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SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - THE FALSE GOSPEL OF STARS
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SOPHIA OF WISDOM III
THE SOPHIA OF ALL SOPHIA OF WISDOMS
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CAROLINE E. KENNEDY_____________________
OCTOBER 15, 2006
THE FALSE GOSPEL IN THE STARS
PREPARING THE WAY OF THE ANTICHRIST
. . .and the False Prophet and 10 kings downsized to 7 and. . .
VIRGO
THE DIVINE ANDROGYNE
"Everything begins with Virgo bringing forth the son of God. In Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius we see the first advent of Christ, His death, burial and resurrection, His battle against Satan." - J.R. Church (1053)
"We are again reminded of the protevangelium*, that 'the seed of the woman would destroy the seed of the serpent,' and of the great text in Isaiah 7:14: 'Behold! A virgin shall conceive, and bear a son.' That is, of course, a picture of Mary, the virgin mother of Christ... The second thing we note about the sign of Virgo is the emphasis upon her fertility** (her motherhood), because she holds in her right hand a branch and in her left hand some sheaves of corn, or seeds of wheat. There are various interpretations given concerning that.*** As Christians we can easily see here a reference to the seed of the woman (that is, the virgin) who will conceive and bring forth a child (Isaiah 7:14)." — D. James Kennedy, The Real Meaning of the Zodiac (872:20)
*Protevangelium of James: A gnostic apocryphal gospel exalting Mary's perpetual virginity.
Much of the dogma responsible for the veneration of Mary can be traced to this document.
** The Egyptians knew Virgo as Isis, the Goddess of Fertility.
***Dr. Kennedy prudently omits these pagan interpretations.
THE MOTHER GODDESS
According to the ancient Egyptian sphinx, the first house of the Zodiac is Virgo, not Aries as in the modern Zodiac. It is common knowledge among occultists that, from remote antiquity, Virgo represented the Mother Goddess worshipped under various names by different pagan cultures. "Some of the mythological representations of Virgo are Nana, Eve, Istar, Demeter, Hecate, Themis, Hera, Astraea, Diana, Cybele, Isis, Fortuna, Erigone, Sibylla and the Virgin Mother. All representations of the Great Mother in some form. She who existed before the masculine gods of ancient and classical mythology." (905)
Occultists claim that the word mother derives from the Egyptian hieroglyph ''Mut': "The Female Principle is recorded in the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs 'Mut' meaning 'Mother'... The English word 'Mother' is a derivation of the Ancient Egyptian word 'Mut'." (903:3) The Egyptian mother goddess Mut wore a vulture headdress and was associated with the cow, the cat and the lioness. Mut was an androgyne, having breasts and an erect phallus. According to Ancient Worlds, an internet site which focuses on the ancient gods and goddesses of Egypt,
"There was also a composite deity called 'Mut-Isis-Nekhbet, the Great Mother and Lady' who was shown as a winged goddess with leonine feet, an erect penis and three heads - a lion head wearing Min's headdress, a woman's head wearing the double crown of Egypt and a vulture's head wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt." (1059)
It is believed by occultists that the human race lived in peace, love, harmony and prosperity in an ancient civilization known as Lemuria, a land mass in the Pacific Ocean which was destroyed by a series of cataclysms. The Pacific Islands are a remnant of this lost continent, which is referred to as the Motherland of MU. American archaeologist and mystic, James Churchward, maintained in The Lost Continent of Mu that documents found in a monastery in India locate the Garden of Eden in MU.
"The Garden of Eden was not in Asia but on a now sunken continent in the Pacific Ocean. The Biblical story of Creation came first not from the peoples of the Nile or the Euphrates Valley but from this now-submerged continent, Mu — the Motherland of Man."
According to legend, the inhabitants of Mu were an ascended race that existed during the Age of Virgo, the Great Mother Goddess who ruled over a Golden Age:
"The Sacred Laws of Lemuria valued community, the individual and a peaceful co-existence. During the era of Mu, the consciousness of the entire planet became predominately intuitive and female. It was an experiment of love. It was an experiment with Goddess. Lemuria is believed to have achieved the highest level of civilization on Earth." (919)
According to Peter Dawkins, author of the Francis Bacon Research Trust Journal, it was during this period that Great Initiates from the star system Sirius left their perfect and harmonious realm to undertake a sacrificial mission to our planet.
