AUMVEDAS ACADEMY - ROOT RACES - WHO WERE THEY?
ROOT RACES
by Rev Dr CW Dunne October 2016 via PLEIADIAN - LEMURIAN - ATLANTEAN and Wikipedia J
....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 existed mainly 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 (1904). 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).
Locations of the
proposed former continents
Some
post-theosophical writers, attempting to reconcile current geological science
with some earlier theosophical teachings, have equated Lemuria with the former super-continent of Gondwana: but this is not
theosophy. Early theosophical teachings agree with the original statements of Eduard Suess, who argued
that Gondwanaland consisted of parts of the present continents in their present
positions, but joined to one another by other lands that have since been
submerged. This is also the position of Master Samael Aun Weor. Atlantis, in the
Theosophical cosmology, was a continent that covered a significant part of what
is now the Atlantic Ocean. The large continent of Atlantis is said to have
"first divided, and then broken later on into seven peninsulas and
islands". When the main part of Atlantis began to sink, Atlantean settlers
migrated to the new lands which were rising to the east, west, and south. These
new lands became the Americas, Africa, parts of Asia, and the present European
countries, stretching from the Ural Mountains of Russia,
westward to include the islands of Ireland and Britain, and even farther
westward than that in former times. Some emigrants from the remaining islands
in the Atlantic settled on new islands to the east which later consolidated
into what is now the district of the Abyssinian highlands and lands somewhat to
the north. Atlantis perished through flooding and submergence in 9,564 BC, and
its destruction is explained by claiming successive disturbances in the axial
rotation of Earth which caused earthquakes which led to the sudden sinking of
Atlantis.
The first root race (Polarian)
The first root race was "ethereal", i.e. they were composed of
etheric matter. They reproduced by dividing like an amoeba. Earth was still cooling at that
time. The first mountain to arise out of the stormy primeval ocean was Mount Meru.[7]
The second root race (Hyperborean)
The second
root race lived in Hyperborea. The second root race was colored
golden yellow. Hyperborea included what is now Northern Canada, Greenland,
Iceland, Scandinavia, Northern Asia and Kamchatka. The climate was tropical because Earth had not yet
developed an axial tilt. The esoteric name of their continent is Plaksha;[8] they called themselves
the Kimpurshas. They reproduced by budding.[9] The second root race has no
present-day descendents.
The third root race (Lemurian)
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.[8] Lemuria, according to
Theosophists, existed in a large part of what is now the Indian Ocean including
Australia and extending into the South Pacific Ocean; its last remnants are the
Australian continent, the island of New Guinea, and the island ofMadagascar. Lemuria sank gradually and was
eventually destroyed by incessantly erupting volcanoes.[10] 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 34½ 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 Lemurian race was much taller and bigger than our current race.[6] The first three subraces of the
Lemurians reproduced by laying eggs, but the fourth subrace, beginning 16½
million years ago, began to reproduce like modern humans.[10] 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 fourth root race (Atlantean)
This race
inhabited Atlantis.
Subraces of the Atlantean root race
The fourth
root race, the Atlantean, according to Theosophy arose approximately 4,500,000
years ago in Africa from the fourth subrace of the Lemurians in a part of
Africa that had been colonized by that subrace in the area now inhabited by
the Ashanti.[11] Theosophists believe the
Atlantean root race was physically progenerated by the Chankshusha Manu.
