Latest / Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria / 007 - The Story of Atlantis - Part 6

Transcript

007 - The Story of Atlantis - Part 6 · Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria

0:00
Speaker 1: Section six The Story of Atlantis by William Scott Elliott.
0:06
Speaker 1: The sliprivox recording is in the public domain. The Story
0:10
Speaker 1: of Atlantis, Part six, Manners and Customs. There was doubtless
0:16
Speaker 1: as much variety in the manners and customs of the
0:18
Speaker 1: Atlanteans at different epochs of their history as there has
0:21
Speaker 1: been among the various nations which compose our Aryan rays.
0:25
Speaker 1: With the fluctuating fashion of the centuries, we are not concerned.
0:29
Speaker 1: The following remarks will attempt to deal merely with the
0:32
Speaker 1: leading characteristics which differentiate their habits from our own, and
0:36
Speaker 1: these will be chosen as much as possible from the
0:39
Speaker 1: Great Taltic era.
0:40
Speaker 2: With regard to marriage and the relations.
0:43
Speaker 3: Of the sexes, the experience made by the Trannians have
0:46
Speaker 3: already been referred to. Polygamous customs were prevalent at different
0:50
Speaker 3: times among all the sub races.
0:52
Speaker 2: But in the.
0:52
Speaker 3: Taultic days, while two wives were allowed by the law,
0:56
Speaker 3: great numbers of men had only one wife. Nor were
0:59
Speaker 3: the women men, as in countries nowadays where polygamy prevails,
1:03
Speaker 3: regarded as inferiors or in the least oppressed.
1:06
Speaker 2: Their position was quite equal to that of the men.
1:09
Speaker 3: While The aptitude many of them displayed in acquiring the
1:12
Speaker 3: real power made them fully the equals, if not the superiors,
1:16
Speaker 3: of the other sex. This equality, indeed, was recognized from infancy,
1:21
Speaker 3: and there was no separation of the sexes. In schools
1:23
Speaker 3: or colleges. Boys and girls were taught together. It was
1:27
Speaker 3: the rule, too, and of the exception, for complete hammony
1:30
Speaker 3: to prevail in the dual households, and the mothers taught
1:33
Speaker 3: their children to look equally to their father's wives for
1:35
Speaker 3: love and protection. Nor were women debarred from taking part
1:39
Speaker 3: in the government. Sometimes there were members of the councils,
1:43
Speaker 3: and occasionally even where chosen by the adept Emperor to
1:46
Speaker 3: represent him in the various provinces as the local sovereigns.
1:50
Speaker 3: The writing material of the Atlanteans consisted of thin sheets
1:53
Speaker 3: of metal on the white porcelain like surface of which
1:56
Speaker 3: the words were written. They also had the means of
1:59
Speaker 3: reproduce using the written text by placing on the inscribed
2:02
Speaker 3: sheet another thin metal plate, which had previously been dipped
2:06
Speaker 3: in some liquid. The decks thus graven on the second
2:09
Speaker 3: plate could be reproduced at will on other sheets, a
2:12
Speaker 3: great number of which fastened together constituted a book, a
2:17
Speaker 3: cast on which differs considerably from our own, must be
2:19
Speaker 3: instanced next. In their choice of food, it is an
2:23
Speaker 3: unpleasant subject, but can scarcely be passed over the flesh
2:27
Speaker 3: of the animals they usually discarded, while the parts which
2:30
Speaker 3: among us are avoided as food, were by them devoured.
2:34
Speaker 3: The blood also they drank, often hot from the animal,
2:37
Speaker 3: and various cooked dishes were also made of it. It must, not, however,
2:42
Speaker 3: be thought that they were without the lighter, and to
2:45
Speaker 3: us more palatable.
2:46
Speaker 2: Kinds of food.
2:47
Speaker 3: The seas and rivers provided them with fish, the flesh
2:51
Speaker 3: of which they ate, though often in such an advanced
2:54
Speaker 3: stage of decomposition as would be to us revolting. The
2:58
Speaker 3: different grains were largely autivated, of which were made bread
3:02
Speaker 3: and cakes. They also had milk, fruit, and vegetables. A
3:06
Speaker 3: small minority of the inhabitants, it is true, never adopted
3:09
Speaker 3: the revolting customs above referred to. This was the case
3:13
Speaker 3: with the adept kings and emperors, and the initiated priesthood
3:17
Speaker 3: throughout the whole Empire. They were entirely vegetarian in their habits.
3:21
Speaker 3: But though many of the emperor's counselors and the officials
3:24
Speaker 3: above the court affected to prefer the purer diet. They
3:28
Speaker 3: often indulged in secret their grosser tastes. Nor were strong
3:32
Speaker 3: drinks unknown in those days. Fermnted li cure of a
3:36
Speaker 3: very potent sort was at one time much in vogue.
