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Atlantis, Lemuria, Giants, etc... PART 2 == CHRONOLOGY

Aug 28, 1999 00:18 AM
by W. Dallas TenBroeck


Aug 26th 1999
			Re:  Atlantis, etc.,  Part 2 =   CHRONOLOGY
Dear Friends:

I wish to apologize to you for a very garbled table of the
Theosophical Chronology that was included in the 2nd part of the
posting that I made on this subject.

I realised that when I received my copy of it.

I have redone it and attach it herewith for your consideration.
Please make the substitution, I hope this is clearer.

Dallas
dalval@nwc.net 

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An  Introduction  to  a  Theosophical

			C H R O N O L O G Y

			       __________

     Note

This is an attempt to place events and personages within various
accepted, and Theosophical time-frames.  It is hoped that it will help
in observing the evidence of the work and observations of Wise Men and
Sage Adepts of the past.

It will help the compilers if you would contribute any corrections or
additions to this growing project, as a result of your own study and
use of this list.
		                             _____________

Most time references are based on the periods that HPB has given us in
either ISIS or The S.D., or in her articles.  This is under active
completion and verification, hence, you will be asked to excuse some
errors that will be found, and invited to draw the attention of the
compiler to correcting facts.

Verifying dates have occasionally been secured from Encyclopedia
Britannica and other sources, and those have been added to those from
Theosophical sources. If the exact date is
uncertain :  c / ? .

                        	_______________________________

Abbreviations used:

IS  =  Isis Unveiled            	Glos  =  Theosophical Glossary
SD  =  The Secret Doctrine        Thy  =  Theosophy Magazine (LA)
Key  =  Key to Theosophy      	Theos't  =  Theosophist  ( Adyar )
Lucif.  Lucifer Magazine         	Path  =  The Path  ( New York )
ML  =  Mahatma Letters           	T M  =  Theos. Movement Mag.
 Bombay)
Ocean. Ocean of Theosophy      HPB Art = Collected HPB Articles
CWB  =  Collected Works HPB   WQJ Art = Collected WQJ Articles
C & J =  Caves and Jungles of Hindoostan

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		A Theosophical View of Chronology

Introduction

The sub-title given to this survey indicates the attention that H. P.
Blavatsky paid to the historical, factual aspect, of the records of
the Adepts. ( SD I 272 )  "The Secret Doctrine teaches history…" ( SD
I 267 )

One of the factors faced in the effort to envision the scope of time
past is the tendency, inherited from theological views in the West,
which tend to foreshorten history and dwarf the periods of evolution
that are a part of the lore of ancient nations especially in the East,
in their estimates or records concerning pre-historical eras and
epochs, and events which they recorded.

This present list considers time periods given in record preserved by
the Great Lodge of Adepts, from which HPB gives fragments of data
relating to vast achievements in the Past--and records or reports of
its arts, sciences, technologies, buildings, chronologies, astronomy,
and a thousand other indications, which tend to show that we are, in
our present whirl of research, retracing the patterns of that past,
and adding to the testimony that increasingly validates it.

Students of Theosophy take into account certain foundational concepts,
such as :--

1. Reincarnation:  that we are essentially in our spiritual, natures,
Immortals, and have lived many lives on this Earth;

2. that Karma, the law of justice and of fairness to all beings (from
the atom to the Galaxy) is The Law for every aspect of the Universe;
and that it consists of an harmonic balance at all points; so that all
circumstances can be traced to choices made earlier;

3. the ideal of Human Brotherhood is not a myth but a solid fact as
science and psychology demonstrate daily that we share in each other,
as in all aspects of Nature;  and finally,  Ours is a "moral"
Universe.  All is Nature, and it is fair, just and impartial to all.

4. There is an actual, a Universal All--an Encompassing Unity (or
Causation), which forms the living and sensitive base for all
evolution and all individual consciousness.

