Course XXVII comparative religion

Teaching 23: The Jains

The inception of Jainism cannot be determined exactly, since its memory is lost in the first centuries of Hinduism, though it appears formally established in the beginning of Hinduism.

Certain people mistook it with Brahmanic religion and others considered it a lost branch of Buddhism; but it is neither the one nor the other. It is self-formed and based on millenary Vedic teachings.

One may say the main formula of a follower of Jainism is: To love any living being and to respect as much animals as humans.

These early nihilistic people do not eat meat, and to a Jain, is a sin to see how an animal is maltreated and not to give it help.

Still today, in the southern district of India, where the majority of the Jains stay, there are numerous veterinary hospitals. This proves an advance over modern institutions devoted to help irrational beings.

The Jains are very severe in their living; one of them never drinks liquor or smokes.

The basic belief of this religion consists of an unconditioned essence and other manifested essence that is ruled by twenty-four spiritual entities: Tirthankaras.

Universal Jainism laws of Creation, moral and ethics are written on holy books called “Siddhanta”, in tamil, their sacred language.

The human soul, called “jiva”, gets out of the very pure bosom of God, descends En earth and is tied, by ignorance, to the sensible worlds; it can be untied from material bonds just by means of austerity, meditation and good works. That is why one finds many “Jaina” of both sexes that are ascetics and dispose of everything just to devote themselves to spiritual life.

This religion also counts on divine help, Edjina, the supreme victor –Ihes in our Symbology– who periodically descends to Earth to help mankind to get rid of the prison of flesh.

But Mahavira is the most revered Divine Incarnation, among the Jains. This eminent being lived about the time of Gautama the Buddha.

He was of noble and rich family, and knew comforts and pleasures of living, but as he begun to study the holy books, to such an extent he loved wisdom that decided to abandon the world in order to live alone in the desert.

He substituted his rich raiment for the coarse cloth of a beggar, and for twelve years practiced austerity and meditation.

Then he began his work with men. He reunited the scattered Jains, explained them their wonderful doctrines and conquered their lives through purity, reinvigorating their religion.

He compiled any holy book, translated from the early language to the language of everyday and puts them within everybody’s reach.

At present, if the Jains are not more than two millions of souls and stay only in India, their religion is known and admired, because of the extreme worthiness and pure customs of its followers.

The exaggerated formality of the Jains has been criticized because they abhor to such an extent to come into contact with impure things that only drink boiled water, they breathe the air in places contaminated by diseases by using a cloth of linen that covers their mouths. Perchance do not our modern sanitarians act the same way?

But the important thing in a religion is not its forms and external rites, but the essence of its purest part.

Teaching 24: The Military Sikhs

Before dawn of Renaissance in Europe, a millenary India, cradle of the oldest religions and of the pure Aryan race, had declined in an alarming way.

Buddhism, that pure religion that centuries ago awakened the consciousness in India to the source of eternity, had been banished by fire and sword to the rest of Asia. Also there was a decline as to fervor and return to Vedic religion and pure Manu’s laws, which had been a Hindu Counter-Reformation produced by Buddhism. Great Rajas had abandoned the spiritual field to be carried away by the surge of the world, and when the Crescent invaded Indian soil, did not find opposition.

Hindus granted everything to Mahommedans and as a grace they were authorized to live in their own soil and to follow the religion of their ancestors.

In the course of time, deeper and deeper hatred and rancor crystallized in India, always because of religious questions, between Allah’s followers and those of the holy Ganges.

They needed a religion to appease these two tendencies, to harmonize both creeds and to try a union of so contrary ideals.

In 1469, a child is born of Brahmana family, who had to be founder of Sikhs. His name was Nanak, and at the age of nine already felt that his mission was to harmonize all of religions in India.

If the One God of Mahommedans was the true, Hindus worshipped His attires in manifold forms. Unity nothing took away from diversity of form.

Nanak abandoned the holy Brahmans’ cord and went to wilderness for meditation; after this, now a man, he preached a creed of union between Mahommedans and Hindus, but inadvertently a new religion emerged: that of Sikhs.

He died in 1537, left uncountable disciples, and his words had been written and transmitted on texts that are considered holy.

But this religion is really characteristic by its military organization. Every Sikh is a soldier of God, and has to lend his arm and his sword to defend his faith and those lands assigned to him by God. Govinda, tenth Sikh Master, born in 1675 and dead in 1708, imparted them this military tenet.

This religion reached its highest splendor in that time, with cities and kingdoms, and fighting fiercely to defend their heritage.

Later they were totally defeated, but, though they lost their domains, remained faithful to their creed up to our days. At present, in India there are millions that profess the religion of Sikhs.

A distinctive trait of this religion is its initiatic structure that is very similar to those of Knights of the Holy Order of Fire, and of ancient Christian Knightly Orders.

Certainly several Initiates of Fire lived with them. Also they had similar symbols and images to those of the above mentioned Orders; their initiatic structure is composed of five grades instead of seven. They begin by an oath, and have a mystical feast a High Master, and an entirely secret and esoteric Initiation.

Teaching 25: Christendom

Christendom marked a new basic era that was entirely different from the precedent, which revolutionized the world and still today is creed of the European civilization.

Any religion born of the two currents, namely Vedic and Egyptian, flow into the sea of Christianity; and those that did not survive, remain in decline. Christendom will be the only vital religion in the world –conqueror of civilization.

Christian religion is born in the East like all others; it emerged from Judaism and transplanted to western peoples, it yielded fruits there.

Jesus, a Solar Initiate of fourth category and Hebrew by birth, appeared among men in the beginning of our era.

Of humble family, He who had to become Divine Incarnation of suffering learnt the lesson of pain since his childhood.

None know where he picked up that wonderful doctrine of the Gospels that would transforms peoples, since the texts are unaware of his life from the age of twelve to thirty.

Modern occultists say he went to India and there learnt his divine doctrine; others say this occurred in ancient Egypt; and Rosicrucians say this happened in the sect of Essenes, who were ancient Hebrew mystics that preserved the esoteric wisdom.

But none can know it for certain, since those years of study developed by an Initiate remain hermetically closed in the circle of a Master and his disciple.

Until then, religious instructors had looked at mankind and benefited it from their golden thrones and shining temples; but Jesus came and, like a unique example, descended to men, sharing their miseries, living among them and speaking their language. He wanted to drink the cup of human martyrdom. Even his painful death was similar to that of miserable and abandoned men.

How cannot a religion take root when it deified the human suffering, and showed its own God, Son of Man, nailed to the cross?

Jesus did not found any religion, but only launched an idea, the idea of a humanized, understood, sublimated and divinized pain.

Paul of Tarsus was the organizer of Christian religion.

Christ’s disciples, humble and uneducated men, only wanted to revere the Master’s memory and to live his doctrine in the Hebrew frame. Once, even Jesus had said, “I came to save the sons of Israel”. They did not suspect their ideal could go beyond the Hebrew circle.

But as Paul, an intelligent man, a Lunar Initiate with great prophetic vision, saw and understood the wonderful doctrine of the Gospels, he preached to Gentiles, men of other religions. He organized a church with laws and tenets, and moved the new creed to Rome, the great capital in those days.

Christ’s religion advanced fearlessly toward the north. After years of martyrdom, after three centuries hidden in catacombs, and after a long baptism of blood, it got out to daylight to conquer barbarians, those new developing peoples.

The early leaders of the Christian church had a vast vision when they left behind stagnated sages of the East and went toward barbarians of the north, because they intuited that a barbarian of those days would become conqueror tomorrow and thence a support of their religion.

Teaching 26: Islam

Half-savage men, half-naked and half-Aryans had remained all together alert on the edge of the lost continent for millennia.

Lands of leaden sky and with temples and cities of solid gold had sunk under the waters. They remained there, immobile and gazing the collapse of an entire past and race, faithful to their destiny of guardians of a missing religion and of their blood that was fountain of new civilization.

The sea ran away, Nature died, the desert appeared, and the sun became more and more hot, but they stayed. They saw the emigration of their companions in long caravans toward more hospitable lands, to steadier soils.

Brothers of yore came back as conquerors, and they permitted to be subdued. They went into the wild, into that wonderful garden of sand that kept the treasure of the lost continent, partly buried under the sea and partially under sands.

These men –you can call them Semites, Iranians, Israelites or Hebrews– are always the same people –preservers of the Divine Atlantean Religion, and blood bud of the new race.

As some of them abandoned their mystical loneliness in the desert and became a stable people or nation, others came back to it.

In 440, peoples of the desert lost the true worship to his ancestors and professed a mixed religion of fetishism, Christianity and idolatry.

But Ismael’s blood runs through their veins, and in the city of Mecca a man of the Coreixites’ tribe is born, who has to exalt the spirit of believers toward a faith in One and True God.

With Muhammad’s birth, in 570, a new era begins for the sons of the desert. This young orphan, reared by charity in his uncle Abu Taleb’s house, was of delicate manners, effeminate aspect and constant smile, but carried the sign of the Divine Initiates.

He saw the decadence of his people, and on his meditations and inner retreats, dreamt of liberating if of its chains of selfishness, lust, idolatry and vanity.

