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== H. P. Blavatsky == | == [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] == | ||
'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Yima}}'''. In the ''Vendîdâd'', the first man, and, from his aspect of'' spiritual'' progenitor of mankind, the same as Yama ''(q.v.)''. His further functions are not given in the Zend books, because so many of these ancient fragments have been lost, made away with, or otherwise prevented from falling into the hands of the profane. Yima was not born, for he represents the first three human Root‐races, the first of which is “not born”; but he is the “first man ''who dies''”, because the third race, the one which was informed by the rational ''Higher Egos'', was the first one whose men separated into male and female, and “man lived and died, and was reborn”. (See ''Secret Doctrine'', II., pp. 60 ''et seq''.) | '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Yima}}'''. In the ''Vendîdâd'', the first man, and, from his aspect of'' spiritual'' progenitor of mankind, the same as Yama ''(q.v.)''. His further functions are not given in the Zend books, because so many of these ancient fragments have been lost, made away with, or otherwise prevented from falling into the hands of the profane. Yima was not born, for he represents the first three human Root‐races, the first of which is “not born”; but he is the “first man ''who dies''”, because the third race, the one which was informed by the rational ''Higher Egos'', was the first one whose men separated into male and female, and “man lived and died, and was reborn”. (See ''Secret Doctrine'', II., pp. 60 ''et seq''.) | ||
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