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2-2-02 - DREAM - I went out on the front porch and I saw a huge
black cloud coming up in the east. I said to Joe - "That's where the
Water Treatment Plant is." I could see the black cloud going up with
tremendous speed and the cloud was billowing up to the north - there the
smoke met with a regular white cloud in the sky where the smoke merged
with the cloud and it became a cloud of black and white geometric
shapes. It was quite remarkable to see.
Then a work crew showed up in front of the house and they started
working on tree that was barely more than a few years old. They were
bending the branches all the way to the ground, tying ropes to them,
banding them and letting them spring back up again.
There were many smaller broken branches lying on the ground as
well, which they had trimmed off. A whole crowd of people and kids was
gathering to watch the smoke and the work on the tree.
I saw that our daughter was among them. I knew she was enjoying
herself, but she was way too young to run around unattended. So I
grabbed her and picked her up and carried her back to the house,
promising we would sit on the porch and watch. I went into the house
with her to look for a chair I could take out on the porch to sit on.
There were so many people in the house, I could hardly find
anything to sit on. There were little plants growing everywhere,
including on benches I might have been able to sit on. I finally found
an odd shaped tricycle made out of wood for the daughter to sit on, so I
picked it up to carry it out to the porch.
As I was walking through the house, one of the young men said,
"Hey! There is a real estate lady on the phone..." I answered, "Tell her
I need a house twice as big."
I heard Joe laughing . "That's what my mother always used to say."
I then went out on the porch which was an indoor/outdoor type of
room. This room all by itself was larger than the whole house was. It
was like I was seeing it for myself for the first time and I was
astounded. The north wall had a tremendous set of dishes which were all
cobalt blue. I don't know how many place settings there were. It
stretched all the way across the room in 5 tiers like an upside-down
pyramid for at least 100 feet.
I carried the child who was now more of an infant and went and sat
on the couch near to where Joe and another man were sitting and talking
by a window facing south. I sat next to a young man on the sofa and the
baby seemed like she was tired so I took a small tan blanket to wrap
around her and sat down. I sat there, watching Joe and the other man
talk and saw all the old wooden antiques sitting on the window sill.
The baby started to point out which direction the wall with the
cobalt blue dishes was. She said, "That is Oklahoma, and that way -
(toward the smoke) is Morgan." I knew that wasn't right, and I said,
"That is Oklahoma (north) and that is 76th St. (east)
see
http://www.greatdreams.com/cut_and_banded_tree.htm
7-25-09 - DREAM - I was in a very large two story
house, taking care of a little boy who was Spanish/Mexican. This house
and the little boy was very dirty. There were little crumbs of dirt
everywhere including on the child, on the bed, on the floors -
everywhere.
There was also a very young woman with me - no
relation to the child, but she was helping me.
I started out by trying to mop the bathroom floor,
behind the toilet first - and there was so much crud on the floor, this
was very difficult.
Because the little boy was so dirty, he needed
cleaning too, and I asked the young woman to help me with him because I
felt sorry for the little boy. The young woman did everything I asked of
her without complaint.
I then found three golden swords/knives rather
machete-shaped with wide blades and extremely sharp - each had a
different shape but were about three feet long and these were dirty as
well.
I took the machetes downstairs to clean and polish
them, but for some reason I just couldn't clean them downstairs, so I
took them back upstairs and asked the young woman if she would clean
them for me.
I lay on the bed then which was very large and so
was the room and as I lay on the bed, looking at the ceiling, I saw
green and blue stripes of paint on the ceiling at random - not like the
ceiling was going to be painted - they were like test stripes. This made
me question whether I was in the right bedroom or someone else's.
So, I got out of bed to make sure I was even in the
right house, and in the corner of the room, I spotted a man, dressed all
in brown, but I couldn't see his face.
Then the man picked up something from the floor
that was hidden by dirt - and he turned it to face me. It was a painting
of a pine tree trunk. As he showed me this painting, it became more and
more brilliantly colored - just the trunk of the tree - with new
branches coming out of it. The painting became more and more brilliant
and larger and larger and closer and closer to me - but all I could see
was the trunk of the tree - never the whole tree.
See photos taken in my own backyard below:
and I woke up
The Maya of southern Mexico and Guatemala associated
Orion's sword with their creator god. Orion's belt stars represented the
back of a celestial turtle. First Father, their creator god, emerged
from a crack in the back of this celestial turtle to put people in the
world. Perhaps barely seeing the Orion Nebula as a bit of a smudgy
appearance to the center star in Orion's sword and interpreting this
smudge as smoke, they saw the center star in Orion's sword as the flame
of creation. The Mayan hearth was a triangle of three stones. Alnitak,
the easternmost belt star, along with the two feet stars, Saiph and
Rigel, formed the celestial hearth cradling their fire of creation.
Read more:
http://stargazing.suite101.com/article.cfm/nebula_in_the_constellation_orion#ixzz0MOm4XiRt
This is what the swords - machetes looked like
except they were golden colored (copper?)
The Baathist regime of Iraq may not have
possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction according to some technical
criteria, but it certainly possessed what could be called ‘weapons
of mass destruction’, meaning weapons capable of destroying masses
of human beings.
In the Rwandan Genocide, between 800,000 and a
million people were killed mostly using simple weapons, above all
the machete. This is several times more than were killed by the
atomic bombs that hit Japan in 1945. Judging by the
twentieth-century historical record, the machete is a more dangerous
weapon of mass destruction than the nuclear bomb. Saddam Hussein had
repeatedly carried out genocide and mass murder against the Iraqi
population. With the weaponry still available to him in 2003, he was
entirely able to do so again. That he did not possess what are
technically classified as ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ may make a
difference to how one evaluates the justification for the war, if
what concerns one is British or American national security or even
Middle Eastern regional security. But for those of us who thought
about the intervention in Iraq primarily in humanitarian terms, what
mattered most was his ability to harm his own people. The failure to
discover ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ in Iraq following the
invasion made no difference in this regard.
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7-26-09 - VISION - As soon as I closed my eyes - I
saw what looked like an record album cover - (33 1/3 type record) - it
was square - a dark background with white astrological type figures on
it - then the album cover flipped over and similar astrological figures
in white were on that side too.
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7-26-09 - MORE VISIONS 2:45 p.m. - APOSTLE OF THE
DAY - JOHN 14
ANIMAL OF THE DAY - THE PELICAN - it looked like a grasshopper
Then I saw a box with 2 cameras in it - one had a white light and one
had a red light
NOTE: On 7-30-09 - I had to take photos of two
trees - one for the dream about the painting of the tree trunk, and the
other of the tree that broke and fell - the chinaberry.
CHINABERRY HEART - BEFORE - 4-20-09
CHINABERRY HEARTBREAKING - AFTER - 7-30-09
CHINABERRY TREE IN 1997
CHINABERRY TREE IN GOLD - TAKEN AT SUNSET - 2-20-09
CHINABERRY TREE - FALLEN - 7-30-09
8-5-09
Just moments ago a young man was cutting my tree down and cutting
it into
small pieces and stacking it at the curb...he told me he was with the
National Guard and his commanding officer told him to start cleanup
asap. He
was very nice...but then n ambulance and a fire truck arrived for the
house
across the street as what appeared to be fireworks shot off which was a
power line down and all the power was off up and down the street. This
National Guard man tells me he saw the tornado hit this area...
The main road Morton Street was blocked off...and people in the short
block
were all outside and some looking at their roofs for damage. It looked
like
a war torn area...
I had just gotten home from work at the One Grand Center building in
Sherman, TX where the building was swaying and you could see the black
swirling mass north east of the building and the winds were so high the
windows were popping. We all huddled in the bottom stairwell until the
wind
became less forceful. No one was in their offices...and the sirens were
going off...quite an eventful day!
C
Texas Tree after the tornado.
Another friend who lives in Texas is suffering from drought. She
writes after I asked her if she had taken a photo of her dead tree:
No, I haven't. It is back in my woods. A small one next to it
died yesterday and there are five smaller cedars near by that
also gave up the ghost. Lost a pin oak also yesterday. We had
108 and still no rain. So sad. Watering myself to death. The
biggest tree on my property is turning yellow and we have a
water sprinkler on it trying to encourage it to live one more
day. Combined with the drought and the heat, they are just
finally all giving up.
I wish I could say prayer works but it certainly hasn't
helped bring any rain here. Losing faith quickly.
B
VISIONS CONTINUED -
Then I saw three flies buzzing around - large ones. (Symbolic of
Satan?)
Then I heard this: Emily is under reproach
and then a man who sounded like Daniel on the show The Young and the
Restless - laughed and said, "hahaha - Emily is under
reproach."
VISIONS AS INTERPRETED
John 14 (King James Version)
John 14
1 Let not your heart be
troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many
mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to
prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself;
that where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I go ye
know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord,
we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the
way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,
but by me. 7 If ye had
known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from
henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord,
show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I
been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me,
Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how
sayest thou then, Show us the Father? 10 Believest thou not
that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words
that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father
that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11 Believe me that
I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me
for the very works' sake. 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do
also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go
unto my Father. 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name,
that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. 15 If
ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may
abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom
the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither
knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and
shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will
come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the
world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye
shall live also. 20 At that day ye shall know that I am in
my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21 He that hath my commandments,
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that
loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him,
and will manifest myself to him.
22 Judas saith unto him, not
Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself
unto us, and not unto the world?
23 Jesus answered and said unto
him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father
will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode
with him. 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings:
and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's
which sent me. 25 These things have I spoken unto you, being
yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is
the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he
shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your
remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you, my
peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto
you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid.
28 Ye have heard how I said unto
you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye
would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my
Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before
it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might
believe.
30 Hereafter I will not talk
much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath
nothing in me. 31 But that the world may know that I love
the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I
do. Arise, let us go hence.
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2-9-12- NAP DREAM: I was at my New
Berlin house. I was walkng from the
garage to the house and I could hear women talkinng
in the upper part of our hill. They were
walking around talking about where to plant flowers.
VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rAgeVvDJHM&feature=related
I wondered why they were in my yard, so I walked
along the hill and discovered that there was a large
brick house up there with many windows in it.
I discovered that there was a walkway up there and I
walked along it and found a parapet at th edge of
the hill overlookinig my yard. It was too far to
jump down so I had to walk back the way I came and
walk along the hill to get back to my own yard.
I went over to the garage with a red hammer in my
hand , went into the garage and laid the hammer on a
small table.
THE MARCHING HAMMERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiI_6kiW5Pg&feature=related
Jeremiah 23:25 I have
heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in
my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
23:26 How long shall [this] be in the heart of the
prophets that prophesy lies? yea, [they are]
prophets of the deceit of their own heart; 23:27
Which think to cause my people to forget my name by
their dreams which they tell every man to his
neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name
for Baal. 23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let
him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him
speak my word faithfully. What [is] the chaff to the
wheat? saith the LORD. 23:29 [Is] not my word like
as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer [that]
breaketh the rock in pieces? 23:30 Therefore,
behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD,
that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
23:31 Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the
LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
23:32 Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy
false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and
cause my people to err by their lies, and by their
lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them:
therefore they shall not profit this people at all,
saith the LORD. 23:33 And when this people, or the
prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What
[is] the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say
unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you,
saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 29:7 And seek
the peace of the city whither I have caused you to
be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for
it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
29:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners,
that [be] in the midst of you, deceive you, neither
hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
A man in the garage aid, "You look ktired."
I replied, "I hage nothing to do, and went
into a different garage that had an inner wall with
a gate that was blue.
THE BLUE WALL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV-HlBCmnDY&feature=rellist&playnext=1&list=PL7EC45212E78D22E2
One had to get down on our knees and crawl under
the gate. I said "this is ridiculous and took
down the gate and the wall.
outside the wall:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV-HlBCmnDY&feature=rellist&playnext=1&list=PL7EC45212E78D22E2
Then a mechanical airplane came into the garage.
It was green and it ws following me around. I
looked to see if I was wearng anything green that
was attracting the plane to me and I ddin't see
anything on me that was green..
My brother Martim (means warrior of Mars)
came into the garage and grabbed the airplane out of
the air and said, "This isi Malkuth"
(Earth-plane) _ and this is scoth. I
should find some blue paint and paint people BLUE so
they can brathe it in." (breathing in
the color blue takes away pain in the body)
SCOTH MEANS: COVERING UP
SOMETHING -
WE NOTICED THAT MARS ISI THE 5TH SPHERE ON THE
TREE OF LIFE - BY THE NAME:
JUDGMENT!!!http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGdVAnwTVPYgsAwvJXNyoA?p=2012%20OLYMPICS%20DANGER&fr2=sb-top&fr=slv8-att
VIDEO: THE 2012 OLYMPICS IN LONDON?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV-HlBCmnDY&feature=rellist&playnext=1&list=PL7EC45212E78D22E2
VIDEO OF LONDON OLYMPICS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY0GAsQXskY
SECURITY IS ALREADY TESTING FAKE BOMBERS AND FAKE
BOMBS
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGdVAnwTVPYgsAwvJXNyoA?p=2012%20OLYMPICS%20DANGER&fr2=sb-top&fr=slv8-att
FROM JOE MASON 2-10-12
Here's the quotes and link relating to your
dream of the covering and Malkut --
<< While all 32 paths originate in Keter, they
cannot be comprehended on that inscrutable
plane. Instead, the Soul dimension enables the
paths to be experienced by replicating all 32 of
them within Malkut,
which is the plane of manifestation. >>
[skip]
<< The Tree of Life can only direct the
development of the material Universe by virtue
of its fruit. That fruit, we know, consists of
the Souls which “hang” from the Tree. These
Souls are conceived by the Male-Female
intercourse at the level of the Father and
Mother, who are the Personifications of
Chochmah/Wisdom and Binah/Understanding. The
Kabbalah calls this level of the
Soul Neshamah, which means “breath”.
Below this plane, the intercourse of the Son and
his Bride impart motion to the Soul at the level
of Ruach, the Spirit Wind. We recall that the
Son, Zer Anpin, is a composite Body consisting
of Six Sephira: Chesed/Mercy, Gevurah/Judgment,
Tipheret/Beauty, Netzach/Victory, Hod/Splendor,
and Yesod/Foundation. Finally, the Bride herself
personifies Malkut,
the Womb wherein the Soul comes to rest at the
level Nephesh. >>
10-31-14 DREAM
I was at home somewhere and my husband was
bringing the new church preacher and his wife
over to visit. I felt very
inadquate to meet people like that.
When they came in, no one smiled, just meekly
walked in, and when they shook hands it was just
with the fingertips and very limp.
The wife was a little plump and wore a white off
the shoulder strapless dress with a heart shaped
bodice held in that shape with wire to hold it
up. The man I thought was
the maintenance man sat next to me on the sofa
was very good looking like a TV character I've
seen. The preacher was a
very small man, omly about 5 feet tall.
