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Thus it is shown that there is no real discrepancy in speaking of the Vaivasvata Manvantara (''Manu-antara'', lit. “ between two Manus ”) 18,000,000 odd years go, when physical, or the truly human man first appeared in his Fourth Round on this earth ; and of the other Vaivasvatas, ''e.g.'', the Manu of the Great Cosmic or sidereal Flood (a mystery), or again the Manu Vaivasvata of the submerged Atlantis, when the ''racial ''Vaivasvata saved the elect of Humanity, the Fifth Race, from utter destruction. As the several (and quite different) events are purposely blended in the ''Vishnu ''and other Purânas in one narrative, there may yet be a great deal of perplexity left in the profane reader’s mind. Therefore, as constant elucidation is needed, we must be forgiven unavoidable repetitions. The blinds which conceal the real mysteries of Esoteric philosophy are great and puzzling, and even now the last word cannot be given. The veil, however, may be a little more removed and some explanations, hitherto denied, may now be offered to the earnest student.
Thus it is shown that there is no real discrepancy in speaking of the Vaivasvata Manvantara (''Manu-antara'', lit. “ between two Manus ”) 18,000,000 odd years go, when physical, or the truly human man first appeared in his Fourth Round on this earth ; and of the other Vaivasvatas, ''e.g.'', the Manu of the Great Cosmic or sidereal Flood (a mystery), or again the Manu Vaivasvata of the submerged Atlantis, when the ''racial ''Vaivasvata saved the elect of Humanity, the Fifth Race, from utter destruction. As the several (and quite different) events are purposely blended in the ''Vishnu ''and other Purânas in one narrative, there may yet be a great deal of perplexity left in the profane reader’s mind. Therefore, as constant elucidation is needed, we must be forgiven unavoidable repetitions. The blinds which conceal the real mysteries of Esoteric philosophy are great and puzzling, and even now the last word cannot be given. The veil, however, may be a little more removed and some explanations, hitherto denied, may now be offered to the earnest student.


As somebody — Colonel Vans Kennedy, if we do not mistake — remarked, “ the first principle in Hindu religious philosophy is ''Unity in diversity.''” If all those Manus and Rishis are called by one generic name, this is due to the fact that they are one and all the manifested Energies of one and the same Logos, the celestial, as well as the terrestrial messengers and permutations of that Principle which is ever in a state of activity ; conscious during the period of Cosmic evolution, unconscious (from our point of view) during Cosmic rest, as the Logos sleepeth in the bosom of {{Style S-Small capitals|that}} which “ sleepeth not,” nor is it ever awake — for it is {{Style S-Small capitals|sat}} or ''Be-ness'', not a Being. It is from it that issues the great unseen Logos, who evolves all the other ''logoi'', the primeval {{Style S-Small capitals|Manu}} who gives being to the other Manus, who emanate the universe and all in it collectively, and who represent in their aggregate the ''manifested ''Logos. * Hence we learn in the “ Commentaries ” that while no Dhyan Chohan, not even the highest, can realise completely “ the condition of the preceding Cosmic evolution,” “ the Manus retain a knowledge of their experiences of all the Cosmic evolutions throughout Eternity.” This is very plain : the first Manu is called ''Swayambhûva'',
As somebody — Colonel Vans Kennedy, if we do not mistake — remarked, “ the first principle in Hindu religious philosophy is ''Unity in diversity.''” If all those Manus and Rishis are called by one generic name, this is due to the fact that they are one and all the manifested Energies of one and the same Logos, the celestial, as well as the terrestrial messengers and permutations of that Principle which is ever in a state of activity ; conscious during the period of Cosmic evolution, unconscious (from our point of view) during Cosmic rest, as the Logos sleepeth in the bosom of {{Style S-Small capitals|that}} which “ sleepeth not,” nor is it ever awake — for it is {{Style S-Small capitals|sat}} or ''Be-ness'', not a Being. It is from {{Style S-Small capitals|it}} that issues the great unseen Logos, who evolves all the other ''logoi'', the primeval {{Style S-Small capitals|Manu}} who gives being to the other Manus, who emanate the universe and all in it collectively, and who represent in their aggregate the ''manifested ''Logos. * Hence we learn in the “ Commentaries ” that while no Dhyan Chohan, not even the highest, can realise completely “ the condition of the preceding Cosmic evolution,” “ the Manus retain a knowledge of their experiences of all the Cosmic evolutions throughout Eternity.” This is very plain : the first Manu is called ''Swayambhûva'',


