Course XXVIII - Teaching 8: The Assyrians

The Assyrians were destined to form a Semitic religion par excellence. They became strong, indomitable and combative, since Assyria’s destiny was to remain detached at al costs from continuous wars, because it was surrounded by hostile powers.
So, of course, Assyrian religion is warlike par excellence and personified power of war, combat and victory.
Asur, King of the Assyrians, is a Semitic Initiate, who guides this people toward the conquest of a new civilization: civilization by power.
Being aware of their power, the Assyrians were not cruel with the defeated in order to learn their teachings, to assimilate their good customs and to intermix constructive values.
Asur, an Initiated King, becomes Holy City, and this Holy City, transformed into living Sanctuary, has a supreme worship –Asur.
The enormous library of Asur proved this progressive virtue. It was there where they kept documents about the ancient Atlantean civilization, the history of the early Assyrians, and the book of prophecy and construction of the great pyramid of Kheops.
Since Assyria is religion of combat, the builder of those pyramids is the Great victorious King; the female aspect is represented by Semiramis, divine daughter of Derketos of Askalon.
Semiramis, abandoned when she was born, was picked up by a shepherd called Simas, who lovingly reared and instructed her in the art of war. Married to Oanes, she went with him to fight; but Nino fell in love with her, and abducted and associated her with the empire. Since then, riding a radiant white horse, from victory to victory, she defeated enemies, founded temples and hoarded up art treasures in the great Ninive. Later, Ninias, her son, conspired against her and, as she heard about it, grief-stricken, became a white dove and disappeared on the sky.
The early worship of the Assyrians was like that of the Chaldeans. They worshiped the God Belos and offered him sacrifices, but later they formed their own worship by deifying their kings or transforming those foreign gods into national gods.
Nothing remains today of this ancient religion in the world, but its history of religious grandeur, of a One and Trine God, of punishment and reward after death, is written down on any subsequent religion. When the Assyrian people declined and its decadence began, those early, pure and strong worships, which implored before a combat or celebrated a triumph after a battle by means of simple and original rites, were substituted for luxurious ceremonies and human sacrifices.