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Answer for yourself: Were you aware that in all religious myths down through recorded history that the nation's Christs, Sungods, and Messiahs had two mothers? Are you aware that in the New Testament, hidden behind the supposed literal historicity of "Jesus Christ" we find that the New Testament Jesus has likewise two mothers? How could there possibly be rational significance to even such a question at it goes against the very Laws of Biology and the Cosmos? Is this possible? How can I know?
If this can be proven then we will have to study in order to crack the surface of our ignorance of the Divine Truths hidden in our Christian Scriptures in our pursuit of the truth behind our "Jesus Story"; a truth that sadly escapes almost all Christians today who have never studied Comparative Religions or Astrotheology.
When one approaches such a subject he is often put off by the writings of Christians who relegate such an idea as but crude illiteracy of the Ancients where they are mistakenly believed to have taken their own religious myths as if "literal history and stories". I must admit when reading of these things years ago before my studies progressed to where they are now I was swayed by these Christian writers and their comments upon Ancient religious antiquity as they relegated all such comments about "Christs" and "Sungods" as but mythical rubbish and nonsense of early "Paganism". That word, Paganism is a "buzz word" that is found to be used a lot by Christian writer who lack the "keys" to unlock this Ancient Spiritual wisdom and in so doing they literally discount and blaspheme the Ancient Spiritual Masters by relegating their profound Wisdom to the trash bin of "Paganism" and illegitimacy. Unsettling to me, even in spite of their comments, is the fact that these "Sungods" and these "Messiahs" had similar lives and sayings to that found in the New Testament in its depiction of my Christian Jesus. I, not possessing yet the "keys" to unlock this Ancient Spiritual Wisdom at that time in my life and in my studies, was unable to see the depth and profoundness of this supposed "Pagan" rubbish and nonsense. But that will all change over the next 5 years as my studies advanced to the point where I could see the incredible intelligence and Spiritual Wisdom that hid exalted Cosmic Truths under the religious myths of the Ancients. Exposed before me as my studies in Gnosticism and Egypt advanced was the foolishness, absurdity, and lunacy of these former Christian writers and their blind opinions on such "presumed childishness, ignorance, absurd symbolism, metaphor and myth" of the Ancient Wisdom and religious myths!
When I got to think about much of what I was reading about, like the two births and two mothers of these Sungods and Messiahs, it finally dawned on me that I should not be surprised at the idea that the nations "Christs", like the Christian Jesus Christ, should have two mothers and two births. In fact one day I was reading the Gospel of John and the truth jumped out at me; a truth that I had never seen illuminated to me before. I saw that in the "Jesus Story" even the New Testament Christ, the symbol for the Divine principle in mankind, heralded explicitly by Jesus in his declaration to Nicodemus that "ye must be born again." Nicodemus asks if this means that we must enter a second time into our mother’s body and experience a second birth in the natural manner. There is always a "literal" interpretation which the flesh of mankind looks for in the beginning. But often we loose the real truth when we look only superficially at such passages. Jesus replies that we "must be born of water and the spirit." Something was hidden in such a response. Many opinions exist but I went to the Lexicons to get to the root of the words.
Answer for yourself: What does "Spirit" mean? The Thayer's Greek Lexicon says:
4151 pneuma-
1) a movement of air (a gentle blast)
The Greek word "pneuma" is translated as "spirit" in many passages and means "air" or "breath."
Unknown to most Christians is that one great keys to Bible meaning is the series of the four "elements" of ancient mythicism:
The Ancient taught that the body of the physical or natural man was conceived as being composed of the two lower elements, earth and water, while air and fire, representing mind and spirit, commingled to make the higher or spiritual man. It is important that in such an understanding we see "two realms" of existence; one physical and one Spiritual. Mankind is a mixture of Heaven and Earth.
Jesus’ statement to Nicodemus, then, could have been rendered, "born of water and air." And John the Baptist uses three of the four elements when he states that he, the forerunner of the Christos, and therefore a type of the lower natural man, indeed baptizes us with water (omitting earth), but that there cometh after him one higher than himself who shall baptize us with the holy spirit (air) and with fire. Let us stretch our minds for a second. We find in the New Testament that the depiction of the Jewish Christ affirms that mankind has two births, necessitating two mothers, and John the Baptist adds that we must have two baptisms.
These same Ancient Spiritual Masters and Sages of Antiquity, from nation to nation, taught that man’s spirit is an indestructible fragment of God’s own mighty Spirit, truly a tiny "spark" of that cosmic Intelligence and Love which we call the Mind of God.
John 1:1 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (KJV)
Unknown to most Christians is that the reference to "the Word" in John 1:1 has more in common with "thought" and "idea" than with a "spoken word". We really need to grasp this idea before we go on.
John 1:1 1 In the beginning was the Thought, and the Thought was with God, and the Thought was God. (KJV)
These same Ancients in their writings typified the divine element in man by "fire" and in contrast the lower or human element by "water". The fiery soul of man is housed in a temple of flesh and matter which is 72% water by actual composition! Now if you have read much of Comparative Religions you find repeatedly the crossing of the rivers and seas and the immersion of solar heroes in water in olden mythologies, and the rite of baptism in theology, signified nothing beyond the fact of the Soul’s immersion in a physical body of water nature in its successive incarnations.
