One technique which has been used to convey
spiritual insight and knowledge throughout time has been the use of myth or
allegory. We may struggle with the complexity of how some information is presented before us, but instantly or intuitively comprehend messages being transmitted
through a story or pictures. It is why students often benefit from being able
to visualise as they revise texts so as to make associations
which they can recall.
Ancient cultures have conveyed information as to the
nature of and relationship of order and chaos, cycles and completion, divinity
or transcendence and the golden mean as pertaining to the human experience. We
have a wealth of information at our fingertips regarding the Great Year, the
Precession of the Equinoxes and the four Cardinal Signs.
How to make sense of it all though? To apply this
knowledge, which is to release its potentials through how we live, rather than
to put it on a pedestal and to worship it from afar? There is no more accurate place
to begin than by determining where we are, that is to find order and what
better way to apply this than to locate ourselves as within a grand
astronomical clock?
Precession occurs due to the fact that the Earth both rotates on its axis (otherwise known as the Axis Munde or World Pillar) and wobbles. The wobble of the Earth over time alters the direction of the Polar Axis. One revolution is completed every 25,920 years, often referred to as Plato’s Great Year.
Along with a cycle that we observe of the Pole Stars is an apparent movement of the signs of the Zodiac with its four seasons and twelve ages. The beginning of a new zodiac season is marked by the standards of the Lion (Leo), the bull (Taurus), the Human/Angel (Aquarius) and the Scorpion/Eagle (Scorpio), often equated with the four cardinal directions and regarded as a Cross within the heavens or of a circle with a square. A fifth cardinal direction is the central point of revolution, the pole of the ecliptic, that dot within the circle and otherwise known as the Eye of Ra.
The discovery of the Precession of the Equinoxes is attributed to the astronomer Hipparchus in 2nd century BC, although there are alternative theories and which claim an earlier discovery.
Mithra, with his chariot drawn by four horses and formed of the four elements, was a deity worshiped in ancient Persia as the god of light and regarded in early Roman times as the prime mover of the world. In the mysteries, he would be invoked as the mediator between the ethereal regions of light and man on Earth.
Incidentally, the evangelists of the Synoptic Gospels (Mathew, Mark, Luke and John) have been represented by the symbols originating from the four ‘living creatures’ (man/angel, lion, ox and eagle) that convey the throne-chariot of God - the Merkabah - in the vision in the Book of Ezekial and reflected in the Book of Revelation. There are texts which propose that the beasts are symbolic of the virtues of reason, courage, service and focus as would be required for a human to be illuminated and to experience unity with the divine.
The author Drunvalo Melchizedek has also said that, “In the Torah, there is reference to the Merkavah (as it is spelled in Hebrew) which has two different meanings: One meaning is “chariot”, which is a vehicle; the other is the “Throne of God”. When the two definitions are combined, the true meaning comes to life. In ancient Egypt, this primal pattern was called the Mer-Ka-Ba. It was actually three words, not one. Mer meant a kind of light that rotated within itself. Ka meant spirit, in this case referring to the human spirit. And Ba meant the human body – thought it could mean the concept of Reality that spirit holds. And so the entire word in ancient Egypt referred to a rotating light that would take the spirit and the body from one world into another.”
It is fortunate that not only do we have knowledge that has been conveyed to us from ancient races using the mechanisms of myth and allegory, esoteric texts and mathematics, we also have that which has been left to us through the crafting with astronomical precision and geodetic principles of the great monuments such as the Great Pyramid of Egypt and others.
Precession occurs due to the fact that the Earth both rotates on its axis (otherwise known as the Axis Munde or World Pillar) and wobbles. The wobble of the Earth over time alters the direction of the Polar Axis. One revolution is completed every 25,920 years, often referred to as Plato’s Great Year.
Along with a cycle that we observe of the Pole Stars is an apparent movement of the signs of the Zodiac with its four seasons and twelve ages. The beginning of a new zodiac season is marked by the standards of the Lion (Leo), the bull (Taurus), the Human/Angel (Aquarius) and the Scorpion/Eagle (Scorpio), often equated with the four cardinal directions and regarded as a Cross within the heavens or of a circle with a square. A fifth cardinal direction is the central point of revolution, the pole of the ecliptic, that dot within the circle and otherwise known as the Eye of Ra.
The discovery of the Precession of the Equinoxes is attributed to the astronomer Hipparchus in 2nd century BC, although there are alternative theories and which claim an earlier discovery.
Mithra, with his chariot drawn by four horses and formed of the four elements, was a deity worshiped in ancient Persia as the god of light and regarded in early Roman times as the prime mover of the world. In the mysteries, he would be invoked as the mediator between the ethereal regions of light and man on Earth.
Incidentally, the evangelists of the Synoptic Gospels (Mathew, Mark, Luke and John) have been represented by the symbols originating from the four ‘living creatures’ (man/angel, lion, ox and eagle) that convey the throne-chariot of God - the Merkabah - in the vision in the Book of Ezekial and reflected in the Book of Revelation. There are texts which propose that the beasts are symbolic of the virtues of reason, courage, service and focus as would be required for a human to be illuminated and to experience unity with the divine.
