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... Behold the beginning of sentient formless life. First, the divine, the one from the mother spirit The one ray multiplies the smaller rays ... ... Then the builders, having donned their first clothing, descend on radiant earth and reign over men—who are themselves.' This creation myth really needs no further commentary for the educated reader. It is uncanny how these texts really interpret themselves in the age of space travel. Only a few concepts need enlarging on. Seven eternities = aeons or periods. 'Eternity' in the sense of the Christian theology is meaningless in Asiatic ideology. An aeon extends over a great period of time, i.e. a 100 years of Brahma or 311,040,000,000,000 terrestrial years. A day of Brahma consists of 4,320,000,000 years for a mortal. Brahma’ is the force that creates and preserves all worlds. May I remind readers of the laws of time dilation without which these measurements of time are inconceivable. Space = matter. Light = something unimaginable because its source is unknown. Father and mother = male and female principle of primordial nature. Seven sublime lords = seven creative spirits. Builders = the real creators of die universe, or architects of die planetary system. Breath = dimensionless space. Ray = matter of the world-egg. Last vibration of the seventh eternity = periodically appearing phenomenon of the universal intelligence. Virgin-egg = symbol of the original shape of everything visible—from the atom to heavenly bodies. Sons of the earth—sons of fire = cosmic forces that have taken form. Other sections of the Book of Dzyan reputedly tell us that 18 million years ago there were living creatures on earth that were boneless and rubberlike, and vegetated without reason or intelligence. These beings are supposed to have reproduced themselves by division. On the course of a long evolution a peaceful and gentle kind of being originated in this way four million years ago. These beings lived in a period of tranquil bliss, in a world of happy dreamers. In the next three million years a giant race of a very different kind developed. These giants, it says in Dzyan, were androgynous and mated with themselves. Then 700,000 years ago they began to mate with 'she-animals', but terrible looking monsters resulted from this kind of reproduction. These monsters were unable to free themselves from this bestial method of reproduction and became dependent on animals and dumb like animals. The eternal mother = space. Time = succession of states of consciousness. Fohat = constructive force of cosmic energy. (Quotations and exegesis are taken from The Secret Doctrine by Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, published in Germany in 1888!)