Theos-Talk Archives (October 2002 Message tt00242)

--- In theos-talk@y..., "brianmuehlbach" <brianmuehlbach@y...> wrote:
> That many white N.Americans gave their live in the American civil 
war to 
> end slavery shows the kind of racial ideas in the Mahatma letters 
(the 
> civil war took place many years before The Secret Doctrine was 
written) 
> was NOT entirely obvious during the time of Blavatsky and the Great 
> White Brotherhood hoax (pardon, but that is what I think of it). 
> 
> And that also among the "British Conquerors" racism wasn't as 
obvious 
> as the Mahatma letters wanted to have it

I was not able to make out what you were getting at here. If you are 
saying the British were not racists, you are mistaken. Not only the 
British but the French justified their behavior in terms of racist 
theories. De Quatrefages, whom {B quotes, said in his book that he 
was a racist, but he mentioned it in passing, and did not rant as 
modern racists do.

You are correct that there is no historical justification for the 
Theosophical idea that some races are "inferior" and need to be wiped 
out or lorded over by superior master races. The Neanderthals 
disappeared for reasons unknown, but since then no races have 
disappeared except for the Tasmanians, and the reasons in each case 
of decline has been human agency and not a cosmic cycle.