Aryans

94:1.2The Vedic cult was then in pro­cess of growth and meta­mor­pho­sis un­der the di­rec­tion of the Brah­man caste of teacher-priests, who were grad­u­ally as­sum­ing con­trol over the ex­pand­ing rit­ual of wor­ship. The amal­ga­ma­tion of the one­time thirty-three Aryan de­i­ties was well un­der way when the Salem mis­sion­ar­ies pen­e­trated the north of In­dia.

94:1.3The poly­the­ism of these Aryans rep­re­sented a de­gen­er­a­tion of their ear­lier mono­the­ism oc­ca­sioned by their sep­a­ra­tion into tribal units, each tribe hav­ing its ven­er­ated god. This de­vo­lu­tion of the orig­i­nal mono­the­ism and trini­tar­i­an­ism of And­ite Mes­o­po­ta­mia was in pro­cess of resyn­the­sis in the early cen­turies of the sec­ond mil­len­nium be­fore Christ. The many gods were or­ga­nized into a pan­theon un­der the tri­une lead­er­ship of Dyaus pitar, the lord of heaven; In­dra, the tem­pes­tu­ous lord of the at­mo­sphere; and Agni, the three-headed fire god, lord of the earth and the ves­ti­gial sym­bol of an ear­lier Trin­ity con­cept.

78:5.6These And­ites were the so-called Dra­vid­ian and later Aryan con­querors of In­dia; and their pres­ence in cen­tral Asia greatly up­stepped the an­ces­tors of the Tu­ra­ni­ans. Many of this race jour­neyed to China by way of both Sinkiang and Ti­bet and added de­sir­able qual­i­ties to the later Chi­nese stocks. From time to time small groups made their way into Japan, For­mosa, the East In­dies, and south­ern China, though very few en­tered south­ern China by the coastal route.

• little racial impression except in north India

79:2.2The ear­li­est race mix­tures in In­dia were a blend­ing of the mi­grat­ing red and yel­low races with the abo­rig­i­nal An­don­ites. This group was later weak­ened by ab­sorb­ing the greater por­tion of the ex­tinct east­ern green peo­ples as well as large num­bers of the or­ange race, was slightly im­proved through lim­ited ad­mix­ture with the blue man, but suf­fered ex­ceed­ingly through as­sim­i­la­tion of large num­bers of the in­digo race. But the so-called abo­rig­ines of In­dia are hardly rep­re­sen­ta­tive of these early peo­ple; they are rather the most in­fe­rior south­ern and east­ern fringe, which was never fully ab­sorbed by ei­ther the early And­ites or their later ap­pear­ing Aryan cousins.

79:4.1The sec­ond And­ite pen­e­tra­tion of In­dia was the Aryan in­va­sion dur­ing a pe­riod of al­most five hun­dred years in the mid­dle of the third mil­len­nium be­fore Christ. This mi­gra­tion marked the ter­mi­nal ex­o­dus of the And­ites from their home­lands in Tur­kes­tan.

• met undoing in failure to complete conquest of India

79:4.2The early Aryan cen­ters were scat­tered over the north­ern half of In­dia, no­tably in the north­west. These in­vaders never com­pleted the con­quest of the coun­try and sub­se­quently met their un­do­ing in this ne­glect since their lesser num­bers made them vul­ner­a­ble to ab­sorp­tion by the Dra­vid­i­ans of the south, who sub­se­quently over­ran the en­tire penin­sula ex­cept the Hi­malayan prov­inces.

• little racial impression except in north India

79:4.3The Aryans made very lit­tle racial im­pres­sion on In­dia ex­cept in the north­ern prov­inces. In the Dec­can their in­flu­ence was cul­tural and re­li­gious more than racial. The greater per­sis­tence of the so-called Aryan blood in north­ern In­dia is not only due to their pres­ence in these re­gions in greater num­bers but also be­cause they were re­in­forced by later con­querors, traders, and mis­sion­ar­ies. Right on down to the first cen­tury be­fore Christ there was a con­tin­u­ous in­fil­tra­tion of Aryan blood into the Pun­jab, the last in­flux be­ing at­ten­dant upon the cam­paigns of the Hel­lenis­tic peo­ples.

79:4.4On the Gangetic plain Aryan and Dra­vid­ian even­tu­ally min­gled to pro­duce a high cul­ture, and this cen­ter was later re­in­forced by con­tri­bu­tions from the north­east, com­ing from China.

