We left the last presentation with the Ancient Greeks having established themselves along the Eastern shores of the Mediterranean, as well as migrating around the shoreline and inhabiting islands such as Crete. What they did not realise was that their fate was linked to the final death throws of the last major population centre of the 4th Root Race, Poseidonis. In 9,564 B.C.E., Poseidonis was engulfed in a cataclysm that created a terrible tidal wave. This swept into the Mediterranean via two entry points and destroyed most of the Greek settlements that had steadily been established over the last 10,000 years. Remember, these settlements would have been several hundred feet below the current sea level, so get your snorkelling gear on if you want to go find them. The settlements that were not destroyed were seriously damaged. Both the Gobi Sea and the Sahara desert became dry land and the most appalling convulsions took place. It is difficult for us to imagine what this series of Atlantian catastrophes must have been like, or just how much the planet was altered. Clearly, there were forces at play that science has not been able to model, simply because they would not consider it possible.
Urgent messages for help were sent by the colonists to their original highland home in the Caucasus, which had not been affected to any great degree. Eventually, relief was organised on a large scale. The Greek settlements had been all on the sea coast and the indigenous populations of the interior, though overawed by the Greeks, had not always been friendly. When most of the Greek population centres had been destroyed by the cataclysm, the few survivors were often persecuted and even enslaved by the inland races.
When the bottom of the Sahara was heaved up, its waters poured out through the gap between Egypt and Tunis, where Tripoli now stands; the interior of land masses suffered little; but the sea-coasts, on which the Greeks had settled, were destroyed. The Sahara gradually sank again and a new coastline rose. Assuming the configuration known to us along the African coast, the great Algerian island joined the mainland forming the northern coastline of Africa we see today.
Almost all shipping had been destroyed, yet so great was the energy of these ancient Greek kelts that within a few years, all the ports of Asia Minor were in working order. Fleets of new ships went out to re-establish the colonies and to deliver Greeks from foreign oppression and subjugation. The Greeks annexed all the best harbours of the new coastline and since most of the trade of Egypt was also in their hands, the Mediterranean remained for centuries practically a Greek sea. They even carried their trade eastward, an expedition going to Java, where they founded a colony, with which a connection was kept up for a long time. Later the Phoenicians and Carthaginians divided the trade of the Mediterranean with the Greeks. The Phoenicians were a fourth Root Race people derived from the Semites and Akkadians (fifth and sixth Atlantean sub-races); the Carthaginians were Akkadian, intermixed with Arabs, and with a dash of African blood.
The emigration of the fourth sub-race into Europe was almost continuous so it was not easy to divide it into distinct waves. If we count the Greeks as the first wave, the Albanians may be considered the second and the Italian race the third, both these going to the countries where they now are. After an interval came a fourth wave of astonishing vitality, that to which modern ethnologists restrict the name ”Keltic.” This became the predominant race over the north of Italy, the whole of France and Belgium and the British Isles, the western part of Switzerland, and Germany west of the Rhine. The Greeks of our ”Ancient History” were a mixture, derived from the first wave, mingled with settlers from the second, third and fourth, and with an infusion of the fifth sub-race, coming down from the north and settling in Greece later. This last infusion gave the rare and much-admired golden hair and blue eyes, occasionally found among the Greeks. Notice that the previous waves were all Kelts. The fifth sub-race is a group we have yet to get to.
The fifth wave of Kelts, practically lost itself in the north of Africa and only traces of it can now be found. This wave was considerably mixed with the Semitic (fifth Atlantean sub-race) and the Arabian, among the Berbers, the Moors, the Kabyles, and even the Guanches of the Canary Islands, in this last case mingled with the Tlavatlis. The fifth wave mingled with the fourth in the Spanish peninsula, and at a later stage, only some 2,000 years ago, it contributed the last of the many elements which go to make up the Irish; for to it belonged the Milesian invaders who poured into Ireland from Spain (some of them founding a dynasty of Milesian Kings in France), and bound it under curious forms of magic, as will be explained presently. But a much finer element had previously come into Ireland from the sixth wave, which left Asia Minor, pushing northwest until it reached Scandinavia, where it intermingled to some extent with the fifth sub-race, the Teutonic. They came to Ireland from the north and are known in history as the Tuatha-de-Danaan, spoken of more as Gods than humans. The Tuatha-de-Danaan were handsome, with oval faces, clear complexion, mostly dark hair and deep blue or almost violet eyes. Sometimes the hair was lighter and the eyes grey, but the other type was most usual and may be seen exactly reproduced among the Irish rural folk today. The Tuatha-de-Danaan were also intellectually and spiritually much more advanced than the mixed-race they found in Ireland. The period of their rule was a sort of golden age, as tradition correctly bears witness. Ireland was unquestionably the seat of a high civilisation and a centre of philosophy, whilst England was covered by dense forests and in a state of relative savagery.
