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Altar Table

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Say hello to my new altar table! I finally found an altar table in my budget range ($25) that I could afford. Apparently I’m going through a transformation and it just feels like the right time to finally set up a permanent altar. Plus I need a place to ground and meditate for work. I just hope it won’t end up being too small, but it looks like the size of a very large laptop to me in the picture. I thought that since I’m going through a transformation it was the right time to make a permanent altar. Yay!

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In the future

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I keep having a vision of me working in my trolley studio and she is sitting on the bench near my desk on her laptop smiling over at me while I talk to a client on the phone. Its’ strangely incredibly romantic, the love of my life working along beside me in my studio. Alas, but it it only a vision… and not reality.

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Altar/Meditation Space

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Since spirituality seems to be an ever increasing presence in my life, I think its about time to get an altar/meditation space. My current desktop altar isn’t cutting it. I need a space in my room that is *specifically* for meditations. I’ve been thinking about cleaning out one corner of my room that faces west. Now the religion I have only really known to use an altar is the Wiccan/Pagan religion and they align their altars to North. But my desktop and computer area is already facing north and there is no way am I going to move my desk around. My desk came with a miniature extension table to store a printer. Since I’m home from school, I’m gonna have to clean that off since its’ storing craft supplies right now and move my printer to it. Once I clean that area out I think I will have enough space for a small meditation altar.

HOWEVER, this space is facing West. So I’ve been doing research about the significance of having an altar face West and apparently there’s some significance from the eastern traditions which is perfect.

 

In the Buddhist tradition,

B. The Location of a Buddhist Altar

It is ideal to set up a Buddhist altar in a dedicated room. If the building is of two or more stories, it is proper to set it up on the top floor. If there is no dedicated room available, a quiet place or a room which can be closed up for quiet meditation at the regular practice time should be selected.

The orientation of a Buddhist altar depends on the main Buddha worshipped. If the practitioner majors in the Pureland school, the main Holiness should be Amitabha Buddha And hence the altar

should be oriented toward the East. In case of the Healing Buddha who eliminates misfortunes and prolongs lives, it should be orientated toward the West. (All notes below are added into the English translation by Dr. Lin. Note 1: Amitabha Buddha’s Pureland is in the West, hence the altar ideally is to be set up such that when we face Him, we are facing the West. A similar remark applies to the case of the Healing Buddha whose Pureland is in the East.) If the wall available is not of the ideal orientation, it is also fine to ignore this point. It is proper to select a wall with sufficient illumination so that it is easier for the practitioner to concentrate on gazing at the holy images .

The north doesn’t feel right to me. I just don’t seem to have any spiritual connection to the North, however, only during rituals and meditations do I face the North… I really do feel a strong pull towards to the to set up this altar.

The early Christians also faced West,

Worshippers in the courtyard could witness the sacrifices offered in front of the holy of holies, and knew that therein God dwelt behind a series of curtains, through which only the high priest could pass.  Priests and people faced west toward the Presence of God, the Shekinah.  With the entrance in the east, sunlight was admitted in the morning, while the structure provided a modicum of shade over the courtyard in the hot afternoon.

Most spiritualists say you should put a place that is easiest for you. Just orientate the ritual/circle to north when you are actually doing one. For some reason I seem to have a strong elemental connection to water (the element of the west) right now. Dunno why.

Upon doing more research however I found this pagan thread in a forum where someone asked the question, The Altar-is it ok to have it facing the west? 

One reply really resonated with me,

Your altar should face the direction that is taught in your tradition. Usually this would be the North or the East. The West is the direction of endings, imagination, the subconscious, and dreams; I don’t know of any tradition which uses it on a regular basis.

Of course!! Subconscious, dreams, imagination, all things related to the third eye! No wonder I feel a strong connection there. But I *DO* like what other traditions say about the Presence of God being in the West. Also I get a lot of sunlight this time of year and to have it shine down on my altar would be cool. So I think that’s settled, I will put near that wall when I’ve saved enough monies for the table I’m thinking about buying.

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Jessica – “He Sees.”

