I have to admit that I am fascinated by the Theosophical and Anthroposophical idea (or meme/theme) of Rounds and Root-Races; of transformation through successive cosmic cycles.  It certainly adds a spectacular dimension to human origins, and indeed, the origin of all life.

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Unfortunately both Blavatsky and Steiner remained excessively anthropocentric in their cosmologies.  They, and all their followers, were still trapped by a Judeo-Christian ethic which demanded that man be seen as the centre and pivot of all creation.  Even today neiethr Theosophy nor Anthroposophy are unable to break with their past.

Instead of this conservative ethic, and in keeping instead with the newly emerging Ecological spirituality, the Spirituality of all Nature ("Gaia", "Deep Ecology", and Environmentalism), I propose a Biocentric ("life-centred") rather than an Anthropocentric ("human-centred") cosmology.  I am interested in adopting what is useful (whether as metaphor, myth, or actual occult reality) from these belief-systems, but without having to swallow their obsolete late 19th / early 20th century thought-processes.

I propose that the Theosophical/Anthroposophical Root Races are a confusion of the following:

• The succesive metamorphoses of the incarnate Primordial Person (which is a spiritual-divine entity or Personality rather than a "man")
• A mythological distortion of the stages of collective (pan-psychic) psychogenic involution
• A Theosophical/Anthroposophical thoughtform with no objective reality
• An idea or metaphor of some hieuristic and/or poetic value (e.g. in the formulation of a Goethean-style paleobiology) as long as it is not taken too literally

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