Filename: RC1059.TXT
Source: "The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception" by Max Heindel

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                       THE RACES AND THEIR LEADERS:

   Before  considering  in detail the evolution of the Lemurians it  may  be
well to take a general survey of the Races and their Leaders.

   Some  very valuable works on Occultism,  bringing before the  public  the
teachings  of the Eastern Wisdom, have nevertheless contained  certain  mis-
takes,  owing  to a misunderstanding of the teachings by those who  were  so
fortunate as to receive them.   All books, not written directly by the Elder
Brothers, are liable to contain such errors.  Considering the extreme intri-
cacy and many complications of the subject,  the wonder is not that mistakes
do occur,  but that they are not more frequent.   Therefore the writer  does
not  presume to criticise,  recognizing that more numerous and more  serious
mistakes may be embodied in the present work, owing to his own misconception
of  the teaching.   He simply sets forth in the next few paragraphs what  he
has  received,  which shows how the differing (and seemingly  contradictory)
teaching  of  two  such valuable works as "The Secret  Doctrine"  by  H.  P.
Blavatsky, and "Esoteric Buddhism," by A. P. Sinnett, may be reconciled.

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   That  part  of  human evolution which is to be  accomplished  during  the
present sojourn of the life wave on our Earth is divisible into seven  great
stages or Epochs;  but these cannot appropriately be called Races.   Nothing
to  which that name could be correctly applied appears until the end of  the
Lemurian Epoch.   From that time different Races succeed one another through
the  Atlantean  and Aryan Epochs,  and will extend slightly into  the  Sixth
great Epoch.

   The  total number of Races--past,  present and future--in our  scheme  of
evolution is sixteen; one at the end of the Lemurian Epoch, seven during the
Atlantean Epoch, seven more in our present Aryan Epoch and one in the begin-
ning  of the Sixth Epoch.   After that time there will be nothing  that  can
properly be called a Race.

   Races  did not exist in the Periods which have preceded the Earth  Period
and they will not exist in those Periods which follow it.   It is only here,
at the very nadir of material existence, that the difference is so great be-
tween man and man as to warrant the separation into Races.

   The  immediate Leaders of humanity (apart from the creative  Hierarchies)
who helped man to take the first tottering steps in Evolution, after Involu-
tion had furnished him with vehicles, were Beings much further advanced than
man along the path of evolution.   They came on this errand of love from the
two planets which are located between the Earth and the Sun--Venus and  Mer-
cury.

   The Beings who inhabit Venus and Mercury are not quite so far advanced as
those  whose present field of evolution is the Sun,  but they are very  much
further  advanced than our humanity.  Therefore they stayed somewhat  longer
with  the  central  mass  than  did  the  inhabitants of the Earth, but at a

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certain point their evolution demanded separate fields, so those two planets
were thrown off, Venus first, and then Mercury.  Each was given such proxim-
ity  to the central orb as insured the rate of vibration necessary  for  its
evolution.   The inhabitants of Mercury are the furthest advanced, hence are
closer to the Sun.

   Some of the inhabitants of each planet were sent to the Earth to help na-
scent humanity and are know to occult scientist as the "Lords of Venus"  and
the "Lords of Mercury."

   The Lords of Venus were leaders of the masses of our people.   They  were
inferior beings of the Venus evolution, who appeared among men and were know
as  "messengers  of the Gods."   For the good of our humanity they  led  and
guided it,  step by step.   There was no rebellion against their  authority,
because man had not yet evolved an independent will.  It was to bring him to
the  stage  where he would be able to manifest will and judgment  that  they
guided him, until he should be able to guide himself.

   It  was  known that these messengers communed with the Gods.   They  were
held in deep reverence and their commands were obeyed without question.

