This is a rather eccentric
interpretation of mostly cultural documents and claims but it does bring up one
subject that needs to be addressed. The
Elder Race is clearly an evidentiary reality.
We have the bones and we are on the way to having the DNA.
The history is interesting
but also irrelevant. What has been
relevant is that we have been left alone to work out our own destiny without
direct meddling. There has been ample
indirect meddling though as one might expect.
The open question regarding
when they will open communication with us remains open but it is also surely
soon if only because we will have the real power to visit them ourselves quite
soon. I give it no more that until
around 2050 AD.
Victoria
LePage
March 21, 2014
René
Guénon’s assertion, culled from ancient esoteric sources, that in the remote
past humanity’s first civilisation arose in the ice-free Arctic zone is not
without geological support. According
to the well-known researcher J.S. Gordon, “there is no scientific doubt that
the polar ice caps have melted and reformed many, many times over and that this
has always affected human society (plus animal and plant species), often
catastrophically.”1
He points out that the great Ice Age that
lasted about two million years, ending about twelve thousand years ago, was
made up of thirty or so minor Ice Ages, with warm intervals of polar
deglaciation in between them, each creating periods of thousands of years of
temperate conditions at the poles. Any one of these warm intervals would have
been hospitable to a circumpolar civilisation.
Charles Hapgood,
who in the mid-sixties was the Professor of the History of Science at Keene
University in New Hampshire, USA, became convinced that humanity did indeed
enjoy a sophisticated civilisation a hundred thousand years or more ago, and
that it must have been at least partly in a polar location. He derived his theory
from cartographic research conducted on ancient portolans or seafaring maps,
one of which had been in the possession of a l6th-century Turkish admiral, Piri
Re’is.2
“This map (and others also researched),”
Gordon comments, summarising Hapgood’s conclusions, “clearly showed… that the
polar regions had been cartographically surveyed when no ice cap existed,”3and that in the case of
the Antarctic Circle, rivers and mountains had been mapped in such detail that
the land must have been inhabited – and by a people who understood spherical
trigonometry.
Other researchers, sifting and re-examining
existing archaeological data from the past 150 years, have concluded from the
evidence of human artefacts and fossil bones found under deep geological layers
that anatomically modern humans with a modern intellectual capacity have
existed from the beginning of the Quaternary period, some 1.65 million years
ago – and that they were taller than modern man and with a brain capacity 15 –
20 per cent larger. Such findings reinforce the growing opinion of many people
today that Hapgood’s theory, initially rejected by scientists of the day, has
serious merit.
In The Secret Doctrine, Helena Blavatsky said
that in primeval times the earth had still not densified fully and was
therefore larger than at present. All body forms would have been considerably
lighter in weight and of a more plastic nature, the skeleton still not having
hardened by then; and accordingly human beings could have been less affected by
gravity and as much as sixty feet or more taller than they are today. She
believed that over vast ages there have been several violent changes in earth’s
climatic conditions, with corresponding diminutions of human stature,
accompanied by many variations in human civilisation and culture.4
Mainstream science has no real conception of
how long modern homo sapiens has been in existence, or under what physical
conditions, but certainly archaeologists are aware that homo sapiens skulls of
an entirely modern type have been found that are over a hundred thousand years
old. Swanscombe man from England is a quarter of a million years old, while
Vertesszollos man from Hungary, equally modern in type, dates to an amazing
four hundred thousand to seven hundred thousand years old.5 Such dates leave
ample room in our human record for many modifications of climate and variations
in the physical stature, cultural development and living conditions of human
beings.
The Hebrew Bible tells us:
There were giants in
the earth in those days; and also after that, when the Sons of God came in unto
the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty
men which were of old, men of renown. (Genesis 6:4)
The information given in the Book of Genesis
regarding the Sons of God, the giant-sized Elders who once lived on earth –
“mighty men of old, men of renown” – was derived by Hebrew scribes from the
scriptures of older surrounding races, such as the Indian Vedic texts, the Vedas and Puranas, and the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.
