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William Quan Judge
CHAPTER
3
The
Earth Chain
Coming now to our Earth the view put forward by
Theosophy regarding its genesis, its evolution and the evolution of the Human,
Animal and other Monads, is quite different from modern ideas, and in some
things contrary to accepted theories.
But the theories of today are not stable. They change
with each century, while the Theosophical one never alters because, in the
opinion of those Elder Brothers who have caused its repromulgation and pointed
to its confirmation in
ancient books, it is but a statement of facts in
nature. The modern theory is, on the contrary, always speculative, changeable,
and continually altered.
Following the general plan outlined in preceding
pages, the Earth is sevenfold. It is an entity and not a mere lump of gross
matter. And being thus an entity of a septenary nature there must be six other
globes which roll with it in space.
This company of seven globes has been called the
"Earth Chain," the "Planetary Chain." In Esoteric Buddhism
this is clearly stated, but there a rather hard and fast materialistic view of
it is given and the reader led to believe that the doctrine speaks of seven
distinct globes, all separated from though connected with each other. One is
forced to conclude that the author meant to say that the globe Earth is as
distinct from the other six as Venus is from Mars.
This is not the doctrine. The earth is one of seven
globes, in respect to man's consciousness only, because when he functions on
one of the seven he perceives it as a distinct globe and does not see the other
six. This is in perfect correspondence with man himself who has six other
constituents of which only the gross body is visible to him because he is now
functioning on the Earth -- or the fourth globe -- and his body represents the
Earth. The whole seven "globes" constitute one single mass or great
globe and they all interpenetrate each other.
But we have to say "globe," because the
ultimate shape is globular or spherical. If one relies too closely on the
explanation made by Mr. Sinnett it might be supposed that the globes did not
interpenetrate each other but were connected by currents or lines of magnetic
force. And if too close attention is paid to the diagrams used in the Secret
Doctrine to illustrate the scheme,
without paying due regard to the explanations and
cautions given by H. P. Blavatsky, the same error may be made. But both she and
her Adept teachers say, that the seven globes of our chain are in
"coadunition with each other but not in consubstantiality." (Secret
Doctrine, Vol. I, p. 166, first edition.)
This is further enforced by cautions not to rely on
statistics or plane surface diagrams, but to look at the metaphysical and
spiritual aspect of the theory as stated in English. Thus from the very source
of Mr. Sinnett's book we have the statement, that these globes are united in
one mass though differing from each
other in substance, and that this difference of substance
is due to change of center of consciousness.
The Earth Chain of seven globes as thus defined is the
direct reincarnation of a former chain of seven globes, and that former family
of seven was the moon chain, the moon itself being the visible representative
of the fourth globe of the old chain. When that former vast entity composed of
the Moon and six others, all united in one mass, reached its limit of life it
died just as any being dies. Each one of the seven sent its energies into space
and gave similar life or vibration to cosmic dust -- matter, -- and the total
cohesive force of the whole kept the seven energies together.
This resulted in the evolving of the present Earth
Chain of seven centers of energy or evolution combined in one mass. As the Moon
was the fourth of the old series it is on the same plane of
perception as the Earth, and as we are now confined in
our consciousness largely to Earth we are able only to see one of the old seven
-- to wit: our Moon.
When we are functioning on any of the other seven we
will perceive in our sky the corresponding old corpse which will then be a
Moon, and we will not see the present Moon. Venus, Mars, Mercury and other
visible planets are all fourth-plane globes of distinct planetary masses and
for that reason are visible
to us, their companion six centers of energy and
consciousness being invisible. All diagrams on plane surfaces will only becloud
the theory because a diagram necessitates linear divisions.
The stream or mass of Egos which evolves on the seven
globes of our chain is limited in number, yet the actual quantity is enormous.
For though the universe is limitless and infinite, yet in any particular
portion of Cosmos in which manifestation and evolution have begun there is a
limit to the extent of
manifestation and to the number of Egos engaged
therein. And the whole number of Monads now going through evolution on our
Earth Chain came over from the old seven planets or globes which I have
described. Esoteric Buddhism calls this mass of Egos a "life wave,"
meaning the stream of Monads. It reached this planetary mass, represented to
our consciousness by the central point our Earth, and began on Globe A or No.
