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Man not Descended from the Apes
Posted 14/1/07
H P Blavatsky did not accept
that the modern human descended from the Apes by a Darwinian type process of
evolution, in which one dominant higher species emerged from several rival
groups. Instead she postulated that, as the highest expression of the life
force, we are the main line of evolution and an earlier human form preceded the
Apes and that the Apes are drop downs from us.
This idea that a lower life
form can break away from a higher one runs counter to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
which postulates that higher life forms develop from lower.
Extract from the Secret
Doctrine Vol. 2, Page 201
THE
TRANSFORMATION OF THE EARTH.
We have meanwhile to follow, as closely as limited space will permit, the gradual evolution of the now truly human
species. It is in the suddenly arrested evolution of certain sub-races, and
their forced and violent diversion into the purely animal line by artificial
cross-breeding, truly analogous to the hybridization, which we have now learned
to utilize in the vegetable and animal kingdoms, that we have to look for the
origin of the anthropoids.
In these red-haired and hair-covered monsters, the fruit of the
unnatural connection between men and animals, the "Lords of Wisdom"
did not incarnate, as we see. Thus by a long series of transformations due to
unnatural cross-breeding (unnatural "sexual selection"), originated
in due course of time the lowest specimens of humanity; while further
bestiality and the fruit of their first animal efforts of reproduction begat a
species which developed into mammalian apes ages later.
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