You may wonder why many great mystics have used poetry to express themselves. The masters who have written volumes of scholarly books might look across the writing table at the snoring companion who finished writing after just a few lines.
Brevity in speech and writing is not accomplished easily. Winston Churchill remarked how much easier it is to write a half hour speech than a five minute one. This paradox is perhaps why men of few words are misunderstood, when they should be revered. In a world where technology encourages everyone to ‘have their say’, words are flying around the globe with a speed and volume never known before.
Yet ‘saying more with less’ is surely an art well worth remembering and putting to good use?
If poetry were an equation then let us suppose, it would look like this;
1 + 1 = 3
To explain:
There is a principle of the sum of the parts being greater than the whole.
The first ‘1’ is a simple fact or what we call ‘information’. It is like a railway timetable or menu. It is not generally revealing of anything except as an aid to the general running of things.
The second ‘1’ is knowledge. It is again fairly basic but more subtle to acquire as it comes with experience, understanding and manipulation of all that ‘information’.
Strangely their sum is not ‘2’. When a person acquires a significant amount of information and knowledge during their life, a moment is reached, or at least grasped out for, which conflates facts and knowledge into wisdom which is represented as ‘3’. Wisdom has the quality of the unexpected and often comes as a jolt or joke…as in the Japanese Koan or the royal court Jester’s flippant remark.
In the game of chess this is represented as the ‘knights move’. The knight decides to take what Robert Frost describes in his famouse poem as ‘The Road Not Taken’.
Wisdom has the same quality as; ‘that’s it!’
So why does poetry use brevity to such effect?
We might define a poem as;
…the realisation of ideas using few words…
This runs counter to most modern philosophy and thought where books are written on obscure subjects using specific terms. In other words, if you used these ideas in conversation with those not conversant with them; no one would understand you.
By drawing back from the minutely specific, a poet has the advantage of not only using fewer words, but unexpected ones that suddenly make sense. There becomes an understanding already in place between the writer and the reader through shared experience of life and perhaps, intution. This might be described as a resonance between a subtle sequence of words and the experience to which they refer. If the reader has not had that life experience, as in a child for instance, then the poem cannot be understood.
Tuning forks work as a metaphor for resonance in the physical world. Usually in the physics lab, they are of similar size but if we use ‘philosophical’ tuning forks, then an infinitely large tuning fork will animate a very small one and visa versa.
Resonance picture credit: Quanta Magazine
In this way, as we experience life, we become literally ‘attuned’ to the Universe. There is a Universal tuning fork and a human one. The human feels the energy of the Universe and the information/knowledge/wisdom that travels with the resonant waves. (Remarkable recordings of sounds have now been made from the planets in the solar system which should be heard to believe!) Beyond this level of vibration is the Perfect Word which we might call Mind or God.
The Ancient Egyptians may have understood this or something similar, as they built temples at several times a larger scale than the proportions of the human body. We know that much of the beauty of the body is a product of precise use of sacred proportions.
In his book ‘The Temple in Man’; Schwaller de Lubitz laid images of an upscaled human body over plans of Temples in Luxor. The proportions known as the Golden Mean and Fibonacci series (as evident in the natural processes of growth and fractal patterns in nature) were used to amplify the resonant frequencies focused in and emanating from the Holy of Holies. By this way whatever was contained and protected within the Holy of Holies – such as a statue of a god in Ancient Egypt or the Ark of the Covenant when in possession of the Hebrews – became energised by universal wisdom or one might say; alive.
Scaled down to the human body is our own ‘Holy of Holies’; the human heart. It is placed in the body at a point of focus, so that when metaphorically cleansed and open, the Universal resonances can tune into the own body’s resonance. What you become is whatever energy you focus on in this lifetime whether demonic or angelic, factual or wise, destructive or creative.
The choice as always, is ours. It will there reflect, your truths and generate into the world the messages which you will relay to other people; just as a mobile or cell phone relay station, receives and transmits microwaves.
As an aside, the manifestation of crop circles in certain parts of the world is, in my view, this same effect. Wisdom from inter-dimensional intelligences is being expressed as diagrams and projected onto the surface of the globe. These diagrams are in a way visual poems; very precise and full of meaning. By merely looking at the patterns, it is said, their message can be absorbed and understood; even unconsciously as in the mandala paintings of the East.
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.” A.A. Milne
Life unfolds before us at many levels and the crowning of a new King and Queen is undeniably of great importance, whatever your social views. In the temporal realm, we witness the pageant of soldiers escorting the royal couple and an ancient crowning ceremony. But is that all there is? What is it really about?
Those curious enough to peer through Alice’s Looking Glass, might see beyond the pageantry and scry something else; both heartening and frightening. This essay will explore the relationship between white and black magick in royal affairs and shall begin with the notion that a coronation contains elements of ritual which reflect white magick.
The following categories are curiously present in both coronation and magick rituals;
Place: Westminster Abbey draws upon tellurgic and celestial currents and focuses them on the centre circle of the Cosmati Pavement where the throne is positioned. This is a medieval mosaic containing archani sacri or sacred secrets; mystical texts and prophecies including the date of the end of the world. The central ‘solar’ circle is a depiction of the spiritual microcosm and macrocosm. Similar discs used as places of anointing and crowning are found in the Hagia Sophia for Byzantine emperors and Old St. Peter’s in Rome where the mediaeval Kaisers were crowned by the Pope.
Witches and Wizards throughout time, also draw circles on the ground to create a focal point within which perform spells and create protection, such as in the play, ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’.
picture credit: The Church Times
Time: Magick rituals performed out of step with the universe are ineffective and we find the same precise calculations with the the coronation of King Charles III . It took place at the time of Beltane, midway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. This is technically 1st May but can be on the first full moon after this or after the Mayflowers have bloomed. Beltane is the time of fertility in nature and is represented by Sir Garwain the Green Knight;
‘So it befell in the month of May, Queen Guenever called unto her knights of the Table Round; and she gave them warning that early upon the morrow she would ride on Maying into the woods and fields beside Westminster.’
Beltane is opposite Samhain on the Wicca calendar and shares the characteristic that the veil between the temporal and faery realms is drawn aside. As Banquo says in Shakespeare’s supernatural horror story ‘Macbeth’, when the three witches disappear;
‘The earth hath bubbles as the water has and these are of them, whither are they vanished?’
Note the reference to the elements; earth, water and air and the circular fiery cauldron which is the focus of the witches’ spells. There is a strict sense of everything needing to be ‘present and correct’ in both magick and coronations; to open portals at the exact moment for humans to view through and spirits to enter or peer back.
Astrologers tell us that there was also a lunar eclipse in Scorpio on the 5th May; Scorpio being Charles’s sun sign and coronation taking place on the 6th May. There was also a full moon on the same day in England and the effect of a full moon is to pull the tellurgic currents around the earth, like it does the ocean tides. This powerfully exaggerates feelings in humans and animals and a growth spurt to vegetation and is preserved in the English language in the word ‘lunatic’.
Light: Medieval buildings contain coloured glass windows that at certain times of year had the power to create a particular subtle energy to fill the sacred space. Some of the colours, such as those in Chartres Cathedral in Northern France, cannot be re-created today as their magickal alchemical formulas are lost. The east west orientation of Christian churches accepts the rising sun through the windows behind the alter, sun being a symbol of royalty and Jesus being of royal House of David.
picture credit: ABC News
During the ceremony King Charles holds two rods or staffs vertically in his hands and resting on his knees. This is reminiscent of the Egyptian Pharaoh’s depicted with crossed flail and rod in the manner of Osiris, the solar deity. The magician is also commonly depicted with a ‘magic wand’ or staff such as Moses and Aaron in the Bible, both being versed in Egyptian magick.
The teacher who taught Moses magick was ‘Al Khidr’ – the Green One – a mystic not named in the Quran but described at 18:65-82 as a servant of God who had been given knowledge. Charles is sympathetic to most faiths and knows of their combined value.
Sound: Magickal rituals use incantations and special words or ‘spells’. These are intended to resonate with the unseen the realms, drawing in helpful spirits (daemons) to complete a specific task.
Music in the holy (holey) resonating chambers of sacred buildings and ancient structures has a powerful effect on the energy centres of the human body or chakras. In this way, humans become more open to the spirit world, the elements of which will be invoked to enter and consecrate the ceremony taking place.
A powerful cathedral organ with it’s resonating pipes has a precise effect; resonating the chakras in those present so that they harmonise with each other and outwards using the tellurgic currents into the rest of the Kingdom. Vivat Rex! is an ancient spell shouted at full volume, heavenward during coronation ceremonies by priest, choir and congregation.
In Welsh, the word for horn (a resonating column of air) is corn and a crown is called a coron. The word ‘coronation’ derives from this same root and is found in ‘corona’ meaning crown and ‘heart’ as in coronary. One may intuit that the heart (with it’s four rhythmic sounding chambers) is being crowned as well as the head. Somewhere else in the reflection we see the circular chakras spinning with energy and de-light.
Symbols and Props: A ritual requires potent props to consecrate the performance of both magick and coronations. These include; a high altar, sacred containers such as chalices and cauldrons, a knife (athane) or sword, rods and wands, oils and scents, crystals of different colours, spells by magicians and incantations by priests. The list is longer but is enough to suffice what we need to know. The similarities are astounding; a throne in an ancient sacred space (altar), chrism oil ( a scented potion / ointment ) contained in an eagle (king of the birds) shaped container or Ampulla, swords, two rods or sceptres (wands as held by the solar king / priest / god Osiris) and an orb (sun) and crowns; all decorated with precious minerals (crystals containing energy and light).
Crook of Flail of Osiris – the Christian Bishops still use the Crook as a symbol
Coronations use the power of earth, air, fire, water and spirit, to summon the beneficence of personal daemons, spirits, angels, arch angels, gods and goddesses etc. All of these influences were intended to be discarded in the practices of the three major monotheistic religions, but ancient traditions are still present to an astonishingly high degree.
A coronation ritual is about ‘crowning’ and uniting male and female monarchs; the sun and the moon being powerful alchemical symbols of individual completeness, or ‘individuation’ as Carl G. Jung described the psychological process. The benign intention and effect is to spread peace, harmony and tolerance via royalty; bringing peoples of the world together. The Commonwealth of Nations was proudly respected by the late Queen Elisabeth II, long before ‘political correctness’ introduced respect and tolerance between cultures or ‘be shamed’.
So far we have compared and contrasted a ‘white magick’ ritual with religious a Coronation ceremony. The signifiers of benign sorcery in Westminster Abbey were the white haired queen wearing a long stately white dress and the king in a tunic and robes of gold. Royalty is respected historically because of it’s power, and in the present day, even though political power has been withdrawn from it, the royal family still commands great interest.
One description of royalty in the English language, is ‘blue blood’. This refers to the ‘blood line’ of monarchs but also perhaps, to a certain coldness for which some monarchs, like Henry the Eighth, were notorious. Cold blooded creatures are more reptilian in nature and there are many examples of royals displaying a certain coldness in their public and most private moments. When Diana died, there were oceans of flowers from the distraught public, but not a word from the family for days. There are many other examples such as the psychopath ‘Jack the Ripper’ allegedly a royal; was he Prince Eddie? The forensic evidence we imagine is still somewhere at the back of the royal refrigerator.
Scientifically we know it is not blood, but DNA which carries the eugenic codex of the social elites.
Diana Spencer was an ideal genetic match for the then, Prince Charles, to produce an heir to the throne. Once this task was accomplished, Diana’s life became a spiral of despair, as recorded in conversations with her spiritual therapist, Christine Fitzgerald. She predicted her death in a car accident three weeks before it came true. At the moment of her death, speculation began as to whether it was murder and who ordered it.
picture credit: BBC News
To dispel this unwanted conjecture, the UK police service investigated and published it’ s findings in the Paget Report. It considered the many methods, means and motives to allegedly murder the ‘Princess of Hearts’. The conclusion was that ‘there is nothing to see here; move on’, but without having read the report, the writer suspects it missed out one method; a black magick ritual assassination.
To assassinate a highly protected person or people, you unwrap them from their normal means of protection. The Air Force fighter jets had been sent on exercise hundreds of kilometres away, exactly when the Twin Towers were attacked in New York. President John Kennedy’s presidential bodyguard team were running beside the car following the president when he was shot. At the time of death of Princess Diana, the French VIP security teams of police cars front and back and four outriders flanking the principal had been offered but declined. The police radio’s had a black out for 20 minutes at the exact time of the car crash and the 17 CCTV cameras approaching and around the scene were ‘not working’. Inexplicably, the ambulance took one hour and forty minutes to carry her 4km to the waiting team of surgeons.
Other ‘coincidences’ around the death of Diana indicate a particularly sinister level of means and motive. Diana is the name of the Roman Moon Goddess worshipped by the Merovingian dynasty to which Princess Diana was related by blood (the so called 13th bloodline). There is an underground sacred chamber in Paris dating back to the Merovingian kings (c.500-751 AD). This is now the Pont de l’Alma in Paris, which became the underground place of the death of the Princess. Even in pre-Christian times the Pont de l’Alma was a Pagan sacrificial site.
If we compare the magickal elements seen in a coronation ritual described above, this is what we know about the same categories and satanic signs and symbols present at the death of Diana;
Place: A place of ancient rituals, including sacrifice, presently marked by a monument named La Flamme de la Liberté depicting fire next to water, directly over the underpass where Diana died. Some believe it was placed there by the Illuminati.
Time: After midnight known as ‘the witching hour’; 12:20 am. Note that ‘true midnight’ is a term used in Wicca for the the time which is half way between sunrise and sunset; meaning midnight varies.
The ancient feast of Diana is August 13th and Princess Diana died on August 31st ( satanic date reversal)Diana was married to Charles on 29th July 1981, just before the sacrificial ritual and feast of Lammas.
Light:
In darkness.
Words: A silence froze the police radio’s according to an amateur eve’s dropper as described in Simon Regan’s book Who Killed Diana? In which case, no timed recordings were made.
Princess Diana’s affectionately used name: Lady Di could not be more blatantly morbid, and to amplify this, her lover in the car with her was an eerie, synchronistic echo he hers and it’s meaning; Do-di.
Symbols: A black luxury car (as used in funerals), hitting the 13th central pillar (13th Bloodline) in a place that is the confluence of earth (the underpass) water (the river Seine) air ( natural ventilation ) fire (the flash of light seen by witnesses to blind the driver and the ‘liberty’ flame above).
Props: Were not used but removed, such as the CCTV cameras. Seat belts were not in use. Diana’s bodyguard has had ‘total amnesia’ since the incident. Intriguingly vital forensic evidence at the scene was speedily removed; just as it was at the scene of the 9/11, Twin Towers mass assassination.
Satanic rituals appear in the western myths and legends as ‘human sacrifice’; particularly young female royals. The magical element of these stories is that they were true when written and remain so; this despite being ‘myth’; which is taking to mean in modern times, ‘untrue’.
Merovingian monarchs practised magick and esoteric sciences and we should not be surprised that the social elite’s of today not only believe in but practise such beliefs. This is not only in secret but in plain sight, such as at meetings of the Bilderberg Group attended by ex-presidents and the like.
Co-incidently, Donald Trump is a ‘near-perfect reincarnation of an early medieval Germanic king. His personality and approach to governing almost exactly replicate the patterns and preferences of the men who ruled France from 481 until 752…’ according to Sara Lipton in an essay on Blarb.
The headline reports of Satanicly inspired events, appear openly in newspaper headlines and act as screaming heralds of ‘deeds most foul’ for the silent members of the social elites around the world.
Princess Diana was entombed on an island in a lake on the Spencer family estate, itself symbolic of the goddess Diana, as are the black swans imported there; occult symbols of death.
If references to Satanism in ‘Merry England’ seem ‘non-British’, you might wish to consider this; when the Romans came to Britain they brought their gods and built temples. They depicted their gods in flooring mosaics such as found at Bratton Seymour in the county of Somerset where is a Roman mosaic depicting the bust of the goddess Diana. We are reminded of this tradition in the ‘Cosmati’ mosaic in Westminster Abbey.
To come full circle we can understand the coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla, as a moment not only in modern history, but ancient history. The present heirs to the throne, Prince William and Princess Kate of Wales, carry the Merovingian DNA (at least on William’s side). The red haired ‘Harry’ has fled from some aspect of the Royal family that disturbed his mother so much.
Merovingian tradition says that the Pont de l’Alma was the place where their kings settled feuds by battle. Obscurely the winner would be the one killed because his soul would return to the Sirius star system where their believed was the throne of God. The other party would continue to live on this planet but he haunted and driven mad. This fate is awaited by the supposed opponent in Princess Diana’s dual; she being the moral victor of her battle with the forces of darkness that enveloped her.
Merovingian King Childeric II whose bloodlines attitude was “fate has made me heir to the entire country […] I can do to [my enemies] whatever I choose.”
The social elite’s continue to live openly (albeit apparently disconnectedly) in modern society and their lodges and secret societies of many hues and persuasions, supposedly hold the keys to the continued well being of mankind but act principally, for themselves.
The mechanisms of royalty are soaked in magickal lore and ‘Long live our noble Queen’, evidently worked as both an intention and spell, because she and her mother did enjoy wonderfully long lives.The people cry a new spell now of ‘God save the King!’, which creates a sonorous echo from deep underground and rises to the viewing galleries in Heaven. If you ever wondered what the King needs saving from, the above has been a partial description.
