Mahatma Letter No. 44 - Revision history

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	The original is in the British Library, Folio 1. According to [[George Linton]] and [[Virginia Hanson]], the letter was written:		The original is in the British Library, Folio 1. According to [[George Linton]] and [[Virginia Hanson]], the letter was written:
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	[[Alfred Percy Sinnett\|APS]] labels this document "Cosmological Notes." Another group of questions and answers generally referred to as "The ~~Cosmologial~~ Notes" is found in [[The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett (book)\|LBS, Appendix II, p. 376]]. The questions in this letter were written by APS on the left-half of sheets of smooth white note paper, The answers by [[Morya\|M]] are mostly on the right-hand side of the sheets opposite the questions. Where space was insufficient, the answer was continued on the back of the sheet. But in some cases, even this was not enough space for the answer, and an additional sheet of a different type of paper was inserted. In the case of sheets 1 and 2, the right side has been cut off and a new right-half pasted on. The replies are in M's script, but in ''blue'' ink, with a few exceptions. The third sheet (inserted) is in red ink. This is followed by another inserted sheet, with writing in red ink.		[[Alfred Percy Sinnett\|APS]] labels this document "Cosmological Notes." Another group of questions and answers generally referred to as "The Cosmological Notes" is found in [[The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett (book)\|LBS, Appendix II, p. 376]]. The questions in this letter were written by APS on the left-half of sheets of smooth white note paper, The answers by [[Morya\|M]] are mostly on the right-hand side of the sheets opposite the questions. Where space was insufficient, the answer was continued on the back of the sheet. But in some cases, even this was not enough space for the answer, and an additional sheet of a different type of paper was inserted. In the case of sheets 1 and 2, the right side has been cut off and a new right-half pasted on. The replies are in M's script, but in ''blue'' ink, with a few exceptions. The third sheet (inserted) is in red ink. This is followed by another inserted sheet, with writing in red ink.
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			'''NOTE:''' Questions are in ''italics'', answers by M are in standard font, and notes are '''bold'''.

	''(1) I conceive that at the close of a [[pralaya]] the impulse given by the [[Dhyan Chohans]] does not develop from [[chaos]], a succession of worlds simultaneously, but seriatim. The comprehension of the manner in which each in succession ensues from its predecessor as the impact of the original impulse might perhaps be better postponed till after I am enabled to realize the working of the whole machine — [[Chains and Rounds\|the cycle of worlds]] — after all its parts have come into existence.''		''(1) I conceive that at the close of a [[pralaya]] the impulse given by the [[Dhyan Chohans]] does not develop from [[chaos]], a succession of worlds simultaneously, but seriatim. The comprehension of the manner in which each in succession ensues from its predecessor as the impact of the original impulse might perhaps be better postponed till after I am enabled to realize the working of the whole machine — [[Chains and Rounds\|the cycle of worlds]] — after all its parts have come into existence.''

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	incipient stage is not a 1000 times higher there, than it is here? Besides which, every kingdom (and we have 7 — while you have but 3) is subdivided into <u>seven</u> degrees or classes. Man (physically) is a compound of all the kingdoms, & spiritually — his individuality is no worse for being shut up within the casing of an ant than it is for being inside a king. It is not the <u>outward</u> or physical shape that dishonours and pollutes the 5 [[principles]] — but the <u>mental</u> perversity. Then it is but at his [[fourth round]], when arrived at the full possession of his <u>[[Kama]]</u>-energy and completely matured, that man becomes <u>fully</u> <u>responsible</u> “as at the <u>[[Sixth Round\|sixth]]</u> he may become a <u>[[Buddha]]</u> & at the [[Seventh Round\|seventh]] before the [[Pralaya]] — a [[Dhyan Chohan]].” Mineral, vegetable, animal-man, all of these have to run their seven rounds during the [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|period of earth’s activity]] — the <u>[[Maha Yug]]</u>. I will not enter here on the details of mineral & vegetable evolution, but I will notice only man — or — <u>animal-man</u>. He starts downward as a simply spiritual entity — an unconscious [[seventh principle\|7th principle]] (a [[Parabrahm]] in contradistinction to <u>Para-parabrahm</u>) — with the germs of the other six [[principles]] lying latent and dormant in him. Gathering solidity at every sphere — his ~~six~~ pr[inciples] when passing through