Preliminary Notes on The Archaic Stanzas, and the Four Pre-Historic Continents.
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Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
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Ἡ ἐμὴ διδαχὴ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμή, ἀλλὰ τοῦ πέμψαντός με.
My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
John vii. 16.
Modern Science insists upon the doctrine of evolution; so do human reason and the Secret Doctrine, and the idea is corroborated by the ancient legends and myths, and even by theBibleitself, when it is read between the lines. We see a flower slowly developing from a bud, and the bud from its seed. But whence the latter, with all its predetermined programme of physical transformation, and its invisible, thereforespiritual, forces which gradually develop its form, colour, and odour? The wordevolutionspeaks for itself. The germ of the present human race must have preëxisted in the parent of this race, as the seed, in which lies hidden the flower of next summer, was developed in the capsule of its parent flower; the parent may be butslightlydifferent, but it still differs from its future progeny. The antediluvian ancestors of the present elephant and lizard were, perhaps, the mammoth and the plesiosaurus; why should not the progenitors of our human race have been the“giants”of theVedas, theVoluspa, and theBook of Genesis? While it is positively absurd to believe the“transformation of species”to have taken place according to some of the more materialistic views of the Evolutionists, it is but natural to think that each genus, beginning with the molluscs and ending with monkey-man, has modified from its own primordial and distinctive form.—Isis Unveiled, I. 152-3.