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                                CHAPTER XIV.

                       THE OCCULT ANALYSIS OF GENESIS.

                          LIMITATIONS OF THE BIBLE.

   In  our study thus far,  previous to Chapter XIII,  comparatively  little
reference has been made to the Bible, but we shall now devote our  attention
to  it for some time.   Not that it is intended to attempt a vindication  of
the  Bible (in the form in which it is commonly known to use at the  present
day) as the only true and inspired Word of God, nevertheless it is true that
it contains much valuable occult knowledge.  This is, to great extent,  hid-
den beneath interpolations and obscured by the arbitrary withholding of cer-
tain  parts  as being "apocryphal."   The occult scientist,  who  knows  the
intended meaning, can, of course, easily see which portions are original and
which have been interpolated.   Yet, if we take the first chapter of Genesis
even as it stands,  in the best translations we possess,  we shall find that
it unfolds the identical scheme of evolution which has been explained in the
preceding portion of this work and harmonized quite well with the occult in-
formation in regard to Periods, Revolutions, Races, Etc.  The outlines given
are necessarily of the briefest and most condensed character,  an entire Pe-
riod  being  covered  in a score of words--nevertheless,  the  outlines  are
there.

   Before proceeding with an analysis it is necessary  to say that the words


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of the Hebrew language, particularly the old style, run into one another and
are not divided as those of our language.  Add to this that there is a  cus-
tom of leaving out vowels from the writing,  so that in reading much depends
upon where and how they are inserted,  and it will be seen how great are the
difficulties  to  be  surmounted in ascertaining the  original  meaning.   A
slight change may entirely alter the signification of almost any sentence.

   In addition to these great difficulties we must also bear in mind that of
the  forty-seven translators of the King James version (that  most  commonly
used in England and America), only THREE were Hebrew scholars,  and of those
three,  two died before the Psalms had been translated!   We must still fur-
ther  take into consideration that the Act which authorized the  translation
prohibited  the  translators from any rendition that would  greatly  deviate
from or tend to disturb the already existing belief.  It is evident,  there-
fore,  that the chances of getting a correct translation were very small in-
deed.

   Nor  were  conditions much more favorable in Germany,  for  there  Martin
Luther  was  the  sole translator and even he did  not  translate  from  the
original Hebrew, but merely from a Latin text.  Most of the versions used in
Continental  Protestant  countries today are simply translations,  into  the
different languages, of Luther's translations.

   True,  there have been revisions, but they have not greatly improved mat-
ters.   Moreover,  there  is a large number of people in  this  country  who
insist that the ENGLISH text of the King James version is absolutely correct
from cover to cover,  as though the Bible had been originally written in En-
glish,  and  the  King  James version were a certified  copy of the original


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manuscript.   So the old mistakes are still there,  in spite of the  efforts
which have been made to eradicate them.

   It  must also be noted that those who originally wrote the Bible did  not
intend to give out the truth in such plain form that he who ran might  read.
Nothing was further from their thoughts than to write an "open book of God."
The great occultists who write the Zohar are very emphatic upon this  point.
The secrets of the Thorah were not be be understood by all, as the following
quotation will show:

   "Woe to man who sees in the Thorah (the law) only simple recitals and or-
dinary words!   Because, if in truth it contained only these,  we would even
today be able to compose a Thorah much more worthy of admiration.  But it is
not so.   Each word of the Thorah contains an elevated meaning and a sublime
mystery.  .  .  .The recitals of the Thorah are the vestments of the Thorah.
Woe to him who takes this vestment of the Thorah for the Thorah itself!. . .
The  simple take  notice of the garments and recitals of the  Thorah  alone.
They  know no other thing.   They see not that which is concealed under  the
vestment.  THE MORE INSTRUCTED MEN DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO THE VESTMENT, but
to body which it envelops."

   In  the preceding words,  the allegorical meanings are  plainly  implied.
Paul also unequivocally says that the story of Abraham and the two sons whom
he had by Sarah and Hagar is purely allegorical (Gal. iv:22-26).   Many pas-
sages are veiled;  others are to be taken verbatim;  and no one who has  not
the occult key is able to find the deep truth hidden in what is often a very
hideous garment.

   The secrecy regarding these deep matters and invariable use of allegories
where the mass of the  people  were permitted to come in contact with occult


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truths will also be apparent from the practice of Christ,  who always  spoke
to  the multitude in parables,  afterward privately explaining to  His  dis-
ciples  the deeper meaning contained therein.   On several occasions He  im-
posed secrecy upon them with regard to private teachings.

   Paul's methods are also in harmony with this, for the gives "milk: or the
more elementary teaching to the "babes" in the faith,  reserving the  "meat"
or  deeper teaching for the "strong"--those who had qualified themselves  to
understand and receive them.

   The Jewish Bible was originally written in Hebrew,  but we do not possess
one  single  line  of  the original writings.   As early  as  260  B.C.  the
Septuagint,  a translation into Greek, was brought forth.   Even in the time
of  Christ there was already the utmost confusion and diversity  of  opinion
regarding  what was to be admitted as original,  and what had been  interpo-
lated.

   It was not until the return from Babylonian exile that the scribes  began
to piece together the different writings,  and not until about 500 A.D.  did
the Talmud appear, giving the first text resembling the present one,  which,
in view of the foregoing facts, cannot be perfect.

   The Talmud was them taken in hand by the Masorete school,  which from 590
to about 800 A.D.  was principally in Tiberias.   With great and painstaking
labor,  a  Hebrew Old Testament was produced,  which is the nearest  to  the
original we have at the present time.

   This  Masorectic text will be used in the following elucidation  of  Gen-
esis,  and,  not relying upon the work of one translator, it will be supple-
mented by a German translator,  the  work of three eminent Hebrew scholars--


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H.  Arnheim,  M.  Sachs, and Jul. Furst, who co-operated with a fourth,  Dr.
Zunz, the latter being also the editor.

                              IN THE BEGINNING

   The  opening sentence of Genesis is a very good example of what has  been
stated about the interpretation of the Hebrew text,  which may be changed by
differently placing the vowels and dividing the words in another way.

   There are two well recognized methods of reading this sentence.   One is:
"In  the  beginning God created the heavens and the earth";  the  other  is:
"Out  of the ever-existing essence (of space) the twofold energy formed  the
double heaven."

   Much  has been said and written as to which of these two  interpretations
is correct.   The difficulty is,  that the people want something settled and
definite.   They take the stand that, if a certain explanation is true,  all
others  must be wrong.   But,  emphatically,  this is not the way to get  at
truth,  which is many sided and multiplex.   Each occult truth requires  ex-
amination from many different points of view; each viewpoint presents a cer-
tain  phase of the truth,  and all of them are necessary to get a  complete,
definite conception of whatever is under consideration.

   The  very fact that this sentence and many others in the vestment of  the
Thorah  can  thus be made to yield many meanings,  while  confusing  to  the
uninitiated, is illuminative to those who have the key, and the transcenden-
tal wisdom of the wonderful Intelligences Who inspired the Thorah is thereby
shown.  Had the vowels been inserted, and a division made into words,  there
would have been only one way of reading it and these grand and sublime  mys-
teries could not have been hidden therein.  That  would have been the proper


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method  to pursue if the authors had meant to write an "open"  book of  God;
but  that was not their purpose.   It was written solely for the  initiated;
and can be read understandingly by them only.   It would have required  much
less skill to have written the book plainly than to have concealed its mean-
ing.   No pains are ever spared, however,  to bring the information,  in due
time,  to those who are entitled to it,  while withholding it from those who
have not year earned the right to possess it.

                             THE NEBULAR THEORY.

   Regarded  by the light thrown upon the genesis and evolution of our  sys-
tem, it is plain that both renderings of the opening sentence in the Book of
Genesis are necessary to an understanding of the subject.   The first  tells
that there was a beginning of our evolution,  in which the heavens were cre-
ated;  the  other interpretation supplements the first statement  by  adding
that  the  heavens  and the earth were  created;  the  other  interpretation
supplements the first statement by adding that the havens and the earth were
created  out  of the "ever-existing essence," not out of  "nothing,"  as  is
jeering pointed out by the materialist.   The Cosmic Root-substance is gath-
ered together and set in motion.  The rings formed by the inertia of the re-
volving mass break away from the central part, forming planets, etc., as the
modern scientist,  with remarkable ingenuity, has reasoned out.   Occult and
modern  science are in perfect harmony as to the MODUS OPERANDI.   There  is
nothing  in  these statements inconsistent with the two  theories,  as  will
presently be shown.   Occult science teaches that God instituted the process
of  formation and is constantly guiding the System in a definite path.   The
modern scientist, in refutation of what he calls a foolish idea, and to dem-
onstrate  that  a  God  is  not  necessary, takes a basin of water and pours


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a little oil into it.   The water and the oil represent space and  fire-mist
respectively.  He now commences to turn the oil around with a needle, bring-
ing in into the form of a sphere.  This, he explains, represents the Central
Sun.   As he turns the oil-ball faster and faster,  it bulges at the equator
and throws off a ring, the ring breaks and the fragments coalesce, forming a
smaller ball,  which circles around the Sun.  Then he pityingly asks the oc-
cult scientist, "Do you not see how it is done?"  There is not need for your
God, or any supernatural force."

