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June 30, 1993 - Bill Cooper
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Mystery Babylon #24 - America's Assignment with Destiny
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Are you one of the people who believe that everything that's happened through history is an accident?
And that while one or two things may have been planned that most of history had no intelligent direction forming it, driving it?
Well, listen to this, folks, and listen very carefully.
Those desiring substantial evidence of the enfoldment of the Great Plan should follow the suggestion inscribed upon the monument to Christopher Wren in St.
Paul's Cathedral and gaze about them.
The rapid advancement in the social and political states of man, the increasing richness of human living, and the broadening vision toward individual and collective responsibility herald, with auroral colors, the rising of the Sun of Truth.
There is much yet to be accomplished, but already the achievement is impressive.
Even the most devout humanist cannot survey the orderly progress of the race and at the same time deny the existence of a well-integrated program.
The light of the ancient Vedas is slowly but surely illuminating the whole world.
The vision of man's noble destiny and the sacred sciences which made possible the realization of that vision have been guarded and served by the silent ones of the earth.
of the sacerdotal colleges, the hierophant of the mystery schools, and the adept masters of the secret societies have been the guardians of man's noblest purpose, the perfection of his own kind.
It is the inalienable right of every honorable person to be grateful for the opportunities which progress bestows, and with this appreciation comes also an appropriate measure of resolution.
The past Proves the future, which is but the extension of good works toward their fullness.
The mystery schools neither restrained nor limited the unfoldment of human institutions.
Man fashioned his civilization according to his natural instincts and convictions.
This process must continue, for growth is not hastened by the interference of authority.
Man substantiates with his mind and heart that which he fashions with his hands.
The esoteric tradition ensouls the ordinary works, revealing the larger purposes through the smaller ones.
Not so long ago, ninety percent of the population of the earth was in physical slavery.
Having liberated his body, the audacious creature must now free his heart and mind.
Thus, pressed on by sovereign necessity, the world-conqueror becomes the self-conqueror.
Under a democratic concept of living, the responsibilities for progress pass to the keeping of the people.
The powers vested in the governing body, functioning with the consent of the governed, include not only provisions for collective security, but also the advancement of such religions, philosophers, arts and sciences as contribute to the essential growth of human character.
An administrative system which ignores ethics, culture and morality cannot survive as a dominant political organism.
Democratic institutions must accept the task for which they were fashioned and become the conscious custodians of the democratic destiny.
Progress demands the most from those with the largest spheres of influence.
Vast organizations, industrial Political, social, and educational have been made possible by the modern life way.
These have become the molars of public opinion feared or respected according to the measure of integrity revealed in their management.
The future of human society is intimately associated with the destinies of these vast enterprises which have inherited, along with physical success, the duty, or more correctly, the privilege of world guardianship.
Even the continuance of the economic theory now demands the strengthening of ethical convictions.
Providence of any kind, whether bestowed by wealth or authority, carries with it priestly obligations.
The leader, whatever be his field, is looked upon for intelligent guidance.
His convictions inspire his followers, his words influence their lives, and his policies dominate their activities.
There is every indication that the esoteric tradition will next function through that complex of vast interrelated organisms of production and distribution which now dominates human imagination.
While this structure may appear to the superficial-minded as heartless and soulless, it is also the largest and most powerful potential instrument for the advancement of mankind ever yet devised.
Education, science and economics are today indivisible.
They have already formed a partnership for their mutual advancement.
Equipped with knowledge, skill and the necessary physical resources, this huge combine awaits the destiny for which it was intended.
There is no virtue in burdening the future with the conclusions of today.
To prophesy is to restrict not the will of heaven, but the mind of man.
Old principles, as they reveal more of themselves, will be given new names, and progress is always an adjustment of concepts, each of which is in a constant state of change.
Assuming, however, that the term democracy, with its numerous imponderable overtones, conveys a conviction of natural unfoldment It is reasonable to infer that the democratic motion will continue until all of its potentials have become potencies.
Progress is not bound inevitably to any nation or people.
Social and political structures are instruments for the advancement of the great work only to the degree that they keep the faith.
If ambition or selfishness breaks the bond, the privilege of guardianship is This does not mean that the project fails.
Rather, that which fails the project loses the privilege of leadership.
The plan, then, passes to the keeping of other groups and other ages.
Man cannot destroy or pervert the works of destiny.
