Today we start our adventure by looking at the sixth round of the Moon Chain. To date, we have looked at how the mammalian monads in the previous five rounds began to causalise. Some groups of animals did it the right way, others the wrong way. Let’s continue now and look at the sixth round. The problem is that no information has been published about what happened in Globes A, B and C. We shall therefore commence our discussions with our study of Globe D, the Moon itself.
When you consider the vast history of any globe, we have to focus somewhere, so let us stick with the groups we discussed previously. These 1. Young souls individualised in the fifth round, on Globe D. They were then born in the sixth round as humans of a simple and primitive type, though not savage or brutal as
Leadbeater describes their appearance as being “ragged with lips thick, noses squat and wide at the base”. We are told they lived on an island. They do not fight among themselves except when food runs short; but there was fighting against invaders from the mainland, who were particularly brutal. Leadbeater tells us these invaders were cannibals, fiendishly cruel, and dreaded by the inhabitants of the island. The islanders, themselves, killed whoever they took prisoner, but did not, like the mainland invaders, either torture them living or eat them when dead. The aggressive humans from the mainland were from those monads who had individualised by fear in the fifth round.
The life of the islanders was communal and they lived promiscuously. The intervals between death and re-birth were very short, a few years at most. One reason for this is that they did not have much of a mental body to dwell in and process what they had just experienced. So they went into the Emotional World and reincarnated quickly. When they did, they were re-born in the same community. These monads were assisted to a limited degree by more advanced monads, which quickened their evolution. The future master Morya came to the islanders and taught them the use of fire and cultivation of the soil. Later, the master Koot Hoomi also joined the party and under his influence, the people became marginally more civilised.
The Master Morya later returned to his own country and city. This was a civilised habitat by comparison, with large attractive buildings and many shops. Animals were used, both for draught and for riding. Commerce was carried on with other cities and canals connected the city with others over great distances.
One thing of interest was that the most evolved monads in this community had a blue complexion. The ruling council of this city was in touch with a group of people living secluded lives in an inaccessible region. Where have we seen this before? These people, some of whom will be known later as the Lords of the Moon, when they reach the stage of Arhat, 46-selves, were themselves pupils of still more exalted Beings, who had come to this globe from other spheres and were even further up the evolutionary ladder.
From these high adapts came an instruction to the elders of the city to exterminate the savages of the mainland coasts. This was duly effected. The islanders, previously mentioned, were then transferred from their island to the mainland, and incorporated as a colony of this more advanced empire. Cruel as this may seem, it was part of the operation of the Judgement Day of the Moon Chain, when those who were incapable of further progress on that chain were eliminated from it. Under this category came those savage monads who had bodies that were suitable for their low stage of evolution but would no longer be available to incarnate into. As they died, they passed into a condition of interchain sleep. Many bodies of similarly low development were destroyed by seismic catastrophes, which laid whole districts waste, and the population of the globe was consequently drastically reduced.
From this time forward all energies were directed towards rapidly pressing forward the evolution of those monads who remained, preparing them for life on the Earth Chain. The whole tribe, partially civilised by Koot Hoomi, our very own Pythagoras, managed to escape the dropping out process. The orange group, who individualised in the fifth round by vanity, were mostly born into city populations, drifting together by similarity of tastes and contempt for others, though their vanity led to a great deal of quarrelling among themselves. The separateness of their nature became intensified and their mental body strengthened in an undesirable way, becoming more and more of a shell, shutting out others. As they repressed animal passions, the emotional body grew less powerful, animal passions being starved out by a hard and cold asceticism, instead of being transmuted into human emotions. Sex and passion, for example, were suppressed instead of being changed into love. Hence, in life after life, they had less feeling and physically tended towards asexuality. Whilst they developed individualism to a high point, this very development led to constant quarrels and rioting. They formed communities, but these broke up again because no one would obey; each wanted to rule. Any attempt, by more highly developed people, to help or guide them, led to an outburst of jealousy or resentment, it being construed as a plan to manage or belittle them. Pride grew stronger and they became cold and calculating, without pity and remorse.