   The  occultist  readily agrees that a Solar System may be formed  in  ap-
proximately the manner illustrated.   But he marvels greatly that a man pos-
sessing the clear intuition enabling him to perceive with such accuracy  the
operation of Cosmic processes,  and the intellect to conceive this brilliant
demonstration  of this monumental theory,  should at the same time be  quite
unable  to see that in his demonstration HE HIMSELF PLAYS THE PART  OF  GOD.
His  was  the extraneous power that placed the oil in the  water,  where  it
would have remained inert and shapeless through all eternity had he not sup-
plied  the force that set it in motion,  thereby causing it to shape  itself
into representation of Sun and planets.  His was the Thought which  designed
the  experiment,  using the oil,  water and force,  thus illustrating  in  a
splendid  manner the Triune God working in Cosmic substance to form a  Solar
System.

   The  attributes of God are Will, Wisdom and Activity.   (See  diagram  6.
Note carefully what the name "God" signifies in this terminology.)  The sci-
entist has WILL to make the experiment.  He has ingenuity to supply ways and
means  for  the  demonstration.  This  ingenuity  corresponds to WISDOM, the


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second attribute to God.   He has also the muscular force necessary to  per-
form the action,  corresponding to ACTIVITY, which is the third attribute of
God.

   Further, the universe is not a vast perpetual-motion machine, which, when
once set going, keeps on without any internal cause or guiding force.   That
also is proven by the experiment of the scientist,  for the moment he ceases
to turn the oil-ball the orderly motion of his miniature planets also ceases
and all returns to a shapeless mass of oil floating on the water.  In a cor-
responding manner, the universe would at once dissolve into "thin space"  if
God for one moment ceased to exert His all-embracing care and energizing ac-
tivity.

   The second interpretation of Genesis is marvelously exact in its descrip-
tion of a twofold formative energy.   It does not specifically state the God
is  Triune.   The reader's knowledge of that fact is taken for granted.   It
states  the exact truth when it says that only two forces are active in  the
formation of a universe.

   When the first aspect of the Triune God manifests as the Will to  create,
It arouses the second aspect (which is Wisdom) to design a plan for the  fu-
ture  universe.   This first manifestation of Force is  Imagination.   After
this  primal Force of Imagination has conceived the Idea of a universe,  the
third aspect (which is Activity), working in Cosmic substance,  produces Mo-
tion.  This is the second manifestation of Force.  Motion alone, however, is
not sufficient.  To form a system of worlds, it must ORDERLY motion.  Wisdom
is  therefore necessary to guide Motion in an intelligent manner to  produce
definite results.

   Thus  we  find  the opening sentence of the Book of Genesis tells us that


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in the beginning, orderly, rhythmic motion, in Cosmic Root-substance, formed
the universe.

                          THE CREATIVE HIERARCHIES.

   The second interpretation of the opening sentence also gives us a  fuller
idea  of  God  when  it speaks of the "two fold  energy,"  pointing  to  the
positive and negative phases of the One Spirit of God in manifestation.   In
harmony with the teaching of occult science, God is represented as a compos-
ite Being.  This is accentuated in the remaining verses of the chapter.

   In  addition to the creative Hierarchies which worked voluntarily in  our
evolution,  there  are seven others which belong to our evolution,  and  are
co-workers with God in the formation of the universe.   In the first chapter
of Genesis these Hierarchies are called "Elohim."  The name signifies a host
of  dual  and double-sexed Beings.   The first part of the work  is  "Eloh,"
which is a feminine noun, the letter "h" indicating the gender.  If a single
feminine  Being  were meant,  the work "Eloh"  would have  been  used.   The
feminine plural is "oth,"  so if the intention had been to indicate a number
of  Gods  of the feminine gender,  the correct word to use would  have  been
"Elooth."   Instead of either of those forms, however, we find the masculine
plural ending,  "im," added to the feminine noun, "Eloh,"  indicating a host
of   male-female,    double-sexed   Beings,   expressions   of   the   dual,
positive-negative, creative energy.

   The  plurality  of Creators is again implied in the latter  part  of  the
chapter,  where these words are ascribed to the Elohim:  "Let US make man in
OUR image;"  after which it is inconsistently added,  "HE made them male and
female."

   The translators have here rendered the puzzling  word "Elohim" (which was


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decidedly  not only a plural word but also BOTH masculine and  feminine)  as
being the equivalent of the singular, sexless word,  "God."   yet could they
have  done differently, even had they known?  They were forbidden to disturb
existing ideas.   It was not truth at any price, but peace at any price that
King  James desired,  his sole anxiety being to avoid any  controversy  that
might create a disturbance in his kingdom.

   The  plural "them"  is also used where the creation of man is  mentioned,
clearly indicating that the reference is to the creation of ADM,  the  human
species, and not Adam, the individual.

   We have shown that six creative Hierarchies (besides the Lords of  Flame,
the  Cherubim,  the Seraphim,  and the two unnamed  Hierarchies  which  have
passed into liberation) were active in assisting the virgin spirits which in
themselves form a seventh Hierarchy.

   The  Cherubim  and the Seraphim had nothing to do with  the  creation  of
Form;  therefore they are not mentioned in the chapter under  consideration,
which deals principally with the Form-side of Creation.   Here we find  men-
tioned  only  the seven creative Hierarchies which did the  actual  work  of
bringing man to where he acquired a dense physical form,  through which  the
indwelling spirit could work.

   After  a  description of teach part of the work of Creation it  is  said:
"and Elohim saw that it was good."  This is said seven times,  the last time
being on the sixth day, when the human form had been created.

   It is stated that on the seventh day "Elohim rested."  This is all in ac-
cord with our occult teaching of the part taken by each of the creative  Hi-
erarchies  in  the work of evolution down to the present Period.  It is also


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taught  that  in the present Epoch the Gods and  creative  Hierarchies  have
withdrawn  from active participation,  that man may work out his own  salva-
tion,  leaving  the necessary guidance of ordinary humanity  to  the  "Elder
Brothers," who are now the mediators between man and the Gods.

                             THE SATURN PERIOD.

   Having satisfied ourselves that the beginning of our System and the  work
of the creative Hierarchies, as described by occult science,  harmonize with
the teachings of the Bible, we will now examine the Bible account of differ-
ent  "Days  of Creation"  and see how they agree with the  occult  teachings
relative  to  the Saturn,  Sun,  and Moon Periods;  the three  and  one-half
Revolutions  of the Earth Period; and the Polarian,  Hyperborean,  Lemurian,
and Atlantean Epochs, which have preceded the present Aryan Epoch.

   Naturally,  a detailed account could not be given in a few lines like the
first chapter of Genesis,  but the main points are there in orderly  succes-
sion, very much like an algebraical formula for Creation.

   The  second verse proceeds:   "The Earth was waste and  uninhabited,  and
darkness  rested upon the face of the deep;  and the Spirits of  the  Elohim
floated  above the deep."   In the beginning of manifestation that which  is
now  the Earth was in the Saturn Period,  and in exactly the  condition  de-
scribed,  as may be seen by referring to the descriptions already  given  of
that Period.   It was not "without form and void,"  as expressed in the King
James version.  It was hot, and thus well-defined and separate from the deep
of space, which was cold.  It is true that it was dark, but it could be dark
and  still  be  hot, for "dark" heat necessarily precedes glowing or visible


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heat.  Above this dark Earth of the Saturn Period floated the creative Hier-
archies.  They worked upon it from the outside and molded it.  The Bible re-
fers to them as the "Spirits of the Elohim."

                               THE SUN PERIOD.

   The Sun Period is well described in the third verse, which says, "And the
Elohim said,  Let there be Light;  and there was Light."   This passage  has
been jeered at as the most ridiculous nonsense.  The scornful query has been
put, How could there be light upon the Earth when the Sun was not made until
the fourth day?   The Bible narrator, however,  is not speaking of the Earth
alone.   He is speaking of the central "Fire-mist,"  from which were  formed
the planets of our system including the Earth.  Thus when the nebula reached
a state of glowing heat, which it did in the Sun Period, there was no neces-
sity for an outside illuminant, the Light was within.

   In  the  fourth verse we read:   "The Elohim differentiated  between  the
light and the darkness."   Necessarily,  for the outside space was dark,  in
contradistinction to the glowing nebula which existed during the Sun Period.

                              THE MOON PERIOD.

   The Moon Period is described in the sixth verse, as follows:  "and Elohim
said,  Let there by an EXPANSION (translated "firmament"  in other versions)
in the waters, to provide the water from the water."  This exactly describes
conditions  in the Moon Period,  when the heat of the glowing fire-mist  and
the cold of outside space had formed a body of water around the fiery  core.
The contact of fire and water generated steam,  which is water in expansion,


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as our verse describes.  It was different from the comparatively cool water,
which  constantly  gravitated toward the hot,  fiery core,  to  replace  the
outrushing stream.   Thus there was a constant circulation of water held  in
suspension,  and also an expansion,  as the steam,  rushing outward from the
fiery  core,  formed an atmosphere of "fire-fog"  condensed by contact  with
outside  space,  returning again to the core to be reheated and perform  an-
other  cycle.   Thus there were two kinds of water,  and a division  between
them,  as stated in the Bible.   The dense water was nearest the fiery core;
the expanded water or stream was on the outside.

