i-6-1. BY THE POWER OF THE MOTHER OF MERCY AND KNOWLEDGE — KWAN-YIN — THE “TRIPLE” OF KWAN-SHAI-YIN, RESIDING IN KWAN-YIN-TIEN, FOHAT, THE BREATH OF THEIR PROGENY, THE SON OF THE SONS, [CALLS UPON], FROM THE LOWER ABYSS, THE ILLUSIVE FORM OF SIEN-TCHANG AND THE SEVEN ELEMENTS.

i-6-2. THE SWIFT AND RADIANT ONE PRODUCES THE SEVEN LAYA CENTRES, AGAINST WHICH NONE WILL PREVAIL TO THE GREAT DAY “BE-WITH-US,” AND SEATS THE UNIVERSE ON THESE ETERNAL FOUNDATIONS, SURROUNDING TSIEN-TCHAN WITH THE ELEMENTARY GERMS.

i-6-3. OF THE SEVEN — FIRST ONE MANIFESTED, SIX CONCEALED, TWO MANIFESTED, FIVE CONCEALED; THREE MANIFESTED, FOUR CONCEALED; FOUR PRODUCED, THREE HIDDEN; FOUR AND ONE TSAN REVEALED, TWO AND ONE HALF CONCEALED; SIX TO BE MANIFESTED, ONE LAID ASIDE. LASTLY, SEVEN SMALL WHEELS REVOLVING; ONE GIVING BIRTH TO THE OTHER.

i-6-4. HE BUILDS THEM IN THE LIKENESS OF OLDER WHEELS, PLACING THEM ON THE IMPERISHABLE CENTERS.

HOW DOES FOHAT BUILD THEM? HE COLLECTS THE FIERY DUST. HE MAKES BALLS OF FIRE, RUNS THROUGH THEM, AND ROUND THEM, INFUSING LIFE THEREINTO,THEN SETS THEM INTO MOTION; SOME ONE WAY, SOME THE OTHER WAY. THEY ARE COLD, HE MAKES THEM HOT. THEY ARE DRY, HE MAKES THEM MOIST. THEY SHINE, HE FANS AND COOLS THEM. THUS ACTS FOHAT FROM ONE TWILIGHT TO THE OTHER, DURING SEVEN ETERNITIES. .


i-6-5. AT THE FOURTH, THE SONS ARE TOLD TO CREATE THEIR IMAGES. ONE THIRD REFUSES — TWO [THIRDS] OBEY.

THE CURSE IS PRONOUNCED; THEY WILL BE BORN ON THE FOURTH [RACE], SUFFER AND CAUSE SUFFERING; THIS IS THE FIRST WAR.


i-6-6. THE OLDER WHEELS ROTATED DOWNWARDS AND UPWARDS. . . . THE MOTHER'S SPAWN FILLED THE WHOLE [KOSMOS]. THERE WERE BATTLES FOUGHT BETWEEN THE CREATORS AND THE DESTROYERS, AND BATTLES FOUGHT FOR SPACE; THE SEED APPEARING AND RE-APPEARING CONTINUOUSLY.

i-6-7. MAKE THY CALCULATIONS, LANOO, IF THOU WOULDEST LEARN THE CORRECT AGE OF THY SMALL WHEEL [CHAIN]. ITS FOURTH SPOKE IS OUR MOTHER [EARTH]. REACH THE FOURTH "FRUIT" OF THE FOURTH PATH OF KNOWLEDGE THAT LEADS TO NIRVANA, AND THOU SHALT COMPREHEND, FOR THOU SHALT SEE . . . . .

i-7-1. BEHOLD THE BEGINNING OF SENTIENT FORMLESS LIFE.