   When  under  the tuition of these Beings mankind had  reached  a  certain
stage of progress,  the most advanced were placed under the guidance of  the
Lords of Mercury,  who initiated them into the higher truths for the purpose
of making them leaders of the people.   These Initiates were then exalted to
kingship  and were the founders of the dynasties of Divine Rulers  who  were
indeed kings "by the grace of God," i.e., by the grace of the Lords of Venus
and  Mercury,  who were as Gods to infant humanity.   They  guided  and  in-
structed   the   kings   for   the   good   of   the   people  and  not  for

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self-aggrandizement and arrogation of rights at their expense.

   At that time a Ruler held a sacred trust to educate and help his  people;
to alleviate and promote equity and well-being.  He had the light of God  to
give him wisdom and guide his judgment.   Hence,  while those kings reigned,
all things prospered, and it was indeed a Golden Age.  Yet, as we follow the
evolution of man in detail, we shall see that the present phase or period of
development,  though it cannot be called a golden age in any but a  material
sense,  cannot be called a golden age in any but a material sense, is never-
theless a necessary one, in order to bring man to the point where he will be
able to rule himself,  for SELF-MASTERY IS THE END AND AIM OF ALL RULERSHIP.
NO  MAN CAN SAFELY REMAIN UNGOVERNED WHO HAS NOT LEARNED TO GOVERN  HIMSELF,
and  at the present stage of development, that is the hardest task that  can
be given him.   It is easy to command others;  it is hard to force obedience
from oneself.

                           INFLUENCE OF MERCURY:

   The purpose of the Lords of Mercury at that time,  and of all Hierophants
of Mysteries since then, as also all the occult schools of our day,  was and
is  to teach the candidate the art of Self-Mastery.   In the measure that  a
man  has  mastered himself,  AND IN THAT MEASURE ONLY,  is he  qualified  to
govern others.   Were the present rulers of the masses able to govern  THEM-
SELVES we should again have the Millenium or Golden Age.

   As the Lords of Venus worked on the masses of a long past ago,  so do the
Lords  of Mercury now work on the Individual,  fitting him for mastery  over
self and (incidentally only,  not primarily) for mastery over others.   This
work  on  their  part  is  but  the  beginning of what will be an increasing

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Mercurial  influence during the remaining three and one-half Revolutions  of
the Earth Period.

   During  the first three and one-half Revolutions Mars held  sway,  polar-
izing  the iron,  preventing the formation of the red blood and keeping  the
Ego  from immuring itself in the body until the latter had attained  at  the
requisite degree of development.

   During  the last three and one half Revolutions Mercury will  operate  to
extricate the Ego from its densest vehicle by means of Initiation.

   Incidentally,  it may be noted that, as Mars polarized the iron,  so Mer-
cury has polarized the metal bearing its name and the workings of that metal
will  show  very  well this tendency to take the dense body  away  from  the
spirit--to liberate the latter from the former.

   That dread disease,  syphilis, is an example of condition were the Ego is
fettered and immured in the body to a particularly cramping extent.   Suffi-
cient mercury relieves the condition,  lessens the hold of the body upon the
Ego  and leaves the latter to that comparative freedom within the  body,  an
overdose  of mercury causes paralysis,  thus taking the dense body from  the
man in an improper way.

   The  Lords of Mercury taught man to leave and re-enter the body at  will;
to  function in his higher vehicles independent of the dense body,  so  that
the  latter  becomes a cheerful dwelling house instead of  a  closely-locked
prison--a useful instrument instead of a clogging fetter.

   Therefore occult science speaks of the Earth Period as Mars-Mercury,  and
so it may be said truly that we have been in Mars and are going to  Mercury,
as taught in one of the occult works previously mentioned.  It is also true,

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however,  that we have never inhabited the planet Mars,  nor are we to leave
the earth at some future time to take up our adobe on the planet Mercury, as
the other work mentioned states,  with the intention of correcting an  error
in the first one.

   Mercury, now being in obscuration, is exercising very little influence on
us,  but it is emerging from a planetary rest and as time goes on its influ-
ence  will be more and more in evidence as a factor in our  evolution.   The
coming  Races  will have much help from the Mercurians,  and the  people  of
still later Epochs and Revolutions will have even more.

