By Richard Cassaro
The white race has been deliberately “cut off” from its ancestral religion of Hinduism, which was practiced across prehistoric Europe for thousands of years before the rise of Christianity. As a result, whites in the world have “lost their Path” and forgotten “who they are” spiritually, discarding introspection in their wild pursuit of money and material possessions. We’ll examine the modern day censorship of Europe’s indigenous Hindu faith, and the suppression of its key symbol, the Swastika. We’ll see how, as a result, whites have lost their past, their future, and the greatness of their ancient spiritual Way.
Ancient Greek gold disk with swastikas at Greece’s
Otagon Museum dates to the 8th century B.C.
Hinduism—with its exceptionally high spiritual concepts of the Eternal Soul, Reincarnation, Karma, Yoga, the Third Eye, and Nirvana (concepts that many whites are mysteriously embracing today)—is the lost religious tradition of Europe, long before Christianity and the Hebrew Bible arose 2,000 years ago and took its place. This is not a racist conjecture or unsupported opinion; it’s a fact grounded in academia.
Swastikas Found On Ruins Across Ancient Europe
All ancient European cultures—i.e., the Etruscans, Greeks, Romans, Gauls, Celts, etc. —practiced thesame high spiritual religion of Hinduism. We can still see this religion’s central symbol, the swastika, all over European ruins, visible in this 1898 Yale University study:
The Swastikas Of Ancient Europe from a 1898 Yale University study.
Ancient Swastika on a Minoan pottery piece from Crete.
Ancient Roman Mosaic with swastika.
Small terracotta jug with swastika, from Crete.
National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Most people today associate Hinduism with India. This is correct. But Hinduism was not born in India. It was brought into India, according to scholars. Before settling in Europe, scholars believe the nomadic “Aryans” (or white race) invaded ancient India from the north, bringing Hinduism with them and introducing Hinduism into the subcontinent, where it has existed ever since.
(NOTE: We’re taught in school that the term “Aryan” signifies Hitler’s supposed belief in a blond-haired, blue-eyed “master race.” But this is a lie, plain and simple. Historically, “Aryan” has always meant “white people,” i.e., Europeans. For hundreds of years before World War II, university scholars across the world used “Aryan” to denote “whites.” Do a simple search in Google books and you’ll see.)
Hinduism is still practiced across India today. But Europe suffered a different fate. The introduction of Christianity two thousand years ago cut the Caucasian race off from its indigenous Hindu religious roots, plunging Europe into the Dark Ages from which Europeans and white people in general have tried—but in many ways failed—to emerge.
This secret origin of Hinduism and the white race is unlocked in a simple, fascinating chronicle known in academic circles as the ancient “Aryan Invasion of India” model of history. Again, this is no fringe theory; it is accepted by a vast majority of the world’s scholars, archaeologists, professors and academics.
The Aryan Invasion of India
Scholars now for centuries have believed that prehistoric India—the land of the swastika, which is the key symbol of Hinduism—was once home to two races: the light-skinned Aryans and the dark-skinned Dravidians.
The Aryan invasion theory posits that the Dravidians were the native people of India long ago, and at a certain point were invaded from the north by a sophisticated Caucasian race of nomadic warriors, the Aryans. The victory of the Aryans was quick and complete, and they chose to stay, abandoning their nomadic lifestyle and settling amongst the natives. The Aryans taught the Dravidians their advanced Aryan culture and religion, the key symbol of which is the swastika, eventually leading to the dominance of their culture and language over the northern part of the subcontinent. The Aryans instituted the caste system and established themselves as the dominant caste in order to protect their white skin and keep their blood pure. These Aryans, according to historians, are the ones who composed the sophisticated Vedic writings; these writings form the heart of the religion of Hinduism.
From India, the Aryans eventually migrated westward into Europe, creating the high cultures that evolved into Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, and so on. Every Caucasian in America who can trace family roots to Europe is a descendant of these historical Aryans.
Again, this is not an opinion, it is pure scholarship. In Barbarian Tides, a 1982 publication from the highly respected Time-Life Books library, we are told:
“These people, the Aryans, would bestow their social institutions on the Indian subcontinent and spawn a unique spiritual culture, Hinduism.”
“The caste concept sprang from the Aryans’ extreme race consciousness: the very word they used for “caste” meant “color.”
This has an interesting consequence that many Westerners would not hit upon at first: Long before Christianity, most Caucasians in Europe were practicing the religion we now call Hinduism. If the Aryans brought Hinduism to India, and the Europeans are descended from Aryans, as the chronology necessitates, then consequently all European ancestors, at some point in time, practiced a form of Hinduism.
Of course, most Westerners today realize the swastika is sacred among Hindus who live in India; it is visible on Indian temples, altars, religious scriptures, used in Hindu weddings, festivals, and ceremonies, and painted on houses, clothing and jewelry.