In the Sumerian illustrations of the doings of
the gods it can readily be seen that the relative height of the Elders and
ordinary humans was that of adult and child: in one such instance, a god is
holding a human on his lap as though nursing an infant. The Egyptians also
created statues of god-kings of enormous height juxtaposed to little figures of
normal human stature; and while these statements in stone may have been
intended symbolically, the alternative possibility exists that an entirely
realistic rendition was intended, as more than one researcher has suggested.
Helena Blavatsky, for example, contended that
not only were the polar regions the cradle of humanity millions of years ago,
but that due to a decrease of velocity in the Earth’s rotation conditions at
the poles changed, and the size and weight of all the organisms living there
was accordingly modified.
The axle of the Wheel
tilted… People [for the first time] knew snow, ice and frost, and men, plants
and animals were dwarfed in their growth. Those that did not perish remained as
half-grown babes in size and intellect. 6
The other outstanding characteristic imputed
to the Elders, whom Blavatsky called the Kumaras, was their huge skulls. Although there is less
evidence in the ancient texts to support this legend, it is an astonishing fact
that several such enormous skulls, relative to the size of the face, have been
unearthed in Peru: one is on display in the museum in Lima.7 According to
reports, others of similar immensity have been found in and around Egypt and
Tibet, suggesting a correspondingly massive intelligence.8
Furthermore, carved busts of the family
members belonging to the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton of the eighteenth dynasty
demonstrate the same anomalous feature, including equally huge ears. Found in
the underground desert ruins of Tel el Amarna in Egypt, little known statues of
this strange family, which included Nefertiti, Akhenaton’s wife, and their
daughters, exhibit other unusual features, including great body height. The
body of a statue of Nefertiti is described below:
She’s not wearing
clothes because they didn’t believe in that at the time. She has a huge head, large
ears, a long, skinny neck and a high waist. She also has a kind of bulging
tummy. And… she has skinny legs and wide thighs.9
This in fact is an equally good description of
her husband’s famously strange appearance. The carved or painted likenesses of
Nefertiti’s daughters, down to the youngest, a mere toddler, show exactly the
same peculiar characteristics of enormous hairless skulls, high waists, skinny
calves and huge ears.
Could this Egyptian royal family, then, have
been a throwback to the ancestral offspring of the Elders? And more
pertinently, could its anomalous physical features support the idea of an intellectually
advanced race alien to ours, either from another stellar system or a
previous racial cycle?
These Elders, also known as the beni ha-elohim, the Sons of God
or Sons of the Fire Mist whom the Sumerians claimed had brought civilisation to
humanity, are a perennial mystery. G.I. Gurdjieff regarded them as palaeolithic shaman
adepts, men and women who in the remote past practised their mysteries in the
underground caves along the Syr Darya, in Central Asia, and whose evolution due
to their superior spiritual practices put them far in advance of their fellows.10
But occult tradition goes a great deal
further, contending the Elders were a wise and powerful race that came from the
stars – possibly, say some, from the giant star Sirius. In the ancient Egyptian
tradition they are called the “Watchers of Pe,” divine Intelligences who watch
over and guide humanity, their progeny, from celestial heights. Alternatively,
could they have been, as the noted Theosophist G. de Purucker suggests, the
left-over remnant of an earlier human race that had incarnated on Earth but had
originally come from the
Pleiades system, and which had ended its racial cycle perhaps
millions of years ago?
Until recently such questions about the Elders
could not profitably be asked except in the context of a closed initiatory
society. Even stranger, until recently the rest of the world was not even aware
that such questions entailed proscribed temple material that had been forbidden
to the outside world for thousands of years. As already mentioned in the first
part of this article (see New
Dawn No. 112, January-February 2009), René Guénon, one of the foremost esotericists of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, struggled as far as he dared against
this occult embargo, believing that the time was fast approaching when humanity
would be in need of a higher level of anthropological, cosmological and
metaphysical understanding than was possible in his day.
“This study,” he wrote, concerning the
advanced Elder race that, according to Theosophical lore, had migrated from the
Arctic zone to Central Asia many hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions of
years ago, “has gone deeper than any preceding it, inviting reproach, perhaps, from
some. We do, however, believe we have not said too much, nor anything that
should not be disclosed…”11 Yet
much knowledge regarded as too arcane or too dangerous for the profane populace
would, Guénon was convinced, soon have to be released into the public domain.
