For a mystery this sculpture has a lot of staying power. The eyes of a gazer can spends hours studying the work. The flanking figures holding the torches are enhanced by the small but slightly visible fire extinguisher. This matches the figure holding the torch upside down. This piece of work provides in part the answer. The answer to how to bring God into man. The rites of Mithra were designed to unlock and awaken the secret of regeneration. To impart divinity is the goal hidden in the work known as Genesis. The two figures holding torches bear the trace of a circuit. The importance to producing a current is the circuit. The descent of the soul and the ascent of the soul. Descending and reascending. The eating from the tree of active and passive. Is the tree of good and evil. The use of the scorpion hence the reproductive gonads to entice the spirit to descend from the brain after knowledge allows one to see as gods by following the evolution law of reincarnation to ascend and return. The story of Genesis is the Macrocosm story of the sun moving through the zodiac. The effects of the mind as man occur in the image of the sun in the microcosm. All three figures in the stone art work have the Phrygian cap. Zosimus, the alchemist give us a great gift in the form of a treatise on Asbestos. This philosophic substance is the pure body of man that can remain in the fire without being consumed. It is very hard to use the fire of heaven without getting nothing in return. The application of the will leads to undesired results. Success will come, but what to do with the excess energy? This results in anger, sadness, depression, tears. How to control the outcome? Wasting the gifts of heaven will not be fruitful. The removal of the animal mind is required. Zosimus recommends the following procedure: if you dry it in the sun you shall possess the mystery that no man can impart, in which no one of all the wisdom-lovers hath ventured to initiate in words; but by the sanction of themselves have they imparted its initiation. For they have called in the scriptures the chief of all the mysteries: The stone that is no stone, the unknowable known unto all, that which hath no honor yet is of the greatest honor. That which none can give but God alone, the one thing in all our operations which is superior to all that is material. That is the remedy which doth contain all power. This of which he writes is called the Mithriac Mystery. A constellation of great importance and clearly visible is hidden from human affairs. The Chaldean works mention it as Rukubi, The Chariot. The painting above has the driver wear a Phrygian cap. The Auriga constellation is appropriately mysterious for our intended purpose. The charioteer in Latin is Auriga. Paintings of the constellation offer telltale clues as to the purpose of the constellation. Any attempt to fit the images to known mythologies fail. The paintings also include a female goat and two goats at a much younger age. There is a song used by Magi that describes a chariot driver. Knowledge of this song comes to us from Dion Chrysostom (50-120 AD). The song was used as a sacred hymn. This Supreme and perfect Charioteer has the most perfect vehicle. More admirable and ancient far than the chariot of the sun which all can see. This perfect vehicle is the cosmic car drawn by the four great elements. This is the all-perfect sphere of the AEON, or the eternity. This is the boundless time. He is regarded by the Magi as infinite space. His name is Zervan Akarana. This means eternity without bounds, who in this tradition transcends Ahura Mazda. This is the complete man. Knowledge of the Auriga is by all means not held to be unknown known only by the AEON. This celestial map reveals the driver to be wearing a crown. This one has the elements under control. The goats again appear in this painting. The female goat is on the shoulder. The star part of this goat is Capella. The star is also named The Heart of Brahma. The star is Amalthea that provided milk to baby Zeus. Both the driver and this passenger are held in high regard. The four elements are the steeds of the great chariot of all things. The course of the first winged horse is beyond the limits of heaven itself. This steed transcends the rest in beauty, greatness and speed, and shines with purest brilliance. Its resplendent coat is dappled over with sparks of flame, the stars. the planets, and the moon. The second horse is air. Its color is black. The side turned towards its shining mate is bright with light, but that in shade is dark. In nature it is mild, and more obedient to the rein; it is less strong than fire and slower in its course. The third is water, slower still than air; while earth the fourth of the great cosmic team, turns on itself champing its adamantine bit. Round it its fellow steeds circle as round a post. And this continues for long ages, during which the cosmic team work steadily together in peace and friendship. But after many ages, at a certain time, the mighty breath of the first horse, as through in a passion, desires to pour from on high and gives this fire to the other horses in the team. The other horses become hot. Finally the mane of the horse of earth is set ablaze. This describes the action of the cross as the crucible provided for the mixing of the four elements. In suffering of this cosmic passion the earth causes also distress to its neighbor, the water horse. This disturbs the course of the water horse resulting in floods of sweat inundate the earth horse. This happens at certain great periods of time when the Charioteer either reins in his steeds or urges them on with the whip, as needs may be to keep the world course that his will marks out. The one element from many becomes the Charioteer But at the end of the world's age a still stranger mystery is wrought. A divine contest takes place among the four horses. All their own natures become transformed, and