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THE BIBLE AND SECRET DOCTRINE

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Summary of the Main Themes in the Bhagavad Gita  August 2006

 Management lessons from Holy Koran, Holy Bible and Holy Gita

Article by M.P. Bhattathiri, Retired Chief
Technical Examiner , to The Govt. of Kerala. May 2006

Christ the Messenger, the Son of God by Swami Vivekananda Dec. 2006

(Delivered at Los Angeles, California, 1900) A Christmas Greeting.

Stenographic report of a talk by Robert Crosbie
published for the first time. Vol. 9 Dec. 1920
THEOSOPHY MAGAZINE

THE REAL CHRISTMAS

Mundus Imaginalis,
or
The Imaginary and the Imaginal March 1964

by Henri Corbin

My Talk with the Dalai Lama
by RAGHAVAN IYER March 1961

THE HEART 1984
HERMES, pp.207-219.

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Article by M.P. Bhattathiri, Retired Chief
Technical Examiner , to The Govt. of Kerala.

Management lessons from Holy Koran, Holy Bible and Holy Gita

The teachings of Koran ( a man’s life is subject to inner storms far more devastating than those in the material world around him. In such storms in the bitter anguish of personal sorrow which almost removed the reason and made life seem meaningless, a new hope was born out of a systematic understanding of Koran which repeatedly warns The Believer to avoid "exceeding the limits" set by God.), The Ten Commandments, the Ten Precepts of the Buddha, and verse 16:1 of the Bhagavad Gita, all clearly state moralistic teachings for human welfare.

Mind is very restless, forceful and strong, O Krishna, it is more difficult to control the mind than to control the wind ~ Arjuna to Sri Krishna Introduction The ancient (nearly 5000 years old) Indian philosophy of keeping mind and body for the well being, has entered the managerial, medical and judicial domain of the world. Today it has found its place as an alternative to the theory of modern management and also as a means to bring back the right path of peace and prosperity for the human beings. One of the greatest contributions of India to the world is Holy Gita which is considered to be one of the first revelations from God. The management lessons in this holy book were brought in to light of the world by divine Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Swamy Chinmayananda, and now being popularized by Swami Bodhananda, a renowned seer and teacher of Vedanta, meditation and values, the spiritual philosophy by Swamy Vivekananda, the devotional philosophy by Sri Srila Prabhupada Swami, personality development by Sri. Sri Ravishankar, its relevance to uplift the weaker sections by Mata Amrithanandamayi Devi, and humanism by Sai Baba. Maharishi calls the Bhagavad-Gita, the essence of Vedic Literature and a complete guide to practical life. It provides “all that is needed to raise the consciousness of man to the highest possible level.” , reveals the deep, universal truths of life that speak to the needs and aspirations of everyone. Arjuna got mentally depressed when he saw his relatives with whom he has to fight.( Mental health has become a major international public health concern now). To motivate him the Bhagavad Gita is preached in the battle field Kurukshetra by Lord Krishna to Arjuna as a counseling to do his duty while multitudes of men stood by waiting . It has got all the management tactics to achieve the mental equilibrium and to overcome any crisis situation. The Bhagavad Gita can be experienced as a powerful catalyst for transformation. Bhagavad gita means song of the Spirit, song of the Lord. The Holy Gita has become a secret driving force behind the unfoldment of one's life. In the days of doubt this divine book will support all spiritual search. This divine book will contribute to self reflection, finer feeling and deepen one's inner process. Then life in the world can become a real education—dynamic, full and joyful—no matter what the circumstance. May the wisdom of loving consciousness ever guide us on our journey. What makes the Holy Gita a practical psychology of transformation is that it offers us the tools to connect with our deepest intangible essence and we must learn to participate in the battle of life with right knowledge. Many great thinkers from our times such as Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweizer as well as Madhvacarya, Sankara and Ramanuja from bygone ages have all contemplated on the Bhagavad Gita and its timeless message. The primary purpose of the Bhagavad Gita is to illuminate for all of humanity the realization of the true nature of divinity; for the highest spiritual conception, to motivate people to do things in a better way, and the greatest material perfection is to attain love of God! The Holy Gita is the essence of the Vedas, Upanishads. It is a universal scripture applicable to people of all temperaments and for all times. It is a book with sublime thoughts and practical instructions on Yoga, Devotion, Vedanta and Action. It is profound in thought and sublime in heights of vision. It brings peace and solace to souls that are afflicted by the three fires of mortal existence, namely, afflictions caused by one’s own body (disease etc), those caused by beings around one (e.g. wild animals, snakes etc.), and those caused by the gods (natural disasters, earth-quakes, floods etc).

Mind can be one's friend or enemy. Mind is the cause for both bondage and liberation. The word mind is derived from man to think and the word man derived from manu (sanskrit word for man). "The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy." There is no theory to be internalized and applied in this psychology. Ancient practices spontaneously induce what each person needs as the individual and the universal coincide. The work proceeds through intellectual knowledge of the playing field (jnana yoga), emotional devotion to the ideal (bhakti yoga) and right action that includes both feeling and knowledge (karma yoga). With ongoing purification we approach wisdom. The Bhagavad Gita is a message addressed to each and every human individual to help him or her to solve the vexing problem of overcoming the present and progressing towards a bright future. Within its eighteen chapters is revealed a human drama. This is the experience of everyone in this world, the drama of the ascent of man from a state of utter dejection, sorrow and total breakdown and hopelessness to a state of perfect understanding, clarity, renewed strength and triumph.

Introduction.

Modern Management has become a necessity of everyday life, be it at family, in friend circle, in sports, in the office or factory and in Government. In all organizations, where a group of human beings assemble for a common purpose, management principles come into play through the management of resources, finance and planning, priorities, policies and practice. Management is a systematic way of carrying out activities in any field of human effort. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their weaknesses irrelevant, says the Management Guru Peter Drucker. It creates harmony in working together - equilibrium in thoughts and actions, goals and achievements, plans and performance, products and markets. It resolves situations of scarcity, be they in the physical, technical or human fields, through maximum utilization with the minimum available processes to achieve the goal. Lack of management causes disorder, confusion, wastage, delay, destruction and even depression. Managing men, money and materials in the best possible way, according to circumstances and environment, is the most important and essential factor for a successful management.

Management guidelines from the Bhagavad Gita There is an important distinction between effectiveness and efficiency in managing.
· Effectiveness is doing the right things.
· Efficiency is doing things right.
The general principles of effective management can be applied in every field, the differences being more in application than in principle. The Manager's functions can be summed up as:
· Forming a vision
· Planning the strategy to realise the vision.
· Cultivating the art of leadership.
· Establishing institutional excellence.
· Building an innovative organisation.
· Developing human resources.
· Building teams and teamwork.
· Delegation, motivation, and communication.
· Reviewing performance and taking corrective steps when called for.

