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[5/14/2011 6:14:18 PM] Van Atman: 41. They took wives fair to look at. Wives
from the “mindless,” the narrow-headed. They bred monsters, wicked demons, male
and female. Also Khado (Dakini) with little minds (b).
42. They built temples for human body. Male and Female they worshipped (c). Then
the third eye acted no longer (d).
(a) Such were the first truly physical men, whose first characteristic was —
pride! It is the Third Race and the gigantic Atlanteans, the
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memory of whom lingered from one generation and race to another generation and
race down to the days of Moses, and which found an objective form in those
antediluvian giants, those terrible sorcerers and magicians, of whom the Roman
Church has preserved such vivid and at the same time distorted legends. One who
has read and studied the Commentaries on the archaic doctrine, will easily
recognise in some Atlanteans, the prototypes of the Nimrods, the Builders of the
Tower of Babel, the Hamites, and all these tutti quanti of “accursed memory,” as
theological literature expresses it: of those, in short, who have furnished
posterity with the orthodox types of Satan. And this leads us naturally to
inquire into the religious ethics of these early races, mythical as these may
be.
What was the religion of the Third and Fourth Races? In the common acceptation
of the term, neither the Lemurians, nor yet their progeny, the
Lemuro-Atlanteans, had any, as they knew no dogma, nor had they to believe on
faith. No sooner had the mental eye of man been opened to understanding, than
the Third Race felt itself one with the ever-present as the ever to be unknown
and invisible all, the One Universal Deity. Endowed with divine powers, and
feeling in himself his inner God, each felt he was a Man-God in his nature,
though an animal in his physical Self. The struggle between the two began from
the very day they tasted of the fruit of the Tree of Wisdom; a struggle for life
between the spiritual and the psychic, the psychic and the physical. Those who
conquered the lower principles by obtaining mastery over the body, joined the
“Sons of Light.” Those who fell victims to their lower natures, became the
slaves of Matter. From “Sons of Light and Wisdom” they ended by becoming the
“Sons of Darkness.” They had fallen in the battle of mortal life with Life
immortal, and all those so fallen became the seed of the future generations of
Atlanteans.*
At the dawn of his consciousness, the man of the Third Root Race had thus no
beliefs that could be called religion. That is to say, he was equally as
ignorant of “gay religions, full of pomp and gold” as of any system of faith or
outward worship. But if the term is to be defined as the binding together of the
masses in one form of reverence paid to those we feel higher than ourselves, of
piety — as a feeling expressed by a child toward a loved parent — then even the
earliest Lemurians had a religion — and a most beautiful one — from the very
beginning of their intellectual life. Had they not their bright gods of the
elements around
Footnote(s) ———————————————
* The name is used here in the sense of, and as a synonym of “sorcerers.” The
Atlantean races were many, and lasted in their evolution for millions of years:
all were not bad. They became so toward their end, as we (the fifth) are fast
becoming now.
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them, and even within themselves?* Was not their childhood passed with, nursed
and tendered by those who had given them life and called them forth to
intelligent, conscious life? We are assured it was so, and we believe it. For
the evolution of Spirit into matter could never have been achieved; nor would it
have received its first impulse, had not the bright Spirits sacrificed their own
respective super-ethereal essences to animate the man of clay, by endowing each
of his inner principles with a portion, or rather, a reflection of that essence.
The Dhyanis of the Seven Heavens (the seven planes of Being) are the noumenoi of
the actual and the future Elements, just as the Angels of the Seven Powers of
nature — the grosser effects of which are perceived by us in what Science is
pleased to call the “modes of motion” — the imponderable forces and what not —
are the still higher noumenoi of still higher Hierarchies.
It was the “Golden Age” in those days of old, the age when the “gods walked the
earth, and mixed freely with the mortals.” Since then, the gods departed (i.e.,
became invisible), and later generations ended by worshipping their kingdoms —
the Elements.
It was the Atlanteans, the first progeny of semi-divine man after his separation
into sexes — hence the first-begotten and humanly-born mortals — who became the
first “Sacrificers” to the god of matter. They stand in the far-away dim past,
in ages more than prehistoric, as the prototype on which the great symbol of
Cain was built,† as the first anthropomorphists who worshipped form and matter.
That worship degenerated very soon into self-worship, thence led to phallicism,
or that which reigns supreme to this day in the symbolisms of every exoteric
religion of ritual, dogma, and form. Adam and Eve became matter, or furnished
the soil, Cain and Abel — the latter the life-bearing soil, the former “the
tiller of that ground or field.”
