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Year_zero
A year zero has not been
defined for the
Gregorian calendar, which is widely used, nor for
its predecessor, the
Julian calendar. However, it has been defined for
the calendar
ISO 8601:2004 and for
astronomical year numbering (where it coincides with
the Gregorian year 1 BC) as well as in all
Buddhist and
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Dionysius Exiguus
(c.470–c.544)
used the Latin zero in the very same table wherein he
introduced his anno Domini era, but in a
neighboring column—it was the first
epact of the 19-year cycle used to
calculate
Easter (see the
nineteen year cycle of Dionysius). |
Astronomers,
for whom ease of mathematical calculation is more
important, have used for several centuries a defined
leap year zero equal to BC 1 of the traditional
Christian era. The first use of an astronomical year 0
is traditionally attributed to
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During the late 19th century the
metaphysical healing practices of
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
mingled with the "Mental Science" of
Warren Felt Evans, a
Swedenborgian minister and the ideas of
the American
transcendental philosophers
Amos Bronson Alcott,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, and
Henry David Thoreau. Emerson's writings in
particular were a great source of inspiration to the
nascent New Thought movement.
In 1906,
William Walker Atkinson, the editor of New
Thought magazine, wrote and published a book
called Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction
in the Thought World. The principles set forth
in this work are associated with the thinking behind
the
2006 hit movie,
The Secret. According to
Rhonda Byrne, who created
The Secret, she was also largely inspired by
the New Thought author
Wallace Wattles who published a book called
The Science of Getting Rich in 1910.
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There is nothing more comforting than an illusion
undivided consciousness'
of the ancients. By showing humanity a God who expresses Himself (in
part) in nature, he hoped to reconnect science with the
experience of the divine. attempt to 're-enchant' the world,
to re-invest nature with the experience of the numinous lost with the
death of the mythical consciousness
we find ourselves wandering
disconsolately between two worlds — one dying and the other struggling
to be born. On the one hand, the spiritual and intellectual
certainties of the past no longer command our allegiance. On the other,
the promises of a more integral worldview, a cosmology of tomorrow — one
based on a deeper relationship with nature and with the larger cosmos —
require of us a leap of faith few are as yet willing to take. With the
future of the human spirit and the future of the planet hanging in the
balance, we have no choice but to embrace courage, imagination, and our
deepest inner resources
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Cosmos & Psyche
by Richard Tarmas |
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We've got to get back to
the garden |
"The desire of males to have
power and to keep women less in a central role in shaping their
world and their worldview, I believe something deeper has been
going on, something archetypal.
There has been a masculine impulse at work in both men and women
that has constantly pressed the Western mind and the Western
spirit to assert an autonomy, to separate itself, disengage the
human being from the matrix of nature from which it emerged, and
to create freedom for itself and control over its environment in
order to have greater and greater autonomy. That has been a
tremendous quest, that forging of an autonomous
intellectual and moral self that is transcendent, in some ways,
to the world around it.
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It involves a psychological awakening to the unconscious
impulses that are at work inside us and in our
civilization. It is a psychological and spiritual
education that has to occur as well as an intellectual
one. |
My sense is that the crisis
is of modern man is a masculine crisis. The resolution of this
crisis is emerging in our own time in a tremendous empowerment
and resurgence of the feminine. It's visible not only in
feminism itself — in the empowerment of women and the new sense
of the importance of feminine values in both men and women — but
also in a whole new sensibility of the interconnectedness of all
life — the ecological identity, the sense that my self is not me
as a human being, but that I am rooted in a whole matrix that
includes all of nature, the planet, the cosmos itself.
"We live in a world in which
mainstream, conventional modern science has
essentially voided the cosmos of all intrinsic meaning and
purpose. There is no spiritual dimension to it from its point of
view. The intellectual power of mainstream modern science has
effectively defined what kind of cosmos we live in. And yet
human beings aspire for spiritual significance in the life that
they lead and in the world that they live in. It is only, I
think, though going through a profound inner transformation, and
also an intellectual transformation, that one can see beyond
that crisis and come into a world of a different kind.
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Two fish
tied together trying to swim
apart.
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We allowed them to swim so far apart, that we lost sight
that the opposites are connected. This is the hide stage of the
game of "Hide and Seek" in full manifestation. The more we
separate them the more lost we become. At this juncture in the
great year, we are using less than twelve percent of our brain's
potential, and we are only putting one fish on the car bumper.
How lost we are! |
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Piscean Symbol
The coming of
Aquarius, the man or water bearer, gives us two lines that fit
back together.
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We are approaching a time of Atonement (at-one-ment).
It is time for us to re-member or awaken. It is time to look
down and observe that our right and left hands are connected.
Notice that the electric light doesn't work without the plus and
minus. The end of the Piscean Age is a time of Revelations. It
is time to reveal the truth. Catch the Joke! — It was
necessary to get lost just to play. |
Aquarian Symbol
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Comprehend that the word sphinx means to bind or
close a circle tightly, and that the Great Sphinx binds
Virgo and Leo in the Zodiac on the ceiling of the
Portico — at Esna's Khnum Temple.
The Great Sphinx
marks the "Happy New Year" of our present Platonic year,
and Leo was the first age in this great year.
Listen when the
Vatican informs us every Christmas Eve, when it reads
the ancient Calens (calendar) from Rome, that it was the
sixth age or the Piscean Age when Jesus, the
fisherman, was born 2,000 years ago. Even the ancient
Persians called Polaris the "turning point star" 5,000
years before it became our current pole star between the
sixth and seventh ages.
In two thousand years,
because of the effects of the Platonic year, there will
be no pole star, as there was no pole star two thousand
years ago.
The next North Pole star after Polaris will be Al
Deramin around the year A.D. 7500; later, Deneb will
hold that position. Thirteen thousand years from now,
the bright star Vega will be the North Pole star again,
as it was the North Pole star nearly thirteen thousand
years ago.
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The Royal
Arch of the Ages of the Zodiac.
the Twelve Ages in the Precession of the Equinoxes.
The blue dot within the circle is Planet Earth around which the
Constellations of the Zodiac appear to revolve. The "Cross" which is
formed by the four quarters of the circle takes 25,920 years to complete
one revolution.
Within this Great Year are four Seasons, which are defined by
the Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter Equinoxes. Within each Season are
three Ages. For example, within the Zodiacal Season of Taurus there are
the three Ages of Taurus (the Bull), Aries (the Ram) and Pisces (the
Fish). Within the Zodiacal Season of Aquarius there are the three Ages
of Aquarius (Man), Capricorn (the Sea Goat) and Sagittarius (the
Archer).
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Year
Zero & the Age of Aquarius |
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The idea behind Year Zero is
that all culture and traditions within a society must be
completely destroyed or discarded and a new revolutionary
culture must replace it, starting from scratch. All history of a
nation or people before Year Zero is largely irrelevant,
as it will (as an ideal) be purged and replaced from the ground
up. The term Year Zero,
applied to the takeover of Cambodia in 1975 by the Khmer Rouge,
is an analogy to the Year One of the French Revolutionary
Calendar. During the French Revolution, after the abolition of
the French monarchy (September 20, 1792), the National
Convention instituted a new calendar and declared the beginning
of the Year I. The Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh was
rapidly followed by a series of drastic revolutionary policies
vastly exceeding those of the French Reign of Terror and
culminating in the Cambodian Genocide. |
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Age of Aquarius:
Astrologically Speaking |
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Shifts in a Great Age also correspond with shifts
in worldly power structures, economies, and belief systems.
However, as prelude to any new forms presenting themselves and
being widely accepted, there must first be relative chaos and
the dis-integration of old forms, since an old order is never
open to a new order that can supercede it. We also are told that
humanity must have reached a state of tension, of yearning for
something new that will satisfy basic human needs that are not
being addressed by the old systems. It is fairly easy to see
that we are rapidly approaching that state in the world today.
Since Aquarius exteriorizes through Leo, its
polar opposite, this period would have offered many
opportunities to demonstrate a sense of purposeful creativity
and genuine, spontaneous sincere engaged Love in every life
approach, these being Leo qualities. We all had the Aquarian
ideal awakened in some way, and collectively, it is easy to see
we are in a completely unique "unknown zone" as a human race.
