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THE LIVING REALITY OF PLANET EARTH DIVINE LOVE LOVE DIVINE I = 9 9 = I MIN DOTH DREAM WHAT DOTH MIN MEAN THE DREAM OF THE RAINBOW COVENANT AZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZA
O NAMUH BELOVED CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT BLESSED DREAMER OF DREAMS AWAKEN THE ETERNAL MOMENT BIRTHS ITS FUTURE
With episodic sense of deja vu the far yonder scribe and oft times shadowed substances watched in fine amaze THE ZED ALIZ ZED in swift repeat scatter the sacred numbers amongst the letters of their progress at the throw of the ninth arm when in conjunction set the far yonder scribe made record of the fall
LOVE DIVINE DIVINE LOVE 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9666666666 THAT LIGHT THAT
THE LION PATH YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU A Manual of the Short Path to Regeneration for our times by Musaios Page 33 It is time to examine the regenerative process - the way out of our limited state of body and awareness - a state that was thought of in this doctrine as "larval" to that which would ensue, just as the effectively one - dimensional or linear caterpillar has the hidden ability to spin a self - made cocoon - tomb and then turn into a pupal case, with future wings already outlined on it - a stage that can again metamorphose into the winged imago or mature form that emerges from the shell of the tomb - egg of the cocoon and flies aloft into the sky.
THE LION PATH YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU A Manual of the Short Path to Regeneration for our times by Musaios Page 137 "A winged and wondrous child will whirl a whole world into being . . . That child alone shall fly the abyss and reach the Second Sun. . . ."
THE BALANCING I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I 2 3 4 FIVE 6 7 8 9 9 8 7 6 FIVE 4 3 2 1 I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
THE MAGIKAL ALPHABET ISISIS THE ENGLISH ALPHABET OF CAPITAL LETTERS TRANSPOSED INTO ROOT NUMBER
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA ABRACADABRA ARBADACARBA ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
LOVE DIVINE IS 99 99 IS LOVE DIVINE
ADD TO REDUCE REDUCE TO DEDUCE ESSENCE OF NUMBER
THE NUMERICAL ROOT VALUE OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET ISISIS 9 A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H+I+J+K+L+M+N+O+P+Q+R+S+T+U+V+W+X+Y+Z 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+13+15+16+17+18+10+20+21+22+23+24+25+26 First Total = 351 3+5+1 = 9
A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H+I+J+K+L+M+N+O+P+Q+R+S+T+U+V+W+X+Y+Z Second Total = 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 Second Total 126 1+2+6 = 9
i THE BLESSED 9 unless integral to quoted work. all arithmetical machinations, emphasis, comment, insertions subterfuge and insinuations are those of the Zed Aliz Zed as recorded by the far yonder scribe.
STORM ON THE SUN HOW THE SUN AFFECTS LIFE ON EARTH Joseph Goodavage 1979 Page 5 Chapter 1 "Eliminate the impossible. Whatever remains, however improbable must be true" Sherlock Holmes
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS G Hancock 1995 Page 287 "What one would look for, therefore, would be a universal language, the kind of language that would be comprehensible to any technologically advanced society in any epoch, even a thousand or ten thousand years into the future. Such languages are few and far between, but mathematics is one of them - and the city of Teotihuacan may be the calling-card of a lost civilization written in the eternal language of mathematics." "Of all the other stupendous inventions,' Galileo once remarked, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the Indies, speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangements of two dozen little signs on paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of men.3"
"WHAT ONE WOULD LOOK FOR THEREFORE WOULD BE A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE THE KIND OF LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIBLE TO ANY TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED SOCIETY IN ANY EPOCH" "SUCH LANGUAGES ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN BUT MATHEMATICS IS ONE OF THEM"
WITH EPISODIC SENSE OF DE JAVU THE FAR YONDER SCRIBE AND OFT TIMES SHADOWED SUBSTANCES WATCHED IN FINE AMAZE THE ZED ALIZ ZED IN SWIFT REPEAT SCATTER THE SACRED NUMBERS AMONGST THE LETTERS OF THEIR PROGRESS AT THE THE THROW OF THE NINTH ARM WHEN IN CONJUNCTION SET THE FAR YONDER SCRIBE MADE RECORD OF THE FALL
GODS SPIRIT GODS ISIS OSIRIS VISHNU SHIVA SHRI KRISHNA SHRISTI RISHI ISHI CHRIST SING A SONG OF NINES OF NINES A SONG SING THE LIGHT IS RISING NOW RISING IS THE LIGHT
THE NINETYNINE NAMES OF GOD GOD OF NAMES NINETYNINE
IN THE NAME OF GOD THE COMPASSIONATE THE MERCIFUL
THE HEART OF ISLAM Enduring Values for Humanity Seyyed Hossein Nasr 2002 ONE GOD, MANY PROPHETS The Unity of Truth
He begetteth not, nor is begotten, and none is like Him. Quran 112: v.1-41 GOD THE ONE Page 3 (number omitted) At the heart of Islam stands the reality of God, the One, the Absolute and the Infinite, the Infinitely Good and AllMerciful, the Onc Who is at once transcendent and immanent, greater than all we can conceive or imagine, yet, as the Quran, the sacred scripture of Islam, attests, closer to us than our jugular vein. The One God, known by His Arabic Name, Allah, is the central reality of Islam in all of its facets, and attestation to this oneness, which is called tawid, is the axis around which all that is Islamic revolves. Allah is beyond all duality and relationality, beyond the differences of gender and of all qualities that distinguish beings from each other in this world. Yet He is the source of all existence and all cosmic and human qualities as well as the End to Whom all things return. To testify to this oneness lies at the heart of the credo of Islam, and the formula that expresses the truth of this oneness, La ilaha illa 'Llah, "There is no god but God," is the first of two testifications (shahadahs) by which a person bears witness to being a Muslim; the second is Muammadun rasal Allah, "Muhammad is the messenger of God." The oneness of God is tor Muslims not only the heart of their religion, but that of every authentic religion. It is a reassertion of the revelation of God to the Hebrew prophets and to Christ, whom Muslims also consider to be their prophets, the revelation of the truth that "The Lord is one," the reconfirmation of that timeless truth that is also stated in the Catholic creed, Credo in unum Deum, "I / Page 4 / I believe in one God." As the Quran states, "We have never sent a messenger before thee except that We revealed to him, saying, 'There is no god but I, so worship Me'" The One God, or Allah, is neither male nor female. However, in the inner teachings of Islam His Essence is often referred to in feminine form and the Divinity is often mentioned as the Beloved, while the Face He has turned to the world as Creator and Sustainer is addressed in the masculine form. Both the male and the female are created by Him and the root of both femininity and masculinity are to be found in the Divine Nature, which transcends the duality between them. Furthermore, the Qualities of God, which are reflected throughout creation, are of a feminine as well as a masculine naturn, and the traditional Islamic understanding of the Divinity is not at all confined, as some think, to a purely patriarchal image. The Quran, which is the verbatim Word of God for Muslims, to be compared to Christ himself in Christianity, reveals not only the Supreme Name of God as Allah, but also mentions other "beautiful Names" of God, considered by traditional sources to be ninety-nine in number, Names revealing different aspects of the Divinity. The Quran states, "To God belong