AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. 5.

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CENOZOIC GEOLOGICAL EPOC The Cenozoic is the present geological Epoch. Knowledge of this past is now becoming easier to acquire in the 20th and 21st centuries, with such added information the past of humans becomes subject to greater complexity and therefore categorizing increases. The great period of the Cenozoic Epoch is therefore sub-divided into 2 eras, the Tertiary and Quaternary, which are in turn divided into ages or sub-periods. During the Cenozoic Epoch there is the rise of mammals, insects and flowering plants, whilst the dinosaurs become extinct. Continental drift brings land-masses to their present day form. TERTIARY or Cenolithic Era, is comprised of 6 sub-periods or ages called Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene. The last age also beginning the following Quaternary Era. Hominids will appear towards end of this Tertiary Era, circa 10-8 million years BCE. The stage of evolution from animal to human, is represented by the Vernal Point crossing the constellation of Sagittarius represented in the stars by the form of an archer mounted on a horse and signifying the opening up to greater possibilities. The lung centers of the evolving human form are of a gill-like structure to cope with the water-laden atmosphere of this pre-Atlantean Period of history. This may be the source of sea-god mythology recorded in many traditions and of the even later ‘Fisher King’ mythology. Paleocene-Eocene Ages: In these first two ages of the Tertiary Era, there is movement of the great land-masses into what is to eventually be Greenland and Scandinavia, and the formation of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea. The Asian land mass closes off Tethys’ Sea at the east end. and the thermal structure of the oceans stabilizes. During the Eocene Age, an asteroid hits planet Earth causing the extinction of the dinosaurs and depositing a layer of Iridium over the whole globe. Iridium will be discovered in 1803 CE and given the name of the rainbow goddess Iris. The atomic number of Iridium will be discovered to be 77, reflecting the number of the colours in the rainbow. Oligocene Age: In this third age of the Tertiary Era of Earth evolution, the Eurasian land-mass unifies and the circum-global ocean current systems becomes established. There is the appearance of the first primates on earth. Miocene Age: In this the fourth age of the Tertiary Era is the appearance of primitive apes in east Africa, which will again disappear by about 15 million years BCE, except for two species, Keyapithecus africanus and Kenyapithecus wickeri. From this point in time, apes radiate out over the rest of the world. [ SANAT KUMARA/MELCHISIDEC, also called ‘The Ancient of Days’, begins to express itself.  This is the middle of the watery Lemurian epoch. As the Planetary Logos of Earth, Melchisidec is Lord of this World.  ‘Adi-Sanat’ is the First or ‘Primeval Ancient’, identified with the Kabalistic ‘Ancient of Days’. From this Being emanates the mystic Essence, ‘Svabhavat’, which in turn manifests as Numbers, and in Kabalistic terms is called the ‘Archetypal World’. Equatorius africanus, an early ape, is living in the Tugen Hills of north central Kenya, in Africa. It will be found to be a link between the early ape and what will become the modern ape. Pliocene Age: During this fifth age of the Tertiary Era, the first hominids (human-like creatures) appear in Africa. In late Lemurian times, when the human species can be identified as such, the seed of Christ-hood or the ‘Christos’ is planted within humankind. Thus arose the first truly human race where the mind aspect began to emerge and the duality of mankind became a fact. This occurrence correlates with the number of constellations increasing from 8 to 10 and those groupings of stars known as Virgo and Leo become active and are added to the former 8 signs of Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Libra, Cancer, Gemini, Taurus and Aries. During these Lemurian times, Capricorn marked the end of the zodiac wheel. The signs of Aquarius and Pisces will not become active parts of the circle of zodiac constellations until the Atlantean period of evolution draws nigh. BEN-ELOHIM or the Promethean Spirits descend as part of the evolution of human consciousness. These spirits give to humans the fiery spark of self-consciousness thus enabling them to develop self-determination and to therefore have a moral responsibility for their actions. PTAH or PROMETHEUS is one such god or spirit of fire as recorded in mythology. He is one of the four sons of the Titan god Iapetus and known as the Egyptian and Greek god of fire, suggesting a race memory of this time and of the descent of spirit to create the first hu-man. In the future, Prometheus will join the ranks of the younger Olympian gods when it looks like they will win power, but he will take his revenge on the Olympian’s take-over by favouring mortals with the gift of spiritual fire. Legend makes Prometheus the creator of mankind and is popularly interpreted as the giver of material rather than spiritual fire to early man. In the words of the future Greek philosopher Olympiodorus, the TITANS are ‘wand or thyrsus-bearers; and one of their number, Prometheus concealed fire in a reed, by which we may understand either that he draws down celestial light into generation, or leads the soul into the physical body, or calls forth divine illumination, the whole of which indicates that the ungenerated are becoming the generated. Hence Socrates Orphically calls them the multitude, thyrsus-bearers, because they live Titanically. The narthex (wand or thrysus) is a symbol of material and partible fabrication because it has as it were a false form, for it is wood and not wood. More rightly is it so called on account of its sundered continuity, whence it is likewise a Titanic plant. For they hold it before Dionysus (Bacchus) instead of his paternal scepter, and through this they call him into a partible nature’. Proposed date for earliest true hominids arising from apelike stock. Called Australopithecus, 3 species are identified, with a possible fourth. They are found in Africa. Early human species Homo are supposed to have arisen from this stock. The Fourth Root Race of humans begins to evolve in solid bodies and are referred to as the Atlanteans. They appear on planet Earth towards the end of this Tertiary Era. The Cosmic Potter and bringer of Fire