The only story ever told is the same story that’s always been told. The story of the Sun of God through the 12 mansions. The Gospel (Good News) is that it’s the story of the evolution of the soul of man. This is why the story applies to so many Sun’s of God and not because the Devil went back in time to embarrass Jesus.
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Retrograde planets in astrology are when the planets appear to be moving backwards. This isn't the case though as planets do not move backwards. Its actually an optical illusion. When an astrologer looks up to sky they see the sun and all the planets orbiting around it, the sun being the centre of our universe. There are times looking at the planets from earth that they appear to slow down, pause and even move backwards. They haven't stopped or slowed down its just an illusions from looking at the planets from earth. The best way to explain this is to imagine there are two trains going the same way with you on one of them. As one train starts to accelerate, it appears from inside this train that the slower train is moving backwards. But we know its not going backwards, its just the train we are in has sped up. This again is an optical illusion and the retrograde motion of the planets works in the same way.
The only exception with the planets going retrograde is the Sun and Moon, they are never in a retrograde motion. Mercury is the planet that retrogrades most often, 3 times a year and for about 3 weeks each time. This year (2011) the planet Mercury will be retrograde from 30th March to the 23rd April, the next one is from 3rd August to the 26th, then the last one is from the 24th November through to 14th December.
Mercury is associated with the rational mind and all forms of communications such as travelling, conversations in any form such as email or over the telephone. It governs how we trade and exchange goods, services and contracts. If Mercury is retrograde its influences becomes magnified and turbulent. Almost like a storm is brewing. Gemini and Virgo signs are ruled by this planet so this means you will be more affected. There could be delays with travel or car problems, delays with mail or contracts, misunderstandings and communication breakdowns, cancelled appointments and problems with electrical equipment especially anything to do with communications such as computers telephones etc. This explains the trouble we had here in the UK regarding all the travel problems caused by the snow. If you look at the dates of when Mercury was retrograde last year you will see its exactly when the storm broke as it were.
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“WM (Sun, Spirit): Brother SW. Why in the west?
SW (Moon, Soul):As the Sun is in the west at the close of the day, so stands the SW in the west to assist the WM with the opening and closing of the lodge, pay the craft their wages that none may be dissatisfied, harmony being the support of all institutions, especially this of ours.”
How appropriate. In just a few hours a Total Eclipse of the Moon will take place. This means of course that the moon will be full and that the path of the moon will pass in the earth’s shadow. The last Total Lunar Eclipse was about 3 years ago. There is no debate that the affect of an eclipse is powerful but subtle. If you are caught up in the mundane things of the world and don’t spend any time traveling and journeying within yourself, then you probably won’t even notice anything special. But those who “travel in foreign lands” will feel this special time. It’s extra special because it is taking place right at the beginning of the Winter Solstice. This hasn’t happened since 1554 AD. Why is this all so special (especially to Master Masons)?
Well, let me break it down for you. Sun = spirit. Moon = soul. Earth = body. As MMs, we should already be aware of the obvious: the Moon has no light but it reflects the light of the Sun. The Moon also affects water (emotions). Thus our souls (Moon) reflects wisdom/knowledge/understanding (light) from our spirits (Sun), while also being responsible for our emotions (water). When the moon is full, it is reflecting the maximum possible light. All though the moon can be seen during the day during other moon phase, a full moon can only be seen after the Sun sets (obviously because they are opposite each other).
Now is appropriate to explain day and night symbolism. “As the sun rules the day and the moon governs the night….: is a Masonic statement that often escapes true understanding and meaning. “Day” means your waking consciousness. Night means your subconscious. The sun ruling the day, refers to the spirit having dominion over the consciousness. The moon governing the night refers to the soul having dominion over the sub consciousness.
Therefore, full moons are special to the psyche of humans because it is a time when the spirit/conscious and soul/subconscious are basking in each other’s glory. It’s a time when the consciousness can very easily delve into the subconscious, because they are directly opposite each other. Many people, animals, hospitals and police departments around the world know how people act different during the full moon. Mystics have known for a long time that a full moon is an appropriate time to work on their sub conscious directly via their consciousness.
The specialness of a Total Lunar Eclipse is that the earth will pass between this monthly reunion of “fullness” between the Sun and the Moon. Let me restate that this way: your body will pass between your spirit and your soul. In other words, your body will temporary “block” the return reflected light from the moon.Your conscious can examine your subconscious in a meditative or dream state without any interference from your subconscious. This is helpful because it will allow you to examine self in a unique way.
