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The Purusha / Polieus Asyla Federations, Ancient and Future Human

Unity and High Civilization

by Bhakti Ananda Goswami

 

"EXCEPT FOR VRINDAVANA, ALL PLACES OF KRISHNA'S PASTIMES ARE CALLED

PURAS (TOWNS)."

 

>From THE NECTAR OF DEVOTION by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta

Swami Prabhupada, 1970 BBT Edition, Page 327.

 

THIS IS BOTH AN HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL ASSERTION OF PROFOUND

IMPORTANCE TO THE PAST AND FUTURE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE. PURUSHA

WORSHIP-BASED SACRAMENTAL SOCIAL ORDER WAS AT THE HEART OF ANCIENT

HIGH CIVILIZATION IN AFRICA, THE LEVANT AND EUROPE AS WELL AS IN

MESOPOTAMIA, INDIA AND ELSEWHERE. THE PUR (TOWN OR CITY) IS THE

SACRAMENTAL VARNASHRAMA DHARMA SOCIAL-BODY ORGANIZATION OF THE

COSMIC PURUSHA OF THE RIG VEDIC PURUSHA SUKTA HYMN. FROM THE PRE-

ADVENT MEDITERRANEAN REGIONAL TRADITIONS OF POLIEUS / PURUSHA

WORSHIP, THE DOCTRINE OF THE SACRAMENTAL SOCIAL BODY OF THE LORD AS

POLIEUS HAS BEEN PRESERVED IN THE CATHOLIC DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH AS

THE MYSTICAL AND COMMUNITARIAN / SACRAMENTAL SOCIAL BODY OF

CHRIST. THE VARIOUS REGIONAL POLIEUS- (POLIAS AND LATER POLIS)

RELATED SOCIAL STRUCTURES, LIKE THOSE OF THE HELIOS (SEMITIC ELI-

YAHU ) WORSHIPING SPARTANS, ROMANS, EGYPTIANS AND JEWS EVOLVED INTO

THE SACRED ORDERS, PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS, MEDICAL COLLEGES, MILITARY

ORDERS, AGRICULTURAL AND CRAFT GUILDS OF EUROPEAN AND OTHER CATHOLIC

HIGH CIVILIZATIONS. NOT ONLY ARE THE MEDITERRANEAN REGIONAL POLIS

GUILDS AND ORDERS STRUCTURALLY RELATED TO THE PURUSHA'S VARNAS AND

ASHRAMAS OF VAISHNAVISM IN INDIA, BUT THE VARIEGATED FORMS OF THE

SUPREME LORD PURUSHA / POLIEUS HIMSELF, WORSHIPED IN THE TWO

REGIONS, ARE DEFINITELY RELATED.

 

AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT SUBJECT, LET US

FIRST CONSIDER THE ROLE OF THE GUILDS OR VARNAS IN PURUSHA'S

SACRAMENTAL SOCIAL ORDER (BODY).

 

THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION OF SOME OF THESE COLLEGES OR GUILDS IS

EXCERPTED FROM THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, VOLUME VII, COPYRIGHT

1910, ROBERT APPLETON COMPANY. BELOW IS GIVEN THE WEB ADDRESS SO

THAT YOU CAN READ THE REST OF THIS EXCELLENT SUMMARY FROM ONE

PERSPECTIVE ON THE CATHOLIC / CHRISTIAN HISTORY OF GUILDS

(VARNAS).

 

 

 

"Of all the establishments of Numa", says Plutarch, "no one is more

highly prized than his distribution of the people into colleges

according to trade and craft." From these words we should infer that

the first well-known Italian corporations date from the seventh

century B.C., but some authors, whose contention is founded on a

text of Florus, have claimed that Servius Tullius, and not Numa, was

the founder of the Roman colleges of artisans (e.g., Heineccius, "De

collegiis et corporibus opificum", 138). Whatever may be the truth

on this point, it is certain that the collegia opificum existed in

the sixth century B.C., because they were incorporated in the

constitution of Servius Tullius which remained in force until 241

B.C. There were but few of these corporations in the Republic, but

their numbers increased under the emperors; in Rome alone there were

in the third century more than thirty colleges, private and public

(Theodosian Code, XIII and XIV). The latter were four in number: the

navicularii, who supplied Rome with provisions, the bakers, the pork

butchers, and the calcis coctores et vectores, who supplied Rome

with lime for building. The members of these corporations received a

fixed salary from the State.

