ORIGINS OF THE FLOOD STORIES

ORIGINS OF THE FLOOD STORIES 

Flood stories are found in every civilization across the globe, and there is much confusion connected with their meaning. Was it a real flood? Was it really worldwide? Was it a story with w deeper Truth contained beneath the surface story? They often refer to giants or ancient humanities, Divine incarnations which point extremely far back in time ... back to pre-history.

Throughout the area of Egypt/Kemet, in ancient times the Nile Delta became flooded. It was a great tragedy that happened every year. This great flood would come and wash away the Eyptian world. The people of these times called these waters "The Waters of Chaos," due simply to the fact that the flooding was horrible, and highly destructive. 

But, they also brought new Life. Because without The Waters of Chaos returning on an annual basis, the deserts would be totally dry and nothing would ever grow. Obviously, if nothing grew, famine would be eminent and evident. They discovered over the course of time that Chaos was indeed a blessing that actually brought new Life to the valley. 

Spring would be a beautiful time in Egypt due to the waters of chaos bringing fresh nutrients for plants and food to grow. The people of the Nile Valley would then celebrate the coming of the the Waters of Chaos, for they soon learned that with them, they would bring the renewal of Life that was so desperately needed for their survival. 

They called this celebration in Egypt ... "THE ARGHA NOA." Not the ARK (ARCH) OF NOAH .... but ARGHA NOA. The "Argha Noa" was the coming of the great flood that washed away the old world and brought new Life ... and for the people of Egypt ... a rebirth - "Born Again." The moon was always in the lower quarter, this quarter of the moon became known as THE ARGHA NOA or THE WET MOON, often resembling an arch in the sky. Notice the resemblance to the YIN AND YANG of Life when looking at it's symbol? The light and the dark, as observed since the earliest civilizations. The duality of ONE. This is the Law of Polarity. Two opposites of one thing. Hot and cold, day and night, heavy and light, etc. 

The Esoteric science describes an inner spiritual continuity of being, combined with catastrophisim, tieing many sources of ancient Wisdom and history. The ancients knew very well what they studied, and perhaps better than those of more recent modern times. They looked to astronomy, geognosy, and cosmography. They knew that the Earth and its behaviour has been altered more than once since the primitive state of existence.

Geognosy comes from a combination of two Greek words. The word "Gaia" means Earth, and "gnosis" means "knowing" or knowledge. I'm early myth, Gaia was the ancient Greek goddess and symbol of the earth (Mother Earth). Many deluges appear in many traditions world-wide. The first are cosmic, the rest, as Noahs Arc(h), are terrestrial.

The Mother of all floods refers to the Cosmos, the Gods of the skies (Ouranos/Heaven). It refers to the Waters of Space which became the Life and death giving waters of earth.  Ancient spiritual traditions and Wisdom viewed all things such as atoms, planets, solar systems, and universes ... as living beings. Divine in essense, the many sparks of one cosmic fire, over immense periods of time there is constant ebb and flow of the various waves of universal and planetary life, with Karma as the Divine harmony of the absolute consciousness. This is the Universal Law of Cause and Effect.

Interpreting the Biblical flood story

Noah floating on the waters in his arch, the latter being the emblem of The Argha or Moon, the feminine principle. Noah is the spirit falling into matter, we find him as soon as he desends upon the earth.

Planting of the vineyard, drinking of the wine ... the pure spirit becoming intoxicated

as soon as it is imprisoned in matter, becoming personified. The ancient Greeks called this "Soma/Sema." Soma means body, sema means tomb. Therefore the body is a tomb in which our Soul is trapped. Looking at the 7th chapter of Genesis, we see but another version of the first unveiled Isis. Genesis transliterated, Genes of Isis ... or in Greek - birth or beginnings, creation.

Taking this myth, and other more ancient stories, we can see that the arch vessel floating on the abyss of waters often signifies the female generative power carrying the gene of nature and mankind. Again, creation through the Divine feminine. 

Mystically the Divine Spirit of Life, like Noah, emerges from Chaos. Noah's deluge is astronomical and allegorical. It is a celestial metaphor. But its foundation and true meaning behind the story is not false, only personified, for the story is based upon archaic traditions of men - or rather nations which were saved during cataclysms, in Canoes, archs (arks), and ships. Esoterically, but for another day, the Ark is also US.

