The myth has come to mean that which is "fanciful, absurd and unhistorical". Yet myths are "all grave records of ancient religious customs and events, and reliable enough as history once their language is understood and allowance has been made for errors in transcription, misunderstandings of obsolete ritual, and deliberate changes introduced for moral or political reasons." (Graves, Robert. The White Goddess. London, Faber, 1948.)

The religious myths of humanity contain repeated well defined symbols such as the Great Mother and the Lame Smith. When these symbols are fitted to the precise order of the signs of the zodiac this gives the cosmological key to the mysteries of the universe or macrocosm and the human body which is the microcosm.

Man, as a spiritual being, is a direct recipient of the energies of the universe, which flow in through his psychic centres or chakras along the spine. Mythology gives information on esoteric psychology which goes far beyond twentieth century concepts of the nature of man. We have much to learn from mythological teachings when these are presented in a rational manner following the prescribed order of the zodiacal signs. Hence the writing of this Book.

I pay homage to those teachers of the early civilizations who left us the body of truths known as the Ageless Wisdom.

I have witnessed the Stellar Dance of Shiva as Nataraja and have seen human exponents of this dance such as my friend Haze near Kalakshetra. The Great Breath with its ceaseless rhythm pulsates constantly throughout our universe. When we become alive to the universe our minds begin to respond to the greater consciousness of the Cosmic Ocean of Space.

I dedicate this Book to those who have shown me the Infinite Glory of the Universal Dance of the "Heavenly Snails". May the Brotherhood of Angels and of Men be realized on Earth as it is in Heaven.

This is the third book of a series.

1. The Aquarian Bible of the Cosmic Christ.

2. The Aquarian Mandala: The Macrocosmic Universe in Man.

3. Aquarian Mythology: A Comparative Study.

4. Aquarian Astrology and Medical Diagnosis

A further MAAT publication is an annotated bibliography, Medical Astrology and Arcane Teachings, copies of which are available from The Librarian, 523 North Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., 21201, at a price of $ U.S. 2.00

MAAT is the Egyptian Goddess of Truth. This Truth lies beyond teachers and schools but can be reached through intuition. The means of grasping Truth is related to meditation. Truth is not capable of fragmentation in its ultimate reality. The minds of men degrade it by interminable analysis. Truth in essence is indivisible and can be reached through the integrative mind of the Higher Self.

The concept of the Mandala as an integrative structure is widely held by depth psychologists such as C.G. Jung. The Mandala can be defined as a circle divided into four equal segments or quarters. I have used the Mandala as a key to the zodiac and the interactions between the universe and the human being. There is always inner space as well as outer space. The inner space of consciousness can be expanded in meditation to pervade the universe. This is known as Cosmic Awareness. The 'drop' of individual consciousness can merge in the "ocean" of the Great Sea of Love - Wisdom which pervades Space.

The outworking of zodiacal cosmogenesis through the Mandala has been dealt with extensively in The Aquarian Mandala. In this present volume the key of the Mandala is applied to comparative mythology. An outline of the zodiac and its twelve houses is shown below. The three following pages give summaries of the gods, goddesses and symbols related to the zodiacal sequences found in the mythologies of twelve civilizations. The layout of the Tables in four triads should be studied with care because this is the analytical key to this Book.

The interpretation of numbers in mythology is given in Part 10  

The circle of the zodiac is split into two hemispheres. The upper hemisphere is the macrocosm or universe and the lower is the microcosm or human being.

The inner circle has four quadrants each of three signs. Emanation of the cosmoscommences in Capricorn and follows through Aquarius round the zodiac.

The four quadrants are:

1. Cosmic Godhead as a Trinity

2. Monadic Sun-Monad as a Star

3. Solar Higher Self or Individuality

4. Lunar Lower Self or Personality

The following tables show the correlations between the major mythologies according to this sequence.