He can only divide himself from those works, and by so doing cease to share in the essential vitality of progress.
Thus it is that unreasonable doubts and fears concerning providence are philosophically unsound.
Failure is always regrettable, but principles do not fail, and that which is foreordained perfects itself.
Although empires may collapse, great teachers be martyred, schools and systems perish, and enlightened leaders remain unhonored The substance of the great work remains unchanged and unchangeable.
New vehicles appear even as the older ones are betrayed by human selfishness.
The eternal commonwealth is an assignment of destiny and spiritual progress symbolized by the fabled phoenix rises victoriously from the ashes of the human ruins.
The adept tradition has always available social instruments waiting to be ensouled with the larger vision.
All things created by men are mortal and destructible, but the way destined by heaven is immortal and indestructible.
Universal enlightenment and universal fraternity are the natural ends which reward the social struggle.
The world and all that inhabits it are moving triumphantly toward peace and security.
At any given time the vision may be obscured, but in the larger dimensions of time all things work together for the fulfillment of the greater good.
Is that a piece of excellent retrospective writing looking back on history?
No, ladies and gentlemen, it is not, for this was written by Namely P. Hall in Los Angeles, California in April of 1951.
What he predicted is what is happening, a wedding, a marriage between the corporate world and the state, which is coming.
He's talking here about socialism.
Under a democratic concept of living, the responsibilities for progress pass to the keeping of the people.
The powers vested in the governing body functioning with the consent of the governed include not only provisions for collective security, but also the advancement of such religions, philosophies, arts, and sciences as contribute to the essential growth of human character.
Humanism, the concept that man will become God, and the new religion will change with the needs of man, not man conforming to the laws of God.
Democratic institutions must accept the task for which they were fashioned and become the conscious custodians of the democratic destiny, and so on and so forth.
Manly P. Hall was an adept, a highly degreed, in fact, he was a 33rd degree Freemason, may have held many, many other degrees in the secret societies of mystery Babylon.
He was a priest of the order.
Now, get comfortable.
Make sure that you have everything that you need, folks, because I'm going to take you
with me on a journey back to the beginning of all that is, and we are going to come forward
from that point to the present so that you will finally have an understanding of America's
assignment with destiny.
I'm going to take you with me.
I'm going to take you with me.
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Three great cultural heroes were associated with the origin of Mayan civilization.
Botan, who founded the Botanic Empire, seated at Palanquay, Idvamna, the Yucatecan hero, and Kulkulkan, whose worship extended throughout the Central American area.
All three came from a remote region lying eastward, introducing arts and sciences and founded religious cults, or Mysteries.
From the legendary histories of these persons, they should be included as adepts or initiates of ancient secret schools, possibly Atlantean.
In a book written in the Tychean language and attributed to Wotan, the Great One declared himself a snake, a descendant of Emos in the line of Khan.
He came to America by the command of God from a distant place.
He ultimately founded Palenque, and built a temple with many subterranean
chambers which was called the House of Darkness.
Here he deposited the records of his nation in the keeping of certain aged men called
Guardians.
There is a legend, folks, that this Voltan was the grandson of Noah.
The original book containing this report was in the possession of Nunez de
Vega, Bishop of Chiapas, but he destroyed it with the other native manuscripts which
he was able to accumulate.
Thank you.
Fortunately, however, it had been copied by Aguilar.
Ixamna, according to Coglodo, was a priest who came with the migrations from the East.
He was the son of the supreme deity Hunab-ku, or the Holy One.
Ixamna is pictured as an ancient man with a very prominent and strangely shaped nose, either toothless or with one crooked fang.
Likenesses of him have been found indicating his birth from a plant growing from the earth.
He is also shown rising from the mouth of a serpent or a turtle to symbolize that he came from the sea.
He healed the sick and restored the dead to life.
He lived, according to the records, to a great age and was said to have been buried At Isamah, or Itzamah, where his tombs became places of pilgrimages.
Itzamah was sometimes called the skillful hand, and after his death his body was divided.
His skillful hand was placed in one temple, his heart in another, and the rest of his remains in a third.
One of the best known of his emblems was a tau, or It is now generally admitted that the Quetzalcoatl of the Nahautlan people, the Gokumats of the Quichas, and the Kulkulcan of the more southern Mayas were one person.
In each language, the word signifies feathered, plumed, or winged serpent.