Answer for yourself: Does this mean that our Sungods and Solar heroes and Christs, and their "baptisms", or when they "walk on water" are but personifications of the Divine Soul as it descends into matter and the flesh (water) of mankind? Yes. Thus when Christ walked on the water this was neither a human action, since it is not human to walk on water, nor was it divine, since it is not of God to walk, but it is an evidence of the union of humanity and Divinity as told through allegory. That will not suffice for many so it appears that we need more evidence before we can say for sure and draw rigid conclusions that might apply to our inherited "Jesus Story". What we will see behind many of our "Jesus Stories" are parallels with the lives of the Sungods and should be so since both are descriptions and personifications of the incarnation of God into matter in the form of "the Christ".
Answer for yourself: Does this finally settle the long debated question as to why Jesus Christ submitted to a baptism of repentance given by John the Baptist if he was "without sin" as Christianity teaches? Is the New Testament Jesus fulfilling the mythos and myth of the Sungods? Let me give you a clue; he is fulfilling the mythos and we mistakenly read it as if "historical-literal".
Answer for yourself: Where do we get the idea that the Sungods were baptized in the first place? We get it from the personification of the Sun as it moves through the Zodiac. Yep, the "Sungod Stories" and the "Jesus Stories" come from the personification of the path of the Sun through the Heavens. Comparative Religion shows that the story of Jesus already existed in numerous religions prior to the alleged time of Jesus. Chrishna, Horus, Orpheus, Bacchus, Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, Apollo, Hercules, Adonis, Ormuzd, Mithras, Indra, Œdipus, Quetzalcoatle, etc. are all prior "Jesus Stories". The motif of a Crucified Savior was already extant prior to the alleged time of Jesus. Solar Mythology shows the story of Jesus is just an allegory for the sun passing through the Zodiac and the passage of the seasons of the year. Jesus travels throughout his one year ministry, and the description of his travels exactly match that of the sun traveling through the Zodiac during the year when personified as seen in the lives of these prior Sungods, their lives and their "logia" or sayings. Here we have the origin of the "Jesus story", which is the personification of the Cosmic Energy, the Sun, which is but a symbol for God as understood by the Ancients. This common origin explains why all the stories of crucified saviors are essentially the same. The "key" to unlocking this whole repetition of "solar stories" lies in the fact that all these Sungod stories as well as our "Jesus Story" is mystical and mythological allegory depicting the "Descent of the Divine Soul" into matter. Thus, the proper interpretation of the "Jesus Story" is the "pattern" for the "birth, life, maturation, death, and rebirth" of our Soul. The rest is commentary but you have to see it to "believe it". We do this now.
Just for fun understand that the personified Sun is born in the House of Capricorn where upon as the personified Sun he must move from the House of Capricorn to the House of Aquarius. Now read the following two links and try to tell you that this is but a coincidence before you resume this study.
Answer for yourself: Is this why Jesus, the personified Sun, after his birth in the House of Capricorn, moves on to the House of Aquarius and why the New Testament has little to mention between the birth of the Christ (personified Sun) and when he appears at the waters of Jordan to be baptized? Jesus moves from the "manger" of Capricorn to the Jordan and John the Baptist (the water bearer). I will let you figure that one out by yourself. The Sun is plunged into the water of the Constellation of Aquarius on its route to the zenith of its life and ministry at the Summer Solstice. Now let us continue. There are 12 articles detailing the "Jesus Story" that parallel the passage of the Sun when personified through the Zodiac and they line up perfectly with the depiction of Jesus from Matthew chapter 1 through Matthew chapter 28. You literally have to see this to believe it.
We have seen that the Spiritual Masters of Ancient antiquity, from Ancient Egypt on down through history, including the great Greek philosophers like Plato, Plotinus, etc., in symphony taught that mankind is distinctly a creature compounded of two natures:
Each of these manifestations of God is combined in a mutual relationship in the organic body of flesh. Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher of the late 6th century B.C.E. states: "Man is a portion of cosmic fire, imprisoned in a body of earth and water." Plato, who lived 427 B.C.E. – ca. 347 B.C.E. was an immensely influential classical Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, writer, and founder of the Academy in Athens. Speaking of man Plato affirms: "Through body it is an animal; through intellect it is a god." To create man God incarnated the fiery spiritual principle of His own Energy/life in the watery confines of material bodies. Man is cosmic fire, the very Energy of The Cosmos limited and entrapped in this matter we call flesh. That power which permeated the lower nature of human kind is transformed into soul power as a permanent virtues. The cosmic fire force within man, the furnace wherein this work is effected, is symbolized by many things by these Ancients. We will look at a few as this article goes on. But a few more things need to be said.