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Ever since my pineal gland has been pulsating occasionally I get random names and such pop into my head. Sometimes they mean nothing at the time, and sometimes they relate to something. As I’ve blogged about before I’ve been going through a lot of heavy emotions lately regarding a relationship that I’m expecting to blossom but I’m really in no position to be the active pursuer anymore. Real frustrating. Anyway, this week a name, Jessica, popped into my head and I thought it was weird because I haven’t been connected to any Jessicas of late. I recently joined an online social network called, Temple Illuminatus and its a bunch of people who are into the occult arts and sciences – not only that but the maturity level is decent, no fluff in other words. I posted my experience as well with a tarot reading I did on it – I never use reversals – so for some reason I felt it was necessary for me to do reversals. I haven’t been great at reading for myself lately because of all these heavy emotions clouding my intuition and judgement.

For the reading I got;

hanged man rv (shadow) – 9/wands (past) – page/cups (present) – king/cups (future) – queen/swords (highlight)

For me, the shadow represents unseen motivations in the situation and the highlight represents something clouding the situation and/or something important to be aware of in the situation.

A fellow temple member contacted me tonight about his insights into the reading and it made total sense. First he sees that the hanged man represents action in something that I don’t see having any action – something that’s been stagnated so to speak – “no more searching for answers, no more needing to wait, maturity, answers.”  9/wands in the past is someone who has been fighting their way through and trying to search for answers. Presently the page of cups is showing, in some decks the page holds a heart crystal in one hand this fellow member sees this as my intuition giving me a message from the heart (a.k.a “Jessica”). In the Future position represents the person or a person who, “responds to emotional needs, a good person to be in love with or with a relationship – compassionate – it is an answer to your prayers“. What about the queen? I asked them. “This could mean you, my friend. – You strike me as very intelligent. This person out there is very, very emotional – something that would be good for you. You might scare her away being, well, too much yourself.” Be more open? I asked. “See this queen as a shadow – yes. More your inner feelings… less talk – more on her level for now. They need this at least in the beginning. See it as a warning to still be you, but not as boldly. “ My friend continued the conversation by returning to the hanged man – “This refers to your ‘actions’ – will you take the advice once you meet this person, or will you take no action.. and blow it all away by scaring them away… without showing how emotional of a side you have. I see this as a wonderful omen.” Me too!! That’s why I asked cause it was so clear. I exclaimed. “Keep your senses open now… you need to be ready… you may have only one first impression here – or – a second chance.” After this I excitedly go search for the meaning of the name “Jessica”! Why had I never thought of the symbolic, etymological or metaphorical meaning of the name Jessica!!! Jessica \j(e)-ssi-ca\ as a girl’s name is pronounced JESS-a-kah. It is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Jessica is “He sees”.“YES…keep your eyes open..be ready to be YOU (from the heart)…and SEE the opportunity…and take it (Hanged Man REV)” affirmed my friend.

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Tremont Tearoom #2

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So I went into the Tearoom again and I am officially a psychic there!!! I’m so excited. I’ve always wanted to work/be paid for my spiritual services professionally. I don’t feel comfortable charging for my services as an individual but this is with 19 other psychics so it feels more natural to me to do it this way. The owner was really impressed with my reading I did for me. The only thing he criticized was my obvious nervousness. I did tell them this was my first time reading professionally but I guess it doesn’t matter in this case. I just hope my nervousness is just from being judged and analyzed during the hiring process and it will go away once I start to relax more there. I have 14 hours and work Sundays (12 – 6pm) and Wednesdays (12 – 8pm). My mom was funny she was like, “Well you can always fake being calm“. Yes I could, but psychics tend to be generally sensitive to subtle things like that. 😉
Then one of the other psychics there when he was officiating me said, “The energy in this room feels weird. I’m gonna smudge it again. Its probably because of all the new people.” And I was like, “Sorry its probably my fault.”  😉

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Correspondence

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Lately, I’ve been thinking about Correspondence in terms of energy work. Last new moon I did a meditation ritual regarding employment. I drew a mandala featuring symbols that symbolized the place I want to work in, as well as the kind of work I wanted. I used symbols for moving and desire. This is the full moon and I’ve gotten two responses from my resume. Nothing is settled yet, as one isn’t that consistent but it would get me experience and probably move out of my parents’ house (which I need). I burned (released) the mandala in the ritual and put the ashes with Cinnamon oil and amethyst under my pillow in a pouch for the entire moon cycle. Seems to have worked. Again, I haven’t made any decisions, as I don’t know much about these positions. BUT its a start. I could really use the experience but I have to figure out my living situation first before I could do anything.

