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white race

36 paragraphs · about 11 minutes · 14 chapters

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white race its own citations 17 paragraphs

80:9.1The racial blends in Eu­rope to­ward the close of the And­ite mi­gra­tions be­came gen­er­al­ized into the three white races as fol­lows:

80:9.21. The north­ern white race. This so-called Nordic race con­sisted pri­mar­ily of the blue man plus the And­ite but also con­tained a con­sid­er­able amount of An­don­ite blood, to­gether with smaller amounts of the red and yel­low San­gik. The north­ern white race thus en­com­passed these four most de­sir­able hu­man stocks. But the largest in­her­i­tance was from the blue man. The typ­i­cal early Nordic was long-headed, tall, and blond. But long ago this race be­came thor­oughly mixed with all of the branches of the white peo­ples.

80:9.3The prim­i­tive cul­ture of Eu­rope, which was en­coun­tered by the in­vad­ing Nordics, was that of the ret­ro­grad­ing Danu­bians blended with the blue man. The Nordic-Dan­ish and the Danu­bian-An­don­ite cul­tures met and min­gled on the Rhine as is wit­nessed by the ex­is­tence of two racial groups in Ger­many to­day.

80:9.4The Nordics con­tin­ued the trade in am­ber from the Baltic coast, build­ing up a great com­merce with the broad­heads of the Danube val­ley via the Bren­ner Pass. This ex­tended con­tact with the Danu­bians led these north­ern­ers into mother wor­ship, and for sev­eral thou­sands of years cre­ma­tion of the dead was al­most uni­ver­sal through­out Scan­di­navia. This ex­plains why re­mains of the ear­lier white races, al­though buried all over Eu­rope, are not to be found—only their ashes in stone and clay urns. These white men also built dwellings; they never lived in caves. And again this ex­plains why there are so few ev­i­dences of the white man’s early cul­ture, al­though the pre­ced­ing Cro-Magnon type is well pre­served where it has been se­curely sealed up in caves and grot­toes. As it were, one day in north­ern Eu­rope there is a prim­i­tive cul­ture of the ret­ro­gress­ing Danu­bians and the blue man and the next that of a sud­denly ap­pear­ing and vastly su­pe­rior white man.

80:9.52. The cen­tral white race. While this group in­cludes strains of blue, yel­low, and And­ite, it is pre­dom­i­nantly An­don­ite. These peo­ple are broad-headed, swarthy, and stocky. They are driven like a wedge be­tween the Nordic and Med­i­ter­ra­nean races, with the broad base rest­ing in Asia and the apex pen­e­trat­ing east­ern France.

80:9.6For al­most twenty thou­sand years the An­don­ites had been pushed far­ther and far­ther to the north of cen­tral Asia by the And­ites. By 3000 B.C. in­creas­ing arid­ity was driv­ing these An­don­ites back into Tur­kes­tan. This An­don­ite push south­ward con­tin­ued for over a thou­sand years and, split­ting around the Caspian and Black seas, pen­e­trated Eu­rope by way of both the Balkans and the Ukraine. This in­va­sion in­cluded the re­main­ing groups of Adam­son’s de­scen­dants and, dur­ing the lat­ter half of the in­va­sion pe­riod, car­ried with it con­sid­er­able num­bers of the Ira­nian And­ites as well as many of the de­scen­dants of the Sethite priests.

80:9.7By 2500 B.C. the west­ward thrust of the An­don­ites reached Eu­rope. And this over­run­ning of all Mes­o­po­ta­mia, Asia Mi­nor, and the Danube basin by the bar­bar­ians of the hills of Tur­kes­tan con­sti­tuted the most se­ri­ous and last­ing of all cul­tural set­backs up to that time. These in­vaders def­i­nitely An­donized the char­ac­ter of the cen­tral Eu­ro­pean races, which have ever since re­mained char­ac­ter­is­ti­cally Alpine.

