on reincarnation - the indomitable history of an anathema belief

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

topic:

on reincarnation - the indomitable history of an anathema belief

contents:

introduction - "on the true nature of the soul."

(what we know and how we know it)

 

1. the origins of the belief

1A. pre-historic origins in other proto-hominid species

1A1. burial of the dead practices

1A1A. by neanderthals

1A1B. by homo-sapiens

1B. the myths on the nature of the soul of early civilizations

1B1. the myths of Asia

1B1A. Indus Vedism and Himalyan Bohn

1B1B. Hinduism and Buddhism

1B2. the myths of the Levant and Africa

1B2A. Sumero-Babylonian and Old Kingdom Egyptian

1B2B. Monotheism and Olympian Hellenism

1B3. the myths of the Americas

1B3A. Northern Anasazi and Southern Icans

1B3B. Northern 500 Nations and Southern Aztecs

1C. commonalities of all beliefs in the ancient world

1C1. biology as "microcosm" of non-living "macrocosmic" patterns

1C1A. the patterns of biology - spiral kundalini, 7-chakra, toroid aura, etc.

1C1B. the patterns of the cosmos - spiral of entropy, toroid of spacetime, etc.

 

2. the "burial of the seed" - Pythagoras, Buddha, Jesus, Muhamad

2A. Pythagoras

2A1. the "first philosopher"

2A2. advocated "metempsychosis"

2B. Buddha

2B1. the "final sage"

2B2. transcended manvantara through nirvana

2C. Jesus

2C1. Caesarian Ben Pandera, called "Yeshu"

2C2. basis of "catholic" monotheism by fictional crucifixion

2D. Muhammad (PBUH)

2D1. the "last Prophet"

2D2. founded "Islam" the monotheism of "Peace"

 

3. the modern beliefs

3A. Theosophy and Thelema - "new age" mythology and ethics

3A1. Theosophy - the "new-age" mythology

3A1A. origins in fraud - HP Blavatsky AKA "Helena Gan"

3A1B. contradictory content and historical context

3A1C. 21st century "trance-channeling" cults

3A2. Thelema - the "new-age" ethics

3A2A. origins in esoterica - Alexander "Aleister" Crowley

3A2B. the viral method of subsuming existing cults

3A2C. the waning of the GD and waxing of the OTO

3B. the Kybalion - "new age" basis for the physical sciences

 

conclusion -  "on the true nature of the soul."

(why we know what we know, and what is the value of our knowing it)

 

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introduction - "on the true nature of the soul."

(what we know and how we know it)

 

Let us now pause to pose the question: What is a "soul"?

 

We, as the majority of the population of modern humans, collectively assert the existence of each living body being possessed of such a thing a "soul." Why? There are two reasons:

 

One reason is our direct experience of such while alive as biological bodies. By illness and fever, or by induction of similar symptoms by use of psycho-active chemicals in our natural environment, we have direct experience of many, otherwise invisible, insights into the nature of our reality. By studying these, we can assemble a general assertion of them as seperate from, although overlapping in the realm of potential co-causality, the realms of visible and of more-or-less solid material in physical reality. This "second nature" we can call the domain of the purely biologically mental, or the so-called "psychic," and its ocassional (however rare) overlaps into the realm of causality over physical, material reality we can assess as the domain of the "paranormal" branch of the modern physical sciences.

 

Another reason is our ability to cross-reference records of such experiences preserved from throughout our entire species' history and comprising our entire collective corpus of knowledge on the subject of the nature of the concept of the "soul." When combined with the direct experience of the "invisible landscape" induced during fever or by a "near-death experience," the study of these records is claimed to assist us in preparing for the moment of our own final death, when our biological body dies, so that, in theory, our mind may persist and be preserved in this "psychic" ethereal realm in the form of a "soul."

 

According to the majority of the sources (both the most ancient and the modern) that have studied this subject, the "soul" is attached to a biological body while the physical being remains alive in the form of its "electro-magnetic" charge. In our own, upright walking species, we have evolved "electro-magnetic" di-polarity between the top of our skull (or dorsally, the front of any other type of skeletal body) and the base of our spinal column (horiztonally speaking, the tail-bones). In our own species, there are 7 primary inversion-points along this "central nervous system" from which branch 12 primary nervous fibers that extend to comprise our entire "periphery nervous system." These 12 "peripheral" fibers (called "meridiens") and the 7 "central" gangliae and plexi (called "chakras") combine with the overall field of their collective electrical charge to comprise the living soul or "psyche" while the human body is alive. The "psyche" (or what Freud called "ego") works by a process of electro-chemical (what Freud called "phi" or what are commonly now called "neurotransmitters") stimulus building up and firing off at relatively random intervals (a process Freud called "hyper-cathexis"), causing the otherwise "autonomic" only nervous functioning to achieve a condition of extra-energy equivalent to "inspiration" or the activity of "thoughts."

 

In the sense this collective "aura" of the human "soul" is said to exist, attached to the living biological body while the biological body is alive, it is also believed to be able to become detached from the original host for itself. Assigning the moral binary dualism of "good" and "evil" to the dipolar electro-magnetic reactive, invisible (and for the most part intangible) ether, we find there to be both "good" and "evil" units of invisible moral "karma" comrising this "fifth elemental" universal field of force, just as there are "positive" and "negative" polarity to dipolar magnets. Further applying this moral binary dualism to the concept of the "soul" or "aura" itself, we find it is usually considered "good" for the soul to live on after the death of the biological body through privation, illness, injury or old age. Likewise, we find it more often considered "evil" for the soul to leave the biological body prior to the death of the biological body, as in the so-called "pacts with devils" involving the concept of "selling one's soul."

 

Furthermore, the concept of the "transmigration of the soul" after death, or after being seperated from a biological body prior to its death, has produced the significant moral passion plays of the various religious myths throughout all our human ages. As we shall see in the main text of this brief exposition, this basic belief in the concept of a "soul" has been shaped and changed by the evolution of our species as a social animal.

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

1. the origins of the belief

In the most ancient writings that study the nature of the concept of the "soul" or "aura" of living biological beings' bodies, we find only references to even more ancient beliefs about these concepts already ingrained in the minds of the authors' intended audiences of their day. For example, the great scribes of the Golden era of philosophy in Athens Greece and surrounding cities of the Attica Peninsula around 500-300 BC Gregorian, such as Plato and his student Aristotle, frequently make reference to prior public opinion in their appeals to their audience for a sense of authority on their intended subjects. Even earlier than these first philosophers, the sages of earliest civilizations, the exiled ascetics of the earliest caste-system based city-states, formulated their own metaphysics on the nature of the "soul." Many of the prior popular public opinions on the subject referred to by the Greek philospohers were originally formulated in their most complex details in myths written by these Asian Aryan sages of the farther eastern Orient. These myths, such as the Rig Veda and Mahabaratta, describe events even earlier than these first civilizations themselves involving even earlier students of this same topic. However, from before the era of the sages, no extent written records are publically now known to either have existed, nor to have been preserved until today. However, as we shall now examine, there is archaelogical evidence from the era prior to the beginning of the written historical records being kept by our species. Much of this indicates that even our earliest ancestors as a species, long prior to the begininng of keeping historical events in a written record, when we still lived as primitive semi-nomadic cave dwellers, had already established in their tribal societies a complex metaphysical belief-system regarding the nature of the "soul."

1A. pre-historic origins in other proto-hominid species

The true nature of the soul is a subject that has been studied by our species since its origin as an evolutionary off-shoot of the proto-hominid species called "Australopithicus" which were themselves an off-shoot of the even earlier species called "Ardipithecus." The "Ardepithicus" (latin meaning "worker") were little different in their physiology from modern families of the "ape" genus of our own hominid lineage. The "baboon" or "kaf-ape" of Africa is a descendent of the "Ardipithecus Ramada" off-shoot of the "Ardipthecus" proto-hominds, and we are descended from the other lineage of "Ardipithecus" called "Ardipithecus A" or "Alpha." The "Ardipithecus" proto-hominids generated the "Australopithicus" (from whom we and our cousin-species of homonids, the "Neanderthals" were sired) as well as the cousin-species of the "Australopithecus" species, called the "Cromagnons." The earliest examples of our own species genome sequence can be traced back to central (sub-Saharan desert, south of the equator) Africa, with so-called "midochondrial Eve." It is known that our species, while in our earliest developmental era as semi-nomadic tribal cave-dwellers, cohabitated with our cousin-species, the "Neanderthals." However, because the fossil record indicates our earliest ancestors were originally following a north-ward migration route across Africa into the area of the Levant where, as cave-dwellers, they cohabitated with "Naenderthals," we cannot be certain how far back in the proto-hominid species the practices we are about to discuss might date even prior to our own use of them as human beings, because the south polar continent of Antarctica where our proto-hominid acestor species may have originated remains now, unlike then, glaciated in a massive ice sheet.

1A1. burial of the dead practices

From some 600,000 years ago until as recently as 32,000 years ago, there were twin species of hominid competing and co-existing on the surface of the earth in the regions populated by our earliest human acestors. One of them was, of course, our own species, the human genus of "homo-sapien," and the other, our genetic cousin-species, was the species we call today the "neanderthal" species. The "neanderthal" species eventually went extinct, and modern homo-sapien scientists remain in debate over the fossil-records as to exactly why. Although it is widely held among archaeological and anthropological scholars who study this era of our species evolution that the "neanderthal" species and our own "homo-sapien" species both evolved from the same, earlier, proto-hominid species "australopithecus," there is not yet consensus on the exact amount of genetic material contributed to these twin sub-sets of the "australopithecus" species from the cousin-species of "australopithecus," the "cromagnon." The "cromagnon" became prevalent first in the Levant region (before 37,500 years ago) later spreading northward and westward across Europe (until around 30,000 years ago), whereas the "australopithecus" species originated in eastern Africa, to the south of the Levant (between 4 and 2 million years ago). Thus, the northern-migrating "australopithecus" species is credited with siring the northern-migrating "cromagnon" and semi-sedentary "neanderthal" species, which themselves essentially interbred to become our modern species of "homo-sapien" human beings.

The archeological study of these ancient proto-human species forms of culture and their belief-systems is called today "anthropology" and "paleontology." We study them for the purpose of learning what influence their beliefs had on the earliest ancestors of our own species, however the fact that many of our species beliefs, particularly about the nature of the soul, are borrowed from our own species' older ancestors should not be overlooked as bearing such ample evidence from this field of study.

