It is an impressive fact that Nashville, Tennessee, my home, is the only city in the world that has reinterpretations of two mythic temples from antiquity. Both are among the finest in existence.

One temple is the “Queen of Heaven” Athena’s Parthenon ^{“Virgin-temple”, 438 B.C., Athens, Greece}

The other is a $55 million 2,200-foot long rod laid out and growing on 19 acres. By a masterstroke of synchronicity, it is patterned like the world axis, Mount Meru, the cosmic pillar or axis at the center of the world ascended by Buddha and known throughout the ages as the model for all Trees of Life.

Though constructed one hundred years apart these temples belong together. Their myths and symbols are interconnected. They’re both ceremonial centers, power points of peace and community gathering that could play an essential role in the drama of our world in coming years.

TALISMANS

Myths require reinterpretation to stay alive. Athena and the Cosmic Axis are alive and well in Music City. There may be a very provocative reason for this.

In their book Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval soundly document that the architecture of great cities such as Paris and Washington DC are secretly being used by Hermeticists, Masons and alchemists to transmit hidden knowledge from antiquity. They endowed these cities with spiritual power through architecture.

The designers of these ‘light centers’ (my term) used what the French alchemist Schwaller De Lubicz called “the Symbolique”, the use of mystical architecture as a means of knowledge transmission. Books, these craftsmen know, can be burned. Knowledge encoded in the shapes (geometry) and symbols of various mystical buildings and other constructions can stand for centuries. It’s a way of keeping myths alive and hiding secrets in plain sight that counts on the total blindness of the average individual to the esoteric language of symbols.

Hermes conducts a soul with his rod

Hancock and Bauval claim the secrets these ‘illumined ones’ are transmitting originated with Hermes, the Greek name for the legendary instructor, prophet and scribe deified by the Egyptians as the god Thoth and known to the Hebrews as Enoch, who was “snatched” into heaven by a whirlwind and (star) walked with God. The far older Sumerians called him Lord Enki, the god of smithcraft and alchemy, who led the Anunnaki, the ‘fifty gods who came to earth from heaven’. Z. Sitchin says he was the model for the Serpent of Wisdom of Genesis and is considered the bearer of mystic secrets.

As I will show, Nashville’s talismans have deep connections to Enki and the Anunnaki. They clearly point to Nashville’s Hermetic nature.

In fact, understood in its spiritual sense Nashville may be the ultimate Hermetic city ^{light center}.

Hermes stands tall atop Nashville’s Union Station Hotel
Photo © John Partipilo

THE VIRGIN’S TEMPLE

Nashville is called “the Athens of the South.” Her life-size copy of the Parthenon was constructed in 1897 to celebrate Tennessee’s Centennial and rebuilt in the 1920s. Inside is sculptor Alan LeQuire’s masterpiece ^{commissioned in 1982}, a 41-foot, 10-inch tall statue of the lost Athena-Parthenos. She’s the tallest indoor sculpture in the Western world.

Considered to be the Serpent’s Eve reborn and exalted after the Deluge ^{A T L A N T I S}, the immortal Athena ^Atena stands with her holy rod of power and spear in her hand. Her giant serpent rises at her feet, the protector of the acroplis ^{‘place of secrets’} at Athens.

The Parthenon-Nashville is a duplicate of Athena’s temple

In Greek myth the god of smithcraftalchemy, Hephaestus (the Sumerian Enki), crafted this rod for Athena. The East Frieze on Athena’s Parthenon, it is claimed, contained all the elements of Plato’s Atlantis texts and suggests that the Parthenon was built to commemorate both Athena and Hephaestus ^Enki, since they both championed the Athenians in the epic War between Athens and Atlantis.

Clothed in leaves of 23.75-karat gold leaf in 2002, Nashville’s golden goddess replicates what historians believe the original statue of Athena looked like. She is stunning, even bedazzling to behold (when was the last time you stood in front of so much gold?). It’s breathtaking when they open the 8 ton bronze doors to her temple and let the Sun shine in.

Athena

Significantly, Athena beams at a 2,200-foot long ‘rod’ that has been growing since 1996 in front of the north slope of the tiered mound upon which sits the State Capitol, a few miles away.

Known as the Bicentennial Capitol Mall (a park, not a shopping mall), its designers say this rod was “forged to honor the Capitol and exalt all that is Tennessee.” (This is an interesting choice of words considering Hephaestus also forged Athena’s rod.)

The Capitol itself is a Greek Revival ‘temple of democracy’. A mentor of Thomas Jefferson, the famed Philadelphia architect William Strickland, designed this acropolis in 1845. He also produced Nashville’s Egyptianesque First Presbyterian Church, whose façade duplicates Horus’s temple at Edfu.

The Tennessee Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park located at the base of the State Capitol in downtown Nashville features a 2,200-foot long ‘rod’ laid out on 19 acres

Nashville’s Bicentennial Mall radiates an eerie glow at night.
Photo © John Partipilo

When the Mall was opened it was proclaimed the sister complex to the National Mall in Washington DC, a fact which sends Masonic bells ringing for some.

No one noticed the uncanny similarity of its design to a second century drawing of Enki’s mystical Meru rod. Both designs feature a circular platform upon which sits a rod topped by a triangular shape ( and respectively). While Kem Hinton, the architect who led the Mall’s design team, told me he does not see a similarity in the designs, it is plainly evident to many with ‘untrained’ eyes.

Meru (left) and the Tennessee Bicentennial Capitol Mall

As I discussed in Atlantis Rising #50, the Meru diagram is a mandala, a mnemonic device, designed to guide the neophyte into meditation and communion.

The Meru rod resembles an antenna because that’s what Meru myth says it was. It is claimed that the immortals or the Great Spirit (symbolized in Judaism by a Serpent of Wisdom) lived at Meru because of the protecting power of the healing universal life force energy – the Key of Life – emitted (or transmitted) by Meru. The triangular apex at the top of the pillar symbolizes Shambhala, the dwelling of the gods.

Meru is symbolic of the antenna-like beacon or link the Dur~An~Ki Sitchin says was used by the Anunnaki for sending messages heavenward and as a ceremonial center for state visits of Anu, Enki’s father, to Su-Meru.

THE HOLY GRAIL IN NASHVILLE

As I tell in my book City of Peace, I chanced upon Nashville’s Mall-Meru cross in 1999 while researching FDRs quest for the secrets of Jesus in Shambhala, the apex of Meru, in Mongolia in 1934.

I followed a clue in a coded letter sent by Henry A. Wallace, FDR’s Secretary of Agriculture and partner in this ‘Grail quest’, to the famed guru Nicholas Roerich, the third ‘wise man’ in this trinity. It suggested that Nashville, TN was a possible repository for the results of their investigation.

The key clue that led me to the Mall site was Wallace’s mention of a ‘sacred casket’ or coffin and a location in America marked by ‘seven stars under three stars’. Tennessee’s state flag is the only flag in the union that has only three stars.

According to state archaeologists, the Mall site has been used as a ceremonial center since 900 AD when the Mississippian culture built a ceremonial mound ^{royal grave} just seventy yards away. “Vast numbers” of bodies are interred here. This makes this site a giant coffin.

This is synchronistic as the Arabs called the seven stars of the Big Dipper ‘Nash’, which meant ‘the great coffin’. The Sumerians called this constellation Meru, meaning the sacred casket. Middle Tennessee was originally called “the Mero District.”

Hermes/Thoth’s ‘As above. So below’ law is clearly evidenced by these place names and the early usage of the Mall site as a burial ground ^necropolis.

LONG WALKS

Since 2000, I’ve walked the Mall and the Parthenon with thousands of people, including artists, musicians, engineers and shamans. All have been astounded by the elements of their craft intricately woven into the design of this amazing rod.

If you’re one of the over one million people who visit the Bicentennial Capitol Mall annually you may only see the grand works of stone and trees, because those who visit normally look at it from the outside looking in. However, the stone works are actually Hermetic mystery symbols. It’s a codebook that even features a billion year timeline that goes back to the creation of this world!

The rod portion of the Mall has seven springs running beneath it. (The cosmic Tree of Life is always rooted in water.) Each of the body’s seven chakras is perfectly marked with appropriate symbolism at the Mall. It is truly a Seven-Gated Magician’s Rod fitting of Hermes.

This living temple is lined with oak trees, which means it fits the biblical definition of an Ashera. The Hebrew word ashera, rendered grove in the Authorized Version of the Bible refers to a living or wooden pillar or a grove of trees of the Anunnaki goddess, Is-Tara or Astarte. Ashi is the Sumerian root for ‘heal’. These healing pillars of worship, where the Great Wise Serpent/Spirit (Enki?) manifested, were forbidden by the Jewish patriarchy.

The fact that the ashera was the place of worship of Ishtar is integral to decoding the Mall. Ishtar is another name for Inanna, a probable precursor to Athena. Both goddesses were portrayed with a rod and serpent. Further, Innana’s father was Enki (Athena’s Hephaestus)!

It is my belief that Athena’s rod is a symbol for Hephaestus’s (Lord Enki’s) Meru rod and a variation of it is growing near her temple in downtown Nashville.

Supposedly, it all happened by coincidence.

Stranger synchronicities have happened in mythology, I just can’t think of any off the top of my head.

THE BLACK SUN

There is more to connect Nashville’s Mall to Meru myth.

For example, the eerie WW II Memorial temple at the Mall features an 18,161-pound black granite globe spinning on 1/8 inch of water. With the Sun shining upon its black mirror-like surface it becomes a ‘Night Sun’ or a ‘Black Sun,’ the symbol for the innermost occult circle of the Nazis. Strangely, the Germans built this black mirror.

This is simply amazing. According to W.H. Muller in his book ‘Polaria’, “the Black Sun is the Beacon of the World-Mountain (Meru) spinning in the Space of Spirit’.”

This Black Sun completes the Nashville’s Mall as a Meru Axis

The stone circle or Gilgal. The three stars symbolize the ‘third eye’ and enlightenment

At the apex of the Bicentennial Mall is a Stonehenge-like stone circle called the Court of Three Stars. Two concentric rings of (sacred) 50 twenty-five foot tall solid limestone pillars form its ‘C’ shape.

The 4-foot diameter, Egyptian djed-like pillars hold 95 bells of different pitches (one for each county in Tennessee) that form a musical instrument called a carillon – the largest in the world. The 95 bells resonate with a 96th bell located beside the Capitol. Coincidentally, the Land of Shambhala, with Meru as its center, has 96 principalities.

Now, the biblical name for a circle of upright stone pillars ^{(usually 12)} is gilgal. This was the place where Elijah ascended in a whirlwind. It is the root of Gulgotha, ‘the place of the skull’, where Jesus was ‘crucified’.

The Nashville gilgal’s floor is made of red, white and blue granite that sparkles in the sunlight. That’s because, as researchers such as Christopher Dunn and Freddy Silva note,red granite is loaded with quartz crystal. This ‘firestone’ is a formidable conductor of energy, which is why it is the tuner of choice of the ancient stone workers of Egypt and Britain. (Remember, after all, Meru is described as an antenna.)

Granite is considered a masculine stone. Limestone, which is associated with water, is considered to have feminine properties. Together, the granite floor and limestone pillars charge the Court of Three Stars with positive and negative polarity, just like an electrical circuit.

Etched into this granite ‘tuner’ is a trinity of 15-foot wide pentacles – a protective symbol known as Solomon’s Seal… and the star of Ishtar or Athena.  At their center is the logo for Tennessee, a triceps , a triangle or trinity formed of three diamonds.  One of the most powerful ancient symbols, the triceps is an ancient Nordic symbol of divine force, power and protection. It symbolizes the A U M trinity. It matches the alchemical symbol called the caput mortum, the skull or death’s head , the starting point for Enki’s alchemical work of transforming a human – the impure or base metal – into pure gold. 

As alchemist Robert Fludd’s drawing of the ‘perfected man’ indicates, the Mall symbolizes higher consciousness

Driven into the exact center, “the Holy of Holies,” of this magnificent acoustic chamber – or satellite dish – is an iron rod. When we stand on it and make a sound we experience an intense reverberation (almost as if we’re speaking directly into Enki’s ear).

Stone circles have appeared as markers of places of power. The stone circle atop the rod in Music City clearly is an instrument of divine force, power and protection that qualifies this site as Hermetic.

When we add all these symbols together, they point to one overwhelming conjecture. The Nashville Mall is a mandala, a(n) ^Anunnaki? place of initiation into the means to operate our inner Tree of Life ^{Meru Rod} and to connect with the divine realm of Enki, Thoth, Hermes, and Enoch.

Nashville is, unquestionably, a city whose talismanic symbols place it in the Hermetic big leagues along with Washington DC and Paris. Perhaps it is time for Nashville’s secrets to ring.

This brings up a very profound point.

Students of Judeo-Christian prophecy claim that the ‘End Time’ will see the appearance of Revelation 12’s ‘woman clothed with the sun’ who bears a child who rules with a rod of iron. It will also see the return of the prophet Elijah (through the gilgal, I presume) and the rebuilding of Solomon’s Temple, an act that is instrumental in the creation of the New Thousand Years of Peace.

Is Jesus, the Fisherman, raising Lazarus with a fishing pole or the Meru rod?
Vatican Museum

It is thought that Elijah will return the Rod of Jesse – the rod signifying his power, a branch from the Tree of Life – to the Messiah, who will be seated on the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies of Solomon’s Temple on Mount Moriah (or is it Meru?). He will replace the Ark of the Covenant that had symbolized him, in the place where God is believed to have first walked with Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden.

Just as a branch from the Tree of Life was kept before the Ark, he will set the Rod of God before himself on the Throne of God, where the Tree of Life had grown in the Garden of Eden.

Could Revelation’s mysterious woman clothed with the sun be the gold (sun) clad Athena? Has the rod of destiny, in the form of a 2,200-foot long living temple, manifested in Nashville? Is Nashville the ultimate light center?

Come see for yourself.

THE BURNING BUSH – Protons spinnin’ in a ring: smashin’, twangin’, sprayin’. Sparks flyin’ in the dark. It could be the perfect moment to run down the dream of reading the mind of God…

…or to get sucked into nothingness.

Something incredible is going on. Scientists on the wild edge of high energy physics at labs in Illinois and Geneva are racing to see who will be the first to enter the ‘Burning Bush’ and to de-cloak a fundamental, but elusive, sub atomic particle that is given cosmic or divine proportions by its, some say absurd, moniker, the God Particle (which particular god is unknown – let’s just pray it’s not that jealous one).

If all goes as planned, sometime in 2008 the heads of state of governments around the world will climb the mountain at CERN, the particle physics lab/stargate near Geneva to light the flame of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN a 17 mile ring; the most expensive and sophisticated machine on earth.

When it’s fired up it will begin smashing protons moving at 99.999999% of the speed of light into each other and so recreate the conditions a fraction of a second after the big bang.

Dr. Michio Kaku calls it “the Genesis Machine.” It is hoped it will complete the revelation of the greatest secret of all time, and will take us out of cosmic kindergarten and into first grade, cosmically speaking.

Far from being a genesis machine, others see the LHC at CERN as a doomsday machine.

They worry that CERN is the name on the sign at the last exit we’ll take as humans before we going flying off into oblivion.

THE GOD^DAMN PARTICLE

If this Bush bears fruit a remarkable particle called the Higgs Boson (H) will be discovered.

The Higgs is better known by its flashy name the God Particle. It’s called the God Particle, says physicist, Leon Lederman, in his book of the same title, because we couldn’t call it the Goddamn particle. It’s been that frustrating to find.

A Nobel laureate, Lederman is Director Emeritus of Fermlilab, one of two labs poking around the Burning Bush. His publisher slapped this ‘not at all’ serious title on his book and then launched it into the thought sphere.

It stuck.

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The God Particle is thought to exist in an all-pervading cosmic field, a sort of invisible lattice or matrix, referred to as the Higgs Field, that filled the universe after the Big Bang, imbuing all other particles with their mass (including the ones that form your body). It’s never been seen, but our understanding of the universe and its creation relies on its existence. It holds everything together. (Invisible. Mysterious. Enables life. Hey, sounds like love.)

First imagined (in the modern era anyway) in 1964 (Beatlemania) by British physicist, Peter Higgs, the discovery of the God Particle will complete our physics kit, called the Standard Model. Humanity will have earned its ‘H prize’. As happened with Abraham, who was given an ‘h’ on the end of his name after his initiation by the immortal Melchizedek, things will be different for humanity with its H in place.

No longer will we be teething on Einstein. Those born after the year 2008 will be Jimmy Neutrons, ready to make Star Trek, possibly even Stargate, happen. That’s right. We’re talking about opening wormholes.

STARGATE 2012

This is all mighty interesting, especially in light of the timing.

At sunrise on December 21, 2012 for the first time in 26,000 years the Sun rises to conjunct the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. According to the Mayans this date will mark the end of one world and the beginning of another.

This rare galactic alignment is referred to as the Cosmic Cross. It’s considered to be an embodiment of the Sacred Tree, The Tree of Life, a tree remembered as sacred in all the world’s spiritual traditions.

Some observers say this alignment with the heart of the galaxy in 2012 will open a channel for cosmic energy to flow through the earth, cleansing it and all that dwells upon it, raising all to a higher level of vibration.

As I discussed in my DVD presentation, Stargate 2012, the Mayans say from out of this tree/star alignment comes a serpent rope with an enlightened being named Nine Winds or Quetzalcoatl riding upon it and a blessed substance’ or ‘sap’ the Mayans called itz (literally ‘the blessed substance’) apparently spewing from it.

In Mayan belief a serpent rope emerges from the center of the galaxy, symbolized by an 8-rayed or 8-spoked wheel. Cosmic sap oozes from this world tree or cosmic cross

Usually, when one thinks of ‘sap’ they’re thinking of a watery liquid nutrient that circulates through the conducting tissues of a plant or tree (that or a person who acts like an idiot). However, when I Go(ogle)d, excuse me, Googled, ‘cosmic sap’ I found that ‘sap’ is also an acronym for ‘sub atomic particle’ (or sap).

Hmm. Are the Mayans describing a ‘blessed sub atomic particle’ that will appear in 2012, give or take year or two? Is this the same as the God Particle?

I think so.

The 8-rayed or spoked ATLAS detector at CERN

As above. So below. The ATLAS detector and the Mayan 8-rayed galaxy symbol, the source of the cosmic sap

Even more intriguing is the picture that developed when Mayan scholar John Major Jenkins replaced the Mayan term “serpent rope” with the appropriate modern word “wormhole”. Will Quetzalcoatl return like a time-traveler through a wormhole?

I find it highly interesting that this ‘wormhole’ he is emerging from is an 8-rayed symbol (the galaxy) that precisely matches the 8 rayed or 8-spoked Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the behemoth designed to search for the unseen, unknown God Particle.

Is the LHC a stargate device capable of creating wormholes for time traveling beings? Hmm. When I began thinking about this in 2004 I had no idea how close I was to the truth.

NONSENSE

In The God Particle, Lederman says the search for the Higgs is actually a recreation of the Tower of Babel incident recorded in the Book of Genesis.

There’s your trouble.

In the 23rd century B.C. the Sumerian king Nimrod built a ladder (symbolized by an H) or Tower (actually a gate) that reached from Babylon into the stars. The jealous Israelite god Yahweh got nervous about humankind ‘making a Name or Renown’ for itself by building this Gate. If successful, says the Book of Genesis, “nothing we can imagine would be impossible for us.”

Biblical scholars say Nimrod was known as Osiris, the Egyptian god of resurrection, in Egypt. Both are associated with ladders or stairways to heaven. This is key. Inside Sety’s 14th century B.C. temple at Abydos, in the Osiris Chapel, is the magnificent depiction of Osiris as a pillar or tower. In fact, the Egyptians called this Osiris pillar the Ta-Wer or ‘bond between heaven and earth’. Sounds like Babel to me.

The Osiris Device, a tower that reached into the heavens

On the opposite wall of the Osiris Chapel at Abydos is the Osiris Device, enhanced, I noticed, with the ship of eternity upon which the king will sail into eternity as a star. This ship resembles a modern drawing of a wormhole. Pay particular attention to Sety who appears to have transformed his body into the Osiris Device… or is coming out of it. This is a wonderful moment of transformation and resurrection.

The Osiris Stargate Device

A wormhole-shaped ship of eternity is attached to the Osiris Device. Is this an ancient scanning device that projected souls to distant galaxies or other dimensions?

A diagram of a wormhole. Notice the trumpet or lotus-shaped mouths on each end

The addition of the wormhole-shaped ship to the Osiris pillar/Tower of Babel suggested to me that this ladder or stairway to heaven is either some form of ancient particle accelerator for opening wormholes or a scanning device that scanned Sety atom by atom and fed that information through the wormhole with instructions to reconstruct, reconstitute or “re-member” him ala the re-membered Osiris on the other side.

So, when one of these Towers was potentially going up in Babylon Yahweh got nervous. He launched a pre-emptive strike, smashing the Babel Tower/(Star)Gate and separating humankind by language. After cleaning up the debris His scribes changed the meaning of the word ‘babel’ from gate to ‘confusion’, ‘nonsense’. Get it? Humankind make a Name for itself by opening a Gate to God? That’s nonsense! Impossi-babel!

For the last 4,500 years or so we’ve been waiting for another shot at opening the Gate.

I’ll explain why the God Particle might as well be called the Christ Particle (Christ = the universal and life-giving consciousness of the cosmos) and how it fulfills Messianic, and indeed, Mayan prophecy momentarily…

SHOT THROUGH THE DARK

In case you’ve been cooped-up in the dark with other concerns (perhaps watching Lost) let me shed a little light for you. Humankind is a species on the brink of either extinction or cosmic exultation.

I’ve never watched Lost, but on Andrew Jones’ Physics Blog he notes that the show’s runners plan on featuring the LHC at CERN in future episodes.  They compare the show’s Dharma Initiative logo with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

While the War on (T)error commenced and has pushed us to the brink of WW III, and the long-anticipated Armageddon battle that triggers the return of God to some Christians, scientists have been busy proving just how dark and ignorant our warring minds really are.

Astrophysical observations of galaxies and supernovae have shown that visible, ‘solid’ matter (knock, knock) accounts for a miniscule five percent of the entire energy and mass of the universe. All the people, stars and billions and billions of galaxies we can see account for only 5% of all that is out there.

Who’s there? Additional invisible “dark matter” we know virtually nothing about influences the motion of galaxies, and “Dark energy” speeds up the expansion of the universe. We are created from this Dark Matter.

This exhibit at Fermilab, in Batavia, IL, pretty much sums up our knowledge of all that is

The Cosmic Web Theory. This computer simulation shows the Cosmic Web. Our universe is a sponge-like cosmic brain

Scientists with increasingly powerful and intelligent computers capable of crunching the new data propose the Universe is constructed like an oversized spider web. All visible material is arranged along the filamentary structure of the Dark Matter. These dark matter filaments are likened to the “Fingers of God”. On its threads and knots, this unseen cosmic web holds seeds or pearls known as galaxies.

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the effects of Dark Matter on galaxies

Dark matter neither emits nor reflects light. It is sensed by its gravitational effect. It is believed that as the universe evolves, the gravitational attraction of dark matter causes galaxies to spin and collide, forming superclusters.

The Cosmic Web grew from the big bang. To understand the Cosmic Web, scientists must understand how it developed from those first primordial particles, including the one called the God Particle. The God Particle is hiding somewhere in this Cosmic Web.

INTO THE LIGHT

“For you were once in darkness, but are now Light in the Lord. Walk as Children of Light,” says Ephesians 5:8

Peter Higgs, who is currently Emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, says he’s almost sure (90%) the God Particle will be confirmed in the next year, hopefully, before his 80th birthday in May, 2009.

He recently proclaimed so on a pilgrimage to the soon to be humming ‘Ring of Cosmic Sovereignty’ (the Burning Bush) at CERN. Scientists plan to recreate the conditions that existed just after the Big Bang (if you believe that happened) 14 billion years ago. They’ll hum counter-rotating beams of particles from opposite ends around the 17-mile ring at 99.999% light speed and then smash ‘em together.

A moment of silence, please.

Out of the streams of these collisions could spring new fundamental particles, such as the long-sought Higgy Baby, the cosmic sap.

Simulation of Higgs Decay in the CMS Detector (CERN). When these particles collide, they will create bursts of high energy. Such collisions themselves are too small to study but new, heavier particles can appear amongst the debris

The spray of the God Particle is stylized in the logo of CERN’s newsletter

Computer reconstruction of particle tracks, originating from the simulated decay of a Higgs-boson

A scientist at the particle accelerator at Fermilab in Batavia, IL, CERN’s rival, told me on a visit there that his lab’s physicists may already have created but not detected the God Particle. Like reading tealeaves, it takes a while to, ahem, dis-cern the Higgs from the spay of collisions. He also hinted it will not be found unless it wishes to be.

You mean it’s calling us?

It will require a shift in our perception to answer the call?

This makes sense. Marcel Proust said that, “The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes.”

“It’s not what you look at, it’s what’s you see,” said Henry David Thoreau.
New eyes? New consciousness? New Earth? New God? Somebody call Oprah.

The God Particle brings with it an invitation to get to know the mind of God… and to become gods able to fulfill our unlimited possibilities.

THE BLACK HOLE AT THE END OF TIME

But, Adam and Eve, you should consider the ramifications before biting this forbidden apple. So warn observers.

CERN’s LHC is more powerful than Fermilab’s Tevatron. It’s so powerful it could also produce particles of dark matter, the mysterious stuff whose gravity holds the galaxies together, or even miniature black holes.

Far from being adepts on the verge of leading us into sovereign cosmic citizenry, some believe that when the Nimrods start spraying particles in their ring at CERN it’ll unleash a shit storm of problems, some of them cosmic in scale. That’s why they’re not informing the public about the possible cataclysmic downside of their great work. Remember the tsunami that swallowed South Asia? Try a black hole swallowing Geneva!

Look. Over there. There’s a pretty rainbow. CERN’s scientists assure us there is absolutely no danger in this undertaking. The black holes they will be creating are millions of times smaller than the nucleus of an atom and they’ll only live for a fraction of a second. Simply, they’re too small and too short lived to swallow anything. However, others cannot resist writing future headlines like “Black Hole Swallows Earth.”

You’d think such a ‘Babylon working’ with obvious, and even declared, religious undertones and potentially cataclysmic possibilities would whip talking heads into frenzied spinning on the so-called cable news shows.

You’re right!

Protest is mounting, including legal action from alarmed scientists. The global consciousness, recently awakened by the alarm bells of the global climate crisis, is now waking up and smelling what’s brewing at CERN.
(Another planetary emergency. Whoo hoo! How’d we get so lucky to be alive at this incredible moment?)

TIME TRAVEL?

We got a glimpse of the potential hysteria in February, 2008 when two Russian mathematicians came along to say that the LHC could actually function as a time-travel machine! It’ll produce wormholes for a fraction of a second that could be used by time travelers.

There’s a couple of conditions. One, the travelers could only be smaller than the size of an atom. Two, they cannot travel back in time beyond the far point in time when the first wormhole was created.

That’s why 2008 is being called Year 0.

A New Scientist article on time travel points out that there are many practical problems and theoretical paradoxes to time travel. “Nevertheless, the slim possibility remains that we will see visitors from the future in the next year,” the magazine says, rather engagingly.

The search for this imaginary particle is not crazy. The possibility that we could open a wormhole isn’t crazy either. Well not completely, say some scientists observing from the hedge. Still, it may be a good idea to start loving being human, squeezing joy out of every magic moment you’re in the body and making memories for eternity. It’s a real fine place to start to change our world anyway.

STARGATE CERN

I visited CERN looking to read the signs and the symbols of the scientists who are poised to either turn earth into a light echo as it slips into a black hole in a silent scream or to open a stargate to a new universe.

At first glance, one could be on the campus of an university in America.

Then there’s the statue of Shiva stamping out ignorance.

Me and Shiva, the Lord of the Dance, or Lord of the Ring, at CERN

An experiment called ATLAS will lift the stone, the building blocks of nature. Standing over five stories tall and weighing 7,000 tons the ATLAS detector is housed in cathedral-sized cavern 300 feet underground.

I was blown away when I got off the elevator that took me those 300 feet underground to the ATLAS detector. The sign on the wall said it all: “Recreating the conditions just after the Big Bang.” (One 100,000,000,000th of a second  – one hundred of a billionth – after the big bang to be exact.)

A sign outside the ATLAS detector at CERN

I instantly recalled the Jewish legend that tells of the return of Elijah, the forerunner of the Messiah, who will perform seven wonders, among which is heralding the reappearance of the primal light, which shone before the week of the Creation. This ‘primal light’ sounds suspiciously like the Higgs Field and the God Particle.

The LHC at CERN will replicate the conditions nanoseconds after the Big Bang in the time before the first week of Creation, as recorded in the Book of Genesis. Source: CERN

By literally smashing particles together at nearly the speed of light scientists hope to answer fundamental questions about what happened to the particles that make up our Universe in the nano seconds after Big Bang. Isn’t this another way of describing the time (one hundredth of a billionth of a second) before the first week of the Creation?

If I had a chance to re-write the sign at CERN it’d read: Recreating the conditions just after the big bang… so that the primal light, which shone before the week of the Creation, will reappear.

THE RETURN OF ELIJAH

“If Jesus Christ were to stand up today he’d be gunned down dead by the CIA,” so sang The The.

If I’m right the murder of God (the discovery of the God or Christ Particle) will take place at CERN. Well, let me just put it this way. Jesus would be deeply interested in the goings at the chapel perilous in Geneva. So too would his prophesied forerunner, who is considered the reincarnation of Elijah.

It’s been nearly 3,000 years since Elijah (Elias), the holy man and representative of YHWH (the Israelite God) walked the Earth. He’s the mystic famed for raising the dead, bringing fire down from the sky, and spectacularly disappearing into heaven (outer or inner space), riding upon a chariot of fire in a whirlwind (2 Kings 2:11), or stargate, at that mysterious ring of stones known as Gilgal.

Apparently Elijah’s vehicle is some sort of time travel machine that enables his soul to toggle between the worlds as eight hundred or so years later he materialized along with Moses at the Transfiguration of Jesus, when the Nazarene teacher performed the light body effect; metamorphosing into light and then back into human form.

In Iron Man Robert Downey, Jr. puts on a power suit and ascends into the heavens. A modern Elijah?

Elijah’s vehicle is thought of as a “Shining vesture”, a “Vehicle,” the “key to the kingdom of Heaven”, and a “Seal” of “regeneration.”

“Light Body” is the modern term for it. This transmittable light body teaching was symbolized by a power suit or garment. Elijah transmitted it to Elisha.

Jesus was also taken into heaven, presumably in a similar ‘whirlwind’. Jesus plainly said, centuries after Elijah’s departure, “No one has ascended into heaven but He who descended from heaven, the Son of man.” (John 3:13) This statement is taken to mean that Jesus knew the secret of the Light Body, which, really is the secret of time travel via wormholes.

The Transfiguration of Jesus into light. Jesus stands in a ring or a gate

The spray of the God Particle is stylized in the logo of a particle physics newsletter

It may be more than synchronistic that the logo for the God Particle fits perfectly on the Transfiguration image of Jesus

The Transfiguration is thought to prefigure the coming of a new Light into the world. This Light will appear at the End Time, which may well correspond to the Maya 2012 date.

THE DIVINE PARTICLE

The Gnostics believed humans are divine sparks trapped in the human body. They claimed they possessed the secret of the Divine Spark or particle and how to “perfect” their bodies into light. The Great Perfection, as it is called in Tibet, is the process whereby all the nerves of the body are transmuted into a vortex of energy and the Divine Spark is “beamed” to another locale in space-time.

The Gnostics further believed that the soul was composed of an immaterial and imperishable crystalline substance. It emanated from the highest, finest realm and became entangled in the human body and the spell of Earth.

In The Gospel of Judas Jesus said, ‘Come that I may teach you about secrets no person has ever seen. For there exists a great and boundless realm, whose extend no generation of angels has seen, in which there is a great and invisible spirit. Which no eye of an angel has ever seen, No thought of the heart has ever comprehended, And it was never called by any name.

Are we experiencing the cosmic moment in which this great and boundless realm (the realm of Dark Matter) whose extend no generation of angels has seen, is revealing more of its secrets? Are we about to enter the Burning Bush and experience the great and invisible spirit?

Echoing Peter Higgs, I’m 90% sure we are.

The Transfiguration. Russia. 17th century

The Transfiguration of Jesus is one of the most transcendent, yet bizarrely neglected, events ever recorded in myth or sacred tradition. Perhaps this is because it sounds mystical in the extreme, even preposterous, like the story of a genie out of a bottle.

Midway through his ministry, Jesus took three disciples and slipped off secretly to a high mountain on the borderland between the human and Divine. He had something to show them.

Suddenly, says Mark, Jesus becomes radiant, his clothing shining white as light. He glistens. Elijah and Moses materialize beside Jesus, perhaps shimmering or translucent like him. They discuss events to come in Jerusalem. Through terrified eyes the disciples see a cloud envelop the men with a brilliant haze and then the prophet and the lawgiver disappear. Jesus returns to normal human form and they walk back down the mountain.
Peter reflecting on this extraordinary event many years later recalls `We were eye-witnesses of his sovereign majesty’.

Matthew and Mark called it “The Transfiguration” or “The Metamorphosis.”

TRANSFORMED

The word transfigured comes from the Greek verb ‘metamorphoo’, meaning “changed in form” or “transformed.” It’s the source of our English word metamorphosis. It is a change of form: like a caterpillar into a butterfly or a tadpole into a frog. They go through a metamorphosis, a change of their forms.

In the case of the transfiguration of Jesus, the term refers to his transformation or shape-shifting into a shining cosmic man, a light being, and back into flesh.

Transfiguration. Germany 17th century

Apart from being taught in the Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter universe, the Transfiguration is utterly neglected in the prudent and plastic West, which predominantly worships images of the bloodied and tortured Jesus (and plastic Pammys), rather than an image of transcendence.

However, in the mystical East of the first six centuries AD (and later, magnificently, the 14-17th century), astonishingly energetic and elegantly beautiful Transfiguration icons of a levitating Jesus with rays of light beaming from his body entranced the imagination. These masterpieces were considered a visual counterpart to the gospels and were revered as holy. The one communicates religious truth through words, the other through visible forms and symbols. Both equally are modes of revelation.

In the magical-alchemical imagination of the icon makers these images were designed to be actual doors to another world. Our world and “the spiritual world” are opened to each other through the icon. They were specially created to enable a visceral encounter with a holy being or to make present a spiritual energy. They are a form of ‘visual alchemy’ that can help us in our Transfiguration (if that is your path).

Nothing in art can compare, save perhaps for the complimentary Tibetan depictions of the Great Perfection that portray a lama shifting the frequency of their body and transforming (by dissolving) into a spinning vortex called the Rainbow Body. They are engaging and instructive to believers and nonbelievers alike. They take us beyond the threshold, through…

THE OPEN GATE

In Transfiguration images Jesus is portrayed in front of an open gate, sometimes filled with stars, and composed of various geometric shapes, such as almond-shaped mandorlas (vesica piscis) or stars.

Alternately, the gate is composed of concentric rings indicating ‘depth’ or ‘dimension’, and also vibration. (Today, we use the terms ‘stargate’ and ‘wormhole’ to denote such holes in space-time.)

Strangely, the New Testament says nothing about these rings or the opening of a (star) gateway. So, why are they there? Some propose the rings symbolize the Voice (‘frequency’, ‘vibration’) that came from the mysterious so-called ‘cloud’ that appeared at the Transfiguration.

Looking carefully, however, Transfiguration icons are actually maps that portray a two-step process, a transformative journey.

As I discuss in my DVD The Light Body Effect, first (following the Tibetan model), Jesus unwinds or spins the human rig into a higher frequency. This ‘light body’ is described in every sacred tradition. In Judeo-Christianity it is symbolized by the shiny, seamless white clothing known as the pala or ‘miracle’ garment in the Book of Kings’ story of Elijah and his ascension in the whirlwind. It’s woven of supramental threads of light.

