The Vedas- Ancient Spiritual Teaching of India

14,000- 2800 BC

Advise the young scholar to collect everything regarding Fire from the most ancient teachings. Let the Puranas of India, the fragments of the Teachings of Egypt, Chaldea, China, Persia, and absolutely all teachings of the classic philosophy not be overlooked. Of course, the Bible, the Kabbalah, and the Teachings of Christ, all will yield plentiful material. Likewise, the assertions of the most recent times will add to the valuable definitions of Agni. Such a compilation has never been made. Yet can one advance toward the future without gathering the signs of millennia?
Fiery World I, 311 1933 Agni Yoga Society

Although The Lives of Alcyone undoubtedly has errors, the general outline of history rings true. Once the White City, Shamballa, was built in the Gobi Sea several million years ago, the Manu Vaivasvattva sent waves of peoples from this area to India. Sometimes they were defeated, however not very often. If they were spiritually corrupted however, it would not bode well for the future of their migration. Sometimes they would have to re-embody back near the White City and invade India once again. The tales of these ancient battles may be the origin of earliest Vedic stories.

Suern - Ancient India

In a dictation by Jesus given through Elizabeth Clare Prophet, he said that well before the sinking of Atlantis, when as ruler (a Rai) he saw the writing on the wall, he took two million individuals to India, (called Suern at that time) so that these souls, the culture and the teachings of the Great White Brotherhood might be saved.

Here is an excerpt of a dictation given in 1991 by the Ascended Master Ernon, Rai of Suern through Elizabeth Clare Prophet¹,

Good evening, sons and daughters of God. It gives me good pleasure to address you after long centuries of being apart from this evolution. Now from the ascended state I speak to you out of the love fount of my heart.

I come, then, to tell you of the lessons learned – lessons that I have learned, lessons that the Suernis have learned and lessons that you have learned.

Of the two million who came with the Lord Christ to the land of Suern, who were his adherents and had considerable development of the Christ embodied within them, the one million who [eventually] ascended were in a state of higher love and higher grace. It was by their love for the living Christ and the source whence he had come that they ascended from that land.

The one million who did not ascend, though they had Christ-attainment, did not have the sufficiency of love to sustain that level of devotion that would allow them to merit the ascension. And so the residue of their karma held them back and eventually did overtake them as they did multiply the negative momentums and did gradually let go of the positive momentums. Thus, increment by increment the sacred fire fell, almost unnoticeably yet precipitously.

These individuals have come to be known as the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Thus, when Jesus came two thousand years ago he declared, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

He came to call to repentance and to call to the path of the Divine Mother these [remaining] one million souls. Most of them are still embodied upon earth today, often in positions of leadership. They retain as a shadow the vestige of the former self and former Christ Light, yet even that shadow of their former days of glory does place them above their peers in many fields.

Thus, it has fallen upon the Messengers of this century and now upon the Mother of the Flame, who speaks before you, to continue the work of going after the one million.

Many of these are self-satisfied in their accomplishments, in their attainments, and yet they do not return [to their former] devotion to the Lord Christ. Others [not of the one million] have come forward to take up the calling to be his disciples and in measures of devotion have outdistanced the original remnant. Yet in ancient times that remnant did have greater attainment than that to which the newer followers of Jesus have attained.

Thus, beloved, the Teachings of the Ascended Masters, given freely, are a specific transfer, a quickening and a knowledge unto those who had them 35,000 years ago in the golden age of Atlantis and in many centuries prior to that; for those souls had been with Jesus long before the fullness of their time came in that golden age...

To give you an idea how spiritually advanced Suern was, especially their High Priests, here is a quote from A Dweller on Two Planet by Phylos the Tibetan. Princess Lolix explains what happened to her father's invading barbarians as they tried to attack Suern. It is the very same Rai Ernon above who unleashes a devastating force upon the invaders.

"Thou art, I think, acquainted with my native country, since thou hast had commercial intercourse with the Sald nation. All here have likewise heard of how our ruler sent a great army against the terrible Suerni. Ah! how little we knew of those people!" she exclaimed, clasping her small, patrician hands in an agony of terrified retrospection.
"Eight score thousand warriors had my father, the chief, under his command. One-half as many more were followers of the camp. Our cavalry was our pride, veterans tried and true, and ah! so lustful after blood! Such splendid armament had we, glittering spears and lances -oh! a wondrous array of valiant men!"

