Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00671)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Well, Blavatsky was long dead when the Nazi's started.

Excellenmt point. Amd neomg dead, cannot reasonably be held 
responsible for a movement with which she had nothing to do.

Many attribute
> the statements of Alice Bailey, who, in spite of her spiritual
> connections, was something of a bigot

It should also be added that Bailey started her own thing and was 
neither a coworker with Blavatsky, nor, structly speaking, a 
Theosophist.

> There are no "sub-races" alive that are inferior to the Aryans.

I don't disagree with what you are saying from the absolute 
standpoint, but I wonder if this is an accurate interpretation of 
speifically Blavatsky.

First
> of all, ALL human beings alive today are Aryans.

Doesn't "Aryan" mean you are descended from the people who spoke the 
Indo-European language in ancient times and invaded India and 
Europe? English is an "Aryan" language, whereas Henbrew is Semitic. 
There are in addition the Turanian, Akkadian, etc. If you are 
arguing that long intermarriage has mooted the whole question of race 
you are probably correct.

Second of all, the
> Aryans are a result of an INVOLUTIONARY path from previous races 
rather
> than an EVOLUTIONARY path

Technically, in the SD, the involution was completed by the fourth 
race, whereas the Aryam, being the fifth, is the first race on the 
evolutionary track. I am not saying that I beliueve that, but that 
it is what Blavatsky said.

The term "Aryan" refers to the
> CIVILIZATION, not the actual ancestry

Max Mueller originally applied the term to languages, butlater to 
religions which were polytheistic and anthropomorphic rather than 
monotheistic and idealistic. The Greeks and Romans, who worshipped 
human beings were practicing a characteristically "Aryan" religion, 
whereas the Semitic peoples, who rejected polytheism and the idea 
that their deity was human or could be represented in human form, 
were not. I am summarizing Mueller here, and not stating views of my 
own.

It is notale in view of Mueller's ideas that Christianity, which 
originated as an offshoot of a Semitic religion, took on what Mueller 
would have characterized as distinctly "Aryan" characteristics, 
inasmuch as it posited multiple deities (the trinity) and inasuch as 
at least one of the was a human being who is represented in art in 
human form. This is easily explained in terms ofthe strong Hellenic 
influence on the Palestine area in the first century.