As Taught in the Third Sacred School
Young Folks’ Explorers Club #8
Uranda May 15, 1939
It is with
great joy that I salute you in the Light, anointing you with the Oil of Love,
and blessing you in the Holy Name of the LORD of Lords. Several of you have asked
for longer lessons. Also, many of the adults have asked for more simple lessons.
So it is that I am going to give you what you have asked for. This series of
lessons in the Explorer’s Instruction Papers, though written for the young
folks, is being sent to all of you
who are consciously in the Third Sacred School. This means that all of you will
be treated as young people—and it means that all of you will be expected to
answer the questions which you will find listed in the lessons.
Now we are
going to consider many things which will require close attention on your part.
It will not be hard unless you make it so—for the Way is easy! You will not
be expected to be able to read it over just once and know it all. No indeed!
You will find it a joy to read each paper over many times, and you will find that
each time something new and wonderful will be revealed to you. With each
reading it will be easier for you to understand. All I ask is that you do your
best.
People of
all ages—and in all ages of present recorded history—have found it hard to
understand the Creation, the Fall of Man, and many other things that took place
before our present record of history began. These things have been a mystery
only because human beings have ignored the simple truths which God has made so
obvious, and they have tried to make a great mystery out of nothing. The
picture that I am about to reveal to you has been here all the time—and many
there will be who cling to human fancies of intellect, and so will be inclined
to refuse to see the picture as it is. Man thinks he knows so many things which
he does not know. Man thinks he has great knowledge, and he does not like to
find that he has been believing in stories and ideas that are not true. Human
beings like to demand “proof” for everything new, and very often their very attitude
keeps them from understanding and seeing a very simple truth, just because they
think it is something that it is not.
For those of
you who are willing to carry through, the proof will be given in due season. A student
beginning the study of any mathematical science must accept as facts certain fundamental statements
without proof, and then, as he continues on, he begins to understand why those
statements are true. If he had demanded proof before going on he could not have
understood the proof, even if it had been given to him. So is it with this
present consideration. Proof is proof only to those who understand it—and so
you must let understanding come first. Also, you must not keep trying to inject
human concepts into the picture if you wish the result to come forth clear and
true. When we are considering one problem, you should not try to mix it with
some other problem. Let it all work out a step at a time. If you are doing a
problem in addition, and someone keeps insisting that subtraction is true and
should be used, it would not help matters. You know that the fact of addition
does not deny the fact of subtraction, but you know that the two must not be
confused. These points are very important. If, after you have read this paper
through once, you stop to say, “But I thought so-and-so was true,” and “I heard
such and such a teacher say something else was true,” and so on in a score of
ways, you will find that you only becloud your own vision and help matters not
at all.
It is necessary that you be content with a careful examination of the
Truth, and then, after you have become acquainted with the facts, if any
questions remain they will be answered in due season. It is perfectly all right
for you to ask questions as they arise, but do not expect us to stop and
examine a thousand and one human concepts along the Way. That would take too
long. We are only interested in the facts. The world is full of books. There
have been tens of thousands of teachers who have taught as many different ideas.
If you want to stop and study all of them, instead of giving full attention to
the Truth, you will find that you will not have enough time, and you will waste
your life. The thing you should now be interested in is this: What
is the truth of these things as taught in the Third Sacred School?
Do not
expect to fully understand all the dates and figures which I give in this
lesson—at least not until you have come to understand the rest of the papers in
this series. These dates are our starting points, and in due season you will
understand them fully. Until then, it is best that you accept them as being true until they have
been proven false—and you will find that they cannot be proven false, for the
simple reason that they are true. It must be recognized that figures and dates
of the distant past must be considered as being approximate, and that a factual
variation of ten or a hundred years one way or the other is of no importance.
Also, that most of the dates are given as being Before Christ, or B.C., so that
if you wish to find out how many years ago any certain event was, unless it is
so stated, you must add 1939 years to the figure given, because it is now 1939
years since the time usually considered as the Birth of Christ. (However, Jesus
was actually born four years before the accepted date, so that He was born 4
B.C., but this fact does not enter into these calculations, though it is noted in
passing.) Be very careful to note what is actually stated about any given
figures, and avoid jumping to conclusions. If you read what I write, instead of
what you think it ought to be, you will find it all comes out clearly and
easily before very long.
There are
three different kinds of Ages, or periods of time, about which you will need to
understand. The first is what we speak of simply as an Age, and it is a
period of 2156 years. The years of which I speak are the ordinary ones with which you are
acquainted, consisting of 365 and a fraction days which pass from one New
Year’s Day to the next. Whenever I speak of an Age, you will know at once that
I mean a period of 2156 years—and an Age is the period of time it takes for
this earth in our Solar System to move from any given point out through its
cycle and back to the same relative point and position in the Universe. You
will understand all that this means after you become more acquainted with
Creation.
