Theos-World Atlantis, Lemuria, Giants, etc... PART 2 == CHRONOLOGY
Aug 27, 1999 04:00 AM
by W. Dallas TenBroeck
Aug 26th 1999
Re: Atlantis, etc., Part 2 = CHRONOLOGY
Dear Friends:
I wish to apologize to you for a very garbled table of the
Theosophical Chronology that was included in the 2nd part of the
posting that I made on this subject.
I realised that when I received my copy of it.
I have redone it and attach it herewith for your consideration.
Please make the substitution, I hope this is clearer.
Dallas
dalval@nwc.net
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An Introduction to a Theosophical
C H R O N O L O G Y
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Note
This is an attempt to place events and personages within various
accepted, and Theosophical time-frames. It is hoped that it will help
in observing the evidence of the work and observations of Wise Men and
Sage Adepts of the past.
It will help the compilers if you would contribute any corrections or
additions to this growing project, as a result of your own study and
use of this list.
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Most time references are based on the periods that HPB has given us in
either ISIS or The S.D., or in her articles. This is under active
completion and verification, hence, you will be asked to excuse some
errors that will be found, and invited to draw the attention of the
compiler to correcting facts.
Verifying dates have occasionally been secured from Encyclopedia
Britannica and other sources, and those have been added to those from
Theosophical sources. If the exact date is
uncertain : c / ? .
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Abbreviations used:
IS = Isis Unveiled Glos = Theosophical Glossary
SD = The Secret Doctrine Thy = Theosophy Magazine (LA)
Key = Key to Theosophy Theos't = Theosophist ( Adyar )
Lucif. Lucifer Magazine Path = The Path ( New York )
ML = Mahatma Letters T M = Theos. Movement Mag.
Bombay)
Ocean. Ocean of Theosophy HPB Art = Collected HPB Articles
CWB = Collected Works HPB WQJ Art = Collected WQJ Articles
C & J = Caves and Jungles of Hindoostan
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A Theosophical View of Chronology
Introduction
The sub-title given to this survey indicates the attention that H. P.
Blavatsky paid to the historical, factual aspect, of the records of
the Adepts. ( SD I 272 ) "The Secret Doctrine teaches history…" ( SD
I 267 )
One of the factors faced in the effort to envision the scope of time
past is the tendency, inherited from theological views in the West,
which tend to foreshorten history and dwarf the periods of evolution
that are a part of the lore of ancient nations especially in the East,
in their estimates or records concerning pre-historical eras and
epochs, and events which they recorded.
This present list considers time periods given in record preserved by
the Great Lodge of Adepts, from which HPB gives fragments of data
relating to vast achievements in the Past--and records or reports of
its arts, sciences, technologies, buildings, chronologies, astronomy,
and a thousand other indications, which tend to show that we are, in
our present whirl of research, retracing the patterns of that past,
and adding to the testimony that increasingly validates it.
Students of Theosophy take into account certain foundational concepts,
such as :--
1. Reincarnation: that we are essentially in our spiritual, natures,
Immortals, and have lived many lives on this Earth;
2. that Karma, the law of justice and of fairness to all beings (from
the atom to the Galaxy) is The Law for every aspect of the Universe;
and that it consists of an harmonic balance at all points; so that all
circumstances can be traced to choices made earlier;
3. the ideal of Human Brotherhood is not a myth but a solid fact as
science and psychology demonstrate daily that we share in each other,
as in all aspects of Nature; and finally, Ours is a "moral"
Universe. All is Nature, and it is fair, just and impartial to all.
4. There is an actual, a Universal All--an Encompassing Unity (or
Causation), which forms the living and sensitive base for all
evolution and all individual consciousness.
A factor that serves to make the Universe, evolution, and man's
independence valuable, is the fact that it is, in reality, a vast
school. Every being (from the imponderable atom to the utmost reaches
of Space, is an entity, an immortal and conscious "something" (perhaps
a "pupil" of more or less advancement in the vast scheme). It is an
index of the intelligence that is innate in every life-atom (MONAD)
that makes cooperation with every other being possible, e.g., we
could consider cellular cooperation in our body, where some 100
trillion cells (made up of an incredible amount of atoms and
molecules) coordinate to give us (the Perceiver, the Witness) a
physical basis of life and consciousness.
The objects of the Theosophical Movement are:--
1. To form the nucleus of a Universal Brotherhood of Humanity
without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color;
2. The study of ancient and modern religions, philosophies and
sciences and the demonstration of the importance of such study; and
3. The investigation of the unexplained laws of Nature and the
psychical powers latent in man.
