Stanza VI, Sloka 5
5. At the fourth, the sons are told to create their images. One third refuses – to obey.
The curse is pronounced; they will be born on the fourth suffer and cause suffering; this is the first war.
“Mr. B. Keightley: You say in The Secret Doctrine that only when the first or highest class of the monads leave the last globe of the lunar chain, that is the moment of death of the first globe.
Mme. Blavatsky: That is what I say; It is all explained there.
Mr. Mead: Yes, but I don’t understand it.
Mme. Blavatsky: What don’t you understand there?
Mr. Mead: The first class on the Lunar chain have passed off the whole of the lunar planetary chain into a Laya centre, have not they?
Mme. Blavatsky: I beg your pardon; the monads go when the globes are ready.
Mr. B. Keightley: The monads are not the principles of the globe.
Mr. Old: Is it stated how long since the Moon ceased to give off monads to the Earth?
Mme. Blavatsky: I could not tell you. You are a mathematician: reckon. I cannot tell you, because they don’t give the correct figures at all; they say simply it is 300,000,000 of years since life appeared on this Earth, and there they stop.
I speak to you about the Hindu chronology, and then they leave you to whistle and infer for yourselves. They won’t give it to you. Mr. Sinnett tried it several times and he met a Chinese wall. You must go by the Brahmanical calculation, and it gives a Manvantara of fifteen figures. It gives it to you certainly quite correctly. It is given in the second volume.
Everything is given – how long it is since the universe was evolved; how long it is that such and such a thing happened; how many years the Manvantara consisted of, and the Pralaya, and when the Manu period was. It is 18,000,000 of years – that is to say, 18,000,000 of years is given to the appearance of the real man, and not the Chhaya.
It begins, therefore, in the Fourth Round – or rather, in the middle of the Fourth {Third, see S.D. I:46} Race. This is when they begin their 18,000,000 of years, so you may count. Our Fifth Race is a million of years; take into consideration, if you please, that there are several kinds of Pralaya, that Pralaya is not only that which you think, when everything is dissolved and disappears.
There are several kinds of Pralayas, and unless you learn all these, it is very easy for you in reading the Vishnu Purana to take one Pralaya for another. And they don’t go to the trouble of qualifying the Pralayas, and they let you lose yourselves as much as you like. That was always a game of the priests.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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