Dune: Paul Atreides Is The Freemasonic Jesus, Hidden Clues

“But now,” Jesus said, “take your money and a traveler’s bag. And if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one!” – Luke 22:36

On the surface, Paul Atreides can seem quite different from the typical idea of Jesus. His story is about being a warrior and there are significant Islamic connections. In reality though, none of this goes against a broader, especially Freemasonic, view of Jesus.

There are quite a few verses referencing violence from Jesus. However, most are couched in parables, yet it does not change the intent.

“The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.” – Luke 12:46

Some probably do not know that the Messiah of the Jews was supposed to be a warrior.

“Most significantly, Jewish tradition affirms at least five things about the Messiah. He will: be a descendant of King David, gain sovereignty over the land of Israel, gather the Jews there from the four corners of the earth, restore them to full observance of Torah law, and, as a grand finale, bring peace to the whole world.” – https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-messiah

The Messiah was supposed to be like David, a king who wielded the sword. He brings peace to, or conquers, the world. This aspect of The Messiah becomes the Jesus of the book of Revelations, where a sword comes out of his mouth.

“Paul rises to leadership through military strategy and political maneuvering, but his superhuman powers and ability to fit himself into pre-existing religious infrastructure allow him to force himself upon mankind as their messiah.” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Atreides

Jesus fits into the pre-existing religious infrastructure (Judaism, Judaic prophecies like Deuteronomy 18:18-19) which allows him to become the Messiah. Those who assert that Jesus is the one getting married at the Wedding in Cana, could theorize he was marrying an important woman that helped his status.

“As ‘Muad’Dib’, Paul becomes the central figure of a new religion, and reluctantly unleashes a bloody jihad in his name across the universe.”

This could be seen as a reference to Christian expansion, which has sometimes been violent, and the crusades. Paul’s reluctance factors in the more peaceful version of Jesus (“love your enemies”) which is at contrast to the violent verses (“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.”).

“Paul struggles with the idea of potentially seizing divine control over his newly minted empire, but by following the path of his destiny, he escapes from the burden of it.”

“Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?” – Matthew 26:53-54

“He lets an assassination plot against him play out, blinding him, and follows the Fremen tradition of the blind going out into the desert to die.”

“That they said (in boast), ‘We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah’;- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not…” – Surah Ah-Nisa Ayat 157

Like Jesus, he both allows it to happen and does not die from it. Here the Muslim sources agree with Gnostics/Docetists that Jesus only appeared to die.

“He lets an assassination plot against him play out, blinding him, and follows the Fremen tradition of the blind going out into the desert to die.”

“They blindfolded Him and kept demanding, ‘Prophesy! Who hit You?'” – Luke 22:64

Here the blinding is made literal, possibly to make the connection less clear.

In Dune, both the Fremen and Bene Gesserit are nods to Freemasonry. It is made clearer by the blind tradition of the Fremen (Freemason) mentioned above. The blindfold or hoodwink represents the ignorance of the individual before becoming initiated. Going out to die can be seen as the old life or self being replaced by a new one.

Bene could come from the Egyptian Bennu bird, associated with rebirth. Freemasonry is deeply connected to ancient Egypt, and it fits the desert theme.

Paul and his mom, Jessica, going to the desert can be a reference to Jesus and Mary in Egypt.

“So, Joseph got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt.” Matthew 2:14

The focus on the breeding program in Dune, while the details are quite different, evokes the special birth of Christ.

“A powerful social, religious, and political force, the Bene Gesserit is described as an exclusive sisterhood whose members train their bodies and minds through years of physical and mental conditioning to obtain superhuman powers and abilities that seem magical to outsiders.” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit

Jessica being a Bene Gesserit reminds me of Mary in the expanded Catholic lore. In their story, Mary was raised in the temple until she was twelve and was fed by the hands of an angel. Basically, she was special both from birth and because of how she was raised, allowing her to become the co-redemptrix.

Jewish and Catholic tradition mentions temple virgins who remained until 14 and then left to be married. Some claim Mary was one of these women.

“They made the bronze basin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.” – Exodus 38:8

(From Lynch’s Dune)

“He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the LORD, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.” – 2 Kings 23:7

“She was so constant in prayer, and her appearance was so beautiful and glorious, that scarcely anyone could look into her face. And she occupied herself constantly with her wool-work, so that she in her tender years could do all that old women were not able to do. And this was the order that she had set for herself: From the morning to the third hour she remained in prayer; from the third to the ninth she was occupied with her weaving; and from the ninth she again applied herself to prayer.” – Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew on Mary

It could be that the Bene Gesserit, the secret society in the series, are female just because the writer wanted it to be less obvious that they are Masons, or some other insignificant reason. But it’s more interesting to suggest they are nods to Pagan priestesses, Jewish temple virgins, influential women like Hypatia, Blavatsky, Alice Bailey, and so on.

Speaking of weaving, the Three Fates or Moirai (Marys), are similar in purpise to the Bene Gesserit since they weave the destiny of people.

The Fates could be an inspiration for them.

The Bene Gesserit seed religions, prompting the people to be ready for a promised messiah. Using religion as a means of control is implied by secret societies like the Masons.

“After leaving Egypt, the Mysteries were modified by the habits of the different nations among whom they were introduced, and especially by the religious systems of the countries into which they were transplanted. To maintain the established government, laws, and religion, was the obligation of the Initiate everywhere; and everywhere they were the heritage of the priests, who were nowhere willing to make the common people co proprietors with themselves of philosophical truth.” – Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma

“The work and the teaching of the Christ will be hard for the Christian world to accept, though easier of assimilation in the East. Nevertheless, some hard blow or some difficult presentation of the truth is badly needed if the Christian world is to be awakened, and if Christian people are to recognize their place within a worldwide divine revelation and see the Christ as representing all the faiths and taking His rightful place as World Teacher. He is the World Teacher and not a Christian teacher. He Himself told us that He had other folds and to them He has meant as much as He has meant to the orthodox Christian. They may not call Him Christ, but they have their own name for Him and follow Him as truly and faithfully as their Western brethren.” – Alice Bailey

Much like the Bene Gesserit, what we call Masons are really worldwide, though known by different names. They are the esoteric orders that control the exoteric masses. Through their guiding, they can lead the world to accept a worldwide leader if that is their real goal.

“God, in response to Jesus’ prayers, will kill them (Gog and Magog) by sending a type of worm in the napes of their necks, and send large birds to carry and clear their corpses from the land. After the death of the Mahdi, Jesus will assume world leadership and peace and justice will be universal. Also, according to tradition, Jesus will then marry, have children, and rule the world for forty years (traditions give many different time periods) after which he will die” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam

The worm part is quite intriguing. To Muslims, Jesus is going to get married and have kids. Some Masons or other esoteric believers may think he had a child with Mary Magdalene or view him as having had a spiritual marriage with Sophia (the Isis to his Osiris).