FIRST THE DIVINE [VEHICLE], THE ONE FROM THE MOTHER-SPIRIT [ATMAN]; THEN THE SPIRITUAL [ATMA-BUDDHI]; THE THREE FROM THE ONE, THE FOUR FROM THE ONE, AND THE FIVE FROM WHICH [EMERGE] THE THREE, THE FIVE, AND THE SEVEN. THESE ARE THE THREE-FOLD, THE FOUR-FOLD DOWNWARD; THE "MIND-BORN" SONS OF THE FIRST LORD; THE SHINING SEVEN.

IT IS THEY WHO ARE THOU, ME, HIM, OH LANOO. THEY, WHO WATCH OVER THEE, AND THY MOTHER, BHUMI [EARTH].

i-7-2. THE ONE RAY MULTIPLIES THE SMALLER RAYS. LIFE PRECEDES FORM, AND LIFE SURVIVES THE LAST ATOM OF FORM. THROUGH THE COUNTLESS RAYS PROCEEDS THE LIFE-RAY, THE ONE, LIKE A THREAD THROUGH MANY JEWELS.

i-7-3. WHEN THE ONE BECOMES TWO, THE THREEFOLD APPEARS, AND THE THREE ARE ONE; AND IT IS OUR THREAD, OH LANOO, THE HEART OF THE MAN-PLANT CALLED SAPTAPARNA.

i-7-4. IT IS THE ROOT THAT NEVER DIES; THE THREE-TONGUED FLAME OF THE FOUR WICKS. THE WICKS ARE THE SPARKS, THAT DRAW FROM THE THREE-TONGUED FLAME SHOT OUT BY THE SEVEN — THEIR FLAME — THE BEAMS AND SPARKS OF ONE MOON REFLECTED IN THE RUNNING WAVES OF ALL THE RIVERS OF EARTH.

i-7-5. THE SPARK HANGS FROM THE FLAME BY THE FINEST THREAD OF FOHAT. IT JOURNEYS THROUGH THE SEVEN WORLDS OF MAYA. IT STOPS IN THE FIRST [KINGDOM], AND IS A METAL AND A STONE; IT PASSES INTO THE SECOND [KINGDOM] AND BEHOLD — A PLANT; THE PLANT WHIRLS THROUGH SEVEN CHANGES AND BECOMES A SACRED ANIMAL.

FROM THE COMBINED ATTRIBUTES OF THESE, MANU [MAN], THE THINKER IS FORMED. WHO FORMS HIM? THE SEVEN LIVES, AND THE ONE LIFE. WHO COMPLETES HIM? THE FIVE-FOLD LHA. AND WHO PERFECTS THE LAST BODY? FISH, SIN, AND SOMA [THE MOON]. . . . .

i-7-6. FROM THE FIRST-BORN THE THREAD BETWEEN THE SILENT WATCHER AND HIS SHADOW BECOMES MORE STRONG AND RADIANT WITH EVERY CHANGE [REINCARNATION]. THE MORNING SUN-LIGHT HAS CHANGED INTO NOON-DAY GLORY. . . . .

i-7-7. THIS IS THY PRESENT WHEEL, SAID THE FLAME TO THE SPARK. THOU ART MYSELF, MY IMAGE, AND MY SHADOW. I HAVE CLOTHED MYSELF IN THEE, AND THOU ART MY VAHAN [VEHICLE] TO THE DAY, "BE WITH US," WHEN THOU SHALT RE-BECOME MYSELF AND OTHERS, THYSELF AND ME. THEN THE BUILDERS, HAVING DONNED THEIR FIRST CLOTHING, DESCEND ON RADIANT EARTH AND REIGN OVER MEN — WHO ARE THEMSELVES.

ii-1-1. THE LHA WHICH TURNS THE FOURTH (Globe, or our Earth) IS SUBSERVIENT TO THE LHA(S) OF THE SEVEN (the planetary Spirits), THEY WHO REVOLVE, DRIVING THEIR CHARIOTS AROUND THEIR LORD, THE ONE EYE. HIS BREATH GAVE LIFE TO THE SEVEN (gives light to the planets); IT GAVE LIFE TO THE FIRST. “THEY ARE ALL DRAGONS OF WISDOM,” adds the Commentary.


