|Origin of the Pithecoid and the Anthropoid Apes (264 total
words in this text) Origin of the Pithecoid and the Anthropoid
Apes. The anatomical resemblance between Man and the higher Ape,
so frequently cited by Darwinists as pointing to some ancestor
common to both, presents an interesting problem, the proper
solution of which is to be sought for in the esoteric
explanation of the genesis of the pithecoid stocks. Now, we
gather from the Secret Doctrine 1 that the descendants of these
semi-human monsters described above as originating in the sin of
the "mindless," having through long centuries dwindled in size
and become more densely physical, culminated in a race of Apes
at the time of the Miocene period, from which in their turn are
descended the pithecoids of to-day. With these Apes of the
Miocene period, however, the Atlanteans of that age renewed the
sin of the "mindless"--this time with full responsibility, and
the resultants of their crime are the species of Apes now known
as Anthropoid. We are given to