
which cannot fail to be hurtful to somebody else. Karman is action, =
the
Cause; and Karma again is “the law of ethical causation”; the <=
i>effect
of an act produced egotistically, when the great law of harmony depends=
on
altruism.
—————R=
12;—
&=
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p; &=
nbsp; THE
NUMBER OF MONADS IS LIMITED. &n=
bsp; =
; &n=
bsp; 303
that a new soul is created by God for e=
very
newly-born infant, are among the most perplexed. They ask whether in
such case the number of incarnating Monads on earth is limited; to which th=
ey
are answered in the affirmative. For, however countless, in our
conceptions, the number of the incarnating monads—even if we take into
account the fact that ever since the Second Race, when their respective sev=
en
groups were furnished with bodies, several births and deaths may be allowed=
for
every second of time in the aeons already passed—still, there must be=
a
limit. It was stated that Karma-Nemesis, whose bond-maid is Nature,
adjusted everything in the most harmonious manner; and that, therefore, the
fresh pouring-in, or arrival of new Monads, had ceased as soon as Humanity =
had
reached its full physical development. No fresh Monads have incarnat=
ed
since the middle-poi=
nt
of the Atlanteans. Hence, remembering that, save in the case of young
children, and of individuals whose lives were violently cut off by some
accident, no Spiritual Entity can re-incarnate before a period of many
centuries has elapsed, such gaps alone must show that the number of Monads =
is
necessarily finite and limited. Moreover, a reasonable time must be
given to other animals for their evolutionary progress.
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SD2-II-1-Stanza XI
It is to this period that we have to lo=
ok
for the first appearance of the Ancestors of those, who are termed by us the
most ancient peoples of the world—now called respectively the Aryan
Hindus, the Egyptians, and the oldest Persians, on the one hand, and the
Chaldees and Phœnicians on the other. These were governed by the DIVINE
DYNASTIES, i.e., kings and rulers who had of mo=
rtal
man only his physical appearance as it was then, but who were Beings
from spheres higher and more celestial than our own sphere will be, long
Manvantaras hence. It =
is
useless of course to attempt to force their existence on sceptics.
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p; CHANGES
OF CLIMATE. &=
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p; 329
authority of the Coccyx appended=
to
their os sacrum, that rudimentary tail which, if they only had it lo=
ng
enough, they would wag in joy and for ever, in honour of its eminent discov=
erer. These will remain as faithful to t=
heir
ape-ancestors as Christians will to tailless Adam. The Secret Doctrine, however, sets=
right
on this point theosophists and students of Occult Sciences.
&=
nbsp; If
we regard the Second portion of the Third Race as the first representatives=
of
the really human race with solid bones, then Hæckel’s
surmise that “the evolution of the primitive men took place. <=
b>.
. . in either Southern Asia or. . . .
Lemuria”—Africa, whether Eastern or Western being out of
question—is correct enough, if not entirely so. To be accurate, however, in the sa=
me way
that the evolution of the First Race (from the bodies of the pitars)
took place on seven distinctly separated regions of the (then) only Earth at
the arctic pole—so did the ultimate transformation of the Third occur=
: it began in those northern regions,
which have just been described a few pages back as including Behring’s
Straits, and what there then was of dry land in Central Asia, when the clim=
ate
was semi-tropical even in the Arctic regions and most adapted to the primit=
ive
wants of nascent physical man.
That region, however, has been more than once frigid and tropical in
turn since the appearance of man.&n=
bsp;
The commentary tells us that the Third Race was only about the middle point of its
development when:—
&=
nbsp; “The
axle of the Wheel tilted.
The Sun and Moon shone no longer over the heads of that portion of t=
he
SWEAT BORN; people knew snow, ice, and frost, and m=
en,
plants, and animals were dwarfed in their growth. Those that did not perish REMA=
INED
AS HALF-GROWN BABES* IN SIZE AND INTELLECT. This was the third pralaya of the ra=
ces.†
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ML- Letter nº 66
<=
b>Whenever any
question of evolution or development in any Kingdom presents itself to you =
bear
constantly in mind that everything comes under the Septenary rule of series=
in
their correspondences and mutual relation throughout nature.
<=
b>In the evolu=
tion
of man there is a topmost point, a bottom point, a descending arc, and an
ascending arc. As it is “Spirit” which transforms itself into
“matter” and (not “matter” which ascends — bu=
t)
matter which resolves once more into spirit, of course the first race
evolution and the last on a planet (as in each round) must be more etherial,
more spiritual, the fourth or lowermost one most physical (progressively of
course in each round) and at the same time — as physical intellige=
nce
is the masked manifestation of spiritual intelligence — each evol=
uted
race in the downward arc must be more physically intelligent than its prede=
cessor,
and each in the upward arc have a more refined form of mentality commingled
with spiritual intuitiveness.
