question hangs upon the reality or unreality of the
existence of this inner-man whom clairvoyance has
discovered, and whose odyle or nerve-emanations Von
Reichenbach proves. If one admits such a presence
and realizes intuitionally that being closer related
to the one invisible Reality, the inner type must
be still more pronounced than the outer physical type,
then it will be a matter of little, if any, difficulty
to conceive our meaning. For, indeed, if even
the respective physical idiosyncrasies and special
characteristics of any given person make his nationality
usually distinguishable by the physical eye of the
ordinary observer—let alone the experienced
ethnologist: the Englishman being commonly recognizable
at a glance from the Frenchman, the German from the
Italian, not to speak of the typical differences between
human root-families* in their anthropological division—there
seems little difficulty in conceiving that the same,
though far more pronounced, difference of type and
characteristics should exist between the inner races
that inhabit these “fleshly tabernacles.”
Besides this easily discernible psychological and
astral differences, there are the documentary records
in their unbroken series of chronological tables and
the history of the gradual branching off of races and
sub-races from the three geological primeval Races,
the work of the Initiates of all the archaic and ancient
temples up to date, collected in our “Book of
Numbers,” and other volumes.
--------- * Properly speaking, these ought to be called “Geological Races,” so as to be easily distinguished from their subsequent evolutions—the root-races. The Occult doctrine has nothing to do with the Biblical division of Shem, Ham and Japhet, and admires, without accepting it, the latest Huxleyan physiological division of the human races into their quintuple groups of Australioids, Negroids, Mongoloids, Xanthechroics, and the fifth variety of Melanochroics. Yet it says that the triple division of the blundering Jews is closer to the truth, it knows but of three entirely distinct primeval races whose evolution, formation and development went pari passu and on parallel lines with the evolution, formation, and development of three geological strata; namely, the black, the red-yellow, and the Brown-white races. ---------
Hence, and on this double testimony (which the Westerns are quite welcome to reject if so pleased) it is affirmed that, owing to the great amalgamation of various sub-races, such as the Iapygian, Etruscan, Pelasgic, and later—the strong admixture of the Hellenic and Kelto-Gaulic element in the veins of the primitive Itali of Latium—there remained in the tribes gathered by Romulus on the banks of the Tiber about as much Latinism as there is now in the Romanic people of Wallachia. Of course if the historical foundation of the fable of the twins of the Vestal Silvia is entirely rejected, together