8000 Years of Spiritual Evolution
Behind all true traditions is a spiritual force which washes through humanity in waves.The present wave began 8000 years ago in Mesopotamia with the original Zoroaster whose personal development remains unsurpassed within the solar system.
Over the next 3000 years the inner teachings spread from the Euphrates Valley to growing communities in the Nile, Indus and Yellow River Valleys.
There arose the great spiritual streams of Egypt, India, China – 3 aspects of One worldwideway.
Egypt, China, India
The next 2,500 years saw the growth of these 3 streams.Egypt united under the Pharaohs, Hieroglyphics appeared and the esoteric, temple-based teachings were firmly established.
The Indus Valley saw the birth of the Vedic teachings, along with the evolution of Sanskrit from the Proto-Indo-Aryan language of the time.
China developed their pictographic characters and produced the Yellow Emperor from whom all Chinese esoteric teachings are considered to have originated.
Mesopotamia produced the Sumerian ruler Gilgamesh and the written teaching legends based on his life.
Via Abraham (circa 1800 BC), born and raised in Mesopotamia, the inner teaching force continued to grow West, via the Egyptians to the Greeks, Gnostics and Essenes.
The end of this period (around 500 BC) saw the appearance of the great sages, Buddha in India and Lao Tzu in China, along with the extensive schools of the Greeks (Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras, etc).
Last 2500 Years
All major present-day genuine teachings can be traced directly back, over the past 2500 years, through one of these 3 lines to their root, the Zoroastrian teaching.The Hindu based teachings stabilised in India while spreading further east in the form of the teachings of the Buddha.
The Daoist teachings stabilised in China while spreading further south-east as a combination of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism.
The Egyptian, Greek and original Mesopotamian teachings were condensed into the Proto-Sufi teaching, also expanding outwardly – following the seemingly inevitable process of external crystallisation – to form the basis of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions.
Previous Waves
Only traces remain of the wave previous to Zoroaster, which disappeared 10,000 to 12,000 years ago (the end of the Neolithic period). These traces can be found in the ancient spiritual beliefs and practices that exist as an undercurrent in today’s world, especially in those civilisations geographically isolated from the source of the present wave.This residual knowledge is retained within the older societies by priests and mediums who serve as intermediaries between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Their practices include healing, exorcising, cursing, foretelling the future and worshipping multiple anthropomorphic gods, all facilitated by communicating, consciously or unconsciously, with spirits (jinn).
The evolution of the human intellect over the past 8000 years has cut most people off from their sensitivity to these lower etheric energy worlds, leaving them free while simultaneously creating an individual responsibility to look for something deeper. Now, inevitably imposed on the background of this previous wave, are the teachings begun by Zoroaster around 6000 BC.
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia