III. InflccUonal speech: the root of the Sanskrit, very erroneously

called the "elder sister" of the Greek, instead of its mother — was the first language, now the mystery tongue of the Initiates, of the Fifth Race. The "Semitic" languages are the bastard descendants of first phonetic corruptions of the eldest children of the early Sansl The Occult Doctrine admits of no such divisions as the Ar>'an and Semite, and accepts even the Turanian with ample reservations. Semites, especially the Arabs, are later Ar>'ans — degenerate in spirit tuality and perfected in materiality. To these belong all the Jews and the Arabs. The former are a tribe descended from the Chandalasof India, the outcasts, many of them ex-Brahraans, who sought refuge in Chaldasa, in Scinde, and Aria (Iran), and were truly bom from their father A-Bram (No-Brihman) some 8,000 years B.C. The latter, the Arabs, are the descendants of those Aryans who would not go ii India at the time of the dispersion of nations, some of whom remain* on the borderlands thereof, in Afghanistan and Kabul* and along Oxus, while others penetrated into and invaded Arabia. But this when Africa had already been raised as a continent.
We have meanwhile to follow, as closely as limited space will pei the gradual evolution of the now truly human species. It is in suddenly arrested evolution of certain sub-races, and their forced violent diversion into the purely animal line by artificial cross-bre truly analogous to the hybridization which we have now learned utilize in the vegetable and animal kingdoms, that we have to look for the origin of the anthropoids.
* Ptolemy, sptaldng^ In his ninth tabic of the KaboUUc or Rahal trfbn, calls Uiem *Apt AhstophvU, the oiistocratic or noble tribes. The Afghans call Uiemselves fien-Issnicl, chU Is (sa) rael, from Issa, "woman and also earth," sons of Mother Earth. But if you call an Atj VahoucU (Jew), he will kill you. Tlic names of the supposed twolre tribes of the Jews, and the ! of the real twelve tribes of the Afghans, are the same. The Afghans being far older Ut any rate, Arabic stock) than the IfimcJlitcM. no one need be surprised to Gud such tribal names among the Youasott&ic, sons of Joseph, in Pnojcaure and Booncre; Zablistonee (Zcbulon); Ben*maaasseh.i of ManasMh. among the Kiiojar Tartars: Isaguri, or laaachar, now Aabnsgor in Afghanialao,' The whole twelve namei> of the so'Called twelve tribes ore uaxaes of the sigiiA of the Zodiac, as is I well proven. In any case, the names of the oldest Arabic tribes, re -transliterated, yield the nai Uie zodiacal signs and likewise of the mythical soosof Jacob. Whereorcthe traces of the Jewish twdic tribes? Nowhere. But there la a trace, and a deep one, that the Jews have tried to deceive pwpte with the help of these names. For, see what happens ages after the Un hibei had wholly disappeaitd from Babylon. Ptolemy Philadelphus, desiriag to have the Hebrew I,aw translated for blm into Greek (the famous Scptuagint), wrote to the high priest of the Jews. Rienzar, to send him iix mm from each of the tw apparently) came to the king in Bgypt and translated the Law amid miracle* and wooden. W Butler's Mora Bil^tica,}oKl^\x^Xli, and PbiliOjudueus. ■
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these red-haired and hair-covered monsters, the fruit of the un- latural connection between men and animals, the "Lords of Wisdom" did not incarnate, as we see. Thus through a long series of transforma- tions due to unnatural cross-breeding — ^unnatural "sexual selection" — originated in due course of time the lowest specimens of humanity; while further bestiality and the fruit of their first animal efforts of reproduction begat a species which developed into mammalian apes ages later.*
As to the separation of sexes, it did not occur suddenly, as one may liink. Nature proceeds slowly in whatever she does.
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37. The ONEt BECAME TWO; AI^O .\I.L THE trVING AND CREEPING THIXGS THAT WERE STILL ONE» GIANT FISH. BIRDS AND SERPENTS THTH SHELL-HEADS.
