Orient  and  Occident

        

from  Loveland  Fireside  Talks  #2

Uranda   March 5, 1944

We noted that the different types of activity in the Orient and in the Occident have their base in the positive and negative phases of the structural vibrations of the earth itself, but that the negative phase of activity which we find characterized in the Orient, especially in relationship to what we might call the evil, or destructive, did not have its point of origination in the mere fact that it was located in that phase of the earth. Otherwise God would be the originator of evil.

The original point of separation on the earth's surface was in the region now known as Mongolia—the Gobi Desert was under water for a thousand years, between the submersions of Lemuria and Atlantis—and it was in that region that, during the period preceding the removal of the majority of unfallen men and women from the face of the earth, the realm of fallen activities reached what we might call its highest point of development; not necessarily relating to spiritual things, but according to the world standpoint that now exists, such as fabulous wealth, great cities, etc. We have many legends relating to that portion of the earth's surface.

The dominant characteristics of the Orient and the Occident—in relationship to the problems which we face as a Church, and to the problems of the world outworking—to what degree have they direct influence from the world standpoint and from our standpoint? The thing that is most outstanding in my own view of this is the fact that in the Orient you have such a startling picture of the natural tendencies of the fallen nature of man over the entire earth's surface.

Due to concepts of divinity, climatic conditions and many other factors, such as strife, economic considerations, as well as actual warfare, and the more widespread interest in individual attainment of wealth and position that we find in the Occident, the primary point of difference is that the natural expression of the fallen state of man—the mental quirks, characteristics and limitations—are personified so widely in the Orient. The main difference is that in the Occident we have driving forces, such as the things mentioned—what they call free enterprise, and all of that—which have tended to create an atmosphere with us, with all its evils and limitations, that has allowed a greater degree of conscious recognition-of and attunement-with the true spiritual expressions which God directed into the earth.

We can say that there have been great teachers in the Orient, but that which we speak of here as the Word of God [holding up the Bible]—although they are giving reality a degree of expression that substantiates the truth here presented in a more or less obscure manner in the Orient—was brought into activity by the Occident. We find that that out of which the Word of God developed is the same as the origin of what we call modern civilization, and the two developed at the same time, during the period in which the present dominant races developed. We find two things, stemming out of the same conditions, the same environment and through individuals in the same generations.

We have, step by step, the formation of the Bible on the one hand, and the formation of commercial enterprise and domination, so-called civilization and all of its various factors, on the other hand, the Word of God having modified that expression to a degree, so that we have what we call Christian nations. But the important thing is that when we take out of it (civilization) the Bible as such—i.e., if it were relegated to a place of temporal writings, such as we have in the ancient philosophers, like Socrates and Plato—and consider only the portion of our culture which is based upon crystallized concepts of those ancient doctrines without the Bible, and if we take out of it the strife which has been experienced through the Occidental factors that make for this strife we have spoken of, the difference between the Occident and the Orient would be very small. The rest of it could be explained largely on the basis of climatic conditions and temperaments of peoples and things of that nature.

Awhile ago, I spoke of the Orient personalizing the picture of fallen man—even the so-called spiritually advanced development in the Orient simply goes to the periphery of the realm of the negative and stops, so that it conceives the individual in God to be as a drop of water in the ocean. If we bring this view down to the point of individuals, these same principles hold true—remember that the world vibration is made up of individual vibrations—and we can see more clearly the needs of the Occident, by considering that which we see in the Orient.

The popular concept of the needs of the Occident relates to progress in making laws and setting up mechanical standards of doing various things according to the ideas of civilization, and that is where most of the plans that man advances slip up. If we are more or less illumined, then, and view these things that form the primary influences in the Occident—considering the Orient, and considering the nature of man as it exists in the Occident in the light of Oriental expression—the fool's gold is immediately in evidence, and the differences are no longer a factor and we come right down to the fundamentals of what the needs are in the Occident and the Orient alike. While the approach must be different in each case, because of the two types of interest in the fool's gold, the problem relates to convincing the human mind that it of itself cannot conceive of a plan by which it can work out its own salvation, according to its own desires in relationship to its own fancies individually or, in relationship to world problems, from a world standpoint.

Let us consider color. White is all colors. Black is absence of color. If you take white and divide it in a prism, you get such colors as exist. You know the primary colors, combinations of which make all colors. Divine man, entering the first phases of fallen activity, still had a certain amount of control over actual creative processes, and after a period of time there came a certain blending with a lower form of animal life, which resulted in the particular body which we have today.

We have white, which contains all colors. In God's creation as it was originally established, there were no colored people; that is, they were all white. When man began to propagate in the fallen state, still retaining a certain degree of control over creative processes, he interfered more or less with the laws of propagation. We now consider all that to be automatic—man does not have anything to do with controlling development in the prenatal period, other than through food, environment and mental attitude—man does not have anything to do with creative control of the creative processes at the present time. Man was created to have within himself all vibrations of the animal world—man contains within himself the vibrational function found in, or vibrations relating to, all forms of animal life.