80:9.83. The south­ern white race. This brunet Med­i­ter­ra­nean race con­sisted of a blend of the And­ite and the blue man, with a smaller An­don­ite strain than in the north. This group also ab­sorbed a con­sid­er­able amount of sec­ondary San­gik blood through the Sa­ha­rans. In later times this south­ern di­vi­sion of the white race was in­fused by strong And­ite el­e­ments from the east­ern Med­i­ter­ra­nean.

80:9.9The Med­i­ter­ra­nean coast­lands did not, how­ever, be­come per­me­ated by the And­ites un­til the times of the great no­madic in­va­sions of 2500 B.C. Land traf­fic and trade were nearly sus­pended dur­ing these cen­turies when the no­mads in­vaded the east­ern Med­i­ter­ra­nean dis­tricts. This in­ter­fer­ence with land travel brought about the great ex­pan­sion of sea traf­fic and trade; Med­i­ter­ra­nean sea-borne com­merce was in full swing about forty-five hun­dred years ago. And this de­vel­op­ment of ma­rine traf­fic re­sulted in the sud­den ex­pan­sion of the de­scen­dants of the And­ites through­out the en­tire coastal ter­ri­tory of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean basin.

80:9.10These racial mix­tures laid the foun­da­tions for the south­ern Eu­ro­pean race, the most highly mixed of all. And since these days this race has un­der­gone still fur­ther ad­mix­ture, no­tably with the blue-yel­low-And­ite peo­ples of Ara­bia. This Med­i­ter­ra­nean race is, in fact, so freely ad­mixed with the sur­round­ing peo­ples as to be vir­tu­ally in­dis­cernible as a sep­a­rate type, but in gen­eral its mem­bers are short, long-headed, and brunet.

80:9.11In the north the And­ites, through war­fare and mar­riage, oblit­er­ated the blue men, but in the south they sur­vived in greater num­bers. The Basques and the Berbers rep­re­sent the sur­vival of two branches of this race, but even these peo­ples have been thor­oughly ad­mixed with the Sa­ha­rans.

80:9.12This was the pic­ture of race mix­ture pre­sented in cen­tral Eu­rope about 3000 B.C. In spite of the par­tial Adamic de­fault, the higher types did blend.

80:9.13These were the times of the New Stone Age over­lap­ping the on­com­ing Bronze Age. In Scan­di­navia it was the Bronze Age as­so­ci­ated with mother wor­ship. In south­ern France and Spain it was the New Stone Age as­so­ci­ated with sun wor­ship. This was the time of the build­ing of the cir­cu­lar and roof­less sun tem­ples. The Eu­ro­pean white races were en­er­getic builders, de­light­ing to set up great stones as to­kens to the sun, much as did their later-day de­scen­dants at Stone­henge. The vogue of sun wor­ship in­di­cates that this was a great pe­riod of agri­cul­ture in south­ern Eu­rope.

80:9.14The su­per­sti­tions of this com­par­a­tively re­cent sun-wor­ship­ing era even now per­sist in the folk­ways of Brit­tany. Al­though Chris­tian­ized for over fif­teen hun­dred years, these Bre­tons still re­tain charms of the New Stone Age for ward­ing off the evil eye. They still keep thun­der­stones in the chim­ney as pro­tec­tion against light­ning. The Bre­tons never min­gled with the Scan­di­na­vian Nordics. They are sur­vivors of the orig­i­nal An­don­ite in­hab­i­tants of west­ern Eu­rope, mixed with the Med­i­ter­ra­nean stock.

80:9.15But it is a fal­lacy to pre­sume to clas­sify the white peo­ples as Nordic, Alpine, and Med­i­ter­ra­nean. There has been al­to­gether too much blend­ing to per­mit such a group­ing. At one time there was a fairly well-de­fined di­vi­sion of the white race into such classes, but wide­spread in­ter­min­gling has since oc­curred, and it is no longer pos­si­ble to iden­tify these dis­tinc­tions with any clar­ity. Even in 3000 B.C. the an­cient so­cial groups were no more of one race than are the pres­ent in­hab­i­tants of North Amer­ica.

