Course XXVII comparative religion

Teaching 11: Sargonides

Usually the second Assyrian-Semite era of this Iranian people is called Assyria; but there is a great difference between these two eras and between both peoples.

We have seen Assyrians were of Aryan-Semite descent and had assimilated early black peoples under their control..

They grew up and became powerful and wise, but also underwent times of decadence.

They did not worship the Unique God; priests were not messengers between the Highest Being and men; their powerful temples, reservoir of warlike energy, were just galleries with statues of gods of any form and dimension; their kings were not direct descendants of the mythological king Nino, but indulged in vice and apathy.

Meanwhile Semitic provinces, under Assyrian control, had become strong, hated pagan customs and wished to worship again the only true God.

God created a Semitic man who was an indomitable warrior, with great courage and strength, called Sargon.

He actively encouraged his brothers of race against the kings, a war ensued, and gradually he defeated and brought them under control, becoming Lord and King in the entire Assyrian territory.

That is why he is called “Sargon the Usurper”; the era of Assyrian Sargonides, of Semitic origin, begins with him.

This man renewed the people and cities, founded new cities, crushed rebellious provinces, destroyed idols and re-established the worship to God revered in spirit and truth.

Until his assassination, he lived amid war and reformation. After dissolving the barrier of Egypt and Elman against Assyria, he created an immensely great kingdom.

After conquering Chaldea and plundering Babylon for the second time, he built seven-step temples in which the holy tree was revered; this tree represented the seven eternal manifestations and was a copy of the mysteries of goddess Ishtar and of god Belos of Babylon.

Ancient pieces of clay represent the king Sargon standing, before the holy tree, his head inclined as in adoration.

This holy tree represents manifested God, according to Sargon’s priests.

Its first part is of three branches, and represented the lower or animal manifestation; the second part, of red branches, represented life of man; other branches, of light blue color, represented the existence of intermediate worlds in which past warriors dwelt.

The rest of superior branches, of yellow color, represented the abode of angels or superior spirits. Fifth, sixth and seventh branches are image of the God Trine and Invisible.

This strong Semitic race later has to leave its teachings, symbols and writings to the Moabites and Hebrews, and by the latter all this would reach our days.

Teaching 12: The Hebrews

In the course of the first period of the Iranian sub-race, pure Aryans prevailed in government and direction of the peoples, as in Chaldea and Assyria. But since the second period of the Iranian sub-race, the copper-skinned Semites prevailed again, as can be seen in Sargonides, Phoenicians, Arameans, Moabits and Hebrews.

The Semites would not stop controlling the world, especially in relation to religion and spirituality, until the growth and development of the Celtic sub-race, and this produced brave and admirable purely Aryan peoples like those of Greeks, Italics and Gauls.

Many Semites, settled in several places of Asia, became wandering tribes and strong peoples as Phoenicians, Arameans and, on a lower scale, Moabits did.

But others rejected this sedentary living and to them desert was better than any city, a tent was better than a comfortable house, and unleavened bread of furnaces was better than any tasty dish.

Usually, among other peoples, including the Semites, Divinity was divided into parts, with different aspects and forms.

But these pure children of the sand and of infinite routes had in their simple minds a unique concept about God: Eloh, the spirit, the invisible one, unknown power, what they were unable to define.

These nomadic Terachits, divided themselves into several tribes, perhaps the twelve tribes of Israel. But those of Ben Israel and Ben Jacob had to prevail over the rest of them.

These nomads that Assyrians and Chaldeans called Hibrim –which means Hebrews, that is, those who come from beyond the river– were highly devoted to preserve their own race and the purity of their blood.

They were descendants of Atlantean Semites, those who for centuries and centuries had to fight and keep their blood intact to transmit it to following generations and to form the new type of man.

Their ancestral mission had been to maintain in the world the physical type of the new race that they had begotten from their Atlantean ascendants.

They manifested this strong preservation of the race by refusing absolutely to mix their blood with anyone of another tribe.

This subconscious concept of the Hebrews –preservation of the race– has been transmitted in the course of time until today, and they had to experience and will experience many sufferings by following the instinct of the race.

The religion of the early Hebrews was entirely simple and wide.

While caravans and camels were crossing slowly those roads that led toward the Euphrates or paths of Syria or of Forelebanon, they offered prayers to the Almighty, with slow rhythmic chants as the Iasar of the Israelites and the Kitab-el-Aghani of theArabians did.

Now and then they settled and camped near an oasis and, before following slowly their walk, rose a stone memorial called “Iad” or, when they did not find a big stone, they put together a lot of stones that until today are called “El Galgail” by Arabians of the desert.

Among them, “Eloh” was personified by the wind that formed enormous dunes and whistled night and day through their tents; by lightening that stroke inexorably their livestock, so lovingly guided by them; by the Moon that traced their paths by a strip of light projected on the sand; and by the starry sky and the burning Sun.

Instead of dividing these elements and of giving them different names and attributes, they assimilated and united them in one expression of supernatural power, “Elohim”, which is at the same time God One and powers of God becoming One.

This simple worship, practiced by the early Egyptians and Assyrians, but gradually lost in the course of the time and progress, had laid the foundations of the monotheistic concept such as it still exists in the world.

Jehovah is the name given to God later, when this God One becomes more material and more linked with destinies of Israel’s people.

The Hebrews had no mythology, since they carried with them, in the Teraphim or portable ark, certain oil usually poured by them on stone memorials.

The Hebrews had worships and temples after their bondage in Egypt and Babylon, once they had settled in Palestine.