the [[worlds of effects]], and his outward form in the [[worlds of causes]] (for these worlds or stages on the [[Evolution#Descending and ascending arcs\|descending side]] we have other names), when he touches our planet he is but a glorious bunch of light upon a sphere itself yet pure and undefiled (for mankind and every living thing on it increase in their materiality with the planet). At that stage our [[Globe#Globe D\|globe]] is like the head of a newly born babe — soft, & with undefined features, and man — an <u>Adam</u> before the <u>breath of life was breathed into his nostrils</u> (to quote your own bungled up Scriptures for your better comprehension). For man and (our planet’s) nature — it is day — the <u>first</u> (see distorted tradition in your Bible). Man No. 1 makes his appearance at the apex of the [[Chains and Rounds\|circle of the spheres]] on sphere No. 1, after the completion of the seven rounds or [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|periods]] of the two kingdoms (known to you) and thus he is said to be created on the		incipient stage is not a 1000 times higher there, than it is here? Besides which, every kingdom (and we have 7 — while you have but 3) is subdivided into <u>seven</u> degrees or classes. Man (physically) is a compound of all the kingdoms, & spiritually — his individuality is no worse for being shut up within the casing of an ant than it is for being inside a king. It is not the <u>outward</u> or physical shape that dishonours and pollutes the 5 [[principles]] — but the <u>mental</u> perversity. Then it is but at his [[fourth round]], when arrived at the full possession of his <u>[[Kama]]</u>-energy and completely matured, that man becomes <u>fully</u> <u>responsible</u> “as at the <u>[[Sixth Round\|sixth]]</u> he may become a <u>[[Buddha]]</u> & at the [[Seventh Round\|seventh]] before the [[Pralaya]] — a [[Dhyan Chohan]].” Mineral, vegetable, animal-man, all of these have to run their seven rounds during the [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|period of earth’s activity]] — the <u>[[Maha Yug]]</u>. I will not enter here on the details of mineral & vegetable evolution, but I will notice only man — or — <u>animal-man</u>. He starts downward as a simply spiritual entity — an unconscious [[seventh principle\|7th principle]] (a [[Parabrahm]] in contradistinction to <u>Para-parabrahm</u>) — with the germs of the other six [[principles]] lying latent and dormant in him. Gathering solidity at every sphere — his 6 pr[inciples] when passing through the [[worlds of effects]], and his outward form in the [[worlds of causes]] (for these worlds or stages on the [[Evolution#Descending and ascending arcs\|descending side]] we have other names), when he touches our planet he is but a glorious bunch of light upon a sphere itself yet pure and undefiled (for mankind and every living thing on it increase in their materiality with the planet). At that stage our [[Globe#Globe D\|globe]] is like the head of a newly born babe — soft, & with undefined features, and man — an <u>Adam</u> before the <u>breath of life was breathed into his nostrils</u> (to quote your own bungled up Scriptures for your better comprehension). For man and (our planet’s) nature — it is day — the <u>first</u> (see distorted tradition in your Bible). Man No. 1 makes his appearance at the apex of the [[Chains and Rounds\|circle of the spheres]] on sphere No. 1, after the completion of the seven rounds or [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|periods]] of the two kingdoms (known to you) and thus he is said to be created on the

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	incipient stage is not a 1000 times higher there, than it is here? Besides which, every kingdom (and we have 7 — while you have but 3) is subdivided into <u>seven</u> degrees or classes. Man (physically) is a compound of all the kingdoms, & spiritually — his individuality is no worse for being shut up within the casing of an ant than it is for being inside a king. It is not the <u>outward</u> or physical shape that dishonours and pollutes the 5 [[principles]] — but the <u>mental</u> perversity. Then it is but at his [[fourth round]], when arrived at the full possession of his <u>[[Kama]]</u>-energy and completely matured, that man becomes <u>fully</u> <u>responsible</u> “as at the <u>[[Sixth Round\|sixth]]</u> he may become a <u>[[Buddha]]</u> & at the [[Seventh Round\|seventh]] before the [[Pralaya]] — a [[Dhyan Chohan]].” Mineral, vegetable, animal-man, all of these have to run their seven rounds during the [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|period of earth’s activity]] — the <u>[[Maha Yug]]</u>. I will not enter here on the details of mineral & vegetable evolution, but I will notice only man — or — <u>animal-man</u>. He starts downward as a simply spiritual entity — an unconscious [[seventh principle\|7th principle]] (a [[Parabrahm]] in contradistinction to <u>Para-parabrahm</u>) — with the germs of the other six [[principles]] lying latent and dormant in him. Gathering solidity at every sphere — his six pr.