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TAURUS
ORION: THE STARGATE
“Following [Aries] is Cetus who rises up, the world government, and after that follows Taurus, Gemini, Cancer and Leo, and those are the second advent of Christ. The Judge is coming. Gemini represents the rapture, Cancer represents the resurrection, and Leo, the Lion, is seen jumping on the Hydra, the many headed dragon. That's all the book of Revelation...” J.R. Church (1053)
“The last four signs make the most sense if they stand for the final consummation of all things. This section would then foretell the coming judgments on the earth and the glorious outcome of Christ's reign.
“Taurus, the Bull, is an angry, rushing animal, which would be a meaningful symbol of God delivering His wrath during the Tribulation. The Decans are Orion, Eridanus, and Auriga. Orion is the warrior-prince with a sword on his side and his foot on the hare or serpent. Eridanus, the torturous River, is the River of Judgment belonging to Orion. Auriga, the Shepherd, is a picture of a powerful shepherd-king who tenderly holds a she-goat and two little goats in his left arm. This could be a picture of the Lord's comfort of the persecuted believers of this coming period of judgment.” (Prophecy Central)
The sign of Taurus, the Bull covers roughly April 19-20 to May 20-21. The Pagan Federation's 'Wheel of the Year' states that April is the month of 'opening' and of 'giving birth':
“April comes from the Latin Aprilus, meaning to open or give birth. This month has been associated with the goddess since ancient times. The constellation Taurus rules the period from 4/21 - 5/21. Considered to be the white bull held sacred by the Greeks, Egyptians, Druids and Native Americans (as the White Buffalo) this sign may also represent the magical white heart of medieval lore. 4/21- The Greek fest to Io took place, with its associations to the constellation Taurus. The Roman fest of Pales.” (668)
Taurus commences with the Greek 'fest of Io' and Roman festival of Pales. Io was the daughter of the king of Argos who (with Zeus) bore Epaphus, founder of the royal families of Egypt and Argos, and ancestor of the Danaids, the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Argos. Io was worshipped in Egypt and identified with the Egyptian goddess Isis.
Concerning Pales, Eliade's Encyclopedia of Religion states: "At Cyllene, Hermes was worshipped by the name of Phales - derived from Phallos - and in the image of a phallic stone. More usually...his phallic image was a herm. Originally a stone heap..." (146:264, "Phallus") (Mount Cyllene in Arcadia is the birthplace of Hermes.) The New Encyclopedia Britannica states: "...at Rome...a male Pales was sometimes spoken of corresponding in some respects to Pan." (214:600, "Pales) Quoting Ovid in The Two Babylons, Alexander Hislop wrote of the fiery rites of Pales/Pan: "The fire...was looked upon as the purifier, and in April every year, at the...feast of Pales, both men and cattle, for this purpose, were made to pass through the fire." (156:236)
According to D. James Kennedy's book, The Real Meaning of the Zodiac, the Tribulation period—Christ coming forth like a bull in judgment and a fiery destruction of the wicked—will commence in the spring under the sign of Taurus.
“The final four books are the story of the consummation of all things: of the coming of Christ in judgment, of the Great Assize, of the gathering together of His own unto eternal salvation, and the fiery destruction of the wicked. It is the great culmination of the ages which is now before us.
“On a planisphere, or zodiac, the ninth figure is the great constellation of Taurus, pictured almost at the very top (at twelve o'clock on the chart). Taurus, The Bull...is a picture of a great beast, a bull or ox, with his head lowered and his horns pointed forward. He is untamable and irresistible. He is charging forth—rampaging, raging, head down, and bringing destruction to all who are in his way. It is a picture of the coming destruction of the wicked, as Christ comes forth in His judgment.” - D. James Kennedy (872:90-1)
Hardly by coincidence, the occult's 'Great Work'—the 'transformation of humanity'—is also scheduled to commence in the Spring, in the signs of Aries, Taurus, and Gemini. According to Texe Marrs, the author of Circle of Intrigue, the feast of Beltane on May 1, which falls in Taurus, is the grand finale of blood sacrifice rituals inaugurating the Great Work:
“Aleister Crowley, 33° Mason and Grand Master of the O.T.O., taught that the Great Work, the 'transformation of humanity', will be accomplished in the last decade of the 20th Century. In de Rola's Alchemy: The Secret Art we find an Illuminist-coded message of what will be the fate of Christians and other rebels during the latter stages of the Great Work. First, we are told that the Great Work 'may only be begun in the spring, under the signs of Aries, Taurus, and Gemini.'
“According to the Satanic Calendar of High Holy Days, April 19 inaugurates a period of blood sacrifice to the Beast, culminating in the Grand Climax on May 1st each year. May 1st (May Day), of course, is celebrated in Red Square (note the color, red) in Moscow each year by a huge parade and spectacle. It was also on May 1, 1776 in Bavaria that Adam Weishaupt founded the Order of the Illuminati, and it was May 1st when the ancient Druids honored their great Sun God and Goddess with an uninhibited festival complete with initiations, sex orgies, drunken revelry, and human sacrifice.” (140:230)
As per usual, Aleister Crowley's false prophecy did not come to pass within the time frame predicted. This miscalculation, however, does not negate the fact that the Great Work will assuredly be undertaken at some point in time by secret societies posturing as the Illuminati or enlightened ones. This occult underground believes that the transformation of world—'The Age of Aquarius' or 'New Age of Enlightenment'—was birthed in the sign of Taurus with a grand planetary alignment which occurred following Beltane in the year 2000.
“The night of May 4, 2000, was the eve of one of the most exciting, powerful, and transformative celestial events of our millennium according to astronomy and astrology experts. It began with the darkest night in living memory... no moon or planet lit up the sky as the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were hidden from human eyes behind the Sun. The next morning, May 5th, at 8:08 a.m. Universal Time, the longitudinal span of these five planets, Sun and Moon collimated within a geocentric (Earth-centered) sector of 27 degrees of the Constellation of Taurus in our Milky Way galaxy, forming a 'Grand Planetary Alignment.' Synchronistically, the planets on this date were also in alignment with the great central Sun of the Pleiades cluster, plus the current eleven-year sunspot cycle was at its peak. Many cultures, including the Mayans and Hopi, have a prophecy predicting the May 5th Grand Planetary Alignment and this time, 'the birth of the New Age of Enlightenment' - The Age of Aquarius. On the Mayan calendar, May 5th marked the end of the 5th Sun and the birth of the 6th Sun.” - 479
One New Age web site, CalenderSign 2000, proclaimed that at the turn of every age (two millennia), there are "revolutionary transformations accompanying the change of Ages...It is the twilight of the gods—the Day of Judgment for the outgoing and incoming Ages." Closing out the present Age of Pisces, May 5, 2000 was to be a day of reckoning, decision, and judgment.
"This Great Moment (Star Attraction) in May 2000 marks the end of the Christian Age of Pisces and the beginning of the Age of Aquarius based on the human calendar tradition. This is the day on which all of the gods of the heavens mentioned in the ancient mythical cult of heavens will meet again. It’s up to humankind whether these gods will remain in the heavens or whether they will venture back to earth. This will be the Last Day of the old age and Day of Judgment and First Day of the new age and calendar, the birth of new myths, the understanding of the pervious ones and a further step on humankind’s own journey to the stars." (1038)
Later that very month, on May 28, 2000, there was a rare conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn. This conjunction, which occurred in the sign of Gemini, had enormous significance in the New Age scheme because it presaged the reunion of these ancient gods to recreate the new Atlantis—a social order based on the pre-flood civilization which God judged in Genesis 7. The civilizations of Greek and Rome were in fact products of the civilization of Atlantis and Greek and Roman mythologies were based on the Atlantean gods. The Roman Saturnalia, which was a commemoration of the Golden Age of Atlantis, specifically celebrated the overthrow of the god Saturn (Gr. Chronos) by Jupiter (Gr. Zeus), the last god of Atlantis. Saturn is the malevolent god of time, representing the period of chaos and judgment that precedes the reign of Jupiter, the god of benevolence. The Saturnalia also anticipates a return to the Golden Age of Saturn, who will rule over the first half of the Tribulation period, producing the chaos which destroys the present social order.
It becomes apparent why Taurus, in the Spring, is so important in the occult endgame. Frances Yates predicted in The Rosicrucian Enlightenment that the transformation of the world return mankind to the mystery religion of ancient Egypt: "Giordano Bruno...propagated throughout Europe in the late 16th century an esoteric movement which demanded a general reformation of the world, in the form of a return to 'Egyptian' religion and good magic." (46:216) Good magic? This would be a reference to what is currently termed “white magic”, à la Harry Potter, who used the “powers of darkness” for good (an oxymoron if there ever was one). In reality, there is no essential difference between “white” and “black” magic. Every form of sorcery is practiced through either indirect or direct recourse to Satan.
