HPB is Helena Blavatsky, 1831 to 1891. Among her many accomplishments, Blavatsky was the first Russian-born woman to become an American citizen. Born into an aristocratic Russian family, she traveled the world many times over in the 19th century seeking the ancient wisdom teachings endowed on this planet by a secret order of "elders." She wisdom teachings she found on every continent of the planet are discussed in her 1888 book, "The Secret Doctrine." Blavatsky's findings uncannily correspond with contact information provided in many ET contacts 100 years after her death. Krsanna

THE DEATH OF THE SUN-GOD AND ANCIENT AMERICAN CODICES (Images posted at http://www.cybertheosophist.net/borgiaplates.htm) Web page to be posted 1/20/06

Traveling to the Americas in 1851 after reading James Fenimore Cooper's novels, Helena Blavatsky commented about "the sad examples of the rapid demoralization" of Native Americans as soon as they live in close proximity with Christian officials and missionaries. Realizing that the wisdom teachings in North America had been submerged by Christianity, Blavatsky changed her itinerary and traveled to Mexico and Central America.

The literature of ancient Mexico recorded the most sophisticated calendar to ever exist had been burned by conquering priests in the 16th century. When the Spaniards arrived in 1521, the priests were mightily concerned about the "Christian" symbolism and ritual that was already prevalent in Mexico. After much correspondence about the cruciform, trinity and baptism in ancient Mexico, the priests concluded that the devil had beguiled the people before the Christians arrived must be driven from the people by burning their literature, after shipping a small number of manuscripts to Europe. The Aztec's pyramids in the cosmopolitan center of what is now Mexico City were dismantled to build cathedrals. The Christian Conquest was complete with only overgrown relics remaining of the grandeur that once dominated the Mexico Valley.

Surviving fragments of Mexico's pre-Conquest literature had been spared only when it had been shipped to Europe, mostly in private libraries, where it was lost and found, and lost again before taking its place in the literature of the world.

Among hundreds of tribes in Mexico, in an area where the Aztec are dominant, Blavatsky commented twice on the forebears of the Toltec, the tribe most closely associated with builders of the pyramids at Teotihuacan, the oldest and largest pyramid complex in Mexico and Central America. By the time the Spaniards arrived, the abandoned pyramids at Teotihuacan had long been overgrown with vegetation. The accomplishments of the builders of Teotihuacan, 35 miles north of Mexico City, are still being discovered in ongoing excavations of the complex. More than 100 years after Blavatsky's death, in 1993 a color restoration of a codex likely associated with the Toltec, the Codex Borgia, was produced for the popular press. We can now compare the restored Codex to stanzas of The Secret Doctrine and other ancient literature. The Codex is stunning for metaphysical components corresponding with the world's oldest literature, derived as Blavatsky explains, from a single parent manuscript. In The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky traces the origins of Hebraic, Chinese, Egyptian, Indian, and Chaldean literature to the parent manuscript but only mentions the Toltec, whose literature had been burned and removed from Mexico.

Although she spoke little about Mexico except for brief comments about the Toltec, Blavatsky identified the forebears of the Toltec as those most closely associated with the ancient doctrines.

"...taken down in Senzar, the secret sacerdotal tongue, from the words of the Divine Beings, who dictated it to the sons of Light, in Central Asia, at the very beginning of the 5th (our) race; for there was a time when its language (the Sen-zar) was known to the Initiates of every nation, when the forefathers of the Toltec understood it as easily as the inhabitants of the lost Atlantis, who inherited it, in their turn, from the sages of the 3rd Race, the Manushis, who learnt it direct from the Devas of the 2nd and 1st Races."

Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy

Synthesizing science, religion and philosophy in The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky sought to show that the ancient "Wisdom Religion" was the source of both old and new religion and philosophy. Revealing their common source, she hoped to show how disfigured they had become.

"My chief and only object [in The Secret Doctrine] was to bring into prominence that the basic and fundamental principles of every exoteric religion and philosophy, old or new, were from first to last but the echoes of the primeval "Wisdom Religion." I sought to show that the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, like Truth itself, was ONE; and that, however differing in form and color, the foliage of the twigs, the trunk and its main branches were still those of the same old Tree, in the shadow of which had developed and grown the (now) esoteric religious philosophy of the races that preceded our present mankind on earth... simply to give THAT WHICH COULD BE GIVEN OUT, and to parallel it with the beliefs and dogmas of the past and present nations, thus showing the original source of the latter and how disfigured they had become." (LUCIFER, June 15, 1890, pages 333-35.)

Blavatsky cited the sciences of her day from newspapers, magazines, and new publications to put the facts before her readers. In the century after her death, developing sciences required leading scientists to look at the ancient with new eyes and add their own observations. Among these were Robert Oppenheimer, father of atomic physics: "The general notions about human understanding... which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture they have a history and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom."

Scientists in many disciplines examined ancient wisdom with new respect in the light of improved observations made possible by 20th century technologies, exemplified by satellites and electron microscopes. Quantum sciences provided credibility for connections between mind and nature and the life force espoused in ancient myth and religion in a generation of science for the popular press: The Tao of Physics, by Fritjof Capra; The Non-Local Universe, by Robert Nadeau and Menas Kafatos; The Field, by Lynne McTaggart; and Wholeness and The Implicate Order, by David Bohm.

Satellite observations yielded secrets of solar physics that revolutionized long-held concepts of the sun, central to ancient sciences and religions. Revered as the governor of life on earth among the ancients, solar knowledge was relentlessly attacked by Christian armies around the world who held that the earth was the center of the cosmos, with the Pope in Rome acting as the infallible agent of God himself. Challenges to the Pope's supreme rule of God's creation in anciently synthesized religions and sciences, particularly the sun as the governor of life on earth, offended Rome. The literatures, almanacs and calendars with accurate solar counts were systematically destroyed and replaced with Rome's doctrine of the Pope's central infallibility.

Solar science is critical to the literature of ancient Mexico and Central America, where the Maya knew the correct solar year, observed sunspots, and predicted eclipses with the most accurate timekeeping system that existed on the planet until the mid-20th century, when the atomic clock was invented; and, even with the atomic clock, the Mayan calendar remains the most sophisticated calendar ever devised. The calendric system that was the basis of the Maya's timekeeping, the proto-Mayan calendar, was stylized and developed differently in various regions, while a 260-day ritual calendar with 20 glyphs and 13 numbers, often called the book of days, was used throughout Mexico and Central America. Calendric symbols are so deeply embedded in all the literature of ancient America that a passing acquaintance is essential for even cursory review.

The basic structure of the ancient calendar necessary to review the Codex Borgia will be addressed after a few basics of the physical and metaphysical features of the solar science that must certainly have been known in ancient America. So central was the sun in the creation of successive worlds that each world was identified as a sun. Each sun, or world, was presided over by a deity and a race of people that were either destroyed or transformed into a specific creature.

In Central Mexico, the home of the Toltec, the world is in its fifth creation, or fifth sun. Characterized by "movement," the fifth sun began after the fourth sun ended in flooding and the people were transformed into fish. This period very likely corresponds with planetary cooling that resulted in stormy weather and flooding worldwide that began around 3250 BCE and lasted for nearly a millennium. After the flooding ended, The Feathered Serpent (Quetzalcoatl) and the god of rulers, sorcerers and warriors (Tezcatlipoca) raised the heavens by transforming themselves into trees to recreate the world as the fifth sun. In this world of movement, migrations of populations, many of which originated in Asia, have spanned the globe time after time: The Aryans to India, the Etruscans to Italy, and the Toltec to Mexico names only a few.

The solar eclipse of July 11, 1991 was accurately predicted in 755 AD in the Mayan codex taken from the Yucatan in Southern Mexico, and is commonly called the Dresden Codex, because it is still housed in Dresden, Germany. This eclipse was especially important because it lasted almost seven minutes, making it one of the longest on record. The ancient Maya prophesied that a period of large earthquakes would begin with the 1991 eclipse preceding the beginning of a new sun, or world, to be characterized by cosmic consciousness. The largest earthquake in recorded history occurred 13 years later on December 26, 2004 near Sumatra, Indonesia. A glyph in the Dresden Codex points to Sumatra when it is laid over a world map and aligned with the Atlantic coast of South America.

