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By timeemits
Advancements in calendar research and the Holy Bible announce a new discovery. The Begat Genealogy of Adam in chapter 5 of Genesis measures time according to ancient lunar/solar calendars.
Long ago, the Lord embedded His message of lunar/solar calendar use within the earliest scriptures of the Bible. The moon and sun were the heavenly time keepers for the very ancients. Observation was the only way to determine a calendar. The Creative Week helped plant early seeds of faith. Scriptures record the oldest calendar patterns.
To the immemorial ones of antiquity, the keys of time unlocked the doors to the spirit and soul, and to eternal life and death. Operation of the calendar is the most precious eternal wisdom that mankind will ever grasp.
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The Story of Princess Scota
By Heather Elizabeth Adams
In 1955, archaeologist Dr. Sean O’Riordan of Trinity College, Dublin, made an interesting discovery during an excavation of the Mound of Hostages at Tara, site of ancient kingship of Ireland. Bronze Age skeletal remains were found of what has been argued to be a young prince, still wearing a rare necklace of faience beads, made from a paste of minerals and plant extracts that had been fired.
The skeleton was carbon dated to around 1350 BC. In 1956, J. F. Stone and L. C. Thomas reported that the faience beads were Egyptian: “In fact, when they were compared with Egyptian faience beads, they were found to be not only of identical manufacture but also of matching design.
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Hideous or Beautiful, the Goddess Disguised
By Carbonek
The Grail Messenger, one who declaims the reason and purpose of the Grail and the Quest to attain it, is a figure that appears in the Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. She appears suddenly and sometimes mysteriously, delivers her message, and then is usually not heard from again.
In some tales, she appears at the end of the story to announce the successful end of the Grail Quest, and yet in others, she is also the maiden bearing the Grail in the strange procession seen by various Grail Questers in what is known by several names, the Grail Castle. Who is this mysterious woman? Why is she often described as hideous, having a face composed of features taken from several animals?
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By Ellis C Taylor
One of my favourite playgrounds as a kid was the river at Sandford, a village about a 2 mile walk from where we lived and just over 3 miles from the centre of Oxford. On only one or two occasions (honest guv!), my mates and I shinned down the drain pipes on summer evenings and cycled over to the river to wet a line (yeah, I know...).
We'd tell each other ghost stories in the dwindling light and scare each other half to death and then suddenly feel the urge to seek the comforting presence of our mums and dads - who were blissfully unaware of their childrens' absence - until one time mine caught me sneaking in through my bedroom window that is!
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The Tau (or T-shaped) Cross: Hopi-Maya-Egyptian Connections
By Gary A. David
The T-shaped doorway or window appears as a common architectural motif in stone masonry villages all across the Anasazi (ancient Hopi) Southwest. It is found, for instance, at Chaco Canyon in northern New Mexico and Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado.
In Greek the letter T is called tau cross, which echoes the name of the Hopi sun god Tawa. Every day the sun emerges from the Underworld through a T-shaped doorway, the horizontal bar serving as the horizon.
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By Ronnie Gallagher
In the Spring 2003 edition of Azerbaijan International an article was presented about ‘Stone Age’ rock carvings called ‘cup marks’. These were enigmatic examples of ancient 'rock-art' thought to be contemporary with the more famous rock carvings or petroglyphs of Gobustan, which according to archaeologists may date back some 6000 years. While cup marks vary in size and appearance their meaning remains a mystery.
However as much time and effort went into carving them, they no doubt held deep cultural significance to the ancient inhabitants.
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By Philip Gardiner
It is seen in the sky, on the ground, hidden in language and glaring at us from the pages of our most profound books - the snake. In this Article I want to extend that now a little and for us to journey around the world of symbols. By understanding what many of these symbols mean and just how universal they are we will be guided into this lost world of our past. We will begin with a symbol of life itself from the world's greatest ancient civilisation.
Ankh
The Ankh is the Crux Ansata. A simple T-Cross, surmounted by an oval – called the RU, which is, simply put, the gateway to enlightenment.
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Submitted by Sol
We all know that we go into a different state of consciousness during the sexual act. As it is a creation process, it is not hard to relate that we can then have an effect on creation when in this form of consciousness. When we engage in sex, we are tapping into the blueprint that made the whole universe possible. As Crowley studied this information, he saw that the ancients understood what they were doing in their orgiastic rites.
Of course, if you were to walk in on an orgy today, you might find that the procedure has degenerated into an unholy mess. On the other hand, magical energies would definitely be present.
All of this brings us back to Bast, the goddess of witchcraft and sexual magick in the Egyptian pantheon. If you ever had the urge to do anything of a bizarre sexual nature, you were entering the realm of Bast. Who exactly was she?
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Written by: Carbonek
Medieval and renaissance alchemical manuscripts are often wonderfully illustrated with detailed and complicated images of the individual steps in the process of alchemy.
In many of these images, the process depicted involves the use of a vessel of various shapes and materials. The alchemical process occurs in these vessels, including processes of combination, separation, dissolution, heating, and evaporation.
While the vessel, or vas, itself appears to be a commonly used piece of laboratory equipment, for the alchemist, the vessel was much more than that, as Jung describes:
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By Philip Gardiner - http://www.gardinersworld.com
Well folks, we have here an exclusive interview with Oddvar Olsen of The Templar Papers fame (see http://thetemplebooklet.co.uk/Welcome.htm ) and my welcome to you Oddvar and our thanks for giving us your valuable thoughts on the Knights Templar.
PG I wanted to begin with a simple question, but one that seems to be answered in many ways: What were or indeed are, the Knights Templar?
OO Hi Philip and many thanks for inviting me to do this interview. Yes, indeed, what should be an easy question to answer is simply not that easy. The reason for this is that contemporary chroniclers did not write much about the Templars, nor are many documents written by the Templars extant.
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