[inciples] when passing through the [[worlds of effects]], and his outward form in the [[worlds of causes]] (for these worlds or stages on the [[Evolution#Descending and ascending arcs\|descending side]] we have other names), when he touches our planet he is but a glorious bunch of light upon a sphere itself yet pure and undefiled (for mankind and every living thing on it increase in their materiality with the planet). At that stage our [[Globe#Globe D\|globe]] is like the head of a newly born babe — soft, & with undefined features, and man — an <u>Adam</u> before the <u>breath of life was breathed into his nostrils</u> (to quote your own bungled up Scriptures for your better comprehension). For man and (our planet’s) nature — it is day — the <u>first</u> (see distorted tradition in your Bible). Man No. 1 makes his appearance at the apex of the [[Chains and Rounds\|circle of the spheres]] on sphere No. 1, after the completion of the seven rounds or [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|periods]] of the two kingdoms (known to you) and thus he is said to be created on the		incipient stage is not a 1000 times higher there, than it is here? Besides which, every kingdom (and we have 7 — while you have but 3) is subdivided into <u>seven</u> degrees or classes. Man (physically) is a compound of all the kingdoms, & spiritually — his individuality is no worse for being shut up within the casing of an ant than it is for being inside a king. It is not the <u>outward</u> or physical shape that dishonours and pollutes the 5 [[principles]] — but the <u>mental</u> perversity. Then it is but at his [[fourth round]], when arrived at the full possession of his <u>[[Kama]]</u>-energy and completely matured, that man becomes <u>fully</u> <u>responsible</u> “as at the <u>[[Sixth Round\|sixth]]</u> he may become a <u>[[Buddha]]</u> & at the [[Seventh Round\|seventh]] before the [[Pralaya]] — a [[Dhyan Chohan]].” Mineral, vegetable, animal-man, all of these have to run their seven rounds during the [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|period of earth’s activity]] — the <u>[[Maha Yug]]</u>. I will not enter here on the details of mineral & vegetable evolution, but I will notice only man — or — <u>animal-man</u>. He starts downward as a simply spiritual entity — an unconscious [[seventh principle\|7th principle]] (a [[Parabrahm]] in contradistinction to <u>Para-parabrahm</u>) — with the germs of the other six [[principles]] lying latent and dormant in him. Gathering solidity at every sphere — his six pr[inciples] when passing through the [[worlds of effects]], and his outward form in the [[worlds of causes]] (for these worlds or stages on the [[Evolution#Descending and ascending arcs\|descending side]] we have other names), when he touches our planet he is but a glorious bunch of light upon a sphere itself yet pure and undefiled (for mankind and every living thing on it increase in their materiality with the planet). At that stage our [[Globe#Globe D\|globe]] is like the head of a newly born babe — soft, & with undefined features, and man — an <u>Adam</u> before the <u>breath of life was breathed into his nostrils</u> (to quote your own bungled up Scriptures for your better comprehension). For man and (our planet’s) nature — it is day — the <u>first</u> (see distorted tradition in your Bible). 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	''(6) From the highest animal (non-human) form in [[Globe#Globe A\|sphere I]] — how does it get to [[Globe#Globe B\|sphere II?]] It is inconceivable that it can descend to the lowest animal form there, but otherwise how can it go through the whole circle of life on each planet in turn?''		''(6) From the highest animal (non-human) form in [[Globe#Globe A\|sphere I]] — how does it get to [[Globe#Globe B\|sphere II?]] It is inconceivable that it can descend to the lowest animal form there, but otherwise how can it go through the whole circle of life on each planet in turn?''
	''If it runs its cycle in a spiral (i.e., from form 1 of sphere I to form 1 of sphere II, etc. — then to form 2 of sphere I, II, III, etc., and then to form 3 of sphere. . . .~~nth~~) then it seems to me that the same rule must apply to the mineral and vegetable individualities if they have such, ''		''If it runs its cycle in a spiral (i.e., from form 1 of sphere I to form 1 of sphere II, etc. — then to form 2 of sphere I, II, III, etc., and then to form 3 of sphere I .... Nth —) then it seems to me that the same rule must apply to the mineral and vegetable individualities if they have such, ''

	'''NOTE: The following two paragraphs from "and yet" to "entity" have been inserted here from [[Mahatma_Letter_No._44#Page_9\|Page 9]] of the letter (left-hand column), to complete question #6.'''		'''NOTE: The following two paragraphs from "and yet" to "entity" have been inserted here from [[Mahatma_Letter_No._44#Page_9\|Page 9]] of the letter (left-hand column), to complete question #6.'''

