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Alchemy does not refer to the changing of lead into gold. It symbolizes the transmutation of the Lower Self, from the lead (lower self), into gold (higher consciousness).
Gold Atma Will Leo Sun
Quicksilver Buddhi Intuition Virgo Mercury
Lead Manas II Lower Mind Capricorn Saturn
The dull thick mind of the Lower Self must be taught to flash and scintillate with the Intuition of Virgo ruled by Mercury (Quicksilver).
Only then can the Will - Atma of Leo begin to transmute the lower desires into the spiritual soul-hunger for unity with the Divine Source.
The alchemical meditation is an inner dialogue with someone who is invisible, as also with God (the Monad), or with oneself, or with one's good angel (genius or Higher Self).
Only through meditation can the King (Sol or Sun) and the Queen (Luna or Moon) give birth to the precious child of Wisdom (Christchild or Horus ed.). This is the Stone of the Philosopher.
He who wishes to be initiated into the alchemical art of Wisdom must be devout, righteous, of profound understanding, humane, of cheerful countenance and a happy nature.
The Wisdom of Solomon I
I was a child of parts, and a good soul fell to my lot; nay rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled. But perceiving that I could not otherwise possess wisdom except God gave her me I said, Give me wisdom.
Send her forth out of the holy heavens, and from the throne of thy glory bid her come, that being present with me she may toil with me, and that I may learn what is well-pleasing before thee.
A corruptible body weigheth down the Soul. Who ever gained knowledge of thy counsel except thou gavest wisdom and sentest thy holy spirit from on high. Give me wisdom, her that sitteth by thee on thy throne.
When the Soul of a righteous man descends into the dungeon of the physical body she goes down with him and leaves him not until he is brought the sceptre of his Father's kingdom. What is richer than wisdom which worketh in all things.
Her I loved and sought out from my youth, I sought to take her for my bride and became enamoured of her beauty. For she is a breath of the power of God and a clear effulgence of the glory of the Almighty.
I love her and choose to have her rather than Light because her bright shining is never laid to sleep. I prayed and understanding was given me, I called upon God and he gave me the Spirit of Wisdom. (7-8)
The Wisdom of Solomon II
What wisdom is and how she came into being I will declare, and I will not hide mysteries from you; but I will trace her out from the beginning of creation, and bring the knowledge of her into clear light, and I will not pass by the truth. A multitude of wise men is salvation to the world.
She gave me an unerring knowledge of the things that are, to know the constitution of the world, and the operation of the elements; the beginning and end and middle of times, the alternation of the solstices and the changes of seasons, the circuits of years and the positions of stars.
She is fairer than the Sun and above all the constellations of the stars: being compared with light, she is found to be before it. She knoweth the things of old, and divineth the things to come: she understandeth subtilties of speeches and interpretations of dark sayings: she forseeth signs and wonders, and the issues of seasons and times.
Her true beginning is desire of discipline; and the care for discipline is love of her; and love of her is observance of her laws; and to give heed to her laws confirmeth incorruption; and incorruption bringeth near unto God.
She is an effulgence of the everlasting light, an unspotted mirror of the power of God and an image of his goodness. (7-8)
The Wisdom of Solomon III
Wisdom is radiant and fadeth not away; and easily is beheld of them that love her, and found of them that seek her. She forestalleth them that desire to know her, making herself first known. He that riseth up early to seek her shall have no toil, for he shall find her sitting at his gates. (6)
Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed Father of the world that was created alone. She guided holy men (the Monads) along a marvellous way, and became unto them a covering in the daytime, and a flame of stars through the night.
She brought them over the Red Sea (Pisces) and led them through much water. Out of the bottom of the deep she cast them up. When the earth was drowning with a flood wisdom again saved it. (10)
Wisdom delivered a righteous man when he fled from the fire that descended out of heaven on Pentapolis. When a righteous man was a fugitive from a brother's wrath, wisdom guided him in straight paths. When a righteous man was sold she went down with him into a dungeon. (10)
(This descent from the fire refers to the descent of the Monad from Aries. The fugitive from the brother is the Monad as a Gemini twin descending into the Higher Self in Leo.)
The Wisdom of Ecclesiastious
He that hath applied his soul and meditateth in the law of the Most High will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients.
He will keep the discourse of the men of renown, and will enter in amidst the subtilties of parables. He will seek out the hidden meaning of proverbs, and be conversant in the dark sayings of parables.
If the great Lord will, he shall be filled with the spirit of understanding; he shall pour forth the words of his wisdom, direct his counsel and knowledge and meditate on God's secrets. He shall show forth the instruction which he hath been taught and shall glory in the law.
A man's soul is sometime wont to bring him tidings more than seven watchmen that sit on high on a watchtower. (This refers to the seven chakrams along the spine.)