Comparative Tables (B)

 Comparative Tables (C)

Comparative Tables (D)

Synopsis

Mythology as a Symbolic Language (A)

Mythology as a Symbolic Language (B)

The Definition of Mythology (A)

The Definition of Mythology (B)

Mythology and the Angelic Hierarchies(A)

Mythology and the Angelic Hierarchies(B)

Religion and the Ageless Wisdom (A)

Religion and the Ageless Wisdom (B)

The Unity of Religions (A)

The Unity of Religions (B)

The Evolutionary Process (A)

The Evolutionary Process (B)

Mythology and the Root Races (A)

Mythology and the Root Races (B)

The Lemurian and Atlantean Races (A)

The Lemurian and Atlantean Races (B)

From Pisces to the Aquarian Age (A)

From Pisces to the Aquarian Age (B)

The Laws of Karma and Reincarnation (A)

The Laws of Karma and Reincarnation (B)

Mythology and Scientific Knowledge (A)

Mythology and Scientific Knowledge (B)

In mythology lies the key to the correct understanding of the cosmological sequence of emanation from a highly spiritual level down to the physical plane. Spiritual evolution has a cyclic pattern which applies to the great Root Races of mankind and also to each human Soul. The complete process relates to the descent and ascent of the Soul to and from the physical plane.

Mythology was originally a cosmological philosophy embodied in symbolic language and given in a pure form by the spiritual teachers of mankind to infant humanity. The early races, such as the Lemurians and Atlanteans began to distort and fragment the teachings. This distortion occurred because these Root Races were themselves descending from a spiritual plane (the so-called Garden of Eden to the physical plane, hence the references to the early races of giants. They had larger bodies because they were not yet densified on the physical plane.

The myth serves as a bridge from the rational mind to the Higher Self in each individual. Through the symbols of mythology we can reach into the collective unconscious mind of the early Races and ultimately to the Godhead.

Mythology, religion, psychology and philosophy are but fragments of the Ageless Wisdom. Meditation is the key to their integration.

The Alexandrian philosophers developed a system of comparative mythology known as Hermeticism. The name is derived from Hermes (Mercury or Thoth) the spiritual teacher of the Greeks and Egyptians. Myth can be described as a mask over abstract Truth just as the Personality (Gk. persona - mask) is a mask over the higher consciousness of the Individuality.

Mythology is the outworking of the collective consciousness (the cosmic consciousness of God when made manifest in the angelic hierarchies or Elohim is known as Mahat in the universe and Manas in man) of the spiritual hierarchies responsible for the evolution of mankind. The symbolic language of the archetypes emanating from the Godhead is the means of communicating the eternal truths of the Ageless Wisdom.

Certain symbols or images have a powerful effect on the conscious mind, and become especially potent in primitive societies. Religions are living mythologies, which Science has ridiculed. The religious myth has been replaced in politics by the ideological myth. This Book is an attempt:

(a) To show the inherent consistency of the cosmological myth.

(b) To demonstrate that primitive societies could not have originated such a complex structure of mythology based on the zodiacal sequence.

(c) To postulate the descent of the early races from a nonphysical source to the physical plane.

(d) To demonstrate the existence of the Angelic Hierarchies and their role as the spiritual teachers and mentors of mankind.

Our conscious storehouse is composed of rational knowledge and beliefs often related to the fairy tales and make-believe world of the child and connected with the mythological elements in religion, philosophy and the great epics of literature.

Our use of prayer and religious ceremonies and our superstitions have a basis in the teachings of mythology. We have a psychological need for a religion based on the postulated existence of a God and His subsequent emanations - the spiritual hierarchies.

A living mythology provides a link between the material and analytical consciousness of the Personality of modern man and his spiritual consciousness embodied in the Higher Self and the Monad. Mythology is therefore vital in its role of maintaining a "truer" account of man's psychological structure and origins.

Not only is mythology embedded in the personal consciousness - it is a powerful force moulding the beliefs of the race, and hence the collective unconscious. In this aggregate consciousness of the race the archetypal symbols of the collective unconscious can be used as therapeutic tools in bringing about a psychological integration within patients undergoing psychiatric treatment.

