Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00997)

Eldon:
> Is a six-year-old boy better
>than a two-year-old girl? One is more mature, more
>advanced in this lifetime. But that is only in terms
>of this lifetime. Looking at their spiritual ages, the
>girl may be the "oldest".

	Here your example employs individuals.  I have
no problem with seeing individual people as infantile or
advanced, rich or poor, healthy, or sick, pretty or ugly,
smart or stupid, loving or hateful, etc.  My problem is
when we apply this kind of thinking to an entire race.
When we say that every black person is immature
when compared to any white person, we are talking
racism pure and simple.
	My rationale, and the whole question of sex
and race, is tied up in how we look at reincarnation.  If
we reincarnate first as women, and then as men, then
sexism is a fact.  If we reincarnate first as black, and
then as white, then racism is a fact.  But if we can be
female in one life, and male in the next, and then
female in the next, and so on, then we have no sexism,
and the two sexes are relatively equal, albeit different.
Similarly with race.  Who is to say that I won't be black
next time around?  Well, if you believe G de P, then I
won't be, because that would be a regression backward,
but I just can't believe that.

>We are all, in  the most basic sense, in the Fifth Root Race.
	
	If the "Fifth Root Race" is Homo-Sapiens, then
I agree.  But I would still consider discussions about any
"reminants of the Fourth Root Race" as racist because every
single person on Earth today is a Homo-Sapien.

>Failure to acknowledge differences prevents us from
>recognizing and striving to acquiring higher qualities.

	Of course there are differences, but I would
keep them on an individual level, rather than a sexual
or racial level.

	Jerry S.
	Member, TI