I, coming like an army or river. The first portion began on Globe A and went
through a long evolution there in bodies suited to such a state of matter, and
then passed on to B, and so on through the whole seven greater states of
consciousness which have been called globes.
When the first portion left A others streamed in and
pursued the same course, the whole army proceeding with regularity round the
septenary route.
This journey went on for four circlings round the
whole, and then the whole stream or army of Egos from the old Moon Chain had
arrived, and being complete, no more entered after the middle of the Fourth
Round. The same circling process of these differently arrived classes goes on
for seven complete Rounds of the whole seven planetary centers of
consciousness, and when the seven are ended as much perfection as is possible in
the immense period occupied will have been attained, and then this chain or
mass of "globes" will die in its turn to give birth to still another
series.
Each one of the globes is used by evolutionary law for
the development of seven races, and of senses, faculties and powers appropriate
to that state of matter: the experience of the whole seven globes being needed
to make a perfect development. Hence we have the Rounds and Races. The Round is
a circling of the seven centers of planetary consciousness; the Race the racial
development on one of those seven.
There are seven races for each globe, but the total of
forty-nine races only makes up seven great races, the special septennate of
races on each globe or planetary center composing in reality one race of seven
constituents or special peculiarities of function and power.
And as no complete race could be evolved in a moment
on any globe, the slow, orderly processes of nature, which allow no jumps, must
proceed by appropriate means. Hence sub-races have to be evolved one after the
other before the perfect root race is formed, and then the root race sends off
its offshoots while it is declining and preparing for the advent of the next
great race.
As illustrating this, it is distinctly taught that on
the Americas is to be evolved the new -- sixth -- race; and here all the races
of the earth are now engaged in a great amalgamation from which will result a
very highly developed sub-race, after which others will be evolved by similar
processes until the new one is completed.
Between the end of any great race and the beginning of
another there is a period of rest, so far as the globe is concerned, for then
the stream of human Egos leaves it for another one of the chain in order to go
on with further evolution of powers and faculties there. But when the last, the
seventh, race has appeared and fully perfected itself, a great dissolution
comes on, similar to that which I briefly described as preceding the birth of
the earth's chain, and then the world disappears as a tangible thing, and so
far as the human ear is concerned there is silence. This, it is said, is the
root of the belief so general that the world will come to an end, that there
will be a judgment-day, or that there have been universal floods or fires.
Taking up evolution on the Earth, it is stated that
the stream of Monads begins first to work up the mass of matter in what are
called elemental conditions when all is gaseous or fiery. For the ancient and
true theory is that no evolution is possible without the Monad as vivifying
agent. In this first stage there is no
animal or vegetable. Next comes the mineral when the
whole mass hardens, the Monads being all imprisoned within. Then the first Monads
emerge into vegetable forms which they construct themselves, and no animals yet
appear.
Next the first class of Monads emerges from the
vegetable and produces the animal, then the human astral and shadowy model, and
we have minerals, vegetables, animals and future men, for the second and later
classes are still evolving in the lower kingdoms. When the middle of the Fourth
Round is reached no more Monads emerge into the human stage and will not until
a new planetary mass, reincarnated from ours, is made. This is the whole
process roughly given, but with many details left out, for in one of the rounds
man appears before the animals. But this detail need lead to no confusion.
And to state it in another way. The plan comes first
in the universal mind, after which the astral model or basis is made, and when
that astral model is completed, the whole process is gone over so as to
condense the matter, up to the middle of the Fourth Round. Subsequent to that,
which is our future, the
whole mass is spiritualized with full consciousness
and the entire body of globes raised up to a higher plane of development. In
the process of condensing above referred to there is an alteration in respect
to the time of the appearance of man on the planet. But as to these details the
teachers have only said, "that at the Second Round the plan varies, but
the variation will not be
given to this generation." Hence it is impossible
for me to give it.
But there is no vagueness on the point that seven
great races have to evolve here on this planet, and that the entire collection
of races has to go seven times round the whole series of seven globes.
Human beings did not appear here in two sexes first.
The first were of no sex, then they altered into hermaphrodite, and lastly
separated into male and female. And this separation into male and female for
human beings was over 18,000,000 years ago. For that reason is it said, in
these ancient schools, that our humanity is 18,000,000 years old and a little
over.
