Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00429)

CWL's discovery of Krishnamurti and the prediction
that he would become a greater orator than Annie
Besant does not seem to me something vague. The same
applies to the Internet and the European Union, imo.
Most of the vision recorded in "Man: Whence, How and
Whither" was said by CWL to relate to the 28th
century, so we'll have to wait a little to check it
out. It is true that the descriptions of civilisations
in Mars, Mercury and the moon have not been confirmed.
But then, CWL never called himself a prophet. He never
expected people to believe him and his standard
description of his own attitude was: "I describe what
I see." Neither him nor Annie Besant ever claimed
infallibility.

CWL did study "The Secret Doctrine" and quoted it
several times in his books, although they are mostly
based on his clairvoyant investigations. He did not
invent the doctrine of Rounds and Races. Incidentally,
are there elements of racism in the following passages
from the SD and the Mahatma Letters? Or was it the
current language at that time? 


"Perchance in these specimens, Hæckelians might
recognize, not the Homo primigenius, but some of the
lower tribes, such as some tribes of the Australian
savages. Nevertheless, even these are not descended
from the anthropoid apes, but from human fathers and
semi-human mothers, or, to speak more correctly, from
human monsters—those “failures” mentioned in the first
Commentary." ("The Secret Doctrine", vol. II, stanza
IX)

"As to the so-called Palæolithic hâches . . . “when
placed side by side with the rudest forms of stone
hatchets actually used by the Australian and other
savages, it is difficult to detect any difference”
(Ibid, p. 112) . This goes to prove that there have
been savages at all times; and the inference would be
that there might have been civilized people in those
days as well, cultured nations contemporary with those
rude savages. We see such a thing in Egypt 7,000
years ago." (SD, vol. II, p. 690) 

"It certainly was, since it stretched, during the
Third Race, east and west, as far as where the two
Americas now lie, and since the present Australia is
but a portion of it, as are also a few surviving
islands sown hither and thither on the face of the
Pacific and a large bit of California, which belonged
to it. Funnily enough, Hæckel, in his fantastic
“Pedigree of Man,” considers “the Australians of
to-day as the lineal descendants, almost unchanged
(?!), of that second branch of the primitive human
race. . . that spread northwards, at first chiefly in
Asia, from the home of man’s infancy, and seems to
have been the parent of all the other straight-haired
races of men. . . . The one, woolly-haired, migrated
in part, westwards” . . . (i.e., to Africa and
northwards to New Guinea, which countries had then, as
said, no existence as yet) . . . “the other,
straight-haired, was evolved farther to the north in
Asia . . . . and peopled Australia . . .”(p. 81). 
“Behold,” writes a MASTER, “the relics of that once
great nation (Lemuria of the Third Race) in some of
the flat-headed aborigines of your Australia”
(“Esoteric Buddhism,” p. 65). But they belong to the
last remnants of the Seventh Sub-race of the Third. 
Prof. Hæckel must also have dreamt a dream and seen
for once a true vision!" (SD, vol.II, stanza XI)

"With regard to a former civilization, of which a
portion of these degraded Australians are the last
surviving offshoot, the opinion of Gerland is strongly
suggestive. Commenting upon the religion and
mythology of the tribes, he writes, “The statement
that the Australian civilization (?) indicates a
higher grade, is nowhere more clearly proved than
here, where everything resounds like the expiring
voices of a previous and richer age. The idea that
the Australians have no religion or mythology is
thoroughly false. But this religion is certainly
quite deteriorated .” (Cited in Schmidt’s “Doctrine of
Descent of Darwinism,” pp. 301-2.) As to his other
statement, namely, that the Australians are a
“division of the Malays” (Vide his ethnological
theories in the “Pedigree of Man”), Hæckel is in
error, if he classes the Australians with the rest.
The Malays and Papuans are a mixed stock, resulting
from the intermarriages of the low Atlantean sub-races
with the Seventh sub-race of the Third Root-Race. 
Like the Hottentots, they are of indirect
Lemuro-Atlantean descent. It is a most suggestive
fact—to those concrete thinkers who demand a physical
proof of Karma—that the lowest races of men are now
rapidly dying out; a phenomenon largely due to an
extraordinary sterility setting in among the women,
from the time that they were first approached by the
Europeans. A process of decimation is taking 
place all over the globe, among those races, whose
“time is up”—among just those stocks, be it remarked,
which esoteric philosophy regards as the senile
representatives of lost archaic nations. It is
inaccurate to maintain that the extinction of a lower
race is invariably due to cruelties or abuses
perpetrated by colonists. Change of diet,
drunkenness, etc., etc., have done much; but those who
rely on such data as offering an all-sufficient
explanation of the crux, cannot meet the phalanx of
facts now so closely arrayed. “Nothing,” says even
the materialist Lefèvre, “can save those that have run
their course. . . . It would be necessary to
extend their destined cycle. . . . The peoples
that have been most spared . . . Hawaiians or
Maories, have been no less decimated than the tribes
massacred or tainted by European intrusion.”
(“Philosophy,” p. 508.)(SD, vol. II, p. 778)

"Nor has wealth nor poverty, high or low birth any
influence upon it, for this is all a result of their
Karma. Neither has — what you call — civilization much
to do with the progress. It is the inner man, the
spirituality, the illumination of the physical brain
by the light of the spiritual or divine intelligence
that is the test. The Australian, the Esquimaux, the
Bushmen, the Veddahs, etc., are all side-shooting
branchlets of that Branch which you call “cave-men” —
the third race (according to your Science — the
second) that evoluted on the globe. They are the
remnants of the seventh ring cave-men, remnants “that
have ceased to grow and are the arrested forms of life
doomed to eventual decay in the struggle of existence”
in the words of your correspondent?" ("Mahatma
Letters", 62, chronological)

"Not necessarily. Refinement, polishedness, and
brilliant education, in your sense of these words have
very little to do with the course of higher Nature’s
Law. Take a seventh ring African or a fifth ring
Mongolian and you can educate him — if taken from the
cradle — save his physical appearance, and transform
him into the most brilliant and accomplished English
lord. Yet, he will still remain but an outwardly
intellectual parrot. (See Appendix No. II)." (ML, 61,
chronological) 

Pedro







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