Proposition 3: Born from the Pores of the Skin

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Secret Doctrine's Third Proposition Series · 21 pages

Twenty-one pages with an abstract and train of thoughts. *Its subject is the strangest thing in the Third Proposition* — the mode of reproduction attributed to the second and early third root-races — and the file treats it as allegory to be decoded rather than as biology.

The starting point is that the first human stock was projected by semi-divine beings out of their own essence, so that the first men were shadows of the Shadows. The sweat-born reproduction of the next stage is then supported from myth rather than asserted flatly: the nymphs or goddesses of moisture were born from the pores of Varuna-Ouranos, the ocean god, and the legend of the nymph Pramlocha, who wiped the perspiration from her body with the leaves of the trees as she passed through the air and so gave birth to Marisha, is given as the same story told in India. A table of the pivotal attributes of the first four root-races is included, and the White Island is named as the land and cradle of these peoples. The second half of the file turns to something more tangible and is the part a general reader will find most curious: hair. Hair is said to accumulate the energy of the person who grew it, and the electromagnetic force of animal nature is said to reside in it — which is offered as the reason behind the Nazarite vow and behind the many traditions in which hair is not cut. The application made is characteristically pointed: today's fashion forbids Christians to wear their hair long, though Jesus, being a Nazarite, wore his wavy and curling and flowing down upon his shoulders.

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