One of many historical Seven Wonders of the World is reported (a few years in spite of everything however the Nice Pyramid had vanished) to be the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. This nice goddess has what many archaeologists and historians have interpreted to be almost a thousand breasts on her physique. It’s being commented on on this very method as I sort this. The Discovery Channel is interviewing an esteemed Cambridge scholar who appears to be like to know his phrases are as clever as Solomon. The stupidity of such absurd explanations shouldn’t be uncommon however nonetheless it attracts a smile from those that know higher.
Up to now few months I’ve learn over 2 hundred books in complete or partly and solely the authors of Carthage have an thought concerning the import of those ‘cosmic eggs’. In addition they surprise why the Berbers painted so many ostrich eggs after which threw them in rubbish pits, close to Cyrenaica. The Keltic serpent’s eggs from the Druidic schooling would possibly present somewhat perception. This subsequent quote mentions ‘Pelota’ which we talked about in reference to a sport that occurred at Chichen Itza to stop pointless tribal battle. It has different meanings and depths referring to life and the passage of the soul which are touched upon on this quote from ‘The Mistletoe Sacrament’ by W. B. Crow in ‘A Celtic Reader’ which has been a continuing supply of mine; for the final ten months as I’ve explored the origins of the ‘Crimson-Heads’ with an obsession some would possibly name mania:
The Druids themselves had been identified to the Welsh bards by a phrase meaning adders, and Lewis Spence is of the opinion that the ridiculous statements of Pliny actually confer with the style through which the Druids manufacture these eggs. Later bards additionally confer with a ceremony through which a ball was snatched and carried throughout the water.
The Druidic customized simply talked about, we can not assist considering, might have been the origin of the curious mediaeval ceremony of ‘pelota’, which occurred in sure Catholic church buildings in France and Italy on Easter Monday. The ceremony consisted in bringing a ball of appreciable dimension into the church and after solemnly presenting it earlier than the altar, sure of the clergy starting to bounce and throwing the ball about in a particular method {It will be good to know if this originated in Mayan lands or if the Druids like Quetzalcoatl and the Toltecs took it there. They’re the ‘messengers’ referred to in lots of Indian legends like these of Gray Owl.}. The ceremony symbolizes each the passage of the solar and the planets by the heavens and likewise the vicissitudes of the soul of man (the causal physique of the theosophists). In Egyptian mythology the trial of the soul after demise is related to the passage of the solar by the underworld. The whipping of a spinning high, representing Alleluia on the Saturday earlier than Septuagesima, a ceremony not unusual on this nation in former occasions, is expounded to this apply.
Madame Blavatsky has some attention-grabbing remarks on the reference to the serpent cult {A serpent goes up the aspect of the pyramid at Chichen Itza in particular methods because the solar and shadows create the impact that the constructing was re-built to create by the Toltec designers after the unique pyramid had been constructed by the Jaguar cult centuries earlier. Chichen Itza turned a global court docket of the entire of Central America if no more.}, which was at one time widespread and which continues to be broadly practiced in South India. The serpent is a logo of regeneration {And the orobouros of the alchemists is a serpent holding its tail and making the infinity sort of immortality image: or the Mayan mathematical idea of zero they’re credited with discovering over a century earlier than the individuals of the sub-continent of India.). Not solely does it lay eggs from which new life arises after having been preserved within the dormant state, however the reptile itself sloughs its pores and skin at common intervals. The provoke, within the historical thriller religions, went by sure occult processes the place his automobiles {Photo voltaic physique, soul, allies and ‘doppelganger’ to call a number of.} had been really renewed, and within the symbolism thereof solid off his outdated clothes and was clad in new vestures. What higher symbolism than the serpent may very well be chosen to signify this transformation within the persona? Apart from this, the regeneration by sloughing refers back to the regeneration of the bodily physique by reincarnation and the regeneration of races and worlds of the theosophic cosmogony.
Some primitive peoples, after a demise has occurred, carry out a ritual through which the performers are divided into two teams and a battle for the physique takes place between the events. This refers back to the battle between the powers of sunshine and darkness for the spirit o£ the deceased, an eschatological delusion of many historical peoples. In the middle of the evolution of this ritual it turned a sport through which the cranium alone was the article of fight or needed to be kicked into the objective. The assorted types of the sport of soccer and polo, and maybe different ball video games, are presupposed to have originated from this, the unique non secular significance having turn into misplaced. The Druidic ritual of snatching an egg and operating away till one bought over a stream (which acts because the objective) suggests an identical sport and connects up with funeral video games. The egg or ball is a wonderful image of the causal physique, if one can imagine clairvoyants, who see it as a form of rounded or egg-shaped construction, in superb matter {Just like ectoplasm as seen in ghosts.} of the upper psychological {I might positively NOT use this phrase.} aircraft. After demise, in keeping with accounts of occultists, there’s a form of play of forces, good and evil, which do appear to battle for the possession of the causal physique and to find out whether or not it goes to or unhealthy incarnation when subsequent it descends to dress itself with coarser matter.
