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The “ Serpent ” fallen from on high, “ ''deorsum fluens'',” was credited with the possession of the Keys of the Empire of the Dead, τοῦ θανάτου ἀρχή, to that day, when Jesus saw it “ falling like lightning from heaven ” (''Luke ''x. 17, 18), the Roman Catholic interpretation of ''cadebat ut fulgur ''to the contrary, notwithstanding ; and it means indeed that even “ the devils are subject ” to the ''Logos — ''who is Wisdom, but who, as the opponent of ignorance, is Satan or Lucifer at the same time. This remark refers to divine Wisdom falling like lightning on, and quickening the intellects of those who fight the devils of ignorance and superstition. Up to the time when Wisdom, in the shape of the incarnating Spirits of {{Style S-Small capitals|Mahat}}, descended from on high to animate and call the Third Race to real conscious life, humanity — if it can be so called in its animal, senseless state — was of course doomed to ''moral ''as well as to physical death. The Angels ''fallen into generation ''are referred to metaphorically as ''Serpents ''and ''Dragons of Wisdom. ''On the other hand, regarded in the light of the {{Style S-Small capitals|Logos}}, the Christian Saviour, like Krishna, whether as man or logos, may be said to have saved those who believed in the secret teachings from “ eternal death,” to have conquered the Kingdom of Darkness, or Hell, as every Initiate does. This in the human, terrestrial form of the Initiates, and also because the ''logos ''is Christos, that principle of our inner nature which develops in us into the Spiritual Ego — the Higher-Self — being formed of the indissoluble union of ''Buddhi ''(the sixth) and the spiritual efflorescence of ''Manas'', the

† To make it plainer, any one who reads that passage in ''Luke'', will see that the remark follows the report of the ''seventy'', who rejoice that “ even the devils (the spirit of controversy and reasoning, or the opposing power, since Satan means simply “ ''adversary ”'' or ''opponent'') are subject unto us through thy name.” (''Luke ''x. 17.) Now, “ thy name ” means the name of Christos, or Logos, or the spirit of true divine wisdom, as distinct from the spirit of intellectual or mere materialistic reasoning — the higher self in short. And when Jesus remarks to this that he has “ beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven,” it is a mere statement of his clairvoyant powers, notifying then that he already knew it, and a reference to the incarnation of the divine ray (the gods or angels) which ''falls into generation. ''For not all men, by any means, benefit by that incarnation, and with some the power remains latent and dead during the whole life. Truly “ No man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father ; and who the Father is, but the Son ” as added by Jesus then and there (''Ibid ''v. 22) — the Church “ of Christ ” less than any one else. The Initiates alone understood the secret meaning of the term “ Father and the Son,” and knew that it referred to Spirit and Soul on the Earth. For the teachings of Christ were ''occult ''teachings, which could only be explained ''at the initiation. ''They were never intended for the masses, for Jesus forbade the twelve to go to the Gentiles and the Samaritans (''Matt''. x. 8), and repeated to his disciples that the “ mysteries of Heaven ” were for them alone, not for the multitudes (''Mark ''iv. 11).

''master'', a Guru, he became a mystic ; then a theosophist who doubted, despaired ; threw up ''white ''for ''black ''magic, went insane and joined the Roman Church. Then again turning round, anathematized her, re-became an atheist, and died cursing humanity, knowledge, and God, in whom he had ceased to believe. Furnished with all the esoteric data to write his “ War in Heaven,” he made a semi-political article out of it, mixing Malthus with Satan, and Darwin with the astral light. Peace be to his'' — Shell. ''He is a warning to the chelas who fail. His forgotten tomb may now be seen in the Mussulman burial ground of the Joonagad, Kathiawar, in India.

(''b'') This verse (thirty-ninth) relates exclusively to the racial divisions. Strictly speaking, esoteric philosophy teaches a modified polygenesis. For, while it assigns to humanity a oneness of origin, in so far that its forefathers or “ Creators ” were all divine beings — though of different classes or degrees of perfection in their hierarchy — men were nevertheless born on seven different centres of the continent of that period. Though all of one common origin, yet for reasons given their potentialities and mental capabilities, outward or physical forms, and future characteristics, were very different. * As to their complexions, there is a suggestive allegory told in ''Linga Purâna. ''The ''Kumâra'' — the Rudra gods, so called (''see further''), are described as incarnations of Siva, the ''destroyer ''(of ''outward forms''), named also Vamadeva. The latter, as a ''Kumâra'', the “ Eternal Celibate,” the chaste Virgin youth, springs from Brahmâ in each great Manvantara, and “ again becomes four ” ; a reference to the ''four great divisions of ''the human races, as regards complexion and type — and three chief variations of these. Thus in the 29th Kalpa — in this case a reference to the transformation and evolution of the human form which Siva ever destroys and remodels periodically, down to the manvantaric great turning point about the middle of the Fourth (Atlantean) Race — in the 29th Kalpa, Siva, as Swetalohita, the ''root ''Kumâra, becomes, from moon-coloured, ''white ; ''in his next transformation — he is ''red ''(and in this the exoteric version differs from the Esoteric teaching) ; in the third'' — yellow ; ''in the fourth — ''black. ''Esotericism now classes these seven variations, with their four great divisions, into only ''three ''distinct primeval races — as it does not take into consideration the First Race, which had neither type nor colour, and hardly an objective, though colossal form. The evolution of these races, their formation and development, went ''pari passu ''and on parallel lines with the evolution, formation, and development of three geological strata, from which the human complexion was as much derived as it was determined by the climates of those zones. It names three great divisions, namely, the red-yellow, the black, and the {{Style S-Small capitals|brown-white}}. † The Aryan races, for instance, now varying from dark brown, almost black, red-brown-yellow, down to the whitest creamy colour, are yet all of one and the same stock — the Fifth Root-Race — and spring

† “ There are,” says Topinard (English edition of “ Anthropology,” with preface by Professor Broca), “ three fundamental elements of colour in the human organism —  namely, the ''red'', the ''yellow'', and the ''black'', which, mixed in variable quantities with the white of the tissues, give rise to those numerous shades seen in the human family.” Here is science unintentionally supporting Occultism again.