Theos-Talk Archives (February 2009 Message tt00078)

Dear Cass,

I still do not quite understand this 'blinds' bussiness, therefore I
do not know how to agree or disagree with your statement.

Govert


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Cass Silva <silva_cass@...> wrote:
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> I read this the same way as you did Govert, with the blind being
that some remain Celtic while some are Teutonic, perhaps because this
would have been seen as overt racism when it was written - even though
as Theosophists we know this not to be true.
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> Cass
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> --- On Wed, 4/2/09, Govert Schuller <schuller@...> wrote:
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> From: Govert Schuller <schuller@...>
> Subject: Theos-World Re: 4th sub-race
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Received: Wednesday, 4 February, 2009, 5:22 AM
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> Dear all,
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> From the quotes below (the 'dead letter' interpretation) it looks like
> we are in Root-race 5 (Aryan), Sub-race 5 (Teutonic). Two quotes from
> HPB and one by 'Alpha' reflecting the understanding of a member. This
> understanding is also reflected in a little graph by Jinarajadasa,
> which some might call the Besant-Leadbeater interpretation, but might
> very well be in accordance with HPB. See:
> http://users. ez2.net/nick29/ theosophy/ lessons15. htm
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> If HPB contradicted herself, and if to save her from the charge of
> inconsistency by saying that some of her statements were blinds, in
> what way are we to reconcile these contradictions? How do we know
> what's a blind and what not? And if a contradiction is found and one
> of the statements therefore allegedly a blind, does that make the
> subject more important? Or is it possible that HPB was not able to
> keep her globes, rounds, root races, sub-races, etc. straight because
> of the complexity of the matter and made occasional mistakes and
> Theosophists upon finding contradictions, would jump to the conclusion
> that a blind was involved, even while it might have been a mistake.
> Or, as anti-metaphysical commentators might charge, HPB's fantasies
> became too complex for her own mind and she was not able to keep her
> story consistent. Just thinking aloud. 
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> "I propose to show therefore, in my next, that as we are still only in
> the 5th subrace of the Parent race, and none of us shall live to see
> the 7thâ?"when things shall mend naturallyâ?"that it is just as well not
> to hang our hopes on science, whether orthodox or semi-heretical. "
> (BCW VII, 70)
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> "At the close of every Root-Race there comes a cataclysm, in turn by
> fire or water. Immediately after the "Fall into generation" the dross
> of the third Root-Raceâ?"those who fell into sensuality by falling off
> from the teaching of the Divine Instructorsâ?"were destroyed, after
> which the Fourth Root-Race originated, at the end of which took place
> the last Deluge." (BCW IX, 81)
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> "Since the life-wave reached globe D in this fourth round, four
> root-races have run their course upon it, and the fifth root-race has
> reached its fifth subdivision or sub-race, of which we are part. This
> fifth sub-race is said to be preparing in America for transition or
> transformation into the sixth sub-race: it is not entirely clear
> whether we in the United States today belong to the seventh
> family-race of the fifth sub-race, or to the first family race of the
> sixth sub-race. It seems certain that we are near the transition
> point, unless there must be an intervening pralayic period." (ALPHA,
> Path, December, 1892)
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