The Druid’s egg, says Pliny, was unknown to the Greeks {They definitely knew concerning the Temple of Artemis with all of the eggs some present Cambridge scholar thinks is breasts, and Pliny the Roman shouldn’t be an provoke within the Eleusinian or Cabiri, mysteries, to my information.}. However other forms of eggs are talked about in Greek and Hindu mythology, and the consecration of an egg was some of the vital acts within the secret ritual of the Eleusinian mysteries. The Christian Church continued using the identical image, as we see within the so-called Easter eggs, and within the ostrich eggs that are nonetheless to be seen hanging in Orthodox Catholic Church buildings within the East. In truth an entire lecture is likely to be dedicated to the symbolism of the cosmic egg.”
We should delve into many issues this quote engages. In some methods I’m squeamish about doing so on this guide. I’ve written about my experiences and analysis on the stele I discovered behind the Pelota at Chichen Itza in different books and that makes re-telling the story one thing redundant. The matter of excellent and evil and ‘Some primitive peoples’ this creator is speaking about is most troublesome. How can I do what tens of millions of philosophers all through historical past have been unable to completely clarify? It’s clear that the Christian church borrowed nearly all of the supposedly pagan rituals. The communion is admitted by de Vere and Gardner (Genesis of the Grail Kings and the Sarkeny Rend Rosicrucians) to be just like their earlier adept Rely Dracul or ‘Vlad the Impaler’ and the vampire practices. My expertise with exorcisms is in depth sufficient to know that the Catholic Church takes benefit of some fairly simple conditions and makes them an enormous situation for the aim of self-promotion. I like to recommend studying The Devils of Loudon by Aldous Huxley for a documentary journey down that highway. The matter of the struggle over the soul that appears like a few of Dante Aligheri’s “HELL” shouldn’t be the matter of Druidic cosmogony. It’s the tactic of FEAR-mongering by Christianity such because the ‘sins and demons’ we touched upon within the situation of medical illnesses and Paracelsus.
Mr. Sharkey spoke about ‘representing every world inside the different’, as he described the Druids. There was a guided non secular ritual half to a few of what went on on the Pelota in Chichen Itza with the large ball, that goes into the realm of the time-space continuum, and free alternative that college students of the Nagual’s Approach from Castaneda would possibly perceive that I will not delve into, once more. Are there actually ‘Different Worlds’ because the quantum physics ‘Many Worlds Interpretation’ assures us and Wigner or Schrödinger (Nobel Laureates) say the Mandukya Upanishads describe precisely? Have you ever learn the Tao of Physics by the physicist Fritjof Capra and seen what he says about S-Matrix concept of Math and the ‘I Ching’? Consider me this creator (Mr. Crow) may need to show right into a raven if his ‘complete lecture’ would do the trick in explaining the cosmic egg.
We have now made it clear the Kelts believed within the afterlife and spirit world or they would not have made loans to be repaid after demise. We have now mentioned they did not worry demise and that that they had no punitive ‘unmerciful God. However there are leprechauns and the Fianna of the nice historical Irish king Finn who the Phoenicians appreciated and named themselves after. So we’re caught on this quandary of creating seeming conflicting statements come collectively. We mentioned the spirits would possibly take a toddler or their vitality if the dad or mum let the spirits know the kid’s identify. That does not sound just like the work of a leprechaun! You might have heard about ‘witches’ and we have been defending them, too. You most likely surprise if this is not all ‘hocus-pocus’ and barbaric issues anyway.
There are good folks that I do know who deny and keep away from these details like they’re ‘THE PLAGUE’! It is not going to make your life simpler while you open these doorways and see the 1000’s extra that await you past. Occultists are sometimes ‘sophists’ or will have interaction in sophistry too. Who can say what issues God is likely to be able to? Who actually believes in such a power anyway? Most individuals pay lip-service to it. The Kelts we’ve mentioned (and Admiral Morison ridiculed) had been totally different. Clearly the Phoenicians demanded the best private dedication to their beliefs, at the least from their common individual or citizen. When their kings are seen having to offer their first born to the god Baal (Bel = BL) are they only babel-ing (BBL and later the Bible)? A few of these kings had been entrance males or girls and there may be ample proof they did this stuff, however that does not imply all of them did it. Carthage had a democratic sort of presidency in keeping with Aristotle and perhaps this was the cross kings needed to bear just like the Keltic apply of burning the chief on the finish of their time period in workplace (25 yr time period, and this made for much less fraud and ‘cronyism’). This could turn into fairly barbaric as we’ve seen with the ‘Devoted Ones’ but it surely turned a celebration and the forerunner of the ‘wake’. That appears proof sufficient that demise was not feared anyMORE than the North American warriors who ‘counted coup’ feared their ‘maker’. So what if all these cultural beliefs are shared throughout the oceans? What does it matter to you now in case you are ‘getting yours’? Why ‘open a can of worms if you cannot shut it’?