And so the 'general reformation of the world' will be a return to the Egyptian mystery religion which was steeped in Hermetic magic. Let us remember that the land of Egypt was an alchemical experiment to revive the lost civilization of Atlantis—the pre-flood generation which God judged for its wickedness. The Pharaonic Age (c. 3,240 B.C.) was distinguished for resuscitating and propagating Atlantean magic as the 'Hermetic arts and sciences'. Adrian Gilbert, author of Opening the Stargate, explains Hermeticism : "It was believed as a matter of faith that in the dim and distant past the gods themselves had walked the earth. These mighty beings, particularly Thoth, were looked upon by the Egyptian faithful as human avatars of divine intelligence. Thoth, who was later called 'Hermes Trismegistus'...was believed to have been the first great initiate and to have brought knowledge of the divine down to the earth. The corpus of ideas flowing from his teachings is known as Hermeticism..." (1017, Part 1)
The Pharaonic Age of Egypt began in the Age of Taurus in the Great Mayan Cycle of 26,000 years. In his work, Arcadia, Peter Dawkins, whilst effusing over the glory of the Taurean Age, noted that the Festival of Unification in Egypt which began the process of man's enlightenment corresponds to the Druidic May Day Festival or Beltane. Beltane or Beltaine means 'the day of Bel's fire' or 'Baal's fire.' (In the Celtic dialect, the verb "to tine" means "to light the fire.")
"...the Festival of Unification, which begins the process of understanding or enlightenment of the mind, is referred to as a Taurean festival. The sign of Taurus is taken as representing the initiating impulse that starts the process of illumination. Taurus the Bull is the great Bestower of Light, who fertilises the minds of mankind with seeds of light. In the East the festival of the Buddha, called the Wesak festival, is celebrated at the same full moon as the Beltane festival in the West - for they are one and the same. The festival is described as being the time when 'light is gathered, concentrated and poured out to stimulate the mental state of humanity with wisdom, and incline men towards love and brotherhood.' The festival is associated with the birth of the Buddha, for Buddha means 'the Enlightened One', which is a description of the enlightened mind or soul of man...
"It should be noticed...that the so-called 'Unification of the Two Lands' in Ancient Egypt, which marked the start of the first cycle of Pharaonic dynasties, began with the commencement of the astronomical Age of Taurus, c. 3,240 BC... The symbol of the bull was of particular importance for Egypt throughout its history...
"...At the time that the pharaonic civilisation of Ancient Egypt was supposed to have begun, c. 3.240 BC, the Spring Equinoctial sun arose in the middle of the zodiacal sign of Taurus, and the May Day festival sun was on the cusp of the signs of Cancer and Gemini." (889:26)
The Egyptians believed that the pharaohs were descendants of the gods of Atlantis, which would make the Pharaonic dynasties a branch of this demonic lineage. New Agers think that commencing the Great Work under the sign of Taurus, as prophesied by Aleister Crowley, will ensure 'the rebirth of the New Age of Enlightenment' under the leadership of this angelic bloodline. As the Egyptians revived Atlantean magic by connecting to the stars, New Agers believe that it is still possible to resurrect modern culture from the dead by reconnecting mankind with the stars. This would mean that future rulers would be like the pharaohs, descendants of fallen angels. As one Neo-Atlantean expressed it:
"It was connection to the stars that made the Egyptian civilization so long lived. Children who were born thousands of years after the founding of Egypt could still find the originating mythologies upon which the civilization was founded. By the same token, it was possible for Egypt to die and be raised from the dead by children who grew to know the mythology and then found the stories in the stars. It is precisely as they said. All the future kings of Egypt would descend from the stars along the path defined at the 'First Occasion.' This was Egypt's greatest secret. Once the soul of a nation, or indeed a civilization, is connected to the stars, it can be resurrected from the dead. Hidden within this statement is the ultimate tragedy of human civilization. We only need to understand how to rise from the dead because we are going to die. Realizing this important fact of life, Egypt solved the problem by giving life to the dead." (1021)
TAURUS' DECAN
ORION: THE STARGATE
Orion = Tammuz & Saturn
“Orion is the warrior-prince with a sword on his side and his foot on the hare or serpent. Eridanus, the torturous River, is the River of Judgment belonging to Orion.” (Prophecy Central) (850)
“Orion...has always been my favorite constellation and one of the first ones that, as a child, I was able to identify.” - D. James Kennedy (872:94)
Orion, the Hunter, is a prominent constellation, perhaps the best-known in the sky. At the time of the Grand Planetary Alignment on May 5, the five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) were in the process of leaving the constellation Aries and entering Taurus. It is indeed auspicious that the constellation of Orion appears in the sign of Taurus, which opens or 'births' the Golden Age of Saturn. According to The Saturn Myth by David Talbot, Orion was known as Tammuz in Babylon and Saturn in Rome: "...The story of Orion preceded astrology. (In fact, Orion is widely acknowledged to be the Greek version of the Babylonian Tammuz-Ninurta, the planet Saturn.)" (93:331) The Roman god, Saturn is the Greek Chronos, the god of Time. In his book, Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock also identified Orion as the god of Time (Chronos/Saturn): "In the subcontinent of India...the Orion constellation is known as Kal-Purush, meaning Time-Man..." (236:262) Saturn was also worshipped as the creator, who was believed to be Adam: "The first religious symbols were symbols of Saturn, and so pervasive was the planet-god's influence that the ancients knew him as the creator, the king of the world, and Adam the first man." (93:1-2) The constellation of Orion looks like a man's torso, having arms but neither a head nor legs. In the section of this report on Scorpio we first learned that the god Orion molested Diana, for which offense the goddess summoned a Scorpion to sting the miscreant. In remembrance of Orion's flight from the Scorpion, it is therefore said: "...Orion was placed among the stars in such a way that when Scorpio rises, Orion sets." (570:188) |
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Orion is also known as the 'lover of Diana', as stated by Ovid who is cited in Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning by Richard Hinckley Allen:"Dianae Comes and Amasius, Companion, and Lover of Diana, were other titles. The Hero, after his death from the Scorpion's sting inflicted for his boastfulness, having been located by Jove (Jupiter) in his present position, at the request of the goddess, that he might escape in the west when his slayer, the Scorpion, rose in the east,- as Aratos said: 'When the Scorpion comes, Orion flies to utmost end of earth'." (927:305) Another version of this mythical affair states that Diana's twin brother, Apollo, tricked her into wounding the head of Orion, whose headless torso was memorialized in the heavens. It seems that, as a giant, Orion could wade through the sea with only his head protruding from the water.
"Istrus, however, says that Orion was loved by Diana and that she almost became his wife. Apollo became distressed, his frequent scoldings had no effect. On one occasion, when he observed the head of the swimming Orion from afar, he wagered with Diana that she could not hit the dark spot visible in the ocean with her arrow. She, desirous of being called the most skilled archer, shot her arrow and pierced the head of Orion. When the waves carried his body ashore, Diana grieved greatly that she had shot him and, lamenting his death with much weeping, reported placed him among the stars." (570:149)
Orion's fate and Diana's lamentation for her lover bring to mind certain verses of Scripture, which contain clues about the identity of Orion:
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? For they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. - Ezek. 8:12-14
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. - Rev. 13:1-3
"Weeping for Tammuz"
Tammuz was the Chaldean name for the Egyptian sun-god, Horus, the son and reincarnation of Osiris. In Ezekiel, chapter 8, God revealed to the prophet that the apostate elders of Israel were 'weeping for Tammuz' in the Temple at Jerusalem. The reason for their lamentation was the untimely and violent death of Tammuz, the false messiah of the Babylonians. In The Two Babylons, Alexander Hislop identified Tammuz as Nimrod, who was deified as the constellation of Orion:
"From Persian records we are expressly assured that it was Nimrod who was deified after his death by the name of Orion, and placed among the stars. Here, then, we have large and consenting evidence, all leading to one conclusion, that the death of Nimrod, the child worshipped in the arms of the goddess-mother of Babylon, was a death of violence.
