Theos-Talk Archives (August 2001 Message tt00123)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bart Lidofsky
> Sent: 13 August 2001 04:34
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Indigenous Australians
>
>
> 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.


Bart,

That was very well put. A relevant passage from the Mahatma Letters is
below and indicates that from the perspective of the Secret Doctine...

* The aborigenes belonged to the highest and last branch of the 4th Root
Race and had reached their highest civilisation long before our strutting
peacock of western physical-intellectual subraces had even appeared.

* The majority of mankind belongs to the last sub race of the Fourth Race
and the last sub race of the Third Race

* The "white conquerors" (presumably the white Indo-European Stock - 5th
Sub race of Fifth Race) are spoken of by the Mahatma as the most developed
in "physical-intellectual" capacity. (To get this in perspective, we need
to keep in mind this is 'brain intellect' or Lower Manas devoid of the
spiritual light of Buddhi and probably nothing to feel that proud about.)

* From the SPIRITUAL perspective the highest spiritually developed race of
this 5th Root Race of are the Aryan Asiatics. (1st Sub race of Fifth Race)


I qoute the whole passage below, for the interested reader.

...Peter

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>From the MAHATMA LETTERS TO A.P. SINNETT;

But to return to "civilizations." Do you know that the Chaldees were at the
apex of their Occult fame before what you term as the "bronze Age"? That the
"Sons of Ad" or the children of the Fire Mist preceded by hundreds of
centuries the Age of Iron, which was an old age already, when what you now
call the Historical Period -- probably because what is known of it is
generally no history but fiction -- had hardly begun. We hold -- but then
what warrant can you give the world that we are right? -- that far "greater
civilizations than our own have risen and decayed." It is not enough to say
as some of your modern writers do -- that an extinct civilization existed
before Rome and Athens were founded. We affirm that a series of
civilizations existed before, as well as after the Glacial Period, that they
existed upon various points, of the globe, reached the apex of glory and --
died. Every trace and memory had been lost of the Assyrian and Phoenikean
civilizations until discoveries began to be made a few years ago. And now
they open a new, though not by far one of the earliest pages in the history
of mankind. And yet how far back do those civilizations go in comparison
with the oldest? -- and even them, history is shy to accept. Archeo-geology
has sufficiently demonstrated that the memory of man runs back vastly
further than history has been willing to accept, and the sacred records of
once mighty nations preserved by their heirs are still more worthy of trust.
We speak of civilizations of the anteglacial period; and (not only in the
minds of the vulgar and the profane but even in the opinion of the highly
learned geologist) the claim sounds preposterous. What would you say then to
our affirmation that the Chinese -- I now speak of the inland, the true
Chinaman, not of the hybrid mixture between the fourth and the fifth Races
now occupying the throne -- the aborigines, who belong in their unallied
nationality wholly to the highest and last branch of the fourth Race,
reached their highest civilization when the fifth had hardly appeared in
Asia, and that its first off-shoot was yet a thing of the future. When was
it? Calculate. You cannot think that we, who have such tremendous odds
against the acceptance of our doctrine would deliberately go on inventing
Races and sub-races (in the opinion of Mr. Hume) were not they a matter of
undeniable fact. The group of islands off the Siberian coast discovered by
Nordeneskjol of the "Vega" was found strewn with fossils of horses, sheep,
oxen, etc., among gigantic bones of elephants, mammoths, rhinoceroses and
other monsters belonging to periods when man -- says your science -- had not
yet made his appearance on earth. How came horses and sheep to be found in
company with the huge "ante-diluvians"? The horse, we are taught in
schools -- is quite a modern invention of nature, and no man ever saw its
pedactyl ancestor. The group of the Siberian islands may give the lie to the
comfortable theory. The region now locked in the fetters of eternal winter
uninhabited by man -- that most fragile of animals, -- will be very soon
proved to have had not only a tropical climate -- something your science
knows and does not dispute, -- but having been likewise the seat of one of
the most ancient civilisations of that fourth race, whose highest relics now
we find in the degenerated Chinaman, and whose lowest are hopelessly (for
the profane scientist) intermixed with the remnants of the third. I told you
before now, that the highest people now on earth (spiritually) belong to the
first sub-race of the fifth root Race; and those are the Aryan Asiatics; the
highest race (physical intellectuality) is the last sub-race of the fifth --
yourselves the white conquerors. The majority of mankind belongs to the
seventh sub-race of the fourth Root race, -- the above mentioned Chinamen
and their off-shoots and branchlets (Malayans, Mongolians, Tibetans,
Javanese, etc., etc., etc.) and remnants of other sub-races of the fourth --
and the seventh sub-race of the third race. All these, fallen, degraded
semblances of humanity are the direct lineal descendants of highly civilized
nations neither the names nor memory of which have survived except in such
books as Popalvul and a few others unknown to Science.

(Mahatma Letter No. 23b - T Barker edition)
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