Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00305)

At 11:18 PM 1/21/98 -0800, you wrote:
>> Brenda Tucker wrote:
>>
>> Again, in this same letter: When the minderal kingdom has completed on
>> globe A, "it projects its essence to globe B- which is already passing
>> through the preliminary stages of formation and mineral evolution begins on
>> that globe. At this juncture the evolution of the vegetable kingdom
>> commences on globe A. When the latterr has made its seventh ring (a
>> substitute for races) its essence passes on to globe B. At that time the
>> mineral essence moves to globe C and the germs of the animal kingdom enter
>> A." etc.
>>
>> I'm putting this here because I said before I would try to find this idea
>> and post it.
>
>Isn't this talking specifically about the first round only?

There are references in the SD index to man being the first present on
earth in this fourth round and after checking into them found a few
conditions to this thought.

1. II p.61 Up to the Fourth Round, and even to the later part of the Third
Race in this Round, Man - if the ever-changing forms that clothed the
Monads during the first three Rounds and the first two-and-a-half races of
the present one can be given that misleading name - is, so far, only an
animal intellectually. It is only in the actual MIDWAY Round that he
develops in himself entirely the fourth principle as a fit vehicle for the
fifth. But Manas will be relatively FULLY developed only in the following
Round...

2. Some ancient literature uses the term MAN losely. IIp.186 But by "Man"
the divine Monad is meant and not the thinking entity, much less the
physical body. While rejecting the immortal Soul, the men of Science now
try to trace the latter through a series of animal forms from the lowest to
the highest; whereas, in truth, all the present fauna are the descendants
of those primordial monsters of which the Stanzas speak. The animals - the
creeping beasts and those in the waters that preceded man in this Fourth
Round, as well as those contemporary with the Third Race . . . . - are all
either directly or indirectly the mutual and correlative product
(physically) of man.


I think this explains one difference that might be present in the Rounds
and that is which principle is emphasized by the creators. For example. If
man, is the kamic principle of the earth chain, then we are right at home
in the fourth Round especially because we would predominate.

3. Another place II 289. "Man was the storehouse, so to speak, of all the
seeds of life for this Round, vegetable and animal alike"* With a footnote
* It may be objected that this is a contradiction. That, as the first Root
Race appeared 300,000,000 years after the vegetation had evolved, the seed
of vegetable life could not be in the First Race. We say it could; for up
to man's appearance in THIS Round, the vegetation was of quite another kind
that it is now, and quite ethereal, this for the simple reason that no
grass or plants could have been physical, before there were animal or other
organisms to breathe out the carbonic acid which vegetation has to imbibe
for its development, its nutrition and growth. They are interdependent in
their PHYSICAL and achieved forms.

Most of the hints concerning the differences in the Rounds, describe the
first through fourth Rounds as becoming more material. Then a turning point
is reached, and the reverse can be expected. In the next Rounds we will
become more spiritual again.

Vol I p. 232: "Now every "Round" (on the descending scale) is but a
repetition in a more concrete form of the Round which preceded it..." and
on p. 231: "...the student has to make himself thoroughly acquainted with
what we call "Rounds." If he refers to ESTOERIC BUDDHISM - the first
attempt to sketch out an approximate outline of archaic Cosmogony - he will
find that by a "Round" is meant the serial evolution of nascent material
nature, of the seven globes of our chain with their mineral, vegetable, and
animal kingdoms (man being there included in the latter and standing at the
head of it) during the whole period of a life-cycle." (Could this be
referring to our fourth round as a "life-cycle.")

>> I think it would be wonderful if we actually used genetic science in the
>> 2nd race to produce mammals. What geniuses we were back then!
>
>It is said that Nature used what vitality "2nd round man" through off to
>create these animal forms, not that man willfully created them with any
>genetic engineering. It's "Nature" who is the genius.

>What I meant about the lore of man creating hybrid animal creations was
>in this fourth round, third root race (lemurian, i.e., the "sin of the
>mindless") and forth root race (Atlanteans), who repeated the "sin" and
>also created monstrosities by sorcery and black magic, or so the story
>goes.

I remember reading one place, where man cannot be separated from nature. We
are part of it.
And then, what is meant by man? This could be one interpretation.

Look at Vol II SD, Stanza II, p. 52 called "Nature Unaided Fails." I think
here we do have nature separated from man, and that by man, they mean a
divine Kabbalistic man. 300,000,000 million years are mentioned again. Do
you want to talk about this stanza?