The following is a summary of the Ancient's teaching on mankind and the Divine Spark within him:
Man per se is an invisible entity. What we see of him in and through the body is merely the manifestation of the inner man, because man essentially is a spiritual energy -- a spiritual, intellectual, and psychomaterial energy, the adjective depending upon the plane on which we choose to discern his actions, for indeed he may be said to exist on all planes, inner and outer. Though man is an invisible entity, he needs a physical body in which to live and with which to work upon this physical plane. He is a pilgrim of eternity. He came forth from the invisible part of cosmic being in aeons so far bygone in the past that mankind, except the great sages and seers, has lost all count thereof. He came out of the womb of cosmic being as an unself-conscious god-spark, and after wandering aeon after aeon through all the various inner worlds, passing at different stages through our own material sphere, and out again into the inner worlds, he finally became man, a self-conscious entity; and here we are. Future aeons of time will bring forth even on this our earth, into a far more perfect manifestation than at present, the locked-up faculties and powers existent in every human being. The heart of the heart of a human being is a god, a cosmic spirit, a spark of the central cosmic fire; and all development is merely bringing forth into a more perfect manifestation the infolded energies, faculties, powers, organs, of the evolving entity we understand as God in matter, or should I say God in mankind. And as these faculties and energies become more able to manifest themselves, become more perfectly evolved forth, does the organism through which they work -- the body -- show the effects of this inner evolving fire, of this energy within; and thus also the body itself so evolves, because automatically reflecting in itself each inner step taken forwards. Out of the invisible into the visible, like the growth of a plant, comes man, the man-plant of eternity. Now you know why Osiris was a "vegetation god". Beginning in one life on earth as a human seed, man grows to maturity, and produces or evolves forth what is locked up within; and then, with the natural decay of power, sinking to earth the body dies; and after a long period of rest and assimilation of experience in the invisible worlds, the Ancients taught through observation of the unchanging Laws of the Cosmos that this inner spiritual flame comes again to earth for a new incarnation here. The spirit of man works through the human soul.
What you need to know right now is that what you just read is the most accurate and truest basic description of man that anthropology can present.
Man is, then, a natural man and a god, in combination.
Ps 82:6 6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. (KJV)
John 10:34 34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? (KJV)
Our natural body is the platform, the medium that gives the Soul of man its baptism by water; our initial spiritual body is to give us the later baptism by fire!
Of vital significance at this point are two statements by St. Paul:
1 Cor 15:46 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. (KJV)
1 Cor 2:14 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (KJV)
This should make sense to us; for the natural man is not yet in that higher kingdom of evolution, and he must be transformed, transfigured, lifted up into a superior world of Divine Christ Consciousness before he can apprehend spiritual things. Development of the Spiritual Nature in him will thus transform him, and nothing else will. We must feed on God and His truths if the "inner man" is ever to grow to his intended Spiritual Maturity in this physical realm the live, the testing ground for our Souls.
Now we come to the genius of the Ancient so terribly misunderstood and denigrated by early Christianity. Gross blindness and the dullness of the later Christian age which is propagated by later Latin and Greek Church Fathers would cite these same marvelously ingenious portrayals as the evidence of childish ignorance on the part of these Ancient Spiritual Masters who were the disseminators of this profound Spiritual Wisdom. Using astrological bases for portraying cosmic truths, the Ancients used Astrotheology to express in simple myth which was already known as a Heavenly truth.
Answer for yourself: What better symbolism could they have used to portray such Divine Cosmic and Heavenly truth than the symbols of Heaven themselves?
The Ancient Spiritual Masters and Adepts localized the birth of both the "natural man" and the "spiritual man" in the Heavens and understood that they were connected with two Constellations:
Answer for yourself: What is this to teach us?
These then, Virgo and Pisces are the houses of the two mothers of life.
The
first was the Virgin Mother (Virgo), the primeval symbol of the Virgin
Mary thousands of years B.C. Virgo,
it was taught, gave man his natural birth by water and became known as the
Water-Mother. The connection of Virgo with water is
confirmed both in the fact that Virgo's
polar opposite is Pisces, 
the
Fishes, and one of the esoteric rulers of Virgo is Neptune, veiled by the
Moon. Take time to look at the picture and see how Pisces is adjacent to
Virgo on the Wheel of the Zodiac. Let the reader picture before him the
circle of the Zodiac, with the House of Virgo at the western or right end
of the equatorial meridian line drawn horizontally through the center and
intersecting the circle on the east and west, and with the House of Pisces
directly opposite it on the left and eastern end. This picture that I used
has it reversed but you get the point. The simple fact that these two
Constellations stand opposite to each other and six months apart and they
will presently be seen to dramatize cosmological and anthropological truth
of the most basic and, in our present state of ignorance, astonishing
important are they to our understanding if we ever hope to arrive at the
truth behind our "Jesus Story".
Answer for yourself: Why is this important? There is a relationship between the two Constellations and the Spiritual Message that they bring mankind and we will see this momentarily.
According to the ancient Egyptian sphinx, the first house of the Zodiac is Virgo, not Aries as in the modern Zodiac!!!
Answer for yourself: Why is this important? Thus, the natural birth of mankind begins here. It is common knowledge among occultists that, from remote antiquity, Virgo represented the Mother Goddess worshipped under various names by different pagan cultures. Some of the mythological representations of Virgo are Nana, Eve, Istar, Demeter, Hecate, Themis, Hera, Astraea, Diana, Cybele, Isis, Fortuna, Erigone, Sibylla and the Virgin Mother. All representations of these goddesses are of the Great Mother in some form. It is this Great Mother who existed before the Masculine gods of ancient and classical mythology. The feminine aspect of God will be replaced by a Masculine representation of God around 2000 B.C.E. when the northern hemisphere invades and conquers the southern hemisphere.