In terms of correspondence, what really helped me realize and understand how to use correspondence is that symbols, color and other forms project a subtle energy and when used properly these subtle energies are attracted to you. Different colors and forms when coupled with each other create different energy patterns and these patterns are attracted to the energies you seek.

I think I’ll definitely be using this method in the future when I’m finding myself in a hole in my life.

 

EDIT: So one that looked promising ended up being a scam. Oh well back to square one. Let’s hope the other one will come through.

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Moving on…?

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Not to make this blog become “emo-centric” but its’ been about three months since I’ve had my heartbroken for the 100th time. I keep asking myself why do I even bother letting my heart feel, if its’ only ever going to end up being broken if I follow those feelings? One of the worst things in the world is still having feelings for someone who certainly doesn’t seem interested in you or at one point did, and isn’t admitting to their feelings. How do you move on from that? How do you get closure for a bond that was once so close and intimate? You can’t. You can only hope that they’ll choose to follow those feelings and come back to you. And so far its’ looking pretty bleak and its hard to say that they’ll come back; but at least the cards say they will. It doesn’t help that whenever I’m away from them it makes me miss them and want to be near them even more. Its’ becoming quite clear to me that I’m not supposed to find the love I seek in this life time and rather it seems like I’m dealing with a bad karmic cycle. Cause this isn’t the first time something like this has happened, it just gets worse and worse each time it does happen. Whatever I did in a previous life must have been pretty bad. One can only hope that they will come back one day….

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Is Heaven Real?

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An article on thedailybeast.com caught my eye today, titled: “Heaven Is Real: A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife” and it was very compelling. Many alchemical woodcut drawings from the 1700’s – 1800’s depict a sky opening and leading up to a place; or a land of light. In William Henry’s book, The Secret of Sion, discusses the existence of a land of light that’s been termed “heaven” in Christian terminology. The doctor may indeed have discovered something truly profound. As one commenter said that what this experience does prove that the doctor has experienced a realm of consciousness that exists outside of the brain – as the bacteria that infected the part that created conscious reality was ultimately inactive, this meant there there is a realm of consciousness interacting with reality. Is this heavenly destination the very same place that is depicted in these alchemical drawings? The skeptic may point out that the alchemical drawings were drenched in symbolism and the alchemical knowledge was actually stored in the images but conveyed in symbolism. Quoting the doctor he describes beings he saw while at this heaven-like place, Higher than the clouds—immeasurably higher—flocks of transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky, leaving long, streamer-like lines behind them. Depicted in the alchemical image to the left there is a dove at the center top of the image according to Henry a Dove has a cosmic meaning, If we think of John instructing Jesus in some form of stellar knowledge it opens us to the possibility that he was infusing Jesus’ consciousness with the light of certain stars or star systems. In particular, following the flight of the dove will lead us to the Mother Star, Sion. “ Earlier in the chapter Henry states, …Before the cross gained prominence in the fourth century, the second-century church father Clement of Alexandria urged early Christians to use the dove or a fish as a symbol to identify themselves and each other as followers of Jesus. In the alchemical image to the left the dove here may in fact be the cosmic meaning and embodiment of stellar knowledge and thus the center of Sion; the land of light – or heaven. At one point in his book Henry states, For the awakened Gnostic, Christ is a being of light and the Christ narrative is an allegory of a universal internal spiritual experience, the Way of Light.[…] This is the ancient spiritual journey of the Wayshower, Jesus demonstrated. We follow (and will complete) this light path both individually and as a species… The doctor further in the article anaylizes  his experience by saying, Before my experience these ideas were abstractions. Today they are realities. Not only is the universe defined by unity, it is also—I now know—defined by love. The universe as I experienced it in my coma is—I have come to see with both shock and joy—the same one that both Einstein and Jesus were speaking of in their (very) different ways. No matter what way you look at it, in the end it seems we all will be bathed in an explosion of light, color, love, and beauty!

