I'll pull some Tarot cards for this.
Red root based civ: Inversed Ace of Wands
https://www.patchtarot.com/blog/ace-of-wands
"The reverse of the Ace of Wands would look like a false start; like a match which was struck but didn't fully catch fire and burnt out, or cancellation of energy in some way. This is an energy of dejection because the spark emanates from the purest source within, and so it is the lack of heart that causes the match to go out. The potential that didn't turn out the way it was originally intended to. Now, this isn't inherently a bad thing, it simply describes the light that sparkled for a second, but then disappeared in the void instead of turning into a bright and shining light! This can lead to further delays and lack of motivation, or can very simply be described as "the creativity is missing"; the environment was not right at that time, or there is no desire to do anything at all.
To turn this reversed card upright, simply realize that the sparks emerge out from nothingness within you, and you have infinite attempts to try and try again until the inner flame ignites and you begin to shine! You might feel as though you need to ignite the spark right now, and every time you feel poorly, it reflects poorly on your connection with spirit. However, this is not the case. Rushing will only make it take longer. Slow down, take a deep breath, and relax. From a state of peace, you will find your inner flame a thousand times easier than if you were to try and force it to appear."
So an age without fire, before Prometheus, where animal forms had no higher creativity or thought, but simply followed the seasons and reacted to external problems, trying to survive against all the odds. With no true understanding of how to better the odds of survival. Food and survival was everything.
https://www.patchtarot.com/blog/the-star A sacral chakra civilization
Now that basic survival needs have been met, perhaps via organized farming or livestock herding, now repopulating the Earth can become a priority. As people begin to have a grasp of higher values and vision, a faith in the future takes hold, and they spread their seed to the 4 corners.
A crystal based network
3rd density civilization at the solar chakra vibration: The Light
https://www.patchtarot.com/blog/the-light
"When drawing The Light in a reading, it speaks to the revealing and illuminating of something that is hidden. This is a total illumination, a "lifting of the veil" in order to vividly clarify something previously murky or confusing. Further, this is the creative light, and so describes that this illuminating power may encompass a new illuminating solution as well. This creative power is infinite and is a reminder that Spirit is always with you.
EXPANDED DESCRIPTION
The Light is a card that has no beginning and no end. It is infinite light, paradoxically emerging from the awareness of nothingness in the voidness of non-existence. This card describes a concept which our human minds cannot actively comprehend and thus points to the higher consciousness and source-field behind the workings of the cosmos.
The image of The Light shows the same image as card 22 - The Crown, with Patchman now having ascended into a higher dimension within his Merkaba. However, in this image, the perspective is zoomed out, and we see not only the close-range field around Patchman's body but also the expanded field encompassing him. This field is the actual ratio of the Merkaba field to the ratio of our bodies, which can be read about in "The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life Volume 2".
Ain Soph Aur translates to "Limitless and Eternal Light". There is a never-ending stream of learning which can come from the awareness of this field, and even we cannot truly begin to understand what it means or what it has in store for us - comprehension of it is reserved for God and God alone. Here there are no limitations in what is and what may come to be, it is a never-ending fractalling spiral of infiniteness which permeates everything and is the force behind the invisible forces of reality.
The upright and reverse keys here are titled "Reveal" and "Conceal". As this power is purely benevolent, it has no Qliphotic opposite. Therefore, even the reversal of this card is Holy, and together they describe the revelation and concealment of anything. In a reading, this may allude to an action you might take regarding something in your life, or something inside that requires illumination. This card also teaches that sometimes, we must conceal things in order to make the reveal even greater. You might liken this to a play or performance, where a curtain is drawn in order to change the set - this "concealment" hides the inner workings in order to reveal the luminescent message of the performance! If this was not concealed, it would break the fourth wall, and the audience would be left torn between engaged in the story and engaged in how everything was created."
To operate under the veil of confusion and illusion, to explore what is known and unknown. This would be a civilization that believes it knows everything there is to know about the world, and then realizes they know nothing at all that is 100% correct.
4th Chakra Inverse moon, lunacy This is when the real truth comes out and the civilization awakens, and then promptly gets confused, which can lead to all kinds of panicked reactions. Think a world that meets alien fleet for first time. Darkest before the dawn. Illusions, shadow work, all related now.
5th Chakra Inverse three of wands
6th Chakra : The Child inverse
7th Chakra : Eight of Disks.
Early, mid, and late stages I would classify as based on the sub density. 1.1-1.7 2.0 2.1 2.2-2.7 3.0-3.7 4.0 - 4.7 5.0
So if a third density civ reached 3.3, sub density of 3, they would be early, but the moment they reach a sub density above their normal overall vibration level, they reach middle. Late would be "half a step" before the next stage.
This terminology of early/middle/late was first something I saw used to explain cultivation realms in Taoist immortal cultivation texts, that talked about 9 circles of advancement.
To use an analogy, one can buy a bigger house, but now each room has to be well maintained, explored, and fixed up. So a small house with everything working is at late stage, but a large mansion that is half broken would be early stage.
This can be seen in humanity's progress, where sexual morality and matters of the heart has been known for some time, but only recently has it become a topic people were openly working on. Thus Earth had sexual education since the second and third density stages, but only when the sacral chakra was brought to people's attention along with compassion, was it being communicated. That required 5th ray, 3rd ray, 2nd ray, and 4th ray to be working together.
3.3.2.5.4 version, that is one way to write it.
To be able to jump from 3.3 to 3.4 takes even more work than that. And to jump from 3.3 to 4.0 even more work, but now it can be visualized.