                            THE LEMURIAN RACE:

   We are now in a position to understand the information which is to follow
concerning  the people who lived IN THE LATTER PART of the  Lemurian  Epoch,
whom we may call the Lemurian Race.

   The  atmosphere  of  Lemuria  was still  very  dense--somewhat  like  the
fire-fog  of the Moon Period,  but denser.  The crust of the Earth was  just
starting to become quite hard and solid in some places,  while in others  it
was still fiery, and between islands of crust was a sea of boiling, seething
water.   Volcanic outbursts and cataclysms marked this time when the  nether
fires fought hard against the formation of the encircling wall which was  to
imprison them.

   Upon the harder and comparatively cool spots man lived surrounded by  gi-
ant  fern-forests and animals of enormous size.   The forms of both man  and
animal were yet quite plastic.  The skeleton had formed, but man himself had
great  power  in molding the flesh of his own body and that of  the  animals
about him.

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   When he was born he could hear and feel, but his perception of light came
later.   We have analogous cases in animals like cats and dogs, the young of
which receive the sense of sight some time after birth.  The Lemurian had no
eyes.   He had two sensitive spots which were affected by the light  of  the
Sun  as it shone dimly through the fiery atmosphere of ancient Lemuria,  but
is  was not until nearly the close of the Atlantean Epoch that he had  sight
as  we  have  it today.   Up to that time the building of  the  eye  was  in
progress.   While  the Sun was within--while the Earth formed  part  of  the
light-giving mass--man need no external illuminant; he was luminous himself.
But when the dark Earth was separated from the Sun it became necessary  that
the  light should be perceived,  therefore as the light rays  impinged  upon
man,  he perceived them.  Nature built the eye as a light-perceiver,  in re-
sponse to the demand of the already-existing function,  which is  invariable
the case, as Professor Huxley has so ably shown.  The amoeba has no stomach,
yet it digests.   It is all stomach.  The necessity for digesting food built
in  the stomach in the course of time,  but digestion took place before  the
alimentary  canal was formed.   In an analogous manner,  the  perception  of
light  called forth the eye.   The light itself built the eye and  maintains
it.   Where there is no light there can be no eye.   In cases where  animals
have  withdrawn  and dwelt in caves--keeping away from the  light--the  eyes
have degenerated and atrophied because there were no light rays to  maintain
them and no eyes were needed in the dark caves.   The Lemurian needed  eyes;
he had a perception of light,  and the light was commencing to build the eye
in response to his demand.

   His  language consisted of sounds like those of Nature.   The sighing  of
the  wind  in  the  immense  forests  which grew in great luxuriance in that

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super-tropical  climate,  the  rippling of the brook,  the  howling  of  the
tempest--for Lemuria was storm-swept--the thunder of the waterfall, the roar
of  the volcano--all these were to him voices of the Gods from whom he  knew
himself to have descended.

   Of the birth of his body he knew nothing.   He could not SEE either it or
anything else, but he did PERCEIVE his fellow beings.  It was,  however,  an
inner perception,  like our perception of persons and things in dreams,  but
with this very important difference, that his dream-perception was clear and
rational.

   Thus  he knew nothing at all about his body,  in fact he did not know  he
had  a  body any more than we know we have a stomach when that organ  is  in
good health.   We remember its existence only when our abuse of it causes us
to feel pain there.   Under normal conditions we are entirely unconscious of
its  processes.   Similarly did the body of the Lemurian  serve  him  excel-
lently,  although he was unaware of its existence.   Pain was the  means  of
making him aware of his body and of the world without.