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	having being on these worlds. Your accepted conceptions of cosmogony — whether from the theological or scientific standpoints — do not enable you to solve a single anthropological, or even ethnical problem and <u>they</u> stand in your way whenever you attempt to solve the problem of the races on this planet. When a man begins to talk about <u>creation</u> and the origin of man, he is butting against the facts incessantly. Go on saying: “Our planet and man were created” — and you will be fighting against <u>hard</u> <u>facts</u> for ever, analyzing and losing time over trifling details — unable to ever grasp the whole. But once admit that our planet and ourselves are no more <u>creations</u> than the iceberg now before me (in our [[K.H.]]’s home) but that both planet and man are — <u>states</u> for a given time; that their present appearance — geological and anthropological — is transitory and but a condition concomitant of that stage of [[evolution]] at which they have arrived in the [[evolution\|descending cycle]] — and all will become plain. You will easily understand what is meant by the “one and only” element or [[principle]] in the universe and that [[androgynous]]; the seven-headed serpent <u>[[Ananta]]</u> of [[Vishnu]], the <u>[[Nag]]</u> around [[Buddha]] — the great dragon eternity [[Ouroboros\|biting with its active head its <u>passive</u> tail]], from the [[emanations]] of which spring worlds, beings and things. You will comprehend the reason why the first philosopher proclaimed ALL — <u>[[Maya]]</u> — but that one [[principle]] which rests during the [[Pralaya\|<u>maha</u>-pralayas]] only — the “nights of [[Brahmā\|Brahm]].”...		having being on these worlds. Your accepted conceptions of cosmogony — whether from the theological or scientific standpoints — do not enable you to solve a single anthropological, or even ethnical problem and <u>they</u> stand in your way whenever you attempt to solve the problem of the races on this planet. When a man begins to talk about <u>creation</u> and the origin of man, he is butting against the facts incessantly. Go on saying: “Our planet and man were created” — and you will be fighting against <u>hard</u> <u>facts</u> for ever, analyzing and losing time over trifling details — unable to ever grasp the whole. But once admit that our planet and ourselves are no more <u>creations</u> than the iceberg now before me (in our [[K.H.]]’s home) but that both planet and man are — <u>states</u> for a given time; that their present appearance — geological and anthropological — is transitory and but a condition concomitant of that stage of [[evolution]] at which they have arrived in the [[evolution\|descending cycle]] — and all will become plain. You will easily understand what is meant by the “one and only” element or [[principle]] in the universe and that [[androgynous]]; the seven-headed serpent <u>[[Ananta]]</u> of [[Vishnu]], the <u>[[Nag]]</u> around [[Buddha]] — the great dragon eternity [[Ouroboros\|biting with its active head its <u>passive</u> tail]], from the [[emanations]] of which spring worlds, beings and things. You will comprehend the reason why the first philosopher proclaimed ALL — <u>[[Maya]]</u> — but that one [[principle]] which rests during the [[Pralaya\|<u>maha</u>-pralayas]] only — the “nights of [[Brahmā\|Brahm]].”...

	Now think: the <u>[[Nag]]</u> awakes. He heaves a heavy breath and the latter is sent like an electric shock all along the wire encircling <u>[[Space]]</u>. Go to your pianoforte and execute upon the lower register of keys the <u>seven</u> notes of the lower octave — up and down. Begin <u>pianissimo</u>, <u>crescendo</u> from the first key, and having struck <u>fortissimo</u> on the last <u>lower</u> note go back <u>diminuendo</u>, getting out of your last note a hardly perceptible sound — “morendo pianissimo” (as I luckily for my illustration find it printed in one of the musick pieces in [[K.H.]]’s old portmanteau). The first and the last notes will represent to you the first and last spheres in the [[Cyclic Evolution\|cycle of evolution]] — the highest! the one you strike <u>once</u> is our planet. Remember you have to reverse the order on the pianoforte: begin with the seventh note, not with the first. The seven vowels chanted by the Egyptian priests to the seven rays of the rising sun to which [[Memnon]] responded, meant but that. The [[One Life\|one <u>Life-principle</u>]] when in action runs in <u>circuits</u> even