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1. The
Larger
Picture

2. The Origin of Mankind

3. The Rise and Fall of
Civilizations

4. Atlantis

6. The Root
Races
• First – Polar
• Second –
Hyperborean
• Third – Lemurian
• Fourth – Atlantean
• Fifth – Aryan
• Sixth –
• Seventh -

7. Globes, Rounds and Chains

8. Cosmic Time
Satya Yuga
Treta Yuga
Dwapar Yuga
Kali Yuga
Manvantara
Kalpa = 1 day
of Brahma
Year of
Brahma
Years
1,728,000
1,296,000
864,000
432,000
306,720,000
4,320,000,000
3,110,400,000,000
= Mahayuga
(4.32 million years)
= 71 mahayugas
= 1000
mahayugas
= 360 days &
nights
Age of Brahma 311,040,000,000,000 100 years of
Brahma

9. A
B
S
O
L
U
T
E
COSMOS

10. Heirarchy of Beings
Heirarchy of
Compassion
Judeo-Christian Hierarchy
Kabbalah
Hindu
Buddhist
Theosophical
Void (OT)
Ain
Parabrahman
Sunyata (Void)
Absolute
The Deep (OT), God (NT)
Ain Soph
Brahman
First Logos
Adi-Buddhi
“The Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters” (OT),
“Word was with God” (NT)
Ain Soph Aur
Purusha and Prakriti
Second Logos
Maha-Buddhi
God (Elohim); Logos or Word
(NT)
Kether (or Kether,
Chocmah, Binah)
Brahma
Daiviprakriti
Word (NT)
Sons of Light
Seven Sprits before the throne
Four recording angels
3rd Dhyani Chohanic
Dhyani Buddhas
2nd Dhyani Chohanic
Dhyani Boddhisattva
1st Dhyani Chohanic
Super-Terestrial
Bodhisatvas
Tree of Life
Seven Logoi
Four Maharajas
Lipikas
Builders, Watchers, Chain
Manus, Manasaputras,
Barnishads, Kumaras, etc.
Round Manus
Globe Manus
Race Manu
Higher Devas
Dominions, Virtues, Powers,
Principalities, Archangels,
Angels
Saints, “Just Men Made
Perfect”
Human Beings
Human Beings
Third Logos
Fohat
Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones,
Terrestrial Buddhas
Human Beings
Avalokiteshvara
Rishis, Jivanmuktas,
Boddhisattvas,
Buddhas,
Asekha, Arhats
Buddhas, Chohans,
Mahatmas
Human Beings
Animals
Animals
Plants
Plants
Minerals
Minerals
1st Elemental
1st Elemental
2nd Elemental
2nd Elemental
3rd Elemental
3rd Elemental

11. Levels of Religions
All religions have at least three levels: the
ceremonial level; the dogma level; and the
spiritual level. The spiritual level is the real
heart of a religion. The other two layers,
ceremonies and beliefs, can change through
the centuries but spirituality is essentially
unchanged.
People whose understanding of religion is
basically on the first two levels may
become intolerant of other sects or
religions. Wars have been waged due to
disagreements on these levels.
People whose religious life is on the third or
spiritual level do not feel threatened by
other religions. They see the essential
identity of the different religions on this
level.

12. Hinduism
Christianity
Atma
Atma
Spirit
(pneuma)
Buddhi
Buddhi;
Anandamayakosa
Contemplative
consciousness;
spiritual or
mystical
consciousness
Higher
Mental
Karanopadhi;
karana sarira;
vijnamayakosha
Lower
Mental
Manomayakosha
Emotional
Sukshma sarira
Kama rupa
Etheric
Linga Sarira;
pranamayakosa
Physical
Sthula Sarira
Thomas
Aquinas
Psyche
(Soul)
Islam (&
Sufism)
Ruah (or
Neshamah)
Rational Soul
Judaism (&
Kabbalah)
Ruh
Nephesh
Nafs alnatiqah
Nafs alhaywaniyah
Vegetative Soul
(Soma) Body
Sensitive Soul
Nafs alnabatiyah
Body
Gewiyah
Jism

13. The Bible and the Ageless
Wisdom
• LITERAL INTERPRETATION –
brings about internal contradictions
and incredibilities, such as 7 days of
creation, Noah and the ark, Joshua and
the stopping of the sun, God repenting
his actions, etc.
• ALLEGORICAL
INTERPRETATION – sees the
underlying spiritual teaching and
wisdom behind the symbolism of the
stories without worrying about
scientific or rational contradictions

14. How many known land and air
species are there?
• Insects: 5 – 10,000,000 million
• Arachnids: 80,000
• Mammals: 4,260
• Reptiles: 6,787
• Birds: 9,703
Ark was 450 feet (137 meters)
long; 75 feet (22.8 m) wide, 45
feet (13.7 m) high
Animals were gathered in 7 days
At 5 million species, Noah had to
bring in 500 pairs per minute for
24 hours a day for 7 days (8
species per second)
How long did it take to get the
kangaroos and koalas from
Australia, the llamas from South
America, the tigers from Asia, the
pandas from China?

