Kalpa

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Original BK teaching poster of The Cycle

BKs see time as a loop, with one endlessly repeating kalpa i.e. cycle, which consists of:

• Golden Age - paradise on earth - a Garden of Eden - one people, one language, one religion /way of life/, no sorrow, no conflict.
• Silver Age - an age of change of dinasties from Sundinasty to Moondinasty, a change of religion from deity to warrior, with a slight degradation in perfection.
• Copper Age - an age of beginnig of dualism the establishment and growth of commerce and religion
• Iron Age - an age of degradation, decay, and death

This is in accordance with Hindu and Vedic beliefs, and is echoed in other ancient cultures (e.g. Greeks), but the BKs give a radically different timespan for the cycle, and are unique in believeing the cycle repeats identically each time. They teach that each quarter lasts 1250 years, giving a total cycle of 5000 years. there is a "fifth age' of 40 to 100 years, the Confluence Age which overlaps the end of the Iron Age and beginning of the Golden Age.

The BKs believe that we are at the end of an Iron Age, in the Confluence Age, and our next births will be in the next cycle, following a short period of Destruction or world transformation.

See also: Gyan