THE SACRED SPIRIT WITHIN – MITAKUYE OYASIN (for all my relations—which is ALL) PLEIADES CONNECTION VOL. VI – PHOENIX JOURNAL #25 - CHAPTER  12

REC  #3    GERMAIN

MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1991   4:48 P.M.  YEAR 4, DAY 354

 

Germain present to continue after this break.  I can only add to that which has been given you from a higher Source than my­self—ye honor the Father only in that service which is as He asks and not that which pleases or displeases you personally, chela.  He who proclaims to act only in God’s service and then does that service under the instructions and legal bindings of MAN haS not full intent toward God within.  Man is accustomed to manipulation of one another and the reflection of TRUTH is al­ways made visible if you but look.  Let us return to the sub­ject of the writings.

EXAMPLES

 

It will be good right here to give an example or two of the man­ner in which writers of the He­brew bible carried traditional Egyptian teachings into those darker ages which followed the greatest fall of man from his high standard of character and righteousness into the low, maraud­ing, immoral, pagan Babylo­nian and Hebrew races.  We will quote from Malachi 4-2, for exam­ple:

 

“Unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteous­ness arise with healing in his wings.”

 

Here is a direct reference to the Egyptian Sun-God and the fal­con wings which are so much a part of early Egyptian symbol­ism, yet these words in Malachi were written at least four thou­sand years after Egyptian civilization gave them meaning.  Let us quote Psalm 104-24, for an­other ex­ample:

 

EGYPTIAN: “How manifold are thy works!  They are hidden before men O sole God, beside whom there is no other.  Thou didst create the earth according to thy heart.”

HEBREW:  “O lord how manifold are thy works!  In wisdom thou hast made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.”

 

Here in the early days of man is the full acknowledgment of the One God.  Thousands of years later, the Greeks, Norse, Chi­nese and many other people of the Middle Ages had many gods, but the influence of Egypt upon the Hebrew renaissance caused them to hold to the one god, but their god was not the GOOD God of the Egyptian concept.  Sin and evil had come into the world because of man’s lost character.  Pagan man of the Old Testament days conceived a per­sonal god of wrath and vengeance, a god who loved bloodshed and blood-sacrifice on every church altar.  You, of today, have inherited that pagan concept and two out of every three hu­mans on Earth believe in that god-of-fear concept instead of the Good God of the “Age of Char­acter”.  This is indicative of the great depths the human race has fallen into since man became self-centered instead of communally-centered.  When the fall of man began in “Pyramid Age” days, some current sage coined a new word which for­merly had no place in Egyptian thinking.  That word was AVARICE, which came to be known and dreaded beyond all other words, for these Sun-God men could see the threat of degradation befalling them at that time as the more illumined intelligentsia of your day can see your threatened degradation rapidly falling over your world.

 

No more inspiring poetry and philosophic literature has ever been produced than the inspira­tions of these early Egyptians.  We will quote parts of an Ode to the Sun which symbolizes their concept of One God who gives naught to the world but GOOD.  I quote the following from one, James Breasted’s “DAWN OF CONSCIENCE”.

 

UNIVERSAL MAINTENANCE:

The world subsists in thy hand,

Even as thou has made them.

When thou hast risen they live,

When thous settest they die;

For thou art length of life of thyself,

Men live through thee.

The eyes of men see beauty

Until thou settest.

All labour is put away

When thou settest in the west.

When thou risest again

Thou makest every hand to flourish for the king

And prosperity is in every foot,

Since thou didst establish the world,

And raise them up for thy son,

Who came forth from thy flesh,

Thou risest beautifully, O living Aton, Lord of Eternity;

Thou art glittering, beautiful, strong;

Thy love is great and mighty,

Thy rays furnish vision to every one of thy creatures,

Thy glowing hue brings life to the hearts of men,

When thou hast filled the Two Lands with thy love.

O God, who himself fashioned himself,

Maker of every land,

Creator of that which is upon it:

Even men, all herds of cattle and the antelopes,

All trees that grow in the soil,

They live when thou dawnest for them,

Thou art the mother and the father of all that thou hast made.

As for their eyes, when thou dawnest,

They see by means of thee.

Thy rays illuminate the whole earth,

When thou dawnest as their Lord.

When thou settest in the western horizon of the sky,

They sleep after the manner of the dead,

Their heads are wrapped up,

Their nostrils are stopped,

Until thy rising comes in the morning,

In the eastern horizon of the sky.

Then their arms are uplifted in adoration of thee,

Thou makest the hearts of men to live by thy beauty,

For men live when thou sendest forth thy rays,

Every land is in festivity:

Myriads of life are in thee to sustain them alive,

For it is the breath of life in the nostrils to behold thy ra­diance.

All flowers live and what grows in the soil

Is made to grow because thou dawnest.