His wife, wearing high heeled shoes wass taller
than him. Once they all
sat down I didn't feel at all inadequate
anymore. My husband had a
4 x 4 inch box with him that was bright red and
was full of prayer leaflets.
The box spilled a few of these leaflets out, and
when I looked at them, I saw that each one was
different, so nothing had to be memorized.
Everything was all written out in advance just
to be picked up and read to the others.
I had worried in advance for no reason.
Joe Mason explained that the preacher and his
bride was the ZER AN PIN
[skip]
<< As we’ve noted previously, the eighth Edomite
King is meant to be a prototype of the Messiah.
His name, Hadar, meaning “Beauty”, identifies
him with the Sephirah Tipheret, which is the
Heart of the supernal Body of Man, Zer Anpin.
While no queens are mentioned in connection with
his seven defunct predecessors, Hadar is
accounted as having a wife named Mehetabel,
signifying one “rectified by God”.
Rectification, of course, points us back in the
direction of the Covenant of Circumcision, the
ritual excision of the false
covering that obscures the Divine Image in Man.
The rite of Circumcision was given to Abraham in
order to remove the obstruction, created by the
Sin of our First Parents, to the River carrying
the “gold” of Righteous Souls into
Malkut’s Garden of incarnation.
This explains the name of Queen Mehetabel’s
grandmother, Mey Zahab — literally, the “Waters
of Gold”. >>
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The Tree of Life
Crop Circle Formation
by Joseph E. Mason
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Introduction
Two very significant crop circle formations appeared at Barbury Castle
in May 1997. They seemed to reveal extremely important information. One
of the formations was the Kabalistic Tree of Life.
The crop formation is pictured on the left, above.
The depiction on the right is one version of the ancient Tree of Life.
The Tree of Life, of course, is mentioned many times in the Bible, from
the beginning of the Book of Genesis to last part of the Book of
Revelation. One who eats from this Tree, according to the Bible, is
given "eternal life." The above diagram of the Tree of Life is part of
an ancient tradition called "Kabala." Other spellings of the word
include, kabbala, cabala, cabbala, quabala, and qabbalah. This is
generally known as a special Hebrew tradition, the occult philosophy of
certain Jewish rabbis, especially in the Middle Ages, based on a
mystical interpretation of the Scriptures. Many scholars believe that
the tradition is much older; that it traces back to the ancient
Egyptians and Sumerians.
Connections to Ancient
Sumeria
Over one hundred years ago, clay tablets were found
in present day Iraq. They were artifacts with Cuneiform writings and
pictographic carvings, left by the ancient people of that region. The
Assyrian and Babylonian empires were located in that area long ago, but
an even more ancient one preceded them, called Sumer, which in the Bible
is called "Land of Shine'ar." According to scholar,
Zecharia Sitchin, in Divine
Encounters (page 7) -
Sumer (the biblical
Shine'ar) was the land where the first known and fully documented
civilization sprang up after the Deluge, appearing suddenly and all
at once some six thousand years ago.
 Some
of the pictographic carvings have depictions similar to the Kabalistic
Tree of Life. The oldest story in history, '
The Epic of Gilgamesh, was also found. Gilgamesh was a king,
who was part god. He traveled to a far place, looking for the plant or
tree that gave eternal life.
The Meaning of the Tree
of Life
The Kabalistic Tree is sometimes called The
Sephirotic Tree of Life. The circles or spheres are called sephiroth. A
single circle or sphere is called a sephira. The teachings about the
Kabalistic Tree of Life are very deep and complex. The ten spheres and
22 paths of The Tree generally represent the nature of the forces behind
Creation on all levels, from microscopic to macrocosmic. The Tarot Cards
are also associated with The Tree.
SEE:
http://greatdreams.com/treeol.htm
THIS IS THE TREE OF LIFE I SAW IN A VISION.
THE ENTIRE THING WAS LIVING, MOVING ENERGY
IT WAS SO INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL, I CRIED TO
HAVE BEEN BLESSED BY THIS VISION
1-23-98 - VISION - As I was falling asleep, I was
watching two little girls playing with a ball of light. They ended up
standing on the ball of light which was flaming around their feet, but
it was not hot. It was cool white light.
In the dream that followed, I was shown this symbol which is
very similar to the Tree Of Life.
It was made all of golden light flowing like golden threads
between golden balls of light. I watched it for a long time. It was so
beautiful, it still makes me cry to think about how beautiful it was.
MORE ABHOUT THIS AT:
http://www.greatdreams.com/treelife.htm
HOD
TREE OF LIFE
“And the
LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man
whom he had formed. And out of
the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the
sight, and good for food; the
tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge
of good and evil.” --
Genesis 2:8-9
QABALISTIC MAGIC
compiled by Dee Finney
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The spheres are arranged in three
columns.
The left column is called the Pillar of Severity.
This represents the female side of man
and contains three sephira:
Binah (Understanding), Geburah (Severity) and Hod
(Splendor).
The right column is called the Pillar
of Mercy.
This represents the male side of man
and also contains three sephira:
Chokmah (Wisdom), Chesed (Mercy) and Netzach (Victory).
The middle pillar is called the Pillar
of Equilibrium.
THE SPHERES
Sphere 1:
KETER ....KThR (Crown) Crown, GOD, Infinite
Light & Wisdom, Total & Supreme Consciousness
Sphere 2:
CHOHMAN ..ChKMH (Wisdom) .Male Yang Energies,
Pure Energy, Spiritual Force, Cosmic Father
Sphere 3:
BINAH...BYNH (Understanding) Yin Energy, Compassion,
Pure Love & Understanding, The Cosmic Mother
Sphere 4:
CHESED...ChSD/GDVLH (Mercy) The Ruler, Majesty, Power
& Authority, Consolidator Of Things
Sphere 5:
GEBURAH...GBVRH (Severity/Judgment) The Warrior,
Sphere Of Mars, Strength, Justice, Physical Power
Sphere 6:
TIPERETH...TPhARTh (Beauty) The Sun, Harmony, Beauty,
Perfection, Unity, Creation
Sphere 7:
NEDZACH...NTzCh (Victory) The Lover, Venus, Art,
Creativity Inspiration & Erotic Spirituality
Sphere 8:
HOD...HVD (Splendour) The Intellect, Mercury,
Communication
Sphere 9:
YESOD..YSVD (Foundation) .The Moon, Vision & Deep
Memory, The Cycles In & Around Us, Illusion
Sphere10:
MALKUTH... MLKVTh (Kingdom) Physical Reality, Death,
Pain, Healing
Sphere11:
DAATH... The Abyss, Random Chaos Of Thought &
Conception
The Four Worlds:
Atziluth:
Representing the archetypal world, pure Divinity, and Yod of
the Hebrew Name of God.
It corresponds to the Suit of Wands in the Tarot.
Briah:
Representing the creative world, the Archangelic, and thee
in the Hebrew Name of God.
It corresponds to the Suit of Cups.
Yetzirah:
Represents the formative world, the Angelic, and Vau is the
Hebrew name of God.
It corresponds to the Suit of Swords.
Assiah:
Representing the material world, man, and the final He in
the Hebrew Name of God.
It corresponds to the Suit of Coins.
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“And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden;
and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And out of the ground made the LORD God to
grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and
good for food;
the tree of
life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree
of knowledge of good and evil.”
-- Genesis 2:8-9
The Tree of Life is representative of both of these
trees, and from the
Ha
Qabala is shown in several forms.
The simplest form is:
The above form, the traditional form, can be said to
have grown from the
Vesica Pisces, the
Seed of Life and the
Flower of Life -- see ka-gold's
excellent
Tree of Life article on this particular
aspect -- or check out some of their specific
manifestations at
Tree of Life jewelry.
Two other forms, which are more detailed with
information and symbolism, include:
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KETHER
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N
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Crown
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Out
of the limitless light crystallized the
primal point Kether.
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Perfect and self-sustaining, it remains in
eternity, the focus of a circle,
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whose center is everywhere and whose
circumference is nowhere.
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hhhhhhhhhhhhthe
Abysshhhhhhhhhhhhh
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BINAH
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CHOKMAH
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h
Uranus
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i
Neptune
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Understanding
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Wisdom
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With a roar of silence, the limitless energy
of Kether broke bonds and escaped into the
infinite void.
This incredible moment of pure
existence is symbolized by Chokmah; with the
boundless thrusting energy of Chokmah
confined, locked in a circle of its own
making.
An unconditioned force has died; but
in dying has given birth to the first idea
of form, a closed circle of energy, Binah.
Kether, the point, has become the
line (Force), and the circle (Form).
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DAATH
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e
Pluto
^
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Knowledge
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hhhhhhhhhhhhhthe
Veilhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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GEBURAH
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CHESED
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g
Saturn
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f
Jupiter
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Severity / Strength
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Mercy / Majesty
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TIPHARETH
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b
Sun
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Equilibrium
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As a
reflection of Kether, Chokmah and Binah --
pointing down -- the elements of duality,
Chesed and Geburah, conjoin and from their
union the new unity of Tiphareth is born.
There is one reality; all else are images
and reflections. By adding another dimension
to the first triangle, a circle has become a
sphere, with the polarities reversed. Chesed
carries the form, Geburah the dynamism and
Tiphareth, as equilibrium, the essence of
the next phase.
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NETZACH
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HOD
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^
Mars
e
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_
Venus
d
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Victory / Power
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Beauty / Glory
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YESOD
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II
Mercury
c
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Foundation
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The
process is repeated, the triangle pointing
down (still a reflection of
Kether-Chokmah-Binah). Netzach is the
dynamic partner, Hod represents the form,
Yesod, the product of their interaction.
From the harmony of Tiphareth came Netzach,
pure elemental force. Hod is the astral
form, while Yesod is the resultant condition
of the entire Tree of Life, and bears the
titles: the treasure, house of images,
and the machinery of the universe.
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MALKUTH
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Earth
a
Moon
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The
Kingdom
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Malkuth represents the physical world of
matter, the final stage in the descent into
matter, the lowest point on the great arc of
evolution. If Kether has within it the idea
of all created life, unfolded like the oak
in the acorn, then Malkuth represents life's
most complete expression. If Kether is the
alpha of the universe, then Malkuth is its
omega.
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FROM:
http://www.halexandria.org/dward001.htm
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DREAM - 10-4-05 - I was in a room
with two children -a boy and a girl - probably around 7
or 8 years old. I had a notebook and we were going to
list the tasks they planned to accomplish. They told me
what they planned and I wrote them down in order - #1,
#2, etc.
I wrote down #3 and the girl said, "I don't want to
be #3, I want to be #5"
I said, "They have to go in order and not skip
numbers."
Then my husband (or a companion) who was sitting
behind my right shoulder, said #10 is HOD, 11 is GEH,
and when he said the words, a symbol appeared on the
page in the appropriate line.
I asked, "What language is that? I don't know what
those words mean."
He said, "Qabalistic Magic!"
I argued, "You are not going to be teaching these
kids magical words. You know that if you speak certain
words, you draw certain beings to you that know you
understand what they are saying. I've had experiences
where beings have come to me and spoken to me for hours
because they know I know what they are saying. I'm not
going to have these kids experience that with strange
beings because they know Qabalistic magic words."
end of dream
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10-31-05 - VISION - I was given a thick manila
envelope with a lot of words on it and I could read except
the word HOD.
I think that's the third time I've dreamed that word.
Right before that I was dreaming about cleaning a huge
room with a broom. It was so dirty, I put down some water to
hold down the dust.
In one place the dust turned to purple/blue ink and it
was running the wrong way because the floor was slanted in
the wrong direction and the cats were in the way, playing
right where I wanted to sweep.
I then put down newspapers on the floor and pick up
the dampness from the water I had spread to catch the dust.
Some mothers and their daughters came in then and I
ran to pick up the newspapers and a mother said, "Don't pick
up the newspapers, they are perfect for us to sit on and
they all sat on the newspapers and brought in wedding gifts
for the bride and groom.
I went out into the back hall feeling very guilty for
doing such a bad job of cleaning.
Someone said to me, "You shouldn't judge yourself so
harshly. The best man to judge the job you are doing is the
man who had the job before you."
I looked up and a young, tall man in a beige colored
robe stood there before me.
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| I |
II |
III |
IV |
V |
VI |
VII |
VIII |
IX |
X |
| No |
Hebrew Letter |
English |
Pronunciation |
Definition |
Joining Sephiroth |
No Value |
Path |
Astrology |
Tarot Trump |
| 1 |
 |
A |
Aleph |
Ox |
Kether to Chokmah |
1 |
11 |
Air |
Fool |
| 2 |
 |
B,V |
Beth |
House |
Kether to Binah |
2 |
12 |
Mercury |
Magician |
| 3 |
 |
G, J |
Gimel |
Camel |
Kether to Tiphareth |
3 |
13 |
Luna |
High Priestess |
| 4 |
 |
D, Th |
Daleth |
Door |
Chokmah to Binah |
4 |
14 |
Venus |
Empress |
| 5 |
 |
H |
Heh |
Window |
Chokmah to Tiphareth |
5 |
15 |
Aries |
Emperor |
| 6 |
 |
V, O, U |
Vav |
Nail |
Chokmah to Chesed |
6 |
16 |
Taurus |
Hierophant |
| 7 |
 |
Z |
Zayin |
Sword |
Binah to Tiphareth |
7 |
17 |
Gemini |
The Lovers |
| 8 |
 |
Ch |
Cheth |
Fence |
Binah to Geburah |
8 |
18 |
Cancer |
Chariot |
| 9 |
 |
T |
Teth |
Serpent |
Chesed to Geburah |
9 |
19 |
Leo |
Strength |
| 10 |
 |
Y, I |
Yod |
Hand |
Chesed to Tiphareth |
10 |
20 |
Virgo |
Hermit |
| 11 |
 |
K, Ch |
Kaph |
Spoon |
Chesed to Netzach |
20 |
21 |
Jove |
Wheel of Fortune |
| 12 |
 |
L |
Lamed |
Whip |
Geburah to Tiphareth |
30 |
22 |
Libra |
Justice |
| 13 |
 |
M |
Mem |
Water |
Geburah to Hod |
40 |
23 |
Water |
Hanged Man |
| 14 |
 |
N |
Nun |
Fish |
Tiphareth to Netzach |
50 |
24 |
Scorpio |
Death |
| 15 |
 |
S |
Samekh |
Prop |
Tiphareth to Yesode |
60 |
25 |
Sagittarius |
Temperance |
| 16 |
 |
O-nasal |
Ain |
Eye |
Tiphareth to Hod |
70 |
26 |
Capricorn |
The Devil |
| 17 |
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P, F |
Peh |
Mouth |
Netzach to Hod |
80 |
27 |
Mars |
The Tower |
| 18 |
 |
Tz |
Tzaddi |
Fish Hook |
Netzach to Hod |
90 |
28 |
Aquarius |
The Star |
| 19 |
 |
Q |
Qoph |
Back of Head |
Netzach to Malkuth |
100 |
29 |
Pisces |
Moon |
| 20 |
 |
R |
Resh |
Head |
Hod to Yesode |
200 |
30 |
Sol |
Sun |
| 21 |
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Sh, S |
Shin |
Tooth |
Hod to Malkuth |
300 |
31 |
Fire |
Judgment |
| 32 |
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T, S ** |
Tau |
Tau Cross |
Malkuth to Yesode |
400 |
32 |
Saturn |
World |
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*More often it means
"palm of the hand." |
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** In the Askenazic
dialect
Tau
can be pronounced as "s";. In the more common
Sephardic dialect
Tau
is pronounced as "t" or "th" |
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| The Sepher Yetzirah tells us that the
universe was Created when Divinity arranged the 22 Hebrew
letters in a particular order. Indeed, we are told in a
Jewish folk-tale of the letters themselves, each begging
Yahweh to be the one that the Creation would happen through
(the winner was, of course, Beth [B]....hence the first word
of Genesis "Berashith"). We can see what all of this means
when we look at the Hebrew Alphabet through a mystic's eyes.