 

Among the private colleges were numbered the argentarii, or bankers,

the negotiatores vini, or wine merchants, the medici, or physicians,

and the professores, or teachers. On the whole it might be said that

the collegia were prosperous until the end of the third century

B.C., but in the course of the next century they began to show signs

of decline. The few privileges they enjoyed had ceased to be a

compensation for their responsibilities to the State, and it was

only by the most drastic measures that the last emperors succeeded

in keeping the artisans in their collegia.

 

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EDWIN BURTON

P.J. MARIQUE

Transcribed by Douglas J. Potter

Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary

 

 

 

THE ONLY ONE OF THESE ONCE CENTRALLY IMPORTANT CATHOLIC GUILDS MOST

PROTESTANTS HAVE HEARD OF TODAY IS THAT OF THE FREEMASONS. HOWEVER,

THE PROTESTANT SO-CALLED ACCEPTED RITES OF FREE MASONRY WERE NOT A

LEGITIMATE CONTINUATION OF THE EARLIER AUTHENTIC CATHOLIC GUILDS OF

ACTUAL MASONS AND CATHEDRAL BUILDERS. THIS IS BECAUSE AFTER THE

INTRODUCTION OF MUSLIM ESOTERICISM INTO EUROPE, THE 'ACCEPTED

RITES' CAME INTO BEING AS INCREASINGLY ICONOCLASTIC SECRET

SOCIETIES CONTROLLED BY THE NORTHERN EUROPEAN PRINCES THAT WANTED TO

REVOLT AGAINST, AND SEPARATE FROM, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC COMMUNION

(ALLIANCE). INSTEAD OF ACTUAL CATHEDRAL BUILDERS AND MASONS, THE SO-

CALLED 'ACCEPTED RITES' ACCEPTED ANYONE AS A MEMBER WHO COULD PAY

THEIR WAY IN OR OTHERWISE SUPPORT THE POLITICAL SECRET-SOCIETY

INTRIGUES OF THE PRINCES. THESE SECRET SOCIETIES WERE THE ESOTERIC

SIDE OF THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTION, AND ITS RELATED POLITICAL

MOVEMENT FOR STATE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE CATHOLIC COMMUNION. THUS A

FREEMASON TODAY MAY HAVE LEARNED A PROTESTANT ESOTERIC (AND

VEHEMENTLY ANTI-CATHOLIC) HISTORY OF EUROPE, BUT USUALLY WILL NOT BE

IN ANY SENSE AN ACTUAL MASONIC CRAFTSMAN CAPABLE OF BUILDING A

CATHEDRAL !

 

HOWEVER, THERE ARE STILL REAL CATHOLIC CRAFT GUILDS EXISTING TODAY,

WHOSE MEMBERS ARE CREATING SOME OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST FINE ARTS

AND CRAFTS. THESE GUILDS ARE ACTUALLY PRESERVING THE ANCIENT

TECHNIQUES OF THEIR TRADES. I THINK THAT IT WAS THE "SMITHSONIAN"

MAGAZINE THAT YEARS AGO PUBLISHED A NICE PHOTO ESSAY ON LES

COMPAGNONS, ONE OF THE GLOBALLY RENOWNED PRESENTLY EXISTING

TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC GUILDS. IF ANYONE CAN LOCATE SUCH AN ARTICLE

FOR US, PLEASE EMAIL US ITS ISSUE DATE, ETC. INFORMATION. TO LEARN

MORE ABOUT CATHOLIC VARNAS / GUILDS, SEARCHING THE WEB JUST NOW I

FOUND MANY LISTINGS UNDER "LES COMPAGNONS" , "LES COMPAGNONS CRAFT

GUILD" AND "CATHOLIC CRAFT GUILDS". I ALSO SUGGEST SEARCHING FOR

ITALIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN, AND ENGLISH ETC. CRAFT GUILDS, AS WELL AS

MEDIEVAL AND EUROPEAN CRAFT GUILDS. I HAVE NOT FOUND ANY STUDIES

COMPARING THESE GUILDS WITH THE VARNAS OF THE VEDIC PURUSHA SUKTA

VARNASHRAMA DHARMA SYSTEM. IF ANYONE FINDS SUCH A STUDY, PLEASE

CONTACT US ABOUT IT, AT bhakti.eohn

 