Thus the first Atlantean races, born on the Lemurian Continent, separated from
their earliest tribes into the righteous and the unrighteous; into those who
worshipped the one unseen Spirit of Nature, the ray of which man feels within
himself — or the Pantheists, and those who offered fanatical worship to the
Spirits of the Earth, the dark Cosmic, anthropomorphic Powers, with whom they
made alliance. These were the earliest Gibborim, “the mighty men of renown in
those
Footnote(s) ———————————————
* The “Gods of the Elements” are by no means the Elementals. The latter are at
best used by them as vehicles and materials in which to clothe themselves. . . .
.
† Cain was the sacrificer, as shown at first in chap. iv. of Genesis, of “the
fruit of the ground,” of which he was first tiller, while Abel “brought of the
firstlings of his flock” to the Lord. Cain is the symbol of the first male, Abel
of the first female humanity, Adam and Eve being the types of the third race.
(See “The Mystery of Cain and Abel.”) The “murdering” is blood-shedding, but not
taking life.
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days” (Gen. vi.); who become with the Fifth Race the Kabirim: Kabiri with the
Egyptians and the Phoenicians, Titans with the Greeks, and Rakshasas and Daityas
with the Indian races.
Such was the secret and mysterious origin of all the subsequent and modern
religions, especially of the worship of the later Hebrews for their tribal god.
At the same time this sexual religion was closely allied to, based upon and
blended, so to say, with astronomical phenomena. The Lemurians gravitated toward
the North Pole, or the Heaven of their Progenitors (the Hyperborean Continent);
the Atlanteans, toward the Southern Pole, the pit, cosmically and terrestrially
— whence breathe the hot passions blown into hurricanes by the cosmic
Elementals, whose abode it is. The two poles were denominated, by the ancients,
Dragons and Serpents — hence good and bad Dragons and Serpents, and also the
names given to the “Sons of God” (Sons of Spirit and Matter): the good and bad
Magicians. This is the origin of this dual and triple nature in man. The legend
of the “Fallen Angels” in its esoteric signification, contains the key to the
manifold contradictions of human character; it points to the secret of man’s
self-consciousness; it is the angle-iron on which hinges his entire life-cycle;
— the history of his evolution and growth.
On a firm grasp of this doctrine depends the correct understanding of esoteric
anthropogenesis. It gives a clue to the vexed question of the Origin of Evil;
and shows how man himself is the separator of the One into various contrasted
aspects.
The reader, therefore, will not be surprised if so considerable space is devoted
in each case to an attempt to elucidate this difficult and obscure subject. A
good deal must necessarily be said on its symbological aspect; because, by so
doing, hints are given to the thoughtful student for his own investigations, and
more light can thus be suggested than it is possible to convey in the technical
phrases of a more formal, philosophical exposition. The “Fallen Angels,”
so-called, are Humanity itself. The Demon of Pride, Lust, Rebellion, and Hatred,
has never had any being before the appearance of physical conscious man. It is
man who has begotten, nurtured, and allowed the fiend to develop in his heart;
he, again, who has contaminated the indwelling god in himself, by linking the
pure spirit with the impure demon of matter. And, if the Kabalistic saying,
“Demon est Deus inversus” finds its metaphysical and theoretical corroboration
in dual manifested nature, its practical application is found in Mankind alone.
Thus it has now become self-evident that postulating as we do (a) the appearance
of man before that of other mammalia, and even before the ages of the huge
reptiles; (b) periodical deluges and glacial periods owing to the karmic
disturbance of the axis; and chiefly (c) the birth of man
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from a Superior Being, or what materialism would call a supernatural Being,
though it is only super-human — it is evident that our teachings have very few
chances of an impartial hearing. Add to it the claim that a portion of the
Mankind in the Third Race — all those Monads of men who had reached the highest
point of Merit and Karma in the preceding Manvantara — owed their psychic and
rational natures to divine Beings hypostasizing into their fifth principles, and
the Secret Doctrine must lose caste in the eyes of not only Materialism but even
of dogmatic Christianity. For, no sooner will the latter have learned that those
angels are identical with their “Fallen” Spirits, than the esoteric tenet will
be proclaimed most terribly heretical and pernicious.* The divine man dwelt in
the animal, and, therefore, when the physiological separation took place in the
natural course of evolution — when also “all the animal creation was untied,”
and males were attracted to females — that race fell: not because they had eaten
of the fruit of Knowledge and knew good from evil, but because they knew no
better. Propelled by the sexless creative instinct, the early sub-races had
evolved an intermediate race in which, as hinted in the Stanzas, the higher
Dhyan-Chohans had incarnated.† “When we have ascertained the extent of the
Universe and learnt to know all that there is in it, we will multiply our race,”
answer the Sons of Will and Yoga to their brethren of the same race, who invite
them to do as they do. This means that the great Adepts and Initiated ascetics
will “multiply,” i.e., once more produce Mind-born immaculate Sons — in the
Seventh Root-Race.
It is so stated in the Puranas; in Adi Parvan (p. 115) and Brahma Purana, etc.