HPhis relates evidently to the so-called age of amphibious reptiles, during which Science denies that man existed! But what could the Ancients know of antediluvian prehistoric animals and monsters? ^'evertheless, in Book VI of the Commentaries is found a passage which, freely translated, says:
rhat ihe Third separated and feli into sin by breeding mett-anitna/s, [the anrma/s^ became ferocious^ and men and they muhialiy dcstrvc- ^ Tili /hen, there was no sin, no life taken. After [Mc* separation'] the Saiya [ Vuga] was at an aid. The eternal spring beeame eonstant ehange ^seasons succeeded. Cold forced men to build shelters arid devise clothing. Then man appealed to the superior Fathers [^the higher Gods or Angels]. The Nirmanakdyas of the Ndgas, theimse Serpents and Dragojis of Light, flwv, and the precursors of the Enlightened S^the Buddhas\ Divine Kings ^ocmded and taught men sciences and arts, for man could live no longer in j^ first land [Adi- Varsha, the Eden of the first Races], which had turned Wk a white frozen corpse.
^he above is suggestive. We will see what can be inferred from this Wicf statement. Some may incline to think that there is more in it QttD is apparent at first sight,
Elgin mfntary explainti Uiat Uic apes arc the only spcdca. among; the animolB. wliicb has . and wiUi every ^oerolicn and variety, tended more and more to return to the original rpr oT ill male forefatbrr— the dark Kigantic Lctuurian and AUantenu.
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EDENS, SERPENTS, AND DRAGONS. Whence the idea, and the true meaning of the term "Eden"? Christians will maintain that the Garden of Eden is the holy Paradise, the place dcsaraied by tlu sin of Adam and Eve; the Occultist will deny this dead-letter interpretation, and show the reverse. One need not believe in the BibU and see in it divine revelation, to say that this ancient book, if read esoterically, is based upon the same universal traditions as the other ancient scriptures. What Eden was is partially shown in hh Unrdfed, where it is said that:
The Garden of E'vdeii as a locality is no uiytb at all; it belongs to those landmArlcA of history which occasionally disclose to the student that the BibU is not all mere allegory. "Edea, or the Hebrew ]T5"]3, Gan-Eden, meaning the Park or the Garden of Eden, is an archaic name of the countr\' watered by the Euphrates and its many branches, from Asia and Armenia to the Krythraian sea.*'* In the Chaldiean Book of Numbers^ its location is designated in numerals, and in the cypher Rosicrucian manuscript, left by Count St. Germain, it is fully described. la the Assyrian Tabids it is rendered Gan-duniyas. "Behold," say the D^iT?!** Elohim, of Genesis, "the man is become as one of us." The Klohini may be accepted in one sense ior gods or powers, and in another for Alcim, or priests — the hierophants initiated into the good and evil of this world; for there wa~s a college of priests called the Alcim, while the head of their caste, or die chief of the hiero- phants, was known as Java-Aleim. Instead of becoming a neophyte, and gradually obtaining his esoteric knowledge through a regular initiation, an Adam, or Man, uses his intuitional faculties and. prompted by the serpent— fKvwjn and Matter — tastes of the Tree of Knowledge, the Esoteric or Secret Doclriue. unlawfully. The priests of Hercules, or Mel-kartli, the "lAJrd" of the Eden, all wore "coats of skin.'* The teatt says: "And Java-Aleim made for Adam and his wife, ■l^J?niDn> Chitonuth-our." The first Hebrew word^ Chiton, Is the Greek XirwF (Chit6nK It became a Slavonic word by adoption from the BibU^ and means a coaU an upper garment.
