Today I'm going to start off by telling a story.
We are going to start off from a very broad point of view of the story of humanity and I'm going to include the creation myths of many places to illustrate this point of view. Each of the next posts we will start to look a little bit closer with our binoculars at the story. I do ask that people suspend belief's that might interfere with this idea and just ponder this as a possibility. The idea that our ancestors knew more than we do now and that knowledge was lost is one that I have always felt in my heart to be truth. I don't, however, insist that you believe in anything. This is just some of the fun stuff. I will go through at the end of this and list sources and references. I will refer to some ancient beliefs held by some of the greatest civilizations in our world and include a talk by John Van Auken on this subject. Primarily, the following story comes from John Van Auken and the research he has done. However, as we shall see there is a great deal of this that has been told in different ways in many tribes and cultures. The Story Of Souls Coming To Earth All souls come a spiritual source that is like a sun. Each of the souls on earth are a ray of that sun. These Souls, sparks of the Creator, came to Earth and they saw the beauty of the planet. At that time they were spirit, they were not solid, but they could see the potential in the Earth. Earth was a more dense, heavy, level of awareness than the ones that the souls naturally came from. Slowly, these souls began to push their way into matter, to experience life as the material of Earth. They became more and more enthralled with the physical experience. A second set of souls were watching these experimenters. They were worried about the experimenter souls, that they would lose touch with the Creator. They worried that a body had not been prepared for these souls to enter. This second set of souls began to incarnate in Atlantis in physical bodies. However, there were traces of animals that could be seen...scales here, a fin there, claws in another. These were the ones who made up Atlantis. Something happened in Atlantis, there was some great error made that lead to the rest of Creation being dumbstruck. (I'm currently investigating Atlantis). Multiple sources I have already heard is that the Souls in Atlantis lost their reverence for life and began killing other beings and animals for sport. A decision was made in the spiritual realm and the Flood began. There was also the decision that there must be a time of separation, where those who made this error would learn why these grievous act was not acceptable. The people of Atlantis began to migrate to the different parts of the world- The Andes, Egypt, The veils between the two worlds, the Spirit, and of mankind were lowered so humanity would forget their spiritual origin. The forgetting happened slowly with the first few generations chronicling the story in their art and sacred oral traditions. We are coming to the end of this time of separation and forgetting. The 4th root race, a new improved body, is developed to help souls better evolve through this entrapment in matter. The Story Depicted In Egypt In Ancient Egyptian Mystcisim and It's relevance today, John Van Auken explains that an image of the story of mans spiritual descent into the material Earth expereince based on a picture from the tomb walls of Ramses. "The two large lions represent Yesterday (on the right) and tomorrow (on the left). The story begins with the descent of the heavenly barque (boat) from out of the heavens. Two souls symbolized b two birds with human heads are giving homage to a symbol which has the body of the beetle and the head of a ram, representing the beginning period (Aries) of entry into matter and materialism (the dung beetle). On the bow of the barque sits a monkey, indicating the souls incarnated in physical forms used by the monkey. Looking across to the lion of Tomorrow, you will see that the barque of heaven is rising out of the Earth realms back to the heavens with a bird on its bow, indicating that we will fly above this plane in forms as light as a small bird. In the lower central portion of this image we see two hands holding up or honoring the sun disk of Ra. The two hands are the image of the Ka, the spirit and in this case they are the Great Spirit. The Solar Disk is the Great Consciousness. The three beings to the right and left of the hands and disk are the personalities of the past and the future that each soul will experience. In our souls early experiences in this dimension, we will be looking back toward creation and the fall, but as we focus on what has to be done in this realm we begin to look forward toward the resurrection and ascension." The Dogon Creation Story The story in the Dogon is told in the Book The Pale Fox by Griaule and Dieterlin. This is a tribe from Africa. Their story too involves a boat but it's a little different. I'm going to paraphrase and simplify the story here based on the material in The Pale Fox (which I have read) and this page (http://www.gateway-africa.com/stories/Dogon_Creation_Myth.html) I do also want to mention that there is more than one version of the story told. There is one for those who are outsiders and those who are intitiates. Griaule and Dieterlin were initiates and so they were told a more expanded story than what most visitors or even children in the tribe are told. Here, I'm going to go with the children's story. There is far more to the story of the initiate but I want to keep this story simple. Amma is the creator. Amma split in two and created Ogo, the Fox. Ogo descended in an ark via the river of the Milky Way and tried to mate with the Earth. He created