their substances pass over to the mightiest of the four. It is as though a sculptor had modeled four figures in wax, and melted them down again, and remade them into one form. The one element becomes omnipotent, and finally in its triumph is identified with the charioteer. This mythology describes four elements recombining into the fifth. Robert Fludd's Monochord attracts alot of attention on the possibilities. What if there were connections to music and art and science? This drawing reveals a way to obtain. contact with the various nerve centers along the spine system. Attempts to utilize its glory require the mind to make the efforts. Now it is just a diagram often presented to tantalize the reader. This diagram can be found in the Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica physica atque technica historia. The Musical scale was assigned to the Mithriac Climax. A method to bring God into Man. So secret is this that it is not revealed to any one. The use of metal names to nerve centers are employed by alchemists. This process of identification is the same as the Sanskrit names used for lotus petals to identify nerve centers in yogic techniques. The structure of every lotus and the movement of the petals must be obtained by the student. The spinal nervous system is very important in Holy Texts. The Mithriac Climax is the stations from the base of the spine to the head. When the nervous system is activated in proper sequence the regions of the head closed become now open. That brings on new mental activity. Never before encountered. In the initiation of Mithra the soul passes through irregular spheres. These are the nerve centers. They are irregular because their sizes and activities vary along the spine. The quality of thoughts derived from these centers create a ladder. The ladder has seven gates. The first gate in the spine is composed of lead, the second gate is tin, the third gate is copper, the fourth gate is of iron, the fifth gate is an alloy, the sixth gate is silver, the seventh gate is of gold. The metal arrangement corresponds to the roman deity name scheme of Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Moon, Sun. The centers of silver and gold are inside the head. Fresco image made as a rough drawing. Much information has been damaged in the many frescos found underneath the church. Where one conducts this does not matter. In the ritual a cave was chosen. This was because the solar consciousness is born in an enclosed structure. That structure is the astrological sign of Capricorn. The baby Christ. The sun is born in that sign. Synonymous with an enclosed structure is the microcosm version. Inside Man. The Man is a cave for the deity. The Capricorn is housed in a vault of the sacrum. This is where the hip bones meet with the torso. The use of caves as performance spaces is along this manner: The Cafe Wha? and Chislehurst Cave, for example. Within this cave a special room was constructed to have eight walls. Each wall corresponded for gates along the ladder. Hence the walls could be decorated with symbols of the metals and planets. A couch decorated with lion motifs will allow the seeker a view of the 8 walls. Mirrors can be placed at each wall and allow the seeker to gaze and find their soul, then move with their soul through each gate. This allows a one to one experience with conscious activity to move and activate each of the nerve centers. According to a St. Jerome there were seven degrees of initiation. They were described, by the writer, as a title to be given to the initiate. The titles are: number 1 Raven, number 2 Occult, number 3 Soldier, number 4 Lion, number 5 Persian, number 6 Runner of the Sun, and number 7 Father. It is said by critics that statues of these titles existed. There is a fresco underneath the Santa Prisca in Rome Italy. It has the seven grades represented as human figures. In more detail they are the following: Number 1 Corax -- Mercury: Raven and Magic Staff, Number 2 Nymphus -- Venus: bridal veil, Number 3 Miles -- Mars: Lance, helmet and bag, Number 4 Leo -- Jupiter: Shovel, sistrem (rattle), and thunder bolts, Number 5 Perses -- Luna, crescent moon, scythe and faix, Number 6 Heliodromus -- Sol, whip, torch, halo , Number 7 Pater -- Saturn: Hat, robes, ring and staff. Each of these ranks had functions and statements to make. The Miles receives a crown onto the head. The Miles removes the crown. The Miles replies: Only Mithras is my crown. The raven grade is present in alchemy. The alchemists say the raven is the door to their art. The Magian mystery aimed to focus on two areas. One deals with the descent of souls into generation, and the other with the ascent of souls and their freedom from the necessity of rebirth. This is the becoming gods. These areas are the lesser and greater secrets. You are of the stars, not just of the earth. We forget this and judge our condition and home only on what we deceive and glean from sensation. The rituals help us to remember. The word Magi means servants of God. The use of honey to wash the hand is a purification ritual. This is a symbol of the ox-born. At one point in the ceremony there would be scheduled a meal among the participants. A recreation is presented above. The application of common eating is seen in many ceremonies. This is represented in places outside the temple such as among friends, at a job, or anywhere, anyplace. The bringing together and sharing of foods is vital though the meaning forgotten. The Agape meal was once a part of the early christian church. This changed after the fourth century AD. The word Agape is from the Greek (ἀγάπη) for unconditioned love. Abide with me in my soul. Leave me not that I may be initiated and that the Holy Spirit may breathe within me. One of the rituals involves the playing of cymbals and drums. Later wine is poured onto a cymbal. and drunken from. Bread is placed onto a drum and