In Dune, the Mahdi (Maud’Dib) and Jesus seem to be one.

The most blatant of all clues to the Masonic/Esoteric nature of Dune is the character of Harum, introduced in Dune: Messiah. Harum is a nod to the central allegorical figure of Hiram Abiff.

“Harum is said to have been a king on ancient Earth, one who established a dynasty lasting some three thousand years. He was presumably an Egyptian, since Leto’s style of ruling is referred as the pharaohs’ model.” – https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Harum

“At the end of Children of Dune, Leto II says ‘I’m a community (of personalities) dominated by one who was ancient and surprisingly powerful. His name was Harum’… Some of the memories offered to Leto by Harum, and certain phrases used (‘pharoahnic model’ and ‘golden path’) heavily imply that Harum was the first pharaoh and that Leto based the title off of Egyptian god-kingdom customs. It also raises the chilling possibility that rather than Leto being advised by a committee headed by Harum, it is likely that the committee itself is in charge, with Leto as a member and Harum as the dominant personality in the god-emperor.” – https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/God_Emperor

“By taking on the role of the divine master builder Hiram in the ritual and symbolically living through his death and resurrection, the candidate experiences a ritual unio mystica. He temporarily becomes one with the divine master builder Hiram and is to prove himself as newly-raised Master Mason and bearer of Hiram’s secrets.” – Handbook Of Freemasonry

Rather than the Muslim aspects, the warrior character, and other elements, disqualifying Paul Atreides as a Christ figure, the reality is it makes him more connected to the broader Christ/Messiah mythos known to Masons and other esoteric communities. Dune author, Frank Herbert, both reveals and re-veils.

“Magism was the Science of Abraham and Orpheus, of Confucius and Zoroaster. It was the dogmas of this Science that were engraven on the tables of stone by Hanoch and Trismegistus. Moses purified and re-veiled them, for that is the meaning of the word reveal. He covered them with a new veil, when he made of the Holy Kabalah the exclusive heritage of the people of Israel, and the inviolable Secret of its priests.” – Albert Pike

Dead Hot Season Of The Witch: Vanessa Hudgen’s Witch Journey

Vanessa Hudgens got her start with The High School musical movie trilogy phenomenon. Since then she has done a variety of stuff, including another movie trilogy called The Princess Switch, for Netflix.

Dead Hot shows another side of her. She and music artist GG Magree document their paranormal and spiritual experiences.

The vibe I get is that Vanessa couldn’t have done this without GG. She needed a good friend by her to be able to show this part of herself.

Which is understandable considering that, while occasionally a famous celebrity mentions a ritual, like Jennifer Aniston’s “goddess circle”, none that I know of have been this open on camera.

One thing that isn’t really addressed clearly is Christianity. Vanessa mentions Catholicism but never says she’s not Christian anymore. She still wears crosses as does GG.

At one point, GG has a cross ring that appears to be the Templar design.

The Templars reportedly acknowledged the feminine divine under the name of Mary.

“St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the leading light of the Cistercian order at the time and the man who literally ‘invented’ the Knights Templar, had an almost fanatical regard for the Virgin Mary and almost all Cistercian abbeys were named for her, as were many if not most Templar churches. It was the Virgin’s name knights shouted as they went into battle.” – America: Nation of the Goddess by Alan Butler and Janet Wolter

The documentary is undeniably goddess centered. Debatably though the cross could count as a representation of the masculine divine. The Horned God is also briefly visible during a ceremony.

It’s also worth nothing that a few of the witches they visit are men.

They repeat with him, “Rise up, serpent of this land.” Of course, the serpent isn’t inherently evil. Christians who disagree should remember Jesus urged them to be “wise as serpents”. Various mythologies seem to indicate the snake was worshipped in earlier times then later became demonized or at least less focused on.

Regardless, it is interesting to hear these words from an actress so many got attached to growing up.

You even have Vanessa saying, “So mote it be”. This witchy phrase got its start in Masonry.

In the Halliwell manuscript, the oldest surviving document of the craft, we have these final lines. “Christ then of his high grace, Save you both wit and space, Well this book to know and read, Heaven to have for your mede. (reward) Amen! Amen! so mote it be! So say we all for charity.“

As a side note, I can’t help but wonder if the Charmed sisters were named Halliwell after that obscure Masonic manuscript.

The name means “Holy well”. Which is fitting since wells are a water association and water is typically viewed as feminine.

Anyways, back to the main subject. One could argue that Vanessa can be linked to Masonry through Disney. It’s known that Walt was in DeMolay, the Masonic club that honored Templar Knight, Jacques de Molay.

Walt’s Club 33 comes across as a blatant nod to his Masonic ties. Because Masonry has greatly influenced modern witchcraft, with Wicca having been developed by the Freemason Gerald Gardner, some might think Vanessa is a witch because of Disney and it’s Freemasonic influence.

However, it is entirely speculative that Vanessa ended up being a witch because of Disney. Similarly, I’ve seen some say that the documentary portrays her witch journey as just starting, which they find suspect.

Rather than dwell too much on maybes people should appreciate her boldness in coming out the broom closet at all, especially if they want others too.

Now there is some discussion going in a different direction. They say Vanessa is only in it for GG, implying she’s not into witchcraft.

It’s true that Vanessa does lack a motivation that GG has. GG wants to talk to her dead grandmother. So the communication with the dead parts are sometimes more Vanessa being there for GG.

That doesn’t mean Vanessa is completely uninterested in being paranormal explorers. Considering that’s the bulk of the movie, it’s unlikely she’d have done this project if she weren’t curious. She’s just not always into it at the level GG is.

GG was unknown to me before watching this. I think every song in the movie is hers. She’s got a pretty voice. Here is an example.

Perhaps some day she’ll have a song that really takes off. She certainly has talent.

Aside from GG’s grandmother, past romance issues are brought up. The sense I get is that for GG the paranormal and spiritual is about trying to move forward in a positive direction.

The movie portrays Vanessa as wanting to know herself on a deeper or higher level. As wanting to understand or explore who she is by attaining a closer connection with the divine.

When she talks about her attraction to the “darker realm” and Hecate, even though she’s a bubbly person, it reminded me of Jung.

“Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.” – Carl Jung

It seems she is trying to achieve individuation or psychological wholeness. Goddess Hecate, who she wants to conjure, can represent the shadow. Another witch describes Hecate as a dark goddess, and defines that as, “What we don’t understand and don’t know.” More or less the same words you’d use in explaining the shadow.

A lot of the movie isn’t as serious as I’m probably making it sound. I suspect the paranormal exploration and the frequent joking nature was partly to make this more mainstream friendly.

There is even a scene where they bake cookies.