Thus, management is a process of aligning people and getting them committed to work for a common goal to the maximum social benefit - in search of excellence. The critical question in all managers’ minds is how to be effective in their job. The answer to this fundamental question is found in the Bhagavad Gita, which repeatedly proclaims that “you must try to manage yourself.” The reason is that unless a manager reaches a level of excellence and effectiveness, he or she will be merely a face in the crowd.

Old truths in a new context The Bhagavad Gita, written thousands of years ago, enlightens us on all managerial techniques leading us towards a harmonious and blissful state of affairs in place of the conflict, tensions, poor productivity, absence of motivation and so on, common in most of Indian enterprises today – and probably in enterprises in many other countries.

The modern (Western) management concepts of vision, leadership, motivation, excellence in work, achieving goals, giving work meaning, decision making and planning, are all discussed in the Bhagavad Gita. There is one major difference. While Western management thought too often deals with problems at material, external and peripheral levels, the Bhagavad Gita tackles the issues from the grass roots level of human thinking. Once the basic thinking of man is improved, it will automatically enhance the quality of his actions and their results.

The management philosophy emanating from the West, is based on the lure of materialism and on a perennial thirst for profit, irrespective of the quality of the means adopted to achieve that goal. This phenomenon has its source in the abundant wealth of the West and so 'management by materialism' has caught the fancy of all the countries the world over, India being no exception to this trend. My country, India, has been in the forefront in importing these ideas mainly because of its centuries old indoctrination by colonial rulers, which has inculcated in us a feeling that anything Western is good and anything Indian is inferior. The result is that, while huge funds have been invested in building temples of modem management education, no perceptible changes are visible in the improvement of the general quality of life – although the standards of living of a few has gone up. The same old struggles in almost all sectors of the economy, criminalisation of institutions, social violence, exploitation and other vices are seen deep in the body politic.

The source of the problem, The reasons for this sorry state of affairs are not far to seek. The Western idea of management centres on making the worker (and the manager) more efficient and more productive. Companies offer workers more to work more, produce more, sell more and to stick to the organization without looking for alternatives. The sole aim of extracting better and more work from the worker is to improve the bottom-line of the enterprise. The worker has become a hire-able commodity, which can be used, replaced and discarded at will. Thus, workers have been reduced to the state of a mercantile product. In such a state, it should come as no surprise to us that workers start using strikes (gheraos) sit-ins, (dharnas) go-slows, work-to-rule etc. to get maximum benefit for themselves from the organizations. Society-at-large is damaged. Thus we reach a situation in which management and workers become separate and contradictory entities with conflicting interests. There is no common goal or understanding. This, predictably, leads to suspicion, friction, disillusion and mistrust, with managers and workers at cross purposes. The absence of human values and erosion of human touch in the organizational structure has resulted in a crisis of confidence.
Western management philosophy may have created prosperity – for some people some of the time at least - but it has failed in the aim of ensuring betterment of individual life and social welfare. It has remained by and large a soulless edifice and an oasis of plenty for a few in the midst of poor quality of life for many. Hence, there is an urgent need to re-examine prevailing management disciplines - their objectives, scope and content. Management should be redefined to underline the development of the worker as a person, as a human being, and not as a mere wage-earner. With this changed perspective, management can become an instrument in the process of social, and indeed national, development.

Now let us re-examine some of the modern management concepts in the light of the Bhagavad Gita which is a primer of management-by-values. Utilization of available resources The first lesson of management science is to choose wisely and utilize scarce resources optimally. During the curtain raiser before the Mahabharata War, Duryodhana chose Sri Krishna's large army for his help while Arjuna selected Sri Krishna's wisdom for his support. This episode gives us a clue as to the nature of the effective manager - the former chose numbers, the latter, wisdom.

Work commitment A popular verse of the Gita advises “detachment” from the fruits or results of actions performed in the course of one's duty. Being dedicated work has to mean “working for the sake of work, generating excellence for its own sake.” If we are always calculating the date of promotion or the rate of commission before putting in our efforts, then such work is not detached. It is not “generating excellence for its own sake” but working only for the extrinsic reward that may (or may not) result. Working only with an eye to the anticipated benefits, means that the quality of performance of the current job or duty suffers - through mental agitation of anxiety for the future. In fact, the way the world works means that events do not always respond positively to our calculations and hence expected fruits may not always be forthcoming. So, the Gita tells us not to mortgage present commitment to an uncertain future.

Some people might argue that not seeking the business result of work and actions, makes one unaccountable. In fact, the Bhagavad Gita is full of advice on the theory of cause and effect, making the doer responsible for the consequences of his deeds. While advising detachment from the avarice of selfish gains in discharging one's accepted duty, the Gita does not absolve anybody of the consequences arising from discharge of his or her responsibilities. Thus the best means of effective performance management is the work itself. Attaining this state of mind (called “nishkama karma”) is the right attitude to work because it prevents the ego, the mind, from dissipation of attention through speculation on future gains or losses.

Motivation – self and self-transcendence It has been presumed for many years that satisfying lower order needs of workers - adequate food, clothing and shelter, etc. are key factors in motivation. However, it is a common experience that the dissatisfaction of the clerk and of the Director is identical – only their scales and composition vary. It should be true that once the lower-order needs are more than satisfied, the Director should have little problem in optimizing his contribution to the organization and society. But more often than not, it does not happen like that. (“The eagle soars high but keeps its eyes firmly fixed on the dead animal below.”) On the contrary, a lowly paid schoolteacher, or a self-employed artisan, may well demonstrate higher levels of self-actualization despite poorer satisfaction of their lower-order needs.

