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poss ess ed that part of the procr eative force which the s eeker
lacked.
Thus did the evolving entity obtain brain consciousness
of the outside world at the cost of half its creative power.
Previous to that time, it used within itself both parts of that
power to externalize another being. As a result of that
modification, however, it has evolved the power to create
and express thought. Before then, it was a creator in the
physical world only; since then it has become able to create
in the three worlds.
THE RACES AND THEIR LEADERS
Before considering in detail the evolution of the
Lemurians it may be well to take a general survey of the
Races and their Leaders.
Some very valuable works on Occultism, bringing
before the public the teachings of the Eastern Wisdom, have
nevertheless contained certain mistakes, owing to a
misunderstanding of the teachings by those who were so
fortunate as to receive them. All books, not written directly
by the Elder Brothers, are liable to contain such errors.
Considering the extreme intricacy and many complications
of the subject, the wonder is not that mistakes do occur, but
that they are not more frequent. Therefore the writer does
not presume to criticize, recognizing that more numerous
and more serious mistakes may be embodied in the present
work, owing to his own misconception of the teaching. He
simply sets forth in the next few paragraphs what he has
received, which shows how the differing (and seemingly
contradictory) teaching of two such valuable works asThe
Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, andEsoteric Buddhism,
by A. P. Sinnett, may be reconciled.