ABORIGINALS AND THE CABBALISTIC  LIGHT

By   T.L.Rundell F.R.C.

About the middle of the eighteenth century the general European attitude towards so-called primitive peoples began to undergo a reversal. The new outlook began with a Frenchman, Jean Jacques Rousseau (Rosso), who introduced, to the philosophical world the concept of the 'noble savage', and who proposed that simple, uncomplicated, almost animal existence, was the natural, and therefore most a desirable state, from which mankind had somehow fallen into degeneracies of civilisation. Rousseau gained many followers and his ideas are still clearly visible in the aims of numerous Utopian groups and other worldmending organisations.

The new point of view played a large part in the abolition of slavery, and tribes of primitives became objects of serious study, instead of candidates for exploitation or immediate extermination. Out of this interest, came modem anthropology and ethnology as we know them today. Highly perceptive, well qualified men and women, began to go and live among the less civilised peoples of the world, and to study not only the outward aspects of their ways of life, but the beliefs, the morals and ethical codes that underlie, and indeed, give strength, as well as continuity, to all the numerous varieties of local convention and behaviour.

The belief is still widely held among civilised people, that primitive mankind was (or is) a 'simple child of nature', with the mentality and reactions of a very young child. According to this view, mankind's religious ideas are supposed to have originated in fanciful explanations of phenomena, encountered in the environment and to have developed, via a process of Darwinian evolution, slowly and somewhat painfully, from a level of unsophisticated and, at least, partly subconscious fantasy, to the grand and glorious concept of a single Universal Divinity, with which the more adult mind of modem Man is blessed. In the twentieth century, this belief is undergoing some rapid and surprising revision, as anthropologists and ethnologists, patiently research and unravel the workings of the Primitive mind.

Entities once mistaken for gods, are frequently found to resemble much more closely the civilised person's acceptances of patron saints, or angels, of either the good Or bad variety, At one time, all such entities were translated indiscriminately as gods, and the idea that so-called polytheistic systems, might possess at least as many levels as the Hierarchies of Heaven did not, apparently, occur to the investigators. Now, however, the tables are beginning to turn.

 Intensive study of these primitive peoples who have, somehow, remained uninfluenced by the stream of progress, has revealed as a matter of hard fact that mankind, before civilisation sets in, is a Monotheist. The firm belief in one Supreme Creator, is the indisputable and original heritage of all mankind, no matter how many other lesser entities came to be accepted as administrators of this world and its weather.

The notion that civilized mankind achieved the concept of Monotheism, perhaps, as one of, the consequences of his growing in understanding, or through the agency of his developing and maturing mind, has had to be given up, and replaced by more sobering consideration.

Civilisation, with its growing emphasis upon power and authority, over larger and still larger groups, and increasing control of mankind, by mankind, in the absence of direct intervention, or direction from any other source, permitted Polytheism to arise. Heroic men and women, dimly remembered from ancient times, were elevated to positions of importance, in the other world that was supposed to be interested in this one, and that other world became an immaterial realm, associated partly with the sky, and partly with an underworld that had become equally immaterial. Thus, this hazy heaven (which even modem Man has largely inherited) gradually became populated with numerous personages, who had achieved divinity or semi-divinity, and, whose immediate control of affairs and events in this world, superseded and obliterated the original idea, of the one Supreme Creator of us all.

Civilized mankind, therefore, had to rediscover his Monotheism. This rediscovery, besides the subsequent refinement and improvement of the concept, has been the work of individual Men. They were Men with the stamp of inspiration upon them, and indeed, the greatest among them did not hesitate to claim to have conversed with the Almighty Himself, so profound was the effect of the impressions they received. Whether or not they did actually meet the Supreme Sprit face to face is, a matter for personal theological decision.

The effect is the same as if they did, for the idea took root again among mankind, for it grew, and has developed into interesting forms. Along with it, there returned something of the old certainty of  'ever present help in time of trouble', for all mankind on earth, instead of one small group in opposition to another. Although this lesser idea still persists, it is steadily losing ground and showing signs of eventually being supplanted by the wider concept.

