FURTHER THOUGHTS ON MY PAST-LIFE MEMORY OF MOSES CARRYING THE BODYOF AKHENATEN INTO THE SINAI

It must have been a great blow to the faithful when Akhenaten died, he was the physical embodiment of the Aten on Earth, his androgynous depictions are attributed to the Aten being mother and father to humanity; earlier representations of him as Amenhotep IV are male. His new capital Akhetaten was designed with many royal viewing balconies, so the residents could gaze upon the living god. Now Akhetaten was abandoned as the religion of the one god was being repressed, the name Akhenaten erased from inscriptions and the old gods of Egypt reinstated. One cannot overemphasize the hardship facing the Egyptians and Egypto-Hebrews upon forsaking civilized Egypt, only a leader with an iron grip upon them would have been able to motivate them through the perils ahead; so that they didn’t fracture and flee. One must conclude Moses was such a person.

In Exodus the journey of Moses and his followers into Sinai culminates at a holy mount where Moses spoke to God and received the ten commandments; if one considers he and his followers had carried with them the body of Akhenaten, how would it have influenced what took place there? I will try and answer the question by presenting what I call an Atenist version; but whatever the truth, it is clear the account in Exodus is open to question According to modern scholarship, there are two versions of the Ten Commandments story, in Elohist (Exodus 20) and Jahwist (Exodus 34); this gives some antiquity and there may be some original events serving as a basis to the stories. The golden calf story is only in the Elohist version and a later editor added in an explanation that God made a second pair of tablets to give continuity to the Jahwist story. The actual Ten Commandments as given in Exodus 20 were also inserted by the redactor who combined the various sources. Golden Calf Wikipedia. There is also much to question about the man history calls Moses, including his name which may be half a name. His name derives from the Ancient Egyptian msn meaning ‘son of’ such as in Thutmosis ‘son of Thoth’ or Ramesses ‘son of Ra’; was the first part of his name too revealing of an Egyptian heritage by the Hebrew priestly scribes? In a similar vein the names of two sons of Saul King of Israel were changed from Eshbaal and Meribaal to Ishbosheth and Mephibosheth for fear their names implied worship of the Hittite god Baal. 

Lawrence Gardner in ‘Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark’ identifies the holy mountain where Moses spoke directly to God and received the ten commandments as being the Serabit el-Khadim red sandstone mountain rising 3596ft over the plain of Paran in the southwest Sinai peninsula. Situated on a plateau 2680ft up the mountain, is an Ancient Egyptian temple dedicated to the cow goddess Hathor and the god Sopdu. In 1905-6 the archaeologist Flinders Petrie carried out an excavation of the temple and published the results in ‘Researches in Sinai’. Lina Eckenstein, who accompanied Petrie, wrote her own account of the expedition in ‘A History of Sinai’ in which she reveals her belief that the Serabit el-Khadim mountain was the Holy mount of Moses.

In Exodus the Mount of God in Sinai was called Har-ha-elohim Exodus XVIII.5 that can be interpreted as ‘height of the priests’ which relates to the Serabit temple situated on its lofty promontory. The physical features of Serabit conforms to the description of the holy mount in Exodus a mountain with a wilderness at its foot, rising so sharply that its base could be fenced in while yet it was easily ascended, and its summit could be seen by the multitude below. Excavation of the Hathor-Sopdu temple revealed the continual practice of ritual burning, which corresponds to the holy mount said to have fires upon it and also being wreathed in smoke. And I would add a temple is where you commune with the god you worship and where the deity may ‘speak’ to you. These factors make sense in identifying Serabit as the holy mount of Exodus; in the following Atenist account it also makes sense it was chosen by Moses because of the nature of the sacred Hathor- Sopdu temple upon its heights.

The body of Akhenaten would have been conveyed in state to Sinai, his sarcophagus placed on a ceremonial representation of a barque (boat) which is thought to represent the boat used by the sun god Ra who traversed the dangers of the Underworld from sunset to emerge victorious and reborn in the west at sunrise – so did the dead hope to be reborn into eternal life. The sarcophagus on the barque was then covered with a square box-like, often gold-plated, catafalque which was often decorated with the goddesses Isis and Nephthys facing each other with outstretched wings symbolizing resurrection. The barque and its burden would have been then loaded, doubtless disguised with some form of camouflage, onto a wagon pulled by bullocks for the long journey ahead.

The Hathor-Sopdu Serabit temple had chambers added to it by the father of Akhenaten, Amenhotep III, he flanked the entrance with two stelae recording a mining expedition in his reign, also a relief there shows Amenhotep making an offering to Sopdu; Petrie’s expedition unearthed a beautiful head of Queen Tiye the mother of Akhenaten.

The Serabit temple has two sacred caves, one dedicated to the sky cow goddess Hathor, the other to the sky god Sopdu. In many civilizations a cave was regarded as an entrance to the underworld; the Téomin cave in the Jerusalem hills, the Cape Malapan caves in Greece, the Necromantria of Ephyra, cave of the Sibyl in Italy, the Ploutonion at Hieropolis in Turkey; I believe this is also true of the Serabit caves, supported by the number of small shelters made of stone slabs erected on the site, dedicated to the ancient practise of temple incubatio in which devotees would sleep on holy ground in the hope of receiving divine communications or a cure, being covered by stones and sand to make them subterranean, cave-like – for their sleep journey was to the Duat the Ancient Egyptian Underworld, the land of the gods.

The god and goddess worshipped at Serabit have strong ties to the Duat and the dead. Sopdu was a guardian of the Duat, he was the celestial manifestation of the solar warrior Horus; who when the religiously important star Sirius (in her personification as the goddess Sopdet the star was his mother) became invisible from Earth, due to the Sun’s dominance, it was Sopdu as an emissary of light, in the absence of Sirius, who patrolled the Duat thirty-five days from west to east and thirty-five from east to west. His emblem was the cone of zodiacal light, which appears before morning twilight in the east and just after evening twilight in the west, as a huge pyramid or cone shape; this light tracks along the stars of the zodiac; was it viewed as a path of ascension to the Duat (his mother Sopdet had created such a stairway in the heavens)?

I wonder if the mysterious cone-shaped substance mfkzt (mufkurt) called a ‘white bread’ and ‘precious stone’ which was offered to pharaoh and the gods and mystifies archaeologists who conclude it is some form of mineral composition (which might include gold being a mineral and an element) was a manifestation of Sopdu and his cone of light? In the Pyramid Texts mfkzt is connected to the Duat and immortality, the deceased Pharaoh Unas was said to live forever in a field of mfkzt. At Serabit there are a great many inscriptions about mfkzt accompanied by the hieroglyphic for light.A stone that is also a bread means it can be ingested, was this strange bread perhaps manufactured at Serabit where a workshop was discovered, with tools and a crucible and offered to those undergoing incubatio? I also wonder if the twelve standing stones erected at the holy mount by Moses (there are an abundance of standing stones around the temple site), are in truth dedicated to the god Sopdu representing the circle of the twelve signs of the zodiac?

The cow goddess Hathor was the one who admitted all the dead to the Duat and provided them with spiritual sustenance, she was closely linked to burial sites and gave birth to the calf the dead are shown in tombs riding upon, as a symbol of their resurrection into eternal life.

In this Atenist story Moses has come to Serabit with a two-fold purpose: firstly, he would undergo incubatio in one of the cave-like chambers there (in Exodus 33:22 Moses is put in a cleft in the rock on the holy mount) and seek communion with the shade of Akhenaton – Manetho’s Osarseph who is identified with Moses was a tyrannical high priest of Osiris the pharaoh who became lord of the Duat – in consecration of the next flowering of the Atenist religion, which encompassed his second purpose, to enact the ritual resurrection of his beloved pharaoh the living Aten so that he could continue to guide his people from the Duat; as the means to achieve this down below his followers were creating a golden calf. Was the calf produced with the aid of the Hathor-Sopdu priests? The nature of this calf is widely speculated upon, was it a divine image, a symbol or a pedestal for a god; for gods in near Eastern art were often depicted standing on an animal. In this Atenist story it is the calf Hathor gave birth to, the calf upon whose back the deceased are resurrected; this calf is golden because gold is the material of the gods, their flesh was gold and it was a symbol of their spiritual power and immortality; and upon his gold back the ritual resurrection of Akhenaton the living Aten would take place; his funerary barque would then be transformed into the abode of a living god, his presence would continue to speak to his people and guide them.

FURTHER THOUGHTS ON MY PAST-LIFE

MEMORY OF MOSES CARRYING THE BODY

OF AKHENATEN INTO THE SINAI

It must have been a great blow to the faithful when Akhenaten died, he was the physical embodiment of the Aten on Earth, his androgynous depictions are attributed to the Aten being mother and father to humanity; earlier representations of him as Amenhotep IV are male. His new capital Akhetaten was designed with many royal viewing balconies, so the residents could gaze upon the living god. Now Akhetaten was abandoned as the religion of the one god was being repressed, the name Akhenaten erased from inscriptions and the old gods of Egypt reinstated. One cannot overemphasize the hardship facing the Egyptians and Egypto-Hebrews upon forsaking civilized Egypt, only a leader with an iron grip upon them would have been able to motivate them through the perils ahead; so that they didn’t fracture and flee. One must conclude Moses was such a person.

In Exodus the journey of Moses and his followers into Sinai culminates at a holy mount where Moses spoke to God and received the ten commandments; if one considers he and his followers had carried with them the body of Akhenaten, how would it have influenced what took place there? I will try and answer the question by presenting what I call an Atenist version; but whatever the truth, it is clear the account in Exodus is open to question According to modern scholarship, there are two versions of the Ten Commandments story, in Elohist (Exodus 20) and Jahwist (Exodus 34); this gives some antiquity and there may be some original events serving as a basis to the stories. The golden calf story is only in the Elohist version and a later editor added in an explanation that God made a second pair of tablets to give continuity to the Jahwist story. The actual Ten Commandments as given in Exodus 20 were also inserted by the redactor who combined the various sources. Golden Calf Wikipedia. There is also much to question about the man history calls Moses, including his name which may be half a name. His name derives from the Ancient Egyptian msn meaning ‘son of’ such as in Thutmosis ‘son of Thoth’ or Ramesses ‘son of Ra’; was the first part of his name too revealing of an Egyptian heritage by the Hebrew priestly scribes? In a similar vein the names of two sons of Saul King of Israel were changed from Eshbaal and Meribaal to Ishbosheth and Mephibosheth for fear their names implied worship of the Hittite god Baal. 

Lawrence Gardner in ‘Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark’ identifies the holy mountain where Moses spoke directly to God and received the ten commandments as being the Serabit el-Khadim red sandstone mountain rising 3596ft over the plain of Paran in the southwest Sinai peninsula. Situated on a plateau 2680ft up the mountain, is an Ancient Egyptian temple dedicated to the cow goddess Hathor and the god Sopdu. In 1905-6 the archaeologist Flinders Petrie carried out an excavation of the temple and published the results in ‘Researches in Sinai’. Lina Eckenstein, who accompanied Petrie, wrote her own account of the expedition in ‘A History of Sinai’ in which she reveals her belief that the Serabit el-Khadim mountain was the Holy mount of Moses.

In Exodus the Mount of God in Sinai was called Har-ha-elohim Exodus XVIII.5 that can be interpreted as ‘height of the priests’ which relates to the Serabit temple situated on its lofty promontory. The physical features of Serabit conforms to the description of the holy mount in Exodus a mountain with a wilderness at its foot, rising so sharply that its base could be fenced in while yet it was easily ascended, and its summit could be seen by the multitude below. Excavation of the Hathor-Sopdu temple revealed the continual practice of ritual burning, which corresponds to the holy mount said to have fires upon it and also being wreathed in smoke. And I would add a temple is where you commune with the god you worship and where the deity may ‘speak’ to you. These factors make sense in identifying Serabit as the holy mount of Exodus; in the following Atenist account it also makes sense it was chosen by Moses because of the nature of the sacred Hathor- Sopdu temple upon its heights.

The body of Akhenaten would have been conveyed in state to Sinai, his sarcophagus placed on a ceremonial representation of a barque (boat) which is thought to represent the boat used by the sun god Ra who traversed the dangers of the Underworld from sunset to emerge victorious and reborn in the west at sunrise – so did the dead hope to be reborn into eternal life. The sarcophagus on the barque was then covered with a square box-like, often gold-plated, catafalque which was often decorated with the goddesses Isis and Nephthys facing each other with outstretched wings symbolizing resurrection. The barque and its burden would have been then loaded, doubtless disguised with some form of camouflage, onto a wagon pulled by bullocks for the long journey ahead.

The Hathor-Sopdu Serabit temple had chambers added to it by the father of Akhenaten, Amenhotep III, he flanked the entrance with two stelae recording a mining expedition in his reign, also a relief there shows Amenhotep making an offering to Sopdu; Petrie’s expedition unearthed a beautiful head of Queen Tiye the mother of Akhenaten.

The Serabit temple has two sacred caves, one dedicated to the sky cow goddess Hathor, the other to the sky god Sopdu. In many civilizations a cave was regarded as an entrance to the underworld; the Téomin cave in the Jerusalem hills, the Cape Malapan caves in Greece, the Necromantria of Ephyra, cave of the Sibyl in Italy, the Ploutonion at Hieropolis in Turkey; I believe this is also true of the Serabit caves, supported by the number of small shelters made of stone slabs erected on the site, dedicated to the ancient practise of temple incubatio in which devotees would sleep on holy ground in the hope of receiving divine communications or a cure, being covered by stones and sand to make them subterranean, cave-like – for their sleep journey was to the Duat the Ancient Egyptian Underworld, the land of the gods.

