Millenia ago the Earth was goddess-based, archaeologists maintain. Ancient ruins all over the world offered up small venus statues until suddenly they seemed to disappear as the world devolved to an escalating violence-based power/control masculinity that has since stomped out the creative power of a feminine or mystical divinity.
The masculine was linear, closed, limited, left-brained, technologically focused, legalistic and judgmental. In short: often competitive, divisive and often destructive. The feminine is inclusive, open, allowing and relational. In short: connecting, creative and building.*
The feminine was powerful in its spiritually instinctive nature. That feminine power has been lost to us. It is a natural allowingness that wisely knows the power of nature - that deep mystically spiritual as well as earthy naturalness. It doesn't control or conjure. It envisions and allows. It knows a secret that is all over the Pyramid walls and buried deep underneath the ancient Sphinx. Left to its own, the world would clearly have turned out differently.
So, what if humanity's most ancient ancestors, from predeluvian antiquity, wanted to leave us a message for our time - a message to our future and they knew that we would go to sleep spiritually and eventually forget everything and not even be able to read their language? What universal images might they use and what would those images convey? Wouldn't it make sense they would leave that message in stone in a classically archetypal monolythic structure?
The world's most famous sculpture, Egypt's Sphinx, holds that secret of the ages. This awesome face, buried from the neck down for thousands of years, has peered out over the vast undulating sands of time for at least a hundred thousand years. When it was first reconstructed in the late 1800s that work was done poorly and only in the last century was the rest of this mysterious structure uncovered to reveal a kind of lionesque body, sitting ontop of an even greater secret. Beneath the Sphinx is a complex of tunnels leading to chambers descending almost a mile underground. Some of those once only mythic chambers have recently been found to contain objects and a sarcophagus, also from the deepest reaches of human history.
Oasis or reality? If real, when? Wings on the Sphinx? on an island in what is now a desert, and where are the Pyramids in this picture? The imagination longs to know more. What a surreal image in a watery, romantic place, exuding a kind of twilight consciousness, a mystery and a message. While all art is an interpretation, some art is more authentic than what remains lurking in the ancient sands of Egypt. Yet, somehow this picture of the enigmatic Sphinx is reminiscent of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, or was Ms. Liberty inspired out of our collective memory of the oldest human-made (assuming she was human-made) structure on the Earth?
Oasis or reality? If real, when? Wings on the Sphinx? on an island in what is now a desert, and where are the Pyramids in this picture? The imagination longs to know more. What a surreal image in a watery, romantic place, exuding a kind of twilight consciousness, a mystery and a message. While all art is an interpretation, some art is more authentic than what remains lurking in the ancient sands of Egypt. Yet, somehow this picture of the enigmatic Sphinx is reminiscent of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, or was Ms. Liberty inspired out of our collective memory of the oldest human-made (assuming she was human-made) structure on the Earth?
Archaeologists assert the wear marks on the Sphinx are not due to sand erosion but rather are due to persistent rain over several hundreds of years. Since that is unanimously agreed on, the next question is when was Egypt a rain forest? About 15,000 years ago - or more? And, those wings? According to an ancient riddle of the Sphinx, she is described as being female, lionesque with falcon wings and a serpentine tail.
Several feelings emerge at this artist's idea of what or who that most ancient of ancient sculptures is. The archetypal feminine - powerful, sageous, strong, mystical, creative and beautiful. Could she be mystical as an angel, regenerative like the mythic phoenix, suggesting resurrection and the ability to enter other dimensions, to create using means other than those we emloy today - those that manipulate nature rather than work with her.
There is an infinite amount of information being revealed today in sacred geometry, which was the evolutionary detour we didn't make when we succumbed to the manipulative masculine power-over-nature modality the human race has been running on for close to 15,000 years or more. It has become clear to me that the ancient feminine spirituality - of which we are only now learning about - is the way of the future.
The ancient Mayan prophecy suggested these times - our current times as we know them - would end in 2012, but what would come next? The end of our times could mean the end of that masculine, power/control technological mentality that uses and abuses nature - and everyone and everything in it - to its own self gratification at the cost of nature and human life. It is also anti-God and anti-Christ as it is anti-spirit. So, then, what would be next?