At this eulogy of such primitive weapons her listeners were unable to repress a shadowy smile. For a moment this seemed to disconcert the princess, but not for long, for she continued:

"In this splendid, powerful fashion, ah! How I love power! We came, taking loot as we proceeded towards the Suern city. When we arrived near it, after many days, we could not see it, as it was in a lowland. But we felt assured of an easy victory, since captives whom we took informed us that no walls or like defenses existed and that no army was gathered to meet us. Indeed, we nowhere found walled towns in all Suern, nor met with resistance, hence had spilled no blood, but contented ourselves with torture of the captives, by way of amusement, ere we set them free."

"...We stayed our march on the brink of a shallow, but wide defile, wherein the Rai was so unwarlike and unwise as to have his capital, and sent a messenger to announce our errand and offer him favorable terms of war. In answer there came with our flagbearer a solitary, unarmed old man. Elderly is a better word. He was tall, erect as soldier, and had dignity of mien that made him splendid to look upon. Aye, he looked as power incarnate!..."

"The Astika, my father, chief of our armies, said to this grand old man: 'What saith thy ruler?'
'He saith: "Bid this stranger depart lest my wrath awake, for lo, I shall smite him if he obey me not! Terrible is mine anger."

'What ho! And his army; I have seen none,' said my father with the laugh of a veteran to whom despised resistance is offered.

'Chief,' said the envoy, in a low, earnest tone, 'Thou hadst best depart. I am that Rai, and his army also. Leave this land now; soon thou canst not. Go, I implore thee!'

'Thou the Rai? Rash man! I tell thee that when the sun hath moved one other sign, thy courage shall not save thee, unless thou wilt now return and collect thine army. Else will I then send thy head to thy people. There is but this option. After that length of time I will strike and sack thy city. Nay, fear not now for thy personal safety; I cannot hurt an unarmed foeman! Go in peace, and by the morning I will attack thee and thy army. I must have a worthy foe.'

'In myself is a worthy foe. Hast thou never heard of the Suerni? Yes? And thou hast not believed! Oh, it is true! Go, I entreat thee, while yet thou canst do so in safety!'

'Foolish man!' said the chief. 'This thine ultimatum? Then be it so! Stand aside! I go not away, but forward.' Then he called unto the captains of the legions and commanded: Forward! March to conquer!'

'Withhold that order one moment; I would ask a question,' said the Rai.

Agreeably to this request our men, who had sprung to place at the word, were now halted with arms at rest. In the very front ranks of the Saldan army as it stood on the little eminence overlooking the Suern capital, and the great river flowing near, was the prime flower of our host. Veterans they were, tried and true, men of giant stature, two thousand strong, leaders of the men less seasoned. I shall never forget how grand looked that array, no, never. So strong; the very mane of our lion-power, every man able to carry an ox on his back. The sun was caught on their spears in a glorious blaze of light. Looking upon these men the Suerni said:'Astika, are not these thy best men?'

'Aye.'

'They are the ones of whom it hath been told me that they tortured my people, merely for amusement? And they called them cowards, saying that men who would not resist, to them should they serve death, and they did murder a few of my subjects?'

'I deny it not,' said my father

...'Astika, I am sorrowful! But be it as thou wilt. Thou hast been warned to leave. Thou hast heard of the power of the Suern, and believed not. But now, feel it!'

With these words the Rai swept his outpointing index-finger over the place where stood our pride - the splendid two thousand. His lips moved and I barely heard the low-spoken words: 'Yeovah, strengthen my weakness. So dieth stubborn guilt.'

What then befell so filled all spectators with horror, so wrought upon their superstition, that for full five minutes after, scarce a sound was heard. Of all those veteran warriors not one was left alive. At the gesture of the Suernis their heads fell forward, their grasp was loosed on their spears, and they fell as drunken men to the earth. Not a sound, save that of their precipitation; not a struggle; death had come to them as it comes to those whose hearts stop pulsing. Ah! What frightful power hast thou, Suernis!

"My father knew better than to imagine this some trick of a wily people, knew now, after this bitter lesson, that the reputation accorded them by travelers was no idle fabrication of wonder-mongers. But he did not cringe before the Rai, he was too proud-spirited for that. While we gazed, stupefied, on the awful scene of death, another and not less frightful, but more ghastly thing happened. We that were alive, all our host except the two thousand stood between our dead and the river west of the city.