many mounds in this process. When Amma discovered what the Fox had done he realized that he had to purify the Earth. Amma created a representative order, called the Nommo. They were four sets of twins and created 8 assistants. These eight were called the ancestors of human beings and also descended in an Ark. One of the Nummo was required to be sacrificed in order to purify the Earth and he was resurrected by Amma. The Hopi Creation Story I'm going to paraphrase this one because it is a little long but you can read the entire story here: (http://www.oocities.org/athens/delphi/2911/hopi5.html). In the first world the people lived simply with the animals. In the second world they developed handicrafts, homes and villages. In the third world they created cities and they forgot to sing the songs to the creator because they were so focused on their own plans. Some of them retained the knowledge from their Emergence but they were worried because others had wicked ways. This is why the Creator would destroy their world ever so often to wipe the slate clean and the world could begin anew. So, the people with wisdom sang louder and longer from the top of their hills. The other people hardly heard them. They began to use their power in evil and obstructive ways. Some of them made a shield, they used it to fly to a big city, attack it, and fly away from it so fast that no one knew where they came from. Soon these flying shields were made in many cities and they were attacking one another. So, corruption and war had come to the the third world as it had the others. The Spider Woman was told by SotuKnang to wrap the wise people in reeds to protect them as he destroyed the world. He loosed waters upon the world and waves higher than mountains broke the continents asunder and sank them beneath the seas. The Spider Woman unsealed their reeds when the flood was over. They were on a little piece of land that was all that was left of the third world. Sotuknang appeared to Spider Woman and told them that she must lead them on and so Spider Woman instructed the people to make boats and trust their intuition to lead them... Looking to the the west and south the people could see sticking out of the water islands upon which they had rested, "These are the footprints of your journey, Sotukanang told them, "the tops of the high mountains of the third world. Now watch..." As they watched the islands sank one by one, "I have even washed way the stepping stones of your Emergence that I provided you...but the time will come if you preserve the memory and meaning of your emergence when these stepping stones will emerge again to prove the words you speak." Inca Creation Myth The Sun existed first but no one could see anything because he was so bright. So he created the Moon and the Stars. The moon became his wife. The sun and the moon had one daughter and one sun. They sent them to the Earth to show the humans how to survive. The son of the Sun God was the very first Inca. Conclusion I have included the stories of several civilizations and while I could add more explaining how they fit together I don't think it would of service to anyone to drag on that long. So, instead I will leave off here. Most of you can see the connection the story of Noah and even Genesis. What I see though, in a lot of societies is that they start off saying that they came from the sun. However, unlike the sun of this material world they are talking about the sun of the spiritual world- the Creator. I really find it funny when I hear archaeologists talking about sun worship, they take so much literally when they are reading the work of ancient people and I think it's so funny. In Destiny of Souls Michael Newton has a case study where a woman recalls helping newly 'birthed' sparks of the divine consciousness emerge. That person explained how these new bits of light were swaddled in energy by the soul that helped them but originally came from a great source of light. The source of light, she explained was a mystery. Is their any doubt why some Native American's call God "The Great Mystery"? In the Book Dancing the Dream by Jamie Sam's (a Cherokee Seer and Dreamer) she explains, "If you choose to embrace these paths, you will remember that before your birth, your spirit, your spark of life, was exhaled from the great Creator, the Great Mystery, God. That spark of life came from the Creator's fire of creation and was attached to an invisible thread of energy that sent you forth into the universe and animated the physical body you inhabit with life force." The confusing part in these origin myths, is where are they starting from? Are they starting from the story of the fall of Atlantis (as the Hopi seems to have done?) Or are they starting off at the very beginning when God became aware of himself such as in the case of Genesis or the Dogon Myth? Overwhelmingly, and far more convincingly then what I have presented here you will understand by listening to John Van Aucken's presentation that we are to be companions to the creator. This is one of the main things that differentiate us from the Angels who's will is the same of the Creator with no ability to be an individual. Jamie Sam's would call this the Eagle View of humanity on Earth. I hope you enjoyed it and that it brought you some illumination. In the next blog, we will look at the different names for Cycles of time, how a good deal of them do not end so well (which is mentioned in the Hopi creation story) and what this means as we seem to be coming to an end of a cycle but that doesn't need to be a negative thing. Especially, if somehow we have changed things in this cycle so that the destruction doesn't have to occur.
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