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THE MYTHOLOGY OF VEGA - AND THE
LYRE
In the constellation of Lyra is Vega,
which is the fifth brightest star in the sky. It is associated with the
asterism known as the summer triangle. Vega (also known as Wega)
draws its name from the Arabic word waki,
translating in to English as eagle. This association with an
eagle (or other birds of prey) remains in many mythological
interpretations. The star is also known to be associated with the harp,
or known as “the harp star”. It was given this name by first century
Roman scientist Pliny the Elder.
Pliny’s name of the Lyre refers
to the constellation as the harp or lyre as created by
Hermes the Roman Messenger God. In the mythology, Hermes, son of Zeus
the almighty, found an empty turtle shell, and found that it had
wonderful acoustic sounds as he beat on it with a stick. He than affixed
a number of strings taut across the opening of the shell, in a such a
way that is was similar to stringed instruments we still use today.
After Hermes created the lyre, his
brother Apollo, the Sun God came upon it. (Apollo is the God of
music and a noted athlete.) There is more than one story to how Apollo
got the lyre from Hermes. It could have been a trade, in which Hermes
exchanged the harp for a golden scepter from Apollo, which he then used
give wealth and prosperity to mortal men. A second version of the story
tells that the harp is a gift from Hermes to Apollo, to quell Apollo’s
anger with Hermes for attempting to take his cattle. (This crime
Odysseus’ hungry crewmen paid with their lives).
The harp became a family heirloom and
changed hands again when Apollo gave the harp to his son Orpheus.
Orpheus, being a prodigy, mastered the instrument such that rocks,
streams, and trees were enchanted by his music. He charmed the angriest
of men and the wildest of beasts as well.
Orpheus' abilities served him well in
winning the heart of Eurydice, the woman he romanced and wed. Some time
after Euridice married Orpheus, she went
walking in the fields with her sisters. A shepherd approached her, who
was enchanted by her beauty. Eurydice tried to escape, but was but
received a lethal bite of a poisonous snake.
Taking his harp with him, Orpheus went
into the underworld hoping to retrieve his bride from death. While
singing a loving ballad about his wife , he convinced Pluto to release
Eurydice from the underworld, Pluto agreed that he would release her,
only under the condition that Orpheus could not set eyes upon her until
they reached the upper world. Orpheus had a hard time obeying that
condition and took a look backward to see his beloved wife, breaking the
rule set by Pluto, so Euridice had to return to the underworld.
After losing Eurydice a second
time to the
underworld, Orpheus stayed alone from women
for the rest of his life. A group of young women who were trying to get
Orpheus' attention decided that his lack of interest in them was not
normal, struck him down with javelins and knives. They then dismembered his corpse
because they were so enraged. Orpheus' head and lyre were tossed into a
river that was nearby,
and his arms and legs were buried in another location.
The story of the nine muses is that they
carried the harp to the heavens, placing it among the stars. Zeus is
also said to have sent a vulture forth to retrieve the harp from
the river. The latter story seems to unite both the harp and the eagle associations
with the constellation.
In an Asian story, the Star Vega is told
as a "weaving girl", in a romantic relationship with a neighboring
"herd boy", represented by Altair of the constellation Aquila.
The two 'beings' in heaven neglected their duties and were
then divided by the Celestial River, the Milky Way Galaxy.
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| ALTAIR (Alpha Aquilae). First magnitude (0.77) Altair,
the 12th brightest star in the sky and the Alpha star of Aquila
the Eagle, is also the southern anchor of the famed Summer
Triangle, which it makes with Vega
and Deneb.
The Arabic name "Altair," reflective of the constellation
itself, comes from a phrase meaning "the flying eagle." Though
the constellation does not look much like its name, Altair itself is
flanked by a pair of stars (the Beta and Gamma stars Alshain
and Tarazed)
that really do remind the sky- gazer of a bird with outstretched wings.
The trio of stars has in fact been taken for an airplane with wing
lights slowly flying across the sky. Though three of the stars of the
Summer Triangle are all white in color and hotter than the Sun, all are
also individuals. A class A (A7) hydrogen-fusing dwarf with a
temperature of 7550 degrees Kelvin, Altair is the coolest of the three
(with Vega and Deneb nearly equal at 9500 Kelvin). Altair is also the
least luminous. From its distance of 16.8 light years, we find it to be
10.6 times brighter than the Sun,
as opposed to 50 times for Vega and an astounding 200,000 or so for much
more distant Deneb. Like the Sun and Vega, Altair is "on the main
sequence" of stars, fusing hydrogen into helium in its core. Yet
the star is not without its own striking characteristics. It is moving
across the sky against the background of distant stars more quickly than
most, and will displace itself by as much as a degree in only 5000
years. It is also a very rapid rotator. Its equatorial spin speed, while
certainly not a record, is still an astonishing 210 kilometers per
second (and may be greater, since the axial tilt is not known), as
compared with the Sun's 2 kilometers per second. With a radius 1.8 times
that of the Sun, the star has a rotation period of at most only 10
hours, as opposed to nearly a month for our ponderously spinning Sun.
Altair's high speed has even caused it to become distorted. Observation
with a sophisticated interferometer, from which the angular size of the
star is measured, reveals a 14% oblateness. Even with its high
rotational velocity, however, Altair is far from its rotational breakup
speed of 450 kilometers per second.
ALTAIR MYTHOLOGY
Altair has called "The King of Birds", "The
Rising One", "The Star
of Mighty Virtue", the "Armor-bearing
Bird of Jove" (Jove is the Roman Jupiter
or Greek Zeus), in this god's conflict with the giants. The English
called it "The Flying Grype".
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Notable stars in Aquila: Epoch 2000
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| Longitude |
Name |
Nature |
Mag. |
Position |
Lat. |
Dec. |
| 19 Cp. 48 |
Dheneb |
Mars/Jupiter |
3 |
Eagle's tail |
36N |
14N |
| 00 Aq. 56 |
Tarazed |
Mars/Jupiter |
2.8 |
Eagle's back |
31N |
11N |
| 01 Aq. 46 |
Altair |
Mars/Jupiter |
0.77 |
Eagle's breast |
29N |
09N |
| 02 Aq. 25 |
Alshain |
Mars/Jupiter |
3.9 |
Eagle's neck |
27N |
6N |
In classical myth the eagle was the bird of Zeus who returned his
master's thunderbolts and carried to him the souls of heroes. In The
Royal Art of Astrology, Robert Eisler explains how, at the funerals
of' Roman emperors, an eagle was lightly fastened to the top of the pyre
so that as soon as the fire had singed its fetters, it would break free
of its bonds and fly away - apparently bearing aloft the soul of the
departed. The location of Aquila by the side of Aquarius, and its flight
across the Milky Way towards the east was thus said by some classical
authors to represent the ascension of Ganymede (identified with
Aquarius) to Zeus. Modern scholars prefer the theory that this
constellation's name was assigned when it was near the summer solstice -
the bird of greatest elevation being chosen to assume the symbolism of
the summit of the Sun.
The imagery of the eagle has always been identified with the qualities
of strength, courage, nobility and dignity, which accords with Ptolemy's
belief that its stars are of the nature of Mars and Jupiter. Manilius
illustrates the Martian trait in his description of those born under its
influence:
He that is born in the hour of its rising will grow up bent on
spoil and plunder, won even with bloodshed … Yet, should perchance
his aggressiveness be enlisted in a noble cause, depravity will turn
to virtue, and he will succeed in bringing wars to a conclusion and
enriching his country with glorious triumphs.