1A1A. by neanderthals

The "neanderthal" species are well known for seemingly having originating the practice of burial of their species' dead. Evidence beginning to be adopted and becoming more widely accepted in modern times (the 21st century AD Gregorian) indicates this could have been due to an outbreak of cannibalism known to have occured among the species in Abri Moula, modern France, where they had a highly evolved culture that included the grinding up of natural pigments such as maganese and red ochre in use in both body and cave mural paintings. The European "neanderthals" were nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes, and the possibility of ritualistic cannibalism by one tribe in France should not be thought of as being ruled out of having causally influenced the practice of ritual burials that occured in the Shanidar caves of the Zagros mountain range in the modern Kurdistan region of Iraq from 80-60,000 years ago. The most notable burial of remains found at the Shanidar caves site is called the "flower burial" for having included so many pollenating seeds found beside the body, which was seemingly arranged in "fetal position." Because there are conflicting theories proposing more wide-spread cannibalism among the European "neanderthals," as well as the possibility that the apparently ritual burials at Shanidar cave might only be victims of a cave-in, it remains difficult for modern anthropologists and paleontologists to come to consensus on the actual cultural significance to the "neanderthal" species of the concept of the biological body's death. However, the evidence of their practice of building large dwelling huts from the bones of slain mammoth, bison and auroch bones and their tanned animal hides during periods of nomadic hunts following these migrating animal herds does appear to have led to their intiation of the inclusion of "grave goods" along with the interred corpses of their species, and this indicates that, at least as early as the time fo the "neanderthal" species, there was beginning to be formulated in our proto-hominid ancestor species' relatively primitive minds some concept related to the nature of the "soul" and an "afterlife."

1A1B. by homo-sapiens

It is known now that the earliest true members of our genetic species, "homo-sapiens," co-habitated with "neanderthal" species in areas such as the Keberan caves in modern Israel arond some 70,000 years ago, and that more than merely exchanging cultural tendencies thorugh development of original use of language, the "neanderthal" species ultimately contributed as much as 4% of the modern human genome through inter-species breeding. The original use of stone-carved arrow and spear heads appears to have emanated from this cross-culturation between these early, twin cousin-species by some 50,000 years ago. However, more significantly, our species appears to have inherited the practice of ritual burial of our dead. Although there were various other sub- and semi-species of hominids in various other locations on the planet by around 11,500 years ago (when, for example, the Red Deer cave people of modern China thrived), the origins of the homo-sapien species in and its migration from Africa is not denied as having occured first around 500,000 years ago. Modern anthropologists agree our earliest ancestors interbed with the "neanderthal" species as well as another proto-hominid species, the "denisovans" of northern Asia, however this species contributed as much as 6% of the modern genome to a segment of the modern populations of homo-sapiens comprising only 2.3% of the modern population of the island-continent of Australia today, the so-called "aboriginals."

1B. the myths on the nature of the soul of early civilizations

Around 12-10,000 years ago, our species underwent the first in a series of so-called "cutlural revolutions" in a pattern of what is called today "punctuated equilibirum." This initial, "neo-lithic" or "aggrarian" cultural revolution began when modernly evolved homo-sapiens had migrated to inhabit the entirety of the unfrozen continental land-masses of the entire planet earth. As the final in-land migrations into southern-most South America some 9-7,000 years ago were occuring, in the Levant (from 9-7,000 BC) and Oceania's Melanesia chain of islands (beginning some 8,000 BCE) followed by cultivation in sub-Saharan Africa (by 2,500 BC) the earliest domestication of plants and animals -  the cultivations of grains for cereals, and the use of controlled breeding practices ("animal husbandry") to produce tame herd-animals to till the soil for the sowing of large fields of these, began. This led to the cultivation of settlements around these agrarian developments and the origins of our species pursuit of "civilization." As our species began to develop inwardly in fixed locations, rather than progressively following migrating herds of untamed animals, we began to develop our own extremely complex metaphysics describing the nature of the "soul." In all the earliest written records of history preserved from the era of these original civilizations, there is mention of the nature of an invisible, supernatural realm of the mind, where paranormal phenomenon is the norm, not the exception. The ancients called this "invisible landscape" the "Underworld." Civilizations of various small city-states, that is, a small fortified town of a population as large as 5-10,000 or so people, surrounded by agricultural fields, began to become inter-connected to form the earliest "proto-empires" in three continental locations semi-simultaneously, all of them in the fertile basins of river valleys. In Africa, in the Nile River valley, the Nubian civilization of Ethiopia began to form the Egyptian civilization; in the Levant, in the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers valley, modern Iraq and Saudi-Arabia, the Sumero-Akkadian alliance formed; and in the Ganges and Indus river valleys of the Indian sub-continent of southern Asia, the Vedic-Hindu culture arose. In each of these was formed a class-system hierarchy to rank and file the economic value to their whole society of each individual citizen. The caste-system of all three was essentially the same, forming a population pyramid, with the majority of the population being unpaid slave-laborers, and the minority being the city-state's official ruling magistrates or so-called "priest-kings."

1B1. the myths of Asia

In the Indus River valley region of the Asian sub-continent of India, the earliest and some would posit most complex metaphysical myths originated some 10,000 years ago. These include the Rig Veda mythic records, among other Vedic dogmas, as well as the epic Sanksrit poem the Mahabaratta. A later addition to these earliest historical mythic cycles was the Sri Upanishad as the Vedic culture began to transition into the more modernly prevalent "Hindu" religion. In the Rig Veda, the Mahabaratta, the Upanishads and the writings of all the countless sages of the region and the surrounding areas since then, there has been a preponderance of consideration given to the topic of the nature of the "soul." Creating a rigid caste system where the "untouchables" formed a massive slave caste, while various merchants, artisans and trades-workers formed a burgeoning middle-class of increasingly wealthy land-owners, the Vedic scriptures additionally outlined strict guidelines for the practice of religion by an autonomous caste of priests, including dirges to be preformed as mass songs, proper methods for prayer and sacrifice to the various different pantheon of ruling natural forces, the so-called "Gods," dress and dietary codes, methods of rendering natural medical treatments, etc. Combining the preist-caste as a cultural motivator, and the competition between the various artisans and craftsmen of the "middle" or merchant class, the Indus River culture thrived under the Vedic caste system to become a massive empire. However, just as there was a very high degree of cultural civilization in the urban areas of this era, there remained exiles and out-casts from these centers of technological development who were, nevertheless, included as cultural contributors in the making of the ancient myths. These were the so-called "Sages," commonly referred to today in the region as "Gurus" of the "Siek" religion.

1B1A. Indus Vedism and Himalyan Bohn

As the populations increased in the urban areas, they began to expand both their district and broader georgraphical borders to include more and more of the out-lying areas of land. Population centers grew rapidly and population density reached a plateau point of "critical mass," at which point the Vedic empire began to stagnate until it eventually fragmented into the modern religious sects of the region today. The rules for the government of the city-states became secondary to the rules for the practice of religious rituals, and the people became widely homogenized in their beliefs, while remaining individually disperate in their practical applications of skills. At this point, the religious ritual practitioners included almost all members of the society in some manner, and belief in the "pantheon" of the Hindu religion reached its zenith. On the outskirts of this predominantly Hindu society remained practitioners of older, ritualistic religious beliefs, such as the Bohn shamen of Tibet, modern China, and many other independent sects which paralleled mainstream religious beliefs emanated from these various sages and shamen.

1B1B. Hinduism and Buddhism

By around the same era as the aforementioned Greek "golden age" of Athenian Democracy, in the far-eastern Orient, there began to arise a class of religious scribes devoted primarily to recording their studies on the nature of the "soul." Chief among these was purportedly one Prince Siddhartha, called Guattama Buddha, whose school of belief qiuckly spread thorughout the region. While the Hindu religion based on the prior Vedic scriptures outlined a complex pantheon of literally hundreds of deities, each representing one or a particular combination of multiple natural forces, Buddha simplified this belief system into two basic components: a simple ethical or "moral" message regarding the right manner of practicing meditative techniques to prepare one's "soul" for the moment of the body's physical biological death, and a complex metaphysical ontological cosmology describing the realms of the "afterlife" or "underworld" experienced by the "soul" as the body dies. The former we know of as the basis also for the modern Hindu sub-religion of Krishnaism, and the latter we may recognize as having been adopted by Buddha from the Bohn "Book of the Dead" as the Tibetan Buddhist practice of the ritual burial method called the "sky ceremony," in which a corpse is dismembered and fed to vultures or wild animals, and which may be an imitation of the true cause for the apparently cannibalist or "ritual de-fleshing" practices among the ancient "neandethal" species as well. Hence, much of what has since come to be associated in post-Vedic era Hinduism with Buddhist doctrines on the "reincarnation" of the "soul" may indeed have originated from this ancient human imitation of the "neanderthal" proto-hominid species through the Bohn shaman of Tibet. We shall return to discuss the substance of these beliefs on the "reincarnation" of the "soul" in a subsequent section.

1B2. the myths of the Levant and Africa

Contemporary to the rise of the Vedic empire, although only connected to it by the much fabled "Silk Road" through the "Khyber Pass" of modern Pakistan, arose the equally complex social hierarchy and cultural beliefs of the Levant region and eastern Africa. The cross-cultural exchanges between the Sumero-Akkadian Empire of the Ubaid period in modern Iraq and the Old and Middle Kingdoms of the Khemt Empire of Egypt caused the development of an extremely intricate metaphysical cosmology that was equally intricately interwoven into their pantheon of "gods" conceived of as singular or combined natural forces. This entire vast ontological tapestry and mythic tableau eventually formulated its own self-destructive concept in the form of monotheism, an idea germinating from the "Abrahamic" concept of "Ahura-Mazda," a supposedly interplanetary visitor, whom arrived in his "faravahar" of "vimana" ship from the sky, a tradition still preserved by modern Zoroastrians of the Levant region today. During the period of time this cross-cultural exchange was occurring to form this intricate, mythic, metaphysical cosmology throughout the Levant region, empires rose and fell, megalithic monuments were erected, languages proliferated and there was constant religious obsession over the nature of the "soul" and the concept of the "afterlife" or "underworld." Ultimately, as has been restated, around the same time as the advent of Buddhism in the Orient, in the Greek Attica peninsula of the Meditteranean region of the Levant, a philosophical "Golden Age" occurred and the consideration of the subject of the nature of the "soul" reached its apex. It was at this time that the idea of "metempsychosis" was proposed by Pythagoras, describing a very similar premise to the concept of "reincarnation" described in the Bohn Tibetan "Book of the Dead" adopted by contemporary and subsequent Buddhism.