This situation is explained by the theory of self-transcendence propounded in the Gita. Self-transcendence involves renouncing egoism, putting others before oneself, emphasizing team work, dignity, co-operation, harmony and trust – and, indeed potentially sacrificing lower needs for higher goals, the opposite of Maslow. “Work must be done with detachment.” It is the ego that spoils work and the ego is the centerpiece of most theories of motivation. We need not merely a theory of motivation but a theory of inspiration. The Great Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, known as "Gurudev") says working for love is freedom in action. A concept which is described as “disinterested work" in the Gita where Sri Krishna says,

“He who shares the wealth generated only after serving the people, through work done as a sacrifice for them, is freed from all sins. On the contrary those who earn wealth only for themselves, eat sins that lead to frustration and failure.” Disinterested work finds expression in devotion, surrender and equipoise. The former two are psychological while the third is determination to keep the mind free of the dualistic (usually taken to mean "materialistic") pulls of daily experiences. Detached involvement in work is the key to mental equanimity or the state of “nirdwanda.” This attitude leads to a stage where the worker begins to feel the presence of the Supreme Intelligence guiding the embodied individual intelligence. Such de-personified intelligence is best suited for those who sincerely believe in the supremacy of organizational goals as compared to narrow personal success and achievement. Work culture An effective work culture is about vigorous and arduous efforts in pursuit of given or chosen tasks. Sri Krishna elaborates on two types of work culture – “daivi sampat” or divine work culture and “asuri sampat” or demonic work culture.

Daivi work culture – involves fearlessness, purity, self-control, sacrifice, straightforwardness, self-denial, calmness, absence of fault-finding, absence of greed, gentleness, modesty, absence of envy and pride.

Asuri work culture - involves egoism, delusion, personal desires, improper performance, work not oriented towards service. Mere work ethic is not enough. The hardened criminal exhibits an excellent work ethic. What is needed is a work ethic conditioned by ethics in work.
It is in this light that the counsel, “yogah karmasu kausalam” should be understood. “Kausalam” means skill or technique of work which is an indispensable component of a work ethic. “Yogah” is defined in the Gita itself as “samatvam yogah uchyate” meaning an unchanging equipoise of mind (detachment.) Tilak tells us that acting with an equable mind is Yoga. (Bal Gangadhar Tilak, 1856-1920, the precursor of Gandhiji, hailed by the people of India as "Lokmanya," probably the most learned among the country's political leaders. For a description of the meanings of the word "Yoga", see foot of this page.) By making the equable mind the bed-rock of all actions, the Gita evolved the goal of unification of work ethic with ethics in work, for without ethical process no mind can attain an equipoise. The guru, Adi Sankara (born circa 800 AD), says that the skill necessary in the performance of one's duty is that of maintaining an evenness of mind in face of success and failure. The calm mind in the face of failure will lead to deeper introspection and see clearly where the process went wrong so that corrective steps could be taken to avoid shortcomings in future. The principle of reducing our attachment to personal gains from the work done is the Gita’s prescription for attaining equanimity. It has been held that this principle leads to lack of incentive for effort, striking at the very root of work ethic. To the
contrary, concentration on the task for its own sake leads to the achievement of excellence – and indeed to the true mental happiness of the worker. Thus, while commonplace theories of motivation may be said to lead us to the bondage or extrinsic rewards, the Gita’s principle leads us to the intrinsic rewards of mental, and indeed moral, satisfaction. Work results The Gita further explains the theory of “detachment” from the extrinsic rewards of work in saying:

If the result of sincere effort is a success, the entire credit should not be appropriated by the doer alone. If the result of sincere effort is a failure, then too the entire blame does not accrue to the doer. The former attitude mollifies arrogance and conceit while the latter prevents excessive despondency, de-motivation and self-pity. Thus both these dispositions safeguard the doer against psychological vulnerability, the cause of the modem managers' companions of diabetes, high blood pressure and ulcers.

Assimilation of the ideas of the Gita leads us to the wider spectrum of “lokasamgraha” (general welfare) but there is also another dimension to the work ethic - if the “karmayoga” (service) is blended with “bhaktiyoga” (devotion), then the work itself becomes worship, a “sevayoga" (service for its own sake.) Along with bhakti yoga as a means of liberation, the Gita espouses the doctrine of nishkamya karma or pure action untainted by hankering after the fruits resulting from that action. Modern scientists have now understood the intuitive wisdom of that action in a new light.

Scientists at the US National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, found that laboratory monkeys that started out as procrastinators, became efficient workers after they received brain injections that suppressed a gene linked to their ability to anticipate a reward. The scientists reported that the work ethic of rhesus macaques wasn't all that different from that of many people: "If the reward is not immediate, you procrastinate", Dr Richmond told LA Times. (This may sound a peculiarly religious idea but it has a wider application. It could be taken to mean doing something because it is worthwhile, to serve others, to make the world a better place – ed.)

Manager's mental health Sound mental health is the very goal of any human activity - more so management. Sound mental health is that state of mind which can maintain a calm, positive poise, or regain it when unsettled, in the midst of all the external vagaries of work life and social existence. Internal constancy and peace are the pre-requisites for a healthy stress-free mind.
Some of the impediments to sound mental health are:
· Greed - for power, position, prestige and money.
· Envy - regarding others' achievements, success, rewards.
· Egotism - about one's own accomplishments.
· Suspicion, anger and frustration.
· Anguish through comparisons.
The driving forces in today's businesses are speed and competition. There is a distinct danger that these forces cause erosion of the moral fibre, that in seeking the end, one permits oneself immoral means - tax evasion, illegitimate financial holdings, being “economical with the truth”, deliberate oversight in the audit, too-clever financial reporting and so on. This phenomenon may be called as “yayati syndrome”. In the book, the Mahabharata, we come across a king by the name of Yayati who, in order to revel in the endless enjoyment of flesh exchanged his old age with the youth of his obliging youngest son for a thousand years. However, he found the pursuit of sensual enjoyments ultimately unsatisfying and came back to his son pleading him to take back his youth. This “yayati syndrome” shows the conflict between externally directed acquisitions (extrinsic motivation) and inner value and conscience (intrinsic motivation.)

Management needs those who practise what they preach “Whatever the excellent and best ones do, the commoners follow,” says Sri Krishna in the Gita. The visionary leader must be a missionary, extremely practical, intensively dynamic and capable of translating dreams into reality. This dynamism and strength of a true leader flows from an inspired and spontaneous motivation to help others. "I am the strength of those who are devoid of personal desire and attachment. O Arjuna, I am the legitimate desire in those, who are not opposed to righteousness," says Sri Krishna in the 10th Chapter of the Gita. In conclusion The despondency of Arjuna in the first chapter of the Gita is typically human. Sri Krishna, by sheer power of his inspiring words, changes Arjuna's mind from a state of inertia to one of righteous action, from the state of what the French philosophers call “anomie” or even alienation, to a state of self-confidence in the ultimate victory of “dharma” (ethical action.) When Arjuna got over his despondency and stood ready to fight, Sri Krishna reminded him of the purpose of his new-found spirit of intense action - not for his own benefit, not for satisfying his own greed and desire, but for the good of many, with faith in the ultimate victory of ethics over unethical actions and of truth over untruth.

