Hi everybody!

I am presently watching a TV documentary about the huge statues of Buddha that were blown up by the Taliban in Pakistan, in an area called Bamiyan.

The Secret Doctrine tells us that the statues were not of Buddha, but of a race of humans that lived thousands of years ago. It has also been said the giant statues were life-size, and indicative of the giant race that lived at that time.

Giants and The Secret Doctrine

“...all ancient writings — prose and poetry — are full of the reminiscences of the Lemuro-Atlanteans, the first physical races, though the Third and the Fourth in number. Hesiod records the tradition about the men of the age of Bronze, whom Jupiter had made out of ash-wood and who had hearts harder than diamond. Clad in bronze from head to foot they passed their lives in fighting. Monstrous in size, endowed with a terrible strength, invincible arms and hands descended from their shoulders, says the poet (Hesiod, in oper. and dieb. v. 143). Such were the giants of the first physical races.” (SD vol II p. 772)

“...the Mediterranean barbarians ... marvelled at the prowess of the Atlanteans. ‘Their physical strength was extraordinary (witness indeed their cyclopean buildings), the earth shaking sometimes under their tread. Whatever they did, was done speedily. . . . . . They were wise and communicated their wisdom to men’ ” (SD vol II p. 753)

“That Third and holy Race consisted of men who, at their zenith, were described as, ‘towering giants of godly strength and beauty....’ ” (SD vol II p. 171-172)

“...the Atlanteans [were] giants whose physical beauty and strength reached their climax, in accordance with evolutionary law, toward the middle period of their fourth sub-race.” (SD vol II p. 319)

“While it is very probable that the Gibborim (the giants) of the Bible are the Rakshasas of the Hindus, it is still more certain that both are Atlanteans, and belong to the submerged races.” (SD vol I p. 415)

“To speak of a race nine yatis, or 27 feet high, in a work claiming a more scientific character than ‘Jack the Giant-Killer,’ is a somewhat unusual proceeding. ‘Where are your proofs?’ the writer will be asked. In History and tradition, is the answer. Traditions about a race of giants in days of old are universal; they exist in oral and written lore. India had her Danavas and Daityas; Ceylon had her Rakshasas; Greece, her Titans; Egypt, her colossal Heroes; Chaldea, her Izdubars (Nimrod); and the Jews their Emims of the land of Moab, with the famous giants, Anakim (Numbers xiii. 33). Moses speaks of Og, a king who was nine cubits high (15 ft. 4 in.) and four wide (Deut. iii. 11), and Goliath was ‘six cubits and a span in height’ (or 10 ft. 7 in.).” (SD vol II p. 336)

Biblical quotes:

“There were giants in the earth in those days....” (Genesis 6:4)

“And there we saw the giants....” (Numbers 13:33)

“Which also were accounted giants....” (Deuteronomy 2:11)

“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants....” (Deuteronomy 3:11)

The giants disappeared, the centuries marched on, and humanity reached its five- to six-foot stature of today.

“...it is after the destruction of ‘Lemuria’ by subterranean fires that men went on steadily decreasing in stature — a process already commenced after their physical FALL — and that finally, some millions of years after, they reached between six and seven feet, and are now dwindling down (as the older Asiatic races) to nearer five than six feet.” (SD vol II pp. 331-332)

Evidence exists today of these prehistoric giants.

“...we may turn to the scientific journals of 1858, which spoke of a sarcophagus of giants found that year on the site of that same city. As to the ancient pagan writers — we have the evidence of Philostratus, who speaks of a giant skeleton twenty-two cubits long, as well as of another of twelve cubits ... nevertheless, it was that of a giant, as well as that other one discovered by Messecrates of Stire, at Lemnos — ‘horrible to behold,’ according to Philostratus....” (SD vol II p. 278)

“... the Abbe Pegues (cited in de Mirville's Pneumatologie) affirms in his curious work on ‘The Volcanoes of Greece’ that ‘in the neighbourhood of the volcanoes of the isle of Thera, giants with enormous skulls were found laid out under colossal stones....’ ” (SD vol II p. 278)

“Certain excavations in America in mounds and in caves, have already yielded in isolated cases groups of skeletons of nine and twelve feet high. These belong to tribes of the early Fifth Race, now degenerated to an average size of between five and six feet. But we can easily believe that the Titans and Cyclopes of old really belonged to the Fourth (Atlantean) Race, and that all the subsequent legends and allegories found in the Hindu Puranas and the Greek Hesiod and Homer, were based on the hazy reminiscences of real Titans — men of a superhuman tremendous physical power....” (SD vol II p. 293)

“It is at the entrance of some of these [viharas in Bamian] that five enormous statues, of what is regarded as Buddha, have been discovered or rather rediscovered in our century, as the famous Chinese traveller, Hiouen-Thsang, speaks of, and saw them, when he visited Bamian in the VIIth century.... The Buddhist Arhats and Ascetics found the five statues, and many more, now crumbled down to dust.... The largest is made to represent the First Race of mankind, its ethereal body being commemorated in hard, everlasting stone, for the instruction of future generations, as its remembrance would otherwise never have survived the Atlantean Deluge. The second — 120 feet high — represents the sweat-born; and the third — measuring 60 feet — immortalizes the race that fell, and thereby inaugurated the first physical race, born of father and mother, the last descendants of which are represented in the Statues found on Easter Isle; but they were only from 20 to 25 feet in stature at the epoch when Lemuria was submerged, after it had been nearly destroyed by volcanic fires. The Fourth Race was still smaller, though gigantic in comparison with our present Fifth Race, and the series culminated finally in the latter.... These are, then, the ‘Giants’ of antiquity, the ante- and post-diluvian Gibborim of the Bible. They lived and flourished one million rather than between three and four thousand years ago.” (SD vol II pp. 338-340)

The Bamian statues are the Afgan statues that were blown up by the Taliban. (The Taliban, along with everyone else, mistook these as statues of Buddhist origin.)

