Showing posts with label anthropology. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 26, 2011

NEXT HUMAN RACES CAN BE: GENIUSES & GIFTED MINDS

NEXT HUMAN RACES CAN BE: GENIUSES & GIFTED MINDS

Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra


In the Letters of Mahatmas to A.Sinnett, the mahatmas—who were Ascend Masters of the spiritual Brotherhood—began to painstakingly explain Theos Sophia or divine wisdom to their western contacts. Those contacts, A.Sinett among them, were the organizers and leaders of the Theosophical Society, created as the vehicle to spread the pronouncements and metaphysical peregrinations of the mahatmas and chohans.

Mahatma Kooth Hoomi was particularly enthusiastic, in his elucidations of the evolutionary principles, in narrating what future humans will be like. He kept mum about the phases of the human evolutes from the 5th through the 7th rounds, but he gave some hints about their characteristics based on personages and divine figures we know.

As to the end of the 4th Evolutionary Round’s last two ‘root races’, the mahatmas were very emphatic of their examples: the brightest intellectuals of the day. In our parlance today, we can subdivide these into two: (a) geniuses, whose intelligence quotience is past 140, and who are on upper 2% of the analytic-logical-linguistic faculties; and, (b) gifted mind, both of whose left brain hemisphere (analytic-logical-linguistic) and right brain (intuitive-esthetic) are in active operation, with IQs past 150, comprising of 1 out of every 10,000 heads.

Using our own modern figures as examples, the likes of Einstein, Jose Rizal (Philippines’ national hero/Southeast Asia’s greatest writer), and Nikola Tesla are examplars of genius-to-gifted minds. The great news is that Terra will comprise a population comprising of them during the last two root subraces: Rizals, Einsteins, Teslas. Those who are today above-average or ‘bright-normal’ in intelligence may still be around to comprise the dumbest of the species.

Visualize the world tens of thousands of years from now, as their archeologists by then will dig through new sites. The said scientists will most likely discover the physical remains and cultural relics of our present family races, and they would perhaps laugh with guffaws at how primitive our races are. “Look at those dull brained sloths, those ridiculous teeth sets that are barbaric (carnivorous),” so they’d muse.

“Oh My God! Look at those internal organs, what do they call them?” they would go aghast at the stomach, intestines, bile, and other organs of frozen remains of ancient humans (our present). “How barbaric!” would be their exclamations as they might burst with guffaws. “They are subhumans who are not unlike ant eaters—they know nothing but eat!!!!!” And they’d instantly know, just by having their auras touch the bone relics, as their mystical faculties (4th Plane senses) are open.

To go on, Mahatma Kooth Hoomi particularly cited Plato as an exemplar of the 5th Round evolute. Plato, to recall, was a great philosopher, gifted mind, Initiate of Theos Sophia, and a spiritual master. So you can extrapolate, from the geniuses and gifted minds, on through ‘masters of wisdom’, that the 5th Round evolutes will be gifted minds whose 5th bodies—or atma (soul)—are activated and operative.

But Mahatma Kooth Hoomi or KH didn’t stop there. He excitingly shared the heraldry that 6th Round evolutes are already with us. He has no better exemplar than that of the Buddha, who ascended at such a very rapid rate and steep upward curve that he even surpassed his predecessors. Already a Planetary Spirit or Dhyan Chohan, Buddha is the indubitable model of all Adepts of mystical science.

Evolution doesn’t stop there however. For there is still a 7th Evolutionary Round, and Mahatma KH simply kept mum about it. But he was very clear in his exclamatory statement that at the end of the Manvantara—great cycle of emanation and contraction of the cosmos—that many souls today, too many to count, won’t make it. They will be destroyed, as he himself exclaimed with deep compassion for those who will disintegrate.

The lesson is clear: evolve into a Dhyan Chohan at least, so that your individuality can be absorbed back into the One Universal Principle: Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent. Who knows that in the next Manvantara, you will be back amongst new divine beings as a Bodhisattva, such as the Lord Earth Store Boddhisattva? That is the challenge posed to us by the One Universal Principle or Godhead.

