Lemuria, Early Root-Races, and the Higher Intelligences: From Theosophy’s Sacred Teachings in ‘The Secret Doctrine’ Vol. 2, Part 2 of 2

Today, we continue with Lemuria from ‘The Secret Doctrine’ Vol. 2, in which Blavatsky describes how early humanity passed through stages very unlike modern humans, guided by higher spiritual beings. She argues that ancient records preserve truths about these early races that modern science has lost or rejects.

STANZA VII FROM THE SEMI-DIVINE DOWN TO THE FIRST HUMAN RACES

24. The higher Creators reject in their pride the Forms evolved by the “Sons of Yoga.” (continuation)

“[…] As regards the other question, of the priority of man to the animals in the order of evolution, the answer is as promptly given. If man is really the Microcosm of the Macrocosm, then the teaching has nothing so very impossible in it, and is but logical. For man becomes that Macrocosm for the three lower kingdoms under him. Arguing from a physical standpoint, all the lower kingdoms, save the mineral— which is light itself, crystallized and immetallized— from plants to the creatures which preceded the first mammalians, all have been consolidated in their physical structures by means of the ‘cast-off dust’ of those minerals, and the refuse of the human matter, whether from living or dead bodies, on which they fed and which gave them their outer bodies. In his turn also, man grew more physical, by reabsorbing into his system that which he had given out, and which became transformed in the living animal crucibles through which it had passed, owing to Nature's alchemical transmutations. […]

As said in Isis Unveiled: All things had their origin in Spirit—evolution having originally begun from above and proceeding downwards, instead of the reverse, as taught in the Darwinian theory. […]”

STANZA VII FROM THE SEMI-DIVINE DOWN TO THE FIRST HUMAN RACES 25. HOW DID THE MÂNASA, THE SONS OF WISDOM, ACT? THEY REJECTED THE SELF-BORN. THEY ARE NOT READY. THEY SPURNED THE SWEAT-BORN. THEY ARE NOT QUITE READY. THEY WOULD NOT ENTER THE FIRST EGG-BORN.

“To a Theist or a Christian, this verse would suggest a rather theological idea: that of the Fall of the Angels through Pride. In the Secret Doctrine, however, the reasons for the refusal to incarnate in half-ready physical bodies seem to be more connected with physiological than metaphysical reasons. Not all the organisms were sufficiently ready. The Incarnating Powers chose the ripest fruits and spurned the rest. By a curious coincidence, when selecting a familiar name for the continent on which the first Androgynes, the Third Root-Race, separated, the writer chose, on geographical considerations, that of ‘Lemuria,’ invented by Mr. P. L. Sclater. […]”