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The city and its
gates.
30
And these are the goings out of the city on the north side,
four thousand and five hundred
mea-sures
31
And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the
tribes of Israel: three gates north-ward: one gate
of
Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of
Levi.
32
And at the east side four thou-sand and five hundred: and
three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate
of
Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
33 And
at the south side four thousand and five hundred mea-sures:
and three gates; one gate of Simeon,
one
gate
of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
34
At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with
their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of
Asher,
one gate of Naphtah.
35
It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name
of the city from that day shall be, The
LORD
is there.
AMEN
Or is it all men,
oriz it all women, or iz it all men and all woman and all
sentient beings, all of that,
Three cheers for the
great THAT writ the scribe, not without a touch of, did I
say irony, in the diet, or, wharrit date? or, wharrit date?
or wharrit die yet?
AMEN to that said
AlizZed.
Backrrds in
time scribe said Zed Aliz, without apparent reason, and
goodness knowing why.
Thus writ that far
yonder scribe of near and far.
CITY OF
REVELATION
John
Michell
1972
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The sequence of
events which led up to the destruction of human memory and
sense of purpose has
never
been established with
any certainty, but all the esoteric traditions are in
agreement on the nature of the original mission. Intelligent
life was introduced to earth in order that the earth itself
might be brought to a state of perfection in fulfillment of
its cosmic destiny. The Temple provided the model and ground
plan on which the work was to proceed, and throughout the
golden age it went accordingly. From their primeval state
men had retained the ability to communicate with animals and
with the life in plants, and were now able to provide for
each species according to its various needs and preferences.
Every nation had its particular place and function in the
general scheme, and so it was for each community, family and
individual. The order of life was nomadic or pastoral,
regulated by orbits astrologically determined, which
encompassed the various centres of fertility
ritual,
and brought all the
nation together for the great seasonal gathering at the
central point of control, the
temple.
Whatever their
occupation, all men
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worked to a common
purpose, expressed in the appropriate language and symbolism
of the different
crafts. The span of
life was longer in those days, the gods were at the temple
and the earthly paradise was
at
hand.
Suddenly the mythic rhythm is broken. Something happens, as
the result of which the primal seperation of heaven and
earth is re-peated in the departure of the gods. The cause
of the trouble is doubtless still to be found in human
nature, which provides the one constant factor throughout
history and was therefore the chief object of study in
ancient civilisations, as it will necessarily become in our
own. As all philosophers have realised, the human condition
is basically unsatisfactory. Men are awkwardly placed,
deprived of the comforts of unconsciousness, yet not
intelligent enough to com-prehend fully the circumstances of
existence. It is possible for the soul to experience a more
essential reality beyond the shadow world of normal
perception, but
such
experience is
achieved at the ex-pense of the body, through ascetism,
intoxication or hard and obsessive study. Nor are the
dangers in the pursuit of knowledge merely physical. All who
study the cabalistic science and the geo-metry and numbers
of creation are attacked by meloncholy, some-times fatally,
the suicide rate among cabalists being notoriously high. The
Point is clearly made in Durers Melencholia. 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 venomous custodian. In
every age there are those prepared to stake fortune and
sanity on a quest which, if
too
rigorously pursued,
may to lead to loss of both, and there is no reason to
suppose that the first men were
more
content with their
limitations than their de-scendants have been, particularly
at a time when the
advantages
enjoyed by the gods
were apparent to all. The mythological accounts of jealously
and warfare between men and gods are eternally true, for the
situation they describe is ever renewed from the fact that
human ambition for knowledge is more highly developed than
are the means to satisfy it; but they may also be true in
the most literal sense as records of the first and decisive
episode in the human tragedy, the loss of direct contact
with extraterrestrial
life.
We are now brought inescapeably to face the ultimate
question concerning the nature of these gods and
the
meaning behind the
traditions of their former existence on earth. The gods,
as
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Freud and more
effectively, Jung demonstrated, inhabit the un-conscious
mind in the forms of certain images and patterns of thought
which are not simply the products of an individuals
lifetime
ex-perience,
but have an
independent existence of their own. Those who understand
this to be the case may accept it as the complete
explanation of the reality and function of the gods, and
many believe that they only attain form
within
the human mind, that
their physi-cal appearances are projections of the
imagination. Yet Jung
himself
understood that this
point of view merely reflects the limited beliefs and
knowledge of its time. In
Alchemical
Studies he
tells the story of an African soldier who threw away his
rifle, was court-martialled and claimed that
a
spirit in a tree had
ordered him to do so. Jung comments that it would be
difficult at the present time to
suggest
anything further than
the spirit was projected by the soldier into the tree and
appeared to speak from there
while
in fact its voice was
inside the man. But he continues that this interpretation is
the product of a certain level
of
understanding; the
reality of the unconscious part of the psyche, once
accepted, supposes also the reality of
its
inhabitants.
