Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl01101)

Rich:
> at the risk of being accused of being
>quite a racist, I will point out that various groups of people are known for
>having specialized in something or other...
>
>There are interpersonal differences, there are international differences, and
>it doesn't seem too far of a stretch to suggest racial differences,
>particularly when one considers not the races on the earth now (which are
>largely amalgamated, and hardly distinct even physically) but races which
>have come and gone.

Rich, you are touching here on one area which, as Alexis has pointed
out,  is no longer socially acceptable or scientifically sound.  The whole
teaching of Root Races has led to a lot of errors and misunderstandings.
Let me quote here:

"The Negroes form one of the very few exceptions amonst us today
of baby races, imperfect in mental and physical development (but not
in spiritual development) "  G de Purucker, STUDIES IN OCCULT
PHILOSOPHY, p 44. (TUP, 1945)

On the same page, we read that the Eskimo and Andaman Islanders
are "degenerate remnants of the great Third Root-Race."

Here G de P was but following the logic of HPB's SD.  Now, there
are a lot of biggoted white scientists who would just love to
prove that Blacks are "imperfect in mental and physical
development."  But they have not been able to do so.  In
fact, science has pretty well established today that there
is no real biological/genetic difference between the races
at all insofar as superiority or inferiority is concerned.  And
all we have to do is look at today's world of sports to see
how silly is the idea of Blacks having an infantile physical
development.  But this is exactly what G de P believed and
taught back in 1945.

In regard to race, and racial issues, G de P was simply
wrong.  Period.  Eldon has said that he considers G de P
to have been an Adept.  I do too.  This clearly shows
that Adepts can be wrong about some things.  It also,
IMO, shows the kind of difficulty one gets into by
accepting the SD teaching of Root Races.

	Jerry S.
	Member, TI