Seven
Spirits
Revelation 1:4: “John
to the seven churches which are in Asia: grace be unto you, and peace, from him
which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which
are before his throne”
Revelation 3:1: “And
unto the angel of the church in Sardis write: these things saith he that hath
the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars”
This is the constellation
made up of seven stars known today as Ursa Major, commonly known as the
Big Dipper, The Bear, and The Plough. In
France it is still called the Chariot of Souls). It is suggested that the Elohim of the Hebrew
Genesis had their origin in these seven stars of Ursa Major and are the same
personages as the Seven Rishis of India (Judaism: stellar religion and
originated from Hinduism). The Seven
Spirits of the Great Bear found in Egypt, China and Japan, the “Seven Carpyri,
the Seven Amshaspans of the Persians, the Seven Princes of the Qiblis Chariot,
the Seven Titans with Chronos, the Seven Greek Pleiades or Sons of Helios, the
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the Seven Doors in the Cave of Mithras, the
Candlestick with Seven Branches, the Seven Enclosures of the Jewish Temple, the
Seven Spirits before the Throne”.
The
Throne
“The Throne” is
the constellation known nowadays as Cassiopeia (the Celestial Throne) and Ursa
Major (the Seven Celestial Luminaries) is right in front of it, near the
Celestial Pole. Cassiopeia’s association
with Christ, which the Book of Revelation refers to with the person sitting on
the throne, can be seen on almost every medieval star chart often and was
explicitly depicted on many star maps of the 16th Century. In the middle ages it was actually perceived
as a stellar image of Christ. The Book
of Radanus contains a picture of the crucified Cassiopeia upon the back of the
throne to which the hands are pinned, obviously a version of the Christian
crucifix. This is the enthronement of Cassiopeia.
Revelation
4:1-3: “After this I looked, and behold,
a door was opened in heaven…and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat
on the throne. And he that sat was to
look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone…”
We are told that
it had the appearance of a sardine stone, which is a blood red colour. “Sardine” comes from the Greek Sardion from
the root meaning RED. A jasper is a
crystalline quartz. We are told in
Revelation 21:11 it is “as clear as crystal”.
Since we know that Christ sits on the throne and Jesus Christ is a
metaphor for the sun, the jasper and sardine are descriptions representing
the sun. Jasper, symbolic of the colour
white: the clear bright white light of day; sardine, typical of the red flame
of the setting sun. Sardine and jasper were the FIRST and
LAST stones on the breastplate of High Priest Aaron in Exodus 28:17: “And
thou shalt set in it settings of stones; the first row shall be a sardius, a
topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. And the second row shall be an emerald, a
sapphire, and a diamond. And the third
row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper…” These rows distributed into FOUR rows of
threes correspond to the solar tropical year divided into the seasons,
solstices and equinoxes of the zodiac circle. That circle when divided into
four parts constitutes three zodiacal signs in each of the four seasons of the
year: spring (Aries, Taurus, Gemini); summer (Cancer, Leo, Virgo), autumn
(Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius), winter (Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces); and the
four cardinal points (at the cardinal signs of Aries-Libra-Capricorn-Cancer). Signs called “cardinal” mark the beginning, a
season begins. The four fixed signs of
Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius are called “fixed” because these are right in
the middle of a season. The solstices
are at Cancer in summer 21st June and at Capricorn in winter 21st
December and the equinoxes are spring 21st March in Aries and autumn
when the sun enters Libra in late September around the 21st-23rd,
when autumn begins. And the four mutable
signs are Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, called “mutable” because a
season ends before changing to a new one.
You have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Cardinal means action,
direction, to begin, to launch. Fixed means it stays, you maintain and nurture what
you have. Mutable means to mutate, to change; to end in order to transition.
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva. Creation, maintenance and destruction. Each have an element. Aries: cardinal fire, spring has sprung,
warmth, burst of new life. Taurus: fixed
earth, the heart of spring. Gemini: mutable air, change, end of spring. Cancer:
cardinal water, more humid, summer now begins.
