Theos-Talk Archives (June 2000 Message tt00106)

	Just as an example of what I was talking about...

ernesto wrote:
> > > DAVID:And, so, we consider seriously this
> > > theory, against ALL actual reputated antrophology and archeology .
> > > Certainly, the existence of man since 300,000 years or more, and 
> > > even much, much, much before also in the previous Rond, is a dream 
> > > of nonsense from the scientific point of view.
> >
> > BART:        Possibly. Or perhaps we are misinterpreting Blavatsky, 
> > the scientific evidence, or both.
> 
> Ahhh, that is another possibility.  That you think HPB did not taught 
> that ideas that I mentioned.  But clearly it is not so. She did it, and 
> I donīt quote the hundreds of places where she doe it, because I think 
> that is obvious.

	But what is a human? Is it a being with two arms, two legs, two eyes,
ears, a head, a torso, in the form of what we call "humanoid"? If so,
then Blavatsky's description of the 4th Root Race would have required
that the laws of physics have radically changed in an extremely short
period of time (or, as the Christian fundamentalists believe, Satan has
planted false evidence around). Note that the 1st Root Race was not
humanoid at all; it was barely physical at all. One CAN reincarnate into
a HIGHER form of life, after all.

> That we are misinterpreting the scientific evidence?  May be.  Science 
> is not synonymous of truth.  Just Gnosis is Truth.  Moreover, 
> scientifical theories change almost every year in many cases.  May be in 
> fifty years science will say that primitive man was hermafrodite, and so 
> on.

	Possibly. But I was thinking in terms of the direction of evolution.
Most scientists assume that it was pull; evolved bodies caused evolved
"souls". But Blavatsky implies that it was push; evolved "souls" caused
evolved bodies. Given that, if the apes were an unsuccessful attempt to
evolve our current human bodies, that would reconcile Blavatsky's
statement that apes were descended from humans with the anthropological
evidence.

	Bart Lidofsky

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