The Aquarius symbol is
metaphoric in content - meaning 'closure in water'. Water
represents the collective unconsciousness that which creates the
grid programs of our physical reality. Many connect the Age of
Aquarius with the return of the goddess, priestess, or feminine
energies - those that vibrate above/faster than physical
frequency. This is the return to higher consciousness, the
awakening of higher mind and thought in the alchemy of time
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Uranus, as
planetary co-ruler of Aquarius, personifies sky, stars, the
Heavens, a breaking free of mind and spirit from the Piscean
bondage to the blurring undersea realm of the Neptunian
unconscious.
The Aquarian
age, in contrast, symbolized by a celestial human wielding the
pitcher of divine water, not only privileges the individual as
divine but is dominated by the less mystical, more focused,
incisive and pragmatic planets, Saturn and Uranus. Saturn
presides over penetrating critical scrutiny, science, discipline
and methodical questioning rather than blind belief. Co-ruler
Uranus is the revolutionary magician who stands for
independence, humanitarianism, scientific inventiveness and
futuristic ideas. An intriguing duo!
Now the
God-image, formerly polarized as male/spiritual, is being
subsumed by the Aquarian vision of complementarity, the latter
implying that each pole of a duality is in reality one end of a
holistic continuum rather than a separate opposite. Hence, as a
reflection of the human divine Self, the Aquarian God-image as
matter, female and human can be understood as one pole of the
continuous "light spectrum" of the collective unconscious, which
merges into spirit, male and divine at the other end. Similarly,
science and mysticism, formerly at dualistic odds with each
other, are now being seen increasingly as two faces of the same
holistic coin. If light is the privileged metaphor of mystical
holism, in physics, too, light's wave-particle complementarity
subverts at the most basic level of existence the former dualism
of energy and matter. |
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Mass communication, electricity, ease
of travel, the internet and particularly the space age are all signs
that the Age of Aquarius is arriving. Gret Baumann-Jung (Carl G. Jung's
daughter and well-known Swiss astrologer) suggested in 1969 that the
Aquarian Age had began with
Russia’s first space probes in the late 1950s.
The Piscean Age, ruled by Neptune and
symbolized by the twin fish swimming in opposite directions, has
accordingly been dominated by dualistic thinking in the form of an
endless array of irreconcilable polarities. Key dualisms such as
God/human, good/evil/spirit/matter, inner/outer, male/female,
science/religion, reinforced in Western culture by Christian dogma, gave
rise to hierarchical thinking which inevitably privileged one pole of
the duality at the expense of the other. Hence the Medieval model of an
ascending ladder or chain of command reaching back to God is a feature
of Piscean vertical thinking. The Church as been displaced as a prime
spiritual force for most although Church or mosque power remains one of
the planet's greatest threats to human survival. Still the decline of
the Great Religions would correspond to a decline in the force of
Pisces. According to
astrological mysticism, there will be unusual harmony and
understanding in the world. Those who follow that belief system
see it as a turning point in human consciousness in which
balance is restored by consciously moving beyond
the physical body.
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"If you bring forth what is within you, what
you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is
within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
Jesus Christ; Taken from the Gnostic
Gospels uncovered at Nag Hammadi. |
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According to astrological mysticism, there will be unusual
harmony and understanding in the world as we move towards and
into the Age of Aquarius. It is imperative that we
transform our collective consciousness so we can
create and nurture a better world able to survive indefinitely
into the future ages to come.
Emerging Egalitarian-Libertarian
dynamic provides 21st century vehicles for expansion of freedom
and equality, liberty and justice
The present authoritarian thought system reaches back through two
millennia of Western civilization, almost unchallenged.
It lacks long-term vision
This mindset is linear, exclusionary and
competitive. It seeks either to take charge of nature's rhythms or ignore them.
An emerging mindset of networking, rather than top–down control, may be starting
to clear the smog. This new way of thinking is organic, inclusionary and
collaborative—and certainly aware of longer-term horizons. It could replace the
buccaneering, conformist mentality with self-responsibility and respect for
diversity.
