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18 Jun 2013 - 6:01am
REPTILOID VS DIVINE CLASH IN BATARA GURU OF KARO BATTAK
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Source: http://www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-12.shtml
One more version may be given, that from the Karo Battak, who, like the Dairi, live north of the Toba. According to this, Batara Guru, the heaven deity, and his wife, who was the daughter of the divinity of the underworld, full of sorrow at their childlessness, determined to try the effect of penance in poverty and seclusion, and accordingly went to live in a little hut by the sea. Here they planted a small garden, which was destroyed by a great serpent that came out of the water, but when Batara Guru went to drive it away, the monster demanded that he put food into its mouth. Fearing lest his hand be bitten off, Batara Guru wedged open the mouth of the serpent with his sword, and withdrawing his hand, found upon his finger a magic ring which would grant his every wish. The serpent then returned to the sea, and in due course of time, aided by the ring, the wife of Batara Guru presented him with three sons and three daughters. One of these sons created the world in the space between the upper world and the under-world, making it with seven handfuls of soil sent him by his father, who, when the earth was finished, suspended it from the sky by seven silken cords. The newly created world caused the underworld to be darkened, which aroused anger in that one of the three sons who had taken up his residence there. Therefore he shook the world so violently that it was destroyed. Seven times this was repeated, the earth being made anew each time, until the world-maker besought his father to aid him, and this Batara Guru did, setting up an iron pillar which sup-ported four cross-beams, upon which the world was then founded. After this the underworld-brother could shake the world (as indeed he does to this day), but was unable to destroy it.
REFLECTION
‘Batara Guru and wife’ suggest strongly the coupled role of Brahma & elohistic forces on one hand, and that of Shakti (Mother) and the angelic forces on the other hand. ‘Divinity of the underworld’ signifies the deific beings assigned to help create humans in the astral and physical dimensions which collectively are ‘underworld’.
Both forces, from Brahma-Elohim to Shakti-devic/angelic were to collaborate in birthing humans down on the lower planes or ‘underworld’. The ‘little garden’ is the devachan to which early humans had direct access to, that access later to be destroyed by the descent into the dense plane on account of succumbing to the dictates of the reptiloid species that intervened in the evolutionary process.
The ‘7 handful of soil’ refers to the 7 subcontinental regions of each of the supercontinents that emerged on Earth’s lower globes or planes. Pangea (also called Hyperboria) and Lemuria were the first supercontinents populated by humans, each one with 7 distinct sub-continents or regions. Current geologists know of a super-continent before Pangeaa, but there were no humans yet in that primordial land mass.
The clash between the ‘new world of 7’ and the ‘underworld’ refers to the changes that went on in Earth as it cooled down further from its primordial hot stage, each time producing new land mass configurations. This facet of the myth can be extrapolated, to show that the process of geological-electromagnetic changes will continue into the future, thus changing the land mass configurations across the eons to come.
The clash between the Reptilian/Devil forces and the Divine/Light forces is clearly shown in the mythos. As revealed, the reptilians reside in the astral dimension that is signified by the sea.
Four-cross beams that were supported by iron pillar, which is the foundation of human life, signify the four elements of earth, water, air, fire as they combine (Quaternary principle), blend and harmonize to constitute the material vehicles for making living possible. ‘Iron pillar’ signifies the over 100+ elements on earth—discovered today by chemists—that can indeed support existence down here.
[Philippines, 20 June 2011]
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Teaching
12 Jun 2013 - 7:11am
BRAHMA & ELOHIM IN BATARA GURU MYTH OF DAIRI BATTAK
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Source: http://www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-12.shtml
The Dairi Battak, who live to the north of the Toba and are .more or less in contact with the Muhammadanized Garo, have a version 26 which presents interesting differences. Batara Guru (Sanskrit Bhattara Guru), the highest of the gods, once sent a servant to get some venison, which was greatly desired by the deity's wife, who was about to give birth to a child. The hunt being unsuccessful, the divinity then sent the raven on the same quest, but he also could find no such food any-where in the realms of the gods. In the course of his search, however, he discovered a cave, in which was a pit whose bottom he could not discern. The longest vine was too short to measure its depth, and a stick thrown down the opening disappeared without a sound to indicate that it reached bottom. Determined to solve the mystery, the raven flew down into the opening, and after a long journey in complete darkness at last reached the surface of a wide-extending sea. After exploring in vain, the raven wished to return in order that he might report his discovery, but could not retrace his way to the opening through which he had come, though luckily he found floating upon the sea the bamboo which he had thrown down the hole, and on this he rested.
Meanwhile Batara Guru became impatient, and accompanied by several attendants, he flew down the dark opening in the cave, taking with him from the sky-world a handful of earth, seven pieces of wood, a chisel, a goat, and a bumble-bee; and reaching the surface of the sea, he built a raft from the pieces of wood. The raven now appeared, sitting upon the floating piece of bamboo, and at his request Batara Guru called to the eight wind-directions, whereupon darkness at once gave place to light. By his command the goat, accompanied by the bee, went down under the raft to support it on his horns; but in finishing the raft the chisel broke, and the handle hit the goat upon the head, which made him shake it violently, and the raft with it, for which the deity chided him and ordered him to keep still. Then taking the earth which he had brought with him, Batara Guru spread it upon the raft, thus making the world, and gave this to the raven for a dwelling-place.
REFLECTION
Another one of the myths that is so rich in archetypes. Batara Guru (Bathala in Tagalog) signifies collectively Brahma, deity of the physical universe, and the Elohim, originally comprising of 7 hierarchs who assisted in the ideation and materialization of forms.
The descent from spiritual to the material planes by the souls so created was also depicted. Venison, raven, bumble bee, and so on, are symbolic of the devic and elemental forces that would assist in creating vehicles of forms for humans to embody into in the descent to the material planes.
The narrative concluded with the formation of the life-supporting dimensions or ontological planes, ready for evolving the humans that were on the progressive descent to the physical plane where mental and physical perfection will be achieved. Thus, spiritual, mental, and physical evolution all happen in synchronous fashion.
[Philippines, 20 June 2011]
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http://www.kriyayoga.com, http://www.lightascension.com,
http://www.tsl.org, http://www.gandhiserve.org,
http://www.maharishi.org, http://www.rssb.org, http://www.fisu.org, http://www.saibaba.org, http://trishulabearer.com,
http://www.salrachele.com, http://www.yogananda.srf.org,
http://www.sriaurobindosociety.org
Blog entry
8 Jun 2013 - 9:51am
Got the go ahead today to write up my experiment with runes. Trouble is my memeory isn't erm...well...you know...but I'll try.
We have been working on two things.
1. Work
2. Continuing to work
I must say I am a little confused to how much of this is working with energy and how much of it is set in stone (lol) already. I am still of the belief that everything is planned out. IF at any time in my life I began to create my future I would certainly class myself as ascended. I've tried to understand what Karen's on about, I've gone back and looked at my life, yes we create the fuzzy stuff that doesn't matter but the whole future? Do we REALLY? No we flippin' don't.
The other thing to consider I guess is I am extremely well guarded, guided by spirit. Perhaps I am being taught how to do this. That would make sense a little after the spirit guide lessons a few years ago. I don't know but we started with Isa.
Now as far as I have always known Isa is about standing still, waiting, the dreaded patience, things frozen and immovable and maybe that is why Woden started with this one. As usual, all bullsh*t. That is not what it means at all. This is like being in a superhero movie. You know when like, snowmanman blows winter all over and everything is in a big freeze.
When you cast runes (and I'm shown how to do it like rolling dice without the shakey bit at the beginning.) you are using the rune to bring the power of nature that is energetically stored in that symbol. (Isa is like a line straight up and down.) Yes, I can see why you might want to tell fortunes with runes but telling someone things are going to stay the same is well, do you never think when you read these things? Does it REALLY take me to tell you that 'Things are going to stay the same' is hardly a fortune telling experience...anyway...
So Isa is ice. Frozen. Still. It is also kinda slippy, cold, when you look at it you see yourself and not much else. Anything else? It's brittle. What would you do to try and get rid of the ice situation? You would probably want to heat everything up.
So when we cast Isa, that's it, it's cast. There is no moving it. (Rolls eyes) It's Isa ffs come on, keep up. Obviously, my whole work place didn't freeze. We didn't have a freak winter in the middle of May. My task was to become Isa. To stay still with an icy heart and embrace all that is still and frozen and solid and cold.
Easy enough? The plan was that everyone else wouldn't be acting like this. - Perhaps they would be a bit surprised that all of a sudden the floor was extremely slippy, all they will see in front of them would be an image of themself, it all got a bit weird but quite funny - if you are into laughing...
People were slipping and sliding all over the place, revealing their true intentions, there were so many iceburgs hit, ships sunk, ice mirrors cracked, some chucked like daggers over my beautiful, peaceful ice rink. There I stood, I may have looked quite strong from someone else's eyes. - I was amazed and I still am. It's like I am one of those frozen ape men that get found, not protected by the ice as such but out of it through the ice. All this stuff is still happening. People are see through, people that have upset me for years. The best thing is they are see through to THEMSELVES - because it is all they can see. I have tried to piece peoples egos back together a bit because well, it must be a bit of a shock to find out about yourself all at once. - Most people tend to think they are lovely and the fact that you aren't (me included) can be a bit of a shock.
So looking like a strong, sensible, calm force in a blizzard I can choose now, do you see that? Have I written it propery? When I am writing energy is it hard and when Woden helps me he adds letters to words so I become cheif editor. (Lol that's his sentence I'll leave it there as proof.)
What I put back together is my choice. Obviously, I will put everything back together but not in the same way it was before. This time, if I am lucky - and I am still waiting so I don't know for sure, but this time I will be a part of energetic things at ice rink central over there and that way, I get to continue in my job.
I don't just work at one place though. I work in two places. What we needed for the other place was not Ice, it was Fire. (Sorry, Woden obviously doesn't often attend my lessons on proper nouns...)
So in pops Kano which looks like this < Kano is about fire and passion and flames and hmmm, maybe love, maybe anger, you get the feeling here? It's hot, it knows it and... ouch, it sizzles. It is the sh*t, it knows it and boom, it can do that too. Explode.
I didn't have to sit around it and sing kum by yah to it. I didn't have to volcano myself in anger (thank God) I had to embody the other part of Kano, look at it again so it makes sense... < ... an opening. I had to be open. All the time open, not stubborn, not still, not frozen, open to all ideas, suggestions, nod my head, shake my tail and generally be giving.
It worked.
I still don't know if all this effort was truly needed or if things would have worked out like that eventually anyway but what a gift runecasting is.
Again, Woden wants me to stress that this is not power, this is not magic even as such, this is using the forces of nature to give you the best go in life. If I had not been still/ open I could have been sacked. I write this as an optimist because I am a lot like that but in fairness I have had to risk not a lot but everything for these manoevers. I am not being given the winning tickets to the lottery here.
Should people have to go to this much trouble to be allowed to go to work? That is why he is helping me - because he likes fair. Not, weirdo Woden fans of doom, because he thinks his missus DESERVES to be treated like an A list celebrity, although he probably does think that, he wouldn't use this for that kind of cause. Nature likes balance.
So there we go, there is more for later and I hope that makes sense. I sound so knowledgable and grown up today don't I and really I am still at 'OMG he loves me.' Ace.
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Teaching
6 Jun 2013 - 8:52am
REPTILOID VS DIVINE CLASH IN BATARA GURU OF KARO BATTAK
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Source: http://www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-12.shtml
One more version may be given, that from the Karo Battak, who, like the Dairi, live north of the Toba. According to this, Batara Guru, the heaven deity, and his wife, who was the daughter of the divinity of the underworld, full of sorrow at their childlessness, determined to try the effect of penance in poverty and seclusion, and accordingly went to live in a little hut by the sea. Here they planted a small garden, which was destroyed by a great serpent that came out of the water, but when Batara Guru went to drive it away, the monster demanded that he put food into its mouth. Fearing lest his hand be bitten off, Batara Guru wedged open the mouth of the serpent with his sword, and withdrawing his hand, found upon his finger a magic ring which would grant his every wish. The serpent then returned to the sea, and in due course of time, aided by the ring, the wife of Batara Guru presented him with three sons and three daughters. One of these sons created the world in the space between the upper world and the under-world, making it with seven handfuls of soil sent him by his father, who, when the earth was finished, suspended it from the sky by seven silken cords. The newly created world caused the underworld to be darkened, which aroused anger in that one of the three sons who had taken up his residence there. Therefore he shook the world so violently that it was destroyed. Seven times this was repeated, the earth being made anew each time, until the world-maker besought his father to aid him, and this Batara Guru did, setting up an iron pillar which sup-ported four cross-beams, upon which the world was then founded. After this the underworld-brother could shake the world (as indeed he does to this day), but was unable to destroy it.
REFLECTION
‘Batara Guru and wife’ suggest strongly the coupled role of Brahma & elohistic forces on one hand, and that of Shakti (Mother) and the angelic forces on the other hand. ‘Divinity of the underworld’ signifies the deific beings assigned to help create humans in the astral and physical dimensions which collectively are ‘underworld’.
Both forces, from Brahma-Elohim to Shakti-devic/angelic were to collaborate in birthing humans down on the lower planes or ‘underworld’. The ‘little garden’ is the devachan to which early humans had direct access to, that access later to be destroyed by the descent into the dense plane on account of succumbing to the dictates of the reptiloid species that intervened in the evolutionary process.
The ‘7 handful of soil’ refers to the 7 subcontinental regions of each of the supercontinents that emerged on Earth’s lower globes or planes. Pangea (also called Hyperboria) and Lemuria were the first supercontinents populated by humans, each one with 7 distinct sub-continents or regions. Current geologists know of a super-continent before Pangeaa, but there were no humans yet in that primordial land mass.
The clash between the ‘new world of 7’ and the ‘underworld’ refers to the changes that went on in Earth as it cooled down further from its primordial hot stage, each time producing new land mass configurations. This facet of the myth can be extrapolated, to show that the process of geological-electromagnetic changes will continue into the future, thus changing the land mass configurations across the eons to come.
The clash between the Reptilian/Dvil forces and the Divine/Light forces is clearly shown in the mythos. As revealed, the reptilians reside in the astral dimension that is signified by the sea.
Four-cross beams that were supported by iron pillar, which is the foundation of human life, signify the four elements of earth, water, air, fire as they combine (Quaternary principle), blend and harmonize to constitute the material vehicles for making living possible. ‘Iron pillar’ signifies the over 100+ elements on earth—discovered today by chemists—that can indeed support existence down here.
[Philippines, 20 June 2011]
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PROF. ERLE FRAYNE ARGONZA WEBSITE: http://erleargonza.com
ARGONZA COSMIC BLOGS & LINKS:
http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com, http://kathapantas.blogdrive.com, http://talangguro.blogfree.com, http://tribes.tribe.com, http://lovingenergies.spruz.com, http://www.newciv.org, http://thatsthewayoflight.socialparadox.com, http://lightworkers.org, http://www.spiritualpassions.com, http://www.articlesforfree.net
http://community.beliefnet.com/erleargonza, http://paranormaluniverse.ning.com, http://healinginternational.ning.com, http://innercoredaystarcommand.ning.com, http://raefdargon.mysticblogs.com, http://efdargon.multiply.com, http://newageconnection.com, http://www.facebook.com
MASTERS’ SITES:
http://www.theascendedmasters.com, http://www.greatdreams.com,
http://www.drunvalo.net, http://www.lightchannels.com,
http://www.blavatsky.net, http://www.joelyonskincheloe.info/,
http://www.kriyayoga.com, http://www.lightascension.com,
http://www.tsl.org, http://www.gandhiserve.org,
http://www.maharishi.org, http://www.rssb.org, http://www.fisu.org, http://www.saibaba.org, http://trishulabearer.com,
http://www.salrachele.com, http://www.yogananda.srf.org,
http://www.sriaurobindosociety.org
Blog entry
6 Jun 2013 - 2:32am
John Lash www.metahistory.org/dynamyth/translations/preface.php#chthonian
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Translations from the Andromedan
Translator’s Preface
In the Andromeda galaxy poets known as estuary bards of the Wending Sea preserve an alternative version of human origins on earth. They recite in many episodes a sequence of events in the remote dawn of prehistory, events whose repercussions are still affecting human behavior to this day. One of their favored themes is the Chthonian Romance: the encounter between the Gaian woman, originally the sole inhabitants of the planet, and the Orion men who teleported to earth from a nebula in the constellation of the Hunter. According to this poetic myth, strife on earth originated in the "gender split" between these two groups. Yet so did love, friendship, and all forms of intimacy known to our species.
In the seven Slokas of the Translations, one of the estuary bards, called Asuramaya, recounts some episodes from a series of nine incarnations on earth. To Andromedan eyes, the planet earth is the setting of a parallel world reflected in the world where Asuramaya lives, on a planet called Yambuvika that circulates a star in the Andromeda galaxy. In scientific terms, the galaxy where the sun and earth are located, called the Orion galaxy, is a parallel world with Andromeda. Yambuvika is a parallel earth.
In astronomical terms, the Andromeda galaxy (M 31, pictured above) is the counterpart to the Orion Galaxy where the solar system that harbors the earth is located. These two galaxies are locked on a mutual gravitational axis and they are approaching each other, eventually to merge. M 31 is about one-third larger in size and mass than our galaxy, O 24. At a distance of 2.2 million light-years, Andromeda is the most-distant object visible to the naked eye from the earth.
Astronomical science today admits the existence of parallel worlds, but how can this idea be verified by direct experience? Andromedans on Yambuvika live in a state of perpetual mirroring, aware that their doubles exist in the setting of life on earth, but they are also poignantly aware that their terrestrial counterparts do not realize how they are mirrored.
Asuramaya is a name borrowed from the ancient terrestrial language of Sanskrit. Long ago, around 3100 BCE, that name belonged to a court astrologer who lived in India. This setting links Asuramaya to the Hindu legend of Lord Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu, and to Kali Yuga, the period of cosmic timing that begins at Krishna’s death and concludes with large-scale extinction on earth after 2000 CE.
The counterpart on Yambuvika to the Hindu god Krishna is the Blue Prince, whose consort is the Belated Muse.
The Translations reveal how life on M 31 mirrors life on earth, and human experience may be magically transfigured through Andromedan eyes. Communication on Andromeda is erotic and telepathic. Dreaming and dancing with his three consorts, Asuramaya translates the experience of co-emergent worlds and demonstrates the physics of beauty operating through the law of apposition. The allusions and divinations of the estuary poet invite a visionary shift for earthbound doubles held in the tender gaze of their counterparts on M31. The sexual mythography unique to the human race, and fatefully so, is gradually disclosed in the commentaries for the Translations.
Chthonian, from the Greek chthon, means "of the earth." Andromedans are continually in reverie, recalling, reliving, and celebrating the Chthonian Romance. They understand that the first human inhabitants of the earth were exclusively female. One of their primordial forms has been preserved in mythology in the image of the dryad, the tree nymph or arboreal nymph. This image is not a construct of fantasy but an actual memory of how women appeared on earth in remote times, going back tens of millions of years.
See also Tree Nymphs and Tree-Born Shamans, Parts 1, 2, and 3, for mythological background on arboreal nymphs in the Translations.
The Chthonian Romance story is largely lost to earthbound humanity, but ancestral memory can be recovered through the poetics applied by the estuary bard. Still, most of the allusions from the Andromedan side will be obscure to human understanding, and so it falls upon the translator to provide comment and clarification, however tentative and incomplete, in the static form of background notes.
The commentaries attached to the Translations reveal an extremely strange and, one might say, outlandish account of human origins on earth. In the Andromedan version of the human adventure, the paramount disclosure is:
Women arose coevally with the formation of the planet earth from the Organic Light of Sophia, a divinity from the galactic center, but men came later, teleported on "acca" threads from the Orion nebula, M 42.
This bizarre scenario corrects a grave error in human imagination. It is widely asserted that "gods" descended from the sky in remote times. The Sumerian creation-myth Enuma Elish begins, "And kingship descended from heaven." Unable to remember their true origins, many humans believe that some kind of celestial dragons came from the sky and reigned over the native people, establishing what is called theocracy, government by the gods. These alien invaders have been identified with ETs and advanced races who could genetically modify the human species. Since the midpoint of the 20th century, more and more people around the world accept and endorse this scenario of extraterrestrial intervention.
But Andromedans see otherwise. In their mirroring view, it was not non-human aliens but the first men of the human species who descended to earth. The correction of the erroneous notion of the "descent of the gods" comes from "those aside." This is the cosmic wake-up call in the Andromedan version of the human adventure.
A stock image of "astral projection" (from www.magicandspellcraft.com) suggests how the Orion men teleported on delicate fibers like jumpers on bungee cords. Shamanic lore from around the world describes this feat in quite explicit detail. For instance, the last kings of Tibet, who were fully human, were said to have descended from heaven on elastic cords. When the cords broke, they became mortal, subject to death. Likewise, the shamans of China, Polynesia, Africa, and elsewhere were attributed with the ability to move through interstellar space trailed by such cords. In Polynesian lore, these filaments are to this day called acca-threads. (In some respects, Oceanic myth preserves elements of Andromedan lore more accurately and completely than other genres of world mythology.)
Here is a great unsolved riddle in the mythography of our planet:
How did it happen that the first men of the human species were located in the Orion Nebula and their female counterparts were on earth?
The answer lies in the ancient theme of "the separation of the sexes," discussed by Plato and many classical authors. Andromedans preserve in their folk memory a crucial episode of the origin myth known to ancient seers of the Mysteries, but later lost to humanity at large, due to the destruction of Pagan wisdom. In the Andromedan view, when Sophia plunged from the core of our galaxy, the torrential shear of her energies ripped the template of the Anthropos (human species) into two parts. One part became enmeshed with Sophia's energy and eventually woven into the terrestrial elements, for Sophia morphed into the earth. Thus the Gaian women, one half of the Anthropos, arose coevally with the natural world. The men who embodied the other half of the Anthropos were stranded in the Orion Nebula where the template for our species was deposited by a process of divine emanation from the Pleroma, the galactic center.
Seers trained in samadhi perceive the remnant of the Anthropos template arrayed like dew on a spiderweb in the rhomboid configuration of stars called the Trapezium, deposited deep in the Orion Nebula.
In the Chthonian Romance, Andromedans understand the cosmic poignancy of the human situation on earth: when the first men descended from Orion to hunt in the paradise of the Gaian women, neither men nor women recognized that they were two integral components of a single species. This failure of recognition is the origin of the gender split which Andromedans regard as the source of all later conflict on earth.
It follows, then, perhaps, that recovery of the Chthonian Romance might lead to revealing and healing that devastating primordial split.
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Commentaries on the Translations have been amplified by snatches of conversation with Gaia, remote scanning of the Chomsky Circuits, mystico-ludic conversion of liminal keys, occasional research in the CMB (Cosmic Memory Bank, the Akashic register of terrestrial prehistory), and, when and where appropriate, tangential allusion to the GSM (Genetic Subliminal Memory) of the translator.
Classic and contemporary scholars—Erastothenes, Eliade, Barbara Walker, Wasson, Gimbutas et al.—have occasionally been cited, but due to the derivative nature of these materials their reliability cannot be assured by the translator.
jll. Jan 1994 - Nov 2009
Teaching
2 Jun 2013 - 6:11am
ELOHIM, MU, SOUL DEVOLUTION, REPTILOIDS IN BATTAK MYTH
Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra
Source: http://www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-12.shtml
Deferring for the moment any discussion of these tales, we may turn to a third group of myths, i. e. those of the Battak of Sumatra. The Toba Battak (who of all the Battak tribes are probably the least influenced by Muhammadan or Indian culture) account for the origin of things as follows. Mula Dyadi, the highest deity, dwelt in the uppermost of the seven heavens and had two birds as his servants. Having created three male beings, he caused a tree to exist in one of the lower heavens, its branches reaching to the sky; next he made a hen, which perched on the tree and later laid three eggs, from which came three maidens whom Mula Dyadi gave as wives to his three sons. The daughter of one of these sons refused to marry a cousin of hers because he had a face like a lizard and a skin like a chameleon, and devoted her time to spinning. One day she dropped her spindle, which fell down from the sky-world. On the thread so unrolled she then descended to the surface of the sea which stretched everywhere below. In this primeval ocean swam or lay a great serpent on whose head the heavenly maiden spread a handful of earth brought down at her request from Mula Dyadi by one of his bird servants; and thus she formed the world. The serpent, however, disliked the weight upon his head, and turning over, caused this newly made world to be engulfed by the sea. Thereupon Mula Dyadi created eight suns, whose heat should dry up the sea, and this being done in part, the divine maiden thrust a sword into the body of the serpent, revealed by the shrinking sea, and fastened his body firmly in an island block that he might never again thus destroy the world. With more soil she then re-founded the earth; but after this, having questioned her as to what was to be done with the youth whom she refused as husband, Mula Dyadi declared that she now must marry him, and wrapping the unwelcome suitor together with a blowgun in a mat, he threw him down upon the earth. Unharmed by his fall, and feeling hungry, he shot at a dove which escaped unwounded, but caught the arrow dexterously and flew with it to the village where the heavenly maiden dwelt. Following in pursuit, the youth discovered the girl who had before refused him, found her more tractable, and married her; and so they became the ancestors of mankind.
REFLECTION
‘7 heavens’ signify the 7 subplanes of the heaven-worlds or devachan. Four (4) of the subplanes are in the 3rd plane (mental plane) while three (3) are in the 4th plane (higher mental or causal plane). The 4th plane is dimension of the arupa or formless, though already a material plane; 3rd plane, the beginning of the rupa (form) dimensions. Rupa moves down to the physical plane.
At that level, certain beings called the Elohistic Forces or elohim could have been niched to aid in the materialization of forms, the same forms thus used as subtle bodies as vehicles for souls in descent phases of devolution. They are collective referred to as Mula Dyadi in the myth, the term Dyadi thus resonating with a similar term Dhyani (angels, devata) in southern Asia. Mula contains the morphemes MU LA. In Tagalog, mula means ‘from’, which is referent for ‘source’.
The birthing of Twinflame souls, which signifies the Law of Duality as applied to soul division, was also revealed. The devolution goes on to show that the early humans were ‘egg-born’ or hermaphroditic, as per Theos Sophia discourse, was the fact till the mid-Lemurian racial families.
The devolution phase goes on, revealing the intervention of the reptilians and their role in the rapid descent or Fall of mankind. The ‘war in the heavens’ was suggested in the conflict between the maiden (signifying mankind with aid of Divine Forces) and the serpent (signifying the reptilian species of Draco and Orion).
In the final phase of the myth, the maiden (early Terran) was married to the hybrid reptilian-human, the marriage thus beginning the long lines of next sub-races of humans on Earth.
[Philippines, 20 June 2011]
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30 May 2013 - 9:10pm
is it myth or real?well what am i talking about right!i am talking about mythology like Greek mythology,Egyptian and etc.well i am not sure really.but in reality i would not doubt though.i say that because part of me does believe it and part of me is skeptical but i do believe in them though like i said.but i heard from someone that they were not who they say they were.for example they were reptilians taking glory for themselves pretending to be "gods". And people once worshiped these lizard people a.k.a Reptilians.another very important thing about this this comes from David Icke he's this English person who talks about them and so much more things well he mentions them as well more into detail more than anybody i know besides me lol.well this pretend to be god and play god but he also says that the reptilians biggest secret is this!ready for it?here it goes we are being eaten on the other side.religions and etc are their creation and baby and trap for the mass of people to think one is a sinner and bad person or spiritual being in order for us to fall victim to say the least and makes us believe that we are something we are not and makes think we are sinners lol so when we pass over we go into a lower realm they more than likely created to eat us and torture star seeds and humans alike and etc.they don't care who it is!have i seen one a reptilian nope but so may credible people and many alternative people say the same thing.when i mention alternative people i mean non-mainstream people like David Icke and others alike i feel like hes more than honest and etc.mainstream media news are controlled by the elites and Illuminati and free masons and etc they all have different names but same goals and work together really. now i do believe there are celestial beings and etc like angels but there are those lower entities that can pretend and act like them too.so what i am saying is be careful when you ask for help and etc from entities and spirits.ask them to prove to you that they are who they say are and to write their names on something.i read on a book they can't write other names but their own.trust your intuition and gut feeling and make careful and cautious choices first.that's what i do.even i have trouble with this at times.but i know there are higher dimensional beings and etc.like me i had a dream that i was a archangel called Cassiel once and part of a great team.even though i been born as a human for several lifetimes that still who i am one part of me anyway because i am a star seed hybrid of both Andromedan and Pleadian.although my Andromendan side is more prominent with me which is true.i still take pride of all my origins.
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29 May 2013 - 1:16pm
Thus completes the raising of Psyche to immortal status.
Her love for Eros now encompasses not only personal, sensual dimension but a spiritual one as well
eros has been humanized by Psyche's love; he no longer needs to hide his face from her sight.
Pysche, on the other hand, experiences that sense of connectedness with the dvine realms where eros has long ruled.
Good day beloved light readers!
Today we celebrate the love between prince buddha and queen Maya with the same zest for life and passion for the establishment of heaven on earth, as we celebrated the must reunion of sir r Isis
Teaching
29 May 2013 - 5:51am
KUNDALI, REPTILIANS, SANAT KUMARA & MICHAEL IN BORNEO & SUMATRA MYTHS
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Source: http://www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-12.shtml
With them we may compare the origin-myths of several of the tribes of south-eastern Borneo. One version states that in the beginning there were only the sky and sea, in which swam a great serpent upon whose head was a crown of gold set with a shining stone. From the sky-world the deity threw earth upon the serpent's head, thus building an island in the midst of the sea; and this island became the world. A slightly variant account 22 declares that the deity sent down a messenger or servant to report upon conditions, and that it was this servant who spread the earth on the serpent's head. Still another version from this same region is interesting in that it serves as a transition to those found in Sumatra. Ac-cording to this tale, in the world of the gods there were two trees, one of which bore a bud or sprout in the form of a ball. By the motions of a bird, which sat on this tree, the bud was shaken off and fell into the Spirit River, in which a great serpent dwelt; but though the latter tried to swallow the mysterious object, it escaped him, and drifting to the shore, was metamorphosed into a woman. Marrying a man who was developed from a tree-trunk floating in the sea, she gave birth, first, to six streams of blood from which all evil spirits came; and finally to two sons, one of whom, taking with him the seeds of all plants and animals, was lowered from the sky-world, where all these events occurred, to the earth (of whose origin nothing is said) that he might prepare it for men.
REFLECTION
The core narrative articulates on the ‘serpent whose head was a crown of gold’. The serpent has double meaning, though in this myth it reveals the serpentine-like kundalini that begins from the spine and ends in the crown chakra (‘head was a crown of gold’) that is golden an energy center with almost 1000 petals.
The second meaning of ‘serpent’ is the reptilian species that intervened in breeding the early humans. This facet of our evolution could very well be embedded in the Bornean myths.
The ‘throwing of earth’ signifies the descent of the human souls down the earth plane, ‘thus building an island’ as the tale goes. Geologists & physical scientists are of the opinion that there were already two (2) supercontinents that emerged on Earth, the 2nd one being Pangea or ‘land of Pan’. That’s the ‘hyperborean’ as revealed by Divine Wisdom or Theos Sophia, where the etheric/shadowy humans nestled and grew.
In the Sumatran version, trees preceded human evolution, which is the fact: life evolved first from the mineral (1st Round), then to the vegetative signified by ‘tree’ (2nd Round), then to the animal (3rd Round), till finally came the devic-human evolutionary round of today (4th Round). Two trees preceded humanity, meaning two evolutionary rounds after the vegetative came the devic-man.
The ‘bud or sprout in the form of a ball’ clearly signifies the etheric/shadowy humans of the 1st through the middle of the 3rd ‘root races’ that were asexual in breeding. Interestingly, these races were identified in the Female gender, which means the strength of the Feminine Principle was dominant in the early humans: intuition, creative imagination, astral vision/paranormal.
The woman marrying a man signifies the coming of sexed humans in the mid-Lemurian, and necessarily the splitting of souls into Twinflames who would find each other as mates in the lower domains. …Giving birth to ‘six streams of blood from which all evil came’ signifies the beginnings of the Fall of Man. 6 streams seem to suggest six (6) sub-races or genetic strains when the Fall or descent into the dense spheres came.
Two (2) ‘sons’ coming from the Sky-world signifies the intervention of the creator beings, with summons from the Supreme Being, to aid mankind in stopping the descent. This time, ‘son’ is referent for ‘sonship’, meaning Ascended Beings who may indeed be of ‘two’ batches sent forth by the Supreme Being with approval of the Most Divine Elders or ‘council of 24’.
The two ‘sons’ seem to point to Ancient of Days and Michael, who indeed are the most involved among Hierarchs in salving the Terrans’ fallen predicament. Sanat Kumara brought along 6 other Kumaras to Earth (nestled in Shamballah), while Michael came with 6 other Archangels. Two sons, each with two teams of total 7 Kumaras + 7 Archangels.
