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may assert itself, viz., sterility between two human races, just as between two animal species of various kinds, in those
rare cases when a European, condescending to see in a female of a savage tribe a mate, happens to chose a member of
such mixed tribes.* Darwin notes such
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* Of such semi-animal creatures, the sole remnants known to Ethnology were the Tasmanians, a portion of the
Australians and a mountain tribe in China, the men and women of which are entirely covered with hair. They were the last
descendants in a direct line of the semi-animal latter-day Lemurians referred to. There are, however, considerable
numbers of the mixed Lemuro-Atlantean peoples produced by various [[Footnote continued on next page]]
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 196 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
a case in a Tasmanian tribe, whose women were suddenly struck with sterility, en masse, some time after the arrival
among them of the European colonists. The great naturalist tried to explain this fact by change of diet, food, conditions,
etc., but finally gave up the solution of the mystery. For the Occultist it is a very evident one. "Crossing," as it is called, of
Europeans with Tasmanian women -- i.e., the representatives of a race, whose progenitors were a "soulless"* and
mindless monster and a real human, though still as mindless a man -- brought on sterility. This, not alone as a
consequence of a physiological law, but also as a decree of Karmic evolution in the question of further survival of the
abnormal race. In no one point of the above is Science prepared to believe as yet -- but it will have to in the long run.
Esoteric philosophy, let us remember, only fills the gaps made by science and corrects her false premises.
Yet, in this particular, geology and even botany and zoology support the esoteric teachings. It has been suggested by
many geologists that the Australian native -- co-existing as he does with an archaic fauna and flora -- must date back to
an enormous antiquity. The whole environment of this mysterious race, about whose origin ethnology is silent, is a
testimony to the truth of the esoteric position.
"It is a very curious fact," says Jukes,** "that not only these marsupial animals (the mammals found in the Oxfordshire
stone-field slates), but several of the shells -- as for instance, the Trigonias and even some of the plants found fossil in
the Oolitic rocks -- much more nearly resemble those now living in Australia than the living forms of any other part of the
globe. This might be explained on the supposition that, since the 0olitic (Jurassic) period, less change has taken place in
Australia than elsewhere, and that the Australian flora and fauna consequently retain some-
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] crossings with such semi-human stocks -- e.g., the wild men of Borneo, the
Veddhas of Ceylon, classed by Prof. Flower among Aryans (!), most of the remaining Australians, Bushmen, Negritos,
Andaman Islanders, etc.
The Australians of the Gulf of St. Vincent and the neighbourhood of Adelaide are very hairy, and the brown down on the
skin of boys of five or six years of age assumes a furry appearance. They are, however, degraded men -- not the closest
approximation to the "pithecoid man," as Haeckel so sweepingly affirms. Only a portion of these men are a Lemurian
relic. (Cf. "Esoteric Buddhism," p.55.)
* In calling the animal "Soulless," it is not depriving the beast, from the humblest to the highest species, of a "soul," but
only of a conscious surviving Ego-soul, i.e., that principle which survives after a man, and reincarnates in a like man. The
animal has an astral body, that survives the physical form for a short period; but its (animal) Monad does not re-incarnate
in the same, but in a higher species, and has no "Devachan" of course. It has the seeds of all the human principles in
itself, but they are latent.
** "Manual of Geology," p. 302.
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 197 THE SEPARATION OF SEXES.
thing of the Oolitic type, while it had been altogether supplanted and replaced on the rest of the Globe." (! !)
Now why has less change taken place in Australia than elsewhere? Where is the raison d'etre for such a "curse of
retardation"? It is simply because the nature of the environment develops pari passu with the race concerned.
Correspondences rule in every quarter. The survivors of those later Lemurians, who escaped the destruction of their
fellows when the main continent was submerged, became the ancestors of a portion of the present native tribes. Being a
very low sub-race, begotten originally of animals, of monsters, whose very fossils are now resting miles under the sea
floors, their stock has since existed in an environment strongly subjected to the law of retardation. Australia is one of the
oldest lands now above the waters, and in the senile decrepitude of old age, its "virgin soil" notwithstanding. It can
produce no new forms, unless helped by new and fresh races, and artificial cultivation and breeding.
To return, however, once more to the history of the Third Race, the "Sweat-Born," the "Egg-bearing," and the
"Androgyne." Almost sexless, in its early beginnings, it became bisexual or androgynous; very gradually of course. The
passage from the former to the latter transformation required numberless generations, during which the simple cell that
issued from the earliest parent (the two in one), first developed into a bisexual being; and then the cell, becoming a
regular egg, gave forth a unisexual creature. The Third-Race-mankind is the most mysterious of all the hitherto developed
five Races. The mystery of the "How" of the generation of the distinct sexes must, of course, be very obscure here, as it is
the business of an embryologist and a specialist, the present work giving only faint outlines of the process. But it is
evident that the units of the Third Race humanity began to separate in their pre-natal shells, or eggs,* and to issue out of
them as distinct male and female babes, ages after the appearance of its early progenitors. And, as time rolled on its
geological periods, the newly born sub-races began to lose their natal capacities. Toward the end of the fourth sub-race,
the babe lost its faculty of walking as soon as liberated from its shell, and by the end of the fifth, mankind was born under