Theos-Talk Archives (June 2004 Message tt00234)

A View of the First Three Races of Mankind
	

Cyclic evolution involves each immortal Monad in innumerable
incarnations. These are called in the SECRET DOCTRINE the ROUNDS (each
such "Round" being a circling through 7 GLOBES) -- [see S D Vol. I,
p. 200.] 

In each Round a special faculty is perfected analogous to the
sequence of the PARAMITAS: of virtues to be perfected, given in The
VOICE OF THE SILENCE [Fragment III, p. 52-3] Each of the Paramitas
(virtues) is said to correspond to one of the 7 "Globes" pictured in
that Diagram. Their arrangement in a circle is significant. Those
virtues developed by the chela at each stage in the descending arc are
said to correspond to those of the developing Adept in the ascending
arc. Another correspondence is between the 7 Principles of Man and
those 7 of the Universe. 
[S D I 157; II 596] 

A "Round" consists of 7 "Globes," and again, in each of these the
sub-faculty relating to the "Round" is brought through successive
incarnations to its perfection. We are in the 4th Round, Globe "D"
(the 4th) and our "Race" is the 5th, named "Aryan" (the "noble").

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FIRST 3 RACES OF MANKIND - AN OVER-VIEW [ Fourth Round ]


There is probably no part of the Secret Doctrine which offers a more
startling contrast to the opinions of the common man, than the
information laid before us in the SECRET DOCTRINE in reference to the
origin of mankind on earth.  

It considers a three-fold process:  

1) Spiritual, (considered as the Monad [ATMA-BUDDHI] as a forever
conjoined pair of extremes, of Spirit and Matter as these eternal
"Principles," and forming the stable, eternal, base of Ideals -- of
universality, of impersonality, all under a single universal LAW, and
an undeviating moral rectitude); in a word, this is epitomized as
"Brotherhood." 

2) the Psychical, (considered as the duality of the Mind Principle:
of Buddhi-Manas and Kama-Manas) is the second. These explain a
universal condition wherein the progressive development of moral
responsibility by the Monad (as a psycho-mental entity) is perfected.
This is where virtue is perceived, studied and when understood, is
invariably acted on.  

3) the Physical, 'substantial form' which is permanent, stable, and
responsive to every need of the conscious, living, spiritual and
purified psycho-mental Man. -- this may be considered the "astral, or
"causal body, which is being 'purified' so as to become the "permanent
astral." [S D I 181-2]

Our present common knowledge and speculative science furnishes us with
no definite particulars of primeval man that may be at all comparable
with the scheme of actual historical development as exposed in the S
D. This account brings up to the situation of mankind in this, the
"Fourth Round."

The S D surveys the steps of the process of an intermeshed three-fold
development, but anterior to the "Fourth Round," H.P.B. offers only
some glimpses. There, the history of the world in the first "Three
Rounds," and the pre-human forms and intelligence are briefly treated.


The progress of the Monad (you, I, and all of us) through those early
stages, is surveyed on "Globe D" in the present "Fourth Round." H.P.B.
states that we are the same immortal Egos who went, by the process of
reincarnation, through the periods called the first three "Rounds."  

"Globe D" on Round Four, she says, recapitulates in each of its
earlier "Races" the development of the three early "Rounds."  

Among all those who read this, it is taken for granted that the Three
Fundamentals of the SECRET DOCTRINE [ S D I, pp. 13-20] have been
studied, understood, and will be remembered at every stage, These are
significantly:


THE THREE FUNDAMENTALS


1. UNIVERSAL SPIRIT or DEITY, [The Universe is ALL - it is the
indescribable Absoluteness. It envelops all beings and we are a part
of it. It is deific omnipresence.]

2. UNIVERSAL and JUST LAW, [This regulates impartially, fairly and
justly the birth, evolution and 'death' of Galaxies, Solar systems,
Suns, planets, and, of all beings (including the many humanities)
associated with those vast bodies and hosts of immortal beings.
Everything is included. It is deific omnipotence always in action.]

3. UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION by all the "hosts" of immortal Monads. The S D
states: "There is not one finger's breath (ANGULA) of void Space in
the whole Boundless (Universe)..." ( S D I 287) It is omniscience,
or that total Wisdom, enshrined in the highest "Fathers" the "Great
Souls, the Mahatmas and Buddhas, the "protectors" of mankind.]

These three are applicable to everything in Nature (or the Universe)
and specially to the intelligent spiritual consciousness [or
Atma-Buddhi-Manas] residing in the physical-astral form of every man
and woman on our earth.  


The scope of the S D begins at the opening of this Manvantara. Our
planet is considered a reincarnation of a succession of earlier ones.
It traces anthropogenesis down to a period to the establishment of Man
as a thinking, reasoning and decision making being. .  


Fossils as an Index to Intelligence ?

One of our chief difficulties is considering the commencement of the
history of the human race at a point where the present world of
'western' science and history is ignorant. Because of this, and
inaccurate speculations based on a few physical relics and fossils
being used as an index for the presumed intelligence developed in the
past, there is difficulty in giving an intelligible description of the
substantial, but tenuous appearance of those early beings from whom
our present physical mankind has been gradually been developed and
consolidated. [S D II 260]	

Occultism states that in this fourth Round mankind as a "form"
appeared first; and all life-forms were subsequently derived from this
primitive model.[S D I 282; II 660, 683, 685]

One of the statements made, is that the ape-form was derived as a
specialization from the primitive human form.[ S D I 180, 190, 455;
II 168-9, 186-7, 256, 288, 635, 684-5, 728-9] The science of evolution
declares as a law that a "specialized" form (such as that of an ape)
can not generate one more primitive (such as a human). It can only
descend from such a form.  
[S D II 716, 720-3]


History, Lore, Myth

For many who are commencing the study of Theosophy, the subject might
perhaps have been made easier to illustrate, if the tracing of the
origin of Man had been started at this time, and retrogressed. 

We are told that this is a critical period as it is just past the
"balance point" of evolution. [S D I 182; II 149, 236, 261, 300,
732] Apart from the information given in the S D, and a few hints of
myth, lore and tradition, (as in the ancient Puranas of India) no
trace of a connected history back to the originating of a "Fifth Race"
exists. We are in the Fifth "Race" on "Globe D" of the Fourth
"Round." 

Modern (western) civilization has no coherent historical narrative
extending beyond 6,000 years; while the Fifth Race alone has had
(teaches the S D) an independent existence for more than a million
years; [S D II p. 10; M L 150], and modern science, in its latest
speculations postulates the antiquity of mankind as a physical form
being at most a couple of million of years. [Leaky - Olduvai]

Even the scanty references to Atlantis (mentioned by Plato, who died
347 B.C.) are derided. And while he gives no date for its final
disappearance, in the Mahatma Letters [pp. 151, 155] this was given as
9,564 B.C. (in 1882). Recently a few authorities have considered the
possibility of the submergence of the home of an ancient nation
beneath the Atlantic. [see articles on submerged ruins in the
Caribbean Sea and the Bahamas.] This event is described in the
eye-witness story "Where the Rishis Were" - by W. Q. Judge]


Globe "D" - Recapitulation and "Moment of "Choice"

On Globe [D] of the "Fourth Round," there has been a recapitulation of
the evolutionary stages experienced in the three earlier ROUNDS. [S D
II pp. 2-12]  

GLOBE D, Fourth Round stands alone, and is a balance position. [S D I
200] It corresponds to Paramita VIRAGA: and that is described as
three-fold:

1	indifference to pleasure as to pain,
2	illusion conquered,
3	truth alone perceived.
[VOICE OF THE SILENCE, p. 52 Fragment III ]
 