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{{Style P-No indent|“ the Self-manifested,” the Son of the ''unmanifested ''{{Style S-Small capitals|Father}}. The Manus are the creators of the creators of our First Race — the Spirit of mankind — which does not prevent the ''seven ''Manus from having been the first “ pre-Adamic ” men on Earth.}}
{{Style P-No indent|“ the Self-manifested,” the Son of the ''unmanifested ''{{Style S-Small capitals|Father}}. The Manus are the creators of the creators of our First Race — the Spirit of mankind — which does not prevent the ''seven ''Manus from having been the first “ pre-Adamic ” men on Earth.}}


Manu declares himself created by Virâj, * or Vaiswanara, (the Spirit of Humanity), † which means that his Monad emanates from the never resting Principle in the beginning of every new Cosmic activity : that ''Logos ''or {{Style S-Small capitals|Universal Monad}} (collective Elohim) that radiates ''from within himself all ''those Cosmic Monads that become the centres of activity —  progenitors of the numberless Solar systems as well as of the yet undifferentiated ''human ''monads of planetary chains as well as of every being thereon. Each Cosmic Monad is “ Swayambhûva,” the self-born, ''which becomes the Centre of Force'', ''from within which emerges a planetary chain ''(of which chains there are seven in our system), and whose radiations become again so many Manus Swayambhûva (a generic name, mysterious and meaning far more than appears), each of these becoming, as a ''Host'', the Creator of his own Humanity. (''See ''“ ''The Manus and the Manvantaras Explained by a Western Mystic and Mathematician.''”)
Manu declares himself created by Virâj, * or Vaiswanara, (the Spirit of Humanity), † which means that his Monad emanates from the never resting Principle in the beginning of every new Cosmic activity : that ''Logos ''or {{Style S-Small capitals|Universal Monad}} (collective Elohim) that radiates ''from within himself all ''those Cosmic Monads that become the centres of activity —  progenitors of the numberless Solar systems as well as of the yet undifferentiated ''human ''monads of planetary chains as well as of every being thereon. Each Cosmic Monad is “ Swayambhûva,” the {{Style S-Small capitals|self-born}}, ''which becomes the Centre of Force'', ''from within which emerges a planetary chain ''(of which chains there are seven in our system), and whose radiations become again so many Manus Swayambhûva (a generic name, mysterious and meaning far more than appears), each of these becoming, as a ''Host'', the Creator of his own Humanity. (''See ''“ ''The Manus and the Manvantaras Explained by a Western Mystic and Mathematician.''”)


As to the question of the four distinct races of mankind that preceded our Fifth Race, there is nothing mystical in it, except the ethereal bodies of the first races ; and it is a matter of legendary, nevertheless, very correct history. That legend is universal. And if the Western ''savant ''pleases to see in it only a myth, it does not make the slightest difference. The Mexicans had, and still have, the tradition of the four-fold destruction of the world by fire and water, just as the Egyptians had, and the Hindus have, to this day.
As to the question of the four distinct races of mankind that preceded our Fifth Race, there is nothing mystical in it, except the ethereal bodies of the first races ; and it is a matter of legendary, nevertheless, very correct history. That legend is universal. And if the Western ''savant ''pleases to see in it only a myth, it does not make the slightest difference. The Mexicans had, and still have, the tradition of the four-fold destruction of the world by fire and water, just as the Egyptians had, and the Hindus have, to this day.
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