At the age of twenty-four he marries Kadiya, a rich widow him older, and both lived perfect conjugal life, and this is so true than his people called him “trustworthy”.

Long years of expectation and meditation were necessary to burn dregs of man and leave just the Divine Incarnation, the envoy of heaven.

He referred his visions and wishes to his wife, and she was his first disciple and the first to repeat these words: “Allah is God and Muhammad his prophet”.

Jesus’ prophecy is not relevant in Muhammad: “Nobody is prophet in his own land”, because he got his first disciples among relatives and friends. His old uncle –his adoptive father– refused to recognize the divine injunction, but did not contradict him, promising his Ali as the first male disciple.

But fight begins; none wants to leave the adoration of gods, idolatry and a life devoid of pleasures.

Muhammad says there is just one God with no image: he is spirit and truth. It is like wind of the desert, frightful and formless, which shapes dunes and moves them quickly, whistling, invisible to all.

Four angels obey injunctions of this invisible God, source of all things. The righteous will live in the bosom of Allah, in the divine garden of houris, even though nobody will be like him.

One night certain people tried to kill the Prophet, but he escaped with a disciple and took refuge in Medina. As they escaped, the distressed disciple said to the Masters, “We are alone and persecuted”, but he replied, “We are not two, but three, because God is with us”.

The arrival in Medina begins the era of Islam, called Hegira.

As his enemies attacked him, Muhammad already had many disciples and they defended themselves by sword. And Muhammad’s religion had a new motto, “Kill the infidel if the infidel prevents you from observing your religion”.

After the Prophet’s death, in 632, Islam reached dramatic dimensions. It conquered by word and blood, and by the Koran, its holy book, Asia, a part of Europe, and was a menace in Nordic peoples.

As in any great religion, they also have mystics called Sufis, who achieved the Divine Union through renunciation and ecstasy. The study of mathematics belongs almost exclusively to this people, and alchemy get such an influence that prepares the way to modern chemistry and physics.

But over all, the mission of Arabian is to keep the purity of this concept of a personal One God, and to transmit it from generation to generation, until the extinction of the flame of our Aryan race, which knows and worships God through every manifested form.

Teaching 27: Religion of the African Jungle

The belief of African black people of the jungle consists of a primitive fetishism, a degenerated traditional worship of ancient Atlantean peoples.

The Kaffirs believe in life after death, revere constantly their ancestors, and call them Insicholaga, or Barinos.

According to certain black peoples, the spirits of ancestors inhabited caverns, while others believe that they dwell on the summits, basing these beliefs on the geographic form of the country where they live. These spirits visit periodically living beings, and help or damage them according to inclination and spiritual progress of the former.

The astral world where those ancestors stayed was quite small, according to the mind of those black people.

This worship consisted of a communication with the dead and never was discontinued. A caste called Isitonga was the mediums. These beings, a sort of initiated wizards, who generally suffered of strange nervous diseases that prepared them for the exercise of magic, healed any kind of illness by means of rites and bizarre practices, because they attributed evils of human heath to malefic causes that should be destroyed.

In this sense, we should notice that those curative symptoms had certain truth at bottom, because the root of a disease really is rather in the mental state of man than in his physical body.

The supreme god of those black people was Uncholog, the Great Spirit, and after him, Icante, the great spirit of the waters. Offerings devoted to this god were thrown into the water instead of throwing it into fire.

Zulu people’s mythology is richer.

Unkulunkulu is the preserver of Humanity and Creation.

Black people are very respectful to fire and feel it is a serious guilt to let it go out, because it should shine always at the holy hearth, in the centre of the tribe, guarded by young black vestals.

Any black rite includes Molemos, that is, amulets to protect his owner against any evil.

The Malgaches revered Jachar, supreme god with no altars or offerings, because he knew well which what men needed.

Kiso fetishes were a kind of gnomes ruling over powers of Nature.

Also we should not forget the god Maramba, the depository of oaths.

In Guinea, the natives revered especially Agoyo, the god of the good advice, who stayed at the house of the high priest.

Among black people of the west coast of Africa, Horei was the wicked spirit that mooed during ceremonies devoted to him.

Boson, white god, was the principle of good among black people of Gold Coast. That is why many times these natives retained the first white people that visited them, believing that the latter were gods.

But most black people gave free rein to magic, and practiced divination with a jar with three holes. The sound emitted by this jar was interpreted by the priests as a good or bad omen.

Teaching 28: Incaic Worship of the Sun

Remnants of Atlantean tribes, emigrating toward the centre of the American continent, arrived following a narrow strip of land not affected by earthquakes.

