posted October 14, 2011 08:08 AM            

The Yugas and The Bible
Excerpts from the book 'Karma in Christianity'
The timeline for their inglorious fall from glory coincides with the end times of the third of the Yugas of Sanatana Dharma, which was the 'Dvapara Yuga', or the Bronze age; wherein, mankind went through a period of one half of virtue, and one half of sin, and men used to live for around a thousand years. It was during that period, wherein the giants born to the sons of god or the demigods were destroyed, even according to the texts of both the faiths. The subsequent transition after the period of the floods during the time of Noah, take us through to 'Kali Yuga', or the Iron Age, wherein the period consists of one quarter virtue, and three quarters sin and the maximum age of men is set around a hundred to a hundred and twenty years and as concurred in the bible. The span of 'Kali Yuga' is said to extend for a period of four hundred and thirty two thousand human years, after which the human souls are to be judged during Pralaya or the equivalent - the Christian Rapture - and the cycles of the four yugas (Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga and Kali Yuga) begin all over again, starting with Satya Yuga, or the Golden age, wherein no sin exists (according to the bible, a time during which Satan is bound into a bottomless pit).

Vedic Lifespan of Men
And the Rationale behind it
The brief time that we live on this planet during each avatar is virtually like that of grass - here today and gone today. The winds of time can easily blow us away. A life can be lost to death when one is six month old or at sixty.

The Vedic Lifespan of Men during each Yuga:

Satya-yuga - 100,000 years max. (One has to wish for one's death) - Period of No sin and 100% Virtue
Treta-yuga - 10,000 years max. - Time when Sin enters the world again - 75% Virtue and 25% Sin
Dvapara-yuga - 1,000 years max. - A time of 50% Virtue and 50% Sin
Kali-yuga - 120 years max. - (Current Times) - 25% Virture and 75% Sin

"And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh; yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years"

Genesis 6:3

"If Satan can be bound into a bottomless pit for a thousand years after rapture; why can't he be bound up 'Now and Forever'?"

posted October 15, 2011 07:54 AM            

quote:

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Originally posted by rajji:
Satya-yuga - 100,000 years max. (One has to wish for one's death) - Period of No sin and 100% Virtue

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Zep Tepi ("First Time") is a period in Ancient Egyptian beliefs. It is the mythological golden age when the gods lived amongst humanity together with half-divine offspring of gods and humans.

http://alternativearchaeology.jigsy.com/zep-tepi

Buried within the texts of Ancient Egypt and its esoteric religion, the hidden vestiges of an even earlier time, or a remote golden age before the Kings became mortal and men and women experienced the hardships of death, the Egyptians refer to a time called Zep Tepi, or the "first occasion" of Egypt. A time ancient to the Ancient Egyptians themselves.

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Here is something I found interesting

http://www.miqel.com/visionary_art/analysis-laffoley-paul-black-white-hole.html

posted October 28, 2011 08:56 AM            

The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The name originates from within Greek language; οὐρά (oura) meaning "tail" and βόρος (boros) meaning "eating", thus "he who eats the tail".

-Emblem of the Theosophical Society-

The famous Ouroboros drawing from the early alchemical text "The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra" dating to 2nd century Alexandria encloses the words hen to pan, "one is the all". Its black and white halves represent the Gnostic duality of existence. As such, the Ouroboros could be interpreted as the Western equivalent of the Taoist Yin-Yang symbol.

The Chrysopoeia Ouroboros of Cleopatra is one of the oldest images of the Ouroboros to be linked with the legendary opus of the Alchemists, the Philosopher’s Stone.

As a symbol of the eternal unity of all things, the cycle of birth and death from which the alchemist sought release and liberation.

-Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra-


-Variation of yin and yang-


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus

Homunculus (masculine, Latin for "little human") is a term used, generally, in various fields of study to refer to any representation of a human being.

