To repeat, the Mayans called it sap. Highly intrigued by this cosmic sap and wondering what it is, exactly, I consulted god or a form of god, Google.
Much to my amazement when I typed ‘cosmic sap’ into the search engine, and probed the consciousness of humanity, I found that sap is an acronym for ‘sub atomic particle’ (s.a.p.), i.e. photons, neutrinos, quarks, muons.
The incredible quantum world of subatomic particles isn’t the realm of everyday human experience, what’s called the ‘real world’, the realm in which we live, move, and have our being. It’s the ‘Other world’. Normally we think of subatomic particles as the stuff of particle physicists and not messiahs. However, as the master of the Word of God and Lord of the Otherworld it would seem logical that Jesus knew of this other world. Times have changed. We now know what the Word is composed of. In this way Jesus has everything to do with subatomic particles.
A question arises. Is manna/itz/Christ – or, shall we say, Chr-itz – an oil imbued with a miraculous ‘missing’ or little known class of subatomic particle? Is it the same as Christos or Chrestos, the unidentified substance Christians were accused of being influenced by in Rome? Is this the same as the anointing oil of Mary Magdalene? If so, by what process might one distill this particle from the galaxy and manufacture this oil? Based upon the evidence I have presented in the pages I believe the answer is yes. Mary Magdalene’s anointing oil was a cosmic substance. Rubbing it on one’s body eliminated fear and brought about illumination, as in the example of Enoch’s oil, and prepared us to climb the Stairway to Heaven. We may even be on the verge of rediscovering how to create it.
APPENDIX I
It was in the catacombs, the burial places outside the city walls of Rome that the first Christian images were made late in the second century AD (at the earliest). The Gospels, written in the first century after Jesus’ crucifixion, give no description of what he looked like due to the prohibition against worshipping graven images or idols and because Jesus’ appearance was unimportant. His teaching was the focus, rather than his personality, and Mary Magdalene was his chief apostle, his number one. Early Christians did not represent the person of Jesus, so much as the belief that he was the Lord (Adon), the Messiah, the Anointed One – ‘Christ’ in Greek – who taught the Way. He was not the Way.
How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!
(Romans 10:15)
Jesus uses his rod or wand to raise Lazarus, from the catacombs of Rome.
Jesus rides a white horse and wields his rod or wand and holding a ring or chakra of power. This ring is likely taken from Babylonian ideas of the ring of cosmic sovereignty.
Beginning in the fourth century, when Christianity was proclaimed the Roman state religion by the emperor Constantine the Great (A.D. 323), these images of a magic wand (or is it a ray of light?) bearing Jesus disappear. So also does mention of Jesus and Mary Magdalene as a couple. Two centuries later Pope Gregory labeled her a prostitute. A program of disinformation by the Church began.
Constantine dammed up the stream of consciousness of mystical Christianity that had seeped into Rome from the east Mediterranean world. The connection with Oneness this stream led to offered Divinity to its aspirants. Soon, the idea that an individual could find this stream and drink from its waters on their own, with no help from a priest (or pimp) in a box became heresy. In fact, any document containing the original teachings of Jesus preserved by the Nazarenes, the Way to Divinity was suppressed, often violently.
During the first three centuries AD many of the Nazarene movement’s martyrs (‘witnesses’) were murdered, crucified by Roman legions or fed to the lions of Rome for entertainment. They are recognized as martyrs because they have preferred to die rather than renounce their Christian faith.
According to legend, many disciples and saints, including Mary Magdalene, were sentenced to death by being thrown into a derelict hull, which had neither rudder nor gear, and cast adrift in the Mediterranean to drown. However, by God’s grace (or by a ship similar to Solomon’s, which moved by itself on the sea), they all arrived safely at the port of Marseilles.
Gardner tells us that after the crucifixion Mary Magdalene sought and was granted protection by young Herod –Agrippa II, who sent her to his family’s estate near Lyon, France. When she fled to France some of history’s greatest unsolved mysteries allegedly traveled with her. Chief among these is the Holy Grail, the awesome and terrible treasure of Jesus.
What became of Jesus’ teachings? Did they go to France? If so, did they remain there?
Fascinatingly, in their book In Search of the Holy Grail and the Precious Blood, Ean and Deike Begg tell of the bizarre graffiti found in the chateau at Domme, France, where Knights Templar were imprisoned after the persecution by the Catholic Church in 1307. Here is found a depiction of the Crucifixion that is slightly twisted from the accepted Church version (or the Church version is twisted from the original event). Joseph of Arimathea (Jesus’ brother James) is shown catching precious droplets of Jesus’ blood (presumably with the Holy Grail).
