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Chapter I. The Aryan Family

The tenacity of the mind to hold as veritable facts the fables and traditions of prehistoric ages, makes it difficult for one to believe the recent discoveries of scientists who tell us, that in distant ages Siberia was a delightful Eden and that the North Sea was a part of the German Forest and the Irish Sea the Scythian Valley, that the British Islands were more than once submerged by the ocean and that the Celtic Stone Circles and Cromlechs, found in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have stone foundations resting on a stratem of clay beneath which lie the roots of giant oaks which required ages to grow, and that since the foundation stones were laid, twelve feet of peat have grown over them, each foot representing the growth of 800 years, or 9,600 years for the twelve feet, without counting the age of the giant oakroots beneath.

They also tell us that they have traced those Celtic remains from Mount Atlas to the ruins of Carthage in Africa, centering them at Karnak the metropolis of a by-gone nation. That they are found on the islands and shores of the Mediterranean, and from Gibralter northward, covering Portugal and Western Spain, extending along the Atlantic Coast of France, and eastward thru its central provinces to the limits of Germany, but not into Germany or Italy. They are on the capes and headlands of Brittany and the Western Isles of Britain, stretching northward to Norway and the Baltic Islands, and along the Atlantic Coast from Africa to the Artie Circle, and, no doubt, if traced, they would be found on the sunken Continent of Atlantis, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Capes of Florida. Those Cromlech discoveries sustain the linguists who tell us that the test of language shows that the Celts were the first of the Aryan families to enter Europe and that they were constantly prest forward by the Teutonic tribes of the same race.

When Caesar conquered Gaul and invaded Britain, he found the Celts and Teutons worshiping God before the Alters of the Druids, whom he attempted to suppress because their teachings were highly patriotic and encouraged their people to defend their liberties.

The presence of Druidic alters in Norway and along the shores and islands of the Baltic, shows that the Scandinavian tribes of the Teutonic fam ily, in pagan times, received religious instructions from the Druids, and accounts for an alleged friendlyvisit to Norway, of Irish tribes returning from Greece and Africa after, among other things, aiding the jews to escape from Egyptian bondage.

Notwithstanding the Genesis of Moses, those Celtic Cromlechs, tho mute, give strong evidence sustaining the belief that for at least ten thousand years, the moral and political influence of the Druids swayed the Celtic and Teutonic tribes, occupying the shores and islands of the Mediterranean Sea, .and the islands and coasts of the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Artie Circle, and continued their influence until the conquest of Gaul by Caesar and the coming of a new and better civilisation under the teachings of Christ.

The Language and Creed of Civilization.

r.iore than six thousand years before the coming of Christ, the Bactrian tribes of the Aryan Family, while still united in a delightful Eden near the cradle of their race in the valleys of the Oxus River, in Central Asia, obeying the divine mandates of an Invisible, Spiritual God, to be industrious, moral and truthful; developt a language and a re ligion which have since become the mother tongue, and the mother creed, of the civilized world, and form the basis of a civilization which has been spread thruout the world by five dominating branches of the family — the Hindus; the Medo-Persians; the Celts; the Teutons and the Slavs.

Both history and sculpture tell us that the members of the different branches of the Aryan Family, especially the Celts and the Teutons, in ethnic features were scarcely distinguishable from each other. That all were a high type of the human species;

all were of a tall and stately form and a handsome phj'siogomy. The men of all branches were noted for courage and gallantry in battle. The women were remarkable for their stature and beauty and were treated by the men with a fine spirit of chivalry.

The parent stock of this civilizing family was called Ayrans — tillers of the soil — a designation found in Manu, the Hindu sacred historian, who says: "As far as the eastern and the western oceans, between the mountains, lies the land which the wise have named Arya-Vesta, or inhabited by honorable men." We believe and history shows that this family of honorable men were, and their descendants still are, the real chosen people of God. That they have been from the beginning the agents of God's beneficent purposes in the worldly affairs of men.

