Is There a Direct Link Between Four World Religions?

Posted on April 11, 2022 by cdsmiller17

From Buddha, through Jesus and Muhammad, to Baha’u’llah

Ever since I started charting historical personages, astrologically, I’ve had a nagging thought about the connections of the most familiar leaders/originators of four of the world’s religions. But before I show you that, I need you to see Muhammad’s death chart.

I have set the clock for noon on June 8, 632 CE. (And I can only do his death chart, since Muhammad‘s birth date is unknown.) What seems to me to be significant is the Cosmic Cross featured so prominently in this chart. I can only surmise that this was his Crucifixion. (And I can only wonder what his birth chart would have been like.) And Neptune in the 1st House of his ‘fatal’ chart speaks volumes about his legendary status among the followers of Islam, and the decided lack of images of his body and face.

The Four Charts Together

Before I share them, let me remind you that Gautama Buddha’s birth chart is based on a best guess estimate. However, the lineup of the other leaders’ death charts is sobering, to say the least.

As I noted previously, Jesus appeared to be the second coming of Buddha. But in that post, I compared their birth charts only. Here the link is more dramatic, and conclusive: Buddha’s natal North Node is conjunct Jesus’ ‘fatal’ Jupiter and Muhammad’s ‘fatal’ Mars/Part of Fortune conjunction, while being in opposition to Baha’u’llah’s ‘fatal’ Saturn. Isn’t that something? Well, isn’t it?

I know it’s not enough of a hook to hang your hat on, but I still feel that astrology shows us what nothing else can. These men are connected. If I had any other details, I’d look further, but this is enough.

Just remember the Golden Rule.

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May I Respectfully Disagree with Perceived Wisdom?

Posted on April 11, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Baha’u’llah (November 12, 1817 – May 29, 1892)

1868

To start with, I am not a Baha’i, so the inclusion of this photograph is not meant disrespectfully. There are plenty of people who might take exception to that, but it is the nature of these posts to present my point-of-view about historical people and events.

The “Glory of God” is the individual who started a religious movement in Iran, but he didn’t choose to be the leader: the Bab announced his coming (like John the Baptist did for Jesus), and a go-between handed the tablet to Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí, who accepted the role as Prophet-Founder of the Baha’i Faith when he was 27. He then changed his name to Baha’u’llah.

The birth of Mirza Husayn `Aliy-i-Nuri (Baha’u’llah), happened at dawn,  in Tihran. His mother was Khadijih Khanum and His father was Mirza `Abbas, (also known as Mirza Buzurg).

The Birth of Baha’u’llah

This is the chart for dawn of that day in 1817. But what if the timing was passed down as symbolic, and not factual? The dawning of a new age…

When I first looked at his birth chart, I rectified his birth to reflect his marrying at age 18 (Venus), and being told of his spiritual role at age 27 (Mercury) (while subtly noting that these two numbers are multiples of 9, the sacred number of the Baha’i Faith). Hmm.

Here’s the chart I erected:

I think this one is better suited to his personality, if I may be so bold as to say that. His destiny (North Node @ 17° Taurus 45′) is better placed in the 1st House.

The only inconjunct is fixed between Venus and Pluto in both charts, so it is factual.

Venus Inconjunct Pluto

With this aspect you must learn a great deal about the kinds of friends you want and the kinds of experiences you will have through other people. Even while you are still young, you may meet persons who are quite difficult to get along with, but who seem to be impossible to get away from, even when you want to. You may be fascinated by such persons, or circumstances may force you to stay with them. These people do have a definite role to play in your life, but it may not always be a pleasant one. They will teach you something about life or about yourself.

However, you don’t have to put up with difficult or unpleasant relationships, because if you think about it, you will realize that you are drawn to these people in order to fulfill your own hidden emotional needs. Think about what you really want from others so that you can find it in a better relationship. And if you encounter people who won’t allow you any freedom, which can happen with this aspect, then avoid them.

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The Spiritual Meaning and Significance of…

Posted on April 10, 2022 by cdsmiller17

The Number 9

Aerial view of a Baha’i Temple in Cambodia

I am very familiar with the number 9, especially with its effect in combination with other numbers in Numerology. Take, for example, the digits in my birth year, 1950. Adding the digits up, the result is 15 (which then reduces to the number 6). It is as if the 9 is invisible, which is a hint at its nature: angelic.

According to the Bible, there are nine “fruits of the spirit,” which are specific attributes — love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control — that are said to be the result of the influence of the Holy Spirit in a Christian’s life. In addition, Jesus died at the ninth hour. Matthew 27:46 recounts: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

The Spiritual Meaning and Significance of the Number Nine

The Baha’i writings say that the number nine is “the number of perfection” and “the highest digit, hence symbolizes comprehensiveness, culminations.” It is also significant that the Baha’i faith is the 9th world religion, completing our understanding of the other eight.

