Category: Anthropogenesis

"16.    HOW ARE THE (REAL) MANUSHYAS BORN? THE MANUS WITH MINDS, HOW ARE THEY MADE? THE FATHERS (BARHISHAD) CALL TO THEIR HELP THEIR OWN FIRE (THE KAVYAVAHANA, ELECTRIC FIRE), WHICH IS THE FIRE WHICH BURNS IN EARTH.   THE SPIRIT OF THE EARTH CALLED TO HIS HELP THE SOLAR FIRE (SUCHI, THE SPIRIT IN [...]

"15.    SEVEN TIMES SEVEN SHADOWS (CHHA YAS) OF FUTURE MEN (OR AMANASAS) WERE (THUS) BORN, EACH OF HIS OWN COLOR (COMPLEXION) AND KIND.  EACH (ALSO) INFERIOR TO HIS FATHER (CREATOR).  THE FATHERS, THE BONELESS, COULD GIVE NO LIFE TO BEINGS WITH BONES.  THEIR PROGENY WERE BHUTA (PHANTOMS) WITH NEITHER FORM NOR MIND, THEREFORE THEY [...]

"(14.   Creation of men.  15. They are empty shadows.  16. The Creators are perplexed how to create a THINKING man.  17. What is needed for the formation of a perfect Man.)   14.    THE SEVEN HOSTS, THE "WILL (OR MIND-BORN)" LORDS, PROPELLED BY THE SPIRIT OF LIFE-GIVING (FOHAT), SEPARATE MEN FROM THEMSELVES, EACH ON [...]

"13.    THEY (THE MOON-GODS) WENT, EACH ON HIS ALLOTTED LAND;  SEVEN OF THEM, EACH ON HIS LOT.  THE LORD OF THE FLAME REMAINED BEHIND.  THEY WOULD NOT GO, THEY WOULD NOT CREATE.   The Secret teachings show the divine Progenitors creating men on seven portions of the "globe" each on his lot - i.e., [...]

"(11.   The Descent of the Demiurge.   12. The lunar gods ordered to create.   13. The higher refuse.)   11.    THE LORD OF THE LORDS CAME. FROM HER BODY HE SEPARATED THE WATERS, AND THAT WAS HEAVEN ABOVE, THE FIRST HEAVEN (THE ATMOSPHERE, OR THE AIR, THE FIRMAMENT).     12.    THE GREAT CHOHANS [...]

"9.    MOTHER-WATER, THE GREAT SEA, WEPT. SHE AROSE, SHE DISAPPEARED IN THE MOON, WHICH HAD LIFTED HER, WHICH HAD GIVEN HER BIRTH.   The Moon is far older than the Earth; and it is the latter which owes its being to the former, however astronomy and geology may explain the fact.   Hence, the [...]

"7.    DISPLEASED THEY WERE. OUR FLESH IS NOT THERE (THEY SAID). THIS IS NOT FIT RUPA FOR OUR BROTHERS OF THE FIFTH. NO DWELLINGS FOR THE  LIVES. PURE WATERS, NOT TURBID, THEY MUST DRINK. LET US DRY THEM (THE WATERS).     8.    THE FLAMES CAME. THE FIRES WITH THE SPARKS; THE NIGHT FIRES AND THE DAY [...]

"6.    THE WATERMEN TERRIBLE AND BAD SHE HERSELF CREATED.   FROM THE REMAINS OF OTHERS (FROM THE MINERAL, VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL REMAINS), FROM THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD (ROUNDS), SHE FORMED THEM.   THE DHYANI CAME AND LOOKED....THE DHYANI FROM THE BRIGHT FATHER-MOTHER, FROM THE WHITE (SOLAR-LUNAR) REGIONS THEY CAME, FROM THE ABODES OF [...]

"(5.    After enormous periods the Earth creates monsters.  6. The "Creators" are displeased.  7. They dry the Earth.  8. The forms are destroyed by them.  9. The first great tides.  10. The beginning of incrustation.)   5.    THE WHEELS WHIRLED FOR THIRTY CRORES (OF YEARS, OR 300,000,000).   IT CONSTRUCTED RUPAS (FORMS).  SOFT [...]

"4.    AND AFTER GREAT THROES SHE (THE EARTH) CAST OFF HER OLD THREE AND PUT ON HER NEW SEVEN SKINS, AND STOOD IN HER FIRST ONE.   The Earth is said to cast off her old three skins, because this refers to the three preceding Rounds she has already passed through, the present being [...]