3:40
Speaker 3: But it was so apt to make those who drank
3:42
Speaker 3: it dangerously excited that the law was passed absolutely forbidding
3:46
Speaker 3: its consumption. The weapons of warfare and the chase differed
3:51
Speaker 3: considerably at different epochs. Swords and spears, boughs and arrows
3:57
Speaker 3: sufficed as a rule for their mol house and the clavati.
4:00
Speaker 3: The best which they handed at that very early period
4:03
Speaker 3: were mammoths with long wooly hair. Elephants and hippopotamy. Marsupials
4:09
Speaker 3: also abounded, as well as survivals of intermediate types, some
4:12
Speaker 3: being half reptile and half mamal, others half reptile and
4:16
Speaker 3: half bird. The use of explosive was adopted at an
4:19
Speaker 3: early period, and carried to great perfection in later times.
4:23
Speaker 3: Some appear to have been made to explode on concussion,
4:26
Speaker 3: others after a certain interval of time, but in either
4:29
Speaker 3: case the destruction to life seems to have resulted from
4:32
Speaker 3: the release of some poisonous vapor, not from the impact
4:35
Speaker 3: of bullets so powerful indeed, must have become these explosives.
4:40
Speaker 3: In later Atlantean times that we hear of whole companies
4:43
Speaker 3: of men being destroyed in battle by the noxious gas
4:46
Speaker 3: generated by the explosion of one of these bombs above
4:49
Speaker 3: their heads, thrown there by some sort of lever. The
4:54
Speaker 3: monetary system must now be considered. During the first three
4:58
Speaker 3: sub races, at all events, such a thing as a
5:00
Speaker 3: state coinage was unknown. Small pieces of metal or leather
5:05
Speaker 3: stamped with some given value, where it is true, used
5:09
Speaker 3: as stockings, having a perforation in the center. They were
5:13
Speaker 3: strung together and were usually carried at the girdle. But
5:17
Speaker 3: each man was, as it were, his own coiner, and
5:20
Speaker 3: the leather or a metal token fabricated by him and
5:23
Speaker 3: exchanged with another for value received was but a personal
5:27
Speaker 3: acknowledgment of indebtedness, such as a promissory.
5:30
Speaker 2: Note is among us.
5:32
Speaker 3: No man was entitled to fabricate more of these tokens
5:35
Speaker 3: than he was able to redeem by the transfer of
5:37
Speaker 3: goods in his possession. The tokens did not circulate as
5:41
Speaker 3: carnage does while the holder of the token had the
5:43
Speaker 3: means to estimate with perfect accuracy the resources of his
5:47
Speaker 3: debtor by the clairvoyant faculty, which all then possessed to
5:51
Speaker 3: a greater or less degree, and which in any case
5:54
Speaker 3: of doubt, was instantly directed to ascertain the actual state
5:58
Speaker 3: of the facts. It must be stated, however, that in
6:01
Speaker 3: the later days of Poseidonis, a system approximating to our
6:04
Speaker 3: own currency was adopted, and the Triple Mountain, visible from
6:08
Speaker 3: the great Southern capital, was the favorite representation of the
6:11
Speaker 3: state coinage. But the system of land tenure is the
6:15
Speaker 3: most important subject under these heading. Among their moa Hal
6:19
Speaker 3: and Tlavatli, who lived chiefly by hunting and fishing, the
6:23
Speaker 3: question naturally did not arise. Though some system of village
6:27
Speaker 3: cultivation was recognized in the Tlavati days, it was with
6:31
Speaker 3: the increase of population and civilization in the early Toltic
6:34
Speaker 3: times that land first became worth fighting for. It is
6:38
Speaker 3: not proposed to trace a system or want of system
6:41
Speaker 3: prevalent in the troublous times anterior to the advent of
6:44
Speaker 3: the Golden Age, but the records of that epoch present
6:48
Speaker 3: to the consideration not only of political economists, but of
6:52
Speaker 3: whole who regard the welfare of the race a subject
6:55
Speaker 3: of the utmost interest and importance. The population, it must
6:59
Speaker 3: be remembered, had been steadily increasing, and under the government
7:02
Speaker 3: of the other emperors, it had reached the very large
7:05
Speaker 3: figure already quoted. Nevertheless, poverty and want were things undreamt
7:10
Speaker 3: of in those days, and this social well being was
7:13
Speaker 3: no doubt partly due to the system of land tenure.
7:17
Speaker 3: Not only was all the land and its produce regarded
7:19
Speaker 3: as belonging to the Emperor, but all the flocks and
7:22
Speaker 3: herds upon it were his as well. The country was
7:25
Speaker 3: divided into different provinces or districts, each province having at
7:29
Speaker 3: its head one of the subsidiary kings or viceroys appointed
7:34
Speaker 3: by the Emperor. Each of these viceroys was held responsible
7:38
Speaker 3: for the government and well being of all inhabitants under
7:40
Speaker 3: his rule. The tillage of the land, the harvesting of
7:44
Speaker 3: the crops, and the pasturage of the herbs lay within
7:47
Speaker 3: his sphere of superintendence, as well as the conducting of
7:50
Speaker 3: such agricultural experiments as have been already referred to. Each
7:54
Speaker 3: viceroy had round him a Council of Agricultural Advisors and Coadjutor,
8:00
Speaker 3: who had, amongst their other duties, to be well versed
8:03
Speaker 3: in astronomy, for it was not a barren science in
8:06
Speaker 3: those days. The occult influences on plant and animal life
8:10
Speaker 3: were then studied and taken.
8:12
Speaker 2: Advantage of.
8:13
Speaker 3: The power, too, of producing rain and will was not
8:16
Speaker 3: uncommon then, while the effects of a glacial epoch were
8:20
Speaker 3: on more than one occasion, partly neutralized in the northern
8:24
Speaker 3: parts of the continent by occult science.
8:27
Speaker 2: The right day for beginning.
8:28
Speaker 3: Every agricultural operation was of course duly calculated, and the
8:33
Speaker 3: work carried into effect by the officials, whose duty was
8:36
Speaker 3: to supervise every detail. The produce raised in each district
8:40
Speaker 3: or kingdom was as a rule, consumed in it, but
8:43
Speaker 3: an exchange of agricultural commodities was sometimes arranged between the
8:47
Speaker 3: rulers after a small share had been put aside for
8:51
Speaker 3: the emperor and the central government. At the city of
8:53
Speaker 3: the Golden Gates, the produce of the whole district or
8:56
Speaker 3: kingdom was divided among the inhabitants, the local viceroy and
9:00
Speaker 3: his retinue of officials naturally receiving the larger portions, but
9:04
Speaker 3: the means agricultural laborer getting enough to secure him competence
9:08
Speaker 3: and comfort. Any increase in the productive capacity of the land,
9:12
Speaker 3: or in the mineral wealth which it yielded, was divided
9:15
Speaker 3: proportionately amongst all concerned. All therefore were interested in making
9:21
Speaker 3: the result of their combined labor as lucrative as possible.
9:25
Speaker 3: This system worked admirably for a very long period, But
9:29
Speaker 3: as time went on, negligence and self seeking crept in.
9:33
Speaker 3: Those whose duty it was to superintend threw more and
9:37
Speaker 3: more responsibility on their inferiors in office, and in time
9:40
Speaker 3: it became rare for the rulers to interfere or to
9:43
Speaker 3: interest themselves in any of the operations. This was the
9:46
Speaker 3: beginning of the evil days. The members of the dominant class,
9:49
Speaker 3: who had previously given o their time to the state duties,
9:52
Speaker 3: began to think about making their own lives more pleasant.
9:55
Speaker 3: The elaboration of luxury was setting in.
9:59
Speaker 2: There was one call in.
10:00
Speaker 3: Particular, which produced great discontent amongst the lower classes. The
10:05
Speaker 3: system under which the youth of the nation was drafted
10:08
Speaker 3: into the technical schools has already been referred to.
10:12
Speaker 2: Now. It was always one of the.
10:13
Speaker 3: Superior class whose psychic faculties had been duly cultivated, to
10:17
Speaker 3: whom the duty was assigned of selecting the children, so
10:20
Speaker 3: that each one should receive the training and ultimately be
10:24
Speaker 3: devoted to the occupation for which it was naturally most fitted.
10:27
Speaker 2: But when those possessed.
10:29
Speaker 3: Of the clairvoyant vision by which alone such choice could
10:32
Speaker 3: be made delegated the dudist inferiors who were wanting in
10:36
Speaker 3: such psychic attributes, the results ensuing were that the children
10:40
Speaker 3: were often thrust into wrong grooves, and those whose capacity
10:44
Speaker 3: in taste lay in one direction often found themselves tied
10:47
Speaker 3: for life to an occupation which they disliked and in
10:50
Speaker 3: which therefore they were rarely successful. The systems of land
10:55
Speaker 3: tenure which ensued in different parts of the empire on
10:58
Speaker 3: the breaking up of the Great Teltic dynasty were many
11:02
Speaker 3: and various, but it is not necessary to follow them.
11:05
Speaker 3: In the later days of Poseidonis, they had, as a
11:08
Speaker 3: rule given place to the system of individual ownership which.
11:11
Speaker 2: We know so well.
