Number 8. Polytheism
Numerous
Teachings refer to polytheism and monotheism, and as religious literature
has diversified original meanings throughout centuries bringing confusion
and mistake, and even falseness, we feel that certain reflections are
necessary about this matters, taking as a guide Master Bovisio’s
accurate remarks in his works. We’ll start by concepts, not by names;
many controversies came into being from multiple titles produced in History
to name an unitary thing.
Always we are told about the source of the universal in the singular,
and this singularity has been called One, Unique, Absolute, God, Unknown,
He, It, Eternal, and so on, according to traditions and language of peoples.
Oneness of principle lies on the collective unconscious, spontaneously
applied to all above-mentioned names; it is an evidence previous to reasoning
and dogmas. Monotheistic, polytheistic and pantheistic religions and beliefs
are sustained by oneness of the creative principle. If the reader wants
to consider in depth this part of the matter, should meditate about first
Teachings in Book “Cosmogony”.
Different names are pronounced and written on human language. The single
name is secret and unknown for some religions, and its diversity is infinite
for others. Some religions say certain name is real and true, and the
rest is false. Other religions admit several names, and mix up, confound
and create chaotic forms. At present, this matter is quite mixed up, including
living persons who say to be avatars, divine emanations, with his own
rituals and multitudinous followers. Typically as an ending Age, God of
men is liquefied in a big social beater of disordered masses without destination.
We would wish to clarify in some way, now that a great Christian crusade
confronts a holy war on the other side, killing, smashing and inflicting
horror to all peoples of Earth.
We live in multiplicity; more than 6,000 millions of persons, who are
Humanity, are globalized in world communication net, trips, business,
finance, tourism, readings, Internet; in fact, everything. And on this
global village there are many gods intercommunicated and conversing, as
if they stayed in the old Olympus. Recently, in Assisi, Leaders of several
religions –Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Protestants, Orthodox–
went together to pray for the world peace, as an exemplary and fraternal
spirit of religious tolerance. It was a response to the global war of
George W. Bush’s Christian crusade, confronting the Islamic Holy
War. By all this we need to expound foundations of monotheism and polytheism.
Master Santiago
clearly explains the source of this religious discrepancy in Ancient Egypt,
because he was one of the protagonists, as High Priest in the Temple of
Amon, Thebes, during the kingdom of Amenophis IV, later named Akhnaton
(Aton, name of the solar disk –physical, single, monotheistic; and
Amon, name of the spirit of the Sun, also Michael, First Ruler of the
Planetary System –polytheistic). We recommend to see Books “Planetary
System”, “Comparative Religions”, and “History
of Esoteric Orders”.
During first Root Races, certain supra-physical powers of men were so
significant that they did not need temples and religions because of their
direct and permanent contact with Great Initiates leading them. Religions
gradually begin with the Aryan Race as men are losing the astral sight,
a blindness increased after the 1,500 Years War, with the last Atlanteans
smashed. So the Great Order of Fire is founded on Mount Kaor, which preserved
the ancient wisdom and psychic powers that reached the historic Egypt,
by secret transmission from Masters to Disciples. A homogeneous and single
divine concept prevailed everywhere, but monotheistic and polytheistic
discrepancies begin in the wake of certain actions of the heretic Pharaoh
Amenophis IV, 1375-1357 b. C., influenced by his Semitic wife Nefertiti,
born in Mitanni, North of present Iraq.
In the antiquity, each city, each region or province had a local protective
god, such as now cities have a Patron Saint (in Mendoza, Argentina, Santiago;
in Buenos Aires city, Saint Martin of Tours, and so on). But in Ancient
Egypt, the great single God was Ra, the Sun. Moreover, each nome or province
had its local God. In Thebes, capital of the Egyptian Kingdom, Amon was
its local God. But Amenophis IV decided to abolish all Gods and different
temples along with their clergy, and to devote to a single personal God
–Aton– being He the only High Priest. All temples were closed,
priests persecuted cruelly, and the Pharaoh built to himself a new capital
with treasures stolen from other temples. This new religion was materialistic,
sensorial and exclusive. When this epileptic Pharaoh died, his whole reformation
expired; Thebes was again capital, eliminated worships were restored,
inscriptions with Pharaoh’s name deleted, and his memory was dishonored.
But the seed of a monotheistic, exclusive and dualistic religion (matter
and spirit) persisted in Semitic religions taken by Moses and the Hebrew
to Palestine, and from there to new religions to arise as the time went
by: Christianity and its branches, and Islam and its different currents.
These religions conquered all nations of the world, with the exception
of some Asiatic cultural regions: the planet is of them.
Master Santiago, in Teaching 10, Book “History of Esoteric Orders”,
says, Jesus “Is a true forerunner of what still remains a hope:
union of polytheism and monotheism; that is, purity of polytheistic conception
with accessibility of all men to a monotheistic concept. In short, Redemption
of all men”. We feel that this will be one of the capital tasks
of the Great Solar Initiate Maitreya.
There is
a popular belief according to which monotheistic religions worship the
unique and true God, and that polytheistic religions are fetishistic and
adore many idols –black people in Africa, islanders in Polynesia,
and so on–; this belief becomes general during first centuries of
Christianity, from Alexandria, when Christian multitudes, pushed by fanatic
monks, fought believers of the Greek pagan religion; when Christianity
became official religion of State, under Constantine, ancient beliefs
disappeared. When Islam appeared, these monotheistic religions fought
one another in order to make prevail their personal God. When Spaniards
conquered America, they destroyed all temples and “idols”
of quite ancient regional civilizations. In the antiquity, religions were
a decisive factor of power, and rulers used them to dominate the people
and other nations, under flags of their personal gods. Today factors of
power lie in political ideologies, capitalism, communism, socialism, and
so on, and in armies and money. Today, a controversy between monotheism
and polytheism means nothing politically or spiritually. But we can understand
the structure and intimate meaning of this conceptions by applying to
Santiago Bovisio’s Teachings, who has expounded them in above-recommended
Books.
