Root-Race

The mankind of the First Root-Race is the mankind of the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc. SD2, fn. 146

The periods of the great root races are divided from each other by great convulsions of Nature, and by great geological changes. EB, 64.

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

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 )

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)