by Ernest L. Norman
This is your most humble and obedient servant, Lao Tse. I have had the great honor conferred upon me of conducting you on your next tour through Aureleus; so we shall begin immediately in the section of this great teaching center which has been devoted to the philosophical expressions of Chinese culture, both ancient and more modern. You will see stretching out before you something which seems to resemble a vast and beautiful Chinese city, except that unlike the earth cities, it is constructed of the same beautiful crystal energies, glowing and pulsating with all of the colors of the rainbow. As we wander down this fair avenue, you will see on either side a vast assortment of Chinese temples, pagodas, gardens, fountains, and arched bridges across the many streams and lakes. These are all of the ancient and more modern Chinese architectures; and while these structures here relate more to actual teaching activities of the Chinese philosophical cultures, yet you will find on the outside of this teaching center another section of Aureleus which also was of the Chinese culture, wherein lived many of the old sages and Chinese exponents of philosophy.
It is somewhat with sadness that I am entering into these discussions, for I have looked into the earth China and have seen the great desolations which have been wrought by the pagan gods of Communism. The ancient temples have been desecrated, and turned into brothels of iniquity. The Chinese people themselves are sorely troubled and perplexed. They cannot easily accept this new, ideology which is so foreign to their nature, after living for so many thousands of years with their old gods and beliefs and expressions of the ancient Chinese.
As you look about you here, you see great temples, huge and immense statues, several of which look like the Buddha statues of Kamakura in Japan; or they may represent other statues of Buddha, as he existed in the various histories and temples of China. So let us pause a moment here and look about us and reflect into the wonders and beauties of man’s spiritual nature.
We who are Chinese do not claim to be one of the seven root races, while, in a broad sense, we may have been so included in such theologies, from the earth plane philosophies as have been previously discussed. Instead, in man absolute, as was described to you at another time in the book, The Truth About Mars, we were migrants from the planet Mars and came into existence on this planet well over a hundred thousand years ago. The earth geologist and researcher have long been confused by the element of time in their studies of the ancient races of people, and they have not yet valuated such circumstances as time. It is quite obvious that many of the old and ancient writings would in such extensions of time pass into oblivion and would thus have to be reinstated with newer documents or other historical representations.
In the beginning of our history on the earth, as was explained to you by Nurel, the channel’s Martian guide, the great space-ships in our intercourse with the planet Mars established a series of six colonies, stretching from the lower planes of China into the more northern reaches, around what is now known as Peking in the northern provinces of China. There was in existence at that time descendants of the Aryan race who lived as Mongols or Tartars, as they are called in your history books. These were mostly very fierce roving bands of nomads, who now roam the desert regions of the Gobi Desert. It is with these races of people that the original Martian settlers had so much trouble. As you saw in the Martian philosophies, it was obvious that these people from Mars had progressed to the point where they disliked intensely to kill their fellow being; and while they had weapons which thoroughly and completely decimated these nomadic tribes, yet they refrained from doing so; and they relied more upon the evolution of time, as would be of such circumstance that these tribes would absorb some of the wisdom and knowledge. However, this was not so; in the numerous raids which they made upon these settlements, they frequently captured both male and female prisoners; and as the females bore children to these Mongols and Tartars, we became somewhat infused into the racial characteristics of these people. However, for the most part, the various dynasties of the Chinese Empire can be traced directly back to the Martian line.
It has been very apparent to you in your numerous pages of Chinese history in your modern philosophy that we have been a people for many thousands of years; and so it is that we have had a great number of gods or goddesses who have resided in our homes and in our temples. It is further illustrated that there were also great dragons. I would explain that these dragons were similar to the Biblical version of the serpent in the Garden of Eden; and in like manner our dragons represented certain evil forces. You may also question us about being heathen and worshippers of idols. No, the Chinese do not worship idols. The various ceremonies, observances, etc., which the Chinese individual displays before these gods, is very similar to such expressions that are entered into in the Christian ritualistic services. In some of the very large Christian churches in your modern America you will see both old and young bowing down before statues of the Virgin Mary or of Jesus; yet while they are not actually worshipping these statues, they are appealing to these personages as individuals in a high esoterical sense, is this not so? And in like manner we do also in our worship of our gods or goddesses; thus the great Gautama Buddha, was also worshipped, not as an individual, but for the spiritual virtues which he represented. The more ancient China was a land of great happiness and peace; however there were times when great conquerors came in to plague us; and we had at different times to build walls for protections against these Mongol and Tartar invaders, such as the Genghis Khan and others. One, the son of a great conqueror, was the Khan at the time of Marco Polo and his father, who entered China at about 1200 AD.
In our homes, just as was true before the invasion of the Red communists, many of these gods were depicted representing the forces of good and Light, as you have symbolized such personages in the Christian dogmas and creeds. Some of these gods are quite familiar and have been characterized in numerous reproductions in the American philosophies. There is one in particular, a small, round, fat, squat, personage who represents the element of happiness and joy. The names of these, -I see that I have aroused some difficulty in translation into the American dialect, and so I shall more or less leave it to my brother and sister if they desire to interject the names of these various gods into the lines of this work; however, it is not entirely necessary since most people will know what I am talking about anyway. – (Ho Tye)
Ancient China, through the many thousands of years in which it flourished, was a very wonderful and beautiful place in which to live. The farmer with his wife worked in the rice paddies in his bare feet in the water as he sang the songs of his ancient ancestors; and it might be that he constructed his humble dwelling of bamboo poles and thatched his roof with straw. However, in spite of his poverty of material possessions, for he often slept with his chickens and pigs, he was supremely happy in raising his family of sons and daughters. Nor did he have any conflicting elements which are found in your present civilization. He did not worry about the income tax or all the hundred other taxes and complications of your political systems. It is true that he farmed a portion of land under some lord or ruler of a province; and as such a farmer he would often pay a small portion of his rice or other grains and products to the lord; however, such taxation was usually not nearly so oppressive as the taxations in your present civilization.