A factor that serves to make the Universe, evolution, and man's
independence valuable, is the fact that it is, in reality, a vast
school.  Every being (from the imponderable atom to the utmost reaches
of Space, is an entity, an immortal and conscious "something" (perhaps
a "pupil" of more or less advancement in the vast scheme).  It is an
index of the intelligence that is innate in every life-atom (MONAD)
that makes cooperation with every other being possible, e.g.,  we
could consider cellular cooperation in our body, where some 100
trillion cells (made up of an incredible amount of atoms and
molecules) coordinate to give us (the Perceiver, the Witness) a
physical basis of life and consciousness.

The objects of the Theosophical Movement are:--

1.   To form the nucleus of a Universal Brotherhood of Humanity
without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color;

2.   The study of ancient and modern religions, philosophies and
sciences and the demonstration of the importance of such study;  and

3.   The investigation of the unexplained laws of Nature and the
psychical powers latent in man.
				_________

		C H R O N O L O G Y

=================================================================
Year         	Groups, Tribes      	Notes and References
 From    To   	 or Individual
=================================================================

Universal and World  Periods      	SD II 69-70   OCEAN 125
_____________________________

     311,040,000 000 000 years = Maha Kalpa, or Life of Brahma
                  	(100 of Brahma's years)
                         [311 trillion, 40 billion]    	        SD II
70
         3,110,400,000,000  years = 1 Year of Brahma    SD II  70
                         [  3 trillion, 110 billion ]
              8,640,000,000  years = 1 Day + 1 Night of Brahma
              4,320,000,000  years = 1 Kalpa = l Day of Brahma
                                  		1,000 Maha-Yugas SD II  69
                                   		or 14 Manus   	         SD II
59-60
 				The Theosophist, Nov., 1885, p. 115-6

1 Day of Brahma =   4,294,080,000 = 994 Maha-Yugas or 14 Manus
                 add   25,920,000 = 1 Sandhi (twilight)    SD II 308fn
                  _____________________
1 Kalpa is          4,320,000,000  years = 1 Day of Brahma
                    	(4 billion, 320 million)     		    SD II 69-70

1 Manvantara =    306,720,000  = 71 Maha Yugas of 4,320,000 yrs
         add                1,728,000  = 1 Sandhi  	SD II  69
                      ____________________
                           308,448,000  years = 1 Manvantara 	SD II
69

4 Yugas    [ The 4 "Ages" ]   .    		SD II  69
        		                		ML p. 121, IS I 32

          1,728,000  years = Krita       (or Satya, or Golden
Age --Yuga)
          1,296,000  years = Treta 	     (or Silver Age   --Yuga )
            864,000  years = Dwapara  (or Bronze Age --Yuga )
            432,000  years - Kali 	     ( or Black, Iron Age--Yuga )
      __________________
          4,320,000  years = 1 Maha Yuga - or 1/1000th of A Day of
Brahma                             				SD I 136  II 69  HPB Art. III
422;
				Lucif XIII, 183-4;  ML 121;
				ISIS I 14 32 293 301-4 428 587  II 260

		==============================

Chaldean Cycles     .    .    .    		ISIS I 30 fn

          3,600  years = 1 Sar  (or Saros )
			IS I 21 30 34 533  II 467,   Path X 301
             600  years = 1 Neros
               60  years = 1 Sossus

     	Berosus, priest of the Temple of Belus, Babylon           IS  I
30 fn
       		SD II 38 331 432 566;  SD I 114 314 389 435 649 655fn
	  	Glos. 108  291 (Sar) 225 258

Solar or Heliacal Year =  25,868 years   	SD I 314; Ocean 121
       	      (1 Sub-race)	    SD I 439fn II 141fn 330fn 436fn

Metonic (Moon)  Cycle   6,586 days = cycle of Lunar eclipses (or
revolution
		= 18 yrs. 11 1/2 day - the moon's node [a cycle of 6,585 days
					(18.041  years)

Grand Cycles	Orpheus:    120,000  years      IS  I 294 fn
             	Cassandrus  136,000  years    IS  I 294 fn

