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feathers or with wings, such being not the spoils of dead birds,
but the blossoms of the live gold of the crowns. Some tradition
of this custom is found in the pictures of the 'Gods' of Egypt,
these gods being merely the Atlanteans whose mission civilized
the country. The names of some of the earlier gods confirm this.
Nu (Hebrew Noah) is Atlantean for arch, Zu (Egyptian Shu) for
many ideas connecting with wind, Asi means 'cum quasi serpens',
obviously the name of an actual High Priestess. Ra is pure
Atlantean for Sun, and 'Mse' (Egyptian Chomse) for moon. The idea
in 'Mse is that of a strong woman ('M) closing the mouth of a
serpent (S) or dragon, and from this we have the XIth card of the
Bohemian Tarot, and the legend in the Apocalypse. In the mystic
Greek used by the Gnostics we find similar traces, SOPHIA being
from S Ph, giving the idea of 'serpent breath' i.e. wisdom. IAO
is PHALLOS, KTEIS, PROKTOS. The word LOGOS means the Boy (G)
naturally engendered of the Virgin (L) and the Serpent (S). THEOS
(root O, first written 0) means the sun in his strength and also
the Lingam-Yoni conjoined. CHRISTOS is 'The love of passion of
the Rising Sun (R) and the serpent' (S). The I and T indicate
certain details which are foreign to the present discussion.
NEUMA (Atlantean N M) is the 'Arch of the Woman', MARIA, the
Woman of the Sun.* The words MEITHRAS and ABRAXAS are again
derived from Atlas. "The woman entered, Lingam being conjoined
with Yoni, bears the sun from her serpent womb" and "From the
womb's mouth the sun (cometh seeking) a womb for his desire, even
the womb of a serpent", the course of the year being signified in
this manner, as usual with the ancients. This plan of an idea
corresponding to each letter was carried out very strictly: thus
TLA, black, means the stigma or mark of the virgin's womb, IA
(Hail! Greeting!) 'Face to Face', from the other peculiarity
described above. These few examples will suffice to indicate the
singular character of the language,* and the way in which its
essential dogmatic symbols have been incorporated by the heirs of
Atlas in the inmost sanctuaries of races which they deemed worthy
of such assistance.
I must not pass over in silence the question of sacrifice to
the gods, to which a passing reference has already been made.
Such sacrifices were not very frequent; the victims were the
'failures', those who were useless to the social economy.* As
they represented capital expenditure, the object was to recover
this, at least, since no interest could be expected. The victim
was therefore handed over to a High Priest or Priestess, who
extracted the life by an instrument devised for and excellently
adapted to the purpose, so that it died of exhaustion. The life
thus regained was given to 'the gods' in a manner too complex to
be described in this brief account.
The early age at which puberty occurred was due to design. The
normal period of gestation had also been shortened to four
months. This was all part of the scheme to economize time. Old
age had been almost done away with by the great readiness of the
Atlanteans to 'go and see' at the first sign of failing power. No
doubt, further improvements would have been made but for the loss
of interest in the matter, all generation being regarded as 'the
old experiment', not likely to repay the trouble of further
research. In the 200 or 300 years of a man's full vigour, only 8
years on an average was the wastage of childhood, and even this
was not all waste, since some time at least must be necessary for
the experts to discover and direct the tendencies of the mind.
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