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Razas Humanas
Glosario Teosofico
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Son en número de siete, y están íntimamente relacionadas con la
doctrina de la Cadena planetaria. Admitida la séptuple naturaleza
del hombre, cada uno de sus principales guarda relación con un plano,
un planeta y una raza. Las Razas humanas nacen la una de la otra,
crecen, se desarrollan, envejecen y mueren. Las subrazas siguen la
misma regla.
Cada Raza-madre, con sus correspondientes subrazas e innumerables
subdivisiones en familias y tribus, es enteramente distinta de la
Raza que la precede y de la que le sigue. Cada una de las siete
Razas, así como la más mínima división de ellas, se divide en cuatro
edades: de oro, de plata, de bronce y de hierro.
De las siete Razas, cinco han aparecido ya y han completado casi su
cadena terrestre; y otras dos tienen que aparecer todavía en esta
Ronda.
Nuestra quinta Raza-madre existe ya como Raza sui géneris y
por completo independiente de su tronco-padre, desde hace un millón
de años; de lo cual puede inferirse que cada una de sus cuatro subrazas precedentes ha vivido unos 210.000 años; así, cada
raza-familia tiene un promedio de existencia de unos 30.000 años; y
así también la raza-familia europea tiene aun bastante miles de años
de vida, aun cuando las naciones, o sean las innumerables espinas
que hay en ella, varían con cada "estación" sucesiva de tres o
cuatro mil años. (Doctr. Secr., II, 453, 454).
La quinta Raza (la aria) es la que actualmente sigue su curso en
nuestro globo, coexistiendo con una gran parte de la cuarta Raza (constituída
por los tártaros, chinos y mongoles), y con algunos restos de la
tercera (aborígenes de la Australia y hotentotes). -El curso de las
Razas humanas corresponde a los grandes períodos de involución o
descenso, de equilibrio y de evolución o ascenso. (Véase: Cadena
planetaria).
En el período de involución, o descenso, se desarrollaron las tres
primeras Razas; en el de equilibrio se desenvolvió la cuarta Raza, y
el período de evolución o ascenso corresponde a las Razas quinta,
sexta y séptima. (Doctr. Secr., passim).
Primera Raza
- Apareció bajo la protección del Sol (o más bien de Urano, que
místicamente lo representa). Por residir la conciencia en el plano
âtmico, estas formas fueron denominadas Raza de los Dioses, hijos
del Yoga, (pues los Pitris emanaron sus sombras (chhâyâs) mientras
se hallaban entregados a la meditación), y nacidos de sí mismos, por
no haberlos procreado padres humanos.
Son formas enormes,
filamentosas, proteicas y etéreas, bhûtas sin sexo, exudadas de los
etéreos cuerpos de sus progenitores. Podían estos seres estar
parados, andar, correr, volar; sin embargo, no eran más que un
chhâyâ, una sombra insensible, dotada sólo de un oído rudimentario y
de una vaga conciencia del fuego.
Esta Raza se reproducía por escisión o brote; el individuo crecía,
aumentaba en tamaño, y entonces se dividía en dos mitades iguales,
al principio, y en sus últimas etapas en porciones desiguales, de
las que dimanaban seres más pequeños, que a su vez crecían y daban
origen a nueva prole. En esta primera Raza no hubo ninguna primera
subraza definida, si bien podemos indicar siete etapas de desarrollo
o cambios evolucionarios. Ninguno de estos seres podía morir, "ni el
fuego ni el agua podían destruirlos". El fuego era su elemento.
Esta Raza residía en la primera tierra firme que apareció en el
globo, el pico del Monte Merú, el extremo del polo Norte, el
comienzo de la imperecedera Tierra Sagrada, la tierra de los devas,
llamada también Zvetadvîpa, la Isla Blanca o Tierra central, cuyo
clima era como el de una deliciosa primavera.
Esta tierra ha de ser
sucesivamente la cuna de cada Raza humana bajo el Imperio de Dhruva,
el Señor de la Estrella Polar, cualquiera que sea el punto adonde
haya de dirigirse después de su nacimiento.
