Theos-Talk Archives (September 1997 Message tt00013)

Catching up after a month largely on the road...

Dallas:

> I wrote a good more than the first 7 paragraphs of my memo on the
> Neanderthals as samples of the PHYSICAL record of a limited
> section of mankind. Why should one assume that there is a
> uniform, round-the-world period when all humans were identical in
> general structure? Look around us today at the many diverse human
> forms that can come together at any one time. Why not in the
> past also ?

What diverse human forms? Are you calling the trivial genetic
differences between human beings DIVERSE? One can certainly
assume a uniform, round-the-world period when all the humans are
identical in general structure; it's called NOW.

> I agree that one has to use what evidence one finds, but, BUT, to
> engarft a whole theory ( or, a working hypothesis ) which will
> captivate the minds of most of the children being educated
> thereafter is a truly a monstrous thing, for they, being young
> and ignorant, have no alternative at that time to consider the
> possibility of different alternatives. The "theory," or "working
> hypothesis," is for them the TRUTH. Later on in life they find
> that this is not totally correct. [ I have been through this
> revelatory condition, and have resented the fact that I was not
> taught much earlier that the "laws" and "theosries" were only
> PARTIAL EXPRESSIONS of the thoughts of advancing investigators in
> the sciences.]

You have to do the best you can.

> What modern Theosophy has tried to present are some of the key
> missing peices and links, which, when used, will serve to make
> the pattern of the puzzles much clearer. We are dealing with the
> World as a shole, and the various pieces have to be seen, if
> accuracy is required, as part of the whole, each in its own place
> in terms of the ladder of time.

However, in providing the missing pieces, one should not pretend
that the pieces which are not missing don't exist.