ii-1-2. SAID THE EARTH: —

      “LORD OF THE SHINING FACE (the Sun); MY HOUSE IS EMPTY . . . . SEND THY SONS TO PEOPLE THIS WHEEL (Earth). THOU HAST SENT THY SEVEN SONS TO THE LORD OF WISDOM. SEVEN TIMES DOTH HE SEE THEE NEARER TO HIMSELF, SEVEN TIMES MORE DOTH HE FEEL THEE. THOU HAST FORBIDDEN THY SERVANTS, THE SMALL RINGS, TO CATCH THY LIGHT AND HEAT, THY GREAT BOUNTY TO INTERCEPT ON ITS PASSAGE. SEND NOW TO THY SERVANT THE SAME.”

“I SHALL SEND THEE A FIRE WHEN THY WORK IS COMMENCED. RAISE THY VOICE TO OTHER LOKAS; APPLY TO THY FATHER, THE LORD OF THE LOTUS (Kumuda-Pati), FOR HIS SONS . . . . THY PEOPLE SHALL BE UNDER THE RULE OF THE FATHERS (Pitri-pati). THY MEN SHALL BE MORTALS. THE MEN OF THE LORD OF WISDOM (Budha, Mercury), NOT THE LUNAR SONS, ARE IMMORTAL. CEASE THY COMPLAINTS. THY SEVEN SKINS ARE YET ON THEE . . . . THOU ART NOT READY. THY MEN ARE NOT READY.”

ii-2-5. THE WHEEL WHIRLED FOR THIRTY CRORES MORE (of years, or 300,000,000). IT CONSTRUCTED RUPAS (forms): SOFT STONES THAT HARDENED (minerals); HARD PLANTS THAT SOFTENED (vegetation). VISIBLE FROM INVISIBLE, INSECTS AND SMALL LIVES. SHE SHOOK THEM OFF HER BACK WHENEVER THEY OVERRAN THE MOTHER.

      ....AFTER THIRTY CRORES SHE TURNED ROUND. SHE LAY ON HER BACK; ON HER SIDE . . . SHE WOULD CALL NO SONS OF HEAVEN, SHE WOULD ASK NO SONS OF WISDOM. SHE CREATED FROM HER OWN BOSOM. SHE EVOLVED WATER-MEN, TERRIBLE AND BAD.


ii-2-6. THE WATER-MEN TERRIBLE AND BAD SHE HERSELF CREATED FROM THE REMAINS OF OTHERS (from the mineral, vegetable and animal remains), FROM THE DROSS AND SLIME OF HER 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 THE IMMORTAL MORTALS.


ii-2-7. DISPLEASED THEY WERE. OUR FLESH IS NOT THERE (they said). NOT FIT RUPAS FOR OUR BROTHERS OF THE FIFTH. NO DWELLINGS FOR THE LIVES. PURE WATERS, NOT TURBID, THEY MUST DRINK. LET US DRY THEM (the waters).


ii-2-8. THE FLAMES CAME. THE FIRES WITH THE SPARKS; THE NIGHT FIRES AND THE DAY FIRES. THEY DRIED OUT THE TURBID DARK WATERS. WITH THEIR HEAT THEY QUENCHED THEM. THE LHAS OF THE HIGH, THE LHAMAYIN OF BELOW, CAME. THEY SLEW THE FORMS WHICH WERE TWO- AND FOUR-FACED. THEY FOUGHT THE GOAT-MEN, AND THE DOG-HEADED MEN, AND THE MEN WITH FISHES' BODIES.


ii-2-9. MOTHER-WATER, THE GREAT SEA, WEPT. SHE AROSE, SHE DISAPPEARED IN THE MOON WHICH HAD LIFTED HER, WHICH HAD GIVEN HER BIRTH.