When civilised mankind rediscovered Monotheism, the idea did not arrive in any highly developed or universal form. Thousands of years passed before the concept matured and expanded sufficiently for any significant part of mankind to grasp, and to retain the archetypal image of one, Universal Supreme Being. The only possible exceptions were a few individuals, whose realisation died with them, and the esoteric groups, or mystery  school’s  which  taught the wider conception in secret, and under vows of concealment from the rest of the world.

 Mental and emotional horizon’s,  were  far too limited to contain such a thought, and many steps had to be taken before it could find widespread acceptance. The beginnings were small and at first obscure, as all beginnings must be. The first Man to whom the revelation came, according to the available records, rejected the thinking of his time, which, postulated a number of gods and godlings for each group of families, and initiated the first step towards mankind's appreciation of the cosmic ideal. His realization that all the families of his kindred had, in fact, but one deity, who must be the supreme authority for them, set him, and his relatives, apart from their contemporaries.

We are taught in our Monographs that the Pharaoh Akhenaton, was the founder of a secret society, that was the fore runner of the Rosicrucian Order, he was also the founder of a religion that worshiped only one God, of which he symbolized as the Sun, his God he called Aten, this religion was, we are told, resurrected from the religion of Mu, Churchwood tells us much about Mu and is the fore most authority on it.

Tablets that were found in Mexico and India of which are over 15,000 years old tell us of a strange country of 64,000,000 people, inhabitants, who, 50,000 years ago, had developed a civilization superior in many respects to our own. They described, among other things, the creation of man in the mysterious land of Mu.

These similarities do not mean that there is a direct connection between Atonism and Hebrew monotheism, or that Moses learned about God at the court of Amarna. Rather, the Aton hymn and the psalm represent two examples of a literary  tradition which flourished throughout the Near East over a vast span of time. Certain of the concepts, and even of the phrases, of the Amarna hymn occur in earlier Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian hymns and persist after the heresy of Akhenaton had disappeared from Egypt. Still, it is interesting to see, in so familiar a volume as the Bible, echoes of the beliefs of an Egyptian pharaoh of the second millennium before Christ.

These beliefs, as we know them, were beautiful and kind the love of the creator of all things for his creatures, and their jubilant adoration of him. "Thy dawning is beautiful in the horizon of heaven, Oh  living Aton, beginning of life!" All creatures, even the humblest, hail the god's rising:

All cattle rest upon their herbage, All trees and plants flourish; The birds flutter in their marshes, Their wings uplifted in adoration to thee. All the sheep dance upon their feet, all winged things fly; They live when thou hast shone upon them.

Aton is the god of Syria and of Nubia als

Their tongues are diverse in speech, and their forms and their skins likewise;

For thou, Divider, hast divided the peoples

In cloudless Egypt the phenomenon of rain may be viewed as an example of the creator's ingenuity in caring for his non Egyptian subjects: "Thou hast set a Nile in heaven, that it may fall for them!"

A spirit of joyousness and of sunlit, open space, and an appreciation of the manifold beauties of nature breathe in the liturgy of the Aton faith and are found in other elements of the worship.

We may, therefore, be sure that the Biblical story of the creation, as we know it today, evolved from the impressive account gathered from those ancient tablets, which relate the history of Mu, history 500 centuries old.

The religion of Mu, was the religion of the one God, and we can trace this religion through Leumaria, Atlantis and Posidion and in each age, the one God is called by a different name, thus, as he comes through the ages,  these names are brought together, to form a panatheam of Gods, but which in reality refer to the one God.

The similarity of Akhenaton’s religion which came from Mu and our belief system today can be seen in the stories within the Bible which are in line with several accounts found upon tablets uncovered from Ur in relation to the creation of man and Noah and the flood further this similarity can be seen in the psalms here is a Hymn to Aton by Akhenaton:

When thou settest in the western horizon of heaven;

The world is in darkness like the dead;

Every lion cometh forth from his den,

The serpents they sing.  And Darkness reigns;

Bright is the earth when though risest in the horizon;

The two lands are in daily festival,

Awake and standing upon their feet;

Then in all the world they do their work

How manifold are all thy works!

For they are hidden from before us.

