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                  E V O L U T I O N   F R O M   T H E   

               R O S I C R U C I A N  S T A N D P O I N  T

                                   by

                            MRS. MAX HEINDEL
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                                CHAPTER I

                           PREHISTORIC PERIODS


    As we look off into the starry dome of the heavens, we may see a picture 
that is awe-inspiring, and the longer we gaze, the greater are the number of 
stars which present themselves to view. Among them there are two bright stars 
called by astronomers the lamps of the night. They are ever revolving about 
the North or Pole Star, the mariner's guide. These two stars are the foremost 
in a group called the Plow or Dipper, and are ever pointing the way to the 
Pole Star, which is almost staionary and for that reason most reliable as a 
friend to give direction to the saailor at sea. We admire the splendor of 
these bright stars, and our eyes at once begin to trace the figure of the 
Great Bear, of which they are a part.

    Should we look through one of our telescopes at the stars which we admire, 
we should be lost in a system of stars and worlds--worlds which man has 
scarcely dreamed of, and which are many times greater in size than our tiny 
earth. As we develop larger instruments and the lens carries us further into 
the depths of space, the panorama becomes more wonderful. If a man-made 
instrument has the power to penetrate so much farther than his limited 
physical sight, imagine how much greater must be the picture of God's universe 



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to the man who can travel through these great distances. To the adept there is 
no physical distance. The very thought will take him on spiritual wings to 
visit a planet or a world, and his penetration is limited only by his 
development. As he grows in spiritual consciousness, so will his power to 
penetrate through space increase and the pictures become more awe-inspiring.

    Materially minded man is too prone to believe that what he sees with his 
eyes--the beauties of nature which surround him in the material world, the 
hills, the trees, the flowers, sunshine and the clouds--constitute all there 
is to his world. He cannot conceive of anything beyond what he can see, feel, 
or hear. Even the life which presents itself through the telescope he accepts 
as a part of his tiny universe. He fails to recognize the greatness of God's 
world; he cannot understand its bigness, for he is lacking in reverence for 
things beyond those which add to his comfort and his pleasure.

    The astronomer with his wonderful instruments is unable to count all the 
worlds or ascertain definitely whether these worlds are inhabited. He believes 
that Mars is inhabited, but all attempts to communicate with this planet have 
failed. But what we are most interested in is God's great picture gallery. We 
have touched upon and admired the pictures of nature as man sees them with the 
naked eye and with the assistance of the telescope, but the most wonderful 
pictures are found through the use of vision more reliable than man with his 
instruments can ever expect to develop, a sight which is latent in him, but 
which he may again develop. This is the sight which he possessed in the 


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earlier periods of his existence before his vision was clouded by the dense 
veils of matter. This spiritual sight is that which the ego possessed when as 
a virgin spirit it was differentiated within God.

    Man has a knowledge of right living and facilities for studying the seven 
worlds and their methods of evolutionary development. If he grasps these 
truths, not theoretically but practically, and makes them a part of his life 
by living them, then he will slowly remove the veils which in his dip into 
matter he has drawn about himself. He will then gradually regain his spiritual 
state, which will enable him to see the pictures in God's great gallery that 
we call the Memory of Nature. This true picture gallery of God is found in the 
highest subdivision of the Region of Concrete Thought. To be able to view the 
great moving picutre screen of the world and the light upon it in this region 
it is necessary that man pass through several Initiations. His development 
will then permit him to view this moving panorama of creation; nature's 
pictures are ever moving. The modern moving picture reel is a wonderful 
imitation of what the highly developed man sees in the records of the 
universe.

    Our beloved Elder Brothers have by this method of reading in the Memory of 
Nature been able to pass on to us the great truths which are contained in the 
"COSMO-CONCEPTION." Max Heindel by making the necessary sacrifices and by 
living a life of purity and loving service was able to remove the veils which 
obscured his spiritual sight, and by the help of the Elder Brothers he was 
permitted to view these pictures and impart to his readers more knowledge in 
ten short years than many other advanced mystics or occultists have done in a 
lifetime.

