Meditations, Advent I

I am reposting my Advent Meditations from Last Season. I am planning on something new each midweek, to be working towards the next curve of the spiral, enjoy!

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Today is the first day of Advent, traditionally: this is the period of waiting. We are meant to spend the next 4 weeks preparing for the Birth of the Light, the nativitas. This is not a structure of time that exists purely in the Christian tradition, however. After reading the little meditation below by Rudolf Steiner, we are made aware that this period of waiting, should also be a period of making, cultivating the light.. the solar soul within; in other words, we are also awaiting the birth of our own LIGHT…

The Festivals have become abstractions, matters of indifference to modern people. The word as a medium of strife and blasphemy often means more than the Word conceived as the power by which the world itself was created. Yet the alphabetical word ought to be the representative, the symbol of the Word Creative in Nature around us, in the great universe and within us too when self-knowledge awakens, and of which all mankind can be made conscious by those who truly understand the course of Nature, It was for this that the Festivals were instituted and with the knowledge we have gleaned from Spiritual Science we will try to understand what it was that the wise men of old set out to express in the Christmas Festival. Christmas is not a Festival of Christendom only. In ancient Egypt, in the regions we ourselves inhabit, and in Asia thousands and thousands of years before the Christian era we find that a Festival was celebrated on the days now dedicated to the celebration of the birth of Christ. Now what was the character of this Festival which since time immemorial has been celebrated all over the world on the same days of the year? Wonderful Fire Festivals in the northern and central regions of Europe in ancient times were celebrated among the Celts in Scandinavia, Scotland and England by their priests, the Druids.

What were they celebrating?

They were celebrating the time when winter draws to its close and spring begins. It is quite true that Christmas falls while it is still winter, but Nature is already heralding a victory which can be a token of hope in anticipation of the victory that will come in spring — a token of confidence, of hope, of faith — to use words which are connected in nearly every language with the Festival of Christmas. There is confidence that the Sun, again in the ascendant, will be victorious over the opposing powers of Nature. The days draw in and draw in, and this shortening of the days seems to us to be an expression of the dying, or rather of the falling asleep of the Nature-forces. The days grow shorter and shorter up to the time when we celebrate the Christmas Festival and when our forefathers also celebrated it, in another form. Then the days begin to draw out again and the light of the Sun celebrates its victory over the darkness. In our age of materialistic thinking this is an event to which we no longer give much consideration.

In olden times it seemed to men in whom living feeling was united with wisdom, to be an expression of an experience of the Godhead Himself, the Godhead by Whom their lives were guided. The solstice was a personal experience of a higher being — as personal an experience as when some momentous event forces a man to come to a vital decision. And it was even more than this. The waxing and waning of the days was not only an expression of an event in the life of a higher Being, but a token of something greater still, of something momentous and unique.

This brings us to the true meaning of Christmas as a Festival of the very highest order in cosmic and human life. In the days when genuine occult teaching was not disowned as it is today by materialistic thought but was the very wellspring of the life of the peoples, the Christmas Festival was a kind of memorial, a token of remembrance of a great happening on the Earth. At the hour of midnight the priests gathered around them their truest disciples, those who were the teachers of the people, and spoke to them of a great Mystery. (I am not telling you anything that has been cleverly thought out or discovered by a process of abstract deduction but was actually experienced in the Mysteries, in the secret Sanctuaries of those remote times).
This Mystery was connected with the victory of the Sun over the darkness. There was a time on the Earth when the light triumphed over the darkness. And it happened thus: in that epoch, all physical, all bodily life on Earth had reached the stage of animality only. The highest kingdom upon the Earth had only reached a stage at which it was preparing to receive something higher. And then there came that great moment in evolution when the immortal, imperishable soul of man descended. Life had so far developed that the human body was able to receive into itself the imperishable soul. These ancestors of the human race stood higher in the scale of evolution than modern scientists believe, but the higher part of their being, the divine ‘spark’ was not yet within them. The divine spark descended from a higher planetary sphere to our Earth, which was now to become the scene of its activity, the dwelling-place of the soul, which henceforward can never be lost to us.

[...] And so in days of old, our forefathers felt themselves to be spiritual children of the great universe and they said: “We have become men through the Sun Spirit, through the Sun Spirit from Whom the Spirit within us proceeded. The victory of the Sun over the darkness commemorates the victory of the Sun when it shone down upon the Earth for the first time. The immortal soul has been victorious over the forces of the animal nature.” It was verily a victory of the Sun when, long, long ago, the immortal soul entered into the physical body and penetrated into the dark world of desires, impulses and passions. Darkness preceded the victory of the Sun and this darkness had followed a previous Sun Age. So it is with the human soul.