Though containing the same substratum of esoteric truth as doc!) every early Cosmogony, the Hebrew Scripture wears on its face the murks of a double origin. Its Genesis is purely a reminiscence of the Babylonian captivity. The names of places, men, and even objects, can be traced from the original text to the ChoJdaeans and the Akkadians, the progenitors and Ar>*an instructors of the former. It is strongly contested that the Akkad tribes of Cfaaldu^a, Babylonia and Assyria were in any way cognate with tlie Brfthmans of Hindustan ; but there are more proofs in favour of this opinion than otherwise. The Shemite or Assyrian ought, perchance, to have been called the Turanian, and the Mongohans have been denominated Scyths. But if the Akkadians ever existed, otherwise than in the imagination of some Philologists and Ethnologists, they certainly wouUl never have been a Turanian tribe, aa some Asayriologists have striven to make us believe. They were simply
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ttnigianU on their way to Asia Minor from India, tlie cradle of hnmanity, and their aicerdotal adepts tarried to civilize and initiate a barbarian i)eople. HaMvy proved Ibclallacy of tlie Turanian mania in regard to Akkadian people, and other scientists W proved that the Babylonian cinlization was neither bom nor developed in that coantr^*. It was imported from India, and the importers were fir&hmanical Hindaa.*
And now, ten years after this was written, we find ourselves corro- borated by Professor Sayce, who says in his first Hibberl Lecture that ihe culture of the Babylonian city Eridu was of "foreign importation.'* II It came from India.
Much of the theology was borrowed by the Semites from the non-Semitic Akkulians or Proto-Chaldzeans. whom Lhey supplanted, and whose local cults they had neither the will nor the power to uproot. Indeed, Lliroughout a long course of agts the two races, Semites and Akkadians, lived side by side, their notions and worship of the gods blending insensibly together.
Here, the Akkadians are called "non-Semitic," as we had insisted lhey were in /sis Unvci/cd, which is another corroboration. Nor are wc less right iu always maiutatuing that the Jewish biblical history was a compilation of histoHcal facts, arranged from other people's history in Jewish garb — Genesis excluded, which is Esotericism pure and simple- But it is really from the Euxine to Kashmir, and beyond, ihat Science has to search for the cradle — or rather one of the chief cradles — of mankind and the sons of Ad-ah; especially in after times, when the Garden of Ed-en on the Euphrates became the College of the Astrologers and Mag^, the Aleim.
But this College and this Eden belong to the Fifth Race, and are
simply a faint reminiscence of the Adi-Varsha, of the primeval Third
Race. WTiat is the etymological meaning of the word Eden? In
Greek it is jySoi^, signifying "voluptuousness." In this aspect it is no
hx\.tT than the Olympus of the Greeks, Indra's Heaven, Svarga, on
I Mount Mem, and even the Paradise full of Houris, promised by
' Mahomet to the faithful. The Garden of Eden was never the pro-
pert>- of the Jews, for China, which can hardly be suspected of having
blown anything of the Jews 2,000 B.C., had such a primitive Garden in
, Central Asia inhabited by the "Dragons of Wisdom," the Initiates.
Hid according to Klaproth, the hieroglyphical chart copied from a
9^)anese Cyclopiedia in the book of Foe-kotu-ki\ places its "Garden
Vol. L pp. S75. 576-
koni'ki; om Xelatioiu des Royaumts Botiddhifjues ^ par Cby Fa-hisn : translated l>y Abel
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of Wisdom" on the Plateau of Pamir between the highest peaks of Himalayan ranges; and, describing it as the culminating point Central Asia, shows the four rivers — Oxus, Indus. Ganges, and Sih flowing from a common source, the '*Lake of the Dragons."
But this is not the Genetic Eden ; nor is it the Kabalistical Gardeit| of Eden. For the former — Eden Illa-ah — means in one sense Wisdom, a state like that of Nirvana, a Paradise of Bliss ; while in another sense' it refers to Intellectual Man himself, the container of the Eden in which grows the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil ; man being the Knowcrj thereof.
Renan and Barthelemy St. Hilaire, basing themselves "on the most solid inductions," think it impossible to doubt any longer, and both place the cradle of humanity 'Mn the region of the Timaus." Finally, the Journal Asiatique* concludes that:
All the traditions of the human race gathering its primitive families at the t^xa i of their birth-place, show them to us grouped around the countries where Jewui tradition places the Garden of Eden ; where the Arj'ans [Zoroastrians] established their Airyana Va&j6 or the Meru [?]. They arc hemmed in to the North by ihe countriea which join Lake Aral, and to the South by Baltistan, or Little Tibet. Everj'lhing concurs in proving that there was the abode of that primitive humanity to which we have to be traced.
