More Positive but Less Harvestable

[Tenet Nosce]

Here is a partial connection to the uses of sacrifice.

These are really good quotes, where did they come from?

They foreshadow very well where I was going with the ritual sacrifice. By late antiquity, animal sacrifice had been a practice since time immemorial. Since the Golden Age of the Vedas, man was invited to live in cities where ritual sacrifice to the gods was performed.

So who were the gods? Nowadays, a Christian might mention something about false idols and go along with the academic dogma that, since superhuman beings cannot exist, our ancestors must have "invented" the idea of the gods in some insane attempt to make sense of why there is suffering in the world.

Indigenous traditions had already practiced ritual sacrifice as an element of animism, but the fabled Golden Age is when certain indigenous tribes walked out of the jungles to live in the cities with the gods and their hybrid masters.

I get the sense that the gods, whomever they are/were, had some sort of sense that they would increasingly become aloof from, and inaccessible to, the civilizations that they had seeded. So they co-opted the existing practice of ritual sacrifice and used magical ritual to redirect the offering to somehow maintain some sort of metaphysical foothold in 3D reality. Who knows? Maybe the blood from the sacrifices flowed down into the earth and fed the gods in recluse in their subterranean cities of Shambhala and Agartha.

From the remotest historical records of antiquity, we have in 2333 BC Sargon "The True King" claiming divine authority to rule within a few generations after the mythical Flood. Who gave him authority? The gods. Yet as time goes on, and the gods reemerge into the stream of history through their reincarnation as idols of worship, more and more kings rise up each claiming the same divine right to conquer, and through force, control the ritual sacrifices conducted by the priests. Of course the Kings themselves rarely fought in battle, but instead raised armies of hungry men, fed by the toil of slaves, brainwashed to believe that they had a duty to "protect" one tribe against the perceived "threat" of another.

This brings us to the times of the Eighteenth Dynasty in Egypt. Around 1333 BCE, Akhenaten proclaims the first truly monistic religion which proclaims the oneness of all creation. He also proclaims the first co-regency with a woman, his wife Nefertiti. Based on my reading of the Law of One, I understand this to be the time of the Ra contact.

As recounted in the Law of One, what Ra perceived to be a loving intervention had massive unforeseen ramifications, essentially creating a Wrinkle In Time. Their communication to us is part of an attempt to reduce the distortion brought about by their intervention. Even this latest attempt in 1981 which we know as the Ra material struggles immensely with a mental inertia which tends toward a particular distortion.

Following the death/disappearance..? (two mysterious personalities emerge over a millenium later as the progenitors of Inca civilization). We'll just say death for now... Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their monistic religion become buried and quickly forgotten from history, until their reemergence in the late 19th century. Most people vaguely remember this as the discovery of "King Tut's Tomb" in the time of Lord Bulwer-Lytton.

But their legacy lived on. For though Akhnaten came to perceive the Law of One by his own accord, the Ra contact was channeled through a filter with a certain distortion toward self-righteousness. And so Ahknaten attempted to convert the whole of Egypt in one fell swoop, after a thousand years of polytheism, to monism. Without passing through the natural intermediate stages. This backfired, big time.

Some of the Hebrew tribes, notably Judah, had by then been living comfortably among the Egyptians for many generations under the Eighteenth Dynasty. Now, within just a couple of quick generations, the climate has completely and violently reversed, and the Hebrew people become enslaved where they had once been guests. Truly through no fault of their own. If only Akhenaten would have guessed that from his eternally youthful exuberance, would be birthed history's greatest folly. He placed the Mountain Over Water and tried to force his view upon others.

It is around this time of Exodus that Jehovah emerges as the One God of a reforged monotheistic religion. Not monistic, as in all is one, but monotheistic, as in Thou Shalt Not Have Other Gods Before Me. I think this is the twist that Ra did not foresee! Here we have the example of why loving action taken without wisdom can lead to great sorrow. This is a gift from the mid 6th density, and we would be wise to take notice. :idea:

Jehovah steps up and offers to rescue the tribes if they swear to forgo all gods but him. They forge a Covenant with God whereby they secure Jehovah's protection in exchange for doing his Will. God's Will is expressed as the Ten Commandments. Ten statements which make for pretty good ethical guidelines... but in the newly forming Jewish mind, was understood as an absolute standard by which to conduct one's life.

To me, this is Jehovah's ninja move because he knew all along that his Chosen Ones ("Elect") would ignore the hidden meaning, and never be able to live up to their end of the Covenant. Therefore he didn't have to live up to his own.

Now fast forward to the Babylonian Exile of the Jews around the 6th-5th century BCE. These are the events recounted in the Book of Daniel, which was written hundreds of years later.

This is also the time of Zoroaster, Mahavira, Pythagoras, Siddharta Gautama, Laozi, and Confucius. They all lived in this very short period of time together. Now I don't know about anybody else, but I don't think this was clearly pointed out to me when I learned about these people in school.

All of these guys forwarded a philosophical doctrine that was in some way an admonition to let go of the Golden Age of the gods, and embrace the coming Age of Man. Now it is true that, in their mental thrust away from the gods, they each spoke out in varying ways about animal sacrifice.

Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, happened to take a very extremist view toward not conducting oneself with any behavior that may cause harm to other living things. They of course, were vegetarians. The Buddha, however, declared all things in moderation, and his non-vegetarianism is immortalized in the myth of his death from having eaten poisoned pig.

Now fast forward again another 500 years, and about 200 years since the first known historical accounts describing the lives of these men. The civilized world had become unified under Alexander in 333 BC, the idea of democracy had been birthed in Greece along with a vision of a more cosmopolitan society where each is tolerant of others' gods.

Another 200 years, and the power has passed to Rome. Both the Temple and the Library have been destroyed. Pesky war-mongers!

Now we are are in Jesus' time. Judaism is now one of a whole cadre of new religious movements, when previously it only had various flavors of polytheism to contend with. (One possible exception being the progenitor of Zoroastrianism.. the enigmatic Melchizedek "King of Righteousness" whom Abraham paid tribute to. Jesus' birth was also visited by the Three Magi (now Wise Men ) which is another throwback to the Iranian version of monotheism, not the Israeli kind.

I do believe in many ways Jesus' mission was about putting a somewhat final stamp of death on animal sacrifice. And the message of Christianity seems to have been much more powerful than any of the Iron Age religions alone in that respect. Maybe it was just good timing.

But Paul seems to me in many ways a return to the old ways, a throwback to zealotry, and in many ways is responsible for the coming Dark Age of man. Of course, he probably did not know anything about the "Curse of Ra" much less that he was playing an integral role in its development some 1500 years later.

Now here we are and another 1500 years have passed. Jesus has still not returned. It is 4:56 on 07/11/2011 and people went to church yesterday in their new eco friendly minivans, pretty much oblivious, while their child is off warring in Babylon and Mohenjo-daro. Oops, I mean Iraq and Afghanistan. :idea:

In their mind, they have accepted Jesus as their Savior, and that's all they need to know. They just pray that Jesus will watch over their son or daughter as they walk through the Valley of Death. They just pray for somebody to save them. If not Jesus, then maybe space aliens?? Alrighty then, I suppose they are free to choose as they will. :-/