   Everything in connection with the propagation of the race and the  bring-
ing to birth was done by direction of the Angels under the leadership of Je-
hovah,  the Regent of the Moon.  The propagative function was  performed  as
stated  times of the year when the lines of force,  running from  planet  to
planet, were focussed at proper angles.  Thus the creative force encountered
no obstruction and parturition was painless.  Man was unaware of birth,  be-
cause  at  that time he was unconscious of the physical world as he  now  is
during sleep.   It was only in the intimate contact of sex relation that the
spirit  became  aware  of  the  flesh and them man "knew" his wife.  That is

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shown  is such passages of the Bible as "Adam KNEW Eve and she  bore  Seth";
"Elkanah KNEW Hannah and she bore Samuel"; and Mary's question, "How I shall
conceive, seeing I KNOW no man?"  This is also the key to the meaning of the
"Tree of Knowledge," the fruit of which opened the eyes of Adam and Eve,  so
that they came to know both good and evil.   Previously they had known  only
good,  but when they began to exercise the creative function  independently,
they  were  ignorant  of  stellar  influences,  as  their  descendants,  and
Jehovah's supposed curse was not a curse at all,  but a simple statement  of
the result which must inevitably follow use of their generative force  which
failed  to take into consideration the effect of the stellar rays on  child-
birth.

   Thus  the ignorant use of the generative force is  primarily  responsible
for pain, sickness and sorrow.

   The Lemurian knew no death because when, in the course of long ages,  his
body dropped away, he entered another, quite unconscious of the change.  His
consciousness was not focussed in the physical world,  therefore the  laying
aside  of one body and the taking of another was no more to him than a  leaf
or  twig drying and falling away from the tree and being replaced by  a  new
growth.

   Their  language was to the Lemurians something holy.   It was not a  dead
language  like  ours--a  mere orderly arrangements of  sounds.   Each  sound
uttered by the Lemurian had power over his fellow-beings,  over the  animals
and even over nature around him.  Therefore, under the guidance of the Lords
of  Venus,  who  were  the messengers of God--the  agents  of  the  creative
hierarchies--  the power of speech was used with great reverence,  as  some-
thing most holy.

   The  education of the boys differed greatly from that of the girls.   The
Lemurian   methods   of   education   seem  shocking  to  our  more  refined

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sensibilities.   In  order to spare the reader's feelings,  only  the  least
cruel  of them will be touched upon.  Strenuous in the extreme as  they  may
seen,  it  must  be  remembered that the Lemurian body  was  not  nearly  so
high-strung  as are the human bodies of the present day;  also that  it  was
only  by the very harshest measures that the exceedingly  dim  consciousness
could be touched at all.   As time went on and the consciousness became more
and more awakened,  such extreme measures as those used then became unneces-
sary  and  have passed away,  but at that time they  were  indispensable  to
arouse the slumbering forces of the spirit to a consciousness of the outside
world.

   The education of the boys was designed especially to develop the  quality
of  Will.   They were made to fight one another,  and these fights were  ex-
tremely brutal.   They were impaled upon spits,  with full power to  release
themselves,  but by exercising the will power they were to remain  there  in
spite of the pain.   They learned to make their muscles tense,  and to carry
immense burdens by the exercise of the Will.

   The education of the girls was intended to promote the development of the
imaginative  facility.   They also were subjected to  strenuous  and  severe
treatment.   They were put out in the great forests, to let the sound of the
wind  in the tree tops speak to them and to listen to the furious  outbursts
of flood and tempest.   They thus learned to have no fear of those paroxysms
of  nature and to perceive only the grandeur of the warring  elements.   The
frequent volcanic outbursts were greatly valued as a means of education, be-
ing particularly conducive to the awakening of the faculty of memory.

   Such  educational  methods  would  be entirely out of the question at the

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present day,  but they did not make the Lemurian morbid,  because he had  no
memory.  No matter what painful or terrifying experience he endured,  every-
thing was forgotten as soon as past.   The above mentioned strenuous experi-
ences  were for the purpose of developing memory,  to imprint these  violent
and constantly repeated impacts from without upon the brain,  because memory
is  necessary that the experiences of the past may be used as guides to  Ac-
tion.

   The  education  of  the girls developed the  first  germinal,  flickering
memory.   THE FIRST IDEA OF GOOD AND EVIL WAS FORMULATED BY THEM because  of
their experiences,  which worked chiefly on the imagination.   Those experi-
ences most likely to leave a recollection were thought "Good;"  those  which
did not produce that much desired result were considered "Evil."