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Our Earth

 1,955,884,687 years (in 1887) from the beginning of
             	        	"cosmic evolution"		SD II  68fn
  - 300,000,000	Years as a Sandhi (twilight)
______________
 1,664,884,687  years (in 1887) from the first
			appearance of "Humanity" (on this planetary 						chain) as an
astral  form   	SD II  68fn

Our Kali Yuga is the 28th age of the 7th Manvantara of
			308,448,000 years		ISIS I 32

======================================

B. C.

18,618,727   	Lighting up of Manas [ mind ] (as in 1887)
					SD I 150fn;  SD II 69 254-5

 4,000,000 c. 	Engulfing of Lemuria  (e.g.:--Easter Island)
 4,242,352				SD  I 439fn  II 68-70 141
                      		[4th Round, 4th Globe, 3rd "Race"]

		Easter Island - evidence of  SD I 322 439 II 224 317

              	Atlantis  [ Titans / Kabiri / Cyclops ]
                    		[4th Round, 4th Globe, 4th "Race"]

1,050,000    	Beginning of the 5th "Aryan" "Race"  SD II 141 144 435

          		Vedas  		SD I 269-71  II 483-4 450 606 616
				T M 5-67  Glos 361  IS I 444   THY 2-468
		    		Theos't I-247 COL I TOP.  WQJ ART II 82-3
				Theos't 9-428

1,050,000 BC
          		Vedanta	SD I 7 50-1 269 451  Glos 361 253
             	   (Uttara Mimansa - Vyasa)
                    			Theos't I-201 287  9-411    Lucif 6-119

             	Advaita  (non-dualistic) SD I 8 55 522 II 637 GLOS 7
                           (Shankaracharya - founder)   ML 53-4
Theos't 10-7  Glos 307

          		Dwaita   (dualistic)

          		Manu Smriti (Code of Manu - Krita Yuga)  IS  I 585-6

1,000,000   Aryan Race	began SD II 395   	Thy. Mag.  45, p. 219

	     Brahmin invasion of N. India	IS II 156fn 169 158
			  		IS II 323 192  SD I 209  II 565  Glos 222

	     Persians, Turanians, Goths, Slavs   IS. I 569   IS II 426-433

c.	1,000,000 - 500,000   B C

998,100   Cataclysms:  Atlantis begins sinking   	SD II 141
				Is I 557 593  SD II 10 144  Glos 42-3

869,000   Dwapara Yuga Commencement  (since 1888) 	SD II 147
                  	( our present Kali-Yuga began 3,102 BC )

850,000   Since submergence of last large peninsula of
                        the Great Atlantis       		SD II  10

850,000	   Glacial Period est. by Stockwell & Croll	 SD II 141 144

800,000   Angkor Wat built (2nd most Occult Edifice)  Glos 223
					IS I 239 561-8 271-2

	500,000 - 250,000  B C

470,000   Babylon's astronomical observations go back to
		this  Nebo or Birs Nimrud,   CWB 13-274  IS I 533

450,000   Epoch of Ramayana  (Brahmin estimate)     	C & J p. 73
             	Theos't Vol. 10-35   SD II 496  IS II 278  Glos 275

400,000   Egypt was settled by the Atlanteans and the Eastern
				AEtheopeans		SD II 750

	250,000 - 100,000  B C

250,000+ Last Glaciation of Europe                  	Isis I  3

              Pyramids were 3 times submerged  	SD I 313 424 617  GL
223;
		SD II 462-6 575 435 749-50 351-3 462 351-2 93 276fn 429;
		 GLOS 300  IS I 154 239 296-7 517-21; THY V. 67-p.54

	  Sphinx  (Harmachus)	SD II 124 618  Glos 135-6  Is I 573

200,000	  Chaldean Astronomical Observations extended back at
		Alexander's invasion -- Berosus 		SD I xxvi

200,000	  Stockwell & Croll estimate of last Glaciation	SD II 144

	100,000 - 30,000 B C

78,000+  Denderah Zodiac [Egyptians brought from Lanka--Menes ]
			SD II 374fn 431-6 456 577 580; IS I 440-1

