Course XXXIX - Teaching 14: The Earthly Round

The globe of the intuitive mind was a sphere formed by very high super-radiant and potential vibrations. Entities that dwelt in it, of pure spiritual character, reflected their potentials on the grossest environment and projected a future body. Something like that occurred during the formation of Uranus and Saturn, since the Rounds produce on a lower scale what is made on the Wheels, just as the events if the seven Rounds is reproduced on a very little scale on the seven root races of our present Earth. One can imagine Man of the first Round just like an immense radioactive mineral whose passive state is the concept of very high spirituality, reflected on very slow movements of that half-passive matter. In the second Round, related to the instinctive mental globe following to the intuitive mental globe, after an immense rest, the Entities tried to get a higher condensation of the mental matter within their reach, forming ethereal giants or monsters who tried to reunite round them the thickest vibrations in all, of that wonderful mental sphere.
They were like huge half-luminous plants, like those described by Dante in the Chant XIII referred to Hell, in the Divine Comedy. In this Round was vastly repeated the development of the second Round. The sphere acquires a more compact and clear-cut aspect in the third Round, related to the Astral Globe. The astral matter is surrounded by immense humid vapors, which were matter that would shape the physical body. Now the Entities were fighting, since they had within their reach a thicker and fitter matter to form the astral body to achieve the great vehicle between mind and matter.
Entities that inhabit it were like giant apes, more shrewd than intelligent, almost without bones, but already with a skeleton. The high spirituality of those lives slowly became darker and darker to give way to the emerging mentality. Necessarily the wonderful night filled with millions of stars, must disappear from the sight of mortals and then the little Sun of our system will become manifested in its total splendor.
Those huge half-ethereal apes made good use of the watery vapor of their sphere and became thicker in the third Round. They bodies acquired a more solid constitution, they became more rational, and lunar man, ancestor of terrestrial man, appeared.
In the fourth Round of the heavenly ring, on our present Earth, called Bhumi in Sanskrit, the present physical body appears, and the intelligence of men acquires enormous development.
Big physical spooks are inhabited by Great Hierarchies, and this breakthrough brings language and freewill.
In the middle of its evolutionary stage, the Earth undergoes the great point of involution, and later tries to conquer the spirituality by its own efforts.
In the fifth Round, after the death of the Physical Globe of the Earth, the sphere will become auric, and man that will inhabit it will be a being without a permanent physical body. He will have a periodical or occasional body, which shall decay or become stronger at will. His curved body shall have a protruding abdomen and his feet backward. And his arms shall possess such a vibrational power that can be compared with that of a helix, which shall enable him to go from to-and-fro through the space. The body will be transparent, without internal organs, except heart and circulatory system, and one eye in the centre of the forehead.
On the sixth Round, beings entirely leave their physical and astral body, and only possess a mental body that is beyond description.
The seventh Round will contain a very high spiritual state.