Polytheism is the way of harmonious knowledge about all spiritual and
material things, and its effect is wisdom. Monotheism is the way of feeling,
and its result is compassion. In Teaching “Esoteric Arabian Wisdom
and the Veiled Woman”, of the above-mentioned Book, Master Santiago
expounds quite clearly these two conceptions linked to an ideal that still
is unattainable: “Love with Wisdom”
Doubtlessly, monotheistic religions have confronted one another during
the Christian age, and now, at the end of Pisces, hatred moves them and
became savage and uncontrollable. See what occurs right now in Palestine
to understand more properly that any text: three dominating monotheistic
religions want to possess exclusively their holy place, Jerusalem, where
the Savior was crucified, eliminating other competitors, such as they
did formerly. The monotheistic dialectical cycle ends with the destruction
of this region, and begins a new space for Humanity. The karmic cycle
ends by paying the debt. The American Sub-Race cannot begin while interests
of the ancient Sub-Race persist; it must die definitely like it occurs
with humans. The Teutonic Sub-Race, which started along with the 1,500
Years War, previous to the whole disappearance of the previous Celtic
Race, began with very primitive and savage individuals, like cavemen living
by hunting and fishing, and upon this foundations, as millennia went by,
present technological civilization is erected. After a mass destruction
and annihilation, when this planet is again deprived of radioactivity
and pollution, and rivers and woods are restored and reforested, and survivors
come back to innocence, how to start the new age with spiritualized materialism,
harmony between monotheism and polytheism, and Wisdom with Love? Nobody
has prophesied this, but the Teachings suggest likely guidelines of Maitreya’s
work.
Master Bovisio lived from 1904 to 1962, and as we said, in his former
incarnation he was High Priest in the Temple of Amon, Egypt, where polytheism
flourished during the Two Suns’ War. More than thirty centuries
passed between a life and another, a long time only experienced by great
beings, and polytheism disappeared totally. As he incarnated in the first
half of twentieth century, he gave men the most complete and deepest study
about polytheism, formerly preserved by Secret Orders under strict secret,
and even meditation and contemplation techniques, poses, hymns and occult
prayers, and physical and astral knowledge, which only a Master of Wisdom
belonging to Amon’s School can transmit, according to a cosmic polytheism
vision. He left all this by writing, and handed over to his disciples
of the Order founded to disseminating the Renunciation Message. When the
Order disappeared with its intrinsic compromises in last decades of the
past century, Teachings remained free and disseminated on the world by
communication media. During the first dissemination year, more than 554,000
messages have been downloaded by particular individuals in more than 35
countries of all continents.
What did Santiago Bovisio’s presence mean, –an exceptional
witness and one of the protagonists in the fight between polytheism and
monotheism, when the sign of Pisces ends with the millenary period of
Jewish, Christian and Moslem monotheism? Master Santiago emphatically
exclaimed in the face of many witnesses, during a ceremonial presided
by him in Buenos Aires, 1959, “Three thousand years of obscurantism!”.
A clear and touching expression uttered by an ancient priest of Amon,
who claimed for a place for the whole knowledge of the truth.
Modern nations and ideological systems furthered by them are collapsing
by economic crises, injustice and extermination wars, and by their irreconcilable
contradictions. Monotheism is exhausted. Science breakthroughs and planetary
development are on the brink of crisis, and there is a hope for humanity:
renewed polytheism, open material and supraphysical knowledge, with a
man wholly realized, in harmony and synthesis with the monotheistic feeling.
Perhaps this is Maitreya’s mission in the beginning of Aquarius
–a new way to live for all: Wisdom in Love.
Monotheists
are sunk in a trouble, that is, duality –God on the one hand, and
matter on the other. They never could solve this dilemma. Sometimes they
became fanatical and cruel, like in Christian Middle Ages, a period with
exaggerated pair of opposites, with a quite high and inaccessible God,
and the world with a hell full of sins; and being unable to solve this
contradiction in a doctrinaire way, they increased the number of processions,
Mendicant Orders, Inquisition stakes, and extermination of rebels. Now
we are in another similar and opposite age, with materialistic omnipotence:
genetic laboratories commit frightful abuses, a cold impiety covers African
fields with corpses, money power smashes weak nations from the International
Monetary Fund, crudest sensuality became general behavior, and quite above,
invisible and mute in the dark, the lonely God of monotheistic religions
looks at the void and says nothing.
But we are at the end of Pisces, two fish looking at opposite directions,
and solutions operated by elementary collapse of compounds –dissolution.
When a biologic organism dies, its compounds disintegrate in a regressive
and deeper and deeper way, and eventually reach an elementary formless
substance, like in the beginning, when its activity started. In a human
organism, this separation continues on supraphysical planes for very long
time, and eventually only a synthesis of the entity remains, memory of
what this entity lived, and the seed-atom that will enable to realize
another life. Also Races dissolve and transmute to open a new cycle. An
hermetic axiom says, “As above, so below. As below, so above. So
that the miracle of Unity be accomplished”.
These two conceptions guiding the progress of Humanity for centuries –separate
monotheism and polytheism– are incomplete, like mind and heart when
the two act independently. Man has been created as indissoluble unity:
only in cultures and personal religions they are divorced to conquer some
parts of the reality. Now a new cycle begins, it is wide as the former,
and will last 24,000 years. Here is a prophesied mission for this immediate
future –re-union of pair of opposites. The Great Solar Initiate
Maitreya’s work will be like that, nothing more nor less.
