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CONTENTS OF THE
BOOK, Aug 31 2001
CONTENTS OF THE
BOOK, Aug 31 2001
PAPER 79 - ANDITE
EXPANSION IN THE ORIENT, Oct 19 2000
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line 32: For almost fifteen thousand years centers of mixed Andite
culture persisted in the basin of the Tarim River in Sinkiang and to the
south in the highland regions of Tibet, where the Andites and Andonites had
extensively mingled. The Tarim valley was the easternmost outpost of the
true Andite culture. Here they built their settlements and entered into
trade relations with the progressive Chinese to the east and with the
Andonites to the north. In those days the Tarim region was a fertile land;
the rainfall was plentiful. To the east the Gobi was an open grassland where
the herders were gradually turning to agriculture. This civilization
perished when the rain winds shifted to the southeast, but in its day it
rivaled Mesopotamia itself.
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line 42: But even in the twentieth century after Christ there are traces
of Andite blood among the Turanian and Tibetan peoples, as is witnessed by
the blond types occasionally found in these regions. The early Chinese
annals record the presence of the red-haired nomads to the north of the
peaceful settlements of the Yellow River, and there still remain paintings
which faithfully record the presence of both the blond-Andite and the
brunet-Mongolian types in the Tarim basin of long ago.
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line 102: The story of this agelong contest between the red and yellow
races is an epic of Urantia history. For over two hundred thousand years
these two superior races waged bitter and unremitting warfare. In the
earlier struggles the red men were generally successful, their raiding
parties spreading havoc among the yellow settlements. But the yellow man was
an apt pupil in the art of warfare, and he early manifested a marked ability
to live peaceably with his compatriots; the Chinese were the first to
learn that in union there is strength. The red tribes continued their
internecine conflicts, and presently they began to suffer repeated defeats
at the aggressive hands of the relentless Chinese, who continued
their inexorable march northward.
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line 107: were not slow in forsaking the inhospitable shores of the
Asiatic continent. It is eighty-five thousand years since the last of the
pure red men departed from Asia, but the long struggle left its genetic
imprint upon the victorious yellow race. The northern Chinese
peoples, together with the Andonite Siberians, assimilated much of the red
stock and were in considerable measure benefited thereby.
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line 112: 6. DAWN OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION
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line 114: Sometime after driving the red man across to North America,
the expanding Chinese cleared the Andonites from the river valleys of
eastern Asia, pushing them north into Siberia and west into Turkestan, where
they were soon to come in contact with the superior culture of the Andites.
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line 116: Many different races occupied the islands of the Pacific. In
general, the southern and then more extensive islands were occupied by
peoples carrying a heavy percentage of green and indigo blood. The northern
islands were held by Andonites and, later on, by races embracing large
proportions of the yellow and red stocks. The ancestors of the Japanese
people were not driven off the mainland until 12,000 B.C., when they were
dislodged by a powerful southern-coastwise thrust of the northern Chinese
tribes. Their final exodus was not so much due to population pressure as to
the initiative of a chieftain whom they came to regard as a divine
personage.
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line 122: Twenty thousand years ago the ancestors of the Chinese
had built up a dozen strong centers of primitive culture and learning,
especially along the Yellow River and the Yangtze. And now these centers
began to be reinforced by the arrival of a steady stream of superior blended
peoples from Sinkiang and Tibet. The migration from Tibet to the Yangtze
valley was not so extensive as in the north, neither were the Tibetan
centers so advanced as those of the Tarim basin. But both movements carried
a certain amount of Andite blood eastward to the river settlements.
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line 124: 1. Genetic. Unlike their blue cousins in Europe, both the red
and yellow races had largely escaped mixture with debased human stocks. The
northern Chinese, already strengthened by small amounts of the
superior red and Andonic strains, were soon to benefit by a considerable
influx of Andite blood. The southern Chinese did not fare so well in
this regard, and they had long suffered from absorption of the green race,
while later on they were to be further weakened by the infiltration of the
swarms of inferior peoples crowded out of India by the Dravidian-Andite
invasion. And today in China there is a definite difference between the
northern and southern races.
