Heaven

[BrownEye]

I had posted this elsewhere, and this was one of the replies.

Since the Greek's were first, the word Ouranus is what I prefer to say (The Romans later had their term Uranus). Pronouncing Or-anus avoids uncomfortable problems in English



In the interesting Greek mythological system, Ouranus (the 'Heavens'... or the first Sky Daddy was born from Gaia , the initial Earth Mother formed out of Chaos .... then Gaia and her offspring Ouranus were wife and husband). It's interesting how in that system, the Earth Mother was the initial creative basis forming out of Chais to form the rest ... this contrasts with the later focus on Male Sky Daddies ... including the Abrahemic religions tendancy to use patriarchal terms.

In this alchemists diagram of the body, the 5 naked eye planets (those 5 bright ones seen by the ancients) and Sun and Moon label the 7 chakras in the body in the same order that was seen in the Earth-centred model of the Cosmos. (this particular drawing has a spiral order through the chakras representing one of the albedo stages of alchemy . Interesting that the final stage of alchemy - not shown here- has an order through the chakras that exactly matches how our days of the week are labelled.

Sunday (Sun), Monday (Moon), Tuesday (Norse Tyr = Mars), Wednesday (Norse Odin or Woden's day, Mercredi in French = Mercury), Thursday (Thursday = Jupiter), Friday (Frigg's day = Venus), Saturday (Saturn=crown chakra)

And so between the Earth Mother (Gaia) and the Sky Father God are these seven levels in the body.


The union of the Earth Mother and the Sky Father through you is the goal of spiritual practices.


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Interesting how the word for urinate and urethra stem from that same Sky Father God ... rain was seen as the insemination by him of the Earth Mother Goddess (and his mother, but we won't discuss that here hahaha).

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As far as the identity "God" of the Roman Catholic Church (and thus all Christianity that stemmed from it), you can look to the Latinesque (French, Italian,Spanish, Latin etc) languages names for "God" ... Dieu, Dio, Dios, Die, etc


The Vedic 'Sky Father' god was "Dyaus Pita" (whose Earth Mother counterpart was Prithvi Mata). This lead to the words for the Greek Zeus (Dyaus) and later to the Roman Jupiter (Ju + Piter , Dyaus Pita) and then to the Roman Catholic Church

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In the levels of the chakras, this would be the brow Chakra where the planet Jupiter is labelled. ABove him is his father Saturn at the Crown and above Saturn would be outside the body of the "Heavens" labelled as Ouranus.


"Cosmic consciousness" is the same as "Union with the Brahman" as the goal of the Yogis.


I see this symbolically as the mating of the Earth Mother Goddess and the Sky Father God and the end of duality .... non duality and the merging of all duality into oneness.