"Now, when this mighty hero, in the midst of his career of glory, was suddenly cut off by a violent death, great seems to have been the shock that the catastrophe occasioned. When the news spread abroad, the devotees of pleasure felt as if the best benefactor of mankind were gone, and the gaiety of nations eclipsed. Loud was the wail that everywhere ascended to heaven among the apostates from the primeval faith for so dire a catastrophe. Then began those weepings for Tammuz, in the guilt of which the daughters of Israel allowed themselves to be implicated, and the existence of which can be traced not merely in the annals of classical antiquity, but in the literature of the world from Ultima Thule to Japan." (156:57)
Prior to becoming a constellation in the heavens, Orion, one of the Titans in Greek mythology, was the archetype of the hunter. Orion was, as Hislop stated, the hunter Nimrod, who was the grandson of Ham, a son of Noah. The rebellions of Ham and of Nimrod against God are recorded in the book of Genesis.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. Gen. 9:22-25
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Gen. 10:6-9
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Gen 11:1-9
Nimrod's empire began in the land of Shinar (Babylon) where, as a false messiah, he attempted to unite mankind in a false religious system. In Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinckley Allen referred to Nimrod/Orion as a hunter of men, rather than animals: "Later on the Jews called Orion Gibbor, the Giant, considered as Nimrod bound to the sky for rebellion against Jehovah whence perhaps came the Bands, or Bonds of Orion, which some say should be Cords, or a Girdle; but the concept of Nimrod as 'the mighty Hunter before the Lord', at least in the ordinary sense of that word, is erroneous, for the original, according to universal Eastern tradition signifies a Lurking Enemy, or a Hunter of men rather than of beasts." (927:309)
As the grandson of rebellious Ham and nephew of the cursed Canaan, Nimrod became the archetypal Child worshipped on the lap of the goddess mother, who was known under different appellations in various cultures as Isis, Nana, Eve, Istar, Demeter, Hecate, Themis, Hera, Astraea, Diana, Cybele, Fortuna, Erigone, Sibylla and the Virgin Mother. According to Hislop, the godly sons of Noah, Shem, and Japeth, designated Nimrod an 'apostate' after he 'liberated' mankind from the fear and worship of the true God:
"Thus from Assyria, Egypt, and Greece, we have cumulative and overwhelming evidence, all conspiring to demonstrate that the child worshipped in the arms of the goddess-mother in all these countries in the very character of Ninus or Nin, 'The Son,' was Nimrod, the son of Cush. A feature here, or an incident there, may have been borrowed from some succeeding hero; but it seems impossible to doubt, that of that child Nimrod was the prototype, the grand original.
"The amazing extent of the worship of this man indicates something very extraordinary in his character; and there is ample reason to believe, that in his own day he was an object of high popularity. Though by setting up as king, Nimrod invaded the patriarchal system, and abridged the liberties of mankind, yet he was held by many to have conferred benefits upon them, that amply indemnified them for the loss of their liberties, and covered him with glory and renown...
He is said to have been the first that gathered mankind into communities, the first of mortals that reigned, and the first that offered idolatrous sacrifices. This character can agree with none but that of Nimrod. Now the name given to him in connection with his 'gathering men together,' and offering idolatrous sacrifice, is very significant.
Phoroneus, in one of its meanings, and that one of the most natural, signifies the 'Apostate.' * That name had very likely been given him by the uninfected portion of the sons of Noah. But that name had also another meaning, that is, 'to set free'; and therefore his own adherents adopted it, and glorified the great 'Apostate' from the primeval faith, though he was the first that abridged the liberties of mankind, as the grand "Emancipator!" ** And hence, in one form or other, this title was handed down to this deified successors as a title of honour.***
* From Pharo, also pronounced Pharang, or Pharong, 'to cast off, to make naked, to apostatise, to set free.' These meanings are not commonly given in this order, but as the sense of 'casting off' explains all the other meanings, that warrants the conclusion that 'to cast off' is the generic sense of the word. Now 'apostacy' is very near akin to this sense, and therefore is one of the most natural...
"All tradition from the earliest times bears testimony to the apostacy of Nimrod, and to his success in leading men away from the patriarchal faith, and delivering their minds from that awe of God and fear of the judgments of heaven that must have rested on them while yet the memory of the flood was recent. And according to all the principles of depraved human nature, this too, no doubt, was one grand element in his fame; for men will readily rally around any one who can give the least appearance of plausibility to any doctrine which will teach that they can be assured of happiness and heaven at last, though their hearts and natures are unchanged, and though they live without God in the world. How great was the boon conferred by Nimrod on the human race, in the estimation of ungodly men, by emancipating them from the impressions of true religion..." (156:51-2)
Although Nimrod [aka Orion/Saturn/Tammuz] was a hunter of men, his religious system was based on a deceptive assurances of salvation without any provision for the fundamental problem of sin. As a type of the Antichrist who will soon be revealed, this false messiah was able to draw the multitudes into his one world religion; as Hislop stated, "men will readily rally around any one who can give the least appearance of plausibility to any doctrine which will teach that they can be assured of happiness and heaven at last, though their hearts and natures are unchanged".
Because with lies ye have...strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: (Ezekiel 13:22)
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. (2 Tim. 3:5).
"One of his heads as it were wounded to death"
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;
and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. (Rev.13:1-3)
According to Masonic sources, the missing head and legs of Orion are symbolized by the ‘Skull & Crossbones’, which strongly indicates that the Freemason's veneration of John the Baptist (who was beheaded) is really the worship of Orion (Nimrod/Tammuz).
"The omission of Orion's head and legs in the constellation of Orion, illustrated above, is immediately noticeable. It would seem that Orion has had his legs and his head chopped off!
"A similar practice was observed by the Knights Templar five and a half thousand years later when they were buried. By adopting this practice the deceased Knights Templar became as one with Orion and, by implication, Osiris. The 'skull and crossbones' … Orion's missing head and legs…were also adopted by the Knights Templar as their emblem, their symbol of recognition. "As we shall soon discover, the severed head of Orion is in fact the Sun. Moreover it is the headless Orion which is the source of legends about severed heads." (903, Ch. 9)
The aforementioned publication, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, is considered the basic book in its field, which is astrology. Richard Hinckley Allen's dedicatory statement is as follows: "I gratefully dedicate these pages to the memory of Hubert Anson Newton and William Dwight Whitney, senior professors in Yale University who first encouraged me in my work." (927)
Hubert Anson Newton (1830-96) was an American astronomer and mathematician; he was also doctoral advisor to Eliakim Moore, a Skull & Bones member at Yale. William Dwight Whitney was a senior professor on the staff of Yale University when Star Names was published in 1963. William Dwight Whitney is in all probability a direct descendant of a famous American Sanskrit scholar, William Dwight Whitney (1827–94), who became professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology at Yale following his studies in Germany. A ‘William Dwight Whitney’ also shows up on Antony Sutton's list of personages who have held membership in the Order of Skull & Bones. As the date of initiation is not given, we cannot be certain which William Dwight Whitney is on Sutton's list, but it is not unreasonable to speculate that both Yale professors were members of the Skull & Bones. The 19th century Sanskrit scholar/Yale professor would have lived during the period when the Order of Skull & Bones took over the management of Yale University.
"Daniel Coit Gilman ('52), along with two other 'Bonesmen,' formed a troika which still influences American life today. Soon after their initiation in Skull and Bones, Daniel Gilman, Timothy Dwight ('49) and Andrew Dickinson White ('53) went to study philosophy in Europe at the University of Berlin. Gilman returned from Europe and incorporated Skull and Bones as Russell Trust, in 1856, with himself as Treasurer and William H. Russell as President. He spent the next fourteen years in New Haven consolidating the order's power...
"Timothy Dwight, a professor at Yale Divinity School, was installed as president of Yale in 1886. All presidents since, have been either 'Bonesmen' or directly tied to the Order and its interests." 1019
"In 1886 Timothy Dwight (The Order) had taken over from the last of Yale's clerical Presidents, Noah Porter. Never again was Yale to get too far from The Order." 711:93
Rev. President Timothy Dwight (1828-1916) was the grandson of Rev. Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) who was the grandson of the famous Rev. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), president of Union College. Both Timothy Dwights were presidents of Yale University. In 1873, the younger Timothy Dwight was elected to serve on the American Revision Committee which had collaborated with Westcott and Hort's English Revision Committee. The elder Timothy Dwight, who was born in 1752, was also a personal friend of President George Washington, a high-level Freemason. One biography states: "Timothy Dwight was a man for all seasons: an ordained Congregational minister, grandson of Jonathan Edwards, personal friend of George Washington, and Army chaplain." 1018
Orion/Saturn/Tammuz/Nimrod/Horus/Osiris = Anunnaki/Nephilim
Orion lies partly in the Milky Way, the alleged 'Galactic Stellar Womb' from which the rest of the galaxy was conceived and born: "Orion, the giant, Hunter, and Warrior, admired in all historic ages as the most strikingly brilliant of the stellar groups, lies partly within the Milky Way, extending on both sides of the celestial equator entirely south of the ecliptic, and so is visible from every part of the globe." (927:303-4) The pre-flood giants, the Annunaki, were said to travel through the Milky Way by way of a planet ship named Nibiru, also called the Mothership. The Anunnaki, which the Bible calls Nephilim, came to Earth to 'pro-create' the human race (Gen. 6) and conveniently relocated to Orion after the Deluge (Gen. 7). The Bible states that no flesh survived the Great Flood, leaving open the possibility that the fallen angels, the Nephilim/Anunnaki, may have escaped:
"Genesis 7:21-23 stress the theme of universal death: "And all flesh died that moved upon the earth... So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground... They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.'"
