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Root races are concepts in the esoteric cosmology of Theosophy. As described in Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's book The Secret Doctrine (1888), these races correspond to stages of human evolution, and existed mainly on now-lost continents. Blavatsky's model was developed by later theosophists, most notably William Scott-Elliot in The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904). Annie Besant further developed the model in Man: Whence, How and Whither (1913). Both Besant and Scott-Elliot relied on information from Charles Webster Leadbeater obtained by "astral clairvoyance". Further elaboration was provided by Rudolf Steiner in Atlantis and Lemuria (1904).[1] Rudolf Steiner, and subsequent theosophist authors, have called the time periods associated with these races Epochs (Steiner felt that the term "race" was not adequate anymore for modern humanity).
^Atlantis and Lemuria, The Submerged Continents of Atlantis and Lemuria, Cosmic Memory (Prehistory of Earth and Man), Aus der Akasha-Chronik. Rudolf Steiner (Written 1904; GA 11 / Bn 11)[1] English Edition, trans. Max Gysi [2]
Lemurian rootrace, according to traditional Theosophy, include the Capoid race, the Congoid race, the Dravidians, and the Australoid race. This race inhabited...
advocated the idea of seven "Root Races", each of which was divided into seven Sub-Races. In Blavatsky's cosmogony, the first RootRace were created from pure...
to Theosophy, each rootrace has its own Manu who physically incarnates in an advanced body of an individual of the old rootrace and physically progenerates...
devolution. Blavatsky describes the Hyperboreans as the origin of the second "rootrace" and as non-intelligent ethereal creatures that reproduced by budding...
advocated the idea of "Root Races", each of which was divided into seven Sub-Races. In Blavatsky's cosmogony, the first RootRace were created from pure...
First RootRace, through the Lemurian (3rd), Atlantean (4th) and our present "Aryan" 5th Race. This will give rise to a future, Post-Aryan 6th RootRace of...
Indian and Pacific Oceans Lemurians, a hypothetical human rootrace Lemurians, a fictional race of giant lemur relatives from Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen...
fifth rootrace is approximately one million years old, overlapping the fourth rootrace and the very first beginnings of the fifth rootrace were approximately...
since the "fall of man" during the time of the incarnation of the fourth rootrace, imperfection, limitations and discord increasingly entered into the world...
Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. The...
Atlanteans were the fourth "rootrace", which were succeeded by the fifth, the "Aryan race", which she identified with the modern human race. In her book, Blavatsky...
the Adyar-headquartered Theosophical Society wrote about it (see the rootrace theory). Most European and American geologists dated Lemuria's disappearance...
physically incarnate in order to be the Manu ("progenitor ") of the new rootrace. Tara Urusvati (The Light of the Morning Star) is the spiritual name of...
British Israelism Christian Identity French Israelism Master race Honorary Aryan Nordicism Rootrace White supremacy Informational notes Translation: "For centuries...
Root-Race. The Aryan RootRace was then only one more step in the evolutionary progression, to be eventually superseded by a more spiritual RootRace, the...
Montreal Gazette, march 6, 2009. Khalid, Sunni M. (February 7, 2011). "The Root: Race And Racism Divide Egypt". npr.org. Retrieved March 3, 2011. "Shikabala...
terms "Ario-Germans" and "race" instead of "Germans" and "people", perhaps to emphasize the overlap with the fifth rootrace in Blavatsky's scheme. List...
A symlink race is a kind of software security vulnerability that results from a program creating files in an insecure manner. A malicious user can create...
evolution. For example, she states that the Aryan rootrace (or '5th race'), is an "emerging new race" and so a relatively new evolutionary phenomenon...
Wayne Allyn Root (born July 20, 1961) is an American conservative television and radio host, author, activist, conservative political commentator and conspiracy...
Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-88066-3. Khalid, Sunni M. (7 February 2011). "The Root: Race And Racism Divide Egypt". NPR. Archived from the original on 2018-06-29...
Clairvoyance Christian mythology K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater Reincarnation Rootrace Theosophy and Christianity Theosophy and visual arts When the Theosophical...
Paul's or Chamberlain-Hunt Academy in Port Gibson, Mississippi. In 2017, The Root criticized Johnson for failing to provide financial documentation demonstrating...
Buddhism (London: Trubner and Company, 1883). Describes the concept of Rootrace, later adopted by Madame Blavatsky. Karma: A Novel (London: Chapman &...
backstory for Bitter Root, an Eisner Award winning comic series by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre (2021;...