Blessed is the man that shall meditate in wisdom, and that shall discourse by his understanding. He that considereth her ways in his heart shall also have knowledge in her secrets. Take counsel with the wise. Let thy converse be with men of understanding and let all thy discourse be in the law of the Most High.
Gather instruction from thy youth up and even unto hoar hairs thou shall find wisdom. Come unto her with all thy soul, and keep her ways with thy whole power.
Search and seek, and she shall be made known unto thee. And when thou hast got hold of her let her not go. Be willing to listen to listen to every godly discourse and let not proverbs of understanding escape thee. Meditate continually on the Lord's commandments
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The Nature of the Stone
The philosopher's stone or white stone of the Mysteries is the purified Soul or Monad.
The polished stone or ashlar is the Higher Self, Solar Triad, or Individuality.
The rough stone is the Lower Self, Lunar Triad or Personality.
The alchemist's stone is the trikona or covering of the muladhara chakram at the base of the spine beneath which lies the fountain of kundalini, the serpent-fire.
The millstone used for the grinding of corn gives the soul the wheat of experience or staff of life. Hence the use of wheat as a symbol in the Mysteries. Bread, corn or grain is related to Virgo and Intuition ruled by the planet Mercury.
The two mill-stones of Spirit (Atma) and Matter create consciousness or fire by friction. The balance point between the wheels is Libra, related to the Higher Mind. The unmoving centre of the wheel is the Chinese Tao or Way of Enlightenment.
The spokes of the wheel are the houses of the zodiac. If four they are the Great Elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water.
Take the millstone and grind meal. (Is. 47.2)
Transform Yourselves From Dead Stones
The Alchemy of the Self
Carry out the transformation
Of silver into gold,
Raise the Lower to the Higher
And with Mercury be bold.
Go fearless into furnace
With father-lead of black,
Assert red Will of Aries
And nothing you will lack.
The higher gold will glisten
In the rays of Atma-Sun,
The dragon will be conquered
The two shall now be One.
Behold the seals, once broken
Will fuse as lamp of light,
Borne by the Hermit
In the depths of Spirit-Night.
The sunlit skies will open,
And a chariot of fire,
Will carry yet the Pilgrim,
To regions ever higher.
To Sun and Stars exultant,
And elders 'fore the Throne,
Bowed down before the Light of Lights,
That shines from Lapis Stone.
(© J.K.R.)
The Alchemical Key to the Christian Mysteries
"Take silver and gold and make crowns." (Zech. 6.11)
The following table gives the key to the alchemical process in man which is represented by the Spiritual marriage of the Sun and the Moon. The Sun represents as ruler of Leo the Atma or Spirit in man. It also symbolises the Higher Self as a Triad. The Moon is the Lower Self or Personality Triad.
THE STRUCTURE OF THE MICROCOSM
SIGN PRINCIPLE NATURE METAL PLANET
Leo Atma ) Spirit Gold Sun
Virgo Buddhi ) Intuition Quicksilver Mercury
Libra Manas I ) Synthetic MindBrass Venus
Earth Bridge Anahkarana Lead Saturn
Moon Manas II) Analytic Mind/Silver Moon
Scorpio Kama ) Desires Iron Mars
Sagittarius Sthula ) Sensations Tin Jupiter
The Lead of the Lower Triad (under the control of Saturn the Initiator, Lord of the Bridge) is transformed into the Spiritual Gold of Atma - Leo ruled by the Sun, through the action of Mercury or Quicksilver, which is the Intuition in Man. (See Jer. 6.29)
Through meditation the consciousness of the Lower Self (Personality) is given spiritual truths by the Intuition so that the alchemical marriage of the Sun and Moon can be achieved. Man becomes God.
The Cycle of the Stone
The wine (spiritual energies) went out (descended into manifestation) of Nabal (the Monad) and he became a stone (reached the physical or densest plane of manifestation. (I Sam. 25.37)
God is the rock. (Ps. 62.7)
A stone for foundations. (Jer. 51.26)
Jacob set up the stone pillar (the spine). (Gen. 28.18)
The rock (spine) had seven eyes (chakras). (Zech. 3.9)
The Lord turneth the flint (stone) into a fountain. (Ps. 114.8)
Speak ye unto the rock and it shall give forth waters. (Num. 20.8)
He openeth the rock and the waters gushed out. (Ps. 105.41)
Hide it (Euphrates-kundalini) in a hole in the rock. (Jer.13.4)
The earth (stone) is moved. (Jer. 49.21)
The angel rolled back the stone. (Matt. 28.2)
He rolleth a stone. (Ecc.27.6; Prov. 26.27)
There arose fire (kundalini) out of the rock. (Judges 6.21)
Saying to a stone. Thou hast brought me (the soul) forth. (Jer. 2.27)
By self purification and meditation the soul can be freed from the rock of the physical body as Andromeda was by Perseus. The winged horse is the purified (white) soul power. The sea is the Cosmic Ocean of Pisces. The monster is the desire-mind or Kama-Manas, entangled with the Astral Plane.
The Purification of Silver:
The Fiery Furnace (A)
He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. (Mal .3.3) (The Higher Self can assist in the purification of the Personality.)
I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. (Zech. 13.9) (The third part is the Personality Triad. The other two parts are the Higher Self or Individuality, and the Lower Self or Personality.
There was lifted up a talent of lead (Saturn) and this is the woman (soul) that sitteth in the midst... (Zech. 5.7) The lead of Saturn represents the materialistic nature of the Lower Self. It is transmuted by the energies of the Soul (woman).
The purification is achieved by the purifying powers of the mind which can remove the dross from the silver of the Lower Self. This purification occurs within the oven or furnace.
The day cometh, that shall burn as an oven. (Mal. 4.1)
He shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. (Is. 10.16)
Unto us a child is born… with burning and fuel of fire. (Is. 9.5-6) I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire. (Is.54.16) (This smith is Hephaestus, Govanon and Tubal Gain, the worker in brass, or Hiram. (See I Kings 7.14)
Can a man take fire in his bosom. (Ecc. 6.27)
The Purification of Silver:
The Fiery Furnace (B)
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were cast in the fiery furnace. (Dan. 3.20) Nebuchadnezzar, the king who ordered this said:-
"Lo I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire… and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God." (Dan. 3.25)
The three men are the triune powers of the Self.
Hence the reference to the Son of God. The furnace was heated "seven times more" (Dan. 3.19) because the serpent fire has to rise from the base of the spine through the seven main chakras, depicted elsewhere in the Bible as a scroll or stone with seven eyes. The furnace represents the alchemical purification of the Lower Self or Personality.
Just as a high temperature caused by a fever can burn out the dross or impurities in the physical body so can tu-mo (Chinese or Tibetan term for the flow of psychic energy as heat) warm the physical body in extremely cold weather.
The fire-walking ceremonies held in Fiji and Hawaii demonstrate the power of the mind over heat, internal or external. The furnace of the alchemists is not an external thing. It resides within the body and is similar to the stove mentioned in certain texts in Taoist yoga. The fire is kundalini, and the life energies (or heat) are pranas.
Gold, Silver, Brass and Iron (A)
Iron (Mars) is taken out of the earth (Capricorn) and brass (Libra) is molten out of the stone (Capricorn). There is a vein for silver (Moon) and a place for gold (Sun). (Job. 28.1-2)
The gold, silver, brass and iron shall come into the treasury of the Lord. (Josh. 6.19)
The Heaven that is over thy head (Higher Self) shall be brass (Libra) and the Earth that is under thee shall be iron (Lower Self of Scorpio-Dan). (Deut. 27.23)
A land whose stones are iron (Mars) and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass (Libra). (Deut. 8.9) (This refers to the marriage of Mars-Scorpio, the Desire Mind, with the Higher Mind of Venus-Libra.
Mars and Venus were caught in a net by Hephaestus the smith, fashioner of the weapons of the gods or the powers of the Spirit. Hephaestus lives in the volcano where kundalini, the serpent-fire, dwells at the base of the spine. This is the alchemical furnace.)
He shall cast them into a furnace of fire (kundalini) then shall the righteous shine forth as the Sun (Leo-Atma). (Matt. 13.42-43) The silver and gold are hid in the earth of the tent (of the physical body which is the alchemical alembic or furnace). (Josh. 7.21)
Man shall cast his silver and gold into the rock (of the furnace). (Is. 3.20-21) This is the marriage of the Higher Self (Leo-Fire-Sun) with the Lower Self (Scorpio-Water-Moon).
Gold, Silver, Brass and Iron (B)
Libra, ruled by Venus, represents the Higher Mind. First of all the Lower Self has to be purified.
Take away the dross from the silver. (Ess. 25.4)
Thy silver is become dross, I will purge it. (Is. 1.22 & 25) Then the Lower Self is weighed in the balance of the Scales (Libra) exactly as depicted in the Egyptian Book of the Dead (trans. Budge).
They weigh silver (the Lunar Lower Self) in the balance (Libra). (Is. 46.6) A potsherd, (the physical body) is covered with silver dross. (Ecc. 26.23) It is reprobate silver. (Jer. 6.30) Everyone made an offering of silver. (Exod. 35.24)
Hiram, the widow's son (the power of the Higher Mind or Libra-Venus) is a worker in brass. (I Kings 7.14) Jeremiah speaks of "the pillars of brass and the cauldron." (Jer. 52.18) Ezekiel advises us to "take thee balances and weigh...