"The Ancient Wisdom Traditions teach us that these mighty souls came to our planet approximately 18 million years ago, living in aetheric bodies and inhabiting the land subsequently known as Hyperborea ('the Land beyond the North Wind')... Establishing this area as their principle home and temple, they then moved across the world to other key areas in order to act as guides and teachers to the young races of humanity. Young humanity was, at the time of this great incarnation of 'God-men' and 'Sun-men', existing and evolving in areas of the world known as Mu, the Motherland." (902:39)
Dawkins claims this was also the period of Adam and Eve, who fell - not into sin - but into the material realm from their formerly ethereal estate:
"As a whole they are known historically as the Third Root Race of mankind, a Race of men that, 18 million years ago had just begun to exist in physical bodies, and to think rationally. They needed, at that dawn of rationality, sexuality and free choice, to be carefully guided, with teachers to answer their questions and to provide allegorical ideas of the life to be aimed for and the experiences to be undertaken. During this period the historic (rather than allegorical) story of Adam and Eve took place, followed by the division of Cain from Abel; the latter representing those souls who followed the teachings of the Christ souls, and the former representing those souls who chose otherwise." (902:39)
Gnostics misinterpret the account of the creation of Adam in Genesis 1 as the creation of a male-female or androgynous being in God's own image: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he them; male and female created he them." (Gen. 1:27) This androgynous First Adam, or Adam-Kadmon, was like the angels - eternal - until s/he separated from the divine, spiritual realm and became imprisoned in the material 3-dimensional world. As a result, Adam-Kadmon became differentiated into two sexes, the Second Adam and Eve. Some Gnostic versions of the fall of Adam-Kadmon contend that the Mother Goddess, Adam's first wife, Lilith or Sophia, separated herself when Adam tried to dominate her. According to the Encyclopedia of Religion's section on 'Androgyny', the medieval mystic and theosophist, Jacob Boehme, revived and popularized the concept of the primal androgynous Adam who fell into matter resulting in its division into Adam and Eve.
"The Judeo-Christian myth and theology of the androgyny of the primal man were successfully reinterpreted and revalorized by Jakob Boehme (1575-1624). For this great mystic and theosophist, Adam's sleep represents the first fall: Adam separated himself from the divine world and 'imagined himself' immersed in nature, by which act he lowered himself and became earthly. The appearance of the sexes is a direct consequence of this first fall... Another fundamental idea of Boehme...and other theosophists was that Sophia, the divine virgin, was originally part of the primal man. When he attempted to dominate her, the virgin separated herself from him." (146:279)
Jewish mysticism substitutes Eve or Lilith for Sophia as the better half of this androgynous Adam: "Even Adam, in Jewish legend, was at first androgynous, until Eve was separated from him and made autonomous." (100:11) From this false premise, Jewish and Christian Gnostics reason that God must also be androgynous. Referring to Jewish commentaries on Scripture, the Encyclopedia of Religion states: "The midrash on Genesis 1:27 explicitly states that when God created the first man he created him androgynous; thus Adam gave birth to Eve. If man be made in the image of God, the creator himself would be an androgyne, although there is nothing explicit about this in the text of Genesis itself." (146:277)
The Theosophical Glossary states that Sophia, the 'divine virgin' and symbol of wisdom, was, in fact, the Serpent, i.e. Lucifer. Coupled with the Gnostic doctrine of the androgynous Godhead, the Serpent becomes the female component of Adam-Kadmon.