Segunda Raza
- Nació bajo la influencia del planeta Júpiter (Brihaspati). Los
espíritus de la Naturaleza o devas inferiores conglomeraron en
derredor de los chhâyâs (sombras) películas de materia más densa,
formando una especie de tupida envoltura externa, y lo exterior, (el
chhâyâ) de la primera Raza vino a ser lo interior (el doble etéreo)
de la segunda. Estas formas filamentosas y de brillantes colores (amarillo
de oro, anaranjado, etc.), heterogéneas en apariencia, de figura
diversa, semejaban vegetales o animales, y a menudo tenían unos
contornos semihumanos.
Flotaban en el espacio, trepaban, deslizábanse de acá para acullá, y
se llamaban con unos sonidos aflautados. La conciencia de la Mónada
en esta Raza responde débilmente a la conciencia búddhica. Adquiere
un nuevo sentido, el del tacto, respondiendo así a las impresiones
del aire y del fuego. Esta Raza ofrecía dos principales tipos de
reproducción: por expansión y brote (generación sexual), y por medio
del sudor con indicios de sexualidad, por lo que se dio a sus
individuos el nombre de andróginos latentes.
Esta Raza pasó a residir en el segundo Continente, llamado
Hiperbóreo o Plakcha, que ocupaba el actual norte de Asia, junto con
Groenlandia y la península de Kamschatka. Formaban también parte de
este continente la isla de Spitzber, Suecia y Noruega, extendiéndose
por el sudoeste hasta más allá de las Islas Británicas.
La bahía de Baffin era entonces tierra firme. El clima era tropical, y el suelo
estaba cubierto de abundante vegetación.
Tercera Raza (Lemuriana)
- Ofrece tres tipos perfectamente definidos que designaremos con los
nombres de tercera prima, tercera media y tercera última. La tercera
prima nació bajo el imperio de Zukra (Venus), gracias a cuya
influencia se desarrollaron los hermafroditas, quedando las razas
separadas bajo Lohitânga (Marte), que es la encarnación de Kâma o
naturaleza pasional. Como todas las formas entonces existentes en la
tierra, el hombre era de estatura gigantesca.
Era rojo con mucha variedad de matices; tenía la frente deprimida,
la nariz chata y las mandíbulas abultadas y salientes. Los divinos
andróginos eran de un hermoso y espléndido tinte rojo dorado.
En
esta Raza se desarrolló el órgano de la visión; al principio era un
ojo único en medio de la frente (llamado más tarde tercer ojo), que
brillaba como una joya en su órbita; más adelante fueron dos ojos,
pero éstos no tuvieron completo uso hasta la tercera subraza de la
tercera Raza; y únicamente en la cuarta Raza, cuando el tercer ojo
retrocedió al interior convirtiéndose en glándula pineal, añadió el
sentido de la vista a los del oído y del tacto.
En cuanto a la conciencia, la tercera Raza, por su contacto con
Âtma-Buddhi-Manas, demostró trinidad. A la conciencia de los
contactos del fuego y del aire, añadió los del agua. El lenguaje
pasó a ser monosílabico.
La reproducción era de tres tipos: en la
primera subraza se efectuaba por gotas de sudor, y apenas se
distinguía el signo sexual en el cuerpo; gradualmente apareció la
generación ovípara (tercera y cuarta subraza), produciendo seres
hermafroditas al principio, y más tarde con predominio de un solo
sexo, hasta que por fin nacieron del huevo varones y hembras; en la
quinta subraza empieza el huevo a quedar retenido en el seno materno,
y nace la criatura débil y desvalida; por último, en la sexta y
séptima subrazas ya es general la generación por ayuntamiento de
sexos.
El hombre de la tercera Raza era contemporáneo del pterodáctilo, del
megalosauro y otros animales gigantescos. La cuna de esta Raza fue
la Lemuria, llamada Zâlmali en las historias antiguas.