Myth can be defined in two contrary ways:

(a) Myth is a spiritual truth which describes the numinous living reality of the spiritual realms and beings, generally of non-physical origin.

(b) Myth is a purely fictional narrative usually involving supernatural persons, actions or events, and embodying some popular idea concerning natural history or historical phenomena.

The last definition is that of the Oxford English Dictionary. Max Muller described myth-making as an attempt to express abstract ideas in metaphors. Emile Durkheim saw religion, embodied in a language of myths and symbols as a vital and necessary means of communication between the Spirit of man and his mind. The mythological structure is the matrix of our culture and society.

Malinowski believes that the mythological stories relate to the reality which lies behind day-to-day affairs. The source of the myth is not sociological but spiritual. Jung approached this spiritual realm through the symbols derived from the collective unconscious which are directly related to mythological teachings. These primordial archetypes underlie existing cultures and indicate their source of origin.

I maintain that what we call myth is in part an actual description of cosmological emanation and racial descent from the spiritual planes to the physical plane. The cosmological sequences are based on a linear symbolic progression of the evolutionary process through the signs of the zodiac from Capricorn and therefore could not be formulated ab initio by primitive or savage tribes.

The twelve labours of Hercules relate to the annual passage of the Sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac. In the psychological sense these labours refer to the need of the Soul to acquire and build in to the psyche the qualities associated with these signs (and their respective spiritual hierarchies) through a series of lives (reincarnation) until the ultimate perfection of the Soul is achieved. The major mythology sequence is:

(a) The existence of the Father of the Gods (Capricorn).

(b) The descent of the Father (Aquarius).

(c) His impregnation of the Mother (Pisces).

(d) The birth of the Saviour-Child (Sun in Aries).

(e) The slaying (entombment) of the Child (descent).

(f) The entombment (incarnation in a body or bodies).

(g) The resurrection (ascent of the Soul after death).

(h) The role as leader or judge (accepts role in hierarchy).

Symbolism is the mythological language which verifies religious teachings. These symbols formed part of the language of nonphysical humanity in the early Root Races given by the planetary and zodiacal gods who had incarnated to teach infant humanity.

The corpus of mythology represents the distorted record of these original teachings given by the spiritual hierarchies. The definition of mythology as given in the Oxford English Dictionary is false. Mythology as we possess it is, in the main, the cosmological knowledge of the early civilizations which has been covered over and distorted by mankind when the racial fall to the physical plane led to the loss of direct spiritual communication with the superphysical hierarchies.

Therefore spiritual teachers or Avatars were sent to teach mankind, now on the lowest physical plane. The rational mind, which demands "scientific" proof of that which is non-physical, began to reject the Ageless Wisdom inherent in the mythological and religious teachings of the ancients. The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky was one of several attempts made to restore this knowledge of the Ageless Wisdom to humanity at the end of the nineteenth century.

Sir George Frazer's The Golden Bough is a major work on comparative mythology which considers the myths related to specific topics such as "vegetation" and "death". Through the work of Georges Dumezil the similarities of myths in various countries has been demonstrated, especially with reference to social and hierarchical structures. What is lacking in modern texts on mythology is the essential fact of the continuous interplay between the angelic and human kingdoms in this, the twentieth century. The knowledge of mythology is vital to us because it relates to the gods as they were, are and will be. They control the evolution of man today as they did in ages past. They are a constituent and necessary part of our very being. We, in fact, are "gods in the becoming".

It is the purpose of this Book to demonstrate that the spiritual Hierarchies did manifest on Earth in the early Lemurian period, and that the angelic kingdoms today are active in the control and dissemination of spiritual energies from the highest of spiritual levels down to the physical plane.

Mythology is an attempt to provide a description of the cosmic machinery through which spiritual forces flow under the guidance of these Angelic Hierarchies.