ii-2-10. WHEN THEY (the Rupas) WERE DESTROYED, MOTHER-EARTH REMAINED BARE. SHE ASKED TO BE DRIED.

ii-3-11. 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).


ii-3-12. THE GREAT CHOHANS (Lords): CALLED THE LORDS OF THE MOON, OF THE AIRY BODIES. “BRING FORTH MEN, (they were told), MEN OF YOUR NATURE. GIVE THEM (i.e., the Jivas or Monads) THEIR FORMS WITHIN. SHE (Mother Earth or Nature): WILL BUILD COVERINGS WITHOUT (external bodies). (For): MALES-FEMALES WILL THEY BE. LORDS OF THE FLAME ALSO . . . . ”


ii-3-13. THEY WENT EACH ON HIS ALLOTTED LAND: SEVEN OF THEM EACH ON HIS LOT. THE LORDS OF THE FLAME REMAIN BEHIND. THEY WOULD NOT GO, THEY WOULD NOT CREATE.

ii-4-14. THE SEVEN HOSTS, THE “WILL (or Mind)-BORN LORDS,” PROPELLED BY THE SPIRIT OF LIFE-GIVING (Fohat), SEPARATE MEN FROM THEMSELVES, EACH ON HIS OWN ZONE.


ii-4-15. SEVEN TIMES SEVEN SHADOWS (chhayas) 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 ARE CALLED THE CHHAYA (image or shadow) RACE.


ii-4-16. HOW ARE THE (real) MANUSHYA BORN? THE MANUS WITH MINDS, HOW ARE THEY MADE? THE FATHERS (Barhishad (?) ) CALLED TO THEIR HELP THEIR OWN FIRE (the Kavyavahana, electric fire); WHICH IS THE FIRE THAT BURNS IN EARTH. THE SPIRIT OF THE EARTH CALLED TO HIS HELP THE SOLAR FIRE (Suchi, the spirit in the Sun). THESE THREE (the Pitris and the two fires) PRODUCED IN THEIR JOINT EFFORTS A GOOD RUPA. IT (the form) COULD STAND, WALK, RUN, RECLINE, OR FLY. YET IT WAS STILL BUT A CHHAYA, A SHADOW WITH NO SENSE . . . .


ii-4-17. THE BREATH NEEDED A FORM; THE FATHERS GAVE IT. THE BREATH NEEDED A GROSS BODY; THE EARTH MOULDED IT. THE BREATH NEEDED THE SPIRIT OF LIFE; THE SOLAR LHAS BREATHED IT INTO ITS FORM. THE BREATH NEEDED A MIRROR OF ITS BODY;

      “WE GAVE IT OUR OWN,” SAID THE DHYANIS.

      THE BREATH NEEDED A VEHICLE OF DESIRES; “IT HAS IT,” SAID THE DRAINER OF WATERS.

      BUT BREATH NEEDS A MIND TO EMBRACE THE UNIVERSE; “WE CANNOT GIVE THAT,” SAID THE FATHERS.

      “I NEVER HAD IT,” SAID THE SPIRIT OF THE EARTH.

      “THE FORM WOULD BE CONSUMED WERE I TO GIVE IT MINE,” SAID THE GREAT FIRE . . . .

      MAN REMAINED AN EMPTY SENSELESS BHUTA . . . . THUS HAVE THE BONELESS GIVEN LIFE TO THOSE WHO BECAME MEN WITH BONES IN THE THIRD.

ii-5-18. THE FIRST (Race) WERE THE SONS OF YOGA. THEIR SONS THE CHILDREN OF THE YELLOW FATHER AND THE WHITE MOTHER.


ii-5-19. THE SECOND RACE WAS THE PRODUCT BY BUDDING AND EXPANSION, THE A-SEXUAL (form) FROM THE SEXLESS (shadow) - THUS WAS, O LANOO, THE SECOND RACE PRODUCED.


