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I'm going to do a series on teaching you all about the meanings of symbolism. Symbolism is the language of the occult/esoteric arts that conveys hidden meanings and permeates within both the esoteric realm and the everyday religious realm. Symbols, as we get deeper into this topic, as well as getting deeper into "The Metaphysical Papers", are patterns within our unconscious mind, and this unconscious mind could probably be best summed up as the "Collective Unconsciousness" as coined by Psychologist Carl Jung.

Beginning in this series, we will look at the back of the American $1 Bill. The $1 Bill has two symbols: the Eye with the Pyramid (left), and the Phoenix (right).

(I'd give you the picture of it, but instead I'll just suggest you to look it up. You probably know what it looks like anyway).

Eye w/ Pyramid
The Eye, or the All Seeing Eye, is a common symbol in both Eastern religions (Buddhism and Hinduism), and Western Occultism. The All Seeing Eye is present in Freemasonry, and is said to be the symbol of the Bavarian Illuminati Order, founded in the 18th century by Adam Weishaupt. The Eye is the Eye of God, or Divinity. It is the sign of Spiritual Awakening, in Essence.

Below the Eye are 13 layers of 72 total amount of bricks built into an unfinished pyramid. The number 13 is associated with Illumination; it also is said to carry bad luck. 72 bricks are in referring to the 72 Names in God in the Jewish Kabbalah. The Eye and Pyramid overall is the Pyramid of God, or the Pyramid of Existence.

The design on this $1 Bill is obviously Masonic, as you can connect the letters: (A, S, M, O, N), from the two Latin messages that I will get into shortly, and it spells MASON. The shape forms the Hexagram (properly known as the Seal of Solomon), and can also form both the upright and inverted Pentagons.

Phoenix
The Phoenix is a symbol in Alchemy for rebirth and a symbol from Ancient Rome. The symbol also goes further back into Ancient Egypt as a symbol for Horus (another symbol is the All Seeing Eye that I've already covered here).

Above the Phoenix is the Hexagram, which is called the Seal of Solomon. It is made up of 13 Stars, just as the pyramid is made up of 13 layers of brick.

The Phoenix on the right side is called "The Great Seal". In the Tibetan Book of the Dead (as I recall reading years ago), "The Great Seal" is another name for the Mind. The word "Seal" can also mean "finished" or "complete", as in completing The Great Work.

Latin Words
ANNUIT COEPTIS = The year began
NOVUS ORDER SECLORUM = New order ages
E PURIBUS UNUM = Out of many one (Legion)

The $1 Bill is in reference to the New World Order, which is America. We will get to the New World Order, hopefully soon.

Food for thought:
http://ajmacdonaldjr.files.wordpress.co ... lained.jpg
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/cienc ... real20.htm
http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/ses ... us-dollar/

In talking about the symbolism of women, we are somewhat going back to the beginnings of human civilization, which is a lot older and more intricate than what Modern Science has taught us.

For many years, thanks to the spreading of the Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, God has been seen as the "Father", as in the male. However, on the Internet, and when discovering more things that are starting to rock the current Darwinian paradigm of how we overall see life as and how it came to be, there is this theory out there that the first civilizations (Mu, Lemuria, and Atlantis comes to mind) that the Woman was the creator of all things (existence). There are some circumstantial evidence that this might be true, because of the discovery of a carved stone called the Willendorf. The Willendorf, or Venus of Willendorf, was discovered in Europe (present-day Austria) in 1990, and is dated between 22-24,000 BCE. It is said to be a presentation of a Goddess because of the shape of the carving.



Source: http://symboldictionary.net/?p=3252

Though mainstream anthropology does not accept the theory that a matriarchal society had ever existed, there has nevertheless been some findings that might point to the theory being true. One known example are that of the Native American clan mothers, particularly the Iroquois and the Hopi tribe(s). You can start researching up matriarchies by looking at the Wikipedia page below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriarchy ... iddle_East

Another symbol that may point to the Matriarchal society is the Minoan Bee Goddess, which was a deity of the ancient Minoan civilization.