1B2A. Sumero-Babylonian and Old Kingdom Egyptian

The myths of both the Tigris and Euprates and Nile river valley cultures evolved to combine stories involving multiple patron-deities of their various city-state provinces. In Egypt, the Khemt Empire arose during the Old and Middle Kingdoms by uniting the cities of Thebes in southern "Upper" Egypt and Memphis in northern "Lower" Egypt (the Nile river, anomolously for the northern hemisphere, flowing from south to north). The cultures that had formed around Thebes included the Aswan, Dendera and Abydos city-states, and those formed around Memphis included the Saqqara, Giza, Cairo, Heliopolis and Nile Delta region city-states. Likewise, the various disperate city-states along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers valley, called the "Fertile Crescent" region, each had their own unique system of beliefs about the natural forces or "gods" of their regional "pantheon," and each thus had its own patron deity that particpated in the myths along with those of the other city-states. So, in each town was dedicated a temple to its patron deity, such that, in the Mesopotamian "Fertile Crescent" region, the sun-god "Shammash" was venerated in southern Larsa, Ur, Uruk, Bad Tibira, Shuruppak and Lagash, while the patron "god" of the northern city-states of Sippar, Kish, Larak, Nippur and Babylon was the warrior-God "Marduk." Likewise, the beliefs in the pantheon of 8 gods called the "Ogdoad" in "lower" Khemt, Thebes to the north, and that in the concept of monotheism as the omni-deity "Atum-Ptah" who fertilized the "sacred mound" of "Nuit-Shu" in "upper" Khemt, Memphis to the south, combined to form the extremely intricate metaphysical cosmology of the Empire of Khemt in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt.

1B2B. the rise of Monotheism and fall of Olympian Hellenism

The Levant Meospotamian and Egyptian regions exchanged first relgious concepts of their metaphysical cosmology, then fought extensive wars against one another as expanding empires, and finally exchanged migrating populations before both were ultimately subsumed into the Ottoman Empire under the monotheist religion of Islam, in which condition, for the most part changed only by imposed political borders, they remain to this day. The "Abrahamic" monotheism of Islam is considered the continuation and culmination of the prior evolutions of the monotheist concept following its initial adoption by Abraham of Ur while migrating through the Sinai penninsula into Egypt. From a period in time around 20-1900 years ago, at the time of Jesus the supposed "Messiah" or "world-savior," the conflict between the already increasingly monotheist bedouin Arabic Semites of the Levant region against the Etruscan-Italian Roman Empire had apparently culminated with the final Caesar of Rome abdicating to the role of "Pope of the Roman Catholic Church." By that time, the various myths of the region were beginning to be combined into the single "mono-myth" of monotheism, and the previous regional pantheons of city-state patron-deities were becoming religiously demonized beside the "monotheist" myth of "Ahura Mazda" and his son the Messiah "Zoroaster."

1B3. the myths of the Americas

Because the cross-continetnal land-based migration routes penetrated into the southern-most reaches of South America most recently, some 7.000 years ago, the cultures of the American civilizations were those to evolve the most recently as well. They mimic, despite alleged lack of pre-Columbian trans-Atlantic oceanic trade-routes, the cultural development of civilizations that had occured slightly sooner in the Indian sub-continent of Asia and Levant of Mesopotomia and Egypt. In South America, first nomadic tribes developed the use of land-cultivation tools such as ploughs and the domestication of cereal grains and cattle occurred, forming isolated urban metropoli that eventually became so massively populated they formed an inter-connected network of cross-culturally population exchanging, multiple city-state empires, which then culturally stagnated and eventually de-evolved into primarily blood-sacrifice religious ritual based empires contemporary to the rise of monotheistic Islam in the Levant and that of Buddhism in the Orient.

1B3A. Northern Anasazi and Southern Icans

Contemporary to the beginnings of the "neolithic" revolution in North America and the beginnings there of the earliest semi-sendentary settlements following aeons of hunting the migratory indigenous bison herds, the South American continent was already, apparently, at a very high degree of civilization in terms of complexity of civilization and of their relgiious rituals and metaphysical cosmology. While the earliest Chocco Canyon Grand Lodge settlements and the Anasazi peublo-hut building, cliff-face dwellers of the Arizona and Nevada deserts developed their earliest "sweat lodges" or rudimentary astronomical observatories, alike stone-henge in the much-earlier developed region of the English European island, at this same time in South America the Ican mummy-making culture engraved the enourmous geoglyphs and lines on the stoney desert surface of the Nasca plain in modern Peru and settled the complex, up-hill water-channelling canal-grid agriculture of the Altiplano in modern Brazil.

1B3B. Northern 500 Nations and Southern Aztecs

By the time of the Spanish European discovery of the American continents by the fleets of Christopher Columbus for Catholic Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492, the high degree of technology and culture in the South American continent had largely sunk into the rain forests, and the Meso-American cultures of the Aztec and Mixtec had become, as mentioned, reknowned for their bloody ritual human sacrifice as part of their religion to a pantheon of natural forces and localized patron-deities. In North America, the majority of the population remained largely nomadic until the final settlements in the Pacific coast in modern California by European collonists as recently as the 1800's AD. Each nomadic tribe maintained its own inherent culture and there was some degree of cross-cultural exchange commencing between them, as evidenced in the similarities between the Meso-American Mayan and the North American Cherokee calendars. Although the Mayan culture expressed a high degree of technological and (particularly in astornomic observations) very advanced form of metaphysical sciences, while the Cherokee of North America were a disperate connection of family-based nomadic tribes who migrated following the herds of wild buffalo. Another example of the naturalist shamanism of the North American "500 Nations" of tribal natives is the Hopi tribe, who ingested peyotl as part of their religious ritual to their pantheon of natural force based deities, called the "Kachinas," and developed many prophecies in a simple harmonious one-ness with the land.

1C. commonalities of all beliefs in the ancient world

In the Vedic and later Hindu patheistic myths and metaphysical cosmology of the Indian sub-continent of Asia, they attest to the two basic systems of base-7 and base-12 in the form of the 7 chakras (spinal glangliae and plexi) and the 12 "chi" meridiens (nerve fibers extending throughout the body). During the Hellenistic era rise of monotheism in the Levant 2,000 years ago, they testified to Gnostic "Archonism," asserting the role of 7 "arch-angels" guarding over 12 "aeonic Archons" or "fallen angels." Even in the Meso-American Mayan pantheon described in their mythic record the "Popul Vuh," there are 7 "xibalaba be" or "houses of the underworld" and there are 12 "xibalaba" or "lords of the underworld." All of this is, of course, no coincidence, and is due, logically, although apparently counter-intruitively, to trans-oceanic trade via sea-faring natural rafts such as the "Kon Tiki" yacht of thacthed river-reads made and successfully sailed by anthropologist Thor Hyderdhal. There is evidence to indicate there were setllements of proto-hominids in the southern-most tip of South America even earlier than 7,000 BC, and this intuitively seems to substantiate the concept of migrations of populations occuring in staggered sequences, such as in varied stages like "waves," literally, in this case, by travelling in boats along the coast-lines of the continents ahead of their land-locked fellow migrating nomadic tribespeople. That all these cultures shared these basic number sum-sets of various different traits in their metaphysical cosmologies and myths of natural force-based deities in essentially an eastern Oriental originating, western migrating trend over the durations of the millennia chronologically, can also not be denied, and seems to serve as proof for, however seemingly implasible to us now as we enter the 21st century AD, a forgotten trans-continental, sea-faring global civilization that existed prior to the oldest records of existing homo-sapien civilizations known of today, and populated by a people who inspired the concepts of considering the natural forces as "gods" or demi-deities, that lasted contemporary to the later co-habitation of our species' earliest ancestors with the "neandethal" species (some 12-10,000 years ago) until the construction of the earliest "ante-deluvial" city-states along river valleys in India, the Levant and Africa (some 6-5,000 years ago). It should not be overlooked that, just as they are described in the already by then ancient myths of these earliest civilizations of the Vedic, the Sumero-Babylonian and the Egyptian Kehmt Empires, the "heros" or "demi-gods" of this time-period devoted great deals of their life-times to the study of the concept of the nature of the "soul."

1C1. biology as "microcosm" of non-living "macrocosmic" patterns

The consensus apparently reached, thus, already by the time the earliest "city-states" of our modern era of human history were built, was that the nature of the soul was alike a mirror reflection of the nature of the biological body within which it inhabited itself, and that each biological body reflected certain aspects of the cosmos. For example, in the discovery of our species anatomical trait of having 7 central nerve plexi and gangliae (5 along the spine and 2 inside the cranium of the skull), coupled to 12 basic nerve fibers that extend from these throughout the rest of the tissues of the typical homo-spaien physcial form. By using this basic base-7 over base-12 system, we are autonomically attracted to find other patterns alike and similar to it. This has proven to be the "quest to substantiate the concept of the soul." We have, as a species throughout our history, found many similar patterns to our own interior biological patterns in the surrounding nature of our planetary eco-sphere and in the conceptual cosmos we conceive of as surrounding earth. By comparing these seemingly alike patterns to one another we can examine their natural similarities and differences and come to conclusions based on these data sets as to the basic essential nature of our shared collective reality.

1C1A. the patterns of biology - spiral kundalini, 7-chakras, toroid aura, etc.

To begin with the nature of the our species, as a fetus develops in the womb it passes through phases of its cellular developmental process that are essentially identical in their protozoaic nature to the larval gestative cycles of other genusi, families and species in the animal kingdom of our planet. We evolve our brains from cell-clusters no larger than the brains of insects, into those with the conscience of fish, into reptiles and finally into mammals before being born as our own species. Thus, as we develop and mature peri-natally, while still in utero inside the womb, we are simultaneously growing and developing the capicty for self-aware sentience in the form of the "electro-magnetic aura" that infuses this cellular-cluster to continue to evolve in its embryonic suspension, that we later call the "soul" or "spark of life." When the average human being (homo-sapien) is born they have the basic pentagonal geometrical symmetries in their utmost extraneous appendages as in their facial features and in the arrangement of their limbs around their torso. Likewise, we are born with 7 orifices in our skull (a mouth, two ears, two eyes and two nostrils) and 5 senses (tasting flavors, feeling touch, seeing sight, hearing sound and smelling odors). 7 + 5 = 12. Thus, because we have a base-5 biological pattern, we have a base-7 central nervous system pattern, and a base-12 peripheral nervous system pattern that combines the two. In total, the sum essence of the aura given off by our personal electro-magnetic field surrounding our biological body measures a concentration density that can be either tightly packed into the inside of a very small scope of space and a rapid rate of repetition of cycles in time, or can be expanded to encompass a vast range of spacetime, and it can be transported at the whim of whoever's mind it is that would guide it. Thus, the "atman" of the aura is able to "astral travel" while leaving the body in a condition of apparent autonomic functionality and return to the living body at will. However, there are obviously many psychic rules and phsyical limitations for doing so.

1C1B. the patterns of the cosmos - spiral of entropy, toroid of spacetime, etc.

