In our look at the 5th Root Race, we have seen two sub-races establish themselves. One was in the Sub-Continent and the other was in the Arabian peninsula. An interval of 10,000 years elapsed after the despatch of the second sub-race before the Manu sent forth the third. This brings us to 30,000 B.C.E. The City of the Bridge was still thriving, though it was decreasing in splendour.
The people for the third sub-race had been prepared for many centuries, being kept apart in one of the four valleys, until they showed distinct characteristics. In His original selection in Atlantis, the Manu had included a small proportion of the best of the sixth Atlantean sub-race, the Akkadians. He now utilised the families which had preserved most of that Akkadian blood, sending into incarnation in them His group of pioneers. One or two of them were sent further afield to bring back a strain of Akkadian blood from its home in more Western countries. The people of the young third sub-race, as they multiplied, were more pastoral than agricultural, keeping large herds of sheep, cattle and horses. The Manu who, on this occasion; had considerably modified His appearance, came into the sub-race in its fifth generation and allowed the people to multiply for some 2,000 years until there was available an army of 300,000 fighting men. He then sent into incarnation Morya, amongst others to serve as captains for His host. He led forth the army, leaving the women and children behind in the valley.
The route to their new destination lay through difficult country, some of the passes of the Tian-shan range, where it curves around into the Kashgar district, being 9,000 feet high. For part of the way, they followed the course of a river, which passed through ravines and valleys. Pouring his sizeable army into Kashgar, the Manu easily defeated local nomad hordes that ventured to attack Him as He crossed their deserts. The weapons used were long and short lances and spears, short strong swords, slings and bows. Many of the local villages, long harassed by forays, often pillaged and massacred; welcomed a power which would restore and maintain order.
In two years Persia was overrun without much difficulty. Mesopotamia was the next to be subdued. Military posts were established at frequent intervals, and the country was divided between His chiefs. Forts were built, first of earth, later of stones, until a network was made over Persia to prevent raids from the mountains. No attempt was made to conquer the warlike tribes, but they were practically confined within their territories and were no longer permitted to plunder the peaceable inhabitants of the plains. The land was conquered down to the desert to the south and up to the Kurdish mountains to the north. When the country had been settled and peaceful for some years, the Manu called to it the vast caravan of the wives and children; left behind in the valley.
For the next fifty years, the Manu kept the new Empire under His direct rule, visiting it several times and appointing members of His family as its Governors. He was succeeded by Morya and a personality, Leadbeater called Corona. We know him as Julius Caesar. They became independent Kings of Persia. From this time the third sub-race rapidly increased in power until in a few centuries it dominated the whole of western Asia from the Mediterranean to the Pamirs and from the Persian Gulf to the Aral Sea. The third sub-race; when it settled down in Persia and Mesopotamia, numbered about a million, and they multiplied rapidly, incorporating in their nation also the sparse population which existed in the country when they entered it. With certain changes, its Empire lasted until about 2,200 B.C.E., though in these 28,000 years, there were naturally many fluctuations. This is a narrative that current historians would not recognise but there seems to be a collective amnesia about our history before the Flood Myth.
Most of the time Persia and Mesopotamia were under separate rulers, of whom sometimes the one; sometimes the other, was nominally Overlord. Sometimes the two countries split up into smaller States, owing a kind of loose feudal allegiance to the central King. All through their history they had constantly recurring difficulties with the nomadic Mongolians on the one hand and the mountaineers of Kurdistân and the Hindû Kush on the other. Sometimes the Îrânians pushed the marauders back, at other times they withdrew from them. At one period they ruled most of Asia Minor and made temporary settlements in several of the countries bordering the Mediterranean. For a period they held Cyprus, Rhodes and Crete; but on the whole, in that part of the world the Atlantean power was too strong for them and they avoided conflict with it. On the west, at various times they came into conflict with powerful Scythian and Hittite confederations. Once at least they conquered Syria but abandoned it as useless. Twice they embroiled themselves with Egypt but could do little against it.
During most of this long period, they kept up a high level of civilisation and many relics of their great architecture lie buried beneath desert sands. Various dynasties arose among them, and several different languages prevailed in their chequered history. They avoided hostilities with India, being separated from it by a wild territory, a sort of no-man’s land. We call it Afghanistan today! Arabia troubled them very little, for there again a useful belt of desert intervened. They were great traders; merchants, manufacturers, being much more settled than the second sub-race, and with more definite religious ideas. The Parsis of the present day give a fair idea of their appearance. The present inhabitants of Persia have still much of their blood in them, though largely commingled with that of their Arab conquerors. The Kurds; the Afghâns and the Baluchis are also mainly descended from them, though with various admixtures.