Cuarta Raza (Atlántica)
- Fue engendrada por la tercera Raza unos ocho millones de años
atrás, a cuyo fin el Manú de la cuarta Raza eligió de entre la
anterior los tipos más adecuados, a quienes condujo a la
imperecedera Tierra sagrada para librarlos del cataclismo lemuriano.
Nació la cuarta Raza bajo la influencia de Soma (la Luna) y de Zani
(Saturno); a la influencia de este último astro se debió en parte
muy principal el gran desarrollo de la inteligencia concreta que
caracteriza la subraza tolteca.
El lenguaje era aglutinante; pero andando el tiempo adquirió flexión,
y en esa modalidad se transmitió a la quinta Raza. Cuna de la cuarta
Raza fue el vastísimo continente de la Atlántida. (Véase esta
palabra). La inmensa mayoría de los habitantes del globo pertenece
todavía a la cuarta Raza.
Las siete subrazas de ésta son:
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la Ramoahal
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la Tlavatli
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la Tolteca
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la Turania
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la Semítica
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la Akkadiana
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la Mongólica
Entre ellas merece mencionarse, por su alto grado de civilización,
la tolteca, que conocía a fondo la química, la astronomía, la
agricultura y la alquimía; estaba también muy versada en la magia
negra, gran parte de la cual tenía por instrumento el hábil empleo
de los "rayos obscuros" de la luna, o sean las emanaciones de la
porción obscura de este astro.
Quinta Raza (Aria)
- Es la actual raza blanca del globo. Se desarrolló bajo la
protección de Budha (Mercurio), pues su principal objetivo era el
desenvolvimiento de la mente, y a este fin, el planeta de la
sabiduría bañó con sus benéficos efluvios la cuna de la Raza. Hace
ya un millón de años el Manú Vaivasvata seleccionó de entre la
subraza semítica de la Raza atlántica las simientes de la quinta
Raza-madre y las condujo a la imperecedera Tierra sagrada.
Edad tras edad, fue modelando el
núcleo de la humanidad futura. Allí
se añadió el quinto sentido (olfato) a los otro cuatro, quedando el
hombre tal como es en el estado presente. Allí el Manú congregó las
más brillantes inteligencias y los caracteres más puros para que
renazcan en las formas que El desarrolla. Una vez que hubo
establecido el tipo de su Raza, la condujo al Asia Central, en donde
moró por largo tiempo, fijando allí la residencia de la Raza cuyos
brotes habían de ramificarse en diversas direcciones.
Esta Raza tiene las siguientes subrazas:
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la Aria
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la Ario-semítica
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la Irania
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la Céltica
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la Teutónica
La sexta y la séptima florecerán en el Norte y Sur de América.
Sexta Raza
- Estará caracterizada por su desarrollo espiritual, por la
adquisición del sexto sentido, o sea la clarividencia astral, y por
sus tendencias unitarias.
Poblará el continente
Zâha, cuya emersión
inicial ocurrirá en el punto donde actualmente se halla la América
del Norte, que con antelación habrá sido cuarteada por terremotos y
fuegos volcánicos.
Séptima Raza
- Se caracterizará por su completo desarrollo espiritual, por la
adquisición del séptimo sentido, o sea la clarividencia mental, y
por el pleno reconocimiento de la unidad. Florecerá en el séptimo
continente, llamado Pukchara, cuyo centro ha de estar en el punto en
donde se halla actualmente la América del Sur.
Al terminar la vida geológica de este continente, sobrevendrá el fin
de nuestro globo, cayendo en apacible sueño después del larguísimo
día de trabajo y vigilia.
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Root-Races
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The main serial divisions of the human life-wave on any
globe of a planetary chain; for instance, the root-races on our
globe D include the third or Lemurian, the fourth or Atlantean, and
the present fifth. Each such root-race contains many and various
races as the word is commonly understood.
All the human beings alive today are part of the fifth root-race.
Each life-wave when it has completed its cycle of seven root-races
on one globe, transfers its life-energies to the next globe,
whereupon begins the same sequence of seven root-races on that next
globe.
