“_Round II. He [man] is still gigantic and ethereal, but growing firmer and more condensed in body; a more physical man yet still less intelligent than spiritual (1), for mind is a slower and more difficult evolution than is the physical frame...._ “_Round III. He has now a perfectly concrete or compacted body, at first the form of a giant‐ape, and now more intelligent, or rather cunning, than spiritual. For, on the downward arc, he has now reached a point where his primordial spirituality is eclipsed and overshadowed by nascent mentality (2). In the last half of the Third Round, his gigantic stature decreases, and his body improves in texture, and he becomes a more rational being, though still more an ape than a Deva.... [All this is almost exactly repeated in the Third Root‐Race of the Fourth Round.]_ “_Round IV. Intellect has an enormous development in this Round. The [hitherto] dumb races acquire our [present] human speech on this Globe, on which, from the Fourth Race, language is perfected and knowledge increases. At this half‐way point of the Fourth Round [as of the Fourth, or Atlantean, Root‐Race], humanity passes the axial point of the minor manvantaric cycle ... the world teeming with the results of intellectual activity and spiritual decrease...._” This is from the authentic letter; what follows are the later remarks and additional explanations traced by the same hand in the form of footnotes. “_(1) ... The original letter contained general teaching—a __‘__bird’s‐eye view__’__—and particularized nothing.... To speak of __‘__physical man,__’__ while limiting the statement to the early Rounds, would be drifting back to the miraculous and instantaneous __‘__coats of skin.__’__... The first __‘__Nature,__’__ the first __‘__body,__’__ the first __‘__mind__’__ on the first plane of perception, on the first Globe in the first Round, is what was meant. For Karma and evolution have:_ ‘_... centred in our make such strange extremes,_ _From different Natures_(_296_)_ marvellously mixed ..._’ “_(2) Restore: he has now reached the point [by analogy, and as the __ Third Root Race in the Fourth Round], where his [the angel‐man’s] primordial spirituality is eclipsed and overshadowed by nascent human mentality, and you have the true version on your thumb‐nail...._”