This wild, virgin and gorgeous continent extended until the south-east, where the Andes range showed its immaculate crests, emerging from the froth of the sea as a new Venus.

These Atlanteans remnants founded there flourishing colonies in the heart of the jungle.

According to traditions, four brothers founded Cuzco, but one of them killed the others and transformed them into rocks, while he became stone after his death in order to be worshipped.

The early Incaic worship was that of stones, upon which they put their offerings and sacrifices. This confirms their Atlantean origin. In fact, the Atlanteans revered the number four, symbol of the fourth race root, and their altar of veneration –especially the Atlantean sub-race of the Semites– consisted of superposed stones.

After the great catastrophe, that is, after the collapse of the ancient Atlantean continent, few tribes that could save themselves were the new ones that gradually arrived.

They were descendants of the last Atlantean sub-races that had known the pure worship of the Solar Divinity in the great city of golden gates.

So they established the same rites upon the stone of Huiracocha, essential god and infinite principle; they kindled the holy fire of the god Pachacamac, whose flame should burn forever toward the Sun god, Inti, the great god.

They erected temples, all of them of gold, since according to the Solar rite and service, their instruments and ornaments must be of gold.

Virgins in white and adorned with crowns of gold –eventual future wives of an Inca king– maintained the flame constantly burning in the sanctuary.

The male aspect, symbolized by the Sun, was complemented by the female worship of the goddess Mama-Quilla, or Coya, the Moon. At night, long rows of devotees went to her temples that were totally of silver, to worship and revere her.

Also the Incas worshipped other gods: Catequil, god of thunder; Cuicha, rainbow of peace; and Chozco, god of love, similar to Venus.

They knew the fundamental principle of the universe as a non-manifested god, Piguerao, who disappears when the universe is manifested, twin brother of Atachucho, a personal god, born of the early egg.

The first mate of American Adam and Eve were Manco-Capac and Mama Oello Huaco, though not all of them believed that these two were the founders of the human race, since some of them thought that Inca Roca, direct descendant of the Sun, was its founder.

Teaching 29: Ancient Mexican Religions

The Aztecs, Miltecs and Toltecs are very similar to the Incas in religion and customs, and also descendants of the Atlanteans.

Contrary to the redskins of the Rocky Mountains, who had preserved the highest degree the customs of an entirely spiritual religion, with patriarchal and venerable habits, these natives of Central America were materialistic, fierce and bloodthirsty.

In their view, Citlantonac (the subtle universe) along with Citlatique (the dense universe) created the Universe.

In their cosmogonic annals they remembered four ages: the age of water, when Earth, inhabited by giants, was flooded by a deluge.

The second age, the age of Earth, where the surviving giants took refuge, was destroyed by great seismic movements.

The third age, the age of air, was swept by cyclones.

As to the fourth age, the age of fire, immense flames devoured the human beings, and the Sun, Moon and stars were born of this fire, ascended to the sky and filled the space.

A broken knife of Citlantonac formed the gods, and men are born of a bone belonging to a dead god.

Earth is revered in the goddess Amon, but Cinteolt is the favorite; she presides over the growth of maize (corn), a traditional plant of those natives; also she is patron of generation.

She was represented as a beautiful woman laden with spikes and holding a little boy; and human victims, who had to be physically perfect, healthy and strong, were sacrificed to her. They put these victims upon the altar of sacrifice, opened their chest by means of a sharp knife, extracted the palpitating heart and devoted it to the frightful goddess.

It would be impossible to list every god revered by these peoples. Tosi was mother of the gods, grandmother of men and patron of magicians and wizards.

Mixcoatec was god of storms, and, Xiulteculti, god of fire. Cihuatcoatl, kind and loving goddess-serpent, had give birth before any other woman and was patron of women in labor.

But the great god, the kind god in white, is Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent, who fosters peace. When he descended to men, prohibited any human sacrifice and banned wicked men.

Especially revered by the Toltecs, his symbol was the cross. Tired of being among men, we wished to return to heaven, leaving Tula, the highest city, where he was revered, in desolation.

After him, a wicked, vindictive and perverse god reigned; his name was Texcatlipoca, who again sowed sorrow among men.

Quickly the natives faded away, and treasures and memorials of their ancient and divine religion remained buried forever under lost cities.

But since nothing entirely perishes, in Rocky Mountains an ancient tribe of natives remains intact; they are pure descendants of the missing Atlantean Race and of dynasties of the eagle.

In those mountains, still today a deep echo resounds, it is the echo of revered names: Manitu, the eternal god, and Masson, the son of the living god. They remained there as unique symbol of the fourth race root, expecting the last day, when all seeds will be picked up and the sixth great race, the future race root will flourish.

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