In Tantric Buddhist Yoga today, as in Tantric Vedic Yoga 6,000 years ago, the mind is induced into a meditative trance state called "satori" in Vedic, or "nirvana" in Hindi, or "samadhi" in Buddhism, wherein the goal is to attain as little an amount of mental stimulation in the form of electrical actvity interior to their central nevrous systems as possible, to calm the reactions to exterior stimuli and to relax the natural proclivity for response to them. This is meant to imitate the death-state the body will one day be in, in order to practice for this event when it one day occurs. It is said, for example, that while meditating in this condition beneath a Bodhi tree, the Buddha transcended existence leaving no trace of his former physical form. Just so, in perceiving the cycles of the comos as they exist in reality, we must rely equally as heavily on our sensory perceptions as upon our conceptualization of the realm of a "supernatural" force into which our "psyche" evaporates at death. Although we may experience the perception of this seemingly parallel dimensional mental realm, albeit invisibly to our normal senses, we must depend equally as heavily upon our senses, our common sensibility, and most importantly, upon that "sixth" sense - our own sentient self-awareness. In this sense we may become aware the our mental "sphere of perceptual influence" is actually alike a "hyper-sphere," or one large sphere surrounded by a layer of infinite smaller spheres. Such is also the composition of our utmost cosmos when mapped according to the nature of our local continuum's space-time dimensional fabric, that there is a local cosmos surrounded by a trans-infinite number of smaller, "baby" universes that bubble up inside black-holes at the cores of galaxies. Because the "mind's eye" as a percpetual concept can be imagined as similar in the sense of both resembling the toroid-shaped model of a 4th-dimensional "hyper-sphere" to the utmost outer extension of spacetime in our material cosmos itself, we can assert their 1:1 ratio for capacity in comprehension to all knowledge of the nature of the entire cosmos itself.

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

2. the "burial of the seed" - Pythagoras, Buddha, Jesus, Muhamad

Although the predmoninant belief in the nature of the "soul" involved meditation as a means of "practicing for death" for untold millennia prior to the turn of the last calendrical aeon, 2,000 years ago there began to be a movement among the religious ritualistic pantheists of Rome to decree the doctrine of "reincarnation" in all forms (including "metempsychosis," which we will discuss in a moment) anathema belief and heresy if professed. This movement to make the idea of "reincarnation" - a "soul" being "born into a new body after an old one dies"- ilegal by official religious dictate sparked the Crusades, the Inquisition and the Conquests, not to mention the continuing feudalism latent within modern globalism. The movement to suppress the belief in any doctrine affirming the concept of reincarnation, although never publically explained as such, was initiated by a group who actually fervently believed in the concept of "reincarnation" as defined such, and intended to use "guided intention" to achieve a series of increasingly higher societally ranking births across a duration of multiple lifetimes in order to accumulate personal authority. To this extent, the Roman Augistinian lineage of Emperors titled Caesars knew as a threat and were adamantly opposed to the lineage of Julius, first Roman Caesar with Cleopatra of Egypt, in the form of "Yeshu Caesarian" called "ben Pandera" in the Holy Lands, and so they wrote the fictional gospels to control the historical impact of his life in the realms of fictional myths. This group, later called the "Triumverate" conspriacy, that became the "psychic empire" of Roman Catholic Christendom when Caesar Constantine abdicated the title in favor of that of "Pope" of Rome, was originally founded by Pythagoras, arguably the inventor of the concept of "metempsychosis" and the founder of the group sworn to suppress the doctrine of "reincarnation" throughout all faiths.

2A. Pythagoras

Although originally from the lands of modern Syria and Lebanon in the northwestern Levant regions, history records the actual birth-place of the remarkably mysterious historical figure as Samos, an island in the Greek Aegean Sea, and his nativity modern scholars estimate as being in about the year we call today 570 BC gergorian. As a youth, anecdotal sources recount, Pythagoras was quick to express that he had 5 past lives and traced the origin of this series of reincarnations to an event during the lifetime of his first bodily form, named Euphorbus, son of Panthus in the Trojan War. These claims brought young Pythagoras into opposition with the local magistrate, Pisastratus, whom had Pythagoras exiled from his home on Samos island. Pythagoras then founded a philosophical school to study the cycles of time from various angles based on the literary arts in Croton, Italy, and began teaching the prominent politicians there in the local magistry. This ultimately led to political rivalries between these so-called "Pythagorean" students and the other magistrates who opposed them for authority, and his personal influence quickly amounted to a political party. Eventually, a political rival, of the family name Cylon, dreaded in the region, successfuly petitioned to have Pythagoras exiled by force from Croton, and he spent the last days of his nearly 100 year long life in Metapontum, Italy, teaching from the Temple commemorated by the elders of the Cylon family decades prior. According to the primary remaining historical accounts to describe his life and times, he starved to death there around 495 BC.

2A1. the "first philosopher"

Although commonly credited with coining the term "philosopher," which, in Greek language means, "seeker of wisdom," Pythagoras was only the student of the first Greek to have learned of "reincarnation" in the form of "transmigration" of the "soul" after the death of the body it inhabits while that body is alive. Pythagoras learned of reincarnation from Pherecydes of Syros island, whom lived there from 544-541 BC. Pherecydes, so far as modern historians can ascertain, seems to have concocted the concept of "metempsychosis" based partially on prior Orphic traditions about the "psychopomp" concept of the originally modern Iranian arera myths of ancient Babylon described as the descent by Tammuz (or Sumerian Dummuzi) into the "underworld" in pursuit of Ishtar (Sumerian Inanna). According to Pherecytes, the cosmos was formed "ex nihilo" (meaning "from nothing") by a trinity-concept comprised of Chronos ("Father Time" or the monotheist concept of God), the Chthonic primordial force of Chaos (equivalent in modern place-holder to the "Holy Ghost" in the Catholic Trinity) and the God Zeus (the son of Chronos, and elder ruler over the other 6 chief Olympic pantheon, whom would later become affiliated with the 7 "arch-angels" and 12 "Archons" over "Aeons" of Gnostic monotheism). Pythagoras applied to this essential metaphysical cosmology the notion of "transmigration" of the "soul" through the essentially simple assertion that "when zeus is toppled, chaos wins and whirlwind [time] reigns" implying that these triune traits could be seen as interchangeble in their orientation to one another, and so re-orientable in the situational roles. Pythagoras' concepts of "reincarnation," as laid out in the "Asclepian" literature of the so-called modern "Corpus Hermetica" or collected writings of the "Hermetic" cult to which Pythagoras in his time belonged, describe this trinity of metaphysical cosmological concepts as alike the trinity of the northern polar-most constellations in the night-sky seen from earth. "Chronos," "Chaos" and "Zeus" were equivalent to the constellations "Ursa," "Draco" and to the north pole-star "Polaris." Further associating from this concept of applying the original "trinity" of Pherecydes to the polar constellations, the concept of motion is then introduced in the Pythagorean argument (provided by his student Philolaus, although mis-represented by Artistotle) that 1/2 of all "atoms" (then believed the smallest indivisible particle components to comprise all natural solid materials) spun "clockwise" and could be likened to "even" numbers (divisible by 2), and the other 1/2 spun "counter-clockwise" and were alike the "odd" numbers (not divisible by 2). From here the next advancement in this theory would not occur until a decade later and thousands of miles away in the far distant Orient with the adoption by Buddha of the "wheel of Manvantara" comprised of 8 spokes dividing between them 6 "reincarnative realms" one could be re-born into; but we will return to this further adumbration on the essential theory in a moment.

2A2. advocated "metempsychosis"

The "metempsychosis" Pythagoras advocated was more complex than the basically metaphysical cosmology of Pherecydes, but was less complex than the so-called "wheel of the Dharma" or of the "Noble 8-fold path" as it would be later described by Buddha. In the Asclepian literature of the Corpus Hermetica, there is a short legend written from the perspective of "Tat" son of "Hermes," the fleet-footed "messenger" demi-deity of the Olympic pantheon of 7 "arch-angels." In this legend, it describes the constellation Draco as "Poimandres" and asserts such in the image of the auroborus, or snake that eats its own shed skin from its tail in a perpetual coil. This process of "cyclical" recapitulation (later dubbed "eternal recurrance") indicated to Pythagoras another angle of intention that could subtly influence the multi-dimensional spin of all "atomic" particles in the cosmos. By the teachings of the Buddha, the realm of living beings' bodies into which souls were seen to perpetually reincarnate was associated with the word "Manvantara" meaning "illusion" and "Samsara" meaning "suffering." The goal of existence was meditation on the notion of mortality to practice for the moment of death, so that at that time the soul could, during a short window-of-opportunity, escape this process of perpetual reincarnation into other living bodies and to achieve "transcendence" thorugh "nirvana." It is not presently known how much of the "Asclepian" literature of the Hermetic cult Pythagoras himself can be credited with creating, or how influential this material may have been to Buddha, a literal life-time contemporary of Pythagoras according to modern historical dating systems, however it is known that in the "New Testament" Gospels, Jesus the Messiah borrowed heavily from the Aslcepian literture for the moral points made in his so-called "Sermon on the Mount" speech.

2B. Buddha

While Pythagoras lived and died in Samos, Croton and Metapontum to the west (from 570 to 495 BC), in Nepal, in the far eastern Orient there was born one Prince Siddhartha of the Shakya clan (from 563 to 483 BC) whom would go on to become known as the "guattama Buddha" meaning a teacher who is "awakened" or "enlightened." During his early years, Prince Siddhartha lived a wealthy, lavish, extravegant and luxurious life-style, freed from all awareness of the true pains of the human condtion by order of his father, King Suddhodana. When he discovered what he would later call the "first Noble Truth," the truth of the existence of suffering, the Buddha went into self-exile among the Bohn primtitivist ascetic shaman who lived as exiles from mainstream society in the outskirts of towns and on the edges of forests. Finally in his mediative trance he was shown a sign in the form of a musician riding by on a skiff in the water of a nearby stream admonishing his student regarding the tightness of the instrument's string to achieve musical harmony. From this revelation, Buddha went on to teach for many years the doctrine of the "Dharma" or the "noble 8-fold path" to attain escape from suffering. Just as life inevtiably results in suffering - in the biological physical formats of hunger, sickness, old age and death - the only way to attain escape from suffering is to escape the "clinging" at the time of bodily death that draws the soul back to reincarnate again. Those who choose to continue to reincarnate are called "Mahattmas" in the religious literatures of the learned Gurus of Sihk and Hinduism.