In the Age of Aquarius,
means moving toward a global consciousness, a collective self-awareness. The
Aquarian bumber sticker: one people living on one planet. The Age of Aquarius is
the networking power of decentralization and democracy. Signs of its arrival
include the creation of the internet, which is moving us toward a decentralized
world.
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During the Piscean Age--which will perhaps be
remembered as the Age of Faith in contrast to the Aquarian Age
of Reason--the tenets of the new Christianity (love and
unselfishness) were taught to an ever-increasing circle of
believers. Abstinence from flesh-eating was practiced on certain
days. Reverence was paid to an Immaculate Virgin. Gradually man
was and is being taught to forsake the lusts of the flesh and
also lusting after the flesh. In the six hundred years which
remain before the Aquarian Age is definitely ushered in, we in
all probability will make great strides in both of these areas
of consciousness. It is well to remember, also, that Jupiter,
the planet of benevolence and philanthropy which is co-ruler of
Pisces, has been a prominent factor in promoting altruism during
the past two millennia.
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"Again, I
wonder: Is it possible to see this bizarre phenomenon
as, like those Catholic anti-predator coloring books, a
peculiar sign of positive change, another cryptic
indicator that the Grand Shift is readying itself?
"In other words, as old churchly structures break
down and any new "churches" are forced to dilute and
open wider and try to at least pretend to be more
inclusive and less intolerant in order to draw a wary
crowd, could this be some of the cosmic groundwork for a
much more potent, long-awaited spiritual upheaval the
mystics have hinted at for millennia? " |
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Precession of the Equinoxes &
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Because the ecliptic
plane is defined by the unchanging pattern of earth’s orbit, it
is considered fixed in space. However, the equatorial plane is
always in motion as it follows the earth in its orbital journey
about the sun. Therefore, the planar-line is in rhythmic motion
in the ecliptic plane, sweeping out a slowly-pulsating, directed
pattern in our solar system. This directed pulsation of the
planar-line is a correlation of three cyclic activities: the
pulse or rhythm of the elliptical orbit of the earth, the
activity of earth’s rotation, and the activity of earth’s
precession.
The planar-line is
found to be currently aligned toward the region of space between
the constellations of Pisces and Aquarius. The direction of the
planar-line is independent of the earth’s rotation and orbit, so
that the alignment direction to the Zodiac is relatively
constant day after day, month after month, and year after year.
The direction of alignment is entirely dependent upon the
precession of the earth — that is, the wobble of its axis. As
earth undergoes precession, the planar-line slowly moves its
alignment through the houses of the Zodiac.
For the next 2,500
years the planar-line will slowly sweep out of its alignment
with the constellation of Aquarius and from there will move
onward into alignment with Capricornus.
Reverse order to the
more familiar sequence of monthly alignments of the solar-line (Capricornus,
Aquarius, Pisces, etc) and that the vernal and autumnal
equinoxes precede their previous positions by a slight amount
each year. Thus, the origin of the term precession of the
equinoxes.
As a matter of
scientific interest, the particular spatial pattern created by
the rhythmic pulsation of the planar-line is a teardrop shape
not unlike the receiving pattern of a modern radio frequency
antenna used throughout the modern world to receive
unidirectional electromagnetic radio transmissions. When the
receiving pattern of an antenna is positioned in a particular
direction, it becomes tuned to the high-frequency transmissions
arriving from that particular direction of alignment.
In the esoteric sense,
the earth-sun system can be said to be an antenna for cosmic
energetic activity streaming from the region of space occupied
by the zodiacal constellation which dominates the particular
planetary age.
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Aquarius: a water sign |
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To fully appreciate
the mythological significance of Aquarius, it is
necessary to bear in mind the importance of water to
our ancestors. The very existence of the ancients
depended upon the supply of life sustaining
moisture. During the month of Aquarius, the rains
were on the land, literally poured from the heavens.
In many regions of the ancient world, this was seen
as the beginning the new year, a time of new life
cycles. It is not hard to understand why some images
depict the figure of Aquarius as a water bearing
angel.
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"As
Plutarch reports, the Egyptians held that
water was “the beginning and origin of all
things” - that was, as an element of life.
Hence in the Osirian mysteries the throne of
the Eternal rested on the element of water,
and Horus the child-saviour, the Messu or
Messiah, came by water in the power of the
southern lakes. So in the building of the
heavens the beginning was with water, or the
firmament imaged in its aerial likeness.