 

By this poem you can clearly see that the basis of righteousness and character is the Love, Beauty, Goodness and Truth which Nature manifests.  To be GOOD is to be like the Creator of Goodness.  The Creator of Nature was Love, and His actions all expressed Love.  Early man set his standards by the actions of Nature which were all GOOD.  He wanted to be loved.  To be loved was to find happiness.  Man made it his first effort to find happiness by making his actions like unto Nature.  In so doing, man built CHARACTER and WISDOM.

 

We accentuate right here that the first builders of character based their civilization upon right actions—actions which con­formed with the goodness of Nature.  They did not build their charac­ter and righteousness upon religious beliefs, for religion did not come into the world until a re­alization of the immortality of man brought after-death fears for punishment for those things that man did which made him to be unloved.  A sense of the ex­istence of evil gradually seeped into the human race as religious beliefs of right and wrong, good and evil, and the punishment of sin after death seeped into the human consciousness.  These qualities were not in the early so­cial order of pre-individualistic days.  The human race was more alike in its standards.

 

Character and wisdom were treasured qualities of all men.  They held to them with as much equality as possible.  Fathers made it their first obligation to pass their wisdom on to the whole race through their sons.  Civilization was a vast school for the teaching of character and wis­dom as being based upon right actions.  Not anywhere in these early teachings is the slightest evi­dence of teaching a system of beliefs as a basis of character.  The word righteousness grew out of the phrase right actions.

 

A code of ethics grew out of the teachings of right actions which has been felt ever since in countries which followed these early Egyptian teachings.  The most conspicuous example of in­heritance of the Egyptian teachings during these long centuries of the gradual death of charac­ter was the ancient Chinese civi­lization.  Confucius and Laotzu are conspicuous exam­ples of these teachings.  China was noted for its honesty and respect for its given word.  Dur­ing Confu­cius’s life, one might lay his purse upon the street and no one would touch it except for the pur­pose of restoring it to its owner.

 

For long centuries, the father passed his wisdom to his sons and if, perchance, a son erred, the father took the fault upon himself for not being a worthy teacher.  In such a manner, whole fami­lies became responsible for the wrong actions of any one mem­ber.  This system seemed to be very unjust to the occidental, but it worked toward righteousness better than your system for whole cities policed themselves by the assumption of parental responsibility for righteous ac­tions, while occidental cities were policed with great thoroughness.  A story is told about a mis­sionary who was sent to a certain city to convert the “heathen Chinese”.  A Chinese sage of the town invited him to dinner and asked him why missionaries were sent from a country which had a murder every thirty minutes to convert a city which had only one murder in thirty years.  During the conversation, the old sage asked: “Why do you consider us to be heathen and your people to be enlightened?”  The missionary answered in these words: “All people are heathen who have not accepted Jesus as their Redeemer and Saviour from sin.”

 

This exemplifies the import which religion places upon belief as contrasted to right action.

 

One paragraph in Breasted’s DAWN OF CONSCIENCE (which book, by the way, I suggest all who can find time—read—Charles Scribner’s Sons), is so symbolic of the One God of Love which dominated the first human civilization that we quote it in full.  Dharma, pay attention, chela, and allow us to quote it in full—it means a great deal more to you, precious, than at first glance.  The words of it were written by an Egyptian Illuminate over a thousand years after Iemhotep’s time.  His name was Akhnaton (Ikhnaton) (Amunhotep IV).  In referring to the Sun-God of early Egyptian concept, he wrote:

 

Thou art the father and the mother of all that thou hast made.

 

[Let us also pen Breasted’s comment:]

 

“This teaching is one which anticipates much of the later development in religion even down to our own time.  To the sensitive soul of this Egyptian dreamer, the whole ani­mate world seems alive with consciousness of the presence of Aton, and filled with recognition of his fatherly kind­ness.  The picture of the lily-grown marshes, where the flowers are `drunken’ in the intoxicating radiance of Aton, where the birds unfold their wings and lift them `in adoration of the living Aton’, where the cattle dance in delight in the sunshine, and the fish in the river beyond leap up to greet the light, the universal light whose beams are even `in the midst of the great green sea’—all this dis­closes a discernment of the universal presence of God in nature, and a mystic conviction of the recognition of that presence by all creatures.  There is here an appreciation of the rev­elation of God in the visible world such as we find seven or eight hundred years later in the Hebrew Psalms, and in our own poets of nature since Wordsworth.”

 

In these words is the spirit of that exalted race of God-conscious men which has gradually been lost to the whole human race in proportion to its technological advancement and its ever-in­creasing number of religious doctrines, creeds and beliefs which have so effectually disunited a once closely united race of God-conscious, non-individualistic, united men.

 

Then let us see how Breasted pictures this contrast in the fol­lowing description of Ikhnaton (Akhnaton):

 

“Ikhnaton was a `God-intoxicated man’, whose mind re­sponded with marvelous sensi­tiveness and discernment to the visible evidences of God about him.  He was fairly ec­static in his sense of the beauty of the eternal and universal light.  Its beams enfold him in every moment of his which has survived.....He prays, `May my eyes be satisfied daily with beholding Him, when He dawns in this house of ATON and fills it with his own self by its beams, beau­teous in love, and lays them upon me in satisfying light for ever and ever.”