After they arose in Africa, they left Africa and colonized the continent
of Atlantis. The esoteric name of Atlantis isKusha.[8] The Atlantean root race
had Mongolian features; they began with bronze skin and gradually evolved into
the red American Indian, brown Malayan, and yellow Mongolian races, because some Atlanteans eventually migrated to the Americas
and Asia. The seven subraces of the Atlantean root race were
1.
the Rmoahal
4.
the Turanian
The
descendants of the Atlanteans according to traditional Theosophy include those
of the Mongolian race, the Malayan race, and the American
Indian raceas well as some people of what in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries was called the "olive-skinned" Mediterranean race.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
The civilization of Atlantis
During the
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 Egyptthat 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.[13][14] The downfall of Atlantis
started when some of the Toltecs began to practice black magic about 850,000 BC, corrupted by
the dragon "Thevetat",[22] remembered as Devadatta, the opponent of Buddha.[23] 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 reached 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.[24] 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 composed of a human body with the heads of fierce
predators such as lions, tigers and bears, that ate enemy corpses on the
battlefield.[24] 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]
The fifth root race (Aryan)
Early beginnings of the Aryan root race
Blavatsky
asserted humanity was in the fifth root race, the Aryan race, which Theosophists believe to have
emerged from the previous fourth root race (Atlantean root race) beginning
about 100,000 years ago in Atlantis. (According to Powell, when Madame
Blavatsky stated the Aryan root race was 1,000,000 years old, she meant that
the souls of the people that later
physically incarnated as the first Aryans about 100,000 years ago began to
incarnate in the bodies of Atlanteans 1,000,000 years ago.[13] However, another way of
interpreting this is that Nature began to create the Aryan race before the
final cataclysms.) Theosophists believe the Aryan root race was physically
progenerated by the Vaivasvatu Manu,
one of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom. The present-day ethnic group most closely related to the new race is
the Kabyle. The small band of only 9,000 people constituting the then small Aryan
root race migrated out of Atlantis in 79,797 BC. The bards of the new white root-race poetically referred
to the new race as being moon-colored.[25] A small group of these Aryan
migrants from Atlantis split from the main body of migrants and went south to
the shore of an inland sea in what was then a verdant and lush Sahara where they founded the
"City of the Sun". The main body of migrants continued onwards to an
island called the "white island" in the middle of what was then an
inland sea in what is now the Gobi desert, where they established the
"City of the Bridge".[21] (The "City of the
Bridge" was constructed directly below the etheric city called Shamballa where Theosophists believe the
governing deity of Earth, Sanat Kumara, dwells; thus, the ongoing evolution
of the Aryan root race has been divinely guided by the being Theosophists call
"The Lord of the World".)
The
esoteric name of the whole of the present land surface of Earth, i.e. the World Island, the Americas, the Australian
continent and Antarctica taken as a whole is Krauncha.[8]
Generally
speaking, a large percentage of the people who live in the time of the period
of the fifth root race are part of the fifth root race. However Blavatsky also
opines that some Semitic peoples have become
"degenerate in spirituality". She asserted that some peoples
descended from the Lemurians are "semi-animal creatures". These
latter include "the Tasmanians, a portion of the Australians and a mountain tribe in China." There are also
"considerable numbers of the mixed Lemuro-Atlantean peoples produced by
various crossings with such semi-human stocks -- e.g., the wild men of Borneo,
the Veddhas of Ceylon, most of the remaining Australians, Bushmen, Negritos, Andaman Islanders, etc."[26] All these aforementioned groups
mentioned by Blavatsky except the purported "wild men of Borneo" (not
to be confused with the famous circus duo, the Wild Men of Borneo) 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,[27] which Hindus callManu. 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][21][28][29][30][31][32]
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 in arising from the Anglo-American, Anglo-Canadian, Anglo-Australian and presumably also the Anglo-New Zealander ethnic groups).[33] 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."[33]
The sixth root race
According
to C. W. Leadbeater, a colony will be established in Baja California by the Theosophical Society under the guidance of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom in
the 28th century for the intensive selective eugenic breeding of the sixth root
race. The Master Morya will physically incarnate in
order to be theManu ("progenitor") of this new root race.[34] By that time, the world will be
powered by nuclear power and there will be a single world government led by a person who will
be the reincarnation of Julius Caesar.[34] Tens of thousands of years in
the future, a new continent will arise in the Pacific Ocean that will be the
future home of the sixth root race.[35] California west of the San Andreas Fault will break off from the
mainland of North America and become the Island of California off the eastern coast of the new continent.[33]
Victor Skumin proposed a definition and classification of Homo
spiritalis (Latin: "spiritual man"), the sixth root race,[36] consisting of eight sub-races
(subspecies): HS0 Anabiosis spiritalis, HS1 Scientella spiritalis, HS2 Aurora
spiritalis, HS3 Ascensus spiritalis, HS4 Vocatus spiritalis, HS5 Illuminatio
spiritalis, НS6 Creatio spiritalis, and HS7 Servitus spiritalis.