The god and goddess worshipped at Serabit have strong ties to the Duat and the dead. Sopdu was a guardian of the Duat, he was the celestial manifestation of the solar warrior Horus; who when the religiously important star Sirius (in her personification as the goddess Sopdet the star was his mother) became invisible from Earth, due to the Sun’s dominance, it was Sopdu as an emissary of light, in the absence of Sirius, who patrolled the Duat thirty-five days from west to east and thirty-five from east to west. His emblem was the cone of zodiacal light, which appears before morning twilight in the east and just after evening twilight in the west, as a huge pyramid or cone shape; this light tracks along the stars of the zodiac; was it viewed as a path of ascension to the Duat (his mother Sopdet had created such a stairway in the heavens)?

I wonder if the mysterious cone-shaped substance mfkzt (mufkurt) called a ‘white bread’ and ‘precious stone’ which was offered to pharaoh and the gods and mystifies archaeologists who conclude it is some form of mineral composition (which might include gold being a mineral and an element) was a manifestation of Sopdu and his cone of light? In the Pyramid Texts mfkzt is connected to the Duat and immortality, the deceased Pharaoh Unas was said to live forever in a field of mfkzt. At Serabit there are a great many inscriptions about mfkzt accompanied by the hieroglyphic for light.A stone that is also a bread means it can be ingested, was this strange bread perhaps manufactured at Serabit where a workshop was discovered, with tools and a crucible and offered to those undergoing incubatio? I also wonder if the twelve standing stones erected at the holy mount by Moses (there are an abundance of standing stones around the temple site), are in truth dedicated to the god Sopdu representing the circle of the twelve signs of the zodiac?

The cow goddess Hathor was the one who admitted all the dead to the Duat and provided them with spiritual sustenance, she was closely linked to burial sites and gave birth to the calf the dead are shown in tombs riding upon, as a symbol of their resurrection into eternal life.

In this Atenist story Moses has come to Serabit with a two-fold purpose: firstly, he would undergo incubatio in one of the cave-like chambers there (in Exodus 33:22 Moses is put in a cleft in the rock on the holy mount) and seek communion with the shade of Akhenaton – Manetho’s Osarseph who is identified with Moses was a tyrannical high priest of Osiris the pharaoh who became lord of the Duat – in consecration of the next flowering of the Atenist religion, which encompassed his second purpose, to enact the ritual resurrection of his beloved pharaoh the living Aten so that he could continue to guide his people from the Duat; as the means to achieve this down below his followers were creating a golden calf. Was the calf produced with the aid of the Hathor-Sopdu priests? The nature of this calf is widely speculated upon, was it a divine image, a symbol or a pedestal for a god; for gods in near Eastern art were often depicted standing on an animal. In this Atenist story it is the calf Hathor gave birth to, the calf upon whose back the deceased are resurrected; this calf is golden because gold is the material of the gods, their flesh was gold and it was a symbol of their spiritual power and immortality; and upon his gold back the ritual resurrection of Akhenaton the living Aten would take place; his funerary barque would then be transformed into the abode of a living god, his presence would continue to speak to his people and guide them.

FURTHER THOUGHTS ON MY PAST-LIFE

MEMORY OF MOSES CARRYING THE BODY

OF AKHENATEN INTO THE SINAI

It must have been a great blow to the faithful when Akhenaten died, he was the physical embodiment of the Aten on Earth, his androgynous depictions are attributed to the Aten being mother and father to humanity; earlier representations of him as Amenhotep IV are male. His new capital Akhetaten was designed with many royal viewing balconies, so the residents could gaze upon the living god. Now Akhetaten was abandoned as the religion of the one god was being repressed, the name Akhenaten erased from inscriptions and the old gods of Egypt reinstated. One cannot overemphasize the hardship facing the Egyptians and Egypto-Hebrews upon forsaking civilized Egypt, only a leader with an iron grip upon them would have been able to motivate them through the perils ahead; so that they didn’t fracture and flee. One must conclude Moses was such a person.

In Exodus the journey of Moses and his followers into Sinai culminates at a holy mount where Moses spoke to God and received the ten commandments; if one considers he and his followers had carried with them the body of Akhenaten, how would it have influenced what took place there? I will try and answer the question by presenting what I call an Atenist version; but whatever the truth, it is clear the account in Exodus is open to question According to modern scholarship, there are two versions of the Ten Commandments story, in Elohist (Exodus 20) and Jahwist (Exodus 34); this gives some antiquity and there may be some original events serving as a basis to the stories. The golden calf story is only in the Elohist version and a later editor added in an explanation that God made a second pair of tablets to give continuity to the Jahwist story. The actual Ten Commandments as given in Exodus 20 were also inserted by the redactor who combined the various sources. Golden Calf Wikipedia. There is also much to question about the man history calls Moses, including his name which may be half a name. His name derives from the Ancient Egyptian msn meaning ‘son of’ such as in Thutmosis ‘son of Thoth’ or Ramesses ‘son of Ra’; was the first part of his name too revealing of an Egyptian heritage by the Hebrew priestly scribes? In a similar vein the names of two sons of Saul King of Israel were changed from Eshbaal and Meribaal to Ishbosheth and Mephibosheth for fear their names implied worship of the Hittite god Baal. 

Lawrence Gardner in ‘Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark’ identifies the holy mountain where Moses spoke directly to God and received the ten commandments as being the Serabit el-Khadim red sandstone mountain rising 3596ft over the plain of Paran in the southwest Sinai peninsula. Situated on a plateau 2680ft up the mountain, is an Ancient Egyptian temple dedicated to the cow goddess Hathor and the god Sopdu. In 1905-6 the archaeologist Flinders Petrie carried out an excavation of the temple and published the results in ‘Researches in Sinai’. Lina Eckenstein, who accompanied Petrie, wrote her own account of the expedition in ‘A History of Sinai’ in which she reveals her belief that the Serabit el-Khadim mountain was the Holy mount of Moses.

In Exodus the Mount of God in Sinai was called Har-ha-elohim Exodus XVIII.5 that can be interpreted as ‘height of the priests’ which relates to the Serabit temple situated on its lofty promontory. The physical features of Serabit conforms to the description of the holy mount in Exodus a mountain with a wilderness at its foot, rising so sharply that its base could be fenced in while yet it was easily ascended, and its summit could be seen by the multitude below. Excavation of the Hathor-Sopdu temple revealed the continual practice of ritual burning, which corresponds to the holy mount said to have fires upon it and also being wreathed in smoke. And I would add a temple is where you commune with the god you worship and where the deity may ‘speak’ to you. These factors make sense in identifying Serabit as the holy mount of Exodus; in the following Atenist account it also makes sense it was chosen by Moses because of the nature of the sacred Hathor- Sopdu temple upon its heights.

The body of Akhenaten would have been conveyed in state to Sinai, his sarcophagus placed on a ceremonial representation of a barque (boat) which is thought to represent the boat used by the sun god Ra who traversed the dangers of the Underworld from sunset to emerge victorious and reborn in the west at sunrise – so did the dead hope to be reborn into eternal life. The sarcophagus on the barque was then covered with a square box-like, often gold-plated, catafalque which was often decorated with the goddesses Isis and Nephthys facing each other with outstretched wings symbolizing resurrection. The barque and its burden would have been then loaded, doubtless disguised with some form of camouflage, onto a wagon pulled by bullocks for the long journey ahead.

The Hathor-Sopdu Serabit temple had chambers added to it by the father of Akhenaten, Amenhotep III, he flanked the entrance with two stelae recording a mining expedition in his reign, also a relief there shows Amenhotep making an offering to Sopdu; Petrie’s expedition unearthed a beautiful head of Queen Tiye the mother of Akhenaten.

The Serabit temple has two sacred caves, one dedicated to the sky cow goddess Hathor, the other to the sky god Sopdu. In many civilizations a cave was regarded as an entrance to the underworld; the Téomin cave in the Jerusalem hills, the Cape Malapan caves in Greece, the Necromantria of Ephyra, cave of the Sibyl in Italy, the Ploutonion at Hieropolis in Turkey; I believe this is also true of the Serabit caves, supported by the number of small shelters made of stone slabs erected on the site, dedicated to the ancient practise of temple incubatio in which devotees would sleep on holy ground in the hope of receiving divine communications or a cure, being covered by stones and sand to make them subterranean, cave-like – for their sleep journey was to the Duat the Ancient Egyptian Underworld, the land of the gods.

The god and goddess worshipped at Serabit have strong ties to the Duat and the dead. Sopdu was a guardian of the Duat, he was the celestial manifestation of the solar warrior Horus; who when the religiously important star Sirius (in her personification as the goddess Sopdet the star was his mother) became invisible from Earth, due to the Sun’s dominance, it was Sopdu as an emissary of light, in the absence of Sirius, who patrolled the Duat thirty-five days from west to east and thirty-five from east to west. His emblem was the cone of zodiacal light, which appears before morning twilight in the east and just after evening twilight in the west, as a huge pyramid or cone shape; this light tracks along the stars of the zodiac; was it viewed as a path of ascension to the Duat (his mother Sopdet had created such a stairway in the heavens)?

I wonder if the mysterious cone-shaped substance mfkzt (mufkurt) called a ‘white bread’ and ‘precious stone’ which was offered to pharaoh and the gods and mystifies archaeologists who conclude it is some form of mineral composition (which might include gold being a mineral and an element) was a manifestation of Sopdu and his cone of light? In the Pyramid Texts mfkzt is connected to the Duat and immortality, the deceased Pharaoh Unas was said to live forever in a field of mfkzt. At Serabit there are a great many inscriptions about mfkzt accompanied by the hieroglyphic for light.A stone that is also a bread means it can be ingested, was this strange bread perhaps manufactured at Serabit where a workshop was discovered, with tools and a crucible and offered to those undergoing incubatio? I also wonder if the twelve standing stones erected at the holy mount by Moses (there are an abundance of standing stones around the temple site), are in truth dedicated to the god Sopdu representing the circle of the twelve signs of the zodiac?

The cow goddess Hathor was the one who admitted all the dead to the Duat and provided them with spiritual sustenance, she was closely linked to burial sites and gave birth to the calf the dead are shown in tombs riding upon, as a symbol of their resurrection into eternal life.

In this Atenist story Moses has come to Serabit with a two-fold purpose: firstly, he would undergo incubatio in one of the cave-like chambers there (in Exodus 33:22 Moses is put in a cleft in the rock on the holy mount) and seek communion with the shade of Akhenaton – Manetho’s Osarseph who is identified with Moses was a tyrannical high priest of Osiris the pharaoh who became lord of the Duat – in consecration of the next flowering of the Atenist religion, which encompassed his second purpose, to enact the ritual resurrection of his beloved pharaoh the living Aten so that he could continue to guide his people from the Duat; as the means to achieve this down below his followers were creating a golden calf. Was the calf produced with the aid of the Hathor-Sopdu priests? The nature of this calf is widely speculated upon, was it a divine image, a symbol or a pedestal for a god; for gods in near Eastern art were often depicted standing on an animal. In this Atenist story it is the calf Hathor gave birth to, the calf upon whose back the deceased are resurrected; this calf is golden because gold is the material of the gods, their flesh was gold and it was a symbol of their spiritual power and immortality; and upon his gold back the ritual resurrection of Akhenaton the living Aten would take place; his funerary barque would then be transformed into the abode of a living god, his presence would continue to speak to his people and guide them.

FURTHER THOUGHTS ON MY PAST-LIFE

MEMORY OF MOSES CARRYING THE BODY

OF AKHENATEN INTO THE SINAI

It must have been a great blow to the faithful when Akhenaten died, he was the physical embodiment of the Aten on Earth, his androgynous depictions are attributed to the Aten being mother and father to humanity; earlier representations of him as Amenhotep IV are male. His new capital Akhetaten was designed with many royal viewing balconies, so the residents could gaze upon the living god. Now Akhetaten was abandoned as the religion of the one god was being repressed, the name Akhenaten erased from inscriptions and the old gods of Egypt reinstated. One cannot overemphasize the hardship facing the Egyptians and Egypto-Hebrews upon forsaking civilized Egypt, only a leader with an iron grip upon them would have been able to motivate them through the perils ahead; so that they didn’t fracture and flee. One must conclude Moses was such a person.

In Exodus the journey of Moses and his followers into Sinai culminates at a holy mount where Moses spoke to God and received the ten commandments; if one considers he and his followers had carried with them the body of Akhenaten, how would it have influenced what took place there? I will try and answer the question by presenting what I call an Atenist version; but whatever the truth, it is clear the account in Exodus is open to question According to modern scholarship, there are two versions of the Ten Commandments story, in Elohist (Exodus 20) and Jahwist (Exodus 34); this gives some antiquity and there may be some original events serving as a basis to the stories. The golden calf story is only in the Elohist version and a later editor added in an explanation that God made a second pair of tablets to give continuity to the Jahwist story. The actual Ten Commandments as given in Exodus 20 were also inserted by the redactor who combined the various sources. Golden Calf Wikipedia. There is also much to question about the man history calls Moses, including his name which may be half a name. His name derives from the Ancient Egyptian msn meaning ‘son of’ such as in Thutmosis ‘son of Thoth’ or Ramesses ‘son of Ra’; was the first part of his name too revealing of an Egyptian heritage by the Hebrew priestly scribes? In a similar vein the names of two sons of Saul King of Israel were changed from Eshbaal and Meribaal to Ishbosheth and Mephibosheth for fear their names implied worship of the Hittite god Baal. 