With his light body wound up Jesus then rips open a hole in the fabric of space-time, a stargate.

Viewed this way, the opening of the gate is inferred by the story. It assumes prior knowledge of the understanding that Jesus was able to metamorphose and ‘toggle’ between the worlds. He appeared repeatedly after his resurrection to the disciples, especially Mary Magdalene, giving detailed instructions for safe passage through the dimensions. (In fact, this is the difference between traditional Christianity and the Gnostics. The New Testament contains the words of the living Jesus. Jesus taught the Gnostics while in his resurrected or light body form.)

Transfiguration. Russia. 17th century

The almond-shaped gate or mandorla is shown in icons of Transfiguration from Constantinople c. 1200 (left) and in Kabbalistic art (right)

VISUAL ALCHEMY

When the icons were made alchemy was the normal way of interacting with the world. Everything was viewed as in the process of transmutation or changing into something else – like the acorn into the oak – simultaneously unraveling and being reborn. Everything was transmutable, including the human body, which was viewed as a ‘pupal’ form of an ascended spiritual being, usually symbolized by the butterfly (earlier by the phoenix). All that was required to effect the transmutation was the Philosopher’s Stone (= the pure tone or ring of the gate). This (S)tone causes the body to emit or secrete an elixir – the Secretion of the Ages – that purifies the body, transfiguring it to light.

This is the key benefit of the Transfiguration icons. These images were designed not just to help the early Christians to teach about the Transfiguration through pretty pictures, but also to encourage them to re-shape their lives in accordance with the hope or expectation of transforming into light (something our culture does not support).
Unfortunately, in the seventh century Byzantine Emperor Leo III banned icons (726-729) in response to criticism from adherents of the new religion of Islam who proclaimed that icon/doors were false idols (more later).

In recent years there has been a sort of “rediscovery” of icons by Western Christians. This is concurrent with modern science’s increasing awareness that stargates and wormholes permeate the universe.

Transfiguration. Greek. 14th century

Transfiguration. Novgorod. 15th century

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as “art” but as objects of veneration, which possessed codes of the tangible presence of the Holy realm.

In this way, a Transfiguration icon is the same as a computer icon and a highway sign. It is concentrated information that symbolizes or points to something beyond itself. When we click on a computer icon it opens into a phenomenal inner world of enormous potential called a program, a set of coded instructions that enables one to do work. The program’s icon is not the program, but it symbolizes it and opens the way to it.

Strange as it may sound to our sensibilities, this is how devotees used icons to do the Great Work, the alchemy of the soul.

First, one would click on the icon in their imagination. With full focused attention (or devotion) they’d enter the slipstream of the fast-moving Jesus in the icon. Feel it right, and it might raise one’s vibration and literally start a rush of chemicals in your bloodstream (at least according to a new neuroscience theory we will discuss momentarily). Absorb and become the energy of the Transfigured Jesus, draft in his wake, and one might open a gate to the cosmic realm right here on earth.

The materials of the image become a channel or a bridge, a gate (‘babel’) between two worlds. In fact, to an Orthodox Christian the images are a medium through which the energy of the Transfiguration moment can be channeled, like a two-way mirror. Devotees could enter the cosmic realm through the icon.

MIRROR, MIRROR

The concept of the mirror explains the technology of icons. The word icon comes from the Greek eikon, and means “image.” In the New Testament, the Greek word “image” also means “likeness” and “portrait.” Another term we might use is “projection.” The Old and New Testament’s use the word “image” to describe all of us being in the image of the God who made us (Gen. 1:26, Matt. 22:20, Col. 1:15). We are mirror images or icons of our creator.

When used as a verb the word mirror means ‘to send back’ or ‘form an image of’, ‘image’, ‘reflect’. To mirror is also to reflect (and reflection produces insight or enlightenment).

A mirror does not create images it only transmits them. In a similar way, icons function as transmission devices. They are ‘stations’, ‘channels’ or transmitters of the energy of a flashy being and a higher vibration (voice or sound), the ‘ring’ of the Transfiguration that crosses time and space. Their message (programming, code) is designed to operate within the human bio-computer (transfiguration system).

Also called a looking glass, a mirror is more than a communications tool.

Just as Alice ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror, and to her surprise, is able to pass through to experience the parallel world, a person who became adept at mirroring Jesus’s experience of Transfiguration could reflect this process in their own body (itself an icon or mirror image of the Creator).

“I saw our Lord fastened upon the cross coming down towards me and surrounding me with a marvelous light…Then there came down from the holes of his blessed wounds five bloody beams, which were directed towards the same parts of my body: to my hands, feet, and heart.”

This was how, according to legend, Saint Catherine of Siena described receiving the stigmata wounds of Jesus upon the cross. She was praying before an icon, the image transmitted the marks as beams of light reflected in her body.

Stigmatization of Saint Catherine of Siena, about 1630. Rutilio Manetti

TRANCE-FORMATION

We know from research in psychoneuroimmunology that feelings of helplessness weaken immune function but a sense of empowerment strengthens it. Redefining how we describe events with labels that promote helplessness to those that trigger empowerment, can take a fearful reaction and inspire an ordinary person to perform extraordinary deeds.
So says Dr. Mario Martinez, who studied Stigmatics for the Vatican. He has shown that a woman in California exhibited the Stigmata marks after obsessively reading about the Crucifixion.

As he discovered, the Medieval Stigmatics showed wounds on the palm of their hands because all the paintings (which were based on cultural beliefs) showed Jesus’ wounds on the palm. Then, science showed that Roman crucifixion specialists bypassed the main artery and hit a nerve in the wrist to ensure maximum agony (that lasted for days). More recent Stigmatics show the wounds in the wrist, because of cultural beliefs.

Martinez’s theory of Biocognition says we have a personal bio-informational field which has horizons that can be expanded. If you expand by interacting with the horizons of Jesus, then you’ll identify with his suffering or his love. If it is with his suffering – and this is very rare – you may experience the occurrence of Stigmata.

If you identify with the path of love, you experience healing or special abilities to do things or just convey a sense of love.

Taken to the extreme, through this process you could transfigure into a cosmic being.

It could be as simple as monkey see, monkey do.

MIRROR NEURONS

More than other primates, neuroscientists believe, humans are hard-wired for imitation.

The discovery of mirror neurons in the frontal lobes of macaque monkeys and their implications for human brain evolution is one of the most important findings of neuroscience in the late 20th century, says celebrated neuroscientist Dr. V.S. Ramachandran. Mirror neurons are active when the monkeys perform certain tasks, but they also fire when the monkeys watch someone else perform the same specific task. There is evidence that a similar observation/action matching system exists in humans.

Imitation learning via this cluster of neurons, says Ramachandran, holds the key to understanding many enigmatic aspects of human evolution, including our “great leap” in our ability to use the wetware between our ears.

Brain researchers at UCLA found that cells in the human anterior cingulate, which normally fire when you poke the patient with a needle (“pain neurons”), will also fire when the patient watches another patient being poked. The mirror neurons, it would seem, dissolve the barrier between self and others. Ramachandran calls them “empathy neurons” or “Dalai Llama neurons” because they demonstrated the interconnectedness of all things (even dimensions).

When we apply this science to the Transfiguration icons it suggests a remarkable spiritual technology is active. The Transfiguration icon is a (non religious) spiritual invitation for us to mirror Jesus’s transformation, to activate our latent potential, and to become enlightened ones, simply by using our imagination and reflecting what we see.

So, how come images of Transfiguration aren’t plastered everywhere?

THE AGE OF ICONOCLASM

As Linette Martin discusses in Sacred Doorways, the era during which the practice of icons was at its height in the Byzantine world was a time of grave military crisis and domestic (especially economic) instability. The Byzantine Empire was threatened by Persia (Iran), by steppe nomads (terrorists?), and by the final blow, the new power of Islam, a religion begun in 622 AD with the flight of the prophet Muhammed.

For Muslims, to make a realistic picture of Muhammed was forbidden, because it implied that the craftsman was God, and God is the only image-maker.

To make an image of ‘Christ’ was wrong to Muslims because they did not believe in the Incarnation (the bodily materialization of a cosmic being) as adopted by the Church at the Councils of Nicea in 325 and Chalcdedon in 451, though Jesus was acknowledged as Prophet Jesus.

With Islam’s rapid spread throughout the Levant and North Africa between 622 and 722, Christianity lost valuable turf. In response to the new religion, the Christian emperors might have chosen to invoke the supernatural or cosmic powers or energies of the icons. They might have ‘pushed’ the argument between Christianity and Islam over the Incarnation and the cosmic realm and promoted icons of this nature, especially of the Transfiguration.

Instead, Emperor Leo III ordered icons to be banned. To him the Byzantines were guilty of idolatry. He drew a sharp contrast between image free Islam and icon worshipping Christians.

In effect, by standing against icons, they were standing with people who denied the reality of the Incarnation and the cosmic realm.

With one imperial decision the destruction of sacred art began.

Gradually, the Church took control of this practice and no longer taught that an icon was a door to another realm. In fact, to think this is potentially dangerous.

With today’s world experiencing many of the same conflicts as Leo’s world perhaps it’s time to correct his mistake by reopening the door of the icons and rediscovering the alchemy of the soul.

For more please see my DVD presentation The Light Body Effect.

The United States Capitol, rising atop Capitol Hill in the monument city of Washington, D.C. may well be the most famous building in the world.

To Americans the cast-iron, Capitol dome, dressed in pure white sandstone, is a symbol of strength and democracy. Radiant. Luminous. Shining. Freedom rings from this beautiful bell. How many recognize the Capitol is a temple?

Thomas Jefferson called it “The first temple dedicated to the sovereignty of the people.”

An anonymous essay of 1795 described the Capitol building as a ‘temple erected to Liberty’.

Specifically, the founders of the Capitol Temple likened it to Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem.

“I have every hope that the grand work we have done today will be handed down…to a late posterity, as the like work of that ever memorable temple to our order erected by our ancient Grand Master Solomon.” Maryland Grand Master Joseph Clark, September 18, 1793, at the laying of the cornerstone of the Capitol.

“It would be unbecoming the representatives of this Nation to assemble for the first time in this solemn Temple without looking up to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe and imploring His blessing.” President Adams, November 22, 1800, opening the Second Session of the Sixth Congress in the new Capitol building.

These words are more than poetic. The U.S. Capitol has numerous architectural and other features that unquestionably identify it with ancient temples including stone construction, an underground entrance, chapels, an image of a deified being, religious imagery, symbols, and inscriptions, divine proportions, massive columns, palpable spiritual energy, acoustic trickery, terrifying guardians, mystic visitors, closed doors, private members, secret chambers, and orientation to the Sun.

It is crystal clear that the builders viewed the Capitol as America’s sole temple (a solemn, Solomon’s Solar Temple to be exact).

THE DOME AT THE HEART OF AMERICA

The dome of the Capitol ices this connection. Domes have been called the perfect architectural shape: the circle, symbol of the universe, executed in three dimensions.

In religious architecture domes proclaim the glory of God. The word dome comes from Latin domus, a house, via Italian duomo, a house of God, that is a church (from kirk, meaning ‘circle’). The temple is a “house of the holy”. Temple is also a word for the flat part on either side of the human head, called a dome in slang, above and beyond the eye.

The oculus or eye of the dome is considered the Gateway of the Sun. From this gateway at the top of the dome rises the World Axis, the link between heaven and earth. Domes, therefore, are the threshold or gateway of the spiritual world.

Designed in 1854 by Philadelphia architect Thomas Walter, the cast-iron U.S. Capitol dome (its second) features stunning columns, pilasters, windows crowned by a statue of the goddess Freedom. When funds ran low during the Civil War Abraham Lincoln encouraged continuing the controversial construction of the New Dome as a symbol of unity.

The Capitol Rotunda is a large, circular room located in the center of the Capitol on the second floor. 96 feet in diameter, it is the symbolic and physical heart of the U.S. Capitol. It is the ceremonial center of the United States of America.

More directly, it is a place of American ritual. Rites are performed here. Statues, such as the one of Eisenhower, are unveiled here. Inaugurations take place here. Eminent citizens lay in state here. It was the body of Abraham Lincoln, the first president to be assassinated, laying in state which has forever hallowed the spot.

GEORGE WASHINGTON IN THE SUN (OR STAR) GATE

Hanging 180 feet above the floor of the Rotunda, in the canopy of the interior Dome is the single most important work of alchemy anywhere in the world.

Painted in true fresco, it’s called “The Apotheosis of George Washington.” The Italian painter, Constantino Brumidi, painted it during the Civil War. A renowned Vatican painter, Brumidi came to the United States in 1852, after he had received a papal pardon for his role in Italy’s republican revolution. He was inspired by Michaelangelo’s last great work, the Dome of St. Peters. He is called “the Michaelangelo of the Capitol.”

The Dome of the U.S. Capitol. Photo: Wm. Henry

Detail of Washington on a rainbow and surrounded by stars. Photo: Wm. Henry

On the first floor of the Senate wing of the Capitol are the Brumidi Corridors, said to be among the most ornate and creatively decorated public spaces in the nation.  They combine classical imagery with patriotic American themes. Photo: Wm. Henry

The frieze of the Rotunda showcases Brumidi’s mastery of creating the illusion of three-dimensional forms and figures on flat surfaces. Photo: Wm. Henry

Floating in the center of the “Apotheosis”, a uniformed Washington sits enthroned on a rainbow in front of a Sun gate. Liberty, holding her fasces (a goddess symbol of transformation), and a combination of Victory and Fame sounding a trump flank him.

Apotheosis is a Greek word that means ‘to raise to god like stature’ or the glorification of a person as an ideal. Indeed, this fresco depicts Washington as a god-man. Christian art portrays Jesus sitting on a rainbow and enthroned exactly the same way. The sun is a symbol of Christ from the prophecy of Malachi 4:2 “But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.”

Washington enthroned on a rainbow with sun gate behind him. Wm. Henry

Detail of Jesus enthroned on a rainbow with celestial beings all around him. Note the ‘sun gate’ behind him

Tibetan artists use identical imagery to portray their high holy ones (called lamas) who have achieved “The Great Perfection” (Dzogchen). The aim of the Great Perfection is to awaken the individual to the primordial state of enlightenment, which is naturally found in all beings. The initiate’s goal is to integrate enlightenment into all his or her activities and to unite the physical body with the energy of Nature. The supreme realization of which lies in the manifestation of the “Rainbow Body” or body of light.

A lama rides in a rainbow

This is the meaning behind the symbolism of both Jesus and George Washington sitting on the rainbow. Washington is a perfected human, not only a Grand Master, but also an ‘American Christ’, in tune with his divine nature. He is now somewhere over the rainbow, and is a bridge between Heaven and Earth.

Perfection is the foundation tantra of the European Enlightenment thinkers Locke, Voltaire and Rousseau who inspired the deeply spiritual, even mystic, founders of America (many of whom were Freemasons and Rosicrucians). Human beings are not inherently depraved or sinful, Enlightenment thinkers reasoned, we are naturally good.

Tearing a page from Plato’s Republic, they saw enlightenment as a process of revealing what is already inside the person; self-perfection into the Gnostic “Man of Light”.  The Enlightened ones of Tibet say the same thing only adding that perfection or holiness is the natural state of every living being whether they know it or not and that we also have the capacity to manifest perfection (= Rainbow Body).

The Founders had a vision of America as a psychological space and a place where individuals were free to perfect themselves, or in Jefferson’s multi-layered language to form ‘a more perfect union’.

The circle or ‘gate’ of 72 stars that surrounds Washington affirms this philosophy. 72 is a powerful esoteric number with numerous correspondences in the Mysteries. 72 represents the number of years on one degree of a zodiacal age. Manly P. Hall’s “The Secret Destiny of America” has an interesting interpretation of the 72 stones in pyramid of the Great Seal. He sees them corresponding to the 72 arrangements of the Tetragrammaton, or the four-lettered name of God, in Hebrew. These four letters can be combined into 72 combinations, resulting in what is called the Shemhamforesh, which represents, in turn, the laws, powers, and energies of Nature by which the perfection of man is achieved.  

13 star beings surround George Washington

Thirteen female figures encircle Washington, each with a star above her head. They are thought to represent the thirteen original states. However, this is not an earthly scene. They are 13 star beings.

Surrounding Washington are seven mythological figures that correspond to the seven stages of alchemy. Included is Poseidon, the ruler of Atlantis and Mercury and Vulcan, two gods synonymous with alchemy.

Minerva with Benjamin Franklin at the end of the rainbow. Wm. Henry

Poseidon, ruler of Atlantis. Wm. Henry

Mercury, the messenger of the gods. Wm. Henry

THE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

An imaginary vertical line descending from the Sun gate in the dome travels through a golden dot at the center of the Rotunda, then through a star in a large circular room called the Crypt one story beneath the Rotunda. The Latin crypta means “hidden” or “secret.” A crypt is usually found in cemeteries and under public religious buildings, such as churches and cathedrals. It’s a burial place, but also, importantly, a meeting place.

The star in the crypt marks the literal ground zero in Washington. It divides the city into four quadrants, and every address in the city tells you where you are in relation to that precise point in the U.S. Capitol building. This is just another open (yet hidden) hint as to the significance of that particular gold dot.

The golden dot at the center of the Rotunda. Wm. Henry

The Capitol Crypt was originally built to support the Rotunda. It has 40 neo-classical columns modeled after the Temple of Poseidon in Greece. Wm. Henry

The star in the center of the Crypt. Wm. Henry

Architectural historians link the crypt with the unconscious and the chtonic, subterranean or earthly realm. This is based on the medieval belief that the cathedral was the body of Christ and a symbol also of Man. The body and spirit, encased in a coffin or casket, is ‘planted’ in the crypt to resurrect or rise.

A crypt is also an entrance to a tomb. Indeed, the Capitol’s Crypt provides an entrance to Washington’s Tomb, which is located one story beneath the Crypt.

The hallway leading to Washington’s Tomb located one story beneath the Crypt. Wm. Henry

Washington’s Tomb is empty. Why? The tomb was never used to inter Washington’s body. The plans to place his casket there were scuttled by a legal issue in Washington’s will. His grave is at Mount Vernon, the President’s home.

A more compelling answer is because Washington is on the ceiling of the dome… in the heavens above. The story of these three Capitol stories is that Washington has risen. Just like Jesus’s tomb (and the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid) Washington’s is empty because the man is now a deity.

This perspective conjures the image of the Capitol as a temple of transformation or even a casket.

THE TEMPLE OF MAN

The work of French Egypt-alchemy explorer Schwaller de Lubicz, presented in his work, “The Temple In Man: Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man”, leads a to major breakthrough in our understanding of the Capitol-is-a-casket story.

De Lubicz’s work centered on the Temple of Luxor, located 2 miles from Thebes, Egypt’s Vatican. The plan for this temple, he demonstrated, is based on human proportions and designed to symbolically represent the human body. It is an open book containing the secrets of human spiritual anatomy. In this temple he found a human being embodied in the geometry of the Temple’s architecture. This, he concluded is Pharaoh, symbolic of the Perfect Man.

Projection of the Temple of Luxor on a human skeleton

The Temple of Man was built by Ramses II in the 13 century B.C. as a setting for the rituals of the Festival of Opet. The word ‘Opet’ means ‘Secret Chamber’. So it is “the Festival of the Secret Chamber.”

During this festival the king would make a ceremonial precession from Karnak along the avenue of Sphinxs to the temple of Luxor, located 2 miles away. The king would make his way to one of the innermost chambers of the temple. There, the king and his divine essence (called the ka, and created at his birth), were united and the king transformed into a divine being. The crowd, waiting anxiously, their belly’s full of bread and beer provided by the king for the rite, would cheer wildly upon the king’s emergence as the transformed or transfigured god-man.

The Festival affirmed and renewed the king’s Divine Right to Rule. It assured the people that the power of the Cosmos was renewed in the king.

Projecting the image of the Temple of Luxor on the U.S. Capitol, which is divided into seven chambers that correspond with the charkas, reveals a provocative match. The House of Representatives corresponds with the feet. The Rotunda is the womb. The Senate is the head.

Projection of the Temple of Luxor and human skeleton upon Latrobe’s plan of the U.S. Capitol

It is ironic that that U.S. Capitol mimics the sacred layout of Luxor temple considering that America was founded to abolish the Divine Right of Kings. Nonetheless, the spectacle of the Opet Festival is echoed in the inauguration ceremonies of U.S. Presidents as head of state or head of government. This term means that the President is above party politics.

The word inaugural comes from ancient Rome where priests called augurs interpreted the will of the gods by reading the flight patterns of birds. The word augur is thought to be derived either from the root aug, “to increase, to prosper” or from the Latin avi and gero, the Latin “directing of birds.”

In this lavish American ceremony, initiation or rite, politicians stand at the gate of the Secret Chamber, the Capitol Rotunda, in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators (and millions more watching on TV) to take the oath of office and to renew the office of the President. It is strikingly similar to coronations and enthronements. The crucial difference is that the people elected the individual being sworn in to be their head (or ‘present Id’ to use a Freudian term for the instinctual aspect of our psychic apparatus).

Originally, the word inauguration referred to the sacred marriage, the symbolic mating of the new king with the goddess of the kingdom. Scholars point to the Irish Feast of Tara, at which the king married the goddess Medb.

In America the goddess is named Freedom, Liberty and America. Her statues are abundant on the Hill and in the Capitol. She stands on top of the Capitol. Why? It could be because, symbolically, she ‘owns’ it.

Traditionally, the swearing in takes place on the East Portico. For the first time ever, an inauguration took place on the West Terrace of the Capitol when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981. The west side would accommodate more visitors. Reagan’s second inaugural ceremony in January, 1985 took place in the Rotunda due to weather.

President Barack Obama also chose the West Terrace. After being sworn in at noon, the newly anointed President enters the Capitol Temple. He ascends 33 steps into the Rotunda. He looks up. He first sees Mercury, then, he sees the deified Washington peering down at him, challenging him to be an enlightened American leader.

WARNING: ‘THE APOTHEOSIS IS AT HAND’, WORLD GOVERNMENT IS HERE . . . Are the screams of Earth’s children being heard in heaven?

“Now the apotheosis is at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world.”
– Lord Christopher Monckton, October 16, 2009

Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
– Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze

Normally, end-of-the-world-New World Order articles don’t make it here, but this one had to be written. You can blame it on a weekend lecturing with Dr. Steven Greer, Richard C. Hoagland and David Wilcock. All three had shocking things to say about the imminence of Disclosure. None were quite as alarming as what Lord Christopher Monckton had to say in Minnesota recently about global warming as pre-text to the installation of a world government. Lord Monckton is famous for creating the Eternity puzzle in 1999, a board game that he gave 1 million pounds to solve. He moved on to global warming and now is considered an expert on the subject.

To me, Lord Monckton’s chilling warning of the advent of a soul-enslaving world government in mystical terms, saying ‘the apotheosis (of this government) is at hand’, smacks of an apocalyptic warning and a puzzle for those with eyes to hear.

Apotheosis means to deify, to glorify, to raise from a man to a god-man. As I wrote in Freedom’s Gate, in relation to the Apotheosis of George Washington, the painting in the U.S. Capitol, it is associated with ascension, rapture, transformation, angelization. It’s about overcoming the limitations of earth life. What does the dear Lord mean using this term in relation to a communist world government?

It turns out the apotheosis, world government, President Obama, the Two Witnesses of the Book of Revelation, and maybe even Disclosure of the facts about UFO’s, extraterrestrial intelligence, and classified advanced energy and stargate technology (i.e. CERN), are all in play here. Receive this insight with an open heart. The Apotheosis is at hand. It is time for all good people to rise.

The Lord’s proclamation is in his 4-minute video (about the Copenhagen treaty that went viral with millions of views on YouTube. It is a powerful warning whether or not you believe that global warming is the biggest problem we’ve ever faced or whether or not the UN-backed Copenhagen treaty goes anywhere. The Copenhagen meeting has been hailed as “the most important meeting in human history.” Beginning on December 7, 2009 leaders from 182 countries will gather to solve the world’s “climate crisis”.

Here are the Lord’s remarks about the treaty:

“At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it.

I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created (emphasis mine). The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfaction of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.

How many of you think that the word “election” or “democracy” or “vote” or “ballot” occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right, it doesn’t appear once. So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement, who took over Greenpeace so that my friends who funded it left within a year, because [the communists] captured it – Now the apotheosis is at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. You have a president who has very strong sympathies with that point of view. He’s going to sign it. He’ll sign anything. He’s a Nobel Peace Prize [winner]; of course he’ll sign it. The trouble is this. If that treaty is signed your constitution says that it takes precedence over your constitution and you can’t resile from that treaty unless you get agreement from all the state…”

On a side note, the new European Union President Herman van Rompuy said last week, “The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step toward the global management of our planet.” This statement mirrors what Lord Monckton stated in his warning for America in October.

Fortunately, the signing of the binding treaty has been delayed till later in 2010. Seems the conference’s earth chilling plans may have melted on November 23, 2009 when emails released by an anonymous computer hacker revealed that several leading climate scientists hired to provide objective and factual climate data to the Copenhagen conference allegedly manipulated climate data and research. This data was used by the conference’s advisors the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPPC claimed that man-made emissions are causing calamitous global warming. It turns out that the computer models that a lot of the policy the UN advocates positions are based on may be full of, well, I will let you fill in the blank. The scientists knew it and manipulated the data to promote their do or die climate scenario. They got caught. It’s being called “the greatest scientific scandal ever.”

No matter, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) calls for global governmental mandates to regulate and tax all human activities. As the wealthiest government among the signers of the treaty, the United States will have to pay a ‘climate debt’ that we are alleged to ‘owe’ third world countries because of our consumption of world resources.

The logo for the ‘climate change’ conference. Thoughts?

Detractors fear this treaty, and its agenda, has nothing to do with climate.

Instead, it is part of a sinister plot to introduce a potentially soul enslaving global “green fascist dictatorship” that will severely restrict personal liberty in the name of saving the planet. Supporters think this is right out of the twilight zone. They see the Copenhagen treaty as atonement, a way to get right with the Mother. Its hefty taxes are reparations meant to bring the one half of the world’s population without a toilet and a telephone into the 21st century.

I agree that we need to lift our fellow man, stop treating the planet like a sewer and bring some balance into our world. I’m willing to eat a lot less meat, maybe even become a vegetarian, and walk more than drive. I’m willing to more, too. However, I am not prepared to trade my American citizenship, and what precious liberties remain in the post-911 world, for a global communist dictatorship run by some crazy people, green or otherwise. I hope and pray President Obama is unwilling to even think about signing away American sovereignty.

Some say that even if President Obama ever signs the treaty, a treaty is only a treaty once ratified by 2/3 of the Senate. A president signing a treaty is merely a statement that his administration intends to follow the treaty. There is no way 2/3rd’s of our Senate would ever agree on any treaty on “climate change,” especially one based on a damaged data, at this time. Right? Yeah. Right.

Others say this is an international treaty that supersedes any constitution and all laws of the signatory Country. The U.S. constitution actually protects the treaty and guarantees its superior status simply because the constitution is so strong.

WITNESSES TO APOTHEOSIS

The Lord’s warning carries a question. If a dictatorial one world government is coming soon, then is the fulfillment of the Christian prophecy of the appearance of the fast-talking Antichrist who runs it (and us) in Christian prophecy also at hand?

Could be. Several bloggers are chattering about the possible appearance of the Two Witnesses who challenge the AC for 1260 days before the second coming of Jesus. If December 21, 2012 is the assumed End Date, then counting backward, the 1260 day period began on July 11, 2009, a date dripping with apocalyptic meaning (as we will see momentarily).

The Two witnesses described in Revelation 11:3-13 are called the Two Prophets, the Two Olive Trees and the Two Lampstands. They could be known very soon to the world by a miracle, say believers.

According to bible prophecy, at the end of the 1260 day time frame, the beast comes out of the pit and tries to stop them.  “When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.” (Rev. 11:7)

(If I’m right this will take place at the ‘bottomless pit’/particle accelerator/time travel device at CERN. Please see my article Discerning the God Particle: Scientists Build Stargate Device, Open a Black Hole and Fulfill Messianic Prophecy.

Even though the Two Witnesses are killed, God brings them to life.  “Now after the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. And theyheard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them.”  (Rev. 11:11-12)

The ascension ‘cloud’ is seen as a symbol for a UFO. Is it something else?

There are three primary viewpoints on the identity of the two witnesses in Revelation 11:3-12: (1) Moses and Elijah, (2) Enoch and Elijah, (3) two unknown believers whom God calls to be His witnesses in the end times. Enoch was taken to heaven where he became the archangel Metatron, guide of humanity. I don’t see him coming back to earth. The third possibility is the scariest. The two witnesses to the apotheosis may be us.

I lean toward the fourth possibility that the Two Witnesses are Elijah and one of us. Elijah assumed the role of an angel-like entity who ascends on high and continues to reveal himself at various occasions by descending to this world. He was last seen ascending into the heavens in a whirlwind. However, during Jesus’s life it was thought that Elijah reincarnated as John the Baptist, Christ’s forerunner (advance man). He appeared with Moses and Jesus at the Transfiguration (Matthew 17:3-4), in which Jesus transforms into light and then toggles back to flesh again. This event tells us much about the mission of the Two Witnesses. They are here to open the door (or stargate) of the Messiah.

The Transfiguration. Jesus is shown with an open purple gate/cloud behind him. Moses and Elijah appeared beside him. The Transfiguration will be repeated during the End Times or the end of the world when Christian believers will be transformed in the blink of eye into shining beings of light.

During the Transfiguration the voice of God the Holy Spirit was heard from a cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!” (Matthew 17:5) Here’s the cloud again. And the Holy Spirit speaks from it. Bono sings that She, the Holy Spirit, moves in “mysterious ways.” Indeed, there is a great mystery about this cloud. What was it? A UFO again? The Two Witnesses assuredly know. They are agents of the ultimate Disclosure.

PURPLE HAZE

I heard about Monckton’s apotheosis clip while in the midst of pondering the dream that inspired Jimi Hendrix to write “Purple Haze – Jesus Saves” (the song’s original title). I am intrigued by how Jimi’s dream seems to prophecy rapture, earth changes and more. It is also informative about the Two Witnesses and the cloud of ascension.

Jimi was walking under the ocean in a dream and there was a purple haze/cloud around him. He looked down upon the world and saw an unborn fetus waiting for its birth. At the same time he saw spirits of the dead leaving the earth. Screams from the children were reaching into the heavens. The earth became engulfed in a great flood, and later in the dream Jimi was walking under the sea. A purple haze surrounded him, engulfed him. He got lost in it. He was terrified (haze comes from hawze “terrify, frighten”), but Jesus saved him. Jesus was in the purple haze.

Here are the lyrics for Purple Haze: Jesus Saves:

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just don’t seem the same
Actin’ funny, but I don’t know why
‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky

Purple haze all around
Don’t know if I’m comin’ up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me

Help me help me
Oh no no… no

Yeah
Purple haze all in my eyes
Don’t know if it’s day or night
You’ve got me blowin, blowin my mind
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

No, help me aw yeah! oh no no oh help me…

Jimi’s encounter with Jesus in the terrifying other-dimensional purple cloud reminded me of the purple cloak worn by Jesus and the purple cloud that is painted behind him in Transfiguration scenes.

The purple cloud hazed or terrified the disciples

Jesus in the purple haze

The Transfiguration. Jesus wears the purple robe. The disciples, Peter, James and John are terrified. They’re purple hazed, like Jimi

Jesus descends into Limbo through a purple haze

Jesus wearing the purple robe stands between two lampstands at the gate or portal. “I stand at the door and knock.” From my 2006 book Starwalkers and the Dimension of the Blessed. Artwork by Dana Augustine.

As I discussed in Morph: The Secret of Light Body Activation, the Gnostics described the Purple Mantle or Robe in stories about inter-dimensional travel. In preparation for the journey into the cosmos the soul is given provisions, especially a purple garment or coverings to protect it. The Gnostics said is the gift of the soul. These ‘sheaths’ are ‘cosmic condoms’ the soul wears as it ‘kisses the sky’, or breaks open the door to heaven and travels through the wormholes that permeate the universe.

How do we kiss the sky (i.e. ascend)? In “Mysterious Ways” Bono also says if you want to kiss the sky, you better get on your knees, boy. Faith is certainly part of it. But if Bono, or anyone else, wants to kiss the sky, you really want to get a hold of that purple thingy, too.

Terrence McKenna thinks the purple garment is a magically empowered psychophysical substance generated out of the human body. It’s a time-bending substance that intimates the transfiguration or metamorphosis of the human body/mind into a higher dimensional state. The purple ooze manufactured by the body is space-time itself.

In my book, Freedom’s Gate, I noted the purple blanket (robe?) also appears neatly draped on the lap of the deified or metamorphosed George Washington in the painting The Apotheosis of George Washington. Here, again, the purple thingy is connected with apotheosis. It makes perfect sense that its there. Washington is portrayed on a rainbow as an ascended being traveling through the stars. You need the purple thingy to do so.

In the Apotheosis Washington is encircled by a ring or ‘gate’ of 72 stars, a ‘stargate’. 72 is a code number that refers to the Precession of the Equinoxes, the 26,000 year cosmic cycle that comes to a close on December 21, 2012. The number 72 sends up ‘pay attention, incoming info’ flags to apocalypse code-breakers. They connect statements about it to 2012.

Strangely, President Obama himself made reference to the curious code number 72 at the White House Correspondent’s dinner on May 9, 2009. As reported by the Washington Post:

When President Obama made his debut as the nation’s Stand-Up-in-Chief last night — the star attraction at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner — no one in his administration was safe from his one-liners.

Not Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: “The minute she got back from Mexico, she pulled me into a hug and said I should go down there myself.” Not Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: “This is a tough holiday for Rahm. He’s not used to saying the word ‘day’ after ‘mother.’” Not even, it turned out, himself: “During the second 100 days, we will design, build and open a library dedicated to my first 100 days.” And: “My next 100 days will be so successful, I will complete them in 72 days. And on the 73rd day, I will rest.”

The routine brought mostly guffaws from the 2,500 journalists, politicians and celebrities jammed into the Washington Hilton ballroom for the press corps’ annual celebration of itself.

Of course, they laughed because this is supposed to be funny. The funny thing is to conservative prophecy watchers Obama was not just mocking God. He was giving a timetable.

On the 72nd day of his presidency, President Obama and Pope Benedict held private talks for about 40 minutes in the pope’s frescoed study in the Vatican’s apostolic palace. The Vatican said bioethics and life issues were a central part of the discussion.

President Obama promised Pope Benedict that he would do everything possible to reduce the number of abortions in the United States, the Vatican said. In a surprise move, the pontiff gave Obama a booklet explaining Vatican opposition to practices such as abortion and embryonic stem cell research, which Obama supports.

Barack Obama’s 73rd day in office was Saturday, July 11th, that date positively dripping with Christian apocalyptic significance. It comes 1260 days before December 21, 2012 — the day the Mayan calendar ends.

Is the Apotheosis truly at hand? Is World Government here? Are the Two Witnesses presently doing their prophetic work? Are they in Copenhagen perhaps? Are the screams of earth’s children being heard in heaven? Is the ultimate Disclosure imminent? I can’t confidently answer any of the questions. However, I hope I’ve got you thinking about and praying about them.

A LIGHT WARRIOR’S CRY FOR THE RESURRECTION OF AMERICA

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

Abraham Lincoln, were he among us today, would stand on the gold dot in the center of the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, lift his eyes to the apotheosized or glorified George Washington in the Eye of the Dome he willed to raise, and weep. He would weep for the Soul of America. He would weep for us. Then, he’d spit some Beechnut in the eyes of the forces of spiritual tyranny that use economics, propaganda, psychological and spiritual warfare to destroy freedom and to enslave us. With clear eyes Lincoln would summon the mighty forces of the universe, and with a flaming heart he would proclaim this mystical crisis a soul rising, a fight to lift, heal and save the Soul of America, and a fight for free humanity everywhere, now and in the future.

