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Annie Besant Abner Doubleday Geoffrey Hodson Archibald Keightley C. W. Leadbeater G. R. S. Mead Isabel Cooper-Oakley William Scott-Elliot Alfred Percy Sinnett Brian Stonehouse Katherine Tingley Ernest Wood
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Agni Yoga Alice Bailey Anthroposophy Ascended masters Ascended Master Teachings Benjamin Creme Esotericism Jiddu Krishnamurti Liberal Catholic Church Living Ethics Neo-Theosophy Order of the Star in the East
Root races are stages in human evolution in the esoteric cosmology of theosophist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, as described in her book The Secret Doctrine (1888). These races were said to have existed on now-lost continents. Blavatsky's model was developed by later theosophists, most notably William Scott-Elliot in The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904). Annie Besant further developed the model in Man: Whence, How and Whither (1913). Both Besant and Scott-Elliot relied on information from Charles Webster Leadbeater obtained by "astral clairvoyance". Further elaboration was provided by Rudolf Steiner in Atlantis and Lemuria (1913).[1] Rudolf Steiner, and subsequent theosophist authors, have called the time periods associated with these races, Epochs (Steiner felt that the term "race" was not adequate anymore for modern humanity).
Contents
1 Source 2 Locations of the proposed former continents 3 Root Races, Epochs and sub-races o 3.1 The first root race o 3.2 The second root race (Hyperborean) o 3.3 The third root race (Lemurian) o 3.4 The fourth root race (Atlantean) 3.4.1 Subraces of the Atlantean root race 3.4.2 The civilization of Atlantis o 3.5 The fifth root race (Aryan) 3.5.1 Early beginnings of the Aryan root race 3.5.2 Subraces of the Aryan root race 3.5.3 The emergence of the sixth subrace of the Aryan root race o 3.6 The sixth root race o 3.7 The seventh root race
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According to historian James Webb, the occult concept of succeeding prehistoric races, as later adopted by Blavatsky, was first introduced by the French author Antoine Fabre d'Olivet in his Histoire philosophique du genre humain (1824).[2] By contrast, historian Goffe Jensma claims that the concept of root races was first articulated in the Dutch esotericist book Oera Linda, which was translated into English by William Sandbach in 1876.[3] Also prior to Blavatsky, the root races were described by the English theosophist Alfred Percy Sinnett in Esoteric Buddhism (1883).
Map of Lemuria superimposed over the modern continents from William Scott-Elliot, The Story of Atlantis and Lost Lemuria. The third root race, the Lemurian, was black and lived in Lemuria. The esoteric name of Lemuria is Shalmali.[7] Lemuria, according to Theosophists, existed in a large part of what is now the Indian Ocean and included also Australia and in addition extended into the South Pacific Ocean; its last remnants are the Australian continent, the island of New Guinea, and the island of Madagascar. Lemuria sank gradually and was eventually destroyed by incessantly erupting volcanoes.[9] In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was thought by geologists that the age of the earth was only about 200 million years (because radioactive dating had not yet come into use), so the geological epochs were believed to have occurred at a much later time than is thought to be the case today. According to traditional Theosophy, the Lemurian root race began 3412 million years ago, in the middle of what was then believed to be the Jurassic; thus, the people of Lemuria coexisted with the dinosaurs. The first three subraces of the Lemurians reproduced by laying eggs, but the fourth subrace, beginning 1612 million years ago, began to reproduce like modern humans.[9] As Lemuria was slowly submerged due to volcanic eruptions, the Lemurians colonized the areas surrounding Lemuria, i.e. Africa, Southern India, and the East Indies. The descendants of the Lemurian root race according to traditional Theosophy include the Capoid race, the Congoid race, the Dravidians, and the Australoid race.
