Andite Expansion in the Orient

79:1.1For over twenty-five thou­sand years, on down to nearly 2000 B.C., the heart of Eura­sia was pre­dom­i­nantly, though di­min­ish­ingly, And­ite. In the low­lands of Tur­kes­tan the And­ites made the west­ward turn­ing around the in­land lakes into Eu­rope, while from the high­lands of this re­gion they in­fil­trated east­ward. East­ern Tur­kes­tan (Sinkiang) and, to a lesser ex­tent, Ti­bet were the an­cient gate­ways through which these peo­ples of Mes­o­po­ta­mia pen­e­trated the moun­tains to the north­ern lands of the yel­low men. The And­ite in­fil­tra­tion of In­dia pro­ceeded from the Tur­kes­tan high­lands into the Pun­jab and from the Ira­nian graz­ing lands through Baluchis­tan. These ear­lier mi­gra­tions were in no sense con­quests; they were, rather, the con­tin­ual drift­ing of the And­ite tribes into west­ern In­dia and China.

79:1.2For al­most fif­teen thou­sand years cen­ters of mixed And­ite cul­ture per­sisted in the basin of the Tarim River in Sinkiang and to the south in the high­land re­gions of Ti­bet, where the And­ites and An­don­ites had ex­ten­sively min­gled. The Tarim val­ley was the east­ern­most out­post of the true And­ite cul­ture. Here they built their set­tle­ments and en­tered into trade re­la­tions with the pro­gres­sive Chi­nese to the east and with the An­don­ites to the north. In those days the Tarim re­gion was a fer­tile land; the rain­fall was plen­ti­ful. To the east the Gobi was an open grass­land where the herders were grad­u­ally turn­ing to agri­cul­ture. This civ­i­liza­tion per­ished when the rain winds shifted to the south­east, but in its day it ri­valed Mes­o­po­ta­mia it­self.

79:1.3By 8000 B.C. the slowly in­creas­ing arid­ity of the high­land re­gions of cen­tral Asia be­gan to drive the And­ites to the river bot­toms and the seashores. This in­creas­ing drought not only drove them to the val­leys of the Nile, Eu­phrates, In­dus, and Yel­low rivers, but it pro­duced a new de­vel­op­ment in And­ite civ­i­liza­tion. A new class of men, the traders, be­gan to ap­pear in large num­bers.

79:1.4When cli­matic con­di­tions made hunt­ing un­prof­itable for the mi­grat­ing And­ites, they did not fol­low the evo­lu­tion­ary course of the older races by be­com­ing herders. Com­merce and ur­ban life made their ap­pear­ance. From Egypt through Mes­o­po­ta­mia and Tur­kes­tan to the rivers of China and In­dia, the more highly civ­i­lized tribes be­gan to as­sem­ble in cities de­voted to man­u­fac­ture and trade. Ado­nia be­came the cen­tral Asian com­mer­cial metropo­lis, be­ing lo­cated near the pres­ent city of Ashkhabad. Com­merce in stone, metal, wood, and pot­tery was ac­cel­er­ated on both land and wa­ter.

79:1.5But ever-in­creas­ing drought grad­u­ally brought about the great And­ite ex­o­dus from the lands south and east of the Caspian Sea. The tide of mi­gra­tion be­gan to veer from north­ward to south­ward, and the Baby­lo­nian cav­al­ry­men be­gan to push into Mes­o­po­ta­mia.

79:1.6In­creas­ing arid­ity in cen­tral Asia fur­ther op­er­ated to re­duce pop­u­la­tion and to ren­der these peo­ple less war­like; and when the di­min­ish­ing rain­fall to the north forced the no­madic An­don­ites south­ward, there was a tremen­dous ex­o­dus of And­ites from Tur­kes­tan. This is the ter­mi­nal move­ment of the so-called Aryans into the Lev­ant and In­dia. It cul­mi­nated that long dis­per­sal of the mixed de­scen­dants of Adam dur­ing which ev­ery Asi­atic and most of the is­land peo­ples of the Pa­cific were to some ex­tent im­proved by these su­pe­rior races.

79:1.7Thus, while they dis­persed over the East­ern Hemi­sphere, the And­ites were dis­pos­sessed of their home­lands in Mes­o­po­ta­mia and Tur­kes­tan, for it was this ex­ten­sive south­ward move­ment of An­don­ites that di­luted the And­ites in cen­tral Asia nearly to the van­ish­ing point.

79:1.8But even in the twen­ti­eth cen­tury af­ter Christ there are traces of And­ite blood among the Tu­ra­nian and Ti­betan peo­ples, as is wit­nessed by the blond types oc­ca­sion­ally found in these re­gions. The early Chi­nese an­nals re­cord the pres­ence of the red-haired no­mads to the north of the peace­ful set­tle­ments of the Yel­low River, and there still re­main paint­ings which faith­fully re­cord the pres­ence of both the blond-And­ite and the brunet-Mon­go­lian types in the Tarim basin of long ago.

79:1.9The last great man­i­fes­ta­tion of the sub­merged mil­i­tary ge­nius of the cen­tral Asi­atic And­ites was in A.D. 1200, when the Mon­gols un­der Genghis Khan be­gan the con­quest of the greater por­tion of the Asi­atic con­ti­nent. And like the And­ites of old, these war­riors pro­claimed the ex­is­tence of “one God in heaven.” The early breakup of their em­pire long de­layed cul­tural in­ter­course be­tween Oc­ci­dent and Ori­ent and greatly hand­i­capped the growth of the mono­the­is­tic con­cept in Asia.