[Philippines, 20 June 2011]
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Teaching
26 May 2013 - 7:32am
MU, TWINFLAMES IN LIMIMU-UT TALE
Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra
Source: http://www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-12.shtml
This more wide-spread class assumes the existence of a sky-world or upper realm, and of a primeval sea below it in which or on which the world is made. We may begin with the out-line of a myth 'told in Minahassa which is a variant off the one just given. According to this form, in the beginning there were only the sea and a great rock which was washed by the waves, and which, after first giving birth to a crane, sweated, from the sweat being produced a female deity called Lumimu-ut. Advised by the crane of the existence of the "original land," she got from thence two handfuls of earth which she spread upon the rock, and so she created the world, on which she planted the seeds of all plants and trees, obtaining them from the same "original land." 10 Having thus made the earth, Lumimu-ut ascended a mountain, where the west wind blew upon her and made her fruitful. In due time she bore a son, and when he had grown to manhood his mother advised him to seek a wife, but though he sought far and wide, he could find none. So Lumirnu-ut gave him a staff, whose length was equal to her own stature, bidding him to seek for a woman who should be less tall than the staff, and telling him that when he should find such a person he would know that she was the one he was destined to marry. Mother and son then separated, one going to the right and one to the left, and travelled around the whole world until at last they met again, without recognizing each other, and lo! when he set the staff beside her, its length was greater than her stature, for without his knowledge the rod had increased in height. Believing, therefore, that the woman, who was indeed his own mother, was she of whom he had been told, he married her, and she bore him many children who became gods. This form of myth does not, indeed, directly refer to the sky-world, but speaks of the "original land" from which Lumimu-ut obtained earth and seeds for the construction of the world. It is interesting to compare the incident of the birth of Lumimu-ut from the rock, which alone broke the surface of the primeval sea, with the Tongan and Samoan 12 myths of the origin of the first beings and of the world from a stone which split open; and a similar idea also occurs in Melanesia. Perhaps more characteristic of this type of origin-myths are the legends of the Kayan, Kenyah, and Bahau of central Borneo. According to the Kayan, originally there was nothing but the primeval sea and over-arching sky; but from the heavens there fell into the sea a great rock, upon whose barren surface, in course of time, slime collected, from which were bred worms that bored into the rock. The sand produced by this boring collected, eventually covering the rock with soil, and after many years there fell from the sun upon this land the wooden handle of a sword which, taking root, grew into a great tree; while from the moon fell a vine which clung to the tree and rooted itself in the rock. From this mating of the tree and vine were born two beings, a boy and a girl, who wedded in their turn and became the ancestors of the Kayan 15 Another version 16 varies somewhat in its details. In the beginning a spider descended from the sky 17 and spun a web, into which fell a tiny stone that grew and grew until it filled all the space under the horizon. A lichen fell from heaven upon this rock, to which it adhered, and then came a worm, from whose excrement the first soil was formed. This covering of earth gradually spread over all the rock; and next there fell upon the ground so made a tree, which at first was tiny in size, but which took root and grew great. A crab now dropped down to the earth and with its claws dug and scratched in the ground, thus forming the mountains and valleys. Plants grew upon the earth, and a vine, winding itself about the tree, mated with it. Finally, two beings, one male and one female, descended from heaven upon the tree, the male dropping a sword-handle and the female a spindle. Mating, these objects bore a child which had only head and body, but no arms or legs; and this monster in its turn produced two children, a boy and girl, who united and gave birth to offspring, which from generation to generation became more and more human in form until finally they were wholly so. These and their descendants then became deities of various sorts."
REFLECTION
The ‘sea’ or astral plane (2nd plane, governed by water element) and ‘rock’ or physical plane (1st plane, governed by earth element), were shown to be ready for life-form evolution. The ‘crane’ has a double meaning: Desire, symbolized by the bird (also symbolic of the Phallus), and Father-God or One Universal Principle the creator of all life in the objective and subjective domains.
The coming of Limimu-ut times with the presence of the crane. The astral element is center of desire/feelings/emotion, which means then that the ‘crane’ was or Desire/astral body was pre-requisite for breeding humans in the 1st plane.
Limimu-ut can be further segregated to form the morphemes LI MI MU UT. By so doing, you can already see the term MU embedded in the revered lady deity. Limimu-ut signifies both the supercontinent of MU and the Lady deity who sponsored its making as preparatory to the breeding and growth of the peoples of Mu.
Mu/Limumu-ut breeding a son refers to the evolution of the asexual or hermaphroditic subraces of Mu. The son looking for a woman signifies the coming of the sexes, and the titillating notion of Twinflame soulmates coming to find each other in the newly sexed humans—of the mid-Lemurian ‘root-race’.
The equivalent myths in Borneo reveal the same, though with variant versions. Notice the archetypes given, which makes the narratives very amusing to observe and challenging to interpret. The descent of the rock from the sky in the Kayan myth, for instance, reveals the descent of the five (5) cosmic elements of ether, fire, air, water, and earth elements in that chronological order.
The notion of Twinflame mates is also very cleverly embedded in the anthropogenetic myths. Such a revelation is also found in the Philippine anthropogenesis tales such as the story of Malakas & Maganda, or Strong & Beauty, who emerged together from inside a piece of bamboo (bamboo signifies the DNA strands).
[Philippines, 20 June 2011]
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21 May 2013 - 11:47pm
Over the past weekend, I read an old issue of Parabola magazine that I still have. It was written in the Spring of 2000. The magazine's focus was about thresholds and the articles contained within varied among many schools of thought and or types of religion.I am wondering what others thoughts, comments and/or opinions are on or about Thresholds? Not only in our every day experiences with them but also what interesting factors come into play with thresholds and being a lightworker or any service one may be doing regarding belief system etc, thank-you...I am always curious to understand what others may feel.
Teaching
21 May 2013 - 1:54am
ANTHROPOGENESIS IN MINAHASSA MYTH
Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra
Source: http://www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-12.shtml
Although the existence of the earth is postulated in Minahassa, in the extreme north-east of Celebes, we find an origin given for some of the gods and for mankind.' In the beginning the wind blew over the sea, and raising great waves, drove upon the shore the spume which their beating caused, the mass of foam being in the shape of an egg. The sun shone upon this, and from it was born a boy, who grew miraculously. One day, as he wandered along the shore, he saw a girl sitting upon a rock from which she had just been born, and taking her to wife, he thus became the parent of mankind. This and the preceding type, in which the cosmogonic element was wholly lacking, are, however, not common in Indonesia, and it is only when we turn to the next category that we find one current over large areas.
REFLECTION
The narrative refers to the emergence or evolution of humans and related life-forms on Terra. The occult term for human evolution is anthropogenesis (see HP Blavatsky, Secret Doctrine, Vols. 1 & 2).
Wind is signifier for the Life-Force, without which life in the lower domains can’t be possible. The ‘wind blowing the sea’ points out to the water domain of the astral plane—signified by ‘sea’ or water element—as the first location for creating early humans.
The ‘mass of foam in the shape of an egg’ is signifies the etheric cum astral bodies of the first humans, rendering proto-Terrans as shadowy, etheric, blobs of Light in looks. Exactly what Divine Wisdom or Theos Sophia had revealed in anthropogenesis.
Pangean ‘root-races’, two in all, up through the mid-Lemurians, were asexual in borning Terrans. Early Lemurians were ‘sweat-born’ or ‘egg-born’, which is revealed by the signifier ‘egg’ in the narrative.
The man meeting the woman signifies the coming of the sexes, during the mid-Lemurian epoch. Mid-Lemurian means the 4th sub-race among 7 sub-races. This part of the narrative is equivalent to the coming of Eve, who was created from the ‘rib of Adam’, the ‘rib’ signifying the etheric ‘double’ of the early Adam Kadmon humans.
[Philippines, 20 June 2011]
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17 May 2013 - 12:29pm
SIRIUS, GOLD CORD, ANTHROPEGENIS IN KEI ISLANDS’ CREATION MYTH
Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra
Source: http://www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-12.shtml
A more circumstantial myth is recorded from the Kei Islands in the extreme south-east of the Indonesian area. According to this tale, there were three brothers and two sisters in the upper sky-world. While fishing one day, Parpara, the youngest of the brothers, lost a fish-hook which he had borrowed from Hian, his oldest brother, who, angered by the loss of the hook, demanded that it be found and returned to him. After much fruitless search, the culprit met a fish who asked him what his trouble was, and who, on learning the facts, promised to aid in the search, at length discovering another fish who was very ill because of something stuck in its throat. The object proved to be the long-lost hook, which the friendly fish delivered to Parpara, who thus was able to, restore it to its owner. Parpara, however, determined to have his revenge upon his brother, and so he secretly fastened a bamboo vessel full of palm liquor above Hian's bed in such a way that when the latter rose, he would be almost certain to upset it. The expected happened, and Parpara then demanded of his brother that he return to him the spilled liquor. Hian endeavoured, of course fruitlessly, to gather it up, and in his efforts dug so deeply into the ground that he made an opening clear through the sky-world. Wondering what might lie below, the brothers determined to tie one of their dogs to a long rope and lower him through the aperture; and when they had done this, and the dog had been drawn up again, they found white sand sticking to his feet, whereupon they resolved to go down themselves, although the other inhabitants of the heaven-world refused to accompany them thither. Sliding down the rope, the three brothers and one of the sisters, together with their four dogs, safely reached the world which lay below, and which was thus discovered for the first time. As the second sister was descending, however, one of the brothers chanced to look up, at which his sister was so ashamed that she shook the rope and was hauled up by the other sky-people. In this way the three brothers with their sister were the first occupants of the world and became the ancestors of the human race.
REFLECTION
The Sky-world is signifier for the spiritual dimensions. This narrative reveals the preparations made in the said dimensions to check out on the new planet Terra at the edge of the Milky Way that seemed ready to support life.
3 Brothers and 2 Sisters refer to beings in the spiritual domains, notably creator beings, who could have been ready to check out on new planet. ‘Sliding down the rope’ reveals the ‘rope’ as the gold cord of the higher beings, which they can extend during their probes on Terra (traveling while probing signified by ‘sliding down’).
The Dog is often than not signifier for Sirius. Broadly, it signifies evolved species from higher dimensions, who are well immersed in higher Light which equates to their loyalty or undying devotion to the Supreme Being. Such ‘dogs’ were thus trusted enough to begin probes and aid the creator beings in experimenting on breeding early humans at the beginning of the 4th Evolutionary Round.
4 Dogs going under signifies 1 ‘dog’ for each of the four (4) ‘root-races’ –the 2 Pangean races, the Lemurian, and Atlantean—as products of the creative works of the early pitris or fathers. Polynesians are remnants of the 3rd race (Lemurians), while Malays and IndoMongolians were of the 4th root race (Atlantean).
The liquor mentioned is referent for the domain of the fire element—the 4th plane. That’s the causal or ‘higher mental’ plane, the higher of the two planes of Devachan or heaven-worlds. Just one notch lower than the 5th plane, the lowest of three (3) spiritual planes.
[Philippines, 21 June 2011]
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Teaching
14 May 2013 - 9:30am
SANAT KUMARA, 7 DIMENSIONS, EARTH & EARLY RACES IN CELEBES MYTHS
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Source: http://www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-12.shtml
Some of the tribes in Celebes are also characterized by the absence of any myths referring to the creation of the world or of the gods, though they are unlike the type to which reference has just been made in that they have tales which account for the origin of mankind. The Bugi and the people of Makassar in the south-western part of the island state that in the beginning the son of the sky-deity was sent down to earth on the rainbow that he might organize and prepare the world for mankind. This task accomplished, he took to wife six female deities, three of whom had descended with him from the sky-world, and three of whom were derived from the earth or from the underworld, and thus he became the ancestor of all mankind.
REFLECTION
Sky-deity refers to the Supreme Being, the One Universal Principle, or Almighty Providence, from whose Being emanated all life forms in the cosmos.
The ‘son of the sky-deity’ is no other than the creator deities, who were all fathered by the Supreme Being and achieved perfection in previous Manvantaras yet, referred collectively in the singular ‘son’. The ascended beings also go by that collective term, even as we who are in the lower dimensions must one day fulfill our ‘sonship’.
‘Sent down to earth on a rainbow’ refers to the descent of Light beings across the 7 Dimensions or planes. The rainbow has 7 spectra of colors, each one thus representing a dimension or plane. From the monadic (7th plane), down to the Buddhic (6th plane), then down to the nirvanic (5th plane), then down to the causal (4th plane), then down to the mental (3rd plane), then down to the astral (2nd plane), and finally down to the physical-etheric (1st plane).
‘He took to wife six female deities’ signifies the involvement of six planetary logoi added to main logos of Terra—Ancient of Days—to comprise 7 male deities, each one of whom had a female Twinflame deity. Ancient of Days arrived on Earth with 6 other logoi, and they came en-route from Venus prior to descent to Earth.
‘Three of whom had descended with him from the sky-world’ signifies the descent to the Etheric plane by Sanat Kumara and three (3) other planetary logoi, as the three (3) others returned to Venus. Lady Venus, by the way, is the Twinflame of Sanat Kumara, and is rightfully our Mother.
[Philippines, 20 June 2011]
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Teaching
12 May 2013 - 1:44am
UNIVERSE’S ORIGIN: NIAS MYTH (POLYNESIAN)
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Source: http://www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-12.shtml
In the Polynesian area one of the most characteristic and interesting types of cosmogonic myths was that which explained the origin of the universe as due to a sort of evolutionary development from an original chaos or nothingness; and, at least in central Polynesia, this assumed a genealogical form. This evolutionary genealogical type of origin-myths seems, so far as available material goes, to be lacking in Indonesia, except in one very restricted region, the island of Nias, lying off the western coast of Sumatra. According to myths from this island, there was in the beginning only darkness and fog, which condensed and brought forth a being with-out speech or motion, without head, arms, or legs; and in its turn this being gave existence to another, who died, and from whose heart sprang a tree which bore three sets of three buds. From the first two sets six beings were produced, two of whom made from the third set of buds a man and a woman—the ancestors of mankind. The several variants of the myth differ in details, but all agree in tracing the origin of things to a primeval chaos, from which after several generations was developed a tree that in turn gave rise to gods and men. Although lacking the details and development found in Polynesia, these Nias myths seem to show the same fundamental conception.
REFLECTION
The Polynesian cosmogonic myth suggests first of all the notion of a forward movement, not necessarily linear though genealogical in model.
The reality of the void at the beginning of the Manvantara—great cycle of life—is revealed. A formless Supreme Being, the One Universal Principle is outrightly indicated. Not only that, there is also the notion of the pre-human forms, in higher dimension, as being one “without head, arms or legs”—meaning, they were of spiritual and etheric constitution.
Those higher dimension beings, upon their descent to the lower spheres, of high compassion mode (“whose heart sprang a tree”), were the precursors to the etheric form of Pangean races. From the Pangean to the Lemurian, from the asexually birthing to the sexually birthing humans, three ‘root races’ have come to pass as Divine Wisdom or Theos Sophia revealed.
The number 3 is of course the Upper Triune that was embedded in the Polynesian collective mind and genes. A legacy of ancient Mu whose direct remnants were indeed the Polynesians.
[Philippines, 20 June 2011]
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Teaching
10 May 2013 - 12:53am
SKY, WIND, SEA, EARTH: COSMOS UNVEILED IN ASEAN FOLKLORE
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
In my succeeding notes I will delve on the matter of cosmogony as contained in ASEAN myths, which is a synthesis of the objective world of cosmos and the subjective worlds of sentient beings. Before I proceed to those note presentations, let me articulate briefly the archetypal images in the cosmogony.
Essentially, three (3) archetypal images are observed across the diverse ethnicities and cultures: sky, sea, earth. The complexity of the cosmos and subjective worlds was attempted to be encapsulated in these archetypal images. Betwixt sky, sea, earth is the intermediary archetype of wind, the flowing or convection of which sort of meshes up the former 3. So that’s a 3 + 1 sort of formula all in all.
Do note that the ancient peoples of the region went through a long dormancy of high knowledge and high culture in the aftermath of the sinking of Poseidonis which triggered global submarine explosions that, in turn, ended the last Ice Age. The melting waters from glaciers, poles, and related glacial formations caused a Deluge and obliterated knowledge and epistemes (knowledge-building modes) of the ancients.
The knowledge, truths and wisdom were to survive through oral modalities of conservation and heritage, out of which evolved the folklore: myths, legends, puzzles, idioms, related forms. Divine wisdom flowed openly to the ancient peoples, but after the Deluge just the few Initiated Ones, notably the shamanic-priestly caste, obtained access to high wisdom.
Out of such preserved embeds of wisdom came the archetypes of sky, sea, earth. The embedded codes are surely tough nuts to crack, but let us try to decode those tough stuff just the same.
Divine wisdom reveals that both the objective and subjective domains of reality were emanations from the One Universal Principle or Supreme Deity, done upon the Out-breath phase of the Manvantara or great cycle of life. From out of that process evolved the 7th, 6th and 5th planes, which constitute the spiritual planes. Such ontological domains would roughly be the equivalent of the ‘sky’ archetype in ASEAN cosmogony.
From the spiritual dimensions the cosmic element of ether was to descend downwards, to aid in the formation of all the other elements. The possibility for emanating objective, material domains was then increased, thus creating the 4th, 3rd and 2nd planes. Altogether, the 4th and 3rd planes are the equivalent of the ‘wind’ archetype, while the 2nd plane corresponds to the ‘sea’ archetype.
The final, most dense form of domain, the physical or 1st plane, was the last. The ‘earth’ archetype corresponds to this domain. In the last instance, humans, plants, animals were created in this domain, which is what the ancient Malayans-IndoMongolians-Polynesians can make sense of the creation narrative. The ‘earth’ domain was an extrapolation from their solid existential context, so we will understand how they comprehend cosmogony during their own times as struggling post-Glacial peoples.
As always, the creator deities, led by the Supreme Deity, come from the ‘sky’. That is the closest that the ancients came to the real, the truth, the knowledge. For indeed Deities were of the 7th plane which is the dimension of deities and/or avatars. Such deities & avatars can always descend down the 5th plane, which is the dimension of the souls.
With this backgrounder, maybe we are ready to move on to the review of diverse cosmogonic/creation myths.
[Philippines, 17 June 2011]
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Teaching
7 May 2013 - 9:33am
COSMIC, DEVIC & TRINITARIAN GODS: PHILIPPINE MYTHOS
Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra
Among ancient Filipinos, a branch of the Malayo-Mu peoples, is the belief in the Supreme Being. The Tagalogs held the belief in Bathala, the Supreme Deity who was also King of the Diwatas. Diwata comes from the Sanskrit devata, meaning deva. The belief in Bathala however goes beyond the Tagalogs, as it goes all the way southwards to the Visayas and Java.
The Trinitarian or 3-aspect deity is traced to Vedic knowledge of the spiritual domains. Vedic knowledge however is traceable to an even earlier set of spiritual discourse, the Lemurian. All such discourses are embedded calcifications of Divine Wisdom, and it takes the sharp eyes of Initiates to extract such wisdom from the later versions (Vedic to Malayan folklore).
The Number 3 is the Upper Triune in the Septenary Law, while the Number 4 is the Lower Quaternary of 4 material domains and elements. There are 3 spiritual planes, a knowledge that would come down unto mankind as 3 aspects of Supreme Deity. In the West that Triune is Father, Son, Spirit/Shekinah (Mother). Among ancient Bharatans (Indians) the Triune comes as Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva.
In the Philippine-Malayan version, Bathala birthed Apolaki, Mayari, and Tala. The mythos of Bathala and the Apolaki-Mayari-Tala triune already contains the cosmogony of divinity and humanity, with implications to cosmology or knowledge of the cosmos.
Below is a summary of the mythos.
[Philippines, 17 June 2011]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathala
Bathala
According to Philippine mythology, Bathalang Maykapal, or Bathala, was the Supreme God of the ancient Tagalog and King of the Diwatas. Derived from the Javanese Batara Guru, an alternate name for the Hindu god Shiva, the concept of Bathala, as with many beliefs in pre-Hispanic Philippines, owe a huge debt to the Hinduism of the Srivijayan Javanese. All of these beliefs were soon changed after the Spaniards set foot on the islands. Spanish missionaries used Bathala as a way for them to convert the Tagalogs into Christianity by associating him with the Christian God. They also did this to the other deities by replacing them with saints. Since then, the name "Bathala" was used to refer to the Christian God and is still used by Filipinos today, and God is even addressed as "Poong (Panginoon, meaning "Lord") Maykapal".
Bathala has counterparts in other parts of the Philippines. In Northern Luzon, Kabunian and Lumawig; in Southern Luzon, Gugurang and Mangindusa; and in the Visayas, Abba, Kan-Laon, and Kaptan.
Apolaki, Mayari, and Tala
Legend has it that Bathala fell in love with a mortal woman when he was visiting the Earth. They got married and had three children: Apolaki, Mayari, and Tala.
Many years had passed and the three younglings grew up to become mighty demigods. The time has finally come for them to take their rightful place in Kalualhatian. There was a big feast in the Sky World and both gods and humans were celebrating. After the feast was done, the ceremony of initiation began. Bathala came out of the crowd and summoned his children to stand in front of him. He then appointed them with a task.
Apolaki was appointed "God of War" and "Guardian of the Sun". Mayari was appointed to be "Goddess of the Moon". Tala was appointed "Goddess of the Stars".
The three offspring of Bathala soon became known to be among the greatest of gods and goddesses.
The Story of Bathala
In the beginning of time there were three powerful gods who lived in the universe. Bathala was the caretaker of the earth, Ulilang Kaluluwa, a huge serpent who lived in the clouds, and Galang Kaluluwa, the winged god who loves to wander. These three gods did not know each other. Bathala often dreamt of creating mortals but the empty earth stops him from doing so. Ulilang Kaluluwa who was equally lonely as Bathala, liked to visit places and the earth was his favorite. One day the two gods met. Ulilang Kaluluwa was not pleased. He challenged Bathala to a fight to decide who would be the ruler of the universe. After three days and three nights, Ulilang Kaluluwa was slain by Bathala. Instead of giving him a proper burial, Bathala burned the snake's remains. A few years later the third god, Galang Kaluluwa, wandered into Bathala's home. He welcomed the winged god with much kindness and even invited him to live in his kingdom. They became true friends and were very happy for many years.
Galang Kaluluwa became very ill. Before he died he instructed Bathala to bury him on the spot where Ulilang Kaluluwa’s body was burned. Bathala did exactly as he was told. Out of the grave of the two dead gods grew a tall tree with a big round nut, which is the coconut tree. Bathala took the nut and husked it. He noticed that the inner skin was hard. The nut itself reminded him of Galang Kaluluwa’s head. It had two eyes, a flat nose, and a round mouth. Its leaves looked so much like the wings of his dear winged friend. But the trunk was hard and ugly, like the body of his enemy, the snake Ulilang Kaluluwa.
Bathala realized that he was ready to create the creatures he wanted with him on earth. He created the vegetation, animals, and the first man and woman. Bathala built a house for them out of the trunk and leaves of the coconut trees. For food, they drank the coconut juice and ate its delicious white meat. Its leaves, they discovered, were great for making mats, hats, and brooms. Its fiber could be used for rope and many other things.
In popular culture / Language
The Filipino philosophical expression "Bahala na!" is usually interpreted as a fatalist remark, comparable to "Whatever will be, will be".[1] According to Paraluman S. Aspillera, a writer from the Philippines, the expression and its meaning might have been altered throughout the ages. It might have originally been "Bathala na!" ("As God wills it!"),[2] but was changed at one point in time. It might also be uttered when the Filipino has exhausted all possible ways to get out of a difficult situation.[3] A modern fuller version of the phrase is "Bahala na ang Diyos!"
Also, the Tagalog word pamahalaan (government) can be traced from the word Bathala. According to linguistic studies, the word is a result of the full assimilation of the prefix pang- with bathala and the suffix -an. So, the Tagalog term for government actually means "to Lord over" or "to be God's vicar."
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Teaching
3 May 2013 - 8:59am
ABSOLUTE DEITY, FEMININE & MASCULINE, CREATORS: MALAYAN BRIEFER
Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra
Divine wisdom or Theos Sophia articulated well about the Supreme Deity or the One Universal Principle. The Supreme Being has the Unmanifest and Manifest aspects, and we can know only the Manifest aspect of that omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent Being.
Southeast Asians are not wanting in knowledge of the Supreme Deity, both the Manifest and Unmanifest facets of the Godhead. Below is a summary of deities in Malayan myths.
Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/indonesian-and-malaysian-divinities
Among the many indigenous peoples in Indonesia and Malaysia there are several examples of dual gods and sometimes of trinities. In Sumatra, the Toba Batak see the Absolute Mula Jadi na Bolon as three persons representing the upper, middle, and lower worlds. In Nias there is a two-person divinity representing the dual nature of the universe—good and evil, light and dark. For the Ngaju people of Borneo, Jata is the feminine side of a dual godhead. She represents the lower world and the moon. Mahatala, the male aspect, is the upper world and the sun. Together Jata and Mahatala form the Absolute Tambon Haruei Bungai (see Southeast Asian entries)
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/indonesian-and-malaysian-divinities#ixzz1qvNBoTbl
REFLECTION
A further reflection on such Beings reveal the three generic domains of Spiritual (upper), Mental (middle), and Physical-Astral (lower) domains. As one studies the myths across the ASEAN, one would encounter such division of domains, which is indicative of the grasp of occult knowledge by the ancient Lemuro-Atlanteans from whom the Malays and IndoMongolians came from.
Note the Absolute Tambon Haruei Bungai, for instance. The Absolute is of course no other than Supreme Deity, with both Feminine and Masculine aspects represented. In the Malayan version, Mahatala is the male aspect while Jata is the feminine side. The Absolute already contains both manifest and unmanifest aspects as per inductive indications.
Jata representing the lower world (material/physical) and the Moon also indicate the ancient knowledge of the Lunar ‘Fathers’ (creator deities) who hastened the creation of the first root races of humanity. Mahatala as representing the upper world and the Sun, indicates the ancient people’s knowledge of the Solar ‘Fathers’ (creator deities) who helped to breed and accelerate the evolution of humanity after the episode of Lunar creator deities’ involvement.
[Philippines, 16 June 2011]
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Teaching
1 May 2013 - 8:44am
QUATERNARY PRINCIPLE, 4 ELEMENTS, DHARMA IN ‘FOUR PUPPETS’ NARRATIVE
Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra
Behind the number 4 is the esoteric knowledge of the material elements of earth, water, air, fire. The elements characterize the four (4) material planes, to note: physical, earth element; astral, water element; mental, air element; and, causal or ‘higher mental’, fire element. The lower domains or dimensions of reality comprise the Lower Quaternary in the Septenary Law.
Narratives with the number of 4, such as the Four Puppets tale from Burma, are fascinating as they subtly embede the four (4) elements. To recall, among the early theories of personality goes the 4-Types personality: sanguine, melancholic, choleric, phlegmatic. Notice the four types representing roughly four (4) elements, to note: phlegmatic, earth; sanguine, water; melancholic, air; and, choleric, fire.
Below is a summary of the Four Puppets Tale as an exemplar of the Number 4 dovetailing into folklore. The denouement of the narrative stressed on Dharma, which is sacrosanct to Divine Wisdom.
Source: http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/folk.html
The Four Puppets
A Tale of Burma
Told by Aaron Shepard
Printed in Australia’s School Magazine, May 2007
Once there was a puppet maker who had a son named Aung. The father always hoped his son would grow up to be a puppet maker like himself. But to Aung, such a life was far from exciting.
“Father,” said Aung one day, “I’ve decided to leave home and seek my fortune.”
The puppet maker looked up sadly from his work. “I wish you would stay, my son. The life of a puppet maker is an honorable one. But if you must go, let me give you companions for your journey.”
He showed his son four wooden puppets he had carved, painted, and costumed. “Each puppet,” he said, “has its own virtue and value.”
The first puppet was the king of the gods. The puppet maker said, “The god’s virtue is wisdom.”
The second puppet was a green-faced ogre. “The ogre’s virtue is strength.”
The third was a mystic sorcerer. “The sorcerer’s virtue is knowledge.”
The fourth was a holy hermit. “The hermit’s virtue is goodness.”
He told his son, “Each of these virtues can help you on your way. But remember, strength and knowledge must always serve wisdom and goodness.”
Aung started off the next day. On his shoulder he carried a bamboo pole, with food and clothing tied at one end, and the puppets hanging by their strings from the other.
When night came, Aung found himself deep in the jungle. He stopped beneath a banyan tree.
“This looks like a good place to sleep,” he said to himself. “But I wonder if it’s safe.”
Then Aung had a funny idea. “I think I’ll ask one of the puppets!” He turned with a smile to the king of the gods. “Tell me, is it safe here?”
To his amazement, the puppet came alive. It got down from the pole and grew to life size.
“Aung,” said the god, “open your eyes and look around you. That is the first step to wisdom. If you fail to see what is right before you, how easy it will be for others to misguide you!”
And the next moment, the puppet was hanging again from the pole.
When Aung had gotten over his shock, he looked carefully all around the tree. There in the soft earth were the tracks of a tiger! That night he slept not on the ground but in the branches above. And he was glad he did, for in the middle of the night, he saw a tiger come prowling below him.
The next day took Aung into the mountains, and at sunset he left the road and camped a little way up the mountainside. When he awoke the next morning, he saw a caravan coming along the road below. A dozen bullock carts were piled high with costly goods.
“That caravan must belong to some rich merchant,” Aung told himself. “I wish I had wealth like that.”
Then he had a thought. He turned to the green-faced ogre. “Tell me, how can I gain such riches?”
Aung watched in wonder as the puppet left the pole and grew to life size. “If you have strength,” boomed the ogre, “you can take whatever you like. Watch this!” He stamped his foot and the earth shook.
“Wait!” said Aung. But it was too late. Just below them, dirt and rocks broke loose in a landslide. It rushed down the mountain and blocked the road. The terrified drivers jumped from their carts and ran off.
“You see?” said the ogre.
“Is it really that easy?” said Aung, in a daze.
He hurried down to the carts and rushed from one to another, gaping at the heaps of rich fabrics and piles of precious metals. “And all of it’s mine!” he cried.
Just then, Aung heard a sob. Lying huddled in one of the carts was a lovely young woman his own age. She cried and shivered in fear.
“I won’t hurt you,” said Aung gently. “Who are you?”
“My name is Mala,” she said in a small voice. “My father is the owner of this caravan. We were on our way to meet him.”
All at once, Aung knew he was in love. He wanted to keep Mala with him forever. “Don’t worry,” he said. “I’ll take you with me and care for you.”
Mala sat up angrily. “Go ahead! Take me, like you’re taking everything else! But you’re just a thief, and I’ll never, ever speak to you!”
Aung was shocked. Was he really just a thief? He didn’t know what to say.
The ogre came up beside him then. “Don’t listen to her. She’ll change her mind—and anyway, the important thing is you got what you wanted. Now, let’s go.”
The ogre cleared the road, then helped Aung lead the caravan. That afternoon, they came out of the mountains, not far from the capital city.
Aung asked the ogre, “What should I do, now that I have all these riches?”
“Don’t ask me!” said the ogre. “Ask the sorcerer!”
Aung turned to the mystic sorcerer. “Can you tell me?”
The puppet came to life and floated before him, as Mala looked on with wide eyes. “If you want your wealth to grow,” said the sorcerer, “you must learn the secrets of nature.”
He tapped Aung with his red wand, and together they rose high in the air. Looking down, Aung saw everything in a new way. He could tell what land was best for farming, and which mountains held gold and silver.
“This is wonderful!” said Aung. “Just think how I can help people with what I know!”
“Certainly you could,” said the sorcerer. “But knowledge is power. Why not keep it all for yourself instead? Isn’t that what other people do?”
“I suppose so,” said Aung.
So they came to the capital city. Aung became a merchant, and with the help of the ogre and the sorcerer, he grew many times richer than at first. He bought a palace for himself and Mala, and kept the puppets in a special room of their own.
But Aung was not happy, for Mala still would not speak to him.
One day, he placed before her a headdress fit for a queen. The heavy gold was set with dozens of large rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. The magnificent piece had cost Aung a third of his wealth.
Mala took one look and pushed it away.
Aung was heartbroken. He said, “Don’t you know I love you?” But she only glared at him and said not a word.
The next morning, Aung went to the puppets’ room and spoke to the ogre and the sorcerer. “Mala’s father must now be very poor, while I have more than I need. I’ll help Mala find him so I can pay him for what I took. Maybe then she’ll speak to me, and even learn to love me.”
“A terrible idea!” said the ogre. “You should never give up what is yours. You’re just being weak!”
“Besides,” the sorcerer told him, “you’re too late. Mala ran away last night.”
“What?” cried Aung. He rushed through the palace, but Mala was nowhere to be found.
Aung returned to the puppets’ room in despair. “What good is all my wealth if I’ve lost what I care for most?”
For once, the ogre and the sorcerer were silent and still.
Then Aung remembered there was one puppet he had never called on. He turned to the holy hermit. “Tell me, why has everything gone wrong?”
The puppet came to life. “Aung, you imagined that wealth brings happiness. But true happiness comes only from goodness. What is important is not what you have but what you do with it.”
The king of the gods then came to life and stood beside the hermit. “You forgot what your father told you, Aung. Strength and knowledge are useful, but they must always serve wisdom and goodness.”
“I won’t forget again,” said Aung.
From that day on, Aung used his wealth and his talents to do good. He built a splendid holy pagoda, and offered food and shelter to those who visited the shrine.
One day among the visitors, Aung saw a young woman he knew well. An older man stood beside her, both of them wearing humble clothes.
“Mala!” cried Aung. He rushed over to the startled young woman and knelt before her puzzled father.
“Sir, I have done you great wrong. I beg your forgiveness. All I have is yours, and I give it up gladly. I will be content to return to my village and make puppets.”
“Father,” said Mala softly, “this is Aung. But he has changed!”
“So it would seem!” said her father. “And if so, it would be a shame to let go of a young man of such talent. Perhaps he would like to work for me, and live with us in the palace.”
So Aung became the merchant’s assistant, and before long his partner, and when Mala’s heart was won, his son-in-law.
As for the puppets, Aung still called on them as needed. But though he was helped often by strength and knowledge, he was guided always by wisdom and goodness.
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26 Apr 2013 - 1:10am
OBJECTIFICATION, ALIENATION, THE FALL: MALAY LORE OF MALIN KUNDANG
Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra
Popular among the Southeast Asians is the narrative of Malin Kundang. It has diverse versions, and is known among the insular Southeast (Malaysia, Singapore) and peninsular Southeast (Brunei, insular Malaysia, Indonesia).
This narrative is focused on the repercussions of ingratitude by an offspring. The denouement talks about the said scion eventually ‘turning into stone’ upon a stubborn sailing on his own galleon.
‘Turning into stone’ is a signifier for the process of densification of the soul and its disjunction from Spirit. The soul runs agog in the inner space dominated by the Inner Demon, as revealed by the ‘stone’ in the narrative. In religious lingo, it is The Fall told in a southeast Asian version of the predicament of mankind.
Not only that, the tale also reveals the power of the Feminine in antiquity. Accordingly, the Mother cursed the wayward son, a curse that resulted to him turning into stone. Which means that any person who disjoins or locks up the Feminine within him/her will end up being devoured by his/her Inner Demon and become a Fallen One.
