The limited space at command forces us to allow a few brief quotations to stand as landmarks and not even attempt long explanations.  It is no exaggeration to say that upon each of the few hints now given in the cited Slokas a thick volume might be written.

From the well-known hymn To Time, in the Atharva-Veda (xix. 53): 

     “Time, like a brilliant steed with seven rays,
     Full of fecundity, bears all things onward.

     “Time, like a seven-wheeled, seven-naved car moves on,
     His rolling wheels are all the worlds, his axle
     Is immortality....”

—­down to Manu, “the first and the seventh man,” the Vedas, the Upanishads, and all the later systems of philosophy teem with allusions to this number.  Who was Manu, the son of Swayambhuva?  The secret doctrine tells us that this Manu was no man, but the representation of the first human races evolved with the help of the Dhyan-Chohans (Devas) at the beginning of the first Round.  But we are told in his Laws (Book I. 80) that there are fourteen Manus for every Kalpa or “interval from creation to creation” (read interval from one minor “Pralaya” to another) and that “in the present divine age there have been as yet seven Manus.”  Those who know that there are seven Rounds, of which we have passed three, and are now in the fourth; and who are taught that there are seven dawns and seven twilights, or fourteen Manvantaras; that at the beginning of every Round and at the end, and on and between the planets, there is “an awakening to illusive life,” and “an awakening to real life,” and that, moreover, there are “root-Manus,” and what we have to clumsily translate as the “seed-Manus”—­the seeds for the human races of the forthcoming Round (a mystery divulged but to those who have passed the 3rd degree in initiation); those who have learned all that, will be better prepared to understand the meaning of the following.  We are told in the Sacred Hindu Scriptures that “the first Manu produced six other Manus (seven primary Manus in all), and these produced in their turn each seven other Manus” (Bhrigu I. 61-63),* the production of the latter standing in the occult treatises as 7 x 7.  Thus it becomes clear that Manu—­the last one, the progenitor of our Fourth Round Humanity—­must be the seventh, since we are on our fourth Round, and that there is a root-Manu on globe A and a seed-Manu on globe G. Just as each planetary Round commences with the appearance of a “Root-Manu” (Dhyan-Chohan) and closes with a “Seed-Manu,” so a root-and a seed-Manu appear respectively at the beginning and the termination of the human period on any particular planet.