The Ageless Wisdom has been constantly expounded by the spiritual teachers or Avatars to mankind throughout the ages of ages. The great myths are the repositories of this Wisdom. The release of the teachings is connected with planetary and historical cycles and is related to the twelve zodiacal periods or ages defined by the precession of the equinoxes.

The validity of the Wisdom teachings is proven by the direct correspondences between the macrocosm or universe and the microcosm or man. These correspondences are buttressed by supporting evidence from many fields thus confirming the constant interplay of energies between man and the universe.

Man is a god in the becoming. His Spirit descends into the Higher Self, a fragment of which is entombed in the Lower Self or Personality. This is the crucifixion of Christ in man. We can obtain liberation through the practise of yoga which is the Science of Religion. Meditation can prove the teachings of the One wisdom Religion as to the god-like nature of man and his conscious identity with the universe.

The Bible explicitly states, "Be still and know that I am God."

The religious creeds and rituals of man, and his mythological beliefs are based on the esoteric teachings related to the psychology of the "whole man".

The purposes of esoteric religion should be:

(a) To give instruction to the individual as to his real nature and spiritual origin. This soul wisdom includes a knowledge of spiritual anatomy related to the superphysical planes; an account of the outworking of the laws of reincarnation and Karma; and a description of the nature and function of the Angelic Hierarchies.

(b) To provide specific guidance in the form of moral and ethical teachings as a preparation for the Higher Mysteries of Initiation connected with the Path of spiritual unfoldment towards perfection.

(c) To teach meditation as a means of unifying our consciousness with the Divine Source.

(d) To provide sacramental aids through rituals.

(e) To demonstrate the unity behind religions based on comparative studies using the language of symbolism.

(f) To explain the transmutation of sexual energies.

Asoka, the great Buddhist Emperor of India, wrote in his twelfth Rock Edict that:

"Asoka values neither gifts nor honours so highly as the promotion of the essentials of all religions. Criticism should be temperate in every case. Other religions ought to be duly honoured on every occasion. If a man behaves thus he will further his own sect and benefit other sects. Whoever extols his own religion, either out of devotion or to glorify it, injures it very severely. Therefore concord alone is wise, so that people may both hear and understand each other's religion. Asoka's desire is that all sects should be full of learning and should benefit one another."

The Reason or Logos of God is the reason or logos of each individual. Clement of Alexandria taught that we are educated by the indwelling Deity, the Divine Reason or Logos. Each man has a fragment of eternal Truth from the ever-living Word. When they are brought together (as the body of Osiris or Zagreus) the Perfect Word or Lost Word is restored. There is "One Lord and One God of the Greeks and the barbarians, or rather of the whole race of men". Origen taught that the Logos was the divine Instructor of humanity.

Through meditation the consciousness of each can be raised to unity with the individual Monad via the Higher Self. The Monad is One with our Father in Heaven. Therefore we are gods in the becoming.

St. Teresa in her book The Interior Castle (the Castle of the Soul) described the Soul as progressing from the circumference to the centre of a circular building through seven sets of apartments or mansions. In the innermost a vision of the Holy Trinity is obtained and the Soul is given an intuitional knowledge of the spiritual realms.

Walter Hilton wrote of a ladder of perfection, leading from the active life through knowledge of the learned and love of the simple to Oneness with God where the Soul can see and know spiritual things. Similarly, the spiritual ladder of William Langland leads the Soul to unity with Christ through the practise of virtue.

The Greeks taught the ethical virtues, then mathematical sciences and philosophy, before the final knowledge of the mystical way via the Ideas or Forms of the Good, True and Beautiful. Wisdom (Sophia) is distinct from and higher than Mind (Nous). There is the mystical experience of expansion into the Cosmic Mind (Mahat) and the achievement of oneness with it.

Mahat is the collective consciousness of the Angelic Hierarchies, the spiritual instructors of the early Lemurian and subsequent Root Races. The cosmological mythologies of the early civilizations are derived from these original teachings.