Sri Krishna's advice with regard to temporary failures is, “No doer of good ever ends in misery.” Every action should produce results. Good action produces good results and evil begets nothing but evil. Therefore, always act well and be rewarded. My purport is not to suggest discarding of the Western model of efficiency, dynamism and striving for excellence but to tune these ideals to India's holistic attitude of “lokasangraha” - for the welfare of many, for the good of many. There is indeed a moral dimension to business life. What we do in business is no different, in this regard, to what we do in our personal lives. The means do not justify the ends. Pursuit of results for their own sake, is ultimately self-defeating. (“Profit,” said Matsushita-san in another tradition, “is the reward of correct behaviour.” – ed.)

A note on the word "yoga".
Yoga has two different meanings - a general meaning and a technical meaning. The general meaning is the joining together or union of any two or more things. The technical meaning is “a state of stability and peace and the means or practices which lead to that state." The Bhagavad Gita uses the word with both meanings.

M.P.Bhattathiri.

THE BIBLE AND SECRET DOCTRINE

[Collected from The Secret Doctrine and Isis Unveiled by H. P. Blavatsky

MOSAIC BIBLE

There is a Mosaic Bible in Hebrew, but written in the Samaritan alphabet and also there is one written in the Samaritan language
and alphabet.

They have textual differences in the length of the cycles between the flood and Abraham's birth. Rome follows the chronology of the
Hebrew language text.

The Samaritans repudiated the books of Moses, the Psalms, the Talmud and Mishna, claiming that the Talmudists had disfigured the
books of Moses and Joshua out of all recognition.

HEBREW

Hebrew did not exist either as a language or as an alphabet in the days of Moses. The books that now pass current under his name are
not the true records. Moses did not write in Hebrew square letters nor in Samaritan characters, for both alphabets belong to a later date
than Moses.

The Hebrew alphabet is relatively recent and was probably derived from the Palmyrene writing. The Hebrew Bible is written in the
Chaldaic phonographs of Hebrew words. The square letters Jews rely upon are characters of an unknown, dead language as abstruse
as the cuneiform letters on the mountains of Assyria. Scholars do not carry the now known Hebrew square letters beyond the period
of the fourth century A.D. Ancient Hebrew is neither Syriac nor Chaldaic, and was lost after 70 years captivity when the Israelites

assimilated Chaldaic. Ancient Hebrew ceased being spoken at that time.

Jewish history cannot be carried back one day earlier than the time of Moses. The language of Abraham was not Hebrew, but Chaldaic.
The Hebrew, in truth, cannot be called an old language.

JEHOVAH

The name Jehovah was unknown to Moses or any Jew before David. NEITHER DAVID NOR SOLOMON RECOGNIZED MOSES
OR THE LAW OF MOSES. They aspired to build Jehovic temples along the lines of Venus worship and discarded the initiate teachings
of Moses.

OLD TESTAMENT

The Old Testament was most undeniably milked out of the most ingenious brains of Hebrew Kabalists familiar with Egyptian and
Babylonian Sanskrit centers of learning and with Hindu Deities. The prototypes of nearly all Biblical personages are found in the early
pantheon of India. The sons of Brahma have become the patriarchs.

SEPTUAGINT

The Septuagint [2] manuscript is our most primary source of the Old Testament, and it is claimed to have a miraculous inspiration
when first written in Greek, which copy has long been "lost." The texts used are Hebrew copies that were made from this destroyed
Greek manuscript.

There is much dishonesty surrounding even the writing of the Septuagint manuscript. Yet people persist in talking of the ancient
Hebrew as if one man alive knows one word of it!

The Hebrew Bible exists no more. What exists now are garbled falsifications. I U II 135‑165

With the exception of Paul and Clement of Alexandria, none of the Church Fathers knew much of truth. They were mostly ignorant
and uneducated. Learning and sin were considered synonymous with the early Christians. They were painfully ignorant of
 contemporary teachings on the sphericity of the Earth and the heliocentric system! How great was their ignorance.

HEBREW SCRIPTURES -- EZRA

The Hebrew scriptures had been tampered with and remodeled, had been lost and rewritten a dozen times before the days of Ezra.
Ezra is probably the renegade Azara, the ambitious Chaldean priest who refabricated the ancient lost books taking stray records and combining them with the numerical

keys in which he was versed.

The Christian historians state that the scriptures perished in the captivity of Nabuchodnonosar, after which Esdras, the Levite, became
inspired and restored again the whole ancient scriptures.

Kenealy states that the works of Esdras themselves must have been destroyed by Antiochus. Judas Maccabeus or some unknown
compilers must have re‑created the Old Testament probably from Greek sources well after the Christian era.

The Bible is a masterpiece of clever, ingenious fables, whose true meaning is revealed only to initiates. It is tale and allegory, a repertory
of invented personages and of dark sayings and parables and thus quite misleading to the ignorant. Moreover, exoterically, it is
astrolatry and Sabean worship, pure and simple.

JESUS' SECRET DOCTRINE

That the apostles had received a secret doctrine from Jesus is evident from the words of Jerome who confessed it in an unguarded
moment. Writing to Bishop Chromatius and Bishop Heliodorus, he complains that:

"a difficult work is enjoined since this translation has been commanded me by your Felicities, which St. Matthew, the Apostle, did not
wish to be openly written. He made up this book sealed up in the Hebrew characters, which he put forth that the book might be
possessed by the men most religious. This very book they never gave to any one to be transcribed. This book, having been published
by Seleucus, a disciple of Manichaeus, who also wrote falsely The Acts of the Apostles, exhibited matter not for edification."

Justin Martyr used only this Gospel, as also did most probably Titian, his disciple. The genuine primitive Christians, the Gnostic
[3] Ebionites [4], rejected all other Christian writings except this original Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, since destroyed by the Church.
The Ebionites and also the Nazarenes believed that Jesus was but a man, according to Epiphanius.

MATHEW'S GOSPEL

Jerome states that the Hebrew book written by Matthew, though he translated it twice, was nearly unintelligible to him, for it was
arcane and secret. Jerome knew that this original Gospel of Matthew was the expounder of the only true doctrines of Christ, a work of
the friend and companion of Jesus.

Matthew wrote his gospel in Hebrew and not in Greek, as it was the gospel of the Nazarenes and the Ebionite Gnostics. Jerome
cunningly translated it into Greek with numerous secret meanings purposely changed and called it the original. Matthew's original
Hebrew Gospel did not anthropomorphize Christ.