Below is a summary of the tale.
[Philippines, 16 June 2011]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malin_Kundang
Malin Kundang
Malin Kundang (also called Si Tanggang or Nakhoda Manis) is a Southeast Asian folktale about retribution on an ungrateful son. A sailor from a poor family, the protagonist sneaks onto a trading ship, eventually becoming rich, marrying a princess, and acquiring his own galleon. On his return to his home village, he is ashamed of his humble origins and refuses to recognise his elderly mother. She curses him, and when he sets sail, he and his ship are turned to stone.[1]
In Indonesia, the story is called Malin Kundang, and the legend is based in West Sumatra. Air Manis, a beach near Padang, has a rock formation called Batu Malin Kundang that is said to be the remains of his ship.[2]
Another Indonesian folk story which is alike but take the different location is the legend of Sampuraga. The legend is based in Central Borneo. Belantikan Hulu, a remote area along the river Lamandau, Indonesia, has a rock formation called Bukit Sampuraga which is believed to be the ruins of his ship.
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5 Apr 2013 - 2:10pm
DRYADES & OREIADES
http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/Dryades.html
THE DRYADES & OREIADES were the beautiful Nymphs of the trees, groves, woods and mountain forests. They were the ladies of the oaks and pines, poplar and ash, apple and laurel. For those known as Hamadryades, trees sprung up from the earth at their birth, trees to which their lives were closely tied. While the tree flourished, so did its resident nymph, but when it died she passed away with it.
There were several classes of Dryades associated with a particular types of tree:
(1) The Meliai were the Nymphs of the ash-trees. They sprang up from Gaia the Earth when she was impregnated by the blood of the castrated Ouranos. The men of the Silver Age married these Nymphai (in the time before women were created) and from them all of mankind was descended.
(2) The Oreiades were the Nymphs of the mountain conifers. The first of these were offspring of the five Daktyloi and the five Hekaterides. Subsequent generations were descended from these elder Oreiades and their brothers the Satyroi.
(NB The old forests of ancient Greece were primarily found high in the mountains, since the majority of the lowland forest had been cleared for farming. It was therefore natural for the Greeks to think of the Dryades as mountain-dwelling).
(3) The Hamadryades were the Nymphs of oak and poplar trees. These were usually associated with river-side trees and sacred groves.
(4) The Maliades, Meliades or Epimelides were Nymphai of apple and other fruit trees. They were also protectors of sheep. The Greek word melas from which their name derives means both apple and sheep.
(5) The Daphnaie were Nymphs of the laurel trees, one of a class of rarer tree-specific Nymphai. Others included the Nymphai Aigeiroi (black poplar), Ampeloi (grape vine), Balanis (ilex), Karyai (hazel-nut), Kraneiai (cherry-tree), Moreai (mulberry), Pteleai (elm), and Sykei (fig).
Others with simply associated with a location: Oreiades were nymphs of the mountain heights, Alseides of the sacred groves, Aulonides of the glens, Napaiai of the vales.
PARENTS OF OREIADES
[1.1] THE DAKTYLOI & THE HEKATERIDES (Strabo 10.3.19)
[2.1] HERMES & THE OREIADES (Homeric Hymn V To Aphrodite 256)
[3.1] THE SATYROI & THE OREIADES (Homeric Hymn V To Aphrodite 256)
PARENTS OF HAMADRYADES
[1.1] SEILENOS (Propertius Elegies 2.32)
[2.1] OUROS (Athenaeus 3.78 )
[3.1] OXYLOS & HAMADRYAS (Athenaeus 3.78 )
ENCYCLOPEDIA
DRYADES (Druades) All nymphs, whose number is almost infinite, may be divided into two great classes. The first class embraces those who must be regarded as a kind of inferior divinities, recognised in the worship of nature. The early Greeks saw in all the phenomena of ordinary nature some manifestation of the deity; springs, rivers, grottoes, trees, and mountains, all seemed to them fraught with life; and all were only the visible embodiments of so many divine agents. The salutary and beneficent powers of nature were thus personified, and regarded as so many divinities; and the sensations produced on man in the contemplation of nature, such as awe, terror, joy, delight, were ascribed to the agency of the various divinities of nature.
The nymphs of the first class must again be sublatter divided into various species, according to the different parts of nature of which they are the representatives.
1. Nymphs of mountains and grottoes, are called Orodemniades and Oreiades but sometimes also by names derived from the particular mountains they inhabited, as Kithairônides, Pêliades, Korukiai, &c. (Theocrit. vii. 137; Virg. Aen. i. 168, 500; Paus. v. 5. § 6, ix. 3. § 5, x. 32. § 5; Apollon. Rhod. i. 550, ii. 711; Ov. Her. xx. 221; Virg. Eclog. vi. 56.)
2. Nymphs of forests, groves, and glens, were believed sometimes to appear to and frighten solitary travellers. They are designated by the names Alsêïdes, Holêôroi, Aulôniades, and Napaiai. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 1066, 1227; Orph. Hymn. 50. 7; Theocrit. xiii. 44; Ov. Met. xv. 490; Virg. Georg. iv. 535.)
3 . Nymphs of trees, were believed to die together with the trees which had been their abode, and with which they had come into existence. They were called Dryades, Hamadruades or Hadryades, from drys, which signifies not only an oak, but any wild-growing lofty tree; for the nymphs of fruit trees were called Mêlides, Mêliades, Epimêlides, or Hamamêlides. They seem to be of Arcadian origin, and never appear together with any of the great gods. (Paus. viii. 4. § 2; Apollon. Rhod. ii. 477, &c.; Anton. Lib. 31, 32; Hom. Hymn. in Ven. 259, &c.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
LIST OF DRYADES
AIGEIROS A Hamadryad of the black poplar-tree.
AMPELOS A Hamadryad of the wild grape vine.
ATLANTEIA An Libyan Hamadryad nymph who was the mother of several of the Danaides by King Danaus.
BALANIS A Hamadryad of the acorn tree, or ilex.
BYBLIS A girl of Miletos in Karia transformed into a Hamadryas.
DAPHNIS An Oreiad of Mount Parnassos in Phokis who was appointed by the goddess Gaia as the prophetess at the oracle at Delphoi (in the time before it passed into the hands of Apollon).
DRYOPE A Hamadryad nymph of Mount Othrys in Malis. She was a princess of the Dryopes who was transformed into a poplar-tree nymph by her Hamadryad sister-in-laws.
EIDOTHEA A Oreiad of Mt Othreis in Malis who was loved by the god Poseidon.
EKHO A Oreiad nymph of Mount Helikon in Boiotia, and a handmaiden of the goddess Hera. She was cursed to only repeat the words of others by her mistress. When she fell in love with the self-obsessed youth Narkissos, he spurned her advances, and she faded away in her grief.
ERATO A prophetic Arkadian Dryad nymph of Mount Kyllene, the wife of King Nyktimos.
HELIADES Daughters of the sun-god Helios, the Heliades were transformed into amber-teared poplar trees. They were probably regarded as a type of Hamadryad.
HESPERIDES The three guardians of the golden apples were sometimes regarded as Hamadryad or Hamameliad (apple-tree) nymphs.
KARYA A Hamadryad nymph of the hazel or chestnut-tree.
KHELONE An Arkadian Oreiad nymph who ignored the summons to attend the wedding of Zeus and Hera and as punishment was transformed into a tortoise .
KLAIA A Messenian Oreiad nymph who had a cavern shrine on Mt Kalathion.
KRANEIA A Hamadryad nymph of the cherry tree.
KYLLENE An Arkadian Oreiad who was the eponym of Mt Kyllene in Arkadia. She was the wife of Pelasgos the very first king of Arkadia.
MOREA A Hamadryad of the mulberry-tree.
NOMIA An Oreiad of Mount Nomia in Arkadian.
OTHREIS An Oreiad of Mount Othrys in Malis. She was loved by the gods Apollon and Zeus.
PENELOPEIA An Oreiad or Epimellid nymph of Mount Kyllene in Arkadia. She was the mother of the god Pan by Hermes.
PHIGALIA An Oreiad nymph who gave her name to the Arkadian town of Phigalia.
PHOIBE A Libyan Hamadryad nymph who was the mother of several of the Danaides by King Danaus.
PITYS An Oreiad nymph loved by Pan. She fled his advances and was transformed into a pine-tree.
PTELEA A Hamadryad of the elm tree.
SINOE An Oreiad nymph of Mount Sinoe in Arkadia. She nursed the infant god Pan.
SOSE An Oreiad nymph prophetess loved by the god Hermes. She bore him one of the Panes.
SPHRAGITIDES The Oreiad nymphs of a cavern oracle located on Mount Kithairon in Attika.
SYKE A Hamadryad nymph of the fig tree.
TITHOREA An Arkadian Dryad who gave her name to the town of Tithorea.
Artwork by: Vladimir Kukorenchuk
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ALTERNATIVE NAMES & TYPES OF DRYADES & OREIADES
More general information can be found from the link I enclosed with this informational post. And there are many other websites available to be explored regarding tree spirits and dryads.
A couple suggested sites for further interest:
http://www.examiner.com/article/oreiades-nymphs-of-the-mountains
http://byronled.myweb.uga.edu/Worlds/worldstree/Faeries/Dryads.htm
Blessed Be
I began studying many areas that are now called in New Age terms - pagan. When I began studying over 30 years ago, there was no category really other than occult and that covered the light and dark areas. When I discovered the world of dryads, I wanted to become one. This inner notion or concept comes from having a past life being a druid high priest and a priestess in the Temple of Brigid - some things are just a part of who I AM.
I am connected with the Pine Tree, Maple, Apple and White Spruce.
It is not uncommon for a pine tree to greet me on any day even a cold one with a touch of its sticky sap.
My daughter seems to have a relationship with tall pines as well.
Maple is not added here but in some writings it is included with the Birch family.
Blessings of Divine Light and Love
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7 Mar 2013 - 10:07pm
Succubus come from the 7th dimension. They are 7th dimensional but do not refer to that plane by that name, rather “home”. Like how we as humans think of Mother Earth as our home because that is where we started out in this life. They have lived for many millenniums. They have experienced so much in just a single lifetime, as we humans would perceive such an amount of time as the same being. Dolphins also originated in this same plane, but exist in their own way, similar to how they exist along side humans on Earth, as well as succubi/incubi. This plane is love-based, it is the standard by which all beings here exist. There are many others besides Dolphins and Succubus.
Emotional vibrations are nourishment to the beings that exist 7th dimensionally, but there is a catch to how it works; Because of the level, or rate at which the frequencies they exist within vibrates, only loving (or positive you could say) vibrations sustain them. That is not to say they couldn't receive nourishment from a lower resonating vibrational frequency, but it would be like a human maintaining an unhealthy diet. It is a similar way that we as humans require to consume the energy of another living being, be it plant or animal. We must eat another being in order to continue living in the way we do.
So too must succubus/incubus gather or be given vibrations that give them proper nourishment. The difference is they do not completely consume the being from which they receive nourishment, but rather give back an equal kind of nourishment. One way that they do this is through sexuality.
Sexuality is a sacred gift, our(as humans) one lighthouse to source; shining the way back to source(god, allah, krshna,etc.). It perfectly mirrors the act of creation, while at the same time performing the act of creation. By having sex, two beings (gender and “species” irrelevant) intertwine there bodies physically. When this happens all levels of those two beings become one; each takes on the others' vibrations, and those vibrations stay with them for quite some time. They have such a high vibration that when a human takes on theirs, they are greatly benefited. Whereas if a human should engage in sexual intercourse, it is wisest to be done when both partners vibrations are at their personal highest and most loving for one another. That way both parties are benefited equally. Otherwise an individual could take on energy that they may not be able to handle fully and it can affect them greatly in a wide range of ways. That is because two beings can engage in intercourse or sexual activities and still take on each others vibrations, regardless of the “level” they exist within. It is a standard of this dimension, the 3rd dimension. Like how Love is the standard of the 7th dimension.
While these beings each have their own way of being and the ability to have their own kind of emotions and free will, they will be drawn to different frequencies within the vibration of love they require. So they will mate with certain people and join with them in a union of love for that reason as well as “Who they are”, as in “soul-level”.
Since that is the case, humans could also be slightly adversely affected by a succubus/incubus partner. The affects themselves would be varied depending on the person's own vibrational frequencies. But the affects would not be something harmful ultimately. But humans are transceivers and receivers of energy so this is not actually an issue to be concerned with, but rather something to simply be understood and known.
These beings, Succubus/incubus, are as varied as human beings are in personality and physical appearance. They are extremely similar to human beings in fact, in almost all ways. They possess abilities that range from telepathy, to flight, to easily shifting from a non-physical body to a physical body. (they exist in two dimensions at the same time, being from the 7th dimension going into the 3rd dimension) That is not all of their abilities, just a few examples. These all are also things humans could do, as well as others. Though not all humans are always aware of their full potential and abilities.
At heart they are loving and exist as love. That is the most important thing one should know about these beings. They have a unique way to themselves, how they carry themselves or communicate or act. They have personality, but not an “ego” as humans do.
Because of that fact, their existence helps a human partner let go of or release their “ego” and remember how to exist as their soul does always. That is if the human allows their “self” to be open to such truths.
They know everything about a person because they see things in a way that is alien to humans in the way they currently are. It is like being able to see everything there is about a person, in various ways or methods, without taking any amount of time at all. Instantly. Not a moment needs go by to know these things. Personality is what creates an interest in certain things or aspects.
I am sharing this information now because I am in a relationship with three succubus, who's names shall remain unsaid for their own privacy and because names carry a certain vibration about a being. I have connected with each of them in a unique yet similar way. I have learned a lot of what I have shared from them, and some was information that I had previously know and resonated with my own personal truth and life experiences. I felt the need to share this information also because of the amount of false information there is about their kind. I find it disgusting and appalling the things people are led to believe about them, such lies like they suck your soul out by having sex with you, and then you die. The Soul is inviolate and cannot be sucked out of 'you' via the body, rather you are the Soul just trying on a 'body' for some time
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8 Feb 2013 - 2:49am
"The massive attention brought to the Grail today is a gross diversion from what the Grail is, considered mystically. It distracts us from the experience the Grail can offer to those who genuinely seek it. Loomis was right: of all enigmas, this is the most enigmatic. It might be argued that the Grail can be many things to many people, and neither John Lash nor anyone else is going to have the final and exclusive say on what it is. That is true enough. But it is equally true that the Grail can only be one thing. It can be many things, and, at one time, it has to be one thing and one thing only. That one thing the Grail is, is the most enigmatic part of the enigma."
"The Stone is One; nothing else must be added to it; out of one substance the Sages attain our remedy. This Magistery grows from one original root, which branches out into several parts, and from which springs one thing.
Thus the old alchemists advise, time and again, in many versions of the same message. (From "The Golden Tract," in The Hermetic Museum, edited by A. E. Waite.) I am writing to disclose and elucidate that one thing, which in the past has been regarded as the most sacred and secret matter in the world."
http://metahistory.org/GRAIL/MostEnigmatic.php
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4 Jan 2013 - 9:57am
The Isle of Avalon has been a subject of fascination for many. I personally believe that the Isle of Avalon is not just a place that may have existed on earth and ascended. It is your Inner Paradise. Isle of Avalon is a place such as Shambala or Paradise which exists in each of us. We all have the potential to live in Avalon. How you ask?
When you live from a place of heightened consciousness, of pure divine love, where you feel the Oneness in all, you are existing and operating from Avalon. Avalon is a vibrational energy of Complete Oneness. Many people are returning to their origins in Druidry and Celtic path to earth magic. They are returning home - to Avalon. The Dragon has awakened and is calling the priests and priestesses to come home and reclaim their place in Avalon.
In my efforts to weave myth, mystery and magic together I have come to understand that the Arthurian legends are not just legends or history. It is an allegory. I explore a few of the energies and characters.
Arthur - The Once and Future King. He is not just a king of history or legend but a fair and just king who shall arise when there is a need. He may have 'bodily' died or ascended (depending on what myth you believe) but he represents the Quintessential Emperor energy. He lives and rules through all the fair and just leaders - not just kings but all kinds of leaders.
Morgana - The Quintessential High Priestess or Initiate. Any seeker (male or female) in the Path of Oneness embodies the Morgana energy. She is the mythical faery, goddess, sorceress, high priestess, witch. For me personally, she represents myself and all seekers of the path. I see her in me and me in her. She represents union of cosmic and elemental energies; of angels and goddesses; of sky and earth. She weaves the Above and Below.
Merlin - The Quintessential Wise Old Wizard. He represents ancient wisdom and esoteric knowledge. He is Gandalf, Archangel Raziel, Yoda, Melchizedek, Dumbledore, the Three Wise Men, Wise Man archetype of Carl Jung. He is the guide and mentor; the ultimate Druid. He commands the Dragon and imparts the knowledge of the dragon to the Morganas of Avalon. He gives the power of the Dragon to Morgana.
Dragon - Magic. Magic is the very fabric of our existence, it shall never be destroyed. Magic is the vibration of plants, animals, minerals and rock. Magic is our breath, Energy, Prana, Chi. Magic is the light and warmth from fire, the coolness and flow of water, the stability of earth and freedom of air. Magic is Divine Will. When you use affirmations, manifestation or practice positive thinking you are working Magic. When you use Reiki or crystals to heal you are working Magic. As long as there is existence, there is magic. The Dragon (Divine Power of manifestation, healing, knowledge) exists in Avalon. Magic just took a new name in the recent past - Miracles. It has and will always exist. For Magic is Existence.
Isle of Avalon - Inner Paradise. Avalon shall exist as along as Avalonians live. Avalonians have taken many names and forms through history. They are the sages, priests and priestess, shamans, lightworkers, healers, scholars, esoteric scientists, channels, saints, messiahs, prophets, gurus, masters etc. Anyone who seeks and lives the trifold path of Divine Wisdom, Divine Love and Divine Will are Avalonians and Morganas. Isle of Avalon reveals itself to all seekers when they see the Dragon; when they experience the Love and Oneness in all; when you see a plant on the roadside and want to talk to it and give it love; when you see a rock and caress it; when you see yourself in the mud beneath you.
For all the Morganas - here is an affirmation:
I, High Priestess Morgana, am existing now from the Isle of Avalon with the guidance and mentorship of Merlin and the power of the Dragon - for the purpose of service.
Source: My website www.healingangelwings.org/blog
Blog entry
2 Jan 2013 - 11:54pm
Very interesting for those that are interested in such a topic!
I don't claim this is the truth, that is why I posted it under BUILD YOUR OWN MIND but I find the "documentary" very interesting and worth to spend two hours....
"This is the incredible story of Ron Wyatt and how he actually proved the stories of the Bible were correct! In this video, Ron talks about how he actually found the Ark of the Covenant and how it was placed through God's instruction directly under the spot that Jesus was crucified hundreds of years later. Don't miss this amazing story and make sure you tell others!
Ron also proved the Bible's information about Noah's Ark, the Red Sea Crossing, Mount Sinai and Sodom and Gommorah.
When Ron found the Ark of the Covenant, he also found the blood of Jesus Christ that had dripped down on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant! This information should have been front page news all over the world but has been suppressed by those wishing to deny Jesus.
When Israeli scientists tested the blood for Ron they had never seen anything like it! First the blood was still alive and they could analyze the chromosomes which would have been impossible if this was normal blood. Secondly when they analyzed the blood, they found that it had 23 chromosomes from the mother as was normal but only ONE chromosome from the father! About 90% of the scientists did not believe in God or Jesus Christ before they analyzed this blood. Ron Wyat reported that every single scientist involved converted to Christianity afterwards!"
Please proceed to
lovingenergies.spruz.com/pt/Ron-Wyatt---Discovers-the-Ark-of-the-Covenant.1-2-2013/blog.htm
The "post" have two Videos each about 1 hour!
NAMASTE
SiNeh~
Blog entry
10 Dec 2012 - 3:27am
David Wilcock just released a short post in which he drops a giant bomb: He now believes our solar system is actually a binary star system. If true, it would mean that our sun has a companion star. According to Wilcock, this other star is a brown dwarf.
What, what, what?! This is ground shaking for me! If this turns out to be true, it would make the myth and legend of Nibiru so much more plausible and credible!
Mizar
I've been interested in binary star systems since visiting the Lake Afton Public Observatory last summer and observing the binary system Mizar through the telescope there. Even if you don't know about Mizar or the fact it's a binary system, chances are you've looked at it. It's one of the stars in the handle of The Big Dipper.
The Mizar System
During my turn at the telescope while viewing Mizar, a bright orangish-yellow orb zipped through the view finder. Those who have followed this blog know I ended up seeing quite a few UFOs last year. While I can't be certain what I saw through that telescope was a craft, it certainly didn't have the appearance of a shooting star or other known celestial object. There was no tail, just a fast ball of light. Not long after that, my wife and I witnessed an orangish-yellow UFO exit the atmosphere of our planet from our front yard. The best part - it flew directly through the center of The Big Dipper in the direction of...you guessed it. Mizar! And we were far from alone in seeing UFOs in the vicinity of that constellation during that time period.
Brown Dwarf Stars & Binary Systems
A Brown Dwarf
You might be thinking, if our solar system has two stars why can't we see the other one? Good question. The answer lies in the explanation that this companion star is a brown dwarf. This is a kind of star that either never obtained the necessary mass to spark the nuclear fusion reaction to become what we normally think of as stars, or used to be such a star but aged to the point where the fusion reaction has stopped. Brown dwarfs are described as appearing quite a bit like Jupiter, and science is currently debating whether to maintain a distinction between dwarf stars and gas giants.
For two stars to comprise a binary system, they have to revolve around a center of gravity - a point of gravitational equilibrium between the two. Apparently, just such a scenario might account for some of the anomalies in our outer solar system scientists have had a hard time explaining! And if there is a brown dwarf companion star, we obviously wouldn't see it because it's not burning.
The Legend of Nibiru
Many of us likely came into acquaintance with the concept of a Planet X as children while watching Duck Dodgers from the 24th-and-a-half Century argue with Marvin the Martian over who had rightful claim to the legendary planet. But the idea has seen a major resurgence in the past couple years because of the literary works of Zecharia Sitchin. Sitchin said Planet X is likely real, and its name is Nibiru. He based this declaration on his translations of Sumerian and Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets. His ideas may have remained in obscurity were it not for their inclusion in Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods - a book that was instrumental in inspiring a young truth seeker named David Wilcock.
The legend, according to Sitchin's translations of the tablets, is that Nibiru is a planetary body with an orbit that places it in the vicinity of Earth once every *3,600 years. But the internets have taken the story of Nibiru and turned it into the harbinger of planetary catastrophe. A Google search of just that one word reveals all sorts of scary ideas about the fabled planet, from extreme and sudden pole shift to the open enslavement of mankind by Nibiru's humanoid population called the Annunaki.
Well, I haven't personally spent a lot of time thinking about whether Nibiru is real. Because the prophesy of its coming is so steeped in fear porn, I'm not going to invest a lot of thought in it. That doesn't mean I've dismissed it out of hand. While I've considered its existence a possibility, my view has been that because Cayce and Ra didn't mention Nibiru it must not be of too much consequence. Even if it does exist, the fear-laden fire built around it is likely being fanned by those who wish mankind to envision its own demise.
That said, I recently had a conversation with meteorologist and chemtrail awareness activist Scott Stevens that re-piqued my interest in the idea. While discussing what we might cover in an upcoming interview, the conversation left the chemtrail topic for the bigger picture of our planet's future. Scott intimated that he has a well-placed insider friend who has related many amazing things. Among them is that Planet X is real, and that the hubbub surrounding 2012 was created by the Powers That Be as a misdirection and distraction to the big action which would really start in 2013.
I had planned on keeping this Planet X tip close to the vest in order to reward and surprise listeners, but this new post by David begs for an early release. The synchronicity of it seems important to me, so there you have it. I hope you'll tune in to Extraordinary Year Tuesday night to get deeper details from Scott Stevens.
Soft Disclosure
Did you know astronomy scientists believe most visible star systems are binary? I didn't. But I have noticed lately a lot of articles referring to binary systems. Couple this with the announcement that NASA's Kepler Telescope has shown that most star systems probably have planets, and the argument can be made that we are witnessing a sort of "soft disclosure" of a reality already known by the elite of our planet.
During my research today for this very post, I discovered that scientists announced just this year that the aforementioned Mizar is in fact not just a binary system - it actually contains six stars!
Two suns photo courtesy Cameron Wright
December 9, 2012 | Queensland, Australia
Another interesting and related phenomenon over the past couple years has been the Second Sun meme on YouTube. Many videos, purportedly from all sorts of different people from all over the planet, show a second bright object in our sky. Sometimes it is visible with the naked eye, but many times it can only be seen through a filter. Most of these videos do not appear to be fake. I'm not sure how they could be. Now, I haven't personally seen a second bright object in the sky - and I've looked. I've tried to block the sun with two pairs of sunglasses. On days when the cloud cover is just thick enough to make the solar disc viewable without hurting the eye I've noted that it seems to be all alone. But there are still so many videos that the phenomenon still seems possible, if not probable. Let's say for the sake of argument that the videos are fake. To what end, and by whom? One explanation might be that someone very powerful had the videos created in order to gently ease the collective of humanity into the notion of a second sun.
Of course, they likely aren't fake. I don't say that simply because the videos would be extremely difficult to fake. I say it because of the image posted just above. It was provided by my very own facebook friend Cameron Wright in Queensland, Australia. He took the photo himself, just last night! Unless the sky itself has somehow been faked for people to record via photographs and videos, there is a genuine phenomenon occurring - and as recently as the past 24 hours!
It all makes sense now!
I don't know how David Wilcock arrived at this brown dwarf binary star idea. Based on his past work, one could guess he's had his own insiders say as much, and/or he's received this information from dreams or visions. But if it turns out to be true, it would tie together the legend of Nibiru, the theoretical Planet X and the anomalies scientists observe in our outer solar system.
I find myself more excited than ever to get to Tuesday evening to find out just what Scott Stevens has to say about all this!
* Note that 3,600 is a harmonic of 360, the number of degrees in a circle. This is also the original yearly orbit of Earth before the destruction of Maldek which, according to David Wilcock's The Source Field Investigations, created the asteroid belt and threw off the original timing and harmonics of our solar system. David's story of Maldek comes from two independent sources. Edgar Cayce spoke of the planet while accessing the Akashic Records during trance. The channeled entity Ra also speaks of the planet in the Law of One readings.
It is also interesting to note Sitchin said the cuneiform texts claimed the Earth was created when one of Nibiru's moons struck a protoplanet in our solar system called Tiamat - and that the asteroid belt was created on a second pass when Nibiru itself struck what remained of the original Tiamat. It is also interesting to note that the particular texts which say this refer to Nibiru as Marduk. Marduk is awfully similar to Maldek, don't you think?
Obviously, the Cayce/Ra/Wilcock story of the asteroid belt's creation doesn't jive with the Sitchin/Sumerian version. But there are provocative similarities. Maybe what we have in the Sumerian version of events is akin to the telephone game in which one person whispers something into a person's ear and the message is passed along the circle. How often that message is hilariously altered before it reaches the final telling!
Teaching
4 Dec 2012 - 10:27am
The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor
http://nativeamericanprophecy.com/prophecy-quero-queche-condor-eagle.htm
...is told by many Native nations in the Western Hemisphere. The following is an elaboration from the Peace and Dignity Journeys Confederation of the Eagle and Condor Coordinating Council.
The Elders of this continent remember and talk about a prophecy that foretold how we will come together and reunite as one. We are like a body that was broken into pieces and this body will come back together to be whole again. They speak about this in the South, Center and North.
Our Elders tell us that we will unite and get our strength back like many arrows that will not be broken. They remember the history to keep the fire alive. We have to come together to be one, to have complete understanding. The main tool used was the arrow because our ancestors all over the continent were hunters. In time they added this arrow to a sacred bow. This bow is used all over this continent and is what we call the half moon. They knew we would be around and this bow would be again in the center, marking the direction that we should take. If we take a step we send this arrow to follow.
All of our people have to make a new design for our children and the future generations. They said it is written in the stars and we have to make this work so they can move the spiritual energy. This will begin a new time when we can take the Spirit in our own hands when the Eagle and Condor reunite.
Our leaders said that we should not forget to pass this message to our children. We will reunite our family and our people. Their Sun will be a new light. When this is done the people will fulfill their destiny. The pieces will be in place. There is a space for everybody and they will be apart of this prophecy. The majority of our leaders say don't forget to teach our children. All of the last leaders that were in command said to keep the family together. We will be standing in this new design. We will hold this in our home one day. Teach from Father to Son, from Mother to Daughter. It is very simple to understand.
The Encounter of the Condor of Urin and the Eagle of Hanan
This Prophecy was related during the First Encuentro of Indigeneous Peoples in Quito, Ecuador in 1990.
In the unfolding of the life of the Indian Nations, every five centuries produces transformations of both foundations and forms. With these changes, life does not lose its essence. It becomes covered with new skin. The old is rejuvenated. It is nourished with pure energy. This energy Is transmitted by the great spirits of Allpa Mama and Pacha Mama, that Is, of nature and of the Universe, in general.
Thousands of years ago, when life Initiated its vital cycle, Pachakamak (God of Time) created Intl (the sun) and Quilla (the moon) out of the union of it's tears and, thus, gave birth to the Runas, to the people, of this continent Appla-Yala and In this birth emerged the Condor and the Eagle, the Kuntur of Urin and the Anga de Hanan, their spirits continually enriching the veins of the Runas of this continent.
Their strength motivated the north and south to unite. The union of the people of the North with the South also signifies the union of the Condor and the Eagle. The Condor and the Eagle join their tears from Jahanpacha (the sky) to Ucupacha (the underground.) Out of this union sprang Central America. In this piece of earth was concentrated the wisdom of Hana and Urin. New nations developed, whose inhabitants had the capacity to sow the earth In the middle of a great ocean and convert it into what is today Central America.
These peoples, oriented by the laws of Allpa Mana and Pacha Mama, had to pass through difficult situations, one of which was the splitting of its nations into four parts. After this tragedy, the Willak Umus (prophets) instructed their Amautas, Curacas, Arawikus or wise men to create prophecies that would orient and guide our peoples. These prophecies would teach the Indian nations to maintain themselves solid, united and, above all, to search for the most appropriate paths for their liberation.
Allpa Mana
The beginning of the liberation of the Indian people would be symbolized by different prophecies, one of which Is the union of the tears of the Condor of Urin and the Eagle of Hanan. The union of these tears would cauterize our wounds and fortify our spirit, body and thought. The great spirit would open furrows and in each furrow would water its seed, and In each step would spring battalions of men who would bare their chests to fend off the daggers of the enemy. They would reach out with their hands to erase oppression, exploitation and Injustice, and they would write on the huge page of the sky the sacred word of liberty.
The union of the Condor and Eagle, according to the prophecy, should occur in this time. The ensuing time period will be born with a new spirit. This new spirit will unite once again the red nations of North, Central and South parts of the hemisphere.
It is important to understand the interpretation of the prophecy in order to understand the purpose and scope of the Peace and Dignity Journeys mandate which the intercontinental run is a part.
There are many steps that will and are being taken by our peoples in this time. The Peace and Dignity runs are some of these steps. All steps are part of the Vision, Dreams and Prayer that we are making to carry out the instructions of our ancestors and to fulfill the prophecy by active participation in these steps.
This is the prayer of Peace and Dignity that the Eagle and Condor Confederation be reestablished again.
video
27 Sep 2012 - 3:16am
Robert Morning Sky
Posted on 27. Sep, 2012
Robert Morning Sky, author of the Terra Papers. Robert shares what he has learned from the Semsiye elders and as a result of many years of research into our hidden history and possibilities for our future.
video
1 Sep 2012 - 12:23am
A short video clip involving the art of stirring the etheric realms in such a manner that certain faery or wee folk are summoned. Music containing certain frequencies to enter the half dream or twilight state where fairy vision can awaken. Be sure to be pure of heart.
Blog entry
4 Jun 2012 - 10:16am
A story by me, a spinoff of an old tale I once read.
"This tower leads to paradise":
Tempted, many came to the tower, seeking to ascend to paradise. Many entered the tower, but none ever returned.
Eventually, a party of four came to the tower, well prepared and with the blessings of the 3 kings of the land. As they began their ascent, they were met at the door by a familiar figure in a hat. And he spoke to them:
"No one has ever returned to this world through this tower, you show much courage coming here. We may meet again as we try to reach paradise." So they set out, intrigued by this man, whom they had seen in their own world, yet he spoke none ever returned from the tower. Along the ascent, they found doorways to completely new lands not yet seen or archived before in their own world. Encountering many hardships, making allies along the way, they became wise and experienced. However, as their ascent continued, their own thoughts shifted more and more to their own world, and how they missed it so.
In the worlds they traveled, they learned more and more about the tower itself, from brave souls who did infact return to their native world. Some claimed the tower never ended and simply repeated, saying paradise was merely an illusion.
Others claimed to see a terrible demon who warned them to return or face eternal purgatory. One thing they all agreed on however, was the man in the hat. Some told them the man in the hat found amusement at their hardships, never offering assistance, only "false" promises of paradise. With each new world they encountered, there were new faces, new names, and vastly different societies. They all seemed to be mired in the same struggles however, be it political, financial, ecological. In all these realms, people sought the tower as a place to be away with their own struggles, thinking paradise was obtainable.
The party of four however, remained determined. And as they pushed forward, each world they encountered became a little more disfunctional, and each one lost more and more of its people to the tower.
Eventually, they reached a point where there were no longer any new worlds, or people, the tower simply spiraled, endlessly. Exausted and famished, the party began to debate returning. They argued, we have come so far, only to be lost in illusion. All we have endured, and learned, was for this? We have come so far, turning back now is pointless, we must press forward.
At this point, the man in the hat again appeared before them. And he spoke:
"Such interesting people you are. You have indeed come far, in fact you have come further then many before you.
And yet here you remain, divided. Divided you will fall, and paradise will not be found. I offer you a choice, if you wish, I will return you to one of the worlds you visited, but your own world you will not return to, ever. Not even through paradise. If you choose to push forward, a terrible fate awaits if you remain divided. I give you a day to decide."
