Band 2 Anthropogenesis - H.P. Blavatsky

in its cosmic aspect only, the female generative principle, as the Sun is the male emblem thereof. Water is the progeny of
the Moon, an androgyne deity with every nation.
Evolution proceeds on the laws of analogy in Kosmos as in the formation of the smallest globe. Thus the above, applying
to the modus operandi at the time when the Universe was appearing, applies also in the case of our Earth's formation.
This Stanza opens by speaking of thirty crores, 30,000,000, of years. We may be asked -- What could the ancients know
of the duration of geological periods, when no modern scientist or mathematician is able to calculate their duration with
anything like approximate accuracy? Whether they had or had not better means (and it is maintained that they had them
in their Zodiacs), still the chronology of the ancient Brahmins shall now be given as faithfully as possible.
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THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE BRAHMINS.
No greater riddle exists in science, no problem is more hopelessly insoluble, than the question: How old -- even
approximately -- are the Sun and Moon, the Earth and Man? What does modern science know of the duration of the ages
of the World, or even of the length of geological periods?
Nothing; absolutely nothing.
If one turns to science for chronological information, one is told by those who are straightforward and truthful, as for
instance Mr. Pengelly, the eminent geologist, "We do not know."* One will learn that, so far, no trustworthy numerical
estimate of the ages of the world and man could be made, and that both geology and anthropology are at sea. Yet when
a student of esoteric philosophy presumes to bring forward the teachings of Occult Science, he is at once sat upon. Why
should this be so, since, when reduced to their own physical methods, the greatest scientists have failed to arrive even at
an approximate agreement?
It is true that science can hardly be blamed for it. Indeed, in the Cimmerian darkness of the prehistoric ages, the explorers
are lost in a labyrinth, whose great corridors are doorless, allowing no visible exit into the Archaic past. Lost in the maze
of their own conflicting speculations, rejecting, as they have always done, the evidence of Eastern tradition, without any
clue, or one single certain milestone to guide them, what can geologists or anthropologists do but pick up the slender
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* For a similar admission see Prof. Lefevre's Philosophy, p. 481.
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thread of Ariadne where they first perceive it, and then proceed at perfect random? Therefore we are first told that the
farthest date to which documentary record extends is now generally regarded by Anthropology as but "the earliest
distinctly visible point of the pre-historic period." (Encyclopaedia Britannica.)
At the same time it is confessed that "beyond that period stretches back a vast indefinite series of prehistoric ages." (Ibid.)
It is with those specified "Ages" that we shall begin. They are "prehistoric" to the naked eye of matter only. To the spiritual
eagle eye of the seer and the prophet of every race, Ariadne's thread stretches beyond that "historic period" without break
or flaw, surely and steadily, into the very night of time; and the hand which holds it is too mighty to drop it, or even let it
break. Records exist, although they may be rejected as fanciful by the profane; though many of them are tacitly accepted
by philosophers and men of great learning, and meet with an unvarying refusal only from the official and collective body
of orthodox science. And since the latter refuses to give us even an approximate idea of the duration of the geological
ages -- save in a few conflicting and contradictory hypotheses -- let us see what Aryan philosophy can teach us.
Such computations as are given in Manu and the Puranas -- save trifling and most evidently intentional exaggerations --
are, as already stated, almost identical with those taught in esoteric philosophy. This may be seen by comparing the two
in any Hindu calendar of recognised orthodoxy.
The best and most complete of all such calendars, at present, as vouched for by the learned Brahmins of Southern India,
is the already mentioned Tamil calendar called the "Tirukkanda Panchanga," compiled, as we are told, from, and in full
accordance with, secret fragments of Asuramaya's data. As Asuramaya is said to have been the greatest astronomer, so
he is whispered to have also been the most powerful "Sorcerer" of the "WHITE ISLAND, which had become BLACK with
sin," i.e., of the islands of Atlantis.
The "White Island" is a symbolical name. Asuramaya is said to have lived (see the tradition of Jhana-bhaskara) in
Romaka-pura in the West: because the name is an allusion to the land and cradle of the "Sweat-born" of the Third Race.
That land or continent had disappeared ages before Asuramaya lived, since he was an Atlantean; but he was a direct
descendant of the Wise Race, the Race that never dies. Many are the legends concerning this hero, the pupil of Surya
(the Sun-God) himself, as the Indian accounts allege. It matters little whether he lived on one or another island, but the
question is to prove that he was no myth, as Dr. Weber and others would make him. The
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fact of "Romaka-pura in the West" being named as the birth-place of this hero of the archaic ages, is the more interesting
because it is so very suggestive of the esoteric teaching about the "Sweat-born" Races, the men born from the pores of
their parents. "ROMAKUPAS" means "hair-pores" in Sanskrit. In Mahabharata XII. 10,308, a people named Raumyas are
said to have been created from the pores of Virabhadara, the terrible giant, who destroyed Daksha's sacrifice. Other