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(Fourteen have been identified, each with his own manvantara [great age], half of them belonging to the future!)
Intelligent Design and Rhetoric Richard Nokes 2005
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I told her what the aquastor Malrubius had told me upon another night upon another beach: that in a previous manvantara, the men of that cycle had shaped companions for themselves from other races, and that at the destruction of their universe these had escaped here to Yesod; that they ruled our universe through the Hierodules, whom they themselves had shaped.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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One word, however, may still be said about that evolution of the race -- that progress which all creation, with mankind at its head, is ever destined to achieve century by century, millennium by millennium, manvantara by manvantara, and kalpa by kalpa.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
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Now the period we have been contemplating in the foregoing pages -- the period during which the Atlantean race was running its course -- was the very middle or turning point of this present manvantara.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
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Center play the part in Europe, that the Southern one did in the manvantara 870 B.C. to 630 A.D.?
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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In that decade a manvantara of the race would seem to have begun, which lasted through the dynasties of Hia and Shang, and halfway through the
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Our present European manvantara began while Frederick II was forcing a road for civilization up from the Moslem countries through Italy; we may take 1240 as a central and convenient date.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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In the manvantara 2980 to 1480 B.C., did the Western Laya
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Europe at large has been very much in manvantara, a day or waking period, for a little over six hundred years.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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And that this present European manvantara or major cycle was lit up from a West Asian Cycle; from the Moors in Spain; from
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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