The main star, Altair, is named from the Arabic Al Tair
meaning 'The Eagle'.Lilly, adhering to Manilius, says that this 1st
magnitude yellow star represents "a bold, confident, valiant
person, never yielding, guilty of bloodshed, of distempered manner,.
&c ". But he also adds that when the Moon is directed to it
there is fortune in great measure and a time of marriage and
childbirth.
The other notable stars include Dheneb, a 3rd magnitude star which
shines with a green glint and whose name comes from Al Dhanab
'The Tail'; Tarazed a pale orange 3rd magnitude star in the back of the
eagle; and Alshain a 4th magnitude star otherwise known as 'the Eagle's
neck'. The attributes of these stars are similar to Altair but, being of
less brilliance, their influence is not so strong.
The Semitic language of the Arabs;
spoken in a variety of dialects Arabic words al-nasr al-tair, which mean the flying eagle.
Altair, along
with β and γ Aquilae, form the well-known line of stars
sometimes referred to as the shaft of Aquila.
In Chinese Mythology there is a love story of Qi Qiao Jie In which Niu Lang Altair
and his two children (Aquila -β and -γ) are separated forever
from their mother Zhi Nu (Vega) who is on the far side of the river, the
Milky Way.
ALSO known as CHIH-NU, CHIH-HII
ZHI-NU: Goddess of Weaving, Spinning and Crafts.
The daughter of the JADE-EMPEROR,
she spends all her time spinning beautiful silk robes and lacey
garments for the Heavenly Host. She also makes the finest gossamer
clouds and her tapestry of the constellations is a work of art.
Her father was so pleased with ZHI-NU's
diligent work that he married her to the Heavenly Official In Charge
Of Cowsheds. (That may not sound like much of a reward, but then you
haven't met him.)
The two of them fell headlong in love and pretty soon she was
getting behind in her spinning duties. So they were whisked off into
the sky and separated by the Milky Way. You can still see them
there; she is Vega in the constellation Lyra and he is Altair in the
constellation Aquila.
Now they are only allowed to meet once a year, when a flock of
magpies swarm into the sky and create a bridge for them to cross.
For the rest of the year they live apart and she is the Heavenly
Spinster in more ways than one. This is what comes of a marriage
made in Heaven.
Now some versions of this tale assert that ZHI-NU
actually came down to Earth and had her clothes stolen while she
bathed in a river. The culprit was NIU-LANG,
a humble cowherd who was amazed at her beauty and fell instantly in
love.
Without her clothes she could not return to Heaven - at least, not
without some very awkward questions being asked. So she decided to
marry him instead as he was sweet and gentle, and not bad looking
for a mortal. Of course Heaven found out eventually, and whisked
them off to the stars as before.
It doesn't really matter which version is true. The end of this
story is far more important than the beginning, as all Chinese
lovers will testify. The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is
when ZHI-NU
and NIU-LANG
cross the magpie bridge. Their stars burn brightly in the Heavens,
lovers hold hands and gaze into the night sky, and Chinese
Valentine's Day begins...
From: Chinese
Mythology
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| Note to the Reader: When I first had the dream, I went
onto the internet to look up the number 11:25. It was a 'time' on
a clock in the dream, but numbers in my dreams are usually referring to
the Bible so I typed in 'Bible 11:25'. The first link on www.google.com
was the verse John 11:25 which is Jesus talking about his own
resurrection to Martha at Bethany..
A few minutes later, Joe took a break from his computer and picked
up the book Apokalypso by Thomas Jude Germinario. He had the page
marked where he had left off and the exact point where he had stopped
reading previously was also verse John 11:25 on page 332.
Then when I researched the star Vega, and saw the map of Vega,
Denab, and Altair, I saw that the Star Denab, in the Northern Cross
Constellation, which is part of Lyra Constellation including the other
two stars called the "Summer Triangle" the Northern
Cross is exactly placed as a clock hands would look at 11:25.
Also, the placement of Vega, Denab, and Altair was exactly how the three
of us in the dream were seated in the dream in relation to each other.
Coincidences like that are way too big to ignore. Most people will
either just laugh and move on, but to us it is a clue to look further
into the meaning. This page and the page about the three Marys
which is linked below is the result.
There are many lessons to learn in life - and these coincidences
lead to them if we but look.
Dee
THE MARY'S
The Three Mary's:
From: Apokalypso: Prophecies of the End of Time by Thomas
Jude Germinario:
Page: 331: St. Martha, who is, traceable back to the tiny
hamlet of Les Stes. Maries-d-la-Mer. Local Tradition holds that St.
Martha landed on this remote Provencal shore in the year 45 AD,
accompanied by the "three Mary's". The 'three Marys" were
Martha's sister Mary Magdalene, Mary Jacobe, mother of James the
younger, and Mary Salome, mother of John the Evangelist and James the
elder. As the folklore has it, Martha and the three Saints Mary were
forced to flee the Holy Land in a small boat, sans sail, oar, rudder, or
food - but with the Lord's protection, thanks to which they made port
near Marseilles. Most versions of the story add Martha's brother
Lazarus, who Christ had raised from the dead, and Joseph of Arimathea,
in whose tomb Jesus' body was laid - along with a twelve-year-old
mystery girl named Sara - to the boatload of holy exiles who disembarked
at Les Stes. Maries-de-la-Mer.
All three women were beloved companions of Christ who had followed
and served him since the beginning of his ministry in Galilee. At the
hour of Jesus' Passion, when virtually all of his male disciples were
hiding in fear for their own lives, the three Marys courageously stood
by him at Golgotha as recorded in the gospel of St. Mark. And Mark's
gospel also bears witness to the singular honor conferred upon the
three Mary's as the first to whom his Resurrection was made known.
It was the faith of the dead man's sisters. Martha and Mary
Magdalene, which brought this definitive miracle to fruition:
Jesus said unto her, "I am the resurrection and the life: he
that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And
whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believeth in this?
She saith unto him, Yea, Lord." John 11:25-27
Page 333: Our Savior ascends into Eternal Reality from our of
the Cup of the Female principle, upon which has descended from the Holy
Spirit. He is truly, as St. Gregory envisioned him, "a man
encompassed by a woman". This is the sublime purport of the Grail
that heresy strives relentlessly to pervert and obscure. Hence, the
sisters of Lazarus stand for the archetypal Sister-Bride, in whom is
preserved the collective Life of humanity. Their brother, the lapsed
Male principle, lies "four days dead." - corresponding to
Mani's four "Great Months". In the affirmation of the
Sister-Bride - in the 'Yea, Lord" spoken by Martha in Bethany - is
realized the Redemption of fallen Man. In the opening of the feminine
gate through which the Infinite form of the new Adam may emerge upon the
plane of manifestation.
But there are those, unwittingly inspired by the Shadow of the dead
Adam, who would prefer their Messiah to appear as a temporal king. And
appear he will. His coming is foreshadowed in the very next passage of
Mark's gospel following the excised tale of Lazarus. There we read of
the "sons of Zebedee" - that is, the sons of Mary Salome' -
demanding that Christ promise to appoint them his chief ministers, when
he assumes the throne of Israel. Jesus' stinging rebuke to Mary's sons
should ring in the ears of the "Christian' hypocrites of our times
who seek to wrap themselves in his garments as they pursue political
power.