the most beautiful Names (alasma' al-husna). Call on Him thereby" (7:180). These Names are divided into those of Perfection (Kamal), Majesty (Jalal), and Beauty (Jamal) the first relating to the / Page 5 / essential oneness of God Himself beyond all polarization and the last two to the masculine and feminine dimensions of reality in divinis (in the Divine Order). The Names of Majesty include the Just, the Majestic, the Reckoner, the Giver of Death, the Victorious, and the All-Powerful, and those of Beauty, the All-Merciful, the Forgiver, the Gentle, the Generous, the Beautiful, and Love. For Muslims the whole universe consists of the reflection in various combinations of the Divine Names, and human life is lived amid the polarizations and tensions as well as harmony of the cosmic and human qualities derived from these Names. God at once judges us according to His Justice and forgives us according to His Mercy. He is far beyond our reach, yet resides at the center of the heart of the faithful. He punishes the wicked, but also loves His creatures and forgives them. The doctrine of God the One, as stated in the Quran, does not only emphasize utter transcendence, although there are powerful expressions of this truth such as Allahu akbar usually translated as "God is great," but meaning that God is greater than anything we can conceive of Him, which is also attested by the apophatic theology of both the Catholic and Orthodox churches as well as by traditional Judaism. The Quran also accentuates God's nearness to us, stating that He is closer to us than ourselves and that He is present everywhere, as when it states: "Whithersoever ye turn, there is the Face of God" (2:115). The traditional religious life of a Muslim is based on a rhythmic movement between the poles of transcendence and immanence, of rigor and compassion, of justice and fogiveness, of the fear of punishment and hope for mercy based on God's love for us. But the galaxy of Divine Names and the multiplicity of Divine Qualities reflected in the cosmos and within the being of men and women do not distract the Muslim for / Page 6 / one moment from the oneness of God, from that Sun before whose light all multiplicity perishes. Striving after the realization of that oneness, or tawhid, is the heart of Islamic life; and the measure of a successful religious life is the degree to which one is able to realize taw/;Jid) which means not only oneness, but also the integration of multiplicity into Unity. Moreover, since there is no official sacerdotal authority in Islam like the magisterium in Roman Catholic Christianity, the authenticity of one's faith in Islam has by and large been determined by the testification of tawhid while the degree of inward realization of this truth has remained a matter to be decided by God and not by external authorities. This has been the general norm in Islamic history, but there have also been exceptions, and there are historical instances when a particular group or political authority has taken it upon itself to determine the authenticity or lack thereof of the belief in tawhid of a particular person or school. But there has never been an Inquisition in Islam, and there has been greater latitude in the acceptance of ideas, especially mystical and esoteric ones, than in most periods of the history of Western Christianity before the penetration of modernism into Christian theology itself. Now, although Islam is based on the reality of God, the One, in His Absoluteness and Suchness, it also addresses humanity in its essential reality, in its suchness. Man, in the traditional sense of the term corresponding to insan in Arabic or homo in Greek and not solely the male, is seen in Islam not as a sinful being to whom the message of Heaven is sent to heal the wound of the original sin, but as a being who still carries his primordial nature (al-.fitrah) within himself, although he has forgotten that nature now buried deep under layers of negligence. As the Quran states: Page 7 "[God] created man in the best of stature (ahsan altaqwim)" (95:4) with an intelligence capable of knowing the One. The message of Islam is addressed to that primordial nature. It is a call for recollection, for the remembrance of a knowledge kneaded into the very substance of our being even bef)re our coming into this world. In a famous verse that defines the relationship between human beings and God, the Quran, in referring to the precosmic existence of man, states, "'Am I not your Lord?' They said: 'Yes, we bear witness'" (7: 172). The "they" refers to all the children of Adam, male and female, and the "yes" confirms the affirmation of God's Oneness by us in our pre-eternal ontological reality. Men and women still bear the echo of this "yes" deep down within their souls, and the call of Islam is precisely to this primordial nature, which uttered the "yes" even before the creation of the heavens and the earth. The call of Islam therefore concerns, above all, the remembrance of a knowledge deeply embedded in our being, the confirmation of a knowledge that saves, hence the soteriological function of knowledge in Islam. Islam addresses the human being not primarily as will, but as intelligence. If the great sin in Christianity is disobedience, which has warped the will, the great sin in Islam is forgetfulness and the resulting inability of the intelligence to function in the way that God created it as the means to know the One. That is why the greatest sin in Islam and the only one God does not forgive is shirk, or taking a partner unto God, which means denying the Oneness of God, or tawhid. This direct address from God, the One, to each human being in its primordial state requires total surrender to the Majesty of the Absolute, before whom ultimately nothing can in fact exist. In an ordinary sense it means the surrender / Page 8 / themelves to God, and in the highest sense it means the awareness of our nothingness before Him, for, as the Quran says, "All that dwells in the heavens and the earth perishes, yet there abideth the Face of thy Lord, Majestic, Splendid" (55:26-27). The very name of the religion, Islam, comes from this reality, for the Arabic word aL-islam means "surrender" as well as the peace that issues from our surrender to God. In fact, Islam is the only major religion, along with Buddhism (if we consider the name of the religion to come from Budd, the Divine Intellect, and not the Buddha), whose name is not related to a person or ethnic group, but to the central idea of the religion. Moreover, Islam considers all authentic religions to be based on this surrender, so that al-islam means not only the religion revealed through the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad, but all authentic religions as such. That is why in the Quran the prophet Abraham is also called muslim) that is, one who is in the state of al-islam. True surrender is not, however, only concerned with our will. It must involve our whole being. A shallow understanding of surrender can lead to either a passive attitude, in which one does not strive in life as one should according to the promulgations of the religion, or to mistaking one's own imperfect understanding of Islam for the truth and performing acts that are against God's teachings while claiming that one is acting in surrender to God. Islam states that a person must be the perfect servant ('abd) of God in the sense of following His commands. But since God has given us many faculties, including free will and intelligence, our surrender must be complete and total, not limited to only certain faculties. It must involve the whole of our being. Otherwise, hidden thoughts and emotions as well as false ideas can combine with a fallacious sense of external / Page 9 / surrender of one's will to God to produce acts in the namc of religion that can have calamitous consequences.