Pisces (the Fishes by name) gave man his spiritual birth by the Fish and was denominated the Fish-Mother. So now we have two mothers, a "water mother" (Virgo) and a "fish mother" (Pisces).
Let us not forget that the personified Sun, a symbol of God and Cosmic Energy/Force/Power moved through the Heavens and the Houses of the Zodiac. This Heaven is what we call the Sky or Space. Despite all the various Creation myths that the Egyptians subscribed to, they had one thing in common, Nun. Even though the myths named different gods as the original Creator, they all agreed that He sprang from Nun, the primordial waters. Nun was more than an ocean, he was a limitless expanse of motionless water. Even after the world was created, Nun continued to exist at it's margins and would one day return to destroy it and begin the cycle again. Thus we should expect and are not disappointed with "water" symbolism with Pisces (the Fish Mother) and Virgo (the Water Mother). Behind all of this Astronomy mind you is the Descent of God into matter, Spirit and Soul, invisible and visible (fire, water, air). Let us not forget what lies behind this symbolism.
The virgin mothers are all identified with water in symbolism and their various names, such as Meri, Mary, Venus (born of the sea-foam), Tiamat, Typhon and Thallath (Greek for "sea") are designations for water. On the other side there are the Fish Avatars of Vishnu, such as the Babylonian Ioannes, or Dagon, and the Assyrian goddess Atergatis was called "the Fish-Mother."
Don't forget what I just said as we will build upon this as we go.
Answer for yourself: What else lies behind the significance of the fish symbol in the zodiac and in mythical religion?
We all can agree that water is very important in the birth of a baby. The mother's womb is a watery environment. The baby begins to float in a watery environment somewhere between 3-6 weeks and we all are familiar with the saying "her water broke". Therefore water is the type of natural birth because all natural birth proceeds in and from water. All first life originated in the sea water. The fish, or the "symbol of a fish", is a birth in and from the water, and it stands patently as the "generic type" of organic life issuing out of inorganic!
Answer for yourself: What should this teach us? Namely, that the fish symbolism typifies life embodied in a physical organic structure.
Answer for yourself: What are the Ancients doing with such Astronomy and symbolism of these Constellations?
The Ancients were masters at utilizing astrological symbolism and facts for the depiction of cosmic truths, the ancient astrologers localized the birth of the natural man in the zodiacal house of Virgo, and the birth of the spiritual man in the opposite house of Pisces. These, then, were the houses of the two mothers of life’s progeny. The first was the Virgo (Virgin) Mother, the primeval symbol of the "Virgin Mary" thousands of years before Christ. Virgo gave man his natural birth by water, and became known as the "Water-Mother" as I said above. Pisces, the Fishes by name, gave him his birth by the "fish," or in the sign of the Fishes, and was denominated the "Fish-Mother." Virgo stood as the mother of birth by water, or the birth of man the first, earthy, in a watery body. Pisces stood as the mother of birth by the spirit, or by fire, or the birth of man the second. Man’s physical body is the high product of a biological evolution that actually started in the ocean water! The Ancients taught that our Soul descends through various manifestations and kingdoms before entering the mankind: first the mineral kingdom, next the vegetation kingdom, then then animal kingdom before the human kingdom. Virgo was poetized as the Water Mother of the natural man; Pisces as the Fish Mother of the spiritual man. So Virgo was the first of the two mothers of the god-to-be in the life of mankind; Pisces was the second.
In spite of the presence of these significant data standing for all to read in mythology and the Scriptures, any profound grasp of the interior notions was missed because the true relevance of the symbolic sense of both water and the fish had never been glimpsed. Prominent as the fish symbol has been in Christian literature of the introductory period of Christianity, no one has seemed to divine its enlightening cryptic import. Water is the type of natural birth because all natural birth proceeds in and from water. All first life on our globe originated in sea water, and all vegetation must have water to maintain its life. The fish is a birth in and from water, and the fish fittingly therefore stands patently as the generic type of organic life issuing out of the inorganic! The fish typifies life embodied in a physical organic structure, subsisting in a sea of inorganic matter. Organic life is born out of the inorganic just as the fish is born out of the water. It is the child of the water-as-mother. And if organic life (the "Fish") is in its turn to become mother, its child will be mind and spiritual consciousness, son of the Fish Mother (the home for the Christ). Water is thus the mother of natural physical life, and organic physical body becomes the mother of later evolving divine mind. Thus we can see that the Ancients are teaching through such Astrological symbolism that organic life is born out of the water, and is the first birth (natural), child of the water-mother. And if organic life is in turn to become a mother, its child will be "mind" and "spiritual consciousness", son of the fish-mother. This is the home for the "descending Christ" and his incarnation into mankind! We need only to remind us that Paul has already taught us
1 Cor 15:46 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward (second) that which is spiritual. (KJV)
We are speaking of a Divine Pattern that is repeated throughout the whole Universe and therefore taught in all the Ancient Wisdom religions. Simply said, God created and in so doing He descended into matter (the natural physical creation...the first birth); the Mind of God, the Intelligent Spark of the Cosmos descended subsequently into this same matter and transformed the creation by imparting the Divine Spark into mankind (matter). This is "the second birth; the spiritual birth. Thus we have "two births" and "two mothers"; Virgo and Pisces. So, in brief, water is the mother of natural physical being, and organic structure becomes the later mother and gestator of the Divine Cosmic Mind of the Creator who descends into matter.
