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'''Root-Race''' is a [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] concept that refers to successive evolutionary stages through which humanity goes in its pilgrimage on our earth. There are seven Root-Races:


<blockquote>Every life-cycle on Globe D (our Earth) is composed of seven root-races. They commence with the Ethereal and end with the spiritual on the double line of physical and moral evolution—from the beginning of the terrestrial round to its close. (One is a “planetary round” from Globe A to Globe G, the seventh; the other, the “globe round”, or the terrestrial).<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 160.</ref></blockquote>


The mankind of the First Root-Race is the mankind of the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc. SD2, fn. 146
The Root-Races go through a process of [[Evolution#Cyclic evolution|cyclic evolution]] going from subtlety to materiality and back to subtlety:


The periods of the great root races are divided from each other by great convulsions of Nature, and by great geological changes. EB, 64.
<blockquote>These Races evolve from ethereality to materiality, and from the latter back again into relative physical tenuity of texture, so every living (so-called) organic species of animals with vegetation included, changes with every new Root-Race.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, ????), 697.</ref></blockquote>


It is important to keep in mind that these Root-Races are different stages humanity as a whole goes through successively. As [[H. P. Blavatsky]] wrote: "The mankind of the First Root-Race is the mankind of the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc." <ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, ????), fn. 146.</ref>


very root-race is separated by a catastrophe, a cataclysm—the basis and historical foundation of the fables woven later on into the religious fabric of every people, whether civilized or savage, under the names of “deluges,” “showers of fire” and such like. V, 163-164
Each Root-Race succeed each other, although there is a period of overlapping between the old forms dying out and the new forms beginning to be more and more dominant. The end of a Root-Race and the beginning of a new one is marked by important geological changes:


<blockquote>The periods of the great root races are divided from each other by great convulsions of Nature, and by great geological changes.<ref>Alfred Percy Sinnett, ''Esoteric Buddhism'', (???, ????), 64.</ref></blockquote>


There are seven root-races, and seven sub-races or offshoots. Our doctrine treats anthropology as an absurd empty dream of the religionists and confines itself to ethnology. It is possible that my nomenclature is faulty; you are at liberty in such a case to change it. What I call “race” you would perhaps term “stock” though sub-race expresses better what we mean than the word family or division of the genus homo. (ML )
<blockquote>Every root-race is separated by a catastrophe, a cataclysm—the basis and historical foundation of the fables woven later on into the religious fabric of every people, whether civilized or savage, under the names of “deluges,” “showers of fire” and such like. V, 163-164


Each Root-Race is in turn divided in seven sub-races.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 66 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), ???.</ref> Currently, humanity is undergoing the fifth Root-Race stage and five sub-races have been developed.


the separation of human races (outside the purely anthropological division) into Seven distinct Root-Races, of which our present European Humanity is the fifth; (d) the antiquity of Man in this (Fourth) Round; and finally (e) that as these Races evolve from ethereality to materiality, and from the latter back again into relative physical tenuity of texture, so every living (so-called) organic species of animals with vegetation included, changes with every new Root-Race. (SD2, 697)
 
== First Root-Race ==
 
 
== Second Root-Race ==
 
 
== Third Root-Race ==
 
 
== Fourth Root-Race ==
 
 
== Fifth Root-Race ==
 
 
== Sixth Root-Race ==
 
 
== Seventh Root-Race ==
 
 
 
== Notes ==
 
<references/>
 
 
==Further reading==
 
*[http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Root_Races# Root Races] at Theosopedia
 
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Revision as of 15:33, 19 April 2012

Root-Race is a Theosophical concept that refers to successive evolutionary stages through which humanity goes in its pilgrimage on our earth. There are seven Root-Races:

Every life-cycle on Globe D (our Earth) is composed of seven root-races. They commence with the Ethereal and end with the spiritual on the double line of physical and moral evolution—from the beginning of the terrestrial round to its close. (One is a “planetary round” from Globe A to Globe G, the seventh; the other, the “globe round”, or the terrestrial).[1]

The Root-Races go through a process of cyclic evolution going from subtlety to materiality and back to subtlety:

These Races evolve from ethereality to materiality, and from the latter back again into relative physical tenuity of texture, so every living (so-called) organic species of animals with vegetation included, changes with every new Root-Race.[2]

It is important to keep in mind that these Root-Races are different stages humanity as a whole goes through successively. As H. P. Blavatsky wrote: "The mankind of the First Root-Race is the mankind of the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc." [3]

Each Root-Race succeed each other, although there is a period of overlapping between the old forms dying out and the new forms beginning to be more and more dominant. The end of a Root-Race and the beginning of a new one is marked by important geological changes:

The periods of the great root races are divided from each other by great convulsions of Nature, and by great geological changes.[4]

Every root-race is separated by a catastrophe, a cataclysm—the basis and historical foundation of the fables woven later on into the religious fabric of every people, whether civilized or savage, under the names of “deluges,” “showers of fire” and such like. V, 163-164

Each Root-Race is in turn divided in seven sub-races.[5] Currently, humanity is undergoing the fifth Root-Race stage and five sub-races have been developed.


First Root-Race

Second Root-Race

Third Root-Race

Fourth Root-Race

Fifth Root-Race

Sixth Root-Race

Seventh Root-Race

Notes

  1. ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 160.
  2. ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, ????), 697.
  3. ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, ????), fn. 146.
  4. ↑ Alfred Percy Sinnett, Esoteric Buddhism, (???, ????), 64.
  5. ↑ Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. 66 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), ???.


Further reading

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