03-28-2012, 09:40 PM
(03-28-2012, 04:05 PM)godwide_void Wrote: I don't really get too many Christian vibes from the Ra Material despite Carla's personal belief system, but that's just me. Where and what in the Ra Material do you consider leaning towards Christendom, yossarian? I'd say Shin'Ar is more akin to a wandering prophet imbued with ancestral wisdom spreading ancient gnosis. If anything, he's not here to 'balance' any Christianity in the Ra Material, but to size up and analyze and confirm that the Ra Material is indeed the 'ancient wisdom' or enlightenment of old that many have pursued.
Also Shin'Ar, I'd like to thank you for clearing up what the Left Hand Path actually entails. When you mentioned you were an adherent of it I became a bit boggled reading that, as I held the preconception that the Left Hand Path basically equated to STS, or the ways of the 'evil sorcerer' so to speak. So the Left Hand Path is moreso along the lines of awakening the divinity within you as opposed to worshipping a divinity assumed to be outside of oneself? I still do not have a clear-cut or certain comprehension of it, so please correct me if my understanding appears to be mistaken.
GWV, I would like to go into that with you in a little more detail so there is no further confusion on the matter so I will address that either later tonight or tomorrow.
If one studies the Ancient Eastern religions they will find that the references to the Goddess are usually in acknowledgement of the feminine aspect of the Creator.
It is an extremely complex study and cannot be done justice in a short forum post but you will find a great deal of reference to it on my website. I tried to design the site so that it would address the Goddess aspects of the Ancient teachings while at the same time revealing the Sacred Geometry of Alchemy.
But to briefly touch on it here, the Ancients refer to the left hand path as an acknowledgment of the opposite to the right hand path, also in acknowledgment of the importance they place on duality and polarity. The Goddess is the manifestation of both. The Goddess is basically the means of expressing the opposite force that was created when the Source, or Infinite Spirit, came into Being. Therefore the Goddess, being the manifestation of the Creator's thought process, becomes both the feminine aspect to Its masculine, as well as the Matter to its spirit.
In essence, the Goddess is the Creator manifested in the material creation, as the Divine Feminine to the Divine Masculine, leading the All that she creates back to the source. As we are One, so also is the Goddess One with the Creator. All is One, manifested in many ways and thoughts and experiences.
And so the Goddess is not so much an entity as she is a representation of the polarity of the manifestation of the Creator's One Consciousness. A manifestation that has been the means by which the Ancients have expressed their understanding and knowledge for thousands of years. This is the way it has been taught to mankind for as long as mankind can recall. it is written into virtually all of the sacred texts of virtually all religion and culture around the globe. As well, the Serpent and the Goddess are inseparable in this ancient teaching.
Now, when we consider that these ancient teachings are global and have existed for countless generations, we should realize that many of these ancient rituals and practices have managed to be blended into many different cultures. This has been the cause of much of these teachings being somewhat mixed together and diluted.
In that regard the Romans, upon claiming so much of the eastern world, were easily able to further manipulate that dilution and blending, and virtually eradicated the old pagan teachings from their empire. This resulted in much of the ancient occult teachings of gnosticism and alchemy being demonized and outlawed. And that demonizing further led to even greater dilution and corruption of the teachings.
In the dark ages, under papal rule, the Pagan ways became more related to satanism and witchcraft, than with their true origins of nature worship. Satanism was not even an actual issue of the Ancient ways, as it only came into existence with the demonizing of paganism by the Romans and the vatican.
This is why the Templars, who were true gnostics, were declared satan worshipers and murdered. They refused to be manipulated by the roman authority.
This was a pure case of the right hand path, the path of the patriarchal ideology of authority and control, overpowering the left hand path for the purpose of controlling its ancient widespread blanket so that it, the right hand path authority, could better manage their new empire under a more encompassing religion, which went on to become what we now know as Christianity.
So now, what was once the left hand path of the Ancients, has become the left hand path of the witches and satanists. Just like the true gnostic teachings of Christ and John have become what we call today, Christian ideology.
Most of us here are aware of the manipulation that twisted Christ into Christian, so why are we suddenly so confused by the twisting of ancient Paganism into modern Black Magic?
The Ancients have forever taught us that the Divine Feminine resides within every consciousness as the continuing manifestation of the Creator, waiting to be awakened by revelation of one's true identity as that One Consciousness, instead of the temporary form of flesh they had always supposed they were. When the human realizes that their physical is just the temporary vehicle of that androgynous consciousness, the Goddess within, the divine feminine, is awakened and begins the cremation of the physical ego, leaving only the transformed being of light.