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94:2.1 As the [[Salem]] missionaries penetrated southward into the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_people Dravidian Deccan], they encountered an increasing [[caste]] system, the [[scheme]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan Aryans] to prevent loss of racial [[identity]] in the face of a rising tide of the secondary [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik peoples]. Since the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman priest] caste was the very [[essence]] of this [[system]], this social order greatly [[retarded]] the [[progress]] of the [[Salem]] [[teachers]]. This [[caste]] system failed to save the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race Aryan race], but it did succeed in perpetuating the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahmans], who, in turn, have [[maintained]] their religious [[hegemony]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India] to the present time.

94:2.1 As the [[Salem]] missionaries penetrated southward into the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_people Dravidian Deccan], they encountered an increasing [[caste]] system, the [[scheme]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan Aryans] to prevent loss of racial [[identity]] in the face of a rising tide of the secondary [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik peoples]. Since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman priest] caste was the very [[essence]] of this [[system]], this social order greatly [[retarded]] the [[progress]] of the [[Salem]] [[teachers]]. This [[caste]] system failed to save the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race Aryan race], but it did succeed in perpetuating the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahmans], who, in turn, have [[maintained]] their religious [[hegemony]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India] to the present time.

94:2.2 And now, with the weakening of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedism] through the rejection of higher [[truth]], the [[cult]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race Aryans] became subject to increasing inroads from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan]. In a desperate effort to stem the tide of racial [[extinction]] and religious [[obliteration]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman] [[caste]] sought to exalt themselves above all else. They taught that the [[sacrifice]] to [[deity]] in itself was all-efficacious, that it was all-compelling in its [[potency]]. They [[proclaimed]] that, of the two [[essential]] divine principles of the [[universe]], one was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman] the deity, and the other was the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman priesthood]. Among no other [[Urantia]] peoples did the [[priests]] presume to exalt themselves above even their [[gods]], to relegate to themselves the [[honors]] due their gods. But they went so absurdly far with these presumptuous claims that the whole precarious [[system]] collapsed before the debasing [[cults]] which poured in from the [[surrounding]] and less advanced [[civilizations]]. The vast [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic priesthood] itself floundered and sank beneath the black flood of [[inertia]] and pessimism which their own selfish and unwise presumption had brought upon all [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India].

94:2.2 And now, with the weakening of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedism] through the rejection of higher [[truth]], the [[cult]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race Aryans] became subject to increasing inroads from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan]. In a desperate effort to stem the tide of racial [[extinction]] and religious [[obliteration]], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman] [[caste]] sought to exalt themselves above all else. They taught that the [[sacrifice]] to [[deity]] in itself was all-efficacious, that it was all-compelling in its [[potency]]. They [[proclaimed]] that, of the two [[essential]] divine principles of the [[universe]], one was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman] the deity, and the other was the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman priesthood]. Among no other [[Urantia]] peoples did the [[priests]] presume to exalt themselves above even their [[gods]], to relegate to themselves the [[honors]] due their gods. But they went so absurdly far with these presumptuous claims that the whole precarious [[system]] collapsed before the debasing [[cults]] which poured in from the [[surrounding]] and less advanced [[civilizations]]. The vast [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic priesthood] itself floundered and sank beneath the black flood of [[inertia]] and pessimism which their own selfish and unwise presumption had brought upon all [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India].

94:2.3 The undue [[concentration]] on [[self]] led certainly to a [[fear]] of the nonevolutionary perpetuation of [[self]] in an endless round of [[successive]] [[incarnations]] as man, beast, or weeds. And of all the contaminating [[beliefs]] which could have become fastened upon what may have been an emerging [[monotheism]], none was so stultifying as this [[belief]] in [[transmigration]]—the [[doctrine]] of the [[reincarnation]] of [[souls]]—which came from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian Dravidian Deccan]. This [[belief]] in the weary and monotonous round of repeated [[transmigrations]] robbed struggling [[mortals]] of their long-cherished [[hope]] of finding that [[deliverance]] and spiritual advancement in [[death]] which had been a part of the earlier [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic faith].

94:2.3 The undue [[concentration]] on [[self]] led certainly to a [[fear]] of the nonevolutionary perpetuation of [[self]] in an endless round of [[successive]] [[incarnations]] as man, beast, or weeds. And of all the contaminating [[beliefs]] which could have become fastened upon what may have been an emerging [[monotheism]], none was so stultifying as this [[belief]] in [[transmigration]]—the [[doctrine]] of the [[reincarnation]] of [[souls]]—which came from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian Dravidian Deccan]. This [[belief]] in the weary and monotonous round of repeated [[transmigrations]] robbed struggling [[mortals]] of their long-cherished [[hope]] of finding that [[deliverance]] and spiritual advancement in [[death]] which had been a part of the earlier [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic faith].

94:2.4 This philosophically debilitating teaching was soon followed by the [[invention]] of the [[doctrine]] of the [[eternal]] [[escape]] from [[self]] by submergence in the [[universal]] rest and [[peace]] of absolute [[union]] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman], the oversoul of all [[creation]]. [[Mortal]] [[desire]] and [[human]] [[ambition]] were effectually ravished and virtually destroyed. For more than two thousand years the better [[minds]] of India have sought to [[escape]] from all [[desire]], and thus was opened wide the door for the entrance of those later [[cults]] and teachings which have [[virtually]] shackled the [[souls]] of many [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindus Hindu] peoples in the chains of [[spiritual]] hopelessness. Of all [[civilizations]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic-Aryan] paid the most terrible price for its rejection of the [[Salem]] [[gospel]].

