CONTETNS Contents to Volume II 453 SECTION IV; EVOLUTION 459 19 EVOLUTION IN THE POPOL VUH 461 1 Introduction (by the Mayan author) 461 2 Creation 468 2.1 The Gods enclosed in Quetzal Feathers - a Glittering Light 472 2.2 General Outline of Evolution 474 2.3 The Three Logoi 475 2.4 The Cosmic Mind 476 2.5 Manifestation and Evolution 482 2.6 Early Humanity 485 2.7 The Giants 490 2.8 The Twins 495 2.9 The Histoiy of Thinking Humanity and of the Mayas in Particular 498 20 EVOLUTION IN JAINISM 503 21 EVOLUTION AND INVOLUTION IN THE ViJu PURANA 507 1 Introduction 507 2 Beyond and Before Creation 508 3 The Cause of Creation 510 4 Creation 511 5 The Seven or More Creations 512 6 The Egg of Brahma 517 7 Secondary Creation 517 8 Human Evolution 525 8.1 Rsis and Manus 526 8.2 Rsis 527 8.3 Manus 533 9 Involution 535 22 EVOLUTION IN THEOSOPHY 542 1 Fundamental Concepts 542 1.1 Before the Birth of the Cosmos 542 1.2 Precosmic ideation 542 1.3 Subject and Object 543 1.4 Force 543 1.5 Cosmic Ideation 543 1.6 Evolution Defined 544 1.7 Humans First 546 1.8 Evolution or Emanation 547 1.9 Multi track Evolution 548 1.10 Involution, Evolution and Compassion 549 1.11Designers of Speciation and their Mistakes 550 1.12 Mutation and Speciation 552 1.13 Jiva Defined 553 1.14 Svabhava 554 1.15 Svabhava and Speciation 555 1.16 Fohat 556 1.16.1 Fohat and Atoms 557 1.16.2 Fohat as Wisdom558 1.16.3 Fohat as Energy and Force 558 1.16.4 Fohat Cosmologically 559 1.16.5 Where does Fohat Originally come from? 559 1.16.6 Fohat as Cosmic and Human Principle 560 1.16.7 Fohat and the Laws of Nature 560 1.16.8 Fohat in Evolution 561 1,17 Sista 563 1.17.1 Minerals 566 1.17.2 Plants 567 1.17.3 Animals 568 1.17.4 Humans 569 1.17.5 Surplus of Life: Sistas and the Unfolding of the Universe 569 1.17.6 Sistas and Reembodiment: the Key to the Doctrine of Cycles 570 2 The Stanzas of Dzyan 571 2.1 Cosmic Evolution 571 2.1.1 STANZA i 571 2.1.2 STANZA ii 575 2.1.3 STANZA iii 579 2.1.4 Si ANZA iv 582 2.1.5 STANZA v. 583 2.1.6 STANZA vi 584 2.1.7 STANZA vii 585 2.2 Human Evolution 587 2.2.1 STANZA I: Beginnings of Sentient Life 588 2.2.2 STANZA II: Nature Unaided Faiis 590 2.2.3 STANZA IV: Creation of the First Races 592 2.2.4 STANZA VII: From the Semi-Divine down to the First Human Races 594 2.2.5 Modes of Reproduction 596 2.2.6 STANZA VIII Evolution of the Animal Mammalians 597 2.2.7 STANZA IX: The Final Evolution of Man 599 2.2.8 The Development of Speech 600 2.2.9 STANZA X: The History of the Fourth Race 602 2.2.10STANZA XI : Civilization and the Destruction of the 4th and 5Ih Races 603 2.2.11 STANZA XII: The Fifth Race and its Divine Instructors 603 23 IMPLICATIONS FOR MODERN EVOLUTION THEORY 605 1 Introduction .605 2 The Origin of Life 612 2.1 A Buddhist Approach 614 2.2 A Native American Approach 616 2.3 A Jain Approach 617 2.4 A Hindu Approach 617 2.5 A theosophical Approach 619 3 Competition or cooperation 621 4 Non-occidental Approaches 632 5 Efficiency of Adaptation 633 6 From Micro-evolution to Macro-evolution 636 6.1 Micro-evolution 636 6.2 Macro-evolution 638 6.3 What is a Taxon? 638 6.4 Conclusion 643 7 Gradualism or Saltation 644 8 The Origin of Novelties 646 8.1 Complexity 646 8.2 Homology and Analogy 651 8.3 Gene Regulation and the Origin of Novelties and Species 652 8.4 Attractors 654 8.5 Conclusion: the General Line of Evolution 655 8.6 Other Cultures 656 9 Cataclysms and Speciation Booms 656 10 God? 660 11 Aesthetics 662 12 Human evolution 664 12.1 Is the Human Species an Animal? 664 12.2 Why not Many Species of Humans? 668 SECTION V: APPENDICES 671 Appendix 1: Karma in theOglala Indian Tradition 673 Appendix 2: The Popol Vuh 676 Appendix 3: The Visnu Purana 683 Appendix 4: The Way to an All-understanding Mind: Spiritual Evolution in Jainism; The fourteen-fold Path of the Jains 687 The Seed ot'Jaina Buddhas of Compassion 694 Appendix 5 Interviews 701 Introduction 701 List of Interviewees 701 List of Questions 704 Dr. Gregory Cajete 707 Cycles 707 Causality 707 Prof. Dr. Alfonso Ortiz 708 Wakan Tanka 08 Nature 708 Death and Reincarnation 708 Jim Barnett 709 Duality 709 Kachinas and Devas 712 Bodhisaltva Doctrine 715 Reincarnation 716 Cycles of Development 718 The Origin of Species 720 Violence and Sacrifice in Nature 721 Causality 722 Communication 723 Swami Paramarthananda 726 Some Concepts (a selection): 743 Manu 743 Pralaya 744 Upadhi 744 Four Cardinal Directions 745 Prof. Dr. M.D. Vasantharaj 745 Dr. A. Thejagarajan 765 Theerabantha Vajiranano 776 M. Selvaraman BA 790 A. E. Devarajan MA 800 The Mechanism of Rebirth 802 Possession 803 Death 805 Karma and Physical Defects 806 About life and death 807 Creation and evolution 808 Beyond the Physical and the Mind 811 The Supreme Being and Consciousness 812 The Goal of Evolution 813 Distinction between Animals and Humans 813 The Pineal Glan J. 815 K. Sankariah BA 822 Karma and Rebirth 828 The Eating of Plants 829 Rebirth 830 Extinction of Species 831 Reincarnations and Twins 831 S. Krishnachand Chordia 832 Prof. B.V. Radhakrishnan 837 Causality 837 Albert F. Richter Msc 840 Nivard Vas 844 Dr. David Roef 847 Literature 869 Notes 879 Index 887