The man also gave them food and water. They spoke much among themselves about what they would decide. And when he returned for an answer, they replied to him. "We will not return, we will reach paradise, at all costs."
Seeing they were united, the man in the hat smiled. Then you are ready. Before them a new door appeared, unlike any other they had seen before.
"Beyond this door is paradise." Spoke the man in the hat.
As they entered the door, they found themselves upon a high cliff, above the clouds and seemingly endless.
"This is not paradise, one of them said." "We have been tricked." Another spoke, "We acted too quickly, remember the warning we were given?” And as he spoke, a terrible demon appeared before them.
And the demon spoke:
“Foolish ones, all your strife has brought you here, simply to fall before me. All who have come before you, that did not return, have fell before me. The man in the hat is my servant, and serves me with the deception he provided to all of you who dwell in the tower and its lands.”
“There is no paradise, for you. There is only death. Now raise your swords and fight to your last breath.”
There was a long and vicious battle, but the 4 warriors remained united. The demon used many tricks against them, trying to turn them on one another, but their will was strong and they saw past its illusions. Eventually, the 4 warriors slayed the demon. And its last words were:
“Woe to you who seek, woe to you who strive. You merely quicken your end. The door beyond does not lead to paradise, but it does lead to your end, by your own hand.”
So the 4 warriors entered again another door. And this time, they arrived in a beautiful garden, with abundant resources and seemingly undisturbed.
“This must be it, we have arrived at paradise.” “But what of the demon? It spoke that our end awaits us here?” “Perhaps this is our end, to live in this paradise among ourselves and perish in joy.”
Then, once again the man in the hat appeared before them. And he spoke:
“You have done well to come here. This is indeed the paradise that I spoke of, it was not a lie. Gather yourselves and sit for a while, I have much to tell you.”
As the 4 warriors enjoyed the wonders of the paradise they had finally reached, each of them only yearned for home.
Paradise was all they had expected and more, yet they still felt empty inside. They gathered to speak with the man in the hat, and hear his words. And he spoke:
“To you, that have remained united through all hardship and joy, determined to seek and learn, I shall give the secrets of the tower."
“You see, I created this tower, and all the lands within it. I created you, all that you have encountered, and the demon you slayed.”
“I created it all, and I challenged those who would seek, lost in their material worlds, naturally they came to my tower.”
“Long have I waited for those who would reach this paradise. None were able to defeat the demon. Exausted and drained from the long trials of the tower, they became fearful and the demon easily convinced them to return to their own land.”
"None chose to continue, to challenge the demon. You are the first, and your reward is to dwell in paradise with me forever.”
“We will create new worlds, and new challenges so that we may learn ourselves.”
Hearing this, the 4 warriors became upset.
“You have used us all as pawns for your game?”
“Nothing can excuse what you have caused us to endure! You caused all the strife and discord in our native and the other worlds we visited, why would you do this?”
The man in the hat replied:
“Because that is the nature of the creator. To build, to learn, to experience, to evolve and balance, and then destroy and rebuild again. You could not even begin to comprehend, you are my creations, you are not the creator, it is not your place to question.”
The warriors replied:
“Then we will destroy you!”
And the man in the hat replied:
“Indeed, this is exactly what I expected. You seek only to return to your own world, that I created. You remain mired in your material values, such is the fate of most all creation, seeking to destroy its own creator. Did you not notice, as each level you ascended in the tower, became more and more chaotic? Yet you, who dwell on the lowest level of creation, in relative peace and harmony, are the ones who were able to ascend to the peak and challenge me? Do you not see the wonder and joy of the creator? Foolish ones, you know not what you have done, I have given you life, I have given you dreams, I have given you all you now possess, yet you still would seek my destruction? Then come, I shall end this failed creation!”
The story ends with your own perspective. Who wins? The creator or the creation? The choice, is yours
Story
18 May 2012 - 1:34pm
I’ve been working more on my channeling skills for a while, and after days of sleep deprivation they were very strengthened, and I think I have enough clarity to being able to lead some to some improvement now. I think few’s abilities are 100% for different reasons and there are also some questions that very few living in a physical body really have the answears to. One reason for this is that many things are more complex and you might say two different things might be true at the same time. And sometimes a more balanced view between two extreme viewpoints might be more right.
Anyway, enough about how channeling works, I just wanted to say I’ve thought this through for a while and decided I didn’t want to put myself across as an all-knowing guru, as that is simply not true and would only serve my ego and might mislead those who trust me too much. I see myself still as a seeker, or more like a child than a grown-up spiritually, but still have a high enough level of consciousness and spiritual knowledge to be able to help many with my words, and I so I feel it would be more of help than harm to them. That is also the main reason I wanted to write as I don’t desire it now specifically (I guess because I CAN now so I view that goal as already achieve, so now my focus has already moved onto other things), but I realise I need to let myself have the time to practice and let others benefit from what I’ve learnt.
Moving onto the subject at hand. This is something I’ve been unwilling to write as I don’t wish to draw attention to myself with the help of celebrities, and especially not that particular one who so many has tried with in the past. I’ve also never felt a connection to soul in particular (he enjoys the irony) and found him to be overly abrasive and felt repulsed by the kind of demonic energy he could emit that heavy drug addicts sometimes do. But he seems to be very active in the spiritual world trying to get through to anyone who can deliver his message as this time. Because, the way he lived his life would have caused a lot of destruction and done a lot of damage to many, so the weight of this responsibility is very heavy and will probably have consequences for him for a long time. And because of the way his name is being kept alive it’s like it just goes on and he never gets any peace.
He seems very distressed some of the time. He’s very different now and I like him the way he is NOW. He writes more Christian sounding sounds now and many who’ve looked upto him wouldn’t recognize him the way he is now. I don’t know much about what he was like from his life, maybe those who do would have a better insight into his nature, but he was actually very spiritual in his BELIEFS and ASPIRATIONS. He just failed to really act on it, or transfer it to the emotional level and really live it out in a way that was beneficial to either himself or anyone else, sunk into lower states of consciousness, and became very destructive. This tremendous responsibility worked as a great ripple effect going out in all directions and incurred a great responsibility and added an extra burden to his heart that further added to his suffering. He didn’t succeed in his mission to show emotional strength and hold higher levels of consciousness, although he succeeded in some other ways. He came here to experience both blessings and suffering but to overcome the suffering with the support of his blessings and to grow spiritually and contribute to the world through it. He’s talented, but lacked the emotional strength to complete a difficult earth mission in a constructive way.
It’s like he wants to say he has been sorry for this since now, especially as he had so much support and quite good conditions, he feels he should have been able to lift himself up. He once complained how he wasn’t able to enjoy fame in the way some other performing artists did. He had a difficult childhood and many difficult experiences, but he was socially desired before he became famous but didn’t value it much as he felt dissatisfied with the quality of his relationships and the love he experienced, that it didn’t live up to his ideals and his needs at the time. So when he shot to superstardom it didn’t really end his problems but what he felt gave him more of them. He wasn’t noticeably happy after he was famous, more like even less, and felt he had just traded in some problems for others. He didn’t care much about material and wordly success, being recognised and admired by others. Having a family, romantic relationships didn’t really make him happy, he was very escapist and just wanted to go to a safe place where all would be perfect and end his suffering. Also that he was such a heavy drug user compacted his problems and created much confusion and unclarity and might not have happened if it weren’t for that.
So his life did provide a lesson for how dangerous drug use and that kind of destructive behavior can be, as an actual a real-life example and God was able to work in some way and achieve something of value through him, though it’s viewed as a failed mission, it wasn’t all bad. It just could have been much better and really his problems were no worse than what many manage to live with and overcome and his conditions were quite good when he took his life, comparatively, and if he’d managed to stay on for just 5 more years and take things in a more positive direction things would look much different for him. Sometimes if you feel you can’t complete your mission in life it might be a better choice to work out a compromise with the spiritual world instead of feeling you need to end it all now or live out the rest of your days, which both might seem like really bad options.
He’s basically distressed by the way he became such a negative role model and gave into negativity during his life and basically undid some of the work achieved by more positive artists like Elvis and John Lennon (but who were much more high-consciousness and stronger souls) and now wishes he could have added to it and not just have squandered it all on mindless over-indulgence and self-expression, which was mostly what he cared about at the time. It has just caused a lot of harm in this world. He’s actually a more positive soul, one of the reasons he was loved was that most people sensed this through him, and soon after he died his heart was in the right place and he knew what had happened. He doesn’t want anyone to pay any more attention to him, though accepts that this would happen, but would like to get through to as many as possible with this message now that channeling from the afterlife is quite widely available. It’d like he shows me a cord that he would like to cut with his fans and he would rather they didn’t pay any more attention to him.
I think that’s all he would like to say. I hope this doesn’t sound as crazy as some of the challenged material said to come from him and will be of assistance to some. He also wants to send love to his daughter, that he would like to take any opportunity to say, and just wants her to be happy and not be weighed down by his death. Also don’t view this topic in too dark a light or let yourself feel depressed by it. No permanent damage has been done and he will have the opportunity to make up for his mistakes. And he doesn’t want anyone to waste their time feeling bad for him. He doesn’t approve of his life and just wants to say not do like he did rather than being some kind of role-model. He’s both hard on himself and tend to give into negativity too much at the same time, and this can be very distressing for him, but these are his personal problems to work on.
Blog entry
14 May 2012 - 9:08pm
Fairies in a Jar
Directions:
1). Cut different colored Glow Sticks and shake the contents into a jar.
2). Add diamond glitter.
3). Seal the jar & shake.
This would even be sweet for those nights when the Tooth-fairy visits. ;)
* I found this from a friend of High Priestess who is a friend of mine. I can't wait to create this with and for my daughter. I think even my teenage son would enjoy it somewhat.
Story
4 May 2012 - 6:22pm
Dear hearts of light,
a while ago i gave somebody a distance healing through my crystal skull Kazu-Anu with kundalini reiki.
You can do it also with other forms of distance healing.
You can also just juse your thoughts and intention to give somebody love and light.
You do it on the following manner:
You hold your crystal skull in both hands and you ground yourself through meanings of a grounding cord that goose deep in mother Earth
and anchor that within the heart crystal of Mother Earth.
You open your heart chakra and your hand chakra´s with the intention that they are open and it just happens that they open themself.
Visualise the person where you want to give healing and/or love and light to inside your crystal skull and you surround your crystal skull
and the person in a colour that your crystal skull gives you and you let the energies via your heart flow through your hands into the crystal skull.
Just let it flow till your crystal skull says that it is enough.
You close with grounding yourself with a grounding cord as you did start with.
That is it dear beloveds.
You can do the same with yourself, thus placing yourself in the crystal skull.
I wish you all a wonderful and magical day.
In loving service with love and light,
Swen.
Teaching
4 May 2012 - 10:47am
THE GREAT SPHINX AND ITS MESSAGE - PART II
lightomega.org
By Julie Redstone
Another name for the Great Sphinx of Gizeh is 'transmutation' or 'becoming'. For the conception of the Sphinx is evolutionary if we think of the long arc of time, and transformational if we think in terms of the present accelerated time period we are in.
The idea of a human form above an animal body is not meant to be a static image, but one that rises out of the earth, giving birth at the first level to the domain of instinct and especially to the instinct for survival, and at the second level to the higher instincts which become the prototype for the advancing human being. These higher instincts have only been partially realized today. For being human is also an evolutionary process, and an understanding of what 'humanity' involves changes along with the consciousness that supports it.
The body of a lion, traditional in usage within ancient times, supports the human form above it, communicating strength and nobility, especially the nobility connected with protection and nurturance of both cherished ones and ideals. The lion's body relates to the single-minded devotion to the protection, upholding, and containment of these ideals, the way one would protect, uphold, and contain young ones in one's care.
All that we really know of the Sphinx is its grandeur and its longevity, and yet the image speaks to the heart in mysterious ways. Beyond the mystery of its origin lies the mystery of its message which is both human and transcendent. It is not without meaning, for example, that the Great Sphinx faces to the East. It is an affirmation of its eternal relationship with the Rising Sun, the prototype in ancient times for the victory of light over darkness. Though modern research, writings, and discoveries, both alleged and real, have found mysterious passageways and aspects of construction of the Sphinx that allude to purposes that are both astronomical and other-worldly, its spiritual purpose is to concentrate an energy of hope and of affirmation to last throughout time, and especially to be present during the 'end-times' that would bring about the last great battle between light and darkness.
It was understood by its creators that the Great Sphinx would communicate this meta-message throughout the course of humanity's evolution. Though the scientific mind with its rational and investigative approach would only gradually learn what the Sphinx of Gizeh was in its origins, purpose, and construction, the message of the Sphinx would nevertheless speak to a deeper layer of human consciousness and as it did so, would transmit an energy the way a beacon transmits light. This energy would embed itself in the layer of truth that resonates with the deeper knowing of humanity, and would allow the unconscious or subconscious self to feel identified with the Sphinx, even while the conscious mind might have little knowledge of such identification.
It is in this way that the spiritual message of the Sphinx was to be transmitted across the centuries – not primarily through scholarly research but through the energetic transmission of a current of hope that transformation into the higher aspects of humanity is possible for each individual and for the world as a whole, and that the victory over darkness is assured by the rising of the light.
This spiritual intention and the construction that emerged from it was a gift to a fledgling humanity, barely conscious, then, of its spiritual origins, following a period in which its original knowledge had receded into a blurred awareness. The Sphinx stood and stands as a visible testament that one day humanity will rise again in understanding and in glory, and achieve its full potential as reawakened beings in full possession of the knowledge of its Divine origin.
Teaching
4 May 2012 - 10:40am
THE GREAT SPHINX:
ITS MEANING AND MESSAGE
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The Great Sphinx stands on the plain of Gizeh in Egypt, communicating its message of love, devotion, and overcoming as it has done for the past six thousand years. The message it carries is timeless: It is the Sphinx's love for God which causes an inner victory over the lower forces of its own nature. This message is captured both in the Sphinx's construction and its orientation: a noble human head on top of a lion's body - a composite figure, part human, part animal - that rises out of the earth to face the rising sun each day and to follow its passage across the sky.
The Sphinx adores the sun - Ra, the supreme God according to ancient tradition. It waits for it to return each day. It is the Sphinx's adoration for the sun that causes it to rise out of itself, out of the earth from which it is made, to reach continually for the higher level of its being, called by the light. This adoration causes the life within it to become holy: forever striving, Life meeting Light.
The construction of the Sphinx represents humanity's future: the triumph made possible by love of the higher self over the lower; of the human, spiritually-driven self over the instinctual, need-based self; and of the Divinely-led and inspired self over the self that is closer to the animal kingdom. This is the reason for the human head on top of the lion's body: what is most human within us, what is capable of perceiving God and of wanting to be joined with God, ascends out of animality and instinct in order to follow the path of the Sun.
Timeless, yet relevant to today, the Sphinx's voice speaks to us from the past concerning the joyful reunion that can occur when human will is no longer personal but becomes joined to Divine will. This joining makes possible the transition from the human to the Divine. It makes possible the emergence of a 'sacred human' - one who rises out of instinct and personal desire toward the higher ideals of purity, service, and love for God. The Sphinx stands as a lodestar or magnet for the future of mankind. It prefigures what is later to be called the Biblical 'Israel', for 'Israel' is the name of what it means to become a 'sacred human'. 'Israel' is also the name for what it means, on the collective level, to become a holy people - a people whose life is dedicated to serving God, and to honoring all life on earth as sacred.
To attain the goal which the Sphinx represents is to undertake the journey of purification. This journey requires long, deliberate effort, motivated by the desire to reach the goal. What is this goal? It is the eternal marriage of Life and Light that love seeks and that the Sphinx represents. It is the Covenant, the purpose for Creation - its beginning, and the place of its return. When the soul reaches a certain stage in its own development, love calls it and inspires it to seek its own higher nature, moved by the stirrings within itself. Then a partnership takes place between human effort and Divine assistance in pursuit of this end. This partnership, this marriage of intention between God's purposes for humanity and human purpose is the meaning of the Covenant. It is also the motive force and the method for that which leads to it - the process of purification.
Blog entry
2 May 2012 - 8:00pm
Parvati the Love Goddess: Tales of Marriage and Devotion in Art and Mythology
by Nitin Kumar
www.exoticindiaart.com
The Indian tradition is rich with goddesses. So varied are her manifestations and names that every village and every scripture, every art and artist create their own unique image of her. While sometimes she is a consort, at other times she is a fertility goddess; at times she is a benevolent figure yet at others she is horrific and malevolent. The tradition is especially replete with a number of goddesses who are associated with Shiva. But the one that is artistically and lovingly the most celebrated is Parvati. Unlike Durga and Kali who assume their own independent religious status in the Hindu pantheon and are worshipped and venerated ritually, Parvati engages the greater attention of poets and painters, musicians and dancers. Numerous are her aspects, varied are her persona, multiple are her attributes and many her names. Of all the mythic beings in the Hindu pantheon she is perhaps the most loved and undoubtedly the most giving of her love. In her we have the true celebration of Hindu womanhood. Of unsurpassed sensual beauty, her endowment is not merely physical but spiritual, not narcissistic but meant as an offering. In her, it can be said that we have the grand personification of the Hindu expression, as well as the concept of beauty.
In classical mythology the raison d'кtre of Parvati's birth is to lure Shiva into marriage and thus into the wider circle of married life from which he is aloof as a lone ascetic, living in the wilds of the mountains. The goddess represents the complementary pole to the ascetic, world-denying tradition in the Hindu ethos. In her role as maiden, wife, and later as a mother, she extends Shiva's circle of activity into the realm of the householder, where his stored-up energy is released in positive ways.
Much as in the Christian art of Medieval Europe, it is woman the Mother, the Madonna suckling a babe who has been painted with reverence, in the Indian Diaspora it is woman the beloved who has been painted with love and passion. The female friends of Krishna with their warm sensuous faces, eyes filled with passion, and delicate sensitive fingers, represent not the beauty of a particular woman, but the beauty of entire womanhood. In fact, she is there as the incarnation of all the beauty of the world and as a representative of the charm of her sex.
Parvati's name, which means "she who dwells in the mountains" or "she who is of the mountain, identify her with mountainous regions. She was the daughter of Himavat (Lord of the mountains) and his queen Mena. She is usually described as very beautiful. She showed a keen interest in Shiva from the outset, repeating his name to herself and taking delight in hearing about his appearance and deeds. While she is a child a sage comes to her house and after examining the marks on her body predicts that she will marry a naked yogi. When it becomes clear that she is destined to marry Shiva, her parents are usually described as feeling honored. Parvati too is delighted.
At some point during Parvati's attempts to attract Shiva's attention for the purpose of marriage, the god of love, Kama, is sent by the gods to awaken Shiva's lust. When he attracts Shiva's attention with sounds and scents of spring, and tries to perturb Shiva with his intoxicating weapons, Shiva burns him to ashes with the fire from his middle eye. But steadfast in her devotion, Parvati persists in her quest to win Shiva as her husband by setting out to perform austerities.
One of the most effective ways to achieve what a person wants in traditional Hinduism is to perform tapas, "ascetic austerities." If one is persistent and heroic enough, one will generate so much heat that the gods will be forced to grant the ascetic his or her wish in order to save themselves and the world from being scorched. Parvati's method of winning Shiva is thus a common approach to fulfilling one's desires. It is also appropriate, however, in terms of demonstrating to Shiva that she can compete with him in his own realm, that she has the inner resources, control, and fortitude to cut herself off from the world and completely master her physical needs. By performing tapas, Parvati abandons the world of the householder and enters the realm of the world renouncer, namely Shiva's world. Most versions of the myth describe her as outdoing all the great sages in her austerities. She performs all the traditional mortifications, such as sitting in the midst of four fires in the middle of summer, remaining exposed to the elements during the rainy season and during the winter, living on leaves or air only, standing on one leg for years, and so on. Eventually she accumulates so much heat that the gods are made uncomfortable and persuade Shiva to grant Parvati's wish, so that she will cease her efforts.
The marriage is duly arranged and elaborately undertaken. Shiva's marriage procession, which includes most of the Hindu pantheon, is often described at length. A common motif during the marriage preparations is Mena's outrage when she actually sees Shiva for the first time. She cannot believe that her beautiful daughter is about to marry such an outrageous-looking character; in some versions, Mena threatens suicide and faints when told that the odd-looking figure in the marriage procession is indeed her future son-in-law.
After the two are married they depart to Mount Kailasha, Shiva's favorite dwelling place, and immerse themselves completely in sexual dalliance, which continues uninterruptedly for long periods of time. The Love god Kama is resuscitated when Shiva embraces Parvati and the sweat from her body mingles with the ashes of the burned god.
Their lovemaking is so intense that it shakes the cosmos, and the gods become frightened. They are frightened at the prospect of what a child will be like from the union of two such potent deities. They fear the child's extraordinary powers. They thus plan to interrupt Shiva and Parvati's lovemaking. Vishnu goes with his entourage of gods to Kailasha and waits patiently outside the quarters of Shiva. Many years passed and yet Shiva remained closeted with Parvati. Vishnu spoke in a shrill and plaintive voice and entreated Shiva to come out and listen to their problem. When Shiva disregarded this, Agni (Fire) disguised himself as a pigeon and entered the bedchamber of Shiva. Parvati immediately sensed that her privacy was violated. Shiva withdrew and a drop of his semen fell on the ground. Agni in the form of the dove ate the drop of semen. Parvati however was disturbed and angry that the gods had assembled and interrupted her erotic pleasures, and cursed them that all their wives would be barren. She was particularly enraged at Agni for having eaten the seed of Shiva.
When Agni was unable to bear the fiery seed he went to the banks of the Ganga. At that moment, the wives of the seven sages had come down to bathe. Six of the wives felt cold and went towards Agni. Agni dropped the seed and the seed entered the wives and they became pregnant. When the sages found this out they admonished their wives who placed the embryo on one of the peaks of the Himalayas. Thus was born Kartikeya, a lustrous child with six heads. Shiva and Parvati were delighted at the birth of their son and it added much joy to Parvati who had longed for a child. We are sometimes told that her breasts oozed milk in affection when she first saw the child.
Parvati's maternal instincts were indeed the most powerful emotions in her life. While Shiva exulted in his romantic dalliance with her, the true mother in her longed for a child. She would entreat Shiva to beget her a son and make her a mother but the ascetic Shiva would hear nothing of it. She reminded Shiva that no ancestral rituals are performed for a man who has no descendants. Shiva assured her that he had no desire to be a grahastha, householder, for such a state in life brings fetters. Parvati was disheartened and seeing her in that state Shiva pulled a thread out of her red dress and made a son and gave it to her. Parvati held him to her breast and he came to life. As he sucked on her milk he smiled and Parvati, pleased, gave the son to Shiva. Shiva was surprised that Parvati had breathed life in a child made of fabric but warned that the planet Saturn would prove inauspicious for this child and as he spoke those words, the child's head fell to the ground. Parvati was overcome with grief. Shiva tried unsuccessfully to put the head back together. A voice in the sky said that only the head of someone facing north would stick to this child. Shiva deputed Nandi to find such a person. Nandi soon found Indra's elephant Airavat lying with his head facing north and began to cut it. Indra intervened but Nandi was eventually successful, although in the struggle one of the tusks of the elephant was broken. Nandi took the head to Shiva and thus was born Ganesha. The gods celebrated the birth and Parvati was pleased.
In a strange myth it is stated that Parvati had a third child, Andhaka, and an interesting legend is narrated behind his birth. In jest Parvati closed Shiva's eyes with her delicate hands and at once a darkness engulfed the world. The hands of the goddess were drenched in Shiva's fluid born of passion, and when this was heated by the heat of Shiva's third eye it grew into a horrific child, blind and gruesome. But Parvati, true to her nature, lovingly cared for this child as well. But as Andhaka grew, he became a demon lusting for his own mother, and was eventually put to death by Shiva.
For the most part Shiva and Parvati's married and family life is portrayed as harmonious, blissful and calm. In iconography the two are typically shown sitting in happy, intimate embrace. There were also many moments of philosophical discourse between the two. While Shiva taught Parvati the doctrine of Vedanta, Parvati responded by teaching him the doctrines of Sankhya, for if Shiva was the perfect teacher, Parvati too, as a yogini was no less. Parvati was constantly by Shiva's side, encouraging, assisting and, participating in every activity of his.
An important part of Shiva's daily routine was the preparation of bhang, his favorite intoxicant. Parvati would lovingly collect the best bhang leaves, crush them and then filter the decoction through a clean muslin cloth. At other times Parvati would help Shiva make a quilt that would keep them warm in the cold nights at Kailasha. At yet other times she would sit by his feet massaging them while Shiva reclined under a tree. Parvati's greatest pleasure was to serve Shiva and cater to his every need. Nothing was more important to her than being useful to her lord, tending to his every comfort and ensuring that he would not lapse into his solitary, self-denying ascetic ways. In these activities she combined the roles of a caring wife and an affectionate mother.
But Shiva and Parvati do argue and insult each other from time to time. Bengali accounts of Shiva and Parvati often describe Shiva as an irresponsible, hemp-smoking husband who cannot look after himself. Parvati is portrayed as the long-suffering wife who often complains from time to time to her mother but who always remains steadfast to her husband.
But Shiva too was passionate in his love for Parvati. Of the many games they played the one of great significance was the game of dice. Once it so happened that Parvati was initially losing to Shiva, but then gradually the tables turned and Shiva lost everything he had staked in the game, including the crescent moon, his necklace and earrings. When Parvati demanded that Shiva give everything he had staked, there was a fight between the two, much to the anguish of their attendants. Parvati removed Shiva's snake, the crescent moon and even his loincloth. The onlookers were put to shame and Shiva too was enraged and opened his third eye. Following this incident, the two separated. Shiva retreated into the wilderness and Parvati into her quarters. But she was tormented by this separation and at the bidding of her companions went in search of Shiva. She took the form of a shabari, a tribal woman, and approached Shiva who was deep in meditation. Shiva was attracted towards the shabari but when he realized that she was none other than Parvati, he realized his mistake and united with her much to their joy.
On another occasion, Parvati feels pique when Shiva calls her by the nickname Kali (blackie), which Parvati takes as a slur on her appearance. She resolves to rid herself of her dark complexion and does so by performing austerities. Having assumed a golden complexion, she then becomes known by the name Gauri (the bright or golden one). In some versions of the myth, her discarded, dark complexion or sheath gives birth to or becomes a warrior goddess who undertakes heroic feats or combat against demons.
The presence of an alter ego or a dark, violent side to Parvati is suggested in several myths in which demons threaten the cosmos and Parvati is asked to help the gods by defeating the demon in question. Typically, when Parvati grows angry at the prospect of war, a violent goddess is born from her wrath and proceeds to fight on Parvati's behalf. This deity is often identified as the bloodthirsty goddess Kali. For the most part, however, the myths emphasize Parvati's milder side. So out of character is Parvati on the battlefield that another goddess, it seems, must be summoned to embody her wrath and dissociate this fury from Parvati himself.
The main theme of the Parvati cycle of myths is clear. The association between Parvati and Shiva represents the perennial tension in Hinduism between the ascetic ideal and householder ideal. Parvati, for the most part, represents the householder. Her mission is to lure Shiva into the world of marriage, sex, and children, to tempt him away from asceticism, yoga, and otherwordly preoccupations. In this role Parvati is cast as a figure who upholds the order of dharma, who enhances life in the world, who represents the beauty and attraction of worldly, sexual life, who cherishes the house and society rather than the forest, the mountains, or the ascetic life. Parvati civilizes Shiva with her presence; indeed, she domesticates him. Of her role in relation to Shiva in the hymns of Manikkavacakar, a ninth-century poet-saint from South India, it has been said: "Shiva, the great unpredictable 'madman', is rendered momentarily sane (i.e. behaves in a socially acceptable manner) when in the company of the goddess. . . Contact with his properly cultured spouse seems to connect him with ordinary social reality and temporarily domesticates him."
Throughout Hindu mythology it is well known that one of Shiva's principal functions is the destruction of cosmos. In fact, Shiva has about him a wild, unpredictable, destructive aspect that is often mentioned. As the great cosmic dancer, he periodically performs the tandava, an especially violent dance. Wielding a broken battle-ax, he dances so wildly that the cosmos is destroyed completely. In descriptions of this dance, Shiva's whirling arms and flying locks are said to crash into the heavenly bodies, knocking them off course or destroying them utterly. The mountains shake and the oceans heave as the world is destroyed by his violent dancing. Parvati, in contrast, is portrayed as a patient builder, one who follows Shiva about, trying to soften the violent effects of her husband. She is a great force for preservation and reconstruction in the world and as such offsets the violence of Shiva. A seventeenth century Tamil work pictures Parvati as a patient child who creates the worlds in the form of little houses. Shiva is pictured as constantly frustrating her purpose by destroying what she has so carefully built.
The crazy old madman stands in front,
Dancing, destroying the beautiful little house
that You have built in play.
You don't become angry, but every time (he destroys It)
you build it again.
When Shiva does his violent tandava dance, Parvati is described as calming him with soft glances, or she is said to complement his violence with a slow, creative step of her own.
Parvati's goal in her relationship with Shiva is nothing less than the domestication of the lone, ascetic god whose behavior borders on madness. Shiva is indifferent to social propriety, does not care about offspring, declares woman to be a hindrance to the spiritual life, and is disdainful of the trappings of the householder's life. Parvati tries to involve him in the worldly life of the householder by arguing that he should observe conventions if he loves her and wants her. She persuades him, for example, to marry her according to the proper rituals, to observe custom, instead of simply running off with her. She is less successful, however, in getting him to change his attire and ascetic habits. She often complains of his nakedness and finds his ornaments disgraceful. Usually prompted by her mother, Parvati sometimes complains that she does not have a proper house to live in. Shiva, as is well known, does not have a house but prefers to live in caves, on mountains, or in forests or to wander the world as a homeless beggar. Many myths delight in Shiva's response to Parvati's domestic pleas for a house. When she complains that the rains will soon come and that she has no house to protect her, Shiva simply takes her to the high mountain peaks above the clouds where it does not rain. Elsewhere, he describes his "house" as the universe and argues that an ascetic understands the whole world to be his dwelling place. These philosophic arguments never satisfy Parvati, but she rarely, if ever, wins this argument and gains a house.
Shiva is a god of excesses, both ascetic and sexual, and Parvati plays the role of modifier. As a representative of the householder ideal, she represents the ideal of controlled sex, namely, married sex, which is opposed to both asceticism and eroticism.
The theme of conflict, tension, or opposition between the way of the ascetic and the way of the householder in the mythology of Parvati and Shiva yields to a vision of reconciliation, interdependence, and symbiotic harmony in a series of images that combine the two deities. Three such images or themes are central to the mythology, iconography, and philosophy of Parvati:
The theme of Shiva-Shakti
The image of Shiva as Ardhanareshwara (the Lord who is half woman)
The image of the linga and yoni
Shiva Shakti
The idea that the great male gods all possess an inherent power through which they undertake creative activity is assumed in Hindu philosophical thought. When this power, or Shakti, is personified, it is always in the form of a goddess. Parvati, quite naturally, assumes the identity of Shiva's Shakti. She is the force underlying and impelling creation. In this active, creative role she is identified with prakriti (nature), whereas Shiva is identified with purusha (pure spirit). As prakriti, Parvati represents the inherent tendency of nature to express itself in concrete forms and individual beings. In this task, however, it is understood that Parvati must be set in motion by Shiva himself. She is not seen as antagonistic to him. Her role as his Shakti is always interpreted as positive. Through Parvati, Shiva (the Absolute) is able to express himself in the creation. Without her he would remain inert, aloof, inactive. It is only in association with her that Shiva is able to realize or manifest his full potential. Parvati as Shakti not only complements Shiva, she completes him.
A variety of images and metaphors are used to express this harmonious interdependence. Shiva is said to be the male principle throughout creation, Parvati the female principle; Shiva is the sky, Parvati the earth; Shiva is subject, Parvati object; Shiva is the ocean, Parvati the seashore; Shiva is the sun, Parvati its light; Parvati is all tastes and smells, Shiva the enjoyer of all tastes and smells; Parvati is the embodiment of all individual souls, Shiva the soul itself; Parvati assumes every form that is worthy to be thought of, Shiva thinks of all such forms; Shiva is day, Parvati is night; Parvati is creation, Shiva the creator; Parvati is speech, Shiva meaning; and so on. In short, the two are actually one-different aspects of ultimate reality-and as such are complementary, and not antagonistic.
Ardhanareshwara
The meaning of Ardhanareshwara form of Shiva is similar. The image shows a half-male, half-female figure. The right side is Shiva and is adorned with his ornaments; the left side is Parvati and adorned with her ornaments.
In the text of Shiva-Purana it is mentioned that the god Brahma is unable to continue his task of creation because the creatures that he has produced do not multiply. He propitiates Shiva and requests him to come to his aid. Shiva then appears in his half-male, half-female form. The hermaphrodite form splits into Shiva and Parvati, and Parvati, at Brahma's request, pervades the creation with her female nature, which duly awakens the male aspect of creation into fertile activity.
Without its female half, or female nature, the godhead as Shiva is incomplete and is unable to proceed with creation. To an even greater extent than the Shiva-shakti idea, the androgynous image of Shiva and Parvati emphasizes that the two deities are absolutely necessary to each other, and only in union can they satisfy each other and fulfill themselves. In this form the godhead transcends sexual particularity. God is both male and female, both father and mother, both aloof and active, both fearsome and gentle, both destructive and constructive, and so on.
Linga and Yoni
The image of the linga in the yoni, which is the most common image of the deity in Shiva temples, similarly teaches the lesson that the tension between Shiva and Parvati is ultimately resolved in interdependence. Parvati as a sexual entity succeeds in tempering both Shiva's excessive detachment from the world and his excessive sexual vigor. In the form of the yoni in particular, Parvati fulfills and completes Shiva's creative tendencies. As the great yogi who accumulates immense sexual potency, he is symbolized by the linga. This great potency is creatively released in sexual or marital contact with Parvati. The ubiquitous image of the linga in the yoni symbolizes the creative release in the ultimate erotic act of power stored through asceticism. The erotic act is thus enhanced, made more potent, fecund, and creative, by the stored up power of Shiva's asceticism.
