The Primeval Manus Of Humanity.
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Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
The author of the Qabbalah truly remarks that: “Man to-day, as an individual, is only a concatenation of the being-hood of precedent human life,” or lives, rather.
According to the Qabbalah, the soul sparks contained in Adam, went into three principal classes corresponding to his three sons, viz.:Hesed, Habel,Ge'boor-ah, Qai-yin andRa'h-minSeth. These three were divided into ... 70 species, called; the principal roots of the human race.705
Said Rabbi Yehudah:“How many garments [of the incorporeal man] are these which are crowned (from the day man was created)?”Said R. El'azar:“The mountains of the world (the great men of the generation) are in discussion upon it, but there are three: one to clothe in that garment theRua'hspirit, which is in the garden (of Eden) on earth: one which is more precious than all, in which theNeshamahis clothed in that Bundle of Life, between the angels of the Kings ...: and one outside garment, which exists and does not exist, is seen and not seen. In that garment, theNepheshis clothed, and she goes and flies in it, to and fro in the world.”706
This relates to the Races, their “garments,” or degree of materiality, and to the three “principles” of man in their three vehicles.