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[MUSIC "What Are the Wild Waves Saying"]
Each one of us is the result of billions
of years of evolution and devolution.
Billions of years of actions and their
consequences have led to this moment.
The actions of those who lived before us
gave us this body and this life.
This is truly an
incredible precious gift.
But what are we doing with it?
How is our behavior today creating
consequences for our
children and their children?
Sadly, our situation is very grave and is
becoming increasingly threatening.
We face so many immense dangers and yet
are totally unaware of the worst of them.
To understand the reality of our
situation, we need to
understand how we got here.
Only then can we understand
how to truly change our lives.
As is often said, those who ignore their
history are certain to repeat it.
[MUSIC "Jack and Jill"]
Every child learns through stories.
It is obvious that children's stories are
not historical or literal facts.
They are inventions designed to help the
reader subconsciously
understand basic truths.
Myths and religious stories are the same.
Every religion and mythological tradition
tells stories about how the world was
created and about our ancestors.
But modern people make the mistake of
interpreting those stories literally.
Religions and myths are not literal.
They are symbolic, and one needs to know
how to interpret them.
In fact, the secret mystical book of
Judaism, the Zohar, says so.
"The stories of the teaching are the
covering of the teaching.
"Woe to him who takes that covering for
the teaching itself.
"There are foolish people who, when they
see a man covered with fine clothes,
look no further than the clothes.
"And yet it is the body that
lends value to the clothes;
and still more precious is the soul.
"The teaching also has its body and soul.
"The simple-minded take heed
of nothing but the covering,
the stories of the teaching;
they know nothing else and do not see
what is hidden under them.
"The well-informed think not of the
clothes, but of the
body that the story covers.
"Finally, the wise think of the soul only,
which is the foundation of all the rest
and which is the teaching itself."
The religious stories, myths, and legends
that everyone knows and
interpret literally and use as the basis
for their dogmas and
traditions are like children's stories.
They are not literal
history, but are symbolic.
They hide levels of meanings that the
public would never imagine.
For instance, the
Greek myths are famous and
countless books have been written about
their meanings, but
none of them are true.
The real meanings of the Greek myths were
never revealed to the public.
This is equally true of
every religion in the world.
Every myth and religious story is
symbolic and has
levels of hidden meanings.
In this series, we will
only introduce this subject.
It is impossible to include all of the
legends and myths
from our many traditions
or to go deep into the details of many
billions of years of history.
Here, we are only going to show that
there is much for us to learn.
Those who wish to dive deeper into this
subject will find a very reliable guide
in "The Secret Doctrine" by H.P. Blavatsky.
This incredible book from
1888 laid the foundation for
the development of the 20th century.
It awakened the West to the universal
shared root of all spiritual knowledge.
It was also the bedside reader for
perhaps the most important scientific
mind of recent centuries:
Albert Einstein.
Everything we will briefly outline here
is fully documented
in "The Secret Doctrine,"
and was expanded upon in the
20th century by Samael Aun Weor.
"Modern science insists upon
the doctrine of evolution.
So do human reason
and the secret doctrine.
And the idea is corroborated by the
ancient legends and myths.
And even by the Bible itself, when it is
read between the lines."
Modern science has theorized a timeline
of evolution based on bits and
pieces of physical evidence.
Yet most of our history did
not occur in physical matter.
Evolution does not begin or
end in the physical world.
In fact, the physical world is simply an
outer shell, a thin skin.
It is the most
superficial aspect of evolution.
Life emerges from far deeper.
The tree of life
symbolizes the laws of nature
and has many levels of meaning.
It is the secret basis
of the Western religions.
For the purpose of this explanation, we
can view it as layers of density.
Existence emerges out of a
primordial abstract space,
and gradually condenses
as matter, energy, and
consciousness in layers of increasing
density, what we can call dimensions.
That unfolding occurs in cycles.
It expands outward,
evolves a bit, and then retreats.
It is like our breath or heartbeat.
It emerges, then retreats.
This cycle repeats and repeats in
timescales that are
truly incomprehensible.
With each expansion, it reaches further.
Over vast ages, layers of nature
gradually become more dense,
until eventually the
physical world crystallizes.
Here and now, there are many levels of
nature that are more subtle than
the physical level, but we don't perceive
them with our physical senses.
We can experience some of those levels
dimly when we dream.
But unfortunately, we
dream without cognizance.
We are not aware of those worlds, even
though we exist in them here and now.
In our current condition, we are limited
to our physical senses,
which reveal only the outer shell or
surface of much deeper
events that emerge from the
more subtle levels of nature.