    Every formation of stone, every plant and animal, as well as man, is 


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recorded in some part of that great moving picture. Every event of its past 
history from its very beginning is pictured there. Nothing is too small or 
insignificant to prevent its record being imprinted upon that screen.

    Let us sit down, close our eyes, and imagine what the sensations would be 
like to have these pictures pass before us, showing the beginning of the 
earth, the force of the first great cause, the fiery mist, then the 
incrustation of the earth. Let us imagine what the pictures would be like, as 
they pass before our mind's eye, of the darkened Saturn Period and its hot 
mineral-like state.

    Imagine the life of God in its work of development as it passed around the 
seven globes, each globe a little more developed than the preceding, and then 
the period of rest or chaos which must needs come between the time of 
manifestation of each globe or period and that of the next. As we reach the 
second period, called the Sun Period, imagine a blinding, illuminated, fiery 
nebula in its constantly changing, constantly improving state under the 
guidance of the Lords of Flame. In this period the Lords of Wisdom radiated 
from their own bodies the germ of the vital body of man, which was to 
interpenetrate his dense physical body that had been started in the Saturn 
Period. Can we imagine such a body, which was developed from a mineral-like 
state, becoming plantlike?

    After the life wave of this period had accomplished its work by circling 
seven globes, it again enetered upon a period of rest or sleep. Note how 
wonderful it is that all life, from its highest expression down to its lowest, 
passes through its daytime and its nighttime.

    We will now pass on with our moving panorama, and skim lightly over the 


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pictures pertaining to the formation of the world during the third or Moon 
Period. Here we again find the mystical number seven. (See Diagram 8 on page 
197 of the "COSMO-CONCEPTION.") This will give us an idea of the great scheme 
of God, as the worlds are formed in cycles of seven; seven globes in each 
period, and seven periods.

    The moon being of a watery nature, naturally water was the element added 
in the Moon Period to the Saturn heat and the Sun fire. We may form an idea of 
this period by taking a red-hot ball of iron and causing it to revolve at a 
rapid rate while pouring water on it. A warm mist will rise in the atmosphere. 
This describes somewhat the atmospheric conditions found in the Moon Period. 
The Lords of Wisdom co-operated with the Lords of Inidividuality, who now took 
charge of the evolving life wave. Man-in-the-making had reached the stage 
where embryonic sense organs and glands were developing. In the third 
revolution of the Moon Period the Lords of Individuality radiated from 
themselves the substance from which man, with the assistance of these great 
ones, built his desire body.

    Previous to this the virgin spirits which started in the Saturn Period 
were conscious of the pictures in the Memory of Nature which were moving about 
them, but as veil after veil was added, the pictures faded. For instance, in 
the Sun Period the addition of the vital body to some extent began to obscure 
the spiritual light. It was like hanging a veil between man and the sun; the 
light was slightly dimmed. In the Moon Period the germ of the desire body was 
added, which gave a desire for action. The evolving body of the virgin spirit 
was given the power to move, but by the addition of the desire body another 
veil was added, and the light of the spirit was obscured to a still greater 


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degree. It was now encased in a three-fold body.

    This loss of the spiritual sight now caused the spirit to turn within for 
the light which it had lost. Then the before mentioned picture consciousness 
was turned inward, and individualization began. The Moon beings were strange, 
animal-like creatures. Max Heindel describes them as having a baggy body, very 
similar to the placenta in its development between the fourth and sixth weeks. 
They had the appearance of being suspended by strings in the atmosphere, just 
as the embryo hangs in the placenta by the umbilical cord.

    The vegetation, as we may observe in our moving picture, was growing to an 
enormous size; the steam-laden atmosphere was conducive to rapid grwoth.


                               CHAPTER II 

                       THE DEVELOPMENT OF BODIES 


    We emerged from the long sleep of a cosmic night after the Moon Period. As 
we stated in the preceding chapter, a cosmic night must come after each 
period. We will now skim lightly over the views of the fourth or Earth Period. 
Like the human spirit, which must find its growth and expression through 
successive lives in the physical body, so is the earth the body of a Great 
Spirit seeking its development through these successive periods.