There were many kicks, blows and murders at the early Church councils where scriptures were edited and selected. Those who abided
by the true writings of Matthew were chastised and humiliated. The Church Fathers resorted to falsification of their scriptures.

The Gospel of John was written by a Greek Platonist, a non-Jew, the name being a forgery.

PAUL

There is little of Paul left in the writings attributed to him. He was a brave, honest and sincere man who believed not in a personal
Christ, but in a non‑anthropomorphic abstract Christ ideal. Paul was a profoundly learned scholar and high initiate. He had never met
Jesus. He was converted solely on metaphysical philosophy and belonged to the same mystery school as Jesus, analogous to an ancient
Masonic Lodge. Thus Paul calls himself a "Master Builder," a code name of rank in the secret schools then and still used in Masonry
today.

Paul was hated and persecuted by Peter, the John of Revelation and James. John was a Jewish Kabalist, with much inherent hatred of
Greek mysteries. Paul's profound Greek learning had humiliated him and he considered that Paul was polluted because of his
non‑kosher, but superior Greek wisdom. After Paul's death, both Peter and John, who wore the headdress of the Jewish high priests and
their petaloon trousers, zealously resumed preaching the rite of circumcision, an exclusively Jewish covenant that Paul had discarded.
Peter was a Jewish Kabalist and not an initiate.

Such men as Irenaeus[5], Epiphanius and Eusebius[6] have transmitted to posterity a reputation for such untruth and dishonest
practices that the heart sickens at the story of their crimes of that period. The whole Christian scheme rests upon their sayings.

THE SORTES SANCTORUM

We must not forget that the Christian Church owes its present Gospels and its dogmatism to the Sortes Sanctorum. Unable to agree as
to which were the most divinely inspired of the numerous gospels of the time, the mysterious Council of Nicea [7] concluded to leave the
decision to miraculous intervention. There were 318 bishops in the council and they were a set of illiterate, simple creatures that
understood nothing, according to Sabinus, which is equivalent to saying that they were a set of fools.

Pappus [8] tells of the bit of magic resorted to, to decide which were the true gospels. In his Synodicon to the council Pappus says:

"having promiscuously put all the books that were referred to the Council for determination under a communion‑table in a church, the
bishops

besought the Lord that the inspired writings might get upon the table, while the spurious ones remained underneath, and it happened
accordingly."

But we are not told who kept the keys of the council chamber overnight!

The Christian world owes its "Word of God" to a method of divination, for which the Church later would burn thousands at the stake.
In treating of this phenomenon of the self‑sorting manuscripts, the Fathers of the Church say that God himself presides over the Sortes.

St. Augustine confessed to using divination by lots, but never for a worldly purpose. The Fathers found authority for the Sortes in the
verse where it is said "the lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord." Proverbs 16:33. They later reversed
themselves to say that divination was wholly disposed by the Devil. IU II 251

The following letter written by Saint Gregory [9] of Nazianzen, one of the most respected Church Fathers, to Saint Jerome, shows what
posterity got instead of the truth:

"Nothing can impose better on a people than verbiage; the less they understand, the more they admire. Our fathers and doctors have often

said, not what they thought, but what circumstances and necessity forced them to say." IU II 183

- [Collected from The Secret Doctrine and Isis Unveiled by H. P. Blavatsky ]

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SAINT GREGORY , consecrated a bishop c.371. He played a leading role at the first Council of Constantinople. His development of
terminology helped to clarify the language of Nicaea and lay the foundation for the debates of the 5th-century ecumenical councils.

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HPB wrote and said:

"Let no one imagine that it is a mere fancy, the attaching of importance to the birth of the year. The astral life of the earth is young and strong between Christmas and Easter. Those who form their wishes now, will have added strength to fulfill them consistently." ...Let no one mistake the importance and potency of numbers--as symbols. Everything in the Universe was framed according to the eternal proportions and combinations of numbers. "God geometrizes," and numbers and numerals are the fundamental basis of all systems of mysticism, philosophy, and religion. The respective festivals of the year and their dates were all fixed according to the Sun--the "father of all calendars" and of the Zodiac, or the sun-god and the twelve great, but still minor gods..."

HPB -- THE YEAR IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE YEAR

ULT - HPB Articles I p. 504

"The 3rd day of the month was sacred to Pallas Athene, the goddess of Wisdom; and January the 4th is the day of Mercury (Hermes, Budha), who is credited with adding brains to the heads of those who are civil to him...December the 25th was the day of the birth of the sun for those who inhabited the Northern hemisphere..." ( - idem, p. 505 )

"According to our theosophical tenets, every man or woman is endowed, more or less, with a magnetic potentiality, which when helped by a sincere, and especially by an intense and indomitable will--is the most effective of magic levers placed by Nature in human hands--for woe as for weal. Let us then, theosophists, use that will to send a sincere greeting and a wish of good luck for the new Year to every living creature under the sun...Let us try and feel especially kind and forgiving to our foes and persecutors, honest or dishonest..."

HPB "1890" LUCIFER, Jan 1890, Vol. 5., p. 357.

ULT HPB Articles II, p. 495

"A HAPPY AND PRODUCTIVE NEW YEAR TO ALL ! “

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TSUNAMI

The vast tsunami in the Indian Ocean that has just been experienced, [Dec. 26 2004] seems to relate in some particulars of historical and ancient geological catastrophes. The suffering of individuals is of course enormous and deserves all our efforts to help and succor.

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PLATE TECTONICS

It may be noted that the present "plate-tectonics" hypothesis is not endorsed by the S D. This plausible hypothesis has recently engaged the attention of geologists and geographers. It advances the concept that our present known continental patterns are fixed to their "plates."

These in turn "float" and gradually move on a softer subterranean core of a more fluidic mass of hot rock; and the result is that they have participated (without altering shape) over millions of years in "continental drift." But, this is not a theory that is confirmed by the esoteric history of our Earth, as given in the SECRET DOCTRINE.

In tracing the past history and movements of the RACES, the land masses follow the order of evolution of the RACES from 1st to the 5th. The book The SECRET DOCTRINE, does not take into account the location and fate of many islands and peninsulas since the face of the Earth has changed many times, and the Poles have been inverted several times [SD II 350 353 360 368 432-3 785-6 436].

The last serious geographical and geological change occurred around 12,000 BC [SD II 8-9] and was followed by the submergence of Posedonis (9,566 BC).

Change in the elevation of the continents and islands is not always violent states the

SECRET DOCTRINE [SD II 787fn].

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ATLANTIS, LEMURIA, GIANTS, ETC….