Thus each globe of a planetary chain has its seven root-races, which
together constitute one globe-round, the whole set of seven
globe-rounds completing one planetary round.
Root-race, First
of the fourth round on globe D of our earth, composed of
emanations of the lunar pitris produced by the processes of
chhaya-birth - the ethereal lunar pitris emanated their own
"shadows" or vehicles, as colossal ovoid bodies of tenuous
astral substance, to us translucent, and having but rudiments or
type of color.
They were spiritual and ethereal within, and more condensedly ethereal outwardly, as yet possessing latent but not
active intelligence, and therefore as yet having no speech;
composed of all the elements, but as yet having no living
intellectual fire manifest.
Their habitat was the "Imperishable Sacred Land" around the
region of the north pole, where they first appeared in seven
more or less distinct but overlapping localities. Their method
of reproduction in the earlier periods was by one form melting
into its progeny.
Later the race reproduced itself by fission;
in all these cases there was no death to individuals, because
the individuals became their own descendants, as is exemplified
in certain elementary forms of life today. This race inhabited
the globe when there was more water than land on the earth, and
its destruction was by fire.
However, even in this first root-race in which individualized
intelligence was not yet manifesting, because the forms were not
yet ready to carry this intelligence, there were nevertheless
certain representatives, the highest in the entire vast racial
group, who were already intelligent because of unfolded manasic
attributes, and who because of their more advanced state of
evolution were enabled to build up an intermediary psychological
apparatus of etherealized or tenuous character permitting the
transmission of thought and intelligence from the monad into the
physical frame.
These intelligent entities, few as compared with the vast
numbers of the mass, were the first manasaputric incarnations,
and were therefore the highest and most evolved, and in
consequence the leaders and guardians of the unintelligent
multitudes of this race.
Root-race, Second
Like the first root-race of the present round on globe D of the
earth-chain, the second was astral, though somewhat more
concreted, physicalized, or materialized. The bodies were unlike
what is now regarded as human, bearing but vaguely the human
outline of a gelatinous, filamentoid, jelly-like nature, as yet
without evolved bones, organs, hair, or true skin.
Reproduction
was by budding, as occurs in some lower organisms today.
About the middle of the race, these buds became numerous and the
process became modified to one analogous to the casting off of
spores or seeds, or to the exuding of drops of vital sweat.
These beings were mindless and unmoral, innocent, guided
unconsciously by their spiritual instincts, nevertheless largely
under the sway of lower rather than spiritual impulses, somewhat
like the animals of today.
For as yet no intellectual fire from
the manasaputras (sons of mind) had been communicated to them,
so that as yet there was no working bridge of mentality between
spirit and matter in them.
Root-race, Third
A period when human evolution passed through a stage analogous
to that of the third round, but qualified by the fact that it
belonged to the fourth round.
The date of the beginning of this
third root-race is set at some 22 or 23 million years ago; and
18,000,000 years ago is given in theosophical writings as the
date of the awakening of mind and the separation of the sexes at
or somewhat after the midpoint of the third root-race. The
latter date is collated, according to the geology of Blavatsky's
time, with the later Triassic and earlier Jurassic periods.
The geographical area was the enormous continent known as
Lemuria and outlying islands, some even of semi-continental
size; and, like the other odd-numbered races, in this
geographical distribution the water-area predominated over the
land-area, and its destruction finally came about through fire.
The filamentoid and boneless structure of the semi-astral human
bodies at the end of the second root-race now thickened and
condensed, separating itself upon a rapidly developing skeletal
form into nervous, muscular, and other systems, combined with
the appearance of definite organs, with specific functions, thus
constituting the first truly physical human beings.