11:13
Speaker 3: Reference has already been made under the head of emigrations
11:16
Speaker 3: to the system of land tenure which prevailed during that
11:19
Speaker 3: glorious period of Peruvian history when the Incans held sway
11:23
Speaker 3: about fourteen thousand years ago. A short summary of this
11:27
Speaker 3: may be of interest as demonstrating the source from which
11:30
Speaker 3: its ground work was doubtless derived, as well as instancing
11:33
Speaker 3: the variations which had been adopted in this somewhat more
11:37
Speaker 3: complicated system. All title to land was derived in the
11:41
Speaker 3: first instance from the Inca, but half of it was
11:44
Speaker 3: assigned to the cultivators, who of course constituted the great
11:49
Speaker 3: bulk of the population. The other half was divided between
11:52
Speaker 3: the Inca and the priesthood who celebrated the worship of
11:55
Speaker 3: the Sun.
11:56
Speaker 2: Out of the.
11:56
Speaker 3: Proceeds of his specially allotted lands, the Inca had to
11:59
Speaker 3: keep the army, the roads throughout the whole empire, and
12:03
Speaker 3: all the machinery of government. This was conducted by a
12:06
Speaker 3: special governing class, all more or less closely related to
12:10
Speaker 3: the Inca himself, and representing a civilization and a culture
12:14
Speaker 3: much in advance of the great masses of the population.
12:18
Speaker 3: The remaining fourth, the lands of the Sun, provided not
12:22
Speaker 3: only for the priests who conducted the public worship throughout
12:25
Speaker 3: the empire, but for the entire education of the people
12:29
Speaker 3: in schools and colleges, for all sick and infirm persons,
12:33
Speaker 3: and finally for every inhabitant, exclusive of course, of the
12:37
Speaker 3: governing class, for whom there was no cessation of work
12:40
Speaker 3: on reaching the age of forty five, that being the
12:44
Speaker 3: age arranged for the hard work of life to cease
12:47
Speaker 3: and for leisure.
12:48
Speaker 2: And enjoyment to begin.
12:51
Speaker 3: Religion, the only subject that now remains to be dealt
12:54
Speaker 3: with is the evolution of religious ideas. Between the spiritual
12:59
Speaker 3: aspiration of a way good but simple race and the
13:01
Speaker 3: the graded ritual of an intellectually cultured but spiritually dead
13:05
Speaker 3: people lies a gulf which only the term religion, used
13:10
Speaker 3: in its widest acceptation, can spun. Nevertheless, it is this
13:14
Speaker 3: consecutive process of generation and the generation.
13:17
Speaker 2: Which has to be traced. In the history of the
13:18
Speaker 2: Atlantic people.
13:20
Speaker 3: It will be remembered that the government under which their
13:23
Speaker 3: more health came into existence was described as the most
13:26
Speaker 3: perfect conceivable, for it was the Man of himself who
13:30
Speaker 3: acted as their king. The memory of this divine ruler
13:33
Speaker 3: was naturally preserved in the annals of the race, and
13:36
Speaker 3: in due time he came to be regarded as a
13:39
Speaker 3: god among the people who were naturally psychic, and had
13:42
Speaker 3: consequently glimpses of those states of consciousness which transcend our
13:46
Speaker 3: ordinary waking condition. Retaining this higher attribute, it was only
13:50
Speaker 3: natural that this primitive people should adopt a religion which,
13:54
Speaker 3: though in no way representative of any exalted philosophy, was
13:58
Speaker 3: of a type far from ignoble. In later days, this
14:02
Speaker 3: phase of religious belief passed into a kind of ancestor worship.
14:07
Speaker 3: The Tlavatli, while inheriting the traditional reverence and worship for
14:11
Speaker 3: the Manu, were taught by adept instructors of the existence
14:15
Speaker 3: of a supreme being whose symbol was recognized as the Sun.
14:19
Speaker 3: They thus developed a sort of sun worship for the
14:22
Speaker 3: practice of which they repaired to the hilltops. There they
14:26
Speaker 3: built great circles of upright monoliths. These were intended to
14:30
Speaker 3: be symbolical of the sun's yearly cores, but they were
14:33
Speaker 3: also used for astronomical purposes, being placed so that to
14:38
Speaker 3: one standing at the high altar, the sun would rise
14:41
Speaker 3: at the winter solstice behind one of these monoliths, at
14:44
Speaker 3: the vernal equinox behind another, and so on throughout the year.
14:48
Speaker 3: Astronomical observations of a still more complex character, connected with
14:53
Speaker 3: the more distant constellations, were also helped by these stone
14:56
Speaker 3: circles we have already seen under the head of a magne.
15:01
Speaker 3: How a later sub race, the Accadians, in the erection
15:04
Speaker 3: of Stonehenge, reverted to this primitive building of monoliths, and
15:08
Speaker 3: doubt though that Lavati were with somewhat greater capacity for
15:12
Speaker 3: intellectual development than the previous sub rays, they are cult
15:16
Speaker 3: was still of a very primitive type. With the whiter
15:20
Speaker 3: diffusion of knowledge in the days of the Toltics, and
15:23
Speaker 3: more especially with establishment later on of an initiated priesthood
15:27
Speaker 3: and an adopt emperor, increased opportunities were offered to the
15:31
Speaker 3: people for the attainment of a truer conception of the divine.
