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Legends 7
The Present Time of the Seventh Race of Men

The destruction by water did not destroy all. Some were saved to be the seed for the new age.
High in the mountains where the huge waves could not reach there existed the seed of man.

Also various people built boats as their continents sank. They clung to wreckage, and made
rafts and thus some survived the terrible storms of the forty days and they, too, became
the seed of man of the new age.

One of these places lay high in the Himalayas. The Himalayas lay so high the waves could not
reach and so high that the forty days of rain poured off. Indeed, they were so high that the
clouds laid below the tops of the Himalayas and they laid in the clouds for forty days as
the rain poured below.

And there lived in the Himalayas in those days, three races of men: on the
north side were the yellow men, the men with slanted, narrowed eyes;
on the south side there lived the men with the dark skins; and on the
west side of the mighty slopes, there dwelt a race of white men and their
mighty herds; yet all these three had sprung from one ancient race of men;
so ancient as to be almost forgotten even then.

Now these three races of men had three basic religions each suited to their own stage of
evolvement. The dark race had a religion of the mortal body; the yellow race,
that of the logical mind; while the white race had a very spiritual religion
because they were of the highest evolvement. They were so very advanced
that their color white was recognized by all as a symbol of spiritual development.

The white race was governed by a priesthood of wise men, and the highest degree in this priesthood
was called the "Maji" and meant "Masters of the World." Not that they were the dictators of men,
but that they had mastered the call of the things of the world, which is found in every man.
They were the priests, doctors, and counselors to the people, and they were called "Wise Men."

The white ones who had dwelt upon the western slope began to multiply, as indeed did they all.
And after awhile they drifted down from the mountains to take possession of the ground lower down.

The men with the narrowed eyes drifted to the north;
the men with dark skins drifted to the south;
and the mighty nation of blonde people on the western slopes
drifted down into the plains to the west of the Himalayas,
ever expanding ever growing and spreading westward.

The Wise Men looked around as they progressed westward and they found little pockets
of people still dwelling in savagery although it had been many hundreds of years after
the destruction. And wherever they found a pocket of men, they sent one of their priests
to be their priest and doctor, and to teach them, so that they might have wisdom.

And in those days when these people reached the northern part of the mountains of Greece,
they found living there a remnant of a great people who had survived high in their mountains.
And they taught them natural medicine and this was done in the Age of Sagittarius.
To this very day, the coming of the Celts on their horses, teaching medicine to the Greeks
in the northern part of the country, is typified in Greek legends as "medicine having been
received from the Centaur, Chiron." And the Celts spread westward till they covered the
entire continent, including Scandinavia, Britton, and Ireland.

Now this mighty nation, indeed the whole world by this time, was literally ruled by the Wise Men.
They were at once, the county agent advising in agriculture, the advisor on local art, the veterinarian,
the astrologer, the priest, but above all, they were the Natural Medicine doctors of the area.
And all the Medicine Men through-out the entire world were of One Faith
and all were Leaders of the Wise People.

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