The mode of reproduction at the beginning of the root-race was
by the exudation from the surface of the body of vital "sweat"
or cells, but with the hardening and specialization of the body
itself, the production of the reproductive cells became
localized in special organs and the mode of generation became
oviparous; later these human eggs were no longer extruded as is
the case with fowls today, but shrank greatly in size and were
developed and fertilized within the body: first in a virginal
manner, and then before true sex appeared there ensued a fairly
long period of androgynous reproduction in which androgynous
humans occasionally gave birth to individuals in whom one or the
other sex predominated; and these occasional appearances, as
time passed, became ever more frequent with the recession of
androgyny, and the final appearance of true sex as it is
understood today.
This process extended over hundreds of thousands, and even a
number of millions, of years.
More important, however, than these biological facts was the
awakening of mind, of self-conscious thinking, inaugurated by
the descent of the manasaputras who not only at first projected
sparks of their own full self-consciousness into the innocent
and unthinking humanity of that early time, but who likewise so
stimulated the appearance of mind that the latter finally became
common in differing degrees to the entire human stock.
Root-race, Fourth
Often spoken of as the Atlantean, the name given in theosophic
writings to the land-system which it occupied; it followed the
third or so-called Lemurian race, not suddenly but with
overlapping.
During the fourth root-race humanity reached its
greatest phases of materiality, especially since it occurred
during the fourth round. The fourth root-race was roughly
contemporaneous with what towards the end of the last century
was called Tertiary times and came to an end in what was then
known as the middle Miocene. Its total duration was millions of
years.
The stature of the generality of the fourth root-race peoples
was what would be gigantic to us today, which is one source of
the universal tradition as to giants on the earth in far
antiquity.
Its earlier language was the monosyllabic type of the
latter half of the third root-race, yet the characteristic
speech during a large portion of its span was of the
agglutinative type, inflected speech coming with the fifth
root-race. The mode of reproduction was sexual, as it was in the
latter half of the third root-race.
After the fourth root-race had reached its zenith, certain
unevolved tribes committed miscegenation with the most evolved
of the then-existing simians, which were the descendants of a
previous miscegenation of representatives of the third root-race
with true monkey stocks. This second miscegenation produced a
hybrid stock from which the anthropoid apes are descended.
There was an enmity lasting for ages between the benevolent and
the selfish portions of the fourth root-race, which continued
with the Aryan adepts of the nascent fifth root-race and finally
ended in the triumph of the positive; but nevertheless the karma
of Atlantean black magic even yet blights our own fifth
root-race, for the people of today were imbodied as the humans
of Atlantean times. Descendants of fourth root-race humanity
even now are among the inhabitants of the earth, together with
rapidly dying out remnants of the third root-race, and also
various mixtures of all these.
During the fourth root-race on this globe D of the fourth round,
evolution reached the middle of its course for this planetary
manvantara, and the door to entry into the state of spiritual
and intellectual evolution called the human kingdom was closed.
All entities beneath the humans (and probably higher anthropoids
who were in existence before that epoch) must await until the
next succeeding round before even the highest representatives of
the beast kingdom can pass on to the human stage.
All subhuman kingdoms will show a tendency as time goes on to
die out, because the monads of these kingdoms will go into
latency for the remainder of the planetary manvantara; their
chance for evolution into the human state will come again during
the succeeding planetary manvantara.
Root-race, Fifth
The human race at present on earth; the fifth root-race on this
globe D in the fourth round originated from the seed-race of the
middle fourth root-race and as the ages passed began to occupy
the lands which have since gradually taken form in our present
continental distribution.
It is subdivided, like all other
root-races, into seven subraces, and these again each into
smaller divisions. The present predominant sub-subrace is the
fifth of its fourth primary subrace, only a little beyond the
point of greatest materiality of this root-race.
In one general sense, the fifth root-race actually comprises the
many and extremely varied stocks which exist on the earth today,
simply because they all live in the time period of the fifth
root-race, although many of the stocks are lineal descendants of
the last subrace of the fourth root-race more or less intermixed
with what can be described as more characteristic fifth
root-race stock.
The Chinese, for example, although descended from the latest
subrace of the fourth root-race, yet because of living in fifth
root-race times are to be reckoned among fifth root-race
peoples, of which indeed they are among the very oldest. The
Semites in all their divisions are to be considered as an early
offshoot of the fifth root-race, and not as a race essentially
or radically distinct.