   This  also harmonizes with the scientific theory of modern times.   First
the dark heat;  then the glowing nebula;  later the outside moisture and in-
side heat; and, finally incrustation.

                              THE EARTH PERIOD.

   The  Earth Period is next described,  Before we take up its  description,
however,  we have to deal with the Recapitulations.   The verses quoted  and
the  descriptions given will also correspond to the recapitulatory  Periods.
Thus  what is said of the Saturn Period describes also the condition of  the
System  when it emerges from any of the rest of the Periods.   The  descrip-
tions of the Saturn, Sun, and Moon Periods would therefore correspond to the
first three Revolutions of our present Earth Period, and the following would
correspond with conditions on Earth in the present Revolution.

   In the ninth verse, we read:  "And Elohim said, Let the waters be divided
from the dry land. . . .and Elohim called the  dry land Earth."  This refers


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to the first firm incrustation.   Heat and moisture had generated the  solid
body of our present Globe.

   THE POLARIAN EPOCH:  The ninth verse, which describes the Earth Period in
this  fourth Revolution (where the real Earth Period work  commenced),  also
describes the formation of the mineral kingdom and the Recapitulation by man
of  the  mineral stage in the Polarian Epoch.   Each Epoch is also  a  Reca-
pitulation  of  the previous stage.   Just as there are  Recapitulations  of
Globes,  Revolutions,  and Periods, so there are on each Globe,  recapitula-
tions  of  all that has gone before.   These  Recapitulations  are  endless.
There is always a spiral within a spiral--in the atom, in the Globe,  and in
all other phases of evolution.

   Complicated and bewildering as this may appear at first, it is really not
so difficult to understand.   There is an orderly method running through  it
all  and  in time one is able to perceive and follow the  workings  of  this
method,  as a clue leading through a maze.  Analogy is one of the best helps
to an understanding of evolution.

   THE HYPERBOREAN EPOCH is described in verses 11 to 19, as the work of the
fourth day.  It is here recorded that Elohim created the plant kingdom,  the
Sun, the Moon, and the stars.

   The  Bible  agrees with the teaching of modern science that  plants  suc-
ceeded the mineral.  The different between the two teachings is in regard to
the time when the Earth was thrown off from the central mass.   Science  as-
serts  that it was before the formation of any incrustation which  could  be
called  mineral and plant.   If we mean such minerals and plants as we  have
today,  that assertion is correct.   There was no dense material  substance,
but  nevertheless the first incrustation that took place in the central  Sun
was mineral.  The Bible narrator gives only the  principal incidents.  It is


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not  recorded that the incrustation melted when it was thrown off  from  the
central mass as a ring which broke, the fragments afterward coalescing.   In
a body as small as our Earth, the time required for recrystallization was so
comparatively short that the historian does not mention it,  nor the further
subsidiary fact that the melting process took place once more when the  Moon
was thrown off from the Earth.  He probably reasons that one who is entitled
to  occult  information is already in possession of such  minor  details  as
those.

   The  plants of the incrustation of the central fire-mist  were  ethereal,
therefore the melting processes did not destroy them.  As the lines of force
along  which  the ice crystals form are present in the water,  so  when  the
Earth  crystallized,  were those ethereal plant-forms present in  it.   They
were  the  molds  which drew to themselves the dense  material  forming  the
plant-bodies  of  the present day and also of the plant-forms of  the  past,
which are embedded in the geological strata of the Earth globe.

   These ethereal plant-forms were aided in the formation when the heat came
from  outside,  after the separation of the Earth from Sun and  Moon.   That
heat gave them the vital force to draw to themselves the denser substance.

   THE LEMURIAN EPOCH is described in the work of the fifth day.   This  Ep-
och, being the third, is in a sense a Recapitulation of the Moon Period, and
in  the Biblical narrative we find described such conditions as obtained  in
the Moon Period--water, fire-fog, and the first attempts at moving,  breath-
ing life.

   Verses  20 and 21 tell us that "Elohim said,  Let the waters bring  forth
life-breathing things.  .  .and fowl.  . . ; and Elohim formed the great am-
phibians  and  all  life-breathing  things  according  to their species, and


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amphibians and all life-breathing things according to their species, and all
fowl with wings."

   This  also harmonizes with the teaching of material science that the  am-
phibians preceded the birds.

   The  student  is invited to note particularly that THE THINGS  THAT  WERE
FORMED WERE NOT LIFE.   It does NOT say that Life was created,  but "THINGS"
THAT BREATHE OR INHALE LIFE. . . .The Hebrew word for that which they inhale
is NEPHESH,  and it should be carefully noted, as we shall meet it in a  new
dress later.

   THE ATLANTEAN EPOCH is dealt with in the work of the sixth day.  In verse
24  the creation of mammals is mentioned,  and there the work NEPHESH  again
occurs,  explaining that the mammals "breathed life."  "Elohim said, Let the
earth bring forth life-breathing things. . .mammals. . .;"  and in verse 27,
"Elohim  formed  man in their likeness; male and female made  they  (Elohim)
like them."

   The  Bible  historian  here omits the a-sexual  and  hermaphrodite  human
stages and comes to the two separate sexes,  as we know them now.   He could
not  do otherwise,  as he is describing in the Atlantean Epoch,  and by  the
time that stage in evolution was reached there were neither sexless men  nor
hermaphrodites,   the  differentiation  of  the  sexes  having  taken  place
earlier--in  the  Lemurian Epoch.   That which afterward  became  man  could
hardly be spoken of as man in the earlier stages of its development,  as  it
differed but little from the animals.  Therefore the Bible narrator is doing
no violence to facts when he states that man was formed in  the Atlantean E-
poch.

   In verse 28 (all versions) will be found a very small prefix, with a very
great significance:   "Elohim said,  Be fruitful and RE-plenish the  earth."
This plainly shows that the scribe who wrote it was  cognizant of the occult


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teaching  that the life wave had evolved here,  on Globe D of the Earth  Pe-
riod, in previous Revolutions.

   THE  ARYAN  EPOCH corresponds to the seventh day of  Creation,  when  the
Elohim  rested from their labors as Creators and Guides,  and  humanity  had
been launched upon an independent career.

   This  ends the story of the manner in which the Forms were produced.   In
the following chapter the story is told from the point of view which deals a
little more with the Life side.

                           JEHOVAH AND HIS MISSION

   There  has  been much learned discussion concerning the  discrepancy  be-
tween,  and  especially the authorship of the creation story  of  the  first
chapter and that which starts at the fourth verse of the second chapter.  It
is asserted that the two accounts were written by different men, because the
Being or Beings, the name of Whom the translators have rendered as "God"  in
both the first and second chapters of the English version,  are,  in the He-
brew text, called "Elohim" in the first chapter, and "Jehovah" in the second
chapter,   It is argued that the same narrator would have have named God  in
two different ways.

   Had he meant the same God in both cases,  he probably would not,  but  he
was not a monotheist.  He knew better than to think of God as simply a supe-
rior Man, using the sky for a throne and the earth for a footstool.  When he
wrote  of Jehovah he meant the Leader Who had charge of the particular  part
of the work of Creation which was then being described.   Jehovah was and is
one of the Elohim.   He is the Leader of the Angels who were the humanity of
the Moon Period and He is Regent of our Moon.  The  reader  is  referred  to


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diagram 14 for an accurate understanding of the position and constitution of
Jehovah.

   As  Regent  of Our Moon,  He has charge of the  degenerate,  evil  Beings
there,  and He also rules the Angels.  With Him are some of the  Archangels,
who were the humanity of the Sun Period.  They are the "Race-Spirits".

   It is the work of Jehovah to build concrete bodies or forms,  by means of
the  hardening,  crystallizing Moon forces.   Therefore He is the  giver  of
children and the Angels are His messengers in this work.  It is well know to
physiologists that the Moon is connected with gestation; at least, they have
observed  that it measures and governs the period of intra-uterine life  and
other physiological functions.
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   The Archangels,  as Spirits and Leaders of a Race, are known to fight for
or against a people, as the exigencies of the evolution of that Race demand.
In Daniel x:20 an Archangel speaking to Daniel, says, "And now will I return
to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince
of Grecia shall come."

   The Archangel Michael is the Race-spirit of the Jews (Daniel xii:1),  but
JEHOVAH  IS  NOT  THE  GOD  OF THE JEWS ALONE;  HE  IS  THE  AUTHOR  OF  ALL
RACE-RELIGIONS WHICH LED UP TO CHRISTIANITY.  Nevertheless,  it is true that
He did take a special interest in the progenitors of the present  degenerate
Jews--the Original Semites, the "seed-race" for the seven races of the Aryan
Epoch.   Jehovah, of course, takes special care of a seed-race, in which are
to  be  inculcated the embryonic faculties of the humanity of a  new  Epoch.
For  that  reason He was particularly concerned with the  Original  Semites.
They  were  His "chosen people"--chosen to be the seed for a new Race, which


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was to inherit the "Promised Land"--not merely insignificant Palestine,  but
the entire Earth, as it is at present.

