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H.P.B. divided the earth's inhabitants into seven successive "root races," each more immoral than the one before. The first two races, she proclaimed, were semi-spiritual "shadows of the shadow of God." The third was a race of fourarmed men who inhabited a lost continent named Lemuria and were doomed 60 million years ago when they discovered sex. The fourth, recognizably human, went down with Atlantis 12,000 years ago, sunk by sex plus power. Our own race, which got off to a bad start with Adam, is the fifth, and it too may be about to expire...
...NATION DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE, 1961. The semi-permanent sessions of diplomats from 17 nations at the Palais des Nations in Geneva have worked out virtually all the disarmament agreements. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. have treated the consultations with increasing respect, while France-originally the 18th member-has never taken its seat, choosing instead to flex its nuclear muscle in the Sahara. Red China has declared the committee anathema. HOT LINE, 1963. A minor deterrent, the installation of a direct telecircuit between the White House and the Kremlin, was worked out by Kennedy and Khrushchev...
...last entry is dated Oct. 7, the day before he was captured in a ravine in the Quebrada del Yuro, a bullet in his left thigh and his M-l semi-automatic carbine shot out of his hands. "The 17 of us left [a canyon] under a waning moon, the march was very tiresome and we left many traces in the canyon where we were," he wrote. "At two we stopped to rest, since it was useless to continue advancing." The sad crusade was near...
This was the first issue of The Daily World, a national Marxist paper replacing the semi-weekly Worker. Cambridge police have previously arrested salesmen of other newspapers such as Avatar...
...Earth Opera's music is the peculiar relationship between the organ rhythms and the drum rhythms. The organ is used by them as a semi-melodic instrument while the drums are straight, but complex, percussion. This interaction between two staggered tempos distinctly creates a third master tempo...