Return to the Stars: Evidence for the Impossible (19 page)

'The inhabitants of the world of Erez are descendants of Adam.

'The inhabitants of Adamah are also the descendants of Adam, because Adam complained of the cheerlessness of Erez. They cultivate the earth and eat plants, animals and bread. They are mostly sad and often make war on each other. There are days in this world and the groupings of the constellations are visible. In the past they were often visited by the inhabitants of the world of Thebel, but the visitors were stricken with failing memories on Adamah and no longer knew whence they came.

'The inhabitants of the world of Arqa sow and harvest. Their faces are different from our faces. They visit all worlds and speak all languages.'

Once again the old familiar questions arise. How did the authors of the Cabbala know that the beings in the seven other worlds had a different appearance from the citizens of earth? How did they know that they ate different food and knew other suns in the sky?

It is also worth mentioning the statement in the Cabbala that originally human beings did not look each other in the face during the sexual act and that the union of the seeds took place in a single being. Modern cabbalists claim that, before Adam, God created another being, who was 'man' only, a characteristic that did not prevent this being from producing children, who later mated with the snake.

The main work of the Cabbala, the Book Zohar, is written in Aramaic and interprets the Pentateuch from the standpoint of the cabbalistic conception of God. The Zohar is considered to be the work of Rabbi Simon bar Yochai (A.D. 130-170), but was probably first written down from oral traditions by Moses de Leon in Spain at the end of the thirteenth century and first printed in Cremona in 1558.

In the Zohar—and this is astounding—a conversation between an earthman and someone stranded from the world of Arqa is given. In this dialogue we learn that after the earth had been destroyed by fire some refugees, who had survived the catastrophe and were led by Rabbi Yosse, met a stranger, who suddenly emerged from a crack in the rock and had 'a different face'. Rabbi Yosse went up to the stranger and asked where he came from.

The stranger answered:

'I am an inhabitant of Arqa.'

The refugee was surprised and asked:

'You mean there are living creatures on Arqa?'

The stranger replied:

'Yes. When I saw you coming, I climbed out of the cave in order to learn the name of the world on which I had arrived.'

And then the stranger said that in his world the seasons were not the same as in their country; there sowing and harvest would only recommence after several years; the arrangement of the constellations was also different from the way it looked on earth ...

Nearly 1,800 years of oral tradition stand behind this account, which was not written down until about 700 years ago and only printed for the first time 400 years ago. But once again I have to ask what ancient knowledge was hidden behind these words.

Naturally a stranger who visited the earth saw the constellations from a different point of view from the one he was used to on his own planet, which also had its seasons in a different sequence from the earth.

The statements are basically too realistic to be brushed aside as pure fantasy.

Then we have the Book of Dzyan with its sacred symbolic signs. No one in the world knows its real age. It is said that the original is older than the earth. It is also said that it was so strongly magnetised that the 'elect' who took it in their hands saw the events described pass before their eyes and at the same moment they could understand the mysterious texts through rhythmically transmitted impulses, provided their language had an adequate vocabulary.

For thousands of years this esoteric doctrine was guarded as top secret in Tibetan crypts. It was said that the secret teaching could be tremendously dangerous in the hands of ignorant people. The original text—it is not known if it still exists somewhere—was copied word for word from generation to generation and amplified by the 'elect' with new accounts and new knowledge they had acquired.

The Book of Dzyan is supposed to have originated beyond the Himalayas. By unknown routes its teaching reached Japan, India and China, and traces of its ideas are even found in South American traditions. Secret fraternities, who hid themselves in the solitary passes of the west Chinese Kun-lun range or in the deep gorges of Altyn-tag, situated also in the western part of present-day Red China, watched over collections of books of vast size. They lived in miserable temples. Subterranean vaults and passages concealed their literary treasures. The Book of Dzyan was also guarded in these fastnesses. The first fathers of the church made every effort to erase this secret doctrine from the memories of those who were familiar with it. Yet all their efforts failed and the texts were transmitted orally from generation to generation.

I have often been told about this teaching in foreign countries, but I have never met anyone who had seen a 'genuine' copy of the book. Parts of the Book of Dzyan that have been preserved or, more accurately, become known, circulate through the world in thousands of texts translated into Sanskrit. By all accounts this remarkable secret doctrine is supposed to contain the primordial ancient word, the formula of creation, and to tell of the evolution of mankind over millions of years.

The seven stanzas of the creation according to the Book of Dzyan are so interesting that I shall quote extracts from them here:

Stanza I.

'Time was not, for it lay sleeping in the infinite bosom of duration ...

... Darkness alone filled the boundless all...

... And life pulsated unconscious in universal space.

... The seven sublime lords and the seven truths had ceased to be ...

Stanza II.

... Where were the builders, the luminous sons ... The producers of the form from no-form—the root of the world ...?

... The hour had not yet struck; the ray had not yet flashed into the germ ...

Stanza III.

... The last vibration of the seventh eternity thrills through infinitude.

... The vibration sweeps along, touching with its swift wing the whole universe and the germ that dwelleth in darkness, the darkness that breathes over the slumbering waters of life ...

