tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35043907612603278702024-03-15T14:43:01.947-04:00 The Secrets of Symbolism in Fairy Tales Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504390761260327870.post-24284575495056125872020-11-15T18:31:00.002-05:002020-11-18T16:44:39.064-05:00<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Old Women in the Woods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> From my perspective fairy
tales in general are allegories on the soul’s evolutionary journey toward
higher consciousness and individuality. Thus the protagonist is a personification
of the immortal soul and her experiences denote important challenges to
awakening spiritually....<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">A SUMMARY OF THE OLD WOMEN IN THE WOODS </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A beautiful
but poor servant-girl was once traveling with the family with which she was in
service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they were in the midst of
it a great forest, robbers approached out of the thicket, and murdered all they
found except the servant-girl, who had jumped out of the carriage in a fright,
and hide behind a tree. When the robbers had gone away with their booty, she
came out and beheld the great disaster. Then she began to weep bitterly, and
said:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"What
can a poor girl like me do now? I do not know how to get out of the forest, no
human being lives in it, so I must certainly starve." She walked about and
looked for a road, but could find none.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">THE MISSING PARENT MOTIF</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">A great number of
Fairy-tales start off with the dreadful death of a parent or the fact one of
the parents are absent. In many fairy tales the child is an orphan. For
example, Cinderella’s and Snow White’s mother died, just as Bambi mother was
killed. In addition the father may be entirely absent or completely uninterested
from the child’s life as in in Jack and the Beanstalk. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">The parent’s absence denotes the importance of
becoming independent of ones’ parents, on both the physical, mental and
spiritual level in order as a fully functioning individual. Only with freedom
to make choices can the psyche evolve, otherwise it stagnates by repeating the
same pattern over and over.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now after surviving the
robbers and murders she finds herself in a dark forest, which symbolizes the
subconscious mind. With no defined path out the situation, waited, and
surrendered to God. This is a meditative reaction that is more feminine in
nature than masculine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In legends such the
Arthurian romances the man becomes of age by conquering outside forces,
monsters and dragons, evil witches and knights. He then attains the gold of
higher consciousness. Most of the feminine tales involve inner knowledge of the
self which can only be developed through sorting, which refers to discriminating
between the good and bad, thus leading an intellectual expansion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She lamented her fate, when a dove flew down
with a golden key, and told her to unlock the tree, where she found milk in a
little dish, and white bread to break into it, so that she could eat her fill. When
she was satisfied, she said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"It is
now the time when the hens at home go to roost, I am so tired I could go to bed
too." Then the dove flew to her again, and brought another golden key in
its bill, and said, "Open that tree there, and you will find a bed." </i>So
she opened it, and found a beautiful white bed, and she prayed God to protect
her during the night, and lay down and slept.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">THE SYMBOLIC TREE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tree plays a vitally important part in
myth and legend because it is a metaphoric symbol of the human nervous system.
Thus opening up the tree and receiving gifts refers to going within and
accessing higher planes of consciousness that can guide one forward. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bird brings a small golden key that opens
the tree; she obtains all her food, her sleep and even cloths from a tree.
Similarly in Cinderella a tree gifted her with a silver and gold dress.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And
a dove appears in Christian painting as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. In other
ancient texts, such as the Vedas, birds deliver messages from the gods and
divine forces.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the morning the dove
came for the third time, and again brought a little key, and said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Open that tree there, and you will
find clothes."</i> And when she opened it, she found garments beset with
gold and with jewels, more splendid than those of any king's daughter. So she
lived there for some time, and the dove came every day and provided her with
all she needed, and it was “a quiet good life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">LIFESTYLE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doesn’t this lifestyle look ideal? It gives
the impression that one could be content and happy living quietly in nature. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">THE RULE OF THREE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The number three appears in many myths as it
alludes to the tasks the protagonist must perform before attaining her goal. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">First the maiden is given
food to eat, second a place to sleep and third; gold and jewels to wear. There
is a progression of from the ordinary necessities of life to the highest gift
of gold. Which implies her nervous system (symbolic of the tree) is evolving
from the gross level to a subtle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(She received three gifts from the tree,
similar to the three gifts Cinderella needed to attend the ball.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then one day the dove came and said,
"Will you do something for my sake?" "With all my heart,"
said the girl. Then said the little dove, "I will guide you to a small
house, enter it and inside it, an old woman will be sitting by the fire and
will say, 'good-day.' But on your life give her no answer, let her do what she
will, but pass by her on the right side. Further on, there is a door, which
open, and you will enter into a room where a quantity of rings of all kinds are
lying, amongst which are some magnificent ones with shining stones. Leave them,
however, where they are, and seek out a plain one, which must likewise be
amongst them, and bring it here to me as quickly as you can."<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the servant girl arrived at the door of
the little House, there sat an old woman who stared at her, and said,
"Good-day my child." The girl gave her no answer, and opened the
door. "Wither away?" cried the old woman, and seized her by the gown,
and wanted to hold her fast, saying:<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"That is my house; no one can go in there
if I choose not to allow it." But the girl was silent, got away from her,
and went straight into the room.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The servant girl must now
use all the gifts of the magical tree had to offer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As these spiritual gifts must
now be applied to uplifting physical reality. As high as she has risen in
consciousness but her quiet meditative life, she must fall as the brighter the
light, the darker the shadow. The intuitive gifts of the mental plane are
slowly becoming valuable character traits.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Next she must accomplish a
specific task that requires intellectual discrimination, concentration and will
power. She has to enter a remote house, nullify the old women’s powerful
influence by complete emotional and mental control, and walk past her without
talking. By walking past the old woman in silence, which embodies all the
negativity of the lower mind or ego, she has conquered her own shadow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Her task is to find a plain
looking ring, as compared to the golden or jeweled ring, _ No doubt which is a
metaphor about striving for simple ordinary life as opposed to searching for
riches and fame. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">An enormous quantity of rings laid on the table, which gleamed and glittered before her eyes. She
turned them over and looked for the plain one, but could not find it. While she
was looking, she saw the old woman stealing away, and wanting
to go off with a bird-cage which she had in her hand. So she followed her and
took the cage out of her hand, and when she raised it up and looked into it, a
bird was inside which had the plain ring in its bill.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finding the ring wasn’t easy because the old
lady or witch was hiding it in a bird cage. The old woman is the negative
counterpart or antagonist to the servant girl’s higher purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (</span>Note that the ring is a powerful force for
both good and evil (as depicted in “The Lord of the Rings”). We could say that
the servant girl, is evolved enough to shift destiny from a negative outcome to
a positive.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then she took the ring, and ran quite joyously
home with it, and thought the little white dove would come and get the ring,
but it did not. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(The servant girl is at
that point in her spiritual evolution when she has to use her own knowledge and
consciousness to achieve her goal. The little white dove cannot help.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">She leaned against a tree,
determined to wait for the dove there silently. It seemed as if the tree was
soft and pliant, and was letting its branches down. When suddenly the branches
surrounded her, and transformed into two arms. She looked up and realized the
tree was a handsome man, who then embraced and kissed her heartily:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And said: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"You
have delivered me from the power of the old woman, who is a wicked witch. She
had changed me into a tree, and every day for two hours I was a white dove, and
so long as she possessed the ring I could not regain my human form." Then
his servants and his horses, which had likewise been changed into trees, were
freed from the enchanter also, and stood beside him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he led them forth to his kingdom, for he
was a king's son, and they married, and lived happily.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His servants and horses which indicate all the
powers aligned with the masculine that were suppressed in the sub consciousness
have now been freed. These powers were within the tree, or metaphorically the
human nervous system. Once the servant girl had achieved her spiritual tasks,
conquered her ego then finally she lived happily ever after. The transformation
of the tree creates perfect allegorical sense in that the tree is also the
conduit of the male and female energies within, that must be integrated by the
soul/psyche and reunited before for the sacred marriage takes place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Joseph Alexander 11/15/2020</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504390761260327870.post-82912975932413496262019-03-29T14:11:00.001-04:002020-07-22T23:11:59.307-04:00 Little Red Riding Hood<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">French author Charles Perrault published Little Red Riding Hood (Le Petit Chaperon Rouge) in Mother Goose Tales (1697). This fantastic little story portrays a voracious Wolf that devoured Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, ending the story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">While the brothers Grimm version called, Little Red Cap included a passing huntsman that cuts open the wolf’s stomach and pulls Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother to safety.</span><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1554060317734_640765578789873" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1554060367553_2961316948727508" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1554060368090_7138765886766165" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">One of the first versions originated back in the 10th century, to the folktale from Italy, called, The False Grandmother, by Italo Calvino–published in the Italian Folktales collection. The range of interpretations range from being a warning about talking to strangers to that of sexual restraint, however, I will interpret the story from a metaphysical point of view.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> In Grimm’s version, her mother asked Little Red Cap to stay strictly on the path through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother (wine and cake depending on the translation). <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">A </span>voracious Wolf wants to eat the girl. He secretly stalks her behind trees, bushes, shrubs. He approaches Little Red Riding Hood, who naively tells him where she is going. He suggests that the girl pick flowers as a present for her grandmother, which she does. In the meantime, he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be the Little Red Cap. He swallows the grandmother whole (in some stories; he locks her in the closet) and waits for the girl, disguised as the grandma.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">When the Little Red arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange.<span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1554058894852_014602385548111885" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1554058898800_41640491023347836" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span> <span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1554058893180_7979650857882246" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The Wolf, seeing her come in, said to her, hiding under the bedclothes:—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br />"Put the custard and the little pot of butter upon the stool and come and lie down with me." Little Red Riding-hood undressed and went into bed, where she was much surprised to see how her grandmother looked in her night-clothes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">She said to her:—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> "Grandmamma, what great arms you have got!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"That is <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the better " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-5D5878C08CB1854F9216A3FFF8EE214C" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_713" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">the better </pwa>to hug thee, my dear."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"Grandmamma, what great legs you have got!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> "That is to run the better, my child."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"Grandmamma, what great ears you have got!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"That is to hear the better, my child."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"Grandmamma, what great eyes you have got!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"It is to see the better, my child."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"Grandmamma, what great teeth you have got!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"That is to eat thee up."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding-hood and ate her all up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1554057852324_1893682031424635" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1554057852736_11846008209795222" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">A Huntsman in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, comes to the rescue with an ax, and cuts open the sleeping wolf. Little Red Cap and her grandmother emerge unharmed. Then they fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. The wolf awakens and attempts to flee, but the stones cause him to collapse and die. Sanitized versions of the story have the grandmother locked in the closet instead of being eaten and some have Little Red Riding Hood saved by the lumberjack as the wolf advances on her rather than after she gets eaten, where the woodcutter kills the wolf with his ax.</span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="(" data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '(' may require a space before it. Consider adding a space." data-pwa-id="pwa-7B33EB170DDDCB10343EE2A512D02C5F" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=" (" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">(</pwa><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">2)</span></div><div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The best method to analyze Little Red Riding Hood or Little Red Cap depends on decoding the iconography regarding the ancients’ metaphysical beliefs that rested on the principle of the human soul is immortal and incarnates into the earth plane to evolve. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The child, symbolizes the human psyche or soul that must take the “trodden path”, through the dark forest, (collective subconscious) and meet the big bad wolf - the antagonist symbolizing the world of the senses, chaos, and evil. The wolf swallows her up, just like the body encases by the soul, losing all contact to the divine. However, the Huntsman cuts open the wolf’s stomach, rescuing her from death. Therefore, Little Red Riding is born again and initiated into a new life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The story begins with her mother’s advice to follow the “trodden path.” This is a common expression, to “follow the path,” which in most instances refers to spiritual practices.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Religions advise service to others and to God as the best practice leading to salvation. Little Red Riding Hood received the same advice; help her grandmother, by delivering food and drink. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br />The ancient Sages also advised their followers to find the middle path, between extremes of conduct, of self-indulgence and religiosity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Here the Buddhist saying reiterates the concept:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">“The Tathagata does not seek salvation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">In austerities, but neither does he for that reason</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">indulge in worldly pleasures, nor live in abundance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> "The Tathagata has found the middle path.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">….“There are two extremes, O Bhikkus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">which the man has given up the world ought not follow-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">the habitual practice on the one hand, of self - indulgence,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">which is unworthy, vain and fit only for the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">worldly minded<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" – " data-pwa-hint="En-dashes should never have a space on either side." data-pwa-id="pwa-00A8F38126ECAFB0C5816C1225B03AEC" data-pwa-rule-id="EN_DASH_SPACING" data-pwa-suggestions="–~—"> – </pwa>the habitual practice<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word=", on the other hand," data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-CBD86F2410A2A6C58D105586CFA1F49C" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_377" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">, on the other hand,</pwa></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">of self-mortification, which is painful, useless and unprofitable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">…” A middle path, O Bhikkus avoiding the two extremes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Has <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="been discovered" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-953A231747DADE8A8A5BC42BC7202EA2" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">been discovered</pwa> by Tathagata–a path which opens the eyes,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">And bestows understanding, which leads</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">to peace of mind, to the higher wisdom,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">To full enlightenment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> Life flows easily when serving the establishment. Take one step out of the social constructs, religious or cultural, and all hell breaks loose. Ask Socrates or Christ who both died for their beliefs. So the resistance Little Red Riding Hood endures on the path is a universal process that all the great geniuses and initiates must overcome. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">However, the opposing forces of materialization are likewise part of all the divine, as light and darkness always arrive together, so one must integrate the subconscious shadow, within our own psyche. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> For example, Beauty fears the Beast but ends up marrying him, while in the Frog Prince the young maiden marries an ugly frog. The point being the shadow only looks ugly, as it wears the face of one’s sins - our hidden fears and psychological complexes. After living with these unpleasant parts of the self, they will disappear, like the night disappears when the sun rises.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Saying to ponder: </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Becoming enlightened rests on this eternal truth,</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> Everything that exists is part of the Divine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b>THE WICKED WOLF</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> Being the epitome of materialism, the wolf entices Little Red Riding Hood to pick flowers, by noting the beautiful colors and fragrances. The wolf runs to grandmother’s house for a tasty appetizer, a preview of the main course, if Little Red Riding Hood continues to put pleasure before her duty to help others. This episode reflects on the character of the psyche/soul, which starts off naïve, inexperienced and unable to distinguish between good and evil. As she offers the wolf everything he hoped for: a direct route to dinner at Grandma’s house. (At least she didn’t give him the key to the house.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> Little Red Riding Hood must develop both the masculine and feminine aspects of her psyche as a precondition to becoming self-realized and enlightened. In psychological terms, she is searching to find a balance between the feminine and masculine, or subtle energies of the Ida and Pingala, or the archetypal gods of Shakti and Shiva. The goal is to integrate the individualized soul with the Divine, without giving up one's identity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> She already has a mother that loves her, which denotes a well-evolved feminine side positively oriented. However, her inner male needs work - she has just as a docile father in Cinderella denotes the same condition. Little Red Riding Hood starts on the spiritual path with no conscious knowledge of her male energy: a lack that attracts her to the worst type of man-wolf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> There are other fairy tales and myths in which an animal swallows a man, who later returns to the world of the living. Pinocchio comes to mind, as does Jonah and the Whale. In Pinocchio, Monstro the whale swallowed his father Geppetto. When Pinocchio discovers his father, he jumps in the water to save him; thus washing away his curse and transforming him into a real boy. Here again, we have the motif of being swallowed by an animal, (symbolizing the materialization of spirit) and an allegorical rebirth when Pinocchio achieves boyhood. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> In another example, the scriptural Jonah refused to follow God’s orders to preach to the people of Nineveh, boards a ship to Tarshish which becomes battered by a storm. He orders the ship’s crew to cast him overboard, whereupon a giant whale swallows Jonah. While in the whale’s belly, he prays to God for help, and three days later, after Jonah agrees to travel to Nineveh, the fish vomits him out onto the shore. His refusal amounts to placing his own comfort before duty to God, (analogous to Little Red Riding Hood picking flowers), and like Little Red Riding Hood departs from the belly of the Beast uninjured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Proving the wolf symbolizes chaos, death and matter is a simple procedure of reviewing ancient mythology. We can start with the Greek myth of Chronos (Saturn in Roman mythology). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> Chronos learned from Gaia and Uranus one of his own children would usurp his rule, just as he had overthrown his father. As a result, although he sired the Titan gods Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades and Poseidon by Rhea, he devoured them all as soon as they were born to prevent the prophecy. When the sixth child, Zeus, was born Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save them and to get retribution on Cronos for his acts against his father and children….. In other versions of the tale, Metis gave Cronos an emetic to force him to disgorge the children. [4]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> The myth follows the same pattern: a beast swallows a child, but it doesn’t die and returned to the world of the living. Chronos represent the world of time and matter that embodies the spirit,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> In addition, alchemical texts denote the wolf as the patron animal of the planet Saturn, the Roman equivalent of Cronus. According to alchemical philosophy, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="ores are formed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-579F4DD1FD0D1A70C0825BCBAA1EE614" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="they form ores~it forms ores~we form ores~it form ores~I form ores~I forms ores~they forms ores~something form ores~someone forms ores~something forms ores~someone form ores~we forms ores">ores are formed</pwa> inside the earth and transform from the most corrupted form of lead to the most purified form of gold. So the alchemical symbolism starts with (lead, Saturn, wolf, the most impure and corrupted form of metals) which will eventually transform into gold, symbolized by Little Red Riding Hood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> Anubis is one of the many extraordinary animal deities in ancient Egyptian art and myth. In the early dynastic period, the Egyptians portrayed him as a black wolf or Golden jackal. Associated with mummification, he protected their bodies from destruction. In the Osiris legend, Anubis weighed the heart of the deceased, against a feather, to judge the soul’s worthiness before he guided the soul to the afterlife. The death of Little Red Riding Hood and her subsequent return to life follows the Egyptian pattern in which a wolf was instrumental in the rebirth of a soul. Though Anubis <pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="doesn’t kill any" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: kills none" data-pwa-id="pwa-3529ACDAFB6983318576AC08EA9892FD" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1661" data-pwa-suggestions="kills none"><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="doesn’t kill any" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: kills none" data-pwa-id="pwa-1F3CD5B3452B0CCA3F8C887B2120006D" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1661" data-pwa-suggestions="kills none"><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="doesn’t kill any" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: kills none" data-pwa-id="pwa-E019C413ACE1CC806168A6CC9077AA76" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1661" data-pwa-suggestions="kills none"><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="doesn’t kill any" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: kills none" data-pwa-id="pwa-3AAECA90FE1E1BD5AAE23BE8BC31C21B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1661" data-pwa-suggestions="kills none"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="doesn’t kill any" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: kills none" data-pwa-id="pwa-836A321CF5772237171BF75F154454FA" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1661" data-pwa-suggestions="kills none">doesn’t kill</pwa></pwa></pwa></pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="doesn’t kill any" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: kills none" data-pwa-id="pwa-3529ACDAFB6983318576AC08EA9892FD" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1661" data-pwa-suggestions="kills none"><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="doesn’t kill any" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: kills none" data-pwa-id="pwa-1F3CD5B3452B0CCA3F8C887B2120006D" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1661" data-pwa-suggestions="kills none"><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="doesn’t kill any" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: kills none" data-pwa-id="pwa-E019C413ACE1CC806168A6CC9077AA76" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1661" data-pwa-suggestions="kills none"><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="doesn’t kill any" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: kills none" data-pwa-id="pwa-3AAECA90FE1E1BD5AAE23BE8BC31C21B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1661" data-pwa-suggestions="kills none"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="doesn’t kill any" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: kills none" data-pwa-id="pwa-836A321CF5772237171BF75F154454FA" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1661" data-pwa-suggestions="kills none"> any</pwa></pwa></pwa></pwa></pwa> Egyptian, he helps Osiris by guiding worthy souls to the<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" hereafter" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-A3C98CCCC66A20860E68C19F2E1EE537" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1277" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)"> hereafter</pwa>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> There are other references to a wolf in Norse myth, and the fairy tales such as “The Three Little Pigs” and “The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids. “And in each case, the wolf symbolizes chaos and death. Besides these examples, the clearest sign the wolf symbolizes such negative attributes of the material world, and animal desires derive from the different questions Little Red Riding Hood asks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Each question refers to one of the five senses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">She notices the wolf’s ears - A sense of hearing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">“What big eyes you have!” - A sense of vision. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1553892640629_433126664692987" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1553892641327_039718585783888205" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span> “Oh, what a horribly big mouth you have!” - </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">A sense of taste. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">She derives each question from a growing awareness; it is her consciousness or soul, that sees, hears and feels. And that her senses have led her to a false perception of reality, as she now sees through the wolf’s disguise–a little too late—but she wakes up to the truth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> Bruno Bettelheim in his book, <i>The Uses of Enchantment,</i> explores Little Red Riding Hood from the perspective of Freudian psychoanalysis, and explains how fairy “tales educate, support, and liberate children’s emotions. He views her decision to pick flowers in terms of an immature child that puts pleasure before responsibility.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> The central theme deals with the problems of sexual maturity a young girl must face, particularly her loss of virginity. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> He further proposes Little Red Riding Hood too immature to acknowledge her oedipal complex. (The Oedipus complex refers to a child’s unconscious sexual desire for the same-sex parent and hatred for the opposite-sex parent.) - A rather dubious claim since no Father appears in the story. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> I believe Bruno’s interpretation misses the whole point that being swallowed up by the wolf is inevitable, as it denotes the incarnation of the soul into the material world. There are many sexual overtones in other versions of Hood Riding Hood that need further explanation including the portrayal of the wolfs’ sexual proclivity, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> Perrault gives evidence of this at the end of Little Red Riding Hood when he writes the moral of the story is: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> “From this story, one learns that children, especially young lasses, pretty, courteous and well-bred, do very wrong to listen to strangers and it is not an unheard thing if <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the Wolf is thereby provided" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-02CFFBB724AEADCAAD36ED7BC39A13D2" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="it thereby provides the Wolf~they thereby provide the Wolf~we thereby provide the Wolf">the Wolf is thereby provided</pwa> with his dinner. I say, Wolf, for all wolves, are not of the same sort; there is one kind with an amenable disposition—neither noisy, nor hateful, nor angry, but tame, obliging and gentle, following the young maids in the streets, even into their homes. Alas! Who does not know that these gentle wolves are of all such creatures the most dangerous! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> This warning assumes the wolf symbolizes the aggressive sexuality of the carnal man, thus re-imagining the story as a warning against sexual activity outside of marriage. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> Professor Jack Zipes, the author of some sixty books on fairy tales, applies a deconstructionist perspective and interprets the main theme as originating from the French patriarchal rape culture, that attempted to socialize young women for marriage. In his book “The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" ”" data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '”' may not require a space before it. Consider removing the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-9C9503EE4191E728A766F66DAEBBFF9F" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions="”"> ”</pwa>, he states the “very act of eating Little Red Riding Hood is sexual, and must in some degree show the chaos inherent within nature. Zipes interpretation makes more sense when we take into consideration another French version of Little Red Riding Hood called “The Grandmother” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> In this version, a bzou (Werewolf), kills, quarters and eats the grandmother and places her blood and flesh in glass jars. When Little Red Riding Hood arrives, he tells her to drink and eat from the jars in the cupboard. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> Finally, the bzou tells her to; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" “Get undressed, my child,” and come to bed with me." " data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-43B72C7D06FA5E7BEE7AB05E33FB6D77" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""> “Get undressed, my child,” and come to bed with me." </pwa></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">“Throw it into the fire. You won’t need it anymore.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">And for all her clothes — her bodice, her dress, her petticoat, and her shoes and stockings — she asked where she should put them, and the wolf replied, “Throw them into the fire, my child. You won’t need them anymore.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">There is no doubt; this bawdy scene emphasizes the sexuality of her encounter with the bzou. Zipes notes that the French culture viewed Little Red Riding Hood as the guilty party for talking to the wolf in the first place, based on the French bourgeois belief it was a natural tendency of women to be undisciplined and easily swayed by temptation. So, from his perspective of seventeenth-century France, it was Little Red Riding Hood’s fault for being swallowed and raped. Thus according to the cultural Marxist perspective, fairy tales became a tool in the socialization of French and German society and later all of Western society, that seeks to educate children so they could fit into male-dominated patriarchy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> There are three philosophies in this article used to interpret Little Red Riding Hood. <span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1553892165082_8683704133295207" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1553892165086_19164695085110162" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1553892166062_15071654661447953" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1553892166072_9669309005072102" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The spiritual interpretation I have presented and the psychoanalytical approach, and cultural Marxist perspective. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> The Freudian approach makes too many unprovable assumptions about the pre-teen psyche and then tries to apply Oedipus complex to the world’s great literature. No doubt there are sexual overtones to the story, as Zipes has proved. However, he proposes it is because of the West's dominant patriarchal culture. Now his viewpoint is valid only if we interpret the tale literally and not symbolically. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> The main theme could be, as many suggest, a warning to young women to be on guard against immoral sexuality. I could accept this as a limited truth but nested within the concept of a spiritual transformation that requires chastity, purity and a love of god, as the fairy tale depicts Little Red Riding Hood as following a spiritual path leading to rebirth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">2. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Spurgeon, Maureen (1990). Red Riding Hood. England: Brown Watson. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0709706928">0709706928</a>.</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span><span>4.Bettelheim, Bruno, </span></span><span><i>The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales,</i> Random House LLC</span></div></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b> </b></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>Iron John</b></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">“Iron Hans” in German, is a fascinating fairy tale written by the brothers Grimm. The story reveals the masculine power hidden in the unconscious .It is filled with some </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">interesting symbolism, such as a shinning golden ball, a dark forest, a wild man, and an innocent young prince</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">This Fairy tale held the public’s attention in the 1990s because of the poet and philosopher Robert Bly’s book, <span style="color: red;">Iron John: A Book about Men,</span><span> which helped to shape</span> the Men’s Movement in the early 1990s. In fact, the book lasted 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Robert Bly interpreted the central theme to be man’s search for meaning in a world, that considered manhood as</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> a </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">disposable commodity. He explored the deep cultural and psychological issues arising from the different role models expected of men and women. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br />A King sends his Huntsman into the depths of a nearby forest, but they never return. The King sends more men to explore the territory, each meeting with the same unknown fate. Finally, an extensive hunting party ventures out only to disappear in the looming darkness… The King finally declares the dark forest too treacherous for adventurers, and declares it off-limits.<br /><br />Some years later, a wandering explorer hears of the trouble, and asks the King for his permission to travel to the area, asserting he could discover the fate of the missing Huntsmen.<br /><br />The explorer, accompanied by his dog, penetrated in to darkest part of the forest ,and came upon a hidden lake. Suddenly, a giant arm breaks the surface water, and drags his poor dog underwater. The explorer returns to the King and asks for reinforcements. On their return, the group of men empty the lake. At the bottom, lays a naked man, with long shaggy hair all over his body ,and iron like skin. They capture the wild man, lock him in a cage, and display him as a curiosity in the King’s courtyard. The King declares any person <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: who" data-pwa-id="pwa-BDC9F631CBC3E796EDD10CF6E0F4E13B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2750" data-pwa-suggestions="who">that</pwa> frees <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="him will be put" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-09D2554111402E4A9B0A4A9F68DCAFB5" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="I will put him~we will put him~they will put him~it will put him~someone will put him~something will put him">him will be put</pwa> to death.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Many years pass - One day, when the King's Son was playing in the courtyard, he drops his favorite plaything, a golden ball, which rolls right to the cage. The wild man picks it up. He asks the prince to set him free, if he wants his golden ball returned. <br /><br />However, the key to the cage lays beneath his mother’s pillow. <br /><br />Though the prince hesitates, but he finds enough courage, to sneak into his Mother’s room and steal the key. He sets free the wild man, who reveals his name to be Iron John. F</span>earing the king would kill him, the young prince, followed Iron John back to his domain in the dark forest, </div><div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br />Iron John just happened to be a powerful being, with many hidden treasures to guard. He proposes asked the young prince to watch over a crystal clear spring, cautioning him not to let anything touch the water or it will turn to gold. The prince struggles to obey, but plays near the spring, and lets his long hair touch the water, which transforms some strands into a brilliant gold color. </span></div><div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Disappointed at the boy’s failure, Iron John sends him out to experience the cruel medieval world of war, poverty, and sickness. However, Iron John further tells the prince that if he ever needs help, return to the forest, and call out his name three times. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"></span></span></div>