The Aryans were an agricultural and a pastoral people; but not Nomads, as they had fixed habitations. Their houses had doors, windows and fireplaces. Their cattle were fed in community pastures, each having in the center a cluster of stables. They had cows, oxen, horses, sheep, goats, hogs and domestic fowls. Their food was mainly the product of the dairy and the flesh of cattle. They boiled and roasted meats and used soup. . They used plows in cultivating barley and other cereals, and mills for grinding the grain. They could spin and weave and wore cloaks and mantles. They manufactured pottery. They used hatchets, hammers, augers and other tools. They used gold, silver, copper, iron and tin. They had bows and arrows, swords, lances and shields. They navigated the Oxus River, the Jaxartes and connecting waters. They were acquainted with decimal notation and measured time by years of 360 days.

Their Creed.

The Aryans believed, what is still visible to us, that superhuman influences of good and evil spirits were constantly striving for mastery in the affairs of men and nations; that man was endowed with reason and placed on earth between two destinies — the World of Light and the World of Darkness, and given a free will to guide him. If he obeyed the laws of his Creator, he was protected from the spirits of darkness wh.ch surrounded him da}' and night to lure him to evil. They detested falsehood as the basest, the most contemptible and the most pernicious of vices; they were taught to regard marriage as a sacred contract, to shun polygamy and to welcome children as the light of a family. The name ''boy" meant bestower of happiness; "girl," she who comes rejoicing; "brother,"' supporter; "sister,"' friendly.

Their family life was pure and simple. In each home was an altar before which the husband and wife united in family devotion to their Creator, the Supreme, Spiritual God of their fathers; the Creator and Ruler of all things. They believed in the immortality of the soul, in the remission of sins b}" good deeds and in an eternal, spirtual life beyond the grave.

They believed that an Invisible, Spiritual World, the abode of an Infinite. Spiritual Being, existed as far above the sun as the sun itself was above the earth, long before the visible worlds of matter were created. That in the beginning this Infinite, Spiritual Being created, in His own Spiritual World, two minor beings. The first, proving pure and true to his creator, became the King of Light. The second, being corrupt and false, became the King of Darkness.

One being given a spiritual region of pure light the other one of pitchy darkness became antagonistic in everything. To correct and curb the disturbing infhiences of the King of Darkness, the Supreme, Spiritual Being instructed the King of Light to create the visible worlds of matter; the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the good creatures thereof.

At the beginning of his creations, the King of Light produced six Archangels, which with himself made seven good and luminous spirits, to guard and maintain his visible worlds. He also produced numerous guardian angels for good men.

While the King of Light was the supreme spirit he was not always able to defeat the evil purposes of the King of Darkness who saw from his dismal abode what was being created in the heavens, and created in his own world of darkness a terrible host of evil spirits as numerous and as powerful as the beings of light. To avoid the misery and woe of an open conflict, the King of Light offered peace to the King of Darkness who preferred war instead, but becoming terror stricken at the sight of the Holy Angels, he was conquered by the strong word of the King of Light and fell back into his abyss of darkness, where he lay fettered for a period of three thousand years, during which, the King of Light finisht His creations Ujjon the earth and produced the great Primitive Bull, containing the seeds of all living creatures.

Tho fettered in his gloomy abyss from coming on earth, the King of Darkness finisht his creations, making a corresponding evil for every good being created in the heavens. The first 'man and woman were pure, innocent and happy. They worshipt their creator, but were tempted with an offering of milk and fruit which they accepted from the King of Darkness. The erring pair immediately lost their happiness. After having two children they died at the age of one hundred years, and as a punishment for sinning must remain in hell until the general resurrection of the dead.

Thus, the human race became mortal by the sir of its first parents. Man stands between the worlds of Light and of Darkness, endowed with reason and a free will, but the spirits of darkness surround him day and night, to tempt and lure him to evjl. The King of Light, thru Zoroaster his inspired teacher has given man a revelation of the Divine Will if he obey the revelation he shall be protected by his creator and be beyond the powers of the King of Darkness ' to injure or mislead him. The essence of the divine law is to think, to speak, and to act purely; to be truthful, virtuous, industrious and just.