Though most arts give Parvati a religious aura, including a certain poetic truth, there is also an expression of both the romantic and motherly love of Parvati. Possessing a measured grace and refinement about them, these representations have a certain earthy charm and spontaneity. In her this form, Parvati is not only more endearing and accessible, but also belongs to the shrine or the walls of the home. These are not mere icons or visual poetry, but mythic beings reduced to everyday reality. This real Parvati is the one that the common man can relate to, worship and celebrate, in his or her own personal way.
References and Further Reading
Dehejia, Harsha. Parvati Goddess of Love: Ahmedabad, 1999.
Dehejia, Harsha. Parvatidarpana: Delhi, 1997.
Dehejia, Vidya (ed.). Devi The Great Goddess: Ahmedabad.
Dhal, Upendra Nath. Goddess Laksmi: Origin and Development: Delhi.
Gandhi, Maneka. On the Mythology of Indian Plants: New Delhi.
Gupta, Shakti M. Plant Myths and Traditions in India: New Delhi.
Kinsley, David. Hindu Goddesses (Vision of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition): Delhi, 1998.
Pande, Mrinal. Devi (Tales of the Goddess in Our Time): New Delhi.
I am sensing Shiva's presence again. He was with me for awhile not too long ago. I resonate deeply with Parvati and Shiva. I love this sensual story of love and devotion. I am truly and completely devoted to my astral husband who is also my twin flame. I am drawn to this story for a reason, to rekindle something to read once again the words I have poured over and finding something missed and important. I am told, YES, YES AND YES each time by Shiva himself...I will need to purchase a printer some time so I can print certain articles like this off and free up the computer for my children.
Blessings,
Blog entry
1 May 2012 - 2:11pm
A. Native Creation Myths
www.ucalgary.ca
Iroquois - Earth Diver
The Indian Peoples of Eastern America: A Documentary History of the Sexes. Edited James Axtell, Oxford University Press, 1981.
The first people were the Sky People, they lived beyond the sky because there was no earth beneath. One day the chief's daughter became very ill and no one was able to provide a cure for her sickness. A wise elder was consulted and he told them to dig up a tree and lay the girl beside the hole that remained. The Sky People respected the elder and began to dig up the tree. Suddenly the tree fell down through the hole and dragged the chief's daughter with it. As the girl fell she saw that below was only an ocean of water. Two swans were alarmed by the girl falling and decided she was too beautiful to drown so they swam to catch her. They landed her on the back of the Great Turtle, and all of the animals of the earth gathered. The Great Turtle councils that the Sky Woman is a symbol of good fortune. He orders the animals to find where the Sky World tree had landed in the ocean and to bring it back with its earth-covered roots. The swans lead the animals to the place where the tree had fallen into the ocean. First otter, then muskrat, and then beaver dove in search of the tree. Each animal came back to the surface without the tree and died from exhaustion. Many other animals tried but they also died. An elder woman toad volunteered. She dove and remained below a long time. All of the animals thought she had been lost, when at last she surfaced and before dying managed to spit a mouthful of earth onto the back of the Great Turtle. This earth was magical and contained the power of growth. The island grew and grew until it was large enough for the Sky Woman to live on. The two swans set the woman upon the island and circled it encouraging it to grow into the world island it is today. Yet the world was dark. Again the Great Turtle called for the animals to gather. They decided to put a great light in the sky. A little turtle volunteered and climbed up to the sky with the help of the other animals' magic. Little turtle climbed into a black cloud and crawled around the sky collecting the lightning as she went. She made a big bright ball from the lightening and threw it into the sky. Then she collected more for a smaller ball which she also threw into the sky. The first ball became the sun, the second ball became the moon. Then the Great Turtle commanded the burrowing animals to make holes in the corners of the sky so that the sun and moon could go down through one and climb up again through the other as they circled. So there was day and night. The Sky woman lived on the island on top of the Great Turtle's back. She gave birth to twins, one good called Tharonhiawagon, one evil called Tawiskaron. From the breast of Sky Woman grows three sisters corn, beans, and squash.
Blackfoot - Earth Diver
Origins Canadian History to Confederation. 3rd edition. R.D. Francis, R. Jones, D.B. Smith, Harcourt Brace & Co. Toronto, 1996.
Long ago there was a time when water covered the entire world. Napi the creator wanted to know what happened below all of this water. He sent a duck, an otter, then a badger, but all came up with nothing. Finally, a muskrat dove beneath the water and was down a very long time. He returned with a ball of mud in his paws. Napi took the lump and blew on it until it dried and was transformed into the earth. He molded the hills, valley, and mountains with his hands. He created groves in the earth for rivers and lakes. The first people were molded from this earth and Napi taught men and women how to hunt and to live. Once Napi felt his work was complete, he climbed up to a mountain peak and disappeared.
Ohi-Napi – that's “welcome” in the language of the Blackfoot
I am not a Native of Canada, yet I reach to the Great Spirit in all my spiritual practices. It is He that brings me my great understanding and peace when I am in need as a child is occasionally in need of a parent's comfort and unconditional love. In my soul, my spirit, I AM a native of this land and I cherish those that share the country I call home, and the Earth my resting place.
Love and Light
Blog entry
30 Apr 2012 - 12:53pm
Greetings LW
Lately I have been really intrigued by wiccan, not specifically wanting to put it into practise, more of an intense type interest and just generally googling stuff on it etc etc.
Please share your veiws with me on this I would like to know other peoples take on the whole wiccan practise, I realise it is witchcraft to a degree, is it considered black magic ? white magic ?
Look forward to your replies.
xxxxxx
Blog entry
24 Apr 2012 - 8:49am
~*~ Just imagine for a moment, friends, if we were all of the things that others thought we were?
All of these thoughts heading towards one person at, sometimes, one time!
Also, when old friends or family we haven't seen for years meet up, the view they have of us
is exactly the same as when they saw us last ! Amazing when you think about it.
~*~ I know an earth-family who stays away from their sister because they have it in their minds
that she is still the sad, depressed widow she was 7 years ago !
This is just an example of how we hold onto thoughts about people, years and years later.
Amazingly true !
~*~ Think about how institutions, such as Churches and their many do's and don't's, have changed
the course of peoples' lives through fear? This attachment to certain religions is, in my family,
handed down from generation to generation............until my era of siblings.
I think it is sad to waste an incarnation under the power of a disillusioned and twisted religious
organization. Just another thought.........what will they do when people start waking up and don't
need them anymore? I suppose they will have to go out to work to earn a living, like the priests
in the Liberal Catholic Church who do NOT live off the takings of the parisheners. Each one has
their own profession or trade. That does not make them less of a priest, they just don't like to
take money off the worshippers for their own gains. The money goes into the maintenance of
the church and church grounds, and morning tea for everyone after the service! Lovely !
~*~ Anyway, just sharing some food for thought, if you are interested. Had an awesome healing day
today after ricocheting off that brick wall. There is a general heavy blanket of healing energy all
through the atmosphere today.........even the dogs felt it and rested all day as well.
Have a lovely day/evening, and avoid any brick walls, love and light, Tara *~~
(you will find more of these beautiful pics. in Photobucket Images under 'nature graphics.')
Blog entry
19 Apr 2012 - 5:29am
Create a MySpace Playlist at MixPod.com
unicorn pics on Sodahead
AS ABOVE SO BELOW
AS BELOW SO ABOVE
video
29 Mar 2012 - 2:20am
Connect with your Soul Group or find your Soulmate at in5d Connection http://www.in5d.NET EVERYONE is welcome!
Article link: http://www.in5d.com/proof-of-atlantis.html
In a shocking statement, Gnostic Illuminati Grand Master Alex Romanov announced that proof of Atlantis will soon be revealed in an attempt to end suppression by those in power for thousands of years.
video
27 Mar 2012 - 5:05pm
THIS IS THE STAR ORIGIN STORY OF THE 'GODS' -- THE TITANS & OLYMPIANS OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY... AND THEIR REAL HISTORY WITH THE PEOPLE OF ANCIENT GREECE.
All sixteen (16) Greek 'gods', Titans & Olympians are originally from the Perseus constellation, the star Algol. Their home world is known as: Myra {Mear-ah}. It might be valuable to know Myra was originally colonized approximately 200,000 years ago by people who were originally from Lyra {Lie-rah}.
Collectively, they were a group of people from the 6th dimension who manifested physical human bodies. As they created their Earth bodies of 10-12' tall... they maintained many of their natural 6th dimensional powers while on Earth.
The twelve (12) Olympians first migrated to the Cassiopea constellation, the star Chaph, for which the capital "B" is its symbol . These Olympians lived on a planet by the name of -- Lakima {Lah-kee-mah}, 42 light years from Earth's solar system.
The Titans traveled directly to and arrived at Earth first... the ones to first rule from the Temple on Mount Olympus.
This the the story of their origin, the rule over the people of ancient Greece... and their impressive, profound impact on these people & their way of life.
Blog entry
17 Mar 2012 - 3:50am
Well worth the 90 minutes to watch this documentary in its entirety. Spread this video far and wide with a message to send healing and protection...
We Are All One!
SO It Is... And It is So!
With profound Gratitude and Love, I am declaring and It Is Done! Blessed BE.
Teaching
15 Mar 2012 - 6:08pm
Do you FEEL a strong pull on your heart-strings to begin a Mission Now?
Learn More about Project: Eagle Triad here:
http://ashtarstrinity.sanandaseagles.com/index.html
Commit to 15-20 minutes per day to Project: Eagle Triad
write to janisel (@) sanandaseagles.com
...first you will fly, then you will soar...
Time to Get Serious
http://ashtarstrinity.sanandaseagles.com/channelings/time_to_get_serious.html
ASHTAR
Channeled Through Janisel
My Dearest Friends.... I come to assure you that things are as they should be. There are great amounts of energy bombarding your Earth at this time and everything is being greatly accelerated. NOW is the time for 'focus'. You who are the bridges between Heaven and Earth are the 'hands and feet' of the Command, so to speak. It is through you that much of our work is done. As I said, much has been accelerated and, although we wish you to remain in a state of joy and lightheartedness, it is now time to put your 'work' in its proper perspective and concentrate on the mission at hand. We are working very diligently to gather the Lightworkers together in order to prepare the general population for what is to come.
This means that each and every one of you are needed at this time to make a commitment in your own heart as to what role you will play in this. In other words, it is time to get serious. We are not asking you to give your lives over to the Ashtar Command exclusively, for you each have many missions and sub-missions that you are here to accomplish. What we are asking, however, is that for those of you who feel your connection to us to band together, so to speak, in order to establish and implement certain 'activities' towards the goals which have been set before us. You have shown that you can do this numerous times, such as in the planting of the crystals and the activation of the grid. This was an excellent example of the Unity we wish for you to achieve, and our heartfelt thanks go to all of you who have participated in this project. Rest assured there will be other projects we will ask you to work on. For the time being, we are asking you to continue in this Unity, and stay focused on the tasks at hand.
Do not let yourselves become 'bogged down' in the mundane affairs of your day-to-day activities. We wish for those of you who are aligned with the Command and its work to use this wonderful email forum to interact with each other in manifesting this bond of Unity. You are held within the gentle hand of All That Is and encircled with the energy of Unconditional Love of such depths that your present consciousness can not truly comprehend its magnitude. We of the Command and the Spiritual Hierarchy are working most diligently to help you and all mankind reach their full potential. As a 'return energy exchange', we ask each of you to now search your hearts and decide what it is that you are capable and willing to do in partnership with us. For you see, we are truly in a partnership in which each and every one must play their part. NOW is the time to begin. NOW is the time to decide your focus.
NOW is the time to dedicate yourselves to the work at hand. We need your hands, we need your feet, we need your voice, we ask your commitment. To paraphrase the words of The Most Radiant One, spoken so long ago, "it is time to be about the Father's business". There is no longer the luxury of time to be spent in petty pursuits, bickering, judgment, or anger. Your time, which we have worked towards for eons, is at hand. Know that, even though you may not see us in your skies, we are most definitely close to you, and send you our deepest blessings and love.
Your Friend and Brother,
Ashtar
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All we first ask is that you commit 15-20 minutes
per day in a meditation with our Project: Eagle Triad
write to janisel (@) sanandaseagles.com
Here are more free links for your IMMEDIATELY NEEDED Lightworker Learning:
ASHTAR and The Ashtar Command
http://ashtarstrinity.sanandaseagles.com/pages/ashtar_command.html
MEDITATIONS
http://ashtarstrinity.sanandaseagles.com/meditations/meditations.html
SPACECRAFT in Art Throughout History
http://sanandaseagles.com/pages/spacecraft_in_art.html
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles. Isaiah 40:31
Blog entry
25 Feb 2012 - 2:12pm
Mostly everyone who follows basketball, and many more who don’t, have probably at least heard of Jeremy Lin by now. For those still not quite familiar with all the hype, his play has helped the New York Knicks to turn their season around with a new burst of optimism. Thus far he has set stats comparable to NBA Legends and has broken several records all within a two week span.
What makes his story even more unique is that he is one of only a few asian players in the league, graduated from Harvard, had been cut from two other teams and was facing the same fate with the Knicks when desperation called for the coach Mike D’Antoni to give him a chance; he exceeded expectations and the rest is, as they say, history!
What makes Jeremy Lin’s story more exciting is the fact that he, by all measures, falls into the category of the underdog story. Not only is he an underdog but he plays for a historically underdog team, the New York Knicks. The Knicks haven't won a championship since the earlier seventies. Although they have flirted with opportunities they've been undermined by the likes of the Indianapolis Pacers, the Miami Heat, the Houston Rockets and ofcourse most infamously, the Chicago Bulls.
Speaking of the Bulls, few remember that it took Michael Jordan eight years before winning his first championship. He too started as the unlikely underdog. The underdog story goes something like this: Initially, no one knows who you are ie "Jeremy Lin." For whatever reason you're given an opportunity to perform ie "desperation." At first no one believes in you, ie "disbelief." Then after a few repeated displays of luck you become ie "interesting." The interest becomes "curiosity." That curiosity becomes "popularity." The popularity along with continued success becomes hope ie "maybe he really is this good"? That hope becomes optimism ie "he really is this good!" That optimism then becomes fantasy ie "can he even lose"? The fantasy becomes ridiculousness ie "we may never lose again!" That ridiculousness becomes mania ie "Linsanity!"
Of course, at this juncture all reason has been thrown out the window and people stop using common sense to realize that no one can stay on top forever... not even Michael Jordan! After a few stumbles the mania settles down and we come back to a more practical assessment ie "the kid's got talent!" But what makes the story so compelling is that we all think of ourselves as the "underdog!" It's the "you don't know what it's like to walk in my shoes" attitude. No matter where you may have been born in life or under what circumstances, even if you did have silver spoons in your mouth, we all feel like no one knows my pain! Hence why we identify with the underdog and want to see them win.
The irony, however, is that if underdogs simply stayed underdogs we would just call them "losers." If the underdog in fact stays on top and continues to succeed we then call them "winners!" The point is that the underdog story is only compelling because of the journey. Everyone wants to see the underdog overcome! If indeed, the underdog overcomes and remains the "champ" then we quickly become bored and want to see the next underdog dethrone them... ie Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls! Once the champ retires, loses or fades to black we then honor their successes and memories by making them legends, folklore or myths.
This is the cycle of life... We all want desperately to succeed in whatever arena of life we pursue. But we must realize that "success is failure turned inside out." Losers become champs... champs become losers and the cycle repeats. We all aspire; we all overcome but it's not always done in the public's eye yet the underdog in all of us wants to win! Cheers to all the underdogs out there... keep striving!
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Teaching
5 Feb 2012 - 5:07pm
Elephant
Story found here: www.a-gallery.de/docs/mythology.htm
Numerous myths are told in Africa about its biggest animal, the elephant, whose very size makes it unassailable in nature, except by man, who has weapons and magic to kill it. In the African fables the elephant is always the wise chief who impartially settles disputes among the forest creatures. A hunter in Chad found an elephant skin near Lake Chad and hid it. Soon he saw a lovely big girl crying, because she had lost her good 'clothes'. The hunter promised her new clothes and married her. They had many big children, for the son of an elephant cannot be a dwarf. One bad day when the grainstore was empty, his wife found the elephant skin at the bottom, where the hunter had hidden it. She put it on and went back to the bush to live as an elephant again. Her sons became the ancestors of the clan whose totem was the elephant. They do not have to fear elephants.
A myth of the Kamba in Kenya tells us how elephants originated. A very poor man heard of lvonya-Ngia, 'He that feeds the Poor'. He decided to go and find Ivonya-Ngia but it was a long journey. When he finally arrived, he saw uncounted cattle and sheep, and there, amidst green pastures, was the mansion of Ivonya-Ngia, who received the poor man kindly, perceived his need and ordered his men to give him a hundred sheep and a hundred cows. 'No', said the poor man, 'I want no charity, I want the secret of how to become rich.' Ivonya-Ngia reflected for a while, then took a flask of ointment and gave it to the poor man, saying: 'Rub this on your wife's pointed teeth in her upper jaw, wait until they have grown, then sell them.' The poor man carried out the strange instructions, promising his wife that they would become very rich. After some weeks, the canine teeth began to grow and when they had grown into tusks as long as his arm the man persuaded his wife to let him pull them out. He took them to the market and sold them for a flock of goats. After a few weeks the wife's canine teeth had grown again, becoming even longer than the previous pair, but she would not let her husband touch them. Not only her teeth, but her whole body became bigger and heavier, her skin thick and grey. At last she burst out of the door and walked into the forest, where she lived from then on. She gave birth to her son there, who was also an elephant. From time to time her husband visited her in the forest, but she would not be persuaded to come back, although she did have more healthy children, all elephants. It was the origin of elephants and it explains why elephants are as intelligent as people.
In Southern Africa there is told the tale of the girl who grew up so tall and fat that no man wanted her as a wife because she was accused of witchcraft. She was exiled from her village and wandered into the wilderness on her own. There she met an elephant who began speaking to her politely in good Zulu. She agreed to stay with him and he helped her to find wild cucumbers and other fruits of the forest. She gave birth to four human sons, all very tall and strong, who became the ancestors of the Indhlovu clan of paramount chiefs.
In the African fables, the elephant is usually described as too kind and noble, so that he feels pity even for a wicked character and is badly deceived. The Wachaga in Tanzania relate that the elephant was once a human being but was cheated out of all his limbs except his right arm, which now serves as his trunk. He paid for nobility!
The Ashanti of Ghana relate that an elephant is a human chief from the past. When they find a dead elephant in the forest, they give him a proper chief's burial.
*beautiful myths and stories. Elephants are most definately deserving of our respect and appreciation as all creatures, big or small that roam our fine Earth.
Blog entry
4 Feb 2012 - 6:30pm
Reposted from The Awakening Website
Today, the planet Neptune will complete its orbit around the Sun and move back into its ruling zodiacal sign of Pisces. In Greek mythology, Neptune is represented by Poseidon, the Olympian god of the Sea. He is associated with mysticism and creativity, such as the arts and music. He is also the ruler of spiritual enLightenment. He is Unconditional Love, the higher octave of Self Love.
Neptune says, “I love you because it’s my nature to love.”
Carl Woebcke
But there is a much smaller planet, called Chiron, that has also now entered the sign of Pisces.
In Greek mythology, the planet Chiron is represented by a centaur who sustained a battle wound to the knee, which never healed. He suffered endlessly from it. And his constant suffering drove him to search frantically for some form of relief.
That search brought to him an expanded awareness of the art of healing. He became a healer, teacher and prophet, a status that earned him the name the ‘Wounded Healer.’ But, because of his incurable wound, Chiron eventually chose to relinquish his immortality and die. One of the Olympian gods then gave him a place among the stars as the constellation Sagittarius.
If we are careful not to get lost in the glamour that makes up the realm of Pisces and Neptune, there is tremendous potential, during the Chiron trip through Pisces, for a growing spiritual awareness and an integration of Universal consciousness into our own beings. Lynn Hayes
Chiron will remain in Pisces until the year 2019. During that time, they share a lot in common. Pisces is represented by two fish that are swimming in opposite directions. Chiron, the centaur, is half man and half beast. So both are a symbol of duality.
Chiron symbolizes our pain, alienation and woundedness. So, in one form or another, he is connected with our suffering. Pisces is the sign of empathy, sensitivity and compassion. The Pisces part of us feels the pain of Chiron to such an extent that we may feel compelled to alleviate someone else’s distress so we won’t feel the pain of witnessing it ourselves. Mother Teresa is perhaps the most well known example of this kind of devotion. In her astrological chart, it is shown that she was born with Chiron in Pisces opposite her Sun.[i]
I have found the paradox that, if you Love until it Hurts, there can be no more Hurt, only more Love. Mother Teresa
The last time Chiron was in the sign of Pisces was during the period from 1961 to 1969. This was a period of duality that will never be forgotten by those who lived through it. During that time, the World witnessed many surprising and radical events amidst the backdrop of the Vietnam War. The highlight of this period was the sudden appearance of the hippie counter-culture, whose desire was to break away from the ruling political establishment and establish peace.
As the Sixties progressed, young people all over Europe and North America began to unite in peace and love, and in the celebration of the dawning of this age of Aquarius. In the summer of 1967, one-hundred thousand young people gathered in San Francisco, California, creating a cultural phenomenon called the Summer of Love. This led to an era of gurus and yogis, meditations and various other spiritual practices as masses of people began to search for the vibrations of spiritual awareness and enLightenment. This is what birthed the term good vibrations, which became prevalent during that era.
In 1969, at the end of Chiron’s passage through the sign of Pisces, the Hindu Swami Bhaktivedanta arrived as a house guest at the estate of singer/songwriter, John Lennon, where he began to give teachings. This Swami later became known to the world as Srila Prabhupada. He was the founder of the Hare Krishna movement.
Everybody is looking for Krishna. Some don’t realize that they are, but they are. George Harrison
So it was Chiron in Pisces who spiritually influenced the Sixties. His effects were felt in the art and music movements, in the use of psychedelic drugs for the purpose of inner investigation and contemplation, and in the quest for spirituality. Ironically, astronomers didn’t even discover Chiron until 1977. And, unfortunately, Chiron left before the job was done.
Whatever else may have been going on astrologically, Chiron in Pisces was witness to, and is a sigil of, one of the most extraordinary periods of history remembered by a living person today. Eric Francis
Woodstock Festival, New York, 1969
Depending on its orbit, it takes approximately 50 years for Chiron to travel through every sign of the astrological zodiac. The ancients saw a person’s 50th year of life as a special time of coming into maturity. To the Maya, when a person turned 52 years of age, they became an elder in their tribe.
In its current orbit, Chiron is taking 51 years to return to its starting place in the zodiac. This means that people who are alive today will experience a Chiron Return around the age of 51, which could be a time of great reckoning for them. It will set the course for the rest of their lives.
Those people who were born in the duality of the Sixties are about to experience this. The Chiron cycle has been a source of much wisdom for them. As their Chiron Return approaches, they will have experienced his passage through every one of their astrological houses and signs.
When Chiron is in Pisces… forms disintegrate, the past is dissolved and our separateness is relinquished.
Melanie Reinhart
But the current passage of Chiron through Pisces is much more significant than the passage that occurred during the Sixties. As of today, Neptune, the ruler of Unconditional Love, will also be traveling through Pisces – for the first time since Abraham Lincoln was elected US President in 1861. Neptune will remain in Pisces for more than a decade.
There are two sides to Chiron – the wounding and the healing. So what happens as Chiron returns this time could provide for an evolutionary leap for all of mankind.
If you were born in the Sixties, you carry the codes, and there is a job left to be completed. Eric Francis
Teaching
21 Jan 2012 - 5:19pm
Kuumba meaning Creativity
‘To do as much as we can in the way that we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial then when we found it’
Nia meaning Purpose
‘To make our collective vocation the building and development of our community’
~ Quotes from Maulana Karenga
Sankofa
Sankofa is an Akan term that literally means, "to go back and get it." One of the Adinkra symbols for Sankofa (seen on the left) depicts a mythical bird flying forward with its head turned backward. The egg in its mouth represents the "gems" or knowledge of the past upon which wisdom is based; it also signifies the generation to come that would benefit from that wisdom. This symbol often is associated with the proverb, “Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi," which translates to, "It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten." The Akan believe that the past illuminates the present and that the search for knowledge is a life-long process. The pictograph illustrates the quest for knowledge, while the proverb suggests the rightness of such a quest as long as it is based on knowledge of the past.
(san = "to return") + (ko = "to go") + (fa = "to look, to seek and take")
Contemporary African American communities include descendents of the Akan and many other West African tribal groups whose members were transported to North America during the slave trade. And while writing systems, cosmology, and religious figures may have been replaced, there is still much that is African among African Americans. A continuation of African religious ontology can be found in the African American community's deep attachment to and involvement with the Christian church. A continuation of the Akan pictorial writing system can be found in many African American communities in the "graffiti art" murals that transmit cultural ideals and values. Moreover, a continuation of the philosophical expressions of African spirituality also can be found in many of today's African American communities, where the concept of Sankofa exists in the form of the oft-repeated proverb: "You can't know where you're going unless you know where you come from."
Certainly there is written literature in Africa , although the written has always been intertwined with the oral, particularly when employed in the expression of spiritual beliefs. Of prime importance in African culture, as in many cultures, is the communal expression of spirituality. For the African, spirituality is equivalent to ontology; it is everything one defines oneself to be and cannot be separated from one's being. John S. Mbiti, leading scholar in the study of African religions and philosophy, maintains that Africans are "notoriously religious" because there is no separation between religious life and daily life.
Because traditional religions permeate all the departments of life, there is no formal distinction between the sacred and the secular, between religious and non-religious, between the spiritual and the material areas of life…Where the individual is, there is his religion, for he is a religious being. It is this that makes Africans so religious: religion is in their whole system of being…What people do is motivated by what they believe, and what they believe springs from what they do and experience. So then, belief and action in African traditional society cannot be separated: they belong to a single whole. ~ John S. Mbiti, African
Religions and Philosophy
Africans have traditionally used both symbolic language and written symbols to express their spirituality. But unlike Judaism, Christianity and Islam, African religions have no sacred texts. "To speak of any sacred scriptures as it pertains to religion in Africa is to speak of what is written in the hearts of the African people," states scholar David Abdulai in the introduction to his book, African Proverbs: Wisdom of the Ages.
Despite attempts made by their captors to destroy all practices connected with their homeland, enslaved Africans transplanted to the New World in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade continued to express traditional African beliefs and spirituality. Fortunately, because of parallels and similarities in and between African and Protestant Christian cosmologies, it was not difficult for captive Africans to substitute the religious figures and symbols of their captors for their own, and thereby continue to practice an African way of life. It was not difficult for the slaves to adapt their view of a Supreme Being that is in every thing to the Christian view of a God that is every where. Thus, while undergoing an intense and violent transformation, captive Africans managed to retain their African sense of the world and find comfort through the practice of a kind of "Africanized Christianity."
The spiritual Adinkra symbol "Gye Nyame" which represents the omnipotence of God. It is referenced by many African historians and is often translated as meaning there is no power higher than God.
Ghanaian artist Owusu-Ankomah
** the above text is an excert from: ctl.du.edu/spirituals/History/
for me there is also no separation of my spirituality from my everyday life. I often get complants from my son about being too spiritual or too involved, but this is WHO I AM. I AM deeply spiritual yet I do not follow any specific written texts, I follow my heart. I eagerly incorporate many cultural beliefs into my own expression and way of life. I am able to see and feel the simularities that is joining the people of the world. And I welcome the diverse personalities that are alive and well within the community of www.lightworkers.org with an open heart filled with endless love.
Blog entry
30 Dec 2011 - 4:02pm
As the year closes we naturally look both ways – back at where we’ve been and ahead to where we are going. It is a journey, one we are creating together and walking alone.
This journey, this dream or whatever you call it; is yours. It is mine. There are no prophecies or predictions that will affect the outcome unless I bring them into my reality and make them do so. I make this choice with every word, thought and focus. The choice is always mine. The choice is always yours. We can select love or fear and everything we do and experience will be a reflection of our chosen emotion.
The only one who can predict your future is you.
There has been so much said about this coming year, it can feel as if we are being swept away in the current of the time. Don’t allow yourself to be fooled. You are swimming of your own volition, either upstream or down. If you don’t like the direction, it may be time to turn around. The headlines, characters and happenings may be overwhelming, yet regardless of their volume, they are not actually telling you what is happening in your life – only you can do that.
The power to run your life is now and always will be yours. You are uniquely suited to do so. You have set it up perfectly. You are in the precise place with all the right tools. There have been no wrong choices. You are not headed for disaster, you are headed for amazing. Within you are the keys to your own evolution; right there in your hands. You know that you are love. You may need to remind yourself now and then as headlines and events can show up to frighten us, that’s ok. It’s all ok.
Who you are, your very essence is the polar opposite of fear. The emotions that feel hot and uncomfortable and sickly, feel that way because they do not belong inside one such as you. You cannot mix fear with love, and what you are – is love.
You are eternally, powerfully and completely – love. This New Year, embark on a quest to discover in every moment this truth about you – a “Heart Quest”.
Forgive yourself, forget the past and focus on love. Then watch the magnificent life you create!
I can’t wait. It is an honor to share this time with you. Happy New Year!
In Lak’ech.
~Sophia
Teaching
23 Dec 2011 - 9:53pm
1. Deva-gati, the Realm of Devas (Gods) and Heavenly Beings
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In Buddhist tradition, the Deva realm is populated by godlike beings who enjoy great power, wealth and long life. They live in splendor and happiness. Yet even the Deva grow old and die. Further, their privilege and exalted status blind them to the suffering of others, so in spite of their long lives they have neither wisdom nor compassion. The privileged Deva will be reborn in another of the Six Realms.
2. Asura-gati, the Realm of Asura (Titans)
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The Asura are strong and powerful beings who are sometimes depicted as enemies of the Deva. Asura are marked by their fierce envy. The karma of hate and jealousy causes rebirth in the Asura Realm. Chih-i (538-597), a patriarch of the T'ien-t'ai school, described the Asura this way: "Always desiring to be superior to others, having no patience for inferiors and belittling strangers; like a hawk, flying high above and looking down on others, and yet outwardly displaying justice, worship, wisdom, and faith -- this is raising up the lowest order of good and walking the way of the Asuras." You may have known an Asura or two.
3. Preta-gati, the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
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Hungry ghosts (preta) are pictured as beings with huge, empty stomachs, but they have pinhole mouths, and their necks are so thin they cannot swallow. A hungry ghost is one who is always looking outside himself for the new thing that will satisfy the craving within. Hungry ghosts are characterized by insatiable hunger and craving. They are also associated with addiction, obsession and compulsion.
4. Naraka-gati, the Hell Realm
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As the name suggests, the Hell Realm is the most terrible of the Six Realms. Hell beings have a short fuse; everything makes them angry. And the only way hell beings deal with things that make them angry is through aggression -- attack, attack, attack! They drive away anyone who shows them love and kindness and seek out the company of other hell beings. Unchecked anger and aggression can cause rebirth in the Hell Realm.
5. Tiryagyoni-gati, the Animal Realm
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Animal beings are marked by stupidity, prejudice and complacency. They live sheltered lives, avoiding discomfort or anything unfamiliar. Rebirth in the Animal Realm is conditioned by ignorance. People who are ignorant and content to remain so are likely headed for the Animal Realm, assuming they aren't there already.
6. Manusya-gati, the Human Realm
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The Human Realm is the only realm of the six from which beings may escape samsara. Enlightenment is at hand in the Human Realm, yet only a few open their eyes and see it. Rebirth into the Human Realm is conditioned by passion, doubt and desire.
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3 Dec 2011 - 4:13am
We are experiencing, in “real” third dimensional time, what is occurring for the planet and the people on her. This shift is upon us. There is no place to turn where there is not evidence of major change – more like upheaval.
It is true that we are one and it is also true that each will experience this shift in a unique way. From whichever eyes you are looking through – the shift will be observed, and from whatever body and place you currently occupy, it will be experienced. It will be different for each of us because we are individual expressions of the ONE. At the same time it will be the same for all of us because we are connected and a collective version of the ONE.
Think of each finger on one hand and these words will make more sense.
You are creating the shift and there is no one outside of you who can tell you what will happen tomorrow. Realize what is being said here, “no one outside of you” – There is, in fact, no one outside of you. We are one. Each set of ears and eyes is tuned into whatever “facts” are pertinent to the life path currently chosen. As life paths evolve, those “facts” are discovered, and seen, and heard differently.
If there was one thing to say that would be of the most comfort now it is this – YOU ARE ALWAYS RIGHT. You are in the right place at this time and you know, see, hear and do exactly the correct things to proceed on your chosen path. There are no wrong choices, and the best place for you to be right now is where you are.
The compulsion to look for wisdom outside of ourselves and to seek a leader to follow is one that was taught – it is not natural.
As the veil gets thinner each of us senses to a greater degree the truth of who we are. We are divine beings, multi-dimensional powerful lights and it is time now to trust. In fact, the only one who you can trust every time to have your best interests as motivation is you. There is no one but you.
Stand inside of your own power and realize the vastness of your essence. It is as if we have been covered with a bushel basket for many lifetimes.
What is happening now is the collapse of a system that does not serve the whole. We are evolving and there are indications in every facet of life on this planet that illustrate this truth.
The most powerful thing you can do is to trust your inner sense and follow whichever course of action feels like the right one. Expect change. The current monetary system can no longer function as it stands today so proceed accordingly.
Stay grounded and aware. There is no place for fear or anger. This shift was called forth by all of us. As you are a part of it now, know that you are here by choice. We are perfectly suited to deal with whatever changes are ahead. There is no one more so.
Trust your inner promptings, gut feelings and emotions. Continue with whatever practice currently enjoyed to sustain and keep you grounded – prayer, meditation, song, music, movement, stillness – all are effective means to return your focus to source, which is you. There is no one who knows better than you and as these days proceed we will become more convinced of this.
The shift is here. It is not time to panic; we are eternal beings of love and are ready now to access our own divinity. We do not need to wait for someone to tell us what to do, we know. Trust your instincts.