Magick is getting what you want by other means. Even a mobile phone is a form of modern magick because few understand the workings, only how to make it do tricks. Two hundred years ago, possession and public use of such a device would have had you locked up in the Tower of London, until you were forgotten.
from Tut-Ankh-Amun’s Alabaster Glass 1336-1327 BCE
Artificial Intelligence is something this and future generations are going to have to manage. But is intelligence the same as consciousness and if not, what’s the difference?
Anyone who has seen the body of a person who has died, will be aware of the extraordinary change in appearance of the person after consciousness leaves a body. It’s not something that can be described but similarities in nature when an animal dies, gives an impression.
Our problem is that consciousness remains hard for scientists and humanists to measure and describe. There are no instruments and ideas that enable measurements of consciousness to be made, except the ‘on / off ‘ switch.
The only area of human intelligence that approaches this problem in depth, is perhaps spirituality. Being spiritually aware is different to religions, where invisible gods and Gods have to be accepted as a matter of ‘faith’. Not much progress can be made beyond this dogmatic belief. But with spirituality there is a chance of increasing understanding of what is happening when we are ‘awake’ or ‘conscious’. In particular, how this might affect us in the future, if machines also become ‘conscious’?
Nothing is new in this world according to King Solomon, so let us consider how gods and God related to humans in the past. In the ancient Greek and Roman worship, statues of gods were of central importance. The statue of the goddess Athena in the Parthenon for instance, was built so that the spirit that is Athena could enter our physical reality.
“Athena” picture credit: Greek City Times
Spirits are disadvantaged in the physical world because they cannot be ‘anchored’. Human spirits, ergo consciousness, need an organic body to enter in order to be born and interact with physicality using the sense organs of the body. Goddesses such as Athena cannot do that but they can enter a static representation of their form. Roman citizens would have a shrine in one corner of a room where prayers could be offered to minor gods with whom that family has a connection. Moses was enraged by the Israelites who built a golden calf to worship, from which we can deduce that the Taurean statue was real and powerful.
To untangle these confusing ideas we need to try to understand ourselves. From a mystics point of view, consciousness has three levels. The normal human experience is simply being in the physical world in the way that a fish swims through the ocean. The first level beyond this perceptual awareness is becoming conscious as an objective observer. Using the fish analogy, the fish becomes aware of the water.
At the next level the objective observer becomes detached from the experiential phenomena and is aware of thoughts / spirit entities which are not oneself. This an extraordinary concept at first but actually every ‘ghost story’ is merely a description of such a change in consciousness by the observer; albeit momentary in most cases.
The third level is to study and gain an understanding of the thoughts / spirits that occupy those universes / dimensions, beyond and parallel to this physical one. There are many types and these are how the individual characteristics of the gods and goddesses of early pantheon’s came to be understood. Even across cultures, there stand out similarities in the characters of, for instance, Zeus in ancient Greece. With his mountain top palace and plentiful supply of thunder bolts, he was also known as Jupiter to the Romans and Thor in the Norse pantheon.
Modern psychiatrists would describe experiencing consciousness outside of oneself as ‘psychosis’ or ‘madness’, so there is a glass ceiling in this present culture that few pass through.
That way madness lies.
Madness in sentient beings maybe taboo but technology has no such boundaries. Technology can go as far into the abyss as it likes and so the atom bomb was built. Less obviously malevalent are those technologies that bring great benefits, hiding the harm humans can make them cause. An example is modern computers for which there appear to be no limits.
The early computers awakened some ethical thinkers which have fed the imaginations of early science fiction writers. For example, the film ‘2001 Space Odyssey’ explores the horror of a computer named ‘Hal’, taking over from and eliminating, the crew of it’s space ship. Giving a human name to a computer is significant, because it imagines the idea of a computer becoming conscious before does so. We do the same with our pet animals.
Shutting down ‘Hal’ the not-so-friendly and not so-small computer in 2001 Space Odyssey
Unlike in the film, powerful computers are now small enough to be placed into humanoid robots. Worryingly we have turned full circle from the static, stiff representations of the ‘gods’ or ‘spirit’ or ‘thought’ of the ancients and created agile and intelligent robots. These human shaped machines are far more appealing for spirit entities to get inside and take over. Genies are being squeezed back inside the lamp as in the ‘1001 Arabian Nights‘ stories.
‘Be careful what you wish for’ picture credit Arthur Rackham
Science fiction writers such as Isaac Asimov, thought through the ethics of conscious computers and produced three rules;
The first law is that a robot shall not harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm. The second law is that a robot shall obey any instruction given to it by a human, and the third law is that a robot shall avoid actions or situations that could cause it to come to harm itself.
It is simple for a computer to be intelligent. They can be programmed to beat human chess masters simply because they think through permutations quicker than humans. So ‘artificial intelligence’ is no more than a fast thinking human. It that is not ‘artificial consciousness’.
Isaac Asimov could see that humanoid robots with artificial brains might become conscious. He may not have understood the spiritual process described above, but he did see the possibility and he was right to jump this far ahead in time and possibility. He could see that conscious robots could miraculously (or sinisterly ) adopt ‘free will’ just like humans and this would enable ignore their ethical programming.
Humanoid Robots in ‘I Robot’ picture credit: Film Blitz
The ’cause no harm to humans’ ethic, was also built into the humanoid robots that feature in the science fiction film ‘I Robot‘ starring Will Smith. This film again explores the consequences of intelligent robots overriding their programming. In this case it was made by a ‘mad scientist’ but in reality it could just as easily happen by an evolutionary accident, the way that nature itself ‘steps up’ the functionality of creation. At one time there were no flowers on plants, then suddenly, millions of years ago, they arrived.
All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful, the lord God made them all.
It is important to understand that humans do not create consciousness. Rather it is alsways present within each individual and it’s influence operates through this tiny flame. Mystics for centuries have known that consciousness is not the ‘me’ within.
~~“The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.” Jallal-a-din Rumi Sufi mystic and poet.
It is not our personality ‘egos’ which are works of fiction. The only reality is the consciousness we share with all creatures great and small. This includes all of nature from the rocks to the clouds, as recorded by indigenous peoples such as the native Americans and Australians.
Consciousness is particularly attracted to humanoid forms and this was fearfully reconstructed in the story of Dr. Frankenstein monster by Mary Shelley in 1818.
Prophetic writers such as Shelley were only able to imagine what advanced technology could do, as did the ancient writers of the Prometheus myth; the man who stole from the gods at the price of eternal punishment.
Only now are we crossing the red lines that have previously prevented this technology; the sort of knowledge that can make agile humanoid forms carry weapons and mass kill humans in a modern form of eternal punishment.
Stephen Hawkins Picture Credit: US Sun
If we believe there is even a fraction of a chance that such robots may decide to override the ‘protect humans’ instruction, then should we not be concerned in the highest degree?
The high priests of the modern era are no longer the prophets and saints of old; contained within a system of high morals and ethics. Instead our worship is lead by those who invent and explore technology, such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. They are not judged by their good characters and good intentions as historical leaders of humanity usually were.
These technology wizards, have become all powerful because they have become immensely wealthy. Their characters must be judged on their actions and words. Elon Musk has recently expressed his concern about where Artificial Intelligence training is leading mankind and has called for a global moratorium to consider it’s effects.
Key figures in artificial intelligence want training of powerful AI systems to be suspended amid fears of a threat to humanity. They have signed an open letter warning of potential risks, and say the race to develop AI systems is out of control.
An avid follower of the ‘language of the birds’ might have noticed that hEaVEn contains the name EVE. There is even an echo of Eve in EdEn.
This oddity is not necessarily meaningful or intentional, but that is not necessary. It’s just satisfying to think in an intuitive way, like the birds that flitter around us for no reason but give us messages; a process known as the language of the birds. There are things we do not hear and hear in the garden.
Hieronymus Bosch
Some feminist friends of mine express the view that mysogeny has it’s roots in the creation story in Genesis. ‘Why is it the woman who disobeys God and eats the apple?’ But to me, as a human being, the gender distinction is another example of how the dualistic mode of thought that started at this very point in time, has created confusion ever since. This dualistic perception is even hard wired into the words we use to describe opposites such as long and short, able and unable, peace and war.
In the Old Testament story about the Tower that was sinfully built in Babel, the consequence is God punishing mankind. This meant that humans no longer understand each other by using one language, but create confusion with multiple languages. If that story was about words then the story of Genesis is God’s punishment making us misunderstand our thought patterns.
And how we think must be far more important than how we speak. I have encountered foreigners who misunderstand me speaking in their language, not because my words were wrong but because they think in a different way. And thinking is not taught in schools. It is assumed children pick up good thinking skills, when there is no reason to assume they will.