   Thus woman become the pioneer in culture,  being the first to develop the
idea of "a good life,"  of which she became the esteemed exponent among  the
ancients and in that respect she has nobly led the vanguard ever since.   Of
course,  as all Egos incarnate alternately as male and female,  there is re-
ally no pre-eminence.  It is simply that those who for the time being are in
a  dense  body of the feminine gender have a positive vital  body,  and  are
therefore  more responsive to spiritual impacts than when the vital body  is
negative as in the male.

   As we have seen, the Lemurian was a born magician.  He felt himself a de-
scendant of the Gods,  a spiritual being;  therefore his line of advancement
was by gaining not spiritual,  but MATERIAL knowledge.   The Temples of Ini-
tiation for the most advanced did not need to reveal to man his high origin;
to educate him to perform feats of magic; to instruct him how to function in

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the desire world and the higher realms.  Such instruction is necessary today
because now the average man has no knowledge of the spiritual world, nor can
he function in superphysical realism.   The Lemurian,  however,  in his  own
way,  did possess that knowledge and could exercise those faculties,  but on
the other hand, he was ignorant of the Laws of the Cosmos of facts regarding
the physical world which are matters of common,  everyday knowledge with us.
Therefore at the School Initiation he was taught art, the laws of Nature and
facts relating to the physical universe.  His will was strengthened and  his
imagination  and memory wakened so that he could correlate  experiences  and
devise  ways and means of action when his past experiences did not serve  to
indicate a proper course of procedure.  Thus,  the Temples of Initiation  in
the  Lemurian times were High Schools for the cultivation of Will-power  and
Imagination, with "post-graduate courses" in Art and Science.

   Yet, though the Lemurian was a born magician, he never misused his powers
because  he felt himself related to the Gods.   Under his direction  of  the
Messengers of the Gods,  already spoken of,  his forces were directed toward
the molding of forms in the animal and the plant worlds.  It may be hard for
the materialist to understand how he could do such work if he could not  see
the world about him.   It is true man could not "see"  as we understand  the
term  and  as he now sees objects outside in space with his  physical  eyes.
Still,  as the purest of our children are clairvoyant to this day while they
remain  in a state of sinless innocence,  possessed an  internal  perception
which gave them only a dim idea of the OUTWARD shape of any object;  but il-
luminated  so  much  the  brighter  its inner nature, its soul-quality, by a

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spiritual apperception born of innocent purity.

   Innocence,  however,  is not synonymous with Virtue.   Innocence  is  the
child of Ignorance and could not be maintained in a universe where the  pur-
pose  of  evolution is the acquisition of Wisdom.   To attain  that  end,  a
knowledge of good and evil,  right and wrong,  is essential,  also choice of
action.

   If,  having knowledge and choice,  man ranges himself on the side of Good
and Right he cultivates Virtue and Wisdom.  If he succumbs to temptation and
does wrong knowingly, he fosters vice.

   God's  plan  is not to be brought to naught,  however.   Every act  is  a
seed-ground for the law of Consequence.  We reap what we sow.   The weeds of
wrong action bear flowers of sorrow and suffering,  and when the seeds  from
then have fallen into a chastened heart, when they have been watered by  the
tears of repentance Virtue will eventually blossom forth.   What blessed as-
surance,  that out of every evil we do, Good will eventually accrue,  for in
our Father's Kingdom naught but Good can endure.

   Therefore,  the "Fall"  with its consequent pain and suffering is  but  a
temporary state where we see through a glass darkly,  but anon we shall  be-
hold again face to face the God within and without,  who is  ever  perceived
by the pure in heart.

                             THE FALL OF MAN:

   This  is cabalistically described as the experience of one pair  who,  of
course,  represent humanity.   They key is given in the verse where the Mes-
senger  of  the  Gods  says  to the woman, "in sorrow thou shalt bring forth

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children;"  the clue is also found in the sentence of death which  was  pro-
nounced at that same time.