CREATION OF THE WORLD AND OF HUMAN BEINGS " Since the One God is Infinite and Absolute as well as the Infinitely Good, He could not but create. His infinitude implies that He contains within Himself all possibilities, including that of negating Himself, and this possibility had to be realized in the form of creation. Moreover, as St. Augustine also stated, it is in the nature of the good to give of itself, and the Infinitely-Good could not but radiate the reality that constitutes the world and, in fact, all the worlds." Page 10 But creation or radiation implies separation, and it is this ontological separation from the Source of all goodness that constitutes evil. One might say that evil is nothing but separation from the Good and privation, although it is real on its own level, in a sense as real as our own existential level on which we find it. And yet the good belongs to the pole of being and evil to that of non being. Throughout the history of Islam there have been numerous profound metaphysical and theological discussions concerning the question of evil, as there have been in other religions, especially Christianity. But in contrast to the modern West, in which many people have turned away trom God and religion because they could not understand how a God who is good could create a world in which there is evil, in the Islamic world this question of theodicy has hardly ever bothered the religious conscience of even the most intelligent people or turned them away from God. The emphasis of the Quran upon the reality of evil on the moral plane combined with the sapiential and theological explanations of this question have kept men and women confronted with this problem in the domain of faith. The strong emphasis in Islam on the Will of God has also played a role in resigning Muslims to the presence of evil in the world (which they must nevertheless combat to the extent possible), even when they cannot understand the causes involved. In any case, God has created the world, in which there is imperfection and evil, but the world itself is considered by the Quran to be good, a view corresponding to that found in the book of Genesis. And creation has a purpose, for, as the Quran says, "O Lord, Thou didst not create this [the world] in vain" (8:190). The deepest purpose of creation is explained by a famous Hadith qudsi (a sacred saying of the / Page 11 / Prophet not part of the Quran in which God speaks in the first person through the mouth of the Prophet): "I was a hidden treasure. I loved to be known. Therefore, I created the creation so that I would be known." The purpose of creation therefore is God's love fix the knowledge of Himself realized through His central agent on earth, humanity. For a human being to know God is to fulfill the purpose of creation. Moreover, God loved to be known. Hence, the love of God and by God permeates the whole universe, and many Islamic mystics of Sufis over the ages have spoken of that love to which Dante refers at the end of the Divine Comedy when he speaks of "the love that moves the sun and the stars." This sacred Hadith (Hadith qudsi) also speaks of God's being "a hidden treasure," which is a symbol of the truth that everything in the universe has its origin in the Divine Reality and is a manifestation of that Reality. everything in the total cosmos both visible and invisible is a theophany, or manifestation, of the Divine Names and Qualities and is drawn from the "treasury" of God. The Wisdom of God thus permeates the universe, and Muslims in fact see the cosmos as God's primordial revelation. everything in the universe, in reflecting God's Wisdom, also glorifies Him, fix, as the Quran says, "There is nothing but that it hymns His praise" (17:44). In fact, the very existence of beings is nothing but their invocation of God's Names, and the universe itself is nothing but the consequence of the breathing upon the archetypal realities of all beings in the Divine Intellect of the Breath of the Compassionate (nafas alRahman). It is through His Name al-Rahman, which means the Infinitely-Good and also Merciful, that the universe has come into being. It is significant to note that much of the Quran is devoted to the cosmos and the world / Page 12 / of nature, which play an integral rolc in the traditional life of Muslims. All Islamic rites are harmonized with natural phenomena, and in general Muslims view the world of creation as God's first revelation, before the Torah, the Gospels, the Quran, and other sacred scriptures were revealed. That is why in Islam, as in medieval Judaism and Christianity, the cosmos is seen as a book in which the "signs of God," the vestigia Dei of Christian authors, are to be read. The Islamic understanding of anthropogenesis, the creation of human beings, resembles those of Judaism and Christianity in many ways, but also differs on certain significant issues. In fact, there are also important differences between Judaism and Christianity when it comes to the question of original sin. As for Adam's original creation, the Quran speaks of God creating Adam from clay and breathing His Spirit into him, "And I breathed into him My Spirit" (15:29). The Quran continues: And when thy Lord said unto the angels: "Verily! I am about to place a vicegerent (khalifah) on earth," they said, "Wilt Thou place therein one who will bring corruption therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctity Thee?" He said: "Surely, I know that which ye know not." The angels were then asked by God to prostrate before Adam, and all did so except Iblis, that is, the Devil or Satan, who refused because of pride. God placed Adam and his / Page 13 / wife in paradise and permitted them to eat of the fruits there, except the fruit of the forbidden tree. But Satan "caused them to deflect therefrom," and the Fall ensued. But a revelation was sent to Adam. He repented and became the first prophet as well as the father of humanity. The Quranic account contains all the main features of the sacred anthropology of Islam and its view of the nature of men and women. First of all, God chose the human being as His vicegerent (khalifah) on earth, which means that He has given human beings power to dominate the earth, but on the condition that they remain obedient to God, that is, being God's servant, or 'abd Allah. There are numerous Quranic references to this truth. The two primary features of being human are servanthood and vicegerency: being passive toward Heaven in submission to God's Will, on the one hand, and being active as God's agent and doing His Will in the world, on the other. Moreover, Adam was taught all the names, which means that God has placed within human nature an intelligence that is central and the means by which he can know all things. It also means that human beings themselves are the theophany, or visible manifestation, of all of God's Names. There is in principle no limit to human intelligence in knowing the nature of things (the question of knowing the Divine Essence is a different matter) unless there is an obstacle that prevents it from functioning correctly. That is why Muslims believe that any normal and wholesome intelligence will be naturally led to the confirmation of Divine Oneness and are at a loss when rationalist skeptics from the West refuse to accept the One (most Muslims are unaware of the obstacles in the soul of such a skeptic that reduce the intelligence to analytical reason and prevent it from flmctioning in its fullness). Adam, the prototype of humanity, is superior to the angels by virtue of his knowledge of the names of all things / Page 14 / as by being the reflection of all the Divine Names and Qualities. As for Iblis, his rebellion comes from pride in considering his nature, which was made of fire, superior to that of Adam, who was made of clay. He refused to prostrate himself before Adam, because fire is a more noble clement than earth or clay. He could not see the effect of the Spirit that God had breathed into Adam. Satan was therefore the first to misuse analogy, to try to replace intelligence with ordinary logical reasoning. His fall was thus also connected to the domain of knowledge. The lack of total knowledge on his part created the sense of pride, which in Islam, as in Christianity, is the source of all other vices. The Quran mentions Adam's wife, but not her name. Hadith sources however confirm that her name was Hawwa', or Eve. In fact, the Islamic names for the first parents of humanity, Adam and Hawwa', are the same as in Judaism and Christianity. The Quran, however, does not mention how she was created. Some traditional commentators have repeated the biblical account of her creation from Adam's rib, while other authorities have mentioned that she was created from the same clay from which God created Adam. It is important to note for the Islamic understanding of womanhood and women's roles in both religious and social life that, in contrast to the biblical story, Eve did not tempt Adam to eat the forbidden fruit. Rather, they were tempted together by Iblis and therfore Eve was not the cause of Adam's expulsion from paradise. He was also responsible; they shared in performing the act that led to their fall, and therefore both men and women are faced equally with its consequences. As far as the forbidden fruit is concerned, again, the Quran does not mention it explicitly, but according to traditional commentaries it was not an apple, as believed by Christians and Jews, but wheat. Page 15 The creation of human beings complements the creation of the cosmos and adds to the created order a central being It might be said that from the Islamic point of view creation and revelation are inseparable, and that there are in fact three grand revelations: the cosmos, the human state, and religions-all three of which Islam sees as "books." There is, first of all, the cosmic book to be read and deciphered. Then there is the inner book of the soul, which we carry within ourselves. And finally there are sacred scriptures, which have been sent by God through His Mercy to guide humanity throughout the ages and which are the foundations of various religions and keys for reading the other two books, that of the cosmos and that of the soul.
