This very old book is the original work from which the many volumes of _Kiu‐ti_ were compiled. Not only the latter and the _Siphrah Dzeniouta_, but even the _Sepher Jetzirah_(26)—the work attributed by the Hebrew Kabalists to their Patriarch Abraham (!), the _Shu‐king_, China’s primitive Bible, the sacred volumes of the Egyptian Thoth‐Hermes, the _Purânas_ in India, the Chaldean _Book of Numbers_ and the _Pentateuch_ itself, are all derived from that one small parent volume. Tradition says, that it was taken down in _Senzar_, the secret sacerdotal tongue, from the words of Divine Beings, who dictated it to the Sons of Light, in Central Asia, at the very beginning of our Fifth Race; for there was a time when its language (the Senzar) was known to the Initiates of every nation, when the forefathers of the Toltec understood it as easily as the inhabitants of the lost Atlantis, who inherited it, in their turn, from the sages of the Third Race, the Mânushis, who learnt it direct from the Devas of the Second and First Races. The illustration spoken of in _Isis_ relates to the evolution of these Races and of our fourth‐ and fifth‐race Humanity in the Vaivasvata Manvantara, or Round; each Round being composed of the Yugas of the seven periods of Humanity; four of which are now passed in _our_ Life‐Cycle, the middle point of the fifth being nearly reached. This illustration is symbolical, as every one can well understand, and covers the ground from the beginning. The old book, having described cosmic evolution and explained the origin of everything on earth, including physical man, after giving the true history of the Races, from the First down to our own Fifth Race, goes no further. It stops short at the beginning of the Kali Yuga, just 4,989 years ago, at the death of Krishna, the bright Sun‐god, the once living hero and reformer. But there exists another book. None of its possessors regard it as very ancient, as it was born with, and is only as old as the Black Age, namely, about 5,000 years. In about nine years hence, the first cycle of the first five millenniums, that began with the great cycle of the Kali Yuga, will end. And then the last prophecy contained in that book—the first volume of the prophetic record for the Black Age—will be accomplished. We have not long to wait, and many of us will witness the dawn of the New Cycle, at the end of which not a few accounts will be settled and squared between the races. Volume II of the prophecies is nearly ready, having been in preparation since the time of Buddha’s grand successor, Shankarâchârya.