[Philippines, 28 April 2011]

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Monday, November 1, 2010

PHOENIX, SARIMANOK: UNVEILING HIDDEN MEANINGS

Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra


“Birds of the same feather flock together,” so says an idiom in metaphysics. Tons of discourses were already produced from out of this ‘birds discourse’, with sociologists and anthropologists leading the fray, concerning the ‘law of attraction’.

Many more discourses were generated from out of the ‘bird’ archetype in fact. Depending on the context, the meaning of each narrative would vary.

To add to the discourse, let me share some notes about the mythical bird called phoenix. In my country, among our southern ethnicities, a parallel mythical bird is the ‘sarimanok’. ‘Manok’ means chicken, while ‘sarimanok’ is something not like chicken but mythical and more potent than chicken or any bird for that matter.

Inner wisdom is telling me that the difference between the phoenix and sarimanok is quite hairline: the phoenix pertains to the category of the individual, while sarimanok pertains to the collective category. Other than that, they more or less reverb with the same resonance.

The resonant message from out of both mythical archetypes is that of being reborn. The Law of Reincarnation & Karma is indicated right away by any narrative that explicitly predicates on rebirth which is what both archetypes refer to.

The phoenix is referent for individual rebirth across time. Be born, then grow to mature age, and then at old age you die. But after some time, depending on the balance of your incurred karmas, you will be programmed to be re-embodied.

The sarimanok operates more on the collective level though. A ‘spirit of the race’, marking the collective mind, would equivalently be born, grow old, and then die. At some future time, it will be reborn again, as it finds manifestations in new forms, in a new people. Let’s look at a parallelism below.

In German lore, it is an old zeitgeist that will be deceased soon and then be reborn at a later time in another context. In our Malayan experience, it is our kamalayan (awareness) that is born, grows old, and dies, and then later gets to be reborn at another time and context.

Both individual and collective levels of awareness streams are equally important, as any Aspirant would realize. At the individual level, we work out each of our own liberation agenda, undoing our negative karmas accumulated through time, so that at some future time we won’t need to be reborn again.

At the collective level, we gradually work out, as a people, to purge negativities from out of our collective unconscious. This is a far more difficult task than we can imagine, for the task involves everyone else in an ethnicity, race, or nation. In the Philippines, spiritually sensitive people here are aware that our ancient kamalayan is back today, and it is challenging us to reform and evolve.

The beauty of it all is that, across the world’s cultures, we have the archetype of the Messiah. This loving wonder-figure is the one who serves as exemplar to help us rise above our limitations and predicaments, transcendence thus leading to our individual and collective liberation or kalayaan (freedom).

Even the phoenix had to be re-invented a bit to include the Messiah in its ambit of meanings. It had also meant, according to some mystical circles, as the Resurrection. Akin to Yeshua ben Joseph, “Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.”

Any figure who dies and is reborn is death-less. The Messiah, a ‘son of God’ (Ascended Being, Christed Being), has shown the way to deathlessness. If we follow the Messiah’s ways, we will also be deathless someday and will no longer need to be reborn.

So if we join the three (3) archetypes, we have the triad of the phoenix, sarimanok, and Messiah. From phoenix and sarimanok (indicating duality) to Messiah (indicating Oneness), from sensate-material to transcendental, from worldly to saintly living, these we can cull from the sublime triad.

Let me conclude at that point. So mote it be.

[Philippines, 24 May 2010]

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Monday, October 18, 2010

TAGALOG CREATION MYTH: SCIENCE OF BIRTHING REVEALED

Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra


Let me bring you another folk lore from the Malays: the creation myth of the Tagalogs. Tagalogs are the ethnic groups of Luzon island in the Philippines, from whose dialect came forth the foundations of the national language of Filipino.