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line 126: The Chinese of 15,000 B.C. were aggressive militarists;
they had not been weakened by an overreverence for the past, and numbering
less than twelve million, they formed a compact body speaking a common
language. During this age they built up a real nation, much more united and
homogeneous than their political unions of historic times.
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line 127: 3. Spiritual. During the age of Andite migrations the
Chinese were among the more spiritual peoples of earth. Long adherence
to the worship of the One Truth proclaimed by Singlangton kept them ahead of
most of the other races. The stimulus of a progressive and advanced religion
is often a decisive factor in cultural development; as India languished, so
China forged ahead under the invigorating stimulus of a religion in which
truth was enshrined as the supreme Deity.
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line 128: This worship of truth was provocative of research and fearless
exploration of the laws of nature and the potentials of mankind. The
Chinese of even six thousand years ago were still keen students and
aggressive in their pursuit of truth.
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line 138: About fifteen thousand years ago the Andites, in considerable
numbers, were traversing the pass of Ti Tao and spreading out over the upper
valley of the Yellow River among the Chinese settlements of Kansu.
Presently they penetrated eastward to Honan, where the most progressive
settlements were situated. This infiltration from the west was about half
Andonite and half Andite.
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line 140: It was not that there were so many of the Andites, nor that
their culture was so superior, but amalgamation with them produced a more
versatile stock. The northern Chinese received just enough of the
Andite strain to mildly stimulate their innately able minds but not enough
to fire them with the restless, exploratory curiosity so characteristic of
the northern white races. This more limited infusion of Andite inheritance
was less disturbing to the innate stability of the Sangik type.
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line 141: The later waves of Andites brought with them certain of the
cultural advances of Mesopotamia; this is especially true of the last waves
of migration from the west. They greatly improved the economic and
educational practices of the northern Chinese; and while their
influence upon the religious culture of the yellow race was short-lived,
their later descendants contributed much to a subsequent spiritual
awakening. But the Andite traditions of the beauty of Eden and Dalamatia did
influence Chinese traditions; early Chinese legends place "the
land of the gods" in the west.
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line 142: The Chinese people did not begin to build cities and
engage in manufacture until after 10,000 B.C., subsequent to the climatic
changes in Turkestan and the arrival of the later Andite immigrants. The
infusion of this new blood did not add so much to the civilization of the
yellow man as it stimulated the further and rapid development of the latent
tendencies of the superior Chinese stocks. From Honan to Shensi the
potentials of an advanced civilization were coming to fruit. Metalworking
and all the arts of manufacture date from these days.
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line 143: The similarities between certain of the early Chinese
and Mesopotamian methods of time reckoning, astronomy, and governmental
administration were due to the commercial relationships between these two
remotely situated centers. Chinese merchants traveled the overland
routes through Turkestan to Mesopotamia even in the days of the Sumerians.
Nor was this exchange one-sided--the valley of the Euphrates benefited
considerably thereby, as did the peoples of the Gangetic plain. But the
climatic changes and the nomadic invasions of the third millennium before
Christ greatly reduced the volume of trade passing over the caravan trails
of central Asia.
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line 150: 8. LATER CHINESE CIVILIZATION
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line 152: While the red man suffered from too much warfare, it is not
altogether amiss to say that the development of statehood among the
Chinese was delayed by the thoroughness of their conquest of Asia. They
had a great potential of racial solidarity, but it failed properly to
develop because the continuous driving stimulus of the ever-present danger
of external aggression was lacking.
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line 153: With the completion of the conquest of eastern Asia the
ancient military state gradually disintegrated--past wars were forgotten. Of
the epic struggle with the red race there persisted only the hazy tradition
of an ancient contest with the archer peoples. The Chinese early
turned to agricultural pursuits, which contributed further to their pacific
tendencies, while a population well below the land-man ratio for agriculture
still further contributed to the growing peacefulness of the country.
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PAPER 83 - THE MARRIAGE
INSTITUTION, Oct 19 2000
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line 96: The taboo wife--one wife of legal status--created the concubine
mores. Under these mores a man might have only one wife, but he could
maintain sex relations with any number of concubines. Concubinage was the
steppingstone to monogamy, the first move away from frank polygyny. The
concubines of the Jews, Romans, and Chinese were very frequently the
handmaidens of the wife. Later on, as among the Jews, the legal wife was
looked upon as the mother of all children born to the husband.
