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206 tHE SECRET DOCTRINE.
external and hiternal growth and development, have atc one and the same
object— Ma7i ; Man, as the highest physical a7id ultimate form on this
Earth; the
" Monad,
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in its absolute totality
the cubnination of the divine incarnations on Earth.
ayid awakened condition— as
2. The Dhyanis \_Pitris'] are those who have evolved their Bhiita \_Doubles^
from themselves, which Ritpa \^Forni\ has become the vehicle of Moyiads
\_Seventh and Sixth principles^ that had completed their cycle of transmigration
in the three preceding Kalpas \^Rounds~\. Then, they \the Astral
Doubles'] became the men of thefirst Human Race of the Round. But they
were not complete, and were senseless.
This will be explained in the sequel. Meanwhile man—or rather
his Monad—has existed on Earth from the very beginning of this
Round. But, up to our own Fifth Race, the external shapes which
covered those divine Astral Doubles, have changed and consolidated
with every sub-race; the form and physical structure of the fauna
changing at the same time, as they had to be adapted to the everchanging
conditions of life on this Globe, during the geological periods
of its formative cycle. And thus will they go on changing with every
Root- Race, and every chief sub-race, down to the last one of the Seventh
in this Round.
J. The inner, now concealed, vian, was then [_in the beginnings] the
external man. The progeny of the Dhyanis \_Pitris\ he was ''the son like
tiito his father.'" Like the lotus, whose external shape assurnes gradually
theform of the model withi7i itself, so did the form of man in the beginning
evolve from within zvithout. After the cycle ii which man began to procreate
his species after the fashioi of the present aniifial kingdom, it became
the reverse. The hu7nan foetus follows 7iow in its transfor77iations all
the fo7'ms that the physical fra77ie of ma7i asstwied, thro7ighout the three
Kalpas \_Rou7ids~\,
duri7ig the tentative efforts at plastic fo7-7nation around
the Mo7iad, by senseless, because impeyfect, matter, zVz her bli7id wanderings.
In the present age,- the physical e7nb7yo is a plant, a reptile, an a7iimal,
before it fi7ially beco77ies man, evolviyig withiyi himself his own ethereal
counte7part, i7i his turn, hi the beginning it was that counterpart \jxstral
ma7i] which, being senseless, got entayigled in the meshes of 7natter.
But this " man" belongs to the Fourth Round. As shown, the Monad
had passed through, journeyed and been imprisoned in, every transitional
form, throughout every kingdom of nature, during the three preceding
Rounds.
In this
But the Monad which becomes human, is not the Ma7i.
Round—with the exception of the highest mammals after man,