as known in physical science. It runs the round in human body, where the head represents and is to the [[Microcosmos]] (the physical world of matter) what the summit of the cycle is to the [[Macrocosmos]] (the world of universal spiritual Forces); and so with		Now think: the <u>[[Nag]]</u> awakes. He heaves a heavy breath and the latter is sent like an electric shock all along the wire encircling <u>[[Space]]</u>. Go to your pianoforte and execute upon the lower register of keys the <u>seven</u> notes of the lower octave — up and down. Begin <u>pianissimo</u>, <u>crescendo</u> from the first key, and having struck <u>fortissimo</u> on the last <u>lower</u> note go back <u>diminuendo</u>, getting out of your last note a hardly perceptible sound — “morendo pianissimo” (as I luckily for my illustration find it printed in one of the musick pieces in [[K.H.]]’s old portmanteau). The first and the last notes will represent to you the first and last spheres in the [[Cyclic Evolution\|cycle of evolution]] — the highest! the one you strike <u>once</u> is our planet. Remember you have to reverse the order on the pianoforte: begin with the seventh note, not with the first. The seven vowels chanted by the Egyptian priests to the seven rays of the rising sun to which [[Memnon]] responded, meant but that. The [[One Life\|one <u>Life-principle</u>]] when in action runs in <u>circuits</u> even as known in physical science. It runs the round in human body, where the head represents and is to the [[Microcosmos]] (the physical world of matter) what the summit of the cycle is to the [[Macrocosmos]] (the world of universal spiritual Forces); and so with

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	'''~~This is~~ Letter No. 13 in Barker numbering.''' See below for [[Mahatma Letter No. 44#Context and background\|Context and background]]. This letter gives questions with answers written by [[Morya]], and should be regarded as a continuation of the [[Cosmological Notes]].		This is '''Letter No. 44''' in''' [[The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (book)\|''The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'']], 4th chronological edition'''. It corresponds to '''Letter No. 13''' in '''Barker numbering.''' See below for [[Mahatma Letter No. 44#Context and background\|Context and background]]. This letter gives questions with answers written by [[Morya]], and should be regarded as a continuation of the [[Cosmological Notes]].

	Responses to questions are in Morya's characteristic red lettering (or, on the first two pages, a blue-black ink in Morya's hand). See the		Responses to questions are in Morya's characteristic red lettering (or, on the first two pages, a blue-black ink in Morya's hand). See the
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	'''This is Letter No. 13 in Barker numbering.''' See below for [[Mahatma Letter No. 44#Context and background\|Context and background]]. This letter gives questions with answers written by [[Morya]], and should be regarded as a continuation of the [[Cosmological Notes]].		'''This is Letter No. 13 in Barker numbering.''' See below for [[Mahatma Letter No. 44#Context and background\|Context and background]]. This letter gives questions with answers written by [[Morya]], and should be regarded as a continuation of the [[Cosmological Notes]].

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			'''NOTE:''' Questions are in ''italics'', answers by M are in standard font, and notes are '''bold'''.

	''(1) I conceive that at the close of a [[pralaya]] the impulse given by the [[Dhyan Chohans]] does not develop from [[chaos]], a succession of worlds simultaneously, but seriatim. The comprehension of the manner in which each in succession ensues from its predecessor as the impact of the original impulse might perhaps be better postponed till after I am enabled to realize the working of the whole machine — [[Chains and Rounds\|the cycle of worlds]] — after all its parts have come into existence.''		''(1) I conceive that at the close of a [[pralaya]] the impulse given by the [[Dhyan Chohans]] does not develop from [[chaos]], a succession of worlds simultaneously, but seriatim. The comprehension of the manner in which each in succession ensues from its predecessor as the impact of the original impulse might perhaps be better postponed till after I am enabled to realize the working of the whole machine — [[Chains and Rounds\|the cycle of worlds]] — after all its parts have come into existence.''