The author Drunvalo Melchizedek has also said that, “In the Torah, there is reference to the Merkavah (as it is spelled in Hebrew) which has two different meanings: One meaning is “chariot”, which is a vehicle; the other is the “Throne of God”. When the two definitions are combined, the true meaning comes to life. In ancient Egypt, this primal pattern was called the Mer-Ka-Ba. It was actually three words, not one. Mer meant a kind of light that rotated within itself. Ka meant spirit, in this case referring to the human spirit. And Ba meant the human body – thought it could mean the concept of Reality that spirit holds. And so the entire word in ancient Egypt referred to a rotating light that would take the spirit and the body from one world into another.”
It is fortunate that not only do we have knowledge that has been conveyed to us from ancient races using the mechanisms of myth and allegory, esoteric texts and mathematics, we also have that which has been left to us through the crafting with astronomical precision and geodetic principles of the great monuments such as the Great Pyramid of Egypt and others.
To give just a couple of examples - the angles of
the Great Pyramid align with the four cardinal directions and signs of the constellations
of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. Something fascinating to contemplate as
well is that it has been put forward that if a person were to draw two circles,
one outside and one inside the base of the Great Pyramid, to subtract the
circumference of the inner circle from the circumference of the outer circle,
the figure obtained is the speed of light.
Clearly there is an ancient message that is being repeated over and over again and through many different sources and mediums that there is something to pay attention to with regards to the presence of cycles and light, or of time and transcendence in conjunction with the fulfilment of human virtue.
From ancient Greece we have the symbolism of Time that is being portrayed through Chronos and Kairos. Chronos refers to chronological or sequential time, and Kairos refers to an eternal moment of now, in which everything exists in potential and which provides a right or opportune moment. We could say that Chronos is quantitative whilst Kairos has a qualitative nature.
Clearly there is an ancient message that is being repeated over and over again and through many different sources and mediums that there is something to pay attention to with regards to the presence of cycles and light, or of time and transcendence in conjunction with the fulfilment of human virtue.
From ancient Greece we have the symbolism of Time that is being portrayed through Chronos and Kairos. Chronos refers to chronological or sequential time, and Kairos refers to an eternal moment of now, in which everything exists in potential and which provides a right or opportune moment. We could say that Chronos is quantitative whilst Kairos has a qualitative nature.
Incidentally, Plato used the word ‘aeon’ to denote
the eternal world of ideas, which he conceived lay behind the perceived
world.
Also the eternal life, the Kingdom of God or Heaven
have been pointed towards by many religions.
It should be remembered that gnosis is generally
accepted to signify a spiritual knowledge, in the sense of ‘mystical
enlightenment’ or ‘insight’ and which allows a human being to transcend the
constraints or limitations of earthly existence, the timeline and to glimpse a
bigger picture of reality.
But back to Chronos, often portrayed as a deity, serpentine in form, with three heads – those of a man, a bull and a lion, which is a nod yet again to the cardinal signs of the zodiac. Associated with Chronos is Ananke, which personifies fate or inevitability, circumstance, compulsion and necessity.
Victor Hugo had this to say about Ananke:
“Religion,
society, nature; these are the three struggles of man. These three conflicts
are, at the same time, his three needs: it is necessary for him to believe,
hence the temple; it is necessary for him to create, hence the city; it is
necessary for him to live, hence the plow and the ship. But these three
solutions contain three conflicts. The mysterious difficulty of life springs
from all three. Man has to deal with obstacles under the form of superstition,
under the form of prejudice and under the form of the elements. A triple ananke
(necessity) weighs upon us, the ananke of dogmas, the ananke of laws, the
ananke of things … With these three fatalities which envelop man is mingled the
interior fatality, that supreme ananke, the human heart.” Hauteville
House, March, 1866. Victor Hugo, Toilers of the Sea, 1866
We are fortunate today to exist in a time when there
are many schools of thought and various texts available to study and which endeavour to guide us into a path of rightful relationship with life.
The Golden Rule or ethic of reciprocity is a moral
maxim or principle of altruism.
Plato’s Republic is enlightening to consider in
relation to the context in which a person chooses to be just or unjust.
The Noble Eightfold Path, Middle Path or Middle Way,
with its illumination upon wisdom, ethical conduct and concentration, rediscovered
by Gautama Buddha during his quest for enlightenment is said to be a practice
which can lead its practitioners towards self-awakening and liberation.
Then again, the Golden Mean is so prevalent
throughout nature that we are able to intuitively recognise and be familiar with the
pattern of a spiral or cycles and would seem to be how we interpret our three
dimensional experience of form and time.
It may just be that as a species we are moving through an
era of increasing familiarity with perceiving reality through the presence of
fractals and this will transform our understanding of time, our technologies of
force as well as our experience of who we are.
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