The 4th Globe is the one on which there is coming the mysterious
"Moment of Decision" for all the many hosts of monads that constitute
humanity Two Paths open: 1) that of the brotherhood of spiritual
perfection, or 2) that of a return to the chaos and uncertainties of
isolation and selfishness. [M L 47; S D I 245, 267, 639; II 149,
249, 261, 300-1]

We, as immortal Monads, are reviewing here our own earlier
incarnations through these stages and vast periods of time. The three
earliest "Races" in the 4th Round on Globe D, are each associated
with a geographical "home" of its own. These lands were named. [S D
II pp. 2 - 12]   


Earlier "Homes" of the past Races

The title accorded to the "First Race" of "Spiritual Entities" was:
"The Sons of Will and Yoga," Their home is the "Imperishable Sacred
Land." This is the only portion of the earth's surface continuing
permanently, and it will remain so until the end of the Manvantara,
until it bears the final spiritualized forms of the divine men. It is
said that: "from the dawn to the close of twilight of a day of Brahma,
the Pole Star has its watchful eye upon it." [S D II 6-12, 274]

The "Second Race," called the "Sweat Born," dwelt on the "Great
Hyperborean Land." This continent was beyond the Polar region, and
comprised Greenland, Northern Asia, and stretched southward from the
Northern Polar area in undefined promontories. In those distant times
it knew no winter and was an abode of ethereal mildness, fabled by the
Greeks to be the dwelling-place of Apollo - a glyph of the life-giving
Sun. [S D II 274, 371fn, 769, 775]

The "Third Race," was named the "Egg Born," in its early days,
changing later into beings with sex. It was developed on the vast
crescent shaped continent of "Lemuria." This "Third Race," marked by
great changes of substance, structure and being, developed there.
Lemuria is a name adopted from P. L. Sclater (1860). The Pacific ocean
now covers much of this continent, whose dry land, including part of
modern Africa, extended in a great crescent shape from Spitzbergen in
the Arctic to Australia and New Zealand in the south. In geology it
was called a "pre-tertiary formation."  

The "Fourth Race" dwelt primarily on a mid-Atlantic continent. And its
influence spread through the rest. Called Atlantis, it was used,
developed and disappeared as a unit before the end of the Miocene
period. The "Fourth Race" Atlanteans, and the rise and progress of
the so-far five branches of the Fifth (our) Race during the more
recent thousands of years, is yet to be described.

The Fifth Race, Aryans] developed on continents that have toady, an
appearance resembling the present geography of the earth. It is said
that tremendous changes of levels, of hills and valleys, of the seas
and rivers, have taken place at every change in its short geologic
course of existence.


Lines of Development offered in the SECRET DOCTRINE 


The S D offers modern academics and science an ordered use of reasoned
analogy. Further, the origin of spiritual, psychical and physiological
mankind is a subject on which the clearest light will be found to be
shed. [S D Vol. II]   


Biological Reproduction

Modern biological science enables us to study the life history of the
physical man from ovum to maturity. It is noted that most of the
stages through which the physical development of the human race has
passed are recapitulated in the development of the fetus. It shows
living beings continue to use the primeval process of reproduction and
growth by division. The child, grows, emerges from the womb, becomes
physically equal to the parents and the parents do not die. From this
most simple type of reproduction, Nature still produces every form of
differentiation, in a process well regulated by evident internal Law,
it is also called budding.

We can see under the microscope a mass of new cells become a layer,
the layer divides into three. In them is laid the backbone and the
organic centers of life needed by the future being; blood vessels,
nerves and all the organs producing when fully attuned, the man-form
of matter. This is guided and defined by its astral model, which acts
from within as the formative mold of each human being.   


The Analogy of Racial Growth and Development

By analogy, in this way, the SECRET DOCTRINE shows how the human
"Races" in earlier Rounds and Globes, as well as this, the fourth
Round on Globe "D" originates (and continues to originate, materially)
from the magnetic and karmic power of its former Chhayas (shadows).

