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Apl 25 2005



Dear Friends:

[ NOTE DTB: If by "etheric" you mean the ASTRAL, then THEOSOPHY teaches
that the ASTRAL is always the model for the physical. ]

DTB QUESTION: Where do you secure a reference to "etheric" in what text ?
Has HPB mentioned this? 

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Here are some pages from the SECRET DOCTRINE on

HYBRIDS AND APES


S D II 195-197

A naturalist suggests another difficulty. The human is the only species
which, however unequal in its races, can breed together.

"There is no question of selection between human races," say the
anti-Darwinists, and no evolutionist can deny the argument — one which very
triumphantly proves specific unity. 

How then can Occultism insist that a portion of the Fourth Race humanity
begot young ones from females of another, only semi-human, if not quite an
animal, race, the hybrids resulting from which union not only bred freely
but produced the ancestors of the modern anthropoid apes? 

Esoteric science replies to this that it was in the very beginnings of
physical man. Since then, Nature has changed her ways, and sterility is the
only result of the crime of man's bestiality. But we have to this day proofs
of this. The Secret Doctrine teaches that the specific unity of mankind is
not without exceptions even now. For there are, or rather still were a few
years ago, descendants of these half-animal tribes or races, both of remote
Lemurian and Lemuro-Atlantean origin. The world knows them as Tasmanians
(now extinct), Australians, Andaman Islanders, etc. The descent of the
Tasmanians can be almost proved by a fact, which struck Darwin a good deal,
without his being able to make anything of it. This fact deserves notice. 

Now de Quatrefages and other naturalists, who seek to prove Monogenesis by
the very fact of every race of mankind being capable of crossing with every
other, have left out of their calculations exceptions, which do not in this
case confirm the rule. 

Human crossing may have been a general rule from the time of the separation
of sexes, and yet that other law may assert itself, viz., sterility between
two human races, just as between two animal species of various kinds, in
those rare cases when a European, condescending to see in a female of a
savage tribe a mate, happens to chose a member of such mixed tribes.* Darwin
notes such 

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* Of such semi-animal creatures, the sole remnants known to Ethnology were
the Tasmanians, a portion of the Australians and a mountain tribe in China,
the men and women of which are entirely covered with hair. They were the
last descendants in a direct line of the semi-animal latter-day Lemurians
referred to. There are, however, considerable numbers of the mixed
Lemuro-Atlantean peoples produced by various —Footnote continued on next
page—

196	THE SECRET DOCTRINE.

a case in a Tasmanian tribe, whose women were suddenly struck with
sterility, en masse, some time after the arrival among them of the European
colonists. The great naturalist tried to explain this fact by change of
diet, food, conditions, etc., but finally gave up the solution of the
mystery. For the Occultist it is a very evident one. "Crossing," as it is
called, of Europeans with Tasmanian women — i.e., the representatives of a
race, whose progenitors were a "soulless" * and mindless monster and a real
human, though still as mindless a man — brought on sterility. 

This, not alone as a consequence of a physiological law, but also as a
decree of Karmic evolution in the question of further survival of the
abnormal race. In no one point of the above is Science prepared to believe
as yet — but it will have to in the long run. 

Esoteric philosophy, let us remember, only fills the gaps made by science
and corrects her false premises. 

Yet, in this particular, geology and even botany and zoology support the
esoteric teachings. It has been suggested by many geologists that the
Australian native — co-existing as he does with an archaic fauna and flora —
must date back to an enormous antiquity. The whole environment of this
mysterious race, about whose origin ethnology is silent, is a testimony to
the truth of the esoteric position. 
"It is a very curious fact," says Jukes, † "that not only these marsupial
animals (the mammals found in the Oxfordshire stone-field slates), but
several of the shells — as for instance, the Trigonias and even some of the
plants found fossil in the Oolitic rocks — much more nearly resemble those
now living in Australia than the living forms of any other part of the
globe. This might be explained on the supposition that, since the 0olitic
(Jurassic) period, less change has taken place in Australia than elsewhere,
and that the Australian flora and fauna consequently retain. Some-
 
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crossings with such semi-human stocks — e.g., the wild men of Borneo, the
Veddhas of Ceylon, classed by Prof. Flower among Aryans (!), most of the
remaining Australians, Bushmen, Negritos, Andaman Islanders, etc. 

The Australians of the Gulf of St. Vincent and the neighbourhood of Adelaide
are very hairy, and the brown down on the skin of boys of five or six years
of age assumes a furry appearance. They are, however, degraded men — not the
closest approximation to the "pithecoid man," as Haeckel so sweepingly
affirms. Only a portion of these men are a Lemurian relic. (Cf. "Esoteric
Buddhism," p.55.) 

* In calling the animal "Soulless," it is not depriving the beast, from the
humblest to the highest species, of a "soul," but only of a conscious
surviving Ego-soul, i.e., that principle which survives after a man, and
reincarnates in a like man. The animal has an astral body, that survives the
physical form for a short period; but its (animal) Monad does not
re-incarnate in the same, but in a higher species, and has no "Devachan" of
course. It has the seeds of all the human principles in itself, but they are
latent. 

† "Manual of Geology," p. 302. 
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197 THE SEPARATION OF SEXES.

thing of the Oolitic type, while it had been altogether supplanted and
replaced on the rest of the Globe." (! !) 