Oh though sole God, whose powers no other possesseth.

Though did create the earth according to thy desire, being alone:

Men, all cattle, large and small;

All that are upon the earth and within its waters.

And in Psalm 104 we have

Though makest darkness and it is night,

Wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth;

The young lions roar after their prey;

they seek their meat from God

The sun ariseth, they get them away and lay them down in their dens.

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening

Oh Lord, how manifold are thy works!

In wisdom hast thou made them all;

The earth is full of thy creatures.

Let us now look at another ancient race of people,  In my youth, I worked at Weipa in Northern Queensland and was on good terms with the local Aboriginals who would tell me stories of a great Pyramid and latter when working at Birdsville on Bedurrie Station which was 3,000 square miles I had the privilege of being able to experience first hand, the ways of the Queensland Aboriginals, and then latter, work side by side these proud people  where white man had never set foot before.

I was able to walk amongst relics of a time long past, where camp sites still remained, and everything was in place as if the inhabitants had just left and would be back at any time.

On the ground were still the ring of stones where once a fire had been placed, and alongside this, one could see Nardoo Stones, intact and ready for use, to grind the grain for their style of bread, which was made from the seed of the nardoo flower, there were axe blades, spear heads, and perhaps the most fascinating thing to me, was the fish hooks carved out of bone but mainly out of Jasper, agate and Opal. These hooks were the exact same style as we use today, yet carbon dating showed them to be many thousands of year's old.

There were circles of stone, with other circles inside them, also squares with circles within, and circles with squares within, these would   have been laid down by the elders in the

teaching of the young men of the tribe, other articles were to be found, and it was not long before you knew that you were in a sacred place, where the secrets and mysteries of the world

were taught to those who were privileged to receive them.

It was here, that I received my Aboriginal Spirituality, shown and taught the secrets of Aboriginal Lore, and was given my totem, by the spiritual keepers of that sacred place, though as you can see that I am descendant from Caucasian stock, but to the  Aboriginal, it is not the colour of skin that is a concern but your spirituality.

Aboriginals have been in this land for close on 60,000 years, and so there history predates most of all recorded history, is it no wonder that there cosmological thought is simular in many ways to all countries in the world.

The Myths of the Australian Aborigine, deal with the creation of the Universe and the establishment of order, and the rules that regulate human behaviour, and, are thus the foundations of their social and secular and ceremonial life. Thus the initiations and ceremonies preformed give the participants a grate spiritual experience.

Those that created and lived upon the world of creation were and are the dreaming, and all aboriginals are descendant from them and the land, but the link has been lost between the dreaming, and today they cannot explain, when the world was being created and the change that took place from the mythical to when the world was complete.

In their Dreaming the Sun is looked upon as a woman, she rises each morning, to provide light and heat. At the end of each day she travels through a long underground route to reach her camp in the east. The moon is depicted as a man, who makes a similar journey at night however he dies at the end of his journey but after three days rises to life to carry on his journey of life and death.

The mythical beings of the dreaming explain every feature of the earth, the cosmic realms and the oceans, the origin of natural forces, the weapons to be used, and decree the rules of behavior that ensure harmonious living of Aboriginal Society.

Many of the mythical spirits were transformed into features upon the landscape and of these many were women and the kangaroo also played an important part he was called Malu also tjulki the fairy owl which carried out creation duties and decreed the eternal laws.

One myth close to Rosicrucian thinking relates how a woman Kutunga, gave birth to children who were latter miraculously transformed into egg shaped boulders on the open plain, ( These being the Devils Marbles) it is believed that these boulders are filled with an inexhaustible supply of spirit children, the Yulanya. They believe that these spirit children were beings that choose their own mothers and entered their bodies to begin life as humans.

The Rosicrucian doctrine is that the soul personality enters the child at birth. Is not the journey of the sun women not unlike the journey of the Egyptian God Ra who traveled from east to west and then entered the underworld to return again next morning. And is not the Moon man not unlike the Osiran scripts and the resurrection of Christ.

Let us now consider an age old dreaming of the beginning of the world and then try to put it into perspective, the story is of Mu-Dung-Ka-la the earth mother.

