In the book The Republic, Plato tells the story of prisoners of war that were held captive in a cave for such a long period of time, they could not remember their lives before their captivity. These men were forced to face the back of the cave wall for decades, while a fire burned behind them for illumination. The only objects that the prisoners could ever see were the cave wall, their own shadows and the shadows of the beasts guarding them. This was both terrifying and paralyzing for the men.
One day, one of the men found the courage to look back at the fire and the beast guarding them. What he found were ordinary men guarding over them. The guards had cut-outs of monsters and projected the shadows to the back of the cave where the prisoners were held. This was the easiest and most effective way for the guards to control the prisoners.
The knowing prisoner found an opportunity to escape the cave and did so as soon as he could. When the free man stepped out the cave, he could not believe his eyes. The sun, that he now remembered, was much brighter than the cave fire. He smelled the flowers, remembering their scent from his youth. The free man watched as people went about their daily lives, remembering his life before captivity.
The free man was overwhelmed with the joy of remembering his former life, his real life. The free man wanted to free his fellow prisoners as soon as he could and planned his quest. The next day at an opportune time the free man made his way back to the cave. When he found the guards away from their posts, the free man sprang into action. Running to his fellow prisoners and telling them of everything he discovered to be real, both inside and outside the cave. He told his friends of the cut-out monsters that terrified them. About the sun outside the cave that was much brighter than the fire that illuminated the cave. The free man told his friends about all the wonderful things he had discovered again in his new found freedom.
After hearing everything the free man had to say, the prisoners showed disbelief, mockery, and hatred toward the free man. They thought, how could this man know better than they did? How dare the man pretend to know more than they did.
The free man left the prisoners in the cave and walked back out into his freedom.
In today's world, we are allowed to walk anywhere we want to inside the cave, its encouraged. The cut-out monsters are projected on every wall, floor and ceiling as well. Our scary shadows come from the same place that lights our cave. TV, Radio, Internet, Newspaper etc.. Once we free ourselves from the Maya (Illusion) we can walk back outside the cave and remember who we truly are, again. The first step for the free man was to recognize the Maya. The second step was to understand who he was not. The third step was to understand who he was, to "Know Thyself."
As far as us going back into the cave to save our fellow prisoners...the Illusion is slowly fading away. Many will cling onto, "the good old days." Cling onto the projections of shadows that were on their cave walls. Others will finally leave the cave and find a sun brighter than the cave fire and a SELF greater than they could have imagined.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The Secret Knowledge
From the Kabbalah of the Jews to the Surfis sect of Islam to the oldest know writings of the Hindu the Rig-Veda, from Christianity to Buddhism. All of these named have, to some extent or another, the Sacred & Secret Knowledge. The Egyptian Hierophants (Priest) made the Pyramids in the shape of a Triangle & Square for several important reasons. This is an example of the very basic building blocks of the knowledge of the ancients.
The Triangle=3 or Light (Spirit) or Male
The Square=4 or Life (Matter) or Female
Meaning 3+4=7 (Union)...Of course 3 (Spirit) + 4 (Matter) = 7 (Union a.k.a Life On This Plane)
The Pyramids were where the King & Queens children would be conceived & born. Also where Initiates would go through the rites of passage, being "Reborn" into a new consciousness. The Pyramids were also the burial grounds for the Royal family. The most important Unions in Egypt transpired in the Pyramids.
The Hermetic phrase of, "As Above So Below" is the best phrase to test any theory out on that one might have in Nature or The Heavens. The double equilateral Triangle (a.k.a. Star of David by the Jewish sect) is the symbol of the Hermetic phrase, "As Above So Below." Everyone from Hermes to Newton used it.
The number 6=Physical Nature....so when someone tells you that 666 is the, "Mark of the Beast" you can do your own calculations. Three number sixes....... 3 (Spirit) + 6 (Physical Nature) = 9 (The Spirit of Physical Nature) i.e. selfishness, lust, greed, hate etc.. Our capitalist system (the one that just swallowed the world whole) was the Beast. Promoting this Illusion of greed, lust, hate AND THAT THIS IS GOOD FOR YOU etc.. Watch out for the Mark of the beast? The rest of the world not only took the Mark but they distributed it as well. Fought right beside it all the way and then asked "What just happened?" The Illusion is unwinding finally, and will continue to unwind until those that want to see through the Vail can. A higher consciousness or "Reborn." "Born Again" means something different in todays world.