Thus it might be said the heaven was made
from water, as it is said in the Babylonian
“legends of creation” , the water based on
being the abyss of source."
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The region of the
night sky in which Aquarius resides is populated by
water signs. In Babylonia, this region of the zodiac
was known as the Sea. Here we also find, Capricornus,
the water goat and Pisces, the fish.
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The Goddess
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The hostility of
Jewish prophets and Protestant reformers to the explicit
worship of feminine divinities suppressed or transmuted
the recognition of the feminine aspect of Nature, which
re-emerged in romantic and poetic forms. Hidden
goddesses play a surprisingly important part in
scientific thinking, especially Darwinism, and are
sometimes explicit, as in the Gaia hypothesis. Recent
discoveries provide a new context for our exploration
and experience of the divine spirit in Nature. |
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The Egyptian Great Annual Celebration
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Yearly Cycle |
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For
most of the year at the latitude of Thebes in Upper
Egypt [the southern half], Sirius is invisible in the
southern heavens, but just before dawn at the summer
solstice it suddenly appears. Within 20 days after its
appearance the Nile floods its banks. This had a
profound impact upon the minds of these early
astronomers who likened this star to a sentry, a dog.
They rounded off the length of the "tropical" year to
365¼ days, an almost exact mean between the solstitial
and Sothic years.
New
Year's Day, which occurred on or near summer solstice,
was heralded by Sirius, brightest star in the sky and
great benefactor of Egypt, rising before the Sun. This
momentous event "opened the year," announcing the annual
inundation of Egypt as the life-giving waters of the
Nile flood, gift of Isis, returned renew the parched
valley after the season of dryness. New Moon festivals
were also significant at this time.
Each
year the sun returns to the same place in the sky a
quarter of a day later. We employ a leap year, adding a
day every fourth year to adjust. The ancient Egyptians
used two cycles: a "vague" civil year of 365 days, and a
"fixed" sacred year, marked by the return of Sirius to
the same place in the sky, in exactly 365 1/4 days.
"Here their practice resembles the
rites called Orphic and Bacchic, but which are in
reality Egyptian and Pythagorean..." This fragment from
Herodotus (Hist.2, 81) shows direct interpenetration of
Orphism and Dionysian rituals based on the link between
the teachings of Pythagoras and Egyptian mysteries.
Osiris was the son of the supreme God
Ra and Nut born on the fifth day before the new year (In
order for Nut to become pregnant out of the 360 days
cycle prohibited by Ra, Thot took those 5 days from the
Lunar cycle, now 355 days, and added them to 12x30 in
order to obtain the Solar cycle of 365 days.
Our modern solar calendar (based on
the time it takes Earth to revolve once around the Sun,
approximately 365.24219 days) around 237 B.C. the
Egyptians changed this practice and introduced an extra
day every four years.
Around 46 B.C. Caesar adopted the
Egyptian calendar. Caesar wanted his Julian version of
this calendar year to start on the spring equinox or the
winter solstice. However, he bowed to political pressure
and agreed to a January 1 start date to coincide with
the day the Roman Senate convened.
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Jesus announces the Age of
Aquarius when he says:
"a man will meet you carrying an earthen pitcher of
water; follow him into the house where he goes in"
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Be kind for
everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
--- Philo, 10 BC |
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Zodiacal
Signs & Constellations |
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Zodiacal signs mean one of twelve equal 30°
segments of the traditional zodiac. Each sign is associated with
a constellation of the same name. A zodiacal sign is not a
constellation. |
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There was some confusion
regarding the exact starting date of the new millennium. January
1, 2000 marked the first calendrical day of the third millennium,
but January 1, 2001 marks the first actual day of the third
millennium due to the fact that our Western calendar has no zero
year. |
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The 3rd
millennium of the Gregorian calendar began on 1 January 2001
(rather than the popularly-celebrated 1 January 2000). This is a
direct consequence of the absence of a year zero in the Common
Era. Had there been a year zero, which might be considered part
of the first millennium, then 1 January 2000 would indeed mark
2000 years since the year numbering datum and be the start of
the third millennium. |
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Season of Aquarius |
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The ancients refer to the coupled-ages of Pisces
and Aquarius in the great year as the time for the FisherMan or
Merman to return from the sea. The old legends say that he will
teach the people how to heal and govern themselves.