Between the combination of paranormal investigations and sincere witchcraft, as well as a star like Vanessa with her real friend GG, this documentary is an interesting cultural moment.

I wonder if we will see more like it in the near future.

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung

‘All the gods are one god and all the goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator.’ The one initiator is one’s own high self, with which the personality becomes more and more integrated as the path of spiritual evolution is followed.” – Doreen Valiente

Religions Are From Angels?

“And for ourselves, we have learned from God the most excellent of our doctrines, and the most holy part of our law, by angels or ambassadors…” – Josephus, Antiquities Chapter 15

Angels are important to the Biblical faiths. But how significant are they really? Is it more than most have imagined? And what might that mean if they are?

One verse that probably stands out to readers of the New Testament is this, “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.” – Galatians 1:8

Paul seems to say that gospels are, or can be, from angels. It’s also curious he uses the words, “an angel from heaven” which arguably does not suggest a demon. Although it could be that the idea of evil angels being fallen or on earth/hell was not part of Paul’s theology.

“The word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward.” – Hebrews 2:2

“Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator.” – Galatians 3:19

The Old Testament covenant, claims Paul, was spoken by angels. But wait, didn’t God deliver that? Are there other sources that support what Paul is saying?

“This is the Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people.’ He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living words to pass on to us.”

“…You who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it.” – Acts 7:37-38, 53

Saint Stephen confirms that an angel delivered the Old Testament law. Josephus mentions this as well in the quote at the top of the page.

So, what does the text of Exodus itself tell us?

“And God spoke all these words.” – Exodus 20:1

The word God here is “Elohim”. Elohim is plural, as in gods. The apparent understanding is not the primary God, but a lesser divinity or group of divinities (angels) spoke the words.

Elohim is used again when it says, “You shall have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:3) The same word translated as God a second ago is now gods. This gives evidence that Elohim is plural.

Paul appears to call sticking to Old Testament tradition, namely the rules about the Sabbath, food, etc., the “worship of angels”.

“Therefore, do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind… Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules…?” – Colossians 2:16-18, 20

Paul denouncing the Old Testament law, at least partially, makes sense as he is bringing about something new. What is surprising though is that Jewish tradition, according to Jocephus, was in agreement with his basis of doing so. That being that it was given by angels and not the highest divinity. Then again, Paul calls Jesus an angel.

“And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.” – Galatians 4:14

If we take Paul at his word, then Judaism and Christianity are from angels. Mark and Matthew compare Jesus to an angel as well by stating that, like the angels, there are things Christ does not know.

“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” – Mark 13:32

It is well known that the angel Gabriel was instrumental in Islam. In light of what I’ve been saying, Islam seems more like Judaism and Christianity than is generally figured.

“Say (O Muhammad Peace be upon him): ‘Whoever is an enemy to Jibrael (Gabriel) (let him die in his fury), for indeed he has brought it (this Quran) down to your heart by Allah’s Permission, confirming what came before it [i.e. the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] and guidance and glad tidings for the believers.'” – Surat Al-Baqarah Quran 2:97

Mormonism too shows an angel (Moroni) giving the revelation. I find this significant because there is no reason why they couldn’t claim God did it. Wouldn’t that seem more authoritative?

Presumably it’s one of the reasons why the translators of Exodus have it seem God the Father is issuing the Ten Commandments. But when we examine the language, and hear from supposedly good sources, it’s an angel. So, all these Abrahamic religions seem to reveal the same thing. Religions are from angels.

One theory about why religions are shown, ultimately, to be from angels is that it could be an esoteric code. It symbolizes that they are not the one truth for all time, because they are not from the highest source. A messenger can get things wrong. If the revelation were from the highest God, it wouldn’t be able to be discarded, in some or in total, as Paul does with the Old Testament law. This could relate to the words of Albert Pike about truth.

“Catholicism was a vital truth in its earliest ages, but it became obsolete, and Protestantism arose, flourished, and deteriorated. The doctrines of ZOROASTER were the best which the ancient Persians were fitted to receive; those of CONFUCIUS were fitted for the Chinese; those of MOHAMMED for the idolatrous Arabs of his age. Each was Truth for the time. Each was a GOSPEL, preached by a REFORMER; and if any men are so little fortunate as to remain content therewith, when others have attained a higher truth, it is their misfortune and not their fault.” – Morals And Dogma

“When SOLON was asked if he had given his countrymen the best laws, he answered, ‘The best they are capable of receiving.’ This is one of the profoundest utterances on record; and yet like all great truths, so simple as to be rarely comprehended. It contains the whole philosophy of History. It utters a truth which, had it been recognized, would have saved men an immensity of vain, idle disputes, and have led them into the clearer paths of knowledge in the Past. It means this, –that all truths are Truths of Period, and not truths for eternity; that whatever great fact has had strength and vitality enough to make itself real, whether of religion, morals, government, or of whatever else, and to find place in this world, has been a truth for the time, and as good as men were capable of receiving.” – Albert Pike

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” – Saint Paul

Did Moses Marry A Goddess?

“Zipporah, one should bear in mind, means ‘bird’ in Hebrew, and this is but one feature that points to her affinity with the goddess.” – The Biography of Ancient Israel, Ilana Pardes

Tucked away in the Bible is a story with a striking resemblance to a Greek myth. This could indicate that Zipporah was once looked at differently and may still be by the initiated.

“Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.” – Exodus 2:16-17

The seven daughters are the biggest clue here. Zipporah and her sisters are the Pleiades. Jethro (also called Reuel) is Atlas, the father of the Pleiades. The shepherds bothering them represent Orion. In one version of the Greek myth, Orion chases the Pleiades. Zeus turns them into stars to protect them from Orion.

Zipporah means bird in Hebrew. Her sisters have no official names.

We might call them sisters of the bird, because they are all birds themselves, as Pleiades translates to doves.

(The constellations depict Orion facing Pleiades, who are around the back of Taurus)

It is no strange thing that Zipporah and her sisters are trying to water the flock. Pleiades are associated with water.

“In the Southern Hemisphere the Pleiades rose in the spring and announced the coming rains, so people in the Southern Hemisphere told myths that connected the star cluster to rain and flood.” – Wonders of the Sky, Tamra Andrews

There are those who might argue, “Well the Jews themselves didn’t associate the Pleiades with water.” Fortunately, we have evidence they did. And I don’t just mean a dove being in the Noah story.

“As it is related: When the Holy One, Blessed be He, sought to bring a flood into the world, He took two stars from Pleiades and brought the flood upon the world.”

“…Why did the Holy One, Blessed be He, not restore the original two stars to Pleiades?”

“…Since these stars caused the flood, it is not appropriate that they facilitate the end of the flood.” – Berachot 59a

Depending on how one looks at the story, the Pleiades were either divine from the start, as children of Atlas, or became goddesses when they turned into stars.