    We can only touch upon the principal scenes in this great picture gallery. 
Imagine how long a time a man may spend viewing pictures when he passes long 
rows of paintings in one of our art galleris. He must pass quickly, stopping 
to admire only the pictures which appeal to his artistic sense. Similarly must 
we unroll the film of God's great universe, and touch only on the things which 
interest us most.

   In the fourth or Earth Period we find four elements. In the first or Saturn 
Period there was but fire; in the Sun Period we had fire and air; in the Moon 
Period we had three elements, for moisture was then added, giving us a warm, 
misty atmosphere. In this fourth picture we add the element of earth. This is 
the period of form, when the Lords of Form hold sway.

    These world periods are divided into seven subperiods or revolutions, 
which according to the Rosicrucian teachings are named for the seven planets--
Saturn, Sun, Moon, Earth, Jupiter, Venus, and Vulcan--because the conditions 
on the globes of these periods were similar to the natures of these planets.

    In viewing the pictures of the earliest revolution of the Earth Period we 
find the Saturnian conditions existing. But there was a difference between the 
Saturn Period and the Saturn revolution of the Earth Period, for the first had 
only the forces of Saturn in it, while in the latter there were present the 
Saturn, Sun, and Moon forces, and man was no longer a heat being as in the 
Saturn Period. Currents of air and water were added to the heat of the body, 
and man began to harden and become mineral-like. The globes at this time were 
still in a fiery condition, and the evolution of the human spirit was confined 
to the polar regions of the sun, of which the earth was still a part.

    In the Polarian Epoch the body of man gradually assumed a form, and the 
sense of feeling was slowly developed, which was made possible through the 


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organ now known as the pineal gland. This organ protruded through the top of 
the peculiar bag-shaped body. This bag-shaped body was not suspended by 
etheric strings as in the Moon Period. The string was missing, and we find in 
its place the organ mentioned above as the pineal gland, but this organ was at 
that time much larger than the tiny pea-shaped organ of today. Through this 
organ force currents were sent to the region where the heart is now found. In 
this epoch man's sense of feeling extended all over his body. He sensed heat 
and cold through the organ which protruded from the head.

    In our next picture we will observe the life in what is termed the 
Hyperborean Epoch. Here we see the forces of light and air operating, and the 
bag-shaped body of man became filled with light. He then began to breathe, 
which started currents in the body that later developed into nerves. In this 
epoch man's dense body was permeated by the vital body, which caused the 
former to rapidly increase in size. Man was then plantlike. At the end of this 
epoch the earth was thrown off from the sun and began to revolve about the 
parent body.

    At this period the panoramic view of this picture undergoes a decided 
change. We are no longer viewing it from the sun but from the earth, which was 
then becoming incrusted. As it was then separated from the sun, its great heat 
began to disappear. It cooled, and vegetation appeared upon its hot, steaming 
surface. We may now also observe Mars, which had previously been thrown off 
from the sun. The currents of air caused by the revolving of the earth cooled 
the minerals, and life on the earth began to make rapid changes.

    By this time the picture shows the Lemurian Epoch. Venus, Mercury, and the 


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other planets had been expelled from the sun, and we now see them revolving 
about it. Human beings by the separation of the earth from the sun had lost 
much of their inner illumination. From this trancelike state man then began to 
develop an inner picture consciousness. He also developed the consciousness of 
sound. At the end of the Hyperborean Epoch man possessed a two-fold vehicle, 
the physical and vital bodies. At this period of the earth's development the 
moon was cast off from the earth, and the currents which in the Moon 
revolution had started the nervous system now became the nerves, and were 
connected with the embryonic sense organs. Then a third vehicle, the desire 
body, was further developed.

    In the Lemurian Epoch man became animal-like. There came to his assistance 
at this time great beings who were the humanity of the Sun Period, the 
Archangels, and the Lords of Mind, who were the humanity of the Saturn Period. 
They assisted the Lords of From with their work, and gave the germinal mind.