SWASTIKAS IN INDIA
Hindu temple in India featuring swastikas.
Indian musician with swastika guitar.
Hindu temple in India featuring swastikas.
However, most Westerners are unaware that the swastika was once ancient Europe’s most important and prolific religious symbol.
SWASTIKAS IN ANCIENT EUROPE
Swastika from ancient Gaul. Musée gallo-romain, Lyon, France.
Ancient Roman mosaic floor decorated with swastikas in La Olmeda, Spain.
Artemis with swastikas. Greece, circa 700 B.C.
Shortly after the real-life groundbreaking discovery of the mythical Troy in the 1870s by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), he found a multitude of artifacts bearing the swastika in the city’s ruins. Having consulted with two leading Sanskrit scholars, Emile Burnouf and Max Müller, Schliemann became convinced it was a central Aryan religious symbol. Burnouf, a French Orientalist, felt that the swastika was proof not only of the westward migration of Aryan tribes from India, but of the symbol’s connection to the sophisticated ancient Aryan religion—Hinduism.
In his 1896 book, The Swastika: The Earliest Known Symbol and its Migrations, Thomas Wilson, former curator of the Department of Prehistoric Anthropology in the U.S. National Museum, wrote of the swastika:
“Some authorities are of the opinion that it was an Aryan symbol and used by the Aryan peoples before their dispersion through Asia and Europe. This is a fair subject for inquiry and might serve as an explanation how…as a sacred symbol…the Swastika might have been carried to the different peoples and countries in which we now find it by the splitting up of the Aryan peoples and their migrations and establishment in the various parts of Europe.”
—Thomas Wilson
By the 20th century, swastika images were being discovered on artifacts all across Europe, designed into mosaics, friezes, sculptures, and paintings, used by the Etruscans, Romans, Scandinavians, Sabines, Phrygians and Greeks.
Outside of Europe, the swastika was found in some Mesopotamian city-states, on Hittite and ancient Iranian relics, and used by the indigenous Bön faith of Tibet. The swastika is also important in Buddhism and Jainism—modern offshoots of the prehistoric religion of Hinduism—adorning temples, and forming a repeating pattern in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese art.
The Dalai Lama with Swastikas.
Swastika on Japanese Buddhist temple.
Swastika on Japanese Buddhist temple.
Revival Of The Swastika In Europe – “God Is Dead”
Soon after Schliemann’s discovery, the swastika became en vogue among whites in Europe, many of whom began to denounce Christianity en masse and to see the swastika as an authentic emblem of their European ancestry. The movement spread to whites across the world:
The Edmonton Swastikas, Canada 1916
Boys swastika basketball team, San Francisco, 1908.
English author and Freemason Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
used the swastika on the dust jackets of his books.
Actress Clara Bow wearing swastikas in the 1920s.
Coca Cola made a swastika-shaped watch fob.
At the time, the writings of the influential 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) were also helping to bring the swastika into circulation. Nietzsche is famous for his impassioned denouncement of biblical monotheism. “God is dead” was his famous proclamation in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883).
What did Nietzsche mean by this provocative sentence “God is Dead”?
Nietzsche charged that the Christian religion ascendant in the West since Roman times has been a magnificent hoax perpetrated by “the Jews” (as he put it), designed to put them into a position of power, influence, and authority. The Jewish aim, he believed, was to elevate the Hebrew God into the world’s God by establishing the New Testament religion onto the foundations of their Old Testament tradition:
“…Christianity can be understood only in terms of the soil out of which it grew—it is not a counter-movement to the Jewish instinct, it is its very consequence… even today the Christian can feel anti-Jewish without realizing that he himself is the ultimate Jewish consequence…”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche’s teachings fit right in with the anti-Semitic and racially charged atmosphere of 19th and early 20th century “white Europe,” which was fast becoming uncomfortable with what it now considered its unauthentic Jewish (Semitic) ancestry. Nevertheless, Nietzsche’s work is no anti-Semitic rant; his work offers important insight into how the biblical Old Testament (and it’s “God,” Yahweh) has been unnaturally grafted onto European history, cutting whites off from their ancestral and indigenous Hindu religion.
As early as the Renaissance, many Europeans were already unwilling to continue in the biblical tradition, which they now perceived as alien to their ancestry. By the 19th century, European scholars and laymen had begun to rediscover their own religious heritage. This anti-Judeo/Christian movement gained tremendous ground among scholars, academics, and intellectuals, like Aldous Huxley, who always distrusted monotheism. In his article ‘One And Many’ Huxley says that:
“monotheism, as we know it in the West, was invented by the Jews”
—Aldous Huxley, One And Many
Followers of the Abrahamic or Semitic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam did not use the swastika. The Semitic people had a very different religious, cultural, and linguistic history from the Indo-Europeans (called Indo-European because the Aryans settled in India before migrating into Europe); the Semitic religions present in Europe, via Christianity, are much younger than the religion
Sanskrit, Europe’s Mother Tongue
The whole “Aryan invasion” model arose after the English philologist Sir William Jones (1746-1794) recognized similarities between the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit and the more modern European languages, including Latin and Greek, the Germanic, Celtic and Slavic languages.