The
ancient belief was that all the gods are represented in
human nature, but exist also as physical beings. Indeed, no
other view was possible in the light of personal experience
of the gods prescence and of the benefits of revelation.
Throughout his work on the Greek myths the great philologist
Wilamowitz insists, The gods
are
there. They no
longer inhabit our world; we have lost contact and can not
now know how it was for those who once saw them. Walter Otto
writes in Dionysus, If we were in a position to feel
once more what it means for a god to be in our immediate
presence, only an experience of this imminence could open
our eyes.
As the earliest myths are the most complete and perfectly
evolved so it is with living ritual, the
social
structure and the
canonical Temple. There is no gradual approach to the
gradual knowledge from which all
the
great historical
civilisations descended. It was the primeval state of human
consciousness, a creation, we can only presume, of the gods
themselves. This is the unanimous report of all sacred
histories, whose interpreters are generally in agreement
that human intelligence is of divine or extra-terrestrial
origin. As Walter Otto notes, The serious observer can
not doubt that the dances and evolutions of cultus
were set in motion and given form by contact with the
divine. It is scarcely possible to prolong an
examin-ation of the ancient order of life, sustained by the
institution of the Temple, without becoming aware that it
could not have been of
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human construction. The
conclusion is inevitable: the earth has known a higher
intelligence than our own, and we, as a species of
terrestrial animal, have received the gift of knowledge
together with the spirit through which it may ever be
renewed.
It is only within recent years and among those
of European education that the suggestion of
prehuman
intelligent life on
earth is seen as in any way remarkable. But there is now
such a vast weight of
authority
committed to the
opposite view, that the obvious has become
unfamiliar
So many political and
academic institutions of the present time are founded on
erroneous theories of history, that the facts which tend to
contradict them must necessarily be
suppressed
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163
Everywhere
the beginning of the historical period coincides with the
greatest achievements in
architecture,
science and
engineering, which are even then recognised as imperfect in
comparison with those of still
earlier
times. Yet books are
still written which purport to trace the recent growth of
civilisation from primeval savagery, and many more are
conditioned by this same belief.The theory of human
evolution derives from the opinions of this age, which have
not been held in any
other,
The people who are now called primitive are like all other
men the degenerate descendants of an age
when
the Temple was
estab-lished universally. In their case, however, the
decline of the old order has disturbed
the
balance of their
societies in favour of the yin element 1080, so that,
neglecting to exercise the intellect, they
live
by custom and
intuition, deprived of the positive will to adapt to
changing circumstances. Thus, withdrawn beneath the
protection of the earth spirit, which assumes in this
situation the character of an aged chrone, they approach
their watery dissolution at the same time as the nations
which have advanced under the spell of the number 666
prepare for the cataclysm by
fire.
It is emphasised in all sacred histories that, on account of
the fall and the departure of the gods, the
human
race became subject
to the terrestrial cycles of death and rebirth that effect
both individuals and societies. Following the initial
disaster, The Temple was reconstituted all over the earth
and the work of
redemption
continued as before.
But the certainty of former ages could never again be
achieved and the second
Temple
gradually gave way
under the pressure of time, for the art of predicting and
evaluating the current
influences
was never restored to
perfection. Ever since the first break between heaven and
earth, the cycle of disasters,
each
followed by an
attempt to regain the secrets of the perfect Temple, has
grown progressively more rapid.
Egyptian
traditions record
dynasties of gods ruling for 10,000 years, followed by
patriarchal reigns, first of 900 and then of 200 or 150
years, and finally the historical kings with the present
life spans, The earliest Chinese empires were longer
established than
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those that came later,
and the same process of degeneration is admitted by most
other races. The evidence of history is thus in ac-cordance
with the statements by shamans and magicians that their
spiritual
powers have long been
in decline. Even in times of renais-sance the recovery is
only partial. The
megalithic
revolution, which
swept the entire world between two and three millennia
before the birth of
Christianity,
soon lost its
momentum and the nations again fell apart. Some the Greeks
in particular, sought to regain the
time
of inspiration by
philosophy and reason; the Egyptians continued to preserve
the canon and the Jews the Temple; everywhere the traditions
of the former world order were upheld by priests and
initiates.. But despite all attempts at recovery, the
primeval secret is lost. The settled habits of agriculture
with the decline of the
pastoral life
inhibited
communications, binding men closer to the earth both
physically and in spirit. The
extra-terrestrial
strain, grafted onto
human stock, grew weak as the parent body reverted towards
its material origins. Even the long anticipated revival,
which coincided with the month of Pisces and the birth of
Christ, was a
comparatively
feeble movement, soon
spent; within two centuries the spirit of Jerusalem was
again captive in Roman
Babylon.
