Theos-Talk Archives (July 1996 Message tt00007)

Dara & Bee:

Following are some stray ideas on the sishtas and human races.
It would be good to review these and other points before putting
things back together again and seeing how I may need to review
the broad picture that I painted in my recent article.

-- Eldon

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In this Round, here on earth, Globe D, the first two Root Races
were astral, and the third became semi-astral and then physical.

Was this the first time that humanity was physical on this or any
globe? Was becoming physical associated with the gift of mind from
the Manasaputras in the Third Root Race? Or could we have
gone from astral to dense physical forms during the first few
Root Races on any globe, in any of the Rounds?

I think it might be the latter. The early races are astral, or
quasi-physical, to allow for no conflict with the earlier life
waves. Humanity in astral forms is not in conflict with the
mineral lifewave, when the earth might appear to boil, the plant
lifewave, or the animal lifewave, when the dinosars rules the
earth. In a similar sense, the Dhyani Chohans would be unimpeded
on our earth, while the human lifewave rules, if they were
quasi-astral, or perhaps in something like the nirmanakaya.

If the first races were astral, this would imply that the sishtas from
the Third Round also were astral. And I'd think that the
humanity that survives as sishtas on our earth, when the human
lifewave moves on to globe E -- that humanity would also be
astral. This would create the appearance of physical humanity
dying off, towards the end of the Seventh Root Race, since there
would be no more physical human forms.

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Some of the most spiritual humans will remain behind on our earth
as the sishtas when the human lifewave departs it for globe E.
They will experience an Golden Age. They hold the seeds of the
humanity to come, of the human lifewave that will return in the
Fifth Round.

In "Dialogues", Purucker mentions some interesting points
regarding animal sishtas. The mammals are becoming sishtas,
except for the apes. (III 191) In the Sixth and Seventh Races
the apes will enter the human kingdom. (III 412)

The animal lifewave is becoming sishtas, the remainder of
evolutionary impetus in their kingdom is departing. They've
finished, I think, their Seventh Root Race.

It will be in the middle of the Fifth Round when the door into
the lowest Dhyani Chohanic Kingdom will close, and some humans
will enter, becoming dhyani-chohanic humans, the remainder of us
to remain as human humans for the remainder of the Seven Rounds.

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The sishtas represent humanity on this Globe when the lifewave
has departed. Although humanity has come to an evolutionary
stop, as an aggregrate, individual humans may find rebirth on
this globe in their hastened personal evolution.

We might, if advanced enough, visit the other globes of the
planetary chain. In our after-death states, were we to visit
globes E, F, and G, we'd either have to create a temporary form
(mayavi-rupa) or embody in the human sishtas on that globe. (See
III 319)

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The dinosars and earlier animal lifeforms were Fourth Round
creatures, and they are dying off. The mammals were thrown off from
humanity after the animal lifewave had basically departed.
They were assisted in their creation by a higher kingdom (the
human), and will become the sishtas until the animal lifewave
returns in the Fifth Round.

How are the animals sishtas, rather than undergoing significant
evolution? Perhaps because the human, and later yet higher
kingdoms, rule the earth. The animals are losing the chance to
exist on this earth "in the wild", where they can grow and learn
on their own initiative. Instead, their habitat is disappearing,
and the remaining animals are becoming domesticated by humans.

Could the same thing happen to the human kingdom? When the human
lifewave has departed and the first wave of Dhyani-Chohans
arrives, could the human habitat for existing "in the wild"
dissappear, and the humans become domesticated by the demigods?

And similarly, could the basic human stock start to dissappear,
and a newer, higher race of humanity be created, thrown off by
the Dhyani Chohans in a similar fashion to how the animal sishtas
(the mammals) where thrown off by the humans?

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Regarding the order of the kingdoms during the Rounds, in the
first Round, the kingdoms come, one after the next, starting with
the lowest. The globes are basically "empty", and each kingdom
comes, establishes itself, then moves on, leaving behind its
sishtas. Until the First Round is complete, there are no sishtas
on the Globes, and it is not possible to "race ahead" of one's
lifewive in personal evolution.

In the second and subsequent Rounds, with the sishtas in place,
the livewaves still travel in the same order, with the Elementals
coming first, then the Minerals, Plants, Animals, etc. in serial
order. But the difference is that there is a new race or species
that appears. The Fourth Round humanity, for instance, is
replaced by Fifth Round humanity. When does this happen? I'd
think that the new forms are created after the lifewave has
departed, and the sishtas are in formation.

And the higher qualities of consciousness necessary for the next
Round are picked up by association with the higher kingdoms. The
human sishtas left be subordinate to the active presence (and
rulership of the earth) of the Dhyani-Chohanic Kingdoms. They
will be saintly men, in superior physical forms, in a world ruled
by demigods. They will benefit from that association with the
higher beings.

Although personal evolution will be suspended, evolution of the
ego due to self-initiative, other experiences will be gained.
The bulk of humanity that goes with the human lifewave to the
other globes will continue personal evolution, but will miss
something. Those that stay behind will have a chance to awaken
in themselves certain qualities that are particular to the Dhyan
Chohans. These qualities will arise, to a slight degree, by
continued association, due to sympathetic vibration, due to the
continual exposure to beings that have those qualities active and
self-conscious in their lives.

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Purucker expands the sevenfold system to twelvefold. He
mentiones three elemental Rounds before the seven, and two more
afterwards, making twelve. The same would apply to the Root
Races. In this system, we'd have to wonder if the mammals are
animals after the 12th animal race, or are animals in the Eighth
Root Race. Any ideas?