This title may have resulted from Quetzalcoatl casting his lot among, or gathering his first followers from, the descendants of This tribal group had the serpent as its heraldic device.
At a remote time, this semi-mystical, semi-divine priest-initiate, Quetzalcoatl, came from the fabled land of the Seven Colors and established his rite at Tula and Cholula.
Quetzalcoatl was the initiate philosopher and teacher of the Nahuatlan tribes of central Mexico.
Among the appellations of this priest-prophet-king are, quote, He who was born of the Virgin, unquote, quote, Lord
of the Winds, unquote, and, quote, the Divine Incarnation, unquote.
Cato Toto was the son of the universal Creator-God and the Virgin, Socha-Cato, and his conception
was made known by an ambassador from the God of the Milky Way.
Torkmata, in his Indian Monarchies, described a band of people who came from the North dressed
in long black robes.
Arriving at Tula, these strangers were well-received, but finding the region already thickly populated, they continued to Cholula.
These wanderers were great artists and skilled in working metals.
Hazel Kodal was their leader.
Mendieta, in his Ecclesiastical History, described Cecil Kodal as a white man with a strong formation of body, broad forehead, large eyes, and a flowing beard.
He wore a miter on his head, and was dressed in a long white robe reaching to his feet, and covered with a design of red crosses.
In his hands he held a sickle.
His habits were ascetic.
He never married, and was most chaste and pure in his life.
to have endured penance in a neighboring mountain, not for its effect upon himself, mind you, but as an example to others.
He condemned sacrifices, except of fruit or flowers, and was known as the God of Peace, for when he addressed on the subject of war, he is reported to have stopped his ears with his fingers.
Fray Bernardino de Sahagin described Caple Coddle as very homely, with a long head, and a very long beard.
There was a recumbent statue of him in the temple at Tula, which was always covered with blankets.
His vassals, writes the good fray, were all workmen in the mechanic arts and skillful in cutting the green stones called chalchivites, also in the art of smelting silver and making other objects.
All these arts had their origin and commencement with Cecil Colville, who had houses made with these precious green stones called chalchivites.
and others made of silver, still others made of red and white shells, others all made of boards, and again others of turquoises, and some all made of rich blooms.
Paisel Kotel also owned all the wealth of the world in gold, silver, and the green stones called Chalcedy, and other precious things, and had a great abundance of cocoa trees of different colors, which are called Xochicacatlá.
The said vassals of Quetzalcoatl were also very wealthy, and did not lack anything at all.
They never suffered famine or lack of corn.
In fact, they never ate even the small ears of corn, but rather heated their baths with them, using them instead of firewood.
They also say that the said Quetzalcoatl did penance by pricking his limbs and drawing blood, with which he stained the magway points that he bathed at midnight in a spring called The interpreter of the Codex Telluriano-Romensis said that Quetzalcoatl was created by the breath of Tonac Quetzalcoatl.
Quetzalcoatl was born on the day of seven canes, and disappeared or died on the day of one cane.
He was identified with the planet Venus.
The Codex Vaticanus A says that the hero founded four temples.
The first for the princes, the second for the people, the third the house of fear or serpents, and the fourth the temple of shame.
The Codex Chimalpaca says that Tefalcotal was born as a nine-year-old child.
When he resolved to leave Mexico, he reached the seashore and, removing his clothing and his snake mask of turquoise, destroyed himself by fire.
His asses changed into birds, and his heart became the morning star.
He remained four days in the underworld, and four days as a corpse.
After that, he ascended to heaven as a god.
It is specifically mentioned by Sakagin that Quetzalcoatl created and built houses under the earth.
Now, traces of subterranean grottoes and rooms have been discovered in the vicinity of most of the architectural monuments of the Nahuas.
There is a vast complex of such apartments near the Pyramid of the Sun at San Juan, Teotihuacan.
The Amerindians believed the serpent to be an earth-dweller, and it is quite possible that the accounts implied these subterranean and secret places to be chambers of initiation into the mysteries of the According to de Boerberg, the Mexican demigod, Botan, made a journey through a subterranean passage which, running underground, terminated at the root of heaven.
This passage was a snake hole, and Botan was admitted because he was himself a son of the snake.
Apocotl appeared as the great sorcerer, magician, or necromancer.
He performed miracles, and upon his departure his secrets were entrusted to an order of priests governed by a Hierophant, or master.
