Pre-Glacial Man and the Aryan Race. A history of the creation, and of the birthplace and wanderings of man in Central Asia, etc

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ARYAS LIVING IN GROUrS, WITHOUT FAMILY TIES, BEFORE ENTERING TUB GARUEH IN EDEN. PRE-GLACIAL MAN AND THE ARYAN RACE A HISTORY OF CREATION, AND OF THE BIRTHPLACE AND WANDERINGS OF MAN IN CENTRAL ASIA, FROM B.C. 32,500 TO B.C. 8,000, WITH A HISTORY OF THE ARYAN RACE, COM MENCING B.C. 15,000, THEIR RISE AND PROGRESS, AND THE PROMULGATION OF THE FIRST REVE LATION; THEIR SPIRITUAL DECLINE, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NATION, B.C. 4,705; THE INROAD OF THE TURANIANS, AND THE SCAT TERING OF THE REMNANT OF THE RACE, B.C. 4,304, AS DECIPHERED FROM A VERY ANCIENT DOCUMENT. ALSO AN EXPOSITION OF THE LAW GOVERNING THE FORMATION AND DURA TION OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD, AND A RECORD OF ITS EFFECTS ON MAN, AND ON THE CONFIG URATION OF THE GLOBE. A CHAPTER ON THE DELUGE: ITS CAUSE, LOCALITY, AND EXTENT; AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE "OANNES MYTH."...

By LORENZO BURGE PUBLISHED A.D. 1887 BY LEE AND SHEPARD, 10 MILK STREET BOSTON, NEXT TO OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE, AND CAN BE HAD OF ALL RESPECTABLE BOOK DEALERS, OR SAID BOOK WILL BE SENT BY MAIL UPON RECEIPT OF THE PRICE, gi.50 . . . . Copyright, 1887, Bv LORENZO BURGE. AU rights reserved. Pbe-Glacial Man. " And He said, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones ; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live : and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live ; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. . . . " So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived." — Ezek.

PEEFAOE. In the early chapters of Genesis is an allegory, containing hidden within its outward form a history of creation, of pre-glacial man, of the Aryan race, and of the Asiatic deluge. Great as is the value of this history, it has been preserved merely as a vehicle in which to transmit a record of the first revelation made by the Deity to man through the Aryan race ; the duty laid upon that race to promulgate it ; their neglect of that duty, and their consequent removal by God from the civilized world. That such a history should have been in possession of man for six thousand years, with barely a suspicion of its character, is a marvel ; and a still greater marvel that it should have been retained in such purity of form as to enable its hidden teachings to be revealed. It is wonderful that these chapters should contain a record of man and his wanderings, agreeing with the facts of geology ; and that the teachings of the allegory are necessary to enlighten and make plain the geological records. It is wonderful that the history of a race from whom all modern civilized nations have sprung, whose

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. existence as their progenitor was known only through philology, should be recorded in this allegory, and thus enable the present representatives of the race to obtain a knowledge of its work aud destiny. Still more marvellous is it, that herein should be recorded the first revelation given unto man, and agreeing with that revealed through the Christ. The record closes at the period of the extermination of the Aryas as a nation. Who at that time could, of his own wisdom, have written such a work? The science of geology was unknown. Tradition could not have given a knowledge of creation, nor of its gradual work. It could not have recorded the ages on ages of animal man, his wanderings or advance. Even the Aryas them selves would not have recognized or understood the steps of their own progress as herein described ; neither could any man have foreseen and predicted the future universal moral and spiritual rule of the Aryan race, at a time when that nation had been destroyed and its people scattered.

Marvellous in its preservation, it is miraculous in its conception, and must be the work of an inspired hand. This history is written in allegory and cipher. These ciphers, generally supposed to be proper names, are words, whose significations describe the character of, or events of, a certain period of time in the life of the race, varied or changed by the commencement of other periods or by other events ; these form skeleton pictures of the period presented.

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. 7 To fill out these pictures, and give them the proper light and shade, that they may be seen and understood, I have called in geology, astronomy, history, and the truths of human nature, to aid the allegory ; and have thereby been enabled to present a historical picture, crude though it be, which will, I trust, be of value to the geologist and historian, of importance to religion, and of interest to all. This history and revelation has been purposely hidden from man until he should be ready for, and longing to receive it. Only within the last twenty-five years has it been possible for any one to decipher and understand the history herein recorded. Geological discoveries ; Agas siz and others, in their investigations of the glacial period ; M. Adhisjmar, in calculating the time of the precession of the equinoxes ; Layard, in unearthing the buried remains of Asiatic civilization ; the labors of Professors Smith, Sayce, and others, in making known the literary riches there discovered ; the researches of historians ; the records of travellers ; the general advance in knowledge, and the religious enlightenment of the present time, — have all been required to enable man to pierce the casket, and reveal the secrets so long hidden.

In this volume we shall see that the plans of the Deity for the spiritual instruction of the human race have apparently been frustrated through the disobedi ence of the Aryas. In another volume we shall trace the transmission of the knowledge and civilization of

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. the Aryas through the Turanian to the Semitic race, and shall follow the movements of the Deity, whereby he again brought the original revelation to light, and again placed it in the hands of the Aryan race with the original injunction, to deliver it to all mankind. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGB Introduction 11 I. The Formative Period 17 The Creative Period 22 God's Day 33 Man's Work 37 II. Resume of the Formative and Creative Periods 39 The Assyrian Creative Legend ... 41 III. An Exposition of the Law governing the Formation and Duration of the Glacial Period, with a Record of its Effects on Man, and on the Configuration of the Globe 44 IV. Period Man 90 The River of Eden 92 The First Migration 93 The Second Migration 95 The Earth cultivated 95 The Earth replenished 96 Law established 98 Man's Dominion 101 V. Resume of the Period Man CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGB VI. Period Adam 110 The Home 112 Civilization 115 Knowledge of God 116 Woman the Universal. Mother . . . 128 The Law of the Spirit 130 The Aryas in the Garden 134 The Third Migration 135 The Aryas' Education completed, and their Work appointed 136 The Fourth Migration 139 The Tree of Life, and the Way . . 141 VII. Resume of Period Adam 143 Children of God 149 The Child , . 150 The Revelation made to the Aryas . 151 VIII. Period Cain and Abel; or, Religious Strife 156 IX. Aryan Periods 166 X. Resume of Periods Cain and Abel, and Arya 185 XI. Cainite Periods 191 XII. R_ssum__ of Cainite Periods : Cain to Methusael 205 XIII. United Aryan Periods 207 XIV. Resume of United Aryan Periods . . . 238 XV. The Evangel Lost 247 XVI. The Deluge : its Cause, Locality, and Extent 249 XVII. The Oannes