In 29,700 B.C.E., the Bodhisattva, the future Gautama Buddha, came to the third sub-race as the first Zarathustra and founded the Religion of the Fire. Morya at this time was the the tenth of the Kings who had succeeded Corona. His second son was chosen as the vehicle for the Supreme Teacher, the Bodhisattva. Sûrya, the future Lord Maitreya, was the Chief Priest at the time, at the head of the State religion, which was a mixture of Nature and Star worship. He wielded immense authority, partly because of his office and partly because he was of royal blood. Koot Hoomi, our very own Pythagoras, was that second son and had been trained from childhood for his great destiny.
The Bodhisattva came from Shamballa in his subtle body, remember Shamballa is etheric, and took possession of the body of Koot Hoomi. We saw this trick pulled off again between Christ/Maitreya and Jeshu. A great procession started from the Royal Palace to the chief Temple of the city; the King walked on the right, under a golden canopy, the High Priest under a jewelled canopy on the left; between them, carried shoulder-high, seated on a golden chair, was the Prince. Halting at the foot of the steps in front of the door of the Temple; the three central figures ascended the steps, the Prince, who was now the Bodhisattva, in the centre. Maitreya announced that He who stood there was no longer the Prince, but the Messenger from the Most High and from the Sons of the Fire who dwelt in the far East, whence their forefathers had come forth. As the Head of their faith, he humbly bade Him welcome.
The Bodhisattva then spoke of His mission, entrusted to Him, by the Lords of the Fire and told them He had brought them a symbol, which they should forever keep in their minds. He told them that Fire was the purest of all elements and the purifier of all things and that thereafter it should be for them the symbol of the Holiest of Holies. It was embodied in the Sun and burned, though hidden, in the heart of Humanity. It was heat, light, health and strength, and in it and by it all things had life and motion. He told them how in all things they should see the hidden presence of the Fire.
Lifting His right hand, there shone in it a Rod shooting out flashes on every side; He pointed the Rod to the East, cried some words in an unknown tongue and the heavens became a sheet of flame. Fire fell upon the altar, on which wood, gums and incense had been piled, and a Star shone above His head. Priests and people fell on their faces, and Maitreya and the King bowed in homage. The procession then returned to the Palace. The people carried home the flowers which had rained down from the sky when the Fire had passed and kept them as heirlooms for their descendants. The Bodhisattva remained for a considerable time in the city, going daily to the Temple to instruct the priests. He taught them that Fire and water were the purifiers of all else and must never be polluted and that even the water was purified by the Fire: that Fire and water were the two Spirits, Fire being life and water form: and much else. It is possible that out of this arose the later teaching of Ormuzd and Ahriman. There are passages which show that the double of Ormuzd, Ahriman, was not originally an evil power, but rather a representation of the matter principle, while Ormuzd was Spirit. We have not managed to rope in consciousness yet, but give the Bodhisattva time. We can give him a B+ for his efforts.
Around the Bodhisattva was an august assembly of Masters (45-selves) and others less advanced. These He left to carry on His teaching when He departed. His departure was as dramatic as His first preaching. Speaking from the great platform for the last time, though the people did not know it was to be the last time, He inculcated the duty of gaining knowledge and of practising love. He bade the people follow and obey Maitreya, whom He left in His place as Teacher. Then He told them He was going, blessed them and, lifting His arms to the Eastern sky, He called aloud; out of the sky came a whirling cloud of flame, which enwrapped Him as He stood, and then, whirling still, it shot upwards and eastwards, and He was gone. Now that is what I call a real exit strategy! Koot Hoomi, who, in his etheric body, had always remained near the Bodhisattva, at His service, returned with Him to the Holy Ones and rested for a while in peace. At least Koot Hoomi got to jet off with the boss. Jeshu got stoned to death for his efforts!
After He had gone, Star-worship did not immediately disappear, for the people regarded His teaching as a reform, not as a substitution, and still worshipped the Moon, and Venus, the constellations and the planets. But the Fire was held sacred as the emblem of the Sun, the new religion enfolding rather than replacing the old one. Gradually the Faith of the Fire grew stronger; Star-worship retreated from Persia to Mesopotamia, where it remained the dominant faith, and took a very scientific form. Astrology there reached its zenith, and scientifically guided human affairs, both public and private. Its priests possessed a great deal of occult knowledge, and the wisdom of the Magi became famed throughout the East. In Persia, the Religion of the Fire triumphed, and later Prophets carried on the work of the great Zarathustra, and built up the Zoroastrian Faith and its literature, which have endured to the present day.
To this day scholars argue about Zoroaster and when he may have lived; if they only knew….