49,186   Egyptian Records go back to ( Diogenes Laertius )
                    by 8,863 yrs. in 323 BC        	IS  I  33

34,300   Sumerian Tablet gives 32,234 yrs between Deluge
                    and last king of Isin c.200 BC   	Thy 16, p.195

	30,000 - 10,000 B C

29,217   Alpha Polaris (Dhruva) (as Pole Star) (in 1888)
                    31,105 yrs ago          		Glos.  17

15,194   Zodiac (latest) Originated  --  1st degree of Aries

15,086   Vernal Equinox and 1st degree of Libra coincided
		( 16,984 yrs ago in 1888 )	SD I 658

12,300	 Vyasa - Uttara Mimansa & Vedanta taught  Isis II 621
		"Bhadarayana"		SD I 50 269 451  Glos 361

11,100   Vega (Alpha Lyrae) was Pole Star             Thy 17-18

	10,000 - 6,000 B C

9,566     Deluge of Deucalion.  Last Island of Atlantis 	ML p. 155
		submerged.  Last war between the "Sons of God"
		of the "White Island" and the last Atlantean sorcerers
			IS I 589-594   5 Yrs Thy p. 99  SD II 406 444fn

9,500	Atlantis - Last Island sank Timaeus"- Plato as narrated
		by Priests of Sais to Solon	TM 46-469

8,000    Hindu Initiates had same Secret Philosophy then
		as now (estimate)		SD II 406  IS II 535

8,000    Tchandalas begin to emigrate from India to Chaldea
			SD II 200  Glos 323 165  IS I 135 551-2 578
					Isis II 438-9  SD I 313fn

7,975    End of the last Sidereal Year  Ocean 129  SD I 649-50
               	(9,975 BC)  		SD II 314 331 432 470

6,500 c  Zarathustra (6,000 yrs. before Plato c 400 BC)
			Glos 384-5; IS I 19  II 141; SD I 464, II 323
				Theos't I-13; Thy 14-97

	    ["Zoroaster"  (Guru-astera) is a Title for a chain of 24
Zoroasters.
		The last was a contemporary of Gautama Buddha. c. 600 BC ]

	6,000 - 4,000 B C

6,000--5,000    Trojan War nearer 6,000 BC  	S D II 437fn
                			Thy 27-103  IS I 520 598  Glos 96
		(Dardanus) 	SD II 101 236 440

5,100     Neith (1st Dynasty)  	Lucif 2-465  SD I 399;  Glos  77 227
234

4,100 c  Manu-Vina  (Menes) to Masra (Cairo) 	IS I 627 516
                		SD II 335 374 431-2 436 746;  Thy 15, 317

	4,000 - 3,000 B C

3750 	 Sargon I reigned   (Prof. A.H.Sayce)	SD II 691

3,700      Local Deluge in Middle East  		S D II 691

3,200 c   Date assigned to last Veda Vyasa by
                	the Brahmins. [Vyasa is a title.]     Glos  362

3,102      Kali Yuga (ours)  began  Feb. 16, AM:  2 Hrs, 27 Min, 30
Sec.
               	[the only precise time given in the SD ]
 					SD  I 662  SD II 147 fn

3,102      Krishna's death  (18 Feb. 3,102 BC)  	Glos 170 387
               	[ midnight 17/18 ]   	Thy. I-p. 374;  IV-p. 37

3,102      Hindu Zodiac 	Begins at Sunrise Feb 18th 3,102 BC  SD  I
662
               	( origin of present Hindu era: "Vikram Samvat"
                    		and Zodiac, Tiravalour, So.India )

3,100 c   Vikramaditya rules at Ujjain ("Vikram Samvat")   SD I 662
		[ begins at Sunrise, February 18th 3,102 B C ]

3,100 c   Fu - H'si  ( Krishna of China )        	Thy 14- 308

              Po - H'si  ( 1st Ruler of China)       	Thy 14- 1

3,100 c   Arjuna to Patala  ( marries Ulupi )    	SD II 214fn
			[ Orphean Mysteries ]	Glos  29
               	("Patala" = Mexico )  	Thy 15, 546  IS II 561fn

3,100 c  Orpheus identified with Arjuna  	Thy 27, 148  Glos 242
               	On travel to Patala, stops in Greece
			HPB ART III 138  IS I 532  II 129 550
			SD I 207 267fn 529 784  Lucif 16-273
			Theos't 5-20 Col 2 Bot,
	"Mysteries of Orpheus" established.

