1 of the ancient 7 Miracles of the Earth is claimed (many a long time right after all but the Wonderful Pyramid experienced vanished) to be the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. This terrific goddess has what numerous archaeologists and historians have interpreted to be virtually a thousand breasts on her body. It is remaining commented on in this incredibly method as I form this. The Discovery Channel is interviewing an esteemed Cambridge scholar who seems to be to know his words and phrases are as intelligent as Solomon. The stupidity of these absurd explanations is not unusual but nonetheless it attracts a smile from individuals who know much better.
In the past number of months I have examine over two hundred books in whole or in portion and only the authors of Carthage have an notion about the import of these ‘cosmic eggs’. They also ponder why the Berbers painted so several ostrich eggs and then threw them in garbage pits, in the vicinity of Cyrenaica. The Keltic serpent’s eggs from the Druidic education may present a small perception. This subsequent estimate mentions ‘Pelota’ which we outlined in reference to a match that took spot at Chichen Itza to avert unneeded tribal conflict. It has other meanings and depths relating to lifetime and the passage of the soul that are touched upon in this estimate from ‘The Mistletoe Sacrament’ by W. B. Crow in ‘A Celtic Reader’ which has been a regular source of mine for the previous ten months as I have explored the origins of the ‘Red-Heads’ with an obsession some may simply call mania:
The Druids themselves had been regarded to the Welsh bards by a word that means adders, and Lewis Spence is of the belief that the ridiculous statements of Pliny seriously refer to the fashion in which the Druids manufacture these eggs. Afterwards bards also refer to a ceremony in which a ball was snatched and carried across the drinking water.
The Druidic custom just stated, we are not able to assist thinking, might have been the origin of the curious mediaeval rite of ‘pelota’, which took place in certain Catholic churches in France and Italy on Easter Monday. The ceremony consisted in bringing a ball of appreciable size into the church and right after solemnly presenting it right before the altar, sure of the clergy starting to dance and throwing the ball about in a distinctive way It would be fantastic to know if this originated in Mayan lands or if the Druids like Quetzalcoatl and the Toltecs took it there. They are the ‘messengers’ referred to in numerous Indian legends like people of Grey Owl.. The ceremony symbolizes both equally the passage of the solar and the planets through the heavens and also the vicissitudes of the soul of person (the causal body of the theosophists). In Egyptian mythology the demo of the soul immediately after loss of life is linked with the passage of the sunshine via the underworld. The whipping of a spinning top rated, representing Alleluia on the Saturday before Septuagesima, a ceremony not unusual in this place in previous instances, is relevant to this practice.
Madame Blavatsky has some appealing remarks on the link with the serpent cult A serpent goes up the side of the pyramid at Chichen Itza in particular means as the sunshine and shadows generate the influence that the creating was re-designed to create by the Toltec designers after the primary pyramid experienced been developed by the Jaguar cult centuries earlier. Chichen Itza turned an international courtroom of the full of Central The us if not a lot more., which was at 1 time popular and which is nonetheless extensively practiced in South India. The serpent is a image of regeneration {And the orobouros of the alchemists is a serpent keeping its tail and producing the infinity variety of immortality symbol: or the Mayan mathematical concept of zero they are credited with getting over a century just before the persons of the sub-continent of India.). Not only does it lay eggs from which new existence occurs following possessing been preserved in the dormant point out, but the reptile by itself sloughs its pores and skin at frequent intervals. The initiate, in the historical mystery religions, went by means of certain occult procedures wherever his motor vehicles Photo voltaic body, soul, allies and ‘doppelganger’ to identify a handful of. ended up essentially renewed, and in the symbolism thereof cast off his outdated apparel and was clad in new vestures. What greater symbolism than the serpent could be chosen to symbolize this alter in the identity? Besides this, the regeneration by sloughing refers to the regeneration of the bodily overall body by reincarnation and the regeneration of races and worlds of the theosophic cosmogony.
Some primitive peoples, following a demise has transpired, carry out a ritual in which the performers are divided into two teams and a wrestle for the overall body can take spot among the get-togethers. This refers to the battle amongst the powers of light and darkness for the spirit o£ the deceased, an eschatological fantasy of a lot of ancient peoples. In the class of the evolution of this ritual it grew to become a match in which the skull on your own was the object of fight or had to be kicked into the purpose. The several varieties of the match of football and polo, and most likely other ball game titles, are intended to have originated from this, the initial spiritual significance getting turn into shed. The Druidic ritual of snatching an egg and functioning away until finally one received in excess of a stream (which acts as the intention) indicates a identical game and connects up with funeral online games. The egg or ball is an fantastic symbol of the causal body, if 1 can feel clairvoyants, who see it as a kind of rounded or egg-shaped composition, in high-quality make a difference Very similar to ectoplasm as viewed in ghosts. of the higher psychological I would definitely NOT use this word. aircraft. Right after dying, in accordance to accounts of occultists, there is a variety of perform of forces, excellent and evil, which do look to struggle for the possession of the causal human body and to ascertain no matter if it goes to a great or bad incarnation when future it descends to dress alone with coarser make any difference.