2B1. the "final sage"

Was Siddhartha, Guattama Buddha, himself reincarnated following his transcendence from manvantara via nirvana? Buddhist practitioners of the ancient Bohn religious rituals believe yes, that he has returned many times in the form of the Dalai Lama, their highest religious official. It is also said that Siddhartha himself was only an "atavism" (or lesser evolved reincarnative form) of the Hindu natural force deity "Shiva." Among Buddhists of today, there is an awaiting for the final reincarnation of a Dalai Lama, called the "Matreiya," just as, 2,000 years ago, the Hellenic Hebrews and earliest Gnostic Christians awaited the coming of a "Messiah." The more radicalized and evangelical sect of Hare Krishnas today prommotes the concept of a final reincarnation of Shiva as Krishna, the sleeping fetus that dreams our universe, awakening from his womb-dream, and thus ending our universe. Other students of the ancient Vedic origins for the "Yuga" based calendar of the region attest that we have already passed the end of the dreaded "Kali Yuga" (in the middle to later 1600s AD gregorian) or worst throw of the dice in the game played by Krishna in his dream, the role and era during which he would be most likely to awaken and thus end our universe. Just as there was doubt cast on Jesus possibly having been a "false Prophet" and not the real "Messiah," so too could doubt be cast on all this process of belief in the atavism of Shiva as Buddha being reincarnated as the "Mahattmah" Dalai Lama simply by pointing out the fact that, if Buddha transcended, he could not have also chosen to "cling" to existence and reincarnate as the series of Dalai Lamas since then. So, either the Buddha transcended, alike the transubstantiation of Jesus and the translation of Enoch, or the Dalai Lama is a legitimate religious leader; but it can't be both. And likewise regarding the Catholic Pope in Vatican City, once Rome, Italy, ruler over the psychic empire of modern Christendom: either Jesus transubstantiated following the crucifixion or the Pope in Rome is a trustworthy religious authority, but it can't be both.

2B2. transcended manvantara through nirvana

Could it be that Siddhartha Guattama Buddha did not really transcend the manifest realm of experiencing suffering through achieving the trance state of "samadhi" as we are told in the myths about him? Does removing the miracle from the shaman break his spell as a moral teacher? Without attributing miracles to Buddha, he remains a great teacher and mysterous simultaneous counterpart to Pythagoras (much alike how Prtoestant magician John Dee and Catholic prophet Michel Nostradamus lived at the same time, but supposedly never crossed paths with one another). However, his teachings would be no less significant without miracles of healing and meditative trance states being attributed as having occurred for him. Likewise with the person, some 500 years later, of Yeshua Ben Padiah (meaning the "son of Righteousness") whom, without the falsely ascribed "miracle healings" being attributed to him, and without the ficitional crucifixion, denuded is still a perenniel bearer of the same wisdom as the "Asclepian" literature of the Corpus Hermetica. However, just as in the eastern Orient, the concept of Buddha transcending existence seeming to contradict the role of the Dalai Lama as chief-priest of Buddhist religion, in the middle-eastern Levant, the concept of Jesus being transubstantiated to heaven following the crucifixion seems to contradict the role of the Pope of the Catholic church as chief-priest of the Christian faith. In the strictest sense of the word, both Buddha and Jesus were philosophers, but decidely not supernaturally posessed beings with miraculous, reality changing powers. So, next we must begin to ask and wonder, if Buddha faced Mara beneath the Bodhi tree and lost, and did not transcend samsara via achieving ultimate universal oneness with his mind, then what really did occur? If Jesus was never crucified in reality, then what did in fact really happen instead?

2C. Jesus

Circumstantial evidence has been raised throughout this article to present a growing case to suspect there was an intentional obfuscation of the prior, aeons ancient, and possibly even "neanderthal" species in origin, belief in "reincarnation" after death. Following Pythagoras' exile from Croton, Italy to Metapontum, Italy, it is said his closest followers, called the "Akousmatikoi," who preserved his most secretive "sumbola" or moral axioms, took a vow of silence and refused to repeat any of his teachings publically, due to their public persecution for belonging to his cult. It was beginning at this time Aristotle and other philosophers of his era who followed suit began to mock, deride and belittle the beliefs of the "Pythagoreans" with impugnity, fearing no reprisal from this now disbanded public "heresy." From the era of Pythagoras' exile until the Council of Nicea officially declared its list of heretical, "pagan" and "anti-Christian" beliefs and denunciations of the "cultists" that held them, only five centuries passed, and during this time, from the one man (Pythagoras) to the next man (in this case, Jesus) the teachings of Pythagoras (the Asclepian literature) were passed along in secret, invoking always the "Akousmatikoi" vow of silence and death before public disclosure.

2C1. Caesarian Ben Pandera, called "Yeshu"

We are therefore faced with the very real necessity of reassessing the dates of the birth and death of the person of Siddhartha the Buddha. There is too much circumstantial evidence to replace the lifetime of Pythagoras, but very little given to substantiate the theroy of Buddha having lived identically contemporary to him. Thus, we must begin to consider a new chain of events: first Pythagoras lived and died, followed in his next life by the Buddha, followed in his next life by Julius Caesar, followed in his next life by Jonathan Ananus (Caesarian), followed in his next life by Jesus Christ, and so forth. If we are to believe in the concept of "metempsychosis" and "reincarnation" at all we must believe it could have occured for the person to whom we attribute its origin as a belief. If we had to link them by a clandestine blood-line even, we could present a case for such an argument. Assuming an average life-span among these men of 80 years of age based on combining all their lifetimes and dividing by the number of generations between Pythagoras and Jesus, we can still factor in the apparent trend in their life-spans to diminish in duration from each generation to the next, such that Jesus was supposedly killed on the cross at around age 33, while Pythagoras was said to have been starved to death in exile at nearly age 100. Thus, we can assert that there very well, based on sufficient circumstantial historical evidence, could have been a plot to suppress all belief in "reincarnation" among a very small number of people, perhaps only one or two per generation. During these 500 years 5 generations would have elapsed, assuming the average maximum age of 80 and usual time of siring offspring coming at around age 40. One famiily, as hypothesized, over 5 generations, or else 5 generations of students and disciples working clandestinely, very certainly could have plotted to sabotage the belief in the concept of "reincarnation." 

2C2. basis of "catholic" monotheism by fictional crucifixion

Probably because they wanted to cut any potential ties that could be made between the early Catholic Church of the Christian faith and the earlier cult of Pythagoreanism, "reincarnation" was dubbed a heretical belief among hundreds of others denounced at the ecumenical colleges of cardinals' meetings held periodically throughout the first two centuries AD, most notedbly at Nicea. This generally wide-sweeping panic regarding what was acceptable Christian doctrine and what was not resulted, eventually, in excluding even the originally Canonized writings of Flavius Josephus and the Book of Maccabees that were, until then, included as part of the Latin Vulgate. Very little of the original writings of those who were alive at that time remains preserved in the Canonized Gospels of the New Testament era of so-called "Judeao-Christian" Biblical literature. Outside of the religious literature officially approved for sanctioned distribution within the subsequent "dark ages" feudal-era of Christendom, there remains a copious quantity of written material by other Apostles of Christ than those included in the Gospels of the New Testament of the Bible. Included in all these many "Apocryphal" and "Pseudepigraphal" writings is one example among all the rest of a work attributed to the hand of a man named Jesus himself, one called Yeshu Ben Padiah, meaning "the son of Righteousness." Although this scroll remains untranslated and unreleased for public availability by the Vatican Archives, it is now known to exist and believed to have been written by the hand of the man they called "Jesus" (Greek for Hebrew "Yeshua") in the Gospels themselves. If one were, indeed, so inclined as to judge the case based solely on the level scales of blind justice by weighing on the one hand all the written testimony prepared by the defense case and all that prepared by the prosecution on the other, the result is indisputable: there is limitlessly more Apocryphal Biblical literature than the contents included in the slimmed down and abridged "Bible" we study from today.

2D. Muhammad (PBUH)

Of this sequence of men surrounding the turn of the last aeon prior to now, the final to be considered here should be held as no more nor less supernatural than the others. To the extent that the "miracles" attributed to each of them may be fictional, the most circumstantial records about and the fewest supernatural "miracles" attributed to him is the most recent to consider, the person of the so-called "last prophet" of "Abrahamic" monotheism. Insofar as the "miracle" myths surrounding Buddha seem to have been an attempt to substantiate the beliefs by Pythagoras in the "transmigration" of the "soul" after the death of its body, followed by the myth of the "crucifixion" being written to propose the legal murder of anyone who upheld the belief in "reincarnation," Muhammad arose from the midst of the Levant region to rebel against the dominant Catholic dogma that already existed by then, in order to clarify the nature of the Abrahamic monotheist belief on the nature of their faith. Muhammad, as a young man, was purportedly guided by a dream of the arch-angel Gabriel to travel to the city of Mecca in modern Saudi Arabia, the area of the ancient citie-states of Sumeria, where he found upon entering the city that the religious elders there were engaged in a debate over how to position a certain holy relic into a shrine that was being built to house it. By settling their religious debate, Muhammad drew attention to himself by those among the religious elders of the region who upheld the concept of legal murder of anyone to step forward as a youth and to question the authority of the elders to determine doctrines. Pursued by his enemies, Muhammad fled to a cave in the regions to the west of Mecca and experienced a second dream visitation by the angel Gabriel. He came forth from the cave and travelled to the nearby city of Medina, where he took up inhabitation in a house and continued to teach for many years before finally passing on at age 62. His school of religious teachings was, subsequent to this, inherited by his family members and was, almost immediately, divided between the schools of the Shia and Sunni "Muslims" - the followers of Muhammad's preachings of "Peace." The primary distinction between the Shia and Sunni followers of Islam is a doctrinal debate between whether there would be (and by now, whether there were or were not) either 7 or 12 Prophets who followed Muhammad's death to continue the lineage of "Prophets" of "Abrahamic" monotheism. The entire division seems to have been cultivated by repeated attacks against the Arabic peoples of the region by the Catholic Popes of Rome, Italy, governing over European Christendom. In truth, again, there is an intentional contradiction in the doctrine at its core original source that has led to the difference of beliefs within the religion itself; in this case, it is over whether or not Muhammad himself had been the last Prophet of "Abrahamic" monotheism. If he was, then no religious "Prophets" at all could have followed him, and only if he was not could the religion founded based on his teachings have been inherited to his other family members.

2D1. the "last Prophet"

At the time of his final illness and death, the split in the religion Muhammad (PBUH) had established began. While he had been alive, his teachings brought most of the Levant into the folds of a single unified religion, recognizing him as the "last Prophet" of "Abrahamaic" monotheism. When he died, his heirs sought about a way to divvy up their loot, and this was when the split in the religious doctrines began to occur. One of Muhammad's followers nominated another, but many of the others disagreed with this process, believing Muhammad himself had already spoken on the matter and wished his own nephew to inherit rulership. Those who sided with the nominee, Abu Bakr, became the Sunni Muslims, and those who sided with the nephew, Ali, became the Shia Muslims, and this split remains to the modern day. Although the subsequent history of the religion, its establishment of monarchical caliphates, ruled by Bakr with the tacit support of Ali, cannot be denied, the premise that anyone was intended to succeed Muhammad as "Prophet" by that title remains logically contradictory to the claims made by Muhammad about himself. Muhammad himself had stated he was the "seal of the Prophets" (called "Khatam Al-Nabiyyin" in Arabic), meaning that he "sealed" or "put an end on" the series of Prophets of monotheism beginning with Abraham himself.