This priesthood practiced the arts and sciences, treated the sick, administered sacraments, and were diviners and prophets.
Landa gives some consideration to the activities of these religious orders.
Lucien Biart summarizes the available data thusly.
The most contradictory ideas have been current in regard to this divinity, who now considered of celestial origin, and now regarded as a man who had acquired the immortality of the God, seems in reality to be a union of several personages.
He certainly belonged to a race other than the one he civilized, of that there can be no doubt.
But what was his country?
He died announcing that he would return at the head of white-faced men, and we have seen that the Indians believed his prophecy fulfilled when the Spaniards landed on their shores.
According to Sahagin, the most usual ornaments of the images of Quetzalcoatl were a mitre spotted like the skin of a tiger, a short embroidered tunic, turquoise earrings, and a golden collar supporting fine shells.
The legs of these images were encased in gaiters of tiger skins, and on their feet were black sandals.
A shield hung from the left arm, and in the right hand was a scepter ornamented with precious stones, an emblem which terminated in a crook, like a bishop's crossier.
Cecil Kodal is credited with the invention of the pictorial or hieroglyphical method of writing, and especially is his name associated With the tonal immortal, our book of fate, this was more than a civil calendar, and was reserved for the calculation of human destiny and prophecies concerning the future of the state.
It was used by master magicians, the chief of whom was an astrological adept credited with extraordinary occult powers.
While it is likely that Cateful Codal brought the tonal immortal back to Mexico after his journey among the Mayas, A people already advanced in such matters, the Aztecan legend has been summarized by Mendieta.
The gods had created a man, Axomoco, and a woman, Cipactonapo, as the progenitors of the human race.
They, according to the legend, dwelt in a cave at Cuernavaca, and in order to regulate their lives, these two resolved to devise a calendar.
C. Pactonato felt that her descendant, Quetzalcoatl, should be invited to participate in the project, because she was the mother of all the living and a great prophetess.
C. Pactonato was privileged to select and write the first sign or day symbol of the calendar.
The others followed until the thirteen signs were completed.
Sahagin, in his General History, gave a number of details of the struggle between Quetzalcoatl the Civilizer and Tezcatlipoca who apparently signified the primitive and sanguine religious cult of Mexico.
The old priesthood, which practiced human sacrifice and adhered to a policy of war and destruction, resented the peaceful and gentle faith brought by Quetzalcoatl.
In the end, Tezcatlipoca, the personification of the sorcerers, contrived to poison the God-Being.
Which implies that his doctrines were corrupted by false teachings and interpretations.
The poison worked slowly and insidiously until Quetzalcoatl, realizing that he could not combat successfully the old perverted priesthood, left Tula, ordering his palaces of gold and silver, turquoise and precious stones to be set afire.
Accompanied by a procession of musicians, youths and maidens bearing flowers, and flocks of singing birds, the old adept journeyed to Cholula, where the Great Pyramid was built in his honor.
It was written that the Cholulans deeply admired the great priest because of the purity of his life, the kindliness of his manner, and his doctrines of peace and brotherhood.
He remained with them for nearly twenty years, slowly sickening from the poison which was destroying his body.
At last he realized that his ministry was coming to an end, so he continued his long journey toward the mysterious city of Tlalpan.
It's time for our break, folks.
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toward the east and proceeded to the sea, which he reached at a point a few miles south
of Veracruz.
There he blessed the four young men who had accompanied him, and
bade them return to their homes, with his promise that one day in the future he would
return and restore his kingdom among men.
It's time for our break, folks.
Don't go away.
I'll be right back after this very short pause.
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Where we left off, Keitel Kodel had just promised the four young men that one day in the future he would return and restore his kingdom among them.
Then the old and weary man called to the sea, and out of the waters came a raft of serpents.
He stepped upon this strange craft and was carried away into the land of the sun's beginning.
He left behind him a priesthood that perpetuated with esoteric rites the mysteries of the feathered serpent.
There is every indication that the cult of Quixotl was kept secret, a precaution necessary in the face of the opposition of the primitive indigenous sects.
There are several accounts of the death or departure of Quetzalcoatl.
The conflict is due in part to the legends being derived from different tribes, and in part to the Spanish method of gathering the reports.
These invaders took slight interest in the native traditions until they had destroyed most of the available sources of information.
Later, even the converted Indians were uncertain of their tribal history.
