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Manvantara
In Theosophy, a period of manifestation which is in contrast to a pralaya, a period of dissolution and rest.

 


Manvantara (Sans.) A period of manifestation, as opposed to Pralaya (dissolution or rest); the term is applied to various cycles, especially to a Day of Brahma -- 4,320,000,000 Solar years -- and to the reign of one Manu -- 308,448,000. Lit.

Manvantara Period of activity as opposed to a period of rest. Frequently used to express a period of planetary activity and its seven races.

how you are told of one who is to be the Indra of the next Manvan­tara; how you are told of one overshadowed by Vishnu, who after the overshadowing passed away entered another stage of consciousness, and will re­appear in another Manvantara as ...

The kalpa is divided into fourteen manvantara, which are again subdivided into seventy-one maha.-yuga; the length of each of which is 4,320,000 human years.

This Hierarchy contains the primordial plane, all that was, is, and will be, from the beginning to the end of the Mahamanvantara [Cosmic Cycle, Kalpa]; all is there....Here are the Hierarchies of the Dhyani Buddhas.

It is an eternal and periodical law which causes an active and creative force (the logos) to emanate from the ever-concealed and incomprehensible one principle at the beginning of every maha-manvantara, or new cycle of life. (return to text) ...

Manvantara and Pralaya
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The History of Reincarnation by C. satr and Reincarnation Jinarajadasa 1921
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See also: Spirit, Spiritual, Ritual, Philo, Plane