Rai Ernon bowed his bead and prayed - what dire alarm that action caused our people! -and I heard him say: 'Lord, do this thing for thy servant, I beseech thee!' Then, as I gazed on the victims, I saw them arise one by one, and gather up each his spear and shield and helmet. Thereafter, in little irregular squads they marched towards us, towards me, O! My God! and passed on to the river! As they passed I saw that their eyes were half-closed and glazed in death; the movement of their limbs was mechanical; they walked as if hung on wires, and their armor clanked and clanged in a horrid, mocking ring. As, one by one, the squads came to the river, they walked in, deeper and deeper, till the waters closed over their heads, and they were gone forever, gone to feed the crocodiles which already roared and snarled over their prey adown the stream of Gunja....

Then spoke Rai Ernon, saying: 'Did I not tell thee to depart, ere I punished thee? Wilt thou now go? Behold thine army in flight! Its rout shall not cease, for thousands shall never more see Saldee, because they will perish by the wayside, yet not a few shall reach their homes. But thou shalt never more go home; neither thee nor thy women. But they will not stay in my land nor their own, but in a strange country.'

History of Ancient India

From The Story of Civilization. Part I; Our Oriental Heritage, Ch. XX. By Will Durant:

The schools and the universities were only a part of the educational system of India. Since writing was less highly valued than in other civilizations, and oral instruction preserved and disseminated the nation's history and poetry, the habit of public recitation spread among the people the most precious portions of their cultural heritage. As nameless raconteurs among the Greeks transmitted and expanded the Iliad and the Odyssey, so the reciters and declaimers of India carried down from generation to generation, and from court to people, the ever-growing epics into which the Brahmans crowded their legendary lore. A Hindu scholar has rated the Mahabharata as "the greatest work of imagination that Asia has produced";' and Sir Charles Eliot has called it "a greater poem than the Iliad."

In one sense there is no doubt about the latter judgment. Beginning (ca. 500 BC) as a brief narrative poem of reasonable length, the Mahabharata took on, with every century, additional episodes and homilies, and absorbed the Bhagavad-Gita as well as parts of the story of Rama, until at last it measured 107,000 octameter couplets—seven times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined.

The name of the author was legion; "Vyasa," to whom tradition assigns it, means "the arranger." A hundred poets wrote it, a thousand singers moulded it, until, under the Gupta kings (ca. 400 AD), the Brahmans poured their own religious and moral ideas into a work originally Kshatriyan, and gave the poem the gigantic form in which we find it today. The central subject was not precisely adapted to religious instruction, for it told a tale of violence, gambling and war. Book One presents the fair Shakuntala (destined to be the heroine of India's most famous drama) and her mighty son Bharata; from his loins come those "great Bharata" (Maha-Bharata) tribes, the Kurus and the Pandavas, whose bloody strife constitutes the oft-broken thread of the tale...

Embedded in the narrative of the great battle is the loftiest philosophical poem in the world's literature — the Bhagavad-Gita, or Lord's Song. This is the New Testament of India, revered next to the Vedas themselves, and used in the law-courts, like our Bible or the Koran, for the administration of oaths. Wilhelm von Humboldt pronounced it "the most beautiful, perhaps the only true, philosophical song existing in any known tongue; ... perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show."

The Vedas are the ancient spiritual texts of Hinduism. When they were compiled is a mystery since the oral tradition is much older than the written version, however archeologists have found remnants of clay tablets dating earlier than 2000 BC. Legend has it that the teachings of the Vedas came from the lost continent of Atlantis.

The traditions of Hinduism brought forth teachings that echo the Hermetic philosophy and the key mystical concepts of OM TAT SAT OM or I AM THAT I AM, and the Hindu Trinity - of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and their counterparts the Mother Goddesses. Hinduism teaches that Avatars incarnate the Essence of this trinity and bring teachings for each culture, place and time. Hinduism also taught the sacredness of "Twin Flames" or the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine polarities of the Godhead. Hinduism helped bridge the world from the Ancient Times of Atlantis and nurtured the divine gnosis. The Vedas are written in the sacred language of Sanskrit, said to have descended from Atlantean times. This language is said to have mystical properties that actually invoked the vibration of the material thing or idea that was being discussed. By saying a word, a person would conjure up the essence of the thing itself. Thus, the sacred science of Chanting invoked the Actual Presence of the Divinity and became the daily practice of Hinduism.

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