The seventh root race
The
seventh root race will arise from the seventh subrace of the sixth root race on
the future continent that the sixth root race will be living on that will arise
from the Pacific Ocean.[35] The continent they will inhabit
is esoterically called Pushkara.[8]
Migration to Mercury
It is
believed by some Neo-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.[35][37]
Theosophical belief in the brotherhood
of humanity
Modern
writers within theosophy or influenced by theosophy defend Blavatsky's use of
the terms Aryan race and root race as "not connected to demagogic
ideas".[citation
needed] They
say[who?] that the classification of humanity into races is still practiced
today and that Blavatsky and subsequent esoteric philosophers who expressed
similar lines of thought intended a Universal Brotherhood of humanity. Yet root
race philosophy is not void of directly biologically racial elements.
Blavatsky
promulgated her ideology in a layered, multidimensional style and way, and
paradoxical truth was key to her metaphysics. Seemingly paradoxical statements
underpin root race theoretic philosophy existing beyond bifurcations of
"liberal" or "illiberal" notions. Blavatsky wrote that,
while "all men have spiritually and physically the same origin" and
that "mankind is essentially of one and the same essence"[38]—nevertheless, in The Secret
Doctrine, Blavatsky posits: "Verily mankind is 'of one blood,' but not
of the same essence." The interrelationship between spirituality and root
race developmental history is nonlinear and complex. Thus: "Esoteric
history teaches that idols and their worship died out with the Fourth Race,
until the survivors of the hybrid races of the latter (The Chinese, Africans,
etc.,.) gradually brought the worship back." [39]
The first
aim of the Theosophical Society she founded is "To form a nucleus of the
Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex,
caste or colour", and her writings also include references emphasizing the
unity of humanity: "all men have spiritually and physically the same
origin" and that "mankind is essentially of one and the same
essence".[40]
Cranston
quoted Blavatsky saying that in reality there is no inferior or low-grade races
because all of it are one common humankind.[41] [42]
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p. 308-316. (Ch. 50. "The fourth Aryan sub-race: The Keltic, B.C.
20,000".)
7.
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11.
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p. 25-26. (Ch. 36. "The second Atlantean sub-race: the Tlavatli".)
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19,000".)
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27. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, p. 249.
28. Powell, The Solar System, p. 287-289. (Ch. 46.
"The City of the Bridge".)
29. Powell, The Solar System, p. 290-294. (Ch. 47. "The
first Aryan sub-race: The Hindu, B.C. 60,000".)
30. Powell, The Solar System,
p. 295-301. (Ch. 48. "The second Aryan sub-race: The Arabian, B.C.
40,000".)
31.
Powell, The
Solar System, p. 302-307. (Ch. 49. "The third Aryan sub-race: The
Iranian, B.C. 30,000".)
32. Powell, The Solar System, p. 317-320. (Ch. 51.
"The fourth Aryan sub-race: The Teutonic, B.C. 20,000".)
33. Powell, The Solar System,
p. 326-330. (Ch. 52 "The Aryan Sixth Sub-Race").
34. Besant/Leadbeater, Man: How, Whence, and Whither?, p.
353-495.
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утверждении новой человеческой расы на планете [Spiritual
Man: The role of the Culture of spiritual health for approval of the new human
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38. The Key to Theosophy, Section 3
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