94:2.4 This philosophically debilitating teaching was soon followed by the [[invention]] of the [[doctrine]] of the [[eternal]] [[escape]] from [[self]] by submergence in the [[universal]] rest and [[peace]] of absolute [[union]] with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman], the oversoul of all [[creation]]. [[Mortal]] [[desire]] and [[human]] [[ambition]] were effectually ravished and virtually destroyed. For more than two thousand years the better [[minds]] of India have sought to [[escape]] from all [[desire]], and thus was opened wide the door for the entrance of those later [[cults]] and teachings which have [[virtually]] shackled the [[souls]] of many [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindus Hindu] peoples in the chains of [[spiritual]] hopelessness. Of all [[civilizations]], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedism Vedic-Aryan] paid the most terrible price for its rejection of the [[Salem]] [[gospel]].

94:2.5 [[Caste]] alone could not perpetuate the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan Aryan religio-cultural system], and as the inferior religions of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan] permeated the north, there developed an age of [[despair]] and hopelessness. It was during these [[dark]] days that the [[cult]] of taking no life arose, and it has ever since persisted. Many of the new cults were frankly [[atheistic]], claiming that such [[salvation]] as was [[attainable]] could come only by man's own unaided [[efforts]]. But throughout a great deal of all this unfortunate [[philosophy]], distorted remnants of the [[Melchizedek]] and even the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74 Adamic teachings] can be traced.

94:2.5 [[Caste]] alone could not perpetuate the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan Aryan religio-cultural system], and as the inferior religions of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan] permeated the north, there developed an age of [[despair]] and hopelessness. It was during these [[dark]] days that the [[cult]] of taking no life arose, and it has ever since persisted. Many of the new cults were frankly [[atheistic]], claiming that such [[salvation]] as was [[attainable]] could come only by man's own unaided [[efforts]]. But throughout a great deal of all this unfortunate [[philosophy]], distorted remnants of the [[Melchizedek]] and even the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74 Adamic teachings] can be traced.

94:2.6 These were the times of the compilation of the later [[scriptures]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hindu] faith, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahamanas Brahmanas] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishads Upanishads]. Having rejected the teachings of [[personal]] [[religion]] through the personal [[faith]] [[experience]] with the one God, and having become contaminated with the flood of debasing and debilitating [[cults]] and creeds from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan], with their [[anthropomorphisms]] and [[reincarnations]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahmanic priesthood] experienced a [[violent]] [[reaction]] against these vitiating beliefs; there was a definite [[effort]] to seek and to find true [[reality]]. The Brahmans set out to deanthropomorphize the Indian concept of [[deity]], but in so doing they stumbled into the grievous [[error]] of depersonalizing the [[concept]] of [[God]], and they emerged, not with a lofty and [[spiritual]] [[ideal]] of the [[Paradise Father]], but with a distant and [[metaphysical]] idea of an all-[[encompassing]] [[Absolute]].

94:2.6 These were the times of the compilation of the later [[scriptures]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hindu] faith, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahamanas Brahmanas] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishads Upanishads]. Having rejected the teachings of [[personal]] [[religion]] through the personal [[faith]] [[experience]] with the one God, and having become contaminated with the flood of debasing and debilitating [[cults]] and creeds from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan], with their [[anthropomorphisms]] and [[reincarnations]], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahmanic priesthood] experienced a [[violent]] [[reaction]] against these vitiating beliefs; there was a definite [[effort]] to seek and to find true [[reality]]. The Brahmans set out to deanthropomorphize the Indian concept of [[deity]], but in so doing they stumbled into the grievous [[error]] of depersonalizing the [[concept]] of [[God]], and they emerged, not with a lofty and [[spiritual]] [[ideal]] of the [[Paradise Father]], but with a distant and [[metaphysical]] idea of an all-[[encompassing]] [[Absolute]].

94:2.7 In their [[efforts]] at self-preservation the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahmans] had rejected the one [[God]] of [[Melchizedek]], and now they found themselves with the [[hypothesis]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman], that indefinite and illusive [[philosophic]] [[self]], that [[impersonal]] and impotent it which has left the [[spiritual]] life of India helpless and [[prostrate]] from that unfortunate day to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century twentieth century].

94:2.7 In their [[efforts]] at self-preservation the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahmans] had rejected the one [[God]] of [[Melchizedek]], and now they found themselves with the [[hypothesis]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahman], that indefinite and illusive [[philosophic]] [[self]], that [[impersonal]] and impotent it which has left the [[spiritual]] life of India helpless and [[prostrate]] from that unfortunate day to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century twentieth century].

94:2.8 It was during the times of the [[writing]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishads Upanishads] that [[Buddhism]] arose in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]. But despite its successes of a thousand years, it could not [[compete]] with later [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hinduism]; despite a higher [[morality]], its early portrayal of God was even less well-defined than was that of Hinduism, which provided for lesser and [[personal]] [[deities]]. Buddhism finally gave way in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_India northern India] before the onslaught of a militant [[Islam]] with its clear-cut [[concept]] of [[Allah]] as the supreme [[God]] of the [[universe]].

94:2.8 It was during the times of the [[writing]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishads Upanishads] that [[Buddhism]] arose in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]. But despite its successes of a thousand years, it could not [[compete]] with later [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hinduism]; despite a higher [[morality]], its early portrayal of God was even less well-defined than was that of Hinduism, which provided for lesser and [[personal]] [[deities]]. Buddhism finally gave way in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_India northern India] before the onslaught of a militant [[Islam]] with its clear-cut [[concept]] of [[Allah]] as the supreme [[God]] of the [[universe]].

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[[Category:Paper 94 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Orient]]

[[Category:Paper 94 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Orient]]

[[Category: Melchizedeks]]

[[Category: Melchizedeks]]

[[Category: Revelation]]

[[Category: Revelation]]

[[Category: Legacy]]

[[Category: Legacy]]