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RE: [bn-sd] Origins of Mankind -- PHYSIOLOGY and INTELLIGENCE

Apr 28, 2001 05:28 PM
by dalval14


Saturday, April 28, 2001

 

 

Dear Friend:

 

                        Re Physiological Evolution and Intelligence

 

 

Theosophy holds as one studies the S.D. that mankind is at core a SPIRITUAL BEING.  When Manifestation begins again half the period is taken up with the re=establishment of the operating field in several dimensions and planes. 

 

Theosophy states that the most spiritual are gradually sketched in and consolidate gradually over millions of years, and eventually  into physical forms which are separately being evolved.  [A more detailed description is given in THE OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY by W . Q. Judge and can be read “on line” at http://www.blavatsky.net .  This book is short and the descriptions are a summary of that which the S.D. gives in greater detail. ] 

 

The patterns established in previous Manvantaras are used and the Karma of each entity (each is an immortal MONAD),  and the sensitive Universe adjusts this to its final vehicle.

 

The material stage is the last to “come on to the scene.”  In S.D. I 200 is given a diagram that shows how this occurs.

 

As aRace, mankind is half way through the process and the MIND faculty is said to be connected with the physical brain about 18 million years ago.  [ Called “the LIGHTING UP OF MANAS. ]

 

Thiswas towards the latter part of what has been named the LEMURIAN RACE,  [ Geological period corresponds to the Miocene and Pliocene ages. ]  Following the Lemurian was the ATLANTEAN Race.  This has been on the wane for well over 1,500,000 years and only a few remnants exist.  Our current Race is named ARYAN  (Noble).  Understand that the word “race” is not the ethic races we see today or can trace in fossils, but that they indicate a period of time. 

 

Human fossils begin appearing in the Miocene, and later.  There is no evidence that the human frame descended fromthe APE skeleton.  Rather the reverse as certain great scientists who specialize in skeletal adaptation have observed ( see S.D.  Vol. 2) the APES DESCENDED FROM MANKIND physiologically.  There is a law in physiological development set by the evolutionists themselves.  The work of De Quatrefages ought to be referred to.  H.P.B. quotes it extensively.

 

Using references from the S.D. we find:

 

 

Anthropologists. Physiologists and Paleontologists established the  “LAW OF PERMANENT CHARACTERIZATION”  -- it states that it is not possible for a “Superior form” (Man’s) to ‘descend’ from an “Inferior form” (Ape’s)  [S.D. II 257-8 666-7 733]

 

“An organized being cannot be a descendent of another whose development is of an inverse order to its own.”   [ S.D. II 347 646 666-7 686-7 ]

 

A WALKING MAN cannot descend from an ARBOREAL CLIMBER (Ape)   S.D. II 666-7

 

Man’s form is primordial and the Ape-form is a specialization and a derivation from the human skeleton.  There was a time in the distant past when cross fertilization took place between mankind and certain large she-animals  (much as cloning is being done today) and the fertile product are the ancestors of the present apes ( Orang-outang, Gorilla, Chimpanzee and Gibbon).

 

The Ape as it grows older becomes more bestial, Man - more human.”  S.D. II 646

 

 

The “cave man” of early ages compares with the men who use caves today -- in spite of parallel civilizations -- fossils are few in number and from them, science has theorized the past with inadequate evidence.  Several eminent scientists and paleophysiologists have challenged the Darwinian hypothesis repeatedly.  But they are not popular.    [ S.D. I 208-9fn  II 740-1 ]

 

Actually the cranial development of the Neanderthal and the Cro-Magnon show if anything a superiority to modern cranial volumes.  In the case of the comparison of cranial volumes between Man and Apes it is found that the average “savage” and the “pigmy” races of mankind (Borneo, Australia, Hottentots) have a cranial capacity of about 99 cubic inches.  The largest cranial capacity among the apes is that of the Gorilla and averages about 35 cubic inches.  [ S.D. II 193fn 168fn 522-3 ]   No intermediaries have yet been found that accurately depict a bridge or link between bestiality and humanism.

 

Civilized and savage races have existed side by side for ages  [ S.D. II 168 317-8 425 522 676 686  716-7 721-3 ]

 

Thismay entail quite a bit of reading but the net effect is to restate the fact that humans have 3 lines of evolution intertwined in them ( see S.D. I 181-2) and these are the Spiritual, the Intellectual and the Physical.  The Physical and its remains, give no idea of the nature of the Intellectual being or the spiritual being that used it.

 

In  the OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY (Judge) read Chapters 4, 14, 15.  You willfind the details summarized there.

 

Best wishes,

 

Dallas

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: DNisk98114@aol.com [mailto:DNisk98114@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 7:06 AM
To: sd@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-sd] Origins...

 

H.P.B. gives us a survey there of the various levels and
responsibilities of these beings, -- which are OURSELVES now.
                                                9999999999999999999999999
That which you quote below seems to say this in the best possible
way.     (SD quote in that post ,not included)

  Best wishes,

Dallas

This doesn't necessarily connect , as an idea , to people with the view of a
caveman origin , is there anything that could be said to help re-connect ?
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