Then when man in the fallen state began to propagate while still retaining the ability to interfere with the natural function, we can see how instead of getting all of the colors in to make white it was very easy for different individuals, establishing different vibrations, to leave out certain of the colors, so to speak; that is, certain of the vibrations which would immediately have a result in connection with the color of the skin. The outer appearance, the actual nature of the skeleton, was quite similar in all races. As man continued in creative activity, the current of power within his control receded, and the last that he accomplished in the fallen state by the use of that creative control produced certain other types.

There were many types that were unnatural in many ways, which did not survive to this present day, but we are only considering that which has survived. Scientists have been looking for the missing link, etc., but have largely failed, although they have unearthed various types of ancient creatures supposedly of the human species, that led them to believe that man has over a period of millions of years developed from some lower form of life. Some of these skeletons, or signs, that have been found have been of these miscreations during the final period in which man had controlled a degree of creative power, and which did not survive.

We have the white race, the brown race, the yellow race, and the black race. From the standpoint of the activities in these earlier days, there were those who started, more or less accidentally to begin with, to interfere with natural processes through control of creative forces. They started a vibration which diminished the perfect out-manifestation of the white. So the origin of the races, and the colors of the races, were more or less a manifestation of the prism effect of the creative powers acting in and through man in the early stages of the fallen state. [Incidentally, there was a blue race. A portion of Lemuria, prior to the final submersion, was inhabited by what I have spoken of as the blue race. — added April 2, 1944]

We recall that evil use of creative power produced the destructive tendencies in insects and animals. These destructive distortions were used in a process of warfare. Certain tribes originally began to establish that which differentiated them from all others; then, when they had accomplished their purposes, they used those differentiations as a symbol of themselves, and it was out of that that we have the origin of the distinctions of racial characteristics.

All of the destructive animals and pests that we have on the face of the earth today are survivals of, or the warping of, originally designed characteristics to suit the purposes of fallen man, and were used as weapons by what we might call enemy tribes or groups, until they developed very ferocious animals to use in fighting. Take the mosquito, for instance. Originally that was a creation of fallen man developed with the idea of controlling them, and as long as the originators of them controlled the mosquitoes, they could keep them from destroying their own peoples and send them against their enemies. It started out by using expressions of nature as combatant forces. Now they have mechanical means of combat. Take the serpent, for instance. Snakes are despised at the present time. Originally they were among the most beautiful creatures on the face of the earth. Originally they flew through the air and were absolutely harmless, and were very beautiful.

Most destructive creatures were originally creations which God created—excepting only such as the mosquito—and since most of them were not actually individual creations, they were perversions which were developed out of the originals in order to produce that which could be used on the basis of black magic, or human self-will. Take flies—if it were not for flies, the ordinary house flies, humanity would have perished from the earth long ago. Why? You take a carcass of a dead animal, and if there isn't something to devour it the stench from it as it putrefies would become a breeding place for disease and create ill conditions, causing disease which would wipe humanity from the face of the earth. It has been said that three flies will be able to produce offspring in the form of larvae which will consume a carcass more quickly than a lion would be able to consume a carcass of the same size, like a cow. The mosquito is as near an original creation still surviving as there is. To say absolutely a creation, that would not be true, because they already had something to work on or they could not have accomplished it.

Characteristics of Divine man physically—speaking from the standpoint of the physical, he was less dense; speaking from the standpoint of the divine, he was more solid. That sounds like a paradox. From the standpoint of the physical nature as we know it now, he was less dense; from the standpoint of the spiritual, more dense, more the manifestation of the positive vibration of being and less the manifestation of the negative vibration of being. While the body of Divine man was larger, it was proportionately lighter in relation to gravitational buoyancy; that is, he could jump higher into the air. Do not get any idea of clumsiness; he had grace, symmetry, ease of movement, surpassing anything that man can achieve today.

The pineal gland is the connecting link for the silver cord. Each of the endocrine glands is a connecting link between God and the physical being. The first six of the endocrine glands form contacts which relate to the unconscious realm of physical function, that is, automatic functions, etc. The vibrations received from the pineal gland activate the auric radiations which form the mind, intensifying them to the point where consciousness becomes positive.

The angels of heaven are God Beings that incarnate in the earth, and there are also God Beings in heaven. The angels of heaven are God Beings in the inner planes, and God Beings incarnate in the earth. It is ordinarily believed that angels are neither male nor female because Jesus said that there is no marriage in heaven. Since each God Being has his perfect cosmic mate there is no need for marriage in heaven. “God said, Let us make man after our image… Male and female created he them.” So the masculine and feminine must be in the nature of God, when He said “in our image.” Therefore God Beings are male and female.

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