This is a physical dimension so caring for our physical needs is part of the experience; to include food and shelter and the money to provide both. As we feel the change internally with bodily, spiritual and emotional shifting – the whole is altered. You cannot help but effect the collective; this is how connected we are.
As we focus on what serves we will ride this wave gracefully and with confidence. Remember that you are perfectly positioned to do so. Create joy as part of the process.
We are spreading our wings! As the butterfly emerges from its cocoon, you have not yet seen the magnificence that is you. No longer in the dark and immobile – you are realizing you have wings and are taking flight.
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23 Nov 2011 - 2:44pm
I have been seeing the fae at my window at night, at first i was taken back by them but now i wonder why i can suddenly see them, i wonder if they have always been there or they have just started to come.I live by woodland and i have always believed in fairys and elves but to actually see them is lovely.I have taken photos and they stand out really good on them, i mainly took them to prove to my self i wasnt going out of my mind.
I keep hearing about the changes that are coming and i wonder how they must feel what we have done to their world it is not just ours (humans).I have not seen anything mentioned about the fae and i was wondering if anybody else has them come to them.
Love and Light.
Blog entry
9 Nov 2011 - 12:30am
WE ARE~
~/\O\/~
Living AND Loving IS Life
Astha Crea Senta Tomo Ey~
SiNeh~
Story
31 Oct 2011 - 3:00pm
The Council of Twelve via Radio Ann: Trick or treat!
Hello. This is the Council of Twelve. We are here to say that Halloween is a wonderful day! The veils are thin. Can you feel the presence of unseen friends? We are here. That's friends, by the way. Not fiends!
We think Halloween customs are great fun, especially the zombie and ghost costumes. The ones filled with gore and fake blood are particularly amusing. This is because death is not scary, it's fun! You'll all have a great time with your transition - when the time comes - and for now, it's good to make fun of the illusion of death.
Children have a need to grapple with the concept of a transitory physical body. Halloween is helpful in this regard. It's a way of facing one's fears. The reality of death is that it's LIFE. You'll be restored to your youthful selves, your true selves, your wise and enlightened selves. In the meantime, enjoy your "real" life, which is more of an illusion than you know.
Costume yourselves as ordinary people. Maybe no one will see through your disguise, except us - who see the real you. You are beings of light, playing Halloween every day. Trick or treat, indeed. Love, the Council.
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23 Oct 2011 - 11:45am
Ancient Origins of Halloween
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Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.
video
23 Oct 2011 - 11:08am
"To the One in all things" - Just released video
... in Time for Scorpio ... for the Transfiguration ... Resurrection
Blog entry
22 Oct 2011 - 1:43am
Here is a new chapter on "Transformation of religion"
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I discuss main commonalities and differences between the Monotheism and the channeled celestial messages focusing on cosmology of the Bible. I refer to Blavatsky, Kabbalah and Hinduism in explaining how mainstream worldview deviated from the universal truths about God and lessons of souls in the physical world.
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20 Sep 2011 - 5:16pm
I posted this to share with ya`ll. Read it and post your thoughst and ideas...
Love, Naiad
The main resource that Christian and Jewish people have to base their beliefs on is the Bible. The Bible is full of inspired writings and there are many truths within it if you read it with an open heart. But the Bible was not written to be taken literally word for word. Some of it is an account of ancient history from the point of view of the writer. Some writings were meant to be fables or parables that taught a lesson, which some people think have to be accepted literally today. The Old Testament reflects the beliefs of people of the time. In many instances God is portrayed as a fearful and vengeful God because of the beliefs, traditions, and human experiences of the time. People wanted to believe that God was on their side and that He initiated every war so that they could justify the killings and enslavement of others. In these writings human beliefs and attributes were projected onto God. The New Testament was written between the years 70 to 100 AD. It was taken down from the memories of people repeating Jesus' words. Some of it is accurate, at least in essence, and some of it was diluted or changed over time to better fit what people want it to say. One of the biggest problems is the translations and editing that the Bible has gone through. It was translated from Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek into Latin and then to English and other languages. Each time some of it was changed due to mistranslations of words as the meanings were not truly understood or accurately represented because of cultural differences. In the fourth century the Bible as we know it today was put together and extensively edited by the Nicene Council. It was then that many books were taken out or edited, and policies made that effect the way we understand the Bible today. Other councils and further editing of the Bible over the next several hundred years would further shape many Christian beliefs of today.
Satan as a personified being does not exist any more than Lucifer exists. The idea of Satan began as a compilation of evolving Biblical concepts that were tainted by pagan beliefs. Much later the persona of Satan took on ever more demonic qualities and powers until he was considered almost as powerful as God by some people.
Sadly, today there is a resurgence of people teaching about the devil and even performing exorcisms publicly on a mass scale. These activities are mainly done by the Fundamentalist Christian Churches. As long as there are people who can be cowed with threats of a devil and hell these beliefs and actions will continue. People need to be exposed to the origins of the beliefs so that they can see through the misguided information. Unfortunately the leaders of these Sects have laid down an iron clad trap for themselves and their followers. They teach that any information advocating that there is no devil is sponsored by the devil so that he can more easily trick people and influence their lives. This cleaver teaching sets up a “catch 22” for the people who believe in it. Any information that might set them free from their fear-based beliefs is avoided at all costs as a work of the devil.
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13 Sep 2011 - 10:11pm
I guess I have been thinking about the Moon a lot, and I did read Lisa Renee's newsletter when it was delivered to my e-mail.
This is not the first time she has spoken of it, and others have brought this up for consideration too. Whether it is a real entity or made from something not organic.
The moon has certainly affected us all here on Earth, and it has especially affected women- all of our lives past, present, and maybe not our future. If we change our minds.
It has certainly raised a lot of havoic with our emotional bodies, water bodies, psyches, and I can certainly attest to that fact being a double Cancer- double the fun. Hah!
So the question is??? What Is this Moon?
Is it a program too?
Have we been duped with another false belief system. Once maybe it was something real, eons ago, and then was constructed to be something that looked like it.
But anyways the sun has been supremely beautiful these past weeks, and today was another magnificent sunny day. Just awesome. Solar flares and all....
So yes I would like to know the Truth about the Moon, and the energies we have been either putting forth to the moon as in circles etc. Has it all just been a program this time around on earth or is it beneficial to our energy fields? And does it serve a healthy purpose or is it a manipulation.
I'd like the Truth and Science like everthing else!
I'll still love looking at the moon, but I am taking a healthy detachment from it right now.
I guess like a lot of things just an observer and witness to change.
video
29 Jul 2011 - 9:28am
PYRAMIDS Sacred Geometry
Is there something Mystical about the pyramids? What is the Masonic Connections to stars? How do we understand the constellations in the heavens? Is it a religious Islamic concept or from the New Age!
Check out this VIDEO with detailed drawing of Signs and Symbols.
Did the Prophet Muhammed Speak about the Capstone of the Pyramid?
Download or watch the entire Episode Online HERE :
http://hotconflict.podbean.com/2011/07/20/pyramids-sacred-geometry-triangles-the-square-and-compass-masonic-mysteries/
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18 Jul 2011 - 10:08am
WRiting like this is very difficult. I've long had a problem, or maybe a disagreement, with habits. I don't want them. I have them.
That was a big deal growing up. My folks were always trying to help me establish "good habits." So I could go on autopilot and not evaluate any given now because it was all filled up with habits.
The groove becomes a rut, the rut becomes a grave.
So writing each day for ninety days has some of the qualities of establishing the habit. BUT there is something in my nature that SCREAMS against any concept of "always" or "everyday" or "forever." So, my goal is finite. Write ninety blogs in ninety days. For Yarra mostly. An homage.
There is a LOT of stuff I don't put into these blogs. I don't give direct voice to my intuition. I try to steer clear of prophecy or prediction in my writing. My head loves that stuff. I don't want to harass the "Powers that Be" or try to be any sort of revolutionary leader. I admit I have fantasies of "The monkey wrench gang." It's so easy to mess with a big machine.
FIRST, do no harm. Hate the sin, not the sinner. To err is human, to forgive divine.
Three simple tenets: Don't be mean, don't be stupid, and don't be afraid. OR stated more positively: BE kind, BE smart, BE courageous.
There's always talk about the "agent provacateurs" on this site. The "dark entities" that would divide us, set us to turn on each other. I don't know.
Could be there are minions. Say a guy in a cubicle in a huge government setup. Reading all this stuff, trying to insinuate so as to understand what the "agenda" is. Maybe he identifies as a "Man in Black"--maybe not. Still a human being aren't you? Guess what, you're the insurgent now.
I had dinner with my Mom and sister and brother in law and wife last night. I really love them all. I can be a real handful for them occasionally.
This monday morning, I feel "over it." Weary. Disgruntled? WHAT is gruntled? is that any better? Forgive my disjointed ravings.
Shine Bright.
Blog entry
5 Jul 2011 - 11:15pm
SO, the dawn arrived and we all had survived the night. Got a fire started and made some coffee. Oh there are some stories in there about teaching a little one to "go" in the woods, but it's not my story to tell.
We sat and fried nearly a pound of bacon. The princess likes bacon and juice for breakfast. The dogs and Nanna and I had our share too. Man, bacon and eggs over an open fire.
More play and walks. The boundarylessness of it still played with her. I mean, five years of being told what "not" to do and then "do anything."
I think that is blowing my mind about ascension. Really? The end of the "world?" Kingdom of heaven? New Earth? I so want to believe it. BUT I have fifty years of "the world" metting out what my dad used to call, "painful learning experiences." If I am 5D I have learned to hide it, to downplay it, to always allow "I know that sounds crazy."
Learning is easy. Unlearning less so.
Poppa was to have a little nap while Nanna and Paige went into town for a park and civilization run. It was nice, in the shade of the tent, the late morning sun peeking in, occasional breeze. The earth was pleasant to lay on.
THEN. Squealing of tires and the ladies. I snapped up and looked out to see the vehicle teetering on the edge of a drop, Nanna had misjudged and nearly gone tumbling down the hill. Cooler heads prevailed. BUT The Nap was finished. Adrenaline drove me to action again and we were all packed up and ready to roll by the time they got back.
NOW, you're probably thinking this is the wrap up. It should've been, but this was the fourth and we had plans to shoot off fireworks with Calendulaceum, his lady, his little daughter, and his visiting mom.
SO we rolled the whole show over there >>>> to the Garden of Heaton as it is called. Cool. Five year old and three year old playing nicely. Female types all set and tending them...Bocce ball.
I hope you know the pleasure of bocce ball. It's like horseshoes without the stakes. We had a pleasant toss while we paced for dinner and fireworks. OH the disappearing males! Nevermind the squeals and screams of the romperoom over there. Aim, toss, stroll--will it rain?
It did. And hailed too. Then let off for a delicious dinner. Those of us who had camped were pale and grateful and not too chatty.
FINALLY. Dusk comes and we head to the driveway to begin setting up the private extravaganza. OH there were roman candles and bottle rockets. Accuracy ordinance that entertains the shooters. Helicopters are nice in the twilight. I had three types: Cheap, good and better. All of the cheap ones exploded in the most hazardous manner possible. LOL. Dare to be stupid.
We survived the first phase intact and now it was full dark and non-stop action. Erik and I sometimes used a blowtorch for mulitple simultaneous launches. I only have a little black powder burn on my thumb. We got into the bigger stuff, mortars and uberbooms. "Da Big Thumper" was twelve, two inch double mortar shells--it did not disappoint. Big rockets, El gato, goddess of light.
The finally was the "Bombay Nights" the kind of thing you can set off and go get a beer while it continues to astound. 30 corregraphed shots with only one fuse to light.
OH yeah, and there were sparklers and a tears. New policy, fireworks are to be a sole event of a day, maybe preceeded by a nap. I am always telling my gal "you can't fit ten pounds in a five pound bag." BUT it is her birthday month, and I have suspended rational thought. Loving a wife is not a job but a career.
Frankly it was a relief when it was over. The dogs were completely traumatized and nearly had crawled up into the dash of my truck. We loaded up and thank goodness it was downhill all the way home. The princess, her spectacle finished, conked out within seconds of hitting the car seat.
I do and have done many things that I wouldn't recommend. Unpleasant things, daring things, to test myself. BUT if you have the opportunity to serve the princess of the forest, do so. It is an honor and a priveledge.
OH I wanted my quiet back so. NOW I have it and I miss the chaos. Humans, huh?
Shine Bright.
Blog entry
30 Jun 2011 - 11:07am
I believe in them, how could I not being so close to nature and a shaman. I have come into contact with many creatures some or most would consider unbelievable or at least mythical.
I received my first fae creature almost two years ago while performing a ritual. He came in as a spark. I received a gnome that day. And other fae creatures; fairies came into my world. They are very curious and mischievous, but not harmful. Although I do remember an occasion where I could have given my gnome a lecture for taking something (little bum).
Ever since that first little creature came into my life, I have moved and they moved with me and they have multiplied. Sometimes I see their little sparkle around my head and face and they touch me in a feathery light way.
Last night I had my first dream of them since I received my gnome. They were celebrating. Saw lots of gold and green, saw lots of jumping off leaves. I don't have much of garden this year as I only moved in last August to the low residential townhouse and so much going on that I am not into it this year. But I do have some flowering plants and basics that they live and play in. They do take good care of the plants I do have.
It was wonderful to be included in their late night party even if I was watching. I tried to see if any of the ones jumping was me, but all the partiers was all my little fae creatures having fun. I have not yet figured out what the meaning of the celebration yet. Maybe there is no reason.
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17 Jun 2011 - 1:25pm
There is a truth that can be gleamed from television. One inherent truth: "This is what the television is saying now." It may completely contradict itself factually in the next instance, BUT in any given instant, what it says is what it is saying.
Does that make any sense? Too meta? I thought I would start off today with something meaty.
When a liar tells a falsehood, he (or she or it, forgivness please) sets up a disconnect between the ego/personality and the most high. Could be the most high self or the most high God, I see little difference. In order to exist in this state, the whole has to put up barriers, walls. Encapsulate the dichotomy. They're turning one reality into to two. I don't see this as an effective means to any sort of unity consciousness.
Now a child may not have a conscious connection to the most high, in mental terms (we all do via the heart), so a child's lie is a different thing. I had a hard time with this bit. It has taken me years to accept that I am not "Bad" or "less" because of guilt I carried by misrepresenting the truth in order to elude punishment. AND after all, who am I to judge?
Propaganda and marketing are inherently the same thing, viewed from different perspective. They want you to think about a certain thing a certain way. A different thing they may want you to view differently. Either case, someone is trying to hijack the attention of your freewill. The message is "Don't listen to intuition, to your heart. Think it through, here are the facts..."
Jingoism. There's one to look up. An agenda requires taking that which is pure and true and attributing it to something...less dimensional. When folks around here (this country) do a good thing for their neighbors they call it the "American Spirit." Drape a flag over love and Shanghai it for an agenda. Like folks overseas haven't learned to be kind because we haven't raped their country, yet. ONCE we bomb them into submission and install a leader from the military industrial complex--THEN they'll know how to love each other.
Whoops. Political. So, we rise above. NOT left or right or wrong or other, but UP. There is some value to the lies, if only to learn better to discern the truth. OR to know which truths are going to be a part of that beloved "freewill focus." OR maybe IN...
So...is there a subject yet? I can sit all day watching the tube and poking holes in the lies, the hypocrisy, the duplicity. OR I can do something else, be a watcher of my own experience. My own studio audience.
I think I am enjoying my blogs more than anyone. I love to go back and reread this rambling and see what I came up with, look at where I was at that instant. Going up a spiral starcase, I can look over the rail and see myself climbing up below. I can look up and see myself resting above. Pretty cool.
The wife has headlies news going in there, so I came into blog. SEE? And I spend my slice of eternal moment raving about lies...and I notice. AND I think, what should I notice instead?
Repost of poetry: "Makes my eyes bluer"
Learning to fly
Is making me cry
The joy is causing
A leak from my eye.
Gratitude I guess
Is making that mess
Of tears on my face
But wait, I digress...
Grace, I suppose
Leads by the nose
By following bliss
Our consciousness grows.
Elation came through
But despair did too
By rising above
Limitations of two...
Wisdom emerged proud.
Spoke softly not loud.
But for so long in this place
Never heard by the crowd.
Compassion united
with love unrequited
is causing a reaction
that has me delighted.
Shine Bright.
Blog entry
3 Jun 2011 - 4:27am
Reminder on How the Path was Forgotten
One day, a calf needed to cross a virgin forest in order to return to its pasture. Being an irrational animal, it forged out a tortuous path full of bends, up and down hills.
The next day, a dog came by and used the same path to cross the forest. Next it was a sheep’s turn, the head of a flock which, upon finding the opening, led its companions through it.
Later, men began using the path: they bent down, deviating obstacles, complaining and cursing – and quite rightly so. But they did nothing to create a different route.
After so much use, in the end, the path became a trail along which poor animals toiled under heavy loads, being forced to go three hours to cover a distance which would normally take thirty minutes.
Many years passed and the trail became the main road of a village, and later the main avenue of a town. Everyone complained about the traffic, because the route it took was the worst possible one.
Meanwhile, the old and wise forest laughed, at seeing how men tend to blindly follow the way already open, without ever asking whether it really is the best choice.
.(based in traditional Malayalam story).
Visit the Paulo Coelho's Blog HERE for more great reminders.
Love, Light and Joy!
Niina
( original entry at my blog @ http://niinac.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-path-was-forgotten.html )
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29 May 2011 - 9:04am
Eyeaah. Not sure what I have to offer today. Fun facts:
When I was in Kindergarden, I told my family at the dinner table that I was learning Japanese in school. They bought it as I made up words that I had supposedly learned. My older sister nailed me on it after a week or so.
The summer when I was four, my father worked in Washington DC we stayed there in an apartment. I alternated days at the Smithsonian and the swimming pool.
The direction that water swirls down a drain is independent of in which hemisphere the water is draining.
Everybody talks about the dangers of "radiation" when what they actually fear is contamination.
The unofficial motto of the nuclear navy is "lie lie deny deny."
You know how, in pop culture, people would say "it's the bomb"? Well, that was originally, "it's the balm" BUT not enough people were familiar with the word, "balm."
Cold doesn't exist except in it's relation to heat. The same goes for dark and light.
I was arrested for something I didn't do when I was fourteen. I went to the Dallas City Jail. I ended up having to take a "good citizenship" class as a result. It was made very clear to me that I was still wrong because I had been there and seen what had happened...I was punished because of the wrong actions of my peers.
Maybe that's why I feel such a strong compulsion to try and straighten things out. Maybe I feel like there will be judgement day and some judge will find me guilty by association. It might not be enough for me to have my own house in order, perhaps judgement is by neigborhood? I sure hope it's not by country.
I used to feel so warm and fuzzy knowing that I was a citizen of the "Greatest Nation on Earth," we were the white hats, the good guys. Those are comforting myths, I can see why so many hold them fast.
I publicly disavow the United States government. I loathe a culture that would cry "justice done" by assasination or lynching. I'm no goody two shoes, but I believe in rule of law. A murder needs investigation, prosecution, punishment. Not a death squad, no Task force 373 for me, thanks.
BUT I don't harbor much hope for human institutions to repair themselves. Great hope for human beings, though. I have been falsely accused numerous times in this lifetime. AND I have seen many who should be accused bask in the accolades of deception. Soon come.
Forgive me. I'm fuzzy and pointless. For the experiment.
Shine Bright.
Teaching
22 May 2011 - 3:50am
Excellent stuff from Bill at www.hiddenmeanings.com!!
********
Harold Camping of Family Radio predicts that the rapture will take
place on May 21 2011
That means that believers will literally lift off from the earth and meet Jesus
in the air.
This is not Harold Campings first prophecy of this kind. His last one came and
went in 1994.
Here is why I have serious problems with this.
1. Rapture and rising up is one of the 10 worlds of Shakyamuni Buddha.
In Buddhic teachings it is called piti.
This is how it is defined.
Pīti in Pali (Sanskrit: Prīti) is a mental factor (Pali:cetasika, Sanskrit: chaitasika) associated with the concentrative absorption (Sanskrit: dhyana; Pali: jhana) of Buddhist meditation. Piti is a very specific joy associated with a state of deep tranquillity. It is often translated with the English words "joy" or "rapture" and is distinguished from the longer-lasting meditative "pleasure" or "happiness" (Pali, Sanskrit: sukha) that arises along with pīti.
The Buddhic rapture has been misinterpreted by Christians who treat scripture literally.
The word rapture does not appear anywhere in the Bible.
It has been taken from the Buddhists by Christians who really believe that it means
flying up into the sky.
The rapture does not mean people flying up into the sky like Superman.
It means rising in consciousness to a higher mind state. That is rapture which Christians
misunderstand.
2. What about rising to meet Jesus in the air.
The New Testament of the Bible was written in Greek by Greek Hellenists in Alexandria Egypt.
They taught consciousness that was described in 5 states.
1. Earth was the physical body
2. Water was the 2nd level of consciousness as we begin to rise in meditation
3. Air was the 3rd stage of consciousness where we separate from thought
4. Fire was the 4th stage of consciousness where we begin to receive the higher energy
5. The new mind, Christ or Krishna consciousness.
The Greek Hellenists who wrote the scripture had Iseous (translated into English as Jesus)
deeply involved in the meditation process.
They had him walking on the water which meant as you begin to rise in meditation you interact with Jesus walking on water in the 2nd level.
The next level is where Christians misunderstand the Buddhic rapture.
The Bible says we shall rise and meet Jesus in the air.
It does not mean we fly up into the sky.
It means we separate from thought and rise to the 3rd level of meditative consciousness which is air.
We know that this is a correct interpretation of the intent of scripture because the text has Jesus saying the kingdom of God is within you.
It has Jesus saying take no thought, and also it has Jesus saying we should stimulate the single eye which is the pineal gland.
These are meditative techniques which align with the 5 conscious levels.
Jesus also says, you take away the key of knowledge when you do not enter within yourself.
Finally in a wonderful Buddhist connection, Jesus says take my yoke upon you.
Let us look as the dictionary defines YOKE
YOKE
Now let us define Yoke:
A crossbar with two U-shaped pieces that encircle the necks of a pair of oxen or other draft animals working together.
6. Something that connects or joins together; a bond or tie.
Important derivatives are: yoke, jugular, subjugate, joust, adjust, juxtapose, join, junction, juncture, junta, conjugal, injunction, yoga.
To join. from Greek zugon, yoke, and zugoun, to join; d. YUGA, from Sanskrit yugam, yoke. Suffixed form *yeug-mö. ZEUGMA, from Greek zeugma, a bond. III. Suffixed o-grade form *youg-o-. YOGA, from Sanskrit yoga¡, union. [Pokorny 2. ðeu- 508.]
Now let us look at the word Yoga
YOGA
Let us first define Yoga:
Yoga: A Hindu discipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity. Important derivatives :
Important derivatives are: yoke, jugular, subjugate, joust, adjust, juxtapose, join, junction, juncture, junta, conjugal, injunction, yoga.
When Jesus speaks of the single eye, take no thought, entering within onesself by using the word that connects to Yoga, it is obvious what the intent was.Given the above, one should not be concerned with the findings of those who have misinterpreted scripture in such a way that they describe the raising of consciousness in meditation as a superman type of up up and away. And also those who have completely neglected to interpret the instructions of Jesus concerning the inner change and the goodness of Yoga.
Bill
www.hiddenmeanings.com
Video: Bills Video Lecture "Talking With The Dead"
Click this link
http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/videotalkwithdead.htm
ALSO VISIT THE HIDDEN MEANINGS BLOG CLICK HERE
Blog entry
22 May 2011 - 3:46am
Excellent stuff from Bill at HiddenMeanings.com!
********
Harold Camping of Family Radio predicts that the rapture will take
place on May 21 2011
That means that believers will literally lift off from the earth and meet Jesus
in the air.
This is not Harold Campings first prophecy of this kind. His last one came and
went in 1994.
Here is why I have serious problems with this.
1. Rapture and rising up is one of the 10 worlds of Shakyamuni Buddha.
In Buddhic teachings it is called piti.
This is how it is defined.
Pīti in Pali (Sanskrit: Prīti) is a mental factor (Pali:cetasika, Sanskrit: chaitasika) associated with the concentrative absorption (Sanskrit: dhyana; Pali: jhana) of Buddhist meditation. Piti is a very specific joy associated with a state of deep tranquillity. It is often translated with the English words "joy" or "rapture" and is distinguished from the longer-lasting meditative "pleasure" or "happiness" (Pali, Sanskrit: sukha) that arises along with pīti.
The Buddhic rapture has been misinterpreted by Christians who treat scripture literally.
The word rapture does not appear anywhere in the Bible.
It has been taken from the Buddhists by Christians who really believe that it means
flying up into the sky.
The rapture does not mean people flying up into the sky like Superman.
It means rising in consciousness to a higher mind state. That is rapture which Christians
misunderstand.
2. What about rising to meet Jesus in the air.
The New Testament of the Bible was written in Greek by Greek Hellenists in Alexandria Egypt.
They taught consciousness that was described in 5 states.
1. Earth was the physical body
2. Water was the 2nd level of consciousness as we begin to rise in meditation
3. Air was the 3rd stage of consciousness where we separate from thought
4. Fire was the 4th stage of consciousness where we begin to receive the higher energy
5. The new mind, Christ or Krishna consciousness.
The Greek Hellenists who wrote the scripture had Iseous (translated into English as Jesus)
deeply involved in the meditation process.
They had him walking on the water which meant as you begin to rise in meditation you interact with Jesus walking on water in the 2nd level.
The next level is where Christians misunderstand the Buddhic rapture.
The Bible says we shall rise and meet Jesus in the air.
It does not mean we fly up into the sky.
It means we separate from thought and rise to the 3rd level of meditative consciousness which is air.
We know that this is a correct interpretation of the intent of scripture because the text has Jesus saying the kingdom of God is within you.
It has Jesus saying take no thought, and also it has Jesus saying we should stimulate the single eye which is the pineal gland.
These are meditative techniques which align with the 5 conscious levels.
Jesus also says, you take away the key of knowledge when you do not enter within yourself.
Finally in a wonderful Buddhist connection, Jesus says take my yoke upon you.
Let us look as the dictionary defines YOKE
YOKE
Now let us define Yoke:
A crossbar with two U-shaped pieces that encircle the necks of a pair of oxen or other draft animals working together.
6. Something that connects or joins together; a bond or tie.
Important derivatives are: yoke, jugular, subjugate, joust, adjust, juxtapose, join, junction, juncture, junta, conjugal, injunction, yoga.
To join. from Greek zugon, yoke, and zugoun, to join; d. YUGA, from Sanskrit yugam, yoke. Suffixed form *yeug-mö. ZEUGMA, from Greek zeugma, a bond. III. Suffixed o-grade form *youg-o-. YOGA, from Sanskrit yoga¡, union. [Pokorny 2. ðeu- 508.]
Now let us look at the word Yoga
YOGA
Let us first define Yoga:
Yoga: A Hindu discipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity. Important derivatives :
Important derivatives are: yoke, jugular, subjugate, joust, adjust, juxtapose, join, junction, juncture, junta, conjugal, injunction, yoga.
When Jesus speaks of the single eye, take no thought, entering within onesself by using the word that connects to Yoga, it is obvious what the intent was.Given the above, one should not be concerned with the findings of those who have misinterpreted scripture in such a way that they describe the raising of consciousness in meditation as a superman type of up up and away. And also those who have completely neglected to interpret the instructions of Jesus concerning the inner change and the goodness of Yoga.
Bill www.hiddenmeanings.com
Video: Bills Video Lecture "Talking With The Dead"
Click this link
http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/videotalkwithdead.htm
ALSO VISIT THE HIDDEN MEANINGS BLOG CLICK HERE
Teaching
4 May 2011 - 2:32pm
Dear hearts of light,
years i questioned myself how one belongs to fantasise and how one belongs to dream,
because everybody that i have get to know, doesn't matter who, did say in a certain way to me, "act normal",
when my fantasy or dream doesn't fit in the picture of that persons fantasy or dream.
Because of this i began to think about what normal behaviour is and what normal experience is and how on should experience normal,
because out of the fantasy and the dream grows experience and out of the experience you receave wisdom that
you teach your surroundings and your children and you pass that to your children what you see and find "that is normal",
while the child and someone elses vieuw is a completly different experience vieuw of what's normal.
I know that fantasising and dreaming is creating out of the fantasie and the dream and that is what Is.( All That Is )
Dear hearts fantasising and dreaming is the engine of inspiration to create what the creation does also and waht the creation truly is.
So why are we prisoning fantasys and dreams ourselfs and does that also happens by our surroundings while that
is just living hole and one with All That Is ( Creation, Source, Allah, God, Buddha, Dharma, Prana).
In loving service into infinnity,
Swen.
Blog entry
1 May 2011 - 10:17am
Since at least 1991 there have been rumours coming out of Puttaparthi, ranging from low level sexual molestation of devotees to murder.
Sai Baba has also been accused of using “sleight of hand” trickery to produce items “manifested” and quantities of vibuthi.
All of these accusations may be true – and having spoken first hand to somebody who assured me he had been molested by Sia Baba,
it seems they could be – but it also seems certain (again in my own experience) that Sai Baba did possess some extraordinary powers
of a kind that are not easily demonstrated to people en masse.
My own interest began by accident. Having seen Tibetan Monks creating a sand mandala and wishing to find out a bit more about mandalas,
my curiosity led me one lunch break to a Sai Centre, which to my untrained eye had what appeared to be a mandala in the window.
Inside the devotees were friendly and helpful people who explained what the centre was about, and this one decided to pay his respects to
Sai Baba in a little shrine set up for the purpose. In doing so the waves of ecstatic energy surging through my head and body convinced me
there was definitely something about Sia Baba that set him apart from the ordinary guru.
The Sai Centre was quite a walk from my workplace and realising the time, it looked certain that the walk back was going to make me very late
back to the office, but to my astonishment the walk took no time at all. It was almost like flying, or swimming when you get into your stroke
and start to surge effortlessly through the water. It was walking, but an entirely different kind of walking, slower strides on legs that
seemed impossibly long and a fluid kind of rhythm that somehow created great speed without effort.
The couple of people who passed on the other side of the road seemed to stare in disbelief.
On reaching the busy part of the city the experience came to an end with the same kind of sinking down your get in a power boat when you
cut the motor. Being heavy and pedestrian again was a huge contrast to the lightness and speed of the previous couple of minutes.
Some time later, my daughter, who was in India decided to stay at the ashram at Puttaparthi. Feeling she might go there, unknown to her
my letter was waiting when she arrived. At the ashram everything male and female was segregated, including the mail at the post office,
and when my daughter went to check the letters on the off chance that there might be something for her, my letter was right on top of the pile.
Much later, back in Australia, she was moving interstate and roped me in to help get her stuff to the airport. Honestly it was embarrassing;
there was a whole station wagon full of stuff to get on the plane, including a full size bicycle.
Excess baggage is one thing, but this was just ridiculous.
There was absolutely no way anyone was going to get me to lug all that stuff into the check-in area – my suggestion was for my daughter to
ask Baba for help and look for somebody to take a look at the stuff and see if there was any prospect of getting some of it on the plane.
There would have been 300 kilograms of it minimum and it was in wicker baskets and all sorts.
Well a guy on a baggage trolley appeared from nowhere, said it was no problem, loaded all the luggage onto the trolley, including the bike,
and charged us $10 excess baggage.
These are the kind of stories that are legion. All Sai Baba devotees seemed to have similar stories to tell, so Baba may have copped a lot
of bad press but there is no doubt in my mind that he was no ordinary mortal.
Blessings - O
video
29 Apr 2011 - 3:05am
Can we really trust the Bibles that we have today?
taken from...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlxNWAsSOk
Footnotes:
1) Benjamin B. Warfield, Introduction to Textual Criticism of the New Testament (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907), 12-13
"If we compare the present state of the New Testament text with that of any other ancient writing, we must declare it to be marvelously correct...The New Testament [is] unrivaled among ancient writings in the purity of its text as actually transmitted and kept in use."
2) Lee Strobel, The Case for the Real Jesus (Zondervan, 2007), 82-83 quoting Dan Wallace. Wallace also states (on p 83):
"Yet remarkably, the additions to the text over fourteen centuries of copying amount to about 2 percent of the total. In other words the New Testament grew over time, but at less than 2 percent growth per millennium-so banking on its expansion would be a poor investment...The quality and quantity of the New Testament manuscripts are unequalled in the ancient Greco-Roman world."
3) Apologetics Study Bible, "Manuscript Authority of the New Testament Compared to other Classical Works" (Holman, 2006), in back chart section (no pagination).
4) Ibid. Strobel, The Case for Real Jesus, 83. Dan Wallace states:
"The average Greek author has less than twenty copies of his works still in existence, and they come no sooner than five hundred to a thousand years later. If you stacked up copies of his works...they would be about four feet tall. Stack up copies of the New Testament and they would reach more than a mile high-and, again that doesn't include quotations from the church fathers."
5) Stated by Dan Wallace in 4truth.net interview "Audio interview with Daniel B. Wallace on Reliability of New Testament Text"
http://www.4truth.net/Search.aspx?searchtext=DanielWallac...
6) Ibid. 4truth.
7) Ibid. Apologetics Study Bible.
8) Stated by Gary Hambermas in lecture "The Veracity of the New Testament" mp3 audio here:
http://apologetics315.blogspot.com/2009/06/veracity-of-ne...
9) Ibid. 4truth interview. (Stated at 36:48-4)
10) Ibid. Strobel, The Case for the Real Jesus, 89.
video
28 Apr 2011 - 8:18pm
Do you say things like, "The Gnostic Gospels, like the Gospel of Thomas, weren't allowed into the bible by the big bad Church because they were so powerful and didn't want people to know about reincarnation etc.". You may need a history lesson, but then again, if you don't like it, you can just say that the Church edited that history too, however this is unlikely considering that Christians were being hunted down, burned alive and so on during the early years of the faith. O well.
video
28 Apr 2011 - 2:43pm
Ben Stanhope gives jmax fans another reason to put their fingers in their ears.
video
27 Apr 2011 - 3:26am
Permission granted to upload this video to YouTube user in5d and http://www.in5d.com/ by 21Davicinho. Watch in full screen, you don't want to miss this!