In Carl Jung's studies of alchemy, he believed the first record of a homunculus in alchemical literature appeared in the Visions of Zosimos, written in the third century AD, although the actual word "homunculus" was never used. In the visions, Zosimos mentions encountering a man who impales himself with a sword, and then undergoes "unendurable torment", his eyes become blood, he spews forth his flesh, and changes into "the opposite of himself, into a mutilated anthroparion (a Greek alchemical concept of a being somewhat similar to a golem but possessing a sense of will and intelligence), and he tore his flesh with his own teeth, and sank into himself", which is a rather grotesque personification of the ouroboros, the dragon that bites its own tail, which represents the dyophysite nature in alchemy: the balance of two principles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zosimos_of_Panopolis

Zosimos of Panopolis was an Egyptian or Greek alchemist and Gnostic mystic from the end of the 3rd and beginning of the 4th century AD. He was born in Panopolis, present day Akhmim in the south of Egypt, ca. 300.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem

In Jewish folklore, a golem (Hebrew: גולם‎; English pronunciation: /ˈɡoʊləm/ goh-ləm) is an animated anthropomorphic being, created entirely from inanimate matter. The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material in Psalms and medieval writing.

posted October 28, 2011 09:59 AM            

Dyophysite is a theological term used in understanding how the divine and human are related in the person of Jesus Christ, an area of study known as Christology. The term comes from the Greek and literally means "two natures." Two natures refer to a human nature and a divine nature that exist in the one person of Jesus.

http://cafeastrology.com/zodiacpisces.html

Comparison with its symbol, the Fish: Pisces is symbolized by two fish swimming in opposite directions. Pisceans often feel like they are being pulled in different directions. The symbol of the fish has been associated with followers of Jesus Christ.

It shows two crescents of receptivity pointing outwards, held together by the line of matter. The sign of Pisces is considered a receptive sign--one that is impressionable, spiritual, and open-minded.

*Note: I am just making a comparison, nothing more.*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

*Pisces, February 19 - March 20*

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs ( February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American inventor and businessman widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era.

"If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."

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Intuition and imagination are Pisces strengths and weakness at the same time. Pisces are not only spiritual in nature but also emotional in expression. Pisces get attracted to the mystical side of things, and herein lies the potential danger, for when pulled beneath the currents of routine life, the realms of imagination and the subconscious offer little structure. Without the foundation of reality, it becomes easy to flounder.

http://www.purlem.com/blog/2011/04/does-your-product-or-service-create-emotion/

Have you felt it? I think of the way I feel when I purchase a new mac, or any apple product for that matter. I hate to admit it… seems almost sinful to have an emotional connection with any material thing. But there is no doubt about it… it’s there.

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Jobs left India after staying for seven months and returning to the US ahead of Daniel Kottke, with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. He later said that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not fully relate to his thinking.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-10-25/news/3032 0340_1_delhi-belly-intuition-indian-villages

Steve Jobs' India sojourn in the summer of 1974 has been much written about, but always remained shrouded in mystery and speculation. A new authorized biography of the billionaire who lost his long battle with cancer earlier this month, reveals hitherto little known details about Jobs' experiences in India during a seven-month trip, and how he learnt about the power of intuition in this country.

"The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work," Jobs later recalled to Walter Issacson, the biographer.

Steve's Dyophysite,

Buddhism was the Divine Fish.
Business/Invention was the Human Fish.

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Personal Computers are/were dominated by two water men, of course they each took a different direction.

posted November 03, 2011 01:40 PM            

Hiatus until next posting.

posted November 03, 2011 10:12 PM            

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posted November 03, 2011 12:02 PM
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Orion Correlation TheoryFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search

Representation of the central tenet of the Orion Correlation Theory - the outline of the Giza pyramids superimposed over a photograph of the stars in Orion's Belt. The validity of this match has been called into question by Hancock's critics, as noted in the text.The Orion Correlation Theory is a hypothesis in pyramidology. Its central claim is that there is a correlation between the location of the 3 largest pyramids of the Giza pyramid complex and the three middle stars of the constellation Orion, and that this correlation was intended as such by the builders of the pyramids. The stars of Orion were associated with Osiris, the sun-god of rebirth and afterlife, by the ancient Egyptians.[1][2][3] Depending on the version of the theory, additional pyramids can be included to complete the picture of the Orion constellation, and the Nile river can be included to match with the Milky Way galaxy. The theory was first published in 1989 in Discussions in Egyptology, vol. 13. It was the subject of a bestseller, The Orion Mystery, in 1994, as well as a BBC documentary, The Great Pyramid: Gateway to the Stars (February 1994). Since then it has been discussed, reviewed and presented in numerous journals, magazines, and TV documentaries.
Contents
1 History
2 Criticisms
3 Leo and the Sphinx
4 References
5 External links

