CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
I
wish particularly to point out in the present volume that I am not
giving the meanings of symbols in the vestments in which they are
now
garbed. I am giving
their
origin
and
original
meanings
.
Up
to the time of Mu's submersion all symbols retained their original
meanings. From the time of Mu's destruction I must pass over about
5,000 or 6,000 years. Those were years when seemingly no history
was
written except a few scraps in India and Egypt.
During
this time mankind apparently was reviving and repeopling the earth,
after its almost total destruction by the submersion of Mu and
other
lands and the subsequent formation of gas belts and
mountains.
On
entering Egypt 6,000 years ago we find that many of the original
symbols had survived but were very much Egyptianized, especially in
pattern or design, with an incomprehensible theology attached to
them. A multitude of new ones had besides been added, most of them
having esoteric or hidden meanings.
This
confusion increased when Upper and Lower Egypt merged into one
kingdom. The two peoples not only commingled personally, but also
their two sets of symbols. Thus two sets were made into one without
any being discarded. It meant at least two symbols for every
conception. So great was the confusion of symbols in Egypt, 4,000
to
5,000 years ago, that hardly one-half of the priesthood understood
those used in the temples of other cities, although they might be
but
a few miles away.
The
next period to note in Egyptian history is the reigns of the
Ptolemys.
Many
Greek philosophers then went to Egypt and were taught the Egyptian
Sacred Mysteries. This knowledge they took back to Greece,
commencing
about 600 B. C. In Greece the Sacred Mysteries were Grecianized,
new
names and further theology were added. The result, generally, was
the
creation of amusing myths. The familiar Grecian myths may therefore
be said to be influenced by the legends and teachings of Egypt and
India.
The
next point to note is Mu's destruction, which removed her motherly
control over religion and science throughout the world. The
consequence was that each colony framed its own laws, at the same
time making changes in religion to suit themselves.
It
is very noticeable among all ancient people that directly the
control
of the Motherland was removed, those countries began to fall back.
As
time went on they so degenerated in science and religion that the
teachings of the First Great Civilization were at last entirely
forgotten and became a thing of the past. Myths, those shadows of
the
past, alone remained. Here and there, however, solitary flowers
strove to raise their heads out of the weeds which now choked the
world's garden.
Coming
down to present times, I find writers, supposed to be scholars,
giving meanings to symbols that are purely mythical, the outcome,
it
may be, of fantastic dreams, and absolutely erroneous. Where they
got
their ideas I cannot imagine. Certainly not from the ancient
writings. The result is that science has drifted into an age of
theories. Theories are made subservient to facts. A fact cannot be
a
fact unless their crazy theories prove it. The more abstruse and
bizarre the theory is, the more, apparently, it is scientifically
thought of. A theory that is not even understood by the originator
himself, and by no one else on earth, meets with scientific
approval.
SYMBOLS
AND FREE MASONRY.--Freemasons in their ceremonies use many of the
ancient symbols. They freely admit that the original meanings are
now
forgotten but they know that originally the symbols were sacred,
being used in religious ceremonies in the infinite days that are
past
and had a religious and moral meaning in line with the First
Religion
of Man--their origin.
Symbols
and symbolisms are a principal division of archaeology. I am not a
professional archaeologist, but I love the ancient and for over
fifty
years have been diligent in the study of it. When Mu went down the
school of archaeology went with her.
ARCHAEOLOGY.--The
date when archaeology was first studied reaches far back into the
distant past. More than 15,000 years ago, the ancients had special
colleges for its study.
In
these colleges a very profound knowledge of their past was
attained.
The further we go back, the more profound we find that
archaeological
knowledge.
Like
all other ancient sciences, archaeology had a dark cloud cast over
it
when Mu the Motherland sank and the First Great Civilization was
wiped out. Only seeds, remnants of mankind, were left here and
there,
out of which a new civilization was in time to develop.
It
is virtually within memory of living man that the study of
archaeology has been again undertaken. Those who today call
themselves archaeologists are, generally, diggers of the remains of
man who lived, say, from 1,000 to 5,000 years ago. These are but of
yesterday in human history. Why do they not go back to the
beginning,
as the ancients did 15,000 years ago? The archaeological study of
the
ancients included the whole history of man from his beginning
200,000
years before, if the astronomical evidence whereby such dates are
computed may be accepted.
Archaeology
embraces much more than it is thought to do. As the ancients
studied
it, it was a fascinating story. It may be deemed a religion for, at
every step, the student is confronted with works of a Supreme
Conception, with symbols of the power and wisdom of the Creator.