2D2. founded "Islam" the monotheism of "Peace"

Following the Roman Imperial Persian invasions and ongoing military occupations of regions of the Levant, the earliest post-Caesar Popes of the Roman "psychic" empire of Christendom followed their earlier Emperors' attempts to collonize the region with their beliefs using military means, and spared little time in launching the Crusades on a pretense of defending the Orthodox Christians of the Byzantine Empire (what had been the furthest eastern reaches of the Roman Empire prior to Christendom). Considering anyone who brought back remnants or respect of the Arabs' beliefs their conscripted soldiers might encounter there as "heretics," the Popes of Rome followed the Crusades of invasion of the Levant region with the European "Inquisition" to purge "pagan heresy" from within the ranks of Christendom. The first to die on the pyre for this crime were accused of worshiping "Baphomet" and of defiling the crufixion. Although an elaborate parallel religion, now called "Satanism," was built up as the imagined religious beliefs of the European Gnostics, it is widely recognized now that "Baphomet" was merely an intentional corruption of the name of Muhammad (PBUH), founder of Islam. The word "Islam" literally means "peace" or "surrender," and is equivalent to the concept of "waving the white flag." This religion has been under assault from within and from without since its original inception during the lifetime of its founder, the Last Prophet Muhammad. The results have been the repeated, intentional mis-representation of the Arab peoples' religious beliefs throughout Christendom by any and all "Christian" historians. This has led to the mis-understandings of the teachings of the "Assassin cult" of Hassan Ibn-Sabba, of the "Sufi" sect of Sunni and Shia combined, and of the "Yezidi" tribe of the Zagros mountain range. One of the primary mis-interpretations of Islam is called "Ishmaelism," which is that Muslims believe Muhammad to have been descended from Ishmael, son of Abraham, and that it was Ishmael (and not Isaac as recorded in the Torah and Vulgate) whom Abraham was about to sacrifice to God when God prevented him from doing so, in the story called the "Dhabih" (meaning "slaughter" in Arabic). Very little reality about Arabic life is permitted, even to this day, to be known of by most Christians.

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

3. the modern beliefs

During the 20th century AD gregorian, events have transpired that allow the average citizen living now, in the early 21st century, to make broad, statistics-based generalizations about large quantity sums of mass populations of people living on planet earth, who number at this time some 7 billion unique human bodies. Until the beginning of the 20th century, life in feudalism throughout the Asian, Levant and European nations remained essentially aggrarian and sedentary. It was not until the invention, ostensibly, by Eli Whitney of the "cotton gin" that the notion of replacing all manual labor with a mechanical work-force began to manifest in the form of the modern "industrial revolution." This event occurred around the early to mid 1800's, and by the turn of the 1900's, the "20th century," the "industrial revolution" had urbanized and institutionally educated, socially-democratized and provided electricity for, the populations of almost the entire world in certain major metropolitan areas. It was into this early, modern world that the concept of a "new aeon" or "new age" was conceived, for it had been then some 1900 years since Christ walked the earth, and since an "Aeon" of 2,000 years was a venerated concept by the Gnostics of his life-time. The idea of preparing the events of the 20th century itself as a means of "passion play" or "jubilee," to control events and cause outcomes to occur that would seem to prove the past prophecies of Christian religious scriptures, and to "purposefully direct," "guide" or even to "control" history began to be formulated by some. These so-called social "magicians" have pre-written history for the last 100 years, a full century, since at least the inception of the "Federal Reserve" US Central banking system and the creation of the un-Constitutional "Income Tax" in 1913. Claiming to belong to the "Gnostic" sect of European descent, a cabal of banking magnates, ostensibly admitted "Satanists," have placed the modern, social-Democrat governments of most of Asia's, Europe's, and North America's nations into a position similar to that attributed to Hassan Ibn-Sabbah's goal - "to put the blade of an assassin at the throat of every potentate." The mythological religion, the moral ethic and the peculiar sciences of this sect are not at all accidental, but were intelligently designed by a small group of authors who lived around the turn of the 20th century AD. They comprise a dualist approach to re-asserting the concept of belief in a "soul": on the one hand, approaching the topic with supernatural, miracle-filled fictions as myths, and on the other, approaching the present existence of natural material reality as cold, hard fact and examining it using solely scientific methodology. These two schools have then manifested a "middle-way" cultism between their extreme polarities of realism and illusion, and encourage this "middle-way" sect's aspiring membership to oscilate back and forth in their personal beleifs between these twin polarities. "Myths," "Ethics" and "Sciences" comprise a form of "nuclear family," identified intiially by Crowley in Liber Legis, or a "trinity" of "father," "mother" and what Crowley called a "crowned and conquering child." Thus, we entered the so-called "Age" or "Aeon" of the zodiac sign Aquarius, and so we now live in what scientists call the "post-Atomic" age.

3A. Theosophy, Thelema, Kybalion - "new age" mythology, ethics and science

In discussing these works, all I can honestly say is that it would be better to recommend that you, my gentle audience, read them yourself than that you should take my reviews of them as like their laws themselves. I can honestly say I have my own opinions about these topics, however, for the most part, I attempt to keep my own opinions hidden within, and express only in no uncertain terms what I know of as being factual information. For example, in this essay in discussing the topic of Jesus, I have mentioned several possibilities as explicable for the manner in which the Pythagorean "Asclepian" literature may have fallen into his hands. I have not said I beleived, personally, in any one of these or another. These are merely my own re-statements of factual information I have learned from reading about these events from multiple diffierent points of view and perspectives, by various writers throughout our species recorded history. Likewise, in researching these topics, I would recommend to any student of them to bear in mind they are being presented, likewise, by these authors, with only one perspective of opinions on topics that is, likewise, based on a set of data and events known of to them only by their own researches, readings and experiences. In short, just as you should not take my own word for their works, nor should you take their works as literally as modern monotheists take the Gospels. Although, it may seem odd to admonish such an extremity of belief, it is necessary in this time to do so, as this apparently, again illogically paradoxical, belief has already begun to transform the "personality cults" surrounding these modern "social magicians" into full-fledged "religions." In point of fact, the goal of establishing this triplicity of foundation is to merge these three into a single, "One World" government at their historical conjunctive "apex." This is why "Theosophy" - the myths, "Thelema" - the ethics, and "Kybalion" - the sciences, were designed: to soften the logical reductio ad absurdum of "Abrahamic" monotheism and to replace the concept of vague "belief" in a "soul" with the concept of "knowledge" of "factual evidence" about the topic. In short, by making their myths flagrantly "miraculous" and supernatural, as opposed to their sciences, making those instead as simple and redundant as possible, the attempt is to logically discredit the former and to elevate the belief in the latter.

3A1. Theosophy - the "new-age" mythology

The mythology of Theosophy is based largely on "syncretism" or "blending together" pre-existing religious myths from all various traditions. To accomplish this, certain new aspects, such as a rank and file "hierarchy" for their pantheon, certain names and descriptions of events and rituals, etc., were added to others that were likewise "cherry-picked" from various other world religions, such as the myths of past, "lost" civilizations and of a coming world-uniting "Savior" or "Messiah." Blavatsky asserted from the beginning the necessity for a "spiritual hierarchy" based on the number 7. From her emanated the teachings of the "7 Rays" of Theosophy, each watched over by 7 "Ascended Masters," and each manifest as the "7 planets" of astrology, "7 metals" of alchemy and "7 chakras" of yoga, etc. to which she addended her own concept of 7 "root races" inhabiting planet earth. Blavatsky's "root race" concept (describing the 5 now-recognized "races" of our human species, along with 2 others, the "lost" Atlantean and Lemurian races) immediately led to the Catholic-backed NAZI eugenics and genocide of the first 1/2 of the 20th century. Following WW2, many of the "true-believers" who remained adherants to Blavatsky's teachings were forced to go "underground" and attained professions in the modern urban metropoli, beginning to fund through a modern front-group, the "Lucis Trust," plans to establish a one-world government. Theosophists today are as displaced from the movement of modern globalism as would any new religion's faithful followers be from their own church's established hierarchies, as we have seen repeated at the germination of each new religion. The racial characterizations of the NAZIs were merely a continuation of the anti-Semitic "pogroms" waged against the Hebrews of Europe throughout the "Dark Ages," perpetuated in the 20th century under the guise of "racial cleansing." Without Blavatsky's writings, the NAZIs would not have been able to use "Theosophical" beliefs as their justification for enacting the horrors of the Holocaust, "under the noses," as it were, of the supposedly moral German citizenry of the time.

3A1A. origins in fraud - HP Blavatsky AKA "Helena Von Hahn"

Born Helena "Gan" Von Hahn of Russia, 1831, died (of flu) Madame HP BLavatsky, of London, Great Britain, island of England, 1891, having lived only some 60 years, Blavatsky travelled across much of southern Asia and the Indian sub-continent in her life before settling in north-western Europe with Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907) a self-proclaimed convert to Buddhism, in truth an American "Orientalist," a Navy Colonel whom had helped "investigate" (and cover-up) the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln following the end of the US Civil War. Olcott was a lawyer and financier for the Theosophical Society he founded with his Russian pick-up girl, Helena Von Hahn, and they travelled the jungles of India and traversed the peaks of the Himalyas to explore the ruins and religions of the indigenous peoples living there then. Olcott transformed his secretary, Helena Von Hahn, into the pseudo-Buddhistic, "spirtist" (conjurer) gypsy impersonator, "Madame HP Blavatsky." "Spiritism," or the performances of "seances" by "spiritual mediums" as a method to "summon the ghosts of the dead," for example, was a major inspiration for the magician "Rasputin," whom was responsible for weakening the family of the Russian Czar and leading to the over-throw of Russian Czarism by Wall-Street banked Bolshevist Revolutionaries. Although prominent "magicians" such as Harry Houdini have come forward debunking "spiritist" conjuring as merely "parlor tricks" of the "lock-picker's" craft, by enshrouding their practice in a veil of high-worded "spirtual materialist" dogmas, in imitation of the elder "religious folk" of old, Blavatsky and her "trance-channeling" of Theosophy from Olcott's dictations was ultimately accepted in Europe, and she found both fame and fortune during her life following the end of their Asian explorations.