For many thousands of years the Chinese knew of gun powder before it was ever known in Europe. They knew of many other things, such as the production and manufacturing of beautiful textiles which were produced from the fiber spun by the tiny silkworm, at about the time of Buddha, who lived at one time in China, reincarnated into this land from another plane of consciousness. After the passing of Buddha, people from outside came into China and stole the secrets of the silkworm culture, and thus these products were reproduced into India, Borneo, Turkey and other countries. Therefore, before the time of Marco Polo, the fair ladies of Europe often wore the silken garbs that were produced by the tiny silkworm.
In a very pure or relative sense, it might be said that the ancient religions before the advent of Buddha were of a comparatively simple nature. The temples where various votive ceremonial observances were performed were usually related facets of man’s life as they immediately concerned him. If it were so that a woman wished to conceive a child, she would go to a certain temple and place upon the altar offerings to a certain deity, who would intercede in her behalf and thus she would conceive a child; or it might be the husband himself who wished to offer a votive offering to some great deific personification, which would thus bring rain for the abundance of the harvest.
As you will see in many of these temples about you, just as it exists in your museums and in the various other more modern expressionistic endeavors of the present Chinese people, the art of China is extremely intricate, and very beautifully fabricated whether it is of the china type known as ceramic, or in the fabrications of cotton, linen, or silk. Just as on the planet Mars today, the Chinese people express extreme patience and care in the fabrication and construction of all things they do. The secrets of such things as lacquers have long remained hidden from your modern chemist, nor can they be duly duplicated, because these secrets of chemistry were handed down to the Chinese ages ago. To see a beautiful piece of Chinese art, such as a mosaic or an embroidered screen, is in itself a revelation of artistic beauty; and since these artistic sciences are nowhere duplicated on your earth plane, it is quite obvious that we, in ourselves possessed at these various periods of Chinese history, something which was in itself unique and far different from anything which was heretofore expressed on the earth plane.
You may question why Kung Fu did not make this exploration with you since you know that he conducted one such In Parhelion, which was devoted to the philosophical science of literature, and since Kung Fu was himself a collector of such works and philosophies as related to the many hundreds of his fellow countrymen who were engaged in expressing various concepts in the philosophical science which related to life in China.
I would speak a word here about the cultures of Japan, as they existed in the past and in the more modern times. In Japan the religion of Buddhism has not been so strongly expressed since it has been in direct competition with other more materialistic expressions of philosophy; for example, Shintoism, in which the Japanese often very loosely worship some collection of godistic expressions in his earthy life. However, there are masterpieces of work in the Japanese temples of the Gautama Buddha, flourishing there about the same as it did in China proper.
The Japanese are an offshoot of the original Chinese race, who migrated and became separated from the continent or mainland through a great earth- quake. As was explained in your explorations on Mars, a great celestial body passed very close to the earth about 100,000 years ago; and great changes in the geographical locations and placements of continents took place on the earth’s surface, just as it did on Mars and other planets in our solar system. Before that time, Japan was an integral part of China; so was Formosa and other lands which have sunk beneath the sea. After the great cataclysmic passing, the geography existed much as it does today. I might also say that previous to that time there was a great difference too in the climatic conditions as it existed in China, Mongolia, and Tibet. Previous to that time, this region was a much more moist climate and produced a great profusion and a luxuriant display of vegetation and great numbers of animals, which have long since passed into the oblivion of history.
There is in the history of China and in the northern provinces stories of the great mastadons, which used to come from the northern reaches into the villages and raise great havoc. The mastadons have been perfectly preserved in the great masses of ice which exist under the tundras of the northern reaches of Siberia. The flesh which has adhered has been preserved in a perfect frozen state for over a hundred thousand years. An explorer or two of the white race made excavations and have eaten of these mastadons. It is also with great sorrow that I say that the great red pagan god has also invaded and taken Tibet. I will say for the benefit of the political leaders who are trying to build a wall of China around this great red pagan god, that they will not be entirely successful. India, too, in the future, is to be taken over by this great red pagan god; likewise will Burma and many other countries such as Thailand. With the passing of Chiang Kai Shek, the Chinese Nationalist leader as he is on the earth plane today, will also see the end of Nationalist China. You will, in the next 20 or 30 years, see great differences of geographical separations of your continents into political systems which will resolve itself into two great nations of direct opposition of each other; and thus it will remain until a further time when the new and seventh root race makes a greater and fuller appearance than it has at this time. The seventh root race is the spiritual race, which is making its ingress into your planet at this time. There are many leaders of this race who are already in existence and are forming various nuclei in the different countries, and will, in the future, manifest a great deal of liberation; and the spiritual policies will conduct the destinies of mankind on your earth plane. So, until such future time as my very worthy brothers may come in and conduct you in future tours, may I say to you, -always be bathed in the Radiance of His Most High Presence.
Excerpt from The Voice Of Eros