	3,000 - 2,000 B C

3,000 c   Gilgamesh epic "Flood" of Jewish Bible   Thy 16, 307

2,875 c   Akkadians (Semites) Sumer Sargon  	IS I 576-78

2,800 c   Yi-King  (Chinese Kabala Akkadians) 	Thy 25-444

2,700     Hwang-Ti  3rd after Po-H'si     	Thy 15-19  Thy 14-310

          	  Babylon & Assyria  		Glos 47 37 IS I 567 ML 152;
 					THY 16-194 307

2,253     Chaldean Astronomical Observations for past 1903 years
		Calliosthenes to Aristotle (c 350 BC)  	IS I  21

	  Kasidim  	Glos 75 81 39 196  IS I xxviii 534 459 567
             	     HPB Art III 134  ML 152  CWB 5-13 326-8  SD II 620

2,200 c   Shu-King and Shi-King  (China)   Thy 14-310  IS I  11

          	  Hammurabi  (Code) Babylon        	Thy 16-196

2,000 c   Sumeria  old texts interlinear Semitic  	Thy 16-194
               	translations                           	Thy 21-414

	2,000 - 1,000  B C

1,925 c   Hittites capture Babylon            IS I 567-8
1,850 c   Chung-Ki  (China )                   Thy 14-34

1,700 c   Knossos  (Crete) at its height      IS I 264  545
             	[ c 3,000 BC - 1,400 BC ]

1,628	  Thera (Santorini) Volcano Erupts  (Tree Ring Dating)
				[ L A Times,  Aug 29 1996 ]
		[ End of Minoan Civilization,  tidal waves
		      overwhelm coasts of Eastern Mediterranean.]

1,600 c   Hyksos  ( Semites ) overran Egypt       IS I 569-70

1,500 c   Arameans over-ran Mesopotamia         IS  I  579

          	  Phoenicians  ( Semites )       IS I 569 567 572 545

1,573     Moses born 	SD II 539 691 MOD PAN 45 HPB III 244;
  			IS I 3 555; SD I 320fn 385  II 428 456 465 691
 					   IS II 129  I 25

1,447      Aries in its 15th degree     	SD II 436 fn  SD  I 658

1,400 c   Achaeans to Crete  destruction of Knossos dynasty
                    	(Thera-Santorini volcano explodes ? )

1,350 c   Tutankhamen XVIII Dynasty (son-in-law of Ikhnaton)

	  Aton replaced Amon-Ra --  Thebes-capital of Egypt

1,225 c   Rameses II ( restored Karnak & many monuments )

             Greeks:  Aeolians  Ionians  Dorians  Achaeans

             Scythians from central Asia begin invading Russia
		Khazaks (in 8th Cent. identified with Jews & Semites )

1,250     Sanchoniathon compiled religious writings   SD II 440fn;
          		IS I 234 341-2 577-8 II 260 275 SD II 129 440  Glos 289

	1,000-900 B C

1,000 c   Aztecs  to Central America    	S D II 445  Thy 16, 70-1

  974-937  Solomon  	IS I 135 II 391 ML 345  SD II 591  M Pan 45-6

  970-936  Hiram I at Tyre  ( Phoenician Jews ) 	IS I 19 135 566-8

  945    Conjunction of all the Planets except Saturn   SD II  63
		[Note: great conjunction in 1957, 1965-7 & Sun Eclipse]

  900 c  Inca Kings	Thy 16-25  Glos 154 HPB Art III 428

	Note:  List is closed here.  The full list continues up to the
present.

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