“The Syrians, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans, all of them imitated the Egyptians and Chaldeans; and Heaven, as Cicero observes, was soon peopled with deified mortals: which was likewise true in another sense, since upon their deification, they gave out that their souls were united to certain Stars, which they chose for their habitation.” – A New System Of Mythology, Robert Mayo

These goddesses were believed to affect weather as already stated. The Bible attributes power to them, “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” – Job 38:31.

“Sweet influences” are probably a reference to their significance in the northern hemisphere, where the rising of Pleiades during the day marks the beginning of farming season. It is notable that the book of Job, reportedly the oldest book of the Bible, has an apparently positive mention of Pleiades.

We can see that Moses’ wife is connected to the divine Pleiades in her narrative and name. This indicates that Zipporah could been viewed as a goddess in the past. Perhaps she is still thought of as one now by the initiated.

“One place in people’s minds where the gods lingered on was in the theory of astrology, or the influence of the stars on human life, now regarded as superstition but once a scientific study.” – Biblical And Classical Myths, Northrop Frye & Jay Macpherson

“The Pleiades were among the first mentioned stars in the astronomical literature of China, one record of them bearing the early date of 2357 B.C.… The Chinese young women worshipped these stars as the Seven Sisters of Industry.” – Star Lore of All Ages, William Olcott

Red Lights: The Gnostic Gospel And A Modern Simon Magus

“If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” – The Gospel of Thomas

Red Lights has a lot of similarities with a lesser known Bible narrative. It also hints at a gnostic conception of salvation that defies traditional thinking.

The movie starts with Margaret and Tom meeting with a family. Their task is to prove the seance is fake and the house isn’t haunted.

She quickly realizes the daughter, who isn’t in the room at the time, is responsible for the ghostly sounds. The daughter wants to move back to her old house.

Another case is a child that is faking automatic writing.

These early scenes set the groundwork for skepticism. We’re meant to think these spiritual activities are all a hoax.

While all this is happening though, we’re learning about a possible exception. His name is Simon Silver. There are hints that Simon Silver is the Bible’s Simon Magus.

“Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, ‘This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.'” – Acts 8:9-10

One of the men Simon trained is shown supposedly curing people. These “healers” that profit off the hopeful are analogous to Simon Magus. In the book of Acts, Simon Magus sees what the apostles can do by the laying on of hands. He wants to do the same, presumably for business or to further his fame.

“When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money and said, ‘Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.'” – Acts 8:18-19

Another aspect of Simon Magus, although not referenced in the Bible, is Helena. She was meant to be his female consort, as Osiris has Isis or Jesus has Mary Magdalene. In the movie this could be his right hand woman, Monica Handsen. Here she is more like a stylish business partner.

“Now this Simon of Samaria, from whom all sorts of heresies derive their origin, formed his sect out of the following materials: Having redeemed from slavery at Tyre, a city of Phœnicia, a certain woman named Helena, he was in the habit of carrying her about with him, declaring that this woman was the first conception of his mind, the mother of all, by whom, in the beginning, he conceived in his mind [the thought] of forming angels and archangels.” – Against Heresies (Book I, Chapter 23)

Margaret gets blindsided by Monica being at a televised discussion about psychics. Monica pushes her buttons, knowing she has a comatose son and that’s what made her lose faith in the supernatural.

Margaret doesn’t want to get anywhere near Simon or his entourage. But Thomas can’t stay away.

To Thomas, Simon Silver is the one psychic that could be real.

He’s tired of investigating obvious fakes. He’s ready to go after Simon, regardless of any danger.

Thomas gets ready to listen in on Simon’s healing event. He expects there will be someone feeding him info over the radio, telling him, “So and so is named this, they have this disease,” for Simon to play off of.

When Thomas tries to find the radio channel, the glass in his booth, and lights across the main room, burst as if hit by psychic energy.

That same day Margaret dies in her house. Thomas is freaked out.

He even starts to astral project in his dream, seeing his sleeping body while he hovers above.

Trying to get to the bottom of this, he sneaks into Simon’s house. Simon is believed to be blind. However, he speaks as if to Thomas, and gives a veiled gnostic monologue.

“If one observes and studies another person without having first studied oneself, how do we know whether out instruments are appropriately set? How do we know we are reliable? We have no proof. There’s only one way of gaining access to the truth, and that’s not to expect anything.”

The message is that we must forget what we’ve been told and first truly know ourselves.

“When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.” – The Gospel of Thomas

“All the scriptures tell us one thing: Know Thyself. If you have known yourself, you have known everything else.” – Swami Satchidananda

The place Tom teaches at is selected to prove Simon has real psychic powers. They run a series of filmed tests. Tom is frustrated that they can’t find out how he’s doing things. He goes to his show and Simon levitates in the air.

“…For when Simon entered into Rome, he amazed the multitudes by flying…” – The Acts of Peter

Meanwhile, Tom’s girlfriend is watching the filmed tests Simon did. She found the trick he was using to appear psychic.

He had a watch on, and because he’s not really blind, he was able to use it to get the answers from the person on the other side.

Tom is still at Simon’s show. He goes to the bathroom and gets practically murdered by Simon’s hired hand.

Esoterically, it’s likely suggesting Tom does die here, at least to his former life. Because Tom changes.

“They fill our head with noise. We renounce ever knowing ourselves. But you can’t deny yourself forever.”

It’s like Tom can finally see clearly. As a gnostic is meant to do, he’s discovered his true or higher self. He had caused the glass to crack at the earlier show and he astral projected on his own. What he thought was Simon messing with him was all him.

The whole time he’d been having a spiritual awakening. On some level he knew it.

When he saw Margaret’s interview he could predict what she’d say, and when asked why, he said he was psychic.

During Tom’s speech Simon becomes terrified. It’s as if he is afraid Simon will kill him. As the lights explode and things fall, it seems like maybe Tom will. When it’s over, Simon keeps asking, “How did you do that?” Like he wants to up his game with the power Tom has got. Tom leaves.

“Peter answered: ‘May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God.” – Acts 8:20-21

Before getting more into Thomas, I should clarify about Simon. I don’t interpret him as a complete fraud.

While Sally proves he faked one test, that doesn’t explain all his actions. During one of his shows he opens a man’s chest with his bare hands and seems to take out what’s hurting him. His levitating is never discounted either. Or the time he possibly caused a journalist to have a heart attack.

The Bible doesn’t tell us the sorcery of Simon Magus is fake. Just like it doesn’t say the Pharaoh’s magicians weren’t doing real magic. God’s chosen in the Bible aren’t the only ones capable of supernatural abilities. They’re just better at it.

“Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.” – Exodus 7:11-12

Simon Silver speaks as someone initiated too. Despite this, he uses his abilities for his own gain.

He allows himself to become godlike in the people’s eyes rather than sharing the god within.