Speaking not about a "literal-historical" Christ but rather the "Christ-Consciousness" Paul would say:
Phil 2:5-7 5 Let this mind (thought) be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: (KJV)
We continue. Now, strangely enough, water is not limited to this one symbolism as it is the type of another thing that teaches us about an even earlier stage of development of matter. Matter is the virgin mother of all life. All things are generated in the womb of primordial matter. Of all the nations which teach this we look to Egypt and their religious mythology and symbolism for its greatest unveiling of hidden Divine Truths concerning this "primordial matter".
Answer for yourself: Why is Egyptian religious mythology so important for us to understand? Simply, as I found in my 20 years of study, it is by a consideration of the nature of matter and its evolution that we are enabled to arrive at last at the true meaning not only of the double motherhood of life but the clearest understanding of the metaphysical state in which mankind is placed by our Creator. Let us not be mistaken, at the heart of our "born again" doctrine, as with all our other religious doctrines, like the Laws, Cycles, and Patterns operating in the Cosmos which the most spiritually inclined of our species as far back as Ancient Egypt both saw and spiritually understood when pondering the night skies of Ancient Egypt. Of course at the heart of all of this is the "truth about 'the Christ'" and the coming of "the Christ" into matter as the mediator between mankind and God.
Egypt taught that man exists on a number of different levels at once, from the most physical to the most metaphysical. Einstein agreed with the same principles. Since Einstein’s relativity theory, it has been known and accepted that matter is a form of Energy—a coagulation or condensation of energy. We know that Energy is made up of molecules rotating or vibrating at various rates of speed. In the “physical” world, molecules rotate at a very slow and constant rate of speed. That is why things appear to be solid, for our earthly senses. Really an visible object is mostly "space" and when we touch it we are touching only the circulations electrons and this gives it the appearance of being a solid. Basically visible objects are miniature "solar systems" consisting of small amounts of matter separated by vast amounts of "space" in which the electrons are circling the atoms at such speeds that they appear as "solids". The slower the speed, the more dense or solid the thing. In the metaphysical (spirit) world, the molecules vibrate at a much faster, or ethereal dimension—where things are freer and less dense. In this light, the universe is basically a hierarchy of energies (neteru), at different orders of density. Our senses have some access to the densest form of energy, which is matter. The hierarchy of energies is interrelated, and each level is sustained by the level below it. This hierarchy of energies is set neatly into a vast matrix of deeply interfaced natural laws. It is both physical and metaphysical (natural and spiritual). It is into this "space" in matter, our flesh for example, in which the Energy or "neteru" named "the Karest/Christ" has entered in its "incarnation". This Divine Consciousness has come to "tabernacle" in the flesh of mankind. All of mankind are manifestations of "the Christ child".
Today modern science has verified what the Ancient Egyptians taught about matter and metaphysics. We know today that matter is seen to exist in two states, in each of which it becomes mother of life, at two different levels. Primordial matter, the sea of empty space, is the first mother of all living forms. This is the primal "abyss of the waters" in Genesis. Egypt gave the Hebrews the ideas they later expressed in Genesis. This "abyss of waters" is called "Nun" in Egypt. This Nun is one of the eight creator deities of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad. He was the divine personification of the primordial waters of chaos from which the "primeval mound" of the sun-god, Atum (the invisible One arose). Here again we find the primordial waters as the Eternal Potential that will birth the "first-natural-visible" creation (the primeval mound) and behind it operating in secret is the the "second-spiritual-invisible" One; the Absolute First Cause. The Latin word for "mother" is our very word "matter," with one "t" left out--mater. And how close to mater is water! And organic structure is the second mother, parent of spiritual mind (the Karest/Christ).
The ancient books always grouped the two mothers in pairs. They were called "the two mothers" or sometimes the "two divine sisters." As we find them described in Egyptian religion and other Ancient Religions they were the wife and sister of the God, under the names of Juno, Venus, Isis, Ishtar, Cybele or Mylitta. In old Egypt they were first Apt and Neith; and later Isis and Nephthys. Massey relates Neith to "net," i.e., fishnet! Pisces, the fishes, refers again to the "spiritual birth" that is to follow the "natural birth" (Virgo). Clues to their functions were picked up in the great Book of the Dead: "Isis conceived him; Nephthys gave him birth."
Answer for yourself: Could these references to the two mothers, Isis and Nephthys and Apt and Neith be in reality a reference to the two births of mankind; one natural (the one in Virgo...watery womb) and one spiritual (one in Pisces)? No wonder the fish symbolism is the "Jesus Story".
Answer for yourself: What have we seen here so far? This is very important you understand what you just read. We see that the Ancients used both astronomy and astronomical terminology dealing with the Constellations in the Zodiac which move above our heads and the methodology of "personification" to express these various Energies of the Cosmos and associated forces, principalities, thrones, dominions and powers to refer to mankind and the two births of mankind; one natural and one spiritual.