Each of the 22 letters is assigned to an elemental or
astrological component of the universe. The energies of the
12 signs of the zodiac, the 7 planets, and the 3 elements
(remember that Earth is not a literal element) all compose
the very fabric of existance. Further, each letter is also
attributed to a Tarot Trump, and all of the deep mystical
ideals contained therein. Genesis I contains ten instances
of "Elohim Said..."; these are the ten Sephiroth of the Tree
of Life. However, these ten vessels of Divine Power would be
useless without the 22 paths, each with a Letter attributed
to it, that connect them and allow the Energy to flow. The
paths, by the way, is exactly what the Sepher Yetzirah is
refering to when it speaks of the arrangement of the
Letters. So, what does this mean for you and I? It means
that those 22 Letters govern every aspect of our lives. If
we could somehow divine how the Letters are arranged for us
at any given time, then we could learn much about our lives
and how to live them. We could ensure ourselves that we are
traveling with the flow of Divine Energy, and not fighting
the current. This, as you probably have heard, is the one
cause of all pain in life. Pain vanishess once you learn to
"go with the flow", and the true Adept has learned how to
navigate along that flow. You have certainly heard of one
system that uses this idea: Astrology. All but three of the
Hebrew letters are assigned to Zodiacal or Planetary forces.
A great knowledge of Astrology is not necessary to use the
system presented here, but you will need to know the basic
correspondences between the letter and the Astrological
Force it represents. However, it should be known that the
more you understand Astrology, the better you will be able
to use what I am going to be teaching you in this booklet.
Likewise the Tarot is another way of divining the
arrangement of the Letters. The Golden Dawn Tarot Deck
features the Hebrew Letters printed on each card for easy
reference. You will need to know the basic correspondences
of the Tarot to the Hebrew Letters to use this system. These
attributions will be listed in the Appendix of this booklet.
This system will allow you to receive direct Divine messages
pertaining to the afore mentioned Flow. It will show you how
the 22 letters are arranged in accordance with any object,
idea, or situation, and then allow you to begin navigating
that Flow.
Have you ever wondered why so many Angelic Names end in
"el" (Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel, etc)? It is because
of what the word "El" means. First, it is a Hebrew word for
"Divinity" (or God). Therefore, Gabriel is the "Strength of
Divinity" (Gebur + El = Gabriel). This name does not imply
that Gabriel is separate from Divinity Itself. Instead, He
actually embodies the Strength of Divinity. Further, there
is also another reason. It involves exactly what the letters
E and L mean. E (or A, it is the Hebrew Aleph) relates
Power, as well as Benevolence. L (the Hebrew Lamed) means an
extension, as well as a Guide. Therefore, El is appended to
Angelic Names because Angels themselves are an extension of
Divine Power.
Excerpted from:
http://ladyoftheearth.com/divination/angelic.txt
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The word Qabbalah finds its root in the Hebrew
word Qibel meaning 'to receive by oral tradition'.
Qabbalah refers to an oral tradition of esoteric or
secret knowledge concerning 'essentially' the mysteries of
Nature, and more overtly, the hidden teachings concerning
the Hebrew Torah. The Torah is, of course, the first five
books of what Christians call the Old Testament, and the
oldest surviving of the Judaic liturgical texts.
The Kabala is an ancient Hebrew mystical system of
thought. It is a symbolic representation of the path the
Divine followed in the creation of the universe, including
man. It is, by definition, humanity's process of returning
to divinity along the same path.
Kabbala, also spelled KABALA, KABBALAH, CABALA, CABBALA,
OR CABBALAH, is an esoteric Jewish mysticism as it appeared
in the 12th and following centuries. Kabbala has always been
essentially an oral tradition in that initiation into its
doctrines and practices is conducted by a personal guide to
avoid the dangers inherent in mystical experiences.
Esoteric Kabbala is also "tradition" inasmuch as it lays
claim to secret knowledge of the unwritten Torah (divine
revelation) that was communicated by God to Moses and Adam.
Though observance of the Law of Moses remained the basic
tenet of Judaism, Kabbala provided a means of approaching
God directly.
It thus gave Judaism a religious dimension whose mystical
approaches to God were viewed by some as dangerously
pantheistic and heretical.
The earliest roots of Kabbala are traced to Merkava
mysticism. It began to flourish in Palestine in the 1st
century AD and had as its main concern ecstatic and mystical
contemplation of the divine throne, or "chariot" (merkava),
seen in a vision by Ezekiel, the prophet (Ezekiel 1).
The earliest known Jewish text on magic and cosmology,
Sefer Yetzira ("Book of Creation"), appeared sometime
between the 3rd and the 6th century. It explained creation
as a process involving the 10 divine numbers (sefirot; see
sefira) of God the Creator and the 22 letters of the Hebrew
alphabet.
Taken together, they were said to constitute the "32
paths of secret wisdom."
A major text of early Kabbala was the 12th-century Sefer
ha-bahir ("Book of Brightness"), whose influence on the
development of Jewish esoteric mysticism and on Judaism in
general was profound and lasting.
The Bahir not only interpreted the sefirot as
instrumental in creating and sustaining the universe but
also introduced into Judaism such notions as the
transmigration of souls (gilgul) and strengthened the
foundations of Kabbala by providing it with an extensive
mystical symbolism.
FROM:
http://www.crystalinks.com/kabala.html
| SEPHIRA |
HOD (Splendor) |
| GOD FORCE |
EL-OH-HEEM TZ' VAH-OHT (God of hosts ruling the
universe in wisdom and harmony) |
| ANGELIC ORDER |
BENEY ELOHEEM (Children of God) |
| ARCHANGEL |
MICHAEL (Protector of God) |
| SOUL |
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Hod is the sphere of the solar level of consciousness. It is
the realm of ideas and communication, of magic, contracts,
and travel. The idea of reality creating has its basis in
this sphere and of the skill to manifest and unmanifest
things at will.
Modern science stems from the energy in this
level, as it is the solar level of consciousness that tries
to quantify the universe and everything around it.
Hod is a good place to meet with the
Archangel Michael. Michael is a being to call upon when you
need protection or are in some kind of danger. As such Hod
is a place to go for protection from the things that are
unseen and things that are beyond your own ability to defend
against.
The energy of this sphere is well suited for
acquiring knowledge and wisdom of any scientific or of a
concrete physical-like nature. But more so, this sphere is
the place to go to find or touch God within these physical
constructs. The Beney Eloheem's primary responsibility is
the transmission of knowledge to unite man with God. So
here, for example, you not only acquire knowledge but also
about how that knowledge touches the universe.
Because the energy of Hod is skewed toward
the application of knowledge through divine means, Hod is a
great place to uncover deception and to find the truth of
things. The light of God here is powerful enough to
illuminate all falsehoods. Visit here when you feel someone
is being untruthful and you want to discover the true nature
of these things. Then use this knowledge to help you but not
as a weapon to be used against another.
The pitfall here in Hod is the use of truth
and of knowledge as a weapon against others or in some kind
of game to gain superiority over another. You do not always
have to be correct. And the real truth is that the more
knowledge you acquire the more humble you must become. So if
you find yourself falling into the trap of using knowledge
against others, visit the sphere of
Yesod
where knowledge is secondary to the powerful unknown forces
that shape existence through mysterious ways.
If used correctly Hod can be a great place
to acquire the energy of discovery. Knowledge will seek out
knowledge and open more and more doorways for you, if you
just give it the time. This action will also keep you safe
and protected from the often double-edge nature of knowledge
that is acquired by force or too quickly.
FROM:
http://www.wisdomsdoor.com/tol/hod.shtml
RAPHAEL: The Divine Physician. Raphael is also the
Archangel of Air. He is lord of the Beney Elohim. One of the
Seven.Archangels.
Who are the Beney Elohim?
The Old Testament references to "sons of God." This
phrase is translated from the Hebrew beney 'elohim
[ בני אלהים ], beney ha'elohim [ בני האלהים ],
and beney 'elim [ בני אלים ]:
GENESIS 6:1 When men began
to increase on earth and daughters were born to them, 2
the divine beings [beney ha'elohim] saw
how beautiful the daughters of men were and took wives
from among those that pleased them. 3 The Lord said, "My
breath shall not abide in man forever, since he too is
flesh; let the days allowed him be one hundred and
twenty years." 4 It was then, and later too, that the
Nephilim appeared on earth when the divine beings
[beney ha'elohim] cohabited with the daughters of
men, who bore them offspring. They were the heroes of
old, the men of renown. (Tanakh,
the new Jewish Publication Society translation according
to the traditional Hebrew text)
DEUTERONOMY 32:8
When the Most High gave to the nations their
inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he fixed
the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the
sons of God [beney
'elohim]. (RSV)
JOB 1:6 Now there
was a day when the sons of God [beney
ha'elohim] came to present themselves before
the Lord and Satan also came among them. (NKJV)
JOB 2:1 Again there
was a day when the sons of God [beney
ha'elohim] came to present themselves before
the Lord and Satan came also among them to present
himself before the Lord. (NKJV)
JOB 38:4 "Where were
you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me,
if you have understanding. 5 Who determined its
measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line
upon it? 6 To what were its foundations fastened? Or who
laid its cornerstone, 7 when the morning stars sang
together, and all the sons of God [beney
'elohim] shouted for joy? (NKJV)
PSALM 29:1 O give the Lord
you sons of God [beney
'elim], give the Lord glory and power; 2 give
the Lord the glory of his name. Adore the Lord in his
holy court. (The Psalms: A New Translation)
PSALM 89:5 The
heavens proclaim your wonders, O Lord; the assembly of
your holy ones proclaims your truth. 6 For who in the
skies can compare with the Lord or who is like the
Lord among the sons of God [beney
'elim]? (The Psalms: A
New Translation)
As you can see, each reference above is to
angels. There are no instances in the Old Testament where
the phrase "sons of God" refers to men. Let's see what E.W.
Bullinger has to say about these "sons of God" in Appendix
23 to The Companion Bible:
"The Sons of God" in Gen.
6.2, 4.
It is only by the Divine
specific act of creation that any created being can be
called "a son of God." For that which is "born of the
flesh is flesh." God is spirit and that which is "born
of the Spirit is spirit" (John 3.6). Hence Adam is
called a "son of God" in Luke 3.38. Those "in Christ"
having the "new nature" which is by the direct creation
of God (2 Cor. 5.17; Eph. 2.10) can be, and are called
"sons of God" (John 1.13; Rom. 8.14, 15; 1 John 3.1).
This is why angels are
called "sons of God" in every other place where the
expression is used in the Old Testament. Job 1.6; 2.1;
38.7; Ps. 29.1; 89.6; Dan. 3.25 (no art.). We have no
authority or right to take the expression in Gen. 6.4 in
any other sense. Moreover in Gen. 6.2 the Sept. renders
it "angels". (pp. 26, 27, Companion
Bible Appendixes)
Now let's look at Genesis 6:9, which
discusses Noah's genealogy. This Scripture is further proof
that fallen angels had interbred with humans.
GENESIS 6:9 This is
the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect
[tamim] in his
generations. Noah walked with God. (NKJV)
In Genesis 6:9, the Hebrew word tamim, here
translated "perfect," means "physically without blemish." As
the first sentence makes clear, it's referring to the
genealogy of Noah; it does not refer to moral perfection.
Below is what Appendix 26 of The Companion Bible has
to say about this word as used in verse 9 of Genesis 6:
The Heb. word tamim
means without blemish, and is the technical word
for bodily and physical perfection, and, not moral.
Hence it is used of animals of sacrificial purity
. It is rendered without blemish in Ex. 12.5; 29.1; Lev.
1.3, 10; 3.1, 6; 4.3, 23, 28, 32; 5.12, 18; 6.6; 9.2, 3;
14.10; 22.19; 23.12, 18; Num. 6.14; 28.19, 31; 29.2, 8,
13, 20, 23, 29, 32, 36; Ezek. 43.22, 23, 25; 45.18, 23;
46.4, 6, 13.
Without spot: Num. 19.2;
28.3, 9, 11; 29.17, 26.
Undefiled: Ps. 119.1.
This shows that
Gen. 6.9 does not speak of Noah's moral perfection . . .
(p. 28, Companion Bible Appendixes)
Now let's examine what Jude said about
the fallen angels in the New Testament:
JUDE 6 And the
angels which kept not their first estate, but left their
own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains
under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in
like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and
going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (KJV)
Because of the punctuation of verse 7, this Scripture
appears to say that Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as the
cities around them, gave themselves over to sexual
immorality. However, the underlying Greek text does not
support this interpretation. Kenneth Wuest writes of verse
7:
This verse begins with
hos, an adverb of comparison having meanings of "in
the same manner as, after the fashion of, as, just as."
Here it introduces a comparison showing a likeness
between the angels of verse 6 and the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrha of this verse. But the likeness between
them lies deeper than the fact that both were guilty of
committing sin. It extends to the fact that both were
guilty of the same identical sin. The punctuation of the
A.V. [KJV] is misleading, as an examination of
Greek text discloses.
The A.V.
punctuation gives the reader the impression that Sodom
and Gomorrha committed fornication and that the cities
about them committed fornication in like manner to the
two cities named. . . . The words "in like manner" are
related to the verbal forms, "giving themselves over to
fornication" and "going after strange flesh." In
addition to all this, the Greek text has toutois,
"to these." Thus, the translation should read, "just as
Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them, in like
manner to these, having given themselves over to
fornication and having gone after strange flesh." The
sense of the entire passage (vv.6, 7) is that the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them, in like
manner to these (the angels), have given themselves over
to fornication and have gone after strange flesh. That
means that the sin of the fallen angels was fornication.