MANY REVELATIONS, MANY PROPHETS In the Islamic perspective, the oneness of God has as its consequence not the uniqueness of prophecy, but its multiplicity, since God as the Infinite created a world in which / Page 16 / there is multiplicity and this includes, of course, the human order. For Islam, revelation and prophecy are both necessary and universal. Humanity, according to the Quran, was created trom a single soul, but then diversified into races and tribes, tor, as the Quran states, "He created you Religion (din), revelation (wahy), and prophecy (nubuwwah) have a clear meaning in the context of the Islamic worldview and therdore need to be carefully defined in the modern context, where all of these terms have become ambiguous in ordinary discourse. The closest word to the English term "religion" in Arabic is din, which is said by many to have been derived tram the root meaning "to obey, submit, and humble oneself before God." Al-din means religion in the vastest sense as the sacred norm into which the whole of life is to be molded. It is the total way of life grounded in teachings that have issued from God. Page 17 These teachings reach humanity through revelation. which means the direct conveying of a message from Heaven (revelation being understood apart from all the psychological entanglements it has acquired in much of modern Western religious thought). Revelation, moreover, must not be confused with inspiration (ilham) which is possible for all human beings. Islam sees revelation not as incarnation in the Hindu or Christian sense, but as the descent of the Word of God in the form of sacred scripture to a prophet. In fact, the Quran uses the term "Book" (kitab) not only for the Quran, but also fc)r all other sacred books and the totality of revelations. The Quran considers all revelations to be contained in that "archetypal book," or Umm al-kitab (literally, "the Mother Book"), and the sacred scriptures to be related in conveying the same basic message of the primordial religion of unity in different languages and contexts. As the Quran states, "We never sent a messenger save with the language of his people" (14:4). Even when the Quran states that "the religion with God is al-islam" (3: 19) or similar statements, al-islam refers to that universal surrender to the One and that primordial religion contained in the heart of all heavenly inspired religions, not just to Islam in its more particular sense. There is, moreover, a criterion of truth and falsehood as far as religions are concerned, and the Quran's confirmation of the universality of revelation does not mean that everything that has passed as religion yesterday or does so today is authentic. Throughout history there have been false prophets and religions, to which Christ also referred, as well as religions that have decayed or deviated from their original form. Islam sees itself as heir to this long chain of prophets going back to Adam and believes all of them, considered to be 124,000 according to tradition, to be also its own. It / Page 18 / does not believe, however, that it has inherited their teachings through temporal and historical transmission, for a prophet owes nothing to anyone and receives everything from Heaven, but it does believe that its message bears the finality of a seal. Islam sees itself as at once the primordial religion, a return to the original religion of oneness, and the final religion; the Quran itself calls the Prophet of Islam the "Seal of Prophets." And, in fact, fourteen hundred years of history have confirmed Islam's claim, for during all that time there has not been another plenary manifestation of the Truth like the ones that brought about the births of Buddhism and Christianity, not to speak of the earlier major religions. The two characteristics of primordiality and finality have bestowed upon Islam its trait of universality and the capability to absorb intellectually and culturally so much that came before it. It has also made spiritually alive the prophetic presences that preceded it, so that, for example, such figures as Abraham, Moses, and Christ play a much greater role in the spiritual universe of Islam than Abraham and Moses do in the Christian universe. While speaking of the finality of the Islamic revelation for this cycle of human history, which will last until the eschatological events at the end of historic time, something must be said, from the Islamic point of view, about the "order" and "economy" of revelation. Muslims believe that each revelation takes place through the Divine Will, but also on the basis of a spiritual economy and is not by any means ad hoc. Each revelation fulfills a major fimction in human history seen from the religious point of view. For example, around the sixth to fifth century B.C. which also marks the transition from mythological time to historic time, a qualitative change took place in the march of time, which for Islam, as for Hinduism, is not simply linear. This / Page19 / is the period when the myths of Homer and Hesiod recede as Greek history flowers and the stories of mythical Persian dynasties are left behind as the Persian Empire takes shape. From the human point of view, this qualitative change in the terrestrial life of humanity required new dispensations from Heaven, and from the metaphysical perspective, these new dispensations themselves marked the new chapter that was to begin in human history. This period, which philosophers such as Karl Jaspers have called the Axial Age, was witness to the appearance of Confucius and Lao-Tze in China and the new crystallization of the primal Chinese tradition into Confucianism and Taoism, and the appearance of Shintoism in Japan and the beginning of the terrestrial life of the solar emperors, who marked the beginning of historical Japanese civilization. This age was also witness to the life of the Buddha, whose teaching spread throughout India and Tibet and soon transforfmed the religious life of East and Southeast Asia. At nearly the same time, we see the rise of Zoroaster, who established Zoroastrianism in Persia and whose teachings greatly influenced later religious life in western Asia. Finally, around the same time we have the rise of Pythagoras and One would think that the cycle of revelation would have been terminated in the Axial Age. But the decadence of the / Page 20 / This latter situation, added to the inner weakness of Zoroastrianism in the Persian Empire and certain other religions elsewhere, created another vacuum to be filled, this time by a new Semitic religion-Islam. Islam, like Judaism, remained faithful to its Semitic origin, but, like Christianity, was not confined to a particular ethnic group. Islam thus came to reassert the full doctrine of Divine Oneness on a universal scale after the Axial Age and the appearance of Christianity, placing in a sense the last golden brick in that golden wall that is revelation. With it, the structure of the wall became complete, and, as far as Muslims are concerned, although small religious movements may take place here and there, there is to be no plenary revelation after Islam according to the Divine Providence and the spiritual economy of God's plans for present-day humanity. When asked how they know such a truth, Muslims point to the Quran itself and the f:act that no previous revelation had ever made such an explicit claim. Being the final religion of this cycle, Islam is not only closely related to its sister / Page 21 / monotheisms, Judaism and Christianity, but also possesses an inward link to the religions of the Axial Age as well as to Hinduism. It is this link that made it easier for Islam than for Christianity to incorporate so much of the wisdom Hinduism and of the religions of the Axial Age, from Buddhism and Pythagoreanism to Zoroastrianism and even later to Confucianism, within its sapiential perspective. Paradoxically, the insistence of Islam upon God as the One and the Absolute has had as its concomitant the acceptance of multiplicity of prophets and revelations, and no sacred scripture is more universalist in its understanding of religion than the Quran, whose perspective concerning the universality of revelation may be called "vertical triumphalism." In contrast, in Christianity, because of the emphasis on the Triune God, God the One is seen more in terms of the relationality of the three Hypostases, what onc might call "Divine Relativity"; the vision of the manifestation of the Divine then became confined to the unique Son and Incarnation, in whom the light of all previous prophets was absorbed. In Christianity the vision is that of the Triune God and a unique message of salvation and savior, hence extra ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the church), whereas in Islam there is the One God and many prophets. Here is to be found the major difference between how Muslims have viewed Jews and Christians over the centuries and how Christians have regarded Jews and Muslims as well as followers of other religions. For Muslims, the Quran completes the message of previous sacred texts without in any way denigrating their significance. In fact, the Torah and the Gospels are mentioned by name as sacred scriptures along with the Quran in the text of the Quran. Likewise, although the Prophet terminates the long chain of prophecy, the earlier prophets lose none / Page 22 / of their spiritual significance. Rather, they appear in the Islamic firmament as stars, while the Prophet is like the moon in that Islamic sky.