   It  will be observed that previous to the Fall the consciousness was  not
focussed  in  the physical world.  Man was unconsciousness  of  propagation,
birth and death.   The Angels who have charge of and work in the vital  body
(the  medium of propagation) regulated the propagative function and  brought
the sexes together at certain seasons of the year,  using the solar and  the
lunar forces when they produced conditions most propitious for  fecundation,
the  union  being achieved unconsciously by the participants at  first,  but
later it produced a momentary physical cognition.  Then the period of gesta-
tion caused no inconvenience and parturition was painless,  the parent being
plunged in deep sleep.   Birth and death involved no break in the  conscious
and were therefore non-existent to the Lemurians.

   Their consciousness was directed inward.   They perceived physical things
in a spiritual way,  as we perceive them in a dream--at which time all  that
we see is within ourselves.

   When "their eyes opened" and their consciousness was directed outward to-
ward the facts of the physical world, conditions were altered.   Propagation
was directed,  not by the Angels,  but by man,  who was ignorant of the  op-
eration of the Sun- and Moon- forces.  He also abused the sex-function,  us-
ing it for sense-gratification,  with the result that pain attended the pro-
cess  of  child-bearing.   Then his consciousness  became  focussed  in  the
physical  world,  although  all things did not appear  to  his  vision  with
clearly  defined  outlines  until the latter part of  the  Atlantean  Epoch.
Still he came by degrees to know death because of the break made in his con-
sciousness when it was shifted to the higher worlds at death and back to the

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physical world at rebirth.

   The "opening of the eyes" was brought about in the following manner:   We
remember  that when the sexes separated, the male became an  expression  for
Will, which is one part of the twofold soul-force; the female expressing the
other part,  Imagination.  If woman were not imaginative she could not build
the new body in the womb and were not the spermatozoon an embodiment of  the
concentrated  human will,  it could not accomplish impregnation and so  com-
mence  the germination,  which results in the continued segmentation of  the
ovum.

   These  twin-forces,  Will  and Imagination, are  both  necessary  to  the
propagation of bodies.  Since the separation of the sexes,  however,  one of
these  forces remains within each individual and only the part given out  is
available for propagation.   Hence the necessity for one-sexed being who ex-
presses the complementary soul-force.   This was previously explained;  also
that  the part of the soul-force not used for propagation becomes  available
for INNER growth.  So long as man sent out the full, dual sex-force for gen-
eration,  he  could accomplish nothing in the direction of  soul-growth  for
himself.   But since then the part not used through the sex organ  has  been
appropriated by the indwelling spirit to build the brain and the larynx  for
its expression.

   Thus man built on,  all through the latter part of the Lemurian Epoch and
the  first two-thirds of the Atlantean Epoch until,  by the above  mentioned
use of this half of his sex-force, he became fully-conscious, thinking, rea-
soning, being.

   In  man  the  brain is the link between the spirit and the outside world.

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He  can know nothing of the outside world except through the medium  of  the
brain.   The sense organs are merely carriers to the brain of  impacts  from
without  and  the brain is the instrument which interprets  and  coordinates
those  impacts.   The Angels belonged to different evolution and  had  never
been  imprisoned in a dense and cumbrously slow vehicle such as ours.   They
had learned to obtain knowledge without a physical brain.   Their lowest ve-
hicle is the vital body.  Wisdom came to them as a gift,  without the neces-
sity of laboriously thinking it out through a physical brain.

   Man,  however, had to "fall into generation," and work for his knowledge.
The spirit, by means of one part of the sex-force directed inward, built the
brain  to gather knowledge from the physical world,  and the same  force  is
feeding  and  building  the brain today.  It is subverted  from  its  proper
course inasmuch as it should have gone outward for procreation,  but man re-
tains it for selfish purposes.   No so the Angels.   They had experienced no
division  of  their  soul-powers,  therefore they could send  out  the  dual
soul-force WITHOUT SELFISH RESERVATION.