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Bamian Buddha Statues and Theosophy — A travelogue in the footsteps of Helena Blavatsky
http://www.teosofiskakompaniet.net/BamianTeosofiHPB2001.htm

Bamian Statue
http://www.afghan-network.net/Culture/bamian.html

The Bamian Statues: Their Mysterious Origin, By H. P. Blavatsky
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunris...00-1/as-hpb.htm

Absolutely fascinating! It gives new evidence of HPB's knowledge and acuity. I had not seen this side of things, or thought of them, before.

Thanks Nick, for the interesting topic. I have posted some information on my New Age boards, as people are very interested in giants. Some, one a good friend of mine, feels a very strong personal connection.

And for the entertainment segment of tonight's program, I could add that I have seen giants in spirit. Well, let me correct that, one in particular. This was outside in my place down south. I can't say I was able to communicate very well with him (I discerned that much), but I got the fairly clear impression he was being protective of my property. Given that I had voiced and focused my intent as such, given that I travel so very much, I took it as a sort of response. On the side, I have often found that spirit of all kinds and types have a particularly strong sense of purpose; more like a need, actually.

I have recalled the Mahatma's reference to an underground cave full of giant's bones, as well. I believe they referred to Afganistan as its approximate location.

OK, go get a fresh popcorn and move onto the next post.

Christian

Christian,

Aw, were it that all of us were psychic like you....

You said,

"I have recalled the Mahatma's reference to an underground cave full of giant's bones...."

--> Perhaps these are The Secret Doctrine quotes listed in my post above. Yes, giant bones have been found, and scientists always try to pass them off as dinasour bones. They are not, they are bones of giant ancient humans.

Here is more, the connection between these prehistoric giants, and the present-day statues on Easter Island.

Easter Island and The Secret Doctrine

The statues on Easter Island give a clue.

“The Easter Island relics are, for instance, the most astounding and eloquent memorials of the primeval giants. They are as grand as they are mysterious; and one has but to examine the heads of the colossal statues, that have remained unbroken on that island, to recognize in them at a glance the features of the type and character attributed to the Fourth Race giants.” (SD vol II p. 224)

“Easter Island was ... taken possession of ... by some Atlanteans; who, having escaped from the cataclysm which befell their own land, settled on that remnant of Lemuria only to perish thereon, when destroyed in one day by its volcanic fires and lava.” (SD vol II p. 326)

“...most of the gigantic statues discovered on Easter Island, a portion of an undeniably submerged continent — as also those found on the outskirts of Gobi, a region which had been submerged for untold ages — are all between 20 and 30 feet high. The statues found by Cook on Easter Island measured almost all twenty-seven feet in height, and eight feet across the shoulders.” (SD vol II p. 331)

“The Easter Isles in ‘mid Pacific’ present the feature of the remaining peaks of the mountains of a submerged continent, for the reason that these peaks are thickly studded with Cyclopean statues, remnants of the civilization of a dense and cultivated people, who must have of necessity occupied a widely extended area.” (SD vol I p. 322)

“ ‘Even at the date of Cook’s visit, some of the [Easter Island] statues, measuring 27 feet in height and eight across the shoulders were lying overthrown, while others still standing appeared much larger. One of the latter was so lofty that the shade was sufficient to shelter a party of thirty persons from the heat of the sun. The platforms on which these colossal images stood averaged from thirty to forty feet in length, twelve to sixteen broad. . . . all built of hewn stone in the Cyclopean style, very much like the walls of the Temple of Pachacamac, or the ruins of Tia-Huanuco in Peru.... THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT ANY OF THE STATUES HAVE BEEN BUILT UP, BIT BY BIT, BY SCAFFOLDING ERECTED AROUND THEM’ — adds the journal very suggestively — without explaining how they could be built otherwise, unless made by giants of the same size as the statues themselves.” (SD vol II p. 337)

Stonehenge

Stonehenge was built by ancient human giants. They were big and strong enough to pick up the pieces by hand.

“...the rocking stones of Ireland, or those of Brinham, in Yorkshire ... them are evidently the relics of the Atlanteans...” (SD vol II p. 347)

“...had there been no giants to move about such colossal rocks, there could never have been a Stonehenge, a Carnac (Brittany) and other such Cyclopean structures....” (SD vol II p. 341)

“...had there been no giants to move about such colossal rocks [as in a Stonehenge], there could never have been a Stonehenge.... Who then, if not giants, could ever raise such masses (especially those at Carnac and West Hoadley), range them in such symmetrical order that they should represent the planisphere, and place them in such wonderful equipoise that they seem to hardly touch the ground, are set in motion at the slightest touch of the finger, and would yet resist the efforts of twenty men who should attempt to displace them. We say, that most of these stones are the relics of the last Atlanteans.” (SD vol II pp. 341-343)

I wouldn't want to be responsible for your breaking your theosophical vows of psychic celibacy.

:lol: Christian