THE QURAN The sacred scripture of Islam, known in Arabic by many names, of which the most famous is al-Qur'an, "the Recitation," is considered by all Muslims, no matter to which school they belong, as the verbatim revelation of God's Word made to descend into the heart, soul, and mind of the Prophet of Islam through the agency of the archangel of revelation, Gabriel, or Jibra'il in Arabic. Both the words and meaning of the text are considered to be sacred, as is everything else connected with it, such as the chanting of its verses or the calligraphy of its phrases. Muslims are born with verses of the Book, which Muslims call the Noble Quran, read into their ears, live throughout their lives hearing its verses and also repeating certain of its chapters during daily prayers, are married with the accompaniment of Quranic recitations, and die hearing it chanted beside them. To fully understand the significance of the Quran, a Westerner with a Christian background should realize that, although the Quran can in a sense be compared to the Old and New Testaments, a more profound comparison would be with Christ himself In Christianity both the spirit and body of Christ are sacred, and he is considered the Word of God. The Quran is likewise fcr Muslims the Word of God (kalimat Allah), and both its inner meaning, or spirit, and its body, or outer fcmn, the text in the Arabic language in which it was revealed, are sacred to Muslims. Arabic is the sacred language of Islam and Quranic Arabic plays a role in Islam analogous to the role of the body of Christ in Christianity. Moreover, as Christians consume bread and wine as symbols of the flesh and blood of Christ, Muslims pronounce, using the same organ of the body, that is, the mouth, the Word of God in the daily prayers. The rationalist and agnostic methods of higher criticism applied by certain Western scholars to the text of the Quran, which was not compiled over a long period of time like the Old and the New Testaments, is as painful and as much a blasphemy to Muslims as it would be to believing Christians if some Muslim archeologists claimed to have discovered some physical remain of Christ and were using DNA analysis to determine whether he was born miraculously or was the son of Joseph. Page 24 In any case, for Muslims themselves, Sunni and Shi 'ite alike, there is but a single text of the Quran consisting of 114 chapters of over 6,000 verses revealed to the Prophet of Islam in Mecca and Medina over the twenty-three years of his prophetic mission. As verses were received and then uttered by him, they would be memorized by companions, who were Arabs with prodigious memories. The verses were also written down by scribes. The order of the chapters of the Quran was also given by the Prophet through Divine command. During the caliphate of the third caliph, 'Uthman, some twenty years after the death of the Prophet, as many of those who had memorized the Quran were dying in various battles, the complete text of the Quran was copied in several manuscripts and sent to the four corners of the Islamic world. Later copies are based on this early definitive collection. It is said in Islam that God gives to each prophet a miracle corresponding to what was important in his time. Since magic was so significant in Egypt, God gave Moses the power to turn his staff into a serpent. Since medicine was such an important art at the time of Christ, God gave him the miracle of raising the dead to life. And since poetic eloquence was the most prized of all virtues for pre- Islamic Arabs, God revealed through the Prophet by far the most eloquent of all Arabic works. In fact, the greatest miracle of The Quran has many names, each revealing an aspect of its reality. It is al-Qur'an, or "recitation," which also means "gathering" or "concentration." It is al-Furqan, or "discernment," because it provides the criteria for discerning between truth and t:llsehood, goodness and evil, beauty and ugliness. It is Umm al-kitab, the archetypal book con taining the root of all knowledge, and it is al-Huda, the' guide tor the journey of men and women toward God. For Muslims, the Quran is the source of all knowledge both outward and inward, the foundation of the Law, the final guide tor ethical behavior, and a net with which the Divine Fisherman ensnares the human soul and brings it back to Unity. The Quran contains several grand themes. First of all, it deals with the nature of reality, with the Divine Reality and Its relation to the realm of relativity. Second, the Quran says much about the natural world, and in a sense the Islamic sector of the cosmos participates in the Quranic revelation. Then the Quran contains many pages on sacred history, but the episodes of this history are recounted more tor their significance as lessons tor the inner lite of the soul than as historical accounts of ages past. Sacred history in the Quran contains, above all, moral and spiritual lessons tor us here and now. The Quran also deals with laws for the individual and society and is the most important source of Islamic Law, or the Shariah. Furthermore, the Quran comes back again / Page 26 / and again to the question of ethics, of good and evil, of the significance of living a virtuous life. Finally, the Quran speaks, especially in its last chapters, in majestic language about eschatological events, about the end of this world, about the Day of Judgment, paradise, purgatory, and hell. The language of the Quran, especially in dealing with eschatological realities, is concrete and symbolic, not abstract, or descriptive in the ordinary sense, which would in any case be impossible when one is dealing with realities our earthly imaginations cannot grasp. This trait has caused many outsiders to criticize the Quran or its sensuous description of the delights of paradise as if they were simply a sublimation of earthly joys and pleasures. In reality every joy and delight here below, especially sexuality, which is sacred for Islam, is the reflection of a paradisal prototype, not vice versa. According to the Prophet and many of the earliest authorities such as 'Ali and Ja'far al-Sadiq, the Quran has many levels of meaning, of which the highest is known to God alone. In the same way that God is both the Outward (al-Zahir) and the Inward (al-Batin), His Book also has an outward and an inward dimension or, in fact, several levels of inner meaning. Throughout Islamic history, Quranic commentaries have been written from both points of view, the outward and the inward. The first is called tafsir and The chapters (surahs) and verses (ayahs) of the Quran are both the path and the guidepost in the Muslim's earthly journey. The root of everything Islamic, from metaphysics / Page 27 / and theology to law and ethics to the sciences and arts, is to be found in it. Every movement that has begun in Islamic history, whether religious, intellectual, social, or political, has sought legitimization in the Quran, and the permanent flow of the daily life of traditional Muslims unaffected by such movements has also been marked in the deepest sense by the presence of the Quran. Jurists have sought to interpret its legal verses and Sufis its inner meaning. Philosophers have drawn from its philosophical utterances and theologians have debated its assertions about the nature of
THE PROPHET Khil Gibran 1923
HURRAH FOR RAH FOR RAH HURRAH
KEEPER OF GENESIS A QUEST FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF MANKIND Robert Bauval Graham Hancock 1996 Page 254 "...Is there in any sense an interstellar Rosetta Stone? We believe there is a common language that all technical civilizations, no matter how different, must have. That common language is science and mathematics. The laws of Nature are the same everywhere:..."
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS G Hancock 1995 Page 287 "What one would look for, therefore, would be a universal language, the kind of language that would be comprehensible to any technologically advanced society in any epoch, even a thousand or ten thousand years into the future. Such languages are few and far between, but mathematics is one of them - and the city of Teotihuacan may be the calling-card of a lost civilization written in the eternal language of mathematics." "Of all the other stupendous inventions,' Galileo once remarked, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the Indies, speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangements of two dozen little signs on paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of men.3"
WHAT ONE WOULD LOOK FOR THEREFORE WOULD BE A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE THE KIND OF LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIBLE TO ANY TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED SOCIETY IN ANY EPOCH SUCH LANGUAGES ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN BUT MATHEMATICS IS ONE OF THEM
"ALL IS NUMBER" PYTHAGORAS I THE NINTH HIEROGLYPHIC THE NEW APOCRYPHA A Guide to Strange Sciences and Occult beliefs John Sladek 1974 Page 275 Numerology Gematria was the Greek and Hebrew system of assigning a number to each letter of the alphabet, then adding up words to find hidden correspondences. Thus in the Kabbalah, Achad (unity) equalled Ahebah (love), because:
A HISTORY OF GOD Karen Armstrong The God of the Mystics Page 250 THE MESSAGE OF CREATION IS CLEAR EACH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET IS GIVEN A NUMERICAL VALUE BY COMBINING THE LETTERS WITH THE SACRED NUMBERS REARRANGING THEM IN ENDLESS CONFIGURATIONS THE MYSTIC WEANED THE MIND AWAY FROM THE NORMAL CONNOTATIONS OF WORDS
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THE WORD FIRST USED FOR MAN IS LULLU" "THE WORD FIRST USED FOR MAN IS 33333" "THE WORD FIRST USED FOR MAN IS LULLU"
ENUMA ELISH - Babylonian Creation Myth - The continued story www.stenudd.com/myth/enumaelish/enumaelish- The word used for man is lullu, meaning a first, primitive man. The same word is used about the savage Enkidu in the Gilgamesh epic. Since Qingu is found ... I hereby name it Babylon, home of the great gods. The word used in the text is written phonetically, ba-ab-i-li, contrary to tradition, maybe to allow for the etymological explanation of the name as the ‘gate of the gods’.