   He did not lead them out of Egypt.   That story originated with their de-
scendants and is a confused account of their journey eastward through  flood
and disaster out of the doomed Atlantis into the "wilderness" (the Desert of
Gobi  in Central Asia),  there to wander during the cabalistic forty  years,
until  they could enter the Promised Land.   There is a double and  peculiar
significance  to the descriptive word "promised"  in this  connection.   The
land was called the "promised Land"  because,  as land or earth suitable for
human occupation, it did not exist at the time the "chosen people"  were led
into the "wilderness."   Part of the Earth had been submerged by floods  and
other parts changed by volcanic eruptions, hence it was necessary that a pe-
riod  of time elapse before the new Earth was in a fit condition  to  become
the possession of the Aryan Race.

   The  Original  Semites were set apart and forbidden to marry  into  other
tribes or peoples,  but they were a stiff-necked and hard people,  being yet
led almost exclusively by desire and cunning,  therefore they disobeyed  the
command.   Their Bible records that the sons of God married the daughters of
man--the lower grades of their Atlantean compatriots.   They thus frustrated
the designs of Jehovah and were cast off,  the fruit of such  cross-breeding
being useless as seed for the coming Race.

   These  cross-breeds  were the progenitors of the present  Jews,  who  now
speak  of "lost tribes."   They know that some of the original  number  left
them and went another way,  but they do not know that those were the few who
remained true.  The story of the ten tribes being lost is a fable.   Most of
them  perished,  but  the  faithful  ones survived,  and  from that faithful


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remnant have descended the present Aryan Races.

   The contention of the opponents of the Bible,  that it is a mere  mutila-
tion  of the original writings,  is cheerfully agreed to by occult  science.
Parts  of it are even conceded to be entire fabrications and no  attempt  is
made to prove its authenticity as a whole, in the form we now have it.   The
present effort is simply an attempt to exhume a few kernels of occult  truth
from the bewildering mass of misleading and incorrect interpretations  under
which they have been buried by the various translators and revisors.

                    INVOLUTION, EVOLUTION AND EPIGENESIS

   Having  in the foregoing paragraphs disentangled from the general  confu-
sion  the identity and mission of Jehovah,  it may be that we can  now  find
harmony in the two seemingly contradictory accounts of the creation of  man,
as  recorded in the first and second chapters of Genesis,  in the  first  of
which it is written that he was the last,  and in the second that he was the
first created of all living things.

   We  note that he first chapter deals chiefly with the creation  of  Form,
the second chapter is devoted to the consideration of Life,  while the fifth
chapter  deals with the Consciousness.   They key to the meaning,  then,  is
that we must differentiate sharply between the physical Form,  and the  Life
that  builds that Form for its own expression.   Although the order  of  the
creation of the other kingdoms is not as correctly given in the second chap-
ter as in the first,  it is true that if we consider man from the Life Side,
he was created FIRST, but if we consider him from the standpoint of Form, as
is done in the first chapter, he was created LAST.

   All through the course of evolution--through Periods, Globes, Revolutions


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and Races--those who do not improve by the formation of NEW  characteristics
are held back and immediately begin to degenerate.   Only that which remains
plastic  and pliable and adaptable for molding into new Forms  suitable  for
the  expression of the expanding consciousness; only the Life which  is  ca-
pable of outgrowing the possibilities for improvement inhering in the  forms
it ensouls,  can evolve with the pioneers of any life wave.   All else  must
straggle on behind.

   This  is  the  kernel of the occult teaching.   Progress  is  not  simply
unfoldment;  not simply Involution and Evolution.   There is a third factor,
making a triad--Involution, Evolution, AND--EPIGENESIS.

   The  first two words are familiar to all who have studied Life and  Form,
but while it is generally admitted that the involution of spirit into matter
takes  place in order that form may be built,  it is not so commonly  recog-
nized that THE INVOLUTION OF SPIRIT RUNS SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE EVOLUTION  OF
FORM.

   From  the  very  beginning of the Saturn Period up to  the  time  in  the
Atlantean Epoch when "man's eyes were opened" by the Lucifer Spirits, and as
a  consequence  the activities of man--or the Life-force  which  has  become
man--were chiefly directed inward;  that very same force which he now  sends
out from himself to build railways, steamboats, etc., was used internally in
building  a  vehicle  through which to manifest himself.   This  vehicle  is
threefold, like the spirit which built it.

   The same power by which man is now improving outside conditions was  used
during Involution for purposes of internal growth.

   The  Form  was  built  by  Evolution,  the Spirit built and entered it by


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Involution; but the means for devising improvements is Epigenesis.

   There is a strong tendency to regard all that is,  as the result of some-
thing that has been; all improvements on previously existing forms, as being
present in all forms as latencies; to regard Evolution as simply the unfold-
ing  of germinal improvements.   Such a conception excludes Epigenesis  from
the scheme of things.  It allows no possibility for the building of anything
new, no scope for originality.

   The occultist believes the purpose of evolution to be the development  of
man from a static to a dynamic God--a Creator.   If the development he is at
present undergoing is to be his education and if, during its progress, he is
simply unfolding latent actualities, where does He learn to CREATE?

   If man's development consists solely in learning to build better and bet-
ter  Forms,  according to MODELS already existing in his Creator's mind,  be
can become, at best, only a good IMITATOR--never a CREATOR.

   In order that he may become an independent, original Creator,  it is nec-
essary that his training should include sufficient latitude for the exercise
of  the individual originality which distinguishes creation from  imitation.
So  long as certain features of the old Form meet the requirements  of  pro-
gression they are retained,  but at each rebirth the evolving Life adds such
original improvements as are necessary for its further expression.

   The  pioneers  of  science  are constantly  brought  face  to  face  with
Epigenesis as a fact in all departments of nature.  As early as 1759, Caspar
Wolff  published his "Theoria Generationis,"  in which he shows that in  the
human  ovum  there  is  absolutely no trace of the coming organism; that its


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evolution  consists of the addition of NEW formations;  a building of  some-
thing which is not latent in the ovum.

   Haeckel  (that  great and fearless student of nature as he sees  it,  and
very  near to knowledge of the complete truth regarding evolution)  says  of
the "Theoria Generationis":  "Despite its small compass and difficult termi-
nology,  it is one of the most valuable works in the whole literature of bi-
ology."

   Haeckel's  own  views  we  find  thus  stated  in  his   "Anthropogenie":
"Nowadays we are hardly justified in calling Epigenesis an hypothesis, as we
have  fully convinced ourselves of its being a FACT and are able at any  mo-
ment to demonstrate it by the help of the microscope."

   A  builder would be but a sorry craftsman were his abilities  limited  to
the building of houses after only one particular model,  which,  during  his
apprenticeship, his master had taught him to imitate, but which he is unable
to later to meet new requirements.   To be successful he must be capable  of
designing new and better houses, improving that which experience teaches was
not serviceable in the earlier buildings.  The same force which the  builder
now  directs  outward to built houses better adapted to new  conditions  was
used  in past Periods to build new and better vehicles for the evolution  of
the Ego.

   Starting  with the simplest organisms,  the Life which now Man built  the
Form to suit its necessities.  In due time, as the entity progressed; it be-
come  evident that new improvements must be added which conflicted with  the
lines previously followed.   A new start must be given it in a new  species,
where it could retrieve any previous mistakes which experience taught  would
preclude  further  development if the old lines were adhered to and thus the


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evolving  life would be enabled to progress further in a new species.   When
later experience proved that the new form also was inadequate,  inasmuch  as
it  could not adapt itself to some improvement necessary to the progress  of
the evolving life, it too was discarded and still another departure made, in
a form adaptable to the necessary improvement.

   Thus by successive steps does the evolving Life improve its vehicles, and
the  improvements  is  still going on.   Man,  who is  in  the  vanguard  of
progress,  has built his bodies, from the similitude of the amoeba up to the
human form of the savage,  and from that up through the various grades until
the  most  advanced races are now using the best and most  highly  organized
bodies  on Earth.   Between deaths and rebirths we are  constantly  building
bodies in which to function during our lives and a far greater degree of ef-
ficiency  than  the present will yet be reached.   If we  make  mistakes  in
building  between lives,  they become evident when we are using the body  in
Earth life, and it is well for us if we are able to perceive and realize our
mistakes, that we may avoid making them afresh life after life.