Let us find a nice bench and sit for a while in the original Garden of Eden before humans came along. Enjoy a bit of peace. The Biblical creation myth is largely in agreement with the creation according to current earth science; minerals, plants, animals…until, kerpow – a human appears! This is the beginning of the end of a blissful life in the garden (Heaven) because Adam is one of half of what is to become two halves. The garden is singular, the lovers are plural. There are not several gardens all running along the Tigris and Euphrates but just one. This state represents the primal state of mind that spiritual paths aspire towards. For example, in Buddhism the principle ‘All is One’ contains everything anyone needs to know.
A Zen Garden
In Zen Buddhism the master asks the pupil, ‘what is the sound of one hand clapping?’ The question is nonsense and to correct this we might suppose that God had to create Eve, because you cannot have x without y.
The creation story is more a description of a fall into a highly confusing mode of thought which paradoxically is both ‘confusing’ and ‘enlightening’. Confusion and understanding are, after all, directly connected by a continuum you might call ‘knowledge’; they are different aspects of the same thing. But in dualistic thinking patterns we learn to differentiate and name, compare and contrast. There is always ‘this and that’, which is dualism.
In dual thought patterns adjectives are used only to describe the two extremes of the same thing. For example ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are highly relative situations and things and context and consequences can morph each into the other. And yet most people when asked, will say they prefer good to bad. Have they thought about that? The writings and lectures of the late Alan Watts, who studied Christian theology and Eastern philosophy, returns over and over again to the eastern understanding that there are no opposites, only continuities.
Alan Watts picture credit; Stillness Speaks
In applied mechanics, physicists will not fall into a dualistic mode of thought. They will not use the words ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ but only degrees of heat. A fridge is cold because it expels heat. It has no measurable relationship with cold because cold is just a place from where heat has been removed. The amount of heat is indeed a continuum, which we look at every time we view a thermometer, which measures heat – thermo – not cold.
picture credit: Researchgate
There is another well known symbol which illustrates the unity of ‘opposites’ which is the Chinese Ying Yang symbol. The two opposites of black and white, combine harmoniously in the diagram as two fish chasing each others tails. Most importantly each fish contains a little of the other, represented by a black or white eye.
We are told in Genesis that this dualism is a mode of thinking used by God;
‘and God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Light.’ Genesis 1.6
The whole process of ‘naming’ is formalised to describe a creation that was already there, and at the same time, becoming so.
The word of God (ergo ‘god-like’ mankind) is all-powerful, not just revealing but causing something to come into existence. This is the modern conundrum of quantum physics where the tree falls in a forest and the question is posed whether this event happens if there is no observer.
In magick this odd version of reality appears in the word, ABRACADABRA meaning; ‘I will create as I speak.’
The human body has a similar confluence contained in the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Each half has a different function; right is intuitive, left is reasoning. People tend to fall into a bias towards using a half particular to themselves, and we compound this dualism in schools and university degrees, as ‘science’ and ‘art’.
Few realise this is a most unhappy state of mind, or perhaps they do but do not know how to get out of it! When there have been individuals who have learned to use both sides of the brain equally and non-competitively, they bring very special ideas to humanity; so special we call them ‘geniuses’. Leonardo de Vinci, Michaealangelo, Albert Einstein are a few famous examples of the so called ‘renaissance mind’. Thinking back to the introduction to this essay, this is the ‘god-like’ ability imparted to human kind by the Creator.
Albert Einstein, for instance, is famous for realising energy and matter are not different but the same and completely interchangeable using the formula;
e=mc2
– where c is the speed of light – ‘let there be light and there was light’.
Very early Gnostic traditions did not allocate gender to the ‘God-head’ or ‘consciousness’ or ‘mind’ or however you wish to understand the creative consciousness that unraveled as the Universe. And we might add existed before and after creation since there is no ‘before’ and ‘after’ in non-dualism. (Scientists are only now coming around to the idea that the ‘big bang’ was an end as well as a beginning as described for millenniums in the Hindu Upanishads.)
The Ouroboros Tree
The never ending cosmic cycles and the unity of everything is represented in alchemical manuscripts as the snake forming a circle as it bites it’s own tail. Everything becomes a snake with no head and no tail. A snake is a continuum and of course this consciousness was prior to and initiated, dualistic thought and the contradictions that emanated as a consequence of adopting it.
Every time we spin a coin in the air and ask ‘heads or tails?’ we are a mind locked into the
‘either / or’ mode of thinking.
The key that opens this lock is the word ‘both’. You will often hear in interviews on the radio the journalist asking, ‘is it this or that?’ and the respondent answers, ‘both’. The question is a trap and people who know their subject (which they usually do if they are on national radio) have no problem with contradiction – or rather the illusion of a ‘contradiction’. They then go onto to describe all the aspects of the same problem including the two options contained in the question.
Those who do not understand this, fall into the elephant trap of ‘left politics’ or ‘right politics’ and are unwilling ever to change their bias. In medieval terms ‘they are in Hell’ because they will never understand the totality of what is going on and therefore how to influence affairs and events for the better of all.
And we should remember that the snake in Genesis was coiled around ‘The Tree of Knowledge’. Eve explained to the snake that the tree in the center of the garden they were forbidden to eat from on pain of death.
‘And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye, shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.’ Genesis 3/4
From a purely objective point of view, the snake was right. This truly was the effect of eating the apple. The issue was that eating it was against the will of God. At that moment, it could be argued, Eve was unaware of why God had ordered this as she was in a state of ignorance of the ‘opposites’; she was in blissful ignorance, quite literally. So she can hardly be blamed for not conceiving that knowing good and evil is a liberating but problematic change in human consciousness. It brought god-like power to humans and if we look back at history; it really did.
Humans have used their creative imagination to take to pieces and put back again in new ways, everything we know. It has been a far from easy path as God points out in the following passages of Genesis.
‘Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken’.
No longer would grapes fall from the tree into the mouth but toil and hardship would be the lot of humans as punishment.
Joni Mitchell – picture credit; Reverbnation
There came a hippie moment in the 1960’s where ‘rules’ were at last questioned and even abandoned. At the legendary festival of Woodstock, there was a young singer;
We are stardust, we are golden. And we’ve got to get ourselves. Back to the garden. Joni Mitchell – from the song ‘Woodstock’.
Fortunately, getting back to the garden is not impossible. Like all paths this particular human history of which we are all so proud, will lead us back to the beginning again. All directions are the correct directions to take, all mistakes are ultimately correct. If and when we stop dissecting everything, including our own thoughts, we will discover the original state of bliss, second time around.
Serpent worship in some form has permeated nearly all parts of the earth.
Manly P. Hall
The 20th century author and mystic, Manly P. Hall then cites these examples of ‘serpent worship’ in his best known book, ‘The Secret Teachings of All Ages’.
Serpent mounds of the American Indians
Python; the great snake of the Greeks
Druids; sacred serpents
Scandinavia; Midgard snake
Burma Siam Cambodia; Nagas
Jews; brazen serpent
Orpheus; mystic serpent
Greek; snakes at the Oracle of Delphi
Egyptian Temples; sacred snakes, Uraeus coiled on foreheads of Pharaohs and priests
But clearly, from this general idea, there is plenty of detail to fill in. For ‘worship’ and ‘the use of symbols to express something greater than words’, are very different things. None of above list, in my view, are examples of worship of snakes as minor or major deities. They function rather as ‘tools’ for expression of energy and ‘symbols’ of natural law in some way.
Perhaps if we examine the snake as a symbol first, it will help us understand the root and branch of what universal and cultural expressions are being made.
The snake is of course a reptile and different from the mammalian kingdom by laying eggs and having cold blood. We know that reptiles are one of the earliest forms of life and are quite distinct from homo sapiens sapiens. However there is a ‘reptilian’ part of our brains that organises our most basic instincts and therefore we are not so far apart.
The snake moves in a most compelling way that even today makes human jump out of their way instinctively. Most snakes are poisonous and this memory is both in our bodies and our minds.
We should not be surprised that this poisonous aspect of snakes gives them power beyond their size, in fact the smaller snakes are often the most dangerous to humans. Alternatively the snakes that outsize humans several times are able to coil their bodies around us and crush us to death.
We should expect them therefore to be associated with ‘evil’ in our minds.
In addition the shape of snakes and how they move is fascinating to watch. They move on land and water as a ‘standing wave’, the tail taking exactly the same path as the rest of the body and the head.
Waves express energy as static and active states. We watch alternating current on our instruments as a sine wave and are immediately reminded of a snakes powerful and scintillating shape. They appear to move without moving and like energy have an ‘invisibility’ about them.
