At any rate, Esoteric Philosophy identifies the pre-Brâhmanical Asuras, Rudras,[381] Râkshasas and all the “Adversaries” of the Gods in the allegories, with the Egos, which, by incarnating in the still witless man of the Third Race, made him consciously immortal. They are, then, during the cycle of Incarnations, the true dual Logos—the conflicting and two-faced Divine Principle in Man. The Commentary that follows, and the next Stanzas may, no doubt, throw more light on this very difficult tenet, but the writer does not feel competent to give it out fully. Of the succession of Races, however, the Commentary says:
First come the Self-existent on this Earth. They are the “Spiritual Lives” projected by the absolute Will and Law, at the Dawn of every Rebirth of the Worlds. These Lives are the divine “Shishta” [the Seed-Manus, or the Prajâpatis and the Pitris].
From these proceed:
1. The First Race, the “Self-born,” which are the [Astral] Shadows of their Progenitors. The Body was devoid of all understanding [mind, intelligence, and will]. The Inner Being [the Higher Self, or Monad], though within the earthly frame, was unconnected with it. The link, the Manas, was not there as yet.
2. From the First [Race] emanated the Second, called the “Sweat-born”[382]and the “Boneless.” This is the Second Root-Race, endowed by the Preservers [Râkshasas][383] and the Incarnating Gods [the Asuras and Kumâras] with the first primitive and weak Spark [the germ of intelligence]....
And from these in turn proceeds:
3. The Third Root-Race, the “Two-fold” [Androgynes]. The first Races thereof are Shells, till the last is “inhabited” [i.e., informed] by the Dhyânîs.
The Second Race, as stated above, being also sexless, evolved out of itself, at its beginning, the Third, Androgyne Race by an analogous, but already more complicated process. As described in the Commentary, the very earliest of that Race were:
The “Sons of Passive Yoga.”[384] They issued from the Second Manushyas [Human Race], and became oviparous. The emanations that came out of their bodies during the seasons of procreation were ovulary; the small spheroidal nuclei developing into a large soft, egg-like vehicle, gradually hardened, when, after a period of gestation, it broke and the young human animal issued from it unaided, as the fowls do in our Race.
This must seem to the reader ludicrously absurd. Nevertheless, it is strictly on the lines of evolutionary analogy, which Science perceives in the development of the living animal species. First the moneron-like procreation by “self-division”; then, after a few stages, the oviparous, as in the case of the reptiles, which are followed by the birds; then, finally, the mammals with their ovoviviparous modes of producing their young ones.