Answer for yourself: Then are we seeing that the "personification" of these Metaphysical dynamics of the Cosmos were explained by the Ancients use of "personification" to describe these Metaphysical principles, like Isis and Nephtys, gods and goddesses (the two births of mankind...natural and spiritual)? Yes we are. Is this how they wrote in explaining the Descent of God or the Soul into matter and the Descent of the Mind of God, the Christ into the flesh of mankind? We sure did see it and this is exactly how to interpret the Ancient Wisdom Scriptures and the "Christ Stories" in these various Sungods and the "Jesus Story".
Answer
for yourself: Then did these same Ancients use this same
Methodology to express Metaphysical dynamics operating in the Cosmos and
in so doing are we to understand that these Sungods and goddesses (neteru)
and the "Christs" are not to be understood as if "historical-literal"
personages but yet behind these Spiritual Stories lie a very real
Metaphysical truth concerning the Descent of God, the Cosmic Mind into
matter in the form of His Christ? We sure are. This applies to the "Jesus
'Christ' Story" as well.
These Ancient Sages go on to write: "Isis bore him; Nephthys suckled him," or reared him. The full sense of these statements was not discerned until they were scrutinized in the light of another key sentence which matched them: "Heaven conceived him; the Tuat brought him forth."
For "heaven" is precisely the place, or the state of the first matter-mother, the "firmament" of empty space, and in the bosom of this first mother form the unit potential of the seed of "divine mind-to-be" is conceived. All later potency of a godly mind is latent in the depths of sub-atomic matter. "The shape of things to come" in the evolution of universal life is archetypically conceived at the arc of the cycle when spirit and matter, as yet undifferentiated, are identical and homogeneous. Spirit yet slumbers in unconsciousness, and matter exists only in the mind of God. All things are initially conceived in the innermost heart of primordial Being, wherespirit as Father and matter as Mother are yet One. Being is then Father-Mother, not Father and Mother. With this comes the crystal clear insight into the mystery. For that which is to eventuate in the cycles of evolution as the descent of the Divine mind into an organic matter and creature, by that I mean mankind is elementarily conceived by Divine ideation (thought..."in the beginning was the Word") in the innermost depths of Cosmic Consciousness (God's thoughts/Mind), or in the unmanifested world of "thought" (before matter and the "big bang"), or again in the heart of Infinite Spirit, where Spirit is identical with pure undifferentiated matter.
Answer for yourself: How did Egypt express this idea; the "thought" in the mind of God before the subsequent visible "manifestation" of that "thought" in the physical realm?
This is mirrored in the Egyptian statement that Isis conceived him. Matter in its invisible, inorganic state and existing only in the world of "thoughts" of God as it existed only as "potentiality in Nun before the "big bang" was the womb of the first conception. In the beginning, the world appeared as an infinite expanse of dark and directionless waters, named Nun. Nun was personified as four pairs of male and female deities. Each couple represented one of four principles that characterized Nun:
Matter existed as "thought" only in the primeval water that encircles the entire world, and from which everything was created. Isis is virgin, i.e., pure matter, or matter which, as "thought", is unmanifested and undifferentiated that awaits its birth, evolution and transformation. The Tuat, on the other hand, is really earth, as the type of physical matter, or matter organic, aggregated into substantial forms, called by us physical matter. It is matter as substance, constituted and existent in the visible world in structural forms. We have before us then the "invisible world of potential Energy" and the subsequent "visible world of potential Energy realized" (matter is energy...it only changed "form"). Isis was matter existing only as empty space (invisible), and Nephthys was atomic matter, consisting of concrete structural forms (visible) awaiting its manifestation. It is the "invisible world that births the visible". It has been said that it is advantageous for us to think of the physical worlds as floating in the sea of empty space like fish in a pond of water. These physical worlds are the second form of matter (matter in thought and in the mind of God in the invisible realm being the first), and their organic bodies of substantial matter give birth to the Logoi (word, thought, speech, reason, principle, standard, or logic) in the solar systems and to the Karest/Christos in man.
Plato
also thought a lot about the natural world and how it works. He thought
that everything had a sort of ideal form, like the idea of a chair, and
then an actual chair was a sort of poor imitation of the ideal chair that
exists only in your mind. One of the ways Plato tried to explain his ideas
was with the famous metaphor
of the cave. He said, Suppose there is a cave, and
inside the cave there are some men chained up to a wall, so that they can
only see the back wall of the cave and nothing else. These men can't see
anything outside of the cave, or even see each other clearly, but they can
see shadows of what is going on outside the cave. Wouldn't
these prisoners come to think that the shadows were real, and that was
what things really looked like? Suppose now that one of the men escaped,
and got out of the cave, and saw what real people looked like, and real
trees and grass. If he went back to the cave and told the other men what
he had seen, would they believe him, or would they think he was crazy?
Plato says that we are like those men sitting in the cave: we think we
understand the real world, but because we are trapped in our bodies we can
see only the shadows on the wall.
Answer for yourself: How does all of this apply to Plato?
In the same way the "natural birth" as seen in the Sun passing through the Constellation Virgo (Water-Mother) is not the real birth for mankind; the real birth for mankind is the Spiritual Birth that is typified only by the "natural birth".