PART 1 --

ATLANTIS, LEMURIA, GIANTS,

[Part II contains Geological chronology,

Theosophical Chronology, etc. ]

Mme. Blavatsky in the SECRET DOCTRINE, Vol. I pp. 153 - 205 outlines the early ROUNDS whereby the circling and evolving hosts of Mankind pass through the experiences of many degrees of matter until they reach in the middle, the 4th Round, the most gross. If one refers to the diagram on p. 200 (SD I) it will be seen that this is the balance point were the "matter" being evolved is at its densest.

We as a host of "Human" Monads have just past this mid-point. At the Mid point which occurred about 18,618,886 tears ago (SD I 150fn) the significant event called the LIGHTING UP OF MANAS (mind) occurred. In the 2nd volume of the SD, HPB reviews all these in far greater detail.

GIANTS

The stature of man (which in the early Astral matter races, was gigantic as compared with ours) has varied and decreased with the concretisation of the material environment. The passage from the 1st to the 5th RACE following this increased densification is traced in the SD [SD II 9 224-5 336-8] On page SD II 338, we read of a still existing series of statues on the north side of the Hindu Kush range that illustrate this decrease. At Bamiyan stand carved in stone the record of the decreasing size (173, 120, 60, 27, to 6 feet in height ) of the physical forms that humanity has used. A few years ago the magazine NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC published photographs of these.

Giant human skeletons are mentioned in SD II 9 151 194-5 278-9 293fn 330 337 347-8 409

SD II 752-6 774-5 Mahatma Letters, bottom of p. 2]

OUR POSITION NOW

Our Round is the 4th Round and our Globe is the 4th ("D"). On Globe D so far 4 "Races" have been evolved. The 3rd was named "Lemurian, " the 4th, "Atlantean," and the 5th (ours) is named "Aryan" (noble).

The LIGHTING UP OF MANAS occurred during the mid-point of the 3rd Root-race (Lemurian) [SD II 154-5, 167, 79]

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS AND RACES

Questions concerning the past of Mankind and the old races that had been given names such as Atlanteans, Lemurians, etc. relate to time periods, and the nature of geological time measuring, also, the chronology of the SECRET DOCTRINE was asked about.

In considering the past and the attempts to measure and evaluate such misty legends as appear to envelop Lemuria and Atlantis – those periods when we used Lemurian and Atlantean bodies -- for Occultism holds that all of us -- we -- as immortal EGOS, were the same EGO-Minds that were then evolving in those periods and used those bodies. What does Volume. II of the SECRET DOCTRINE, when compared with modern Geological periods offer us

Establishing of the facts that Esoteric and Oriental Literature and philosophy have recorded in regard to the evolution of our Earth. This covers each of the first 3 ROUNDS (3 times around the 7 GLOBES) and, specifically, it deals with the history of evolution in this, the 4th ROUND.

In this 4th ROUND it deals with the most recent time period named by HPB in the SD the 4th GLOBE [see Diagram SD I 200]. One must remember that these (ROUNDS, GLOBES, RACES, SUB-RACES) are measures of time.

Another fact that esotericism speaks of is that there have been great changes in material (PHYSICAL), psychological (MIND, FEELINGS, EMOTIONS) and spiritual (MONADIC) development.

These are traced by occultism and a summary is offered to us, together with explanations in Vol. 2 of the S D. We can, by reading what is offered there, learn in greater detail about our own past history. About that which occurred during those vast periods when we incarnated again and again in that “past.”

In S D I, p. 181, HPB gives facts about the three lines of Evolution.

She describes them and names them:

1. Spiritual (or MONADIC).

2. Intellectual (or Manasic), and

3. Physical. (or material, physical bodily forms).

It will be found that the 2nd Vol. of the S D focuses in still greater detail on the 4 RACES that have preceded ours in this Round. It provides information concerning our evolution there and upon the development of mind, psyche and Soul.

The physical side of evolution and its remains as fossils and monuments – contrasting with the Scientific views of geology and archaeology are also discussed as of the time when HPB wrote which was over 120 years ago.

REINCARNATION OF THE IMMORTAL MONAD

It is very important to realize ( and carry this in mind during the following consideration) that the Reincarnating EGO (Atma-Buddhi-Manas) of each human being is an IMMORTAL (as a MONAD).

It (WE) have been named the ETERNAL PILGRIMS.

It [the Monad] moves from body to body, as the eras and races pass in time, and all the development of faculties are embodied in the character and the talents of each of us. In all cases there is an increment, and an improving of our range of experience.

We can trace a continual widening of our comprehension of the Universe, and an intuitional inquiry into the causes of both our diversity and coupled with that the paradox of, our close unity.

Ultimately, we find that the UNITY of ALL dawns on us as a potential and then as an actuality. It is a most wonderful prospect and gives to each of us a sense of purpose, of dignity, and of an importance, which, once grasped cannot be relinquished. We find that the brotherhood of the immortal Monads is the basis for all relationships -- there is a commonality, a sharing, of spirit, mind and matter, even though we may try to guard that which we think is solely "our own."

Therefore, we, who now use 5th RACE, "Aryan Race" bodies, were the same EGOS that used the old "Atlantean" bodies (through each of its 7-fold Races), and, the still older "Lemurian" bodies (and their 7-fold RACE developments).

When we speak of those old RACES we are speaking of ourselves when we lived in them and used them. We are trying to look into our own past history.

When we visit Cyclopean monuments, we are revisiting buildings in which we may have had a hand in their original construction or subsequent renovation and restoration down the eras of time.

Our present human bodies--that we are using today--each has in its past as heredity, one or a mixture of the Sub-Races of the 5th RACE. It, the 5 th Race, named "Aryan" (or Noble), is said to be about 1,050,000 years old [ SD II 141, 144-5, 395]. The Aryan race arose among the later sub-races of the Atlanteans, and gradually separated from that older root stock. There are still human groups and tribes whose heredity can be traced to the Atlanteans; and even to the last sub-races of the Lemuro-Atlanteans. It takes vast ages for all the traits and characteristics of a great Race to

die out completely. All this complexity is explained in detail in SD Vol. II.

The 3rd Race (Round 4 - ours) was named Lemurian.

The 4th Race (Round 4 - ours) was named Atlantean.

LEMURIA

LEMURIA, as a continent, is said to have begun slipping below the ocean 4,242,352 years back (as of 1888) [ SD I 439fn].

ATLANTIS

998,100 years ago the Atlantean continent began sinking [SD II 10, 141, 144, ISIS I 557, 593]

9,664 BC The last Island related to Atlantis, [“Posedonis”] is said to have sunk 9,664 BC

[ML 155, SD II 5, 8, 406, 444fn, ISIS I 589-94].

