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(''b'') This verse (thirty-ninth) relates exclusively to the racial divisions. Strictly speaking, esoteric philosophy teaches a modified polygenesis. For, while it assigns to humanity a oneness of origin, in so far that its forefathers or “ Creators ” were all divine beings — though of different classes or degrees of perfection in their hierarchy — men were nevertheless born on seven different centres of the continent of that period. Though all of one common origin, yet for reasons given their potentialities and mental capabilities, outward or physical forms, and future characteristics, were very different. * As to their complexions, there is a suggestive allegory told in ''Linga Purâna. ''The ''Kumâra'' — the Rudra gods, so called (''see further''), are described as incarnations of Siva, the ''destroyer ''(of ''outward forms''), named also Vamadeva. The latter, as a ''Kumâra'', the “ Eternal Celibate,” the chaste Virgin youth, springs from Brahmâ in each great Manvantara, and “ again becomes four ” ; a reference to the ''four great divisions of ''the human races, as regards complexion and type — and three chief variations of these. Thus in the 29th Kalpa — in this case a reference to the transformation and evolution of the human form which Siva ever destroys and remodels periodically, down to the manvantaric great turning point about the middle of the Fourth (Atlantean) Race — in the 29th Kalpa, Siva, as Swetalohita, the ''root ''Kumâra, becomes, from moon-coloured, ''white ; ''in his next transformation — he is ''red ''(and in this the exoteric version differs from the Esoteric teaching) ; in the third'' — yellow ; ''in the fourth — ''black. ''Esotericism now classes these seven variations, with their four great divisions, into only ''three ''distinct primeval races — as it does not take into consideration the First Race, which had neither type nor colour, and hardly an objective, though colossal form. The evolution of these races, their formation and development, went ''pari passu ''and on parallel lines with the evolution, formation, and development of three geological strata, from which the human complexion was as much derived as it was determined by the climates of those zones. It names three great divisions, namely, the red-yellow, the black, and the {{Style S-Small capitals|brown-white}}. † The Aryan races, for instance, now varying from dark brown, almost black, red-brown-yellow, down to the whitest creamy colour, are yet all of one and the same stock — the Fifth Root-Race — and spring

† “ There are,” says Topinard (English edition of “ Anthropology,” with preface by Professor Broca), “ three fundamental elements of colour in the human organism —  namely, the ''red'', the ''yellow'', and the ''black'', which, mixed in variable quantities with the white of the tissues, give rise to those numerous shades seen in the human family.” Here is science unintentionally supporting Occultism again.