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Re: Theos-World- Justificacion of Theosophical credibility: OntheMasters

Jun 09, 2000 06:37 PM
by Bart Lidofsky


ernesto wrote:
> 
> Bart Lidofsky escribió:
> 
> >
> >         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.
> >
> 
> Bart, I still don´t understand what you are trying to do.  By mentioning 
> the non fisical 1st Root Race, or the 4 th Root Race, it seems that you 
> try to say science is not in complete disaccord with theosophical 
> antropologie.  But we can´t hid the evident.
> 
> Theosophy teaches an enormous antiquity for the 5 th Root Race.  

	I am saying that the 4th Root Race could very well have had
non-humanoid bodies; they would still be human. Perhaps they were the
"serpent" mentioned in the book of Genesis, who lost their humanity when
the 5th root race accepted it (symbolically, by eating the fruit of the
Tree of Knowledge).

	Bart Lidofsky

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