“You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck!                                                                                        Rumi

It is generally accepted that Homo sapiens sapiens have been around for about three hundred thousand years. But our conventional view of history only goes back twelve thousand years or when there was a global deglaciation event that caused a global flood, known as the Yunger Dryas Event.

The continents of Lemuria and Atlantis are generally only accepted by academics as ‘myth’. Yet there is tell today of an extra-terrestrial race known as the ‘Mu’ who created much of the Atlantean civilisation.

More widely accepted in the study of Mesopotamian, Ancient Egyptian, Indus Valley, Mayan, Aztec, Olmec and many other civilisation’s records is that ‘gods came down from the sky’. These various and remarkably similar gods introduced new ideas and technology to humans. For example Thoth in Ancient Egypt, taught writing, sciences, agriculture, engineering and other valuable skills. The Romans knew him as Hermes from which came the Hermetic gnostic tradition.

When the visits of the gods became less frequent and finally stopped, someone had to maintain control of the population on behalf of the absent gods. Pharaohs took on this roll and declared themselves a ‘living god’. Later, priests ran the everyday duties of promoting and conducting religious duties.

Not only the ancient Egyptians, but even early religions focused worship on the sun, as a ‘living and dying’ god. Horus rose on the hor-izon each day and was killed by the evil god Set at sun-set. The solar religions featured similar narratives, such as their gods being born on 25^th December, rays coming from their crowns, born of a virgin, being light and life, dying and resurrecting. Apollo fulfilled this role in Ancient Greece and Jesus the Christ later in the Levant, a self-declared ‘sun / son of God’. The early Christian Bishops at the Council of Nicaea, performed a skilful ‘hatchet job’ on the ancient Biblical texts to produce the New Testament; skilful because it told people what they wanted to hear and believe rather than the obscure truths contained in the holy texts that were removed, such as the Book of Thomas.

The Old Testament had introduced several ‘gods’ such as Lucifer, Jehovah and Yahweh. These gods were all male, creating the gender bias towards masculinity. The Divine Feminine was cancelled from the New Testament and perverted into the ‘Holy Trinity’. Mary Magdalene, wife / lover of Jesus and his highest gnostic initiate, was degraded to be a ‘common prostitute’, whilst the gnostic Father, Mother, Son trinity became the single gendered Father, Holy Spirit, Son.

Islam emerged from the debris of these many false narratives in the seventh century as a lunar religion. Worshippers had no priests and prayed before sunrise and after sunset, possibly to avoid praying to the ancient solar gods, such as Horus and Set. Mosques were not East – West orientated as are most Christian churches and cathedrals for the same reason. A non-anthropomorphised religion was a vital move away from the myths that ‘gods’ lived on mountain tops and the sky.

A discovery in Nag Hammadi in 1945 posed a problem for the modern Catholic Church. Early Christian and gnostic texts compiled by the ‘heretic sect’ known as the Essenes known as the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed what the church fathers had tried to bury.

They contain the revelation or heretical view that there was no God in Heaven or anywhere else, except within us. Such a concept, if widely realised, would have brought down the Catholic cathedral of cards. The Vatican Library remains a locked to this day which only adds to the speculation, why? Perhaps, the Romans destroying global ancient libraries such as the ancient library in Alexandria, had not managed to permanently hide the secrets that were intended to Unite ordinary people with their Creator, without intermediaries.

Sufi gnostics in Islam such as Masur al-Hallaj who dared to pronounce this truth with the words ‘Ana-l Haqq’, was executed for ‘blasphemy’ in 922. Even in this radical religion Allah had to be ‘out there’ as is the perception generated by the ego, not ‘in here’. 

If we go back to Ancient Greece for a moment, most large Greek conurbations had an amphitheatre where plays were enacted. They had a psychological message that the masked players represented the illusions of the ego, in a world of its own ‘make believe’. There was introduced a realisation that everything we experience is in some way a ‘shadow’ of the real world, as encapsulated in the Plato’s story of the men in the cave watching shadows of forms that they cannot see.

The tradition of the ‘shadow play’ is just as popular today. The most famous of all theatres of the imagination is of course Hollywood…the Druids magical staff made from the wood of the Holly Tree or Holy Tree. Here, various fantastical ‘Dream Works’ are conceived and enacted, but the story telling has a darker side. Human beings ‘make believe’ these projected dreams and are highly suggestible to believing their content.

Propaganda films in the second world war, promoted accounts of real events which were at best biased and at worst misleading. Governments and interested parties remain keen to promote or un-promote social ideals in strategies; in plain sight, ‘social engineering’. A present-day example in my view, is the statistical over representation of certain ethnic groups on U.K. television, in advertisements depicting ‘typical’ families. In 1960’s U.S.A. this was what I call the perfect ‘Cornflake Family’ with a white husband, white wife, white son and white daughter downing their early morning dose of starch and glucose.

Random players in mainstream cinematic heavenly realms are adored and even worshipped by the masses.  They are called ‘stars’ as if they had fallen from the sky as gods and goddess and awarded golden figures known as Oscars that stand somewhat stiffly in the manner of Osiris.

‘The love that moves the sun and the other stars‘.

Marilyn Monroe was all too eager to exploit the ‘Folly Wood’ games that were expected of her without abandoning her ‘

homespun alter ego of Norma Jean. To her credit she did this with ‘eyes wide open’, but like Icarus she flew too close the sun. Some say her lover, John F. Kennedy shared ‘pillow talk’ secrets about the presence of extra-terrestrials on earth, something allegedly explained to all American Presidents on their appointment.

The Nordic or Pleiadian male and female extra-terrestrials, are known for their highly attractive humanoid appearance. Perhaps Holy-Wood has a hidden agenda that is preparing humanity for a peaceful and gracious introduction to our extra-terrestrial cousins?

Even the most agnostic amongst us, still like to deceive children into believing a story about a benevolent, Jovial ‘god’ with a long white beard, who comes down the chimney at midnight on the winter solstice (solar dying), with a sack full of material goodies. These play things keep children amused until they break or the childs interest is diverted.  This Capricorn character is the planet Saturn (or Satan) dressed as Old Father Time who sweeps away materiality and our bodies with his scythe, a truth we hide from the innocents.

Life seen in this way is mysterious, and many materialists and agnostics alike, are frustrated by not knowing the ‘meaning of life’. Things that we are encouraged to work for in life are sooner or later realised to be ephemeral delights, leaving just a few bones on our plates.

This life less reality that is sustained by scientific materialism is proving so lite, that many today are returning to the concept of a non-material spirituality; to the light.

‘We live in two universes – one held together by gravity and the other, the one Dante described, (in the Inferno) by ‘the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars’. 

Extract from ‘The Sacred History’ by Jonathan Black page 272.

In summary let us return to the ‘solar God’ whom we may experience as the rising and falling tides of feelings and life in general. At the highest we experience ‘love’ and the lowest ‘the absence of love’. The Sufi’s such as Rumi quoted above, taught that ultimately all is Divine love. That love is the core of every human being because it is our own Divinity that resonates with and is ‘entangled’ with the Universal love existing in all time and space.

We are no more or less, creatures containing that Divinity that is described by so many cultures.

If we can choose to slow down and literally and ‘shut up’, we need not care about all these delusions, other than to know one simple ‘meaning of life’ which is;

‘I am’.