| (iv) “After this the cactus-plant is a better illustration, for its fleshy "leaves" are covered with sharp spines, each of which may be compared to a nation or tribe of human beings.” * 6.) “Now our Fifth Root-Race has already been in existence -- as a race sui generis [unique] and quite free from its parent stem -- about 1,000,000 years; (i) “therefore it must be inferred that each of the four preceding Sub-Races has lived approximately 210,000 years; thus each Family-Race has an average existence of about 30,000 years. (ii) “.. although the nations or the innumerable spines upon it, vary with each succeeding "season" of three or four thousand years. ..” * |
| 5.) “The human Race has been compared to a tree, and this serves admirably as an illustration. (i) “The main stem of a tree may be compared to the ROOT-RACE (A). (ii) “Its larger limbs to the various SUB-RACES; seven in number (B1, B2). (iii) “On each of these limbs are seven BRANCHES, OR FAMILY-RACES. (C). |
| * Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine Vol. II |