The
sights cause him contemplation, contemplation brings him in touch
with the Supreme, the great Architect and Builder of all. As the
student progresses, he becomes aware that other branches of science
are intimately connected with it: geology, chemistry, astronomy and
the Cosmic Forces. These must all be mastered to obtain the full
benefit of what has been written and left behind by our forefathers
for us, to act as guideposts to the greater knowledge.
NATURE.--Nature
shows man what is the Origin of Life. It shows man's connection
with
the Great Source and the Great Cosmic Forces which control the
Universe.
It
also shows the origin of these Forces. Thus archaeology is but one
letter in the long word that unfolds the wonders and glories of
Creation, it brings man in closer touch with the Heavenly
Father.
Again,
incidentally, it shows that true science is the twin sister of
religion: they are inseparable for without religion man could not
comprehend the Cosmic Forces, and without fully comprehending these
Forces he could not approach the Great Divine Love which rules the
Universe.
The
first chapters of the Bible were intended to teach man the workings
of these Cosmic Forces. They failed to do so however because of the
mistranslations of the Mosiac writings, which were in the tongue
and
characters of the Motherland, and were copies of the Sacred
Writings
of Mu that Moses expounded when he was High Priest of the temple at
Sinai. The esoteric temple writings of Egypt related the cause of
the
Flood, showing what the phenomenon actually was. Whoever wrote
these
chapters, as we now have them, failed
fully
to
understand the ancient form of writing, as present man fails
fully
to
understand the symbols and symbolisms which were there correctly
copied.
The
early part of the Bible therefore has not
fully
carried
out the purpose for which it was intended. The Bible Moses actually
handed down was the
Sacred
and Inspired Writings, the greatest and most profound work ever
penned by man, containing a science beyond the conception of
present
man
. Nothing
however is, it seems, forever lost: for in various parts of the
earth
writings are being recovered which, when put together, provide us
with a great part of the
Original
Sacred Inspired Writings of Mu
.
That which has been recovered gives:
The
account of Creation down to and including the Creation of man and
of
woman.
The
movements of all celestial bodies throughout the Universe, the
Forces
that are controlling their movement and the Source of these
Forces.
The
Origin of Life and what Life is, with the cause of the necessary
changes in types of life during the earth's development.
Various
geological phenomena and what their causes were.
And
there is, finally, the coping stone of the Earth:
Man
.
I
find a word frequently occurs in the Bible which is misapplied. I
refer to "Miracle." There are no miracles. What seem
miraculous is due to our ignorance. They are phenomena produced by
the exercising of man's own Spiritual Force, given him at his
creation. The Sacred Writings say that this Force was given to man
"
to enable him
to rule the earth
."
Masters used their Spiritual Forces. Their works, not being
understood by the multitude, were looked upon as miracles. "Master"
was an ancient title bestowed on those who had mastered the use of
their Spiritual Forces.
Those
who spend their time merely in unearthing objects of the ancients
are
not true archaeologists. They are only diggers or miners. The
archaeologist
reads
what
he finds written on stone and clay, and informs the public what
they
say. A stone or plaque of clay with writing on it is only a stone
or
dried mud, having no more value than any other curious stone until
the inscription upon it is read. Then it becomes a page of written
history and may be the means of revolutionizing the thought and
teachings of present man.
The
value of archaeology is in this
reading
--thereby
one gains a knowledge of the past. A voice is constantly calling,
"Go
forth unto nature and learn her great truths and lessons."
Nature is the great schoolhouse for higher learning. No authorities
are found there to muddle us. Nature is
the
one and only authority
.
Every
old rock, with its crinkly weathered face, every fossil, has its
tale
to tell; every leaf on tree and shrub whispers a story. The
Universe,
with its countless celestial bodies moving in perfect order and
time,
calls for observation and inspires a yearning to know the Source of
all. All of these lessons are to be learned from nature to enable
man
in this life on the earth to prepare himself for the next step in
his
everlasting life.
THE
ORIGIN OF RELIGION.--What is Religion? Max Müller says: "Religion
is a mental faculty which, independent of, nay, in spite of sense
and
reason, enables man to apprehend the Infinite under different names
and under varying disguises. Without that faculty no religion, not
even the worship of idols and fetishes, would be possible, and if
we
will but listen attentively we can hear in all religions a groaning
of the Spirit, a struggle to conceive the inconceivable, to utter
the
unutterable, a longing after the Infinite,
a
love of God
.
"As
soon as we know anything of the thoughts of man and his feelings,
we
find him in possession of a religion.