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The prince travels to a distant kingdom ,and finds a job working in the kitchen of the King. However, he refuses to remove his cap in the king’s presence, in an attempt to hide his brilliant golden hair. He losses his job, but ends up assisting the gardener. </div><div><br /></div><div>The princess spots the prince working in the courtyard, and finds the boy's golden hair fascinating. Her intuition whispers, there is something more to him, than a poor gardener. <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In celebration of the great victory, the King announces a banquet and offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to any knight that catches a golden apple thrown into their midst. Hoping the mysterious knight would reveal his identity for such a grand prize. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Once again, the Prince asks Iron John for help. He disguises him as a black knight. The prince catches the golden apple ,and escapes from the crowd of onlookers.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> But the King and Princess eventually discover his true royal ancestry. And the young prince marries the princess. </span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Finally, a tansformed Iron John presents himself at the wedding, without shaggy hair or iron skin. He reveals an enchantress had cast a spell, that transformed him into an iron skinned Beast, but only until<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" the time" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-A64A83A8C936FAC2ECF8BDAB0235E3ED" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_645" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)"> the time</pwa>, when someone with a pure heart, like the young prince, could free him. - The End. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In general, analyzed from an esoteric viewpoint, the 'childlike protagonist' in fairy tales, symbolizes the immortal soul or psyche. The task, of the symbolic child is to evolve into a self-realized individual, a process that takes many lifetimes. That being said, Iron John follows a typical pattern of motifs found in the great classic fairy tales - Whereas the psyche (the young Prince) begins his journey inexperienced and naïve, conquers many obstacles, and adverse beings that symbolize his its subconscious - (in this case Iron John). A process or journey that transforms consciousness. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Iron John, a wild man with rough iron like skin - describes the intense nature of masculine energy hidden in the male psyche. As a symbol of the unexplored and violent aspects of the untamed consciousness, Iron John murdered every huntsman near his territory. One might say his <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="persona" data-pwa-hint="Possible confused word" data-pwa-id="pwa-B25C9E94E0563D4591C01CEA89468D2F" data-pwa-rule-id="CRFSR_PERSONA_32" data-pwa-suggestions="personal">persona</pwa> depicts the subconscious animalistic drives that operate from the lowest level of survival instinct–using violence instead of intelligence.</span></div>
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At the beginning of the story, Iron John is the adversary; however, by the end, he becomes the princes’ counsel and mentor, leading him to become a man. Iron John’s masculine traits pass on to the young prince, only if he accepts the rules, as the powers are symbolic of the talents, happiness and bliss one receives after overcoming their errors. In fact, any denial of one’s faults results in the virtual death of the psyche, and creativity. So the prince has to address his own problems, his own aggressive, and hateful thoughts before he can develop into a realized man and hero/king. </div>
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Stealing the key from under his mothers’ pillow seems like the perfect metaphor for a boy’s separation from his mother’s emotional control. Every person needs a certain amount of freedom to advance on the spiritual path. Otherwise, they cannot make their own choices and learn from their mistakes.</div>
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In fact, the most ubiquitous of all motifs in the fairy realm is the 'missing parents,' which denotes the death or absence of one or both parents. This tragic circumstance occurs in the greatest number of fairy tales; sometimes the child is an orphan, as Dorothy in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, or the mother dies after childbirth, as in Cinderella and Little Snow White. In fact, there are twenty-seven Disney films that feature a missing Mother. Even though the young prince enjoys a mother and father, by following Iron John, he entered the path of individualization, where he must standalone, in <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the field of " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-4ECBF210A9647970CE0034161BE0AA02" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_489" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">the field of </pwa>suffering, away from the safety of home.</div>
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By touching the water, the Prince penetrated into the deepest levels of consciousness, beyond all the negative aspects of the shadow. At this height of consciousness, one may see a beautiful Golden light within the mind. This is not a theory, but the real experience of the great enlightened masters. i.e. Sri Aurobindo–Vedic texts are very accurate in describing the highest level of consciousness as golden colored.</div>
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The prince lets his finger touch the water, and it turns to gold. Yet, Iron John forgives him this one time. Then the prince carelessly lets his hair to fall into the water, transmuting it into a beautiful gold color. Iron John said to the boy prince:<i> “You have failed the test, and you can stay here no longer. Go out into the world. There you will learn what poverty is”…. </i></div>
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Then one day, the princess sees the prince working in the courtyard, when his hat falls off, revealing rays of golden light bursting forth like the sun from his hair. From that point on, the princess became obsessed with the boy, as he seems to be te perfect male archetype, with a golden aura to boot.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> The usual courtship occurs; he brings her flowers, and so on. The princess personifies the positive feminine side, and counterpart to the young prince. And like so many other tales, the balance of the anima and animus denotes integrating the conscious mind with its subconscious shadow. And his goden </div>
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The colors (Black, White, Red, and Gold) appear in many fairy tales over and over. For example, in <i>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</i>, her mother’s first words are: <i>“Would that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood and as black as the wood of the window frame.”</i></div>
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I wrote in my article on Snow White. paraphrasing <i>“The three colors symbolize Snow-White’s evolution into higher consciousness. Let me explain: Most meditators upon closing their eyes see nothing but black. After decades of practice, or even lifetimes, the next level of a successful spiritual practice occurs when the internal Pranic energy illuminates the interior of the brain in a beautiful white light. Even the external world takes on a stunning luster with subtle tones; Gopi Krishna an enlightened Indian pundit has written of this experience in his autobiography. One encounters a beautiful red than gold color along with an enduring sense of immortality, increased health and intelligence. This state of mind, (called enlightenment or self-realization) <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is symbolized" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-A711AACB25AA01DCBBD36A849245905A" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is symbolized</pwa> by the color gold, and as found in the golden treasures, harps, hair, and dresses that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the child protagonist is gifted" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-EA272CF33E3D83C76693414ADF429440" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="it gifts the child protagonist~it gift the child protagonist~I gift the child protagonist~they gifts the child protagonist~they gift the child protagonist~we gift the child protagonist~I gifts the child protagonist~we gifts the child protagonist~something gift the child protagonist">the child protagonist is gifted</pwa> with.”</i></div>
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The colors appear when the King said to his daughter, “I will proclaim a great festival. It shall last for three days, and you shall throw a golden apple. Perhaps the unknown knight will come.”</div>
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“On the second day, Iron John had outfitted him as a white knight, and had given him a white horse.” And the prince caught a golden apple again.</div>
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“On the third day, he received from Iron John a suit of black armor and a black horse, and he caught the apple again.”</div>
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“On the second day, Iron John had outfitted him as a white knight, and had given him a white horse.” And the prince caught a golden apple again.</div>
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“On the third day, he received from Iron John a suit of black armor and a black horse, and he caught the apple again.”</div>
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The three colors, black, white, and red plus gold are symbolic of the transformative process. The chronological order of colors proceeds, from black to white , then red or Gold, showing a progression from the lowest plane of matter to the a highest plane. However, the order of colors is reversed, starting with the golden apple, changing to a red chestnut horse, then a white horse and a black horse. I believe the reversed order of colors denotes the movement of consciousness downward from its highest spiritual level to the lowest level of physical matter. Thus alluding to the spiritualization of matter. </div>
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There is another important motif,called the ‘rule of three,’ that helps us to understand the meaning of the story. The ‘rule of three’ is a literary technique that suggests a group of three events or actions carries more truth and is more satisfying than any other number, in the story's execution and engaging the reader. Thus, the three consecutive days of the festival authenticates the importance of the marriage of the Princess and Prince, and also the importance of the three transformative colors. </div>
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Having progressed this far on the psyche’s evolutionary path takes us to the motif of a “sacred marriage.” To <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="achieve the ultimate victory" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: win" data-pwa-id="pwa-0666EBCE333D03EA0AAEC2FCEDE9B313" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1337" data-pwa-suggestions="win">achieve the ultimate victory</pwa> and marry the princess, the young prince must catch the golden apple thrown three consecutive times. This motif is also found in the wedding tradition whereas the bride would toss a bouquet into a group of young maidens - whoever caught the flowers would marry next. </div>
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It is like a jigsaw puzzle to make sense of all these symbols and motifs’, however catching the apple, symbolizes the experience of immortality, through the process of awakening Kundalini. This awakening can only take place when both sides of the psyche have evovled to equal strength–i.e. the Ida (female) and Pingala (male). then the balanced flow of Prana, can enter the sushumna and villify the crown chakra–resulting in the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="marriage of the individual" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: individual's marriage" data-pwa-id="pwa-2EEB9CF345219DA7C9D95AB5A562B137" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2767" data-pwa-suggestions="individual's marriage">marriage of the individual</pwa> with the divine<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" – " data-pwa-hint="En-dashes should never have a space on either side." data-pwa-id="pwa-7804068F495628A0ABB03E8146CC3B1A" data-pwa-rule-id="EN_DASH_SPACING" data-pwa-suggestions="–~—"> – </pwa>Shiva with Shakti–or the inner male and female -<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="which is called" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-E1C07440398FAD1D8B86A325E349A528" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="we call which~I call which~they call which~it calls which~someone call which~it call which~someone calls which~I calls which~they calls which~we calls which~something calls which~something call which"> called</pwa> the sacred marriage in metaphysical texts </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Genesis 28:10-13 we read, </span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";">“Jacob slept and dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to Heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And the Lord stood beside him …..”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Western religions that </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">generated Jacob’s ladder passage are today perplexed by its meaning, and the art and commentary take the dream literally. Thus in one picture, we see fair-haired youthful angels gliding down and up a stairway with the upper terminus in a blaze of light, an elderly anthropomorphic god sitting near the sleeping young man in another picture, a long tedious ladder with winged beings laboring up and down like ants, etc. Various commenters provide fanciful disparate attempts at interpretation. It is interesting, perhaps entertaining, but no real lesson emerges from the passage, which gets dismissed as a psychic experience of a desperate individual with little relevance to the reader.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is because the original understanding of Genesis 28:10-13 has been lost to a literal interpretation of the bible. The author intended to illustrate an exquisite picture of the psyche and its connection to the living Universe. But current western religious philosophy and dogma have atrophied to where the proper context to understand Jacob’s ladder no longer exists. Thus, the beautiful story gets relegated to bizarre nonsense, even fodder for scoffers. Fortunately, the Yogi Tradition and also some areas of Buddhism, reveal a profound and lovely elucidation of Jacob’s ladder allegory, for indeed the passage is a parable which conceals a glorious lesson.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHDDfGMP0nzLhwjgHqC7f-ifXSXmhgZfA_LVLhmoh1dX0o_-zN40URqJY1zEyWQcfjuNlNzhYMC0qfVDJMrcevClQrOic1BY5jo6mdAA3RjBYkLMCiFL-uRK5MGVfOWVpPDKThCzHqDOEd/s1600/spiral.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="220" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHDDfGMP0nzLhwjgHqC7f-ifXSXmhgZfA_LVLhmoh1dX0o_-zN40URqJY1zEyWQcfjuNlNzhYMC0qfVDJMrcevClQrOic1BY5jo6mdAA3RjBYkLMCiFL-uRK5MGVfOWVpPDKThCzHqDOEd/s200/spiral.jpg" width="156" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First, some nomenclature and background are necessary. Throughout the human body are located scores of chakras or focal points for astral energy; these chakras are known to Hindu mystics and also to Chinese medicine. Along the spine are six major chakras, the first located at the base of the spine and the sixth at the medulla oblongata (the top of the spine connecting the skull). The seventh chakra (Sahasrara) is located at the top of the head, where cosmic energy (Prana or</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> lifetrons</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">) can flow into or out from the meditator. At conception, the soul entered the tiny embryo through the Sahasrara, and this chakra is a connection with the external universe (God or Heaven). Lifetrons, as with all matter, are condensed Spirit and therefore possessed of intelligence, which automatically responds to the laws of nature. Higher intelligence can direct these </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">l</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ifetrons </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to its will, which is how life heals itself and how Masters can perform apparent miracles. Meditating yogis will Prana to travel up and down the spine, activating chakras and releasing latent powers, wisdom, and bliss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first (base of the spine) chakra has always been known as the earth chakra; the Sanskrit name for the earth chakra is Muladhara. The Muladhara is in proximity with the crucible of kundalini. Intelligent </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">l</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ifetrons </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">traveling up as kundalini power, or downward from the Sahasrara (or also from the medulla oblongata) activates chakras.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With this background let us review and interpret Jacob’s ladder:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>“ …. Jacob slept and dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to Heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And the Lord stood beside him …..”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The “earth” is the earth chakra (Muladhara) and the “ladder” is clearly the spine. The vertebrae even resemble a ladder with steps. So the ‘ladder (is) set up on the earth’. The top of the spine (ladder) reaches up to the higher centers (Sahasrara), where God sends l</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ifetrons</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">‘ down the ladder’. These intelligent </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">l</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ifetrons </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(angels) ‘ascend and descend (the ladder)’ responding to the (sometimes conscious) will of the meditator in concert with breath. God-seeking meditation is a communion, during which bliss is prevalent and chakras and the ‘ladder’ are illuminated with astral light (“And the Lord stood beside him). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So the ladder is not external to the meditating yogi, but internal. In material terms the ladder is about 3 feet long, extending from the base of the spine (earth) to the crown of the head (heaven). Thus the passage is describing the arcane human anatomy and is both relevant and inspiring to the understanding reader. The ancient author of the Genesis passage is describing how to commune directly with God and rapidly advance spiritual evolution. The author clearly understood the timeless perennial philosophy of India, either through direct contact or parallel development of universal truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An alternative writing of the parable might read: “The soul who identified as a mortal named Jacob briefly awoke from his lifelong stupor and ephemerally became aware of the tree of life which lay within his body, which allows energy to flow from the (earth) base to the (heaven) crown, and as lifetron energy (angels of God) rises and descends in the spine it activates the chakras, providing awareness of the Living Universal Spirit (God) within. Then the soul again lost self-consciousness and reentered a delusional state (Maya) when ‘Jacob’ awoke to the material world.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A talented artist could picture a human sitting in meditation, with the spine resembling a ladder (each vertebra being a step on the ladder) running from the first (earth) chakra, at the base of the spine, to the crown chakra at the top of the head. Intelligent </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">l</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ifetrons </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">quanta (angels) that look like sparks would rise and descend along the yogi’s spine, coincident with breath inhalation and exhalation, energizing the various chakras. The yogi would be shown in dark but grand cosmic surroundings, but the ladder (spine and chakras) would glow with the light and power of “the Lord standing beside him”. The light at the crown would be dazzling. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“This ladder of bones played a most important in the religious symbolism of the ancients, where it is often referred to as a winding road or stairway (the straight and narrow way), sometimes as a serpent, and again as a wand or </span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>sceptre</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Omar Khayyam was a Persian Sufi mystic who authored the Rubaiyat, which consists of about 100 quatrains, around the year 1120 AD. The text was overlooked for centuries. Around 1860 the English academician and poet Edward Fitzgerald recognized the great beauty buried in the forgotten manuscripts and translated the Rubaiyat into Victorian prose. It took an eminent poet to recognize the skill and beauty of another great poet. But Fitzgerald, being an atheist, assumed Khayyam was writing about drink and earthly pleasures, flights of fancy, and beauty for its own sake, and dismissed his work as devoid of august spirituality. Fitzgerald was limited by his background (or lack thereof), as are many interpreters of the Jacob’s Ladder passage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some 80 years after Fitzgerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat, the God-absorbed Spiritual Master Paramahansa Yogananda encountered the work and immediately recognized a masterpiece from an enlightened yogi. It took one to know one! Yogananda, using divine intuition, analyzed and provided a spiritual interpretation for every quatrain. His book “Wine of the Mystic” is a beautiful work of art and is available from Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF). The interpretation below and glossary are abstracted from “Wine of the Mystic”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Earth’s Center” is defined in Yoga treatises as the Muladhara chakra, located in the coccygeal plexus; the first or lowest spiritual center in the spine. It is the first gate through which the interiorized consciousness and life force have to pass in their upward climb to Spirit in the brain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 'Seventh Gate' is the Sahasrara, the highest Yogic center of divine consciousness and concentrated life force, located in the brain at the top of the head. This center is figuratively spoken in Yoga as the thousand-petaled lotus because the concentrated power of Spirit enthroned here emanates thousands of rays of divine light. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I rose”: I lifted my consciousness and life through the six cerebrospinal chakras to the thousand-petaled lotus. “On the throne of Saturn sate”: The “throne” refers to the seat of consciousness and life in man, concentrated in the brain and the subcenters in the spine. “Saturn” here refers to Satan, (the material realm) the negative aspect of the cosmic creative force, which keeps all creation in a state of delusion or seeming separation from God, through the power of Maya, ignorance, and delusion. The ordinary man is ruled by this ignorance and attachment to material existence. But in the state of uplifted divine consciousness, ignorance is dethroned and wisdom rules in its stead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Many knots unraveled by the road”: My consciousness passed through all seven cerebrospinal centers, untying in each on the knots of life and consciousness that had bound the soul to the body. Many cosmic mysteries were revealed with the opening of each center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Not the knot of human death and fate”: Even with temporary enlightenment, the soul is not permanently free from karma (the effects of one’s past actions or so-called fate), or from the wheel of death and birth, until it has fully overcome delusion and leaves its physical, astral, and causal body encasements and merges in Spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>“In deep meditation, I transcended the sensory perceptions of the body and experienced divine realization by lifting my life force and consciousness upward through the yoga chakras, from the earth vibration in the coccyx (Earth’s Center) to the thousand-petaled lotus in the brain (Seventh Gate). King Ignorance, who sat on the throne of consciousness and ruled my life in the body-identified state, was deposed: and I, the all-wise soul, one with Spirit, reigned in his stead.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>“Ascending the spinal highway (Jacob’s ladder!), I had unraveled in each of the six lower chakras the knots of life and consciousness that had tied me to the body. Thus, when I entered the seventh center, I was momentarily free in cosmic consciousness.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“But this experience in meditation did not completely liberate me. Because of my karma, the results of my past actions over many lifetimes including this one, I could not escape permanently into Spirit. To</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> sunder</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the karmic bonds and conquer death forever, I had to first learn by deeper meditation to consciously go in and out of the body at will. This mastery, and the wisdom of divine consciousness it </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">brings, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">frees the soul permanently from delusion. Then the soul can leave not only the physical body, but the astral and causal encasements swell, and merge in Omnipresent Spirit ~ a fully liberated soul!”</span></i></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm</span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Rumpelstiltskin is a fascinating fairy-tale with an outrageous antagonist. The story starts with a poor father who abandons his daughter to the King for no reason at all. Then, out of nowhere a man without a name, a little mischief maker or magician appears and offers to spin straw into gold. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="In any case, the" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: The" data-pwa-id="pwa-6BA387A70ADE65E2C75213413187F17D" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_270" data-pwa-suggestions="The">In any case, the</pwa> obvious literal theme depends on discovering the obscure name of the gold spinner, Rumpelstiltskin. However, there are many symbols and motifs that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="indicate" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: show" data-pwa-id="pwa-3255640DFD6A7022F3150FB14613125D" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2061" data-pwa-suggestions="show">indicate</pwa> a deeper symbolic meaning to the story.</span> </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Once upon a time, there was a miller who was poor, but who had a beautiful daughter. Now <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="it happened that " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-965E7E535EFFC955A70A0116C36BBB96" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_774" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">it happened that </pwa>he got into a conversation with the king, and to make an impression on him, he said, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #b45f06;">"I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold."</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The king said to the Miller, </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #b45f06;">"That is an art <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-73045BC8F9CE552CE823C2EC496B447A" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1513" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">that </pwa>I <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="really " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-E87AE495B12834C4695F1210B3051269" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2264" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">really </pwa>like. If your daughter is as skillful as you say, then bring her to my castle tomorrow, and I will put her to the test."</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">When the girl <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was brought" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-126A7F4830CE0BFB51DE9F82E9769CFF" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was brought</pwa> to him, he led her into a room that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was entirely filled" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-4AE86722E8BA7788E02E16E50DCA26DD" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was entirely filled</pwa> with straw. Giving her a spinning-wheel and a reel, he said,<span style="color: #b45f06;"> "Get to work now. Spin all night, and if by morning you have not spun this straw into gold, then you will have to die."</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Most readers miss the spiritual intent of fairy-tales by interpreting the story in a literally, assuming the story should entertain children on a cold night with a cup of chocolate in front of a warm fireplace. But what parent would read a story about abandoning their daughter to a greedy King? A mean King that locks her in a cold stone castle, in a dark room, and demands the impossible task of spinning straw into gold. The secret of fairy-tales longevity and continuing interest lay in their spiritual foundation, not their entertainment value.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Rumpelstiltskin is based" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-1FBDA248CA5106C1265AEB6D1E1F296A" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I base Rumpelstiltskin~They base Rumpelstiltskin~We base Rumpelstiltskin~It bases Rumpelstiltskin~I bases Rumpelstiltskin~It base Rumpelstiltskin~Something base Rumpelstiltskin">Rumpelstiltskin is based</pwa> on the path to self-realization from a feminine perspective. The miller's daughter is the main protagonist. Her life path (in allegorical form) leads to eventual freedom and happiness. One has to understand the many supporting characters represent aspects of the daughter’s psyche. The absent father forces the protagonist to discover her own inner strength, similar in theme to a tale of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The miller’s daughter is imprisoned" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-58CC829F2DBCFDCBC755AE6F5910B0D8" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I imprison the miller’s daughter~They imprison the miller’s daughter~It imprisons the miller’s daughter~We imprison the miller’s daughter">The miller’s daughter is imprisoned</pwa> in a castle room that gives an impression of a cave or dark dungeon, especially at night, (only candlelight existed in those days). The dark room - or cave is a metaphor for the feminine matrix where all life is born, and the spiritual transformation occurs. It is <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="similar to" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: like" data-pwa-id="pwa-FDBB2A551176995803F7250EE4AA4C04" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2962" data-pwa-suggestions="like">similar to</pwa> the place where Krishna was born (in a prison cell), or Mithras (born in a cave) or Christ (born in an enclosed manger). The cave is where the dragon (Kundalini) protects its hidden golden treasure (Higher consciousness.)</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The 'divine child' refers to the birth of a higher form of consciousness, the essential immortal soul, which has reincarnated through countless lives. Sri Aurobindo it the "Psychic Being" or individualized soul.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif""><i>Then he himself locked the room, and she was there all alone. The poor miller's daughter sat there, and for her life, she did not know what to do. She <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="had no idea" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: did not understand" data-pwa-id="pwa-9A1A1CBBCA294B55ACEB23846ADA8BB3" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1488" data-pwa-suggestions="did not understand">had no idea</pwa> how to spin straw into gold. She became more and more afraid and finally <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="began to cry" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: cried" data-pwa-id="pwa-56E9211F4C5D41CD6DD603B562B6EDAE" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_931" data-pwa-suggestions="cried">began to cry</pwa>.</i></span><i></i></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="text-align: left;">First, the King threatens her with death then marries her. (Talk about fickle–headed!). <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="It appears that the" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: The" data-pwa-id="pwa-E777B77EECB0CBB19FD4E0B4CAF20786" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1100" data-pwa-suggestions="The">It appears that the</pwa> King married only for money. But <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="of course, " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-15C7D58E9035BD7CC1F76E86BC034016" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_242" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">of course, </pwa>it’s the exact opposite, as her journey is spiritual. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The marriage is based" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-A841D1AD53B1AFE33F434E9904F65A5A" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I base the marriage~They base the marriage~We base the marriage~It bases the marriage~I bases the marriage~It base the marriage~Something base the marriage">The marriage is based</pwa> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="text-align: left;">upon</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"> the conjunction of opposite energies, male, and female or King and Queen. Just as Cinderella and Snow White marry their ideal Prince and live happily ever after. In Indian philosophy, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="this is achieved" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-617054EF489E130C4786C621B8448D66" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="they achieve this~it achieves this~I achieve this~us achieve this~it achieve this~someone achieves this~us achieves this~someone achieve this~I achieves this~something achieves this">this is achieved</pwa> when Shakti (female Kundalini) rises to meet Shiva (God consciousness).</span><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<i>Then the queen lamented and <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="cryied" data-pwa-hint="Possible spelling error: cryied" data-pwa-id="pwa-EE9785E5CA522B90085EB4B560BD2774" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="cried">cryied</pwa> so much that the little man took pity on her and said, "I will give you three days' time. If by then you know my name, then you shall keep your child."</i></div>