According to Laurence Gardner, Noah's son, Ham (who survived the Flood, dishonored his father and was cursed) was Hermes, who taught the Atlantean doctrine to the Egyptians.
"The Tables of Testimony...not to be confused with the Ten Commandments...are rather more associated with the original Table of Destiny of the Anunnaki... This ancient archive is directly associated with the Emerald Table of Thoth/Hermes, and, as detailed in alchemical records of Egypt, the author of the preserved writings was the Biblical Ham, a great Archon of the Grail bloodline. He was the essential founder of the esoteric and arcane 'underground stream' which flowed through the ages and his Greek name, Hermes, was directly related to the science of pyramid construction, deriving from the word herma, which relates to a 'pile of stones'." (348:219)
An alternative spelling for Orion is Arion or Aryan, according to Richard Hinckley Allen: "Catullus transcribed Oarion from Pindar, shortened to Arion and sometimes changed to Aorion..." (927:304) The Aryan race were the demi-gods of Atlantis, the Nephilim/Anunnaki who relocated to the constellation of Orion. The Aryan or 'master race theory', which was popularized in the 19th century by H.P. Blavatsky, provided the philosophical framework for the Nazi Holocaust. "Another source for the master race theory in the early days of the Nazi Party was the occultist Alfred Rosenberg... was convinced that the Aryan race had originated in the lost continent of Atlantis which was the source of all ancient occult beliefs." (25:129-30)
The Aryan race theory claimed a seven step process of human evolution in which successive races evolve from a lower to a higher form of life. Mme Blavatsky called these stages “root races” and identified our current Aryan race as the fifth root race, which followed the fourth race known as the Atlantean. According to the Aryan root race view of history, survivors of the ancient and highly developed lost civilization of Atlantis would one day endow “initiates” with esoteric powers and wisdom. These initiates would use their occult powers to create a new race of Aryan supermen who would eliminate all inferior races. In other words, as the pre-flood Nephilim sired the Merovingian race, demons will again interpose their DNA into the gene pool of humanity by mating with humans. This unhappy prospect was articulated on the website of Dagobert's Revenge:
"Dr. Carl Jung believed that these UFO sightings are a product of our unconscious veiling of an ancient human experience... This 'bringing to earth' of the Sangraal by UFO's is the modern day equivalent of the Nephilim, the Outer Ones, or the Elohim earthing 'knowledge' and siring a new race of 'kingly' beings for this world. Kingly i.e., the Merovingians. The Merovingian blood is the blood of kings, the kings or gods from ancient Sumeria and beyond. ...the Nephilim have been identified as the Fathers of the Merovingians." - 571
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Matt. 24:37
Orion/Saturn/Tammuz/Nimrod/Horus/Osiris/Anunnaki/Nephilim = Son of Neptune/Poseidon/Beast out of the Sea
According to Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans by Theony Condos, "Hesiod says that Orion was the son of Euryale, the daughter of Minos and of Poseidon and that to him was granted the ability to walk on the sea as he did on the land." (570:147) Recall that, being a giant, Orion could wade through the sea with only his head protruding from the water. Neptune is the Bistea Neptunis — the Beast out of the Sea and Orion was his son. As the son of the Beast out of the sea, it is interesting that Orion has 17 stars, equaling 7 heads and 10 horns:
"The total [of stars in Orion] is seventeen. Hesiod says this is Neptune's son by Euryale... To him was granted the ability to run on the water as he did on the land." (570:148)
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. Rev. 13:1
Scripture says that sitting upon this 7-headed, 10-headed Beast, which is full of names of blasphemy—Orion/Saturn/Tammuz/Nimrod/Horus/Osiris—is a woman, the Great Harlot; and that the 7-heads are the 7 mountains or hills of Rome, which were named after the sun and moon and five planets:
“Tradition says that Rome was founded in 753 BC by twin boys, Romulus and Remus. Romulus and Remus were abandoned by their parents and were then taken into the care of a she-wolf. From looking at archaeology, researchers discovered that the city of Rome began in 753 BC as a series of farmsteads on a group of hills overlooking the Tiber River. There were seven hills and some believe that Romulus and Remus were not only very proud of finding this land with seven hills, but, for the fact that there were seven planets they worshipped: the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.” (676)
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:... So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns... And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns... And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth... And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast... And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. Rev. 17:1,7,9,12,16
Ignatius Donnelly wrote in Atlantis: The Antediluvian World,
that twelve gods originally governed Atlantis: "These deities...
were twelve in number: Zeus (or Jupiter), Hera (or Juno), Poseidon
(or Neptune), Demeter (or Ceres), Apollo, Artemis (or Diana),
Hephæstos (or Vulcan), Pallas Athena (or Minerva), Ares (or Mars),
Aphrodite (or Venus), Hermes (or Mercury), and Hestia (or Vesta).' ...
Where two names are given to a deity in the above list, the first name is
that bestowed by the Greeks, the last that given by the Romans." (635:287)
Later, Atlantis was comprised of ten regions which were ruled by ten kings.
In Shambala, Victoria LePage statesthat Atlantis' "ten districts...were ruled
by ten kings." (167:200) This is verified by Donnelly who elaborates on the
sacred numeral 'ten' as the number of rulers in ancient empires: "...The ten kingdoms of Atlantis are perpetuated in all the ancient traditions.
'In the number given by the Bible for the Antediluvian patriarchs we have
the first instance of a striking agreement with the traditions of various nations.
Other nations, to whatever epoch they carry back their ancestors...are constant
to the sacred number of ten... In Chaldea, Perosus numerates ten Antediluvian
kings whose fabulous reign extended to thousands of years. The legends of the
Iranian race commence with the reign of ten Peisdadien (Poseidon?) kings....
In India we meet with the nine Brahmadikas, who, with Brahma, their founder,
make ten, and who are called the Ten Petris, or Fathers. The Chinese count ten
emperors, partaking of the divine nature, before the dawn of historical time. The
Germans believed in the ten ancestors of Odin, and the Arabs in the ten mythical
kings of the Adites.' (Lenormant and Chevallier, 'Anc. Hist. of the East,' vol. i., p. 13.)" (635:26-7)
Orion, although a son of Poseidon/Neptune, did not become a ruler of Atlantis.
The first ten kings of Atlantis were the TWIN sons of Poseidon/Neptune, the Bistea Neptunis, or 'beast out of the sea':
Atlas and Eumeleus 8, Ampheres and Evaemon 3, Mnesus and Autochthon,
Elasippus 2 and Mestor 4, and Azaes and Diaprepes. "Poseidon and Cleito 2 had
five pairs of twins who, along with their descendants, ruled the ten provinces in
which Poseidon had divided Atlantis. The island and the ocean were called after
Poseidon's first-born Atlas, who was also king over his brothers. The brothers,
and the descendants of their ten royal houses ruled over many other islands, and
also over the Mediterranean peoples living west of Egypt and Tuscany." (1022)
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns,
and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. Rev. 13:1
Orion as the 'Soul of Osiris'
All young ancient Egyptians were taught that Osiris, the male human aspect of the One Supreme God, lived and reigned as the first king of Egypt. However, Osiris was slain by his evil brother, Seth, who with Osiris, Isis, Nepthys, and the elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water, formed the One God of the Egyptians, called an Enniad, i.e. nine gods in one. As Nimrod became the constellation Orion after his demise, the Egyptian sun god, Osiris, whose untimely death was mourned by Isis and all of Egypt, is also universally identified as the 'soul of Orion'.