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C H R O N O L O G Y
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Year Groups, Tribes Notes and References
From To or Individual
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Universal and World Periods SD II 69-70 OCEAN 125
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311,040,000 000 000 years = Maha Kalpa, or Life of Brahma
(100 of Brahma's years)
[311 trillion, 40 billion] SD II
70
3,110,400,000,000 years = 1 Year of Brahma SD II 70
[ 3 trillion, 110 billion ]
8,640,000,000 years = 1 Day + 1 Night of Brahma
4,320,000,000 years = 1 Kalpa = l Day of Brahma
1,000 Maha-Yugas SD II 69
or 14 Manus SD II
59-60
The Theosophist, Nov., 1885, p. 115-6
1 Day of Brahma = 4,294,080,000 = 994 Maha-Yugas or 14 Manus
add 25,920,000 = 1 Sandhi (twilight) SD II 308fn
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1 Kalpa is 4,320,000,000 years = 1 Day of Brahma
(4 billion, 320 million) SD II 69-70
1 Manvantara = 306,720,000 = 71 Maha Yugas of 4,320,000 yrs
add 1,728,000 = 1 Sandhi SD II 69
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308,448,000 years = 1 Manvantara SD II
69
4 Yugas [ The 4 "Ages" ] . SD II 69
ML p. 121, IS I 32
1,728,000 years = Krita (or Satya, or Golden
Age --Yuga)
1,296,000 years = Treta (or Silver Age --Yuga )
864,000 years = Dwapara (or Bronze Age --Yuga )
432,000 years - Kali ( or Black, Iron Age--Yuga )
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4,320,000 years = 1 Maha Yuga - or 1/1000th of A Day of
Brahma SD I 136 II 69 HPB Art. III
422;
Lucif XIII, 183-4; ML 121;
ISIS I 14 32 293 301-4 428 587 II 260
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Chaldean Cycles . . . ISIS I 30 fn
3,600 years = 1 Sar (or Saros )
IS I 21 30 34 533 II 467, Path X 301
600 years = 1 Neros
60 years = 1 Sossus
Berosus, priest of the Temple of Belus, Babylon IS I
30 fn
SD II 38 331 432 566; SD I 114 314 389 435 649 655fn
Glos. 108 291 (Sar) 225 258
Solar or Heliacal Year = 25,868 years SD I 314; Ocean 121
(1 Sub-race) SD I 439fn II 141fn 330fn 436fn
Metonic (Moon) Cycle 6,586 days = cycle of Lunar eclipses (or
revolution
= 18 yrs. 11 1/2 day - the moon's node [a cycle of 6,585 days
(18.041 years)
Grand Cycles Orpheus: 120,000 years IS I 294 fn
Cassandrus 136,000 years IS I 294 fn
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Our Earth
1,955,884,687 years (in 1887) from the beginning of
"cosmic evolution" SD II 68fn
- 300,000,000 Years as a Sandhi (twilight)
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1,664,884,687 years (in 1887) from the first
appearance of "Humanity" (on this planetary chain) as an
astral form SD II 68fn
Our Kali Yuga is the 28th age of the 7th Manvantara of
308,448,000 years ISIS I 32
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B. C.
18,618,727 Lighting up of Manas [ mind ] (as in 1887)
SD I 150fn; SD II 69 254-5
4,000,000 c. Engulfing of Lemuria (e.g.:--Easter Island)
4,242,352 SD I 439fn II 68-70 141
[4th Round, 4th Globe, 3rd "Race"]
Easter Island - evidence of SD I 322 439 II 224 317
Atlantis [ Titans / Kabiri / Cyclops ]
[4th Round, 4th Globe, 4th "Race"]
1,050,000 Beginning of the 5th "Aryan" "Race" SD II 141 144 435
Vedas SD I 269-71 II 483-4 450 606 616
T M 5-67 Glos 361 IS I 444 THY 2-468
Theos't I-247 COL I TOP. WQJ ART II 82-3
Theos't 9-428
1,050,000 BC
Vedanta SD I 7 50-1 269 451 Glos 361 253
(Uttara Mimansa - Vyasa)
Theos't I-201 287 9-411 Lucif 6-119
Advaita (non-dualistic) SD I 8 55 522 II 637 GLOS 7
(Shankaracharya - founder) ML 53-4
Theos't 10-7 Glos 307
Dwaita (dualistic)
