Họp Thông Thiên Học chiều 18 tháng 6 năm 2011
Phần 1: Giáo Lý Bí Truyền, câu 47
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[6/18/2011 6:00:30 PM] Thuan Thi Do: STANZA XII.
THE FIFTH RACE AND ITS DIVINE INSTRUCTORS.
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§§ (47) The remnants of the first two races disappear for ever. Groups of the
various Atlantean races saved from the Deluge along with the Forefathers of the
Fifth. (48) The origins of our present Race, the Fifth. The first divine
Dynasties. (49) The earliest glimmerings in History, now pinned to the
allegorical chronology of the Bible, and “universal” History slavishly following
it. — The nature of the first instructors and civilizers of mankind.
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47. Few (men) remained. Some yellow, some brown and black, and some red,
remained. The moon-coloured (of the primitive Divine Stock) were gone for ever
(a) . . . .
48. The Fifth Race produced from the Holy Stock (remained). It was ruled by Her
First Divine Kings.
49. The “Serpents” who re-descended; who made peace with the Fifth (Race), who
taught and instructed it (b) . . . .
(a) This verse (47) relates to the Fifth Race. History does not begin with it,
but living and ever-recurring tradition does. History — or what is called
history — does not go further back than the fantastic origins of our fifth
sub-race, a “few thousands” of years. It is the sub-divisions of this first
sub-race of the Fifth Root-Race which are referred to in the sentence, “Some
yellow, some brown and black, and some red, remained.” The “moon coloured”
(i.e., the First and the Second Races) were gone for ever — ay, without leaving
any traces whatever; and that, so far back as the third “Deluge” of the Third
Lemurian race, that “Great Dragon,” whose tail sweeps whole nations out of
existence in the twinkling of an eye. And this is the true meaning of the Verse
in the Commentary which says:
“The Great Dragon has respect but for the ‘Serpents’ of Wisdom, the Serpents
whose holes are now under the triangular stones,” i.e., “the Pyramids, at the
four corners of the world.”
(b) This tells us clearly that which is mentioned more than once elsewhere in
the Commentaries; namely, that the Adepts or “Wise” men of the three Races (the
Third, Fourth and the Fifth) dwelt in subterranean habitats, generally under
some kind of pyramidal structure, if not
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actually under a pyramid. For such “pyramids” existed in the four corners of the
world and were never the monopoly of the land of the Pharaohs, though until
found scattered all over the two Americas, under and over ground, beneath and
amidst virgin forests, as in plain and vale, they were supposed to be the
exclusive property of Egypt. If the true geometrically correct pyramids are no
longer found in European regions, many of the supposed early neolithic caves, of
the colossal triangular, pyramidal and conical menhirs in the Morbihan, and
Brittany generally; many of the Danish tumuli and even of the “giant tombs” of
Sardinia with their inseparable companions, the nuraghi, are so many more or
less clumsy copies of the pyramids. Most of these are the works of the first
settlers on the newly-born continent and isles of Europe, the — “some yellow,
some brown and black, and some red” — races that remained after the submersion
of the last Atlantean continents and islands (850,000 years ago), with the
exception of Plato’s Atlantean island, and before the arrival of the great Aryan
races; while others were built by the earliest immigrants from the East. Those
who can hardly accept the antiquity of the human race so far back as the 57,000
years assigned by Dr. Dowler to the skeleton found by him at New Orleans on the
banks of the Mississippi, will, of course, reject these facts. But they may find
themselves mistaken some day. It is the foolish self-glorification of the
Arcadians who styled themselves [[proselenoi]] — older than the moon — and of
the people of Attica, who claimed that they had existed before the sun appeared
in heaven, that we may disparage, not their undeniable antiquity. Nor can we
laugh at the universal belief that we had giant ancestors. The fact that the
bones of the mammoth and mastodon, and, in one case, those of a gigantic
salamander, have been mistaken for human bones, does not make away with the
difficulty that, of all the mammalians, man is the only one whom science will
not allow to have dwarfed down, like all other animal frames, from the giant
homo diluvii to the creature between 5 and 6 feet that he is now.
But the “Serpents of Wisdom” have preserved their records well, and the history
of the human evolution is traced in heaven as it is traced on underground walls.
