Theos-Talk Archives (October 2002 Message tt00207)

So how many black people are members of the US TS, 50%, 40%, or if 
less why ?
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--- In theos-talk@y..., "brianmuehlbach" <brianmuehlbach@y...> wrote:
> Blavatsky and the Mahatma letters repeatedly claim that white ÔAryanÕ 
> persons belong to the Fifth Root Race - while black ÔLemurian persons 
> (that is, primal indigenes) belong to an earlier and less-developed 
> evolutionary stream, the Third Root Race. And that these ÔsurvivalsÕ of 
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> Lemurian age have only themselves to blame for their current 
> predicament: not only are they the sacrilegious result of human-
> mammalian miscegenation, but their present status reflects the 
burden 
> of karma which they have accrued through numerous past lives, and 
> which needs to be Ôworked throughÕ. 
> 
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> --- In theos-talk@y..., Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> > brianmuehlbach wrote:
> > > 
> > > That both Mormonism and Theosophy suggest that a black skin is 
a
> > > curse for having sinned in the pre-existence is an interesting 
> > > corollary which requires further research. 
> > 
> > If I had written "That Brian Muehlbach is a despoiler of young 
> goats is
> > an interesting corollary which requires further research", you would
> > have grounds for libel against me. Unfortunately, except in Canada,
> > there is no such thing as libel against an organization.
> > 
> > However, I will tell you that there is NOTHING in Theosophy 
> that even
> > IMPLIES that a black skin is a curse for having sinned in any sort of
> > pre-existence, any more or any less than than ANY skin is a curse 
for
> > having sinned in a previous existence (excepting writings of 
individual,
> > bigoted self-styled Theosophists). 
> > 
> > Bart Lidofsky