Manu Smriti (Code of Manu - Krita Yuga) IS I 585-6
1,000,000 Aryan Race began SD II 395 Thy. Mag. 45, p. 219
Brahmin invasion of N. India IS II 156fn 169 158
IS II 323 192 SD I 209 II 565 Glos 222
Persians, Turanians, Goths, Slavs IS. I 569 IS II 426-433
c. 1,000,000 - 500,000 B C
998,100 Cataclysms: Atlantis begins sinking SD II 141
Is I 557 593 SD II 10 144 Glos 42-3
869,000 Dwapara Yuga Commencement (since 1888) SD II 147
( our present Kali-Yuga began 3,102 BC )
850,000 Since submergence of last large peninsula of
the Great Atlantis SD II 10
850,000 Glacial Period est. by Stockwell & Croll SD II 141 144
800,000 Angkor Wat built (2nd most Occult Edifice) Glos 223
IS I 239 561-8 271-2
500,000 - 250,000 B C
470,000 Babylon's astronomical observations go back to
this Nebo or Birs Nimrud, CWB 13-274 IS I 533
450,000 Epoch of Ramayana (Brahmin estimate) C & J p. 73
Theos't Vol. 10-35 SD II 496 IS II 278 Glos 275
400,000 Egypt was settled by the Atlanteans and the Eastern
AEtheopeans SD II 750
250,000 - 100,000 B C
250,000+ Last Glaciation of Europe Isis I 3
Pyramids were 3 times submerged SD I 313 424 617 GL
223;
SD II 462-6 575 435 749-50 351-3 462 351-2 93 276fn 429;
GLOS 300 IS I 154 239 296-7 517-21; THY V. 67-p.54
Sphinx (Harmachus) SD II 124 618 Glos 135-6 Is I 573
200,000 Chaldean Astronomical Observations extended back at
Alexander's invasion -- Berosus SD I xxvi
200,000 Stockwell & Croll estimate of last Glaciation SD II 144
100,000 - 30,000 B C
78,000+ Denderah Zodiac [Egyptians brought from Lanka--Menes ]
SD II 374fn 431-6 456 577 580; IS I 440-1
49,186 Egyptian Records go back to ( Diogenes Laertius )
by 8,863 yrs. in 323 BC IS I 33
34,300 Sumerian Tablet gives 32,234 yrs between Deluge
and last king of Isin c.200 BC Thy 16, p.195
30,000 - 10,000 B C
29,217 Alpha Polaris (Dhruva) (as Pole Star) (in 1888)
31,105 yrs ago Glos. 17
15,194 Zodiac (latest) Originated -- 1st degree of Aries
15,086 Vernal Equinox and 1st degree of Libra coincided
( 16,984 yrs ago in 1888 ) SD I 658
12,300 Vyasa - Uttara Mimansa & Vedanta taught Isis II 621
"Bhadarayana" SD I 50 269 451 Glos 361
11,100 Vega (Alpha Lyrae) was Pole Star Thy 17-18
10,000 - 6,000 B C
9,566 Deluge of Deucalion. Last Island of Atlantis ML p. 155
submerged. Last war between the "Sons of God"
of the "White Island" and the last Atlantean sorcerers
IS I 589-594 5 Yrs Thy p. 99 SD II 406 444fn
9,500 Atlantis - Last Island sank Timaeus"- Plato as narrated
by Priests of Sais to Solon TM 46-469
8,000 Hindu Initiates had same Secret Philosophy then
as now (estimate) SD II 406 IS II 535
8,000 Tchandalas begin to emigrate from India to Chaldea
SD II 200 Glos 323 165 IS I 135 551-2 578
Isis II 438-9 SD I 313fn
7,975 End of the last Sidereal Year Ocean 129 SD I 649-50
(9,975 BC) SD II 314 331 432 470
6,500 c Zarathustra (6,000 yrs. before Plato c 400 BC)
Glos 384-5; IS I 19 II 141; SD I 464, II 323
Theos't I-13; Thy 14-97
["Zoroaster" (Guru-astera) is a Title for a chain of 24
Zoroasters.
The last was a contemporary of Gautama Buddha. c. 600 BC ]
6,000 - 4,000 B C
6,000--5,000 Trojan War nearer 6,000 BC S D II 437fn
Thy 27-103 IS I 520 598 Glos 96
(Dardanus) SD II 101 236 440
5,100 Neith (1st Dynasty) Lucif 2-465 SD I 399; Glos 77 227
234
4,100 c Manu-Vina (Menes) to Masra (Cairo) IS I 627 516
SD II 335 374 431-2 436 746; Thy 15, 317
4,000 - 3,000 B C
3750 Sargon I reigned (Prof. A.H.Sayce) SD II 691
3,700 Local Deluge in Middle East S D II 691
3,200 c Date assigned to last Veda Vyasa by
the Brahmins. [Vyasa is a title.] Glos 362
3,102 Kali Yuga (ours) began Feb. 16, AM: 2 Hrs, 27 Min, 30
Sec.