    Heretofore we have said little about the stragglers who failed to keep up 
with the forward march of the pioneers. In every life wave we find the 
straggler. At the present time we find imperfection in the mineral; the weeds 
are imperfect plants; the mongrel is an imperfect animal. In the human life 
wave we find the stragglers in the lower races. The anthropoids were left 
behind in the Saturn and Sun Periods, and the savages, Negroes, and Mongolians 
are the stragglers of the Moon Period. In the different revolutions of the 
Earth Period this segregation has continued. At the end of each epoch the 
human race must pass an examination, which is well described in the 25th 


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chapter of St. Matthew, where Christ gives a description of the last judgment 
as follows: 
  31.--"When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels 
with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory:
  32.--"And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate 
them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
  33.--"And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the 
left. 
  34.--"Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come ye blessed 
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the 
world."

    The sheep are the chosen ones who at the close of each eopch are carried 
forward into the next period. The goats are the stragglers, and may be likened 
to the boy who plays truant and stays away from school; when the final 
examinations come, he is left behind to stay in the same class a second term, 
while his comrades who were faithful in their attendance and work pass on to 
the higher grade.

    These stragglers had to be left behind whenever the life wave emerged 
from a cosmic night. THE MOST PROGRESSIVE WHO WERE IN THE ADVANCE LINE WERE 
TAKEN FORWARD INTO THE NEXT REVOLUTION, BUT THE STRAGGLERS WERE LEFT. They 
will, however, have opportunities to catch up with the pioneers sometime, 
somewhere.

    Our pictures as we advance into the later epochs of the earth period 
become more interesting and the scenes more familiar. The vegetable kingdom 
appears more natural to us, although not developed to the stage in which we 
find it at this present day.

    Again turning to the picture of the earth during the Lemurian Epoch, we 


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find the atmosphere still hot and filled with a dense fog, with man and animal 
living in spots on the earth which had somewhat hardened and cooled. Both were 
of enormous size, and vegetation grew to great heights. Ferns were as large 
and massive as the trees are today. 

    Man had developed the sense of hearing and sight was just beginning to 
develop in two sensitive spots, which the sun, faintly shining through the 
clouds, was sensitizing and which later became the eyes.


                                CHAPTER III 

           THE LUCIFER SPIRITS AND THE CHILDREN OF THE MIST 


    We now come to the part of God's great picture reel which depicts the 
earth in the latter part of the Lemurian Epoch. Man was gradually taking an 
upright position. The spinal column was becoming hardened, and the blood was 
taking in the iron which was supplied by the Martian influence. The ego, which 
up to that time had worked upon its vehicles from without, was gradually 
drawing within, and man began to sense things outside of him. At this period 
he was wholly unconscious of his physical body. He was awake, however, in the 
desire world and could at that stage commune directly with the gods.

    The sound of the sighing of the winds, the storms, the rushing of the 
waters, were to him the voices of his gods. He was by the sacrifice of part of 
his creative faculty then developing a larynx which permitted him to make 
sounds. He was learning the use of this organ by imitating the rustling of the 
leaves and the noise of the winds. The same creative faculty was also building 
a brain, although he had only the most crude faculty of observation. This 


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Lemurian man had no eyes, but the two sensitive spots previously mentioned 
were developing, and as the light of the sun, which showed very dimly through 
the fog, became stronger, these sensitive spots eventually with the help of 
the sunlight developed into eyes.

    At this period of man's involution a class of beings entered into the 
picture who were to take a very prominent part in the shaping of man's future, 
the Lucifer spirits, who were fallen angels, a class of stragglers from the 
Moon Period. These spirits were halfway between man and the angels in their 
evolution, and must find an avenue through which they could gain knowledge. 
Their evolution depended upon what they could gain through a lower life wave, 
and as they did not understand the building of a physical body, they could not 
function as low as man, who had a physical body. By helping man, however, to 
develop a brain these Lucifer spirits knew that they would create an avenue 
through which they could help him in his evolution and by so doing they would 
also gain much experience and growth for themselves.

    It has ever been and is still a law in nature for all beings, no matter in 
what life wave we may seek, be they the great lords of creation, the 
archangels, or angels, Lucifer spirits, group spirits, or virgin spirits, that 
as they reach downward to help or guide the lower beings or life waves, 
assisting them in their development and growth, these lifters in turn gain 
experience and grow in proportion to the help given. We may follow this law 
down into the very lowest kingdoms--all classes are under it. The Lucifer 
spirits saw an opportunity to help humanity, and even though by so doing they 
cause man to fall into generation, which has caused much suffering, still they 
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amount  of experience. Experience is the path of knowledge, even though it 
must needs bring suffering. To man this fall into sin was truly the opening of 
greater vistas of worth. To him these seemingly evil Lucifer spirits were 
truly the light bearers.

    While man was unconscious of the outer world, he could, however, 
communicate with these Lucifer spirits in the ethereal world. Through them he 
was taught the difference between good and evil. By them he was tempted and 
led into generation. While he was unconscious of the earth and his physical 
surroundings, he perceived the presence of his brothers spiritually, very much 
as man of today, who has but a slight development of the sixth sense, can feel 
and sense an invisible presence, and feels confident that at times some 
discarnate being is near him which he is unable to see with the physical eyes. 
Similarly was the Lemurian conscious of his brother. The conditions at that 
time were reversed from what they are now. Man could see and commune with his 
brother, as well as with the higher beings in the desire world, but in the 
physical world he was in a dream state, for his physical eyes had not yet been 
opened. On the other hand, man of today has his physical eyes opened and can 
see his brothers in the physical body, but his spiritual eyes are blinded--he 
has lost the faculty of seeing in the desire world.

    We will now turn to the portion of our picture which covers the first and 
second parts of the Atlantean Epoch. We still find the atmosphere filled with 
a thick fog; it was possible to see but a few feet away. Man's figure, which 
was then upright, was massive; his upper body was very large, with enormous 
shoulders and long arms; his head was small in proportion to his body, the 
forehead sloping back from a much flattened nose; the jaw was massive and the 
neck heavy. This early Atlantean man had not yet acquired the use of his feet 
for walking as man does today, but he moved by leaping, similar to the 
progression of the kangaroo.

    During the earlier parts of the Atlantean Period the earth was frequently 
visited by floods, which caused man and animal to leave the lowlands. 
Gradually, as the fog condensed, the lowlands became covered with water, 
driving all living things to seek safety by climbing to higher points. This 
migrating to the higher lands and the condensing of the fogs enabled man to 
see the sun shining through the clouds, and also further developed his eye. 
Then Adam beheld his mate, Eve.

    At this stage in man's development he could see as well in the spiritual 
world as in the physical. This was necessary at this period, for he had but 
the germ of the mental body. He now had a three-fold body, a physical, a 
desire, and a vital body, but only the rudiments of a brain; therefore he must 
still be guided by the divine leaders with whom he could commune in the desire 
world. When the Atlantean looked at his brother, he at once recognized the 
soul, and its attributes. As the fog receded to the lowlands, it caused great 
floods. The more advanced of mankind, whom we read of symbolically in the 
Bible as Noah, leader of the Semites, and his family, had developed lungs with 
which to breathe the clear air above the fog-laden atmosphere, and they were 
the first to see the rainbow. Man was no longer a childlike member of God's 
family, for as he developed memory, he became ambitious, and self-hood began 
to make its appearance, which divided mankind into races.

    As we reach the third period of Atlantis, we find mankind divided into 
nations, and kings were worshiped, not for their goodness and love but for 
their lordliness and for their occult power, which, however, some of them used 
in a most depraved and selfish manner. Temples were erected for the use of 
black magic, which the priests practiced on the people in order to keep them 
in subjection. Arrogance and brutality ruled, for the ego of man was yet weak, 
and the animal nature, the desire body, ruled the child mind of the people of 
that epoch. This caused the Atlanteans to develop the faculty of cunning, and 
led to great wickedness. The most brutal of all the seven Atlantean races were 
the Turanians, the fourth Atlantean race. Black magic was practiced by this 
race in a most revolting manner. The lower classes were oppressed most cruelly 
by those who were supposed to be the leaders. Vanity and outward display were 
the ruling fashion.