1 Cor 15:46 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. (KJV)
Plato would tell us that the "natural birth" of mankind (Water Mother-Virgo) is but a shadow for the real birth of mankind which is "spiritual" (Fish Mother-Pisces).
This concept of the "spiritual birth" is mirrored in the Egyptian statement that "Isis conceived Horus, the Christ-to-be". Matter was the womb of the first conception, and Nephthys was to give birth to what Isis conceived. Isis is therefore the true Virgin of the world, because she is matter in its virginal state, not yet existent, unable to be paired off as the opposite pole of spirit and hence unwed. As virgin, she has not yet given birth to the Christ. That role will be performed by Nephthys, matter impregnated by spirit/Energy. Cosmically and evolutionarily speaking, Isis is the young girl who can not marry and bear the Christ; Nephthys is that same young girl grown to womanhood and able to produce her child. In the same sense in which we say that the child is father of the man it can be said that Isis is the mother of Nephthys. And we shall see that this legend of the two mothers, the second being the daughter of the first, is found intact in the New Testament Gospel story.
Answer for yourself: Do we need a review before we close this article.
Answer for yourself: If heaven, in the sense of virginal matter, conceived the Divine Consciousness principle, what is the "Tuat" that brought it forth? It must be equivalent to Nephthys. This locality is the Egyptian designation for earth, or matter in its substantial evolved form which can finally bring spiritual consciousness to manifest expression. It is matter in its physical form. Isis was matter subsistent in the form of "empty space;" Nephthys was atomic matter, existent as visible structural form, or the "fish." The fish is seen to be the type of organic matter floating in the sea of inorganic first matter, the "waters of the firmament." We see the physical worlds floating about in the sea of empty space like fish in the water. The physical universe is that Great Fish in the sea of infinite Being which contains the germ of the Jonah Consciousness (for Jonah is another figure of the Jesus or Christ Consciousness). This great universe is the second form of matter and hence is the second mother, Nephthys.It is the developed bodies of organic matter that give birth to the Logos in the macrocosm and to the Christos, a seed unit of that same Logos, in man the microcosm. Man’s physical body, with brain and nervous system organized to give expression to that grade of mind denominated the Christ consciousness, is the divine Fish of the mythologic tradition of early Christianity. One needs only to refer to the Greek designation of the Christos of the precessional period of Pisces as Ichthys the Fish to be amazed at the play of the symbolism in the ancient day precisely when Christianity was being formulated. For the sun had entered the sign of the Fishes about 255 B.C.
So under the conception of the divided function of motherhood it can be said that man’s future Christhood is conceived in the womb of Isis and brought to birth from the womb of Nephthys, the second mother, the immediate incubator of the Christly power in the world. New life is first conceived in the minds of man before born from the womb of its physical mother. This is a Cosmic Law; two births and two mothers! It is conceived by the mother and born by the daughter. Life is spiritually conceived and physically born. Man is born first as man, by water, the sea of primordial matter, in whose depths he is conceived; then he is reborn later as god, by the fire of spirit, emerging with biological life out of the womb of the sea, the Water-Mother.
The two mothers can be sharply distinguished as these two forms of matter in the following delineation: the first or virgin mother (Virgo=Isis) is matter in its first creative form; invisible, inorganic, unsubstantial (in our sense) and subatomic. The second mother (Pisces=Nephtys) is matter in its later evolved form as visible, organic, substantial and atomic. The first mother, the "Water Mother", virgin though she is, generated her child, organic matter, who by virtue of her "immaculate conception" was confusedly still called "virgin." And this daughter, grown to adulthood by evolution, became the second, or "Fish Mother," and in her turn produced, not now a daughter, but her Son, the masculinity indicating a spiritual and not a further physical progeny, the birth of Mind from matter (the Karest/Christ).
As hinted a moment ago, this genealogy or divine lineage is found in the New Testament of Christianity and the "Jesus Story".
Answer for yourself: How is that?
The first mother, corresponding to Isis is Anna, and the second mother is her daughter Mary, who bears the Christos, Jesus. Anna and Mary are the Isis and Nephthys of the Christian dispensation. And it is a question whether the Christian Anna and the Hebrew Hannah are not immediate derivatives from the Egyptian An, Ani, Anu. An was an alphabetical glyph for existent being. Ani was the name of the human entity evolving to deity in the Book of the Dead. We will later see that "Anu" will have an astonishing significance a little farther on in the final article #3.
The Ancient Spiritual Wisdom of the sages taught that the Divine spirit (existing the Mind of God, a mind of thought and ideas) is conceived in the womb of Isis, the first universal mother, and brought to birth in the womb of Nephthys (physical matter), the second mother, the immediate incubator and gestator of its manifest expression. If you are not familiar with the concept of "archetypes" you need to read this article in order to help you conceptualize what is being said. This is saying simply that physical realm manifests the archetypes that exist in the invisible realm of pure Energy and Spirit. Moses, whom many believe in Pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th Dynasty, speaks of this when mentioning "the Pattern" of the Tabernacle in Heaven as a template for the one to be built on earth.
Exod 25:40 40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount. (KJV)
The "real is the Spiritual" in the realm of the Fish-Mother (Pisces; second birth); the natural is not the real but a shadow pointing to the real spiritual reality that is hinted at by the physical real (the archetype); in this case King David, really Tuthmose III, a Pharaoh of Egypt, 18th Dynasty, speaks of the same thing by mentioning this "pattern" as well.
