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1“In this dread time Chimera had her birth; In this dread time the Cyclops cursed the earth. And Giants huge, of horrid, monstrous form, Who ravaged Earth, and strove e’en Heaven to storm. This was the Iron Age; ’twas Python’s reign. When Polar-suns burnt up the golden grain, And sudden thaws inundate every plain. Hence Towers and Walls and Pryamids arose. Whose ponderous bulk might all their rage oppose. , |_ Original from LA CLEF HERMETIQUE—SECTION I 93 “Assyrian chiefs bade Babel’s tower arise. On Shinar’s plain, aspiring to the skies, Whose eight-volved dragon, turning round the whole, Shows that eight cycles round the northern pole At four degrees asunder, closed their view. Which proves latitude was thirty-two. And still in thirty-two, beneath the starry host, The eight-coiled Dragon moulders in the dust, By Cyrus overthrown, who raised the pile Round which the Stars and Dragon used to coil; But still its form, its history declares. An hoary age of twice two hundred thousand years.” It may be noted that the very ancient sacred towers in the Pagodas of China always (unless they are of modern construction) faithfully indicate their latitude and date of their first foundation by the number of stories or terraces. Of course it is not supposed that these towers, like our ancient cathedrals, are not periodically restored as they fall into decay, but always on the same principle.
2A great deal more might be said as to the different climates that ensued under different inclinations of our Earth’s Pole, but these few illustrations will give the student a few ideas as to the actual cause of the various geological changes that are brought about by Polar Motion. Remember that the great Polar Day (2,592,000 years, moving once around, like the index of the clock) determines the duration upon our planet of that vital spiritual impulse of evolution, known among students and Initiates as the Great Life Wave. This Life Wave passes around the septenary chain, or circuit, of the seven planets, not in an even, regular, continuous action, but in waves or impulses. For instance, suppose the Life Wave of the mineral evolution commences, upon planet number 1; it will here go through its active evolution, and then, having reached its culminating point, it commences to flow, or pass on to planet number 2, and the vegetable, or next life impulse, begins upon planet number 1, and so on with the rest. Upon this point we would refer the student to Mr. Sinnett’s valuable book. Esoteric Buddhism, but reminding you that, although there are many outlines in the work similar to these teachings, they are, in reality, widely different, as will be seen when you read his conclusions and those of this revelation. In order to better illustrate the evolution of matter and the involution of spirit, we will briefly describe in outline the systematic V F c> 94
3THE LIGHT OF EGYPT and harmonious process followed by Nature in the complete evolution of a planet, similar in construction to our earth. In the first place, it must be borne in mind that there are Seven Kingdoms, Seven Principles and Seven Ruling Powers in Nature, a trinity of sevens, and also that matter, so called, is but the most remote expression of spirit. The further a state is removed from its source, the more dense it becomes, until spirit can express itself in metallic form and become materialized as veins and lodes of mineral ore in the body of a planet, and tower itself upon that planet’s surface in granite mountains, limestone hills or chalky dells; and that the boundless space is filled with a fine, invisible form of condensed spirit, known to scientists as cosmic dust; and, lastly, that Nature’s operations are performed in an endless series of waves, which, in their motion, form graceful curves, the rise and fall of the arc of the curve forming its cycle of duration. The Seven Kingdoms are the Three Elemental and invisible, and the Four Objective and visible planes of Nature, while the order of the Seven Principles, or forms of evolution, is as follows; 1, the Spiritual; 2, the Astral; 3, the Gaseous; 4, the Mineral; 5, the Vegetable; 6, the Animal; 7, the Human; see chapter II of section I. The Seven Governors, or Powers ruling a planet, are the Seven Angelic States, mentioned more fully in LaClef chapter VI.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1“In this dread time Chimera had her birth; In this dread time the Cyclops cursed the earth. And Giants huge, of horrid, monstrous form, Who ravaged Earth, and strove e’en Heaven to storm. This was the Iron Age; ’twas Python’s reign. When Polar-suns burnt up the golden grain, And sudden thaws inundate every plain. Hence Towers and Walls and Pryamids arose. Whose ponderous bulk might all their rage oppose. , |_ Original from LA CLEF HERMETIQUE—SECTION I 93 “Assyrian chiefs bade Babel’s tower arise. On Shinar’s plain, aspiring to the skies, Whose eight-volved dragon, turning round the whole, Shows that eight cycles round the northern pole At four degrees asunder, closed their view. Which proves latitude was thirty-two. And still in thirty-two, beneath the starry host, The eight-coiled Dragon moulders in the dust, By Cyrus overthrown, who raised the pile Round which the Stars and Dragon used to coil; But still its form, its history declares. An hoary age of twice two hundred thousand years.” It may be noted that the very ancient sacred towers in the Pagodas of China always (unless they are of modern construction) faithfully indicate their latitude and date of their first foundation by the number of stories or terraces. Of course it is not supposed that these towers, like our ancient cathedrals, are not periodically restored as they fall into decay, but always on the same principle.
2A great deal more might be said as to the different climates that ensued under different inclinations of our Earth’s Pole, but these few illustrations will give the student a few ideas as to the actual cause of the various geological changes that are brought about by Polar Motion. Remember that the great Polar Day (2,592,000 years, moving once around, like the index of the clock) determines the duration upon our planet of that vital spiritual impulse of evolution, known among students and Initiates as the Great Life Wave. This Life Wave passes around the septenary chain, or circuit, of the seven planets, not in an even, regular, continuous action, but in waves or impulses. For instance, suppose the Life Wave of the mineral evolution commences, upon planet number 1; it will here go through its active evolution, and then, having reached its culminating point, it commences to flow, or pass on to planet number 2, and the vegetable, or next life impulse, begins upon planet number 1, and so on with the rest. Upon this point we would refer the student to Mr. Sinnett’s valuable book. Esoteric Buddhism, but reminding you that, although there are many outlines in the work similar to these teachings, they are, in reality, widely different, as will be seen when you read his conclusions and those of this revelation. In order to better illustrate the evolution of matter and the involution of spirit, we will briefly describe in outline the systematic V F c> 94
3THE LIGHT OF EGYPT and harmonious process followed by Nature in the complete evolution of a planet, similar in construction to our earth. In the first place, it must be borne in mind that there are Seven Kingdoms, Seven Principles and Seven Ruling Powers in Nature, a trinity of sevens, and also that matter, so called, is but the most remote expression of spirit. The further a state is removed from its source, the more dense it becomes, until spirit can express itself in metallic form and become materialized as veins and lodes of mineral ore in the body of a planet, and tower itself upon that planet’s surface in granite mountains, limestone hills or chalky dells; and that the boundless space is filled with a fine, invisible form of condensed spirit, known to scientists as cosmic dust; and, lastly, that Nature’s operations are performed in an endless series of waves, which, in their motion, form graceful curves, the rise and fall of the arc of the curve forming its cycle of duration. The Seven Kingdoms are the Three Elemental and invisible, and the Four Objective and visible planes of Nature, while the order of the Seven Principles, or forms of evolution, is as follows; 1, the Spiritual; 2, the Astral; 3, the Gaseous; 4, the Mineral; 5, the Vegetable; 6, the Animal; 7, the Human; see chapter II of section I. The Seven Governors, or Powers ruling a planet, are the Seven Angelic States, mentioned more fully in LaClef chapter VI.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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