Scholars found that Sanskrit was in fact the “mother-tongue” from which these and indeed all of Europe’s languages had evolved. European languages are now called “Indo-European” in honor of their “Indo” or “Indian” (Sanskrit) origin. Other researchers soon built on Jones’ work, showing that the Avestan and Armenian languages were also based on Sanskrit.
The term “Aryan” derives from the ancient Indian (Vedic Sanskrit) and Persian (Avestan) term arya for “noble.” The Aryan tribes in India called their land Aaryaa varta or Aryan expanse. The Aryans in Iran similarly named their land Airyanem Vaejah, or Iranian Expanse, today known as Iran, which is a variant of “Aryan.”
Westerners unaware of Iran’s Aryan ancestry often lump it in with surrounding Arab states based on their shared religion of Islam. Iran, however, is distinct in many ways, having retained much of its national, racial and cultural identity for thousands of years. Describing the Iranians, the famous 5th Century B.C Greek Historian Herodotus wrote:
“In ancient times… they were renowned as Aryans among themselves and their neighbors.”
—Herodotus
The 6th Century BC King of Persia, Darius the Great, in an inscription in Naqsh-e-Rostam says:
“I am Darius the great King… A Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan, having Aryan lineage …”
—Darius The Great
About two-thirds of Iran’s current population is described as “Caucasian,” descended from ancient Aryan tribes who pushed through Iran and continued westward into Europe from northern India. The remaining one-third is considered Turks and Arabs.
The Shah had the title Arya-Mehr, which means “Light of the Aryans.” An ancient Iranian tradition comparable to India’s caste system and still in practice today is the rule against interracial marriage. Aryan Iranians are prohibited by their families—and in some cases by communal law—from marrying non-Aryans.
Famous German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1832) believed Jones’ linguistic discovery was proof of the westward migration of the ancient Aryans. Norwegian Sanskritist Christian Lassen (1800-1876) agreed, pointing out that ancient Aryans, like modern high caste people of India, had a lighter complexion. German lexicographer Jacob Grimm (1785- 1863), who compiled ancient Aryan myths now called “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” (i.e., Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Rapunzel), asserted that these stories were used for millennia as vehicles for transporting incredibly advanced spiritual teachings across time.
These renowned thinkers had a powerful influence in Europe, where they exerted a tremendous impact on the German philologist and Orientalist Max Muller (1823–1900), one of the 19th century’s most celebrated scholars.
Muller wrote:
“The Aryan nations…stand before us in history as the principal nations of northwestern Asia and Europe. …They have perfected society and morals; and we learn from their literature and works of art the elements of science, the laws of art, and the principles of philosophy. …these Aryan nations have become the rulers of history, and it seems to be their mission to link all parts of the world together by the chains of civilization…”
—Max Muller
By the 1800s the British were already using this model for the political purpose of justifying their occupation and colonial rule of India, which began in the early 1600s and ended in 1947.
Several writers and historians had traced the origins of the Aryans to the Caucasus Mountains region; these mountains bridge Europe and Asia, and from this idea the term “Caucasian,” invented by German anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840), came into widespread use.
The Great “Flood” That Sank Atlantis
Many scholars traced the Aryan homeland just east of the Caucasus to Tibet, the so-called “roof of the world,” where many scholars believed the floodwaters that destroyed Atlantis (yes, Atlantis) sent Atlantean refugees into high-altitude Tibet, where they remained safe for generations. The Aryans slowly arose here, according to this idea, to become the direct descendants and blood inheritors of the Atlanteans. Interestingly, the world-famous German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804), describing Tibet, said:
“…this is the highest country. No doubt it was inhabited before any other and could even have been the site of all creation and all science. The culture of the Indians, as is known, almost certainly came from Tibet, just as all our arts like agriculture, numbers, the game of chess, etc., seem to have come from India.”
—Immanuel Kant
Many scholars, thinkers, and philosophers once accepted this chronicle as fact. In Cosmic Memory, for example, Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the famous Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, architect, playwright, educator, and social thinker, wrote:
“The greatest part of the Atlantean population declined, and from a small portion are descended the so-called Aryans who comprise present-day civilized humanity.”
— Rudolf Steiner, Cosmic Memory
Steiner’s pre-Nazi era sentiment reflects the widespread European belief of his day. This may surprise some Americans familiar with Steiner’s reputation as an innovative educator. Today there are over one hundred “Steiner schools” throughout North America plus dozens in other countries, serving hundreds of thousands of students.
The Greek philosopher Plato first named Atlantis in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, in the fourth century B.C. He spoke of it as a sophisticated antediluvian empire that flourished for eons on a now submerged continent in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, from which its name is taken. Plato maintained that the Atlanteans possessed a highly spiritual wisdom religion, which enabled them to “see” their own divine and eternal “soul” inside the physical body. According to him, seeing the “soul within” allowed the Atlanteans to harness its higher powers.
suggested by the swastika.
Plato asserted that a memory of these powers is preserved in the fantastic abilities attributed to the “gods” of Greek and Roman mythology; instead of being actual gods, they were mortals endowed with amplified perceptions due to their connection with their eternal soul (think here of Christ and Buddha). In time, however, the Atlantean kingdom grew weak due to their materializing tendencies, weak enough that they began to lose touch with the inner divinity that granted them such power. Plato wrote:
“For many generations…they obeyed the laws and loved the divine to which they were akin. …they reckoned that qualities of character were far more important than their present prosperity. So they bore the burden of their wealth and possessions lightly, and did not let their high standard of living intoxicate them or make them lose their self-control…But when the divine element in them became weakened…and their human traits became predominant, they ceased to be able to carry their prosperity with moderation.”
—Plato
Plato goes on to explain that the end of Atlantis came some several thousand years ago, when a series of natural disasters sank their continent into the sea. A handful of survivors escaped the devastation, spreading to different parts of the world and taking their pyramid-building religion with them. Until fairly recently, most scholars believed that ancient civilizations, separated by both time and space, built pyramids and pyramidal monuments in honor of their mother culture, Atlantis:
Even today this theory is still widely held and debated. Pyramids can be found in India, China, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Ireland and many other places. Such diverse structures with similar purposes seem to indicate a connection; if there was no communication between the cultures during their development, there must then be a common source.
Skeptics point to the disparity in “pyramid-ages” around the world (scholars believe Old World pyramids were built thousands of years before New World pyramids). However, New World scholars are continuously pushing back the date of pre-Columbian pyramids and it seems only a matter of time before the dates run parallel; even if they were not, the similarity of construction, intention, and purpose of the Old and New World pyramid structures makes the idea of such an exact coincidence unlikely at best.
Most pre-World War II scholars agreed that the world’s pyramids were connected to Atlantis. They saw the Flood myths common to various cultures as proof of Atlantis’ end, parallel legends of a worldwide catastrophe after which man and civilization were forced to begin anew; they saw the legends as stemming from a dim cultural memory of that Atlantean Flood. From this catastrophe a general digression occurred—not just a cultural confusion of tongues; a digression in the physical Atlantean “race” itself. The Atlantean capacity to “hold the vision” of the “soul within” had become lost. Only the “idea” of the eternal soul remained—and it is still with us even today.
There also occurred a slow but inevitable demise of the entire Atlantean race itself, according to these thinkers. Over the course of thousands of years, the race died out, and the “Aryan” or “white” race arose in its place.
In Conclusion
The swastika’s connection to the Aryan race (or, to use a newer term, “Caucasian” race) is clear, but modern events, contradictions, and misconceptions have perverted the swastika’s original meaning, especially its semantic association. Scholars, anthropologists, linguists, and scientists have understood that the swastika is evidence of the unified and highly spiritual Aryan peoples of European prehistory.
The question is: Why is this history purposely being hidden? Why is it not taught in schools? Is it because of the direct connection to Atlantis? Is Atlantis being covered up by the Elite who don’t want the world to know of its past existence, for then perhaps the masses will ultimately uncover the ancient religion of the “soul”…and realize the truth of man’s inner divinity and innate spiritual powers?
Adolf Hitler’s ideas on all things Aryan were apparently no different than those of mainstream European scholars and laymen in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries; unfortunately, the atrocities he and the Nazis committed under the symbol of the swastika have left modern audiences with a very negative semantic association. As a result, there has been a “censorship” of this magnificent spiritual symbol that has plunged, and continues to plunge, late 20th century and early 21st century peoples (i.e., us) in the dark as to its magnificent origins and spiritual meaning.
Left: American 45th Division WWI. Right: Adolf Hitler with swastika.
So what does the Swastika symbol really mean? What did it symbolize in the minds of the ancients who used it? How can this symbol empower each one of us today?
In Part II, we examine:
-19th and 20th century academic research into the Atlantis/Aryan connection
-the high spiritual wisdom of ancient Hindu terms Atman, Brahman, Third Eye, Yoga, Samsara, Nirvana
-the swastika’s true ancient meaning that we are gods temporarily living in a human body
– how whites have been cut off from Hinduism by the Bible, Judaism and Christianity