Humanity, arising in the First Race of the fourth Globe [D] of this,
the Fourth Round, some three hundred million years ago, according to
the SECRET DOCTRINE, constituted the "Race" named "the Sons of Will
and Yoga." This is group, also known of as the Agnishwatta Pitris -
are (and at that time were) those divine, spiritual beings -- the
"Fathers" and the "Instructors" of primordial mankind. [S D II 167].



"Fathers and Instructors of mankind"

And They continue in this function, ever watching over struggling
humanity, and all individual efforts to ascend to their condition and
position. 

["Nature has linked all parts of her Empire together by subtle threads
of magnetic sympathy, and, there is a mutual correlation even between
a star and a man; thought runs swifter than the electric fluid, and
your thought will find me if projected by a pure impulse, as mine will
find, has found, and often impressed your mind. Like the light in the
sombre valley seen by the mountaineer from his peaks, every bright
thought in your mind, my Brother, will sparkle and attract the
attention of your distant friend and correspondent.and it is our law
to approach every such an one if even there be but the feeblest
glimmer of the true "Tathagata" light within him." [ M L, pp. 267-8]


Substance and Astral material used in "forms"

Physically, men of the "First Race" [Globe D] were the "shadows of
Shadows;" they were shadows of the astral bodies of the Lunar Pitris,
that is, those Monads who were, as a host, considered to be our
"ancestors," representing the perfection of Lunar development. [S D
II 46, 86, 109, 112]

The "Moon-Chain of Globes" (of the previous Manvantara [S D I 155-6,
171-3] ) furnished the earth (its 'child') with its first human
"envelopes" - formless shadows -- derived from the astral forms of the
most advanced Monads from that early sphere (whose dead shell is the
Moon). The primeval form of man was an astral form, warmed into life
by Prana, the life essence, emanating from the interior Spiritual Sun
of each "Man."  

It took three and a half "Races" [on this, the Fourth Globe] to
perfect the "descent into matter" to its present, grossest point.
Mindless, speechless, bodiless, these senseless bhutas (phantoms),
were too ethereal to be percipient of, or affected by any convulsions
of Nature. Ages passed, and the material body grew denser and so,
today, our material body is condensed from its astral model. It is
taught that, at that time humanity was spiritually fireless,
practically deathless, they were luminous, incorporeal, aeriform,
mindless shadows.

The Lunar Pitris [fathers], divine in their spiritual nature, were
able to oversee, the natural development of forms to the end of the
Third Round. 

This almost inconceivable "First Race" passed on into the Second
without either begetting it, or procreating it, and without what we
call death. A thorough transformation occurred; as the ancient
records say, "they passed by together, they ceased and others took
their places."  

Regarding the "Second Race," whose denser forms gradually replaced
the shadowy forms used by the First Race, we should recall we are
viewing a period of the descent of the human "spiritual Principles"
into matter. It is taught: the First Men were spiritual within and
ethereal without; while the Second Race was Psycho-spiritual within,
and Ethero-physical without. These semi-human monsters reproduced
themselves by budding, gemmation, they were named the: "sweat born."
We are told there was no "death," only transformation, the older being
giving up its body to form newer beings, while it continued to exist
with them. This form of reproduction was asexual. At that time,
there was no principle of Kama, no will, nor "body of desire." These
forms were produced without thought or desire, unconsciously under
Karmic Law.

In the latest stages of the of the Second Race. We are told there
dawned the primitive, weak spark of understanding, and also sounds
began to be heard, sounds of a developing language were heard in tones
like the vowels, soft and fluent. [ S D II 199-200]

Passing from these glimpses of the first two races, we reach in the
Third Race a more concrete stage we passed through in the "form" of
humanity, and we obtain a deeper insight into the modes and progress
of physical and psycho-mental evolution.