The fifth root-race is sometimes spoken of as the Aryan race,
merely because the Aryans of India are an existing example of
the earliest branches of the fifth, though the term Aryan is not
in accordance with the various ethnological and linguistic
distinction to which that name is commonly applied. The
characteristic language of this root-race is inflectional, such
as Sanskrit or Greek.
The symbol of the fifth or Aryan race is
"that which is its most sacred symbol to this day, the bull (and
the cow)" (SD 2:533).
Root-race, Sixth
The root-race which will succeed the present fifth root-race,
sometimes called the Aryan race in theosophical literature
because the Aryan Hindus were a part of the original first
subrace of the fifth root-race.
Care should be taken not to
confuse the sixth root-race with the sixth subrace of the fifth
root-race which was stated by Blavatsky to be in process of
forming in America as seeds - the earliest pioneers, although
already beginning to appear, will not be numerous for several
thousand years.
The preparation for the sixth root-race will take place during
the sixth and seventh subraces of the fifth root-race in the
Americas. When the time arrives, this future sixth root-race
will be predominant on the earth, new lands will have appeared,
and many of the present lands will be submerged. The surface of
the globe will, in time of course, be entirely changed, and
there will then be more land than water (as also was the case
during the fourth root-race).
During the sixth root-race, humanity will not be gigantic in
size (as were the fourth and third root-races), for spirituality
will be on the ascendancy and materiality decreasing, so that at
the end of the sixth root-race the development of spirituality
will be parallel to what it was at the beginning of the second
root-race plus, however, the added evolutionary experience
gained during the preceding root-races.
The characteristics of sex will gradually disappear, and
humanity will be slowly once again becoming androgynous.
Offspring will be born in a manner generally similar to that
which prevailed during the second and early third root-race
periods: toward the close of the sixth, mankind will begin to
manifest the first appearances of reproduction by kriyasakti
(propagation by means of will and imagination).
Toward the close of the sixth root-race, humanity will be
showing a steadily increasing tendency to evolve out of fleshly
into more ethereal physical vehicles.
These various changes are
presentments of what will in the due course be established in
relative perfection during the sixth round - coming events cast
their shadows before. Indeed the sixth root-race will be as
compared with our own fifth far in advance, spiritually,
intellectually, psychically, and even physically; and the
attainment by mankind of adeptship or mahatmaship will be
notably more easy than is the case at present.
With the advent of each root-race a new cosmic element comes
into proportionate manifestation, and a new physical sense
apparatus appears: thus humanity in the sixth root-race will
develop what is meant by a sixth sense.
The fifth cosmic element
(often named aether or akasa-tattva) will reach a development
proportionate to the evolution of mankind during the fifth
root-race in this fourth round; and after the same manner, a
sixth cosmic element will make its appearance during the course
of human evolution during the sixth root-race.
Furthermore, just
as a manushya-buddha comes to lead mankind in each root-race, so
will one appear during the sixth root-race of the future.
Root-race, Seventh
The seventh and last root-race of any round on any globe of a
planetary chain. Reference is nearly always to the seventh
root-race of the fourth round on globe D of the earth-chain. It
characteristics are analogous on a smaller scale to those of the
seventh round, modified by the fact that it belongs to the
fourth round.
There is a return to conditions of purity which
prevailed at the beginning of the round; but this return does
not mean a going backward but an emanative evolutionary
unfolding to the point where the cyclic motion brings all things
back to the same plane, but on a higher subdivision.
The great adepts and initiates - referring here specifically to
the seventh root-race on globe D of the fourth round - will
once more produce mind-born sons immaculately, and there will be
a race of buddhas, sons of god, the purity of the krita-age
being reestablished (SD 2:274, 483). The invisible north polar
continent will once more become visible, and the bodhisattva
Maitreya will appear (SD 1:328, 470). A seventh element will
appear as a presentment, not however to be fully manifested
until the seventh round.
In this race some of the greatest
adepts will return.
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