The King of Light was the all-beautiful; the allwise being who was at the head of all that was good and lovely; of all that was beautiful. He made the celestial bodies, the earth, water and trees; all good creations and all good things. He was good, true and pure; the Holy God; the holiest essence of truth; the best thing of all; the father of truth and the master of purity. He was supremely happy and possest every blessing, virtue, wisdom and immortality. From Him proceeded all good to mankind. He rewarded the good with everlasting happiness and punisht the wicked.

The King of Darkness was the dark and gloomy intelligence; author of all that was evil. He tried to corrupt and ruin th^ good things created by the King of Light and was the dispurser of moral and political evils. He blasted portion of the earth with barrenness and made it produce thorns, thistles and poisonous plants. He caused wars and tumults. He produced ferocious wild beasts and serpents. He continually incited the bad against the good, and by every method sought to give vice the victory over virtue. The King of Light could not always defeat nor baffle him.

Man was placed on earth to preserve the good creations of the King of Light, which could only be done by tilling the soil, eradicating the thorns and weeds sent by the King of Darkness and by reclaiming tracts which that demon had curst with barrenness. Thus the cultivation of the soil was made a religious duty to be discharged, not by -a degraded few, but by all. From this duty the race derived the name "Aryan" — A Tiller of The Soil.

The Aryans believed that in time their Creator would send a prophet who would cause the conversion of all mankind; yea, even the King of Darkness and his evil spirits. Then would follow the general resurrection of the dead, whose bones would be clothed with new flesh and friends and relatives would again recognize each other. Darkness and crime would be banisht and the earth, once more-, become a delightful Eden.

Such was the primitive creed of this wonderful family. Every maxim is stampt with a divinity that has made it the basis of all subsequent creeds, and the moral ethics of the world.

The Aryan tribes, in their primitive homes, maintained a partriarchal form of government, but the father or head of each family was subject to a council of seven elders, whose chief was king and from whose decision there was an appeal only to Heaven, in the ordeal of fire and water. Their notions of right and wrong were well defined by law and custom. They did not believe in the brutal, modern, destroying principles, that might makes right, in dealings between men and nations.

The best of the world's work has been done by men and women of the Celtic, Teutonic and Slavic families. Thru them the Aryan spirit of veneration, morality and liberty has come to us, thru all the ages in the countless ebbs and flows of humanity, and in the rise and fall of creeds and nations, as our best ethical guide in our duty to our God; to our family, our country and our fellow man, and it will continue with us and our descendants to influence for good until the abode of man on earth shall be no more.

THE ARYAN DISPERSION.

Several thousand years before the days of Abraham a sudden convulsion of the earth changed the climate of Central Asia causing a bitter cold where there was previously existing a semi-tropical heat. That such a change actually took place and that it was as sudden as it was severe was shown in the Nineteenth century by the discovery as far north as Siberia of vast deposits of frozen elephants, hippopotami and rhinoceri, whose flesh was still sufficiently preserved to serve as food for wild animals. The presence of those frozen remains plainly say that in the remote past Siberia enjoyed a climate sufficiently mild to produce suitable food for such animals and a climatic home harmonizing with their natures. The vast coal fields of Siberia, and of Alaska also proclaim the same facts.

The Iranic nations believed that this terrible change resulted from a divine arrangement allowing a destroying serpent to enter their delightful Eden and produce cold that changed their pleasant climate to a winter of ten months in order to disperse the family and prevent their Eden from being overcrowded with the human race. Thus believing the strongest tribes of the family commenct those wonderful streams of migration which have since covered the continents and the islands of the globe with their civilizing descendants. After many thousands of years of wandering amid the depotisms and immoralities of Europe, Asia, India and Africa, in quest of a new Eden, the descendants of three of those migrating streams have united in America in a more perfect Eden than that from which the cold blasts of a destroying serpent scattered their Aryan fathers.

We shall briefly trace the course of those scattered branches from their separation in Asia to the reunion of their descendants in America, as citizens once more of a common country. The dispersion caused the Aryan tribes to divide into great branches as they moved away from the cradle of their race.