THE PURA OF PURUSHA, OR (GREEK) POL OF POLIEUS (PER OF PER-ASU IN

EGYPT ETC.) WAS HIS SACRAMENTAL SOCIAL BODY AS THE TEMPLE VASTU-

PURUSHA'S COMMUNAL EXTENSION OR SOCIAL INCARNATION. THIS

THEOCENTRIC SOCIAL ORGANIZATION INVOLVED A SOPHISTICATED SYSTEM OF

VALUE-IN-TRADE OF GOODS AND SERVICES BETWEEN THE VARIOUS BODY PARTS

OF THE SOCIAL BODY. THE BRAHMINS OR PRIESTS AND PHILOSOPHERS WERE

THE HEADS. THE KSHATRIYAS, KINGS AND WARRIORS, LAW ENFORCERS,

ADMINISTRATORS AND / OR PROTECTORS WERE THE ARMS (SPARTOI IN THE

SPARTAN CULTURE). THE VAISHYAS OR AGRICULTURALISTS AND MERCHANTS

WERE THE SUPPLIERS OR BELLY / DISTRIBUTION HUB, AND THE SHUDRAS OR

LABORERS, CRAFTSPERSONS AND ARTISTS WERE THE SUPPORT OR LEGS OF THE

LORD'S MYSTICAL COMMUNITARIAN SOCIAL BODY. THE TEMPLE WAS THE

CENTER OR HEART OF THE POLIS CITY-STATE SOCIAL BODY, WHERE THE

SPIRIT OF GOD DWELT AMONG HIS PEOPLE AS POLIEUS / POLIAS THE PATRON

DEITY OF THE CITY OR 'CITY PROTECTOR' (SPIRIT OF THE CITY =

POLIEUS). IN CATHOLICISM THE PARISH, BOROUGH OR VILLAGE IS THE

NEIGHBORHOOD SACRAMENTAL SOCIAL BODY OF JESUS CHRIST AS POLIEUS OR

PURUSHA YUP DHVAJA.

 

ACTUALLY THE ORIGINAL ASSOCIATIVE MEANING OF POLIEUS AS 'CITY

PROTECTOR' (PATRON DEITY OF THE CITY / POL / PURA) CAN BE UNDERSTOOD

FROM THE DERIVATIVE MODERN WORD 'POLICE', WHICH MEANS 'CITY

PROTECTOR'. EVERYTHING OFFERED SACRIFICIALLY TO AND THROUGH THE

CITY'S PATRON DEITY WAS REDISTRIBUTED ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF THE

POLIS, AND THUS CIRCULATED AS THE LIFE-BLOOD OF GOODS AND SERVICES

THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNION OF THE FAITHFUL AS 'PRASADAM' OR

SANCTIFIED / CONSECRATED TO THE DEITY. THIS IS HOW HUMANITY FIRST

ACHIEVED COMPLEX HIGH CIVILIZATION. GLOBALLY THERE ARE ONLY

VARIATIONS ON THIS ONE SYSTEM. AT THE HEART OF ALL ANCIENT COMPLEX

SOCIAL ORDER IS THE WORSHIP OF HARI / ELI / HERI / ILU / HELIOS ETC.

AS PURUSHA IN HIS PURA OR POL ETC. THE RISHIS' (HEBREW ROEHS)

VISION OF PURUSHA'S SELF-SACRIFICED SOCIAL BODY (SEE PURUSHA SUKTA)

ALLOWED FOR COMPLEX FORMS OF COOPERATION IN A COMMUNAL SOCIETY WHERE

THERE WAS SPECIALIZATION OF SERVICES, KNOWLEDGE ETC., MAXIMIZING THE

PARTICULAR GIFTS OF VARIOUS SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATION. THUS THE

WORSHIP OF THE COSMIC PURUSHA, WHO SACRIFICED HIMSELF FOR ALL OF HIS

CREATURES, INSPIRED HIS DEVOTEES TO SACRIFICE THEIR KNOWLEDGE, GOODS

AND LABORS FOR HIM AND EACH OTHER IN HIS SACRAMENTAL BODY.

