Category: Anthropogenesis

"(33.  The creators repent.  34.  They atone for their neglect.  35.  Men become endowed with minds.  36.  The Fourth Race develops perfect speech.  37.  Every androgynous unit is separated and becomes bisexual.)   33.    SEEING WHICH (THE SIN COMMITTED WITH THE ANIMALS), THE LHAS (THE SPIRITS, THE "SONS OF WISDOM") WHO HAD NOT BUILT [...]

"32.    AND THOSE WHICH HAD NO SPARK (THE "NARROW-BRAINED") TOOK HUGE SHE-ANIMALS UNTO THEM.  THEY BEGAT UPON THE DUMB RACES.  DUMB THEY WERE (THE "NARROW-BRAINED") THEMSELVES.  BUT THEIR TONGUES UNITED. THE TONGUES OF THEIR PROGENY REMAINED STILL.  MONSTERS THEY BRED.  A RACE OF CROOKED, RED-HAIR COVERED MONSTERS, GOING ON ALL FOURS.  A DUMB RACE, [...]

"(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, [...]

"25.   HOW DID THE MANASA, THE SONS OF WISDOM ACT?  THEY REJECTED THE SELF-BORN (THE BONELESS).  THEY ARE NOT READY.  THEY SPURNED THE (FIRST) SWEAT-BORN.  THEY ARE NOT QUITE READY.  THEY WOULD NOT ENTER THE (FIRST) EGG-BORN.   To a Theist or a Christian this verse would suggest a rather theological idea:  that of the [...]

"(24.  The higher creators reject in their pride the forms evolved by the "Sons of Yoga".   25. They will not incarnate in the early "Egg-Born".   26. They select the later androgynes.    27.   The first man endowed with mind.)   24.   THE SONS OF WISDOM, THE SONS OF NIGHT (ISSUED FROM THE BODY OF BRAHMA [...]

"23.   THE SELF-BORN WERE THE CHHAYAS, THE SHADOWS FROM THE BODIES OF THE SONS OF TWILIGHT. NEITHER WATER NOR FIRE COULD DESTROY THEM. THEIR SONS WERE (SO DESTROYED).   The First Root-Race, the "Shadows" of the Progenitors, could not be injured, or destroyed by death. Being so ethereal and so little human in constitution, they [...]

"(22.  The evolution of the three races continued.  23. The Second Race create the Third and perishes.)   22.    THEN THE SECOND EVOLVED THE EGG-BORN, THE THIRD (RACE). THE SWEAT GREW, ITS DROPS GREW, AND THE DROPS BECAME HARD AND ROUND. THE SUN WARMED IT; THE MOON COOLED AND SHAPED IT; THE WIND FED [...]

"20.    THEIR FATHERS WERE THE SELF-BORN. THE SELF-BORN, THE CHHAYA FROM THE BRILLIANT BODIES OF THE LORDS, THE FATHERS, THE SONS OF TWILIGHT.   The "shadows", or Chhayas, are called the sons of the "self-born", as the latter name is applied to all the gods and Beings born through the WILL, whether of Deity [...]

"(18.  The Sons of Yoga.  19. The Sexless Second Race.  20. The Sons of the Sons of Twilight.  21. The "Shadow", or Astral Man, retires within, and man develops a physical body.)   18.   THE FIRST RACE WERE THE SONS OF YOGA. THEIR SONS, THE CHILDREN OF THE YELLOW FATHER AND THE WHITE MOTHER.   [...]

"17.    THE BREATH (HUMAN MONAD) NEEDED A FORM; THE FATHERS GAVE IT.   THE BREATH NEEDED A GROSS BODY; THE EARTH MOLDED IT.   THE BREATH NEEDED THE SPIRIT OF LIFE; THE SOLAR LHAS BREATHED IT INTO ITS FORM.    THE BREATH NEEDED A MIRROR OF ITS BODY (ASTRAL SHADOW); "WE GAVE IT OUR OWN", SAID [...]