Lawrence Gardner in ‘Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark’ identifies the holy mountain where Moses spoke directly to God and received the ten commandments as being the Serabit el-Khadim red sandstone mountain rising 3596ft over the plain of Paran in the southwest Sinai peninsula. Situated on a plateau 2680ft up the mountain, is an Ancient Egyptian temple dedicated to the cow goddess Hathor and the god Sopdu. In 1905-6 the archaeologist Flinders Petrie carried out an excavation of the temple and published the results in ‘Researches in Sinai’. Lina Eckenstein, who accompanied Petrie, wrote her own account of the expedition in ‘A History of Sinai’ in which she reveals her belief that the Serabit el-Khadim mountain was the Holy mount of Moses.

In Exodus the Mount of God in Sinai was called Har-ha-elohim Exodus XVIII.5 that can be interpreted as ‘height of the priests’ which relates to the Serabit temple situated on its lofty promontory. The physical features of Serabit conforms to the description of the holy mount in Exodus a mountain with a wilderness at its foot, rising so sharply that its base could be fenced in while yet it was easily ascended, and its summit could be seen by the multitude below. Excavation of the Hathor-Sopdu temple revealed the continual practice of ritual burning, which corresponds to the holy mount said to have fires upon it and also being wreathed in smoke. And I would add a temple is where you commune with the god you worship and where the deity may ‘speak’ to you. These factors make sense in identifying Serabit as the holy mount of Exodus; in the following Atenist account it also makes sense it was chosen by Moses because of the nature of the sacred Hathor- Sopdu temple upon its heights.

The body of Akhenaten would have been conveyed in state to Sinai, his sarcophagus placed on a ceremonial representation of a barque (boat) which is thought to represent the boat used by the sun god Ra who traversed the dangers of the Underworld from sunset to emerge victorious and reborn in the west at sunrise – so did the dead hope to be reborn into eternal life. The sarcophagus on the barque was then covered with a square box-like, often gold-plated, catafalque which was often decorated with the goddesses Isis and Nephthys facing each other with outstretched wings symbolizing resurrection. The barque and its burden would have been then loaded, doubtless disguised with some form of camouflage, onto a wagon pulled by bullocks for the long journey ahead.

The Hathor-Sopdu Serabit temple had chambers added to it by the father of Akhenaten, Amenhotep III, he flanked the entrance with two stelae recording a mining expedition in his reign, also a relief there shows Amenhotep making an offering to Sopdu; Petrie’s expedition unearthed a beautiful head of Queen Tiye the mother of Akhenaten.

The Serabit temple has two sacred caves, one dedicated to the sky cow goddess Hathor, the other to the sky god Sopdu. In many civilizations a cave was regarded as an entrance to the underworld; the Téomin cave in the Jerusalem hills, the Cape Malapan caves in Greece, the Necromantria of Ephyra, cave of the Sibyl in Italy, the Ploutonion at Hieropolis in Turkey; I believe this is also true of the Serabit caves, supported by the number of small shelters made of stone slabs erected on the site, dedicated to the ancient practise of temple incubatio in which devotees would sleep on holy ground in the hope of receiving divine communications or a cure, being covered by stones and sand to make them subterranean, cave-like – for their sleep journey was to the Duat the Ancient Egyptian Underworld, the land of the gods.

The god and goddess worshipped at Serabit have strong ties to the Duat and the dead. Sopdu was a guardian of the Duat, he was the celestial manifestation of the solar warrior Horus; who when the religiously important star Sirius (in her personification as the goddess Sopdet the star was his mother) became invisible from Earth, due to the Sun’s dominance, it was Sopdu as an emissary of light, in the absence of Sirius, who patrolled the Duat thirty-five days from west to east and thirty-five from east to west. His emblem was the cone of zodiacal light, which appears before morning twilight in the east and just after evening twilight in the west, as a huge pyramid or cone shape; this light tracks along the stars of the zodiac; was it viewed as a path of ascension to the Duat (his mother Sopdet had created such a stairway in the heavens)?

I wonder if the mysterious cone-shaped substance mfkzt (mufkurt) called a ‘white bread’ and ‘precious stone’ which was offered to pharaoh and the gods and mystifies archaeologists who conclude it is some form of mineral composition (which might include gold being a mineral and an element) was a manifestation of Sopdu and his cone of light? In the Pyramid Texts mfkzt is connected to the Duat and immortality, the deceased Pharaoh Unas was said to live forever in a field of mfkzt. At Serabit there are a great many inscriptions about mfkzt accompanied by the hieroglyphic for light.A stone that is also a bread means it can be ingested, was this strange bread perhaps manufactured at Serabit where a workshop was discovered, with tools and a crucible and offered to those undergoing incubatio? I also wonder if the twelve standing stones erected at the holy mount by Moses (there are an abundance of standing stones around the temple site), are in truth dedicated to the god Sopdu representing the circle of the twelve signs of the zodiac?

The cow goddess Hathor was the one who admitted all the dead to the Duat and provided them with spiritual sustenance, she was closely linked to burial sites and gave birth to the calf the dead are shown in tombs riding upon, as a symbol of their resurrection into eternal life.

In this Atenist story Moses has come to Serabit with a two-fold purpose: firstly, he would undergo incubatio in one of the cave-like chambers there (in Exodus 33:22 Moses is put in a cleft in the rock on the holy mount) and seek communion with the shade of Akhenaton – Manetho’s Osarseph who is identified with Moses was a tyrannical high priest of Osiris the pharaoh who became lord of the Duat – in consecration of the next flowering of the Atenist religion, which encompassed his second purpose, to enact the ritual resurrection of his beloved pharaoh the living Aten so that he could continue to guide his people from the Duat; as the means to achieve this down below his followers were creating a golden calf. Was the calf produced with the aid of the Hathor-Sopdu priests? The nature of this calf is widely speculated upon, was it a divine image, a symbol or a pedestal for a god; for gods in near Eastern art were often depicted standing on an animal. In this Atenist story it is the calf Hathor gave birth to, the calf upon whose back the deceased are resurrected; this calf is golden because gold is the material of the gods, their flesh was gold and it was a symbol of their spiritual power and immortality; and upon his gold back the ritual resurrection of Akhenaton the living Aten would take place; his funerary barque would then be transformed into the abode of a living god, his presence would continue to speak to his people and guide them.

So, in this Atenist story the funerary barque of Akhenaton is what came to be known as the Ark of the Covenant. Scott B. Noegel of the University of Washington in his published article titled ‘The Egyptian Origin of the Ark of the Covenant’ in ‘Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective’ Springer Switzerland 2015 considers the Ancient Egyptian funerary barque the most complete and compelling parallel for the Ark for they bear so many similarities, both were carried ceremonially by the use of poles, the wooden box overlaid with gold of the Ark mirrors the box-like structure of the catafalque which was often gold-plated. The Ark, the presence of God manifesting between the cherubim was a vehicle for oracles, similar to an Ancient Egyptian ceremonial barque carrying the image of a god within a naos, a box-like chamber, which would offer guidance and advice to supplicants. When Akhenaten was ritually resurrected as the living Aten, his funerary barque was transformed into the ceremonial barque of a god; whose presence manifested between the ‘cherubim’ – the out-spread winged Isis and Nephthys.

So, in this Atenist story the funerary barque of Akhenaton is what came to be known as the Ark of the Covenant. Scott B. Noegel of the University of Washington in his published article titled ‘The Egyptian Origin of the Ark of the Covenant’ in ‘Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective’ Springer Switzerland 2015 considers the Ancient Egyptian funerary barque the most complete and compelling parallel for the Ark for they bear so many similarities, both were carried ceremonially by the use of poles, the wooden box overlaid with gold of the Ark mirrors the box-like structure of the catafalque which was often gold-plated. The Ark, the presence of God manifesting between the cherubim was a vehicle for oracles, similar to an Ancient Egyptian ceremonial barque carrying the image of a god within a naos, a box-like chamber, which would offer guidance and advice to supplicants. When Akhenaten was ritually resurrected as the living Aten, his funerary barque was transformed into the ceremonial barque of a god; whose presence manifested between the ‘cherubim’ – the out-spread winged Isis and Nephthys.

So, in this Atenist story the funerary barque of Akhenaton is what came to be known as the Ark of the Covenant. Scott B. Noegel of the University of Washington in his published article titled ‘The Egyptian Origin of the Ark of the Covenant’ in ‘Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective’ Springer Switzerland 2015 considers the Ancient Egyptian funerary barque the most complete and compelling parallel for the Ark for they bear so many similarities, both were carried ceremonially by the use of poles, the wooden box overlaid with gold of the Ark mirrors the box-like structure of the catafalque which was often gold-plated. The Ark, the presence of God manifesting between the cherubim was a vehicle for oracles, similar to an Ancient Egyptian ceremonial barque carrying the image of a god within a naos, a box-like chamber, which would offer guidance and advice to supplicants. When Akhenaten was ritually resurrected as the living Aten, his funerary barque was transformed into the ceremonial barque of a god; whose presence manifested between the ‘cherubim’ – the out-spread winged Isis and Nephthys.

So, in this Atenist story the funerary barque of Akhenaton is what came to be known as the Ark of the Covenant. Scott B. Noegel of the University of Washington in his published article titled ‘The Egyptian Origin of the Ark of the Covenant’ in ‘Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective’ Springer Switzerland 2015 considers the Ancient Egyptian funerary barque the most complete and compelling parallel for the Ark for they bear so many similarities, both were carried ceremonially by the use of poles, the wooden box overlaid with gold of the Ark mirrors the box-like structure of the catafalque which was often gold-plated. The Ark, the presence of God manifesting between the cherubim was a vehicle for oracles, similar to an Ancient Egyptian ceremonial barque carrying the image of a god within a naos, a box-like chamber, which would offer guidance and advice to supplicants. When Akhenaten was ritually resurrected as the living Aten, his funerary barque was transformed into the ceremonial barque of a god; whose presence manifested between the ‘cherubim’ – the out-spread winged Isis and Nephthys.

                                            cDt

                        anything done without love is dangerous

                         THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

   THE ONCE AND FUTURE ORDER

I have been open about the origins of cDt being in my guided spiritual path and recall of past lives. By 2021 I believed I had been made aware of all the lives most meaningful to this stage of my life and cDt – but how wrong I was!

Which brings me to Ashkelon, a city on the Mediterranean in the Southern District of Israel, named after the ancient seaport Ascalon; whose remains lie on the south-western edge of the modern city. For many years whenever I read or heard references to it, it elicited a emotional response and I knew it was connected to an unknown past life.

In 2021 it came strongly to the fore of my mind and gradually the past-life related to it was revealed; one that surprised me greatly, I was being shown I had been a Knight Templar. I have to first say I always bear in mind Rudolf Steiner’s stricture that if you deal with hidden things, you can be swept away on the wings of fantasy; so, for me, each time information from a supernatural source is given to me, it has to make sense, tie in together, and reveal things to me I had no knowledge of; for instance understanding the design of cDt took me many long years, made perfect sense and was outside my own range of understanding at the time it was given to me.

I was first shown myself as a young man, I thought sixteen or seventeen years old (so I assume I was a squire), with my Templar master at the siege of Ashkelon in 1153. The next thing I was shown was myself as a Templar knight I thought in my late forties, with a jagged scar running down my right cheek, clearly in a position of power at the head of a group of knights; and then saw my death, in the midst of fighting, on horseback being skewered in the middle by a lance and pulled to the ground to be killed. I was given the name Tripoli. I wondered at the time if I had fought in a battle of Tripoli but there was no such battle. I have come to the conclusion that I died during fighting at the battle of Hattin and Tripoli would have been at the forefront of my thinking because the battle occurred, through the stupidity of the leadership, on the way to relieve the siege of Tiberias which belonged to Count Raymond III of Tripoli and was in the crusader state of Tripoli; not only that, was I aware during the moments before I died, that the count, commander of the army’s vanguard, with his contingent had deserted the field and left us to our fate? The battle of Hattin happened in 1187, so it would have made me if I was either sixteen or seventeen at the Siege of Ashkelon fifty or fifty-one when I died – which tied in with how old I appeared to be before the battle.

There is a third matter which added further confirmation to the fact I had lived a life as a Knight Templar, it happened in 2012. A friend asked me to go with her and another friend to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. I felt I shouldn’t go, but said I would try to tune into them on the day they visited the chapel; which I did and saw something strange. I first told my friend what I saw them do on the day and when she confirmed that is what they had done, I then felt that I wasn’t fantasizing the incident. I followed them down (with my mind) into the chapel crypt and when I reached the bottom of the steps, I was confronted by two disincarnate Templar Knights with drawn swords who must have sensed the intrusion of my mind – they wore white tunics with a red cross but I knew they were Templars not Crusaders; I looked at them and told them to go and they went! This raised so many questions in my mind, what were they doing there? Why did I tell them to go? Why did they go? It took till 2021 and the discovery of my Templar life to relieve me of this mental torture! I said they could go because I innately knew I was one of them, and they went because they recognized I was.