Thomas Buckley is doubting Thomas. He’d been living in denial of his true self, of the Christ within. He searched for some great person or spectacle rather than recognizing God was on the inside, not the outside.

“The Lord said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’ Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a still small voice. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?'” – 1 Kings 19:11-13

“Or do you not realize about yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you?” – 2 Corinthians 13:5

What Tom feels the worst about is not telling Margaret before she passed. That he was something more, that there was something more out there… She had her son hooked up to a machine for years, because she didn’t think there was an afterlife.

He asks for the son to be allowed to die. So that the son can join Margaret.

Thomas means twin. Many believe Thomas was Jesus’ twin. We’re all Jesus’ twin in a manner of speaking. We’re like Jesus as we are made in the image of God. We’re siblings of Jesus, with the divine spark resting inside us, waiting to be realized.

“For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.” – Romans 8:29

Thomas’ journey mimics a lot of true seekers. He planned to disprove it all. But his attempt led him to the greatest discovery, the Self.

“Does not Jesus say, ‘Whoever finds himself is superior to the world?'” – The Gospel of Thomas

“Self-ignorance is also a form of self-destruction. According to the Dialogue of the Savior, whoever does not understand the elements of the universe, and of himself, is bound for annihilation:  … If one does not [understand] how the fire came to be, he will burn in it, because he does not know his root. If one does not first understand the water, he does not know anything.… If one does not understand how the wind that blows came to be, he will run with it. If one does not understand how the body that he wears came to be, he will perish with it.… Whoever does not understand how he came will not understand how he will go…”

“Yet to know oneself, at the deepest level, is simultaneously to know God; this is the secret of gnosis.” – Elaine Pagels

Night Gallery’s Occultic Episode: Pass The Salt To The Goat Part 1

“The pipes of Pan signify the natural harmony of the spheres, and the god himself is a symbol of Saturn because this planet is enthroned in Capricorn, whose emblem is a goat. The Egyptians were initiated into the Mysteries of Pan, who
was regarded as a phase of Jupiter, the Demiurgus.” – Secret Teachings Of All Ages

Night Gallery is the lesser known anthology show hosted by Roger Serling, famous for The Twilight Zone. It’s third season started off with an episode called, “The Return Of The Sorcerer.” There’s quite a few Masonic and Egyptian nods here.

Here is the painting shown at the beginning. In my opinion, it’s one of the better ones featured in the Night Gallery.

It also adds context. You don’t see any goat headed people in the show, yet it’s implied the goats don’t symbolize actual goats.

Roger Serling does have an uncredited writing credit on the episode.

No idea how involved he was overall though.

The hand covered in blood and blood red eyes are relatively intense for the show.

Maybe they drew the goat man less scary to balance that. Anyways, I wanted to give a close up of the face.

Tisha has a black pentagram on her blue shirt. It’s simple and striking. Less is more sometimes.

The episode is about a language expert being paid to translate a difficult Arabic text. He gets intimidated seeing that Tisha’s character, Fern, and the man, John, a wizard, are serious about witchcraft.

The name “Fern” was likely chosen for its nature associations and use in witchcraft.

According to Slavic folklore, once a year ferns produce a magic blossom.

The wizard is played by Vincent Price, one of the icons of horror. His character is named John Carnaby. His initials are J.C. Suggesting he is a kind of Christ character.

John is also a huge deal in Freemasonry. Masons celebrate two feasts days of saints named John. Some believe Baphomet’s true identity is the head of John the Baptist.

An Arabic text being central to the story reminds me of the rumor that Baphomet relates to Muhammad.

“Baphomet is a provencal or Old French distortion of Mahomet (mediaeval Latinizing rendering of Muhammad)… the name Baphomet as Mahomet is morphologically plausible.” – Adam P. Forrest

Our protagonist, Noel, another Christ reference, is going to get a lot of money for his work translating the Arabic.

Despite that, he’s not sure it’s worth it. He’s getting weird vibes. He just might leave.

Fern and John are against this of course. They’ve had multiple translators come before him. They don’t want another to slip out of their grasp.

She leads him to his room. Then, unsurprisingly, she kisses him, anchoring him to the place with her passion.

I think this holds a double meaning. While it factors into the plot on a surface level, it simultaneously symbolizes Noel being initiated or anointed by the priestess or goddess representative.

Like Mary Magdalene anointed Jesus, literally making him the Christ or anointed.

In this room we see a special picture in the background.

Some of the detail is obscured. We can clearly make out what it is though, William Blake’s “The Ancient of Days”.

God, or the Demiurge, is depicted drawing a circle with a compass. The compass is one of the most recognizable symbols of Freemasonry

“Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses.” – Albert Pike

Another emblem of Masonry is the goat. John says of the goat, “This is my father who built this house and who is back with us.”

The goat may be the originator of John’s magic order. Or the goat is likely a stand-in for any number of goat related gods or figures, such as horned Moses, Pan, or Egypt’s divine potter, Khnum.

We’ll get back to the goat later.

For now we have something else to discuss, frogs.

The witch or female wizard is very fond of her frog. The link here could be the myth that frogs cause warts.

Images of witches with warts are popular.

If we think of Fern as a snake, then a snake kissing a frog has an Egyptian tone to it. The Egyptian Ogdoad consists of four male frogs and four female snakes that are couples.

The negative attitude toward frogs in the New Testament (Revelations mentioning unclean spirits like frogs) is possibly because of its Egyptian connotation. By being against something Egypt likes, they can better deny that some of their roots are from Egypt.

Fern tells Noel, “Cool it man. Believe in oneness. Terror is joy. Joy is terror. Love is death. And torture is ecstacy.”

When he refuses to kiss her because she kissed the frog, she replies, “But it’s beauty. And life is beauty. Kiss the toad.”

The idea of seeing beyond apparent distinctions is common with occult teachings. A Manly Palmer Hall quote emphasizes that in regards to religion.

“The true Mason is not creed-bound. He realizes with the divine illumination of his lodge that as Mason his religion must be universal: Christ, Buddha or Mohammed, the name means little, for he recognizes only the light and not the bearer. He worships at every shrine, bows before every altar, whether in temple, mosque or cathedral, realizing with his truer understanding the oneness of all spiritual truth. All true Masons know that they only are heathen who, having great ideals, do not live up to them. They know that all religions are but one story told in divers ways for peoples whose ideals differ but whose great purpose is in harmony with Masonic ideals. North, east, south and west stretch the diversities of human thought, and while the ideals of man apparently differ, when all is said and the crystallization of form with its false concepts is swept away, one basic truth remains: all existing things are Temple Builders, laboring for a single end. No true Mason can be narrow, for his Lodge is the divine expression of all broadness. There is no place for little minds in a great work.”