PAPER 86 - EARLY
EVOLUTION OF RELIGION, Oct 19 2000
PAPER 90 -
SHAMANISM--MEDICINE MEN AND PRIESTS, Oct 19 2000
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line 57: The Greeks believed in the efficacy of oracular advice, the
Chinese used magic as protection against demons, shamanism flourished in
India, and it still openly persists in central Asia. It is an only recently
abandoned practice throughout much of the world.
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line 81: 4. Sin--punishment for taboo violation. In comparatively recent
times it has been believed that sickness is a punishment for sin, personal
or racial. Among peoples traversing this level of evolution the prevailing
theory is that one cannot be afflicted unless one has violated a taboo. To
regard sickness and suffering as "arrows of the Almighty within them" is
typical of such beliefs. The Chinese and Mesopotamians long regarded
disease as the result of the action of evil demons, although the Chaldeans
also looked upon the stars as the cause of suffering. This theory of disease
as a consequence of divine wrath is still prevalent among many reputedly
civilized groups of Urantians.
PAPER 89 - SIN,
SACRIFICE, AND ATONEMENT, Oct 19 2000
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line 117: Human sacrifice has been virtually universal; it persisted in
the religious customs of the Chinese, Hindus, Egyptians, Hebrews,
Mesopotamians, Greeks, Romans, and many other peoples, even on to recent
times among the backward African and Australian tribes. The later American
Indians had a civilization emerging from cannibalism and, therefore, steeped
in human sacrifice, especially in Central and South America. The Chaldeans
were among the first to abandon the sacrificing of humans for ordinary
occasions, substituting therefor animals. About two thousand years ago a
tenderhearted Japanese emperor introduced clay images to take the place of
human sacrifices, but it was less than a thousand years ago that these
sacrifices died out in northern Europe. Among certain backward tribes, human
sacrifice is still carried on by volunteers, a sort of religious or ritual
suicide. A shaman once ordered the sacrifice of a much respected old man of
a certain tribe. The people revolted; they refused to obey. Whereupon the
old man had his own son dispatch him; the ancients really believed in this
custom.
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line 123: In olden times, when a new building of any importance was
started, it was customary to slay a human being as a "foundation sacrifice."
This provided a ghost spirit to watch over and protect the structure. When
the Chinese made ready to cast a bell, custom decreed the sacrifice
of at least one maiden for the purpose of improving the tone of the bell;
the girl chosen was thrown alive into the molten metal.
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line 124: It was long the practice of many groups to build slaves alive
into important walls. In later times the northern European tribes
substituted the walling in of the shadow of a passerby for this custom of
entombing living persons in the walls of new buildings. The Chinese
buried in a wall those workmen who died while constructing it.
PAPER 81 - DEVELOPMENT
OF MODERN CIVILIZATION, Oct 19 2000
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line 41: The evolutionary peoples (notably the Chinese) early
learned to plant seeds and to cultivate crops through observation of the
sprouting of seeds accidentally moistened or which had been put in graves as
food for the departed. But throughout southwest Asia, along the fertile
river bottoms and adjacent plains, the Andites were carrying out the
improved agricultural techniques inherited from their ancestors, who had
made farming and gardening the chief pursuits within the boundaries of the
second garden.
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line 62: The Andites of Turkestan were the first peoples to extensively
domesticate the horse, and this is another reason why their culture was for
so long predominant. By 5000 B.C. the Mesopotamian, Turkestan, and
Chinese farmers had begun the raising of sheep, goats, cows, camels,
horses, fowls, and elephants. They employed as beasts of burden the ox,
camel, horse, and yak. Man was himself at one time the beast of burden. One
ruler of the blue race once had one hundred thousand men in his colony of
burden bearers.