... The root of life was in every drop of the ocean of immortality, and the ocean was radiant light, which was fire, and heat, and motion. Darkness vanished and was no more ...

... Behold ... bright space, son of dark space ... He shines forth as the sun; he is the blazing divine dragon of wisdom.

... Where was the germ, and where now was the darkness? ...

... The germ is that and that is light, the white brilliant son of the dark hidden father.

Stanza IV.

... Listen, ye sons of the earth, to your instructors, the sons of fire ...

... Learn what we, who descend from the primordial seven, we, who are born from the primordial flame, have learnt from our fathers.

... From the effulgency of light—the ray of the ever-darkness—sprang in space the re-awakened energies ... And from the divine man emanated the forms, the sparks, the sacred animals, and the messengers of the sacred fathers ...

Stanza V.

... The first seven breaths of the dragon of wisdom produce in their turn from their holy circumgyrating breaths, the fiery whirlwind.

... The swift son of the divine sons ... runs circular errands ... He passes like lightning through the fiery clouds ...

... He is their guiding spirit and leader. When he commences work, he separates the sparks of the lower kingdom, that float and thrill with joy in their radiant dwellings ...

Stanza VI.

... The swift and radiant one ... seats the universe on the eternal foundations ...

... He builds them in the likeness of older wheels, placing them on the imperishable centres ...

... How were they built by Fohat? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them infusing life thereinto, then sets them into motion ... They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus acts Fohat from one twilight to the other, during seven eternities.

... The mother's spawn filled the whole. There were battles fought between the creator and the destroyers, and battles fought for space.

Stanza VII.

... Behold the beginning of sentient formless life. First, the divine, the one from the mother spirit ... ... The one ray multiplies the smaller rays ...

... Then the builders, having donned their first clothing, descend on radiant earth and reign over men—who are themselves.'

This creation myth really needs no further commentary for the educated reader. It is uncanny how these texts really interpret themselves in the age of space travel. Only a few concepts need enlarging on.

The eternal mother = space.

Seven eternities = aeons or periods. 'Eternity' in the sense of the Christian theology is meaningless in Asiatic ideology. An aeon extends over a great period of time, i.e. a 100 years of Brahma or 311,040,000,000,000 terrestrial years. A day of Brahma consists of 4,320,000,000 years for a mortal. 'Brahma' is the force that creates and preserves all worlds. May I remind readers of the laws of time dilation without which these measurements of time are inconceivable.

Time = succession of states of consciousness.

Space = matter.

Light = something unimaginable because its source is unknown.

Father and mother = male and female principle of primordial nature.

Seven sublime lords = seven creative spirits.

Builders = the real creators of die universe, or architects of die planetary system.

Breath = dimensionless space.

Ray = matter of the world-egg.

Last vibration of the seventh eternity = periodically appearing phenomenon of the universal intelligence.

Virgin-egg = symbol of the original shape of everything visible—from the atom to heavenly bodies.

Sons of the earth—sons of fire = cosmic forces that have taken form.

Fohat = constructive force of cosmic energy.

(Quotations and exegesis are taken from The Secret Doctrine by Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, published in Germany in 1888!)

Other sections of the Book of Dzyan reputedly tell us that 18 million years ago there were living creatures on earth that were boneless and rubberlike, and vegetated without reason or intelligence. These beings are supposed to have reproduced themselves by division. On the course of a long evolution a peaceful and gentle kind of being originated in this way four million years ago. These beings lived in a period of tranquil bliss, in a world of happy dreamers. In the next three million years a giant race of a very different kind developed. These giants, it says in Dzyan, were androgynous and mated with themselves. Then 700,000 years ago they began to mate with 'she-animals', but terrible looking monsters resulted from this kind of reproduction. These monsters were unable to free themselves from this bestial method of reproduction and became dependent on animals and dumb like animals.

The Book of Dzyan is supposed to state that large areas of land sank in the ocean off present-day Cuba and Florida in 9,564 B.C. So far the legendary Atlantis has not been located, although the most recent theories suggest that it was the island of Thera in the Mediterranean. (*) Could it be identical with the sunken country that the Book of Dzyan tells about? I do not know. Perhaps Atlantis is like Unidentified Flying Objects—both of them are firmly rooted in man's imagination.

Mahabharata, Cabbala, Zohar, Dzyan. Identical as to facts that point in one direction.

Are they accounts of things that really happened?

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[*] See Voyage to Atlantis by James Mavor, (Souvenir Press).

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11 - The Perversions Of Our Ancestors

In days of yore there must have been a hybrid of man and animal. The literature and art of antiquity leaves no doubt about that. Pictures of winged beasts with human heads, mermaids, scorpion men, birdmen, centaurs and many-headed monsters are all vividly in our memory. Old books say that even in historical times these hybrid beings lived together in hordes, tribes and even in large units like peoples. They tell of specially bred hybrids, who spent their existence as 'temple animals' and seem to have been the spoilt darlings of the populace. The Sumerian kings and later the Assyrians hunted half men, half animals—possibly just for diversion. Mysterious texts refer to half-humans and hybrids, whose remarkable existence constantly evaporates into the uncheckable realms of the mythical.