 

This awareness of God’s presence which so vividly lived before the fall of spiritual man and the rise of technological machine-age material man is what we are trying to bring back into the world by awak­ening it in you and nourishing it in the thou­sands of others like you in whom it is being awakened.  We tell you over and over again that the human race can ad­vance only in the measure in which each man recognizes his own divinity.  We tell you over and over again that God’s presence must be with you every moment, yet a large percentage of the human race will not even mention God and resents the mention of His name.

 

The reason for this is because the many doctrinal and creedal religions which have developed for thousands of years have gradually succeeded in picturing a God whom men repel be­cause of the concepts and false beliefs in sin, evil, wrath and vengeance which God seems to be more con­cerned with than love.  The end result which is now taking place is to drive the hu­man race AWAY from religion, as evidenced by the fact that over 91% of the old-time churchgoers of England do not go to church at all and the Sunday Schools of America are be­ing rapidly turned into entertainment centers to hold their pupils.

 

More saddening still is the reaction of such conditions upon your coming generation of teen-agers.  Youth delinquency, drugs, and crimes committed by youths are paralleled by the incon­ceivable sex-looseness of school age boys and girls which has become not only commonplace, but taught in the schools, so that the shock of it to moral thinking people seems to be giving place to its total acceptance as a passing phase of the times not only sanctioned but encouraged; even as similar sex-degradation ap­peared in the early days of Hollywood and wiped itself out by its own reactions—only to rise again more horrendously than ever before.

 

It is not as light as that, however, it is a repetition of the symptoms which made Babylon, Athens and Rome fall.  Your present civilization is as sure to fall as past ones fell if charac­ter and righteousness do not come back into the human race by your efforts—and ours—to bring them back.

 

The whole world now asks: Is the Light of the world going out?  Is it?  Ask this of yourself.  Ask yourself if the ugly underlying world-thought of today has the slightest resemblance to the world-thought of that long yesterday which expressed its thoughts in this way:

 

Thou findest him who transgresses against thee;

Woe to him who assails thee!

Thy city endures;

But he who assails thee falls.

 

The sun of him who knows thee not goes down, O Aton!

But as for him who knows thee, he shines.

The temple of him who assailed thee is in darkness,

But the whole earth is light.

 

Here you find an ancient race of men who rejoiced in knowing God, while you, who feel your­selves to be enlightened, have so few who thus rejoice.  These whole messages, of course, are totally redundant with pleas to mankind to take GOD into its consciousness, but the very words seem strange to ninety-five percent of your people.

 

You might give some careful thought to one of your Earth peo­ple, Oswald Spengler, who pro­claimed the final downfall of the white race of Western civilization and inferred the rise of the yellow race to world mastery!

 

MORE  ABOUT  CHARACTER

If man succeeds in building an enduring civilization in which he finds happiness, prosperity and peace which passeth beyond un­derstanding, it will be because he has founded it upon char­acter.  An enduring civilization cannot be built otherwise, nor can a successful, individual ca­reer be built otherwise.

 

In those old days when it became the responsibility of fathers to pass their wisdom on to their sons, one of them said:

 

Precious to man is the virtue of his son, and good charac­ter is a thing remembered.

 

The greatest moral order of all time grew out of the creation of a system of universal ethical values which reached their height of physical and spiritual expression two thousand years be­fore Akhnaton’s revival of them, after a period of their suffering from the effects of after-death fears and the evils which the reli­gions were infiltrating into human thinking.

 

Akhnaton was comparable to Immanuel as the Messiah of his time; yet, like Immanuel, he was overthrown and every attempt to obliterate his teachings was practiced by the then lowering standard of man of his period, fourteen centuries before Christ.

 

Bear in mind that the One Solar God became the basis of the monotheistic religion which fol­lowed through the entirety of Egyptian life until the early Hebrews discarded it for a personal God who recognized the Hebrew race as his “chosen” people.  When this transition took place, this god of the Jews changed his nature from the Creator of GOOD to the lover of bloodshed and punisher of evil.  From that day, the altars of the Jews ran with the blood of thousands of animals which were sacrificed as ap­peasement for the sins committed by those who paid the priests of the temple for the sacrifices—those ones still expect AN­OTHER to sacrifice in their stead.  To this very day, the great majority of the human race accepts this pagan doctrine of an al­ready fallen race in preference to the Solar God concept of a Creator of GOOD which shed His light and heat upon the world to create all that IS good for the needs of all Creation.

Let us close this segment and when we sit again we will give you example of some of the teach­ings which the fathers of four thousand years of Egyptian civilization passed on to their sons in their daily lessons.  It might shock you a bit.

 

May the WORD be blessed.

I AM — GERMAIN

 

Sept. 16, 2011

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