There is reason to believe, however, that some sacred records were intentionally suppressed And we're never available to the missionaries.
The people of Mexico claim to have sacred accounts of the mysteries of their religion and of the origin of their race.
There is mention of the divine book written by Tezcucan, a wise man or wizard whose name means Lord of the Great Hand.
This was supposed to contain the account of the migration of the Aztecs from Asia.
Baron de Waldeck claimed that the book had once been in his possession.
The Berber thought that it was the Dresden Codex, and Bustamante wrote that native historians had a copy in their possession at the time of the fall of Mexico.
There is good probability that manuscripts of great value survived the Spanish colonial period and are still available to certain qualified persons.
Augustus Laplangian, known to the Yucatecans as Great Blackbeard, was one of the few Americanists to be accepted into the confidence of the ever-resistant Indians.
They told him enough to convince a thoughtful man of the existence of the esoteric schools in the Mayan area.
That sacred mysteries, writes Laplangian, have existed in America from times immemorial, there can be no doubt.
Even setting aside the proofs of their existence that we gather from the monuments of Uxmal and the descriptions of the trials of initiation related in the Sacred Book of Quiches, we find vestiges of them in various other countries of the Western Continent.
The rites and ceremonies of initiation were imported to Peru by the ancestor of Manco Capac, the founder of the Inca dynasty, who were colonists from Central America, as we learn from an unpublished manuscript written by a Jesuit father, the Reverend Reverend Enelo Oliva, at the beginning of the year 1631 in Lima, and now in the library of the British Museum in London.
A number of authors who have tried to prove that Keatsville Codal was a foreigner who, reaching the shores of the New World at an early time, attempted the civilization of the aboriginal tribes.
Lord Kingsborough favored the possibility that this wanderer was the Apostle Thomas, and that the ancient Central American Indians came under Christian or Jewish influence.
Always deeply concerned with the possibilities of linking the worship in the Americas with the religions of the Near East, His Lordship writes, The Messiah is shadowed in the Old Testament under many types, such as those of a lion, a lamb, a rose, the morning star, or the planet Venus, otherwise called Lucifer, the sun, light, a rock, a stone, the branch, the vine, wine, bread, water, life, the way, And he is recognized in the triple character of a king, a priest, and a prophet.
It is very extraordinary that Quixototl, whom the Mexicans believed to equally have been a king, a prophet, and a pontiff, should also have been named by them Teyacatl, or the Morning Star, Tebazcalpantacutli, or Light, Mexitli, or the Vine, for Tortomara said that the core of the aloe from which the Mexicans obtained wine was so-called.
Votan, or the heart, metaphorically signifying life, and Toya la Cuatro, manjar de nuestra vida, bread, for his body made of dough, was eaten by the Mexicans.
Las Casas, quoting Padre Francisco Hernandez, says that an old Yucatan, Yucatecan, excuse me, described the ancient religion of his people thus, that they recognized and believed in God who dwells in heaven, and that this God was Father and Son and Holy Spirit.
And that the father was called Icona, who had created men and all things.
That the son was called Bacchab, that he was born of a virgin called Tiberias, who is in heaven with God, the Holy Spirit they termed Echurek.
The son Bacchab was scourged and crowned with thorns, was tied upon a cross with extended arms, where he died.
But after three days he arose and ascended into heaven to be with his father.
Dr. Alexander, who reports this story in his book, is inclined that it is confused and probably distorted by the Spanish recorder.
On the other hand, the universal distribution of this basic theme may be explained another way.
Among the Lakandones, Tito Total is still represented as a snake with many heads.
There is an account that this snake was killed and eaten at times of great national peril, especially at eclipses, which were regarded as portents of disaster.
It was believed by the Mayas that Tulkulkan descended invisibly from the sky and personally received the offerings during certain great feasts held in his honor.
Daniel Brenton, in his Essays of an Americanist, devoted some thought to the magical powers attributed to the priests of Central America.
He mentioned Father Biza and an English priest, Thomas Gage, who reported cases of sorcerers transforming themselves into animals and performing miracles.
The Boerberg was not entirely convinced that ventriloquism, animal magnetism, or the tricks familiarly employed by conjurers, explain the mysteries of Naugualism, as the black art of these Indians is called.
Brenton quotes from the Popol Vuh, truly, this Gub-Kumez Tifo-Kotal, became a wonderful king.