To help us understand that, we can
observe a person and
see their expression,
but we cannot perceive the cause.
That expression on their physical body is
a result of what is
happening inside of them,
their thoughts,
emotions, and inner sensations.
Our physical senses cannot
see those levels of nature.
Everything we perceive in the physical
world is a result of what has already
happened in the internal worlds,
in the subtle levels of nature.
That is why we can dream
about things that happen later.
Everything in the physical world was in
the subtle world's first.
This includes our human race.
Our evolution began in the internal worlds.
We are not the first
human race on this planet.
We will not be the last.
Before us, there were
four great civilizations.
Our oldest scriptures symbolize our
ancestors differently in each tradition.
But once you know the clues,
you can see that they all tell the same story.
Billions of years ago, there was a race
in the subtle levels of nature who had
formless bodies made
of light.
Because of residual
karma from previous eras,
those beings had to
descend into lower forms.
They began to inhabit bodies of form.
Billions of years ago, when
the earth was still in formation,
the subtle forms in the internal
dimensions were slowly
crystallizing into the physical level.
"And the earth was without form and void,
and darkness was upon
the face of the deep.
And the soul of the Elohim [of the first
era] moved upon the face of the waters."
Our mythologies describe primordial
titans, great gods and
goddesses of ancient times.
Those myths, such as Avalon and the Tuath de,
represent the
ancient race of Polaris.
Their lands were remembered as Thule,
Tula, Aztlan, Avalon,
Asgard, and many other names.
"This sacred land is the only one whose
destiny it is to last from
the beginning to the end.
It is the cradle of the first man and the
dwelling of the last divine mortal."
Today, the physical part of those lands
is under the northern ice.
The polar race was
semi-ethereal, semi-physical.
They were very beautiful, with a rich
black color, and did
not have gender or race.
They were filled with
virtues, wisdom, and intelligence.
Their bodies were colossal, but subtle,
amorphous, somewhat
like an amoeba or a cell.
In the Abhidharma scriptures of Buddhism,
they are described as
having bodies of light
that are not limited by the
laws of the physical world.
They could stretch or
constrict themselves at will.
Their purpose was to lay the foundations
for life on this world, and to guide it
for billions of years.
In the ancient scriptures, they have many
names and symbolic representations.
The Indian scriptures call them
Prajapatis, the self-born.
In the Bible, they are called Elohim.
The first root race was a divine
humanity, a race of gods.
They still exist today, but
in a subtle level of nature.
The polar race did not have gender.
They were androgynous, male-female,
and reproduced by fissiporous asexual
reproduction, they simply divided their
body to make a new one.
Just as cells today have no gender and
reproduce asexually by splitting,
that is how our ancient ancestors
reproduced, and it is
how our body first begins.
The ancient myths of the creator gods
represent the polar race.
From deep within the subtle levels of
nature, they have been
guiding the evolution of life
on this planet for billions of years.
So when the moment was right, they made
terrific efforts to
perform great feats of creation,
to initiate a new cycle of evolution, a
new race of human beings.
Over millions of years of evolution, the
Elohim guided the
development of a new race
in a slightly more dense form.
We call them the Hyperboreans.
The physical part of some of their lands
still exists today in
northern Europe and Asia.
The Hyperboreans were smaller than the
polar race, but still
enormous compared to us.
Their bodies were a little more dense
than the polar race, but
were still not fully physical.
In the Bible, this is represented by
another level of light.
"And the Elohim [of the first era] said,
"Let there be light,
and there was light."
They were also
androgynous, male-female in one being,
but could manifest as
male or female as necessary.
The Hyperboreans reproduced by budding,
by sprouting a new body on themselves.
Over many millions of years, the
Hyperboreans evolved and devolved.
Their civilization had
stages, just as each day does:
dawn, midday, sunset, and midnight.
These are the four ages.
The Golden Age, Silver
Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
The four stages in the life of anything.
The stages of evolution and devolution.
In their Iron Age, some of the
Hyperboreans began to devolve and show
signs of self-interest,
selfishness.
Over the course of millions of years,
this self-interest caused some of the
Hyperboreans to
degenerate further and further.
They began to show qualities of the lower
kingdoms of nature, the animals.
Eventually, they devolved into forms
similar to primates,
and that devolution has
continued to this day.
The physical bodies of modern-day
primates are devolved forms that began
back in the Hyperborean era.
And those old bones of animalistic humans
that scientists have
said are our ancestors
are actually the remnants
of degenerated Hyperboreans.
At the end of the Hyperborean era, there
was violence and darkness.
The Hyperborean race was
destroyed by hurricanes.