1 Chr 28:19 19 All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern. (KJV)
Now you can begin to see why the Egypt had at the very center of its Religion the Spiritual concept of "So Above, So Below". Even the New Testament teaches this:
"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." (Mat 6:10 KJV)
As we have seen there is a "pattern" for the birth of mankind; a natural and a spiritual birth as taught by the Constellations above. Unknown to most Christians is that Ancient Religious myths of the nation's Christs, Sungods and Messiahs were generally "allegorized" as having two mothers! Unknown to most Christians is the profoundness of Spiritual knowledge within such a statement. Re-examination of such a religious stance of the Ancients in not only beneficent but necessary if we ever hope to settle the "historicity" problem surrounding the New Testament's depiction of "Jesus Christ". Such a religious belief may go against biological law but it does not go against Spiritual Law of the Cosmos as I have explained. As we study this out you will see that it is not the Ancients who are unintelligent but it is us today who are still immersed in primitive superstition, not the Ancient Spiritual Adepts.
This dual maternal parentage of the Messianic characters of history should not have appeared so outlandish and bizarre had we possessed only a few "keys" necessary to interpret our own Scriptures. This is easy to understand when we consider that it is the Jewish Christ, Jesus himself, the dramatic personified figure of the divine principle in man, who categorically announced this very feature in declaring to Nicodemus that "you must be born again." Here we find our "two births" and by necessity our "two mothers".
Thus life has two births and must of necessity have two mothers. Or, as we have heard so often when reciting that often used passage "a man must be born again", man is born as a natural creature from the Divine Spirit into matter, and born later as a spiritual god when he emerges from his baptism in the water of his physical body (his earthly life and reenters the bosom of his Father as the Soul at his death). Or, finally, he is born first as man, by water (physical birth of the Soul in matter/flesh); and reborn later as god, by fire (repentance and Spiritual enlightenment and awakening).
The body of the physical, natural first man, of the earth, earthy, was symbolically conceived as being composed of the two lower, or coarser of these four elements, earth and water; while air and fire, representing mind and spirit, commingled to constitute the higher, or spiritual man, the second Adam, or the Christ. Jesus’ statement to Nicodemus could then as meaningfully have been phrased "born of water and air." Thus we can see a new significance in the statement of John the Baptist, in which he uses three of the four elements to symbolize his meaning when he said that he, the forerunner of the greater Christ, baptizes us with the two lower elements, water and earth (but omitting earth, which should have gone with it); but that the mightier power of spirit that is to supervene after his preparatory work has been accomplished, will baptize us "with the Holy Spirit (air) and with fire." Jesus thus affirms that we have two births, necessitating two mothers, and John adds the corroborating datum that we have two baptisms.
Egypt sees these Divine processes mentioned above, the first and second birth of mankind taught, proclaimed and modeled for all mankind to see in the movement God's Heavens in the beginning of time. The Spiritual Priest and Masters of Egypt were the first to understand that God depicted for all of mankind the first birth on the western side of the zodiac, in the house or womb of the Virgin Mother, in the constellation Virgo, because in the west the Sun, which is the universal symbol of spiritual fire, descended into organic matter in its setting, or incarnation. This is a beautiful picture of God's Energy incarnating in matter which the Ancients understood as the God's Spark of Life/Energy being deposited in matter and flesh of mankind. So man is born as natural man on the west (Virgo/virgin matter), to be regenerated as spiritual man on the east (Pisces). Spirit’s descent, in the form of the setting Sun sinking on the west horizon as the Constellation Virgo is on the night's western horizon, makes it man; consequently the Sun's resurrection on the eastern horizon, like the summer sunrise, makes it deity again. This is the death and resurrection of the god in all religions. It is all about God becoming "matter" and infusing this matter with His Consciousness and Divine Mind as the Soul in matter (flesh). This is "the incarnation of Christ" we see in our "incarnational" infancy narratives in the Gospels. It is incarnation and return to spirit. This "Divine Pattern" is cyclical being played out in Cosmic Laws above our heads in the Heavens which is the Sky as seen in the path of the Sun as it moves through the Zodiac yearly. This explains why many of the nation's Christs have but a one year "ministry" as we find with the New Testament Jesus in the Gospel of John. It takes the Sun only one year to repeat it circular cycles through the Heavens, Constellations of the Zodiac and the Equinoxes and Solstices. This same "Divine Pattern" is again replayed for us in the Laws of Nature. Ancient mankind saw the Creator teaching mankind about his "Divineness" not only above his head but under his feet as well. Thus we again better understand the cornerstone of all Egyptian Religion: So Above, So Below. This "Divine Pattern" was told repeatedly in multiple symbolisms many of which are in our Bibles in which we mistakenly interpret as "literal" stories about assumed personages.
Answer for yourself: Now did Jesus, the New Testament Christ, really go down into Egypt as a child? The Ancients again tell this similar story about their Sungods and their "Christs" and frame such an "incarnation of God's Energy into matter" in the form of a story of the "descent of their Messiahs into Egypt and his exodus back to Canaan". Now you can see that more than likely this is again allegory to follow the mythos.
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