mother cult

80:9.4The Nordics con­tin­ued the trade in am­ber from the Baltic coast, build­ing up a great com­merce with the broad­heads of the Danube val­ley via the Bren­ner Pass. This ex­tended con­tact with the Danu­bians led these north­ern­ers into mother wor­ship, and for sev­eral thou­sands of years cre­ma­tion of the dead was al­most uni­ver­sal through­out Scan­di­navia. This ex­plains why re­mains of the ear­lier white races, al­though buried all over Eu­rope, are not to be found—only their ashes in stone and clay urns. These white men also built dwellings; they never lived in caves. And again this ex­plains why there are so few ev­i­dences of the white man’s early cul­ture, al­though the pre­ced­ing Cro-Magnon type is well pre­served where it has been se­curely sealed up in caves and grot­toes. As it were, one day in north­ern Eu­rope there is a prim­i­tive cul­ture of the ret­ro­gress­ing Danu­bians and the blue man and the next that of a sud­denly ap­pear­ing and vastly su­pe­rior white man.

80:7.7It was dur­ing this age in Crete that the mother cult of the de­scen­dants of Cain at­tained its great­est vogue. This cult glo­ri­fied Eve in the wor­ship of the “great mother.” Im­ages of Eve were ev­ery­where. Thou­sands of pub­lic shrines were erected through­out Crete and Asia Mi­nor. And this mother cult per­sisted on down to the times of Christ, be­com­ing later in­cor­po­rated in the early Chris­tian re­li­gion un­der the guise of the glo­ri­fi­ca­tion and wor­ship of Mary the earth mother of Je­sus.

80:8.5The Danu­bians be­came mother wor­shipers as the re­sult of the work of the mis­sion­ar­ies from Crete. These tribes later amal­ga­mated with groups of An­don­ite sailors who came by boats from the coast of Asia Mi­nor, and who were also mother wor­shipers. Much of cen­tral Eu­rope was thus early set­tled by these mixed types of the broad-headed white races which prac­ticed mother wor­ship and the re­li­gious rite of cre­mat­ing the dead, for it was the cus­tom of the mother cultists to burn their dead in stone huts.

98:1.3The Hel­lenic Greeks found the Med­i­ter­ra­nean world largely dom­i­nated by the mother cult, and they im­posed upon these peo­ples their man-god, Dyaus-Zeus, who had al­ready be­come, like Yah­weh among the henothe­is­tic Semites, head of the whole Greek pan­theon of sub­or­di­nate gods. And the Greeks would have even­tu­ally achieved a true mono­the­ism in the con­cept of Zeus ex­cept for their re­ten­tion of the over­con­trol of Fate. A God of fi­nal value must, him­self, be the ar­biter of fate and the cre­ator of des­tiny.

89:3.4These olden ideas of self-dis­ci­pline em­braced flog­ging and all sorts of phys­i­cal tor­ture. The priests of the mother cult were es­pe­cially ac­tive in teach­ing the virtue of phys­i­cal suf­fer­ing, set­ting the ex­am­ple by sub­mit­ting them­selves to cas­tra­tion. The He­brews, Hin­dus, and Bud­dhists were earnest devo­tees of this doc­trine of phys­i­cal hu­mil­i­a­tion.