Esoteric: “Secondary”: According to every calculation the Third Race had already made its appearance, as during the Triassic there were already a few mammals, and it must have separated before their appearance.
This, then, is the age of the Third Race, in which the origins of the early Fourth may be perhaps also discoverable. We are, however, here left entirely to conjecture, as no definite data are yet given out by the Initiates.
The analogy is but a poor one, still it may be argued that, as the early mammalia and pre-mammalia are shown in their evolution merging from one kind into a higher one, anatomically, so are the [pg 754] human races in their procreative processes. A parallel might certainly be found between the monotremata, didelphia (or marsupialia) and the placental mammals, divided in their turn into three orders[1676] like the First, Second, and Third Root-Races of men.[1677] But this would require more space than can be now allotted to the subject.
Scientific: Tertiary[1678]: Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene. No man is yet allowed to have lived during this period.
Says Mr. E. Clodd, in Knowledge: “Although the placental mammals and the order of primates to which man is related, appear in Tertiary times, and the climate, tropical in the Eocene age, warm in the Miocene, and temperate in the Pliocene, was favourable to his presence, the proofs of his existence in Europe before the close of the Tertiary epoch ... are not generally accepted here.”
Esoteric: “Tertiary”: The Third Race has now almost utterly disappeared, carried away by the fearful geological cataclysms of the Secondary age, leaving behind it but a few hybrid races.
The Fourth, born millions of years [pg 755] before[1679] the said cataclysm took place, perished during the Miocene period,[1680] when the Fifth (our Âryan Race) had had one million years of independent existence.[1681] How much older it is from its origin—who knows? As the “historical” period began with the Indian Âryans, with their Vedas for their multitudes,[1682] and far earlier in the Esoteric Records, it is useless to establish here any parallels.
Geology has now divided the periods and placed man in the Quaternary.
Scientific: Quaternary: Palæolithic Man, Neolithic Man, Historical Period.
Esoteric: “Quaternary”: If the Quaternary period is allowed 1,500,000 years, then only does our Fifth Race belong to it.