ii-5-20. THEIR FATHERS WERE THE SELF-BORN. THE SELF-BORN, THE CHHAYA FROM THE BRILLIANT BODIES OF THE LORDS, THE FATHERS, THE SONS OF TWILIGHT.


ii-5-21. WHEN THE RACE BECAME OLD, THE OLD WATERS MIXED WITH THE FRESHER WATERS. WHEN ITS DROPS BECAME TURBID, THEY VANISHED AND DISAPPEARED IN THE NEW STREAM, IN THE HOT STREAM OF LIFE. THE OUTER OF THE FIRST BECAME THE INNER OF THE SECOND. THE OLD WING BECAME THE NEW SHADOW, AND THE SHADOW OF THE WING.

ii-6-22. 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 IT UNTIL ITS RIPENESS. THE WHITE SWAN FROM THE STARRY VAULT (the Moon) OVERSHADOWED THE BIG DROP. THE EGG OF THE FUTURE RACE, THE MAN-SWAN (Hamsa) OF THE LATER THIRD. FIRST MALE-FEMALE, THEN MAN AND WOMAN.


ii-6-23. 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).

ii-7-24. THE SONS OF WISDOM, THE SONS OF NIGHT (issued from the body of Brahma when it became Night), READY FOR REBIRTH, CAME DOWN, THEY SAW THE (intellectually) VILE FORMS OF THE FIRST THIRD (still senseless Race), “WE CAN CHOOSE,” SAID THE LORDS, “WE HAVE WISDOM.” SOME ENTERED THE CHHAYA. SOME PROJECTED THE SPARK. SOME DEFERRED TILL THE FOURTH (Race). FROM THEIR OWN RUPA THEY FILLED (intensified) THE KAMA (the vehicle of desire). THOSE WHO ENTERED BECAME ARHATS. THOSE WHO RECEIVED BUT A SPARK, REMAINED DESTITUTE OF (higher) KNOWLEDGE; THE SPARK BURNED LOW. THE THIRD REMAINED MIND-LESS. THEIR JIVAS (Monads) WERE NOT READY. THESE WERE SET APART AMONG THE SEVEN (primitive human species). THEY BECAME NARROW-HEADED. THE THIRD WERE READY. “IN THESE SHALL WE DWELL,” SAID THE LORDS OF THE FLAME.


ii-7-25. HOW DID THE MANÂSA, 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.


ii-7-26. WHEN THE SWEAT-BORN PRODUCED THE EGG-BORN, THE TWOFOLD (androgyne third Race) AND THE MIGHTY, THE POWERFUL WITH BONES, THE LORDS OF WISDOM SAID: “NOW SHALL WE CREATE.”


ii-7-27. THE THIRD RACE BECAME THE VAHAN (vehicle) OF THE LORDS OF WISDOM. IT CREATED "SONS OF WILL AND YOGA," BY KRIYASAKTI IT CREATED THEM, THE HOLY FATHERS, ANCESTORS OF THE ARHATS. .

ii-8-28. FROM THE DROPS OF SWEAT; FROM THE RESIDUE OF THE SUBSTANCE; MATTER FROM DEAD BODIES OF MEN AND ANIMALS OF THE WHEEL BEFORE; AND FROM CAST-OFF DUST, THE FIRST ANIMALS WERE PRODUCED.


ii-8-29. ANIMALS WITH BONES, DRAGONS OF THE DEEP, AND FLYING SARPAS WERE ADDED TO THE CREEPING THINGS. THEY THAT CREEP ON THE GROUND GOT WINGS. THEY OF THE LONG NECKS IN THE WATER BECAME THE PROGENITORS OF THE FOWLS OF THE AIR.


ii-8-30. DURING THE THIRD RACE THE BONELESS ANIMALS GREW AND CHANGED: THEY BECAME ANIMALS WITH BONES, THEIR CHHAYAS BECAME SOLID (also).


