(The use of the term 'men' or 'man' refers to mankind overall and not to males only.. please note.)

The ages ascend and descend, like the peaks and valleys of a wave.

Take a circle and split it into 2 halves, there is then an upper hemisphere and a lower hemisphere.

The upper has two halves the first or front being rising (the peak) the second or last half being descending.  

This descent continues down into the second hemisphere.  The first part of the second hemisphere is descending down into the lowest trough (valley) The back side of the valley is ascending.

There is much to the way men live during these quadrants of the ages.. first there is something to be said about the upper and lower cycles of time.  The upper half is usually categorized as being extremely associated and fluent with that of which we would call heavenly or open-to-divinity and the heavens (meaning the other dimensions)  The lower half has associated with it times of distant separation or a closing or shutting off of the connections, awareness, or openings that lead to omniscient awareness- aka universal conscious living.

People live differently during these times.  To make this even more simple we will say that there are times of golden ages and times of dark ages.  On the upper side of the cycle it is golden ages... however the peak gold age lies at the very apex of the hemisphere- it is categorized as times of immense duration and dilation.  Then there are the good ages which lead up to the peak golden age, then there comes the ages when the decline is noted.. and thusly the descent begins but those latter ages are till 'golden' as they are not entirely in the dark side yet.  

At some point the official crossing of the world into the dark side happens.  This is a further descent and it is the first age of the whole Darkened Ages.  The valley of this dark side is typically marked by times of extreme abuse of material living, total amnesia of divine reality, total domination of material only knowledge and a resurgence of primitive living- i.e. separateness, fight or flight, survival living.

There is something peculiar about the crossing of the upper and lower hemispheres which mark a difference in the world.  

Some examples- where to begin?  

The Peak Prime
During the Prime golden age men do not need to learn anything nor be taught, nor do they need any aid.  The connection to cosmic-awareness is total and whole.  People live as they please, death is unheard of and so is birth.  people can come and go out of material reality at will.  People can fly, form materials levitate objects, people are free from any and all suffering.  The Word/reality itself is very transient and plastic.  The awareness of the Etheric or primal materials is all apparent. heaven is at one with earth.  there is no distance between heaven and earth and people are able to live accordingly as any would in such prime conditions.  Time is also very expanded and extended.. it is wide open and therefore subject to distortion- people live as long as they will.. time is more than likely irrelevant.  but the flow of the force is dilated.. people live for thousands of years.. tens of thousands of centurial decades (!!)as if it were a decade to people in later ages.

The First Descent.  As the Prime golden age wains(spl) and begins to decline the world begins to notice a change in the reality.  This change is the result of the cosmic motions of heaven and earth beginning to just separate.  People alive during the prime golden age are very keen to know this and they know the world is beginning to decline.  Those very people were able to afford the study of the cosmos before the first decline so that they would accurately prepare or depart.  
The people who live in the latter golden age or Age of the First Descent are able to do many of the things they once could do in the Prime age- but now it is not as easy.  For instance- moving in and out of the etheric is not as easy(while still possible and heard of).  Although it is possible to manifest material out of the prime matter, it may begin to require careful effort and meditation.  During this age people might be more likely do do those manifestations through their lucid dreaming, which they should still be able to enter with ease.  In this age people may live as long as 10s of thousands of years because time is slightly contracting.


At some point during this gradual decline, heaven and earth have separated enough to no longer be touching- if it is safe to say that during the first separation, heaven and earth were still overlapped.  This marks the beginning of the darkened ages- or the Second Descent.  Usually the world has riddled through out it's activities many massive failings and corruptions of all things pure and divine- from the perspective of those living during those ages- they think evil is on the rise because men are ever more easily corrupted.  Also, a lot of disconnection and forgetting goes on in the collective- not to mention the populace may see a return of wicked creatures to the world as it is pure Earth and no longer heaven overlaps her.  The time spoken of in the story about prince ram and his sita- is from that 2nd descent age... they could fly still but had to use craft and vehicles using sacred principles. sure there were legendary people who could still do feats that were commonplace in the golden ages.

As the world continues to plummet into darkness it eventually hits the proverbial bottom ages- where things are utterly miserable- time is super condensed.  the lifespan of men has been on the decline for many generations now and people no longer are able to do things of the will.  In these darkest of ages people have completely been cut off from divine- they may not even access the divine through dreams.. the universe becomes very cold and life becomes cold.. the unknown is at maximum and the known has dwindled.. people worship death and killing is rampant- since time is massively contracted people go through many a short life.. they are able to get many lives in, during that lowest of age.  but at some point the age begins to turn up- even though it's broad and general. heaven is so far removed from earth that people have forgotten it is real.  much doubt and questions arise during those times.