 

I think I may have found my next book too – Proof of Heaven; Eben Alexander – after I finish reading Tuning the Diamonds.

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Working with life-form archetypes

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On June 15th 1989 the Swiss company “CIBA-GEIGY” (Basel) got an European patent (No.0351357): without genetic modifications, just with electrostatic fields they can create fossil forms of fish, fern, mushroom …today nobody remembers these experiments anymore…

BACKWARDS IN EVOLUTION:
Heinz Schürch, who watched over the experiments until 1992, shows us some pictures with strange looking plant archetypes of wheat and corn.

The wheat doesn’t grow high, it crawls on the ground, just the tip of the culms (where the spikes are) grows =20cm high.

The corn looks more like the modern corn we know today although it’s much smaller and it has not only two big but up to eight little corncobs growing out of the stem.

The amazing thing is: these archetypes were grown out of grains of the modern plants.

It’s no alchemy or gene technology, it’s just experimenting with plants and electrostatic fields (stress fields, no electric current).

Electric current, would produce a direct biochemical alteration, an electrostatic field does not.

Test arrangement:

Aluminum Plate

Wheat or corn For three days

Aluminum Plate

direct current between the two of them

After three days the grains grow in a pot or a greenhouse like every other plant.

These three days at the beginning of the germination process are enough to set the archetypes.

Electrostatic fields are regulative fields. Nature comes out of chaos; it needs regulative structures to manifest something. This is the idea behind it; a certain electrostatic field brings a certain structure into nature, that’s what we know out of the experiments. But we do not know of any legalities so far. We cannot tell how strong a field it needs (electric field strength) to go back to a certain time in evolution. We don’t even know how it really works. Our theory is, that the plants in the field get information, which makes them go back to the archetypes i.e. the wheat remembers it once was a grass. (In Peru you still can find this type of wheat). “The “new-old” wheat contains new” etc.

This type of wheat could be used in regions where there is a short spring and summer (the modern wheat couldn’t grow there at all): you wouldn’t need to use pesticides or herbicides.

The pest cycle is the same as the one of the modern wheat life.

They would not yet be developed when the “new-old “ wheat is already harvested after 4 to 8 weeks.

The germination rate of the grains is much higher as well.
The “new-old” species could be used to grow plants, which are healthier and more resistant to pests (cross with modern plants).

FERNS:

Heinz Schürch shows us a bowl with something green in it. A look under the microscope reveals “seedlings” of a fern-archetype. They have grown much longer under an electrostatic field than the wheat or the corn. They stayed in the field for approximately one month: the bowl has been kept closed for three years.

These “seedlings” (protallium) are important for the reproduction of ferns. Today there is only one “seedling” per fern-leaf, which becomes pubescent. The other ones are falling to the ground and die. The “seedlings” of this “ur-fern” behave different. They are all connected through a grid-type network. That’s the reason that there is more then one “seedling” which is able to become pubescent. Still we don’t know exactly how this network works. A close look with the microscope shows us this amazing network. The connections between the single “seedlings are always the shortest possible way. It almost looks like somebody created it with the intention to save material. The tubes between the heart-shaped plants are ultra-thin, very straight and are shining, silvery.

There is no information about these tubes in any scientific literature. We assume they are used to transmit information between these plants. But we don’t have a clue what kind of information this could be. More secrets are to be found in the growing process of the fern itself. The “seeding” of a common worm fern grew into another type of fern after being in the electrostatic field. Instead of pinnate leafs it had rounded ones (like tongues). Since these leafs are known from fossils, the new-old fern was named “Ur-fern” (ancient fern). The spores of the ancient fern were examined and they didn’t show any similarities with “modern” ferns. Scientists still didn’t believe in the possibility of altering plants by use of an electrostatic field.

In the following years the ancient fern grew different leafs every year, it nearly looked like, the fern remembered that it was created out of a worm fern. It seemed that the fern was going through the whole process of evolution in his growing process. We examined all it’s new spores, they were all the same. But out of them grew different kinds of ferns. There were: worm ferns, beach fern, some south African leather ferns, …The ancient fern seemed to be able to develop every kind of fern. The biggest surprise awaited us, when we came to analyze the chromosomes. The worm fern had 36, another one had 41. In all of scientific literature we never heard of anything like this. Another amazing, new, not- fern-like thing was, that every evening the fern would emit scents.