Predicting this eclipse more than 1,000 years before it occurred required accurate knowledge of solar and lunar cycles and the algorithm of eclipses in 755 AD, a time when Rome believed the earth was the center of the universe and used the Julian calendar with an inaccurate solar year. The accuracy of solar counts and astronomy in ancient America cannot be debated, even though the modern world still does not understand how the ancients were able to obtain the information in the absence of technology that makes sense to the modern mind.

The beginning of the Mayan long count in 3113 BCE points to a period of critical change in the planet's climate, almost certainly associated with the solar cycle and sunspots. While it is clear that the Maya observed sunspots, their knowledge is lost with the almanacs burned in the 16th century. The Chinese observed sunspots as early as 800 BCE, and Galileo began observing them circa 1610 AD with invention of the telescope. Sunspot cycles extending into the ancient past have been constructed from old records and good guesses by modern scientists, who still cannot explain the physics of sunspots and how they relate to long-term solar cycles.

As a general rule, maximum numbers of sunspots populate the sun's surface to produce a solar maximum in about 11 year cycles, sometimes a little sooner and sometimes a little later. Sometimes, numbers of sunspots decrease over long periods to produce global cooling; and sometimes they increase over long periods for higher global temperatures. A series of exceptionally cold winters throughout Europe between 1645 and 1715 occurred in a period of minimum numbers of sunspots, known as the Maunder Minimum. In contrast, a Medieval Warm Period between 1100 and 1250, a period of very warm climates on earth, coincides with large numbers of sunspots.

The loss of radio and radar during periods of maximum sunspots, a solar maximum, earned new respect for sunspot cycles in 1989 when Air Force One lost all communication while in flight with the President of the United States. Since 1900 sunspot counts have been higher than usual, and has prompted some scientists to call the present period the Modern Maximum. High temperatures worldwide began setting new records in 1998, at the same time the polar ice caps began melting at unprecedented rates. Solar brightening that causes higher temperatures throughout the solar system has been increasing for 100-150 years.

After a meticulous count for 5,125 years, the Mayan long count inexplicably will end in 2012 AD. An explanation for the abrupt end of the long count is not given in the literature that survived Conquest. Nonetheless, it is noteworthy that long count's end is 115 years after the end of a 5,000-year cycle in the Kali Yuga that ended in 1897-98. Solar activity, storms and earthquakes in the 20th century that broke all records suggest the correspondence between the ends of two cycles anciently predicted is more than sheer coincidence. Viewing the 115 years between 1897 and 2012 as a transitional period could explain much about human, earthian, and solar behavior in the 21st century now upon us. Clearly, systemic heating caused by solar brightening and radiations would affect the complex of interactive systems that comprise the earth's biosphere and the potentials of life within it.

The Sun-god's Death & Birth of the 5th Race

The Mayan long count and the Kali Yuga both began within a century of the cooling trend that produced wet, stormy weather and flooding circa 3250 BCE, that very likely was associated with the solar cycle. In this period, when temperatures cooled following a long heating trend when the ice sheets melted, the 5th race was born in Central Asia and migrated to India when the Sun-god died. Solar symbolism and counts flourished in geographically distant cultures as humans assumed important new roles.

In Egypt, the Sun-god as Ra installed the first pharaoh in 3100 BCE when Upper and Lower Egypt were unified. Egyptians anciently commemorated the Great Pyramid, constructed with engineering that still cannot be replicated by 21st century technology. At the Stonehenge megaliths, the earliest digging implements are carbon dated at 3100 BCE. Constructed in three phases over more than 1,000 years, Stonehenge continues to serve as a solar-lunar observatory, where the summer solstice sun rises directly over the heel stone aligned with the main axis of the megaliths. This modern alignment of the solstice sun puzzles astronomers, because the alignment was not apparent when the heel stone was set in place. China's first emperor, Fu Xi, reigned a century after Krishna's death, or about 3000 BCE, to introduce the trigrams of the I Ching that served as the basis of Chinese writing. Richard Wilhelm in his book I Ching, which introduced the ancient Chinese system in the West, reports the Chinese account of their first emperor: "Then came Fu Xi and looked upward and contemplated the images in the heavens, and looked downward and contemplated the occurrences on earth. He united man and wife, regulated the five stages of change, and laid down the laws of humanity. He devised the eight trigrams, in order to gain mastery over the world."