To answer the question why were they there, involved contemplation, research and more revelations guiding me to a full understanding and also explaining why I needed to remember my life in the order; for Templars whether incarnate or disincarnate will play a vital role in the coming New Age.

From the spheres of influence of the same noble families of Champagne and Burgundy emerged the Cistercian monastic order called by its founder Novum Monasterium the New Monastery, the Knights Templar the new knighthood, Arthurian romance of perfect Arthur and his perfect knights pursuing spiritual goals and that enigmatic object the Holy Grail (did not originate in the Roman Church which either disapproved of or ignored it) reflected in the Templar monk-knighthood serving their king Christ.

These new movements in monastery, knighthood and literature, was a concerted plan of a group of initiates belonging to those noble families, intent on bringing a new spiritual paradigm into the consciousness of the western world (at a time the Roman Church was acting like a secular monarchy intent on all-encompassing power); a consciousness that will come to fruition in the Age of Aquarius. They also knew of the ley line and NS network, understood its importance and power and sited their buildings according to it. Rosslyn sitting over an NS is of great spiritual importance and the disincarnate Templars in the crypt were acting as guardians of the energy portal.

Rudolf Steiner said . . . in the evolution and destiny of the Templars we see an impulse that is important for all the succeeding centuries of modern times.

cDt

anything done without love is dangerous

              cDt and EXTRATERRESTIALS

There is no doubt extraterrestials are interfering in life on our planet. Paul Sinclair in ‘Night People’ chronicles his abuse from childhood to the present by an alien species; he has seen their craft, suffered nocturnal visits and abductions, he has awakened with deep pieces of flesh removed from his back, the wounds cauterised. He recognizes the mental powers these otherworldly beings possess, planting false memories in his mind that hides a truth he is still struggling to comprehend. My abiding memory, after reading the book, is of his poor wife waiting terrified all night, not wanting to disturb him, to tell him of her frightening experiences. Malignant aliens use fear as a controlling element in their interactions with humans, on the other hand the demonic and malignant dead feed on it. 

My awareness of alien involvement with the Earth (and its benign manifestation in my own life since childhood), came about in a far different manner; as part of the spiritual path that has led me to cDt; a facility that in the future will be instrumental in creating awareness of alien activity on our world; to explain how it will do so, let me outline the nature of the cDt domed facility.

It is so designed in its arrangement of crystals and water systems to be an interdimensional space capable of aligning with the telluric energies of its chosen site and thus becoming ‘plugged in’ to the electromagnetic matrix of the Earth and ionosphere – creating a cosmic link or portal, modelled on the ancient ones utilized in far earlier epochs.

Putting to one side the dome’s function as a healing and spiritual evolution (into cosmic consciousness) space, I want to focus on its other function as Earth Watch. The natural energetic cosmic portal cDt utilizes and enhances is but one of many connected to the body of our planet and it is these portals that ETs manipulate in their arrival, interactions and departures. cDt being a part of this system is in a unique position to maintain a watch on these activities (that in time will evolve to something more).

Energetic portal sites are rich in groundwater (the flowing water in contact with its rock environment alters and enhances the electromagnetic make-up of the site) and it is interesting to note Paul Sinclair’s childhood home was in Old Denby South Yorkshire adjacent to marshland and near the river Don and canals. Later, during his married life he chose to renovate a house in the town of Bridlington on the east Yorkshire coast, which sits upon a chalk aquifer through which the underground winterbourne stream Gypsy Race flows, emerging into Bridlington Harbour.

From his account the house in Bridlington has been the site not only of further ET abuse, but also episodes of the demonic and activities by a malignant human spirit directed at his grandson (what otherworldly manipulation of his mind must have gone on to make him select that particular house); which is understandable as these energetic portals are used also by such beings to penetrate into our world. The physician and psychiatrist Arthur Guirdham 1905-1992 considered many of the psychological problems of childhood had their origin in the young people being plagued by malignant human spirits; one manifestation was the emergence of disembodied heads from a wardrobe or cupboard. I once met a young man who was victimised in this way throughout his childhood. But these otherworldly entities afflict children and adults alike. The psychotherapist Jerry Marzinsky, clinical psychologist Dr Wilson van Drusen and psychiatrist Richard Gallagher recognize the demonic and malignant human dead can play a role in mental health problems, particularly with schizophrenic patients.

We share the same origins as alien species, created by the Supreme Intelligence, the great fire the spiritual Love/Light of the Divine Ground of All Being. People normally consider the term ‘spiritual’ to mean an ethereal state or power that has little to do with concrete realities, but the truth is, spiritual(electromagnetic) powers and states represent the template from which material states evolve (as Einstein said, in the end all there is, is energy which is light). A spiritual template in which we share the same five-fold physiology – as Edgar Cayce put it, it is the most perfect form of spirit into matter – head and four limbs. Alien heads and eyes are often larger than humans, the noses flattened, the mouths mere slits, ears generally mere apertures; even when the alien species are insectoid or reptilian in nature, their physiology still embodies the fundamental template of head, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, limbs. In our galaxy the cosmic origin of this perfected form is written in the stars, the towering humanoid figure of the Orion constellation that is connected to the centre of Galactic Intelligence; the five-fold pentagram Õjourney of Venus between the horns of the Taurus celestial bull proclaiming the spiritual template of a perfected humanity.

Aliens can fulfil the Love/Light potential within them or not (just like us) for the essential ingredient of love is free will – no one can be forced to love another, as Rudolf Steiner said Love enabled egotism and all its attendant evils to flourish if the choice was so made. 

Presently ETs do as they will with us because we have lost cosmic consciousness and all its attendant powers when in union with the Supreme Intelligence Love/Light behind the created universe (the energies of the Aquarian Age we are now entering will facilitate its rebirth and the emergence of a Cosmohumanum). Our present mentality is primitive, generally truncated to a purely materialistic viewpoint of all phenomena, when in reality our existence is interwoven with supersensible dimensions populated by the demonic, angelic, luciferic beings, benign and malignant human dead, dimensions within which ETs can operate.

When will humanity wake-up to these realities? For those of us who are awake, life can be difficult; how do we reveal what we know to others without being considered deranged? When Paul Sinclair woke up one morning with wounds on his back, he had no recollection of an ET visitation, until his concerned neighbour arrived saying in the middle of the night, he had three times witnessed every window in Paul’s house suddenly blazing with light, as if the place had been struck by lightning. This information triggered the repressed memory in Paul’s mind of aliens in his bedroom and experiencing pain in his back. He couldn’t bring himself to tell his neighbour the true state of affairs, neither did he reveal the full story to the doctor who treated the wounds. The sighted man in the kingdom of the blind would not be king, but ostracized and caste out from their midst. 

On the 23rd December 2023 standing on Wearyall hill Glastonbury I took two photographs of the distant 449ft Brentknoll Hill sitting on the wetlands of the Somerset levels alongside the River Axe. Looking at them later I noticed in both a black shape in the sky, zooming in on the photograph I had taken first, revealed a round shape with a small triangular protrusion on one side, surrounded by a halo of light.

The black shape on the second photograph is no longer surrounded by the halo of light, and the hint of a triangular shape on the first photograph is now fully exposed as one of two ‘wings’ on the body of the object. The evidence of the second photograph implies that the object in the first was in the process of emerging through an energy ‘portal’ delineated by the halo of light around it; created by the combined electromagnetic activity of the Earth, Ionosphere and the Brentknoll site, which is water-rich as all portal sites, through which the Lyonesse ley line runs.

cDt

anything done without love is dangerous

                  HIDDEN MESSAGES: EDWARD BURNE-JONES

‘THE LEGEND OF BRIAR ROSE’ ‘THE PILGRIM TRIPTYCH

Alison Smith in her Tate article issue 44 20^th October 2018, titled ‘The Strange World of Edward Burne-Jones’ called the painter the most elusive of artists, whose strange compositions baffles to this day; citing as examples ‘The Golden Stairs’ ‘The Mill’ ‘Love Amongst the Ruins’.

But it is possible to dispel this bafflement, if one views them in the light of beliefs and a world view which does not belong to mainstream thought. A great influence upon Burne-Jones’ artistic and inner development was the Pre-Raphaelite painter Gabriel Dante Rossetti, who became a mentor to the younger Burne-Jones at a time when he was deep in depression and had lost his faith in the Protestant religion. Rossetti was immersed in esoteric and Neoplatonic thinking, Rosicrucianism and Spiritualism, and a fervent believer, in reincarnation, finding past life connections with those near to him; he was not alone in this belief, he existed in an artistic milieu in which reincarnation was widely accepted. A belief adhered to by Burne-Jones himself, for in a letter written in 1880 to Mary Gladstone Drew, he mentions a dream he had which he believed to be about a past miserable life he had led.

 Lynda Harris in Quest January-February 2004 The Theosophical Society in America, considers reincarnation to be the subject matter of his baffling painting ‘The Mill’.

The painting ‘The Mill’ depicts four nude bathers on a further riverbank, where buildings and a mill-wheel are situated; on the foremost bank are three dancing maidens, a fourth figure lurks in an alcove clutching an object that may be a trumpet.

To interpret this scene in terms of reincarnation, the bathers are the shades of the dead standing beside the river Lethe, into which they have plunged and drank of its waters of forgetfulness, so that they might again experience a life on Earth – to enter once more on the eternal round – symbolized by the mill-wheel – of life-death-rebirth. The three dancing maidens to the fore of the painting are the three fates, Clotho the spinner who weaves the threads of a new life, Lachesis who measures the allotted span of that life and Atropos who determines how death shall cut the threads.

The Golden Stairs

Roger Drew in his 1996 PhD thesis ‘Symbolism and Sources in the painting and poetry of Gabriel Dante Rossetti’ which reflects upon the esoteric thought that shaped the subject matter of Rossetti’s works, considers ‘The Golden Stairs’depicting a long line of maidens, each holding a musical instrument, walking down a twisting stairway, to illustrate the Platonic descent of Beauty to rescue the soul; the spiralling stair modelled on William Blake’s (whose art exerted an influence upon Burne-Jones) ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ in which a spiral unearthly staircase upon which adults and children descend and ascend, rises up amongst the stars, behind the slumbering Jacob

I now want to turn the same interpretative lens upon the four paintings composing ‘The Legend of Briar Rose’: ‘The Briar Wood’ ‘The Council Chamber’‘The Garden Court’‘The Rose Bower’ (accompanied by William Morris verses), which are based on the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty and inspired by the poem ‘The Day Dream’ by Tennyson; who himself had a great interest in the occult. Burne-Jones wrote to Cormell Price in 1853 that his heart-felt desire was to found a Brotherhood, with Tennyson (whom he referred to as ‘Sir Galahad’) the patron.

The Briar Wood

The Council Chamber

The Garden Court

The Rose Bower

First to outline the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. Seven good fairies are invited to the christening of a princess, they are given rich gifts, and each in turn bestows upon the infant the qualities of beauty, wit, grace, dance, goodness and song; but before the seventh could pronounce her gift, she is interrupted by an old witch; whom everyone thought was dead and so she had not been invited to the feast. The deeply offended old witch places a curse upon the princess, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and will die. The seventh fairy cannot undo the curse, but decrees the princess shall not die but sleep for a hundred years. When the curse is realized, the good fairy fearing the distress the princess will suffer upon awakening and finding everyone she loved and cared for dead, sends to sleep the entire inhabitants of the castle and then hides it from view by summoning a forest of trees around about it and brambles with their host of thorns. There it lies forgotten, until a prince spying its presence amongst the forbidding foliage, hacks his way into the castle and bestows a kiss on Sleeping Beauty’s lips waking her and everyone up.

In ‘The Briar Wood’ the prince has arrived and is confronted by sleeping knights in armour amongst an ever-encroaching mass of briar rose thorny branches; this is his only appearance for Burne-Jones does not concern himself with the awakening kiss. He concentrates on the castle’s timeless sleeping world and it is easy to think of the three sleeping women grouped around a loom in ‘The Garden Court’, surrounded by other sleeping servants, as representing the three fates, the working out of their handiwork in the lives around them suspended. The monarch, and his courtiers in the ‘The Council Chamber’ slumbers, oblivious to

The threat of war, the hope of peace,

The kingdoms peril and increase

         While in her chamber ‘The Rose Bower’ Sleeping Beauty sleeps on, she is

                                                         . . . the hoarded love, the key

                                                        To all the treasure that shall be;

Love is the key, for this slumbering deadly world is the creation of lack of love, anti-love; it was the vanity, jealousy, pride of the old witch that had brought about this ruin. This lovelessness is symbolised in the paintings by the briar rose whose thorny branches have invaded every inch of this slumbering world; the etymology of the words ‘briar rose’ means ‘fragrant thorn’ more thorn than rose, a forbidding maze of chaotic branches unlike the rose bush with its straight stems and fragrant blossoms. Support for my reading of his use of the briar rose to symbolise the painful entanglement of bitter negative emotions, is his use of the scrambling shrub in his painting ‘Love among the Ruins’.

