Stanza X.
38. Thus, two by two, on the seven Zones, the Third Race gave birth to the Fourth; the Sura became A-sura.
39. The First, on every Zone, was moon-coloured; the Second yellow like gold; the Third red; the Fourth brown, which became black with sin. The first seven human shoots were all of one complexion. The next seven began mixing.
40. Then the Third and Fourth became tall with pride. “We are the kings; we are the gods.”
41. They took wives fair to look upon. Wives from the mindless, the narrow-headed. They bred monsters, wicked demons, male and female, also Khado, with little minds.
42. They built temples for the human body. Male and female they worshipped. Then the Third Eye acted no longer.
Stanza XI.
43. They built huge cities. Of rare earths and metals they built. Out of the fires vomited, out of the white stone of the mountains and of the black stone, they cut their own images, in their size and likeness, and worshipped them.
44. They built great images nine yatis high, the size of their bodies. Inner fires had destroyed the land of their fathers. The water threatened the Fourth.