And it would seem he was right.
A new order is dawning in this post-millennial
era in which a great deal of the once proscribed sacred knowledge is being made
available to all. Among many of yesterday’s underground secrets now freely
emerging into the light of day are the secrets of human evolution and its
tandem relationship to the evolution of earth and cosmos. These secrets have a
direct relevance to the mysterious Elders, gods whom they suggest are actually
human beings and members of a fifth kingdom in Nature.
Thus the removal of the occult embargo, allied
to an explosion of new scientific discoveries and hypotheses, is making it
possible to approach the subject in an entirely new way.
The Fifth Kingdom
The medieval classification of Nature into
four universal kingdoms, mineral, vegetable, animal and human, has been
rendered obsolete by modern science, which has inductively evolved its own
hierarchical system of subatomic particles, atoms and molecules before the
mineral, and combined the animal and human in one category. Nevertheless, the
old system of four kingdoms, based on an intuitive deductive vision of the truth and seen as an example of the
Perennial Philosophy, is still entrenched in most of the Western esoteric
schools that have emerged since medieval times: Theosophy, Anthroposophy,
Rosicrucianism, modern Sufism, various New Age channellings, the Sri Aurobindo
school and others.
Four-kingdom proponents from these schools see
the progression in Nature as a succession from inert mineral to the plant, that
is alive but not apparently conscious, to the animal that has a limited
reasoning power but is not self-aware, and to the human being who alone has self-awareness and
conscious free will. To these four definitive classifications a
fifth is occasionally added by medieval philosophers under variously named,
rather obscure and even misleading headings; but whatever the designation, in
esoteric circles any natural classification beyond the fourth is either
nonexistent or only vaguely delineated, lacking the emphasis or clarity it
requires.
The ancient Egyptians made the matter a great
deal clearer. They understood the goal of human evolution to be a transition or
resurrection into a higher state, a higher natural kingdom, and illustrated the
transition with admirable precision on the ceilings of certain very old tombs.12 In their depiction
of the neters or gods
undergoing spiritual resurrection, they show a row of animal-headed human
figures marching along a horizontal base line, a red oval – the “egg of
metamorphosis” – above each head, until suddenly the base line turns by 90
degrees to the vertical and one figure swings into ascension along it.
Achieving what may be a rapid biological change into a new life form, he
transforms into the royal fifth kingdom. Armed with what appears to be the staff
of spiritual authority and lacking the oval over his head, which has presumably
been absorbed into his being, he has metamorphosed into a king.13 In other words, from being a collective being of a
lower order, he has become a royal singularity, a ruler of all kingdoms lower
than the fifth.
Ancient petroglyphs of sun-headed men found in
various parts of the world, but especially in Central Asia, tell the same
story.
Because of the occult secrecy that has
enshrouded the subject of the fifth kingdom over the past 2,000 years at least,
we have failed to understand its crucial significance as our true evolutionary
goal and our key to all those questions we have never been able to answer. The
inclusion of a fifth kingdom in the natural order turns the fourth kingdom that
we humans presently inhabit into a mere corridor of becoming, a transitional
episode in which we are driven forward in a process of transformation from the
animal state behind us to that of the true human ahead, as indeed Gautama
Buddha recognised. Life, human life, he said, is never-ending change and the
suffering of change – and indeed it is viewed as a journey of relentless
development of intelligence and consciousness into the truly human kingdom, the
fifth, wherein alone lies repose well earned.
The idea of a potential fifth kingdom, a state of spiritual felicity and
repose we may hope to enjoy some time in the future, is not new to us. But what
the ancient mystery temples through to modern esoteric teachers like Guénon
have been reluctant to disclose is that the fifth kingdom is not a future
potential but a presently existing reality, a supremely enlightened human state
coexisting with our own. Like the other four kingdoms of nature, it has
extended and always will extend back into the illimitable past and forward into
an equally illimitable future, with its own archetypal place in the cosmos.
Indeed, it is esoterically acknowledged that
beyond the fifth kingdom others also exist. Gordon speaks of the fourth, fifth,
sixth and even the seventh kingdom of our planetary Nature. “All of these
kingdoms exist together (even if we are unaware of the fact),” he says, “and
all of them together comprise the evolving nature of Man. Hence humankind is
but one partial expression of Man in general.”14 Given
such a perspective, many possibilities open up that were not previously viable
in our worldview.