The story unfolds telling of the first sunrise, where all was in darkness, the earth was featureless, and flat. There were no hills or valleys, no trees to break the monotony of the barrenness, nothing, there was no life, just a barren planet.

After a period of time there was a grate rumbling all around, and an old woman rose from beneath the ground, carrying in her arms three infants, he name was Mu-dung-kala the earth mother, of the infants there was one boy child and two girls, no one knows where she came from, or where she went to after she had created the land of TIWI.

When she rose out of the earth, she was unable to see because of the emence darkness, and so by crawling on her hands and knees, she traveled in a wide circle, water bubbled up in her wake, and became the swift tideway that now separates Melville Island from the Australian Mainland, when her journeys had ceased Mu-dung-kala decreed that the bare and barren land be clothed in vegetation, and inhabited with creatures, so that her children, and generations to come, should have ample shelter and food.

This is where the dream time started this is where it was taught by initiation, by ritual, by song, and would not end for many days at a time. All this, I would often reflect upon, and only when I took up the study of Egyptology, would I speculate on various things within my mind, but only after joining certain Initiatic Orders such not unlike the Rosicrucian Order where the Egyptian and Elusion Mysteries were taught did I see the connection, and was then able to turn my speculation into something sound, however, I never really took to this in a serious manner, and when asked in 1986 to write a lecture on Aboriginals, did it then become strongly within me to put my knowledge on paper.

To start with perhaps, it would be best to explain that in many rituals of initiation between the various tribes, their is a system of ceremonies that are very close to those that are worked in various Initiatic orders today and that these ceremonies are in line with those of some tribes of red Indians, Mayans, and several nomadic tribes in Africa.

Although these people are scattered around the world, are a primitive race, and one would be inclined to agree, have never learned of the other, we find many things that are of a similar nature, many words that have a root meaning, and much of their philosophy, and religion are on a parrel, as well as their code of moral ethics.

You may, or may not have been aware, that the Australian aborigine, had and still has, in parts where their heritage has not been lost, a very high morel code of living also there is a strong link in their mysteries that ring of the Kabala, and perhaps prove much of what you will learn tonight.

At this point though, I should digress and explain a little of just what the Kabala is, as although you may have heard the term before, you may be at a loss to its true meaning. I will not go into any lengthy discussion on it, but, if you wish at some other time I could perhaps deliver a lecture that I have on it.

What is the Kabala?, and how do we define it so that we may recognize it?, Where did it come from?, and why is it important to us to learn about it. What foundation does it have on the Mystery Schools and in particular what is it's connection to Australian Aborigines and what is it's effect upon us.

Kabala is derived from the Hebrew word K B L (Kabal) which means to receive, because it was a doctrine received orally from the Elders, until the event of writing, of which was derived from the symbols of the Kabala. It has sometimes been used in an enlarged sense, as comprehending all the explanation, maxims, and ceremonies which have been traditionally handed down; but in that more limited acceptation, in which it is intimately connected with the symbolic science of the Mystery Schools.

In short therefore, the Kabala is a metaphysical system by which the elect shall know god and the universe. -It will raise him above common knowledge, and make him understand the profound meaning and the plan of creation. Cabbalism, is probably the only religious movement of Gnostic type to come full circle; to create mysteries, and explain them, to hide secrets, and discover them, and come at last back to the grater mystery from which it started, with deeper insights and wider knowledge.

The Kabala predates all known recorded history, and can be found in every land. Its main thrust comes from Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon, in the Sanskrit there is much of it, also it is strongly seen in Peru, Japan, through out Asia, Africa, Europe, and of course amongst the Australian Aboriginals.

The greatest single area of information on the subject, comes from the book of splendor or zohar. Dr. J. Albeson stated in 1931- in his introduction to the translated text into English, that the zohar is a congress of treaties, texts, extracts and fragments of texts, belonging to different periods, but all resembling one another in their method of Mystical interpretation of the Torah.

Along with the Zohar, another work by the Jewish metaphysics is the Sepher Yezirah or the book of creation, these two books will give you enough knowledge of the fundamental teachings of the Kabala.