 

FURTHERMORE, THESE TEMPLE TOWNS AND CITY-STATES FORMED INTERRACIAL

ALLIANCES, WHICH SOMETIMES INCLUDED VAST REGIONS AND BROUGHT

RELATIVE PEACE AND PROSPERITY TO THEIR MEMBERS. MY PURUSHA CITIES

CHART GIVES A FEW EXAMPLES OF THE HUNDREDS OF ANCIENT CITIES WHICH

WERE MEMBERS OF THESE HELIOPOLITAN-RELATED ASYLA (OR DHARMASHALLA)

FEDERATIONS.

 

PLEASE COMPARE THESE TOWN AND THEOCENTRIC CITY-STATE NAMES OF

VARIOUS HARI / HARA -VASU, IL / ELI-YAHU, HERI-ASU AND HELIOS

WORSHIPING PEOPLES. NOTE THAT THE `R' AND `L' ARE COMMONLY SOUND-

SHIFTED, AS ARE `P' AND `B', `B AND `V'.

 

DRAVIDIAN ................. UUR

SEMITIC ...................… IR (YIR), PER, QIR, KUR

AFRO-EGYPTIAN ........ PER

GREEK .....................….. POL

SOUTHERN EUROPE ....VIL, PAR ETC.

NORTHERN EUROPE... BUR, BER, BOR ETC.

INDIA..........................…PUR

 

I HAVE STUDIED ANCIENT LITERATURES, INSCRIPTIONS, CORRESPONDENCE,

COINS AND OTHER MEDIA OF EXCHANGE, MARITIME TREATIES / LAWS AND

TRADE RECORDS, SHIPWRECKS, MAPS AND ALLIANCES OR LEAGUE TREATIES

ETC. WHICH CLEARLY SHOW ASYLA (TEMPLE) FEDERATIONS BETWEEN THESE

PER / POL / IR ETC. TOWNS AND CITIES RECURRING AND PERSISTING

THROUGH CENTURIES. IT IS GENERALLY ADMITTED THAT THE EARLIEST

LEAGUES SEEMED TO BE INVENTED AND DOMINATED BY HELIOPOLITAN CENTERS

OF WORSHIP. THUS WE KNOW EVEN TODAY OF THE EARLIEST MINOAN,

RHODIAN AND DORIAN LEAGUES. WE HAVE WRITTEN RECORDS OF THE GREAT

HEXAPOLIS, HELIOPOLIS, AND THE LATER SPARTAN, DELPHIC, DELIAN,

RHODIAN AND ALEXANDRIAN LEAGUES. ALL OTHER LEAGUES IN THE

MEDITERRANEAN WORLD WERE BASED UPON THE MODEL OF THE EARLIEST

HELIOPOLITAN LEAGUES. SOME OF THESE WERE THE ATHENIAN, ARGOLID,

AMPHICTONIC, AND ROMAN LEAGUES. OF COURSE, LEAGUES ALSO EXTENDED

INTO NORTHERN EUROPE (SEE LEY LINES NOTED BELOW), FROM EGYPT INTO

AFRICA AND FROM THE LEVANT TO THE EAST. THERE WAS A GREAT LEAGUE

THAT SOLOMON'S JEWISH NATION BELONGED TO (READ ABOUT KING HIRAM OF

TYRE) AND JERUSALEM ITSELF UNDER KING DAVID RULED AN ALLIANCE.

 