Leo: fixed fire, raging in the heat of summer. Virgo: mutable earth, the
earth turns, cools off, nights get chilly. Libra: cardinal air, actual start
and definition of autumn. Scorpio: fixed
water, damp, in the thick of autumn fog. Sagittarius: mutable fire, burns that
away with some cheeriness, revelry and sparkly Christmas lights. Capricorn: cardinal earth, start of winter,
New Year. Aquarius: fixed air, in the
dead of winter. Pisces: mutable water,
winter is ending and washing out the dead wood before spring. All made known to us by the revolutions of
the sun. The connection with the twelve stones of the breastplate to the twelve
zodiacal signs (which were also called the “twelve tribes of Israel”) was
acknowledged by Philo and Josephus.
Revelation
4:3: “And there was a rainbow round about the
throne, in sight like unto an emerald”.
The rainbow
describes the sight of the luminous Milky Way that expands around the night sky
like an arch, giving the impression the images are taken from the celestial
sphere.
Revelation
4:4: “And round and about the throne were four
and twenty seats; and upon the seats I saw a four and twenty elders sitting,
clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold” -
Any complete astronomy textbook points out that in the days of yore the
sky was divided into twenty four winged-shaped segments. These were meridional sectors which converge
at the poles of the celestial sphere.
These sectors are also called sidereal hours or direct stellar ascension
hours, the twenty four hours that define the celestial coordinate system. The elders that the Book of Revelation refers
to are the star hours in the equatorial system of coordinates in astronomy, each
one being the division standard for the celestial sphere. The white clothing of the elders reflects the
white glow of the stars in the sky. The
golden crowns refer to the constellation called Northern Crown, CORONA
BOREALIS. In Mediterranean latitudes
during everyday rotation this constellation first rises into the zenith
directly above the heads of the “elders”, those sectors that are the twenty
four hours; then it descends into the northern part of the horizon.
Revelation
4:5-6: “And out of the throne proceeded lightnings
and thunderings and voices; and there were seven lamps of fire burning before
the throne, which are the Seven Spirits of God. And before the throne there was
a sea of glass like unto crystal”
Seven fiery
lamps (stars) are situated before the throne on which God sits in glory, which
we have established is Cassiopeia, drawn in the middle ages as Christ sitting
on his throne. The sea of glass similar
to crystal apparently is the sky as seen by the author.
The Four
Beasts
Revelation
4:6-7: “And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal; and
in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full
of eyes before and behind”
This obscure
reference to a place around the throne becomes intelligible when you know that
it refers to the celestial sphere which surrounds a constellation and is strewn
with stars – “eyes” – scattered all across the background. What does four beasts, living creatures full
of eyes, mean? It becomes clear from
looking at a star chart and becomes more obvious in the next verse:
Revelation
4:7: “And the first beast was like a lion, and the
second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the
fourth beast was like a flying eagle”.
The first beast
is the constellation of Leo, the zodiacal sign of Leo the Lion and represents
summer. The second beast is Taurus the
Bull and represents spring. The third
beast is Aquarius the Water Bearer and represents winter. And the fourth beast is Scorpio the Scorpion,
but in the Bible the scorpion has been substituted by the Eagle. Scorpio is the only constellation that uses
three creatures: the scorpion, the eagle and the phoenix which is the symbol of
transformation and spiritual rebirth. The
Scorpion was exchanged by the Tribe of Dan for the Eagle and was carried by the
different tribes of the Israelites on their standards: the Lion, the Bull, the
Water-Bearer and the Eagle (currently fixed signs) were the symbols of Joseph,
Judah, Ruben and Dan and placed at the four corners, the four cardinal points
at the equinoxes and solstices when the vernal equinox was in Taurus the Bull
at the time, and the autumnal equinox was in The eagle (currently in Aries the
Ram and Libra the Scales). Each season
begins in a cardinal point (cardinal means to start). The cardinal points once occurred in Taurus
for spring, Leo for summer, Scorpio for autumn and Aquarius for winter. Each were one zodiac sign back due to the
procession of the equinox. The cardinal
points are the vernal and autumnal equinoxes and the winter and summer
solstices. That is what these animals,
these four beasts, symbolised 4,000-5,000 years ago. These four cardinal points are the origin of
the symbol of the Cross. You find the
same four beasts in Old Testament in Ezekiel1:4-10: “And I looked and, behold, a whirlwind came
out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness
was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the
midst of the fire. Also out of the midst
thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. As for the likeness of their faces, they four
had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side; and they four
had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an
eagle”. The very same description of the
very same four creatures of the zodiac.