Many ferns are dying out these days. That makes the ciba-Geigy-experiments extra valuable. For example in Germany there are more than 12% endangered fern-species. Ferns are extremely sensitive to environmental pollution. A possible explanation (the reason for that) might be, that the atmosphere of the earth used to be different back in the days when ferns ruled the world. There were more and stronger thunderstorms and the electric fields in the earth’s atmosphere changed often. It could be, that every time we use an electrostatic field with the ferns, we create a condition of a time long ago when this field did exist. But this is only a theory.

If I can change the set of chromosomes and grow ancient (long dead) plants just by using a simple electrostatic field, I have to pronounce the question whether all the information about the shape of creatures is really in the genes, the DNA, the nucleus? I think the electrostatic charging of the atmosphere is also a factor.

The memory of nature seems to go back to the very beginnings of life. BRINGING BACK THE SAURIANS?

Out of a drilling-core, which came from depths of 140m. In a 200 million year old Rhine- salt-mine, was taken a probe. Analyzing this probe under a microscope shows us bazaar crystal forms out of which grows tiny creatures. These are mushrooms, which came back into life through an electrostatic field. All experiments to bring them back without the field didn’t work out.

Heinz Schürch shows us a patent, the only announcement of the company in which they talk about the electrostatic fields.

We didn’t want to experiment with plants only but also with animals. But we got the strict instruction not to mess with the germ line of animals. That’s why we thought of taking the eggs of a rainbow trout and put them into a field for four weeks after their impregnation. After four weeks we put them into aquariums and raised them. The result are fish, which are much stronger and robust than our rainbow trout. They have more teeth and a different color. Grown males have a hook-jaw (like wild salmons). They behave wilder and more aggressive. We needed to heighten the fence around the aquarium because the fish would jump higher. They are an archetype of our trout’s, dead since 150 years (they were identified with the aid of old drawings).

The flesh of the fish is firmer and more delicate. The fish are more resistant to disease. That’s why there is no need to put antibiotics or pesticides into the water. There is a standing joke in the company about bringing back the dinosaurs.
Heinz Schürch: “It is just a joke. I wouldn’t dare do it. You can’t control a dinosaur. We would just have to use bird-eggs, for the birds are the descendants of the saurian.

But we don’t even know how these fields are working.”

Answers to this question will still have to wait, as the CIBA-GEIGY-team doesn’t exist anymore.

EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION Improved Fish-Farming

A new procedure is described, based on the short-term application of electrostatic fields, which results in useful and desirable qualities of fish.

Description:
Aquariums (insulator) with fish-eggs are put between two electrodes of a capacitor. The direct voltage can vary from 1 to a couple of 10000 volts.

Because there is no electric current, the chemical identity of the system “fish” is not altered.

The eggs stay in the field until the “little” fish start to slip. Then they are brought into bigger aquariums and raised. These fish are more vital and grow up earlier than the ones, which were not put into an electrostatic field. The most used voltage varies between 100- 10000V(most special: 300-3000V) the distance between the electrodes depends on the size of the aquarium, but preferable it should be between 1-10cm.

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I went to clean out my grandma’s house and it was probably one of the hardest things I have done/will do. Not only because her stuff is being divided up and it won’t be in its’ proper place anymore, but certain members of my family can’t seem to get out of their bubbles. When someone dies, you want to respect their life, not look at their possessions and ask yourselves if you personally need the item or not but rather if the item meant to someone else or meant to the person who died. If we weren’t there, there would’ve been a lot of distress over some of the items that were thrown out/given away.

You don’t go into a dead persons’ house and ask yourself, “OK what do I need?” You go in there and ask, “Is this significant? Does this have any value (sentimental or monetary)? Should this stay in the family?” and not descend upon the possessions as if there was no discussion on it and take them. They were never yours so why should you feel the right to decide whether its’ yours or not?