   The force that goes outward for the purpose of creating another being  is
Love.   The Angels sent our their WHOLE LOVE,  WITHOUT SELFISHNESS OR DESIRE
and in return, Cosmic Wisdom flowed into them.

   Man sends out only part of his love;  the residue he selfishly keeps  and
uses to build his inner organs of expression, to improve HIMSELF;  thus does
his  love  become  selfish  and sensual.  With  one  part  of  his  creative
soul-power he selfishly loves another being because he desires  co-operation
in  propagation.   With the other part of his creative soul-power he  things
(also for selfish reasons) because he desires knowledge.

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   The  Angels love without desire,  but man had to go through  selfishness.
He must desire and work for wisdom selfishly,  that me may reach selfishness
at a higher stage.

   The  Angels helped him to propagate even after the subversion of part  of
the soul-force.   They helped him to build the physical brain,  but they had
knowledge  that could be transmitted by means of it,  because they  did  not
know how to use such an instrument and could not speak directly to the brain
being.  All they could do was to control the physical expression of the love
of  man and guide it through the emotions in a loving,  innocent  way,  thus
saving man the pain and trouble incident to the exercise of the sex-function
without wisdom.

   Had  that REGIME lasted,  man would have remained simply  God-guided  au-
tomaton and would never have become a personality--an individual.   That  he
had become so is due to a much maligned class of entities called the Lucifer
Spirits.

                           THE LUCIFER SPIRITS:

   These spirits were a class of stragglers in the life wave of the  Angels.
In  the  Moon Period they worked themselves far ahead of the great  mass  of
those  who are now the most advanced of our humanity.   They have  not  pro-
gressed  as far as the Angels who were the pioneer humanity of the Moon  Pe-
riod, however, but they were so much in advance of our present humanity that
it  was impossible for them to take a dense body as we have done;  yet  they
could  not  gain  knowledge without the use of an inner  organ,  a  physical
brain.   They were half-way between man who has a brain and the  Angels  who
need none--in short, they were demi-gods.

   They  were  thus  in  a  serious situation,  The only way they could find

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an avenue through which to express themselves and gain knowledge was to  use
man's physical brain, as they could make themselves understood by a physical
being endowed with a brain, which the Angels could not.

   As  said,  in the latter part of the Lemurian Epoch man did not  see  the
physical  world as we do now.   To him the desire world was much more  real.
He   had   the   dream-consciousness   of   the   Moon   Period--an    inner
picture-consciousness; he was unconscious of the world outside himself.  The
Lucifers  had no difficultly in manifesting to his inner  consciousness  and
calling  his attention to his outward shape,  which he had  not  theretofore
perceived.  They told him how he could cease being simply the servant of ex-
ternal  powers,  and  could become his own master and like  unto  the  gods,
"knowing good and evil."   They also made clear to him that he need have  no
apprehension  if his body died,  inasmuch as he had within himself the  cre-
ative  ability to form new bodies without the mediation of the Angels.   All
of  which  information was given with the one purpose of  turning  his  con-
sciousness outward for the acquirement of knowledge.

   This  the Lucifers did that they might profit by it  themselves--to  gain
knowledge as man acquired it.   They brought to him pain and suffering where
there was none before; but they also brought him the inestimable blessing of
emancipation  from outside influence and guidance,  thereby starting him  on
the  road to the evolution of this own spiritual powers--an evolution  which
will  eventually enable him to upbuild himself with wisdom such as  that  of
the Angels and other Beings Who guided him before,  he first exercised  free
will.

   Before man's enlightenment by the Lucifer Spirits he had not known  sick-
ness,  pain  nor  death.  All  of  these  resulted  from  the  unwise use of

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the  propagative faculty and its abuse for the gratification of the  senses.
Animals in their wild state are exempt from sickness and pain, because their
propagation  is  carried on under the care and direction of  the  wise-group
spirit at only those times of the year which are propitious to that process.
The sex-function is designed solely for the perpetuation of the species  and
under no circumstances for the gratification of sexual desire.

