The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-08
When the Sixth Race Comes.

Editor Cdtt-SIR: In a recent issue OF THE
CALL appeared an article entitled, Men will
be big when the six race is born to live;'
This article Is evidently calculated for the be-
wilderment of the public and the amusem ent
of the theOsOphists. AS travesty it contains,
as all tfavesty must, a modlcum OF truth, " hich
IS that on this continent Will be deve oped a
higher grade OF man. This is inevitable &C
cording 10 eYnlution-which Is or eat law OF
theOsOphy. An amalgamatlOn of many nations
and races has always IN history produced a
new type. AS an amalgamaton OF many widely
different peoples, but particularly OF The Aryan
STOCK, which divided ages ago In Central
Asia or Northern India, Is the characteristic of
America. IL Is not surprising o find evidences
OF a new DEVELOPMENT. This, says theoso-
phst, Is 10 be found In the marvellous preva-
lence OF the nervous temperament. This pecu.
liar tendency, as yet misused, gives rise TO the
saying that "Americans are becoming a race OF
invaids." Properly used, 1t is the cause of the
energy. versatility and inventive genius which
| Distinguish them. Another and as yet abnor-
NAL manifestation OF this temperament Is
| shown IN the various forms OF "psycDlsm"
such as hypnotlsm, science healing medium
sbir, etc.
This more highly strung organism renders the
Individual capable OF registering finer vlbra-
lions than those OF light and sound. The iui-
pact OF thought conveyed through the most
tenuOus ether or astral light, upon the sensitive
subject gives rise 10 thought transference sug-
gesti0n and kiudred phenomena. The whole
range OF psychism is but the DEVELOPMENT OF a
temperament in which the present fiv- senses
begin TO respond to the vibrations of the etheric
substance of the astral light
The sixth aud seventh senses, said 10 develop
vii a sixth and seventh race, must be so much
nearer the diviue as 10 be incomprehensible 10
US. Suffice II 10 deal with the present
AT lis present stage this psychic temperament
Is SO deceptive and unreliable that scientific
men have, until recently, be n loath o give IL
serious attention. With the first admission of
IL tbeosophy has enter ed TIL wedge which Will
split tue rock OF materlaIlsm into thousand
FRAGMENTS.
IbeosopDy stands between TWO extremes, on
the one hand The materiasm of science and.
unfortunately, of modern religion, and on the
other the over credullty of the unframed
psychic. The first leads TO selfishness and in
dividualism, the last TO eXOrbitant expectation
and superstition.
Tneosophy carries the rational methods OF
science into the subtle and spiritual domains of
nature, browning all with The most sublime and
spiritual religious ethics.
Into the finer forces of nature men OF science
must slowly but Inevitably go. as the adopts of
lheosophy have done for icons past, yet the
final mysteries Will be jealousy guarded until
through repeated lives OF trial and experiment
wisdom shall have been gained. and through
suffering and aspiration all dross of the lower
nature be burned away. This attained, and
nature will regard man as one OF her creators,
land she will open wide before thee the portals
of her secret cham ber-, lay bare before thy
gaze the treasures hidden in the very d pths OF
| her pure virgin BOSOM"
ABBOTT B, CLARK, FITS.