Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00262)

July 22 2004



Dear Friends:



Re: "dying races, "savagery, "Red-Indians," etc."





As I understand it, the INNER IMMORTAL EGO never dies. 



Karma always gives us the necessary physical environment and body for our
next lesson in the chain of our many lives. 



So it is (entirely to my way of thinking) of no consequence whether it (The
inner PERMANENT EGO) reincarnates in a tribe, race, or category of humankind
that is either on the ascending or on the decline.



Ascending and decline, as I understand it, relate (as far as we can measure)
to the personal man, and probably more specifically, to the physical body
and its heredity.



In all this, personal racial, tribal and universal Karma operate, and we do
not have all the chords and lines (physical, astral, pranic, kamic, lower
Manasic, etc.,) to be able to determine specifically for an individual
where exactly their incarnation has brought them - to what aspect of their
Karma is this a necessary embodiment. One thing is however (for the student
of THEOSOPHY) sure and that is the imperishable Monad: ATMA-BUDDHI-MANAS
is there and impersonally, untouched by emotion or kama it pursues it
majestic course. 



In general, we may deplore the use in certain texts of THEOSOPHY of terms
(current when it was written, and without present modern day meanings) such
as race, declining savagery, dying races, personality, ego, etc..



To me, it means that some aspect of individual, or group Karma relates to
the specific quality of personal environment that any Ego needs for its
present individual advance. In no way does THEOSOPHY intend to qualify in a
derogatory or prejudiced way, either races, tribes, individual or anything
else. 



It merely sets out the principles involved and leaves the details to KARMA -
something which we have still to master, not only in ourselves, but in our
reactions and regards to persons with different racial appearances and
cultural backgrounds than we were brought up in. 



Differences usually produce arguments and disagreements - and are of
temporary consequence, if we could ask ourselves what their relevance will
be 10, or 100 years hence -- but -- they are generally resolved by the
application of the balm of universal principles. And that is what (as I see
it) THEOSOPHY offers us to understand and apply.



Mentally, we could transfer our consciousness into an individual environment
such as we may either like, desire, fancy, or abhor. And then, we could ask
ourselves what would we, as the EGO (raceless, colorless, unmoved by any
worldly estimates - (S D I 174-5 Footnote) -- do in such a case. 



That may satisfy us, and give us an impartial mental reassurance, but it
also may reinforce our prejudices, annoyances and other preferences. Next,
what is the real value of any of our preferences if we take the immortality
and eternity of time in which we the REAL EGO [ the IMMORTAL PILGRIM]
journeys? What kind of race body will we personally, next be using? 



Perhaps, casting our minds back (if possible) to those early days when we
used Lemuro-Atlantean bodies -- which the SECRET DOCTRINE says were
"ape-like," we might imagine our reaction and problems if such a bodily form
was suddenly brought forward into our era - not as a physical giant , but as
an appearance -- a new kind of intelligent gorilla or chimpanzee ? What
an anomaly? What a shock! But since Karma does not permit such a
retrogression we have to handle our lower attitudes and personal likings
each in our own way, if we wish to apply Theosophy and its doctrines to such
a task.



Well this is what I have been thinking about for the past couple of weeks.
Is it of any help?



Best wishes,



Perhaps by now, someone has accumulated a set of references from the
original Texts or "answers" that will "fit the bill ?"



Dallas



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