1. The tribes that crost the Indus and became the progenitors of the Brahmanic Hindus.

2. Those who crost the Hindu-Kosh and founded the Medo-Persian Empires.

3. The Pelasgic Celts w^ho moved to the peninsula of Southern h^urope and founded the Greek and Roman Republics; and their Gallic Kindreds who past to Western Europe and became the progenitors of the Lusitanians of ancient Portugal; the Iberians and Numatians of ancient Spain; the ancient Gauls and Belgae and their Latinized descendants; the modern Portuguese, Spaniards, French and Belgians, as well as the Irish, Scotch and Welsh; also the Britons and Cornish of England, and the Britons of France.

4. The Teutons who settled in Central Europe and became the progenitors of the conquering Goths and Vandals, the ancestors of the modern Germans, Danes, Swedes and Norwegians; the French and English-Normans and the Holland-Dutch.

5. The Slavs who overspread Northeastern Europe and became the progenitors of the Russians, Poles, Bohemians, Servians, Bulgarians, Bosnians and Croatians.

While following the historical narratives of the Arvan migrations, from their primitive home in Asia to the reunion of their descendants in America, we found everywhere works plainly marking improvement in a humanizing civilization. Tho frequently baffled and set back by priest-craft and despotic rulers, the mass of the race remained faithful to the religious and political principles of their fathers. They developt and maintained for nearly three thousand years in Greece and in Rome the democracies, the sciences, the arts and the literatures which still remain, tho in fragments, the master-models of the world. Their Grecian Democracy gave America a base for its Republican System of representative government of the people, by the people, for the people; which secures to the humblest citizen life, liberty and property under equal and just laws made and changed from time to time by a majority mandate. Each recurrent year shows that it is the best system of government ever devised by the wisdom of associated men.

The ingenuity of despotism has never devised a system of oppression so strongly entrencht that there was not found among the common people of this liberty-loving race a man to bring it to ruin, or strip it of its power to do evil. There is no power beneath the heavens stronger than the will of this patriotic and intelligent race; nor one so reliable and so persistent in doing the right thing at the right time as the American Race, whose blood has been transmitted in strong currents from the three leading Aryan families — Celts, Teutons and Slavs. The welfare of the whole human family was, and hereafter will be, safe in the keeping of the educated descendants of this divinely-chosen, liberty-loving and God-worshiping family, reunited in America.

Chapter II. The Hindus

About one thousand years loefore A'braham's time, the Hindu branch of the Aryan family moved thru the northwest passes of the Himalayas into India, where they found numerous tribes of dark-skinned people in possession of the country, described by Ramayana, one of their chiefs, as of "fearful swiftness, unyielding in battle, and in color, like a dark blue cloud," but by the Vedic writers as "squat-faced, flat-nosed, gross-feeding, raw-eating Mongolians without gods or religious rites."

The progenitors of those dark-skinned aborigines entered India thru the northeast passes of the Himalayas, many ages before the Aryans. Their primitive language indicates that they came from three great stocks; 1, Tibet-Burman; 2, Kolorian; 3, Dravidian. The first group used twenty distinct dialects; the second, nine and the third, twelve.

The Aryans moved into India by whole communities and past from one river valley to another with their wives, little ones and cattle; each household father being a warrior, a husbandman and a priest. Marriage was still held sacred. There was then no poligamy. The husband and the wife, both ruled the house and together drew near to the their Creator in prayer. The father was priest to his own household and the chief was father and priest to the tribe, but in great festivals, a man learned in holy offerings was chosen by the chief to conduct the offering in the name of the people. When the chief officiated his title was "Lord of the Settlers." Their women were held in high esteem and some of the most beautiful Vedic hymns were composed by them.

While still at the base of the Himalayas and before crossing the Hindus, the Aryan tribes quarreled among themselves, but united in wars against the dark-skinned aborigines, whom they reduced to bondage or drove before them into mountain recesses; while they were constantly pusht forward by later arrivals of their own stock, until finally settling, as undisputed victors, in what the Veda styled the Middle Land of the Sacred Singers, on the Ganges, where, in subsequent centuries they developed a civilization filled with mystery and strange wisdom, out of which have grown the creeds of more than one half of the human race, the influence of which spread into Africa and over Asia to the outer limits of China and Japan.

