Sion

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 12:22-23 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”. 

Just ‘upright’, ‘righteous’, ‘balanced’.

Humans ‘a member of the species homo sapien,’ ‘no animal, divine, or machine’.

Made ‘shaped’, ‘formed’.

Perfect ‘complete,’ ‘fully developed’, ‘whole’. Holy

Clearly, we are being told Sion is a Spiritual place beyond the physical realm. Also, Sion’s godly inhabitants are actually transformed or ascended humans, ‘just humans made perfect,’ who live in the company of angels in the heavenly city. The good people of Sion are (w)holy otherworldly beings. 

Achievement of perfection or completion (full human potential), and purity (‘righteousness’), is the aim of many spiritual traditions. I will particularly view perfection through the Gnostic Christian and Tibetan tradition, where we find the Great Perfection or “Great Complete” teaching. 

The achievement of Perfection is attained by raising or accelerating the vibration of the human body until it dissolves, leaving behind only hair, toe and fingernails, which have no nerves to be transmuted. It then morphs into a vortex of five-colored, rainbow light or what is called the Rainbow Body.

I believe this glowing body is the same as the Beaming Garment. This explains why, in Christian art, the resurrected or perfected Jesus is shown on or in a rainbow ring that forms his body and his throne.

The means to Perfect the Beaming Garment is the Secret of Secrets, and the Secret of Sion, for in order to enter Sion we must transform into perfect or light beings. 

The aim of the Great Perfection is to awaken the individual to the primordial state of enlightenment, which is naturally found in all beings. The initiate’s goal is to integrate enlightenment into all his or her activities and to unite the physical body with the energy of Nature. The supreme realization of which lies in the manifestation of the “Rainbow Body” or body of light. Hence, those who have achieved the Great Perfection are depicted on or in a rainbow.

There is an exact parallel between the Tibetan depictions of the perfected ones and the Christian images of the resurrected Jesus. It is possible that Jesus learned the secrets of the Great Perfection while living in India and/or Tibet during His so-called ‘lost’ or ‘missing’ years between the ages of twelve and thirty. 

The “rainbow Bridge” symbolizes the link between Heaven and Earth. It appears in many religions and mythologies, especially in the early goddess traditions. In some Tibetan tangkas (sit paintings that depict the life of the Buddha), the circular rainbow stands for the actual presence of the Buddha Samantabhadra, the All-good. In the Thai Buddhis mythology, the rainbow is a staircase linking the heavens through which a tribe of wise serpent beings called nagas travel. It is safe to say that when you see a rainbow in sacred art it is usually viewed as a link between heaven and earth. Hence, it symbolizes ascension, and also the Stargate.