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<i>The queen spent the entire night thinking of all the names she had ever heard. Then she sent a messenger into the country to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="inquire" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing word" data-pwa-id="pwa-0EA0A5ED69F8F55F3CEEBC3B340337CB" data-pwa-rule-id="PROBABLE_MISSING_WORD" data-pwa-suggestions="inquire how~inquire as">inquire</pwa> far and wide what other names there were. When the little man returned the next day she began with Kaspar, Melchior, Balzer, and said in order all the names she knew. After each one, the little man said, <span style="color: #b45f06;">"That is not my name."</span></i></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We can obtain <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="some " data-pwa-hint="This is often not necessary" data-pwa-id="pwa-503234AA7CACC815A6206CC1CB1095ED" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_345" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">some </pwa>insight into the power of a name, or the word, by researching ancient mythology. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="One such Egyptian Myth is called" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-E1E6C8338408C4F14409DF3878D8B2FC" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I call one~They call one~It calls one~I calls one~Someone calls one~Someone call one~They calls one~Something calls one~It call one~Us call one~Us calls one">One such Egyptian Myth is called</pwa> <span style="color: #b45f06;">"The Legend of Ra and Isis."</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span>It seems the goddess Isis, a personification of Kundalini, wanted to become as powerful as Sun God-Ra, Egypt's most celebrated deity. Ra ruled for thousands of years but became hindered by old age. He dribbled from the side of his mouth when walking in his garden every morning. Isis secretly collected his spittle and mixed it with earth and created a poisonous snake. She placed it in Ra's path in his garden. While walking one morning, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Ra was bitten by the snake" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-8C18B9FFD4B2F33A98F285756782B121" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="the snake bit Ra">Ra was bitten by the snake</pwa>, causing a burning poison to surge through his body. </span><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The power of words is very apparent in the Bible. One of the first tasks of the biblical Adam was to name all the animals. Naming a person or animal implies one has power over its existence. In Greek mythology, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the concept of logos (word) was associated" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-8EBA1850EBCC599816309BC8CDBF5896" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="they associated the concept of logos (word)~I associated the concept of logos (word)~it associated the concept of logos (word)~we associated the concept of logos (word)~something associated the concept of logos (word)~someone associated the concept of logos (word)">the concept of logos (word) was associated</pwa> with the power of gods. Stoic philosophers identified the term, 'Logos' with the divine animating principle, pervading the Universe. The Gospel of John identifies the 'Logos' as the power that creates everything, a divine being or Theos, and Christ.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The little man and the King, symbolize the two faces of the daughter’s inner undeveloped masculine persona. The King, who she eventually marries, is a metaphor of her conscious male psyche, <pwa class="pwa-mark" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="(" data-pwa-hint="Make sure that all of the quotations and brackets in this paragraph are closed." data-pwa-id="pwa-497BFE7868219108DBC4246B8A9C7D6E" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">(</pwa>associated with Gold and higher authority. The little man personifies her shadow side, which must eventually disappear or die when she gains insight into her psyche. Their 'divine child' symbolizes the birth of a new way of being, a new consciousness.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Throughout religious mythology, after a divine child is born, an evil king or opposing force attempts to murder it. King Kamsa tries to murder Krishna, Herod kills all the young Jewish boys <pwa class="pwa-mark" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in the hope that" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: hoping" data-pwa-id="pwa-5DE4091CE199BC14C98564F48ED75EBF" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_574" data-pwa-suggestions="hoping">in the hope that</pwa> the Christ will die. Cronus eats his own children <pwa class="pwa-mark" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in an effort " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-5C9B94A07048E4A770E6ADC6281D8185" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1539" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">in an effort </pwa>to stop the birth of his son Zeus, who <pwa class="pwa-mark" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was prophesied" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-2DDD8AC49103F445EE561865F5627EEA" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was prophesied</pwa> to usurp his authority. </span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The <a href="http://www.mythicspiral.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Evil King</span></a> motif is found in so many myths and religious narratives I consider it one of the significant keys to decoding the meaning of religion. The little man, like all evil Kings, represents the adverse forces opposed to humanities evolving consciousness. Therefore, he tries to steal her ‘divine child.’ </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Within each person are many levels of being. As high as consciousness can rise it also may fall. Just behind our so-called ordinary awareness are astral planes, both high and low. The higher one travels inward-the brighter and more luminous are the surroundings and beings. Each is illuminated from the inside. In contrast, the lower astral levels, which are the stuff of nightmares, dark and forbidding.</span><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">There are low astral planes with a carnival atmosphere and loud, garish colors, hard pounding music, looking like a cross between Beetlejuice and the Vegas strip. They find there a particular astral being - a bizarre clown on stilts. With their white bald heads and red nose and red hair, these lower creatures live off negative energies of humanity. The shapeshifters can appear in many forms. The name 'Rumpelstiltskin' could subjectively mean- Rumple (messy or dirty), stilts-<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="(" data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '(' may require a space before it. Consider adding a space." data-pwa-id="pwa-70D4CF87DCD12C00C3E07D61C91C10AE" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=" (">(</pwa>high above others) and skin- (a fake persona). I would venture to say 'Rumpelstiltskin' is a lower dimensional being that opposes the human races spiritual advancement.</span><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Researchers and scholars who attempt to decode mythologies complex system of symbolism should, at the least, explore the eastern philosophical and spiritual beliefs. Even if one does not accept reincarnation, the Sages of India, Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Persia were so obsessed with the concept. Rebirth became a central tenet of their religious philosophy.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> "Just as a man discards <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="worn out" data-pwa-hint="Should this be hyphenated?" data-pwa-id="pwa-E8A1558138FD6F10F56C7590C11B3979" data-pwa-rule-id="HYPHEN_ADJ" data-pwa-suggestions="worn-out">worn out</pwa> clothes and puts on new clothes, the soul discards <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="worn out" data-pwa-hint="Should this be hyphenated?" data-pwa-id="pwa-412E3F599B6579B9F08409B9ABDB44C4" data-pwa-rule-id="HYPHEN_ADJ" data-pwa-suggestions="worn-out">worn out</pwa> bodies and wears new ones.<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="”" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing double quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-CAC74ADA19A3D1302D8725B9249FB1B4" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">”</pwa></span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>Bhagavad-Gita, 2:22</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">They link the process of reincarnation and the soul's salvation to Karma, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="which is based" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-A78DB7DEFBC4CC5B695C2EEC7A46DD55" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I base which~they base which~it bases which~it base which~something base which~us base which~us bases which~I bases which~someone bases which~someone base which">which is based</pwa> on the spiritual principle of cause and effect, where intent and actions of an individual determine the quality of their future life. Right actions lead to a high birth while evil actions lead to a problematic next life. The immortal soul accumulates either good or bad karma by its activities in previous lives and <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is judged" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-4B9C4C7253609CDB0304AA8015E869DD" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is judged</pwa> after death, which determines what type of body and life it will experience next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">On a deeper level, the soul, which is really our own consciousness, learns from every event, both success, and failure–good and bad.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Karma is more a matter of becoming conscious in each life. If you fail your spiritual lessons, the same situation appears again. It’s <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="like" data-pwa-hint="You might want to use a stronger verb" data-pwa-id="pwa-412EB644224C5D15A1745430E8D5866C" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2847" data-pwa-suggestions="enjoy">like</pwa> flunking out of fifth grade then repeating the same lessons the next year. Those who reach a purified state of body, mind, and spirit, graduate to a higher level of consciousness or being. Eventually, the individual soul merges with the Godhead and reincarnates only by free</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many of the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">most celebrated</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Greek philosophers such as Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato, believed in ‘metempsychosis.’ The Greek concept of reincarnation. Pythagoras was the first well-known </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that… As wax <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is stamped" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-B2F5A8EFFC798398A37254E177B26718" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is stamped</pwa> with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same yet wears at different time’s different forms.” </span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> SOCRATES</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: As for myself, if the stingray paralyzes others only through being paralyzed itself, then the comparison is just, but not otherwise. <pwa class="pwa-mark" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="It isn't" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: Not" data-pwa-id="pwa-29F83430681C333AE700790B2A3CBA04" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2097" data-pwa-suggestions="Not">It isn't</pwa> that, knowing the answers myself, I perplex other people. The truth is rather that I infect them also with the perplexity I feel myself. So with virtue now, I don't know what it is. You may have known before you came into contact with me, but now you look as if you don't. <pwa class="pwa-mark" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Nevertheless, I" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: I" data-pwa-id="pwa-450DA40C298D4B6700A24260B0FE7619" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_542" data-pwa-suggestions="I">Nevertheless, I</pwa> am ready to carry out, together with you, a joint investigation and inquiry into what it is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From the perspective of “Spiritual Evolution,” three concepts differ from the traditional philosophy of reincarnation. <br /><br /><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="1. The human soul – is evolving toward a specific goal, “Enlightenment." " data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-58A48E3A4EAE2EB3FFBD14C00ACE846E" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">1. The human soul – is evolving toward a specific goal, “Enlightenment." </pwa><br /><br />2. The human body is evolving into a more refined vehicle for the soul-consciousness to express itself. <br /><br />3. There is no beginning or end to consciousness; Our soul-consciousness transforms itself by taking on different limited forms (bodies) to learn different spiritual lessons and become an individualized form of all existence. <br /><br /><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The possibility of personal enlightenment was conceded by the Greek Philosophers" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-227F7FBA95748C543A960461E965843F" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="The Greek Philosophers conceded the possibility of personal enlightenment">The possibility of personal enlightenment was conceded by the Greek Philosophers</pwa>, but only after many incarnations. This search for higher consciousness was vitally important. The Greeks inscribed the aphorism “Know Thyself,” on the front entrance of the Temple of Apollo. Alluding to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="ones" data-pwa-hint="Possible confused word" data-pwa-id="pwa-93E796C385C9B000EBB1B400D4203EDF" data-pwa-rule-id="ONES" data-pwa-suggestions="one's">ones</pwa> finding the immortal soul, or the self. <br /><br />Western culture continues to have a jaundiced view of ancient spiritual beliefs. The many modern interpretations of mythology discount the Greek philosophers' belief in <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="an“immortal" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: an“immortal" data-pwa-id="pwa-C9A08A0FA786C1EC9C0CC2F2C0594572" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="unimodal">an“immortal</pwa> soul,<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="’" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing single quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-DB911DB89BE335B595661A4A162802E8" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">’</pwa>’ and "reincarnation." Yet the doctrine was widespread in ancient times and therefore is one <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="of the keys" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: key" data-pwa-id="pwa-0B9680E596D26C5D80B148D5B967F3DC" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2173" data-pwa-suggestions="key">of the keys</pwa> to decoding mythology and religion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Friday essay: virgin mothers and miracle babies</span></h1>
<a href="http://theconversation.com/profiles/marguerite-johnson-20400">Marguerite Johnson</a>, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-newcastle">University of Newcastle</a></em>
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At the centre of the annual Christian festival of Christmas, particularly among those of the Catholic faith, is the sacred narrative of the Virgin Birth. In the New Testament Gospels of Matthew (1:18-25) and Luke (1:26-38), Mary, The Mother of God, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is described" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-FC0E04573EC6B0950EFA9EC7C0110ECE" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is described</pwa> as a virgin who miraculously conceived her son by the Holy Spirit.</div>
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In Matthew’s <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+1%3A18-25&version=ESV">rendering:</a></div>
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18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="been betrothed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-4B6A3321A89C8F255AA70DB25F8498BC" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">been betrothed</pwa> to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Joseph," data-pwa-hint="Unnecessary comma before a subordinate conjunction." data-pwa-id="pwa-817E76F6A8E41C19947A5E03517AE5F9" data-pwa-rule-id="COMMA_IF" data-pwa-suggestions="Joseph">Joseph,</pwa> before they came together <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="she was found" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-B07D895D7B5F24CF4AAAC42ED61AB0B5" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I found her~they found her~it found her~us found her~someone found her~something found her">she was found</pwa> to be with <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="child" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing determiner" data-pwa-id="pwa-A75D07B9CD893D1C2B910D449E5ABE96" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_CG_2" data-pwa-suggestions="a child~the child">child</pwa> from the Holy Spirit.<br />
19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.<br />
<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit"." data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-7D857818C6621FDEAF572E4E2010C7AE" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is conceived" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-AB1C60AFB4BAA03F4DA82681BC0DC971" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is conceived</pwa> in her is from the Holy Spirit".</blockquote>
<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The event is prophesied" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-5E43577A2AFBDF615DEADB93BBCBC122" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I prophesy the event~They prophesy the event~We prophesy the event~It prophesies the event">The event is prophesied</pwa> in <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-14.htm">Isaiah 7:14</a>:<br />
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<span class="caption"> Parish church S. Benedetto, Limone sul Garda. </span><br />
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Biblical scholars and theologians have long discussed, debated and disputed the virgin birth of Jesus, with some arguing that there is no imperative to link it to the <a href="http://www.equip.org/perspectives/the-incarnation-of-jesus-christ/">doctrine of the Incarnation</a>. Another argument that contests the accounts in Matthew and Luke points to the silence on the topic in both Mark and <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="John," data-pwa-hint="Unnecessary comma before a subordinate conjunction." data-pwa-id="pwa-AFB21BFA281A2E7A0234500025C6D023" data-pwa-rule-id="COMMA_IF" data-pwa-suggestions="John">John,</pwa> <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="as well as" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: and" data-pwa-id="pwa-D483362EF4F7A4930E39B95F2AA09D1B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_117" data-pwa-suggestions="and">as well as</pwa> in the writings of epistolary Christians such as Paul. Philosophers such as <a href="http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/whos-who/modern-authors/michael-martin/">Michael Martin</a> further stress that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the Virgin Birth is not mentioned" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-FDD96B0E1FCC735927E80E63AE7C79AD" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it does not mention the Virgin Birth~they do not mention the Virgin Birth~we do not mention the Virgin Birth~someone does not mention the Virgin Birth~I do not mention the Virgin Birth">the Virgin Birth is not mentioned</pwa> in either early Jewish or “pagan” sources. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Of course, historians" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: Historians" data-pwa-id="pwa-9CEB05480A058036892FBF86FB9705F7" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_242" data-pwa-suggestions="Historians">Of course, historians</pwa> would not usually place undue emphasis on an account in one particular source <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that is " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-0A246D7DA7E48DD4AFD34BD52C86B53F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1603" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">that is </pwa>absent from another.</div>
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Consider the various myths of ancient Greece that describe phenomenal inseminations. The Greek hero <a href="http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/perseus.html">Perseus</a> was born of a mortal mother, <a href="http://www.pantheon.org/articles/d/danae.html">Danae</a>, who <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was impregnated" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-11DE0627818E570A4A4708CFDC6B1921" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was impregnated</pwa> by <a href="http://www.pantheon.org/articles/z/zeus.html">Zeus</a> in the form of a shower of gold.</div>
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<figure class="align-center zoomable"><figcaption style="text-align: center;"><span class="caption">Danae and the Shower of Gold.</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">Léon Comerre/Wikimedia Commons</span></span> </figcaption> </figure><br />
Zeus assumed other guises to extend his paternity as illustrated by the stories of <a href="http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/europa.html">Europa and the Bull</a> and <a href="http://www.britannica.com/topic/Leda-Greek-mythology">Leda and the Swan</a>.<br />
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The Romans told similar sacred narratives. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The mother of Romulus and Remus, Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin, was impregnated by Mars" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-BE488B19B5F5F5B3E31A4549F8B86EBA" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="Mars impregnated the mother of Romulus and Remus, Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin,">The mother of </pwa><a href="http://www.britannica.com/biography/Romulus-and-Remus"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The mother of Romulus and Remus, Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin, was impregnated by Mars" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-BE488B19B5F5F5B3E31A4549F8B86EBA" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="Mars impregnated the mother of Romulus and Remus, Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin,">Romulus and Remus</pwa></a><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The mother of Romulus and Remus, Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin, was impregnated by Mars" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-BE488B19B5F5F5B3E31A4549F8B86EBA" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="Mars impregnated the mother of Romulus and Remus, Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin,">, </pwa><a href="http://www.britannica.com/biography/Rhea-Silvia"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The mother of Romulus and Remus, Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin, was impregnated by Mars" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-BE488B19B5F5F5B3E31A4549F8B86EBA" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="Mars impregnated the mother of Romulus and Remus, Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin,">Rhea Silvia</pwa></a><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The mother of Romulus and Remus, Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin, was impregnated by Mars" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-BE488B19B5F5F5B3E31A4549F8B86EBA" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="Mars impregnated the mother of Romulus and Remus, Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin,">, a Vestal Virgin, was impregnated by Mars</pwa>. And, for an example of a gender inversion, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Venus is said" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-51319C3AA15E2374CB12FD36A14CFD94" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I say Venus~they say Venus~we say Venus~it says Venus~I says Venus~it say Venus~someone says Venus~someone say Venus~they says Venus~we says Venus~something say Venus~something says Venus">Venus is said</pwa> to have conceived her son Aeneas through intercourse with the Trojan prince, Anchises. While the latter myth has its origins in Greece, the account of the birth of Romulus and Remus is intrinsically Roman; <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="thereby " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-A917319E5C05B406D5231131413EFC9B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1277" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">thereby </pwa>illustrating the continuation of Greek stories of miracle births in new cultural settings.</div>
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Such corresponding accounts from so-called “pagan” societies <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are often rejected" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-E48F54EF18EB8ADFD982A86FEC229A25" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are often rejected</pwa> by Christians who adhere to biblical literalism. In this context, it is the differences rather than the similarities that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are emphasized" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-FA23CF11BFA046CC9A2D0290AFA6817C" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are emphasized</pwa>.</div>
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In that vein, it is important that Mary conceives her son without losing her virginity, whereas the Greek and Roman myths <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are not concerned" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-CF932196734D8AE8D7E57A867B418DC1" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are not concerned</pwa> with intact hymens. But, like those who acknowledge the sacredness of the conception of Jesus by a virgin, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the Greeks and Romans are also concerned" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-453237F072B6C8C6CDE15DC33087BAE2" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it also concerns the Greeks and Romans~they also concern the Greeks and Romans~we also concern the Greeks and Romans~it also concern the Greeks and Romans~I also concern the Greeks and Romans">the Greeks and Romans are also concerned</pwa> with divine insemination of a pure body.</div>
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Therefore, for a hero such as Perseus or founding fathers such as Romulus and Remus, their <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="very " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-D259B7C0D3542F41B3174BE538266192" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_297" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">very </pwa>worth and significance <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are intrinsically linked" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-59DBC7C0A8179F9BB7F13FB37426476C" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are intrinsically linked</pwa> to the purity of their earthly mothers, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="as well as" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: and" data-pwa-id="pwa-796D618E3DBA77063BB5231D2A2D44B6" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_117" data-pwa-suggestions="and">as well as</pwa> the divinity of their celestial fathers. Such important and sacred conceptions define these heroes as semi-divine and extraordinary. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Not surprisingly, therefore" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: Therefore" data-pwa-id="pwa-A988FEBE8DC08C448F44E384E75F0F23" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_446" data-pwa-suggestions="Therefore">Not surprisingly, therefore</pwa>, their births <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are often prophesied" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-80027B09F28C36085FDD709AE4835135" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are often prophesied</pwa>. And, like Jesus, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="they are marked" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-2B648E8E921B398F475D9BC7F3AF6C37" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it marks them~I mark them~us mark them~it mark them~I marks them~us marks them~someone mark them~someone marks them~something marks them">they are marked</pwa> as <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="decidedly " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-10E09408467811F84F16577908626B00" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2264" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">decidedly </pwa>different and have spectacular lives. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="At times the" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: The" data-pwa-id="pwa-3FB933FEE277A48E915CD3A369AA47AB" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_94" data-pwa-suggestions="The">At times the</pwa> accounts also include elements of miraculous after-death occurrences.</div>
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<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Perseus was sent" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-2AB3430221A02735E91715531E0BDCB1" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I sent Perseus~They sent Perseus~We sent Perseus~It sent Perseus~Someone sent Perseus~Something sent Perseus">Perseus was sent</pwa> on the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="seemingly " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-0E47F117662571D0C899D6299452410E" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_892" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">seemingly </pwa>impossible task of taking the head of Medusa, rescued the heroine Andromeda from a ferocious sea monster along the way and, after his death, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was immortalized" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-858D86296864B13976DB1F8C52AB3DD6" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was immortalized</pwa> among the stars as a constellation in the northern sky. According to the Roman historian <a href="http://www.britannica.com/biography/Livy">Livy</a>, Romulus did not die but <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="rather " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-EAA06F6D7F587E93D940B8DC0E8A41DC" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_3095" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">rather </pwa>disappeared. As he was reviewing his army one day, a storm came and during the thunder and thickening clouds, he experienced apotheosis and joined the gods. Such stories<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" – " data-pwa-hint="En-dashes should never have a space on either side." data-pwa-id="pwa-88A6B2D23FABC7657E88C69B2BD53E94" data-pwa-rule-id="EN_DASH_SPACING" data-pwa-suggestions="–~—"> – </pwa>from predictions to miraculous conceptions, to extraordinary lives, and finally apotheoses<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" – " data-pwa-hint="En-dashes should never have a space on either side." data-pwa-id="pwa-2C96D3BCB8117CED093E3EF12839F042" data-pwa-rule-id="EN_DASH_SPACING" data-pwa-suggestions="–~—"> – </pwa>extend beyond the Middle East and the Classical Mediterranean.</div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="This article was originally published" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-B4E4F11D86ECB42EF7BF3FFF44392848" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I originally published this article">This article was originally published</pwa> on <a href="http://theconversation.com/">The Conversation</a>. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-virgin-mothers-and-miracle-babies-49889">original article</a>.</span><br />
