Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00197)

Again.  Alice Bailey clarifies that the the races are states of
consciousness and not to beconfused with the exoteric use of the terms.
Materialistic and exoteric scholars will get confused and tragically
fundamentalistic if they are unaware of a special and well thought out  use
of language that springs out of the esoteric traditions.  Peoples are always
saughtered in the name of God or Christ or some other term that carries
powerful messages of good.  One doesn't stir up a people to have all their
children-soldiers mutilated on the battlefield by asking them to fight for
evil and materialism and pathologic selfishness.  FIGHT FOR YOU FAMILY AND
YOUR COUNTRY.  JOIN THE PATHOLOGICALLY-GREEDY BATTALION!

    Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com>
To: theos-talk@theosophy.com <theos-talk@theosophy.com>
Date: Saturday, May 20, 2000 12:17 PM
Subject: Theos-World Theosophy, Aryans, and Racism


>    I'm changing the subject here, as the new subject line indicates. I
actually
>did a little research into this business of the Nazi vs. the Theosophical
use of
>the term "Aryan". I originally became curious when I discovered that
Woodrow
>Wilson used the term "Aryan" to refer to Northwestern Europeans, in a
racist
>manner, years before the Nazi's. Before then, I had assumed that they had
taken
>it from Theosophical writings, and said, "The Aryans are the current humans
We
>are the only current humans; the rest are subhumans. Therefore, we are the
>Aryans!" But this was clearly not the case. I have since discovered that
the
>idea that the Europeans were direct descendents from the Aryans who wrote
the
>Vedas, and were a superior race, existed in the early 19th century; check
>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6015/ for an example (no, Doss,
this
>has nothing to do with the "New Acropolis".
>
>    H. P. B. certainly knew about this when she named the 5th Root Race the
>"Aryans". Perhaps she wanted to change the term to include the whole
current
>human race, showing the same perverse sense of humor as when she named her
>magazine, "Lucifer". Or perhaps (although I find this last almost
impossible to
>believe) she was only referring to Europeans, as the Thule Society claims.
Can
>anybody add anything?
>
>Eugene Carpenter wrote:
>
>> The Nazis were famous for taking the White Lodge teachings and distorting
>> them and materializing them for their own evil purposes.  It's all part
of
>> the Game of Life.  People need to be free to listen and read both sides
and
>> then have the joy and the excitment and the responsibility to make up
their
>> own minds and then live with the consequences of their decisions.  Good
luck
>> dear one.
>
>
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