Matías De Stefano is an Argentinian 22 year old, who could be described as an Indigo child. He has been allowed to activate the area of the brain where all the cosmic memory is registered. His purpose in life is to share his memories with the people, helping these to organize their own information. Also one of his essential missions is to help create a new education that can adapt to the new paradigms of the children of our time.
Matis talks about the mass influx of indigo children who have chosen to incarnate here at this particular time, as well as what to expect with 2012 and how he was able to recall his past lives, which included working with the Akashic Records.
Matías De Stefano website: www.ghan.com.ar
Prohibited Education website: www.educacionprohibida.com
Blog entry
31 Mar 2011 - 1:31am
This is wonderful material, and, potentially, quite useful and practical
http://indigosociety.com/showthread.php?40423-Atlantis-Reconsidered-Excellent-quot-Mythology-quot
video
24 Mar 2011 - 7:09pm
Starseeds and Our Human Origins
by Gregg Prescott, M.S.
What is a star seed? Better yet, who is a star seed? If you trace the origins of human lineage, you end up with a plethora of questions. For example, if we were to believe the bible’s origins of mankind and assume that we came from Adam and Eve, then that assumption wouldn’t explain the genetic differences in our population. Continuing with the bible story, we are led to believe that Noah and his family were the only survivors of the Great Flood, which means we are allegedly all descendents of Noah and his family. Are we to assume that Noah brought aboard two of every ethnicity as well? That’s highly unlikely.
Let’s examine the other possibilities.
Zecharia Sitchin believes our DNA was genetically manipulated, which remains a possibility, but why would the Annunaki create various ethnicities instead of one slave race?
That leads us to another, more feasible, possibility. We were seeded here from various star nations. In this premise, genetic and ethnic diversity is explained. It also covers the differences in our blood types, such as Rh negative, Rh positive, A, B, AB and O blood types. Perhaps some star nations have people with predominantly red hair and freckles while others have dark skinned inhabitants? Maybe some, such as the Pleiadians, have blonde hair and blue eyes?
It’s also possible that Sitchin’s premise is correct, while other star nations ALSO seeded the planet with their genetic offspring.
Perhaps we would look at ourselves differently if we saw a planet inhabited by various star nations versus segregating ourselves from one another through patriotism, nationality and prejudice?
Is it possible that our planet is one gigantic galactic experiment to see how various star nations would get along with one another?
Blog entry
11 Feb 2011 - 10:37pm
Dear Friends,
As most of you have heard Hosni Mubarak has stepped down from power in Egypt.
on this day of 1 Imix (1 Alligator) in the traditional Mayan tzolkin count, which also happens to be the amazing palindrome date 1102-2011. As you know I do not believe this date to be the beginning of the high frequency ninth wave bringing in unity consciousness starting March 9, 2011. Yet, this is still the beginning of the tzolkin round that would lead to the top of the pyramid of consciousness October 28, 2011
and so 1 Imix is a significant seeding date for the processes that are now starting.
The downfall of Mubarak is then as I believe the beginning of a process their dictatorial regimes and authoritarianism will, in a complex process with ups and downs, will start to crumble world wide and ultimately be replaced with a world of unity consciousness.
This seeding is the significance of this day and hopefully many will align with it and find a constructive path to the future.
Regards
Carl Johan
Blog entry
1 Feb 2011 - 2:26am
YEAR OF THE CAT
On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat
She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, "I feel my life
Just like a river running through"
The year of the cat
Why she looks at you so coolly?
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat
Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drumbeat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
Teaching
25 Jan 2011 - 5:44am
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Let me continue with the Draco theme that I’ve been discoursing on so far. For this piece I will conduct reflections about Siegfried and Mahatma Gandhi, one a folk hero and the other a historical great man, who both battled dragons and who lost their lives in the end as a highest form of sacrifice in the pursuit of most noble ends.
Siegfried is a very beautiful narrative, a very inspiring piece for the heroism and redemption that goes with it. I am very much enamored to Siegfried, perhaps due to my own breeding as a warrior—and great warrior no less—leading armies to battle, conquering lands, and then bringing peace and prosperity thereafter for many embodiments. Besides, I was a Teuton (German) for couples of embodiments, and I know German folklore by heart.
Likewise have I great admiration for the music of Wagner, among which is the hero’s burial for Siegfried. Wagner may by S.O.B. in person, but during his moments of composing music he was able to attune to the ‘music of the spheres’, with both devas and angels downloading sample tunes for the musical master to savor and document (with modifications if he wishes). Wagner did justice to Siegfried, likewise to the Light Beings of Valhalla (etheric cities) whom he captured in his very lively compositions.
To get it straight to the denouement, Siegfried defeated the dragon (Draco’s evil intents in our DNA programming). The battle was waged inside a cave (our inner space or ‘unconscious’ self). Upon slaying the dragon, Siegfried bathed himself with its blood to become invincible and deathless in battles (a celebration of victory over the gross ‘lower self’).
Because Siegfried was residing in the dense 3rd dimension, no matter how victorious may he be versus an external dragon and/or his lower self, he will always encounter competing forces within his own organization (warriorship). Envy and jealousy drove a fellow warrior to betray him by piercing a spear in Siegfried’s back that failed to be immersed with dragon’s blood (last spot of behavioral vulnerability).
Siegfried’s story is the archetype that can account for many heroic battles versus both external enemies and the gross lower self. Such as the narrative of Mahatma Gandhi, who battled both an external dragon (British empire) and an internal enemy (gross lower self). To go straight to the denouement, Gandhi was impeccably victorious over both arch-enemies. What makes him much more awe-inspiring was his use of active non-violence versus the external dragon that was a radical innovation altogether akin to the avatar Jesus “love thy enemy” innovation 2,000 years back.
To enable the growth of a new nation, Gandhi had to do the extreme sacrifice of absorbing part of the collective karma of new India. That sacrifice was to be manifested in his assassination by a local fanatic within his own organization (guards provided by the state). Feeling no bitterness, he immediately forgave his assassin while invoking his last words, “Rama, Rama!”
In both narratives, there was no show of bitterness whatsoever. No matter if they died very violent deaths, their physical exit was one that they welcomed as they both knew the risk entailed by their roles and missions. Had Siegfried and Gandhi shown bitterness to their killers, their defeat of the dragon could have been cancelled out.
Thus, up to the very last breath of theirs, both folk hero and historical hero exhibited their total victory against Draco (and Lucifer) as represented by the gross lower self and external enemies. No one then should wonder why both figures are exalted in their respective lands and in other cultures as well, even as both continue to inspire peoples the world over who are on the liberation Path.
[Philippines, 05 September 2010]
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13 Jan 2011 - 4:22pm
The unicorn has always been considered a mythical and magical creature with special powers, especially in the middle ages. There is a famous set of seven tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum in New York titled The Hunt for the Unicorn. They are believed to have been made in Brussels between 1495-1505. Most of the seven are twelve feet by twelve feet in size. Each depicts a scene from the story of the hunt. These tapestries are considered to be among the finest medieval art treasures in existence today.
During our research on Atlantis one of the questioners asked whether animals such dragons, unicorns and Pegasus actually existed. In their reply Mr. LePar’s psychic source, The Council, gave detailed information about the unicorn.
Questioner: We just have a few questions to finish up on Atlantis. The first question was, You have confirmed before that such things as centaurs did exist before as creations of man. Did other animals that we think of today as just being mythical such as dragons, unicorns, and Pegasus, the winged horse, also exist?
The Council: Well, a winged horse is a bit far-fetched, wouldn't you say? Especially, since the evolvement of the horse can be very easily documented. Dragons, well, dragons really are in the eye of the beholder, if we may use a familiar term. Many animals that man had or still has in his existence could, in the eyes of some, appear to be what is commonly referred to as a dragon. The unicorn is the only animal that we would say did exist as man knows him, but a winged horse, more a figment of the imagination. Dragons, that can be an iffy situation. You have not had an animal that can breathe fire from its nostrils, but there have been some animals that are serpent in nature or appearance that do have a footed ability or that did have feet and had what could be referred to as fins or wings but were not truly able to fly per se. So out of your list the only thing that we would acknowledge as truly real would have been the unicorn.
Questioner: Thank you. On unicorns, how long has it been since there was one on earth?
The Council: In the area of, in your earthly understanding or your earthly time, in the area of approximately 17,000 years.
Questioner: Was the unicorn the result of experiments or playing around by mankind? Or did it evolve on its own?
The Council: The unicorn in its original manifestation came from the very early days of Lemuria. It originally was a creation of the Sons of Light or the Sons of the One God or the Law of One. It was considered a cherished pet and is basically a very early form of a horse; now this is at the time when the horses, or what you refer to as horses, were quite small, somewhere in the area of, shall we say, twenty to twenty-four inches in height, that is at the shoulders or front hoof area. The Sons of the Law of One found an unusual fondness for the ancestors of your present day horse. They were a gentle animal, very loving in nature and very peaceful. From appearances, looking upon the small creatures, they had a great deal of affection for man, had a great deal of closeness to man, and were somewhat protective of man. They were very communal in their own group or in their own families. They were a very gentle-natured animal, but they had very little means of protection from the more ravenous creatures of that time. So in an effort by the Children of the Law of One to offer the creature a means of protecting itself through their mental abilities utilizing the genetic structure of the animal itself, they made the necessary changes wherein some of these animals would be born with a horn in its forehead. Although they did not attempt to create this in all of these little creatures, they did attempt to influence the genetic structure of some of them. Those that were born then with the horn in the forehead became the guardians of the rest of the herd. The horn had a brilliance to it, much as gold has a brilliance to it, and it would catch the play of light; and as it moved its head then this light would reflect off of this horn, and it would scare other predators away. At times, it was actually used in protection but not all of these creatures carried the horn, only some.
Questioner: Did the ones who had horns, did they grow larger so they would be bigger than the rest of the herd and similar to what we think of a unicorn today?
For the rest of the information on the unicorn please visit this special link: www.WilliamLePar.com/unicorn
For information about the Bermuda Triangle from a previous post please visit www.WilliamLePar.com/mysteries
Blog entry
25 Dec 2010 - 1:52am
Crossposted from Reflections Journal and Celestial Reflections: A Community of Spirit.
I love Christmas trees. Always have. Many of my warmest, childhood memories are of decorating the Christmas tree and waiting for Santa to bring me a Barbie, some Silly Putty, or an Easy Bake Oven. That's because I was raised in a Christian home. Pine trees and magical, gift giving elves were beloved by the baby Jesus. Remember? In the stable when Joseph and Mary were visited by the three wise men and Santa Claus, with his reindeer, and they all sang "O Tannenbaum?" Okay... Maybe I have that wrong.
So, how did the Christmas tree come to be such an integral part of Christmas? Like so many of our beloved Christmas traditions they derive primarily from ancient, pre-Christian, pagan cultures. Historically, they have an uneasy relationship with Christianity; alternately rejected as pagan artifacts and claimed vehemently as Christian rather than secular. Many Christians would probably be surprised to learn that the ancient pagan practice of decorating tree cuttings, which occurred in parts of the Middle East long before the birth of Christ, is specifically condemned in the Bible.
"Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." ~ Jeremiah 10:2-4
The use of evergreens has a specific symbolic appeal in the dead of winter. Many scholars of paganism and goddess worship will tell you that pine trees represent eternal life because they remain vibrant throughout the dead of winter. I read about this in far too many books when I first started exploring goddess traditions, many moons ago, for me to source and cite them all. Here is a good overview from Religious Tolerance.org.
"Many Pagan cultures used to cut boughs of evergreen trees in December, move them into the home or temple, and decorate them. 7 Modern-day Pagans still do. This was to recognize the winter solstice -- the time of the year that had the shortest daylight hours, and longest night of the year. This occurs annually sometime between DEC-20 to 23; most often, it is DEC-21. As the solstice approached, they noticed that the days were gradually getting shorter; many feared that the sun would eventually disappear forever, and everyone would freeze. But, even though deciduous trees, bushes, and crops died or hibernated for the winter, the evergreen trees remained green. They seemed to have magical powers that enabled them to withstand the rigors of winter.
Not having evergreen trees, the ancient Egyptians considered the palm tree to symbolize resurrection. They decorated their homes with its branches during the winter solstice. 3
"The first decorating of an evergreen tree began with the heathen Greeks and their worship of their god Adonia, who allegedly was brought back to life by the serpent Aessulapius after having been slain." 5
The ancient Pagan Romans decorated their "trees with bits of metal and replicas of their god, Bacchus [a fertility god]. They also placed 12 candles on the tree in honor of their sun god" 2
Their mid-winter festival of Saturnalia started on DEC-17 and often lasted until a few days after the Solstice.
In Northern Europe, the ancient Germanic people tied fruit and attached candles to evergreen tree branches, in honor of their god Woden. Trees were viewed as symbolizing eternal life. This is the deity after which Wednesday was named. The trees joined holly, mistletoe, the wassail bowl and the Yule log as symbols of the season. All predated Christianity. 5"
It bears mentioning that the custom of wassailing was actually a tree ritual in which the beverage was poured around the roots and the community shared the beverage with the tree. Pagans do love their trees.
A very intriguing parallel between the pine tree and Christ can be found in the myth of Attis who was sacrificed on a pine tree and resurrected.
"Barbara Walker says in The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets that "The cult of Attis strongly influenced early Christianity."
The worship of Attis in association with that of the Great Mother of All Things, Cybele, came from Phrygia in Asia Minor. Attis accompanied Cybele, the Great Mother of the Gods, who was brought to Rome from Phrygia in 204 B.C.E. Phrygia is an area that is often called "Thrace," a region of SE Europe comprising NE Greece, S Bulgaria, and European Turkey, bordered by the Black Sea in the northeast, and the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea in the south. Attis and Cybele were established in a temple on the Vatican hill, where they remained for six centuries. Attis was a son of the Goddess' earthly incarnation, the virgin Nana, who miraculously conceived him by eating an almond or a pomegranate, yonic symbols both. Thus Attis was a typical "god without a father," the Virgin's son. He grew up to become a sacrificial victim and Savior, slain to bring salvation to mankind. His body was eaten by his worshippers in the form of bread [the Eucharist of Attis]. He was resurrected as "The Most High God, who holds the universe together." Like his priests he was castrated, then crucified on a pine tree, where his blood poured down to redeem the earth. (Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, p. 77)."
Such myths make it clear that evergreens have long been associated with the ideas of resurrection and eternal life. Some years ago it began to dawn on me that the association between the Christmas pine tree and immortality might not be as simple as their persistent greenness. That, in fact, the mythology might be deeper and that it might have something to do with their geometric form. A series of events caused me really focus on the fundamental shapes and broader archetypes.
I have always had Christmas trees, real ones that filled my home with the scent of pine. Even when I lived alone, I would bring them home from a tree lot, put them up, and decorate them all by myself. But one year, I found myself unwilling to go through the hassle. I couldn't determine which would make me more miserable; finding, decorating, and disposing of a natural tree or not having one. I thought about getting a fake one but I hate them.
As luck would have it, I noticed an adorable little tree woven from natural twigs in a flower shop. It was a simple cone shape, emulating the idealized form of a pine tree. I fell in love with it and decided that it would be my Christmas tree for the foreseeable future. I stuffed it with lights so that it was illuminated from within and wrapped a tiny garland around it. It's decorations have gone through a few iterations over the years but I still put it out every year, in addition to a real one.
Looking at my rustic little tree, I began to contemplate the shape of it and to consider the importance of vortical forms in sacred geometry and myth. It was one of those wonderfully lucid moments when the veil lifts for a second and I'm aware that I am not separate from the world around me; that the emerging archetypes in my consciousness appear in my day to day life as happy accidents and other synchronicities. As I explained here, I experienced a similar shift in awareness around the image of the cornucopia last Thanksgiving. Vortical forms represent the act of manifestation; of creation emanating from the void. Spiraling vortices represented by cones and triangular shapes are innately entrancing.
And if it weren't clear from the cardinal shape of the pine tree that we are drawn to its vortical nature, consider how we decorate it. The classic use of the garland, which we coil up the tree like the snake on the rod of Asclepius. (Note that the ancient Greek pine tree myth, referenced above, involved the resurrection of Adonis by Asclepius.) Or like the double helix form of the staff of Hermes, aka. the caduseus wand. And like the caduseus, our tree is often topped with wings. See my lovely angel tree-topper in the photo above. Another classic tree-topper is also a symbol rich in mythical and mathematical significance: the star. A pentagram like the one on my little twig tree is made up of phi ratios. The phi ratio, or golden mean, is the foundation of the golden spiral which unfolds into the vortical form that expresses in the pine tree.
The phi ratio, of course, shows up all over the natural world and is vividly apparent in plant and animal life. (The gorgeous, little video I posted here illustrates this beautifully.) One of the most accessible manifestations of this logarithmic spiral is in the pine cone. And it is the symbolism of the pine cone that makes the pine tree's association with the Christ most interesting.
The pine cone is actually one of our most sacred symbols. It appears on the staffs of spiritual luminaries all across the mythical and religious spectrum; from Osiris to Dionysus to the Pope. This page has some great illustrations and offers the added benefit of being hilarious. Best line: "Osiris was the Egyptian counterfeit of Jesus Christ!" Those Egyptians were diabolically clever in the way they managed to ape Christian symbolism. Because, you know, if you really want to undermine Christianity, you need a good time machine.
The pine cone is so strangely ubiquitous, yet subtle, because it lies at the very heart of the mysteries. It is a symbol for that tiny gland named for it: the pineal. Here Manly P. Hall explains its relevance in Masonry.
"Sufficient similarity exists between the Masonic CHiram and the Kundalini of Hindu mysticism to warrant the assumption that CHiram may be considered a symbol also of the Spirit Fire moving through the sixth ventricle of the spinal column. The exact science of human regeneration is the Lost Key of Masonry, for when the Spirit Fire is lifted up through the thirty-three degrees, or segments of the spinal column, and enters into the domed chamber of the human skull, it finally passes into the pituitary body (Isis), where it invokes Ra (the pineal gland) and demands the Sacred Name. Operative Masonry, in the fullest meaning of that term, signifies the process by which the Eye of Horus is opened. E. A. Wallis Budge has noted that in some of the papyri illustrating the entrance of the souls of the dead into the judgment hall of Osiris the deceased person has a pine cone attached to the crown of his head. The Greek mystics also carried a symbolic staff, the upper end being in the form of a pine cone, which was called the thyrsus of Bacchus. In the human brain there is a tiny gland called the pineal body, which is the sacred eye of the ancients, and corresponds to the third eye of the Cyclops. Little is known concerning the function of the pineal body, which Descartes suggested (more wisely than he knew) might be the abode of the spirit of man. As its name signifies, the pineal gland is the sacred pine cone in man – the eye single, which cannot be opened until CHiram (the Spirit Fire) is raised through the sacred seals which are called the Seven Churches in Asia."
Some of that may explain how it ended up on the B-side of the Great Seal and why the truncated pyramid has its own little tree-topper; I reference it here as the benben stone of Egyptian creation mythology. The benben is alternately described as a pyramidion and as the mound that emerged from the primordial waters. It decorates the tops of pyramids and obelisks all over Egypt. I have little doubt that it is really a symbol for the pineal gland which the ancients recognized as the key to regeneration and eternal life. So it is not so surprising that we would emulate the placement of the benben every Christmas when we complete our decorated pine tree with a star or angel or other radiant ornament at the very top. Because at Christmas we celebrate the birth of a "god" who enacted the age-old myth of resurrection and glorious ascension.
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16 Dec 2010 - 6:41pm
Crossposted from Reflections Journal and Celestial Reflections: A Community of Spirit.
As I mentioned here, William Henry has been contemplating the seraphim. He may not be experiencing stigmata like St. Francis but he seems to have had a revelatory experience, marking the Coast to Coast interview posted below something of a break-through. Embracing serpent myths will do that. Take it from one who knows. As I said here, the definition Henry gives of the seraphim -- "winged and/or fiery serpents" -- describes the fully awakened kundalini. Here is a breakdown of the Biblical context of this definition from the Wiki.
"Seraphim, literally "burning ones", is the plural of "seraph", more properly sarap. The word sarap/seraphim appears three times in the Torah (Numbers 21:6-8, Deuteronomy 8:15) and four times in the Book of Isaiah (6:2-6, 14:29, 30:6). In Numbers and Deuteronomy the "seraphim" are serpents - the association of serpents as "burning ones" is possibly due to the burning sensation of the poison. [1] Isaiah also uses the word in close association with words to describes snakes (nahash, the generic word for snakes, in 14:29, and efeh, viper, in 30:6).
Isaiah's vision of seraphim in the Temple in Jerusalem is the sole instance in the Hebrew Bible of the word being used to describe celestial beings: there the winged "seraphim" attend God and have human attributes:[2] "... I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and His train filled the Hekhal (sanctuary). Above him stood the Seraphim; each had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew." (Isaiah 6:1–3) In Isaiah's vision the seraphim cry continually to each other, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory" (verses 2-3) before carrying out an act of purification for the prophet (verses 6-7). It is possible that these are winged snake-beings, but given that the word "seraphim" is not attached as an adjective or modifier to other snake-words ("nahash," etc.), as is the case in every other occurrence of the word, it is more probable that they are variants of the "fiery" lesser deities making up God's divine court.[3]
"Seraphim" appear in the 2nd century B.C. Book of Enoch[4] where they are designated as drakones (δράκονες "serpents"), and are mentioned, in conjunction with the cherubim as the heavenly creatures standing nearest to the throne of God. In the late 1st century A.D. Book of Revelation (iv. 4-8) they are described as being forever in God's presence and praising Him constantly: "Day and night with out ceasing they sing: 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.'" They appear also in the Christian Gnostic text On the Origin of the World, described as "dragon-shaped angels".[5]"
I'm always a little amazed when my years of exploration of world mythology bring me full round to the Christian upbringing I fled. Serpent myths are foundational to many world traditions, with strong parallels between Ancient Egyptian and Hindu mythology. (See Heaven's Mirror.) In Eastern traditions, particularly in China, dragons are ubiquitous and beloved. Serpents as a primary, world creating energy crop up all over the place pointing to the original mother goddess mythology that is largely buried. What makes the Judeo-Christian treatment of these mythical serpents unique is that it aggressively demonizes them.Yet references to serpents as representing wisdom, power, and immortality, appear throughout Biblical texts creating a subtle, largely unnoticed counterpoint to the accepted narrative.
I remember learning years ago that the serpent in the Garden of Eden was not a snake but rather a "shining one." I didn't know quite what to do with that information back then. I had no appropriate context in which to place it. When one is raised in that tradition, this bit of linguistic derivation only serves to create cognitive dissonance. So I was little amused at the caller who informed Henry that "obviously" the serpent with Adam and Eve is the "ultimate evil" and that this is why we think of serpents as evil. But, no, it's not that simple... or obvious. From the supporting text of The Companion Bible:
"The Hebrew word rendered "serpent" in Genesis 3:1 is Nachash (from the root Nachash, to shine, and means a shinning one. Hence, in Chaldee it means brass or copper, because of its shining. Hence also, the word Nehushtan, a piece of brass, in 2Kings 18:4.
In the same way Saraph, in Isaiah 6:2,6, means a burning one, and, because the serpents mentioned in Numbers 21 were burning, in the poison of their bite, they were called Saraphim, or Seraphs.
But when the LORD said unto Moses, "Make thee a fiery serpent" (Numbers 21:8), He said, "Make thee a Saraph", and, in obeying this command, we read in verse 9, "Moses made a Nachash of brass". Nachash is thus used as being interchangeable with Saraph."
Yes folks, the mystery hidden in the Bible is kundalini. Moses "raised the serpent in the wilderness." (John 3:14) He raised it on a pole (spine). (Numbers 21:8) Just as Eve's serpent moved through the tree (spine). But the penalties for accessing that serpent wisdom and becoming "as gods" are explicit. The prevailing narrative calls it hubris. Eve's punishment was to make all of womankind second-class citizens. Her gnosis is suppressed. What explicit Biblical references there are to serpent wisdom are misinterpreted and ultimately consigned to being some vestigial relic of pre-existing systems. (See Lilith.)
The global myths that inform all these world religions, to varying degrees, speak of dragons and feathered serpents like Quetzalcoatl, whom I encountered in Mexico at Teotihuacan. In this interview, Henry explains his own attempts to reconcile benevolent serpents like Quetzalcoatl and the seraphim with ideas of evil reptilians popularized by David Icke and others. He comes to the same basic conclusion I did when looking at Icke's reptilians; that whatever Icke is seeing it's not the winged serpents of myth. The reptile attributes are an interpretation of a coiling, moving, electrical phenomenon. Remember that the Sanskrit word kundalini does not mean snake. That's just the symbolic depiction. I've read several translations and they vary but they are all some version of the word "coil." Here's a version from the very helpful Biology of Kundalini.
"KUNDALINI - (Sanskrit kund, "to burn"; kunda, "to coil or to spiral") a concentrated field of intelligent, cosmic invisible energy absolutely vital to life; beginning in the base of the spine when a man or woman begins to evolve as wisdom is earned. Kundalini has been described as liquid fire and liquid light."
Where it gets really confusing is that there seems to be a lot of conflation between those kundalini and reptile myths and the Icke-type conception of "the reptilians." This goes for Icke as well as the conspiracy theory set who are heavily invested in his work. To his credit, Icke has stated that he's speaking of a particular reptilian race; not all reptilian beings in the universe. He has also acknowledged that he is experiencing a kundalini awakening and the ensuing crisis that should be familiar to many who have similarly opened. In Tales from the Loop he says:
"This is what happened to me. It was the cause of my ‘dam burst’ and the process began on the mound in Peru. The kundalini exploded up through my spine, activating all the chakras and my brain into a higher level of contact with the ocean of infinite consciousness. With that initial explosion came the apparent chaos in my mind as I was transforming from one energy state to another. It was this activation that caused me to suddenly see the world and myself in a totally different way and my mind was bombarded with information and concepts I could not process for months. I felt like a computer that had locked up because too many keys had been pressed at once. This was my state on the Wogan show and public ignorance of these matters led me to be labelled "mad". This is the normal defence response to anyone who is significantly different and I was now seriously different."
The problem I have with Icke is that I wish he'd talk about that more and help diffuse some of the confusion in the public mind that has resulted from his work.
John Lamb Lash has also addressed the conflict between David Icke's idea of reptile overlords and the serpent mythos associated with kundalini.
Today we hear the wildest claims regarding reptilians, how they manipulated us genetically in ancient times, their horrific rites and shapeshifting powers, how they are running the world, etc. Unfortunately, most of the chatter on the reptilian agenda ends up providing hype for the scaly intruders, who are enormously overrated, I would warn. Gnostics taught that the signature of the archons is HAL, the Coptic word for "simulation." They warned us in no uncertain terms to distinguish between what the archons can actually do, and what they merely simulate with the alien technology of VR, virtual reality. These cosmic cousins of ours may be lolling in perverse delight at bringing humanity down to their level, turning us into monsters of aggression and conformity, slavish control-freaks. But their game or test is not what it appears to be, if they prevail by tricking us to annihilate ourselves. What if arch-CON looming power over us depends upon the CON we perpetrate in our own minds, giving our power away to them?
It will be impossible to see the truth of the archontic test unless we recognize and own the wisdom that comes down to us from genuine adepts of the Mysteries, men and women who mastered the serpent power, kundalini. Those initiates of the serpent wisdom must be distinguished from the alien reptilians and their human accomplices. There has always been an intrepid corps of enlightened warriors who resist the alien game on this planet, but current discourse on the reptilian agenda, led by David Icke, fails to recognize the nature of the Mystery cells as bastions of resistance. Imagination fuelled by kundalini gives total immunity to alien intrusio, [sic] Gnostics taught. There is no hint of this solution coming from David Icke in his recommendations for facing the reptilian assault.
I would go further and suggest that the conspiracy crowd have been taken in by a disinfo campaign by the, perhaps archontic, frequency they fear. They are running away from the very myths and symbols that are meant to awaken our consciousness and free us from illusion or maya. Symbols like this one, for instance:
Yes, it is an "all seeing eye" but we all have one... and it's asleep. As Henry has said in many conversations, including this one, "None of our candles are lit. None of our elevators go to the top." The information he presents here should go some way towards furthering that process of illumination.
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10 Dec 2010 - 2:50am
Recent events here at Lightworkers.org have inspired me to see the parallels with the story of Shrek, a modern fairytale with timeless aspects, mythic archetypes and many pearls of wisdom. I have written a synopsis of the first Shrek movie, highlighting some of it’s symbolism from which we can all learn. Read carefully, every single paragraph below has symbols of meaning which can be applied to LW and to our lives in general.
It is my hope and intention that LW and it’s members can continue to grow and ‘take Love’s true form’.
Mary Ann
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As the story opens, Duloc, the town ruled by Lord Farquaad, is being scrubbed clean of anything or anyone that is deemed ‘unattractive’ and ‘imperfect’. All fairy tale creatures have been banished to the swamp, where Shrek lives.
Shrek goes to Duloc to see Lord Farquaad about getting rid of the fairy tale creatures in his swamp. Remember the little automated figures that popped out of the small wooden house at the gate of Duloc? They sang the funny ditty saying 'Duloc is a perfect place' and the looks on Donkey and Shrek's faces were priceless.
Shrek, the 'ugly' ogre, is sent to rescue the beautiful fairy princess, Fiona. Shrek, accompanied by Donkey, rescues Fiona from her fire and brimstone prison that is guarded by a dragon. But Fiona has a secret, thanks to a spell cast by a witch in her childhood: she is 'beautiful' by mainstream standards during the day, and at night she is an 'ugly ogre'.
On the way to the castle, she and Shrek discover they are much alike on the inside; soulmates, if you will. Fiona encounters a lot of self-doubt that she could be accepted and loved by Shrek if he sees her in her 'ugly' state. Shrek is also wrestling with his own issues of self-doubt and lack of self-confidence.
That night when they camp, Shrek tells Donkey stories about the stars, and says that “things are more than they appear”. Donkey wonders what they will do when they get back to their swamp, but Shrek tells him that it's HIS swamp, and he is going to build a ten-foot wall around his land. Donkey thinks that Shrek is trying to keep people out, then Shrek shouts at Donkey that he's trying to keep everyone out. Fiona overhears Shrek telling Donkey how people judge him before they even know him, and that's why he's better off alone.
The next night, Shrek overhears Fiona talking about herself to Donkey when she says, "Who could ever love a beast so hideous and ugly?" Shrek assumes she is referring to him. The miscommunication ensues resulting in hurt and anger for both of them.
Shrek delivers Fiona to Lord Farquaad, who clearly cares for no one but himself and his image (misguided ego run amok). Fiona is resigned and determined to marry Farquaad because she feels that is how it is 'supposed' to be. But on the inside she is confused and hurt. Shrek is also confused and hurt and more lonely than ever in his isolated swamp house.
Shrek’s annoying but loyal friend Donkey shows up. Shrek tries to push Donkey away and they argue. Shrek asks Donkey, if he treated him so bad, why did he come back? Donkey replies “that's what friends do: they forgive each other!” Donkey gives Shrek the strength and courage to proclaim his love to Fiona. They fly away to Duloc on the dragon, who is Donkey’s new love and partner. This is the same fire-breathing dragon who was charmed by donkey and transformed by love.
Shrek, Donkey & Dragon arrive just in time to give Fiona a chance make a choice between Farquaad and Shrek. Lord Farquaad laughs with disdain at the idea of Shrek being in love with the princess. The townspeople who are in attendance, laugh and jeer as they are instructed to by the royal Court with signs to give the ‘proper’ response. As the sun is setting, Fiona says she wants to show Shrek something. With the gathering darkness, Fiona turns into an ogre. Farquaad and the townspeople are shocked and disgusted.
Fiona, Shrek, Donkey and Dragon fight to be free. The dragon eats Lord Farquaad.
Fiona and Shrek finally get to share a kiss. Fiona begins her transformation as she hears the words of the spell in her head, “By night one way, by day another. This shall be the norm, until you find True Love's first kiss, and then take Love's true form.” She rises up into the air, spinning and glowing with magical light. Bright light radiates from her, then a shock wave from her shatters all the windows in the church except one (which the dragon later breaks, symbolically smashing the stained glass window of the status quo and the rules).
Fiona completes her transformation, and then returns to the floor and collapses. Shrek helps Fiona up. She's still an ogre, and tells Shrek that she doesn't understand, that she's supposed to be beautiful. Shrek tells her that she IS beautiful (she has taken Love’s true form), and they kiss again.
At the swamp, Shrek and Fiona get married, with Donkey and all the fairy tale creatures as guests. The wedding song is "I'm a Believer".
The fairy tale ends with "And they lived ugly ever after. The end."
You would think a place called Lightworkers would embrace the fairytale creatures and the imperfect; because they all represent parts of ourselves!
Notes:
The name Shrek comes from the Yiddish and means fright. It is Shrek’s mission to frighten people, that is, after all what ogres do. However, Shrek has many layers and is misunderstood by almost everyone. He is the obvious hero on a journey to be accepted for who he is.
Brimstone is an old name for sulfur, derived from Brimo, a title of Athena, Hecate, and Demeter. The term meant "raging one," the Destroyer aspect of the Goddess. The element sulfur was one of the three classical principles or heavenly substances. Sulfur was widely used by alchemists.
The owl is linked to Athena. (although there is not an owl in the Shrek story, the owl being linked to Athena is significant)
http://www.shamanicjourney.com/article/6179/owl-power-animal-symbol-of-wisdom-stealth-secrecy-part-i
Fiona, the heroine, is symbolic of transformation and becoming whole, the true Self. Fiona is ‘ugly’ or an ogre at night. The night is dark and symbolic of the unknown. The darkness represents those parts of ourselves that we are afraid to see, do not want to see, or are afraid for others to see for fear of judgment.
