Theosophical Society,
WRITINGS
OF H P BLAVATSKY
H P Blavatsky
The Stanzas of Dzyan
by
HP Blavatsky
From The
'Secret Doctrine
PART
-1- COSMOGENESIS has seven Stanzas which appear in Book 1 of The Secret
Doctrine
PART
-2- ANTHROPOGENESIS had twelve Stanzas which appear in Book 2 of The Secret
Doctrine
Portuguźs:- Estāncias de Dzyan 1
Portuguźs:- Estāncias de Dzyan 2
FOREWORD
"WHO"
asks Madame Blavatsky, in the Preface to the first edition of the Secret
Doctrine,
has ever even heard of the Book of Dzyan?" That was in 1888. Today so many
people have heard of it, so many students of the world-mystery have felt some
inner fiber of their nature thrill in response to the sonorous roll of its
archaic
phrases, that, in obedience to a very real and persistent demand, the
Stanzas
on which the first two volumes of the Secret Doctrine are based are here
reprinted
in convenient form.
For
the information of readers into whose hands these Stanzas may now fall for
the
first time, it is desirable to give some brief account of their source, on
the
authority of the Occultist who translated and introduced them to the world
of
modern thought. The following particulars are derived from the Introduction
and
Proem to the Secret Doctrine and from the Preface to the Voice of the
Silence,
which Madame Blavatsky tells us forms part of the same series of
long-concealed
manuscript treasurers to which the Stanzas of Dzyan belong.
The
Book of Dzyan ( or Dzan - a word which Madame Blavatsky connects with
Dhyana)
is not in the possession of any European library, and was never head of
by
European scholarship; nevertheless it exists, and lies hidden, even from the
enterprising
war-correspondent, in one of the mysterious rock-libraries that the
spurs
of the
Many
rare and priceless heirlooms of a long-lost science are, it is asserted,
still
in existence in safe custody: works that were thought to have been lost to
humanity
since the burning of the great library of
original
documentary matter that has reached the modern world only in the form
of
thousands of scattered fragments in the vast accumulation of Sanskrit MSS.,
remain
for posterity to unveil. The Stanzas of Dzyan are an earnest of what may
follow
when the time is ripe, the present selection being, we are told, but a
few
fragments of a great whole which would seem to be cosmic history upon the
most
grandiose and stupendous scale. They are written in a language unknown to
philology, if, indeed, the term "written" is applicable to
ideographs, of which
it
would appear they largely consist, and this associated with the use of a
color
system of symbology.
"They
are given throughout", says H.P. Blavatsky, in their modern translated
version
, as it would be worse than useless to make the subject still more
difficult
by introducing the archaic phraseology of the original with its
puzzling
style and words".
The
terms used, where non-translatable into English, are Tibetan or Sanskrit,
and
for the general reader they will be frequently a stumbling-block unless
reference
be made to the Secret Doctrine itself, where the commentaries on the
text
will be generally found to supply the meaning.
THE
SECRET BOOKS OF 'LAM-RIN' AND DZYAN
The
Book of Dzyan - from the Sanskrit word "Dhyan" (mystic meditation) -
is the first volume of the Commentaries upon the seven secret folios of Kiu-te,
and a Glossary of the public works of the same name. Thirty-five volumes of
Kiu-te for exoteric purposes and the use of the laymen may be found in the
possession of the Tibetan Gelugpa Lamas, in the library of any monastery; and
also fourteen
books
of Commentaries and Annotations on the same by the initiated Teachers.
Strictly
speaking, those thirty-five books, ought to be termed "The Popularized
Version"
of the Secret Doctrine, full of myths, blinds, and errors; the fourteen
volumes
of Commentaries, on the other hand - with their translations,
annotations,
and an ample glossary of occult terms, worked out from one archaic, folio, the
Book of the Secret Wisdom of the World - contains a digest of all the Occult
Sciences. These, it appears, are kept secret and apart, in the charge of the
Teshu Lama of Tji-gad-je. The Books of Kiu-te are comparatively modern, having
been edited within the past millennium, whereas, the earliest volumes of the
Commentaries are of untold antiquity, some fragments of the original cylinders
having been preserved. With the exception that they explain and correct some of
the too fabulous, and to every appearance,grossly-exaggerated accounts in the
Books of Kiu-te - properly so-called - the Commentaries have little to do with
these. They stand in relation to them as the Chaldaeo - Jewish Kabalah stands
to the Mosaic Books. In the work known as the Avatumsaka Sutra, in section:
"The Supreme Atman [Soul] as manifested in the character of the Arhats and
the Pratyeka Buddhas", it is stated that:
Because from the beginning all sentient
creatures have confused the truth and
embraced the false, therefore there came into
existence a hidden knowledge
called Alaya Vijnana.