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	incipient stage is not a 1000 times higher there, than it is here? Besides which, every kingdom (and we have 7 — while you have but 3) is subdivided into <u>seven</u> degrees or classes. Man (physically) is a compound of all the kingdoms, & spiritually — his individuality is no worse for being shut up within the casing of an ant than it is for being inside a king. It is not the <u>outward</u> or physical shape that dishonours and pollutes the 5 [[principles]] — but the <u>mental</u> perversity. Then it is but at his [[fourth round]], when arrived at the full possession of his <u>[[Kama]]</u>-energy and completely matured, that man becomes <u>fully</u> <u>responsible</u> “as at the <u>[[Sixth Round\|sixth]]</u> he may become a <u>[[Buddha]]</u> & at the [[Seventh Round\|seventh]] before the [[Pralaya]] — a [[Dhyan Chohan]].” Mineral, vegetable, animal-man, all of these have to run their seven rounds during the [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|period of earth’s activity]] — the <u>[[Maha Yug]]</u>. I will not enter here on the details of mineral & vegetable evolution, but I will notice only man — or — <u>animal-man</u>. He starts downward as a simply spiritual entity — an unconscious [[seventh principle\|7th principle]] (a [[Parabrahm]] in contradistinction to <u>Para-parabrahm</u>) — with the germs of the other six [[principles]] lying latent and dormant in him. Gathering solidity at every sphere — his ~~six~~ pr[inciples] when passing through the [[worlds of effects]], and his outward form in the [[worlds of causes]] (for these worlds or stages on the [[Evolution#Descending and ascending arcs\|descending side]] we have other names), when he touches our planet he is but a glorious bunch of light upon a sphere itself yet pure and undefiled (for mankind and every living thing on it increase in their materiality with the planet). At that stage our [[Globe#Globe D\|globe]] is like the head of a newly born babe — soft, & with undefined features, and man — an <u>Adam</u> before the <u>breath of life was breathed into his nostrils</u> (to quote your own bungled up Scriptures for your better comprehension). For man and (our planet’s) nature — it is day — the <u>first</u> (see distorted tradition in your Bible). Man No. 1 makes his appearance at the apex of the [[Chains and Rounds\|circle of the spheres]] on sphere No. 1, after the completion of the seven rounds or [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|periods]] of the two kingdoms (known to you) and thus he is said to be created on the		incipient stage is not a 1000 times higher there, than it is here? Besides which, every kingdom (and we have 7 — while you have but 3) is subdivided into <u>seven</u> degrees or classes. Man (physically) is a compound of all the kingdoms, & spiritually — his individuality is no worse for being shut up within the casing of an ant than it is for being inside a king. It is not the <u>outward</u> or physical shape that dishonours and pollutes the 5 [[principles]] — but the <u>mental</u> perversity. Then it is but at his [[fourth round]], when arrived at the full possession of his <u>[[Kama]]</u>-energy and completely matured, that man becomes <u>fully</u> <u>responsible</u> “as at the <u>[[Sixth Round\|sixth]]</u> he may become a <u>[[Buddha]]</u> & at the [[Seventh Round\|seventh]] before the [[Pralaya]] — a [[Dhyan Chohan]].” Mineral, vegetable, animal-man, all of these have to run their seven rounds during the [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|period of earth’s activity]] — the <u>[[Maha Yug]]</u>. I will not enter here on the details of mineral & vegetable evolution, but I will notice only man — or — <u>animal-man</u>. He starts downward as a simply spiritual entity — an unconscious [[seventh principle\|7th principle]] (a [[Parabrahm]] in contradistinction to <u>Para-parabrahm</u>) — with the germs of the other six [[principles]] lying latent and dormant in him. Gathering solidity at every sphere — his 6 pr[inciples] when passing through the [[worlds of effects]], and his outward form in the [[worlds of causes]] (for these worlds or stages on the [[Evolution#Descending and ascending arcs\|descending side]] we have other names), when he touches our planet he is but a glorious bunch of light upon a sphere itself yet pure and undefiled (for mankind and every living thing on it increase in their materiality with the planet). At that stage our [[Globe#Globe D\|globe]] is like the head of a newly born babe — soft, & with undefined features, and man — an <u>Adam</u> before the <u>breath of life was breathed into his nostrils</u> (to quote your own bungled up Scriptures for your better comprehension). For man and (our planet’s) nature — it is day — the <u>first</u> (see distorted tradition in your Bible). Man No. 1 makes his appearance at the apex of the [[Chains and Rounds\|circle of the spheres]] on sphere No. 1, after the completion of the seven rounds or [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|periods]] of the two kingdoms (known to you) and thus he is said to be created on the

