Theos-Talk Archives (August 2001 Message tt00120)

Notably, in the Mahatma letters, while they do refer to the Australian
aborigines, at most they say that the Australian aborigines have the
remains of the CIVILIZATION of the 4th root race, and this has been read
into by many that Australian aborigines are MEMBERS of the 4th root
race. From Blavatsky, what I have read implies not that the Aborigines
should be put to death, but that, as their civilization is pretty much,
"been there, done that", that there are fewer and fewer people who have
something to learn from them, and therefore they are dying out due to
low birth rate.

But it is important to remember that acting as an agent of karma does
not absolve one of any of the karmic debt that one brings upon one's
self by one's actions. A good parable is in the New Testament, where it
was Jesus' karma to be crucified, but Judas was still damned for
betraying him.

Bart Lidofsky

gregory@zeta.org.au wrote:
> USA (although one US publisher has indeed recently released a reprint of
> the work). Ignorance of science can, presumably, explain the strangely
> racist views of Blavatsky, Leadbeater et al towards the indigenous
> peoples of Australia.