   Had man remained a God-guided automaton, he would have known no sickness,
pain,   no  death  unto  this  day;  but  he  would  also  have  lacked  the
brain-consciousness  and independence which resulted from his  enlightenment
by the Lucifer Spirits,  the "light-givers,"  who opened the eyes of his un-
derstanding  and taught him to use his then dim vision to gain knowledge  of
the Physical World which he was destined to conquer.

   From that time there have been two forces working in man.   Once force is
that of the Angels,  who build new beings in the womb by means of Love which
is turned downward for procreation;  they are therefore the perpetuators  of
the race.

   The other force is that of the Lucifers,  who are the instigators of  all
mental activity,  by means of the other part of the sex-force, which is car-
ried upward for work in the brain.

   The Lucifers are also called "serpents"  and are variously represented in
different  mythologies.   More will be said about them when we come  to  the
analysis of Genesis.  For the present enough  has been said to warrant us in
pursuing  the  main  line of investigation' which leads  us  to  follow  the
progress of man's evolution still further,  through the Atlantean and  Aryan
Epochs, down to the present day.

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   What  has been said about the enlightenment of the Lemurians  applies  to
only  a minor portion of those who lived in the latter part of  that  Epoch,
and who became the Seed for the Seven Atlantean Races.   The greater part of
the Lemurians were animal-like and the FORMS inhabited by them have degener-
ated into the savages and anthropoids of the present day.

   The  student is requested to note carefully that it was the  FORMS  which
degenerated.   There is a very important distinction to be kept in mind  be-
tween  the bodies (or forms) of a race, and the Egos (or life) which is  re-
born in those race-bodies.

   When a race is born, the FORMS are ensouled by a certain group of spirits
and  have inherent capability of evolving to a certain stage  of  completion
and no further.   There can be no standing still in nature,  therefore  when
the  limit of attainment has been reached the bodies or forms of  that  race
begin  to  degenerate,  sinking  lower and lower until at last the race dies
out.

   The reason is not far to seek.  New race bodies are particularly flexible
and  plastic,  affording great scope for the Egos who are reborn in them  to
improve  these vehicles and progress thereby.   The most advanced  Egos  are
brought to birth in such bodies and improve them to the best of their  abil-
ity.   These Egos,  however, are only apprentices as yet, and they cause the
bodies to gradually crystallize and harden until the limit of improvement of
that particular kind of body has been reached.   Then forms for another  new
race  are created,  to afford the advancing Egos further scope for more  ex-
tended experience and greater development.  They discard the old race bodies
for  the  new,  their  discarded  bodies  becoming  the habitations for less

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advanced Egos who, in their turn, use them as stepping-stones on the path of
progress.  Thus the old race bodies are used by Egos OF INCREASING INFERIOR-
ITY,  gradually degenerating until at last there are no Egos low  enough  to
profit  by  rebirth  in  such bodies.  The  women  become  sterile  and  the
race-FORMS die.

   It  has been said by white men against the white race,  that wherever  it
goes the other races dies out.   The whites have been guilty of fearful  op-
pression  against those other races,  having in many cases massacred  multi-
tudes of the defenseless and unsuspecting natives--as witness the conduct of
the Spaniards towards the ancient Peruvians and Mexicans, to specify but one
of many instances.   The obligations resulting from such betrayal of  confi-
dence and be paid--yea, the last, least iota!--by those incurring them.   It
is equally true,  however, that even had the whites not massacred,  starved,
enslaved, expatriated and otherwise maltreated those older races, the latter
would nevertheless have died out just as surely, though more slowly, because
such   is   the   Law   of   Evolution--the   Order   of  Nature.   At  some
future time the white race-bodies when they become inhabited by the Egos who
are now embodied in red, black, yellow or brown skins, will have degenerated
so far that they also will disappear,  to give place to other and better ve-
hicles.

   Science speaks only of evolution.  It fails to consider that LINES OF DE-
GENERATION which are slowly but surely destroying such bodies as have  crys-
tallized beyond possibility of improvement.

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