TABLE. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— MORTAL YEARS. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 360 (odd) mortal days make 1 _Krita Yuga_ has 1,728,000 _Treta Yuga_ “ 1,296,000 _Dvapara Yuga_ “ 864,000 _Kali Yuga_ “ 432,000 _Maha Yuga_, or the four preceding, has 4,320,000 71 _Maha Yugas_ form the reign of one _Manu_, or 306,720,000 14 _Manus_ are 4,294,080,000 Add the dawns or twilights between each _Manu_ 25,920,000 These reigns and dawns make 1000 _Maha Yugas_, a _Kalpa_, or Day of _Brahma_ 4,320,000,000 _Brahma’s_ Night equals his Day and Day and Night together make 8,640,000,000 360 of these Days make _Brahma’s_ Year 3,110,400,000,000 100 of these Years make _Brahma’s_ Life 311,040,000,000,000 The first 5000 years of _Kali Yuga_ will end between the years 1897 and 1898. This _Yuga_ began about 3102 years before the Christian era, at the time of Krishna’s death. As 1897-98 are not far off, the scientific men of to-day will have an opportunity of seeing whether the close of the five thousand year cycle will be preceded or followed by any convulsions or great changes political, scientific, or physical, or all of these combined. Cyclic changes are now proceeding as year after year the souls from prior civilizations are being incarnated in this period when liberty of thought and action are not so restricted in the West as they have been in the past by dogmatic religious prejudice and bigotry. And at the present time we are in a cycle of transition, when, as a transition period should indicate, everything in philosophy, religion, and society is changing. In a transition period the full and complete figures and rules respecting cycles are not given out to a generation which elevates money above all thoughts and scoffs at the spiritual view of man and nature. CHAPTER XV.