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	incipient stage is not a 1000 times higher there, than it is here? Besides which, every kingdom (and we have 7 — while you have but 3) is subdivided into <u>seven</u> degrees or classes. Man (physically) is a compound of all the kingdoms, & spiritually — his individuality is no worse for being shut up within the casing of an ant than it is for being inside a king. It is not the <u>outward</u> or physical shape that dishonours and pollutes the 5 [[principles]] — but the <u>mental</u> perversity. Then it is but at his [[fourth round]], when arrived at the full possession of his <u>[[Kama]]</u>-energy and completely matured, that man becomes <u>fully</u> <u>responsible</u> “as at the <u>[[Sixth Round\|sixth]]</u> he may become a <u>[[Buddha]]</u> & at the [[Seventh Round\|seventh]] before the [[Pralaya]] — a [[Dhyan Chohan]].” Mineral, vegetable, animal-man, all of these have to run their seven rounds during the [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|period of earth’s activity]] — the <u>[[Maha Yug]]</u>. I will not enter here on the details of mineral & vegetable evolution, but I will notice only man — or — <u>animal-man</u>. He starts downward as a simply spiritual entity — an unconscious [[seventh principle\|7th principle]] (a [[Parabrahm]] in contradistinction to <u>Para-parabrahm</u>) — with the germs of the other six [[principles]] lying latent and dormant in him. Gathering solidity at every sphere — his six pr.[inciples] when passing through the [[worlds of effects]], and his outward form in the [[worlds of causes]] (for these worlds or stages on the [[Evolution#Descending and ascending arcs\|descending side]] we have other names), when he touches our planet he is but a glorious bunch of light upon a sphere itself yet pure and undefiled (for mankind and every living thing on it increase in their materiality with the planet). At that stage our [[Globe#Globe D\|globe]] is like the head of a newly born babe — soft, & with undefined features, and man — an <u>Adam</u> before the <u>breath of life was breathed into his nostrils</u> (to quote your own bungled up Scriptures for your better comprehension). For man and (our planet’s) nature — it is day — the <u>first</u> (see distorted tradition in your Bible). Man No. 1 makes his appearance at the apex of the [[Chains and Rounds\|circle of the spheres]] on sphere No. 1, after the completion of the seven rounds or [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|periods]] of the two kingdoms (known to you) and thus he is said to be created on the		incipient stage is not a 1000 times higher there, than it is here? Besides which, every kingdom (and we have 7 — while you have but 3) is subdivided into <u>seven</u> degrees or classes. Man (physically) is a compound of all the kingdoms, & spiritually — his individuality is no worse for being shut up within the casing of an ant than it is for being inside a king. It is not the <u>outward</u> or physical shape that dishonours and pollutes the 5 [[principles]] — but the <u>mental</u> perversity. Then it is but at his [[fourth round]], when arrived at the full possession of his <u>[[Kama]]</u>-energy and completely matured, that man becomes <u>fully</u> <u>responsible</u> “as at the <u>[[Sixth Round\|sixth]]</u> he may become a <u>[[Buddha]]</u> & at the [[Seventh Round\|seventh]] before the [[Pralaya]] — a [[Dhyan Chohan]].” Mineral, vegetable, animal-man, all of these have to run their seven rounds during the [[Globe#World-Periods (Rings) and Root-Races\|period of earth’s activity]] — the <u>[[Maha Yug]]</u>. I will not enter here on the details of mineral & vegetable evolution, but I will notice only man — or — <u>animal-man</u>. He starts downward as a simply spiritual entity — an unconscious [[seventh principle\|7th principle]] (a [[Parabrahm]] in contradistinction to <u>Para-parabrahm</u>) — with the germs of the other six [[principles]] lying latent and dormant in him. Gathering solidity at every sphere — his six pr[inciples] when passing through the [[worlds of effects]], and his outward form in the [[worlds of causes]] (for these worlds or stages on the [[Evolution#Descending and ascending arcs\|descending side]] we have other names), when he touches our planet he is but a glorious bunch of light upon a sphere itself yet pure and undefiled (for mankind and every living thing on it increase in their materiality with the planet). At that stage our [[Globe#Globe D\|globe]] is like the head of a newly born babe — soft, & with undefined features, and man — an <u>Adam</u> before the <u>breath of life was breathed into his nostrils</u> (to quote your own bungled up Scriptures for your better comprehension). For man and (our planet’s) nature — it is day — the <u>first</u> (see distorted tradition in your Bible). 