(a) Human or microcosmic

The initial phase of evolution was the issuing forth from the One of the duality of Father-Mother or Spirit-Matter. The gradual separation of these poles led to the creation of the ten planes of manifestation and the descent of races and individuals from a spiritual level to the physical plane to gain the experience necessary for perfection through the process of reincarnation.

The simple but incorrect description of evolution is that man evolved from the animal kingdom by specialization of function. We become more highly developed to survive.

The occult teachings state that mankind descended into physical bodies when they were ready to be inhabited. These bodies were gradually evolved to the point where they could be occupied by humanity. The human race prior to this lived on a superphysical level and gradually descended to the physical plane. This is the story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. This going forth from the Garden is a symbolic account of what actually happened in racial evolution.

A Plato or Beethoven is not a chance event. The evolution of mankind is guided by spiritual hierarchies at all times. We truly have guardian angels to look after us.

(b) Universal or Macrocosmic

The creation of the Universe begins with the differentiation of a homogenous Substance known as Pradhana into the two polar opposites of Spirit (Purusha or Father and Matter (Prakriti or Mother). These poles are related to Capricorn (the source) and Pisces (the Virgin sea or Great Mother). The interaction of these polar opposites creates Light (Uranus in Aquarius) or Cosmic Consciousness. The relation of this cosmogenical sequence to the account given in Genesis in the Bible is set out in the companion volume The Aquarian Bible of the Cosmic Christ.

The source of emanation is in Capricorn under the control of Saturn - Cronos. This is one of the names given to the Hidden God or Ancient of Days. The Creative God, as the generic term for the Elohim (plural gods) or Angelic Hierarchies, is the Demiurge or Great Architect of the Universe. These Hierarchies control all processes of manifestation from the spiritual level down to the physical through a series of increasingly dense atomic planes, both physical and superphysical.

Spiritual or macrocosmic astrology explains the process of emanation from Capricorn in the logical and unchanging sequence of zodiacal signs through Aquarius and back to Capricorn. Cosmic Consciousness emerges as Mahat in Aries. Religion depicts the ultimate return of this Consciousness to its source when Matter has been spiritualized.

It is fallacious to assert that myths associated with the vegetation cycle have no other meaning. To ancient civilizations these cycles were seen to interpenetrate. The Sun cycle is that of the Spirit in man. The Sun represents the Solar Christ of the annual Christian church festivals. This cycle depicts the involution and evolution of the Soul of each human being. It is a timeless story based on the evolutionary process described by the archetypal symbols linked with the zodiac.

Myth, as a spiritual prehistory of the race, is composed of the language of cosmic symbolism. The study of comparative mythology can be accelerated by a knowledge of the cosmic structure and the outworking of the cosmic symbols or archetypes from the spiritual level down to the physical plane. The use of modern (racial) languages can only distort the archetypal meanings of the symbols.

The analysis of a particular mythological sequence must take into account the various levels of interpretation, whether cosmological, racial or human. These levels can be defined as:

(a) Cosmic emanation (Solar systems).

(b) Planetary Chain cycle (Moon and Earth Chains).

(c) Root Races (Lemurian, Atlantean, etc.).

(d) Sub-race (Greek, Celtic, etc.).

(e) Human (reincarnation).

In any one culture there are separate mythic streams. However, the sources of the creation myths can be traced to a common origin at an earlier point in the history of humanity. It is wrong to think that myths are based on primitive beliefs. Here again our very attitudes to racial evolution must undergo a radical change. It is not proven that man evolved from the animal kingdom. The evolution of form is quite separate from the evolution of consciousness until the two streams meet at a point where the development of the form enables it to become a temporary focus or centre for a separate unit of consciousness, which can be termed the Soul. This descent of man into a physical body is borne out by the teachings of comparative mythology.