1,628 c Thera (Santorini) Volcano Erupts (Tree Ring Dating)

[ L A Times, Aug 29 1996 ]

[ End of Minoan Civilization, and tidal waves overwhelm

the coasts of Eastern Mediterranean.]

In the SD we can find that a special date is drawn attention to (SD I 150 Fn). It is over 18 million years ago, when the Mind of humanity is said to have been "lighted up." [ see SD II 167, 254-5, 70-80, SD I 150fn. ].

Since the description of the facts found narrated in ancient oriental literature and the secret books of the Occult Fraternity, runs in many ways contrary to the hypothesis and theories of our modern Archaeology, one finds that much of the 2nd Volume of the SD is a great polemic, and many arguments are advanced in contrasting and opposing views: the theories of Archaeology and the FACTS of Occult Science and History.

ARCHAEOLOGY, GEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY

Our Sciences of Archaeology, Geology, Paleontology, etc...are hardly 250 years old. Looking at physical evidence only, theories were devised (based on that material evidence alone) to account for the evolution of living beings on Earth. There was, and is, an on-going conflict between "evolutionists" and "creationists."

Geology provides details concerning the effect of climate on minerals, plants and the fossils of animals and humans, and archaeology employs these as clues to the timing of evolutionary events. It is all based on physical evidence. The evolution of consciousness, mind, intelligence, instinct and intuition are invisible, hence the Scientific speculations based on solely the physical evidence of change cannot possibly give an accurate view of their separate evolution.

ASTRAL CONCRETIZATIONS

When we look at the evidence of geological change, the S D states that in some cases we may also be looking at the concretized remains and evidence of evolutionary change in the ASTRAL periods. Thus some fossils and strata reflect traces of those ancient Astral conditions and its changes during those past eras in terms of our present highly condensed material -- which now clothes the original Astral forms. [One might consider (using an analogy) that the space between the Atomic nuclei and their peripheral electrons was even wider in those early days than they are to day, thus making the appearance of "matter" far more tenuous--"misty" to us as a perspective. As matter "condensed" so did the Astral fossils and strata.]

The great difference between Occult and material Science in this, it lies in a grasp of the nature of the early periods of Astral development and its changes prior to our present material physical condition. The early Rounds of our Earth (One, Two, Three to the middle of the 4th ROUND) are evolutionary periods involving only the Astral material and its progress.

Minerals, plants animals and mankind were all astral in form, and just as "solid" to each other then, in those periods, as we are today solid to one another in this present condensed "matter" that we use all the time. Physical Matter, such as we now are familiar with, and live in, became gradually more concretely manifest and visible in the 4th GLOBE of this, our ROUND (which is the 4th in the World series of Rounds). The 4th GLOBE, of this 4th ROUND, being the densest -- which is where we are, as "forms," now.).

In this our 4th GLOBE, the 7 RACES which form it, also, the sub-divisions of time, recapitulate the entire process of development (as the fetus does in the womb) of the 3 earlier ROUNDS.

RACES One, Two and Three (Lemurian) up to the middle of the 3rd were largely Astral forms -- of Astral matter, and these have gradually consolidated as the material conditions changed and densified around them. [ SD I 142, ]

The Astral form is electro-magnetic in character and for each individual intelligence (be this mineral, plant, animal or human) there is a specific and individual "force-field" to which cooperative materials are attracted. These assist in making a coherent bodily form. The "materials" are also Monads.

Thus, the Astral is held in esotericism to always precede the physical.

If one considers what Science teaches us today about the constitution of the atom, we can see that if we analyze our physical body to its ultimate nature we are left with "force-fields" that are "atomic" in nature and quality. But that Power which draws specific atoms to form molecules, cells, and physical structures into a living body, is yet to be located, and subject to analysis. Yet, it exists since we are here, using our bodies and very conscious in them of both feelings and thoughts.

At our present evolutionary stage, the astral form/entity is entirely interior to the physical. It forms the mold or framework on which the physical molecules, cells, and other physical structures form a coherent cooperative, in which an Intelligence (called the Human Personality) can reside. It is far more resistant to change than physical matter and serves as the continuing basis for our appearance, from childhood to old age.

BRAIN

There is an astral BRAIN which is the true center of Intelligence, and where memory is recorded. The physical Brain changes and alters from second to second, (as does the living matter of the whole body) and so, the Brain, is constantly renewed as it deteriorates and that which needs removal is replaced. It is the physical tool of the Astral, the True Brain.

MIND

In Man's form, a MIND (in addition to the feeling, sensitive Personality) also resides [SD II 167, 79-80, 254-5]. Man's form has associated with it, all the impulse of a well-developed instinctual and desire nature. The Mind in man is of the Spiritual essence that inheres in Him; it is THIS (the MONAD -- the HIGHER SELF) that broods over each of our personalities as we live our daily life. We can thus see that no matter how many fossils are discovered, the astral, the mental and the spiritual heredity and evolution cannot be deduced from them.

Because of this HPB, had to draw comparisons with the facts known to Occultism and those tentative theories and hypotheses that were being advanced by archaeology, and the scientific theories on evolution and heredity that were current in her day – and which, as is usually the case, became accepted as "true" and as a "basis" on which to further pursue study and deposit fresh and additional facts as they were unearthed. [One ought to become familiar with the 3 books written by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson regarding FORBIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGY -- which uncover some of the data that archaeology has been concealed – if it did not fit those theories. This has retarded real progress.]

Since HPB's time, there have been some changes brought on by fresh discoveries and technical improvements, in the views and dating of modern Science, but the basic distinction between the physical and the astral, the physical and the intellectual, and the physical and the Spiritual consciousness has never yet been derived from fossils. Nor have their evolution been traced except hypothetically.

The general theories current when the S D was written over 120 years ago, are still in place, but thanks to dating techniques the antiquity of early times and geological ages have been extended and broadened. In the 2nd part of this essay we offer some data (in terms of times) for comparison on this.

GRADUALISM

During HPB's time another theory (besides Lyell's 'Gradualism') concerning evolution was also under consideration in France, based on the observations and hypothesis of the eminent scientist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832).

CATASTROPHISM IN EARLIER ERAS

Cuvier as a Zoologist and Chancellor of the University of Paris developed from his observations of fossils found in old geological strata the concept of "Catastrophism." Great global cataclysms were seen to substantially alter the progress of evolution from time to time. A perspective is needed

to view these.

Geologists have revealed many great catastrophic changes that have left their mark on global geology. For example: (These catastrophic time-frame estimates are made by modern Geology.)

