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{{Style P-No indent|down to the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman, and finally to the Jewish Sacred records, all have the same origin. None are meaningless and baseless stories, invented to entrap the unwary profane : all are allegories intended to convey, under a more or less fantastic veil, the great truths gathered in the same field of pre-historic tradition. Space forbids us from entering, in these two volumes, into further and more minute details with respect to the four Races which preceded our own. But before offering to the student the history of the psychic and spiritual evolution of the direct antediluvian fathers of our Fifth (Aryan) humanity, and before demonstrating its bearing upon all the other side branches grown from the same trunk, we have to elucidate a few more facts. It has been shown, on the evidence of the whole ancient literary world, and the intuitional speculations of more than one philosopher and scientist of the later ages, that the tenets of our Esoteric Doctrine are corroborated by inferential as well as by direct proof in almost every case. That neither the “ legendary ” giants, nor the lost continents, nor yet the evolution of the preceding races, are quite baseless tales. In the ''Addenda ''which close this volume, science will find itself more than once unable to reply ; they will, it is hoped, finally dispose of every sceptical remark with regard to the sacred number in nature, and our figures in general. (Vide §§ on the ''Septenaries.'')}}

Creative powers in man were the gift of divine wisdom, not the result of sin. This is clearly instanced in the paradoxical behaviour of Jehovah, who first ''curses ''Adam and Eve (or Humanity) for the supposed committed crime, and then ''blesses ''his “ chosen people ” by saying “ Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth ” (''Gen. ix. ''1). The curse was not brought on mankind by the Fourth Race, for the comparatively sinless Third Race, the still more gigantic Antediluvians, had perished in the same way ; hence the Deluge was no punishment, but simply a result of a periodical and geological law. Nor was the curse of {{Style S-Small capitals|Karma}} called down upon them for seeking ''natural ''union, as all the mindless animal-world does in its proper seasons ; but, for abusing the creative power, for desecrating the divine gift, and wasting the life-essence for no purpose except bestial personal gratification. When understood, the third chapter of Genesis will be found to refer to the Adam and Eve of the closing Third and the commencing Fourth Races. In the beginning, conception was as easy for woman as it was for all animal creation. Nature had never intended that woman should bring forth her young ones “ in sorrow.” Since that period, however, during the