Arthur E. Powell - The Solar System

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THE SOLAR SYSTEM

BY

LIEUT.-COLONEL ARTHUR E. POWELL

Contents

This book, like its four predecessors, is dedicated with gratitude and appreciation to those whose labours and researches have provided the materials out of which it has been wrought.

I.GLOBES AND THEIR COUNTERPARTS (A)

II.GLOBES AND THEIR COUNTERPARTS (B)

III.THE 7 GLOBES OF THE EARTH CHAIN

IV.THE 7 ROUNDS OF THE EARTH CHAIN

V.THE 7 CHAINS OF THE EARTH SCHEME

VI.THE 7 CHAINS OF THE EARTH SCHEME AND THEIR PRELYAS

VII.THE EARTH SCHEME OF EVOLUTION

VIII.THE PLAN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

IX.THE SOLAR SYSTEM AS IT AT PRESENT EXISTS

X.THE 10 EXISTING CHAINS

XI.TATTVAS AND TANMTRAS

XII.RELATION OF PHYSICAL PLANETS TO THE SUN

XIII.FOURTH DIMENSIONAL CONNECTION BETWEEN SUN AND PLANETS

XIV.THE 13 LIFE-STREAMS AND THEIR PROGRESS

XV.THE LIFE-STREAMS OF SUCCESSIVE SCHEMES

XVI.THE GOALS OF OUR 7 CHAINS

XVII.DEGREES OF ATTAINMENT

XVIII.THE PROGRESS OF THE KINGDOMS

XIX.THE ROOT-RACES OF THE EARTH CHAIN

XX.THE RACES OF THE 7 EARTH-PERIODS

XXI.THE ROOT-RACES AND SUB-RACES OF OUR SCHEME OF EVOLUTION

XXII.THE PASSAGE OF THE LIFE-WAVE

XXIII.THE NUCLEI ON THE PLANETS

XXIV.THE INNER ROUND: RETROGRESSION

XXV.THE INNER ROUND: SPEEDING UP

XXVI.THE PRODUCTS OF THE EARTH CHAIN

XXVII.A ROOT-RACE JUDGEMENT DAY (FOURTH ORDER)

XXVIII.A GLOBE-PERIOD JUDGEMENT DAY (THIRD ORDER)

XXIX.JUDGEMENT DAYS IN ONE ROUND (FOURTH, THIRD AND SECOND ORDERS)

XXX.THE JUDGEMENT DAYS OF THE EARTH CHAIN

XXXI.THE DOWNWARD AND UPWARD ARCS

XXXII.THE INFLUENCES ACTING ON ONE PLANE (THE ASTRAL)

XXXIII.THE INFLUENCES ACTING ON THE 7 PLANES OF MATTER

XXXIV.THE SERVERS AND OTHER GROUPS IN THE MOON CHAIN

XXXV.EMERGENCE OF CERTAIN GROUPS OF THE MOON CHAIN

XXXVI.PRODUCTS OF THE MOON CHAIN

XXXVII.THE WORK OF THE BARHISHADS IN THE EARTH CHAIN

XXXVIII.THE EARTH CHAIN: FIRST ROUND

XXXIX.THE EARTH CHAIN: ROUNDS 1, 2 AND 3

XL.THE THIRD ROOT-RACE (LEMURIAN)

XLIEVOLUTION OF ROOT-RACES FROM SUB-RACES

XLII.THE CITY OF THE GOLDEN GATES

XLIII.A CHALDAN TEMPLE

XLIV.ARRANGEMENT OF MIRRORS IN A CHALDAN TEMPLE

XLV.THE FIFTH ROOT-RACE AND THE FIRST MIGRATION (SECOND SUB-RACE)

XLVI.THE THIRD AND FOURTH SUB-RACES

XLVII.THE FIFTH AND FIRST SUB-RACES

T HE authors purpose in compiling the books in this series was to save students much time and labour by providing a condensed synthesis of the considerable literature on the respective subjects of each volume, coming mostly from the pens of Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater. The accompanying list shows the large number of books from which he drew. So far as possible, the method adopted was to explain the form side first, before the life side: to describe the objective mechanism of phenomena and then the activities of consciousness that are expressed through the mechanism. There is no attempt to prove or even justify any of the statements.

The works of H. P. Blavatsky were not used because the author said that the necessary research in The Secret Doctrine and other writings would have been too vast a task for him to undertake. He added: The debt to H. P. Blavatsky is greater than could ever be indicated by quotations from her monumental volumes. Had she not shown the way in the first instance, later investigators might never had found the trail at all.

B OTH before and since the publication in 1888 of The Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky, there has become available for students of occultism a good deal of information regarding the Solar System and the streams of life-amongst which is our own humanity-which evolve in that System. In 1883 appeared Esoteric Buddhism by A. P. Sinnett, followed in 1896 by The Growth of the Soul by the same author. In 1897 was published The Ancient Wisdom by Annie Besant, and in 1903 this great student of the occult delivered an important series of lectures, afterwards published in book form, under the title The Pedigree of Man , dealing in greater detail than anything previously published with the Solar System, with its Chains, Rounds, Globes, Races, Sub-races, etc. Further elaboration and details have been added by C. W Leadbeater in various, books, notably The Inner Life, Volumes I and II, and A Textbook of Theosophy .

In 1913 appeared, Man: Whence, How and Whither? In addition to these, two fascinating volumes, entitled The Story of Atlantis and Lost Lemuria, with maps of those continents, from the pen of W. Scott-Elliot, appeared in 1896 and 1904 respectively, describing in very full detail the races that inhabited those lands, and their civilisations.

Up to the present, however, no one book has appeared covering the whole of this vast ground, describing both the field of evolution and the streams of life which evolve in it as the ages roll by.

The present volume is therefore an attempt to fill this need. The whole of the information it contains is to be found in the volumes already mentioned, or in certain others, the complete list being given on page 7.

In view of the complexity of the subject, and its many details, a large number of diagrams, most of which are original, have been included in the text, and it is hoped that these will facilitate the work of the student in mastering the many intricacies of the system to which we belong and the method under which our evolution proceeds. Some tabular statements and summaries have been added, with the same purpose in view.

In order to keep the book within reasonable dimensions, many details, such, for example, as those concerned with the civilisations of the various races in Atlantean and Lemurian times, have been omitted. These details, however, are readily accessible to the student, the places where they are to be found having invariably been given in the text, which contains only a summary of their leading features.

Such omissions do not in any way interfere with or break the continuity of the story as told in this book. Their inclusion would, in fact, probably have made the picture too complicated and elaborate to be grasped in one treatise, so that the student would have been in danger of losing sight of the forest because of the number of the trees.