The full moon that will happen tomorrow December 21, 2010 at 12:32 AM CST is a very special and powerful time to do this because it is also the Winter Solstice. I can’t begin to tell you the reverence for the Winter Solstice among all religions. Our Christmas, the Pagan Yule and the Jewish Hanukah are all celebrations that actually celebrate the Winter Solstice. As Master Masons, “Riding the Goat” during the Third Degree of Freemasonry is all about the Winter Solstice. “Riding the Goat” actually refers to the fact that the Sun enters the “goat” constellation of Capricorn as we Mason’s re-enact the dying Sun God that has been slain awaiting to be resurrected 3 days later as the Sun comes back to life and starts to move forward. This is KEY to understanding not only Freemasonry, but all religions. The dying God represents the alchemical process of self improvement. It is the lower half of man that needs to die in order for the spirit of God to resurrect with in him The Third Degree of Freemasonry is about using our working tools (which I will collectively call our conscious) to build a structure with a foundation (our subconscious).
If these are the things that you subscribe to and you want to do a little self improvement or even manifestations, then this Total Eclipse is just too good to pass up.
In silence with averted head
by night the "evil three" have fled.
And cold and stiff the body lies
Beneath the gloomy winter skies.
Yet had you been a watcher there.
That dismal night beside the dead.
Had you that night been kneeling there,
Beside the dead in tears and prayer.
You might have seen, amid the air,
A flickering, dim, auroral light,
Which hovered on the midnight air,
And, seeing in the gloomy sky
This mystic strange, celestial light
Contending with the powers of night.
You might have taken hope thereby.
There was, alas! no watcher there
To mark this radiance in the air.
To gaze with earnest, tearful eye
Upon this radiance in the sky.
There was no watcher there, alas!
To ask in anxious whispers low,
"Will not this light still brighter grow,
Or will it from the heavens pass
And leave me plunged in deeper gloom
Beside this cold and lonely tomb?"
Meanwhile the light increased--although
Beside the grave no mourner stood
Amid the lonesome solitude--
And as with tints of blue and gold,
And flashes of prismatic flame,
It lighted up the midnight cold,
Along the plain in beauty came
A shining and majestic form,
And as it came the winter's storm
As if abashed, its fury checked.
No more above and round the path,
Beneath the wind's tempestuous wrath,
The snowy billows heave and toss;
A sacred calm as he draws nigh
Pervades at once the earth and sky.
His robe was blue, its borders decked
With evergreen and scarlet moss;
His hands upon each other rest,
Due north and south, due east and west;
The open palms together pressed
As if engaged in silent prayer.
He thus had formed with pious care
The holy symbol of the cross.
A lamb doth close beside him go,
Whose whiter fleece rebukes the snow:
These things sufficiently proclaim
His mystic office and his name.
Beside the grave he comes and stands,
Still praying there with folded hands;
And, while he prays, see drawing near
Another shinning form appear,
His right hand on his bosom pressed,
As if by bitter grief distressed,
The other pointing to the skies,
And, as he weeps, each radiant tear,
That from his sad and earnest eyes
Falls on the earth, is transformed there
To violets blue and blossoms fair,
That sweetly perfume all the air.
A third one now appears in sight,
Arrayed in royal robes of light,
A "lordly lion" walks in pride.
More glorious far, and at his side
And he who came in glory last
Between the others gently passed.
And, looking down upon the dead,
With level, open palms outspread,
A holy benediction said.
This done, the first one, by command,
The dead god taketh by the hand:
At once through all the body flies
The same warm flush that marks the skies.
The shrunken features, cold and white,
A moment shine with life and light.
A moment only--'tis in vain:
Unconquered Death resumes his reign.
So doth a solitary wave
Leap up amid the lonely night,
And catch a gleam of life and light,
And then sink helpless in its grave.
To raise the god the first thus failed--
The powers of darkness yet prevailed;
So to the second he gives place,
Who, like the first one, by command,
The sun-god taketh by the hand
And, looking downward in his face
With pleading voice and earnest eyes,
On Phoebus calls and bids him rise.
Though at his touch the blood unbound.
With rapid current red and warm
Runs swiftly through the prostrate form,
Yet silent on the frozen ground
The god lies in a trance profound,
Devoid of motion, deaf to sound.