To draw the Male line is a vertical stick (l) and to draw the Female line is (-) put the two together and you have the cross (+) representing, again, Male + Female = Union...Of course, it could also mean Male (Spirit) + Female (Matter) = Life (as we know it on this plane of consciousness.)
When it comes to The Source, we believe that God is eternal, infinite and without ceasing of course. Suns burn out, implode, explode etc.. The only constant we can understand for The Source to exist without ceasing is in Darkness & no Motion. Motion is finite as well is light. Motion is in everything within our material plan, by way of atoms at the least.
To be admitted to Socrates' school in 540 B.C. Greece, you not only had to know basic math, you also had to know the basics of Pythagorean geometry (only taught by Initiates at the time) with the understandings of their esoteric (secret knowledge) nature. Plato was taught by Socrates and Plato later taught Aristotle who later taught Alexander The Great. Most of the great minds of the ancients knew this knowledge. From Salon to Newton. Newton was an alchemist 'til his
death. Alchemy was not about turning metals into gold. Won't write on alchemy but to say that the name alchemy was changed to chemistry not long after the death of Newton. Newton had evolved his own math as well. Trigonometry was known to Newton alone for 12 years until he decided it was time to share it with the world.
The Sacred Knowledge is being Reborn at this time for the purpose of changing us into a higher consciousness for the New Age ahead.
"There Is No Religion Greater Than Truth"
The Triangle=3 or Light (Spirit) or Male
The Square=4 or Life (Matter) or Female
Meaning 3+4=7 (Union)...Of course 3 (Spirit) + 4 (Matter) = 7 (Union a.k.a Life On This Plane)
The Pyramids were where the King & Queens children would be conceived & born. Also where Initiates would go through the rites of passage, being "Reborn" into a new consciousness. The Pyramids were also the burial grounds for the Royal family. The most important Unions in Egypt transpired in the Pyramids.
The Hermetic phrase of, "As Above So Below" is the best phrase to test any theory out on that one might have in Nature or The Heavens. The double equilateral Triangle (a.k.a. Star of David by the Jewish sect) is the symbol of the Hermetic phrase, "As Above So Below." Everyone from Hermes to Newton used it.
The number 6=Physical Nature....so when someone tells you that 666 is the, "Mark of the Beast" you can do your own calculations. Three number sixes....... 3 (Spirit) + 6 (Physical Nature) = 9 (The Spirit of Physical Nature) i.e. selfishness, lust, greed, hate etc.. Our capitalist system (the one that just swallowed the world whole) was the Beast. Promoting this Illusion of greed, lust, hate AND THAT THIS IS GOOD FOR YOU etc.. Watch out for the Mark of the beast? The rest of the world not only took the Mark but they distributed it as well. Fought right beside it all the way and then asked "What just happened?" The Illusion is unwinding finally, and will continue to unwind until those that want to see through the Vail can. A higher consciousness or "Reborn." "Born Again" means something different in todays world.
To draw the Male line is a vertical stick (l) and to draw the Female line is (-) put the two together and you have the cross (+) representing, again, Male + Female = Union...Of course, it could also mean Male (Spirit) + Female (Matter) = Life (as we know it on this plane of consciousness.)
When it comes to The Source, we believe that God is eternal, infinite and without ceasing of course. Suns burn out, implode, explode etc.. The only constant we can understand for The Source to exist without ceasing is in Darkness & no Motion. Motion is finite as well is light. Motion is in everything within our material plan, by way of atoms at the least.
To be admitted to Socrates' school in 540 B.C. Greece, you not only had to know basic math, you also had to know the basics of Pythagorean geometry (only taught by Initiates at the time) with the understandings of their esoteric (secret knowledge) nature. Plato was taught by Socrates and Plato later taught Aristotle who later taught Alexander The Great. Most of the great minds of the ancients knew this knowledge. From Salon to Newton. Newton was an alchemist 'til his
death. Alchemy was not about turning metals into gold. Won't write on alchemy but to say that the name alchemy was changed to chemistry not long after the death of Newton. Newton had evolved his own math as well. Trigonometry was known to Newton alone for 12 years until he decided it was time to share it with the world.
The Sacred Knowledge is being Reborn at this time for the purpose of changing us into a higher consciousness for the New Age ahead.
"There Is No Religion Greater Than Truth"
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