Kali-Yuga and the Kalki-Avatara

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 24 pages

Kali-Yuga, the age of darkness, misery and sorrow now current, is the subject of the first half — including one thing peculiar to the present age which the file says the student may turn to use, and the description of consciousness on its long pilgrimage from Light to Darkness, an entire cycle from Alpha to Omega.

The second half concerns the Kalki-Avatara whose appearance ends that suffering. Vishnu appears in this last manifestation as the tenth Avatara only because every unit held as an androgyne manifests doubly, the Messiah being the fifth emanation or potency. The Kalki-Avatara comes forth from Shambhala, the City of Gods; the heaven opens and he appears on a white horse — and the Christian Advent, Blavatsky remarks, was copied from the Hindu. He will appear as Maitreya-Buddha in the seventh race, and will incarnate into humanity collectively rather than in one man, as the first teacher of this round was a Dhyani-Chohan and the last will be one again. The file closes with what earnest Theosophists can do against the Black Age, a glossary of terms, and two appendices: the designations of the Kalki-Avatara in the major religions, and a calendar of the Race that never dies.

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