A man and woman sit clinging to each other, around them is littered fallen masonry, to their right is an ornate open doorway; but the way is barred by the tangled branches of a briar rose bush. This painting is widely regarded as illustrative of the emotional turmoil the married Burne-Jones had gone through during a four-year love affair with his model Maria Zambaco. When he tried to find a way to end the affair, matters finally came to a head on a January night in 1869, she wanted him to pledge himself to a suicide pact with her, he refused, and she tried to commit suicide by jumping into the Regent’s Canal; but he restrained her and was still struggling with her when the police arrived. Like Burne-Jones and Maria, the pair in the painting are trapped in the ruins of their dead love, but are still unable to escape the toxic emotional turmoil of its demise – represented by the spreading briar rose bush barring escape through the open doorway.   

Burne-Jones’ depiction of the Sleeping Beauty world creates a miniature of human society and its strata – from the servants in the garden courtyard, to the sleeping knights in the briar rose thicket, to the king in his council chamber. It is this aspect of the paintings in which, I believe, lies their true import; as a metaphor for the society in which he lived and for which it is known he had little sympathy; he condemned the pollution caused by the Industrial Revolution and its misuse of the natural world, the morally questionable treatment of different races and cultures within the British Empire and its brand of unchecked capitalism; added to this, how he would perceive it, a spiritual blindness – creates a humanity sleeping through their doom.  

My seeing this sub-text in the slumbering world of Briar Rose, is supported by stanza 7 of the ‘The Sleeping Palace’ a section of Tennyson’s ‘The Day Dream’, which inspired ‘The Legend of Briar Rose’;indicating the fairy tale is a vehicle for imparting a deeper message:

 When will the hundred summers die,

 And thought and time be born again,

And newer knowledge drawing nigh,

                     Bring truth that sways the soul of men?

       One could say nothing has changed since he painted the ‘The Legend of Briar Rose’ – we are still ‘asleep’ guided by those with influence and power, unwilling to change a world that benefits them so well; who acting like chief lemmings are rushing us to our doom. Warnings about how we are abusing our planet are not new; Viktor Schauberger 1885-1958 was long an advocate for working with the natural world not against it. He remarked that it didn’t matter if people thought him mad, one more madman didn’t matter, but if he was right God help us.

‘The Legend of Briar Rose’is about the power of lovelessness, ‘The Pilgrim Triptych’ in contrast, which I turn to next, is about the search for the true nature of love – a search reflected in Burne-Jones’s own life in his addiction to passionately falling in love with a succession of beautiful women, coitus was never the object of these episodes which inspired much of his artistic endeavours; it was in essence a search for an ideal, a spiritual celestial love. He understood what drove his nature, considering himself to be essentially a monk tormented with carnal desires.

‘The Pilgrim Triptych’ is composed of three paintings ‘Love leading the Way’, ‘The Pilgrim at the Gate of Idleness’, ‘The Heart of the Rose’and is loosely based on Chaucer’s fourteenth century translation of Le Roman de la Rose ‘The Romance of the Rose’ by Guillaume de Lorris composed circa 1236.

In ‘Love Leading the Way’a man is identified as the pilgrim by a scallop shell adorning his hat; the shell is an emblem of pilgrimage, primarily associated with the tomb of Saint James of Compostela in Spain. The pilgrim is being aided to extricate himself from a bramble patch by an angelic figure, who similar to the account in ‘Romance of the Rose’ wears a chaplet of roses with a multitude of nightingales flying around his head and a number of birds about him on the ground. Burne-Jones has given him black wings and he holds as a staff a great arrow.

Love Leading the Way

In the second painting ‘The Pilgrim at the Gate of Idleness’the now absent angel has led the pilgrim to a castle-like dwelling, where a figure wearing a rose chaplet has emerged from the building an open door behind him, accessed by a stone slab over a filled water basin that runs the length of the wall, through which can be glimpsed a rose garden.

The Pilgrim at the Gate of Idleness

In the third painting ‘The Heart of the Rose’ the pilgrim has successfully gained entrance into the castle, followed by three nightingales, the angel stands beside him holding a black bow with white lilies growing to his right, as they gaze in unison upon a gracious maiden in a green gown seated in a rose bush.

The Heart of the Rose

In ‘Love Leading the way’the angel is aiding the pilgrim to extricate himself from a bramble patch, this action in the light of the title of the painting identifies this supernatural being as a love emissary – leading the pilgrim out of a bramble patch, evocative of the briar rose representing a thorny maze of negative emotions, from which he is struggling to disentangle himself. This emissary of love is no cupid, who indiscriminately uses his inopportune arrows of love to randomly inflict joy or despair, for the only arrow he bears is used as a staff an emblem of a greater deeper love. His black wings the colour of night, decay and death, with similar symbolism attached to the nightingales (name deriving from Old English niht night and galan to sing) of night, nature, death and the hidden mysteries. This aspect of his and their nature portends that the love he serves requires a death of self, a spiritual death, a night time of the soul, a cleansing of baser emotions – as a Sufi sought to cleanse, to polish their heart so that it only reflects the divine greater Heart and Love; this same thinking is evident in ‘The Pilgrim Triptych’ for the penultimate painting and goal of the pilgrim is ‘The Heart of the Rose’ – the rose globally a symbol of love

In ‘The Pilgrim before the Gate of Idleness’ the emissary of love has brought the pilgrim before a castle, the red rose chaplet worn by an attendant emerging from within and the rose garden glimpsed through the open doorway behind him proclaims this place to be the Castle of Love; further substantiated by the nature of the final painting when the pilgrim gains admittance within. The title of the painting implies, the pilgrim has undergone a test of his resolve and not gained immediate access and fulfilment of his pilgrimage – evoking the stages of initiation before full admittance into the mysteries.

In ‘The Heart of the Rose’the three nightingales accompanying the pilgrim within and the presence of the angel, this time carrying a black bow (the power behind love’s arrows) assert again that entering here involves a death of self, a ‘death’ also symbolized by the stretch of water he traversed to enter, evoking a shade crossing a river of the Underworld; but the white lilies growing nearby, which symbolically represent a cleansed soul and rebirth, proclaims this ‘death’ is ultimately a rebirth: a rebirth in which his soul has been purified and he can glimpse and reflect the greater Heart, the divine Love of which we are an expression. This aspect of a cleansed soul and rebirth is emphasized in the two tapestry designs produced by Burne-Jones

based on ‘The Heart of the Rose’in which the pilgrim stands before a row of white lilies growing before a fence, behind which a rose bush grows; the pilgrim is stretching out his hand towards an open blossom containing the face of a woman – but the lilies barring his way indicate that only those who have been transformed by the alchemy of spiritual death and rebirth can break down the barrier that separates the pilgrim from his union with the Love he desires. In the painting ‘The Heart of the Rose’the pilgrim has passed that barrier represented by a red-brick wall. The wall and fence are also symbols of time that cuts up the passage of our lives in seconds, minutes and hours – the pilgrim entering into the presence of the Heart of Love has entered a timeless, eternal dimension.   

Burne-Jones portrays the cosmic Heart of Love of which human love is a reflection as a beautiful young woman, for it was in a number of women that he found intimations of this celestial perfect love.

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THE RELIGION OF LOVE OR SEEKING THE BELOVED

The Sufi mystic, poet and Islamic scholar Rumi 1207-1273 said his religion was love and every human heart was his temple. A love religion in a world and Cosmos he viewed as animated by love.

Love courses through the world’s arteries.

The heavens turn around about love.

And beyond:

Everyone in the 18,000 worlds is in love with something.

For Rumi the human heart was more than a fleshy blood-pumping organ, it was the ultimate centre of levels of consciousness. A view shared by the Ancient Egyptians who regarded it as the source of human wisdom, intelligence, thought, memory and emotions. The heart was the sole organ left in the body of a mummy. It was the key to the Afterlife for it testified to the worthiness of the deceased to enter the Otherworld, as their life was weighed against the feather of truth. Also, in Buddhism the seat of consciousness hadaya is the heart and one word, citta is used for heart-mind and its many dimensions. The seat of consciousness is a hotly debated subject in the West.

The Sufi heart was also the gateway to a greater divine Heart and it is the task of a human being to cleanse ‘polish’ their heart, so it eventually reflects the greater divine Heart, and create what Ibn-al-Arabi 1165-1240 scholar, mystic, poet, philosopher called the ‘isthmus’ – becoming a spiritual isthmus between Earth and Heaven leading to eventual God consciousness. This Sufi human heart is then the location of consciousness but also the soul (defined as the immortal spiritual or immaterial part and which Plato considered the ruler of the human entity including the body), the place where the Ancient Greeks Aristotle and Empedocles placed it.

So, for Rumi all human beings with their love/divine potential were the religious centre of the Religion of Love; and both Rumi and Ibn-al-Arabi came to worship in this temple of hearts.

For Ibn-al-Arabi it was when he encountered Nizam, beautiful, knowledgeable and pious, the daughter of a Persian scholar of Isphahan, and she became the inspiration for his sublime poetry ‘The Interpreter of Longing’, the beauties of her body as her soul, which was a garden of generosity. . . I (am) unable to express so much as a part of the emotion which my soul experienced and which the company of this young girl awakened in my heart, or of the generous love I felt . . .

  When Rumi encountered Shams al-Din of Tabriz he was overcome by the sight of him by thy face, I have never seen a face like this!. . . As soon as I saw my Beloved I saw my heart in infinite heartache. Everything is perishing but his face. . . Shams al-Din of Tabriz whose permanent abode is love.

These encounters had a powerful impact on their psyches and they were never the same again; an impact no overwhelming sexual attraction could elicit and was a union at a soul level. They found in a human Beloved, intimations of the Divine Beloved.

A similar powerful encounter was experienced by Dante Alighieri c1265 – 1321 poet, writer and philosopher, aged nine, attending a May day party in Florence, fell in love (which lasted until the end of his life) at first sight with Beatrice (a few months younger) and she became his muse and ideal woman of grace and beauty. The second and last time he saw her, years later, was when he passed her on the street and she attempted to speak to him; but overpowered by her nearness he fled away from her.  

A later countryman of his, the Catholic cleric, scholar and poet Petrarch 1304 – 1374 beheld Laura (she may have been Laura de Noves the wife of Count Hughes de Sade) in the year 1327 on the 6^th April at the first hour in the church of Santa Clara at Avignon and was consumed by a great love and abiding passion for her, which made him abandon the Church. She refused any contact with him because of her married state, his love unrequited he would often haunt the streets searching, lady, as far as possible, in others for the true, desired form of you.

Such encounters the Theosophist Mabel Collins asserted was the reason for our existence. She wrote in ‘Story of the Year’: the entire meaning of the earthly life consists only in the mutual contact between personalities and in the efforts of growth. Those things which are called events and circumstances and which are regarded as the real contents of life – are in reality only the conditions which make those contacts and this growth possible.

Indeed, no lover seeks union without his

Beloved seeking him

Rumi

All these meetings are intimately linked to our past lives. People have merely glimpsed someone passing them on the street or in a bus or car driving by and been profoundly affected by the encounter, out of all proportion to event itself. It is recognition of someone we know without knowing them (which is what the English Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo felt when she met the man destined to be her lama), who dwelling briefly in the same space can trigger a new leap in understanding within our psyche. The same is true of the encounters between Rumi and Shams al-Din, Ibn-al-Arabi and Nizam, Dante and Beatrice, Petrarch (how often he must have wished he had never caught sight of her face) and Laura. It is all part of the labyrinth of love encapsulated in many lifetimes – we are all Seekers after the Beloved (it is our innate natures to be so).

If you accept the true temple as that of the human heart (we are as Rumi said microcosm in form and macrocosm in meaning) then one can gladly kneel at one’s personal shrine dedicated to love and the journey of one’s eternal spirit through many guises and love epiphanies and despairs; ultimately leading to union with the Beloved and eventually the joyous realm of the Divine Beloved behind creation. This joy is very real, experienced by healers and mystics regardless of their religion sandosiam sundosiam eppotham joy always joy. The Tibetan monk seeks to overcome it, the Sufis, without resistance, reside in Mababau, Portuguese nuns called the blissful state muda ‘make happy’.  

We all belong in the same temple with its love potential – but the Earth is not love’s paradise; this is because love by its very nature is encoded with free-will, no-one can coerce another to love them, as the nineteenth century writer Stendhal discovered in his unrequited love for the Countess Mathilde Dembowska; which resulted in his writing an exposition of love in ‘On Love’ (shades of Ibn-al-Tabari). Love by creating the unloved allows for its opposite to emerge pride, selfishness, egotism and ultimately evil; one of the reasons given for Lucifer’s fall from grace was injured vanity when he believed God loved humanity more than he himself who was infinitely more worthy. This ‘vanity’ is evident in many serial killers, ineffectual men personally and socially who kill for the power it gives them over others.

Yes, there are many dark shrines in the temple of human hearts, but because love – the moral foundation for doing right – is the ultimate fabric of who we are, we possess a moral compass, which the German philosopher Kant (who said there is a basic sense of goodness in human beings) called an ‘inner court’ by which we judge our actions, in other words a conscience; an innate element in the structure of selfhood. The word conscience derives from Latin conscientia from the Greek suneidĕsis meaning ‘to know’, a term used widely throughout the Hellenic period. Demosthenes an orator and statesman frequently referred to this attribute of human consciousness, informing one Isocrates that he may be able to conceal his shameful actions from others, but not from his own heart. The Irishman Colin Howell who got away with double murder, confessed to his crimes after the accidental death of his son, which he saw as punishment for his sins.