Humanity in the early Lemurian Root Race was descending to the physical plane some 18 million years ago when the separation of the sexes occurred. This separation was necessitated by the fall of humanity from the spiritual to the physical plane. The density of atomic physical matter necessitated a change in the reproductive system of the race. Prior to this descent, the gods (as men made perfect in earlier racial cycles) walked with men as did the angelic hierarchies. Communication was direct and this Golden Age lasted until it became necessary for humans to take charge of their own evolution.

The apparent source of the myth can be related to the level of understanding of the culture, The Lemurian Root Race, which existed some twenty million years ago, originally on a non physical plane, received the gnosis or spiritual wisdom related to cosmology and racial evolution directly from the spiritual hierarchy who were living with the Lemurians as their guides and teachers.

The fall of the Lemurians and Atlanteans from their spiritual home was paralleled by a loss of spiritual knowledge. Fortunately, the language of symbols remained reasonably intact as witnessed by the symbols of Mu, the parallel symbols of the Atlanteans in Yucatan and Egypt and the common language of symbols underlying the major religions and mythologies. This Book sets out these parallel descriptions of cosmogenesis drawn from the great civilizations of mankind.

The psychological import of these teachings is far reaching because they demonstrate that the constitution of man is far more complex than presently understood by Western psychologists. I have dealt with this psychological structure in The Aquarian Bible which demonstrates the highly sophisticated linear sequence of symbolic evolution to be found in Christianity and in mythology.

The great Root Races of mankind are:

1. Polarian	(Mental Plane)	7. Seventh
2. Hyperborean	(Astral Plane)	6. Sixth
3. Lemurian	(Etheric Plane)	5. Present
	4. Atlantean (Physical Plane)

The first two Races were non-physical, as the Sixth and Seventh are destined to be. Lemuria occupied the Pacific area and during that Third Root Race man changed from an androgyne being to the bisexual race that we know today. This change corresponded with the fall of humanity to the physical plane and the resultant need for a new form of reproduction. No skeletons will ever be found for the Polarian and Hyperboreans because they were nonphysical. The change to sexual reproduction occurred some eighteen million years ago.

Lemuria was destroyed by volcanic eruptions and then Atlantis arose in what is now the Atlantic Ocean. The Toltec empire was Atlantean. Most of Atlantis perished under the waves. The earlier continent was known as Poseidonis. The later remnants as the Islands of Ruta and Daitya disappeared about 9,800 B.C. This gave rise to the Flood legends. Part of Atlantis remains north of the Himalyas where the City of Shamballa once had physical existence.

The four earlier Root Races are the Polarian, Hyperborean, Lemurian and Atlantean. Our current Race is the Fifth Root Race. Within this Race are the seeds of the Sixth Sub-Race, those who have an intuitive grasp of the Divine Plan and the unity of all life and consciousness on Earth.

These more intuitive members of the Sixth Sub-Race can function on the higher mental plane to integrate concepts. They are rightly incensed over the inequalities of the present economic systems with their large scale destruction of food whilst millions are starving. They rightly protest against the continuous warfare of the so-called advanced civilizations. They regard the stock piling of atomic weapons as a needless stupidity. They watch aghast the despoliation of the environment, and they rightly question the religions and philosophical bases of the political states engaged in such activities.

Brotherhood means the disintegration of national barriers, such as occurs in the European Common Market. What is required is an International Market with controlled prices and production. There is a growing trend towards a monetary system based on commodity values instead of gold. There is a concept of a Parliament of Nations.

The Age of Pisces, which covers the first two thousand years of Christianity, represents a period of idealism, devotion and mystical aspiration. The Love aspect of the Second Ray has been stressed, but the Wisdom aspect has been neglected.

We can assist this transition from the Piscean Age by cooperating with the Divine Plan or we can impede the process. Natural growth occurs when we flow effortlessly with the tide of evolution. Unless our minds are receptive to the ideas of the Aquarian Age there is no avenue for these ideas to reach the Earth.

