- although the Root Races overlap, in that a new one commences before an older one has run
its course. It is easy to show that the Precession which ended with Christ was the end of the
Fifth Family Race of the Fifth Subrace of the Fifth Root Race: making 33 Family Races or
Precessions since 850,000 B.C. Therefore the present Sixth Family Race, of the present cycle
of Precession, may be considered as a bridging cycle out of which both the Sixth Sub-Race
and the Sixth Root Race will in the next cataclysm approach their start around 25,900 A.D.
The foregoing is not put forward dogmatically, but as an interesting explanation of the
significance of these long cosmic cycles. The implication is that the present cycle of
Precession is a bridging cycle between two great Lifewaves (Root Races), and thus has
extraordinary importance; that it commenced with Christ and the cosmic Cross formed by the
Equinoxes and the Line of the Planetary Nodes; and that the significance of the Crucifixion is
essentially cosmic, and the Mission of the Christ one of initiating the great Precessional cycle
of Transition from the Fifth to the Sixth Lifewave. It is a notable fact that on April 1, 25 A.D.
(Julian Calendar), when Jesus was 30 years of age and at the start of his mission, according to
a consensus of historical researches, there was a Great Cardinal Cross, wherein Uranus in
Cancer at its Node on the Invariable Plane opposing Neptune in Capricorn at its Node on the
Ecliptic, was in cross relationship to Saturn in Aries at its Node on the Equator opposing
Jupiter in Libra - all the Nodes on the three basic planes which at that time were forming the
cosmic cross. In addition there was a Full Moon in Libra with the Sun in Aries, Mars in Aries
also in the Cross, and at its Node on the Ecliptic. Pluto was in early Sagittarius; and Mercury
and Venus were retrograde in the last decan of Pisces - the Sign of Christianity and of the
traditionally first of the 12 Ages into which the Precessional cycle is customarily divided.
Thus through the crossing of orbit planes, the Nodes, this Planetary Cross shows a remarkable
relationship to the Cosmic Cross made at that time by the Equator, Ecliptic and Invariable
planes.
This full discussion is warranted on the basis that this date marks the blending of all the chief
cycles which affect the Earth, and the significance of the cosmically-indicated Crucifixion of
Christ, which could never before have occurred in the two-billion-year history of the Earth. A
third Cross is found to be involved, if one considers the four consecutive Solar eclipse paths
which passed over Jerusalem and Bethlehem, both before and after the life of Jesus. The total
Eclipse of July 4, 336 B.C. at 6.3° Cancer; the total Eclipse of April 2, 303 B.C. at 7.5° Aries;
the annular Eclipse of January 5, 29 B.C. at 12.6° Capricorn; and the annular Eclipse of
October 4, 590 A.D. at 13.2° Libra - all Julian dates. These form a Cross in their positions on
the Ecliptic (Zodiac), the positions in near-agreement with the Zodiacal places of the four
chief major planets on April 1, 25 A.D.: Uranus, at 10.1° Cancer; Neptune, at 13.8°
Capricorn; Saturn, at 4.8° Aries; and Jupiter, at 15.4° Libra - all calculated from Schoch's
Tables by Ralph Kraum. Thus the Planetary Cross activated the Eclipse Cross (zodiacal), and
the drama of the ensuing Crucifixion was enacted in Jerusalem where the four eclipse-paths
had crossed and were to cross (Geographical), while both in turn were the projection of the
basic evolutionary Cosmic Cross of the three fundamental planes which signified the
commencement of the most vital cycle of Precession (both planetary Precession and general