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Root Races
We haven’t always looked like this
During
the time in which the Lifewave visits a Globe on its tour of the 7 Globes, known as a
Planetary Round (see Earth’s
Planetary Chain), Humanity
proceeds with its evolution by inhabiting the planet (Globe D this time) in
seven Stages of Manifestation.
These
Stages of Manifestation are achieved by Group Reincarnation in radically
different forms and are known as Root Races. We are the 5th Root
Race, there are 2 more to come on the current Globe. There are also 7
sub-divisions within each Root Race known as Sub Races.
Each
Root Race lasts several million years and physical evolution as we understand
it forms only a very small part of the scope of evolution undertaken.
At the
mid point of its cycle, each Root Race goes into decline and the next Root Race
begins. By the time this new Root race reaches its mid point, the preceding
Root Race will have long disappeared.
Starting
the Process off
All Globes
begin with a reawakening process which applies to all kingdoms of nature on
that Globe.
When the
Lifewave leaves a Globe, it leaves behind Divine Beings called shishtas or
'remainders'.
These were
the most advanced representatives of life on that Globe in the previous round.
When the
Lifewave returns to that Globe, the incoming monads reawaken these astral
root-types, which begin to materialize and form themselves into a variety of
life forms appropriate to each kingdom's evolution.
As the human
monads from Globe C started to arrive on Globe D, they awakened the
corresponding classes of shishtas, which began to multiply in number.
The Root
Races so far
1st)
The Polarian Race
This race, which
originated at the North Pole when the Earth was less material, did not have
physical bodies.
They had huge
translucent or transparent bodies, ovoid though somewhat fluid in form, with no
bones or organs, and no hair or skin. They slowly grew more solid but never
became physical as we understand it. They were sexless and to reproduce, a
large portion of the body separated itself and grew into a duplicate of its
parent.
They had no
self-conscious minds. Their consciousness was like that of someone in a daze or
deep daydream. They were guided by spiritual instinct.
2nd)
The Hyperborean Race
This race was
semi-astral, but grew denser and more opaque. Although still more or less ovoid
in form, it developed the rudimentary beginnings of bones and organs, hair and
skin.
The second
race was asexual and reproduced by gemmation or budding. A swelling would
appear on the body, and as it grew it became constricted near the point of
junction with the parent body. Eventually, the remaining filament would break, thus
freeing the bud, which then grew into another individual similar to its parent.
Like the
first Root Race, the Hyperboreans had no self-conscious minds.
3rd)
The Lemurian Race
This race had
very basic physical bodies which eventually developed flesh, blood and organs.
In the early
stages reproduction was by budding and later by egg laying.
This race was
originally androgynous with hermaphrodite forms eventually giving way to a
separation of the sexes and the modern method of reproduction. At the same time
the awakening of self-conscious minds began and that human bodies became fully
developed and physical.
The Lemurians
had a third eye at the top of the head. It was in fact the first eye, the two
front eyes developing later.
The
Manasaputras Intervene
Humanity's
self-conscious mind began to awaken once our physical forms had become
sufficiently developed to express our latent mental powers. This important
event is referred to as the 'incarnation of the mânasaputras' (or 'sons of
mind'). These spiritual entities are our own higher selves (our higher human or
mânasaputric monad), and passed through the human stage in a previous cycle of
evolution.
With
self-conscious intelligence came the power of choice and free will, and as
humans gradually sank further into matter, a struggle emerged between the
spiritual and the animal in man.
4th)
The Atlantean Race
The Atlantean
root-race developed bodies far coarser than our own, because it was in the
middle of that race, some 4.5 million years ago, that the bottom of the arc of
descent in to matter (Involution) was reached and matter reached its fullest
development.
Since this
point the matter of both the globe and its inhabitants has begun to slowly
become more refined and spiritual, and this process will continue as we
progress along the ascending arc. That’s good news, we’re on the way up.
The
Atlanteans produced some of the most advanced civilizations of a purely
material character that this Globe has seen. On the whole, however, they were
unspiritual, with strong material instincts.
5th)
The Modern Race
We
are less physical and will become more spiritual that the previous (Atlantean)
Root Race. Our main characteristic has been intellectual development.
Root Races to come
The
6th & 7th Root Races will become progressively less
physical and will be more advanced in intellect and spirituality.
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