Leadership with service
When the other ten heard this they
began to feel indignant with James and John, so Jesus called them to him
and said to them,
"You know that among the gentiles those they call their rulers lord it
over them, and their great men make their authority felt. Among you this
is not to happen. No, anyone who wants to become great among you must be
your servant, and anyone who wants to be first among you must be slave
to all. For the Son of Man himself came not to be served but to serve,
and to give his life as a ransom for many." Mark 10: 42-45
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| Joe Mason writes on the feminine aspect of
creation.
We love synchronicity and coincidence. Dream interpretation books
may be helpful to some, and we look at various opinions. Dreamers can
find the symbol meanings by checking a number of ideas, and thinking it
over carefully. Our own interpretations are often different from
standard ones, and we give opinions as an additional source to consider.
We hope others will contribute to the interpreting.
It is fun to follow the path of dreams and attempt to put a few
puzzle-pieces together. The idea of categories of dreams (garbage,
prophetic, diagnostic, universal, etc.) has been around for a while. The
Greeks spoke of dreams that come through either the Gate of Ivory or the
Gate of Horn, depending on if they are true or false. I read of another
grouping about two days ago - basically three divisions for daily life
things, thought/concepts type things, and the big spiritual type of
dream.
The "masculine-feminine.PRINCIPLE, the brain hemispheres,
DNA, etc., are entirely supported by people's dreams. Prophecies can be
exaggerated, especially the gloom and doom prophecies. There is
flooding, earthquakes, fires, but they are minor in scope compared to
the dreams and seem to be mainly symbolic. The trend is that some of the
disasters do happen, but they are much more minor than expected. But,
the symbolism, is quite big and important. It's all about the changes
happening. It is an "inner" thing, which will be manifested
more slowly in time. Some of the events are on another plane and do not
necessarily manifest in the physical realm.
I realized that one's wife, in a dream, can refer to the
feminine aspect of the self, the dreaming, intuitive, right-brained
aspect. Various dreams and myths have a theme where the male and female
are separated in some way. For example, in the East Indian story of Rama,
the hero must battle the evil demon and the Titans who are holding his
wife, Sita, captive. After a long struggle, Rama and his warriors, with
the help of the Monkey King, defeat the opponents, and he is
re-united with Sita.
The feminine aspect can change in various ways, just as
the East Indian Goddesses have various "aspects." I feel this
may be why Nancy, in the dream, went upstairs, only to be downstairs -
outside, after I descended the stairway. This seems to be showing two
aspects of Nancy, and/or my own feminine aspect.
A dream of a woman in red, represents Kali,
who corresponds to the harlot of Revelation 17. She is one of many
aspects of the Mother Goddess, Sakti. With each cycle change, there is
apparently a change in the feminine aspect. Dreams seem to give hints
about the change from the Kali/harlot stage of spiritual evolution to
the age of the Holy Spirit.
I had a dream in June 1991,
I saw a
"Y"-shape that was also a woman's body where the legs meet.
Three energy lines moved from the center, two outward and one downward.
Then I saw it again but this time there were just the two outward energy
lines. As I saw this, a voice said: "Some say there are three ways
of unfolding the world. We say two".
The Barbury Castle triangular formation
appeared the next month, although I did not know about it until
September 1991.
I found this quite amazing, because the meaning of the
Chinese Great Y has a very similar
meaning. The downward-pointing, central triangle of the Sri Yantra is
related to the feminine aspect of Deity, and related symbolically to the
"yoni," which means vagina.
A booklet from the Anthroposophic
Press offered "The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth
Century," by Jesaiah Ben Aharon. It tells of "the occult
significance of the 12 years 1933-45 in the Light of spiritual science.
The ad states, "Since the beginning of the Michael Age and the end
of Kali Yuga, two central spiritual influences stream increasingly into
the consciousness of man.
The first is the Michael power, which
guarantees the new human faculty of pure, logical thinking and
individual experiences of freedom, and the second is the new
supersensible perception that has enabled man to perceive the appearance
of the Christ in the etheric realm since 1933."
Page 11 tells of "From Jesus to
Christ," by Rudolf Steiner. He says there is an awakening to the
new revelation in our time: "Christ as the Lord of Karma."
Page 39 tells of "Sophia: The
Wisdom of God," by Sergis Bulgakov. He shows how "the Divine
Sophia, in whom all things are created, is present in the Holy Trinity
itself and how, as the 'creaturely Sophia' she works together with Her
divine counterpart in the work of the Holy Spirit for the redemption of
the world."
This fits my view of things, and helps
clarify things. The "Y"-shape in the Barbury Castle pictogram
is the Mother Deity and seems to be Sophia, or other Mother Deity names.
The Holy Spirit is the southwest circle, which is an aspect of the
feminine Deity within us, and within each consciousness unit. The two
are represented as Mother and Daughter. Kali is an aspect of the Mother
Deity, the aspect operating in this karma/judgment time cycle. It
reminds me of "tough love," a method of getting young,
rebellious kids to conform to the rules of the society.
In relation to the
above, see:
The
Trinity Connection
Dreams
About the Triple Goddesses
The
Pleiades and the Seventh Ray on the Seventh Day
The
Emergence of the Mother of All Crop Circles
The
Seth Entity and Consciousness Units
Humanity
On The Pollen Path
The son in the Trinity is often represented by an androgen, having
male and female attributes. Mercury, and his Greek counterpart, Hermes,
have this. One representation is a key and keyhole, which appeared on
the west and east of the 1992 Dharmic Wheel (or Charm Bracelet) crop
formation. There was a triad glyph as the eighth step, which was similar
to the Barbury pattern. At the center was a circle inside a quartered
circle, which Michael Green said is the god, Bel, the Light behind the
light. Bel was a name given to Marduke, which means, "Lord."
He was also a son in a Trinity.
Prior to Barbury, I wrote a speculation that Adam and Eve
represent One person, with the dual aspects, based on dreams. The
primary dream was told to me by a co-worker. He was on a starship in
space, and a VERY important message was about to come in. But, it could
not come until he ejected the garbage first, which he then did. A doctor
appeared, and led the crew into a bedroom. He began working on a
yard-high mound of a jelly-like substance at the foot of the empty bed.
Suddenly, the dreamer saw a human-sized hand puppet, a male/female pair,
with only one hand-hole. They fell back into a vat of water, and he knew
they HAD to change.
Shortly thereafter, I read "The Gnostic Gospels." One of
the early Christians had a vision that Adam/Eve are one person.
Some years later, I found H.P. Blavatsky's "Isis
Unveiled," vol. 2. She shows the relationships involved in the
concept of the Trinity, from various cultures, which she traces back to
ancient India. She calls Adam/Eve the "First Androgen."
She shows some basic forms of it. The first is a Father and Mother
with a Son, who is androgen. Next, comes the Triple Male Trinity. They
have female "Consorts," that are usually composited into one
feminine Deity. Together, they are "The Perfect Four." In the
Babylonian system, it is Anu, Bel, and Hoa (the moon). The feminine
Deity is Mylitta or Ishtar. According to Blavatsky, the feminine Deity
in the Christian Trinity is the Virgin Mary.