On a grand scale we see snakes represented in the landscape as rivers curling through flat plains and underground as coiling springs rising to the surface or plunging into the ‘underworld’.
Most compelling of all is the way in which this ‘earth energy’ or ‘chi’, ‘ki’ or ‘prana’, is coiled at the base of the human spine. Through yogic practices (the path to union with the Divine) as described by Arthur Avalon in his classic book ‘Serpent Power‘, human beings can experience the uncoiling of this energy vertically through the chakras and nadis associated with the spinal column and it’s rampant tower of nerves.
When we have ‘spine tingling’ experiences through realisation or fear, we can feel this primal energy and experience being intensely alive.
Not only in these peak moments but also the every day health of the body depends on the balance and even flow of prana as expressed in our every breath. Becoming unwell may have many causes but the return to health involves re-balancing of the powerful creative and destructive processes of living beings.
When we watch waves building and crashing on a beach we are able to tune to this understanding of a most basic truth of nature. Life is given and taken away. The caduceus is a rod entwined by counter coiling serpents is a symbol of this used even today in medicine.
Perhaps the most intriguing and unspoken parts of the human body in which the serpent is expressed, is the male penis which is able to coil and stand erect like a cobra. In it’s standing moments it is able to literally express Prana in the life creating process as a most god-like creative experience of the human body. It literally creates the life of a new being and gives a surge of energy (experienced as ecstasy) so powerful that it enables a soul to be ‘kick started’ into this physical world.
The Ancient Egyptians depict the standing penis unselfconsciously in their wall paintings, but certain prudish visitors to these depictions chose to deface and remove them whenever they could! Perhaps they were influenced by the story in Genesis told in gilded form to wide eyed children.
The story of Old Testament the serpent in the Garden of Eden perpetuates the negative associations of the serpent as a symbol.
But the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat from it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2:17
And the argument of the serpent made to Eve giving her reason to disregard God’s command is clever (and reminds us of the ‘fake news’ of today!)
For God doth know that in the day that ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:5
Interestingly the first example we are given of knowing good and evil is Adam and Eve realising they are naked and feeling this as an ‘evil’ to be redressed by ‘doing good’. They make ‘aprons’ to cover their genitals – a tradition echoed in the Masonic symbols of modern times.
Certainly Adam’s ‘serpent’ is so banished as rapidly as is tried today to the ‘fake news’ distributor.
We might also interpret that this sacred ‘knowledge’ is both a curse and a blessing. For accompanying the descent of human beings from eternal life (Heaven) into the physical world (a garden), they do indeed acquire the awareness of duality represented by the two extremes ‘good’ and ‘evil’.
The dualistic form of thinking is a serpent with so many heads, humans cannot work out which one is real and we are turned to stone; made useless. This understanding is contained in the Greek myth of the goddess Medusa with her head made of serpents.
Psychologically we have descended from the bliss of ‘oneness with God’ to a psychotic state in which we cannot determine the difference between dream and reality, happiness and sadness, toil and rest, gain and loss, good and bad. Our lives are lived in this constant confusion created by a dualistic outlook; believing all things are polarised.
We have to look to the Eastern religions for the veil of this dualistic perception to be lifted. In Zen Buddhism they would only see the whole serpent, not it’s head or it’s tail or it’s body. The real world is a cosmic Unity; a place described as the original Garden of Eden or state of bliss.
Some alchemical gnostics in the West knew this truth and the symbol of the serpent swallowing it’s tail is the expression of this truth, as not told in the Bible.
The serpent’s tale is then one of great complexity throughout history, well beyond what Manly P. Hall describes as being an ‘object of worship’. It appears as a figure holding two serpents in the manner of a pair of scales, with as much regularity as any other. The scales represent objective judgment; the giving of balanced views and feelings which we call wisdom.
It tells us we are not necessarily ruled only by our heads and the compulsions that we imagine derive from our thoughts, but rather we are a function of the coiling energy paths and nexuses in our own bodies. These are neither right nor wrong, good nor bad, but merely the experience of being neither an unborn human being, nor a dead one.
There is a city plan used by the Romans which is a circle divided vertically and horizontally into four sections. The divisions form streets aligned to the four points of the compass.
The circular form aligned to the cardinal directions had been used by many other cultures before, most notable being the great Henge’s found around the world. Research into these has revealed their astronomical alignments predicted precisely the solar, lunar and stellar cycles. The motivation for understanding these cycles was to appease the instinctive and intuitive desire to be in harmony with nature. Ancient civilisations depended on the cycles of nature for their next meal and their most holy festivals.
There are four principle solar annual events; the equinoxes and solstices. Using the solar calendar the winter solstice occurs in December, the summer solstice in June, the spring equinox in March and the autumn equinox in September; on around 21st and 22nd days of these months.
These correspond with four sacred festivals that originate in ancient times and are celebrated to this day, even if they have morphed from their origins.
In the most simple way we can divide the six months from September to March as being ‘winter’ and the subsequent months as ‘summer’. There are six months of ‘darkness’ and six months of ‘light’ in the broadest of terms.
In the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, the goddess Aphrodite or Venus lived in the light or ‘Heaven’ and Persephone in darkness or ‘Hades’. Both were in love with Adonis and appealed to Zeus to decide how they could share him. His decree was that they should have him for six months of each year.
Aphrodite – picture Smithsonian Magazine
The figure of Adonis is in this way critical to understanding the importance of the movement of the seasons in ancient times. Nature lived and died quite literally, as did their harvests, from these forces. If the harvests failed, famine turned nature and cities into wastelands.
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain
The Wasteland – The Burial of the Dead – (opening lines) by T.S. Eliot
This uncertainty placed enormous importance for people to give proper respect to the ‘gods’ and nature through ritual worship.
Within the solar year are overlaid the twelve ‘moons’ or months within each solar cycle. The phases of the moon and sun combined were known then and to this day, to govern the process from seed to harvest. This is naturally between spring and autumn, the exact length of this season being determined by latitude. Nevertheless, the spring equinox is a date used today to fix the date of the festival of Easter. This is the Sunday after the first full moon after the 21st or 22nd March, proving the importance of the moon combined with the sun in their influence for humans and everything on earth.
We know this because of the plethora of ancient gods and goddess whose lifespans fitted into these celestial cycles. Because spring is the ‘rebirth’ of nature there are corresponding stories incorporating the ‘death and resurrection’ cycle. In the Christian calendar this is known as ‘Easter’ but it is known that that the goddess Astarte preceded this in the ancient Near East. Much later Ostara ( medieval Germanic) gave rise to the traditional Easter symbols of the moon gazing hare and eggs.
Ostara by Johannes Gehrts
What is less well known in our current times is the antithesis of this ‘spirit of new life’. There is a tradition of the deaths of various ancient gods and goddesses at this time; the goring of Adonis by a boar, Dionysus with the first leaves from grape vines, the rape of Persephone and the death of Hyacinthus. Each of these however is given a heavenly reprieve by a resurrection. Adonis was turned into a Myrtle tree, Persephone released from Hades for six months of the year and Hyacinthus turned into a spring flower, the Hyacinth by Apollo – the Solar deity.
Apollo and Hyacinth – picture Wikiart
It was natural therefore when the Roman Church fixed the date for the death and resurrection of the Christ Jesus, to choose the beginning of spring in the celestial manner described above. The church fathers did not need to know about the strong and balanced influence of the sun and full moon at this time of year, but relied upon the old method of supplanting old ways with a new religion using the previous festivals.
Adonis is an interesting mythological character as for many scholars his festival occurred in spring. In the city of Byblos (in modern Lebanon) where he was born and worshipped, the river ran red each year with the spring rains mixed with red earth. This fertility symbol and literal fertility for the fields, remind us of the menstrual cycle in women, bearer of eggs; nature’s cycle is the same as the human cycle.
And yet, according to Rudolph Steiner in his lecture on Easter*, the ‘Festival of Adonis’ was celebrated at the time of the autumn equinox rather than spring.
(*available on You Tube)
Numerous ancient temples (the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt) and dolmens (New Grange, Ireland), are aligned to allow the solstice rays of sun to penetrate an entrance passage into a womb like chamber and fill it with life giving light.
Abu Simbel solar solstice – picture La Vanguardia
Steiner describes the ‘Feast of Adonis’ as being conducted by women in pagan societies. They would sow seeds like cress, on a thin layer of soil in a broken pot shard. After tending them during the spring, the summer drought would kill the plants. After two days of ceremonial mourning, these were ceremonially processed on the third day to the sea or a nearby lake to be immersed as an ‘image’ of Adonis. Adonis is therefore a tragic god who is ‘born to die’ as much later was written into the story of the Christ Jesus. Further evidence is contained in Sir James Fraser’s prodigious work The Golden Bough (an anthropological study of Mediterranean religions) claiming the Jesus is a fertility god in the lineage of Adonis.