15. Judges 16:17 That he told her
all his heart, and said unto
her, There hath not come a
razor upon mine head; for I
have been a Nazarite unto
God from my mother's womb:
if I be shaven, then my
strength will go from me, and
I shall become weak, and be
like any other man.
Hair is not connected to
nervous system and
hence will not affect a
person by cutting it
The sun stood still and the
moon stopped until the people
had taken revenge on their
enemies
Joshua 10:13
Earth rotates at 1,600
km/hour. If you stop this, all
loose objects would fly and
the oceans would swamp the
land and there would be a
disaster all over the world.

16. Spiritual self within;
I Corinthians 3:16,17 Know ye not that ye
are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of
God dwelleth in you?
Spiritual connection with higher
self (connected [sun stood still]
or cut off [hair cut off])
Enemies: the qualities
of the lower self
represented Philistines
and the Gibeonites

17. The Disunity and Violence
among Religions
Christianity:
Protestants and Catholics in Ireland
Islam:
Shi’ites and Sunnis in Middle East
Kosovo; Aceh; Mindanao; Nigeria;
Israel; India; Iraq; etc.
Crusades; French Religious Wars (16th
cent.); Thirty Years War (17th cent.)

18. Hinduism: Gandhi
“I am a Hindu, a
Muslim, a Christian,
a Zoroastrian, a Jew.”
From: Shashi Tharoor, India:
From Midnight to the Millenium.

19. Catholicism: Asian Bishop’s Assembly
“We are daily more convinced that the Spirit is leading us in our
time . . . to an integration, profound and organic in character, of
all that is best in our (Asian) and traditional forms of prayer and
worship, into the treasury of our Christian heritage. Thus is a
fuller catholicity made possible in this age of the Church.
“Asian prayer has much also to offer to authentic Christian
spirituality.
“The great religions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam . . . have
been the treasury of many of the religious experiences of our
ancestors from which our contemporaries do not cease to draw
light and strength.”
Asian Bishop’s Second Plenary Assembly, 1978, cited in Prayer, The Life of the
Church in Asia, Bea Institute, Loyola School of Theology, Ateneo de Manila
University, 1979.

20. Christianity: Fr. Thomas Merton
“Is it therefore possible to
say that both Christians and
Buddhists can equally well
Zen is perfectly compatible
practice Zen? Yes, if by Zen
with Christian belief and
we mean precisely the quest
indeed with Christian
for direct and pure
mysticism (if we understand
experience on a
Zen in its pure state, as
metaphysical level, liberated
metaphysical intuition.)
from verbal formulas and
linguistic preconceptions.”
From Zen and the Birds of Appetite

21. Islam: Hazrat Inayat Khan
What is religion to the mystic? The religion
of the mystic is a steady progress towards
unity.
No one can be a mystic and call himself a
Christian mystic, a Jewish mystic or a
Mohammadan mystic. For what is
mysticism? Mysticism is something which
erases from one’s mind all idea of
separateness.
From The Inner Life

22. Transpersonal Psychology:
Abraham Maslow
“To the extent that all mystical or peakexperiences are the same in their essence and
have always been the same, all religions are
This something common, this something
the same in their over after wehave always the
which is left essence and peel away all
been the same.all the accidents of particular
localisms, They [religious practitioners]
should, therefore,particular agree in principlethe
languages or come to philosophies, all
on teaching that which is common to elements
ethno-centric phrasings, all those all of
them, i.e., are not common, we may call the
which whatever it is that peak-experiences
teach in common (whatever is different about
‘core-religious experience’ or the
these illuminations can fairly be Maslow, be
‘transcendent experience’ ”. taken to
localisms both in Religions,space, and are,
Abraham H. time and Values and Peak
peripheral, expendable, not essential).
Experiences. P. 20

23. The Essential Unity of Religions
Spirituality or the transcendent consciousness is a
common heritage of all humankind. It is beyond labels
and dogmas. It is an experience. It is the heart of true
religious experience. From it emanates genuine love
and compassion.
The growing appreciation of
the spiritual, as opposed to the
doctrinal, is the long term key
to religious harmony. It is the
source of true unity amidst
diversity.

24. The Unity of Life

25. Unity of Mankind
Spiritual perfection and
spiritual knowledge can
only be reached on the
spiritual plane; in other
words, only in that state
in which all sense of
separateness, all
selfishness, all feeling of
personal interest and
desire, has been merged in

26. One Earth, One Humanity, One Life