"The
intention of religion, wherever we find it, is always holy. However
imperfect a religion may be, it always places the human soul in the
presence of God, and however imperfect and however childish the
conception of God may be, it always expresses the highest ideal of
perfection which the human soul, for the time being, can reach and
grasp."
The
period in man's history which Max Müller here refers to is
geologically known at the Pleistocene Period, coming after the
submersion of Mu. Therefore what he found were shadows of the
Sacred
Inspired Religion of the Motherland, orally transmitted from father
to son for thousands of years among the descendants of the remnants
saved when the mountains went up and cataclysmic waves of water
flooded the low-lying lands. This is corroborated in a paragraph
where he says:
"There
was a primitive Aryan religion, a primitive Semitic religion and a
primitive Tauranian religion
before
each of these primeval races was broken up and became separate
in
language, worship and national sentiment.
"The
highest god received the same name in the ancient mythology of
India,
Greece, Italy and Germany, and was retained by them. The name was
Dyaus in Sanscrit; Zeus in Greek; Jovis in Latin; and Tiu in German
(Wotan?). They bring before us all the vividness of an event which
we
witnessed but yesterday.
"The
ancestors of the whole Aryan race, thousands of years it may be
before Homer or the Veda, worshipped an unseen being under the
selfsame name, the name of Light and Sky. Let us not turn away and
say that this was, after all, but nature worship and idolatry. No,
it
was not meant for that, though it may have been degraded into that
in
later times. Dyaus did not mean the blue sky nor simply the sky
personified; it was meant for something else. We have in the Veda
the
invocation 'Dyaus Pitar,' the Greek 'Zue Pater' and the Latin
'Jupitar,' and that means in these three languages what it
meant
before
these three languages were torn asunder: 'Heaven Father.'
"
Let
us go back to the time when these languages were still one. In the
Sacred Inspired Writings of Mu 70,000 years ago the deity is
frequently designated as "Heavenly Father" and "Father
in Heaven." This name is more frequently used there than any
other. Religion itself was based on the Fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man. Being so prominent in the ancient writings, it
is
no wonder that it has persisted through the ages. Jesus, whose
teachings were purely those of the First Religion, begins The
Lord's
Prayer with "Our Father which art in Heaven."
Besides
quoting Max Müller I shall give a few extracts from writers on the
subject whom science calls authorities.
Kant
and Schiller both assert that "A myth does not represent a
debasement, or a sinking down from original perfection, not a
victory
of sensuality over reason, but on the contrary, it manifests the
advancement of a man from a state of comparative rudeness to
freedom
and civilization."
I
am not in accord with these ideas because common reasoning tells me
the case should be reversed. Fully ninety-nine per cent of the
myths
are traceable to legends. Legends are history orally handed down.
History is a record of facts, so that myths instead of "manifesting
advancement" manifest a retrogression; for they show that
history, a part of civilization, is being forgotten. Therefore that
civilization has declined.
Taylor,
in "Anthropology," says, "In one sense every religion
is a true religion. The great question which forced itself on their
minds was one that
we
,
with
our
knowledge
, cannot
half answer--what the life is which is sometimes with us but not
always."
Taylor
might with advantage consult the North American Indian, the
semi-civilized Polynesians, the Maoris, the South African savages,
and, beyond all, the Teachings of Jesus. The savages and
semi-savages
do not claim great knowledge on the subject. I have, however, found
that they possess great wisdom which is untrammelled by the Queen
of
Myths, known as Science.
De
Brosses says, "All nations had to begin with fetishes, to be
followed afterwards by Polytheism and Monotheism."
I
suspect De Brosses of toying with theories of our Simian origin.
They
have upset everyone who has ever come in contact with them.
However,
we shall let it pass because such writers as Max Müller, Dr.
Happell, and Professor Pfliderer are directly opposed to such
assumptions.
Hereafter,
when dealing with the beginnings of religion, I shall show that man
started with monotheism and it was only after Mu's destruction that
there was polytheism and idolatry was practiced. The next quotation
is as extraordinary:
"At
a very remote period in the civilization of Egypt, Babylon, Mexico
and Peru, the Sun God had
gained
supremacy as the first and greatest of gods
."
This
is contradicted by all ancient writings. The Sun was never looked
upon as a god by the ancients but
as
a symbol only
of
the Deity. Therefore, it was never worshipped by them. The sun,
from
the beginning, was the
monotheistic
symbol
of the
Deity. Being the monotheistic or collective symbol of the Deity, it
was esteemed the most sacred of all sacred symbols.
This
monotheistic symbol of the Deity existed tens of thousands of years
before man settled in either Egypt, Babylon, Mexico or Peru. How,
therefore, could it have gained supremacy
during
their time
?