Richard Allen Hinckley, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning
"Egyptian mythology laid to rest in this constellation the soul of Osiris...and, again, in the Book of the Dead we read: 'Osiris N is the constellation Orion;' In this connection, Orion was known as Smati Osiris, the Barley God...
"In astrology...[the name] Tripater applied to him.
"Saturnus has been another title, but its connection here I cannot learn, although I hazard the guess that as this divinity was the sun-god of the Phoenicians, his name might naturally be used for Uruanna-Orion, the sun-god of the Akkadians." (927:308)
Colin Wilson, The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long Lost Civilization
"In Atlantis to the Sphinx (1996) I pointed out that...'[David] Frawley points out that the Hindu Varuna, the Egyptian Osiris and the Greek Ouranos, are all symbolized by [the constellation of] Orion..." (767:165-6)
The esoteric interpretation of the myth of Isis and Osiris is disclosed in Spiritual Politics: Changing the World From the Inside Out: "Like the goddess Isis, who found and restored all of the lost pieces of her husband, Osiris, many are restoring the unity of all life, bringing together the separate parts of humanity — different races, religions and cultures." (42:62) From this understanding, we may infer that Osiris was Nimrod—the great hunter of men and unifier of mankind under a pagan religious system—who, as stated by Hislop, 'was the prototype, the grand original'. Nimrod was simply venerated in various cultures under different names: Osiris, Tammuz, Wotan, Viracocha, Quetzalcoatl, Varuna, etc. All were priest-kings who taught mankind the ancient mysteries as well as academic disciplines. By reason of the supernatural powers and intellectual prowess of these divine beings, the civilization of mankind was greatly advanced. All are expected to return to earth to revive the ancient pre-flood mysteries and culture.
Orion = Viracocha
There is, in addition to Saturn, Tammuz, and Nimrod, a correspondence between Osiris and Viracocha, the sun-god of the Incas: "Several authors have speculated upon the mythological connection between the Egyptian god Osiris, and the god Viracocha, of the people of Central Andes. Osiris is believed to have traveled around the globe bringing civilization to many nations... He was tall, of pale complexion, bearded and dressed in a long white robe." (606:286)
Osiris, who ruled over the 'First Time,' was able to walk over (or in) the oceans and 'traveled around the globe bringing civilization to many nations'. Thus, we may conclude that Viracocha = Osiris = Adam = Orion. Viracocha is also analogous to Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs; to the Queshua, Aymara, and other tribes of South America, he is known as Ameru, which means 'serpent'. It will come as a shock to many Americans that the name 'America' is probably derived from 'Ameru', the serpent-god, and not the Italian voyager 'Amerigo' Vespucci!
As a celibate demi-god, Quetzalcoatl invented the Mayan and Aztec calendar and bequeathed the secret doctrine to his priests, who were also celibate. Quetzalcoatl was driven away on a serpent boat by his evil twin, Tezcatlipoca (the black twin), but is expected to return from the East (where he spread his knowledge of science and the arts) to reclaim his power among the Mesoamerican people. Does Quetzalcoatl not compare to Osiris, who was also murdered by his evil twin, taught the Hermetic doctrines to the Egyptians, and is regarded as Egypt's 'once and future king'? A promo for a book titled The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom, by Mark Amaru Pinkham,reveals that the various supreme deities were all indigenous serpent-gods!
“According to ancient records, the patriarchs and founders of the early civilizations in Egypt, India, China, Peru, Mesopotamia, Britain, and the Americas were the Serpents of Wisdom—spiritual masters associated with the serpent—who arrived in these lands after abandoning their beloved homelands and crossing great seas. While bearing names denoting snake or dragon (such as Naga, Lung, Djedhi, Amaru, Quetzalcoatl, Adder, etc.), these Serpents of Wisdom oversaw the construction of magnificent civilizations within which they and their descendants served as the priest kings and as the enlightened heads of mystery school traditions. The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom recounts the history of these 'Serpents'—where they came from, why they came, the secret wisdom they disseminated, and why they are returning now.” 1023
In The Two Babylons, Hislop elucidates the reason for the lamentation for Osiris/Tammuz/Nimrod et al. The untimely death of this false messiah, known in other cultures as Tammuz, Nimrod, Wotan, Viracocha, Quetzalcoatl and Varuna, meant the dissolution of the global religious system established by this demi-god. Because God put an end to Nimrod's 'unity in diversity' experiment, He is forever labeled as the Scorpion in the Zodiac.
"The name of a scorpion in Chaldee is Akrab; but Ak-rab, thus divided, signifies 'THE GREAT OPPRESSOR,' and this is the hidden meaning of the Scorpion as represented in the Zodiac. That sign typifies him who cut off the Babylonian god, and suppressed the system he set up. It was while the sun was in Scorpio that Osiris in Egypt 'disappeared' (Wilkinson, vol. iv., p.331), and great lamentations were made for his disappearance. Another subject was mixed up with the death of the Egyptian god; but it is specially to be noticed that, as it was in consequence of a conflict with a scorpion that Orion was 'added to the stars,' so it was when the scorpion was in the ascendant that Osiris 'disappeared'." (156:57)
In Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock draws attention to the fact that the Giza Plateau and Nile River were representations of the constellation of Orion and the Milky Way respectively. It seems that, after the flood and their expulsion from the earth, the Nephilim left the Sphinx, pyramids and Nile River as markers indicating their whereabouts in the heavens. As the three pyramids of Giza correspond to the belt stars of Orion, there are also three pyramids in Mexico which correspond to the Giza pyramids. This design would give credence to speculation that Osiris and Quetzalcoatl were the same god, whose soul is claimed to now reside in Orion.
"...archaeo-astronomers making use of the latest star-mapping computer programmes had recently demonstrated that the three world-famous pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau formed an exact terrestrial diagram of the three belt stars in the constellation of Orion. Nor was this the limit of the celestial map the Ancient Egyptian priests had created in the sands on the west bank of the Nile. Included in their overall vision...there was a natural feature—the river Nile—which was exactly where it should be had it been designed to represent the Milky Way.
"The incorporation of a 'celestial plan' into key sites in Egypt and Mexico...,...the monuments of Teotihuacan, like those of the Giza plateau, played important religious roles in the lives of the communities they served.
"The Central American traditions...gave eloquent expression to a widespread belief that Teotihuacan had fulfilled at least one specific and important religious function in ancient times. According to these legends the City of the Gods was so known because 'the Lords therein buried, after their deaths, did not perish but turned into gods...' In other words, it was 'the place where men became gods'. It was additionally known as 'the place of those who had the road of the gods', and 'the place where gods were made'.
"Just as at Giza, three principal pyramids had been built at Teotihuacan: the Pyramid/Temple of Quetzalcoatl, Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon....
"Could all this be coincidence? Was it not more logical to conclude that there was an ancient connection between Mexico and Egypt?
"...that the pyramids of Egypt and the ruins of Teotihuacan might express the technology, the geographical knowledge, the observational astronomy (and perhaps also the religion) of a forgotten civilization of the past..." 236:168
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In November of 1983, Masonic author Robert Bauval claimed to have discovered that the ground plan of the main three pyramids at Giza were a replica of Orion's Belt in the Constellation of Orion. In a 1994 book, The Orion Mystery, Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert claimed that the shafts of the Great Pyramid were pointed directly at key stars in Orion in a way that reflected the configuration of Orion in ancient times. Using astronomical data about stellar movement, Bauval and Gilbert contended that the Orion stars correspond precisely to the pyramids' positions in approximately 10,400 B.C. This period was called by the Egyptians the 'First Time', when the god Osiris ruled the Earth.
"According to a theory by Robert Bauval, the positions of the Giza pyramids on the ground are a reflection of the positions of the stars in the constellation Orion circa 10,500 B.C. (Graham Hancock, Keeper Of Genesis, pp.354-355 ) Five of the 7 brightest stars have pyramid equivalents: The 3 great pyramids of Khufu, Khafra, and Menkaura for the belt of Orion, the pyramid of Nebka at Abu Rawash corresponds to the star Saiph and the pyramid at Zawat al Aryan corresponds to the star Bellatrix. The Nile river corresponds to the Milky Way. The principal Giza monuments formed an accurate terrestrial map of the stars of Orion and Sirius as these constellations appeared in 10,500 BC. (1036)
"The celestial counterpart of Osiris was Orion—a constellation that the ancient Egyptians knew as Sah, the 'Far-Strider' and most frequently depicted by means of the three characteristic belt stars. And since Osiris was said to have ruled in the 'First Time' we wonder whether this could be the reason why the three great Pyramids of Giza depict the three stars of Orion's belt as they looked 12,500 years ago at what might reasonably be defined as their astronomical 'First Time'—i.e. at the beginning of their current upwards precessional cycle?" (132:81)
As previously stated, Orion represented to the ancient Egyptians the 'soul of Osiris', his body having been mummified and interred in the Giza Plateau in a mysterious location called 'the House of Sokar'. The departed soul of Osiris ruled in specific place in the heavens called 'The Duat' which is the constellation of Orion. As king of the Realm of the Dead, Osiris was the means by which men attained ‘eternal life’!