After reading this, I got a book called, "The Four
Gospels," a translation of four of the Gnostic Gospels found at Nag
Hamadi. One was "The Secret Book of John." He had a vision
about the Creation. A Father/Mother/Child spirit appears and explains.
The Father created the Feminine First Power. She produced "the
triple male."
Page 276 of Sacred Symbols of Mu
shows another triangle glyph, with the letters A, U, and M, in the
corners, which is more than 2,300 years old. The ancient Hindu book, Manava
dharma Sastra, states:
"In the beginning
the Infinite only existed called Aditi. Infinite dwelt A U M whose
name must precede all prayers and invocations."
James Churchward continues . . .
"A U M conveys
identically the same meaning and conception as the Mysterious Writing
and Niven's Mexican tablet No. 2379. The difference between these and
A U M is in the form of the writing. The Mysterious Writing and the
Mexican tablet are in the old temple esoteric numeral writing. The
Hindu A U M is written in alphabetical symbols which reads:
A - Ahau
Masculine - Father
U -
Feminine - Mother - She
M - Mehen The engendered - The Son -
Man"
The concepts conveyed in The
Tantric Way speak of the vibration "as sound." This
seems to be related to the chant, "Om," or "Aum."
By the time I found The Tantric Way
in early 1993, I had come to realize that symbols of the male-female
duality were quite major in dreams and crop circle formations. The
duality, in my research, seemed to be related to the concept of the
Trinity, in terms of Father, Mother, and Son. The Son aspect, it seemed,
had a dual, male-female nature, as well.
See: http://www.greatdreams.com/plpath3.htm
The six-petal daisy came to me through dreams, as it
is made up from interlocking circles in a ring. It has appeared many
times in various forms as a crop formation. In my case, it also
represented a closed aperture, like that on a camera. The north sun
symbol in the Barbury Castle formation was similar. My
dream-coincidences indicated that it would open, letting in the Seventh
Ray on the Seventh Day of Creation (we are not Man yet). It is the Lost
Pleiad of the Pleiades, and the Angel that rises from the Dawning Sun in
Revelation 7, to mark the foreheads. (those
who have stayed awake).
The Hopi depict a 12-petal sun flower in their
Creation myth of Spider Grandmother. She teaches us how "to
weave" after the fourth step (Heart chakra), and emergence into the
Sunlight. Tantra, in Sanskrit means, "to weave." The Lotus of
the Heart has 12 petals, and I believe it is related to the New
Jerusalem.
That same year, a six-petal pattern appeared with
smaller circles around the major one, which produced a Star Of David in
the center. A strong clue, as I see it, of the apature opening, and the
leap to the Heart Chakra by humanity en mass.
You can find information about the six-petal symbol
at: http://www.oro.net/~elysian/bruce_rawles.html
and http://bbs.cruzio.com/~flower/1pg_sg.htm
and http://www.gaiamind.com/
Dave is transformed into a baby (re: Rev.
12) in a bubble, heading back to earth. A new cycle of evolution
is about to begin.
When I saw the sequel, "2010," I was a bit
disappointed, until I woke up to the symbolism of the
two Suns at the end. The Sun and the Day Break Star, Venus,
correspond to Adam and Eve, in my dream interpretations. We were created
with a much larger male/rational/left-brain aspect. We only have a
rib-sized portion of the female/intuitive/dreaming/right-brain aspect.
As we awake from our dreams in the morning, and things "dawn"
on us, the two lights are up there in the sky
(at times). As the sun rises, the Morning star fades into invisibility
overpowered by the sun, that is, our feminine side has even less
function in daytime.
The symbolic meaning of two Suns becomes clear. Our
Venus aspect will grow to match the Sun aspect. This is symbolized in a
number of other ways in the crop formations, and in dreams. In the
Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, Jesus said in saying 22, that one must make
the male and female into a single one, in order to enter the Father's
domain. The most clear crop pattern that had this symbolism had the
female sign of Venus joined together with the male sign of Mars.
Deathwalking with
Diana
The facts of Princess Diana's life and death are
well-known to us all, so I shall not dwell overly much on them here. The
thoughts that follow are a tentative attempt to come to terms
consciously with what has undeniably been an archetypal event of tidal
wave proportions. It has splashed millions, if not billions of folk
emotionally and mythically - particularly those who are open to being so
touched through dwelling near the ocean - the foremost symbol of the
unconscious. Only those in emotional deserts, or in psychological
graves, or on unreachable mountain-tops, it seems, have remained immune;
indeed, many have been surprised, even caught off-guard by the depth of
their personal response. The entire tragedy has, I believe, given
further impetus to what Jung prophesied would be the incoming dominant
of the emerging Aquarian Age, Eros, the feminine principle of
relatedness. (Perhaps it's no coincidence, then, that the Aquarian Age,
in one astrological system of dating, begins 'officially' in 1997). At
the same time this event has placed, ironically through a death, another
nail in the coffin of the waning Piscean dominant of patriarchal
hierarchy and its distantly enthroned God.
THE VINE OF THE LORD
Many biblical passages use
the word vine as a metaphor for the chosen people of God. "A vine
thou didn't bring out of Egypt" (Ps. 80:91), "The vineyard of
the Lord of hosts is the House of Israel and the mean of Judah are his
cherished plant" (Isa. 5:71) Several passages refer to the vine as
feminine. "Thy wife is like a fruitful vine" (Ps. 128);
"Your mother is like a vine planted by the water, fruitful and
branchy... but she was torn up...and now she is planted in the
desert...she is now without a royal branch, a ruler's scepter"
(Ezek. 19:10-14) This transplanted royal vine is understood by
biblical scholarship to refer to the royal Davidic line of Judah, the
line of the princes.
The Bride in Canticles
carefully tends the vines. In Isaiah 5, the rebellious vineyard brings
forth wild grapes. Psalm 80is a prayer for the restoration of the
vineyard. "Take care of this vine and protect what your right hand
has planted." In Mark's Gospel, Jesus tells the parable of the
vinedressers, caretakers of the vineyard (Israel) who beat the servants
of their master when they came to inspect the condition of the vines and
then killed the master's son. No one who knew Jesus of Nazareth and who
"had ears to hear" was in any doubt as to the identity of that
'faithful son". He was the legitimate heir to the vineyard of
Judah.
The transplanting of the
Davidic "vine" would have come as no surprise to the Zealot
fundamentalist friends of Jesus. They knew it had been prophesied (Ezek.
17). It had happened before, when the people of Israel were taken as
slaves to Babylon. But it could also happen again. in light of the
danger to the vine of Judah, the royal bloodline, it is likely that the
friends of Jesus took strong and perhaps desperate measures to protect
the family of Jesus. It would have been their top priority."
End of quote
See; http://www.greatdreams.com/vine.htm
Kiara Windrider says: The Egyptian calendar pointed to
September 17, 2001 as a time for planetary initiation (See Moira Timms,
Beyond Prophecies and Predictions). The tragic events of September 11
unfolding with the Twin Towers and Pentagon attacks sent ripples of
shock across the world, setting off a great chain of consequences that
continues to build. Could these two events be related somehow?
The Pyramid end-date is also related to electromagnetic changes within
the Earth, and the balancing of long-range karmic cycles, eventually
shifting from karma to grace. Could this time represent a possible
choice point for human evolution?