The Entrance Stone to the Garden Tomb – picture Inspiration Cruises and Tours
The references to dying processes taking three days, is described by Steiner as being a reference to an ancient understanding of the human dying process which also takes three days. The first day completes the death of the physical body, the second the ‘ether’ body and the third the ‘astral’ body. This is an theosophical categorisation similar to the ‘body, soul and spirit’ of the Hermeticists or ‘animal, vegetable and mineral’ of the Idealists. Either way, man and nature take three days for the process of dying or ‘transitioning’.
It is a fact that the dying sun the during winter solstice, stops moving on the horizon for three days, before the days lengthen again. The circular stone rolled over the tomb in which the body of Christ Jesus was moved after a similar number of days, referencing him to be a solar deity; a ‘sun of God’.
The true dates of the life of Christ are not stated in the Bible, although there are a few clues. If we are persuaded to imagine the nativity to take place in the winter, then there are suggestions that state otherwise. The first is that shepherds were out in the fields at night, indicating that they were ‘lambing’ – a season that all farmers know. A ‘census’ of people is unlikely to be held in the dark and cold winter months for practical reasons; the Romans were practical administrators. The ‘star in the east’ is likely to be Venus which is well known by agricultural communities, to rise in the early morning in the East in the spring.
Nastrium Egg – picture The Ornament Emporium
Finally, it is curious how men travelling east were following a star appearing in the east. It is probably, in my view, that this information is coded and the direction east indicates a time of year rather than direction of travel; after all, their direction of travel is not important information to progress the story and a good story teller would omit this. It is only included to complete the sub-narrative.
The east road of the city is of course corresponding to spring on the solar calendar and the time of year you would expect a ‘sun god’ to be born. So, whether the ‘Christ Mass’ is held in the winter, spring, summer or autumn is open to interpretation and would not be contradicted by the Bible.
What modern observers would do well to recognise is not the dogma but the symbolism of the Christian churches. The ‘mass’ is confidentially encouraging congregations to drink blood and eat human flesh on the solar day of the week whilst facing the rising sun.
For me, the symbols are only partly transcendent, as we feel in the energy of spring, while carrying more than a hint of the macabre death and the dying sun/son.
That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
poem: The Wasteland 1922 – The Burial of the Dead – T.S. Elliot
There is an intriguing eye test in which the subject looks at a cross and black dot spaced out on a sheet of paper. As the paper is drawn closer, whilst staring at the cross, the black dot disappears.
The explanation we know to be the ‘blind spot’ in the retina where the optic nerve enters and fans out. What is intriguing is that the brain is constantly filling in this ‘blind spot’ with information that we are not aware of.
It is the same with white ceilings. If there is a blemish or a stained patch, the brain will ‘see’ the ceiling as perfectly white. What we see is therefore, in some degree, doubtful.
Perhaps it will help us if we define ‘seeing’ and ‘looking’. Most of the time we ‘look’ without discernment. If however we focus our mind on what we are looking at, more information and understanding will become apparent. Artists learn to ‘see’ in order to render every aspect of the subject they are describing to an extraordinarily high degree.
The visual apparatus of humans can be trained, but we should also realise that what the brain does with the information is highly selective.
When two soccer teams play a match, the supporters identify with their own team. If there is an incident where the referee has to make a decision in favour of one side or the other, both sets of ‘witnesses’ i.e. supporters, will be highly biased towards their own side. They will talk about the incident and the injustice of the referee’s decision for weeks afterwards, based on their own biased view.
picture credit; The Nutmeg News
Witnesses in criminal cases are notoriously biased and the justice system has to record what they saw as objectively as possible. When two witnesses present differing versions of events, which is the truth?
In one extreme case when people on a bus witnessed an incident in Israel, the police used a hypnotist to access what they saw in extraordinary detail. Our brains retain most of what we see, it is just that we blank most of it out unconsciously. Hypnotism retrieves this information in an unbiased way, so that for instance, car registration plates will be remembered.
Unfortunately, we do not have hypnotists to solve our family arguments about who said what to whom and how long this has been going on. Neither do whole nations have access to truthful descriptions of what is going on in the world and dictators exploit this.
It is possible to create a narrative so extreme that it can even be used to start a war with a neighbour. Witnesses to events in the war, even professional reporters, are today regarded as suspect in their reporting because even the media can either intentionally or unintentionally, select the truth according to their editor’s wishes.
picture credit; World Press Freedom Index
Even the photographs and videos are no longer able to be trusted as software is available to alter them.
All of this happens in what we call ‘the physical world’ but of course what we see is not always physical. Take an audience watching a film in a cinema. They are certainly not watching anything ‘real’ in the conventional sense, but they will be completely transfixed by the narrative being played out before them. There may be some self awareness retained as the popcorn in handed around which is similar to the way hypnotised subjects experience what they are viewing, but their focus is mainly in a virtual reality.
Hypnotised subjects reveal much about the complexity of how visual information reaches the mind and how it is interpreted. There is one case referred to in Michael Talbot’s book The Holographic Universe, in which a man is hypnotised and told that his teenage daughter is invisible to him. She stands in front of him and much to the delight of the audience and his giggling daughter, he swears he cannot see her. Then the hypnotists takes out a unique watch and presses it against the back of the young lady. He asks the father details about the watch which he squintsat and reports correctly everything he is asked about the watch.
There is no explanation for this phenomenon, but clearly it shows us that what we see is far more extensive and complicated in it’s mechanics than the diagrams of the eye that we study at school, explain.
In a lifetime a person may experience visual ‘discontinuities’. These generally fall into the concept of ‘extra sensory perception’ such as seeing ghosts, spirits, poltergeist events, psychokinesis. Lorna Burne is a modern mystic who has written books about how she has seen and interacted with angels and archangels since she was a child. Her whole visual world includes angels and spirits which the ‘ordinary’ observer is completely unaware.
picture credit; Southerbys
Is it right to dismiss those with ‘second sight’ and their experiences or should society be more tolerant and inclusive towards people who in historical times would be regarded as either saints or witches?
Ironically, history has always taught us not to believe our eyes. The whole concept of an invisible God enables us to ‘look inward’ into our hearts and minds. A God who is never revealed is not open to be disproved or proved and yet, humans have sustained the experience of the ‘godhead’ across aeons and continents. The ancient Greeks experienced a world in which minor gods revealed themselves to mortals, and their stories, artefacts and architecture give vivid and consistent accounts of each and their powers to help or obstruct human endeavour.
The Ancient Greeks also believed in the idea that the eye ‘sees’ by projecting energy at the subject in the manner of a torch in a darkened room. Mind was an integral part of the process of seeing to the extent that the observed physical world is capable of being created by the observer.
Quantum physics has rested it’s gaze on exactly this probability; that the observer alters the events that take place right before our eyes. It supports the ‘idealistic’ philosophy in which mind has control of the material Universe. We understand that the Creator or Mind initially created the Universe by thought alone. Now scientists can step down through the different scales in which energy and matter perform their visual effects, and conclude that they personally are part of the experiment.
It is intriguing therefore as ordinary people, to become more sceptical about the ‘reality’ of our world of physicality and factor in our dreams, memories, intentions, ideals, beliefs, expectations, preconceptions in an attempt to grasp the slippery fish we call our world.
At this time of year on this particular blending of day and night, the troubles and terrors of other worlds come by.
At the crossing point of summer and winter there is a bridge that we all have to cross, like it or not.
Traditionally, Halloween or All Hallows Eve is celebrated, if that is the right word, all over the world, each in their own way for different reason and sometimes, the same.
The spirit worlds are occupied by all kinds of colourful folk and the nearest and perhaps dearest are the departed. If you wish to say one last thing to a recently departed loved one, now is the time to say it. For the two worlds are separated by little more than a thin curtain at this particular time and we can whisper what we wish to those we cared for.
Apart from these dearly departed there are other spirits. Some on the wild side have never left the pull of the earth’s gravity, wishing instead to experience life’s promised pleasures – even from a tantalising distance. The great show of human kind must be fascinating to watch from above, below and sideways. If you wish to demonstrate a tantrum of feelings and send down a little abuse to those who cannot usually see or hear your footfalls, then tonight is the night.
Evil of a greater kind is naturally also present and not so far off as many ‘good folk’ would wish. It bends a curled line of finger tips through the intervening space and grabs unlucky souls from behind, twisting their lives in directions no sane person expected. Whether it is a war or a car crash or a boat disaster of the clashing of people in normally loving families, the great long bearded shadow comes down harder than people fall.
And all of this has become Walt Disneyised. While Celtic folk are keeping their doors closed for the passing of Samhain and the Witches Sabbath, curiously dressed children wander in the streets knocking on doors. The inhabitants are invited to give them fear or favour, in the expectation that nothing could possibly go wrong, and usually, thankfully, it does not.
