Unknown History
In many mythologies, there are stories of ancient times — pre-flood times, or the times of the Golden Age, or times when gods lived among humans, or times of ancient kings and heroes. Science has traditionally been skeptical about these accounts. However, in recent times, scientific facts are slowly starting to erode the dam of skepticism. Data from the intersection of paleontology and archaeology suggest that the origins of humanity as a species stretch back a good million years. But a species is not a civilisation. The main and longest phase of human existence is in a semi-animal state and primitive savagery. So, how long has civilisation existed? It is commonly believed that it has existed for 5-7 thousand years, if the emergence of the first cities and state formations marks the beginning of civilisation. Though, thanks to some archaeological finds and discoveries in other scientific fields, this boundary is being pushed further back, perhaps to 10,000 years or even longer. Research tools and methods are improving, and what once seemed incredible is becoming relevant. At the same time, various spiritual and semi-spiritual movements of the 20th and 21st centuries also claim, based on their own data, that the history of civilisation is much longer than traditionally assumed. These movements speak of great ancient states, peoples, and even races, of sunken continents like Atlantis or Lemuria, where these races lived, sometimes even discussing the change of several dominant races or subtypes of humanity (3, 7, 9 or more), the earliest of which were not so much people in the usual sense of the word, but their precursors — super-races, titans, energy-based or spiritual humanity, and so on. In general, this concept is opposed to the scientific view: there were once more perfect peoples, and over time, the human race became more primitive and grounded, with present-day humanity being the final product of this devolution.
From the perspective of the Teaching, scientific views are more accurate. Myths are myths; the seeds of truth in them are not easy to reveal. But there was certainly no legendary Golden Age, nor gods living among humans. There were no half-human super-races; and whether Atlantis and Lemuria existed, along with the peoples that inhabited them — is still unknown. The Teaching does not address this. However, it agrees that human development has progressed from a semi-animal state to the present anthropological type. It is quite possible that this process took a million years. However, in evaluating the duration of civilisation’s existence, the Teaching significantly diverges from official science. Its views are primarily based on the texts of the pandect. There is nothing unbelievable (from the standpoint of historical plausibility) in these texts, but proving them based on scientific facts is not possible at the moment. Thus, we find ourselves in a situation where we cannot claim official recognition of our pandect as a historical source, but we can propose it as a source of information that may eventually be archaeologically confirmed. I say “may” because it is difficult to imagine the research tools archaeology would need to confirm the existence of some culture, even a developed one, say, 200,000 years ago.
The pandect contains stories of events that happened much earlier. The earliest of them — a revelation, a great disaster, and a war between the people of the serpent and the people of the dragon — are described in the myth “The Peak” (the book “Evor”). The great disaster occurred about 265,000 years ago. And even before that, there were one or more revelations. This means that by that time, not only had a developed civilisation existed, but humanity had already passed a long path as a civilised race and had stagnated so much in its journey of knowledge, sometimes rising to a high level and at other times plunging into yet another “dark age,” that revelations became necessary. So, we should add several tens of thousands of years to the above number. We round it to 300,000 years and accept this figure as a probable starting point for the history of human civilisation. We would like to know more precisely, but the Teaching does not have more accurate data at the moment, and it is uncertain when science will be able to say something about this.
All the biographical-historical texts of the pandect fall within the time span between the events described in “The Peak” and the present day. Naturally, all of them are connected in one way or another with the history of the Teaching (with one exception, which will be mentioned below). But sometimes the events related to it take place against a broad historical background. The brightest example of this is the myths “The Circle” and “The Second Word” (the book “Doron”). These are two parts of a single story — more precisely, the story of a single revelation, spanning several hundred years. The first part tells of the revelation itself, the creation of the community of followers called “The Circle,” its growth, strengthening, and eventual destruction during a war between contenders for the throne of a vast empire. The second part recounts the fate of several people from the Circle who fled to foreign lands, the new growth of the community, and its ultimate destruction in a confrontation with a local ruler. Of all the texts available today, this is the only example of a complete, albeit not very detailed, history of a single revelation — from the receipt of the revelation by the prophet to the death of the last followers — set against a broad historical backdrop. The timing of these events is not yet precisely definable, but in any case, they likely occurred no later than 100,000 years ago in Southern Siberia.
Unfortunately, the dates were not specified in the dictations, and the localisation of the events in time, using the methods available to us, presents significant challenges. This requires focused efforts and work to extract information regarding dates, even approximate ones, and this work lies ahead. However, the closer the events are to our time, the easier it is to date them. For example, the events of the mitevma “Life” (the book “Doron”) took place in West Africa, around 12,000 BCE. “The Song of Rohami” occurred in Indochina, around 10,000 BCE. The mitevma “Teacher” (the book “Evor”) and “The Stone” (the book “Doron”) relate to the Indo-Iranian region, probably about 2-3 thousand years later (though both of these myths are neither historical nor biographical). These regional and temporal locations refer to the latest revelations — i.e., the fifth, fourth, and third, counting from the present day. There are no texts relating to the second (previous) revelation, i.e., the time of Hermes Trismegistus. The closest to our time (around 1000 CE) is the mitevma “The Great God” (the book “Evor”). Although this mitevma does not describe the history of the Teaching, and it does not include historical events except for a passing reference to the baptism of Scandinavia (more specifically, Norway, where the action takes place), with several mentions of Thor and Christ.
In addition to the texts mentioned above, the pandect contains a number of others, where events related to the people from the Teaching occur against a background of more or less briefly described or simply mentioned historical realities. Work is currently underway on a new book of the pandect, which will be entirely composed of biographical-historical texts. How the issue of their dating will unfold remains to be seen. As I said earlier, such information cannot yet be regarded as reliable from a scientific standpoint. But there is nothing to be done. At present, the Teaching possesses means of obtaining information that go beyond the capabilities of modern science, but this is precisely why it cannot prove the reliability of this information. It can be rejected without consideration, or it can be accepted as a version that has not yet been proven but also not disproven. The essence is that the history of human civilisation is much longer, more diverse, and more dramatic than commonly believed. And the Teaching, to the extent of its possibilities, fills in the gaps — more accurately, one gigantic gap of several hundred thousand years — in the historical record.
Although, in reality, this record is even longer. Even if humanity has existed for a million years, this is just a part of the history, merely one chapter. Before us, other intelligent species lived on Earth, with which we share a common origin. In the mitevma “Particle” (the book “Evor”), events are mentioned that relate to an intelligent non-human race, the precursor to the intelligent race from which we, humans, descended. These events span millions, if not tens of millions, of years. And that race was hardly the first in the series of intelligent species that our planet gave life to. This is the unknown history of our world. I don’t know when or how human science will be able to discover, prove, and study it — but there is an enormous amount of work ahead. Literally. What is known today is but crumbs compared to the unfolding scale of upcoming research and discoveries. And that is wonderful.
© Atarkhat, 2016