If the ancient number for the divine feminine is "13," and we have entered a new age in the year 2013, could it mean that the new age would be the age of the great mystical Sphinx, the age of limitless creative spiritual power by allowing, in envisioning and creating out of that envisioning through the power of the mind, rather than the intellect.
It sounds simple, but I doubt it is. It would require an entire reworking of our entire mindset, refashioning of our worldviews, of practiced, intentional mindfulness and connecting with the power of God, the one and only God - the powerful, generative, creative God of Christ who is both mother/father. But, that's just the beginning and there's so much more to Sacred Geometry, which includes that star tetrahedron (star of David) which further suggests this ancient knowledge was once known by the ancient Jews, who also fled from Egypt during the time of its oppressive reign of Pharoah's. In their haste, led by Moses who courageously stood up to the exploitive Egyptian Pharoah, could they have carried this ancient knowledge with them? Kabbalah would suggest the affirmative.
While this ancient knowledge is being revealed, and uncoverd again today, to those who explore and translate - even using art to recapture what has been lost - we know that Jesus was taken to the temple in Egypt after his birth. We know also that His teachings are a call to return to the essential mysticism of the sacred mysteries of the inner sanctum, through which we connect to God and to whom we remain connected through resurrection and ascension remaining immortal.
So, on this Epiphany, when we remember that the newborn Christ child was taken to Egypt, we could reimagine that return and enter into the imaginal iconic realm of that once watery spirit of divinity that lingers on the edge of Earth time.
Above photo: http://www.magic-point.org/Html/Sphinx.html
Several feelings emerge at this artist's idea of what or who that most ancient of ancient sculptures is. The archetypal feminine - powerful, sageous, strong, mystical, creative and beautiful. Could she be mystical as an angel, regenerative like the mythic phoenix, suggesting resurrection and the ability to enter other dimensions, to create using means other than those we emloy today - those that manipulate nature rather than work with her.
There is an infinite amount of information being revealed today in sacred geometry, which was the evolutionary detour we didn't make when we succumbed to the manipulative masculine power-over-nature modality the human race has been running on for close to 15,000 years or more. It has become clear to me that the ancient feminine spirituality - of which we are only now learning about - is the way of the future.
The ancient Mayan prophecy suggested these times - our current times as we know them - would end in 2012, but what would come next? The end of our times could mean the end of that masculine, power/control technological mentality that uses and abuses nature - and everyone and everything in it - to its own self gratification at the cost of nature and human life. It is also anti-God and anti-Christ as it is anti-spirit. So, then, what would be next?
If the ancient number for the divine feminine is "13," and we have entered a new age in the year 2013, could it mean that the new age would be the age of the great mystical Sphinx, the age of limitless creative spiritual power by allowing, in envisioning and creating out of that envisioning through the power of the mind, rather than the intellect.
It sounds simple, but I doubt it is. It would require an entire reworking of our entire mindset, refashioning of our worldviews, of practiced, intentional mindfulness and connecting with the power of God, the one and only God - the powerful, generative, creative God of Christ who is both mother/father. But, that's just the beginning and there's so much more to Sacred Geometry, which includes that star tetrahedron (star of David) which further suggests this ancient knowledge was once known by the ancient Jews, who also fled from Egypt during the time of its oppressive reign of Pharoah's. In their haste, led by Moses who courageously stood up to the exploitive Egyptian Pharoah, could they have carried this ancient knowledge with them? Kabbalah would suggest the affirmative.
While this ancient knowledge is being revealed, and uncoverd again today, to those who explore and translate - even using art to recapture what has been lost - we know that Jesus was taken to the temple in Egypt after his birth. We know also that His teachings are a call to return to the essential mysticism of the sacred mysteries of the inner sanctum, through which we connect to God and to whom we remain connected through resurrection and ascension remaining immortal.
So, on this Epiphany, when we remember that the newborn Christ child was taken to Egypt, we could reimagine that return and enter into the imaginal iconic realm of that once watery spirit of divinity that lingers on the edge of Earth time.
Above photo: http://www.magic-point.org/Html/Sphinx.html
*masculine or the feminine without the reciprocal balancing effect of the other is dysfunctional leading to disastrous effects for the planet.
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