Then, Lincoln would call all rising souls – “We the People of Earth” – to embody the mystical, but practical, wisdom offered by the immortal Battle Hymn of the Republic. This is America’s fight song against slavery (in all its forms). It is about attaining spiritual freedom. An American is any soul in pursuit of “life, liberty and blessedness” or spiritual freedom.

With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
As He died to make men holy, let us die/live to make men free,
While God is marching on.

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave;
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave, Our God is marching on.

Set to the music of “John Brown’s Body”, first known as “Canaan’s Happy Shore” or “Brothers, Will You Meet Me?”, the words of this majestic hymn (from hymen or ‘wedding song’) are cosmic. This song advocates Transfiguration – personal transformation, awakening of the ineffable spiritual body and ‘metamorphosis into light’  – by the divine power or glory of Christ (‘who is wisdom to the mighty’) as a protection against dark forces.

The Transfiguration described in the Battle Hymn occurred when Jesus took three disciples to a mountaintop and put on the bright white garments of light otherwise known as the Robe of Glory and the wedding garment.

The Transfiguration of Jesus. The huge blue aura surrounding Jesus is called a “glory”. The Battle Hymn says, “He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave

In Christian art the transfigured Jesus glows with rays or waves of glory. This celestial garment or ‘light body’ is thought of as a conveyor of the soul to the realm (or dimension) of light. Indeed, the light behind Jesus in Transfiguration art resembles a portal or a vortex. Moses and Elijah appeared beside Jesus. While he spoke with them a bright cloud cast a shadow over them. God spoke from the cloud. Terrified, the disciples fell prostrate. But Jesus came and touched their soul, saying, “Rise and do not be afraid” (Matthew 17:7).

SOUL RISING: THE ANSWER TO SLAVERY

Julia Howe received the words to the Battle Hymn in a dream/vision in November, 1861 during the early hours of the Civil War. Like many Christians of her era, she believed Judgment Day, as described in Revelation 20:12, was at hand.

In an article entitled “Religion In The Civil War: The Northern Side,” James Howell Moorhead of Princeton Theological Seminary provides important religious context for the Battle Hymn (and also the raising of the New Capitol Dome). Northern Protestants, Jews, and Catholics of America who ardently supported the war for the Union believed America held a special place in World history. A Northern victory would clear the way for the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom of God, the thousand years of peace that prepares the way for the Second Coming of Christ. The problem for the North was that the war going badly.

As Union forces suffered military defeats, Northerners began to view the losses as punishment by God. Church leaders sought new ways to rally the masses. Slavery was that issue.

Ministers began preaching that the only way America could win the War was to first eradicate slavery. In 1861 the President declared that his sole purpose was to preserve the Union. By the fall of 1862, Lincoln announced his intention to free slaves in those areas still in rebellion against the government. President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared within the rebellious states “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

The Battle Hymn appeared at the moment when the Northern view of the Civil War shifted from a battle to preserve the Union to an all-out spiritual battle for Liberation. It was received by Christians of the era as a warning to the entire nation of God’s Judgment for slavery. The song became the battle cry of the Union forces. Hallelujah (“praise Jehova”) or Allelulia was a battle cry in the Middle Ages and was credited with powerful victory-magic.  It was thought to kill the enemies fighting spirit.

President Abraham Lincoln wills the Capitol Dome to rise. Painting by Allyn Cox, House wing, first floor of the U.S. Capitol

The Battle Hymn stirred the soul of Lincoln who urged that construction of the New High Dome of the Capitol continue amidst protests from some who believed the mounting Capitol construction funds would be better used in the war effort. Amidst embattled skies the Dome of the Temple of Liberty rose like a great white mountain. When the statue of Freedom was placed on its peak in 1863 the Dome became a symbol for the millennial kingdom promised after Revelation 20:12. Constantino Brumidi’s fresco of the glorified Washington in the Eye of the Dome solidified the Capitol’s symbolism as a gateway to freedom. Indeed, a stargate to heaven. Thus, the Battle Hymn, the Capitol Dome and the Apotheosis of George Washington (more momentarily) fit together as symbols for America’s fight for Freedom, earthly and cosmic. They inspire us today.

MARTIN LUTHER KING: HIS EYES SAW THE GLORY

Martin Luther King Jr. frequently quoted the verses of the Battle Hymn in his speeches, most notably in his last speech, delivered on April 3, 1968 in Memphis, TN, and popularly called “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” King boldly likened himself to Moses and foretold his own assassination prior to the entry of the People into the Promised Land.

In calm, but evangelistic tones, King tells us “The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion is all around.” He points to the stars, and gradually his tone rises toward the dramatic climax of his apocalyptic speech. King says (www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0FiCxZKuv8), “And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”

At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Dr. King was murdered while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. A great man was cut down, but his dream lives on in millions of lives.

King used the Battle Hymn as it was intended to be used, as a battle cry to inspire us to wise up, to rise up against oppression, and commit ourselves to stand-up righteous (‘wise’) actions. Righteous is an early 16th century alteration of rightwise, from the Old English rihtwis, from riht “good” + wis “way”, meaning to sacrifice for a greater goal. The apostle Paul maintains the only way to achieve righteousness is through the Law of Moses or as a gift of grace that comes from faith in Christ. Jesus’ brother, James, however, links righteousness with action, saying “faith without works is dead” (James 2:14-26).

THE GOOD WAY

The Good Way of Righteousness is perhaps best explained in the Buddhist Eightfold Path: Right view, Right resolve, Right speech, Right action, Right livelihood, Right Effort, Right awareness. Right meditation. The Buddha taught the Noble 8-fold Path to his disciples so that they could achieve liberation from suffering.

In Buddhist thought, the word ‘right’ is understood to denote completion and coherence in addition to perfect and ideal. Righteousness is equated with enlightenment and self-awakening works.

In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus talked about the eight benefits of living in the divine light of righteousness. These benefits, or blessings, are known as the beatitudes, from the Latin word beatus or “blessed”.

According to Matthew’s version (Matt. 5: 3-12), the eight beatitudes or declarations of blessedness are:

1. Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
2. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
3. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
4. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
5. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
6. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
7. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs’ is the kingdom of heaven.

This “Good Way” or “God Way” to live is at the heart of the lasting legacy of the Battle Hymn. It is not a call to battle to the death, but a call to battle against the evils of a confused society and its leaders.  It is a call to transfigure (8) our highest selves and potentials. It is a call to becoming more righteous and putting on the blessed light body. It is a call to soul rising.

THE PILLAR OF LIGHT

Moreover, the Battle Hymn is a call to unity. In Jewish tradition, the union of righteous souls forms a luminous pillar of light or column of glory that leads souls to paradise. Tzaddik is one Hebrew name for this cosmic conduit between planes or dimensions. When the righteous souls in the world act righteously, then the pillar is strengthened, but if not – the pillar is weakened. The soul, if found worthy, ascends this column of glory and is given a pass to paradise.

Along the way we meet entities that have gone before us and are more knowledgeable, powerful, and even divine. For instance, the majestic figure Lord Melchizedek (Hebrew for “king of righteousness”) is seen as a divine being and a great ambassador of peace. In the Epistle to the Hebrews Jesus the Christ (“he is wisdom to the mighty”) is identified as a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

In William Holman Hunt’s “The Light of the World” Jesus is portrayed as the King of Righteousness. He wears the Crown of Salvation and a cloak, the Robe of Glory, with the Breastplate of Righteousness clasp.

The pillar of righteousness manifests the mystical Shekinah Glory or Divine Presence, which is visualized as a brilliant beam of white light or a rainbow that appears between the two cherubim of the Ark of the Covenant. This radiant spirit is viewed as the female manifestation of God, the enlightening Sophia Divine Wisdom, the bride of the male pillar. This is the light with which we must unite in order to see God (the Light) and achieve spiritual freedom. Prophecies of the return of Shekinah The Talmud teaches that the Shekinah Glory, the illumination is everywhere. The questing mystic merely needs to open his heart in order to see-feel-taste-hear-breathe into the Temple of Nine Gates, a.k.a. the human body. Another temple where one might seek her is the U.S. Capitol. Shekinah is called the angel of freedom. She stands atop the Dome of the U.S. Capitol, which Henry James intriguingly called “the ark of the American Covenant.”

“Freedom” by Thomas Crawford. This angel of freedom is Shekinah Glory. She was raised in 1863, just two years before the Battle Hymn was written.

Thomas Jefferson proposed using an emblem of the Shekinah Glory on the first seal of the United States of America to symbolize the creation of the Promised Land. The seal is ringed by Jefferson’s motto: “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.”

Thomas Jefferson’s proposal for the first seal of the United States of America. Drawing by Benson Lossing (1854). Astronomically, the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire is the Milky Way. During summertime, the Milky Way stands erect on the horizon and forms a ‘Stairway to Heaven’ or Jacob’s Ladder. The Mayans tell us the Cosmic Pillar will align with earth in 2012

Jefferson’s seal reminds us that the pillar of light will manifest. The Soul of America will be saved. The American Revolution in human rights will turn to the awakening, rising and shining of the collective soul of Earth. All our earthly problems will be solved. That is where we are today. That is why we are here.

GLORY AND TRANSFIGURATION

With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.

By invoking the words glory and transfiguration, Ms. Howe reminds us that renewing our mind and spirit in the image of the Transfigured Jesus is the key to Victory and Freedom.

The word transfigured comes from the Greek verb ‘metamorphoo’, meaning “changed in form” or “transformed.” We get our English word metamorphosis from it. It is a change of form: like a caterpillar into a butterfly or a tadpole into a frog. They go through a metamorphosis, a change of their forms.

This powerful and provocative word is used only four times in the New Testament. Matthew 17:1-9, Mark 9:2-9 and Luke 9:28-36 use it to describe the Transfiguration of Jesus.

In the well-known Romans 12:2 we are urged not to conform, but to “…be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

The fourth appearance of the word is in 2 Corinthians 3.18: “But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.”

Glory was used in Biblical writing to translate a Hebrew word which had a sense of “brightness, splendor, magnificence, majesty,” and this was subsequently translated as the Latin gloria, which has colored that word’s meaning in most European tongues.

By using the word transfiguration, Matthew, Mark and Luke highlight a substantial change in Jesus. He became glorified. Not just a superficial, external change, not a vision, glory is a substantial transformation of his whole being into bright, majestic light. In The Interpreters Bible commentary on Exodus 34:29-35, it is stated that “when Moses talked with God, the skin of his face shown.” The Septuagint translation says it was ‘glorified.’ The light of the Shekhinah or Divine Presence was communicated or transmitted to Moses on the mountaintop.

In 1986, Jane Schuyler, an art historian and professor at York College, CUNY, published an article about the beautiful woman under God’s arm in the “Creation of Adam” panel. Many assume this character is a preview of Eve, but Schuyler thinks this mystery woman could represent Shekinah, God’s female beloved from Kabbalah.

Michaelangelo’s Creation of Adam

According to Doliner and Blech, Kabbalah is the key to cracking the code of many of Michelangelo’s hidden messages. This clue came from a tourist from Indiana who looked up at the famous panel of “The Creation of Adam” and was reminded of something else.

“In the late 1970s, a surgeon went into the Sistine Chapel, took a look at this [fresco]. He said to himself, wait, this is Anatomy 101.… This is actually a cross-section of the brain, the right hand side of the brain,” Blech said.  “Now, what’s interesting is in Kabbalah we have different kinds of wisdom,” said Doliner. “The right side of the human brain in Kabbalah means wisdom – chokhma.” God is appearing from the right side of the brain in that fresco.

God is wrapped in a purple cloak or mantle within the shape of a cross-section of the right side of the brain. On close examination, the borders in the painting correlate with sulci in the inner and outer surface of the brain, the brain stem, the basilar artery, the pituitary gland and the optic chiasm. Michaelangelo’s message is God is a Thought

In order to enter the light of Transfiguration, the Battle Hymn implores us to overcome fear, to rise as souls, and to make a connection with a body of wisdom/Christ Consciousness as a light that “comes like the glory of the morning on a wave.”

Glory is represented by a glowing golden halo or a circle of light. The golden halo symbolizes the Divine Presence

Simply, the Battle Hymn challenges us to go to the mountain top, open the tomb encasing our soul, let the light shine on and Transfigure us. Only then are we ready for the righteous pillar of rising souls.

PRACTICE

So, how do we achieve glory? Clues are found in all the world’s spiritual traditions.

In ancient Egyptian belief, upon which the Christian model of Transfiguration is based, the realized soul achieves glory and joins the Divine Source (Divine Love). Likewise, the Bible tells us that Jesus achieved glory only after his death and Resurrection:

“…God, that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory…” (1 Peter, 1:21)

Union with the Divine Source, glory, and the tradition of the Judgment day and an accounting for our actions in life are linked in Egyptian tradition.

The Judgment was introduced after the collapse of the Old Kingdom, during which the king as son of Horus had been immortal and as god beyond reproach. But, as ordinary mortals began to hope and prepare for eternal life, “deification” or “apotheosis” was made conditional on the moral conduct of the deceased when he had still been alive. It became possible for all righteous people to attain immortality in their own right – after successfully passing the examination or interview of the gods.

The Coffin Texts speak of the Day of Judgment when the soul enters the further world, or “the lightland” in human form (the immortal afterlife image is portrayed in the likeness of the mortal person).

The Weighing of the Heart ceremony. The initiate’s heart is weighed against the feather of Maat (‘cosmic truth’). If successful, the soul enters the blessed realm of Osiris

Once the deceased was justified/balanced or found righteous in the eyes of the immortals he became worthy of divine protection and guidance:

May Isis kneel over you and wash your newborn form, may she set you
on the good path of those who are judged innocent
in the face of any enemies who’d accuse you before the judges of Tomb-world,
on the blessed day you pass beyond.

– Coffin Texts, CT 6

I go a road I recognize,
The one that leads to the island of the blessed
I travel to the horizon of existence, to the land of transfigured souls,
I come through the holy portal.

– Coffin Texts, CT 335

The holy portal is called the gate of Shu, said to be the god of the space and light between earth and sky. This portal is the entrance into the afterlife.

and he became a judge of men himself:
I shall see light-land! I shall dwell in it. I shall judge the poor and the wealthy.

– Coffin Texts, CT 1030

When the mortal light warrior battles his way out of matter and approaches the Light-land, the Ritual of the Egyptians states, “his members become like those of the gods. He goeth forth in pure spirit.” In this glorified body the soul is able to cross the narrow portal or gate to this higher world. Perfect enlightenment is achieved in an instant. It is viewed as the consummation of the second birth, when “he raises his soul and hides his body.”

The Light-land is the ‘real world’. This Divine Matrix or vibrational essence is perceptible only with the fourth-dimensional consciousness accessed through the heart portal

THE GLORY OF LIGHT LAND

Jesus (Ye-shu or Ye-shu-ain Hebrew) speaks of the glory of the Light-land in Chapter 84 of the Second Book of the Pistis Sophia, saying: “And if I lead you into the Light-land, that is into the Treasury of the Light, and ye see the glory in which they are …”

Jesus is clearly affirming the ancient Egyptian belief in a glorified realm, called Light-land, where dwells a race of glorified/Transfigured beings who live in a permanent state of love. This is the lost secret, a secret that came from the Light-land.

In Christian art the resurrected Jesus is portrayed in glory on his Rainbow Throne of Judgment. He radiates Divine Love, symbolized in Christian art by glowing rays of rainbow light.  That’s glory.

Jesus on the ark or rainbow throne of glory. Archangel Michael holds the scales

“In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,” says the Battle Hymn. The Lotus flower or water lily has for thousands of years symbolized spiritual enlightenment. It represents spiritual liberation, divine perfection and the unfolding of spiritual consciousness within the individual. Christ’s birth among the lilies signifies his purity

The glorious spiritual body is called the Rainbow Body in Tibet. Also called the Great Perfection, it is the highest form of spiritual attainment. The Tibetans say it is taught in 13 star systems in addition to our own

In light of the Great Perfection tradition, it is eye opening to observe that George Washington is portrayed on the rainbow throne of Glory and surrounded by 13 star maidens in the painting The Apotheosis of George Washington in the Dome of the U.S. Capitol. Constantino Brumidi painted this icon in 1865. He surely knew the inspiring words to the Battle Hymn having spent the Civil War years painting in the Capitol.

George Washington on the Rainbow of Glory in front of the sun (star) gate. Two of the star maidens hold a ribbon inscribed E. Pluribus Unum (“Out of many. One.”). This is the name of the spiritual republic of free souls

In our book Freedom’s Gate: The Lost Symbols in the U.S. Capitol, Dr. Mark Gray and I decoded the U.S. Capitol as a Temple of Ascension. Its symbolism, we documented, is about the transformation of individuals into gods or apotheosis. After contemplating the words and intentions of America’s Founders we concluded that True Freedom is the same as enlightenment. Liberty is the awakening of higher human consciousness, the cosmic consciousness of the gods. Glory is the (transmittable) light (and knowledge) of heaven, which is attained by the highest spiritual achievement.

Freedom is enlightenment. Enlightenment is Freedom.
Liberty is cosmic consciousness. Cosmic consciousness is Liberty.
Glory is the light of heaven. The light of heaven is Glory.

The halo is the Christian symbol for apotheosis(rapture). Revelation 10:1 describes  this halo: “Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars.”

As noted, glory is represented by a glowing golden halo or a circle of light. Being filled with spiritual light, the glorious ones have an intense glowing. This ethereal light gradually transforms the body itself into a more ethereal substance.

In ancient Egypt the circled dot is the symbol for light.

The circled dot

The circled dot is the Eye of God

This ideogram seems to have been used in every cultural sphere on earth. Wherever it appears, it has the same meaning: the sun or something that is closely associated with the sun. In alchemy it is the symbol for gold. It is the symbol for the totality of all things, the Divine Source, (the Monad) in Pythagoreanism.

In esoteric astrology the circled dot represents the creative spark of divine consciousness that exists in every individual linking him or her to the Divine Source and origin of life, and making him or her the co-creator of the world. This spark of consciousness is the self.

In alchemy it is the symbol for gold. It is the symbol for the totality of all things and the achievement of glory. It may be thought of as the Ring of Glory. As a ring it is a vibration, a frequency attained by wedding our soul with the vibrational essence of the Divine Matrix, the Dimension of the Blessed or the Light-world. How do we achieve the Ring of Glory? We do so by embodying the 8-fold path and acting righteously. Fill your daily life with right actions, mystical actions, spiritual actions.

Actions are the key to fulfillment. On a fresh piece of paper draw a circle as large as you can make it. Put a dot in the center of the circle.  Write “whole, holy, complete, 360” inside the circle. Assess your life. How whole are you? Pick a number on a scale of one to ten. If, for example, you are at a 5 think of all the things you are doing mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally that define “5”. Now, imagine what you will be doing when you are at, say, a 7. What are new things you will enjoy doing mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally at a 7 that you are not presently doing. List those things. Try to come up with 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 new and different new things that the more whole and complete you will be doing. Now, prioritize this list from perceived easiest to perceived most difficult. Then, do those new things …and only those things. Your frequency or ring will change as a result.

MICHAEL’S ARMY

In Kabbalistic mysticism, the archangel Michael was related to the sun and the day of the sun, Sunday. Thus was the circled-dot sign used to represent Michael.

Michael the archangel, dressed somewhat like a Roman soldier, about to slay the devil (in the form of a dragon) with a fiery sword. He has a shield with the Latin phrase QUIS UT DEUS? “Who is like unto God?”, which is a literal translation of the Hebrew name Mi-Ka-‘El

Guido Reni‘s archangel Michael (in the Capuchin church of Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome, 1636) tramples Satan

Freedom in the Apotheosis of George Washington

We can now appreciate the similarity between Michael and Freedom as the “guardian angel” of George Washington in the Apotheosis of George Washington in the Dome of the U.S. Capitol. Both are spiritual or ‘light warriors’ who stamp out tyranny in all its forms.

Freedom protects the glorified Washington. She wears the spiritual garb of the Cosmic Freedom Fighters or “light warriors” as described in the book of Ephesians:

“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

Stand firm then,
with the belt of truth buckled around your waist,
with the breastplate of righteousness in place,
and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.

In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Take the helmet of salvation and
the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.

– Ephesians 6:11-18

At any given moment the human soul can connect with the Divine Glory and envelop itself in this six-fold veil/cloak of the Light Warrior. It is our intrinsic nature.

What are we waiting for?

Even if we achieve only one piece of this armor we will benefit immensely.
As the Holy One says, “Offer me an opening no bigger than the eye of a needle, and I will widen it into openings through which wagons and carriages can pass.”

Vishnu. Eighth century. (Museum Nasional, Jakarta) Vishnu here is represented as a handsome youth in the attire of an ancient king. He is seen in necklaces, a bejeweled waist belt and a high royal crown. Vishnu holds the discuss, symbol of the mind. In the lower right hand he holds the mace, symbol of primeval knowledge. In the upper left hand which represents the tendency towards dispersion and liberation, Vishnu holds the conch, symbol of the five elements.

Take a moment now to imagine putting on these symbols and feeling the presence of power they embody. Right meditation.

Begin your journey by Standing Up in the Sandals of Peace. These ‘magic shoes’ plug into the magnetic core of the earth to keep us centered, grounded. Feel the sandals activate your body. Note that the sandals have wings. Right livelihood.

Next, put on the starry crown, the halo or Helmet of Salvation. Enter the state of mental clarity, universal consciousness, cosmic consciousness. Right view. Right awareness.

Put on the Breastplate of Righteousness. Gently awaken your heart. Feel “glory in your bosom” and the frequency of compassion radiating from deep inside and with it a new luminescence, a light that fills your body with a glow. Right effort.

Put on the Belt of Truth. Right resolve.

Hold the Sword of Truth in your hand. Without the ‘s’ Sword is Word. The Word is the life force energy. The Word is LOVE. Right use of this energy brings protection, health and security creating the Shield (‘force field’) of Faith that grows stronger with use. Right speech.

We are now well on our way to embodying the cloak of the light warrior. As a consequence we are now able to open a direct channel with the Divine Source. We strengthen the Pillar of Light. Right action.

Finally, imagine a majestic cloud of light hovering above your body. This is the Shekinah. Allow the light of the Shekinah to descend, surrounding you with a rainbow glory around your body. Feel your body being to vibrate at the highest frequency possible.

As the traditional Jewish bedtime prayer says: “May Michael be at my right, Gabriel at my left, Uriel in front of me, Raphael behind me, and above my head, the Shekinah – the Divine Presence.”

Now, your soul is rising.

Mine Eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

THE SERAPHIC ECSTACY OF SAINT FRANCIS AND HIS TRANSFORMATION INTO THE SECOND CHRIST

Since my trip to Assisi, Italy in April, 2010 I have become infatuated with the story of Saint Francis, the 13th century Catholic ascetic, whose life arc took him from a life of wealth and privilege to self chosen material poverty and on to the highest spiritual heights, even becoming known as “Jesus’ brother” and the Second Christ. This title was bequeathed upon him when he became the first person to receive the stigmata, the five wounds of the crucified Christ. This happened through a profound mystical encounter with an apparition of Jesus as a seraphim angel who beamed five rays of light into Francis’s flesh. I devote two chapters of my new DVD presentation, SOUL RISING, to an exploration of the seraphim and the extraordinary imagery depicting this soul rising encounter and thought I would offer an introduction here.

The light of Assisi embraces one upon arrival. One has to go to actually absorb the Divine feel and true power of this very special place

The Stigmatization of St Francis, Sassetta, National Gallery, London.
1437-44

The Stigmatization of Saint Francis. Fra Angelico. Golden rays extend from the red winged Jesus as a Christ Angel directly to Francis

Giotto’s Stigmata of Francis, Assisi, Italy

CRUCIFIED BY DESIRE?

Recently, a friend brought me a copy of Parabola magazine. She thought I would be interested in Matthew J. Sills insightful article “Crucified By Desire: The Stigmata of Saint Francis and Desire for God.” My friend was right, but for a different reason than she might have thought.

As Sills notes, Francis was understood by his contemporaries to be someone completely taken over and transformed by his spiritual desire to link with Christ. It was his desire, say some observers, rather than a profound mystical experience with an apparition of Jesus that transformed Francis and caused the stigmata wounds. (Of course, some believe the gentle holy man’s ‘legendary’ physical ailments were due to malaria and an eye infection contracted in Egypt.)

The likely source for this linkage is THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE DESIRE OF A SOUL, written by Thomas of Celano soon after the death of Francis.  Thomas recounts Francis’s vision of Jesus speaking to him from the Byzantine image of a crucified Jesus at San Damiano, a dilapidated church near Assisi. Christ is alive on the crucifix. His eyes are wide open, as if contemplating his ascension, which is portrayed just above his head. The voice from the crucifix commanded Francis to “go rebuild My house.” As a result of this vision Francis went about repairing the church at San Damiano and reforming the Catholic Church.

San Damiano crucifix that spoke to Francis

Thomas says soon after the vision (which is thought to have occurred in 1205) Francis’s body began to change. “From that time on, compassion for the Crucified was impressed into his holy soul. And we honestly believe the wounds of the sacred Passion were impressed deep in his heart, though not yet on his flesh.”

It is clear that Thomas believed that the seeds of the stigmata were planted in Francis’s gentle heart at the moment the Crucifix spoke and would later manifest/germinate in his body as the stigmata after Francis’s encounter with Jesus as a seraphim. But that happened later.

In 1209 Francis took a respite from rebuilding churches around Assisi, gathered a small group of followers and courageously headed to Rome to seek papal authority from Pope Innocent III to launch a new monastic order based on piety, poverty and service. In stark contrast to the powerful pope, who in July, 1209, launched a monstrous genocidal attack on the ‘heretical’ Cathars of Southern France, exterminating as many as one million men, women and children, Francis was humble and selfless, and becoming widely known for living a godly life in Assisi. Prior to his arrival, Innocent had a dream in which he saw a humble man dressed in a robe supporting the Lateran basilica in Rome. Innocent approved Francis’s request. Fed by his friend, Saint Clare, Francis opened the doors to a new order of the Church. This one was open to heretics.

Francis and Clare. A son is born to the world.” With these words, in the Divine Comedy (Paradiso, Canto XI), the greatest Italian poet, Dante Alighieri, alludes to Francis’ birth, which occurred at the end of 1181 or the beginning of 1182, in Assisi. In the Divine Comedy, Dante describes Assisi as the Orient, the place where the sun rises (Canto XI Paradiso, 52-54). It is within this mediaeval context of cosmology that we have to understand the life and times of Francis of Assisi and of Clare, his “pianticella”, or little plant.

Icon of The Holy Conversation of Saints Francis and Clare. Marek Czarnecki. Commissioned by the Holy Trinity Franciscan Friary, Harlan KY. An original prototype, designed to illustrate an event from the saints’ lives. Francis and Clare would retire to the woods near Assisi to converse with each other. The villagers of Assisi, seeing a red glow over the forests ran with buckets of water to douse what they assumed was a fire. Instead, they found Francis and Clare, seated in a clearing, rapt in conversation surrounded by a holy fire. The icon shows the fulfillment of Christ’s promise in the gospel: “Where two or more are gathered in my name, I am there with them”. The figure of the Risen Christ is in their midst, blessing and connecting them from within a red mandorla of seraphs.

As I discuss in detail in SOUL RISING, I am utterly fascinated by the concept that a piece of art, in this case a crucifix, could transmit a holy message to Francis.

Additionally, I wonder if it is possible that an additional layer of mystical or sacred energy was also transmitted to Francis through the San Damiano Crucifix.

Another biographer of Saint Francis, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, lends support for this, writing in THE MAJOR LEGEND OF SAINT FRANCIS that, through the stigmata, the “true love of Christ transformed the lover INTO HIS IMAGE.”

One needs to analyze their own heart and what happens to their heart when they truly love something or someone to comprehend the statement, “The true love of Christ transformed the lover INTO HIS IMAGE.”

Our question is whether or not it is possible for the “True Love” frequency of Christ to have been transmitted through the painting of a crucified Jesus.

Art, especially sacred art, has extraordinary, even supernatural, power. Saint Catherine of Siena received the stigmata from a crucifix. I saw our Lord fastened upon the cross coming down towards me and surrounding me with a marvelous light…Then there came down from the holes of his blessed wounds five bloody beams, which were directed towards the same parts of my body: to my hands, feet, and heart. This was how, according to legend, Saint Catherine of Siena described receiving the stigmata.

Saint Catherine receiving the stigmata in five rays beaming from a painting of a crucified Jesus. Domenico Beccafumi. 1513-1515. Getty Museum

The basic premise of palmistry is that what is in the mind, manifests in the palms of the hands. Psychologist Dr. Mario Martinez, who studied stigmatics for the Vatican, states in his theory of Biocognition that “where the mind goes, the biology follows.” He documented the case of a woman in California who exhibited the stigmata wounds after obsessively reading about the Crucifixion.

From this we may deduce that it is possible that Francis’s faith in and desire (obsession?) to be like/with the crucified Jesus alone sparked the bodily transformation. Additionally, his reflection on the True Love of Christ (rather than his suffering) could have transformed him into his image.

However, according to the story of Saint Francis, there was indeed another force involved. An apparition of Jesus as a seraphim angel appeared to Francis, and in a moment of seraphic ecstacy, ‘beamed’ him the stigmata wounds.

JESUS APPEARS AS A SERAPHIM

As the story goes, during the Lent of 1224, Francis was meditating on Mount Alverna, near his home in Assisi. His mind and heart tuned, as he frequently did, upon the suffering of Christ. While pouring out his love for Him, we are told, Francis beheld the crucified Christ borne aloft by six wings (as a seraphim). In a moment of seraphic ecstasy, he who had sought to imitate Christ in all things, actually received the marks of crucifixion on his body.

Observers described Francis’s wounds as “nail-like…round and black, standing clear of his flesh.” His side appeared to have been lanced. During the days that followed his clothing was soaked in blood. The marks remained until his death and reportedly caused him great pain. His hands and feet were bandaged because the marks caused him so much pain.

SERAPHIC ECSTACY is the term I use for being ‘beamed’ by rays of golden light from Jesus as a seraphim angel

St. Francis of Assisi receives the stigmata , fresco, XV century, Caltignaga, Chiesa dei Santi Nazzaro e Celso (Sologno)

The Stigmata of Francis of Assisi” from 18th century by unknown author at the Viceregal Museum of Zinacantepec, Mexico State

The Ecstacy of St. Francis, Sassetta. He stands in a radiant gateway surrounded by red seraphim angels

Detail of the The Ecstacy of St. Francis

Caravaggio, St. Francis in Ecstasy c. 1595 Oil on canvas,
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut. Francis swoons in ecstasy as an angel supports him. With one eye open, the saint seems to see something hidden from us

Giovanni Bellini, St Francis in Ecstasy, 1480-85, the Frick Collection, New York. Francis stands barefoot (he’s on sacred ground) with his heart open to the mysterious light emanating from the upper left-hand corner

For some, accepting this story requires too large a leap of the imagination. Church authorities have not recognized St. Francis’s stigmata as “divine intervention”. Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) said he was “doubtful.” St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) at first believed the marks were the result of heavenly action but later came to judge them as “a product of strong compassion in a person thinking about Jesus’ suffering.” Pope Pius (1846-1878), like many of his predecessors, believed that St. Francis’ stigmata were “historically certain but not an article of faith.” The Church’s opinion is that this phenomenon occurs only in ecstatics, persons in a state of “ecstasy,” reportedly a common denominator in all stigmata claims.

Ecstasy is described as an intensely emotional state in which rational thought and self-control are absent. It is a late 14th century word meaning “in a frenzy or stupor, excited.” It’s from the Greek ekstasis, meaning “entrancement.” Ecstasy is further defined as (http://www.dictionary.net/ecstasy):

The state of being beside one’s self or rapt out of one’s self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.

Some are uneasy with the implications of this account. It raises profound questions, beginning with exactly how did Francis enter the transformative state of ecstasy, and why did Jesus appear as a winged angel? I shall propose an answer to the latter question here.

THE SERAPHIM

As I discuss in SOUL RISING, the term Seraphim means “winged and/or fiery serpents”. They are the highest order of angels and are considered to be beings of pure light and pure love. They dwell at the Throne of God. However, they can manifest in our world. It is said that they shine so bright that any, save for the pure of heart, would be incinerated in their presence.

According to Renaissance thought, the Seraphim are a different type of human being, a fully transfigured one. Their bodies are immortal bodies of light and are therefore able to hold the highest frequencies of love and light. We can become Seraphim by meditating exclusively on the love of the Creator, say Renaissance thinkers.

Seraphim are portrayed in Christian art surrounding the Throne of God, guarding the (Star) Gate of Eden and at the birth and death of Jesus. On occasion they are shown on the Cross of crucifixion or with Jesus gently cradling one. It is unheard of to see the Resurrected Jesus portrayed as a Seraphim, except in the story of Saint Francis.

A seraphim from Migne’s Patrologia Latina

Seraphim. Mont Sainte-Odile, Alsace, France

A smiling seraphim

Fresco depicting Paradise guarded by a seraph. The long bird legs are intriguing

A seraphim appeared in Ezekiel’s vision of the “throne chariot” of God, 1670

Vicktor Vasnetsov, Russian Museum. The seraphim levitate on either side of the Throne of Jesus

Seraphim. Vicktor Vasnetsov, Russian Museum

A seraphim on the Cross of Crucifixion

Jesus/Seraphim and the Cross

A seraphim stands at the gate between worlds and watches over the entombed Jesus

The Divine Throne flanked by the red-winged seraphim

SERAPHIC ECSTACY AND THE RAINBOW BODY

In SOUL RISING I present my hypothesis of the connection between the seraphim and the Tibetan lamas who have achieved the Rainbow Body of light and ascension into a higher order of being. In Tibetan art lamas who have entered into the Rainbow Body of light are shown with vortex-like bodies composed of swirling or spinning five-rayed or five-colored colored rainbow light. By raising the vibration of the soul, they have dissolved the elements of the human body into pure energy that manifests as five rays or bands of light.

Jesus is considered to be a being of pure light and pure love. He is shown surrounded by a rainbow in Resurrection art and on a rainbow throne in Last Judgment scenes. This is the Rainbow Resurrection Body of Christianity and, I propose, it is the same as the Rainbow Body of light and the higher frequency body of the seraphim. Additionally, the five stigmata beams or rays coming from Jesus correspond to the five rays of the Rainbow Body of light.

The twisting or vortex-shaped bodies of the seraphim suggest rotation and match the swirling or twirling, and liquid-like, Rainbow Body of light. This is the pure form in which the Next Humans appear

A collection of icons comparing and interconnecting Jesus on the rainbow ring in Last Judgment art with Tibetan Rainbow Body of light art. As Isaiah 60:1 says, “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” I connect the glory that rises within us with the glowing rays (glow rays) of the Rainbow Body of light.

In light of my equation of the Rainbow Body of light with the higher frequency light body of the seraphim it makes perfect sense why Jesus would appear as an apparition of a seraphim to Francis

Interestingly, the word apparition means specter,” from L. spectrum “appearance, image, apparition,” from specere “to look at, view,” meaning “band of colors formed from a beam of light”. One can only presume to imagine the ecstasy a holy man like Francis must have felt were he touched by the full-spectrum Rainbow Light Body/Resurrection Body of Jesus.

THE SERAPHIM AND THE THRONE OF GOD

The six ‘wings’ of the seraphim also corresponds with the six points of the Merkaba “chariot” of Jewish mysticism. According to the verses in Ezekiel and its attendant commentaries, the analogy of the Merkaba image consists of a chariot made of many angels being driven by the “Likeness of a Man.

The six points of the Merkaba throne correspond to the six wings of the seraphim

Four angels form the basic structure of the Divine Throne

These angels are called the living creatures. Their bodies are like that of a human being, but each of them has four faces, corresponding to the four directions the chariot can go (north, east south and west). The faces are that of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle. The seraphim as the four angels make their most memorable appearances in the visions of Ezekiel (1:4-28, 10:3-22), Isaiah (6:2-6), and Rev 4:6-8:

And before the throne there was a sea of glass, and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. Each of the four living creatures had six wings and were full of eyes inside and out. Without stopping day or night they were saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, and who is coming very soon.