80:9.16This Eu­ro­pean cul­ture for five thou­sand years con­tin­ued to grow and to some ex­tent in­ter­min­gle. But the bar­rier of lan­guage pre­vented the full re­cip­ro­ca­tion of the var­i­ous Oc­ci­den­tal na­tions. Dur­ing the past cen­tury this cul­ture has been ex­pe­ri­enc­ing its best op­por­tu­nity for blend­ing in the cos­mopoli­tan pop­u­la­tion of North Amer­ica; and the fu­ture of that con­ti­nent will be de­ter­mined by the qual­ity of the racial fac­tors which are per­mit­ted to en­ter into its pres­ent and fu­ture pop­u­la­tions, as well as by the level of the so­cial cul­ture which is main­tained.

80:9.17[Pre­sented by an Arch­an­gel of Neb­a­don.]

375 Adamsonites who settled Greece carried most valuable strains ca. 10,000 B.C. 1 paragraph

80:7.4The group which fi­nally set­tled in Greece con­sisted of three hun­dred and sev­enty-five of the se­lected and su­pe­rior peo­ple com­pris­ing the end of the sec­ond civ­i­liza­tion of the Ad­am­son­ites. These later sons of Adam­son car­ried the then most valu­able strains of the emerg­ing white races. They were of a high in­tel­lec­tual or­der and, phys­i­cally re­garded, the most beau­ti­ful of men since the days of the first Eden.

ancestor worship after fall of Roman civilization 1 paragraph

79:8.3Con­scious­ness of past achieve­ments (some­what di­min­ished in the pres­ent), the con­ser­vatism of an over­whelm­ingly ag­ri­cul­tural peo­ple, and a well-de­vel­oped fam­ily life equaled the birth of an­ces­tor ven­er­a­tion, cul­mi­nat­ing in the cus­tom of so hon­or­ing the men of the past as to bor­der on wor­ship. A very sim­i­lar at­ti­tude pre­vailed among the white races in Eu­rope for some five hun­dred years fol­low­ing the dis­rup­tion of Greco-Ro­man civ­i­liza­tion.

Christianity well adapted to current mores of 1 paragraph

98:7.11As the orig­i­nal teach­ings of Je­sus pen­e­trated the Oc­ci­dent, they be­came Oc­ci­den­tal­ized, and as they be­came Oc­ci­den­tal­ized, they be­gan to lose their po­ten­tially uni­ver­sal ap­peal to all races and kinds of men. Chris­tian­ity, to­day, has be­come a re­li­gion well adapted to the so­cial, eco­nomic, and po­lit­i­cal mores of the white races. It has long since ceased to be the re­li­gion of Je­sus, al­though it still valiantly por­trays a beau­ti­ful re­li­gion about Je­sus to such in­di­vid­u­als as sin­cerely seek to fol­low in the way of its teach­ing. It has glo­ri­fied Je­sus as the Christ, the Mes­sianic anointed one from God, but has largely for­got­ten the Mas­ter’s per­sonal gospel: the Fa­ther­hood of God and the uni­ver­sal broth­er­hood of all men.

composition 8 paragraphs, 1 read above

51:4.3On those worlds hav­ing all six evo­lu­tion­ary races the su­pe­rior peo­ples are the first, third, and fifth races—the red, the yel­low, and the blue. The evo­lu­tion­ary races thus al­ter­nate in ca­pac­ity for in­tel­lec­tual growth and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment, the sec­ond, fourth, and sixth be­ing some­what less en­dowed. These sec­ondary races are the peo­ples that are miss­ing on cer­tain worlds; they are the ones that have been ex­ter­mi­nated on many oth­ers. It is a mis­for­tune on Uran­tia that you so largely lost your su­pe­rior blue men, ex­cept as they per­sist in your amal­ga­mated “white race.” The loss of your or­ange and green stocks is not of such se­ri­ous con­cern.

52:3.7By the end of the Adamic dis­pen­sa­tion on a nor­mal planet the races are prac­ti­cally blended, so that it can be truly pro­claimed that “God has made of one blood all the na­tions,” and that his Son “has made of one color all peo­ples.” The color of such an amal­ga­mated race is some­what of an olive shade of the vi­o­let hue, the racial “white” of the spheres.