15:35
Speaker 3: The few who were ready to take full advantage of
15:37
Speaker 3: the teaching offered, after having been tried and tested, were
15:40
Speaker 3: doubtless admitted into the ranks of the priesthood, which then
15:44
Speaker 3: constituted an immense occult fraternity. With these, however, who had
15:50
Speaker 3: so outstripped the mass of humanity as to be ready
15:53
Speaker 3: to begin the progress of the occult path, we are
15:56
Speaker 3: not here concerned the religions practiced by the inhabitants of Atlantis,
16:00
Speaker 3: generally being the subject of our investigation. The power to
16:05
Speaker 3: rise to philosophic heights of thought, was, of course wanting
16:08
Speaker 3: to the musters of those days, as it is similarly
16:10
Speaker 3: wanting to the great majority of the inhabitants of the
16:13
Speaker 3: world today. The nearest approach which the most gifted teacher
16:16
Speaker 3: could make in attempting to convey any idea of the
16:19
Speaker 3: nameless and all pervading essence of the cosmos, was necessarily
16:23
Speaker 3: imparted in the form of symbols, and the Sun, naturally enough,
16:27
Speaker 3: was the first symbol adopted, as in our own days too.
16:31
Speaker 3: The more cultivated and spiritually minded would see through the symbol,
16:35
Speaker 3: and might sometimes arise on the wings of devotion to
16:38
Speaker 3: the Father of our spirits, that quote, motive and center
16:42
Speaker 3: of our soul's desire, object and refuge of our journey's end,
16:47
Speaker 3: while the grosser multitude would see nothing but the symbol
16:51
Speaker 3: and would worship it as the carved Madonna or the
16:54
Speaker 3: wooden image of the crucified one is today worshiped throughout
16:57
Speaker 3: Catholic Europe.
16:58
Speaker 2: Sun and fire.
16:59
Speaker 3: Worship then and became the cult for the celebration of
17:01
Speaker 3: which magnificent temples were reared throughout the length and breadth
17:05
Speaker 3: of the continent of Atlantis, but more especially in the
17:09
Speaker 3: Great City of the Golden Gates, the temple service being
17:12
Speaker 3: performed by retinues of priests endowed by the state for
17:15
Speaker 3: that purpose. In those early days, no image of the
17:19
Speaker 3: deity was permitted. The sun disc was considered the only
17:22
Speaker 3: appropriate emblem of the god head, and as such was
17:26
Speaker 3: used in every temple, a golden disc being generally placed
17:29
Speaker 3: so as to catch the first rays of the rising
17:32
Speaker 3: sun at the vernal equinox or the summer solstice. An
17:36
Speaker 3: interesting example of the almost unalloyed survival of this worship
17:40
Speaker 3: of the sun disc may be instanced in the Shinto
17:44
Speaker 3: ceremonies of Japan. All other representations of deity is in
17:48
Speaker 3: this faith regarded as impious, and even the circular mirror
17:52
Speaker 3: of polished metal is hidden from the vulgar gays, save
17:55
Speaker 3: on ceremonial occasions. Unlike the gorgeous temple decorations of a plantis, however,
18:01
Speaker 3: the shinted temples are characterized by an entire absence of decoration,
18:05
Speaker 3: the exquisite finish of the plain woodwork being unrelieved by
18:09
Speaker 3: any carving, paint or varnish. But the sun disk did
18:13
Speaker 3: not always remain the only permissible emblem of deity. The
18:16
Speaker 3: image of a man an archetipl man was in after days,
18:20
Speaker 3: placed in the temples and adored as the highest representation
18:24
Speaker 3: of the divine. In some ways, this might be considered
18:27
Speaker 3: a reversion to the moahal worship of the Manu. Even then,
18:32
Speaker 3: the religion was comparatively pure, and the occult fraternity of
18:35
Speaker 3: the Good Law, of course, did their utmost to keep
18:39
Speaker 3: alive in the hearts of the people the spiritual life.
18:42
Speaker 3: The evil days, however, were drawing near when a altruistic
18:46
Speaker 3: idea should remain to redeem the rays from the abyss
18:49
Speaker 3: of selfishness in which it was destined to be overwhelmed.
18:53
Speaker 3: The decay of the ethical idea was necessary prelude to
18:57
Speaker 3: the perversion of the spiritual. The hand of every man
19:01
Speaker 3: fought for himself alone, and his knowledge was used for
19:04
Speaker 3: purely selfish ends, till it became an established belief that
19:07
Speaker 3: there was nothing in the universe greater or higher than themselves.