The soul proceeds from the Divine but it must sink for a time into the darkness, in order, out of this darkness, to build up the vehicle for the human soul. By slow degrees the human soul itself built up the lower nature of man in order then to take up its abode in the dwelling-place of its own construction. You have a correct simile for the entry of the immortal soul of man into the human body if you imagine an architect devoting all his powers to the building of a house in . But in those, which he then lives in remote ages, the soul could only work unconsciously on its dwelling-place. The descent is expressed by the darkness; the awakening to consciousness, the lighting-up of the conscious human soul is expressed in this simile as a victory of the Sun. And so to those who were still aware of man’s living connection with the universe, the victory of the Sun signified the great moment when they had received the impulse, which was all-essential for their earthly existence. And this great moment was perpetuated in the Christmas Festival.

And now try to think of the course of human life in connection with the harmony of the universe. Man seems to become more and more akin to the great rhythms of Nature. If we think of all that encompasses the life of the soul, of the course of the Sun and everything that is connected with it, we are struck by something that closely concerns us, namely, the rhythm and the marvellous harmony in contrast to the chaos and lack of harmony in the human soul. We all know how rhythmically and with what regularity the Sun appears and disappears. And we can picture what a stupendous upheaval there would be in the universe if for a fraction of a second only the Sun were to be diverted from its course. It is only because of this inviolable harmony in the course of the Sun that our universe can exist at all, and it is upon this harmony that the rhythmic life-process of all beings depends.

Think of the annual course of the Sun. — Picture to yourselves that it is the Sun which charms forth the plants in spring time and then think how difficult it is to make the violet or some other plant flower out of due season. Seed-time and harvest, everything, even the very life of animals is dependent upon the rhythmic course of the Sun. And in the being of man himself everything that is not connected with his feelings, his desires and his passions, or with his ordinary thinking, is rhythmic and harmonious. Think of the pulse, of the process of digestion and you will feel the mighty rhythm and marvel at the wisdom implicit in the whole of Nature. Compare with this the irregularity, the chaos of man’s passions and desires, especially of his ideas and thoughts. Think of the regularity of your pulse, your breathing, and then of the irregularity, the erratic nature of your thinking, feeling and willing.

With what wisdom the powers of life are governed where the prevailing rhythmic forces meet the challenge of the chaotic! And how greatly the rhythms of the human body are outraged by man’s passions and cravings! Those who have studied anatomy know how marvelously the heart is constructed and regulated and how wonderfully it is able to stand the strain put upon it by the drinking of tea, coffee and spirits.
There is wisdom in every part of the divine, rhythmic Nature to which our forefathers looked up with such veneration and the very soul of which is the Sun with its regular, rhythmic course. And as the wise men of old looked upwards to the Sun, they said to their disciples: ‘Thou art the image of what the soul born within thee has yet to become and what it will become.’ The divine cosmic Order was revealed in all its glory to the sages of old. And again, in the Christian religion we have the ‘Gloria in excelsis.’ The meaning of ‘gloria’ is revelation, not ‘glory’ in the sense of ‘honour.’ Therefore we should not say: ‘Glory (honour) to God in the highest,’ but rather: ‘To-day is the revelation of the Divine in the heavens!’ The birth of the Redeemer makes us aware of the ‘Glory’ streaming through the wide universe.

In earlier times this cosmic harmony was placed as a great Ideal before those who were to be leaders among their fellow-men. Therefore in all ages and wherever there was consciousness of these things, men spoke of Sun Heroes. In the temples and sanctuaries of the Mysteries there were seven degrees of Initiation. I will speak of them as they were known in ancient Persia.

The first stage is attained when a man’s ordinary feeling and thinking is raised to a higher level, where knowledge of the Spirit is attained. Such a man received the name of ‘Raven.’ It is the ‘Ravens’ who inform the Initiates in the temples what is happening in the world outside. When medieval poetic wisdom desired to depict in the person of a great Ruler an Initiate who amid the treasures of wisdom contained in the Earth must await the great moment when newly revealed depths of Christianity rejuvenate mankind — when this poetic wisdom of the Middle Ages created the figure of Barbarossa, ravens were his heralds. The Old Testament, too, speaks of the ravens in the story of Elijah.

