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THE GEOLOGY OF ENOCH. 667
How long has it taken the world to become what it now is If it
can be said that even up to the present day cosmic dust, "which has
never belonged to the earth before,"* reaches our Globe, how much
more logical is it to believe—as the Occultists do—that through the
countless millions of years that have rolled away since that dust aggregated
and formed the Globe we live in round its nucleus of intelligent
Primeval Substance, many humanities—differing from our present
mankind as greatly as the humanity which will evolve millions of years
hence will differ from our races—appeared but to disappear from the
face of the Earth, as will our own. These primitive and far-distant
humanities are denied, because, as Geologists think, they have left no
tangible relics of themselves. All trace of them is swept away, and
therefore they have never existed. Yet their relics—though very few
of them, truly—are to be found, and they must be discovered by
geological research. But, even if they were never to be met with, there
would be no reason to say that no men could have ever lived in the
geological periods to which their presence on earth is assigned. For
their organisms needed no warm blood, no atmosphere, no feeding;
author of World-Life is right, and there is no extravagance in believing
as we do, that as, on scientific h3'potheses, there may be to this day
"psychic natures enshrined in indestructible flint and platinum," so
there were psychic natures enshrined in forms of equally indestructible
Primeval Matter—the real forefathers of our Fifth Race.
When, therefore, as in Volume II, we speak of men who inhabited
Globe 18,000,000 years ago, we have in mind neither the men of
this
our present races, nor the present atmospheric laws, thermal conditions,
etc. The Earth and Mankind, like the Sun, Moon, and
Planets, all have their growth, changes, development, and gradual
evolution in their life-periods; they are born, become infants, then
children, adolescent, grown-up, they grow old, and finally die. Why
should not Mankind be also under this universal law Says Uriel
to Enoch:
. . . Behold, I have showed thee all things, O Enoch. Thou seest the sun, the
moon, and those which conduct the stars of heaven, which cause all their operations,
seasons, and arrivals to return. In the days of sinners the years shall be
shortened . . . everything done on earth shall be subverted . . . the moon
shall change its laws.t
the
* World-Life. t The Book of Enoch. Trans, by Archbishop Laurence, Ch. LXXIX.