That’s why one of our symbols for the Baha’i Faith is the nine-pointed star because it represents the unity, truth, and oneness of all religions. In fact, every Baha’i temple in the world has nine sides to it.

Ibid

Even John Lennon would agree: Number nine, number nine, number nine…

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Yesterday in History XII

Posted on April 10, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Rita Moreno Wins an Oscar (April 9, 1962)

On this day in 1962: Actress Rita Moreno becomes the first Hispanic woman to win an Oscar, for her role as Anita in West Side Story (1961).

It’s hard to believe this was 60 years ago. Rita Moreno was 30, when she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Now, she’s 90 and still going strong, appearing in Steven Spielberg’s updated version this past year. Do you want to see a birth chart of a hard worker?

No one knows what time Ms. Moreno was born, so I have rectified her birth chart to show the age (30) when she won her Oscar (Moon/Saturn conjunct @ 21° Capricorn). There are three inconjuncts, but I’m not going to delineate those aspects in this post. I now want to look at the event chart, instead.

There are four inconjuncts in this one: two of them form a Yod pointing at Saturn @ 10° Aquarius; how appropriate (as Saturn represents the Industry…). To see the effect on Ms. Moreno, let’s combine the charts.

The Oscar Part of Fortune is within 3° of Rita’s Sun (@ 19° Sagittarius). The Oscar Midheaven is conjunct Rita’s Ascendant (@ 6° Cancer); and Rita’s South Node (@ 1° Libra) is widely conjunct the Oscar Ascendant. Rita’s Uranus is midpoint between the Oscar Sun/Mercury conjunction in Aries. Finally, Rita’s Neptune is almost exactly conjunct the Oscar Pluto (@ 8° Virgo). Wow!

Only in America, eh?

The Yesterday in History post.

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Is this Egyptian Symbol also a Gnostic Christian One?

Posted on April 9, 2022 by cdsmiller17

The Ankh

I’ve looked at this symbol before, but in relation to Sharon Tate’s friend, Jay Sebring’s use of it in his advertising. But I haven’t explained its significance to me, personally. Perhaps this chapter from Jesus and the Lost Goddess will help:

The Christian myth cycle suggests that the original source of the Christian image of the cross is the ubiquitous Egyptian cross the ankh. This ancient symbol was so important to Christians that they tooled it into the leather cover of one of the collections of gospels found at Nag Hammadi. The basic ankh is a circle above a ‘T’ cross. The crosses that were used for crucifixions were ‘T’-shaped and in Jewish mythology Moses lifts up a serpent on a ‘T’ cross in the desert, which was understood as a pre-echo of the image of Jesus on the cross. For these reasons, the early Christians thought of the Christian cross as ‘T’-shaped. The ankh, therefore, would have been seen as the cross of Jesus below a circle. The circle is a symbol of wholeness and nothingness. It represents the archetypal potentiality of the pleroma. The ankh shows the pleroma as delineated by the horizontal axis of the cross, just as it is in Christian mythology. Below the circle, the kenoma is cut in two by the descending vertical axis of the cross, representing the Mystery made manifest through duality. The ankh is expressing the idea of syzergy — the One as two.

Mirrors were constructed in the shape of an ankh, with the cross as the handle and the circle as the mirror. The circle and the cross represent that which is whole and that which is divided — the essence and the appearances, the Mystery and the manifest, the pleroma and the kenoma. Understanding the relationship between the poles of this fundamental duality is the key to the realization of Gnosis. And what is that relationship? It is one of reflection. The image is a reflection of the archetype. The appearances are how the essence looks to itself. Wanting self-knowledge, the One becomes two. The Mystery becomes the viewer and the mirror. It creates a concept of what it is. It reflects on itself. From these two — thinker and thought — comes the cosmos.

Jesus and the Lost Goddess (pages 158-9)

And finally…

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Keeping Up with the Kardashians?

Posted on April 9, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Kim Kardashian, in Particular

I sat next to her in my dream last night, as the whole Kardashian Klan was sitting down to dinner. I was polite; she was distracted. It was as if I were invisible, which I may well have been. Interesting…

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This Post is About…

Posted on April 8, 2022 by cdsmiller17

No Thing

We have a hard time imagining ‘nothing’. It’s not difficult to understand why: our thinking’s normal focus is on ‘something’. When we try to un-think that ‘something’, we run into a conceptual nightmare.

But modern astronomy has given us a way to ‘picture’ what nothing could be: a black hole.

When we meditate, we open ourselves up to higher consciousness, which is still ‘something’. It is only when we try to go beyond all thought that the true ‘being’ reveals itself as ‘No Thing’. We are back in ‘both tea, no tea’ non-dual Unity. How’s that for a solution?

May you find the Source of all things…

Amen.