[edit] HistoryThe Orion Correlation Theory was first put forward by Bauval in 1983. One night, while working in Saudi Arabia, he took his family and a friend's family up into the sand dunes of the Arabian desert for a camping expedition. His friend pointed out Orion, and mentioned that Mintaka, the smaller more easterly of the stars making up Orion's belt was offset slightly from the others. Bauval then made a connection between the layout of the three main stars in Orion's belt and the layout of the three main pyramids in the Giza necropolis. He published this idea in 1989 in the journal Discussions in Egyptology, vol. 14. The idea has been further expounded by Bauval in collaboration with Adrian Gilbert (The Orion Mystery, 1994) and Graham Hancock (Keeper of Genesis, 1996) , as well as in their separate publications. The basis of this theory concerns the proposition that the relative positions of three main Ancient Egyptian pyramids on the Giza plateau are (by design) correlated with the relative positions of the three stars in the constellation of Orion which make up Orion's Belt— as these stars appeared 10,000 BC.

Their initial claims regarding the alignment of the Giza pyramids with Orion ("…the three pyramids were a terrestrial map of the three stars of Orion's belt"— Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods, 1995, p. 375) are later joined with speculation about the age of the Great Sphinx (Hancock and Bauval, Keeper of Genesis, published 1996, and in 1997 in the U.S. as The Message of the Sphinx). According to these works, the Great Sphinx was constructed c. 10,500 BC (Upper Paleolithic), and its lion-shape is maintained to be a definitive reference to the constellation of Leo. Furthermore, the orientation and dispositions of the Sphinx, the Giza pyramids and the Nile River relative to one another on the ground is put forward as an accurate reflection or "map" of the constellations of Leo, Orion (specifically, Orion's Belt) and the Milky Way respectively. As Hancock puts it in 1998's The Mars Mystery (co-authored with Bauval):

...we have demonstrated with a substantial body of evidence that the pattern of stars that is "frozen" on the ground at Giza in the form of the three pyramids and the Sphinx represents the disposition of the constellations of Orion and Leo as they looked at the moment of sunrise on the spring equinox during the astronomical "Age of Leo" (i.e., the epoch in which the Sun was "housed" by Leo on the spring equinox.) Like all precessional ages this was a 2,160-year period. It is generally calculated to have fallen between the Gregorian calendar dates of 10,970 and 8810 BC. (op. cit., p.189)

The allusions to dates c. 12,500 years ago are significant to Hancock since this is the era he seeks to assign to the advanced progenitor civilization, now vanished, but which he contends through most of his works had existed and whose advanced technology influenced and shaped the development of the world's (known) civilizations of antiquity. Egyptology and archaeological science maintain that available evidence indicates that the Giza pyramids were constructed during the Fourth dynasty period (3rd millennium BC[4]), while the exact date of the Great Sphinx is still unclear. Hancock does not dispute the dating evidence for the pyramids, but instead argues that they must have been planned with the knowledge of how the stars had appeared some eight thousand years before they were actually built —since the Orion Constellation Theory claims they are oriented that way— which it is implied provides further evidence for the influence of a technology and knowledge which would not have been available to the pyramids' builders.

[edit] CriticismsThe claims made by Hancock, Bauval, and others (such as Adrian Gilbert and Anthony West) concerning the significance of these proposed correlations have been examined by several scientists, who have published detailed criticism and rebuttal of these ideas.

Among these critiques are several from two astronomers, Ed Krupp of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles and Anthony Fairall, astronomy professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Using planetarium equipment, Krupp and Fairall independently investigated the angle between the alignment of Orion's Belt and north during the era cited by Hancock, Bauval et al. (which differs from the angle seen today or in the 3rd millennium BC, because of the precession of the equinoxes), and found that the angle was somewhat different from the "perfect match" claimed by Bauval and Hancock in the Orion Constellation Theory– 47-50 degrees per the planetarium measurements, compared to the 38 degree angle formed by the pyramids.[5]