(pp. 241-242, vol. II, Word Studies
in the Greek New Testament)
The underlying Greek text indicates that
the fallen angels left their own domain and indulged in
sexual immorality, going after "strange," or "other" flesh.
The KJV obscures this fact, probably because
the view that the fallen angels were "the sons of God"
spoken of in Genesis 6:2, 4 was not accepted when it was
translated in 1611. However, some translations do more
clearly show the meaning of this passage. The New
English Bible better presents what Jude was saying:
JUDE 6 Remember too
the angels, how some of them were not content to keep
the dominion given to them but abandoned their proper
home; and God has reserved them for judgement on the
great Day, bound beneath the darkness in everlasting
chains. 7 Remember Sodom and Gomorrah and the
neighbouring towns; like
the angels, they committed fornication and followed
unnatural lusts; and
they paid the penalty in eternal fire, an example for
all to see. (NEB)
It's clear that Jude wrote of the
fornication of the angels as a fact. In verse 7 of his
epistle, he compares the sexual wickedness in Sodom,
Gomorrah, and the surrounding cities to the sin of the
angels.
The nature of the angels' fall is also
clearly stated in Jude 6, where it is said that they left
their own "abode" (Gr. oiketerion). This word
occurs in the New Testament only here and in II Corinthians
5:2, where it is used of the spiritual body of a resurrected
saint.
II CORINTHIANS 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is
destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we
groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our
habitation [oiketerion]
which is from heaven, (NKJV)
There is a great deal revealed in the
Bible about angels. Angels could and did assume human form
and even eat men's food (Gen. 18-19). Although the Bible
doesn't tell us how, Jude 6 shows that some angels left
their proper abode (their spiritual bodies) and took on
fleshly bodies so as to marry and produce offspring by the
daughters of men.
Although the angels committed sexual sins
and corrupted the human lineage to some extent, they did
something else that threatened to foil God's plan for
humanity. Let's go back to 1 Enoch to see what these fallen
angels did that affected the human race enormously:
1 ENOCH 8:1 And Azazel
taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and
breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the
earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and
ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying
of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all
2 colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness,
and they committed fornication, and they 3 were led
astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza
taught enchantments, and root- cuttings, Armaros the
resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) astrology,
Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the
clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the
signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And
as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to
heaven . . . (From The Apocrypha and
Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, translated
by R.H. Charles)
As the text above shows, the angels
brought with them knowledge which humanity did not have
beforehand. This information led to a rapid advance in the
knowledge base of the antediluvian society, including the
invention of advanced methods of waging warfare. In the
NKJV translation of Genesis 6:4, the
nephilim are called "mighty men who were of old, men
of renown;" however, the NRSV translates that
same phrase as "heroes that were of old, warriors of
renown."
Genesis 6:11 shows that the earth was
filled with violence; this is very likely the direct result
of the nephilim, who apparently were mighty
warriors. If the ancient legends are indeed based in fact,
as they appear to be, these angelic offspring were
superhuman in size and great in strength. There is also an
indication from the ancient text known as the Book of
Jasher that this corruption of bloodlines extended
to the animals also.
JASHER 4:18 And their
judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took
their wives by force from their husbands according to
their choice, and the sons of men in those days took
from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field
and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of
animals of one species with the other, in order
therewith to provoke the Lord; and God saw the whole
earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted
its ways upon earth, all men and all animals. 19 And
the Lord said, I will blot out man that I created from
the face of the earth, yea from man to the birds of the
air, together with cattle and beasts that are in the
field . . .(From The Book of Jasher,
published by J.H. Parry & Company, 1887)
The Book of Jasher is
mentioned twice in the Bible (Jos. 10:13; II Sam. 1:18).
While it's evident the copy of this book that has survived
to our time has been corrupted to some extent, the
Scriptures seem to confirm the information contained in this
section of Jasher:
GENESIS 6:7 So the
LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from
the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping
thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have
made them." (NKJV)
It appears likely that the objectives of
the Flood were the destruction of the polluted human and
animal bloodlines and the eradication of the forbidden
knowledge that humanity had learned from the fallen host.
There is one other New Testament passage
which hints at the sin of the angels before the flood. It is
an enigmatic scripture found in Paul's first letter to the
Corinthian church.
I CORINTHIANS 11:7
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he
is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of
man. 8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man. 9
Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the
man. 10 For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol
of authority on her head, because of the angels.
(NKJV)
In I Corinthians 11, Paul states the
position of women in relation to men and says that the
symbol of authority on a woman's head is needed "because of
the angels." Without an understanding of what took place
anciently between the fallen host and women, this verse is
cryptic at best.
There is opposition to the view that the
fallen angels are the "sons of God" referred to in Genesis
6. Some cite Matthew 22:29-30 and Mark 12:24-25 as
objections, saying that these Scriptures clearly teach that
angels do not marry.
MATTHEW 22:29 Jesus
answered and said to them [the
Sadducees], "You are mistaken, not knowing the
Scriptures nor the power of God. 30 For in the
resurrection they neither marry nor are given in
marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven."
(NKJV)
MARK 12:24 Jesus
answered and said to them, "Are you not therefore
mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the
power of God? 25 For when they rise from the dead, they
neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like
angels in heaven." (NKJV)
First, these verses do not state whether
angels can marry or procreate. Here Christ was referring
only to the way things will be after the first resurrection
of the dead. Additionally, the angels in heaven who did not
sin are the example cited, not the angels confined to
Tartarus because they sinned by marrying humans and
producing offspring. To get a better perspective of what
Christ was saying, let's look at the parallel account of
this conversation in Luke's Gospel.
LUKE 20:34 And Jesus
answered and said to them, "The sons of this age marry
and are given in marriage. 35 But those who are counted
worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the
dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; 36 nor
can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels
and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection."
(NKJV)
Christ's primary purpose in his answer was
to affirm the reality of the resurrection to these
questioning Sadducees, who did not believe that there would
be a resurrection. As you can clearly see from Luke's
account of this confrontation, Christ is making two points
about the age to come: (1) Resurrected humans will not
marry, and (2) resurrected humans will be given eternal
life, which the holy angels now have. Interpreting these
Scriptures to mean that angels have never been able to marry
or procreate reads more into them than was intended by
Jesus.
Some also object by saying that Genesis
6:4 shows that there were nephilim on the
earth before "the sons of God" came in to "the
daughters of men" and also afterward; therefore, these
giants cannot be the offspring of this union. Does the
phrase "in those days, and also afterward" mean that the
nephilim were present before the the sons of God
cohabited with the daughters of men?
"In those days" plainly means the time
after the "sons of God" had come down to earth; the fact
that they had taken wives is disclosed in Genesis 6:2. In
time sequence, chapter six of Genesis should follow chapter
four; the fifth chapter is an inset into the story flow.
"Afterward" specifies after the flood, when we see another
instance of giants appearing, this time in the land of
Canaan which the Israelites were to inherit (Num. 13:33).
Satan once again tried to thwart God's plan by using these
savage hybrids to occupy the land of Canaan and keep
Abraham's offspring out. Obviously none of the
nephilim survived the Flood.
These giants are often mentioned in the
early books of the Old Testament until the last of them were
finally killed off. The word nephilim only
appears twice in the Old Testament (Gen 6:4; Num. 13:33),
but these giants are also referred to as gibbor
(Gen 6:4; Num. 13:33; Job 16:14) and rephaim
when they reappear in a more limited fashion after the flood
(Gen. 14:5; 15:20; Deu. 2:11, 20; 3:11, 13; Jos. 12:4;
13:12; 15:8; 17:15; 18:16; II Sam. 5:18, 22; 21:16, 18, 20,
22; 23:13; I Chr. 11:15; 14:9; 20:4, 6, 8; Isa. 17:5;
26:14). They were known by the proper names of Rephaim,
Emim, Anakim, and Zamzummim.
CONCLUSION
As shown above, the evidence that "the
sons of God" mentioned in Genesis 6 are fallen angels is
substantial. By their sexual immorality, these angels
produced offspring which were strong and violent. The
concept of a race of giants which resulted from the union of
gods and humans is virtually universal in the world's early
civilizations.
The original intent of the angels may have
only been to satisfy their forbidden lust. Yet the knowledge
they brought with them and taught mankind caused society to
develop at a more rapid technological pace than God had
intended. This societal development was not positive, and it
gave rise to a very violent society, one in which the
nephilim apparently played a large role. God was
forced to restrain in the Abyss the wicked angels that
produced the nephilim, and cleanse the earth
of them and the violence they brought with the great Flood.
Bryan T. Huie
December 26, 1996
Updated: February 10, 2002
FROM:
http://users.aristotle.net/~bhuie/gen6sons.htm
Bene Elohim - Also bene Elim, a group of angels who
belong to the order or choir of thrones. Meaning "sons of
God," the bene Elohim are considered a part or division of
the thrones, receiving the duty of forever singing the
ineffable praise of God. As the sons of God, they are
sometimes counted as the beings mentioned in the Book of
Genesis (6:2) who save the daughters of men "and took to
wife such of them as they chose." The result of this union
were the giants, the anakim, "the mighty men that were of
old, the men of renown." The bene Elohim are also thought to
be the angels called the ischim.
"...The geologist Christian O'Brien
argued that these [ancient Hebrew and Sumerian] texts
describe a race of beings called Shining Ones - his
translation of the Hebrew word Elohim. These beings created
modern humans from earlier human forms by genetic
manipulation. Some of these beings, called Watchers,
mated with humans, and this was considered a crime by the
Shining Ones. One of the Watchers was named Shemjaza, and
Yahweh was one of the Shining Ones. O'Brien argued that the
Shining Ones were superior but mortal beings of unknown
origin."
- Richard L. Thompson,
Alien Identities -
Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Phenomena
"When the gods created Mankind
Death for Mankind they allotted,
Life they retained in their own keeping."
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
Also see:
http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/elohim.html
The "Council of the Gods" in
Ancient Literature and the Book
of Abraham
by Kerry A. Shirts
Chapters 3 and 4 of the Book of Abraham contain an
account of the "Council of the Gods", including their
discussion of the creation, the premortal existence, and the
war in heaven. While this theme is neither fully developed
nor coherent in the Bible or any other literature available
in Joseph Smith's day, "since Cumorah" a great deal of
scholarship has once again unearthed the ancient concept of
the Council of the Gods. And as it turns out, Joseph Smith's
Book of Abraham gives quite a fair accounting of the
information scholars only began to find fully half a century
after its publication. In this essay we will examine some of
the information the scholars have uncovered about this
important pre-mortal event.
R.H. Charles shows that the "Bereshith rabba" teaches
"God takes counsel with the souls of the righteous before he
creates the earth."1 According to the "Sefer Haparshiyot,"
and the "Midrash Kee Tov," Adam, Noah, Abraham, Enoch and
Moses were among the righteous in attendance. These souls in
the Council of the Gods were said to be "with God before the
creation of the world,"2 and they "were consulted with and
did consult God on many vital matters, and especially on the
matter of Creation."3 The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
distinguishes between righteous and common souls:
"The storehouses in which the fore-ordained number of
souls is kept shall be opened, and the souls shall go forth,
and the many souls shall appear all at once, as a host with
one mind. And the first shall rejoice, and the last shall
not be sad."4
Further, the "Midrash Tanhuma Pekude" tells of some
spirits who "kept their first estate" and therefore they
were "added upon", that is, they entered into another world
which "is more beautiful than this."5
Julian Morgenstern has discussed the "Council of the
gods" at great length using Old Testament scriptures in
light of recent discoveries. Other scholars also elaborated
on this theme so that now we have a rather complete
description of the Council in Heaven. Morgenstern begins by
demonstrating that the Hebrew "elohim" cannot mean judges or
foreign rulers because the context of the entire Psalm 82
requires the word "gods" to mean "divine beings."6 These are
"...divine beings of a certain class who were actually
condemned by Yawheh to die, or at least to become mortal,
like human beings."7
It is interesting in light of this that the "Council of
the gods" has a judicial function. The technical term "to
stand" (i.e. participate as a member), in the court is used
both in Accadian - "uzuzzu" and in Hebrew - "ha'omedim" in
Zechariah 3:3, which compares well with "'omed" in 1 Kings
22:19.8 The "Puhrum" - "assembly" of the gods was open to
goddesses also. In the Gilgamesh Epic, "Ishtar reproaches
herself for having advocated the flood in the assembly of
the gods. We read that "In their (i.e. the gods) assembly
her word is highly esteemed, is surpassing; she sits among
them counting as much (with them) as Anum, their king. She
is wise in intelligence, profundity, and knowledge."9
Professor Van Der Woude has noted the idea that the "Sons of
Light" are saved from the "Sons of Darkness" in this
"Council" and specifically, the heavenly host helps
Melchisedek "fight against Belial and his angels." This is
the famous war in heaven theme, also found in the Dead Sea
Scrolls.10 This "council" is understood by Morgenstern to be
the assembly of El, that is, those who helped El against his
father, were the elohim. The "'adat El" was originally the
"Council of El", though later it was also acknowledged as
the "Council of Yahweh" which indicates "the mythological
background of the expression and its North-Semitic
origin..."11.
The idea of a council of divine beings, even the very
"Sons of God" - (bene Elohim) was an uncomfortable one for
the ancient Jews after the Babylonian captivity. It reflects
a polytheism which was later shunned, and even stamped out
with changes in the scripture to erase any lingering traces,
though these were not all successfully destroyed.
Morganstern shows how the post-exilic Jews tried to downplay
the fact that "Elohim" is a plural form by contending weakly
that Psalms 29:1 and 89:7, where we read of the "Bene elim"
are actually "an artificial double plural formation of a
singular 'ben 'el.' Morgenstern asserts that this
reconstruction was perpetrated by the post-exilic Jews "to
reduce as much as possible the extreme polytheism of the
original 'bene 'el.' 'Bar elohim' of Dan. 3:25 would then be
a late singular formation from an Aramaic plural, 'bere
elohim,' equivilant to the Hebrew 'bene elohim.'"12 This has
recently been confirmed in a striking way via Textual
Criticism.
Emanuel Tov has noted that the Song of Moses (Deuteronomy
32:8) "referred to an assembly of the gods (cf. Ps. 82:1; 1
Kings 22:19), in which 'the Most High, 'Elyon,' fixed the
boundaries of peoples according to the number of the sons of
the God El." He goes on to admit "...the scribe of an early
text... did not feel at ease with this possibly polytheistic
picture and replaced "Bene El," (sons of El), with "Bene
Yisrael", "The sons of Israel," thus giving the text a
different direction by the change of one word... A similar
change may be reflected in all textual witnesses of Ps.
