Antiquity of the Atlanto-Aryan Tribes in Europe

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Atlantean Realities Series · 26 pages

This compilation grows out of a specific exchange. F.W.H. Myers, of the English Theosophical Society, put a question to Madame Blavatsky arising from A.P. Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism, and her reply — reprinted here with the surrounding material — becomes an argument about how the antiquity of Europe has been measured and by whom. The opening section is given to what the compiler calls the bias of western orientalists and historians, and to the observation, characteristically tart, that self-conceit is rarely companion to politeness.

The substance concerns descent. Occult records, Blavatsky maintains, make no distinction between the Atlantean ancestors of the old Greeks and those of the Romans: the blood of the true Roman was Hellenic from the outset, and with the exception of a few Latin families descended from Umbro-Sabellian stock out of the East, the bulk of the founders of Rome were assorted remnants of primitive tribes. The older Greeks — Aeolians, Dorians and Ionians — she describes as the dwarfed and weakened remnants of the Atlantean Race, the Aeolians in particular being a small tribe of its last sub-race, surviving after Plato's Poseidonis, the final island of Atlantis, had sunk. The pieces gathered here are what the series calls leaflets from esoteric history.

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