On Jesus’ left is a pregnant woman holding a wand or a rod. This woman, we presume, is Mary Magdalene. The wand is the tool of her husband, Jesus.
When I visited Domme in July, 2005 I was surprised to see several other astonishing details in the Templar graffiti including a fish with a Tree of Life coming out of its mouth and another larger ‘fish’ which will be discussed later.
As we can see the cross is portrayed atop a triangle or pyramid.
The Tree of Life is easily comparable to the Sepherotic Tree of Life. The Gnostics frequently called Jesus the Tree of Life and a branch. The Sephiroth are the ten qualities of the Mystical Tree, set forth as a major doctrine of the cabalistic Book of Splendor (Sefer ha-Zohar), which was first published about A.D. 1280 although its legend claimed a much earlier date.
The Mystical Tree stood for the “World of Union” showing the process of life flowing from divinity into the whole creation, and back again.
Cabalists call all ten Sephiroth collectively the Merkabah or “chariot” of God, whereby he could descend from heaven into men’s souls.
This is an astonishing conglomeration of religious and philosophical symbolism, which taps into the root and runs into the branches of religious belief the world over. Like the Medieval Cabalists the Templars who engraved these drawings crammed a tremendous amount of information into a very small space.
There was a crudely drawn figure of a person (is it a he or she?) holding a rod that looked like a downward pointing arrow (or the Spear of Longinus?) to me.
Beside the figure is a spread eagle Jesus on a cross.
This surprised me in its similarity to early fifth century Christian depictions that show a muscular, almost superhuman, Jesus spread out against the cross; so different from the giant crosses with a small (or often no) Jesus Christians display in America today.
Why, I wondered, would Templars carve crucifixes on the wall of their prison at all? Denial of the crucifixion, or a Savior who hangs on a wooden cross, was the requirement of initiation into their order. To get in they spit on the cross. The reason for this remains a closely guarded secret.
Replica of the Templar grafitti engraved on a stone at Domme, France on display in the Templar Museum at Domme. Photo by the author.
A pregnant woman holds a rod or wand. The Crucifixion.
The Templar denial of the crucifixion is similar to that of the Cathars (who were first terrorized then systematically slaughtered by the Church only 60 years before) and their rejection of the cross as a symbol because it was an instrument of torture, a false idol of terrorists. The only source that Christ (‘anointed’) means “crucified”, claimed the Templars, is the belief and the doctrine of the Church. The Templars rejected this belief.
Was this drawing some form of allusion to the secret Rule of the Order, a reminder of their oath? Did they ritualistically spit on it while imprisoned, perhaps to gain resolve? Remember, Je
sus used spit on some healings. Did the Templars know his ‘healing spit’ secret?
Additional out of place details in the Templar graffiti included seven pierced pyramids topped by tall crosses.
Another non-Templar symbol is a fish and a Tree of Life and another larger creature or object topped by a cross, which we’ll discuss momentarily.
When French king Philip the Fair ordered the arrest of the Knights Templar in 1307, the Order of the Templars was one of the most powerful forces in the world. Supposedly formed to protect pilgrims from the “infidels,” most agree that during their travels throughout the Middle East during the early 12th century the Knights Templar were clandestinely in pursuit of ancient knowledge. It’s claimed these militaristic monks reclaimed the secrets hidden beneath Solomon’s Temple atop Jerusalem’s Mount Moriah and subsequently acquired enormous wealth and knowledge… perhaps beyond earthly riches.
What could be more valuable than gold or other treasure? Whatever it was it posed a challenge to the temporal power of the king of France and to his supporter the Roman Catholic Church.
For a clue to this metaphysical treasure we return to the image of the fish and the tree beside the cross at Domme. They are easily comparable to the Sephirotic Tree of Life (see diagram). The Sephiroth are the ten qualities of the Mystical Tree, set forth as a major doctrine of the cabalistic Book of Splendor (The Zohar), which was first published about A.D. 1280 although its legend claimed a much earlier date.
Mastery of the principles of this enormously powerful spiritual tool allows the manifestation of the Divine into the world and the means by which Divine Union may be achieved. The Zohar compares itself to the Ark that gives shelter.
If we understand their graffiti correctly its symbolism suggests the Templars imprisoned at Domme had acquired esoteric knowledge. The only way to reconcile the appearance of the crucifix and the Kabbalistic Tree at Domme is to recognize that far from denying Jesus, like the Cathars, the Templars worshipped him as an angel of light who had entered human affairs to deliver a spiritual technology for escaping earth life and to cross into the Kingdom of Light via the Tree of Life.
The Gnostics frequently called Jesus the Tree of Life and a branch. At Domme, we have a figure holding what may be Jesus’ wand. Is it a branch from the Tree of Life?
