How Old Is the Aryan Race?
In your article on ‘The Cradleland of Our Race,’ in THE THEOSOPHICAL FORUM, June, 1937 [see p. 16 this volume], the birth of the Aryan stock from Atlantean tribes is given as 7 to 8 million years ago (p. 410). On page 413, it is stated twice that it is 4 or 5 million years since the original germinal condition of the Fifth Root-Race, though as a race “sui generis” it is about 1 million years old. What puzzles me is the difference between the 7 or 8 million and the 4 or 5 million years as the age of what I supposed was the same Race. Does the larger number refer to that hint in THE SECRET DOCTRINE that the Aryans could trace their descent back to Lemuria-Atlantis? In dealing with time-periods in a general article it naturally is difficult to find English words to give the exact picture the writer desires to paint. Hence, on reading your note I see how my words could have been misunderstood; yet I do think a careful reading of the article in The Forum compared with the diagram I gave in