Red root based civ: Inversed Ace of Wands
https://www.patchtarot.com/blog/ace-of-wands
"The reverse of the Ace of Wands would look like a false start; like a match which was struck but didn't fully catch fire and burnt out, or cancellation of energy in some way. This is an energy of dejection because the spark emanates from the purest source within, and so it is the lack of heart that causes the match to go out. The potential that didn't turn out the way it was originally intended to. Now, this isn't inherently a bad thing, it simply describes the light that sparkled for a second, but then disappeared in the void instead of turning into a bright and shining light! This can lead to further delays and lack of motivation, or can very simply be described as "the creativity is missing"; the environment was not right at that time, or there is no desire to do anything at all.
To turn this reversed card upright, simply realize that the sparks emerge out from nothingness within you, and you have infinite attempts to try and try again until the inner flame ignites and you begin to shine! You might feel as though you need to ignite the spark right now, and every time you feel poorly, it reflects poorly on your connection with spirit. However, this is not the case. Rushing will only make it take longer. Slow down, take a deep breath, and relax. From a state of peace, you will find your inner flame a thousand times easier than if you were to try and force it to appear."
So an age without fire, before Prometheus, where animal forms had no higher creativity or thought, but simply followed the seasons and reacted to external problems, trying to survive against all the odds. With no true understanding of how to better the odds of survival. Food and survival was everything.
https://www.patchtarot.com/blog/the-star A sacral chakra civilization
Now that basic survival needs have been met, perhaps via organized farming or livestock herding, now repopulating the Earth can become a priority. As people begin to have a grasp of higher values and vision, a faith in the future takes hold, and they spread their seed to the 4 corners.
A crystal based network
3rd density civilization at the solar chakra vibration: The Light
https://www.patchtarot.com/blog/the-light
"When drawing The Light in a reading, it speaks to the revealing and illuminating of something that is hidden. This is a total illumination, a "lifting of the veil" in order to vividly clarify something previously murky or confusing. Further, this is the creative light, and so describes that this illuminating power may encompass a new illuminating solution as well. This creative power is infinite and is a reminder that Spirit is always with you.
EXPANDED DESCRIPTION
The Light is a card that has no beginning and no end. It is infinite light, paradoxically emerging from the awareness of nothingness in the voidness of non-existence. This card describes a concept which our human minds cannot actively comprehend and thus points to the higher consciousness and source-field behind the workings of the cosmos.
The image of The Light shows the same image as card 22 - The Crown, with Patchman now having ascended into a higher dimension within his Merkaba. However, in this image, the perspective is zoomed out, and we see not only the close-range field around Patchman's body but also the expanded field encompassing him. This field is the actual ratio of the Merkaba field to the ratio of our bodies, which can be read about in "The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life Volume 2".
Ain Soph Aur translates to "Limitless and Eternal Light". There is a never-ending stream of learning which can come from the awareness of this field, and even we cannot truly begin to understand what it means or what it has in store for us - comprehension of it is reserved for God and God alone. Here there are no limitations in what is and what may come to be, it is a never-ending fractalling spiral of infiniteness which permeates everything and is the force behind the invisible forces of reality.
The upright and reverse keys here are titled "Reveal" and "Conceal". As this power is purely benevolent, it has no Qliphotic opposite. Therefore, even the reversal of this card is Holy, and together they describe the revelation and concealment of anything. In a reading, this may allude to an action you might take regarding something in your life, or something inside that requires illumination. This card also teaches that sometimes, we must conceal things in order to make the reveal even greater. You might liken this to a play or performance, where a curtain is drawn in order to change the set - this "concealment" hides the inner workings in order to reveal the luminescent message of the performance! If this was not concealed, it would break the fourth wall, and the audience would be left torn between engaged in the story and engaged in how everything was created."
To operate under the veil of confusion and illusion, to explore what is known and unknown. This would be a civilization that believes it knows everything there is to know about the world, and then realizes they know nothing at all that is 100% correct.
4th Chakra Inverse moon, lunacy This is when the real truth comes out and the civilization awakens, and then promptly gets confused, which can lead to all kinds of panicked reactions. Think a world that meets alien fleet for first time. Darkest before the dawn. Illusions, shadow work, all related now.
5th Chakra Inverse three of wands
6th Chakra : The Child inverse
7th Chakra : Eight of Disks.
Early, mid, and late stages I would classify as based on the sub density. 1.1-1.7 2.0 2.1 2.2-2.7 3.0-3.7 4.0 - 4.7 5.0
So if a third density civ reached 3.3, sub density of 3, they would be early, but the moment they reach a sub density above their normal overall vibration level, they reach middle. Late would be "half a step" before the next stage.
This terminology of early/middle/late was first something I saw used to explain cultivation realms in Taoist immortal cultivation texts, that talked about 9 circles of advancement.
To use an analogy, one can buy a bigger house, but now each room has to be well maintained, explored, and fixed up. So a small house with everything working is at late stage, but a large mansion that is half broken would be early stage.
This can be seen in humanity's progress, where sexual morality and matters of the heart has been known for some time, but only recently has it become a topic people were openly working on. Thus Earth had sexual education since the second and third density stages, but only when the sacral chakra was brought to people's attention along with compassion, was it being communicated. That required 5th ray, 3rd ray, 2nd ray, and 4th ray to be working together.
3.3.2.5.4 version, that is one way to write it.
To be able to jump from 3.3 to 3.4 takes even more work than that. And to jump from 3.3 to 4.0 even more work, but now it can be visualized.