This 13th century illumination shows the four living creatures surrounding Jesus on the Divine Throne/Chariot. He is in a vesica shape, which indicates a portal or gateway. In SOUL RISING, I discuss the possibility that Jesus does not stay ‘parked’ on the Throne all the time. Instead, he travels through it, even coming to earth. In his vision of the apparition of Jesus as a seraphim, Francis describes the Divine Throne.

Jesus in the almond-shaped gateway and riding upon the Divine Throne/Chariot

Franics as a seraphim. Frontispice, Pedro de Alva y Astorga, Naturae Prodigium Gratiae Portentum (Prodigy of Nature, Portent of Grace), Madrid, 1651. The Lilly Library, Indiana University. Bernardo Mendel Collection

The book for which this print serves as a frontispiece is one of the most important works elaborating the mystical concept of Saint Francis as a second Christ. A hybrid being with two wings hiding its face is presented in this image. The left half is Christ, and the right half is Saint Francis. In the background on the left, Nazareth and Calvary symbolize the beginning and end of Jesus’s life. On the right half we find Assisi and Alverna, the birthplace of Francis and the place where he experienced the Seraphic Ecstacy and transformation through the stigmata. Above the view of Assisi is the inscription from the Office of Saint Francis: “To whom the King came, seraphically clothed from heaven: covered by a veil of six wings, a miraculous portent.”

THE GENTLE HEART

While reading Sills’ Parabola article I experienced a wonderful synchronicity. I kept jumping to a page featuring the exquisite Bhutanese painted Thanka below of a Buddha achieving the Rainbow Body of light. Each time I turned to the painting I wondered what happened to the rest of the article about Francis? The third time I did it I realized this image was part of an article called GENTLE HEART, a story about the Buddha encountering a woman named Gentle Heart.

Bhutanese painted thanka of the Jataka Tales, 18th-19th century, Phajoding Gonpa, Thimphu, Bhutan

Reading between the pages of Parabola, I received confirmation, or maybe encouragement, to continue linking the seraphim and the Rainbow Body of light.

Francis certainly lived the way of the gentle heart, the way of the Buddha. In my view, his desire, coupled with his reflection on the true love of Christ, tuned his soul to a faster, gentler vibration, one that could have put him at an ecstatic frequency in which he could received, humbly, the golden rays of a gentle, loving seraphim. It is this vibration that permeates the air and soil of Assisi. I can’t wait to return.

Thanks to Arthur C. Clarke, in the brave new world of planet ‘End-timea’ (that strange world on the corner of Now and 2012), the biggest story of 2010 was supposed to be UFO Disclosure or even – greetings, earthlings – the Event, full-blown First Contact or revelation of the existence of extraterrestrial Visitors.

Indeed, a lot happened in 2010.

After UFO disclosure by the UK, Denmark, Sweden and Uruguay governments in the last two years, the New Zealand government released its x-files about UFOs. Famed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking told us aliens are out there (perhaps dwelling in the center of stars or floating in interplanetary space) and they might be malevolent. And the Pope’s astronomer spoke of baptizing aliens (that is, if they have souls and only if they ask him).

Still, some Disclosure watchers had grander visions of enormous cosmic disks twirling silently in the skies above our major cities or President Obama introducing smiling and waving humanoid (like us, but taller and smarter) extraterrestrials on TV (telling Oprah who they are or something like that).

SOLAR MAX

Actually, 2010’s most important celestial story may have been about another celestial disk, our Sun, waking up. To paraphrase astrophysicist Dr. Paul LaViolette, ‘Earth is under fire’ from our restless Sol. This is big news.

Scientists warn that from 2011 till mid 2013 we will see more and potentially destructive stellar activity as the Sun enters the most active part of its cycle known as “solar max.” Noting that this activity coincides with the end of the Mayan calendar, prophets warn this period will see dramatic signs in the sky (coinciding with even more tyrannical governance in the name of fighting terrorism, even louder high-pitched ringing in our ears, more body ache from scaling the new frequency or tone as we morph into a new species and, generally, more cosmic wonderment or weirdness).

Could the Sun’s awakening and light show be a ‘just in time’ cosmic anointing in tides of light and the prelude to fulfillment of Mayan and Christian End Time prophecy?

It’s beginning to look that way.

Here’s what’s happening.

A full-disk multi wavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the sun taken by SDO on March 30, 2010. (Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO AIA Team)

Increased solar activity could give residents of the continental U.S., southern Europe and Japan the chance to see the northern lights for the first time in several years

‘SUN, SON, SUN, HERE IT COMES…’

After an unusually long period of low activity, a series of powerful solar events took place on August 1, 2010, where nearly the entire Earth-facing side of the Sun erupted in a tumult of activity, with a large solar flare, a solar tsunami, multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the solar surface, radio bursts, and half a dozen coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

SUN STORMS: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory snapped this multi-wavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the sun, showing the Aug. 1, 2010, solar eruption that blasted charged particles toward Earth. The Class C3 solar flare triggered stunning aurora displays and geomagnetic storms on Earth that lasted about 12 hours. (Photo: NASA)

Solar Max 2012? Newly discovered evidence by NASA predicts that a super solar storm coming in mid-May 2012-2013, which occurred on Earth in 1805, could occur again and knock out all electricity on the planet, taking us back 100 years. Image credit: www.nswp.gov/

As the Sun awakens, NASA is keeping a close eye on space weather (and wondering what’s going on in our solar system and, indeed, the galaxy?!!!). Some are warning of potentially catastrophic events to come between now and mid-May 2012-2013. Others say they’ve been hearing this solar “kill shot” BS for years and nothing’s happened.

Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, explains what it’s all about: “The Sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms.” The intersection of these two issues is foremost on the minds of space scientists.

The National Academy of Sciences framed the problem two years ago in a landmark understatement entitled “Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts.”

It noted how people of the 21st-century rely on high-tech systems for the basics of daily life. Smart power grids, GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications can all be temporarily knocked out (or even wiped out) by intense solar activity. In other words, basically everything upon which our lives now depend is at risk in the coming years.

A century-class solar storm, the Academy warned, could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina. That would be a two trillion dollar disaster!

Lights out! Earth at night, NASA satellite photo. What would it be like if all this suddenly went away?

Much of the damage can be mitigated if managers know a storm is coming. Putting satellites in ‘safe mode’ and disconnecting transformers can protect these assets from damaging electrical surges. Preventative action, however, requires accurate forecasting – a job that has been assigned to NOAA.

SOHO peers into the heart of Sun. This is what you’d find inside the Sun and other stars like it. The center is the core, where the Sun produces energy from nuclear reactions. Next is the radiative zone, where the radiation streams outwards. Then in the convective zone, the radiation rises to the surface in convective cells. Lastly there is the photosphere — the ‘surface’ if you like. Image credit: NASA/ESA

BISON observes ripples generated deep within the Sun’s heart. Although we can’t see it without special equipment, the Sun is shaking. Bubbling motion just under the visible surface is constantly feeding in energy, and the Sun responds by vibrating like a colossal musical instrument.

ATON ATONATIUH

Several prophetic traditions, including the Inca, foretell of immense changes during our time. As Kathy Doore observes, the Inca prophecies say that now, in this age, when the eagle of the North and the condor of the South fly together, the Earth will awaken. The eagles of the North cannot be free without the condors of the South.

The Aztecs also paid very close attention to the movement of the Sun and their calendar is second only to the Mayan in accuracy. For Aztecs, Tonitiuh was the god of sun and Tollan, the Aztec heaven. Interestingly, the original Mayan name homeland was called Tollan or Tula and it was from Tula where Quetzalcoatl ruled. Mayan prophecy says he’s expected to return in 2012.

The Aztec Calendar and the Sun. At the center of the Aztecs’ calendar stone is the sun god, Tonatiuh. He is surrounded 20 day symbols. Tonatiuh’s Face is the face of the sun, Lord of Heaven, around which takes place all daily and periodic phenomena

The face of Tonatiuh is in the center circle of the solar stone. Around the face are four squares called Nahui- Ollin, or Four Movement. According to Aztec legend, these squares represented the different ways that the four previous suns (or worlds) had come to an end: first by wild animals, then by wind, by fire, and by floods. The Aztecs believed they were living in the fifth and last world

I am fascinated by the similarity between the names and meaning of the names Tonatiuh (tona = to the sun and heat, tiuh = ir) and Aton, the name of the Disk during the reign of Akhenaton. This revolutionary thinker asserted that the Aton, “the Heat or Energy within the Disk” – also interpreted as the light that illuminates the Sun – transcended and comprehended all other images of Divinity.

A disk with rays extending from it symbolized the Aton. The rays culminate in delicate hands that offer the “ankh” or key of life symbol. No other image was allowed in the temples. It reminded worshippers that the Essence of the Sun – the “heat” or the “heat and light” within the Disk – is not confined to the Disk itself, but is present and active, and life giving wherever the rays of the Sun reach. In the Hymn to Aton, Akhenaton wrote that these rays even penetrate deep within the sea.

Akhenaton, Nefertiti and family are anointed by the rays of the Aton

The Aton disk with downward beams ending in hands

Pentecost by Duccio di Buoniseqna. The eternal force of the Aton reappears in the Christian concept of Pentecost. While the disciples of Jesus were indoors praying, a sound like that of a rushing wind filled the house and tongues of fire descended and rested over each of their crown chakras.  The Holy Spirit manifests as flames atop the disciples heads. Pentecost marks the birth of the Christian church

“Suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:2-3)

As I discuss in SOUL RISING, Christian art portraying the Pentecost, or the anointing of the disciples by the Son in that cosmic energy called the Holy Spirit, is virtually identical to the Amarna depictions of Akhenaton and Nefertiti receiving the rays/keys of the Aton.

In these depictions it is possible to see the connection between the Key of Life and the Holy Spirit. So clear is the correspondence that one wonders if the Pentecost is a revival of an ancient Gnostic ceremony or mystery school teaching?

The disciples experienced the Radiant Energy of the Sun in the Upper Room at Pentecost

Mary receives the mystical rays of the Holy Spirit from a brilliant light at Pentecost (L). Akhenaton and Nefertiti bask in the rays/keys of the Aton (r)

Jesus/Lord/Sun/Son beams Aton-like rays of light to the disciples at Pentecost

If we substitute the Sun for the Son as the transmitter of this energy we can imagine a vibration coming from our star and illuminating the consciousness of the disciples, energizing and empowering them. Christian prophecy says it will be poured out on all flesh in the Last Days (Acts 2:16-21).

SOLAR MUSIC

The idea that the Sun emits or ‘rains’ a ‘key of life’ upon earth is based on solid science.

The Sun is like a giant musical instrument. The entire Sun vibrates from a complex pattern of acoustical waves. It rings like a bell, and vibrates like an organ pipe. The National Optical Astronomy Observatory says we can learn a lot by listening to the Sun. In fact, it estimates that the sun has 10 million keys or notes.

Solar music isn’t usually the first thing we think of when we think about the Sun. That’s because we can’t actually hear it. The Sun’s sound waves are normally at frequencies too low for the human ear to hear. Our Sun lies 93,000,000 miles away, surrounded by the vacuum of space. Sound won’t travel through space, of course. But with the right instrument, scientists can “hear” pulsations from the Sun. Astronomers measure the solar music in order to determine what its heart is like. Music is the only way to learn about the heart of the sun because the light we see from the Sun comes from its outside.

Here’s a You Tube video that lets you hear the sound of the Sun.

Computer simulation showing the pattern of up and down movement from a single solar musical note

Computer simulation of sound echoes in the heart of the Sun

Image of actual solar surface showing the up and down patter of all ten million solar musical notes played all at once

I N R I

Christian prophecy speaks of a mysterious cosmic force called I N R I.  Pontius Pilate nailed this term to the Cross. The Bible says it means “Jesus the Nazarene King of the Jews.” In the Gnostic tradition, however, INRI means Igen Natura Renovature Integra; “by fire nature is renewed whole,” pointing to Jesus’s role as a deliverer of higher frequency knowledge or ‘fire’.

Christian prophecy centers on the return of the Son returning in glory (which I interpret as the Rainbow Body) carrying a new Name of God (tone or frequency), but is it the S-u-n we should be paying attention to? Is a renewing fire or frequency contained within the anticipated solar max? Will the glorified Jesus come through the Sun? Is the Sun’s ‘shaking and quaking’ a precursor to this?

Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. Luke 21:26

At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Luke 21:27

Jesus rides on a cloud and beams lightning from his palm. This scene is inspired by Matthew 24:27: “For just as the lightning (Greek, astrape: light, bright shining) comes from the east and flashes [Greek, phaino: shines] even to the west, so will the coming [Greek, Parousia: presence] of the Son of Man be

Is I N R I, Christ, a presence that manifests in a ray of light, or a vibration?

What about a son(g) coming from the heart of the Sun that spontaneously illuminates, enlightens or awakens human consciousness? If so, how may we experience this presence?

Or, is I N R I a humanoid figure, perhaps a light being or a star man (since this is the form in which the Resurrected Jesus is predominantly portrayed)?

Energy flows where the attention goes.

The 8-spoked wheel symbolizes the Sun and the Wheel of Dharma or Wheel of Life

The ancients viewed the Sun as a star tunnel or star gate to the Galactic Core

Jesus in the Sun Gate. Sopra Minerva, Rome. Photo by William Henry

THE DEW

A third take on I N R I is provided by the Rosicrucians who altered the meaning of INRI to IGNE NITRUM RORIS INVENITUR “or the baptism or cleansing power of dew is only discovered by fire.”

This is a reference to the philosophical Dew, an alchemical substance that emanates from the center of the galaxy and is transmitted through the Sun. This dew, says the Zohar, is the manna on which the souls of the just nourish themselves. The chosen hunger for it and collect it with full hands in the fields of heaven. To the Israelites this manna from heaven was a celestial food. They ate it. It was eats.’

One can only wonder if our star will generate a ‘food’ that produces a vision of I N R I coming for those who eat it, or if there is a substance that promotes this vision.

“Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew… Deuternonomy 33:13 Can we expect a cosmic substance or dew to spew from the Sun?

In the Book of Revelation, the return of I N R I covers the earth like fresh dew and triggers a thousand years of peace or the rebirth of earth. Mayan oracles say this will ‘anointing’ will commence in 2012.

Compare the falling of dew with the radiating Aton disk.

Vulcan, the god of alchemy, seeking to free Jupiter (the Greek Zeus) from his headaches with an axe, releases Pallas Athena, the goddess of wisdom, from his skull. Golden Rain, manna, falls upon her. Her birth is celebrated annually by the festival of the “Golden Rain,” in which gold coins are scattered. In Earth Under Fire, Dr. Paul LaViolette proposes that Zeus signifies the Galactic core. Athena who springs from Zeus’ head, he says, signifies the outburst of cosmic rays violently emitted from the Galactic center during a starburst event. Carried by galactic winds these rays pour through the Sun on their way to Earth.

Two enormous, gamma-ray-emitting structures are bubbling out of the center of our galaxy. And astronomers have no idea what caused them. One possibility includes a particle jet from the supermassive black hole at the galactic center. Another possible answer is that the gamma-ray bubbles are evidence of an ancient burst of star formation at the center of the galaxy. If a huge cluster of massive stars formed millions of years ago, the giants could now be dying together, creating an outbreak of supernovae.Some believe this increase in energy throughout our galaxy will have life changing effects on all of us and as we draw closer to 2012

This artist’s illustration depicts the approximate way astronomers believe newly identified, giant bubbles in the Milky Way would look to an observer outside the galaxy, if their light were visible. (Courtesy NASA GSFC)

All the occult mysteries speak of a key that is required to unlock mystical secrets of enlightenment.

Specifically, the lost secret is about building a better human through the release of secretions from the astounding manufacturing plant of spiritual oils, the human brain. This oil or essence (called Christos) was the key secret of Mary Magdalene and the Essenes.

The skull is a protective box for the brain, eyes and hearing organs. It is the Cup of Life, the Holy Grail, that catches these secretions from the brain. Without “the key” vibrating in our brains and radiating throughout our bodies no one can gain the higher knowledge of the gods.

This “key” comes through the Sun, but may originate in the galactic center.

Akhenaton transmits the key of life to his daughter who points to the 3-pronged mst glyph

In my book, The Healing Sun Code, I decode the mystery of the dew. The Egyptian hieroglyph mst (mist) looks like a three-fold fall of radiating water. It means “celestial tears” or “dew,” and portrays drops of water falling or radiating from Heaven. The same hieroglyphic also means “instruction,” or “teaching.”

We certainly are receiving ‘instruction’ from the Sun. In fact, the Sun is acting so bizarrely that some scientists are saying we’re being schooled in a new physics.

The new physics curriculum began in 2010 when scientists hypothesized that the heart of Sol may be flashing never-before-seen sub atomic particles – or some unknown and mysterious force. This revelation has some alarmed scientists saying the evidence suggests it could mutate all life on earth!

The actual impact of this phenomenon is presently unknown.  Opinions vary from a minimal impact to a simply terrifying shift to the potentially sudden cataclysmic end of life, as we know it. In a flash, the blink of an eye all our lives could change.

Here’s what sounded the alarm bells.

WELCOME TO CONSTANT CHANGING

Researchers at Purdue and Stanford University discovered that the decay rates of radioactive elements like carbon-14 are changing. These rates are supposed to be ‘constant’ (which is why carbon-14 dating is considered reliable for dating archaeological artifacts). This kind of change is not supposed to happen. At the very least, we are seeing some new physics, say analysts of this abrupt sea change.

After studying the phenomenon, not only did Stanford researchers discover that the Sun is the source of the mysterious phenomenon, but specifically, the core of the Sun appears to be emitting neutrinos that are affecting the decay rates. Neutrinos are nearly invisible high-energy particles about the size of nothing. Isaac Asimov called them “ghost particles.” They’re routinely described as stealthy or ethereal.

The problem is neutrinos are not supposed to be powerful enough to impact matter (billions of them pass through our bodies every day). In what is described as a moment of weirdness, in 2006 scientists at Purdue observed a measurable drop in the decay rate of manganese-54. This sudden drop occurred on day before a large flare erupted in the Sun.

Is it possible, scientists wondered, that the heart of the Sun beamed a message to the manganese-54 sample? That would be remarkable, as these rays would have had to travel through the Earth to the other side of the planet unimpeded.

When the researchers investigated this phenomenon they discovered that the variation of the decay rates is in synchrony with the 33-day rotation of the core of the Sun. The heart of the Sun is the source of the ghost particles.

If scientists are right, this discovery is more than just a riff on the plot of that awful movie 2012, it’s a sign that a HUGE, even prophetic, change is occurring.

This is a big if.

Skeptics say this idea is simply too wild. There’s not enough data to make the case just yet. Remember, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence… However, we can be sure the high priests at the neutrino detectors will enlighten us soon. We hope.

Here’s where things could really get weird, say scientists. If the neutrinos are not responsible for the decay rate, then we may be talking about the Sun emitting a previously unknown sub atomic particle.

Now that gets me excited.

ITZ THE BLESSED PARTICLE

In my 2005 presentation, Stargate 2012, I first offered my interpretation of the Mayan belief that a ‘cosmic sap’ would emerge from the sacred world tree in 2012. At sunrise on December 21, 2012 — for the first time in 26,000 years — the Sun rises to conjunct the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic, describing in the sky a great cross of stars and planets. This cosmic cross is considered to be an embodiment of the Sacred Tree, The Tree of Life — a tree remembered in all the world’s spiritual traditions.

Codice Vendobonensis. The mythological birth of humanity is depicted as a person emerging from the sacred tree. The Mayan/Aztec culture recognized the sacred “T” as the symbol of the tree that produced the human being. This symbol also represents the air, the wind, the divine breath of God

Mixtec world tree. The ‘T’ symbolizes a portal or gateway

Mary Magdalene stands in an energetic pose matching the Mixtec priests making offerings (sending and receiving cosmic energy) on either side of the World Tree. The serpent/rope slithers along this tree

In the Jewish Kabbalah, the dew is an emanation or radiation from the Tree of Life, which emerges as a conduit with the Healing Sun

Author and Mayan ceremonial priest Carlos Barrios says this alignment with the heart of the galaxy in 2012 will open a channel for cosmic energy to flow through the earth, cleansing it and all that dwells upon it, raising all to a higher level of vibration. This process has already begun, Mr. Barrios suggested. “Change is accelerating now, and it will continue to accelerate.”

This cosmic sap of this sacred tree is called itz (pronounced ‘eats’, like Chitzen Itza), ‘the blessed substance’. Since the world tree is a symbol for a celestial event, specifically an alignment with the center of the Milky Way, I took a leap and proposed that this cosmic sap could be a high energy phenomena, such as a mystery sub atomic particle (sap), one as yet undiscovered that could change everything.

Left-brain types laughed at this conception.

However, current events suggest my idea may not be that bird brained after all. While it’s considered a big if, scientists are saying that it could be an as yet undiscovered particle is knocking on our door. The Sun is spitting a previously unknown sub atomic particle at us. Another theory suggests that the core of our galaxy or another galaxy could be the source of these saps.

In my presentation, I linked it with the serpent rope that the Mayans describe traversing this World Tree. Following the lead of John Major Jenkins, who said this ‘serpent rope’ could be a wormhole, I began paying close attention to the quest for the elusive Higgs Boson, a sub atomic particle popularly known as the God Particle, at the particle accelerator at CERN. Well, I am certain, the big brains in Geneva, whose logo is a dove spraying the God Particle from its mouth, will soon have much to say about this particle.

CERN’S MINI BLACK HOLE: FULFILLING MESSIANIC PROPHECY?

More than a year after serious scientists speculated that it was being sabotaged by its own future, the atom smasher/”Genesis Machine” at CERN has taken another dramatic step towards its goal of finding the so called God Particle‘: it recently produced the highest temperatures ever obtained through a science experiment.

On November 7, 2010, the particle collider started smashing lead ions head-on instead of the proton – proton collisions that usually take place there. The result was a series of what is called mini big bangs: dense fireballs with temperatures of over 10 trillion Celsius degrees! At this kind of temperatures and energies, the nuclei of atoms start to melt in their constituent parts, quarks and gluons, and the result is called a quark-gluon plasma.  generated subatomic fireballs and an exotic form of plasma last seen about 0.00000000001 seconds after the Big Bang that formed the universe.

Representation of a quark-gluon plasma

Gold nuclei collide in the STAR experiment at RHIC, creating a fireball in which the quark-gluon plasma briefly appears. Its properties are reconstructed from particle tracks captured in STAR’s Time Projection Chamber

As I wrote in DIS-CERNING THE GOD PARTICLE, the creation of these sub-atomic fireballs and quark-gluon plasma or quark soup, as it is called, aligns with the Jewish legend that tells of the return of Elijah, the forerunner of the Messiah, who will perform seven wonders, among which is heralding the reappearance of the primal light, which shone before the week of the Creation. This ‘primal light’ is EXACLTY what was created on November 2, 2010 at CERN.

Will the God Particle be revealed any time soon? “If nature is kind to us we will find it next year (2011),” particle physicist Christoph Rembser told LiveScience.

Should we start looking for Elijah?
Maybe.
Is the beginning of a new world near?
It looks that way.
Should we pay closer attention to the Sun?
Definitely.

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed —

In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet (tone, wave, reverberation). For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

1 Corinthians 50:51-52

ANCIENT ALIEN (Artificially Intelligent) ASTRO CHICKENS, SELF-REPLICATING ROBOTS AND THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ISLAND OF THE EGG

Did self-replicating robot bird beings lay an egg that founded the civilization of ancient Egypt?

ANCIENT ALIENS recently interviewed me about the possibility that alien robotic probes were sent to earth in ancient times.

At first, the question seemed a bit out there. But then, my show research returned me to my 2006 book, “Starwalkers and the Dimension of the Blessed,” in which I decoded the ancient Egyptian Edfu Creation Texts and compared them to the story of Atlantis. This incredible text tells of a tribe of bird-like beings of light who came to earth and laid an egg that become an original island civilization. In Starwalkers, I proposed that this story was the source material for Plato’s story of Altantis, the island civilization that was destroyed by cataclysm c. 9,000 B.C.

National Geographic followed me to the temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt where the texts were written, to investigate this story.

Revisiting my work on the Edfu texts in 2016, I was shocked and excited to discover how the Edfu story perfectly matches with the concept of self-replicating, artificially intelligent robot seeder ships presently being proposed as a way to explore and colonize the galaxy.

Are the Edfu Texts, and tale of the star seeding of the earth by the Bird Tribe, actually the story of an ancient A.I. probe or genesis device?

As I show below, I think we have to seriously consider the possibility.

BACKGROUND

My thought stream concerning the possibility of ancient alien robotic probes began flowing with this comment from futurist and science writer George Dvorsky (http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2008/03/seven-ways-to-control-galaxy-with-self.html).

“Forget about generation ships, suspended animation, or the sudden appearance of a worm hole,” he said. “The most likely way for aliens to visit us — whatever their motive — is by sending robotic probes. Here’s how swarms of self-replicating astrochickens could someday rule the galaxy.”

And then there this from Wikipedia, noting that back in late 1940’s the Hungarian mathematician John Von Neumann wondered if it might be possible to design a non-biological system that could replicate itself in a cellular automata environment.

Von Neumann rigorously studied the concept of self-replicating machines that he called “Universal Assemblers” and which are often referred to as “von Neumann machines”. While von Neumann never applied his work to the idea of spacecraft, theoreticians like Freeman Dyson, Eric Drexler, Ralph Merkle, and Robert Freitas later took his idea and applied it to exactly that.

In Von Neumann’s thinking if a self-replicating probe finds evidence of primitive life (or a primitive, low level culture) it might be programmed to lie dormant, silently observe, attempt to make contact (this variant is known as a Bracewell probe), or even interfere with or guide the evolution of life in some way.

Physicist Paul Davies of Arizona State University has even raised the possibility of a probe resting on our own Moon, having arrived at some point in Earth’s ancient prehistory and remained to monitor Earth. which is very reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke’s The Sentinel.

ENTER ASTRO CHICKEN

A variant idea on the interstellar von Neumann probe idea is that of the “Astrochicken”, proposed by Freeman Dyson.

Astrochicken, Dyson explained, would be a one-kilogram spacecraft unlike any before it. It would be a creation of the intersection of biology, artificial intelligence and modern microelectronics—a blend of organic and electronic components. While it has the common traits of self-replication, exploration, and communication with its “home base”, Dyson conceived the Astrochicken to explore and operate within our own planetary system, and not explore interstellar space.

Astrochicken would be launched by a conventional spacecraft into space, like an egg being laid into space. Astrochicken would then hatch and start growing a solar-energy collector. The solar collector would feed an ion drive engine that would power the craft. Once Astrochicken entered a planet’s vicinity, it would collect material from the moons and rings of the planet, taking in nutrients.

Oxford-based philosopher Nick Bostrom discusses the idea that future powerful superintelligences will create efficient cost-effective space travel and interstellar Von Neumann probes. He believes there is a strong possibility that we are living in a computer simulation.

REPLICATING SEEDER SHIPS

Yet another variant on the idea of the self-replicating starship (or cosmic egg ship) is that of the seeder ship. Such starships or “space birds” might store the genetic patterns of lifeforms from their home world, perhaps even of the species which created it. Upon finding a habitable exoplanet, or even one that might be terraformed, it would try to replicate such lifeforms — either from stored embryos or from stored information using molecular nanotechnology to build zygotes with varying genetic information from local raw materials.

Such birds might be terraforming vessels, preparing colony worlds or “nests” for later colonization by other vessels, or — should they be programmed to recreate, raise, and educate individuals of the species that created it — self-replicating colonizers themselves. Seeder ships would be a suitable alternative to Generation ships as a way to colonize worlds too distant to travel to in one lifetime.

EDFU

With these thoughts of alien cosmic eggs as artificially intelligent seeder ships in mind, let us take a trip to Edfu, Egypt and examine the Edfu Texts written in stone on the walls of the Temple of Horus, the Sun-god, at Edfu around 250 B.C, but whose sources are much older. The walls of this temple feature the story of the arrival of sages from the stars who star seeded a civilization beside a Field of Reeds.

The following is an excerpt from my book, “Starwalkers and the Dimension of the Blessed”. I have annotated it here to include my thoughts on the possibility that it describes an ancient alien artificially intelligent probe.

“On the ancient stone walls of the Temple of Horus at Edfu are inscribed some of the most astounding texts one will encounter anywhere. These texts describe this temple as the work of the gods themselves and an entity of mythical nature.

Here we read about the origin of a primeval resting-place of the Falcon and life in a primeval domain of the Falcon. These texts relate a tradition that says the spot of creation – the Island of Creation — was a field of reeds where divine beings resembling falcons came to Earth.

The current temple of Edfu was founded during the reign of Ptolomy III in 237 BC and was completed in 57 BC; meaning it was in like new condition at the time of Jesus.

According to legends etched onto this book in stone, it replaced an older structure designed in accordance with a divine plan that ‘dropped down from heaven to Earth’. This first temple came into existence at the beginning of the world. It is highly probable that the texts etched upon these walls are far more ancient origin than the Edfu Temple upon which they are ‘printed’.

The Edfu Texts, as they are known, are largely unknown and were only recently translated. This does not mean their contents are unfamiliar. As we will see the Edfu Texts tell a tale that is hauntingly familiar.

THE MYTHICAL ORIGIN OF THE EGYPTIAN TEMPLE

Dr. E.A.E (Eve) Reymond is the primary source of information on the Edfu Texts. Writing in The Mythical Origin of the Egyptian Temple, the Manchester University Egyptologist says these mysterious texts contain cosmological records that begin with a picture of a primeval island where the gods or divine beings were believed to have lived first.

These records, says Reymond, are of divine origin and are the words of Sages. On the north wall of the inner face of the Temple Enclosure the Sage of Sages, Thoth, the ibis bird-headed neter of divine magic, is depicted offering a sacred book to Horus, the falcon-headed blue bird. Thoth is credited with possessing an entire library of books, 36,500 of them, which he housed in a repository called the Hall of Records.

Among the titles included in the Edfu collection are the Specification of the Mounds of the Early Primeval Age (accredited to Thoth), the Sacred Book of the Early Primeval Age of the Gods and Offering of the Lotus. The mythological and cosmological picture these creation texts paint is complex. Dr. Reymond’s scholarship is detailed. In my book, “Starwalkers and the Dimension of the Blessed”, I outlined its features.

According to Egyptian cosmology, all began with the emergence of a sacred island out of the primeval waters of Nun. The Egyptians said a mound emerged from these primordial waters and became the resting place of the creator of the world. It is also thought of as the nucleus, the egg, from which all creation on Earth grew. A lotus emitted radiance from this place.

The Island of the Egg, as it was called, was surrounded by the primaeval water. The Edfu Texts tell us by the edge of this lake was a ‘Field of Reeds’ (Aaru), a sacred domain also named Wetjeset-Neter (‘the Homeland’). Throughout the Edfu Texts we learn about the Ancestors, the original divine dwellers of the Field of Reeds. The Ancestors were responsible for bringing into existence all that exists.

This belief that all emerged from water is highly significant and was validated by modern science in 2005. New results from a particle collider suggest that the universe behaved like a liquid in its earliest moments, as opposed to the fiery gas long thought to have characterized the first microseconds of existence. How did the Egyptians know this? Probably through visionary experiences walking the stars.

Scientists now think the universe was initially a thick, hot soup that trapped light. About 350,000 years after the Big Bang — the theoretical beginning of it All some 13.7 billion years ago — things cleared and an imprint of the earlier conditions was left on the entire cosmos. Scientists previously detected this imprint as the Cosmic Microwave Background. This ‘Field’ is everywhere in the sky and packs important clues about the structure of the nascent universe.

Something similar should have happened with sound, according to Daniel Eisenstein of the University of Arizona. The early universe, he proposes, rang with the sound of countless cosmic bells, which filled the primordial darkness with ripples like the surface of a pond pounded by stones. The wave fronts later served as spawning grounds for galaxies, his research reveals.

LIGHT BEINGS AND THE ISLAND OF THE EGG

Returning to Edfu, we learn that in the Island of the Egg was found a High Hill (which sounds like a place where extra matter piled up). It was on the high hill that a group of nameless deities who existed before the origin of the world came into manifestation.

Reymond notes that these divine creator beings seem to have lived in the Island of the Egg in an insubstantial form. These shapeless creative powers were described by the Egyptians as the Most Aged Ones and the Lords of the Light. They begat themselves, says Reymond, without father and mother. A similar description is given to the biblical king Melchizedek, the priest-king of Salem who was born without mother or father and who performed the first manna and wine ceremony.

Clearly, we are asked to believe that the first creator beings were immaculately conceived from ‘out of the blue’ ala Ptah. The Lords of Light were regarded as self-created divine beings and are described as the Primaeval Ones.

They are the star children of the Ancestors.

To me self-conception is the same as self-replication. The Island of the Egg sounds like an A.I. replicator space bird / ship… or a creation or genesis egg laid by one.

According to Reymond’s interpretation of the Edfu Texts, these formless beings shaped their solid, physical bodies out of a substance produced by the fertilization of bnnt. While it is not certain exactly what the Egyptians were talking about, Reymond speculates that the term bnnt seems to describe the place in which the mystic union between the Primaeval Ones and the cosmic waters of Nun occurred.

She hints that the newborn Earth might have been imagined as an island or embryo of bnnt which emerged from the waters of Nun – the Island of the Egg.

This line of thought suggests to me that the island of Earth is a place where two streams of water meet, the lower (Earthly) waters and the upper (heavenly) waters. These two ‘life streams’ will be discussed again momentarily.

Apparently these beings were thought to have acted first in somewhat insubstantial form while creating the Island of the Egg. After the ‘substance’ was brought into existence by the fertilization of the bnnt-matter, and had its manifestation in the emergence of the island, then it was possible for the primaeval powers, the original creators, to undergo metamorphosis and assume a physical form.

In my A.I. scheme, the beings self-replicated themselves from nano bots. As an alternative, I’m thinking they may even have entered into human bodies they created by a divine power.

I am highly intrigued by the Edfu re-collections and re-memberings concerning the Primaveal Ones. Particularly since Ancient American oral tradition from Tennessee, where I live, retold by Cherokee wisdom keeper Dhyani Ywahoo says that formless “thought beings” called TLA beings rode a sound wave from the Pleiades star cluster through a hole in space in East Tennessee and created the Cherokee. All humans are dream children of these angels or elemental forces who came from the stars.

The Egyptians imagined that, after the first phases of creation were completed, the Primaeval Ones lived in the vicinity of a pool that contained a lotus and within it the Sun-God. Reymond says this pool was undoubtedly a reed pool standing on the marginal land of the island. The Edfu evidence describes it only as an area (the edge?) of reeds. It bears the name elevated seat of the god.13 This seat is pictured as a dd pillar that was made of reeds. Reymond hypothesizes this represented the actual spot or nucleus of creation – the place where the divine powers fertilized the bnnt-matter, the ‘embryo of the Earth’.

The name of the god who sat on this perch the midst of this field of reeds was PN, This One. Interestingly, in Greek myth Pan invented the reed pipe. Pneuma is another word for the Holy Spirit. Two symbols are mentioned in connection to this being ‘PN’, the Member of the Progenitor and the Image of the Arm. These might have been actual objects or technologies used by these beings in the creation of the island of Earth. In between the stages of creation or ‘genesis’ – first the creation of the primary matter of the Earth and then the shaping of this matter – it appears these technologies remained on site.

Another epithet of this ‘PN’ god, the overlord of the dd-pillar, indicates that This One might have been the ruler of the Field of Reeds. This divine being can be imagined as resting on the dd-pillar (Djed) of reed in the midst of the pool (of the waters of creation), just like the Sun-God on the lotus in the Egyptian creation tale from Heliopolis. The Egyptians definitely imagined this as an actual spot or dot of real estate.

This dd-pillar of reed was protected by (or balanced by?) two other entities described as the Htr-hr, and yet another falcon named Nfr-hr, who was referred to as the Sanctified Ruler and the Ruler of the Wing.

