Moon Stories
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 1:06 am
In the early chapters of Genesis telling the story of creation, the word usually translated "God' is, as we have seen, "Elohim". Later Genesis ceases to refer Elohim and instead the word usually translated as 'God' is 'Jehovah'. Biblical scholars working outside the esoteric tradition have tended to explain what appears to them as two different names for the same God as the result of two different literary strands, the Elohim strand and the Jehovah strand, probably dating from different periods and woven together by a later redactor.
However, scholars working within the esoteric tradition have a much simpler explanation. Elohim and Jehovah are not different names for the same entity but different entities. Elohim is, as we have seen, a collective name for the Seven Spirits working together as the god of the Sun, while Jehovah came into being when on of these seven broke away to defend Earth from Venus.
In order to discover Jehovah's true, astronomical identity, we must look again at the iconography of his opponent, Venus. We must also continue to bear in mind that for ancient the history of the origins of the cosmos was as much about how human experience was put together, how experience gained its characteristic structure, as it was about how the physical universe was put together. In other words, it was much about the principles of human nature as about the laws of the natural world.
Human nature is so formed that any power I may have resist my animal desires -- Indeed what stops me from becoming a mere animal -- derives from my capacity for thought and reflection. Venus was traditionally depicted holding up a mirror, but not out of vanity as is nowadays supposed. The mirror was a symbol of the power of reflection to modify desire.
The god of reflection was the god of the great reflector in the sky - the moon. On all ancient cultures the moon regulated not only fertility but thought.
In fact the initiate priests believed that, in order to create the conditions in which human thought would be possible the cosmos had to arrange itself in a particular way. In order for human reflection to be possible, the sun and the moon had had to arrange themselves in the sky so that the moon reflected the light of the sun down to earth.
They also believed that this arrangement in the sky had to e reproduced on a smaller scale inside the human head. THere the pineal gland represented the sun, and the moony gland, which modify and reflect on the visions that the pineal gland received from the spirit worlds, was the pituitary gland.
This might seem one of the madder things that anyone has ever believed, but to the ancients it corresponds to their everyday, lived experience. They tracked small changes in their consciousness, which seemed to mutate with the changing positions of the sun and moon. Readers are invited to check their own experience to see whether their dreams are more vivid when the moon is big and full/.
If you observe oysters in a tray for a month, you will see that they wax and wane with the moon. Modern science has confirmed that the pituitary gland behaves like an oyster.
THE GOD OF THE MOON WOULD BECOME known to the hebrews as Jehovah and to the Muslims as Allah, the great god of though-shalt-not.
So at the climax of the great cosmic drama of creation, with the earth in danger of becoming a living hell, a new force arose to meet Lucifer. Just as the seven Elohim had acted to hold Saturn/Satan in check, now one of these seven broke away to become the god of the Moon, and from there directed operations to hold Venus/Lucifer in check.
This great cosmic battle against Venus was remembered in cultures around the world, for example in the story of Krishna's battle with the snake-demon Kaliya, in Apollo's battle with the Python and Perseus, on of whose attributes was mirror shield, combating the sexually ravenous dragon that threatened Andromeda.
The Jehovah of the Old Testament is a jealous, angry, and warlike god. The Hebrew tradition, Jehovah's forces are led by Archangel Michael. As the Book of Revelation has it: ' And there was a war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought against the angels... and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent which deceiveth the whole world, he was cast out into the earth.
WE HAVE SEEN, THEN, THAT IN THE THIRD great act of the drama of creation, the god of the Moon won a great victory.
So began the era of the moon. The first three epochs of the cosmos, the mineral, vegetable and animal eras - Saturn-day, Sun-day and Moon-day - are remembered in the names of the first three days of the week. These days of the week are named after these three heavenly bodies in this particular order for this reason alone.
CNN
updated 2:23 PM EDT, Sat June 22, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/22/us/superm ... index.html
However, scholars working within the esoteric tradition have a much simpler explanation. Elohim and Jehovah are not different names for the same entity but different entities. Elohim is, as we have seen, a collective name for the Seven Spirits working together as the god of the Sun, while Jehovah came into being when on of these seven broke away to defend Earth from Venus.
In order to discover Jehovah's true, astronomical identity, we must look again at the iconography of his opponent, Venus. We must also continue to bear in mind that for ancient the history of the origins of the cosmos was as much about how human experience was put together, how experience gained its characteristic structure, as it was about how the physical universe was put together. In other words, it was much about the principles of human nature as about the laws of the natural world.
Human nature is so formed that any power I may have resist my animal desires -- Indeed what stops me from becoming a mere animal -- derives from my capacity for thought and reflection. Venus was traditionally depicted holding up a mirror, but not out of vanity as is nowadays supposed. The mirror was a symbol of the power of reflection to modify desire.
The god of reflection was the god of the great reflector in the sky - the moon. On all ancient cultures the moon regulated not only fertility but thought.
In fact the initiate priests believed that, in order to create the conditions in which human thought would be possible the cosmos had to arrange itself in a particular way. In order for human reflection to be possible, the sun and the moon had had to arrange themselves in the sky so that the moon reflected the light of the sun down to earth.
They also believed that this arrangement in the sky had to e reproduced on a smaller scale inside the human head. THere the pineal gland represented the sun, and the moony gland, which modify and reflect on the visions that the pineal gland received from the spirit worlds, was the pituitary gland.
This might seem one of the madder things that anyone has ever believed, but to the ancients it corresponds to their everyday, lived experience. They tracked small changes in their consciousness, which seemed to mutate with the changing positions of the sun and moon. Readers are invited to check their own experience to see whether their dreams are more vivid when the moon is big and full/.
If you observe oysters in a tray for a month, you will see that they wax and wane with the moon. Modern science has confirmed that the pituitary gland behaves like an oyster.
THE GOD OF THE MOON WOULD BECOME known to the hebrews as Jehovah and to the Muslims as Allah, the great god of though-shalt-not.
So at the climax of the great cosmic drama of creation, with the earth in danger of becoming a living hell, a new force arose to meet Lucifer. Just as the seven Elohim had acted to hold Saturn/Satan in check, now one of these seven broke away to become the god of the Moon, and from there directed operations to hold Venus/Lucifer in check.
This great cosmic battle against Venus was remembered in cultures around the world, for example in the story of Krishna's battle with the snake-demon Kaliya, in Apollo's battle with the Python and Perseus, on of whose attributes was mirror shield, combating the sexually ravenous dragon that threatened Andromeda.
The Jehovah of the Old Testament is a jealous, angry, and warlike god. The Hebrew tradition, Jehovah's forces are led by Archangel Michael. As the Book of Revelation has it: ' And there was a war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought against the angels... and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent which deceiveth the whole world, he was cast out into the earth.
WE HAVE SEEN, THEN, THAT IN THE THIRD great act of the drama of creation, the god of the Moon won a great victory.
So began the era of the moon. The first three epochs of the cosmos, the mineral, vegetable and animal eras - Saturn-day, Sun-day and Moon-day - are remembered in the names of the first three days of the week. These days of the week are named after these three heavenly bodies in this particular order for this reason alone.
CNN
updated 2:23 PM EDT, Sat June 22, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/22/us/superm ... index.html