Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-20

| matter. line tnlrd rlnS TOOK up the process
where left off by the second, and beginning
over again, but on higher plane, carried
the material development of the senses
step farther, each SUFFRAGE, be it under
stood, always inheriting all that has gone
before, and adding thereto, during the
course of its own unfoldment. The same
process was again repeated during the
fourth ring Of the series. and is now in the
course of still further repetition in this the
fifth, of which we are the fifth SUFFRAGE.
Tho Order of the Senses.
Briefly put, the order Of sense develop
| ment was as follows: First, sight, which
contains within it latently, all of the others;
second, touch; third, hearing; fourth,
smell; fifth, taste; of the sixth and sew
| enth senses, we have as vet not gained
| the knowledge, save here and there where
| individuals have outstripped the race as
| whole by dint of cultivating the higher in
tellect or psychic sense, which comes as
near the sixth sense as ANYTHING we know
of. The men of the second ring or race re-
tanned their astral powers of sense while de-
veloping their material, being therefore
what We would call abnormally acute in
this direction. Man, too, was then in a
| seIni-etherial condition, such as we cannot
possibly conceive, but by the middle of the
third ring he became more as we now know
him as to density and form.
The evolution of the latter, l. e., form,
was matter of gradual development. In
other words, it was not in the order of the
evolutionary process to furnish man with
ready made human forms as he approached
the earth plane. On the contrary, it was
for him to build up his own physical
structure; and this he did in accordance
with evolutionary law, by utilizing the
highest forms of animal life then in exist
ence, provoking the development of others
still higher as his needs advanced, until. by
the shaping power of his own will and the
law of correspondence, he made for himself
body essentially human.
The Mistake of Darwin.
'Missing links" without number, were
evolved during this selective use ''of the
fttest," such links, however, speedily dying
out when their mission was performed. The
forms themselves thus used, were of course
progressively more and more inclined to
the human, hence the Darwinian error of
mans descent from the animal world; the
truth being, that man in his descent into
matter, simply made use of the animal
kingdom in building up his own material
body. The evolutionary process thus in
volved, is also said to have beeu necessary
one, as man thereby acquired q most inn
portant part of the microcosmic experience
essential to the perfect development of the
human ego.
Here then is the true doctrine Of the
transmigration of the human soul through
the bodies of animals. The state was pre-
human one, and one never. repeated
during the course of the same round.
During the course of this evolutionary
process man did not become the eating
animal we know him till about the close OF
the second ring or race. As q still semi
ethereal being, he lived on the atmosphere
after the manner of certain plants to this
day, But as he solidifed materially his
food necessarily acquired more and more
material character. Language, too, had its
inception about this time. And here, also,
the direct cause lies in the increasing gross
ness Of the human body.
C1airvoyance and Mind Reading.
As man descended more and more into
matter he lost as q consequent his spiritual
or astral powers of sense, among which were
clairvoyance, clairaudiance, mind reading,
etc. Hence the need of developing other
means for thought commune alton, speech
being the natural result. Imitation of the
sounds made by animals was the first out
come of efforts made in this direction. The
occultist, therefore, sustains the "bow-wow'
theory of language, explaining it, however,
as caused by the as yet incomplete condi-
tion of mans physical structure as to organs
of speech and not from lack of reasoning
powers or because of mental incapacity, and
that, as mans physical senses grew more
and more perfected on the material plane,
his ability to express mis- thoughts in articu-
late language increased accordingly.
With the development of the third sub
race men of this the fifth ring, civilization
proper is said to have begun. Since then
there have been many different civilizations
in as many different parts of the globe,
modern science to the contrary notwith-
standing. Of the third race civilization,
the continent of Lemuria, now covered by
the Indian Ocean, was its reigning seat of
empire, The f1at-headed Australians of the
present day are said to be its degraded rem
nants-one ring or race dovetailing, so to
speak, upon the other in the course of
time.
Tho People OF Old Atlrntea,
To the fourth SUFFRAGE belongs the civili-
of which is made in the sacred books of
Mexico, Yucatan and India Science, art
and literature had their true origin during |
this race period, and their perfection was
carried to pitch beyond anything we are as
vet able to conceive. There are said to be |
fourth race men still living, but the zenith !
of its glory passed away long ages ago. Con-
with the close OF the At |
lantean period began the civilization of the
Aryan, or present fifth SUFFRAGE men, of |
which our own modern civilization is the |
midway result.
At the close of every race supremacy |
there regularly occurs great cataclysm, al |
ternately of fire and water; hence the few |
remnants of ancient civilization that have |
come down to us. The Mosaic account of |
the flood seems to indicate such a cataclysm
by water; and Ignatius Donnelly, in his |
curious book, "Ragnorok," seems to have |
hit upon one that came by fire. That such |
cataclysms should thus periodically occur |
is but a natural manifestation of the law
that declares necessary the survival of the
fittest. Out of the ashes of the old, springs
ever the higher, healthier growth of the
new.
To sum up, we are now in the midst of
the evolutionary process of the fifth sub
race or ring of the fifth ring of the fourth
round, and are at present developing more
especially the sense of taste-the lowest or
ultimate one, so far as gross materiality
goes. The development of the sixth or
psychic sense has already begun, and with
its perfection there is, we are told, glori-
GUS future awaiting us somewhere in the
ages to come MARK +. GRISwOLD.
A WEDDING IN A PALACk