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Panini (!); that the Hindus had all their arts and sciences -- even to the Zodiac and their architecture (Ferguson) -- from
the Macedonian Greeks; these and other such cock-and-bull hypotheses, are threatened with ruin. It is the ghost of old
Chaldea that comes to the rescue of truth. In his third Hibbert
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* Thus we are shown one hero, to give an instance, first born as the "unrighteous but valiant monarch" (Purusha) of the
Daityas, Hiranyakasipu, slain by the Avatar Nara-Sinha (Man-lion). Then he was born as Ravana, the giant king of Lanka,
and killed by Rama; after which he is reborn as Sisupala, the son of Rajarishi (King Rishi) Damaghosha, when he is again
killed by Krishna, the last incarnation of Vishnu. This parallel evolution of Vishnu (spirit) with a Daitya, as men, may seem
meaningless, yet it gives us the key not only to the respective dates of Rama and Krishna but even to a certain
psychological mystery.
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 226 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
lecture (1887) Professor Sayce of Oxford, speaking of newly-discovered Assyrian and Babylonian cylinders, referred at
length to Ea, the God of Wisdom, now identified with the Oannes, of Berosus, the half-man, half-fish, who taught the
Babylonians culture and the art of writing. This Oannes, to whom, thanks only to the Biblical Deluge, an antiquity of hardly
1,500 B.C. had been hitherto allowed, is now spoken of in these terms:--
"His city was Eridu, which stood 6,000 years ago on the shores of the Persian Gulf. The name means 'the good city,' a
particularly holy spot, since it was the centre from which the earliest Chaldean civilization made its way to the north. As
the culture-god was represented as coming from the sea, it was possible that the culture of which Eridu was the seat was
of foreign importation. We now know that there was intercourse at a very early period between Chaldea and the Sinaitic
peninsula, as well as with India. The statues discovered by the French at Tel-loh (dating from at latest B.C. 4,000) were
made of the extremely hard stone known as diorite, and the inscriptions on them stated the diorite to have been brought
from Mazan -- i.e., the Sinaitic peninsula, which was then ruled by the Pharaohs. The statues are known to resemble in
general style the diorite statue, Kephren, the builder of the second Pyramid, while, according to Mr. Petrie, the unit of
measurement marked on the plan of the city, which one of the Tel-loh figures holds on his lap, is the same as that
employed by the Pyramid builders. Teak wood has been found at Mugheir, or Ur of the Chaldees, although that wood is
an Indian special product; add to this that an ancient Babylonian list of clothing mentions sindhu, or 'muslins,' explained
as 'vegetable cloth.' "
Muslin, best known now as Dacca muslin, known in Chaldea as Hindu (Sindhu), and teak wood used 4,000 years B.C.;
and yet the Hindus, to whom Chaldea owes its civilization (as well proven by Colonel vans Kennedy), were ignorant of the
art of writing before the Greeks taught them their alphabet -- if we have to believe Orientalists!
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 227 THE MOON-COLOURED RACE.
STANZA X.
THE HISTORY OF THE FOURTH RACE.
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§§ (38) The Birth of the Fourth, Atlantean Race. (39) The sub-races of the Fourth Humanity begin to divide and
interblend; they form the first mixed races of various colours. (40) The superiority of the Atlantean over other races. (41)
They fall into sin and beget children and monsters. (42) The first germs of Anthropomorphism and sexual religion. They
lose their "third Eye."
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38. THUS TWO BY TWO, ON THE SEVEN ZONES, THE THIRD (Race) GAVE BIRTH TO THE FOURTH (Race men).
THE GODS BECAME NO-GODS (Sura became a-Sura) (a).
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39. THE FIRST (Race) ON EVERY ZONE WAS MOON-COLOURED (yellow-white); THE SECOND, YELLOW, LIKE
GOLD; THE THIRD, RED; THE FOURTH, BROWN, WHICH BECAME BLACK WITH SIN.* THE FIRST SEVEN (human)
SHOOTS WERE ALL OF ONE COMPLEXION IN THE BEGINNING. THE NEXT (seven, the sub-races) BEGAN MIXING
THEIR COLOURS (b).
(a) To understand this verse 38, it must be read together with the three verses of Stanza IX. Up to this point of evolution
man belongs more to metaphysical than physical nature. It is only after the so-called FALL, that the races began to
develop rapidly into a purely human shape. And, in order that he may correctly comprehend the full meaning of the Fall,
so mystic and transcendental is it in its real significance, the student must be told at once the details which preceded
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* Strictly speaking, it is only from the time of the Atlantean, brown and yellow giant Races, that one ought to speak of
MAN, since it was the Fourth race only which was the first completely human species, however much larger in size than
we are now. In "Man" (by two chelas), all that is said of the Atlanteans is quite correct. It is chiefly that race which became
"black with sin" that brought the divine names of the Asuras, the Rakshasas and the Daityas into disrepute, and passed
them on to posterity as the names of fiends. For, as said, the Suras (gods) or Devas having incarnated in the wise men of
Atlantis, the names of Asuras and Rakshasas were given to the Atlanteans; which names, owing to their incessant