This story line not only fits Steven Spielberg’s movie E.T., but also echoes that of nearly all the world’s sixteen crucified saviors who preceded Jesus. (I’m not sure of what to make of Mr. Spielberg’s story. Is he inferring that Jesus is a reptilian extraterrestrial?)
In the sequel to the story about Jesus he was crucified, died, was buried, rose from the dead (an event witnessed by Mary Magdalene), and returned to Heaven, where he is now residing, awaiting the appointed end time set for his second coming to raise the dead, judge all men, destroy this world and produce a new one. Christians can hardly wait for this to occur.
Then, there is the religion of Jesus and Mary Magdalene forbidden by the Catholic Church and many of the derivatives thereof. This religion is epitomized by the statement attributed to Jesus in The Books of the Savior, also known as Pistis Sophia (Faith-Wisdom), in response to a question posed by Mary Magdalene. With tremendous wisdom Jesus provides a mission statement to MM for how to spend our lives:
“Do not cease seeking day or night, and do not let yourselves relax until you have found all the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Light, which will purify you and make you into Pure Light and lead you into the Kingdom of Light.”
These ‘cleansing mysteries’ are nowhere to be found in modern Christianity. In ancient times, the cleansing or purification mysteries, this activation or ‘attunement’, was at the heart of the Essene teachings. The Essenes saw themselves as the holy ones in the brotherhood of “The Sons of Light.” Everyone else was evil, called “The Sons of Darkness,” or the “men of the Pit.” All were to participate in “The War of the Sons of Light with Sons of Darkness.”
Interestingly, without the vowels the words sin, sine, sing, sign, Sion, Sun, and Essene are the same: SN.
The etymology of the word Essene is a mystery to bible scholars. However, from the above word plays and puns we can derive a very good idea of its origins. It refers to an essence produced in the brains as the result of a sine wave from heaven
The Essenes called themselves Therapeutae, “healers,” claiming that their austere lifestyle gave them the power to cast out demons of sickness and even to restore life of the dead. Considering this, Christ raising Lazarus from the dead seems a typical Essenic miracle. This miracle is the performance of the Great Work.
According to the definition offered by Father John Rossner, the magi were “specialists in the holy” who acted as ‘Mid-wives’ in the birth of the “God-Men” from the “Old.” These magicians did not practice or demonstrate this craft merely for entertainment purposes or to cause sensations. They did so to provide a demonstration of the means to overcome suffering and to display the powers of the fully functioning human being.
THE MESSIAH AND THE CRAFT
In addition to sin, Morgenstern provides critical explanations for the Babylonian seal of Enki we examined a moment ago. He explains this is a purification ceremony. He says the officiating ‘fish’ priest is the masmasu, the purifier. This title was given to Marduk, the son of E.A., the great wise sage of ancient Sumer, who is hovering in the disk.
Ahura Mazda in his winged disk or craft.
Importantly, this is one of the many examples of the gods of Light, the Illi, flying in such a craft, celestial disk or winged ring. Another depiction, shown here, is on the doorways and on the walls at Persepolis in Iran. These are almost certainly taken from the Babylonian ideas of the Anunnaki.
Scholars have usually interpreted this god as Ahura Mazda, who is also known as ‘the God of Light’, holding the ring of Cosmic Sovereignty, , with his hand raised in a gesture of blessing. Talk about a powerful term. Cosmic Sovereignty is the term applied to the Divine State withheld from ‘sinful’ humanity and, for that which we all seek.
Ahura Mazda is often interchanged with Enki. This makes sense, as the wisdom of E.A. was the technical means to elevate, through the asipu principles, an ordinary human to the level of the gods. It is Merkaba metaphysics.
The priest who performed these Babylonian purification or baptismal ceremonies, says Morgenstern, was called asipu or masmasu. Masmasu was probably derived from the Sumerian MAS-MAS. Mas is quite close to Maz, as in Ahura Mazda or Masda.
Mas is strikingly similar to the Egyptian Mes, the root of the Hebrew Messiah, as well as Mos or Moses and the suffix of Her-MES. The ME (pronounced May) were the tablets of civilization brought by Enki. They most certainly link with the Emerald Tablet of Hermes.
May, we recall, is also the name of a pillar or tower of mysteries in pagan belief. Its alternate name is Mag.
The state of uncleanliness and sin, from which the masmas (Messiah) released the sick man, was called mamitu. This word had two meanings, “bann” or “exorcism” and “state of evil or uncleanliness.
A synonym for mammitu, notes Morgenstern, was iltu, ‘to bind’ and denoting “the state of being bound.” Phonetically, mami is similar to mummi or mummy, the Egyptian term from a body bound or wrapped. In a moment, we will see that this was called the KRST or Karast garment. It lifted one out of sin and transformed one into a god.
In fact, before the baru priest could perform his holy work, says Morgenstern, he had to fulfill certain qualifications. He had to be of noble, priestly, blood, a descendent of Enmeduranki. He had to be of perfect bodily growth and thoroughly knowledgeable in his priestly duties. The key to decoding the ability of the baru priest is to identify Enmeduranki.
En-me-duranki was a sage of Eridu. Some scholars believe he is the Sumerian equivalent of the biblical Enoch. Enmeduranki, means the ‘Master of the Divine Tablets of the bond Heaven-Earth.” These ME tablets had been preserved and hidden by the Anunnaki before the Flood. They were recovered and Enmeduranki became knowledgeable in them.
“The learned savant who guards the secrets of the gods will bind his favored son with an oath before Shamash and Adad... and will instruct him in the secrets of the gods.” “Thus was the line of priests created, those who are allowed to approach Shamash and Adad.”
The mullilu or ‘purifiier’.
Let us now return to the towers in the seals. Morgenstern informs us that Mul ilu was the name of the sacred tower or utensil. This is the term applied to the cones emitted from the utensil, as well. Mullilu means purifier. Mul, interestingly enough, is the Sumerian word for star, making the “star of light” one possible interpretation of this utensil. Starlight, we may presume, is the purifier.
The technical term for purifying the place where the purification ceremony was to be held was sabatu. Sometimes, instead of merely sprinkling with holy water, the whole body was washed or baptized. Sabba is a word that means baptize.
The need for some means to expel the evil spirits from the body was very urgent in Babylonian thought, notes Morgenstern. Their presence meant continual sickness and suffering, and eventual death. Life required their removal.
Morgenstern says the chief means by which this was accomplished were fire (light) and water. They were the great purifiers. Water refers to the celestial waters. The god of light, Marduk, was looked upon as the son and chief messenger of E.A. against the evil spirits.
A study of Sumerian titles of some of the most important gods of the ashipu ceremony is illuminating. Marduk was called “controller of the siptu”, and DINGIR-SILIG-NAM-TI-LA, or “controller of life.” He was “the reviver of the dead,” a state apparently brought about by the asipu.
E.A. was “lord of life”, and his companion, the earth mother goddess Ninhursag or Damkina, “mistress of life.”
It is easy to see that these concepts were cut and pasted wholesale into the Christian tradition and applied to Jesus who became the reviver of the dead and the chief means by which sin was overcome. What was omitted, or downplayed, was the role of the Fish Tower in this process.
Earlier, we noted that Nebuchadnezzar built an image of gold that stood three score (60) cubits high and six cubits wide. This was a Round Tower.
The bible subtly records that it was the people of Daniel who could make
this Tower work. Old Testament scholars universally agree that Daniel was compiled over a long period of time and does not represent the visions of one particular person. Daniel (‘God is my judge’) was not a personal name. The question who or what then is the Daniel takes on paramount importance.
In her Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Barbara Walker answers this question by saying ‘Daniel’ was a title used to distinguish a group of people, “a person of the Goddess Dana or Diana”. Dana was Jacob’s daughter, his 13th child. Her name means ‘light of An’.
There’s your trouble. That is exactly the same meaning as the Celtic Tuatha De’ Danann (‘Children of the Goddess Diana’). In Irish history, the mystical Tuatha De’ Danann, are described as heaven-sent ‘gods, and not-gods’. They are compared with the Sanskrit deva (shining one, god) and adeva (Devil), which became daeva (devil) in Persian. The Old English divell (devil) can be traced to the Roman derivative divus, divi: gods.