Legends have all spung from catastrophes which involved both the continent and the Island of Atlantis (and Lemuria). In ancient mythology the universe itself was a conversation between order and chaos, or the Yin and Yang ... along with the Universal Law of Polarity. Everything has it's waves, up and down. Ocean waves, light waves, sound waves, motion - ebb and flow. It's just the way it is ... and it is immutable Universal Law. 

Just a thought ...

~Justin Taylor, ORDM.

ASTROTHEOLOGY AND CELESTIAL ORIGINS

ASTROTHEOLOGY AND CELESTIAL ORIGINS

Astro-Theology, is pretty much a self-explanatory word. It is Theology, that is based upon celestial knowledge. Astrotheology is the combination of two Greek words: Astro (from Greek, from astron/asteri where we get “star”) and the Greek word Theo (Theos which means God/Source).

For example, translated corrrectly from the original Greek, the opening verse of the Book of John (1:1) would say more correctly:

“In the beginning was the Logos (Word), and the Logos (Word) was with Theos, and the Logos (Word) was Theos.”

Before we go further, please understand the translation differences and the modern dictionary offering:

“LOGOS, (Greek: “word,” “reason,” or “plan”) plural logoi, in ancient Greek philosophy and early Christian theology, the divine reason implicit in the cosmos, ordering it and giving it form and meaning.”

-Britannica

 The Logos word, means “word,” if you will. This LOGOS ... was not Jesus, or a book called “the Word of God.” Among ancient Greek Philosophy and Theology, this meant the Divine Reason. Essentially, the Mind, becoming manifest as matter/form.

The concept of Astro-Theology is vastly ancient, as ancient as mankind itself. Past civilizations had one religion. That religion was based on the understanding of the Astrological movements of our solar system and the connection and influences that each planet has on each other and beyond. After all, there were no modern forms of entertainment back then to occupy their time. They obsessively watched the heavens and made note of repeating patterns. 

This celestial knowledge is the basis and origin for all of of our Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes and Folk Lore. It is also the Pure Science developed by the very enlightened, wise and ancient priesthood that left behind for us scrolls, tablets, hieroglyphs, symbols, and the Holy Books of all world religions. The language was heavily veiled in allegory and symbolism and much of this was deliberately done to keep the higher truths from the masses (the Inner Mysteries). Such powerful knowledge in the wrong hands would be disastrous. 

Among Christianity, most of the Christians and believers in “the Christ” grew from childhood being taught a “literal-historical” understanding of the “Jesus Story” which we find in the New Testament. They had, and have, no concept or knowledge that archaeology has proven today that the earliest believers in the “Christ” never understood “Jesus Christ” as just one human who walked the hills of the Galilee. In a metaphysical sense, they understood deeply the Divine Concept of “Jesus Christ” not in just a literal and historical manner but in an “allegorical” manner ... for more than 10,000 years before the New Testament Roman concept of a physical and literal/historical Jesus.

Most all Christian churches and denominations today take literal in every sense of the word when first approaching the New Testament scriptures, but if we study hard and gather needed knowledge about the times and the people who generated these ancient Divine concepts ... we will find that beneath the top layers ... what we have assumed was a “literal” and “Historical Jesus Christ” ... there to be discovered is a treasure of allegories, figurations, and symbolism of the sun, stars, constellations, and their path in the heavens.

The Holy Bible was intended to be read as celestial (Stellar, Solar, Lunar and Planetary) allegories, metaphors, and parables; based on archetypes ... universal symbols of deeper esoteric Truths that have been veiled. Then and only then can it be explained without the need for interpretation. The Bible is not a book written by God, but a book written by men about, and of their observance and concept of God ... ever present in the celestial heavens ... in annual recurring cycles. These astrological patterns can also be applied spiritually and metaphysically ... the microcosm and macrocosm. As above, so below. As within, so without. 

The Eternal universe, regenerating itself, from within itself. The eternal 360 degree circle. A constantly recycling infinite mass of energy of which all of us are within, and a part of. Not as individual members ... things ... but as ONE thing (think). Eternally bound by the consciousness that brings life to ALL things. That, is our understanding of God. 

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.