Those who had reached the second stage of Initiation were known as ‘Occultists’; at the third stage they were ‘Warriors,’ at the fourth, ‘Lions.’ At the fifth stage of Initiation a man was called by the name of his own people: he was a ‘Persian,’ ‘Indian,’ or whatever it might be. For that man alone who had reached the fifth degree of Initiation was regarded as a true representative of his people. At the sixth stage a man was a ‘Sun Hero’ or one who ‘runs in the paths of the Sun.’ And at the seventh stage he was a ‘Father.’

Why was an Initiate of the sixth degree known as a Sun Hero? To reach this level on the ladder of spiritual knowledge a man must have developed an inner life in harmony with the divine rhythms pulsating through the cosmos. His life of feeling and of thinking must have rid itself of chaos, of all disharmony, and his inner life of soul must beat in perfect accord with the rhythm of the Sun in the heavens. Such was the demand made upon men at the sixth degree of Initiation. They were looked upon as holy men, as Ideals, and it was said that if a Sun Hero were to deviate from the divine path of this spiritual harmony, it would be as great a calamity as if the Sun were to deviate from its course. A man whose spiritual life had found a path as sure as that of the Sun in the heavens was called a ‘Sun Hero,’ and there were Sun Heroes among all the peoples.

Our scholars know remarkably little about these things. They are aware that Sun myths are connected with the lives of all the great Founders of religions, but what they do not know is that at the Initiation Ceremony it was the custom for the leading figures to be made into Sun Heroes. It is not really so surprising that materialistic research should rediscover these things. Sun myths have been sought for and found in connection with Buddha and with the Christ.

The Sun-Soul was the great example for the way in which a man’s life must be ordered. How did the ancients conceive of the soul of a Sun Hero who had reached this inner harmony? They pictured to themselves that no longer did a single individual human soul live within him, but that forces of the cosmic Soul were streaming into him. This cosmic Soul was known in Greece as Chrestos, in the sublime wisdom of the East as Budhi. When a man no longer feels himself a single being, as the bearer of an individual soul, but experiences something of the universal Soul, he has created within himself an image of the union of the Sun-Soul with the human body and he has attained something of the very greatest significance in the evolution of mankind.

The Wonders of Reading

This was twittered by Judith Ridge, it’s beyond fantastic — it’ll give you goosebumps:

Art of Being: Ayurveda

This is an hour and forty-five minute full on intro documentary on the art of Ayurveda. Includes discussions of ethics and treatments during childbirth, scoliosis, b0w-legged-ness, cancer, marma therapies, creating tradition herbs, and gem-rasayanas. I highly recommend it.

Other places to learn more about this?

• Vasant Lad’s Ayurvedic Institute
• John Douillard’s LifeSpa
• Dr. Robert Svoboda
• The Raj

 

Why You Need ‘Em: Un-Demonizing Saturated Fat & Cholesterol. PART 1

SATURATED FATS CAUSE HEART DISEASE. Unsaturated fats, especially polyunsaturated fats, balance hormones, strengthen the immune system, and prevent cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, arthritis, and all types of inflammation. Some polyunsaturated fatty acids are so important to health that they are called essential fatty acids, or EFAs — you literally can’t be healthy without them. Polyunsaturated vegetable oils are the safest fats for cooking, especially deep-fat frying, and they’re the key ingredients in healthful salad dressings. Canola oil, soy oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, and other polyunsaturated vegetable oils are today’s true health foods.

Right?

“Wrong on all counts,” says Ray Peat, Ph.D., a physiologist who has studied hormones and dietary fats since 1968. According to Peat, every one of the above statements is incorrect. In fact, he says, the polyunsaturated fatty acids or PUFAs in vegetable seed oils are the bane of human health — they actually cause cancer, diabetes, obesity, aging, thrombosis, arthritis, and immuno-deficiencies. Their only appropriate use, he says, is as ingredients in paints and varnishes. Which is what they were originally used for anyways.  And Peat is not alone; for a growing number of reputable researchers, medical doctors, nutritionists, and health care practitioners share his views. Their discoveries, they say, may save your life.

What’s wrong with vegetable oils?

The main problem is that polyunsaturated oils contain long-chain fatty acids, which are extremely fragile and unstable. “The unsaturated oils in some cooked foods become rancid in just a few hours even when refrigerated,” says Peat,

and that’s responsible for the stale taste of leftover foods. Eating slightly stale food with polyunsaturated oils isn’t more harmful than eating the same oils when fresh, since the oils will oxidize at a much higher rate once they are in the body. As soon as a polyunsaturated vegetable oil enters the body, it is exposed to temperatures high enough to cause its toxic decomposition, especially when combined with a continuous supply of oxygen and catalysts such as iron.

Even if you stop eating them, polyunsaturated fatty acids remain stored in tissue, only to be released during times of stress or fasting — including the middle of the night, when one is asleep.

Although PUFAs damage every part of the body, the endocrine system, especially the thyroid, is particularly vulnerable. A slow metabolism, low energy, and sluggish thyroid often accompany the consumption of vegetable oils.

Cattle ranchers discovered the difference between saturated and unsaturated fats in the 1940s, when they fed their livestock inexpensive coconut oil (a saturated fat) in order to fatten them before market. But the cattle didn’t gain weight. Instead, coconut oil made them lean, active, and hungry.

Next, ranchers tested a thyroid-suppressing drug.

As expected, the livestock gained weight on less food, but because the drug was strongly carcinogenic, it was discontinued. By the late 1940s, ranchers discovered that soybeans and corn caused the same anti-thyroid effect as the thyroid-suppressing drug, allowing animals to gain more weight on less food. Since then, corn and soy have been the staples of feedlot cattle.

Oh and btw — cattle aren’t made to eat corn or grain at all, but grasses. They are uniquely designed to break down cellulose, an ability humans are completely lacking. They are ruminant animals, just like deer, elk, antelope, buffalo, etc.

A later experiment fed animals pure unsaturated vegetable oil, pure saturated coconut oil, and various mixtures of the two. The animals’ obesity increased in proportion to the ratio of unsaturated fat in their diet, independent of the total amount of fat or calories they consumed. Animals that ate even small amounts of unsaturated oil were fat, and those that ate large amounts of coconut oil were thin.

By 1950, unsaturated fats were clearly shown to suppress the metabolic rate, apparently by creating hypothyroidism. In following years, scientists looked for the mechanism that caused this effect and found that unsaturated fats damage mitochondria through oxidation and enzyme suppression. The more unsaturated a vegetable oil is, the more specifically it suppresses tissue response to thyroid hormones. Unsaturated fats are derived from the seeds of plants, and seeds contain toxins and enzyme suppressors that block protein digestive enzymes in the stomachs of mammals. It’s the plant’s natural defense system, after all. These chemicals evolved to protect seeds from predators and prevent germination until conditions are optimal for sprouting. It’s probably no coincidence that millions of people who eat thyroid-damaging toxins and enzyme suppressors have an epidemic of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, immune system disorders, arthritis, and other chronic diseases.

Not sure about which are which? Know your fats.

A number of researchers have argued that along with a surfeit of omega-6 fatty acids, the American diet is deficient in omega-3 (linolenic acid). This fatty acid is necessary for cell oxidation for metabolizing important sulphur-containing amino acids and for maintaining proper balance in prostaglandin production. Deficiencies have been associated with asthma, heart disease and learning deficiencies. (36) Most commercial vegetable oils contain very little omega-3 linolenic acid and LARGE amounts of omega-6. In addition, modern agricultural and industrial practices have reduced the amount of omega-3 fatty acids in commercially available vegetables, eggs, fish and meat. For example, organic eggs from hens allowed to feed on insects and green plants can contain omega-6 and omega-3 in the beneficial ratio of approximately one-to-one, but commercial supermarket eggs from hens fed mostly grain can contain as much as 19 TIMES more omega-6 than omega-3! (37)

The demonized saturated fats — which Americans are trying to avoid — are NOT the cause of our modern diseases. In fact, they play many essential roles in the body chemistry.

• Saturated fatty acids constitute 50% of ALL cell membranes, giving them necessary stiffness and integrity so they can function properly.
• They play a vital role in the health of our bones. for calcium to be effectively incorporate into the skeletal structure, at LEAST 50% of your dietary fat needs to be saturated. (38)
• They LOWER Lp(a), a substance in the blood that indicates proneness to heart disease. (39)
• They protect the liver from alcohol and other toxins like Tylenol. (40)
• They Enhance the Immune System (41)
• They are needed for the proper utilization of essential fatty acids (EFA’s). Elongated omega-3 fatty acids are better retained in the tissue when the diet is rich in saturated fats. (42)
• Saturated 18-carbon stearic acid and 16-carbon palmitic acid are the preferred foods for the heart, which is why the FAT that naturally occurs around the heart is HIGHLY saturated. (43) The heart draws on this reserve of fat in times of stress.
• Short and medium chain saturated fatty acids have important antimicrobial properties They protect us from harmful microorganisms in the digestive tract.