Donkey is symbolic of versatility, intelligence, eager worker, determination, stubbornness, spiritual dedication, undying faith in the creative force, willingness to take onboard the responsibilities and burdens of others (beast of burden).
http://www.shamanicjourney.com/article/6136/donkey-power-animal-symbol-of-intelligence-dedication
The most common message a Dragon totem carries to us is a need for strength, courage, and fortitude. Dragons are also messengers of balance, and magic - encouraging us to tap into our psychic nature and see the world through the eyes of mystery and wonder. More specifically, Dragons are the embodiment of primordial power - the ultimate ruler of all the elements. This is because the Dragon is the master of all the elements: Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind. http://www.whats-your-sign.com/dragon-totem.html
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1 Dec 2010 - 1:18pm
Eros is a mysterious energy inherent in the whole of creation, fascinating seekers all over the world. Across the cultures, Eros takes different names but still remains the same agent that has to be awakened from within, since it is the only element that can transform the human psyche. Psyche has to be pacified and Eros’ "fire" has to be transformed into "light" so that he can become the mediator and guide that gently pushes and pulls the seeker towards the source of divine love—Eros the Beloved—that awakens from within, guides and accompanies the seeker from within the inner planes. He is the inner witness, the agent within the seeker that unfolds gnosis, or divine knowledge. This divine knowledge awakens higher levels of consciousness within him and, in turn, these levels of consciousness aroused by Eros lead the seeker back to the source of light.
The Greek mysteries relate that at the very beginning of creation, only chaos existed, and from chaos was born Eros. Elsewhere, according to mythology, we are told that amongst the gods, Eros was the most handsome. This is how theogonia (the birth of the gods) begins and we are assured that the poet Isiodos heard it from the mouth of the Muse herself. According to Isiodos, Eros represents the driving force behind the entire theogonia. The Orphics agree that Eros appears at the beginning of theogonia and cosmogonia in general, and they tell us that his mother was Night, the dark goddess, and his father the Wind. From their first cosmic and elemental embrace, Eros was born from a silver egg.
For the Greeks, the essence of Eros is the unfoldment of human thought, and in Greek philosophy, he is described as a liberating agent who releases and activates the creative process of the mind. Eros inspires and opens the channel of intuition to the higher and abstract understanding and communion with beauty and truth. The myth of Eros and Psyche describes in detail the inner process of transformation. In fact, Eros cannot be separated from his beloved Psyche, since they are united by a secret and sacred bond, invisible and unconscious in man. In fact, man’s psyche remains filled with erotic, sensual, carnal desires that keep him and his mind trapped on the physical plane along with his emotions and consciousness. But a seeker must transmute the attraction of Eros and awaken the bond with his psyche so that he can rise towards the "beloved," the invisible golden thread that links his consciousness to the universal qualities of beauty and love.
The gifts of Eros affect the emotional and thought processes of humanity, especially those of a seeker who has to learn how to open up and integrate these gifts in his psyche. From the lowest and most physical levels of consciousness to the most spiritual ones, Eros remains forever present, gradually transforming the inner fire into pure light. Eros operates in every living creature, and Greek poetry and philosophy describe how nature partakes of the gift of Eros. Hence we could say that Eros’ contribution to humanity is not only inherent in man’s psyche, but that it is also involved in the process that awakens the ego to its true nature, the beauty and unconditional love of the soul.
This awakening activated by Eros and Aphrodite reveals the qualities of pure love and gnosis in the consciousness of the seeker. This level of consciousness cannot be described, however, because it is itself a higher aspect of intelligence in which abstract knowledge and impersonal love are combined. We could simply call this level of awakening, wisdom. So, on one hand, Eros can simply mean carnal love and desire for material possessions, but on the other, it can also express the spiritual energy that attracts and leads the psyche towards the Center of Pure Being, where the beauty and love of the soul are revealed.
Many Greek philosophers, Plato and Pythagoras included, said the same thing—that beauty and gnosis are inseparable and inherent in the essence of Eros. Thus, we understand that in the psyche of man, Eros rules over his carnal desires but also over his higher aspirations and longing for wisdom. This is not the playful cupid, the winged son of Aphrodite and Mars, but an elderly primordial deity, worshiped by the ancient Greeks as the first element of the primordial creative cause, the element that binds and attracts spirit and matter together.
The Two Aspects of Eros
Greek philosophers saw the spirit of Dionysus penetrating the whole of nature and binding together the two aspects of Eros, the penetration and blending energy of matter with its counterpart and complement, spirit. Esoterically, Eros is the leading force within a seeker that takes him away from a level of duality to a level of unity and wholeness. Furthermore, Eros is the key to transforming psychic vibratory rates. He does that by placing a seeker on his axial center, the neutral and timeless zone within his conscious self. This level of being brings about the integration of ego with soul. Hence, Eros is the god or essence that gives us the possibility of letting go of the past and living in the present moment, embracing spontaneously everything within and without our reach.
Eros allows us to see everything as part of our own nature. He also shows us how to transmute carnal and unconscious attractions and desires of all kinds, and how to re-direct and reintegrate their energies back into the center of pure love and wisdom. This inner process must be conscious, because the ego and psyche must harmonize and unite before being invited to enter into the higher realms, where the qualities and gifts of Eros are awakened. On that level of achievement and realization, the seeker receives more gifts from Eros who directs him towards his own invisible and sacred Center of Pure Being, not really a "place" at all, but more a level of being and attunement. This is a level of consciousness where the essence of pure love and beauty manifest themselves through ordinary consciousness and can be said to be a part of the undivided unique consciousness of the whole of creation.
In Symposium, Plato expounded that Eros had two aspects, one physical the other intellectual, i.e., wisdom. He knew that they had to harmonize and blend so as to transform ordinary men into heroes. According to Empedocles, "Aphrodite is Eros himself," the immortal force that unites and harmoniously blends together all the elements in nature, the "bringer" and "giver" of life. He also said, "the path to knowledge can be achieved only through Eros himself. The energy represented by Eros brings about a balance between pleasure, delight and gnosis, and this harmonious and enthusiastic search for gnosis comes not so much from the answers one receives but more from the search itself."
Hence the quest goes on forever, since pleasure and gnosis go hand-in-hand and cannot be separated. Eros questions everything because he loves wisdom and is, therefore, the living source at the center of Greek philosophy. So Eros teaches the Greeks how to become free and fearless in the face of the unknown. He invites them to follow the path of knowledge and apply the sacred principles of freedom and equality, qualities that belong to Eros’ mother, Aphrodite, whom Empedocles identifies with Eros for, without the freedom and courage to explore our inner nature with imagination and intuition, we remain unconscious prisoners of conventional ideas, routines and vicious circles. Hence, Eros is himself the "mixer of the seeds and sperms" in creation, the primal cause, the bringer of life in the womb of nature. Eros’s gift to the seeker, therefore, is the transmuting energy of pure love, which is synonymous with the Logos.
The oldest mythology of Homer does not mention Eros. Apparently Eros was not born out of a popular tradition but he is the creation of an abstract philosophical conception.
In Greek esoteric philosophy, the Eros of theogonia took part in the creation of life itself. Eros pulls the sexes together and rules over all living creatures through the need for procreation and, for that reason, we see Plato, Sophocles, Eurepides, etc., praise his irresistible influence along with his mother, Aphrodite, as they both give life and rebirth.
Phanes - Eros
Phanes Cosmocrator
An interesting picture shows us orphic firstborn god Phanes Protogonus, known also as Eros, Pan and Phanes-Jupiter who sprang from the primeval egg. In the picture, he seems to be emerging in flames from the sundered halves of Phanes’ egg, above his head and below his feet. The symbolism also includes solar rays and a lunar crescent behind his head and shoulders; masks of ram, lion and goat on his torso; thunderbolt and staff in his hands (the attributes of Serapis), while around him are the familiar circle of the zodiac and the square of the winds. The inscription "Felix Pater" and an erased female name suggests a Mithraic environment, thereby identifying this picture also as Aion.
Major Arcana: Tarot Card 6 — Lover/ Eros
Tarot card 6 is the Lover, representing an inner process. It portrays Eros, the universal power of union and love, the agent that brings a new level of consciousness to the seeker, and of "being alive" in the world. Eros is shown pointing his arrow towards the seeker’s crown chakra, meaning that the seeker is in a higher initiation that will unite the two opposites and paradoxical sides within himself, and blend them on his axial level. In that axial inner space within his being, the soul reveals itself to the seeker in many subtle ways. The gifts of Eros are many and they manifest in the ever-fleeting present as sudden bursts of enlightenment and intuition that are part of a transcendent primordial knowledge that gradually unfolds in his life.
I personally interpret this card as representing a high level of initiation that corresponds to a baptism of fire, or the awakening in a seeker of a higher level of the abstract mind that remains a grace and a sacred mystery. Receiving the "wound" of the arrow of Eros illuminates the ego, or the limited mind of a seeker, and opens it up to receive higher truth, from where it unites itself with the source of the primordial tradition. The conscious choice of the seeker to enter a new dimension of being comes after his spiritual transformation and rebirth when the arrow of Eros opens his crown chakra, and from that opening, spiritual love pours down and inundates the psyche of the seeker who, from that moment on, transforms from being a lover of self to a lover of God.
Furthermore, the color red on this card represents the color of spirit and the green, the color of life. Hence Eros brings about conscious spiritual transformation in a seeker, unfolding in him higher levels of consciousness. Later on, Eros appears as a cruel, playful child who torments gods and mortals alike, giving them more sorrow and misery than harmony and joy. Cupid aims his arrow directly at the human heart, piercing it, but we should look at this as purifying, as awakening and introducing the spiritual element into the nature of psyche itself. It also teaches us how to escape the entrapment of the lower energies
Eros as seen In the Kabbalah
The imagery of love, or eros, is crucial for a discussion of Shekinah. Eros implies a yearning for unity, harmony, and completion. Shekinah is the aspect which receives an impulse from its masculine counterpart, Yesod, and engages in the creative activity of harmonization. It is a mystical marriage bringing balance to the world. This marriage is God’s call to Himself in a transfiguration of His harmony in love. One important principle in Zoharic thought is man’s role in maintaining the Sephirotic balance. What is found in heaven is found in transfigured parallel in the world. The actions of man affect Sephirotic harmony, balance, and wholeness. In following Torah, one influences one’s Sephirotic counterparts, thereby helping to keep the divine realms in harmony.
video
29 Nov 2010 - 9:55pm
This is my second homemade video.Just wanted to point out my passion for fairies:)enjoy
Blog entry
29 Nov 2010 - 8:27am
About 65 years ago, I heard a story about my mother's second brother's wife's grandmother. I did not know what it was all about because I was too young to understand anything being only five years old. I will now share the story - and a few similiar ones - with you. Perhaps, you may shed more light on the matter, being more enlightened, as it were.
I remember, very clearly, the circumstances when I first heard the story. Us children were playing outside the house, when someone said that the great great grand aunt died and came back to life. I remember not feeling any emotion at all. But that is because I did not know what it was all about. What is death, what is coming back to life? All I know is the marbles I had in my hands. I do not even know how many there were.
Great great grand aunt (GGGA) fell sick. The doctor was called. After a brief examination, he pronounced her dead. The family prepared for the funeral. It was the custom among the Chinese then to have the corpse laid in an open coffin for seven days to allow for all the relatives to come and pay their last respects. The coffin was placed on a raised platform about three feet or one meter from the ground. The family would take turns to burn joss-paper for the dead as it was not allowed to break the chain. This was done until the coffin was sealed and taken to the cemetery.
But GGGA was only placed on a bed-like platform as it would take a few days for the coffin to arrive. In those days, there were no lorries and, the coffin had to be carried on the shoulders of men or be tansported by pushcarts. So, GGGA was placed on a raised platform while awaiting the arrival of the coffin. This turned out to be a blessing for her and the family as well as you will soon find out. Everything carried on as was expected. The family wore mourning clothes which were made specially out of a coarse material called gunny cloth. Their heads were covered by a cape much like those worn by nuns. Someone was wailing away all the time. (They do this to show filial peity. I suspect it was done more for the benefit of the neighbours and visitors than anything else. Many years later I was to hear of profesional mourners and were they good! They could repeat the same words over and over again like a gramophone record that is stuck. These pro-mos can certainly set the mood and all who heard their wailing would shed a tear or two.) Ooooops! Where am I? ............... Ah, yes. Everything was in place except the coffin, that is.
On the morning of the fifth day only one child was burning the joss-paper. The adults were preparing breakfast in the kitchen while some were still asleep. The child was feeling quite bored so he started to let his eyes roam. Then, they settled on the GGGA's feet. The cloth covering it had come off probably blown by the wind. The child stared at the feet. He had never seen a dead person's feet before. Suddenly, he gave a loud yelp. "Mak!" He almost screamed. "Mak! Come, quick!" The mother rushed out of the kitchen, fast as she could."This useless son has started a fire! He's going to cremate the old woman!" When she reached the hall, there was no fire. She was relieved, GGGA won't be cremated after all. "Why are shouting," she yelled. The boy pointed to the dead body on the table. The mother took a step back, involuntarily. "There's nothing." she said softly. Are you trying to scare me?" The boy kept pointing at the feet of the corpse.
"The legs!" he said finally. The mother looked, she could see the bare feet. Quickly, she went over to cover them with the sheet. "The toes moved, mak!" The mother stopped dead in her tracks when she heard that.
"Stop that crazy talk. You're scaring me," she scolded.
"I'm not talking rubbish, mak. See! There!" He pointed again. The mother stared at the toes. It twitched slightly. She could not believe her eyes. Then, it twitched again, slightly longer this time.
She screamed and ran out of the room. The boy jumped up and ran after her. When the others heard what happened, they started to speculate on what actually occurred. "A black cat must have run over her," someone offered. "Really?" said another.
"Let's go and see," suggested another. Slowly, pushing each other forward they peeped through the doorway. Nothing. FEELING BRAVER THEY WENT CLOSER, STILL PUSHING AND HOLDING ON TO ONE ANOTHER. THEN SOMEONE NOTICED THE EYELIDS MOVING.
"THE EYES MOVED!" SHE CRIED, HOLDING TIGHTLY TO THE PERSON NEAREST HER. THEY ALL STARED. YES, THE EYELIDS WERE FLICKERING. THEY ALL RUSHED OUT SCREAMING. AFTER MUCH DEBATE, THEY RETURNED, CURIOUSITY HAD GOT THE BETTER OF THEIR FEAR. AS THEY STOOD AT THE DOORWAY WONDERING WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT THE 'CORPSE' SUDDENLY SPOKE.
"WHERE AM I? WHY ARE YOU ALL STANDING AT THE DOOR? WHY ARE YOU ALL WEARING THOSE FUNNY CLOTHES? WHO DIED?" THE MOTHER OF THE BOY REACTED FIRST. SHE TOOK OFF THE MOURNING GEAR AND HURRIED TO CLEAR AWAY THE PARAPHERNALIA. SOMEONE WENT TO HELP GGGA SIT UP ALBIET HESITANTLY. AND THAT'S HOW SHE DIED AND CAME BACK TO LIFE.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED BACK THEN? WELL, THERE ARE MANY REASONS ONE COULD PUT FORWARD TO WHAT ACTUALLY TRANSPIRED INCLUDING GGGA HAD COME OUT OF A COMA. BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT THERE ARE MANY STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO HAD COME BACK FROM THE DEAD. HOW DID THEY HAPPEN, WHY? TO TELL US SOMETHING? WHAT? I DON'T KNOW.
(to be continued. got to rest now)
MAY YOU ALWAYS BE WELL,
MAY YOU ALWAYS BE HAPPY.
LIM CHUNG KOOI
KOTA BHARU
KELANTAN
23.10.2010
Blog entry
29 Nov 2010 - 8:16am
"THERE WILL BE A BHAJAN SESSION AT WAT BALAI (WAT PHOTHIKYAN) TOMORROW. ALL THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE PLEASE MEET IN FRONT OF THE SHOP HOUSES OPPOSITE THE JPJ AT 10am. WE WILL GO TOGETHER AS SOME OF YOU MAY NOT KNOW THE WAY," THE CHAIRMAN ANNOUNCED. I WAS VERY HAPPY TO HEAR THAT AS I LOVED TO SING ESPECIALLY TO AUDIENCES WHO ARE NON-SAI DEVOTEES. MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE SAI MOVEMENT AND VERY FEW KNOW WHAT A BHAJAN IS.
THE NEXT MORNING, I WAS UP EARLY. I DID NOT WANT TO OVER SLEEP AND MISS THE BHAJAN. I ARRIVED AT THE MEETING PLACE EARLY BUT THERE WAS ALREADY A SMALL GROUP MILLING ABOUT. I PARKED MY CAR AND JOINED MY FRIENDS. "ANYONE BROUGHT A CAMERA?" SOMEONE ASKED. "NO!" CAME THE REPLY.
"MY DAUGHTER IS STAYING NEARBY. I'LL GO AND SEE IF I CAN BORROW HER CAMERA. WAIT FOR ME. I DON'T KNOW THE WAY," I SAID. I GOT INTO THE CAR AND DROVE TO MY DAUGHTER'S HOUSE. ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LATER I WAS BACK AT THE SPOT WHERE I HAD LEFT MY FRIENDS. THERE WAS NO ONE THERE. THEY HAD ALL LEFT WITHOUT WAITING FOR ME. I FELT REALLY DISAPPOINTED. HADN'T I TOLD MY FRIEND TO WAIT FOR ME? NOW, I AM IN TROUBLE. HOW TO GET THERE? I HAD HALF AN INCLINATION TO JUST GO BACK HOME. I HAD BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS MORNING SO EAGERLY AND NOW THIS HAD TO HAPPEN. OH, WELL, I WILL HAVE TO FIND MY OWN WAY. I AM SURE I CAN GET THERE BUT WHETHER I WILL BE ON TIME IS THE BIG QUESTION. I HAVE A ROUGH IDEA WHERE THE WAT IS BUT THEN THERE ARE SO MANY SIDE ROADS ONE COULD SIMPLY GET LOST SO EASILY.
ANYWAY, I DECIDED TO JUST DRIVE ON AND TAKE A TURNING TO THE SOUTH WHERE I THOUGHT THE TEMPLE WAS LOCATED. IT SHOULD NOT BE TOO DIFFICULT TO FIND AS IT HAD TWO HUGE DRAGONS RUNNING ALLTHE WAY ROUND THE COMPOUND. NOT BEING FAMILIAR WITH THE AREA I MISSED THE FIRST TURNING AND OVERSHOT THE SECOND. SLOWING DOWN A BIT I SAW A TURNING JUST AHEAD AND TOOK IT IMMEDIATELY. IT LOOKED LIKE ANY COUNTRY ROAD. AFTER TWO OR THREE MINUTES I NOTICED THAT THERE WERE NO HOUSES. FUNNY, I THOUGHT AND NO LIVING THINGS. AH, THERE ARE SOME HOUSES JUST AHEAD AND THE USUAL ANIMALS BUT STILL NO PEOPLE. WELL, THEY MUST STILL BE SLEEPING, AFTER ALL ITS THE WEEKEND. EH, WHY ARE THERE NO CARS, STRANGE. WHERE AM I? MUST BE LOST. JUST THEN A CAR CAME ROUND A SLIGHT BEND IN THE ROAD. AH, GOT CARS, NOT LOST. AFTER ANOTHER FIVE MINUTES OR SO I BACAME ANXIOUS AGAIN. THE ROAD SEEMED TO BE RUNNING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE JUNGLE. I ALMOST PANICKED. NO MORE HOUSES, ANIMALS OR CARS. 'BABA, HELP ME. I'M LOST. DON'T WANT TO MISS THE BHAJAN.' I PRAYED SILENTLY. THEN, SOMETHING COLOURFUL CAUGHT MY EYES. HEY, THAT'S A DRAGON. YOU CAN'T IMAGINE HOW HAPPY I WAS TO SEE THAT. I HEAVED A GREAT SIGH OF RELIEF.
I DROVE ON AND FOUND MYSELF AT THE BACK OF THE TEMPLE. JUST AHEAD WAS A MAN DIRECTING CARS TO AVAILABLE PARKING SPACES. I FOLLOWED HIS HAND SIGNALS AND PARKED MY CAR HAPPILY. THEN I FOLLOWED SOME PEOPLE TO A SORT OF DOORWAY AND HEY, PRESTO, I WAS IN THE WAT. QUICKLY, I HEADED TO THE KUAN YIN PAVILLION WHICH I WAS TOLD WOULD BE THE VENUE FOR THE BHAJAN. CLIMBING THE STAIRS I SAW THAT IT WAS EMPTY. IS THIS THE RIGHT PLACE? MUST BE, THEN WHERE ARE THE OTHERS. MAYBE THEY GOT LOST. HAH, THAT WOULD BE IRONIC. LOITERING ABOUT A BIT I WAS LOOKING AT THE ALTAR WHEN A VOICE BEHIND ME SAID, "HEY, YOU ARE HERE ALREADY,"
"YEAH, I CAME BY THE BACK WAY," I EXCLAIMED PROUDLY. THE FRIEND SAID SOMETHING I DID NOT QUITE CATCH. "WHAT?" I ASKED.
"THERE IS NO BACK WAY," HE MURMURRED. "WHERE DID YOU PARK YOUR CAR?"
"THERE!" I SAID AS I POINTED WITH MY FINGER. MY FRIEND DID NOT SAY A WORD. HE JUST WALKED AWAY. HOW RUDE I THOUGHT. HE ISN'T USUALLY LIKE THAT. FUNNY. SOON THE OTHER MEMBERS TROOPED IN. AFTER THE BHAJANS THE GROUP WENT OUT. I FOLLOWED THEM THINKING THEY WERE GOING FOR SOME REFRESHMENTS. I WAS WRONG BECAUSE NO REFRESHMENTS WERE TO BE SERVED. INSTEAD THEY ALL HEADED FOR THE SAUNA. I WAITED FOR THEM AS MY MOTHER HAD TAUGHT ME THAT I SHOULD ALWAYS GO AND COME BACK WITH FRIENDS, MEANING I SHOULD NOT STRAY BY MYSELF AND THAT I SHOULD WAIT FOR OTHERS SO WE CAN LEAVE TOGETHER. AFTER A WHILE, I BEGAN TO FEEL A BIT UNEASY. MUST GO HOME! NO NEED TO WAIT FOR THEM. ANYWAY, WE DID NOT COME TOGETHER. SO I GOT UP AND WENT TO GET MY CAR. IT'S STILL THERE BUT WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE, I WONDERED. MUST HAVE GONE FOR FOOD.
I DROVE OUT THE WAY I HAD GONE IN. I HAD BARELY WARMED UP THE ENGINE WHEN SOMETHING ODD STRUCK ME. WHERE IS THE ROAD I HAD COME IN. WHERE I THOUGHT WAS THE ROAD THAT WOULD TAKE ME BACK TO 'CIVILISATION' THERE WAS NOW ONLY TALL GRASS AND EVEN TALLER TREES. WHAT HAPPENED? I MUST BE MISTAKEN. I HAD COME TO A JUNCTION. WITHOUT THINKING - I WAS QUITE INCAPABLE OF SOBER THOUGHTS- I TURNED TO MY LEFT AND SOON FOUND MYSELF ON FAMILIAR TERRITORY. I WAS SO HAPPY TO COME OUT OF THE WHOLE EPISODE WITHOUT ANY TROUBLE THAT I FORGOT ALL ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED.
A FEW MONTHS AGO, I TOOK THE LIBERTY TO INVESTIGATE FOR MYSELF. "WHAT RUBBISH, NO BACK ROAD, IT SEEMS. I'LL PROVE THEM WRONG." AS IT TURNED OUT I PROVED MYSELF WRONG! HOW CAN IT BE? I WASN'T HALLUCINATING, I'M NOT ON DRUGS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT AND I'M NOT GIVEN TO SEEING PINK ELEPHANTS! SO WHAT COULD THAT HAPPENING BE? A MIRACLE! A SAI MIRACLE! YES, THAT HAS TO BE IT. I HAD A MIRACLE HAPPEN TO ME AND I WASN'T EVEN AWARE OF IT. AND THAT IS ANOTHER MIRACLE. EVERYTHING HAD HAPPENED AS IF IT WAS JUST AN ORDINARY EVENT, AN EVERYDAY OCCURRANCE. I GUESS THAT'S HOW MIRACLES WORK, HUH. THERE NEVER WAS A BACK ROAD, THERE NEVER IS AND THERE NEVER WILL BE. BUT THERE WAS A BACK ROAD FOR ME THAT DAY, TEN YEARS AGO.
DEAR READERS, IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THIS STORY, IF YOU ARE SCEPTICLE ABOUT IT THERE IS SOMEONE WHOM I BELIEVE CAN VOUCH FOR ME. YOU MAY CONTACT BROTHER WEE TIU KENG AT THE SRI SATYA SAI BABA CENTRE, KOTA BHARU, KELANTAN.
SOMETIMES, I WONDER, WHY DO THESE THINGS HAPPEN TO ME. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF IT ALL. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO. BABA, PLEASE HELP ME TO FIND THE ANSWER OR ANSWERS.
SAI RAM.
MAY YOU ALL BE WELL,
MAY YOU ALL BE HAPPY.
LIM CHUNG KOOI
21.11.2010
video
10 Nov 2010 - 6:10am
This was a series that came on in India, the Indian Nickelodeon. This is very cute with beautiful music. If you love Mythology and/ or Krishna. Please let this make your love for God expand!
Blog entry
31 Oct 2010 - 5:42am
First who is Väinämöinen, aside from us knowing him from Kalevala as a man who perform heroics and is born old and wise to begin with - he is in the esoteric circle known as Our Divine Will.
When you use The Kalevala as a holy book to discover your way to live a spiritual, good life and connect to your "Christ Consciousness" ( Higher Consciousness, also called Cosmic Consciousness, God-Consciousness and Christ Consciousness, are expressions used in various spiritual traditions to denote the consciousness of a human being who has reached a higher level of evolutionary development and who has come to know reality more accurately ).
Second what is Sampo?
From my earlier blog Kalevala Studies Part 1 Poem 50:
" What is this Sampo he comes to usher forward in us?
Let's investigate a little. A loose quotation from Kauno Mannonen's "Uuden Ajan Kalevala Avain" on pages 83-84: "Sampo can be interpreted as our Ethereal Body our Spirit Vessel that we forge life by life better and perfect. When it is our time rise up as we ascend (like jesus did) this Sampo will be our vessel. [...] Samboo in Sankrit mean Highest Awakening. Tibetian word Sangfu means secret source for all happiness, hungarian Sampog means Father God and Buddisht Samboodha means Highest Knowledge, Wisdom."
And here is where last night comes to play - you might recall my earlier blog called Earth Ascension Update.
Last night I cared not so much wither we got to keep our bodies or not, it did not matter one way or another ( Living in the Now ) BUT as I got to bed, warmed up under covers with a book in my hands I had an epiphany! ( I suppose you don't have to guess what book as we talk about The Kalevala here ;) )
" Up until now, the only option available when anyone wished to ascend from a planet was to raise the frequency of light of their subtle bodies, i.e. their mental, emotional and lower spiritual body. Their physical body would die.
When the Starseeds came to help the Earth, included in their many blueprints they were to create, was one for a new blueprint to allow people who were ascending to also raise the frequency of their physical body to the level of light required to enter the 5th dimension. The benefits of this blueprint would mean no physical death need occur when one ascended. It also meant that after raising one’s physical body to a higher frequency of light (and therefore still actually having it, in some form) if that person ever wished to visit a 3rd dimensional planet in the future, they could simply lower the density of the physical body and use that as their body.
Originally, it was thought that this blueprint may not be created in time for the current situation of Earth’s ascension, but would be in place for other planet’s ascensions in the future. However, after the Starseeds arrived on Earth, the Earth Mother requested extra assistance from other universe’s in order to hurry the blueprint along so that it could apply to humanity for her own ascension. This occurred. Since their arrival here, the Starseeds and many Lightworkers have continued to create this blueprint daily. It will be completed in time for Earth’s ascension."
I got so excited I had to interrupt my husband watching a Miami-Virginia Collage Football game and tell him what ideas now ran rampant in my head! He was very calm about it, muted TV and let me go at it.
And why were these things put together an epiphany?
Well-- because of Runo 50 / Poem 50 where at the very end Väinämöinen our Divine Will inside us says he will return, when certain things come to pass...
479 Väinämöinen, shamed and angry,
Walked away down to the seashore.
There he sang his last enchantment:
Conjured up a copper boat,
Closed-in vessel decked with copper.
487 There he sat, steering seaward
Out upon the clear sea surface.
As he sailed he went on speaking,
And he said as he was leaving: 440
"Let the rope of time run out-
One day go, another come-
And again I will be needed.
They'll be waiting, yearning for me
To usher in another Sampo,
To sing another song,
Set a new moon in the sky,
Free a new sun in the heavens
When there is no moon, no sun
And express no gladness on the earth." 450
I had to tweak this english translation a little ( in purple to set the words and their meaning right, see Väinämöinen won't make a new Sampo like many translators take liberations, no, he brings forth, ushers in a new Sampo - see he never made a Sampo to begin with, Ilmarinen did ).
As I talked in the Kalevala Studies entry the Moon in esoteric studies means Death (Kuolema or Kuu'olema/Death' to be/Moon' to be) to die in Finnish is Kuolla/Kuu' olla/To be Moon.
Finnish Language is tricky for a reason, it has inside it a whole myriad of meanings, hidden and in plain sight, esoteric and spiritual right inside the common language.
If you aren't a natural speaker of Finnish you cannot understand for example what you are truly talking about when you speak of the moon. Finnish, it is like a double edged sword, in one end you speak of the physical full moon and its beauty, in the same words you speak in esoteric about the Beauty of Full Death ( as the true nature od dying can escape a man/woman, this might sound morbid, but trust me death is not morbid ). Or when we say whole ( kokonainen ) we also speak of the fully balanced human that has the divine feminine and masculine attributes and divine wisdom together in full spiritual package, Koko'nainen/Fully'woman -- I could go on on about this but there is the Sampo to consider. Perhaps another blog entry of this will have to be made.
Väinämöinen returns when we have forgotten our knowledge of Death ( Kuu'olema ) and forgotten our Knowledge of Spiritual Wisdom our Spiritual Light, The Sun and Ei Ilmaista Iloa/Express no gladness on the Earth. In Finnish language it literally says no free or to express, the word Ilmaista means them both. ( it also means 'ilma' and 'maista', 'air' and 'earthly or taste' but I won't confuse you more ;) )
So what if it means that there is no longer Free Joy, Free Gladness in this earth - money has taken over and rules happiness.
You will not happy unless you buy this car or this house or these shoes or this wedding package or this or this or this...
Or perhaps it means both there is no free happiness and people do not know how to express happiness anymore? We might try to express our gladness with what then, well think of people today going out to dinners or buy gifts to celebrate... This is quite sad that our happiness is no longer free but has to be bought with gifts and trinkets to express it.
Look at this from a spiritual point of view - not knowing how to express happiness...
I add this up for it to be clear - Väinämöinen returns when we have forgotten our knowledge of Death and forgotten our Knowledge of Spiritual Wisdom our Spiritual Light. And when there is no free joy and happiness and we do not know how to express our gladness.
And he ushers in a New Sampo - perhaps this is it, right now, past two hundred years and the future hundred to come, perhaps our new Sampo - not the one that in the past we have forged and forged to be our Spirit Vessel for our Ascension - is the perfect one our Ascension Body. Taking into consideration that we can ascend in these bodies with Earth now seems to match perfectly in this thinking.
It is never easy to put ideas and epiphanies to words.
And the best talent is to read between lines with our intuition.
So I hope that even with my rambling you can read between the lines as well.
To me, as my personal truth, this hits home. All that I have learned in my 28 years support this theory.
From Cultures Reincarnating, to historical document, to Akashic Records, to the Kalevala meaning of my maiden name... I cannot wait to learn more about The Kalevala, to see what Finland and our Deeva has to offer to the world.
Love, Light and Joy!
Niina
( ORIGINAL ENTRY AT MY BLOG @ http://niinac.blogspot.com/2010/10/vainamoinens-return-and-ushering-in-of.html )
Blog entry
19 Sep 2010 - 1:41pm
I made this today, it's Suo's song Liehu, which basically tells in kalevala rhyme about love, how it rises like a flame, with no death insight, in burns in your heart. It is the one that is actually based on an old old old finnish poem of love and passion. hence the medieval and dark ages theme.
video
19 Sep 2010 - 11:15am
Finnish mythology is based in Kalevala, Kalevala is all about nature, humans roles in and in life. More about Kaleva at my blog - http://niinac.blogspot.com/2010/09/being-finnish-why-are-you-born-where.html
This group performing is called Suo (marsh), and they produce such mythologically beautiful Kalevala music, with the help of ancient finnish instruments suchs a Kantele (played by the light haired woman) and Keyviolin (played by the dark haired woman).
Enjoy a piece of finnish spirituality and legend with this song, called "The Ocean Fills my Mind". Another performing Group is called Suden Aika In the music of Suden Aika (The Time of the Wolf), new and old traditions are combined: the age-old traditional Finnish oral poetry reciting meets the music of today. Suden Aika is a group of four female vocalists singing about womens life in all its phases. Also they use lots of different musical instruments, such as different types of Finnish Kantele, Swedish Mora-harp, long wooden flutes and Udu-drums, etc.
Teaching
7 Sep 2010 - 2:36pm
There are many ways to define the same thing and depending on where you are coming from, the light that reflects upon the situation will make the same thing look drastically different. Understanding this is one of the most important principles the learning experience called life can give to you. If we cannot respect the fact that each person goes through their journey individually then we must at least agree to keep our judgments to ourselves and allow future generations to see the world through their own eyes.
New Age Spirituality tells us that judgments do not serve man; it only prevents the unity needed to achieve amazing things. By focusing on differences instead of similarities we prove the ignorance of the self and intern separate each one of us from the foundation of civilization, grouping ourselves to accomplish greater tasks and thus encourage a higher rate of human survival.
Now that we are no longer are in need of protecting ourselves from the beast of this planet and we do not needed to hunt for our own food anymore, it seems that there is no need for unity. When in fact there is a great need for unity of all people. When we come together and open our hearts and minds (not to accept others values as our own) but to hold a new respect; that a person holds their values close to their hearts in the same way that you do. Then we can break bread together and unity shall begin, and intern humanity will see a great reduction in conflict and a serious jump in technological, philosophical and social advancement.
