same position. The astronomer Stuart showed that this is correct and that the period is
4,319,936.8663 years: at the end of which Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn
return to a position in the Fixed Zodiac about 20° behind where they started. He found this
also applied to the "new" planets, Uranus and Neptune; and that an increase in the period of
Pluto of only one part in 100,000, or 0.001 per cent, will also bring it into recurrence. It
would appear that in the present Mahayuga the mean period of revolution of the Earth's
apsides is about 115,000 years from LeVerrier's figures, and about 110,000 from Stockwell's
somewhat more accurate figures: and the average period of revolution of the major axis of the
Earth's orbit must have a mean value of approximately the same order of magnitude: i.e.,
110,000 to 115,000 years.
In the present cycle both of these periods are near minimums, since the eccentricity and
inclination of the Earth's orbit are decreasing to minimum values. In the current cosmic Era
the length of the Planetary Precession and rotation of the Line of Apsides will be from 72,000
to 75,000 years. The minimum inclination will be reached in about 20,000 years and the
minimum eccentricity about 26,000 A.D., one cycle of general Precession after Christ. The
last Stationary position of the Perihelion-Stationary-Direct after several thousands of years of
retrogressive motion - was about 26,000 years before Christ: again one cycle of the general
Precession.
The relationships of these cosmic cycles to the time of the Christ is indeed remarkable, and
tends to confirm the belief that a new cycle of general Precession then commenced.
Furthermore at that epoch the Nodical line of Ecliptic and Invariable Plane was at right angles
to the Nodical line of Ecliptic and Equator - the Equinox - thus making a Cross! The position
of the Nodical line of the Planetary precession in the Moving Zodiac was 16°14'6.00" Cancer-
Capricorn on January 1, 1850. The present position of the Perihelion end of the Line of
Apsides - where the Earth is nearest the Sun - is about 11° Capricorn, i.e., the position of the
Sun on or shortly after January 1 of every year (deviation due to Calendar variation or Leap
Year effect). Thus it appears that we commence our year at what after all is astronomically
the most logical time.
The minimum eccentricity of the Earth's orbit, at about 29,900 A.D., will be the smallest
minimum since the greatest maximum, about 850,000 B.C., showing a great cycle, governing
all planetary eccentricities in the Solar System, of a duration of approximately 1,750,000
years. According to Madame Blavatsky's "Secret Doctrine" it was around 850,000 B.C. that
the first and most serious cataclysm destroyed most of the continent of Atlantis, at the start of
what she terms the Fifth Root Race. As a cataclysm by Water, this suggests that the next
cataclysm may be by Fire, and will occur about 25,900 A.D., at the start of the Sixth Root
Race. Since she maintains that each Root Race has 7 Sub-races and each of these in turn 7
Family Races, there should be 49 Family Races in a Root Race or Lifewave. She also states
that the period of a Family Race was that of the general Precession, a little under 26,000 years