   But  just as the builder of houses would lag commercially if he  did  not
constantly  improve his methods to meet the exigencies of his  business,  so
those  who persistently adhere to the old forms fail to rise above the  spe-
cies  and are left behind,  as stragglers.   These stragglers take the  form
outgrown  by the pioneers,  as previously explained,  and they  compose  the
lower Races and species of any kingdom in which they are evolving.   As  the
Life which is now Man passed through stages analagous to the mineral, plant,
and animal kingdoms and through the lower human Races,  stragglers were left
all  along  the  way  who had failed to reach the necessary standard to keep


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abreast of the crestwave of evolution.  They took the discarded Forms of the
pioneers and used them as stepping-stones,  by means of which they tried  to
overtake  the others,  but the advanced Forms did not stand still.   In  the
progress of Evolution there is no halting-place.   In evolving Life,  as  in
commerce, there is no such thing as MERELY "holding your own."   Progression
or  Retrogression  is  the Law.   The Form that is not  capable  of  further
improvement must Degenerate.

   Therefore  there is one line of IMPROVING forms ensouled by the  pioneers
of the evolving Life, and another line of degerating forms,  outgrown by the
pioneers,  but ensouled by the stragglers,  as long as there are any  strag-
glers of that particular life wave to which those forms originally belonged.

   When  there are no more stragglers, the species gradually dies out.   The
Forms  have  been crystallized beyond the possibility of being  improved  by
tenants of increasing inability.  They therefore return to the mineral king-
dom, fossilize and are added to the different strata of the Earth's crust.

   The assertion of material science that man has ascended through the  dif-
ferent  kingdoms of plant and animal which exist about us now to  anthropoid
and  thence to man,  is not quite correct.   Man has never  inhabited  forms
identical with those of our present-day animals, nor the present-day anthro-
poid  species;  but he has inhabited forms which were similar to but  HIGHER
than those of the present anthropoids.

   The  scientist sees that there is an anatomical likeness between man  and
the monkey,  and as the evolutionary impulse always makes from  improvement,
he concludes that man must have descended from the monkey,  but he is always


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baffled in his efforts to find the "missing link" connecting the two.

   From the point where the pioneers of our life wave  (The Aryan Races) oc-
cupied ape-like forms, they have PROGRESSED to their present stage of devel-
opment, while the Forms (which were the "missing link") have DEGENERATED and
are now ensouled by the last stragglers of the Saturn Period.

   The  lower monkeys,  instead of being the progenitors of the higher  spe-
cies,  are stragglers occupying the most degenerated specimens of  what  was
once the human form.   Instead of man having ascended from the  anthropoids,
the  reverse is true--the anthropoids have degenerated from  man.   Material
science,  dealing only with Form, has thus misled itself and drawn erroneous
conclusions in this matter.

   The same relative conditions are to be found in the animal kingdom.   The
pioneers  of the life wave which entered evolution in the Sun  pioneers  are
our present-day mammals.   The different grades correspond to the steps once
taken by man, but THE FORMS ARE ALL DEGENERATING UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE
STRAGGLERS.   Similarly,  the pioneers of the life wave which entered evolu-
tion in the Moon pioneers are found among the fruit tress,  while the strag-
glers of that life wave ensoul all other plant forms.

   Each life wave,  however remains definitely confined within its own  bor-
ders.  The anthropoids may overtake us and become human beings, but no other
animals will reach our particular point of development.   They will reach  a
similar stage,  but under different conditions, in the Jupiter Period.   The
present  plants  will  be the humanity of the Venus Period,  under  a  still
greater difference of condition, and our minerals will reach the human stage
under the conditions of the Vulcan Period.


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    It  will be noted that the modern evolutionary theory particularly  that
of Haeckel,  would, if it were completely reversed, be in almost perfect ac-
cord with the knowledge of occult science.

   The monkey has degenerated from the man.

   The polyps are the last degeneration left behind by the mammals.

   The mosses are the lowest degenerations of the plant kingdom.

   The mineral kingdom is the final goal of the forms of all the kingdoms
when they have reached the acme of degeneration.

   A  corroboration of this is found in coal,  which was once  vegetable  or
plant forms; also in petrified wood and fossilized remains of various animal
forms.   Common stone or rock,  which no scientist would admit had it origin
in  another  kingdom,  is to the occult investigator  as  truly  mineralized
plants as coal itself.   The mineralogist will learnedly explain that it  is
composed of hornblende, feldspar, and mica, but the trained clairvoyant, who
can  trace it back in the memory of Nature,  through millions of years,  can
supplement  that  statement  by  adding:   Yes,  and  that  which  you  call
hornblende and feldspar are the leaves and stems of prehistoric flowers, and
the mica is all that remains of their petals.

   The  occult teaching of evolution is also corroborated by the science  of
embryology  in the ante-natal recapitulation of all past stages of  develop-
ment.   The difference between the ovum of a human being and of some of  the
higher mammals, and even of the higher developments in the plant kingdom, is
indistinguishable,  even under the microscope.  Experts are unable  to  tell
which  is  animal  and  which  is  human.  Even after several of the initial


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ante-natal stages have been passed through the experts cannot  differentiate
between and animal and human embryo.

   But if the animal ovum is studied through the entire period of gestation,
it  will  be observed that it passes through the mineral  and  plant  stages
only,  and is born when it reaches the animal stage.   This is  because  the
Life ensouling such an ovum passed through its mineral evolution in the  Sun
Period,  its plant life in the Moon Period, and is now forced to stop at the
animal stage in the Earth Period.

   On the other hand, the Life which uses the human ovum had its mineral ex-
istence in the Saturn Period,  its plant existence in the Sun Period  passed
the animal stage in the Moon Period, has still some scope for Epigenesis af-
ter it has reached the animal stage and therefore goes on to the  human--nor
does it stop there.   The father and mother give the substance of their bod-
ies for the building of the child's body,  but,  particularly in the  higher
races.   Epigenesis makes it possible to add something which makes the child
different from the parents.

   Where  Epigenesis  is  inactive in the  individual,  family,  nation,  or
Race--there evolution ceases and degeneration commences.

                               A LIVING SOUL?

   Thus the two Creation stories harmonize very well.

   One deals with Form, which was built up through mineral, plant and animal
and reached the human LAST.

   The other tells us that Life which now ensouls human forms was manifested
anterior to the Life which ensouls the forms of the other kingdoms.

   One of these accounts of Creation would not have been sufficient.   There
are important particulars hidden  behind the narrative of man's creation, in


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the second chapter;  the verse reads:  "The Jehovah formed man from the dust
of the Earth,  and blew into his nostrils the breath (NEPHESH),  and man be-
come a breathing creature (NEPHESH CHAYIM)."

   In  other places in the King James version NEPHESH is translated  "life,"
but  in this particular instance (Gen. ii.7) it is rendered  "living  soul,"
thus  conveying the idea that there was a distinction made between the  life
that  ensouled  the human form and that which ensouled  inferior  creations.
There is no authority whatever for this difference in translation,  which is
purely  arbitrary.   The life-breath (NEPHESH) is the same  man  and  beast.
This  can be shown even to those who stand firmly upon the Bible as  author-
ity, for even the King James version distinctly states (Eccles.  iii:19,20):
".  .  .as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea,  they all have one breath
(NEPHESH); so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast:. . .All go unto
one place."

   The animals are but our "younger brothers,"  and though they are not  now
so finely organized,  they will eventually reach a state as high as our own,
and we shall then have ascended higher.

  It  is contended that MAN received his soul in the way described  in  this
seventh verse of the second chapter of Genesis,  and that he could have  re-
ceived  it in no other way,  it is pertinent to ask where and how WOMAN  re-
ceived her soul?

   The meaning of the chapter,  and of the inspiration of the breath of life
by Jehovah,  is very plain and clear when we use the occult key,  and it has
the further and immense advantage of being logical.

   The  fact  that  the  Regent  of  the Moon (Jehovah), with His Angels and


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Archangels, were the principals in this action fixes the time when this cre-
ation  occurred.   It  was between the early and the  middle  parts  of  the
Lemurian  Epoch,  and must have been after the Moon was thrown out from  the
Earth,  because Jehovah had nothing to do with the generation of bodies  be-
fore  the Moon was thrown off.   The forms were then more  ethereal.   There
were no dense and concrete bodies.   It is possible to make such bodies only
by means of the hardening and crystallizing Moon-forces,   It must have been
in  the  first half of the Lemurian Epoch,  because the  separation  of  the
sexes, which is recorded later, took place in the middle of that epoch.

   At that time man-in-the-making had not yet commenced to breathe by  means
of lungs.   He had the gill-like apparatus still present in the human embryo
while passing through the stage of ante-natal life corresponding to that Ep-
och.   He had no warm,  red blood, for at that stage there was no individual
spirit, the entire form was soft and pliable and the skeleton soft like car-
tilage.   Before the later date, when it became necessary to separate human-
ity into sexes, the skeleton had grown firm and solid.

   The work done by Jehovah was to build dense, hard bone substance into the
soft  bodies  already existing.   Previous to this time,  i.e.,  during  the
Polarian and Hyperborean Epochs, neither animal nor man had bones.

                                 ADAM'S RIB

   The grotesque and impossible manner in which the separation of the  sexes
is  said to have been accomplished (as described in the common  versions  of
the Bible and,  in this particular case, in the Masoretic text also) is  an-
other example of what may be dome by changing vowels in the old Hebrew text.