Tagalog is a coinage of Taga Ilog, literally meaning “from the river.” The river in the term is a referent for the hydrological societies that pervaded the Philippine archipelago prior to the advent of western imperialism and colonialism.

A nation richly endowed with folklore, with myths and legends, the Philippines counts among its popular lores the myth of ‘Malakas and Maganda’. Literally, it translates as ‘myth of Strong (Malakas) and Beautiful (Maganda).’

The myth goes that there was once a bamboo floating listlessly by the oceans. The bamboo finally ceased to float as it landed on a coast in the Philippines. As it did so, a white dove flying above descended on the bamboo and pecked it accordingly. The bamboo then split, and out came Malakas and Maganda. The Filipinos are their descendants.

A very ancient narrative, the mythos is, to my mind, a repository of a science that was already known in the ancient times: the science of birthing. Such a science was eventually lost, as the end of the ice age inundated land masses, sunk continental chunks of lands, and led to a dark age of sorts.

Despite the retreat of civilization after the end of the last glacial period, the survivors found ample means to preserve the knowledge and information that they could preserve through folklore (myths & legends). Let’s take the signifiers one by one.

• Let’s take the case of the sea/ocean first of all. The water in the seas is a signifier for the amniotic fluid inside the mother’s womb. In the womb is, of course, the ovum which is a facility for birthing.

• The bamboo, with its nodes, long and pliant, is signifier for the DNA/genes. It is unimaginable to create humans without the genetic vehicle for their making, the vehicle being no other than the DNA.

• The dove is a bird. The bird is signifier for ‘desire’ and the phallus as well. Both desire and phallus are key biological facilities in creating life forms. The bird pecking the bamboo signifies the procreation act.

• From inside the bamboo, one presumably finds the masculine (Malakas) and feminine (Maganda) elements or identities. Which is what it is: both masculine and feminine genes are already inherently present in the DNA.

• Having both a Malakas (masculine) and a Maganda (feminine) in one space, co-equal, refers to the law of duality. The DNA has two (2) strands, gender has two identities (male, female), and so on.

• The soil, as indicated by the coast, signifies the elements of the Earth. All such elements are present in the human body. Without such elements, without biological matter containing such elements, babies can’t be produced. Soil is matter, from the Latin word ‘mater’ or matter, as it is also the feminine element (mother, mater).

That Malakas and Maganda simultaneously came out together from the same bamboo signifies the gender equality among the ancient Malays. Patriarchy was alien to the Malays, who were among the last subraces of the Atlantean ‘root race’ to evolve in history.

Patriarchy was largely imposed from the outside: from Islam it was imposed upon southern Filipinos, from Christianity unto Northern Filipinos. Indians and Chinese also migrated to the islands, introducing their brand of patriarchy.

Yet no matter how much tons of debris may have buried the ancient ways of the Tagalogs/Filipinos, they were not totally buried after all. One only needs to mine their folklores, of which volumes of documentation works were already published, to be able to extract and unveil hidden truths.

As I’ve been saying all along, the contributions of Malays to the Teaching (‘God’s Word, higher mysteries) are found more in their folklores rather than their scriptures. Malayan scriptures are Islamic, Buddhist, and Christian, or impositions from outside. Folklores are originally their creative production, and are repositories of High Knowledge and wisdom. Such a thesis is exemplified by the Tagalog creation myth.

[Philippines, 22 May 2010]

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Friday, October 8, 2010

BULOL: MYSTICAL PRINCIPLES WITHIN IGOROT SYMBOLS

BULOL: MYSTICAL PRINCIPLES WITHIN IGOROT SYMBOLS

Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra


Magandang araw! Good day!

Bulol literally means mute. The bulol that I will share to you isn’t the typical disabled person we know. Rather, this mythical bulol is the Watcher of the Dead of the Igorots or Cordillera mountains peoples. I’d advance right here that the Bulol mythos has deep mystical significance, which I will share to you today.

