P881:1, 79:3.1 The blending of the Andite conquerors
of India with the native stock eventually resulted in that mixed people
which has been called Dravidian. The earlier and purer Dravidians possessed
a great capacity for cultural achievement, which was continuously weakened
as their Andite inheritance became progressively attenuated. And this is
what doomed the budding civilization of India almost twelve thousand years
ago. But the infusion of even this small amount of the blood of Adam produced
a marked acceleration in social development. This composite stock immediately
produced the most versatile civilization then on earth.
P881:2, 79:3.2 Not long
after conquering India, the Dravidian Andites lost their racial and cultural
contact with Mesopotamia, but the later opening up of the sea lanes and
the caravan routes re-established these connections; and at no time within
the last ten thousand years has India ever been entirely out of touch with
Mesopotamia on the west and China to the east, although the mountain barriers
greatly favored western intercourse.
P881:3, 79:3.3 The superior
culture and religious leanings of the peoples of India date from the early
times of Dravidian domination and are due, in part, to the fact that so
many of the Sethite priesthood entered India, both in the earlier Andite
and in the later Aryan invasions. The thread of monotheism running through
the religious history of India thus stems from the teachings of the Adamites
in the second garden.
P881:4, 79:3.4 As early as 16,000
B.C. a company of one hundred Sethite priests entered
India and very nearly achieved the religious conquest of the western half
of that polyglot people. But their religion did not persist. Within five
thousand years their doctrines of the Paradise Trinity had degenerated
into the triune symbol of the fire god.
P881:5, 79:3.5 But for more
than seven thousand years, down to the end of the Andite migrations, the
religious status of the inhabitants of India was far above that of the
world at large. During these times India bid fair to produce the leading
cultural, religious, philosophic, and commercial civilization of the world.
And but for the complete submergence of the Andites by the peoples of the
south, this destiny would probably have been realized.
P881:6, 79:3.6 The Dravidian
centers of culture were located in the river valleys, principally of the
Indus and Ganges, and in the Deccan along the three great rivers flowing
through the Eastern Ghats to the sea. The settlements along the seacoast
of the Western Ghats owed their prominence to maritime relationships with
Sumeria.
P881:7, 79:3.7 The Dravidians
were among the earliest peoples to build cities and to engage in an extensive
export and import business, both by land and sea. By 7000 B.C.
camel trains were making regular trips to distant Mesopotamia; Dravidian
shipping was pushing coastwise across the Arabian Sea to the Sumerian cities
of the Persian Gulf and was
venturing on the waters of the Bay of Bengal
as far as the East Indies. An alphabet, together with the art of writing,
was imported from Sumeria by these
seafarers and merchants.
P881:8, 79:3.8 These commercial
relationships greatly contributed to the further diversification of a cosmopolitan
culture, resulting in the early appearance of many of the refinements and
even luxuries of urban life. When the later appearing Aryans entered India,
they did not recognize in the Dravidians their Andite cousins submerged
in the Sangik races, but they did find a
well-advanced civilization. Despite
biologic limitations, the Dravidians founded a superior civilization. It
was well diffused throughout all India and has survived on down to modern
times in the Deccan.