AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. 2

GOD GODDESS

IN THE BEGINNING The world was created, or became manifest when the 7 classical planets were conjunct in the constellation Aries, the sign of the Egyptian Goose, the ‘Great Cackler’ who laid the ‘Golden Egg’. The world will be destroyed, or become unmanifest, when these 7 planets are again conjunct in the sign of Pisces; thus said Albumasar in his ‘Revolution of Years’. (11) This cosmic revelation according to the sage Albumasar, is when the world manifested itself out of the dark primordial soup of deep dark space. For the Ancient Egyptians, Nun, the primordial abyss or cosmic waters, the boundless deep, gave forth all that was to manifest. This primal chaos is symbolized in 8 elemental gods known as the Ogdoad. They are:- Nun/Naunet                   water Huh/Hautet                    space Kuk/Kauket                   darkness Amun/Amunet               hidden Out of this primal chaos arose Atum who gave birth to the creative sun god Re. Then Shu the air and Tefnut the moisture, separated earth Geb from sky Nut. Geb then mated with Nut to produce the 4 pillars of the universe, Osiris, Isis, Nephthys and Seth. [185 pp.45-53] So the world began with the emergence of the sun god Ra or Re-Atum who then produced the 4 ‘corner’s of the world. The Intelligence of the universe manifests its polarity through 10 divine principles or divine dynasties known as the reign of the gods or neters. These ten form the spiritual matrix from which life was made manifest, and from which civilization on Earth was nurtured. (48) Such understanding is the basis of Kabala system of Ten Sephiroth, and the Judaic-Christian Empyborean system of Spirits and Archangels; both systems or models are used by humans in their attempt to gain an understanding of the One original Intelligence, which is presumed to be the underlying factor in physical manifestation and which, for the want of a name, is termed by some to be GOD. The archetypal design of God manifesting is symbolized in the glyph of the Kabalistic Tree. Below the area of the unknowable begins manifestation at Geburah and continues until it reaches Malkuth symbolized in planet Earth, the 7th world following the ‘Deluge’ or the 7th ‘Day’ of creation according to Genesis. The reign of the ten neters is followed by the reign of the thirty dynasties of sages or demi-gods, guided by the mythological figure of Thoth, an ancient god of wisdom and measurement symbolized in many personages over a very long period of time and named according to particular cultures:- Lemurian Thoth I / Adam Atlantian/Egyptian Thoth II / Enoch Hebraic/Egyptian Thoth III / Moses [Greek Thoth IV/Hermes Trimegistus / Opheus] Arabic Thoth V /Idris (316) [Roman Thoth VI / Mercury] In the beginning, EURYNOME [Tethys/Night] the Goddess of All Things, rose from Chaos, separated the sky from the sea [waters above from the waters below] and dancing on the waves set the wind in motion. The wind turned into the great serpent OPHION [Oceanus] who coupled with Eurynome and impregnated her. Eurynome turned into a dove and laid the Universal Silver Egg in the womb of darkness and around which Ophion coiled 7 times until the Egg split in two. From the Cosmic Egg issued Eros/Phanes, the universal light that set the world in motion and created the planets. Phanes is also the celestial bee the ‘feeder upon heather’ and identified with the transcendent Orphic god Iao of 4 heads. These 4 heads represent the cardinal points of direction. Later Eurynome will give birth to the Titans or 7 ancient and primeval dual planetary powers. [33. Vol.I  p.27-31] The TITANS or Elders, were primeval gods/spirits and are the first divine race to inhabit Earth and are honoured by the Greeks as the ancestors of man. They are born of Gaea and Uranus, Earth and Sky and may represent the natural forces shaping the world in its early stages of evolution.  The Titans are generally 7 polarities in number, some superceded by the 12 gods of Olympus but a few remained alongside the new gods. The Titans have the names of:- Cronus/Rhea [Time and Earth, seemingly to reflect their parents. They are the predecessors of Saturn - peace]. Oceanus/Tethys [Who will be replaced by Olympian Poseidon/Neptune but are also the predecessors of Venus/Aprodite - love]. Hyperion/Theia [The ancient predecessor of Sun/Helius - illumination]. Phoebe/Mnemosyne [The predecessors of Moon/Selene – memory/enchantment]. Coeus [Koios]/Metis [The predecessors of Mercury/Hermes/Apollo - wisdom], Themis/Eurymedon-Iapetus [Predecessors of Jupiter/Zeus/Hera – justice/law]; Crius/Dione [Predecessors of Mars/Ares - growth]. The 7 planetary pairs, with their parents, make 8 pairs in all; compared with the Egyptian Ogdoad [4 pairs] and Ennead [4 pairs plus 1] this multiplication demonstrates the continuing fracturing into multiplicity of the All or the One as it descends deeper into physical manifestation.  [40. 308. 309. 33]. “The head…hath been formed and prepared in the likeness of a cranium and is filled with the crystalline dew”. Zohar (CM:8-9) “…my head is filled with dew, and among the curls of my hair wander the tears of the nights”. Indra Sutra IV.