"
Who is in possession of the true knowledge?" is asked. "The great
Teachers of the
These
'great Teachers" have been known to live in the "
existence
of their great Gurus, living in the Ashrams scattered all over the
Trans
- or the Cis-Himalayan slopes, is to make oneself ridiculous in their
eyes.
When the Buddhist Saviour appeared in
rarely
that these great Men are found in Lamaseries, unless on a short visit -
where
on the spots they now occupy, and that even before the Brahmans themselves came
from
Most
of these Himalayan Bhante were Aryan Brahmans and ascetics.
No
student,unless very advanced, would be benefited by the perusal of those
exoteric
volumes. They must be read with a key to their meaning, and that key
can
only be found in the Commentaries. Moreover there are some comparatively
modern
works that are positively so injurious as far as a fair comprehension of
even
exoteric Buddhism is concerned. Such are the Buddhist Cosmos, by Bonze
Jin-ch'on of Pekin; the Shing-Tau-ki (or The Records of the Enlightenment of
Tathagata) by Wang Puk - seventh century; Hisai-Sutra (or Book of Creation),
and some others.
SYNOPSIS OF
THE FIRST SEVEN STANZAS
Reprinted
from the Proem to Vol.-1- of the "Secret Doctrine"
The
history of Cosmic Evolution, as traced in the Stanzas, is, so to say, the
abstract
algebraical formula of that evolution. Hence the student must not
expect
to find there an account of all the stages and transformations which
intervene
between the first beginnings of Universal Evolution and our present
state.
To give such an account would be as impossible as it would be
incomprehensible
to men who cannot grasp the nature of even the plane of
existence
next to that to which, for the moment, their consciousness is limited.
The
Stanzas, therefore, give an abstract formula which can be applied, mutatis
mutandis,
to all evolution: to that of our tiny Earth, to that of the Chain of
Planets
of which the Earth forms one, to the Solar Universe to which that Chain
belongs,
and so on, in an ascending scale, till the mind reels and is exhausted
in
the effort.
The
Seven Stanzas given in this (the first) volume represent the seven terms of
this
abstract formula. They refer to, and describe, the seven great stages of
the
evolutionary process, which are spoken of in the Puranas as the "Seven
Creations",
and in the Bible as the "Days" of Creation.
Stanza
-1- describes the state of the ONE ALL during Pralaya, before the first
flutter
of reawakening Manifestation.
A
moment's thought shows that such a state can only be symbolized; to describe
it, is impossible. Nor can it be symbolized except in negatives; for, since it
is the state of Absoluteness per se, it can possess none of those specific
attributes
which serve us to describe objects in positive terms. Hence that
state
can only be suggested by the negatives of all those most abstract
attributes
which men feel rather than conceive, as the remotest limits
attainable
by their power of conception.
Stanza
-2- describes a stage which, to a Western mind, is so nearly identical
with
that mentioned in
would
require a treatise in itself Hence it must be left to the intuition and
the
higher faculties of the reader to grasp, as far as he can,the meaning of the
allegorical
phrases used. Indeed, it must be remembered that all these Stanzas
appeal
to the inner faculties rather than to the ordinary comprehension of the
physical
brain.
Stanza
-3- describes the Reawakening of the Universe to life after Pralaya. It
depicts
the emergence of the Monads from their state of absorption within the
One,the
earliest and highest stage in the formation of Worlds - the term Monad
being
one which may apply equally to the vastest Solar System or the tiniest
atom.