Early CAMBRIAN Age (estimated at 570 million years ago). Unicellular forms seem suddenly to give way to multicellular ones showing mineralized skeletons -- trilobites, etc... The cause for this change is not known.

End of the ORDOVICIAN Period (estimated at 425 million years ago). The cause of a vast mass extinction that occurred then is yet to be determined. This was apparently accompanied by a long ice age.

Close of the DEVONIAN Age (estimated at 365 million years ago). Another mass extinction of species occurred -- cause yet to be determined.

The PALEOZOIC Era closed (estimated at 225 million years ago). A most violent mass extinction (including the ancient trilobites) occurred leaving only about 5% of all species alive. It is theorized that the supercontinent "Pangea" -- "mother" of the present continents was then in place. Water levels diminished, and sea levels lowered dramatically Massive volcanic action seems to have taken place following that.

TRIASSIC Period ended (estimated at 190 million years ago). Another mass extinction of living species was observed. This may have been triggered it has been theorized, by the impact of large meteorite or a small comet in the area of Quebec's Lake Manicougan (60 mile wide crater). The subsequent ice age caused a massive die-off of living forms. It is theorized that the hypothetical link (Cotylosaurus) between the dinosaurs and the mammals and reptiles was destroyed at that time.

65 million years ago another comet/meteorite was also estimated to have collided with the Earth and the resulting devastation caused the death of most of the Earth's species. This included the remaining dinosaurs and reptiles. A world wide layer of Iridium between 2 layers of limestone may

have been deposited, as Iridium, rare on Earth, is largely present in meteorites [1980, Alvarez]. Mammals survived and a new distribution of fauna bloomed after this.

35 million years ago saw possibly two impacts (one under the Chesapeake Bay, and another in Siberia) -- that triggered the death of most of the animal species of the Earth, as a great ice age ensued.

This catalog causes one to observe that long periods of relative stability can be traced by geologists to be interrupted by violent events: floods or volcanism. These upheavals alter the course of Life as a whole.

Archaeologists and Geologists wonder if a new era and change in quality of life is marked by the rapid development of new species. For example it is noticed that fossils indicate a rapid rise in the mammalian population of the Earth following the general demise of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. Later still, human fossils begin to be found in strata that seems to be around 4 million years old.

In HPB's time a very grudging 40 to 100,000 years was allowed for the emergence of the human skeletal frame, presumably from that of the apes, which so closely resembled them.

MAN’s FORM IS PRIMITIVE -- APE-FORMS ARE SPECIALIZED DESCENDENTS

Scientists of HPB's time like Mr. De Quatrefages and others, challenged this "descent from the Apes theory" because anatomically man's skeleton can be shown to precede that of the Apes. [ S D II 87fn, 287, 315fn, 665fn, 666-8, 677-8, 680-5]

To explain this: Man's skeletal form is far more primitive, and the skeletons of the Apes show specializations that could only be derived by environmental requirements placed on them. Whereas the human skeleton can be shown to remain unchanged in structure no matter how old the strata may be from which his fossils may be found. The antiquity of the strata shows no variation in man's skeleton. Further the special characteristics of various human skeletal features can be found today among us. We are also aware that today with our current highly technological civilization, there are savage tribes and races that still co-exist with us in South America, Australia, Africa, Polynesia, (not to mention the "inner-city" jungles that we have created in our large cities).

In HPB's time a very grudging 40 to 100,000 years was allowed for the emergence of the human skeletal frame, presumably from that of the apes, which so closely resembled them.

But the S D teaches that the Apes are the descendents of man and not his predecessor or progenitor. [ see SD, Vol. I 186, 190-1; II 87fn, 189, 193, 678, 689 ]

Another important factor is brain size:

BRAIN SIZE

An additional factor is the size of the brain. It has to be noted that Man's cranial capacity, the average -- including those we term 'savages' -- is 100 cubic inches or more. This is about 3 times as large as the brain volume of the largest Ape, the Gorilla, which measures on the average, 31

cubic inches or less. [SD II 193fn, 661, 676, 682].

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Part 2 -- ANCIENT CATACLYSMS

ATLANTIS, LEMURIA, GIANTS, etc...

Included Geological Chronology -- Time Charts

Chronology of THEOSOPHY and Hindus

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It is important as we said at the beginning of Part 1 to remember that the entire evolutionary cycle of the immortal monads we call “humanity” on our Earth is 3 fold:

1. Spiritual (or MONADIC),

2. Intellectual (Mind and Emotion conjoined), and,

3. Physical form. [SD I 181].

In all cases the units are immortal MONADS. The study of evolution is the study of the progress of the Monads as each is assisting in the evolutionary development of others which are less progressed. In all cases, the wiser assist the rest, who have less experience, in theirs.

MONADIC REINCARNATION -- A BROTHERHOOD

It is a vast living and progressive BROTHERHOOD. It is a vast cooperative. The first object of the TS is to demonstrate that. The SD was written with that purpose in mind, hence the HISTORY (SD I 267) of the past is opened to all of us as never before. The sweep of esoteric History shows us in retrospect where we have been and how we have participated in the maturation process that has produced our talents, character, and our personality in general; it now plays an important part in our motivation. But, as students of Theosophy we have to always remember that these are not the essential "US." We are the Spiritual MONAD, which is Atma-Buddhi-Manas. The "personality" is our vehicle, and our "pupil."

We ought to use the diagram that HPB gives us on p. 200 of SECRET DOCTRINE Vol. I frequently.

This "Part Two" deals mainly with the 3rd, 4th and 5th ROOT RACES of GLOBE "D" in the 4th ROUND. [ the Lemurian, Atlantean, and Aryan root Races through which we have passed, and are now passing, as immortal Egos. ]

If we wish to review the information given in the SECRET DOCTRINE concerning the land masses (continents) that were used (in this the 4th ROUND, GLOBE "D") by the early RACES, when we were incarnated in and used the type of bodies provided by those RACES, we could open the 2nd Vol. of the S D at p. 6 where a table of Continents is given:

TABLE OF CONTINENTS [ 4th Round, Globe "D" ] [S D II 6 – 9]

1. "The IMPERISHABLE SACRED LAND" lasts from one end to the other of the Manvantara. Presumably this is an area which is never destroyed by either floods or volcanism but is reserved for the use of the Wise, who alone know its present location.

2. "The HYPERBOREAN" -- 2nd Continent - extended its promontories south from the North Polar area. Apollo (the Sun, Hyperboreas) traveled there once a year according to Greek tradition, and for that half year visit, the Sun never set there.