A familiar occult teaching is that during its entire life period, every globe chain in our solar system experiences seven incarnations, each a Manvantara, or man-perfecting epoch. Our earth chain is now in the fourth of its seven. Previous Earth Manvantaras perfected for their humanities permanent robal coverings of but the seventh or highest division of physical body substance. The present Manvantara will perfect for its humanity a permanent physical robe of a portion of the sixth division.

The fifth Manvantara is to perfect for its humanity a physical vehicle of the sixth and seventh divisions entire. Succeeding Manvantaras will only refine for their humanities these two divisions. The next lower division of physical body substance is to be perfected on the eighth planetary chain, the destined place of the eight-principled animal evolution, and also the place of regeneration and rise of all human failures rejected during this Manvantara of our planetary chain.

Analysis of the quality of the life vehicles on any planetary chain reveals to a nicety the status and ultimate condition of their owners. Into the exposition of this arcane teaching let us to some extent enter.

In Vol. 1 of this series, "Special Teachings from the Arcane Science," and in the chapter, "The Planetary Process," it was found that the simple one-principled atmic lives emanated to the Jupiter chain were of seven degrees of fineness; also that eventually the coarser and coarser atmic lives dropped to their proper globe conditions in the chain, and therefrom were carried by lower and lower life-waves until Atma became the highest principle on every lower globe chain. What was true of Atma was correspondingly so of successively denser principles, until each chain became the home of its appropriate principle.

The wave of physical life which swept through the physical globes of every chain down to this, sowed no seeds of normal physical life before reaching our world. The seeds deposited here were of seven kinds; and in kind the fruits thereof are unchangeable forever. The physical body of man was the highest fruit; one not to be confounded with the animal; hence while the eating of animal flesh is of common occurrence, cannibalism to all but the most degraded savage is a loathsome crime.

During the first human root race of every round of our globe chain, the physical vesture of every creature whatsoever is, in composition, nearly identical with that of the first round; but, until the middle of each round beginning with the second, and especially until the middle of the fourth round - that which corresponds with the kama-manasic principle - every living creature adds to its physical vesture grosser and grosser atoms then to be discarded gradually until the previous minimum is reached.

As the physical vehicle of man incorporates the highest grade of its appropriate substance, whereas that of the animal kingdom incorporates the grade below, so is it with the human astral and every higher human body; and so is it with the corresponding animal bodies. Between the normal human kind, and the animal, there is an abnormal kind whose tendency, while never upward, is in extreme cases toward the brute level. This variety is that of derelicts and outcasts, the unelect of the Pauline doctrine which its initiate author could not unveil to the Piscean age. As revealed on our planet, the Christos reaches not down to this class who, by the Divine Wisdom and Mercy, are therefore transferred to a planet wherein a more fundamental exposition of the Christos will lay hold of and lift them to their place in the Cosmic Scheme.

That the luna pitris, incarnating as human in the early rounds of our globe, were of the Moon's animal evolution is but an exoteric statement veiling the truth that these were failures representing an intermediate principle analogous to the one above mentioned; in fact they were impervious to refining Truth as revealed to the moon humanity. In this lower planet, after temporary failure, they would rise to their peculiar destiny. This fact is beneath the ancient and deeply occult doctrine of that original sin which exoteric Jewish theology laid upon Adam.

H.