There were these blue and white dishes that my grandma used and my cousin wanted them because she entertained. I get that, but I had my “eye” on them too, because my family came over to her house more often than they did and drank coffee out of them. Thankfully she was willing to negotiate and gave me half the teacup set. That’s another thing, the other half of my family lived further away and weren’t always at my grandma’s place. If it boiled down to anything, my family should have the final say in her things because we were there most frequent.

That’s another thing, they had little to no regard of any of the possessions that my grandma sentimentally valued herself. They just couldn’t seem to grasp the concept of sentimental value. Just because the object was, let’s say – bought at the Christmas Tree Shop – that doesn’t mean that that particular object had sentimental or personal value to the person who owned it.

And another thing that pisses me off is that they had little to no regard about my family’s history. My grandma was Swedish and came to the US via Ellis Island. She married my grandfather and had three sons (my father and two uncles). Swedish items such as red wooden painted items and straw Christmas ornaments were a significant part of the family and Christmas was a big holiday in my family so a lot of the Christmas stuff had a lot of sentimental value to them, which they did recognize but they could careless about the Swedish items. Thankfully they weren’t thrown out by the time I got to them and was able to save quite a few of them. It ended up being a “do or die” scenario and it really hurt us to see the way they acted towards my grandmothers’ possessions. I only “wanted” a couple of her possessions and mostly thought about the sentimental value that they had to them. Not whether or not that I needed the item personally. They kept asking me about certain items, and while I would’ve liked them, I don’t have the space for them, but no that didn’t matter at all.

Shallow and selfish people are exhausting. I love my other family, but sometimes I wish they shared a similar perspective that we did.

Today, I drew the Hierophant of my Holy Light deck. This card speaks of tradition and being conservative. But it also speaks of the duality between life and death, materialism and spirituality. I definitely think we saw a lot of dualism here. People working together but being in two different worlds. Thinking materialistically and thinking spiritually. I’m just glad the worst seems to be over… but it was a real headache to work with them.

The irony of it all is that my grandmother was the most selfLESS person in my family. She was known for doing the right thing and the right thing would be to give the possession to someone who had a lot of meaning attached to it or to keep it in our family. She wouldn’t have kept it for herself, but rather would have thought about the people around her and their opinions.

 

(PS: if any family member finds this, I hope this doesn’t offend, its my blog anyway)

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Esoteric Meaning of our Motto: “The Way of Light”

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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Esoteric Meaning of our Motto: “The Way of Light“” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” el_class=”widget-title”][vc_column_text]One of the things I do as an artist or as most artists do is make the world meaningful. I look at the world through a prism of vibration, light and form which means half my time I spend reading and researching a wide variety of subjects and the other half is assimilating, hypothesizing, philosophizing the information which I then create something from it. This insight came to me in a bit of an epiphany of sorts and has led me down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out what this vision means to me and how to express it. I can explain what I do as an artist in a simple sentence, “I convey my experiences with subtle energy through my art” but even in a simple sentence like that leaves one hanging. This allows me to combine the spiritual, scientific and artistic disciplines. In fact this method of conveying experiences is not that different from what the ancient people of earth did. They conveyed scientific meaning through symbols, mythology, story lines and words. I just modernize this method. For example, as a semester project for one of the senior art classes at Moravian that I took in this previous Spring semester, I took an alternative scientific experiment and turned into an art form. This project’s objective was to photograph the life force energy of organic materials using subtle energy and exposing it onto traditional photographic black and white paper.

As an artist whose interested in the religious, spiritual and scientific side of things I am often finding myself diving into strange topics and discovering people that did incredible things that not many people are aware of and then I try and figure out how to visualize it and make it artistic. All of these interests have combined themselves into a weird artistic philosophy and I am often finding myself reading the great works of Aleister Crowley, Eliphas Levi, Manual P Hall and other great philosophers who have contributed to the development of human consciousness through distributing esoteric knowledge. I am one who believes in synchronicity and looks for the subtle hints and signs that appear in my life that help me guide my way through the chaos of the manifest world. As an artist and graphic designer I have taken interest in symbols and religious iconography and interpreting the esoteric meaning of it.