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www.ancientcivilizationslist.com/...civilizations/15-oldest-ancient-civilizations-on-eart... 1. Ancient Mesopotamia Civilization oldest-mesopotamia-civilizations The Mesopotamia Civilization is situated in the modern Iraq and is also the far eastern finish line of a segment of land referred to as the “fertile crescent” a ground of abundance in olden days. Six thousand years ago civilization came forth in Mesopotamia – the Ancient Greek term that means the terrain “somewhere between the rivers” is intended these days to refer to the valley within the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that nurtured the earliest urban civilization, the Sumerians. Mesopotamia is usually attributed of being the actual place where civilized societies really started to undergo better shape. Many people more or less anywhere were establishing the foot work for civilization for thousands of years. Agriculture was set up in 8000 B.C. The accommodation of livestock likewise for department of labor and meals improved all at one time. Most people have been producing artwork for millennia as of then. Formative laws and regulations had been forged in the shape of mores as well as folkways. Several of these were elements of human society and culture, however not civilization yet. Mesopotamians purified, enhanced and structured such systems, mixing them up to create a great civilization. 2. Ancient Indus Valley Civilization (Harappan Civilization) Indus-Valley-ancient-Civilizations-harappan The Indus Valley Civilization is one of the oldest civilizations originating from 28th century B.C.E. to the 18th century B.C.E. It’s an ancient civilization flourishing across the Indus River and the Ghaggar River which at this point fall under Western India and Pakistan. A second term for this civilization often is named the Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley, which is in regard to its initially excavated city of Harappa. This very Civilization appears among the list of terrific ancient civilizations, coupled with Sumerian Civilization and ancient Egypt. The ethnic heritage belonging to the Indian people and Hinduism can be viewed as having roots in the life and routines of this civilization. A huge number of Aryans – the nomadic cattle-herders moved inside the land coming from central Asia during 1500 BCE. The Aryans surpassed the Hindu Kush mountain tops and got in touch with the Indus Valley Civilization. This was obviously a massive movement. It was previously viewed as an intrusion, which in turn was regarded as the primary reason for the failure of the Indus Valley Civilization; however this preposition is not supported by everyone these days. During the period of many centuries, the Aryans bit by bit colonized along and practiced agriculture. The words introduced by the Aryans gathered supremacy over other regional dialects: the foundation of by far the most commonly spoken languages these days in south Asia dates back to the Aryans, who brought the Indo-European dialects straight into the Indian landmass. 3. Ancient Egyptian Civilization Ancient-Egyptian-oldest-civilization-on-earth Ancient Egypt remained as the greatest civilization throughout the Mediterranean world for nearly 30 centuries from its union in 3100 B.C. to its take-over by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. Coming from the large pyramids in the ancient Kingdom along the militaristic conquests of the New Kingdom, Egypt’s majesty carries long enthralled historians and archaeologists that crafted a brilliant sphere of study all on its own which we today term as ‘Egyptology’. The primary means of knowledge and information regarding early Egyptian Empire are the various statues and memorials, items and artifacts which have been recuperated out of archaeological areas, decorated with hieroglyphs and have been deciphered not too long ago. Some of the images that come forth are relating to the culture, society and lifestyle along with a couple of spells as a part of their elegance of their craft. Renewing their domain under Ataxerxes III, the Persians yet again invaded Egypt in 343 B.C. Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquered the armies of the Persian territory and defeated Egypt hardly ten years down the road, in 332 B.C. Egypt had been governed by a series of Macedonian kings following the Alexander’s demise, starting with Alexander’s ordinary Ptolemy and carrying on with his descendants. The final leader of Ptolemaic Egypt–the infamous CleopatraVII relinquished Egypt towards the armed forces of Octavian in 31 B.C. That’s when Christianity took over as the formal religion of Rome with its provinces together with Egypt after the six centuries of Roman take over. The beginning of Islamism along with the conquering of Egypt by the Arabs during the 7th century carried out the final outbound elements of ancient Egyptian culture and pushed the nation in direction of its advanced incarnations 4. Ancient Mayan Civilization ancient-civilizations-of-Mesoamerica The Maya are most likely the renowned of the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica. While it began with the Yucatán near 2600 B.C., they came into prestige in A.D. 250 in today’s Guatemala, southern Mexico, northern Belize and western Honduras. Relying on the handed down innovations and strategies of previous civilizations including the Olmec, the Maya evolved with Calendrical systems, astronomy and hieroglyphic writing. They were likewise recognized for complex and extremely embellished formal architectural mastery, such as palaces, temple-pyramids and observatories, almost all constructed without any metallic element. These people were additionally qualified commercial farmers, wiping out major portions of tropical jungle, where groundwater used to be limited. They constructed massive reservoirs under the ground for the storing of rainwater. The Maya were just as competent as potters and weavers, and absolved paths throughout jungles and swamps to nurture substantial business networks from faraway peoples. In 300 B.C., the Maya put a hierarchical process of administration into practice along with regulation by kings and nobles. This particular civilization evolved into exceptionally organized kingdoms throughout the ancient period, i.e. 200-900 A.D. The society of Mayan civilization was made up of several autonomous nations, where each one had a remote agricultural community and enormous elegant sites built near ceremonial centers. The civilization began to diminish in 900 A.D. for factors that are mysterious mostly still to this day. The southern Maya left behind their towns as the Maya empire eventually was coming to an end. As soon as the northern Maya were incorporated into the Toltec society in 1200 A.D., nevertheless some circumferential centers went on to survive just before the Spanish Conquest early in the sixteenth century. 5. Ancient Chinese Civilization world's-oldest-earliest-civilizations-chinese China is amongst the world’s earliest civilizations, going back a long period of time along with its prolonged history. The Yangtze River is regarded as the birthplace of Chinese civilization. Long lost ancient texts have given a few evidence of the potential existence belonging to the Xia Dynasty that endured way before the Shang Dynasty of 1700-1046BC. The very first phase in early Chinese Civilization was in fact the Neolithic era, accompanied by the Xia Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, and Western Zhou. The final term widely known as part of the Ancient Chinese era had been Eastern Zhou. Sovereign China adhered to Ancient Chinese Civilization starting with the Qin Dynasty. The men and women from ancient Chinese civilization happened to be unencumbered with outside influence. These people forked out towards the growth and development of a civilization that was widespread. The positive effects of ancient Chinese civilization to the people around the world were diverse. The Great Wall of China constructed by Si-Whang-Ti is among the list of 7 Wonders of the World. The Chinese were the earliest to invent gun powder, paper and mariner’s compass. The lessons of Lao-Tse, Confucius, and Mencius likewise have pulled in several people across the globe. The contributions of the ancient Chinese civilization have simply been fantastic. 6. Ancient Greek Civilization Mycenaean-ancient-civilizations-of-greek The time period after, Mycenaean civilization that was over around 1200 BCE, to the demise of Alexander the Great, in 323 BCE gave rise to The Ancient Greek civilization. It in fact was an era of philosophical, political, scientific and artistic accomplishments that shaped a history with unprecedented impact on Western civilization. During the course of the mysteriously named “Greek Dark Ages” prior to the archaic era, many people were living isolated all the way through Greece in limited harvesting villages. As they started to grow bigger, these types of villages started to blossom. A lot of them built walls. While, a good number of people established a hybrid market (an agora) as well as a community gathering spot. They established governing bodies and arranged their people in line with some form of fundamental law or even collection of laws and regulations. They brought up legions and obtained taxes. Each and every one of these regions (known as poleis) was considered to be safeguarded from their unique god or goddess, for whom the people of the polis paid a substantial amount of regard, reverence and sacrifice. Greek militaristic leadership prepared the greatly equipped hoplite warriors to combat within a solid formation termed as a phalanx: standing up arm to arm, some men were shielded by their neighbor’s protective covering. This particular overwhelming strategy played a crucial role during Persian Wars and made it easier for the Greeks to develop their empire. 