Synopsis
Dreams, transformation of the soul and the Western Mystery Tradition. 2002, 397pp
From the Author
I once had a dream that revealed the royal line of blue blood running from the beginning of Egypt, through ancient Judaism, and up to Christ. This was a line of Holy Spirit producing successive incarnations of the divine Son, what we today call the Higher Self. This line actually runs through what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious, the spirit/soul reality lying behind the physical universe. Higher spirit produces the higher form of the Self, while lower soul reality produces the lower form of the Self. These I call the Higher and Lower Self respectively. Thus in Egypt, Horus was titled "He who is above", while Osiris was "Lord of the Underworld".
The Bible is the biggest selling book of all time. Countless millions have lived by what were believed to be its truths over the centuries, and many sacrificed their lives for them. Western civilisation itself developed from those truths, though by the 19th century, new scientific knowledge was proving them untenable as actualities. and mere belief could no longer be stretched that far. Western man eventually suffered a fall into rationalistic materialism; the Bible, and the Christianity that had grown from its teachings, were as good as dead as far as scholarship was concerned.
Yet all was not lost, not quite. The mystic/spiritualist Madame Blavatsky travelled to the East to study Hinduism and Buddhism, coming to realise that the Higher Self figure of those religions was, in fact, the answer to Christ. Jesus the man was therefore the human ininitiate who underwent inner processes to produce the Higher Self as the Christ, and figures of the Old Testament were also obviously involved in similar processes. A little after Blavatsky Jung came along, discovering that the non-personal collective unconscious does indeed lie behind the world of consciousness, and that the myths and religions of the world are based upon its truths. These religions have, furthermore, their own lines of development, the Western form having its roots in ancient Egypt and the Middle East.
Undergoing inner processes myself for some years, I too came to recognise similar processes in Middle Eastern mythology and the Bible. In the Mesopotmian Epic of Gilgamesh, the lower and higher forms of the Self are Enkidu and Utnapishtim; in Egypt, in a different mythos to Osiris and Horus, these were Anhur and Shu. The pattern runs right through the Bible; Ishmael with Isaac, Esau with Jacob, Moses with Joshua, David with Solomon, Elijah with Elisha, John the Baptist with Christ. The first figure developing from the lower earth spirit is usually described as a 'wild man' and 'hairy', and while he is the elder and begins the processes, the second figure completes them. The Exodus, actually inner processes, thus begins with Moses and the flight from Egypt, and is completed by Joshua with the conquest of Canaan. Another point is that the fish as symbol of the Saviour runs from Sumeria, the very first culture, to Christ - as a fish resides in the sea, so the Saviour resides!
in spirit/soul reality.
Nevertheless, the processes do not solely concern spirit, for human initiates too must be involved. During my researches, it has come to light that certain biblical figures and their stories were actually Egyptian, even Egyptian gods and their myths. Joseph, 'man of dreams', was Imhotep, builder of the first step pyramid, who in higher aspect was Iu-em-hetep. the Higher Self as Son of Ptah. Akhenaten was almost certainly Moses, as some modern researchers have claimed. Akhenaten identified himself with the gods Anhur/Shu, these being Moses and Joshua in the Jewish version, the myths of the Egyptian pair being almost identical with the exodus in certain aspects. David and Solomon are identified with Thoth and Iu-em-hetep as builders of mythical temples - as Blavatsky points out, Solomon's Temple is really the symbolic 'Temple of the Higher Self. In fact, all of the figures above are concernes in developments of the Higher Self as divine incarnations.
Several books from Holy Blood, Holy Grail to The Da Vinci Code have claimed a royal bloodline stemming from a child produced by a marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Yet depth psychology knows that the marriage was between Jesus as ego-consciousness and Mary Magdalene as the feminine anima/soul in the unconscious, the union known as the syzygy. As Jung tells us, this always produces the divine child, first form of the Higher Self born into the inner processes, in this case developing into the cosmic King of Glory, Son of God.
While having its human, historical aspect, all of the above is largely the workings of the spirit through the collective unconscious, forming the true royal bloodline. The Bible as wisdom and truth is thereby validated, and Christianity as an authentic version of the divine drama is vindicated, as are other mythologies and religions of the world. As to the personal aspect, there is the knowledge that each and every one of us returns to the immortal Self when our earthly life is over. All of the above and much more is what you will find in An Order Outside Time.
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