That "primitive humanity" was in its Fifth Race, when the *'Foar- mouthed Dragon," the lake, of which very few traces are now ]eft,wa* the abode of the "Sons of Wisdom," the first Mind-bom Sons of the Third Race, Yet it was neither the only nor the primitive cradle of humanity, though it was the copy of the cradle, verily, of the fi: thinking divine Man. It was the Paradesha, the highland of the fi Sanskrit-speaking people, the Hedone, the country of delight of thel Greeks, but it was not the "Bower of Voluptuousness" of the Chal' dseans, for the latter was but the reminiscence of it ; nor again was there that the "Fall of Man" occurred after the "separation." T Eden of the Jews was copied from the Chalda^an copy.
That the Fall of Man into generation occurred during the earli portion of what Science calls the Mesozoic times, or the age of 1 reptiles, is evidenced by the bible phraseology concerning the serpen the nature of which is explained in the Zohar. The question is n whether Eve's incident with the tempting reptile is allegorical textual, for no one can doubt that it is the former, but to show t
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itiquity of the symbolism on the very face of it, and that it was not
ijemsh but a universal idea.
Now we find in the Zofiar a very strange assertion, one that is calculated to provoke the reader to merry laughter by its ludicrous absurdity. It tells us that the serpent, which was used by Shamael, the supposed Satan, to seduce Eve, was a kind of "flving camel" —
A "flying camel" is indeed too much for the most liberal-minded F.R.S. Nevertheless, the Zohar, which can hardly be expected to use the language of a Cuvier, was right in its description; for we find it called in the old Zoroastrian MSS. Aschmogh, which in the Avesta is rtrpresented as having after the Fall lost its nature and its name, and is described as a huge serpent with a camel's neck.
Salveite asserts that :
There «re no winged serpents nor veritable dragons, , . . Grasshoppers are stin cftUed by the Greeks winged serpents^ and this metaphor may have created several narratives on the existence of winged serpents.t
There are none now; but there is no reason why they should not lave existed during the Mesozoic Age; and Cuvier, who has recon- iructed their skeletons, is a witness to "flying camels." Already, after finding simple fossils of certain saurians, the great Naturalist has written, that:
ITtnythsng can justify the hydras and other monsters, whose 6gTires were ao ofUn repeated by mediseval historians, it is incontestably the Plesiosaurus.|
IVe are unaware if Cu\'ier has added anything in the way of a further mea culpa, but we may well imagine his confusion for all l«s slanders against archaic veracity, when he found himself in the presence of a flying saurian, the Pterodactyl, found in Germany,
i stvcnt>* -eight feet long, and carrying \igorous wings attached to its teptilian body. This fossil is described as a reptile, the Utile fingers of whose hands are so elongated as to bear a long membranous wing. Here, then, the "flying camel" of the Zoharxs vindicated. For surely,
, between the long neck of the Plesiosaurus and the membranous wing
Ktbe Pterodactyl, or still better the Mosasaurus. there is enough scien- c probability on which to build a "flying camel," or a long-necked dragon. Prof. Cope, of Philadelphia, has shown that the Mosasaurus
* De Ulnrille'* tUs Esprils, U. 413. See also Moves Malmonldes, More Nevockim.
* Sdfne£i OcculUs.-p. 464. } Mtivoluticn du Gtobe, Vol. v. p. 147*
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fossil in the chalk was a winged serpent of this kind. There ai characters in its vertebrae, which indicate union with the Ophidic] rather than with the I^certilia.
And now to the main question. It is well known that Antiquity ha«^ never claimed Palseontography and Palaeontology among its arts and' sciences; and it never had its Cuviers. Yet on Babylonian tiles, and^ especially in old Chinese and Japanese drawings, in the oldest Pagodasi and monuments, and in the Imperial Library at Pekin, many a traveller has seen and recognized perfect representations of Plesiosauri and Pterodactyls in the multiform Chinese dragons.* Moreover, the prophets speak in the Bibie of the flying fiery serpents, t and Job mentions the Leviathan.^ Now the following questions are put very directly: