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THE SERPENT I PRESENT PRESENT I THE SERPENT
99 NAMES OF GOD GOD OF NAMES 99 THEN SINGS MY SOUL MY SAVIOUR GOD TO THEE HOW GREAT THOU ART HOW GREAT THOU ART
THE NEW VIEW OVER ATLANTIS John Michell 1972 Page 124 "Seven orders of magic squares and their traditional planetary associations. The smallest consists of the numbers 1-9 and the largest of 1-81, so arranged that the sum of numbers in each row, column and diagonal is the same. Each square has its characteristic numbers which, in the Sun square, are 111 (the sum of each line) and 666 (the sum of the numbers I-36 contained in it). The squares can also be given geometric expressions (see page 195)."
THE MAGIC SQUARE SATURN
SATURN IN TRANSIT BOUNDARIES OF MIND BODY AND SOUL Erin Sullivan 1990
THE CALL TO RETURN (DES C.) "The final work is that of the return. If the powers have blessed the hero, he now sets forth under their protection (emissary), if not, he flees and is pursued (transformation flight, obstacle flight). At the return threshold the transcendental powers must remain behind; the hero re-emerges from the kingdom of dread (return, resurrection). The boon that he brings restores the world. Joseph Campbell13" ANGLESANGELSANGELSANGLES
"This is the final stage of the journey before it begins again, and consequently a most important one. It is not that each phase of the Saturn transit and its product is not of equal value, it is just that this particular time offers the promise of the peak that comes when Saturn reaches the M C once again. Each of the angles in its order of precedence is echoed in each subsequent phase. That is, when Saturn reaches the descendant, one hears the echoes of the previous I C transit and is recalled to the time when Saturn crossed the ascendant. Page 240 Eighth House: Metamorphosis "The eighth house requires that we undergo a ritual purging in order to prepare ourselves for the inevitable. It is not necessary to die in a literal sense, but it is a phase through which we must pass in order to move on to a philosophical reconciliation of opposites. RHEAHERA A HER A MOTHER
Page 244 Ninth House: Civilization "Here we reach the final stage of the return phase of the heroic journey. This refinement,phase.will bring to fruition the efforts of the past cycle, a twenty-nine-year cycle if one has experienced a full return. In particular, the experiences that have been part of the Saturn transit from the descendant to the ninth house cusp will be assimilated into the philosophy of life that will gradually mature into a working system. By nature of the process, this system also will have to change. The magical properties have been left behind, the integration of opposites has been faced, the.meta-morphosis and transformation.has been encountered. There is no guarantee that any of these rather exotic accomplishments have been, or will be, completely successful, but in the next stage we meet our beliefs head-on when Saturn is transiting the ninth It is never too late to capture a victory or turn a moment from / Page 245 /
bad to good. When Demeter had fully reconciled herself to the truth, she restored the natural balance of the earth. Having established the Eleusinian mystery cult, she provided an eighth-house experience for mortal citizens - they could now ritualistically partake in the death and rebirth of the seasons. That these rites remain shrouded in mystery to this day seems appropriate. Those rites offered a joyous participation in the death ritual and yet live to see another day. As the"Homeric hymn says, 'the one who is uninitiated into the holy rites and has no part, is destined not to experience a similar joy when he is dead in the gloomy realm below'. They offered a kind of homoeopathic death. The religious rites offered not just solace over seasonal transition but consolation to the living in the face of the inevitable. Depression or hopelessness at this stage of the journey serves to release the ego from attachment to the false systems of order. It may / Page 247 / coincide with an event or revelation that indicates the degree to which ones attitudes need to change. It was in the third house that we began to gather information; in the sixth house the data was assimilated and rendered practical and useful, but it is in the ninth house that the oppertunity to view the 'whole picture' arises. It is from this perspective that the hero sees what his culture needs. From the modern hero, it is within himself that culture and civilization begins" "...It is at this next turn of the wheel that we come to meet our / Page 248 / fate in the world. The latter period of the transit begins to arouse a latent sense of social responsibility. It is now that the hero hears vague calls from the distance and unconsciously begins to prepare himself for change. The psyche in all its greater"wisdom begins to issue forth the call to adventure by hinting at new directions and uncharted horizons. These subtle prods come in many guises restlessness, ambivalence, inability to commit oneself to a direction, psychological upheavals with no apparent external cause, feelings of decay, entropy and so on. The psyche makes urgent attempts to; alert the conscious mind that the t:ime is rapidly arriving when we must shoulder new responsibilities and embark on a new path. With this in mind, we reach the end of our journey, only to begin again."
John Michell 1972 Page 160 "All who study the cabalistic science and the geometry and numbers of creation are attacked by melancholy, some-times fatally, the suicide rate among cabalists being notoriously high. The Point is clearly made in Durer's Melancholia. The garden of paradise,symbol of the ultimate perfection of human consciousness, has many delightful inhabitants which are at the same time dange-rous beasts to whoever fails to recognise their nature and function; and of these the most treachorous is the mercurial old serpent of wisdom, that leads men on in the search of the treasure of which it is in itself the the venomous custodian". PRESENTITHESERPENTTHESERPENTIPRESENT
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875 -1955 Page 266 "..."And if one is interested in life, one must be particularly interested in death, mustn't one?" "Oh, well, after all, there is some sort of difference. Life is life which keeps the form through change of substance." "Why should the form remain?" said Hans Castorp. / Page 267 / "why? Young man, what you are saying now sounds far from humanistic." SATURN IN TRANSIT BOUNDARIES OF MIND BODY AND SOUL Erin Sullivan 1990 Page 77 "With the personifications of his destiny to guide and aid him, the hero goes forward in his adventure until he comes to the "threshold guardian" at the entrance to the zone of magnified power. Such custodians bound the world in the four directions-also up and down-standing for the limits of the hero's present sphere, or life horizon. Beyond them is darkness, the unknown, and danger; just as beyond the parental watch is danger to the infant and beyond the protection of his society danger to the member / Page 78 / of the tribe. The usual person is more than content, he is even proud, to remain within the indicated bounds, and popular belief gives him every reason to fear so much as the first step into the unexplored. Thus the sailors of the bold vessels of Columbus, breaking the horizon of the medieval mind-sailing, as they thought, into the boundless ocean of immortal being that surrounds the cosmos, like an endless mythological serpent biting its tail37-had to be cozened and urged on like children, because of their fear of the fabled leviathans, mermaids, dragon kings, and other monsters of the deep."
THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES Joseph Campbell 1993 THE HERO AND THE GOD Page 89 THE CROSSING OF THE FIRST THRESHOLD
"The "Wall of Paradise," which conceals God from human sight, is described by Nicholas of Cusa as constituted of the "coincidence of opposites," its gate being guarded by "the highest spirit of reason, who bars the way until he has been overcome."53 The pairs of opposites (being and not being, life and death, beauty and ugliness, good and evil, and all the other polarities that bind the faculties to hope and fear, and link the organs of action to deeds of defense and acquisition) are the clashing rocks (Symplegades) that crush the traveler, but between which the heroes always pass. This is a motif known throughout the world."
PARADE EYES IN THE GARDEN OF NEED Page 90 The Belly of the Whale "The idea that the passage of the magical threshold is a transit into a sphere of rebirth is symbolized in the worldwide womb image of the belly of the whale. The hero, instead of conquering or conciliating the power of the threshold, is swallowed into the unknown, and would appear to have died. Mishe-Nahma, King of Fishes, The Eskimo of Bering Strait tell of the trickster-hero Raven, how, one day, as he sat drying his clothes on a beach, he observed a whale-cow swimming gravely close to shore. He called: "Next time you come up for air, dear, open your mouth and shut your eyes." Then he slipped quickly into his raven clothes, pulled on his raven mask, gathered his fire sticks under his arm, and flew out over the water. The whale came up. She did as she had been told. Raven darted through the open jaws and straight into her gullet. The shocked whale-cow snapped and sounded; Raven stood inside and looked around.57 Page 91 The Zulus have a story of two children and their mother swallowed by an elephant. When the woman reached the animal's stomach, "she saw large forests and great rivers, and many high lands; on one side there were many rocks; and there were many people who had built their village there; and many dogs and many cattle; all was there inside the elephant."58 The Irish hero, Finn MacCool, was swallowed by a monster of indefinite form, of the type known to the Celtic world as a peist. The little German girl, Red Ridinghood, was swallowed by a wolf. The Polynesian favorite, Maui, was swallowed by his great-great-grandmother, Hine-nui-te-po. And the whole Greek pantheon, with the sole exception of Zeus, was swallowed by its father, Kronos . The Greek hero Herakles, pausing at Troy on his way homeward with the belt of the queen of the Amazons, found that the city was being harassed by a monster sent against it by the sea-god Poseidon. The beast would come ashore and devour people as they moved about on the plain. Beautiful Hesione, the daughter of the king, had just been bound by her father to the sea rocks as a propitiatory sacrifice, and the great visiting hero agreed to rescue her for a price. The monster, in due time, broke to the surface of the water and opened its enormous maw. Herakles took a dive into the throat, cut his way out through the belly, and left the monster dead. This popular motif gives emphasis to the lesson that the passage of the threshold is a form of self-annihilation. Its resemblance to the adventure of the Symplegades is obvious. But here, instead of passing outward, beyond the confines of the visible world, the hero goes inward, to be born again. The disappearance corresponds to the passing of a worshiper into a temple-where he is to be quickened by the recollection of who and what he is, namely dust and ashes unless immortal. The temple interior, the belly /Page 92/ of the whale, and the heavenly land beyond, above, and below the confines of the world, are one and the same. That is why the approaches and entrances to temples are flanked and defended by colossal gargoyles: dragons, lions, devil-slayers with drawn swords, resentful dwarfs, winged bulls. These are the threshold guardians to ward away all incapable of encountering the higher silences within. They are preliminary embodiments of the dangerous aspect of the presence, corresponding to the mythological ogres that bound the conventional world, or to the two rows of teeth of the whale. They illustrate the fact that the devotee at the moment of entry into a temple undergoes a metamorphosis. His secular character remains without; he sheds it, as a snake its slough. Once inside he may be said to have died to time and returned to the World Womb, the World Navel, the Earthly Paradise. The mere fact that anyone can physically walk past the temple guardians does not invalidate their significance; for if the intruder is incapable of encompassing the sanctuary, then he has effectually remained without. Anyone unable to understand a god sees it as a devil and is thus defended from the approach. Allegorically, then, the passage into a temple and the hero-dive through the jaws of the whale are identical adventures, both denoting, in picture language, the life-centering, life-renewing act. "No creature," writes Ananda Coomaraswamy, "can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist."59 Indeed, the physical body of the hero may be actually slain, dismembered, and scattered over the land or sea-as in the Egyptian myth of the savior Osiris: he was thrown into a sarcophagus and committed to the Nile by his brother Set,60 and when he returned from the dead his brother slew him again, tore the body into fourteen pieces, and scattered these over the land. The Twin Heroes of the Navaho had to pass not only the clashing rocks, but also the reeds that cut the traveler to pieces, the cane cactuses that tear him to pieces, and the boiling sands that overwhelm him. The hero whose attachment to ego is already annihilate passes back and forth across the horizons of the world, in and out of the dragon, as readily as a king through all the rooms of his house. And therein lies his power to save; for his passing and returning demonstrate that through all the contraries of phenomenality the Uncreate-Imperishable remains, and there is nothing to fear. And so it is that, throughout the world, men whose function it has been to make visible on earth the life-fructifying mystery of the slaying of the dragon have enacted upon their own bodies the great symbolic act, scattering their flesh, like the body of Osiris, for the renovation of the world .
THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES Joseph Campbell 1993 THE HERO AND THE GOD Page 32 "Having won that preliminary victory before sunset, the con-queror aquired in the first watch of the night knowledge of his previous existences, in the second watch the divine eye of om-niscient vision, and in the last watch understanding of the chain / Page 33 / of causation. He experienced perfect enlightenment at the break of day.37 Then for seven days Gautama-now the Buddha; the Enlightened-sat motionless in bliss; for seven, days he stood apart and regarded the spot on which he had re«:eived enlightement; for seven days he paced between the place of the sitting and the place of the. standing; for seven days he abode in a pavilion furnished by the gods and reviewed the whole doctrine of causality and release; for seven days he sat beneath the tree where the girl Sujata had brought him milk-rice in a golden bowl, and there meditated on the docrine of the. sweetness of Nirvana; he removed to another tree and a great storm raged for seven days, but the King of Serpents emerged from the roots and protected the Buddha with his; expanded hood; finally, the Buddha sat for seven days beneath a fourthr tree enjoying. still the sweetness of liberation. Then he doubted wheher his message could be communicated, and he thought to retain the wisdom for himsself; but the god Brahma descended from. the zenith to implore that he should become the teacher of gods and men. The Buddha was thus persuaded to proclaim the path.38 And he went back into / the cities of men where he moved among the citizens of the world, bestowing the inestimable boon of the knowledge of the way."
"37 This is the most important single moment in Oriental mythology, a counterpart of the Crucifixion of the West. The Buddha beneath the Tree of Enlightenment (the Bo Tree) and Christ on Holy Rood (the Tree of Redemption) are analogous figures, incorporating of an archetypal World Savior, World Tree motif, which is of immemorial antiquity. Many other variants of the-theme will be found among the episodes to come. The Immovable Spot and Mount Calvary are images of the World Navel, or World
Axis (see p. 40, infra).
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Thomas Mann 1875 1955 Page 465 / 466 "Had not the normal, since time was, lived on the achievements of the abnormal? Men consciously and voluntarily descended into disease and madness, in search of knowledge which, acquired by fanaticism, would lead back to health; after the possession and use of it had ceased to be conditioned by that heroic and abnormal act of sacrifice. That was the true death on the cross, the true Atone-ment."
THE EYES I SEE YES SEE I EYES THE I THE IMMORTAL I
THIRTEEN NAMES OF GOD GOD OF NAMES THIRTEEN THIRTEEN = 99 99 = THIRTEEN
DAILY MAIL Thursday, April 28th, 2005 88/1ST Back Page28 (Number omitted) "HAND OF GOD"
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THE APPEARANCE OF KALKI AVATAR THE APPEARANCE OF KALKI AVATAR On this day of the Sravana month sukla 6 (August 17), the appearance day of Lord Kalki is observed according to the Pancaratra texts. Famous as the last of the ten major avatara-s of Lord Vishnu, He has yet to make His appearance in this cycle of time, a time so dangerous that we are encouraged in the Srimad Bhagavatam to worship Him for protection: kalkiH kaleH kAla-malAt prapAtu "May Kalki-deva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who appeared as an incarnation to protect religious principles, protect me from the dirt of the age of Kali." This prayer becomes more and more relevant as the age of Kali and its degradation progresses. In fact we are now approaching the 51st Centennial of the Age of Kali in early 1999, which promises to be interesting if one is inclined to believe astrological predications. Regardless of the details, each and every year is a gradual step into darkness and chaos. Only the recitation of the name and pastimes of the Lord Kalki and His incarnations can free us from the shackles of the Age of Kali. "...When the Supreme Lord has appeared on earth as Kalki, the maintainer of religion, Saya-yuga will begin, and human society will bring forth progeny in the mode of goodness. When the moon, the sun and Brhaspati are together in the constellation Karkata, and all three enter simulatenously into the lunar mansion Pusya--at that exact moment the age of Satya, or Krta, will begin." (translation from BBT Srimad Bhagavatam 1987)
KA KALI KALKI KALKI KALI KA
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"Maitreya, the "kindly one," may be considered either as a bodhisattva a, according to the sutras, or as a Buddha, according to the Tantras. When he is represented as a Buddha he is shown seated, but the legs, instead of being locked, are pendent. He is the only divinity in the Northern Buddhist pantheon represented seated in European fashion. He has the signs of a Buddha such as long earlobes, the urna (the auspicious tuft of hair between the eyebrows, signifying superhuman quality), and the ushnisha (cranial bump on the head, symbolizing wisdom), and he wears the robes of a monk.
Maitreya, also known as the future Buddha, who has still to come, is now thought to be waiting in Tushita Heaven for the right time to come down to earth. Tushita heaven is one of the thirty-three heavens over Mount Meru and is considered the special field of Maitreya. Tibetans believe that if someone makes statues and thangkas of Maitreya Buddha and chants the mantra "The Promise of Maitreya Buddha," that person will be reborn in Tushita Heaven after death. Shown with an extremely sweet and gentle countenance, he holds in his left hand, between the thumb and forefinger, the stem of a lotus flower. The bloom of this lotus supports a wheel. This is the Buddhist wheel of spiritual instruction. His right hand is held in the varada mudra (Tib. Mchog sbyin gyi phyag rgya) of generosity or boon granting, with the palm facing downwards and the fingers extended. Surmounting his image is a parasol (Tib. Gdugs), the traditional symbol of both protection and royalty"
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THE SUN April 13th 2005 Cash Flow Page 1 THE POUND 99p IN YOUR POCKET NINETY NINE PENCE 99 (Illustration of coin omitted) "Do you know what the political parties are promising to do about the 1£ in your pocket if they win the election? One party is promising to mint a 99p coin to save on change when you are out shopping" "We also list suggestions from smaller parties two - such as the mad 99p coin"
DAILY MAIL WEEKEND Jonathan Cainer Page 94 (number omitted) Saturday 9th April "NEW MOON ORACLE"
DAILY MAIL Richard Kay April10/11 "NINE SMILES ALL FROM THE HEART" "No wedding is complete without a family photograph, but no royal portrait has surely been like this one. Here are nine adults who for once look as happy as they undoutably are.
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles Married April 9th 2005
THE ALMOST FORGOTTEN DAY Mark A. Finley 1988 Page 48 OM
ALL HAIL THE JEWEL IN THE CENTRE OF THE LOTUS
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