The descendants of the Atlanteans according to traditional Theosophy include those of the Mongolian race, the Malayan race, and the American Indian race as well as some people of what in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was called the "olive-skinned" Mediterranean race.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] The civilization of Atlantis Main article: Atlantis During long period of time when Atlantis was ruled by the Toltecs (the ancestors of the Amerindians), the civilization of Atlantis was at its height. This was the period between about 1,000,000 and 900,000 years ago, called the Golden Age of Atlantis. The Atlanteans had many luxuries and conveniences. Their capital city was called The City of the Golden Gates. At its height, it had two million inhabitants. There were extensive aqueducts leading to the city from a mountain lake. The Atlanteans had airships powered by the vril that could seat two to eight people. The economic system was socialist like that of the Incas. Atlanteans were the first to develop organized warfare. The military deployed vril-powered air battleships that contained 50 to 100 fighting men. These air battleships deployed poison gas bombs. The infantry fired fire-tipped arrows. The Toltecs on Atlantis worshipped the Sun in temples as grand as those of ancient Egypt that were decorated in bright colors. The sacred word used in meditation was Tau (this was the equivalent of the Aryan sacred word Om). As noted above, the Toltecs colonized all of North America and South America and thus became the people we know as the Amerindians.[12][13] The downfall of Atlantis started when some of the Toltecs began to practice black magic about 850,000 BC, corrupted by the dragon "Thevetat",[21] remembered as Devadatta as the opponent of Buddha.[22] The people began to become selfish and materialistic. Soon thereafter, the Turanians (the ancestors
of the people we now know as the Turkic peoples) became dominant in much of Atlantis. The Turanians continued the practice of black magic which reaches its height about 250,000 BC and continued until the final sinking of Atlantis, although they were opposed by white magicians. The Master Morya incarnated as the Emperor of Atlantis in 220,000 BC to oppose the black magicians.[23] The black magicians used magical spells to breed human-animal chimeras to use as sex slaves. They also had an army composed of chimeras that were composites that were composed of a human body with the heads of fierce predators such as lions, tigers, and bears, that ate enemy corpses on the battlefield.[23] The war between the white magicians and the black magicians continued until the end of Atlantis. The Masters of the Ancient Wisdom telepathically warned their disciples (the white magicians) to flee Atlantis in ships while there was still time to get out before the final cataclysm. As noted above, the final sudden submergence of Atlantis due to earthquakes occurred in 9,564 BC .[5]
Veddhas of Ceylon, most of the remaining Australians, Bushmen, Negritos, Andaman Islanders, etc."[25] All these aforementioned groups mentioned by Blavatsky except the purported "Wild Men of Borneo" (claimed by P.T. Barnum to be Dayaks of the Malayan race from Borneo, but who actually were two Caucasian mentally retarded dwarf brothers from Connecticut) are part of what was in the late 19th and most of the 20th century was called the Australoid race (except for the Bushmen, part of the Capoid race), both of which races, as noted above, were believed by traditional Theosophists to have been descended from the Lemurians. Subraces of the Aryan root race Blavatsky described the fifth root race with the following words: "The Aryan races, for instance, now varying from dark brown, almost black, red-brown-yellow, down to the whitest creamy colour, are yet all of one and the same stock the Fifth Root-Race and spring from one single progenitor,[26] which Hindus call Manu. Theosophists believe that each root race has a separate and distinct progenitor. The subraces of the Aryan Fifth Root Race include the first subrace, the Hindu, which migrated from the "City of the Bridge" on the white island in the middle of the Gobi inland sea to India in 60,000 BC; the second subrace, the Arabian, which migrated from the "City of the Bridge" to Arabia in 40,000 BC; the third subrace, the Persian, which migrated from the "City of the Bridge" to Persia in 30,000 BC; the fourth subrace, the Celts, which migrated from the "City of the Bridge" to Western Europe beginning in 20,000 BC (the Mycenaean Greeks are regarded as an offshoot of the Celtic subrace that colonized Southeast Europe); and the fifth subrace, the Teutonic, which also migrated from the "City of the Bridge" to what is now Germany beginning in 20,000 BC (the Slavs are regarded as an offshoot of the Teutonic subrace that colonized Russia and surrounding areas).[5][20][27][28][29][30][31] The emergence of the sixth subrace of the Aryan root race According to Blavatsky the sixth subrace of the Aryan root race will begin to evolve in the area of the United States in the early 21st century. This sixth subrace of the Aryan root race will be called the Australo-American subrace and is believed by Theosophists to be now arising from the Teutonic subrace of the Aryan root race in Australia and in the Western United States (many individuals of the new subrace will be born in California) and its surrounding nearby areas (i.e., the Australo-American subrace is presently in the process of arising from the Anglo-American, Anglo-Canadian, AngloAustralian and presumably also the Anglo-New Zealander ethnic groups).