"We find Horus firmly in possession of the earthy 'Kingdom of Osiris' (which had of course been founded in the 'First Time') and we find the body of Osiris himself safely installed in 'the House of Sokar'. Under these ideal conditions, according to the texts, the spiritualized form of Osiris was freed to depart to the sky—and to a specific location in the sky that we have already identified: 'the place where Orion is'. There it was held that he had established the Duat—the cosmic 'Otherworld' on the right bank of the Milky Way—as a sort of 'Kingdom of Osiris' for the Dead.
"Selim Hassan actually calls the Duat 'the Kingdom of Osiris' and shows how 'Osiris is styled 'Lord of the Duat' and the Osiris-King [i.e. the deceased Pharaoh] 'a companion of Orion'..." 132:147
The Great Pyramid was built as a monument to Orion, who, as Osiris was centerpiece of Egyptian worship. Freemasonry, which is also centered on the worship of Osiris and Orion, aspires to revive the pre-flood civilization of Atlantis. The ancient wisdom texts of Hermes Trismegistus, specifically The Book of What is in the Duat, instructed the Egyptian priests that whatever exists in the heavens must be replicated on earth if mankind would restore the ancient pre-flood civilization of Atlantis. On The Message of the Sphinx, Masonic writers Hancock and Bauval have presented detailed information on the Egyptian monuments—a modern 'Book of What is in the Duat' for Neo-Atlanteans.
"...the 'Hermetic Texts' were believed to have been the work of the ancient Egyptian wisdom god Thoth (known to the Greeks as Hermes), who makes the following remarks to his disciple Asclepius: 'Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven? Or, so to speak more exactly, in Egypt all the operations of the powers which rule and work in heaven have been transferred down to earth below?' The purpose to which these powers were harnessed, in the Hermetic view, was to facilitate the initiate's quest for immortality...
"...In one of these texts, Shat Ent Am Duat — the Book of What is in the Duat — we find what appears to be an explicit instruction to the initiate to build a replica on the ground of a special area of the sky known as the 'hidden circle of the Duat': 'Whosoever shall make an exact copy of these forms...and shall know it, shall be a spirit and well equipped both in heaven and earth, unfailingly, and regularly and eternally.'...
"...it is a fact that the Duat sky-region described in the ancient Egyptian texts was dominated by the constellations of Orion and Leo — both of which appear to have been 'imaged' on the ground at Giza (with the former additionally targeted by the southern shaft of the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid) — and by the star Sirius, which was targeted by the southern shaft of the Queen's Chamber...
"...there are repeated references in the Book of What is in the Duat, and in numerous other funerary and rebirth texts, to Zep Tepi, the 'First Time' — the remote epoch when the gods were believed to have come to earth and established their kingdom in Egypt. These gods included Thoth-Hermes, the 'Thrice-Great' master of wisdom, the goddess Isis whose celestial counterpart was the star Sirius, and Osiris, the 'once and future king', who was killed, revenged by his son Horus, and then reborn to live for ever as the 'Lord of the Duat'." (132:65)
The myth of Osiris, of course, is Satan's attempt to counterfeit the death, resurrection and future reign of Jesus Christ, with the promise eternal life for his disciples, who were called the 'Followers of Horus'. Eternal life for the pharaoh meant that he was reborn as a star in Orion.
"...the constant affirmation, repeated over and over again in these ancient compositions [the Pyramid Texts], was that of life - eternal life -...was to be achieved through the pharaoh's rebirth as a star in the constellation of Orion. ...there were several utterances which voiced this aspiration explicitly:
"'O King, you are this Great Star, the Companion of Orion, who traverses the sky with Orion...you ascend from the east of the sky being renewed in your due season, and rejuvenated in your due time...'" (236:367)
To the followers of Isis, Osiris became the Lord of Eternity after his death and resurrection and thus is able to guarantee them eternal life in Duat, the next world. "Sirius was also of great importance for this star was seen as the stellar domain of Isis, for it was actually giving birth to the infant Horus!... The new Pharaoh had to accompany his predecessor to Orion for the assimilation with Osiris and then be re-born twelve hours later via Isis through Sirius! This was the twelve hours of the Am-Dwat, the twelve hours after death, so the new king dies and is born again in the human form of Horus, the divine son of Osiris." (1032)
To aid their ascent to the Duat, 'the place where Orion is', a hymn was sung at the funeral of deceased pharaohs, who aspired to attain to godhood in the celestial 'Kingdom of Osiris'.
"...Osiris himself, Egypt's 'Once and Future King', died and was then restored to immortal life as Lord of the sky-region of Orion. This region...was known as the Duat. In it all the Pharaos of Egypt hoped that they would reside eternally after their own deaths:
"The gate of the earth is open for you...may a stairway to the Duat be set up for you to the place where Orion is...
O king...the sky conceives you with Orion...the sky has borne you with Orion...
O king, be a soul like a living star...
The gate of the earth-god is open...may you remove yourself to the sky and sit upon your iron throne...
The aperture of the sky window is opened for you...
The doors of iron which are in the starry sky are thrown open for me, and I go through them..." (132:109)
By "gate of the earth-god", "aperture of the sky window" and "doors of iron", the hymn would seem to be referring to a specific place in the Duat as the portal through which Osiris and the pharaohs passed. This portal was called a 'star gate'. As well, state Hancock and Bauval, it was a 'time gate' where the departed souls attained immortality.
"What seems to be envisaged here, taken literally and reduced to the basic common denominators running through all the above utterances, appears to be nothing less than an iron 'stargate' intended to admit Osiris, and all the dynasties of dead kings after him, into the celestial realms of the belt of Orion. But if the Pyramid Texts are describing a stargate then they are also describing a timegate — for they express no doubt that by passing through the iron-doored portals of the sky the soul of the deceased will attain a life of millions of years, navigating eternity in the vessels of the gods." (132:109)
The specific portal through which the pharaohs passed is located in Orion's belt of three stars. Specifically, the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid was aimed at the belt star, Al Nitak, the brightest belt star. Al Nitack was the Stargate when visible.
"The Great Pyramid has numerous features which leave us without any doubt that its designers paid careful attention to the stars and tracked their transit at the meridian... Most conclusive of all...is the fine accuracy of the four shafts. Recent investigations have established beyond a shadow of a doubt that in circa 2500 BC — the era recognized by Egyptologists as the 'Pyramid Age'— each one of these shafts targeted a special star as it culminated at the meridian.
"From the Queen's Chamber, the northern shaft is angled at 39 degrees and was aimed at the star Kochab (Beta Ursa Minor) in the constellation of the Little Bear — a star associated by the ancients with 'cosmic regeneration' and the immortality of the soul. The southern shaft, on the other hand, which is angled at 39 degrees 30', was aimed at the bright star Sirius (Alpha Canis Major) in the constellation of the Great Dog. This star the ancients associated with the goddess Isis, cosmic mother of the kings of Egypt.
"From the King's Chamber, the northern shaft is angled at 32 degrees 28' and was aimed at the ancient Pole star, Thuban (Alpha Draconis) in the constellation of the Dragon — associated by the Pharaohs with notions of 'cosmic pregnancy and gestation'.
"The southern shaft [of the Great Pyramid], which is angled at 45 degrees 14', was aimed at Al Nitak (Zeta Orionis), the brightest (and also the lowest) of the three stars of Orion's belt — which the ancient Egyptians identified with Osiris, their high god of resurrection and rebirth and the legendary bringer of civilization to the Nile Valley in a remote epoch referred to as Zep Tepi, the 'First Time'." (132:65)
There is considerable controversy over whether the pyramids today reflect the configuration of Orion's belt. There is also controversy over the dating of the pyramids, whether they were built by the pharaohs in the dynastic era circa 3,400 B.C. or much earlier in 10,500 B.C. The early daters solve the configuration discrepancy by claiming that the pyramids were precisely aligned with Orion's belt in 10,500 B.C., but not in 3,400 B.C. Moreover, the Sphinx conjuncted with the constellation Leo in 10,500 B.C., but not in 3,400. This point of view conveniently supports the New Age belief that the pyramids were not built by men, non-existent in 10,500 B.C., but by the Anunnaki (Nephilim), the gods who visited Egypt in the 'First Time'. "In 2500 BC... the southern shaft of the King's Chamber aligns perfectly with Al Nitak (Zeta Orionis) at an altitude of 45 degrees. But at this point in time the other two stars of Orion's Belt and the Milky Way do not align directly with the other two pyramids and the Nile. "If we 'shift' the sky around..., continually going back in time, we find a perfect match between the pyramids and the three stars of Orion's Belt and the Nile and the Milky way at 10,500 BC !