According to this perspective, the Elders of
Akkadian-Sumerian legend and the gods of the Babylonians and
the Assyrians were the higher-level final flowering of a previous human cycle
many millions of years old, their privilege being to guide the evolution of the
next cycle – our own. Freed by their advanced development from the limiting
conditions of transitional fourth-level humanity, the universe was open to
them, for fifth-kingdom space-time is said to possess multiple dimensions
incomprehensible and inaccessible to the lower kingdoms. These so-called gods
could travel between the stars on supramundane energy currents unknown to us,
incarnating on other stellar bodies or on planet Earth as the need arose, and
withdrawing as they chose into dimensions invisible to their charges on Earth.
In the above scenario, not only is our past
implicated in this new perspective; our future is equally involved. As we
ascend with increasing rapidity into higher states of consciousness and hence
into proximity with the fifth kingdom, we are finding the Elders in their
various otherworld guises descending to meet us. As a part of the great human
order, they are our future as well as our past. We shall find in fact that
humanity is at home everywhere in the universe and its life has no beginning
and no ending; it is co-eternal with the cosmos.
Therefore, perhaps, it is time we gathered
together all our ideas of aliens, extraterrestrials, Sirian cosmonauts and
angelic visitors and categorise them all as members of our own human species
who, along with their advanced technologies, have arrived in the fifth kingdom
before us – our own kin already established in majesty and power; already, like
the Egyptian priest-kings of old, free to traverse the cosmic pathways at will
as the Sons of God – the lords of the universe.
According to the Solar teachings of the
ancient Pillar religion, the royal road to the fifth kingdom lies in an
ascension up the World Tree, through its successive gateways, to the starry
heavens. Kingly authority and the power to rule wisely rests on the royal
initiate’s ability to ascend the axis
mundi or World Tree to the divine centre of creation at the zenith
of the heavens. There, and only there, he will find deification; there he will
be able to access the heavenly powers from which all impulses of rulership,
creativity and wisdom emanate; there he will find the freedom of the spiritual
world.
This idea of returning home to the stars is
implicit in all the tribal totem systems found in early shamanic societies
around the world, but was more fully realised in its religious form when the
idea of kingship – of hierarchical rule from above – seized neolithic societies
at the end of the last Ice Age. John Major Jenkins, a leading researcher
of ancient cosmology, says:
Sacred knowledge is
won or achieved by undertaking visionary journeys up the World Axis to the cosmic
centre. A ruler, having thus become fused with the divine source and emanating
power of life and wisdom, constellates the beings and objects of lesser
degrees.15
Such a monarch stands as far more than an
exemplary figurehead or an administrative symbol at the heart of his kingdom;
he has become, by virtue of his conquest of the World Tree, a way-shower into a
new order of being for the whole of his society. In the same way, so Jenkins
believes, at certain critical junctures of the Earth’s history, this odyssey of
transformation up the cosmic Pillar to the divine Centre at the zenith is
possible for the race as a whole, which thereby advances further towards its
next evolutionary goal – the supernal kingdom, the fifth.
Revisiting the Pillar
Religion
The secret teachings of the very earliest
sages of which we have cognisance claimed that all life, all wisdom and
creative power is transmitted to the earth plane via a spiritual energy flowing
down from the highest Source, and that it is by reascending the sacred current,
symbolised as a Pillar or a World Tree connecting earth to heaven, that
humanity comes to its most sublime perfection.
A traditional symbol of this occult energy
stream has been retained in the Qabalistic Tree of Life defined astrologically.
The well-known British author Trevor Ravenscroft likens the Tree of Life to
“the Yggdrasil tree of Norse mythology, the world-Ash which binds together
heaven, earth and hell.” The crown of the tree, he says, “comprises the twelve
constellations of the Zodiac, the spiralling branches symbolise the planets and
the roots of the trunk dig deeply into the elements of the earth.”16 The Tree is thus a
metaphor for the archetypal processes of the cosmos that are believed to
underlie all evolutionary activity.
