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I-46 East/West esoteric terminology for the
long (e.g., 5,000 year) ages of the human being’s evolution
Foundations of Esotericism,
Glossary and Lect. 26; The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric, Lect. 2
In
esotericism, the ages (of diminishing length; cf. Mt 24,22; Mk13,20)
of the human being’s evolution (from a certain early point) are as follows:
| Western
Term |
Oriental
Term |
Period
(Approx.) |
| Golden
Age |
Krita
Yuga |
Atlantis |
| Silver
Age |
Treta
Yuga |
Atlantis/Indian/Persian |
|
Bronze Age |
Dvapara
Yuga |
Persian/Chaldo-Egyptian |
| Dark
Age |
Kali
Yuga |
3,101 B.C. to A.D. 1899 |
| Our
Age-future |
|
1899 A.D. to ca. A.D. 4,399* |
| *(or
A.D. 4,399 till the end of our present post-Atlantean Epoch) |
These
are not recognized in Brit., which deals only with their historical
or literary meaning, but they are recognized in RHCD
(in Classical Mythology), as follows:
| Golden
Age |
the
1st and best of the 4 Ages of the human being; an era of peace
and innocence |
| Silver Age |
the 2nd of the 4 Ages of the human being: characterized by an increase
of impiety and of human weakness |
| Bronze
Age |
the
3rd of the 4 Ages of the human being, marked by war and violence |
| Iron
Age |
the
last and worst of the 4 Ages of the human being, characterized
by danger, corruption, and toil |
(MWCD
also recognizes all four “ages,” but more mundanely.) And WNWD
also recognizes the first two, as follows:
| Golden
Age |
an
imaginary early age in which humanity was ideally happy, prosperous,
and innocent |
| Silver
Age |
the
second age of the world, inferior to the earlier Golden Age |
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