The second
Age about which you need to know is the Solar Age, and it is a period of twelve
ordinary Ages, which makes a period of 25,872 years. So it is that you will
know at once that whenever I speak of a Solar Age, I mean a period of 25,872
years, which is made up of Twelve Ages, in just the same way as twelve months
make a year.
The third
Age is made up of twelve Solar Ages, and it is called a Universal Age. You will
see that 144 ordinary Ages make one Universal Age. This means that when I speak
of a Universal Age, you will know at once that I mean a period of 310,464 years.
The secret of the 144 Ages is very interesting, but first you need to
understand many other
things. Be certain to keep these three different Ages clearly in
consciousness, so that you do not confuse them.
388
B.C. was the close of the first Universal
Age since the beginning of the Creation of this world. That means that the
beginning of Creation, as the story is told in the Bible, was 310,852 B.C.—or, put
in another way, the Creation of this earth began 312,791 years ago. I know that
some will say: “But I thought the Bible says that Creation began about 6,000
years ago.” To them I give assurance that the Holy Bible does not make any such
statement. Then there will be those who will say something about thinking that
this world had been here for many millions of years. No, it has not—no matter
what scientific evidence to the contrary man may think that he has found. No
matter what anyone has thought or taught, this teaching of the Third Sacred School
is the only truly scientific statement
concerning the age of the earth, the period of Creation, and that which took
place before present recorded history began about five or six thousand years ago.
This earth
was just one Universal
Age old in 388 B.C., so Creation began in 310,852 B.C. The Bible tells us that
Creation took place in “six days,” and because it says that “the evening and
the morning were the first day,” many people have jumped to the conclusion that
the “day” mentioned was just twenty-four hours long, just like our days of
today. However, the key by which we may understand this is given when the Lord
told Adam that “in the day” when anyone ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil they should die. The Bible makes it very clear that Adam lived
many hundreds of years after he ate of
the forbidden fruit. This makes it clear that the word day, as here used, means simply a
period of time. The length of the period of time is not indicated beyond saying
it was the “evening and the morning.” Light and darkness are the Positive and Negative phases of the same thing, and that means simply a complete Whole. What that
complete whole of a period of time was, we must determine by other means.
Each Day of Creation was a Solar Age, or a period of 25,872 years. Just as the daylight
period from morning to evening averages
12 hours each day, the Day of Creation must have twelve periods, which, in
their positive and negative phases, would be that which is symbolized by the 12
hours of light and the 12 hours of darkness in the ordinary day of 24 hours. So
it is that the Solar Age is divided into twelve Ages of 2156 years each.
The Six
Days of Creation, each being a Solar Age of 25,872 years, lasted about 155,000 years. As you
read the story in the first chapter of Genesis, you will note that on the First
Day “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” The word water here gives us a key to two things.
First, Water is the symbol of Truth, and so it was the action of the Spirit of
God working through the Eternal Truth that began the process of Creation.
Second, each cycle of twelve Ages always begins
with a Water Age; and also the cycle of Solar Ages which made up the Universal
Age began with a Water Solar Age. The proof
of this you will understand in due season—but to begin with you can accept it
because the Bible clearly indicates that it is true. On the Second Day of the
Spirit of God, and also we find that the Second Age in any Solar Age has always been an Air Age. Further, the
Second Solar Age of the Universal Age was a Solar
Air Age. Thus, we have another proof from the Bible.
Before we
consider the Bible story further, I would point out that each Solar Age is
divided naturally into three parts, and that each of the three parts is divided
into four parts, making a total of twelve parts, or Twelve Ages. The same thing
is true of a Universal Age, which is made up of twelve Solar Ages which fall
into three groups of four each. The order in the group of four Solar Ages is
always exactly the same, namely: first, a Solar Water Age; second, a Solar Air
Age; third, a Solar Earth Age; and fourth, a Solar Fire Age. This is the first
group of four, and the second and third are the same, so that the fifth is a
Solar Water Age, the sixth is a Solar Air Age, the seventh is a Solar Earth
Age, the eighth is a Solar Fire Age, the ninth is a Solar Water Age, the tenth
is a Solar Air Age, the eleventh is a Solar Earth Age, and the twelfth is a
Solar Fire Age—which completes the first Universal Age that ended 388 B.C. That
would mean that the First Solar Age of the Second Universal Age, in which we
are now living, would have to be a Solar Water Age, and that this Solar Water
Age would have to begin with an ordinary Water Age. The Bible proves this to be
true, as the Great Master based His ministry on the Water vibration—baptism by
water—His first miracle changing water to wine—walking on the water—fishermen
for disciples—and He made them Fishers of
Men. Consider these things well, and another lesson will reach you.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
