I-62 Four kinds of pre-Christian initiates; the four Gospels and ancient symbols

The Gospel of St. Matthew and the Christ-Problem; The Gospels ; Jn-Rel, Lect. 3; Eternal Individuality, Chap. 9, p. 127, fn 353

There were four kinds of Pre-Christian initiates, as follows:

Today, because their meaning has been largely lost to humanity’s consciousness, the four ancient symbols above are generally either ignored or treated as insignificant in Gospel commentary. Their vestigial authenticity is widely acknowledged, but as something traditional whose meaning has become clouded. See 14 Brit 818, “biblical Literature,. . . Ezekiel,” and 26 Brit 69, “Prehistoric Peoples and Cultures, Evolutionary Development.” It was a thrill to me to discover, after first studying this matter, this symbolism on a statuary feature of the four Gospels in our local cemetery.

Each of these symbols represents a stage of the human being’s prehistoric Atlantean evolution, and the respective dispositions of mind that descended therefrom. The earliness of this stage is reflected in the vision of Ezekiel (Ezek 1,10) and even more clearly in that of John (Rev 4,7), which immediately follows the original crystallization of minerals from the sea (Rev 4,6). That these four Gospels are merely representative of an even larger division of humanity which is to be harmonized by the Christ is clearly indicated by an inspection of these symbols and their places in the Zodiac. If one reflects upon the ordering of the constellations in the sky, it will be seen that these four are equally spaced among the twelve so as to represent, in effect, the “four corners” of the entire group (see I-18 and I-19). Each is a river (of several confluent streams) so that the New Testament begins with “four rivers” as does the Old (Gen 2,10). The apparent inconsistencies between the Gospels begins to disappear when one understands these things.