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a physical nature and spiritual attributes. Gifted with an accepted form, which he has the supernatural power of casting off
for the assumption of others, he has the power of influencing the weather, producing droughts or fertilizing rains at
pleasure, of raising tempests and allaying them. Volumes could be compiled from the scattered legends which
everywhere abound relating to this subject. . . . "
This "mysterious being" is the mythical Dragon, i.e., the symbol of the historical, actual Adept, the master and professor of
occult sciences of old. It is stated already elsewhere, that the great "magicians" of the Fourth and Fifth Races were
generally called the "Serpents" and the "Dragons" after their progenitors. All these belonged to the hierarchy of the socalled
"Fiery Dragons of Wisdom," the Dhyan Chohans, answering to the Agnishwatta Pitris, the Maruts and Rudras
generally, as the issue of Rudra their father, identified with the god of fire. More is said in the text. Now Clement, an
initiated Neo-Platonist, knew, of course, the origin of the word "Dragon," and why the initiated Adepts were so-called, as
he knew the secret of Agathodaemon, the Christ, the seven-vowelled Serpent of the Gnostics. He knew that the dogma of
his new faith required the transformation of all the rivals of Jehovah, the angels supposed to have rebelled against that
Elohim as the Titan-Prometheus rebelled against Zeus, the usurper of his father's kingdom; and that "Dragon" was the
mystic appellation of the "Sons of Wisdom"; from this knowledge came his definition, as cruel as it was arbitrary,
"Serpents and Giants signify Demons," i.e., not "Spirits," but Devils, in Church parlance.
** "What would you say to our affirmation that the Chinese -- I speak of the inland, the true Chinaman, not of the hybrid
mixture between the Fourth and Fifth Races now occupying the throne, the aborigines who belong in their unallied
nationality wholly to the highest and last branch of the Fourth Race -- reached their highest civilization when the Fifth had
hardly appeared in Asia" (Esoteric Buddhism, p. 67). And this handful of the inland Chinese are all of a very high stature.
Could the most ancient MSS. in the Lolo language (that of the aborigines of China) be got at and translated correctly,
many a priceless piece of evidence would be found. But they are as rare as their language is unintelligible. So far, one or
two European archaeologists only have been able to procure such priceless works.
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 281 THE SEVEN VIRGIN-YOUTHS.
"according to our ancient documents, had, owing to the beguilements of Tchy-Yeoo, troubled all the earth, it became full
of brigands. . . . ." The Lord Chang-ty (a king of the divine dynasty) saw that his people had lost the last vestiges of virtue.
Then he commanded Tehong and Lhy (two lower Dhyan Chohans) to cut away every communication between heaven
and earth. Since then, there was no more going up and down!"**
"Going up and down" means an untrammelled communication and intercourse between the two worlds. Not being in a
position to give out a full and detailed history of the Third and Fourth Races, as many isolated facts concerning them as
are permitted must be now collated together; especially those corroborated by direct as well as by inferential evidence
found in ancient literature and history. As the "coats of skin" of men thickened, and they fell more and more into physical
sin, the intercourse between physical and ethereal divine man was stopped. The veil of matter between the two planes
became too dense for even the inner man to penetrate. The mysteries of Heaven and Earth, revealed to the Third Race
by their celestial teachers in the days of their purity, became a great focus of light, the rays from which became
necessarily weakened as they were diffused and shed upon an uncongenial, because too material soil. With the masses
they degenerated into Sorcery, taking later on the shape of exoteric religions, of idolatry full of superstitions, and man-, or
hero-worship. Alone a handful of primitive men -- in whom the spark of divine Wisdom burnt bright, and only strengthened
in its intensity as it got dimmer and dimmer with every age in those who turned it to bad purposes -- remained the elect
custodians of the Mysteries revealed to mankind by the divine Teachers. There were those among them, who remained in
their Kumaric condition from the beginning; and tradition whispers, what the secret teachings affirm, namely, that these
Elect were the germ of a Hierarchy which never died since that period:--
"The inner man of the first * * * only changes his body from time to time; he is ever the same, knowing neither rest nor
Nirvana, spurning Devachan and remaining constantly on Earth for the salvation of mankind. . . . . ." "Out of the seven
virgin-men (Kumara**) four sacrificed themselves for the sins of the world and the instruction of
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* Remember the same statement in the Book of Enoch, as also the ladder seen by Jacob in his dream. The "two worlds"
mean of course the "two planes of Consciousness and Being." A seer can commune with beings of a higher plane than
the earth, without quitting his arm-chair.
** Vide supra the Commentary on the Four Races -- and on the "Sons of Will and Yoga," the immaculate progeny of the
Androgynous Third Race.
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 282 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
the ignorant, to remain till the end of the present Manvantara. Though unseen, they are ever present. When people say of
one of them, "He is dead"; behold, he is alive and under another form. These are the Head, the Heart, the Soul, and the
Seed of undying knowledge (Gnyana). Thou shalt never speak, O Lanoo, of these great ones (Maha . . .) before a
multitude, mentioning them by their names. The wise alone will understand." . . . * (Catechism of the inner Schools.)
It is these sacred "Four" who have been allegorized and symbolized in the "Linga Purana," which states that Vamadeva
(Siva) as Kumara is reborn in each Kalpa (Race in this instance), as four youths -- four, white; four, red; four, yellow; and
four, dark or brown. Let us remember that Siva is pre-eminently and chiefly an ascetic, the patron of all Yogis and Adepts,
and the allegory will become quite comprehensible. It is the spirit of Divine Wisdom and chaste asceticism itself which
incarnates in these Elect. It is only after getting married and being dragged by the gods from his terrible ascetic life, that
Rudra becomes Siva, a god, and not one of a very virtuous or merciful type, in the Hindu Pantheon. Higher than the
"Four" is only ONE on Earth as in Heavens -- that still more mysterious and solitary Being described in Book I.