19:11
Speaker 3: Each man was his own law and Lord and God,
19:15
Speaker 3: and the very worship of the temples ceased to be
19:17
Speaker 3: the worship of any ideal but became the mere duration
19:20
Speaker 3: of man, as he was known and seen to be,
19:23
Speaker 3: as is written in the Book of Zian Quote. Then
19:27
Speaker 3: the fourth became tall with pride. We are the kings,
19:31
Speaker 3: it was said, we are the gods. They built huge
19:34
Speaker 3: cities of rare earths and metals they built, and out
19:38
Speaker 3: of the fires vomited, out of the white stone of
19:42
Speaker 3: the mountains and of the black stone, they cut their
19:45
Speaker 3: own images in their size and likeness, and worshiped them.
19:50
Speaker 3: Shrines were placed in temples in which the statues of
19:53
Speaker 3: each man, wrote in gold or silver, or carved in
19:57
Speaker 3: stone or wood, was adored by himself. The richer men
20:01
Speaker 3: kept whole trains of priests in their employ for the
20:04
Speaker 3: cult and care of their shrines, and offerings were made
20:07
Speaker 3: to these statues, as to gods. The apotheosis of self
20:12
Speaker 3: could go no further. It must be remembered that every
20:15
Speaker 3: true religious idea that has ever entered into the mind
20:19
Speaker 3: of man has been consciously suggested to him by the
20:22
Speaker 3: divine instructors or the initiates of their cult lodgis, who
20:26
Speaker 3: throughout all the ages have been the gardens of the
20:28
Speaker 3: divine mysteries and of the facts of the superstantial states
20:32
Speaker 3: of consciousness. Mankind generally has but slowly become capable of
20:37
Speaker 3: assimilating a few of these divine ideas. While the monster's
20:41
Speaker 3: growth on the hideous distortions to which every religion on
20:44
Speaker 3: earth stands as witness, must be traced to man's own
20:48
Speaker 3: lower nature.
20:50
Speaker 2: It would seem, indeed.
20:51
Speaker 3: That he has not always even been fit to be
20:54
Speaker 3: entrusted with knowledge as to the mere symbols under which
20:57
Speaker 3: were veiled the light of deity. For in the days
21:01
Speaker 3: of the Tyrannian supremacy, some of this knowledge was wrongfully divulged.
21:06
Speaker 3: We have seen how the life and light giving attributes
21:09
Speaker 3: of the Sun were in early times used as the
21:12
Speaker 3: symbol to bring before the minds of the people all
21:15
Speaker 3: that they were capable of conceiving of the great first Cause.
21:19
Speaker 3: But other symbols of far deeper and more real significance
21:23
Speaker 3: were known and guarded within the ranks of the priesthood.
21:27
Speaker 3: One of these was the conception of a trinity in unity.
21:30
Speaker 3: The trinities of most sacred significance were never divulged to
21:33
Speaker 3: the people, but the trinity personifying the cosmic powers of
21:37
Speaker 3: the universe as creator, preserver and destroyer, became publicly known
21:42
Speaker 3: in some irregular manner. In the Turrannian days, this idea
21:46
Speaker 3: was still further materialized and degraded by the Semite into
21:50
Speaker 3: a strictly anthropomorphic trinity consisting of father.
21:54
Speaker 2: Mother, and child.
21:56
Speaker 3: A further and rather terrible development of the Turrannian times
21:59
Speaker 3: must still be referred to with the practice of sorcery.
22:03
Speaker 3: Many of the inhabitants had, of course become aware of
22:05
Speaker 3: the existence of powerful elementals, creatures who had been called
22:09
Speaker 3: into being, or at least animated by their own powerful wills, which,
22:14
Speaker 3: being directed towards maleficent ends, naturally produced elementals of power
22:19
Speaker 3: and malignity. So degraded had then become man's feelings of
22:23
Speaker 3: reverence and worship that they actually began to adore these
22:26
Speaker 3: semi conscious creations of their own malignant thought. The ritual
22:30
Speaker 3: with which these beings were worshiped was blood stained from
22:34
Speaker 3: the very start, and of course every sacrifice offered at
22:37
Speaker 3: their shrines gave vitality and persistence to these vampire like creations,
22:43
Speaker 3: so much so that even to the present day, in
22:45
Speaker 3: various parts of the world, the elementals formed by the
22:48
Speaker 3: powerful will of these old Atlantian sorcerers still continued to
22:51
Speaker 3: exact their tribute from unoffending village communities. Though inaugurated and
22:57
Speaker 3: widely practiced by the brutal Tranians, these bloodstain rituals seems
23:01
Speaker 3: never to have spread to any extent among the other
23:04
Speaker 3: sub braces, though human sacrifices appear to have been non
23:07
Speaker 3: uncommon among some branches of the Semites. In the Great
23:12
Speaker 3: Tolta Empire of Mexico, the sun worship of their forefathers
23:15
Speaker 3: was still the national religion, while the bloodless sufferings to
23:18
Speaker 3: their beneficent deity quetzal Quato consisted merely of flowers and fruit.
