rivate libraries that have never been
examined. How much more then may be hoped for from Ireland!

The third invasion was by a threefold people: the Fir Domnan, or
Men of the Goddess Domna; the Fir Bolg, or Men of the Sacks;
and the Galioin. From these races there were still people in
Connacht in the seventeenth century who claimed their decent.
Generally all three are called by the one name of Firbolgs. They
were "avaricious, mean, uncouth, musicless, and inhospitable."
Then came the Tuatha De Danaan, "Gods and false gods," as Tuan
MacCarell told St. Finnen, "from whom everyone knows the Irish
men of learning are descended. It is likely they came into
Ireland from heaven, hence their knowledge and the excellence of
their teaching." Thus Tuan, who has just been made to allude to
them as "Gods and _false gods._" This Tuan, I should mention,
originally came into Ireland with Partholan; and, that history
might be preserved, kept on reincarnating there, and remembering
all his past lives. These Danaans conquered, and then ruled
over, the Firbolgs: it is a glyph of the Third or Lemurian
Race, of which the first three (and a half) sub-races were
mindless--the Fir Domnan, Fir Bolg and Galioin; then the Lords
of Mind incarnated and reigned over them, the Tuatha De Danaan,
wafted down from heaven in a druid cloud. So far we have a
pretty exact symbolic rendering of the Theosophic teaching.

The Danaans conquered the Firbolgs, it is said, at the Battle of
Moytura. Now there were two Battles of Moytura, of which this
was the first; it alludes to the incarnation of the Manasaputra,
and with it the clear symbolic telling of human history comes to
an end. So much, being very remote, was allowed to come down
without other disguise than that which the symbols afforded. But
at this point, which is the beginning of the mind-endowed
humanity we know, a mere eighteen million years ago, further
blinds became necessary. History, an esoteric science, had
still more to be camouflaged, lest memories should seize upon
indications too readily, and find out too much. Why this should
be, it is not the time to argue; enough to say that the wisdom
of antiquity decreed it.

There has always been some doubt as to the Second Battle of
Moytura. Because of a certain air with which it is invested,
scholars think now, for the most part, that it was a later
invention. But I do not think so: I think that air comes from
the extra layer o