7. Ancient Persian Civilization The-Persian-oldest-civilizations-on-earth The Persian Empire began right From 539 BC to 331 BC, and was the absolute most formidable province across the world. Governed out of Persia (which today is referred to as Iran), it expanded out of Egypt to India. The Empire owned abundant sources of fertile farmland, water, and gold. The Persians highly worshiped their fire-god, Zoroaster. Persian rulers maintained their boastful position of “King of Kings” not to mention, they also commanded an overall compliance as a result of their people. Subjected to King Darius, the dynasty had been separated into 20 regions in order to avoid any kind of single state from growing to be way too powerful. Every single land was ruled by their regulator, called a SATRAP. Satraps used to be regional rulers designated by the king to rule specific districts. Darius made an effort to triumph over Athens and the mainland Greece In 490 BC. Most of the Greek towns, like Thebes, relinquished to Darius and also pulled in treaties with him. Yet unfortunately Athens combated back and conquered the Persians, while Darius grabbed his military and decided to go home. Another Persian king, Xerxes, threw away a substantial revolt in Egypt and then suddenly mauled Greece yet again in 480 BC. However, Xerxes also got discomfited and walked home. The Persians more or less gave up working to grow their empire then. Even so, they carried on predominating from Afghanistan to Turkey and Egypt for an additional 150 years, until eventually they were actually vanquished by Alexander the Great. 8. Ancient Roman Civilization ancient-oldest-RomanCivilization The Ancient Rome starting in the 8th century B.C., came out of a small city in the center of Italy’s Tiber River directly into an empire, in which, at just its apex encompassed almost all of Britain, continental Europe, most of northern Africa, western Asia, and the Mediterranean islands. One of the many legacies regarding Roman authority are the very common usage of the Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian) rooted in Latin. Soon after 450 years of being a republic, Rome turned into a territory during the aftermath of Julius Caesar’s rise and fall in the 1st century B.C. The much longer and victorious leadership of its very first emperor, Augustus, started off a historic period of public security and wealth; on the other hand, the empire’s fall around the 5th century had probably been the most significant implosion as we look at the reputation of human civilization. As the legends tell you, Rome was built by Remus and Romulus, the twin sons of Mars who was the god of battle. Dumped to drown inside a container on top of the Tiber by a king of neighborhood Alba Longa and saved by a she-wolf, the twins survived to conquer that particular king and discovered their own unique town on the riverside in 753 B.C. Subsequently after wiping out his blood brother, Romulus took over as the very first king of Rome, which was certainly titled after him. A series of Latin, Sabine and Etruscan (former Italian civilizations) rulers then followed over a non-heritable succession. 9. Ancient Aztecs Civilization -Aztecs-Ancient-Civilization A large number of people think that the Aztec civilization arose in the region of today’s New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada. Ancient records generally come from the later part of the 12th century as they started to move to what we now call central Mexico. The twenty-first century Mexicans are actually of mixed Spanish and native origins, forerunners belonging to the Mexicans (Aztecs) or of other indigenous peoples of the Aztec Empire and Mesoamerica. Mexico City now stands on the site from the Aztec’s highly extravagant city. The Aztec religion incorporated human sacrifices as part of high rituals in order to please their gods. Clothes and costumes were always significant part of almost all areas of Aztec lifestyle. The Aztecs happened to be a sophisticated as well as successful civilization that founded breathtaking and innovative villages. In the optimum, the Aztec culture had around fifteen million individuals that resided in approximately five hundred groups. The culturally rich Aztecs were very much fond of arts, music, crafts, and sciences. Music had a significant role in Aztec religious traditions towards worshiping their numerous gods and goddesses. Around 300,000 men and women were living inside Tenochtitlan, their capital city. Inside this particular famous town, the authorities monitored and were also accountable towards discipline, agriculture, and almost all elements concerning the civilization’s financial state. 10. Ancient Inca Civilization (Tahuantinsuyu) ancient-Inca-Civilizations-list Tawantinsuyu – the civilization also known as The Inca Empire was a south American empire that lasted from 1438C.E. to 1533 C.E. In that time period, the Inca made use of conquering and law-abiding acculturation to include as part of their empire a considerable part of western South America, based on the Andean mountain peaks. Quechua was the state run language of Tahuantinsuyu , however more than seven hundred regional languages were spoken in the region. The Tawantinsuyu ruler encouraged the worship of their gods and goddesses, the most important of which was the sun god -Inti. During the early 15th century, the city of Cuzco was a smaller sized topographic point, the home base of one of the most significant battling native tribes inside the vicinity that was once governed by Tiwanaku. Nevertheless, in 1438, a little son of the leader conquered the adjoining Chanca individuals, usurped strength, and gave himself the reverberating title Pachacuti which meant – transformer of the earth. And then he started off an impressive approach to militaristic growth. The strategy was carried on by his son, Topa Inca, often times referred to as Tupac Inca. 11. Ancient Elamite Civilization Elamite-Civilizations-ancient-list Elam was an ancient civilization based in what’s these days called southwest Iran. Understanding of Elamite historical past continues to be greatly fragmentary, as interpretation being influenced by primarily Mesopotamian sources. The town of Susa was established in 5000 BCE. The primary Elamite locations display pottery which has no similar in Mesopotamia; however for the following period, the excavated ingredient makes identification using the ethnic heritage of Sumer of theUruk period. Proto-Elamite impact was based on the Persian plateau in Susa that started being noticeable as of 3200 BCE. Likewise, texts over the yet unknown Proto-Elamite writing techniques remain to be continuing up to the point in 2700 BCE. The Proto-Elamite phase came to an end on the emesis of the Awan dynasty. Based on the Sumerian king list, the primary recognized ancient figure related to Elam is the king Enmebaragesi of Kish, who tamed it. Having said that, a genuine Elamite track record of all those kings and the whole civilization could only be tracked out of records from the start of the Akkadian Empire in 2300 BCE forward. 12. Ancient Hurrian Civilization Hurrian-oldest-Civilization The Hurri civilization had been well-known in the closing stages of the third millennium BC near Eastern Anatolia governed by the Mitanni kingdom. It is actually said that the king was from an Indian decadency. Originated through the mountain tops in the south of the Caspian Sea, the Hurrians, utilized the terrain within the Assyria and Hittites, in the Zagros mountain area towards the east of the Tigris River. After that, they dispersed right into the regions of Syria and northern Mesopotamia in addition to the Mediterranean coast. A few of these places at that period were called the “Land of the Hurri”. Because of their wide scatter, the Hurrians developed into a rival and a hazard to both Egypt and Babylon. Down the middle of the fourteenth century, the Empire of Hittite ruled by Suppiluliumas-I discomfited Mitanni and thus Assyria announced its independency. Although the Hurrian cultural and ethnic position in the Cilicia (ancient Kizzuwadna) and Syria were highly affected the Hittites; Hurrian mythology was widely applied in Hittite literature. Even the Hittite queens usually had Hurrian names. A number of Hittite gods are believed to have come from the Hurrian origin. The Hurri dialect was a completely distinct entity from the rest. The culture and the language of Hurri civilization was adopted or leastwise put to use substantially by Hittites and Urartus. 13. Ancient Osirian Civilization Osirian-Civilizations-oldest-ancient We’ve been told that prior to when Egypt was overpowered by Pharaohs; it was actually ruled by the gods. Absolutely no one knows indeed who such “gods” were, however the most widespread speculation is that these folks were Isis, Osiris, Seth Horus, and many more. No matter if there actually were gods; the culture did subsist within a pre-dynastic civilization in the Mediterranean and Egypt – which came to be known as Osirian civilization. It is usually assumed that the hordes that smashed Atlantis little by little drenched the Mediterranean river basin, demolishing most of Osirian’s finest cities. A theory is said to have revealed the presence of some weird megalithic remains in the Mediterranean. No matter what the actual facts are, archaeological research indicates that there exists a lot more than 200 submerged towns within the Mediterranean area. Based on this theory, the Egyptian civilization in addition to Mycenean and Minoan cultures were left-overs of this exceptional civilization. These are merely a tiny part of numerous undiscovered ancient civilizations which have been spotted now. We must say past cultures continue to keep appearing with more contemporary archaeological findings.