This is the reasoning or balancing power of the judicial Higher Hind, the integrative consciousness. (Ezek. 5.1) We must meditate to raise consciousness to this level where we can obtain intuitive guidance from the Higher Self.
The pillars of brass cast by Hiram (I Kings 7.15) are the Taurus-Scorpio and Aries-Libra axes of Venus-Mars, related to the spinal column.
The Alchemical Process in Genesis (A)
Abraham is
: Ab the Father (Saturn)
: Ra the Sun
: Aum or Amen
Sarah is the Great Mother. (Venus in Pisces) (Gen. 23.19)
Isaac, son of Abraham, is the Sun Initiate, offered as a sacrifice by his father. (Gen. 22.9)
Female suicide bombers and sampsons SEVEN locks.
There's a really good piece by Newsweek's Christopher Dickey on the phenomenon of female suicide bombers within Islamist terrorist groups, prompted by all the commentary that's been thrown around, particularly in the European media, concerning Muriel Degauque, a Belgian woman who served as an al-Qaeda suicide bomber in Baqubah on November 9.
I'm not as surprised as some by the idea of a European woman serving as a suicide bomber for several reasons, not the least of which being the number of European men who've been known to serve as suicide bombers as well as by the phenomenon of "black widows" in Chechnya that Dickey spends some time discussing in his piece.
While I'll admit that I was as shocked as anyone else at the sight of more than a dozen female Chechen suicide bombers showed up with Movsar Barayev in that Moscow theater back in 2002, in the 3 years since it's become such an increasing and effective phenomenon in Chechnya and the surrounding republics to the point that it's naive to think that it wouldn't be used against US forces in Iraq.
To put it simply, the Chechen "black widow" phenomenon (like all of the other mass casualty terrorist attacks in Chechnya) have been overseen by Shamil Basayev and his followers. These are the guys for whom the recently deceased Abu Omar al-Saif served as the paymaster of and bin Laden even saw fit to list the Moscow theater seige among the terrorist attacks he took credit for in his November 2002 audiotape.
While I can understand the argument that Basayev is probably more of an opportunist and has decided that al-Qaeda and Salafism are the most likely ways to get him ruling the North Caucasus, it is indisputable that they have been widely embraced within international jihadist circles.
Under such circumstances, I think it's naive at best to assume that bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, and the rest of the senior al-Qaeda leadership doesn't approve of these actions, though they might refrain from saying so openly for fear of alienating some of their more traditional supporters.
These are people who have used mentally handicapped teenagers as suicide bombers, for God's sake. Are we really supposed to think that they'd refrain from using women the same way simply because they purport hold to some chivalric ideals of protecting a lady's virtue? Talk about over-intellectualizing an understanding of the enemy.
One of the things that people tend to forget in course of this discussion is that suicide bombing is an extremely recent phenomenon that only dates back about 20 years and that it's only come into vogue recently, in large part due to al-Qaeda.
With the exception of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (where suicide bombing has even been utilized by Marxist groups like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian), the fact that you're dealing with an Islamist group that favors mass casualty suicide attacks should be one of your first clues that you're dealing with an al-Qaeda-influenced group.
One of the more disturbing things that has emerged since 9/11, however, is the sheer number of al-Qaeda and allied recruits willing to blow themselves up with little if any exposure to the kind of "death cult" environment that exists inside the Palestinian territories.
Yeah, the LTTE were suicide bombing (even using women and children) before it was cool, they even developed the bomb-vest that has since been widely copied.
Until recently they held the record for the most number of bombings too, though with all the attacks that have occurred in Iraq it's hard to believe that Zarqawi isn't catching up with them for that dubious distinction. LTTE is also the only group ever to have killed a head of state, two of them in fact.
Anybody who's seriously interested in the LTTE should check out Gunaratna's earlier work on the subject. It was his main area of interest (not surprising since he is himself Sri Lankan) before he started work on al-Qaeda and is quite good.
What really troubles me regarding these suicide bombers of european orign is the fact that they can catch a flight to the USA without any visas. Hopefully, members of congress look at this issue before these nutcases end up right here, to inflict damages. By the way, do the female suicide bombers await what-72 studs in heaven? Just thinking.
Yes, I am strongly in favor of Europeans at least being asked to swear on a Bible or Koran or UN Charter that they denounce Al Qaeda...with an unassuming wrist pad utilized to detect liars.
I assume that face recognition software is looking for any woman known to hang out with anti-American Muslims in places like Belgium or Venezuela (or sadly Canada) where the societies provide tons of background sympathy for the "Muslims oppressed by imperialism" (implied and stated) that provide a positive feedback loop to terrorists.