Night Gallery’s Occultic Episode: Pass The Salt To The Goat Part 2

Night Gallery’s Occultic Episode: Pass The Salt To The Goat Part 2

The translated Arabic text reveals that a sorcerer’s body can come back to life even if being hewn into pieces. John had done this to his twin brother.

From my perspective, the brothers are symbolically Osiris and Set. Set had cut Osiris into many parts.

An overlooked aspect of the Egyptian narrative is the other sister, Nephthys. She was married to Set but slept with Osiris. It’s said she was disguised as Isis.

Perhaps the writers are hinting at this when John says, “She taunted me by loving him.” It implies he killed his brother because Fern had been with him. Most don’t bring up Osiris sleeping with Set’s wife when they talk about Set murdering Osiris.

Throughout the episode John is hearing sounds. Eventually we learn this is the body parts of his brother moving about the house.

Fern pretends not to know what’s happening yet is never surprised by any of the events. It’s obvious she is the mastermind here. When Noel translates the Arabic, she acts like she knew what it said already.

John goes to kill her. Fern tells him his brother is waiting for him. It’s time for mass.

“And you will preside for power!”

“Don’t I always?” she says to John.

John’s brother has reformed his body. He is chanting along with Fern.

We see John lay his head down and accept what’s coming. It’s not explained why he does this. The way it plays out feels like he may be under a spell. Alternatively, he’s had some realization this is supposed to happen.

The next scene shows a goat sitting on the chair. Fern reveals the brothers are together again.

The goat is the two brothers as one, reminiscent of Baphomet as the unity of opposites.

It appears Fern is esoterically the Bible’s Salome. She has the power to seduce men and John dies because of it like in the Biblical narrative.

This ties into John The Baptist’s role as Aquarius.

(Image and text from https://www.starmythworld.com/johnbaptist)

Finally, in John 3: 30 is the famous verse in which John the Baptist announces very bluntly: “He must increase, but I [must] decrease” (literally, “he must increase, but I decrease”).

But, based on previous discussions regarding esoteric interpretations of some of the Gnostic texts uncovered in the Nag Hammadi library –including the discussions entitled “The Gospel of Thomas and the Divine Twin” and “Who Is Doubting Thomas?” — it is possible that the ancient texts intended this declaration by John the Baptist, regarding increasing and decreasing, to refer to our own integration with the Higher Self, the Christ within.

“Uh, Fern…”

“Darling?”

“In the preamble, in the Necronomicon, threatening anyone who translated the passages from Arabic with fire and dismemberment… You don’t suppose there is anything to that, do you?”

Fern had pressed him to translate the whole thing while seeming to know what it said. As though she was sealing his fate by doing so.

Coincidentally or not, dismemberment is one of the ways a Mason is said to die if they break their oath.

Fern could be seen as a woman who happens to be evil or a scary witch possessed by the devil.

I believe the real or higher meaning is much more spiritual.

Women as initiators symbolize coming into this world through women. This is implied in the gospel of John.

“Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ Nicodemus said to him, ‘How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”'” – John 3:3-4

The Holy Spirit is the female part of the Trinity. The dove is a sign of Venus, as well as the Pleiades sisters. Their name means doves. I don’t doubt that John the Baptist is beloved by Masonry partly because baptism links to the feminine. It’s the process of coming out of water, reborn from the spiritual womb, and beginning a new life.

“The Dove flew over the head of our Lord the Messiah, because he was her head. And she sang over him, and her voice was heard.” – Odes To Solomon

From a reincarnation perspective, some frame it as women are the gateways back into this world… and if they think earth is suffering… that might make women seem negative. One reading of the Eden story is that Eve causes souls to descend into flesh bodies and then they have to wear “skins” or be human.

“The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.” – Genesis 3:21

Noel can be seen as falling from grace because he was seduced by a woman. Some even say we choose to be born here to experience certain things like… intimacy and family.

“That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.” – Genesis 6:2

Some might view women as the source of birth, which leads to death. Obviously, you could turn this around and say the same for men. Both are involved in the process of generation.

Saturn is death. Jesus is called life. It’s really just the way we choose to perceive things.

The 7 Pleiades are even complimented by the 7 Rishis or the stars of the Great Bear. Which may be why Temperance is the 14th Tarot. Two 7’s balanced as 14.

At any rate, we’re supposed to be on this planet to learn and grow. To develop as souls. And to see that…

“Oneness is all.” – Fern

“The All-embracing Wisdom, issuing and shining from the Most Holy Ancient, shines not otherwise than as male and female.” – Albert Pike

“That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above, corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracles of the One Thing.” – Hermes Trismegistus

Night Gallery’s Occultic Episode: Pass The Salt To The Goat Part 1

Exploring Adam And Eve, The Weird Truth About Genesis 3

“The blind will be able to see, and the deaf will hear.” – Isaiah 35:5

Genesis 3 is a cornerstone of Judaism and Christianity. Yet there is something weird about the chapter few ever bring up. Indeed, it is something you’ve likely never even considered.

The story has signs of being a late addition. It’s suspected because this supposedly all-important story has almost zero references in the Old Testament after Genesis.

Hard to believe?

Yet it is true. The nods to the “Fall of Man” narrative are not just few and far between. They are also vague. We have references to a man who sinned in Job 31:33 and Isaiah 43:27. That’s it.

Wait, but isn’t the snake and Eve at least as important? Isn’t it an essential doctrine that Eve sinned first?

“And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.” – 1 Timothy 2:14

If we are to believe Moses and the prophets knew about this story, is it not peculiar none of them remind us of it?

Is that one of the reasons why we’re told Moses wrote the Torah (first five books of the Bible)? To pretend Moses was aware of the Genesis 3 story and give it more validity?

What does all this mean for the Fall of Man story many of us have been told since we were kids?

I see two possibilities.

1. The ancient Israelites did not have a version of this myth early on.

Again, we see no summary of the event after Genesis. Moses does not say, “Hey, remember that time with Adam, Eve, and the Serpent? How our ancestors ate the fruit and ruined things?”

Jesus does not mention it either. He quotes the first creation story in Genesis 1, where man and woman are created at the same time rather than man first, “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’” – Mark 10:6-7

Remember that Genesis 3:15 is meant to be where the need for Jesus is revealed.

“I will put enmity between you (the serpent) and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Odd that Jesus doesn’t care enough to remind us of the narrative.

2. The original myth has been changed and a new meaning was added.

The Old Testament has no clear references after Genesis to the story we know. However, we may see nods to the one that has been obscured.

Our key to understanding is Eve and the role of the wisdom goddess.

“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” – Genesis 3:6

Despite Eve being later punished, this verse shows her as doing good. She is portrayed as a perceptive person who gains knowledge and shares it.

This aspect of Eve relates her to Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom, and many other female figures associated with knowledge.

It is possible Jesus spoke of Eve when he said, “The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by all her children.” – Luke 7:34-35

Wisdom goddesses are linked to snakes. Here we have the head of Eve on a snakelike body.

