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The Tenth Lesson: Spiritual Evolution.871
beginning of each new cycle and which are the foundations for the coming
races which take advantage of the fresh conditions and opportunities for
growth and development—but there were also the descendants of the
Elect Saved from the destruction of Atlantis by having been led away and
colonized far from the scene of danger. The new races were the descendant
of the scattered survivors of the Atlantean peoples, that is, the common run
of people of the time. But the Elect few were very superior people, and
imparted to their descendants their knowledge and wisdom. So that we
see at the beginning of the Fifth Cycle hordes of new, primitive people in
certain lands, and in other places advanced nations like the ancestors of the
Ancient Egyptians, Persians, Chaldeans, Hindus, etc.
These advanced races were old souls—advanced souls—the progressed
and developed souls of Ancient Lemuria and Atlantis, who lived their lives
and who are now either on higher planes of life, or else are among us today
taking a leading part in the world’s affairs, striving mightily to save the
present races from the misfortunes which overtook their predecessors.
The descendants of the people were the Assyrians and Babylonians. In due
time the primitive new races developed and the great Roman, Grecian, and
Carthaginian peoples appeared. Then came the rise of other peoples and
nations down to the present time. Each race or nation has its rise, its height
of attainment, and its decline. When a nation begins to decline it is because
its more advanced souls have passed on, and only the less progressive souls
are left. The history of all nations show the truth of the Occult the term. Men
are forsaking old ideals, creeds and dogmas, and are running hither and
thither seeking something they feel to be necessary, but of the nature of
which they know nothing. They are feeling the hunger for Peace—the thirst
for Knowledge—and they are seeking satisfaction in all directions.
This is not only the inevitable working of the Law of Evolution, but is also
a manifestation of the power and love of the great souls that have passed
on to higher planes of existence, and who have become as angels and archangels.
These beings are filled with the love of the race, and are setting into