THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

(innocent) individual through genetics, nor is it explained how that would be fair, but anyone
who inherits a genetic defect is assumed to merit the punishment. Similar rules apply to
"racial" karma and to explain the suffering of the Jews. In other words, descendents inherit the
payment for their ancestors' behavior as well as for their own.
This "cosmic law of nature" literally never makes a mistake. "There is no such thing as pure
innocence, even in a tiny babe. Every soul carries within it the scars of centuries of wrong
thinking and wrong doing." (Dr. Rodney Romney, _Journey to Inner Space_, p.127) Past
lives which are lived wrongly bring about karma which must be worked off without
complaint. Flying in the face of all New Age social activism, the purist interpretation of
karma logically concludes that no one should try to alleviate their own or another's suffering,
lest we interfere with the outworking of their karma, upset the balance of cosmic justice, and
prolong someone's dreary journey through future lives. [This rationale has long been followed
in India, where sick and starving people 'of low caste' are left to die in the streets.] W.Q.
Judge taught extensively on this theme ("The Ocean of Theosophy") and commented on its
application to the Jews. The cosmic balance maintained by karma is alternately described in
Oriental terms of "yin-yang" where light and darkness (good and evil) are needed in equal
portions for a person, an ethnic race or the cosmos to be whole. [Like its twin doctrine,
reincarnation, the "evidence" for karma is always subjective, and it is always self-serving for
those already living well. The iron rule that "everyone has got exactly what they deserve"
cannot help but legitimize the status quo for those who like things as they are: a classic
example of circular reasoning.]
3c. Eugenics (improving the race through breeding): It is agreed that theoretically it is
"immoral" for spiritually or physically inferior creatures to use up space and limited resources
on our "overpopulated Spaceship Earth", which should be used to nurture the people who are
better equipped to carry the human race to higher levels. Moreover, the purity of the human
race becomes downgraded as such "lower egos" reproduce and interbreed with the "better
stock"; this in turn jeopardizes the success of the next quantum leap to a new subrace. In such
a context, eugenicists see themselves not as racists, but responsible leaders working for the
good of humanity, undertaking a noble and necessary (but misunderstood) task - even a holy
task: "There is now no reasonable excuse for refusing to face the fact that nothing but a
eugenics religion can save our civilization from the fate that has overtaken all previous
civilizations." (George Bernard Shaw quoted by Mark Haller, _Eugenics_, p.19)
The outer defects which are taken to be outworkings of negative karma make it easier to
identify the spiritually "inferior" strains of humanity which will "endanger" human progress.
Two strategies can then be employed: to strictly segregate the superior humanity from contact
and mingling with inferior strains, and to hasten the demise of the undesired strains by
preventing reproduction and by cutting short their natural lifespans wherever possible. Both
strategies have been institutionalized in this century on a nationwide level, most notably in the
Hindu caste system and in the Nazi racial purity laws. [Theosophy was the conduit from the
former to the latter - more in the Nazism section]
A look at the history of "Planned Parenthood" (until 1942 called "The American Birth
Control League") will reveal that its founders, Margaret Sanger, Madison Grant and Dr.
Lothrop Stoddard, advocated a strong eugenicist worldview, proclaimed on the masthead of
the _Birth Control Review_ as "Creating a Race of Thoroughbreds". [Americans of that era
were quite receptive to racial purity ideas, and the masthead did not create the furor it
undoubtedly would today.] "For race betterment is such an intensely practical matter: when
peoples come to realize that the quality of the population is the source of all their prosperity,