Stanza
-4- shows the differentiation of the "Germ" of the Universe into the
Septenary
Hierarchy of conscious Divine Powers,which are the active
manifestations
of the One Supreme Energy. They are the framers, shapers, and
ultimately
the creators of all the manifested Universe, in the only sense in
which
the name "creator" is intelligible; they inform and guide it; they
are the
intelligent
Beings who adjust and control evolution, embodying in themselves
those
manifestations of the One Law, which we know as the "Laws of Nature".
Generally,
they are known as the Dhyan Chohans, through each of the various
groups
has its own designation in the Secret Doctrine.
This
stage of evolution is spoken of in Hindu mythology as the "Creation of the
Gods".
Stanza
-5- describes the process of world-formation. First,diffused Cosmic Matter,
then the "Fiery Whirlwind", the first stage in the formation of a
nebula.
This nebula condenses, and after passing through various
transformations,
form a Solar Universe, a Planetary Chain, or a single Planet,
as
the case may be.
Stanza
-6- indicates the subsequent stages in the formation of a "World",
and
brings
the evolution of such a World down to its fourth great period,
corresponding
to the period in which we are now living.
Stanza
-7- continues the history, tracing the descent of life down to the
appearance
of Man; and thus closes the First Book of the Secret Doctrine.
PART
ONE
STANZA
-1-
1.
The Eternal Parent wrapped in her Ever- Invisible Robes, had slumbered once
again
for Seven Eternities.
2.
Time was not, for it lay asleep in the Infinite Bosom of Duration
3.
Universal Mind was not, for there were no Ah-hi to contain it.
4.
The Seven Ways to Bliss were not The Great Causes of Misery were not, for
there
was no one to produce and get ensnared by them..
5.
Darkness alone filled the Boundless All, for Father, Mother, and Son were
once
more one, and the Son had not yet awakened for the new Wheel and his
Pilgrimage
thereon.
6.
The Seven Sublime Lords and the Seven Truths had ceased to be, and the
Universe,
the Son of Necessity, was immersed in Paranishpanna, to be outbreathed by that
which is, and yet is not. Naught was.
7.
The Causes of Existence had been done away with; the Visible that was, and
the
Invisible that is, rested in Eternal Non-Being - the One Being.
8.
Alone, the One Form of Existence stretched boundless, infinite, causeless, in
Dreamless
Sleep; and Life pulsated unconscious in Universal Space, throughout
that
All-Presence, which is sensed by the Opened Eye of Dangma
9.
But where was Dangma when the Alaya of the Universe was in Paramārtha , and the
Great Wheel was Anupadaka?
STANZA
-2-
1.
. . . Where were the Builders, the Luminous Sons of Manvantaric Dawn? ... In
the
Unknown Darkness in their Ah-hi Paranishpanna. The Producers of Form from
No-Form -- the Root of the World -- the Devamātri and Svabhāvat, rested in the
Bliss of Non-Being.
2.
. . . Where was Silence? Where the ears to sense it? No,there was neither
Silence
nor Sound; naught save Ceaseless Eternal Breath, which knows itself not.
3.
The Hour had not yet struck; the Ray had not yet flashed into the Germ; the
Mātripadma
had not yet swollen.
4.
Her Heart had not yet opened for the One Ray to enter,thence to fall, as
Three
into Four,into the Lap of Maya.
5.
The Seven were not yet born from the Web of Light. Darkness alone was
Father-Mother,
Svabhāvat; and Svabhāvat was in Darkness.
6.
These Two are the Germ, and the Germ is One. The Universe was still concealed
in
the Divine Thought and the Divine Bosom. .
STANZA
-3-
1.
. . . The last Vibration of the Seventh Eternity thrills through Infinitude.
The
Mother swells, expanding from within without, like the Bud of the Lotus.
2.
The Vibration sweeps along,touching with its swift Wing the whole Universe
and
the Germ that dwelleth in Darkness, the Darkness that breathes over the
slumbering
Waters of Life..
3.
Darkness radiates Light, and Light drops one solitary Ray into the Waters,
into
the Mother-Deep. The Ray shoots through the Virgin Egg, the Ray causes the
Eternal Egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal Germ, which condenses into the
World-Egg.
4.