The Milesians from Spain, who overcame the Tuatha-de-Danaan, were a far inferior race, though they had the rude physical strength of youth and much knowledge of the lower magic. They were bullet-headed, rugged, and often positively ugly, with light or vividly red hair; the type may still be seen among the country folk in South Ireland almost in its original purity. There is a radical difference in type between the stolid matter-of-fact Anglo-Saxon and the imaginative and poetical Irish person. Historically, the average English peasant lives almost entirely on the physical plane. The average Irish peasant of the south and west lives more on the emotional plane. Their thoughts are usually far away, occupied with legends of the past, or with stories of saints, angels and fairies.
Arthur Powell made an interesting observation that was relevant to most of Ireland’s modern history and by modern I mean the last 5,000 years. This applied until the start of the new Millennium. He said quite apart from vexed questions of politics, there is another cause of the poverty and general lack of prosperity of the Irish. The Milesians cast a spell upon the race, subjecting it to the glamour of a great illusion. Their priests covered the country with a network of strongly magnetised centres, which even now radiate a strong influence. Crowds of nature spirits of a certain type are still irresistibly attracted to these centres, are permeated by their influence, and unconsciously become its ministers, spreading it over the country wherever they go. The spell was two-fold – the curses of disunion and lethargy – that they should never be able effectively to combine, but always quarrel among themselves; and that they should apathetically submit to the domination of whoever wielded or inherited the magnetic power. Consciously or unconsciously, the Roman Catholic Church has come into this heritage, and profits by what remains of that ancient spell, so that her rule is unquestioned through all the districts concerned.
On the whole, the fourth sub-race had brown or black hair and eyes. They had round heads and were usually not tall. Their character showed clearly the result of the Manu’s efforts thousands of years before, for they were imaginative, eloquent, poetical, musical, capable of enthusiastic devotion to a leader and splendidly brave, though liable to quick depression in case of failure. Powell pointed out that the Irish seemed to lack what we call business qualities and they had scant regard for truth. A prejudiced view from an Englishman but if you think of a people who live in their emotions, then what is truth to them but a subjective fantasy.
After the catastrophe of 9,564 B.C.E., some of the old Greeks settled in Hellas and occupied the country. The first city on the site of modern Athens was built in 8,000 B.C.E. The Athens of our modern history was begun about 1,000 B.C.E., the Parthenon being built in 480 B.C.E.
In the Keltic sub-race, the Bodhisattva, the Lord Buddha, came to people as Orpheus the Founder of the Orphic Mysteries, from which the later Mysteries of Greece were derived. He came about 7,000 B.C.E., living chiefly in the forests, where He gathered His disciples around Him. He came as a Singer, loving the life of Nature, averse to cities and to the crowded haunts of humanity. Orpheus taught by song, by music of voice and instrument, carrying a five-stringed instrument, probably the origin of Apollo’s lyre and using a pentatonic scale. By sound He worked upon the emotional and mental bodies of His disciples, purifying and expanding them. By sound, He drew the subtle bodies away from the physical and set them free in the higher worlds. His music was quite different from the sequences, repeated over and over again, by which the same result was brought about in the Root-stock of the Race, and which it carried with it into India. Orpheus worked by melody, using the melody of each etheric centre or chakra to stir it into activity. He showed His disciples living pictures, created by music; and in the Greek Mysteries this was wrought in the same way, the tradition coming down from Him. He taught that sound was in all things. If humanity would harmonise itself, then would the Divine Harmony manifest through humanity and make all Nature glad. Traditions of Orpheus spread far and wide. He became the God of the Sun, Phoebus-Apollo, and, in the North, Balder the Beautiful.
The Bodhisattva thus appeared to the sub-races successively as Vyâsa, Hermes, Zarathustra and Orpheus, teaching the doctrine of Sun, Light, Fire and Sound respectively; all these giving the single message of the One Life and One Love, which as you know I translate into the word Unity, which makes much more sense. From Hellas (Greece), some of the disciples went to Egypt and fraternised with the teachers of the Inner Light, and some went as far as Java. Nearly 7,000 years later the Bodhisattva came to His ancient people for the last time, reached final Illumination, and became a Buddha.