"As 2500 BC marks the zenith of Al Nitak (i.e.. when it is at its highest point above the horizon), 10,500 BC marks Al Nitak's nadir (i.e., when it is at its lowest point above the horizon). Is this simply coincidence?
"The Sphynx (about half a mile away from the pyramids) points due east and in the pre-dawn of 10,500 BC it would have pointed directly at its celestial counterpart - the constellation of Leo. "Therefore, at the moment of sunrise on the vernal equinox in 10,500 BC there would be a conjunction involving the three Pyramids and the Orion's Belt and a conjunction involving the Sphynx and the constellation of Leo. This conjunction marks the beginning of the 'Age of Leo' and the beginning of the upwards precessional cycle of Orion's Belt. "Can all this be accidental?
"It seems unlikely that such engineering and astronomical precision can be purely coincidental. Either the Pharaohs had much more knowledge than we even thought remotely possible or, perhaps, a civilisation more ancient than the Egyptians (circa 10,500 BC, maybe?) once existed and was endowed with great knowledge. "Either way, it seems that the epoch of 10,500 BC is being commemorated by the Pyramids and the Sphynx for some reason." (1024)
Adrian Gilbert maintains that, at the summer solstice in the year 2000, the sun was directly over the outstretched hand of Orion, a phenomenon which last occurred in 10,880 B.C. at which time Atlantis was destroyed. Moreover, when Gilbert held an Ankh cross over the Great Pyramid on June 21, 2000, the sun formed a perfect 'Eye of Horus' over the pyramid.
"...the Pyramid Khafre on 21st June and in time to see it crowned by the sun.
"As the sun climbed higher in the sky, so the shadows departed and standing back a little we could see its reflection on the casing stones. Immediately this brought to mind the Masonic image of the eye in the triangle or pyramidion. This glyph is used in the Great Seal of the United States of America. One wonders if Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had the seal of the United States put on the dollar bill had any idea of the significance of its symbolism. As he was a 33rd degree Freemason, one may suspect that he did. However he probably did not realise that the eye of God (to the ancient Egyptians the Eye of Horus, i.e. the sun) would sit upon the Khafre Pyramid in this way precisely at the summer solstice...
"To see the sun rise and set behind the capstone of a pyramid..." (1017, "Opening the Stargate," Part 4)
To Gilbert, this signaled the opening of a 'stargate' in heaven through which mortals may pass into immortality:
"Today all this has changed. Because of precession the sun is no longer in Leo at the solstice but on the cusp of Gemini and Taurus. In fact it now stands on a position in the zodiac exactly over the outstretched 'hand' of Orion. Curiously enough this position (which I call the 'shake-hands position') is where according to the ancients there exists one of the gates of heaven. There were in fact two of these imaginary gateways at the points where the ecliptic, or pathway of the sun, crosses over the Milky Way. One of these gates was in Gemini over the hand of Orion and the other in Sagittarius over the sting of Scorpio.
"This gateway seems to be what is symbolised by the Sahu (Orion) figure as inscribed on the Benben stone of Amenemhet III at the Cairo Museum. He is depicted as a small walking figure holding a sceptre in one hand and cupping a star in the other. This star or 'S'ba' to give it its Egyptian name has a dual meaning as a hieroglyphic. On the one hand it means 'star' but on the other it means 'gateway'. Thus Orion is correctly shown holding in his hand what we might call a 'stargate'.
"Now the positioning of the sun at the solstice at a stargate is a very extraordinary phenomenon and unique to our present age. It has not happened since around 10,880 BC at around the time when many believe the destruction of Atlantis occurred. The fact that this is now occurring and is somehow linked with the Khafre pyramid seems to me to be an important portent and to symbolise the 'opening of a gate in heaven'. This I don't take in some sci-fi way as symbolising the arrival of aliens or some such but it is, I believe, symbolic of the birth of a new age of mankind. I take it so symbolise the beginning of a new era and a new cycle of possibilities." (1030)
Osiris means 'place of the eye'; his place is in Orion. When the sun directly
over Orion at high noon, the Stargate opens, through which Osiris and the
pharaohs ascended to the heavens. This is the meaning of the all-seeing eye
in the capstone of the pyramid on the dollar bill. According to David
Calvert-Orange, author of Isis, Osiris, Divine Kingship and Resurrection, '...
the Great Pyramid of Khufu or Cheops...was nothing more than an elaborate
Stargate to effect the transmutation of the soul of the dead Pharaoh into the
essence of light to enable its assimilation to Osiris in his heavenly abode of Orion." (1032)
Returning to Adrian Gilbert, just as Osiris and the pharaohs ascended through
a stargate, Gilbert avers that Jesus Christ ascended in like manner: "Whilst writing Magi he stumbled upon something else, which is that the Ascension of Jesus, which
according to the Bible took place 40 days after the Resurrection, would have happened
on the precise day that the sun was placed in the northern stargate position: that is to
say over the upstretched right-hand of Orion." Curiously, there is no mention in the
Bible of stargates, pyramids, cartouches, Orion, ankh crosses or even the position of the
sun at the scene of Jesus ascension. (Acts 1) No matter. Mr. Gilbert prefers to expound
the Hermetic doctrine of the soul's journey after death instead of the Biblical testimony
on this subject: "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment."
(Heb. 9:27) "Having traversed the planetary spheres, before the ascending soul could
get back to God, it had to pass through the sphere of the fixed stars, known today as the
'Celestial Sphere'. This represents the 'Higher Heaven' and lies beyond the jurisdiction
of our local solar system with its governors the sun, moon and planets. To get to this
Higher Heaven, which could in any case only be approached if it had successfully
passed through the spheres of the Lower, the soul had to find its way to a gate.
According to the ancient cosmology there were two of these: one was in the northern
hemisphere and the other was in the southern. These 'stargates' were positioned at the
points in the sky where the ecliptic, the pathway of the sun, crosses the Milky Way.
Therefore one of these positions was in Sagittarius, above the sting of Scorpio, and
the other was in Gemini, above the outstretched arm or 'club' of Orion." (1017, "Opening the Stargate," Part 1)
We have mentioned in a previous section, Capricorn, that in the Age of Aries the
Gates of the Sun were Capricorn and Cancer but, due to the precession of the equinoxes,
those gates, whereby souls descend and ascend to heaven (they say), are now, in the
Age of Pisces, Gemini, and Sagittarius. In other words, the constellations of Gemini
and Sagittarius are on the point where the ecliptic (path of the sun) intersects with the
Milky Way (the Galactic Stellar Womb). In Hermetic doctrine, the Orion factor
determines when the stargate opens. According to Adrian Gilbert and Graham
Hancock, the Stargate opened in the year 2,000 with the sun at the stargates at the
solstices, the northern stargate being Orion. This event has not happened since the
'First Time' some 12,880 years ago. "The northern stargate over the upstretched 'hand' of Orion is exactly at the cusp
of Gemini and Taurus; the southern stargate is at the cusp of Sagittarius and Scorpio... "Today the sun stands exactly between Sagittarius and Scorpio at the winter solstice
and over the hand of Orion at the time of the summer solstice. In other words the
positions of the stargates correspond with the sun's positions at the solstices. This is
the first time this has happened since c.10,880 BC when the gates were in the opposite
positions, with the Orion gate in the south and the Scorpio gate in the north. This latter
date, c.10,880 BC, corresponds closely with the ending of the last ice age and the
legendary destruction of Atlantis [According to Plato, the Greek philosopher, the last
phase of this destruction took place around 9500 BC]. Thus we can say with some
assurity that last time the Sun was positioned at the stargates at the solstices corresponded
with major changes in the earth's climate. (1017, Adrian Gilbert, "Opening the Stargate," Part 2) "...Curiously the epoch of the year 2000, which figures in these Christian prophecies [of Edgar Cayce], also coincides with the Last Time (or highest point) in the great upwards cycle of the belt stars of the Orion constellation, just as the epoch of the eleventh millennium BC coincided with the First Time (or lowest point) of that cycle." (Graham Hancock) (236:500)
STARGATE
In the 1994 movie, Stargate, a magical portal is opened to "the other side of the
known universe" through the alignment of symbols on an ancient Egyptian device. The central character, an Egyptologist played by actor, James Spader, is hired to
unlock the mysterious hieroglyphs on an Egyptian artifact consisting of a number
of symbols enclosed within a circular frame. Spader discovers that the images on
the outer frame are not hieroglyphs (Egyptian writing characters) but star
constellations. The final symbols to be deciphered turn out to be the constellation
of Orion and a pyramid with the sun directly overhead and two priests praying
before it. The sun over the pyramid means that the Stargate opens when the sun is
over Orion at high noon. This Stargate apparatus to transport human beings through
time to another world is described in the following synopsis of the movie.
