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With the masses they degenerated into sorcery, taking later on the shape of exoteric religions, of idolatry full of superstitions.” (The Secret Doctrine 2:281) “The mysteries of Heaven and Earth, revealed to the Third Race by their celestial teachers in the days of their purity, became a great focus of light, the rays from which became necessarily weakened as they were diffused and shed upon an uncongenial, because too material, soil. As mind developed keener potentialities and the struggle for mental supremacy overcame the spiritual, the gift of intellect became a double-edged weapon: on the one hand, the bringer of spiritual awareness and undreamed of intellectual ecstasy and, on the other, the wielder of a weapon of destruction, of horror and, in the worst cases, of deliberate spiritual wickedness - diabolism. Suffering and pain became nature’s most merciful method of restoring the heart to its primeval instinct, that of spiritual choice. What had been latent spirituality now became active good and active evil. Some obviously wrought evil - others good. Mankind as a whole progressed rapidly in the acquisition of knowledge and its subsequent use. To them, spiritual apathy was preferable to spiritual exertion. Some through past experience in former world periods learned quickly and with ease, choosing intuitively the path of spiritual intellection others, less awake, were good though wayward in progress while a third class of humans, drugged with inertia, found learning and aspiring a burden and became laggards in the evolutionary procession. The race was young not all were adept in learning.

Truth was freely given and as freely accepted in that golden age.

At this early period there were no Mystery colleges: the ancient wisdom was the common heirloom of all mankind, for as yet there had been no abuse of knowledge, and hence no need for schools kept hid and sacred from the world.

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For many millennia they followed their guidance, as children lovingly follow the footsteps of their mother.Īs the ages rolled by, a circulation of divine instructors succeeded these primeval mānasaputras and personally supervised the progress of child-humanity: they initiated them in the arts and sciences, taught them to sow their fields with corn and wheat, instructed them in the ways of clean and moral living - in short, established primeval schools of training and instruction open and free to all to learn of things material, intellectual, and spiritual. Knowledge, more knowledge, and still greater knowledge was required by the maturing humans who looked with gratitude to the godlike beings who had come to awaken them.

Having knowledge, he acquired power acquiring power, he chose choosing, he fashioned the fabric of his future and the perception of this ran like wine through his veins. Self-consciousness wakened, and man became a dynamo of intellectual and emotional power: capable of love, of hate, of glory, of defeat. Like a stream of brilliance across the horizon of time, divine beings, mānasaputras, sons of mind, descended among the sleeping humans, and with the flame of intellectual solar fire lighted the wick of latent mind, and lo! the thinker stirred. Recognition of egoity slept instinctual consciousness alone was active. Millions upon millions of years ago in the darkness of prehistory, humanity was an infant, a child of Mother Nature, unawakened, dreamlike, wrapped in the cloak of mental somnolence.