3A1B. contradictory content and historical context

The third founding member along with Olcott and Von Hahn of the Theosophical Society was William Quan Judge, who was, following Blavatsky's death, accused by later members of her close circle of friends of having been forging letters from the "Ascended Masters" or "Mahattmahs" and feeding them to Blavatsky as true. This led to the schism of American Theosophy, led by Judge, away from the European Theosophists, led first by Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater, and later also by Rudolph Steiner. Blavatsky's "new religion" quickly deteriorated into in-fighting and sectarianism between its founding members, alike all the religions examined prior. Blavatsky's defenders might point out that much of her own writing is barely sensible free-associative rambling, loosely tying together a merely pedestrian and passing knowledge of many ancient myths, and that the modern "religion" of Theosophy today was merely a hierarchy formed by her later circle of friends, "cherry picking" evidence to support their concepts from her writings. Following their dispute over whom was at fault for their apparent initial basis being upon forgeries, Annie Besant (1847 - 1933) died and was supplanted by Alice Bailey (1880 - 1949), who formulated the Lucis Trust in 1922 (originally called the Lucifer Publishing Company) with her husband Foster Bailey, to publish Theosophical works in the school of HP BLavatksy. The Lucis Trust also funded her own cult, the World Goodwill Group, founded in 1932, which is to this day recognized as an international non-governmental organization (NGO) by the globalist governing body, the United Nations (UN), while the Lucis Trust itself maintains roster level consultant status since 1989 with the UN Economic and Social Council. "Trance Channeling" meditation practices (a modern euphemism for spiritist "seances") have been conducted in the "Meditation Room" at the UN headquarters building in New York City, USA. The movement for a "one world religion" of Theosophists has effectively been in support of the "one world government" of globalists in the UN since before the founding of the original League of Nations, its world-wars interim period precursor.

3A1C. 21st century "trance-channeling" cults

Adopting the "swastika" symbol of the prior cult of Theosophy for that of his brutally anti-Semitic "Third Reich" in NAZI-era Germany, Adolph Hitler, prophecized, according to modern interpretations, by Michel Nostradamus to be the "second coming" of 3 "Anti-Christs" who would attempt to rule all Europe, was aligning his Roman Catholic funded rebuilt military to the spiritism of Blavatsky's cult intentionally. His own beliefs were all in line with hers, although his conclusions based on these beliefs were even more extreme. Hitler decided to eradicate the European Hebrew diaspora, the "gypsy" immigrants via the Turkish Zagros mountain range following the Roman - Persian wars of the Levant, led by Emperor Titus Flavius Augustus to exile the bedouin Arabs from the regions of Roman occuptation. To accomplish this, Hitler appealed to a variety of emotional sympathies in his audiences and financiers, and it could well be argued that, had he chosen to postpone invasion of Poland, he would likely have simply been popularly appointed "Holy Roman Emperor" of Europe soon enough anyway. Hitler's own cult, the SS or "Schutzestaffel" (meaning "guard unit" in German) formulated much of the so-caled "NAZI ideology" based on the teachings of HP Blavatsky, including the proposal of "repatriation acts" such as the British "Balfour Declaration" and the German "transfer arrangement" both cedeing over large land-tracts of Palestine (in the Levant) to the diaspora regardless of the outcome of the subsequent British-German war (WW2). There is no accident in the use of the Swastika by the anti-Semitic NAZIs and the "star of David" logo of the Zionist Israelis, for both were included in the prior symbol, designed by Helena Von Hahn, for her Theosophical Society. Much of 20th century geo-politics has, in fact, been guided and indirectly influenced to occur as it did wholely by this "new age" religion. Much more, in fact, than can be covered here in this cursory analysis. Suffice it to say that, the "conspiracy" to infiltrate and overthrow "all existing forms of world religions and governments" is very real. The ideals of this "neo-Satanic" order are adhered to by hundreds of the most wealthy Wall Street bank share-holders, and the owners of the private Central Bank, the US Federal Reserve, and worshipped annually at their Washington State, redwoods national park retreat, the Bohemian Grove Club. This group, often hailed as a modern-day "Illuminati" (although there never was such a cult, society or club by that title practiced by the men accused of creating it), are the "dark side" of modern "trance-channeling" Theosophy. To disentangle their beliefs from one anothers' would be pointless, since all are founded on the same false premise: that HP Blavatsky was, in truth, in contact with "Ascended Masters" or "Mahatmahs," when, in fact, she was simply being fed and regurgitating recitations of "Kanjur" and "Tanjur," the works of Sandor Korosi Csoma, an eccentric Orientalist published in 1836, by her friend William Quan Judge. Again, no "false Prophet" can claim anything good without it being perverted and lost in the breach by their immediate succession of followers. As we shall see next in the section on "new age ethics," this has been sought to be codefied as the "law" of the "new aeon," just as legal murder of anyone for the thought crime of belief in a "pagan heresy" was that "law" declared for us at the turn of the last Aeon, 2,000 years ago.

3A2. Thelema - the "new-age" ethics

"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law. Love Is The Law, Love Under Will." These are the solemn words to be spoken at greeting and parting between members of the cult of "new age ethicists," the modern-day "Order of Oriental Templars" (or OTO) of Alexander "Aleister" Crowley. Crowley's own life is no less controversial than Blavatksy's had been, and although she died (1891) only shortly after Crowley was born (1875), in many ways Crowley saw himself as her direct successor and even "reincarnation." Already a well-regarded mountaineer by his early 30's, just following the turn of the 20th century of the Gregorian calendar, Alesiter Crowley decided to seek the historically unique claim to fame of having been "initiated" into as many occult orders, esoteric schools and secret societies as he could find access to. He belonged to, argueably, more such sects than even had Pythagoras in his own day and age. His "mountaineering" spirit for adventure led him on a "quest for the top" of the modern "secret societal" pyramid-scheme, and eventually he reformed the German Illuminati sect, then known as the OTO, as a model for what he (apparently) intended to become an "international bund" of all global secret societies, sects and orders. However, as without exception has occured to all who would formulate their own new model of religion, Crowley's OTO has not flourished after his death as he might have, while still alive, intended. Essentially, Crowley's own philosophy prevents him having a direct successor in his own self-styled role of "Ipsissimus," or "world king" over all the secret societies united into a single global governmental "bund." The ethical philosophy invented, ostensibly, by Crowley goes today by the guise of the name "Thelema," which is Greek for the will-power, and its phoenetic similarity to the "thalamus" of the "cerebrum" in Latin would not have been overlooked by him in so naming it. Justifying his own ribaldries in life with the wrtings of past mad-men alike Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, and the Marquis DeSade, French libertine, but obsessed with proving truth in the mysteries of "magic" practiced by any and all the sects he joined, Alesiter Crowley sought to morally prove "Do What Thou Wilt CAN Be The Whole Of The Law," and to therefore posit further discussion to the effect that therefore the individual's own will to power "Shall Be The Whole Of The Law." Indeed, having died an obscure heroin addict, essentially impoverished at the age of 72, just after the end of WW2, an argument can be made for either Crowley's successes in life or his failures. However, as with all religions, we can see there is already a great detachment between the "will to powers" of their earliest followers and that intended for their "grand experiment" by the founder of the new religion themselves.

3A2A. origins in esoterica - Edward Alexander "Aleister" Crowley

Alike Blavatksy, for Crowley developing his own religious system was a foregone conclusion, and in no way accidental nor natural, but entirely cultivated by their shared obsession with esoteric concepts such as the nature of the "soul." Whereas for Blavatksy, her delusion arose in the form of her apparent "love-triangle" of mis-trust between her friends Olcott and Judge, for Crowley his compulsive practice of "magick" (spelled with a "k" to denote the "spiritist" craft, akin to seances, etc.) was cultivated by his friends Allen Bennet (a Buddhist convert) and SL Mathers (the Enlish-French occult scholar, with whom Crowley eventually had a falling out), who encouraged Crowley to join his first "secret society," the "Order of the Golden Dawn," which was based on forged manuscripts outlining how to perform obscure rituals according to a complex system combining European, Levant-area and Hindu cultic beliefs. Although at the beginning of his "magical experimentations," Crowley seems to retain some logical analytical faculty to determine that what he was experiencing were merely induced mental delusions, and that the "phantoms and aparitions" of his "conjurings" were not real sentient entities, by the end of his life, Crowley seems to have utterly lost all sense of objectivity on this matter, and become a full-blown schizophrenic, a believer in a subtended, parallel dimension of reality, in which their own form of delusion is believed to influence the nature of their surrounding environment. In short, Crowley, as all creators of "new" religions, suffered from his own form of a "God complex." His first truly schizophrenic break from reality came in the form of "trance channeling" the "Book of the Law," called subsequently by all Thelemites "Liber Legis" or "LAVL" for "Liber Al Vel Legis." This short and handy tome contains such potent concepts in such concise rhymed verse it can convert almost anyone to believe in its contents nearly instantly upon their reading it. Crowley's mental well-being continued to deteriorate from that point on until he finally believed himself to be causing all reality to occur, at which point, presumeably, he died.

3A2B. the viral method of subsuming existing cults

Arguably the greatest innovation in methodology between the ancient and modern eras has been the "new age" adoption of the tactic of infiltration of existing groups to subvert their leading principles. For example, the "Ordo Templi Oreintis," the so-called "OTO," was begun as a German Masonic effort that was never later sanctioned by the Enlgish Universal Grand Lodge of F&AM. The OTO was formed prior to, and thus may have partially inspired, the German occult renaissance of the early 20th century leading up to Third Reich-era NAZIism. However, after Aleister Crowley became involved, the OTO was reformed and has since become a gay sex orgy cult. This appears to be the modern "calling card" of having been infiltrated by this sub-sect of "infiltrators" and "subverters": the cult becomes a gay sex orgy cult. This has happened at Bohemian Grove, at Skull and Bones, and even recently at the Vatican itself. This is evidence of cross-contamination between these elder cults. However, it is also a key component to measuring the degree of cultural degeneration and general decadence of a post-imperial society, such as the USA and the Papacy have both, by now, become. We see the same effects of madness and self-cannibalism evoked in the Aztec culture following the peak of their imperial period over their local region of Meso-America. Once a city-state has expanded its conceptual borders as far as it can based on its given surrounding environment, it begins to collapse inward upon itself. Imperialism plateaus and stagnates and, unless there is spontaneous new innovation, ultimately collapses into self-censorship. Once the economy has passed its peak, no citizen likes to discuss it; it becomes like the "elephant in the living room" to use the modern catch-phrase.

3A2C. the decline of the GD and rise of the OTO

However Protestant we prefer to imagine Heinrich Agrippa and Paraselsus, his students, and no matter how Anglican we may wish John Dee, the supposed founder of the Golden Dawn and author of their cipher-manuscripts, the Abbot, Johannes Trithemius, whose cipher was used, and whom tought Agrippa and Paracelsus, both of whom inspired Dee, was loyal to the Benedictine Catholic Order his entire life.  His inspiration during the post-Reformation era in these critical thinkers and pre-Renissance "proto-scientists," then called "magicians" and "alchemists," of their rebellious nature against the Catholic Papal Orthodoxy was no accident by him while serving his Roman Church either. Trithemius, by effectively inpsiring the formation of the original "Golden Dawn" cipher in which the rituals are described in manuscripts un-covered and re-enacted only 400 years later, during the early 20th century, planted the seeds that would become "Hermetic" alchemy, "Rosicrucian" crypto-Templar, anti-Papal religious beliefs, and ultimately, the "Order of the Golden Dawn" itself. During the 20th century resurgeance of this cult, one of its practitioners was Aleister Crowley, a young aspiring mountain-climber who had a short question about "magic" and the nature of the concept called the "soul."