• used caste system to save racial identity

79:4.5In In­dia many types of so­cial or­ga­ni­za­tions flour­ished from time to time, from the semidemo­cratic sys­tems of the Aryans to despotic and monar­chial forms of gov­ern­ment. But the most char­ac­ter­is­tic fea­ture of so­ci­ety was the per­sis­tence of the great so­cial castes that were in­sti­tuted by the Aryans in an ef­fort to per­pet­u­ate racial iden­tity. This elab­o­rate caste sys­tem has been pre­served on down to the pres­ent time.

• used caste system to save racial identity

79:4.6Of the four great castes, all but the first were es­tab­lished in the fu­tile ef­fort to pre­vent racial amal­ga­ma­tion of the Aryan con­querors with their in­fe­rior sub­jects. But the pre­mier caste, the teacher-priests, stems from the Sethites; the Brah­mans of the twen­ti­eth cen­tury af­ter Christ are the lin­eal cul­tural de­scen­dants of the priests of the sec­ond gar­den, al­beit their teach­ings dif­fer greatly from those of their il­lus­tri­ous pre­de­ces­sors.

79:4.7When the Aryans en­tered In­dia, they brought with them their con­cepts of De­ity as they had been pre­served in the lin­ger­ing tra­di­tions of the re­li­gion of the sec­ond gar­den. But the Brah­man priests were never able to with­stand the pa­gan mo­men­tum built up by the sud­den con­tact with the in­fe­rior re­li­gions of the Dec­can af­ter the racial oblit­er­a­tion of the Aryans. Thus the vast ma­jor­ity of the pop­u­la­tion fell into the bond­age of the en­slav­ing su­per­sti­tions of in­fe­rior re­li­gions; and so it was that In­dia failed to pro­duce the high civ­i­liza­tion which had been fore­shad­owed in ear­lier times.

79:4.8The spir­i­tual awak­en­ing of the sixth cen­tury be­fore Christ did not per­sist in In­dia, hav­ing died out even be­fore the Mo­hammedan in­va­sion. But some­day a greater Gau­tama may arise to lead all In­dia in the search for the liv­ing God, and then the world will ob­serve the fruition of the cul­tural po­ten­tial­i­ties of a ver­sa­tile peo­ple so long co­matose un­der the be­numb­ing in­flu­ence of an un­pro­gress­ing spir­i­tual vi­sion.

• used caste system to save racial identity

79:4.9Cul­ture does rest on a bi­o­logic foun­da­tion, but caste alone could not per­pet­u­ate the Aryan cul­ture, for re­li­gion, true re­li­gion, is the in­dis­pens­able source of that higher en­ergy which drives men to es­tab­lish a su­pe­rior civ­i­liza­tion based on hu­man broth­er­hood.

94:1.1In the days of Mel­chiz­e­dek, In­dia was a cos­mopoli­tan coun­try which had re­cently come un­der the po­lit­i­cal and re­li­gious dom­i­nance of the Aryan-And­ite in­vaders from the north and west. At this time only the north­ern and west­ern por­tions of the penin­sula had been ex­ten­sively per­me­ated by the Aryans. These Vedic new­com­ers had brought along with them their many tribal de­i­ties. Their re­li­gious forms of wor­ship fol­lowed closely the cer­e­mo­nial prac­tices of their ear­lier And­ite fore­bears in that the fa­ther still func­tioned as a priest and the mother as a priest­ess, and the fam­ily hearth was still uti­lized as an al­tar.

• used caste system to save racial identity

94:2.1As the Salem mis­sion­ar­ies pen­e­trated south­ward into the Dra­vid­ian Dec­can, they en­coun­tered an in­creas­ing caste sys­tem, the scheme of the Aryans to pre­vent loss of racial iden­tity in the face of a ris­ing tide of the sec­ondary San­gik peo­ples. Since the Brah­man priest caste was the very essence of this sys­tem, this so­cial or­der greatly re­tarded the prog­ress of the Salem teach­ers. This caste sys­tem failed to save the Aryan race, but it did suc­ceed in per­pet­u­at­ing the Brah­mans, who, in turn, have main­tained their re­li­gious hege­mony in In­dia to the pres­ent time.

