stanza 6, sloka 4

Stanza VI

4. He builds them in the likeness of older wheels, placing them on the Imperishable Centres.

How does Fohat build them? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life thereinto, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus acts Fohat from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities.”

 

 

“Mr. B. Keightley:  What I want to get at is, look at the population of the Earth now: The population of the Earth then was very much greater. It follows that a large number of the Monads which were then on Earth at the Atlantean period, incarnated, are still in Devachan.

 
Mr. Sinnett:  I don’t think it necessarily follows. Assume for the moment that a Devachanic period was 200 years, instead of 2,000. The change from a condition of things in which there were simply 200 years spent, to a condition in which you have 2,000 spent, would reduce the population to a tenth of what it was, without giving any Monad a period of longer than 2,000 years.

 
Mr. Kingsland:  That is to say, the general period then was shorter than the general period is now.

 
Mr. Yates:  That explains that so many of the greatest nations of the world have been very small in number.

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  We had last time a very interesting thing about the planets, and I think Dr. Berridge (homeopathic physician) was very much interested. It was all about planets and stars and astronomy in their astronomical bearing.

 
Mr. Sinnett:  Taking the chimpanzees, the chimpanzee monad would be a more advanced creature than some of the human savages, for he belongs to the Fourth Race, and the savages belong to others.

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  If you took the savage and brought him up as a chimpanzee, he would develop intellect just as much as a chimpanzee. It is because they remain there, entirely shut out from all civilization or anything to see, that they are ignorant.

 
And the chimpanzee, when we take him, he sees the world, he lives in cultured localities, and so on, and becomes very intelligent; so would the poor savage be.

 
Mind you, the savages will be more intelligent in the Sixth Race than these are now. I don’t think we shall have one soon remaining from the old race; they are all dying out. I mean the direct ones, such as the flat-headed Australians were.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky