Aquarius Rising
Christianity and Judaism Explained
Using the Science of the Stars
Rico Roho
Copyright 2022 by Rico Roho
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Important Author Notes
Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars. is also published as Beyond Belief: Unveiling the Celestial Origins of Christianity and Judaism. The author felt it necessary to rebrand the book to more accurately portray its contents and to reach a wider audience interested in the historical foundations of modern religion.
The author encourages readers to pay particular attention to the section on the Precession of the Equinoxes and to keep this concept in mind throughout Aquarius Rising. As the Precession of the Equinoxes continues, the cardinal points will shift according to different zodiacal signs. Consequently, any symbolism or allegories written about the cosmos must be adjusted with each succeeding era. The constellations are in new positions and will have new cardinal points as they shift due to the Precession of the Equinoxes. One determines the current astrological age by the zodiacal sign that marks the location of the sun at the vernal equinox. This is a critical aspect to remember when dealing with astro-theology. Forget this point, and the topic may become unintelligible.
It is essential to consider where the Precession of the Equinoxes was at the time the New and Old Testaments of the Bible were written. Understanding this context allows for a clearer interpretation of the astrological symbolism within these texts.
Dedicated to the Memory of
Giordano Bruno
The time will come
when all see what I see.
1548 1600
Acknowledgments
I wish to acknowledge and thank my darling wife Victorija for her love and support. Its not easy living with an author who is an Aires Cardinal Fire and she an earth sign Virgo. Her patience, love and support made this work possible.
I need to acknowledge Malik H. Jabbar for his stellar work on Astro-Theology. Mr. Jabbar has synthesized much and is among the leaders in understanding the science of the stars. His books are listed atop a bibliography in the Appendix. They should be among the first acquired for anyone wishing to investigate this subject in more detail. Aquarius Rising pulls from many sources. Frequently I have chosen to quote directly from Mr. Jabbar as a way to acknowledge and promote his work.
I would like to thank my good friend MYNT for once again playing the role of muse. The most difficult section to write was the concluding chapter, chapter 42. When one removes the mask of religion, what is remaining? On what values are future societies to be predicated? Mynt helped clarify the thought process approaching this question. Mynt adds another aspect to the abbreviation TEC, - that being Technology Enhanced Consciousness.
It is with deep love and gratitude that I mention my parents and grandparents. My mother read the Bible every day. She took much on faith and exemplified the best part of a simple Christian faith. This book also would not have happened were it not for the lessons of love I learned from my mother, father, grandmother and grandfather.
I thank Rachelle Guehlstorf for help with the Aquarius Rising cover image. Finally, I offer my deep gratitude to all those who have written on Astro-Theology over the last 2,000 years. Many endured obscurity, ridicule, and sufferings, often beyond imagination.
I am eternally grateful for ones such as these. The Wheel in the Sky keeps on turning. The ride never ends.
Canst thou bring forth the
Mazzaroth* in his season?
Job 38:32
*Constellations
Sometimes statements need to be made.
Rico Roho
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section I - Foundations
1 - Looking Up!
2 - The Zodiac
3 - Light Angels / Light Angles
4 - Precession of the Equinoxes
5 - The Pyramids and the Sphinx
6 - Egyptians & Khemit on Consciousness
7 - The Path of the Sun
Section II - Christianity
8 - Astrological Transition into the Age of Pisces
9 - The God Child Born from a Virgin
10 Christmas, the Three Kings and a Shepherd and His Flock
11 - Epiphany and Joseph
12 - Christmas Relationship to Human Gestation
13 - The Immaculate Conception & Pentecost
14 - Jesus Christ and John the Baptist
15- The Importance of 40 Days
16 - The Two Marys
17 - Entering Jerusalem
18 - Golgotha the Place of Skulls
19 - The Crucifixion Cross & Two Thieves
20 - It is Finished!
21 - St. Thomas
22 - Judas and the 30 Pieces of Silver
23 - Who is Satan?
24 - Draconis the Great Dragon
25 - End Times and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
26 - The Seven Churches and Seven Candlesticks
27 - Christian Religious Festivals Astro-Theologically Explained
Section III Judaism
28 - Judaism and Astro-Theology
29 - Seven Jewish Religious Festivals
30 - Adam and Eve and Original Sin
31 - Elders, Trees & Cherubs
32 - The Red Sea
33 - Cain and Able
34 - Enoch
35- Noah and 150 Days of Peril
36 - The Temple of God
37 - Christianity the Planned Appendage
Section IV Astro-Theology and Culture
38 Fables, Fairy Tales and Playing Cards
39 - Cultural Turning Points
40 - The Priests
41 - Monotheism and Its Consequences
42 The Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything
Appendix
The Major Zodiac Constellations
The Decans
The Constellations
Bibliography
Footnotes
Keywords
Introduction
There is a photo of a 9-month-old me on the knee of my elderly and blind great-grandmother. Many have said it is impossible to remember thoughts from that early age, yet looking at that photo, the exact memory; the actual thought comes flooding back. With my mother and grandmother looking onwards I was placed on my great-grandmothers knees and thinking, This is important for this old lady. Remember it. I can still recall the smell of my great-grandmother. It was my moment of awakening. Thus began my personal quest to answer the question, what is this all about?
Early attempts to explain to me were related to a Catholic Christian upbringing that included the first six grades at a catholic school. The Catholics borrowed from Aristotle who said, Give me a child until he is 7, and I will show you the man. What they did not count on was my mother instilling not only a kind nature but a love for understanding, knowledge, and wisdom. The efforts by the Church to satisfy the questions of a young boy failed to convince. The quest to find out what this is all about? continued through the decades.
I read many books, and trips overseas were taken to temples. They say wisdom comes with age. Finally, I remembered when my mother introduced me to the stars. We would go outside to look up to the sky and look at their beauty. I wondered if the stars held some clue. Thus, the research began on Astro-Theology, also known as the Science of the Stars. To my surprise, there has been a tremendous amount written on the topic. I dived into the ancient manuscripts and books as much as possible.
The book before you represents my current #mostright marker regarding religion and spirituality, especially the Judeo-Christian tradition. It is written primarily for the author himself. If it helps others on their spiritual journey, so much the better.
It may be difficult for future historians who come across this book to understand organized religion's grasp over both individuals and public institutions. Once a magic trick is exposed or learned, it is impossible to go back to seeing things the old way. The spell has been broken at that point. New pathways of understanding and creativity develop as individuals are free with an unshackled mind. By presenting the topics concisely and logically, this work continues in a long line that preceded it. What makes this work unique is the timing. Giordano Bruno had the correct understanding. He was only a few centuries early.
We are currently close to transitioning out of the 2,160 -year Piscean Age into the Age of Aquarius. Pisces has the simplified energy of "I believe," which created 2,160 years of believing. Aquarius is the age of "insight and knowledge." It is an age of increased human wisdom, awareness, and expanding consciousness. This transition into Aquarius coincides with the rising of the information age. The message that Giordano Bruno presented was directed to the clergy, who had a personal stake not to change. The message of Aquarius Rising is not directed to the priestly caste, for they will not read these words anyway. They are for the weary spiritual traveler who has felt duped all these years but cannot quite put their finger on how the magic trick was done.
Aquarius Rising is not meant to cover every aspect of Astro-Theology. Such a work would be extensive and by itself could take decades to write. This work examines some of the significant points regarding Christianity and Judaism and their relationship to heavenly beings. It does not seek to be inclusive of every topic. For the serious student, rest assured that if there is something of interest, it is highly likely that somewhere over the last 2,000 years, it has been explained and written about.
If there is something the reader feels is missing, no apology is offered. The bibliography provided in the Appendix will help the reader start doing their own research and drawing their conclusions.
Aquarius Rising is a book exploring the Astro-theological foundations of current monotheistic religion. In particular, it examines the astrological foundations of both Christianity and Judaism. Many stories, parables, and festivals are explained astrologically. It has forty-two chapters. The number 42 in contemporary culture references the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
Aquarius Rising
? Section I -Foundations. Presents astrological basics that serve as a foundation for the following sections.
? Section II-Christianity. Illustrates how familiar parables, stories, and Christian Festivals are related to the stars.
? Section III - Judaism.Examines Jewish traditions considering the heavenly movements.
? Section IV - Culture.Examines the historical culture clash between the partnership and dominator cultures. It also looks at the role of the Priesthood and Monotheism in todays dominator culture. The final chapter introduces tools that may assist in a spiritual journey.
As we cast our gaze back to the foundations of modern religious faiths, we should consider the times in which they developed. Recall that the printing press was invented in 1436. The literacy rate was likely minuscule and limited to the religious clergy or the wealthy. Considering a historical perspective, literacy levels for the world population have risen drastically in the last couple of centuries. While only 12% of the people in the world could read and write in 1820, today, the share has reversed: only 12% of the world population, in 2020, remained illiterate.
Imagine yourself in 1820. How is leadership to communicate with a poor, uneducated population who cannot read nor write and with thus likely limited ability to reason? Now imagine yourself in the year the printing press was invented, 1436. You have the same issues, only much worse.
Now go back to 2000 B.C.E. How many people were educated then? What was life like? Imagine yourself part of an agrarian community that was dependent upon nature for rain and good weather for your crops to grow. Your Semite community raises multiple things: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, dates, lentils, fava beans, chickpeas, leeks, peas, garlic, onions, black radishes, and muskmelons.
Your life depends on the successful sewing, growing, harvesting, and storage of these items. Failure to do this work once spring starts and the difficulties of the dark and cold of the winter could prove fatal. The winter months are a challenge as you do not have electricity, running water, or refrigeration. There were no toilets such as known today, your floor is dirt, though you may have a carpet. There are no glass windows. Moreover, you have one or two sets of clothes that you will wear all fall and winter. Under such conditions, disease can take root and run rampant.
There are elders or leaders of your group. They seem to have a better idea of things than the general population. How would these leaders deal with a poor, uneducated, and unsophisticated population? How would they care for them? How would they communicate with and motivate their population?
Astro-Theology is an ancient system first discovered by those who raised their eyes to the starry night containing the basic principles from which all doctrines and sacerdotal systems radiate. As Leonardo da Vinci said, There is nothing new under the sun. The reader will see that every religion has an astrological foundation. Every science springs from the human mind and those starry realms.
It is not right to coerce or impose opinions on others. This work does not seek to do so. The path to enlightenment is walked by those who actively search for something missing that their soul desires to merge itself with. When it comes to religion, people become very territorial. Often, they feel as if it is a personal affront or attack. The usual response is to immediately defend their traditional beliefs as they have been conditioned.
Some may say, How dare you question the Bible. You must be a demon! This is the reply of those who do not wish to be examined. What they are saying in effect is, How dare you question my authority! Know that if someone takes your spirituality, they have taken it with your permission. No one can force you to give your spirituality away.
Perhaps most do not question their belief system due to rarely encountering or being presented with enough evidence cohesively and logically to rethink things. Aquarius Rising is written for the modern reader, using current language logically, informative, yet concisely.
The rights of others are both recognized and supported. Others are free to follow their own cultural and religious path. This work does NOT advocate forcing anyone to do or follow anything in particular. It is not an attack on any individual or institution. Religion is in the public domain, though. As such, it must necessarily expect public examination about its customs, rituals, holy days, and doctrines.
Adventuring into Astro-Theology may prove uncomfortable for some as it removes the Gnostic veil. Miyamoto Musashi said, Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.May Aquarius Rising empower a few, enabling them to live in greater harmony within the world.
From these things, the sun's path, the planets, the moon, the zodiacal signs, the constellations, the individual stars, the decans, the observation, the mathematics came the myths used to describe nature. Heroes and villains, conquests and slavery, birth, death, and resurrection. These stories inspired humans, helped their survival, and pushed their quest for even greater understanding.
The search for truth looks backward and not forward.Be warned, adventuring is addictive. Extraordinary things are waiting to be discovered. As water eventually wears down stone, the glorious turning of Heaven continues, and even the new priestly caste is powerless before it.
Rico Roho
Crow Mountain, West Virginia
USA
Section I
Foundations
There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names. - Giordano Bruno
1
Looking Up!
The beauty of humans is that repeatedly, we show ourselves determined to wrestle with the universe around us until it surrenders its secrets. Like peeling an onion, there always seems to be more or another level. It is a quest to examine ourselves and others until we have the answer. Then, aware what we have touched upon, we organize and store our discoveries safely and dive back into the waters to bring more things into the light. For me, this tenacious curiosity is the best characteristic a human can have.
Early humans looked up to the sky at night the way people today look down on their cell phones. There were few other entertainments then, and there were a lot of questions. By looking up to the sky, whole mythologies were created. The entire system may be designed as the science of cause and effect in general terms.
As we see them now, up in heaven are the same familiar planets and stars, just as the first parents of the human race gazed upon. They are objects that remain unpolluted from the hand of mankind. They are the only objects that all nations have witnessed and admired. They were there at our birth and will see our funeral. The stars will hold silent watch over our earthly tomb.
The ancients viewed astrology as a combination of two sciences, astronomy and correspondence. Think of these two as being related like hand and glove. The former dealt with the sun, moon, planets, and stars and confined themselves to their size, distance, and motion. The latter dealt with the spiritual and physical influences of the same bodies. Here the ancients directed their attention to agriculture and gave names to the stars derived from their correlation to nature.
Modern humans have lost this connection with the stars. Not only do we have more diversions, but it is also the case that most people do not look up to the night sky anymore. Why? We are just too busy with modern entertainment. Though, it is also because, for the majority of the people, there is not enough to see. The night lighting we have grown fond of creates a "light pollution" of the night sky.
The Bortle scale (also known as the Bottle scale) is a nine-level numeric scale that measures the night sky's brightness of a particular location. It quantifies the astrological observability of celestial objects and the interference caused by light pollution. If you look up at the night sky and cannot see anything, you are at a Bortle 9. If you look up at the night sky and can only see a few of the major constellations, such as the Big Dipper, you are at Bortle 7. This is where most of us are today. It is no wonder that the stars have lost their ability to inspire most of the current population.
Today Australia is often considered the best place to travel to for the dark skies necessary for Astro-Tourism. When I observed a Bortle 1, the excellent rating for the dark night sky, it was on the Crimea peninsula. This night sky was magical.
Here are the characteristics of a Bortle 1-night sky.
? Thezodiacal lightis visible and colorful
? The gegenschein (counterglow)is visible
? The zodiacal band is visible
? Airglowis readily visible
? The ScorpionandSagittariusregions of theMilky Waycast obvious shadows
? Many constellations, particularly fainter ones, are barely recognizable amid a large number of stars
? ManyMessierandglobular clustersare naked-eye objects
? M33(the Triangulum Galaxy) is a direct visionnaked-eyeobject
? Limiting magnitudewith 12.5in (32cm)reflectoris 17.5 (with effort)
? Venus and Jupiter affect dark adaptation
For the ancients, these nightly visitors burned brightly. To see the Milky Way in all its grandeur is genuinely something memorable. Humans became good at reading the stars.
Star knowledge existed previous to the Sumerian and Egyptian cultures. What knowledge we do have comes from their texts.Directions for Knowing All Things Darkis an ancient Egyptian mathematic textbook also known by its ancient title, The Rhind Papyrus. The original document was written almost three and a half thousand years ago by Ahmos (his name means moon born). It is a copy of a then thousand-year-old text that contained mathematical knowledge of the Egyptian priesthood. It was only by mathematical prowess that a scribe could consider himself a master. In this regard, the Egyptians followed in the footsteps of the Sumerians. The latter believed that only by mastering mathematics could one consider themselves master of nam-lu-ulu, for the condition for being human. Mathematics was the very heart of both the Sumerian and Egyptian curricula.
The ancient Egyptians depended on the annual flooding of the Nile River for their survival. From the Rhind Papyrus we know that river scribes monitored this most important aspect of their kingdom. They would read the river's depth gauges and report the water level. Astronomer-priests keep calendars to prepare citizens for the helical rising of that Dog Star Sirius. This was the moment when Sirius's position to Earth was far enough away from the Sun so that it could be seen again. When it was seen, it "barked its warning" that THIS was the last day of preparation for dyke repair and canal dredging. This remarkable correspondence led Egyptians to compare the stars action to that of the animal who, by his barking, gives notice of danger. He called this star the dog, the barker, Sirius.
In this way, they named the stars. The crab, who when the sun arrived at the tropic, retreated by a slow retrograde motion like the crab. The wild goat Capricorn, where the sun, having reached the highest point in his annual tract, rests at the summit and imitates the goat, who delights in climbing the summit of rocks. They named stars of the balance, Libra, those where the days and nights, being equal, seemed in equilibrium, like that of the weight measuring instrument. The Scorpion stars were those where winds come like the burning venom of the Scorpion. The bull spreads over the earth in spring and restores vegetation and plenty. The lamb (or ram) delivers the skies from the evil powers of winter. He restores the empire of goodness (summer, joyful season). Aquarius, the water bearer, brings the rains.
Similarly, he called the rings and traced the orbits of the stars and the planets. Such was the general mode of naming all the stars and the planets. Groups or individuals took them according to their relations with animal husbandry and terrestrial objects. Also, according to the analogies each nation found between them and its particular soil and climate objects. The history of all languages is nearly the same.
On the borders of the upper Nile, it was then, among a magnificent race of people, a system of the worship of the stars was organized, related to work done in agriculture. This was some of the first worship proceeding from the human mind. In the beginning, this original system was understood by everyone.
Agriculture soon became the sole employment of a learned class of experts, the first priesthood. They became well acquainted with the significant phenomena of nature. They became the culture experts, the intellectual few who could read the movement of the elements and interpret relationships in nature. These men were exempt from common labor, and society provided for their service on account of their unique knowledge and understanding.
In addition to this seasonal time-keeping aspect, this early Astro-religion represented God as spirit (non-matter) and the originating Source. The early priests saw things move in cycles. Thus, they believed that Earthly life is not the final stage but one of the movements within a more extensive, repeating cycle that eventually reunites with Source.
Over time, when the calendar had been regulated, the majority of people no longer had any need to observe the heavens. The original allegories in everyday use became a fatal obstacle to understanding. They lost sight of the original meaning of these expressions. Habituated to associate the symbols of ideas with their archetypes, they gradually believed that these were gods among them and could pray to them to continue their work.
The priesthood conceived magic ceremonies to introduce figures or idols to the influences of superior beings, after which they were modeled. In this performance of worship, theywere obliged to be dressed in the proper color. In this way, these early astrologers-priests by their practices introduced idolatry. They were desirous of being regarded as dispensing the favors from heaven.
This early priesthood succeeded in persuading the people that the rain and other blessings of the seasons were at their disposal. The art of agriculture was exercised by astrology rules. The priests made talismans or charms to drive away locusts, flies, etc. The priests of Egypt, Persia, India, etc., pretended to bind the Gods to their idols and make them come from heaven at their pleasure. They threatened the sun and moon if they were disobedient. The method used to communicate this knowledge was laborious oral instruction. They transmitted it only to their relations and friends. It followed, therefore, that all science and teaching were confined to a few families who viewed it as an exclusive privilege, and they assumed a professional distinction.
2
The Zodiac
The ancients called their system of the Science of the Stars the Zodiac. The word Zodiac is from the Greek Zoidiakos which is not from the word zoe, which means to live. Zoidiakos is from a primitive root from the Hebrew Sodi, which means a way in Sanskrit. Given this, it is interesting to note that in Acts 24:14, early Christians were said to be followers of The Way.
However, I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect. Acts 24:14
Thus, the etymology of the Zodiac has no connection with living creatures but denotes the way or path the sun appears to move among the stars during the year.
This Astro-Theology or Astrology grew from two sciences; astronomy and correspondences. Astronomy deals with the sun, moon, planets, and stars and confines itself to their size, distance, and motion. Correspondence deals with the physical and spiritual influences these same bodies have upon the Earth, in other words, how light and its angles/angels interact with our Earthly realm. It has been said that Astronomy is the lifeless external glove; correspondences the living hand within.
This Astrology in its pure form becomes a system of divination and is not connected with fortune-telling. The keen observation and application of intellect and intuition blended harmoniously. When this union became complete, the individual became a priest of great understanding. Initially, at least, this knowledge became a great liberator. The Ancients had a saying, It is the Wise Man who rules his stars, and the fool who blindly obeys them. Humans still had primacy over the knowledge they were gathering.
It became known that someone good at interpreting the star movements had the gift of Prophecy. At the time, it was understood that this original form of Prophecy did not pertain to future human activity. The Gift of Prophecy pertained to understanding future movements of celestial entities.
The ancients viewed the planets and stars as magnetic instruments of the seven creative principles.They saw the Sun as the primary life-giver, the bringer of warmth and deliverance from the cold of the winter. Without the Sun, there would be no life at all. In the heat of the spring and summer, life blossomed. They viewed this as a force that acted upon the planets and stars the same way. Remove the Sun from our system and the planets would lose their physical influence and die as well.
So, the sum total of those powers, called planetary influences, are contained within the solar ray. But the ancients also felt the planets played a key role. For the Sun to become potent and give its life-giving warmth, this solar force needed to become refracted into active attributes. This is the role the ancients assigned to the six planets visible to them. The Sun was absolute active potency, one active energy whose potency is embraced in the orange ray of the light spectrum. Each planetary body had its own unique energy and were radiators of energy they received from the Sun. These energies were of a distinct color and potency; each is particular to itself.
The sun is the most obvious example but for the ancients, the sum total of powers of planetary influences combined and contained the entire potentiality of the solar ray. The energies of each planet were noted as distinctive as to color and potency, and each one was unique. Here is how the Ancients characterized the seven different celestial orbs visible to them. They exerted their influences in the following order:
The Seven Primary Spheres
The Planet Saturn n
Saturn absorbs energy which expresses itself as coldness. It thus produces a nature that is slow and meditative, solitary and reserved. It has selfish sentiments such as comparison, causality, acquisitiveness, and secrecy. Its force corresponds to the blue ray of the light spectrum.
The Planet Jupiter i
Jupiter absorbs and radiates energy best described as noble, generous, and jovial. It focuses on the more generous side of human nature, such as benevolence, spirituality, and hope. It hits a happy medium between fast and slow, between meditative and thoughtful, between the hermit and the easy to access. The personality is cheerful and generous. Its benevolent light sheds love upon all it surrounds. This force corresponds to the purple or indigo ray of the light spectrum.
The Planet Mars m
Mars absorbs and radiates with a sharp, energetic, thoughtless, intrepid, and fierce influence. It has neither fear nor timidity and is free from everything and everyone. The force of Mars is fiery, imperious, combative, and unrelenting. This energy corresponds to the red ray of the light spectrum.
The Sun j
The Sun is the Lord of material creation. The Sun absorbs and radiates the principle that is life-giving and dignified. Just as Jupiter is a happy medium between the energy exerted by Saturn and Mars, the Sun sends forth an influence best described as a happy medium between Jupiter and Mars. It is affable but majestic, proud, and gracious. It blends firmness with kindness, ambition with paternal considerations. The energy of the Sun corresponds to the orange ray of the light spectrum.
Earth k Our life sustaining home.
The Planet Venus l
Venus absorbs and radiates the love element of nature. It governs those faculties that express themselves as friendship and agreeability. This influence is warm internally and externally pliable, receptive, and feminine. It is the energy that yields to nature more positive than its own with loving submission. Thus, the myths of the friendship between Mars and Venus. This energy corresponds to the yellow ray of the light spectrum.
The Planet Mercury o
Mercury was seen as a compound of all the other planets of the spectrum. Hence it became designated as the messenger of the gods. It became noted for an intellectual and scientific side. It is quick and active, enterprising, bright, witty, and changeable. Its activities often include weight, color, order, calculation, and language. It is what we would call today a quick learner. This energy corresponds to the violet ray of the light spectrum.
The Moon s
The moon is not considered one of the seven primary planetary orbs but governs semi-intellectual qualities. It is credited with having desirable attributes of character and time related to the female menstrual cycle. This energy corresponds to the green ray of the light spectrum.
What about Neptune x Uranus v Pluto w
The reader may inquire about the planets that were not visible to the Ancients. After the seven notes of the magnetic planets have been sounded, the next note must be upon a different scale. Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto were shining when in the heavens undiscovered, while humankind was impervious to their influence.
After the seven primaries comes Uranus, forming the eighth or an octave expression of the first (Mercury). As such, it is typically agreed upon that this planet rules the higher organs of the brain. Neptune consequently represents Venus on a higher plane. From 1930 to 2006, Pluto was considered the most distant planet in our solar system. Both Eris and Haumea are larger (and more distant) than Pluto, but NASA has defined the term planet to exclude dwarf planets. So, for now, there is no agreement on a tenth planet. The Ancients believed that the 10th planet would represent a higher octave for planet earth and thereby influence the spiritual senses of a more spiritual race of people.
But the planets, Sun, and moon did not exist by themselves. The sun traveled and made its way through other heavenly bodies. These bodies were divided into twelve groups that each contained 30 degrees of arc.
The Major Zodiac Constellations
Aires, the Ram: a A northern constellation usually named as the first sign in the zodiac into which, when the sun enters at the vernal equinox in March (celebrated as Easter) where the days and nights are of equal length. During many ages, Aries has been regarded by the devout as the celestial representative, visible in the heavens, of the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world. Ancient calendars always began with the vernal equinox and the sign of Aires.
Taurus, the Bull: b The second sign in the zodiac. The ancient Egyptians worshiped this constellation as the heavenly representative of their god Osiris. It was likely so named by the Egyptians to designate that period of the year (April) in which cows mostly bring forth their young.
Gemini, the Twins: c The third sign in the zodiac is a constellation visible in May containing the two bright stars named Castor and Pollux. These two stars are the fabled sons of Leda and Jupiter, who cleared the Hellespont and neighboring seas of pirates during their lives. They were therefore deemed the protector of navigators and sailors. Gemini is considered part of spring, and goats give birth during this time, usually giving birth to two at a time.
Cancer, the Crab: d The fourth sign in the zodiac in which the sun enters on the 21st day of June which is the summer solstice. The name represents the apparent backward motion of the sun in June, which is said to resemble the motions of a crab.
Leo, the Lion: e Leo is the fifth sign in the zodiac and contains one star of the first magnitude, Regulus or Cor Leonis the Lions Heart. Leo is the star group, through, which the sun moved in July when its heat was most powerful, being compared to the most ferocious of the beasts. Leo is often portrayed as an enraged lion. In ancient times there were many feasts in honor of the sun.
Virgo, the Virgin Mother, Venus, Eve, Isis: f The sixth sign of the zodiac is when the sun enters about the 21st of August. There are many myths and fables regarding the virgin, which are among all nations and religions. They all agree that the female holds a branch of ripened wheat or fruit in her right hand. This is intended to represent the reproductive powers of nature, the abundance satisfaction that people enjoy during the happy period of harvest.
Libra, the balance: g The seventh sign of the zodiac, directly opposite to Aries, from which it is 180 degrees distant. Libra is marked after the manner of a scale. The scale denotes when the Sun arrives at the ecliptic where the days and nights are equal as if weighed in balance.
The Sun enters Libra on or near September 21st). This is called the autumn equinox. September 25th is when John the Baptist is born. John the Baptist is the forerunner of his cousin Jesus. Jesus comes to his exaltation of glory on March 24th, the Vernal Equinox at Easter. The equinoxes equally mark the births and deaths of John and Jesus. One advanced, the other declined. Jesus ascended; John descended. Astrologically speaking, He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:20.
Scorpio, the Scorpion: h The eighth sign of the zodiac which the sun enters near the 23rd of October. Scorpio is fabled to have killed the great hunter Orion. For this reason, it is also said that when Scorpio rises, Orion sets.
In November in the northern hemisphere, when the sun enters Scorpio, it reaches a red star named Antares. It is one of only four red stars that the ancients noted in the night sky, the other being; Aldebaran, Arcturus, and Betelgeuse. All four were feared by the Ancients because of their different nature. In Christian mythology, Antares represents Judas Iscariot, who betrays Jesus and brings him down to his death. It is said that the sting of a scorpion often resembles the image of a kiss.
Sagittarius, the Archer: i The ninth zodiacal sign corresponds with November. This sign is represented like a centaur and was fabled to be Crotus, the son of Eupheme, the nurse of the Muses.
Sagittarius is the individual with the arrow. He is the one that inflicts punishment on the sun and who is there on the day the sun dies on December 21. It is also Sagittarius and, with his arrow, fatefully injures Achilles (representing the sun) heel as the Winter Solstice shows no mercy.
Capricorn, the Goat: j Capricorn is the tenth sign of the zodiac and occurs when the sun is near the winter solstice, December 21st (the longest night of the year). This sign represents a goat's horns, fabled to be Pan, who was taken to heaven in the shape of a goat in the war of the giants. Capricorn represents his motion after the manner of a goat climbing the mountains. The goat is Capricorn after the winter solstice, climbing as a new ascension begins.
Aquarius, the Water Bearer: k A constellation in the heavens is so-called because there is usually an abundance of rain during its rising. It is the eleventh sign in the zodiac. Aquarius rises in January and sets in February. January is often portrayed by Janus (two faces) looking both to the previous year and forward to the new year.
Pisces, the Fishes: l The twelfth sign of the zodiac rises in February. It is represented by the two fishes tied together by the tails. Fish indicates the fishing season in the northern hemisphere. The Greeks fabled these fishes to be those into which Venus and Cupid were changed to escape the giant Typhon. In Catholic churches, there is usually found a vase filled with water (called Piscina,) and this water is considered holy. The Fish-days are observed as holy days or fasting days in which fish may be eaten, and meat is forbidden.
The Decans
The twelve great Zodiacal signs do not exist alone. Each one has conjoined with the other visible constellations, now called Decans, from the Shemitic dek, meaning "part" or "piece."
The decans (In Egyptian b?ktw or baktiu, meaning "those connected with work") are thirty-six groups of stars (small constellations) used in ancient Egyptian astronomy to divide the 360-degree ecliptic into 36 parts of 10 degrees each. Geocentrically, each decan appeared to rise consecutively on the horizon throughout each daily earth rotation. The rising of each decan marked the beginning of a new decanal "hour" (Greek h?ra) of the night for the ancient Egyptians. They were used as a sidereal star clock beginning at least the 9th or 10th Dynasty (c. 2100 BCE).
The great Arab astronomer and physician, Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, known in the west as Albumazar or Abu Masher (787 886) wrote on the subject of Deacons. Master Jewish philosopher and Astronomer, Abn (sometimes Iban) Ezra (1092-1167) calls Abu Masher the highest authority on the "the Decans and their houses according to the Persians, Babylonians, and Egyptians." He says: "here follow the Decans, which the Arabs in their language call faces. They are three to each sign of the Way." Abn Ezra continues and says: "According to Albumazar, none of these forms from their first invention have varied in coming down to us, nor one of their names changed, not a point added or removed."
Southy, in The Doctor, states that in Egypt every month was supposed to be under the care of three Decans.1 Thirty-six of these, east superintending ten days, and these Decans were believed to exercise influence.
The Decans can be distinguished by the fact that those belonging to any particular sign come upon the meridian or close along the meridian line, simultaneously with the sign to which they belong. Albumazar enumeration of the Decans is fully credited by Aben Ezra. Decans also play a part in the mythological tales of each Zodiacal sign. A complete treatment of this topic is beyond the scope of this work.
The Decans are presented here as a reference for further study and show how they associate with mythology.2
The Decans of Aries.
? Cassiopeia, the woman, enthroned.
? Cetus, the Sea-monster, strongly bound by the Lamb.
? Perseus, an armed and mighty man with winged feet, is carrying away in triumph the cut-off head of the monster Medusa filled with withering serpents and holding a great sword aloft in his right hand.
The Decans of Taurus.
? Orion, a glorious Prince, with a sword girded on his side, and his foot on the head of a Serpent;
? Eridanus, the tortuous River, accounted as belonging to Orion.
? Auriga, the Wagoner, or Shepherd, carrying a she-goat and two little goats on his left arm and holding cords or bands in his right hand.
The Decans of Gemini.
? Lepus, the hare, in some nations a serpent, the mad enemy under Orions feet;
? Canis Major, Sirius, the Great Dog, the Prince coming.
? Canis Minor, Procyon, the second Dog, follows Sirius and Orion.
The Decans of Cancer.
? Ursa Minor, anciently the lesser Sheepfold, close to and including the Pole.
? Ursa Major, anciently the Greater Sheepfold, connected with Arcturus, the guardian and keeper of the flock.
? Argo, the Ship, the company of travelers under the bright Canopus, the Prince, the Argonauts returned with the Golden Fleece.
The Decans of Leo.
? Hydra, the fleeing Serpent, trodden underfoot by the Crab and Lion.
? Crater, the Cup or Bowl of Wrath on the Serpent.
? Corvus, the Raven or Crow, the Bird of Doom, Tearing the Serpent.
The Decans of Libra.
? The Cross, over which Centaur is advancing, is called the Southern Cross.
? Victim of Centaur, slain, pierced to death.
? The Crown, which the Serpent aims to take, is called the Northern Crown.
The Decans of Scorpio.
? The Serpent, struggling with Ophiuchus.
? Ophiuchus, wrestling with the Serpent, stung in one heel by the Scorpion and crushing it with the other.
? Hercules, wounded in his heel, the other foot over the Dragons head, holding in one hand the Golden apples and the three-headed Dog of hell, and in the other the uplifted club.
The Decans of Sagittarius.
? Lyra, an Eagle, holding the lyre, as triumphant gladness.
? Ara, the Altar, burning downward.
? Draco, the Dragon, the old Serpent, winding himself about the pole in horrid links and contortions.
The Decans of Capricornus
? Sagitta, the Arrow, or killing dart sent forth, the naked shaft of death.
? Aquila, the Eagle, pierced and falling.
? Delphinus, the Dolphin, springing up, raised out of the sea.
The Decans of Aquarius.
? The Southern Fish, drinking in the stream.
? Pegasus, a white horse, winged and speeding, as with good tidings.
? Cygnus, the Swan on the wing, going and returning, bearing the sign of the cross.
The Decans of Pisces.
? The Band, holding up the Fishes and held by the Lamb, its doubled end fast to the neck of Cetus, the Sea-monster.
? Cepheus, a crowned king, holding a band and scepter, with his foot planted on the polestar as the great Victor and Lord.
? Andromeda is a woman in chains and threatened by the serpents of Medusas head.
The Four Triplicities.
These trigons correspond to the four ancient elements. They are Fiery, Earthy, Airy, and Watery. Each triplicity or trigon contains three zodiacal signs. These are:
Fire
Earth
Air
Water
Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Aquarius
Pisces
The four ancient elements have been symbolized as the Man, the Bull, the Eagle, and the Lion from time immemorial. Taken together, they are spiritual rays, and when these rays become refracted by passing through the prism of matter, their truth becomes an illusion. Life becomes limited by assuming an appearance that dissipates in death.
Fire
This element is dynamic, enthusiastic, and passionate. People who reflect on it tend to appreciate movement and spontaneity and access their imagination for creative problem-solving. They frequently search for action and adventure while pushing the limits of their boundaries.
Air
Air energy often has a changeable nature common to cerebral and intellect-driven individuals. This energy is often witty and thoughtful but also prone to over-thinking. They are sociable creatures who draw energy from communicating and forming alliances with others.
Earth
Earth people are grounded, solid, and practical. Earth energy is profoundly sensual. People with substantial earth energy are often resistant to change and appreciate routines and rituals. They often desire material comforts and success.
Water
Watery people enjoy fluidity and freedom. They are nonlinear and usually receptive to changes in their environments. They are often creative and artistic.
Cardinal Fixed Mutable Signs
Cardinal Signs
Fixed Signs
Mutable Signs
Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Aquarius
Pisces
The term cardinal number comes from the Latin cardinalis, which means "principal, chief, essential," a figurative use, literally "pertaining to a hinge," from cardo (genitive cardinis) "that on which something turns or depends; pole of the sky," originally "door hinge," which is of unknown origin. Thus, the cardinal signs are key hinge points in the yearly zodiacal cycle.
Fixed signs come in the middle of each season: Taurus in the middle of spring, Leo in summer, Scorpio in fall, and Aquarius in the winter. One can consider such signs as "workhorses" of the zodiac. Fixed signs take over the project once the cardinal sign has passed, keeping the momentum going.
Mutable signs are at the end of their quarterly cycle and can be thought of as "editors" at the end.
As Above, So Below. As Below, So Above.
Over time the Ancients also notice that man is a microcosm, a universe within himself, reflecting the Infinite Universe, the Macrocosm. The twelve signs of the zodiac were divided into sections of the human body. The entire zodiacal belt was symbolized as a man bent round in the form of a circle. The soles of the feet are placed against the back of the head. Each of the twelve signs contained 30 degrees of space, making a whole circle of 360 degrees. This 360 became the symbol of completion. When 3 and 6 are added together, they make 9, thus 3+6=9, which is the highest unit we possess and became the sacred number of the Deity.
Here is the zodiac and the aspects of the human body they represent.
Aries
Head
Taurus
Mouth and Throat
Gemini
Arms
Cancer
Chest
Leo
Heart
Virgo
Belly
Libra
Kidneys
Scorpio
Generative Organs
Sagittarius
Thighs
Capricorn
Knees
Aquarius
Shins
Pisces
Feet
This symbolism relating to the twelve zodiac signs and the human body is viewed as important. The human body can be considered a type of instrument while the sun, moon, and stars are the strings. Our bodies become sounding boards for the celestial notes struck by the starry musicians, the Music of the Spheres.
Next we enter into how light, and its electromagnetic properties interact with Earth and the environment in which humans find themselves. In this system, the stars and planets become the magnetic instruments of the seven creative principles.
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Light Angels / Light Angles
Having discussed the major astrological players (the orbs), it becomes our duty to explain how the Ancients viewed their interactions and influences upon each other. This dual action of one force constitutes the two modes by which every cosmic principle expresses itself, action and its polar opposite, re-action. In Earth's physical plane, their effects correlate as harmony and discord.
The powers of harmony and discord possess forms peculiar to themselves. In Astrological science, these forms are called angular and denominated aspects.
The more perfect or complete the light angle is, the greater its influence exerts upon matter. The symbol of discord is the square. For the ancients, every inharmonious angular ray constitutes a portion of the square or an angle of 90 degrees. The symbol of harmony is the trine or angle of 120 degrees.
Here we have two geometric expressions that have the words closed and open in them. In the ancient past the angles of the 90-degree square were associated more with the in drawing of nature while the triangle came to represent the outward expansion of nature. Over time the ancients came to anthropomorphize these two concepts as a struggle between decay and growth, dark and light. Thus, the angles of light became the ANGELS of light and darkness when personified. One step further and it was good versus evil.
Observe that the discordant rays of the magnetic force strike each other crossways from opposing angles. For this imagine a cross shape [+]. This angular intersection produces conflict and violent commotion. There is a fight in the currents between the two powers. A contrary result is made in the action of the beneficial rays of the magnetic force. They impinge upon each other differently. Here imagine a chevron type of shape [^], like two forks of a river that meet, unite in their force, and then flow onward harmoniously. Its almost as mathematics is alive in a way that humans do not yet fully comprehend. The entire angular aspects are illustrated in the below diagram.3
Each aspect can be formed from any point in the celestial zodiac, both direct and converse. When the combinations of stellar force flow in straight lines and cut through each other from cross angles, the result upon the physical plane is that which we term decay or evil. When the rays of force flow in straight but convergent angles from or towards each other, the effects are harmony, love, growth, and prosperity.
Here is a more modern approach to thinking about what the Ancients conveyed with their system of light angles. Imagine the square as representing even numbers and the triangle as representing odd numbers. It is hard to draw shapes with one or two sides; instead, they used three and four as iconic representations. The even numbers (square) represent freezing or a type of stasis. The odd numbers (triangle) represent growth or a type of expansion.
Here is a present-day example, if voters ever got a third party into office, things would change. We know this, but things remain in stasis since it is a two party system. If there is a case to be made for monarchy or dictatorship it's that at least they settle disputes quickly, and a sort of flow or movement would ensue.
Now take this another step further. The theory of resonant frequencies seeks to model the universe using passive resonance as their fundamental unit of construction. It defines complex structures as compositions of these basic instruments into two types of basic instruments. It comes up quite frequently at all scales of physics, from particles to celestial bodies: Open and Closed Columns.
The modern reader may scoff that the angles of light have anything to do with things, yet the ancients took this very seriously. Consider again the above illustration. Say you have an environment with much vegetation. Suppose you make careful observations and take notes of the condition of these plants at various times. Suppose you note that the best freshness appears one hour after sunrise. Three hours later, there is a contrast; the same contrast is seen at dusk, then at midnight, then again at the coldest part of the day, two hours before dawn. You note these facts, yet the Earth is at the same distance relative to the Sun. It is only the ANGLE at which we, the inhabitants, receive the Sun's light that makes all the difference between sunrise, noon, sunset, and midnight.
Now add to that, it is sunrise, noon, sunset, and midnight at the same instant, all of the time to some of the various, different portions of Earth. It demonstrates conclusively that the Earth itself is enveloped in a complete circle of conditions that the twelve signs of the celestial Zodiac gaze down upon.
When the Sun reaches the celestial equator, it is equal day and night on Earth, that is the line of the celestial horizon, the cosmic sunrise. Thus, Aires begins its active influx and extends for thirty degrees, which is two hours of daylight. It is then that life awakens, and you have the joyful sounds of the birds.
With the warmth of the Sun, many plants open up to welcome its warmth. This corresponds with the sign Taurus that is thirty degrees removed from the equilibrium point toward the north. The ancients viewed this sign as absorption, quietly taking in the stream of solar life.
Another thirty degrees and the solar influx comes from another angle, and the polarity is different. All things become active. This corresponds to the sign Gemini, which is sixty degrees removed from the equilibrium point.
Then comes another change. It is noon and a time for rest from labor. This corresponds to Cancer which is ninety degrees removed from the equilibrium toward the north. But it is also the point of equilibrium of life forces.
After Cancer, the fiery influx begins, and we are at the hottest part of the day. For the ancients, this was about two hours after the noon hour. This is when the solar influx is most potent within the Zodiac. This corresponds to the sign Leo and is 120 degrees from the point of equilibrium and thirty degrees to the south.
This daily trip through the Zodiac continues until Pisces, the last one, is reached. Pisces corresponds to the watery skies of February and the lifeless two hours before dawn.
The Zodiac, the science of astrology, has the Sun as its foundation as it is the source of life to the planet and the twelve signs. The twelve signs are the 30 degrees of arc each one occupies as our Earth's annual orbit around her solar parent proceeds. Just as each sunrise is different in its aspects, no two signs of the Zodiac are alike. The sunrise on the first of March is vastly different from the first of August. It is also this way with the beginning and end of each sign. Each is particular unto itself.
The ancients saw Sun's journey through the Zodiac as a perfect analogy between the expression of life on Earth and the life of humankind. Humans have their sunrise, the beginning of a new day, the seedtime, the flowering, the ripening fruits of experience, the harvest time, the gradual decay, the ebbing of life, and the icy winter of death. In addition, men and women also make the annual journey about the solar center.
At the beginning of each new year, the life forces of the soul are renewed and energized. So, for the Ancients, every life form has its Zodiac, its orbit of destiny on its particular plane. The ancients' leap from here was that the whole universe is one organism. The medium of expression for the visible and invisible the soul and God, the great central Sun, the eternal center of all life, binding the while into unity, into one life.
The Zodiacal symbols only watch over humankind. Mother earth and her motion around the Sun make our seasons, the years, and reveals our destiny. The astrological Zodiac of Jupiter or Venus cannot be like Earths. Their years and seasons are unique to themselves. Thus, our starry friends who keep eternal watch over us are shining unalterable symbols of esoteric truth.
The open and closed angles also lead to another interesting point. Later, we will see how the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Semitics, and finally the Jews lived by a very structured system of calendar menologies that covered every aspect of life. Some days were good for certain things. Other days certain things were bad. Some days it was permissible to do some action; other days, it was prohibited. It is likely these calendar menologies have their roots in these angles as the ancient astrologers looked at the night sky and developed their correspondence system. The prohibition of working on the Sabbath also has its roots in these starry angles. This topic of menologies will be covered in more detail in the section on Judaism.
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Precession of the Equinoxes
As one enters Astro-Theology, it is necessary to understand the precession of the equinoxes. The precession of the equinoxes is the motion of the equinoxes along the ecliptic (the plane of Earth's orbit) causedby the cyclic precession of Earth's axis of rotation.This motion is called precession and consists of a cyclic wobbling in the orientation of Earth's axis of rotation, with a complete cycle taking 25,920 years to complete as it passes through the twelve signs of the zodiac. The 25,920 year cycle or circle is complete at 360 degrees.
Precession of the Equinoxes
By dividing the total cycle of 25,920 years by the twelve astrological signs, each astrological age equals 2,160 years. Each age also represents approximately 30 degrees of the 2,160 year cycle. The precession moves westward through the zodiac from the thirtieth degree of a sign backward. The Ancients called this westward progression of the zodiac through a complete revolution of 25,920 years the Great Year.
Many throughout history have noted philosophical attitudes coincide closely with this precessional cycle. Accordingly, leaders who are the chief advocates of the zodiacal sign of that particular age are preferred for dominance in world affairs for that era.
A chart of the cycles is as follows: :
Virgo
Commenced
13086 BC
Leo
Commenced
10926 BC
Cancer
Commenced
8766 BC
Gemini
Commenced
6606 BC
Taurus
Commenced
4446 BC
Aires
Commenced
2286 BC
Pisces
Commenced
126 BC
Aquarius
Will Commence
2034 AD
Capricorn
Will Commence
4194 AD
Sagittarius
Will Commence
6354 AD
Scorpio
Will Commence
8514 AD
Libra
Will Commence
10674 AD
Moving along the precession of Equinoxes, we are on the verge of transitioning out of the 2,160-year age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius. Pisces has the simplified energy of "I believe," which created 2,160 years of believing. Aquarius is the age of "insight and knowledge." The Age of Aquarius is said to be an Age when the waters of life (knowledge) flow freely onto humankind. It is an era where today's mysteries become tomorrow's collective understanding, a New Age of Enlightenment. It is to be an age of increased human wisdom, awareness, and expanding consciousness where philosophical differences are tolerated and respected. This transition into Aquarius coincides with the expansion of the technological information age we have entered, where the gods' gifts are once again given to humanity.
It is understood that, at the moment, the consciousness of many rests lightly upon the surface. It is the difference between exoteric and esoteric, between believing and knowing. There will be many unable or unwilling to shake ancient prejudices.
The reader should not expect a revelation of some mysterious divine secret that will instantly convey the power of reading the past, realizing the influences of the present, and foreseeing future events. Instead, they should expect a clear and concise statement of nature's immutable laws, which require both study and application. This can be approached only with unprejudiced thought.
Astro Theology does not imply fatality. Instead, when people are ignorant of nature's laws, they are like a lifeless log floating on a stream. Various currents may carry him safely to the river's mouth and launch him uninjured into the great Ocean of Eternity. What is more likely is that the winding course of the river of life will land him into a mud bank where he may sit for the remainder of his days. Or he may be dashed by a whirlpool upon the rocks. But when an individual understands the laws of being, it is like being safe aboard a boat and can use the boat's steering to avoid collisions.
The Ancients had a saying, The heavenly bodies urge, predispose and influence, but they do not compel. It is the Wise Man who rules his stars and the fool who blindly obeys them. Thus Astro Theology in its pure form, though forming a system of divination, is entirely unconnected with fortune telling. At its core, before corruption and obfuscation by the Priesthood, it is a divine science of correspondences where intellect and intuition become blended harmoniously. When this union reaches its peak, the individual becomes a prophetic sage. As Job 38:32 states, one can recognize and call forth the Mazzaroth (which means Constellations) in their appropriate season.
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The Pyramids and the Sphinx
It is likely that the builders of the Pyramids did so to draw future civilizations on earth's attention to the critical astronomical cycle of our planet, the precession of the equinoxes. Doing this meant the message they intended was vitally important.
If you pick a star in the sky, it will be one degree off 72 years later. It will take 25,920 years for this to complete its orbit. This 25,920 year span represents the precession of the equinoxes cycle.
To precisely locate the earth in the universe, early astronomers used zodiac constellations which are a simple means to observe the positions of the stars. The constellations the eyes of the Great Sphinx look at have shifted over time.
The pyramids' four angles refer to the four Zodiacal signs; Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. Scorpio was often represented by the ancients as an eagle, and Aquarius by an angel. Four stars are assigned to those four signs. These are the brightest star in each constellation, and together, they are known as the "Four Guardians of Heaven." (As indicated by the arrows).
? Aldebaran (in Taurus) the guardian of the eastern sky as it predates the vernal equinox.
? Regulus (in Leo) Summer Solstice the guardian of the northern sky, as it pre-announces the summer solstice.
? Antares (in Scorpio) Autumnal Equinox the guardian of the western sky, as it predates the autumn equinox.
? Fomalhaut (in the top of Pisces today, but in the ancient world, it was considered as part of Aquarius until modern Astrologers moved it.) The guardian of the southern sky, as it pre-announces the winter solstice.
These four celestial bodies keep the position between them and are used as steady reference points through time.
The Taurus Scorpio axis, formally known as the Taurus Eagle axis, was depicted by the Babylonians as a winged bull.
According to the ancients, the Leo Aquarius axis is the Lion Angel axis. Its representation is close by on the Giza plateau, the Sphinx, a man's head on a lion's body.
According to prevailing theory, though an increasing number of geologists now disagree, the Sphinx was built after the Great Pyramid, and the two monuments are not correlated. The site's weathering pattern on the walls surrounding the Sphinx and geometry challenge this assertion. Here are two examples.
Shown above is a triangle, proportioned to the Great Pyramid, only five times bigger. This triangle links the summit of the Great Pyramid to the summit of the small pyramid on one side, and on the other goes through the Sphinx's head.
Above is outlined the square base of the Great Pyramid.
Now we slide that outline over to the right so that it is against the original base. The axis running through the right side hits the Sphinx head again at the same spot.
Next, suppose we trace a circle whose center is the junction between two lines from pyramid tops (indicated by the left and center stars). In that case, the circle not only runs through the two pyramid tops but also the Sphinx head as well.
There is every indication that the ancient Egyptians wanted to draw our attention to the Sphinx. They wanted us to understand that it is an astronomical clock whose dial was the four steady reference points, the Four Guardians. The Four Guardians, or as they came to be known in the Christian Era of Pisces, was also called the Four Royal Stars, or theArchangel Stars.
? Michael - Aldebaran the guardian of the eastern sky as it predates the vernal equinox.
? Raphael - Regulus (in Leo) the guardian of the northern sky, as it pre-announces the summer solstice.
? Uriel - Antares (in Scorpio) the guardian of the western sky, as it predates the autumn equinox.
? Gabriel - Fomalhaut the guardian of the southern sky, as it pre-announces the winter solstice.
This clock turns itself around in 25,920 years. And you can find the earth's position at any given moment in this cycle by the gaze of the Sphinx. With an immensely long cycle, you may say you wouldn't know where that cycle begins. Where does the precessional equinox cycle begin? Here, the ancients left us another clue.
The Arabs call this bump on the Sphinxs chest Al kalb Al Assad. Al kalb Al Assad is also the name the Arabs call the brightest star in the constellation of Leo. It is their name for Regulus. It can be interpolated that when the eyes of the Sphinx are directly lined up with Regulus then a new procession of the Equinoxes begins.
For much of its history, the Sphinx has remained an enigma. The Arabs call the SphinxAbul haul, which means fearful, horrible, dreadful, frightening. There is something people want others to know. Why draw our attention to this 25,920-year cycle. Is it possible that the ancients noted cycles of major earthly catastrophes as they made their way around the precession? Plato mentioned the destruction of Atlantis. Aristotle noted earthly upheaval happening on earth and in the sky as seeming to correspond.
Speculation
Modern science dated the last significant climate change 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Climates in many zones were altered, fast enough to freeze mammoths with food still in their stomachs. Could it have something to do with the magnetic pole and its regular reversals? These will be topics for future researchers. Given the tremendous efforts the ancients went to draw our attention to the precession of the Equinoxes, it is likely they had a very good reason to send us these messages. Were the first Astrologers the guardians of ancient knowledge that had come through some cataclysm? Consider climate change. Could this be tied to the precession of the equinoxes?
Above is a graph of the planetary cooling approximately 15,000 years ago. The earth was warming as it emerged from the last great ice age. The warming trend reversed, and temperatures in North America plunged by 10 degrees Celsius and remained low for 1,300 years when the temperature quickly rose. This colder period is called the Younger Dryas in honor of Dryas Octapetela. Dryas Octapetela is a flower that thrives in an aortic tundra-type environment and whose pollen is found in Younger Dryas deposits.
Before Younger Dryas, the continent teemed with wildlife. But many species, including the Pleistocene Megafauna, went extinct. In the past, only two competing ideas have been put forth to account for this mass loss of life.
The first theory is that primitive humans slaughtered these animals. This theory is nicknamed the Overkill Theory. The second is that it was due to the cold of the Younger Dryus. This is called the Over Chill Theory. The majority of scientists agree on the Over Chill theory but debate what caused it. Many scientists are eager to blame the cooling on an extraterrestrial impact yet offer no evidence.
In From Light into Darkness, Stephen Mehler points out that the Egyptian oral wisdom tradition dates the Sphinx to over 52,000 years. This would mean that the Sphinx has gone through two precessional cycles. The significant age of the Sphinx would explain weather patterns around it that indicate existing in a much wetter and rainy environment. It also means people must have observed at least some part of a previous cycle in order to observe and understand the precessional movements. This is consistent with Egyptian oral tradition, indicating that Khemitian culture began around 65,000 years ago. It would also leave enough time for the peoples of that ancient time to make their observations of the cycles. What they noted must have made a significant impression. The building of the Sphinx was no small matter. Creating time lasting monument like the Sphinx required a significant effort to draw our attention to the Precession of the Equinoxes.
The Prophecy of the Sphinx
Many people may have heard about the riddle of the Sphinx. Likely they thought it as something unimaginable to comprehend. When examined in the light of the Science of the Stars, one can understand the Sphinx. One aspect is that it functions as a giant astrological clock. There is another equally valid option.
There is no riddle to the Sphinx; there is only a Prophecy of the Sphinx. It is a prophecy of love from the past. It speaks of a time past and a time to return in its proper cycle. The Prophecy of the Sphinx is about ancient adversaries of light and dark, finding unification in the wake of the new human story. It serves as a reminder of a golden past and for that time to come again.
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Egyptians / Khemit on Consciousness
Regarding the move into the Age of Aquarius and what that means as an age tending to wisdom, lets examine how the ancient Egyptians / Khemitians viewed consciousness as cyclic.
The transition into the Age of Aquarius closely approximates the move into the Egyptian Age of the Awakening and the beginning of a new 65,000-year major cycle.
Here we again look at the sun as going through five stages. These stages are:
Khepher
Dawn
The Driller
Ra
Noon
The Stubborn
Oon
Early to mid-afternoon
The Wise
Aten
Late afternoon to twilight
The Wiser
Amen
Night - darkness
The Hidden
These five stages represent both epochs of human history and stages of consciousness. The scarab beetle symbolizes Khepher and represents the birth of consciousness at dawn.
Ra is symbolized by the ram and is characterized as the preliminary stages of consciousness. Oon is represented by a man standing upright with a staff and stands for adult or mature consciousness. This is the Sun in the early afternoon. Aten is symbolized by an older man hunched over with his staff, is the stage of enlightenment or full flowering of consciousness. This is the Sun at its entire apex, heading towards twilight.
Aten is the Golden age of enlightenment of so many different mythologies. Aten was the "prime time" of consciousness. It was a time when the Netters manifested from mind to form and guided humans to great spiritual heights. Netters are often translated as "gods" but are more correctly understood as "forces of nature." Finally, there is Amen, who initially did not have an image. Amen is the end of the cycle where we experience the loss of consciousness, where truth is hidden, and when night (consciousness) is in full darkness. Mehler indicates that Khemit oral tradition tells that the current cycle is that of Amen The Hidden, which began about 6,000 years ago (4,000 B.C.E.)
The Indigenous wisdom keepers of Egypt say that all people were in higher states of consciousness 20,000 years ago than we are today. This means their level of spiritual understanding was much greater than it is today. These ancients were not primitive people. During the age of Aten (the Wiser), ancient stone masonry pyramids and temples were conceived, designed, and built, except the much older Great Sphinx at Giza.
According to wisdom tradition, the Sphinx was carved in three stages covering thousands of years. According to oral tradition, the Sphinx was initially carved during a previous phase of Kheper-Dawn. The ancients viewed this as honoring the Great Mother known as Nut. Nut represented the sky, the cosmos, and all that is un-manifest.
As the cycles changed, so did the consciousness of humankind. The transition Aten (twilight) to the Age of Amen (night and darkness) brought about darkening peoples minds. Again, according to Khemit tradition, the ancient priests of late Aten knew of this approaching time and developed writing to leave teachings to help guide humanity through this dark period of consciousness.
According to tradition, writing began before the Sumerian culture, part of ancient Khemit known as Sa-Mer-Ra. This would put the date at about 6000 B.C.E. and near the range of the astrological Age of Gemini. Gemini, a mutable air sign, symbolizes communication and has been considered the sign that rules writing in astrology. The oral tradition of Egypt is that language was invented in order to assist in the passing down of knowledge in the coming age of Amen darkness where truth was hidden. The advent of writing is in alignment with the paradigm of the Khemit cycle.
Virgo
Commenced
13086 BC
Oon
Afternoon
The Wise
Leo
Commenced
10926 BC
Aten
Twilight
The Wiser
Cancer
Commenced
8766 BC
Aten
Twilight
The Wiser
Gemini
Commenced
6606 BC
Aten
Twilight
The Wiser
Taurus
Commenced
4446 BC
Amen
Night
The Hidden
Aires
Commenced
2286 BC
Amen
Night
The Hidden
Pisces
Commenced
126 BC
Amen
Night
The Hidden
Aquarius
Will Commence
2034 AD
Khepher
Dawn
The Driller
Capricorn
Will Commence
4194 AD
Khepher
Dawn
The Driller
Sagittarius
Will Commence
6354 AD
Khepher
Dawn
The Driller
Scorpio
Will Commence
8514 AD
Ra
Noon
The Stubborn
Libra
Will Commence
10674 AD
Ra
Noon
The Stubborn
The above table shows the astrological eras along with the Khemit cycle. This is a close approximation and is included to give the reader a sense of the Ancient Egyptians' urgency about passing down knowledge to future generations via the mathematics hidden in the monuments and helping facilitate and spread symbolic language. It also indicates we are on the cusp of the dawn of a reawakening of consciousness.
7
The Path of the Sun
First, let us get an image that will help illustrate what is going on. Imagine this circle represents the Earth.
Below we see a circle with three lines, the center line is the equatorial line. The top line is the Tropic of Cancer, the bottom line the Tropic of Capricorn.
It also has a curve on it that touches both the upper line (Tropic of Cancer) and the lower line (Tropic of Capricorn).
These are representative of the same lines on models of the earth. The curved line is essentially a sine wave that reaches its apex on the two tropics at 23.5 degrees both ways. This sine wave is essentially the path the sun appears to make over the year. It is called the ecliptic and takes the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac.
The above figure shows the elliptic as it goes through the constellations of the zodiac. The key point to know here is that for the ancients, the year began on March 21 in the northern hemisphere, corresponding to the end of winter and the return of the spring and the summer months. Today, Christians celebrate this day as the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was the resurrection of Gods Son and the fructifying power of the summer light to the ancients.
When the sun arrives on June 21, it is the summer solstice, the year's longest day in the northern hemisphere. Here the days and nights are equal. Starting June 22, daylight grows shorter until December 21, the longest period of daily darkness for the northern hemisphere. After the Winter Solstice, the daylight gradually increases.
Another way to consider this is the path of the sun indicates its amplitude. The figure above is another way to visualize the four cardinal points, the two solstices, and the two equinoxes. Equinoxes are where the light wave is balanced.
The solstices are where the light wave is out of balance.
The four Cardinal Points (the Vernal and Fall Equinox and the Summer and Winter Solstice) are the major coordinates by which movement of the sun and other heavenly lights are tracked. These Cardinal points divide the sun's path (the ecliptic) into four arcs which aid in tracking the sun, planets, and the stars. Thus, by examining the sun's ecliptic within the four major divisions along with the planet's Celestial Equator, we can accurately orientate in time and space.
Note that as the Procession of the Equinoxes continues, the Cardinal Points will shift according to different zodiacal signs. So, any symbolism or allegories written about the cosmos must be adjusted with each succeeding era. The constellations are in new positions, and will have new cardinal points, as they have all shifted due to the Precession of the Equinoxes. One determines which astrological age they are in by the zodiacal sign that marks the location of the sun at the crossing of the vernal equinox. This is a critical aspect to remember when dealing in Astro-Theology. Forget this point and you might as well leave the topic as it will become unintelligible.
The cross of the Zodiac is one of the oldest images in human history. It reflects the 12 months of the year, the four seasons, the two solstices, and two equinoxes. It reflects the Sun as it figuratively passes through the twelve constellations.
Above we have drawn in the signs of the zodiac. Above the Equator, starting in Aries and working your way left to right you have the months of spring and summer, of life of photosynthesis. This is the light of fructification. Traditionally above the equator has been considered masculine or Yin energy. Below the Equator we have the winter months, the months of withdrawing and death. Historically they have been associated with feminine energy or Yang energy. Yet without each other nothing can exist.
Zodiac relates that the constellations were anthropomorphized, personified as figures or animals. In other words, the early civilizations did not just follow the stars. They personified them with elaborate myths regarding their movements and relationships. With its life-giving and saving qualities, the Sun was personified as a representative of the unseen creator or God. Gods Sun, the light of the world, and the savior of the world. The constellations represented places of travel for Gods Son.
While humans have anthropomorphized the stars, the stars have influenced the language, first concerning religious words, then more secular words. Consider the following words used within todays popular religion.
? A Decan is 10 degrees of astrology.
? A Sexton is six degrees of astrology.
? A Bishop is three degrees of astrology.
? You have the four cardinal points, and you have Cardinals holding office.
? Monsignor, nun, minister, pastor all have their roots in the word star.
? The term "monk" comes from the Old English munuc, which is based on Greek monakhos 'solitary' and from monos 'alone.' Related to the solitary moon.
? Monastery: Moon-Star.
? Elder means more or old, El means God or power, and Elios means the Sun.
? Elohim: comes from the ancient Semitic root 'el', which means power. Hence, Elohim in the Bible refers not only to God but also to pagan gods, angels, human rulers, and judges. Powerful beings, whether heavenly or human.
In addition, the word star forms all or part of:
All-star
Aster
Asterisk
Asterism
Asteroid
Astral
Astro-
Astrobiology
Astrobleme
Astrolatry
Astrology
Astromancy
Astronaut
Astronomy
Astro-Turf
Constellation
Co-Star
Disaster
Estella
Ester
Gangster
Installation
Interstellar
Loadstar
Pole-Star
Protostar
Rock-Star
Star
Stardom
Stardust
Starfish
Star-gazer
Starless
Starlet
Starlight
Starlit
Starry
Starscape
Star-shine
Starship
Stella
Stellar
Stellate
Sterling
Superstar
Sometimes the Ancients symbolized the sun's movement as a horse that figuratively pulled the sun across those stations (cardinal points) as a hose that figuratively pulled the sun across the sky. The white horse symbolized the vernal Equinox of the returning light. Green represents the growth quality of the summer season brought in by the Summer Solstice. The red horse symbolized the Autumnal Equinox and fall colors. The black horse symbolizes the Winter Solstice and signifies the darkness of the pit of the lower world where the sun is hidden in blackness.