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<span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="These “unfathomable mysteries,” mentioned by Marguerite Johnson, are easily decoded by taking into account religion uses the same metaphors, and symbols found in mythology. Thus, the "virgin born'' gods, are universal metaphors, the ancient created to allude to the necessity of transmuting ones sexual energy for spiritual enlightenment." data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-800B5C2CBC6D2057076F60790BA5340E" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">These “unfathomable mysteries,” mentioned by Marguerite Johnson, are easily decoded by taking into account religion uses the same metaphors, and symbols found in mythology. Thus, the "virgin born'' gods, are universal metaphors, the ancient created to allude to the necessity of transmuting ones sexual energy for spiritual enlightenment.</pwa></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">“Spiritual Enlightenment” is just one epithet of many referring to the mental transformation that is almost impossible to comprehend intellectually. This state of higher consciousness is so blissful and overwhelming that in one minute your whole life will change. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The individual soul is said" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-09B8F2D6B6C63EE42AA6C4927BEA7363" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I say the individual soul~They say the individual soul~We say the individual soul~It says the individual soul~I says the individual soul~Someone says the individual soul~They says the individual soul~It say the individual soul~Something says the individual soul~Someone say the individual soul~We says the individual soul~Something say the individual soul">The individual soul is said</pwa> to merge with the universal mind or god, which results in the realization of one's immortal self, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="( " data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '(' may not require a space after it. Consider removing the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-5001826884E24C544CA86106BC5CCA4E" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions="(">( </pwa>just words unless one undergoes the experience).</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The concept of “Enlightenment” has a significant number of different names depending on the culture. It translates into several Buddhist terms and ideas, most notably bodhi, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="kensho" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: kensho" data-pwa-id="pwa-0BBAC36A7ABAB1918086EAD3AF90D4C5" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Cornish~Kenosha~conch~Concha~Ganesha">kensho</pwa>, or satori. Related words from Asian religions are moksha (liberation) in Hinduism, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Kevala" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Kevala" data-pwa-id="pwa-57D1D04CF4F0DC330C548F9462A374AC" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Levala~Kavala~Kehala~Kerala~Devala~Keala~Kevada~Kevela~Kefala~Nevala~Kovala~Kepala~Kevalas~Kev ala">Kevala</pwa> Jnana in Jainism, and <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="ushta" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: ushta" data-pwa-id="pwa-597D99F04BA0749729F094284AB4A21A" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="that~set~sat~sit~stay">ushta</pwa> in Zoroastrianism. In yogic words, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="it may be called" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-7B3D979F78F0A976ECB7FDFD82DAFBF4" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I may call it~they may call it~someone may call it~us may call it">it may be called</pwa> Samadhi, defined as when the mind becomes still, a state of being aware of the present moment or experiencing one-pointedness of mind. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Dr. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Richard Bucke" data-pwa-hint="Incorrect named entity spelling: Richard Bucke" data-pwa-id="pwa-13019864126FF13F5D3234F676F5F85F" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Richard Buckle~Richard Burke~Richard Buck">Richard Bucke</pwa>, a Canadian philosopher, and psychologist called the experience "Cosmic Consciousness,<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="”" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing double quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-54CA0F0757335ABCF7038998C1A4A3F5" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">”</pwa> He defined it as "a higher form of consciousness than that possessed by the ordinary man." Despite all the different names, in all the various civilizations, the final experience is similar, as <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="it is based" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-11D23BE8123A8CE061C2007363104D27" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I base it~they base it~something base it~us base it~us bases it~I bases it~someone bases it~someone base it">it is based</pwa> on biology, not on cultural mores.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">There were whole libraries dedicated to the concept of spiritual enlightenment to study just what this state of consciousness is. From ancient Egypt and India to the Platonic Academies in Greece, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="mythology is interpreted allegorically" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-150F276AE3A0D7022A5D3BE9A3FB97AA" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="they interpret allegorically mythology">mythology is interpreted allegorically</pwa> as a unique form of knowledge. In fact, the ancients thought mythology was, in fact, closer to the truth than literal history. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The only capable method of expressing this spiritual enlightenment was through mythology, folklore, and legend, which eventually morphed into religious narratives. At that ancient time, the experience was beyond the reach of the intellect and had to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be explained" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-8382FB6E157F9C1C9C9BD74606C2B23B" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be explained</pwa> by symbols and parable.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The symbols in myth and religion are similar because they refer to the same thing. In the case of the “virgin birth,” it refers to the sublimation of sexual energy, that is part of the transformation to higher consciousness. Another part of the process is the regeneration of the nervous system and brain. These biological and psychological changes in total were called "born again" or "reborn."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-F023DBC92B461D3FA75190644C202412" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">The</pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The symbols in myth and religion are similar because they refer to the same thing. In the case of the “virgin birth,” it refers to the sublimation of sexual energy, that is part of the transformation to higher consciousness. Another part of the process is the regeneration of the nervous system and brain. These biological and psychological changes in total were called "born again" or "reborn."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-F023DBC92B461D3FA75190644C202412" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""> symbols in myth and religion are similar because they refer to the same thing. In the case of the “virgin birth,” it refers to the sublimation of sexual energy, that is part of the transformation to higher consciousness. Another part of the process is the regeneration of the nervous system and brain. </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="These biological and psychological changes in total were called" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-BFEF84133D5C855E65E41690EFD8D78E" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I called these biological and psychological changes in total~They called these biological and psychological changes in total~We called these biological and psychological changes in total~It called these biological and psychological changes in total~Someone called these biological and psychological changes in total~Something called these biological and psychological changes in total"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The symbols in myth and religion are similar because they refer to the same thing. In the case of the “virgin birth,” it refers to the sublimation of sexual energy, that is part of the transformation to higher consciousness. Another part of the process is the regeneration of the nervous system and brain. These biological and psychological changes in total were called "born again" or "reborn."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-F023DBC92B461D3FA75190644C202412" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">These biological and psychological changes in total were called</pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The symbols in myth and religion are similar because they refer to the same thing. In the case of the “virgin birth,” it refers to the sublimation of sexual energy, that is part of the transformation to higher consciousness. Another part of the process is the regeneration of the nervous system and brain. These biological and psychological changes in total were called "born again" or "reborn."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-F023DBC92B461D3FA75190644C202412" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""> "born again" or "reborn."</pwa></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The virgin birth isn’t the only metaphor alluding to the sexual–biological aspects underlying higher consciousness; there are other myths which use the metaphor of “Castration.” For example, Aphrodite was born when Uranus lost his manhood, (castrated by his son Cronus). The phallus fell into the ocean, and from the sea foam, Aphrodite was born. Botticelli, the Renaissance artist, depicted this scene in his famous painting “The Birth of Venus,”<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="(" data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '(' may require a space before it. Consider adding a space." data-pwa-id="pwa-327AAC70289C02FA149FB87BCEFF9C18" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=" (">(</pwa>the Roman counterpart of Aphrodite). We can see the loss of sexuality, because of castration, leads to the birth of a god, in the same way as <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the loss of" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: losing" data-pwa-id="pwa-D22294DA95E6B17104601C27EA5A6CC4" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1312" data-pwa-suggestions="losing">the loss of</pwa> sexuality from chastity/virginity also results in a birth of a god. In both cases, the metaphors refer to the ancient’s belief sexual transmutation was vitally important to the spiritual experience.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="These examples are just a small part of world literature which dates back thousands of years. For more details about the "Virgin Birth" see the two articles, “The Hidden Meaning of the Virgin Birth” and “Sex and Enlightenment.”" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-A9DF0CAD8E35B3F4EF7F14E3FCBA8342" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">These examples are just a small part of world literature which dates back thousands of years. For more details about the "Virgin Birth" see the two articles, </pwa><a href="http://mythicspiral.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-hidden-meaning-of-virgin-birth.html"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="These examples are just a small part of world literature which dates back thousands of years. For more details about the "Virgin Birth" see the two articles, “The Hidden Meaning of the Virgin Birth” and “Sex and Enlightenment.”" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-A9DF0CAD8E35B3F4EF7F14E3FCBA8342" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">“The Hidden Meaning of the Virgin Birth” </pwa></a><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="These examples are just a small part of world literature which dates back thousands of years. For more details about the "Virgin Birth" see the two articles, “The Hidden Meaning of the Virgin Birth” and “Sex and Enlightenment.”" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-A9DF0CAD8E35B3F4EF7F14E3FCBA8342" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">and </pwa><a href="http://mythicspiral.blogspot.com/2014/03/sex-and-enlightenment.html"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="These examples are just a small part of world literature which dates back thousands of years. For more details about the "Virgin Birth" see the two articles, “The Hidden Meaning of the Virgin Birth” and “Sex and Enlightenment.”" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-A9DF0CAD8E35B3F4EF7F14E3FCBA8342" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">“Sex and Enlightenment.”</pwa></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />Describing the mystical experience with mundane language is next to impossible. The words "mystical" and "spiritual" are too subjective as very few people understand the words exactly the same way. In fact, historically only a few individuals, have entered samadhi, making it very hard to explain to the inexperienced. Misunderstanding the mystical experience and its relationship to Kundalini is probably the number one reason for religious wars and cultural tensions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />The same difficulty of expression pertains to many important emotions in life. How can "Love" or "Beauty" <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be defined" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-EF016138EE5317C3E686666EDE59C773" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be defined</pwa>? It is relatively easy to talk about the world of jobs, money, and sex. Language suffices to communicate the mundane, but when expressing our spiritual life, we resort to using enigmatic symbols like virgin births, and golden treasures and serpents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ancient myths and folklore developed organically from the depths of the mind <pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in order " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-884F7283A88E8C423E4C4DF840E71EB9" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_640" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)"></pwa>to express the ineffable spiritual experience. And </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">used allegory and parables as the best </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">method capable of communicating such abstract internal experiences. Humanity is slowly evolving mentally, which enables us to understand abstract energies as spiritual forces without resorting to supernatural explanations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />The world has reached a turning point; either religion <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="religion is interpreted" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-23A8676AC56BF4BB6FAB4E69E3D67102" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="we interpret religion~they interpret religion~I interpret religion~it interprets religion~it interpret religion~someone interprets religion~someone interpret religion~I interprets religion">is interpreted</pwa> with modern methods, by comparing the symbols and motifs <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in regards to" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: regarding" data-pwa-id="pwa-29896F096B5F535916E5BD7A0981AF33" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_727" data-pwa-suggestions="regarding">in regards to</pwa> the evolution of consciousness, or we fall back into a conservative attitude based on blind faith<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="." data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '.' may require a space after it. Consider adding the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-F25249FC90FD153043CC62258B2D376A" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=". ">.</pwa></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This subtle change to logical analysis has affected church attendance, which is dropping in the first world countries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: left;"> For example, Kundalini is more than a goddess, it has real biological effects, but it had to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be symbolized" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-C43B8ECF773ACC4712A52A61160AF613" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be symbolized</pwa> so that the mind would have a definite <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="image to" data-pwa-hint="Remove extra space" data-pwa-id="pwa-09CD0B4D0CC8F0BD0F97ACFE7EEDB217" data-pwa-rule-id="EXTRA_SPACE" data-pwa-suggestions="image to">image </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="image to" data-pwa-hint="Remove extra space" data-pwa-id="pwa-09CD0B4D0CC8F0BD0F97ACFE7EEDB217" data-pwa-rule-id="EXTRA_SPACE" data-pwa-suggestions="image to"> to</pwa> hold on to. The serpent /snake /dragon became the obvious choice to denote Kundalini because the snake renews itself each year by shedding its skin and because it moves in a sine-like pattern, just as kundalini does. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hopefully, we are moving away from the literal perception of religious texts, a</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s the human mind needs a rational basis for its beliefs. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For a modern view of the mystical experience, one without myth, the Indian pundit Gopi Krishna, wrote;</span></div>
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No words can express the grandeur and sublimity of the experience nor the happiness and serenity felt during the interval. In rare cases, the experience can become a perennial feature of human life. In India, it has been called the sahaja or jivan-mukta state."(1)" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-C070F675710539E6AAFE42A81BE43127" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""> from a smiling, brightly lit Garden of Paradise to the humdrum existence of a prosaic world. No words can express the grandeur and sublimity of the experience nor the happiness and serenity felt during the interval. In rare cases, the experience can become a perennial feature of human life. In India, </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="it has been called" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. 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No words can express the grandeur and sublimity of the experience nor the happiness and serenity felt during the interval. In rare cases, the experience can become a perennial feature of human life. In India, it has been called the sahaja or jivan-mukta state."(1)" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-C070F675710539E6AAFE42A81BE43127" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">it has been called</pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“During the course of mystical ecstasy a new, a more potent stream of Prana enters the brain, creating a revolution in consciousness. The flow of this new Pranic current is caused by a slight but clearly marked activity in the brain. It looks as if a hitherto silent area has leapt to a sudden activity, demanding a more potent psychic fuel to sustain it. 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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gopi Krishna's explanation is clear; he <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="doesn't use any" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: uses none" data-pwa-id="pwa-122B4BEA7A34690DEF0FA2EAF80EA183" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1661" data-pwa-suggestions="uses none">doesn't use any</pwa> symbolic expressions. He uses the concept of “Prana”; a subtle energy / intelligent life-force that pervades the entire universe and which is responsible for the evolution of the human mind. Technological breakthroughs <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in the future " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-4E584A4B23587EE9AD23E2D3D115CD78" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_295" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">in the future </pwa>will <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="demonstrate" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: show" data-pwa-id="pwa-FC517AB8E986D7C2C7884AC96378C9F4" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2033" data-pwa-suggestions="show">demonstrate</pwa> the existence of Prana, which will help to verify the concept of Kundalini, not in symbolic terms as a serpent, but an intelligent force that transforms the body, mind, and soul.<br /><br />During the first awakening of Kundalini, Pranic energy ascends up the spine and penetrates the center of the brain, then regenerates the pineal and pituitary glands. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 11.5333px;">When Kundalini reaches the crown chakra, one will experience mystical ecstasy.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;"> Pranic energy then condenses into a sweet tasting liquid that falls onto the tongue.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;"> The human body has to adjust to this process, which may involve years to decades to regenerate the brain and nervous system. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Coming back down to the real world, after finding oneself in overwhelming ecstasy, results in an intense desire to repeat the experience. This impulse to experience the mystical state is addictive as it satisfies our purpose in life to find love by merging the immortal self with divine consciousness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The desire to experience higher or mystical consciousness is a hidden theme in many of the world’s greatest legends and myths. In the English legend of Le Morte <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="D'Arthur" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: D'Arthur" data-pwa-id="pwa-13D9D4138C143F1BC07CCCB8016C52FA" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="death~teeth~Death~tooth~doth">D'Arthur</pwa>, King Arthur's "soul" purpose in life is to return to Camelot: the magical realm he entered as a young Knight, and found the holy grail, but cannot find the path back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Grail legend mirrors the search for the bliss of mystical consciousness. The Holy Grail, which held the blood of Christ symbolizes the Pranic energy that feeds the higher centers. It is a symbol similar to the Indian Vedic god “Soma” or “food of the Gods” which gave one a taste of immortality. King Arthur suffered during his quest for Camelot. He made sacrifices on the physical level and psychological levels. He loses his life force, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="which is reflected" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-98C1932DD101BEAF6EA04CB3C3B840E5" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it reflects which~they reflect which~I reflect which~it reflect which~us reflect which~I reflects which~us reflects which~something reflects which~someone reflects which~something reflect which~someone reflect which~they reflects which">which </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is reflected" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-1D5371E80D9F3BFEA8B3BFFE8DEA8BFE" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="which is reflected" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-98C1932DD101BEAF6EA04CB3C3B840E5" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it reflects which~they reflect which~I reflect which~it reflect which~us reflect which~I reflects which~us reflects which~something reflects which~someone reflects which~something reflect which~someone reflect which~they reflects which">is reflected</pwa></pwa> in the death of his kingdom. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Arthur is wounded" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-ED51F3FF54AA283964E1A8A76C1D43F7" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I wound Arthur~We wound Arthur~They wound Arthur~It wound Arthur~It wounds Arthur~I wounds Arthur~Someone wound Arthur">Arthur</pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Arthur is wounded" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-ED51F3FF54AA283964E1A8A76C1D43F7" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I wound Arthur~We wound Arthur~They wound Arthur~It wound Arthur~It wounds Arthur~I wounds Arthur~Someone wound Arthur"> </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is wounded" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-053081BC84EB3D2C2CCAD4374A979853" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Arthur is wounded" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-ED51F3FF54AA283964E1A8A76C1D43F7" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I wound Arthur~We wound Arthur~They wound Arthur~It wound Arthur~It wounds Arthur~I wounds Arthur~Someone wound Arthur">is wounded</pwa></pwa> in his thigh, an enigmatic symbol of sexual loss. Basically, King Arthur's journey is a spiritual quest for god, as his suffering ends when he returns to Camelot and experiences enlightenment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lord Krishna's life is an allegory on the journey toward self-realization or enlightenment. His story holds many esoteric secrets and is a universal template that many other mythic-religions followed.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: left; text-indent: 8.65pt;"> I am presenting only one small incident in Krishna’s' life, that of the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Gopis" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Gopis" data-pwa-id="pwa-3DE3D21E3AECE9CAAF41818F4F40F77E" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Góis~Opis~Göfis~Goris~Gapis">Gopis</pwa>, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: left; text-indent: 8.65pt;">Krishna’s girlfriends. I believe the Gopis are personifications of the intense desire to experience mystical ecstasy and the sublimation of sexual energy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The significant events in Krishna’s life are metaphors of the physical and psychological and spiritual transformations.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;"> His flute symbolizes the inner music heard when Prana flows upward </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="on a steady basis" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: steadily" data-pwa-id="pwa-08A34FA2879D7F5888A32576AE30B2BE" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_426" data-pwa-suggestions="steadily" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;">on a steady basis</pwa><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;">. Some mystics describe the sound as similar to humming bees or a distant waterfall. Krishna's blue or black skin color </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">shows<span style="text-indent: 8.65pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;">he embodies the feminine qualities of the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">goddess</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;"> Shakti and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">can<span style="text-indent: 8.65pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;">give his followers </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Shaktipat" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Shaktipat" data-pwa-id="pwa-27DBFB67B0B1238CA75EEB2A4C7522D6" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Shotput" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;">Shaktipat</pwa><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;">. (Black and Blue denote, Earth and water, both are feminine colors)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They worship Lord Krishna as God and as he personifies the highest consciousness one can achieve. He <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is closely associated" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-9D77F5F90C2F696C41B49F29569D008D" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is closely associated</pwa> with the serpent power throughout Hindu scripture. In the Bhagavata Gita-Chapter 10, Krishna says;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /><i><span style="color: red;">“I am the eternal serpent; the joined ends which are a symbol of the beginningless and endless ring of eternity. Among the creatures of the deep, I am the God of the ocean. I am <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="judge" data-pwa-hint="Consider using a past participle here: 'judged'." data-pwa-id="pwa-AC227D948BD2B8E9CEF1A9C1B407484F" data-pwa-rule-id="BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT" data-pwa-suggestions="judged">judge</pwa> of the Day of Judgment, I am <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="spirit" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing determiner" data-pwa-id="pwa-2BB5BC258431F6FA5CAA3490C7554B04" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_CG_2" data-pwa-suggestions="a spirit~the spirit">spirit</pwa>.”</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> </b> <b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> Krishna Steals the Garments of the Unmarried <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Gopis" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Gopis" data-pwa-id="pwa-7C0074D331C09920C523605E70C59936" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Góis~Opis~Göfis~Goris~Gapis">Gopis</pwa></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />The Gopis are a group of cow herding girls, famous in Vaishnava Theology, for their unconditional devotion (Bhakti) to Krishna. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="They are described" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-42831B44CDE215CDAEAE339DF061F070" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I describe them~It describes them~I describes them~It describe them~Someone describes them~Us describes them">They are described</pwa> in the stories of Bhagavata Purana and other Puranic literature. The Gopis worship Druga-Shakti, who <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is associated" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-FBE3A40800F966B790ACD8A809D0BB8D" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is associated</pwa> with Lord Krishna, which <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="indicates" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: shows" data-pwa-id="pwa-AD0CC727EFEB59303CEFEF3FCF4075DD" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2061" data-pwa-suggestions="shows">indicates</pwa> their love is more a wish to become enlightened than anything else.<br />
<br />The young Gopis represent the psychological drive to experience higher consciousness. They follow and worship Krishna wherever he travels with swoons of ecstasy in his presence. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Praying to the goddess Durga, to become one of his wives, they are saddened" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-7CB01E40A39DA9704649593FB3C389F0" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="It saddens praying to the goddess Durga,~I sadden praying to the goddess Durga,~They sadden praying to the goddess Durga,">Praying to the goddess Durga, to become one of his wives, they are saddened</pwa> when Krishna leaves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are parts of the human body which the ancients personified. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="In this case" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: Here" data-pwa-id="pwa-85D771293718EB8B8D15EA329C16F10A" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_633" data-pwa-suggestions="Here">In this case</pwa>, the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Gopis" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Gopis" data-pwa-id="pwa-08FF4C2AB20B184D7B73693082198480" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Góis~Opis~Göfis~Goris~Gapis">Gopis</pwa> symbolize the whole nervous system that experiences the extreme pleasure of mystical ecstasy whenever Pranic energy moves through the Nadis. The nervous system and the cells feel the same ecstatic just as the mind does. This interpretation becomes <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="evident" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: clear" data-pwa-id="pwa-3C7D749308B3B251A9C08B9CF6A0F6D1" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2963" data-pwa-suggestions="clear">evident</pwa> in the episode of Krishna stealing their clothes.</span></div>
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<b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;">The desire for the mystical experience explains why the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Gopis" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Gopis" data-pwa-id="pwa-1372D783F8792DF12806B14063507067" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Góis~Opis~Göfis~Goris~Gapis">Gopis</pwa> adore Lord Krishna.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The story of the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Gopis" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Gopis" data-pwa-id="pwa-D63615D85CA862C3DFD62BE7AC5272AF" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Góis~Opis~Göfis~Goris~Gapis">Gopis</pwa>, from the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Srimad" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Srimad" data-pwa-id="pwa-186A05913BFF73B1617C8CECE9D50A41" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Srima~Sriman~Shrimad~Sri mad">Srimad</pwa> <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Bhagavatam" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Bhagavatam" data-pwa-id="pwa-6076098C0E5ABAE7BAB4AB83364F62DA" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Bhagavata~Bhagavatar~Bhagavantam">Bhagavatam</pwa>, Canto 10-Chapter 22; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>"Come <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="here" data-pwa-hint="Missing comma after introductory phrase" data-pwa-id="pwa-D8E5DBB64F77935A539D8848634C09EC" data-pwa-rule-id="INTRO_5C88A7422CF986BF91D90DE71B894F9D" data-pwa-suggestions="here,">here</pwa> oh girls if you <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="like," data-pwa-hint="It appears that you have an unnecessary comma in a compound predicate. Consider removing it." data-pwa-id="pwa-17A5DAE834C60B932C475E1AE1E30B3F" data-pwa-rule-id="UN_COMMA" data-pwa-suggestions="like">like,</pwa> and take each your own garment. I am serious; it is not a joke since <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="you must be tired" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-44B0E290AA3BB37D3B6DB3D0C691915C" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I must tire you~it must tire you~they must tire you">you must be tired</pwa> because of the vow. All these boys know that I have never stated something untrue. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Therefore" data-pwa-hint="Consider adding a comma after 'Therefore'" data-pwa-id="pwa-6C0FB7CBE03CCAF096ED17557E6E9405" data-pwa-rule-id="THEREFORE_COMMA_AT" data-pwa-suggestions="Therefore,">Therefore</pwa> oh slender girls, come [out of the water] one by one or all together to cover you."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With that prank, he saw how the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Gopis" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Gopis" data-pwa-id="pwa-784F468D7234CF93857C5BBA2FBDFB94" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Góis~Opis~Göfis~Goris~Gapis">Gopis</pwa>, steeped in love for Him, looked at each other and had to laugh, but being embarrassed, they did not come out of the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>"We beg you, behave like the beloved son of the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="gopa" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: gopa" data-pwa-id="pwa-C71F9A2A7BD24ACE99EF0D3C9037943E" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="goa~gopak">gopa</pwa>, Nanda we know, as the one renown throughout <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Vraja" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Vraja" data-pwa-id="pwa-0C476F8FFB0254EBF17CB7C8602AE12C" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Varja~Vrana~Raja~Vaja~Vrata">Vraja</pwa> oh dearest one. Please give us our garments, we are cold! We, Your maidservants will do whatever you say, please give us our clothes back <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="oh" data-pwa-hint="Possible confused word" data-pwa-id="pwa-FE32E812A0564D3E601C7472319DA025" data-pwa-rule-id="CRFSR_OH_25" data-pwa-suggestions="on">oh</pwa> Knower of the Dharma, or else we will tell the king about it!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The Supreme Lord said: <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""" data-pwa-hint="Make sure that all of the quotations and brackets in this paragraph are closed." data-pwa-id="pwa-C3555911F097AA919D23AEB8567BA09C" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">"</pwa>If you are my servants, must you then not do what I told you and with your innocent smiles come out of the water to pick out your garments? I will not give them if you do not do so, and with the king being angry, what can he do about it?' Thereupon all the girls, pained by the cold, came shivering out of the water, covering their pubic area with their hands. The Supreme Lord seeing them defeated put satisfied about the purity of their love their garments over his shoulder and said with a loving smile:</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>"Because during the observance of a vow, you were bathing naked in the water, you have offended Varuna (god of water) and the other gods. To atone for that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="sin" data-pwa-hint="Missing comma after infinitive phrase" data-pwa-id="pwa-E48DC50826CF4D84D9137037950E9111" data-pwa-rule-id="PART_PHRASE" data-pwa-suggestions="sin,">sin</pwa> you must pay your obeisance with your palms joined <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="together " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-3EC8C44139590180D789FFD61D6C5E45" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2566" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">together </pwa>over your heads and then take your garments back."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With this being pointed out by Lord Krishna, the girls considered their skinny-dipping a fall from their vow. Intent on successfully completing that vow, they, therefore, offered their obeisance’s to the "Purifier of <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="All Sins" data-pwa-hint="Incorrect named entity spelling: All Sins" data-pwa-id="pwa-144ECA49C3C07DF84CBCBBCCB655D225" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="All Sons">All Sins</pwa>." The Supreme Lord Krishna satisfied to see them bowing down, thereupon mercifully gave them back the garments.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The desire of those <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="whose consciousness is fully absorbed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-69E32A9A69F1204A8886C1F336B5C365" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="they fully absorb whose consciousness~it fully absorbs whose consciousness">whose consciousness is fully absorbed</pwa> in me does not lead to material lust, just as roasted and cooked grains<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word=", as a rule," data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-890BED3E4D422725FDA676A95F71B79F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_229" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">, as a rule,</pwa> <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are not capable of causing" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: cannot cause" data-pwa-id="pwa-519EE9D25A2920AC88EAA2D06C973076" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_3078" data-pwa-suggestions="cannot cause">are not capable of causing</pwa> new growth."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“Dear girls, go now to Vraja. Having achieved the supreme state of fulfillment, you one of these nights will enjoy with me together. That was what you had in mind with the vow to be pure in your worship of the Goddess."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-952D2C2C1C56C2E5FE265493A51E7CB3" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">“Dear girls, go now to Vraja. Having achieved the supreme state of fulfillment, </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“Dear girls, go now to Vraja. Having achieved the supreme state of fulfillment, you one of these nights will enjoy with me together. That was what you had in mind with the vow to be pure in your worship of the Goddess."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-952D2C2C1C56C2E5FE265493A51E7CB3" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">you</pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“Dear girls, go now to Vraja. Having achieved the supreme state of fulfillment, you one of these nights will enjoy with me together. That was what you had in mind with the vow to be pure in your worship of the Goddess."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-952D2C2C1C56C2E5FE265493A51E7CB3" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""> one of these nights will enjoy with me together. That was what you had in mind with the vow to be pure in your worship of the Goddess."</pwa></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thus being instructed by the Supreme Lord, the young girls, with their desire fulfilled meditating upon His lotus feet, could only with great difficulty [bring themselves to] return to the cowherd village.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Interpretation</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ancient myths and legends have <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="more than" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: over" data-pwa-id="pwa-BD2FDE56F6B578C68B09C7127C140D35" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1067" data-pwa-suggestions="over">more than</pwa> one level of meaning. It is normal to perceive the characters in a story as independent individuals but <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="to truly understand" data-pwa-hint="Split infinitive. Some people strongly object to this type of construction, especially in formal writing. If your reader is likely to object to the split infinitive, rewrite the sentence to avoid its use." data-pwa-id="pwa-23B6AC97AE85B5DC6A58FCBB4E4F3073" data-pwa-rule-id="SPLT_INFI" data-pwa-suggestions="">to truly understand</pwa> the narratives; we should see the surrounding characters as projections of the protagonists' mind. This technique enables the physical and psychological aspects of the protagonist to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be turned" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-30D5B6BAE6B2F866FB961D5F053C04F4" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be turned</pwa> into supporting characters that interact and help develop the theme of the plot. Thus many transformative processes within the body <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are made" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-A1B307FB4BE8279D5AB4F47B0142DCBD" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are made</pwa> <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="into to" data-pwa-hint="You may have written this incorrectly" data-pwa-id="pwa-CE9EECB128308A80FA6619B151C1908E" data-pwa-rule-id="HYPHEN_FOREIGN" data-pwa-suggestions="in toto">into to</pwa> exterior objects or persons, such as the Gopis, water (Prana), and the (tree).<br />