<=
b>The first ra=
ce (or
stock) of the first round after a solar manwantara (kindly wait for =
my
forthcoming letter before you allow yourself to be repuzzled or remuddled
— it will explain a good deal), would then be a god-man race of an al=
most
impalpable shape, and so it is; but then comes the difficulty to the studen=
t to
reconcile this fact with the evolution of man from the animal —
however high his form among the anthropoids. And yet it is reconcilable, for
whomsoever will hold religiously to a strict analogy between the works of t=
he
two worlds, the visible and the invisible — one world, in fact, as on=
e is
working within itself so to say. Now there are — there must be
“failures” in the etherial races of the many classes of Dhyan
Chohans or Devas as well as among men. But still as these failures are too =
far
progressed and spiritualized to be thrown back forcibly from their Dhyan
Chohanship into the vortex of a new primordial evolution through the lower
kingdoms — this then happens. When a new solar system is to be evolved
these Dhyan Chohans are (remember the Hindu allegory of the Fallen Devas=
hurled by Siva into Andarah 7 who are allowed by Parabrahm to consid=
er
it as an intermediate state where they may prepare themselves by a series of
rebirths in that sphere for a higher state — a new regeneration) born=
e in
by the influx “ahead” of the elementals and remain as a latent =
or
inactive spiritual force in the aura of the nascent world of a new system u=
ntil
the stage of human evolution is reached. Then Karma has reached them and th=
ey
will have to accept to the last drop in the bitter cup of retribution. Then
they become an active Force, and commingle with the Elementals, or progress=
ed entities
of the pure animal kingdom to develop little by little the full type of
humanity. In this commingling they lose their high intelligence and
spirituality of Devaship to regain them in the end of the seventh ring in t=
he
seventh round.
<=
b>Thus we have:<=
/b>
<=
b>1st Round. — An
ethereal being — non-intelligent, but super-spiritual. In each=
of
the subsequent races and sub-races and minor races of evolution he grows mo=
re
and more into an encased or incarnate being, but still preponderatingly
etherial. And like the animal and vegetable he develops monstrous bodies
correspondential with his coarse surroundings.
<=
b>2nd Round. — He =
is
still gigantic and ethereal, but growing firmer and more condensed in body
— a more physical man, yet still less intelligent than spiritual; for
mind is a slower and more difficult evolution than the physical frame, and =
the
mind would not develop as rapidly as the body.
<=
b>3rd Round. — He =
has
now a perfectly concrete or compacted body; at first the form of a giant ap=
e, and
more intelligent (or rather cunning) than spiritual. For in the downward ar=
c he
has now reached the point where his primordial spirituality is eclipsed or
over-shadowed by nascent mentality. In the last half of this third round his
gigantic stature decreases, his body improves in texture (perhaps the
microscope might help to demonstrate this) and he becomes a more rational b=
eing
— though still more an ape than a Deva man.
<=
b>4th Round. — Int=
ellect
has an enormous development in this round. The dumb races will acquire o=
ur
human speech, on our globe, on which from the 4th race language is perfected
and knowledge in physical things increases. At this half-way point of the
fourth round, Humanity passes the axial point of the minor manwantaric
circle. (Moreover, at the middle point of every major or root race evolution of
each round, man passes the equator of his course on that planet, the same r=
ule
applying to the whole evolution or the seven rounds of the minor Manwantara
— 7 rounds ÿ 2 =3D 3 1/2 rounds). At this point then the world t=
eems
with the results of intellectual activity and spiritual decrease. In=
the
first half of the fourth race, sciences, arts, literature and philosophy we=
re
born, eclipsed in one nation, reborn in another, civilization and intellect=
ual
development whirling in septenary cycles as the rest; while it is but in the
latter half that the spiritual Ego will begin its real struggle with body a=
nd
mind to manifest its transcendental powers. Who will help in the forthcoming
gigantic struggle? Who? Happy the man who helps a helping hand. =
<=
b>5th Round. — The=
same
relative development, and the same struggle continues.
<=
b>6th Round.
<=
b>7th Round.
<=
b>Of these we =
need
not speak.
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CW13-Pistis Sophia-Commentary and Notes=
,VI
* The Soul, =
in
passing through the different stages and planes of evolution, reaches a
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CW13-On Cosmic cycles, Manvantaras and
Rounds
[ON COSMIC CYCLES, MANVANTARAS, AND ROU=
NDS]
<=
span
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<=
span
style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD'>…̷=
0;
Since the total period of the existence=
of
our Planetary Chain (i.e., of the Seven Rounds)
is—4,320,000,000—and we are now in the 4th Round; and since we =
have
unto the present Terrene year period 1,955,884,685 years from the beginning=
of
the Cosmic Evolution of Planet A; therefore, in point of time, we shall rea=
ch
the middle point,
or just 3½ Rounds in 204,115,315 years, although in point of space we
have virtually reached it being on planet D and in our 5th race.
Compilation on MIDDLE POINT in
HPB´s Books