growing, and fifty years of descending vibration. Thus estimating at one hundred thousand years the passional and social career of the human race, one would distinguish: fifty thousand years of ascending vibration and fifty thousand years of descending vibration.
2nd THE PHASES, four in number, two ascending which are childhood and youth, two descending, maturity and old age. The childhood of man lasts 15 years, up to puberty, and the decrepit age in proportion is 85 to 100 in a centenarian. It will be the same in the human race in a career estimated at one hundred thousand years, with this difference that the two extreme ages, childhood and old age, are shorter by half in the career of the human race than in that of the individual, so that instead of fifteen thousand years of social childhood and old age, the human race need only undergo 5 to 6,000 from its origin. And yet one may shorten the duration considerably, and as proof, humanity which on our globe has no more than six thousand years of existence could have long since passed to harmony.
3rd THE TRANSITIONS, four in number, two extreme and two middle. The two extremes are the crises of birth and death. The two middle ones are the crises of intra-puberty or advent and of extra-puberty or decline. In the social career of the human race there likewise exist four transitions; the first is past, it was the epoch of creation, the extreme ascending transition. We are approaching the second, the middle ascending transition which is among the four the only fortunate one; it will take place through the coming advent of the human species to passional harmony.
4th THE MODES or orders, three in number: the major, the minor and the neutral. The major mode comprises relations exclusive to the masculine sex, the minor mode those exclusive to the feminine sex, the neutral mode those of both sexes below the age of puberty where they lack several passions among others two cardinal ones out of four: they are ignorant of love and paternalism.
The distinction of passional modes cannot take place in the civilized order whose ensemble is nothing but a passional cacophony, like an orchestra where each