ii-8-31. THE ANIMALS SEPARATED THE FIRST (into mate and female). THEY (the animals) BEGAN TO BREED. THE TWO-FOLD MAN (then) SEPARATED ALSO. HE (man) SAID: “LET US AS THEY; LET US UNITE AND MAKE CREATURES.” THEY DID....


ii-8-32. AND THOSE WHICH HAD NO SPARK (the “narrow-brained”) TOOK HUGE SHE-ANIMALS UNTO THEM. THEY BEGAT UPON THEM DUMB RACES. DUMB THEY WERE (the “narrow-brained”) THEMSELVES. BUT THEIR TONGUES UNTIED. 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 TO KEEP THE SHAME UNTOLD.

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STANZA ii-9

ii-9-33. SEEING WHICH (the sin committed with the animals), THE LHAS (the spirits, the “Sons of Wisdom”) WHO HAD NOT BUILT MEN (who had refused to create), WEPT, SAYING: —


ii-9-34. “THE AMANÂSA (the ‘mindless’) HAVE DEFILED OUR FUTURE ABODES. THIS IS KARMA. LET US DWELL IN THE OTHERS. LET US TEACH THEM BETTER, LEST WORSE SHOULD HAPPEN.” THEY DID . . . .


ii-9-35. THEN ALL MEN BECAME ENDOWED WITH MANAS (minds). THEY SAW THE SIN OF THE MINDLESS.


ii-9-36. THE FOURTH RACE DEVELOPED SPEECH.


ii-9-37. THE ONE (androgyne) BECAME TWO; ALSO ALL THE LIVING AND CREEPING THINGS THAT WERE STILL ONE, GIANT FISH-BIRDS AND SERPENTS WITH SHELL-HEADS.

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STANZA ii-10

ii-10-38. THUS TWO BY TWO ON THE SEVEN ZONES, THE THIRD RACE GAVE BIRTH TO THE FOURTH-RACE MEN; THE GODS BECAME NO-GODS; THE SURA BECAME A-SURA.


ii-10-39. 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. THE FIRST SEVEN HUMAN SHOOTS WERE ALL OF ONE COMPLEXION. THE NEXT SEVEN (the sub-races) BEGAN MIXING (their colors).


ii-10-40. THEN THE THIRD AND FOURTH (races) BECAME TALL WITH PRIDE. WE ARE THE KINGS, IT WAS SAID; WE ARE THE GODS.


ii-10-41. THEY TOOK WIVES FAIR TO LOOK UPON. WIVES FROM THE MINDLESS, THE NARROW-HEADED. THEY BRED MONSTERS. WICKED DEMONS, MALE AND FEMALE, ALSO KHADO (DAKINI), WITH LITTLE MINDS.


ii-10-42. THEY BUILT TEMPLES FOR THE HUMAN BODY. MALE AND FEMALE THEY WORSHIPPED. THEN THE THIRD EYE ACTED NO LONGER.

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STANZA ii-11

ii-11-43. THEY (the Lemurians) BUILT HUGE CITIES. OF RARE EARTHS AND METALS THEY BUILT, AND OUT OF THE FIRES (lava)) VOMITED, OUT OF THE WHITE STONE OF THE MOUNTAINS (marble) AND OF THE BLACK STONE (of the subterranean fires), THEY CUT THEIR OWN IMAGES IN THEIR SIZE AND LIKENESS, AND WORSHIPPED THEM.


ii-11-44. 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). THE WATER THREATENED THE FOURTH (Race).


ii-11-45. THE FIRST GREAT WATERS CAME. THEY SWALLOWED THE SEVEN GREAT ISLANDS.


ii-11-46. ALL HOLY SAVED, THE UNHOLY DESTROYED. WITH THEM MOST OF THE HUGE ANIMALS, PRODUCED FROM THE SWEAT OF THE EARTH.