Yes, men do terrible things despite this moral compass, but there tends to be a terrible psychological price to pay later, even those indoctrinated into ideologies that make them believe their actions are for the greater good.  The Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician Nikolai Bukharin stated he had seen terrible things during the revolutionary struggle but these could not compare to the ruthlessness and horrors produced by the Party’s drive to ‘socialisation’ which included a famine that ravaged Ukraine, the Northern Caucasus and Lower Volga claiming 6-7 million lives. These actions he contended were dehumanizing the Party and causing members to commit suicide or descend into insanity The same was true of SS men engaged in the Final Solution, the reason gas chambers were developed to murder Jews was because the mobile gas vans first used  were slower to kill the victims, whose shouts and screams caused many psychological problems among SS personal as did those engaged in similar actions; hospitalized SS men suffering nervous breakdowns said they were haunted by terrible nightmares – it is the nighttime, that claims tormented souls, the sleep hours the other ‘waking’ state when we commune with ourselves at a soul level, the nightmares messengers from the heart of our moral compass.

          Any man who love has not touched walks in darkness

               Plato

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                  REINCARNATION

  We make choices before birth, that determine the shape of our life to come (if we fulfil the purpose behind them is up to us); those decisions are moulded in the crucible of past lives. We are a living testament to what we have done before over many lifetimes – a soul testament, a spiritual lineage; the fact that I am writing this now and striving to bring cDt into being is because of my spiritual lineage.

As part of my spiritual evolution, I was made aware by my Guidance of a number of past lives – the purpose behind these revelations came much later; I know now my two Ancient Egyptian lives, my Trojan life and my twelfth century French life are intimately connected and part of a greater revelation and crucial in my understanding of my present role.

I have always demanded verification about the veracity of these episodes of anamnesis and have received it time and time again, the information I have been given tallying with historical facts of which I had no previous knowledge. I am always aware of Rudolf Steiner stricture that those who deal with hidden things must beware they are not swept away by the wings of fantasy. But when humanity finally begins to transition into Cosmohumanum, each person at a soul level will automatically know the threads of their past lives woven into their present one; this is why the psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke, the author of ‘Cosmic Consciousness and the Evolution of the Human Mind’, stated among the characteristics of such a higher state will be awareness of our immorality, a sense of eternal life.

  Remembering past lives, can explain so much about how one feels about things in a present existence, I know now why I love snow, I will watch a film because it has snow in it, why I prefer to wear white clothes, why I cherish ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ and the ‘Iliad’, why the tale of the Fisher King makes me feel strangely ‘at home’ warm and comforted.

Past life testimonies will help shape a true history of our species. Historians and archaeologists play an amazing role in our striving to understand ourselves. But often there is reluctance to change a point of view – no wonder, some careers have been ruined that way – even when evidence points to a different history. The largely discounted discovery of nicotine and cocaine (only found in South America) in a number of Ancient Egyptian mummies, including the priestess Henut Taui fl.ca. 1000 BC with the substances present in her hair follicles meaning she ingested them and discounts the possibility of contemporary external contamination.

My past lives memories have often contradicted the version of accepted history, in an Ancient Egyptian life spent during the unification of the Two Lands by Narmer (Menes), I saw Narmer standing in a chariot driven by dark chestnut animals which resembled sturdy horses of smaller stature than normal with flowing manes. I really couldn’t understand this vivid past life memory, for I knew the chariot and horse were first introduced into Egypt by the invading Hyksos (West Asian) people (although now it is considered to be a revolt by Hyksos living in Egypt) circa 1650BC and Narmer reigned circa 3100 or circa 3273 – 2987 BC.

The Hyksos (domestic and doubtless foreign compatriots) decisive use of war chariots in their victory was the catalyst that caused the Egyptians to adopt their use. But can one say they were never in use in Egypt before that time?

It’s clear the Ancient Egyptians knew of the military use of the chariot and horse before the era of the Hyksos ascendancy, in a tomb in a fourth dynasty circa 2613 – 2494 BC Ancient Egyptian tomb belonging to a Princess Nefertiabet was found a clay model of a chariot carrying warriors and driven by stylized horses. Having ‘seen’ Narmer driving one, I think they were sporadically used long before the Hyksos, obtained from a foreign source for the horse is not a native Egyptian animal.  

Trying to gain a full picture from the physical remains of the past is always problematic, presently with the Hyksos invasion in doubt the scarcity of horse bones at the Avaris site has been commented upon, but then it may be because they were used for fuel (animal bones have been used for such a purpose since the Lower Paleolithic 40000 BC – 10000 era) – particularly as the horse possessed no religious significance, try using cat bones (if any could be found) for fuel in Egypt!

Definitely past life memories, causes one to engage in mental gymnastics, I will just mention one more matter that caused me a great deal of thought about an historical figure I had never considered before – namely Moses.

Remembering an eighteenth dynasty Egyptian life during the time of Amenhotep III and his son Akhenaten I received the strong impression that when Moses and his followers departed (of their own free will) from Egypt, they had taken the body of Akhenaten with them into the Sinai; the Sinai I now realize has greater significance than I had imagined, in fact up to that point it had never crossed my mind.

Before I go further, I have to address the identification of the mummy in a sarcophagus in the tomb KV55 (I am positive it is Smenkhkare) as being that of Akhenaton. This identification is disputed, the pattern of fused and unfused epiphyses (caps at the ends of growing bones) of the skeletal remains indicates a much younger man, aged from 20 to 23 years (an assessment held since its discovery in 1907), than Akhenaton would have been at his death   

Many have written about Moses, from Sigmund Freud to Ahmed Osman and Graham Phillips among others, including many scholars and all have highlighted how the account in the Bible has been rewritten at some stage by priests. So, there is much that is hidden, obscured in the events chronicled.

Believing Moses was instrumental in removing Akhenaton’s body from Egypt I would agree with Freud, Moses or Osarseph (according to Manetho) was an Egyptian (he bears an Egyptian name), a royal high-priest at On (or Heliopolis) the centre of sun worship. One can imagine he was a fanatical follower of the new religion of the Aten. Through whatever circumstances, which may include marriage to an Egyptian Israelite woman or as Freud thought he may have been at one time the governor of the border province of Goshen where a number Semitic tribes had settled; he gathered around him a large group of Egyptian Israelite converts to the new religion. I feel there must have been Egyptians amongst the group, but I imagine for most Egyptians the religion they had grown up with, their beloved Osiris, Isis and Horus offering them eternal life and ensuring the continued state of Maat truth and justice in the land, aligned and in harmony with heavenly forces, had a powerful hold on their psyches and this is why the religion of the Aten attracted mainly non-Egyptians.

 Akhenaton’s mismanagement of religious and pharaonic affairs eventually doomed his new faith to failure, and during the chaos, occasioned by his lack of discernment of the forces arranged against him, he died.

By whatever means, during those days of upheaval, doubtless aided by his royal connections Moses, realizing the practise of his religion was no longer possible in Egypt, managed to gain possession of Akhenaton’s body. For Moses the body was holy indeed, for Akhenaten presented himself as the incarnation of Shu the first-born of the sun god who was androgynous, this is why representations of him had male and female attributes. Taking the body with them also saved it from mutilation at the hands of the Amun Priesthood; a mutilation the KV55 mummy was subjected to, with the express purpose of denying the deceased entry into eternal life.

It is generally accepted that Moses, who inspired a people to follow a new religion and seek a new life was betrayed, murdered during a power struggle amongst his Israelite followers; nevertheless, Egyptian monotheism became cemented in Israelite religious beliefs, surviving a later merging with the desert god of volcanos Yahweh.

For the majority of people, death means one is swallowed up by an empty black void, that’s it, the END; all someone has loved, achieved, experienced is erased as if they never existed.

Ironically, the truth is, we need death and sleep la petit mort (the small death) because we are eternal spiritual beings. When we sleep our astral body and ego roam in the world we lived in before we possessed a physical body. A home where, according to our level of spiritual development, we can commune with the formative forces, the thought patterns from the great mind behind our existence and the Cosmos. This period immersed and learning in the greater reality which moulds our beings is as an important component of our life as our waking state. How often have people woken up (including myself) possessed with an understanding about something or the solution of a problem, many inventions have been produced with the help of dreams; for instance, the man who created the sewing machine.

 Death, the sleep if you like from which you don’t wake up, is vitally important for our eternal selves, death isn’t the end but a new beginning, one of a long line of beginnings in the round of death and rebirth; through our various incarnations whereby we spiritually grow and learn; in our ultimate journey back to the divine. Spirits between physical death and rebirth, nearer the celestial hierarchies and possessing a greater overview of cosmic events – play an important, but presently unrecognized, part in human destiny. Rudolf Steiner indicated that in the future when humanity has achieved cosmic consciousness a bridge will be built between realms and these hidden influences will be evident.

THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY, LONGEVITY, cDt and REJUVENATION

For human beings aging has always been a fraught matter, the Russian writer Turgenev considered it the greatest vice to be more than fifty-five years old. Remedies to halt the aging clock have been sought since earliest times.

In the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh c.2100 BC, Gilgamesh king of Uruk afraid of death after his friend Enkidu died, journeys in search of the immortality of the gods, finally meets the Sumerian Noah who tells him he can’t achieve immortality but gives him the location, at the bottom of the sea, of a plant (in Greek mythology a mortal fisherman Glaucus ingests a magical herb and becomes a sea-god) of rejuvenation.

The first Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang 259-210 BC ordered a search of his kingdom for an elixir that could confer upon him immortal life.

In the legends of Alexander the Great he crosses a land of darkness hoping to discover the Fountain of Youth. The Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon, first governor of Porto Rico, in 1513 fruitlessly journeyed to Florida on the same quest.

Western alchemy sought to create the philosopher’s stone that turned base metals into gold and from it could be distilled an elixir of life that would confer immortality. Chinese alchemy was focused primarily on finding the elixir ingesting the divine cinnabar will make lifespan inexhaustible. You will last as long as heaven and earth . . . Ko Hong (or Ko Hung) 283-342AD. The divine cinnabar would have been welcomed by the father of the renowned Italian poet Petrarch who at the age of fifty, upon finding a solitary grey hair roused the neighbourhood with his lamentations.

Charles Paul Brown, didn’t go in search of immortality, he experienced a vision while studying to be a gospel preacher and after three months being bed-ridden, rose up and declared he was immortal through ‘cellular awakening’ and in 1982 founded the Eternal Flame Foundation. Unfortunately, he wasn’t immortal and died aged 79 years from complications from Parkinsons and heart disease.

Now, the great hope for positive longevity rests in scientific research into gene therapy, strides forward in the field with potential anti-aging benefits, have unfortunately produced companies (as detailed in Frank Swain’s audible podcast ‘Buying time’) operating in the financially profitable gene therapy field, promising results not supported by the science; for instance, promoting incorrectly that the artificial lengthening of telomeres (protecting genetic structures at the end of chromosomes composing DNA which shortens with age) is the equivalent of reversing our biological clock.

I now come to cDt and rejuvenation.

I have explained in the post ‘Origins of cDt’ that the crystal device ‘fell’ into my mental lap with the understanding I had designed the original in Atlantis, upon which this present model is based. One of the things I knew intuitively about the crystal device was that it possessed the power to rejuvenate, I must say I initially found this ability difficult to understand and accept. I already knew about writings on Atlantis based on the life-readings of Edgar Cayce and so I turned to this source to see if I could gain greater understanding of my device and its rejuvenating power.

The American Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), world-renowned as the ‘sleeping prophet’ is considered the greatest psychic of the twentieth-century, in a trance he would give readings: diagnosing health conditions, outlining natural remedies, life-readings that encompassed a person’s past lives and their karmic implications for the present one. The past lives detailed were often spent on the lost continent and civilization of Atlantis which provides a fount of knowledge about the sunken world. When questioned about the source of the readings, he said it was the inquirer’s subconscious and the Great Mind behind the Universe. These life readings produced in a trance state, were contrary to his waking self, primarily governed by his strong Christian faith, he also held no belief in reincarnation or the lost continent.

Crystal technology was an important component of the Atlantean world, giant crystals amplified solar, stellar radiation – sometimes linked to the Earth’s internal dynamics (which may have crystal features, according to scientists from Tokyo Institute of Technology, looking into what powers the Earth’s magnetic core; they suggest crystallization of silicon and oxygen in the outer core may play a role) – they also stored this energy in crystals, which then powered their land, air, underwater, space craft, a guidance system for ships at sea and visual audio networks.

The Atlanteans ability to store energy in crystals, is one of the present goals of scientific research, which indicates they chose crystals because they were and are an ideal medium for the job. In ‘Science Daily’ January 4^th 2016 edition there was a report of a collaboration between scientists from Kansas State University and Naval Laboratory and ones from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology researching the use of crystals for electromagnetic radiation storage. Using a specially created optically thick anisotropic (crystal lattice possessing variations of physical properties along different molecular axes) hexagonal boron nitride crystal they discovered, in the mid-infrared range of radiation, the crystal absorbed a remarkable 99.9% of the energy waves.

According to the life-readings the rays of a crystal eradicated ‘burned’ disease states within the human body, often provoking a general rejuvenation. This can be compared to present day use of radiation therapy for cancer, using high energy beams such as X-rays and photons (doubtless the Atlantean version did not damage the immune system). These high energy beams are found in solar radiation which the Atlantean crystals amplified and stored. They also used crystal devices in conjunction with lower forms of electrical vibration specifically for rejuvenation.