96:7: 'Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength,' when compared with
the presumably original (polytheistic) text of Ps. 29:1,
'Ascribe to the Lord, O divine beings,
(Bene Elohim), ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.'
Psalm 29, which also in other details reflects situations
and phrases known from Ugaritic texts, does, in this detail,
provide a polytheistic picture of the assembly of gods."13
P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., shows the rendering of "sons of
God" in Deut. 32:8 has the support of the Septuagint [the
Greek Old Testament also rendered LXX] and other versions.
"The original can be taken to mean that Yahweh was one of
the sons of God to whom Elyon parceled out peoples. The
alteration of "h'lhym" (or perhaps 'l or 'lym) to "ysr'l"
suppressed this interpretation."14 The LXX reads:
"When the Most High divided the nations, when he
separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations
according to the number of the angels of God."15
Ronald S. Hendel simply said, "...somewhere along the
line in the transmission of the standard rabbinic Bible
someone felt the need to clean up the text by literally
rewriting it and substituting "sons of Israel" for the
original "Sons of God" in Deuteronomy 32:8." These "Sons of
God" are "indeed divine beings."16 Gerhard Von Rad notes
that "Creation is part of the aetiology of Israel!" And he
further notes that "Another rooting of Israel in the plans
of Jahweh for the world is to be seen in Deut. 32:8: 'When
the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he
separated the sons of men, he fixed the bounds of the
peoples according to the number of the 'Elohim beings'; but
Jahweh's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted
heritage."17 William F. Albright believed that this verse
should be read in conjunction with Job 38:7 - "When the
morning stars rejoiced together And all the sons of God
shouted with joy." Why? "Because there are many passages in
the Old Testament where the stars serve as a simile for
'multitude'; specific references to 'counting' the stars are
found at Genesis 15:5 [dealing with Abraham] and Psalms
147:4." Hence the idea here being that "according to the
stars," meaning "God created and assigned abodes to a
multitude of different nations, but of them all he chose
Israel as his special charge."18 We'll return to this
thought when we deal with the Book of Mormon. For now it is
interesting that Mitchell Dahood says Psalm 147:4 means "To
each star Yahweh gives a number and a name...He who brings
forth their host by number, he calls them all by name."19
The ancient idea of the "Council of the gods" meets us in
the Sumerian and Akkadian religions, as well. Psalm 29
"...is a Yahwistic adaptation of an older Canaanite hymn to
the storm-god Ball..."20 Since the early 1900's we have
known that "The Sumerians and Akkadians pictured their gods
as human in form, governed by human emotions, and living in
the same type of world as did men. In almost every
particular the world of the gods is therefore a projection
of terrestrial conditions...Thus in the domain of the gods
we have a reflection of older forms, of the terrestrial
Mesoptamian state as it was in pre-historic times. The
assembly which we find in the world of the gods rested on a
broad democratic basis..."21
Professor Cross agrees that in Israelite poetry, the
language we have cited as indicative of the assembly of gods
"is generally applied to the host of secondary supernatural
beings who surround Yahweh, and prostrate themselves before
him."22 We are fairly sure that "the early poets of Israel
were heavily influenced by the poetic imagery and modes of
expression of the peoples with whom they came in contact."23
The assembly of gods were rather frequently assembled at
the "Ubshuukkinna," that is, a large court, where they met
friends and relatives who had come from afar to participate
in the assembly as important business was to be transacted,
usually beginning with an embrace as a welcome into the
company of the gods.24 The leadership of the gods was
usually headed by the head god of the gods, who began the
discussion which was "largely in the hands of the so-called
'ilu rabiutum', the 'great gods,' or better yet, the 'senior
gods.'"25 This is strikingly similar to Joseph Smith's
translation of Genesis 1:1 - "The head one of the Gods,
brought forth the Gods."26 Joseph Smith's translation of the
Hebrew word "Bereshiyth" according to the Hebrew Dictionary
in Strong's Concordance means "the first, in place, time,
order or rank - beginning, chief, first (fruits, part,
time), principal thing."27 Joseph Smith's translation would
come from "re' shiyth / bara' / 'elohiym / 'eth / hashamayim
/ v'eth / ha'arts," meaning - "The Head one of the Gods
organized the heaven and the earth."28 Gesenius' Lexicon
notes that the "beth" "refers to a multitude, in the midst
of...among in." The lexicon shows that it can mean "among"
as in "among the nations" (2 Ki. 18:5) It can also mean
"before, in the presence of..."29
When the discussion began, we are told, "the intrinsic
merit of a proposal" was given due process and
consideration, with "wise council" and a "testifying of
intelligence." The gods were constantly "asking one
another," all manner of things in the discussions eventually
with the result that "issues were clarified and the gods had
opportunity to voice their opinions for or against, at times
espousing proposals they later bitterly regretted."30 This
is precisely what we find in the Book of Abraham Chapter 3.
"These two facts exist, that there are two spirits, one
being more intelligent than the other; there shall be
another more intelligent than they...I am more intelligent
than they all." The Gods then make proposals, "We will go
down for there is space there, and we will take of these
materials, and we will make an earth whereon these may
dwell... Whom shall I send? And one answered...Here am I,
send me. And another answered and said: Here am I, send me.
And the Lord said: I will send the first. And the second was
angry and kept not his first estate..." (Abr. 3:19, 24, 27,
28, etc.,).
As we have seen "the function of this divine assembly
were in part those of a court of law," and "the assembly is
the authority which grants kingship."31 It is the same
picture we find in the Book of Abraham, Ch. 3! Once the head
god is chosen to carry out a particular function (Abr.
3:27!) that god is clothed in a garment and having been
armed, then carries out the battle against the gods who
disagreed with him (Abr. 3:28!) Thus, in the war in heaven
the righteous hosts "fight against Belial and his angels."32
We know this is the case because at Job 1:6-12 and 2:1-7 we
find Yahweh assembled with his heavenly host, designated as
the "Bene Elohim", literally "the sons of God", and "One
among their number, although one obviously discharging a
particular and constant function, is hasatan."33 Namely,
"the adversary" or "the accuser" taking on a "role of fixed
hostility to mankind."34 Morgenstern notes that the
important thing in this picture, is not so much Satan as
Yahweh, "the graphic picture of Yahweh, seated upon his
throne, surrounded by His heavenly host, the 'bene elohim,'
divine beings of rank inferior to Yahweh Himself, his
personal attendants and ministers of his Will and purpose,
gathered together as the ''adat 'el' to pronounce
judgment."35
I cannot find a better description of the Book of Abraham
picture, but Morgenstern is using a composite picture of Old
Testament and Ugaritic, Sumerian, and Akkadian lore to come
up with this scenario! "The picture here is identical with
that in Isaiah 6:; 1 Ki. 22:19-23 and Zecheriah 3," which
"unhesitatingly designates Yahweh's heavenly attendants as
'elohim', 'gods' obviously identical with 'bene ha'elohim'
of Job 1:6 and 2:1." The tie in with Mormonism is more
obvious when we see Satan was cast out of heaven, along with
his followers, "but only some, and these impliedly only a
small group, of the great hosts of angels. The rest, it says
explicitly, restrained themselves."36 Mormons recognize that
only 1/3 of the hosts of heaven rebelled. Satan's sin? "Give
me thy glory!" Or as Morgenstern puts it, "And one from out
the order of angels, having turned away with the order that
was under him, conceived an impossible thought, to place his
throne higher than the clouds above the earth, that he might
become equal in rank to my power." And make no mistake about
it, Satan was one of the "Sarim", that is the leaders, the
head prince of his group.37
More to the point, we now know who the "we" are in
Genesis 1:26, who were involved with the creation! "This
would seem to be a brief fragment of the creation tradition
basic to Genesis 1, in its oldest, pre-literary form, as it
must have been current in Israel for some time prior to the
composition of Pg about 400 B.C. According to this tradition
Yahweh took counsel with his Heavenly host with regard to
the creation [Cf. BofAbr. "we will go down for there is
space there..."!] of man."38 Interestingly, in today's Torah
commentary we read from the editor that the statement in
Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man..." "is spoken to an angelic
court"!39
Astonishingly, we find that Yahweh assigns mortality to
the "bene elohim"! The word "temutun" means "ye shall become
mortal."40 And it is to the "bene elohim" that Yahweh is
telling this to, since "...it means that they must forfeit
completely their original, divine nature, and with it
undoubtedly whatever divine powers and prerogatives they
possessed, and take on the nature of human beings and in
particular become subject to death, become mortal."41 This
is precisely what the Book of Abraham teaches, but
nowhere have I found anything similar in print in Joseph
Smith's day other than in the Book of Abraham. This concept
was completely foreign in Smith's day, and still is a
supreme heresy to much of Christendom even today! "It has a
definite polytheistic basis, at least in its assumption that
some divine being other than God Himself might claim supreme
dominion."42 That no one is going to make up a story like
that can be clearly seen from the fact that no one in Joseph
Smith's day or for hundreds of years before ever did make up
such a story and claim it was scripture! Now it is a
confirmed view thanks to recent discoveries and decades and
decades of scholarship and work. Joseph Smith put it all
together in succinct and coherent form almost overnight. And
not only is nothing missing in this account, but no extra or
demonstrably incorrect details are added.
Endnotes
1. R.H. Charles, "The Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha of the
Old Testament,"
Oxford, 2 vols., reprint, 1979, p. 444, note 5.
2. Rabbi Nissim Wernick, "A Critical Analysis of the Book
of Abraham in the Light of Extra-Canonical Jewish Writings,"
Ph.d Dissertation, Brigham Young University, 1968, p. 22.
3. Wernick, "Ibid.," p. 24., 4. Wernick, "Ibid.," p.
26f., 5. Wernick, "Ibid.," p. 22.
6. Julian Morgenstern, "The Mythological Background of
Psalm 82," in "Hebrew Union College Annual," Vol XIV, 1939,
pp. 29-34.-7. Morgenstern, "Ibid.," p. 34.
8. Frank M. Cross, Jr., "The Council of Yahweh in Second
Isaiah," "Journal of Near Eastern Studies," (hereafter
JNES), 1952, p. 274, note 3. Cf. Robert Eisenman, "The Dead
Sea Scrolls and the First Christians," Element Books, 1996,
"Glossary of Hebrew Terms," p. 424, who maintains that this
term, "'omdim", "'amod", etc. means, among other things, "a
direct relationship with 'the Standing One' in
Jewish/Christian/Elkasite/Ebionite ideology directly related
too to the idea of 'the Primal Adam' in these traditions."
9. Thorkild Jacobsen, "Primitive Democracy in Ancient
Mesoptamia," in "JNES" July 1943, p. 163, note 22.
10. A.S. Van Der Woude,"Melchisedek als Himmlische
Erlosergestalt in den neugefundenen Eschatalogischen
Midraschim aus Qumran Hohle XI," in "Oudtestamentische
Studien," Deel XIV, E.J. Brill, 1965, p. 365.
11. Morgenstern, "Ibid.," p. 39 note 22. 12. Morgenstern,
"Ibid.," p. 39, note 22.
13. Emanuel Tov, "Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible,
Fortress Press, 1992, p. 269. He notes that H.D. Hummel says
Ps. 29:1 refers to "the sons of El" sitting in the assembly
of gods because the original text referred to El together
with an enclitic mem. (p. 365).
14. P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., "Textual Criticism: Recovering
the Text of the Hebrew Bible," Fortress Press, 1986, p. 59.
15. Sir Lancelot C.L. Brenton, "The Septuagint with
Apocrypha: Greek and English," Hendrickson Publishing, 5th
printing, 1995, p. 276.
16. Ronald S. Hendel, "When the Sons of God Cavorted With
the Daughters of Men," in Herschel Shanks, Ed.,
"Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls," Random House, 1992, p.
170, 172. Cf. Edwin C. Kingsbury, "The Prophets and the
Council of Yahweh," in "Journal of Biblical Literature,"
Vol. LXXXIII, 1964, "Completely explicit records of the
prophetic experience with the council of Yahweh do not
exist, nor are they to be expected. A parallel to this
omission of explicitness is to be seen in the entrhonement
psalms where there are also allusions to the idea of the
heavenly council. Such a parallel between these psalms and
the prophetic material hints at the date of these psalms.
The reason for the omissions is clear; the contemporary
readers understood the allusions clearly, but later
generations of readers and editors either misunderstood the
allusions or removed them." (p. 279). This is precisely what
the Book of Mormon teaches, that "many plain and precious
parts were *removed* from the record of the lamb." Nephi
knew whereof he spoke!
17. Gerhard von Rad, "Theologie des Alten Testaments,"
trans. by D.M.G. Stalker, 2 vols, Harper & Row, 1962, vol.
1, p. 138, note 5. According to this idea, the various gods
(Elohim beings) each got an allottment from heaven! Cf.
William F. Albright, "From the Stone Age to Christianity,"
Doubleday, 2nd ed., 1957, T.J. Meek interpreted this to mean
"He assigned the realm of the nations to the various
deities!" (p. 269).
18. Albright, "Ibid.," pp. 296f.
19. Mitchell Dahood, "Psalms III," 3 vols., Doubleday,
1970, p. 345. 20. Mitchell Dahood, "Psalms I," 3 vols.,
Doubleday, 1966, vol. 1, p. 175, note xxix.
21. Jacobsen, "Ibid.," p. 167.
22. Frank M. Cross & David Noel Freedman, "The Blessing
of Moses," in Journal of Biblical Literature (Hereafter
JBL), Vol. 67, 1948, p. 201.
23. Cross & Freedman, "Ibid.," p. 202.
24. Jacobsen, "Ibid.," p. 167. 25. Jacobsen, "Ibid.," p.
168.
26. Andrew F. Ehat & Lyndon W. Cook, Eds., "The Words of
Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo
Discourses of the Prophet Joseph," BYU Religious Studies
Center, 1980, p.341.
27. Ehat & Cook, "Ibid.," p. 397, note 69. 28. Ehat &
Cook, "Ibid.," p. 397, note 70.
29. "Gesenius' Hebrew And Chaldee Lexicon," Baker Book
House, 1979, p. 97. Cf. Brown, Briggs, Driver, "A Hebrew and
English Lexicon," Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1951, pp. 88f.
30. Jacobsen, "Ibid.," p. 168. 31. Jacobsen, "Ibid.," p.
169.
32. Van Der Woude, "Ibid.," p. 365. On the god being
clothed with a garment, Jacobsen, "Ibid.," p. 170.
33. Morgenstern, "Ibid.," pp. 41f. Notice here that Satan
is indeed one of the "sons of God"! Cf. p. 42! 34.
Morgenstern, "Ibid.," p. 42. 35. Morgenstern, "Ibid.," p.
43. 36. Morgenstern, "Ibid.," p. 93. 37. Morgenstern,
"Ibid.," p. 99. 38. Morgenstern, "Ibid.," p. 58, note 46.