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Read in one way,  the work is "rib"; but in another,  which has at least  as
good  claim  to  consideration,  with  the  additional  advantage  of  being
common-sense,  it reads "side."   If we interpret this to mean that man  was
male-female and that Jehovah caused one side or sex in each being to  remain
latent, we shall not be doing violence to our reason, as we would be accept-
ing the "rib" story.

   When  this alternation is made,  the occult teaching as previously  given
harmonizes with that of the Bible and both agree with the teaching of modern
science that man was bi-sexual at one time,  before he developed one sex  at
the expense of the other.  In corroboration of this,  it is pointed out that
the  foetus  is bi-sexual up to a certain point;  there-after one  sex  pre-
dominates,  while the other remains in abeyance,  so that each person  still
has  the opposite sex organs in a rudimentary form and therefore  is  really
bi-sexual, as was primitive man.

   Apparently the Bible narrator does not wish to give,  in this second cre-
ation account,  an accurate picture of the whole of evolution, but rather to
particularize a little more what was said in the first chapter.  He tells us
that man did not always breathe as he does now;  that there was a time  when
he  was not separated into sexes;  and that it was Jehovah Who effected  the
change,  thus fixing the time of the occurrence.  As we proceed,  it will be
found that much further information is given.

                               GUARDIAN ANGELS

   During the earlier Epochs and Periods the great creative Hierarchies  had
worked upon humanity as it was uncommonly evolving.  There had been only ONE


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COMMON CONSCIOUSNESS among ALL human beings;  one group-spirit for all  man-
kind, as it were.

   In the Lemurian Epoch a new step was taken.   Bodies had been  definitely
formed, but they must have warm, red blood before they could be ensouled and
become the abode of indwelling spirits.

   In  nature no process is sudden.   We would get a wrong idea were  we  to
imagine  that air blown into the nostrils could put a soul into an image  of
clay and galvanize it into life as a sentient, thinking being.

   The  individual spirit was very weak and impotent and quite unfitted  for
the task of guiding its dense vehicle.   In that respect it is not yet  very
strong.  To any qualified observer, it is evident that the desire body rules
the personality more than does the spirit, even at our present stage of  ad-
vancement.   But  in  the  middle of the  Lemurian  Epoch,  when  the  lower
personality--the  threefold body---was to be endowed with the light  of  the
Ego,  the latter, if left to itself, would have been absolutely powerless to
guide its instrument.

   Therefore  it is necessary for someone much more highly evolved  to  help
the  individual spirit and gradually prepare the way for its complete  union
with its instruments.  It was analogous to a new nation,  over which,  until
it becomes capable of forming a stable government for itself,  some stronger
power  establishes a protectorate,  guarding it alike from external  dangers
and internal indiscretions.  Such a protectorate was exercised over evolving
humanity  by  the  Race-spirit,  and is exercised over the  animals  by  the
group-spirit, in a somewhat different way.

   Jehovah is the Most High.  He is Race-God, as one might express it,  hav-
ing dominion over all Form.  He  is the Chief Ruler and the highest Power in


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maintaining  the  form and exercising an orderly government  over  it.   The
Archangels are the Race-spirits,  each having dominion over a certain  group
of people.   They also have dominion over animals, while the Angels have do-
minion over the plants.

   The Archangels have dominion over races or groups of people and also over
the  animals,  for these two kingdoms have desire bodies and the  Archangels
are expert architects of desire matter,  because in the Sun Period the dens-
est globe was composed of that materials,  and the humanity of that  period,
who  are now Archangels,  learned to build their densest vehicles of  desire
staff  as we are now learning to build our bodies of the  chemical  elements
whereof  our Earth-globe is composed.   Thus it will be  readily  understood
that  the  Archangels  are peculiarly qualified to  help  later  life  waves
through the stage where they learn to build and control a desire body.

   For analogous reasons the Angels work in the vital bodies of man,  animal
and plant.   Their densest bodies are composed of other and so was the Globe
D in the Moon Period when they were human.

   Jehovah and His Archangels,  therefore,  hold a similar relation to Races
that  the group-spirit does to animals.  When individual members of  a  Race
have evolved entire self-control and government,  they are emancipated  from
the influence of the Race-spirit and kindred beings.

   As we have seen, the point of vantage of the group-spirit,  as of any Ego
in  the dense body,  is in the blood.   The Masoretic text shows  that  this
knowledge was possessed by the writer of Leviticus.  In the fourteenth verse
of the seventeenth chapter the Jews are prohibited from eating blood because
". . .the  soul  of  ALL  flesh  is in the blood. . . ;" and in the eleventh


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verse of the same chapter we find these words:   ".  .  .for the soul of the
flesh  is in the blood.  .  .the blood itself mediates for the soul,"  which
shows that this applies to both man and beast, for the word here used in the
Hebrew  is NESHAMAH and means "soul"--not "life,"  as it is rendered in  the
King James version.

   The  Ego works directly through the blood.   The Race-spirit  guides  the
Races by working in the blood, as the group-spirit guides the animals of its
species  through the blood.   So also does the Ego control its own  vehicle,
but with a difference.

   The Ego operates by means of the HEAT of the blood, while the Race (i.e.,
tribal, or family) spirit works by means of the AIR, as it is drawn into the
lungs.   That is why Jehovah,  or His messengers,  "breathed into man's nos-
trils,"  thereby securing admission for the Race-spirit,  Community-spirits,
etc.

   The  different  classes of Race-spirits guided their peoples  to  various
climates  and different parts of the Earth.   To the trained clairvoyant,  a
tribal-spirit appears as a cloud enveloping and permeating the atmosphere of
the  whole  country inhabited by the people under its  dominion.   Thus  are
produced  the different peoples and nations.  Paul spoke of "The  Prince  of
the Power of the Air"; or "principalities and powers," etc., showing that he
knew of the Race-spirits,  but now not even an attempt is made to understand
what they mean,  although their influence is strongly felt.   Patriotism  is
one of the sentiments emanating from and fostered by them.   It has not  now
so much power over people as formerly.  There are some who are being  liber-
ated  from the Race-spirit and can say with Thomas Paine,  "The world is  my
country."  There  are  those  who  can leave father and mother and look upon


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all  men as brothers.   They are being liberated from the Family-spirit,  or
spirit of the Clan which is different from the race-spirit,  an etheric  en-
tity.   Others again, who are deep in the toil of the Race or Family spirit,
will  suffer the most dreadful depression if they leave home or country  and
breathe the air of another Race of Family spirit.

   At  the time of the Race-spirit entered human bodies  the  individualized
Ego commenced to get some slight control of its vehicles.  Each human entity
became  more  and more conscious of being separate and distinct  from  other
men,  yet for ages he did not think of himself PRIMARILY as  an  individual,
but as belonging to a tribe or family.  The affix "son"  to many present day
surnames  is  a remnant of this feeling.  A man was not  simply  "John,"  or
"James."   He was John RobertSON, or James WilliamSON.   In some countries a
woman  was not "Mary,"  or "Martha."   She was Mary Marthasdaughter,  Martha
Marys daughter.   The custom was continued in some European countries  until
within a few generations of the present time;  the "son"  affix remains with
us yet and the family name is still much honored.

   Among  the Jews,  even down to the time of Christ,  the  Race-spirit  was
stronger than the individual spirit.   Every Jew thought of himself FIRST as
belonging to a certain tribe or family.  His proudest boast was that he  was
of the "Seed of Abraham."  All this was the work of the Race-spirit.

   Previous to the advent of Jehovah,  when the Earth was yet a part of  the
Sun, there was one common group-spirit, composed of all the creative Hierar-
chies,  which controlled the entire human family,  but it was intended  that
each  body  should  be  the  temple  and pliable instrument of an indwelling


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spirit and that meant an infinite division of rulership.

   Jehovah come with His Angel and Archangels and made the first great divi-
sion  into  Races,   giving  to  each  group  the  guiding  influence  of  a
Race-spirit--an Archangel.   For each Ego He appointed one of the Angels  to
act  as guardian until the individual spirit had grown strong enough to  be-
come emancipated from all outside influence.

                          MIXING BLOOD IN MARRIAGE

   Christ came to prepare the way for the emancipation of humanity from  the
guidance of differentiating Race- and Family-spirit,  and to unite the whole
human family in One Universal Brotherhood.

   He taught that "Abraham's seed"  referred to the BODIES only,  and called
their  attention  to  the  fact that before  Abraham  lived  (the)  "I"--the
Ego--was in existence.  The threefold individual spirit had its being before
all Tribes and Races and it will remain when they have passed away and  even
the memory of them is no more.

   The threefold spirit in man,  the Ego, is the God within,  whom the  per-
sonal,  bodily man must learn to follow.  Therefore did Christ say that,  to
be His disciple,  a man must forsake all he had.  His teaching points to the
emancipation  of  the God within.   He calls upon man to exercise  his  pre-
rogative  as an individual and rise above family,  tribe,  and nation.   Not
that he is to disregard kin and country.  He must fulfill all duties, but he
is  to cease identifying himself with part and must recognize an equal  kin-
ship with ALL the world.  That is the ideal given to mankind by the Christ.