The Druid’s egg, says Pliny, was not known to the Greeks They absolutely knew about the Temple of Artemis with all the eggs some current Cambridge scholar thinks is breasts, and Pliny the Roman is not an initiate in the Eleusinian or Cabiri, mysteries, to my information.. But other forms of eggs are talked about in Greek and Hindu mythology, and the consecration of an egg was 1 of the most vital functions in the top secret ritual of the Eleusinian mysteries. The Christian Church continued the use of the very same symbol, as we see in the so-identified as Easter eggs, and in the ostrich eggs which are continue to to be observed hanging in Orthodox Catholic Churches in the East. In reality a complete lecture may possibly be devoted to the symbolism of the cosmic egg.”
We ought to delve into a lot of things this quotation engages. In some methods I am squeamish about accomplishing so in this ebook. I have published about my experiences and investigation on the stele I located powering the Pelota at Chichen Itza in other textbooks and that makes re-telling the story anything redundant. The make any difference of good and evil and ‘Some primitive peoples’ this creator is speaking about is most troublesome. How can I do what thousands and thousands of philosophers all through record have been not able to absolutely clarify? It is apparent that the Christian church borrowed just about all the supposedly pagan rituals. The communion is admitted by de Vere and Gardner (Genesis of the Grail Kings and the Sarkeny Rend Rosicrucians) to be similar to their earlier adept Depend Dracul or ‘Vlad the Impaler’ and the vampire methods. My expertise with exorcisms is intensive adequate to know that the Catholic Church can take advantage of some rather uncomplicated scenarios and makes them a big challenge for the function of self-marketing. I propose reading The Devils of Loudon by Aldous Huxley for a documentary excursion down that highway. The issue of the battle above the soul that seems like some of Dante Aligheri’s “HELL” is not the subject of Druidic cosmogony. It is the tactic of Worry-mongering by Christianity this kind of as the ‘sins and demons’ we touched upon in the issue of clinical ailments and Paracelsus.
Mr. Sharkey spoke about ‘representing each and every environment within the other’, as he explained the Druids. There was a guided religious ritual aspect to some of what went on at the Pelota in Chichen Itza with the large ball, that goes into the realm of the time-house continuum, and free alternative that students of the Nagual’s Way from Castaneda could understand that I will not delve into, all over again. Are there really ‘Other Worlds’ as the quantum physics ‘Many Worlds Interpretation’ assures us and Wigner or Schrödinger (Nobel Laureates) say the Mandukya Upanishads describe precisely? Have you read the Tao of Physics by the physicist Fritjof Capra and viewed what he claims about S-Matrix principle of Math and the ‘I Ching’? Imagine me this author (Mr. Crow) may possibly have to change into a raven if his ‘whole lecture’ would do the trick in detailing the cosmic egg.
We have made it apparent the Kelts believed in the afterlife and spirit globe or they would not have manufactured financial loans to be repaid soon after demise. We have stated they didn’t dread death and that they experienced no punitive ‘unmerciful God. But there are leprechauns and the Fianna of the wonderful ancient Irish king Finn who the Phoenicians liked and named themselves after. So we are caught in this quandary of producing seeming conflicting statements arrive together. We mentioned the spirits may possibly choose a little one or their vitality if the dad or mum let the spirits know the child’s name. That doesn’t seem like the get the job done of a leprechaun! You have listened to about ‘witches’ and you know we’ve been defending them, way too. You most likely marvel if this just isn’t all ‘hocus-pocus’ and barbaric items in any case.
There are good folks that I know who deny and avoid these points like they are ‘THE PLAGUE’! It is not likely to make your existence a lot easier when you open up these doors and see the 1000’s more that await you further than. Occultists are typically ‘sophists’ or will have interaction in sophistry far too. Who can say what matters God could be capable of? Who genuinely thinks in these a drive anyway? Most individuals fork out lip-support to it. The Kelts we have explained (and Admiral Morison ridiculed) were being unique. Obviously the Phoenicians demanded the biggest private commitment to their beliefs, at the very least from their regular particular person or citizen. When their kings are seen possessing to give their very first born to the god Baal (Bel = BL) are they just babel-ing (BBL and afterwards the Bible)? Some of these kings ended up front adult males or gals and there is enough evidence they did these matters, but that doesn’t indicate they all did it. Carthage experienced a democratic type of governing administration in accordance to Aristotle and it’s possible this was the cross kings had to bear like the Keltic practice of burning the chief at the conclusion of their term in office (25 12 months expression, and this made for fewer fraud and ‘cronyism’). This can turn out to be really barbaric as we have seen with the ‘Devoted Ones’ but it grew to become a celebration and the forerunner of the ‘wake’. That would seem evidence ample that loss of life was not feared Any more than the North American warriors who ‘counted coup’ feared their ‘maker’. So what if all these cultural beliefs are shared across the oceans? What does it make any difference to you now if you are ‘getting yours’? Why ‘open a can of worms if you can’t shut it’?