But you have to ask, what do these children think they are doing? And the older ones who arrive in each others houses for a ‘party’ dressed as ghouls and fools and everything in between.
As if the spirit world and the horror of it’s separation that we call death, is entertainment. In a society where everything is ‘rock solid’ and ‘safe as houses’, materialism blinds the sixth sighted ( as we all are ) from the more gaseous reality of our forefathers and fore mothers. Perhaps they believe the energetic world of the disembodied was jno more than ‘once upon a time’. Despite the ‘Faerie Stories’ of childhood when distant memories of ancient archetypes are explained to the very young ( at their repeated insistence ), despite this grounding in the aerial worlds, they have forgotten or lost the ability to believe.
Like Wendy and Peter Pan, you only have to believe, to fly and live for all eternity. But instead we settle for rattling the bones of the unloved and invisible from the comfort of living rooms and television screams.
In my humble view we should tread carefully on graves and respect what we do not know and would not wish to know if we knew. Horror is not just the jingling of the vertebrae of the spine. It is as real now as it ever was, in fact more so, for the skin of the world is unpeeling before our eyes. Like lava pouring from the cauldron of La Palma and climate change, we risk being overwhelmed by what we summon up through ignorance.
LEAR 270Howl, howl, howl, howl! Oh, you are men of stones. Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so That heaven’s vault should crack. She’s gone forever. I know when one is dead and when one lives. She’s dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass. If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then, she lives.
In Part One of this trilogy entitled ‘Ancient Light’, I have described the curious electrostatic qualities of many ancient monolithic structures. They appear to be designed principally to concentrate weight upon piezoelectric rocks. This produces subtle effects that can be sensed by the human body and mind, even to the present day.
I have also examined the unique design of the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Cheops as an example of use of this same principle. The highly selective construction techniques suggest that static electricity was intentionally generated, stored and exploited in the pyramid. The Arc of the Covenant operates as a capacitor potentially discharging static electricity as an ‘arc light’ and even lightning from the pyramid’s peak.
In this final section I shall describe the ancient knowledge of the production of monatomic gold shared (and possibly inherited) with the Mesopotamian civilisations.
There are depictions of gold mined by humans for the Anunnaki ruling Mesopotamia in ancient times. Humans were possibly created as a slave race mining gold for their rulers. Even as far away as South Africa, Zulu legends speak of a time when “visitors of the stars” came to dig gold and other natural resources.
For more insight into the mystery of the ancient gold mining across Earth the work of Michael Tellinger is the authority on the subject.
Interestingly there is little in the Mesopotamian drawings to suggest a use for their gold. What there is however is a remarkably common theme in visual representations of two ‘demi-gods’ standing either side of ‘the tree of life’ holding a bag and cone shaped object.
When examined closely the ‘cones’ appear to be made of many spherical objects which have been formed together into the shape of a cone. It is always held at mouth level as if in the gesture to eat. It is surely no coincidence that this same image appears in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Akhenaten Offering / Honouring Bread to the Sun god Ra and the life giving ‘solar energy*’ symbolised by the Ankh at the end of the ray.
The best line of investigation that allows modern readers to penetrate this mystery, comes from a renowned Egyptologist Sir Francis Petrie of University College London. He produced a report for his sponsors on a trip he made in 1904 to Mount Horeb in the Sinai Peninsula.
The full story is described in detail by Sir Laurence Gardener in the excellent video below;
Gardener describes Petrie’s discovery of an ‘alchemical laboratory’ in an Egyptian Temple on Mount Horeb ( later Mt. Sinai), dedicated to the goddess Hathor. Within the temple store rooms, is found 50 tons of a mysterious white powder, conical stones, metallurgists crucibles, tanks and basins. Much of the design stylisation on these and other objects is Mesopotamian. Inscriptions mysteriously refer to ‘Mfkzt’ (pronounced Muf Khut)’ and ‘bread’ and ‘light’.
Petrie decided that the use of this laboratory went back to the very first Ancient Egyptian Dynasty and continued in production until the final 18th Dynasty. Laurence Gardener describes the story of the flight of Moses and the Israelites. Moses famously went up Mt. Horeb (or Mt Sinai, as it was later called) where there was seen fire and smoke at night. We are told that this came from an Alchemical Laboratory where Moses would have observed the transmutation of gold into a powder. Exodus describes how Moses burnt the golden calf in the fire and ‘ground it to a powder’.
We should be aware that Moses was trained as a priest by the Egyptians. His great grandfather was Thutmoses 3rd, who reorganised the ancient mystery schools of Thoth and founded the ‘School of Master Craftsmen’ at Karnak. They were called ‘The Great White Brotherhood’ because of their preoccupation with a mysterious white powder.
Hathor picture credit Worldhistory.org
In the tradition of the goddess Hathor, a cow and a nursing goddess, came the ‘powdered milk that;
‘…gave the Pharaohs their divinity’.
It is no secret today that gold can be transmuted into a white powder in a furnace and this powder confers good and longevity, (common to Royal families even to this day!). It is called ‘monatomic gold’ or ‘ormus’ and can be even purchased on E-bay!
‘There is nothing new under the sun’ – King Solomon
Is it possible that in large quantities over long periods of time, this powder may alter human consciousness to a higher ‘god-like’ level? Clearly the Mesopotamians and Ancient Egyptians thought so, to the extent that they must have processed large amounts of precious gold to deify the Pharaoh. After all, the role of the Pharaoh was to be both man and a god, and achieving this status whilst living, was his or her aim.
Just to explore the Old Testament, Moses story a little more, there is the narrative of ‘Mana’ appearing on the ground like dew ‘from Heaven’. This mana could be made into cakes and consumed and appeared when the Israelites had run out of food. Can we conjecture that this substance was also powdered gold placed there overnight by priests for the people, until we consider a clue from Mesopotamia. Here the name for powdered gold was Shemana and it is more than tempting to take this as being identical to Mana.
There is a discrepancy in appearance – or perhaps it appeared in two forms. The ‘mana from heaven’ described in Exodus as feeding the Israelites, is described as being ‘like a coriander seed in size and shape’. This appearance resembles the ‘seeds’ that make up the cone shapes in Mesopotamian reliefs.
Corriander Seed – picture credit Wiki
And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me always’
Exodus 25:30
This extract from Exodus show us firstly how important ‘shewbread’ (or white powder cakes) was. The cone shaped stones found by Petrie in the Temple of Hathor on Mt Horeb, may well have been moulds with which to make cone shaped vessels to hold or mould the shewbread.
Laurence Gardener tells us that the 4th Dynasty was the era of the pyramid building where Hathor is always depicted with representations of the Pharaoh. We can imagine a society in which the workers drank beer, the middle classes and aristocrats used a narcotic derived from the blue water lily and Pharoahs ate Monatomic gold.
With the Ark present in the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid, I have described in part two how high voltages and plasma could have been generated between the wing tips of the Cherubim. Such a high temperature might have been used as a furnace to turn gold into the precious white powder but I do not believe there is any evidence for this. Such a process would have produced smoke and waste materials and the interior of the King’s Chamber is remarkable for being clean.
The alchemical creation of white powder was in furnaces in the Temples, not in the pyramids, in my view. But there is another cleaner method for producing monatomic gold, which could have been one of the functions of the pyramids.
As a clue, one of the contents of the Ark of the Covenant, as well as the tablets on which the commandments were inscribed, was some Mana. According to the Book of the Epistles, this was possibly held in a pot made of gold.
Modern pyramid experimenters have found many extraordinary characteristics even in scale models of pyramids. Modern experimenters Mary and Dean Hardy of Allegan, Michigan took a gold coin and hung it at the King’s Chamber level of a Great Pyramid model. After some time the gold coin got a clear “oil” on it and the gold was etched away under the drops of oil. This oil can be reduced to the white powder known as Orm or Monatomic Gold.
From my own personal experience I once worked for an architect in Australia who described himself as a ‘modern alchemist’ and had a laboratory over our work place that he regrettably never showed me. I remember him telling me however, that it was possible to produce oils from metals, a fact that struck me at the time, as worth remembering.
An unlikely scientist in this story is Sir Isaac Newton. He was an alchemist for the second part of this life and deeply interested in the Bible and the pyramids. The following extract is from a recent sale of some manuscript belonging to the great scientist.
“He was trying to find proof for his theory of gravitation, but in addition the ancient Egyptians were thought to have held the secrets of alchemy that have since been lost. Today, these seem disparate areas of study – but they didn’t seem that way to Newton in the 17th century,” Gabriel Heaton, Sotheby’s manuscript specialist, told The Guardian.