Alas! alas! what doth remain?
Shall death and darkness ever reign,
And night eternal hide the day?
Then said the third one, "Let us pray."
And full of faith and strong intent,
His prayer to IH. VAH. upward went.
"Amen" was said--"so mote it be!"
And then the last one of the three
Arose and stretching forth his hand,
Calls on the dead, and gives command
In IH. VAH.'s name to rise and stand.
Then up rose Phoebus in his pride,
With the "lordly lion" by his side,
And earth and sky with his glory shone
As again he sat on his golden throne.
For the voice of God is nature's law,
And strong was the grip of the lion's paw.
When down the zodiacal arch
The summer sun resumes his march,
Descending from the summit high
With eager step he hastens by
The "lordly lion" of July
And clasps the virgin in his arms.
Through all the golden August days
The sun the ardent lover plays,
A captive to her dazzling charms.
But when the harvest time is o'er,
When they gathered grapes perfume the air
And ruddy wine begins to pour,
The god resumes his way once more;
And, weeping in her wild despair,
He leaves the royal virgin there.
What cares he now for Virgo's woes,
As down the starry path he goes
With scornful step, until, at last,
The equinoctial gate is passed?
Two misty columns black with storms,
While overhead there hangs between
A lurid thunder cloud, which forms
The frowning archway of the gate--
The gloomy equinoctial gate,
An evil place for travelers late,
Where envious Libra lurks unseen;
And near the portal lies in wait
September, filled with deadly hate.
With stately step the god draws nigh,
Yet such is his majestic mien,
That whether he shall strike or fly,
The trembling ruffian hardly knows,
As Phoebus through the gateway goes.
But, as the shining form came near,
The wretch's hate subdued his fear,
And, nerving up his arm at length,
He aimed a blow with all his strength
Full at the god as he went by.
In anger Phoebus turned his head--
Away the trembling coward fled.
The god, though smarting with the blow,
Disdains to follow up his foe:
And down the zodiacal path
Pursues his gloomy way in wrath.
Still blacker turn the autumn skies,
and red Antares, evil star,
Points out the place, more fatal far,
Where fell October ambushed lies.
The Sun, as if he scorned his foes,
In pride and glory onward goes.
Not he from deadly Scorpio flies,
Nor pauses he, nor backward turns,
Though redder yet Antares burns,
And darker yet his pathway grows.
Meanwhile October, from his lair,
On Phoebus rushes unaware,
His murderous purpose now confessed,
And smites the sun-god in the breast,
A ghastly wound the villain makes--
With horrid joy his weapon shakes;
And, as he sees the god depart,
His hand upon his bosom pressed,
Believes the blow has reached the heart.
Along his way the sun-god goes,
Unmindful where the path may lead,
While from his breast the life-blood flows.
The clouds around him gather now,
The crown of light fades from his brow.
And soon, advancing 'mid the night,
The Archer on his pallid steed,
With bended bow, appears in sight.
November, bolder than the rest,
Hides not behind the gloomy west:
But, striding right across the path,
Defies the god and scorns his wrath;
And, raising high his frowning crest,
These haughty words to him addressed:
"September and October, both,
You have escaped and still survive;
But I have sworn a deadly oath,
By me you cannot pass alive.
That which I promise I perform.
For I am he who, 'mid the storm,
Rides on the pallid horse of death."
While even thus the spectre spoke,
He drew his arrow to the head--
The god received the fatal stroke,
And at the Archer's feet feel dead.
Soon as the sun's expiring breath
Had vanished in the ether dim,
December came and looked on him;
And looking, not a word he saith,
But o'er the dead doth gently throw
A spangled winding sheet of snow.
And when the winding sheet was placed,
Comes evil Janus, double-faced,
A monster like those seen in sleep.
An old "seafaring man" is he,
As many others understand,
Who carries water from the deep
And pours it out upon the land.
Now February next appears,
With frozen locks and icy tears,
A specter cruel, cold, and dumb,
From polar regions newly come.
These three by turns the body bear
At night along the west, to where
A flickering gleam above the snows
A dim electric radiance throws,
A nebular magnetic light,
Which, flashing upward through the night,
Reveals the vernal equinox,
And him whose potent spell unlocks
The gates of spring.
An evergreen
Close by this spot is blooming seen.
'Tis there they halt amid the snow--
Unlawful 'tis to go farther go--
And, having left their burden there,
They vanish in the midnight air.