[32] The sixth or Australo-American sub-race will "possess certain psychic powers, and for this the pituitary body will be developed, thus giving an additional sense, that of cognising astral emotions in the ordinary waking consciousness. We may say that in general the sixth sub-race will bring in wisdom and intuition, blending all that is best in the intelligence of the fifth subrace and the emotion of the fourth."[32] It is believed by Theosophists that the root races evolve from the subraces of the same number; thus the sixth root race will evolve from the sixth sub-race of the fifth or Aryan root race, just as the fifth or Aryan root race evolved from the fifth subrace (the Semitic) of the fourth or Atlantean root race 100,000 years ago.[10]
Migration to Mercury
It is believed by some Theosophists that after the present round of human spiritual evolution by reincarnation of souls in root races is completed several dozen million years from now, the human race will migrate to the planet Mercury to continue its spiritual and physical evolution.[34][35]
References
1. ^ Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Courier, 1957, p.168. 2. ^ James Webb, The Occult Underground, Open Court, La Salle 1974, p. 270 3. ^ Jensma, Goffe (November 2007), "How to Deal with Holy Books in an Age of Emerging Science. The Oera Linda Book as a New Age Bible", Fabula 48 (34): 229 249 4. ^ See L. Sprague de Camp, Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature, Dover Publications, 1970 for a scientific analysis of the concept of lost continents. 5. ^ a b c Powell, The Solar System, p. 308-316. (Ch. 50. "The fourth Aryan sub-race: The Keltic, B.C. 20,000".) 6. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 188-192. (Ch. 31. "The Earth: The first root-race.) 7. ^ a b c d e Powell, The Solar System, p. 55-59. (Ch. 11. "Races and Sub-races".) 8. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 193-196. (Ch. 32. "The Earth: The second root-race.) 9. ^ a b Powell, The Solar System, p. 193-215. (Ch. 33. "The Earth: The third root-race: Lemurian.) 10. ^ a b c Powell, The Solar System, p. 219-224. (Ch. 35. "The fourth (Atlantean) root-race: The Rmoahal". 11. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 25-26. (Ch. 36. "The second Atlantean sub-race: the Tlavatli".) 12. ^ a b c Powell, The Solar System, p. 227-236. (Ch. 37. "The Third Atlantean Subrace: The Toltec".) 13. ^ a b Powell, The Solar System, p. 237-251. (Ch. 38. "The Civilization of Atlantis".) 14. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 252-263. (Ch. 39. "Ancient Peru: A Toltec remnant".) 15. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 264-265. (Ch. 40. "The fourth Atlantean sub-race: the Turanian".) 16. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 266-276. (Ch. 41. "A Turanian : Chaldae, B.C. 19,000".) 17. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 276-278. (Ch. 42. "The fifth Atlantean sub-race: the original Semites".) 18. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 279-280. (Ch. 43. "The sixth Atlantean sub-race: the Akkadian".) 19. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 281. (Ch. 44. "The seventh Atlantean sub-race: the Mongolian".) 20. ^ a b c Powell, The Solar System, p. 282-286. (Ch. 45. "The Beginnings of the Fifth (Aryan) Root Race".) 21. ^ Godwin, Joscelyn (2010). Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions, and Occult Revelations. Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. p. 68. ISBN 1594772622. 22. ^ George Robert Snow Mead, ed. (2007). Five Years of Theosophy. Echo Library. p. 181. ISBN 1406815284. 23. ^ a b Besant/Leadbeater, Man: How, Whence, and Whither?, p. 127-137. (Ch. 9 "Black Magic in Atlantis".) 24. ^ Prophet, Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Lords of the Seven Rays Livingston, Montana, U.S.A.:1986 - Summit University Press Page 239 25. ^ Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. 2, p. 195f. 26. ^ Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, p. 249. 27. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 287-289. (Ch. 46. "The City of the Bridge".) 28. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 290-294. (Ch. 47. "The first Aryan sub-race: The Hindu, B.C. 60,000".) 29. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 295-301. (Ch. 48. "The second Aryan sub-race: The Arabian, B.C. 40,000".) 30. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 302-307. (Ch. 49. "The third Aryan sub-race: The Iranian, B.C. 30,000".)
31. ^ Powell, The Solar System, p. 317-320. (Ch. 51. "The fourth Aryan sub-race: The Teutonic, B.C. 20,000".) 32. ^ a b c Powell, The Solar System, p. 326-330. (Ch. 52 "The Aryan Sixth Sub-Race"). 33. ^ a b Besant/Leadbeater, Man: How, Whence, and Whither?, p. 353-495. 34. ^ a b c Powell, The Solar System, p. 330-347. (Ch. 54. "The sixth and seventh rootraces.) 35. ^ Planetary Schemes of Our Solar System According to Theosophy: 36. ^ The Key to Theosophy, Section 3 37. ^ a b Blavatsky, Helena, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2, Page 294. Online edition
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