Presumably, an apologist would argue this is Eve being taken from Adam’s rib. That her head is on a rib bone. I theorize the rib myth was to disguise the truth, that she and the snake were so closely connected.

In Chinese myth, Nuwa is a snake goddess that makes humanity. Depending on the version of the story, she does this alone or with a male figure named Fuxi.

The Bible could hint at this in Genesis 3:20, “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.”

Here is a picture where an odd-looking serpent has the head of Eve, as if they were twins.

We know the ancient Israelites worshipped a goddess, usually called Asherah. There are references to female Wisdom by Solomon. If Eve (and/or the snake) is Asherah, she goes from a mystery to a familiar figure.

While there is a chance the Hebrews had no version of Genesis 3 in their cultural youth, based on the elements and symbolism, it appears that they did, and that it was altered.

Another point in its favor is Moses. Moses lifts up the serpent and it heals the people.

“And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.” – Numbers 21:9

The imagery of a snake on a piece of wood is significant. I believe it is linked to the original myth of Eve, the serpent, and the tree. How it was a positive event rather than a negative one.

“The ancient Egyptians gave the female, in ophidian form, a prominent place in their creation myths. The very hieroglyph for the word ‘goddess’ includes the symbols for both ‘deity’ and ‘serpent’…” – Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt’s Possession and in Mythology, Gillian M. E. Alban

(Notice how Eve and the Serpent have the same hair color)

If the myth was altered to fit a new message, the question would be why?

“He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.)” – 2 Kings 18:4

The verse tells us that until that time the Israelites had been burning incense to the snake. I believe they were honoring the snake, not from the point of the Moses and the staff narrative, but probably for most or all their history.

The character of Eve could be a sign the Hebrews had priestesses. It certainly suggests women as teachers.

Demonizing the snake, having Eve be the cause of the Fall, rather than enlightenment, might have been a way to eliminate that. The process of converting Judaism to monotheism also meant greater control over the people. When there is only one cult or religious idea, you have no choice but to follow it.

We may not have all the answers, but it seems fair to say a few things. The current version of Genesis 3 is probably altered. It is not attested to by later Old Testament characters. Nor does it reflect the most ancient Jewish ideas.

Because of this, we should discard the notions of snakes being symbols of evil, women being incapable teachers, all humans being born morally corrupted, etc. The purpose of Jesus was not to rid us of our “original sin” nature, unless we define that as ignorance. Jesus, a child of the goddess, came to bring light and knowledge.

“My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” – Colossians 2:2-3

“And the man answered, ‘The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’… And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.” – Genesis 3:12 & 22

Exploring The True Meaning Of Lazarus, The Man Jesus Raised

“Each religion is based upon the secret doctrines of its predecessor.” – Manly P. Hall

The story of Lazarus has a few odd moments people either ignore or don’t notice. It also confuses aspects of the mainstream gospel narrative.

Is that because the it was meant to be understood differently?

“But when Jesus heard about it he said, ‘Lazarus’s sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.'” John 11:4

“So he [Jesus] told them plainly, ‘Lazarus is dead.'” – John 11:14

If we accept the traditional, literal perspective, Jesus said Lazarus would not die. Except Lazarus dies soon after. Did Jesus lie?

“Then he [Jesus] said, ‘Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up.'” – John 11:11

And why did Jesus say he was asleep to begin with if he meant dead?

It gets more strange.

“Then Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, ‘Let us also go, that we may die with him.'” – John 11:16

Thomas suddenly wants to die as well. He seems to have gone mad.

“But now Christ has come back from the dead. He is the very first person of those who have died to come back to life.” – 1 Corinthians 15:20

Here Paul says Jesus is the first to be resurrected from death. Christian scholars argue this is not in conflict with Lazarus because Lazarus still had a mortal body while Jesus had a glorified, eternal one.

“And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, ‘O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again.’ And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.” – 1 Kings 17-21-22

Presumably this would be the case with Elijah raising the widow’s son as well.

“And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, ‘Loose him, and let him go.'” – John 11:44

While you can find maybe a half dozen images of Jesus wielding a wand to raise Lazarus, I can’t find one picture of Lazarus wearing a napkin, handkerchief, or blindfold. It is an odd omission.

Instead of a blindfold, we see Lazarus with nothing over his eyes or looking like a full on mummy. The latter is appropriate in it’s own right.

If they showed Lazarus as described in the verse, his face would resemble someone in a Freemasonic initiation.

“Eventually, his ordeal complete, Lazarus emerged from the tomb alive, but still ‘hoodwinked’ with a ‘napkin’ around his face, as all masonic initiates do to this day.” – Ralph Ellis, Jesus, Last of the Pharaohs

Curiously, there are plenty of images of Jesus hoodwinked.

“They blindfolded him and demanded, ‘Prophesy! Who hit you?'” – Luke 22:64

But it’s not like Jesus and Lazarus have a lot in common.

“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” – Matthew 12:40

“Jesus said, ‘Take away the stone.’ Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, ‘Lord, by now there will be a stench, for he has been dead for four days.'” – John 11:39

Rather than Lazarus having been dead four days, it is interpreted by some that this was the fourth day Lazarus was dead. That would mean Jesus and Lazarus were dead the same number of days.

Both Lazarus and Jesus have multiple women appear at their resurrection. One of these is the same women, Mary Magdalene, who anointed Jesus for burial. By the way, Lazarus and Martha were there when it happened.

“‘Leave her alone,’ Jesus replied. ‘It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.'” – John 12:7

Had Mary anointed Lazarus when he died?

Lazarus is similar to the name Osiris. Osiris had two sisters who mourned him, Nephthys and Isis. Lazarus has two sisters mourning him as well, Mary and Martha.

“The ancient Egyptian designation for Osiris was Asar or Azar. Now, when the Egyptians spoke of their gods they indicated them with ‘the’ and so we would have had had ‘the Azar.’… One of the Hebrew terms for Lord was El and was applied to their many deities, such as El-Shaddai or El-ohim. So when the Hebraic writers included Osiris in their myths, they put him in as El-Azar-the Lord Osiris. This, in the later Latin translation, was changed to El-Azar-us. This use of the ‘us’ was the way that masculine names ended in the Roman language. In fact, in Arabic, Lazarus is still spelled El-Azir, missing the ‘us.’ So we now have El-Azar-us, which reduced further into Lazarus.” – Philip Gardiner, The Ark, The Shroud, and Mary

Isis was sometimes called Mary, Mery, or Meri. She is believed to have anointed Osiris.

