Course XXVII - Teaching 1: The Fountain of Religions

Peoples of the Atlantean race had received the truths of their religions from their Great Instructors. These truths, strengthened by the psychic power of perception that this race possessed, were of entirely Divine character.
These religions verged on the world of a higher consciousness and did not use natural symbols. They were of a select monotheism.
But as this race begun to decline and degenerate, religious practices were replaced by acts of psychic power and black magic.
As Aryan Semites became different from the Atlanteans, still they kept a distant glimpse of those Divine religions, though entirely hidden under the burden of many centuries and reason, which was a new prerogative of the emerging race.
The Atlanteans, in depths of the sea where their continent sunk, carried with them their Divine Religion.
But new Initiates and new ideas-mother appeared and, therefore, a new religion was established, which accompanied the new Aryan race and based every following creed of this race.
The Aryans Semites, after the great fight against their black enemies (even though they were black people too, but with different physical structure), rushed in the conquest of the new continent that, like a promised virgin land, had emerged from the waters for them.
Early men, in immense caravans, guided by their Divine Instructors, left the old coasts in search of new lands and migrated toward the centre of Asia and Europe.
They found a fertile land that was wonderful but tremendously hard to conquer. Their usual equatorial weather was replaced there by a hard and cold weather.
After sloth, the need appeared, and later a frightful number of dead people; then the inhabitants of the new continent learnt gradually to fight Nature in search of food and shelter.
Nature was tough to overcome, but as it was overwhelmed, it gave wonderful results and revealed its secrets. So those early men deified Nature and its manifested powers.
Now these men were not Aryan Semites; they became a characteristic race: Pure Aryans.
Their skin became white like the snow falling upon them; their eyes took a bluish and greyish hue like the mist that covered them constantly; and their hair became red and blond.
This new emerging religion, based on the cult of Nature, is purely physical and phallic, and foundation of polytheism.
But one day Aryans came back to their original land, and found their preceding black people, Aryans Semites, who kept, by a rudimentary monotheism, the Divine Religion of the Atlanteans, and overcame them.
From these two streams –from a forgotten Divine Religion and another natural and human religion that was emerging– the structure of any coming religion was formed.
Then, Aryan religions come into being from memory of a lost divine state and from knowledge of an available natural power of man.
Words of the first Divine Instructors are fused and crystallized with material experience of the peoples; a memory of the divinity becomes material with an image, with a cult of the ancestors, and from this source where God and Man meet, where circle and cross embrace one another, a crystal water will spring up and flood the world and times, with several names, to join again one day to the ocean of man made God.
In all of Aryan religions, with monotheism or polytheism prevailing in them, one finds always the same fundamental bases; in the beginning, the worship is simple and clear like dawn; like any dawn, human quietude turns to divine serenity with songs and hymns; these are conveyed from parents to children, from one people to another and, as time goes by, become holy texts and fundamental languages.
Tradition transforms simple elevations of the soul into ceremonies and worships, and worships claim for vestments, signs and mysteries.
All of Aryan religions follow the same routes and the same path; they are spiritual and pure in the beginning; they become strong and powerful as their go on to progress in order to reach they acme, when mind and spirit of religion come together and become one. Afterward they decline, become intellectual and wise, dogmatic and rigid, cold and dark; and they end up as a sectarian organization, keeping its own divinities.
It must be so, inexorably; a mixture of spirit and matter only can become fight between spirit and matter. Materialism is defeated when spirit is in control but when material force defeats the spirit, the latter hides behind thick veils.
One finds a Real and Divine principle behind dogmatic and practical forms of any religion.
He who knows how to find this Unique principle, knows all religions, participates in all of them and has found the secret, the only and first fountain of them.