<br />On the physical dimension, the Gopis symbolize the prana flowing through the nervous system, which enjoys the same bliss as the mind does during ecstasy. In my other articles, I show how physical objects <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are used" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-2287517D992BC3C3896B5E9A108AB2C8" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are used</pwa> to express the transformation- the tree symbolizes the human spine and brain. Water<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word=", on the other hand," data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-A36DEEB030BD8E56DC9EF7BEB39ACA96" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_377" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">, on the other hand,</pwa> refers to the movement of Prana and its cleansing effect.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Gopis have an intense desire to experience god, in this case, Lord Krishna. Since the sexual energy provides much of the refined Prana needed for higher consciousness, it’s crucial to be chaste for a certain amount of time which helps in recirculating Pranic energies. Thus the Gopis made a vow to be pure for the Goddess Durga-Shakti. For a month they chant and pray, hoping to become the bride of Krishna. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="In essence, they" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: They" data-pwa-id="pwa-3A43D6E5D44F6AD1B143FA53171137F3" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_254" data-pwa-suggestions="They">In essence, they</pwa> are sublimating their sexual energy, by turning it into love for God.<br />
<br />Krishna tempts the Gopis sexually to test their vow of chastity and find if they are pure enough to marry him. This alludes to the “sacred marriage” motif, the conjunction of Shiva and Shakti, male and female, or the individual consciousness and the universal. It is <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="an incredibly" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: a" data-pwa-id="pwa-ADFFFAD0AB315A27CF661902E3E6E47A" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2264" data-pwa-suggestions="a">an incredibly</pwa> blissful merging of two aspects (male and female) of the psyche which only occurs after many lifetimes of conscious effort. The final step is self-realization. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;">This concept explains why the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Gopis" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Gopis" data-pwa-id="pwa-29E4F461A5547E99CE5C19F9EEC8BE6A" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Góis~Opis~Göfis~Goris~Gapis">Gopis</pwa> pray to become the wife of Krishna. It is not a literal marriage, but a symbolic one based on the internal conjunction of the Ida (female) and Pingala (male). <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The ‘sacred marriage’ is found" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-861A8E058D606F73B4697CA7AA2A1BDF" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I find the ‘sacred marriage’~We find the ‘sacred marriage’~They find the ‘sacred marriage’~It finds the ‘sacred marriage’~I finds the ‘sacred marriage’~It find the ‘sacred marriage’~Someone finds the ‘sacred marriage’~Someone find the ‘sacred marriage’~We finds the ‘sacred marriage’~They finds the ‘sacred marriage’">The ‘</pwa></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The ‘sacred marriage’ is found" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-861A8E058D606F73B4697CA7AA2A1BDF" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I find the ‘sacred marriage’~We find the ‘sacred marriage’~They find the ‘sacred marriage’~It finds the ‘sacred marriage’~I finds the ‘sacred marriage’~It find the ‘sacred marriage’~Someone finds the ‘sacred marriage’~Someone find the ‘sacred marriage’~We finds the ‘sacred marriage’~They finds the ‘sacred marriage’">sacred marriage</pwa></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 8.65pt;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The ‘sacred marriage’ is found" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-861A8E058D606F73B4697CA7AA2A1BDF" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I find the ‘sacred marriage’~We find the ‘sacred marriage’~They find the ‘sacred marriage’~It finds the ‘sacred marriage’~I finds the ‘sacred marriage’~It find the ‘sacred marriage’~Someone finds the ‘sacred marriage’~Someone find the ‘sacred marriage’~We finds the ‘sacred marriage’~They finds the ‘sacred marriage’">’ is found</pwa> in fairy tales at the end of the story and in many of the ancient spiritual myths such as Psyche and Cupid, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Close to 11 percent of all electricity worldwide is produced by nuclear power plants. Japan has (43)plants and France (58), close to 23 percent in the world total of 437 civil nuclear power plants. The United States currently has 99 in operation with 5 in the planning stage. China is planning 40 new plants, Russia, 25 and India, 24.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nuclear technology produces extremely dangerous radiation which can sterilize, or kill, for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Nuclear critics have been pointing this out emphasizing the dangers of radioactivity far out way any clean benefits. The fact is there was never a need for Nuclear Power as an energy source if the same tax money that subsidized nuclear was directed toward alternative technologies, such as solar, it could have expanded solar energies use to far beyond the 11.5 percent that nuclear now provides. Another moral point is our sons and daughters will have to clean up for their parents,(nuclear waste) when it is usually the other way around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“On July 22, 2013, more than two years after the incident, it was revealed that Fukushima was leaking radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, something long suspected by local fishermen and independent investigators. TEPCO had previously denied that this was happening and the current situation has prompted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to order the government to step in. On August 20, in a further incident, it was announced that 300 tonnes (300 long tons; 330 short tons) of heavily contaminated water had leaked from a storage tank. One of the great problems at Fukushima is radioactive water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The basic problem with Fukushima is the government officials and Tepco, the owner of Fukushima, who are unable to comprehend the epic proportion of the clean-up. Can one really expect a solution from the same corporations and scientists who put profits before the life of the planet and their own country? There are those who say it may take hundreds or thousands of years to clean up the Japanese coast and the Pacific Ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are other advanced technologies able to reduce radioactivity. Here is a list <a href="http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/NuclearRemediation/Vesperman/">"</a><a href="http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/NuclearRemediation/Vesperman/">27 different Methods of Reducing or Disposing of Radioactive Waste".</a> The most important is Oxyhydrogen, a mixture of hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) gases. This gaseous mixture is used for torches to process refractory materials and was the first gaseous mixture used for welding. Theoretically, a ratio of 2:1 hydrogen: oxygen is enough to achieve maximum efficiency. Nowadays, gas is commonly known as HHO or Brown's gas. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Professor Yul Brown invented and patented the process of water electrolysis which produced a gas mixture of monoatomic oxygen and hydrogen. The gas has a very peculiar property that allows it to implode instead of exploding, the implosive flame burns at a cool 130 degrees yet is able to sublimate tungsten at (6,000) degrees. This gas can be used to heat a proprietary mixture of metals and/or metal oxides including the rad-waste to be neutralized. A highly exothermic radiant reaction appears to result in the immediate reduction of radioactivity approaching 95% of the original levels judging from preliminary tests, within seconds of treatment. Though some call this fringe science, no corporation has developed a simple solution to nuclear waste, that can be verified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since 1991, HHO technology has been successfully demonstrated on a small scale, at least 50 times to US, Chinese, Japanese and United Kingdom officials on a variety of nuclear waste products including americium, cobalt, uranium, and plutonium. The technique can be applied for the immediate decontamination of stockpiles of nuclear waste materials being held near nuclear power plants. The process is very simple, safe, and inexpensive to develop. Further advances into the robotic application for on-site treatment will offer no foreseen environmental effects and save countless humans from contamination. so here they are talking about neutralizing solid nuclear materials. it has been said directing a browns' gas torch at Cobalt-60 radiation was reduced 70%, when directed at Americium radiation was reduced by 96%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of the great problems at Fukushima is disposing of the radioactive water used to cool the enriched plutonium. Thousands of gallons sit in tanks surrounding the site. Nobody at Tepco seems to know what do with the contaminated water; much of it ends up in the Pacific Ocean either through leakage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The simplest technology that could be used to destroy the contaminated water is by electrolysis. That is by running a D.C. electrical current through stainless steel plates immersed in the water splits water creating HHO. When the gas burns, it implodes giving it unique properties that reduce pollution and radioactivity. In any case, the fact is, water can be burned and doesn’t need to be dumped into the Pacific Ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So there would be two results of this electrolysis technique, one-the radioactive water is destroyed and two, the resultant gas can be used to neutralize the radioactive rods. It would only be a matter of engineering. One possibility is to put in an underground pipeline and siphon off the rad-water into a tank that was engineered, with stainless steel plates, for rad-water conversion into HHO. It could take place underground or maybe miles away from Fukushima. In either case, the HHO could be piped back to the site where robots would be used to aim the HHO torch at the nuclear rods. ( once they were lifted out of the site.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 'Serpent' is the most universal of all symbols in world mythology. It refers to the spiral or movement of Ether or Pranic energy which creates physical forms in the world. The ancient Sages personified the mechanism as the 'Serpent Power' or 'Kundalini', as it is responsible for the transformation of consciousness in the human domain. In the celestial domain, the creation of the planets was symbolized by the mundane egg, drawn with a serpent entwined around it, thus inferring the earth was created by a similar spiral movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Austrian Forester Viktor Schauberger (@1940) was the first modern researcher to understand the life-giving properties of the vortex, particularly in energizing water. The vortex is also a spiral that moves inward. His research concluded that there are two major paths the five elements follow, the vortex and straight line. The vortex path forms matter and life, while the straight line destroys it. Explosions are outward bound, in a straight line causing heat and friction. The vortex is inward bound, frictionless and cool, building up physical forms. This idea can be seen in the time-lapse photography of a green plant that bursts out of the ground and spirals upward defying gravity. Too much heat or sun, (rays in a straight path), can destroy the same plant, just as too much sun can burn the skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subatomic particles are known to move in a straight line and shoot right through people like x-rays. Everything about nuclear power is unnatural. One can never find highly refined uranium in nature, if this had occurred, after millions of years of evolution, there would have been countless accidental radioactive disasters. Uranium, radium and other precious materials found in the earth ores contain only small amounts of diluted radioactivity. No doubt, hidden behind all the arguments for nuclear energy is the need to refine uranium and use it for nuclear missiles. It is only man's hubris and arrogance that has caused the present crisis. Instead of working with nature they seek to dominate it, without any regard toward the children of the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The secret science behind Agnihotra and HHO is the spiral movement of the subtle aethers. Agnihotra is performed in an upside down copper pyramid, a geometric shape that causes a vortex to form in the fires that are performed. The fire creates a standing wave, a sound vibration which sucks in the air and subtle ether destroying pollution and radioactivity in the surrounding area. The word 'pyramid' actually means fire. (Pyra) in the middle (mid).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Besides all the theory, Brown's gas and HHO are a mix of gases that do not explode but implode toward the center. The gas implosion leaves very little residue and has many strange properties, the most important being the reduction of radioactivity. HHO technology has not been researched thoroughly, but in any case, there is no time to waste in testing the technology for use at Fukushima.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">The ancient Vedas contain many critical spiritual concepts, such as "consciousness" and the "immortality of the soul." Over the centuries religious scholars have <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="been fascinated" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-357F75E7CEE515DEEAF0A293D3A3C3D1" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">been fascinated</pwa> by the Vedic hymns, but <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="for the most part" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: mostly" data-pwa-id="pwa-E249BC4B488723A2B341C09D534DC866" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_200" data-pwa-suggestions="mostly">for the most part</pwa>, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="were unable to" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: could not" data-pwa-id="pwa-0D0F2DF2D912E1704EC1E577639B673F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1894" data-pwa-suggestions="could not">were unable to</pwa> understand their esoteric meaning, never having experienced a similar state of consciousness. Words were inadequate to express the sublime nature of the mystical state, so the Indian Rishis' used symbolism and allegory to cloth the ideas in a material form. The iconography used in the Vedas <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is no different than" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: does not differ from" data-pwa-id="pwa-24281BDE11147DEEA3C18ACA17117EB0" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1053" data-pwa-suggestions="does not differ from">is no different than</pwa> any other religious field of study that uses a unique metaphoric language to create a theoretical model. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">The "Vedic Gods" are personifications of the energetic processes in nature and the human body. For example, “religious scholars believe Soma is a hallucinogenic drug, created by crushing herbs. But esoterically <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“" data-pwa-hint="You have two opening quotation marks in a row before a closing one. If this is because you’re using nested quotation marks, the inner pair should be singles." data-pwa-id="pwa-9AA6AB3952D261052F5FEB783926C7E6" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">“</pwa>Soma” is a specific creation of the kundalini process. “Soma” refined prana from the sublimated sexual energy that fuels a mystical experience. Which also feeds the brains physical regeneration. They call soma the "food of the Gods." The symbolic Serpent (Vitra), along with Soma, Indra, and Varuna are all linked as elements of the transformation of consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">There are 33 Vedic gods, (33 vertebrae in the vertebral column). The list below gives an esoteric meaning for the most important gods. Decoding the meaning of mythic symbolism is the best way to clarify true meaning the worlds’ religions and sacred texts. Hopefully, by understanding these definitions, one can interpret the Vedas from the standpoint of a biological and psychological process that underpins the evolution of consciousness</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Surya -</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> The Vedic sun god, "the Supreme Light,<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="”" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing double quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-184991580260326FF0B07943E7A6D4C3" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">”</pwa> and the chief solar deity in Hinduism. Surya represents the light of God in the external world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> The Ancients believed that non-human entities, such as animals, plants, and inanimate objects-possessed a spiritual essence. A worldview called "animism," which was so fundamental, mundane and taken-for-granted, most indigenous people do not have a word in their languages that corresponds to "animism" or even 'religion.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> It follows from this line of thinking</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">; there</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> must exist a </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">life-force or</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> spirit in all matter. Agni is this life-force. It is an organizing power, heat, light, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">and</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> consciousness within matter. The verse states Agni; 'brought to life from out the waters, from the stone.' Agni is the golden fire, the consciousness <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="residing" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: living" data-pwa-id="pwa-58E32CF1A9629BD4C6E2098516C9B5CD" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2084" data-pwa-suggestions="living">residing</pwa> in all </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">matter.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> Everything that existed, according to alchemical science, is a mixture of the four elements. The classical elements, which some science writers compare to the modern states of matter, compare earth to the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">solids</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">, water to liquid to air to gas and fire to plasma. The Greek philosophers had argued about which element was the primal substance of the universe</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">; some</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> thought water or air. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">In Vedic <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="philosphy" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: philosphy" data-pwa-id="pwa-9B9DBA002CB9762D2A79BB2419706F5B" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="philosophy">philosphy</pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" ," data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark ',' may not require a space before it. Consider removing the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-F583AD2D9071DF600A2BC41D49440163" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=","> </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" ," data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark ',' may not require a space before it. Consider removing the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-F583AD2D9071DF600A2BC41D49440163" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=",">,</pwa> the dominant element is Agni.<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="(" data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '(' may require a space before it. Consider adding a space." data-pwa-id="pwa-597E0C62BF0234BEF74C5B6539901A3D" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=" (">(</pwa>Fire)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"></span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">In nature, the spiral or vortex movement of the five</span> elements<span style="text-indent: 0in;"> enables the creation of a higher element. Agni/fire spirals create water; water spins to create the earth, then trees and plants by photosynthesis create air. The myths portrayed this helical path with the symbol of the serpent. This same sequence of transmuting elements is the basis of creation myths of Egypt and India, Greece, China, and other ancient civilizations. Creation myths depict the 'mundane egg,' that is an egg with a serpent twisted around it, symbolizing of the spiral nature of creation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> "Thou art Director, thou the ministering Priest: thou art the Brahman, Lord, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">and</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> Master in our home."</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> In verse twelve of the Rigveda; Agni is “cherished well, art highest vital power,” this phrase points to the transformative heat that cleanses the nerves and blood, an idea also emphasized in verse two, “cleanser duly timed” resulting in a “kinder” and “pious man.” Agni is the “director, priest, Brahman,” alluding to Agni's power of spiritual regeneration. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">Many of the Vedic concepts are hard to comprehend because of the west doesn’t accept the existence of subtle energies, (such as Prana, Chi, Od, Orgone, Ki). But Prana can </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be felt" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-96F57BA0170F93494DBB60099B243E28" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">be felt</pwa><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> and seen within the body after a Kundalini awakening. One can feel heat and warmth at the base of the spine.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Kundalini cleanses and purifies the body to make it the proper vehicle for higher consciousness. Every step upward in consciousness, results in a step down into the physical realm, as the body adjusts to the higher vibrations; then toxins </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are released" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-3145A460C41B19BA07BBE8C7A125EC4E" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="" style="text-indent: 0in;">are released</pwa><span style="text-indent: 0in;">, and </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the nerves and glands are regenerated" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-C9FF5C92B92B035CB375EC4F01D871CF" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it regenerates the nerves and glands~they regenerate the nerves and glands~we regenerate the nerves and glands~it regenerate the nerves and glands~I regenerate the nerves and glands" style="text-indent: 0in;">the nerves and glands are regenerated</pwa><span style="text-indent: 0in;">. </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">This process of the ascent of consciousness then decent is the primary principal of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga. He writes, in The Secret of Yoga, (24:1606-08), “On each height we conquer we have to turn to bring down its power and its illumination into the lower mortal movement.”</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Sri Aurobindo has many profound insights into the transformative process, collected by the author Satprem in the book, Sri Aurobindo, Adventures in Consciousness. According to Aurobindo, humans are in a state of transition; we are an unfinished yet-evolving towards immortality. The transformation takes countless lives; it is a long process of becoming more consciousness by quieting the mind, emotions and vital desires. Eventually, when Kundalini awakens, and the </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="initiate" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: start" data-pwa-id="pwa-5CCB4055DC75FF03E49873C6672E320B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2063" data-pwa-suggestions="start" style="text-indent: 0in;">initiate</pwa><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> realizes their "psychic being" or immortal soul, described in mythic -religion as being reborn or born again.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Physical nature cannot change without a conscious force powerful enough to penetrate the deepest layers of matter. To achieve this physical transformation the highest level of consciousness, called the “superconscient” by Aurobindo, must <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be reached" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-C28A383BD9D738C8B92B086598C6C2A0" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be reached</pwa>. It exists above the head, in an invisible plane, “Above was </span>an ardent<span style="text-indent: 0in;"> white tranquility” Savita 28:239.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">One passes through nirvana and merges with the Godhead and enters what Aurobindo calls the 'superconscient.' Similarly, Christ said, 'I and my father are one' and the sages of India said-</span>'<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="so'ham" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: so'ham" data-pwa-id="pwa-AA66F678746DBE5A09F3954F56E63916" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="scheme~shame~schema~asthma~sham">so</pwa><span style="text-indent: 0in;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="so'ham" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: so'ham" data-pwa-id="pwa-AA66F678746DBE5A09F3954F56E63916" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="scheme~shame~schema~asthma~sham">'ham</pwa>,' 'I am He.' The enlightened sages of the East and West found this ultimate truth by reaching the level of the superconscient pg. 168<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=")" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing parenthesis or bracket without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-1016AD7F1812C0748B8BE3A58DB2309A" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">)</pwa></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">The superconscient level has the power to spiritualize matter and is the central theme of in worlds myths, legends, and religions. In the Arthurian Romances, Arthur </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="obtained" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: got" data-pwa-id="pwa-7D9B6F3DB23745234B14A7367F90451F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2073" data-pwa-suggestions="got" style="text-indent: 0in;">obtained</pwa><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> to the throne by pulling a sword from a stone, (physical matter). The sword is a symbol of the power of Agni in </span>matter<span style="text-indent: 0in;">, </span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">(representing the human spine) as Arthur uses this sword to conquer all his enemies. The image of the sword in the stone refers to bringing down to the earth plane the highest power of consciousness through the spine. </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">The Rigveda waxes poetically about the stone, in an </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="effort" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing word" data-pwa-id="pwa-46BA6EDEBC3FD18203D7964BC0B889E1" data-pwa-rule-id="MISSING_WORD_4" data-pwa-suggestions="effort to">effort</pwa><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> express the unity of creation;</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">"He is the child of waters, the child of the forests, the child of things stable and the child of things that move. Even in the stone, he is there." (Rigveda,1.70.2) </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504390761260327870.post-1945694573028261452015-08-27T13:31:00.001-04:002019-03-08T01:21:45.025-05:00The Secrets of the Vedas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The Vedas are considered the oldest intact religious texts of India.The verbal form of the Vedas is called śruti, ("what is heard") (1), which was spoken as early as 2,500.B.C, though many Hindu scholars accept the much earlier date of (5,000 to 17,000 B.C.). It is generally accepted by Western scholars Vedic texts were transposed into Sanskrit between 1,100 B.C. and 1,700 B.C. (2). </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For thousands of years, Vedic hymns were spoken with an emphasis on the sound of the words-(mantra), which was of paramount importance to the transformative power of the hymns. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are four Vedas: the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda and the Atharvaveda (5) According to the Hinduism the Vedas were based upon revealed knowledge attained in higher planes of consciousness, or (apauruṣeya): which means "not of a man, superhuman" (3) or "impersonal and authorless"(4).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When the Vedas were first translated into English from Sanskrit, scholars thought the Vedic Gods were aspects of nature, as the Sun,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> became the god Surya or as well fire was worshipped as the God Agni.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Later, a "Storm Theory" by Indian </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">author </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Nairuktas,</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: left;"> proposed the God "Indra" to be a personification of the weather and lightning, a theory “accepted by almost all Western scholars without reserve.’’ </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(6). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The problem with such interpretations is a disregard of the original spiritual intent of the Vedas, as mystical chants, hymns and ceremonial sacrifices with an esoteric spiritual intent. Most of the early nineteenth century interpretations are completely literal</span>,<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> and based upon an obvious materialistic philosophy. The spiritual and esoteric meaning has been lost; due to the fact, very few initiates have ever reached the spiritual heights of the original authors-the ancient Sages and Rishis. The eastern religions have also lost the Vedic symbolic thread while the west, in general, doesn't even know there even exists such a possibility as spiritual Enlightenment.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three categories of Vedic texts</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Vedas are multi-leveled and complex texts with many overlapping motifs, and numerous esoteric meanings. M</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ythological themes can be placed in</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> three categories. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first takes place in the heavenly or the Celestial realm. C</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">onsisting of all creation myths, such as how the elements combined together out of chaos to become physical reality. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Natural forces such as the Sun-Surya or Indra -weather and lightning- were deified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The second category is based on the evoultion and transformation of the mind, called self-realization or enlightenment, is comprised of Vedic texts that are directly linked to the symbol of the serpent Kundalini, Soma and Surya, light. The personal aspect of the soul's evolution, its growth and final salvation is explored on this level. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The third category contains the Vedic hymns predicated upon the earth's seasonal regeneration. The serpent in this category alludes to the life force of the Earth which returns after winter, mirroring the Sun's life giving powers. Moreover the Sun is metaphorically-reborn after its death during winter, just as the Gods are born on the winter solstice, close to Dec. 25. Therefore the serpent and sun represents the renewal of life in all three categories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The second category, the personal transformation of consciousness, has been understood by only a few individuals who have experienced enlightenment and were able to uncover the enigmatic meaning of the Vedas. Sri Aurobindo understood their symbolic structure in terms of consciousness interacting with matter. He refers to the God Agni as a form consciousness which underlies all matter. The ancient Rishis discovered intense concentration increases bodily heat, which in essence involves the serpent fire or Kundalini. Agni-fire alludes to the power of consciousness within all existence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The "Awakening of Kundalini" has certainly been explored in India, more so than any other civilization except possibly Egypt, (whose esoteric history is lost). The practice of yoga is largely built on the transformative possibilities of the human body, which explains a great portion of the exercises that are physically oriented, such as Asanas, pranayama and diet. When Kundalini moves from its dormant state into activity, a sequence of biological effects unfolds. There is increased metabolic activity, as Pranic energy becomes warm enough to be noticeable. The initiate has a feeling of energy flowing through the back of the neck, with an accompanying sound, something like humming bees. In the final stage an internal light shines within the mind giving one a sense of immortality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This transformative process underlies a great portion of humanities religious scriptures, mythology, legends and fairy tales, including the Vedas. The serpent, dragon and snake are symbolic images of both the good and bad effects of Kundalini. The awakening process entails sublimation of all the lower energies into the higher centers. In a healthy individual the transformation can lead to a sense of bliss and peace, genius and artistic talent. A love of humanity is one of the most important rewards of a successful transformation. One will also develop psychological depth, literary and artistic talents. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the second personal category, the evil serpent is the personification of the refusal to become conscious, by seeking the destruction of oneself and others. It is the serpent's shadow within the human psyche; the evil of rebellion against nature and God. Egotism, hatred, depression, addictions, and laziness must be purified by the fire (Agni), before reaching a state of higher consciousness and opening the crown chakra. The process of dropping evil traits and purifying the nervous system is depicted in world Mythology as "conquering the serpent."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The serpent's poison, mentioned in mythology, refers to the cleansing power of Kundalini, which removes the poisons from the blood. In many myths, it appears as if the serpent is the cause of problems. For example, Krishna jumped on the head of the serpent Kaliya, who had poisoned the river Yamuna, which was said to be burning. Poisons are moved of the cells into the bloodstream to be purified by the liver, skin, digestive system, hair. This episode is a metaphor that indicates the cleansing of nerve-toxins in the body (who is personified by Krishna), the good aspects of Kundalini. The bad or evil poisonous aspect is symbolized by the evil serpent, Kaliya.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When Kundalini is awakened, Prana becomes much more active and ascends upward. Thus the 'water flowing' through the channels denotes how Pranic energy flows throughout the body but especially up the spine. The phrase “Like lowing kine” is an indication of the flow through the nadis. The word 'Kine' is an ancient word for the plural of cow. The 'cow' symbol is representative of the feminine energy but also alludes to the 'milk' of the cow, which is really sublimated prana </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and associated in many ways with milk that feeds a baby.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The 'milk' points the 'white phase' of the transformative process. We can see this i</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">n depictions of Shiva, resting on a thousand-headed serpent floating on a river of milk. The 'milk' in mythology points the 'white phase' of the transformative process but also the universal Pranic energy that flows throughout the universe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Bull is noted for strength and sexual potency, representing a definite type of masculine energy. Verse three states “Impetuous as a bull, he chooses Soma.” This phrase is about overcoming one's bull-like sexual nature, 'Soma' is sublimated sexual energy. This same idea is found in the ancient practice of ceremonial bull sacrifices. In Greece, the god Zeus and in the Phrygian cult of Cybele, bulls were sacrificed, a metaphor that parallels sacrificing one's sexual energy, which they considered the lower animal desires. Chastity and purity were an important part of their spiritual beliefs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Footless and handless still he challenged Indra, who smote him with his bolt between the shoulders. Emasculate yet claiming manly vigor, thus Vṛitra lay with scattered limbs dissevered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The footless and handless dragon indicates Vrtra’s helplessness, it reveals how evil is rendered harmless in the face of Indra’s’ consciousness. While being struck between the shoulders, points to the main Nadi, the Sushumna running up the spine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is noteworthy in verse seven that the word "Emasculate" is inserted, as it pertains to a loss of sexual potency and is linked to the sublimation of sexual energy. The next line, “lays scattered limbs dissevered” suggests that a complex motif of death and regeneration. Once Vrtra dies the seven rivers in the "Cave of Vala" are released, which feeds the earth, meaning the seven chakras are opened and the flow of Prana begins. This process of opening the chakras occurs in the human body, but this hymn is also referring to the earth’s regeneration. So it actually occurs on two levels. It would take years of scholarly study, and meditative practices to uncover the multi-layered meanings within the Vedas; this is only a small beginning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas#cite_note-gflood-11">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas#cite_note-gflood-11</a> <br /><br />Verses from Rigveda chapter one XXX11 <br /><br /><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01032.htm">http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01032.htm</a> <br /><br /><b><u>Footnotes </u></b><br /><br />1. Vaman Shivram (1965), The Practical Sanskrit Dictionary (4th revised & enlarged ed.), Delhi: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motilal_Banarsidass">Motilal Banarsidass</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/81-208-0567-4">81-208-0567-4</a> . <br /><br />2. Lucas F. Johnston, Whitney Bauman (2014). Science and Religion: One Planet, Many Possibilities. Routledge. p.179. <br /><br />3. Vaman Shivram (1965), The Practical Sanskrit Dictionary (4th revised & enlarged ed.), Delhi: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motilal_Banarsidass">Motilal Banarsidass</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/81-208-0567-4">81-208-0567-4</a> . see apauru Seya <br /><br />4. D Sharma, Classical Indian Philosophy: A Reader, Columbia University Press, ISBN, pages 196-197 <br /><br />5. Gavin Flood (1996), An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University Press, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521438780">ISBN 978-0521438780</a>, pages 35-39 <br /><br />6. Bal Gangadhar Tilak (2011), The Arctic Home in the Vedas, Arktos Media Lt, ISBN-10: 1907166343, pg.240. (Also found in Google books.) <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Bal+Gangadhar+Tilak&search-alias=books&field-author=Bal+Gangadhar+Tilak&sort=relevancerank"></a>Voltaire quote; <br /><br />"Lectures on the science of language, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1861 [and 1863], Volume 1", by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Muller">Max Muller</a>, p. 148 <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> T</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he secret of religion, mythology, legends, and fairy tales lays hidden in the experience of higher consciousness. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even though the mystical experience <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is well known" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-57A0419D6CA0025899CF6E6E9E38F9DE" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is well known</pwa> in Eastern civilization,it has barely penetrated the Western psyche. For thousands of years, India and ancient Egypt have held a belief in the primal power of life called 'Kundalini' or 'The Serpent Power.' It is Shakti, life force lying dormant at the base of the spine. Depending on individuals spiritual growth, kundalini awakens and ascends up the spine in a spiral path expanding one's consciousness. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done pwa-mark-ignored" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="An extraordinary inner world is encountered" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-E86B94FA560A716DF6DEA3B89D11B490" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I encounter an extraordinary inner world~We encounter an extraordinary inner world~They encounter an extraordinary inner world~It encounters an extraordinary inner world~I encounters an extraordinary inner world~It encounter an extraordinary inner world">An extraordinary inner world is encountered</pwa>, climaxing in a priceless mystical experience, leaving one with a sense of immortality. Within the yogic literature of India, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="this experience is called" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-B2896EE09268B8ED64531688B000E388" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="we call this experience~I call this experience~they call this experience~it calls this experience~someone call this experience~it call this experience~someone calls this experience~I calls this experience~they calls this experience~we calls this experience~something calls this experience~something call this experience">this experience is called</pwa> Self-realization or Samadhi.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/cc/index.htm">Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke</a> (1837–1902) a Canadian doctor named this state cosmic-consciousness, while the Buddhists understood it as Nirvana. The great mystics such as Ramakrishna, <a href="http://kundalini-gopi-krishna.blogspot.com/2006/05/gopi-krishna.html">Gopi Krishna</a>, <a href="http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/ashram/sriauro/index.php">Sri Aurobindo</a>, and St. Theresa among others, wrote about this experience and the incredible bliss after merging with the divine presence. The Christians symbolize the experience with the metaphor of entering the “Kingdom of Heaven."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A Kundalini awakening usually happens after many lifetimes of effort, predicated on a person’s spiritual growth, karma and maturity of the nervous system. While no one knows exactly the specific reason <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="why " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-BAE474096223334607EC092687C4A922" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2642" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">why </pwa>Kundalini awakens from its dormant state, it can transform an individual in a matter of months or years, from a normal person into a genius, spiritual adept Blessed with health and long life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The transformation closely mimics a growing child's metabolism-in that one has to eat more often easily digestible foods and sleep more often, which is why the transformation may be called being born again. Adopting a pattern of eating frequent small meals and sleeping extra hours is imperative as it allows the nervous system and brain to adjust to the increased intensity of Prana streaming upward. This higher level can become a permanent state of consciousness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eastern teachings openly acknowledge a potent form of the bio-energy-prana <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="resides" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: lives" data-pwa-id="pwa-830FBD0C4AC743C15FD1911AE45C6661" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2084" data-pwa-suggestions="lives">resides</pwa> in sexual essences and human cells. By the process of sublimation, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="outward flowing reproductive fluids may be converted" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-24A5F4FB431EB210E7CE7DD1D7F51CF4" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="we may convert outward flowing reproductive fluids~they may convert outward flowing reproductive fluids~it may convert outward flowing reproductive fluids~I may convert outward flowing reproductive fluids">outward flowing reproductive fluids may be converted</pwa> into a subtle essence or (Soma- “food of the Gods”)- to feed inner brain centers (pineal gland). <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="There are also other" data-pwa-hint="Consider using 'there are other' or 'there are also'" data-pwa-id="pwa-27E781529621177B2442C2FC4AE0073F" data-pwa-rule-id="ALSO_OTHER" data-pwa-suggestions="there are other~there are also">There are also other</pwa> forms of <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="pranic" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: pranic" data-pwa-id="pwa-7F4CF3BBDEFCE83CDCD6E7AF908E2C17" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="panic~uranic">pranic</pwa> energy: billions of cells within the body transmute bio-energy and the lungs convert our breath <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="( " data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '(' may not require a space after it. Consider removing the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-BA2CBA0CDFA5EEFA85DB87F1B1E10C65" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions="(">( </pwa>oxygen) into <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="a form of " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-855B8FE272CCDFD24DB8D9C879E5841B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_430" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">a form of </pwa>energy the body can absorb<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="." data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '.' may require a space after it. Consider adding the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-AAECDB002A024BA528AE1FB8EDBEF0DB" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=". ">.</pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="l" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: l" data-pwa-id="pwa-A917614CE040210CCFCBEF752427F485" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="a">l</pwa></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A reassessment of Eastern philosophy is necessary <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in order " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-D787168BF18449BC94AACB3C67E1C7FB" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_640" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">in order </pwa>to place monotheism in its proper context. Biblical criticism may give a clearer picture of how Christianity originated. but it will never reveal the esoteric secrets hidden in the Greek, Roman and Persian and Indian civilizations. Its own texts, or apart from the rest of ancient world mythology can interpret no religion. There must be a common system of symbols will accurately interpret all the myths and religious texts worldwide to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be considered" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-1A35E3246188EB09F0D55A3725F00528" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be considered</pwa> true. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For example, the often used phrase, “Virgin Born<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="’" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing single quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-593BBB24549879F2AFC379F28A9A6649" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">’</pwa>’ is a metaphor pertaining to the upward flow of sexual energy </span><a href="http://en.allexperts.com/q/Celibacy-Abstinence-3564/2010/5/preventing-formation-semen.htm" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Urdhava" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Urdhava" data-pwa-id="pwa-82DCB2275DF67FA176C232BA4A01DF8F" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Uddhava">Urdhava</pwa>-<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="retas" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: retas" data-pwa-id="pwa-23358CA7E844BBBCEB0EB2FB594CA3AC" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="betas~rets~etas~ratas~rotas">retas</pwa>)</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. Many mysterious epithets, such as born again, reborn, twice-born and resurrected allude to psychological transformation caused by a kundalini awakening. Each symbol, metaphor or motif is a piece of the puzzle when pieced together, reinforce the central mythic theme of an intense transmutation of consciousness. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One can conclude from Yogic and Taoist practices, along with writing about mystical experiences, this entails a biological metamorphosis affects the brain, hormones and nervous system. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alexander conquered the territory of Judea, succeeded by the Seleucid Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who successfully invaded the kingdom of Egypt. Jerusalem <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was conquered" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-869C2BC1D4702FDFB41CB09D018695F5" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was conquered</pwa> and <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="its'" data-pwa-hint="An apostrophe is never used to form possessive case pronouns. Did you mean: 'its'?" data-pwa-id="pwa-B14E36D2336FAE5176AF1BFEBC0FFB4C" data-pwa-rule-id="YOURS_APOSTROPHE" data-pwa-suggestions="its">its'</pwa> sacred objects removed from the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="temple," data-pwa-hint="Remove comma before this essential relative clause" data-pwa-id="pwa-A199A8FF2240F1F38CCF9740A707CA57" data-pwa-rule-id="GR_33" data-pwa-suggestions="temple">temple,</pwa> which included the slaughtering of many Jews. Antiochus imposed a tax and established a fortress in Jerusalem then attempted <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="to forcibly Hellenize" data-pwa-hint="Split infinitive. Some people strongly object to this type of construction, especially in formal writing. If your reader is likely to object to the split infinitive, rewrite the sentence to avoid its use." data-pwa-id="pwa-CA0E2F1AD34041FA9097C58676C60058" data-pwa-rule-id="SPLT_INFI" data-pwa-suggestions="">to forcibly Hellenize</pwa> the Jewish nation by forbidding circumcision, Jewish law and the sacrifices in the temple, resulting in a Jewish revolt against Seleucid rule.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The biblical “Jehovah” demanded strict obedience, which clashed with the polytheistic values associated with Rome, leading to a series of wars and revolts against the Roman Empire. The three main wars were the Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE) and Bar Kokhba revolt (132–135 CE) including the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Kitos" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Kitos" data-pwa-id="pwa-8EAD6CDF212C46F926BD00B779AB8F2A" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Kiros~Kitros~Kitów~Kibos~Kitob">Kitos</pwa> War (115–117). The Jewish–Roman wars had a gigantic impact on the Jews, exiling them from the Eastern Mediterranean and turning the Jews into a persecuted minority. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The central worship site of Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus' troops" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-1B73664920C17D615DBB8F60F54BFB3A" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="Titus' troops destroyed the central worship site of Second Temple in Jerusalem">The central worship site of Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus' troops</pwa>. After centuries of war and dispersal, the Jewish faith developed into a complex series of adaptations that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="were portrayed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-93E514A9F71B1C15E0C20F3EE5E50490" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">were portrayed</pwa> in the coming of the King/God/Messiah who would judge the worlds’ nations and place Jerusalem as the center of a world religion. It is from this psychological context that the bible <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was written" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-147D486703CAB70607C918C7B5DFB97D" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was written</pwa>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nicodemus, now an old man had lived all his life under Jewish law, faces the implication that the totality of the Jewish religion and their traditional observances <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="were insufficient to" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: did not" data-pwa-id="pwa-F889BF264DF33A49993C9C934EF4562E" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1806" data-pwa-suggestions="did not">were insufficient to</pwa> satisfy Jesus’ doctrine of Re-birth. A complete refutation of the Old Testament which entitled the Jews as the chosen people to their collective salvation and promised land. So it would come as no surprise when he answers sarcastically by asking how an old man can re-enter his mother’s womb <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in order " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-14286139C601D39996C75615CD7AEF73" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_640" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">in order </pwa>to be born a second time. A response that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="indicates" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: shows" data-pwa-id="pwa-6931B7CA2887D4430A0B00A339795035" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2061" data-pwa-suggestions="shows">indicates</pwa> both an antagonistic attitude and a literal interpretation, especially if you add a negative inflection to the tone of his voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="possible " data-pwa-hint="Possibly redundant word" data-pwa-id="pwa-A209B2F20E0215CF9385E4C29A823990" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2886" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">possible </pwa>explanation for Nicodemus’ question is that he doesn't grasp the magnitude or meaning of 'Born-Again' and asks if Jesus was talking about reincarnation. The ancient Egyptians, Hindus, Celts and Greek philosophers such as Plato and Pythagoras believed in reincarnation, a <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="very " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-B6BBF82C8DB2061BDA552D15E39B0FCC" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_297" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">very </pwa>well-known and universal doctrine in ancient civilization. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Instead of the word reincarnation, the Greek word called it "Metempsychosis". Pythagoras taught that man continued to be born on earth until the soul became purified enough to end <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="its'" data-pwa-hint="An apostrophe is never used to form possessive case pronouns. Did you mean: 'its'?" data-pwa-id="pwa-6CE04C7ADDD070B3D012FEF1733C130D" data-pwa-rule-id="YOURS_APOSTROPHE" data-pwa-suggestions="its">its'</pwa> cycle of births or its' </span><a href="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/r/reincarnation.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">reincarnation cycle.</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nicodemus asked Christ if a man can re-enter his mother's womb, it was <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="either " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-1298E331636E5868B9DDEC22887B9AAF" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1047" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">either </pwa>a retort to show his ignorance of the doctrine of reincarnation or to emphasize a total lack of knowledge pertaining to the concept of a Kundalini awakening, either way, the text implies the original Gnostic doctrines were superior to Jewish religious doctrines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Christian apologists have attempted to explain Nicodemus’ retort, saying <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="it was based" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-C603C4DC57BEC321B6402D6D15403E92" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="they based it~I based it~something based it~us based it~someone based it">it was based</pwa> on the misinterpretation of the Greek word ‘<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="anothen" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: anothen" data-pwa-id="pwa-6D5F35DCB11B2423C51BB0A0A5693BC8" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="another~anything~Anthony">anothen</pwa>,’ which can mean “from above <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“ " data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '“' may not require a space after it. Consider removing the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-1C7FAEDEC53F6EC3976F7C6BB5E1FA95" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions="“">“ </pwa>or “again’’ depending on its linguistic context. Christian apologists think <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that " data-pwa-hint="The word 'that' can often be omitted here" data-pwa-id="pwa-B7338DAEC7F34AA99678CC6D5B2B71CB" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2834" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">that </pwa>Nicodemus took the word literally to mean “born again” rather than from “born from above’’<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="." data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '.' may require a space after it. Consider adding the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-E4094E376474410B466643F92D964CA9" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=". ">.</pwa>They say Nicodemus’ <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="faulty" data-pwa-hint="Possible confused word" data-pwa-id="pwa-B53CEE4A87B479D52CC39D5EF8DCCA17" data-pwa-rule-id="CRFSR_FAULTY_28" data-pwa-suggestions="fault">faulty</pwa> Greek led to a misinterpretation. Instead of grasping the spiritual dimension of the wording “from above”, Nicodemus was <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="simply " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-07A2546F65CF76AE4BCD799B6F859959" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1123" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">simply </pwa>taking the phrase literally. Even some Christian scholars agree that Nicodemus <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is portrayed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-427A92750D0DEFD9EAB56ADD1878DC1F" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is portrayed</pwa> as a somewhat illiterate teacher <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="at best " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-937DD80EBAC18F755452BE95DA0E1274" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_201" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">at best </pwa>or sarcastically ignorant at the worst.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It would be highly unlikely <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="any such person as Nicodemus would be depicted" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-C28E388FC0ACDF65460CAB9063B86DA3" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="they would depict any such person as Nicodemus~I would depict any such person as Nicodemus~it would depict any such person as Nicodemus~we would depict any such person as Nicodemus">any such person as Nicodemus would be depicted</pwa> as too ignorant to grasp the basic teaching of Christianity unless the entire dialogue hid a spiritual truth. It’s likely the authors (Jewish disciples and the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Roman Emperors" data-pwa-hint="Incorrect named entity spelling: Roman Emperors" data-pwa-id="pwa-86635D807D845843B34C14E1F724F2A7" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Roman Emperor">Roman Emperors</pwa>) were trying to express Jewish ignorance of the pagan concept of Kundalini.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jesus emphasizes the absolute necessity of being born again, defined as a spiritual regeneration when compared to an actual physical birth or reincarnation. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Both types of births are contrasted" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-E0E889945DE2FEF52524239861749B12" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="It contrasts both types of births~I contrast both types of births~They contrast both types of births~We contrast both types of births~I contrasts both types of births~It contrast both types of births">Both types of births are contrasted</pwa> to show the difference. “Born again” leads to the kingdom of heaven and everlasting life, a regular birth through the flesh is entirely different from the experience.<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“ " data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '“' may require a space before it, not after. Consider moving the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-3F09CAD8043B5137F77DB75EA4DE2AE8" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=" “">“ </pwa>born again” describes the purifying nature of the Serpent/fire and its transformative effects. The “spirit<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="’" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing single quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-94F66131D84FFFB33B3125E6875B3B2E" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">’</pwa> or holy spirit is a poetic term suitable for that age over two thousand years ago but refers to the power of kundalini.</span></div>
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Many of the mythical Gods are personifications of the serpent power, such as Goddess Kundalini, Krishna, Athena, and Isis. Indra and Zeus all had some part of their life story linked to the serpent power and subsequent regeneration of the body and mind, with both good and evil aspects of the serpent interwoven into the narratives. The classical philosophers in Greece and Egypt connected the serpent with immortality, as death always followed by rebirth." data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-E6254AA269F3F506A8E8AE355D1878A3" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""> Many of the mythical Gods are personifications of the serpent power, such as Goddess Kundalini, Krishna, Athena, and Isis. 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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Water and fire are commonly associated" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-D13C9100972285CE34795DE88A0348B1" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="We commonly associate water and fire">Water and fire are commonly associated</pwa> with purification. The Holy Spirit is symbolic of internal fire, in eastern philosophy it is the God Agni, a consciousness-force that creates <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="internal" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing determiner" data-pwa-id="pwa-A00A7DCED57FA90119EEA66DD73A4584" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_CG_2" data-pwa-suggestions="an internal~the internal">internal</pwa> heat and increased metabolic activity. For example, the Holy Spirit appeared as tongues of fire over Christ's disciples on Pentecost as a symbol of their heightened awareness. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Baptism with “water” refers to a natural flow of intensified</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Prana flowing upward. The ceremony of baptism and <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was therefore repeated" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-CF9C3E9E372E0A282E80B084564CBC8C" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was therefore repeated</pwa> outwardly to express what an awakening could accomplish inwardly. These two aspects of transformation, Spirit (fire) and water (reversing its flow) can <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be understood" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-E276D9BEDA541D0FDBFD686073717599" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be understood</pwa> as elements that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are purified" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-C4F927DBB986011A38A458837D0D517B" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are purified</pwa> and combined in the body to produce a new enlightened </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What is said about ascending to heaven is a reference to the serpent power ascending upward into the brain, transforming one's consciousness then returning "down from heaven<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""." data-pwa-hint="Wrong Punctuation. Should you use a question mark?" data-pwa-id="pwa-BF04E9B7E7A66B990695A8E8B55F3881" data-pwa-rule-id="WRONG_PUNCT" data-pwa-suggestions=""?">".</pwa> The Ouroboros (snake biting its own tail) is the esoteric symbol pertaining to this cycle in which Kundalini ascends the spine then returns down the front of the body in a transformative circuit that regenerates of the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="initiate" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: start" data-pwa-id="pwa-F740F505F6BCFF67DDFDD6684910DA47" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2063" data-pwa-suggestions="start">initiate</pwa>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>14... And as Moses lifted <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="up " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-86ADA28D7CBA62098D476B19D98E7265" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2572" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">up </pwa>the serpent in the wilderness<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word=", even so," data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-608B16E25641090568C5A6677160A2F0" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_135" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">, even so,</pwa> must <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the Son of man be lifted" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-91E77DEDB2FC44B2A6823B4E9BEDD57C" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="we must lift the Son of man~I must lift the Son of man~it must lift the Son of man~they must lift the Son of man">the Son of man be lifted</pwa> <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="up " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-4B444234414019D7FE6390436CD52970" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2572" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">up </pwa></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #b45f06;">15... That whosoever <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="believeth" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: believeth" data-pwa-id="pwa-A23959C18E8A2C19D5693D458848F9A9" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Blyth~Blythe~blithe~Bolitho~Blithe">believeth</pwa> in him should not perish, but have eternal life.</span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="’" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing single quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-18F3C2674C25274A3CB5A35C98D2FCB0" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">’</pwa> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The “Son of Man” must <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="obtain" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: get" data-pwa-id="pwa-0B90554A5B9FC770310898B785FB0815" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2073" data-pwa-suggestions="get">obtain</pwa> eternal life by imitating Moses who “lifted <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="up " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-C0011F3D087BCEED69525C60A78A28D2" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2572" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">up </pwa>the Serpent" passages imagery is <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="clearly " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-D7A8494D42E0CA16035FB788DB30E37B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_212" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">clearly </pwa>referring to the ascension of Kundalini which can heal diseases. Another important noteworthy result is coming face to face with one’s own deathless soul-enthralling the mind with a deep sense of immortality or <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in other words " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-0D380FE22EA0323B5A2A652EDAA87F64" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_321" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">in other words </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“" data-pwa-hint="You have two opening quotation marks in a row before a closing one. If this is because you’re using nested quotation marks, the inner pair should be singles." data-pwa-id="pwa-0311E0C3BC1994AC84079D189626573E" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">“</pwa>eternal life”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jesus is not "The Only God" but is a personification of Kundalini and its effects, which was a common way to create religions practice in ancient times. Just as many of the Greek gods, such as Zeus and Dionysus follow the same structure as Christ's life, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in an effort " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-914AAC7E90AF98BEAAE62A156D06170C" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1539" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">in an effort </pwa>to teach the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="general " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-5A491130D70F611350D859B52F5F6C04" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2538" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">general </pwa>public about spiritual attainment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> An esoteric review of John chapter three points to the underlying symbol of the</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Serpent" and motif of</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Born-Again", which alludes to</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the eastern philosophy of enlightenment. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The symbolic phrases Born-again, Reborn, Twice Born and Virgin born plus (Resurrected) are metaphorical phrases reflecting the physical and psychological effects of a spiritual awakening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Our genetic destiny has been woven" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-224AA4AEE447AFB7832CBDB958976E57" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I have woven our genetic destiny~They have woven our genetic destiny~We have woven our genetic destiny~It has woven our genetic destiny">Our genetic destiny has been woven</pwa> into every cell of the human body by an intelligent <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="designer," data-pwa-hint="Unnecessary comma before a subordinate conjunction." data-pwa-id="pwa-A3FF60BCAE9D4392ACB707EEEDA30BE1" data-pwa-rule-id="COMMA_IF" data-pwa-suggestions="designer">designer,</pwa> that is (Kundalini Shakti). We <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are seeded" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-4A724D1B563A8F2A40126075449460EB" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are seeded</pwa>, set and programmed to advance morally, intellectually and spiritually, those societies that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="fail to" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: do not" data-pwa-id="pwa-EF1C7575734E5091A507E998718D98D9" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2923" data-pwa-suggestions="do not">fail to</pwa> align their cultures to the knowledge that the brain is still evolving will have to face the younger generation’s wrath for stealing their future happiness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"></span><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> What will it take to shake this reticent demon out of its shell so <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-1E9C9F5F4353D80F3F6DA70288FB6A59" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1514" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">that </pwa>we can picture our true destiny instead of the plastic illusions of Hollywood? The media mind now grasps at every technical device as if it could fill <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="ones" data-pwa-hint="Possible confused word" data-pwa-id="pwa-6CC068F49F96DFAE0701D480D7DFC5EF" data-pwa-rule-id="ONES" data-pwa-suggestions="one's">ones</pwa> empty heart, but leaves us defeated with empty promises, all the while suffering under the rule of political buffoons who would deify themselves a</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Divine Ruler of the Universe” given the right amount of bad publicity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The old religious concepts are dead; they have to be “Born Again” under a renewed philosophy that blends mind and heart, bringing spiritual desires into material realities. We have to fight for more consciousness, and life itself, not some imaginary heaven after death but right now within ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Published 6/7/2013 copyright, Joseph Alexander</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Edited 11/15/2015 @ 4/24/2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">References: King James Bible, John: Chapter 3 verse 1-21</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />As most astute spiritual seekers now realize, the shotgun marriage of political power to misguided religious doctrines has been used to justify too many useless wars and oppressive laws. The <a href="http://mythicspiral.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/the-secret-symbolism-of-myth.html">misunderstanding of ancient symbolism</a> is in no small degree a part of this misdirection of the human spirit. Totalitarian religious laws passed by Roman Emperors and enacted through armed force was the hidden reason behind the spread of Christianity and the destruction of Hellenic civilization. <br /><br />Monotheism in particular, but not exclusively, originated from the literal interpretation of ancient mythology as opposed to polytheists that interpreted their sacred texts allegorically.<br /><br /><br /> Monotheism is built on the acceptance of the Bible as a historical document, yet very similar narratives are abundant in the pagan world. The Greek mathematician and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, Egypt (370.AD) realized the “terrible” implications of this literalism, as she warned;</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The raw political power of the Roman Empire helped to spread Christianity, which eventually became the orthodox reality throughout European civilization. Don’t think for a moment that it was a gentle process, where the indigenous cultures just converted to Christianity without resistance. </span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A conce</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">rted cultural war against the ancient philosophers and their spiritual insights still exists. The modern religious paradigm prefers unquestioned obedience to their exclusive writings, in contrast to self-knowledge and self-reliance. Our modern destructive milieu started with the destruction of Hellenic civilization. The destruction of the Greeks' cultural paradigm, based on freedom of inquiry and pursuit of knowledge, set the stage for our present crisis of faith. Greek Philosophy was antithetical to the authority of the Roman Empire and Church. Forced conversions led to the dumbing down of the western mind by downplaying the responsibility for using reason and logic a moral compass instead of blind faith.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It took three centuries of Roman edicts to destroy the magnificent temples and libraries of Hellenistic civilization, starting in the year 320 when Roman Emperor Constantine criminalized paganism. In 396 the Eleusinian mysteries were condemned, in 399 Roman law stated: "Any remaining temples shall be destroyed."