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Back up to Mutant's HomeTo: Michael Love , Pat Brown , Andy Mcguire , Kathleen McGuire , "R. Trent Reynolds" , ArtdeHoyos , Randall Shortridge , Beth any , rpc man , Gaia , onandagus@webtv.net, Neoptolmus@aol.com, Dave , "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com>, Ken Shaw , Steven Pirie-Shepherd No need to drop acid anymore.... my optic nerve endings are blastin' JSW -----Original Message----- From: Michael Love To: Pat Brown Andy Mcguire Kathleen McGuire R. Trent Reynolds Joe Steve Swick III ArtdeHoyos Randall Shortridge Beth any proclus rpc man Gaia onandagus@webtv.net Neoptolmus@aol.com Dave Robert R. Black ?.3365@compuserve.com> Ken Shaw Steven Pirie-Shepherd Date: Monday, February 23, 1998 11:50 AM Subject: [Fwd: our jam] >Keep this to yourselves for now, folks... > >ResRocket secret transmission... > >from proclus.... > >loading............... Subject: Hebrew restored Book of Commandments Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 01:23:26 -0500 (EST) From: Theurgus To: rds@acsu.buffalo.edu, proclus@mac.com, Sefirot1@aol.com, CYeshua@aol.com, KenShaw007@aol.com CC: rm-l@troubador.com, yoda_obi@juno.com, MCGUIREA@a1.bellhow.com, kathleen@enol.com, trent@goodnet.com, jswick@cris.com, ArtdeHoyos@aol.com, rpcman@hotmail.com, gaia@nmol.com, 74277.3365@compuserve.com, dcombe@rain.org, onandagus@webtv.net, Neoptolmus@aol.com, ariel144@hotmail.com Hail Mutants! I had a really energising talk with Don Bradley the other night, and it made me realize that there are things I aught to be doing. One of those things is going back to the foundational documents of the restoration, looking at them again, as if for the first time, and trying to extract their essential meaning from the standpoint of all the research I've done so far in "Christian Origins". I'm starting with the original Book of Commandments published by the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) because I've never understood why Joseph turned the verbatum revelations over to a faceless committee to be mutilated into the form we know as the Doctrine and Covenants. The original revelations are plain speaking and very clear. What I''m doing is going though the revelations and looking for every word that seems to be pointing to a hebrew or greek theological term and either rendering back into the hebrew or greek or translating it forward into a more literal meaning, which ever will convey what I believe to be the theological intention of the word. I've rendered every occurence of the word "God" as "Elohim" simply because it is used like a personal name in the Tanach (Old Testament) well over 2000 times compared to the 50 or so for "Eloah" or "El". I use "El" whenever "god" is used like a catagory instead of a name. I use the transliteration "Iahueh" (Jehovah) to replace all occurances of "the Lord" because "Iahueh" is simply the best scholarship is able to come up with as an actual pronunciation of YHVH, with"Iahushua" (Jesus) naturaly following. I used "proclaimation" to replace "gospel" because we need to strip away the familiar to see the Real. I'm attaching this as a Word file, please take a look at it and make your critique...I hope you all can do better on this than I. Thanks folks, Ken Shaw THEBOO~1.DOC Name: THEBOO~1.DOC Type: Microsoft Word Document (application/msword) Encoding: base64 Subject: Robert-Where are you at? Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:10:34 -0600 (CST) From: kenshaw@dalsemi.com (Ken Shaw) To: ariel144@hotmail.com, ArtdeHoyos@aol.com, bethany0@hotmail.com, onandagus@webtv.net, dcombe@rain.org, gaia@nmol.com, headgeor@esuvm.emporia.edu, proclus@mac.com, rpcman@hotmail.com, MCGUIREA@a1.bellhow.com, kathleen@enol.com, neoptolmus@aol.com, trent@goodnet.com, kenshaw@dalsemi.com, rds@acsu.buffalo.edu, jswick@cris.com, 74277.3365@compuserve.com Robert, I'm trying to map out my future course of action because "current events" have convinced me that something's afoot. It's ironic that the prophecies of the Earliest Brethren (those taught personaly by Joseph) are being fulfilled TO THE LETTER almost exactly 100 years later than they expected, just when the majority of LDS beleive in a "triumphalist" theology of the "Church" just growing and growing until it fills the earth. "The Lord has delayed His coming" they say, and begin to eat and drink with the drunken. Where are you at now? Have you worked out a personal theology and priesthood theory? Are you still hanging with Fred? Where do think the gathering will be and around what standard? I'm trying to figure this stuff out myself because I have a responsibility to my children and others who are connected to me by blood and love. I hope to hear from you soon. Ken Shaw > From 74277.3365@compuserve.com Fri Feb 27 01:49:12 1998 > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 02:43:57 -0500 > From: "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com> > Subject: Tim Rathbone > Sender: "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com> > To: Beth any , Artdel-Hoyos , > Beth , Don Bradley , > Dave , Gaia , > George , Michael Love , > rpc man , Andy McGuire , > Kathleen McGuire , > "neoptolmus@aol.com" , > "R. Trent Reyolds" , Ken Shaw , > Randall Shortridge , > Joe Steve Swick III > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type> : > text/plain> ; > charset=us-ascii> > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Length: 863 > > The question has been asked as to why we don't want Tim in our group. In > 1974, I was Xed for believing in the Adam-God doctrine. Five years ago I > decided that I wanted to get back into the Church. Two years ago, I renewed > an aquaintance with Tim. A year later (last May), he was present when I > ordained a fellow to the priesthood. The next morning he turned me into the > Church as being an enemy of the Church. The Bishop called me in and told me > that I was not going to be able to rejoin the Church because of the > ordination that I had performed. In a letter of justification to a group of > friends of mine and of his, he stated that he turned me in because he had a > duty to STAMP OUT EVIL IN THE CHURCH. > > Don't trust this guy. He can be real nice when he wants something. But he > can trun on you in a minute. > > He also reads Blayne's E-Mail, so becareful. > > Robert. > Subject: YHVH=Iahueh=Iao=Aion? Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:23:34 -0600 (CST) From: kenshaw@dalsemi.com (Ken Shaw) To: ariel144@hotmail.com, ArtdeHoyos@aol.com, bethany0@hotmail.com, onandagus@webtv.net, dcombe@rain.org, gaia@nmol.com, headgeor@esuvm.emporia.edu, proclus@mac.com, rpcman@hotmail.com, MCGUIREA@a1.bellhow.com, kathleen@enol.com, neoptolmus@aol.com, trent@goodnet.com, kenshaw@dalsemi.com, rds@acsu.buffalo.edu, jswick@cris.com, 74277.3365@compuserve.com CC: younbarb@isu.edu, CYeshua@aol.com, sefirot1@aol.com, jstrimm@swbell.net, clingle@flash.net Ladies and Gentlemen, I've been wondering about something that I hope you can help me with. The Personal Name of Deity as revealed to Moses is represented by the letters YHVH, generaly understood to be the word "hayah" (eternal coming into being) rendered into a name. In the Greco-Egyptian Magical Papyri render the hebrew diety as "Iao" which brings us around to a Gnostic vision. The Greek word "Aion" means both "eternal" and "universe" in the sense of cycles of time like "world ages". The Gnostics used the word "Aion" to designate "self-existant" Powers (gods) who act out the cosmic drama. Is it useful for us to think of YHVH as an Aion in the Gnostic sense? Thanks for your kind consideration. Ken Shaw Subject: Re: YHVH=Iahueh=Iao=Aion? Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:53:56 -0600 (CST) From: kenshaw@dalsemi.com (Ken Shaw) To: ariel144@hotmail.com, ArtdeHoyos@aol.com, bethany0@hotmail.com, onandagus@webtv.net, dcombe@rain.org, gaia@nmol.com, headgeor@esuvm.emporia.edu, proclus@mac.com, rpcman@hotmail.com, MCGUIREA@a1.bellhow.com, kathleen@enol.com, neoptolmus@aol.com, trent@goodnet.com, kenshaw@dalsemi.com, rds@acsu.buffalo.edu, jswick@cris.com, 74277.3365@compuserve.com, kenshaw@shemp.dalsemi.com CC: younbarb@isu.edu, CYeshua@aol.com, sefirot1@aol.com, jstrimm@swbell.net, clingle@flash.net Gaia and All, Please lay your stuff on us, it sounds like good solid Kabbalah to me. I'm working on this because of the haunting phrase in Chapter 2 of the Book of Commandments in which the speaker says "my paths are straight and my course is One Eternal Round". "One Eternal Round" is evocative of both "Aion" and the pythagorean image of the Uroboros. Ken Shaw Subject: bundle Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 18:03:01 -0500 From: Michael Love To: Michael Love Subject: Subject: Re: Tim Rathbone Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 12:19:36 -0500 From: proclus To: Michael Love , Andy Mcguire , Kathleen McGuire , "R. Trent Reynolds" , Joe Steve Swick III , ArtdeHoyos , Randall Shortridge , rpc man , Gaia , "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com>, Dave , "onandagus@webtv.net" , "neoptolmus@aol.com" , Beth any , Theurgus References: 1 I'm in a huge hurry right now, so just a quick affirmative note. Clearly, I have continued my correspondence with Tim. It has been interesting, because he is such a loose cannon. I have to treat him with great caution. I hope that none of you are offended by this interaction, as I have been repeatedly warned about Tim by many of you. It has been intersting. Recently, he sent me the text of one of Reed C. Durham's talks on masonry and mormonism. Are any of you familiar with this document? Would you like me to forward it to the list so that we can poke some holes in it? ;-} perfect love and trust all of you proclus Robert R. Black wrote: > > The question has been asked as to why we don't want Tim in our group. In > 1974, I was Xed for believing in the Adam-God doctrine. Five years ago I > decided that I wanted to get back into the Church. Two years ago, I renewed > an aquaintance with Tim. A year later (last May), he was present when I > ordained a fellow to the priesthood. The next morning he turned me into the > Church as being an enemy of the Church. The Bishop called me in and told me > that I was not going to be able to rejoin the Church because of the > ordination that I had performed. In a letter of justification to a group of > friends of mine and of his, he stated that he turned me in because he had a > duty to STAMP OUT EVIL IN THE CHURCH. > > Don't trust this guy. He can be real nice when he wants something. But he > can trun on you in a minute. > > He also reads Blayne's E-Mail, so becareful. > > Robert. -- Visit proclus' realm! http://www.proclus-realm.com/home.html -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GMU/S d+@ s: a C++ UUI++$ P L E--- W++ N- !o K- w--- !O M++ V-- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP-- t+++(+) 5+++ X+ R tv-@ b !DI D- G e++>++++ h--- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Subject: Re: Tim's post Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:18:17 -0500 From: Randall Shortridge Organization: State University of New York To: proclus CC: rm-l@troubador.com, Tim Rathbone , Andy Mcguire , Kathleen McGuire , "R. Trent Reynolds" , Joe Steve Swick III , ArtdeHoyos , rpc man , Gaia , "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com>, Dave , "onandagus@webtv.net" , "neoptolmus@aol.com" , Beth any , Theurgus References: 1 Yesterday, I replied to rm-l on this talk and for some reason thought it had been attributed to Vaughn Featherstone, but see it was Jeppson. Pardon. There is something else that really bugs me about this talk.... A premise that so-called 'apostate' groups can be proven false because they do not amount to anything. They do not prosper, etc. This seems to be