39. W. Gunther Plaut, "The Torah: A Modern Commentary,"
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1981, p. 19.
40. Morgenstern, "Ibid.," p. 73. 41. Morgenstern,
"Ibid.," p. 73. 42. Morgenstern, "Ibid.," p. 105.
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QABALISTIC MAGIC
Qabalah can provide the
basis of magic activities with the aim of transforming the
life of the individual by creating synergy between everyday
life, e.g. the human body, and universal creative forces as
identified by the Qabalah. This is also an act of healing as
the total sum of cosmic powers correspond to human
wholeness, and therefore develops our true capability which
is genetically enabled at birth but must be utilized by
will.
"The art of the magician
lies therefore in aligning himself with cosmic force in
order that the operation he desires to perform may come
about as a part of the working of cosmic activities. If he
be truly purified and dedicated, this will be the case with
all his desires; and if he be not truly purified and
dedicated he is no adept, and his word is not a word of
power" (Dion Fortune;118)
All kinds of
healing and magic works in the same way: The healer-magician
enters a state of meditative excitement, calls upon cosmic
powers for protection and help, and visualizes or simulates
the desired results while "seeing" and trusting that it
happens. In qabalistic magic
the involved powers are clothed in the symbolism of western
culture and religion, but the process is universal.
The results of
healing magic can never be forecasted: Even though any
ritual is carrried out with the intention of a desired
result, the only certain effect is the clearing of channels
between spirit, soul, personality and body. What the
ego-personality desires - or even the soul - may be
different from the will of spirit. Earthly suffering may
sustain if it is the condition is a conscious choice of the
soul or of spirit, even though, of course, the ego
disagrees. Healing can lead to good health, more money and
better sex, but not necessarily so.
You never know what energy will do
when it has its way. The
term 'spiritual technology' is meant to signify this
intuition.
FROM:
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According to the Golden Dawn - at the HOD level, one
would study this:
Practicus Level, 3=8, Hod
Theoretical Curriculum
Practicus Initiation Ritual
Fourth Knowledge Lecture
The Purification of the Soul
The Garden of Eden Before the Fall
Poligons and Poligrams
Lineal Figures on the Tree of Life
Notes on the Tarot
The Tarot (originally a THAM paper)
Key to Tarot Divination.
Tabulated Rules for the Tarot.
Contemplation and Three Suggestions on Will Power
SRMD (Notes on Flying Roll - II)
On Tracing a Pentagram by Geometry
Just as the Illuminist symbol on the
back of your One Dollar Bill indicates, the Illuminati
has been pursuing the establishment of the New World
Order -- NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM -- since 1776, the
year inscribed in Roman Numerals on the bottom row of
this Satanic Mysteries pyramid. The New World Order is a
secret society term that literally means, "The Kingdom
of the New Age Masonic Christ". The words "Annuit
Coeptis" means, "Announcing The Birth Of"; so, the
Masters of the Illuminati announced the birth of the New
World Order on May 1, 1776, and charged the American
Government with its gradual implementation! Since this
One Dollar Bill is an official government document, we
know for a fact that our government has consistently
been committed to achieving the Kingdom of Antichrist
since 1776 -- President Abraham Lincoln excepted.
The Golden Section and the Pentagram
Perhaps the most dynamic vortex for the creation of life
on Earth appears in the ratio known as the Golden
Section (also "Golden Mean" or phi). The Golden
Section appears naturally in many ways. A repeated
manifestation is in five-fold geometric forms like the
pentacle or Pentagram — the five-pointed star.
The property of the Pentagram is that its lines bisect
each other according to the ratios of the Golden
Section. In other words, the relationship of AB to BC
and of BC to AC is phi. And all other internal
divisions of this figure produce the same proportional
relationship.
The ideal human proportions lie in the ratio defined by
the Golden Section, those ratios occurring, for example,
between the arm, the hand, and the digits of the
fingers. Phi also appears when the human body is placed
within a Pentagram: The head and limbs reach out to the
points, and the sexual organs lie in the center.
According to tradition, "Man is the measure of all
things." But humanity takes its place within a vast and
beautiful Creation. So perhaps it would be more accurate
to say, "Phi is the measure of all things — including
Man."
And wherever the Golden Section, the Pentagram, or
repetitions of the number five are found in the pattern
of the natural world, conditions are most beneficial to
health, beauty, and creation. This is the ratio that
governs the emergent, dynamic vortex of biological life.
Vortex Effects
There are two basic kinds of motion within a vortex:
centripetal, and centrifugal.
A centripetal vortex — that is, the inward-spinning
vortex that Nature seems to prefer over centrifugal ones
— achieves maximum momentum and energy at the center
(or, more precisely, the edge of center). As a
centripetal vortex approaches the center, the maximum
amount of energy becomes theoretically infinite (not
taking into account energy loss through friction, sound,
waste heat, etc.).
Any forest is a prodigious example of the power of the
energy vortex in motion. The vortex of energy that
manifests in a forest increases the forest's biomass to
the order of hundreds of tons every day — silently,
effectively, for the benefit of all life.
The Alchemical Pentagram
The use of the number five in the Pentagram, or
Pentagon, is historically reflected in magic, alchemy,
architecture, and landscape temples like Sedona. It has
been used throughout history in order to imbue physical
form with sacred energy.
Pierre Charles l'Enfant, architect of the United States
Capitol building in Washington, DC, used the Pentagram
to express the bursting new ideals of the young American
republic.
The ancient Greeks and the Renaissance artists used it
to express the ideal forms of the temple and the human
body.
Geomancers look for its five-fold resonance in star
patterns and in the natural and artificial landscape.
FROM:
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Magical Curriculum
At the Practicus level, students strengthen the
magical skills that they learned at the earlier levels.
This grade level corresponds to the Sephirah of Hod on
the Qabalistic Tree of Life. At this level, distance
members continue their regimen of invocation and
banishing with the forces corresponding to the Sephirah
of Hod (Water, the Signs of the Water Zodiacal
Triplicity, and of Mercury). Additional talismans and
flashing tablets are constructed and consecrated.
Students continue to master the art of divination with a
thorough study and practice of Tarot divination at this
level.
FROM:
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World of Symbols
Cabalists use symbolic methods to read the message
hidden by the words of the sacred texts. Especially
using numerological rules "No one should be surprised",
writes Agrippa von Netteshein, "that things can be
divined by the numerical value of letters. According to
the Pythagoreans and the Hebrew Cabalists, in numbers
there are hidden mysteries which few understand. By
numbers is possible to work out the essence of letters
and names." Some of best known methods are:
Gematria is a process of Cabalistic magic. The
object is to bring together words with the same
numerical value. Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet has
a corresponding numerical value, so that the value of
the world is the sum of the values of its letters. Such
words are brought together in order to reveal their
hidden meaning. Thus in Henrew where "one" is "ehad" and
"love" is "ahaba", the two words refer to the same
transcendental reality because they have the same
value(in one case 1+8+4=13 and in other case 1+5+2+5=13)
Notarikon is a method using the first, middle
or last letters of a word to form another.
Temura combines both gematria and notarikon.
Doctrinal Resources
Cabala means tradition or reception. In mythology it
begins with the oral tradition given to Moses in
Sinai, but perhaps its roots are even in prehistory.
It was the 12th century that Abraham ben Huya wrote down
the doctrine in the Sefer Bahir, by drawing together
earlier materials. The Zohar appeared in the 13th
century, and it is probably the work of Moses of Leon.
It is placed under thee symbolic authority of Rabbi
Simeon bar Yokhai helped by the prophet Elijah. During
the time doctrinal renewal camed from Abraham ben David
and his son Isaac the Blind who helped to explain the
relationship between God and his manifestation, italian
writers including Juda Ben Yagar, Ezra ben Solomon and
the brothers Isaac, who defined the nature of
intermundane space, and from german writers like Abraham
Abulafia, who added a technique of spiritual experience
to the doctrine. In the Christian world many people
began to take interest to the Cabala including Pico
della Mirandola, Reuchlin Guillaume, Robert Fludd,
Paracelsus, Jakob Bohme, Kircher.
A Primordial Speech
The Cabala is, by nature, Gnostic a search for the
secret of Creation. Like all Gnosticism it proposes a
cosmogony in which man is an actor with a major role or
even a God's collaborator. In this way, the Cabala
attempts to answer the problem of evil. But while other
Gnosticism are manisfested in profusion of images
Cabalistic speculations are rigorous, combinative and
mathematical. Under the fancy there can be found
structures of scientific thoughts. It is susprising that
the Cabalistic writers embarace all spheres of knowledge
from astrology to geology which made Cabala, besides
speculations, to contain sometimes surprising scientific
facts.
The Divison of the Soul
One theory dominates the Zohar - the divison of soul
into 3 parts: nefech, the organic breath;
rouah the spirit; and nechama the power of
man. The soul which comes to animate a body refuses to
leave its original place, but in the end it must always
obey God's will. It must win the complement of
perfection from the material world and, at the same time
it is charged with the task of impregnating matter with
a share of spirituality in order to purify it and draw
it upwards. Thus, the body is a combination of
saintliness and stain; it is a mediator of cosmic
forces.
The cosmic drama always tells a story of love. All
texts and all the evidence point in this direction. The
Cabalist has to fight against the darkness of the world
and his quest is to try to illuminate it. The intense
passion which guides him shows that love and knowledge
are often synonyms. The dryness of the heart is the
enemy, the face of that evil which the initiate must
root out from within himself. The secret, in the end,
lies beoynd morality: it is the secret of the source the
Zohar describes and which the Cabala calls upon
us to rediscover
FROM:
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GEMATRIA
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The Tree of Life Crop Circle Formation
Two of the sephiroth on the sides are called
HOD and NETZACH, representing Mercury
... In the top left hand corner we see Reverberation
(Hod), hence the rod ...
www.greatdreams.com/treeol.htm -
ARCHANGELS
The Planet Mercury rules over the Tree of
Life Sephirah 8 (Hod - Splendor) ...
His empire is over Hod-Netzach-Yesod. Hanael (or
Anael) - This angel presides ...
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Landing on the Planet Mercury
The Tree of Life Crop Circle Formation ...
are on the third row from the bottom,
Hod and Netzach (or, as stated above, Mercury and
Venus .. ...
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Sacred Numbers to Resuscitate the Dead - Lazarus and
Awakening
The third chakra is said to be the pair of
spheres, Hod/Glory and ... On the USA
chakra map Hod and Netzach correspond to Salt Lake
City and Yellowstone. ...
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FUTURE PLANETARY ALIGNMENT
... mode of attribution - Sensation
to Malkuth, Intellect to Hod, Feeling to
Netzach, Intuition to Tiphareth, and the Collective
Unconscious to Yesod. ...
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The American Tragedy: A Symbolic Event, Part One
... the aspirant reaches the Kether
of incarnation, or the Tiphareth of Briah,
for beyond lies the threshold between Raphael in Hod
and Haniel in Netzach. ...
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CORNPLANTER - US NATIVE AMERICAN POLICY
8 - Hod, Glory · 9 - Yesod,
Foundation · 10 - Shekhinah, The Shekhinah, Malkut ·
THE 10 SEFIROT OF THE KABBALAH · THE TREE OF LIFE ...
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11:11 - POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE?
(8) Hod. Therion. The Emperor--The
Empress. 8. (2) Chokmah. Will. The Chariot--Fortune.
9. (3) Binah. Love. The Lovers--Art. 10. (1) Kether ...
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THE VAULT OF HEAVEN - THE 28TH PATH
The vessels are orange, the color of Hod,
Sphere of the Mind. They contain ellipses
of blue, with bands of white and red around their centers.
...
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The 4th World - and the 5th World of the Aztecs
The third chakra is represent by the
connected pair of spheres, Hod and Nezah,
located on the left and right pillars above Yesod. ...
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TWO SUNS
... the feminine or passive
properties in creation and providence, as expressed
in Hokmah, Gevurah, and Hod (or Wisdom, Beauty, and
Splendor). ...
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Chakra System Crop Circle Formation
Tiphareth, form the loop, Hod and
Netzach are the cross arms, while Yesod and
Malkuth complete the lower arm. Fulcanelli emphasizes the
completeness and ...
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Sacred Numbers to Resuscitate the Dead - Lazarus and
Awakening the ...
the third chakra is said to be the pair of
spheres, Hod/Glory and ... on the USA
chakra map Hod and Netzach correspond to Salt Lake
city and Yellowstone. ...
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TREE OF LIFE DATABASE
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The Great Hall of Truth or Judgment Seat of Osiris. Left
to
Right: Osiris in judgment chair. A leopard skin, his banner.
Four genii over closed lotus flower, symbol of Mu. Great beast
of Amenti. Thoth with Ibis head recording history of the
deceased.
Anubis with jackal's head and Horus with hawk's head weighing
the heart in pair of scales against a feather. The deceased,
hands
aloft exposing his heart, being led into the Hall of Truth by a
feather and being received by Maat, goddess of Truth. The
bitch sits on top of the balance scale...the accuser . . . later
called
Satan by the Christian church.
From the Egyptian "Book of the Dead".
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For judgment is without
mercy to one who has shown no mercy;
yet mercy triumphs over judgment
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The 6th Trumpet Judgment (Revelation 9:13-21) is the destruction of
1/3 of mankind by 200 million demonic horsemen. Although the tendency is
to interpret these horsemen with a modern parallel of military hardware,
it will probably be as straightforward as the text seems to demand.
The sixth trumpet, the second Woe!
(9:13-21)
Rev 9:13 The sixth angel sounded his
trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden
altar that is before God.
14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four
angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour
and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
16 The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard
their number.
17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their
breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulphur. The
heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their
mouths came fire, smoke and sulphur.
18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke
and sulphur that came out of their mouths.
19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails;
for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they
inflict injury.