THESE LEAGUES WERE ALL RELIGIOUSLY-BASED FEDERATIONS OF ASYLA, OR

SANCTUARIES, AND PURUSHA / POLIEUS WORSHIPING THEOCENTRIC CITY-

STATES. THIS IS WHY IT IS PROFOUNDLY SIGNIFICANT THAT THE GREEK

FORM OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (SEPTUAGINT AND APOCRYPHA) IDENTIFIES

JEWISH CITIES BY THE RELIGIO-POLITICAL TERM POLIS. TO BE CALLED A

POLIS, A CITY HAD TO BE A MEMBER OF A POLIS ALLIANCE !!! EVEN

GREEK CITIES WERE REQUIRED TO MEET CERTAIN STRICT RELIGIO-POLITICAL

REQUIREMENTS TO GAIN THE HONORED TITLE OF `POLIS' AND BE ADMITTED

INTO A POLITICAL ALLIANCE. FOR THE TERM `POLIS' TO BE USED OF

INDIAN, JEWISH, EGYPTIAN, ROMAN AND OTHER CITIES PROVES THAT THESE

CITIES WERE FULL MEMBERS OF THE SAME INTERRACIAL AND INTERFAITH

POLIEUS / PURUSHA WORSHIPING ALLIANCES !!! THE GREEKS AND JEWS

WOULD NEVER HAVE REFERRED TO THE JEWISH CITIES IN THE SEPTUAGINT

WITH THE WORD `POLIS' IF THEY WERE NOT POLIS CITIES.

 

SOMETIMES HUNDREDS OF CITY-STATES WOULD BE MEMBERS OF THESE

ALLIANCES, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE PEOPLES OF DIFFERENT RACES AND

LANGUAGES. HARI / HARA -VASU OR 'HELI-OS' (EGYPTIAN HERI-ASU,

JEWISH ELI-YAHU) WAS THE SUPREME DEITY OF THESE ALLIANCES, IN WHICH

HE WAS WORSHIPED IN UNLIMITED MULTI-FORMS AND NAMES. AS PURUSHA,

(GREEK POLIEUS, THE PRESIDING THEOS / DEVA OF THE POL, PER or IR).

THESE THEOCENTRIC CITIES ARE INDIGENOUS EVERYWHERE, WITH THE UUR /

PUR NAMES FOUND IN THE EARLIEST SOURCES. THUS THIS EVIDENCE SHOWS

THAT THE AFRICAN, SEMITIC, MESOPOTAMIAN, EUROPEAN, DRAVIDIAN AND

TEXTUAL 'ARYAN' PEOPLES ALL WORSHIPED PURUSHA AND HAD A SOCIAL ORDER

BASED ON THE VISION OF HIS SACRAMENTAL SOCIAL BODY.

 

AT THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION EVERYWHERE, THERE WAS ONLY ONE HUMANITY,

ONE SELF-SACRIFICED COSMIC GOD OF ORDER AND GRACE, AND ONE DIVINE

SOCIAL ORDER UPLIFTING HUMANITY FROM ANIMALISTIC TAMASIC EXISTENCE

INTO A SACRAMENTAL SOCIAL ORDER BEGETTING HIGH CIVILIZATIONS.

 

BELOW IS A SCHOLAR'S COMMENT ABOUT THE 'UUR' TOWN IN SOME OF THE

EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS

 

The word `uur' (town) almost certainly goes back to the earliest

civilizations in Mesopotamia — one of the numerous indications that

the basic features of civilization (i.e. urban life) in the Indus

region diffused there from what are now Iraq and Iran. Probably

Dravidian languages also had antecedents to some extent in those

regions. This is the thesis of a book Dravidians and the West

(Lahovery), and though it makes bolder assumptions than would be

allowed by the strict procedures of many historical linguists,

nevertheless it presents overwhelming suggestions. If it is

accepted that the hundreds of native American languages branched

off from three main stems (Greenberg), and if similar efforts

showing that all the languages of North Asia and Europe could have

branched off from a few prototype languages, then the above

suggestions about the origin of Dravidian languages should also be

accepted.

 

Clarence Maloney

 

LET US LOOK AT THE EARLY NORTHERN EUROPEAN MANIFESTATIONS OF THESE

ANCIENT PUR / UUR ETC. FEDERATIONS, AND HOW THEY WERE RELATED TO THE

WORSHIP OF PURUSHA AS BRAHMAN DARU JAGANNATHA.

 

THE BUR AND DUN CULTURE... REGARDING ANCIENT IRISH ERIN (ARYAN)

VAISHNAVA-RELATED 'PAGAN' TRADITIONS

Prehistoric ley-line sites and later temple-cities, and still later

Catholic worship is associated with the designation BUR etc.(as in

CANTER-BURY, SALIS-BURY etc.), which is cognate with Sanskrit PUR

etc. (see my PURUSHA CITIES chart). Many of these same sites may

also have ancient names including the word origin of TOWN, as Gaelic

DUN, Welsh DIN, as used in Augusto-dunum, Camalo-dunum etc. The

modern English suffix TON or DON / DOM on the end of TOWN names is

from DUN etc., all related to Sanskrit DHAM, DHAMA etc. Both PUR and

DHAM are completely theological terms associated with the civilizing

social order of the sacramental social body of the Rig Vedic Purusha

Sukta sacrifice. A PURA of PUR-USHA is also His DHAM. One of

Krishna's Names is DHAMANE, meaning 'Lord of the Dhama'. In Latin,

this is DOMINUS. A BUR IS A PURA, AND A TOWN IS A DHAMA.

