ARCANUM

             Arcanum:

·         A deep secret; a mystery.

·         Knowledge that is mysterious to the average person.

·         A secret essence or remedy; an elixir.

 At the heart of every religious tradition persists a secret. Throughout history it has been expressly forbidden to reveal to the public. Thus its mysteries have remained a hidden legacy, veiled behind mystical stories and the world’s inheritance of art and literature; for all to admire, few to imitate, and for even fewer to understand.

 There are massive misinterpretations of religious history due to blending of politics with cultural and religious history. Popular religions never fade away; they just change the names and stories a little bit. Like all history, the narrative of religion is controlled.

 The fastest growing religious group is that of the non-believers. Though, the truth is that throughout all history, only few have ever understood the true essence of spirituality. Spiritual teachers who are pure with this understanding always attempt to be missionaries and spread the word through every facet available to them. The guiding of humanity is often represented in artwork as a being holding a suckling baby. This being can be Isis from ancient Egypt, Yashoda in Hinduism, Semiramis of Babylon, Mary in Christianity, even Ba’al.

 The Christian dominated West know little about the rivalry of Ba’al and Yahweh except for what is in the Bible, which is very pro Yahweh. This is because the Christian church has burned more history than every other history combined. For years the Roman Catholic Church threatened, tortured, and killed any who challenged their Biblical truth. It has purposefully replaced Ba’al worship, and is essentially the same. Their claim is based on history, expurgated and morphed and their new version distributed.

 Ba’al-like gods dominated religious life in much of the Mediterranean for thousands of years. He is a remake of a far more ancient god. The Babylonian god Bel who killed the dragons is a myth like Heracles killing the Hydra, which was passed down through many to the Christian myth of St. George killing the last dragon.

 Ba’al was the first choice of the Roman Emperors to be the one and true God of the Empire 150 years before Yahweh and Christ gained that status in 305A.D. There were more than 3 alternatives the Romans considered before settling on Yahweh and Jesus. There was no Christianity until Emperor Constantine. The beliefs of the Gnostic Essenes, of which Jesus was, were laced into the Bible with myth and allegory. The truth has been buried through many misinterpreted works based upon one another.

 The term Ba’al belonged to Cananites and Phoenician cultures. The Bible says these people were wiped out by the Israelites, but there is no historic evidence of such a battle; and groups of Canaanites still exist today. Their beliefs and cultures were simply adapted and morphed. The Canaanites themselves had a culture that was adapted from ancient Sumerian. They themselves were Dravidian, a culture from ancient Sumer that migrated also to India and influenced Hinduism.

 The etymology of the word Ba’al is ‘lord’. Christians still use this word today when they say ‘Lord God’ and ‘Lord Jesus’. The concept of Ba’al is that of a divine ruler. Christians still acknowledge their Popes to be such. Freemasonry also delegates a similar title to their 'Worshipfuls.' The ‘divine ruler’ is often confused to be the ‘divinely appointed ruler.’ However these two things are not synonymous.

 Much confusion is wrought upon the uninitiated of spiritual truths when it comes to history. Figures stand for identical concepts to one another, yet we see them as entirely different things. So too do we see different things to be the same. This confusion is brought on by ignorance. This ignorance is not something easily overcome. It is the biggest challenge any one of us ever can face in our lives. It is the temptation of truth to come from worldly things. In which it does not. This concept is the enormity of world serpent, known in Norse mythology as Jormungandr.

 The Ouroboros, the serpent of Adam and Eve, the Winged Serpent of Quetzalcoatl from Aztec tradition, the serpents on the rod of the Greek god Hermes, serpents of Hindu tradition, the Circle of Iron of the ‘first mystical martial arts adventure’; all mean the same thing.

 To figure that out, you must decipher the teachings of all religion.

“All religions are precious jewels on the golden string of divinity.” –Samael Aun Weor

 The word, ‘religion’ comes from the Latin ‘union’.

 The word, ‘yoga’ comes from the Sanskrit ‘union’.

 There is truly one science, one path, but appears with many names and faces. This is how it must ever be.  Adapted to conform with the way mankind views the world around them. Places, people, symbols, faces, names, histories, all must eventually burn away; but the concepts still remain. It is those concepts which are nearly impossible to teach, unless you transmogrify spiritual truth to fit the culture in which you are presenting it to.

 Known as ‘Gnosis’ in Greek, and ‘Daath’ in Hebrew, these words define the path of wisdom.

On the Bible: “The narratives of the doctrine are its cloak. The simple look only at the garment – that is, upon the narrative of the doctrine; more they know not. The instructed, however, see not merely the cloak, but what the cloak covers.” -The Zohar

 The Bible has been taken literally, and its’ hidden meanings rejected entirely by modern Christianity. So it is modern Christianity takes the Bible literally and has inherited only the cloak of these inherent spiritual truths.