23:24
Speaker 3: It was only with the coming of the savage as
23:26
Speaker 3: Sex that the harmless Mexican ritual was supplemented with the
23:30
Speaker 3: blood of human sacrifices, which drenched the altars of their
23:34
Speaker 3: war god Huitzilopochtli, and the tearing out of the hearts
23:38
Speaker 3: of the victims on the summit of the Teocali may
23:41
Speaker 3: be regarded as a direct survival of the elemental worship
23:45
Speaker 3: of the Trannian ancestors in Atlantis.
23:48
Speaker 2: It will be seen then, that, as in our.
23:50
Speaker 3: Own days, the religious life of the people embraced the
23:52
Speaker 3: most varied forms of belief and worship from the small
23:56
Speaker 3: minority whose part initiation and had touched with the higher
24:00
Speaker 3: spiritual life, who knew that good will towards all men,
24:04
Speaker 3: control of thought and purity of life and action were
24:07
Speaker 3: the necessary preliminaries to the attainment of the highest states
24:10
Speaker 3: of consciousness and the widest realms of vision. Innumerable phases
24:14
Speaker 3: let down through the more or less blind worship of
24:17
Speaker 3: cosmic powers or of anthropomorphic gods, to the degraded but
24:22
Speaker 3: most widely extended ritual in which each man adored his
24:26
Speaker 3: own image, and to the blood stained rights of the
24:28
Speaker 3: elemental worship. It must be remembered throughout that we are
24:32
Speaker 3: dealing with the Atlantic race only so that any reference
24:36
Speaker 3: would be out of place that bore on the still
24:39
Speaker 3: more degraded fetish worship that even then existed, as it
24:43
Speaker 3: still does among the debased representatives of the Limurian peoples
24:48
Speaker 3: all through the centuries. Then, the various rituals composed to
24:51
Speaker 3: celebrate these various forms of worship were carried on till
24:55
Speaker 3: the final submersions of Poseidonis, by which time the countless
24:59
Speaker 3: hosts of atlant Anti emigrants had already established on foreign lands.
25:03
Speaker 3: The various cults of the mother continent. To trace the
25:06
Speaker 3: rise and follow the progress in detail of the archaic
25:09
Speaker 3: religions which in historic times have blossomed into such diverse
25:13
Speaker 3: and antagonistic forms, would be an undertaking of great difficulty.
25:18
Speaker 3: But the illumination it would throw on matters of transcendent
25:21
Speaker 3: importance may some day induce the attempt. In conclusion, It
25:26
Speaker 3: would be vain to attempt to summarize what is already
25:28
Speaker 3: too much of a summary. Rather, let us hope that
25:32
Speaker 3: the foregoing may lend itself as the text from which
25:35
Speaker 3: may be developed histories of the many offshoots of the
25:38
Speaker 3: various sub races, Histories which may analytically examine political and
25:43
Speaker 3: social developments which have been here touched on in the
25:46
Speaker 3: most fragmentary manner. One word, however, may still be said
25:50
Speaker 3: about that evolution of the race, that progress which all creation,
25:55
Speaker 3: with mankind at its head, is everdestn to achieve century
25:58
Speaker 3: by century, ennium by millennium, manvantara by manvantara, and.
26:04
Speaker 2: Culpa by culpa.
26:06
Speaker 3: The descent of spirit into matter, those two poles of
26:09
Speaker 3: the one eternal substance, is the process which occupies the
26:13
Speaker 3: first half of every cycle. Now the period we have
26:16
Speaker 3: been contemplating in the foregoing pages. The period during which
26:20
Speaker 3: the Atlantean race was running its course, was the very middle,
26:24
Speaker 3: or turning point of this present manvantara. The process of evolution,
26:29
Speaker 3: which in our present fifth race has now set in
26:33
Speaker 3: the return, that is, of matter into spirit, had in
26:37
Speaker 3: those days revealed itself in but a few isolated individual cases,
26:42
Speaker 3: forerunners of the resurrection of the spirit. But the problem
26:46
Speaker 3: which all who have given the subject any amount of
26:48
Speaker 3: consideration must have felt to be still awaiting a solution,
26:52
Speaker 3: is the surprising contrast in the attributes of the Atlantean race.