Oh lookee thee
hear scribe, said the Zed Aliz Zed, just in the magic trick
of time, the calvarys
arrived.
Holy Bible
Scofield
References
St John
Chapter 1 A.D.
30.
Page
1117
13
And the
Jews passover was at hand and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem,
And
found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and
doves, and the changers of money
sitting:
15 And
when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all
out of the temple, and the
sheep,
and
the oxen; and poured out the changers money, and
overthrew the
tables;
16 And
said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence;
make not my Fathers house an house
of
merchandise.
17 And
his disciple remembered that it was written, The zeal of
thine house hath eaten me
up.
18 Then
answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou
unto us, seeing that thou doest
these
things?
19 Jesus
answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in
three days I will raise it
up.
20 Then
said the Jews,
Forty
and
six
years was this temple in build-ing, and wilt thou rear it up
in
three
days?
21 But
he spake of the temple of his
body.
22 When
therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples
remem-bered that he had said this unto them:
and
they
believed the scrip-ture, and the word which Jesus had
said
St. Mark.
A. D.
33
3 x 3 = 9
Page
1068
Chapter
15
Jesus
crucified
24
And when they had crucified him, they parted his
garments, casting lots upon them, what every man
should
take.
25 And
it was the
third
hour, and they crucified
him.
26 And
the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE
KING OF THE JEWS.
27 And
with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right
hand, and the other on his
left.
28 And
the scripture was ful-filled, which saith, And he was
numbered with the
transgressors.
29 And
they that passed by railed on him wagging their heads, and
saying, Ah, thou that de-stroyest
the
temple,
and buildest it in
three
days
30 Save
thyself, and come down from the
cross.
32
Let Christ the
King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see
and believe. And they that
were
crucified
with him reviled
him.
33
And when the
sixth
hour was come, there was a darkness over the whole land
until the
ninth
hour
34
And at the
ninth
hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying Eloi, Eloi, lama
sabachthani?
Which
is being
interpreted,
My God My
God
why hast thou
forsaken me ?
Notwithstanding the
sum ofany other numbers the far yonder
scribe,
noted that the sum of
verse numbers 32 + 33 + 34 was
99
And that the word
crucified
contained
9
letters, crucify
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CITY OF
REVELATION
John
Michell
1972
Page
160
All who study the
cabalistic science and the geo-metry 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
Durers
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.
At this
juxtoposition, of neither an either,
or ether, of the cross, in the juxtaposition of a cross
moment.
The Aliz Zed
entered, not a moment too soon, without the within, of
Alcheringas cave. Az ever, never descending into
that far yonder deepnes, or ascending beyond the
horizon of dreams, where, within the permanence
of that tie me time, dream time, time
still stands still, remaining, az far away az
never iz, ever clothed at hand.
Time present,
and time past, is perhaps contained in time future, and time
future contained in time past.
Said by
TS, with a hint of a nod, to the nodding
donkey.
Then as the scribe,
and always accompanying shadows watched, from within their
own minds I
even.
They, whoever they
are, experienced without
amaze,
the drowning of
the
Zed Aliz
Zed
Seeing
THAT
after enduring such
az iz a suitably spanned immersion, the Aliz Zed resurface
from out the in of that oft veiled, seething,
ceaseless,
activity
THAT
iz the breathless
state, and, az it were spring
forth.
Magiking, from
out the in of
THAT
yonder well, an
anciently owd, book of
books.
Az the eyes of the
Is, of those beings, being the all and sundry, of each
and everybodies
I in the
I
of the beholder,
looked upon the living
word
THAT
book they saw within
the ever of the
never,
THAT
iz in the ever, of
forever and a
day.
THAT
very book, lay open,
at just the right
page.
Thus did they,
whosoever they might be, awaken. And
upon
THAT
awakening,
didst pass without mote, through
the
I in the
I
of the need
of.
THAT
need.
LOVE
Thus writ the
scribe.
As for this work,
said Alizzed, twer buried within the labour of others,
animatedly
suspended
awaiting THAT
moment.
Lost and found, deep
within The Magic Mountain.
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