WHAT IS HINDUISM?
progress and some of the earliest known civilisations – for
example that of Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley, would
not have existed.
The early ruler priests who came to Earth from other
planets and planes of awareness required well-trained
warriors and whole armies with which to defend
themselves and their peoples, their cultures and
civilisations, against others types of ruler – rulers in whom
ego-awareness had taken hold at the expense of higher
spiritual awareness – and for whom priests served merely as
advisers, soothsayers and sources of useful spiritual and
technical ‘know-how’. Thus came about an era of great
battles for the soul of humanity, recorded in many ancient
‘mythological’ dramas. Having the technical products of
their own knowledge turned against them, the power of the
ruler priests waned. Yet the priesthoods themselves
preserved their knowledge to different degrees, and
ensured that contact with higher realities and
consciousnesses could be maintained. No longer incarnate
in the flesh, the gods became incarnate, when called for, in
stone idols – able to communicate with the priests through
them. Thus did the so-called ‘idol worship’ begin. Only
later were stone sculptures of the sort well-known in
ancient Egypt regarded as mere lifeless images or iconic
representations of the gods. By far the most important
turning point in the evolution of human awareness came
when the human ego began to experience itself as a self or