Humanity and the stars are bound together indissolubly, because of the
intelligences that rule the latter.
Modern symbologists may scoff at this and call it “fancy,” but “it is
unquestionable that the Deluge has (ever) been associated in the legends of some
Eastern peoples not only with the Pyramids, but also with the constellations,”
writes Mr. Staniland Wake (“The Great Pyramid”).The “Old Dragon” is identical
with the “great Flood,” says Mr. Proctor (in “Knowledge,” Vol. I., p. 243): “We
know that in the past the constellation of the Dragon was at the pole, or boss,
of the celestial sphere. In stellar temples . . . the Dragon would be the
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uppermost or ruling constellation . . . it is singular how closely the
constellations . . . correspond in sequence and in range of right ascension with
the events recorded respecting the (Biblical) Flood.”
The reasons for this singularity have been made clear in this work. But it shows
only that there were several Deluges mixed up in the memories and traditions of
the sub-races of the Fifth Race. The first great “Flood” was astronomical and
cosmical, while several others were terrestrial. Yet, this did not prevent our
very learned friend Mr. Gerald Massey — an Initiate truly in the mysteries of
the British Museum, still only a Self-initiate — from declaring and insisting
that the Atlantean submersion and Deluge were only the anthropomorphized fancies
of ignorant people; and that Atlantis was no better than an astronomical
allegory. Nevertheless, the great Zodiacal allegory is based upon historical
events, and one can hardly interfere with the other; and it stands also to
reason that every student of Occultism knows what that astronomical and zodiacal
allegory means. Smith shows in the Nimrod Epic of the Assyrian tablets the real
meaning of it. Its “twelve cantos” refer to the “annual course of the Sun
through the twelve months of the year. Each tablet answers to a special month,
and contains a distinct reference to the animal forms in the signs of the
Zodiac”; the eleventh canto being “consecrated to Rimmon, the God of storms and
of rain, and harmonizes with the eleventh sign of the Zodiac — Aquarius, or the
Waterman” (Nineteenth Century, 1882, p. 236). But even this is preceded in the
old records by the pre-astronomical Cosmic flood, which became allegorized and
symbolized in the above Zodiacal or Noah’s Flood. But this has nothing to do
with Atlantis. The Pyramids are closely connected with the ideas of both the
Great Dragon (the constellation), the “Dragons of Wisdom,” or the great
Initiates of the Third and Fourth Races, and the Floods of the Nile, regarded as
a divine reminder of the great Atlantic Flood. The astronomical records of
Universal History, however, are said to have had their beginnings with the Third
Sub-race of the Fourth Root-race or the Atlanteans. When was it? Occult data
show that even since the time of the regular establishment of the Zodiacal
calculations in Egypt, the poles have been thrice inverted.
We will presently return once more to this statement. Such symbols as are
represented by the Signs of the Zodiac — a fact which offers a handle to
materialists upon which to hang their one-sided theories and opinions — have too
profound a signification, and their bearing upon our Humanity is too important
to suffer dismissal in a few words. Meanwhile, we have to consider the meaning
of that other statement which mentions (verse 48) the first divine Kings, who
are said to have “redescended,” guided and instructed our Fifth Race after the
last deluge!
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We shall consider this last claim historically in the sections that follow, but
must end with a few more details on the subject of “Serpents.”
The rough commentaries on the Archaic Stanzas have to end here. Further
elucidation requires proofs obtained from ancient, mediaeval, and modern works
that have treated of these subjects. All such evidence has now to be gathered
in, collated and brought together in better order, so as to compel the attention
of the reader to this wealth of historical proofs. And as the manifold meaning
of the weird symbol — so often referred to and suggestive of the “tempter of
man” in the orthodox light of the church — can never be too strongly insisted
upon, it seems more advisable to exhaust the subject by every available proof at
this juncture, even at the risk of repetition. The Titans and Kabirs have been
invariably made out by our theologians and some pious symbologists as
indissolubly connected with the grotesque personage called devil, and every
proof to the contrary has been hitherto as invariably rejected and ignored;
therefore, the occultist must neglect nothing which may tend to defeat this
conspiracy of slander. It is proposed to divide the subjects involved in these
three last verses into several groups, and examine them in this final chapter as
carefully and as fully as space permits. A few more details may thus be added to
the general evidences of antiquity, on the most disputed tenets of Occultism and
the Esoteric Doctrine — the bulk of which will be found in Part II. on
Symbology.