[the only precise time given in the SD ]
SD I 662 SD II 147 fn
3,102 Krishna's death (18 Feb. 3,102 BC) Glos 170 387
[ midnight 17/18 ] Thy. I-p. 374; IV-p. 37
3,102 Hindu Zodiac Begins at Sunrise Feb 18th 3,102 BC SD I
662
( origin of present Hindu era: "Vikram Samvat"
and Zodiac, Tiravalour, So.India )
3,100 c Vikramaditya rules at Ujjain ("Vikram Samvat") SD I 662
[ begins at Sunrise, February 18th 3,102 B C ]
3,100 c Fu - H'si ( Krishna of China ) Thy 14- 308
Po - H'si ( 1st Ruler of China) Thy 14- 1
3,100 c Arjuna to Patala ( marries Ulupi ) SD II 214fn
[ Orphean Mysteries ] Glos 29
("Patala" = Mexico ) Thy 15, 546 IS II 561fn
3,100 c Orpheus identified with Arjuna Thy 27, 148 Glos 242
On travel to Patala, stops in Greece
HPB ART III 138 IS I 532 II 129 550
SD I 207 267fn 529 784 Lucif 16-273
Theos't 5-20 Col 2 Bot,
"Mysteries of Orpheus" established.
3,000 - 2,000 B C
3,000 c Gilgamesh epic "Flood" of Jewish Bible Thy 16, 307
2,875 c Akkadians (Semites) Sumer Sargon IS I 576-78
2,800 c Yi-King (Chinese Kabala Akkadians) Thy 25-444
2,700 Hwang-Ti 3rd after Po-H'si Thy 15-19 Thy 14-310
Babylon & Assyria Glos 47 37 IS I 567 ML 152;
THY 16-194 307
2,253 Chaldean Astronomical Observations for past 1903 years
Calliosthenes to Aristotle (c 350 BC) IS I 21
Kasidim Glos 75 81 39 196 IS I xxviii 534 459 567
HPB Art III 134 ML 152 CWB 5-13 326-8 SD II 620
2,200 c Shu-King and Shi-King (China) Thy 14-310 IS I 11
Hammurabi (Code) Babylon Thy 16-196
2,000 c Sumeria old texts interlinear Semitic Thy 16-194
translations Thy 21-414
2,000 - 1,000 B C
1,925 c Hittites capture Babylon IS I 567-8
1,850 c Chung-Ki (China ) Thy 14-34
1,700 c Knossos (Crete) at its height IS I 264 545
[ c 3,000 BC - 1,400 BC ]
1,628 Thera (Santorini) Volcano Erupts (Tree Ring Dating)
[ L A Times, Aug 29 1996 ]
[ End of Minoan Civilization, tidal waves
overwhelm coasts of Eastern Mediterranean.]
1,600 c Hyksos ( Semites ) overran Egypt IS I 569-70
1,500 c Arameans over-ran Mesopotamia IS I 579
Phoenicians ( Semites ) IS I 569 567 572 545
1,573 Moses born SD II 539 691 MOD PAN 45 HPB III 244;
IS I 3 555; SD I 320fn 385 II 428 456 465 691
IS II 129 I 25
1,447 Aries in its 15th degree SD II 436 fn SD I 658
1,400 c Achaeans to Crete destruction of Knossos dynasty
(Thera-Santorini volcano explodes ? )
1,350 c Tutankhamen XVIII Dynasty (son-in-law of Ikhnaton)
Aton replaced Amon-Ra -- Thebes-capital of Egypt
1,225 c Rameses II ( restored Karnak & many monuments )
Greeks: Aeolians Ionians Dorians Achaeans
Scythians from central Asia begin invading Russia
Khazaks (in 8th Cent. identified with Jews & Semites )
1,250 Sanchoniathon compiled religious writings SD II 440fn;
IS I 234 341-2 577-8 II 260 275 SD II 129 440 Glos 289
1,000-900 B C
1,000 c Aztecs to Central America S D II 445 Thy 16, 70-1
974-937 Solomon IS I 135 II 391 ML 345 SD II 591 M Pan 45-6
970-936 Hiram I at Tyre ( Phoenician Jews ) IS I 19 135 566-8
945 Conjunction of all the Planets except Saturn SD II 63
[Note: great conjunction in 1957, 1965-7 & Sun Eclipse]
900 c Inca Kings Thy 16-25 Glos 154 HPB Art III 428
Note: List is closed here. The full list continues up to the
present.
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