Theos-Talk Archives (March 1997 Message tt00004)

Dear Friends:

I feel Gail and Rich are right on target. All life is sacred,
but artificial tampering by man with Nature is not. The passage
Rich refers to, I believe, is regarding the sin of the mindless,
is it not?

In that case "mindless" is the clue here. If the passage is on
p.263, Vol.II, which we were just studying in our S.D. study
class, it reads:

> In the Sixth Root-Race the fossils of the Orang, the Gorilla and
> the Chimpanzee will be those of extinct quadrumanous mammals; and
> new forms -- though fewer and ever wider apart as ages pass on
> and the close of the Manvantara approaches -- will develop from
> the "cast off" types of the human races as they revert once again
> to astral, out of the mire of physical, life. There were none
> before man, and they will be extinct before the Seventh Race
> develops. Karma will lead on the monads of the unprogressed men
> of our race and lodge them in the newly evolved human frames of
> the thus physiologically regenerated baboon.

On the opposite page (262) H.P,B. had spoken of the ape we know
as not a product of natural evolution "but an accident, a
crossbreed between an animal being, or form, and man." [accident
is italicized]. The whole passage is worth reading, and links to
clues of satyr-like creatures amidst the early races.

If indeed we are now preparing to go forward on the ascending
arc, as H.P.B. speaks of reversing the direction of the two
forces:

When "matter will become centrifugal and spirit centripetal"...
Then, shouldn't we focus on that inward thrust, rather than
tampering with nature via technological "advances" ? However, I
have used up my time, on "L.A. Freenet."