#THEOSOPHY #BUDDHISMESOTERIC #PROPHECY
by @LygiaCabus
God "IS THE BE" in Eternity and has his Days and Nights that have equal durations and are infinitely long in relation to the human time scale.
Even so, Hindu sages, the Brahmins, designed a chronology of God's Eternity.
According to such chronology, for current Humanity, "the Time is near"... The current year [2024 AD] of the Brahmins could be:
5126 ─ of the present Kali Yuga or the Age of Kali or the Age of Iron
OF THE YEAR 4 billion 319 million 573 thousand 111... ─ of the present Manvatara, that is, since the last time God rested or ceased another period of his creative activity.
The next Pralaya will take 426 thousand 889 years to happen. At the same time, the present cosmic earthly Era will end. THE END OF A KALPA.
At the end of a Kalpa, all beings disappear into my material nature and emanate from me again, at the beginning of a new Kalpa. (Bhagadav-Gita. IX, 17)
FOR THE ESOTERIC BUDDHIST THEOSOPHER, AN ETERNITY is a KALPA or a DAY and a NIGHT of Brahmâ, corresponding to 4 million and 320 thousand years.
During a KALPA, a thousand mahâyugas occur, a thousand great cyclic Eras, IN MAJOR CYCLES AND MINOR CYCLES, a cyclic and unhurried reality in which a heroic principle, the peak (the high point), stability and degradation alternate.
The Cycles are composed of 4 Eras or Yugas, from the beginning to the end of a period of manifestation of Creation in a world. The Yugas or cyclical periods are:
KRITA or SATYA YUGA
TRETÂ YUGA
DWÂPARA YUGA
KALI YUGA
All Humanities pass through the four Ages SEVERAL TIMES, under different external circumstances, during the course of their History: Gold, Silver, Bronze, Iron.
The Age of Iron is the Age of Kali. Kali Yuga, in whatever world it may be, is characterized as a long period of darkness and this world, this Humanity, is now in one of its times of Kali-Yuga.
TIME, TIMES, A TIME
The theosophist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, in her books, claims that the beginning of the present Kali-Yuga is admitted by scholars to be around 3102 B.C. (considering inaccuracies for more or less).
In theosophy, THE ZERO COUNTING GROUND of the slow process of the present KALI YUGA began at the moment of Khrisna's death and, its duration of five thousand years, in terms of historical perspective, is close to its end.
For scholars and historians, this ZERO MARKhas a more robust reference: the Kurukshetra War, also called the Mahabharata War.
This folio shows part of verse 20 and the beginning of verse 21 of the opening chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, which deals with the theme of Arjuna's distress. प्रवृत्तू ॥ २० ॥ Then, seeing the sons of Dhritarashtra in formation, and the flight of missiles about to begin, ... the son of Pandu took up his bow, पते । अर्जुन उवाच । ...॥ २१॥ And spoke this word to Hrishîkesha, O Lord of the Earth.
Popular tradition holds that this war marks the transition to Kali Yuga and occurred in 3102 BCE. Khrisna accompanied Prince Arjuna in this War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurukshetra_War
Indeed, based on these standards, the "White Horse Avatar" is late. Among the inaccurate information, Blavatsky herself shows imprecise mathematics: it is recorded, also in Anthropogenesis:
Since the beginning of this Kali Yuga in 1887, 4,989 years have elapsed (ANTHROPOGENESIS, p. 83) - of a 5,000-year cycle of IRON.
By this calculation, the Kali Yuga should have reached its end in 1898... The end or transition to a New Golden Age would be 126 years late, (in this year 2024).
However, no one can demand precision or editing of reality when it is a transition process moving in the grandeur of a chronology that is quantified in hundreds of billions of years.
"The Kali cycles are marked by “the psychological or mental and physical states of man during her period”
(Isis Unveiled II:275).
In this sense, Kali-Yuga is the “age of iron” (hard times), of darkness, misery and sadness... the fall of the spirit into the degradation of matter, with all its terrible results” (idem).