Within the Zodiacal Season of
Aquarius there are the three Ages of Aquarius (Man), Capricorn
(the Sea Goat) and Sagittarius (the Archer). |
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Aquarius, the Water Bearer may be
related to the biblical story of the Flood, and in Antiquity,
the constellation's rise matched the beginning of rainy season
in the Middle East. |
What's new for astronomy?
- Astrobiology, the scientific term for the colloquial "starlife",
launched as an independent NASA discipline in August 1996. |
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Space Age |
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The people of Earth at
millennium's change should be thinking about a foothold on the
Moon, Mars, the Jupiter system, or beyond not fear from atomic
energy and a new world order where freedoms must be given up to
preserve freedom. |
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Astrology |
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"Man has a natural light,
but also a light outside the light of nature by which he can
seek out supernatural things... And it should be known that when
a man prophesies, he does not speak from the Devil and not from
the Holy Spirit, but from the innate spirit of the invisible
body in which man has his origin." |
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"Mathematics has been and will continue to be the
qualitative language of science, but astrology will become the
qualitative language of the human condition." |
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William Tiller - Professor of Physics, Stanford University |
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What is most remarkable and philosophically
significant about astrology is that its symbolism is grounded in
a time/space map and not simply projected upon the physical
world.... we need presume that 'reality' is multileveled beyond
the simple sensory/empirical level. The symbol is our way of
understanding something which is ineffable, yet something 'real'
which lies beyond us and is beckoning us 'forward' (or 'higher'
or 'deeper' depending upon our preferred metaphor). These
symbols appear to 'work' by general agreement, hence astrology
becomes a technology of self knowledge and transformation, a
direct participatory and largely dialogical process." |
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Richard Tarnas Ph D--"The Passion of the Western Mind" |
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Even though astrology has been dismissed as an
irrelevant pseudo-science, the practice of astrology continues
throughout the world. Its popularized form, the sun-sign
horoscope, can be found in nearly every popular magazine and
newspaper published in the Western world. India has at least a
dozen television stations that offer 24-hours a day of
astrological programming |
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Time Is Art |
José and Lloydine founded the Planet Art Network
(PAN) in 1983 as an autonomous, meta-political, worldwide peace
organization engaging in art and spirituality. Active in over 90
countries, PAN upholds the Nicholas Roerich Peace Pact and
Banner of Peace, symbolizing "Peace Through Culture".
The Planet Art Network operates as a network of self-organized
collectives, centralized by a shared focus of promoting the
world-wide adoption of Argüelles' Dreamspell 13-Moon/28 day
Calendar. The network upholds the slogan "Time is Art",
suggesting that time is a vehicle for our creative experience,
instead of the familiar saying "Time is Money". |
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Ovid
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Celestial Year = 25,920 years. |
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72 years
(and 7 + 2 = 9), 2160 years (and 2 +1 +6 +0 = 9), and 25,920
years (and 2 + 5 + 9 + 2 + 0 = 18, and 1 +8 = 9).
And 25,920 divided by the divine Sumerian number 60 is
432 (and 4 + 3 + 2 = 9). |
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Illusion |
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There is nothing
more comforting than an
illusion |
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"Whatever games are played with us, we must
play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with last
honestly and truth. I look upon the simple and childish virtues
of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in
character. Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts
of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my
word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or
dissipated, or undermined to all the eclat in the universe. This
reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry and
art. |
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R.W. Emerson
Illusions |
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The
Emerald Tablet of Hermes
Trismegistus |
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
gives perhaps the most famous hermetic maxim: "As above, so
below." According to this ancient Egyptian notion, the cosmos is
a vast and resonating web of living symbolic correspondences
between humans and earth and heaven. And as Pesce points out,
this maxim also points to a dynamite way to manipulate data
space. "You can manipulate a whole bunch of things with one
symbol, dragging in a whole idea space with one icon. It's like
a nice compression algorithm."
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