From the earliest times, the World Tree was
central to the shamanism of the nomadic tribes of the Central Asian steppes, as
it was to the later Solar religion of the settled Aryan communities of that
region. Indeed, if we are to believe Plato, in the days before the Great Flood
and the sinking of Atlantis, the World Tree featured also in the primeval
Atlantean religion with its monarchic system, its warlike bull cult and its
concentric city planning; and according to Blavatsky, it was this Solar system
that was eventually transplanted by great migrations into Central Asia.
From west to east and from north to south,
then, the Pillar religion in its various guises appears to have reigned
universally as the earth’s primordial belief-system, the destiny of man being
seen as the ultimate return of his soul via the World Tree to the power-realms
of the stars.
Where then on the planet is this World Tree
that the Hebrews called Jacob’s Ladder? Although it would be natural to assume
it is synonymous with the earth’s north-south axis of rotation, such is not the
case. According to Guénon, there have been several successive locations of the
World Axis on the surface of the globe that distinguish it from either the
north-south axis of rotation or the magnetic axis. Opening up the secret
metaphysical tradition, he asserts that basically nothing less than a new model
of the world is needed if we are to understand the true nature of the World
Axis.
The esoteric reality, expressed long ago in
the Pillar teachings, is that the earth incorporates a principle that connects
it at all times to a greater spiritual world in the same way that a mirrored
reflection is intrinsically connected to the reality. By virtue of this fact,
the earth is multi-dimensional in structure – as indeed the physicist David
Bohm has proposed in his theory of an implicate universal order lying behind
the explicate physical order as its energetic template – and this radically
modifies everything we can say about the planet, in the way we measure and
describe it.
The Pillar religion projected a worldview very
different from our own. The planet was regarded as a living organism with its
own hierarchy of elemental intelligences, plus a hierarchy of solar
intelligences or devas, at work in the manifold organisation and running of the
whole, and which we call today the work of Nature. The World Tree, in India
known as Mt. Meru, was believed to be at the very heart of this great dynamic
complex, a channel of evolutionary energy running through the centre of the
planet, a path of psychospiritual transformation of the same order as the
seven-fold spinal path of consciousness running
through the human body.
In fact, the name Meru is connected to the
Sanskrit word merudanda,
meaning a backbone, and hence the World Tree can be further qualified as the
backbone of the planet, a chakric system analogous to that of the human spinal
system, with seven or nine nodes of increasing psychospiritual awareness
culminating in the Cosmic Centre at the summit. These nodes were clairvoyantly
perceived as a succession of gateways up the trunk of the Tree leading into
higher planes of existence, and the final entrance to the Cosmic Centre was
therefore called the North Gate.
Guénon’s Neoplatonic thesis contains the
concept of a universal ether, renamed “the quantum fluid” by modern science,
and states that behind the physical body of the earth lies its spiritual
template, a permanent prephysical or etheric web of forces delineating the
planetary structure in its essential form. In this inner light body – or, as
Vedic cosmology calls it, the vajra body
– is located the World Axis, the etheric source and intelligent regulator of
all the energies of the planet. At the beginning of each great temporal cycle –
and by that Guénon means at the very least one round of the Zodiac, one
Sidereal Year of 25,920 years – the two bodies are in virtually perfect
alignment, but as the cycle proceeds a separation occurs and the physical body
falls increasingly out of alignment with its spiritual template.
This non-alignment or tilting away of the
planetary body from its inner template is the result of their differentiation
from each other, which has the effect of creating all the earthly stresses and
vicissitudes of time and change that we know so well, yet is the necessary
precondition for evolutionary growth. From this circumstance comes all the
suffering of becoming, all the so-called evils of our earthly existence.
In such a spiritual cosmology the universe is
the expression of a great Intelligence within which are the unchanging ideas or
templates of form, the whole being in a state of ideal harmony and order. But
although the spiritual world of pure Being is changeless, the natural state of
its reflection, holographically projected onto a lower plane and thus an object
of differentiation, is to become off-centre in relation to it and therefore in
perpetual compensatory motion.
