Course on History

Thousands of years ago, a great row of Aryans crossed over the Himalayas and, going toward the North of present India, established there their abode. They were under the guide of the Manu Vaivasvata, a Solar Initiate of First Rank, and ten wise men called Rishis; their names are respectively: Marishi, Atri, Pulastya, Pulaka, Angryas, Kardama, Daksha, Vashishia, Bhrigu and Narada.

250 years before Jesus Christ, certain Buddhist missionaries went into China to preach the doctrine of the Exalted One. There they were very kindly admitted, and very soon the new doctrine fused together with old extant religions.

Usually, the second great era Assyrian Semite, of this Iranian people, is called Assyrian; but there is a significant difference between these two eras, and between these two peoples. We have seen that the Assyrians were descendants of the Aryan-Semites, who had assimilated early black peoples that they had subdued.