Possibly we must always depart this sort of speak to a different guide and simply level fingers on the church that hides these truths from us. Possibly our happiness and freedom are higher below their ministrations. If there are non secular forces that may mess with us. There’s loads of advantage in my considerations about this and there’s a regulation of the Magi that claims ‘Know, Will, Dare, Hold Silent’. We have already given loads of locations to search for the solutions to esoteric questions like these and it is likely to be greatest to maintain this guide on the tutorial stage of ethnology or anthropological denial of the explanations and realities that truly’, are the character of on a regular basis life. We might discuss legal guidelines and minstrels and make cute poems to amuse the reader and nonetheless have performed rather a lot to assist individuals see the tradition was no extra barbaric than we’re. Why did the Druids observe this regulation and hold a lot of their information in ‘verbal traditions’ such because the Qaballa was made out of? Have been they actually so afraid of this information being abused by unethical or un-disciplined ‘posers’? Did they actually assume their soul can be judged as unworthy of progress in the event that they broke this regulation? Absolutely if they might promote the information of shape-shifting and the ‘Misplaced Chord’ they might have made life rather a lot higher for lots of people.
The reality is they might have performed something or had something they wished on the level they rose to the very best stage. In truth the ethical energy to have such information is extra vital than the psychological or chemical information in reference to the ‘Stone’. I’m certain cash and energy is a pursuit that blinds individuals by their ego. This ‘blindness’ that closes the soul to ‘what’s’ or as Jesus mentioned ‘the residing father inside’, will stop any politico from getting their fingers on something actually dangerous you would possibly say. That is likely to be true, too. There have been some issues that they knew which may very well be abused although, and it was (and is) vital to do what’s RIGHT. That’s one other regulation of the three legal guidelines of the Magi. RIGHT THOUGHT=RIGHT ACTION!
He is dodging and waffling, you would possibly say. What concerning the issues this man mentioned concerning the battle over the soul after we die? What sort of authority do I’ve to disagree with occultists like Madame Blavatsky who heralded my favourite instructor Jiddhu Krishnamurti and helped Annie Besant educate him? Within the ultimate evaluation you would possibly say I am an individual partaking in ‘sophistry’ and ego too. We all know that nobody individual can actually know God or all this stuff so why learn what I’ve to say? For now I select to say that we’re going to cowl the faith of the Druids who had been the dominant power in 1000’s of years of human tradition in a later chapter. However I do not need the reader to assume the Druids or Kelts had been so ego pushed or fearful as to fret about spirits capturing their souls as soon as that they had grown sufficient to know their identify; in addition they had been ‘protected’ from the lesser obsessive forces of the limbo or interstitiary state of the spirit world which can possess a soul.
Sure, that they had loads of scary legends and tales about evil acts of mischievous and different forces. Generally these tales are just like the accounts of warfare on the friezes or frescoes of the Mayan, who wished individuals to know the stupidity of warfare. Generally there have been individuals who wanted this motivation to take the time to be taught sufficient to guard themself. In all instances so long as the Druids had been nonetheless round (earlier than the Roman ‘bounties’) that they had recourse to safety if one thing actually unhealthy occurred. On the similar time there was a better factor of ‘destiny’ and ‘future’ on this faith than I believe is actual. I can not say for certain that there have been individuals on the highest stage who knew higher the import of ‘free will’. I can not even be certain what diploma or stage of free will or ‘world thoughts’ existed of their collective unconscious (Jung). There are many Celts and folks from publish Druidic occasions who write about Druids as in the event that they know them. A few of these persons are positively ‘far gone’ in relation to the inevitability of the cyclical nature of the ‘forces’. The Etruscans are good examples of this and the Carthaginians who allied with them or had been their ‘brothers’ certainly had loads of that in them too. However that may be a time when the macho power-trippers had already made nice inroads into the unique nature-worshipping tradition, too.
The historians have little to go together with within the data of historical past. We frequently are left with the phrases of Caesar within the first century BC. to substantiate that there have been quite a few faculties of Druidry as the very best recorded perception to earlier occasions. In Gaul the very best information appears to return no additional than the fifth century BC. and ornamentation is the toughest proof. Gimbutas has the Outdated European alphabet that takes us again a great distance however many students aren’t satisfied as a result of they do not perceive the esoteric symbology. There are those that snort and level to Stonehenge or Carnac in Brittany, and naturally the Pyramid they know it is the work of the Crimson-Headed League of Megalith Builders. However they can not show a particular connection to the Druids. At the very least not within the eyes of those that set up the required requirements of proof within the halls of academia. They be aware that the time period ‘goddess-worship’ or Wicca might not even have existed till the 18th century. We are able to say the time period is not the purpose and the data of historians are propaganda.