She (Blavatsly) also relates the beginning of Kali-Yuga to unusual astronomical and astrological events.
https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/kali-yuga
BLAVATISKY WROTE IN COSMOGENESIS
Kali Yuga now reigns supreme (the year of publication of this text: 1888) in India, and seems to coincide with the Western [age of degradation, also]. In any case, it is curious to see how prophetic in almost all things was 'the writer of the Vishnu Purana in foretelling to (Lord) Maitreya some of the dark influences and sins of this Kali Yuga'.
Maitreya is the Avatar of Krishna who will come to rescue the remaining Humanity from the destruction of this Kali Yuga of this Fifth Human Race.
This Maitreya or avatar, who would be a reincarnation (or manifestation?) of Krishna, is called "the Avatar of the White Horse".
PROPHECIES
FROM THE VISHNU PURANA:
REVELATIONS AND TRIBULATION
The 'writer of the Vishnu Purana, after saying that the "barbarians" will be the lords of the banks of the Indus, of Chandrabhaga and Kashmera, adds:
"There will be contemporary monarchs, reigning over the earth—kings of coarse spirit, violent temper, and always addicted to falsehood and wickedness.
They will inflict death on women, children, and cows; they will seize the property of their subjects, and be covetous over the wives of others; they will have unlimited power, their lives will be short, their desires insatiable...
People of various countries mingling with them will follow their example; and the barbarians being powerful (in India) in the patronage of princes, while purer tribes are neglected, the people will perish (or, as the Commentator says, 'The Mlechchhas will be in the centre, and the Aryas at the end.')**
Wealth and piety will diminish until the The world will be totally depraved.
Property alone will confer position; wealth will be the only source of devotion; passion will be the only bond of union between the sexes; falsehood will be the only means of success in litigation; and women will be objects of mere sensual gratification.
External types [appearances] will be the only distinction of the various orders of life; a rich man will be considered pure; dishonesty (anyaya) will be the universal means of subsistence; weakness the cause of dependence... liberality will be devotion...
...He who is the strongest will reign; the people, unable to bear the heavy burden, Khara bhara (the burden of taxes) will take refuge among the valleys...
Thus in the Kali age decay will proceed steadily, until the human race approaches its annihilation.
KALKI: THE AVATAR OF THE WHITE HORSE
When the end of the Kali age is near, a portion of that divine being who exists, of his own spiritual nature... will descend on Earth... (Kalki Avatar) endowed with the eight superhuman skills.
He will re-establish righteousness on Earth, and the minds of those who live at the end of Kali Yuga will be awakened and become as translucent as crystal. The men who have been thus transformed... will be the seeds of human beings and will give birth to a race that will follow the laws of the Krita age, the age of purity.
BLAVATSKY, COSMOGÊNESE
IN A DOUTRINA SECRETA.*PDF, p 199
If a dramatic End of Time that "every eye will see" is indeed about to happen, humans should know.
The prophetic literature is real, available, and historically verifiable in comparated studies on events that has been ocurred.
The scribe of the Vishnu Purana wrote as a prophet: he pointed out the SIGNS. All prophets enumerate clear SIGNS. It remains for Man to pay close attention to the signs, in the microcosm of his life and in the macrocosms around him.
SOURCES
BLAVATSKY, H.P.. ANTROPOGÊSE IN A DOUTRINA SECRETA. São Paulo: Pensamento, 2008.
BLAVATSKY, H.P.. COSMOGÊNESE IN A DOUTRINA SECRETA.*PDF, p 199
https://web.seducoahuila.gob.mx/biblioweb/upload/Blavatsky,%20H%20P%20-%20Cosmogenesis%20[English].pdf
BLAVATSKY, H.P.. Glossário Teosófico. São Paulo: Grimaldi, 1995.
MUTTATHIL, George.The Seven Yugas
https://blavatskytheosophy.com/the-seven-yugas/
Cosmogenesis - H.P. Blavatsky, publicada originalmente em dois volumes, em 1888
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu_Purana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurukshetra_War