If you happen to tour the Cordillera Mountains, an entire region up North Luzon (Philippines), you will encounter the sturdy Igorot peoples. They are among our indigenous peoples, and they share common cultural traits that merit them as a generic group.

Like most of our indigenous peoples, the Igorots are so rich in myths and legends. They surely have contributed immeasurably to the country’s vast storehouse of symbolic constructs (myths, legends, folk lores) that are heritage yet of the Lemuro-Atlantean ancestry of the Igorots (all Malay tribes for that matter were of Lemuro-Atlantean roots).

A male Being, the Bulol is believed to be the Watcher of the Dead. As soon as a person dies, his/her soul (a) arrives on a river where s/he is consequently met by Bulol riding on a banca (canoe), (b) after which Bulol will ferry his/her soul over across the river (c) where s/he alights and then transfers to a chariot in waiting which (d) will fly him/her finally to the Almighty Creator.

As a trained observer (analyst, hermeneute, semioticist), I can see couples of symbols and structures revealed in the narrative. Let me begin with Bulol. I can very easily see that Bulol is among the guardians or Watchers of the Astral Plane. Indeed such a Being exists, who, to repeat, is guardian of a certain sphere of life, the astral plane, particularly the mid-subplane of the astral plane.

River is a means to convey the element of Water or astral element. A soul being ferried across the river means the soul has to move over to the astral plane and its diverse subplanes, from the lowest to the highest (5th Density is another term for higher astral).

The Watcher of the astral plane doesn’t communicate to souls of dead folks, which is captured by the mute state of Bulol. If he does, the Watcher does this through thought communication.

The banca (canoe) signifies the vehicle used by the Watcher to ferry the dead’s soul (within the astral body) to the next level of ascent. There is no fixed vehicular form, it could vary depending on the cultural wordview of the person who just died (e.g. huge fish for those living in coastal areas, banca for inland cultures…).

At the end of the ferrying journey, across the river, one has to alight. This signifies that the astral plane has an end, no matter how seemingly serene and heavenly the plane may be. And that end is the 7th subplane of the astral plane.

The next step after that journey is the ascent of the mental-to-causal planes. The mental plane is characterized by the Air element, which was captured in the Bulol mythos in terms of the chariot flying on air. At the beginning of that journey, the person’s own Angelic guide who is personal guardian, will meet and accompany the soul to the next level.

Angel guides are precisely positioned in the mental plane equivalent for their cosmic species. They can of course make use of equivalent vehicles to fetch and ascend the person, such as that one signified by the chariot.

The end of that journey is the causal plane, sometimes called the ‘higher mental’ plane. Being the seat of the intuitive faculties, the higher mental plane is the beginning of formlessness or ‘pure energy’. Arupa, as it is termed in Sanskrit. Fire element is the natural facet of the 4th or higher mental plane.

The Bulol narrative stops there. The chariot accordingly flies up the sky (soul moves across the mental plane), and that’s the end. No more related principles were revealed to the folks other than the entry to the higher mental plane (signified by the highest heights of the sky).

What the Bulol tells us is that the ancient father-race of the Igorots devised a way to conceal higher principles in so clever a manner. They found the folk lore way as the means to achieve that. If one were to examine every facet of Igorot life, nay of Philippine cultural life, one would find similar instances of symbolic constructs concealing very recondite truths.

As to why the principles of reality planes and elements have to be concealed in folk ways, suffice me to say that the world of antiquity was rapidly ending as the last glacial period was also coming to an end. With the prophesied inundations of old lands by melted polar caps, ways have to be devised to conserve universal principles for the survivors of the floods to tag along with.

The last glacial period saw the demise of Lemuro-Atlantean (e.g. Maharlokan) civilizations. Among those that survived and thrived were the Malays, and among them were the future Igorots of the Cordilleras. And, along with them, the Igorots conserved a vast storehouse of ancient knowledge waiting for mystical scientists to decode and share to the world.

[Phiippines, 13 May 2010]

[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]