As noted, the Templars did not confuse Jesus, the man of light, with Christ = the timeless quantum cosmic essence that exists everywhere and nowhere. Instead, they accumulated technology (a cluster of principles including alchemy, sacred geometry and astronomy) that once belonged to this enlightened person and his apostles and enabled the manifestation of Christ. This ‘Christ technology’ could ‘feed’ us, transmute an individual into a higher being and even create an advanced social order, a new Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. Philip the Fair and the Church of Rome wanted this technology for their own purposes. Helter skelter. They planned to crush it out of the Templars like a bunch of grapes.
A fish with a Tree of Life (previous page) whose branches resemble grape stems (below). The Sephirothic tree overlaid on the Templar tree. A perfect match?
Cabalists call all ten Sephiroth collectively the Merkabah or “chariot” of God, whereby the Divine could descend from heaven into men’s souls.
Lévi claims that Seth, Moses, David, Solomon and Jesus obtained from the same Kabalistc Tree of Life their royal wands. The saplings from this tree became the Burning Bush, in the midst of which God communicated to Moses his eternal name. When Moses asks His Name what is it, He replies I am That I Am. Moses plucked a triple branch of the sacred bush and used it as his miraculous wand. Although separated from its root, the branch continued to blossom, and it was subsequently preserved in the Ark. King David planted the branch on Mount Sion, and Solomon took wood from each section of the triple wand to make the two pillars Jachin and Boaz, which were placed at the entrance to his temple.
Returning to the 2nd century AD Coptic (“Egyptian”) Christian portrayal of Jesus we notice he is wielding this triple branched rod and a ring… Solomon’s Keys.
Beside the fish and Tree of Life at Domme is another larger ‘fish creature’(?). Obviously any one can read anything they want into this symbolism. To me, this fish creature bears an amazing resemblance to a drawing presented by Robert Temple in The Sirius Mystery of the descent of Nommo, the amphibious savior being the Dogon tribe of Mali believed had been sent from Sirius to watch and educate humankind. Is Nommo’s craft the Merkabah chariot?
Nommo divided his body to feed humankind. His name is thought to mean, “make one drink.” Nommo was known as masters of waters.
Dogon Nommo image.© Robert Temple. Righ. The Templar engraving cropped.
Interestingly, the Merovingians, the alleged ‘offspring’ of Jesus and Mary Magdalene who ruled this part of France, claimed descent from a fish creature that came out of the ocean. This fish-being is widely traced to Oannes in Babylonia and Enki in Sumeria. Both are equated with Nommo… and Jesus.
Enki is portrayed in the Babylonian seal shown earlier. He hovers in a winged ring or craft (an ark?) above a utensil operated by priests wearing fish suits. It appears to portray Enki descending in a Merkaba chariot. This is a purification ceremony.
In the catacombs of Rome we also find the identical theme is an astonishing Early Christian fish glyph.
The Early Christian symbol of the anchor with a cross with a pierced circle and a fish grasping a line of hope or salvation is plainly kin to, if not a copy of, the Sumerian seal portraying the fish priests beside a radiant tree or pillar above which hovers Enki.
Both are identical in meaning to fish grasping the Tree of Life in the Templar engraving.
The match between these emblems – all three portray fish attached to a tree (or tower?) topped by a symbol for the Lord – leads to a profound question. Were the Early Christians devotees of Enki/Nommo? Were the Templars, as well?
FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATER
The fish at Domme may be the key that unlocks this engraving. In ancient Christian symbolism the fish stands for the concept of the living water referenced in so many traditions. This living water is different from ordinary water. It’s cosmic. It has a quickening effect.
John’s gospel provides insight into these mysterious waters. Jesus said “the water that I give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.’John 4: 10-14
As Ezekiel 47:8-10 tells us its source is the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. The ‘fountain of living waters’ is mentioned in the Old Testament’s Song of Solomon (4:15) The living waters flow from the Temple.
What is it about Solomon’s Temple that produces the living water? And what does it have to do with the Templar excavations there and the graffiti portraying a Tree of Life/ fount of living water? I’m not certain, but this living waters connection is made even more relevant when we acknowledge that in French literary tradition introduced in the 12-13th century Mary Magdalene is remembered as la Dompna del Aquae: Mistress of the Waters. Is it she holding a branch of the Tree of Life at Domme? Or, could it be a beaker holding living water?
Like the Medieval Cabalists the Templars who engraved these drawings crammed a tremendous amount of information into a very small space. Whatever it means this astonishing conglomeration of religious and philosophical symbolism, which taps into the root and runs into the branches of religious beliefs of the ancient Middle East, certainly suggests the Templar prisoners at Domme utilized many mystic traditions.
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