The name Htr-hr is given to a divine being that dwelt in the dd- pillar of reed. Reymond supposed it was possible that Htr-hr (later Heter-hor or Hathor) functioned as a protector. In fact, the Htr-hr is interpreted as a deity who repulses the evil-doer from the Mansion of God.

What we deduce from this astounding mythology is the idea that the Field of Reeds was located in a primaeval island where two symbols or technologies were found that represented immense, but unspecified, creative powers. It was here that the world began and where formless entities, creator beings, lived.

In her analysis of the Edfu genesis tale Reymond proposes there is clear evidence that during the first phase of creation the island of Earth was first occupied by divine beings from the Field of the Blessed. Then, a second group of beings appears. These mysterious beings were led by a group of individuals known as the drty-falcons or Sages. Among these new inhabitants is a mysterious figure named the Falcon, who is known as the ‘Lord of the Perch’ and ‘The Winged One’. He leads a group called the ‘crew of the Falcon’ – referred to as the Eldest Ones.

The Edfu Texts tell us of a cataclysm that destroyed the Island of the Egg. Something caused the mysterious ‘Sound Eye’ to emerge from the island and create devastation. Eve Reymond believed the Sound Eye to be “the center of the light” that illumines the island. When it fell complete darkness fell on the sacred domain(s). The sacred domain(s) were destroyed. After this ‘death’ there was a rebirth or resurrection. A second generation of Sages recovered the only ‘relic’ to have survived the time of conflict…

…a single Djed pillar located in the Field of Reeds (Aaru) and resurrect the Homeland.

Reymond proposes that the Field of Reeds assumed a new function when the second period of existence of the island dawned; it became an Ancestral Territory. The name, Ancestors, can, in this tradition, only apply to the original divine dwellers of the Field of Reeds, she notes. This description rings of the Hebrew ideal of the lost Eden.

The Edfu Texts tell us the Falcons or Sages built the Great Seat or Temple of the Falcon. When this temple is threatened by rising waters, the Falcons are instructed to enter the enigmatic place called Place-in-which-the-things-of-the-Earth-were-filled-with-power’, another name for a water-encircled island. Here, they conduct spells, which make the waters recede.

To do so they used power tools, named iht, ‘relics’, which are stored within the island/egg.

In my A.I. scheme these relics can be interpreted as advanced nano-technology creation devices.

THE SHEMSU HOR

The Edfu Texts tell us that gradually the divine Sages are replaced by the Shemsu-Hor, the predynastic ancestors of the Egyptians led by Horus. The Royal Papyrus of Turin (written during the time of Ramses II) records that the reign of the Shemsu- hor stretches to remote antiquity (up to a fantastic 40,000 years). These kings lists call the Shemsu-Hor Akhu, meaning ‘Transfigured Spirits’. Akhu or Ax-hu is the plural of akh or ‘light’, inferring that the Shemsu-Hor were also thought of as light beings. These are replaced by the Horus kings at the time of the First Dynasty in c. 3100 B.C.

Robert Bauval speculates that the Shemsu-Hor were ‘a lineage of real (and)… immensely powerful and enlightened individuals’, masters of the science of astronomy, whose purpose was ‘to bring fruition to a great cosmic blueprint’.

The Edfu Texts tell us the Shemsu Hor are led by two divine beings who are described as the Companions of the Divine Heart whose names were Wa and Aa. They recovered the dd-pillar, made of reeds, also called the Perch, which they set up within the Field of Reeds. “It is inherently possible,” says Reymond, “that the Perch was erected in the same place as that in which the dd-pillar of the Pn-God once stood, probably close to the dd-pillar supporting Heter-her, and also near the place where the symbols of the Creator were hidden.”

It is explained that the Falcon had arrived there after, alighted on the Perch and was uplifted by the reed. Through the power of the reed Perch the gods were uplifted and the dead or dark world was brought into light. It is clear that the Dd-pillar had the power of resurrection. It could resurrect the gods and resurrect the Field of the Blessed. After the new divine being alighted upon it, the ancestral Falcons were awakened from their slumber. They returned to the place where they formerly ruled in their spiritual forms.

Reymond believes this Perch was the mechanism through which the island could be brought to new life and returned to its original blessed state. “The Perch was believed to impart sanctity to its nearest surroundings,” she concludes. My read is that it made the island ‘reedy’ again. In other words, it created a sanctuary of life, the Field of Reeds.

Once again, the Edfu texts describe some form of terraforming or restorative technology that can easily be seen as a nano-technology device.

The narrative makes clear that the ancestral deities came from the Field of Reeds and created an Earthly field of reeds as a new home. Their successor, the Falcon, also lived in this field. When the first field of reeds vanished power relics that became the Perch of the Falcon were recovered. This Perch renewed the connection with the Field of Reeds. We can imagine this Perch or pillar standing in the center of the Field of Reeds receiving and beaming blessed energy. It is linked to the original domain (dimension) of the Ancestors. It created a sacred or sanctified space by bringing out substances hidden beneath the waters of Nun.

From this vantage point the Perch takes on the feel of either an antenna beaming divine powers or vibrations from the other-dimensional Field of the Blessed or genesis device like a von Neumann machine.

Do the Edfu Texts chronicle the arrival of astrochicken type seeder ships? The parallels between the ancient Egyptian story and modern science (fiction) are certainly worthy of serious consideration.

Join Clare and I for further exploration of these remarkable texts during our Stargate Egypt tour, October 23-November 8, 2016.

TEARS…IN…RAIN. BLADE RUNNER MEMORY IMPLANTS AND EMOTION MACHINE BECOMING REALITY AND A VITAL QUESTION FOR OUR TIMES

Ridley Scott’s masterpiece, Blade Runner, is the best sci-fi movie of all time. Forty years ahead of its time, it is also one of the most prophetic and literate of all movies when it comes exploring the moral, ethical and spiritual implications of genetic engineering and Transhumanism or the Skingularity, when we mesh our flesh with machines.

The movie did not resonate  when it was released in 1982, but it gained cult status among audiences world wide in the following decades. With the accelerating emergence of Transhuman technology and the feasibility of some of its core concepts, such as implanting memories and manufacturing humans becoming more and more real, the story is gaining resonance today.

A sequel of the movie goes into production in July 2016. It is bound to inspire a re-evaluation of our relationship with the machines that are taking over our lives. At least one hopes so.

The film, based on Philip K. Dick’s novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” (1968), casts Harrison Ford as a replicant hunter. The replicants are genetically engineered humans manufactured by the Tyrell Corporation and are indistinguishable from ‘real’ humans, but have limited, pre-determined life spans of four years, because after that they would begin to develop primitive emotions. Banned on earth, they are used in extraterrestrial or off-world colonies to do slave labor.

Tearing a page out of the “Fallen Angels” playbook, a few of the replicants crossed the forbidden boundary and came to earth in search of their creator and prolonged life. They are hunted and “retired” (terminated) by human “Blade Runners’. Played by Ford, the Blade Runner of the story hunts down four sub human replicants who fell to earth.

Rutger Hauer plays Roy Batty, the leader of the fallen replicants. His inception date in the film was January 8, 2016. His “girlfriend”, Pris, played by Darrell Hannah was born on February 14, 2016. Hauer delivered one of the all time great cinematic moments with his character’s legendary “tears in rain” soliloquy to Harrison Ford’s character at the end of the movie. Also called “That” speech and “The C-Beams Speech” it captures the essence of the questions at the core of Transhumanism. We will discuss it momentarily. First, a brief set up.

The Earth of the film is the dehumanized Los Angeles of 2019. Corporations rule the world. Police are everywhere. Everything is synthetic and artificial in this reality, including humans. It is a dystopia in perpetual night that we are a blink away from manifesting ourselves.

The replicants believe themselves to be human. They have memories to prove it. In reality, they have implanted memories of real people. The “false memories” were implanted in the replicants to provide an “emotional cushion”. They have childlike moments in the film where they begin to experience “human” emotions. They are, after all, only four years old. Throughout the film, the replicants act human in that they care for one another and work together to continue their existence. It is the humans in the film who act “less than human”. This is one of Ridley Scott’s messages.

The concept of memory implants was cutting edge sci fi when Blade Runner was released in 1982.

As I discussed in “The Skingularity Is Near”, memory implants are now in the works.

Scientists at the University of California Berkeley reveal they have found a new way to interact with the brain and to allow human brains to interact with machines. Their idea is to sprinkle electronic sensors the size of dust particles into the cortex of the brain and to interrogate them remotely using ultrasound. They are called smart dust or neural dust. IF their ambitious goal of remotely controlled brains works out, it may then be possible for them to take that neural-netted system that has your brain imprint on it and transfer it to a robotic clone or double…or implant some one else’s memories within you.

In 2013 President Obama announced the U.S. government’s $100 million brain-mapping research project called BRAIN and its aims to map the brain. This was matched by a $1.3 billion commitment from the European Union. Creepy military mind control applications are already being discussed. Leaked documents reveal that the BRAINiacs, through Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) research,   are on the verge of being able to change people’s moral beliefs or stop political dissent through remote control of people’s brains. IF they are able to do this, and they can change our life story, the concept of Free Will will become a thing of the past. It will be the ultimate weapon. We may fully enter a Slave Age with Government or corporations as the master.

This is the world of Blade Runner.

DO MACHINES HAVE EMOTIONS? WILL TRANSHUMANS?

One of the Blade Runner’s major memes is that machines do not have emotions. This is how we tell the difference between real and fake people.

Critics of Transhumanism believe that, as we mesh our organic flesh with synthetic flesh and technology in order to gain super human capacities, we will pay for them with our emotions. Free will goes out the window as soon as we subject ourselves to the mega corporations and their desire to implant their technological things into our skin and bodies.

In order to detect replicants Harrison Ford’s Deckard uses a fictional machine called the Voight-Kampff machine (VK). Similar to a lie detector test, the machine measures involuntary biological functions like respiration, heart rate, blush response and pupil dilation in response to questions dealing with empathy.

“The VK,” says the 1982 Blade Runner press kit, “is used by Blade Runners to determine if a suspect is truly human by measuring the degree of his empathic response through carefully worded questions and statements.”

Researchers at Britain’s Lancaster University are actively working on making the VK machine a reality.

The Lancaster “emotion detector” is an ear-piece that connects to a smart phone and measures skin and heart responses in response to emotional stimuli. Like the Blade Runner machine it also measures eye movement and pupil dilation.

While the machine is only in design or concept phase at this point, the team at Lancaster, along with the design team at the Center for Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London (UCL) maintains the real aim of the device is to spark a conversation about the ethical implications of a future in which computers are use to monitor or manipulate emotions.

C BEAMS AND TEARS IN RAIN

At the end of the movie, Deckard and Roy are fighting on top of one of the giant corporate towers. Here, one of the most memorable scenes in movie history takes place. It is pouring rain. Roy’s body is giving out. His time is nearly up. So is Deckard’s (who secretly may also be a replicant).

To escape the more powerful Roy, Deckard leaps from one tower to another, but doesn’t  quite make it. Deckard hangs on to a slippery steel girder with both hands, his fingers having previously been broken by Roy.

The super human Roy, clutching a white dove, easily leaps the gap between two buildings. He stands, looking down at the struggling Deckard.

As Deckard’s grip weakens, Roy says to him, “Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.”

That is quite a statement coming from a robot.

One of Deckard’s suddenly hands slips. With piercing eyes, Roy looks into Deckard’s fear drenched face and sees… his soul(?).

As their eyes lock, Deckard’s other hand slips.

In a flash, Roy grabs Deckard’s arm, pulls him to safety with one arm and chucks him to the ground like a rag doll. Roy’s hand had a nail driven through it in an earlier fight with Deckard, a reference to the story of the crucifixion of Jesus. Deckard feebly tries to crawl away in awe and fear of his robot savior.

Roy sits cross-legged, cuddling the dove to his chest. He gazes deeply into Deckard’s eyes, rain pouring down his face. We understand that in sparing Deckard’s life Roy is acknowledging the value of life. The machine man is choosing life for his former enemy, which indicates that he has free will and defeated the programming of his creator to kill.

Suddenly, Roy has switched from the antagonist to the hero of the film, from machine to more human than Deckard. He gives “That” speech. The C Beams speech. When he speaks it is with the full moral authority of the hero:

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears…in…rain. Time to die.”

As Roy closes his eyes and dies, Deckard watches in silence, drenched in the cleansing rain.

The dove escapes Roy’s clutching hands and ascends in a flutter.

In Christian symbolism, the dove symbolizes the soul. One way of interpreting the release of the dove from Roy’s hands as he dies is that he developed a soul… and it lives on.

CAN ROBOTS HAVE SOULS?

This is one of the underlying questions of Blade Runner. Do robots have souls? Can they get one?

They do if the Transhumanist view of our soul is our benchmark. Transhumanists believe that our soul is the accumulation of our memories and experiences stored in our memory and run by your biological computer, your body. And these memories, your soul, can be transplanted or implanted, digitally uploaded, into a new body such as a clone or a holographic avatar. This is called digital reincarnation.

When Roy tells Deckard of his memories of being in space and seeing things that no humans have seen he is insuring that his experiences, his soul, will live on in Deckard.

Another question raised by Philip K. Dick and the film concerns the creation of the replicants by Tyrell. As mega corporations begin to resemble the all-powerful Tyrell Corporation and create robotic humans what separates these newly manufactured beings from human beings? What defines us as organic humans? What separates us from animals and machines?

In the original version of the movie Deckard’s voiceover ties up the meaning of the last scene and the film:

“I don’t know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody’s life, my life. All he’d wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.”

I can’t wait to see the new Blade Runner. By then, perhaps we will have more answers to these questions.

DR. JOHN DEE, THE HOLY GRAIL, THE LIGHT BODY AND ENGLAND’S GREATEST SECRET

Clare and I are incredibly excited about our England tour, “The Ascension of Avalon”, September 4-13, 2016. We invite you to join us for what will be an extraordinary adventure into the secrets of ascension in the spectacular countryside of Southwest England, including visits to Avebury, Glastonbury, Stonehenge, Salisbury, Winchester Cathedral, plus a whole lot more!

Our focus will be on the ascension mysteries and the Holy Grail, especially how they cross over into the time of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Bacon and Dr. John Dee. If I could time travel, Tudor England would definitely be one of my top stops. Tea with Dr. Dee would be Uh-mazing.

While preparing for the tour in London earlier this year, we had a chance to visit the Dr. John Dee exhibit at London’s Royal College of Physicians. The exhibit featured a selection of Dee’s lost books and his magical tools he used to communicate with angels. It was a most incredible experience.

Dr. Dee was an astrologer/alchemist/magi to Queen Elizabeth I and the ultimate “insider” at the Tudor court. He was revered as the most learned man in all of Europe, his library being the greatest of Elizabethan England, if not of the world. He is known as the original ‘007’ and a true magi.

Besides a scholar and a scientist, Dee was also a Christian occultist versed in Neoplatonic, Hermetic and Qabalistic philosophy and practice. His life mission dealt with apotheosis (human transformation into divine beings), the Apocalypse and the establishment of the New Jerusalem, the New Eden or Avalon, in England.

John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I.
Henry Gillard Glindoni, Wellcome Library.

There is another reason why Clare and I made a bee line to see, or rather, experience, the precious few surviving books of his library. His books and ‘tools’ in the exhibit still hold Dee’s presence…and, possibly, the presence of even more mysterious beings.

Dr. Dee was a Christian who communicated with the angels of Enoch, ephemeral light beings called Watchers, on behalf of his queen, and for the first time in history synthesized Judeo-Christian beliefs about these angels with the pre-Christian mysteries of the Renaissance magi.

These are the same angels the Essenes claimed brought the secrets of heaven to earth, which were later taught to Jesus.

As I discussed in “The Lost Secret of the Watchers,” these secrets have to do with human transformation into celestial beings. The Watchers seek to work with humanity to create or realize a new link between the human and the divine realms.

As angels, the Watchers are classified as Seraphim, the highest order of angels. Known as the fiery or winged serpents, they are beings of pure light and pure love. In art, they are portrayed with whirling, vortex-shaped bodies  covered with eyes.

Seraph.

During the Renaissance the belief developed that our ultimate aspiration as humans was to transform into Seraphim. This could be accomplished by meditating on the love of God.

In the early 13th century, St. Francis of Assisi had an encounter with the resurrected Christ as a Seraph, suggesting this is the key form in which these celestial beings appear to humans.

Francis of Assisi saw the resurrected Christ as a Seraph.

The angelic teachings of apotheosis or human transformation were discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls of the Essenes and in the works of Dr. Dee, who taught them to Queen Elizabeth I.

Dee claimed he made contact with one of the Watcher angels on May 25, 1581.

The magical mirror Dee used “to call his spirits” was displayed at the exhibit (it is normally kept in an nondescript wooden cabinet in the British Museum) along with a magical gold disk and the crystal he used to communicate with the angels.

John Dee’s magical mirror. Photo by William Henry.

John Dee’s magical gold disk. Photo by William Henry.

John Dee’s crystal given to him by the angel Uriel. Photo by William Henry.

The crystal mesmerized us with the possibilities it represented.

As I read the placard in the museum cabinet, my eyes grew wide.

According to his diary, Dee claimed this crystal was given to him by the angel Uriel in November 1582. Dee used the crystal for predicting the future by looking for symbols or the ‘ghosts’ of people in the stone.

Bloody hell! We’re talking about an artifact from an extraterrestrial contact and the bloke who wrote the placard acts like it is a token from a gum ball machine! That, or the writer knows that if you are standing in front of this case you know exactly what you are looking at.

Uriel (whose name means ‘Fire of God’ or ‘Light of God’) was the same Watcher angel who guided the prophet Enoch, the first human to be translated to heaven and to have his body changed into an angelic light body. S/he usually holds a book contain the wisdom or Arcanum of the universe. This is the Arcanum that produces the light body of the angels.

Dee taught these secrets to Queen Elizabeth I.

Uriel. St. John’s Church, Boreham.

Another placard said Dee and Edward Kelly also claimed that Uriel instructed them on how to make the Philosopher’s Stone.

Now, this left me gobsmacked (British speak for surprised beyond belief).

As Clare and I explored in our GaiaTV show, ARCANUM, in Tibet the Philosopher’s Stone is called the Chintamani or Wish Fulfilling Jewel and produces the perfect Rainbow Body of Light, in which people dissolve or transform their flesh and blood bodies into new bodies of light. This transformation usually occurs after death, but it can also be accomplished by the living.

The symbol of the Chintamani is the triple dots or triangulated dots. When seen on the cloak of a Buddha it indicates he is wearing the Rainbow Light Body or Robe of Glory, as it is also known.

Bodhisattava with Chintamani Stone.

Padmasambhava in the Rainbow Body. The Philosopher’s Stone produces the Rainbow Light Body.

Boddhisatva holding the flaming Chintamani or Philosopher’s Stone.

As I have shown for many years in my books and presentations, the whirling, vortex-shaped bodies of the Seraphim match the swirling body of light of the Tibetan Rainbow Body tradition.

I believe they have the same types of bodies.

This glorious rainbow body is the same as the resurrection body of Christ. This explains why the resurrected Christ appeared to Francis of Assisi as a Seraph.

I don’t have space here to go into details, but the Chintamani is the source of the Holy Grail mysteries. We will fully explore this connection during our tour. Under the guidance of Dr. Dee, the Tudors envisioned themselves as descendants of  King Arthur and the Holy Family of Christ and purveyors of the Grail mysteries, especially in its aspect as the Stone of Transmutation.

A recently discovered ‘lost’ painting by Leonardo da Vinci, now in the National Gallery of Art, London, shows Jesus with the transparent orb or Stone. When Clare first saw this painting, before it was authenticated, she immediately recognized this as a lost Leonardo and she spotted the triple dots of the Chintamani. She was right on both counts.

Leonardo appears to be telling us something quite profound about Jesus and the Stone.

The face of Leonardo’s Christ matches the face of Christ imaged onto the Shroud of Turin. Current scientific research is directed at understanding the Shroud as an artifact of Jesus dissolving his body into light and ‘beaming’ it through the Shroud, leaving behind the image of his physical body as it turned to light.

Boddhisattva and the Chintamani. Leonardo’s Jesus and the Chintamani, National Gallery, London.

Now that we know the meaning of this crystal sphere, we can understand its significance wherever we see it. For example, in depictions of Christ in Majesty, he wears the Crown of Salvation and holds a crystal orb topped by the cross. In Rogier van der Weyden’s version, for example, we see the triple dot symbol of the Chintamani.

Again, the secret of this stone is the secret of transforming or transmuting the human body into the light body of the angels. Dee knew this. Perhaps Uriel gave him a miniature version of this stone?

So, we must conclude the Tudors were working with angels and one of the Great Secrets of the Tudors is their understanding of the light body.

And that crystal sphere of Dr. Dee?

Well, that may well be the most astounding artifact of otherworldly contact ever known.

TUDOR LIGHT BODY ART

Two pieces of Tudor art speak directly to their understanding of the symbolism and meaning of Christ’s Resurrection body or Body of Light.

Dee was probably behind the symbolism found in both paintings.

The first is “The Rainbow Portrait”, by Isaac Oliver, an allegorical representation of Queen Elizabeth as her alter ego, Astraea, the virgin goddess of classical literature. The name Astraea means “star maiden” or “star child”.

Elizabeth Tudor was sixty years old when she sat for this painting, but Oliver portrayed her as eternally youthful and more than mortal.

The Rainbow Portrait, Isaac Oliver.

She holds a rainbow over which is the inscription, “No Rainbow Without the Sun”.

The rainbow’s colors — black, red, white– are the three stages of alchemical transmutation: purification, illumination, perfection.

A jeweled serpent is entwined in the infinity pattern along her left arm, and holds from its mouth a heart-shaped ruby. Above its head is a celestial sphere.

The colors of the serpent — black, red, white —  repeat the three stages of alchemical transmutation.

Elizabeth’s cloak is covered with eyes and ears, implying that she sees and hears all. However, knowing that Dee was ‘channeling’ the light body secrets of the Seraphim, whose bodies are covered with eyes, we have to claim this meaning as well.

As Dee knew, the Seraphim are called the “winged or feathered serpents”. To me, the placement of the alchemical serpent on her sleeve sends a clear message.

The combination or sum of all of this symbolism — the rainbow, the eyes, the serpent — tells me that Elizabeth is portrayed as a transmuted being, a star child, but also as a Seraph.

There is much more encoded in The Rainbow Portrait, but that is best left for our visit to Hatfield House when we will see — and experience — exactly what Dr. John Dee intended.

The other painting is Elizabeth I enthroned in her coronation robes emblazoned with the pentagonal Tudor rose.

She wears the ermine robe of royalty, the royal crown and holds an orb with a decorated with precious and semi-precious stones. The orb is surmounted by a cross, representing Christ’s rule over the world.

What many do not realize is that the Coronation of the kings and queens of England is a carefully scripted Christian rite that transforms the royal into a representative of Christ on earth.

This is why this portrait of Elizabeth matches the meaning and symbolism of Christ in Majesty.

As noted, the crystal orb in Christ’s hand is the Chintamani or “wish fulfilling jewel” in Buddhism. It is symbolized by three dots arranged in a pyramid.

This is exactly the symbol atop of Elizabeth’s scepter.

The triple dot is also the symbol for ermine or the cloak she is wearing.

In Buddhism, when the triple dot symbol is worn on a cloak it symbolizes the attainment of the light body. This is the hidden meaning of Elizabeth’s ermine cloak (and Mary Magdalene’s, as well).

The usual symbol for the ermine spots is the triple dot symbol of the Chintamani.

To me, this is a clear sign that the star child, Elizabeth I, is wearing the cloak of light.

This symbolism can be applied to all British Monarchs, including Elizabeth II.

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Most do not realize that the Coronation of the British Monarch is a Christian ceremony or sacrament (initiation rite) in which the Monarch is enthroned on the Coronation Chair. Said to contain the stone upon which Jacob had a dream of Watcher angels, it draws another direct connection between the British Monarchy and the angels.

“And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it” (Genesis chapter 28, verse 18)

The Coronation progresses with an anointing with holy oil followed by the vesting with the royal robe. Next, the orb, symbol of the world under Christ, is presented, followed by a ring and scepters or rods. Finally, the crown is placed on the monarch. The monarch now becomes the living representative of Christ on earth.

This sacrament is Christian-based, but its symbolism is traced to the kings of Egypt.

The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey in 1953 was the first ever to be televised, and was also the first major international event to be broadcast on television.

Prince William and Kate Middleton’s 2011 marriage was watched by 340  million, or as many as 2 billion viewers, world wide.

The next Coronation is bound to be a massive global event.

It could even be a mass initiation in which millions or billions of people connect the dots with this symbolism and realize that the crown, orb and rod are within all of us.

Or will it?

Lawyers for secularists are already calling for the next Coronation to be non-religious and stripped of its Christian symbolism.

As more and more is being discovered about England’s crucial role in the ascension of humanity, my revolutionary research brings a whole new understanding of the importance of the light body in the myths of Avalon, the Grail, the lost history of the Tudors. There is a lot more to share.

Join us for our “The Ascension of Avalon” tour and explore more of these ascension teachings which will provide you with deep sacred knowledge of the light body as a powerful antidote to our changing world.

THE AWAKENED SOUL: THE LOST ART AND SCIENCE OF ASCENSION AND THE ULTIMATE YOGA EXPERIENCE

Have you ever given thought to the significance of sacred art to your spiritual practice?

Why, for example, do we hang images of Christ, Mary, Shiva, or a guru in our sacred spaces?

The answer is that art, especially sacred art, has extraordinary, even cosmic, power to elevate our consciousness and to raise our spiritual frequency.

It touches our soul, taps our emotions and acts as a bridge to our Divine Self.

It brings connection.

Isn’t connection to a higher, purer realm and to our better, more perfect, selves what we all seek most?

To this end, sacred art is a way for us to ‘call home’ and to ‘see’ ourselves home.

In 2014, Clare and I wrote and presented “ARCANUM” for Gaia TV. This is the first show ever devoted to exploring the secrets of sacred art as a form of eyes-open meditation and spiritual practice. From Botticelli to Nicholas Roerich we covered a lot of ground.

As we explored, all the world’s spiritual traditions tell us THE SAME THING. Our body is designed to transform into a purer or more perfect form of light capable of scaling or ascending the Ladder of Divine Ascent.

As we discussed, what is required is what the alchemists and yogi’s called the Philosopher’s Stone, the Arcanum or the Chintamani (“the wish fulfilling jewel” found in the heart of the lotus). The good news is this is within us…awaiting discovery.

Bodhisattva holding the triple blue dots of the Chintamani at the heart.

In ARCANUM Clare and I took viewers forward a really big step toward living the art of ascension.

Now, in “THE AWAKENED SOUL: LOST SCIENCE OF ASCENSION”, I take you on the next big steps in your soul’s incredible journey.

THE YOGA OF SACRED ART

As I said, the purpose of sacred art is to make present the energy of the purer realms (and the sacred entities who dwell there) and to show us the way to attaining perfection.

Wait!

Isn’t that the same as the ultimate purpose of yoga?

Yes, it is.

A practitioner aims to perfect the asanas (poses) and transform the body into a (more) perfect state of being called moksha.

The Five Principles (relaxation, proper exercise, diet, thinking and meditation) are the big “do’s” of our “perfected” or “ascended” selves.

Mystic artists would say that contemplating, meditating and reflecting on sacred art is a must do, too. Sacred art feeds our imagination…and shows us the way to our next best self.

In fact, as we will see, scientific evidence now says sacred images allow you to experience your divinity and even to enter the divine realm.

I know this sounds kind of crazy — that sacred art acts as a portal to the Divine realm —  but stretch and follow me.

Hold.

I promise what I am about to tell you will change your life.

It may even be the basis for the ultimate yoga experience.

THE PERFECT PLACE TO BEGIN

Breathe.

So, our goal is to create or perfect a light body?

Yes, that is what every spiritual tradition says.

And they all have a different name for it. In Sufism it is called “the most sacred body” and “supracelestial body”. Taoists call it “the diamond body,” and those who have attained it are called “the immortals” and “the cloudwalkers.” Yogic schools and Tantrics call it “the divine body.” In Kriya yoga it is called “the body of bliss.” In Vedanta it is called “the superconductive body.” In the alchemical tradition, the Emerald Tablet calls it “the golden body.”

The ancient Egyptians called it “the luminous body or being” (akh) or the karast. This conception evolved into Gnosticism, where it is called “the radiant body”. In the Hermetic Corpus, it is called “the immortal body”. In the Mithraic liturgy it was called “the perfect body”. In Christianity, it is called the Resurrection Body.

The philosopher Sri Aurobindo called it “the divine body,” and said it is composed of supramental substance.

No matter what we call it, achievement of the light body requires that we transfigure or metamorphose our body.

This, of course, is the goal of yoga.

RISE AND DO NOT BE AFRAID

In ARCANUM, Clare and I focused especially on the icons or art of Transfiguration of Jesus into light.

Soon after Jesus’s baptism by John the Baptist, during which time he acquired a glowing cloak of light, Jesus took several disciples to the top of a sacred mountain and changed his form, or transfigured, before them.

His face shone like the sun. His garments became white as light.

                                                                                                                   “Rise and do not be afraid”.

The disciples were terrified. The reason is because Jesus transcended their beliefs. Before the Transfiguration they knew him as a human. After, he dramatically changed his appearance and radiated light. Now, they saw him as something more. They saw him as divine.

Jesus told the disciples to “Rise and not be afraid.” In doing so, he invited them / us to follow his lead to Transfigure ourselves and put on the golden light body.

In Transfiguration icons Jesus is portrayed in front of an open gate, sometimes filled with stars, and composed of various geometric shapes, such as almond-shaped mandorlas (vesica piscis) or stars.

Alternately, the gate is composed of concentric rings indicating ‘depth’ or ‘dimension’, and also vibration. (Today, we use the terms ‘stargate’ and ‘wormhole’ to denote such holes or portals in space-time.)

SACRED MIRRORS

In the every day world, when people hear the word “icon” they often think of a celebrity or a star. Iconic means very famous, super successful. Awesomer. Timeless. A brand.

In the spiritual world, icons are images that function as sacred mirrors or portals to the divine. They show us the way to becoming Awesomer. Stars. Shining Ones.

In the magical-alchemical imagination of the icon makers these images were designed to be actual doors to another world.

Our world and “the spiritual world” are opened to each other through the icon.

The icon, the image, is the meeting place between the temporal and the eternal.

In Transfiguration icons, Jesus is meeting us at the gate.

This technique applies to other gurus, especially Padmasambhava in the Rainbow Body of Light.

Tibetans teach that just seeing these revered images activates our light body.

As an enlightened being, Padmasambhava (also known as Guru Rinpoche) has the ability to transmit the vibration of enlightenment to seekers via his physical image, which is equal to pure spirit energy.

What this means is that the images of the guru in his Rainbow Body transmit the vibrations of this Perfect State. Think about what that means about he nature of our universe and the power of our soul.

Hindus also worship the different Gods and Goddesses in human form. However, icons are also worshiped, which symbolize the Gods.

The Shiva linga is believed to be one of the most potent emblems in Hindu ideals, which is a cylindrical or oval shaped and sometimes it is formless piece of stone or metal. That is the outward symbol of the formless being, Lord Shiva, which also signifies the philosophy of Shiva, i.e. ‘Satya’ (Truth), ‘Gyana’ (knowledge) and ‘Ananta’ (Infinity).

Shiva is worshiped in his ‘linga’ form across the world, more than his human form. In Sanskrit, Linga means ‘a mark’ or ‘a symbol’, so Shiva Linga is the symbol of Lord Shiva.

Like the Christian Transfiguration and Tibetan Great Perfection  images, Shiva Linga symbols are a form of ‘visual alchemy’ that can help us in our transmutation (if that is your path) from lead into gold or impure soul to pure soul.

VISUAL ALCHEMY

Icons were specially created to enable a visceral encounter with a holy being.

But, did you know that these experiences with images can also literally take you to higher levels?

In an another example drawn from Buddhism, welcoming descent images, such as the one shown here, would be hung near the bed of the dying. Sometimes a silk string would be attached. After death, the soul would enter into the divine realm by grasping the string.

Think about that!

When the icons were made alchemy was the normal way of interacting with the world. Everything was viewed as in the process of transmutation or changing into something else – like the acorn into the oak – simultaneously unraveling and being reborn.

Everything was transmutable, including the human body, which was viewed as a ‘pupal’ form of an ascended spiritual being, usually symbolized by the butterfly (earlier by the phoenix).

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly, “said Buckminster Fuller.

There are, however, models of the ‘next human’ ‘butterfly’ that is within us. These are presented in sacred icons.

A remarkable spiritual technology is active and available to us through this sacred art.

The Transfiguration icon is a (non religious) spiritual invitation for us to mirror Jesus’s transformation, to activate our latent potential, and to become enlightened ones, simply by using our imagination and reflecting what we see.

This is the key benefit of the Transfiguration icons. These images were designed not just to help the early Christians to teach about the Transfiguration through pretty pictures, but also to encourage them to re-shape their lives in accordance with the hope or expectation of transforming into light (something our culture does not support).

Through contemplation, meditation and reflection on the icon we begin to reflect the Light experienced by the transfigured Jesus in our lives and we, ourselves, Transfigure.

This is the yoga of Transfiguration.

For more on this from a yogic perspective, I highly recommend this article on transformation, transmutation and transfiguration.

MIRROR, MIRROR

“Let the pose be a mirror” is a message for yogis by yogis.

In yoga, the asanas are called reflections. Many yoga studios have a feature that helps to study alignment and tendencies: mirrors. This visual aid is helpful for making adjustments in our body that can take your practice to a deeper level both physically and emotionally, especially when we send the yogi in the mirror love and encouragement.

The concept of the mirror explains the technology of icons and the practical benefit of utilizing them in your spiritual practice. The word icon comes from the Greek eikon, and means “image.”

In the New Testament, the Greek word “image” also means “likeness” and “portrait.” Another term we might use is “projection.” The Old and New Testament’s use the word “image” to describe all of us being in the image of the God who made us (Gen. 1:26, Matt. 22:20, Col. 1:15).

We are mirror images or icons of our creator.

When used as a verb the word mirror means ‘to send back’ or ‘form an image of’, ‘image’, ‘reflect’. To mirror is also to reflect (and reflection produces insight or enlightenment).

A mirror does not create images it only transmits them. In a similar way, icons function as transmission devices. They are ‘stations’, ‘channels’ or transmitters of the energy of a flashy being and a higher vibration (voice or sound), the ‘ring’ of the Transfiguration that crosses time and space. Their message (programming, code) is designed to operate within the quantum human bio-computer (transfiguration system).

The materials of the image become a channel or a bridge, a gate between two worlds. In fact, to an Orthodox Christian, the images are a medium through which the energy of the Transfiguration moment can be channeled, like a two-way mirror.

Devotees could enter the cosmic realm through the icon.

In Buddhism, we find the concept of ekagrata or ‘one pointed focus or concentration on sacred images’.

If you are deeply or single-mindedly focused on an image, there is a moment when the forepart of our brain becomes so connected that the thought you are thinking about as you look at the painting will literally become your experience.

The key is to become absolutely present with the images and to identify with the sacred entity, so much so that you become one with the images, as if it being superimposed on your being and you merge with it.

This is when the metaphysics of the experience turns into the physics. Our thoughts and emotions become the body. The metaphysical becomes the physical.

ARTISTS HAVE DIFFERENT BRAINS

Did you know that artists have structurally different brains compared with non-artists? A new study of participants’ brain scans revealed that artists had increased neural matter in areas relating to fine motor movements and visual imagery.

The research, published in NeuroImage, suggests that an artist’s talent could be innate. But training and environmental upbringing also play crucial roles in their ability, the authors report.

Dr. Mario Martinez is a clinical psychologist who specializes in how cultural beliefs affect health and longevity. He investigated alleged cases of stigmata for the Catholic Church, the BBC, NatGeo and the Discovery Channel. He has shown that a woman in California exhibited the Stigmata marks after obsessively reading about the Crucifixion.