Advent of the Mind

The Third Race [in time] is the most notable because its median period
produced the more perfect physical man, came to the period when, under
karma he received the "gift" of mind [Manas.] 

Mind, Consciousness; for the Lower Quaternary, as we know it in the
human being, was now linked with the Supernal Spiritual Immortal Triad
of Atma, Buddhi and the Higher Manas. Thus dawned
"Self-consciousness."

The Monad [Atma-Buddhi], instead of merely brooding over the lower
man, exhibited a more intimate connection with the earthly shell, and
inspired it (along with Kamic elements) to a state of consciousness of
its own nature and powers, and rendered possible the spiritual
aspirations of the personal life.  



Kama and Manas -- Links


Until then [in the "third Race"] there was no real death, until man
possessed Kama, the source of desire; and until Manas was seated in
the Septenary, the full effect of Karma could not appear, for moral
responsibility did not exist. Karmaless there was no Nirvana to
attain, no Kama Loka for the shell after death, no Devachanic
interlude of spiritual assimilation of the virtuous efforts made in
the previous life, and a peaceful rest.

But with Kama [instinct, passion, emotion, desire] and its excitement
prone tendencies to be controlled; and Manas evolving full
consciousness on the plane of physical life. Thus, moral virtue and
the higher aspirations became apparent, while as a contrast
selfishness, the desire to have and to hold, made for the emergence of
vice, sinfulness and shame. These disharmonies began to attract and
then meet with Karmic adjustment and punishment.  

By this impulse, nations drifted deeper into the illusions and
limitations of matter, and heavier became the faults of those who
chose the descending arc, and began to use degenerative moral
processes. These we are told, continued through the "Fourth Race"
when the most evil Karma was generated. 

Physically, we are taught, the "Third Race" exhibited a gradual change
of reproduction, passing from the Sweat Born to Ovulation. Then, from
a condition of androgyne being, development at last formed mankind
into entities with reproductive contrast. Human males and females
became distinct beings, and modern mankind arose -- and has so
continued through millions of years. 

Coincident with these changes, the body hardened, and all the internal
organs became more perfect. The forms were still massive, gigantic,
and the Secret Doctrine suggests somewhat ape-like. [S D I 187-9;
ii 185, 261-2]. Some of these changes are to be seen recapitulated in
foetal life. 

Coincident with sex development, the Kamic principle became dominant,
for when the reproduction had been by gemmation, budding, or
oviparous, it had been unconscious under the process of natural law.
With this change the promptings of the animal passions where now felt.

At the close of the Third Race we may perceive a vast change in the
constitution of man, in regard to his pristine state, in the "First
Race" at the opening of the Fourth Round. From an astral form, a
material body been condensed. Life energy [Prana] supported and
vivified by the addition of Kama, the principle of desire, love and
all the passions, made the perishable "Lower Quaternary" complete. The
eternal pilgrim of the Upper Triad broods yet over it [from within its
'prison'] but without union. [S D II 103, 243, 246-48, 585,]



End of Lemuria


The ages progressed, and we, then in the "Third Race" Lemuria, faced
its ending. It was destroyed by fire, subterranean convulsions broke
up the ocean floors, giving vent to the fires of the earth's interior.
Lemuria was in the main destroyed 700,000 years before the Tertiary
Period began.

Much later, its successor, Atlantis, was overwhelmed by floods
produced by disturbances of the axial rotation. We have still, it is
asserted, one link remaining with the ancient domain of Lemuria, the
islands of New Zealand and parts of southern California.

Old Hindu books mention Seven Groups of Pitris, or "Ancestors;" and
two distinct classes - those who possess the "Sacred Fire" and those
without it. The higher class are called the Agnishwatta Pitris, they
were devoid of creative energy, because too pure and divine.  

