The Early Aryan Monotheistic Idea

Even in Religion there appears to have been little if any real progress since those early Aryan days. As Emerson says: “the Days were ever divine to the First Aryans.” The Early Aryans already at the epoch of their first king (c. 3378 b.c.) are found to have evolved a really scientific religion on the idea that Nature’s God was a beneficent, vitalizing Force resident in the Sun, which with rare scientific acumen they recognized as the Single Power that rules this world, and that luminary even now, according to modern scientists, also is the ultimate source of all life in this world.

And the Sun as The Light of the World was regarded as the emblem of Purity and champion of Right over Wrong and Darkness, and required no living sacrifices, but only praises, with offerings of Fire and the fruits of the earth. This was a tremendous uplifting ethical and moral advance beyond the primitive debasing religious belief of the Semitic-Chaldean aborigines, who had no idea of a god or heaven, but only believed in widespread malignant devouring demons of Darkness and Death, who held mankind in perpetual terror, and demanded cruel sanguinary sacrifices and even human victims. 

This simple, early Aryan monotheistic idea of the Sun, of the force behind the Sun, as being Nature’s God, was evidently too abstract for the multitude, as we find within a few generations that although many still adhered to this simple Sun-worship, others of the Aryan men “created God in the image of Man.” They imagined him as the invincible King of Heaven and fashioned him on the model of their own great first human king, the invincible superman who established their Civilization, and they even gave him two of the titles of that earthly king, which latterly have become the usual titles of God in the modern “higher” religions, which are all seen to have been derived along with the monotheistic idea of God from this Early Aryan one. They imagined him in human form as a universal and protecting Father, a lord of righteousness and hearer of prayers, with the Sun or Sun-Cross, that is the True Cross and the Cross carried by Saint John the Baptist, as his symbol, and with Baptism as the initiatory rite of entry into that solar religion of purity. There first human king’s son and the great battle champion, namely Michael, they also canonized and made him an archangel “the Saint Michael of the New Testament”, intercessor and a resurrector form the dead. 

And this religion—though degraded latterly in Babylonia by making the One God into a Trinity god-head and introducing Semitic goddesses and godlings to form a polytheistic pantheon—still remained the religion of many of the pure monotheistic Aryans, and especially of the so-called pagan Goths and of the Ancient Britons under their Aryan Catti kings before their conversion to Christianity. Druidism, with its human sacrifices, being merely the religion of the Non-Aryan Moon-worshipping aboriginal “Celts” in Briton. Amongst the Gods especially was this pure traditional Monotheism held so unflinchingly, that on their conversion to Christianity (into which they introduced the True Cross as the symbol) they altogether refused belief in the Trinity and also in the Mother-Son cult of the Romish Church, which resulted in the famous “Arian” controversy and schism in the Christian Church, which again asserted itself at the Reformation. That great Early Aryan advance in Religion has on the whole been maintained, though no doubt the purer monotheism of the Aryan Sumerians has often been degraded by corrupt ecclesiastics, who to maintain their power and privileges have not hesitated to incorporate with it magical Rites of savagery and the popular superstitions about devils and Hell. 

-excerpted from “Makers of Civilization in Race and History” by L.A. Wadell (1929)