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line 108: 2. The Mongoloid--the primary Sangik type, including the
original red, yellow, and blue races. The Chinese and Amerinds belong
to this group. In Europe the Mongoloid type has been modified by secondary
Sangik and Andonic mixture; still more by Andite infusion. The Malayan and
other Indonesian peoples are included in this classification, though they
contain a high percentage of secondary Sangik blood.
PAPER 94 - THE
MELCHIZEDEK TEACHINGS IN THE ORIENT, Oct 19 2000
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line 96: As the Salem missionaries passed through Asia, spreading the
doctrine of the Most High God and salvation through faith, they absorbed
much of the philosophy and religious thought of the various countries
traversed. But the teachers commissioned by Melchizedek and his successors
did not default in their trust; they did penetrate to all peoples of the
Eurasian continent, and it was in the middle of the second millennium before
Christ that they arrived in China. At See Fuch, for more than one hundred
years, the Salemites maintained their headquarters, there training
Chinese teachers who taught throughout all the domains of the yellow
race.
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line 98: 1. The lingering teachings of Singlangton, which persisted in
the concept of Shang-ti, the God of Heaven. In the times of Singlangton the
Chinese people became virtually monotheistic; they concentrated their
worship on the One Truth, later known as the Spirit of Heaven, the universe
ruler. And the yellow race never fully lost this early concept of Deity,
although in subsequent centuries many subordinate gods and spirits
insidiously crept into their religion.
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line 106: In China all of these beliefs were later confused and
compounded with the ever-growing cult of ancestor worship. But never since
the time of Singlangton have the Chinese fallen into helpless slavery
to priestcraft. The yellow race was the first to emerge from barbaric
bondage into orderly civilization because it was the first to achieve some
measure of freedom from the abject fear of the gods, not even fearing the
ghosts of the dead as other races feared them. China met her defeat because
she failed to progress beyond her early emancipation from priests; she fell
into an almost equally calamitous error, the worship of ancestors.
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line 121: Lao's teaching of nonresistance and the distinction which he
made between action and coercion became later perverted into the beliefs of
"seeing, doing, and thinking nothing." But Lao never taught such error,
albeit his presentation of nonresistance has been a factor in the further
development of the pacific predilections of the Chinese peoples.
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line 123: Confucius (Kung Fu-tze) was a younger contemporary of Lao in
sixth-century China. Confucius based his doctrines upon the better moral
traditions of the long history of the yellow race, and he was also somewhat
influenced by the lingering traditions of the Salem missionaries. His chief
work consisted in the compilation of the wise sayings of ancient
philosophers. He was a rejected teacher during his lifetime, but his
writings and teachings have ever since exerted a great influence in China
and Japan. Confucius set a new pace for the shamans in that he put morality
in the place of magic. But he built too well; he made a new fetish out of
order and established a respect for ancestral conduct that is still
venerated by the Chinese at the time of this writing.
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line 125: The teachings of Lao have been lost to all but a few in the
Orient, but the writings of Confucius have ever since constituted the basis
of the moral fabric of the culture of almost a third of Urantians. These
Confucian precepts, while perpetuating the best of the past, were somewhat
inimical to the very Chinese spirit of investigation that had
produced those achievements which were so venerated. The influence of these
doctrines was unsuccessfully combated both by the imperial efforts of Ch'in
Shih Huang Ti and by the teachings of Mo Ti, who proclaimed a brotherhood
founded not on ethical duty but on the love of God. He sought to rekindle
the ancient quest for new truth, but his teachings failed before the
vigorous opposition of the disciples of Confucius.
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line 183: But even before the collapse in India, the Chinese and
north Indian groups of Gautama's followers had begun the development of the
Mahayana teaching of the "Great Road" to salvation in contrast with the
purists of the south who held to the Hinayana, or "Lesser Road." And these
Mahayanists cast loose from the social limitations inherent in the Buddhist
doctrine, and ever since has this northern division of Buddhism continued to
evolve in China and Japan.
PAPER 85 - THE ORIGINS
OF WORSHIP, Oct 19 2000
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line 61: The Hebrews worshiped serpents down to the days of King
Hezekiah, and the Hindus still maintain friendly relations with their house
snakes. The Chinese worship of the dragon is a survival of the snake
cults. The wisdom of the serpent was a symbol of Greek medicine and is still
employed as an emblem by modern physicians. The art of snake charming has
been handed down from the days of the female shamans of the snake love cult,
who, as the result of daily snake bites, became immune, in fact, became
genuine venom addicts and could not get along without this poison.