A select group of them was taken out to
lay the foundation for a
new era of development.
"And the Elohim of the first era said,
"Let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together
unto one place, and
let the dry land appear."
The continent Lemuria, or Mu, was the
first dry land on Earth.
This was when the physical
level was fully crystallized.
In the Bible, it is called Eden.
That ancient continent
was in the Pacific Ocean.
Remnants of that civilization can be
found all around the Pacific,
like Easter Island,
and Australia.
The Lemurians were smaller than the
Hyperboreans, but giants compared to us.
The average lifespan of the
Lemurians was 1,500 years.
They spoke face to face
with the gods, the Elohim.
The Lemurians could see all the
dimensions of nature.
They knew their purpose and their future.
They had no pain in death or in birth.
After 150,000 years of evolution, the
Lemurians reached a
degree of civilization
that we today are still
very far from reaching.
They had flying ships and
boats propelled by atomic energy.
They used nuclear energy.
They had cosmic ships that allowed them
to travel to other worlds.
"And the Elohim [of the first era] said,
"Let us make mankind in our
image after our likeness."
"So the [androgynous] Elohim created a new
race [through evolution] in
their own [androgynous] image.
In the image of Elohim created they them.
They created them male-female."
The first Lemurians were hermaphrodites.
A hermaphrodite has both
male and female sexual organs
and reproduces the species asexually
alone, by fecundating
one egg with one sperm.
Then, over millions
of years of evolution,
the Elohim guided the
division of the sexes.
Through gradual evolution, Lemurian
children began to be born
with one sexual organ more
accentuated than the other.
That became more and more common until
finally children were
born with a clear gender
as a man or a woman.
This did not happen
from one day to the next.
The division of sexes
took millions of years.
The separation of Adam and Eve in the
Bible symbolizes the division into
sexes that happened in the Lemurian era.
That is recapitulated in the development
of every fetus today.
At first, the fetus has no gender.
Then there is a moment when the fetus
evolves to be either male or female.
This is why the males of
today have inert nipples.
This is why the females of today have a
clitoris, which is an atrophied penis.
Our physical bodies today have remnants
of our ancient past when human beings
were hermaphrodites.
Obviously, once the sexes were divided,
sexual cooperation was required in order
to reproduce the species.
Menstruation remained in the feminine
sex, but the egg was unfertilized.
It was necessary to have the cooperation
of the masculine sex
to fertilize the egg in order to
reproduce the species.
All of this was in accordance with the
designs of the Elohim.
At first, the sexual cooperation of male
and female was a sacred
event only for reproduction
that was only performed
at special times of year,
and only at the temples under the
guidance of the Elohim.
That is the origin of the
tradition of the honeymoon,
a special trip for the married couple to
initiate reproduction.
Back then, the sexual act was an act of
prayer, and there was no lust or orgasm.
The couple would unite sexually in the
temples and remain that way, focused in
prayer and meditation.
The Elohim would guide a single sperm
from the male to the
egg in the female's body.
The Lemurians practiced "immaculate conception,"
reproduction without orgasm.
So as you can see, from race to race,
over billions of years, sexual
reproduction evolved.
The polar race evolved to reproduce by
the fissiporous asexual
generation, by splitting.
The Hyperborians evolved to reproduce by
asexual budding. The Lemurians evolved
from gemmation at first, reproduction by
means of an egg, and then
reproduction by sexual cooperation.
Throughout these root races, for billions
of years, humanity
evolved with sexual purity,
and was approaching a critical step, the
opportunity to become Elohim
themselves, gods and goddesses.
For the evolution of humanity to advance
further, the Elohim needed the Lemurians
to fully crystallize in the physical world.
Their physical bodies were ready,
but their consciousness was not fully
enveloped in their physical bodies.
They were so devoted
to divinity, and so pure, so innocent,
that they did not want to
go into the physical world.
They could only hazily perceive the
physical world.
In a sense, their perception was like
the opposite of ours. We only perceive
the internal worlds
dimly, such as in dreams.
For them, it was the opposite.
The physical world was dim. It was
perceptible, but not interesting.
They loved the light of divinity that
they saw with their superior senses.
They wanted to see divinity, not the
physical world. So they were
at a kind of boundary between
the subtle world of the fourth dimension
and the concrete world
of the physical dimension,
and they did not want to continue their
development into the
physical world.
So the Elohim
guided the evolution of the Lemurian
bodies to develop a
special organ to attract the
consciousness towards the sensations of
physicality.
In esotericism, that organ
is called kundabuffer.
It was at the bottom of the
spinal column and formed a tail.
