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earth. Then we have the Book of Dzyan with its sacred symbolic signs. No one in the world knows its real age. It is said that the original is older than the earth. It is also said that it was so strongly magnetised that the ‘elect’ who took it in their hands saw the events described pass before their eyes and at the same moment they could understand the mysterious texts through rhythmically transmitted impulses, For thousands of years this esoteric doctrine was guarded as top secret in Tibetan crypts. It was said that the secret teaching could be tremendously dangerous in the hands of ignorant people. The original text—it is not known if it still exists somewhere—was copied word for word from generation to generation and amplified by the 'elect' with new accounts and new knowledge they had acquired. The Book of Dzyan is supposed to have originated beyond the Himalayas. By unknown routes its teaching reached Japan, India and China, and traces of its ideas are even found in South American traditions. Secret fraternities, who hid themselves in the solitary passes of the west Chinese Kun-lun range or in the deep gorges of Altyn-tag, situated also in the western part of present-day Red China, watched over collections of books of vast size. They lived in miserable temples. Subterranean vaults and passages concealed their literary treasures. The Book of Dzyan was also guarded in these fastnesses. The first fathers of the church made every effort to erase this secret doctrine from the memories of those who were familiar with it. Yet all their efforts failed and the texts were transmitted Ihave often been told about this teaching in foreign countries, but I have never met anyone who had seen a 'genuine' copy of the book. Parts of the Book of Dzyan that have been preserved or, more accurately, become known, circulate through the world in thousands of texts translated into Sanskrit. By all accounts this remarkable secret doctrine is supposed to contain the primordial ancient word, the formula of creation, and to tell of the evolution of mankind over millions of years. Stanza I. 'Time was not, for it lay sleeping in the infinite bosom of duration ... ... Darkness alone filled the boundless all... ... And life pulsated unconscious in universal space. ... The seven sublime lords and the seven truths had ceased to be ... Stanza II. the one he was used to on his own planet, which also had its seasons in a different sequence from the The statements are basically too realistic to be brushed aside as pure fantasy. provided their language had an adequate vocabulary. orally from generation to generation. The seven stanzas of the creation according to the Book of Dzyan are so interesting that I shall quote extracts from them here: ... Where were the builders, the luminous sons ... The producers of the form from no-form—the root