Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00669)

Etzion Becker wrote:
> 
> Dear friends, some of my associates are interested to know Blavatsky's 
> views concerning this issue of the Aryan race and Nazi doctrines. 

Well, Blavatsky was long dead when the Nazi's started. Many attribute
the statements of Alice Bailey, who, in spite of her spiritual
connections, was something of a bigot (she felt Blacks were inferior,
Jews deserved any bad thing that happened to them because of their
rejection of Jesus, and that all homosexuals were inherently evil), and
made a number of statements supportive of the Nazi's. 

Now, as for the question...

> An interesting historical side-light is that the mentors of the Third 
> Reich in Germany were very heavily into Madame Blavatsky. Her 
> references to the races of mankind and the superiority of the "Aryans" 
> over against the "sub-races" were, of course central to the 
> philosophical foundation of the mission that the Third Reich 
> developed. ["Philosophical foundation" is too flattering a term for 
> such ideas, but you know what I mean.]

There are no "sub-races" alive that are inferior to the Aryans. First
of all, ALL human beings alive today are Aryans. Second of all, the
Aryans are a result of an INVOLUTIONARY path from previous races rather
than an EVOLUTIONARY path, meaning that, evolutionarily speaking, the
other races are HIGHER than the Aryans. The term "Aryan" refers to the
CIVILIZATION, not the actual ancestry; it was the Aryans in India who
wrote the Vedas, the oldest known expression of the "ageless wisdom".

Bart