The Three fall into the Four. The Radiant Essence becomes Seven inside, Seven
outside. The Luminous Egg, which in itself is Three, curdles and spreads in
milk-white Curds throughout the Depths of Mother, the root that grows in the
Depths
of the
5.
The Root remains, the Light remains, the Curds remain and Still Oeaohoo is
One.
6.
The Root of Life was in every Drop of the
Ocean
was Radiant Light, which was Fire, and Heat, and Motion. Darkness vanished and
was no more; it disappeared in its own Essence, the Body of Fire and Water, of
Father and Mother.
7.
Behold, O Lanoo, the Radiant Child of the Two, the unparalleled refulgent
Glory-
Bright Space, Son of Dark Space, who emerges from the Depths of the great Dark
Waters. It is Oeaohoo, the Younger, the ***.He shine forth as the Sun,he is the
Blazing Divine Dragon of Wisdom; the Eka is Chatur, and Chatur, takes to itself
Tri, and the Union produces the Sapta, in whom are the Seven, which become the
Tridasha, the Hosts and the Multitudes. Behold him lifting the Veil, and
unfurling it from East to West. He shuts out the Above, and leaves the Below to
be seen as the Great Illusion. He marks the places for the Shining Ones, and
turns the Upper into a shoreless
8.
Where was the Germ, and where was now Darkness? Where is the Spirit of the
Flame that burns in thy Lamp, O Lanoo? The Germ is That, and That is Light, the
White Brilliant Son of the Dark Hidden Father.
9.
Light is Cold Flame, and Flame is Fire, and Fire produces Heat, which yields
Water
- The Water of Life in the Great Mother.
10.
Father-Mother spin a Web, whose upper end is fastened to Spirit, the Light
of
the One Darkness, and the lower one to its shadowy end, Matter; and this Web is
the Universe, spun out of the Two Substances made in One, which is Svabhāvat.
11.
It expands when the Breath of Fire is upon it; it contracts when the Breath
of
the Mother touches it. Then the Sons dissociate and scatter, to return into
their
Mother's Bosom, at the end of the Great Day, and re-become one with her.
When
it is cooling, it becomes radiant. Its Sons expand and contract through
their
own Selves and Hearts; they embrace Infinitude.
12.
Then Svabhāvat send Fohat to harden the Atoms. Each is a part of the Web.
Reflecting
the "Self-Existent Lord", like a Mirror, each becomes in turn a World
STANZA
-4-
1.
. . . Listen, ye Sons of the Earth, to your Instructors - the Sons of the
Fire.
Learn,there is neither first nor last; for all is One Number,issued from
No-Number.
2.
Learn what we, who descend from the Primordial Seven, we, who are born from the
Primordial Flame, have learnt from our Fathers...
3.
From the Effulgency of Light - the Ray of the Ever-Darkness - sprang in Space
the reawakened Energies; the One from the Egg, the Six, and the Five. Then the
Three, the One, the Four, the One, the Five- the Twice Seven,the Sum Total. And
these are the Essences, the Flames, the Elements, the Builders, the Numbers,
the Arūpa , the Rūpa , and the Force or Divine Man,the Sum Total. And from the
Divine Man emanated the Forms, the
4.
This was the Army of the Voice, the Divine Mother of the Seven. The
Third,the
Fourth,the Fifth, the Sixth, and the Seventh of the Seven. These are
called
Spheres, Triangles, Cubes,Lines and Modellers; for thus stands the
Eternal
Nidāna - the Oi-Ha-Hou.
5.
The Oi-Ha-Hou, which is Darkness, the Boundless, or the No-Number, Adi-Nidāna
Svabhāvat,the
O;
-1-The Adi-Sanat, the Number, for he is One.
-2-The Voice of the Word, Svabhāvat, the
Numbers,for he is One and Nine.
-3- The "Formless Square".
And
these Three, enclosed within the O, are the Sacred Four; and the Ten are the
Arūpa Universe. Then come the Sons, the Seven Fighters, the One, the Eight left
out, and his Breath which is the Light-Maker
6.
....Then the Second Seven, who are the Lipika, produced by the Three. The
Rejected
Son is One. The "Son-Suns" are countless.
STANZA
-5-
1.