The scientific evidence, when honestly evaluated does not support the assertion that “artery-clogging” saturated fats cause heart disease. (44) Actually, evaluation of the fat in the artery clogs reveals that only 26% is saturated. The rest is UNSATURATED, of which more than half is POLY-Unsaturated! (45)

So what about cholesterol? Here too the public has been MISINFORMED. Our vessels (cells, blood, etc.) can become damaged in a number of ways – through irritations caused by free-radicals or viruses, or because they are structurally weak – and when this happens, the body’s natural healing substance steps in to repair the damage! That substance is CHOLESTEROL. Cholesterol is a high-molecular weight alcohol that is manufactured in the liver and in most every human cell. Like saturated fats, the cholesterol we make and consume plays MANY VITAL ROLES:

• Along with saturated fats, cholesterol in the cell membrane gives our cells necessary stiffness and stability. When the diet contains an excess of polyunsaturated fatty acids, these REPLACE saturated fatty acids in the cell membrane so that the cell walls actually become FLABBY. When this happens, cholesterol from the blood is “driven” into the tissues to give them structural integrity. This is why serum cholesterol levels may go down temporarily when we replace saturated fats with polyunsaturated oils in the diet. (46)
• Cholesterol acts as a precursor to VITAL corticosteroids, hormones that help us deal with stress and protect the body against heart disease and cancer; and to the sex hormones like androgen, testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone.
• Cholesterol is a precursor to Vitamin D, a vital fat-soluble vitamin required for healthy bones and nervous systems, proper growth, mineral absorption, muscle tone, insulin production, reproduction and immune system function.
• the Bile salts are made from cholesterol. Bile is vital for digestion and assimilation of dietary fats.
• Recent research shows that cholesterol acts as an ANTIOXIDANT (47). This is the likely explanation for the fact that cholesterol levels go UP with AGE. As an ANTIOXIDANT, cholesterol protects us against free radical damage which lead to heart disease and cancer.
• Cholesterol is needed for proper function of serotonin receptors in the brain. (48) Serotonin is the body’s natural “feel good” chemical. Low cholesterol levels have been linked to aggressive and violent behavior, depression and suicidal tendencies.
• MOTHER’S BREAST MILK is especially rich in cholesterol and contains a special enzyme that helps the baby utilize this nutrient. Babies and children NEED cholesterol-rich foods throughout their growing years to ensure proper development of the brain and nervous system.
• Dietary Cholesterol plays an important role in maintaining the health of the intestinal wall (49). This is why low-cholesterol vegetarian/vegan diets can lead to leaky gut syndrome and other intestinal disorders. “

Next time: what’s the difference between HDL and LDL, anyways?

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SOURCES: Taken as excerpts from CJ Puotinen’s Research and “Nourishing Traditions” pp. 11-13

36 — Okuyama, H. et al, “Progressive Lipid Research,” 1997, 35:4:409-457

37 — Simopoulos, AP and Normal Salem, “American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1992, 55:411-4.

38 — Watkins, B A, et al, “Importance of Vit. E in Bone Formation and in Chrondroycte Function.” Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, American Oil Chemists Society Proceedings, 1996, “Food Lipids in Bone Health, ” Food Lipids and Health. RE McDonald and DB Min, eds. p. 101. Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, NY 1996.

39 — Dahlen, GH et al, ” Journal of Internal Medicine,” Nov. 1998, 244 (5):417-24; Khosla P and KC Hayes.

40 — Nanji, AA et al. “Gastoenterology” August 2005 109(2):547-54.

41 — Kabara, JJ “The Pharmocological Effects of Lipids” The American Oil Chemists Society, Champaign IL, 1987, 1-14; Cohen, L A et al: “Journal of the National Cancer Institute.”

42 — Garg, ML et al. “Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Journal, 1988, 2:4:A852; Oliart Ros RM et al, “Meeting Abstracts” The American Oil Chemists Society Proceeding. May 1998, 7 Chicago IL.

43 — Lawson, LD and FKummerow, “Lipids,” 1997, 14:501-503…

44 — Ravskov, U “Journal of Clinical Epidemiology,” June 1998, 51:(6):443-460.

45 — Felton, CV et al, “The Lancet” 1994

46 — Jones, PJ “American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,” Aug 1997, 66 (2):438-46; Julias, AD, et al; _Journal of Nutrition_ Dec 1982, 112 (12):2240-19.

47 — Cranton, EM; MD and JP Frackelton MD, _ Journal for Holistic Medicine_ Spring/Summer 1994 , 6-37.

48 — Engelberg, Hyman, “The Lancet” Mar 21 1992, 339:727-728; Wood, WG et al “Lipids” Mar 1999.

49–Alfin-Slater RB and L Aftergood, “Lipids” _Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease_ 6th ed. RS Goodhart and ME Shils eds, Lea and Febringer, Philadelphia 1980, 134.

You Are a Black Hole

This is only part one of Nassim Haramein’s (of the Resonance Project) 8-hr lecture on groundbreaking scientific research into the unified field theory. It’s astro esoteric physics on a grand scale. And he breaks it down for you in a very easy to follow manner. This information is so important (it’s 4 hrs. long — so give yourself say, an hour or so each day over a weekend to absorb part 1.) and should be taught in schools everywhere. This is Required Viewing for EVERYONE in order to aid in the understanding of who and what you are in the scheme of your cosmic neighborhood.

Hidden Hindu Origin of the Bible

I did not write this any of it… one of my fellow bloggers and friends did, whose old url is defunct. You can find him at The Mysteries of Nature now. Make sure you check out his Religion time-line, here, too. He is rather brilliant if I do say so myself and this is such helpful information.

The Hidden Legacy of India

I have said it a thousand times before and I will say it again: God is not a book. Do not (whatever you do) anchor your faith of God in a book. If you do, your Psyche will crash like Icarus when you uncover the true meaning of the allegories – not to mention where they came from. As I will demonstrate in this short article.

Anyone who spends a considerable amount of time with the symbolism of our ancestors, their doctrines, their hidden allegories and view on reality – know that their esoteric value has nothing to do with the literal fables we learned as children. Just like the late Dr. Joseph Campbell said: if you look for they’re deeper meaning, you will find them. And pretty soon you will recognize that almost all religions have the same kernel beneath the outer layers of symbols and names; One God, many names. The Bible itself sports roughly thirty names for EL, each of whom was once worshipped as a separate deity (aspects of the same light) – and the same is true for Javeh.

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as El Shaddai, but by my name Yahweh I did not make myself known to them. – Source: The Bible, Exodus 6.2:3

The propaganda of the church and Christian fundamentalism may work on the uneducated [...] But not if you know your way around Greek and Hindu traditions.

But with such a dive into spirituality, that inner experience of God, comes also the urge to help people go beyond the prison of fundamentalism. To reach out to people that are suffering from a literal interpretation of a mystical past. People that have no idea that their clergy is robbing them of their minds, money and meaning. And the literal interpretation of Christianity is now doing more harm to humanity than good. In the west we now have support groups for “victims of the Christian faith” for heaven sake.

Well, we all knows the stories I guess. But few have bothered to search for their deeper, hidden meanings. Their cross cultural roots. And this is of-course why ancient religion is failing in an age of economic and “factual” values. People don’t abandon the church because they no longer believe in God, no matter how remote that God might be -they leave the church because the texts that describe God have become too primitive. They are primitive because we read them literally – and not as mystery texts like they were once designed. Well, let’s get the show on the road.

Hinduism, the source of Christianity, Islam and Judaism

In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt (lower abdomen), and a pillar to the LORD near its border (Isaiah 19:19):

The Shiva Lingam, symbol of male and female unity.

The word Jah, as in Javeh, stems from Sanskrit. It is connected to the word “Sthana”, an attribute of God in general, meaning everlasting, or continued existence (being). It is an attribute of Shiva in particular, who is also known as Sthenu. Jah also refers to Simha, an incarnation of Krishna. (-Source: Cologne Digital Lexicon: Sanskrit and English). Just as they are now, Shiva and Krishna were the two main male deities worshipped by mainstream Hindus at the time Judaism was being formed. The name of the pillars erected to God in the Old Testament contains Shiva’s name: masseva (or matseba). God speaks out of pillar of fire to Moses just as Shiva speaks out of a pillar of fire to Brahma and Vishnu in the Lingam Purana.