"Ophites (Gr.). A Gnostic fraternity in Egypt, and one of the earliest sects of Gnosticism, or Gnosis (Wisdom, Knowledge), known as the 'Brotherhood of the Serpent'. It flourished early in the second century and, while holding some of the principles of Valentinus, had its own occult rites and symbology. A living serpent, representing the Christos-principle (i.e., the divine reincarnating Monad, not Jesus the man), was displayed in their mysteries and reverenced as a symbol of wisdom, Sophia, the type of the all-good and all-wise." (316:241)
VIRGINITY REDEFINED
The gods and goddesses of ancient mythology were not actual characters, but archetypes representing the ideal state to which mankind will supposedly attain in the New Age. Accordingly, the Mother Goddess archetype does not represent the Biblical model of motherhood but the Feminine Principle as defined and manifested in ancient mythology. Nor does 'Virgo, the Virgin' exemplify the Christian virtue of sexual purity, as per the Pagan Federation: "In ancient times, the meaning of 'virgin' did not mean the same as it does today, but meant an independent, self sufficient woman." (668) The Tarot cards are said to reveal the hidden meaning of the Zodiac. According to Ean Begg, author of The Black Virgin, the Tarot card Justice, which is generally associated with the star-maiden Virgo, exalted promiscuity rather than virtue:
"Rákóczi writes of this card: To the more licentious it represented the 'virgin quality' that is gained, not by pure living, but by plunging into the abyss of sexual indulgence; here we have the exultation of the prostitute as a saint and the saint treated as one who is 'impure'. Hence, Gypsies often call this the Magdalene card..." (272:138-9)
In esotericism, virginity has a very different connotation than it does in normal parlance. To the occultist, being a 'virgin' has nothing to do with sexual purity but rather with preparation for birthing the 'Christ child' through processes of initiation. In fact, rites of initiation frequently involve sexual immorality as the means to achieve this birthing. In the irrational world of the occult mystic, evil is good and good becomes evil. To justify sins such as immorality theologically, the Gnostic simply interprets the Bible allegorically instead of literally. In other words, God's Word is believed to have a hidden or esoteric meaning that transcends the literal statements which form the doctrinal basis of traditional Christianity. Thus, it's perfectly acceptable to occultists such as Peter Dawkins to deny the literal virginity of Mary prior to the birth of Christ, and then to redefine "virginity" with Mary as an archetype of the gnostic version of this term. Note that the spirit guide for this baptismal initiation, a pseudo-John the Baptist, is really the dragon-serpent:
"The Baptism of Water refers to the generative and transformative process undergone by the mortal soul... 'John the Baptist' is the...generative aspect of JIHOVAH: viz. the dragon-serpent JHVH that evolves and guides the natural soul through its 'wilderness' of experience until the soul becomes pure in heart, mind and action. The soul will then be a 'Virgin Mary' and ready to give birth (i.e. become) the 'Christ-Child' Jesus... This Baptism by Water — the transformative experiences of the natural soul — is also known as the Lesser Mysteries (or Degrees) of Initiation, in which the purpose is to produce the pure soul of the 'Virgin Mary'." (902:34)
Once the initiate attains to the new virginity (having been purified from a literal understanding and application of God's Word) there is yet another initiation to be undergone which transforms the virgin soul into a 'Christ':
"The Baptism of the Holy Spirit begins at the culmination of the Baptism of Water... The second Baptism refers to the 'Grace' of God — the blessing of illumination, the Christhood or Christ consciousness — upon the prepared and virgin soul... Through the preceeding Baptism by Water, JHVH (the Shakti or generative power) has been raised up from the root and reached the crown, where it 'marries' with IOA and allows IOA to flood the soul with light, with divine fire. The result is the transmutation of the reflective soul, Mary, to become the radiant Christ Soul, Jesus. The natural soul, Mary, dies in the fire of the Holy Spirit, and is resurrected as the spiritual soul, Jesus, like the flame arising from the candle." - 902:34
The archetypes of Virgo who are most revered by occultists—Eve, Isis and Mary—are venerated not for their moral purity, but because they personally conceived the Christ-consciousness through asexual means. Alice Bailey wrote that each Mother Goddess advanced an aspect of the concept of "Christ in you, the hope of glory" per Colossians 1:27, which Bailey misconstrued as gnosis.
"The sign Virgo is one of the most significant in the zodiac for its symbology concerns the whole goal of the evolutionary process which is to shield, nurture and finally reveal the hidden spiritual reality...[T]he mother protects the germ of the Christ life; matter guards, cherishes and nurtures the hidden soul. The keynote which embodies the truth as to the mission of Virgo most accurately is 'Christ in you, the hope of glory.' There is no clearer or more adequate definition of this sign than that.
"In all the great world religions, the Virgin Mother appears... Three of these goddesses are Eve, Isis, and Mary... In these three Virgins and these three Mothers of the Christ, you have the history of the formation and the function of the three aspects of the personality through which the Christ must find expression. The sign of Virgo itself stands for a synthesis of these three feminine aspects—Eve, Isis and Mary. She is the Virgin Mother, providing that which is needed for the mental, emotional and physical expression of the hidden but ever present divinity. These three expressions are brought to the needed perfection in Leo, the sign of the individual, developed self-consciousness and personality unfoldment." - 137:2 (Virgo)
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