In an astrological chart set up for 1:30 a.m. on September 17, 2001 over
Giza, an interesting Star of David was formed, representing the descent
of the Aquarian Age, and the ascent of the wounded feminine. It
signified a major turning point in patriarchal consciousness.
Excerpt from: http://www.greatdreams.com/planetary_initiation.htm
On May 5, 2001, Dee Finney had an incredible vision during
meditation that is related to the above writing:
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Note: The line was all red. I have made it
red and white to make
it easier to be seen.
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5-3-2001 - MEDITATION -
I suddenly had a vision of the world like a huge blue ball and a
red line came
shooting out of one spot in Egypt and going up and spinning
into a spiral...
not like a tornado sideways, but a large ball spiraling of red
string arcing up
and then spiraling down and around into itself. The spiral was
almost as
large as the earth itself. Then out of the spiral, came
shooting another red
line that went up and divided and came falling back down towards
earth.
I lay there thinking about what that might be ... like a
volcano spouting red
lava ... a voice said, "It is nothing less than the power of
the pyramid taking
over today."
See
automatic writing for today Topic is the Ark of the
Covenant
More on the
Pyramid at Giza
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| The Christian Version of Creation
Mother of God, Mother of All Christians
In the same way as the woman who bore you is called your
mother and not the mother of your body only, Mary is the mother
of the whole person of Jesus Christ, who is God (cf. Colossians
2:9). The Church proclaimed this truth in the Council of Ephesus
in 431 A.D.:
Therefore, because the holy virgin bore in the flesh God
who was united hypostatically with the flesh, for that reason we
call her mother of God, not as though the nature of the Word had
the beginning of its existence from the flesh (for "the
Word was in the beginning and the Word was God and the Word was
with God", and he made the ages and is coeternal with the
Father and craftsman of all things), but because, as we have
said, he united to himself hypostatically the human and
underwent a birth according to the flesh from her womb.
--Third letter of Cyril to Nestorius
Similarly, the body of believers, the Church, are Christ's
body (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:27-31; Ephesians 4:1-6, 15-16;
Colossians 1:18; etc.) and since Mary is the mother of Christ,
she is also the mother of all us believers. And, as if these
facts would not be enough, Jesus himself gave us Mary as our
mother as he hung dying on the cross (cf. John 19).
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The
Japanese Explanation of Creation
The
Hebrew Creation Narrative
Mariology
- Mary as Mother of God
The
Blavatsky Explanation of Creation
The
Seven Creations - Blavatsky
| The Black Madonna is revered throughout the world,
particularly in France, Poland, Italy and Spain. She is the
Blessed Virgin Mary of the Crusades and holy pilgrimages
The Black Madonna is honored as a true Goddess figure, and
has been since Christianity entered Europe. She is honored by
many as Isis, Gaia, Kali, Mary, "the Other Mary" (Mary
Magdalene), Diana, Sheela Na Gig, and the Ancient Primal
Earth-Mother Goddess.
For many European Christians, the blending of their
ancient Goddesses with the Blessed Virgin Mary has been a well
accepted fact of their faith for centuries, there is no
conflict. The Black Madonna, be She called Isis, or Mary, or
Kali, or Diana, embodies all the aspects of Female Divinity for
many millions of people.
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| According to Helena Blavatsky in her book "Isis
Unveiled" on page 443 - Vol II, she states: The exoteric
plan of the Bible was made to answer also to four ages. Thus,
they reckon the Golden Age from Adam to Abraham; the silver,
from Abraham to David; copper, from David to the Captivity;
thence-forward, the iron. but the secret computation is quite
different, and does not vary at all from the zodiacal
calculations of the Brahmans. We are in the Iron Age, or
Kali-Yuga, but it began with Noah, the mythical ancestor of our
race.
Noah, or Nuah, like all the euhemerized manifestations of
the Un-revealed One - Svayambhuva (from Svayambhu) - was
androgyne. Thus, in some instances, he belonged to the purely
feminine triad of the Chaldeans, known as "nuah, the
universal Mother." Every male triad had its feminine
counterpart, one in three, like the former. It was the passive
complement of the active principle, its reflection. In India,
the male Trimurti is reproduce in the Sakti-trimurti, the
feminine; and in Chaldea, Ana, belita, and Davkina answered to
Anu, Bel, Nuah. The former three resumed in one - Belita, were
called:
"Sovereign goddess, lady of the nether abyss, mother
of gods, queen of the earth, queen of fecundity."
As the primordial humidity, whence proceeded all, Belita
is Tiamat, or the sea, the mother of the city of Erech (the
great Chaldean necropolis), therefore an infernal goddess. In
the world of stars and planets, she is known as Ishtar or
Ashtoreth. Hence, she is identical with Venus, and every other
Queen of Heaven, to whom cakes and buns were offered
in sacrifice, and , as all the archaeologists know,
with Eve, the mother of all that live, and with Mary.
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The Second coming: The Second Coming is not a return of
Christ but a new arrival of female presence..one that is strong, loving,
divine, wise and powerful.
Sacred geometry is subtle. It uses shapes (circles, triangles,
spirals, etc.) that work subliminally on the unconscious mind. It also
uses archetypal symbols, numerology, cosmology, astrology and mysticism
to foster a relationship to the universe and to God.
| WHO IS MARY?
Isis is the lady of the Pyramid, Nun-Hathor and Atum-Ptah
gave her the custody.
From Isis comes HOR, and the Akeru Aku: the 7 Sphinx
Masters. And from them the Shemsu Hor, of which Christ was one
in lineage. Isis gives birth to the divine child, BY the BA
(Soul, Dove), BA-BY. And Tehuti enabled that birth to succeed,
both in wining with the moon, and by providing the Wizardry to
resurrect Ausir Wassir Osiris in the dark. From which emerged
Iosos (Horus) on the 25th of December.
Isis was the first Virgin Mary. As Lady of the Pyramid,
the MeRu. The Lady of the Lake (Avalon, Arthur, ArkHor, Art-HOR,
and MRlin), Queen of Hearts. Mary comes from Egypt. Mother of
TutankAton (later TothAnkAmon) and Moses was Mery Kiya (Miriam).
Mary comes from Mer, which is both a lake and a sea, in cross
linguistics, and has both meanings in Egyptian. Mer was also the
Pyramid itself, recall. And Isis was the lady of the mount of
the east, Mt Manu (as it was called). She was Sirius, SEPTet,
and her sign is the M of Virgo the Virgin of September, when
Sirius disappears from the Egyptian skies.
The Mery's were the high Priestesses, and so Jesus was
born from a Virgo Mary on the Horus day.
Magdala, is a Hebrew word meaning Tower. It was the name
given to Miriyam, one of Yeshua's female disciples, who in all
likelihood was his wife. She was called Mary of Magdala, or Mary
Magdalene. We also believe she was co-Messiah with Yeshua.
God-the-Father and God-the-Mother both chose to incarnate
themselves upon the earth together in order to draw their
created selves (all of us) back to Them. And now they are
returning.....
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Six Marys are to be distinguished in the New Testament:
(1) the mother of Jesus; always clearly identified by the
context.
(2) Mary Magdalene, a woman of Magdala, " out of whom
went seven demons" Luke 8:2 She is never mentioned apart
from the identifying word "Magdalene."