64:6.24The Eu­ro­pean re­searches and ex­plo­rations of the Old Stone Age have largely to do with un­earthing the tools, bones, and artcraft of these an­cient blue men, for they per­sisted in Eu­rope un­til re­cent times. The so-called white races of Uran­tia are the de­scen­dants of these blue men as they were first mod­i­fied by slight mix­ture with yel­low and red, and as they were later greatly up­stepped by as­sim­i­lat­ing the greater por­tion of the vi­o­let race.

78:4.4These early And­ites were not Aryan; they were pre-Aryan. They were not white; they were pre-white. They were nei­ther an Oc­ci­den­tal nor an Ori­en­tal peo­ple. But it is And­ite in­her­i­tance that gives to the poly­glot mix­ture of the so-called white races that gen­er­al­ized ho­mo­gene­ity which has been called Cau­ca­soid.

78:6.2Sixty-five per cent en­tered Eu­rope by the Caspian Sea route to con­quer and amal­ga­mate with the newly ap­pear­ing white races—the blend of the blue men and the ear­lier And­ites.

80:0.2The mod­ern white peo­ples in­cor­po­rate the sur­viv­ing strains of the Adamic stock which be­came ad­mixed with the San­gik races, some red and yel­low but more es­pe­cially the blue. There is a con­sid­er­able per­cent­age of the orig­i­nal An­don­ite stock in all the white races and still more of the early Nod­ite strains.

80:5.7The Cro-Mag­noid blue man con­sti­tuted the bi­o­logic foun­da­tion for the mod­ern Eu­ro­pean races, but they have sur­vived only as ab­sorbed by the later and vir­ile con­querors of their home­lands. The blue strain con­tributed many sturdy traits and much phys­i­cal vigor to the white races of Eu­rope, but the hu­mor and imag­i­na­tion of the blended Eu­ro­pean peo­ples were de­rived from the And­ites. This And­ite-blue union, re­sult­ing in the north­ern white races, pro­duced an im­me­di­ate lapse of And­ite civ­i­liza­tion, a re­tar­da­tion of a tran­sient na­ture. Even­tu­ally, the la­tent su­pe­ri­or­ity of these north­ern bar­bar­ians man­i­fested it­self and cul­mi­nated in pres­ent-day Eu­ro­pean civ­i­liza­tion.

80:9.15 read above, under white race

82:6.1There are no pure races in the world to­day. The early and orig­i­nal evo­lu­tion­ary peo­ples of color have only two rep­re­sen­ta­tive races per­sist­ing in the world, the yel­low man and the black man; and even these two races are much ad­mixed with the ex­tinct col­ored peo­ples. While the so-called white race is pre­dom­i­nantly de­scended from the an­cient blue man, it is ad­mixed more or less with all other races much as is the red man of the Amer­i­cas.

divisions of white race 2 paragraphs, 10 read above

78:4.1The And­ite races were the pri­mary blends of the pure-line vi­o­let race and the Nod­ites plus the evo­lu­tion­ary peo­ples. In gen­eral, And­ites should be thought of as hav­ing a far greater per­cent­age of Adamic blood than the mod­ern races. In the main, the term And­ite is used to des­ig­nate those peo­ples whose racial in­her­i­tance was from one-eighth to one-sixth vi­o­let. Mod­ern Uran­tians, even the north­ern white races, con­tain much less than this per­cent­age of the blood of Adam.

80:4.5The whole in­hab­ited world, out­side of China and the Eu­phrates re­gion, had made very lim­ited cul­tural prog­ress for ten thou­sand years when the hard-rid­ing And­ite horse­men made their ap­pear­ance in the sixth and sev­enth mil­len­ni­ums be­fore Christ. As they moved west­ward across the Rus­sian plains, ab­sorb­ing the best of the blue man and ex­ter­mi­nat­ing the worst, they be­came blended into one peo­ple. These were the an­ces­tors of the so-called Nordic races, the fore­fa­thers of the Scan­di­na­vian, Ger­man, and An­glo-Saxon peo­ples.