Jeez. As if it liberals in Belgium don't clearly see how they egged this poor woman on. And they don't. I live next to Belgium. The liberals there are shocked, shocked I tell you and are, of course, blaming Bush for her actions which is the same as praising her actions.
Meanwhile, yes, kamikaze operations in history are to be encouraged in a controlled burn situation where you try to get as many of them as possible to go off in a short amount of time as possible with zero results.
The zero results and the tremendous self-induced carnage among your own suicide force causes a backlash in the society you are supposed to be fighting for.
You forget the expertise stays with the group. They never send out real terrorists only dupes.
PS: I forgot to mention coerced, bribed. bullied. Do not forget that in Palestine there are women who breed bombers for the income stream.
They bred bombers for the income stream when Saddam and the Baathists still had $20B worth of oil revenues per year coming in. Now the enemy still has $30B of Iranian oil per year.
When that is taken away, funding for terrorism will drop to a trickle and anti-Americanism will primarily be funded only by Venezuelan oil money.
The Newsweek article was surprisingly informed and didn't show any outward blame for US forces liquidating these women's husbands in large numbers.
I suppose the writers left room for their radical leftist readership to conclude that we, like the Russians in Chechnya, shouldn't have been slaughtering their husbands in the first place when their husbands had been the ones BEGGING westerners to fight them (Saddam's Baathist Party goaded Bush to attack Iraq every single day via the Baathist press which glorified the 9-11 bombers every day).
Also, a reader without Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) would see, and it was indeed stated in the article, that most likely Jihad in Iraq is running out of willing male recruits...precisely at the time when the new Shiite Government starts the real crackdown on Sunni anti-government attitudes.
Meanwhile the US Army and Marines are exceeding recruitment quotas...young men from the Red States are more than willing to help Jihadis get their 72 virgins.
As much as leftists might wish that the American people have lost their will to democratize the Middle East and crush the medieval Islamic culture it would only take one small car bomb in the USA to get another regime change and high level mullahs strung up by the dozen by their own people.
Speaking of 72 virgins these women obviously had husbands who wanted to cheat on them with 72 virgins.
Suicide bombing is not that new, but suicide attackers hopped up on drugs is literally millennia old. The Assassins of the Crusades are one example as are the Thug gee of India.
The American Army faced the suicide warriors of the Moro in the Philippines in the late 19th and early 20th century. They were the reason why the .45 caliber M1911 pistol was developed.
In short, thy do people have such a hard time understanding that we are fighting a death cult?
This is what death cults do. Death is their lover. They adore death and their biggest victims ate their cult followers.
They adore death and their biggest victims are their cult followers.
Dan, Are you not a little uninformed about suicide attackers? They have been around for aeons.
And what's with the big surprise about women in the military?
You also seem married to al-Queda being a functioning entity. I consider it a straw man.
Given that you also seem to embrace the Iraqi insurgency, I think it's quite fair to say that there are a number of areas in which we simply don't agree.
Does that mean you agree with the continued Anglo-American occupation of Iraq, Dan?
I am a Muslim girl, and I'd like to say a few things.
First of all, 72 virgin things is an Al Qaeda belief. Islam does not allow a man to marry more than 4 times, let alone having sex with 72 virgins!
Islam says that if only a man can provide for 4 women and take care of them equally, then he can only have up to 4 wives. For a man to have sex with 72 virgins would be breaking his loyalty to his religion. It's shameful to Muslims that people of Al Qaeda call themselves Muslims! They should only be called Terriosts.
I think it's kind of funny how people look at female suicide bombers. Is this not a war? War has these kinds of things. Is it not normal for a woman to be fighting in a war? It's happened before has it not?
I really hate it how that article makes all Muslim woman seem like suicide bombers. Though I may not live in the Middle East anymore, I wish some people did. I grew up in Saudi Arabia, and never in my 7 years there was there a case of bombers, or such. It was so quite and peaceful, but now, the image of the Middle East is shattered.
I hope one day you people go there yourselves and see what it's really like. Because the news and TV doesn't show everthing.
virgin things is an Al Qaeda belief."
It is also a Hamas belief, and it far predates al Qaeda.
"For a man to have sex with 72 virgins would be breaking his loyalty to his religion."
Not in Paradise, it isn't. The belief in a decadent paradise is widespread and ancient; for example, it goes back to the Assassins (Hashish-Eaters) of the Crusades. Take a look at Sura 56 of the Koran, verse 12-23:
In gardens of pleasure! A crowd of those of yore, and a few of those of the latter day! And gold-weft couches, reclining on them face to face.
Around them shall go eternal youths, with goblets and ewers and a cup of flowing wine; no headache shall they feel therefrom, nor shall their wits be dimmed!