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STANZA ii-12

ii-12-47. FEW MEN REMAINED: SOME YELLOW, SOME BROWN AND BLACK, AND SOME RED REMAINED. THE MOON-COLORED (of the primitive Divine Stock) WERE GONE FOREVER.


ii-12-48. THE FIFTH PRODUCED FROM THE HOLY STOCK REMAINED; IT WAS RULED OVER BY THE FIRST DIVINE KINGS.


ii-12-49. THE “SERPENTS” WHO RE-DESCENDED, WHO MADE PEACE WITH THE FIFTH, WHO TAUGHT AND INSTRUCTED IT. . . . . .







For further reading on the Stanzas of Dzyan:

• dzyan.net, Book of Dzyan Research Reports
  http://dzyan.net/
• Knoche, Grace, The Adventures of the Atoms: A Cosmic Fantasy Inspired by the Stanzas of Dzyan
  http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/lifeatom/lifeatom.htm
• Reigle, David, The Book of Dzyan Research Reports (PDF files)
  http://blavatskyarchives.com/reiglecon.htm
• van Pelt, Gertrude, Archaic History of the Human Race
  http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/books/archaic/archaic1.htm

It is recommended that the reader not jump right in and start reading The Secret Doctrine, as it is a very difficult book to read. If a person is interested in attempting to read it, they must first have a working understanding of the basic concepts of Theosophy, which can be found in these books and others:

• C. Jinarajadasa, First Principles of Theosophy
  http://www3.igalaxy.net/~nick/theosophy/fp-index.htm
• Charles Leadbeater, The Inner Life
  http://www3.igalaxy.net/~nick/theosophy/il-index.htm

      Geoffry Barbosa's The Divine Plan is essential reading before attempting to read The Secrect Doctrine:

• Barborka, Geoffry, The Divine Plan
  http://www.questbooks.net/title.cfm?bookid=64

      H.P. Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine Commentary: Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge, a question-and-answer interview on parts of the Secret Doctrine, is invaluable in understanding the Secret Doctrine.

• H.P. Blavatsky, Secret Doctrine Commentary: Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge (online)
  http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sdcommnt/sdc-hp.htm
• H.P. Blavatsky, Secret Doctrine Commentary: Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge (hardcopy)
  http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ts/sdcomtbl.htm

For an in-depth summary of the Stanzas of Dzyan, read

• Presh & Ashish, Man, the Measure of All Things
  http://www.questbooks.net/title.cfm?bookid=107
• Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Theosophy: A Modern Revival of Ancient Wisdom, pages 201-217 (online)
  http://downloads.members.tripod.com/~pc93/tsphyraw.htm
• Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Theosophy: A Modern Revival of Ancient Wisdom, pages 201-217 (hardcopy)
  http://www.kessinger.net/searchresults_orderthebook.php?Author=Kuhn,%20Alvin%20Boyd#13

For further reading on the Secret Doctrine:

• Ashish, Sri Madhava, The Secret Doctrine as a Contribution to World Thought - Part 1
  http://www.katinkahesselink.net/other/ashish.htm
• Barborka, Geoffrey A., Secret Doctrine Questions and Answers
  http://www.theos-talk.com/archives/200309/tt00228.html
  order at Amazon.com
• Besant, Annie, The Evolution of The Universe (book review of the Secret Doctrine)
  http://www.tphta.ws/TPH_EVUN.HTM
• Bowen and Van Mater, An Invitation to the Secret Doctrine
  http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/invit-sd/invsd-hp.htm
• Eastern Tradition Research Institute
  http://www.easterntradition.org
• Bowen, Robert, The Secret Doctrine and Its Study,
  http://www.theosophical.ca/SecDoctrineStudy.htm
• Kuhn, Alvin, The Secret Doctrine: A Birdseye View
  http://blavatskyarchives.com/kuhnthesecretdoctrine.htm
• Theosophical University Press Online, Keyword search of some of H. P. B.'s Works
  http://www.theosociety.org/cgi-bin/hpb.cgi

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