The First Ascent.  This marks the first period of days when the bottom of the barrel has been cleared, but yet still in the Darkened side.. heaven is still far removed from earth.  However time is just starting to dilate and people soon start to notice increased lifespans, even though it is rare and spread out.  Since this part of the Age is still in the Dark hemisphere, wicked creatures still are present.  To put it basically wicked creatures thrive in the bottom of the barrel- the blackest part of the night.  they love it when darkness was growing in the 2nd descent ages, but as the 1st age of ascent begins the creatures of night grow wearisome for they know all to well the light of heaven is coming.  So in those times the battle of light and dark is the story of the light working to overthrow the dark.  This is the opposite of the first half- where the light was falling and things were becoming corrupt as the new ruler would be Night.  


As the age ascends further it reaches the point where heaven and earth are so close they just begin to kiss- this is a day to be celebrated.. time is opening up wide.. people are living longer and cosmic-consciousness or expanded consciousness is becoming more natural (ie to those born) evilness is altogether apparent and plainly discerned. it becomes harder for the wicked to thrive- all but the most stout of the wicked would have left. there is a massive restoration of natural and pure ways of living.. men become more divinely attuned.. balance in mankind social structure begins to return.. people on the whole are becoming knowledgeable and open to communion with the universe innately.  These ages may still use technologies but they are based on higher sciences- science merged with spirit in fact.  people of the end part of this age will show up being able to do feats without aid of technology or training.  Time continues to dilate in anticipation of the restoration of a prime golden age.  



Here is a shortened description of how a person is through each of the ages regarding magic;

1.)Prime Golden Age.  Man can do magic without aid- free will.. whatever he wills is what he does. natural magic.. summoning.. force.. healing.. manifestations.. whatever he can imagine.  magic thrives as balance and harmony with cosmic principles imbued with natural.  Man is at one with sprites and spirits..

2.)First descent.  Man can still do magic but he finds he needs to make use of incantations and evoke the energy.. the energy doesn't come to his will as easily as it did before.  he now has to say a spell or chant to make his magic work.. but yet it still works..  man has to call upon sprites and spirits to make use of them.

3.)Second Descent.  Man has to now use wands and staffs.. he can still use magic but must do so through concentration and training.. people of this age are like wizards and conjurers and mages and the like.  he has to make rituals using glyphs and ceremony.  The energy seems faded and it is distant- takes much to call it.  through great ritual sprites may be called -but it is harder to control.

4.)Bottom Age.  Magic becomes withdrawn and contracted and it is relegated to the mind of man as mere fancy and legend.  Man cannot command the elements whatsoever by his will alone nor by rituals or evocation- he must make technology to affect his will.  Magic remains dormant while existant in mankinds imagination and dreams.  

5.)First Ascent. people during these days find a return to magic- soon it becomes apparent to those who explore that magic becomes responsive- it is like a remembrance or clarity of how it works.. magic is returning.. Also there becomes those born in these ages who naturally have magic abilities without training while they may still need to refine their abilities with training.  Also technology becomes more imbuned with magical attributes during these times- like telepathic equipment etc.. cars that work because the driver wants them to.

6.)Second Ascent.  Magical Technology is in full swing and the masses enjoy many marvels.. transportation vehicles that work despite weather.. gadgets that work in harmony with nature and not opposed to it- people may even enjoy cyborg type of technologies or other enhanced tech related advancements.  But also people begin to realize that magic can ride free of technology or other aids and so they begin to do things on their own.  So instead of using a vehicle to travel some may teleport themselves.. some may even begin flying by themselves in these ages- there will be  an overlapping of those people as more show up for the next age.  

7.) Prime Golden Age.  Man once again returns to the free use of his will.. free ranging magic that needs no technology.. needs no training.. people can just know what they need to know.  The people of this age do things based on what they need for the moment or based on what they are good at or prefer.  This is how people work when a whole society is comprised of beings who are connected to the cosmic awareness.  People are also free to pursue greater explorations of wisdom.. more and more people are able to move in and out of material reality.. heaven and earth are overlapped 100%- one cannot tell a distinction.