(3) The mother of James (called "the less," Mark
15:40) and Joses, the apostles. A comparison of ; John 19:25;
Matthew 27:56; Mark 15:40 establishes the inference that this
Mary, the mother of James the less, and of Joses was the wife of
Alphaeus (called also Cleophas), John 19:25 and a sister of Mary
the mother of Jesus. Except in ; Matthew 27:61; 28:1 where she
is called "the other Mary (i.e. "other" than her
sister, Mary the Virgin); and John 19:25 where she is called
"of Cleophas," she is mentioned only in connection
with one or both of her sons.
(4) Mary of Bethany, sister of Martha and Lazarus,
mentioned by name only in Luke 10:39-42; John
11:1,2,19,20,28,31,32,45; 12:3 but referred to in ; Matthew
26:7; Mark 14:3-9.
(5) The mother of John Mark and sister of Barnabas Acts
12:12.
(6) A helper of Paul in Rome Romans 16:6.
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The Black Madonna - The Return of the Feminine
Jay Weidner
"In the beginning all was the void and all was black. God saw this
and said 'Let there be Light'. And there was light."
The Book of Genesis
I. Metaphor
In order to understand the Black Madonna it is necessary to think
in metaphor. The people of the past thought this way. Long before
'materialist science' arrived on the scene people did not dissect
everything, they did not try to break everything up into tiny
fragments.
When they examined something, when they attempted to understand
the world around them they did through the act of metaphorical
thinking. They would approach a subject by finding it's simile or
attempt to understand it through the act of understanding things
that were similar to it.
This way of thinking runs contrary to the way that we think today.
It also reveals a past that we may not be able to comprehend in a
fashion that makes sense to us. When one realizes the power of
this way of thinking it sheds an entirely new light on the
people of old times. It makes one realize that their legends
stories and myths may be something much different than we
have been led to believe.
Maybe western mythologists have not been completely correct in
their perceptions of what these ancient people were telling us.
Maybe they think they understand what the myths and stories were
saying but possibly they are
wrong. Maybe something else is being said. Maybe something we
can't yet understand is being conveyed to us. It is only through
this re-understanding that we can begin to comprehend what it is
that we are being told.
When people of the past attempted to describe the world around
them they did it through the means of comparison. When they
examined something they described it in the poetic, metaphorical
terms of emotion and myth - they didn't break it down into long
words that run on forever. It is important to understand this
because it is impossible for us to begin to realize what they are
saying without this understanding.
This is a difficult concept for us to accept today in a culture
that believes that it is the smallest of objects that makes up the
larger whole. But this way of dealing with the surrounding
universe is a faulty way.
Scientists have broken water down to its atomic material. They
will tell you that water molecules essentially are made up of two
atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. But if this is so then
why can't they create water by mixing two parts hydrogen with one
part oxygen? The fact is that they can't do this. It is
impossible. So what does all of this mean? Nothing much except to
prove that breaking something down into it's essential components
is an exercise in futility.
Yes we can say that water is made up of two atoms of hydrogen and
one of oxygen but how are these atoms combined to make this
substance we call water? No one can say.
I say all of this not to prove that science is silly, or even that
it's presumptions are wrong. I say this because there are very
real mysteries to these ideas. Science would like us to believe
that these mysteries have either been solved or that they are on
their way to being solved. This is not true. There is much more to
be found about nature and her
machinations then we can ever know.
Therefore maybe the ancients were on to something when they
decided to view the surrounding world through the prism of
metaphor and simile. Maybe they understood that there is something
about the human mind itself which allows these comparisons to be
not only right but possibly even more accurate than science
itself.
This idea of metaphor and simile can help us understand the way
that these people thought. Therefore we can understand how they
looked at the world. If we can understand how they looked at the
world then possibly we can even begin to understand them more
completely.
This idea of metaphor begins to take further shape when one
considers that many of the texts and myths handed down to us are
not what they appear to be about. When one considers these ancient
stories it becomes apparent that the interpretations we once
thought were accurate representations of what these people are
saying may very well be wrong.
Let us take for instance the story of Jesus and his ordeal. For a
moment let us shed the precepts and imprints of our own past
history with this story. For a moment let us consider that this
story came out of sophisticated and long tradition - that of the
Hebrew people. Let us also consider that the Dead Sea scrolls -
found in Qumran in 1947 -
reveal that the Essenes were a deeply esoteric group within the
Hebrew tradition.
Might it not be possible that they may have created the story of
Jesus to tell us many other things then the idea that he was on a
mission of compassion and was later executed for this mission.
This is not to say that the myth itself may not be true, this is
not to say that there may not have even been once a man named
Jesus who performed miracles and rose from the dead. But let us
take an excursion through the possible mindset of these Essenes
and their Hebrew tradition.
Myth is built on metaphor so what is the metaphor of the Jesus
story? What are the similes between this story and other stories
and situations that this group may have wanted to send down the
stream of time? Taking this thought experiment to its logical
conclusion we must begin top speculate on what is similar and
metaphorical about the myth.
First off there is the metaphor of the son and the sun. Jesus in
Hebrew means Jesse or 'Fire'. Let us - for a moment assume that
instead of 'son' they are referring to the 'sun'. Then let us
consider the twelve apostles. Do they represent more than just
twelve men? For a moment let us consider that this actually refers
to the twelve signs of the Zodiac.
Now for a moment let us consider Jesus' mother Mary. Mary in
Hebrew means sea or seawater, she is also associated with a
crescent moon. It is well known that the moon controls the tides
and therefore seawater. Is it possible that Mary is a metaphor for
the moon? So let us consider what we have here. We have Jesus, or
Fire, moves through the twelve men or signs. Just as our sun moves
through the twelve signs of the zodiac.
What is the missing astrological element? The moon of course. And
along comes Mary to fill this void. Does this mean that the story
of Jesus, Mary and his band of disciples is the story of some
kind of astrological situation? Is it possible that this is what
is appening - at least on a metaphorical level? I think so.
This is what I mean by re-thinking these myths in a metaphorical
way. This is in no way meant to denigrate the Christian religion
or anyone's belief in Jesus, Mary and the disciples as real men.
The point that is being made is that there are metaphorical links
to this story that are just as important as the human links. The
names, and the numbers of their names, of these people involved in
this story are important.
Actually they are too important to be ignored - for it was within
the names and the numbers inside the structure of these myths that
a true understanding of what they are about can actually occur.
This is just an example of how to re-read a common myth. Once one
understands the true nature of the myth then one can go inside the
myth and begin to understand all of its levels. What are the
implications of re-reading the Jesus story as a metaphorical myth
about some astrological event? The implications of this are not
for this time and
place.
The example was only used to reveal the inner workings of myth and
help you, o gentle reader, in understanding the many multifaceted
levels of these experiences. Once we begin to re-educate our minds
into the correct interpretations of these stores can we begin to
understand ourselves, our past and who we actually are.
This way of thinking can be difficult and sometimes impossible for
our modern minds to comprehend. It can drive us up a wall as we
consider the many faceted reality that this kind of thinking
introduces. But there are many levels to reality and it is a big
mistake to believe in openly one kind of fundamental reality at
the expense of all of the other realities that are just as or
maybe even more important.
II. Black
With this new understanding of metaphor let us begin to
recomprehend new concepts in light of this awareness.
We will begin with the color black. Black is the color that
contains all colors. If you took all of the colors of the rainbow
and combined them your resulting mix would be black in color.
Black is the color that contains all colors. Metaphorically
speaking then - it is possible for black to represent all things
in their beginning stage.
Black is the color, or the substance, from which all things
manifest. Out of the black depths of space - stars, suns and
planets form. The universe was once, according to scientists, a
place that was dark and void of light. There was a black dust that
hung like a mist throughout the universe. Slowly this dust
coagulated into larger pieces.
Soon the pieces begin to collect and grow, compression and gravity
were the result. Over time enough of this material eventually
formed into a dense sphere. This sphere began to compress and
pressure within it's core beginning to manifest. Soon the core
began to collapse in on itself.
Eventually this collapsing state began a nuclear reaction. This
nuclear reaction spread throughout the mass of this compressed
sphere and ignited it, turning it into the first star, the first
sun. Out of this dark, dense and black
material - light was formed.
In alchemy the matter that was there before all other matter is
called the 'prima materia'. This was the original substance from
which all alchemical transmutation manifested. The prima materia
is the cause of all effects that occur after it is formed. It is
the base matter. From the prima materia comes the first substances
and from these substances comes the first minerals.
The alchemist task is to somehow separate the different aspects of
the prima materia into its own material spectrum of substance.
This process is similar to the creation of diamonds. Black coal is
the prima materia for the construction of diamonds. Over thousands
of years through the alchemy of time, pressure and gravity the
black coal, the prima materia becomes the diamond. Through the
prism of this construct the white light of the sun shines through.
This light is broken up into the spectrum of colors that make up
our world. So, through the process of the alchemy of our planet,
the black coal is compressed into the multifaceted crystal that
shines the colors of black through it's prism.
But now these colors are not coagulated and mixed into the color
black - they have been separated now and shine with their own
radiance. This is a great example of metaphor and how it relates
separate items within the same universality.
It can be said that the process of time and compression brought
forth the diamond. The alchemical earth created this substance
from the basest of matter. Within the confines of this matter was
the diamond. It was always there it just needed time
and gravity to transmute.
Another metaphor to be understood is that of the lotus. In order
for the lotus to grow strong and to produce a beautiful flower it
is necessary that its roots to ground themselves in manure. The
darker the excrement - the better the lotus will grow, the more
astonishing will be it's flower. This is why the lotus is
considered the most sacred of plants in the east. It is only
through the action of the emergence of the flower from the black
shit can the importance of this metaphor be understood.
In western traditions there was once a vast pilgrimage that took
place in Europe. Pilgrims made their way towards the town of
Compostella in Spain. The word Compostella comes from the same
root word as compost. Compost is the living, black material that
is made from rotting fruits, grains and other organic matter. From
this compost - life and light will emerge. When the pilgrims came
to the Cathedral at Compostella they were being 'composted' in a
sense. After their emergence into the dark confines of the
cathedral and the spirit - they were ready to flower,
they were ready to return home with their spirits lightened.
The New Age seeks to denigrate the dark. They speak of only the
light. But they misunderstand the true significance of the dark
and of the black. They fail to realize that there can be no light
without dark. They fail to see that the light can only be
perceived through the background of darkness. This
misunderstanding is a great one and needs to be overcome if they
wish to succeed in a pursuit of truth.
Within black is all things. All things manifest from the black.
III. Al-Kemi
The ancient name for Egypt was Al-Kemi. This meant 'The Black
Lands'. This is the word from which we get the word
'alchemy'. The reason they named their fabled land this title was
because the yearly inundation of the Nile river deposited rich and
mineralized soil to the banks of Egypt.
The people of Al-Kemi or Egypt became dependent on this black
alluvial soil. Out of this black rich soil grew all of the crops,
grains, and other commodities that this great culture depended
upon. Also out of this culture came the knowledge of a sacred
science. This science remains a mystery to us today.
It was once called alchemy. No one seems to know what was exactly
what this science entailed. All that is known is that the
Egyptians spent allot of time and resources on this 'science'. The
most intelligent people of that society were the sacred
scientists. They studied all aspects of our particular localized
universe. They studied and understood the human body and spirit,
the nature of matter, the knowledge of plants and minerals, the
lore of the
stars and much more.
Today alchemy is regarded with some disdain by modern scientists.
They believe that the old alchemists were fooling themselves with
their endless experiments and rituals. For what can actually be
gained from such senseless
activity? But scientists make a big mistake with this presumption.
Would intelligent men and women really spend their lives endlessly
searching for something that could never be attained? It seems
highly unlikely.
What seems more likely is that these people were seeing the world
in different terms then we do today. With the idea of metaphor as
their driving intellectual force it is possible that we do not
completely understand this ancient process. The alchemists were
obsessed with the prima materia. They called it the black virgin.
For it's color was black and it was a virgin in the sense that no
alchemical transmutation had yet been performed on this material.
It is difficult for us today to begin to grasp what they were
referring to when they used the terms 'prima materia' or black
virgin'.
There are many theories. Some say it was coal, others say it was
black sand from the Sahara desert, others say it was the volcanic
black obsidian that came from the near east. Whatever this black
virgin was it was the beginning of the alchemical process. It was
the material that was used to transmute and create entirely new
materials. Hence the
legend that the alchemists could turn lead into to gold.
The process remains a mystery to all but the most serious of
adepts. But what does seem clear was that the alchemists had the
ability to change this prima materia into something that flowered
or separated the light. It has been speculated that they were
attempting to communicate with the matter itself. The goal of
alchemy may remain mysterious but what it absolutely certain is
that the Black Madonna's, that were placed inside the great
cathedrals
of Europe were meant to represent - at least on one level - this
prima materia, this black virginous quality that was so much
prized by these alchemists.
IV. Eve
The study of mitochondria DNA is the next metaphor that bears
exploring. The mitochondria DNA is part of the DNA chain that can
only be passed down from woman to woman, from mother to daughter.
Using this process
scientists can actually follow the generations of women backwards
through time. Through this process they can actually find the very
first woman.
Scientists in the 1980's did just this. What they discovered was
that the very first human, the very first woman, the mother of all
humanity existed about two hundred thousand years ago. She was
also black. This brings up all sorts of controversy but the basic
point remains the same. The very first woman was black. So even in
the realm of human
interaction the metaphor that all things come from black and later
separate into different colors is shown.
This recalls the book 'Voices of the First Day' by Robert Lawlor.
In this book he postulates the theory that the very first people
were the aborigines in Australia. They are, of course, black. He
theorizes that the subtle energies from space come down through
the north pole of the earth.
These energies travel down through the center of the earth and
come out at the south pole. These energies then sweep upwards over
the top of the earth's surface. He believes that life itself also
emanates this way. The aborigines believe that they have lived in
Australia for the past 200,000 years.
Geologists and continental drift theorists have shown that there
was once one supercontinent named Pangea. Pangea eventually broke
apart and began moving northwards. Which is the situation we have
today with most of the land masses gathering close to the northern
part of the planet. The land masses appear to be following these
south to north energies that flow over the earth's surface. As the
first people were created from these forces they begat the people
that followed. In this way it is shown that all men come from the
people of the first day.
Scientists and western mythologists refer to this first woman as
Eve. She is actually Isis. She came to teach the arts of
civilization. She is the first mother. She is the progenitor of
all that is too come. All things manifest in Isis and all things
are co-created with her.