In Bloodline of the Holy Grail Laurence Gardner says Mary Magdalene, as the Miriam, was the Head Sister of the Order of Dan. Her order appears to be the continuation of the mysterious Shining Ones or Illumined Ones who possessed the secrets of the great Tower.
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TEACH THE BREAD OF LIFE = 153
It must have been quite a sight for Mary when she first beheld Jesus. Described by Luke as a gluttonous man, a winebibber and a friend of publicans and sinners (Luke 7:34) he apparently attracted large crowds, like a modern celebrity. It was adios reality when he appeared. The people of Capernaum literally crawled over one another to see the magician perform miracles and healings and to hear his vision of the divine New Age and the Kingdom or Empire of Light to come.
The Jewish elders confronted Jesus in the synagogue at Capernaum and demanded that he produce the ‘bread of GodPsaim 78:24, Exodus 16:15, the manna that miraculously rained from heaven and fed the Israelites in the wilderness during the Exodus.John 6:31-59 This magical substance suddenly disappeared after the Israelites entered Canaan. There was a strong Rabbinic belief that when the Messiah came he would rain manna from heaven once again. This was the great work of the master Moses. Now the Jewish leaders were demanding that Jesus produce this celestial substance as proof to his claim to be the Messiah. He responded with his discourse on the bread of life in which he disclosed that it was not Moses who manufactured this substance, but God.
Jesus was born in Bethelehem, the ‘House of Bread’. As an adult, Jesus connects himself to manna when he describes himself as: “The bread of God is he which came down from heaven, and gives life unto the world.” John 6:33
Later Jesus added (or someone added for him),
“I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” John 6:51
This bread is referred to again in Revelation 2:17. Jesus says:
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth (it).”
Jesus states that he possesses a technique for bringing this substance – the white manna stone or snow-like crystal – out of the Milky Way. He can open the heavens and bring to Earth a supply of this pure food. He is further stating that he is the embodiment of this substance. THE STONE OF GOD = 153.
As Mary Magdalene was the first to see the risen bread/manna/Christ outside the tomb on Easter morning she seemingly had knowledge of this matter. It also appears she assisted in an obstetric operation. She assisted in the birth of the risen bread/manna/Christ... substance.
After the Resurrection, MM sailed to France where she is further connected to this substance. In the Ecstasy portrayals of Mary Magdalene from Provence, notes Gardner in The Magdalene Legacy, Mary is portrayed in the company of angels, who were said to have fed her a mystical form of bread.
VITAL LINK MANNA = 153
In Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars Jean Markhale adds an important detail concerning this bread. He notes that the Cathars of Southern France, who venerated Mary Magdalene, recited the Lord’s Prayer in a heretical form. This prayer was revered as the prayer spoken by the angels before the crystal throne of Christ. Instead of daily bread, the Cathars said bread beyond substance. Markhale believes this was because to the Cathars material bread (or other food) was a diabolical creation, like everything else in this realm. However, it is possible it is related to a heavenly substance, the mystical bread of the Ecstasy portrayals.
Jesus’ crime was explicitly stated on a placard placed above his head on the cross by Pontius Pilate. Written in Greek, Latin and Hebrew the placard read: INRI. Exoterically, this is translated as “Jesus the Nazorean, King of the Jews.” This declared the official capitol charge against Jesus – declaring himself the one and only savior and challenging the sovereign authority of Tiberius Caesar – and at the same time mocked him. This is the “King of the Jews?”
In the wisdom tradition INRI means; “By Fire Nature is Renewed Whole,” pointing to Jesus’ role as a bringer of higher frequency knowledge or ‘fire’. The Rosicrucians altered the meaning of INRI to IGNE NITRUM RORIS INVENITUR or “the baptism or cleansing power of dew is only discovered by fire.” Jesus was considered the ‘bringer of the dew’.
It is vital that we understand as much about this distinctive substance as possible. This stuff is obviously IT as far as Jesus was concerned. Briefly examining it here will serve to introduce us to the tremendous insight and knowledge potentially possessed by MM and for which she was called the Illuminator.
MANNA
What’s a manna? It’s an ethereal substance from the stars, described in Exodus 16:31 as bread, small, round, white and sweet, which sustained life. Manifesting in the morning along with dew it dove out of the Milky Way at night and turned to a crystalline form on Earth in the morning. It is considered to be interchangeable with the Holy Spirit, which is symbolized by a dove. Interestingly, in Holy Blood, Holy Grail Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln note that Magdala is called the “Village of Doves” .
In the Egyptian Papyrus of Ani manna is referred to as What is this? or “what is if”? The Greeks called it ‘golden rain’ and associated its appearance with Pallas-Athena, the goddess of wisdom and one of the role models for Mary Magdalene. Manna in Greek means ‘mother’. It is called the “white dew” and the “white dove” (duv). It is ben, bon.
“Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew,” says Deuteronomy.
Vulcan, the god of alchemy, seeking to free Jupiter (the Greek Zeus) from his headaches with an axe, releases Pallas Athena, the goddess of wisdom, form his skull. Golden Rain, manna, falls upon her. Her birth is celebrated annually by the festival of the “Golden Rain” in which gold coins are scattered. In Earth Under Fire, Dr. Paul LaViolette proposes that Zeus signifies the Galactic core. Athena, who springs from Zeus’ head, he says, signifies the outburst of cosmic rays violently emitted from the Galactic center during a starburst event.
Where there’s a mother there is a father. In Jesus’ story this is Joseph. Like another important figure in our story, Joseph of Arimathea, Jesus’ father was considered a ho tekton, a term often interpreted to mean ‘carpenter’.
Once again, the works of Laurence Gardner, especially The Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark and The Magdalene Legacy, come in handy. In his collected woks he’s given rise to a new understanding of ho tekton; One that links the Josephs with the manufacture of this Christ substance. He says a ho tekton is a “master craftsman” or “master of the craft”. Previously, craftsman was thought to mean ‘carpenter’ or ‘wood worker’. However, Gardner connected the Josephs’ craft with The Craft. Alchemy. They were alchemists who produced (‘made’, ‘identified’, ‘crafted’) bread. In the East ‘wood’ is the fifth element called quintes
sence. It is light. In Blue Apples, I profiled Jesus, the wood worker, as a word worker, light worker or alchemist.
When Morgenstern’s analysis of sin is factored in it suggests this substance enabled us to overcome ‘sin’, to become pure, and to walk with the gods. Many voices in my lecture audiences note that manna resembles the substance of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune, in which a spice mined from the planet Arrakis (Iraq-is?) enables one to fold space and to span light years of space-time while standing still.
Gardner cites the incident recorded in the Old Testament book of Exodus 32:20. Here we are told that Moses burned the Golden Calf worshipped by the Israelites while he was away on Mount Horeb, and made from it a powder called ‘bread’ which he mixed with water and gave to the Israelites (THE WATER OF LIFE = 153). Gardner describes a roaring, smoking furnace in an alchemical laboratory or workshop in the Sinai where the sacred mfkzt, the enigmatic white powder of gold was produced from the golden calf. By way of ingestion (as conical bread-cakes or by water immersion) this substance was the “giver of life”, says Gardner. Again, he provides the incredible details of this incident in Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark.
The identity of the golden calf is known and important. Egyptian sculpture shows the calf-eared goddess Hathor painted in gold. She was the ‘golden calf-woman’ worshipped at Denderah, the temple called “the House of Bread.” Incredibly, the Israelites were not only worshipping Hathor at Sinai, they were also making bread or manna. In Mystery of the Cathedrals Fulcanelli says this ‘sacred cow’ is a symbol of alchemy. I’ll have more to say about the golden calf in the next chapter.
As noted, Gardner proposes this craft must have been revived during Jesus’ time as he reveals that his wealthy uncle Joseph of Arimathea was a master of the craft. Joseph of Arimathea is one of the more mysterious figures in the New Testament. It is his newly hewn ‘tomb’ from which MM sees the risen bread or manna/Christ appears. It is not difficult to see this smith’s ‘tomb’ as a crucible, an alchemical furnace that baked ‘christ’, the bread or manna. Interestingly, the Round Towers of Ireland are thought to be chimneys.
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