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from a human standpoint, the paranirv^anic state, yet it has a limit
in Eternity. Once reached, the same Monad will reevicrge therefrom,
as a still higher being, on a far higher plane, to recommence its cycle
of perfected activity. The human mind, in its present stage of development,
cannot transcend, scarcely can it reach this plane of thought.
It totters here, on the brink of incomprehensible Absoluteness and
Eternity.
{b) The "Watchers" reign over men during the whole period of
Satya Yuga and the smaller subsequent Yugas, down to the beginning
of the Third Root Race ; after which it is the Patriarchs, Heroes, and
the Manes, as in the Egyptian Dynasties enumerated by the priests to
Solon, the incarnated Dh^-anis of a lower order, up to King Menes and
the human Kings of other nations. All were carefully recorded. In
the views of sj^mbologists this Mythopoeic Age is of course regarded
as only a fairy tale. But since traditions and even chronicles of such
Dynasties of Divine Kings, of Gods reigning over men, followed by
Dynasties of Heroes or Giants, exist in the annals of every nation, it is.
difficult to understand how all the peoples under the sun, some of
whom are separated hy vast oceans and belong to different hemispheres,
such as the ancient Peruvians and Mexicans, as well as the
Chaldeans, could have worked out the same "fairy tales" in the same
order of events.''^- However, as the Secret Doctrine teaches history—
which, although esoteric and traditional, is, none the less, more reliable
than profane history—we are entitled to our beliefs as much as anyone
else, whether religionist or sceptic. And that Doctrine says that
the Dhyani-Buddhas of the two higher Groups, namely, the Watchers
or the Architects,
kings and leaders.
furnished the many and various races with divine
It is the latter who taught humanity their arts and
sciences, and the former who revealed to the incarnated Monads that
had just shaken off their Vehicles of the lower Kingdoms, and who
had, therefore, lost every recollection of their divine origin, the great
spiritual truths of the transcendental Worlds.
Thus, as expressed in the Stanza, the W^atchers "descend on radiant
Earth and reign over men, ^vho are themselves^ The reigning Kings
had finished their cycle on Earth and other Worlds, in the preceding
Rounds. In the future Manvantaras they will have risen to higher
• See, for example, Sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiche's, by Augustus le Plongeon,
who shows the identity between the Egyptian rites and beliefs and those of the people he describes.
The ancient hieratic alphabets of the Mayas and the Egyptians are almost identical.