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{{Style P-Quote|“ The common division of history into ancient and modern is misleading. The Greeks in the 4th century, B.C. were in many respects moderns ; ” especially, we may add, in their scepticism. They were not very likely to accept ''fables ''so easily . . . . .”}} | {{Style P-Quote|“ The common division of history into ancient and modern is misleading. The Greeks in the 4th century, B.C. were in many respects moderns ; ” especially, we may add, in their scepticism. They were not very likely to accept ''fables ''so easily . . . . .”}} | ||
Yet the “ Lemurians ” and the Atlanteans, “ those children of Heaven and Earth,” were indeed marked with a character of sorcery ; for the Esoteric doctrine charges them precisely with that, which, if believed, would put an end to the difficulties of science with regard to the origin of man, or rather, his anatomical similarities to the ''Anthropoid Ape. ''It accuses them of having committed the ''( to us ) ''abominable crime of breeding with so-called “ animals,” and thus producing a truly pithecoid species, now extinct. Of course, as in the question of spontaneous generation — in which Esoteric Science believes, and which it teaches — the possibility of such a cross-breed between man and an animal of any kind will be denied. But apart from the consideration that in those early days, as already remarked, neither the human Atlantean giants, nor yet the “ animals,” were the physiologically perfect men and mammalians that are now known to us, the modern notions upon this subject — those of the physiologists included — are too uncertain and fluctuating to permit them an absolute denial ''a priori ''of such a fact. | Yet the “ Lemurians ” and the Atlanteans, “ those children of Heaven and Earth,” were indeed marked with a character of {{Style S-Small capitals|sorcery}} ; for the Esoteric doctrine charges them precisely with that, which, if believed, would put an end to the difficulties of science with regard to the origin of man, or rather, his anatomical similarities to the ''Anthropoid Ape. ''It accuses them of having committed the ''( to us ) ''abominable crime of breeding with so-called “ animals,” and thus producing a truly pithecoid species, now extinct. Of course, as in the question of spontaneous generation — in which Esoteric Science believes, and which it teaches — the possibility of such a cross-breed between man and an animal of any kind will be denied. But apart from the consideration that in those early days, as already remarked, neither the human Atlantean giants, nor yet the “ animals,” were the physiologically perfect men and mammalians that are now known to us, the modern notions upon this subject — those of the physiologists included — are too uncertain and fluctuating to permit them an absolute denial ''a priori ''of such a fact. | ||
A careful perusal of the Commentaries would make one think that the Being that the new “ ''incarnate ”'' bred with, was called an “ animal,” not because he was no human being, but rather because he was so dissimilar physically and mentally to the more perfect races, which had developed physiologically at an earlier period. Remember Stanza VII. and what is said in its first verse (24th) : — that when the “ Sons of Wisdom ” came to incarnate the first time, some of them incarnated fully, others projected into the forms only ''a spark'', while some of the shadows were left over from being ''filled ''and perfected, till the Fourth Race. Those races, then, which “ remained destitute of knowledge,” or those again which were left “ mindless,” remained as they were, even after the natural separation of the sexes. It is these who committed the first cross-breeding, so to speak, and bred monsters ; and it is from the descendants of these that the Atlanteans chose their wives. Adam and Eve were supposed, with Cain and Abel, to be the only ''human ''family on Earth. Yet we see Cain going to the land of Nod and taking there a wife. Evidently one race only was supposed perfect enough to be called human ; and, even in our own day, while the Singhalese | A careful perusal of the Commentaries would make one think that the Being that the new “ ''incarnate ”'' bred with, was called an “ animal,” not because he was no human being, but rather because he was so dissimilar physically and mentally to the more perfect races, which had developed physiologically at an earlier period. Remember Stanza VII. and what is said in its first verse (24th) : — that when the “ Sons of Wisdom ” came to incarnate the first time, some of them incarnated fully, others projected into the forms only ''a spark'', while some of the shadows were left over from being ''filled ''and perfected, till the Fourth Race. Those races, then, which “ remained destitute of knowledge,” or those again which were left “ mindless,” remained as they were, even after the natural separation of the sexes. It is these who committed the first cross-breeding, so to speak, and bred monsters ; and it is from the descendants of these that the Atlanteans chose their wives. Adam and Eve were supposed, with Cain and Abel, to be the only ''human ''family on Earth. Yet we see Cain going to the land of Nod and taking there a wife. Evidently one race only was supposed perfect enough to be called human ; and, even in our own day, while the Singhalese | ||