Every seven days he ascended to the sky, and every seven days he followed the path to the abode of the dead.
Every seven days he put on the nature of a serpent, and he became truly a serpent.
Every seven days he put on the nature of an eagle, and again of a tiger, and he became truly an eagle and a tiger.
It is evident from available authorities that the Mayas and Aztecs had an extensive body of legendary and lore, which originated in the mysteries of their religion, and proved the existence of an elaborate system of secret rites and ceremonies.
In the form of a feathered snake, Quetzalcoatl overshadowed a dynasty of rulers and priests, Some of whom later assumed his name, and even his mass symbol.
These later cheekful codels have been confused, like the Zorosters of Persia, into one person, with the resulting conflict in dates.
Recent excavations would indicate that the cult of the feathered serpent was established before the beginning of the Christian era, and did not arise in the 10th or 11th century AD, as held by some modern archaeologists.
It is more likely that the ancient hero was said to have been reborn, or to have overshadowed a later leader of the nation.
All of the accounts imply that the religious order which served the mysteries of Keepsville Codal was long established.
Those who followed in the way which he had prescribed lived most severe lives.
Children were consecrated to his temples from their birth and were marked by a special collar.
At the end of the second year, the child was scarified in the breast.
When it was seven years old, it entered a seminary where it took vows covering personal conduct and public duties, including prayers for the preservation of its family and its nation.
There were many of these priestly brotherhoods, and the Spanish missionaries, in spite of
their theological prejudices and intolerances, were forced to admit that the Aztecan priests
were excellent scholars and lived austere and pure lives.
It is said of these missionaries that in Quetzalcoatl, who taught charity, gentleness, and peace,
they thought they saw a disciple of Jesus Christ.
The kings of the Mexican nations, like those of ancient Egypt, were also initiates of the
state mysteries.
Tocamata described the attainments of Nazah Hulapili, the king of Texuco.
This learned man gathered about him masters of the sciences and arts, and gained a wide
reputation as an astrologer and seer.
When Montezuma was elected to rule over the complex of Nahualcum nations, King Nazah Hulapili
stood before the young man and congratulated the entire nation for having selected such
a ruler, whose deep knowledge of heavenly things ensured to his subjects his comprehension
of those of an earthly nature.
The interpreter of the collection of Mendoza described Montezuma as, by nature, wise, an astrologer and a philosopher, and skilled and generally versed in all of the arts, both in those of the military as well as those of a civil nature, and from his extreme gravity and state The monarchy under his sway began to verge towards empire.
The great serpent, clothed in quetzal plumes, certainly belonged to another race and came from an unknown country.
Lucien Biot says, It is an incontestable fact that Quetzalcoatl created a new religion based upon fasting, penance, and virtue.
in skillful trades and in metalworking, this Amerindian savior reminds one of the craftsmen
of Tyre who cast the ornaments for Solomon's temple. As a benefactor of his people, as
a liberator of men's minds and hearts, this Nuholtan demigod certainly revealed the attributes
of the master builder. Scattered through the jungles of Yucatan and
extending northward into Chiapas and southward into Honduras and Guatemala are the remains
of ancient cities and the ruins of old cultural centers, religious or educational, dedicated
to scientific research and the investigation of the spiritual mysteries of human life.
These shrines and temples are adorned with numerous religious emblems and figures and
closely resemble the temples and schools of the esoteric tradition which were scattered
through the Mediterranean countries, North Africa and the Near East.
The Aztecs inhabiting the Valley of Mexico certainly derived much of their cultural impetus from the more highly civilized Mayas.
These Nahuas practiced elaborate rites and ceremonies, and recognized a large pantheon of divinities.
It seems unlikely that the Aztecs patterned their religious concepts from some inferior cultural tradition.
These are positive indications that the tribes of Central Mexico had received an important intellectual stimulus from the Mayas, and even found it expedient to acknowledge this indebtedness.
The physical remains of the Mayan civilization are sufficiently impressive to indicate a highly advanced people, whose religious institutions and rites had reached a considerable degree of refinement.
Most early writers, in an attempt to estimate the cultural attainments of these nations, have been over-influenced by the early theologians and scientific enthusiasts who embedded the field with a variety of concepts and preconceptions.
The empires of the Mayas and Aztecs were resplendent with edifices dedicated to their faith.
They were magnified magnificent shrines, temples, altars, some to sanguinary deities and others to benign and kindly gods.