This is the biblical “fall” of mankind without which there would be no evolutionary
process. With the separating out of the physical plane, motion is created and the
suffering of change begins; for the process of increasing differentiation of
the physical body from its spiritual background inflicts on the planet and all
its life-forms a local disturbance, the angst of movement, of disequilibrium, of continual
adjustment to new conditions and new evolutionary demands – but also to the
possibility of attaining a greater state of being.
We can sum up this occult cosmology thus: At
the beginning of the great precessional cycles, the north-south axis and the
magnetic axis are in virtually perfect alignment with the World Axis and with
each other. All three stand at that time apparently united at true North, so
that the supreme spiritual centre is in a literally polar location; but as the
cycles proceed, the poles fall progressively out of alignment with the World
Axis and terrestrial changes develop. Today this mysterious noumenon known
variously as the Sampo, the axis
mundi and the Tree of Life has apparently shifted southward. Clairvoyantly visible, it has
its locale in the Inner Asian region delineated by the Tarim Basin and its
surrounding ring of great mountain ranges.
Within the boundaries of this vast mountain
encirclement, the World Axis is believed to have varied its location from time
to time. But wherever it is found, it always remains functionally polar; it is
always the central origin point – or as ancient peoples called it, the omphalos of the planet, the place of the first
creation – from whence
grand waves of acculturation have periodically issued.
In Galactic Alignment Jenkins presents a
similar cosmological picture. He calls the World Axis the evolutionary axis, by
implication a third terrestrial axis presently unknown to science. Psychically
accessible, this great current of psychospiritual conscious energy that runs
through the centre of the earth is thought today to emerge somewhere north of
Kashmir, soaring high into interstellar space above the Pamirs.17 It is in that vicinity, at the foot of the World Tree,
that the peoples of Central Asia have traditionally located the hidden kingdom
of the Elders known as Shambhala, an initiatory centre accessible on both a
physical, an etheric and an astral plane.
The North Gate, Jenkins contends, can be
viewed as analogous at a cosmic level to the pineal gland in the human system,
which is the most interior and creative centre in man and “the point from which
spiritual gifts are given.”18 He sees the Cosmic Centre
at the head of the World Axis as fulfilling the same function in a planetary
context. However, while René Guénon has postulated a major polar-to-solar shift
of the Cosmic Centre in man’s worship at some remote time in antiquity, Jenkins
has argued that this shift would be better understood as a polar-to-galactic
one.
Thousands of years ago, he says,
priest-astronomers realised that approximately every 6,450 years the North Gate
was aligned with the galactic centre, and that such times offered a priceless
evolutionary opportunity for the whole race. It is an astronomical fact, says
Jenkins, that alignments of the
solstices and equinoxes with the plane of our Milky Way galaxy occur
periodically over the 26,000-year precession cycle. Such alignments, in fact,
occur every 6,450 years. Joseph Campbell pointed out that knowledge of the
precessional cycle is implied by the importance given the number 25,920 in
Hindu, Nordic and Babylonian doctrines.19
Jenkins equates the spiritual evolution of
humanity with this periodic alignment of the Earth with the galactic plane and
the Galactic Centre. The idea that the latter stimulates consciousness on this
planet is, he says, “an intriguing and profound concept” that finds echoes in
Mayan, Vedic and Egyptian cosmology. Gordon too observes that the earth is
subject to celestial seasons of about 6,480 years, “which have a dramatic
effect upon both the climate… and also upon the many and varied cultures and
civilisations which exist at the time.”20
The Tree is thus regarded as a planetary chakric system
analogous to that of the individual tantrica in
the practice of kundalini yoga. Even as the yogic consciousness ascends the
spinal system, so activating a sequence of seven hierarchically ordered chakras
or psychospiritual energy vortices which alter in subtle ways the entire
spectrum of consciousness, so the ascension of the racial soul up the World
Tree at certain precessional intervals of c.6,450 (or c.6,480) years
corresponds with the opening up of a succession of celestial gateways for
humanity as a whole.
At each open gateway the flooding down of
divine creative energies precipitates certain psychological and cultural
modifications in society; the human body typology changes; new deities, new
mores appear; the material technology advances or changes its base, a new
world-civilisation is launched founded on newly imperative truths. It is a
moment of supreme evolutionary importance, a collective initiation perhaps best
conveyed by the teachings of the Mithraic mystery religion.