And fruits such as they deem the best; and flesh of fowl as they desire; and bright and large-eyed maids [virgins] like hidden pearls; a reward for that which they have done!
The Arabic word tranlsated as "virgin" is hur, and its meaning is made plain in Sura 55 (69-74):
Then which of your Lord’s bounties will ye twain deny? In them maidens best and fairest! Then which of your Lord’s bounties will ye twain deny? Bright and large-eyed maids kept in their tents. Then which of your Lord’s bounties will ye twain deny? Whom no man nor jinn has deflowered before them.
So that's virgin women, not raisins or angels. However, the number 72 is not specified in the Koran. That comes from Hadith 2687, verse 72:
It was mentioned by Daraj Ibn Abi Hatim, that Abu al-Haytham 'Adullah Ibn Wahb narrated from Abu Sa'id al-Khudhri, who heard the Prophet Muhammad (Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) saying, 'The smallest reward for the people of Heaven is an abode where there are eighty thousand servants and seventy two wives, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine and ruby, as wide as the distance from al-Jabiyyah to San'aa.
SUICIDE BOMBING PROMOTED IN THE BIBLE:
The story of the Mighty Samson:
"Self sacrifice" and giving your life away intentionally and taking as many enemy lives with you as possible for the sake of GOD Almighty and your people exists in the Bible. Let us look at the story of the Mighty Samson in the Bible:
"Samson said to the servant who held his hand, "Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them." Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform.
Then Samson prayed to the LORD, "O Sovereign LORD , remember me. O God, please strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes."
Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood.
Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other, Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!"
Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived. (From the NIV Bible, Judges 16:26-30)"
Note: I called him "Mighty Samson" because he was extremely powerful. He was far much more stronger than all men in his time.
As we clearly see from the Bible, Samson gave his life for his people by killing as much from the enemy as possible.
Samson prayed to GOD to give him back his power (Samson lost his power after the seven braids of his hair were shaven by Delilah and her people while he was sleeping, Judges 16:1-20), and GOD Almighty granted him that revoked power back. Samson then was able to bring the temple down upon him and his enemies.
Question was raised to me: I was asked to show a proof that GOD Almighty approved of Samson's suicide that killed himself and his enemies.
Well, GOD Almighty apparently knew what Samson was up to and thus He decided to grant him his revoked power back to enable him to kill himself and his enemies.
So therefore, GOD Almighty did approve of Samson's action. Otherwise, why would GOD give back Samson his power after revoking it from him? And didn't He know about Samson's plan and intentions of suicide?
Another Question raised to me: I was asked to show from the Bible where did GOD Almighty indeed grant Samson his power back so he can commit suicide in the intention of taking his enemies with him. Well, let us read Judges 16:19-22:
"Having put him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him.
Then she called, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" He awoke from his sleep and thought, "I'll go out as before and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had left him.
Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding in the prison. But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved. (From the NIV Bible, Judges 16:19-22)"
Now let us read Judges 16:28:
"Then Samson prayed to the LORD, "O Sovereign LORD , remember me. O God, please strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes." (From the NIV Bible, Judges 16:28)"
Here we see that GOD Almighty apparently gave Samson the chance to get his power back through growing his hair back. GOD Almighty wanted for Samson to take his own life and the life of his enemies with him. He willed for him to die this way.
He could've simply willed for Samson to die on the spot after his enemies gouged his eyes for him. But no, instead, GOD Almighty decided for Samson to die while enabling him to take as many pagan Philistines with him as possible.
GOD in the Bible actually makes the point very clear: "Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived. (From the NIV Bible, Judges 16:30)"
My challenge to all Jews and Christians: Show me in the Bible where GOD Almighty condemned the actions of Samson.
So to all of those hypocrites from Jewish and Christian Rabies and Ministers who call the Palestinian Suicide Martyrs as "Homicide Bombers", how are the Palestinians today different from what Samson did before?
I don't blame the regular Jews and Christians because they don't know much about their Bible. But I do have a great deal of problem with the hypocrites and the Pedophiles of the Churches who know everything about their porn-full bible, the book of women's breasts and vaginas taste like wine, and brothers and sisters sleeping with each others (see the proofs and quotes for yourself from the porn-full bible), because they clearly have double standards. They are clearly contradicting themselves and their porn-full bible.
Now the real meaning of the Sampson story.
In the Sampson and Delilah story, we have the same elements as many other Bible stories. We have the number SEVEN, which is key, and the number of Philistines killed in the temple is 3000.
So lets look at it.
Sampson represents the person that is striving to reach godhood, and perfection. Delilah represents the left physical mind, the lower nature.
When one is in meditation, the action is to raise the serpentine energy through the seven seals, and receive cosmic consciousness.
Now if you noticed that Delilah cut SEVEN locks of Sampson's hair, the SEVEN locks represent the SEVEN seals or chakras.
