Course XXVII - Teaching 18: The Celestial Empire

Chung-Ku, center of earth, unshakeable place that the waters did not remove entirely from continental summits preserved like a relic a small group of Lemurian men, adapted to the weather of the new continents defeated or controlled by black Atlanteans or instructed at the same time by them. As the Aryan race emerges, still they survive; they do not die, but transform and adapt themselves; so we have a yellow man short, lengthened eyes, with characteristic idiosyncrasy, like a living relic of the missing Lemurian race colored in the Aryan race.
The origins of Chinese civilization (Chun-Chin) are lost in the mist of Vedic times, since Vedas were those tribes settled on Chung-Yang’s' rock, defeating early inhabitants, assimilated and adapted among them.
This country, extended from Tibet to the Yellow sea, has kept better than anyone else the concept of a divine religion, since like the Egyptians they see the Supreme Being in their emperor that rules over men and gods; the Pantheon of Chinese gods, in their category, are subject to the emperor’s orders; thence the name of this kingdom: Celestial Empire.
Yu, of Hia’s dynasty, is the oldest and real emperor, since former dynasties are just myths and legends. He erects cities, organizes armies, fights against his enemies and is always a winner.
Chinese annals are from those times and are perfect codes of social, moral and economic order.
This dynasty may go back to one thousand five hundred years before Jesus Christ. Its successors enlarged their domains and surrounded their lands by an immense rampart that still survives like a relic of Chinese grandeur.
But it is Confucius who transforms the imperial grandeur of China into a religion.
He transforms the military order into practical philosophy: obedience to the king into filial devotion, like that of a son or a daughter to his father, and of man to God. He establishes a discipline that should transform human pain into continuous happiness; but to make this possible, a leader, a chief must be necessarily perfect and of strictly moral living.
The Book of Annals, written by him, became a code, a religious text, which still is a guide of the high Chinese aristocracy.
But Confucius’ religion does not deal of life after death, since it is merely materialistic. Its entirely purpose consists of granting to man a happier, more comfortable living.
Lao-tse is a philosopher and great Chinese Initiate in metaphysics. He teaches the science of the soul; in his view, all we see is a manifested sublime principle, hidden and fundamental, and true bliss consists of looking for that unique truth, which is able to reinstate man in his early state.
Yang, male principle, and Yin, female principle, are the two energetic powers that sustain the universe. Lao-tse’s disciples in China are so numerous that they form both a real army and a religion that still exists, called Taoism. “Tao” means “path”, “religion”; but in the course of times, the Tao’s religion lost its early concepts of pure spirituality and became magic religion. It is a Taoistic priest he who moves away evil spirits, consecrates family manes, makes amulets and relics, and prepares certain liquor extracted from peaches, which is like an elixir of life, a rejuvenating tonic.
Buddhism was the most disseminated religion in China, but today Shintoism prevails, which is a synthesis of the three, though independent and based on the worship of fire. The emperor professes this religion because it is the synthesis of the other three; the aristocracy follows Confucius’ laws; priests and sages follow those of Lao-tse, and the people is Buddhist.
Yellow man, over all religions, tends to preserve his own millenary religion, which is the most perfect synthesis of the two great religions intertwined –Arian and Atlantean– of the true eternal religion: Celestial Empire of the Souls.