It is blatantly obvious that the description in Revelation had heavily
borrowed from the Book of Ezekiel, yet John was said to be exiled to the Isle
of Patmos, and Ezekiel to Babylon. It is
an enumeration of the four main constellations along the ecliptic of Taurus,
Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius that denote the seasons forming a square or
cross.
Revelation 4:3: “And
the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of
eyes within”.
Since there are exactly
twenty four star sectors or wings proceeding from the pole, each one of these
animals has exactly six sectors, “six wings around them”. Each animal is located in the constellation
that is governed by the six sectors of wings in four divisions, four seasons,
of the celestial sphere and six times four is twenty four, described in the
Bible as “four and twenty”. The “eyes” here
are the stars. Indeed they are drawn as
stars on any medieval star chart. “Twinkle
in your eye; Twinkle twinkle little star!” The word “star” from the roots of Old English,
Old Norse, Old High German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Breton, Latin and Welsh
mean “to scatter”. The word “stare” from
all those same roots means is 1. To glitter, to shine; 2. To look fixedly
Revelation 5:5-9
“Behold, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the root of
David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals
thereof. And I beheld, and lo, in the
midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders,
stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are
the Seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the
right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders
fell down before the Lamb…and they sang a new song, saying Thou art worthy to
take the book, and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain…”
The Lion is the
constellation Leo, the Lamb is the constellation Aries. It says
that the Lion could open the book of the seven seals, but it is the Lamb on
whom that function devolves? These are
the two emblematic animals under which the sun possesses its full power. Here
it is to be noticed that the Lion is identical with the Lamb. The zodiacal signs of Leo and Aries are of
fire signs. Aries, the spring equinox, brilliant and glorious, and Leo, warm ardent
and invigorating.
Hell
The English word
“hell” in the Bible has been translated from the Greek word “Hades”. “Hades” mistakenly became synonymous with the
relatively new concept of a Christian fiery hell. That Greek word “Hades” actually means cold
darkened world, a shadowy gloomy world cut off from God: Aries, spring. What is that but the winter? The river of Hades is part of the stream of
the Milky Way which is below the equator and which the sun passes into in
October and November represented by the Scorpion (Scorpio) and the Archer
(Sagittarius). This part of the Zodiac
was called “Hades” by the ancient priests of the sun, the realm of the dead the
winter months, and so it is said “Hell followed with him” (Hades).
The Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Among most
ancient nations we find the sun was shown to proceed from east to west by a
chariot drawn by swift horses to bring life to the earth and sacred books of
the ancient Persians said “praise to the sun that drives four horses in its
rapid course”. For the Persians horses
were sacred to the sun and were sacrificed to it. They described a procession in which the
chariot consecrated to Jupiter was drawn by white horses and was followed by a
horse of extraordinary size – they called it the Horse of the Sun. Herodotus said they worshipped the sun alone
to which they sacrificed horses giving the swiftest horses to swiftest
gods. The Romans offered the sun a
chariot drawn by four horses which by their colours were to represent the four
seasons and the four elements; their ancient lore said: “The sun has four." The four horses being symbols of the four different appearances of the sun and of the four seasons is indicated by their names. According to Fulgentius they are called: Erythreus, red; Acteon, the luminous; Lampos, the resplendent; and Philogeus,
the friend of the earth - relating manifestly to the different degrees and
appearances of the solar light.
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