    The next or fifth race, the original Semites were the first to make the 
effort to develop thought. Although very primitive, yet they made an effort to 
regulate their desires. These people were most zealous to keep the race pure 
by marriage only in the same family. This was for the purpose of keeping their 
spiritual contact with the invisible worlds. They were at that time still in 
conscious touch with spiritual leaders in the desire world. But as the mental 
faculties developed, the pineal gland (which we described in our previous 
chapters as being the organ of orientation that protruded from the baglike 
body of man in the Polarian Epoch, but which as the body developed and man 
began to walk upright receded into the head) through which man contacts the 
spiritual realms, drew deeper into the head as the gray matter thickened, 
thereby preventing contact with the spiritual leaders.


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    A similar condition may be noted at the present day: in the lower phases 
of evolution, for instance, in some of the most backward races, those that are 
still unenlightened, we find the spiritual faculties still developed to some 
extent, while in the case of the purely intellectual type, the mental giant of 
the Western world, we often find the spiritual scoffer who will not believe 
what he cannot prove on the material plane. Not alone was the spiritual sight 
sacrificed as the brain grew, dome-like, over the pineal gland, but the abuses 
of the generative faculty caused this tiny gland to atrophy and become much 
smaller.

    We now pass on to the picture which is perhaps the most familiar to us, 
that of the fifth or Aryan Epoch. The man whom we have pictured up to this 
present period was expressing himself through a fourfold body, a physical, 
vital, desire, and partially developed mental body. But as man evolves and 
necessity calls for them, changes take place. Man is now forming the matrix 
for a new body, the soul body, that shining raiment in which he is to meet 
Christ in the air, the body in which he will again meet his spiritual teachers 
and commune with them direct. This body is now shaping in many who are working 
to purify their lives and who are beginning to sense the necessity of living 
not for self but for all. As the desire body is mastered and the physical body 
purified, and as the two higher ethers are developed, this new soul body 
shapes itself.


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                                 CHAPTER IV 

              BIBLICAL CORRESPONDENCES AND THE DARWIN THEORY 


    We have previously touched lightly upon the principal points on the path 
of evolution of the earth and man to the present period. We will now see how 
this connects with the story given to us in the Bible.

    Genesis, 1st chapter, 2nd verse: "And the earth was without form, and 
void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." How well this describes the 
dark Saturn Period.

    Genesis 1st chapter, 3rd verse: "And God said, Let there be light; and 
there was light." This together with the following five verses, refers to the 
Sun Period as described in the "ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION."

    God gathered the waters together and made the sea, separating the land 
from the water, in the period of the world's formation which we speak of as 
the Moon Period.

    Comparing these different days of creation with the Epochs, the formless, 
dark first day of creation corresponds to the Polarian Epoch. Man was yet 
mineral-like. When God commanded the light to shine and the vegetation to 
grow, the vegetable kingdom was formed, which occurred in the Hyperborean 
Epoch. God said, "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature 
that hath life." This portion of the Bible story of creation refers to the 
fire-fog of the Lemurian Epoch, when man's body was beginning to harden. We 
have then the evening and the morning of the fifth day, when God let the earth 


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bring forth creatures after their kind, cattle and creeping things. In the 
26th verse, it is recorded that God said: "Let us make man in our own image, 
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and 
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and 
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." 27th verse: "God 
created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him; male and 
female created He them." We have here the sixth day. These verses refer to the 
Atlantean Epoch.

    After man became a reasoning being, having a mind with which to think, God 
gave him dominion over the lower kingdoms. After God had turned the lower 
kingdoms over to man, God rested; not as the literal religionists would have 
Him do, namely, sit down and refuse to work, with a man servant and a miad 
servant to serve Him. God was in the same position then as a mother is who has 
brought her boys and girls to the stage of puberty, watching over and caring 
for them until they are old enough to be repsonsible for their own acts. So 
did God turn man out of the child garden of play, the Garden of Eden, and made 
him responsible. God was then released from the task of directing all his 
activities. However, if He really ceased His work for but one instant, all the 
world would fall to pieces.