The Primordial Seven ,the First Seven Breaths of the Dragon of Wisdom,
produce
in their turn from their Holy Circumgyrating Breaths the Fiery
Whirlwind.
2.
They make of him the Messenger of their Will. The Dzyu becomes Fohat: the
swift
Son of the Divine Sons, whose Sons are the Lipika, runs circular errands.
Fohat
is the Steed, and the Thought is the Rider. He passes like lightning
through
the fiery clouds; takes Three, and Five, and Seven Strides through the
Seven
Regions above,and Seven below. He lifts his Voice, and calls the
innumerable
3.
He is their guiding spirit and leader. When he commences work,he separates
the
dwellings,
and forms therewith the Germs of Wheels. He places them in the Six
Directions
of Space, and one in the Middle- the Central Wheel.
4.
Fohat traces spiral lines to unite the Sixth to the Seventh - the Crown. An
Army
of the Sons of Light stands at each angle; the Lipika, in the Middle Wheel.
They
say: "This is good". The first Divine World is ready; the First, the
Second.
Then the "Divine Arūpa " reflects itself in Chhāyā Loka, the first
Garment
of Anupādaka.
5.
Fohat takes five strides, and builds a winged wheel at each corner of the
square
for the Four Holy Ones.... and their Armies..
6.
The Lipika circumscribe the Triangle,the First One , the Cube, the Second One ,
and the Pentacle within the Egg. It is the Ring called "Pass not" for
those
who
descend and ascend; who during the Kalpa are progressing towards the Great Day
"Be With Us"..... Thus were formed the Arūpa and the Rūpa : from One
Light, Seven Lights; from each of the Seven, seven times Seven Lights. The
Wheels watch the Ring...
STANZA
-6-
1.
By the power of the Mother of Mercy and Knowledge, Kwan-Yin - the Triple of
Kwan - Shai-Yin, residing in Kwan -Yin -Tien -- Fohat, the Breath of their
Progeny,the
Son of the Sons, having called forth,from the Lower Abyss, the
Illusive
Form of Sien --Tchan and the Seven Elements.
2.
The Swift and the Radiant One produces the seven Laya Centres, against which
none will prevail to the Great Day "Be With Us"; and seats the
Universe on these Eternal Foundations, surrounding Sien-Tchan with the
Elementary Germs.
3.
Of the Seven - first One manifested, Six concealed; Two manifested, Five
concealed;
Three manifested, Four concealed; Four produced, Three hidden; Four and One
Tsan revealed, Two and One-Half concealed; Six to be manifested, One laid
aside. Lastly, Seven Small Wheels revolving; one giving birth to the other.
4.
He builds them in the likeness of older Wheels, placing them on the
Imperishable
Centres.How does Fohat build them? He collects the Fiery Dust. He makes Balls
of Fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life thereinto , then sets
them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes
them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools
them. Thus acts Fohat from one Twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities.
5.
At the Fourth, the Sons are told to create their Images, One-Third refuses.
Two
obey.The Curse is pronounced. They will be born in the Fourth, suffer and cause
suffering. This is the First War.
6.
The Older Wheels rotated downward and upward .... The Mother's Spawn filled the
whole. There were Battles fought between the Creators and the Destroyers, and
Battles fought for Space; the Seed appearing and reappearing continuously.
7.
Make thy calculations, O Lanoo, if thou wouldst learn the correct age of thy
Small
Wheel. Its Fourth Spoke is our Mother. Reach the Fourth Fruit of the
Fourth
Path of Knowledge that leads to Nirvana, and thou shalt comprehend, for
thou
shalt see....... .
STANZA
-7-
1.
Behold the beginning of sentient formless Life.
First,
the Divine, the One from the Mother Spirit; then, the Spiritual; the
Three
from the One, the Four from the One, and the Five, from which the Three,
the
Five and the Seven. These are the Threefold and the Fourfold downward; the
Mind-born Sons of the First Lord, the Shining Seven. It is they who are thou,
I, he, O Lanoo; they who watch over thee and thy mother, Bhūmi
2.
The One Ray multiplies the smaller Rays. Life precedes Form, and Life
survives,the
last atom. Through the countless Rays the Life-Ray, the One, like a
Thread
through many Beads.
3.
