Part 11

Suffice it now to point out that the founding of a Lodge of Initiation for the sake of Beings who came from another scheme of evolution is an indication of the unity of object and of aim in the government and the guidance of _all_ the schemes of evolution brought into existence by our Solar Logos. Apart from the normal course in our own scheme, there is, we know, a Path by which He may be directly reached, which every son of man in his progress through the ages is privileged to hear of, and to tread, if he so chooses. We find that this was so in the Venus scheme also, and we may presume it is or will be so in all the schemes which form part of our Solar system. This Path is the Path of Initiation, and the end to which leads is the same for all, and that end is Union with God.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 2: Haeckel is correct enough in his surmise that Lemuria was the cradle of the human race as it now exists, but it was not out of Anthropoid apes that mankind developed. A reference will be made later on to the position in nature which the Anthropoid apes really occupy.]

[Footnote 3: Ernst Haeckel's "Hist. of Creation," 2nd ed., 1876, Vol. 1., pp. 360-62.]

[Footnote 4: Alfred Russell Wallace's "The Geographical Distribution of Animals--with a study of the relations of living and extinct Faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's Surface." London: Macmillan & Co., 1876. Vol. 1., pp. 76-7.]

[Footnote 5: Ceylon and South India, it is true, have been bounded on the north by a considerable extent of sea, but that was at a much earlier date than the Tertiary period.]

[Footnote 6: Wallace's "Geographical Distribution, etc." Vol. 1., pp. 328-9.]

[Footnote 7: Wallace's "Geographical Distribution, etc.," Vol. ii., p. 155.]

[Footnote 8: H. F. Blandford "On the age and correlations of the Plant-bearing series of India and the former existence of an Indo-Oceanic Continent," see Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. xxxi., 1875, pp. 534-540.]

[Footnote 9: A reference to the maps will show that Mr. Blandford's estimate of date is the more correct of the two.]

[Footnote 10: Parts of the continent of course endured, but the dismemberment of Lemuria is said to have taken place before the beginning of the Eocene Age.]

[Footnote 11: Vol ii., pp. 325-6.]

[Footnote 12: Dr. G. Hartlaub "On the Avifauna of Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands," see "The Ibis," a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Fourth Series, Vol. i., 1877, p. 334.]

[Footnote 13: Ernst Haeckel's "History of Creation," Vol. ii., pp. 22-56.]

[Footnote 14: Ernst Haeckel's "History of Creation," Vol. ii., pp. 226-7.]

[Footnote 15: For a further account of the permanent atoms on all the planes, and the potentialities contained in them with reference to the processes of death and re-birth, see "Man's Place in Universe." pp. 76-80.]

[Footnote 16: The "Standard," 8th Jan., 1904.]

[Footnote 17: Ernst Haeckel's "The History of Creation," 2nd ed., Vol. i., pp. 193-8.]

[Footnote 18: "The Secret Doctrine," Vol. ii., p. 197.]

[Footnote 19: Vol. ii., pp. 683 and 689.]

[Footnote 20: It must, however, be noted that the Chinese _people_ are mainly descended from the fourth or Turanian sub-race of the Fourth Root Race.]

[Footnote 21: "Secret Doctrine," Vol. ii., p. 198.]

[Footnote 22: Vol. ii., p. 317.]

[Footnote 23: The "Times," 14th Sept., 1903.]

[Footnote 24: The heights reached by them will find their parallel when our humanity will, countless aeons hence, have reached the Sixth Round of our chain of worlds, and the same transcendent powers will be the possession of ordinary mankind in those far-off ages.]

MAPS

[Illustration: NO. 1 THE WORLD ABOUT 1,000,000 YEARS AGO, DURING MANY PREVIOUS AGES, AND UP TO THE CATASTROPHE OF ABOUT 800, 000 YEARS AGO.

ATLANTIS AT ITS PRIME]

[Illustration: NO 2 THE WORLD AFTER THE CATASTROPHE OF 800,000 YEARS AGO AND UP TO THE CATASTROPHE OF ABOUT 200,000 YEARS AGO.

ATLANTIS IN ITS DECADENCE]

[Illustration: NO 3 THE WORLD AFTER THE CATASTROPHE OF 200,000 YEARS AGO AND UP TO THE CATASTROPHE OF ABOUT 80,000 YEARS AGO.

RUTA & DAITYA]

[Illustration: NO 4 THE WORLD AFTER THE CATASTROPHE OF 80000 YEARS AGO AND UP TO THE FINAL SUBMERGENCE OF POSEIDONIS IN 9,564 B.C.

POSEIDONIS]

[Illustration: No.1 LEMURIA at its greatest extent.]

[Illustration: No.2 LEMURIA at a later period.]