Yet on this very night next year
Will this same evil three appear,
And bring along amid the gloom
Another body for the tomb
But still the evergreen shall wave
Above the dark and dismal grave,
For ever there a token sure
That, long as Nature shall endure,
Despite of all the wicked powers
That rule the wintry midnight hours,
The sun shall from the grave arise,
And tread again the summer skies.
Mayans & Egyptians: Secret of the Egyptian Beetle!
The Scarab Brooch
At first, an interpretation of the symbolic significance of the brooch is unremarkable; the component parts of the brooch spell the name of Neb-khepru-Re ('The lordly manifestation of Re') (figure 74b). However, on closer examination we note that three parallel bars, at the tail end of the scarab, are not proportionately spaced (figure 74c). The distance from the outer edges of the bars to the centre line of the crescent disc measures the same, but the distance between the inside edge of each bar varies to the centre line. Despite this, the brooch itself 'appears' to contain symmetry between left and right halves - indeed, there are 183 inlaid stones contained in each wing, 366 in total, representing the number of days in a leap year. But closer inspection of the stones reveals that symmetry does not exist between the arrays of stones in opposing wings (figures 74d and 75e).
The next point to note is the number of stones contained between gaps in the feathers on each wing. These have been labeled a-g (left wing) and a-f (right wing) and, additionally, r-z on the left and r-z on the right. The total number of stones now amounts to 197 (see boxed figures 74e).
Figure 74f shows the scarab pushing the solar disc. The disc contains 360 degrees. The total number of inlaid stones (figure 74d and 74e) amounts to 397; 397-360 = 37 (figure 74g), which is astronomically significant, big the duration, in days, of one revolution of the sun's polar magnetic field. Here, the 360-degree movement of the earth around the sun is emphasized, together with the revolutionary period of the sun's polar cap. It is the movement of the cap, in relation to the movement of the sun's equator, which causes radiation of the solar wind, which impinges on the earth.
This allows access to another layer of information that takes place between the sun and earth. The magnetic fields of the sun and earth are clear, as is the bow shock that results from the interaction of the solar wind on the earth's magnetic shield, the magnetosphere. This interpretation is further supported by examination of the numerical errors contained in the arrays of stones on opposing wings (figure 73).
Here, the differences between amounts listed in the columns is noted and tabulated beneath 'error columns' a, b, c and d. The totals of these columns amounts to 1, 1 and 1, 1.
Several of the columns agree in numbers:
9 = 9
28 = 28
17 = 17
17 = 17
Adding together the columns of numbers that agree: 9 + 28 + 17 + 17 = 71
Eleven jade beads were discovered in the stone chest at the bottom of the secret stairway inside the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque. There are 71 beads in the top two tiers of the necklace that Lord Pacal wore around his neck. In The Supergods (by author) it was shown that both these numbers are astronomically significant: 11 x 71 = 781, the number of calibration divisions in one sunspot cycle; 11 x 71 x 87.4545 = 68,302 days = one (187 - year) sunspot cycle. After 20 of these the sun's magnetic field changes direction, affecting fertility on earth. Here, the scarab brooch of Tutankhamun contains the same numerical code: indeed, the figures appear twice - 11 x 71; 11 x 71 - just in case we missed them the first time around.
The brooch therefore contains several layers of encoded information:
i. The name of Tutankhamun, Neb-khepru-Re.
ii. The number of stones in the feathers adds up to 366, the number of days in one leap year.
iii. The rotational period of the sun's polar caps amounts to 37 days.
iv. Magnetic interaction takes place between the sun and earth.
v. The sun emits particles, the solar wind, which bombard the earth, causing distortion to the earth's magnetic shield, the magnetosphere.
vi. The figures of 11 and 71 are in some way astrologically significant, confirming that the duration of the sunspot cycle amounts to 68,302 days (11 x 71 x 87.4545).
--FROM The Tutankhamun Prophecies: The Sacred Secret of the Maya, Egyptians and Freemasons by Maurice Cotterell
Egyptians like the Mayans knew how the sun affects life on this planet. Thus their respective chief deity was called the "Son(sun) of God".
Stones in the wings have uneven stones and thus are called "errors". The errors reveal a hidden code.
Neb-khepru-Re.
Tutankhamun NOT Tutankhamen!
Key to understanding the mystery of the Sun (son) of God!