20 The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still
did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop
worshipping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and
wood--idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their
sexual immorality or their thefts.
v13 - The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and
I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before
God. - The golden altar is connected to the prayers of the saints
(Rev 8:3). The sixth trumpet is in response to the prayers of the
saints. For horn, see Lev 8:15, when Moses slaughtered the bull he took
some of the blood with his
finger and touched the horns of the altar to
purify the altar.
v14 - It said to the sixth angel who had the
trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river
Euphrates" - The four angels are bound so they must evil, they are
released at God's command, whose purpose is to get men to repent, see
verses 20-21. The four angels cover each direction of the compass, the
idea being that they are released to affect the whole earth. Compare
these angels with the first four angels standing at the four corners of
the earth, 7:1. The Euphrates marks the boundary between Israel and her
enemies (Gen 15:18, Deu 1:7, Jos 1:4), Babylon which is on the Euphrates
would be to the North of Israel and it is from the North that her
enemies came (Jer 25:9, Ezek 26:7, 39:2). Compare this with the sixth
bowl (Rev 16:12) in which the great river Euphrates, and its water was
dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East. Compare also with
the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
v15 - And the four angels who had been kept
ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to
kill a third of mankind. - The precise timing of their
release indicates that they are under the divine control of God. Their
purpose is to kill a third of mankind, no more no less, that is a
limited number, because this is a warning to mankind. From the precise
timing of their release this seems to be a specific event in history,
and is therefore probably eschatological, in the light of the discussion
in the next verse this event corresponds to the second coming (compare
with Mat 24:36, Acts 1:7, Gen 7:11) or at least the final battle
associated with it. Compare the sixth seal, sixth trumpet and sixth
bowl, they all seem to refer to either the last battle or the second
coming.
v16 - The number of the mounted troops was two
hundred million. I heard their number. - The troops are mounted,
meaning that they are prepared for war. Two hundred million is a large
number which he could not count, but he heard their number. Compare the
description here with the chariots of God in Psa 68:17, the horses like
a swarm of locusts in Jer 51:27 and the horses that fly like a vulture
swooping to devour of Hab 1:8. In Joel the army invades mankind on the
day of the Lord (Joel 2:11-11) as this is the sixth trumpet and the
seventh trumpet depicts the handing over of the world to Christ, his
eternal reign and the judgement, this vision corresponds to the last
great battle (see Joel 3:1-2, 9-16). The last great battle is also found
in Rev 16:14, 17:14, 19:17, 20:7. Note that the sixth seal also
corresponds to the second coming (Rev 6:12). The sixth bowl refers to
the battle on the great day of God Almighty (Rev 16:14) and the second
coming is mentioned in the next verse (16:15). This is another example
of the parallelism of the book.
v17 - The horses and riders I saw in my vision
looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and
yellow as sulphur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions,
and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulphur. - Here is the
only place in which John indicates that what he saw was in a vision. The
breastplates had the same colours as the fire, smoke and sulphur which
came out of the horses' mouths, see v18, this indicates the unified
purpose of both horse and rider. Compare the lions' heads here with the
lions' teeth of the locusts, this indicates strength.
v18 - A third of mankind was killed by the
three plagues of fire, smoke and sulphur that came out of their mouths.-
This imagery seems to refers to war. The imagery like the locusts is
similar to Joel 2:4-5, 'They have the appearance of horses; they gallop
along like cavalry. With a noise like that of chariots they leap over
the mountain tops, like a crackling fire consuming stubble, like a
mighty army drawn up for battle.' Once again it is a limited number that
is killed, a third of mankind is killed. Fire and sulphur remind us of
Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19:24, Luke 17:29), this was God's judgement on
wickedness, a foretaste of hell (Jude 1:7 cf. Rev 14:10-11).
v19 - The power of the horses was in their
mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having
heads with which they inflict injury. - The snakes indicate their
demonic origin, Luke 10:19. The three plagues of fire, smoke and sulphur
came out of their mouths, v17, 18. Their tails also inflict injury. The
word for snake (ophis) is the same word used to describe Satan in
12:9 (see also 12:14, 15, 20:2 cf. John 3:14, 2 Cor 11:3)
v20 - The rest of mankind that were not killed
by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands they
did not stop worshipping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze,
stone and wood--idols that cannot see or hear or walk. - Mankind is
here accused of worshipping demons and in the fifth trumpet they are
plagued by demons and possibly also in the sixth trumpet, the warning
fits the sin. Later we find mankind worshipping the dragon and the beast
(13:4) and his image (13:15) that is idolatry. The plagues are directed
at unrepentant mankind, not at God's people, those who survive these
plagues still did not repent. Some are killed by these plagues but to
the rest they are warnings to man to repent. Consider Jesus reaction to
the persecution of the Jews by Pilate or to those who died when the
tower fell on those in Siloam (Luke 13:1-5) his reaction was to say to
the people 'do you think they were more guilty than all the others
living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will
all perish.' Despite the warning plagues from God, some natural some
not, man refuses to worship God and give him the glory as Creator, Amos
4:10.
First man is guilty of idolatry, worshipping
created things not the Creator, Rom 1:23. He breaks the first tablet of
the law (Ex 20:3-11, Deu 5:7, 2 King 17:35-39) rather than worship the
creator (Rev 14:7). The stupidity of idolatry is emphasised by the phase
'idols that cannot see or hear or walk' in contrast to the living
creator God, Dan 5:23, Psa 115:4-5, Jer 10:5. This hammers home the
point that despite these plagues mankind prefers to worship created
things rather than God, the message of Revelation is that mankind is to
worship God and Him alone. Consider the worship of the living creatures
and the elders of the Creator God, 4:8-11; the worship of the Lamb, 5:8
ff.; all the inhabitants of the earth worship the beast, 13:8 (compare
the worship of demons and idols here with the worship of the beast and
his image in 13:8, 15).
Consider also the message of the first angel
flying in mid-air proclaiming the eternal gospel which is to fear God
and give him glory and to worship him as Creator, 14:6-7; consider the
dire warning to those who worship the beast and his image in 14:9-11.
Twice John is rebuked because he worshipped an angel (19:10, 22:8) and
is told to worship God. In the case of the church at Pergamum and
Thyatira eating food offered to idols is condemned (2:14, 20). Note that
in 21:8 the place of idolaters is in the fiery lake of burning sulphur,
we should therefore see the trumpets as agents of God's mercy rather
than wrath, despite the fact that people do not repent. Notice the
response of those at Ephesus who practised sorcery, they publicly burned
their books on sorcery; it is better to burn ones books on the occult
than to burn in the lake of fire. God's decree in Deu 7:5, 12:3 is to
break down the altars, smash the sacred stones and burn the idols in the
fire, see Josiah's response in 2 Kings 23 who did as described in
Deuteronomy.
v21 - Nor did they repent of their murders,
their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts - This is
the first indictment against mankind, they did not repent, see also: Rev
11:18, Rev 14:7, Rev 14:9-11, Rev 16:5-6, Rev 16:8-11. Having rejected
God as creator mankind now inevitably breaks the second tablet of the
law (Deu 5:17 and Rom 1:24, 28). The punishment is indicated in Rev
21:8, their (murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practise magic
arts) lot will be in the lake of burning sulphur.
Trumpet 6: Deadly Attack
The voice instructs the angel with the sixth
trumpet to release the “four angels which are bound in the great river
Euphrates” (verse 14). Since they are bound, they must be fallen angels
or demons. Their release is by divine permission only and is intended to
allow them to function as agents of God’s wrath.
While some prefer to view this invading horde as
demons, I believe they are an actual army. The battles that follow
involve killing men, and the attackers are described as men (verses
16-18). The weapons with “breastplates of fire” could well be modern
weapons. The “breastplates of fire” and the “fire and smoke” that shoot
out of both ends of these vehicles certainly sound like tanks, airplanes
or some modern weaponry.
If John really saw the future, including the great
end-time wars, he would have witnessed things he could hardly
understand, let alone describe. Tanks, guns, flamethrowers and laser
beams all fit these possible designations. While the horde of demons is
unleashed to torture and afflict men, the horde of soldiers is unleashed
to attack them as well.
MORE AT:
http://www.greatdreams.com/war/weapons_of_war.htm
NOTE FROM DEE; I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT WAR WITH IRAN AND WWIII
MULTIPLE TIMES. TODAY, ISRAEL HAS ALREADY THREATENED IRAN THAT
THEY WILL ATTACK THEM IN APRIL OF 2012. WHAT IS TO STOP IRAN FROM
ATTACKING ISRAEL FIRST?
THEY ARE ALREADY FACING EACH OTHER IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.
this article is from 2007, AND WE ARE MUCH CLOSER TO WAR THAN
EVER BEFORE:
11-1-07 - DREAM - This morning I was
aware of being in a vehicle with other people & we were all sitting in
the vehicle, & it look like we were going too leave there. Then all of a
sudden I looked & I saw a very very dark cloud that was heading towards
us. It looked like a tornado it had the shape of one & it looked like a
feth five it was so large & pitch black. I was aware that I was trying
too get the person to leave very fast but for some reason we didn't we
kept sitting there as we watch this darkness approach us. As it was
moving closer & closer toward us I realize that this was not a tornado
because there was no winds. I realized that this was not a tornado it
looked like a tornado. I was very frightened & I was aware of putting my
arms over my head as we sat in this vehicle & I knew it was going to get
us. As it moved closer & was aware that we went through this blackness &
made it through. It was or look like the form of a tornado & it was
moving along & if anything was in its path well them would be caught up
in it.. All I know is that we could not leave there and as this dark
blackness cover us & went on through & realized that what ever this was
I did not know. All I know that it could kill & destroy everything in
its path, but I survive it as it pass on through. What could this be
that can kill human life. Is there something coming like that which can
kill human lives like a plague? I know that I was able too make it
through this blackness that was coming toward me. It didn't hurt me or
kill me like I thought it was going too do, but it was too large to not
to kill those it blew over.
by Dona Glass Williams
See: TERRORSTORM -
www.prisonplanet.tv How the
Goverment Fakes Terror in the world to creat Fear in the population.
ENDGAME -
www.prisonplanet.tv The government (NEW
WORLD ORDER) is planning to kill off 80% of the population worldwide.
SEAN DAVID MORTON - INTERVIEW OF NOVEMBER 8, 2007
from his
Coast to Coast appearance Nov 8, 2007.
Housing market to really drop much more in 6 months.
Mayan elders, Hopi, Navajos beginning to build Hogan and Kivas on the
19th Nov, 2007. They say that when Pakistan nukee India will be the
beginning of WW3.
Larger cycle of the 5th night from Nov 19, 2007 through Nov 12, 2008
will be deep crisis for global material structure. European union and
Germany at center of this drama.
Nuclear weapons within a year (through December 2008), either or and
Syria, Iran, Pakistan, India.
France is broke, Germany not far behind. Riots in France around end of
year, January, February. Germany is the same way financially as France -
can't export anything because the Euro is so high.
Gold to go to $1200 in 12-18 months. Silver is going to hit $30 by next
year. Bill Gates has about 30% of his fortune in silver. Invest in the
silver mines rather than the silver. It's about 300 times more valuable
than gold. It will probably drop down to $14 in a few months (it's over
$15 now.); but he never sees it going below $11. You will see it being
used in future to back country's currencies.
US government wants the dollar to collapse. They want the N.American
union. They're building the new super highway from Mexico to Canada.
There will be a new currency for these 3 countries.
Western part of Canada may revolt against this. When oil hits $125 a
barrel, that's when things are really going to begin to break.
Russians started getting a lot of oil in 1997. As of June 1st they've
paid all their debts, are talking about backing their currency with
gold, have kicked out International monetary fund and Chase Manhattan
bank and the Rockefeller's. In the 30's there was a theory that light,
sweet, crude oil was from dead dinosaurs and deeper down, the oil was
being continually manufactured. He said that's true and the Russians are
drilling in Siberia, 38,000 feet down and one company from the US is
being tagged to go assist them with this. He said that this is high
security information.
The powers that be think the can pick the illusion of choice out of the
matrix and no one will care. He spoke well of Ron Paul and said he's the
only one willing to defend the Constitution and how he is being ignored
by major media. The more people see these politicians for what they are,
see that there is no peaceful way to do this, the revolution will start
when the middle tax loses it's stuff.
2010 another harmonic convergence happening May 27-29th - energy 1,000
times more powerful than the last harmonic convergence. It will create a
new consciousness.
Things are becoming clearer, more defined. Sky will get bluer from
different light coming from the sun and this will trigger the seretonin
elements in the brain, which triggers the hypothalmus and aligns right
and left brain and creates a quantum field which ends duality. We will
be able to create with intent.
All the things he's saying are coming to a head now.
The Iran attack has been postponed till March or so. There's a whole
list of executive orders getting ready to be released on the American
people.
There's talk in the background that he is holding the Iranian nuclear
option in the background if impeachment goes forward on him and Cheney.
We were at Defcon 2 in September and the Israeli's balked. For 3 years
Bush had a plan for to create a reason for Israel to attack Iran for us.
There's
3 aircraft carriers in the gulf now. They're planning spring exercises
in the gulf.
Israel's
strike on Syria was to strike an underground nuclear facility that the
Koreans helped them set up. There was an accident there that sent out a
plume that was noticed on our satellites. Israel as far as he knows, now
has over 103 nuclear weapons, Iran none at the moment but they have
around 11,000 missiles. Koreans helping the Syrians create plutonium.
The Israeli's balked when we said we couldn't take out all the missile
sites in Iran because they keep moving them. We gave the Israeli's
another 30 billion dollars. They cashed the check and said "no thank
you, we don't want to be part of it" because the Iranians have missiles
pointed at Tel Aviv, Straits of Hormuz, and the green zone inside Iraq.
He said the U.S. poisoned Ariel Sharon because he sold some of the
excalibur missiles we gave him to China and kept the money. The rabbis
in September placed a curse on him and a few months later that he was
poisoned to get revenge on him. Morton said he has some inside
government sources who feed him much of this information.
No big hurricanes to come. S. Cal to be very gold and flooding in the
San Diego area. Heavy rains and record snow in the mountains of
California. Harsh winter in N.East.
Something big coming to Pennsylvania in the next 90 days - maybe a good
sized quake.
A lot of chemtrail activity stopped because Boeing couldn't deliver a
whole series of planes that deliver the chemtrails. Huge problem with
Alaskan airlines, one of the few that fly specifically North and South
was having a lot of problems because of the chemtrails.The silicates in
the chemtrails were clogging up their planes.
With less chemtrails a lot of people are noticing less upper respiratory
and throat problems.
The mystery of the bees is related to cheap Queen bees primarily
purchased from China which creates a malaise in the hives and the mites
usually would be attacked by the drones.
Pelosi's Turkey initiative to censure Turkey over what they did 100
years ago was an attempt to get Turkey to not let our bombers fly out of
there and thereby, stop the war.
It's time to take pains to avoid this physicality trap that we get into.
Catastrophes in times ahead will have less to do with physical changes
than it will to change in consciousness. The science of physics itself
is about to become subordinate to a unified understanding of the cosmos
based on the evolution of consciousness.
He also talked about the new quantum healing work he is doing by taking
them beyond the cellular structure and past the atoms and into the
quantum field, he takes people before the injury happened and guides
their body into a steering mechanism and unkink the hose that goes back
through time.
Mayan, Aztecs, Egyptians and Christian talk about an Apocalypse. Oct 28,
2011 some parts of Mayan calendar to end the others on Dec 21, 2012. The
apocalypse is not meant to be the end of the world. It's the large scale
of human consciousness, determined by this grand cosmic plan. It's only
the end of the world as we know it. Evil is created in the beholder by
external projections of dualistic frames of consciousness. It will come
to an end as these frames are transcended.
