The occult gives a kind of precision to the spiritual

Re: 06: A Colloquy ["Older races?"] by RY Deshpande

on Mon 05 Mar 2007 07:52 AM PST Profile Permanent Link

Hi Ron Frankly, I don’t have a direct answer to your question. But we might be permitted to make surmises. But it will be really good if an Egyptologist from the sciy forum can throw “Aryan light” on the issue. The context is the “sombre shadows that fell over Egypt”, the shadows originating from “older races”. But these shadows must be seen also in the “Aryan light”. The clubbing of the mystic rites and initiations of the Greeks with the esoteric doctrines of Egypt, later losing the “Aryan light”, strongly suggests the occult character that started entering into the tradition. Eventually, it was thickly overshadowed by the darkish and unregenerate mysticism, the mysticism of the subconscient.

True, many of these traditions had read the riddle of death and found the secret of immortality. Magnificent temples and pyramids were built. A myth has it that all the temples descended from one primal Temple. But then the “Aryan light”, the authentic spiritual light, was becoming dimmer and dimmer. This is not uncommon when the occult prevails over the spiritual. While the occult gives a kind of precision to the spiritual, the spiritual makes the occult luminous and genuine. In the absence of the psychic coming forward, the danger is always there. We have to only remember the times of Moses and the Dark-Red Bull that rode the Egyptian Streets. Let us read the following from the Wikipedia:

While Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving instruction on the laws for the Israelite community, the Israelites went to Aaron and asked him to make gods for them. After Aaron had received golden earrings from the people, he made a golden calf and said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt." A "solemnity of the Lord" was proclaimed for the following day, which began in the morning with sacrifices and was followed by revelry. After Moses had persuaded the Lord not to destroy the people of Israel, he went down from the mountain and was met by Joshua. Moses destroyed the calf and rebuked Aaron for the sin he had brought upon the people. Seeing that the people were uncontrollable, Moses went to the entry of the camp and said, "Who is on the Lord's side? Let him come unto me." All the sons of Levi rallied around Moses, who ordered them to go from gate to gate slaying the idolators.

The First Dynasty around 3100 BC, when the Upper and Lower Egypt were joined and Memphis became the capital, perhaps had that “Aryan light”, upholding the spiritual. It does sound very acceptable, with the Heliopolitan view of the Sun-God dispelling the darkness of the Egyptian Nu, the dark ocean from which the creation arose. It could also be the Vedic salilam apraketam, the sable waters of inconscience. The Rig Veda asks, and wonders: “The non-existent was not there, nor the existent at that time. There was neither death nor deathlessness, day nor night. That alone breathed. Other than that there was not anything else. Darkness was hidden by darkness in the beginning. All this was an undifferentiated sea. Whence this creation has come into being? whether it was made or not? He in the highest heaven is its surveyor. He knows, or perhaps he knows not.” He knows, or perhaps he knows not. The danger of the Tantric without the Spiritual is well known in India, but both becoming absolutely safe with the psychic opening.

But perhaps the deeper clue is available from the Grecian Titans, being born prior to the birth of the bright Olympians. If they do constitute the “older races”, if they have turned into the “Sons of deep-brooding Earth”, then the sombre shadow really becomes extremely thick, impenetrable, a night filled with a greater frightful and appalling night. The Mahabharata speaks of the former gods, pūrvé devāh, as the fallen gods, and it is imperative that they turn towards the Divine; they must accept and be led by the Light of the Divine, the Aryan Light, ‘Aryan’ in its etymological and not racial sense, of course, Aryan, noble, virtuous, dignified, majestic. Sri Aurobindo explains: “The word ārata, move or strive, like its congeners ari, arya, ārya, arata, araņi, expresses the central idea of the Veda. The root ar indicates always a movement of effort or of struggle or a state of surpassing height or excellence; it is applied to rowing, ploughing, fighting, lifting, climbing.

The Aryan then is the man who seeks to fulfil himself by the Vedic action, the internal and external karma or apas, which is of the nature of a sacrifice to the gods. But it is also imaged as a journey, a march, a battle, a climbing upwards. The Aryan man labours towards heights, fights his way on in a march which is at once a progress forward and an ascent. That is his Aryahood, his areté, virtue, to use a Greek word derived from the same root.” (The Secret of the Veda, pp. 263-64) In the Veda the light of the Sun is called the Aryan light. (p. 225)

But it will be really good if an Egyptologist from the sciy forum can throw “Aryan light” on the issue. RYD