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Serpents and Dragons under different Symbolisms.
The name of the Dragon in Chaldea was not written phonetically, but was
represented by two monograms, probably meaning, according to the Orientalists,
“the scaly one.” “This description,” very pertinently remarks G. Smith, “of
course might apply either to a fabulous dragon, a serpent, or a fish,” and we
may add: “It applies in one case to Makara, the tenth Zodiacal sign, meaning in
Sanskrit a non-descript amphibious animal, generally called Crocodile, and
really signifying something else. (Vide Part II., “The Mysteries of the
Hebdomad.”) This, then, is a virtual admission that the Assyriologists, at all
events, know nothing certain as to the status of the “Dragon” in ancient
Chaldea, whence the Hebrews got their symbolism, only to be afterwards robbed of
it by the Christians, who made of the “Scaly one” a living entity and a
maleficent power.
A specimen of Dragons, “winged and scaled,” may be seen in the British Museum.
Representing the events of the Fall according to the same authority, there are
also two figures sitting on each side of a tree, and holding out their hands to
the “apple,” while at the back of the “Tree”
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is the Dragon-Serpent. Esoterically, the two figures are two “Chaldees” ready
for initiation, the Serpent symbolising the “Initiator”; while the jealous gods,
who curse the three, are the exoteric profane clergy. Not much of the literal
“Biblical event” there, as any occultist can see.
“The Great Dragon has respect but for the Serpents of Wisdom,” says the Stanza;
thus proving the correctness of our explanation of the two figures and the
“Serpent.”
“The Serpents who redescended . . . . who taught and instructed” the Fifth Race.
What sane man is capable of believing in our day that real serpents are hereby
meant? Hence the rough guess, now become almost an axiom with the men of
science, that those who wrote in antiquity upon various sacred Dragons and
Serpents either were superstitious and credulous people, or were bent upon
deceiving those more ignorant than themselves. Yet, from Homer downwards, the
term implied something hidden from the profane.
“Terrible are the gods when they manifest themselves” — those gods whom men call
Dragons. And AElianus, treating in his “De Natura Animalium” of these Ophidean
symbols, makes certain remarks which show that he understood well the nature of
this most ancient of symbols. Thus he most pertinently explains with regard to
the above Homeric verse — “For the Dragon, while sacred and to be worshipped,
has within himself something still more of the divine nature of which it is
better (for others?) to remain in ignorance” (Book xi., ch. 17).
This “Dragon” having a septenary meaning, the highest and the lowest may be
given. The former is identical with the “Self-born,” the Logos (the Hindu Aja).
He was the second person of the Trinity, the Son, with the Christian Gnostics
called the Naasenians, or Serpent-Worshippers. His symbol was the constellation
of the Dragon.* Its seven “stars” are the seven stars held in the hand of the
“Alpha and Omega” in Revelation. In its most terrestrial meaning, the term
“Dragon” was applied to the Wise men.
This portion of the religious symbolism of antiquity is very abstruse and
mysterious, and may remain incomprehensible to the profane. In our modern day it
so jars on the Christian ear that it can hardly escape, all civilization
notwithstanding, being regarded as a direct denunciation of the most cherished
Christian dogmas, the subject of which required, to do it justice, the pen and
genius of Milton, whose poetical fiction has now taken root in the Church as a
revealed dogma.
Did the allegory of the Dragon and his supposed conqueror in
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* As shown by H. Lizeray in the “Trinite Chretienne Devoilee” — placed between
the immutable Father (the Pole, a fixed Point) and mutable matter, the Dragon
transmits to the latter the influences received by him from the Pole, whence his
name — the Verbum.
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Heaven originate with St. John, and in his Revelation? Emphatically we answer —
No. His “Dragon” is Neptune, the symbol of Atlantean magic.
To demonstrate the negation the reader is asked to examine the symbolism of the
Serpent or the Dragon under its several aspects.