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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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{{Style P-No indent|and ethereal without ; the ''second'', psycho-spiritual mentally, and ethero-physical bodily ; the ''third'', still bereft of intellect in its beginning, is astro-physical in its body, and lives an inner life, in which the psycho-spiritual element is in no way interfered with as yet by the hardly nascent physiological senses. Its two front eyes look before them without seeing either past or future. But the “ third eye ” “ ''embraces ETERNITY.''”}} | {{Style P-No indent|and ethereal without ; the ''second'', psycho-spiritual mentally, and ethero-physical bodily ; the ''third'', still bereft of intellect in its beginning, is astro-physical in its body, and lives an inner life, in which the psycho-spiritual element is in no way interfered with as yet by the hardly nascent physiological senses. Its two front eyes look before them without seeing either past or future. But the “ third eye ” “ ''embraces ETERNITY.''”}} | ||
<nowiki>*</nowiki> But in a very different manner to that pictured by Hæckel as an “ ''evolution by natural selection in the struggle for existence ”'' (“ ''Pedigree of Man.''” “ ''Sense Organs'',” p. 335). The mere “ thermal sensibility of the skin,” to hypothetical light-waves, is absurdly incompetent to account for the beautiful combination of adaptations present in the eye. It has, moreover, been previously shown that “ natural Selection ” is a pure myth when credited with the ''origination ''of variations (''vide infra'', ''Part III.'', ''on Darwinian mechanical causation'') ; as the “ survival of the fittest ” can only take place after useful variations have sprung up, together with improved organisms. Whence came the “ useful variations,” which developed the eye ? Only from “ blind forces . . . without aim, without design ? ” The argument is puerile. The true solution of the mystery is to be found in the impersonal Divine Wisdom, in its Ideation — reflected through matter. | <nowiki>*</nowiki> But in a very different manner to that pictured by Hæckel as an “ ''evolution by natural selection in the struggle for existence ”'' (“ ''Pedigree of Man.''” “ ''Sense Organs'',” p. 335). The mere “ thermal sensibility of the skin,” to hypothetical light-waves, is absurdly incompetent to account for the beautiful combination of adaptations present in the eye. It has, moreover, been previously shown that “ natural Selection ” is a pure myth when credited with the ''origination ''of variations (''vide infra'', ''Part III.'', ''on Darwinian mechanical causation'') ; as the “ survival of the fittest ” can only take place after useful variations have sprung up, together with improved organisms. Whence came the “ useful variations,” which developed the eye ? Only from “ blind forces . . . without aim, without design ? ” The argument is puerile. The true solution of the mystery is to be found in the impersonal Divine Wisdom, in its {{Style S-Small capitals|Ideation}} — reflected through matter. | ||
† Palæontology has ascertained that in the animals of the Cenozoic age — the Saurians especially, such as the antediluvian ''Labyrinthodon'', whose fossil skull exhibits a perforation otherwise inexplicable — the third, or odd eye must have been much developed. Several naturalists, among others E. Korscheldt, feel convinced that whereas, notwithstanding the opaque skin covering it, such an eye in the reptiles of the present period can only distinguish light from darkness (as the human eyes do when bound with a handkerchief, or even tightly closed), in the now extinct animals that eye functioned and was a real organ of vision. | † Palæontology has ascertained that in the animals of the Cenozoic age — the Saurians especially, such as the antediluvian ''Labyrinthodon'', whose fossil skull exhibits a perforation otherwise inexplicable — the third, or odd eye must have been much developed. Several naturalists, among others E. Korscheldt, feel convinced that whereas, notwithstanding the opaque skin covering it, such an eye in the reptiles of the present period can only distinguish light from darkness (as the human eyes do when bound with a handkerchief, or even tightly closed), in the now extinct animals that eye functioned and was a real organ of vision. | ||
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{{Style P-No indent|most carefully hidden and inaccessible, except to the anatomist. No less light is thrown thereby on the future physical, spiritual, and intellectual state of mankind, in periods corresponding on parallel lines with other past periods, and always on the lines of ascending and descending cyclic evolution and development. Thus, a few centuries before the Ka''li yuga — th''e black age which began nearly 5,000 years ago — it was said (paraphrased into comprehensible sentences) :}} | {{Style P-No indent|most carefully hidden and inaccessible, except to the anatomist. No less light is thrown thereby on the future physical, spiritual, and intellectual state of mankind, in periods corresponding on parallel lines with other past periods, and always on the lines of ascending and descending cyclic evolution and development. Thus, a few centuries before the Ka''li yuga — th''e black age which began nearly 5,000 years ago — it was said (paraphrased into comprehensible sentences) :}} | ||
“ ''We ''(the Fifth Root-Race) ''in our first half ''(of duration) ''onward ''(on the now ascending arc of the cycle) ''are on the mid point of ''(or between) ''the First and the Second Races — falling downward ''(''i.e.'', the races were then on the descending arc of the cycle). . . . . ''Calculate for thyself'', Lanoo, ''and see.''” (Commentary xx.). | “ ''We ''(the Fifth Root-Race) ''in our first half ''(of duration) ''onward ''(on the now {{Style S-Small capitals|ascending}} arc of the cycle) ''are on the mid point of ''(or between) ''the First and the Second Races — falling downward ''(''i.e.'', the races were then on the descending arc of the cycle). . . . . ''Calculate for thyself'', Lanoo, ''and see.''” (Commentary xx.). | ||
Calculating as advised, we find that during that transitional period — namely, in the second half of the First Spiritual ethero-astral race — nascent mankind was devoid of the intellectual brain element. As it was on its ''descending ''line, and as we are parallel to it, on the ''ascending'', we are, | Calculating as advised, we find that during that transitional period — namely, in the second half of the First Spiritual ethero-astral race — nascent mankind was devoid of the intellectual brain element. As it was on its ''descending ''line, and as we are parallel to it, on the ''ascending'', we are, | ||