It’s possible we need to depart this variety of speak to one more e-book and just stage fingers at the church that hides these truths from us. It’s possible our contentment and independence are far better beneath their ministrations. If there are non secular forces that can mess with us. There is a lot of benefit in my problems about this and there is a regulation of the Magi that claims ‘Know, Will, Dare, Hold Silent’. We’ve already specified a lot of places to appear for the responses to esoteric issues like these and it may well be most effective to preserve this reserve on the educational level of ethnology or anthropological denial of the factors and realities that actually’, are the character of day to day lifetime. We could discuss about guidelines and minstrels and make sweet poems to amuse the reader and still have accomplished a great deal to help people see the culture was no far more barbaric than we are. Why did the Druids follow this law and retain so considerably of their awareness in ‘verbal traditions’ this kind of as the Qaballa was manufactured from? Have been they truly so afraid of this know-how getting abused by unethical or un-disciplined ‘posers’? Did they seriously feel their soul would be judged as unworthy of development if they broke this legislation? Surely if they could promote the know-how of shape-shifting and the ‘Lost Chord’ they could have made existence a ton improved for a good deal of persons.
The real truth is they could have finished anything or experienced something they needed at the place they rose to the highest amount. In reality the ethical power to have these expertise is much more crucial than the psychological or chemical know-how in reference to the ‘Stone’. I am confident revenue and energy is a pursuit that blinds folks as a result of their moi. This ‘blindness’ that closes the soul to ‘what is’ or as Jesus reported ‘the residing father within’, will avoid any politico from acquiring their palms on something actually damaging you could possibly say. That may be legitimate, much too. There were some matters that they understood which could be abused though, and it was (and is) significant to do what is Correct. That is another regulation of the 3 laws of the Magi. Proper Thought=Ideal Action!
He is dodging and waffling, you may well say. What about the factors this guy claimed about the battle above the soul when we die? What sort of authority do I have to disagree with occultists like Madame Blavatsky who heralded my favored instructor Jiddhu Krishnamurti and helped Annie Besant train him? In the ultimate analysis you may possibly say I am a particular person engaging in ‘sophistry’ and ego way too. We know that no a person man or woman can seriously know God or all these matters so why browse what I have to say? For now I choose to say that we are heading to deal with the faith of the Druids who were being the dominant drive in thousands of several years of human culture in a later on chapter. But I do not want the reader to consider the Druids or Kelts had been so moi driven or fearful as to be concerned about spirits capturing their souls the moment they experienced developed more than enough to know their identify they also have been ‘protected’ from the lesser obsessive forces of the limbo or interstitiary point out of the spirit world which may possibly have a soul.
Indeed, they experienced a great deal of frightening legends and tales about evil functions of mischievous and other forces. Sometimes these tales are like the accounts of war on the friezes or frescoes of the Mayan, who required persons to know the stupidity of war. Often there ended up individuals who necessary this motivation to consider the time to master adequate to secure themself. In all scenarios as long as the Druids ended up still about (right before the Roman ‘bounties’) they experienced recourse to safety if a little something really undesirable occurred. At the very same time there was a larger factor of ‘fate’ and ‘destiny’ in this faith than I believe is genuine. I can’t say for positive that there had been people at the highest amount who knew much better the import of ‘free will’. I are not able to even be guaranteed what diploma or degree of cost-free will or ‘world mind’ existed in their collective unconscious (Jung). There are heaps of Celts and men and women from put up Druidic occasions who publish about Druids as if they know them. Some of these individuals are definitely ‘far gone’ when it will come to the inevitability of the cyclical mother nature of the ‘forces’. The Etruscans are very good illustrations of this and the Carthaginians who allied with them or have been their ‘brothers’ definitely experienced a great deal of that in them as well. But that is a time when the macho electric power-trippers experienced presently produced fantastic inroads into the first mother nature-worshipping lifestyle, far too.
The historians have small to go with in the records of historical past. We typically are left with the words and phrases of Caesar in the initially century BC. to verify that there were many schools of Druidry as the finest recorded perception to previously moments. In Gaul the very best know-how appears to be to go back no further than the fifth century BC. and ornamentation is the toughest evidence. Gimbutas has the Previous European alphabet that will take us again a extended way but several students aren’t certain because they you should not realize the esoteric symbology. There are these who giggle and point to Stonehenge or Carnac in Brittany, and of system the Pyramid they know it truly is the operate of the Pink-Headed League of Megalith Builders. But they won’t be able to show a definite connection to the Druids. At minimum not in the eyes of all those who establish the expected specifications of proof in the halls of academia. They take note that the term ‘goddess-worship’ or Wicca may possibly not even have existed until the 18th century. We can say the phrase is just not the stage and the records of historians are propaganda.