"Daniel Jackson is taken to a converted missile silo in Creek Mountain, Colorado.
There, Catherine, another Egyptologist and a physics professor show Jackson a large
circular artefact with two main sets of writing; one on an outer track around the
artefact's circumference, and another on an inner track which has symbols which
also appear on a cartouche in the centre. Jackson says only the inner track contains
hieroglyphs, which when translated describe how Ra, the Egyptian God of the sun,
was banished for all time when an object called a Stargate was buried... "Jackson researches ancient languages to try and find the meaning of the outer
track, but his extensive search is in vain. However, looking at the astrology section
of a newspaper he realises that one of the symbols on the outer track matches the
constellation Orion. The symbols on the outer track, he realises, are not a written
language but star constellations. Jackson presents his discovery to General West
and the team of Air Force officers, explaining the seven symbols on the cartouche
denote a course. Six symbols show a destination; to specify a particular point within
a three-dimensional object, one requires six different points on the surface of that
object. Two points on both sides of the object's length draw a straight line, which
intersects with similar lines along the width and depth provide one particular point.
The seventh symbol, Jackson says, is a point of origin.
"The cartouche contains six specific constellations, but one which is separate
from the others is a picture of two priests praying before a Pyramid with the sun over them, which Jackson says is most likely the point of origin. One
scientist rejects Jackson's claims, saying the point of origin isn't on 'the device'.
Asking what the device is, the military personnel show Jackson the large ring
which was found in the film openings. Catherine explains 'It's your Stargate.' "The group go into the control center of the Stargate, where Catherine explains
the object which her father found is made of a material not found anywhere else
on Earth. The Stargate contains all the symbols which were present on the outer
circle of the artefact, and Jackson identifies the point of origin; previously
undetected as it does not contain as much detail as the symbol on the cartouche. "Entering the now complete sequence of seven symbols, the Stargate opens
in a blaze of energy, creating a portal. A probe is sent through which records
the other side of the portal is on the other side of the known universe and is
capable of sustaining human life. The Stargate closes a short time after the
probe is sent through." (1033)
To make a long story short, a reconnaissance team was transported back in
time to "the other side of the known universe" where it remained stranded
until James Spader deciphered the code which transported them back to earth.
Predictably, this mediocre production was a prelude to even more noxious
science fiction concerning ancient gods who descended to earth from the star
system Sirius in the constellation of Orion. A retired CBS director, Mark Roberts,
revealed the real Stargate agenda in Stargate: The Real One:"The word Stargate has become a merging point between fiction & reality.
The cinema Stargate was an ancient time-dimensional doorway to the cosmos ~
with knowledge of ancient writings & star constellations as the keys to opening
the gate... The reality Stargate is an ancient depiction of a cosmic-portal painted
at the entry to a cave containing one of the most ancient representations of the
constellation known as the Pleiades. The star map and other ancient paintings& features within the cave have provided the keys to connect over four decades of
study involving: decades of field archaeology linked to an ancient alphabet;
Egyptian hieroglyphs; ancient symbols for the star system known as Sirius,
revered as the Star Goddess Sothis by the ancient Egyptians; and links to an
even more ancient culture ~ with a directional key to a prime base of the cosmic
visitors who had arrived on earth at the very dawn of antiquity." (1035)
A primetime TV series based on the film features the discovery of a giant
cartouche covered in hieroglyphics which is a map of other Stargates throughout
the galaxy. This important find makes it possible for the U.S. Air Force to "battle
evil throughout the universe for the good of planet Earth." In the final episode of
the Stargate series, which will air in March 2004, the Chief of Staff of the United
States Air Force will make an appearance: "8/26/2003 - VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Air Force Chief of Staff
Gen. John Jumper stars as himself here August 26 on an upcoming episode of
the Sci-Fi Channel's primetime television series 'Stargate: SG-1.' Jumper
performed a handful of lines during the day of filming. The scenes will appear
in the internationally syndicated show's season finale in March. The series
depicts a fictional Cheyenne Mountain-based, top-secret Air Force command
which battles evil throughout the universe for the good of planet Earth." (997)
The implications of government sanction of the 'Stargate conspiracy' are
staggering considering verses in the Bible which foretell that the 'kings of the
earth' will wage war against Jesus Christ at His Second Coming. For detailed
information on this defining moment of the Tribulation period, when the occult
societies will misrepresent Jesus Christ as Satan, being cast out of heaven (Rev. 12)
or the bottomless pit (Rev. 20), please refer to our report Heeding Bible Prophecy:
Armageddon: War Against Jesus Christ: Star Wars Program
VIRGO: THE DIVINE ANDROGYNE |
LIBRA: EQUALITY & FRATERNITY |
SCORPIO: THE SERPENT HOLDER |
SAGITTARIUS: GATE OF THE GODS |
CAPRICORN: THE SEA BEAST |
TAURUS: ORION, THE STARGATE |
GEMINI: THE DIVINE TWINS |
CANCER: HEAVEN'S GATE |
LEO: THE LION KING |
NOTES
"...Orion, the great hunter of Greek myth, was the owner of a dog. When Orion tried to ravish the virgin goddess Artemis she produced a scorpion from the earth which killed him and the dog. Orion was transported to the skies where he became the constellation that bears his name today; his dog was transformed into Sirius, the Dog Star.
"Precisely the same identification of Sirius was made by the ancient Egyptians, who linked the Orion constellation specifically to their god Osiris. It is in Ancient Egypt too that the character of the faithful celestial dog achieves its fullest and most explicit mythical elaboration in the form of Upuaut, a jackal-headed deity whose name means 'Opener of the Ways'. If we follow this way opener to Egypt, turn our eyes to the constellation of Orion, and enter the potent myth of Osiris, we find ourselves enveloped in a net of familiar symbols.
"The reader will recall that the myth presents Osiris as the victim of a plot. The conspirators initially dispose of him by sealing him in a box and casting him adrift on the waters of the Nile. In this respect does he not resemble Utnapishtim, and Noah and Coxcoxtli and all the other deluge heroes in their arks (or boxes, or chests) riding out the waters of the flood?
"Another familiar element is the classic precessional image of the world-tree and/or roof-pillar (in this case combined). The myth tells us how Osiris, still sealed inside his coffer, is carried out into the sea and washed up at Byblos. The waves lay him to rest among the branches of a tamarisk tree, which rapidly grows to a magnificent size, enclosing the coffer within its trunk. The king of the country, who much admires the tamarisk tree, cuts it down and fashions the part which contains Osiris into a roof pillar for his palace. Later Isis, the wife of Osiris, removes her husband's body from the pillar and takes it back to Egypt to undergo rebirth." (Graham Hancock, 236:254-5)
Orion is Osiris, god of death and resurrection/transformation. Took form of wolf when he returned from underworld. Tribe of Benjamin.
"It was a dog that brought us to these decaying times. We came here by way of Sirius, the Dog Star, who stands at the heel of the giant constellation of Orion where it towers in the sky above Egypt. In that land, as we have seen, Orion is Osiris, the god of death and resurrection...
"Nor is Sirius, in his eternal station at Orion's heel, the only doggish character around Osiris. ...Isis (who was both the wife and sister of Osiris) searched for her dead husband's body after he had been murdered by Set (who, incidentally, was also her brother, and the brother of Osiris). In this search, according to ancient mythological and religious texts from all periods of Egyptian history assert that the jackal-god Anubis ministered to the spirit of Osiris after his death and acted as his guide through the underworld. (Surviving vignettes depict Anubis as virtually identical in appearance to Upuaut, the [jackal-headed] Opener of the Ways.)
"Last but not least, Osiris himself was believed to have taken the form of a wolf when he returned from the underworld to assist his son Horus in the final battle against Set." 236:264-5