80:9.2 read above, under white race

80:9.3 read above, under white race

80:9.4 read above, under white race

80:9.5 read above, under white race

80:9.6 read above, under white race

80:9.7 read above, under white race

80:9.8 read above, under white race

80:9.9 read above, under white race

80:9.10 read above, under white race

80:9.11 read above, under white race

dominant in northern Europe by 5000 B.C. 1 paragraph

80:5.8By 5000 B.C. the evolv­ing white races were dom­i­nant through­out all of north­ern Eu­rope, in­clud­ing north­ern Ger­many, north­ern France, and the British Isles. Cen­tral Eu­rope was for some time con­trolled by the blue man and the round-headed An­don­ites. The lat­ter were mainly sit­u­ated in the Danube val­ley and were never en­tirely dis­placed by the And­ites.

energetic builders 0 paragraphs, 1 read above

80:9.13 read above, under white race

final color is olive shade of violet 0 paragraphs, 1 read above

52:3.7 read above, under composition

killed off bison in North America 1 paragraph

61:7.14The mam­moth sought the open prairies, but the mastodon pre­ferred the shel­tered fringes of the for­est re­gions. The mam­moth, un­til a late date, ranged from Mex­ico to Canada; the Siberian va­ri­ety be­came wool cov­ered. The mastodon per­sisted in North Amer­ica un­til ex­ter­mi­nated by the red man much as the white man later killed off the bi­son.

landed in America 1000 years ago 1 paragraph

64:7.19About five thou­sand years ago a chance meet­ing oc­curred be­tween an In­dian tribe and a lone Es­kimo group on the south­east­ern shores of Hud­son Bay. These two tribes found it dif­fi­cult to com­mu­ni­cate with each other, but very soon they in­ter­mar­ried with the re­sult that these Es­ki­mos were even­tu­ally ab­sorbed by the more nu­mer­ous red men. And this rep­re­sents the only con­tact of the North Amer­i­can red man with any other hu­man stock down to about one thou­sand years ago, when the white man first chanced to land on the At­lantic coast.

most advanced social development on Urantia 1 paragraph

68:0.3So­cial evo­lu­tion of the co-op­er­a­tive or­der was ini­ti­ated by the Dala­ma­tia teach­ers, and for three hun­dred thou­sand years man­kind was nur­tured in the idea of group ac­tiv­i­ties. The blue man most of all prof­ited by these early so­cial teach­ings, the red man to some ex­tent, and the black man least of all. In more re­cent times the yel­low race and the white race have pre­sented the most ad­vanced so­cial de­vel­op­ment on Uran­tia.

restless, exploratory curiosity due to Andite inheritance 1 paragraph

79:7.3It was not that there were so many of the And­ites, nor that their cul­ture was so su­pe­rior, but amal­ga­ma­tion with them pro­duced a more ver­sa­tile stock. The north­ern Chi­nese re­ceived just enough of the And­ite strain to mildly stim­u­late their in­nately able minds but not enough to fire them with the rest­less, ex­ploratory cu­rios­ity so char­ac­ter­is­tic of the north­ern white races. This more lim­ited in­fu­sion of And­ite in­her­i­tance was less dis­turb­ing to the in­nate sta­bil­ity of the San­gik type.

unifying factor is Andite inheritance 1 paragraph

81:4.111. The Cau­ca­soid—the And­ite blend of the Nod­ite and Adamic stocks, fur­ther mod­i­fied by pri­mary and (some) sec­ondary San­gik ad­mix­ture and by con­sid­er­able An­donic cross­ing. The Oc­ci­den­tal white races, to­gether with some In­dian and Tu­ra­nian peo­ples, are in­cluded in this group. The uni­fy­ing fac­tor in this di­vi­sion is the greater or lesser pro­por­tion of And­ite in­her­i­tance.

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See also Caucasians; races

Cited alongside: Andites, blue race, skulls, yellow race, red race, Europe, races, Andonites