This important Greco-Roman cult flourished
until the fourth century CE, when it was extinguished by Christianity. Seven
planetary spheres were opened up to the seeker through the seven grades of
Mithraic initiation, allowing him ultimately to ascend to the highest, the
Father (Saturn). However, beyond the seventh level was a secret teaching
revealing an eighth and ninth level or “house” where the Hypercosmic Sun was
located. This hypercosmic luminary, this “Star of Stars” as the first century
philosopher Philo Judaeus of Alexandria called it, was identified with the
Galactic Centre, to which access was gained only through the eighth and ninth
celestial “doorway” above that of Saturn.21 This
secret means of escape from Earth’s gravity into the freedom of the Universe
has been closely guarded by occult tradition and is still not fully unveiled.
The doctrine of the Hypercosmic Sun, according
to Jenkins, is “fundamentally about the soul’s passage through the galactic
gateways that open during eras of galactic alignment,” when the divine light of
the Milky Way Centre pours down through the opened valves of the World Axis and
irradiates the earth and all its inhabitants for a certain interval of time. It
is in that critical interval that the great evolutionary mutations take place,
civilisations are overthrown and reinstated in radically new forms and the
potential exists for the fifth kingdom to be realised by at least some members
of fourth-kingdom humanity.
Jenkins is only one of countless observers who
believe such a historic time has once again come around. Indeed, by now
millions of people are watching and waiting for the end-of-the-world Mayan date
of 2012 CE, believing it to be the beginning of a new World Age… a further
stage in the journey towards the
fifth kingdom.
Eurasia Awakes
In February of 1962 astrological pundits
announced a major planetary conjunction that occurs only once in every c.6,500
(or 6,480) years – the previous one therefore having taken place in c.4500 BCE,
and the one before that in c.11000 BCE, both of which occasions were prophetic
of great earth changes.22 I remember well the report
in the media, because immediately a cry of distress and foreboding went up
right across India; for it was known by most Hindu astrologers that this rare
stellar event, occurring only four times in the precessional cycle of 26,000
years, does indeed foreshadow great floods and catastrophic climatic changes.
In response, the dawning New Age movement of
the time predicted the return of the Elder race, the possibility of a pole shift,
the birth of a new race of clairvoyants. To esotericists generally the
conjunction signified a new World Age and an impending psychospiritual
initiation of collective humanity, with all the social and ideological turmoil
such an event implied. And confirming John Major Jenkins’ later theory to the
hilt, the conjunction was seen by some star-gazers as the first sign of a
coming revolution in geopolitical world affairs, with the rise of Asia and the
decline of the western Anglo-American hegemony.
At the time all these predictions were
regarded as amazing and pretty farfetched. But nearly fifty years on, the
events presaged in 1962 are now crystallising as post-millennial realities.
Ominously, the ice caps and glaciers are melting, the seas rising, earth’s
resources shrinking; the Anglo-American world order, built on predatory
economic corporations, is unravelling, Asiatic power inexorably rising. A
transformation in human consciousness is well underway; and there is increasing
evidence that the vast natural, socio-political and consciousness changes we
are seeing are now irreversible, for good or ill.
Perhaps the most significant sign of the times
is to be found in the growing vision of a unified Eurasia among the major Asian
nations such as China, Mongolia, India, Iran (and also Brazil), as well as
Kazakhstan and many other of the Central Asian Muslim states. Included in this
growing Eastern bloc is Russia which, since the collapse of the Soviet regime,
is increasingly turning away from Western Europe and towards Asia in its quest
for identity. Geographically the largest nation on the earth, it extends right
across northern Asia from Eastern Europe to the Bering Sea.