3A3. Kybalion - "new age" basis for the physical sciences

Published as anonymously as possibly by the Yogi Publication Society in 1908, only 3 years following Crowley's "trance-channeling" of the "Book of the Law," the Kybalion presents as consicely as a handy text-book the basic universal laws that have been attempted to be proven through scientific experiment since, from the atomic bomb to the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The principles are, in the reverse order they are presented in the book itself: 1) gender; 2) cause and effect; 3) rhythm; 4) polarity; 5) vibration; 6) correspondence; and 7) mentalism. Supposedly, as one would progress "up" this "totem-pole" of schools of physical sciences, one would progress further and deeper into the realms of what materialism would otherwise dictate as "the paranormal." However, by arranging their argument from the fantastical and miraculous downward toward the domain of the common, everyday and not divine, the authors of the Kybalion used "reverse-psychology" on their readers to induce the idea of accepting their more out-landish claims along with more logically acceptable statements such as "we must separate the sacred from the profane." Again, by using the base-number "7" specifically as a choice for the number of schools according to "Hermetic axioms," the authors of the Kybalion aligned themselves with Theosophical concepts of the "7 Rays" and "7 Ascended Masters," etc. Although many of the supposedly "commonplace" examples used in the text to justify their obscure scientific reasoning are actually quite unique thought-experiments, that have never been practically applied for verification of their validity, this work forms the spine of the modern schools of sciences, it's outline forms the "trunk" of the scholastic "tree" on which all modern schools on the sciences are but the "branches." SImilar to the history behind the Hippocratic oath, sworn today by Doctors entering the profession of medicine, there are many modern practitioners of these principles who remain unaware of themselves even being so, because they lack awareness of the knowledge surrounding the origin of their own professional careers. If you doubt this, consider whether or not your own chosen field of scientific pursuits and endeavors would fall into any of these categories: 1) sociology; 2) material-physics; 3) music; 4) astronomy; 5) energy-physics; 6) psychology; 7) parapsychology. These comprise the sum of modern "scientific philosophy," whose ethics now is as unquestioned and deplorable as the practices of Roman Inquisitors in days of old. Such "science" is the "new age" religion, however, if we have learned anything from this brief study of their history during even only our own species' evolution alone, we should know by now that studying the histories of those who profess to have, themselves, studied the nature of the concept of the "soul" ultimately proves to have taught us nothing at all about the nature of the "soul" itself. This is largely, if not entirely, because the belief about the nature has remained more or less unchanged since its original conception in pre-Vedic era Indus River valley, pre-Sumerian Tigris and Euphrates alluvial plane and pre-Egyptian Nile River and delta peoples, when it formed the original basis of the Vedic, Sumerian and Egyptian cultures there. In addition to this basic definition there have only been the changes that an opposition cult has arisen in secret to attempt to "intfiltrate and subvert" this dominant social belief, suppressing the common belief in such notions as the "soul" itself by creating artificial and ultimately fictional theological cosmologies to obfuscate and confuse the concept, and then further suppressing the schools created to develop these fictional cosmologies. In short, the pursuit of God through religions seems to only be holding back the evolution of our species, particularly in the category of developing understanding of the nature of the concept of a "soul."

conclusion -  "on the true nature of the soul."

(why we know what we know, and what is the value of our knowing it)

What is the soul? The soul is the mind that knows itself. The mind that knows its own nature as a mind more is said to have a more developed soul. The mind that studies religious literature on the nature of the soul is said to know its own nature as mind best. The mind knows itself as mind in the same way the body knows itself as an appendage beneath the brain: the brain is like the hand and the body its glove, the five addendums to the torso being like the fingers of the hand, as mentioned, as well as like the 5 physical senses; the soul thus knows itself as a mind as the brain knows itself as a body while the body and mind are alive, and this self-knowing of the soul as mind is called the "6th sense," an entirely mental and non-physical sense awareness. Another name for this "paranormal" 6th-sense of self-awareness of soul as mind is "Psi" or the study of "parapsychology." This study is, as I have mentioned, at least as old as our species itself.

The soul is thus alike Narcissus: divided between a self that knows and a self that is known. Modern existentialists further sub-divide the self that is known between the self-known-by-itself (being in itself) and the self-known-by-others (being for itself). The nature of the self-that-is-known is thus two-fold, however the self-that-knows is comrised of 8 parts (in our species): the 7 chakras and the cumulative arua - expressed as the "8-circuits of consciousness" according to "quantum-psychology." The basic premise of "quantum psychology" is that the mind can experience the nature of its physical body in smaller or larger scales, even on a sub-atomic scale as "zero-point energy" or "spirit," the so-called "5th element."

The nature of this "5th element" comprises the substance of the "soul" as mind during its entire existence, which is said to be capable of "immortality" or life never ending in death. The "self-that-knows" is the "atman" ("light-body") or the negative electrical "aura" of the body alone, while the "aura" (the aurora surronding the mind as does the "atman" halo about the body) is purely the body's magnetic polarity. Combined, these form the entire substance of the "soul's" mental-body, called by the ancient Egyptians the "Ka" meaning "shadow" or "energy double." The 7 chakras define the hominid-format of the "atman," however any form of life (including plant-cellular and even, to a lesser extent, mineral) evokes a form of "aura" or electro-magnetic field. The "true shape" of the "soul" is essentially a torus: a sphere with a spiral through its central core origin-point from one pole on its outer surface to the pole on the exact opposite side of its circumference. This spiral may be comprised of 7 "chakra" twists, as in hominids, or any other number of such, from none, to infinity and even beyond.

Here is the reason it is said, "each soul is different, but there is only one spirit, common among them all": the "one spirit" of the "many souls" is the basic geometric pattern, or averaged ratio, of all the different sums of toroid spirals and their different combinations of electro-magnetic signature patterns over time. Thus, the "sum of all souls" equates to the singular "spirit," or underlying geometrical shape, of our whole entire universal cosmos. If the "soul" is described as "enlivened" and "strengthened" by its self-awareness, its sense of self, its self-perception, etc. then the "mind of the cosmos" may be likened to an enormous torus inside of which our own local universe and galaxy are only one in an infinite amount of cosmic temporal "spiral twists" alike the 7 "chakras" of our species.

Thus the unique soul of an individual's "astral body" is comprised of their combined "atman" (electrical-field) and "aura" (magnetic polarity)  and thus is electro-magnetic, however the "mind of the cosmos" of the modern monotheist "God-concept" is comprised of the combined phycial material of space and the temporal, entropic motion of time. This concept is expressed as the "flawed microcosmic reflection within mirroring the surrounding aperiodic macrocosmos outside and beyond." The nature of the "torus" or "hypersphere" is such that it is a "sphere within a sphere." Likewise so the mind of the cosmos as monotheist "God-concept" macro-cosmically and the individual souls of all living minds, comprised of electro-magnetic activity, micro-cosmically.

There are many words that prove the ancients had advanced scientific knowledge by today's standards, and commoners have known much more at times in our evolution than we do now; for example, the Hebrew origins as the "Qliphoth" of the concept of "quanta" in so-called "atomic physics" or what is more commonly known now as "quantum mechanics." Likewise, the concept of "karma" as particulates of elemental materials is akin to the concept of "particles" of the 4 elemental "forces" of modern astro-physics as well. Just so, also, the concept of "Chi" as the wave-lengths, frequencies, peaks and troughs of the field of all energy, the so-called "ether" of "zero-point energy," the "quantum foam" that fills and sustains the void between and within atomically bonded molecules. These ideas are all extremely ancient in origin, and yet represent a more vastly complex, metaphysical cosmology being known by the ancients than is even comprehended by the common citizen today.

And so, to conclude, I hope that, by now, you my gentle readers will feel you better understand the nature of the concept we call today the "soul." This concept, as I have just explained it, does not require a divine deity (or "universal mind") to exist, though it implies one may be possible. The debate, therefore, about the nature of the "soul" as "mind" following the death of the body attached to the brain that experiences that unique soul's individual mind as self-awareness while alive, can be parsed in terminology that is at once scientifically physical in nature and satisfactory to the pre-existent belief in the concepts provided in religious doctrines. 

I hope that, as this debate on the nature of a "soul's" post-mortem "metempsychosis" and journey through the "underworld" continues to this day, it is appreciated how and why research into proving, let alone the belief in the idea of, "reincarnation" has proven to be divided between the eastern Oriental dahrma (stressing nirvana as the sole escape from perpetual reincarnation in samsara) and the western Occidental dogmas (stressing only salvation by Christian beliefs during our one and only lifetime assures one an after-life outside the infernal pits of Hell).

Because of the interpolation of monotheist ritualisms, such as the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his own child in founding monotheism, there persists a divide over this issue in regards to whether or not it is even safe to know these facts about the true nature of the soul. The only justifications for continued threats against this heterodox belief remain its affiliation with black-magic, an untrue allegation, as well as the popular confusion, obviously, over what constitutes "black magic." Real proof for the concept of discourse with the dead and / or otherwise disincarnate, mental-only forms of being is a feat of paranormal unto miraculously supernatural ocassion nowadays.

However, the implication this raises is that all popular religious beliefs, those of the Abrahamic west and well as the Vedic east, are based on a personal choice to suspend disbelief, which is subsequently forgotten about, allowing a mental delusion to replace a person's otherwise un-biased sense perceptions of reality. In short, the debate over "reincarnation" of the "soul" itself being able to be raised and settled independently of the debate over the existence or none-existence of any form of "deity" or "ghost" proves the irrelevancy factor of the "God concept" to the realms of metaphysics and parapsyhocology. In other words, irrelegardless of whether or not the mind, in the form of a "soul" (or "astral body" comprised of a combined "atman" and "aura"), can continue to exist as it had while alive following the ending of life in its bodily vessel, the fact we can argue it without needing to interpolate ideas such as "God forbids this line of reasoning" proves that we have been held back in our potential for evolution as a species by this, originally Nederthal belief in theism.

Indeed it would seem the only difference between "Judeao-Christian" religious interpretations of otherwise hard-scientific proof by material evidence, and ritual "black magic" itself these days is only between "passive" belief and "active" practice. Their difference being even more distinctly reasoned thus: if the soul can live on after the body has died, and can "astral travel" in meditative practice by achieving the trance of "nirvana" in preparation for the moment of transitting one's own mortal threshold, then whom is to say one cannot intentionally part from their soul while still alive? And if this is the case, then the "good Christian" must always side against the "evil Satanists" who would sell their "immortal souls" to gain fame and influence while alive.

Hence the role of God is only implied as ultimately a moral arbiter to decide between whether the soul's continued survival is a matter of debate or not, due to the ethical danger of allowing knowledge of how to sell one's soul becoming public, when in fact, no such judge is necessary outside of the individual's own mind.

~ SOLVE ET COGULA ~

Jonathan Barlow Gee

Tallahassee Florid USA

late Feb, early March, 2013.