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	having being on these worlds. Your accepted conceptions of cosmogony — whether from the theological or scientific standpoints — do not enable you to solve a single anthropological, or even ethnical problem and <u>they</u> stand in your way whenever you attempt to solve the problem of the races on this planet. When a man begins to talk about <u>creation</u> and the origin of man, he is butting against the facts incessantly. Go on saying: “Our planet and man were created” — and you will be fighting against <u>hard</u> <u>facts</u> for ever, analyzing and losing time over trifling details — unable to ever grasp the whole. But once admit that our planet and ourselves are no more <u>creations</u> than the iceberg now before me (in our [[K.H.]]’s home) but that both planet and man are — <u>states</u> for a given time; that their present appearance — geological and anthropological — is transitory and but a condition concomitant of that stage of [[evolution]] at which they have arrived in the [[evolution\|descending cycle]] — and all will become plain. You will easily understand what is meant by the “one and only” element or [[principle]] in the universe and that [[androgynous]]; the seven-headed serpent <u>[[Ananta]]</u> of [[Vishnu]], the <u>[[Nag]]</u> around [[Buddha]] — the great dragon eternity [[Ouroboros\|biting with its active head its <u>passive</u> tail]], from the [[emanations]] of which spring worlds, beings and things. You will comprehend the reason why the first philosopher proclaimed ALL — <u>[[Maya]]</u> — but that one [[principle]] which rests during the [[Pralaya\|<u>maha</u>-pralayas]] only — the “nights of [[Brahmā\|Brahm]].”...		having being on these worlds. Your accepted conceptions of cosmogony — whether from the theological or scientific standpoints — do not enable you to solve a single anthropological, or even ethnical problem and <u>they</u> stand in your way whenever you attempt to solve the problem of the races on this planet. When a man begins to talk about <u>creation</u> and the origin of man, he is butting against the facts incessantly. Go on saying: “Our planet and man were created” — and you will be fighting against <u>hard</u> <u>facts</u> for ever, analyzing and losing time over trifling details — unable to ever grasp the whole. But once admit that our planet and ourselves are no more <u>creations</u> than the iceberg now before me (in our [[K.H.]]’s home) but that both planet and man are — <u>states</u> for a given time; that their present appearance — geological and anthropological — is transitory and but a condition concomitant of that stage of [[evolution]] at which they have arrived in the [[evolution\|descending cycle]] — and all will become plain. You will easily understand what is meant by the “one and only” element or [[principle]] in the universe and that [[androgynous]]; the seven-headed serpent <u>[[Ananta]]</u> of [[Vishnu]], the <u>[[Nag]]</u> around [[Buddha]] — the great dragon eternity [[Ouroboros\|biting with its active head its <u>passive</u> tail]], from the [[emanations]] of which spring worlds, beings and things. You will comprehend the reason why the first philosopher proclaimed ALL — <u>[[Maya]]</u> — but that one [[principle]] which rests during the [[Pralaya\|<u>maha</u>-pralayas]] only — the “nights of [[Brahmā\|Brahm]].”...

	Now think: the <u>[[Nag]]</u> awakes. He heaves a heavy breath and the latter is sent like an electric shock all along the wire encircling <u>[[Space]]</u>. Go to your pianoforte and execute upon the lower register of keys the <u>seven</u> notes of the lower octave — up and down. Begin <u>pianissimo</u>, <u>crescendo</u> from the first key, and having struck <u>fortissimo</u> on the last <u>lower</u> note go back <u>diminuendo</u>, getting out of your last note a hardly perceptible sound — “morendo pianissimo” (as I luckily for my illustration find it printed in one of the musick pieces in [[K.H.]]’s old portmanteau). The first and the last notes will represent to you the first and last spheres in the [[Cyclic Evolution\|cycle of evolution]] — the highest! the one you strike <u>once</u> is our planet. Remember you have to reverse the order on the pianoforte: begin with the seventh note, not with the first. The seven vowels chanted by the Egyptian priests to the seven rays of the rising sun to which [[Memnon]] responded, meant but that. The [[One Life\|one <u>Life-principle</u>]] when in action runs in <u>circuits</u> even as known in physical science. It runs the round in human body, where the head represents and is to the [[Microcosmos]] (the physical world of matter) what the summit of the cycle is to the [[Macrocosmos]] (the world of universal spiritual Forces); and so with		Now think: the <u>[[Nag]]</u> awakes. He heaves a heavy breath and the latter is sent like an electric shock all along the wire encircling <u>[[Space]]</u>. Go to your pianoforte and execute upon the lower register of keys the <u>seven</u> notes of the lower octave — up and down. Begin <u>pianissimo</u>, <u>crescendo</u> from the first key, and having struck <u>fortissimo</u> on the last <u>lower</u> note go back <u>diminuendo</u>, getting out of your last note a hardly perceptible sound — “morendo pianissimo” (as I luckily for my illustration find it printed in one of the musick pieces in [[K.H.]]’s old portmanteau). The first and the last notes will represent to you the first and last spheres in the [[Cyclic Evolution\|cycle of evolution]] — the highest! the one you strike <u>once</u> is our planet. Remember you have to reverse the order on the pianoforte: begin with the seventh note, not with the first. The seven vowels chanted by the Egyptian priests to the seven rays of the rising sun to which [[Memnon]] responded, meant but that. The [[One Life\|one <u>Life-principle</u>]] when in action runs in <u>circuits</u> even as known in physical science. It runs the round in human body, where the head represents and is to the [[Microcosmos]] (the physical world of matter) what the summit of the cycle is to the [[Macrocosmos]] (the world of universal spiritual Forces); and so with