Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00850)

Konstantin,

The point is that any contempt or hatred for indigenous peoples is untheosophical. 

Brotherhood, mutual help, mutual respect  and compassion is the real link between "Alpha" and "Omega", between more developed and less developed souls, as Masters teach. 

Judge is correct, as HPB is.  

Carlos.  


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Data:Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:51:11 -0000

Assunto:Theos-World Theosophy on "lower races"

> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "carlosaveline" 
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> > Well, there are no `red indians' in Brazil, although the term is
> > very common in old North American Far West bang-bang stories
> 
> This term was very common in 19th century to denote all aborigenals of 
> America. (see below) "Red" is used just to distinguish then from 
> "Indian Indians"
> And the view that some races are retarded was common for both branches 
> of theosophy:
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> "Savagery remains
> because there are still Egos whose experience is so limited that
> they are still savage; they will come up into higher races when
> ready. Races die out because the Egos have had enough of the
> experience that sort of race gives. So we find the red Indian,
> the Hottentot, the Easter Islanders, and others as examples of
> races deserted by high Egos and as they are dying away other
> souls who have had no higher life in the past enter into the
> bodies of the race to go on using them for the purpose of
> gaining such experience as the race body will give. A race could
> not possibly arise and then suddenly go out. We see that such is
> not the case, but science has no explanation; it simply says
> that this is the fact, that nations decay. But in this
> explanation no account is taken of the inner man nor of the
> recondite subtle and occult laws that unite to make a race.
> Theosophy shows that the energy drawn together has to expend
> itself gradually, and therefore the reproduction of bodies of
> the character of that race will go on, though the Egos are not
> compelled to inhabit bodies of that sort any longer than while
> they are of the same development as the race. Hence a time comes
> when the whole mass of Egos which built up the race leaves it
> for another physical environment more like themselves. The
> economy of Nature will not permit the physical race to suddenly
> fade away, and so in the real order of evolution other and less
> progressed Egos come in and use the forms provided, keeping up
> the production of new bodies but less and less in number each
> century. These lower Egos are not able to keep up to the limit
> of the capacity of the congeries of energies left by the other
> Egos, and so while the new set gains as much experience as is
> possible the race in time dies out after passing through its
> decay. This is the explanation of what we may call descending
> savagery, and no other theory will meet the facts."
> (W.Q. Judge, "Ocean of theosophy")
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