The pyramids and stelae of Egypt are likewise described by the same word. Seb was the Lord of the Earth in ancient Egypt. The pillars were erected to Shu and his son Seb (heaven and earth), who is Seba of the Ethiopians, Sheba of the Hebrews and Shiva of the Hindus. The most notable culture still erecting the lingam pillars is that of the Shaivites in India. Shiva is the oldest deity in the world, stretching back more than 8.500 years into the past. His Jewish feast to this day is “balsheva”, Baal Shiva (Lord Shiva).

Adam and Eve is a perversion of Hindu scripture

The progeny of Adamis and Hevas (Jewish: Adamah and Chavvah) soon became so wicked that they were no longer able to coexist peacefully. Brahma therefore decided to punish his creatures. -Source: The Mahabharata, Cronicles of Vaivasvata

Jonah and the whale is a spin-off version from Hinduism

There is a Hindu version of the whale story, which, it is claimed, must be older than the book of Jonah. Pradjumna, the son of Vshnu, was swallowed by a fish and a few days later restored to life. There are other East Indian versions of the same story. Clear traces of it are also found among the American Indians, especially along the Canadian Coast. One legend assures us the Manabozho, the Hiawatha of Longfellow, was swallowed by a fish, canoe and all, and that sea gulls rescued him. In classic literature traces are found of the same belief. Plutarch is one authority for saying that a Greek hero lived three days in the stomach of a fish, only in this case it was a shark. According to Lycophron, Hercules was once a prisoner in a whale.

Jonah and the whale, is ancient and Hindu. The source is found in the massive Shrimad Bhagavatam, Canto 10, Part 3, Chapter 55, Pradyumna.

The Ark & Flood story: a Verbatim Clone of Hindu Doctrine

He told Manu that the earth would soon be flooded with water. Vishnu had a boat built by the gods. When the earth was flooded, Manu was to place all living beings in the boat and thus save them. Vishnu would himself arrive in his form of the fish and Manu was to tie the boat to the fish’s horn. Thus the living beings would be saved. And when the waters of the flood receded, Manu could populate the world and rule over it.

-Source: The Mahabharata, Matsya Purana

In Egypt the story was known as Argha Noah, while in Greek mythology it is known as Argo Navis -the boat “IASON” and his crew of Argonauts used to hunt down immortality.

Abraham is a Corruption of Hindu Scripture

It is well known that Abraham means “father Brahm” after the Hindu Brahma. Brahman’s wife was Sarasvati, while Abraham is married to Sarah. And just like Brahma, also have a child with the free woman Gayantri – so does Abraham have a fling outside of marriage. From the Jewish version, Christ is said to descend, while Krishna (Purusha) descends from the Hindu version. Coincidence? There can be no doubt that these stories are one and the same.

Noah’s sons are likewise stolen from the ancient Mahabharata:

To Satyavarman were born three sons: the eldest Shem; then Sham; and thirdly, Jyapeti by name. Whilst he remained honoring and satisfying the gods, and priests, and kine, one day by the act of destiny the king, having drunk mead, became senseless and lay asleep naked.

Then, was he seen by Sham, and he called his two brothers: To whom he said, “What now has befallen? In what state is this our sire?” By these two he was hidden with clothes, and called to his senses again and again. Having recovered his intellect, and perfectly knowing what had passed, he cursed Sham, saying, “Thou shalt be the servant of servants.”

-Source: Matsya Purana, Chronicles of the fish

And the New Testament borrows from everyone:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. - Source: The New Testament, Gospel of John 1.1

In the beginning was the word (Vai), and the word (Vai) was with Brahma (God), and the word (Vai) was Brahma (Prajapati vai idam agra asit, Tasya vak dvitiya asit, Vag vai paramam Brahma) -Source: Krishna Yajurveda, Kathaka Samhita, 12.5, 27.1

In Sanskrit (the language the ancient Hindu texts are written in) the name “satya-varman” (Noah) means protector of truth; protector of the righteous. Jyapeti later became the “God of the Sun”, whom the Romans called Jove and the Jews Jahve. For the Hindus, he is Dyaus Pitar, mankind’s first known manifestation of God Shiva. The Greeks knew him as Dionysus, the God of Vine (the soma of bliss). In Egypt he was Ptha, while the Christians know him as Petrus – Saint Peter, the rock.

Aum Namah Shivaya!

(Thanks for opening our eyes J.)