When the One becomes Two, the Threefold appears, and the Three are One; and it
is our Thread, O Lanoo, the Heart of the Man-Plant called Saptaparna
4.
It is the Root that never dies; the Three-tongued Flame of the Four Wicks.
The
Wicks are the Sparks, that draw from the Three-tongued Flame shot out by the
Seven - their Flame - the Beams and Sparks of one Moon reflected in the running
Waves of all the Rivers of Earth.
5.
The Spark hangs from the Flame by the finest thread of Fohat. It journeys
through
the Seven Worlds of Maya. It stops in the First, and is a Metal and a
Stone;
it passes into the Second, and behold - a Plant; the Plant whirls through
seven
changes and becomes a Sacred Animal. From the combined attributes of
these,
Manu, the Thinker, is formed. Who forms him? The Seven Lives and the One Life.
Who completes him? The Fivefold Lha. And who perfects the last Body? Fish, Sin,
and Soma.....
6.
From the First-born the Thread between the Silent Watcher and his Shadow
becomes
more strong and radiant with every Change. The morning Sunlight has
changed
into noonday glory....
7.
"This thy present Wheel", said the Flame to the Spark. "Thou art
myself, my
image
and my shadow. I have clothed myself in thee, and thou art my Vāhan to the Day
"Be With Us ", when thou shalt re-become myself and others, thyself
and me". Then the Builders, having donned their first Clothing, descent on
radiant Earth and reign over men -- who are themselves.... . .
PART
-2-
ANTHROPOGENESIS
(From
the Second Volume of the "Secret Doctrine")
ONLY
forty-nine Shlokas out of several hundred are here given, and not every
verse
is translated verbatim, a periphrasis being sometimes used for the sake of
clearness
and intelligibility, where a literal translation would be quite
unintelligible.
The
Stanzas, with the Commentaries thereon, in this volume are drawn from the
same
Archaic Records as the Stanzas on Cosmogony in Volume -1-. As far as
possible
a verbatim translation is given; but some of the Stanzas are too
obscure
to be understood without explanation, and therefore, as in Volume -1-,
they
are first given in full as they stand, and then, when taken verse by verse
with
their Commentaries, an attempt is made to make them clearer,by words added in
footnotes,in anticipation of the fuller explanation of the Commentary.
As
regards the Evolution of mankind, the Secret Doctrine postulates three new
propositions,
which stand in direct antagonism to Modern Science as well as to
current
religious dogmas. It teaches: (a) the simultaneous evolution of seven
human
Groups on seven different portions of our globe; (b) the birth of the
astral,
before the physical body, the former being a model for the latter; and
(c)
that man, in this Round, preceded every mammalian - the anthropoids included in
the animal kingdom - Secret Doctrine, Vol.-2-
STANZA
-1-
1.
The Lha which turns the Fourth is Servant to the Lha (s) of the Seven, they
who
revolve, driving their Chariots around their Lord, the One Eye of our World.
His Breath gave Life to the Seven. It gave Life to the First.
2.
Said the Earth: "Lord of the Shining Face, my House is empty .... Send thy
Sons
to people this Wheel. Thou has sent thy Seven Sons to the Lord of Wisdom. Seven
times doth he see thee nearer to himself , seven times more doth he feel thee.
Thou hast forbidden thy Servants , the small Rings, to catch thy Light and
Heat, thy great Bounty to intercept on its passage. Send now thy Servant the
same".
3.
Said the Lord of the Shining Face: "I Shall send thee a Fire when thy work
is
commenced.
Raise thy voice to other Lokas; apply to thy Father, the Lord of the Lotus, for
his Sons ... Thy people shall be under the rule of the Fathers. Thy
Men
shall be mortals. The Men of the Lord of Wisdom, not the Sons of Soma,are
immortal. Cease thy complaints. Thy Seven Skins are yet on thee... Thou art not
ready. Thy Men are not ready".
4.
After great throes she cast off her old Three and put on her new Seven Skins,
and
stood in her first one.
STANZA
-2-
5.
The Wheel whirled for thirty crores more. It constructed Rūpas ; soft Stones
that
hardened, hard Plants that softened. Visible from invisible Insects and
small
Lives. She shook them off her back whenever they overran the Mother ....
