Seek, and Ye Shall Find
The only viable explanation
for the identity of the Navajo traditions and the ones of India and Indonesia
is the natural one of diffusion. And, as illustrated in their mandalas
themselves, this diffusion starts from a center; the very Center portrayed
there. Any other attempted explanation can only lead to paradox and obscurity,
as they all have, up to now.
But, if the Center the
so-called Terrestrial Paradise really existed, why not accept what Tradition
obsessively tells us, and adopt the traditional names such as Atlantis,
Lemuria, Eden, the Isles of the Blest, and so on? Why reject the reality
of such places just because we deem the natives stupid and mischievous,
and refuse to accept their holy traditions as true fact? Has the fact that
we forgot our own traditions the ones we repeat mechanically in our religious
rituals, like apes, as a sort of Cargo Cult something to do with our
scorn of them? Or do we fear to be deemed even more stupid than the natives
we oppress and rob, not only of their possessions, but even of their religious
traditions, forcing them to accept our own white-suprematist, Judeo-Christian
ones?
It is obvious that all our
attempts to locate these holy sites in the Far Occident or in the Middle
East have so far failed miserably. Why not, then seek in the right spots,
in the Far Orient so clearly mentioned in the Bible and elsewhere? It is
in India and in Indonesia that Atlantis and Lemuria, the two Centers of
Primordial Civilization are to be found, and nowhere else.
If we indeed want to find
the site of Paradise the supreme endeavor of all truly great sages of
the past we should do what the Heroes did, and search it in the Indies.
And if we do it, we shall find, as a surplus, that all the ancient Paradises
are but one, that of Eden, in the region of India and Indonesia. Most of
it sunk away, as we detail elsewhere.
For, all true traditions are but one: the Primordial Tradition that came
down to us from the dawn of Mankind as the legacy of our Atlantean forefathers.
And this Tradition is that
of Eden or Atlantis, precisely as related by Plato. Why should we persist
in deeming Paradise and Atlantis unreal an outright lie of our ancestors
of old and of the stupid natives when all the geological, the geophysical
and the anthropological evidence unequivocally indicates that it indeed
existed?
How can anyone seriously believe that the beautiful sandpainted
mandalas of the Navajo Indians and their many symbolic counterparts in the
Americas and elsewhere representing the Holy Mountain of Paradise in exactly
the same way, the same sacred geometry, the same symbolism, and the same
techniques (sandpainting, "side-elevation" projection) can have originated independently from the ones of India and Indonesia?
The only alternative explanation is through divine inspiration. But why would God cheat us, and inspire a Paradise that never was but in our wildest hopes? I, for one, refuse to believe that God would cheat and delude us with illusions and unreal chimaeras, just for fun. Why does the Bible tell, just as the Navajo traditions, of a Terrestrial Paradise, if it only exists in the never-never-land of Heaven. How come the two distant traditions invented the same lie on opposite sides of the world, independently and more or less simultaneously?
More exactly, this enormous
mass of evidence all points towards the Far Orient, the true Land of Sunrise,
the Land of Dawn, our dawn, the dawn of Mankind. There the Sun of Civilization
and Intelligence first rose and shone, with the brightness of a thousand
suns, as shiny and as scorching as the volcano that later destroyed it
irreparably. There the Phoenix first awakened and rose, crossing from the
ancestral Heliopolis into its replicas elsewhere, into Egypt, the Near
East, Polynesia, Europe, and even the distant Americas, as we just saw.
Copyright 1997 Arysio Nunes dos Santos
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