Lemuria: The origin of the Third Root Race: From Theosophy’s Sacred Teachings in ‘The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2’ Part 1 of 2

Today, we introduce Lemuria from ‘The Secret Doctrine Vol. 2’, where Madame Blavatsky (vegetarian) describes it as the birthplace of the Third Root Race— early humanity shaped by Divine wisdom and spiritual evolution.

STANZA VII FROM THE SEMI-DIVINE DOWN TO THE FIRST HUMAN RACES 24. The higher Creators reject in their pride the Forms evolved by the “Sons of Yoga.”

“The Sons of Wisdom, the Sons of Night, ready for rebirth, came down. They saw the vile forms of the First Third. ‘We can choose,’ said the Lords, ‘we have wisdom.’ Some entered the Chhâyâs. Some projected a Spark. Some deferred till the fourth. […]

It is not Brahmâ who creates things and men on this Earth, but the Chief and Lord of the Prajapatis, the Lords of Being and terrestrial Creation. ‘Obeying the command of Brahmâ,’ Daksha— the synthesis, or the aggregate, of the Terrestrial Creators and Progenitors, the Pitris included— made superior and inferior (vara and avara) things, ‘referring to putra’ progeny, and ‘bipeds and quadrupeds and subsequently, by his will [referring to the Sons of Will and Yoga], gave birth to females’—i.e., separated the androgynes.

Here, again, we have ‘bipeds’ or men, created before the ‘quadrupeds’ as in the Esoteric Teachings. Since, in the exoteric accounts, the Asuras are the first Beings created from the ‘Body of Night,’ while the Pitris issue from that of ‘Twilight’; the ‘Gods’ being placed by Parashara, in the Vishnu Purâna, between the two, and shown to evolve from the ‘Body of the Day,’ it is easy to discover a determined purpose to veil the order of creation. […]

The allegory is very ingenious. Great intellect and too much knowledge are a two-edged weapon in life, and instruments for evil as well as for good. When combined with selfishness, they will make of the whole of Humanity a footstool for the elevation of him who possesses them, and a means for the attainment of his objects; while, applied to altruistic humanitarian purposes, they may become the means of the salvation of many. At all events, the absence of self-consciousness and intellect will make of man an idiot, a brute in human form. Brahma is Mahat, the Universal Mind; hence, the too selfish among the Rakshasas showing the desire to become possessed of it all, to ‘devour’ Mahat. The allegory is transparent.”