After
thirty crores, she turned round. She lay on her back; on her side .... She
would
call no Sons of Heaven,she would ask no Sons of Wisdom. She created from her
own Bosom. She evolved Water-Men, terrible and bad.
6.
The Water-Men, terrible and bad, she herself created from the remains of
others.
From the dross and slime of her First, Second, and Third,she formed
them.
The Dhyāni came and looked ... The Dhyāni from the bright Father-Mother, from
the White Regions they came, from the Abodes of the Immortal Mortals.
7.
Displeased they were. "Our Flesh is not there. No fit Rūpas for our
Brothers
of
the Fifth. No dwellings for the Lives. Pure Waters, not turbid, they must
drink.
Let us dry them".
8.
The Flames came. The Fires with the
Day-Fires.
They dried out the turbid dark Waters. With their heat they quenched
them.
The Lhas of the High, the Lha-mayin of Below, came. They slew the Forms which
were two - and four-faced. They fought the Goat-Men, and the Dog-Headed Men,
and the Men with fishes' bodies.
9.
Mother-Water, the
Moon,which
had lifted her,which had given her birth.
10.
When they were destroyed, Mother Earth remained bare. She asked to be dried.
STANZA
-3-
11-
The Lord of the Lords came. From her Body he separated the Waters, and that was
Heaven above, the First Heaven.
12-
The great Chohans called the Lords of the Moon, of the Airy Bodies: "Bring
forth
Men, Men of your nature. Give them their Forms within. She will build
Coverings
without. Males-Females will they be. Lords of the Flame also...."
13-
They went each on his allotted Land; Seven of them, each on his
Lords
of the Flame remain behind. They would not go, they would not create.
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14-
The Seven Hosts, the Will-Born Lords, propelled by the Spirit of
Life-giving,
separate Men from themselves,each on his own Zone.
15-
Seven times seven Shadows of Future Men were born, each of his own Color and
Kind. Each inferior to his Father. The Fathers, the Boneless, could give no
Life to Beings with Bones. Their progeny were Bhuta, with neither Form nor
Mind. Therefore they are called the Chhāyā Race.
16-
How are the Manushya born? The Manus with minds, how are they made? The Fathers
called to their help their own Fire, which is the Fire that burns in
Earth.
The Spirit of the Earth called to his help the Solar Fire. These Three
produced
in their joint efforts, a good Rūpa It could stand,walk, run, recline,
or
fly. Yet it was still but a Chhāyā, a Shadow with no Sense...
17-
The Breath needed a Form; the Fathers gave it. The Breath needed a Gross
Body;
the Earth molded it. The Breath needed the Spirit of Life; the Solar Lhas
breathed
it into its Form. The Breath needed a Mirror of its Body: "We give it
our
own!" - said the Dhyanis. The Breath needed a Vehicle of Desires: "It
has
it!"-
said the Drainer of Waters. But Breath needs a mind to embrace the
Universe:
"We cannot give that!"- said the Fathers. "I never had it!"
said the
Spirit
of the Earth. "The Form would be consumed were I to give it mine!"
-said
the
Great Fire .... Man remained an empty senseless Bhūta .... Thus have the
Boneless
given Life to those who became Men with Bones in the Third.
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18-
The First were the Sons of Yoga. Their sons, the children of the Yellow
Father
and the White Mother.
19-
The Second Race was the product by budding and expansion,the Asexual from the
Sexless (*). Thus was , O Lanoo, the Second Race produced.
20-
Their Fathers were the Self-born. The Self-born, the Chhāyā from the
brilliant
bodies of the Lords, the Fathers, the Sons of Twilight.
21-
When the Race became old, the old Waters mixed with the fresher Waters. When
its Drop became turbid,they vanished and disappeared in the new Stream,in the
hot Stream of Life. The Outer of the First became the Inner of the Second. The
Old wing became the new Shadow, and the Shadow of the Wing.
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22-
Then the Second evolved the Egg-born, the Third. The Sweat grew, its Drops
grew, and the Drops became hard and round. The Sun warmed it; the Moon cooled
and shaped it; the Wind fed it until its ripeness. The White Swan from the
Starry Vault overshadowed the big Drop. The Egg of the Future Race,the Man-swan
of the later Third. First male-female, then man and woman.