A lower class called the Barhishad Pitris, were possessed of creative
energy, these are Lunar spirits, who were devoid of the higher
Mahat-mic element and could not form a conscious divine man-god on
earth. This faculty, conscious divinity, the higher group, the
Agnishwatta Pitris could give. In the meantime, acting under Karma,
the Barhishad Pitris, did provide an astral form from which a human
body could be consolidated later on. 

The Agnishwatta Pitris, or Fire Dhyanis (The WISE), are the heart of
the Dhyan Chohanic Lodge, and it is they who, later on, incarnate in
the Third Race, bringing to them Manas, and by this link between the
higher and the lower principles, render Man a perfect septenary, as we
now know him. [S D II 167]


Fourth Round: Mind and Passion to be Controlled


The Monad, ATMA-BUDDHI, the Higher Man, is a Ray of the Universal
Monad, born of Mahat [Universal Mind Essence]. It brooded over this
spectral form, which, because of the absence of Manas was unconscious
on our plane, was only a senseless shell; a-manasa. The Higher Man
(Buddhi-Manas), was "afar off." The Mind, Manas, the Human Soul
(Kama-Manas), was still absent. The Kama -- passions -- were still
at rest.

The SECRET DOCTRINE shows how this Divine Triad [ATMA-BUDDHI-MANAS]
became, by the descent of Manas into the perfected animal man-form, to
occupy a closer connection with men of the Third Race [S D I 244-5;
II 79, 176]. The Eternal Pilgrims, the Monads are these Manas-putras
-- "sons of mind." 

The essential link in every Monad between Spirit and Matter remained
to be forged. Manas (the personal mind) and Kama (desires and
passions) had to be given time to assimilate one another, and
thereafter, to make conjoined progress. The Man-Monad of Mind,
self-controlled, and controlling the forces of inherent personal Kama,
needed to be evolved. This is our present stage. [S D II pp. 79-81,
93-96, 109-110]

In evolution, under Karmic law they have to pass through all
experiences to attain by self-induced choice to wisdom [S D I 534;
II 113, 134fn, 275fn]; and, thus, to pass up the steep path of the
spiritual cycle. These incarnate in the latter part of the Third
Race, and transformed the mindless into beings with minds and
"consciousness." With this advent the sure knowledge of good and evil
was instilled. Legend and myth tell us that some of the fully
developed Third Race became the first Divine Instructors of Mankind [S
D I 272-3], and the nations of the still later races looked back on
these superior beings as the demigods, the hero deities of a long ago
golden age.

Towards the end of this Third Race material progress grew. It was
ruled and taught by these divine beings. Civilizations originated,
cities and temples were founded; arts and sciences were cultivated.
The simple vowel sounds used by the last Second Race men developed,
and, in the Third Race, articulate speech began with mono-syllabic
utterances. [S D II 198-200]

Manas (the capacity to reason, think, proceed logically) is the link
between the Quaternary of lower principles and the divine Triad. It
was furnished by the Solar Pitris, the Divine Progenitors [S D II 94,
103, 164, 167, 243, 246-8, 585,] even as the original form was the
gift of the Lunar Pitris or progenitors. The three higher classes of
Arupa Pitris supervised this change. 

Many names have been given to these supernal beings: Agnishwatta,
celestial ancestors, Sishta, Fire Dhyanis, Solar Pitris, Lords of
Flame and the "Heart of the Dhyan Chohanic Body."

One-third of the Dhyanis, we are told by the Book of Dzyan, were
doomed by Karmic law to re-incarnate upon this earth before attaining
further perfection. [S D II 94, 246, 489, 585] 

They are also called in a mysterious manner the Fifth Hierarchy
presiding over Makara, the principality associated with the zodiacal
sign of Capricornus. These "projected the spark," that served to
impart Manas to the Amanasa, mindless shells of humanity. [S D I 233,
238, 246, 265, 275, 571; II 85] 

Incidentally, we are told some of those who had refrained from
incarnation hastened to do so and carry on their progress, and were
made by Karma to repent of their delay; they then incarnated in
human-kind - lest worse evil should befall the already defiled earthly
frames; and mankind recognized what had been the "sins" of the
"mindless." [S D II 180, 185, 191-2, 688-9]

These Third Race men may be viewed as forming three groups. In the
first the Lords of Flame who incarnated before the separation of the
sexes, i.e., in Androgyne or Hermaphrodite man. These included those
of whom ancient tradition speaks of as demigods, rishis, and heroes.