The Philistines put Sampsons eyes out, and now he is blind, yet in spite of being blind, he still gets his power back and brings down the temple on 3000 philistines.
Definition of PHILISTINE
: a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia
often not capitalized a : a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values b : one uninformed in a special area of knowledge
The blindness represents the shutting down of the physical eyes in meditation, and seeing with the inner eye, or third eye (the pineal gland). We also see that after his hair has grown back out, he regains his strength back.
Now this taken LITERALLY rather that symbolically, is foolish and childish, because the bible uses hair to represent your spiritual strength, it's just a SYMBOL only. Other Bible verses show that hair is a symbol of spiritual power, many can be found.
"Having put him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him.
The sleep, refers to the state of consciousness that most of live in , we are asleep, even though we are awake, never realizing our own internal GOD strength.
And it is during this waking sleep, that are seven locks are cutoff, and we are subdued by the things of the world, with no thought given to that which resides in us and animates our physical bodies.
Until we wake up, as Paul said "wake up" until then we are asleep spiritually not LITERALLY, but yes LITERALLY, because we are asleep spiritually.
Now Sampson enters the temple (the brain) and asks god to give him the strength to push the two main pillars apart, so that temple will fall on the philistines.
The temple is always the human brain, the two pillars are two anterior pillars that keep the brain supported. You can see an anatomical picture of the brain and see them. The temple in the Bible is ALWAYS referring to the human brain.
The philistines represent all the lower natured thought patterns in the brain that arise out of the lower mind, the Ego centered second brain, in your gut.
Notice that 3000 philistines were killed. In bible numerics you always drop off the zeros. When you do this you are left with the number 3.
The number three represents the three kings, or the the three centers that make up your Ego. (The physical, the intellectual, and the Emotional). Meshac, shedrach and abendego.
So you see Sampson overcame his lower nature, by killing out the Ego centered mind represented by Delilah, and all the negative thought patters that followed after her ( the Philistines). This is how the bible uses stories to portray spiritual truths.
It is an allegory like all Bible stories. Allegories describing the war between the lower mind, and the higher mind in us all.
Will you let Delilah control you with her false beauty , will you fall for her, if you do, you will never rise above the lower ego mind. Or will you rise above her, and reach cosmic (god) consciousness, through the opening of the SEVEN seals or (Locks).
Again we see that:
GOD in the Bible actually makes the point very clear: "Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived. (From the NIV Bible, Judges 16:30)"
Death in the bible is never talking about real physical death, death in the Bible is always referring to the death of the lower self, or lower ego mind.
The reason he killed more people when he was dead than alive, is because of the following reason.
People and multitudes in the bible stories are always referring to the thought patterns that arise out of either the lower mind or the higher mind. And that depends on the story being told, and can always be discerned by the story itself.
In this case with Sampson and the Philistines, it is obviously referring to the thoughts that arise out of the lower mind.
Thus when he died to himself, and killed out his own lower nature, he also killed out the multitudes of people (thoughts) that arose out of his own lower mind thinking.
Something you simply cannot do while still alive, to your lower nature (being of the word) the worldly man or woman. You are to be in the world, but not OF the world.
You must first Die first, in order to bring down the multitudes. Then victory.
Next time I grow long hair and become super powerful, then perhaps I will start considering suicide bombing, or bringing down temples on top of people. Ha ha!
Until then, however, I'll stick to my full knowledge of my belief system (The Great Pumpkin, the tooth ferry and the Easter bunny) without resorting to someone else cherry-picking various Charlie Brown episodes to make fun of me.
Next time I grow long hair and become super powerful, then perhaps I will start considering suicide bombing, or bringing down temples on top of people. Ha ha!
Until then, however, I'll stick to my full knowledge of my belief system (The Great Pumpkin, the tooth ferry and the Easter bunny) without resorting to someone else cherry-picking various Charlie Brown episodes to make fun of me.
I love religious discussions. "Your religion sucks!" "No! Your religion sucks!" "No! You!" "No! You!" and so on.
I will say that Christianity seems capable of having secular societies, pluralistic societies, banking, an independent judiciary, etc. 99% of the rest of the world are with us, but a few would want to go back to Caliphate and shariah. It's not that I disagree it just doesn't work in the modern world.
If somebody defecated on the bible and dressed up in drag making fun of Jerry Falwell, we wouldn't try to kill him. We'd probably give him a TV show. That's not because we are decadent.
It's because we've learned better. We've learned how to get along with each other, we have risen above the dogma of the church and the likes of faldwell, Robertson etal...
Suicide bombing by targeting innocent civilians is not acceptable anymore. It's a new rule. We just made it up. The problem is that you end up killing people who have nothing to do with your cause.
