Theos-Talk Archives (January 2000 Message tt00015)

ramadoss@eden.com wrote:
> Looking back to the days of HPB when it was fashionable in the upper class
> elite to use French language -- which of course HPB was fluent in -- and I
> believe at the first meeting between HPB and HSO their conversation started
> in French -- all her key writings were in English.
> 
> Looking at the 21st century, English is the second language in all the
> countries so it has become a common language for communication of ideas and
> I am certain that the Adepts knew this is going to be the case in the
> coming centuries and chose to make her write her classics such as Isis and
> SD in English.

	I personally think that her belief that the United States is key to the
evolution of humanity was another reason.

	Although there was global travel before, global travel and global
communications for the mass of humanity was not really available until
the 20th century. Before, people in various geographical areas tended to
be more or less isolated from others, allowing cultures to flourish
where different human traits were developed in different areas (because
people in some of these areas had common physical features, this
development is frequently confused with what is commonly called "race",
but it's not strictly true. Geographically separated peoples from the
same "race" developed different characteristics, while geographically
close people of two different "races" developed the same ones). Some
obvious examples include engineering, mathematics, and boolean logic in
Europe, communication skills in Africa, spiritual thought and
non-boolean logic in Eastern Asia. The 4th root race civilization was
preserved among the Australian aborigines, according to the Mahatmas
(note that they specifically stated the CIVILIZATION, and not the
bodies), and apparently among the shamanistic native American groups,
who also developed complex political systems that made near-democracy
practical (the U.S. Constitution owes a great deal to some of these
systems). 

	In the United States, an area that had been devestated by ecological
disasters in the early 14th through early 17th centuries, only a small
part coming from the European invasion of Central and South America in
the 16th century, European settlers came in the 17th century of the
common era. Through a set of circumstances familiar to most of us, a
cultural mixing of the geographic groups from all over the world, some
voluntary, some not, came into this country. Although the
European-developed traits were given the highest cultural value, the
traits developed by the other peoples started mixing in (if you think
the United States is "racist", take a look at just about every other
country in the world). If one believes the theory that people incarnate
in the body that has the best chance of learning lessons that they need
to learn, in the United States, instead of developing just a single set
of traits, there is a unique opportunity for all individuals to develop
all the traits that have been evolving in humanity.

	For those who like science fiction, check out Gordy Dickson's Childe
Cycle series, particularly the novels taking place in the future
(usually referred to as the Dorsai novels), for a far less complex
analogy.

	Bart Lidofsky

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