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Elementary Theosophy Who is the Man? Body and Soul
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Nature is infinite in space and time --
boundless and eternal, unfathomable and ineffable. The all-pervading essence of
infinite nature can be called space, consciousness, life, substance, force,
energy, divinity -- all of which are fundamentally one.
2) The finite and the infinite
Nature is a unity in diversity, one in
essence, manifold in form. The infinite whole is composed of an infinite number
of finite wholes -- the relatively stable and autonomous things (natural
systems or artefacts) that we observe around us. Every natural system is not only
a conscious, living, substantial entity, but is consciousness-life-substance,
of a particular range of density and form. Infinite nature is an abstraction,
not an entity; it therefore does not act or change and has no attributes. The
finite, concrete systems of which it is composed, on the other hand, move and
change, act and interact, and possess attributes. They are composite,
inhomogeneous, and ultimately transient.
3) Vibration/worlds within worlds
The one essence manifests not only in
infinitely varied forms, and on infinitely varied scales, but also in
infinitely varying degrees of spirituality and substantiality, comprising an
infinite spectrum of vibration or density. There is therefore an endless series
of interpenetrating, interacting worlds within worlds, systems within systems.
The energy-substances of higher planes or
subplanes (a plane being a particular range of vibration) are relatively more
homogeneous and less differentiated than those of lower planes or subplanes.
Just as boundless space is comprised of
endless finite units of space, so eternal duration is comprised of endless
finite units of time. Space is the infinite totality of worlds within worlds,
but appears predominantly empty because only a tiny fraction of the
energy-substances composing it are perceptible and tangible to an entity at any
particular moment. Time is a concept we use to quantify the rate at which
events occur; it is a function of
change and motion, and presupposes a
succession of cause and effect. Every entity is extended in space and changes
'in time'.
All change (of position, substance, or
form) is the result of causes; there is no such thing as absolute chance.
Nothing can happen for no reason at all for nothing exists in isolation;
everything is part of an intricate web of causal interconnections and
interactions. The keynote of nature is harmony: every action is automatically
followed by an equal and opposite reaction, which sooner or later rebounds upon
the originator of the initial act. Thus, all our thoughts and deeds will
eventually bring us 'fortune' or 'misfortune' according to the degree to which
they were harmonious or disharmonious. In the long term, perfect justice
prevails in nature.
Because nature is fundamentally one, and
the same basic habits and structural, geometric, and evolutionary principles
apply throughout, there are correspondences between microcosm and macrocosm.
The principle of analogy -- as above, so below -- is a vital tool in our
efforts to understand reality.
All finite systems and their attributes are
relative. For any entity, energy-substances vibrating within the same range of
frequencies as its outer body are 'physical' matter, and finer grades of
substance are what we call energy, force, thought, desire, mind, spirit,
consciousness, but these are just as material to entities on the corresponding
planes as our physical world is to us. Distance and time units are also
relative: an atom is a solar system on its own scale, reembodying perhaps
millions of times in what for us is one second, and our whole galaxy may be a
molecule in some supercosmic entity, for which a million of our years is just a
second. The range of scale is infinite: matter-consciousness is both infinitely
divisible and infinitely aggregative.
All natural systems consist of smaller
systems and form part of larger systems. Hierarchies extend both 'horizontally'
(on the same plane) and 'vertically' or inwardly (to higher and lower planes).
On the horizontal level, subatomic particles form atoms, which combine into
molecules, which arrange themselves into cells, which form tissues and organs,
which form part of organisms, which form part of ecosystems, which form part of
planets, solar systems, galaxies, etc. The constitution of worlds and of the
organisms that inhabit them form 'vertical' hierarchies, and can be divided
into several interpenetrating layers or elements, from physical-astral to
psychomental to spiritual-divine, each of which can be further divided.
The human constitution can be divided up in
several different ways: e.g. into a trinity of body, soul, and spirit; or into
7 'principles' -- a lower quaternary consisting of physical body, astral
model-body, life-energy, and lower thoughts and desires, and an upper triad
consisting of higher mind (reincarnating ego), spiritual intuition, and inner
god. A planet or star can be regarded as a 'chain' of 12 globes, existing on 7
planes, each globe comprising several subplanes.
