Theos-Talk Archives (June 2001 Message tt00034)

Saturday, June 09, 2001


Dear Reed:

Re: BAMIAN STATUES	[ see: S.D. II 337-40]

These five statues represent since over a million years the
decrease in size of mankind as it has reincarnated into forms
from the 1st Race (on this "Globe D" to our present 5th Race.

Three times I visited Kabul in the 1960s and was frustrated, as
even in mid-year the snows had the only passes through the
Hindukush mountains blocked. I did want to get over to Bamian
(8,500 feet level), and see those wonderful gigantic statues for
myself. But the snows blocked the passes and the tunnel later
built by the Russians through the range (under the snow levels)
was not in place. In the last year (1999-2000) or so, the
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine illustrated these marvelous statues
with a recent visitor's article and pictures. Did you see those
? I think they are available through the Internet archives of
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - so we may see them again as they were.

In the S.D. H.P.B. states (I am giving here, some relevant
sections for brevity:

":the five statues belong to the handiwork of the Initiates of
the 4th Race (Atlantean) who sought refuge there after the
submergence of their continent. [This was close to 1 million
years ago according to the S.D. II 340, 750, if we take cyclic
overlap into account. ]

"Bamian...in Central Asia ...is the place where they have stood
for countless ages, defying the cataclysms around them and even
the hand of man ... [these] being commemorations in hard,
everlasting stone for the instruction of future generations ...
no larger statues exist on the whole globe...the largest is 173
feet high... and is made to represent the First Race of mankind
[on our Globe D] ...the 2nd is only 120 feet...and is meant to
represent the 2nd Race, the "sweat-born" ... the 3rd is only
60 feet high ...and immortalizes the 3rd Race ...the "race that
fell, and thereby inaugurated the first physical race" ... the
4th about 25 feet high (similar to those found on Easter Island)
commemorates the Lemurian Race at the time of its destruction ...
the last (5th) statue was about the same height as we are (S.D.
II 338-40) and represents the 5th Race (ours).

[Buddhist monks came into Bamian and Central Asia around the
first century ... they found those statues and many others
crumbled into dust, and, establishing their monasteries
(viharas) they piously covered the statues with plaster, paint
and gilding -- thus changing their appearance ... Houen Thsang,
the famous Chinese traveller, visited Bamian in the 7th century
and leaves an account of their magnificence then. Apparently it
was those early Buddhist monks who changed the appearance of the
statues adding features that made them resemble their concepts of
the traditional appearance of Gautama, the Buddha ...(S.D. II
339)]

I watched on TV the explosive destruction that took place in
Bamian under the orders of the Taliban (the ultra Islamic
political ruling group). It was startlingly sad.

One thing that was not destroyed were the enormous recesses in
which those ancient statues were carved out of the mountain side,
and which protected and preserved them. I also noted that the
outlines of the figures against the living rock of the mountain
can still be discerned. But one may expect, as future centuries
roll by, the memory of those great figures - a million years
old - will be distorted and their purpose fade from tradition and
memory of the local tribes. (S.D. II 750 speaks of the Initiates
of the 2nd "Aryan" sub-race traveling though the world to
establish monuments to preserve aspects of the great and
immemorial truths. One may hope these statues were also a part
of Their work.)

One wonders if H.P.B. mentions these in the S.D., not only
because they illustrated the Occult History of the decrease in
Man's stature as his form consolidated into gross physical
matter, but also, because this destruction may have been
foreseen. I recall one of the Masters' Letters speaking of the
Great Guru they all respect and honor: "before whose eye the
future stands as an open book."

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Reed Carson [mailto:carson@blavatsky.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:13 AM
To: study@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-study] Correction: Bamian statues

What a terrible misspelling. They are the "Bamian statues". I
must have had
"Bahamas" on my mind.

Reed


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