There is evil around us and there are painful events and consequences
for all affected; but Evil and good really have really no independent
existence out there. It's all just the duality of positive versus
negative, east, west, male versus female,right and left sides of the
brain etc.. Evil acts are only the result of negative spirals of actions
generated by projections of these dualist perceptions.
Despite what Hollywood says, there really are no forces of good and evil
and paradoxically, those who promote such views are just contributing to
the continued suffering on the plant. Once we understand that the
conflict has always been within us, that either peace or hell on earth,
or freedom or slavery has always been at the end of the rainbow and that
the pot of gold has always been in our own hearts and in our own back
yards, then that is when the shift comes. Life has purpose. God is love.
All is one. That is the point of everything. That is the whole idea of
what the 2012 shift is going to be about - a whole new generation that
understands that core synthesis of those three simple concepts.
Steve Faucet (no sure of spellings) - something strange going on; but
they remote viewed tracked him to a place where there's a lot of
military underground and other activity, north of Yosemite.
He advised a caller against buying property in Florida. It's a bit
tricky because of the social situation. Stay away from the coast in the
Carolinas. Atlanta, Ga. OK.
The mint in Denver is now minting new money and it hasn't even been
approved by Congress. Its the Amero - the money promised by former
President Fox of Mexico on television recently.
Oil is as high as it is to keep the federal reserve note high.
Next 30 year cycle will be about Pisces - relates to dreams, human
consciousness, ecology, the ocean.
Long Island and N.Y.C will have a big challenge with water. NYC
infrastructure is falling apart. Water pipes at risk because of their
age. In remote viewing they saw nuclear attack coming from boat about 50
miles off the coast. By 2015 city still there but a lot of people moved
out. The city keeps the water PH at the right levels to avoid further
rotting of the pipes. Some of the pipes are actually wood. By 2015 a lot
of subways are flooded, they're dealing with flooding in the streets and
people start moving to the suburbs, upper N.Y. state, New Jersey, etc.
This 30 year Pisces phase will be all about water - getting it to the
right places, etc.
Move away from any investments that are related to the dollar. Get into
Euros, silver, gold.
NOTE EUROS AREN'T SAFE ANYMORE EITHER.
page 117
January 29,
2012
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USS ENTERPRISE
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INSANE! Those who favor Israel striking (Nuking) Iran!
Unreported by America's major "news" media, the paranoid leaders
of "frightened" Israel have over 600 nuclear warheads! Iran has
none.
(Some years back in a joint public lecture by Major Scott Ritter,
who led the UN inspections of Iraq through 1998 and reporter Seymour
Hersh, Ritter said Israel has 400 nukes. Hersh said he had learned
Israel has 600 nuclear warheads).
NONE of Israel's underground "Dimona" facility is for generating
peaceful nuclear power, only the continuing production of MORE
intimidating nuclear weapons (as well as chemical and biological).
Israel, with the largest, high tech conventional armed forces in the
Middle East (2nd only to America's), also has Submarines, Tanks,
Artillery, Missile launchers (even ICBMs that can reach anywhere in
Europe) and Aircraft, each that can deliver Israel's nuclear
warheads. "Frightened," but nuclear-bloated Israel, has the
nuclear capability to turn Iran and ALL Muslim nations to desolate
"glass" - in minutes!
Yet, our openly pro-Israel major media (as they did with Iraq) are
daily persuading the American people we MUST immediately STOP - even
DESTROY - Iran's efforts to generate nuclear power - because they
"might secretly" build ONE nuke that could threaten Israel with a
sudden mad Iranian SUICIDE attack! - Dick Fojut
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Iran: Fact Checking the Media
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30437.htm
By Rep. Dennis Kucinich
February 03, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- During an
interview last month on CBS' Face the Nation, Secretary of
Defense Leon Panetta set the record straight on Iran: "Are they
trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No." But if you read recent
news reports lately, you'd think otherwise.
The media coverage on Iran is mirroring the coverage in the
lead-up to the Iraq war: grand claims about a smoking gun that
doesn't exist. For example, The New York Times incorrectly
reported last month that the latest International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) report on Iran concluded that their nuclear program
had a military objective. The paper's public editor, Arthur
Brisbane, was forced to acknowledge their mistake and wrote: "Some
readers, mindful of the faulty intelligence and reporting about
Saddam Hussein's weapons program, are watching the Iran nuclear
coverage very closely." Other media outlets such as National Public
Radio, PBS and The Washington Post have been challenged on their
coverage too.
A recent publication from the Center for Strategic and International
Studies titled "The IAEA's Iran
Report and Misplaced
Paranoia," noted that "With few exceptions, these revelations are
not exactly new. More importantly, neither is the thrust of the
report: that Iran is developing some capabilities that can only be
understood as preliminaries to the development of nuclear weapons.
Unfortunately, early coverage of the report's release gives the
opposite impression."
Many have recognized that the media failed to do its job in the
lead-up to the Iraq war. The potential consequences of treading on
that same path with Iran are grave. The U.S. has thus far spent over
$1.2 trillion of borrowed money on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military action against Iran would be disastrous for the region and
for U.S. moral standing. A serious diplomatic track based on mutual
trust and respect is the only way to achieve increased transparency.
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Divining the Truth about Iran
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30419.htm
By Ray McGovern
(27 year CIA analyst)
Excerpt: You will almost never see in a major U.S. newspaper
the assessment - backed by the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies - that
Iran is NOT building nuclear weapons.
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February 02, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- Watching top U.S.
intelligence officials present the annual "Worldwide Threat
Assessment" before the Senate Intelligence Committee, I found myself
wondering if they would depart from the key (if politically
delicate) consensus judgment that Iran is NOT working on a nuclear
weapon.
In last year's briefing, Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper had stood firm on this key point, despite severe pressure to
paint Iran in more pernicious terms. On Tuesday, I was relieved
to see in Clapper's testimony a reiteration of the conclusions of a
formal National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of November 2007, issued
unanimously by all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, including
judgments like this:
"We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its
nuclear weapons program; Š Tehran's decision to halt its nuclear
weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear
weapons than we have been judging since 2005."
Sadly, this judgment still comes as news to many of those Americans
who are malnourished on the low-protein gruel of the Fawning
Corporate Media (FCM) - even though the NIE was immediately
declassified in 2007 and has been in the public domain for more than
four years.
Granted, former President George W. Bush did not like it - not one
bit. In an unusually revealing comment in his memoir Decision
Points, Bush complained bitterly that "the NIE tied my hands on the
military side," preventing him from attacking Iran. That was the
course strongly favored by hawkish Vice President Dick Cheney with
his PhD summa cum laude in Preventive War.
And, America's FCM consistently ignores the official NIE when
writing news stories hyping Iran's nuclear threat. However, if you
read the articles very closely you may see references to Iran
supposedly working toward the "capacity to build" nuclear weapons,
not that Iran is actually working on building a nuclear bomb.
The distinction is important, but it is so subtle as to be
misleading. Most casual readers would simply assume that Iran is
building a nuclear bomb.
The FCM's rhetorical shift from accusing Iran of "building" nukes to
seeking a "capacity to build" them is reminiscent of Bush's sleight
of hand when he went from talking about Iraq's supposed WMD
"stockpiles" to its WMD "programs" - after it turned out there were
no WMD stockpiles.
Oddly, even when Israeli sources concur with this key point that
Iran has NOT decided to build a nuclear bomb - as the Israeli
newspaper Haaretz and Defense Minister Ehud Barak indicated recently
- the FCM in the United States continues to leave the impression
among Americans that Iran is on the verge of having nukes. [See
Consortiumnews.com's "US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes."]
You will almost never see in a major U.S. newspaper the
assessment - backed by the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies - that Iran
is NOT building nuclear weapons. At most, you'll see a boilerplate
phrase about Iran denying that it is. You're also not likely to see
references to the fact that Israel has a sophisticated nuclear
arsenal of its own.
'Tell-It-Like-It-Is' Intelligence
Still, it's encouraging to see U.S. intelligence officials resist
bending with the prevailing political winds the way the malleable
CIA director, George Tenet, and his deputy John McLaughlin did when
they orchestrated the fraudulent October 2002 NIE on Iraq's "weapons
of mass destruction."
After they left in disgrace (having contributed to the bloody war in
Iraq), fresh institutional blood was brought in to manage
intelligence estimates. In a professional sense, the two were not a
hard act to follow. But courage can still be a rare commodity in the
careerist world of Official Washington.
What happened is that the new managers launched a bottom-up
assessment of all the evidence on Iran's nuclear development
program. They reached conclusions based on what they found, not on
what was politically expedient; they spoke truth to power, and, in
the process, helped prevent yet another disastrous war.
This year, though, there was good reason to worry that the
current intelligence managers might succumb to pressure for a more
"politically correct" course. One factor has been the rising
crescendo in the FCM, echoing the Israeli government's hyperbolic
fears regarding a "nuclear threat" from Iran.
The FCM, for example, gave unconscionably inflammatory coverage to a
highly misleading November 2011 report by the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran. The FCM ignored available evidence
from WikiLeaks documents showing that the new IAEA management was
collaborating behind-the-scenes with U.S. and Israeli officials on
the Iran issue.
And there was growing concern that National Intelligence Director
Clapper might be outmaneuvered by the new CIA Director David
Petraeus, the retired four-star general who is always the darling of
Congress.
The ambitious Petraeus's own words have shown him groveling
before the Israel Lobby - to the point of backing away from his
own congressional testimony of March 2010, a small segment of which
was implicitly critical of Israeli intransigence on the issue of
Palestine.
E-mails revealed Petraeus begging neocon pundit Max Boot to help him
withstand criticism from neocon circles over the rare burst of
honesty that had slipped into Petraeus's prepared testimony.
Petraeus then mistakenly shared the e-mail train with blogger James
Morris, who made them public.
On Tuesday, Petraeus was pandering again in his gratuitous
repetition of the neocons' characterizations of the IAEA report.
Petraeus said: "The IAEA Š report was a very accurate reflection of
reality, of the situation on the ground. I think that is the
authoritative document when it comes to informing the public of all
the countries of the world of the situation there."
This is a remarkable statement coming from the head of the CIA, an
agency that was one of the principal drafters of the NIE in 2007,
which stands at variance with the politically tinged IAEA report,
which labored to make the case that Iran was gaining expertise
needed to build a nuclear bomb.
However, there were, in fact, significant overlaps in the IAEA's
description of Iran's nuclear program and the key judgments of the
NIE, but you would hardly know that from reporting in the FCM.
The IAEA report contains no smoking gun regarding Iran's intentions
about building nuclear weapons, but notes that much of Iran's
progress occurred prior to fall 2003 - when the NIE reported that
Iran abandoned its weapons program.
Still, many pundits and politicians walked away with two misleading
messages from the IAEA report: that it refuted the NIE and that Iran
is now making a break for the bomb. Both representations are false,
yet the assertions have been repeated often enough to give them
traction with the public and Congress, which was evident in
Petraeus's remarks.
As Petraeus knows better than most, the National Intelligence
Estimate is the genre of intelligence assessment that the U.S.
government considers "authoritative." I found it shameful, but not
surprising, that he would identify himself with the IAEA rather than
with the U.S. intelligence community. Shameful pandering, which
Clapper - to his credit - would have none of.
The way the wind seems to be blowing from the White House and
Capitol Hill, however, I think it a good bet that, before many
months go by, Petraeus will be taking over the job of his current
nominal boss, and Clapper will be set out to pasture for special
services not rendered.
The Media on the Briefing
True to form, the FCM offered little truth in its reports on the
Tuesday briefing - and quite a lot of distortion. Very little
mention was made of Clapper's key assertion that Iran is not
building nuclear weapons, just as the FCM discreetly averted its
eyes and ears from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's definitive
statement to that effect on Jan. 8.
The Washington Post initially ran an article by Greg Miller titled,
"Iran, perceiving threat from West, willing to attack on U.S. soil,
U.S. intelligence report finds." That title was then squished to fit
at the top of page one, right next to a smiling photo of Mr. and
Mrs. Romney, and reads "U.S. spy agencies see new Iran risk: Tehran
more willing to launch attacks on American soil, they say."
For his story, Miller selects the two short paragraphs in which
Clapper claims that some Iranian officials - probably including
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei - "are now more willing to conduct an
attack in the United States in response to real or perceived U.S.
actions that threaten the regime." (I can readily imagine the
word-smithing by senior officials that yielded that profound
observation.)
In an instant commentary, Salon blogger Glen Greenwald described
Miller's article - correctly - as a "monument to mindless
stenographic journalism" and asks if anyone is still "doubting that
there is a concerted media-aided fear-mongering campaign aimed at
Iran."
For the record, the New York Times' Eric Schmitt led off his report
in a similar vein: "Some senior Iranian leaders are now more willing
to carry out attacks inside the U.S. in response to perceived
American threats against their country," citing senior intelligence
officials.
It is not at all picayune to note that the Times dropped the "real
or" from Clapper's "in response to real or perceived U.S. actions
that threaten the regime," thus removing the point that Iran might
actually encounter "real" threats from the United States. All that
high-priced word-smithing for nothing!
As if further proof were needed about the bias of the FCM, blogger
Michael Rozeff took the Boston Globe to task for piecing together
two unconnected parts of Clapper's testimony to leave the impression
that Iran is making enriched uranium in order to conduct an attack
on the U.S.
Who Will Tell the Truth?
As a former analyst of Soviet affairs, I became familiar with how
to dissect controlled media. And as a liaison officer to Radio Free
Europe and Radio Liberty during the late Sixties, I learned ways to
penetrate denied areas with radio waves and other means.
It was those two radio stations, plus VOA and the BBC, that played
such a key role in informing Russians and East Europeans about what
was possible in the outside world. So, how to break through the
blanket of the Fawning Corporate Media to give Americans a shot at
knowing what is going on?
It seems a kind of delicious irony that - how to say this - the
Russians Are Coming to help those of us hoping to break through the
FCM and make our reporting and analysis available to our fellow
citizens. As senators were clapping for Clapper, RT (for Russia
Today) asked to interview me for their evening news program.
Knowing that my old friend Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has
already spoken approvingly of RT, I did not think I needed to ask
permission. Here's what I said; I can only hope some folks watched
it. (Open URL to see video)
On Tuesday the Senate held a hearing to discuss what the US views as
worldwide threats. It is no surprise that Iran made the top of the
list as tensions between the West and Iran have grown. According
to some reports, 70 percent of Americans believe Iran has a nuclear
weapon despite Secretary Defense Leon Panetta admitting that is
false. Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst, joins us to discuss should
Americans be afraid of Iran and if America should go to war on an
if.
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the
ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. He
entered CIA's analysis division as a Soviet specialist in 1964 and,
after preparing and briefing the President's Daily Brief (1981-85),
served as deputy chief of analysis at the Foreign Broadcast
Information Service (now the Open Source Center).
This item was first posted at www.consortiumnews.com
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