“ Our science shows that the globe has passed through five distinct geological phases, each characterized by a different stratum, and these are in reverse order, beginning with the last: 1, The Quaternary period, in which man appears as a certainty; 2, The Tertiary period, in which he may have appeared; 3, Secondary period, that of gigantic saurian, the Megalosaurus, icthyosaurus, and plesiosaurus – no vestige of man; 4, The Palaeozoic period, that of gigantic crustacea; 5 (or first), The Azoic period, during which science asserts organic life had not yet appeared. And there is no possibility that there was a period, and several periods, when man existed, and yet was not an organic being – therefore could not have left any vestige of himself for exact science? Spirit leaves no skeletons or fossils behind, and yet few are the men on earth who doubt that man can live both objectively and subjectively.
At all events the theology of the Brahmans, hoary with antiquity, and which divides the formative periods of the earth into four ages, and places between each of these, a lapse of 1,728,000 years, far more agrees with official science and modern discovery than the absurd chronological notions promulgated by the Councils of Nice and Trent. The names of the patriarchs were not Hebrew, though they may have been Hebraized later; they are evidently of Assyrian or Aryan origin.
Thus, Adam, for instance, stands in the explained Kabala as a convertible term, and applies nearly to every other patriarch, as every Sephiroth to each Sephira, and vice versa. Adam, Cain, and Abel, form the first triad of the twelve. They correspond in the Sephiral tree to the Crown, Wisdom, and Intelligence; and in astrology to the three trigons – the fiery, the earthy, and the airy; which fact, were we allowed to devote more space than we have to its elucidation, would perhaps show that astrology deserves the name of science as well as any other. Adam (Kadmon) or Aries (ram) is identical with the Egyptian ram-headed god Amun, fabricating man on the potter’s wheel. His duplication, therefore, or the Adam of dust – is also Aries, Amon, when standing at the head of his generations, for he fabricates mortals also in “his own likeness”.
In astrology the planet Jupiter is connected with the “first house” (Aries). The color of Jupiter, as seen in the “stages of the seven spheres”, on the tower of Borsippa, or Birs Nimrud, was red; and in Hebrew Adam means אֱדֹם “red” as well as “man”. The Hindu god Agni, who presides at the sign of Pisces, next to that of Aries in their relation to the twelve months (February and March), is painted of a deep red color, with two faces (male and female), three legs, and seven arms; the whole forming the number twelve. So also, Noah (Pisces), who appears in the generations as the twelfth patriarch, counting Cain and Abel, is Adam again under another name, for he is the forefather of a new race of mankind; and with his “three sons”, one bad, one good, and one partaking of both qualities, is the terrestrial reflection of the super-terrestrial Adam and his three sons. Agni is represented mounted on a ram, with a tiara, surmounted by a cross.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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