The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science Religion and Philosophy. Vol. II. Anthropogenesis

The antediluvian ancestors of the present elephant and lizard were perhaps; the mammoth and the plesisaurus ; why should not the progenitors cf our human race have been the "giants" of the Vedas the Viduspa and the Book 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 evolution [...] In the Divine Pymander" of Hermes we find the same Seven primeval men* evolving from Nature and " Heavenly Man " in the collective sense of the word namely from the Creative Spirits ; and in the fragments (collected by George Smith) of Chaldean tablets on which is inscribed the Babylonian Legend of Creation in the first column of the Cutha tablet seven human beings with the faces of ravens (bl [...] The " God " of the 1st chapter of Genesis is the Logos and the " Lord God " of the end chapter the Creative Elohim —the 10.zocr powers. [...] Yet the number of the ancestral spirits and their seven groups of human progeny are there notwithstanding the dilapidated condition of the fragments as plainly as they are to be found in Pymander " and in the "Book of the Concealed Mystery" of the Kabala. [...] Sir W. Thomson one of the most eminent among the modern authorities has changed about half-a-dozen times his opinion upon the age of the Sun and the date of the consolidation of the Earth's crust.