 

DRU is the root of Druid. But the Druids were not mere tree

worshipers as has been speculated. TREE and DRU are related to the

Sanskrit DARU, but the significance is that Lord Jagannatha AS

PURUSHA VIRATA RUPA was worshiped whereever there was a PUR or DHAM

or ASYLA, and at many locations He was worshiped as BRAHMAN DARU.

TREE = DRU = DARU.

 

His 'Pillar' or 'Tree Trunk' Form was at times extremely popular in

the ancient world. ON THIS, SEE MY RESEARCH ON THE WORSHIP OF

JAGANNATHA BALADEVA AND SUBHADRA IN PALESTINE AND EGYPT, IN

THEIR 'TREE TRUNK' OR 'PILLAR' DJED / TET FORMS. [ PURUSHA WILLING,

COMING SOON TO SARAGRAHI.ORG] When all the ancient BUR / DHAM

culture evidence is taken together, it appears that the DRUIDS were

specifically fire priests (HELIOS GREEK AND JEWISH FIRE PRIEST

PROPHETAS = PUROHITAS) of the Purusha Sukta Tradition, and that they

worshiped Purusha as Brahman DARU, hence, they were called DARU-ids

or DRUIDS.

 

SATTVIC AND TAMASIC WORSHIP...WHAT ABOUT THE DESCRIPTIONS OF DRUID

SACRIFICES ?

All cultures have a shadow side. Vedic culture is shadowed by the

evils of so-called 'Left Hand Tantrism' (LHT), which is full of

truly horrifically evil ideas and practices. One the the main

corruptions of LHT is the practice of human sacrifice, which is

performed in a mockery of the orthodox Brahminical Rig Vedic

Sacrifices. The mundane mentality of the LHTs caused them to

interpret PURUSHA in the Purusha Sukta as 'MAN'. Thus

their 'highest' act of worship was human sacrifice. You can be sure

that there WERE real sattvic brahmins in the BUR / DUN culture, but

you can also be sure that there were the tamasic LHT shadow-side

priests as well. As in Greece, where the PSEUDO-DIONYSIAN BACCHAE

or MAENADS represented the shadow side, and elsewhere, the LHTs

performed their abominable rites of human sacrifice and raw flesh

eating, and promoting the evils of intoxication, illicit perverse

sex and organized crime / extortion / gambling etc.

 

Every 'Vedic' culture was (is) plagued by LHT. Devotees of the Lord

need to learn to see the global battle in terms of the ennobling,

civilizing, sattvic impetus versus the degrading, chaotic, tamasic

force. The history of religion and civilization is not just about

different groups of devotees destroying each other out of prejudice,

ignorance, fear and hate, it is about sattvic versus tamasic

realization and behavior. The battle-line is not drawn cleanly

between denominational lines, or religious lines or racial or

cultural lines. The battle-line runs through every individual

human 'heart', family, worship community, village, nation and

community of nations. Each local, regional, cultural, linguistic and

global faith community has its polarized extremists, its

inclusivists and exclusivists, its relative saints and hypocritical

sinners. What we need to do is to step back from our religio-

cultural milieu of birth or adoption to take a long-range and

extreme time-depth INTERDISCIPLINARY global view of the history of

religion. When we do this, a vast number of assumptions are

completely overturned by the obvious facts. Without such a deep and

broad view, we cannot understand the history of civilization in

Europe. Ethno-centrism and and specialty / discipline etc. myopia

will blind us to the unifying whole truth of our collective human

religious experience as worshipers of PURUSHA and HIS SHAKTI

(SHEKINAH / TYCHE).