Krupp also pointed out that the slightly-bent line formed by the three pyramids was deviated towards the north, whereas the slight "kink" in the line of Orion's Belt was deformed to the south, and to match them up one or the other of them had to be turned upside-down.[6] Indeed, this is what was done in the original book by Bauval and Gilbert (The Orion Mystery), which compared images of the pyramids and Orion without revealing the pyramids' map had been inverted.[7] Krupp and Fairall find other problems with the claims, including noting that if the Sphinx is meant to represent the constellation of Leo, then it should be on the opposite side of the Nile (the "Milky Way") from the pyramids ("Orion"),[5][6] that the vernal equinox c. 10,500 BC was in Virgo and not Leo,[5] and that in any case the constellations of the Zodiac originate from Mesopotamia and are completely unknown in Egypt until the much later Graeco-Roman era.[7] Ed Krupp repeated this "upside down" claim in the BBC documentary Atlantis Reborn (1999).

Some astronomers (including Dr. Archie Roy, Dr. Percy Seymour, Dr. Mary Bruck, Dr. Giulio Magli), however, have rejected Krupp's argument. The correlation, they claim, is a visual one when standing north of the Giza pyramids and looking south. Archie Roy, professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Glasgow University, and Percy Seymour, astronomer and astrophysicist at Plymouth University U.K., have both publicly rejected several of Krupp's arguments, including the accusation that Bauval and Gilbert purposefully inverted the pyramid map. Both Roy and Seymour argue, for several reasons, that the orientation on the ground does not require the map to be "inverted to fit" the sky map in which Roy concludes "The accusation that the maps were placed upside down is therefore unfounded."[8][9][10]

In a ruling by the Broadcasting Standard Commission (UK), the committee ruled in favour of Robert Bauval that the claim that maps were placed upside down was "unfairly" presented in the BBC documentary Atlantis Reborn. Public apologies were made on BBC television and in The Times of London.[citation needed]

[edit] Leo and the Sphinx
The Great Sphinx of GizaThe Great Sphinx is a statue with the face of a man and the body of a lion. Carved out of the surrounding limestone bedrock, it is 57 metres (185 ft) long, 6 m (20 ft) wide, and has a height of 20 m (65 ft), making it the largest single-stone statue in the world. The Great Sphinx is one of the world’s largest and oldest statues, yet basic facts about it such as the real-life model for the face, when it was built, and by whom, are debated. These questions have collectively earned the title “Riddle of the Sphinx,” a nod to its Greek namesake, although this phrase should not be confused with the original Greek legend.

The Great Sphinx is commonly accepted by Egyptologists to represent the likeness of King Khafra (also known by the Hellenised version of his name, Chephren) who is often credited as the builder as well. This would place the time of construction somewhere between 2520 BC and 2494 BC. Because the limited evidence giving provenance to Khafra is ambiguous and circumstantial, the idea of who built the Sphinx, and when, continues to be the subject of debate. An argument put forward by Bauval and Hancock to support the Orion Correlation Theory is that the construction of the Great Sphinx was begun in 10,500 BC; that the Sphinx's lion-shape is a definitive reference to the constellation of Leo; and that the layout and orientation of the Sphinx, the Giza pyramid complex and the Nile River is an accurate reflection or “map” of the constellations of Leo, Orion (specifically, Orion’s Belt) and the Milky Way, respectively.[11]

A date of 10,500 BC is chosen because they maintain this is the only time in the precession of the equinoxes when the astrological age was Leo and when that constellation rose directly east of the Sphinx at the vernal equinox. They also suggest that in this epoch the angles between the three stars of Orion’s Belt and the horizon was an “exact match” to the angles between the three main Giza pyramids. This time period also coincides with the American psychic Edgar Cayce’s “dating” of Atlantis. These and other theories are used to support the overall belief in an advanced and ancient, but now vanished, global progenitor civilization.

The theory of an older Sphinx has received some support from geologists. Most famously, Robert M. Schoch has argued that the effects of water erosion on the Sphinx and its surrounding enclosure means that parts of the monument must originally have been carved at the latest between 7000–5000 BC.[12] Schoch's analysis has been broadly corroborated by another geologist, David Coxill, who agrees that the Sphinx has been heavily weathered by rainwater and must therefore have been carved in pre-dynastic times.[13] While a third geologist, Colin Reader, has suggested a date several hundred years prior to the commonly accepted date for construction. These views, however, have been almost universally rejected by mainstream Egyptologists who, together with a number of geologists, e.g. James Harrell, Lal Gauri, John J. Sinai, and Jayanta K. Bandyopadhyaym,[14][15] stand by the conventional dating for the monument. Their analyses attribute the apparently accelerated wear on the Sphinx variously to modern industrial pollution, qualitative differences between the layers of limestone in the monument itself, scouring by wind-borne sand, and/or temperature changes causing the stone to crack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Correlation_Theory
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posted November 03, 2011 12:06 PM
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I'm really beginning to believe
that the Sphinx was never a lion
but a dog, representing Isis..
the dog star!

