animal kingdom

world of animals, realm of living creatures

Noun
1. taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals
(synonym) Animalia, kingdom Animalia
(hypernym) kingdom
(member-meronym) animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna

Animal Kingdom One of the main divisions or life-waves of entities on earth, separated from the human kingdom by its lack of the emanated or evolved self-conscious mind, a faculty which can be acquired only by the aid of beings already having it -- the manasaputras. The entities now pursuing their evolution in the animal kingdom will in a future imbodiment of the planetary chain become human in the same way, although a certain number of the highest animal stocks now living, such as the apes and possibly some of the monkeys, may attain incipient humanity before the end of the seventh round in the present planetary manvantara.
The mammals in this fourth round came later in time than man, having arisen from germinal cells thrown off from the bodies of the individuals of the human racial stem millions and millions of years ago, when nature still allowed such a procedure. These early mammals have since become highly specialized. The animals below the mammals originated from the human stock in the preceding third round, and hence their ancestors or sishtas were on earth and provided the origins of the later widely disseminated sub-mammalian stocks in this round, even before the human sishtas felt the incoming human life-wave and multiplied over the earth.

Synonyms and related words:
Animalia, and fish, animal life, animality, beasts, beasts of field, beasts of prey, big game, birds, blood, breed, brood, brute creation, cattle, chain of being, clan, class, class structure, deme, domain, domestic animals, establishment, family, fauna, folk, furry creatures, game, gens, hierarchy, house, kind, kingdom, line, lineage, livestock, matriclan, mineral kingdom, nation, natural hierarchy, order, patriclan, pecking order, people, phratry, phyle, plant kingdom, power structure, pyramid, race, realm, sept, small game, species, stem, stirps, stock, strain, totem, tribe, vegetable kingdom, wild animals, wildlife,
  

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