The Addams Family

The Addams Family is a fictional household created by cartoonist Charles Addams. A TV series and a movie based on the cartoon have also been produced.

I enjoy watching the TV series, I have the DVD set.

I did a search for the Addams Family and found this article on Wikipedia. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family

Interesting, I thought to myself. Whereas the article may be historically true, it completely misses the true substance of the cartoon, the TV series, and the movie.

To understand the Addams Family you need to know about Jose Vasconcelos, a Mexican philosopher.

Vasconcelos is best known for his essay "La Raza Cosmica." An essay in which he writes about the fusion of the races into one race which he names La Raza Cosmica. Undoubtedly Vasconcelos was well versed in Theosophy and Rosicrucianism. Both Theosophy and Rosicrucianism acknowledge and teach about the previous existence of Atlantis, past and present human races, and the creation of future races.

So, what does this have to do with the Addams family?


For starters, the Addams family is portrayed as a morbid family. Everything about them is abnormal. Their butler looks like Frankenstein, they have an uncle named Fester (as in a festering infection), they have a cousin named It (probably because he's hairy and weird) and a disembodied hand named Thing which delivers the mail.



"They're creepy and they're cooky, mysterious and spooky...their house is a museum...the Addams family. Snap, Snap."

Theosophists and Rosicrucians are undoubtedly viewed as mysterious and even spooky by those who conform to established religions.

So, what does this have to do with Vasconcelos? Well, Vasconcelos was undoubtedly well versed in Theosophy and Rosicrucianism. And Charles Addams, the creator of the Addams Family viewed him and his teachings as creepy, cooky, mysterious and spooky. Vasconcelos taught a philosophy that was well within Charles Addams' grasp. He just made an allegory out of it.

In the Addams family Vasconcelos is portrayed as Gomez. And his family, La Raza Cosmica, is creepy, cooky, mysterious and spooky.

Gomez from the Addams Family

Jose Vasconcelos

The Addams Family is a parody on Jose Vasconcelos and La Raza Cosmica.