The Source Field Investigations (63 page)

As the Vendidad continues, we have what appears to be a very clear description of the coming of the last major Ice Age.

Hence, the ancient Aryan civilization appears to have originated in what is now the frozen wasteland of northern Russia—prior to the coming of the last great Ice Age. Given all the work of Graham Hancock and others, we can safely associate this with the time of the purported civilization of Atlantis.

As soon as I read this, I wanted to know as much about the ancient prophecies inherited by Zoroaster as I could. This may be as close as we can get, in our own historical record, to the original teachings about what 2012 and the Golden Age really means. This brings us to Mary Boyce and Frantz Grenet’s epic scholarly work from 1991,
A History of Zoroastrianism, Volume Three: Zoroastrianism Under Macedonian and Roman Rule.
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In it, considered among scholars to be the defining standard of all research into Zoroastrianism, we find out that some of the literary, archeological and numismatic (coin) evidence used to paint the picture of Zoroastrianism has only recently come to light. What I find interesting about this book is that the original Zoroastrian concepts about the end of the age do not have the apocalyptic quality that many other prophecies do.

Zoroaster did not espouse the idea of human beings levitating up into the heavens and disappearing.

On page 382, we get more detail about how this transition into the Golden Age is expected to take place. Namely, we see a “progressive weakening” of evil thanks to the hard work of many people in exposing the truth.

Zoroaster “perceived the salvation of the world as dependent both on cosmic striving and on the sum of individual human choices; and these two conjoined aspects of his teachings—emphasis on individual responsibility and concern for the whole cosmos—made his doctrines strikingly relevant to the conditions and problems of the Hellenistic age.”
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Of course, the Hellenistic age inherited these teachings, as did all other religions. That’s one of the points that Boyce and Grenet make so effectively. Everything traces back to the original seed of information and insight—and it appears that Zoroaster is the farthest back in time, and therefore the closest to the original essence of it.

Very interesting context about the true nature of evil was revealed on page 443: “Zoroastrianism taught that Ahura Mazda’s rule over earth in the beginning had been deliberately brief, since he wished for the invasion of his Adversary, the Evil Spirit, so that he might defeat and annihilate him.”
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This, of course, suggests that the real purpose of the negative forces are simply to help us evolve in consciousness; but they were never intended to win—and never can win. They can only adapt to the basic nature of the Universe itself, which is loving kindness.

On pages 427–428, we find out that time itself is expected to change—by basically ceasing to exist as we now know it—once the Golden Age has arrived. This passage also speaks of a “Great Judgment,” which could obviously be disturbing to many people—and this may already represent how the original teachings were starting to get watered down and altered. Based on many other prophetic sources I have encountered, it appears that all this judgment really means is that we will be given a choice of whether we wish to continue reincarnating, and learning the same lessons, or move into a state where we can pass through space-time and time-space with equal effectiveness—basically in an Ascended form. If we don’t decide to take the “Great Invitation,” we’re not punished—we live our lives, pass away when it is normal and right, and continue moving through the growth opportunities that future lives in a physical body can give us.

This passage is taken out of 2 Enoch in the old Zoroastrian scriptures.

This all sounds very much like a blending together of space-time and time-space—so we can function in both worlds at the same time. Boyce and Grenet give valuable context from other sources about the same thing on pages 444–445.

On pages 365–366, we hear about how we will have a “future body” that is a “return to perfection.”

Bear in mind this is not talking about a single Messianic figure—this is saying that “the blessed” will achieve this feat. This could be many different people.

Boyce and Grenet carefully trace how the difficulties of Roman and Macedonian rule affected Zoroastrian prophecies as well—causing later writers to adopt much more of a doom-and-gloom approach, which then seeded into all other Western religions. Nonetheless, what we see in the oldest, least-disturbed accounts is of a world that is transformed—in which time as we know it has come to an end, but not in a cataclysmic fashion. Evil is exposed and dwindles away, and humanity on earth appears to have transformed into an “unblemished body, made immortal and undecaying.”

Getting back to the intense, multilingual scholarship of Baldry on the Roman writings about the Golden Age, he concludes that the Roman poets mistranslated the words
saecula
and
aetas
as both meaning “age”—but in fact,
saecula
may mean either “race” or “age,” and
aetas
should be translated as “race.”

Now it all comes together. Everyone thinks the classical prophecies are talking about a Golden Age—and that’s definitely a part of it—but that’s also a mistranslation. The Zoroastrian prophecy of immortality in an ideal and unblemished body made its way into Greek thought as a Golden Race—but this was then mistranslated by the Romans into the idea of a Golden Age—without necessarily describing what would happen to us once we get there. The last word in “Novus Ordo Seclorum” is derived from
saecula
as well—so this directly relates to the Sibylline prophecies, giving them even greater context—as well as the Great Seal of the United States.

It is extremely important to mention that this Golden Race is not some weird and sick Hitlerian vision of a bunch of blond-haired, blue-eyed wunderkinder, or Nietzschean overmen, that everyone else must die off in order to make room for. Just like the Cayce Readings said about the “Fifth Root Race,” this Golden Race may well be everyone on earth, within a finite period of time—not just a particular nationality or skin color. As we just learned, Zoroaster called it the “Future Body.” Let’s pick up with Baldry again to learn more about this so-called Golden Race:

This really blew my mind. The coming of the Age of Aquarius, surrounding the year 2012, is the repetition of a cycle that has already occurred before—a cycle in which everyone on earth apparently had mystical abilities much greater than what most of us now possess, leading them to have perpetual bounty and a life “untroubled by strife or want . . . a Paradise inhabited by the souls of the blessed.” The pursuit of gold was seen as “one of the causes of degeneration from that happy state.” Unfortunately, our current scientific models are woefully insufficient to explain how something like this could be possible—but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t actually happen.

The Sibylline prophecies speak of a coming Golden Age in the Zoroastrian tradition, and clearly state that this will be a time where “the Golden One shall arise again in the whole earth”—meaning everyone who is here. Intriguingly, there are thirteen courses on the pyramid in the Great Seal of the United States, and the year 1776 is inscribed at the bottom. During the time the Spanish conquerors came to Mesoamerica, the natives were using a thirteen-katun system to count time that they called
U Kahlay Katunob,
which adds up to about 256 years.
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A katun is 7,200 days, or less than 20 years. The time of the founding of the United States occurred as the Maya calendar shifted to a new katun, and this may have been intentional.

The pyramid in the Great Seal of the United States may reveal a time-encoded prophecy that 13 Maya katuns of 19.7 years would pass, beginning in the 1756 to 1776 cycle, before the Golden Age was believed to begin in 2012.

If you add 256 years to 1776, you get 2032—but if you count the first course of the pyramid on the Seal as 1754 to 1776, then the top course of the pyramid would end in 2012—as Raymond Mardyks originally suggested and other authors then co-opted. The Eye would then appear in the final twenty-year katun between 2012 and 2032, as the pineal gland opens. The phoenix symbolism, as we now know, is directly associated with the ability to travel through time-space—and it also refers to the transformation of the earth.

Furthermore, in the very top of the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, D.C., on the inside, there is a painting called
The Apotheosis of Washington
, where he is portrayed on a rainbow—indicating he has transformed himself into a divine state, which is also known as Apotheosis.
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