Martinez has shown that Medieval Stigmatics showed wounds on the palm of their hands because all the paintings (which were based on cultural beliefs) showed Jesus’ wounds on the palm. Then, science showed that Roman crucifixion specialists bypassed the main artery and hit a nerve in the wrist to ensure maximum agony (that lasted for days). More recent Stigmatics show the wounds in the wrist.

Martinez’s theory of Biocognition says, “Where the mind goes, the biology follows.”

The first person to experience the stigmata was St. Francis of Assisi, who received the wounds from the resurrected Jesus, who appeared to Francis as a Seraphim angel.

Francis’s journey took a dramatic turn in the Fall of 1205 when, in the vision of the speaking painting of a crucifix at St. Damian’s church, near Assisi, the image of Christ in the Crucifix miraculously spoke to Francis, saying “go repair my Church, which you see is falling completely in ruin.”

The idea that a piece of art, in this case a painted crucifix, could transmit a holy message, or a sacred or spiritual energy, in this case to Francis, will later become the core idea of Renaissance art.

St. Teresa of Avila claimed she received the stigmata wounds from beams of light shining from a painting of the crucifixion.

How is this possible?

ART AND THE QUANTUM BRAIN

Today, thanks to scholarly neuroscientific work done since the 1980s, we know more about how the brain responds to a picture than ever before.

Several scientists believe that the most intriguing discovery in this field is that of the mirror neuron system (MNS).

Essentially, mirror neurons respond to actions that we observe in others. The interesting part is that mirror neurons fire in the same way when we actually recreate that action ourselves.

Mirror neurons fire not only when an individual performs an action, but also when the individual observes someone else make the same movement.

This discovery has radically altered the way we think about our brains and ourselves, particularly our social selves.

You see a person on TV get punched in the face and you flinch, ouch, in sympathy, or you flinch when you see a loved one receiving a shot in the arm and you instinctively rub your arm.

Mirror neurons appear to let us “simulate” not just other people’s actions, but the intentions and emotions behind those actions.

When you see someone smile, for example, your mirror neurons for smiling fire up, too, creating a sensation in your own mind of the feeling associated with smiling. This means our brain lights up when we watch some one smile, and we also feel them in our body.

My question is this: when we see an image of Jesus transfiguring into light do our mirror neurons for transfiguration light up, too?

Can art of the Transfiguration affect us spiritually?

I am not the first art historian or aficionado to ask this question. I am,  however, the first to apply it to the Transfiguration.

For centuries art theorists have commented on a number of forms of the human body engaging with works of art and being changed by them, but the exact brain mechanism that makes this possible  was unknown.

Dr. Francesca Bacci and art historian David Freedberg note that recent research carried out on the MNS in humans with a variety of techniques has shown that even the observation of static images of actions lead to action simulation in the brain of the observer, through the activation of the same brain regions normally activated by execution of the observed actions.

“The observation of pictures of a hand reaching to grasp an object, or firmly holding it, activates the motor representation of grasping in the observer’s brain. On the basis of these results it is highly plausible to hypothesize that a similar motor simulation process can be induced by the observation of still images of actions carried out by other effectors.”

There it is. Neuroscience is validating the spiritual technology of the icon makers!

We can appreciate why mirror neurons are one of the most important discoveries in the last decade of neuroscience.

Interaction with sacred images is a form of dreaming and rehearsal for what is to come.

You are connecting your brain to a new level of mind. The quantum level. Then, you are living your life from the perspective of the soul and the light body.

The images show you how the great avatars exist and our next level of being.

They align us with our future selves, our future destiny.

As you contemplate, meditate and reflect on the images you are retraining your brain to make new connections to your new self.

As your nerve cells fire in response to the light of the images they wire together or weave together a web of light that becomes the fabric or canvas for your new body of light, your new self.

As you paint this canvas you are visualizing the actual experience of the light body.

You are painting a new life.

Carried to the extreme in my example, just looking at an image of Jesus’s Transfiguration activates our own Transfiguration. It is that simple.

This is how the lost art and science of ascension works.

This is why no matter what your spiritual practice or soul advancement strategy is, sacred art can enhance your experience, performance and, ultimately, may help you create the greatest yoga experience ever.

THE BLUE AVIANS AND BLUE SPHERE BEINGS : DO YOU KNOW WHAT LOVE CAN DO?

While in Boulder taping my new GaiaTV show, “The Awakened Soul: The Lost Science of Ascension,” I sat down with Corey Goode and David Wilcock for three episodes of their hit program “Cosmic Disclosure: Inside the Secret Space Program”.

Corey is a “SSP” whistle blower who tells an astounding story of advanced human civilizations in space, and extraterrestrials called Blue Sphere Beings and Blue Avians,  who are guiding humanity. Hundreds of thousands of people have flocked to “Cosmic Disclosure” to listen, to lend support to Corey, and to advocate for a reshuffle of the ET-human relations deck… and a new beginning for humanity by disclosing the existence of our true place in the solar system.

Critics say Corey’s story is straight out of the fantasy and scifi pulp magazines of the 1920s and 30s. The first question David Wilcock asked me during the interview was if I thought Corey was crazy.

I have no idea, I said. People believe what they want to believe. Seeing is believing for some. They want proof: pics, video, something. Others see it and believe Corey, trusting in his sincerity and the vetting of David Wilcock, who is known for his links to ET insiders and whistleblowers.

All I know is I enjoyed talking with both of them. When I first heard Corey’s story, I thought, wow, he’s talking about two of my favorite subjects; the Bird Tribe and the blue sphere wormholes or ascension spheres of the ancients. Any minute now I thought he might get into some of the ancient beliefs about these subjects.

By the way, neither of these subjects are out of scifi magazines. That is, unless you read the ancient Egyptian religious texts, Hindu literature, Native American spiritual tradition and the Bible as scifi and interpret Christian art portraying the ascension of Jesus on a blue sphere as fantasy art.

Clare and I discussed aspects of these topics, especially the blue spheres, in our ARCANUM episode, “Ascension Thrones of the Ancients.” I revisited the subject directly in an episode of THE AWAKENED SOUL called “The Blue Sphere and the Soul.”

After seeing my show, and the historical art I presented, the Gaia producers immediately booked the interview with Corey and David. What I was saying corroborates Corey story, they said.

The result was an exciting conversation.

Well, one interview turned to three. We left A LOT more to discuss.

It’s not everyday that one gets to fill in a blank for a dot connector like David Wilcock, but as you’ll see in the show, this is exactly what happened. The pearl I dropped on David’s door, I am certain, is a gift that will open new pathways for him and all who follow his work. All best blessings to all.

Corey was impressed by my photos from the temple of Horus at Edfu showing Horus, the falcon-headed god, painted blue. He had never seen any of the images I was presenting. His spontaneous reactions were insightful and wonder-inspiring. He reminded me of how I felt when I first took the photos.

Horus in blue at Edfu. Photo by William Henry.

More, he loved my collection of photos of Horus in blue from Denderah. He was especially impressed that, until five years ago when the Egyptians restored the ceiling, the magnificent blue images were covered with black soot. No one knew Horus was blue. Talk about divine timing! We laughed, wondering if they were waiting for Corey’s revelation of the Blue Avians?

Horus enthroned at Denderah, Egypt. Photo by William Henry.

Where I took Corey and David from there in my ascension art collection blew their minds (pun intended).

In this article I will share some key insights from my research on the Blue Sphere Beings and the Blue Birds.

Then, I will share some of my thoughts on the Bird Tribe that weren’t part of our conversation. They are actually insights from two extraordinary mystical sources, “The Wizard of Oz” and Paul McCartney.

I know you will be as amazed as I am about the correspondence. First a word about about the

THE RETURN OF THE BIRD TRIBES

Ever since reading Ken Carey’s “Return of the Bird Tribes” back in 1992, I have been on the trail of an ancient tribe of spiritual beings who continuously manifested to humans for thousands of years, right up to the present, to ‘upgrade’ humanity…to give us, well… wings.

The “Bird Tribes” are not birds. They are celestial beings or angels who are master Ascension Teachers. Carey calls them Star People. They really are Star People, but in real life they really do not have wings.

Carey’s book inspired me to research the Bird Tribe’s angelic language, the Language of the Birds.  I wrote a book about it in 1998, but that is another story for another time.

My path led me to Egypt and the ibis-headed bird man, Thoth, teacher of the resurrection and ascension mysteries…

Thoth resurrects King Seti I, dressed in Osiris’s Karast garment, from the dead with the ankh or ‘Key of Life’. Photo by William Henry.

…And to the falcon-headed Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris. In the ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, some of the oldest ascension texts in the world, the deceased king rises into the portals in the sky as Horus, indicating his role in the ‘stargate mysteries’ of ancient Egypt. Horus symbolizes the living, eternal light body returning to the stars…becoming a Starwalker in the Dimension of the Blessed.
These stargate mysteries came alive for me on the ceiling of Hathor’s magnificent temple of Love and Joy in Denderah, Egypt, where we see various members of the Bird Tribe, including Isis, the Great Cosmic Mother, and Horus, her Son of Light, as blue bird-people along with blue humans wearing feathered cloaks.

Horus, the Son of Light. Photo by William Henry.

Horus surfs the Ship of Eternity or Ark of the Millions of years.

We also see the blue bird man, Horus, surfing the cosmos on his ship of eternity, his wormhole-shaped sun/star/boat.

We see Horus on his feathered ascension throne.

Horus on his feathered ascension throne. He holds the ankh and the usa scepter that open the gates of the Dimension of the Blessed.

Our goal, as humans, is to attain this feathered ascension throne and ride the wormholes of eternity. This means, we are to become a being of light, like Horus, and the rest of the Bird Tribe and enter the promised Dimension of the Blessed.
So, there we have it. Blue Bird star people, Blue Avians, in ancient Egypt. Incredible! Right?
There is more.
Taking a closer look at Horus’s shoulder patch we see that it the ‘logo’ of the blue birds, the winged serpent.

The winged serpent was adopted by Judeo-Christianity as the symbol for the Seraphim, angelic beings of pure light and pure love. Seraphim are usually portrayed as red winged bird men. Red, because they burn with the love of the Creator. However, they are also shown as blue angels or bird men. Blue like the sky. Blue like true blue.

These blue ‘bird-men-angels’ are the watchers of the door or gate linking earth with the heavenly realms.  This is why they are shown forming a vesica-shaped gate around the throne of Christ, the new Horus.

Last Judgment, Fra Angelico.

The Seraphim came to earth to teach humans the art of ascension or transformation into angels or ‘blue birds’. To be kissed by a seraphim meant to be initiated by them in the secrets of ascension and the mysteries of our divine selves.

Can you spot the Blue Avians or Blue Seraphim in the painting below? Clue. Look through the eye in the sky.

Detail of the Blue Avians or Blue Seraphim at the Throne of Christ.

THE BLUE SPHERE

My Bird Tribe research led me to become an ascension researcher and a specialist in exploring the secrets of ascension-themed art. To me, there is nothing more fascinating, or imperative that we understand, than the Ascension of Jesus.

As I wrote in “The Secret of Sion,”

“The Ascension is a fantastic subject in Christian art, as well as a theme in mystical writings. By the 6th century the iconography of the Ascension had been established and by the 9th century Ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches. The oculus or eye of the dome is considered the Gateway of the Sun. From this gateway at the top of the dome rises the World Axis, the link between Heaven and earth. Domes, therefore, are the threshold or gateway of the spiritual world. Thus, portraying Jesus ascending in/through a dome symbolizes him traveling through the wormhole.

The Syriac Rabbula Gospels (c. 586) include some of the earliest images of the Ascension and feature what become standard Ascension iconography. They offer the first illustration of Jesus ascending in a radiating or glowing almond-shaped ring or mandorla (‘gate’) lifted to heaven on a chariot composed of whirling wheels within wheels and many-eyed angels’ wings (shown here). A mandorla is the liminal (‘threshold’) space where two circles overlap. It is a powerful symbol of the psychological and spiritual realm where opposites merge, planes or dimensions of existence meet, and transformation occurs. The whirling wheels within wheels motif is comparable to Ezekiel’s vision. as are the lion, bull, man and eagle, which are symbols of the four evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the four creatures that guard the Throne of God.”

The Rabula Gospel. Christ ascends in a blue sphere held aloft by angels.

So, this early gospel set the blue tone for all future Christian ascension images. However, I believe the imagery originates with the images of Horus on the wormhole boat at Denderah. While the Egyptian art show a side view of the ascending figure, Christian art show the same concept from the face on. In Egypt, we see a side view of the wormhole. In Christian art we are looking down its throat as Jesus travels through it. That’s my take anyway.

I have been collecting images of the ascended Christ in a blue sphere.  The meaning is clear. The blue sphere is to be imagined as a portal or gateway. I wondered if this is what Corey meant by the blue sphere beings.

The Bible calls the blue sphere a ‘cloud’ (Acts 1:1-11), but it is clearly intended to be understood as a Merkaba vehicle or Throne. It has the characteristics of a wormhole, an interstellar or interdimensional transportation device.

As the book of Acts tells us, Jesus will return the same way he left: on the cloud/blue sphere wormhole thing.

BLUE SPHERE BEINGS

I haven’t experienced the Blue Sphere Beings like Corey has, but I did have a powerful encounter with the blue eye of Horus in 2002 while meditating in the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid.

From out of nowhere, I saw a blue eye on the screen of my consciousness beaming bliss at me. It was hovering just above me. It was conscious and I knew it was trying to make contact with me. This went on for several minutes.

I was awestruck by the experience, even more so when I realized it was the blue Eye of Horus that was beaming a blissful love at me.

After this experience, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to understand what happened… and how to get it to THAT feeling again.

Fortunately, I came upon the work of Swami Muktananda (1908-1982), the founder of the Siddha Yoga spiritual path. While he didn’t discuss the Eye of Horus, he did offer an explanation for my experience based on his teaching about the Blue Pearl.

According to Muktananda, the experience of the Blue Pearl, also referred to as the blue dot, is the most significant of meditation experiences.

When kundalini energy (the God Force that ascends our inner Tree of Life) becomes active through mantra meditation and rises through the seven chakras many see a subtle blue dot appear and disappear on their mental screen during meditation. The serpent on a pole symbolizes the rising of kundalini. The Israelites called this symbol the Nehushtan in the story of Moses lifting the serpent of healing. When Moses lifted the serpent a winged serpent manifested and healed the Israelites.

The scriptures describe this Blue Pearl as the divine light of Consciousness, which dwells within everyone.

Buddhists teach that through regular and prolonged meditation and focus on the Blue Pearl — or the blue sphere — one gradually experiences their true nature.

More, the Blue Pearl contains, and provides access to, different planes of existence.

When the Blue Pearl expands, writes Muktananda in Secret of the Siddhas, an extraordinary Blue Being some call a Blue Angel manifests from the center of its center…in a blue sphere.

As I discussed in Starwalkers and the Dimension of the Blessed, traditional shamanic peoples around the world describe a Blue Pearl, an exquisite, enchanting blue light that is a mode of transport. It appears in a flash, without any provocation or thought, and opens like a lotus or a wormhole.

The Man in Sapphire Blue” by Hildegard of Bingen. Jesus, the Blue Being.

This being is called the Blue Lord. A visualization of the Blue Being is considered to be the realization of the form of God.

In Hieronymous Bosch’s painting Christ appears as a blue Seraph to John the Revelator.

The Blue Being, the embodiment of God Consciousness, is made of an extraordinary light, says Muktananda.

Just as Consciousness expands (or pulsates), pervades the entire universe, and once again contracts, similarly the Blue Being, Consciousness, the Great Light once again becomes the Blue Pearl, as tiny as a sesame or mustard seed, and re-enters the body through the eyes.

The visualization of the Blue Being leads to complete knowledge.

Can you imagine a seed essence within yourself, a Divine Blue Particle — also called a Blue Apple, a Blue Stone or a Blue Pearl — that blossoms into a new (blue) skin or garment and opens gateways in space that allow instant access to other star systems or even to galaxies billions of miles away… paths that take us back to the Source?

OVER THE RAINBOW

Strangely (or perhaps not), all this symbolism comes together in “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, which some believe is the most hauntingly beautiful, and most esoteric, song ever written. It certainly captures the core of our desire: to return home or to make our present home more like our ‘real’ home.

Here are the lyrics:

“Somewhere over the rainbow way up high

There’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow.

Why then, oh, why can’t I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow why, oh, why can’t I?”

The message of the song is you CAN fly with the blue birds. You CAN attain the Rainbow Light Body. Dreams DO come.

How?

By meditating on the Blue Pearl and getting to know the secrets of the Bird Tribes.

BLUE BIRDS KNOW WHAT LOVE IS FOR…AND WHAT IT CAN DO

Now, let’s turn the metaphysics of Paul McCartney’s song “Bluebird.”

“Late at night when the wind is still
I’ll come flying through your door

And you’ll know what love is for

I’m a bluebird, I’m a bluebird
I’m a bluebird,

l’m a bluebird

Yeah, yeah, yeah”

McCartney’s biographer, J. Blaney, describes this song as a chant and interprets the bluebird as “a metaphor for the transcendent power of love and the liberation of the human spirit from mental and physical bondage.”

I can’t think of a better way to describe the mission of the Blue Bird tribe of ancient myth and sacred tradition.

As McCartney intuited, the Blue Birds of the past, including Horus, were messengers of love who came through the secret to door and brought the secret of love’s power to transform the human spirit.

McCartney again:

“Touch your lips with a magic kiss

And you’ll be a bluebird too

And you’ll know what love can do
Fly away through the midnight air

As we head across the sea
And at last we will be free
You’re a bluebird, you’re a bluebird

You’re a bluebird, you’re a bluebird

Yeah, yeah, yeah”

You’re a bluebird, you’re a bluebird
You’re a bluebird, yeah, yeah,yeah
Bluebird, ah, ha
 Bluebird, ah ha
Bluebird

Yes, we can fly over the rainbow like the blue birds.

We can know what love can do.

To be touched by the loving kiss of a blue Seraph is the ultimate human experience.

To be continued.

THE ASCENSION OF MARY MAGDALENE, ‘THE ILLUMINATOR’, AND THE DIVINE MYSTERY

NASHVILLE – It is now official. Pope Francis has acknowledged that Mary Magdalene, the woman “who loved Christ and was loved by Christ” and who was the first to witness his Resurrection, is on the same level as the other male apostles.

Recognizing St. Mary Magdalene’s role as the first to witness Christ’s resurrection and as a “true and authentic evangelizer,” Pope Francis raised the July 22 memorial of St. Mary Magdalene to a feast on the church’s liturgical calendar, the Vatican announced on June 10, 2016.

This is absolutely wonderful (old) news. Her ascension is complete.

What is new and exciting about it for me is the esoteric language in the Vatican’s decree formalizing the decision and where decoding it leads us.

The decree was published by the Congregation for Divine Worship June 10 along with an article explaining its significance.

Both the decree and the article were titled “Apostolorum Apostola” (“Apostle of the Apostles”) and represent an update on the Vatican’s position on the Magdalene.

According to the article’s author, Arthur Roche, the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, the decision will “reflect more deeply on the dignity of women, the New Evangelization, and the greatness of the mystery of Divine Mercy.”

Magdalene is presented as a ‘new paradigm’ for women and her elevation will reflect the mystery of Divine Mercy?

The mystery of Divine Mercy? What is that?

Pulling on the golden thread of the Vatican’s vernacular here will lead us down a wormhole of immense beauty and a fuller understanding of why Mary Magdalene was the ‘Apostle of the Apostles’.

THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE MERCY

The Mystery of Divine Mercy refers to the love God has for all of us and an appearance by the resurrected Jesus to a polish nun, St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938). Our goal is to let God’s love flow through our heart, like a river, to all those who need it.

St. Faustina’s encounter with the resurrected Jesus showed us a new way to succeed in our goal.

Faustina stated that whilst she was in her cell on the night of Sunday, 22 February 1931, Jesus appeared to her as the “King of Divine Mercy”, robed in a white garment.

As my readers know, the white garment or “cloak of the illumined ones” is the symbol for the robe of the soul, the light body or resurrection body of Christ.

Faustina wrote that Jesus’ right hand was raised in a sign of blessing and the other was touching the garment near his breast, and that from beneath the garment slightly down, aside his breast, emanated two large rays, one red, the other white.

In her diary (Notebook 1, items 47 and 48), she wrote that Jesus told her:

Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature: “Jesus, I trust in You”. I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and then throughout the world. I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish.”

According to the diary of St Faustina, the image is based on her 1931 vision of Jesus.

“I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish.”

Wow! Those are powerful words.

Venerate means to adore or love.

While it is believed that Jesus physically appeared to St. Faustina (rather than psychically as an interior vision) he spoke to her of the power of images to transmit Divine Love.

Faustina wrote that Jesus stressed the importance of the image as part of the Divine Mercy devotion, and in Notebook 1, item 327 she attributed these words to Jesus:

“I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy. That vessel is this image with the signature; ‘Jesus, I trust in You.”

Our goal, Jesus is saying, is to let God’s love flow through our heart to all those who need it.

One, if not the, way of connecting with the Divine Love is through sacred art.

Catholic devotions thus stress the importance of the image as a “conduit for grace” as part of the Divine Mercy message. Over 100 million Catholics have ‘venerated’ this image and have been altered by its power.

Jesus is saying we can connect with him through this divine image of him, specifically this painting. It is a vessel that will transport us into divine space where we meet him.

In other words, Jesus is saying this painting is a portal to salvation or eternal life.

I could hardly contain my excitement when I read these lines and connected the dots with the work Clare and I have been doing on sacred art.

I bolted out of my desk chair and flew down the stairs of our home to tell her all about it.

For the past five years we have been sharing knowledge of the sacred power images, especially icons of Christ, and avatars and gurus, and how they were created to transmit Divine Love.

More, we have shown, certain examples of sacred art are intended or designed to be sacred mirrors, portals to the afterlife and conduits for our ascension.

A major part of our spiritual practice is collection, veneration and sharing of sacred images.  It is the core of our Work. It is what we love to do. It is the basis for our spiritual adventure tours. We believe that in showing this art to you we are bringing the light of the Divine to you. Taking you to it is our mission and goal.
Sacred art, we believe, is the other half of the written scriptures of the all the world’s traditions.  It is a conduit to divine realms and beings. They are sacred mirrors. Contemplation, reflection and meditation on sacred art programs our DNA. It is the Stone of Transmutation sought by all the world’s mystics.

This is the premise of our Gaia TV show, ARCANUM.

I also discussed the basic points of our findings in my article, “The Awakened Soul: The Lost Art and Science of Ascension and the Ultimate Yoga Experience”.

Now, knock us over with a feather, here is an account of Jesus, himself, saying adore him and BE LOVED via an image!

Catch us, quick!

Or, find a quiet corner and listen what Jesus via St. Faustina has to say on this day we celebrate Mary Magdalene’s Ascension.

Clare and I are still shaking our heads in utter adoration.

DIVINE ALCHEMY

Jesus is shown in most versions of the Divine Mercy image as raising his right hand in blessing, and pointing with his left hand on his chest from which flow forth two rays: one red and one white (translucent).

St. Faustina’s Diary records what Jesus says about the symbolic meaning of the rays streaming out of his body:

“The two rays denote Blood and Water. The pale ray stands for the Water which makes souls righteous. The red ray stands for the Blood which is the life of souls… These two rays issued forth from the very depths of My tender mercy when My agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross.”

The whole image is symbolic of charity, forgiveness and love of God, referred to as the “Fountain of Mercy”.

This means the painting is energetically active, like a fountain spewing Divine Love. Jesus has poured his Spirit into the canvas so that it may be sprayed into the space in which the painting is displayed. Your cell phone, tablet or computer is transformed into a sacred space via the presence of the image.

Jesus is talking about alchemy here as red and white are also the color of the elixirs of alchemy and transmutation. Mixing their rays represents the “(al)chemical wedding” that produces the Philosopher’s Stone or the Body of Light.

THE RESURRECTION BODY

I offer these details about this image as, once again, according to Arthur Roche, the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, the Church hopes that Mary Magdalene’s ascension will “reflect more deeply on the dignity of women, the New Evangelization, and the greatness of the mystery of Divine Mercy.”

At the heart of this mystery is Jesus’s resurrection and transformation into a radiant light being.

My hope is that this “new reflection” on Magdalene will focus on her esoteric side and her role in the Resurrection.

Clare and I explored facets of this diamond in the episode titled “Lost Secrets of the Ascension of Mary Magdalene” of our Gaia TV show ARCANUM

Mary Magdalene was the beloved of Jesus, probably his wife.  She was his supreme initiate. This is why she was the first to the tomb in which his crucified body laid on a stone awaiting Resurrection.

Having spent the past 30 years studying the Resurrection of Jesus, I can say there is no more important participant than Mary Magdalene.

In my book, The Illuminator, I explored the research uplifting Mary Magdalene as an alchemist for which the popular thirteenth century French chronicler Jacobus says she earned the distinction Illuminata and Illuminatrix – the Illumined and Illuminator.

Webster’s says illuminati literally meant ‘enlightened ones’ in Latin. It comes from illuminare, to light up.

As the ‘illuminata’, the enlightened, Jacobus upholds, the Magdalene was illumined with the light of perfect knowledge in her mind and illumined with the light of glory in her body. In this case, says Jacobus, glory describes the splendor and bliss of heaven.

Glorify also means apotheo-size, to raise-up, to make one a God.

Glority also literally means to illuminate = to give light = glow ray(s).

All the occult mysteries of Arcanum speak of a key that is required to unlock mystical secrets of enlightenment and the body of light.

The lost secret of the Arcanum is about building the light body through the release of secretions or oils from the astounding manufacturing plant of spiritual oils, the human brain.

This oil or essence was the key secret of Mary Magdalene and is the key to Arcanum.

A favorite painting of Magdalene by Francesco de’ Franceschi. Ashmolean Musuem. Oxford.

Jewish Gnostics, who recorded their beliefs in the Gospel of Philip, say the Magdalene’s sacred oil is called Chrism that produces the Resurrection.

And it says; “The Chrism is superior to baptism, for it is from the word “Chrism” that we have been called “Christians,” certainly not from the word “baptism.” And it is because of the “Chrism” that the “Christ” has his name.

In Gustave Moreau’s painting we see Mary Magdalene cradling Jesus, perhaps in the moment after she has anointed his body with the sacred oil seen on the table beside them.

This oil opened one’s spiritual eyes, but it may have done more.

In ARCANUM, Clare and I made the first ever proposal that Mary Magdalene knew the secret of attaining what the Tibetans call the Rainbow Light Body or what Christianity calls the Resurrection body. In this practice the body is dissolved into light. The Tibetans do not mention an oil as instrumental in its attainment. Our sense is that this was an innovation introduced — or perfected by — Mary Magdalene.

Mary Magdalene wears a cloak of many colors and holds her alabaster jar. Does it contain the oil that transmutes the human body into light? I believe so.

I note this not out of ego, but to let the interested reader know the source of this information and to invite you on a spectacular journey. We have much more evidence to back up our claim than we are presently allowed to put in print, but will be sharing at our upcoming events and tours.

It is our hope that other researchers, presenters and authors on the subject of light body transformation and ascension will walk with us and further explore the astounding way ahead as we further uncover Mary Magdalene’s knowledge of the Light Body.

The Gospel of Mary says Mary Magdalene was given a special transmission of knowledge (gnosis). This transmission came after Jesus’ resurrection and concerned the nature of matter, of salvation, and of the soul’s journey through the darkness of the astral planes to reach the realm, kingdom or empire of light (which may well be the center of our galaxy).

From St. Faustinas’s experience I have no doubt part of Jesus’s instructions concerned the power of sacred art. Now, the question is, how can the sacred art trigger the production of the oil within us?

Clare?

To be continued…

TREXIT?: TRANSNATIONALISM AND TRANSHUMANISM AND WHY THEY ARE THE REAL ISSUES OF 2016

NASHVILLE —  Are you ready to cede your body to the global body and to Transhumanist technology under Transnationalists’s control? Or, are you looking for the Trexit?

U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, recently invited a group of Northeastern University commencement students to see the future with him. As they peered into his crystal ball,  Kerry urged his audience to see a world with no nations or borders.

Imagine. One world. No boundaries. It sounds wonderful, futuristic, hopeful; like an apple anyone would wish to pluck from a tree.

This is the transcendent world vision of the Transnationalists.

Transnationalism is a new type of consciousness. Also called Globalism, it is a social agenda, or revolution, grown out of the accelerating technology-driven interconnectivity and interdependence between people and the receding economic and social significance of boundaries among nation states.

Free flows of capital and people (legal and illegal) across the sphere of earth is one goal of Transnationalism. The unity of all of the rolling stones of humanity into a monolithic rock is the other.

As Kerry noted, hiding behind walls in this ‘new’ borderless world will be impossible.

The ‘walls’ reference was a shot at Donald Trump, who wants to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

What Kerry did not say is that this wall-less world will happen via technology…which sooner than later will be implanted in our bodies. The technology we now depend on for our very lives in the online world will soon mesh with our flesh and make our flesh and blood lives a transparent and open book. No physical walls will be necessary.

The technical term for meshing our flesh with technology is Transhumanism. Not every Globalist advocate is a Transhumanist, but sooner or later, they will realize that turning humans into cyborgs IS the globalist agenda and certainly is the key to its success.
If Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, SONY and other mega corporations driving Globalism have their way, this technology will soon come off your desktop and inside your body. Soon equals 2020-2030.

Clearly, Globalism offers unparalleled new opportunities matched only by its potential for unmatched tyranny. This is its great danger. Combined with Transhumanism, the results could be catastrophic for humanity. In fact, it is the end of the human race as we know it.

WE are the ones who are deciding the future for all of humanity. Many seek a Trexit. Others embrace a Trentrance or the Transhuman/Transnationalist route.

AGENDA 2030

One World government and one economy is the globalist’s next “great leap forward” in what the UN calls the “new universal agenda” for humanity that it hopes will be fulfilled by 2030.  Called “Agenda 2030”, this far-reaching program was unanimously adopted on September 25, 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly. Its noble goal is to improve the lives of poor people the world over.

According to the Agenda, by 2030, the majority of us will cease identifying ourselves with the nationality or country of our birth and will instead get religion and see ourselves as “global citizens” living in the light.

Massive redistribution of wealth is the cornerstone of the Agenda.

Whether or not the 1% who control 85% of the world’s wealth will voluntarily give their billions away is yet to be seen.

Whether or not “Agenda 2030” is a positive development is also yet to be determined.

“Agenda 2030” has raised alarm bells among analysts who do not see it as a way for all of us to “love each other”. They see it as a move toward a global totalitarian state.

Membership is mandatory. Non-negotiable. It is already a done deal.

Some believe this plan can only be achieved by absolute dictatorial power or at the point of a gun.  My belief is that no guns will be involved. Microchips will do the job. The UN has already begun giving biometric identity cards to refugees in order to track them as they make their way to their new homes. “Agenda 2030” calls for ALL of humanity to have biometric cards in their hands by 2030. These cards may literally be IN our hands, YOUR hands. This is why Transnationalism and Transhumanism are linked.

If we the people do not like the Agenda, now is the time to speak.

Silence is consent.

Britain’s June 23, 2016 vote to Brexit the Globalist EU will have a lot to say about the rise of Transnationalism and Transhumanism across the globe and the fulfillment of the UN’s agenda.

America’s vote in November will amplify the feelings on both sides of Brexit.

The larger choice here is to take the Transnational / Transhuman path or to Trexit.

SMARTEN UP

Socialist Democrats in America have the global body or Global U (a pun on you) of Agenda 2030 in mind. They aim to unify the human body. Their message is “come together”. “Smarten up”.

Donald Trump’s popularity is partly attributed to his stand against Transnationalism. Instead of eliminating walls, Trump is promising to build one between US and the World.
Donald Trump’s America First strategy is as mosaic as his autocratic lawgiver tendencies and he is wrong about building the Wall, but not completely. Personally, I think we need gates, not walls.
Trumps stand-ins are providing further warnings or insight into the possible ‘dark side of the light’ of Transnationalism or Globalism, which they equate with Fascism.
The perceived global stakes of Trump’s America First strategy are spelled out in a May 12, 2016 USA Today editorial by Senator Jeff Sessions who wrote: “For the first time in a long time, this November will give Americans a clear choice on perhaps the most important issue facing our country and our civilization: whether we remain a nation-state that serves its own people, or whether we slide irrevocably toward a soulless globalism that treats humans as interchangeable widgets in the world market.”

Sessions is partly right about globalism being soulless. Some believe the process of globalization will result is a religion-less world. Others think it will lead to greater understanding among the world’s religions. Globalism’s relationship with religion and spirituality is complex.
Sessions is totally right about the globalist agenda to treating humans as widgets, which means “mechanical devices”, in the globalist marketplace.
For clarity, what I believe Sessions should have said is that ‘soulless globalism’ treats humans as interchangeable ‘smart’ or transhumanist widgets in the world market. ‘Smart’ widgets or things are electronic objects connected to and communicating with the Internet.
Sessions and Globalists alike must realize that, since 2003, the U.S. Government has been promoting the transformation ofour bodies into widgets via smart technology and the evolution of humanity into a hive mind. This is the core of globalist apple. By ‘smart’ is not meant more intelligent. It means interfaced with computer technology that makes us more watchable, programmable, trackable and controllable.

PLAYING GOD
In my 2015 book, “The Skingularity Is Near”, I documented how this smart technology is now in the wearable phase, but ULTIMATELY is aimed at our skin.

In the wearable phase body-born devices are being used to augment the human body. These include “smart” watches and sensors.

These devices will become less and less about performing functions such as biometric measuring for us and more and more about our identity. These devices will resemble jewelry with an extraordinary array of functions.

The ultimate wearable is Google’s proposed nano-nutrient garment that is designed to promote longevity. This robe of many colors will send nano bots into every orifice of your body on missions to seek and destroy pathogens in your blood and keep your arteries clean as a whistle. The result will be dramatically extended life spans. It echoes the miracle garments or robes of power of the ancient gods. It is the coat of light once worn by Adam and Eve, who were hermaphrodites or two-sexed.

The wearable phase will not last long. This technology will shrink in the immediate future so that systems can be embedded or implanted in the body. The smart phone in your hand will sooner-than-you-think be implanted in your ear.

SkinTrack, a new wearable technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University, basically turns the entire lower arm into a touchpad. It differs from previous skin-to-screen approaches because SkinTrack requires the user to wear a special ring that propagates a low-energy, high-frequency signal through the skin when the finger touches or nears the skin surface.
Blink. Blink. Blink. Blink.

In another few blinks of the eye, smart contact lenses that will give us super-human vision and will offer heads-up displays, video cameras, medical sensors and more. These are ‘safest’ of these new technologies. Sony, Samsung and Google have all filed patents for smart contact-lens technology in the early months of 2016.

2020 here we come!

Or is it 2030?

By ‘safe’ I don’t mean they won’t have potential harmful effects. Rather, I mean that like other implantables, smart lenses can be removed or inserted by the user. They are not under or in the skin permanently.

Google’s Verily Life Sciences is leading the way to bring the IoT to your eyeball.  In the new “cognitive era”, as IBM calls it, human beings will hike over to Best Buy, or some other electronics outlet, to pick out your new lens. Your natural lens will be removed from your eyeball. A fluid will be injected into your eye. In a few moments this fluid will fuse with your eye’s lens capsule. As it solidifies your new eye contains storage, battery, sensors, a radio and other electronics. When you leave the store you will now be a transhuman being who will have perfect vision, the ability to see in the dark, sensors to detect blood glucose levels and other applications we haven’t yet dreamed of.

Of course, with super vision glasses comes supervision. The great fear is that the implantation of this technology will come at a cost greater than our organic eye lenses. It will cost us our free will and will turn us into emotionless cyborgs.

Another Google start-up, Magic Leap, has raised a billion dollars to create an implantable contact lens that injects computer-generated images or floats virtual objects into the real world field of view. Called the world’s most secretive startup, its aim is to bring magic back into the world by rethinking the relationship technology has with people. It’s aim is remove the shackles binding humanity by tossing away the boxes on our desk by uniting the brain and body with technology.
Actually, Google may want you to think about eliminating your physical body altogether.