This event is mirrored in our development
as an embryo.
For a brief time, the human embryo
has a tail.
That is a recapitulation of
our ancient past.
With the tail in place,
the Lemurians
definitively turned their attention
towards physicality.
And over millions of years,
their consciousness became fully secured
into the physical bodies, and
therefore the physical world.
Once that tail was no longer necessary,
the Elohim guided
nature to devolve it away,
and over time it was dropped from the
physical bodies of the Lemurians.
We still have a vestige of it at the base
of our spinal column.
It is called the coccyx.
Unfortunately, that tail was
attached for a little too long.
It left a shadow in our psyche:
fascination with physical sensations.
In the Western scriptures, Adam and Eve
symbolize the Lemurian humanity.
The myth says that Eve was tempted by a
serpent to eat a forbidden fruit,
the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
"Of the tree of knowledge of טוב [purity],
and רע [impurity],
thou shalt not eat of it.
For in the day that thou eatest, thereof
thou shalt surely die."
The tree of knowledge is also symbolic.
Its true meaning is hinted at throughout the scriptures.
"And Adam knew Eve, his wife, and she
conceived and bare Cain."
"And the angel said unto her, Thou shalt
conceive in thy womb,
and bring forth a son,
and shalt call his name Yeshua, "saviour."
Then said Mary unto the angel,
how shall this be,
seeing I have not known a man?"
The Hebrew word דעת
implies sexual knowledge.
Unfortunately, the scriptures about this
were translated poorly
to enforce the dogmatic philosophy taught
to the public about
so-called "good and evil."
The mythological symbolic tree of
knowledge hides
secret teachings about sex.
Towb טוב means "pure, good, ethical, sweet."
Rah רע means "pollution, impurity, wickedness."
These are the polarities of sexual action
and the potential results of sex.
There is a pure ethical form of sexual
cooperation, and there is an impure,
polluted form of sex.
The pure form can create an
Elohim, a Buddha, a master.
The impure form creates devils, monsters,
pain, and suffering.
This is what was hidden, because knowledge
is power, and sexual
knowledge is very dangerous.
Over billions of years, our ancestors
evolved to reach sexual cooperation,
and were being prepared by the Elohim to
utilize sex in a pure
way based on genuine love,
to develop their consciousness so
humanity could become Elohim and enter
the superior kingdoms of nature.
But the Lemurians were tempted by pleasure.
While away from
the temples, the males, longing
for union with the females, tempted them
with their symbolic
serpents, their sexual organs,
and the women tasting that pleasure
wanted more.
It is obvious that the story of Adam and Eve is
symbolic, and it is obvious that it is
about sex, but humanity has never
understood it. Now you will.
The temptation of Adam and Eve symbolizes
all of the ancient Lemurians
who began to have the sexual
act away from the temples.
They were tempted by their own minds
and by pleasure, and eventually
they discovered the orgasm.
The orgasm happens when the body is
overcharged with sexual power
and cannot control it.
The orgasm is a
short circuit that expels
all of the accumulated power.
The orgasm is symbolized
by the forbidden fruit.
It is forbidden
because the sexual power creates
life both externally and spiritually.
The sexual power is the
fuel for the consciousness,
the "living waters" that create eternal life.
That is why serious
practitioners in all religions
preserve their sexual power.
When you eat
the forbidden fruit, you
waste your sexual power,
rather than using it for its intended
purpose, the
development of the human soul.
When the sexual power is expelled, lost,
through the orgasm, the
consciousness is weakened.
Through the orgasm, the Lemurians
expelled the sexual power
that gave them their beauty,
spiritual powers, and purity.
So they degenerated.
Tempted by desire for pleasure,
that ancient humanity
polluted the sexual act.
Rather than the tree of knowledge leading
to good, to purity, it
led to pollution, impurity.
Before that mistake, they were pure,
happy, and innocent, and they knew
and they knew divinity face to face.
After polluting the sexual act with the
orgasm, they discovered
shame, fear, and discontentment.
They lost sight of divinity.
They discovered pain,
the feeling of being
disconnected from divinity,
and disconnected from others.
Eden, "happiness," was lost.
In the myth of Adam and Eve, when they
were expelled from Eden,
this represents how the
Lemurian humanity entered fully into the
physical world.
This was supposed to happen anyway,
but while retaining consciousness of the
internal worlds.
The problem was,
they ate of the forbidden fruit.
So instead of entering the
physical world consciously,
the Lemurians entered through indulgence
in desire, with the
consequences that result from it:
suffering, pain, and unconsciousness.
The Lemurians lost the ability
to see the superior dimensions.
