The Lost Symbol~
the last post
The Apotheosis of George Washington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apo..._of_Washington
Constantino Brumudi's fresco ~
best known work~
left unfinished~ at his death in 1880.
A very rare depiction of a fresco~
fusing science ~ mythical gods and human apotheosis~
"Mythical gods all mixed in with scientific inventers and their creations...
The great promise of man becoming God...
the entire essence of the Ancient Mysteries...
hovering over the Rotunda."
"The founding fathers had envisioned America as a blank canvas,
a fertile field on which the seeds of the mysteries could be sown."
Soaring above...
the great American icon of George Washington...
the father of this country ascending to heaven~
"Hung silently above...
lawmakers,
leaders,
and presidents...
a bold reminder,
a map to the future,
a promise of a time when man would evolve to complete spirtual maturity."
"America's great inventers accompanied by Minerva."
Known as the Roman virgin goddess of wisdom and the arts~ equated with the Greek goddess Athena.
Note, often accompanied with an owl,
her sacred creature and, through this connection,
a symbol of wisdom.
Here~ depicted w a helmet and spear,
points to an electric generator creating power stored in batteries,
next to a printing press,
while Benjamin Franklin, Samuel F. B. Morse and Robert Fulton watch.
Note~ at the left,
a teacher demonstrates the use of dividers.
"The science of Noetics may be new,
but its actually the oldest science on earth~
the study of human thought...
the ancients actually understood thought more profoundly than we do today...
The human mind was the only technology the ancients had at their disposal.
The early philosophers studied it relentlessly.
The ancient texts are obsessed with the power of the human mind.
The Vedas describes the flow of mind energy.
The Pistis Sophia describes universal consciousness.
The Zohar explores the nature of mind spirit.
The Shamanic texts predicts Einsteins 'remote influence' in terms of healing at a distance...
the Bible is encoded with scientific information...
When you start to understand the cryptic parables in the Bible...
you realize its a study of the human mind...
When the Bible tells us to 'go build our temple'...
a temple that we must 'build with no tools and making no noise'...
the text does say your body is a temple...
Corinthians 3:16.
You are a temple of God...
and the Gospel of John says the exact same thing...
the Scriptures are well aware of the powers latent within us...
urging us to harness that power...
urging us to build the temples of our minds...
The Second Coming is the coming of man~
the moment when mankind finally builds the temple of his mind...
The structure is described as being in two parts~
an outer temple called the Holy place and an inner sanctuary called the Holy of Holies.
The two parts are separated from each other by a thin veil...
an actual human brain...
built in two part~
an outer part called the dura mater and an inner part called the pia mater.
These two parts are separated by the arachnoid~
a veil of weblike tissue...
There's a reason they call this your temple...
from the gnostic Gospel of Mary:
Where the mind is, there is the treasure.'"
"Perhaps you heard...
about the brain scans taken of yogis while they meditate?
The human brain,
in advanced states of focus,
will physically create a waxlike substance from the pineal gland.
This brain secretion is unlike anything else in the body.
It has an incredible healing effect,
can literally regenerate cells,
and may be one of the reasons yogis live so long...
This substance has inconceivable properties and can be created only by the mind that is highly tuned to a deeply focused state...
the Bible's account of manna from heaven...
the magical substance that fell from the heavens to nourish the hungry...
The substance was said to heal the sick,
provide everlasting life,
and, strangely,
cause no waste in those that consumed it...
A kind of nourishment that fell from heaven...
Magically heals the body?...
Creates no waste?...
These are code words...
Temple...for 'body'...
Heavens for 'mind.'
Jacob's ladder is your spine.
And manna is this rare brain secretion...
the brain's pineal gland...
the all seeing eye of God...
'when your eye is single,
your body fills with light.'"
"This concept is also represented by the Ajna chakra and the dot on a Hindu's forehead...
and now science is showing us that accessing that power is an actual physical process.
Our brains, if used correctly,
can call forth powers that are quite literally superhuman.
The Bible, like many ancient text,
is a detailed exposition of the most sophisticated machine ever created...
the human mind.
The ancients already knew many of the scientific truths we're now rediscovering...
our minds can generate energy capable of transforming physical matter...
Particles react to our thoughts...
which means our thoughts have the power to change the world...
Our physical bodies have evolved over the ages,
but it is our minds that were created in the image of God...
We are creator's,
and yet we naively play the role of 'the created.'
We see ourselves as helpless sheep bufferted around by the God who made us.
We kneel like frightened children,
begging for help,
for forgiveness,
for good luck...
once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image,
we will start to understand,
we, too,
must be Creators.
When we understand this fact,
the doors will burst wide open for human potential...
a passage...
from the work of philosopher Manly P. Hall:
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise,
he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.
The Apostheosis of Washington~
the symbolic ascent of man to deity.
The created...
becoming the Creator...
as soon as we humans begin to harness out true power,
we will have enormous control over our world.
We will be able to design reality rather than merely react to it...
That sounds...dangerous...
If thoughts affect the world,
then we must be very careful how we think.
Destructive thoughts have influence,
too,
and we all know it's far easier to destroy than it is to create...
all the lore about needing to protect the ancient wisdom from the unworthy and share it with the enlightened...
the Invisible College,
and the great scientist Isaac Newton's request to Robert Boyle to keep "high silence" about their secret research.
It cannot be communicated,
Newton wrote in 1676,
without immense damage to the world.
There's an interesting twist here...
The great irony is that all religions of the world,
for centuries,
have been urging their followers to embrace the concepts of faith and belief.
Now science,
which for centuries had derided religion as superstition,
must admit that its next big frontier is quite literally the science of faith and belief...
the power of focused conviction and intention.
The same science that eroded our faith in the miraculous is now buiding a bridge back across the chasm it created...
Think of it as simply as changing your perspective,
accepting that the world is not precisely as you imagine.
There's another piece to all this...
the single most astonishing aspect...
And I promise...
if we as humans can honestly grasp this one simple truth...
the world will change over night...
reminding you of the Masonic mantras to 'gather what is scattered'...
to bring 'order from chaos'...
to find
'at-one-ment.'
We have scientifically proven that the power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought...
Multiple minds working in unison magnify a thought effect..
exponentially...
This is the inherent power of prayer groups,
healing circles,
singing in unison,
and worshipping in mass.
The idea of universal consciousness is no new ethereal New Age concept.
It's a hard-core scientific reality...
and harnessing it has the potential to transform our world.
This is the underlying discovery of Noetic Science.
Plato's writings on "the mind of the world" and the "gathering God"...
Jung's "collective consciousness."
The notion was as simple as it was startling.
God is found in the collection of many...rather than in the One.
"Elohim"...
The Hebrew word for God in the Old Testament!...
The word is plural...
the very first five passages of the Bible referred to God as a plural being,
Elohim.
The Almighty God in Genesis was described not as One... but as Many...
in Latin,
painted within the Apotheosis.
E PLURIBUS UNUM.
"Out of many, one"
(TLS 498-05).
The Apotheosis of Washington
note~ arranged in two concentric rings~
a circle within a circle...
a circumpunct."
out of many~
one
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infinite consciousness
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Please note,
I have left out the epilogue from this post,
the above post is the essence of the last chapter and the book.
I sincerely recommend ~ too all those who have not read the "Lost Symbol" ~ to do so!
I will post my personal comments soon~
in regards to this thread, Dan Brown and his book,
and the supposed lost~
'word'.
Where there is love ~ there is always hope!
My blessing too all~
giovonni