The highest part of every multilevelled
organism or hierarchy is its spiritual summit or 'absolute', meaning a
collective entity or 'deity' which is relatively perfected in relation to the
hierarchy in question. But the most 'spiritual' pole of one hierarchy is the
most 'material' pole of the next, superior hierarchy, just as the lowest pole
of one hierarchy is the highest pole of the one below.
Each level of a hierarchical system
exercises a formative and organizing influence on the lower levels (through the
patterns and prototypes stored up from past cycles of activity), while the
lower levels in turn react upon the higher. A system is therefore formed and
organized mainly from within outwards, from the inner levels of its
constitution, which are relatively more enduring and developed than the outer
levels. This inner guidance is sometimes active and selfconscious, as in our
acts of free will (constrained, however, by karmic tendencies from the past),
and sometimes it is automatic and passive, giving rise to our own automatic
bodily functions and habitual and instinctual behavior, and to the orderly,
lawlike operations of nature in general. The 'laws' of nature are therefore the
habits of the various grades of conscious entities that compose reality,
ranging from higher intelligences
(collectively forming the universal mind) to elemental nature-forces.
10) Consciousness and its vehicles
The core of every entity -- whether atom,
human, planet, or star -- is a monad, a unit of consciousness-life-substance,
which acts through a series of more material vehicles or bodies. The monad or
self in which the consciousness of a particular organism is focused is animated
by higher monads and expresses itself through a series of lesser monads, each
of which is the nucleus of one of the lower vehicles of the entity in question.
The following monads can be distinguished: the divine or galactic monad, the
spiritual or solar monad, the higher human or planetary-chain monad, the lower
human or globe monad, and the animal, vital-astral, and physical monads. At our
present stage of evolution, we are essentially the lower human monad, and our
task is to raise our consciousness from the animal-human to the spiritual-human
level of it.
Evolution means the unfolding, the bringing
into active manifestation, of latent powers and faculties 'involved' in a
previous cycle of evolution. It is the building of ever fitter vehicles for the
expression of the mental and spiritual powers of the monad. The more
sophisticated the lower vehicles of an entity, the greater their ability to express
the powers locked up in the higher levels of its constitution. Thus all things
are alive and conscious, but the degree of manifest life and consciousness is
extremely varied.
Evolution results from the interplay of
inner impulses and environmental stimuli. Ever building on and modifying the
patterns of the past, nature is infinitely creative.
12) Cyclic evolution/re-embodiment
Cyclic evolution is a fundamental habit of
nature. A period of evolutionary activity is followed by a period of rest. All
natural systems evolve through re-embodiment. Entities are born from a seed or
nucleus remaining from the previous evolutionary cycle of the monad, develop to
maturity, grow old, and pass away, only to re-embody in a new form after a
period of rest. Each new embodiment is the product of past karma and present
choices.
Nothing comes from nothing: matter and
energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but only transformed. Everything
evolves from preexisting material. The growth of the body of an organism is
initiated on inner planes, and involves the transformation of higher
energy-substances into lower, more material ones, together with the attraction
of matter from the environment.
When an organism has exhausted the store of
vital energy with which it is born, the coordinating force of the indwelling
monad is withdrawn, and the organism 'dies', i.e. falls apart as a unit, and
its constituent components go their separate ways. The lower vehicles decompose
on their respective subplanes, while, in the case of humans, the reincarnating
ego enters a dreamlike state of rest and assimilates the experiences of the
previous incarnation. When the time comes for the next embodiment, the
reincarnating ego clothes itself in many of the same atoms of different grades
that it had used previously, bearing the appropriate karmic impress. The same
basic processes of birth, death,
and rebirth apply to all entities, from atoms to humans to stars.
14) Evolution and involution of worlds
Worlds or spheres, such as planets and
stars, are composed of, and provide the field for the evolution of, 10 kingdoms
-- 3 elemental kingdoms, mineral, plant, animal, and human kingdoms, and 3
spiritual kingdoms. The impulse for a new manifestation of a world issues from
its spiritual summit or hierarch, from which emanate a series of steadily
denser globes or planes; the One expands into the many. During the first half
of the evolutionary cycle (the arc of descent) the energy-substances of each
plane materialize or condense, while during the second half (the arc of ascent)
the trend is towards dematerialization or etherealization, as globes and
entities are reabsorbed into the spiritual hierarch for a period of nirvanic
rest. The descending arc is characterized by the evolution of matter and
involution of spirit, while the ascending arc is characterized by the evolution
of spirit and involution of matter.