They lost the ability to
see the gods, the Elohim.
They lost their
beauty and innocence,
and instead fully crystallized
into the physical world, fallen, expelled
from paradise.
This also occurred over a long period
of time. It was not
from one day to the next.
Subsequently, because they had lost their
powers, they sought to
recover them by selfish means.
They began to use their rituals and
spiritual knowledge selfishly,
which turns it into black magic.
In the last days of Lemuria,
black magic spread everywhere.
The Lemurians devolved into
warring tribes, and in their pride and
anger, they unleashed
atomic weapons on each other.
For 10,000 years, earthquakes destroyed
the continent of Lemuria
and threw it all to the
bottom of the ocean.
Today, only a few traces remain.
At the last moment, a select group of
Lemurians were taken out to be
the seeds for the development
of a new era.
The Elohim fought valiantly
to plant those seeds and made great
sacrifices for them to rise higher, but
the consequences of the fall from Eden
could not be avoided.
And so the cycle of
evolution and devolution began again.
The Atlantean humanity was the next great
civilization in ancient times,
still millions of years ago.
In the beginning, in their
golden age, the
civilization of Atlantis was beautiful.
Law and ethics were respected as sacred.
Love and sex were
considered sacred and holy,
and the sexual act was only performed for
the reproduction of the species.
The Atlanteans also had technology far
more advanced than ours.
They traveled to other planets.
They combined science with
spiritual power. They knew
how to place the consciousness
of living things into humanoid, android
robots to serve them.
They knew how to de-gravitate
anything, making it easy to
move even enormous objects.
They had beautiful religions.
All of the religious teachings
of the Inca,
Maya, Aztecs, Greeks, Phoenicians,
Scandinavians, and the Hindus
all have Atlantean origins.
The gods and goddesses of those
traditions were the heroes,
kings, and queens of Atlantis.
The Atlanteans reached the highest point
of civilization, culture, and knowledge
in our history.
Then, at the peak crisis
necessary for the development of
humankind, the Atlanteans had
to face the temptation
of the tree of knowledge.
The Atlanteans were tempted by
the forbidden fruit,
and most failed.
Then humanity branched
into two opposed paths,
the pure and the impure.
The pure preserved their sexual power.
They rejected the orgasm
in order to gain something
better: spiritual fire and the
strengthening of their consciousness.
The impure encouraged the orgasm.
They sought pleasure and power,
and their influence spread rapidly.
As a result, the devolution of the
Atlanteans accelerated.
Sex became a tool for pleasure
and power.
The Atlanteans had orgies.
They mixed sex with magic
and developed a taste for lust,
pride, anger, and envy.
The physical bodies of the Atlanteans
were smaller than the Lemurians,
and did not live as long. Where the
Lemurians lived from 1200 to 1500 years,
the Atlanteans lived
only 600 to 700 years.
To extend the beauty and the lifespans of
the rich and powerful,
the Atlanteans began
to harvest glands and hormones
from the poor.
They transplanted
hearts, kidneys, and even brains.
As a result, an Atlantean could remain
alive for many centuries
beyond their normal lifespan,
and through many bodies
without interruption.
Their senses were also
less powerful than the
Lemurians, and over the course of time,
because of the many
abuses they were pursuing,
their perception worsened.
They lost sight
of the superior worlds
and lost sight of the gods,
In their pride and desire to recover
their spiritual powers,
they revived the black magic
of the past and developed it to
become more powerful.
In short, the Atlanteans devolved
much further than the Lemurians.
"And God saw
that the רע of mankind
was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the
thoughts of their hearts
was only רע continually."
Those on the pure path warned them
that the end of their
civilization was approaching,
but the Atlanteans laughed
and mocked them.
In their Iron Age, the Atlanteans
devolved into a series of wars
so profound they are still remembered
today in the Mahabharata.
This series of wars lasted for hundreds
of thousands of years,
and it led to the use of
atomic weapons,
which triggered huge earthquakes.
The first was
800,000 years ago.
The second was
200,000 years ago.
The third and the last,
the one that
finished Atlantis for good,
happened about 11,000 years ago,
and it triggered a flood
that totally sank the remnants of the
Atlantean civilization.
At that last moment,
a select group of
Atlanteans from the pure path
were taken out,
exactly as it happened
with the previous races.
Cultures all over the world
remember that event in the stories of
Noah, Vaivasvata, Utnapashtim,
Deucalion, and hundreds more.
...stories that symbolize how a handful of
pure Atlanteans escaped
to prepare for the creation
of the next civilization:
us, our modern humanity.