On Globe E, the emotional globe, they remained active, but only for a short time, the emotional body being dwarfed until it became atrophied. On Globe F, the Mental Globe, the mental body became hardened and lost plasticity, leading to a curious truncated effect, which was not attractive to look at. To view them, you would see someone who had lost their legs from the knee downwards and had their trousers sewn up over the stumps.
The yellow group, individualised in the fifth round by admiration, were docile and teachable and also tended to incarnate mostly into city populations. They formed, what Leadbeater called, a “better class of labourers, rising through the lower middle class to the upper, and developing intelligence to a very considerable extent”. They were free from excessive pride, so that their auras, as mentioned previously, were not orange, but clear, bright and rather golden yellow. Whilst not devoid of emotion, their feelings led them to cooperate and be obedient to those wiser than themselves, being selfish rather than loving. Their intelligence induced them to co-operate for their own advantage, rather than to spread happiness among others; hence their orderliness and discipline quickened their evolution. But, as we saw before, they gave the impression of having developed in their mental bodies the qualities that should have had their roots in their emotional bodies, founded in and nourished by love instead of by self-interest. Hence their emotional bodies were insufficiently developed. This led to them not being able to profit from their sojourn on Globe E, the emotional globe but considerably improved their mental bodies on Globe F, the mental globe.
Are you beginning to see a pattern here? Although it is Globe D where the main action happens in the evolution of a monad, what has been achieved here is consolidated in the later globes, which are always on higher planes and so are in the realm of the higher envelopes of a monad.
Globes E, F and G were most useful to the groups of monads who had individualised in one of the three ”right” ways and were consequently developing in a balanced, rather than in a lop-sided fashion. Unlike those monads who had individualised in one of the ”wrong”, ways, so far as intelligence was concerned. Those monads would be compelled, later on, to develop the emotions they had in the early days either stunted or neglected.
In the long run, we have to completely develop all of our talents and this is done through balancing our envelopes from etheric to causal. Over the huge sweep of evolution from nescience to omniscience, the progress or the methods at any particular stage lose their importance, which they once may have appeared to have, based on our ignorance at the time.
As Globes E, F and G in the sixth round came successively into activity, great emotional and mental progress was made by the more advanced monads. The Day of Judgement having eliminated from the chain the backward monads, there were no hopeless laggards to be a drag on evolution and growth was steady and more rapid than before.
Much of the vegetation in the sixth round belonged to what we would now call the fungus family but was gigantic and monstrous. Some trees grew to a great height in a single year and some were semi-animal. Branches when cut off, writhed like snakes and coiled around the humans who had been using the axe, constricting them as they died. Red sap, like blood, gushed out as a result of the strokes of an axe. The texture of the tree was fleshy. The tree itself was carnivorous, seizing any animal that touched it, coiling its branches around it in an octopus-like embrace and sucking it dry. Only very strong and skilful men were entrusted with the task of harvesting such a dangerous crop. When the branches had died, the rind was stripped off and made into a kind of leather, the flesh being cooked and eaten. What is wrong with just ordering a pizza from your local takeaway?
Many of the growths we must call plants were semi-animal and semi-vegetable. One had a large umbrella-like top, with a slit in the middle which allowed the two halves, armed with teeth, to open out. It bent over, with gaping jaws and seized any animal that brushed against it, snapping its jaws over it. Then the stem straightened itself and the closed halves opened to form the umbrella-like surface once again, while the animal was sucked dry. The men cut the trees down whilst the jaws were closed. This was done by the person leaping out of reach, as the top swooped down to seize the aggressor. Our Venus Fly Trap seems to be very timid by comparison, except for the flies that fall into its embrace.
Insect life was abundant and gigantic and served largely as food for the carnivorous trees. Some insects were two feet long, aggressive and were best avoided by the human inhabitants.
The houses were built as quadrangles, enclosing very large courtyards. These were covered in strong netting and in the seasons when the large insects were numerous, the children were not allowed to go outside these enclosures. The year was, roughly, about the same length as our own. The relation of the globe to the sun was similar but was different as regards the constellations. When the sixth round was completed, preparations began to be made for the exceptional conditions of the seventh and final round, during which all the inhabitants and much of the substance of the Moon Chain were to be transferred to the succeeding chain, that of the Earth. That exciting tale will begin in the next presentation.