BUT AGAIN THERE ARE NO VERSES IN THE KORAN THAT EVER JUSTIFY THE KILLING OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN BY NAME INTENTIONALLY, COMPARE IT TO THIS VERSE:
Some more mythology for you.
"The LORD said to Moses, 'Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder.
They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camp. (Moses ordered) "Now kill all the boys. And kill every women who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man." Numbers 31: 1-18
Deuteronomy 20:13-20
13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword (even the unarmed ones):
14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
In the following verses we see the following:
1 All men, including the unarmed ones, were to be executed (Deuteronomy 20:13).
2 All women and children were to be taken as spoils of war (Deuteronomy 20:14).
3 For the others, kill and destroy every creature that is breathing that is all men, women, children and animals (Deuteronomy 20:16-17).
"All who would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman. (From the NIV Bible, 2 Chronicles 15:13)"
My open challenge to Jews and Christians:
Jews and Christians today often talk about the lie of "Islamic Terrorism". I openly challenge any Jew or Christian to produce ONE, JUST ONE Noble Verse from the Muslims' Noble Quran that condones killing of innocent children, women or even hostile enemy men who drop their weapons before Muslims (surrender).
See the Rights of Prisoners of War in Islam. http://www.answering-christianity.com/prisoners of war.htm
I would like to add that The Great Pumpkin, book 7, verse 12, specifically says that fighting is not so good. Even with tribalistic goat copulators.
Unless they are planning to kill innocents. In which case, all bets are off.
I know there is nobody speaking for The Great Pumpkin on this board, so I thought I would help out.
If the stupidity and dishonesty here were any more palpable, it would require a title and an award.
BUT AGAIN THERE ARE NO VERSES IN THE KORAN THAT EVER JUSTIFY THE blah blah blah
And yet, Amro, the people who keep doing these things for which you tell us there is no Qur'anic justification are Muslims. Funny that. yes, yes, I know, they're not REAL Muslims. Haven't we heard THAT a million times? Well, Amro, I have some unfortunate news for you. They say the exact same thing about you.
No, Amro, the people blowing stuff up, cutting people's heads off, suicide bombing (despite your venal ejaculations about Biblical exhortations regarding warfare, etc) are not those convenient old Muslim polemical targets, the Christians and Jews, but rather wait for it Muslims.
Now, one wonders why anyone would think that Islam promulgates violence? Perhaps it is the 164 jihad verses, or perhaps the many Qur'anic verses advocating violence, like 2:190-193, 2:224, 2:216, 3:157-158, 3:169, 3:195, 4:101, 4:74-75, 4:89, 4:95, 5:36, 5:54, 8:12-17, 8:59-60, 8:65, 9:5, 9:14, 9:29, 47:4, 61:4, to name a few.
But all that aside, here's my challenge to you, my mendacious pretender:
Why are you telling US this?
Because last time I checked, none of us were blowing people up or cutting people's heads off shouting "Allahu Akbar".
But there are plenty of people who do, aren't there, Amro Gaber? And every single one of them claims, just as I'm sure you do, to be a devout Muslim. How do I know that? Not through my mental telepathy, I assure you, but rather because they scream it at me at the top of their voice from the mosques and minarets.
Do you deny it? Because I can cite a thousand quotes from Islamic religious leaders advocating all the things you have so vociferously denied, starting with Sayyid Abu'l-A'la Mawdudi and Sayyid Qutb.
So I ask again, why not tell them?
Oh, that's right. If you do, they'll kill you.
The point, Amro, is not whether the Qur'an says it or not, but rather that many of your brothers and sisters thinks it does. The sooner you accept that and start helping to correct that problem instead of trying to be an apologist for it the better off you'll be. The patience of the West with your kind of doublespeak is waning, and when it finally does, we will be far less discriminate about who is and is not a "good" Muslim.
God help us all if it ever comes to that.
Tone it down a few notches everyone, please.
Bottom line and I think Sirius Black (glad to see they finally let you out of prison :p is trying to make this point the correct interpretation of various Qu'ranic verses is (at least for me as a Catholic), irrelevant, just as the correct interpretation of various Bible verses is irrelevant for a Muslim.
The point is that the verses and suras from the former are being used by unscrupulous people (assuming Amro Gaber accepts the above characterization for bin Laden, Zarqawi, and Basayev) to promote a totalitarian political ideology.
That is the whole reason that so many non-Muslims are talking about said verses and suras are coming to people's attention to begin with, no what the proper method of exegesis for said passages are.
Amro: So to all of those hypocrites from Jewish and Christian Rabies
Reminds me of a line from George C. Scott in Exorcist III, describing a question an officer failed on the police exam:
Q: What are rabies, and what would you do for them?
A: Rabies are Jewish priests, and I would do anything I possibly could for them.
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