94:2.2And now, with the weak­en­ing of Vedism through the re­jec­tion of higher truth, the cult of the Aryans be­came sub­ject to in­creas­ing in­roads from the Dec­can. In a des­per­ate ef­fort to stem the tide of racial ex­tinc­tion and re­li­gious oblit­er­a­tion, the Brah­man caste sought to ex­alt them­selves above all else. They taught that the sac­ri­fice to de­ity in it­self was all-ef­fi­ca­cious, that it was all-com­pelling in its po­tency. They pro­claimed that, of the two es­sen­tial di­vine prin­ci­ples of the uni­verse, one was Brah­man the de­ity, and the other was the Brah­man priest­hood. Among no other Uran­tia peo­ples did the priests pre­sume to ex­alt them­selves above even their gods, to rel­e­gate to them­selves the hon­ors due their gods. But they went so ab­surdly far with these pre­sump­tu­ous claims that the whole pre­car­i­ous sys­tem col­lapsed be­fore the de­bas­ing cults which poured in from the sur­round­ing and less ad­vanced civ­i­liza­tions. The vast Vedic priest­hood it­self floun­dered and sank be­neath the black flood of in­er­tia and pes­simism which their own self­ish and un­wise pre­sump­tion had brought upon all In­dia.

78:4.4These early And­ites were not Aryan; they were pre-Aryan. They were not white; they were pre-white. They were nei­ther an Oc­ci­den­tal nor an Ori­en­tal peo­ple. But it is And­ite in­her­i­tance that gives to the poly­glot mix­ture of the so-called white races that gen­er­al­ized ho­mo­gene­ity which has been called Cau­ca­soid.

98:1.2The early in­flu­ence of the Salem teach­ers was nearly de­stroyed by the so-called Aryan in­va­sion from south­ern Eu­rope and the East. These Hel­lenic in­vaders brought along with them an­thro­po­mor­phic God con­cepts sim­i­lar to those which their Aryan fel­lows had car­ried to In­dia. This im­por­ta­tion in­au­gu­rated the evo­lu­tion of the Greek fam­ily of gods and god­desses. This new re­li­gion was partly based on the cults of the in­com­ing Hel­lenic bar­bar­ians, but it also shared in the myths of the older in­hab­i­tants of Greece.

78:5.3The civ­i­liza­tion of Tur­kes­tan was con­stantly be­ing re­vived and re­freshed by the new­com­ers from Mes­o­po­ta­mia, es­pe­cially by the later And­ite cav­al­ry­men. The so-called Aryan mother tongue was in pro­cess of for­ma­tion in the high­lands of Tur­kes­tan; it was a blend of the An­donic di­alect of that re­gion with the lan­guage of the Ad­am­son­ites and later And­ites. Many mod­ern lan­guages are de­rived from this early speech of these cen­tral Asian tribes who con­quered Eu­rope, In­dia, and the up­per stretches of the Mes­o­po­ta­mian plains. This an­cient lan­guage gave the Oc­ci­den­tal tongues all of that sim­i­lar­ity which is called Aryan.

78:6.3Ten per cent, in­clud­ing a large group of the Sethite priests, moved east­ward through the Elamite high­lands to the Ira­nian pla­teau and Tur­kes­tan. Many of their de­scen­dants were later driven into In­dia with their Aryan breth­ren from the re­gions to the north.

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.

77:4.7And all this ex­plains how the Sume­ri­ans ap­peared so sud­denly and mys­te­ri­ously on the stage of ac­tion in Mes­o­po­ta­mia. In­ves­ti­ga­tors will never be able to trace out and fol­low these tribes back to the be­gin­ning of the Sume­ri­ans, who had their ori­gin two hun­dred thou­sand years ago af­ter the sub­mer­gence of Dala­ma­tia. With­out a trace of ori­gin else­where in the world, these an­cient tribes sud­denly loom upon the hori­zon of civ­i­liza­tion with a full-grown and su­pe­rior cul­ture, em­brac­ing tem­ples, met­al­work, agri­cul­ture, an­i­mals, pot­tery, weav­ing, com­mer­cial law, civil codes, re­li­gious cer­e­mo­nial, and an old sys­tem of writ­ing. At the be­gin­ning of the his­tor­i­cal era they had long since lost the al­pha­bet of Dala­ma­tia, hav­ing adopted the pe­cu­liar writ­ing sys­tem orig­i­nat­ing in Dil­mun. The Sume­rian lan­guage, though vir­tu­ally lost to the world, was not Semitic; it had much in com­mon with the so-called Aryan tongues.