THE SEVEN ROOT RACES OF MANKIND

OVERVIEW

There are seven Root-Races or evolutionary cycles through which

humanity evolves. Each root-race is divided into seven minor cycles called
sub-races, which are again subdivided into seven branch or family races.
These sub-divisions are related to the modern concept of races and
ethnicities.

It must be stressed that the sub-races refer to cultural qualities and not to
the level of evolution of the soul, they are different evolutionary stages
humanity as a whole goes through successively. The same individuals that
compose the current humanity have been reborn in all the previous Root-
Races.

We are presently at the fifth stage, referred to as the "Aryans". Aryans (the
word means "noble" in Sanskrit) were the original Indo-European nomadic
tribesmen, a war-like race of horsemen that moved east to India and West into
the near East and Europe. Historians argue that when they got to Europe they
destroyed the peace-loving earth-wisdom pagan matriarchal societies and
replaced them with war-like sky-god worshipping patriarchal societies such as
we still have today.

It is unfortunate that the term "Aryan" was adopted and perverted by Hitler
and his intellectual predecessor's fantasies of an "Aryan Superman”, and is
still used today by right-wing white power extremists. Hitler and his inner
circle also perverted some genuine ancient symbols, like the swastika (an
ancient Sanskrit symbol) by using it in a counter clockwise position. However,
the Swastikas in India, Tibet, and elsewhere are also sometimes represented
counter-clockwise as well as clockwise.

There have been on Earth many civilizations of which we know nothing.

These Races evolve from ethereality to materiality, and from the latter back
again so every living organic species of animals and vegetation changes with
every new Root-Race.

Every sub-race and nation have their cycles and stages of developmental
evolution repeated on a smaller scale. Our race then has, as a Root-race,
crossed the middle line of the Root Races and is cycling onward on the
Spiritual side; but some sub-races still find themselves on the shadowy
descending arc of their respective national cycles; while others again, the
oldest, having crossed their crucial point (which decides whether a race, a
nation, or a tribe will live or perish) are at the apex of spiritual development as
sub-races.

The seven Rounds decrease and increase in their respective durations, as

well as the seven races in each. Thus the 4th Rounds as well as every 4h
race are the shortest, while the 1st and 7th Rounds and the 1st and 7th Root
Races are the longest. Each Root-Race succeeds another, although there is a
period of overlapping between the old forms dying out and the new forms
beginning to become more and more dominant.

The timespan applied to a root race is considerable. For instance, the Fifth,
according to Theosophical records, covered the years 10,000 BCE to 3,000
BCE in right-brained megalithic cultures and 3,000 BCE to 2,400 CE in left-
brained modern cultures.

The periods of the great root races are divided from each other by great
convulsions of Nature, and by great geological changes. Every root-race is
separated by a catastrophe, a cataclysm—the basis and historical foundation
of the fables woven later on into the religious fabric of every people, whether
civilized or savage, under the names of “deluges,” “showers of fire”, ‘great
floods” and the like .

Our present continents have been submerged and had the time to reappear
again, and bear their new groups of mankind and civilization; and that, at the
first great geological upheaval, at the next cataclysm, in the series of
periodical cataclysms, that occur from the beginning to the end of every
Round, our known continents will go down, and the ancient continents will
arise again.

When reading below it must be remembered that the Theosophical concept

is that Souls develop through an evolutionary process from :

1. Mineral, to;
2. Plant; to
3. Animal; to
4. Human.

There is no transmigration backward so that a human cannot go backwards

to an animal, etc.

The description below skips the first step (Mineral) ,and starts with a
step (Polarians) after mineral.
It then goes directly to the Second Root Race which describes the human
soul evolving within rudimentary animals (algae, etc. to the first human like
form).

The Third Root Race describes a giant Human Cyclops Race which
evolves and ends with the start of the first modern human form of Man.

The Fourth Root Race starts with a race of two eyed Giant Humans,
beginning about 60 feet tall then decreasing to 20 to 30 feet tall ,which got
progressively smaller until they reached modern Human size.

We are currently in the Fifth Root Race where humans are normal modern
size .The third eye of the Cyclops has been absorbed over time into the brain.
Some describe the third cyclops eye to be the Pineal Glad of the brain or what
today is known as the "Third Eye" of modern humans .However modern
science believes that it is more likely the Visual Association Cortex and the
Parietal Cortex and the Prefrontal cortex, all higher cognitive processing
centers of the brain, are the absorbed third eye.