   Under the rule of the Race-spirit,  the nation,  tribe or family was con-
sidered first--the individual last.  The family must be kept intact.  If any


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man dies without leaving offspring to perpetuate his name,  his brother must
"carry seed" to the widow, that there might be no dying out (Due. XXV:5-10).
Marrying  out of the family was regarded with horror in the earliest  times.
A member of one tribe could not become connected with another without losing
caste in his own.   It was not an easy matter to become a member of  another
family.   Not only among the Jews and other early nations was the  integrity
of the family insisted upon,  but also in more modern times.   As previously
mentioned,  the Scots, even in comparatively recent times, clung tenaciously
to  their  Clan,  and the old Norse Vikings would take  no  one  into  their
families without first "mixing blood" with him, for the spiritual effects of
haemolysis, which are unknown to material science, were known of old.

   All these customs resulted from the working of Race- and tribal-spirit in
the  common blood.   To admit as a member one in whom that common blood  did
not flow would have caused "confusion of caste."  The closer the inbreeding,
the  greater the power of the Race-spirit,  and the stronger the  ties  that
bound the individual to the tribe,  because the vital force of the man is in
his  blood.   Memory is intimately connected with the blood,  which  is  the
highest expression of the vital body.

   The brain and the nervous system are the highest expression of the desire
body.    They  call  up  pictures  of  the  outside  world,  but  in  mental
image-making,  i.e., imagination, the blood brings the material for the pic-
tures; therefore when the thought is active the blood flows to the head.

   When the same unmixed strain of blood flows in the veins of a family  for
generations,   the   same   mental   pictures   made  by  great-grandfather,


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grandfather and father are reproduced in the son by the family-spirit  which
lived in the haemoglobin of the blood.   He sees himself as the continuation
of a long line of ancestors who LIVE IN HIM.   He sees all the events of the
past  lives of the family as though he had been present,  therefore he  does
not realize himself as an Ego.   He is not simply "David,:  but "the SON  of
Abraham"; not "Joseph," but "the SON of David."

   By  means of this common blood men are said to have LIVED for  many  gen-
erations,  because  through the blood their descendants had  access  to  the
memory of nature,  in which the records of the lives of their ancestors were
preserved.   That is why, in the fifth chapter of Genesis, it is stated that
the patriarchs lived for centuries.   Adam,  Methuselah and the other patri-
archs  did not PERSONALLY attain to such great age,  but they lived  in  the
consciousness of their descendants,  who saw the lives of their ancestors as
if THEY had lived them.  After the expiration of the period stated,  the de-
scendants  did  not think of themselves as Adam or  Methuselah.   Memory  of
those ancestors faded and so it is said they died.

   The "second sight"  of the Scotch Highlanders shows that be means of  en-
dogamy  the consciousness of the inner World is retained.   They have  prac-
ticed marrying in the Clan until recent times;  also in Gipsies,  who always
marry  in the tribe.   The smaller the tribe and the closer the  inbreeding,
the more pronounced is the "sight."

   The  earlier Races would not have dared to disobey the injunction  issued
by the tribal God,  not to marry outside of the tribe,  nor had they any in-
clination to do so, for they had no mind of their own.

   The Original Semites were the first to evolve Will, and they at once mar-
ried  the  daughters of the men of other tribes, frustrating temporarily the


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design of their Race-spirit and being promptly ejected as evil-doers who had
"gone  a-whoring after strange gods," thereby rendering themselves unfit  to
give  the  "seed"  for  the seven Races of our  present  Aryan  Epoch.   The
Original  Semites  were,  for  the  time  being,  the  last  Race  that  the
Race-spirit cared to keep separate.

   Later, man was given free will.  The time had come when he was to be pre-
pared for individualization.  The former "common" consciousness,  the invol-
untary clairvoyance or second-sight which constantly held before a tribesman
the  pictures  of his ancestor's lives and caused him to feel  most  closely
identified  with  the tribe or family,  was to be replaced for a time  by  a
strictly individual consciousness confined to the material world,  so as  to
break  up the nations into individuals, that the Brotherhood of Man  regard-
less of exterior circumstances may become a fact.  This is on the same prin-
ciple  that if we have a number of buildings and wish to make them into  one
large  structure,  it is necessary to break them up  into  separate  bricks.
Only then can the large building be constructed.

   In order to accomplish this separation of nations into individuals,  laws
were  given which prohibited endogamy or marriage in the family  and  hence-
forth  incestuous  marriages  gradually came to  be  regarded  with  horror.
Strange  blood has thus been introduced into all the families of  the  Earth
and  it has gradually wiped out the involuntary clairvoyance which  promoted
the clannish feeling and segregated humanity into groups.   Altruism is  su-
perseding  patriotism,  and loyalty to the family is disappearing in  conse-
quence of the mixture of blood.

   Science   has   lately   discovered   that   haemolysis  results from the


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inoculation  of the blood of one individual into the veins of another  of  a
different  species,  causing the death of the lower of the  two.   Thus  any
animal inoculated with the blood of a man dies.   The blood of a dog  trans-
fused into the veins of a bird kills the bird,  but it will not hurt the dog
to have the bird's blood inoculated into its veins.   Science merely  states
the fact,  the occult scientist gives the reason.   The blood is the vantage
ground of the spirit,  as shown elsewhere.   The Ego in man works in its own
vehicles by means of the HEAT of the blood;  the race,  family or  community
spirit gains entrance to the blood by means of the AIR we inspire.   In  the
animals are also both the separate spirit of the animal and the group-spirit
of the species to which it belongs,  but the spirit of the animal is not in-
dividualized  and does not work self-consciously with its vehicles  as  does
the Ego, hence it is altogether dominated by the group-spirit which works in
the blood.

   When  the  blood of a higher animal is inoculated into the veins  of  one
from  a lower species,  the spirit in the blood of the higher animal  is  of
course stronger than the spirit of the less evolved; hence when it endeavors
to assert itself it kills the imprisoning  form and liberates itself.  When,
on the other hand, the blood of a lower species is inoculated into the veins
of a higher animal, the higher spirit is capable of ousting the less evolved
spirit in the strange blood and assimilating the blood to its own  purposes,
therefore no visible catastrophe ensues.

   The  group-spirit always aims to preserve the integrity of its domain  in
the blood of the species under its charge.  Like the human Race-God,  it re-
sents the marriage of its subjects into other species and visits the sins of
the  fathers  upon the children as we see in the case of hybrids.   Where  a
horse and a donkey produce a mule for instance, the mixture of strange blood


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destroys the propagative faculty so as not to perpetuate the hybrid which is
an abomination from the standpoint of the group-spirit,  for the mule is not
so definitely under the dominion of the group-spirit of the horses or of the
group-spirit of the donkeys as the pure breed, yet it is not so far away  as
to be entirely exempt from their influence.  If two mules could mate,  their
offspring  would  be  still  less under the  dominion  of  either  of  these
group-spirits,  and  so a new species WITHOUT A GROUP-SPIRIT  would  result.
That  would  be  anomaly in nature,  an  impossibility  until  the  separate
animal-spirits    should   have   become   sufficiently   evolved   to    be
SELF-SUFFICIENT.  Such a species, could it be produced, would be without the
guiding  instinct,  so-called,  which is in reality the  promptings  of  the
group-spirit;  they would be in an analogous position to a litter of kittens
removed  from  the mother's womb prior to birth.   They could  not  possibly
shift for themselves, so they would die.

   Therefore,  as  it  is the group-spirit of the  animals  that  sends  the
separate  spirits of the animals into embodiment,  it simply  withholds  the
fertilizing  seed-atom when animals of widely differing species  are  mated.
It  permits  one  of its charges to take advantage  of  an  opportunity  for
re-embodiment where two animals of nearly the same nature are mated, but re-
fuses to let the hybrids perpetuate themselves.   Thus we see that the infu-
sion  of strange blood weakens the hold of the group-spirit and that  there-
fore it either destroys the FORM or the propagative FACULTY where it has the
power.

   The human spirit is individualized, an Ego, it is evolving free will  and
responsibility.   It  is drawn to birth by the irresistible  law  of  Conse-
quence,  so  that it is beyond the power of the race,  community  or  family
spirit to keep it from returning at the present stage of  human development,


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and by the admixture of strange blood,  by intermarriage of the  individuals
of different tribes or nations, the leaders of man are gradually helping him
to oust the family,  tribal or national spirit from the blood,  but with  it
has necessarily gone the involuntary clairvoyance which was due to its work-
ing in the blood,  whereby it fostered the family traditions in its charges,
and  so we see that ALSO IN THE CASE OF MAN A FACULTY WAS DESTROYED  BY  THE
MIXTURE OF BLOOD.   That loss was a gain,  however,  for it has concentrated
man's energy on the material world and he is better able to master its  les-
sons that if he were still distracted by the visions of the higher realms.

   As  man  becomes emancipated he gradually ceases to think of  himself  as
"Abraham's Seed," as a "Clan Stewart Man," as a "Brahmin" or a "Levite":  he
is learning to think more of himself as an individual an "I".   The more  he
cultivates  that "Self,"  the more he frees himself from the family and  na-
tional spirit in the blood,  the more he becomes self-sufficient citizen  of
the world.