 The first words of the Bible are: “In wisdom, Elohim creates…,” not “In the beginning, God created…,” this first mistranslation, or hidden truth, hides a plural form of gods; both male and female, as the etymology of the word ‘elohim’ suggests. The word refers to angels. Jehovah Elohim is one of these angels which brought life to man. This act of bringing life to a clay-like structure can be likened to the guiding of materialistic humanity toward divinity. Instead of being a reference of bringing physical life to dirt, the passage of creation in the Bible may be talking about igniting the divine spark within mankind.

 Chaldean mystery school esoteric tradition contains 7 dimensions, or heavens; expressed in the Kabballah. Eden is known as the 4^th dimension, ‘the foundation’. Happy in innocence, man needed to grow spiritually; so human hermaphrodites were separated into male and female.

 Trees of life and knowledge are symbolic, grown from the garden or ‘the foundation’. To climb it, is to ascend in wisdom. It gives forth fruit, life, sustenance and wisdom. It gives life to all things. Jehovah commanded man not to eat of this tree.

 Daath is the hidden sphere in the Kabballah. It is Gnosis. It is hidden and never spoken of. It has a reference to the merging of the sexes. It suggests there is a higher wisdom in the combining of the sexes. This has to do with merging polarized concepts, and taking a higher perspective. Entwined serpents, that represent the masculine and feminine, are representatives of this. The double dragon, two headed eagle, and even the DNA are representatives of the same.

 Eating of the fruit allowed Adam and Eve to open their eyes, and be like gods; knowing the difference between good and bad. This also enabled them to procreate. We take the term procreate as to mean, having children, but the truth of it means to willfully manipulate the creation, like magic.

 Most will have you believe that Daath, or the eating of the fruit in the garden, has to do with sexual intercourse. It may be that the entire tree has to do with the concept of growing up; from ignorance of a child, through a polarized adulthood of hardships, and sexual intercourse with a mate, which does suggest the ability to create. We think this way because this is the only creation technique that we know of in our fallen state. We lack the wisdom to realize that all that we do affects the world around us.

 At the point one comes to rise above polarized concepts, to accept both good and bad, one then realizes that all their thoughts and deeds indeed do cause creation on Earth. It is the understanding of the dispersal of all energy, which is often thought of as chaos. It is likened to the Chaos Theory or the Butterfly Effect.

 The forbidden fruit is the desire of man to survive on his own, without a ruler to show them the way. Through man’s desire to go out of the garden and live on his own, man discovered how difficult it is to survive on his own. Man was abandoned by Jehovah because of mans’ desire. It is a mutual occurrence. It is the desire for the soul to incarnate on Earth in a human body and to seek out Earthly things. The seven deadly sins of lust, pride, anger, hate, greed, envy, sloth, become known to any who have to work for the things they desire. The promises that things within the physical world offer are a deception of the serpent. They are legion. They are dualistic. They are manifestations in the physical world.

 Ignorance is bliss. Then you fall into further ignorance and hardships through desire of material things. If you desire manifestations within the creation on Earth, you must suffer to obtain them.

 All things in the Creation are deleterious to the spirit when they are desired more so than spirit itself. If we desire not to suffer, then we should focus on spiritual growth. Spirit should be our goal.

 Christ said the soul is born again through water and spirit. Everything is not born of sexual intercourse, but through true procreation. Like when God said, “When two or more gather in my name, there I am,” he meant his spirit. Practitioners of magic know that their power increases when more people perform a spell together. This is the power of prayer. Christ wasn’t talking about sexual intercourse to the woman at the well when he mentioned ‘life giving waters’. He was talking about the power of the Holy Spirit. He was talking about sharing intention, and her not being alone in her endeavors. Flesh is flesh. Spirit is spirit. Spirit can inhabit the flesh, but flesh cannot give birth to the spirit.

“Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven…. You therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” –Matthew 5:20-48

 Christ spoke often of his heavenly Father; sometimes he also told other that they had a heavenly Father as well. He was talking about the progenitor of all things; the one true, unseen and unknown God.

 God set to the East of the Garden of Eden cherubim angels who guard it with a flaming sword. The entrance to the East, and to the tree of life, is only permitted to those that have conquered the serpent. The temptation of the serpent is through the material world. The light of all that we see, touch, hear and feel is Lucifer; the light-bringer who makes manifest of the entire physical world. The lesson Lucifer provides is to stop worshipping anything in the material world as the source for All Creation, and to look within. The tree of life, and the heavenly Father, is within man.

 The death of the Israelites in the desert was a reference of spiritual death. The deadly serpents set upon them were the result of identification and desire. This is a story synonymous with Jehovah’s creation story in the beginning of the Bible. Moses prayed for the people and gave them the bronze serpent. This occurrence may have an alchemical explanation, which physically cured people from literal poisons from literal snake bites. More likely the bronze serpent was a representation of the tree of life; an instruction to grow in spirit through wisdom. Moses presented the people with the commandments; a guide of how to live morally. This moral practice brought about atonement in their souls and thus fixed the world around them.

 Harmony is realized through atonement of the forces within man. Good moral behaviour, a higher mindset above dualistic concepts and the lack of temptation of desire for worldly things, is the key to ascending the ladder of wisdom towards the world bending power of heaven within.