The traditional quest of alchemists is that they tried to turn ‘lead into gold’. Such a ‘story’ in my view, is yet another example of a ‘red herring’ to hide the truth. The transmutation of gold using a ‘secret fire’, is the true ‘secret of alchemy’. Chemists such as Nicolas Flamel called the Shemana, Mana, white powder, Ormus – the Philosophers’ Stone.
Oil of Gold – picture credit Kymiaarts.com
The ‘secret fire’ may not be actual fire but the concentrated energy within the pyramid at the location of it’s inner chambers, where gold transmutes by the action of invisible fire or ‘energy’.
The findings and analysis of his ‘white powder’ by Sir Flanders Petrie where never published. This may have been because it contradicts some elements of the Old Testament. It may also be that the knowledge of the philosophers stone and it’s effects was desired to remain secret by those in powerful positions who already knew about it…such as the Freemasons and other Societies in possession of and trusted with guardianship of ancient secrets.
There is a twist in the story, because the white powder has been analysed in modern times by the physicist Andrei Sarhakov. He describes it as ‘exotic matter’ because one of it’s characteristics was that it weighed less than nothing! In other words it was not affected by gravity. It’s ability to levitate itself could be transferred when placed on other matter.
These gravitational effects remind us of the interest that Sir Isaac Newton took in developing a theory of gravity that has advanced civilisation to this day! Was he also exploring the possibility of ‘anti-gravity’?
Even more extraordinary is that Sarhakov found Orm could move into another dimension if we want it to, a concept familiar to Quantum physicists and modern mystics, but which the general public find hard to comprehend.
Interdimensional Travel – not new to mystics and of greater benefit than physcial space travel…
This three part story is one with many ‘loose ends’ as a pessimist would describe them or ‘exciting paths to explore’ for optimists. If we accept the possibility of knowledge, nay enlightenment, in the ancient past that is but a memory today, the narrative becomes just slightly easier to tie together.
The great unknown remains the ‘energy’ associated with the monoliths and large buildings from our past. We know that these buildings are found all over the world and were inspired by known effects on human consciousness . All of this was enhanced to a superlative level by the ingestion as ‘bread’ of a mysterious white substance which today is called monatomic gold.
I conclude with a quotation from the rear cover of John Michell’s classic book;
‘The View Over Atlantis’;
*’The entire surface of the earth is marked with traces of a gigantic work of prehistoric engineering, the remains of a once universal system of natural magic, involving the use of a polar magnetism together with another positive force related to solar energy’.
There remains a great mystery about this energy known as ‘Chi’ and many other names. What we can be sure of, is that there is no smoke without, fire.
My personal interpretation of the flood-myth story departs from the account in the Old Testament of the Bible. I take issue with the simplistic account of wild animals compliantly lining up in pairs. We are told that the majority (seven of each) of the animals were domesticated, not wild and selected as food for Noah and his tribe. Therefore, I suggests that the only live animals taken onboard the ark were domesticated. Could it not have been that a considerable amount of work had gone into transforming wild species into domesticated varieties?
There was a strong motive to harness the power of a giant Aurochs in a ‘lite’ version which we now know in bovine form as bulls and cows.
picture credit Wikipaedia An Auroch
Animals supported the burgeoning transition into settlements and farming. There is evidence from the excavations at Gobleki Teke in Anatolia that the monolithic structures there were created by agricultural communities 5000 years before the ‘official’ date. Nobody knows who these communities were but the appearance of the Mullilu ‘bags’ carved onto one stone, suggests an intriguing link with the Annunaki.
picture credit: Wikipeadia – Goblekli Tepe in Anatolia Turkey – the so called Vulture Stone
So we should not be surprised when we see mummified pussy cats in Ancient Egypt. Domestication of big cats to, presumably rid grain stores of vermin, lead to the creation of the domesticated feline. She was even elevated to the position of ‘god’ and many statues of her exist, as do mummified cats in such numbers their bodies were once burnt for heating.
The final step in this theory and certainly the most disturbing and controversial is that homo sapiens are ourselves domesticated animals, not for food but also as genetically engineered ‘gods’. Animals so beautifully perfect in their form that cosmic consciousness felt free to enter and inhabit human bodies as ‘soul’.
Let us return to the animals being selected to be preserved in the Arc. Should we take at face value the account in the Bible?
The reference to the animals going into the arc ‘two by two’ is a conspicuous detail. Why state this? Why not explain what happened to the plant, reptile, bird and insect kingdoms? And there is surely a fascinating tale to tell about the animals that did not survive, such as Unicorns.
The omissions are glaring, including the assumption that Noah and his family were the only humans at that time to own a boat. Many other races survived to tell the tale, one on similar lines as Noah only perhaps with smaller boats and their own food banks; we have their stories so no proof is needed on that point.
With reference to the Biblical version, we might ask why the precise dimensions of the ship were worth recording. If there is any detail we require it is its means of propulsion, navigation and anchoring. If we are examine the credibility of the Arc’s uncontrolled travels on a tempestuous ocean, it is hard to take it literally.
A boat, loaded with wild carnivorous animals, was always going to be an impossibility. How do you stop the animals eating each other like they do in nature? A powerless and rudderless ship was more likely to hit a mountain top and sink, than preserve life with a big L.
Picture credit: Pinterest King Solomon’s First Temple with the Molten Sea supported by animals in the foreground
Was the Arc really a ship? Since the proportions of the Arc in the Bible are given as a cubic rectangular shape, I personally think it more likely it was a giant building. The dimensions of the Arc are exactly proportional to the First Temple of Jerusalem, which of course, was a building. Not only that but there is a truth in the creation of similar geometric forms at different scales, what we call today, fractals. The proportions demonstrate a complete understand of the Divine mathematics that governs all Creation. Perfect mathematical proportions are beauty and beauty is Divine.
So perhaps the Arc was a beautiful and functional building. Perched on a mountain top it would have had a far better chance of surviving. There might even have been several such buildings scattered around the globe around the world erected by different cultures and described, we know, in their own myths. After all, there was no real rush. To flood the world would have taken several hundreds if not thousands of years.
What we are missing in the Bible is an overview. Perhaps it has been over redacted over time, but certainly the Annunaki put a lot of effort into fine tuning a wobbling world so that it could emerge from catastrophe completely cleansed of impurity.
An Annunaki with Tree of Life in background
When we look at the records of how the Annunaki Sumerian gods are repeatedly depicted in pictures, they are standing either side of a flowering tree, a ‘tree of life’. This firstly gives us an idea of a ‘family tree’ with it’s various branches – genetic connections – as in ‘royal family’. The ‘blue blood’ of the modern royals might well be a linguistic remnant of the reptilian DNA in humans.
The pictures are intriguing. In one hand the ‘god’ or ‘demi-god’ is holding one of those bags already mentioned, and in the other, something resembling a fir cone. The bracelet contains a clue; an eleven petalled flower and a central ovary, one for each month of the solar year.
Pine cones are counter clockwise spiral forms that obey the arithmetical, Fibonacci growth patterns. They hint, symbolically, of the process of genetic engineering and or horticultural hybridisation. The seeds of a pine cone are fractals of a tree in nascence, and seeds is where this hypothesis goes next.
There are very few contemporary descriptions of what the ‘fir cone’ and ‘bag’ represent. However there is one translation from the Acadian language which uses the word, BANDUDDU or ‘Turkish Pine Cone’. The bag is a MULLILU or ‘purifier’. If we accept that the Sumerian gods were active in global DNA management, part of that process would be to eradicate unwanted elements of DNA, or as it is known today, ‘gene editing’. It was vital that disease and inferior life was eradicated or ‘purified’, for future generations, whether prior to a catastrophe or in micro-management of earth’s delicate ecosystems. At another level it was vital that humans became able to access ever increasing levels of consciousness.
picture credit: Wakehurst Place, Sussex, the Millenium Seed Bank
The subject of genes returns us to this ‘two by two’ anachronistic detail. It is an interestingly similar mathematical picture of the double helix of mitochondrial DNA. Could Noah’s Arc have been a bank of DNA? Does the Mullilu contain genetically altered / improved pollen to fertilise the tree of life? Small bags, even today, usually contain light, high value items. (One of the strategy’s adopted by the scientists today in order to preserve life in the event of a global catastrophe is to create seed banks.)
Should we be surprised that DNA codes are binary and there are two sets of two letters to describe them; A and C = 0 / G and T = 1. As we know, 0 and 1 is the binary language of computers. This code and it’s most recent ‘quantum’ addition (neither 0 nor 1) is now understood by many scientists to be how not only life forms are described, but the whole fractal universe. This is why beings from infinitely large distances away can come to our small planet and know the deep structures, or programming, of our three dimensional existence. It’s the same everywhere in the binary code Universe…two by two.
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