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{{Style P-No indent|or invisible, is credited with six companion globes. (See Diagram No. 3, after verse 6 of this commentary.) The evolution of life proceeds on these seven globes or bodies from the 1st to the 7th in Seven Rounds or Seven Cycles.}} | {{Style P-No indent|or invisible, is credited with six companion globes. (See Diagram No. 3, after verse 6 of this commentary.) The evolution of life proceeds on these seven globes or bodies from the 1st to the 7th in Seven {{Style S-Small capitals|Rounds}} or Seven Cycles.}} | ||
2. These globes are formed by a process which the Occultists call the “ rebirth of planetary chains (or rings).” When the seventh and last Round of one of such rings has been entered upon, the highest or first globe “ A,” followed by all the others down to the last, instead of entering upon a certain time of rest — or “ obscuration,” as in their previous Rounds — begins to die out. The “ planetary ” dissolution (''pralaya'') is at hand, and its hour has struck ; each globe has to transfer its life and energy to another planet. (See diagram No. 2 ''infra'', “ The Moon and the Earth.”) | 2. These globes are formed by a process which the Occultists call the “ rebirth of planetary chains (or rings).” When the seventh and last Round of one of such rings has been entered upon, the highest or first globe “ A,” followed by all the others down to the last, instead of entering upon a certain time of rest — or “ obscuration,” as in their previous Rounds — begins to die out. The “ planetary ” dissolution (''pralaya'') is at hand, and its hour has struck ; each globe has to transfer its life and energy to another planet. (See diagram No. 2 ''infra'', “ The Moon and the Earth.”) | ||
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3. Our Earth, as the visible representative of its invisible superior fellow globes, its “ lords ” or “ principles ” (see diagram No. 1), has to live, as have the others, through seven Rounds. During the first three, it forms and consolidates ; during the fourth it settles and hardens ; during the last three it gradually returns to its first ethereal form : it is spiritualised, so to say. | 3. Our Earth, as the visible representative of its invisible superior fellow globes, its “ lords ” or “ principles ” (see diagram No. 1), has to live, as have the others, through seven Rounds. During the first three, it forms and consolidates ; during the fourth it settles and hardens ; during the last three it gradually returns to its first ethereal form : it is spiritualised, so to say. | ||
4. Its Humanity develops fully only in the Fourth — our present Round. Up to this fourth Life-Cycle, it is referred to as “ humanity ” only for lack of a more appropriate term. Like the grub which becomes chrysalis and butterfly, Man, or rather that which becomes man, passes through all the forms and kingdoms during the first Round and through all the human shapes during the two following Rounds. Arrived on our Earth at the commencement of the Fourth in the present series of life-cycles and races, man is the first form that appears thereon, being preceded only by the mineral and vegetable kingdoms — even the latter ''having to develop and continue its further evolution through man. ''This will be explained in Book II. During the three Rounds to come, Humanity, like the globe on which it lives, will be ever tending to reassume its primeval form, that of a Dhyan Chohanic Host. Man tends to become ''a ''God and then — God, like every other atom in the Universe. | 4. Its Humanity develops fully only in the Fourth — our present Round. Up to this fourth Life-Cycle, it is referred to as “ humanity ” only for lack of a more appropriate term. Like the grub which becomes chrysalis and butterfly, Man, or rather that which becomes man, passes through all the forms and kingdoms during the first Round and through all the human shapes during the two following Rounds. Arrived on our Earth at the commencement of the Fourth in the present series of life-cycles and races, {{Style S-Small capitals|man}} is the first form that appears thereon, being preceded only by the mineral and vegetable kingdoms — even the latter ''having to develop and continue its further evolution through man. ''This will be explained in Book II. During the three Rounds to come, Humanity, like the globe on which it lives, will be ever tending to reassume its primeval form, that of a Dhyan Chohanic Host. Man tends to become ''a ''God and then — {{Style S-Small capitals|God}}, like every other atom in the Universe. | ||
“ Beginning so early as with the 2nd round, Evolution proceeds already on quite a different plan. It is only during the 1st round that (heavenly) man becomes a human being on globe A (rebecomes) a mineral, a plant, an animal, on globe B and C, etc. The process changes | “ Beginning so early as with the 2nd round, Evolution proceeds already on quite a different plan. It is only during the 1st round that (heavenly) man becomes a human being on globe A (rebecomes) a mineral, a plant, an animal, on globe B and C, etc. The process changes | ||