Gerald Massey's Lectures - Society in evolution - Awardspace

erroneously attributed to a supposed "Monotheistic Instinct" originating with the Semites!
In Egypt the solar Fatherhood had been attained in the sovereignty of Atum-Ra, when the
records begin; but this same battle went on all through her monumental history, more
fiercely when the Heretics, the Motherites, the Blackheads, were now and again
reinforced by allies from without.
When the Elohim said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness," there were
seven of them who represented the seven elements, powers, or souls that went to the
making of the human being who came into existence before the Creator was represented
anthropomorphically, or could have conferred the human likeness on the Adamic man. It
was in the seven-fold image of the Elohim that man was first created, with his seven
elements, principles, or souls, and therefore could not have been formed in the image of
the one God. The seven Gnostic Elohim tried to make a man in their own image, but
could not, from lack of virile power. Thus, their creation in earth and heaven was a
failure. The Gnostics identify these seven as the Hebrew Elohim who exhorted each
other, saying, "Let us make man after our image and likeness." They did so; but the man
whom they made was a failure, because they themselves were lacking in the soul of the
fatherhood! When the Gnostic Ialdabaoth, chief of the Seven cried, "I am the father and
God," his mother Sophia replied, "Do not tell lies, Ialdabaoth, for the first man
(Anthropos Son of Anthropos) is above thee!" That is, man who had now been created in
the image of the fatherhood, was superior to the gods who were derived from the mother
parent alone! For, as it had been at first on earth, so was it afterwards in heaven; and thus
the primary gods were held to be soulless, like the earliest races of men because they had
not attained the soul of the individualized fatherhood. The Gnostics taught that the spirits
of wickedness, the inferior Seven, derived their origin from the great mother alone, who
produced without fatherhood! It was in the image, then, of the sevenfold Elohim that the
seven races were formed which we sometimes hear of as the pre-Adamite races of men,
because they were earlier than the fatherhood which was individualized only in the
second Hebrew creation. These were the primitive people of the past,--the old, despised,
dark races of the world,--who were held to have been created without souls, because they
were born before the fatherhood was individualized on earth or in heaven; for, there
could be no God the Father recognized until the human father had been identified-nothing
more than the general ancestral soul of the fathers, or the soul of the seven
elemental forces. These early races were first represented by Totemic zoötypes, and were
afterwards abominated as the dog-men, monkey-men, men with tails, mere preliminary
people, created in the likeness of animals, reptiles, fish, or birds. Warriors with the body
of a bird of the valley (?), and men with the faces of ravens, were suckled by the old
dragon Tiamat; and their type may be seen in the image of the twin Sut-Horus, who has
the head of a bird of light in front, and the Neh, or black vulture of darkness, behind. Ptah
and his Seven Khnemmu are the Pygmies.
As the black race was first on earth, so is it in the mirror of mythology. These are the
"people of the black heads," who are referred to on the tablets, and classed with reptiles,
during a lunar eclipse. These typical black heads were the primeval powers of darkness,
to which the old black aborigines in various lands were likened or assimilated by their
despisers. In the Babylonian prayers we find the many-named mother-goddess is invoked
as "the mother who has begotten the black heads." These at times were intentionally
confused and confounded with their elemental prototypes. Seven such races are described
in the Bundahish, or aboriginal creation, as the earth-men, the men of the water, the
breast-eared, the breast-eyed, the one-legged, the bat-men, and the men with tails. These
were the soulless people. They are also referred to by Esdras as the other people who are
nothing, "but be like unto spittle"--that is, when compared with those who descended
from the father, as Adam, or Atum, on earth, and who worshipped a father, as Atum, or
Jehovah, in heaven. There were seven creations altogether; seven heavens, which were