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EOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
QUESTION No. 26.
Why is the negro commonly said to be marked with the
curse of Cain? If he is the descendant of Ham, accord-
ing to Biblical ethnology, how can that race be any older
than the sons of Shem or Japhet? Is not the most in~
tellectual, successful and enduring race that history records f
namely, the Jew, the one that has left itself most free from
a mixture?
Answer: The Bible does not state anywhere that the
negroes are the 'descendants of Ham; besides it is well
known that the Biblical ethnology as commonly under-
stood among orthodox people is an utter impossibility in
view of the facts of geology and ethnological research. We
are past the day when anyone will dare to make a statement
such as, for instance, was made by a learned Dean
of Cambridge University less than a century ago, namely,
that the World was created on Friday, the 10th of October,
4004 B. C., at nine o'clock in the morning. The
Biblical ethnology also has the exact year of the flood and
similar events fixed, but from the occult point of view,
which is derived from a direct reading in the picture gallery
of the past, which we call the memory of nature, the
case is very different. We find there that there have been
various epochs or great stages of unfoldment in the earth's
history, and that the negro was the humanity of the third
of these epochs, the Lemurian. The whole human race
of that time was black skinned. Then came a time, called
the Atlantean Epoch, when humanity was red, yellow, ex-
cept one race which was white. These people were the
Original Semites, the fifth of the Atlantean Races. These