The Ancient Doctrine in America

The Toltec were the first of seven waves of Nahua migrations from Asia to Mexico, starting around 600 AD, and settled near the pyramids at Teotihuacan as the original builders were abandoning the complex. As the first Nahua migration to the Mexico Valley, the Toltec had access to the pyramid complex and the builders as later migrations did not. After a brief, bloody war, the Aztec, another Nahua migration, declared themselves the heir of the peaceful Toltec in 1325. The Aztec adopted the Toltec culture hero and deity, The Feathered Serpent (Quetzalcoatl), and installed him as a secondary god under the Aztec God of War. A migratory tribe with little cultural history, the Aztec conquerors of the Mexico Valley inherited the abandoned pyramids at Teotihuacan, but never had any direct contact with them as the Toltec had.

If Blavatsky had seen Mexico's ancient literature in 1852, she would have found themes familiar to Platonists, Egyptians, Christians, Hindus, and Buddhists: The trinity, baptism, crucifixion, resurrection, ritual and solar calendars. The trinity is the centerpiece of arcane science that unfolds in primary principles that remain recognizable despite untold cultural permutations through the ages. It retains its essential meaning whether expressed by Toltec shaman as the power of the world, Christians as the redeeming design, or Krishna as the intelligent logos.

In Mexico, the triune principle of one god existing as three persons, of whom one became man, was represented in The Feathered Serpent. In the language of Southern Mexico, the first was called Izona, and all creation was attributed to him; the second was called Bacam, the son of Izona, and the third was called Echuah. Like Krishna in India, The Feathered Serpent in Mexico was both a man and a god revered as a great reformer. In the Toltec language he was called Quetzalcoatl and in Maya he was Kukulkan, both names meaning The Feathered Serpent in their respective languages. Displaying multiple guises, The Feathered Serpent was also the god of the wind, an invisible medium of diffusion. When the people lived in darkness, Native American accounts relate, The Feathered Serpent brought them letters and numbers.

Like The Feathered Serpent in ancient Mexico's literature, Krishna is both a man and a god in the Bhagavad-Gita of India. In Notes On The Bhagavad-Gita, T. Subba Row uses the sun as a simile for the logos and the trinity.

I shall explain to you what I mean by this acting through the Logos by a simile. Of course you must not stretch it very far; it is intended simply to help you to form some kind of conception of the Logos. For instance, the sun may be compared with the Logos; light and heat radiate from it; but its heat and energy exist in some unknown condition in space, and are diffused throughout space as visible light and heat through its instrumentality. Such is the view taken of the sun by the ancient philosophers... Now we see the first manifestation of Parabrahmam is a Trinity, the highest Trinity that we are capable of understanding. It consists of Mulaprakriti [the veil of Parabrahmam], Eswara or the Logos, and the conscious energy of the Logos, which is its power and light; and here we have the three principles upon which the whole cosmos seems to be based. First, we have matter; secondly, we have force - at any rate, the foundation of all the forces in the cosmos; and thirdly, we have the ego or the one root of self, of which every other kind of self is but a manifestation or a reflection.

Ancient traditions recognized physical and metaphysical components of all existence, the sun and cosmos, and employed similes, metaphors and allegories to compare the tangible physical with the intangible metaphysical with greater sophistication than generally recognized by Europeans and their EurAmerican offshoots. "Classical" European science, extracted from the older Greek and organized by Rome's Empire to pay tribute to Rome, developed without the benefit of initiation into the mysteries provided by older traditions closer to the Tree of Knowledge. As might be predicted, European sciences began perceiving the mysteries of ancient similes, metaphors and allegories between 1897-98 and 2012, the transitional window between two ancient counts that began long before Rome raised its army.

The emerging vista of ancient Mexico in this transitional window of opportunity enables us to piece together this important component of civilization, as necessary to the whole of human history as India, China, or Egypt. It enables us to iterate more completely the ancient of ancients. In doing this, we must carefully strip away the veneer of Aztec and Spanish conquests and Toltec bias to find the fundamental principles common to every exoteric religion and philosophy, old or new.

(To be continued with images from the Codex Borgia and an introduction to the 260-day ritual calendar. A color restoration can be purchased from Amazon.com: The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript, by Gisele Diaz and Alan Rodgers.)

*Kduran 2006

Krsanna Duran Missoula, Montana

 

 

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