Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00480)

Dear Dallas,

Thanks for the quotations, it's just those which I have meant.

>> In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "W.Dallas TenBroeck" wrote:

> He questions the accuracy of an ASSUMPTION that world population has
> increased, as earlier census for hundreds and thousands of years was
> unavailable.

Yet the assumption was quite correct. 19th century statistics was 
incomplete but generally true as we see now. Archaeology permits us to 
make a rough estimate for the previous ages. In "Dark ages" population 
really decreased, but it was rather an exception.

> Further the question of the dying out of the Chinese "race" was not
> predicted as a catastrophe but, rather, was to extend over a natural 
period perhaps many hundreds and thousands of years. 

He writes about decay "now" and "rush downward" later. Anyway none of 
that matches real situation. We'd rather say about "rush upward".

> "China itself is in process of decay, she being now in the almost 
> stationary stage just before the rush downward."

It seemed so in 19th century that Chinese are in decay, but it was 
probably due the pressure of British Empire. As the empire, with other 
colonial empires, collapsed, many countries have shown growth of 
population.

> In regard to the overlapping of races we find in the SECRET DOCTRINE 

It's all OK about overlapping, and HPB words can explain why 4th race 
people are still so numerous now, but they no way justify assumptions 
of Judge based on the superficial ovservation of physical situation of 
his day but not on the occult knowledge. His works are OK as far he 
makes popular rendering of HPB teaching, but in additional assumtions 
he is liable to mistakes as much as other writers. So I don't agree 
that his works are "core teaching" and I'd class them among the later, 
"second wave" theosophical writers.

Yet there is some theosophical explanation of population growth. The 
number of monads is really very great, and when 4th race development 
abruptly ended by the catastrophe, there were many monads which 
haven't completed all the curriculum intended for the 4th race. The 
catastrophe devastated the Earth, population was small and they simply 
hadn't enough bodies to incarnate. So now we see so called "delayed 
demand": they have finally found the circumstances where they could 
get many appropriate bodies, and so we watch population growth in 3rd 
world countries.