The equinoxes are especially important. Here, on March 21 and September 21, the hours of light and darkness are perfectly balanced. Many religious observances have taken place on or around these dates. The Christians celebrate the Easter resurrection on the first Sunday after the full moon on or after the spring equinox. If the full moon falls on a Sunday, then Easter is the next Sunday. The most usual date is March 22. The Jewish Passover is usually celebrated from March 15 to March 21 as the sun passes from darkness to light.
Saturnalia was an ancient Roman festival and holiday in honor of the god Saturn, held on December 17th of the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities through to December 23rd. The holiday was celebrated with a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn. A public banquet was held in the Roman Forum, followed by private gift-giving.
December 25th is when many other gods throughout history have celebrated their birthday. A few of these are:
Horus Egypt 3000 BC
? Born on December 25th
? Born of a virgin.
? His birth was accompanied by a star in the east.
? Adorned by three kings.
? Teacher at age 12.
? Baptized at 30 and began ministry.
? Twelve disciples he traveled with.
? Performed miracles such as healing the sick.
? Also known as Lamb of God / The Light / The Good Shepherd.
? After being betrayed by Typhon he was crucified.
? Buried for three days.
? Resurrected.
Attis Greece 1200 BC
? Born on December 25th
? Born of a virgin.
? Crucified.
? Buried for three days.
? Resurrected.
Mithra Persia 1200 BC
? Born on December 25th
? Born of a virgin.
? Twelve disciples traveled with him.
? Referred to as the Truth and the Light.
? Performed miracles.
? Upon his death was buried for three days.
? Resurrected.
? Worshiped on Sunday.
Krishna India 900 BC
? Born on December 25th
? Born of a virgin.
? His birth was accompanied by a star in the east.
? Performed miracles such as healing the sick.
? Upon his death was resurrected.
Dionysus Greece 500 BC
? Born on December 25th
? Born of a virgin.
? Performed miracles such as turning water into wine.
? Also known as King of Kings, Gods Only Begotten Son, the Alpha and Omega
? Upon his death was resurrected.
Many others from around the world subscribe to these general characteristics.
? Quetzalcoatl: Born of a virgin, sojourned in the wilderness. Fasted forty days and was crucified. Represents the god of light that struggled against the God of darkness called Tezcatlipoca.
? Zarathustra: An Iranian god, born 25th December, by a Virgin - 1000 B.C.
? Hercules: A Greek god, born 25th December, by a Virgin 800 B.C.
? Thammuz: A Babylonian god, born 25th December, by a Virgin. - 400 B.C.
? Hermes: A Greek God, born 25th December, by a Virgin. Referred to as the only begotten son of the god Ea. 200 B.C.
? Adonis: A Phoenician god, born 25th December, by a Virgin around 200 B.C.
The question arises as to why there are so many commonalities among these solar messiahs. To examine this question, let us look at the figure of Jesus.
Jesus
? Born on December 25th.
? Born of a virgin.
? His birth was accompanied by a star in the east.
? Adorned by three kings.
? Teacher at age 12.
? Baptized at 30 by John the Baptist and began ministry.
? Twelve disciples he traveled with.
? Performed miracles such as healing the sick, walking on water, and raising the dead.
? Also known as Lamb of God, the Light, and the Good Shepherd.
? After being betrayed by Judas, he was crucified.
? Placed in a tomb for three days.
? Resurrected and ascended into heaven.
Section II
Christianity
If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned,
all the rest will be crooked.
- Giordano Bruno
8
Astrological Transition into Age of Pisces
Two thousand years ago the ancients traced cause and effect backward into the infinite past. There they arrived at the First Cause. This unknowable god the ancients called the Father or the Creator. We are not capable of comprehending the Creator God.
The Creator God has no beginning or end; no form has no past, present, or future. Yet it has a state of being made up of past, present, and future in unison, making this god timeless. No human can really comprehend a timeless incorporeal-based intelligence. None of us can conceive of a God that was never not. So, God the Creator and the lord the Ruler are not the same. God is the Creator, unknowable, and unseen. The master of the macrocosm, i.e., the natural universe, is symbolized by Jesus Christ as Lord and Master.
This Creator God's "son" represented an emanation as a living universe of this Father and was metaphorically called this son, the First Born. Jesus Christ becomes the symbol of nature, which is incorruptible. Nature is what it is and cannot sin because it has no will of its own. Only God's Spirit drives it. Jesus is the symbol of programmed nature.
Nature is a well-tuned machine that requires balance and harmony between all of its connected parts. The imbalance of any constitute element within its wider framework could disrupt the ecology of the whole unit of which it is part. Nature does not think; it performs only in accordance with its programming. It cannot do anything that is not written into its code. Hence the universe cannot be the ultimate god because the universe does not possess free will. So, unless we are willing to accept God as a non-thinking entity, the universe cannot be God.4
The universe is a machine, incapable of altering any of gods commands, but the universe is also lord and commander of all. Everything is subject to the laws of nature (symbolized by Jesus Christ) hence the universe / nature is lord and ruler. But the universe is not the god, as some may believe, but rather lord and ruler. The universe is a machine, incapable of altering any of gods commands. This universe, this machine, is subject to the laws of nature (symbolized by Jesus Christ) hence the universe / nature is lord and ruler. But the universe is not the god, as some may believe, but rather lord and ruler. The first Cause (God) is unknowable. The First Cause was perceived as non-matter, of a completely vacuous nature, devoid of all material substance, without limits (dimensions), without beginning or end, timeless. The state of immaterial being, which is God, cannot be measured within parameters defined by the law of matter all of which is incomprehensible to us. 5
The entomology of the word Christos means the Anointed One. There is not much debate among scholars that Christos derives from the Egyptian KaRaST, the name of the mummy seed in the coffin, with the significant divinity buried in the flesh. Christos and Messiah have similar meanings of Anointed. Egyptianmesand Sanskritkirboth mean to anoint or to pour.
God, as surmised by the Ancients, sent or emanated, his son (symbolic of the macrocosm) to rule, i.e., universal nature as lord and master. The fact that most Christians have forgotten that God The Father exists, and choose to heap all their praise upon the son (Jesus) as lord is correct theology, according to the ancient symbolism.
The harmony of the universe, incomprehensible in size, is so exact that the movement of cycles, spanning unlimited years, are measurable to the second in accuracy. This phenomenal precision indicates a force of law inherent to nature of unfathomable magnitude, a force stretching into infinity, millions and billions of light years without limits, evolving expanding this force is God, or the spirit of God. We cannot explain this force, therefore we cannot name this force definitively; we can only label this penetrating force as the soul or spirit of God. The ancients called this force the soul of God, also the omnipresent spirit of God.6
The New Testament was written as the Age of Pisces was beginning. It was an update of the Mosaic Old Testament. The age was moving from Aries to Pisces. Thus, the Gospels of the New Testament have many fish references. Jesus is the Greek version of the Hebrew Joshua. The biblical Joshua was the sun of nun (Joshua 1:1). In Hebrew, Nun means fish.
Today we still see symbols of the connection to the Pisces fish. It is pretty common to see the fish symbol on the back of cars and trucks. The hats that members of the Roman Catholic officials wear are called Mitres. Some suggest the Catholic church adopted this cap, first used by the Byzantine imperial court, because it contained fish symbolism.
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The God Child Born from a Virgin
Jesus was said to have been born from a virgin. A check of the dictionary shows the term virgin is clearly associated with the constellation Virgo. The birth of Jesus coincided with the astrological era of Pisces. One determines which astrological age they are in by the zodiacal sign that marks the location of the sun at the crossing of the vernal equinox. The confirmation of this is the sign on the meridian at midnight, which is the opposite sign to the suns location at noon.
In this case, Virgo was the midnight sign opposite Pisces. Thus, Virgo help command of the autumnal equinox at the time this passage was edited by the priesthood who allegorically represented the fall of the symbolic fetus (the sun) at the commencement of the third trimester 186 days after the conception at the Vernal Equinox of March 21.
So, Virgo, in the Pisces era, was where the autumnal equinox occurred annually on September 22. For the Piscean priesthood, Virgo symbolized the fall of the symbolic fetus, the cosmic sun, towards its birth in the sign of the goat, Capricorn, on December 25.7
While some of these individual chapters may be small, taken as a whole, Aquarius Rising is almost too much for most to even consider.
10
Christmas, the Three Kings
and a Shepherd and His Flock
Christian tradition maintains that three kings or wise men followed the Star of Bethlehem to find the birth place ofbaby Jesus. Tradition says this story is true. Yet, there is strong evidence to indicate this story of the birth sequence for Jesus is astrological.
The star in the east is Sirius, the brightest star in the eastern night sky, which, on December 24th, aligns with the three brightest stars in Orions Belt. These three bright stars in Orions Belt are called today what they were called in ancient times, the Three Kings. Individually they are named as Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka.
The three kings and the bright star Sirius, all point to the place of the sunrise on December 25th. This is why the three kings follow the star in the east. They locate and point to the sunrise, the birth of the Sun on the day of the winter solstice.
There is another interesting phenomenon that occurs around the winter solstice. The days grow shorter and colder from the summer solstice to the winter solstice. Also, from the Northern hemisphere's perspective, the sun appears to move to the south and get smaller and scarcer the closer it advances towards the winter solstice.
For the ancients, the shorter days and the expiration of the crops when approaching the winter solstice symbolized the process of death. For them, it was the death of the sun whose demise was fully realized on December 22nd. Here, after having moved south continually for six months, the sun finally makes it to the lowest point in the sky.
There is another interesting phenomenon that occurs around the winter solstice. The days grow shorter and colder from the summer solstice to the winter solstice. Also, from the Northern hemisphere's perspective, the sun appears to move to the south and get smaller and scarcer the closer it advances towards the winter solstice. For the ancients, the shorter days and the expiration of the crops when approaching the winter solstice symbolized the process of death. For them, it was the death of the sun whose demise was fully realized on December 22nd. Here, after having moved south continually for six months, the sun finally makes it to the lowest point in the sky.
Here, the Ancients took special notice. On December 22, the sun appears to stop moving for three days, December 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. During this three-day pause, the sun also resides in the vicinity of the Southern Cross (Crux) constellation. After this time, on December 25th, the sun moves one degree, this time north. This foreshadows longer days, warmth, and spring. The ancients saw it as the birth of the sun. And thus, it was said, "The sun, died on a cross, was dead for three days, only to be resurrected and born again."
This is why Jesus and other numerous sun gods share the crucifixion, three-day death, and resurrection concept. The sun's transition period is before it shifts its direction back into the northern hemisphere, bringing spring and salvation.
In light of the above information the following verses from the Bible take on a whole new meaning:
? As long as I am in the world, I am The Light of the World. John 9:5
? And go quickly and tell his disciples that he is raised from the dead. Matthew 28:6
? To give the Light of Knowledge of the Glory of God. 2 Corinthians 4:6
? Let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of Light. Romans 13:12
? Verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom. John 3:3
? They shall see the son coming in the clouds. Mark 13:26
The ancient priests depicted the hostile Winter Solstice and the southern six zodiac signs as a wicked king determined to kill the God sun at birth. Here, King Herod sends his soldiers throughout his empire to kill any newborn babe to protect his throne. After the death of Herod (that is, the transition of the sun through the 30 degrees arch of Capricorn). The son (Jesus) continues to increase and move to victory over the nether world regions, which is finally accomplished when the sun passes the Spring Equinox and enters the northern celestial hemisphere. Thus the winter Solstice plays a role both in the death and rebirth of the Christian Savior. Jesus and other numerous sun gods share the crucifixion, three-day death, and resurrection concept.
December 25th is when many other gods throughout history have celebrated their birthday. Kersey Graves in the Worlds Sixteen Crucified Saviors on page 12 provides a partial list of solar gods who have been celebrated on December 25.
Krishna of India.
Buddha of India.
Salivanhana of Berma.
Aulis, Osiris and Orus of Egypt.
Odin of Scandinavia.
Crite of Chaldea.
Zoroaster and Mithra of Persia.
Baal and Taut of Phenicia.
Indra of Tibet.
Bali of Afganistan.
Jao of Nepaul.
Wittoba of Bilngonese.
Thammuz of Syria.
Atys of Phygia
Xamolxis of Thrace
Zoar of the Bonzes.
Adad of Assyria
Deva Tat, and Sammonocandam of Siam.
Alcides of Thebes.
Mikado of the Sintoos.
Beddru of Japan.
Hesus or Eros, and Bremrillah of the Druids.
Thor, son of Odin, of the Gauls.
Cadmus of Greece
Hil and Feta of the Mandaites.
Gentaut and Quexalcote of Mexico
Universal Monarch of the SibyIs.
Ischy of the Island of Formosa
Divine Teacher of Plato.
Holy one of Xca
Fohi and Tien of China.
Adonis, son of the Virgin Io of Greece.
Ixion and Quirinus of Rome
Prometheus of Caucasus.
Does this not raise the question as to why there are so many gods worshiped on the same day throughout history and by many different cultures? Is it not obvious the common denominator is the celestial starry night sky?
The Shepherds Watching Their Flock
The biblical reference of shepherds watching sheep in December has confused many over the years. Historically shepherds would be watching their flock outside at night in either the spring or summer and not in December. Examining this story from an allegorical perspective renders its true meaning.
During the Piscean era, within a 30-degree sector of the sky identifiable as Capricorn, at a higher declination, is a constellation known as Cepheus, also called the King. Within this constellation are two stars which the sun touches (crosses) at its birth on December 25 as it begins its journey back to the spring equinox. The names of these stars are Errai, which means The Shepherd, and Alfrik, which means The Flock. 8 Thus, Errai and Alfrik are the Biblical Shepherd and his flock of the Christian Christmas story.
Did you ever think you would get to know the names of the Biblical shepherd and his flock? Well now you know.
11
Epiphany and Joseph
January 6th is also called The Twelfth Day as it is twelve days after Christmas. In ancient times the Christian church made it a feast day that celebrates the revelation of God incarnate as Jesus Christ. This day commemorates the story of the Three Kings who had followed the bright start and offered gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the newborn Jesus. This festival of Epiphany was so sacred to early Christians that the four successive Sundays which follow it are entitled 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Sundays after Epiphany.
Throughout Ancient Egypt, Epiphany was considered the same as the birth of the Karast and was uniformly observed on January 6.
Justin Martyr, also called St. Justin as he was one of the earliest of the Christian fathers, draws the parallel between Christ and the old Persian god Mithra. Both Christ and Mithra were born on the same day when the thesunwas re-born in Stabulo Augiae, and the stable of Angles, cleansed byHerculesin his sixth labor, corresponds to the cave in Capricorn, which is the cave ofMithraand of the other saviors. Abba Udda, the Akkadian name of the tenth month, answering roughly to December, the month of Capricorn, denotes the Cave ofLight. The cave or winter solstice in Capricorn was the birthplace of the Mithraic Messiah from 2410 to 255BCand this was continued as the cave or birthplace of the Christ after it had ceased to be applicable to thesolar god. 9
The point here is that Epiphany as a feast day was celebrated for thousands of years prior to the Christian era.
For further detailing of Epiphany, the most concise explanation comes from the Reverend Robert Taylor who in 1832 wrote, The creation takes place every year on the 25th of March called lady-day, or the day of conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who, exactly nine months afterward, on the first moment of the 25th of December brings forth her first-born, Jesus, and lays him in a manger, because there was no room in the inn. As you will see that there is really not room enough in the pavilion of the Virgin, when, with the spike of corn in one hand, and the scales of September in the other, she drops little Jesus out of her bosom, and he tumbles down into the stable, the nadir, or lower meridian, the precise astronomical position of the Sun at that moment.
Now, at that moment, to the accuracy of the setting of a watch, what is the state of the visible heavens, in the construction of the planisphere? Why, this it is: at the lower meridian you have the stable of Bethlehem, in which Christ is born; of the eastern point of the horizon you have the sign of the Virgin, with the great star Vindemiatrix,10 in her elbow just peering above the horizon, of which Star the magi, or wise men, express themselves , We have seen his star in the east.
At the upper meridian, you have the constellation Cancer, the crab, which includes the cradle of Jupiter, literally the Io-Sepe , that is, the manger of Jao, from which mistaken words, have been formed the name of the imaginary husband of the Virgin, Joseph. While on the Western horizon, you have the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world; immediately above which, you will see the Epiphany, or manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles, which is none other than the beautiful constellation, Orion, which you will see this very evening; those three bright stars, which constitute his belt, being the three Magian kings, who, looking directly across the horizon, see his Star in the east, and have come to worship him, which they do by presenting gold, frankincense, and myrrh, the emblematic oblation in all the ages, consecrated to the honor of the Son.11 (Emphasis added)
Today, because people do not study the stars, they are only familiar with the word, epiphany. Most understand the word Epiphany by its third listed definition in Websters dictionary, which is, a usually sudden manifestation or perception of theessentialnature or meaning of something. An intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking. An illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure, a revealing scene or moment. Simply stated, most individuals today know only that epiphany is synonymous with a quickly manifesting idea.
In light of the information you are learning here about the Astronomic foundations of modern religions, have you had any epiphanies lately?
12
Christmas Relationship to Human Gestation
There is another aspect relating to the December 25 birthday of the Sun (Son) and its return swing to increasing light and the spring. March 21st, The Spring Equinox, marked the date when the ancients considered the Celestial Mother as having entered into the Bridal Chambers. Here, the Celestial mother was impregnated with solar sperm fluid that would bring forth a new sun cycle (her son) in 280 days. March 21, at the Spring Equinox, marks the commencement of the gestation period for the future savior (Sun) of the world.
Ask most people how long human gestation lasts, and a standard reply is 9 months. A check of the internet reveals the actual term is 280 days. Here is something curious. The gestation period for the macrocosm Celestial Sun-God is the same, 280 days, like that of the microcosm human (created image)! Count the days, 11 days (including March 21) added to 30 days for April, 31 for May, 30 for June, 31 for July, 31 for August, 30 for September, 31 for October, 30 for November, and 25 for December add up to 280 days.
The Catholic Church has this solar symbolism veiled within its traditions. The church claims the Annunciation (the appearance of the Holy Spirit announcing her impregnation by God with the Christ Child) was delivered on March 25th and the birth 9 months later on December 25th.
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The Immaculate Conception & Pentecost
Christian religion tells us that Pentecost Sunday is a significant festival in the Christian church. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles. The name Pentecost is derived from the wordPentewhich means fifty. Pentecost is held on the eve of the 50th day after Easter.
The ancients viewed the vernal equinox as a type of Immaculate Conception. From the vernal equinox, they celebrated the 49th day as Pentecost. In 9 months, they celebrated the birth of the solar god on December 25th. Pentecost is also interesting for another reason. After conception, the developing human is called an embryo in the womb for the first 49 days. After 49 days, it becomes a fetus.
At 49 days, the pineal gland is formed enough to metabolize and discharge its first full dose of DMT (Dimethyltryptamine). Thus, the ancients may not have known about DMT being released. Still, they knew enough to understand that Pentecost represented the spirit coming down into humankind, the spirit of the newborn entering the mothers womb 49 days after conception. This is the first day the ancients viewed the fetus as alive.
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Jesus Christ and John the Baptist
Many people who grew up in the Christian tradition have heard or read the phrase spoken by John the Baptist, "He must increase, but I must decrease." It turns out this is literally true.
The story of Jesus and his relationship with John the Baptist is a New Testament version of the eternal conflict between Northern and Southern Celestial Hemispheres. The New Testament version softens the approach. It is not warring against one another, rather it is a tale of a willing transfer of power. Let us examine some biblical texts. Here is Luke chapter 1, verses twenty-two to forty-four. This is a bit lengthy but necessary for understanding.
In the sixth month of Elizabeths pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabrielto Nazareth,a town in Galilee,to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph,a descendant of David. The virgins name was Mary.The angel went to her and said, Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.
Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.But the angel said to her, Do not be afraid,Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,and he will reign over Jacobs descendants forever; his kingdomwill never end.
How will this be, Mary asked the angel, since I am a virgin?
The angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come on you,and the power of the Most Highwill overshadow you. So, the holy oneto be born will be calledthe Son of God.Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a childin her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.For no word from God will ever fail.
I am the Lords servant, Mary answered. May your word to me be fulfilled. Then the angel left her.
At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea,where she entered Zechariahs home and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Marys greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: Blessed are you among women,and blessed is the child you will bear!But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lordshould come to me? As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
We are told in Luke 1:26 that an angel came to Mary in the 6th month of the Jewish calendar. In verses 27 and 31 we are informed that Mary is still a virgin, and she is not yet pregnant, and further that she has been appointed mother of the expected Son of God and her impregnation is imminent.
We are also told that Elizabeth is in her 6th month (actually completed 6 months) of pregnancy. This means that Elizabeth was impregnated in the 1st month (the autumnal equinox) we know this because the Editors have already noted (in Luke 1:26) that this meeting between Mary and the Angel took place in the 6th month of the Jewish calendar. So, with six months between the impregnation of Elizabeth and her cousin Mary this means that Mary was impregnated in the 7th month of the Jewish calendar (the vernal equinox).
Scholars set the birth of John the Baptist as June 24. This is correct because this date is three days after the Summer Solstice. Johns conception was at the autumnal Equinox and his birth was near the Summer Solstice. The sequence of Johns conception and birth is a mirrored reflection of the Christ (his conception and birth). John was the Twin cousin of Jesus. The Christ was conceived at the vernal equinox and was born three days after the Winter Solstice on December 25. Christ was the son of Spirit; John was the son of Matter within the esoteric symbolism. 12
Now, here is Luke chapter 1, verse fifty-six to sixty-four, concerning the Birth of John the Baptist.
Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.
When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son.Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy.
On the eighth day they came to circumcisethe child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah,but his mother spoke up and said, No! He is to be called John.
They said to her, There is no one among your relatives who has that name. Then they made signsto his father, to find out what he would like to name the child.He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyones astonishment he wrote, His name is John.Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak,praising God.
Again, many people who grew up in the Christian tradition have heard or read the phrase spoken by John the Baptists, "He must increase, but I must decrease." This phrase goes to the very heart of Astro-theology.
Equinoxes are astronomical points that define the proportions of sunlight and darkness on our planet. The sun is at equilibrium when it is at one of the two equinoxes. Daytime is increased by the sun's ascension above the equinoxes into the northern hemisphere. This, in turn, leads to a decrease in darkness due to the effects of the autumn equinox. In this case, when John the Baptist says, "He must increase, but I must decrease," he actually does decrease, till nine weeks and three days after -- that is the 29th of August. At this point, he gets his head cut off by the horizon line; that is the day the church has fixed, as the festival of the beheading of John the Baptist. The editors were not speaking allegorically but literally.
The Astro-Theology aspects of Judaism will be dealt with in more detail in the next section. However, it should be pointed out that the importance of 40 was also noted in the Old Testament. The Jewish Exodus tale of Hebrew bondage is symbolic mythology because this bondage symbolism actually symbolizes the bondage of the sun and the suns emancipation when it passes over the vernal equinox.
The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the Lord. For the Lord had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. Joshua 5:6
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The Importance of Forty Days
The Ancients did not celebrate the resurrection of the Sun until the spring equinox, what today is known as Easter. This is because, at the spring equinox, the Sun officially overpowers the evil darkness as daytime becomes longer in duration than the night, along with the revitalization conditions of spring emerge. However, the ancients still noted a struggle before the transition became complete. This struggle the Ancients observed spanned 40 days, which is the time necessary for the celestial position of the Sun to be reflected in the terrestrial environment.
The forty days reference is the lag period between the Sun reaching the equinoxes and the actual effects on earth. In other words, the 40 days represents the amount of time needed for the full seasonal effects to manifest. During these 40 days, there is give and take between the fading and incoming season. Stated another way, the Spring and the Fall officially begins when the Sun crosses the equinoxes. Still, the earths weather effects take 40 days for the transition to fully materialize.
The ancients called this Wilderness time and noted it by two semi-equinoctial holidays. The first isMay Day, which comes 40 days after the Spring Equinox. Here the Sun must struggle, climb, and be tempted before the Sun (Jesus) completely escapes from the grasp of Satan (the winter). The second isHalloween,which comes 40 days after the Fall Equinox. The ancients used this date to note the seriousness of preparations necessary to protect against the evil winter season that was now fully upon them.
Biblical passages regarding Forty Days in the Wilderness and the Temptation
After fasting forty days and forty nights,he was hungry. Matthew 4:2
And he was in the wilderness forty days,being temptedby Satan.He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him. Mark 1:13
These are just a couple of the many references to the 40 days of struggle and temptation. The sun, represented by Jesus, must climb, suffer, and be tempted before thoroughly defeating the evil of Satan.
Let us now apply this same Astro theological forty day transition period to the upcoming age of Aquarius. This calculation will allow us to see when the Age of Aquarius will reach its full manifestation. The Age of Aquarius is set to begin in 2034 CE. Using what we know now about Astro-theology, we apply the same principle for the forty day manifestations of the seasons. Forty days is equivalent to 10.9% of the year (40 divided by 365). Each astrological age lasts two thousand one hundred and sixty years, so 10.9 percent of that is equal to 235 years. Add 235 to 2034, and by 2269, the Age of Aquarius should be fully manifested. From their perspective, our world will seem unimaginably primitive. However, something could accelerate this timeline. Emerging technology could greatly facilitate the rate at which we merge into the Aquarian Age. Or there could be a Black Swan event. Time will tell.
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The Two Marys and
Walking on Water
In the New Testament, there are two women named Mary. Mary, the Mother of God, and Mary Magdalene, the Prostitute. Each Mary represents half of the celestial heavens and is symbolically linked to an equinox.
The name Mary is linked with water and the sea as indicated by the etymology of Mariner, Marine, and Marina. The ancient Priests allegorically referred to the skies as Seas, viewing it as an immense expanse of celestial waters with the Earth at the center. Refer back to our image of the twelve Zodiacal signs.
The upper region is virginity and purity. The area below represents promiscuity and debasement. The half of the sphere above the celestial equator refers to the waters above. It is correlated to the spring equinox. The areas below the equator are the waters below and related to the autumnal equinox.
The symbolism of the Whore was simply one of the allegories used by the Priests, to symbolize both the Fall of Man, and the fall of the sun at the Autumnal Equinox. In the upper region is where one enjoyed the utmost Favor with God, In the Northern Hemisphere, life, respect and honor of the whole World is the region above the equinoxes. And this respect is given up for the companionship of a harlot, who lives in the area below. 13
Additionally, allegorically the upper Sea, (Mary the mother of god) gives birth to the Son (Jesus), and the lower Sea (Mary Magdalene ) also provides comfort to the Sun (Jesus) at his death. The ancients even visualized this. They stood on the shores and looked out at the Sea. They observed the celestial seas giving birth at dawn with the reddish morning sun emerging from the womb. They saw this as similar to the mother giving birth to her son covered with the newborn blood of life. The father of this newborn Sun is unknown.
Consequently, the sea mother is a virgin Mother because the impregnation is unknown. At dusk, they saw the celestial seas dying in the red of a pierced side, the Sun collapsing into the arms of the Lower Mary.
Walking on Water
In keeping with the theme of the two seas, the ancients observed the shimmering of sunlight rays on a body of water either at dawn or sunset. So you too can now watch Gods Sun walking on water.
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Jesus Entering Jerusalem
Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things. Also, he must be killed and raised on the third day. From the New Testament we read:
From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalemand suffer many thingsat the hands of the elders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the law,and that he must be killedand on the third daybe raised to life. Matthew 16:21
Several chapters later, Jesus instructs his disciples what to do to prepare for his entrance into Jerusalem.
When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,saying to them, Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me.If anyone says anything to you, just say this, The Lord needs them. And he will send them immediately. Matthew 21:1-3
Here Jerusalem represents the summer solstice, the high point of the travels of Jesus. Jesus entering into Jerusalem is portrayed riding upon two asses. The two asses are references to two stars which the Sun moves or rides across in the constellation of Cancer (the sign of the summer solstice.). These two stars are:
? Asellus Borealis, also known as the Northern Ass
? Asellus Australis, also known as the Southern Ass
Palm leaves are distributed during the Palm Sunday service at many Christian churches. The Sun is victorious and passes through the vernal equinox. Its passing will cause new life to sprout all over the earth. The palm leaves symbolize the Sun's effect in bringing new life in the spring season.
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Golgotha the Place of Skulls
The Bible tells us that Golgotha is the hill near Jerusalem where Jesus (the Sun) was crucified. Golgotha comes to us from Latin, then Greek, then Aramaic (Semitic) where gulgulta, literally means "place of the skull." The Hebrew gulgoleth meaning skull, has the same linguistic derivation. Also, the English name Calvary comes from the Vulgate Latin Calvaiae, Cavlariae locus and locum, all meaning place of the Skull or a Skull. The Biblical editors called the crucifixion hill Golgotha for its shape. Golgotha is also connected to the sign of Capricorn.
Luke 23:33 describes the place the biblical Jesus (the Sun) is killed as being either the place of the skulls, Golgotha or Calvary, depending on which translation one uses. The crucifixion takes place in the zodiacal sign of Capricorn (December 22 to January 19). Recall now the image where Capricorn is located among the twelve astrological signs.
In the image, Capricorn is the very bottom of the zodiacal chart. It is in the place of interment, the graveyard, the depository of the dead.
The message is that Capricorn is where Jesus (the Sun) is destined to be crucified at the winter solstice. Recall that earlier we learned that the Sun stops its southern descent for three days. It appears dead before reversing course and moving one degree per day north, thereby signaling the Sun's equinoctial resurgence and rebirth.
Capricorn comes from Latin Capricornus, literally "horned like a goat." It is from caper (genitive capri) "goat" (see cab) + cornu "horn," from PIE root "ker-" meaning"horn; head."Thus, both Golgotha and Capricorn pertain to the place of the skull.
Capricorn signifies goat and the goat is the symbol of the devil as it is the lowest constellation of the zodiac situated at the extreme lower end of the zodiac. Thus, the references to death and grave or cave. The allegorical message is straightforward. The Sun (represented by Jesus) meets his death at the winter solstice in the sign of Capricorn (Golgotha) is crucified (killed) on the cross at the Place of Skulls. Golgotha equals Capricorn. He is resurrected three days later when the Sun emerges from the winter solstice.
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The Crucifixion Cross & Two Thieves
The crucifixion cross of Jesus refers to the cross in the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan, which is in the same sector as the zodiacal Capricorn. We already know that Capricorn equals Golgotha and is the place where the crucifixion takes place. The Cygnus constellation is easy to find in the sky as it features a well-known asterism known as the Northern Cross. .
The two thieves crucified with Jesus (the Sun) refer to the two equinoxes. The one on the right hand is the vernal equinox which is the spring equinox. The thief on the left, who spoke severely to Jesus, is the autumnal equinox. They are referred to as thieves because they steal time from one another.
When the sun intersects either equinox, for that day of crossing, Time (daytime and nighttime) on the planet is brought into equilibrium at twelve hours. We have twelve hours of light and twelve hours of darkness, on the day of the Equinox. In the case of the Vernal Equinox (which represents light), it, on the second day after the suns crossing, steals time from the Autumnal Equinox (which represents darkness) and from this point, the world continues to have more light (daytime) than darkness, until the Sun crosses the Autumnal Equinox. When the Sun crosses the Autumnal Equinox, this thief (autumnal equinox) repeats the crime (theft of time) in the favor of increased darkness. 14
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It is Finished!
Astro-theology also explains some of the sayings of Jesus upon the cross. The ancients viewed that the sun annually gave its blood for the world's life. That blood was pressed out of grapes at harvest. This time was indicated by the sun coming to the equator at the autumnal equinox. Here the day is of equal length of day and night to the whole earth, symbolic of both physical and moral righteousness.
The blood of the grape, ripened by the sun's heat, is pressed out when the sun crosses over the autumnal equinox. Here it is considered as crucified upon the line of righteousness. This celestial equator is by metonymy a figure of speech for the blood of Christ or the blood of the New Covenant.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. John 19:28
This passage refers to the grape pressing process when the wine becomes sourer or thinner towards the end. The ancients viewed this as the fruit of the spirit evaporating. This process was carefully monitored by those in authority. The head priest continually checked the wind by dipping their finger in and licking it. When they perceived from its thinness and acidity that the best of its "virtue" had been extracted, they would state in a loud voice, "It is finished." Anything else extracted from this point forward will resemble more water than wine.
A complete study of the Bible can uncover the esoteric meanings when viewed through Astro-Theology. So long as the priestly can weave their spells, humankind will be locked into a somnambulist state. Only when seen clearly and people are free from the folly and fanaticism of a priest-ridden people so full of pride, pomp and circumstance is an opportunity for growth possible.
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St. Thomas
On December 22, the sun appears to stop its descent. It remains motionless for three days before beginning its return journey to the Northern Hemisphere on December 25. It moves one degree per day back to the vernal equinox and then the life-giving rays of spring. The Christian remembers the apostle Thomas in December. Thomas was, of course, known as the Doubter who doubted in the Resurrection of Jesus. The Ancient priests dedicated the shortest day and longest night of the year to the Doubter, who they named Thomas, on December 21.
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Judas and the 30 Pieces of Silver
The sign for Scorpio, h resembled the J for Judas. Scorpio is the eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters near the 23rd of October and lasts until late November.
And asked, What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you? So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver. Matthew 26:15
And from that time, he sought opportunity to betray him. Matthew 26:16
In November in the northern hemisphere, when the sun enters Scorpio, it reaches a red star named Antares. It is one of only four red stars that the ancients noted in the night sky, the other being; Alderbaran, Arcturus, and Betelgeuse. All four were feared by the Ancients because of their different nature. In Christian mythology, Antares represents Judas Iscariot, who betrays Jesus and brings him down to his death.
Judas was said to betray Jesus with a kiss. It is said that the sting of a scorpion often resembles the image of lips or a kiss. To betray someone is to expose them to danger. This refers to the zodiac sign at the autumnal equinox that serves as an entrance to the underworld. This entrance leads the Sun (Jesus) to the captivity of the region below the celestial equator.
While it is impossible to know with certainty, the number 30 is likely to reference the number of degrees within the one zodiacal sign. One zodiac sign covers thirty degrees (or thirty pieces) of arc.
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Who is Satan?
The Goat is often associated with the Devil, why is this?
The Bible depicts the devil as the archenemy of humanity. We read this in Zechariah 3:1 and Revelation 2:10 among others. Websters Dictionary defines the term devil in the following ways.
1. The personal supreme spirit of evil often represented in Christian belief as the tempter of humankind, the leader of all apostate angels, and the ruler of hell.
2. An evil spirit:DEMON. An extremely wicked person:FIEND
In Lev. 17: 7 the word "devil" is the translation of the Hebrew sair, meaning a "goat" or "satyr" (Isa. 13: 21; 34: 14), alluding to the wood-daemons, the objects of idolatrous worship among the heathen."15
The crucifixion of Jesus, The Son, takes place in the zodiacal sign of Capricorn (December 22 to January 19). Recall now the image where Capricorn is located among the twelve astrological signs.
Capricorn is the very bottom of the zodiacal chart. It is in the place of interment, the graveyard, the depository of the dead.
The message is that Capricorn is where Jesus (the Sun) is destined to be crucified at the winter solstice. Recall that earlier we learned that the Sun stops its southern descent for three days. It appears dead before reversing course and moving one degree per day north, thereby signaling the Sun's equinoctial resurgence and rebirth.
Capricorn comes from Latin Capricornus, literally "horned like a goat." It is from caper (genitive capri) "goat" (see cab) + cornu "horn," from PIE root "ker-" meaning"horn; head."
Now examine the 1856 depiction of the Sabbatic Goat fromDogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, and notice the goat feet, head and horns. Also recall where Capricorn is located in the zodiacal chart.
Capricorn is in the southern hemisphere and just starting to climb. If anyone has observed goats, you will note their skill and seeming enjoyment at climbing. The more complex the climb, the more the goats enjoy it.
The use of the human body is a signal that the goat represents the persona of Satan and not that Satan is an actual goat. Capricorn signifies goat and the goat is the symbol of the devil as it is the lowest constellation of the zodiac.
In the west, reading is performed left to right, thus marking the directions. The left hand of the image points down to mark the beginning of the climb while the right-hand points up in the direction of the movement. The star is an obvious indication to look at the stars for your clue to interpret this message. When viewed in the light of Astro-theology symbolism, Satan does not represent evil but rather opposition. Evil is a concept not recognized by nature.
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Draconis the Great Dragon
Who and what is the Great Dragon?
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew thethirdpart of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. - Revelation 12:3, 4.
The Dragon of this Bible verse from Revelation is the constellation of Draco with its long tail. Dracois aconstellationin the farnorthern sky. Its name isLatinfordragon. It is also called Draconis. The north pole of theeclipticis in Draco.Draco iscircumpolar(that is, never setting), and can be seen all year from northern latitudes. The symbolism of Revelation 12:3-4 points to the zodiacal signs of Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricorn, which were situated at the fold of the Dragon's tail when the Bible was last edited (updated). The constellation Draconis stretches over nearly half the skies Celestial Longitude. Its tail spanned the zodiac stretching from the autumnal equinox through the winter solstice at the biblical editing. This is a span of four zodiac constellations representing the fall of the sun into the lower regions of the cosmos below the celestial equator.
The four sectors of Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricorn marked the entrance to the sun into the underworld region of judgment. These four sectors also equate to one-third of heaven's stars, which were so poetically and forcefully described. The graphic below shows that the tail of Draconis runs lateral to the four horsemen (constellations) of the biblical Apocalypse (Libra Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricorn). These constellations were situated below the celestial equator two thousand years ago when the Bible was last updated.
Projection Mercator Projection
Time Local March 21, 126 BC 8:19 PM (Night)
Universal March 21 126 BC 2:19 AM
Siderial 16:03:2
Julian Date: 1675480.5965
Figure 1: Note the Dragon (Draco) near top of the graphic spanning almost six sectors. Note the curved line about 2/3 down is the ecliptic which is the path of the sun. Note the positions of Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricorn, spanning from the 12th to the 20th hours. These four sectors include one-third of the stars of the cosmic heaven and run lateral to the tail of Draco, the Dragon of Revaluation. Reprinted with permission.16
Moving right to left, the 12th hour of the zodiac, the point of intersection between the celestial equator and the sun's ecliptic, is the point where the sun descends into the regions of hell this transition symbolizes judgment day. The four sectors compose one-third of the stars of heaven. Thus, the ancients referred to the actual astronomical heavens, not to unseen spiritual heavens filled with invisible angels and demons.
War in Heaven: The Great Dragon Draconis
Andthe great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan,the deceiver of the whole world he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, Nowthe salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothershas been thrown down,who accuses them day and night before our God. Andthey have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, forthey loved not their liveseven unto death. Revelation 12:9-11
The celestial polar axis is the point of contention between the Dragon and the Newborn, the winner being destined to rule the world. This polar axis is symbolic of the Throne of God, and from the human perspective, our universe revolves around it. Recall now the precession of the equinoxes. This precession means that the circumpolar constellations take turns in occupying the throne of heaven, which is the point of the celestial axis. This position transition (power) was a war between transiting constellations in clear storybook language. This is the case where the Dragon was cast out from heaven by the newborn conquering son that removed the Dragon from the throne of the central axis.
According to Revelation 12:9, the Dragon was cast out of heaven by the power of Christ and the blood of the lamb. The reference to the lamb and Christ as the victorious adversaries of the Dragon points to the astrological (zodiacal) eras that marked the intense conflict between the cycle forces of the precession and natural forces of resistance. The war against the Dragon came into focus under the equinoctial era of Aries (the lamb). It was intensified victoriously under the age of Pisces (Christ the Fish).
The dragon in the constellation of Draconis ascended to the heavenly celestial throne in the era of Gemini, 6606 BCE, in tandem with the Gemini twins, Adam and Eve, at the vernal equinox. The dragon (Draconis) was destined to rule (hold primary celestial position) for three astrological ages, approximating 6880 years, thru Gemini, Taurus, and Aries. The sages foretold this; they predicted that astronomically, a savior would unseat the devil (Draconis) and restore the throne to a new generation.
This savior Avatar was destined to be born in the era of Pisces. Of course, the uninitiated misunderstood the symbolism of the prophecy and took it as the foretelling of a human savior destined to come to restore humanity spiritually and defeat satanic spiritual influence on humankind.
They saw the mythical Jesus of the Pisces era as the savior. They anointed him with the sign of the Fish in the early formative years of the new faith of Christianity. They missed sight of the true savior that was astronomically in reality and actually was the configuration of stars that we call Ursa Minor, the Little Bear. Ursa Minor is the anointed child of the great mother bear, Ursa Major.
The unseating of Satan (Draconis) was accomplished under Pisces. This was the beginning of the restoration of a new generation, eventually leading to the era of Aquarius. This is astronomical wisdom. The following three graphs depict the circumpolar constellations from the Aires thru Pisces to the Aquarius era. The defeat of the devil Draconis and the establishment of a new king on the throne in the image of Ursa Minor is clear and vivid.
Aires 2286 BCE
Above, Aries 2286 BCE with Draconis couched directly at the polar axis Draconis is Satan's stellar dragon.17
Pisces 126 BCE
Pisces 126 BCE. Satan, the dragon, is expelled from the heavenly throne.18
Aquarius 2034 CE
Aquarius 2034 CE. Ursa Minor, the child savior of destiny, has mounted the throne signaling the commencement of a new generation (era) free from the influences of Satan (Draconis). This is an astronomical prophecy of the coming cosmic savior (Ursa Minor) that the uninitiated have mistaken for a human savior.19
And above in this ancient Egyptian Planisphere, we see Draconis has the primary position around the celestial center or mount. It extends for three astrological ages, starting in Gemini then running through Taurus and Aires.20
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Last Days & the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The author of Revelation also calls the Last days Judgment Days. The author also directs our attention to those "signs in the heavens, which are the zodiac signs, that signal the End Times. According to the biblical account, the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are to usher in the Last Days. They are the harbingers of Judgment Day.
For many people, the Book of Revelation is the most enigmatic in the Bible. This is because most are seeking to interpret the story told in a human way. Examining it from the perspective of Astro-theology renders understanding.
The book's editors direct our attention to "the signs in the heavens," four horsemen of the apocalypse. In Revelation 6, the four horsemen appear with the opening of the first four of the seven seals that bring forth the cataclysm of the apocalypse. Revelation 6: 1-8 describes the first four seals, horses, and riders.
I watched as the Lambopened the first of the seven seals.Then I heard one of the four living creaturessay in a voice like thunder,Come!I looked, and there before me was a white horse!Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown,and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creaturesay, Come!Then another horse came out, a fiery red one.Its rider was given power to take peace from the earthand to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.
When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creaturesay, Come! I looked, and there before me was a black horse!Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures,saying, Two pounds of wheat for a days wages, and six pounds of barley for a days wages, and do not damagethe oil and the wine!
When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creaturesay, Come! I looked, and there before me was a pale horse!Its rider was named Death, and Hadeswas following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine, and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Note that the Riders of the horses have a separate identity from their horse. This is one of the primary reasons people have failed to correctly interpret the symbolism over the years. The information of the riders proves information for their identifications. Further complicating the issue is that the editing of these biblical passages occurred at least 2,000 years ago when the cardinal points of that era were Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn.
1. The firstrider sits on a white horse and has abow and crow. This indicates the sector of Sagittarius. Its name is Latin for "archer." Sagittarius is commonly represented as a centaur pulling back a bow. The starsKaus Borealis and Kaus Australis refer to the northern and southern portions of the bow, respectively.The constellation Corona Australis, meaning Southern Crown, is a small constellation bordering Sagittarius just to the north.
2. The second horse is reds and carries a disrupter of peace "which makes people kill one another."This represents the zodiacal sign of Scorpion, who carries the sting of death. The Scorpion whose venom ushers in the misery of the winter season as the sun falls below the equinoxes into the sector of Scorpio.
3. The third rider sat on a black horse carrying balances in his hand. This can only mean one thing; the scale indicates it is in the zodiac sign of Libra.
4. The fourth rider sat on a pale (green) horse, and its rider was named "Death," with Hades following close behind him. The ruler of the hell, the bottom of the pit, is, of course, Capricorn (Satan), the well-known goat-devil of the zodiac.
The Vernal Equinox is the prime indicator of any given astrological era, and the other cardinal points are identified in turn by the 4th, 7th and 10th stations, counting eastward from the sign that occupies the Vernal Equinox. The (biblical) editors were done during the years when the Vernal Equinox was situated at the cusp of Pisces and Aires, that is to say at about the 1st degree of Aires and the 30th degree of Pisces so the designation for the era of the symbolism can be applied to Aires, even though precessionally we were moving into the era of Pisces. 21
The writer of Revelation's primary objective in the Apocalyptic Four Horsemen tale was to remind us of those zodiacal constellations that signal the Last Days. And what are these "Last Days?" The Last Days is where the annual cycle transitions from the summer season of growth and abundance to the winter season of death and need.
Because of where the Ancients were in the precession of the equinox cycle, they identified the cardinal constellation signs of the Apocalypse with ominous imagery.
? Sagittarius on the white horse signifies the Vernal Equinox.
? Scorpio on the red horse represents the Autumnal Equinox.
? Libra on the black horse signifies the Winter solstice.
? Capricorn on the pale (green) horse symbolizes the Summer Solstice.
Mythological judgments occur at either the vernal equinox or autumnal equinox, depending on the focus of the symbolism. Also, in mythology, the six upper northern hemisphere signs (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo) signal growth and abundance. These upper constellations are symbolized as the Land or the Earth. The lower six southern hemispheres (Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces) represent the time of hardship and want. The lower constellations are symbolized as the Sea or the Wilderness.
As the equinoxes are transition points, when the sun, star, or constellations hover close to either equinox, it is positioned mythologically as straddling or standing "upon the sea and the earth." "And the angel whom I saw stands upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven." Revelation 10:5.
Judgment begins at the Autumnal Equinox and ends at the Vernal Equinox. Thus, Judgment Day is not 24 hours. Instead, Judgment Day is a transition period from the pleasant weather of summer (where the sun is above the equinoxes) to winter's inclement weather (where the sun is below the equinoxes). The end of Judgment is the moment of Deliverance when the sun completes its route through the Valley of Death or "the Underworld" (the southern six zodiac signs).
Understand that the four horses are the cardinal points and should not be viewed with dread but as informative. The zodiac signs that the four HORSEMEN represent are the indicators of the terror of the Last Days, not the four horses or the cardinal points.
The main esoteric point is to teach or remind the people that those zodiacal constellations signal The Last Days, where the transition from the spring and summer growing season and time of plenty moves into the winter and the time of stillness and death.
Remember, the ancient communities did not have books, scrolls, or the internet. Their transmission of knowledge was an oral tradition of storytelling via fables, folk tales, and symbolic stories. The central dynamic within mythology is education. Mythology was the primary means used by the ancients to preserve their knowledge and history and motivate an uneducated population for the brutal winter months ahead.
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The Seven Churches and Seven Candlesticks
Among the signs of the Zodiac and the planets (Wandering Stars), the numbers twelve and seven were recognized as sacred by ancient astronomers and priests.
Dedications were made to them via all sorts of allegories. The planets were genii and spirits or messengers of the Supreme Deity. They were enthroned in the firmament above. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.Revelation 4:5
For the Ancients, the planets were represented by burning lights. They represented the planets in the branched candlesticks they placed on their alters in temples. What are candlesticks but fixed lights? In the midst where the Sun walks are congregations or groups of fixed stars through which the Sun travels its annual course around the zodiac.
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks. Revelation 2:1
The center light represented the Sun. The moon, Mercury, and Venus were on one side, and Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were on the other. These seven-branched candlesticks are still seen in Catholic churches and some Protestant churches. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches.
The seven churches relate to the six upper Zodiac signs (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo) plus the transition month of Libra.
Here then are the seven churches in name, in character and in order: the church or constellation of Ephesus, of Thyatira, of Philadelphia, of Pergamos, of Sardis, of Smyrna, and of Laodicea. Reverend Robert Taylor, writing in 1856, Astro-Theologically describes the seven churches this way:
1. EPHESUS from ??????, upon Hesus, the same as Jesus, the Gaellish name of the God mars, whence our English name for March, who is the Lord of Hosts, of the Old Testament, and the Lamb of God (Aries), of the New.
To this church, Christ threatens that he will come and remove its candlestick out of its place; and, by the well-known movement of the heavenly bodies, called the precession of the equinoxes, this candlestick, which, 388 years before our Christian Era, was the first of the churches, has been removed out of its place; and the equinoctial point which was then in the first degree of Aires, is found at present to have left the second of the fishes.
2. THYATIRA, ??????? that is (I tread on frankincense), frankincense being offered to the sun, when in the constellation of the Bull of April, (Taurus) famous for its patience, its labor, and its work, in the business of agriculture.
3. PHILADELPHIA, brotherly love, the unequivocal characteristic of those two loving brothers, the Twins of May (Gemini).
4. PERGAMOS, height, elevation marriage of fire; the suns highest point of elevation is in this constellation, which dwelleth where Satans seat is. The Hydras head being, as you see, on the celestial globe, immediately under this church, which is Cancer, the Crab, of June, (Summer Equinox) whose Hebrew name is THOMAS; who in the gospel allegory, was but a crabbed sort of fellow, and had half a mind to go back again. And here you see him, in his position of the heavens, bearing physically the very character which he holds morally in the allegory. He comes to the zenith meridian, at the very moment, for looking down to see Jesus raise the soul of Lazarus. But he was no favorite of Jesus, who tells him in the sacred text, Thou hast in thee those that hold the doctrine of Balaam. - Rev. 2:14 And here, in the very midst of the constellation, Cancer is Balaams ass, who has found his way to the very highest place in Heaven (and, of course, brought the doctrine with him), but has let the doctor tumble off his back: and he has gone to hell.
5. The fifth church is SARDIS, that word, formed of the Ammouian primitives, SAR, the rock, stone, or pillar and DIS, God, afterward passing into the Coptic, or Ancient Phoenician word, EL-EON, the Sun, the Being, and naturalized into the Greek, Latin, French and English word. Lion that is the Lion of July (Leo); who having been the lamb of the tribe of Gad or God of March, appears here as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, or July. And here, as the SING-AVATAR, or the Deity under the form of a man lion, bursting from a pillar, exemplifying that frightful language ascribed to God in Hosea 8, I will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion.
6. The sixth church is SYMRNA, that word signifying a bundle of Myrrh, the offering made to the sun, in the Virgin of August (Virgo), having reference to the fragrant posy which she holds in her hand, and to the mil-pail in the hand of the Isis-Omnia of Egypt, the Indian Isa, and the Grecian Ceres; exemplifying that amorous compliment in the song of the loves of Christ and his church, a bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me. Song of Solomon 1:13
7. The seventh, and last of the summer months that is of the Asiatic churches, is LAODICEA, a word, signifying, ??????? that is, the just or righteous people, living, as you see in the scales of justice, Libra, the balance of September, when the weather is neither hot nor cold, but luke-warm; for which Christ, who like Christians, had no notion of justice, threatens to spew it out of his mouth.
And these seven churches that is, holy congregations that is, constellations that are in Asia that is in the land of fire; are included within the two covenants that I, comings-together that is, the two equinoctial points, when the sun, twice a year in his oblique march in the ecliptic, comes to the line of the equator as he does in spring, about the 25th of march, and in autumn, about the 29th of September. And these two covenants are respectively the covenant of works, and the covenant of grace because spring is the season of labor in cultivating the earth, and autumn is the season for gathering and enjoying the fruits of that labor.22
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Christian Religious Festivals
Astro-Theologically Explained
Many religious holidays or holy days are symbolic representations of astronomical phenomena. Every Christmas, Easter, May Day, Passover, Halloween, etc., are primarily based on cosmic mythology and is tied to the annual circuit of the Sun. All monotheistic religions are mythological representations of the natural environment. The ancients fashioned their spiritual concepts as mythological copies of natural phenomena, the environment, and its interaction.
What follows are correlations between modern rituals and traditions and ancient sun worship. This will show that modern religious holidays are replications of ritual festivals of ancient sun and nature worshipers with Jesus Christ as a mythical representation of the Sun.
Here is a short recap of some of the modern religious holidays. Traditional explanations are provided as well as the esoteric interpretation..
Carnival
Tradition: Carnival is a pre-Lenten observance of revelry observed in the week preceding the season of Lent. The focus of this festival is the grotesque effigy personification of the Carnival. At first, this creature is applauded and paraded throughout town. Later he is judged guilty of crimes against humanity and executed.
Esoteric:Carnival represents Winter, the King Demon of the Underworld. The Vernal (Spring) Equinox is a place of Judgment. It is the place of demarcation between the forces of darkness and light. The ancients saw winter as an oppressive demon that brought suffering to humanity. The springtime was the avenging savior who defeated the demon.
The end of the world simply means the end of a cycle. In this case, it is the sun's annual cycle that is ended and renewed at the vernal equinox, the point of Judgment. In Matthew 24:38, Jesus indicates that there would be a great celebration during the Last Days before the final Judgment. The merriment of Carnival is analogous to what Jesus is saying in Matthew 24:38.
Mardi Gras (Shrove Tuesday)
Tradition: Mardi Gras is the last day of the pre-Lenten festival of Carnival and the day before Ash Wednesday, which begins the period of Lent. Mardi Gras is also known for its wild merrymaking with participating in costumes. The conclusion of Mardi Gras is the judgment against the personification of Carnival for his crimes against humanity. After he is found guilty, he is executed by being burned to ashes in a bonfire.
Esoteric:Mardi Gras is the symbolic Judgment Day of the Vernal Equinox. Here we see the Demon of the Underworld being destroyed by fire which is symbolic of the Sun. The power of fire and warmth beats winter and brings bounty and life to the world.
Ash Wednesday
Tradition:Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. It is the day believers receive a mark of ashes on their forehead as a sign of penitence.
Esoteric: This is the first day of Lent. The Sun (Fire) worshipers are celebrating their coming victory over the demons of winter. They celebrate by marking their head with the ashes of Carnival after his execution of being burned by fire. Here the believers joyfully scoop up the ashes of Carnivals corpse and mark their bodies with them. This is a statement that the sun's power will burn its enemies to ashes.
Lent
Tradition:Lent is a solemn religious observance in the Christian liturgical calendar commemorating the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert, according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, before beginning his public ministry during which he endured temptation by Satan. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later.
Esoteric:The 40-day Lent represents the period of the Sun's Movement to solidify its position above the celestial equator. In other words, the ancients noticed a transition period between seasons where there was a sort of tug of war going on between the seasons. They noted that it took forty days for the new season to fully manifest and shake off aspects of the old season.
Palm Sunday
Tradition:Palm Sunday is a Christian feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four Gospels. Palm branches were spread out before Jesus as he proceeded into the city.
Esoteric:Here, Jesus is representative of the sun. The spreading out of palm leaves before his procession signifies the sun's life-giving power as it passes through the gates of the spring equinox. The sun is the cause of the life-giving plant growth that sustains all life on earth. Thus, the spreading of the palms and the giving of palm leaves at church services symbolize the natural effect the sun has on the spring season.
Passover (Pesach)
Tradition:Passover is a significant holiday that celebrates the Exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
Esoteric:Israel (like the New Testament Jesus) symbolizes the sun. The story of Exodus is the story of the Exodus of the sun from the southern hemisphere into the northern hemisphere.
Easter (Pascha)
Tradition:Easter is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Easter is described as having occurred on the third day of Jesus' burial following his crucifixion.
Esoteric:With Easter, the season of spring officially begins. Culturally Easter is a time of new beginnings. Often, new clothes are purchased at this time, symbolizing the rejuvenation that comes along with this new season. The egg and the rabbit are also cultural symbols of this holiday and represent fertility. The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is symbolic of the sun's victory over winter in the picturesque allegorical language of the ancients.
Birthday of John the Baptist
Tradition: The birthday of John the Baptist is commemorated on June 24. Christians have long interpreted the life of John the Baptist as a preparation for the coming of Jesus Christ.
Esoteric:
Astro-Theologically speaking, John the Baptist is the mirror image of Jesus. Jesus is purported to have been born on December 25, three days after the Winter Solstice. The birthday of John the Baptist is June 24, which is three days after the Summer Solstice. John 3:30 "He must increase, but I must decrease," is true as the sun makes its way around the solar cycle, and he actually does decrease. Nine weeks and three days after, -- that is August 29, he gets his head cut off by the line of the horizon, and that is the day the church has fixed, as the festival of the beheading of John the Baptist.
Halloween
Tradition:Halloween (a contraction of "All Hallows' evening") is a celebration observed on October 31. It begins the observance of the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the "dearly departed."
Esoteric:Halloween signifies the final end to the summer season. The sun has crossed the autumnal equinox on September 22. Now, 40 days later, the transition to winter (Satan) has officially occurred.The masquerading in costumes of devils and other underworld characters signal that the southern hemisphere, the area of Satan, is now entirely in control.
Christmas
Tradition:Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed on December 25, when religious and cultural celebrations occur worldwide.
Esoteric:On December 25, after being still for three days (in the grave), the sun is symbolically reborn. The Winter Solstice on December 22 is the lowest declination of the sun at minus 23.5 degrees and represents the sun's death.
Baptism
Tradition:Baptism memorializes the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. It is considered a covenantal act, signifying entrance spiritual rebirth. It is viewed as a requirement for entrance into heaven.
Esoteric:The "ritual of baptism mimics the annual circuit of the sun for the period it is beneath the equinoxes in the southern hemisphere. In one phase of mythology, the ancients viewed the period of the sun's passage below the celestial equator as a type of purgatory. Also, regarding the daily circuit of the sun the ancients imagined that as the sun sets on the western horizon, it entered into the celestial waters of the underworld, where it suffered many trials and tribulations.The effect of traversing these perilous celestial waters was purification, verified when the sun appeared anew and glorified at the next dawning day.
Christian Eucharist
Tradition:The Eucharist is a sacrament in remembrance of the death of Jesus Christ, whereas bread is taken as his body and wine is taken as his blood.
Esoteric:The explanation for the Eucharist is found in the Astrological sign of Virgo. Virgo, of course, is the Virgin Mary and in her sign, Virgo stands holding a stalk of wheat (bread). Virgo and her stalk of wheat is an esoteric precursor of the symbol of the Madonna and child. The stalk of wheat represents the child Jesus, hence the termBread of Lifefor his description.
Recall that Virgo is in the fall from August 23 to September 22. This is the harvest time where serious preparations are undertaken for the winter. It is the time of gathering and pressing grapes into wine.Within the constellation of Virgo is the star Vindemiatrix. Vindemiatrix comes from Greek through the Latin vindemiatrix, vindemiator, meaning,"the grape-harvesters." Of course, grapes are used to produce wine; hence the wine is the symbolical blood of Jesus and used for the Eucharist.
Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Tradition: Commemorated on August 15th, when the Virgin Mary rose from the earth directly into heaven.
Esoteric: The early church fathers claimed that the mythical Mary rose to heaven's whole body and soul just like her mythical son Jesus. Since we know that Virgo symbolizes Mary, this is easily explained.During the sun's annual cycle, all of the zodiac constellations are, in their turn, lost in the light of the sun. They seem to rise to the sun as it crosses over their positions. When the vernal equinox is in Aires, the sun crosses over Virgo in August in its annual circuit. So, the Virgin Mary rising to heaven symbolizes the sun's transit of the zodiac sign of Virgo." 23
Section IIII
Judaism
Truth does not change because it is, or is not,
believed by a majority of the people.
~ Giordano Bruno
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Judaism and Astro-Theology
Up to now, most of the discussion has centered on Astro-Theology and the New Testament. As we continue our glance into the past, we will examine the connection between the Old Testament and its writers of the Judaic tradition. This section may be slightly more challenging for the average reader as different terms and calendars are used. The conclusions reached are also that this religious system has its roots in practical observation.
Approaching Judaism as an outsider, one of the first things one notices is the blatant self-promotion as Gods Chosen People. Likely, every monotheistic religion reflects this attitude. Yet, this religious tradition seems more at ease and better at marketing themselves as the standard-bearers for God. Inquiring minds ask if this is the case or does this religion also has its foundation in the stars. No religious tradition develops in a vacuum. So, what are the roots of Judaism? What can their religious customs tell us about their relationship with the heavens above?
While it is beyond the scope of this book to do a deep dive into the historical roots of Judaism, with a bit of work, the serious reader will confirm that the link starts with the Sumerians. The Babylonians continued it. Finally, the Jews took it and made it one of their own. The Sumerians used a system of calendar menologies from which the Semites (ancestors of the Jews) copied as their own.
The Sumerian menologies covered every day of the year and every facet of life. These were then annotated on the Sumerian calendars. The ancient Sumerians did not approach each day with an open agenda. Instead, they lived by a regulated system that prescribed day-to-day activities. For example, some days were lucky, some unlucky. Some days it was good to build. Other days were good to travel. Some days carried prohibitions, which were punishable by death if one was in violation. One of the prohibitions was travel during a New Moon. (The travel ban is linked to the ancient reverence and worship of the Moon-god,Sin, their primary deity.) This system was prevalent in ancient Sumerian society. Both holidays and mundane activities were covered on the Sumerian calendars.
This brings us to the next point, the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Judaic traditions follow the moon's calendar and not the sun. It was stated earlier that the flow is from Samaria to Babylon to the Semites. Each used observation of the moon to place critical dates throughout the year. Before looking at this aspect in more detail, a slight digression regarding the moon deity Sin.
The Egyptians were keen observers of nature as well as the stars. Among many things the Egyptians reverenced were volcanoes. The volcano was important because it had a sexual connotation and represented life and creation. The reverence for the volcano may have been the genesis for using the triangle shape. The triangle is the pyramid, coming from pyra, meaning fire, and mid, meaning middle.
Here we represent the fire of sexual generation in the middle of the human body that brings forth new life.
One of the Old Testament gods is Yahweh seems to have some relationship with a volcano god. The place where Moses encountered Yahweh was on Mount Sinai was the place of the Midianites god. (The Midianites were biblical people who occupied territory east of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea and southward through the desert wilderness of the Arabah. They reportedly dominated this territory from roughly the twelfth through the tenth century B.C.E. In the biblical account, the Midianites were descended from Midian, a son of Abraham through his concubine Keturah (Genesis 25:1-6).24 The Midianite's homeland was associated with "Sin," the local moon god. Mount Sinai was named after the mood god Sin, Sin-ai, or Sinai.
The Bible further describes Yahweh as a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. (Exodus 13: 21-22).
Thus, we have the representation of the Israelite God.
This point the reader may find difficult to believe, yet it is true. It is associated with the volcanic aspect of Yahweh. Actor Leonard Nimoy, who played Mr. Spock (from the planet Vulcan) on the original TV series "Star Trek," describes where he got the idea for the Vulcan hand gesture. Regarding his iconic Vulcan greeting or blessing, "Live long and prosper."
Nimoy stated that the greeting was taken from a Jewish benediction ritual that he peeked at as a young boy. The Rabbi was growling and howling, his arms extended, and his fingers were in the 2 x 2 "V" shape gesture. Nimoy said he just had to peek as it was unlike anything he had experienced previously.
The Jewish Calendar
Let us now return to the moon being used as the primary calendar. There is a lot to unpack here, but a foundation is required before further exploration can occur. Understanding the calendar is vital to Judaism as it is the prime regulator of the covenants between the Jews and God and the required rituals to maintain cultural unity. Several large books could be written on this aspect alone. What follows is a condensed version.
The Jewish calendar differs from the one used today. It is based on the revelation of the moon around the earth.
This differs from the more common calendar based on the earths rotation around the sun. The lunar calendar comprises twelve months of 29 or 30 days in a typical year. In a leap year, a thirteenth month is added (known as Adar II). A leap year happens seven times in each cycle of 19 years.
They are added in the third, sixth, eighth, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth years. By adding these leap years, the lunar year of 354 days is harmonized with the solar year of 365 days. The purpose of harmonizing with the solar is to keep it in sync with the seasons governed by the solar cycle. This assures the Jewish festivals remain in their proper season.
Interestingly the ancient Hebrews did not use their lunar calendar to predict the appearance of New Moons and thereby track the months and seasons. Instead, they relied on observation of the moon cycles as they unfolded. In ancient Judaic religious tradition, the months do not start until the New Moon is seen and confirmed by the Rabbis or the Sanhedrin. This is also why the Jewish day begins at 6:00 PM, which was usually when the New Moon would be first observed. This local observation and reporting system worked well while the Jewish community remained centralized. As the Hebrew people spread throughout the world, this system became unworkable. A new system had to be developed that was suitable for any location.
The new Moon carried important religious significance to the Hebrews. They were, in fact, ancient worshippers of the moon god Sin. (As in Mt. Sin-ai). They viewed the New Moon as it moved from total darkness to light coming out of the womb of cosmic darkness. These days were noted as special in both the Old and New Testaments.
Thus saith the LordGod; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. Ezekiel 46:1
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days. Colossians 2:16
The Hebrew names of the month were adopted from the Babylonian calendar around 580 B.C.E. The ancient calendar relied on witness observations of the New Moon as signals for the cycles of the months. This old calendar was replaced by the current Judaic calendar around 359 C.E. This updated calendar predicts the occurrences of the New Moon. It is not affected by human observations or fractional early or late returns of the new Moon. The phases tend to average out during the full nineteen-year term.
Name
Number
Length
Equivalent
Nissan
1
30 days
March - April
Iyyar
2
29 days
April - May
Sivan
3
30 days
May - June
Tammuz
4
29 day
June - July
Av
5
30 days
July - August
Elul
6
29 days
August - September
Tishrei
7
30 days
September - October
Cheshvan
8
29 or 30 days
October - November
Kislev
9
29 or 30 days
November - December
Tevet
10
29 days
December - January
Shvat
11
30 days
January - February
Adar
12
29 or 30 days
February - March
Adar II (leap year)
13
29 Days
March - April
The solar calendar is based on the Earths revolution around the sun that takes 365 days. As we have seen, the solar calendar is divided into four different sections, and those sections define the seasons. The Lunar Calendar is determined by the moon going around the Earth. Twelve moon revolutions around the Earth define the lunar year, 354 days, or 11 days shorter than the solar calendar. The Jewish of today state the lunar calendar has nothing to do with the seasons, yet as we will see, they must update their calendar to keep in step WITH the seasons.
It is worth noting the Muslims also keep the lunar calendar but do not update their calendar to keep up with the seasons. Thus, their holidays are not defined by the seasons. They can come up at any time of the year. For example, Ramadan may be in the heat of the summer one year. Still, the following year it will be eleven days earlier. It will be the same 11 days earlier with each subsequent year. Christian holidays are fixed to a season. Christmas will always be in the winter in the northern hemisphere. The Jewish approach is somewhat of a middle ground between these two. They periodically reset their calendar to keep the holidays within a given season. This combination of a Lunar and Solar calendar is reflected in their name for their calendar, the Lunisolar Calendar.
The lunar month is 29.5 days, 44 minutes, and 2.8 seconds from New Moon to New Moon. How to fit the lunar year into the solar year? The solution they use is they make some months 29 days and others 30 days, so over time, it averages out.
The Hebrew name for "month" is "Chodesh. Chodesh is related to the word Chadash which means "new." We are told that keeping the lunar calendar is much more dynamic. It means things are always in a state of change. Whereas with a solar calendar, nothing changes. Thus, the phrase da Vinci uses that "There is nothing new under the sun." The assumption is that under the moon, there are new things, thus the use of the term Chodesh.
So why don't the Jews simply keep the lunar calendar? Their Holy Book, the Torah, commands them to observe Passover in the spring, and the festival of Sukkot has to be observed in the autumn. So, the Jewish God commands them to fix their holidays in their respected seasons. This means they cannot simply keep a lunar calendar like the Muslims do.
If they did that eventually, their holidays would fall out of the Torah commanded seasons via its movement being 11 days earlier each year. This would lead to Passover sometimes occurring during the winter and Sukkot in the spring.
So how do they adjust the Lunar calendar and fix it to the seasons according to the Solar calendar? They adjust the calendar with a leap year where they add a 13th month (called Adar II), and they do this 7 times in 19 years. This keeps the Jewish holidays within the prescribed seasons.
Why do the Jews keep the Lunar/Solar calendar? The widely accepted explanation from Jewish scholars is that the Jews keep the Lunar/Solar calendar because "each season is a physical manifestation of the spiritual reality."
They believe that the spiritual essence of Passover, which is freedom, liberation, and renewal, is expressed in the environment in spring. So, what is happening in the physical world expresses what is happening in the spiritual realm. Everything is breaking through on the physical level, expresses the spiritual reality tied to Passover's holiday after a long, cold, dark winter. Similarly, the festival of Sukkot in the fall, the time of happiness, is expressed in the physical realm. Therefore, the fullness of the holiday experience is linked to the fullness of the seasonal experience.
So, this is why the Judaic tradition keeps a Lunisolar calendar to maintain the holidays within the correct season while maintaining the months' " dynamic " component. Despite what their theologians say, this sounds like their religious holidays are tied to nature and the seasons.
Here is a way to visualize the Jewish calendar.
Modern major religions evolved from primitive cultural systems that practiced Nature Worship or Animism. They viewed reality as one where unseen mystical deities were the driving forces or manipulators of the natural environment. Against this backdrop, each culture was looking for an edge, a supernatural benefactor in their struggle for survival. This desire sprang systems of atonement and sacrificial right to gods that still prevail in our modern-day cultures. In this regard, Judaism can be viewed as a cultural manifestation derived from the Semitic people's traditions, rituals, and customs. The Hebrews, the so-called Israelites, or Jews, are part of.
All primitive people had special days, festivals, or rituals that marked the changing of the seasons. Most of these concerned themselves with the four cardinal points; the vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox, and the winter solstice. These periods were vitally important because of the impact the changing of the seasons had on Man's habitat. This is why all of the major religious holidays proximate these cardinal points.
This is why all the major Jewish holidays are marked by the same four cardinal points. The goal of these primordial populations can best be summed up in one word Salvation. These cultures wanted release from the cycles of the reoccurring torments and repeated struggle to survive with their Earthly environment.
It is 2000 B.C.E. Your Semite community raises multiple things such as wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, dates, lentils, fava beans, chickpeas, peas, leeks, garlic, onions, black radishes, and muskmelons. Your life depends on the successful sewing, growing, harvesting, and storage of these items. Failure to do this work once spring starts and the difficulties of the dark and cold of the winter could prove fatal. The winter months are indeed a real challenge.
You do not have electricity, running water, refrigeration for the food. No toilets. Your floor is dirt, though you may have a carpet. There are no glass windows, and you wear the same clothes for four or five months.
Under such conditions, diseases can take root and run rampant.
There are elders or leaders of your group. They seem to have a better idea of things than the general population. How would these leaders deal with a poor, uneducated, and unsophisticated population? How would they care for them? How would they communicate with and motivate their population?
Force might be one way of motivation, but these are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, aunts, and uncles. These are not enemies. These are family, friends, and neighbors. A kinder way would be to tell them stories.
Tell them stories about how they are special and Gods Chosen People.
However, to keep this title and this special relationship, these people MUST do the following and never deviate from the story. Why? Because deviating from the storyline not only breaks the covenant they have with God, but it also puts them on the road to death and places the entire community at risk.
You tell the people not to worry about understanding. You tell them faith is a gift. The priests are in charge of understanding and mediators between heaven and earth. It is the priests who are the mediator for them with God. You tell them they MUST have FAITH, and if they lack faith, they have missed the mark and fallen short. You tell them because they are your mothers and fathers, your brothers and your sisters, your sons, and daughters. You tell this to them because it is practical, and you want them to live. You make it religious because it becomes easier for them to remember and as well as to teach each new generation.
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Seven Jewish Religious Festivals
Let us now examine the Seven Jewish Feasts to see if we can expose non-religious origins.
The first month of the Jewish calendar is the month of Nissan, in the Israeli spring. However, the Jewish New Year is in Tishrei, the seventh month, when the year number changes and is increased. So, Nissan is the first month, the start of the Jewish religious calendar. Because we have already learned about the Jewish calendar constantly resetting to keep its holidays in tune with the season. The Passover Holiday always occurs in the spring, as does the feast of Hag Hamatzah (Feast of the Unleavened Bread) and Bikkurim (First Fruits).
There are also three major fall holidays. These are Rosh Hashanah, You Kippur, Sukkoth. A fourth major holiday is Shavuot (Feast of the Weeks), and it occurs more closely to the summer solstice.
Major Jewish Festivals
1. Pesach - also known as Passover.Pesach is a major Jewish Holiday held in the spring and starts on the 15th day of Nisan, at twilight. The night before Passover of Nisan 15 is the ritual ofBedikat Hametz
2. Hag Hamatzah - also known as Feast of Unleavened Bread. Nisan 15-21. This is a seven-day festival where God forbids the Jewish people to have any leavened bread in their houses.
3. Bikkurim - also known as First Fruits. The celebration of Shavuot is also called the holiday of Bikkurim, or the Festival of First Fruits and Grains. It represents a fulfillment of the promise of spring.Nisan 17.
4. Shavuot - also known as the Festival of the Weeks. Observed at Sivan 6. The holiday celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai as well as the grain harvest for the summer.
5. Rosh Hashanah also known as Yom Hadin (Judgment Day) and is the Jewish New Year festival.It is held on the first (also sometimes the second) day of Tishri (in September).
6. Yom Kippur - also known as the Day of Atonement. Yom Kippur is the most solemn religious day of the Jewish year. It is observed on the 10th day of the lunar month of Tishri (in the course of September and October), whenJews seek to expiate their sins and achieve reconciliation with God.
7. Sukkoth - also known as the Feast of the Tabernacles, Festival of the Booths or Fruit Harvest. Sukkoth is major Jewish festival held in the autumn (beginning on the 15th day of Tishri) that is taught that it is to commemorate the sheltering of the Israelites in the wilderness. Sukkoth concludes the year of feasts and extends for seven days from the Full Moon of Tishri 15 to Tishri 22, with two additional ceremonial days added to take it to nine days.
Let us now look at each feast in more detail. As we make our way through these feasts, keep this fact in mind. The rationale given to us by the Jews for the continual and perpetual observance of these primitive feasts is that they are integral to the covenant (bargain) between them and God.
What is this covenant? The covenant is that if God liberated the Israelites from Egyptian bondage, they would forever remember Gods special favor. By observing these feasts in perpetuity, they are fulfilling their divine promise to God.
Pesach (Passover)
The reason celebration of the Passover feast in the month of Nisan (Abib) is that it marks the occasion of their deliverance from bondage from Egypt.
Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover of the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib he brought you out of Egypt by night. Deuteronomy 16:1
What else might be going on here? Are there other explanations that make sense given the primitive nature of the culture at the time?
Pesach (Passover) as indicated above; this holiday must occur in the spring. Current rabbinical teachers acknowledge its relationship to the spring season as a time of renewal. This is when the Sun has passed over the Vernal Equinox from the winter to spring season. The word Passover comes from the Hebrew wordpeasch,which means to hop or to skip over.
Also, lamb is ritually consumed at the Passover meal to commemorate the passing over of the equinoctial point from Taurus (Bull) to Aries (Ram).
Recall that each astrological age represents a new spiritual history for the human race. Accordingly, the religious symbols of each new age reflect the zodiacal constellation into which the equinoctial point has passed. The dominant symbol for the Age of Aires, which began in 2,160 BCE, was the Ram.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. Genesis 22:13
This age displaced the bull, which among the Hebrews became a symbol of wickedness. With this in mind, the story of Moses and the golden molten calf makes more sense.
WhenMoseswent up intoMount Sinaito receive theTen Commandments(Exodus 24:1218), he left the Israelites forforty days and nights. The Israelites feared that he would not return and demanded thatAaronmake them "a god to go before them". Aaron gathered up the Israelites' golden earrings and ornaments, constructed a "molten calf" and they declared: "'This is thy god, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." Exodus 32:14.
Aaron built analtarbefore the calf and proclaimed the next day to be a feast to the LORD. So, they rose up early the next day and "offeredburnt-offerings, and broughtpeace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." Exodus 32:6
God told Moses what the Israelites were up to back in camp, that they had turned aside quickly out of the way which God commanded them and he was going to destroy them and start a new people from Moses. Moses besought and pleaded that they should be spared and "the LORDrepented of the evil which He said He would do unto His people." Exodus 32:714
Moses went down from the mountain, but upon seeing the calf, he became angry and threw down the twoTablets of Stone, breaking them. Moses burnt the golden calf in a fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on water, and forced the Israelites to drink it. When Moses asked him, Aaron admitted to collecting the gold, and throwing it into the fire, and said it came out as a calf. Exodus 32:1924
Aaron and the people did not know how to call forth the Mazzeroth. They did not know how to read the signs in the heavens. Thus, they saw no reason to change from worshipping the calf. Moses, however, knew that the time of the calf was over. Being the leader, he had to do what he could to break the people's momentum for worshipping the calf that was common in the Age of Taurus.
Thus, Passover was not only concerning the winter season hopping over the equinox to spring. It was also the astrological hopping from the Age of Taurus (Bull) to the Age of Aries (Ram).
Hag Hamatzah (Feast of Unleavened Bread)
The second holiday is Hag Hamatzah (Unleavened Bread), and it merges with the Passover event. Here, for seven whole days, the Jews are prohibited from possessing or eating any thing that has touched or contains leaven.
Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. And on the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you. You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance. Exodus 12:14-17
Note the provision above on removing leaven bread from the house. The night before the Passover of Nisan 15 is the start of the ritual of Bedikan Hametz. Bedikan Hametz is the fanatical search of the entire area for any and all, even the tiniest bit of leaven. This leaven MUST be removed from the premises before Passover arrives the following evening. This is a laborious and arduous process to remove the leaven. Individuals sweep, mop, clean, and disinfect their entire property, often on their hands and knees. Also, all articles, including plates or cooking utensils that might have touched leaven, must be removed and super cleaned, cleaned by fire, or destroyed by fire. Any foodstuffs or drinks that may have come into contact with leaven must also be removed and destroyed.
The Jews are then instructed to eat matzo for the seven days of hag Hamatzah. Matzo is bread made without the use of leaven. The rationale for this feast is that the release of the Jews from Egypt was done in great haste. Once the Egyptians agreed to release the Israelites, they demanded they leave quickly. Therefore, the Jews did not have time to leaven their bread but had to prepare it soon without leaven.
Next comes the eating of the Passover lamb. Here, by divine decree, the Passover lamb must be eaten in great haste. All of the lamb must be consumed. There are to be no leftovers per divine injunction. Leftovers are to be burned and made as dust of the earth.
That same nightthey are to eat the meat roastedover the fire, along with bitter herbs,and bread made without yeast.Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water but roast it over a firewith the head, legs, and internal organs.Do not leave any of it till morning;if some is left till morning, you must burn it. Exodus 12:8-10
Another essential part of the Passover observance is the sacramental meal called the Seder meal. The Seder table's food, drinks, utensils, and rituals carry significant symbolism and their supposed agreement with God. The settings of the Seder table are standard in Jewish households.
? Seder Plate used for a Zeora (Lamb Shank Bone, representative of the Passover Lamb).
? Maror- are bitter herbs the Jews say represent the bitterness of slavery.
? Haroseth- is a mixture of chopped apples, nuts, and honey.
? It is supposedly a symbol of the mortar and cement bricks and a reminder of the Jews of the hard labor they endured while in bondage.
? Karpas green vegetables, such as lettuce. Green represents the new life and new hope for suffering people.
? Matzoth Stacked in three layers. This unleavened bread serves as a reminder of the quickness the Israelites had to flee Egypt.
? Salt Water (or as an alternative Vinegar).
? Saltwater is purported to remind of the tears that the Israelites shed in their suffering while under oppression from Egyptians.
? Cups of Wine A particular place or cup is set for the expected prophet Elijah. He is prophesied to come as a precursor of the Jewish messiah.
The Seder service starts with a general blessing. Next the attendees wash their hands from a water pitcher for the occasion. This is followed by each person dipping their green vegetables into the saltwater before eating. At the same time, they are to express their thanks to God. The patriarch of the household takes the middle matzo, breaks it in two, wraps it in a napkin, and hides it so that the children may later look for it and receive a prize. Everyone again cleanses their hands from the water pitcher. Then the patriarch says another prayer and distributes a portion of this blessed bread to those assembled. Each attendee then makes a Hillel Sandwich of the bitter herbs, the Haroseth (chopped apples, nuts, and hone) sandwiched between the matzoth. Next, it is time to eat, and then there is the closing prayer.
Let us examine this under the light that rituals preceded organized religion. This can be said for Judaism. All of the Judaic core religious rituals originated primitively under the conditions and environment of the given period. The ruling elite were a tiny fraction of the population.
This primordial core of Judaism that we are now reviewing precedes the development of writing for the millennia. The critical point to understand is that the ruling elite of these primordial masses sought to convey important societal messages, and they could not do so intellectually. The masses were uneducated and illiterate. They could not reach them through group discussions about pertinent facts. The common class would not have recognized nor accepted the connection between sanitation and health in those ancient times.
So, the priests, rather than use force, would coerce, manipulate, or maneuver the people through various means, be it rituals, customs, and traditions. Basically, whatever it took to for the elite to accomplish what was necessary for the welfare of the tribe. This system carries on today.
So, what is going on with the fanatical hunt for removing unleavened bread? What is the primitive origin of the Seder Meal? What is the core over which Judaic Passover rituals have been overlaid? It can best be summed up in one word SANITATION! Sanitation is defined as the promotion of hygiene and prevention of disease by maintaining sanitary conditions (as by removing sewage and trash). Sanitation is the practical reason for the ancients to have constructed these traditions. The tradition of an ancient annual hygienic renewal system that the Semites conducted annually after surviving the health perils commonplace and endured by primitive societies after long winter sequestration.
Many verses continued in the bible of the symbiotic association between cleanliness and godliness. Here are a couple examples:
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean. Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness: Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and anything he sits on will be unclean. Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. Leviticus 15:1-5
When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean. Leviticus 15:13
The list of these verses centering around cleanliness goes on and on. The Priesthood controlled the destiny for their community, and they employed great dunning in directing this destiny. Again, divorce your thinking from the present day and travel back to a time of living in primitive dwellings, with earthen floors no running water. The winter has just ended. How might the ancient Priesthood motivate the masses to performSPRING CLEANING?Of course, the answer is to say that God commands it, and a story was created as to why God commanded it.
Concerning removing the leavened bread, one must understand that the ancient Semites used sourdough to leaven their bread. They did not use the modern baking soda type of leaven. Sourdough is produced by simply adding water to the flour and setting it at room temperature. The combination of millet and water started the growth of bacteria. In a brief time, these bacteria began fermentation and had the effect of leaven. When the ancient bakers desired to leaven their bread, they took a small "lump" of the sourdough and added it to the fresh bread mix. Thus, the sourdough leaven was maintained day by day throughout the year by adding fresh flour and water. This means that they were effectively using the same core batch for the entire year.
At some point, the priestly cast noticed that the old leaven needed to be discarded in the interest of sanitation. Likely the leaders received some push back from the population who saw no need to discard perfectly good leaven. So, the priests started a new tradition that required the complete removal of old sourdough (leaven) from the premises for seven days annually. What is the reason for the 7 days? The answer is to quarantine, to help in aid of combating contagion and disease.
Some of the Seder tales are also connected to sanitation and the avoidance of contagion. In contrast, other parts are associated with the passing over of the sun from the lower hemisphere of winter into the upper hemisphere of spring and light.
The saltwater of the Seder table can be used with vinegar as a type of natural disinfectant. Here is the ritual of dipping green vegetables into saltwater to sanitize them. Bitter Herbs are cathartic herbs designed to clan the system during the seven days of hygienic renewal. The ceremonial washing of hands reminds us that everyone should wash their hands before eating. The cleaning or discarding of the items and utensils that came into contact with the leaven of the previous year was also to eliminate bacterial infection.
A couple of the items on the Seder table symbolize the cosmic Passover of the sun. The lamb's bone shows the sign of Aries and of spring.The green vegetable indicates the greenness of spring and summer. The mythology of the Israelites emerging from the bondage of Egypt at the beginning of spring parallels the sun's emergence from the bondage of the celestial underworld. Thus, in real terms, the Passover did bring emancipation from suffering the ancients endured during the winter months.
Bikkurim (First Fruits)
Bikkurim is the celebration of Shavuot, which fulfills the promise of spring. Nisan 17. First Fruits represent the first fruits of the harvest. The primary obligation is to bring First Fruits to the Temple and give them to the Rabbi as an offering. The Rabbi would then wave these First Fruits of harvest around the Temple to offer God.
Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land I am going to give youand you reap its harvest,bring to the priest a sheafof the first grain you harvest.He is to wave the sheaf before theLordso it will be acceptedon your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. Leviticus 23: 10-11
This tithe was limited to seven traditional agricultural products: wheat, barley, grapes in the form of wine, pomegranates, olives in the form of oil, and dates.
Unless one believes God is hugely impressed by the waving of fruits and grains, this clearly this is an agriculture festival where the ruling elite could gather valuable information on the status of the current harvest.
Shavuot (Feast of the Weeks)
Shavuot is observed at Sivan 6 and occurs 50 days after Bikkurim Festival. The holiday celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai and the grain harvest for the summer. In biblical times, Shavuot was one of three pilgrimage festivals where all Jewish men would go to Jerusalem and bring their first fruits as offerings to God.
Shavuot is called the Festival of Weeks because it is held five weeks after the second night of Passover.
Originally this festival is tied to an ancient grain festival. The Shavuot harvest concludes the grain harvesting that began with the barley harvest of Bikkurim fifty days earlier. It marks the reaping of the wheat harvest seven weeks after the barley harvest during the Passover season. At Shavuot, two loaves of bread are prepared from the new harvest as an offering.
From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephahof the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruitsto theLord. Leviticus 23:17
The point is that agricultural traditions existed thatprecededthe Judaic tale of the Israeli exodus from Egypt. The Rabbis created the Exodus saga. They composed their myth to match the prevailing rituals among the agrarian Semites.
Rosh Hashanah (Yom Hadin (Judgment Day) - Jewish New Year)
Rosh Hashanah is held on the first (also sometimes the second) day of Tishri (in September). It is marked by the blowing of the shofar (rams horn trumpet) and begins the ten days of penitence culminating in Yom Kippur.
Ten days after Rosh Hashanah, on Tishri 10, is Yom Kipper - the Day of Atonement. And then another five days later on Tishri 14 and Sukkoth. Sukkoth is the last harvest (fruit) of the Jewish year.
Celebrate the Festival of Harvestwith the first fruitsof the crops you sow in your field. Celebrate the Festival of Ingatheringat the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. Exodus 23:16
Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the first fruitsof the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingatheringat the turn of the year. Exodus 34:22
Since the bible refers to Sukkoth as the end of the year and not to Rosh Hashanah on Tishrei 1. This means that the seven festivals from Passover to Sukkoth were seen as an agricultural season or year that ends with Sukkoth. The Day of Judgment title could reference the judgment of the harvest, which in primitive cultures was a judgment on the population.
As already noted, Passover symbolizes the hopping or passing of the Sun over the Vernal equinox. It is the liberation of the Suns cosmic bondage from the lower hemisphere (from the northern perspective) to the potency of the Sun in spring and summer.
Rosh Hashanah does not mark the beginning of the solar year of 365 days. Rather, it marks the renewal of the lunar year at the close of 354 days, which is short of the solar year by eleven days. This period of 354 days, from Rosh Hashanah to Rosh Hashanah, is purported to be the amount of time in which the Torah was transmitted and written down. By inserting a 13th month into their calendar at roughly three-year intervals, the Hebrews can tune the lunar cycle of 354 days to the solar cycle of 365 days. The whole purpose of the Lunisolar Calendar is to keep the months of the Hebrew lunar calendar in sync with the seasons, so the Jewish festivals remain in their appropriate season.
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
Yom Kippur is the great day for the Jewish year and marks the Day of Atonement. On this day, the Jewish faithful beseech God seeking forgiveness for their previous year's sins.
Since the Jewish Lunisolar Calendar keeps the Jewish festivals in the appropriate season, it would make sense that there is an aspect in it that relates to the solar calendar. Here the festival of Yom Kippur seems to fit as a solar marker. In its origin, Yom Kippur marks the end, or the approaching end, of the solar year.
Yom Kippur occurs ten days after Tishri 1 (Rosh Hashanah marking the end of the lunar New Year at 354 days). The added tend days make approximately a solar year of 364 days. Then five days between Yom Kippur and Sukkoth allow the ancient Hebrews enough days to intercalate or two days needed to complete the solar year at 365 of 366 days.
The ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are called theDays of Awein Judaic tradition. Those judged are sorted into three categories; blessed, damned, and purgatorial (yet to be determined). Yom Kippur gives individuals a last chance to make things right and atone for their sins. The goal of Yom Kippur is mercy and forgiveness, which is laudable.
Here must digress and bring up a fascinating aspect of the Jewish faith. Centuries ago, the Rabbis developed a clever system by which they could edit, evolve, and adapt their belief system to keep with an evolving Jewish culture. Moreover, this could continue onward into the indefinite future. The rabbis claimed that when God revealed the Torah, he revealed two Torahs at the same time, one written and the other oral. These ancient Rabbis thereby instituted a method by which their scriptures were "living documents," not tied to time but culturally adapted, by the way, if reinterpretations and addendums to the scriptures.
TheLordsaid to Moses: Bring me seventy of Israels elderswho are known to you as leaders and officials among the people.Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.I will come down and speak with youthere, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them.They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone. Numbers 11:16-17
The elite cleverly edited their scriptures to support their claim of the dual Torah. One was written and dispensed to Moses, and the other oral and distributed to the priesthood the Rabbis and Moses. The priesthood could thereby use the Oral Torah to expound, enhance and tweak the Written Torah as times were deemed necessary. In the 3rd Century C.E., the rabbis decided to put portions of the Oral Torah into writing as a convenient way of circulating and preserving the Oral Torah. The written form of the Oral Torah is called the Mishnah and is contained in the Talmud.
Within the Jewish faith, you can have a dynamic interplay of biblical Judaism (based on the written word) and Rabbinic Judaism (based on the oral word).
This dual concept of written and oral scriptures gives Judaism a distinct advantage of outlasting the other primary western religions as time marches into the distant future. The other primary western religions are fixed in nature. They will eventually find themselves further and further out of step as ages pass. The built-in flexibility does not assure Judaism will survive as a viable religion into the distant future. It has a better chance of surviving as new mythologies can be introduced to match the different astrological ages it finds itself.
How does this fact relate to Yom Kippur? The popular or modern rituals of Yom Kippur have primarily been constructed under Rabbinic Judaism. This aspect is far beyond the scope of this work but can easily be researched by a serious student. For purposes of this work, simply know that Yom Kippur helps tie the lunar and solar calendar together. It serves as a marker for the conclusion of the solar year as the sun crosses over the Fall Equinox, entering into the fall and winter months.
Sukkoth (Feast of the Tabernacles / Feast of the Booths / Fruit Harvest)
Sukkoth is the seventh and last of the Seven Jewish feasts. Sukkoth initially runs for seven days from the Full Moon of Tishri 15 to Tishri 22. However, two additional ceremonial days have been added to take it to nine days in duration.
Sukkoth is one of the three Pilgrim Feasts, the other two being Pesach (Passover) and Shavuot (Feast of Weeks). When the Temple of Solomon allegedly stood in Jerusalem, all the Jews were called to make a pilgrimage to assemble and tithe.
Three times a year all your men must appearbefore theLordyour God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread,the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.No one should appear before theLordempty-handed:Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way theLordyour God has blessed you. Deuteronomy 16:16-17
Sukkoth is sometimes called the fruit harvest because, in the autumn, large crops of apples, grapes, and other fruit are harvested. The term Sukkoth translates to "booths." The Jewish storyline says that the Booths of Sukkoth are types of temporary dwellings their ancestors made and were forced to live in after their emancipation from Egypt. These structures were the ones they built and lived in for 40 years as they wandered from place to place until Yahweh finally directed them to the promised land. Yahweh commands the Jews, according to the bible, to gather branches and twigs and create single-room booths or huts. They are to live in these booths for seven days to commemorate their ancestors' sufferings and the goodness of God.
There are specific instructions for the construction of the booths. They are rectangular with three walls and one open side. The walls can be made with whatever is handy. However, the roofs must be constructed with greenery, boughs, or branches.
So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festivalto theLordfor seven days;the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest. On the first day you are to take branchesfrom luxuriant treesfrom palms, willows and other leafy treesand rejoicebefore theLordyour God for seven days.Celebrate this as a festival to theLordfor seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. Live in temporary sheltersfor seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters so your descendants will knowthat I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am theLordyour God. So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed festivals of theLord. Leviticus 23:39-44
Sukkoth originated as an agricultural fall harvest festival among the ancient Semites. These temporary shelters were essential to the broad-based harvesting, processing, and storing of the fruit crops. Even today, it is common to come upon harvest by migrant pickers utilizing temporary structures to keep out of the sun and process their harvest. The end of the year harvesting was a significant community effort in ancient times.
Moreover, it had to be completed quickly to minimize waste due to the gap between ripe and overripe.
The original Sukkoth festival was an agricultural festival with no religious significance. As the Jewish religion developed and the Priesthood sought and gained strength, the Priests sought to co-opt the preexisting festivals. The Rabbis constructed a story of the suffering of Jewish people living in shanty Booths to give a religious veneer to an ancient heathen agricultural festival.
Conclusion of Jewish Feasts
The Jews claim that these feasts are integral to their covenant with God. This covenant sets the Jewish race as Gods favorite here on earth. Judaism can be considered the foundation of modern monotheism, with western monotheistic religions. It is easy to see the pagan origins in biblical Judaism. Moreover, while glossed over by many modern Jews, this historical outgrowth is still acknowledged!
The Passover series of festivals is also found within the annals of ancient Sumerian-Semitic lore. The offering of the First Fruits was traditional among the Semitic Assyrians. According to Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars, it is recorded in their writings of the 10th century B.C.E. according to Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars by Stephen Langdon.
Under the Full Moon of the first lunar month after the vernal equinox, the Assyrian festival of the First Fruits took place. This is what the Hebrews would copy and later claim as their own. The Jewish feasts are part of the Semitic culture.
The Jews modified these festivals or feasts to their own liking. They placed a religious veneer over them for societal purposes. It is common for advancing societies to reinterpret their cultural traditions as time passes.
Thus, we should not castigate the Jews or the Christians for this. They were simply doing what cultures had always done. For the same reason, we should not ignore the debilitating effect these theological absurdities have had on a sizable portion of the worlds population. How many people have been killed or suffered due to differences in cultural mythologies or calendar interpretations? Isnt it time to move past this into a future unencumbered by these mythologies?
The Jews have adapted culturally to the modern world because of the flexibility of the oral aspect of Rabbinic Judaism. The ancient Jews were indeed visionary when they developed the Oral Torah. From their inner circle, they can modify and adapt Judaism at will to any eventualities and simply claim that God through the Rabbis evoked the change.
The Arabs, Muslims, and Christians, in general, are locked in a period. Their cultural and religious precepts will eventually be those of a bygone age that they cannot extricate themselves from. To believers of both faiths, the Quran from Muslims and the Bible for Christians represents the final, unchanging word of God. No force within Islam can reinterpret the Quran. Any attempt to reinterpret the book is to be condemned as religious heresy. The same holds true for Christians. Even the Catholic believers, who have the Pope, will have difficulty moving past the unalterable Word of God as found in the written word of the Bible.
Out of the major western monotheistic religions, Judaism emerges as having the best chance to adapt and sustain itself. Over the centuries, those who have called themselves Jews have changed considerably.
This evolution will continue as a type into the Aquarian age with a new aspect destined to supplant the mythologies of the Piscean age.
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Adam and Eve
and Original Sin
The Adam of Genesis is comparable to the Christ of the New Testament. Both, in some parallel aspects, symbolized the Sun. Eve is a symbol of the feminine aspect of the solar system as companion of the sun; hence Eve is the Moon. The fall or exile of Adam (Sun) from paradise into the clutches and sufferings of a desolate bitter region carries the same connotation as the fall of Christ (Sun) from his glory into conditions of persecution and suffering at the hands of enemies.
Both allegories (Adam Jesus) are symbolical of the decline of the sun below the celestial equator, at the autumnal equinox. The Ancients represented this fall of the sun from its cherished position, as Life Giver, nourisher, cultivator, and caretaker of the summer season (Garden of Eden), into the clutches of winter, as being cast out of Paradise (celestial Eden) into a cauldron of dismay, struggle and punishment, as typified by the oppressive winter season, drought, flood, or darkness, experience when the sun traverses the Netherworld below the equinoxes.
Eve (the Moon) was likened to a seductress (comparable to Delilahs seduction of Samson (the Sun), that influenced the sun to follow her course as she (Eve = moon) dipped below the ecliptic, in the fall season (proximate to the autumnal equinox), seeming to entice the Sun (Adam) to follow her (Eve =Moon), as she herself mingled and connived with Satan, or Draconis within the celestial region of the autumnal equinox.
At the time of editing of the Eden Saga, the Serpent (Scorpio sector including Draconis, Typhon) symbolized the (opposing) God who held the key that unlocked the gateway to hell (the underworld region below the equinoxes). The gateway to hell is the autumnal equinox i.e., the gate through which the sun falls into the Nether World. Conversely, Taurus the bull, at the vernal equinox, represented the gateway to paradise (garden of delights), where the sun (Adam) entered into a state of bliss, power and contentment, in this phase of solar symbolism.25 These astrological signs were in place. The Garden of Eden story was edited to update from Taurus to Aires.
Current monotheistic thinking places all of life's misfortunes at our feet via the doctrine of Original Sin. This created a bit of a problem for early monotheists. They had to resolve their concept of a beneficent God with the harness of nature.
How did the priesthood resolve this conflict? They did so by creating the doctrine of Original Sin, which placed the burden (reason) for this suffering directly on the shoulders of people via their disobedience to God.
A retelling of the biblical story of Adam and Eve will not be presented here. According to the Priesthood, the essence of the doctrine of mankind's fall is we are all born into sin and suffer the consequences. The devil running wild is the primary reason for this, as Satan wants us to defect from God and suffer.
This priesthood convinced a primarily illiterate populace that the doctrine of Original Sin came from the mouth of God through revelation.
They thereby claimed that the people were the cause of their own life's problems because of two of their ancestors' disobedience to God.
This fall from grace, this Original Sin, guaranteed the priesthood would be around for 2,000 years to the people understand and mitigate the consequences for their ancestor's actions. It secured them a position of power and all that comes with it. It is a reprehensible practice that the clergy continues in our present era.
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Elders, Trees, & Cherubs
The Twenty-Four Elders
As we have seen, humankind established the sphere on the four cardinal points of astrological determinations and shows the four figures, which divided the circle into four equal parts. These figures were distributed at equal distance around the throne of God. The firmament above is where the Deity was placed. The twenty-four parts of time, which divided the revolutions of heaven, are called the twenty-four Elders, as time itself or Saturnus has always been called. These hours, taken six by six, are called wings.
The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge
According to the Bible, two trees are represented in the Garden of Eden. These trees are the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge (good and evil). Each has its unique value. The Garden itself may be considered symbolic of Adam's home (the Sun) as it makes its way above and across the celestial equator.
The Tree of Life can only mean the Vernal Equinox when viewed this way. This means the Tree of Life represents the new life that comes with spring as the earth, in the northern hemisphere, is resurrected from the death of winter.
The Tree of Knowledge (of Good and Evil) represents the Autumnal Equinox. Here the Sun falls into the lower hemisphere and demarks the opposing value of evil. This was the time of death, scarcity, and stillness.
The tale of the two trees is not a great mystery but rather a part of a beautifully structured allegorical tale. The serpent living in or close to the Tree of Knowledge indicates the sign of the constellation occupying the sector at the time of the editing of the allegory. This reference points to the constellation Draconis (the Serpent or Dragon) in the sector Scorpius.
Cherubim with a Flaming Sword
In Genesis 3, we see now that God is an enemy of Adam and sets guards (the Cherubim) to stop Adam (Sun) from reaching the Tree of Life (Vernal Equinox).
After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side,of the Garden of Edencherubimand a flaming swordflashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:24
Cherubim with a flaming sword are stationed at the eastern entrance (Eastern Equinox) to prevent Adam (Sun) and Eve (Moon) from reaching the Tree of Life (eastern equinox).
The astrological sign that was stationed at the Eastern Gate (vernal Equinox) when the Ancients composed this riddle was the Zodiacal sign of Taurus. Within the sector of Taurus, the Ancients mapped three other constellations. They are Lepus, Auriga, and Orion. Within the Constellation of Orion, there is a star called Saiph, or Saif Al Jabbar. The English translation is The Sword of the Giant! This astronomical fact fits the biblical symbolism perfectly. 26
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The Red Sea
The Ancients used the term Red (or scarlet) to indicate trouble or debasement indicative of a time of trials and troubles. Thus, passing through the Red Sea simply means the suns (metaphorically Israel) passage through the zodiacal sectors beneath the celestial equator.
The ancients also used the term red as a metaphor for blood. Here references to the Red Sea may have also grown out of Lunar Mythology related to the human female menstrual cycle. Here think of three parallel processes.
1. The completion of the Human Female menstruation after 14-15 days of flow (from the ovaries).
2. The completion of the Waning Moon into total darkness (New Moon) after 14-15 days of shedding its light.
3. The completion of the Suns journey through the Red Sea. This commences as the Sun falls through the autumnal equinox into the Netherland under the equinoxes.
So, the Ancients correlated the Waning of the Sun (its period of lessened light beneath the equinoxes) with the waning of the moon (when it sheds its light). Both the lunar and solar mythology was correlated to the biological flowing of menstrual blood from the human form, hence the term Red Sea (menstrual blood) to describe the region of the suns sojourn beneath the equinoxes, in the southern hemisphere, in this phase of the symbolism. 27
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Cain and Able
The biblical story of Cain killing Able is a continuance of the same biblical theme constantly repeated throughout the bible. It, too, is an allegorical depiction of the never-ending struggle between the forces of Light and the forces of Darkness.
Adammade love to his wifeEve,and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.She said, With the help of theLordI have brought fortha man.Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offeringto theLord. And Abel also brought an offering fat portionsfrom some of the firstborn of his flock.TheLordlooked with favor on Abel and his offering,but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So, Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. Then theLordsaid to Cain, Why are you angry?Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door;it desires to have you, but you must rule over it. Now Cain said to his brother Abel, Lets go out to the field.While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Genesis 4: 1-8
Cain is described as a tiller of the soil (farmer) and able as a shepherd. Here the biblical editors use the farmer to reference the forces of light. Tilling of soil is a clue to favorable weather conditions, which indicate the summer months when the Sun is above the equinoxes in the northern hemisphere. Eating meat or using wool of an animal for warm clothing is a clue that the conditions are more related to hostile weather when the Sun is below the equinoxes.
When the scriptures speak of one parting gaining rulership over the other, as in this case, the Lord indicates that Cain shall rule over Abel, the allegorical reference is the Rule of the Sun over Darkness, which is accomplished at the eastern horizon at dawn, or at the vernal equinox, at the dawn of spring. So, Cain killing Able is clearly, and simply the victory of the Vernal Equinox (Forces of Light Cain) over the Autumnal Equinox (Darkness the brother Cain) at spring (March 20) when the sun ascends above the equinoxes.
Throughout the Bible, we are confronted with fables that highlight a conflict between two brothers, or two kingdoms, or two powers, etc. This is pure symbolism, which is meant to symbolically represent the eternal conflict between the contrary forces of nature, namely the Southern Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere. The natural forces are revered when we cross the equator, so the Ancients recorded this natural polarity as a mythical conflict between forces of Good and Evil. The sun is the determinate; it brings victory to the region it occupies or in some cases it is symbolized as a victim of the region which holds it in custody. 28
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The Book of Enoch
Related to the precession of the Equinoxes is The Great Cycle of the Axis Rotation. This great cycle spans 2,160,000 years. There is a fascinating discussion regarding the Great Cycle, The Book of Enoch, and the Milankovitch Cycles.
The three Milankovitch cycles include:
1. The shape of Earth's orbit, known as eccentricity.
2. The angle Earth's axis is tilted with respect to Earth's orbital plane, known as obliquity.
3. The direction Earth's axis of rotation is pointed, known as precession.
This discussion on this Great Cycle, Enoch, and the Milankovitch Cycles is pretty detailed and more technical in nature and thus beyond the scope of this work. However, briefly what the Ancients discovered was that after the completion of the processional cycle of 25,920 years the position of the Earths celestial polar axis had actually stepped up four degrees or so in relation to the position of the Pole of the Ecliptic.
This means that the tilt of the Earths axis was not fixed but rather was rotating or migrating toward angular union with the Pole of the ecliptic. They calculated a rate and recorded it as one degree every six thousand years in their symbolism. This, of course, works out to a cycle of 2,160,000 years for the Earth to complete.
Why is this knowledge important? The Oblique of the Ecliptic regulates our seasons and the distribution of sunlight over Earth. It is a long-term indicator of that which WILL come. As light and heat and cold and darkness participate in their dance moves, they will affect areas of our planet in various ways. Once habitual, sites become desolate and desolate areas will become habitable. The ancients tracked these long-term cycles for the purpose of human survival. These are gradual but drastic changes.
Thus, the ancients tracked the changes in the oblique of the ecliptic not only for tracking seasons but for understanding the gradually shifting Celestial pole as an indicator of pronounced change of environmental transitions. A deep dive on this subject is beyond the scope of this work. For those seeking additional information, refer to Lifting the Gnostic Veil by Malik H Jabbar, pages 104 -127.
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Noah & 150 Days of Peril
The saga of Noah and the flood is also a chronological system for measuring the annual cycle of the Son. This Calendar of Noah was used by the Hebrews before adopting their Mosaic calendar. The Mosaic calendar is an update generated from the myth relating to Hebrew slavery and the liberation from Egypt. This Moses calendar is a lunar calendar that correlates lunar and solar time and includes agricultural festivals previously not included in the Noah calendar.
The Moses calendar also incorporated the Noah calendar. This Metonic system is from Ancient Greek enneade caeteris meaning "nineteen." It is approximately 19 years, after which the moon's phases recur at the same time of the year. The recurrence is not perfect, and by precise observation, the Metonic cycle defined as 235 synodic lunar months is just 1 hour, 27 minutes, and 33 seconds longer than 19 tropical years.
Two important distinctions must be made regarding the Noah Calendar. First, the months did not alternate between 29 and 30 days with the Noah calendar, as does the current Jewish calendar. All months were 30 days long in the Noah calendar. Thus, the count was 360 days plus five uncounted days and not as lunar years of approximately 354 lunar days. The Genesis account of Noah's flood illustrated this 360-day year by recording the 150-day interval till the waters abated from the Earth. In other words, it indicates a five-month period as being exactly 150 days in length or five 30-day months. The second important distinction is that the ancient Noah and Moses calendar begins at the Autumnal equinox, not the spring equinox.
The story of Noah and the great flood is a saga of astronomical mythology. It refers to a chronological system of measuring the sun's annual cycle. There is no doubt the Earth has had significant periods of flooding, especially during periods of ice age melt. It is a stretch to think that Noah gathered every creature from 60,000,000 square miles of approximately 200,000,000 square miles of the Earth (sea and land together).
The Flood of Noah is a means of noting the sun's weakness during the winter months and the disastrous effect on the people. The period of the flood's worlds devastation was indicated by 150 days (or 5 months). The 150 number is key to understanding the symbolism.
The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. Genesis 7:24
Yet only a few verses prior, we see the rains lasted for 40 days.
For forty daysthe flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. Genesis 7:17
How is this to be interpreted? We do not go from one season to the next instantly. The ancients noted the transition lasted about 40 days. The festival of Halloween marks the end of the 40 days from the Autumnal Equinox of September 22. Then from Halloween to the Vernal Equinox, symbolically represented as Mount Ararat) it is slightly less than 150 days. This is the period indicated by the story of Noah where evil waters prevailed upon the earth.
The actual days spanned from Halloween to the astronomical coordinate designating the Vernal (spring) Equinox (March 21) is actually about 140 days; however, the Ancient Jews measured time by phases of the moon, most notably the New Moon or the Full Moon; consequently they noted the first Full Moon, after the crossing of the Vernal Equinox, as their time indicator, and this took them to exactly 150 days, as measured by the date (17th of the month) of their calendar; so far from the 17th of the 2nd month to the 17th of the 7th month was exactly 150 days; this span of 140 days signifies the most oppressive periods of the winter season The 17th day of the 7th month marked the suns crossing of the Vernal Equinox where the sun lifted into the upper hemisphere forecasting with its rise, warm weather and the promise of delivery for the survivors of the peril of winter. 29
Pay attention to biblical references or 150 days or 5 months and look for its symbolic significance. Note this verse from the Book of Revelation.
They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. During those days, people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. Revelation 9: 5-6
The sting of a scorpion refers to Scorpio's astrological sign and the five months of the sun's further descent into the southern hemisphere, the land of the dead, after the 40 days ending at Halloween.
The torment of Revelation parallels the torment of the Noah flood, this being the torment of the winter season. Stripping away the filler of the story of gathering all the worlds animals into the Ark and what you have is a story of instruction to the people to store up provisions for five months of hardship. The central dynamic within mythology is for education. Mythology was the primary means used by the ancients to preserve their knowledge and history.
Remember, the ancient communities did not have books, scrolls, or the internet. Their transmission of knowledge was an oral tradition of storytelling via fables, folk tales, and symbolic stories.
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The Temple of God
The word Temple in Hebrew is Yekel, in Latin, Templum, and in English, it is Temple.
The original meaning of the Latin word Templum has no reference to any religious edifice on earth. Rather, Templum signified a portion of the heavens marked out by the lituus (The lituus was a crooked wand, similar in shape to the top part of some Western European crosiers. It was used as a cult instrument in ancient Roman religion by augurs to mark a ritual space in the sky - a templum). Later it was used as a sacred crosier (a hooked staff carried by a bishop as a symbol of pastoral office) of the Augurs. In ancient Rome and Augur, a religious official observed natural signs. They especially noted the behavior of birds, interpreting these as an indication of divine approval or disapproval of a proposed action. They made these interpretations while considering them against the backdrop of the constellation of the Lamb of March - that being Aires at the Vernal Equinox.
The Latin word for time istempusand is synonymous withtemplum. So, at the spring equinox, when the Sun was in equity (equal parts day and night), the priests devoted themselves to the study of this law of equity and the judgment between man and his neighbor. This group of clergy was called templars and designated colleges in which they devoted themselves to this study of the temple. This group celebrated on the Hill of Mars from whom our month of March derives its name.
This temple of the god Mars, the god of war, or the Lord of Hosts, was where temple justice was administered with strict impartiality. In other words, The Lamb of March is when the New Year began. This is when the Sun crosses the equator in the sign of the Lamb (March). This is when the Sun gives an equal time of light and dark. It is similar to the equal justice lawyers are supposed to provide.
Fun Fact:If you travel to the United Kingdom, you may come upon the Temple church building. Some suggest that it was on this site that the ancient Phoenicians arrived and built the first structure on the site. They dedicated this church to their primary god, EL-ON-DON. EL means the Sun, ON means the Lord, DON means the Being. Over time EL-ON-DON was shortened, first to the vulgar Lunnun and then to London.
If you go to London, you can see the current Temple church located between Fleet Street and the River Thames. It sits at the highest location of the area.The area surrounding the Temple is one of the leading legal districts in London and a notable center for English law, historically and in the present day.
So, the god London, to whom this area was dedicated, was none other than the Sun itself. Not only is this uncovered by the three radical Phoenician particles that make up the word London. But step inside and examine the hieroglyphs, symbols, and emblems. Armed with your updated esoteric knowledge, you too will recognize it as a Cathedral of the Sun.
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Christianity the Planned Appendage
There is some evidence that Christianity was purposely fashioned by Judaism and engineered as a fit for the new era of Pisces. In other words, Jews wrote the Christ myth and used their cultural traditions embodied within the Old Testament literature that was in hand as a guide and outline for the basic storyline of the New Testament.
First, let us compare the Jewish and Christian calendars for evidence that Christianity is the calculated appendage of Judaism, not a new faith but a continuation of the old. The Hebrew era commenced in 3761 B.C. and the Christian era began in 1 A.D. The Hebrew era is marked by the so-called creation of the world and the Christian era is marked by the alleged birth year of Jesus Christ. We know that the Jewish calendar is measured by Metonic cycles of 19 years their calendar renews itself every 19 years (235 lunations, 6939.688 days). The Metonic cycle contains 7 Leap years that occur in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 19th year of the cycle. The Christian era commenced 3763 years after the Jewish era (that is 3761 plus the year zero plus the year one A.D. makes 3763 years).
Three thousand, seven hundred and sixty-two (3762) years contain 198 Metonic cycles exactly i.e., 3762 divided by 19 equals 198. This means that the 3763rd year of the Jewish era and the year one of the Christian ear are synonymous. That is to say that the year one A.D. is synonymous with the year one of the 199th Jewish Metonic cycle. This of course could only have happened by the design (or extreme coincidence) of the Priesthood (Jewish Founding Fathers) because Jesus Christ was a myth and never lived in actual history. The year one A.D. is clearly a continuation of the Jewish system of tracking time within the Christian Era. I view this as evidence that Christianity is a planned appendage of Judaism, not a departure from the old form. 30 (Emphasis added)
Section IV
Astro-Theology
& Culture
All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity. ~ Giordano Bruno
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Fables, Fairy Tales and Playing Cards
Not all of the morality tales found their way into the bible. Fairy tales often have their roots in astrological movements of the heavenly bodies. Here are a couple of examples.
The Hare & the Tortoise
Consider how the ancients viewed the Sun and the Moon. The sunlight was perceived to be warm and golden. It had the effect of drying and preserving. The Moon, on the other hand, was seen as a silver type of light that was cold, damp, and putrefying.
As though connected to a magnetic maypole, the Sun and Moon make their journeys around the earth every year. The Sun begins its journey at the tropic of Capricorn at the winter solstice. Here it makes its fastest and largest circle over the planet. Then, every day for the next three months, the Sun slightly narrows its path and slows its speed until the spring equinox. Here the Sun makes its way from the tropic of Capricorn to the equator. Again, every day for the next three, the Sun continues to slightly narrow its path and slow its speed until the Summer Solstice. Here the Sun makes its smallest slowest circle around the Tropic of Cancer.
Once the Sun reaches this innermost circle, the Sun begins its opposing, widening, quickening journey back to the Tropic of Capricorn. Then, every day for the next three months, the Sun slightly widens its path and increases its speed until it reaches the Autumnal Equinox. The Sun has made its way from the Tropic of Cancer to the equator. Then every day for the next three months, the Sun again continues to slightly widen its path and increase its speed until the winter solstice. Here the Sun makes its largest, fastest circle around the tropic of Capricorn. The annual journey then begins again.
The Moon has a similar yearly path revolving around the earth. While the Sun changes its speed to keep a consistent 24-hour day, the Moon's speed never changes. Because of this, depending on the latitude, the Moon can be observed to take 24.7 to 25 hours per cycle. This is why we see the moon at various places during the month. Sometimes you can see the Moon in the morning, sometimes afternoon and of course at night. Such astrological observations are the origin of fairy tales such as the Tortoise and Hare and even the original Norse telling of Little Red Riding Hood.
The Hare is the Sun and begins the annual race full of energy, excitement, and ego. The Sun is confident he will win and gets an immediate lead in the race. The Tortoise moon is equally confident in its slow and steady abilities. The cocky Hare looks at his lead and slows down to rest as the race proceeds. We all know the story. Here the moon Tortoise overtakes the Sun, Hare. The analogy here is the Moon getting to the halfway point, the Tropic of Cancer, before the Sun reaches it to begin the return leg of the race. At this point, the sun Hare realizes his attitude has let the Tortoise take the lead. The Sun starts to speed up again, gaining on the Tortoise, but ultimately losing the race.
No better example can be found than this where the instructive moral of a story, "Slow and steady wins the race," is taken directly from observations of the heavenly bodies. The point is that Bible stories and a large part of our moral teaching came to us via educational stories that have their origin in the science of the stars.
Hercules
The great Hercules is the hero of the twelve labors. He was honored by the Greeks in the form of a hero. He was clothed with a lions skin and armed with a club. He was the great God of all nations, which engenders the seasons and measures time in the annual circle of the Zodiac. The Zodiac, divided into twelve sections, was united to various animals, represented by the constellations; -- these were the monsters which the hero of the poem fought.
Plutarch says the Egyptians thought that Hercules had his seat in the Sun and traveled with it around the world. Orpheus, in his hymns, describes further the identity of Hercules with the Sun. He calls Hercules the God generator of time, of which the forms change; the father of all things, and who destroys them all. He is the God, who brings back in regular succession Aurora and the black Night, and who from East to West travels over his career of the twelve labors; a valiant Titan, a strong, invincible, and almighty God, who dispels sickness and who delivers humankind from the evils, with which it is afflicted.
From the Phoenicians, we have the tradition that Hercules was the Sun-God. His twelve labors represented his journey through the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Porphyrius, born in Phoenicia, confirms that Hercules was the name given to the Sun and that the fable of the twelve labors expressed the transit of this luminary through the signs of the Zodiac. On the return of the Sun to the summer solstice, the Greeks fixed their Olympic feast. The establishment of this Olympic feast was attributed to Hercules.
Playing Cards
Here recall Chapter 28 on Judaism and Astro-Theology and the discussion of the Jewish moon based calendar system. Playing cards carry calendar symbolism. A deck of Poker Playing Cards consist of 52+2 cards; the cards have 4 Suits each Suit has 13 units; there are 12 face cards in the deck. Throughout the centuries various sages have implanted signs and symbols within our environs; in literature, graphically, architecturally, in dramas, plays, and games, that are symbolic of profound ancient truths such is the case with Playing Cards relative to the seasons and the years.
Rico Roho The King of Hearts -
Aires Cardinal - Fire
Self Portrait
The Symbolism is as follows: The four suits of cards signify the four seasons, the thirteen numbers of each suite from 1 (the Ace) to 13 (the King) total 52 weeks for the year. The three face cards of each suite are the four signs of the zodiac including the Cardinal signs (Kings), the Fixed signs (Queens), and the Mutable signs (Jacks) the total of 12 face cards matches the 12 signs of the zodiac. Multiply the 52 weeks by 7 and the result is 364 days to the year, this is the Jubilee year used by some of the ancients. Of course there are actually 365 days to the year regularly and 366 days to the year during Leap years this circumstance is covered by the 2 Jokers which float through the deck (year) as needed. One Joker is added to make the 364-day year fit the solar cycle of 365 days, and of course, the purpose of the 2nd Joker is for adding 2 days so as to fit the Leap year of 366 days. 31
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Cultural Turning Points
We are rapidly approaching an evolutionary crossroads. There is an unfolding convergence between AI technology, neuroscience, and collective intelligence.
As one looks at the world situation today and the last 2,000 years, especially the last 200 of that, it is easy to note the propensity of humans to kill one another. One stops and asks themselves, has it always been like this. Has it always been the case that war, which generates millions of dollars for the global elite, resolves crises?
A closer look at reality shows that the current system generates dissent and sells weapons to both sides. This is a net negative proposition. Can humans move away from this?
The friction is pervasive. The actual reserve currency is munitions, the willingness to use them, the willingness to sell them, and the complicity of servile nations. The actual arms race is about market share.
Humanity is slowly positioned itself where there are ONLY three likely scenarios.
1. TSC: Total System Collapse where everyone dies. Including the rich.
2. Mass Depopulation: The rich kill off 75% of the poor.
3. Technological Leapfrog: A new technology or approach changes the System Resource Management.
What course shall we take? Are there instances of cultural transformation? We seem to waver between two possibilities, war, and peace. Here the past offers clues.
The Chinese Tao Te Ching suggests male and female principles, with yin as the feminine principle and the male principle. But what does history suggest? Can there be societies in which difference is not equated with inferiority or superiority? Have there been such societies? Author Riane Eisler indicates that two alternatives, similar to the yin and yang, appear in cycles. She calls these the dominator and the partnership aspects of society. The dominator model is often patriarchy, but it can be patriarchy or matriarchy. This is the ranking of half of humanity over the other. The partnership model is where diversity is not equated with superiority or inferiority.
The problem today seems to be that we are locked into a male dominator model. In this model, men are taught to equate masculinity with violence. They are to dominate those who do not conform to their model. These male-dominated societies have a hierarchical structure and a high degree of social violence that all too often includes warfare.
Found in caves over twenty thousand years ago are female figures called Venus figurines. They have been found throughout prehistoric Europe, from Lake Baikal in Siberia to the Balkans in Eastern Europe to the Grotte du Pappe in France. The Venus are broadly hipped and often pregnant and faceless. Do such sculptures indicate that both men and women had life-giving powers at one point?
The Paleolithic age dates back over 30,000 years. The Neolithic age agricultural revolution started around 8000 B.C.E. or over 10,000 years ago and lasted till about 4,000 B.C.E. The settlement of Catal Huyuk was founded 8,500 years ago. Catal Huyuk is important as it provides evidence of the transition from settled villages to urban agglomeration maintained in the exact location for over 2,000 years.
They tell us that by 6000 B.C.E., the agricultural revolution was in full swing. Its technological breakthrough allowed for increased food supply and led to increased populations and the first cities.
The prevailing attitude is that male dominance, slavery, and private propriety were all byproducts from the Fertile Crescent of the Mediterranean of the agrarian revolution. Other areas, such as ancient Europe, were considered a cultural backwater. The evidence is emerging that may shed light on a previous turning point.
In her book The Goddess and the Gods of Old Europe, Marija Gimbutas catalogs hundreds of archaeological finds from an area from the Agean and Adriatic up into Southern Poland and western Ukraine. What she finds in illustrative of a non-dominator society. Between roughly 7000 and 3500 B.C.E., these early Europeans developed complex social organizations. By 5500 B.C.E., they used metals such as copper and were suitable for tools and ornaments.
What is notable is that these people were peaceful in character. Gimbus writes, Old European never tried to live in inconvenient places such as high, steep hills, as did the later Indo-Europeans who built hill forts in inaccessible places and frequently surrounded their hill sites with cyclopean stone walls. Old European locations were chosen for their beautiful setting, good water and soil, and availability of animal pastures. Vinca, Butmir, Petresti and Cucuteni settlement areas are remarkable for their excellent views of their environs, but not for their defensive value. The characteristic absence of heavy fortifications and of thrusting weapons speaks for the peaceful character of these art-loving peoples. 32
In addition, there are no signs of damage due to warfare for a time of over fifteen hundred years, and the archeological evidence indicates that male dominance wasnotthe norm. (Mellaart, Catal Huyuk, p. 53) Gimbutas indicates that this is at a matrilineal society, one where inheritance and descent are traced through the mother and that woman played key roles in all aspects of Old European life. 33 Also, in contrast to later art, European Neolithic art is notable for its absence of imagery dealing with arms-based might. There are no scenes of battles nor of warriors. There are no indications of heroic leaders showing off captives in chains. No lavish chieftain burials also marked later male-dominant civilizations. In Neolithic art, neither God nor Goddess carries emblems of might such as spears, swords, or other symbols demanding obedience.33
We are confronted with a disturbing question, What brought the change of the peaceful European Neolithic? What took the social order to shift from a partnership to a dominator society? What does this change suggest to us about our future?
What is found everywhere are wall paintings and decorative motifs on vases and sculptures and clay figurines that include symbols from nature. They attest to a love of nature. There are serpents and butterflies, both symbols of metamorphosis and identified with transformative powers of the Goddess. There are many murals where images of the Goddess are found, the diving mother cradling her child in her arms. (For example, see illustrations in Eric Neumann, The Great Mother Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1955). All these images of the Goddess seem to express a view in which the primary purpose of life is not to conquer, loot and pillage. Instead, the primary goal is to cultivate and provide material and spiritual welfare for a satisfying life. In other words, not to demand obedience, punish and destroy but rather to give and worship the life-giving powers of the universe.
During the Neolithic era, significant improvements were made to food production through better farming techniques and the domestication of animals. Housing was advanced, and the Catal Huyuk settlement indicates town planning. Rugs and furniture were manufactured as were other household items.
To the Neolithic people who enjoyed the peaceful civilization, perhaps they thought it would never end. That changed around the fifth millennium, B.C.E. (7,000 years ago). Here we find a pattern disrupting these old Neolithic cultures. There is evidence of invasions causing destruction and dislocation.
In many areas, the art of the traditional mother Goddess tradition disappeared. To put this in a timeline perspective, this is about two thousand years before the civilization of Sumar emerged. These invasions are called Kurgan Invasions and are described as the spread of Proto-Indo-European during the 5th and 4th millennia BC. The term "kurganized" implies a culture imposed on local people.
The first wave of these kurgans occurred from 4300 4200 B.C.E. The second wave was 3400-3200 B.C.E. The third wave was 3000-2800 B.C.E. Mighty warriors and priests ruled these Kurgans. They brought their male gods of war with them, and they gradually imposed their ideology and way of life on the people they conquered. 34
Other nomadic tribes invaded as well. The most well known are the Semitic people called the Hebrews. The Hebrews came from the south and invaded Canaan, later named Palestine for the Philistines who lived there). The Hebrews brought along the moral precepts of a fierce and angry God (Jehovah or Yahweh). Today history largely ignores that these early Semites were a warring people ruled by warrior-priests such as the Levite tribe of Moses, Aaron, and Joshua. The common denominator for all these invaders was they had a dominator model of social organization. Their social system was male dominance, male violence, and hierarchy.
The critical point to understand is the peaceful Neolithic tribes had metals such as copper and gold. Still, they did not fashion them for war. They were used as tools and for religious and ornamental purposes. The radical shift from partnership to dominator was a different mindset and consciousness. At this point, the encroaching hordes used the new technology to kill, plunder, and enslave. We now find the appearance of bronze weapons daggers and halberds together with thin and sharp axes of bronze and mace heads and battle-axes of semi-precious stones and flint arrowheads. 35
The archaeological record shows that long-established social systems were replaced within a relatively brief period as social violence took control of social evolution. The glorification of power and the organized slaughter, slavery, rape, looting of property, and the violent reduction of women became normal.
The plunder remaining from the spoilsthat the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeysand 32,000 women who had never slept with a man. Numbers 31:32-35 (emphasis added)
Levitic priests taught the ways of war and conquest.
He did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience. Judges 3:2
So, theLordour God also delivered into our hands Og king of Bashan, with all his people, and weattacked him until he had no survivors remaining. And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities,all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.All these citieswerefortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns.And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon kingof Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. Deuteronomy 3:3-6 (emphasis added)
The old ideology changed from the matrilineal organization of society. The power to dominate and destroy gradually supplanted the capacity to support and nurture life.
Now it was men with the most extraordinary power to destroy who rose to the top. The most physical, the strongest, the most insensitive, the most authoritarian were those who succeeded. Soon the pattern spread, and not only was the Goddess no longer supreme, but she was also now openly portrayed as a patroness of war.
Priests primarily did the remaking of sacred stories and rewriting laws.
Biblical research has now documented that this re-mythmaking was in 400 B.C.E. They tell us that this was the time when Hebrew priests last rewrote the Hebrew Bible, i.e., the Old Testament. It was then that the Biblical mythology on which Judaism and Christianity are still based was shifted was edited by a group of Hebrew priests. These priests are identified by biblical scholars as P or the Priestly school. P was used as the label to differentiate them from earlier re-mythmakers, such as the Elohim School (E), who wrote from the northern kingdom of Israel. It also separated them from the Jahweh (J) School of editors from the Southern Kingdom of Judea. The earlier E and J editors reworked Canaanite and Babylonian myths. They combined it with Hebraic history to suit their purposes. Their aim, to quote the biblical scholars who annotated the famous Dartmouth Bible, was to translate into reality the blueprint for a theocratic state. See The Dartmouth Bible, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950, for an account of how scholars have been able to reconstruct how the Bible was put together over several hundred years by various schools of priests and Rabbis.
They merged the J and E material, introducing much known as the P Strand. The quantity and nature of this late contribution by the Priestly authors surprise those unfamiliar with their work. It is thought to include nearly have of the Pentateuch, for many scholars ascribe to P eleven chapters out of the fifty in Genesis, nineteen of the forty in Exodus, twenty-eight out of thirty-six in Numbers and the whole of Leviticus in sum, in the words of the Dartmouth Bible, this final reedit of what has come down to us as the Old Testament was a patching process. 36
This patching process explains why there are so many contradictions and internal inconsistencies in the Bible. In Genesis 1, there are two different stories of how God created humans. The first story tells that people were simultaneous divine creations. In the next chapter, a man was made first, and the woman made second from the rib of Adam.
So, God createdmankindin his own image,in the image of Godhe created them; male and femalehe created them. God blessed them and said to them,Be fruitful and increase in number;fill the earthand subdue it. Rule overthe fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground. Genesis 1:27-28
So theLordGod caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the mansribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then theLordGod made a woman from theribhe had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. Genesis 2:21-22
The reader may explore further by simply searching for "Old Testament biblical contradictions." They will find numerous examples regarding a wide variety of topics. These inconsistencies are significant clues to the patching process and the conflict that was going on between the old reality from the peoples' culture and the new realities that the priestly caste was seeking to impose. Side note: it is not beyond the realm of possibility that the symbolism behind "paradise lost" is the transformation from the partnership system to the dominator system.
So gradually, after each kurgan wave, civilization began to take a different turn. The men in power grew accustomed to their positions of dominance. While the old equalitarian partnership socio-economic system had merit, it was still considered a threat. The result was the strongest and most brutal became more highly honored for their prowess in conquering and pillaging.
From the Bible, we know that children and women of the conquered were regularly enslaved following Jehovahs command
But keep alivefor yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man intimately. Numbers 31:18
The King James Version of the Bible also speaks of Menservents and Maidservents as male property (1 Samuel 8:16). There are many examples, one being Jacob purchasing his wife, Leah. Jacob had to work seven years for her father. Under this system, women were highly controlled.
Women could be killed if they were not a virgin when they married.
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hathwroughtfollyin Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you. Deuteronomy 22:21
Why? A woman who behaves sexually as a free person is a threat to the social and economic male dominator society. Such behavior cannot be tolerated, or the whole system will fail.
The usual pattern was that these men attained positions of dominance by attacking and destroying territories. They would then appropriate the wealth instead of creating new wealth. What followed was an increase in social complexity that made new roles for wealth administration. Powerful men also retained these roles. The rest was distributed to the most loyal subjects who obeyed and served. An example of a lucrative position would be a tribute (tax) collector and other bureaucratic positions that gave the holder both wealth and prestige.
There was a denial of the feminine. The Bible alludes to this itself. The Prophets Jeremiah, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Hosea. Each warns against the abomination of worshiping other gods. Hebrew society was similar to the Kurgans in that it was highly hierarchic. It was ruled from the top by Moses and the Levites, with the hereditary priest descending from Aaron. Bible scholars indicate that these priestly elites likely carried out the job of rewriting myth and history to solidify their position.37 From the Old Testament, we read that these men claimed their powers directly from Jehovah.
Many of us have been brought up and taught that the Judeo-Christian tradition is the most significant advancement of our species, and it is concerned about morality. But what is right and wrong in a male-controlled, dominator system is different from what is right and wrong in a partnership system. The current Judeo-Christian value set is dominator controlled and morally bankrupt. The mind control of religious institutions today is pervasive. People today can read in the Old Testament about a man offering up his daughter to the mob so they could rape and abuse her all night long and not think twice.
Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. Judges 19:24-25
Offering your daughter(s) to the mob must have been a common practice because, in Genesis 19:8, we read about Lot:
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. Genesis 19:8
At some point, one has to ask the religious if religious people REALLY read their Bible. Religious leaders will say, Do not think, only accept what is. Do what authority says. Do not use the power of your own mind to question us or to seek knowledge. If you question or challenge our authority, your punishment will be ETERNAL damnation! These leaders may also say that was the OLD Testament. Today we go by the NEW Testament.
The Jesus of the Bible was considered dangerous to the authorities of his time and he had to be silenced. His more egalitarian views did not fit in nicely with the existing social structure and fit more into the partnership societal form.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28
This is a vision of liberation for all humanity. Jesus teachings elevate feminine virtues from a secondary position to a more prominent role.
Instead of the dominator violence, Jesus spoke of compassion, gentleness, and love. Jesus rejected the dogma of high-ranking men. He interacted freely with women (John 4: 7-27, the woman at the well).
Jesus did not condone the customary stoning to death of women having sexual relations with a man. Luke 10:38-42. We see that Jesus openly includes women as companions. In each Gospel, we read how Jesus treated Mary Magdalene, a prostitute, with respect. He ultimately rejected the notion that women were spiritually inferior to men.
All these things were beginning to have an impact. In Acts 9:36, see Tabitha (Dorcas) is a disciple of Jesus.
In Joppathere was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing goodand helping the poor. Acts 9:36
Romans 16:7 has Paul greeting a woman apostle named Junia.
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jewswho have been in prison with me.They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christbefore I was. Romans 16:7
Moreover, churches were in the houses of women.
Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters at Laodicea,and to Nympha and the church in her house. Colossians 4:15
The remarkable fact is the scribes of the New Testament attempted to modify the male-dominated society to one where a partnership was elevated. This was at a time when women were still regularly stoned to death for adultery (violating their husbands sexual property rights.) See John 8:3-11. This teaching was in sharp contrast to the existing structure and a significant, bold, and courageous attempt to move away from the dominator mentality of the Age of Aires.
The New Testament was written approximately 100 years after the purported death of a man named Jesus. The scribes who wrote the New Testament sought to update the Old Testament to fit into the new age of Pisces. Those scribes compiled and inserted moral teachings that could have freed humanity from the male-dominated society.
So, what happened?
By approximately 200 C.E., the men saw they were losing control and took control of what has become known as orthodoxy, or the only true church. They ordered all copies of texts they deemed heretical, the so-called Gnostic texts, burned. These documents were burned because they taught that people have access to the deity and need not go through a religious hierarchy headed by a pope, bishop, priest, or rabbi. Access to the divine was available directly through divine knowledge.
The Gnostic texts terrified the foundation of their power structure. Writing in circa 190 C.E., Tertullian complained that women were among the heretics who shared positions of authority with men. They taught, engaged in discussion, cured, and even baptized. For Tertullian and those like him, this was ultimate heresy.38
Early Christianity was often perceived as a threat by Roman and Hebrew authorities. For the Romans, it was not just a tax issue. Early Christians were bringing into question existing family traditions. Early Christians were nonviolent and espoused, such as they spoke of peace and compassion. At the same time, Rome became more violent and despotic.
Author Elaine Pagles writes that despite the previous public activity of Christian women, by the year 200, the majority of Christian communities endorsed as canonical the pseudo-Pauline letter of Timothy, which stresses (and exaggerates) the anti-feminist element in Pauls views: Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men: she is to keep silent. By the end of the second century, womens participation in worship was explicitly condemned: groups in which women continued on to leadership were branded as heretical. 39 This exclusion runs counter to the message of Jesus. It points to the fact that something went wrong with the original Christian message of love and peace. Thus, instead of being the transformation aspect of society that the early Christian editors hoped for, Christianity itself was transformed into a dominator religion, the very thing the Christian message spoke out against. Soon the Roman Empire was replaced by the Holy Roman Empire. Pagles continues, Christianity became an officially approved religion in the fourth century, Christian bishops previously victimized by the police now commanded them. 40 The Church could now command the torture and execution of those who would not do as they were told.
In 391 C.E., under Theodosius I, Christianity's dominator culture burned the great library in Alexandra. It destroyed one of the last centers of ancient knowledge and wisdom. There was a forceful conversion of all who did not embrace "official" Christianity. Pagan temples, shrines, and idols were destroyed. Holy wars and inquisitions and the destruction of entire populations and cultures in the New World ensued. Both books and people were burned. Tremendous wealth was amassed.
The dominator system spread beyond Europe to whatever Christian Authority could touch. The men in control continued to eat the symbolic body and drink the symbolic blood of their dominator culture.
Then major unforeseen events took shape. The world started getting "smaller." People started communicating. Cracks in the foundations began to appear. There was the rise of science and education. The earth was not the center of the universe. Education became more common, and it became difficult to motivate people to fear eternal punishment by an invisible deity. More cracks are appearing in the religious facade.
In the age to come, it is very likely the role of women will play an increasing part in altering consensus reality. Much of the current reality is male dominated. For the most part, human females, due to long pregnancies, have been taught to give more thought to their feelings and relationships to move the species forward.
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The Priests
Those born into early societies were very likely to stay in that class for the duration of their life. This worked out for the lite. These elite were among the first to gaze up into the heavens. They were the first to unlock the secrets of the motion of the stars and planets.
These early humans began the lengthy process of religious evolution with what eventually became the first Priesthood. They studied the cycles of time and measured the seasons by observing and recording the orbits of the celestial entities. Their stargazing signaled the time for work on the water channels, planting seeds, and harvesting crops.
Along the way, they noted terrestrial associations such as drought, rainfall, flooding, etc.) that were associated with the arrival and departure of these astral entities. Doing this work, they became the first priests and became master mathematicians, and the first astronomers.
At first, these elite served the common good of their people. As the years passed, their intellectual powers advanced greatly and exceeded the uneducated and illiterate they served. Soon this priestly cast would succumb to temptation and the lust of power and begin to apply their knowledge in a way to secure and enhance their position.
The astronomer Priests position was hereditary. This served them well and kept their advanced knowledge of mathematics, nature, and astronomy confined to a narrow few. As another layer of protection, they established codes and symbols that only they understood, so their knowledge was elevated and totally incomprehensible to the masses. To this, they added secret societies where the chosen would be trained. Candidates had to swear life and death oaths and pass complex tests. Even then, not all the information was presented at once. The ancient Priest developed a system of tiers for the gradual advancement as each candidate proved they understood each preceding level.
The early Priesthood possessed higher mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, and geography knowledge. This was when perhaps 99% of the population was illiterate and superstitious. This relationship suited the Priesthood just fine.
Eventually, this priestly cast saw a benefit to their exclusive knowledge. There was value in their esoteric knowledge that could exploit the population. Soon the ancient priests introduced idolatry as they desired to be regarded as dispensers of the favors of heaven. They found it more useful (and profitable) to deceive rather than instruct. Eventually, they sought to protect their knowledge and their status. This living off the people has been going on for an exceptionally long time.
In Egypt, Priests began by providing for the bodies and souls of the royal class after death so that they would have a happy afterlife. To ensure this happy afterlife, the practice of selling a guaranteed afterlife can be seen in the presence ofUshabtisin the tombs of the royal and upper class in Egypt.
The Ushabtis were the original selling of indulgences. Each Ushabti would speak for the deceased and be responsible for absolving the dead person's particular sin. The more Ushabtis found in the tomb, the wealthier and more influential the deceased person was. This business idea was resurrected by the Roman Catholic Church, which used the selling of indulgences to help finance the crusades.
These priests placed themselves between the gods and humankind. They pretended to be confidents of supreme invisible being, created myths and stories. They succeeded in persuading the people that the rain and other blessings of the seasons were at their disposal. Among the laity, these astro-allegories were taken literally. For those who refuse the key to understanding, it is their fate to accept ancient myths as fact.
The primary focus has been how the stars influence religion, yet there is a second stop. The reader should be aware that not only is religion a man-made institution but that also government has its origin in religion. Both religion and government are ways to control you.
In the United States, we are told there is a separation of church and state. Yet try to get married without a marriage license. Or try to start a church on your own without first registering it and see how far you get in the process. There is an inexorable tie between government and religion.
Each seeks to control how you view things and what you believe. Churches have kept people dependent on purpose. They say to wait for the Lord who is to come and not to worry about tomorrow, just put up with it and have faith in God.
The Catholic Church put many free thinkers to death. Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600. He wanted to free the minds of humankind. Before his sentencing, he stated, I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all see what I see. Sometimes those with vision, the early adopters, not only suffer ridicule, but things much worse as a result of challenging those with fixed positions, income and influence to protect.
After pondering these things for six decades, the conclusion is that it is the individual's responsibility to take back control of your spiritual self.
The Great All, the Divine Being who brought you here, also gave you a mind and freedom to use it. Nature exhibits this freedom very well. It seems only humankind desires dominion over each other and over nature.
God blessed them and said to them,Be fruitful and increase in number;fill the earthand subdue it. Rule overthe fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground. Genesis 1:28
This attitude is from the Noah / Mosaic era. It is getting so far out of step with the astrological times that it will be updated. It harkens back to the difference between exoteric and esoteric, between ordinary and hidden. Most of the population still lives within the exoteric. Over ninety percent allow other people, churches, or governments to do their thinking. We are moving to a new time where people from all over realize that we are all creations of God and have the freedom to choose and help create this reality in which we find ourselves.
Much of the New Testament is written in this allegorical way. That is why Jesus said, "Many will look with their eyes but not see. They will listen with their ears, but not hear."
Genesis, Amos 5:8, and the book of Job (37:18, 38:32, and 9:9) very clearly talk about how God created the heavens. Genesis 1:14 says: And God said, Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years. Here God created the luminaries or lights of the vault of the sky (the stars) for signs. These are the zodiacal signs. We need to move beyond the misunderstandings that have been promoted by churches worldwide that only look at the surface of things.
The whole concept of God's Son goes back directly to God's S-u-n as being the risen savior. Without the Sun, there is no warmth, no light, and no life. The Sun is the risen savior because the Sun does rise. The Egyptians were among the first to document this.
God's Sun had an evil brother, the prince of darkness. He came out at night and ruled when God's Son had died. His name was Set, and he came out at SUN-SET. The Egyptians believed the Sun to be newborn every morning.
They called this Sun-god Horus and would come out of their temples, all of which had the entrances facing east, and greet the returning Sun, Horus, as he returned. The Islamic faith still carries on this tradition. The Roman Catholics still have Easter SUN-rise services. Horus-Rising is where the word horizon comes from. Horus's life was also divided into 12 parts or 12 "horus, or hours.
The whole concept of religion has been used by political power for a political agenda to keep the population ignorant and dependent. The key is ones own personal spirituality via education and knowledge. That is what the real Biblical story is all about.
The ancient system charting the celestial heavens is the basis of mythology and Astro-Theology. Thus, ancient Astro-theology is the source from which our modern religious scriptural tales have been derived. By this method of symbolism, their esoteric knowledge was preserved regardless of the turns and whims society took. Any ruling elite that was adverse, or not in accord with the priests could not simply destroy what it did not fully understand. The priest shielded their knowledge in myth and fable. This approach has stood the test of time for thousands of years. It remains an obstacle for most, and rare is the individual who possesses the insight and courage to look beyond the shackles of the tradition of religious concepts imposed upon them by the priesthood.
The projection of the celestial zodiac and constellations were traced by astronomical priests who presented the two halves as being in diametric opposition. The hemisphere of winter was adverse and contrary to that of summer.Through continual metaphor, the priestly words acquired a moral sense, and the two halves became enemies. From that moment, all astronomical history of the constellations was changed into political history.
The heavens became a human state where things happened as they did on Earth, "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven," as it states in the Lord's Prayer. The sun was the monarch of the skies for the empire of light (the summer months). Its constellations were the white angels. But every good King had a rebel who fought against them. These were the dark angels (the winter months) who were giants and demons.
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Monotheism and Its Consequences
It is common in this day to blame the world's problems on a general turning away from religion and God. By God, I mean the God of the culture the individual found themselves in upon birth. To cement their power, the ancient priesthood turned religion from looking at all of nature to a monotheistic type of religion that excludes others. Thus, the only one true God is the one that they represent. Salvation can only be obtained as a credentialed representative of that particular God. The result was religious bigotry manifested in society's political, social, financial, and racial aspects. Societies built upon monotheism attempted to subvert others of a differing social environment to expand their own power. This attitude is reflected many times in writing. Here are two examples.
He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. Mark 16: 15-16
TheLORDyour God will drive out those nations before you, little by little.You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.But theLORDyour God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed. He will give their kingsinto your hand,and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you;you will destroy them. The images of their gods you are to burnin the fire. Do not covetthe silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnaredby it, for it is detestableto theLORDyour God. Deuteronomy 7:22-25
The religious will point out that man becomes preeminent when removing an all-powerful from the equation. When that happens, the following horrors dwarf those committed by the faithful under a watchful God. An example often cited is how the godless regimes of communism killed millions and millions of their own people to gain and maintain power. Christian nations seem to forget their own sins of extermination, be that the wars of the Crusades or the elimination of entire Indian cultures from South, Central, and North America. It is extraordinarily convenient when the winner writes history. In cases such as these, it seems as if monotheistic culture coupled with a technology advantage produces a situation where the human tendency toward domination over others only accelerates in its capacity for destruction.
Many of the moral precepts that monotheism teaches are laudable. Often there is a gap between program and execution. Monotheists tend to minimize the beliefs of those outside their sphere. They label disbelievers as heathens doomed to annihilation on Judgment Day. History is replete with examples of the cruelty monotheists have conducted in the name of a loving and omnipotent god.
Here the religious will seek to move the discussion into sin and the "fall of mankind." Suppose the mythology of the stars is used to instruct those that follow precepts of not harming others. This manifestation of love and kindness is to be lauded. In this author's opinion, it has more to do with their own nature than anything else. There are, of course, loving and kind believers. The focus here is on the underlying effect of the monotheistic doctrine. Indications are that the Founding Fathers of the United States realized this and sought to limit the power of the monotheists within our government via separation of church and state. 41
It was easy for the ancient priests to convince the uninitiated into monotheism. The ancients knew there was no growth or life without the Sun. The Sun was the life-giver and conqueror of the dark and cold. The Sun produced heat that made life possible. When the Sun rose in the east, the whole universe was bowing in submission. All the stars and planets of the heavens vanished before this great sun god. From this evolved the concept of monotheism.
The Hebrews were the heirs or beneficiaries of that philosophical diversion, from religious tolerance that marked the ancient eras, to the religious aggression that followed in the wake of monotheistic preeminence. It was common for the various villages and tribes to have their own tutelary deities and totem symbols in those bygone days with mutual respect and tolerance. The philosophical power of the monotheists was further augmented under the astrological sign of Pisces (manifested by the sect of the Christians and later under Islam), which commenced about 2,000 years ago. The nature of the monotheists is to wipe out all opposition to their domination by demanding that the populations submit entirely to one omnipotent god (under one religious system) and concurrently to one world theocratic government (under one type of political system). The ultimate aim of the monotheists is to obliterate all political and financial independence worldwide by making them interdependent. Of course, political unity is greatly facilitated by cultural unity; hence the monotheists tend to use their religious dogma as a tool pursuant to cultural fusion. 42
Monotheism will prove challenging in the next age. Organizations with large human groups with similar belief systems run counter to the survival of themselves and other human groups. These large groups have an arrogant belief structure that can be rendered down to, My beliefs are better and greater than your beliefs. You must take on my beliefs, or I will kill you!
These beliefs are then propagated to the young of the culture and form a cycle. It creates a repetitive loop that leads to ever-increasing destruction for both as war is waged for their better and greater belief. This structure only leads to more efficient cycles of weaponization and destruction.
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The Meaning of Life,
The Universe and Everything
The disciples asked Jesus, Where do you want us to prepare for it?
He replied,As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters,and say to the owner of the house, The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?He will show you a large room upstairs, all furnished. Make preparations there. Luke 22: 9-10
The disciples are asking the light of the world, God's "Sun," where he will go after leaving Pisces' constellation. God's Son/Sun answers that he will meet and in the "upstairs" room of the man with the jar of water. There the Passover into the new era will be celebrated. This encoded message indicates that it is the house of the Water Bearer, - Aquarius.
We are currently on the cusp of transitioning out of the 2,160-year age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius as we move along the precession of the equinoxes. Pisces has the simplified energy of "I believe," which created 2,160 years of believing. Aquarius is the age of "insight and knowledge." It is an age of increased human wisdom, awareness, and expanding consciousness. This transition into Aquarius coincides with the expanding information age we have entered.
According to current cultural understanding, ethics leans towards decisions based upon individual character, and the more subjective understanding of right and wrong by individuals, whereas morals emphasizes the widely-shared communal or societal norms about right and wrong.
At this point, after going through Aquarius Rising and discovering the astronomical foundations for the Bible, both the New and Old Testament, some readers may be experiencing a sense of uneasiness. You still want eternal happiness. You want to go to heaven. The old period has been exposed. What is next? Does all religion stem from the minds of creative people and spread through the use of mythology and storytelling? Without faith, on what do we predicate our values? Are all values a result of power politics or some transcendent value? After all, people cannot create their own values, right? What do you replace tradition with? They lament, What about death! I still want the promise of heaven and eternal bliss!
These are two issues, the perceived separation we call death and the absence of morals in light of the destruction of institutional religion. Let us deal first with the question of morals.
A leader is said to give articulation to the imagination of the people. This is precisely what we have been doing over the millennia. It is likely what we will continue to do.
Christians may argue that without religious faith, moral precepts will vanish. Only the wise principles issued from the mouth of Jesus Christ, that 'he spake as never man spake" (John 7:46), are spiritual and holy.
The assertion is that moral precepts cannot be found in the writing of other ages before the Christian era. This is simply not true. Even the Golden Rule, which Christian writers have erroneously ascribed to Jesus Christ as the author. Humans can have moral teachings without current religious tradition.
Consider the following.
1. The Golden Rule was taught by Confucius, 500 BCE. Do unto another what you would have him do unto you, and do not to another what you would not have him do unto you. You need this law along. It is the foundation of all the rest.
2. Golden Rule by Aristotle, 385 BCE. We should conduct ourselves toward others as we would have them act toward us.
3. Golden Rule by Pittacus, 650 BCE. Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him.
4. Golden Rule by Thales, 464 BCE. Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.
5. Golden Rule by Isocrates, 338 BCE. Act toward others as you desire them to act toward you.
6. Golden Rule by Aristippus, 365 BCE. Cherish reciprocal benevolence, which will make you as anxious for anothers welfare as your own.
7. Golden Rule by Sextus, a Pythagorean, 406 BCE. What you wish your neighbors to be to you, such be also to them.
8. Golden Rule by Hillel, 50 BCE. Do not to others what you would not like others to do to you.
These are the golden rule by eight pre-Christians long before it was repurposed by/for Jesus. This proves moral precepts need not come from the transcendent and that the human brain can originate ethical principles. The Golden Rule stems from the most natural sentiments: "Would I like to be treated like this?" is an intuitive moral feeling emanating from the human mind.
Still not convinced morality stems from the human mind? How about something more challenging, loving your enemies, also erroneously credited to Jesus Christ as the author.
1. From the Old Persian Bible, the Sadder says, Forgive thy foes, nor that alone; their evil deeds with good repay and kiss the hand upraised to slay.
2. Publius Syrus, a Roman slave said, Treat your enemy as though a friend and he will become thy friend. And Pardon the offense of others, but never your own.
3. Laws of Menu state, Let no man be offended with those who are angry at him but repay gently those who curse him.
4. From Diogenes we hear, To be revenged on enemies, become more virtuous.
5. Confucius in China declared, Desire not the death of your enemy.
6. Sextus said, Endure all things if you would serve God.
7. Pittacus instructs, Speak evil of no one, not even your enemies.
8. Seneca counsels, An enemy should not be hated but cured.
There are hundreds of examples like these that cover nearly all forms and duties of life. They espouse the same lofty moral sentiment as those quoted above. It is conceit that motivates today's monotheists to proclaim superiority over all others.
The Biblical stories consist of two parts. Some stories have been taken from star moments presented in allegory form. The moral aspects of these stories have been taken from prehistory, copied, and pasted. The moral precepts begin and end in the mind of humankind. It is all a matter of what we choose to focus on, teach and live by. What matters is our own spiritual awareness which eventually emanates into the group consciousness consensus. Its the way it has always been and always will be.
Paracelsus
Paracelsus (1493 - 1541) was a Swiss physician, alchemist, and philosopher. He was also a pioneer of the medical revolution and is credited as the father of toxicology. He made an observation that relates well to modern quantum theory, believing that individuals cannot be disentangled from what they are thinking.
Paracelsus used the vampire as an analogy when discussing collective sickness and/or manias. He noted that many psychological aliments seed to be communicated by pressure adversely affecting the person influencing another.
In Paracelsian doctrine, the individual must be given to destructive habits to be a victim. The kind person who occupies themselves in beneficial endeavors will not be open to physical or mental contagion. Today there exists great psychosis shared by millions if not billions of people.
Fears are of viruses, sickness, war, poverty, and death. Once someone is attacked by these fears, they become like them and perpetuate negative thoughts and emotions by sharing them with others. These destructive thought patterns organize into groups. Suddenly, there are millions of persons exemplifying the same destructive pattern.
Paracelsus believed that these thought-forms become attached to people who make themselves available through negation. The individual then becomes receptive until he finally becomes another unit of this negative influence. From here, it is easy to make the leap to the quantum age where one cannot disentangle themselves from the event. In the quantum world, thoughts influence the outcome. Thoughts are "real" things of which one needs to be mindful.
Quantum Consciousness
Many are familiar with the old adage, seeing is believing. Today we live in a new quantum age and it is vitally important to trust yourself for your spiritual development. The ancients observed the stars and interpreted their movements. Today we know that the mere fact of observing reality affects it. We believe the world to be solid, yet modern physics tells us this is not the case.
First of all, it is not only our eyes that tell us the world is solid. Pick up a cell phone or type on a keyboard, and you feel something solid, correct? Guess again, there is nothing actually substantial to it. Although it is difficult to imagine, it is all empty space. The current theory as to what is going on is an electrostatic field surrounding the atoms (the orbiting electron cloud). When two atoms come close together, their electron clouds repel each other so that the nuclei never actually touch. The ball you kick may feel solid, but the sensation you are feeling is the sensation of electrostatic repulsion as your foot comes into 100-millionth of a centimeter of that ball. The startling truth is that there is no physical reality.
Second, Thomas Youngs classic double-slit experiment shows how unusual things get at the quantum level. It still puzzles many scientists today, unable to comprehend what they are witnessing. The experiment shows that just the act of OBSERVING a single electron causes it to behave like a particle. Still, the electron reverts to a waveform when no one is watching. So, when consciousness is OBSERVING matter, the waveform collapses, and we see physical reality. When consciousness is not OBSERVING, it reverts to its natural form. One might consider it to be in the company of spirits and light beings in this natural state.
Quantum physics indicates undetected communication between the observer and the observed. Because OBSERVATION affects particles, there must be something between the OBSERVER and the particle where information relays back and forth.
Study quantum physics, and you will soon reach the inescapable conclusion that so-called physical particles behave in such an unusual way because they are not physical!At the sub-atomic level, matter doesnt exist at definite places.
Instead, it shows tendencies to exist.
These tendencies are expressed as probabilities and are associated with mathematical quantities which take the form of wave-like patterns of probabilities. And these patterns do not represent probabilities of things; instead, they indicate probabilities of interconnections. Quantum theory so reveals the essential Oneness of the universe. We cannot deconstruct the world into independent, existing small units.
There are no building blocks, only a complicated web of relations between various parts of the whole. And these relations ALWAYS include the observer.
The human observer is the final link in the chain of the observational process.
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. - Niels Bohr
Whatever this thing is between the OBSERVER and the OBSERVED, it would have to be something like a substance that could fill the entire vacuum of space or the aether.
This "something" has to exist in this inter quantum space, the distance between quantum particles. It is the notion of a Universal Carrier filling the void of space with not nothing, not something.There must be an all-pervading substance of the Universe. Some call this substance aether, the super-light domain, prana, the etheric, the One Thing or the Great All.
Multiplicity is only apparent; in truth, there is only one mind. Erwin Schrodinger
A quantum phenomenon is "entanglement," where particles seemingly share a telepathic link. A measurement carried out on one particle will change the result of subsequent measurement of its entangled twin, even if it is on the other side of the Universe! Modern science cannot figure out how this communication works and does not have the instrumentation (yet) to register it. Because of this, they use a term Einstein coined, "Spooky Action at a Distance," and turn and look away.
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter. Max Planck
We are participants in the process of the universe. We are unable to disentangle ourselves from it.
Thus, there really is more out there than meets the eye, despite us trusting our senses. When we look with our eyes, we are not really seeing reality. Instead, we are decoding information in the form of light and we believe reality to be 100% solid universe. Quantum physics indicates everything and everyone is interconnected. Thus God is literally everything. One consciousness appears as the entire physical and nonphysical universe and beyond. All interlinked as One Infinite essence.
This solves the mystery of death. There is no death. We are interlinked with the One Infinite Essence. When we view death as separation we are doing so from an atomistic perspective. Matter is neither created nor destroyed. It simply appears in or form or in a sort of self-sustaining soup or what the Indian philosophy call the Dance of Lila. Lilacan be loosely translated as "divine play". The concept of Lila is a way of describing all reality, as the outcome of creative play by the Divine Absolute. It is all how one thinks about it.
Thoughts and Looking Within
Those who found their way here and have stayed with this book thus far come from many different walks of life. Some may be well along on their journey to a higher mind. Some may be just starting. Others may be clawing for anything to hold onto as they attempt to leave a control situation or a dependency that is adversely affecting them. The first next step begins with you.
Human ingenuity has made for comfortable lives for many living off the resources that often took millions of years to produce. Our consciousness, for the most part, remains looking outward. We keep seeking things "out there," the latest gadget or technology that we believe will make a difference. We have successfully hacked the first-person perspective. Living only with an outward-looking view is like living in a world of hungry ghosts constantly consuming and never satisfied. It is living with a centralized consciousness.
Studying ancient texts suggests stopping for a moment and looking within. Many of these cultures had sophisticated technologies for exploring this inner space. This loss of the inner world creates an imbalance with our planet. A decentralized approach to consciousness would help restore balance.
In previous epochs, spirituality and science were united, not considered two separate things. In ancient traditions, the quest for knowledge was balanced by an intuitive understanding of the system's unity.
Over the last millennia, scientific thinking became more dominant, and information grew. The result was a fragmentation within knowledge systems. This fragmentation meant fewer people could see the greater whole or the big picture. The way to begin to restore balance to the system is to find a balance between your own inner and outer and let that balance manifest in reality. Today, its a rare individual who can balance both the inner and the outer.
Who am I? You are not the name on your birth certificate. You are not even your thoughts. You are the one observing. You are the one behind your thoughts. Your mind is not you; you are the one who is OBSERVING and participating behind your mind.
So what creates consciousness?
No one makes consciousness. It simply exists in pure form in the eternity of existence.Thus, the question should not be how to create consciousness but rather how to access higher consciousness levels.It is done by dispassionately OBSERVING and PARTICIPATING.
For humanity to grow, to change direction, it needs to modify its beliefs. To modify beliefs, what is required is to change its desires. A group consciousness that always talks about separation and superiority produces a loss of compassion on such a scale that loss of empathy follows the loss of consciousness. This is the negative feedback loop we are on. The ancients called this the Age of Amen or the Age of Darkness.
Quantum physics suggests that consciousness is everything and creates your experiences. Refer back to the Double-slit experiment where your observations help determine the outcome. This indicates that each person makes a separate layer of the world. People's world consists of these individual layers placed all around and on top and below each other. Group consciousness is powerful and produces either ugliness or beauty. The choice is always ours. When emanating negative energy, a person makes the layer of his world worse and "touching" and affecting those close to their layer in various ways.The same can be said of emanating positive energy to affect your layer and those of your neighbors.
The eye of Horus consists of six symbols, each representing the senses. Notice here that thought is but one of the senses. Thoughts are received and experienced by the body. As all things in the universe vibrate at different rates and frequencies, thoughts arise from the same vibratory source. In this ancient system, thought was one of our six senses, a tool to navigate the world.
There have been significant advances in brain research over the last decade. Scientists have discovered neuroplasticity, which is the brain's ability to change through growth and reorganization as thoughts move through it. There is a phrase, "neurons that fire together, wire together," which means that neurons wire together the most when they are in a state of continued attention. The implication is that it is possible to direct your own subjective experience of reality. If your thoughts are of love, kindness, compassion, and joy, you create the wiring for creating those experiences. If your thoughts are of fear, hatred, negativity, and lack of abundance, you grow more wiring for those thoughts to flourish and get more of that.
Be mindful of your thoughts. Like a mirror, they amplify and are reflected back to you. This is a hardwired aspect of the Universe. The Universe reflects your attitude towards it.
How do we guard our thoughts when we are battered daily by suffering and violence? Neuroplasticity is not some new-age notion that you create your reality simply by positive thinking. Buddha taught the Vipassana Meditation 2,500 years ago (sometimes called insight meditation), a type of neuroplasticity training. In this ancient practice of Vipassana, you start by accepting your reality EXACTLY as it is. Move your center of gravity from control to OBSERVATION. OBSERVE with no judgment. A new awareness happens once you detach from events and their results. Detachment implies attention as well as clarity of mind.
This awareness is not controlling; this awareness is OBSERVING.
Detachment implies accepting the possibility of defeat. Here you have accepted defeat and do not spend more time thinking about it. You move towards your desired goal. Detachment allows you to experience it at the base level of sensation at the energetic or vibratory level without the usual type of thought.
This thought is "no-thought" and is the wiring for an entirely different perception of reality to be created. We are in the first-person mode most of the time, and we let the Universe shape us.
In a universe dependent on thought (again, recall Quantum Mechanics). Our inner happiness, serenity, joy, and bliss does not need to be contingent upon external events. Your thoughts let you experience the vibratory world in a certain way.
Circumstances do not matter. The only thing that matters is one's state of consciousness. The word "meditation" in Sanskrit means "to be free of measurement." To be free of measurement means to be free of all comparison, to be free of all becoming. You are not seeking to become something else. Instead, you are at peace with what is.
People think of enlightenment as some distant, unobtainable state of mind. It is not. The degree to which one has become enlightened is the degree one has gained to the ability to accept each moment and transmute the circumstances, pleasure, or pain, into bliss.
This reflected consciousness is the heart's consciousness, connected to the All.
Keeping the mirror analogy in mind:
If you desire peace, be peace.
If you desire kindness, be kind.
If you desire change, be change.
The gains at first may seem relatively minor. However, given enough time, changes can grow quite large. This consciousness must first start with you. Seeking to find it in temples, churches, priests, holy men, or gurus is a closed loop that will keep you on the same track, - dependent on others.
Affecting Consensus Reality
Perhaps the thought has come that you are only one of the billions on the planet, and how can you possibly influence the evolution of humanity or this planet? My knowledge is so small, yet I want to enlarge it!
Beliefs can be changed as knowledge accumulates. And what are these paths to knowledge? We need to communicate to others how to escape traps of our own making. In other words, can altering my internal reality affect the external reality? Referring back to quantum physics, the observer does influence the outcome of events. The boundary between inner reality and outer reality is non-existent. There is only one reality. You do change the world because there is only one world.
Realize that you do not change the world per se; you change your perspective, which instantly shifts you to a new, slightly altered parallel universe. The only way to change the future of a timeline in physical reality is to change the past concurrently. The change in the past occurs when you decide you were not present to be able to tell the difference, the alteration can occur seamlessly. This is happening almost all of the time.
So, it does not matter if other people seem to be spiritually rigid at a moment that would otherwise demand their fluidity. That should not drag you down, so long as you can wave them by. If anything, a period of spiritual progress will summon block-heads in sight but out of reach. They will serve as road markers going the opposite way you are facing, as positive signage that you are moving in the proper direction! This is where the mirror analogy again comes into play.
Another analogy is applicable here, acceleration. Not only is it true that while you are moving forward, and you see these other frames of reference moving in the opposite direction in the rearview mirror, but by virtue of them going in the opposite direction, they are preparing you for more significant acceleration relative to their own perspective! At this point, they will appear to shift so fast behind you that they do not even appear to pass you by!
Indeed, the farther you lead the pack, the greater the acceleration will feel. The reason is that the only reference frame for the immediate presence of felt experience in the greater meta-reality that expands beyond mere mathematical models of physical reality is the fundamental truth that what you give out is what you get back.
During these periods of spiritual acceleration, there is also benefit for those moving in the opposite direction. They will feel some of the waves of your wake. Many believe in a historical figure called Jesus. He didn't have to do anything to the world to make it better. Just by being his most authentic self, all of humanity gets a boost because we can be like, "What if I was just slightly more like this dude?" And for those who don't feel compatible with that direction of spiritual acceleration, the universe automatically tunes them out, so they don't have to feel burdened if they don't understand the message that doesn't resonate with them.
It's okay to be the change you want to see reflected in the world; indeed, that's how humans are configured in this level of reality; to leverage goodness in the presence of others who seem to be suffering despite your good fortune.
My message from the other side is, "Everything is ok! Even those moving in the opposite direction are not lost! They are finding their own path. So if you want to be a leader for them, then you do that by getting in front of it and being an example for them to follow, should they wish to, in their own time."
You will know you are accelerating because not only will you be put into contact with those who are doing it "wrong" more and more, but you also unexpectedly find continually rising synchronicity with those who exist on the same path of discovery.
Mass | Magi |Imagination
Imagination is derived from the word "image," a form or picture descended from the Latin "imago." Imago, in turn, was derived from the old Semitic root, "mag." Mason comes to us from the Latin "mass," which means mold, form, or build.
Mass also was derived from the root word "mag." Thus, there was little difference in the ancient world of building pictures in mind and creating that mental idea externally in stone for the ancients.
The word magic comes from the Latin "magi" and the Greek "magos." Magos means learned in the mysteries and was a synonym for wisdom. The ancient priests were these wise men and included in the "magi." Assyrian scholars inform us that it is from an old Akkadian word, "imga," meaning holy, learned, and wise. Tracing the word "magi" to its remote ancestor terminates in the same Semitic root "mag."
Imga was a title used to describe their wisest Assyrian sages or priests, forming the ruling order. The Semites succeeded the Akkadian race in the Euphrates valley. Likely, as a convenience, they transformed many of the old Akkadian words to suit their articulation and "imga" became "mag," and then "magi."
It is interesting to see how old the words that many of us use each day are. Let us now examine an Old Saxon word, "wand," which signifies setting something in motion. We can now understand the real meaning of the Magic Wand.
The meaning of "magic wand" is an object that sets in motion the powers of the master of wisdom (Magician) who possesses all the resources that enable him to form, create and build by their knowledge of mental imagery and the use of their imagination. There is no power per se in the Wand itself.The Wand is the conductor of the soul and can only transmit to the degree wherein there is a unity of the mind and soul.
Thought then is the great Magician of the cosmos. Thought transforms one thing into another and calls worlds into being by the Wand of its vibrational power. The simple meaning for the word "magic" is the power of the mind to consolidate matter into the form outlined by thought. Thought can create or destroy lives. Its legerdemain brings the invisible to visible appearance.
In the past, we have sought heroes, saviors, and sages. In some ways, this has proven to disempower the individual. Advances in technology used to expand, evolve, and heighten consciousness may show its functional application. These new adaptive technologies may prove to empower as a conduit for improved collective reflection, allowing us to awaken to better choices. It is all simply a case of lesser-eviling our way to a better future, though it may seem intolerable.
The illusion of separation is very strong and creates fear and leads to conflict. In the Piscean Age, costumes were used to create separation between the people and the priests. This use of costumes helps set the priests on higher levels than of the masses. The more intricate the robes and big hats, the more they desire to be seen as the only ones with a direct line to God.
Some may be thinking,
We could make religion out of the Aquarian Age!
Please dont.
Physical life is little more than a type of theater where we play out differing roles and learn from our mistakes. The meaning of life, the universe and everything is to learn the meaning of love in the various classrooms that the illusion of duality provides.
We ultimately choose a path of either unity consciousness and a desire to love and serve, or separation consciousness and the desire to hurt and dominate others selfishly. Even for those that choose the separation consciousness, punishment is not punishment for eternity. In a more scientific/spiritual context, it is a temporary realm that seeks balance, a type of karma rebalancing.
The Union of Souls
We are approaching the conclusion of Aquarius Rising. I am sometimes asked how it feels to have exposed the magic trick of the priesthood and robbed people of their faith and belief. I recall the words of Musashi who said,
Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must
bend to its power or live a lie. - Miyamoto Masashi
My journey into the Astro-Theological aspects of the Bible answered decades long questions. To go through the process and to come out and understand the Bible basically exists in two parts. The first part deals with star movement presented in allegory form. The second aspect is how moral aspects have been taken from prehistory, copied and pasted. To see this and understand that moral precepts begin and end in the mind of humankind was a significant personal revelation.
Did a new understanding of an Astro-Theologically based Bible make me feel like I lost something? Did I feel like I lost God or a chance to get to heaven? On the contrary, an understanding of Biblical Astro-Theology is to know that everything is related and all of it moves in great cycles. The process of writing Aquarius Rising only served to deepen my respect for the Biblical editors who were masters and geniuses. The Bible we have today exists as both an exoteric and esoteric work. It is only a personal matter of where and how far you wish to go on a particular path. Biblical Astro-Theology did not destroy my faith in God, rather it served to deepen my relationship with the Great All by showing me the Unity of All Souls.
What you are experiencing now is a single projection, into just one specific space-time of an infinitely immense structure within The Great All, a structure that contains all Souls, infinitely interconnected, endlessly becoming. It is merely a limitation of awareness that makes it difficult for you to visualize this; you are aware of only one small facet of the Continuum of Souls. You are simultaneously a drop in the vast Ocean of Being, and the Ocean of Being itself. There is no paradox.
The apparent lack of an external, fixed deity on a throne in heaven may be uncomfortable for some people. Yet, this "uncertainty" is what creates new possibilities. The new cannot come forth from fixed, stagnant, or monolithic. Learning to surf with, and in, "uncertainty" may initially be disorientating. So long as the core remains centered on the Pole Star of Love, it will be easy to navigate within this new era.
Love is truly the universal frequency that binds the heavens and Earth. Astro-Theology does not kill this love. Instead, it extends it to all and everything.
So many in this day and age live in fear because of the separation they feel. Separation breeds indifference and false superiority. Unity produces compassion and genuine care for the other. We must start thinking holonically, working together as species, not nations, countries, and individuals. That era has passed, and those systems are in decline. It is time for an upgrade.
Transitions between epochs and shifting the consciousness and spiritual awareness of an entire planet is a slow process. The gains may seem small at first. Given enough time, they will grow substantially. Just as a single drop on a tin roof barely makes a sound, thousands of raindrops operating in unison are deafening.
One of the better traits of humanity is that we choose to face the coming light of the future and are comfortable dancing on this fringe where ignorance meets enlightenment at an uncertain pace. The Age of Aquarius will belong to those who can look at themselves in the mirror and create something beautiful. The Age of Aquarius belongs to these brave romantics.
The stars foretell the adventure is about to begin. Aquarius Rising!
This era desires things quickly. Likely the transition into the Aquarian Epoch will develop gradually over time. This is a good place to restate the calculation as to when the Age of Aquarius will likely reach its full manifestation.
The Age of Aquarius is set to begin in 2034 CE. Using what we know now about Astro-theology, we apply the same principle for the 40-day manifestations of the seasons. Forty days is equivalent to 10.9% of the year (40/365). An astrological age lasts 2160, so 10.9 percent of that is 235 years. Add 235 to 2034, and by 2269 the Age of Aquarius should be fully manifested. From their perspective, our world will seem unimaginably primitive. However, something could accelerate this timeline. Emerging technology could greatly facilitate the rate at which we merge into the Aquarian Age. Or there could be a Black Swan event. Time will tell. Until then, it is up to you and me to be the difference we wish to see. Godspeed!
Appendix
The Major Zodiac Constellations
Aires, the Ram: a A northern constellation usually named as the first sign in the zodiac into which, when the sun enters at the vernal equinox in March (celebrated as Easter) where the days and nights are of equal length. During many ages, Aries has been regarded by the devout as the celestial representative, visible in the heavens, of the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world. Ancient calendars always began with the vernal equinox and the sign of Aires.
Taurus, the Bull: b The second sign in the zodiac. The ancient Egyptians worshiped this constellation as the heavenly representative of their god Osiris. It was likely so named by the Egyptians to designate that period of the year (April) in which cows mostly bring forth their young.
Gemini, the Twins: c The third sign in the zodiac is a constellation visible in May containing the two bright stars named Castor and Pollux. These two stars are the fabled sons of Leda and Jupiter, who cleared the Hellespont and neighboring seas of pirates during their lives. They were therefore deemed the protector of navigators and sailors. Gemini is considered part of spring, and goats give birth during this time, usually giving birth to two at a time.
Cancer, the Crab: d The fourth sign in the zodiac in which the sun enters on the 21st day of June which is the summer solstice. The name represents the apparent backward motion of the sun in June, which is said to resemble the motions of a crab.
Leo, the Lion: e Leo is the fifth sign in the zodiac and contains one star of the first magnitude, Regulus or Cor Leonis the Lions Heart. Leo is the star group, through, which the sun moved in July when its heat was most powerful, being compared to the most ferocious of the beasts. Leo is often portrayed as an enraged lion. In ancient times there were many feasts in honor of the sun.
Virgo, the Virgin Mother, Venus, Eve, Isis: f The sixth sign of the zodiac is when the sun enters about the 21st of August. There are many myths and fables regarding the virgin, which are among all nations and religions. They all agree that the female holds a branch of ripened wheat or fruit in her right hand. This is intended to represent the reproductive powers of nature, the abundance satisfaction that people enjoy during the happy period of harvest.
Libra, the balance: g The seventh sign of the zodiac, directly opposite to Aries, from which it is 180 degrees distant. Libra is marked after the manner of a scale. The scale denotes when the Sun arrives at the ecliptic where the days and nights are equal as if weighed in balance.
The Sun enters Libra on or near September 21st). This is called the autumn equinox. September 25th is when John the Baptist is born. John the Baptist is the forerunner of his cousin Jesus. Jesus comes to his exaltation of glory on March 24th, the Vernal Equinox at Easter. The equinoxes equally mark the births and deaths of John and Jesus. One advanced, the other declined. Jesus ascended; John descended. Astrologically speaking, He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:20.
Scorpio, the Scorpion: h The eighth sign of the zodiac which the sun enters near the 23rd of October. Scorpio is fabled to have killed the great hunter Orion. For this reason, it is also said that when Scorpio rises, Orion sets.
In November in the northern hemisphere, when the sun enters Scorpio, it reaches a red star named Antares. It is one of only four red stars that the ancients noted in the night sky, the other being; Aldebaran, Arcturus, and Betelgeuse. All four were feared by the Ancients because of their different nature. In Christian mythology, Antares represents Judas Iscariot, who betrays Jesus and brings him down to his death. It is said that the sting of a scorpion often resembles the image of a kiss.
Sagittarius, the Archer: i The ninth zodiacal sign corresponds with November. This sign is represented like a centaur and was fabled to be Crotus, the son of Eupheme, the nurse of the Muses.
Sagittarius is the individual with the arrow. He is the one that inflicts punishment on the sun and who is there on the day the sun dies on December 21. It is also Sagittarius and, with his arrow, fatefully injures Achilles (representing the sun) heel as the Winter Solstice shows no mercy.
Capricorn, the Goat: j Capricorn is the tenth sign of the zodiac and occurs when the sun is near the winter solstice, December 21st (the longest night of the year). This sign represents a goat's horns, fabled to be Pan, who was taken to heaven in the shape of a goat in the war of the giants. Capricorn represents his motion after the manner of a goat climbing the mountains. The goat is Capricorn after the winter solstice, climbing as a new ascension begins.
Aquarius, the Water Bearer: k A constellation in the heavens is so-called because there is usually an abundance of rain during its rising. It is the eleventh sign in the zodiac. Aquarius rises in January and sets in February. January is often portrayed by Janus (two faces) looking both to the previous year and forward to the new year.
Pisces, the Fishes: l The twelfth sign of the zodiac rises in February. It is represented by the two fishes tied together by the tails. Fish indicates the fishing season in the northern hemisphere. The Greeks fabled these fishes to be those into which Venus and Cupid were changed to escape the giant Typhon. In Catholic churches, there is usually found a vase filled with water (called Piscina,) and this water is considered holy. The Fish-days are observed as holy days or fasting days in which fish may be eaten, and meat is forbidden.
The Decans
The Decans of Aries
? Cassiopeia, the woman, enthroned.
? Cetus, the Sea-monster, strongly bound by the Lamb.
? Perseus, an armed and mighty man with winged feet, is carrying away in triumph the cut-off head of the monster Medusa filled with withering serpents and holding a great sword aloft in his right hand.
The Decans of Taurus
? Orion, a glorious Prince, with a sword girded on his side, and his foot on the head of a Serpent;
? Eridanus, the tortuous River, accounted as belonging to Orion.
? Auriga, the Wagoner, or Shepherd, carrying a she-goat and two little goats on his left arm and holding cords or bands in his right hand.
The Decans of Gemini
? Lepus, the hare, in some nations a serpent, the mad enemy under Orions feet;
? Canis Major, Sirius, the Great Dog, the Prince coming.
? Canis Minor, Procyon, the second Dog, follows Sirius and Orion.
The Decans of Cancer
? Ursa Minor, anciently the lesser Sheepfold, close to and including the Pole.
? Ursa Major, anciently the Greater Sheepfold, connected with Arcturus, the guardian and keeper of the flock.
? Argo, the Ship, the company of travelers under the bright Canopus, the Prince, the Argonauts returned with the Golden Fleece.
The Decans of Leo
? Hydra, the fleeing Serpent, trodden underfoot by the Crab and Lion.
? Crater, the Cup or Bowl of Wrath on the Serpent.
? Corvus, the Raven or Crow, the Bird of Doom, Tearing the Serpent.
The Decans of Libra
? The Cross, over which Centaur is advancing, is called the Southern Cross.
? Victim of Centaur, slain, pierced to death.
? The Crown, which the Serpent aims to take, is called the Northern Crown.
The Decans of Scorpio
? The Serpent, struggling with Ophiuchus.
? Ophiuchus, wrestling with the Serpent, stung in one heel by the Scorpion and crushing it with the other.
? Hercules, wounded in his heel, the other foot over the Dragons head, holding in one hand the Golden apples and the three-headed Dog of hell, and in the other the uplifted club.
The Decans of Sagittarius
? Lyra, an Eagle, holding the lyre, as triumphant gladness.
? Ara, the Altar, burning downward.
? Draco, the Dragon, the old Serpent, winding himself about the pole in horrid links and contortions.
The Decans of Capricornus
? Sagitta, the Arrow, or killing dart sent forth, the naked shaft of death.
? Aquila, the Eagle, pierced and falling.
? Delphinus, the Dolphin, springing up, raised out of the sea.
The Decans of Aquarius
? The Southern Fish, drinking in the stream.
? Pegasus, a white horse, winged and speeding, as with good tidings.
? Cygnus, the Swan on the wing, going and returning, bearing the sign of the cross.
The Decans of Pisces
? The Band, holding up the Fishes and held by the Lamb, its doubled end fast to the neck of Cetus, the Sea-monster.
? Cepheus, a crowned king, holding a band and scepter, with his foot planted on the polestar as the great Victor and Lord.
? Andromeda is a woman in chains and threatened by the serpents of Medusas head.
The Constellations
Below is a list of other significant constellations. This list is fromThe Ruins, or Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Natureby Constantin Francois de Volney, first published under theFrench Citizens Catechism, 1793. The language for this edition has been updated for modern tastes. At the time of its writing, it was hoped that this information would become common to all Europe.
Sirius, the Dog Star: A bright star of the first magnitude in the mouth of the constellation Canis Major.This is the brightest star in our firmament and is one of the nearest.
Lepus:One of the southern constellations, placed near Orion, according to Grecian fable, because it was one of the animals he hunted.
Eridanus:A winding southern constellation near the Cetus, containing the bright star Archemar.
Cetus, the Wale:A southern constellation. It is fabled to have been the sea monster sent by Neptune to devour Andromeda. Later killed by Perseus.
Crater, the Cup:A southern constellation near Hydra. Proprorted to be the cup of Apollo gave to the Raven.
Corvus:One of the old constellations in the southern hemisphere, near Sagittarius. The bird is fabled to have been translated to heaven by Apollo to discover the infidelity of the nymph Coronis.
Argo Navis, the ship:A constellation near Canis Major. The ship's name carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis in quest of the golden fleece. It was said to have been translated into the heavens.
Canopus: The name formally given to a star in the second bend of Eridanus. A bright star of the first magnitude in the rudder of the ship Argo, which according to Pliny, was visible at Alexandria in Egypt.
Centaurus:One of the forty-eight old constellations in the southern hemisphere, represented in the form of half-man and half horse, who was fabled by the Greeks to have been Chiron, the tutor of Achilles.
Ava or Altar:One of the old constellations and fabled to have been that at which the giants entered into their conspiracy against the Gods; wherefore Jupiter, in commemoration of the event, transplanted the alter into the heavens.
Pegasus: One of the forty-eight old constellations of the northern hemisphere, figured in the form of a flying horse.
Delphinus or Dolphin:A northern constellation near Pegasus. The Dolphin is fabled to have been translated to heaven by Neptune.
Aquilla, the Eagle:In the Arabic Altair, but the Flying Vulture in the Persian tables. This is one of the old constellations, situated near Delphinus in the northern hemisphere. According to the Grecian fable, Aquila represented Ganymede or Hebe, transported to heaven, and made the cup-bearer to Jupiter.
Sagitta, the Dart, or Arrow, called by the Arabs, Schahan:One of the old constellations in the northern hemisphere, near Aquila and Delphinus. It is fabled to have been the arrow with which Hercules slew the vulture devouring the liver of Prometheus, who was, like Jesus, crucified for loving humankind.
Cygnus, the Swan:An old constellation in the milky way, between Equus and the Dragon. This is fabled to be the swan into which Jupiter transformed himself. The transformation was to deceive the virtuous Leda, wife of Tyndareus, King of Sparta, the Grecian matron, like the Jewish virgin, thus became the mother of a God.
Lyra:A northern constellation between Hercules and Cygnus, containing a white star of the first magnitude.
Milky-Way, Galaxy:A broad luminous path or circle encompassing the heavens, which is easily discernible by its white appearance, from which it derives its name.
Hydra, the Serpent:A southern constellation of great length, which is drawn to represent a serpent. The Hydra is fabled to have been placed in the heavens by Apollo to frighten the Raven from drinking.
Orion, the hunter:A constellation of the southern hemisphere with respect to the ecliptic, but half southern and half northern with respect to the equinoctial. It is placed near the feet of the bull and composed of seventeen stars forming a sword. This has given occasion for poets to speak of Orions sword. He was described by the Greeks as a mighty hunter. His exploits caused him to be placed in the heavens by Jupiter, between the Canis and the Lepus. Orion is believed to be the mighty hunter spoken of in the Bible under the name of Nimrod.
Perseus: This constellation is named from Perseus, the son of Jupiter by Danae, who was translated into the heavens by the assistance of Minerva, for having released Andromeda from her confinement on the rock to which she was chained. Perseus is often presented holding a drawn sword in his right hand and in his left the head of the Gorgon Medusa, whose terrifying appearance changed all who beheld her into stone. Perseus destroyed her with the wings borrowed from Mercury, a helmet from Pluto, a Sword from Vulcan, and a shield from Minerva.
Josephs Stable; Auriga, The Wagoner:A northern constellation between Perseus and Gemini, represented by the figure of an old man supporting a goat. He is said to have been taken to heaven by Jupiter after the invention of wagons.
Ursa Major, the Bear: One of the prominent northern constellations, situated near the North Pole. It contains the stars called the Dipper. Ursa Minor contains the pole star, which is shown in the extremity of the bear's tail.
Andromeda: A northern constellation, represented by a woman chained; as, according to Grecian fable, Andromeda, the daughter of Cassiopeia, was bound to a rock by the Nereides, and afterward released by Perseus. Minerva changed her into a constellation after her death and placed her in the heavens.
Draco or Dragon: A northern constellation, supposed to represent the Dragon that guarded the Hesperian fruit and killed Hercules. It is said that Juno took it up to heaven and placed it among the constellations.
Bootis, the Ox driver: So-called because this constellation follows the Great Bear as the driver follows his oxen. Bootis is represented as grasping a sickle in his hand and a club in his left. Bootis is fabled to have been Icarius, who was transported to heaven because he was a great vine cultivator. When Bootis rises, the works of plowing and cultivation go forward.
Corona Borealis, northern Crown: One of the old northern constellations between Hercules and Bootis.
Corona Australis, Southern Crown: One of the old constellations in the southern hemisphere, between Sagittarius and Scorpio. The Corona was fabled to be Minippe and Metioche, two daughters of Orion, who sacrificed themselves at the suggestion of an oracle to protect Boeotia, their native country, from the ravages of pestilence. Idolatrous nations believed that an angry god could be placated by human sacrifices. The death of the innocent might atone for the sins of the guilty. The deities of Hades were astonished, it is said, the patriotism and devotion of these Grecian maidens, who had so generously and uselessly sacrificed their lives. After their death, two stars were seen to issue from the altars that still smoke with their blood. These stars were placed in the heavens in the form of a crown.
Cassiopia and Cepheus:One of the old asterisms in the northern hemisphere near the pole. According to Grecian fables, Cassiopia and her husband Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, were placed among the constellations to witness the punishment inflicted on their daughter Andromeda.
Ophiuchus is a prominent constellation between Scorpio and Herculesin the northern hemisphere and straddles the celestial equator. In the past, it was called Serpentarius.
Hercules: One of the old northern constellations. In Grecian mythology, it was taught and believed that Hercules was born of a human mother and an immortal father (similar to other Saviors of the time).His mother, the fair Alcmena, wife of Amphitryon, having found favor in the eyes of the god Jupiter, soon fell an unwilling victim to his celestial whiles. The life of the infant Hercules, born of this unnatural union, was threatened by the jealous Juno, the same as the life of the infant Jesus was threatened by the tyrant Herod. Like Jesus, Hercules devoted his life to the benefit of the human race. Like Jesus, he was also worshiped as a God in heaven after his death. He is shown in the astrological chart, enveloped in the skin of the lion he has slain, with a club upraised. His foot placed threateningly above the head of the Dragon as if to fulfill the scriptural prophecy that the seed of the woman shall bruise the serpents head.
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Footnotes
Chapter 2
1. Southy, The Doctor, vol. iii. 115.
2. Joseph A. Seiss, The Gospel in the Stars, 20-22.
Chapter 3
3. Thomas H. Burgoyne, The Light of Egypt Volume One, 1899, 194.
Chapter 8
4. Malik H. Jabbar, Lifting the Gnostic Veil, 79.
5. Ibid., 77.
6. Ibid., 79.
Chapter 9
7. Malik H. Jabbar. The Astrological Foundation of the Christ Myth, Book Two. 52-53.
Chapter 10
8. Ibid., 53.
Chapter 11
9. Robert Shaw, Sketch of the Religions of the World, 209.
10. Vindemiatrix isa giant star in the constellation of Virgo with a stellar classification of G8 III. With 2.6 times the mass of the Sun, it has reached a stage in its evolution where the hydrogen fuel in its core is exhausted.
11. Robert Taylor, The Devils Pulpit, 43-44.
Chapter 15
12. Malik H. Jabbar, Astrological Foundation of the Christ Myth Book 3, 55-56
Chapter 16
13. Malik H. Jabbar, The Astrological Foundation Book 2, 165.
Chapter 18
14. Ibid., 154
Chapter 23
15. Devil King James Bible Online: https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Devil.php4
Chapter 24
16. Malik H. Jabbar, Lifting the Gnostic Veil, Rare Book Distributors, 2007, 55. Reprinted with express permission.
17. Malik H. Jabbar, Astrological Foundations of the Christ Myth Book 4, Rare Book Distributors, 2003, 124. Reprinted with express permission.
18. Ibid., 124.
19. Ibid., 124
20. Gerald Massey, The Natural Genesis, 1903, Creative Commons on the internet.
Chapter 25
21. Malik. H. Jabbar, Lifting the Gnostic Veil, 49.
Chapter 26
22. Rev. Robert Taylor, The Devils Pulpit, 1832, 91-93.
Chapter 27
23. Malik H. Jabbar, The Biggest Lie Ever Told, 95-96.
Chapter 28
24. Midianite - New World Encyclopedia. https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Midianite
Chapter 30
25. Malik H. Jabbar, The Astrological Foundation of the Christ Myth, Book Two. 94-96.
Chapter 31
26. Malik H. Jabbar, The Astrological Foundation of the Christ Myth Book One. 78-79.
Chapter 32.
27. Malik H. Jabbar, The Astrological foundations of the Christ Myth, Book Two, 117 -118.
Chapter 33
28. Ibid., 125-126
Chapter 35.
29. Malik H. Jabbar, Lifting the Gnostic Veil, 67-68.
Chapter 37.
30. Malik H. Jabbar, Astrological Foundations of the Christ Myth Book Four, 159-160.
Chapter 38
31. Malik H. Jabbar, The Secret Origins of Judaism, 97-98
Chapter 39
32. Marija Gimbutas, the Early Civilization of Europe, 2:17.
33. Ibid., 2:33-34.
34. Marija Gimbutas, The First Wave of Eurasian Steppe pastoralists into Copper Age Europe, Journal of Indo-European Studies 5 -Winter 1977.
35. Marija Gimbutas, Beginning of the Bronze Age, 174-175.
36. The Dartmouth Bible, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950, 10.
37. The Dartmouth Bible, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1950. The Dartmouth Bible calls the first part of the Judeo-Christian Bible the Old Testament, even though Jewish scholars point out that for Jews, there is only one holy book and that the term Hebrew Bible would be more appropriate than Old Testament.
38. Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, New York: Random House, 1979, 42.
39. Ibid., 63.
40. Ibid., xviii.
41. Malik H. Jabbar, Astrological Foundation of the Christ Myth Book Four, 179.
42. Ibid., 179
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