Lives of Alcyone

Life XXXVIII
Again we find ourselves in India, for Alcyone took birth this
time in the Peshawar district, in the year 7852, in what appears to
correspond to the Kshattriya caste, though it was then called
“ rajan” . I see evidence at this time of three castes only, brahman,
rajan, and vis. They seem to have been originally clearly different
races; the brahman was the almost unmixed Aryan, the rajan was
the Aryan intermingled with the ancient ruling race of the Toltecs,
and the vis was Aryan mixed with other Atlantean races, chiefly
Mongolian and Tlavatli, with sometimes a certain intermixture of
later Lemurian races. They were allowed at that time to intermarry
among themselves, but not with any one outside of the three castes;
and even already it was beginning to be thought more proper and
fashionable to marry only in one’ s own caste.
Alcyone was the son of Aurora, a petty chieftain of
considerable reputation as a warrior. His mother was Vajra, a brave
and somewhat masculine woman. Fighting seems to be the only
business of this caste, and it was most persistently pursued. There
was a vast amount of apparently needless bloodshed. The part of
the country in which we find ourselves was divided into a number of
tiny principalities, and among these perpetual warfare went on.
occasionally a stronger man appeared among the princes etc and
conquered several others, and thus made himself overlord for a time
,but at his death his kingdom almost invariably broke up, and the
same dreary cycle of ceaseless war repeated itself.