V. Madonna
The Black Madonna is symbol of all of the above and much more. She
is Isis and she is Eve, she is the prima materia and the black
lands, she is alchemy and she is the mother of all of human
creation. From the depths of the darkest of space and the from the
primal blackness of the mud of the earth she was formed.
Manifesting into all colors and realms she casts her light of
compassion, love and forgiveness into the very being of humanity.
She is what makes the spirit rise out of the animal form. She is
the being who represents all of the aspects of nature which are
rising up out of creation. She is the being who symbolizes the
transcendent nature of all of life. It is through her suffering,
her desire, her compassion and her willingness to teach that the
human race can reach towards a less mundane role. She is all that
is and all that shall ever be.
ISIS is the true manifestation of all that is good in humanity.
She is the woman that lives inside all of women. She is the true
being of
worship for it is only through her ultimate martyrship that we as
men can grow.
Inside of each of the great Gothic Cathedrals of Europe, and
especially France, are statues of the Black Madonna. She is made
out of black obsidian. In the beginning she was painted white but
now the paint has flecked away leaving the original black rock
underneath. In this we have a beautiful metaphor that explains the
Black Madonna's origins and what she represents. Her original
being is made of volcanic, black rock that comes from deep in the
earth.
She is Mother Night. Thus she arose directly from the stuff that
makes up our planet. She is then painted white and dressed in
white and blue clothes. She holds the son, exoterically
represented by the baby Jesus but esoterically he represents
Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris. Black Obsidian is very likely
the prima materia of the alchemists. It is from this important
substance that gold and other transmutations could be performed.
Out of this dark and black aspect comes the white surface, black
becomes white. The transmutation of matter is complete. But if the
white is left alone for a long period of time - it begins to turn
back to the black. Just as the white inside of an apple will turn
brown and black if left alone in the air. White is a moment in the
process but only just a
moment. Soon all things fall back to their primordial essence.
Soon all things turn back to the black.
Thus Isis, or the Black Madonna, represented one aspect of her
being when she was formed from the black obsidian. She became
another aspect of herself when she was painted white. Today she
sits in the cathedrals with her body and skin black but she still
wears the white clothes of her former self. She today symbolizes
the dual aspects of the age of iron. She is both the black
volcanic earth and the soft white cotton of civilization. But soon
the fires of nature shall burn away the white clothes and this
will leave the maiden black again, just as she started.
According to the great alchemist Fulcanelli there is a Black
Madonna in the crypt, or the basement, of every Cathedral in
France. He says that she is the secret Isis who must stay hidden
through this age. One day perhaps she will be taken out of the
crypts and take her rightful place at the head of the altar.
Perhaps some day the ruby light from the rose window at Chartes
Cathedral can shine again on her face as it was originally
intended.
But the Madonna in the crypt is still serving a useful purpose,
albeit a hidden one. She is always placed nearby the well that
lies at the bottom of each Cathedral. It is a little known fact
that the great Gothic Cathedrals were built over the sacred wells
and groves of the earlier Druids. Thus their architects were
secretly upholding a tradition that
connects these Cathedrals to the very core of the spiritual nature
of the Druid people who once populated Europe.
The lady by the well is very important to the proper spiritual
construct of these edifices. The well is the representation of the
female earth, the dark matter of our planet. The subtle energies,
known to the cabbalists and alchemists as telluric forces, flow
out from her and rise upwards towards the floor of the cathedral.
The Black Madonna in the crypt is the first to greet these female
earthly telluric energies. These energies rise up to greet the
male telluric energies of father sky. These energies are received
by the giant steeples of the cathedrals. These steeples act like
amplifiers as they gather up the male energies and bring these
downwards towards the
floor of the Cathedrals.
These steeples are symbolic representations of the stone monoliths
that once dotted the landscape of Europe. These stones, or these
steeples, are working in tandem with the earth's telluric energies
coming up from the wells. Together these energies would meet on
the floor of the cathedrals where the members of the parish would
meet. Gregorian chants would be written to resonate and transmit
these subtle energies more clearly. At the core of this symbolic
revival of the mother goddess, of Isis, was the giant rose window
which sat at the center of the path of the sun. The light from
father son was diffused by the red colored glass and this
symbiotic transmutation would cause a heightened awareness and a
birth of consciousness within the people experiencing this. This
was the secret magic of the architects of these buildings.
The Knight's Templar, fresh from their esoteric reinvigoration in
Jerusalem most likely funded and designed these Cathedrals. Some
believe that the Knights had been secretly converted to a form of
Sufi influenced Islam during their trip to the Holy Lands. The
Cathedrals do bear a remarkable resemblance to the mosques of
Islam. The Knights may have taken this knowledge of the Sufi's and
used it in conjunction with their own Druid belief system.
In this marriage a new view of the world, human beings and the
surrounding universe began to pervade Europe. After a long drowsy
sleep - the continent began to open. This brought many unforeseen
tragedies as well as many advances in technology but the ultimate
end of this awakening may not happen for a while. It sometimes
takes a long while for an experiment to unfold.
The Black Madonna thus represents the return of a female power.
This power is not concerned with equality within corrupt
institutions like the military and the corporate world. This
equality is a spiritual union. A tantric union of opposites
embraced in love. That is the ultimate quest of Isis and the Black
Madonna. As she is from the earth
so are we from the earth. As she returns to black so will our
bodies one day return to the black soil of this planet. As our sun
came out of the dust of darkness to light our solar neighborhood -
so it too will one day die in its own embers. So it will also fade
back into the darkness of female creation. The light must come
from the dark. And one day the light returns to dark. This is the
metaphor that rules all of creation.
This is the tantric union of dark and light. The Black Madonna not
only represents all of this but she is also a symbol of the vast
and important knowledge that our ancestors attempted to leave
behind. If one is presented with the Book of All Knowledge but
does not know how to read it - what good is it?
That is the dilemma that we are presented with today in our modern
world. Our ancient fathers and mothers, our blood and flesh, left
us a plethora of symbols and images to help us understand the
larger universe and our
place in it. We have lost the ability to understand these images
and we have acquired a terrible case of amnesia. From which
recovery is not guaranteed. In this amnesiac state we began to
misperceive these symbols and writings. Without the true
understanding of metaphor we began to think that our ancestors
were ignorant, dumb and imprecise. What a horrible thing to have
happen to one's own flesh and blood.
The symbols of the cathedrals, like the symbols of India and Egypt
reveal a vast knowledge that frequently surpasses our own. Only in
an age such as ours could such foolish notions manifest. The
arrogant turn ignorant as they drown in the ocean of their own
foolishness.
Now, at the end of the Kali Yuga, these symbols may become
understandable again. Now as corporate culture replaces nature we
can only imagine what the past was telling us. As we view the
world through the virtual lenses of a corporate paradigm it is
little wonder that we have lost our ability to understand who we
are. The old world fades
quickly away with the downward spiral of pollution from this age.
The earth, the female, the soft touch of life have all been
denigrated and corrupted by this age of insanity.
The Black Madonna is all that we have left of this long legacy of
Isis. She still stands today in the Cathedrals of France. Today,
still active and alive, the spirit of the goddess, the Black
Madonna can still be knelt before, she can still be asked for
forgiveness and for compassion. Her spirit has never died in
Europe. Surely this is a miracle! How
wonderful that her image still stands and is still worshipped in
the some of the most beautiful buildings on our little planet!
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