The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, or Christian Occult Science

PART II.

THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE ORIGIN OF MAN.

original: "COSMOGENESIS AND ANTHROPOGENESIS." Cosmogenesis refers to the birth of the cosmos; Anthropogenesis refers to the development of the human species.

CHAPTER V. The Relation of Man to God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
      Diagram 6. The Supreme Being, the Cosmic Planes
            and God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

CHAPTER VI. The Scheme of Evolution.
      The Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
      The Seven Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
      The Seven Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
      Diagram 7. The Saturn Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

CHAPTER VII. The Path of Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
      Revolutions and Cosmic Nights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
      Diagram 8. The Seven Worlds, Seven Globes and
            Seven Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

CHAPTER VIII. The Work of Evolution.
      Ariadne's Thread A reference to the Greek myth of Ariadne, who used a ball of thread to help Theseus navigate the Labyrinth; here it signifies a guiding logic through a complex subject. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
      The Saturn Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
      Recapitulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
      The Sun Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
      The Moon Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
      Diagram 9. The Twelve Creative Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . 221

CHAPTER IX. Stragglers and Newcomers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
      Classes of Beings at the Beginning of the Moon Period 226
      Diagram 10. Classes at the Beginning of Earth Period 230

CHAPTER X. The Earth Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
      Saturn Revolution of the Earth Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
      Sun Revolution of the Earth Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
      Moon Revolution of the Earth Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
      Rest Periods Between Revolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
      The Fourth Revolution of the Earth Period . . . . . . . . . . . 245

CHAPTER XI. Genesis and Evolution of Our Solar System.
      Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
      The Birth of the Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
      Diagram 11. Vibrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
      Diagram 12. Man’s Past, Present and Future Form . . 257

CHAPTER XII. Evolution on the Earth.
      The Polarian Epoch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
      The Hyperborean Epoch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
      The Moon; the Eighth Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
      The Lemurian Epoch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265