Aquarius as an air sign stimulates the mental bodies of humanity towards brotherhood and the integration of knowledge. The desires of the lower mind are transmuted to a search for the gnosis or Soul-Wisdom. The humanitarian desire to serve others grows from a grasp of the fundamental unity of Life and Consciousness. The new Age is one of synthesis and cooperation between individuals and groups.

Our interactions with other people create karma which later affects our future through the cyclic law of cause and effect.

The mythological stories of the great civilizations portray great spiritual truths related to the cosmological processes of creation and emanation. These evolutionary sequences are closely identified with the marriages or relationships formed between the gods and goddesses, who also represent the processes governed by the angelic hierarchies.

The two major Laws involved are those of Reincarnation and Karma. This latter is the Law of Cause and Effect. Whatever a man, nation or planet sows that also shall be reaped. This is inexorable. The reaping can take place in this or a future life. The late Poet Laureate, John Masefield, wrote:

I hold that when a person dies,

His soul returns again to Earth,

Arrayed in some new flesh - disguise

Another mother gives him birth.

With sturdier limbs and brighter brain

The old soul takes the road again.

Christ when speaking of John the Baptist (Matt. 11.14) said, "Is this Elijah which is to come?" This is further elaborated on in the verses following. The Church Fathers held to the teachings of reincarnation until the Council of Constantinople in 553 A.D. Perfection can only be achieved through a series of lives.

The Egyptian judgement of the Soul by the 42 Assessors depicts the result of karmic law - "as ye sow so also shall ye reap". Each soul is judged by its own actions on Earth. Divine Justice rules the World, and is administered by the Lords of Karma - the Lipika.

The story of sin being placed on a "scapegoat" refers to the transfer of the skandhas of karma through the goat of Capricorn (the Gate of Death). This is the means whereby karma is transferred from one cycle of incarnation to another.

We become free from karma when we willingly cooperate with the laws governing evolution. To be free we must become unselfish. The Great Wars of the twentieth century represent a clearing up of the debts between civilizations and a weeding out of individuals who are not sufficiently evolved for the next phase of evolution. Freedom requires that the advancing wave of a new cycle be not impeded by the old conservative attitudes. On the other hand it is vital that the Ageless Wisdom enshrined in the great religions and mythologies be revitalized for the Souls of the New Age.

The earlier interpreters of mythology believed that it was the attempt of primitive minds to describe the processes of Nature as being governed by spiritual beings. Later humanity evolved a more logical philosophical approach to nature. Finally, a scientific analysis of natural processes relegated mythology to the sphere of a system of primitive beliefs.

Myth is an attempt to describe natural processes. Science is a system of mythology which deals with relative truths. For instance:

(a) The structure of the atom is not that described by twentieth century science. The clairvoyant's description of the atom is markedly different. Science can only present a hypothetical description of the atom based on the equipment available to enter into the atomic structure. This description is a scientific myth.

(b) The scientific concept of matter existing in atomic structures only on the physical plane is fallacious. Atomic structures exist on the astral (emotional) and mental planes and man has bodies of atoms drawn from these planes of vibrations higher than the physical. These bodies constitute "the aura of man".

(c) The concept of consciousness being generated by the brain cells and therefore dependent on the continued existence of the physical body is demonstrably false. Consciousness can be regressed into a pre-birth state before the physical body existed.

(d) The belief in religion of the birth of a soul coincident with the birth of a child is untrue. The soul exists in a pre-birth state as demonstrated by the regression of consciousness under hypnosis. The ability of certain children to recall their former lives is definite proof of reincarnation. The non-acceptance of reincarnation in Western religions and its fundamental importance in Indian and Buddhist religions demonstrates once again the vacillating positions maintained by the teachers of religion.

(e) Scientists send out space ships to find if there are other life forms in our galaxy. They do not know that the Earth and its environs teem with thousands of unseen beings. These are the elemental forms of life, the members of the Angelic Hierarchies, disembodied human beings, and beings from other planets related to our solar system. All Life and Consciousness is One. Consciousness is the thread between Man and God. Meditation is the key to our liberation.