Now why has less change taken place in Australia than elsewhere? Where is
the raison d'etre for such a "curse of retardation"? It is simply because
the nature of the environment develops pari passu with the race concerned.
Correspondences rule in every quarter. The survivors of those later
Lemurians, who escaped the destruction of their fellows when the main
continent was submerged, became the ancestors of a portion of the present
native tribes. Being a very low sub-race, begotten originally of animals, of
monsters, whose very fossils are now resting miles under the sea floors,
their stock has since existed in an environment strongly subjected to the
law of retardation. Australia is one of the oldest lands now above the
waters, and in the senile decrepitude of old age, its "virgin soil"
notwithstanding. It can produce no new forms, unless helped by new and fresh
races, and artificial cultivation and breeding. 

To return, however, once more to the history of the Third Race, the
"Sweat-Born," the "Egg-bearing," and the "Androgyne." Almost sexless, in its
early beginnings, it became bisexual or androgynous; very gradually of
course. The passage from the former to the latter transformation required
numberless generations, during which the simple cell that issued from the
earliest parent (the two in one), first developed into a bisexual being; and
then the cell, becoming a regular egg, gave forth a unisexual creature. The
Third-Race-mankind is the most mysterious of all the hitherto developed five
Races. The mystery of the "How" of the generation of the distinct sexes
must, of course, be very obscure here, as it is the business of an
embryologist and a specialist, the present work giving only faint outlines
of the process. But it is evident that the units of the Third Race humanity
began to separate in their pre-natal shells, or eggs,* and to issue out of
them as distinct male and female babes, ages after the appearance of its
early progenitors. And, as time rolled on its geological periods, the newly
born sub-races began to lose their natal capacities. Toward the end of the
fourth sub-race, the babe lost its faculty of walking as soon as liberated
from its shell, and by the end of the fifth, mankind was born under the same
conditions and by the same identical process as our historical generations.
This required, of course, millions of years. The 
 
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* The "fables" and "myths" about Leda and Jupiter, and such like, could
never have sprung up in people's fancy, had not the allegory rested on a
fact in nature. Evolution, gradually transforming man into a mammal, did in
his case only what it did in that of other animals. But this does not
prevent man from having always stood at the head of the animal world and
other organic species, and from having preceded the former. 

198	THE SECRET DOCTRINE.

reader has been made acquainted with the approximate figures, at least of
the exoteric calculations, in Stanza II. 

We are approaching the turning-point of the evolution of the Races. Let us
see what occult philosophy says on the origin of language. 

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S D II 287-288


We will show elsewhere that, however unconsciously to itself, modern Science
pleads our case upon its own admissions, and that de Quatrefages is
perfectly right, when he suggests in his last work, that it is far more
likely that the anthropoid ape should be discovered to be 

288	THE SECRET DOCTRINE.

the descendant of man, than that these two types should have a common,
fantastic and nowhere-to-be-found ancestor. Thus the wisdom of the compilers
of the old Stanzas is vindicated by at least one eminent man of Science, and
the Occultist prefers to believe as he ever did that — 

"Man was the first and highest (mammalian) animal that appeared in this
(Fourth Round) creation. Then came still huger animals; and last of all the
dumb man who walks on all fours." For, "the Rakshasas (giant-demons) and
Daityas (Titans) of the "White Dwipa" (continent) spoiled his (the dumb
man's) Sires." (Commentary.) 

Furthermore, as we see, there are anthropologists who have traced man back
to an epoch which goes far to break down the apparent barrier that exists
between the chronologies of modern science and the Archaic Doctrine. It is
true that English scientists generally have declined to commit themselves to
the sanction of the hypothesis of even a Tertiary Man. 

They, each and all, measure the antiquity of Homo primigenius by their own
lights and prejudices. Huxley, indeed, ventures to speculate on a possible
Pliocene or Miocene Man. Prof. Seeman and Mr. Grant Allen have relegated his
advent to the Eocene, but, speaking generally, English scientists consider
that we cannot safely go beyond the quaternary. 

Unfortunately, the facts do not accommodate the too cautious reserve of
these latter. The French school of anthropology, basing their views on the
discoveries of l'Abbe Bourgeois, Capellini, and others, has accepted, almost
without exception, the doctrine that the traces of our ancestors are
certainly to be found in the Miocene, while M. de Quatrefages now inclines
to postulate a Secondary-Age Man. Further on we shall compare such estimates
with the figures given in the Brahminical exoteric books which approximate
to the esoteric teaching. 

(d). . . Then, "the third eye acted no longer," says the Stanza, because MAN
had sunk too deep into the mire of matter. 

What is the meaning of this strange and weird statement in Verse 42,
concerning the "third eye of the Third Race which had died and acted no
longer"? 

A few more occult teachings must now be given with reference to this point
as well as some others. The history of the Third and Fourth Races must be
amplified, in order that it may throw some more light on the development of
our present humanity; and show how the faculties, called into activity by
occult training, restore man to the position he previously occupied in
reference to spiritual perception and consciousness. But the phenomenon of
the third Eye has to be first explained. 
S D II 287-8

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There are many more references to be found (using the INDEX to the S D ) 

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: Drpsionic
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 8:23 PM
To: 
Subject: Re: Atlantis revisited APES & HYBRIDS


In a message dated 4/24/05 7:54:17 PM Central Daylight Time, 
Silva CASS writes:


> Does anyone see this as Atlantis revisited? Wont the mixing of atomic 
> matter, vis the human kingdom with the vegetable kingdom, again produce
atomic 
> hybrids, as was the case when our ancestors mixed the human kingdom with
the 
> animal kingdom. producing the hybrid ape. I am wondering what is
happening at 
> an etheric level.

> Cass
> 

[ NOTE DTB: If by "etheric" you mean the ASTRAL, then THEOSOPHY teaches
that the astral is always the model for the physical. ]

DTB QUESTION: Where do you secure a reference to "etheric" in what text ?