(urth) An Old mystery ...

[brunians at brunians.org]

All or just about all mythology is written in an astronomical vocabulary.

Consult "Hamlet's Mill" to learn more of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet%27s_Mill <= this article is more or
less accurate.




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>>I suppose I just find it all a LOT less interesting to boil it down to a
>> Self Preservation or Eugenics plan without the will of the Increate
>> involved.
>
> (replying to myself because I want to post a question about an old mystery
> that this feeling above made me think about)
>
> How do you Christian's resolve the Astrological correspondences with the
> Biblical story of Jesus Christ?
>
> There are many books and videos out there that talk about the astrological
> correspondences. Unfortunately, the most widely viewed, and the first that
> comes to my mind, is the Zeitgeist film.  There are many things wrong with
> that movie (though the last part about money is pretty good).
> let's not get waylaid by the many problems, such as it's misrepresentation
> of some of the figures it would conflate with Christ, or its weak
> sourcing. (You can practically see the books in the filmmakers lap)
> but the film presents the Astrological Correspondences fairly well.
>
> you know the gist, right?
> The Sun is Christ. Judas is Scorpio. The Judas Kiss is the Sun in Scorpio,
> which is then subsequently weaker (lower and lower in the horizon, and
> more distant), until it 'dies' a few days before Christmas, (seeming to
> stand still for 3 days) then coming back to life on Chrismas (seeming to
> move again, and ascending in the sky).  and such like, with Easter being
> the Spring Equinox Fertility time.
>
> I may have sketched it poorly, but the correspondences are VERY strong, in
> a way that tests many people's faith.  Surely Zeitgeist is trying to
> debunk Christianity in a big way, but these correspondences are there
> regardless of Zeitgeit's agenda.
>
> So how do you feel about your myth being 'flattened' into a mere
> mechanistic universe with ignorant inhabitants who must anthropomorphize
> their life sustaining solar body as a Diety?
>
> Some Catholics say the sun does that because Christ did that.
> but surely there were Astronomers charting this out before Jesus.
>
> Personally, I find it hard to reconcile, and haven't quite.  Yet Faith &
> Intuition tell me that there may be something to that idea, but one must
> move beyond the idea of Jesus in particular to this notion of Cosmic
> Principle that both Jesus and the Sun must represent.  Yes, I'm saying the
> literal sun could be an instantiation of this.  I'm not sure I believe it,
> but it's one of the only ways I can reconcile this myth with the
> astrological correspondences.
>
> anyone?
>
> ~sonofwitz
>
>
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