14. Ancient Zapotec Civilization Zapotec-ancient-Civilizations-list The Zapotecs, also referred to as ‘Cloud People’, lived around the southern highlands of central Mesoamerica, particularly, inside the Valley of Oaxaca that they colonized straight from the later-half of the Pre-classic phase towards the death of the Classic period (500 BCE – 900 CE). The Zapotecs capital was initially at Monte Albán and afterwards at Mitla. These people took over the southern highlands, communicated in a diversity of the Oto-Zapotecan language, and also gained much from cultural and trading links with the Teotihuacan Olmec and Maya civilizations. The Zapotecs evolved out of the farming communities that lived in the valleys across Oaxaca. During the Pre-classic period, these people had set abundant trade bonds together with the Olmec civilization in the Gulf Coast that often made the development of a remarkable capital location possible at Monte Albán. This also helped the Zapotecs take over the spot in the Classic period. The Zapotecs town, smartly positioned with sights of the 3 most important valleys, developed over centuries, starting around 500 BCE and continued to be the cultural center prior to the decline of the civilization in 900 CE. 15. Ancient Hattian Civilization ancient-civlizations-Hattian-ancient-list The Hattians were the ancient individuals that lived on the terrain of Hatti in Asia Minor during the 3rd to 2nd millennia BC. These people communicated in a non-Indo-European language connected with an ambiguous association called Hattic which at this point is considered by some to be related the Northwest Caucasian language group. These people in the course of time joined with and have been replaced by the Hittites, who used to communicate in the Indo-European Hittite language. Hattusha is based on northern Central Anatolia, exactly towards the north side of the long lost region of Cappadocia. Throughout the dehydrated continental climatic region, there is a light steppe-vegetation; where above a bit of spacious spots you can rarely find a tree in view. The wintertime is very long and freezing while the summers reasonably brief, however very hot. This had not always been the situation, nonetheless; in the earlier days the environment was a lot more humid, along with minor extremes in heat level. The Hattians were probably linked, in language and propinquity, to the Khaldi/Kardu too. The Khaldi actually happened to be a Bronze Age men and women inhabiting the south-eastern coast of the Black Sea which in these days is a part of Turkey.
“40 days” in the Bible? ... When Elijah fled from Jezebel, he traveled 40 days and 40 nights to Mt. Horeb (1 Kings 19:8). What is the significance of “40 days” in ... “Forty days” means “forty days,” but it does seem that God ... he traveled 40 days and 40 nights to Mt ... Question: "What is the significance of ‘40 days’ in the Bible?" Answer: The number 40 shows up often in the Bible. Because 40 appears so often in contexts dealing with judgment or testing, many scholars understand it to be the number of “probation” or “trial.” This doesn’t mean that 40 is entirely symbolic; it still has a literal meaning in Scripture. “Forty days” means “forty days,” but it does seem that God has chosen this number to help emphasize times of trouble and hardship. Here are some examples of the Bible’s use of the number 40 that stress the theme of testing or judgment: In the Old Testament, when God destroyed the earth with water, He caused it to rain 40 days and 40 nights (Genesis 7:12). After Moses killed the Egyptian, he fled to Midian, where he spent 40 years in the desert tending flocks (Acts 7:30). Moses was on Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights (Exodus 24:18). Moses interceded on Israel’s behalf for 40 days and 40 nights (Deuteronomy 9:18, 25). The Law specified a maximum number of lashes a man could receive for a crime, setting the limit at 40 (Deuteronomy 25:3). The Israelite spies took 40 days to spy out Canaan (Numbers 13:25). The Israelites wandered for 40 years (Deuteronomy 8:2-5). Before Samson’s deliverance, Israel served the Philistines for 40 years (Judges 13:1). Goliath taunted Saul’s army for 40 days before David arrived to slay him (1 Samuel 17:16). When Elijah fled from Jezebel, he traveled 40 days and 40 nights to Mt. Horeb (1 Kings 19:8). The number 40 also appears in the prophecies of Ezekiel (4:6; 29:11-13) and Jonah (3:4). In the New Testament, Jesus was tempted for 40 days and 40 nights (Matthew 4:2). There were 40 days between Jesus’ resurrection and ascension (Acts 1:3). Whether or not the number 40 really has any significance is still debated. The Bible definitely seems to use 40 to emphasize a spiritual truth, but we must point out that the Bible nowhere specifically assigns any special meaning to the number 40. Some people place too much significance on numerology, trying to find a special meaning behind every number in the Bible. Often, a number in the Bible is simply a number, including the number 40. God does not call us to search for secret meanings, hidden messages, or codes in the Bible. There is more than enough truth in the plain words of Scripture to meet all our needs and make us “complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:17).
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Daily Mail, Thursday, September 20, 2018 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Compiled by Charles Legge May the Force be with you ... AND ALSO WITH YOU Page 82 QUESTION IN THE Bible, next to the number seven, the number 40 occurs most frequently and has the most significance. Forty signifies a period of change. According to the Talmud, the text from which the Jewish laws are derived, at the age of 40, you transition from one level of wisdom to the next. You reach binah the deeper insight of understanding one matter from another. After Moses led the Jewish people for 40 years in the wilderness, he told them: `God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear. Forty is seen as the period of trial - the temptation of Jesus by the devil lasted 40 days and 40 nights. The Greeks viewed the 40th year as the height of a man's life. Roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius wrote: 'Any man of forty who is endowed with moderate intelligence has seen the entire past and future.' The number is also important in Islam. Muhammad was 40 when he received the revelation from the archangel Gabriel. R. E. Michaels, Combe, Oxon.
THE HEART OF ISLAM Enduring Values for Humanity Seyyed Hossein Nasr 2002 ONE GOD, MANY PROPHETS The Unity of Truth and the Multipliciry of Revelations Say: He, God, is One, God the Self-Sufficient Besought of all. He begetteth not, nor is begotten, and none is like Him. Quran 112: v.1-41 Page 16 "To every people [We have sent] a messenger" "We have appointed a Divine Law and a way. Had God willed, He could have made you one community. But that He may try you by that which He hath given you. So vie with one another in good works. Unto God ye will all return, and He will then inform you concerning that wherein ye differed" (5 :48). According to these and other verses, not only is the multiplicity of religions necessary, but it is also a reflection of the richness of the Divine Nature and is willed by God."
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