Category: Anthropogenesis

"49.   THE "SERPENTS" WHO REDESCENDED, WHO MADE PEACE WITH THE FIFTH (RACE), WHO TAUGHT AND INSTRUCTED IT.   Our Fifth Root-Race has already been in existence - as a race sui generis and quite free from its parent stem - about 1,000,000 years.   Occult philosophy teaches that even now, under our very eyes, the [...]

"(47.   The remnants of the first two races disappear forever.  Groups of the various Atlantean races saved from the Deluge along with the Forefathers of the fifth.   48.    The origins of our present Race, the Fifth. The first divine Dynasties.   49.    The earliest glimmerings in History, now pinned to the allegorical chronology of [...]

"45.   THE FIRST GREAT WATERS CAME.  THEY SWALLOWED THE SEVEN GREAT ISLANDS.   The secret teachings show that the "Deluge" overtook the Fourth, giant Race, not on account of their depravity, or because they had become "black with sin", but simply because such is the fate of every continent, which - like everything else under [...]

"44.   THEY (THE ATLANTEANS) BUILT GREAT IMAGES, NINE YATIS HIGH (27 FEET) - THE SIZE OF THEIR BODIES.  INNER FIRES HAD DESTROYED THE LAND OF THEIR FATHERS (THE LEMURIANS).  WATER THREATENED THE FOURTH (RACE).   We are told that it is after the destruction of "Lemuria" by subterranean fires that men went on steadily decreasing [...]

"(43.  The Lemuro-Atlanteans build cities and spread civilization. The incipient stage of anthropomorphism.  44.  Their statues, witnesses to the size of the Lemuro-Atlanteans.   Lemuria destroyed by fire.  45.  Atlantis by water. The Flood.  46.  The destruction of the Fourth Race and of the last antediluvian monster animals.)   43.   THEY (THE LEMURIANS) BUILT HUGE CITIES.  [...]

"42.   THEY BUILT TEMPLES FOR THE HUMAN BODY. MALE AND FEMALE THEY WORSHIPED.  THEN THE THIRD EYE ACTED NO LONGER.   This is the beginning of a worship which, ages later, was doomed to degenerate into phallicism and sexual worship. It began by the worship of the human body and ended by that of its [...]

"40.   THEN THE THIRD AND FOURTH (RACES) BECAME TALL WITH PRIDE.  WE ARE THE KINGS, IT WAS SAID; WE ARE THE GODS.   At the dawn of his consciousness, the man of the Third Root-Race had thus no beliefs that could be called religion.   It was the "Golden Age" in those days of old, [...]

"39.   THE FIRST (RACE) ON EVERY ZONE WAS MOON-COLORED (YELLOW-WHITE); THE SECOND, YELLOW, LIKE GOLD;  THE THIRD, RED;  THE FOURTH, BROWN, WHICH BECAME BLACK WITH SIN.   (Strictly speaking, it is only from the time of the Atlantean, brown and yellow giant Races, that one ought to speak of MAN, since it was the Fourth Race [...]

"(38.  The birth of the Fourth Race, Atlantean Race.   39.  The sub-races of the Fourth Humanity begin to divide and interblend; they form the first mixed races of various colors.   40.  The superiority of the Atlantean over other races.   41.  The fall into sin and beget children and monsters.   42.  The first germs of Anthropomorphism [...]

"36.   THE FOURTH RACE DEVELOPED SPEECH.   The Commentaries explain that the First Race - the ethereal or astral Sons of Yoga, also called "Self-born" - was, in our sense, speechless, as it was devoid of mind on our plane.   The Second Race had a "Sound-language", to wit, chant-like sounds composed of vowels alone. [...]