PAPER 92 - THE LATER
EVOLUTION OF RELIGION, Oct 19 2000
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line 113: 4. The sixth century before Christ. Many men arose to proclaim
truth in this, one of the greatest centuries of religious awakening ever
witnessed on Urantia. Among these should be recorded Gautama, Confucius,
Lao-tse, Zoroaster, and the Jainist teachers. The teachings of Gautama have
become widespread in Asia, and he is revered as the Buddha by millions.
Confucius was to Chinese morality what Plato was to Greek philosophy,
and while there were religious repercussions to the teachings of both,
strictly speaking, neither was a religious teacher; Lao-tse envisioned more
of God in Tao than did Confucius in humanity or Plato in idealism. Zoroaster,
while much affected by the prevalent
PAPER 84 - MARRIAGE AND
FAMILY LIFE, Oct 19 2000
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line 111: The early Chinese and the Greeks treated women better
than did most surrounding peoples. But the Hebrews were exceedingly
distrustful of them. In the Occident woman has had a difficult climb under
the Pauline doctrines which became attached to Christianity, although
Christianity did advance the mores by imposing more stringent sex
obligations upon man. Woman's estate is little short of hopeless under the
peculiar degradation which attaches to her in Mohammedanism, and she fares
even worse under the teachings of several other Oriental religions.
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line 141: Sex mating is instinctive, children are the natural result,
and the family thus automatically comes into existence. As are the families
of the race or nation, so is its society. If the families are good, the
society is likewise good. The great cultural stability of the Jewish and of
the Chinese peoples lies in the strength of their family groups.
PAPER 77 - THE MIDWAY
CREATURES, Oct 19 2000
PAPER 78 - THE VIOLET
RACE AFTER THE DAYS OF ADAM, Oct 19 2000
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line 42: 5. The yellow race. The Chinese peoples were well
established in control of eastern Asia. Their most advanced settlements were
situated to the northwest of modern China in regions bordering on Tibet.
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line 103: These Andites were the so-called Dravidian and later Aryan
conquerors of India; and their presence in central Asia greatly upstepped
the ancestors of the Turanians. Many of this race journeyed to China by way
of both Sinkiang and Tibet and added desirable qualities to the later
Chinese stocks. From time to time small groups made their way into
Japan, Formosa, the East Indies, and southern China, though very few entered
southern China by the coastal route.
PAPER 133 - THE RETURN
FROM ROME, Oct 19 2000
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line 100: Jesus had many visits with a Chinese merchant. In
saying good-bye, he admonished him: "Worship only God, who is your true
spirit ancestor. Remember that the Father's spirit ever lives within you and
always points your soul-direction heavenward. If you follow the unconscious
leadings of this immortal spirit, you are certain to continue on in the
uplifted way of finding God. And when you do attain the Father in heaven, it
will be because by seeking him you have become more and more like him. And
so farewell, Chang, but only for a season, for we shall meet again in the
worlds of light where the Father of spirit souls has provided many
delightful stopping-places for those who are Paradise-bound."
PAPER 131 - THE
WORLD'S RELIGIONS, Oct 19 2000
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line 136: The messengers of Melchizedek penetrated far into China, and
the doctrine of one God became a part of the earlier teachings of several
Chinese religions; the one persisting the longest and containing most of
the monotheistic truth was Taoism, and Ganid collected the following from
the teachings of its founder:
PAPER 111 - THE
ADJUSTER AND THE SOUL, Oct 19 2000
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line 30: In the conception of the atman the Hindu teachers really
approximated an appreciation of the nature and presence of the Adjuster, but
they failed to distinguish the copresence of the evolving and potentially
immortal soul. The Chinese, however, recognized two aspects of a
human being, the yang and the yin, the soul and the spirit. The Egyptians
and many African tribes also believed in two factors, the ka and the ba; the
soul was not usually believed to be pre-existent, only the spirit.
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