In one portion of the Pushkara Mahatmya, moreover, the separation of the sexes
is allegorized by Daksha, who, seeing that his will-born progeny (the “Sons of
passive Yoga”), will not create men, “converts half himself into a female by
whom he begets daughters,” the future females of the Third Race which begat the
giants of Atlantis,
Footnote(s) ———————————————
* It is, perhaps, with an eye to this degradation of the highest and purest
Spirits, who broke through the intermediate planes of lower consciousness (the
“Seven circles of fire” of Pymander), that St. James is made to say that “this
Wisdom (psuche in the original) descended not from above, but is earthly,
sensual, devilish”; and psuche is Manas, the “human soul,” the Spiritual Wisdom
or Soul being Buddhi. Yet Buddhi per se, being so near the Absolute, is only
latent consciousness.
† This is the “undying race” as it is called in Esotericism, and exoterically
the fruitless generation of the first progeny of Daksha, who curses Narada, the
divine Rishi, alleged to have dissuaded the Haryaswas and the Sabalaswas, the
sons of Daksha, from procreating their species, by saying “Be born in the womb;
there shall not be a resting place for thee in all these regions”; after this
Narada, the representative of that race of fruitless ascetics, is said, as soon
as he dies in one body, to be reborn in another.
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the Fourth Race, so called. In the Vishnu Purana it is simply said that Daksha,
the father of mankind, established sexual intercourse as the means of peopling
the world.
Happily for the human race the “Elect Race” had already become the vehicle of
incarnation of the (intellectually and spiritually) highest Dhyanis before
Humanity had become quite material. When the last sub-races — save some lowest —
of the Third Race had perished with the great Lemurian Continent, “the seeds of
the Trinity of Wisdom” had already acquired the secret of immortality on Earth,
that gift which allows the same great personality to step ad libitum from one
worn-out body into another.
(b) The first war that earth knew, the first human gore shed, was the result of
man’s eyes and senses being opened; which made him see that the daughters of his
Brethren were fairer than his own, and their wives also. There were rapes
committed before that of the Sabines, and Menelauses robbed of their Helens
before the Fifth Race was born. Titans or giants were the stronger; their
adversaries, the wiser. This took place during the Fourth Race — that of the
giants.
For “there were giants” in the days of old, indeed* and the evolutionary series
of the animal world is a warrant that the same thing took place within the human
races. Lower still in the order of creation we find witnesses for the same in
the flora going pari passu with the fauna in respect of size. The pretty ferns
we collect and dry among the leaves of our favourite volumes are the descendants
of the gigantic ferns which grew during the carboniferous period.
Scriptures, and fragments of philosophical and scientific works — in short,
almost every record that has come down to us from antiquity — contain references
to giants. No one can fail to recognize the Atlanteans of the Secret Doctrine in
the Rakshasas of Lanka — the opponents conquered by Rama. Are these accounts no
better than the production of empty fancy? Let us give the subject a few moments
of attention.
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Footnote(s) ———————————————
* The traditions of every country and nation point to this fact. Donnelly quotes
from Father Duran’s Historia Antigua de la Nueva Espana of 1885, in which a
native of Cholula, a centenarian, accounts for the building of the great pyramid
of Cholula, by saying as follows: “In the beginning, before the light of the Sun
had been created, this land (Cholula) was in obscurity and darkness . . . . but
immediately after the light of the Sun arose in the East, there appeared
gigantic men . . . . who built the said pyramid, its builders being scattered
after that to all parts of the Earth.”
“A great deal of the Central American history is taken up with the doings of an
ancient race of giants called Quinanes,” says the author of “Atlantis” (p. 204.)
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[5/14/2011 6:47:09 PM] Thuan Thi Do:
http://archaeology.about.com/od/tterms/g/toltec.htm
[5/14/2011 6:51:54 PM] Van Atman: 251)Hăy can đảm lên, hỡi kẻ hành hương dũng
cảm muốn đến bờ bên kia. Con chớ nghe tiếng th́ thầm của những bè lũ Ma vương;
hăy tránh xa những kẻ cám dỗ, những hung thần, những Lhamayin ganh tị trong
không gian vô tận.
Theo một chú thích, bọn Lhamayin là những tinh linh và ác quỷ, kẻ thù nghịch của
loài người. Không có sinh vật nào làm ác chỉ v́ điều ác, nhưng có vài tinh linh
rất nguy hiểm đối với loài người : chúng có đời sống riêng của chúng, nhưng
chúng ta hay làm phiền chúng. Các tinh linh giống như thú rừng, không phải là kẻ
thù của loài người, nhưng chúng không thích con người đi vào địa phận của chúng
và chúng hay thù oán loài người v́ chúng bị đối xử độc ác.