I had sadly forgotten what Moravian College’s motto was until Graduation when Dr. Gary Olsen mentioned it in his wonderful commencement speech. Something told me to take note of the motto and I’m glad I did. After graduation, I have been spending the Summer reading and researching more about this weird artistic philosophy that I have developed and one of the books I read is a book on decoding the Christian mythology and religious iconography: its called, “The Secret of Sion” and its written by William Henry. The book itself may be a bit out there for most Christians as it talks about Jesus coming to Earth through a Stargate and wormhole from a place in the center of the galaxy that is called Sion…  But the author makes a fascinating case and supports his ideas and hypothesis with the religious iconography and symbols from the Christian religion we are so familiar with. If you’re wondering, yes, Henry does use Sion and Zion interchangeably. He is also a believer in synchronicity and likes to believe that Sion is a suffix of Ascension, which is a spiritual belief that the human spirit will transcend the physical and become one with God after it goes through a series of tribulations.

From the Secret of Sion, Henry states, “Our destination, says Revelation, is Sion, a mystical place that gave its name to Sion (or Zion), the sacred mountain of the Jews and to Jerusalem, although Mormons believe Sion is a place in America. Both traditions agree that only the “pure in heart” can enter and dwell in Sion. The Book of Hebrews chapter 12, verse 22-23 says Sion is “the Holy City of the living god, the heavenly Jerusalem, and (arrival there marks) our acceptance into an innumerable company of angels and just humans made perfect”. ”

Henry interprets the Christian religion through a gnostic (esoteric) point of view and says that, “For the awakened Gnostic, Christ is a being of light and the Christ narrative is an allegory of a universal internal spiritual experience, the Way of Light.[…] This is the ancient spiritual journey of the Wayshower, Jesus demonstrated. We follow (and will complete) this light path both individually and as a species…” According to modern cosmology we are taught that the Galaxy completes one rotation every 26,000 years. I personally found it very peculiar that the Moravian Star has 26 points. I would like to think that the Moravian Star is actually a symbol to represent the center of the galaxy, the Land of Light (or Heaven), or as Henry interprets as Sion.

Zinzendorf helped settle the Moravian settlements that became known as Nazareth and Bethlehem (as we know very well), he at the time was also head and apart of multiple ancient mystery schools and masonic orders. Could he have insight into the original teachings of Christianity and tried to spread its teachings and ideals when he settled Bethlehem after he broke away from the Lutherans? Zinzendorf, himself was an eager seeker after truth, and could not understand men who at all costs kept to the opinions they had once formed; yet he had an exceptional talent for taking on religious subjects even with those who differed from him (this characteristic is a big give away for anyone who may be a part of an ancient mystery school or masonic order).

Its quite possible that the Moravian faith we became so attached to today may have been an attempt to revitalize the Christian faith as it was originally. Looked at this perspective, Christianity, is really no different than other religious faiths as they all came before Christianity and was just an attempt to rejuvenate the ancient universal internal spiritual experience that humanity seems to be “destined” to complete (if you will). The British philosopher Aleister Crowley once said, “Man will no longer worship God as an external factor, as in Paganism, or as an internal state of consciousness, as in Christianity, but will realize his identity with God.” This realization (or awakening, “Ascension”) of Man’s identity with God is the first step in completing this ancient universal light path and from other sources this awakening and realization is expected to happen when the galaxy is close to completing a 26,000 year cycle. If you are well versed in your Mayan mythology, the great Mayan god, Quetzalcoatl is said to return at the end of a cycle and the beginning of the Golden Era.

If you have been keeping up with the 2012 Olympic news you might have heard somethings released about its logo in 2007. One of the speculations that’s been going around is that the 2012 Olympic logo spells “Zion”. With the knowledge you’ve hopefully learned from this article perhaps the 2012 Olympic logo was supposed to be a warning for what is coming; why the Olympic logo? It will be one of the most well known logos and if badly designed (which it was) it will attract even more attention. According to modern cosmology the galaxy is supposed to make a complete rotation this year (2012) and how appropriate is the speculation about Zion being spelled in the logo?  I’d like to close saying that perhaps today’s logos and iconography from pop culture may be a system for conveying messages like the ancients once did and should be given a second look at what its’ meaning might be.

 

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