Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00376)

Keith and others,

>As much as I can appreciate the SD's description of  the earth being made
>bare and the general slaughter, it fits into my scheme of thinking that
>some of the earth was still populated with creatures. "They slew the forms
>which were two and four-faced. They fought the goat-men, and the dog-headed
>men, and the men with fishes' bodies." I'm looking at some of the dinosaurs

I forgot to mention that the pictures I am accessing are not in the
splendid Natural History Museum book mentioned above, but accessories to
one of my children's toy dinosaurs!  Sorry. I'm not trying to mislead
anyone with having a good source of pictures. They are only toys. (I don't
know what a search through the two volumes of my dino reference would turn
up!)

>which lived millions of years ago and most are Jurassic through Cretaceous.

>As is shown in the SD p. 815, prior to Triassic dinos there were reptiles
>(water men?) and the Dimetrodon is the only one pictured, reportedly living
>265 million years ago. Dilophosaurus lived during early Jurassic.
>Regardless of these tidbits of info, if the general cataclysm took place to
>rid the earth of "nature's unaided forms," then wouldn't there have had to
>have been a similar cataclysm, perhaps taking place before the beginning of
>the fifth root race, which would have destroyed the "unaided human
>approximations of adepts?"