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Quiet time — the-well-spring.uk

Posted on April 8, 2022 by cdsmiller17

8th April 2022 With your commitment to a short period of quiet time, the awareness of the whole Universe opens up for you. At first, there are expectations of how this should be, but as you learn to relax into the quiet, different thoughts and images appear. This is how communication comes about. It is […]

Quiet time — the-well-spring.uk
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Oh, So That’s Why I Can Remember So Much

Posted on April 7, 2022 by cdsmiller17

The Draught of Oblivion

Oblivion symbol (courtesy of Deviant Art)

As we have explored previously, the original Christians do not understand Hell in the same way as the later Literalist Christians. Literalists teach the horrendous idea that after one life some of us will be doomed to burn in the underworld forever. Christian Gnostics, like Pagan Gnostics before them, teach that this world is the underworld. We come here many times, progressing through many lives in an ongoing process of spiritual maturation which reaches fruition in the realization of Gnosis. Those who do not realize Gnosis in this life are reincarnated here to continue their spiritual schooling. This is symbolized by the left-hand path to Hell. Those who do realize Gnosis in this life know their essential nature to be the Mystery of God, so they don’t continue to make the error of identifying with a physical body. This is symbolized by the right-hand path to Heaven.

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To the Gnostics, the two paths represented remembering and forgetting. The right-hand path of remembering our true nature leads to Heaven. The left-hand path of forgetting our true nature leads back into the cave of the cosmos. Pagan Gnostics imagined that those who took the left-hand path were give a ‘draught of oblivion’ to drink, after which they found themselves reincarnated in a physical body. Christian Gnostics, likewise, compared our present state to one of forgetfulness, sleep, drunkenness and death, from which we need to awaken through Gnosis.

Jesus and the Lost Goddess (page 109)

Hmm.

This underworld cave in which we are incarnated is both a hellish prison in which we are temporarily exiled from Heaven and a womb in which we have the opportunity to spiritually mature. If we have lived a good life but not realized Gnosis, in our next incarnation the Goddess of Justice will assign us a life in which it will be easier for us to spiritually awaken. The Book of the Saviour teaches:

‘In its next birth, the good psyche will not be given the draught of oblivion, but will be cast back into a body which will not be able to fall asleep and forget. It will be ever pure in heart, seeking after the Mysteries of Light until it has found them, by order of the Virgin of Light, so that the psyche may inherit the light for ever.’

The figure of the Virgin of Light is equivalent to the higher Sophia, who represents the disembodied aspect of the psyche in communion with Consciousness at the centre of the circle of self. As our judge at death, who creates our future fate according to our just deserts, she represents our own higher nature which, aware of our presently limited awareness, fashions a life for us that will give us the opportunities we need to awaken.

Ibid (page 111)

I know that it may seem tedious when I quote at length from one chapter of a book I’m reading, but I wanted you to see that what I have being going through in this life is a blessing, not a curse. My ability to remember past lives through the research I’ve been doing with Astrology and Reincarnation means that I’m finally beginning to understand the past well enough to avoid similar problems in the future, hopefully. I might even be able to witness my life’s journey as one long continuation of growth.

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Make Yourself: At Home

Posted on April 7, 2022 by cdsmiller17

Ikea Canada’s 2022 Slogan

It’s a clever bit of advertising, this. Most of the time, we think the phrase means ‘settisville’ as Jed Clampett used to say, meaning ‘set yourself down and relax awhile’. Ikea’s meaning is different.

Here’s another phrase from the head Beverly Hillbilly:

“Weeeell, doggies! That’s green enough to stick in the ground and grow.”

A Clampett Full of Catchy Phrases

So, this is my theme today:

Personal and spiritual growth, that you can do from where you are now, at home.

If ever there was a time to work on yourself, it was the past two years. And because we’re not out of the woods yet with COVID-19 and its variances, there’s still time to dig in, plant the seeds for a better future and keep watering the soil to bring it to fruition. (I was tempted to use ‘soul’ instead in that metaphor.)

The Four Elements

Like the Pagan Gnostics before them, the original Christians imagined the process of initiation as a series of elemental ‘baptisms’ which lead us through the levels of our identity, which they equated with the four ancient elements: earth, water, air and fire. These were nothing to do with the elements of modern chemistry, but are equivalent to the four fundamental states of matter: solid, liquid, gas and radiation. Fixed physicality is represented by earth, ever-changing psyche by water, invisible consciousness by air and the Mystery, hidden in everything like energy, by fire.

The psychic initiation is the baptism of water, through which initiates are cleansed of identification with their earthly self. The pneumatic initiation is the baptism of air, in which initiates come to know their ineffable essence as Consciousness. The realization of Gnosis is represented by the baptism of fire, in which initiates’ sense of being separate from the Mystery of God is finally extinguished in the all-consuming light of the dazzling darkness. In The Book of the Great Logos Jesus offers initiates the opportunity to be born again through these three baptisms/initiations of water, air and fire.

Jesus and the Lost Goddess (page 113)

If you want to read more about the final initiation, please click on this link: The Refiner’s Fire. “The Seed’s Secret” is the first parable in the post which explains the spiritual journey from seed to plant.

Here’s a watering can, to start…

Here endeth today’s lesson.

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