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Theosophists confidently claimed that early humanity evolved from translucent gelatinous blobs living in Hyperborea

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Forget Darwin. The hugely influential Theosophical Society of the 19th century taught that human 'Root Races' started as invisible astral jellyfish before slowly hardening into physical apes and humans. They presented this as high-end spiritual science, which proves that fancy terminology can make any absolute nonsense sound legit.

Theosophists confidently claimed that early humanity evolved from translucent gelatinous blobs living in Hyperborea
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