“(28. How the first mammals were produced. 29. A quasi-Darwinian evolution. 30. The animals get solid bodies. 31. Their separation into sexes. 32. The first sin of the mindless men.)
28. FROM THE DROPS OF SWEAT; FROM THE RESIDUE OF THE SUBSTANCE; MATTER FROM DEAD BODIES AND ANIMALS OF THE WHEEL BEFORE (PREVIOUS, THIRD ROUND); AND FROM CAST-OFF DUST; THE FIRST ANIMALS (OF THIS ROUND) WERE PRODUCED.
The Occult doctrine maintains that, in this Round, the mammalians were a later work of evolution than man.
29. ANIMALS WITH BONES, DRAGONS OF THE DEEP AND FLYING SARPAS (SERPENTS) WERE ADDED TO THE CREEPING THINGS. THEY THAT CREEP ON THE GROUND GOT WINGS. THEY OF THE LONG NECKS IN THE WATER BECAME THE PROGENITORS OF THE FOWLS OF THE AIR.
30. DURING THE THIRD (RACE), THE BONELESS ANIMALS GREW AND CHANGED; THEY BECAME ANIMALS WITH BONES, THEIR CHHAYAS BECAME SOLID (ALSO).
Vertebrates, and after that mammalians. Before that the animals were also ethereal proto-organisms, just as man was.
31. THE ANIMALS SEPARATED THE FIRST (INTO MALE AND FEMALE). THEY (THE ANIMALS) BEGAN TO BREED. THE TWOFOLD MAN (THEN) SEPARATED ALSO. HE (MAN) SAID: “LET US AS THEY; LET US UNITE AND MAKE CREATURES.” THEY DID.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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