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OCEANS OF CARBONIC ACID. 273
—Fire, Air, Water, Earth. We are only in the Fourth Round, and our
catalogue so far stops short. The order in which these Elements are
mentioned, in the last
sentence but one, is the correct one for Esoteric
purposes and in the Secret Teachings. Milton was right when he
spoke of the "Powers of Fire, Air, Water, Earth"; the Earth, such as
we know it now, had no existence before the Fourth Round, hundreds
of millions of years ago, the commencement of our geological Earth.
The Globe, says the Conimen,tar>^ was ''fiery, cool atid radiant, as its
ethereal me7i and animals,
paradox in
during the First Rou7id"—a contradiction or
the opinion of our present Science
''luminous
aiid more
demise and heavy, during the Second Rozind; watery djiring the Third."
Thus are the Elements reversed.
The centres of consciousness of the Third Round, destined to
develop into humanity as we know it, arrived at a perception of the
third Element, Water. If we had to frame our conclusions according
to the data furnished us by Geologists, then we would say that there
was no real water, even during the Carboniferous Period. We are told
that gigantic masses of carbon, which existed formerly spread in
atmosphere, as carbonic acid, were absorbed by plants, while a large
proportion of that gas was mixed in the water. Now, if this be so, and
we have to believe that all the carbonic acid which went to compose
those plants that formed bituminous coal, lignite, etc., and went towards
the formation of lime-stone, and so on, that all
the
this was at that period
in the atmosphere in gaseous form, then, there must have been seas
and oceans of liquid carbonic acid ! But how then could the Carboniferous
Period be preceded by the Devonian and Silurian Ages
those of fishes and molluscs—on that assumption Barometric pressure,
moreover, must have exceeded several hundred times the pressure
of our present atmosphere.
How could organisms, even so simple as
those of certain fishes and molluscs, stand that There is a curious
work by Blanchard, on the Origin of Eife, wherein he shows some
strange contradictions and confusions in the theories of his colleagues,
and which we recommend to the reader's attention.
Those of the Fourth Round have added Earth as a state of matter to
their stock,
as well as the three other Elements in their present transformation.
In short, none of the so-called Elements were, in the three preceding
Rounds, as they are now.
For all we know. Fire mav have been ptire
Akasha, the First Matter of the "Magnum Opus" of the Creators and