Its chief futurist, author Neal Stephenson, is most famous for the concept of “Metaverse” from his 1992 sci-fi classic Snow Crash. Stephenson imaged a virtual universe where users create avatars to communicate and interact. Who needs a physical body when your avatar is so much better?

TRANSHUMANISM
Brexit just put a wrench in that plan, just like the rejection of Google Glass slowed down Google’s aim to control your body, mind…and soul.
Transhumanism promises to take the potentials of this right to new levels. Life extension via synthetic organs, drugs and other new technologies eliminate the barriers to our pursuit of life, liberty and immortality.

Transhumanism is a human re-engineering project based on the meshing of human flesh with ‘smart’ technology or electronic devices.
Born out of NASA’s realization in 1962 that we will not be able to transcend earth in our flesh and blood suits, the U.S. Government began working on the transformation of humans into cyborgs (a term coined by NASA).

Transhumanism is aimed at perfecting the human body by seeding it with or ceding it to Artificially Intelligent technology, giving it a new layer of skin, and connecting every human on the planet to the Internet of Things (IoT). In less than ten years every organ and body part will be replaceable by a technological version.

These new technologies comprise the Internet of Things (IoT) that drives Transnationalism / Globalism.
The IoT is presently composed of 20 billion+ ‘smart’ things or widgets — phones, toasters, refrigerators, cars, computers — that will balloon to over 50 billion such smart things by 2020.

 
The IoT will essentially become an Artificially Intelligent global brain of which each individual human brain is a neuron.

How the Internet of Things Will Change Everything-Including Ourselves.

 
Presently included among these things are nearly four billion human beings, who are rapidly shedding all that is human and adopting the transhuman upgrades devised by the wizards of Silicon Valley. If you wonder how dependent, if not addicted, we are to these technologies we are just try to take our cell phones away. Just try to run a One World without them.

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerburg, has made it is his life to goal to have every human being online as a human being thing. Facebook will be the portal or conduit linking all human being things.

Hundreds of millions, if not billions, of these present and future Facebook users do not have toilets or clean water.  They are the poor the UN seeks to uplift. How turning them into smart things and wiring them to IoT will make them better humans is an, as yet, unanswered question.

However, it is certain that the Internet is a great leveler. Take a look at this Microsoft Empowering commercial. “Today, more than half the world’s population does not have access to the Internet. We believe that everyone deserves the social and economic opportunities afforded by connectivity.”

Ultimately, the “global citizen” view promoted by transnationalism is a transient step toward a trans-earth or multi-planet civilization with transhumans (machine-enhanced humanoids) transcending the boundaries of earth life and coming and going between earth, the moon, Mars and beyond.

I am for helping the ‘poor’ to elevate their lives and for transcending the boundaries of earth. But I’m just not sure about doing so as man-chines.

As I discussed in “The Skingularity Is Near”, Transhumanism is the fulfillment of both the Christian prophecy and ethos of a “new”, “perfected” human and America’s “we can do anything with the right technology” attitude.

Ever since Adam and Eve were evicted from Eden, humanity has sought to redeem itself and reclaim our original perfect status.

Some Globalists and Transhumanists believe our species should embrace our transition to smart human being things as part of our hive evolution and our return to perfection. For them, a new human race connected by implanted technologies is a quantum leap. Others believe this vision is trumped-up.

However, human rights advocates, including this author, warn that as technology becomes more and more invasive and merges with us we become and more transparent. Privacy (or hiding) will become impossible. Homo sapiens as a species will cease to exist.

In this way, the 2016 American election is a vote for Transhumanism and Transnationalism or against it. Will we make a Trentrance or a Trexit?

You decide.

PROSPERITY AND THE LIGHT BODY: TV PREACHER JOEL OSTEEN SAYS ‘SOMETHING BIG IS COMING YOUR WAY’…AND I BELIEVE HIM, BUT FOR A DIFFERENT REASON

I don’t know what it was, while flicking around You Tube, it must have been that Something we all know and love, that led me from headbanging to Buffalo Springfield’s 1967 classic,  “Mr. Soul” , with Neil Young and Stephen Stills absolutely rocking, to mega star TV preacher, Joel Osteen’s, “Something Big Is Coming Your Way” video.

Talk about whiplash! It’s a long way from a fed up Neil Young to smiling Joel Osteen.

As usual, that Something was right. Smiling Joel’s motivational message about creating BIG THINGS was just what my soul needed, but probably not for the reason he intended.

I haven’t watched Osteen in years. Even then, I would only occasionally catch him while channel surfing. Spiritually speaking, my interests tend toward the more esoteric or enlightenment-directed spiritual teachings and Joel is not exactly “Mr. Soul”. I don’t mean that critically. His passion isn’t to dive deep into the secrets of the soul, it is to lift people up and he is GREAT at it.

In this particular episode, he tapped into what we all want: P-R-O-S-P-E-R-I-T-Y.

And also, how to get it.

Prosperity means “Good Fortune”. That is something everyone could use just a bit more of, right?

Monetarily speaking, Joel Osteen knows what he is talking about. In fact, he is walking his talking.

12 years ago Joel was a nobody. Today, he has sold tens of millions of books and owns a hundred million or so dollar business selling prosperity through Jesus to the masses. He must be doing something right.

AN ANCIENT TECHNIQUE

The reason I was so intrigued by Joel’s talk is because I realized that what he was providing was an ancient technique that could be applied to enhancing not just one’s bank account, or tightening one’s body, or getting a promotion at work, or a bigger house, but also for true spiritual goals, including manifesting one’s angelic light body.

The light body, or human transformation into angels, is the core subject of my work. It is also the goal of Christianity, among other religions.

Though this message is lost in 21st century mainstream TV Christianity, Jesus wanted our soul to spend our precious time on earth becoming like him, which means living in the Light and manifesting a superhuman body of light called the Resurrection Body, Eternal Body or Robe of the Soul. Jesus acquired this Robe at his baptism by the Essene master, John the Baptist, and then demonstrated his newly activated soul abilities at at the Transfiguration, when he turned himself momentarily into a being of light.

The Transfiguration. As Jesus morphed into light, the disciples were terrified. Jesus touche them and told them to “Rise and do not be afraid” (Matthew 17:7). In other words, overcome fear and raise our vibration.

In Christian gnosis, my wise friend Father Charlie Moore taught me, we all possess a supernatural “Divine Manifesting Power” (Exousia). So long as we nurture that divine manifesting power we are clad, like the angels, in garments of heavenly light, the Robe of the Soul. This is true prosperity, from the soul’s perspective.

Unfortunately, too few of us were, or are, ever taught about this glorious Robe and how to become invested in it.

This could prove to be disastrous.

Jesus in the Rainbow Robe of the Soul embraces Mary. Sopra Minerva, Rome. Photo by William Henry.

The apostle Paul speaks of a predator that comes from the ‘dark world’ and “spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:12) that intrudes on our spiritual lives. This adversary seeks to keep us from manifesting our light body.

The remedy is to recognize the predator and then to activate the soul’s latent psycho-spiritual powers within us. These powers are symbolized by a crown of salvation, a breastplate of righteousness, a belt of truth and sandals of peace, among other symbols. I discussed these in the latest episode of “The Awakened Soul” on Gaia TV

This is  the ‘kit’ worn by the Jewish high priests in the Temple of Solomon when they were mimicking the angels. The message is that by awakening our higher consciousness, living from an open heart, speaking the truth and walking in peace we become like the angels. It is a very simple and beautiful teaching.

MONEY AND THE LIGHT BODY

Watching Osteen speak, it suddenly crystallized in my mind that there is a strange connection between symbolism of manifesting the light body and the symbolism of the dollar.

Here it is.

The Essene-Christians of the first century AD connected the crucified Jesus to the Nehushtan, the fiery serpent lifted on a pole by Moses (Numbers 21:8).  The raised serpent was a symbol of wisdom, or gnosis, as well as the Divine Manifesting Power. Lifting the serpent is also a reference to raising the kundlani laying coiled at the base of our spine. When this spiritual energy flows freely upward along the spine or stairway to heaven it leads to expanded consciousness.

When Moses lifted the Nehushtan it brought healing to the Israelites and also the manifestation of super angels called Seraphim, who are known as the fiery serpents. These are the highest order of angels, advanced celestial beings, who manifest on earth as luminous, humanoid figures with spinning or vortex-shaped bodies. The Essene-Christians believed humans could transform into Seraphim.

The serpent on a pole is the symbol or logo, called the Nehushtan, portrays a crucified serpent.

The Nehushtan is the logo a advanced celestial beings called Seraphim.

The serpent on a pole or rod is, of course, the caduceus of Hermes, the staff of enlightenment, from or around which ribbons or a snake or snakes curl. Numerous authors make the connection not only between Moses and Hermes, but also Jesus and Hermes. It is no wonder their symbols are interconnected.

Hermes with the caduceus wand. This tool of the gods opens the gates of heaven.

Peter Paul Rubens painted Jesus cradling the Nehushtan.

Peter Paul Rubens painting of Jesus holding a Nehushtan sends a powerful message. It asks us to connect the secret of eternal life with Moses’s experience with the Seraphim. In doing so, we are deep into the esoteric soul secrets of Jewish mysticism which flowered with the Essenes.

John the Beloved (or John the Essene) directly connected the Nehushtan to Jesus, and to our ascension, when he wrote:

“No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven (on) the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life” (John 3:14).

Wow! That is powerful.

John is clearly telling us to understand that the secret meaning of the serpent on a pole symbolism has to do with transforming us into angels or beings of light like the Seraphim.

In my opinion, this is why Jesus appeared as a Seraph to St. Francis of Assisi in the early 13th century. He completed the ‘lifting of the serpent’ (kundalini activation) that transformed his body into light.

Francis of Assisi receives the Stigmata on beams of light projected from the risen Jesus as a Seraph.

THE LIFTED SERPENT AND THE MAGIC OF MONEY

In 1797, the serpent on a pole symbol was adopted by the U.S. Government and became the dollar sign, $, the symbol for the almighty U.S. Dollar. Some clever person, or persons, in Philadelphia, the capital of the newly formed United States of America, decided to use a supernatural symbol for a supernatural concept as a symbol for a new supernatural concept: the creation of printed money. This symbol, $, is known world wide. Everywhere it is found it denotes “prosperity” or “money”.

The word ‘dollar’ comes from the German thaler. As shown here, in the sixteenth century, thalers featured a Nehushtan on one side and the crucified Christ on the other. The message is they represent the same thing: the secret of eternal life.

Sixteenth century German thaler showing the Nehushtan.

Unfortunately, rather than standing for the transformation of humans into angels, or beings with truth-speaking, peace walking beings with expanded consciousness and open hearts, the $ symbol became the global symbol for money.

Money, we know, does not actually exist. It is manifested out of thin air by bankers and symbolized by fiat currency or paper money. We all agree, or have faith, that the paper stands for something real, but it isn’t. This is the magic or supernatural power of money. We trust that the inventors of money will continue to give us credit (and they will as long as we, wink, wink, go along with their magic). Many people will do just about anything to accumulate money.

In Goethe’s classic German legend, Faust, the Devil (Mephistopheles) and the scholarly Faust are purveyors of the secret of alchemy: how to create astounding wealth by printing money. Faust makes a deal with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.

Timothy must have been tempted by the same Faustian deal when he said:

“Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows. But you, O man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

Timothy’s advice is Buddhist. The righteousness he implores us to pursue is a condition of the heart and mind. Living righteously, we are rewarded with the Robe of Righteousness. This is the light body of Christ.

Timothy is clearly urging us not to take the Devil’s pact, but instead to pursue our angelic or Christ bodies for righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness are all qualities of the Seraphim angels.

So, plain and simple, our choice is either to spend our precious time on this fragile earth chasing money, and filling our purse with something that does not exist, or we can pursue our angelic light body. One path leads to destruction. The other leads to freedom.

This makes it kind of ironic that a Christian preacher has made a massive fortune offering tools to attract money.

I don’t mind, because the tools he offers can be applied in all areas of life.

More, I think money is good and can be used for godly purposes.

Before getting into Joel Osteen’s ancient technique for manifesting prosperity, I want to share Jesus’s words on money. As we will see, he presents the explicit choice between chasing money and the Robe of Righteousness.

JESUS AND MONEY

Jesus’s teaching about money is found in a conversation with a young rich man, who asked Jesus the secret of eternal life (Matthew 19:6).

Jesus told him the Secret was to follow the commandments: to love the Lord (Something) with all our heart, mind and soul and love your neighbor as yourself.

In Matthew (5:43-47) doing well, achieving prosperity, was a sign of love of neighbor. The reason is because righteous wealthy people balance their needs with the needs of the community. They are givers, not accumulators. A prosperous community equaled self-love. If everyone wasn’t prospering, no one was. So, people acquired wealth to do good and Godly work in the community.

The rich man claimed he had followed these commandments and wanted to know what else was required. (Like how much money?)

Jesus told the rich man, if he wanted to be perfect, and to follow him, that he must give what he has to the poor, come follow him and then you will have treasure in heaven (Matthew 19:21).

This was too much for the rich man, who walked away.

Then, Jesus told the assembled, “…it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:23).

The eye of the needle is the gate or portal to heaven. As Jesus taught: “I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 15:50).

Jesus in the Eye of the Needle, the portal or gateway to heaven. Note that he his surrounded by blue Seraphim.

As Jesus said, we “enter (heaven) through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it. Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” (Matthew 7:14-15)

Jesus’s teaching about the “eye of the needle” is about shedding the material realm, the flesh, as a prerequisite for entering the flesh and money-free zone of the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus is stating simply that love is the only way to enter the celestial city and that our flesh and blood body, along with our cars, mansions, jewelry, and other wonderful ‘things’ we have accumulated and enjoyed during our stay on earth, are simply not going with us. Not even my beloved Gibson Les Paul guitar. It all gets left behind.

Now, this does not mean that Jesus doesn’t want us to enjoy life. He does not want us to be poor, as in broke or unhappy. As I said, the early Essene Christians sought prosperity for all.

In Jesus’s time the ‘Poor’ was a name for the Ebionites, another name for the Essenes. This order of mystics was actually extremely wealthy.

What Jesus wants is for us to be perfect.

The word perfect, as used by the Jewish mystics of Jesus’s time, including the Essenes, meant to attain our angelic light body. It is used by the Tibetans who refer to the light body as the Great Perfection.

The treasure in heaven to which Jesus refers is this light body and citizenship in a celestial city (called the New Jerusalem or Sion), where his celestial throne is located.

Jesus concludes his teaching saying:

“Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.…” (Matthew 19:28)

In the renewal of all things. This is the only time Jesus spoke of the new creation, the second genesis. He is talking about a new world, a world made new, a time of regeneration when ascended humans sit with him in the celestial city.

During the second genesis, we will see the emergence of a new sacred world order based on the principles of the light body.

The time he speaks of is now.

PROSPERITY

Even though Joel Osteen seemed to miss the mark on the light body, he still got me fired up.

Listening between his lines,  his words showed me/us a brilliant way to do manifest the Robe of Light.

As I will show, all we have to do is apply the ancient “how to” attain prosperity technique he laid out to attract money toward attainment of the light body and we have ourselves a very powerful spiritual technology.

First, let me reiterate that prosperity is good. It is Godly. Money is good, too. When people use money correctly it is a blessing. Wouldn’t you like to have more money to be able to bless others? Of course! So, there is no argument here.

The question we are considering is can pursuing money distract us from attaining our ultimate prosperity? Yes. However, remember, many of the great light body masters of the past were wealthy: King Solomon, the Buddha, even Jesus, were members or extremely wealthy families.

One reason we want money is to be debt free.

In Christian vernacular, debt is ‘sin’. So is the love of money. The ultimate way out of  sin is to attain our angelic light body.

Putting Christian teachings aside, in the secular world, to be in debt makes one a slave to a cabal of invisible banksters who have long been cheating humanity out of its rights as sovereign souls by creating money out of thin air, like magic, and charging interest for its use.

As I write this article on Friday, July 22, 2016, the U.S. Government’s Federal debt moved above $19,400,000,000,000 for the first time. That’s 19 trillion dollars. This is over $150,000 per tax payer. This is a sinful legacy to pass on to the next generation. It steals their future and locks their soul into a debter’s prison.

Dave Ramsey, who has build an empire by teaching people to live debt free, points us to a Proverb of the richest man who ever lived, King Solomon, who said: “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is the slave to the lender” (Proverbs 22:7).

It is pretty simple. Debt takes away our freedom. It inhibits our soul. It stands in the way not just of our earthly happiness, but also attainment of our Robe of Light.

To be free of debt/sin is certainly an amazing gift to our soul.

BELIEVE BIGGER. BE BIGGER.

Getting back to listening between the lines, what I heard Joel Osteen say is that when one is debt free one can do BIG THINGS.

He was very convincing about the BIG things God wants us to have.

In his talk, Joel equated the paid off home mortgage with success in this life. This may seem mundane, but who doesn’t want to own their home free and clear?

Especially when nearly 4 billion of the 7.5 billion inhabitants of earth do not even have clean water or a toilet let alone a paid off dwelling to call home.

I found it intriguing that he calls God by one of his Hebrew names, El Shaddai, which is normally translated as “God Almighty,” but Joel says it means “God is more than enough.”

El means something like ‘the power of God’. Shaddai is derived from a word meaning breast, which implies the power of God is in the heart.

Another interpretation of El Shaddai has it as the plural name for a group of mighty ones. These are the Watchers angels of the Old Testament. in my book, “The Lost Secret of the Watchers”, I show how these Angels of the Lord brought the “secret of heaven” with them to earth. This secret is about how humans transform into angels. Incidentally, these angels are also called the Els or ‘Shining Ones’.

Unfortunately, the Christian church has demonized these angels and their secret teaching. No church that I am aware of teaches its sheep to become angels.

The message is clear, however. We all have a BIGGER version of ourselves.

Joel Osteen is a master at helping people transform disappointment into something BIG. The key is to have a BIGGER vision for your life. To believe BIGGER than you do now.

He cites the story of Jabez (1 Chronicles 4:10), who was in a state of deep sorrow, but had the courage to ask God to do something BIG in his life.

Jabez asked God to enlarge his territory and to bless him indeed.

By this, Joel was thinking that the little known Biblical figure was asking for God to help him out of his stuck place.

Jabez was asking God to turn things around for him. Indeed. As Joel said, this means “in GREAT ways.”

The scripture says God granted him his request.

Joel’s question for the day was, “have you ever asked God to enlarge your territory?”

“Have you ever said, God, bless me indeed? God, do SOMETHING big in my life.”

As Joel says, “Friends, we have not, because ask not. When you S-T-R-E-T-C-H your faith. When you ask God to I-N-C-R-E-A-S-E, E-N-L-A-R-G-E. He will.

Osteen’s massive audience may have been asking for a larger house, a bigger bank balance, a newer car, a better job. Or, in some cases, just clean water, a toilet, and something to eat.

My audience has the same needs, but they also seek to answer a higher spiritual call, a BIGGER purpose. They seek to attain their light body and to ascend to heavenly realms.

On that note, Joel then asked us to think about how expansive the universe is. There are millions of stars and planets, he said, with wide wonder.

Actually, their are millions of stars just in our Milky Way galaxy. The universe is home to trillions of stars spread across hundreds of billions of galaxies. And that is just the known universe.

Joel’s point was that everything about God is BIG.  The problem, says Osteen,  “is if you think small, and believe small, and expect small, then your thinking will keep you from the BIG things God has in store for you.”

Joel is asking us to get up each day and say, “Father, thank you for doing something BIG in my life today. Thank you for BIG opportunities, BIG breakthroughs”.

Here is where he got me.

How many days have you, dear reader, awoken and thanked God for helping you with the BIGGEST breakthrough of your life?

If those days are few, then the message here is that one way to accelerate your ascension and light body attainment is to thank God for doing this for you.

CONTAINMENT

Osteen states that the big battle is one of containment. The enemy does not want you to go further in your life. The enemy does not want you to advance. “His goal,” says Joel, “is to keep you contained.” There are forces working overtime to keep us where we are.

Joel does not name this enemy. Nor, perhaps, does he need to. We each can do that for ourselves. Paul calls it the Planetary Powers. Don Juan calls it the Predator.

Joel says we must never be satisfied with what we have. We need to press forward and strive for BIGGER things.

Especially, we cannot be contained.

He says that we must know that God wants us to increase, to be promoted, to reach new levels. Something BIG is coming our way.

“God,” he says, “wants to bless you beyond your normal income.”

Again, I kept waiting for Joel to tell us that the GREAT BIG life we are meant to have involves the transformation of our earthly (flesh and blood/money-driven) lives are supposed to lead to the ultimate prosperity of the Resurrection Body, also known as the light body.

Once we escape the containment of our physical body, and the containment of our soul, we are free to roam about the cosmos.

You may not see, right now, how your body can transform into light and how you can become equal to the angels, but God can. That is God’s vision for you.

How do we do this?

THE MIND

The place to begin escaping the containment of the body is by training the mind.

The house God wants us to build is not a 15,000 square foot mansion somewhere.

The house is our body temple and our eternal light body. The Essenes called it the House of Perfection.

I known it sounds like a lot to believe that God wants you to have the same eternal body as the angels or to mirror the Resurrection Body of Christ.

But this is the truth.

We all have excuses for not accepting the greatness within us. We’re too old. We don’t have enough time. We’re afraid of it.

Don’t worry. You can handle this.

As Joel says, “you just have to DARE to believe”.

I have studied the light body teachings of numerous ancient traditions from the Egyptians, to the Babylonians, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Jewish Mystics, the early Christians, to the Cathars, and they all say the same thing.

You don’t have to and will not do this alone.

Their are friendly beings out there — saints, boddhisatvas, Christs — looking for you and wanting to assist you in you rise.

The key is to look beyond your physical container. Look to your future self. Your angelic, light being self.

Then, DARE TO BELIEVE  you can become an angel.

THIS is the next BIG STEP forward and to letting God do SOMETHING BIG in your life.

Can you dream of traveling the limitless divine cosmos with a tribe of angelic light beings? Can you dream of Jesus coming to you as a Seraph, as he did to Francis of Assisi?

Can you dream of blessing countless others with the Divine love within you?

I know you can, otherwise you would not have read this far.

Some of us dream of just getting by in this world. God’s light body vision for you is to thrive in a world of true light and love.

Some of us just want to make it through today, or this life. God’s light body vision is for you to master cosmic life.

As Jesus said in Matthew (19:26), “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” The Divine Manifesting Power (Exousia) can accomplish an instant transformation of our lives.

A THOUSAND TIMES GREATER

Joel quotes Deuteronomy 1:11: “May the Lord God of your Father make you a thousand times more than you are.”

The message is: “A thousand times more than we are” is what we already are.

God is not wanting us to become a thousand times more than we are just in the material sense.

Somewhere along the line, the awakened soul realizes that the “thousand times more than we are” God wants us to be is our angelic self our light body self.

This is the  B-I-G  S-T-R-E-T-C-H  God wants us to make.

It is not into a bigger house, bigger company, better car, etc. It is to our BIGGER ascended self.

If you have not glimpsed this part of yourself yet, I encourage you to read this article and watch my Gaia TV show, “The Awakened Soul: the Lost Science of Ascension” and ARCANUM, in which Clare and I explored the secrets of the light body hidden in sacred art.

God has billions of worlds awaiting you and angels waiting to assist you in traveling there. New dimensions await you.

The Good News is that as you dream of these worlds and allow the angels to enter your life, it transforms what you have. It makes your life BIGGER and BETTER.

The Tibetans teach attainment of the light body can happen in one life time.

Christianity tells us it will happen in the twinkling of an eye.

The light body is called the Robe of Glory because it shines. It is called the Robe of Righteousness because all who wear it earned it by doing the right things.

Don’t let the sleeping caterpillars that you see on a daily basis keep you from manifesting your BIGGER light body self.

Your body is a container. Fill it with light and love. Raise your vibration and with it your expectations. See your container expanding one thousand times into a glowing being of light.

As you fill your container, your next best self will be fed. It has all the ‘how to’ answers your present self belief it lacks.

God will do the rest.

This is what God intended when your Divine Spark, your soul, was put in this container.

The open star doors await those who dream big, think big, act big and who dress appropriately in their light body garment.

As you wear this garment God will lead you to others who are dressed like you.

All you have to do is s-t-r-e-t-c-h out to reach them.

Together, we will enlarge the territory of light on earth. We will connect earth to the cosmic realms. We will take our civilization beyond the grips of the cabal of soul enslaving banksters who presently control our world.

Ask God now to fulfill this dream for you and for all of humanity. Take comfort that you don’t have to have all the answers for how to fulfill this dream. Something good will happen. Someone will fill in the gaps.

You are a thousand times more than you are.

A thousand times more people than you can imagine are with you.

Together, we are headed for a new world the angels dreamed of.

BORN AGAIN… INTO THE RAINBOW RESURRECTION BODY

My Epiphany at Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment

God, S/He moves in mysterious ways.

On October 7-9, 2016, I had the pleasure of speaking — and having my mind blown (!)– at the “Ancient Mysteries” conference at Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, VA.

My presentation, “The Essenes and Ascension”, featured my last several years research on these (mostly) Jewish mystics who, extraordinarily,  claimed to be living with angels (celestial beings/’extraterrestrials’) who taught them how to transform their human flesh — in a FLASH!!! —  into the celestial flesh of the angels. Radiant, luminous, shining, this ‘flashy flesh’ of the angels is composed of a rarefied ‘perfect’ spiritual substance that is as ‘real’ or ‘solid’ in the higher realms as our physical body is on the earth. Attainment of this ‘light body’ is the next step in human spiritual evolution.

According to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Essenes alienated themselves from the rest of society to ‘perfect’ themselves in order to prepare and make way for the visitation of a high celestial being and to lead a revolution in human evolution by transforming themselves into angels and the earth into a planet of righteousness.

The scrolls reveal the Essenes were also obsessed with transforming themselves to be like their visiting angels and their state of being (in light bodies) in order to ascend to and enter a celestial city called Sion or the New Jerusalem. In Hebrews (12:22), we learn this place is inhabited by “angels gathered in joyful assembly and just humans made perfect.

The Essenes sought to take their place at this family gathering of angels and perfect ones.

THE ESSENES AND THE RAINBOW BODY

It so happens that Hurricane Matthew was spinning toward Virginia Beach while I was there. I had no idea that coming on those clouds was a lightning strike of revelation and it was headed my way!

I was excited to hear Cayce expert, John Van Auken’s, talk about Edgar Cayce and the Essenes. Incredibly, the great seer had provided numerous readings about the Essene teachings at least fifteen years before the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. In startling ways, Cayce’s dream-state readings about the Essenes matched what the scrolls said in detail after detail. In particular, I was intrigued by Cayce’s references to the Essenes and perfection which appeared on several of Van Auken’s slides.

While at the A.R.E. I was given a tour of the vault containing Edgar Cayce’s original readings and other artifacts, including the gorgeous painting “Flight Into Egypt” (featured above). I even got to sit at his desk!

A great souvenir from the A.R.E.!

During my talk, I presented the research that led to my unique hypothesis that the Essenes living in Jerusalem and Alexandria Egypt c. 150 B.C. to 66 AD were practicing Buddhist Rainbow Light Body techniques referred to as the Great Perfection. The Tibetans teach that the Great Perfection was originally of extraterrestrial / cosmic origins and represents the highest form of enlightenment or spiritual realization on earth.

The ultimate goal of the Rainbow Body practitioner is to accelerate the frequency of the body until it dissolves into five colored rainbow light, leaving behind only hair, toe and fingernails that have no nerves to be transmuted. The result is a new birth or rebirth into a luminous, humanoid body shot with gold and which emits rainbow colors.

In a process that is as natural as a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly, practitioners ‘ascend’ in new perfect bodies of light matching those of the celestial beings. This ‘light body’ is known in virtually every spiritual tradition. It goes by many names, of which the Garment of Light, Robe of Glory, Beaming Garment, Star Body, Diamond Body, Body of Bliss, are just a few.

What ‘called’ me to the Essenes was my discovery that they called their ‘research group’ the House of Perfection and referred to themselves as those who walk in the Perfect Way.

Researchers have observed the link between Jesus’s ‘perfect’ rainbow Resurrection body and the Rainbow Light Body of the Great Perfection. Side by side mages of the rainbow clad resurrected Christ with the Tibetan images of the Rainbow Body (as below) have been a staple of my books, presentations and TV shows since 2006. My three latest books have explored the sayings of Jesus that correspond to this body.

As I listened to Van Auken’s talk, I had no idea that a (major!) new piece to the correspondence between these images and the Tibetan and Christian teachings was about to slip into place.

For years, I additionally have been linking the images of the Rainbow Light Body with those of the Seraphim angels. The highest order of angels, the Seraphim dwell at God’s Throne (in the celestial city, Sion), but routinely interact with humanity, including the Essenes, as discussed in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other documents.

The Seraphim are the angels the Essenes sought to become. The ‘new bodies’ they sought are the same as the bodies of these beings.

In Jewish mysticism, the complete physical characteristics of the Seraphim (also known as the Watchers or Angels of the Lord) includes:

• a humanoid body,
• a ‘serpentine face’,
• a many colored garment,
• rising up into the air like whirlwinds,
• luminous or radiant bodies,
• feathered cloaks,
• many eyes,
• and the ability to fluidly morph or change form and to shape-shift.

This is why, in Christian art, the Seraphim are portrayed as humanoid beings with swirling, vortex shaped bodies covered with feathers. Are the feathers meant to symbolize flight, but also an energy field or waves of light emitted from these beings? I believe so. To me, the visual similarity between the Rainbow Light Body and the energetic bodies of the Seraphim is not a coincidence.

I have proposed the Rainbow Body state and the Seraphim are same class of enlightened celestial beings. The Tibetans haven’t claimed this. Nor has the Judeo-Christian tradition. As far as I know, this is unique to me. I point this out not out of ego, but rather to alert the reader to the source of this link and in hopes that those ‘in the know’ will contact me with any additional references to support my hypothesis.

As they were developed in corresponding Christian theology, Seraphim are beings of pure light and pure love and have direct communication with God. As  noted, they dwell at the Throne of God. However, they don’t stay there. They can manifest in our world.

In fact, the resurrected Jesus appeared to St. Francis of Assisi as a Seraph, demonstrating that the state of being of the Seraph is the same as the resurrected state of being. In the art of resurrection, which is derived from eye-witness accounts (John the Revelator, for example) Jesus is either seen with a rainbow around his body or with the body of a Seraphim. In my view, these bodies are the interchangeable or energetic phases of the same light body. One, the Rainbow Body version, is a sped up version of the other (the Seraphim). This because these heavenly beings ‘slow down’ their frequency in order to be perceived by our earthly senses.

Jesus manifests as a Seraph to St. Francis of Assisi. For more on this remarkable contact please see my article Gentle Heart.

As I discussed in my book, The Secret of Sion, Thomas Aquinas said the Seraphim have the quality of clarity, or brightness; which signifies that these angels have in themselves an inextinguishable light, and that they also perfectly enlighten others…” With the revival of neo-Platonism in the academy formed around Lorenzo de’ Medici in Renaissance Florence, the Seraphim took on a mystic role in Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man (1487), the epitome of Renaissance thinking.

Pico took the fiery Seraphim—”they burn with the fire of charity”—as the highest models of human aspiration: “impatient of any second place, let us emulate dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing,” the young Pico announced.

“In the light of intelligence, meditating upon the Creator in His work, and the work in its Creator, we shall be resplendent with the light of the Cherubim. If we burn with love for the Creator only, his consuming fire will quickly transform us into the flaming likeness of the Seraphim. “Models of human aspiration: “impatient of any second place, let us emulate dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing”, the young Pico announced.

According to Renaissance thought, the Seraphim are a different type of human being, a fully transfigured one. Their ‘perfected’ bodies are immortal bodies of light and are therefore able to hold the highest frequencies of love and light. We can become Seraphim by meditating exclusively on the love of the Creator, say Renaissance thinkers. In other words, if we perfect ourselves.

The Essenes believed exactly the same thing. I have proposed the angels the Essenes were living with were Seraphim and the celestial body they were teaching them about was the (or their) Rainbow Light Body.

No other Essene or Tibetan scholars have made this amazing connection. This is because the scholars who have discussed the scrolls are usually specialists and have not gone out of the box to link the Essene’s concept of Perfection with that of the Tibetans, as I have done. Likewise, the Tibtan Great Perfection scholars I have read to not stray into Essene light body practices either. However, once the two spheres are entwined, as I have don, they become one.

This premise is out of the box, but it did not come to me out of the blue. It arose out of the historical fact that Buddhist missionaries brought their teachings to the Essenes in Alexandria in c. 150 B.C, when the Essenes, as we know them in the Dead Sea Scrolls, were formed. The historical background will be featured in my forthcoming book about the Essenes, the light body and ascension.

My reading of Dead Sea Scrolls shows that they contain the proof of this interaction and the Essene practice of human transformation or transmutation into perfect light bodies. Their goal of attaining perfection is the core power pack and red hot coal of the Seraphim found in the scrolls.

Taking this one bold step further, in my presentation, I showed how the Essenes were practicing this “Rainbow Body Resurrection”. This revolutionizes our understanding of the Dead Sea Scroll and the Essenes. I will have copies of this presentation available on the latest edition of my flash drive.

ONLY THE BORN AGAIN CAN ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD
The thing is, I never really thought about the connection between the Essene light body or perfection teachings, which are both explicit and veiled in Christianity, and the defining Christian concept of being ‘born again’

The reason is because I am neither a Protestant or an Evangelical Christian, the two Christian movements who have done more than the other several hundred Christian sects to illuminate the mysteries of being “Born Again”. In Christian understanding, one is “born again” after one, proclaiming belief in only One God, two, being baptized in the Name Jesus Christ and then, three, following Jesus into the Kingdom of God.

Thunder rolled for me during Van Auken’s presentation on Cayce and the Essenes when he mentioned Jesus’s teaching on the necessity of being “born again” to enter the Kingdom of God.

Then, lightning struck.

It happened when I put the images I had shown of the resurrected Christ in the rainbow (body) together in my mind with the belief that he is the first “born again” Essene and Christian.

I suddenly realized the Kingdom of God and the celestial city are the same state (of being).

When the smoke cleared, I realized that to be “born again” means to attain the perfect light body or the Rainbow Resurrection Body.

In my talk, I said that, according to the Essenes, the only way to enter the celestial city is to be dressed appropriately. That is, we must attain /wear the flashy perfect body of the angels and “just humans made perfect” who dwell there.

This means attaining the perfect body has the same meaning as being “born again” into a body of spirit (light, love).

I was blown away by the winds that followed this revelation and the simplicity and elegance of this match.

Remember this Memorex ad from the 1970s? That was me putting the Rainbow Resurrection Body together with the Born Again body!

Here is the section from the Book of John (3) containing Jesus’s teaching:
3 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[ gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
9 “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
10 “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things?11 Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. 12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?

Jesus taught the uninitiated Nicodemus, “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7) and made it clear that only by being born again can you see the Kingdom of God, let alone enter it.

If the new Born Again body is the same as the body of the angels, it means Jesus taught that, in order to enter the Kingdom of God (the celestial Sion), we must be “born again”… into our Rainbow Resurrection Body. We receive this body by following him.

THE PERFECT BODY AND THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

As I take a look around Christendom, I don’t see too many Christians following, teaching, or demonstrating Jesus’s light body or perfection teachings.

You can’t blame or judge them for that. Just google the words “star body” or “perfect body” and see what comes up in our contemporary imagination!

As Jesus lamented, even Nicodemus, a religious leader of his day, had no concept of what it meant to be born again or to attain the perfect body!

We find that the very same thing is true today. Many men and women who fill positions of spiritual leadership in our world have no real understanding of the light body or born again experience.

Consequently, the term “born again” is one of the most (mis) used phrases among present-day Christians.

Like the new age conception of “ascension”, if asked what the term born again means, most Christians likely could not give a clear explanation.