The state mysteries, however, were seldom performed in the sanctuaries of popular worship.
Neophytes traveled to remote places, and if they went uninvited, seldom returned.
Throughout the jungles are the ruins of extraordinary buildings constructed for unknown purposes.
The mysteries of Xibalba, as recorded in the Popol Vuh, and traditionally associated with the culture hero Votan, were given in such an architectural complex Which serve as an entrance to a mysterious world beyond the dimensions of the material mind.
Such gateways existed in all the old countries where the mystery religion originally flourished.
Obviously, archaeologists cannot discover the secret rites merely by grubbing among the overturned and broken stones.
As the priesthoods were not considered enough to label their monuments, there is little left today even to excite curiosity.
Fortunately, however, the esoteric tradition survives in the racial subconscious.
and its violated schools and colleges need not be physically restored.
When such restoration is attempted, the buildings usually reveal that they were designed as symbols of the cosmos.
If the mystery system actually existed in the Western Hemisphere, as the landmarks seem to indicate, it must have been produced, its initiates, and by its adepts.
These, in turn, became the leaders and saviors of the peoples.
Their wonder-working hero, whose deeds enriched all tribal traditions, Always and everywhere performed the exact same miracles, possessed the exact same powers, and made the exact same personal sacrifices.
The Mystery School required not only a hierarchy for its maintenance and perpetuation, but also appropriate places of initiation, partly underground or adjacent to grottos and caverns.
It required also a body of lore of particular significance, participation in which conferred special rights and privileges, A people which had reached this mental platform of the Mayas would not have accepted a philosophy of life that was without profound and significant values.
Pagan priesthoods did not initiate those of feeble mind, but selected for spiritual advancement persons of high attainment and mature judgment.
Albert Revel, in the Hibbard Lectures, 1894, Notes of the Religion of the Plumed Serpent, There was something mysterious and occult about the priesthood of this deity, as though it were possessed of divine secrets or promises, the importance of which it would be dangerous to undervalue.
It is fortunate, indeed, that at least one manuscript relating to the religious mysteries formerly practiced in the Mayan area had been recovered.
The Papal Rule, or the Senate Book of the Quiches, the record of the community, has survived the numerous vicissitudes which it conspired to prevent the perpetuation of the literary monuments of Central America.
It was tolerated by the early missionaries who, observing certain similarities to their own scriptures, preserved the work as a means of persuading the Indians to a more speedy baptism.
In the seventeenth century, it was rescued from a fate worse than oblivion by the Dominican monk Don Ramón Thank you, Tom.
Maguire, Dean and Chancellor of the Archbishopric of Trinidad Real. This work was deposited
in the library of the convent at Chichicatanango by the Sculliists, Vicminis, where it remained
until the year 1830.]
Thank you, Tom. Ladies and gentlemen, that was his first time ever speaking over radio
around the world. Of course, he's called in to talk shows before, but this is different
when you're sitting at the microphone and it's your thing.
When you know that one slip could cause a flood of letters and protests.
Tom sat here and performed admirably while we were experiencing a terrible windstorm.
You may have heard some strange noises in the background.
Those were pieces of trees and wood and lawn furniture and just about everything that you could think of flying through the air, hitting the house.
So he had an awful lot of competition vying for his attention.
And it took a great effort, along with his natural nervousness, doing this for the first time, took a great effort to maintain Keep his attention on what he was doing and complete that half of the hour of the time.
Now, if you'd like to write Tom and tell him who you are, say hello, how much you appreciate his help on this program, the Hour of the Time, you can do so by writing to Tom Swift, Research Assistant, care of CAJI, C-A-J-I, P.O.
Box 1420, Show Low, Arizona 85901.
That's Tom Swift, Research Assistant, CAJI, Post Office Box 1420,
Show Low, Arizona, 85901.
Tonight's broadcast, ladies and gentlemen, came from a book entitled
America's Assignment with Destiny by Manley P. Hall.
Some of you may be able to find this in your library or in a used bookstore.
It has been out of print for many years.
It was copyrighted in 1951, printed by the Philosophical Research Society, which was headed by Manley P. Hall at that time.
You may not realize this, but Manley P. Hall has died in the last several years.
And bit by bit, the unbelievably huge library that he had accumulated over his years that made up the bulk of the Philosophical Research Society has disappeared.
Good night, and God bless you all.
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