    The seventh day of creation corresponds to the Aryan Epoch, the epoch in 
which we are living at the present time, and in which man has assumed the 
responsibility for his own future. God has placed this work upon man's 
shoulders, but the Creator is not resting. The formation of the world is still 
going on. Man has been given the work of caring for, work with, and perfecting 


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the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Naturally, as a amn works with 
these lower life waves, as he digs the metals and pumps the oil out of the 
earth, refining them and working them over he helps them in their evolution. 
His development of the various species in the vegetable kingdom is helping to 
perfect this life wave. Luther Burbank was a veritable god in this third life 
wave, the plant kingdom. He has developed soome of the lowliest species, 
raising their vibrations so that they have become truly trnasformed in size 
and beauty. Man has cultivated the tiny wild potato and now brought it to such 
a size and mellowness that it has become one of the principal staple foods. 
His work with the animal kingdom has also done wonders, even though he has 
sometimes been a cruel master who has used his power over this second life 
wave to cause great suffering. Still he has helped the animals to evolve. But 
has this cruel work been effective? Could this life wave not have been helped 
to a greater extent through more love? It has been demonstrated that the child 
will respond more quickly to love than to the rod. The gardener who loves his 
work is the most successful, so why should not the animal respond to love more 
quickly than to brutality? 

    Another wonderful picture reel which we must not fail to look upon, and 
which is a proof of the path of evolution that man has traveled, may be found 
in the life of the foetus. We find depicted in this tiny form the seven stages 
through which we have followed man in his development from the Saturn Period, 
through the various other periods and epochs. This foetal life also 
corresponds to the human life wave in its development during the seven days of 


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creation as described in the first and second chapters of Genesis.

    Let us follow the formation of the human embryo and see how the wonderful 
life within the womb compares with the outer evolution of man. The human ovem 
is one tiny cell, which when fertilized is converted into a compact ball which 
divides into many small cells. This may be termed the mineral or Saturn Period 
of its existence. This new life by the middle of the fourth week assumes a 
plantlike appearance. This stage is then followed by a tadpole phase, which 
later is superseded by a reptilian aspect. In one of the primitive stages of 
the embryo it is bag-shaped, similar to the form of man's body in the Moon 
Period. This bag-like form is suspended by the umbilical cord. In the Moon 
Period this cord was of an etheric nature. Max Heindel describes the moon 
beings on page 80 of "THE WEB OF DESTINY" as follows: "Fancy, now, in that 
far-off time the firmament as one immense placenta from which there depended 
billions of umbilical cords, eqach with its foetal appendage....These 
umbilical cords and foetal appendages were molded from the moist desire stuff 
by the emotions of the lunar angels."

    During the fifth week the embryo begins to grow a tail, which becomes one-
sixth as long as its body during this period. It then takes on a decidedly 
reptilian appearance, similar to that of the lizard, also having gill clefts. 
This foetal form is also surrounded by water. Between the seventh and eighth 
weeks the reptile has changed its form. The tail has atrophied and the head 
has taken on a pugdog-like appearance, with short arms and legs. The hands and 
feet are paws, with fingers and toes developing. From the tenth week the 
foetus begins to take on a human form. The nose begins to develop. The man-in-


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the-making at this period develops beyond the animal and becomes all human, 
reaching its perfection in the seventh month. Here we again find the 
perfection of God's work. At the end of the sixth cosmic day man was a self-
conscious being. He was required to take up his own work in the seventh and 
free God from the exclusive care of him.

    One more picture, which is of vital interest, is that of a tiny physical 
atom which is mentioned in Revelation, 20th chapter, 12th verse: "And I saw 
the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and 
another book was opened, whcih is the book of life: and the dead were judged 
out of those things which were written in the books, according to their 
works." This book of life is a tiny seed atom within man's body, the only atom 
which is permanent. It is found in the apex of the left ventricle of the 
heart. We are told in the "ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION" that the blood is the 
direct vehicle of the spirit, and being the highest physical expression of the 
ego it is naturally in closest touch with the Memory of Nature. As the blood 
is forced through the heart, it engraves the pictures of the life of the man, 
hour afterm hour, upon this tiny atom, making a perfect record of his life. 
Not alone does this infinitesimal atom record the present life, but it has 
etched upon it the pictures of all the man's past lives.

