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To calculate its age, however, as the pupil is asked to do in the Stanza, is rather difficult, since we are not given the figures of the Great Kalpa, and are not allowed to publish those of our small Yugas, except as to the approximate duration of these. “ The older wheels rotated for one Eternity and one half of an Eternity,” it says. We know that by “ Eternity ” the seventh part of 311,040,000,000,000 years, or an age of Brahmâ is meant. But what of that ? We also know that, to begin with, if we take for our basis the above figures, we have first of all to eliminate from the 100 years of Brahmâ (or 311,040,000,000,000 years) two ''years ''taken up by the Sandhyas (twilights), which leaves 98, as we have to bring it to the mystical combination 14 _×7. But ''we ''have no knowledge at what time precisely the evolution and formation of our little earth began. Therefore it is impossible to calculate its age, unless the time of its birth is given — which the teachers refuse to do, so far. At the close of this Book and in Book II., however, some chronological hints will be given. We must remember, moreover, that the law of Analogy holds good for the worlds, as it does for man ; and that as “ The {{Style S-Small capitals|one}} (Deity) becomes ''Two ''(Deva or Angel) and ''Two ''becomes ''Three ''(or man),” etc., etc., so we are taught that the ''Curds ''(world-stuff) become wanderers, (Comets), these become stars, and the stars (the centres of vortices) ''our sun and planets'' — to put it briefly. *

To calculate its age, however, as the pupil is asked to do in the Stanza, is rather difficult, since we are not given the figures of the Great Kalpa, and are not allowed to publish those of our small Yugas, except as to the approximate duration of these. “ The older wheels rotated for one Eternity and one half of an Eternity,” it says. We know that by “ Eternity ” the seventh part of 311,040,000,000,000 years, or an age of Brahmâ is meant. But what of that ? We also know that, to begin with, if we take for our basis the above figures, we have first of all to eliminate from the 100 years of Brahmâ (or 311,040,000,000,000 years) two ''years ''taken up by the Sandhyas (twilights), which leaves 98, as we have to bring it to the mystical combination 14 × 7. But ''we ''have no knowledge at what time precisely the evolution and formation of our little earth began. Therefore it is impossible to calculate its age, unless the time of its birth is given — which the teachers refuse to do, so far. At the close of this Book and in Book II., however, some chronological hints will be given. We must remember, moreover, that the law of Analogy holds good for the worlds, as it does for man ; and that as “ The {{Style S-Small capitals|one}} (Deity) becomes ''Two ''(Deva or Angel) and ''Two ''becomes ''Three ''(or man),” etc., etc., so we are taught that the ''Curds ''(world-stuff) become wanderers, (Comets), these become stars, and the stars (the centres of vortices) ''our sun and planets'' — to put it briefly. *

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