After conquering the dark-skinned aborigines, the new white-skinned masters of India planted the seeds of their own destruction by inauguarting a despotic system of castes, including not only those they had subjugated but their own people as well. The establishment of the "caste" system ot government was the first step in parting from the simple patriarchal methods of their Iranic fathers and the worship of the supreme God of Creation. It opened wide the door for the demons of discord to enter and foment jealousy, hatred and turmoil, among all classes.

It is well for their Aryan descendants in America to ponder over this lesson and give serious thot to the progress made by despotism always by easy steps which are overlooked by the masses of the people, until it is too late to remedy them.

As we have stated, in early times, the father of an Aryan family was not only its head, but also its priest, to conduct religious sacrifices and ceremonies, and that the chief was considered the father and the priest of the tribe and conducted the tribal sacrificial ceremonies. As the art of writing was unknown the Vedic hymns and sacrificial words were committed to memory and handed down by word of niouth, from father to son. In tribal sacrifices, when the chief did not officiate, he selected some man especially learned in holy offerings to conduct the tribal ceremonies. Such a man was highly honored for his piety and was selected time and again to conduct tribal sacrifices, to chant the battle hymns, to implore divine aid or pray away the divine wrath.

In the course of time, the families who learned the sacrificial hymns by heart, became the hereditary owners of the liturgies required at the most solemn offerings to God. The most potent prayer was termed Brahma, and the priest offering it, Brahman.

Whosoever scoffs at the prayer we have made, may hot plagues come upon him. May the sky burn up that hater of Brahmans."

By degrees, a vast army of ministrants grew up around each of the tribal sacrificial places.

First— The officiating priests and their assistants who prepared the sacrificial ground; drest the altar, slew the victims and poured out the libations.

Second — The chanters of the Vedic hymns.

Third — The reciters of other parts of the service.

Fourth — The supreme priests who watched over the whole and corrected mistakes.

The Rig- Veda, the great literary memorial and venerable hymnal of the primitive Aryans, was claimed by them to be the inspired words of God and to have existed "from before all time." However, instead of offering supplications to the supreme God of their Bactrian fathers, the Brahmans invoked thirty-three divinities, of whom eleven were in heaven; eleven on earth, and eleven dwelling in glory in mid-air. As a whole, their hymns were addrest to bright, friendly, gods. Rudra, was God of Roaring Tempests; Vishnu, the preserver of the Shining Firmament;, and Brahma, the creator. These constituted their triad of principal gods. Brahma, was the first Aryan man and existed millions of years ago.

While the Brahmans were building a new theory of creation and of their gods, the chief of the tribe and his men were contending with the dark-skinned aborigines for possession of the Ganges. After the Middle Land was secure and war with the aborigines ceased, the chieftains and their men-atarms became degenerates, sensual and slothful. While at first they resisted the pretentions of the Brahmans, that they only and members of their families had divine authority to exercise the priestly offerings, the chieftains and their warrior companions, soon became willing tools in molding the will of the people to tamely fit into the new religious and civic proposals, as divine ordinances. This gave the Brahmans a free hand in forging mental and physical fetters, not only on the masses, but also on the chieftains themselves and their, warriors.

In creating their diabolical system of castes, the Brahmans carefully made themselves the only members of the first caste. They declared their own persons sacred and inviolable and free from corporal punishment for crimes of all sorts. They also declared themselves free from taxes, and holders of all civic offices, even to be the advisors of the tribal chiefs.

The chiefs and warriors were constituted the second class. The tillers of the soil, merchants, tradesmen and mechanics composed the third caste, and these were heavily burdened with taxes, while holding their lands, not as owners, buf as mere occupiers. Thus appeared the first feudal tenants in history. The servants and the laborers, called Sudras, descendants of the dark-skinned aboric^ines. constituted the fourth, or lowest caste. Every man was obliged to follow his father's occupation and intermarriage between castes was strictly forbidden. The violation of a rule of caste, was a crime worse than death and caused the transgressor to become an outcast — a Pariah — to be treated with the deepest contempt as the refuse of mankind. Outcasts could not live in towns, villages or cities nor in their vicinities. Everything they touched was considered unclean, even to look upon them, M^as considered polution.

