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Updated: May 23, 2025
The Crest-Wave rolled in to her; the spiritual forces descended far enough to create a cultural illumination, but not far enough to create political stability. We have seen before that they touch the artistic creative planes, in their descent, before they reach the more material planes. So her position is perfectly comprehensible. The old European manvantara was dying; elsewhere it was dead.
You see, that is why pralayas do set in; why they must; why no nation can possibly go on at a pitch of greatness and high activity beyond a certain length of time. And all that activity of the manvantara all that fuss and bustle to achieve greatness and fortune it had all been an obscuration of and moving away from Tao.
Then China flamed up brilliantly under the Western House of Han from 194 to 64; at which time, however, we shall not arrive for a few weeks yet. We cannot tell where in its manvantara the Indian Age may have come: whether near the beginning, or at the middle. But in China we are on firm ground, and the firmest of all.
The end of a manvantara, the break-up of a great civilization and the confusion that followed, made the Balkans what they are now, and Italy what she was in the Middle Ages.
Our present European manvantara began while Frederick II was forcing a road for civilization up from the Moslem countries through Italy; we may take 1240 as a central and convenient date.
The Italian laya center had expanded; Italy had boiled over. It was just the time when Ts'in at the other end of the world was conquering China, and the Far Eastern Manvantara was beginning. Manvantaras do not begin or end anywhere, I imagine, without some cyclic event marking it in all other parts of the world. * This lecture, like the preceding one, is based on Mr.
Then she was free for another half -cycle, less one year; a weak precarious freedom at best, lost to Artaxerxes Ochus in 340. All but the first fourteen years of it fell beyond the limits of the manvantara; the West Asian forces were spent. Egypt was merely waiting til the Greek cycle should have sunk low enough and on to the military plane; and had not long to wait.
Mongols and Manchus, though they look rather like Chinese, and have lived rather near China, belong by language and traditionally by race to another group altogether to that, in fact, which includes the very Caucasian-looking Turks and Hungarians; as to what culture they have had, they got it from China after the Chinese manvantara had passed.
If you could be sure that the ebb of the wave would be equal in length to its inrush, the night to the day: that the minor pralaya would be no longer or shorter than the little manvantara that preceded it why, then you might leap out securely for 60 B.C., with a comfortable feeling that there would be some kind of turning-point in Indian history there or thereabouts.
Then, too, we shall see that at the beginning of the last Chinese manvantara a conscious attempt was made to break wholly with the past, to wipe it from human memory, and begin all anew.
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