Messages from the 'Lost' Civilizations...

...We must learn the lesson from the pyramids - the ancient tradition of mummification of the dead and the large scale entombment/burial of what they held near and dear throughout their life...In the desire to experience these in the heavens beyond the mortal coil...they let the poor starve here on earth...It is the ultimate teaching of how the quest for wealth is not the ultimate goal of man...We must seriously reflect upon the beauty and sophistication of our ancient heritage...however, over the years the great teachings of the Seers...the Rishis...became obscured and the lack of meditation and reflection led to the priests taking poetic phrases and teachings too literally and failed to pierce into the esoteric significance of ritual...The Rishis are extremely mysterious in their ways and everything they do is for an ultimate purpose...Hence, we must see that the greatest of Kings and Queens ultimately left their wealth in the dust for looters to pick at for centuries...

It seems that around the same time all over the world...the priestly class went on a tangent and engaged in widespread sacrifice...Here we find a polar-shift in what various sections of society hoped to achieve by building and fostering civilizations...

An ancient remnant of a mantra from the Rishis that may say:

Through offering the pulsating heart to the Solar Deity in the Heavens...
Peace and Prosperity is assured to the Noble Ones upon Earth...
Cast aside the body and achieve Immortality in the Spirit-Essence Eternally!

We can get an idea as this teaching was disseminated and translated to various dialects...passed though minds with different temperments...we can visualize how this mantra may be taken literally and used to repress the poor...strike fear in other people belonging to other cultures...and redefine what is meant by 'Noble Ones'....

...But ironically, the crooked priests and their scheming warrior counterparts never fully penetrated the mystical meaning of the ancient scriptures...the language is a codex that is unlocked through not only deep metaphysical understanding and elaborate ritual - but by deeper still meditation and self-realization...self-unfoldment...enlightenment...The degree of knowing only indicated by the secret internal-external...micro-cosmic and macro-cosmic dialogues and discourses between the Great Spirit (Paratman) and the embodied spirit (jivatma)...The Great Spirit communicates like the wind...supremely mysterious...unseen yet felt...the Great Witness...is the One that determines 'how much' one knows and sees. This is played out in the relationship between the Guru and shishya.

...So the irony is that dogma has preserved much of the ancient texts and scriptures for future generations of yogins/yoginis to meditate upon and pierce to the essence with their vajra-like intellects and to demonstrate these ancient truths through skillful means...