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Root Races
In the alternative reality proposed in the influential
nineteenth-century Theosophical writings
of Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, the world
has seen five “root races,” each with its own
seven “sub-races,” and these latter with their
own “branch races.” Blavatsky wrote that two
more root races will come before the human
race finishes its evolution.
The First Root Race, of “fire mist” folk,
lived near the north pole in the Imperishable
Sacred Land. They were invisible. The Second
Root Race were astral beings on their way to
becoming material and visible. Also living in
the polar region, they occupied a more or less
material continent known as Hyperborea,
where they learned how to reproduce sexually.
The Third Root Race were apelike in appear-
ance with characteristics of both sexes; some
had four arms, and some had an eye in the
back of their heads. These beings lived on the
now-lost Pacific continent of Lemuria. By the
time the Fourth Root Race, dwelling on Atlantis,
appeared on Earth, the present human
form had developed. Humans represent the
Fifth Root Race. In the relatively near future,
the Sixth Root Race will replace humans.
After the Seventh Root Race has risen and
fallen, a new cycle of civilizations will begin
on the planet Mercury.
Blavatsky claimed as her source for these
revelations an “archaic Manuscript—a collection
of palm leaves made impermeable to
water, fire, and air, by some specific unknown
process. . . . On the first page is an immaculate
white disk within a dull black ground. On
the following page, the same disk, but with a
central point” (Blavatsky, 1889). These “Stanzas
of Dzyan” recorded the hidden history of
the cosmos and all of its inhabitants, including
the human race. Other scholars, however,
contend that Blavatsky drew on contemporary
scientific and occult literature and embellished
it considerably, though not quite beyond
recognition.
See Also: Atlantis; Lemuria
Further Reading
Blavatsky, H. P., 1889. The Secret Doctrine, London:
Theosophical Publishing Company.
De Camp, L. Sprague, 1970. Lost Continents: The At -
lantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature.
New York: Dover Publications.
Meade, Marion, 1980. Madame Blavatsky: The
Woman behind the Myth. New York: G. P. Putnam’s
Sons.