 Rudolf Steiner reveals the physical forms of the mineral kingdom on Earth, which obviously includes crystals, are merely inanimate receptacles whose true ‘life’ is streaming in from outside; animating life-streams of the planets, constantly stimulated by the sun and flowing through the solar hierarchies the influences of the Spirits of Wisdom. He drew a simple diagram: a sphere surrounded by six arrows pointing towards it, to illustrate the mineral kingdom, crystals, exists through its attribute of absorbing, assimilating external celestial, cosmic forces; and it is these forces, Rudolf Steiner says, which holds the mineral kingdom together.

The Atlanteans understood this true nature of crystals, that they are cosmic multidimensional forms, capable of channelling celestial, solar regenerative, rejuvenating energies aligned with the wise design of the Cosmos. In the Atlantean crystal device cDt the same process can be undertaken as in that past age, but in our own time its application will be shaped by the evolving consciousness of the individual; for the Atlanteans were an evolved race with greater personal powers, consciousness and an intimate understanding of the workings of the Cosmos and their place in it; and we are just beginning to be Cosmohumanum.

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THE COSMOS AT OUR FINGERTIPS

I have written about humanity’s destiny to evolve their consciousness to a cosmic level. But what is the nature of our Cosmos and how will we align to it?

Religious and scientific cosmology agree on one point: the element fire is at the heart of the manifested Universe.

In ancient thinking the highest Heaven was a place of fire the Empyrean, from the Greek empyros meaning ‘in or on fire’. In the Hebrew Bible God is described as fire Deuteronomy 4:24 The Lord your God is a raging fire Hebrews 12:28-29 Our God is a consuming fire. The highest echelon of angels, the Seraphim meaning ‘the burning ones’ or ‘angels of fire’ reside in the divine presence a consuming fire of love; a love which enflames their beings radiating down the angelic hierarchies. This fiery God began creation, in a formless, empty darkness, by saying ‘Let there be light’, piercing the darkness with his radiant presence.

Philolaus c.470-c.385 BC, a student of Pythagorean (Pythagoras c.570-c.500-490 was the first to coin the word Kosmos viewing the Universe as a rational, unified whole) teachings in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics and astronomy, posited a central fire in the middle of the creation.  Today’s science, has verified everything happened with a very hot big bang, in fact this beginning involving great heat is essential to produce a Universe that is as supremely biofriendly as ours. The God of the Hebrew Bible beginning creation with light, is also scientifically understandable when considering Einstein’s assertion that light and matter are just aspects of the same thing; a fact verified in 2021 when scientists created matter from light, using the RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) at the US Department of Energy national laboratory in Brookhaven, by colliding very energetic photons. Everything is light (even our DNA and water absorb photons).

This divine fire in secular and religious writings worldwide is equated with Love. In the Hindu sacred text Kanda Guru Kavasa oh holy great flame. . . the thing which is everywhere is only Love. . . Bahá’ĭ faith let thy face be bright with the fire of God’s love. In Islam, Ibn Sĭnā identifies Love as the perpetual divine force within the emanating structure of the Universe, Mullā Sadras maintains without love the creation of the Cosmos could not have been possible. 

 This love/fire at the heart of the macrocosm manifests in the microcosm of our lives. On the Sufi mystical path to union with the divine, love is fire. St John of the Cross described God and his love burning within O living flame of love. St. Hildegard of Bingen I am the fiery life of the essences of God. St. Francis de Sales When we repent fully, God places his sacred fire in our heart. In romantic erotic love another type of fire burns, the Song of Solomon 8:6 Place me like a seal over your heart. . . for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like a mighty fire. Edmund Spenser . . . my hot desire. . .  my exceeding heat is not allayed by her heart frozen cold, but I burn much more in boiling sweat . . . and feel my flames augmented manifold. Poet Frederick Parker when lips taste fire in a hungry kiss.

Do we humans have an innate understanding of the metaphysical nature of fire when we endow light with three qualities? The ‘light’ of enlightenment that irradiates the soul with mystical union with the Divine, symbolized by the halo of light adorning the head of a saint; people aware of supersensible spiritual realities around us often speak of working with the light, or calling on the powerful forces of light for aid and also acknowledge warfare is ongoing on other planes between the light and the dark to safeguard the spiritual heritage of humanity. Then there is the ‘light’ of reason that illuminates the mind with the starburst of new ideas P. D. Ouspensky . . . the birth of ideas, is the light which comes from love, then this light is a great fire an intellectual furnace capable of manifesting a creation of extreme complexity from the biofriendly solar system to human DNA – the great fire is a great mind. Thirdly the mundane light that enables life to exist, the love element is evident in our sun who holds us and our solar system in the protective embrace of its solar winds which reaches to the outer region of Pluto before meeting the interstellar medium; creating a great bubble called the heliosphere – a shield protecting the planets from galactic cosmic radiation.

By its very nature a Cosmos originating in a love/light fabric has free-will encoded in it. If we look at the lowest expression of the microcosm, an atom, there is a free-will dance of opposites between the negatively charged electrons (the primary carriers of electricity in solids) outside the nucleus being constantly attracted to the nucleus of protons and neutrons; pulling closer, but its own kinetic energy sending it flying away. A dance for completion, the same engaged in by human beings. In Plato’s philosophical text ‘Symposium’ love is described as being . . .born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature. And this love, an expression of free-will, can’t be forced, there is no tyranny strong enough to make someone love someone else when in their heart they do not.

Love with its free-will code and dance of opposites towards completion produces another element as Rudolf Steiner stated The cosmos has its source and origin in love egotism became the natural off-shoot of love. Together with selfishness evil came into the world, it had to be so because without the evil man could not lay hold of the good. We only truly know the light – of reason, of the divine, of the sun – when it chases away the dark. The conflict between the light and dark within us produces an alchemy of higher light, a nature imbued with an understanding of its true love potential through battling its chaotic antithesis – as gold is refined in a crucible and purged of impurities. Paul Kocher in ‘Master of Middle-Earth. The Achievement of J. R. R. Tolkien’ writes of how evil producing good is woven into J. R. R. Tolkien’s ‘Lord of Rings’ throughout there is reference to a hidden moral design working behind events, in which evil deeds produce a greater good and even hatred hurts itself; if the Hobbits Pippin and Merry hadn’t been kidnapped by evil Orcs and managed to escape into Fangorn Forest the Ents would never have been roused to fight against the malevolent machinations of Saruman; if Gandalf hadn’t died fighting the monstrous Balrog he would never have been taken to Lorien to receive healing from the Elves and emerge as Gandalf the White strong in purpose and wisdom without whom the fight against the darkness would have failed.

A darkness that was created in the same divine fire and therefore the ultimate dark place hell, in Christian theology is depicted as a fiery place, where sinful lost human souls are boiled in cauldrons fed by perpetual fire and demons live in a fiery pit, presided over by the fiery presence of the Devil. The fire of divine love, the striving towards communion, completion whether with God or a human being, becomes the all-consuming destructive fire of unbridled lust, obsession, rage and violence, blinding reason, which in all its forms is about selfish domination.

Our lives are like a refining fire in which we have the opportunity to realize our love/light essential being or not, an essential being intimately a part of the Cosmos, made of the same light stuff; cosmic consciousness is our birth-right When the whole race shall have attained to cosmic consciousness our idea of God shall be realized in man Balzac.

A small task, channel the cosmic love/light, imagine it flowing through the centres of your palms and direct its innate healing power over your body, also attune your mind and heart (as the Ancient Egyptians and the Tibetans believe the heart is the centre of consciousness, the brain is the relay system) to its healing rays. The Cosmos is at your fingertips.

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A NEW WAY OF BEING

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Today there are strong trends towards enhancing the human condition physically and mentally to a level often referred to as ‘superhuman’ (including enjoying longevity without the signs of aging). Physically achieved through the use of supplements: vitamins, minerals, botanicals or herbals, specific ‘superfoods’ diets, ozone therapy, detoxification regimes, gene therapy, crystals. Mentally through positive thinking regimes that can attract (becoming magnetic), manifest what the practitioner wants.

This trend towards being physically superhuman has created a wellness industry, which generates a great deal of capital and promises amazing benefits.

The purported benefits of taking vitamin and mineral supplements are said to be manifold and include promoting healthy aging, reducing anxiety and stress, boosting cardiovascular health, supporting the immune system, aiding brain function. Certain supplements are said to banish adrenal (glands) fatigue and leaky gut. A fat enhanced coffee will not only activate untapped brain energy but make you smarter (perhaps in every classroom there should be a coffee machine). A diet promoted as helping to age backwards and perhaps live forever. A crystal facial roller is said to create a new sense of being, aid bodily detox and promote a connection to the universe. Energy healing stickers can balance the energy frequency of our bodies. A perfume improves memory, combat colds and work like an antibiotic. Detoxification regimes said to create an inner pristine body, with enhanced immunity, optimal cellular growth, a support for liver function. Rectal ozone therapy said to increase the amount of oxygen in the body, kill bacteria, parasites, viruses, and yeast, boosting immune system and promoting healing through cell regeneration.

The teachings of manifesting your innermost desires, of attracting abundance because you are worth it is an equally powerful component within the wellness industry, with a multitude of enablers displaying the abundant material goods, they have received by the power of their ability to manifest. The findings of epigenetics are highlighted to support these claims.

Epigenetics is the study of the modification of gene expression (not alteration of the genetic code or genome). The ‘epi’ is from the Greek meaning over, outside of, around. It has been demonstrated that in humans social experiences create epigenetic changes in the transcription of specific genes, achieved by a set of chemical tags attaching itself to the genome – either boosting or inhibiting gene expression. Research has shown childhood trauma can induce epigenetic changes (and can be inherited by the next generation) associated with PTSD (posttraumatic stress syndrome), anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addiction, aggression, mental disorders, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In a famous experiment with rats, new born pups denied the attention of their mother (primarily licking) showed epigenetic changes to genes managing stress which were tagged and switched off. I would add to this evidence the placebo effect.

A placebo is a fake pill or injection which has no therapeutic value. In clinical trials for new drugs, when members of the group are secretly given either a placebo or the real thing, not only do both groups exhibit the same projected results but also the predicted possible side-effects (wonderful what we humans can achieve). Even the colour of the placebo medicine is known to effect results, for instance blue is better than pink for anxiety. Pace-makers not switched on have been known to improve symptoms. Those suffering from pain have reported up to 60% reduction in severity after a placebo was given. People suffering from depression, upon receiving a placebo injection said to improve their mood exhibited a lessening of symptoms, with scans revealing increased brain activity in those areas linked to emotion and stress management.

The reasoning behind the manifestation business is, if we can mould our bodies and experiences through the power of mind, why can’t that mind manifest exactly what it wants; once it perceives the goal as a tangible reality?

The image generated by the wellness industry is of an aided and boosted to the hilt superbody, pristine inside and out, housing a superbrain capable of imposing its longings upon a malleable universe, a universe described as positive, responding to, rewarding the mental drive to manifest like a massive genie-out-of-the-bottle ready to grant every wish.

Unfortunately, evidence to support the physical benefits of much that is on offer is lacking. John Hopkins Medicine recently reviewed multiple researches into the benefits of vitamin and mineral supplements and discovered there were none. Scientists assert there is no way for the body to detox more, it (a complex amazing ‘machine’) has its own detoxification system: skin, lungs, liver, kidneys. Ozone has been declared by the US food and drug association to be dangerous and having no proven medical application. There is no medical proof for the existence of adrenal fatigue and leaky gut.

The evidence of epigenetics and the placebo demonstrates our thinking has the power over what we physically manifest and experience, positive practices such as Yoga, Tai Chi, and meditation have been linked to cellular chemical changes which, among others, improves the immune system, metabolism, and stress-response pathways; but from this it is a great step to reason that a continual positive mentality can bring into existence the reality we desire (usually around abundance). In the book ‘The Gospel of Wellness’ by Rina Raphael one woman suffering from a painful medical condition, began a series of instructions by a manifestation expert hoping to combat her symptoms, during one session upon confessing the amount of physical pain she was experiencing, was told to banish negative thoughts, she was not sick; except she was and continued to be so. Within this field failure to achieve manifestation goals is attributed to lack of application of the practitioner, not to the unrealistic goals set by the instructor.

Although there are many genuine practitioners and good nutrition is essential for physical and mental health as is a positive mental outlook, the general view is the burgeoning wellness industry and its highly disputed benefits are mainly driven by exploitation of people’s desire for a better life (for present society does tend to be antithetical to happiness) with false promises for the sake of money.

But behind this complicated tapestry of good and bad intentions, I would say there is something profound going on; this drive to be superhuman is arising under the influences, the energies, of the emerging new Aquarian Age; during which humanity will evolve to a higher level of consciousness and physical being, a cosmic one – this is why I like to call the new humanity cosmohumanum. A new consciousness embodying an understanding of our composite, multi-dimensional natures within the framework of which true mastery over our physical (including longevity), mental and spiritual health can be attained; allied to an awareness of the influences exerted upon us and our world through our intimate connection with the multi-dimensional Earth and Cosmos beyond. An understanding that was possessed by earlier ages, from Ancient Egypt to the South American civilizations – all understood that the heavens and our existence are a part of the same intricately worked tapestry of wondrous dimensions. Rudolf Steiner said to be fully human is to be aware of the supersensible worlds around us.