a drum that is beaten in many talks that cover this subject. I remember GBH saying it and it was printed in the Ensign. But, can't the same reasoning be used to show that the Christian movement led by Peter and Paul were apostate? "All they did was cause devisiveness. These fellows were burned at the stake and eventually faded away when we got a wise fellow like Constatine to put them in their place. Same with Christ, right? He was hung on a cross. That proves him as an apostate." Anyway, hope you get the point. Same as in 4th Nephi. The true church is lost and the popular ones likely called anyone who adhered to the early doctrine as apostate. The unpopularity of the doctrine is proof, they say. Just blabbering. Randall/Eleazar. proclus wrote: > Tim wrote: > > This Talk was first given in the Mt. Olympus S.L.C. Stake. At > > a Stake Leadership meeting on 25 October 1991. Elder Jeppson has > also > > given this talk at other leadership meetings one in the Southern > > California area. > > Recently Elder Jeppson was made Area Presid ent of Southern > > Utah. He is giving this talk with some modifications all around > > Utah to Stake Leaders. > > > > We Shall Not Be Led Astray > > By ELDER MALCOLM S. JEPPSEN of the 70 > > In terms of the changing Church, 1991 was ages ago, no? I feel that > the > Church has a assumed a much less confrontational role since GBH > assumed the > mantle. Isn't this material a little dated? > > As I have stated elsewhere, Mormonism is bigger than anything that we > can say > about it. > > proclus > > -- > Visit proclus' realm! http://www.proclus-realm.com/home.html > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.1 > GMU/S d+@ s: a C++ UUI++$ P L E--- W++ N- !o K- w--- !O M++ V-- > PS+++ PE Y+ PGP-- t+++(+) 5+++ X+ R tv-@ b !DI D- G e++>++++ h--- > r+++ y++++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Subject: Re: Tim Rathbone Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:40:16 -0500 From: gaia@nmol.com To: proclus@mac.com GAIA: Sure, i'd be interested in a copy of the document on Masonry...thx! ======== New Mexico Online - Internet Plus, a whole lot more! ========= ======================================================================== = Data: 505-299-1111 Telnet: nmol.com Http: www.nmol.com = ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Tim Rathbone Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 21:08:48 -0800 From: Joe Steve Swick III To: proclus , Andy Mcguire , Kathleen McGuire , "R. Trent Reynolds" , ArtdeHoyos , Randall Shortridge , rpc man , Gaia , "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com>, Dave , onandagus@webtv.net, neoptolmus@aol.com, Beth any , Theurgus The Durham paper is rather old, but was quite important in its time. It is still deeper water than most members are wont to swim in. If you would like to discuss this, I'm certainly not "agin it." So far as the Malcom Jeppson paper is concerned... I have little good to say on it. I first saw this during the time Bro. Jeppson was in the thick of his "work," and I think that subsequent history speaks for itself. Not every man is a brother, and not every Brother has the welfare of Zion at heart. JSW Subject: the movie "Dark City" Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 16:40:27 -0500 (EST) From: Theurgus To: proclus@mac.com, MCGUIREA@a1.bellhow.com, kathleen@enol.com, trent@goodnet.com, jswick@cris.com, ArtdeHoyos@aol.com, rds@acsu.buffalo.edu, rpcman@hotmail.com, gaia@nmol.com, 74277.3365@compuserve.com, dcombe@rain.org, onandagus@webtv.net, Neoptolmus@aol.com, ariel144@hotmail.com Hail Mutants! My sons and I saw the new movie "Dark City" last night, and I have to say that it is ASTONISHING! Please go see it! Ken Subject: The Tarot Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 02:44:55 -0500 From: "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com> To: Beth any , Artdel-Hoyos , Beth , Don Bradley , Dave , Gaia , George , Michael Love , rpc man , Andy McGuire , Kathleen McGuire , "neoptolmus@aol.com" , "R. Trent Reyolds" , Ken Shaw , Randall Shortridge , Joe Steve Swick III I am hoping that Joe and Gaia have a lot more to say about the Tarot. I was hoping for some discussion. Robert. Subject: Robert-Where are you at? Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 02:45:18 -0500 From: "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com> To: Ken Shaw CC: Beth any , Artdel-Hoyos , Beth , Don Bradley , Dave , Gaia , George , Michael Love , rpc man , Andy McGuire , Kathleen McGuire , "neoptolmus@aol.com" , "R. Trent Reyolds" , Randall Shortridge , Joe Steve Swick III Ken, >Where are you at now? Have you worked out a personal >theology and priesthood theory? Are you still hanging >with Fred? Where do think the gathering will be and >around what standard? I'm trying to figure this stuff >out myself because I have a responsibility to my children >and others who are connected to me by blood and love. I haven't been hanging with Fred for years. But I got to know him in 1973. I believe a lot like Fred. I believe in the Adam-God doctrine and I believe in plural marriage. I believe that a man must live plural marriage in order to receive exaltation. I believe that the Keys of the Priesthood were given by Joseph Smith to the council of Fifty. One of the men to receive them was Benjamine F. Johnson. Benjamine F. Johnson passed on his keys to Dayer LeBaron who gave them to Ross or Joel LeBaron. These two men gave them to each other to be sure that they each received them. Ross passed on his keys to a select few. Joel did not. I was one of the few that received them from Ross. These keys are available to all who desire to get them from me. There is supposed to be a whole nation of Kings and Priests. But for some reason the Church stopped giving them, primarily because it wanted to stop PM. PM is a neccessary for one to advance in the priesthood. Adoption is also a necessaary part of the Gospel. A person needs to be adopted into the family of God in order to go to the Celestial Kingdom and to receive the Patriarchal priesthood. The gathering place is supposed to be Utah. But there is good reason to believe that a portion of the elite will gather in Mexico. Especially in Pacheco. The was a temple cite dedicated there around the turn of the century. It is exactly where the thirtieth parrelell crosses the continental divide. It was prophesied that the leaders of the Church would have to go there to be protected from those calamities that were to follow. At the present there is not any of the members of the Church there. The colony was abandoned many years ago. Please ask more questions. I will be happppy to answer. Robert. Subject: Re: YHVH=Iahueh=Iao=Aion? Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 09:16:01 -0600 (CST) From: kenshaw@dalsemi.com (Ken Shaw) To: ariel144@hotmail.com, ArtdeHoyos@aol.com, bethany0@hotmail.com, onandagus@webtv.net, dcombe@rain.org, gaia@nmol.com, headgeor@esuvm.emporia.edu, proclus@mac.com, rpcman@hotmail.com, MCGUIREA@a1.bellhow.com, kathleen@enol.com, neoptolmus@aol.com, trent@goodnet.com, kenshaw@dalsemi.com, rds@acsu.buffalo.edu, jswick@cris.com, 74277.3365@compuserve.com, kenshaw@shemp.dalsemi.com CC: younbarb@isu.edu, CYeshua@aol.com, sefirot1@aol.com, jstrimm@swbell.net, clingle@flash.net Gaia, You have to use the "reply all" command to make sure your responses go to everyone on the list. The movie "Dark City" reminded me of the Kalachakra Tantra tradition of tibetian Buddhism. Kalachakra means "circle of time" and is concerned with things like astrological ages (aions) and views the cosmos as a kind of mechanism that allows sudden advences in conciousness only at certain intervals, when a kind of window of "unconditioned" time opens up. Since "time" is now viewed as an actual "substance", the so-called "space-time continuum", then time could be said to be "being" in some sense. The divisions of time into Aions would make indiviual "beings". Since all phenomona arises from space-time as its ultimate "ground", these Aions would be what we think of as being "God". This is the kind of lunacy I'm dreaming up now. Ken Shaw Subject: Re: Robert-Where are you at? Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 09:33:30 -0600 (CST) From: kenshaw@dalsemi.com (Ken Shaw) To: kenshaw@dalsemi.com, 74277.3365@compuserve.com CC: ariel144@hotmail.com, ArtdeHoyos@aol.com, bethany0@hotmail.com, onandagus@webtv.net, dcombe@rain.org, gaia@nmol.com, headgeor@esuvm.emporia.edu, proclus@mac.com, rpcman@hotmail.com, MCGUIREA@a1.bellhow.com, kathleen@enol.com, neoptolmus@aol.com, trent@goodnet.com, rds@acsu.buffalo.edu, jswick@cris.com Robert, I really like Fred personaly, but there are a few things about what he's doing that strike me funny, and maybe a little delusional and obsessive. I know how easy it is for the "self" to sneek in and claim the robe of sanctity. I've made a connection to the Sufi tradition of Islam, and the more I learn, the more it looks like what Joseph Smith had in mind. The "Law of Adoption" looks like the connection that followers make with the Sufi Shaykh in Islam, or the Rebbe in Hasidic Judaism, or the Guru in Tantric Buddhism. All these things are refering to a Reality that Joseph somehow came to understand independantly. Where are you living? I'd like to visit with you one of these days. Ken Shaw Subject: Halachic Worship? Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 03:42:03 -0500 From: "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com> To: Ken Shaw CC: Beth any , Artdel-Hoyos , Beth , Don Bradley , Dave , Gaia , George , Michael Love , rpc man , Andy McGuire , Kathleen McGuire , "neoptolmus@aol.com" , "R. Trent Reyolds" , Randall Shortridge , Joe Steve Swick III Ken, > The singing of Psalms and Prayers in Hebrew, perhaps >using the melodies marked in the text called "cantilation" >as well as the ancient and primordial Pentatonic scale of >pure fifths instead of modern tunings. There is a "call >and response" form where the leader sings one part and the >congregation responds with the other. There are a half dozen ways that the cantilation marks can be interpreted. Which is the most authentic. >I would also add that there is plenty of circumstantial >evidence that the Eastern Orthodox Liturgy preserves >very old material and it would serve us well to consider >the use of candles or oil lamps for lighting as well as >Halachicly formulated incense for censing the Ark of the >Torah, the Torah Scroll itself, the Reader, and the >Congregation. You ought to visit the Syrian Church some time. They have it all. As for me and my house, let us worship in an informal and spirit filled kind of way. Robert. Subject: YHVH=Iahueh=Iao=Aion? Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 03:42:20 -0500 From: "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com> To: Ken Shaw CC: Beth any , Artdel-Hoyos , Beth , Don Bradley , Dave , Gaia , George , Michael Love , rpc man , Andy McGuire , Kathleen McGuire , "neoptolmus@aol.com" , "R. Trent Reyolds" , Randall Shortridge , Joe Steve Swick III Ken, >Is it useful for us to think of YHVH >as an Aion in the Gnostic sense? As I remember YHVH was an Aion in the Gnostic sense. And a wicked one at that. Robert. Subject: The Tarot Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 03:42:54 -0500 From: "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com> To: Beth any , Artdel-Hoyos , Beth , Don Bradley , Dave , Gaia , George , Michael Love , rpc man , Andy McGuire , Kathleen McGuire , "neoptolmus@aol.com" , "R. Trent Reyolds" , Ken Shaw , Randall Shortridge , Joe Steve Swick III Joe, >I am happy to continue on with the discussion if there is an interest. >Would anyone like to discuss the Magician? > >Regards, >JSW By all means, Joe, let's go. Robert. Subject: Re: 12th Planet Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:55:35 -0500 From: Michael Love To: proclus@mac.com GAIA: More on Tarot, RE: Temperance and the Star cards: Note too that while the Star has the Angel pouring out the blessings of God upon the Earth from Above, the Temperance card h as the angel actually upon the earth, one foot on the ground, the other on the water (in some decks). ON THE STAR (#17): The Goddess called Mistress of Earth and Sea; reappears on the 17th trump. Her earlier counterpart, the Empress, was clothed, but now she is revealed, "sky-clad"....pouring out living waters on land and sea from her two jars (breasts) while 7 stars shine above, one brightest. The card was also the Star of Isis, symbolic of the annual Nile flood that brought the food of life too all.....Hermetic texts invoked as Mother Isis the same star-Goddess, known in Carthage as the Celestial Virgin or Astroarche, Queen of Stars. It was usual for the Goddess to be accompanied by 7 priestesses,....andseveral names of the Goddess (Astarte, Ishtar, Esther, Ashtoreth, Ostara or Eostre - mean "Star" and are the origins for "Easter". The oracular 7 were the original 7 Sages of Arabia, were said to be female, known as the 7 Pillars of Wisdom, and the ir wise sayings were Wisdom's "pearls"...Proverbs 9:1 speaks of "Goddess of Wisdom, hewn out her 7 pillars." Also refers to the Pleiades, all daughters of Aphrodite, whose totemwasa dove. Another of her titles, "Stella Maris," "Star of the Sea", was later copied by Christians and applied to Virgin Mary,. The image of the Holy Spiriti descending on Jesus in form of a dove was copied from the iconography of the Goddess. The annual Tibetan festival of "settiang free of the waters of springs" is still announced by the rising of the Dog Star.....Sothis (Sirius), the soul of Osiris in heaven. The rising of his star was heralded by the 3 wise men, the three stars in the belt of Orion, which point toward the Dog Star. In Asia Minor the Star goddess was Artemis Caryatis, often worshipped in the form of a pillar. Portraits of her seven priestesses were the caryatides, original "pillars of the Church" carved in the shape of women. After the destruction of the House of God (the previous caard in the Trumps) the Goddess' reappe arance i n the M aj or Arcana may be interpreted as a wish-fulfilllment symbol of the post-revolutionary world, when the Godess/ Heavenly Mother would be restored to Her rightful place. This relates a bit to another myth -- the Grail legend, which was actually pre-christian in origin. The grail has always been a symbol of female power/ energy, Goddess as nurturer, even as Her breasts (in whose form the cup/ chalice is shaped) nurture all life. The Crusaders brought back stories of a dreadful land to the south that was hot and desolate. The Norse had a legend about the "Mutspell" - the most frigtening, dreadful curse that could be spoken - the curse of a mother over her thoughtless, ungrateful children. They believed that the world would end in a future time when "the Great Goddess would pronounce upon the world Her Mutspell, because of its faithlessness and lack of appreciation, when men would forget or discredit/ dishonor their mothers." She would bring upon them the curse of Desolation. The symbol would be a loss of the Grail - the blessings and powers of the Goddess, the nurturing of the Female principle, and they would learn (perhaps too late) their folly in failing to perceive the divinity in females. THIS is the origin/ meaning of the Grail legend. In her great and critically acclailmed book, "the Chalice and the Blade," Rianne Eisler recounts this lengend, and explains the true meaning of the "Hieros Gamos" - the union symbolized by the symbolic union of the chalice (grail) and the blade (knife) : that signifies the sacred union of all dualities: male and female, light and darkness, logic and emotion, mind and body, spirit and matter, heaven and earth, order and chaos, birth and death, etc. Hope somebody enjoys this -- Gaia ======== New Mexico Online - Internet Plus, a whole lot more! ========= ======================================================================== = Data: 505-299-1111 Telnet: nmol.com Http: www.nmol.com = ======================================================================== Subject: [Fwd: pseudo-History] Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:55:57 -0500 From: Michael Love To: Michael Love Subject: pseudo-History Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 14:31:24 -0600 From: "Norman H. Redington" To: love@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU Hello: I notice you have a St. Dionysius page. We have the Syriac Liturgy of St Dionysius at: http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/dionysius/lit.html Hopefully we will eventually have all the Areopagetic writings there. Dionysios Redington St Pachomius Library Subject: Re: [Fwd: pseudo-History] Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 07:37:48 -0500 From: proclus To: Michael Love , "Norman H. Redington" References: 1 Thank you so much for this information, which I have passed on to my friends. I am excited to hear that there will finally be Dionysian writings on the web! Will give the liturgy a link in a few days. Thank you for your work on the web. proclus > Hello: > > I notice you have a St. Dionysius page. We have > the Syriac Liturgy of St Dionysius at: > http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/dionysius/lit.html > Hopefully we will eventually have all the > Areopagetic writings there. > > Dionysios Redington > St Pachomius Library -- Visit proclus' realm! http://www.proclus-realm.com/home.html -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GMU/S d+@ s: a C++ UUI++$ P L E--- W++ N- !o K- w--- !O M++ V-- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP-- t+++(+) 5+++ X+ R tv-@ b !DI D- G e++>++++ h--- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Subject: YHVH=>Eternal Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:21:24 -0600 (CST) From: kenshaw@dalsemi.com (Ken Shaw) To: Armstrong.Trent@amstr.com, aub-l@troubador.com, dialbart@sisna.com, bbashaw@gtelco.net, c.blase@mailexcite.com, BrigitteNi@aol.com, bhuntin687@aol.com, rtcc@train.missouri.org, chrisbly@hotmail.com, koes@gowebway.com, bro-brigham@worldnet.att.net, detcpa7@aol.com, babbel@wharton.upenn.edu, dcombe@rain.org, mirele@xmission.com, haileycat@yahoo.com, rmucofmt@train.missouri.org, j.ahlin@m.cc.utah.edu, dela@infowest.com, gunthers@earthlink.net, jswick@cris.com, johnrl@mail.aros.net, mormon@lofthouse.com, mahonri@eee.org, klarson@tlcmanti.org, kelvinh@apricot.mee.com, kenshaw@dalsemi.com, polygamy@lov.com, ravensara@tlcmanti.org, lowellmj@juno.com, mkchurch@worldnet.att.net, nathan.t@virgin.net, pmdlady@aol.com, tkj@burgoyne.com, rkadams@earthlink.net, oh.dad@juno.com, ron7@rocketmail.com, smith@manti.com, William_Cooper_3@compuserve.com, wng@jbs.org, taxplan@manti.com CC: proclus@mac.com Wayne, It's great to hear from ya' man! I'm planning a trip to Utah this summer and would like to visit you. I'm forwarding this post that I sent to a "Jewish Roots" list because you might find it of interest. Ken Shaw --------------------------------------------------------------------- James and All, I've been wondering about the possiblity of actually translating out the name YHVH into some kind of english equivalent, and then just using that english equivalant as the Name. I know that the Reform Siddur uses "Eternal" as the translation of YHVH, which makes sense because of the root meaning of was-is-always-being. I've suggested the awkward sounding "existence-itself", but that has a harsh "modern philosophy" quality to it. The reason I'm going through this exercise is that the compound Name YHVH-Elohim (the Lord God) takes on a whole new light if it's translated out literally as "Eternal-Gods". Thanks folks, Ken Shaw Subject: hot bundle from Ken Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:38:06 -0500 From: Michael Love To: Michael Love Subject: Subject: mutantRMs Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:02:09 -0500 (EST) From: Theurgus To: mutants@iname.com Proclus, I hate to be a pain-in-the-ass, but could you make Theurgus@aol.com my "official" Mutant name and address? Thanks man, Ken Subject: MED: visions/texts Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 11:35:12 -0600 (CST) From: kenshaw@dalsemi.com (Ken Shaw) To: proclus@mac.com CC: jswick@cris.com, onandagus@webtv.net, 74277.3365@compuserve.com, younbarb@isu.com ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From owner-mediators@st-andrews.ac.uk Thu Mar 5 11:29:31 1998 From: "Professor L.W. Hurtado" To: mediators@st-andrews.ac.uk Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 16:08:12 +000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: MED: visions/texts Reply-To: L.Hurtado@ed.ac.uk X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.54) Sender: owner-mediators@st-andrews.ac.uk Content-Length: 1773 Ian Hutchesson asks what the point/benefit is of asking whether "vision" experiences may lie behind this or that ancient text. I fully grant the theoretical difficulty in trying deal with what kind of religious experientiality ancients enjoyed. But as to the rationale for the question, it is simply part of historical investigation of ancient Judaism, ancient Christianity, ancient "paganism" to want to know what was the religious life like. The surviving texts were "thrown up" by some force(s), and the "religious" ones by "religious" forces (with allowance that what constitutes "religious" is very historically & culturally variable). So, Ian, however difficult it may be to satisfy a determined critic of one's results, the question of what sorts of experience may have contributed to the vision-accounts in ancient apocalyptic & other forms of texts is simply a quite understandable historical one. We cannot interview the ancient authors, but neither can we interview the authors of other ancient texts, or the users of ancient artefacts, or anybody else from antiquity. But this needn't stop valid historical inquiry as to what kinds of human life, experience, thought, activities may have been going on. And the ways we address such questions involve analogous phenomena. And we have lots of examples of religious movements & texts arising from the powerful religious experiences of founder figures (or "minor founder figures"). It's going on currently. African Independent churches, Japanese indiginous movements, Ghost Dance movement, Baha Ullah, Guru Nanak, etc. etc. L. W. Hurtado University of Edinburgh, New College Mound Place Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 2LX Phone: 0131-650-8920 Fax: 0131-650-6579 E-mail: L.Hurtado@ed.ac.uk ----- End Included Message ----- Subject: [rm-l] useful hermetic magic website Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 11:40:05 -0600 (CST) From: kenshaw@dalsemi.com (Ken Shaw) Reply-To: rm-l@troubador.com To: rm-l@mail.cm2.com Howdy! I found some kewl magic stuff at: www.tiac.net/users/wgenest/index.html Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Renagade Radical Rude Radiant Whatever you want it to be called... Mormon Doctrinal Discussion List Visit the Mahonri web site at http://www.troubador.com/~mahonri For help send mail to rm-l-info@troubador.com with the word "help" in the body of the message. To be removed from the list send mail to rm-l-info@troubador.com with the words "DELETE mynam@myserver" in the body of the message RULE #1: NO FIGHTING OR PERSONAL INSULTS. TAKE IT OFF LIST. Subject: Robert new address Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 03:05:17 -0500 From: "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com> To: Beth any , Artdel-Hoyos , Beth , Don Bradley , Dave , Gaia , George , Michael Love , rpc man , Andy McGuire , Kathleen McGuire , "neoptolmus@aol.com" , "R. Trent Reyolds" , Ken Shaw , Randall Shortridge , Joe Steve Swick III ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: INTERNET:tim-rathbone@juno.com, INTERNET:tim-rathbone@juno.com TO: Robert R. Black, 74277,3365 DATE: 03-12-98 10:12 PM RE: Robert new address Sender: tim-rathbone@juno.com Received: from x11.boston.juno.com (x11.boston.juno.com [205.231.100.26]) by dub-img-3.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.10) with ESMTP id WAA19398 for ?.3365@compuserve.com> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:11:49 -0500 (EST) From: tim-rathbone@juno.com Received: (from tim-rathbone@juno.com) by x11.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id WsI07889; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:10:55 EST To: 74277.3365@compuserve.com Subject: Robert new address Message-ID: ?.191106.4743.0.Tim-Rathbone@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.49 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,3-7 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:10:55 EST Robert for now this is my new e mail address. how are you? how have you been? My system crashed so if you could please tell Mike Love proclus that this is my new address and joe swick.. and others on the mutantrm list. thanks. much Tim _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] Subject: [Fwd: Durham presentation] Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 21:31:55 -0500 From: Michael Love To: proclus -- Visit proclus' realm! http://www.proclus-realm.com/home.html -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GMU/S d+@ s: a C++ UUI++$ P L E--- W++ N- !o K- w--- !O M++ V-- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP-- t+++(+) 5+++ X+ R tv-@ b !DI D- G e++>++++ h--- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Subject: Durham presentation Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 16:18:32 -0500 (EST) From: Neoptolmus To: proclus@mac.com I have inadvertantly deleted my copy of the Reed Durham piece on the widow's son. Would it be to much trouble to send me another copy? Trevo r Subject: GODS-R-US Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 13:58:38 -0800 From: Joe Steve Swick III To: Blayne Sukut , Beth any , Vicki Porritt , "Yoshimi Nagai (Nihon Convention Serv)" , Michael Love , Kathleen McGuire , George Head , Gaia , Cyril Huang , Brian Irwin , ArtdeHoyos , "Kathy E. Christensen" , Richh Hiltbrunn , Stephen Escobedo More cool "religious statuary" than you can shake a thyrsus at! And you thought the gods of the ancient world were dead... Buy your own Asherah! Buy a statue of Baal for your office or study! Some of the greate st idols of all time, and I don't mean rock stars! Just go here: http://jblstatue.com/pages/ and be very amazed. Now you know just how new the new age is! JSW (PS. My own favorite is the "Net Goddess." I imagine that she will soon be rehabilitated as a symbol of WorldWide Web) Subject: Hey out there! Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 18:27:33 -0800 (PST) From: Beth any To: MCGUIREA@a1.bellhow.com, kathleen@enol.com, trent@goodnet.com, jswick@cris.com, donbradley@webtv.net, ArtdeHoyos@aol.com, rds@acsu.buffalo.edu, ariel144@hotmail.com, Sidheach@aol.com, proclus@mac.com, rpcman@hotmail.com, gaia@nmol.com Hey everyone! It's Beth here. I've been without a computer for awhile. Had to give it up in the divorce and all. My life is just not the same without the net and especially this list. I wanted to ask Proclus if he is still archiving this stuff? If I could get the address to the website that has the archives I'd kiss your feet 1000 times. I am really mad I probably missed all the Tarot stuff. Been studying it a great deal lately. So hopefully some of that stuff is saved somewhere..... Well if anyone has any old computers they want to get rid of I'm interested :-) ....... he he he.... I have a new phone number. Anyone who wants to call is always more than welcome. 925 (new area code, I hope that's correct) 938- 0176. Hey Gaia - Let me know when you are done with my books and video. I have a waiting list for them. More importantly let me know if you found any of it useful or of interest. Thanks. Love y'all. I'll be back at some point (with a vengeance ;-) Beth ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Subject: world scriptures Date: Sat, 04 A pr 19 9 8 15:14:12 -0500 From: proclus To: Michael Love , Andy Mcguire , Kathleen McGuire , "R. Trent Reynolds" , Joe Steve Swick III , ArtdeHoyos , Randall Shortridge , rpc man , Gaia , "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com>, Dave , "onandagus@webtv.net" , "neoptolmus@aol.com" , Beth any , Theurgus Here is an excellent list of the scriptures of many nations that are available on line. http://www.cweb.net/~christer/religion-script.html regards, proclus -- Visit proclus' realm! http://www.proclus-realm.com/home.html -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GMU/S d+@ s: a C++ UUI++$ P L E--- W++ N- !o K- w--- !O M++ V-- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP-- t+++(+) 5+++ X+ R tv-@ b !DI D- G e++>++++ h--- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Subject: RE: world scritures Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 15:17:09 -0500 From: proclus To: Michael Love , Andy Mcguire , Kathleen McGuire , "R. Trent Reynolds" , Joe Steve Swick III , ArtdeHoyos , Randall Shortridge , rpc man , Gaia , "Robert R. Black" ?.3365@compuserve.com>, Dave , "onandagus@webtv.net" , "neoptolmus@aol.com" , Beth any , Theurgus I was thinking of adding a link to this webpage from the mutant homepage, as these things require some long term attention. Let me know what you think. Here is the link again. http://www.cweb.net/~christer/religion-script.html proclus -- Visit proclus' realm! http://www.proclus-realm.com/home.html -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GMU/S d+@ s: a C++ UUI++$ P L E--- W++ N- !o K- w--- !O M++ V-- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP-- t+++(+) 5+++ X+ R tv-@ b !DI D- G e++>++++ h--- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Subject: The Sufis Mystery Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 10:25:24 -0500 From: kens@cyrix.com (Ken Shaw) To: proclus@mac.com Hail Mutants! This intimate little circle has practicaly fallen silent the past few weeks...sooo... this is an effort to stir up the beehive. The Protestants are absolutly correct in saying that Mormonism is an irreconcilable heresy that no connection at all to "historical Christianity". That's fine...why would anyone want to be "Christian" from their point of view, unless one wanted to present a "normative" face to the world so as to exploit masses of "converts" to get the "gain and praise of the world". I'm here to report that, after 25 years of trying to figure out what Joseph Smith was actually trying to do, it looks like he was an agent of some kind of "Gnostic" Islam. The Sufis claim that their tradition has been in continuous operation on this planet since the "begining", and that there exists a community somewhere in the mountains of Kafiristan or Afghanistan called the Sarmoun Brotherhood that has been in continuous operation since the Flood of Noah. "Sarmoun" is Persian for "Bees", which describes their function of gathering "nectar" and distributing "pollen" for the development of humanity leading to eventual planetary fulfilment and salvation. The Abrahamic tradition is a specialized "subset" of the greater Noachide tradition. Abraham paid tithes and shared a sacramental meal with Melchizedek, Priest of El Elyon. Who was this Melchizedek? The Talmud states that he was none other than Shem, the son of Noah who came through the Flood, and that he had established a Yeshiva (religious school) for the passing on the knowledge of the prediluvian world to this new world in it's new state. The Sufis then are claiming that this Melchizedekian school still exists in the mountains of central Asia, and is continuing its work in the world. Who WERE the "wise men from the East" who came looking for the newborn Davidic Heir Iaohushua (Jesus)...in exactly the same way that Tibetans go looking for their precious teachers by following dreams and signs? In the Gospel of Philip we see Jesus leading his deciples in a "circle dance" which leads to unusual experiences. This technique has continued down to this day is the Sufi Orders of Islam, and has spread out in various forms from the pop new-age "Dances of Universal Peace", to Scottish round dancing and Morris (Moorish) dancing, to the widdershins circling of the "Black Man" (Moor) in European "witchcraft". There is a mystery here, and here, at the end of history, we need to conciously make the next step to a religion meant for grown-ups, instead of being held in perpetual childhood by the Big Daddy Patriarchy. Ken Shaw Subject: The Sufis Mystery Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 10:25:24 -0500 From: kens@cyrix.com (Ken Shaw) To: proclus@mac.com Hail Mutants! This intimate little circle has practicaly fallen silent the past few weeks...sooo... this is an effort to stir up the beehive. The Protestants are absolutly correct in saying that Mormonism is an irreconcilable heresy that no connection at all to "historical Christianity". That's fine...why would anyone want to be "Christian" from their point of view, unless one wanted to present a "normative" face to the world so as to exploit masses of "converts" to get the "gain and praise of the world". I'm here to report that, after 25 years of trying to figure out what Joseph Smith was actually trying to do, it looks like he was an agent of some kind of "Gnostic" Islam. The Sufis claim that their tradition has been in continuous operation on this planet since the "begining", and that there exists a community somewhere in the mountains of Kafiristan or Afghanistan called the Sarmoun Brotherhood that has been in continuous operation since the Flood of Noah. "Sarmoun" is Persian for "Bees", which describes their function of gathering "nectar" and distributing "pollen" for the development of humanity leading to eventual planetary fulfilment and salvation. The Abrahamic tradition is a specialized "subset" of the greater Noachide tradition. Abraham paid tithes and shared a sacramental meal with Melchizedek, Priest of El Elyon. Who was this Melchizedek? The Talmud states that he was none other than Shem, the son of Noah who came through the Flood, and that he had established a Yeshiva (religious school) for the passing on the knowledge of the prediluvian world to this new world in it's new state. The Sufis then are claiming that this Melchizedekian school still exists in the mountains of central Asia, and is continuing its work in the world. Who WERE the "wise men from the East" who came looking for the newborn Davidic Heir Iaohushua (Jesus)...in exactly the same way that Tibetans go looking for their precious teachers by following dreams and signs? In the Gospel of Philip we see Jesus leading his deciples in a "circle dance" which leads to unusual experiences. This technique has continued down to this day is the Sufi Orders of Islam, and has spread out in various forms from the pop new-age "Dances of Universal Peace", to Scottish round dancing and Morris (Moorish) dancing, to the widdershins circling of the "Black Man" (Moor) in European "witchcraft". There is a mystery here, and here, at the end of history, we need to conciously make the next step to a religion meant for grown-ups, instead of being held in perpetual childhood by the Big Daddy Patriarchy. Ken Shaw ----- End Included Message ----- Subject: [Fwd: The Sufis Mystery] Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 12:27:17 -0400 From: Michael Love To: Andy Mcguire , Kathleen McGuire , "R. Trent Reynolds" , Joe Steve Swick III , ArtdeHoyos