   There is much foolish,  even dangerous, take of giving up the Self to the
Not-Self;  only when we have cultivated a "Self," can we sacrifice ourselves
and give up the SELF to the WHOLE.  So long as we can only love our own fam-
ily or nation we are incapable of loving others.  We are bound by the tie of
kin and country.  When we have burst the tie of blood and ASSERTED OURSELVES
and  become  self-sufficient may we become unselfish  helpers  of  humanity.
When a man has reached that stage he will find that,  instead of having lost
his own family,  he has gained all the families in the world,  for they will
have  become his sisters and brothers,  his fathers and mothers to care  for
and help.

   Then he will regain the viewpoint of the Spiritual World which he lost by


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the mixing of blood, but it will be a higher faculty an intelligent,  volun-
tary clairvoyance where he can see what HE wills and not merely the negative
faculty  imprinted in his blood by the family spirit which bound him to  the
family to the exclusion of all other families.   His viewpoint will be  uni-
versal, to be used for universal good.

   For  aforementioned reasons,  intertribal, and later international,  mar-
riages  came gradually to be regarded as desirable and preferable  to  close
intermarriages.

   As man progressed through these stages, and gradually lost touch with the
inner world,  he sorrowed over the loss and longer for a return of the  "in-
ner"  vision.   But by degrees he forgot,  and the material world  gradually
loomed up before his mind as the only reality,  until at last he has come to
scout  the idea that such inner Worlds exist and to regard a belief in  them
as foolish superstition.

   The four causes contributing to this condition were:

   (1)  The clearing of the foggy atmosphere of the Atlantean continent.

   (2)  The indrawing of the vital body,  so that a point at the root of the
nose corresponds to a similar point in the vital body.

   (3)  The elimination of inbreeding and the substitution therefore of mar-
riages outside the family and tribe.

   (4)  The use of intoxicants.

   The Race-spirits still exist in and work with man,  but the more advanced
nation, the more freedom is given the individual.  In countries where people
are most fettered,  the Race-spirit is strongest.  The more in harmony a man
is with the law of Love,  and the higher his ideals,  the more he frees him-
self from the spirit of the Races.   Patriotism,  while good in itself, is a


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tie of the Race-spirit.   The ideal of Universal Brotherhood,  which identi-
fies  itself with neither country nor race, is the only path which leads  to
emancipation.

   Christ  came  to reunite the separated races in bonds of peace  and  good
will, wherein all will willingly and CONSCIOUSLY follow the law of Love.

    The  present Christianity is not even a shadow of the true  religion  of
Christ.  That will remain in abeyance until all race feeling shall have been
overcome.   In the Sixth Epoch there will be but one Universal  Brotherhood,
under the Leadership of the RETURNED Christ, but the day and the hour no man
knows, for it is not fixed, but depends upon how soon a sufficient number of
people  shall have commenced to live the life of Fellowship and Love,  which
is to be the hall-mark of the new dispensation.

                               THE FALL OF MAN

   In connection with the analysis of Genesis, a few more words must be said
about "The Fall,"  which is the backbone and sinew of popular  Christianity.
Had  there been no "Fall,"  there would have been no need for the  "plan  of
salvation."

   When,  in the middle of the Lemurian Epoch,  the separation of the  sexes
occurred (in which work Jehovah and His Angels were active),  the Ego  began
to work slightly upon the dense body,  building organs within.   Man was not
at that time the wide-awake conscious being he is at present,  but by  means
of half the sex force, he was building a brain for the expression of thought
as previously described.   He was more awake in the Spiritual World than  in
the  physical;  hardly  saw his body and was not conscious  if  the  act  of
propagation.   The Bible statement that Jehovah put man to sleep when he was
to  bring  forth  is  correct.  There was no pain nor trouble connected with


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childbirth;  nor  (because  of man's exceedingly dim  consciousness  of  his
physical surroundings) did he know anything of the loss of his dense body by
death, or of his installment in a new dense vehicle at birth.

   It  will be remembered that the Lucifers were a part of the  humanity  of
the Moon Period; they are the stragglers of the life wave of the Angels, too
far advanced to take a dense physical body, yet they needed an "inner" organ
for  the  acquisition of knowledge.   Moreover,  they could work  through  a
physical brain, which the Angels or Jehovah could not.

   These  spirits entered the spinal cord and brain and spoke to the  woman,
whose Imagination,  as explained elsewhere, had been aroused by the training
of  the  Lemurian Race.   As her consciousness was principally  internal,  a
picture-consciousness of them was received by her,  and she saw them as ser-
pents, for they had entered her brain by the serpentine spinal cord.

   The training of the woman included watching the perilous feats and fights
of the Men in developing Will, in which fights bodies were necessarily often
killed.   The dim consciousness of something unusual set the imagination  of
the woman to wondering why she saw these strange things.   She was conscious
of the spirits of those who had lost their bodies,  but her imperfect  sense
of the Physical World failed to reveal these friends whose dense bodies  had
been destroyed.

   The Lucifers solved the problem for her by "opening her eyes."   They re-
vealed to her her own body and that of the man and taught her how, together,
they might conquer death by creating new bodies.  Thus death could not touch
them for they, like Jehovah, could create at will.


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   Lucifer opened the eyes of woman,   She sought the help of man and opened
his eyes.  Thus, in a real though dim way, they first "knew" or became aware
of  one another and also of the Physical World.   They became  conscious  of
death  and pain and by this knowledge they learned to differentiate  between
the inner man and the outer garment he wears and renews each time it is nec-
essary to take his next step in evolution.  They ceased to be automatons and
became free thinking beings at the cost of freedom from pain,  sickness  and
death.

   That  the  interpretation of the eating of the fruit as a symbol  of  the
generative act is not a far-fetched idea, is shown by the declaration of Je-
hovah  (which is not a curse at all,  but simply a statement of  the  conse-
quences  that  would follow the act) that they will die and that  the  woman
will bear her children in pain and suffering.  He knew that, as man's atten-
tion had now been called to his physical garment,  he would become aware  of
its loss by death.   He also knew that man had not yet wisdom to bridle  his
passion  and  regulate sexual intercourse by the positions of  the  planets,
therefore pain in childbirth must follow his ignorant abuse of the function.

   It  has always been a sore puzzle to Bible commentators  what  connection
there could possibly be between the eating of fruit and the bearing of chil-
dren, but if we understand that the eating of the fruit is symbolical of the
generative act whereby man becomes "like God"  inasmuch as he KNOWS his kind
and is thus able to generate new beings, the solution is easy.

   In  the latter part of the Lemurian Epoch when man arrogated  to  himself
the prerogative of performing the generative act when he pleased, it was his
then-powerful  will  that  enable  him  to do so.  By "eating of the tree of


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knowledge" at any and all times he was able to create a new body whenever he
lost an old vehicle.

   We  usually  think  of death as something to be dreaded.   Had  man  also
"eaten of the tree of life," had he learned the secret of how to perpetually
vitalize his body,  there would have been a worse condition.   We know  that
our bodies are not perfect today and in those ancient days they were exceed-
ingly primitive.  Therefore the anxiety of the creative Hierarchies lest man
"eat  of  the tree of life also," and become capable of renewing  his  vital
body,  was well founded.  Had he done so he would have been immortal indeed,
but  would never have been able to progress.   The evolution of the Ego  de-
pends  upon its vehicles and if it could not get new and improving  ones  by
death and birth,  there would be stagnation.  It is an occult maxim that the
oftener  we die the better we are able to live,  for every birth gives us  a
new chance.

   We have seen that brain-knowledge, with its concomitant selfishness,  was
brought  by man at the cost of the power to create from himself  alone.   He
bought his free will at the cost of pain and death;  but when man learns  to
use  his intellect for the good of humanity,  he will gain  spiritual  power
over  life and in addition,  will be guided by an innate knowledge  as  much
higher than the present brain-consciousness as that is higher than the  low-
est animal consciousness.

   The fall into generation was necessary to build the brain,  but that  is,
at best, only an indirect way of gaining knowledge and will be superseded by
direct touch with the Wisdom of Nature, which man, without any co-operation,
will then be able to use for the generation of new bodies.   The larnyx will
again speak "the lost Word," the "creative Fiat," which,  under the guidance
of great Teachers, was used in ancient Lemuria in the creation of plants and
animals.


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   Man will then be a creator in very truth.   Not in the slow and  toilsome
manner of the present day, but by the use of the proper word or magical for-
mula, will he be able to create a body.

   All  that was manifested during the descending period of  involution  re-
mains  until the corresponding point on the ascending are of  evolution  has
been  reached.   The present generative organs will degenerate and  atrophy.
The  female  organ was the first to come into existence as a  separate  unit
and,  according to the law that "the first shall be last,"  will be the last
to atrophy.  The male organ was differentiated last and is even now commenc-
ing to divide itself from the body.  Diagram 13 will make this clear.


                                (DIAGRAM 13)


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                                  PART III.

                          MAN'S FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

                               AND INITIATION






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                    DIAGRAM: THE SEVEN DAYS OF CREATION


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