23-
The Self-born were the Chhāyās, the Shadows from the bodies of the Sons of
Twilight. Neither water nor fire could destroy them. Their sons were.
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24-
The Sons of Wisdom, the Sons of Night, ready for rebirth, came down. They saw
the vile forms of the First Third. "We can choose", said the Lords;
"we have wisdom". some entered the Chhāyās. Some projected a Spark.
Some deferred till the Fourth. From their own Rūpa they filled the Kāma. Those
who entered became Arhats. Those who received but a Spark, remained destitute
of knowledge; the Spark burned low. The Third remained mindless. Their Jivas
were not ready. These were set apart among the Seven. They became
narrow-headed. The Third were ready. "In these shall we dwell", said
the Lords of the Flame and of the Dark Wisdom.
25-
How did the Manas, 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.
26-
When the Sweat-born produced the Egg-born, the twofold, the mighty,the
powerful
with bones, the Lords of Wisdom said: "Now shall we create".
27-
The Third Race became the Vāhan of the Lords of Wisdom. It created Sons of Will
and Yoga, by Kriyashakti it created them, the Holy Fathers, Ancestors of
the
Arhats......
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28-
From the drops of sweat, from the residue of the substance, matter from dead
bodies of men and animals of the Wheel before, and from cast-off dust, the
first animals were produced.
29-
Animals with bones,dragons of the deep, and flying Sarpas were added to the
creeping things. They that creep on the ground got wings. They of the long
necks in the water became the progenitors of the fowls of the air.
30-
During the Third, the boneless animals grew and changed; they became animals
with bones, their Chhāyās became solid.
31-
The animals separated the first. They began to breed. The twofold man
separated
also. He said: "Let us as they; let us unite and make creatures".
They
did
....
32-
And those which had Spark took huge she-animals unto them. They begat upon them
dumb races. Dumb they were themselves. But their tongue untied. The tongues of
their progeny remained still. Monsters they bred. A race of crooked red-hair
covered monsters going on all fours. A dumb race to keep the shame untold.
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33-
Seeing which, the Lhas who had not built men, wept, saying:
34."The
Amānasa have defiled our future abodes. This is Karma. Let us dwell in
the
others. Let us teach them better,lest worse should happen". They did .....
35-Then
all men became endowed with Manas. They saw the sin of the mindless.
36-
The Fourth Race developed speech.
37-
The one became two; also all the living and creeping things that were still
one,
giant fish, birds and serpents with shell-heads.
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38-
Thus, two by two,on the seven Zones, the Third Race gave birth to the
Fourth;
the Sura became A-sura.
39-
The First, one every Zone, was moon-colored; the Second yellow like gold;
the
Third Red; the Fourth brown, which became black with sin. The first seven
human
shoots were all of one complexion. The next seven began mixing.
40-
Then the Third and Fourth became tall with pride. "We are the kings; we
are
the
gods".
41-
They took wives fair to look upon. Wives from the mindless, the
narrow-headed.
They bred monsters, wicked demons, male and female, also
Khado,with
little minds.
42-
They built temples for the human body. Male and female they worshipped. Then
the Third Eye acted no longer.
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43-
They build huge cities. Of rare earths and metals they built. Out of the
fires
vomited, out of the white stone of the mountains and of the black stone,
they
cut their own images, in their size and likeness, and worshipped them.
44-
They built great images nine yatis high,the size of their bodies. Inner
fires
had destroyed the land of their fathers. The water threatened the Fourth.
45-
The first great waters came. They swallowed the seven great islands.
46-
All holy saved, the unholy destroyed. With them most of the huge animals,
produced
from the seat of the earth.
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47-
Few remained. Some yellow, some brown and black, and some red remained. The
moon-colored were gone for ever.
48-
The Fifth produced from the holy stock remained; it was ruled over by the
first
Divine-Kings.
49-
..... The Serpents who re-descended, who made peace with the Fifth,who
taught
and instructed it.......
*-
The idea and the spirit of the sentence only is here given, as a verbal
translation
would convey very little to the reader.
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