2. And, further, the time necessary for the manvantara even of one
planetary chain, much more of all seven, seems largely to exceed the
probable time during which the sun can retain heat, if it is merely a
cooling mass, which derives no important accession of heat from without.
Is some other view as regards the maintenance of the sun's heat held by
the Adepts?
3. The different races which succeed each other on the earth are said
to be separated by catastrophes, among which continental subsidences
occupy a prominent place. Is it meant that these subsidences are so
sudden and unforeseen as to sweep away great nations in an hour? Or, if
not, how is it that no appreciable trace is left of such high
civilizations as are described in the past? Is it supposed that our
present European civilization, with its offshoots all over the globe,
can be destroyed by any inundation or conflagration which leaves life
still existing on the earth? Are our existing arts and languages doomed
to perish? or was it only the earlier races who were thus profoundly
disjoined from one another?
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