DID YOU KNOW?
MADAME BLAVATSKY REJECTED
DARWIN'S EVOLUTIONARY THEORY.
FOR HER, THE MONKEY IS DESCENDED FROM MAN.
In her work *The Secret Doctrine*, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, known as Madame Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy—a comprehensive and original line of thought on the origin of the universe and humanity—rejected Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
One manifestation of this rejection is a historical object: Madame Blavatsky's stuffed baboon, a satirical critique and emblem of her antagonism concerning Darwinian and materialistic evolutionism.
Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, kept the baboon in her New York apartment in the 1870s, with a peculiar appearance: it wore a collar, a frock coat, glasses, and carried a copy of Charles Darwin's *On the Origin of Species* under its arm.
Madame Blavatsky's baboon ridiculed materialistic science: for Blavatsky and her followers, the baboon represented the "madness of Science" as opposed to the "Wisdom of Religion" (or Ancient Wisdom).
It was a visual joke, mocking the idea that humanity descended from apes solely through physical and mechanical processes.
In Anthropogenesis, Blavatsky acknowledges physical evolution to a certain extent but argues that true human evolution is a threefold process—spiritual, mental, and physical—and that man (or "divine Monad") is, in fact, prior to the great apes and gave rise to some species of anthropoids.
In other words, theosophy is a system of understanding reality in which man gave rise to the ape in a remote era. However, this is not about the current 'homo sapiens' but about the man of a humanity that is now extinct. More specifically, the third Human Race, the Lemurians.
by @ligiacabus
SOURCE
BLAVATSKY, Helena Petrovna.
A Doutrina secreta, vol III.
Antropogênese.
São Paulo: Pensamento, 2006
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