Theos-Talk Archives (September 1996 Message tt00011)

> Dear Brenda,
>
> Could you please give more background on Voluspa? I do not know
> anything about it. "The Secret Doctrine" gives just one
> reference to Voluspa (v.1, p.367) as regards the mundane egg.

My own interest in the Voluspa is in the sense that it confirms
(by subtle hints) my suspicion about the nature of the seven
races and the future of man.

If you are a student of The Secret Doctrine, then perhaps you are
familiar with the "shistas" and some of the concepts here that
follow.

The gist of the hypothesis simply put includes some new concepts
for the western mind. It includes

1. Globe Chain

2. Shistas

3. Rounds and Races

4. Life-Waves

What happens is this: There are seven life-waves going around the
seven globes of the earth globe chain. Other planets have their
own globe chains. The globe we are currently on is the fourth
and is the most material of the seven, while the other globes are
paired on three levels, both ahead and behind of the earth. The
life-waves, one for each kingdom (seven here also) move in
progression, so that at any one time there is one (and only one)
major life-wave on a globe. Since the animal and plant
life-waves are ahead of our own, they are on globes 5 and 6
respectively. There is even a book written from the point of
view of our seventh race of humanity (fictional, of course) where
names have been found for some of the globes in the chain.
Peculiarly, the fifth globe is called Andlang. (Switch a few
letters and you're left with England (sort of).)

What we have left on our globe that appear to be plants and
animals are what this theory calls: shistas. Shista means
remainder and is a confusing concept which many theosophical
writers have attempted to explain. Generally, it is felt that
the life is sleeping, and what we have is merely a form or empty
shell, which for all practical purposes we can do with what we
like. All of this was familiar to me, but without the next
information, made little difference.

The next idea is the new one and came to me through different
studies, studies of the "I Am" Temple decree books which date to
about the 1930s. Through reading these books, I finally came to
terms with some of the ideas in a manner that may have shed some
light on the above.

What could be happening is that the way that man was able to take
a material form is that during the first three races of his
existence, mankind and the animal kingdom had great exchanges of
energy. The animal life-wave was at the point in their cycle
that they wished to ascend, spiritualize, leave this globe of the
chain. We aided this by working for the opposite goal. It was
our time to materialize and to take form here on earth. As the
animals' energy is to ascend and our energy to descend we could
accomplish this in three stages. First, man hovered over the
highest of the animal forms (what we know as the dinosaurs),
second man and animal are at equal level of "innerness" but the
form is under the direction of the humans and rapidly
transforming. The inner animal is under the direction of the
highest spirit, which is where he is going next. The next or
third stage has man present, alongside of the animal shistas
(which have been able to change drastically into mammals) where
the animal spirit is only hovering at the highest level, perhaps
learning but exerting little influence. It is easy to picture
this as one above the other, both at the same level, and then a
switch of places. First they are attracted, somewhat conjoined,
and then going in opposite directions.

During the fourth race, man is left to their own devices. This
is what is know as the Atlantean Race.

By the fifth race our understanding of life has diminished to the
point where we are committing grave errors and wondering what to
do about the human condition. Luckily for us there is an
influence from the next life-wave which wishes to be felt to the
point of materialization of their species. We permit their
influence because our problems are solved and because it is
natural to do so. We gladly recede to an inner place, while many
of our physical activities go under vast revision. Our bodies
change to become what the higher evolutionary life-wave needs in
their world. They likewise can change the existing Shistas
(plants, animals, and minerals) to fit into their scheme.
Finally their own forms are developed to the degree that they can
inhabit them, alongside of the "remainders" or shistas of man.

A primary objection:

1. If shistas are the case then why aren't these empty forms
visible for all of the seven kingdoms?

This being the fourth round only four states of existence are
visible to us. Those are human, animal, vegetable, and mineral.
Isn't it curious that each of the other three are present in
"invisible" forms? Does this mean that one kingdom is becoming
visible? It depends on whether man is the conclusion of a round
four and whether the higher life-wave is also fourth round or
perhaps fifth round.

Man lives on the earth until the end of the seventh race, then
enters a period of rest, then begins the cycle of existence again
beginning with the fifth globe. When the seventh globe is
reached in the seventh round, all evolution has been accomplished
to the point that each kingdom is able to take the step into the
next higher one. What were once plants are now animals, etc.
Another period of rest sets in followed by a resumption of the
cycle.

Our last chain of globes included the moon as the most physical
of all the planets. It is still in a decaying state.

An assumption:

Man has endowed the various animal shistas with characteristics
similar to his own at times and not the other way around. The
only good influence of the animal is through their autonomous
development of matter after descent through the plants. The
higher the animals are able to take their own evolution, the
easier and more productive a time it is for man. Remember, the
animals have to return, even perhaps to shistas which have become
largely invisible over time, but have served numerous purposes
for the other life-waves. These perhaps invisible shistas have
to exert a pulling on the material body of the existing life,
drawing away matter to its own form. This aids the previous
life-wave and benefits their indrawing, while endowing them with
forms much advanced of what they were able to accomplish.