 It really is time to stop thinking we are purely physical beings, a good example of this not being the case is the discovery of L-fields by Harold Saxton Burr, PhD, E.K. Hunt Professor Emeritus Anatomy Yale University School of Medicine who, among other things, contributed to the electrical detection of cancer (all cancer cells have a negative surface charge).

He published in 1972 ‘Blueprint of Immortality. The Electric Patterns of Life’ about his nearly fifty-year odyssey, chronicling the discovery and exploration of the L-fields in humans, animals and trees; employing a vacuum (the gas removed) tube voltmeter VTM, which has great sensitivity, amplifying and thereby detecting weak signals, connected to electrodes attached to the subject, in the case of humans (nothing to do with the alternating electrical currents of the heart and brain), one on the forehead another on chest or hands, or both index fingers dipped in a bowl of saline solution.

Testing an unfertilized Salamander egg, he realized the longitudinal axis of the developing nervous system was already established. This was an astonishing discovery because such a critical development is linked to fertilization. Its pre-existence led him to conclude the electrodynamic template was already in place (confirmed by further research), that would shape the arrangement of molecules and cells producing a salamander embryo and must be directly connected to the physical genetic make-up of the egg. This is an interesting observation and may offer a true explanation of the epigenetic experiment that produced Dolly the sheep. 

Epigeneticists were interested in conducting experiments to ascertain if the genome was conserved during cell differentiation. For instance, the nucleus of a Xenopus frog’s unfertilized egg was removed and replaced with a somatic (having undergone cell differentiation, maturing as to form and function) cell – which resulted in the birth of normal frogs indicating the genome had been conserved.

In the late 1990’s, at the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh, a novel epigenetic experiment was conducted, in which the nucleus of an unfertilized sheep egg was replaced with a somatic cell taken from a sheep mammary gland. This hybrid cell was then stimulated to divide by electrical shock, the resulting blastocyst (the cellular mass from which an embryo is formed) was then transplanted into a surrogate mother sheep, which successfully brought Dolly, a normal sheep not a massive mammary gland, to full-term. This was said to prove that a cell taken from specific part of the body could produce a whole individual.

But the unseen mechanism in the experiment would have been the L-fields, attached to the unfertilized frog egg and sheep egg, they would have maintained the fundamental template for how the embryos developed.

Harold Saxton Burr also discovered that the state of the human mind determined the state of the field, depressed people had high voltage and happy ones low. He believed the L-fields could be used as a diagnostic tool assessing emerging emotional mental instability and giving aid before a crisis was reached. Again, it is in the field of epigenetics that his research is highly relevant.

As Harold Saxon Burr succinctly commented on the effect of mental states on the L-fields: An idea is just as valid a stimulus to the nervous system as a kick in the teeth. Thought is energy and working within the L-field creates a new matrix from which a different physical state emerges.

So, with this scientific evidence of a subtle energy regulating field beyond the physical, is it not then easier to accept that this lower field is connected to higher ones? We breathe in oxygen and prana(the vital life force) which also enters through the spleen), the first sustaining the physical body the other the etheric nearest to the physical body (which one can equate with the L-fields) in which it flows through channels connected to the energy centres of the chakras – the name from Sanskrit meaning ‘wheel’ – spinning discs which regulate and maintain the living system (as much as the heart maintains the physical). The chakras are energetically connected to organs, nerves and the endocrine system, which produces, distributes, regulates hormones; so, the etheric or L-fields is very much involved in physical well-being, which Harold Saxton Burr’s research proves to be the case.

Moving away from the etheric is to encounter the multi-dimensional reality of the human entity, the astral body that can project, fly – outside time – from the confines of the seven bodies, while attached to a silver cord mimicking the umbilical cord attaching the foetus to the placenta. The journeys of the astral body feed our dreams and our mental body – the true site of mind (the brain is the physical receiver) which also has seven states: conscious, preconscious, subconscious, unconscious, collective unconscious. Beyond the mental we encounter our eternal spirit expressed as soul in an incarnation, intimately bound to the cosmos and higher spiritual realms.

Harold Saxton Burr’s discovery of the regulating L-fields behind physical life led him to the conclusion The Universe in which we find ourselves and from which we cannot be separated is a place of Law and Order. It is not an accident, nor chaos. It is organized and maintained by an Electrodynamic Field capable of determining the position and movement of all charged particles.

A place of Law and Order that is no accident. So, we are no accident the Universe is no accident it is part of a greater design; this is the conclusion reached by other scientists.

Nobel Laureate molecular biologist, biophysicist and neuroscientist Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the helical structure of the DNA molecule, when considering life as the result of a chance emergence from a cosmic ‘soup’, concluded that if the whole universe was composed of this ‘soup’ there is still an outrageously small chance human life would so evolve. Nobel Laureate and physical chemist Ilya Prigogine lessened the odds: The statistical probability that organic structure and the most harmonized reactions that typify living organisms

         would be generated by accident is zero.

Francis Crick was forced to consider the possibility that life might be the product of directed panspermia – the deliberate transport of microorganisms (with the necessary template to organize the 2000 enzymes found in DNA) to Earth by an extra-terrestrial civilization.

The astronomer Fred Hoyle concluded Rather than accept a probability less than 1 in 10₄₀₀₀₀ of life having arisen through the ‘blind’ forces of nature, it seems better to suppose that the origin of life was a deliberate intellectual act.

Albert Einstein wrote of the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared to it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

So, it is not outrageous to assert we are the product of a Cosmic Mind (some would call God, but I prefer the Divine Ground of All-Being), we and nature are a microcosm a reflection of a macrocosm, as it is expressed in Hermetic literature: as above so below, as below so above. In the future this truth will become self-evident when we begin to live in our multi-dimensional reality.

Can one believe that this great intelligent construct of which we are a part can be the playground of random wilful desires to manifest what we want (without considering what we need) abundance and the fulfilment of every desire? When viewed from a soul level the life problems we encounter are understood to be part of our soul journey, the Earth has winters and so do we, we should love our winters for they teach us a lot.

One of the most beautiful poems in the English language ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ begins in winter and ends in winter. Gawain is challenged on New Year’s Day to strike a blow at the exposed neck of the Green Knight on the condition the blow can be later reciprocated, Gawain decapitates the Green Knight, but miraculously the knight arises, picks up his head and informs Gawain to journey to the Green Chapel for next New Year’s Day so he can return the blow.

Imagine waiting a year knowing the beauties of the changing seasons he was witnessing would be his last. He departs from Camelot in harsh winter, chances upon a castle where he is welcomed and informed by its lord, he can show him the way to the Green Chapel which is not far away, so he passes three days in the castle before setting out. During that time, he is sorely tested by the lord’s wife attempting to seduce him and betray his honour as a knight and avowed practitioner of courtly love, a steadfast love which the lady’s erotic enticements threatens to overpower; but he resists while safeguarding her feelings from any hurt. At the last she offers him a girdle that will protect him from the death blow that is to come, tempted he takes it and wraps it around his person.

He journeys to confront the Green Knight. Kneeling with his neck exposed he awaits the death blow, but flinches away from it at the last moment, despairing of his cowardliness he exposes his neck again and does not flinch when the blow falls; but it only grazes his neck. The Green Knight reveals himself to be the lord of the castle, who says the whole escapade was devised by the sorceress Morgan le Fey and he himself had instructed his wife to attempt to seduce him, he knows Gawain wears her magic girdle that can protect him from harm. Gawain disgusted with himself for his cowardice throws the girdle away, but the Green Knight returns it to him and Gawain vows to wear it always as a mark of his shame. In that winter Gawain was challenged and discovered himself, was humbled by his flaws and grew in self-understanding. In that winter he was reborn.

Unless we are a Gawain, we will never be a Perceval and find the Holy Grail.

As we evolve our awareness of being multi-dimensional beings, so will we also evolve a new relationship with the Earth and its multi-dimensional nature, recognizing the role of navel sites NS in our existence. As I previously explained earlier ages recognized there were natural interdimensional portals on the Earth, which were regarded as spiritual access points connecting the Earth to the Underworld and the Heavens. One word for them was navel site NS, the interdimensional connection symbolically imagined as an umbilical cord connecting Earth–Underworld to the placenta-like greater power of the Cosmos. The reason I am publishing online my MS ‘Ancient Secrets and the Secret Teachings of Jesus’, is because it shows how NS has played an important part in human history down through the ages, and right now is the time to become aware once again of the role they play.

The strange phenomena happening on Skinwalker Ranch Utah and Stardust and Bradshaw ranches Arizona can be explained when they are regarded as NS.

As I previously explained NS are found near water sources and therefore groundwater rich. Skinwalker Ranch sits in the Unita Basin fed by creeks and rivers, flowing from the north flanking Unita Mountains. Stardust and Bradshaw Ranches Arizona, are sites of phenomena similar to Skinwalker. Stardust sits in the Rainbow Valley groundwater basin replenished by streams and rainfall from adjacent mountains. Bradshaw Ranch – previously named Bitter Creek – sits in the Verde Valley, fed by springs and the Verde River, part of the Verde Valley Groundwater basin which extends to the Colorado Plateaus. Bradshaw sits primarily on sandy limestone which is highly permeable and a good aquifer (rock that contains water) and its original name Bitter Creek would derive from water there being high in dissolved solids, which has a bitter taste. 

The ancient model of an NS has great value in understanding what is going on at sites like Skinwalker, Stardust and Bradshaw ranches. The cosmic gateway explains the prevalence of UAPs at Skinwalker, the UAPs small grey aliens at Stardust, UAPs and small tan aliens at Bradshaw. And going farther afield the giant space-suited ones and UAPs at Ripperston Farm in Wales, built on the site of a long barrow in an area fed by numerous springs. At Pentyrch Wales where an underground stream Ffynnon Catwy flows, the site of a medieval monastery and ‘magic’ well, a massive pyramid-shaped craft appeared out of thin air. Considering many Irish barrows were situated on NS, there is the folktale about a king of the Sidhe Faerie folk said to inhabit Ireland’s barrows, named Manann, who rode a self-navigating flying boat, that sometimes appeared as a wheel.

At the entrance to the ancient Underworld (possessing many rivers and only accessible by boat), congregated monstrous creatures, such as the hellhound Cerberus, the demon of rotting corpses Eurynomus, Empusa drinkers of human blood which are reflected in the strange creatures seen at Skinwalker and Stardust (there were no sightings at Bradshaw, although a man allowed to live in an old building on the site by the previous owner, said his task was to kill monsters). At Skinwalker a large shapeshifting creature with piercing red eyes, impervious to bullets, was spotted, wolfmen followed home those investigating the ranch. Cattle mutilations occurred at Skinwalker and Stardust (where animals were killed in bizarre ways: a horse eviscerated with no sign of blood or gore, as was the case of a flattened dog). Irish mythology connects cows and water, called aquatic because they were born out of the flood of water after a great serpent was slain and recognized by triple mutilations to ribs, eyes and leg.  At Bradshaw there were sightings of large hairy sasquatch-like creature, a five-foot tall dinosaur-like bipedal lizard with a long tail. Amongst American Indians there is the belief, sasquatch, dog and wolf men and other such strange creatures, use freshwater springs as portals between the spirit and human worlds.

 As befits an entrance to the Underworld, there’s evidence of evil, malignant human dead and the demonic manifesting at such sites. The poltergeist activity at Skinwalker and Stardust, the dreadful case of a truly evil poltergeist at Haverfordwest in Wales, which bears all the hallmarks of a typical navel site, as does the location of a farmhouse near Rush City Minnesota, a knee-high stream flowing through its backyard, surrounded by swampy land, sitting in the Rush River Valley; the scene of a malignant Acheri Demon haunting (chronicled by Corker Johnston). The local American Indians, unlike the rest of the population, were well-aware the Acheri Demon existed in that locale. One of the photographs taken in the farmhouse caught the demonic entity on film. It is the same type of demonic face found in medieval depictions and again highlights how much understanding has been lost (except in this case amongst the native Americans) about what shapes our world. The site witnessed the 1935 murder of Evelyn Nelson and her six children, the suspect her husband, was never apprehended. Was he overshadowed by the demonic entity? There, is a growing group of psychiatrists, including Dr Wilson Van Dusen and Jerry Marzinsky Ba M.Ed,  who are concluding that schizophrenic voices which often goad the afflicted to violent and barbaric acts, may originate in overshadowing by disincarnate malignant humans or the demonic.

The ancient model of the Underworld, had many levels some nearer to higher spiritual realms, non-malignant souls and great souls of the dead, and would account for why NS was regarded as spiritual access points. But present evidence at NS, ties in with what Linda Bradshaw, observed: among the great numbers of otherworldly beings, she believed used the portal on the ranch, it was rare to find compassionate individuals of Light. I now think the NS religious edifices, in the past used as active places of worship, somehow regulated what manifested into our world.

Here we are at the most amazing turning point in our history!

cDt – a multi-dimensional space incorporating the energies of a NS – is one way to bring into being the new paradigm in human and Earth existence. It will benefit the numerous attendees that will use the facility, I hope eventually by donation; make no mistake about it cDt it is not a money-making venture; the motivation behind it is pure, it will serve everyone, including those with learning disabilities and limited mobility. cDt by existing will also benefit the Earth – our home (what other species tries to destroy their own habitat?)

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