    From the time when the child draws its first breath, when the foramen 
ovale is closed and the blood is forced through the heart and lungs, the air 
taken into the lungs impresses the pictures of the surroundings upon this atom 
in the heart in a manner similar to that by which an impression is made upon 
the film of a camera. This impress remains all through life. The rupture of 
the connection between this permanent seed atom and the heart causes the 


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latter to stop its beating, which ends in death. During the three and one-half 
days immediately following this rupture all the pictures which have been 
impressed upon this atom are etched through the vital body into the desire 
body. This, by the way, is a most critical time for the ego, and it is of the 
greatest value to it that the body be left undisturbed. When the ego's life in 
the desire world is finished, and the ego on its return to earth life brings 
this wonderful record with it. It is the physical seed atom which draws to 
itself the atoms which constitute the new physical body.

    A word here about the Darwin theory of evolution and its correlation with 
the Roscicrucian doctrine is in order: 

    Darwin was the pioneer scientist in orginating and developing the 
materialistic theory of evolution, and in so doing he displayed great genius 
and insight. He blazed the trail which succeeding scientists have ever since 
been following to a greater or lesser degree.

   Darwin's theory was primarily based on the origin of species through 
"natural selection" and their development through "survival of the fittest." 
Natural selection is spoken of by the Rosicrucians as Epigenesis, namely the 
power of the spirit to originate new causes. Darwin was entitled to much 
credit for the discovery of this principle in nature, although the occultist 
has been in possession of this knowledge for ages.

    Natural selection or Epigenesis is responsible for the gradual improvement 
of the bodies in which man functions and also the improvement of the 
environment in which he lives. Darwin's theory of the "survival of the 
fittest" is merely a self-evident fact in all nature. Darwin left out of 


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account, however, the spiritual origin and nature of man, which is of course 
the most serious defect in his theory. As stated in the preceding pages, amn 
is primarily a spark of God, a three-fold spirit making an evolutionary 
pilgrimage through matter for the purpose of obtaining added self-
consciousness and new powers. A knowledge of this fact alone makes evolution 
rational and understandable.

    The Rosicrucians state emphatically that man has never been an animal. He 
has neither descended from nor ascended from the animals. The idea that he has 
done so is an unfortunate circumstance in connection with Darwin's version of 
evolution. This is the bone of contention among the Fundamentalists at the 
present time. Science regards an animal merely as a mass of living matter. It 
does not know that the animal is ensouled by a virgin spirit as a lower stage 
of development than we. Man has never been a mere living mass of matter 
without a soul. He is and always has been a spirit. But there was a time in 
the prehistoric past when he inhabited animal-like bodies. At a certain stage 
in our history a small section of the Egos of our life wave began to straggle 
away from the main body and degenerate. These stragglers have become 
anthropoid apes. But we have never passed through the anthropoid stage. The 
apes are degenerate men. When the church people get this idea, the greater 
part of their objections to the teaching of evolution in the schools will 
without doubt disappear.

    Darwin presented the material facts of evolution in such a way that they 
could be grasped and accepted in the materialistic age in which he lived. In 
so doing he served a great purpose. But it is necessary that his work be 


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supplemented by a statement of the spiritual facts connected with evolution, 
and this occult science is doing.

    How pathetic is the struggle of the anti-evolutionist to the occult 
scientist, who can see with the X-ray sight, who has positive proof of 
evolution, who can observe the picture reels of the microcosm as well as of 
the macrocosm, and who can follow the records of man through many lives! How 
absurd this struggle is to such a one, in which a few men who are limited in 
their vision are making an attempt to restrict the religious thought of free 
America, and who would dictate to the world what it shall and what it shall 
not believe! One great benefit, however, will be derived from the struggle 
over evolution: If the fundamentalists could but see the effect which their 
fight against evolution will have upon humanity, they would know that they are 
being used as instruments by the Great Ones who are guiding us behind the 
scenes, to bring about a national interest in evolution. People are now 
reading Darwin and comparing him with the book of Genesis who never thought of 
it before, and they are seizing upon any book which deals with the subject. 
The result will be that many will become converts to the very doctrines that 
the fundamentalists are attempting to ban by law. Thus we may see that the 
anti-evolution controversy which is creating such vast interest throughout the 
entire world, is truly a cloud that has a silver lining.


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