Tinh linh trong thiên nhiên là những tạo vật vui vẻ. Chúng ta có thể trách cứ
chúng nhiều nhất v́ chúng chơi những tṛ tinh quái nhỏ nhặt, không tốt đẹp đối
với những người là nạn nhân của chúng. Chúng không thích con người v́ họ hay làm
nhiều điều khả ố và quấy rầy chúng. Chúng sống một cách sung sướng và thỏa thích
ngoài đồng áng. Thú vui của chúng là nô đùa với những thú rừng c̣n tơ. Chúng mến
những con thú ấy như chúng ta thích hoa và cây cối. Chúng rất ngây thơ và không
hề lo âu. Chúng không cần làm việc để lo ăn, lo mặc như người, v́ chúng không có
nhu cầu.
Con người đă đột nhập vào chốn rừng núi thần tiên ấy. Họ rượt bắt và giết chóc
thú rừng là bạn thân của chúng. Họ hạ những cây cối mà chúng thương yêu để cày
đất hoặc cất nhà; họ làm ô uế không khí bởi hơi rượu và khói thuốc. Cảnh an lạc
của chúng trở thành một băi sa mạc ghê tởm, bắt buộc chúng phải lánh xa. Chúng
có thể c̣n đôi chút cảm t́nh đối với nhà nghệ sĩ khi người chứng kiến những cảnh
đẹp bị tàn phá và làm cho xấu xa bởi những nhà máy với những ống khói đen và
chất hơi đă giết chết cỏ, hoa và cây cối. Chúng ta gọi hiện tượng đó là sự tiến
bộ; nhưng các tinh linh trong thiên nhiên lại thấy khác, v́ nơi cư ngụ của chúng
bị phá hoại và bạn bè của chúng bị chết chóc.
Đó là lư do tại sao các tinh linh trong thiên nhiên hay lẫn tránh con người và
nếu có một người đi du ngoạn trong rừng hay rảo bước trên một đường ṃn, chúng
liền lẫn trốn khi y đến gần chúng. Người ấy có thể khắc phục được sự oán ghét
của chúng, cũng như đôi khi người ta chế phục được tính nhút nhát của thú rừng.
Một nhà Yogi ngồi tham thiền có thể vuốt ve những con thú đến gần y. Bạn hăy ra
đồng và bạn nằm dài không cử động chừng một hoặc vài giờ, những loại thú rừng
nhỏ như sóc hay chim sẽ đến gần bạn. Cũng giống như thế, nếu bạn trú ngụ lâu tại
một vùng nào đó, lần lần các tinh linh sẽ khám phá ra bạn là một mẫu người hiền
lành vô hại; đến một ngày kia, chúng sẽ sẵn sàng làm quen với bạn. Chúng sẽ nhảy
nhót chung quanh bạn và rất hảnh diện được làm bạn với một người. Trên cơi Trung
Giới các sinh vật đó coi con người như những kẻ xâm chiếm khó chịu và nguy hiểm,
cũng giống như một đạo binh xâm lược đối với chúng ta. Do đó chúng mới làm cho
những người đến phá chúng phải sợ. Nhưng chúng không phải là những kẻ cám dỗ.
Một phần lớn những h́nh tư tưởng xấu xa do chính con người tạo ra mới giữ vai
tṛ đó.
Nhiều người, đôi khi được gọi những kẻ tà đạo đă t́m cách chống đối lại sự tiến
bộ tinh thần của nhân loại, họ đă tin rằng những cảm xúc cao thượng của chúng ta
xấu xa và trong đó c̣n lưu lại những t́nh cảm và dục vọng thuộc bản chất thấp
hèn. Những hạng phù thủy ấy có thể chú ư đến một người ở trong một vị thế đặc
biệt không, và phải chăng người tiến hóa cao trên Đường Đạo vẫn bị ảnh hưởng của
họ ? Họ có thể cho là người tà giới khi họ dùng một tinh linh chọn sẵn để lay
chuyển y hầu làm cho y rối loạn để ngăn trở công việc của Đức Thầy. Đó là sự
việc gần giống như ma quỷ cám dỗ mà người Thiên Chúa b́nh dân thường tin tưởng.
Tuy nhiên không có người chí nguyện nào phải sợ những sự tấn công đó, v́ bọn tà
đạo bất hảo nhất cũng không thể ảnh hưởng hay lợi dụng được một người có ư chí
cứng rắn chỉ nghĩ đến công việc của Chơn Sư và không hề nghĩ đến ḿnh.
[5/14/2011 6:51:57 PM] Thuan Thi Do:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_race#The_third_root_race_.28Lemurian.29
[5/14/2011 9:08:51 PM] Thuan Thi Do:
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd2-1-16.htm
[5/14/2011 9:12:48 PM] Thuan Thi Do:
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd2-1-17.htm
[5/14/2011 10:11:46 PM] *** Call ended, duration 4:09:05 ***