“The Egyptian word Meri means, very generally, ‘the loving or the beloved,’ and serves in this sense as a title of goddesses…”

“The association of Isis with the epithet Mery or Mer can also be demonstrated by the fact that she and her sister-goddess Nephthys were called the two ‘Merti’ or ‘Mertae’… Mary is the Egyptian Meri, in its plural form Merti, in Latin Mertae, in Hebrew and German Martha, in Italian Marta…” – Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection

We should be able to find an Egyptian link with Jesus as well. Luckily, Christ or Chrest ties to the mummy, who is Osiris or Horus, his son.

“This spelling of the name as Chrest or Chrest in Latin is supremely important, because it enables me to prove the identity with the Egyptian Karest or Karust, the name of the Christ as the embalmed mummy, which was the image of the resurrection in Egyptian tombs, the type of immortality, the likeness of the Horus, who rose again and made the pathway out of the sepulcher for those who were his disciples or followers… No representation of the supposed historic resurrection of Jesus has been found on any of the early Christian monuments. But, instead of the missing fact, we find the scene of Lazarus being raised from the dead. This is depicted over and over again as the typical resurrection where there is no real one! The scene is not exactly in accordance with the rising from the grave in the Gospel. It is purely Egyptian, and Lazarus is an Egyptian mummy!” – Blavatsky

The multitude of similarities between Lazarus and Christ Jesus devalues Jesus according to the usual understanding. Jesus also seems to lie, saying Lazarus will not die and then he does. As a third point, the apostle Thomas acts crazy, hoping to die as well.

It does not work good if you follow the mainstream Christian interpretation. However, it fits perfectly with a Egyptian-Freemasonic viewpoint.

Jesus and Lazarus both represent the initiate as the Osiris/Hiram character that is supposed to wake up from their spiritual slumber (John 11:11) or open their eyes and find enlightenment. Thomas isn’t suicidal. He wants to be initiated too.

“According to one statement, Hiram’s body is found in a state of decay, having lain fourteen days; the body of Osiris was cut into fourteen pieces… It is through the instrumentality of Leo – the Lion – that Osiris is raised, for when he re-enters that sign, he regains his former strength. Hiram was raised by the Lion’s grip, and it is by that grip that the Freemason is raised from a figurative death to a reunion with the companions of his former toil.” – The Story and Legend of Hiram Abiff

“Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews learned that Jesus was there. And they came not only because of Him, but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.” – John 12:9

“Then Jesus said His to disciples, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross [ego death], and follow Me.'” – Matthew 16:24

Understanding Uranus, Ruling God Of The Age Of Aquarius

“And proclaim as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’” – Matthew 10:7

Matthew was written in Greek where heaven is literally Ouranos, or Uranus, the Greek God of the sky. The verse is stating, “The Kingdom of Uranos is at hand.”

“He answered, ‘When you enter the city, a man carrying a jug of water will meet you. Follow him to the house he enters, and say to the owner of that house, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?’ And he will show you a large upper room, already furnished. Make preparations there.'” – Luke 22:10-12

In the above zodiacal image, we have Jesus in the center. The man carrying the jug of water is above him, to the right, aka, Aquarius. The Passover, or what some call the final Passover, is the end of the current age/world and “passing over” into the new.

“Hebe: the cupbearer to the gods. She poured nectar for all the Olympians until Zeus brought the mortal Ganymede to Olympus. Hebe was daughter of Zeus and Hera, and sister of Ares and Hephaestus… Her name means ‘youth’. As such, Hebe has the power to rejuvenate.” – Classical Mythology & More By Marianthe Colakis

Hebe was the first Aquarius but I find them both important. The story of Ganymede shows us a mortal becoming divine. Because Hebe is already a god, her narrative doesn’t contain that element.

Ganymede’s myth also features homosexuality. Zeus becomes interested in him.

It is curious that Uranus came to be associated with homosexuality. Uranian is a historical term for homosexual men. Did this occur because of Uranus’ connection to Aquarius?

The character Sailor Uranus, from Sailor Moon, is a lesbian. This could be related to the homosexual aspect of Uranus/Aquarius.

As far as I can figure out, Neptune is with her because Neptune is the Piscean ruler, the age prior to Aquarius, linking them close together.

It is reported that Gaia created her male partner, Uranus. The Hebrew version has Eve coming out of Adam, meaning Eve born of Adam.

Later, Uranus has to be separated from Gaia by castration. I believe the spiritual meaning is that heaven (Uranus) and earth (Gaia) had to become distinct. Like how Eve is taken out of Adam while he is dreaming, the “dream” of material existence requires the illusion of opposites, men and women no longer being a unity.

“The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost.” – Revelation 22:17

The highest Gaia/Uranus, same as the highest Adam/Eve or Adam Kadmon, is a unified or total being. This is why the kingdom of heaven (Uranus) is the wedding or reuniting of the Bride and the Bridegroom. It takes place in the age of Aquarius where the water of life is poured out.

“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” – Isaiah 40:31

Here is Aquarius renewing the immortality of Zeus, who is in eagle form, as she (or he as Ganymede) does for all the gods.

“Idunn was glad to be reunited with her husband. The gods ate of the apples of immortality and regained their youth.” – Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

In purpose and ability, Aquarius is comparable to Idunn who restores the vitality of the gods.

“But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage. In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are children of the resurrection, they are children of God.” – Luke 20:35-36

How can Jesus talk about the end of marriage while being part of the future marriage of the Bride and the Bridegroom?

I think those who are ready to graduate spiritually will reach atonement, or be atoned (at one), so they will be married to the Christ principle in themselves, becoming angelic or divine.

“Uranus makes his circuit around the sun in nearly eighty-four years. He makes twelve revolutions in one thousand and eight years…” – Key To The Bible And Heaven By Ludwig B. Larsen

Esoterically, this is assumed to be the reason that a day with the Lord is approximately a thousand years and why Christ’s reign is the same length.

Saturn is also a ruling planet of Aquarius (see the Aquarian being at the bottom with Capricorn by it).

This is because at the end of things the cycle must eventually repeat, with Saturn again separating Gaia/Uranus with his scythe. Our lower world is the school of the universe. It cannot remain out of session forever.

“The Bible describes that at the end of the Christian age, which is illustrated in the life of Jesus as a man on earth and as the planet Uranus in the heavens, the earth is to be destroyed… When Uranus is in the house of Aquarius, Saturn must be in Leo, in order to be in opposition to Uranus and as this is at the end of the age, Saturn kills Uranus.” – Key To The Bible And Heaven

This is mainly about Uranus, so I won’t go in-depth on Saturn. I posted the image of Sailor Saturn, not only to be mindful of the female aspect of Saturn (such as Kali in Hinduism), but to show a more favorable portrayal. We may resent Saturn for throwing us into this place of suffering, but here we learn and grow.

May Aquarius, under the rule of Uranus, deem you worthy for the waters of immortality. May you be ready to raise to the next level spiritually at the wedding of the Bride and Bridegroom.

“I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.“

“He said to me: ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.” – Revelations 21:2,6