We can see what Jesus was up against when, in his rebirth / resurrection, Jesus enacted or demonstrated the Essene perfection teaching of the transmutation of the earthly body into a heavenly body composed of celestial flesh. Christians would call this the plan of salvation and argue that Jesus authored this plan during his crucifixion, entombment/resurrection and ascension. The problem is the “how to” build the light body from this plan has been veiled in Christianity. Fortunately, the Essene teachings in the Dead Sea Scrolls unveil these teachings for us.

Jesus spoke of perfection numerous times. In particular, in a conversation with a rich man about eternal life.

The man had asked Jesus, “What is required for eternal life?”

Jesus replied, “keep the commandments.”

Which are: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like unto it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:35-40)

The rich man told Jesus that he had always kept the commandments and wanted to know what else was required (like how much $?).

Jesus says, “…I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”

The camel is a symbol of the human body and the material cargo the soul accumulates during is sojourn on earth. Jesus is telling the rich man that his earthly, material being and all that it collects on earth will have to be left behind or transmuted into a celestial substance. In other words, the flesh and blood body will not make it through the portal to the otherworldly realms spoken of by Jesus, but a soul clad in a light body or Garment of Glory can and will. Jesus is simply saying that our ‘stuff’ is not going with us when we enter the eye of the needle to the Kingdom of God.

Jesus then told him, and here is the Essene Rainbow Light Body teaching, and the ‘punch line’ of this blog, “If thou wilt be perfect (holy, whole, complete), go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me” (Mat. 19:21).

In other words, Jesus is telling the rich man that if attains the perfect light body, and is “born again”, he has found earth’s greatest treasure. He then can follow him through the eye of the needle (or stargate) into the Kingdom of God where perfected humans dwell in bodies of light.

Jesus in the ‘eye of needle’, a gateway filled with stars. He wears the bright white garment of light that symbolizes the Perfect Body.

JESUS LIFTS THE SERPENT AND TELLS US HOW TO ATTAIN THE GARMENT OF LIGHT

Jesus told us how we will transform and attain eternal life in his further remarks in John 3:

13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

Jesus is referring to an episode in the Book of Numbers (21:8) in which the Israelites “Make thee a fiery serpent (literally, a seraph), and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live”.

Moses and the Nehushtan, Salisbury Cathedral.

The serpent lifted on a pole is called the Nehushtan, meaning the Brazen Serpent or Fiery Serpent. This last definition is mind blowing, as the Jewish Encyclopedia states Seraph means “fiery flying serpent”.  The Nehushtan is the device (‘sign’, ‘symbol’, ‘seal’, ‘tool’, ‘appliance’), symbol or logo of the Seraphim! Jesus is referring us directly to it as the means to attain eternal life! A moment before he told us that LOVE was the key to eternal life. Oh wait. I get it! The serpent on the pole symbolizes the cosmic love within us that arises when we follow the commandments to “love with all our heart and love our neighbor as our self”!

THE HOLY FORCE

For me, this is a ‘proof’ or confirmation that Jesus was demonstrating the light body secrets of the angels, specifically the Seraphim. Again, transformation into a Seraph / Rainbow Light Body is the same as being Born Again.

In some Christian movements (especially Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism), to be born again is to undergo a “spiritual rebirth”, or a regeneration of the human spirit from the Holy Spirit. As Jesus tells us John 3:3, no one can enter the Kingdom of Heaven unless they are in their born again body.

The earthly body is born of flesh. The Born Again Resurrection Rainbow Body is born of a spirit, a higher vibration. That holy spirit is love. True love.

Interestingly, the Greek for again also means from above, suggesting that the power or spirit of regeneration comes from above…in in the stars, in the higher worlds. This means our Rainbow Body comes from and exists in a higher realm or in the stars, as the Tibetans teach.

In Christian terms, being born again is the result of a secret act of regeneration (love) by God. A mysterious power or force, the Holy Spirit, transforms our flesh and blood existence in to spirit-filled body and state of being.

The serpent on a pole is a symbol for the regeneration into a spirit body of the Seraphim. Again, they are considered the beings of highest love.

The power of regeneration is found in the prophecy of Ezekiel:
A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. (Ezek. 36:26–27)

Ezekiel is telling us that regeneration affects us as whole persons. EVERY part of our being — body, mind and spirit — is affected: “If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come” (2 Cor. 5:17).

The new Rainbow Body of Light, that is.

Being “born again” is nothing less than receiving the actual body of Christ after his Resurrection and Ascension — the body of a Seraph or a Rainbow Light Body. In order to ‘attain’ it, Christianity teaches that  his Holy Spirit actually enters us and brings our spirit (and its light body) to life. Our spirit is joined with Him” (1 Corinthians 6:17). We then become one with the perfect One. “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me”(Galations 2:20).

The mystery of  being born again into the Light Body is now revealed, “that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:26,27).

The Holy Spirit that transforms us and “makes us new” is ever-present, but invisible in the life and teaching of Jesus. I hope this blog has shown that the “born again” body this spirit produces is the same as the Rainbow Body of Light and the body of the Seraphim. Jesus’s teaching about his light body is also ever present, and with this understanding, hopeful more visible.

Jesus compares the mysterious force that regenerates us with the wind: Jesus says, “The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit” (John 3:8).

The Bible says that things which are visible are temporary but things which are invisible are eternal (see 2 Corinthians 4:18).

In other words, those with born again bodies are living in the eternal everywhere, everywhen and at one with God.  This is how the Tibetans define the Oneness of the Rainbow Body state of being.

The Essenes were great scholars, researchers and practitioners of the most advanced spiritual teaching on earth. They said it came from the angels. It matches the Tibetan light body teaching they said came from the stars, meaning it is a universal teaching. It is my hope that my linking the Essene Perfect Way, the Tibetan Great Perfection and the Christian Born Again traditions is received today in the spirit of love and unity with which the Essenes received it two thousand years ago. Then, as now, the promise is the same. When we live from our light bodies we become a new being, a born again being in the here and (or the here and new). We live a life like those of the Seraphim, the Essenes and Christ. Filled with the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit we are able to do the same things they could do.

I am thankful, once again, for the winds of Hurricane Matthew and the thunder of John Van Auken and Edgar Cayce that blew this understanding my way.

WikiLeaks reveals Dr. Edgar Mitchell was working with advanced angels / extraterrestrials and seeking their supernatural device I investigated in The Judgment Day Device.

WikiLeaks  dump of John Podesta’s e-mails reveal conversations the former presidential advisor and head of the Clinton campaign had with a rep of former NASA astronaut and consciousness change agent, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, about the existence of aliens, alien technology, and space warfare.

The email was sent by Dr. Mitchell’s representative Terri Mansfield and “urgently” requested a meeting in which Mitchell could illuminate Podesta about “zero point energy”, “ETI” (Extraterrestrial Intelligences) and “disclosure”…before it’s too late. Podesta’s assistant, Eryn Sepp, accepted the invitation, but said, “John would likely take this meeting alone first before involving the President.” Sadly, Mitchell died in February, 2016 and did not live to tell his story to Podesta.

Disclosure refers to the release of any and all information the U.S. government possesses on UFOs.

Podesta has openly advocated for such a process well before any WikiLeaks referenced the subject.

In the email, Mansfield assured Podesta that the Vatican was up to speed (or on board?) on repercussions of humans interacting with ETI, and how this will affect religion and consciousness.

Mansfield also wrote of Mitchell’s concern that the War in Space race is heating up.

However, according to Mitchell, nonviolent ETI from the contiguous universe are helping us bring zero point energy to Earth.

More, these beings are the highest form of intelligence working directly with God and in complete obedience to God.

“Our ETI’s connection to zero point energy is obvious in that their purpose is to guide Edgar’s international Quantrek science team to apply their zero point energy research for humanity, to move away from the use of fossil fuels which are so deleterious to our fragile planet,” wrote Mansfield.

So, Dr. Mitchell is saying that highly advanced and Godly ETI — or angels — want to give us a free energy device to save humanity?

Hmmm.

This is exactly what I discovered and revealed in my 2012 book The Judgment Day Device and video of the same name. As I documented, over the past 3,500 years extraordinary efforts have been made to acquire, conceal, steal and destroy the secrets of a resurrection machine (that matches Mitchell’s free energy device). I did not know that Mitchell was ‘working with ETI on the Judgment Day Device”. Nor do I know how Mitchell learned about it (some sort of contact experience, perhaps?), but I most certainly will be on the trail to find out.

The subject of my book is the Seraphim angels, and their device, ‘the Ark Throne of the Presence’.

The Seraphim (‘Fiery Serpents’) are the highest order of angels who serve at the Throne of God. They are humanity’s greatest ‘secret’ benefactors and appear to me to be the ETI or angels working directly with God and with Ed Mitchell.

The blue Seraphim surround the the Throne of Christ.

I have amassed a very large personal collection of art depicting this device going back 3,500 years, most of which is featured in my video presentation, The Judgment Day Device. The Seraphim and the device are seen together in nearly all of this art. In later Christian times Jesus is shown with the device, indicating that it is ‘his’.

The Seraphim ETI are not run of the mill flying saucer types of popular imagination. They are way beyond that level of technology. In my assessment, the Seraphim are Type IV or greater extra-dimensional beings on the Kardashev Scale of technological advancement. Stories and descriptions of them suggest they are meta-physical light beings who can manipulate space-time at will and are part of a meta-galactic civilization.

Presently, our civilization is in transition from Type 0 to Type 1. Barely past rubbing two sticks together to make fission bombs capable of destroying humanity and earth, we are threatening to move from fossil fuel as our power source toward utilizing the power of our planet and the sun. The gap between Type 0 and Type 1 is when the vast majority of civilizations destroy themselves. Nuclear terrorism or cosmic catastrophes such as asteroids and comets lead to extinction level events this civilization is not able to overcome, not to mention Artificial Intelligence, which Stephen H. Hawking calls the greatest threat to humanity in history.

Our budding near space industry and migration / colonization indicates we are on our way toward seeding the solar system and moving to Type 1 status.

I don’t know if Mitchell knew it or not, but a device  that can quickly accelerate our ascension to Type 1, 2 and even 3 status is at the center of End Time or Judgment Day prophecies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, all of which say it will be ‘presented’ by a messianic figure in the End Time.

A device is a tool, appliance, instrument and a machine, but also a technique, a plan and/or a symbol. What does this one do? As I show in The Judgment Day Device  this angelic technology is a symbol for a ‘lost’ or ‘secret’ teaching about human apotheosis or deification.

Revelation of its secrets is accompanied by an explanation of heavenly powers, cosmic beings and mysteries, and the secret knowledge of the transformation of the believer into a more glorious ‘light’ body that matches that of the resurrected Christ.

The phenomena associated with this Device makes clear that it is some form of otherworldly ascension tool. It has the capability of making a human holy on contact and transmuting human flesh into light. With it, one can ascend and travel the stars.

Simply, it is a resurrection machine or a stargate device.

And yes, it is a free energy device, too.

This is why I believe it is the same device referred to by Dr. Mitchell.

As I discussed in the book and video, while Christians seek signs for Jesus’ 2nd coming, Jews await the Messiah and Muslims await the 12th Imam (the Mahdi), a powerful ‘device’ is awaiting discovery by one of these figures.

This is why this device is at the center of the conflict unfolding between Iran, Israel and the U.S. Leaders of these countries believe in the appearance of a Messianic Figure (the Christ, Messiah or Mahdi) who emerges during a time of chaos at the End Times. All mankind stands to benefit if the Judgment Day Device and its free energy technology is peacefully revealed.

This means this device is not only at the center of UFO Disclosure, but also   of End Time prophecy.

Where is it?

Evidence I presented in The Judgment Day Device reveals it not only was originally brought to earth by Seraphim, but it was taken from the earth by them, too.

It is they who will return it at the proper time.

On earth, it is guarded by a tribe of ancient, righteous, mystic and holy beings, called Rainmakers, who periodically assemble and disassemble the device.

The fact that it has remained ‘lost’ despite centuries of seeking may be an indication that it will be never be found, has secretly been found or that it was waiting to be revealed by its ETI owners in a time like our own, when a great many signs regarding the end times have been fulfilled.

It could also mean that it is under the protection of its righteous protectors and will not be discovered until the “guided” one appears.

Today, the Rainmaker works in preparation for the appearance of the angels of the Christ-MessiahMahdi, who deploys it at the End of Time or Judgment Day to bring world peace and humanity’s advancement into the stars.

I now have no doubt that Dr. Mitchell will be part of this guidance.

Please watch the Judgment Day Device as part of my offerings on Gaia TV.

The Judgment Day Device is available for reading in PDF format as part of my Flash Drive special.

“Exclusive: Christ’s Burial Place Exposed for First Time in Centuries”.

October 27, 2016. With an awful lot of “Christian tradition says,” “it is believed” and “could it be?” caveats, National Geographic has released photos of the top of the burial tomb containing the “stone slab” upon which Christ resurrected. This was last seen nearly 500 years ago.

Located in the Church of the Holy Sepuchre, the most holy of holies of Christianity, in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, this is the site, known as Golgotha, the skull, where Jesus was crucified. It has been a major Christian pilgrimage destination since the fourth century.

The ‘empty tomb’ has been covered by marble cladding since at least 1555, when it was renovated by Franciscan friars, and probably a lot longer.

“The marble covering of the tomb has been pulled back, and we were surprised by the amount of fill material beneath it,” said Fredrik Hiebert, archaeologist-in-residence at the National Geographic Society, a partner in the restoration project. “It will be a long scientific analysis, but we will finally be able to see the original rock surface on which, according to tradition, the body of Christ was laid.”

I have been waiting or this moment for years…Ever since physicist Frank Tipler proposed the insanely fantastic (some say “kooky,” “crack pot” and “completely ridiculous”) idea that with a neutrino gizmo we could detect the neutrino trail left in the stone slab by Jesus during His resurrection (transmutation into Light) and thereby scientifically prove it happened…and recreate it.

All we need to do is create this gizmo, and even more impossible, get close enough to the Stone to follow the trail.

The present Stone of Anointing marks the place where Jesus’s body was prepared for burial by Joseph of Arimathea. It was placed here in 1810.

The real Stone of Resurrection is, presumably, under the marble. The trouble is, no one could get under there.

Until now.

In Fra Angelico’s painting we see a luminous Christ laid on a linen shroud. Tools are arranged on another linen cloth in the foreground.

So, you can imagine my excitement this morning when I read about the Rupert Murdoch-owned National Geographic’s plunge into Revelation.

We are talking about a first time in centuries look at the Stone that is the symbol of the ultimate human victory and also entitles a special ‘open sesame’ into the gates of heaven.

Says NatGeo: “The exposure of the burial bed is giving researchers an unprecedented opportunity to study the original surface of what is considered the most sacred site in Christianity. An analysis of the original rock may enable them to better understand not only the original form of the tomb chamber, but also how it evolved as the focal point of veneration since it was first identified by Helena, mother of the Roman emperor Constantine, in A.D. 326.”

In Fra Angelico’s “Resurrection from the Tomb” we see the resurrected Christ rising from the Shroud.

Is it possible that we will be able to experience the profound heart-Light of the universe recorded in this stone?

Yes, it is.

But we better hurry up.

UNESCO has just passed another resolution denying Christian and Jewish connections to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. They have declared it to be exclusively Muslim even though Islam began some six hundred years after Christianity and  2400 years after Judaism (and that was in Saudi Arabia not in the Land of Israel). The move prompted Israel to cut ties with UNESCO.

What the UN agency is saying is that Jesus (or any Jew or Christian), had no connection to the Temple of Solomon and the other sites on the Temple Mount.

If Jesus did not teach in Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem – the Temple – then where was he?

Some worry that it won’t be long before the Holy Sepulchre is declared another Muslim Holy site and off limits to all but the people of the Book.

Let’s get back to the Stone and why connecting with it is so important.

The answer has to do with the Shroud of Turin.

It was Joseph of Arimathea who provided the linen shroud in which to wrap the body of Jesus. It was he who asked Pontius Pilate for permission to remove the body of Jesus from the pillar / cross of Crucifixion. It was his tomb into which the body was laid…and NatGeo is poking around.

This event is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew (27:57):

57 As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. 58 Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. 59 Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.

NatGeo claims it has uncovered the original surface of this tomb.

Titian shows Jesus being placed in the stone tomb. His body is on Joseph’s linen Shroud. Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus and the Virgin Mary take Christ in the tomb watched by Mary Magdalene and Saint John the Evangelist. Titian – Prado

The Gospels of Mark and Matthew both mention that the body of Christ was placed in a tomb that “had been cut out of rock”.

Jesus resurrected from this stone.

At the entrance to the church of the holy sepulchre is the Stone of Anointing. This is where the body of Jesus was laid in preparation for his burial after his body was taken down off the cross.

“Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury” (John 19:40).

The linen cloth Jesus is laid upon is the Shroud of Turin.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea,  in the 2nd century AD the Roman emperor Hadrian built a temple dedicated to the Roman goddess Venus in order to bury the cave in which Jesus had been resurrected.

The first Christian emperor, Constantine the Great, ordered in about 325/326 that the temple be replaced by a church. During the building of the Church, Constantine’s mother, Helena, is believed to have rediscovered the True Cross, and a tomb (although there are some discrepancies among authors).

In the early 13th century Grail Myth, which began to circulate in the West shortly after the first Crusades the German poet, Wolfram, said the Holy Grail is a sacred stone.. More,  this stone box is considered to be a translucent gem.

Light penetrated this gem and passed through it.

Christ rose from this gem / stone.

The stone enclosure of Christ’s grave was the Crusader’s hope of heaven, their phoenix stone, hope for the forgiveness of sins, the goal of their quest, of their pilgrimage, and ultimate assurance of arrival at the Gate to Paradise.

The Book of Isaiah has many references to the Messiah to come. In several places He is referred to as “the Cornerstone,” such as in Isaiah 28:16-17: “So this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘See, I lay a stone in Sion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed. I will make justice the plumb line line and righteousness the measuring rod.”

Today’s dome of the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. The portal / stargate imagery is as obvious as it is fantastic.

The Rotunda is located in the center of the Anastasis, beneath the larger of the church’s two domes. In the center of the Rotunda is the chapel called the Aedicule (‘Little House’), which contains the Holy Sepulchre itself. The Aedicule has two rooms, the first holding the Angel’s Stone, which is believed to be a fragment of the large stone that sealed the tomb; the second is the tomb itself.

Directly above the Catholicon, a view of the Christ Pantocrator in the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

In his Grail poem, Robert de Boron describes Joseph wrapping the body of Christ in the syndone, the Shroud of linen he had bought, and then he placed the body in a stone. Then, he says, Christ was covered with a rock we call a tomb.

The Shroud reference is clear. But what does Robert mean when he says Christ was “placed in a stone” and “covered with a stone”? Is there a stone that contains something of Christ? A vibration perhaps?

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was sacred to the Knights Templar. They laid linen strands on the Stone of the Holy Sepulchre to ‘charge’ them in the belief that the vibration of the stone provided protection and assured safe passage in the afterlife.

That Stone is the stone of the Holy Sepulchre.

To me, this makes sense only if the Stone is actually a (S)tone or Vibration of Christ that is ‘recorded’ on their linen strands.

After the Templars lost control of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre — and the Stone — to Salidin in 1187 they began ‘charging’ their linen strands on a mysterious ‘head’ enclosed within a casket. This head was the face on the folded Shroud of Turin.

Are we on the verge of revealing the Stone for the first time in five hundred years?

One can only wait and wonder, but hopefully not for too much longer.

FRANKIE’S HOLIDAY : APPLE DECLARES WE SHOULD LOVE EVERYONE…INCLUDING MONSTROUS TRANSHUMANS

On November 15, 2016 Apple, the “think different company”, began sharing a special new TV ad called “Frankie’s Holiday” in time for the holiday (Christ Mass) season, accompanied with the tagline “open your heart to everyone.”

The ad features a loner monster modeled after the hybrid creation of Dr. Victor Frankenstein singing “Home for the Holidays” on his iPhone.

Played by actor Brad Garrett, the monster is actually a cross between a human, Dr. Suess’s Grinch and Dr. Frankenstein’s fabricated creature.

The 2-minute ad is beautifully produced and features eloquent, Christmassy cinematography. It obviously was not shot on an iPhone, as Apple has done with past ads that demonstrate its products. In fact, the iPhone 7 is only shown fleetingly in the ad.

The ad’s story left viewers wondering “where are they going with this?”

The answer is, Frankie is a transhuman trojan horse put forth by a company with $250 billion in cash that wants much more than your money.

It is a declaration by Apple that they wish for us to love something otherwise scary, if not unbelievably deplorable and abhorrent, to billions of humans.

Here’s the story.

As the commercial opens, Frankie is tucked up in his cozy home perched above a mountain village (like all monsters, he lives alone, isolated, solitary). He uses his new, gold iPhone7 to record the tune to “Home for the Holidays” played by an old music box to his Voice Memos app.

Answering the call from a portrait of Mary Shelley (author of “Frankenstein”), which hangs on the wall near a crackling fire, Frankie blows a thick layer of dust off his top hat and leaves home (apparently for the first time in ages). Our hero is on his way to redemption.

At the border of his property, he picks up a package in the snow that tells us he lives in Milner, EJ, wherever that is. After a long journey through snow covered mountains, he makes his way into the charming village below snuggled between the mountains. I’ll call it ITville (where IT stands for Information Technology).

Here’s where Apple seeks to pull our heart strings.

“An unexpected holiday visitor finally receives the warm welcome he’s always yearned for,” reads the ad’s description on YouTube.

Upon arrival, Frankie walks past 1950s-era cars that make one think “Cuba” and startles the modern-looking people of ITville who are gathered around a tall Christmas tree in front of a church. Lights spiral from the bottom to top of the tall, skinny tree. The church glows from within, it’s circular glass portal illluminated.

Judging by their gasps, the Christ-believing (as evidenced by the Xmas Tree) residents of ITville apparently have never seen a real-life 8-foot tall giant before. A father holds his terrified young daughter tight.

Who knows? Maybe they heard stories about the giant, green-skinned ‘alien’ ogre living in the hill overlooking them. Maybe they read the Bible stories of giant fabricated beings or heard about them on ANCIENT ALIENS. Maybe they believed the stories. Maybe they didn’t. No matter. Here he is. Frankie is in ITville.

Frankie expected a cold reaction. And, he got it. The village people are stunned, terrified and horrified at the abhorrent monster’s appearance. They judge him. The look on their faces says they hate him.

The men know he’s more powerful than they are. He could smash them all, if he chose. He is massive in their presence. They fear him.

Just as Frankie fears them.

Humans, he knows, are often devils in disguise. They are callous. Separated from spirit, they don’t know that Spirit knows no color bar and seeks unity, not diversity. Frankie knows humans are bigots who hate the wretched and different. Their mob mind is dangerous.

To make matters worse, the good people of ITville appear to be unaware of how their world has changed.

They live in the past (hence the old cars), apparently ignorant that the Artificial Intelligence machines they have created are now taking on a life of their own…or, as in the case of Google’s A.I.,  can learn on their own…and will soon confront humanity.

Yes, folks, machines are gaining intelligence, if not consciousness (awareness).

Welcome to ITville.

Little do the people of ITville realize, that in his isolation (left to his own Apple devices), Frankie, again a manufactured being, has taken on a spirit (the Holiday Spirit) and that, in this spirit, he is docile and incomplete (just like them), but he is also in a state of love.

So, yes, Frankie is taking a huge risk in leaving his cozy cabin above ITville and engaging the human monsters (who, themselves, were made about of the same ‘clay’ as he, only his parts were ‘dead’, meaning they no longer contained Spirit).

It is Judgment Day for the people of ITville and for Frankie.

Two worlds are colliding.

Frankie is standing in ITville.

The humans are there.

Only one of them will survive.

WHAT TO DO?

What is Frankie to do? Fight and kill them all, and let God sort the callous hearts from the pure?

Sure. He could do that.

Alternatively, Frankie could introduce himself (his real name is “Adam”, the “Fallen Angel” in Mary Shelley’s original telling of the tale) and have a deep philosophical conversation about whether or not he is just another version of the villagers (after all, he was created by one of them, Dr. Frankenstein) and ask them to grant him compassion and permission to live along side them?

Sure. He could do that, too.

Instead, Frankie looks the beastly humans in the eye and shows them what kind of being he is (more than a just a humanoid fabricated from spare inanimate parts) and what he can do.

He follows the commandments to love with all his heart, all his mind and all his soul and to love his brothers and sisters (even if they are only human) as himself, by singing them a song and and leaving them at peace.

Note to the readers who like to read the esoteric symbolism woven into the ad. As he sings, Frankie stands in front of / in place of the Christmas tree, which some people believe have magical powers.

In pagan times, it was believed that nasty spirits could enter a home between December 25 and mid-January (the coldest days of the year). To combat these negative entities homes were decorated with evergreens as symbols of protection. These evergreens were alight with candles, a theurgic (white magic) technique for “lighting up” dark spaces and returning them to light. Passion plays telling of the “Paradise Tree” in the Garden of Eden were popular in many parts of Europe. A fir or evergreen (pine) tree with apples symbolized this tree. In early Christianity, apples and candles remained only now the candles represented the light of Christ absolving the “fall of man”. It is for this reason that the Christmas tree symbolizes Christ’s birth, life, rebirth and resurrection. It is the reason for the season.

And resurrection is where Apple’s Adam (“Frankie”) Frankenstein is headed.

He is about to enter a new season of his life.

This is where the package he picked up outside his home comes in. Frankie opens it and reveals two “old-fashioned” or retro-style candle flame-shaped Christmas tree lights. One red (color of the apples of the Tree of Paradise), the other green (color of evergreen plants).

He lights up the village people by screwing the bulbs into his neck (where Boris Karloff’s bolts are supposed to be), hinting that his body is augmentable. He’s got bolt holes.  Why, (one day) even Apple’s dongles can be plugged in to his body. But, we are getting ahead of our story.

Next, Frankie flashes his trusty iPhone 7, clears his throat, and begins mumbling / singing “Home for the Holidays”.

Like his voice, his effort falls flat and trails away into the mountains.

It is the lowest moment of the ad.

Feeling a failure and the onset of sudden death by a bad decision, Frankie looks confused about what to do next.

Resurrection occurs when a young ITville girl waves for him to approach her.

Complying,

Frankie steps forward.

The men of the town do nothing as the towering monster approaches the helpless young girl.

He could scoop her up like King Kong if he wanted to…

Instead, Frankie kneels or bows to her.

She reaches up and flicks the green (= “go”) bulb.

Two worlds collide.

Frankie reboots.

In response, three (“wise”?) men of the town (Apple stockholders? Board members?) mutter something unintelligible amongst themselves, but still do nothing (pussies?)

Next, the young girl, who is obviously the purest and the bravest citizen of ITville (or its most technologically adept), leads Frankie deeper into the song, singing with a British accent.

Yes, the children will lead the way into the kingdom of heaven…and acceptance of technology.

Before we know it, the ITvillage people are all singing along with him.

Frankie is reduced to tears.

He is ‘home and dry’ now.

He has crossed the forbidden boundary.

He is among the it-turns-out-not-so-monstrous humans.

“Open your heart to everyone” says the tagline.

AND THE MEANING IS?

Apple’s commercial is truly heartwarming.

I would love to see more “Frankie Goes to ITville” episodes to see how they think his relationship with humans would / could develop.

If sitting at a creative or engineering meeting at Apple, I would like to ask just exactly how they think an inanimate creature like Frankie suddenly got the Holiday (Christ Mass) Spirit?

What happened?

Answering this question is of utmost importance to all of humanity.

Machines and inanimate objects are not supposed to have that ability. Does Apple believe its machines can have spirit? If so, how?

Secondly, I’d like to know what Frankenstein’s monster has to do with Christmas or the Holidays.

As I see it, the answer is nothing (unless we accept the new commercial union /blurring of HalloweenThanksgivingChristmas and the rebranding of this time period as ‘the Holiday Buying Season’, preferably celebrated on Black Friday and Cyber Monday).

Apple has loads of options in terms of Christmas characters, symbols or motifs it can use to sell its products.

Imagine a commercial that opens in a desert. Orion twinkles above. Three Wise Men answer the call of a star that miraculously shoots across the sky above. They follow the star to Silicon Valley, ITville, where a young girl gives birth to a luminous baby and whips out an iPhone 7 to take the first picture of the newly arrived star child.

How about a story about a monstrous elf who learns to bring love to the world through Apple’s technology?

Or a transhuman Santa who demos phenomenal new Apple products (instead of ‘Frankensteined’ versions of old shit Apple’s customers complain it is currently selling)? How about those roll up computers?

Forget about Christmas or the Holiday Season, Frankie’s story isn’t even true to Mary Shelley’s original story.

Apple’s commercial is derivative of Jim Carey’s “Grinch Who Stole Christmas”. Garrett’s Frankenstein even looks like the Grinch (Monster) who lived on the mountain top above Whoville and pined for human interaction. A little girl named Cindy Who reached out to him and offered companionship and warmth.

So, again, what does Apple’s message have to do with the Holidays, let alone selling computers and phones for cold, hard cash?

The answer is nothing. This is because the ad seeks to sell you something else.

The something else comes when we take a closer look at the Frankenstein story.

FRANKENSTEIN or THE MODERN PROMETHEUS

English author, Mary Shelley, wrote the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his creation or offspring in 1818. Titled “Frankenstein ; or The Modern Prometheus”, she explores the angst of Dr. Frankenstein who creates a being she calls a “wretch,” “creature”, “monster,” “demon” and “it.” Speaking to his creator, the nameless being refers to himself as “the Adam of your labors”, and as someone who “would have” been “your Adam”, but is instead “your fallen angel.”

Says Wikipedia, in Shelley’s original work, Dr. Frankenstein discovers a previously unknown but elemental principle of life, and that insight allows him to develop a method to imbue vitality into inanimate matter, though the exact nature of the process is left largely ambiguous.

After a great deal of hesitation in exercising this power, Dr. F spends two years painstakingly constructing the creature’s body (one anatomical feature at a time, from raw materials supplied by “the dissecting room and the slaughter-house”), which he then brings to life using his unspecified process (in the films it is electricity).

The novel’s subtitle, The Modern Prometheus, comes from Greek mythology. Prometheus was the Titan who created mankind at the behest of Zeus. He made a being out of the clay of the earth in the image of the gods that could have a spirit breathed into it (by the goddess Athena).  He did this after the Great Deluge had wiped out mankind.

The story of Prometheus is the story of the repopulating of the world after this cataclysm and against the wishes of Zeus, the chairman of the board of the Greek pantheon. In other words, it is the story of our race.

In the story, Prometheus traveled to the heart of the golden sun, where he stole fire, the means of life, from Mount Olympus and gave it to mankind, also against Zeus’ wishes.

According to the German classicist Karl-Martin Dietz, in Hesiod’s scriptures, Prometheus represents the “descent of mankind from the communion with the gods into the present troublesome life.”

The Judeo-Christian equivalent of this myth is Lucifer, who has brought the gift of consciousness to humanity.

Prometheus rebelled against the gods by first saving humanity and then by bringing humans spirit and with it light or enlightenment.

The key esoteric applet in the story of Prometheus is that a divine being can breath spirit into a previously inanimate object, even beings made of clay, like humans.

As I have written in The Skingularity Is Near, breathing spirit into their computer products is the ultimate goal of Transhumanists such as Dr. Ray Kurzweil and Steve Jobs.

Prometheus is very much with us today and he is rising as Silicon Valley giants like Apple try to infuse spirit in their inanimate products and to infuse their technologies in our flesh or what I call the ‘Skingularity’.

Writers who express caution about the over-enthusiastic embrace of new super technologies, such as Michael Sandel, who worries about human enhancement and genetic engineering, and Clive Hamilton, who worries about geoengineering, sometimes warn us about the ‘Promethean attitude’, or ‘the Promethean urge’.

This urge is expressed in Apple’s ad.

Apple knows that upon encountering a human packed with machines — a Transhuman Frankenstein — most humans would react with shock-horror and disdain at the vileness of the wretched new creation. They might seek to destroy him. Or control him.

In this commercial, Apple is connecting its product to a Promethean monster who, through its product, gets the holiday spirit…and then teaches humans about it or transmits it to them along the way.

Is Apple preparing us to stick their dongles in our bolt holes?

Or are they preparing us for the imminent day when millions of its customers have computer shit sticking out of their neck, their eyes, their ears, other other orifices?

APPLE’S LARGER MESSAGE?

“It’s a if-it-ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it type of thing. We do look at this time of year as a time to put out a message larger than product.” Apple’s Vice President of Marketing Tor Myhren told Co. Create in an interview about the brand’s strategy with the ad.

The Larger Message I received (and I could be in error) is quite clear.

Apple’s core marketing message is that its products connect us together. This is the human factor it seeks for its products to embody.

With “Frankie’s Holiday” Apple may now be signaling that it will connect us with what we previously may have thought of as “monstrous” creations. I speak of the Transhumanist vision in which humans will literally embody computer technologies (such as retinal implants, artificial skin, genetically regenerated organs, etc.).

In the Transhumanist future of 2020, the iPhone that is presently held by our hand will be in our eye. The Daily Telegraph says Netflix is now available as a surgical implant.

iEye, or whatever we will call these implants, will bring super-enhanced human capabilities such as 24/7 video recording, night vision, x ray vision and the ability to project any image in front of our face. Not only will we have supervision, but our body will be tapped as a power source and we will also be ‘lit up’ electronically like our phone screen…or a Christmas tree.

In this future, Silicon Valley proposes implanting their technology in any and every orifice of your body it can. This will result in the advancement of humanity from homo sapien to transhumans or humans who are part machine or fabricated, just like Frankie.

What is not being advertised, or even discussed, is that when the iEye is implanted in our eye, it’s “Aye aye-dios” to our free will and definition as humans and “Aye aye, sir” to our corporate masters under whose supervision this ‘supervision’ will put us under direct control.

This is likely where Apple came up with the Frankenstein idea. It’s not hard to see once one realizes that, like most of Silicon Valley, Apple’s engineers are the new Dr. Frankenstein’s, only they are longevity and human = machine business. The trade-off for their promise of living past 200 years and having the IQ of 10 Einsteins combined is that we must comply with their demands for access to our bodies, our minds and our hearts.

LOVE, FRANKIE

Apple is heroically and admirably advocating that all the Frankies of the world, even manufactured transhumans, deserve to be loved…as, of course, they do.

Don’t they?

What do you think?

It is strange that Apple would tie its brand to a monster or that it would send this message, unless it is time for the company to begin rolling out their transhuman products.

If so, it is time for the rest of us citizens of ITville to adopt an inclusive attitude toward Dr. Frankenstein’s, excuse me, Apple’s, and Silicon Valley’s “next human”, which will soon be seen on our streets.

Or not.

Apple is saying that the monster has arrived. And the people of ITville will love it.

Will you?

How aware are you of the accelerating advances in technology aimed at your body?

The thing is, most viewers are likely not as up on the Transhumanist agenda as perhaps they should be. Therefore, they missed the blatant message sent by Apple.

Frankie is best of Apple or how Apple apparently thinks of itself. It is as if Apple is saying Apple = Dr. Frankenstein and the iPhone 7 = the hybrid monster.

What is it about the iPhone 7 that Apple does not want us to fear? What could be scary about a phone?

Apple is by no means the only Silicon Valley giant to adopt the viewpoint that technology is scary and we must change in order to embrace it.

In 2014, GE released a spot called “Ideas Are Scary” and features a semi-cuddly, semi-bizarre creature (“the scary idea”) who is rejected by cold-hearted humanity and finds itself homeless. But then, one day, the alien-like creature wanders by a GE office, where a nice GEek invites him in and gives him a chance to unfurl his feathers and to shine. The message is “ideas are scary, but human beings are scarier…unless bring advanced technology that GE can turn into dollars.

Yes, good people of ITville, there are scary monsters out there.

Some are human.

Some are transhumans and are preparing to come off the work benches in Silicon Valley.

Will we love or fear these monsters?

I don’t know.

One thing I do know. Spirit will meet us where we are.

We are all free to choose how we will meet it.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.