In each grand cycle of evolution,
comprising many planetary embodiments, a monad begins as an unselfconsciousness
god-spark, embodies in every kingdom of nature for the purpose of gaining
experience and unfolding its inherent faculties, and ends the cycle as a self
conscious god. Elementals ('baby monads') have no free choice, but
automatically act in harmony with one another and the rest of nature. In each
successive kingdom differentiation and individuality increase, and reach their
peak in the human kingdom with the attainment of selfconsciousness and a large
measure of free will.
In the human kingdom in particular,
self-directed evolution comes into its own. There is no superior power granting
privileges or handing out favours; we evolve according to our karmic merits and
demerits. As we progress through the spiritual kingdoms we become increasingly
at one again with nature, and willingly 'sacrifice' our circumscribed
selfconscious freedoms (especially the freedom to 'do our own thing') in order
to work in peace and harmony with the greater whole of which we form an
integral part. The highest gods of one hierarchy or world-system begin as
elementals in the next. The matter of any plane is composed of aggregated,
crystallized monads in their nirvanic sleep, and the spiritual and divine
entities embodied as planets and stars are the electrons and atomic nuclei --
the material building blocks -- of worlds on even larger scales. Evolution is
without beginning and without end, an endless adventure through the fields of
infinitude, in which there are always new worlds of experience in which to
become selfconscious masters of life.
There is no absolute separateness in
nature. All things are made of the same essence, have the same spiritual-divine
potential, and are interlinked by magnetic ties of sympathy. It is impossible
to realize our full potential, unless we recognize the spiritual unity of all
living beings and make universal brotherhood the keynote of our lives.
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King Arthur ambushes an advancing Saxon
army then defeats them at Liddington Castle,
Badbury, Near Swindon, Wiltshire, England.
King Arthur’s twelfth and last victory against the Saxons
Traditionally Arthur’s last battle in which he was
mortally wounded although his side went on to win
No contemporary writings or accounts of his life
but he is placed 50 to 100 years after the accepted
King Arthur period. He refers to Arthur in his inspiring
poems but the earliest written record of these dates
from over three hundred years after Taliesin’s death.
Pendragon Castle
Mallerstang Valley, Nr Kirkby Stephen,
A 12th Century Norman ruin on the site of what is
reputed to have been a stronghold of Uther Pendragon
From
wise child with no earthly father to
Megastar
of Arthurian Legend
History of the Kings of Britain
Drawn from the Stone or received from the Lady of the Lake.
Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur has both versions
with both swords called Excalibur. Other versions
5th & 6th Century Timeline of Britain
From the departure of the Romans from
Britain to the establishment of sizeable
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
Glossary of
Arthur’s uncle:- The puppet ruler of the Britons
controlled and eventually killed by Vortigern
Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. Circa 450CE
An alleged massacre of Celtic Nobility by the Saxons
History of the Kings of Britain
Athrwys / Arthrwys
King of Ergyng
Circa 618 - 655 CE
Latin: Artorius; English: Arthur
A warrior King born in Gwent and associated with
Caerleon, a possible Camelot. Although over 100 years
later that the accepted Arthur period, the exploits of
Athrwys may have contributed to the King Arthur Legend.
He became King of Ergyng, a kingdom between
Gwent and Brycheiniog (Brecon)
Angles under Ida seized the Celtic Kingdom of
Bernaccia in North East England in 547 CE forcing
Although much later than the accepted King Arthur
period, the events of Morgan Bulc’s 50 year campaign
to regain his kingdom may have contributed to
Old Welsh: Guorthigirn;
Anglo-Saxon: Wyrtgeorn;
Breton: Gurthiern; Modern Welsh; Gwrtheyrn;
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An earlier ruler than King Arthur and not a heroic figure.
He is credited with policies that weakened Celtic Britain
to a point from which it never recovered.
Although there are no contemporary accounts of
his rule, there is more written evidence for his
existence than of King Arthur.
How Sir Lancelot slew two giants,
From Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
How Sir Lancelot rode disguised
in Sir Kay's harness, and how he
From Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
How Sir Lancelot jousted against
four knights of the Round Table,
From Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
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