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Root Race Theory

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While on the surface the members of the third Reich looked like they had mostly political aims, they actually harbored many extreme and dangerous "religious" and mythological views, which in time they hoped to bring to the forefront of Germany. Hitler and his followers were fascinated by occultism and psychical research. One such fascination was with the teachings of a Mme Blavatsky, around the late 1800s early 1900s in a school of thought now called Theosophy Theosophy was a conglomeration of teachings including occultism, research into ghosts and paranormal phenomena, and an extensive philosophical/religious base often based upon mythology, the gnostic new testament, a sort of 'Atlantean cult" and "Alexandrian" teachings.1

While the term can be applied generically to a group of philosophies:

"... Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.(Webster 1913) or

more recently: Medieval Latin theosophia, from Late Greek, from Greek the- + sophia wisdom -- more at -SOPHY 1 : teaching about God and the world based on mystical insight 2 often capitalized : the teachings of a modern movement originating in the U.S. in 1875 and following chiefly Buddhist and Brahmanic theories especially of pantheistic evolution and reincarnation (Miriam Webster online)

[Gr: knowledge of things divine, fr. ? wise in the things of God; God + wise: cf. F. th['e]osophie.]

, the movement and current rendering of Theosophy is primarily identified with the works of Blavatsky and cohorts around the turn of the century.

Part and parcel to the philosophy was the belief that one day, the race of superior human beings who inhabited the semi-mythical Lost City of Atlantis would reappear, through the superior Aryan peoples. They also argued that there have been successions of 'root races" and that we are in the 5th root of 7. When the 7th arrives, it will be equated with power and perfection. A beginning, inferior race which they equated with the Hebrews of History found in the Bible would be utter replaced, and necessarily for the more advanced to take hold. Blavatsky and others believed that as the human race evolved, the 'superior' race would find its place by supplanting this earlier root race. A Utopia in Theosophy would only come about eventually as an evolved, genetically superior persons descended from the Atlanteans would take hold, displacing a people they identified as the Jews and other inferior races. This new superior race was aligned with and akin to Hitler's concept of the "Master Race". Hitler, Himmler and other Inner Circle members ascribed to these philosophies, although they kept them secret from the general German public earlier in the war. The Eugenicists of the time, funded and endorsed by the Third Reich, active both in Europe and in America thought to apply their pseudo-science to the controlled advent of this end.

Among Blavatsky's early circle of followers who met for study and seances, were the author Arthur Conan Doyle, and Westcott & Hort, the re-translators of the Bible version Revised Standard 2. Blavatsky's influence was widely felt, not only in certain philosophies adhered to by the Third Reich, but in the development of what is now referred to as "New Age" philosophies. Westcott and Hort and others of her followers helped found a society to study ghosts,3 which later became the Society for Psychical Research, which is still extant, and studies many instances of paranormal phenomena.

Warning Signs of Root Race Theory

I. Frequent mention of Atlantis,the descendants of Atlantis, or the recently discovered "ruins of Atlantis" (not proven to be from Atlantis)note

II. Notions of Racial Superiority, or one race having characteristics nearing perfection.

III. A Replacement Race Ideas expressed about the 'replacement' of a final race over earlier more primitive races.

IV.Final Race War: A more estoteric mention of a philsophy held by Himmler called 'Volkeschaos" or "the peoples/nations Chaos" referring to an end time final war (like Armaggedon, but not the same) in which all races or ethnic groups hold a final bloody battle, resulting in Victory for a Master Race.

V. Talk of Philosophy and Religion as a mix, using the term "Theosophy" as a religious term instead of directly referring to it as a separate belief system.

Root Race theory is not a 'religious group" but a quasi-doctrine, which may be adapted to many belief systems. The two main places it is found are in Theosophy, where it forms the foundation for the overall view of the course of mankind, and in White Aryanism or Nazism, where it is used as motivation for racial cleansing or purifying. The belief that a Master Race must emerge replacing lesser races, motivated the Nazis to Endlosung or the "Final Solution" of the 'Jewish Problem' which translated into the mass extermination of the Jews of Europe.

LINKS

Dangerous Doctrines

Root Race (pro-position)

The Fifth Race (Pro)

Blavatsky's Polarian Race

 Aryan & Atlantean 'Consciousness'

Theosophy

Corrupt Lexicons: The Nazi Connection

Nazi Belief

FOOTNOTES

1Alexandria in Egypt in the early centuries housed the most formidable library of the day. Scholars such as Philo, and others often mixed ideology from world religions and philosophies together, particularly with the newfound Christianity. The Gnostic Gospels emanated from Alexandria, some of which adhered to basic canon, and others of which contained wild stories and an overspiritualizing of doctrine in which the spirit has such a superior place that things done in the flesh did not matter. Bizzarre tales of Jesus's marriage to Mary Magdalen, and his exploits of using 'powers' as a child are included. The Shepherd of Hermas, and the Book of Barnabas are two texts in the gnostic collections which are often referred to: the book of Barnabas similar to other new testament inclusions (its repetition of themes were the reason for its exclusion) and the Shepherd of Hermas which was re-interpreted extremely by Blavatsky in her re-writting of the new testament epistles.

2The Revised Standard Version gave rise to the NRSV(New Revised Standard Version) and the (ASV) the American Standard Version, still used widely in this country. In the 1800s, "new" older manuscripts of the bible were found by a man name Tischendorf. These volumes were more complete than any one existing manuscripts, so some called them "better'. The problem was, 2 of the originals left out the Book of Revelation, and all were found in questionable circumstances: one forger at the time claimed he had forged one of the books. The texts that were found had many errors, and appeared to have been derived from the line of texts that came from Eusebius in Alexandria about 313 ad , 50 of which were ordered by Constantine. The Textus Receptus, or received text, came from a different line of transmission, and has stayed the same since the beginning. Westcott and Hort, not constrained by the holiness of the scriptures, dismissed 80% of the textual evidence in favor of these 3 questionable manuscripts, one of which, the Vaticanus, has never been seen outside the Vatican in the original. Influenced by Blavatsky, Westcott and Hort, both Anglican ministers, retranslated the Bible leaving out or changing many references to the virgin birth, the deity of Chirst, the blood of Christ, and the blood atonement vs a mere 'hero's death'. Most modern translations come from the texts used by Westcott and Hort, not from the originals compiled by Erasmus, which actually are verified more clearly as correlating with the earliest manuscripts.

3 The society was called, "The Ghostly Guild" and investigated instances of ghost sightings. In their day W & H were very controversial, despite their staid positions in the Church of England. The smoke and drank, even endorsing products commercially, they were far from traditional, did not hold the scriptures as inerrant and even attended seances. Their translations have been the foundation for most of our modern translations. (For a detailed account of the objections to their work, see Dean Burgeon, "Unholy Hands on the Bible", available from The Dean Burgeon Society, New Jersey.

noteRemnants of an underwater city, particularly what looks like columns and a roadway, were found submerged. While some have speculated it may be the ruins of the mythical "Lost City of Atlantis" and exaggerate its importance, there is no historical evidence. Also, not all "New Age" theory involves root race theory. While many "New Age" philosophies may entertain myths and legends, such as Atlantis, not all include the belief in a Master Race above others, although many posit a point of human perfection or divinity. This is of course, opposed to the main body of Judaeo-Christian teaching.

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