eaten. Initiates would offer bread and water to Mithras in a ritual. The act of getting it together involves the Vagus nerve. It is the longest cranial nerve. It contains motor and sensory fibers and, because it passes through the neck and thorax to the abdomen, has the widest distribution in the body. This nerve contains somatic and visceral afferent fibers, as general and specific visceral efferent fibers. The vagus nerve is attached to the medulla oblongata by filaments. These attachment points are along a groove between the olive and the inferior peduncle. The grove of olive trees. The olives are involved in motor learning. Such as playing piano, Moving limbs in certain ways. The olives are also involved in auditory sensation. The ability to localize sounds involves the tissues of the olives. The vagus nerve passes vertically down the neck within the carotid sheath, lying between the internal jugular vein and internal carotid artery as far as the upper border of the thyroid cartilage, and then between the same vein and the common carotid artery to the root of the neck. The further course of the nerve differs on the two sides of the body On the right side, the nerve passes across the subclavian artery between it and the right innominate vein, and descends by the side of the trachea to the back of the root of the lung, where it spreads out in the posterior pulmonary plexus. From the lower part of this plexus two cords descend on the esophagus, and divide to form, with branches from the opposite nerve, the esophageal plexus. Below, these branches are collected into a single cord, which runs along the back of the esophagus enters the abdomen, and is distributed to the postero-inferior surface of the stomach, joining the left side of the celiac plexus, and sending filaments to the splenic plexus. On the left side, the vagus enters the thorax between the left carotid and subclavian arteries, behind the left innominate vein. It crosses the left side of the arch of the aorta, and descends behind the root of the left lung, forming there the posterior pulmonary plexus. From this it runs along the anterior surface of the esophagus, where it unites with the nerve of the right side in the esophageal plexus, and is continued to the stomach, distributing branches over its anterosuperior surface; some of these extend over the fundus, and others along the lesser curvature. Filaments from these branches enter the lesser omentum, and join the hepatic plexus. The Jugular Ganglion is of a grayish color, spherical in form, about 4 mm. in diameter. This ganglion is connected with the hypoglossal, the superior cervical ganglion of the sympathetic, and the loop between the first and second cervical nerves. Your thoughts are from these nerve centers. They are not inert focus only on maintaining the body. You are a composite. The reasoning behind the solar child mythology is a point is necessary for the need to obtain control of all these centers. This unification ushers in the new Aeon. Complacency of life and mind will not seem to necessitate change. Points in growth that can deem it the most teens and middle of life. An event or series of events can drive such change. Yet such change can occur at any moment regardless of a specific condition. Picture from the self portrait of the artist Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy Trioson. The artist is wearing a Phyrgian cap. The ability to be independent and free was not a political concept. The french revolution 1787-1799 used the cap as a symbol for other purposes. Independence of mind means to be free. The endless reincarnations end with the solar child. The effects of emotion have no effect on a free mind. In the corpus Hermetica a passage mentions souls being unable to pilot their (vessel). The receiving of the gift of the 10 divine powers grants one the right to wear this cap. Drawings of the prophet name Zarathustra have a human figure with a beard. The light of the Sun can be seen to emit from the head in more recent devotional paintings. In the older drawings the figure is depicted as wearing the same hat that Mithra wears in the sculpture piece at the beginning of this article. It is in the Bahman Yast in which Zarathustra receives water to experience a vision. In this manuscript a tree with seven branches is described. They involve a Gold branch, a Silver branch, a Brazen branch, a Copper branch, a Tin branch, a Steel branch, A branch mixed up with iron. The branches 1 Gold branch 2 Silver branch 3 Brazen branch 4 Copper branch 5 Tin branch 6 Steel branch 7 Iron branch Much careful consideration will yield to a revelation that these tree branches and the Mithra ranks are related to the same citadels in the body. These are the nerve centers. There are seven required for initiation into the Holy City. The placed called Babylon is also called the Gate of God. The rational understanding will take time. The ranks of Mithra can be understood by comparing them with the metal branches. MITHRA RANKS 1 Corax -- Mercury: Raven and Magic Staff 2 Nymphus -- Venus: bridal veil 3 Miles -- Mars: Lance, helmet and bag 4 Leo -- Jupiter: Shovel, sistrem (rattle), and thunder bolts 5 Perses -- Luna, crescent moon, scythe and faix 6 Heliodromus -- Sol, whip, torch, halo 7 Pater -- Saturn: Hat, robes, ring and staff. YOU Will have to assigned them to each branch of the tree. This effort will be urged upon the reader. Make the most of this exercise and you will be surprised by a wonderful discovery that is hidden upon the face of the earth. The Orpheus playing the Lyre to the different animals does so with a hat that may or may not appear familiar to the reader. In this mosaic the central figure wears a Phyrgian cap. Each animal has a significance. Can you name them? The use of the music controls your thinking. To achieve victory over ignorance requires the gift of truth.
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