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All my love, with all my Heart
lotusheartone

I'd like a really funny image
to follow please!

lol, just kidding!

posted November 05, 2011 01:42 AM            

My jack russell terrier
Crazy Daisy
makes the perfect shape
when she lays like the
Sphinx..

P.S. MBlake, thanks for the Image..see
how long the front paws go out!?

posted November 05, 2011 08:37 PM            

Saturn conjunction Pluto: Confinement

Mid November 2011 until beginning of September 2012: During this time you may have fewer resources available for doing what you want, and you may have to focus the available resources on more restricted and concentrated objectives. The effects of this influence are several. First, structure in your life will change significantly, but not suddenly or without warning. The changes brought about during this time are inherent in what is being changed, if you look carefully. It is rather like an inevitable conclusion of a situation. During this period some things will come to an end or an old order of life will cease. On a metaphysical level, this influence means that factors are now being incorporated into the structure of your life that will later bring about evolution and growth. This process involves getting rid of old structures. What happens now will have great consequences in fourteen years.

On a material level, this influence often causes financial problems or other kinds of shortages. Sometimes government or other officials will impose heavy burdens that greatly restrict your freedom of movement. It is also possible that some incident or accident may affect your health and thereby restrict your freedom of movement.

All of these effects confine your energies so that later they can be focused upon matters that will require your full attention. If your energy is spread too thin, later crises will be much more difficult to bear. Then you will have to go through a most unpleasant house- cleaning of everything in your life that interferes with your natural pattern of evolution.

As you are more and more restricted by circumstances and the need to use your resources conservatively, do not simply hold in your energies. Build new structures to correct the problems you face now, and concentrate all your energy on bringing about necessary evolution in your life.

Saturn conjunction Jupiter: Weather forecast

Mid December 2011 until beginning of October 2012: This influence can represent different things to different people. It can be an opportunity for very careful sustained growth through patient endeavor. Or it can be a period of extreme restlessness and impatience.

During this time you may expect any of the following: a change of job or residence; a change in financial status, often for the worse; and withdrawal from others in order to work.(That would be co-workers, and my parents that I still talk to. perhaps messageboards. nothing else remains.)

It is difficult to say whether you are justified in being impatient with the areas of restriction in your life. Certainly you are more than justified in trying to improve your life. You will have to decide whether to cut off some element or build it up to a higher level. Either response may be appropriate.

More confinements, more restriction. Just have to take it.

posted November 05, 2011 09:33 PM            

are you speaking of
the breaking point?

Isn't amazing that we can break
our bodies, and they Heal?

posted November 05, 2011 09:40 PM            

I got One of those!

it better Heal..

posted November 05, 2011 09:44 PM            

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Originally posted by Emeraldopal:
you mean, like a broken Heart?

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Not exactly. It comes in a pair. Heart and Mind.

I suppose that is the point, make them stronger.

posted November 05, 2011 09:55 PM            

we can never give up,
we'd never forgive
OurSelves!

time..seems to be going by
so slowly..

yet, I'm in High Gear!!!

On with the Show!

posted November 05, 2011 10:31 PM            

His neighbors must love him, hehe

posted November 05, 2011 10:52 PM            

Prepare to be amazed..
Dazzled!

hehe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9r5b-cqX6U

posted November 06, 2011 05:50 PM            

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Originally posted by Emeraldopal:
I'm going to put some
time aside today, to watch
that whole video, interesting!

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I thought so as well.

posted November 07, 2011 08:33 PM            

I have 20 minutes left..
so far, wow, gets to the
Heart of all the things
we are discussing...
Affirmations!

Thanks, Mblake81!!!

posted November 07, 2011 10:00 PM            

In ancient times
we remembered
who we are!

HERMES

SHE ME HER
SEEM SHE,
SEE HER ME'S
SEER!