Russia is rediscovering its Slavic roots; and
especially since the discovery of Arkaim and the Land of Cities in the southern
Urals, it is also exploring its Aryan past and its more recent connections to
the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan, who subjugated the whole of the Eurasian
corridor as far as eastern Europe in the thirteenth century. Indeed, for many
of Russia’s intellectuals the universal tolerance and freedom from dogma of the
ancient Pillar religion of the Mongol/Turkic peoples has great valence and is
displacing Christianity and Islam in the popular esteem. “Out of Russia,” says Alice
Bailey, channelling the prophecies of her Tibetan guru, DK, “will emerge the
new and magical religion about which I have so often told you.”23
There have been a number of famous prophecies
regarding Russia’s future pivotal role in world affairs generally, notably
those of Rudolf Steiner and Edgar Cayce, as well as those of Gerard Encausse,
the highly respected French occult master who went under the pseudonym of Papus
(1865 – 1916). The author Mehmet Sabeheddin notes that “Papus knew of the key
role to be played by Russia in unifying Eurasia and her occult destiny as the
Empire of the End, the outward manifestation of the enigmatic power of
‘Northern Shambhala’.”24 Many others have seen
Russia as destined to continue the work of Genghis Khan, who transformed the
nomad tribal conglomerates of the Eurasian steppes into a unified and superbly
organised political system that revolutionised international life for centuries
to come.
Across the steppes, where for countless
centuries a melting pot of peoples, religions and empires from every quarter
have traded and warred and sunk with their cities beneath the desert sands, a
spirit of renaissance, of ecumenical reform, is undoubtedly taking hold. From
the Far East to Moscow and from the Altai to Iran, a countervailing force,
identifiable with the invisible spiritual powerhouse of Shambhala, is stirring
throughout the region. Muslim, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Christian, Jew, Taoist
and shaman are finding common ground in a unitive vision of the future.
Responding to the militaristic Anglo-American colonisation that has long
dominated the Asian hemisphere, this new regional climate bodes well for the
rebalancing of the globe’s spiritual, cultural and economic forces.
The move to turn the tenuous Eurasian concept
into a geopolitical reality composed of numerous independent but strongly
affiliated nations committed to East-West amity must be regarded as a force for
renewal, for the healing of the Atlantean/Hyperborean rupture that long ago
shattered the primal unity of the life of the planet. The present thrust seeks
instead to recapture the unity of the ancient Arctic accord and to set forth
new terms for a viable future for humankind.
What is truly remarkable is that we are
witnessing all this happening in Central Asia at the very time of great
astrological significance, when the stars again portend extreme danger and
extreme opportunity for the life of Earth. Are we then seeing once again a
mysterious intervention from the East, a salvific influence arising in the heart
of Asia that seeks to sow the seeds of a new global order and a new type of
civilisation in the face of apocalyptic geophysical change? Can the Elder race
be coming to our aid yet again?
About the Author
VICTORIA LEPAGE has
published numerous articles on the new spiritual paradigm emerging in cultures
worldwide and is the author of Shambhala: The Fascinating Truth Behind the Myth of
Shangri-la, published in ten foreign languages. She
lives in New South Wales, Australia, and can be contacted through her website
at www.victoria-lepage.org.
Footnotes:
1. J.S. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of
Atlantis, and the Mysterious
Origins of Human Civilization, Watkins Publishing,
London, 2008, 131.
3. Gordon, op. cit., 131.
4. Ibid., 159.
5. William Fix, Lake of Memory Rising, Council Oaks Books, LLC, San
Francisco, 2000, 203.
6. H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2., Theosophical
Publishing House, Los Angeles, 1947, 324.
7. Drunvalo Melchizedek, The Ancient Secret of the Flower of
Life, Light Technology Publishing House, Flagstaff, AZ, 1990 – 8,
143.
8. Ibid., 143.
9. Ibid., 139.
12. Melchizedek, op. cit., 43.
13. Ibid., 43.
14. J.S. Gordon, op. cit., 85.
15. John Major Jenkins, Galactic Alignment, Bear &
Co., Rochester, Vermont, 2002, 150.
16. Trevor Ravenscroft & T.
Wallace-Murphy, The Mark of the
Beast, Vol. 3, Sphere Books, U.K., 1990, 67.
19. Ibid., 42.
20. J.S. Gordon, op. cit., 130.
21. Jenkins, op. cit., 107.
22. Sky and Telescope Magazine, December 1961, 320. On February 5,
1962, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were all within 13 degrees of
the eclipsed Sun.
23. Cited by Mehmet Sabeheddin, The Secret of Eurasia: The Key to Hidden
History and World Events, New Dawn No. 68 (September-October 2001).
24. Ibid.
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