Drawing 4: Humanity's Fifth Root-Race

Philaletheians UK · Planetary Rounds and Globes Series · 1 page

*A single-page diagram, the fourth of the seven, illustrating the human race and its branches after The Secret Doctrine* volume II, pages 434-35. The durations of the races it divides are given in Drawing 3.

The image is a tall pale plant standing against a green ground on which a world map is faintly visible, so that the tree and the earth are seen as one figure. The explanation at the left works through the botany deliberately. The human race has been compared to a tree, and the comparison serves admirably: the main stem answers to the root-race, its larger limbs to the various sub-races, seven in number, and on each of those limbs are seven branches or family-races. After that, the note says, the cactus is the better illustration — because its fleshy leaves are covered with sharp spines, each of which may be compared to a nation or tribe of human beings. The drawing takes that literally, and the caption records the count: *1,449 spines in this drawing, bristling from every fleshy segment, with a single flower at the crown. A closing note defines the three terms exactly as The Secret Doctrine* does — root-race for one of the seven great races such as the Lemurian, Atlantean or Aryan; sub-race for one of its great branches; and family-race for one of the subdivisions, which include nations and large tribes.

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