 

So as both Christian and Pagan scholars attempt to recover the pre-

Christian histories of Europe, they will need to avoid Neo-Pagan

anti-Catholic prejudice in order to get at the whole truth. If

Pagans from the Northern traditions approach their history with an

anti-Roman bias, they will not be able to understand that the mixed

elements of Northern and Southern European Pagan religious

traditions preserved in Catholicism reflect not a Catholic

appropriation of their traditions, but a pre-Catholic unity of those

traditions in the Proto-Catholic Polieus Asyla Federations. There

is a vast treasure of ancient pre-Christian Gaelic and Welsh

spirituality preserved, alive and well within Catholicism. Pagans

wanting to understand their ancient traditions should study Celtic

Catholicism for instance to understand the vast treasure of pre-

Catholic Celtic spirituality preserved in it. For example, the

entire Roman Rite Catholic Church performs a Druid-related PURUSHA

AGNI-HOTRA LIGHTING OF THE SACRED FIRE on EASTER VIGIL. Some

ascribe this widespread Roman Rite practice to the influence of

Saint Patrick, who according to tradition was allowed to light the

Sattvic Druid High Priest's Sacred Fire. As anciently related

Priests of the same PROPHETA / PUROHITA worship of PURUSHA IN HIS

AGNI HOTRA SACRIFICE, did Saint Patrick and the Druid High Priest

finally come to recognize each other as brothers in the ONE FAITH ?

 

There are amazing traditions regarding the positive interaction of

Southern European Proto-Catholics and Catholics with the SATTVIC

Druids of the BUR and DUN Culture. The Arthurian Round and many

other great written and oral traditions recount various 'legendary'

ages of interaction between Catholicism and the indigenous Erin /

Aryan Bur or Dun Culture. Did you know that some French peasants

attributed the prophecy of the coming of SAINT JOAN OF ARC to the

Wizard MERLIN of Arthurian fame ? If my body was not disabled, I

could write volumes on the BUR / DUN culture and related prehistoric

LEY-LINE BUR, DUN or ALIS (ASYLA / ASHALLA) sites in the Northern

Isles and Northern Europe alone. (Search for ANCIENT AND PREHISTORIC

SITES AND MONOLITHS ON LEY LINES IN EUROPE.) I will probably not

be able to get these books written, but through articles like this,

I hope to interest others in taking up this study. The Ancient Asyla

Federations were inter-tribal, and inter-racial alliances of Purusha

(POLIEUS) and Shakti (TYCHE) worshiping communities, cities, city-

states, and nations. All across ancient Europe on LEY LINES there

were federated ASYLA sanctuaries devoted to Krishna-Vishnu as

PURUSHA / POLIEUS. Ancient global Vedic culture was united by these

Purusha worshiping Asyla Federations from century to century.

 

Ideally Vaishnavas from Irish, French or German etc. backgrounds

should take-up the study of these connections for the great

reconciliation and benefit of all. But unfortunately, due to

prejudice against the Judeo-Catholic Traditions, Some Vaishnavas, in

the Hare Krishna Movement especially, are on the offensive against

Catholicism specifically and Christianity in general. Having

adopted some extreme prejudices from the Neo-Pagan Movement, these

devotees are now unable to study the Judeo-Christian Tradition

objectively. I am therefore trying to remedy this situation

somewhat, by encouraging devotees on all sides, Vaishnava, Neo-

Pagan, Protestant and Catholic to look at this astounding evidence

for our once and future unity.

 

PURUSHA DARU DEVA Ki Jaya !

 

MAY THE LORD OF THE DHAM / TOWN, MAY HE WHO IS BRAHMIN DARU / DRU

THE AXIS MUNDI TREE OF LIFE, MAY HE WHO IS THE ADI PURUSHA OF ALL

PURAS / BUROUGHS, PARISHES AND POLS, MAY HE BLESS US WITH THE

VISION OF HIS UNITED SOCIAL BODY IN PEACE AND PROSPERITY THROUGHOUT

THE WORLD !

 

MAY HIS SHEKINAH / SHAKTI / SEKHET WHO IS BOTH TYCHE-FORTUNA AND

LAKSHMI-MONETA, MAY SHE RICHLY BLESS US ALL WITH EVERY GOOD GIFT OF

PROVIDENCE HERE AND HERE AFTER ! AMEN AUM and HARE KRISHNA !

 

Your aspiring servant, Bhakti Ananda Goswami