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HPB-SD(ed.1) v.2 p.1 st.10 sl.40-42 ch.The Races with the Third Eye: Difference between revisions
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Which is clear, since “ every sun ” meant a whole year, the latter being composed of one day then, as in the arctic circle it is now composed of six months. According to the old teaching, the axis of the earth gradually changes its inclination to the ecliptic, and at the period referred to, this inclination was such that a polar day lasted during the whole period of the earth’s revolution about the sun, when a kind of twilight of very short duration intervened ; after which the polar land resumed its position directly under the solar rays. This may be contrary to astronomy as now taught and understood : but who can say that changes in the motion of the earth, which do not take place now, did not occur millions of years back ? | Which is clear, since “ every sun ” meant a whole year, the latter being composed of one day then, as in the arctic circle it is now composed of six months. According to the old teaching, the axis of the earth gradually changes its inclination to the ecliptic, and at the period referred to, this inclination was such that a polar day lasted during the whole period of the earth’s revolution about the sun, when a kind of twilight of very short duration intervened ; after which the polar land resumed its position directly under the solar rays. This may be contrary to astronomy as now taught and understood : but who can say that changes in the motion of the earth, which do not take place now, did not occur millions of years back ? | ||
Returning once more to the statement that ''Vara ''meant the man of the Fourth Round, as much as the Earth of those days, the moon, and even Noah’s ark, if one will so have it — this is again shown in the dialogue between Ahura Mazda and Zarathustra. Thus when the latter asks — | Returning once more to the statement that ''Vara ''meant the {{Style S-Small capitals|man}} of the Fourth Round, as much as the Earth of those days, the moon, and even Noah’s ark, if one will so have it — this is again shown in the dialogue between Ahura Mazda and Zarathustra. Thus when the latter asks — | ||
''V. ''42. “ O Maker of the Material World, thou Holy One ! Who is he who brought the law of Mazda into the ''Vara ''which Yima made ? ” | ''V. ''42. “ O Maker of the Material World, thou Holy One ! Who is he who brought the law of Mazda into the ''Vara ''which Yima made ? ” | ||