The evil genius of the King of Drakness, and his combined spirits of evil could not have conceived a more diabolical system of civic government than that given by the Brahman priests to the Hindus, as a divine ordinance. It checkt the Aryan spirit of liberty and caused their civilization to lapse into a state of repose, where it has remained stagnant for more than four thousand years. All the Hindu branch of the Aryan family has given to the human race, is a copious mystic literature on theological creeds.

The Aryan descendants of India may boast of their priesthood; of their grotto temples in solid porphyry; of their bloody Juggernaunt Gods and the sin-cleaning waters of the Ganges; of their store-houses, once overflowing with silks and fine linens, with gold, diamonds and precious stones; of their extensive rice fields and palm-groves; but they cannot boast of a single manly effort to prevent the repeated spoliation of their homes, wealth and temples, by the robber nations of the world, because they abandoned the one true God of their Bactrian fathers and worshipt the false, wayside gods erected by their Brahmans. They have been severely punisht for more than twenty-five centuries by such despoilers as Darius, Mahmund, Alexander, Ghiznee, Zingis Khan, Tamerlane, Nader Shah; and last, but not least, the English — the most blighting scourge of all. Even now, there seems to be no end to the atonement they must still make to be rid of their crimes against God and humanity.

Chapter III. The Medo-persians

This branch of the Aryan family not only held the Bactrian home of their fathers, but after enduring many defeats, expulsions and deportations from sections and districts of their country, as well as grievous persecutions by fire and sword at the hands of the Shemetic nations of Southwestern Asia, finally extended their own dominion over the territories of their oppressors — the Chaldeans, the Syrians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians and the Lydians until they maintained a mighty empire covering the whole Iranic plateau and portions of India and Africa; extending over an area of about two million square miles. It was bounded by the Indian desert on the east, by the vast Scythian countries of Asia and Europe on the north, by the African desert and Greece on the west and by the Arabian desert and Etheopia on the south.

Here the Medo-Persians, under Cyrus the Great, cstablisht the first of the three great Aryan Empires of the world. The second was the Greco- Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great, and the third, the Roman Empire of the Caesars.

We have no means of knowing when the Medes and Persians first appeared in Southwest Asia, but it seenns that they were i-here three thousand years before the coming of Christ, because they were strong enough to place a Mede King over the Chaldeans in 2286 B. C. They were then mere tribes under chiefs, without priest or kings, and scattered east of the Caspian Sea, from the valleys of the Oxus and the Jaxartes Rivers on the north, to the Persian Gulf on the south. They worshipt the Supreme, Invisible God and sustained the simple, patriarchal government of their fathers. In every home was an altar for divine worship, conducted by both the father and the mother of the family. Thus the Aryan family was the nucleus around which our civilization was developt. The primitive Aryan family was free from the blight of polygamy and was sanctified by the sacred bonds of matrimony. It was the safest base on which a revealed creed or a civic system could be maintained by a trible or a nation, or from which the beneficent commands of the God of Creation could be past undefiled, down the turbulent currents of the ages, from generation to generation.

Tradition tells us that Shem, Ham and Japhet were sons of Noah and that Shem and Ham inhabited the valleys of the Euphrates, the Tigris and the Nile Rivers, where their descendants developt what has been called the Shemetic Civilization. That Japhet and his sons resided in the valleys of the Oxus and Jaxartes Rivers, and developt what is still called the Aryan Civilization. These ancestries are simply traditional. If Japhet was the ancestor of the Aryan family of nations, why did he locate so far north from the other brothers? Why the great difference in their creeds and governments, and who were the ancestors of the Fins, Scyths, Mongols and other Turanian tribes of the great north, and of the numerous aborigines found in India by the Hindus and of those found by the Pelasgic-Celts in Africa and the Islands of Greece, and on the western shores and the mainland of Western Europe? We are not one of those who deny the divinity of man's parentage, or of the scientists who would trace their ascent up from a loathsome viper.