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{{Style P-No indent|''time'' — as explained in the ''Racial division of Cycles ''(''See sub-section ''6.) Hence, as we see, the difficulty of comprehending, and discriminating between them, with regard to their physical and spiritual effects, without having thoroughly mastered their relations with, and action upon the respective positions of nations and races, in their destiny and evolution. This system cannot be comprehended if the spiritual action of these periods — ''pre-ordained'', so to say, by Karmic law — is separated from their physical course. The calculations of the best astrologers would fail, or at any rate remain imperfect, unless this dual action is thoroughly taken into consideration and dealt with upon these lines. And this mastery can be achieved only through initiation.}} | {{Style P-No indent|''time'' — as explained in the ''Racial division of Cycles ''(''See sub-section ''6.) Hence, as we see, the difficulty of comprehending, and discriminating between them, with regard to their physical and spiritual effects, without having thoroughly mastered their relations with, and action upon the respective positions of nations and races, in their destiny and evolution. This system cannot be comprehended if the spiritual action of these periods — ''pre-ordained'', so to say, by Karmic law — is separated from their physical course. The calculations of the best astrologers would fail, or at any rate remain imperfect, unless this dual action is thoroughly taken into consideration and dealt with upon these lines. And this mastery can be achieved only through initiation.}} | ||
The Grand Cycle includes the progress of mankind from the appearance of primordial man of ethereal form. It runs through the inner cycles of his (man’s) progressive evolution from the ethereal down to the semiethereal and purely physical : down to the redemption of man from his ''coat of skin ''and matter, after which it continues running its course downward and then upward again, to meet at the culmination of a Round, when the manvantaric “ Serpent swallows its tail ” and seven minor cycles are passed. These are the great Racial Cycles which affect equally all the nations and tribes included in that special Race ; but there are minor and national as well as tribal cycles within those, which run independently of each other. They are called in the Eastern esotericism the ''Karmic ''cycles. In the West, since Pagan Wisdom has been repudiated as having grown from and been developed by the dark powers supposed to be at constant war and in opposition to the little tribal Jehovah — the full and awful significance of the Greek Nemesis (or Karma) has been entirely forgotten. Otherwise Christians would have better realized the profound truth that Nemesis is without attributes ; that while the dreaded goddess is absolute and immutable as a Principle, it is we ourselves — nations and individuals — who propel her to action and give the impulse to its direction. Karma-Nemesis is the creator of nations and mortals, but once created, it is they who make of her either a fury or a rewarding Angel. Yea — | The Grand Cycle includes the progress of mankind from the appearance of primordial man of ethereal form. It runs through the inner cycles of his (man’s) progressive evolution from the ethereal down to the semiethereal and purely physical : down to the redemption of man from his ''coat of skin ''and matter, after which it continues running its course downward and then upward again, to meet at the culmination of a Round, when the manvantaric “ Serpent swallows its tail ” and seven minor cycles are passed. These are the great Racial Cycles which affect equally all the nations and tribes included in that special Race ; but there are minor and national as well as tribal cycles within those, which run independently of each other. They are called in the Eastern esotericism the ''Karmic ''cycles. In the West, since Pagan Wisdom has been repudiated as having grown from and been developed by the dark powers supposed to be at constant war and in opposition to the little tribal Jehovah — the full and awful significance of the Greek {{Style S-Small capitals|Nemesis}} (or Karma) has been entirely forgotten. Otherwise Christians would have better realized the profound truth that Nemesis is without attributes ; that while the dreaded goddess is absolute and immutable as a Principle, it is we ourselves — nations and individuals — who propel her to action and give the impulse to its direction. {{Style S-Small capitals|Karma-Nemesis}} is the creator of nations and mortals, but once created, it is they who make of her either a fury or a rewarding Angel. Yea — | ||
{{Style P-Poem|poem=“ Wise are they who worship Nemesis ” *}} | {{Style P-Poem|poem=“ Wise are they who worship Nemesis ” *}} | ||