26:57
Speaker 3: Side by side with their brutal passions, their degraded animal propensities,
27:03
Speaker 3: were their psychic faculties, their godlike intuition. Now the solution
27:08
Speaker 3: of this apparently insoluble enigma lies in the fact that
27:11
Speaker 3: the building of the bridge had only then been begun,
27:14
Speaker 3: the bridge of manners or mind, destined to unite in
27:18
Speaker 3: the perfected individual the upward searching forces of the animal
27:22
Speaker 3: and the dunwark cycling spirit of the God. The animal
27:26
Speaker 3: kingdom of to day exhibits a field of nature where
27:29
Speaker 3: the building of that bridge has not yet been begun,
27:32
Speaker 3: And even among mankind in the days of Atlantis, the
27:36
Speaker 3: connection was so slight that the spiritual attribute had but
27:39
Speaker 3: little controlling power over the lower animal nature. The touch
27:43
Speaker 3: of mind they had was sufficient to add zest to
27:46
Speaker 3: the gratification of the senses, but was not enough to
27:49
Speaker 3: vitalize the still dormant spiritual faculties, which in the perfected
27:54
Speaker 3: individual will have to become the absolute monarch. Our metaphor
27:58
Speaker 3: of the bridge may carry as a little further if
28:01
Speaker 3: we consider it as now in process of construction, but
28:05
Speaker 3: as destined to remain incomplete for mankind in general, for
28:09
Speaker 3: untold millenniums, in fact, until humanity has completed another circle
28:14
Speaker 3: of the seven planets, and the great fifth round is
28:17
Speaker 3: half way through its course.
28:18
Speaker 2: Though it was during the latter.
28:20
Speaker 3: Half of the third root race and the beginning of
28:23
Speaker 3: the fourth that the manner Saputra descended to endow with
28:27
Speaker 3: mind the bulk of humanity, who were still without the spark,
28:31
Speaker 3: yet so feebly burnt the light all through the Atlantan
28:34
Speaker 3: days that hew could be said to have attained to
28:37
Speaker 3: the powers of abstract thought. On the other hand, the
28:40
Speaker 3: functioning of the mind and concrete things came well within
28:44
Speaker 3: their grasp, and as we have seen, it was in
28:47
Speaker 3: the practical concerns of their everyday life, especially when their
28:51
Speaker 3: psychic faculties were directed towards the same objects, that they
28:54
Speaker 3: achieved such remarkable and stupendous results.
28:58
Speaker 2: It must also be.
28:59
Speaker 3: Remained membered that Kama, the fourth principle naturally obtained its
29:03
Speaker 3: culminating development in the fourth race. This would account for
29:07
Speaker 3: the depths of animal crossness to which they sunk, whilst
29:10
Speaker 3: the approach of the cycle to its nature inevitably accentuated
29:14
Speaker 3: this downward movement, so that there is little to be
29:17
Speaker 3: surprised dead in the gradual loss by the race of
29:21
Speaker 3: the psychic faculties, and in its descent to selfishness and materialism.
29:26
Speaker 2: Rather, should all these be.
29:28
Speaker 3: Regarded as part of the great cyclic process, in obedience
29:31
Speaker 3: to the eternal law. We have all gone through those
29:34
Speaker 3: evil days, and the experiences we then accumulated go to
29:37
Speaker 3: make up the characters we now possess. But a brighter
29:41
Speaker 3: sun now shines on the Aryan rays than that which
29:44
Speaker 3: lead the path of their Atlantic forefathers, Less dominated by
29:48
Speaker 3: their passions of the senses, more open to the influence
29:51
Speaker 3: of mind, the men of our race have obtained and
29:54
Speaker 3: are obtaining, a firmer grasp of knowledge, a wider range
29:58
Speaker 3: of intellect. This, the upward arc of the great Manvantaric cycle,
30:03
Speaker 3: will naturally lead increasing numbers towards the entrance of the
30:07
Speaker 3: occult path, and will lend more and more attraction to
30:10
Speaker 3: the transcendent opportunities it offers for the continued strengthening and
30:14
Speaker 3: purification of the character. Strengthening and purification no longer directed
30:19
Speaker 3: by mere spasmodic effort and continually interrupted by misleading attractions,
30:23
Speaker 3: but guided and guarded at every step by the masters
30:27
Speaker 3: of wisdom, so that the upward climb, when once begun,
30:30
Speaker 3: should no longer be halting and uncertain, but lead direct.
30:35
Speaker 2: To the glorious goal.
30:36
Speaker 3: The psychic faculties too, and the godlike intuition lost for
30:41
Speaker 3: a time, but still the rightful heritage of the race
30:44
Speaker 3: only await the individual effort of reattainment to give to
30:48
Speaker 3: the character still deeper in sight and more transcendent powers.
30:53
Speaker 3: So shall the ranks of the adapt instructors, the masters
30:56
Speaker 3: of wisdom, be ever strengthened and recruited. And even amongst
31:01
Speaker 3: us to day there must certainly be some indistinguishable save
31:06
Speaker 3: by the deathless enthusiasm with which they are animated, who will,
31:10
Speaker 3: before the next root race is established on this planet
31:13
Speaker 3: stund themselves as masters of wisdom to help the race
31:16
Speaker 3: in its upward progress. End of Section six.