Source: http://symboldictionary.net/?p=3310

This may be a hint because the beehive, a symbol in Ancient Egypt and in Freemasonry, represents humanity.

Source: http://symboldictionary.net/?p=2459

In looking at the supposed construction of King Solomon's Temple in the Holy Bible, we see that it is shaped almost as if it's a Hindu yoni. Here are some information about these two separate articles, as each article has a strikingly similar picture.

Solomon's Temple - Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon's_Temple
Yoni - Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoni

In Aghora: At the Left Hand of God (currently reading this book), author Robert E. Svoboda talks about the divine feminine called Ma, or Shakti. The divine feminine, as explained in Aghora, is the female counterpart of Shiva. Looking at the cover of the book, the divine feminine is obviously manifested as the Hindu goddess Kali.

Food for thought:
Wikipedia - Kali: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali
Wikipedia - Shakti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti
Wikipedia - Aghori: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aghori
Aghora v.1 - Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/AGHORA-Left-Hand- ... rds=aghora

I am mentioning this because the feminine, or female, has two polar sides (just as the male, masculine): positive and negative. The positive is the nurturing and caring part of the feminine; the negative is the b*tchy (has to censor this out), slutty, whore, etc. This is true because in Revelations ch.12, there is the feminine that nurtures the baby (represented as man) and protects it from the beast (Satan). On the other hand, Revelations ch.17 talks of "Mystery Babylon", the harlot. Also, Eve in Genesis 3:20 is called "the mother of all living".

As for the negative aspect of the female, the deities exemplified as the Medusa, and possibly the Knossos snake charmer, a deity in Crete which may be (my opinion) the precursor to Medusa.

Cretan/Minoan Snake Goddess (Knossos snake charmer) - Symbol Dictionary: http://symboldictionary.net/?p=3303
Gorgon (Phorycides, Aegis of Athena) - Symbol Dictionary: http://symboldictionary.net/?p=3279

Nothing you have said affects Darwin in the slightest.

Arising_uk wrote:Nothing you have said affects Darwin in the slightest.

I haven't got into that subject - yet....

WanderingLands wrote:I haven't got into that subject - yet....

Please spare us. As the old hat conspiracy neo-mystic new-age numerology babble so far has been bad enough.

I'm just going to continue my "Symbolism" series on "The Metaphysical Papers" thread, since no one so far has replied to my complaint against "Symbolism" being attached to "The Metaphysical Papers".

This part is on the study of simply the "Horned One" (ie. Baphomet or Satan comes to mind for many). I'm inspired to do a post on this symbol, because earlier today I was reading a book called Travel Guide To Other Dimensions, where on one of the parts in discussing the concept of "other dimensional realities" (abbreviated as ODRs in the book), there was a picture which the book said it was the sourcier (Old French for "sorcerer"), or the "Horned God". I looked it up, and found a Wikipedia page describing this painting said to be discovered in the caves of France, dated to around 13,000 BC. I looked further, and had spotted an article here:

Therianthropes, Shamans, and Sorcerers:http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/C ... hropes.htm

The drawings found in the caves, according to Henri Breuli whom discovered the Sorcerer art back in the 1920s, was a picture of a shaman, hence the name "The Sorcier". Others that came after him say that the cave art, like many other cave arts depicting an animal with horns, say that these were deities that were worshiped during when religion was simple animistic beliefs. It might be the case that early humans could have been so fascinated with animals, that they could then develop their belief systems and conceive a notion that every living thing has a spirit. These symbols, found in the Paleolithic caves in Europe, could possibly be preserved into later religious and occult systems.

Sorcerer, derived from Sorcery, simply means a "fortune teller", as seen from the EtymOnline definition of these two words.