Secondly, the group of common humanity in each of whom a spark
entered, in the far distant past of eighteen million years, a spark of
Solar divinity, of mind, of intellect, conscious on our plane. [S D I
150fn; II 69, 249]

Thirdly, there were the mindless, who brought into the world much sin
and suffering, and strange forms of life; but who were later on joined
to the second group.

The Secret Doctrine is a vast storehouse of history and doctrine, and
its pages contain an explanation of many a myth.  

May we say in conclusion: We must remember that when a "race" or a
"group" or "tribes" are mentioned we are dealing with the physical
forms used by the immortal Egos of the Monads -- the Immortal Pilgrims
that we all are, and which are all developing together in a seemingly
chaotic combination of both cooperation and selfish isolation.  

Interlaced with these by Karma we will find and will also have to
distinguish between the Egoic (divine progress), which is to be
disentangled from the psycho-manasic level of self-conscious
development. 

The Atlantean Fourth Race arose while the Third faded into the past,
and a vast concourse of forgotten nations came upon the scene of time,
flourished and passed away. This caused an increasing separation
between the higher groups and the lower sub-races of the delayed
group; between the "sons of light," and the "progeny of darkness."
>From the "sons of light" were developed the nascent civilization of
Atlantis; from the low forms of Lemuria, reinforced by interbreeding
with the more degenerate of the Atlanteans, sprang series of races,
fitly comparable to and indeed forerunners of the savage races we now
know as Aboriginal Australians, certain wild tribes in China and
Borneo, Bushmen and Negritos. A number of tribes and remnants have
already disappeared. Some groups like the Polynesians and the
American "Indians" were been badly decimated.

Convulsions of nature made an end to Lemuria; and it is stated that
its sinking began at the most northerly part, proceeded to the
equatorial regions, and the last portion to disappear was adjacent to
Ceylon, the Lanka of the succeeding Atlantean continent. In these
profound changes of the earth's surface the Lemuro-Atlantean stock was
saved, as by a divine interposition, by a Manu, a Noah: this
substitution of a Fourth Race for a Third destroyed by a deluged
world, is the foundation of such myths of the Chaldeans, of Genesis,
and the Hindu Vaivasvata; a salvation, similarly repeated, millions of
years later, when the Fourth Race was replaced by the Fifth after
similar convulsions and a deluged world.

The future, we are told, leads us all to a "Moment of Choice" [S D I
247, 265; II 149, 249, 261, 300-1; M L p. 47] where each member of
humanity has to choose whether it will continue its evolution
spiritually, in harmony with brotherly cooperation, justice, and mercy
for all -- compassion, is the right word. Each individual is now
engaged in making this momentous determination. 

Looking at S D I 200, we see that GLOBE D leads up to Globes E,
F, and G in an ascending arc. If we refer to The VOICE OF THE
SILENCE, we find in Fragment III (pp. 52-3) that these Globes
correspond to the last 3 Paramitas:

VIRYA (dauntless energy that fights its way to the supernal truth out
of the mire of lies terrestrial); 

DHYANA (whose golden gate leads the Narjol towards the realm of Sat
eternal and its ceaseless contemplation} and, [Narjol -- see Gloss:
pp 188, 225, 381]

PRAJNA (the key which makes of a man a God, creating him a
Bodhisattva, son of the Dhyanis.)

Those who are intuitive may draw from this a concept, a vision of what
lies in store for each of us, if we will only "TRY."

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Dallas