Theos-Talk Archives (October 2002 Message tt00186)

--- In theos-talk@y..., Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> She said nothing of the kind. At MOST, she said the declining birth
> rate among them is due to the fact that people weren't reincarnating
> into those bodies.

Well, I think you missed the fact that I was pulling Leon's leg. I 
am very skeptical that there is any "karma" in the sense that most 
people think of it, although the explanation given by Patanjali and 
the Buddha makes sense.

As for the Tasmanians, what Blavatsky says in her SD that they 
are "completely extinct" in accordance with her cycle theory, and 
that "the Australians [are] rapidly dying out." The truth is, of 
course, that the Tasmanians were the victims of deliberate genocide 
and that the "Australians" (meaning the aborigines) are not "rapidly 
dying out" now that the genocide program directed against them has 
been discontinued. Human agency and not cosmic cycles seems to have 
been the cause of the destruction of these peoples. There is no good 
reason to believe she was right when she accused the aborigines of 
being sub human, animalistic, and so forth. Nobody is right all the 
time, so this should not be an insuperable problem. It does seem 
that there could have been atr least one word of disapproval in the 
SD for the systematic slaughter of an entire people. A collection of 
quotes follows.

I heard on NPR today that there is an organization called "Rabbis for 
Human Rights" which has been formed to protest human rights 
violations in that part of Palestine temporarily known as Israel. 
Yjere are numerous web sites. Most people there support the 
continuing mistreatment of the Palestinians, but these folks not only 
are standing up for what they believe is right, they are actually 
interposing their own bodies between "settlers" who are shooting 
Palestinians for sport and their intended victims. I have to say, 
that is putting your money where your mouth is. It is important for 
us to be reminded from time to time that there are men of conscience 
in a world which seems at times to have been taken over by cynicism 
and opportunism.

SD 2.162 "the inferior Races, of which there are still some analogues 
left ? as the Australians (now fast dying out)

SD 2.195 "Of such semi?animal creatures, the sole remnants known to 
Ethnology were the Tasmanians, a portion of the Australians and a 
mountain tribe in China

SD 2.196 "such semi?human stocks ? e.g., the wild men of Borneo, the 
Veddhas of Ceylon, classed by Prof. Flower among Aryans (!), most of 
the remaining Australians, Bushmen, Negritos, Andaman Islanders, etc.

SD 2.328 "some of the Australian tribes are the last remnants of the 
last descendants of the Third Race.

SD 2.318 "The Australians and their like are the descendants of 
those, who, instead of vivifying the spark dropped into them by 
the "Flames," extinguished it by long generations of bestiality.

2.328 "Behold," writes a MASTER, "the relics of that once great 
nation (Lemuria of the Third Race) in some of the flat?headed 
aborigines of your Australia" ("Esoteric Buddhism," p. 65)

SD 2.332 "As the Tasmanians are now completely extinct, and the 
Australians rapidly dying out, so will the other old races soon 
follow.

2.661 "the flat?headed Australian natives ? the lowest now in the 
human races