Sorcerer search on EtymOnline: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?all ... hmode=none

There are some symbols that would later seem to manifest from these pictures found in the caves, such as Cernunnos, Pan, Baphomet, and the Monas Hieroglyphica. Cernunnous was the Celtic horned god, said to have been the god of nature and fertility. Pan was the Greek god, whose characteristics are similar to the purported characteristics of Cernunnous. Baphomet was a drawing done by 19th century occultist and magician Eliphas Levi, and was claimed to be the deity that the Knights Templar had worshiped in breaking away with the then-dominant Catholic faith. Here are some information about them.

Wikipedia - Pan (god): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)
Wikipedia - Cernunnous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cernunnos
BAPHOMET - the Sigil of Baphomet: http://www.guardiansofdarkness.com/GoD/ ... homet.html

The Monas Hieroglyphica, drawn by occultist John Dee, is also worth mentioning, because of the "crown" or "horn" (the symbol of the Moon) on top of his head.



It's also worth mentioning because Pan also means "all", as in "Pan-theism" (All-Theism). The face of Baphomet is exactly shaped as the inverted Pentacle, which is structured by the Golden Ratio - a structure in all things in Nature.

Further exploration will be done on this in the future.

It was probably this that did for you, "Symbols, as we get deeper into this topic, as well as getting deeper into "The Metaphysical Papers", are patterns within our unconscious mind".

Arising_uk wrote:It was probably this that did for you, "Symbols, as we get deeper into this topic, as well as getting deeper into "The Metaphysical Papers", are patterns within our unconscious mind".

My friend, please research before rejecting what I'm saying. If you're going to say that I'm somehow a crazy person, or that I'm diluted or something of what you try to fit me into, please do some research and try to find some things that disprove my thesis. There's really no need to be poking fun at me if you have no proof of your own, as your attacks are nothing but worthless cheap shots.

Just trying to point out why the mods might have appended your post as the quote reads as tho' its going to be part of your metaphysical papers.

Personally, I've read all about what you write back in the late 1970's and you have no thesis to speak of. Your stuff is pretty much the usual collection from the fringe brigade and for myself is pretty much a clear identifier of the idle bourgeois youth struggling to make meaning of a brutal capitalist world. Although the Numerology does point to a more serious condition. My sympathies.
p.s.
Why did you post your query in Local Discussion Groups? Oh! You thought it about local discussion, you should have looked at the post titles as context is all. Try the PM system if you have a query for the mods.

Arising_uk wrote: Just trying to point out why the mods might have appended your post as the quote reads as tho' its going to be part of your metaphysical papers.

Personally, I've read all about what you write back in the late 1970's and you have no thesis to speak of. Your stuff is pretty much the usual collection from the fringe brigade and for myself is pretty much a clear identifier of the idle bourgeois youth struggling to make meaning of a brutal capitalist world. Although the Numerology does point to a more serious condition. My sympathies.
p.s.
Why did you post your query in Local Discussion Groups? Oh! You thought it about local discussion, you should have looked at the post titles as context is all. Try the PM system if you have a query for the mods.

I don't know the names of the mods.

Are you serious?

Do you not read what you look at, as their names are under every subcategory of this forum.

Arising_uk wrote:Are you serious?

Do you not read what you look at, as their names are under every subcategory of this forum.

Found them.

WanderingLands wrote:The Monas Hieroglyphica, drawn by occultist John Dee, is also worth mentioning, because of the "crown" or "horn" (the symbol of the Moon) on top of his head.



It's also worth mentioning because Pan also means "all", as in "Pan-theism" (All-Theism). The face of Baphomet is exactly shaped as the inverted Pentacle, which is structured by the Golden Ratio - a structure in all things in Nature.

Further exploration will be done on this in the future.

How does this symbol (of mine) rate with you?

attofishpi wrote:
How does this symbol (of mine) rate with you?

That picture you are showing is the Pentagram, which contains the Golden Ratio (1.618...). It's the center; the All; Man; etc.

Pent = Five = Phi = Pi (3.14)

Catch my drift?

P.S (for attofishpi)

Interesting you show a Pentagram with the musical notes added to it, as I do believe that music, because it plays a role in religions and cultures from around the world, is related to the Occult. It is because of this great relation that it should be explored further.