* In 489: the Romans implemented <a href="http://www.badnewsaboutchristianity.com/gbb_heathens.htm">capital punishment</a> against those who worshiped the ancient gods. </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Christians were prosecuted for a relatively short time compared to the 1800 years of brutal repression of classical Hellenism (which continues today). It's quite ironic that European civilization doesn’t acknowledge the fact it was founded upon the cultural ideals of ancient classical Greece, the birthplace of the republican form of government, philosophy, geometry, art, and science. Roman Christianity destroyed all cultural links of its Pagan origins. <br /><br />The classical books and libraries burnt to the ground, temples ravaged, academies outlawed, leaving the entire west without any physical or spiritual connection to its history. Alvin Boyd Kuhn, in his book, <a href="https://archive.org/details/lostlightaninter029017mbp">The Lost Light, An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures,</a> recognized this pattern of literalism would lead to a psychological division within the modern psyche, yet his dire warnings were ignored and denigrated. Kuhn wrote;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The spread of literalistic religion has been thoroughly examined by Alvin Boyd Kuhn in his book, <a href="http://pc93.tripod.com/shadow.htm">Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity</a>. He digs deeper into the vicious reactionary forces which were out to destroy a civilized culture. One finds on close examination a part of the Roman Psyche at that time which was just as barbaric as the so-called barbarians which surrounded the Roman empire. Kuhn writes.,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Enlightenment or the mystical experience is a relatively rare occurrence that is still beyond the comprehension of even the greatest minds - that is why it's so hard to grasp. If the ancient philosophers in Greece and India had thoroughly understood the true meaning of religious symbols, such as the "Serpent" and <a href="http://mythicspiral.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/the-hidden-meaning-of-virgin-birth.html">"Virgin Birth" </a>this knowledge would have protected their civilization from destruction by the literalistic collective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The world fumbles around in this illusory web of semantics spun by religious doctrine and scientific banality. Culture perceives each person not as an individual expression of the divine, but as an impotent collection of molecules without any known purpose, more a "sinner" than a seer, more monkey than man. Implicit cultural materialism undermines and has denatured our spiritual capacity by teaching that an individuals-eternal destiny is entirely dependent upon the judgment in the afterlife, where a final reward or punishment is handed down from above.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A sacred order which unified all of the existence personified as the goddess Maat existed in Egypt. There was no word for religion in ancient Egypt; as every aspect of their life was spiritual. Their everyday reality was much more abstract and symbolic than modern science or religion. A collective belief in one almighty God existed in the worship of the sun god (Ra) but with many different manifestations. Every aspect of Nature was sacred, conscious and alive, which is why all the elements were consecrated and given personalities, such as a "Mother Earth" and Father Sky (Zeus), even the rainbow had a patron deity, the Virgin Goddess Iris.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are many alternative religious paths which accept spiritual growth as an eternal process of becoming more conscious, in contrast to the Abrahamic beliefs of one life-one chance. The ancient mystery religions believed in the immortality of the soul, which explains the purpose of reincarnation-that is to become an individualized form of universal consciousness.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The great mystic Sri Aurobindo had experienced immortality; he taught the process of evolution is entirely dependent upon the power of consciousness and is dependent on Agni, a fiery force that lies hidden deep in the matter. On the personal level, once awakened this spiritual fire (Kundalini) burns the dross of karmic imperfections until the golden light of immortality shines through.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />No matter what others say, "Death" will always be an illusion (not Life) to the enlightened individual. Religions that promote the finality of Heaven and Hell ignore the possibility of higher consciousness. The mystical experience gives one a sure knowledge of their infinite and timeless soul while releasing all fear of death but contrary to many eastern belief systems it is not our final destination but just the next level of consciousness destined for all humanity. <br /><br />Today's academia doesn’t acknowledge the biological connection between the brain and higher consciousness. Only a few eastern mystics (Gopi Krishna and Sri Aurobindo), who have experienced enlightenment themselves. <br /><br />A complete study of Kundalini in those who have experienced the transformation, along with the study of ancient religious texts would bring new insights into the hidden forces responsible for spiritual desires. The division between reason and faith could be spanned by the concept of Kundalini and evolution as an intelligent process. If a modern man refuses this call, "Science" and “Religion” will continue to be death oriented, each infected with their myopic perceptions. The intelligent mechanism (Kundalini) behind our evolution and the incredible complexity of the human brain cannot be ignored without dire consequences. <br /><br />Gopi Krishna in his book, The Awakening of Kundalini, believes this research will halt the present mental landslide and start a needed change in attitudes, as he stated:<br /><br /><span style="color: #b45f06;">“There is no sphere of human activity and thought in which the impact is not felt. Once the mechanism is recognized there would be no scientific study as extensive and as fraught with momentous consequences for mankind as this. This is the foundation of all that is productive, noble, heroic, and sublime in man. The human body, with its extremely complex formation and with still many unexplored functions and processes, particularly those occurring in the brain and nervous system is yet an enigma to science.” (3)</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once the <a href="https://www.emergingsciences.org/">kundalini paradigm is proven</a>, this knowledge will become a vital ingredient of the moral and physical education of our children and will help to balance the race’s growing spiritual impulse together. By educating the next generation to the necessity of cultivating a peaceful, balanced environment, which is a vital element for healthy psychological and moral growth. The mystical experience, called by so many different names such as Gnosis, Enlightenment, Samadhi, or 'Kingdom of Heaven' is just the beginning – a taste of the infinite. We are all evolving towards this goal, not just those who believe in certain religious doctrines, as this biological evolution unfolds despite the worlds' ignorance. Small groups are finally waking up to their incredible potential as spiritual beings, capable of sustaining a constant awareness of our divine transcendental and immortal nature. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"></span><br /><br />1. Mythology is an extended allegory of the transformation and evolution of consciousness.<br /> <br />2. Political powers and religious institutions have interpreted such mythology as a historical reality which demeans the responsibility every individual should have for their actions.<br /> <br />3. No one can prove what happens after death; we can only understand ourselves through the mystical experience.<br /> <br />4. Contrary to popular opinion, the mystical experience is not the final destination but just the next spiritual level destined for humanity.<br /> <br />5. All forms of life have evolutionary behaviors that guide their actions; the human race is no different. Only by following a simple lifestyle in tune with nature can the human race progress to the next stage of consciousness.<br /><br /><br />Notes. <br /><br />1, Kuhn, Alvin Boyd: The Lost Light, An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures pg.23.<br /><br />2.Kuhn, Alvin Boyd: The Lost Light, An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures Pg.43.<br /><br />3. Krishna, Gopi, The Awakening of Kundalini. Pg.17<br /><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> The metaphoric triangle of the serpent, tree, and immortality signify the spiritual rebirth processes. Using these images one can see how the transformative processes unfold in literature. The serpent, the most universal of religious symbols; depicted in the greatest number of myths and religious narratives, refers to the creative and destructive power of cosmic prana, in the form of the spiral or serpent. Kundalini is depicted as a</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> serpent that ascends the tree,( a symbol of the spine) which leads to the experience of immortality. "Kundalini" is the key concept to unlocking the secrets of mythology.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> It is found throughout the ancient civilization, particularly in Greek, Christian, Hindu and Egyptian texts.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Sexual activity and disobedience to God were condemned as sinful in the Judeo-Christian version of mans' fall because of a complete misunderstanding the concept of temporary chastity. Women have been blamed for the downfall of humanity, instead of being associated with the primal power of the feminine energy that creates all life. If there was an original sin it was ignorance of sexual regeneration and enlightenment. It is interesting to note how modern religion has literally demonized the feminine energy, symbolized by Satan-Serpent, considering that it is the intelligent force responsible for enlightenment. At the other end of the psychological spectrum, the secular and superficial media are addicted to a pursuit of sexual license and power. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In essence, both attitudes are bound together by blind obedience to the past; now dominated by humanity's unwillingness to change.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> The </span><a href="http://mythicspiral.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-hidden-meaning-of-virgin-birth.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">“Virgin Birth”</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> is another motif which underscores the symbolic aspects of religion. The ideal of celibacy-sublimation is a theme that runs throughout the ancient mystery religions, such as Greek, Gnostic, Hindu, Taoist doctrines. Historically, paganism accepted that many gods were born of a virgin, within a cave and protected from some evil king or god. A “Virgin” birth simply is a symbolic phrase to express the sublimation of sexual energies. Being born in a cave is an allegory on the birth of higher consciousness that takes place in the brain, where the two lobes intersect, called the "Cave of Brahman." While the adverse forces are portrayed by the "</span><a href="http://mythicspiral.blogspot.com/2013/02/gods-divine-birth-in-religion-and-myth.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Evil King</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">," who tries to resist or kill the "Divine Child."</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> The "Evil King Motif" is a universal psychological truth based on physical matters opposition to spiritual growth and humanities reluctance to face the truth. The motif is found in the Bible when Herod attempts to prevent Christ's birth by killing all the firstborn Jewish males. Many other divine children were attacked in a similar manner. Krishna was almost killed by the evil King Kamsa. Zeus had been swallowed alive by his father Cronus but survived. Hercules had to strangle a serpent in his crib sent by Hera. Moses as a child had to hide from the Pharaoh who attempted to murder all the first-born Jewish boys. Osiris and Dionysus, Romulus and Remus, Athena and many other gods were attacked by evil kings or demonic forces as very small children.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The theme of sexual sublimation was also delineated by the castration motif. For example, Aphrodite, the Goddess of beauty was born after Greek God Uranus castrated his father Cronus, whose phallus fell into the sea, birthing Aphrodite from the waters foam. Thus, the virgin birth and castration motifs are metaphors indicating sexual restraint is a practice leading spiritual birth, and Godhood.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Great Mother, Goddess Cybele, was a personification of the serpent power who was worshiped for thousands of years in Anatolia, modern day Turkey. Attis, her son-lover took a vow of celibacy in order to become Cybele's' consort and priest, but being human, Attis was commanded by the reigning king to marry his daughter. Jealous of his future marriage and because of the broken vow of celibacy; Cybele appeared in her transcendent power at the height of the marriage. ceremony. This drove Attis mad resulting in his "unmanning" or self-castration, causing his death underneath a pine tree. But, Attis achieved a type of immortality in that Zeus wouldn't allow his body to decay. The castration motif is very similar to the 'virgin birth' by alluding the need for chastity and sexual sublimation.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The symbol of the "tree" in mythology is associated with death, immortality, and wisdom. The structural image of a tree is a mirror image to the neuronic structures of the brain and spinal column, with the tree trunk representing the spinal cord and the branches and canopies the brain. Therefore when the serpent and tree are found together the image-symbols can be traced to Kundalini and the nervous system-brain.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Attis achieved Godhood after death underneath a tree. Krishna, the Hindu avatar was killed underneath a tree and ascended to heaven. It was written in scripture that Christ was crucified on a tree, died and was resurrected while Buddha became enlightened underneath the Bodhi tree. Thus the symbol of the tree denotes the human nervous system on which the initiate suffers an intense regeneration, involving a psychological death and rebirth.</span></div>
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Beneath all the cryptic signs and prophetic utterances of prophets, saints, sages and artistic genius there is a universal truth, or </span><a href="http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Prisca%20theologia" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">“Prisca Theologia”</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">, which is the foundation upon which religion and mythology originated. The secret key to unlocking the mysteries of spiritual evolution rests on the existence of subtle energy or Prana, the highly intelligent conscious force that pervades all existence. In the personal realm, Kundalini follows the movement of Prana in a distinct spiral motion that ends in the creation of higher consciousness. It acts by regenerating the whole of humanity according to unseen cosmic laws while slowly guiding the human mind towards expanded levels of consciousness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Myths and Legends make use of iconic images such as a Dragon, virgin, cave, gold, tree and sacred marriage. The central theme centers on a brave Knight who slays a dragon then saves a Virgin from sacrificial death and is rewarded with a golden treasure and finally marries his princess. The Knight is a character who symbolizes a masculine archetype. His task is to attain the golden light of cosmic consciousness which will slowly evolve into a permanent mental feature after the integration of all aspect of the Psyche. This occurs by conquering the Dragon, which is a metaphor for overcoming the lower desires, such as anger and hatred. Rescuing a virgin maiden is a poetic metaphor on the sublimation of one's sexual energy. The cave is where the dragon holds its golden treasure; it is the feminine matrix comparable to the center of the brain called the “Cave of Brahman.” In esoteric lore, it is within this center that the pituitary and pineal glands are located that one experiences higher consciousness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />In general, “Cinderella” is a fairy tale is written as a spiritual parable that teaches self-reliance in the face of adversity, a story of suffering and redemption on the surface, yet with an in-depth view of the human spirit's search for love and enlightenment.<br /><br />The name “Cinderella” (Lady of Cinders) is a play on the word "Cinder" suggesting a link to the purifying power of fire or <a href="http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Agni">Agni</a>. Once Kundalini is awakened, it starts by circulating subtle Prana throughout the body, purifying the organs and nerves. The increased flow of Prana reaching the head is called Soma (food of the Gods). Soma reinvigorates the brain cells with purified blood and rewires its' structure. This transformation creates a definite amount of internal heat. It is metaphorically signified by the fireplace hearth Cinderella watches over and sleeps next to at night. Tending the fire actually corresponds to the tendency of those undergoing the transformation to pay particular attention to the heat of the moving prana within the body, by feeding the internal fires with a clean organic diet, and always keeping the stomach full.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />The death of a parent is a common motif in the fairy-tale genre, as its purpose is to push the child towards individualization and heightened awareness; the tale begins by mentioning the death of Cinderella’s mother:</span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />“The wife of a rich man fell sick, and as she felt that her end was drawing near, she called her only daughter to her bedside and said, "Dear child, be good and pious, and then the good God will always protect thee, and I will look down on thee from heaven and be near thee." Thereupon she closed her eyes and departed. Every day the maiden went out to her mother's grave and wept, and she remained pious and good.”</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />Cinderella’s wealthy father marries the proverbial evil stepmother, who has two spoiled daughters of her own. The stepmother impedes any chance for Cinderella’s happiness. In fact, the way she was treated would be labeled criminal today.<br /><br /><span style="color: #b45f06;">“The woman had brought two daughters into the house with her, who was beautiful and fair of face, but vile and black of heart. Now began a bad time for the poor step-child. "Is the stupid goose to sit in the parlor with us?" said they. "He who wants to eat bread must earn it; out with the kitchen-wench." They took her pretty clothes away from her, put an old grey bedgown on her, and gave her wooden shoes. "Just look at the proud princess, how decked out she is!" they cried, and laughed, and led her into the kitchen. There she had to do hard work from morning till night, get up before daybreak, carry water, light fires, cook and wash. Besides this, the sisters did her every imaginable injury -- they mocked her...”</span><br /><br />Nonetheless, Cinderella's Father was traveling to a fair soon and asked his stepdaughters and Cinderella what type of gift he should buy for each of them.<br /><span style="color: #b45f06;"><br />"Beautiful dresses," said one, "Pearls and jewels," said the second. "And thou, Cinderella," said he, "what wilt thou have?" "Father, break off for me the first branch which knocks against your hat on your way home."</span><br /><br />Cinderella's choice of a tree branch fits perfectly with her character which alludes to a genuinely humble and heart-oriented and indicates her closeness to nature. This decision was the major turning point that opened the door to higher possibilities than life as a Cinder maid. Conversely, the stepsister's beautiful dresses and pearls are extravagant and undeserved gifts. From a Karmic viewpoint, they will be unable to hold such superficial trappings.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> For example, there are parallels of the evil stepsisters found in Christian Scriptures...……</span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">According to an <a href="http://www.satyamyoga.com/chakras-kundalini-by-swami-anandakapila-saraswati/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">article by Dr.John Mumford</span></a>; in the opinion of one his teachers, Yogamaharishi Dr. Swami Gitananda Giri Guru Maharaj, the Ida and Pingala are pathways that "steal" Pranic energy which should be channeled into the <span style="color: red;">"<a href="http://www.tantra-kundalini.com/nadis.htm"><span style="color: blue;">Sushumna</span></a></span> (the Crux) thus achieving “Krishna (‘Christ’) Consciousness."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The thieves or sisters should be considered metaphors of the Ida (feminine) and Pingala (male). The two Nadis siphon away life energies into worldly desires making it difficult for Cinderella to find her Prince and achieve a "Sacred Marriage''. Only when the two sides Nadis are balanced will prana flow up the spine</span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> toward the crown chakra. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #b45f06; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Adding support to this theory is the fact that in the original German version of "Cinderella" the stepsisters were named ‘Ida’ and ‘Pingala’. Because many fairy tales can be traced originally to ancient India, it’s clear that Indian spiritual beliefs were embedded into the narratives.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cinderella's odd choice, a branch from a hazel tr</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ee, was planted in the earth and finally produced many spiritual fruits. She planted it on her mothers' grave and cried every night watering it with tears of sorrow. The hazel tree was home to wonderful birds; turtle doves and pigeons, all of who accomplished the difficult tasks and showered her with beautiful silver dresses and golden shoes. This magical "tree of life" fulfilled Cinderella’s deepest wishes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">“And it grew, however, and became a handsome tree. Thrice a day Cinderella went and sat beneath it, and wept and prayed, and a little white bird always came on the tree, and if Cinderella expressed a wish, the bird threw down to her what she had wished for.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After Kundalini is awakened, subtle Pranic energy ascends the spine into the brain and spreads outward through thousands of neurons shaped like a canopy of a tree within the brain, which looks precisely similar in design to tree branches that fan outward becoming more delicate at the circumference. Therefore the "tree in the Garden of Eden or Hesperides which was guarded by the serpent, (Kundalini) is analogous to Cinderella tree that satisfies all her wishes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cinderella's simple choice of a tree branch from a literal viewpoint characterizes her humbleness and honest simplicity. But allegorically points the type of life and character traits that are necessary to develop. Her choice of the lowly hazel branch opened the door to possibilities other than being a Cinder maid. The stepsister's beautiful dresses and pearls were extravagant and undeserved gifts, and in the long run, they're unable to hold such superficial trappings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The tree and the serpent are conspicuously apparent in Greek mythology. Both are depicted in the Garden of Hesperides, where Hercules conquered the hundred-headed serpent Ladon who guarded the tree of immortality and its golden apples. This was Hercules eleventh labor labors. He must overcome all the lowest forces of his animal nature and particularly the negative aspects of sexuality. Another famous example of the tree and serpent motif is found within Buddhist iconography, where Buddha is depicted meditating underneath the famous Bodhi tree, the place where he reached enlightenment. There are many sculptures of Buddha sitting in a meditative Asana with seven upright serpents or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81ga">Nagas</a> that hover above his head. Both images of the tree and snake reinforce the theme of a spiritual transformation particularly since the visual language refers to his enlightenment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Again the tree appears as a significant image of the death and resurrection of the Phrygian God Attis, the son-lover of Cybele also called Magna Mater (Great Mother). Attis died underneath a pine tree (castrated himself), yet Zeus allowed him to achieve a type of faux immortality in that his body would never decay. Krishna also died underneath a tree when he was accidentally struck by an arrow in the foot. In a similar manner, Christ was crucified on a cross or tree, as translated in certain passages. It can be found in scripture as “Hung on a tree" in Acts, Peter (5:30;10;39;13:29), also the first letter of Peter states;</span><br />
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<i><i><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"He himself bore our sins in his body on a tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds, you have been healed '' (2;24) "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree." (Acts 5.30.)</span></i></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Egyptian God Osiris was deceitfully tricked into a coffin-like a box then lowered into the Nile River by his evil brother Set. Isis, Osiris' wife, and Virgin Goddess searched everywhere until she found the coffin embedded in a tamarind tree trunk at Byblos off the Phoenician coast, but Osiris was already dead. Eventually, the Gods resurrected him, and he became the Judge of the Dead and Resurrection. The symbol of the tree is a central image in the mythic realm of death/resurrection. Since the tree symbolizes the body’s Nadis, spine and nervous system, then death on the tree metaphorically applies to the body’s physical resistance and psychological inertia to the spiritual transformation process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Next morning, he went with it to the father, and said to him, "No one shall be my wife but she whose foot this golden slipper fits." Then were the two sisters glad, for they had pretty feet. The eldest went with the shoe into her room and wanted to try it on, and her mother stood by. But she could not get her big toe into it, and the shoe was too small for her. Then her mother gave her a knife and said, "Cut the toe off; when thou art Queen thou wilt has no more need to go on foot." The maiden cut the toe off, forced the foot into the shoe, swallowed the pain, and went out to the King's son. Then he took her on his horse as his bride and rode away with her. They were, however, obliged to pass the grave, and there, on the hazel-tree, sat the two pigeons and cried,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In alchemical texts when seven blackbirds are drawn it is a symbol of seven distillations, which result in the purification of the sacred stone. In fairy tales, Birds carry messages or communications from higher levels of consciousness. Cinderella again is saved by these messengers, which in all respects alludes to the necessity of keeping a quiet mind that is open to intuition.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />“Then she (Cinderella) seated herself on a stool, drew her foot out of the heavy wooden shoe, and put it into the slipper, which fitted like a glove. And when she rose up, and the King's son looked at her face he recognized the beautiful maiden who had danced with him and cried, "That is the true bride!" The step-mother and the two sisters were terrified and became pale with rage; he, however, took Cinderella on his horse and rode away with her. As they passed by the hazel-tree, the two white doves cried --<br /><br /><span style="color: #b45f06;">"Turn and peep, turn and peep,<br /><br />No blood is in the shoe,<br /><br />The shoe is not too small for her,</span><br /><br />The true bride rides with you," and when they had cried that, the two came flying down and placed themselves on Cinderella's shoulders, one on the right, the other on the left, and remained sitting there.”<br /><br />Cinderella is finally rewarded by finding her prince. In addition, the two messenger birds came to rest on her shoulders. This indicates a return of her rightful inheritance, as it symbolizes the concept of left and right energies, Ida and Pingala, returning to their proper position.<br /><br />Cinderella began life with hard wooden shoes but finished with golden ones, a clue to the last enigma to be revealed. The shoe motif also occurs in Sleeping Beauty. It can be explained by the fact that the feet (and hands) are the last part of the body from where Pranic energy is siphoned from. Once subtle energies start to flow from the extremities and are collected to enable the final transformation is near. Krishna was shot by an arrow in the foot underneath the tree just as Christ was nailed to the tree/cross in his hands and feet which is the last act of their death and resurrection. This fact parallels the appearance of golden shoes which fit on Cinderella and no one else; it shows that the process of enlightenment has succeeded in that penetration of Kundalini has reached the feet. And in a very enigmatic style, the two stepsisters are have bloodied feet trying to find their prince.<br /><br />In contrast to the ideal women or Goddess, the Prince uncovers the stepsister's worldliness, an indication of their superficial persona. They were excluded when their feet didn't fit into Cinderella's golden shoes, even with bloody force. According to <a href="http://www.satyamyoga.com/chakras-kundalini-by-swami-anandakapila-saraswati/">Dr. Mumford's article</a>, their resulting blindness is a metaphor that indicates turning one's outlook inward, quote;<br /><br />"Cinderella’s wicked stepsisters, in the original 1800 manuscript, were punished with having their eyes pecked out by pigeons. Which symbolically pertains the transmutation of Ida and Pingala in which the lure of the outer world is ‘blinded’ (forced ‘Pratyahara’ or sensory withdrawal) so that the inner alchemical work of Kundalini uniting with Shiva may take place within an interior space. Ida and Pingala no longer dissipate energies into the material ‘earth’ but rather extract the gold of ‘realization.’"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sleeping Beauty is a fairy-tale that has enchanted the hearts of children and adults since time immemorial. One reason for its longevity rests on the spiritual intent, which seems to be far greater than the literary content. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The story is built" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-78B2B56D9F75CBF84552CFA2D270EA0D" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I build the story~They build the story~It builds the story~We build the story~I builds the story~Someone builds the story~It build the story~They builds the story">The story is built</pwa> on the universal theme of the psyche’s search for self-realization, or <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in other words, " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-5942F23C41DA6792AAA79CBC16B38F20" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_321" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">in other words, </pwa>the soul’s path toward self–knowledge. The story has many connections to the concept of reincarnation. Another theme is how the shadow side of the psyche if it is too dominant, can cause a person to fear life.<br /> <br />Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm collected the folktales of Germany and published Grimm’s Fairy Tales in 1812. Their version of Sleeping Beauty called Briar Rose; that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was closely based" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-EC7B3005CCD415C6C03E5EEDAC78E53B" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was closely based</pwa> on the French author, Charles Perrault’s (1628-1703), Sleeping Beauty, that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was written" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-6FD6A67A6168AC2F8C75A6504E132C3F" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was written</pwa> much earlier. <br /><br />Other versions include The Petrified Mansion, which originated in India, that tells of a prince that enters a large mansion in which everyone, including the princess, cannot move or talk. There is an Italian version, called; Sun, Moon, and Talia, published the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Pentamerone" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Pentamerone" data-pwa-id="pwa-B6979BF6DCDA931894CBD5ADB60F0E93" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="pentamidine~pentamerous~Pentamidine~pointman~pantryman">Pentamerone</pwa> (1634).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Considering (Briar Rose) - Sleeping Beauty personifies the human soul, we can infer her predicted death is symbolic of the end of a cycle related to reincarnating through the twelve signs of the zodiac. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The number thirteen is unlucky because it infers a new octave of energy, as the passage from 12 to 13 <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is considered" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-B43B610FF9EF3275560CDC1CC9FFB0CC" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is considered</pwa> dangerous, one must enter a new reality. this trope is why it was the thirteenth guest who cursed Sleeping Beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Basically, we can say the central theme with the soul’s destiny, which the ancients thought must reincarnate through the twelve signs of the zodiac, before it enters a new and higher level of consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> In Greek mythology, the Moira <sup>(4)</sup> known in English as the "Fates" were the white-robed Demi-gods of destiny that held the power to limit the soul’s lifespan, which they determined at the moment of birth.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;"> “Atropos”</span>- </b>means<b> </b>inexorable or inevitable. She personified the cutter of the thread of life who chose the manner of each person's death; and when their time came, she cut their life-thread. She held a scroll, a wax tablet, a sundial, a pair of scales, or a cutting instrument. At the birth of each person, they appeared spinning, measuring, and cutting the thread of life. <sup>(2)</sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /> The ancients <pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="associted" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: associted" data-pwa-id="pwa-C1642AC3C60154B6A3FC6C6E43DE1DBE" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="associated">associated </pwa>spinning with the soul's destiny. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Yarn must be wound" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-E9F3A5E377358744A1DCAA6D96EA6268" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I must wind yarn~We must wind yarn">Yarn must be wound</pwa> on the spindle and spun into a net or loop. They deemed this process of <b><i>'spinning a net to catch the soul</i>,'</b> as a spiritual metaphor for fate. The unique characteristics of the <b>Moira</b> are analogous to the good fairies, found in many Indo-European sagas and Celtic folklore. who appeared beside the cradle of the newborn child with gifts, the twelve guests brought gifts to Sleeping Beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The number twelve* has great significance in reference to astrology. Ancient sages believed the soul reincarnated through the twelve houses of the zodiac to gained specific traits associated with each house. “Lachesis” portrays the concept of destiny by holding a staff as she points to the horoscope on a globe, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="indicating" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: showing" data-pwa-id="pwa-F96F4FA106860A6C1FBD50831E51FA3E" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2061" data-pwa-suggestions="showing">indicating</pwa> a belief that the stars affect the destiny of the soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each of the twelve guests brought wonderful gifts, one “<i><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="bestowed" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: given" data-pwa-id="pwa-2C4DBACA596A05D34738EBDA71B36F63" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2027" data-pwa-suggestions="given">bestowed</pwa> virtue, one beauty, and a third <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="riches" data-pwa-hint="Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'rich'?" data-pwa-id="pwa-72066DF78163B3FD51CACF2DC81EBCE3" data-pwa-rule-id="A_PLURAL" data-pwa-suggestions="rich">riches</pwa></i>”, which is a metaphor on the soul's qualities <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="acquired" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: gained" data-pwa-id="pwa-107E3BF7EB10DEBD3698C4823B2DB7C7" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2007" data-pwa-suggestions="gained">acquired</pwa> in each astrological sign. For example, Taurus gives one a sense of beauty. Gemini teaches the soul to communicate. Cancer relates to the home, Leo expands the heart and friends. In Virgo, one develops a discriminating mind and so on through all twelve houses of the zodiac. So the whole affair of receiving gifts alludes to the evolution of consciousness, through the twelve astrological signs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Next, the thirteenth guest condemned Sleeping Beauty to death if she ever touched the spinning wheel. The thirteenth fairy is like the Greek <b>Atropos, </b>as she determines the length of Sleeping Beauty’s life. N<pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="umber" data-pwa-hint="Possible confused word" data-pwa-id="pwa-766B279B97AFE03DC635AED992818741" data-pwa-rule-id="CRFSR_UMBER_40" data-pwa-suggestions="number">umber</pwa> thirteen <pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is an" data-pwa-hint="Remove extra space" data-pwa-id="pwa-5C47641B6FA044039EBDA0379D8DEEA9" data-pwa-rule-id="EXTRA_SPACE" data-pwa-suggestions="is an">is</pwa> unlucky because it denotes the end of the twelve cycles, and the beginning of a new cycle or next octave. Moving to a new cycle may be dangerous as one's psyche has no foundation on which to stand, it is <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="like" data-pwa-hint="You might want to use a stronger verb" data-pwa-id="pwa-9AB501AC1AB49C605F6316F8ED8B0D53" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2847" data-pwa-suggestions="enjoy">like</pwa> jumping between two cliffs with nothing underneath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is worth noting, biological and psychological changes occur at thirteen when puberty kicks in. In the human growth cycle, the thirteenth year denotes a transitional year and <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="indicates" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: shows" data-pwa-id="pwa-57D0D8C7C3B7B634A4B11571E6DAD48F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2061" data-pwa-suggestions="shows">indicates</pwa> a change in one’s body and mind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Therefore" data-pwa-hint="Consider adding a comma after 'Therefore'" data-pwa-id="pwa-5ADECD21E2C50206899118BE12068A77" data-pwa-rule-id="THEREFORE_COMMA_AT" data-pwa-suggestions="Therefore,">Therefore</pwa> the year is transformative and denotes the time when a boy becomes a man and a girl becomes a woman. In that, the body can now reproduce. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">In a psychological sense, </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="it may be that" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: maybe" data-pwa-id="pwa-F9EA39B28679CF17E4A06E0937FE6E6D" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1241" data-pwa-suggestions="maybe" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">it may be that</pwa><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> the number thirteen </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is deemed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-7C585365F818B414F020C21935DFD412" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">is deemed</pwa><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> unlucky because one has to pass through a death experience. And symbolically Christ being the thirteenth of a group of twelve apostles died and resurrected into a new cycle in the heavens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Though cursed to an early death, the twelfth fairy mitigates the outcome by gifting Sleeping Beauty with over a hundred years of sleep. It seems the twelfth guest has similar powers of <b>“Lachesis</b>,” who decides the length of each incarnation, and so could alter the length of Sleeping Beauties <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="many" data-pwa-hint="Use 'much' or 'little' with uncountable nouns." data-pwa-id="pwa-14AD7D8E40DA3EF8747E57550B797FCA" data-pwa-rule-id="MANY_FEW_UNCOUNTABLE" data-pwa-suggestions="much~little">many</pwa> life’s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sleeping Beauty has the freedom to enter every room except the one which holds the spinning wheel, as the spinning wheel is symbolic of destiny and controlled by the <b>“Clotho.”</b> The Fate who spun the thread of life. She does just the opposite of warnings and enters the forbidden room. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pricks her finger, then blood appears; a clear symbol of death and sacrifice. Then She falls into a deep sleep as foretold by the thirteenth guest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> It <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="may be" data-pwa-hint="Possible confused word" data-pwa-id="pwa-DE22AE5C30FB1735D2C46C5048403F98" data-pwa-rule-id="MAY_BE" data-pwa-suggestions="maybe">may be</pwa> her destiny to sleep for a hundred years. However, I see the sleep as an allegory on her own lack of consciousness. As she has to experience the real world, not waste away in her father’s luxurious kingdom. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And oddly, her hundred years of sleep denote a wasted life, in which nothing of value <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="nothing of value is experienced" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-17E6166FE5675A4E41AA2CBAB7EDD290" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="we experience nothing of value~they experience nothing of value~I experience nothing of value~it experiences nothing of value~it experience nothing of value~someone experiences nothing of value~I experiences nothing of value~someone experience nothing of value~something experience nothing of value~they experiences nothing of value~we experiences nothing of value~something experiences nothing of value">is experienced</pwa>, except maybe dreams. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If she stays away from the sorrows of life, she also stays away from its bliss. However, it is inevitable she cannot stay safe and comfortable forever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> In the Charles Perrault version, there were seven fairies that rendered gifts of gold while the eighth old Fairy, who <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was not expected" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-23C2C874FB9CC7BF77AD5252BACB665D" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was not expected</pwa> to attend; cursed Sleeping Beauty. <i>“The King, to avoid the misfortune as foretold by the old fairy, caused immediately a proclamation to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be made" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-25BF1AD20654E22338B3E6BD3815C88D" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be made</pwa>, whereby everybody <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was forbidden" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-C3DEF420F030243A7BE88161A6974099" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was forbidden</pwa>, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle, or to have so much as any spindle in their houses.<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="’" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing single quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-6BB33FB7DB896665ED02AE0AA11F1A84" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">’</pwa>’</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So we can conclude the King was attempting to avoid any suffering for his daughter, yet no matter what how hard he tried, destiny intervened and his daughter entered the forbidden room. The forbidden room symbolizes the unconscious mind, where the archetype of the shadow exists, and all the psyche’s negative complexes <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="reside" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: live" data-pwa-id="pwa-A12A6CE9F316D60933B9E01F6BA33CBF" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2084" data-pwa-suggestions="live">reside</pwa>. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="She is forbidden" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-31B9C06CBEA18EF3BD6193CD25237F61" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I forbid her~It forbids her~They forbid her~I forbids her~It forbid her">She is forbidden</pwa> to enter because it will cause the death of her subconscious shadow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(7chakras). <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="In essence, both" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: Both" data-pwa-id="pwa-EB8C8AEA7BF0B416E6DC79987D37A7A9" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_254" data-pwa-suggestions="Both">In essence, both</pwa> versions reinforce the main theme of the evolution of consciousness through a particular cycle. </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Love," replied the fairy. "If a man of <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="pure" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing determiner" data-pwa-id="pwa-6AE3A1B553FF65A008ED5C79B36762C2" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_CG_2" data-pwa-suggestions="a pure~the pure">pure</pwa> heart was to fall in love with her that would bring her back to life!"</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Yes, how can a man fall in love and marry a sleeping girl? But we are talking about the levels of consciousness. Her sleep metaphorically implies a refusal to become conscious, as the twelfth fairy cannot predict when she will “wake up.” Only Sleeping Beauty can decide whether she will follow the spiritual path or stagnate. She has yet to integrate her masculine characteristics, symbolized by the prince. We also know that the prince is attempting to find Sleeping Beauty, which suggests there is a desire within the psyche to achieve a balance between the anima and animus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The idea of a" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: A" data-pwa-id="pwa-0ED29020DEBA1AD8513023944C88A81F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_106" data-pwa-suggestions="A">The idea of a</pwa> hundred years alludes to the many lifetimes it takes to wake up, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that is, " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-C38A2F7F986DB99B957932BF5E23C41F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_829" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">that is, </pwa>to bring up to consciousness every hidden aspect of her psyche. If one only identified with the physical senses and the material <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="world" data-pwa-hint="Missing comma after subordinate clause" data-pwa-id="pwa-AE597F0DBF8BEAE39B9526AC4CDC4079" data-pwa-rule-id="SUB_CLAUSE_2" data-pwa-suggestions="world,">world</pwa> it may take countless lives to awake. Her sleep is a prophetic warning signal to those who do not follow the spiritual path and miss their opportunity to evolve physically, mentally and psychologically in the 'now.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The fairy’s concern reveals a hidden detail about reincarnation. In that, the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="ancient's" data-pwa-hint="Change to plural form" data-pwa-id="pwa-59C9DAD6855018BD95C35D1F2B92ECC2" data-pwa-rule-id="NO_APOS" data-pwa-suggestions="ancients">ancient's</pwa> believed that familiar groups and families incarnate together, in the same location, to work out their karma. As then the soul could continue its relationships. This karmic arrangement allows for everyone in the castle to experience their life together ensuring a shared spiritual journey which explains why the whole castle <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is enchanted" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-A601D96E614157C94428FFF1C2E56F54" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is enchanted</pwa> by the sleeping spell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The prince symbolizes the archetypal masculine energy and is a counterbalance to the feminine. In “Snow White,” this same motive <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is symbolized" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-AD1B25FC01568D2BE7AF5C09BF6B9B94" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is symbolized</pwa> by her death and placement in a glass box until the Prince came to awaken her with a Kiss. When the Prince finally reaches the castle, he struggles through the thorns and bushes; he finds Sleeping Beauty and gives her a kiss. She responds by saying:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The belief in a 'Virgin-Born' divine child is a universal theme appearing in both religion and mythology. The Catholic Church’s traditional doctrine is that Jesus Christ's 'virgin birth' was an actual physical event caused by the Holy Spirit. A literal belief which implies a non-sexual conception and supernatural intervention and miraculous event. Contrary to a literal or historical understanding is from the allegorical perspective the 'Virgin Birth' refers to the importance of the reversal of sexual energy, from outward to inward and the birth of higher consciousness.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> There has been considerable speculation in recent years about the true meaning of the epithet 'Virgin Birth' particularly by scholars who interpret the motif from an astronomical perspective. Their theory is that Christ, like other pagan Gods; Mithra, Krishna, and Attis were personifications of the Sun, thus their birthdays were celebrated every winter solstice, near Dec.25, when the Sun rises from its' lowest position relative to earth thus the analogy of the birth of the Sun. And d</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">uring the winter solstice, the constellation Virgo rises over the eastern horizon at midnight, which accounts for the word “Virgin”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"<i>The origins of the cult of the Great Goddess, who was both virgin and mother, are prehistoric, but since the dawn of recorded history, the Great Goddess has been associated with the constellation Virgo. The Sun nowadays passes through the constellation of Virgo in September/October, and is, therefore, the constellation that announces the harvest. Virgo is the second largest constellation (after Hydra)."</i></span><b>(1)</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Some early scholars, researchers have assumed</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the connection between sexual intercourse and pregnancy wasn't clearly established in the minds of the pagans, so out of ignorance of the facts of life the pagans designated childbirth as exclusive property of womanhood, and applied the epithet "virgin" to indicate that men were not connected to the birth of children in any way. This viewpoint basically assumes the so-called heathens weren't smart enough to know that sex resulted in the birth of a child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">1.</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Christ was born from the Virgin Mary </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4. Dionysus was twice-born of Semele and Zeus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5. Buddha was born from the Virgin Maya</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6. Mithra was Virgin born from an egg-shaped stone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7. Perseus was Virgin born from the virgin Danae by Zeus<br /><br />8. Athena was considered Virgin born from Zeus’ head<br /><br />9. Zoroaster was immaculately conceived by a ray of reason<br /><br />10. Aphrodite was virgin born from the castration of Uranus.<br /><br />11. Cybele was born through the castration of Agdistis<br /><br />12. Attis born to Virgin Nana<br /><br />The original purpose of Mythology and Religion was to guide humanities spiritual growth because the mind hasn't yet gained direct access to illuminated levels of consciousness, where the laws of evolution are laid out clearly. The ancient philosophers of Greece, Egypt and India taught the immortality of the soul, reincarnation and eventual reunion with God. That is, each human is born onto this earth to develop their individual consciousness by experiencing all of life's triumphs and defeats. The soul reincarnates over long periods of undetermined length until their consciousness becomes individualized and aware of its immortality. Life’s karmic lessons are added to the next, building up one's depth of consciousness. When the exterior world begins to hold less of a grip on the mind, it naturally seeks for deeper answers to life, which can be accomplished through self-examination and meditation, physical culture, diet, and a simple lifestyle.<br /><br />The ancients wrote in the form of parables and allegories due to the fact this was the only way to communicate abstract spiritual concepts. Symbolism is a universal type of subjective language that communicates complex information from higher planes of consciousness. Symbols, such as the "Serpent" (Kundalini) and “Virgin Birth”( sublimation) were poetically arranged to carry a special meaning referring to a specific reality of attaining enlightenment, which is why ancient myths penetrate deep into the human psyche.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sublimated sexual energy is transformed into 'Soma', which is a type subtle energy which feeds the brain and crown chakra. This process releases the desire for outward fulfillment to some extent. The sublimated energy ascends upward, through the spine in order to feed the brain and nerves resulting in an experience of unending bliss. In fact, nothing is sacrificed except the short length of sexual pleasure is traded in for a longer and more permanent experience of enlightenment. In a private research paper written by The Institute of Consciousness Research, it is explained just how the transformative process is understood at this time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Second, another activity starts in the genital region. Upon the awakening (of Kundalini) the reproductive juices are sucked up in a now unknown way and poured into the spinal column. Exactly how this suction is applied will have to be determined by research. This stream rising through the spine represents the ‘‘nectar" or “Ambrosia" repeatedly mentioned in the treatise on Kundalini. Its entry into the spinal cord and then into the brain is marked by exquisitely pleasurable sensations - even exceeding those of orgasm. During the course of its ascent into the brain, this stream is ramified into smaller streams which irrigate the visceral organs through the nerve plexuses or the “Chakras”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Streams subtle prana can be distinctly felt moving into various organs stomach, liver, intestines lungs. A new process opens up and channels subtle prana into the organs to meet additional needs. The body and the brain are thus designed for the manifestation of higher consciousness. In a similar vein, to yogic practices, the Chinese Taoist developed a method called the "circulation of the light" or 'Microcosmic Orbit', a practice that leads Chi up the spine and into the head then back down the front of the body for the purpose of transforming the initiate's consciousness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The adjective “Virgin’’ is a figure of speech referring to a process, not a particular person or Mother or Goddess. It denotes a physiological and biological transformation resulting in the expansion of consciousness. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Take the example of Lord Krishna’s birth, India’s most famous and beloved Avatar, whose worship, according to the latest archaeological site at </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dwarka</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, India, dates back at least 14,500 years or more, 35,000 years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Lord Krishna is worshiped as the eighth reincarnation of the god Vishnu. The </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bhagavata</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Purana states he was born without sexual union. His mother </span>Devaki<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> became pregnant by “mental transmission from her husband Vasudeva”. Many modern Christian scholars insist that </span>Devaki<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> wasn't a Virgin because her previous seven children were conceived through physical intercourse. Of course, this makes perfect sense if it was a normal physical event, but such an opinion completely contradicts the allegorical nature of the ancient religious texts. Krishna is a deification of the process of enlightenment, he is a personification of the soul and the power of </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kundalini. His virgin birth is not a literal event, but an indication of that sexual energy must be sublimated as part of the path toward higher consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is an episode in Krishna’s’ life where he subdues the giant serpent “Kaliya.’’ Krishna grabs the serpent and opens its mouth, and discovers the whole universe lays inside.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Are these literal historic events? Of course not, the story can</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> only</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> be understood rationally as an allegory, about the spiral nature of the universe, that is filled with intelligent cosmic prana.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In a similar metaphoric interpretation, a virgin birth</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">does not describe a </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">physical act. Devaki had seven children before Krishna, his birth refers to the opening to the eternal soul. Krishna's </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">seven brothers are analogous to the seven chakras which are transfigured and released before the crown chakra is opened, resulting in the metaphorical birth of the "Divine Child”, so the whole story has to be understood metaphorically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Another famous example of a ‘Virgin Birth’ is indigenous to the ancient dynastic culture of Egypt. Three archetypal Egyptian gods, Osiris, Isis and Horus represented the Holy Trinity of ancient Egyptian religious thought.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Goddess Isis represents the feminine energy of </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kundalini, Osiris is the masculine archetype, who judges the dead and is also the god of resurrection. Horus is the symbol of the divine child, and a personification of the newly born consciousness, he is the mediator. The evil Set, also called Typhon (or serpent) represents the destructive power of the serpent or chaos. The Myth of the divine child “Horus” is long and convoluted yet contains clear references to his “Virgin Birth”. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Osiris had been murdered by his brother Set and dismembered into fourteen parts that were scattered throughout the land of Egypt. All </span><span class="" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">fourteen body parts </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">were recovered by Isis and her sister Nephthys except the phallus. With her magic, Isis resurrected Osiris and fashioned a new golden phallus and became pregnant with her son Horus, who was called 'Virgin Born' by the Egyptians. Horus’ birth appears self-contradictory when presumed a literal event; as it implies that a castration instigated a series of events that eventually leads to the birth of Horus. The key component of the castration motif is 'Loss of Sexuality' which is consistent with the theme of sublimation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The castration motif also appears in Greek and Phrygian myths. In Greek mythology, Cronus castrated the sky god Uranus whose phallus fell into the sea and formed Aphrodite out of the ocean's foam. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Phrygian</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> mythology, the Goddess Cybele was created when the Olympian Gods castrated the hermaphrodite</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>Agdistis<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">,</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> who then became the Phrygia Goddess Cybele or “Magna Mater’’ (Great Mother). When the phallus fell to earth it grew into an almond tree, afterward the virgin Nana placed one of the almond seeds on her chest and became pregnant with </span>Attis<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, which ties both motifs of the Virgin birth and castration together in one Myth, implying a "loss of sexuality” as a metaphor that precedes the birth of a divine child of God. Thus the plot revolves around the sublimation of sexuality and its connection to the transformation of consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An explanation of the 'virgin birth' as a metaphor referring </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">indicating </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the reversal of sexual energy </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is much more logical than to assume the pagans were merely into phallus worship, which is just one explanation accepted by early scholars, or that they were ignorant sex was related to childbirth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The fact that castration could result in the birth of a Goddess is simply a poetic way to link reversed sexual energy and spirituality. There would be no mention of castration if the ancients were actually worshiping the Phallus as a type of sexual or fertility deity, as this act contradicts the very concept of phallic worship. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Sexual relationships have been reduced to a ritualistic war pitting the procreative desires against sensual pleasures while ignoring</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the third option, the sublimation of sexual energy and its' importance to the continued evolution of the brain and higher consciousness.</span></span> This ignorance will probably lead to the fall of Christianity and the triumph of the pleasure principle. As both the pleasure mode and procreative mode are exclusionary models are out of balance with the third option of spirituality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The endless bliss of higher consciousness continues to linger unnoticed by our civilization as a whole. Caused in part by the common view that religion is detrimental to human society, an attitude that completely misses the point, that allegory is one of the few methods to express<span style="text-align: justify;"> the evolution of consciousness. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Astrology is an esoteric science which seeks to understand the energetic influences of the cosmos on nature including the human soul. Astrologers consider the Sun a planetary star-a symbol for the human personality. From a spiritual point of view a symbol of the the human soul. Other planets and stars also have their own energetic component which influences humanity. The planet Mercury rules the mind, Venus; love and beauty, the Moon governs ones emotions, Mars: sexual energy and aggression. The obvious point here is that the “Sun” is not worshiped in astrology, it’s a symbol for the eternal consciousness that governs life in the universe. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ancients understood this point and used astrological dates such as the winter and summer solstice for their fertility ceremonies, which were meant to increase the abundance of the earth, soil and vegetation. These special days are incorporated into the birth and death of the mythic gods as they represent the most advantageous time of the year when spiritual progress can be achieved</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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majority of ancient Gods, such as Christ, Krishna, Attis, and Mithra are
entirely based on astrological correspondences and, further, that they are all
inherently “Sun Gods.” This short sighted idea misrepresents ancient mythology
and religion, reducing it to a materialistic circus of celestial jokers. In
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(6) Isis, Osiris, Horus and Set were not just vegetation or solar Gods;
they were also symbolic representations of the different archetypes within the
Human soul. Isis represented the power of transformation and a Virgin Birth,
which is a symbol for sublimation of the sexual energy; Set, a personification of
the destructive power of the Serpent – depicted as a golden snake which destroyed
the Sun each night. Osiris was the God of the underworld and judge of the dead.
Horus represented the divine child within each person that is reborn to a
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(7) The life and death cycles of nature became a metaphor applied to
the human soul, reflecting its reincarnation cycle through the signs of the
zodiac and soul’s judgment in the underworld, its return to earth and final
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of poetic allegory, built with symbols and motifs reflective of a spiritual
awakening. These symbols are communicated from inner planes of consciousness
which seek to guide humanity on the right path in order to transform the
physical body into a perfect instrument of the soul’s expression. As if from a
cosmic seed, humanity is unfolding on this planet, destined to bloom into a cosmic
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(9) The “Sun” and “Solar Disk” are more than just symbols of our
planetary star. They are both iconic images, analogous to mystical
illumination, expressing the radiance of one who has entered into the state of
Samadhi or Cosmic Consciousness. The Image of the Sun and Serpent are
inseparable in Egyptian iconography. In the case of the God "RA", the
golden Sun Disk sits atop his head.
Likewise, Isis is depicted with a white Moon disk on her head. These head ornaments correspond to the male and female archetypal energies
and the colors experienced in meditation. This spiritual interpretation of the solar
disk as the mechanism responsible for inner illumination is more in line with
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identified as a cobra. This was called a Uraeus, a symbol for the Goddess
Wadjet. Wearing this crown was a sign of Divine authority and protection.
Wadjet was the guardian and patron God of the Nile Deltas and protector of Lower Egypt</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and upon unification with Upper Egypt,
the joint protector and patron of all of Egypt. Symbolically speaking the
Uraeus clearly shows an upright serpent projecting out of the forehead of the
Pharaoh which would translate into a symbolic representation the Pharaoh had
awakened the Serpent power and opened his third eye. The third eye was traditionally
known as the doorway into the psychic realm, enabling one to gain access to the
powers of intuition and foresight. It signifies the powers acquired over many
lives and that of the Pharaohs authority of royal decent. In this
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mythology. For thousands of years Western Scholars have misinterpreted it as a
literal snake, or condemned it as Satan. Interpreting the serpent as an image
which denotes the ascension of prana, or sublimated sexual energy, up the spine
in a curved path allows the core doctrines of religious narratives, scriptures
and Mythology to be compared and analyzed in a logical manner. Since it is a
biological process, these changes can be physically verified through a research
program, finally bridging the obtuse chasm between religion and science.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">12) Related symbols, such as the Virgin birth, staffs with pine cones, the Caduceus and world tree, golden treasures, the sacred Bull, and the Sun are universal elements found in world religions due to the fact they are a visual form of communication originating from the sequence of events that follow the awakening of Kundalini.<br /><br />(13) Mythology and religions were created to guide humanity in the discovery of hidden mental and spiritual laws that govern the evolution of the brain and our psychological health. These laws, when followed, lead to a better understanding of one’s timeless self. Our present human condition, which is based on a rebellion against the natural order of life, can only lead to more suffering. Today, the greatest tragedy is not the crimes committed by the religious establishment or the international banking system, but by the tragic ignorance of our spiritual destiny. The real solution and the road to happiness have always laid in knowledge of oneself.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The recent theory espoused by the movie Zeitgeist, that the majority of ancient Gods, such as Christ, Krishna, Attis and Mithras are entirely based upon astrological correspondences to to the Sun is misguided. It misrepresents ancient mythology and religion by reducing it to a materialistic circus of celestial jokers. Only a small selection of world’s mythic narratives are related to the deification of the Sun. The ancient philosophers were more concerned with the human soul and its self-perfection in the exact fashion as today's religious worshipers.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The largest portion of narratives fall into the “Origins Category’’. That is Mythology which recounts the story of creation, either of the first human or of the primal earth and also the deification of natural forces into Gods. But the most important category of Mythology that has been overlooked or ignored is the most obvious, it is an interpretation based upon a personal spiritual awakening and expansion of consciousness. This is the real secret scholars with an atheistic bent of mind cannot acknowledge, as it defines the worlds’ religions and Mythology in terms of a common spiritual experience. This is the most significant psychological discovery in religion, mythology and legend and also the most obvious. Humanity has a deep seeded desire to experience oneness with all that exists, an urge to “Know Thyself ’’ and return to wholeness. The great scriptures are founded on this spiritual impulse which the (Sacred Spiral or Kundalini Paradigm) postulates is biologically imprinted into the human genome.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Isis (Demeter) and (Osiris) Dionysos were not just vegetation or solar gods, they were also symbolic representations of the Human soul. After one died their Soul/Heart was judged in the underworld of Amenti or Duat by Osiris; Who weighted it against a feather to judge its' Karmic fate. One was later reincarnated through a preordained cycle of bodies until the mind became completely conscious. The Greek philosophers Plato, Pythagoras and the Orphic worshipers believed in Metempsychosis (reincarnation). </span><a href="http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/A133SECT1" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alcmaeon</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">, a Greek Pythagorean, taught the soul is immortal and that it resembled the gods (e.g. the sun and moon) because of their constant motion .(1) </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In the structure of Greek religion, the lesser mysteries were symbolic myths dealing with the fertility of nature and astral theology. While the greater mysteries uncovered the secrets of Kundalini and enlightenment which were revealed in intricate ceremonies as an initiate hopefully experienced a moment of Gnosis or spiritual ecstasy. Only in the lesser mysteries was the Sun worshiped. The great initiates thought of the Sun as the central creative being in the solar system and a symbol of one’s soul, which reincarnated through all forms of lower animals and the different signs of the zodiac before becoming enlightened. Thus the soul corresponded with the Sun in the sense that it was filled with light and was the central consciousness and life force in the solar system. This explanation is the reason why Christ is surrounded by twelve apostles and Hercules had twelve labors. It was a metaphor for the soul's journey and growth through the houses of the zodiac which molded ones consciousness experiences into a unique individual being. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">His words clearly state that not only did the stars influence events on earth they also were symbols relative to the Souls evolutionary growth and life (Logos). </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Religious narratives are a form of poetic allegory built with symbols on a universal archetype reflective of a spiritual awakening. The transformation is predicated and controlled by the logos/consciousness of the higher self which seeks to transform the physical body into a perfect instrument of its' expression. In this sense humanity is not evolving but unfolding its' potential as if it was seeded, maturing into its final form with cosmic consciousness. Analogous to the evolutionary growth all animals, vegetables and minerals which mature from a small seed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants clearly are an ongoing ecological disaster, as of Feb.2012 the temperature inside the core of plant 2 continues to rise upward by 20 degrees without any remedy available except the use of boric acid (2). The radioactivity has spread to surrounding countries and each has reacted to the fallout according to own individualistic standards. In the United States the University of California, Berkeley has also detected elevated levels (150 times above EPA permissible level) of cesium in milk from San Francisco area .(3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No international nuclear regulatory organization has stepped forward with a practical plan to prevent the continued radioactive contamination of the Japanese people or for that matter, the worldwide environment. The Japanese government under the watch of their Environmental Ministry and Japans’ Atomic Energy Commission will determine which corporations are chosen to participate in the clean-up projects. There are no experts in the field of decontamination, yet three large corporations are receiving the first payouts of $13 billion in contracts for the initial cleanup of an 18,000 square mile area. According to a New York Times article, it is some of the same large corporations that helped to build 45 of Japan’s 54 nuclear plants. $93 million has been awarded for 12 pilot decontamination projects to a consortium led by Taisei Corporation, along with Obayashi and Kaijima Corp.(4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Why are the same corporations that have had a hand in the construction and lucrative field of nuclear power are now going to receive the majority of the cleanup funds? This is the same mindset as the banking bailout in America that rewarded the perpetrators of the failure with taxpayer money. So what are alternative solutions to this release of radioactive particles into the earth’s atmosphere and contamination of the Pacific Ocean?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some writers have suggested that the Japanese should relocate into upper Russia. In the meantime (TEPCO) could end up declaring bankruptcy as their outstanding liabilities may be more than $ 100 billion.(5) When it comes down to the final answer, official voices are silent. It has always been about short term planning lead by the profit motive, so don’t expect it to get any better. It is good news that there are reasonable solutions which can be relatively inexpensive which limit the continued damage. The bad news is there will always be a lot of resistance to new ideas. Presented are list practices, Eco-technologies and inventive ideas that have not yet been fully utilized or studied on a large scale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> These possible remedies are all based on esoteric energy theories unacknowledged by modern science, yet as in the case of Agnihotra, there is historic precedence in India dating back thousands of years to the Vedic period. The physics of nuclear remediation should be understood on an energetic level, one which takes into account the spiral nature of the ethers within the philosophical perspective of subtle energies mentioned in all the ancient religious belief systems. In general alternative energy research is based on the premise that the universe floats in a sea cosmic Prana or Chi and in modern terms zero-point energy. This is the very same philosophical foundation that underlies the Alchemical paradigm. The four elements of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air are created from the ethers, which form the physical foundation of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> This ether theory is identical to the thinking of numerous alternative energy researchers, such as Viktor Schauberger, Nicholas Tesla, Walter Russell, and Pier Luigi Ighina. I have read and studied their writings on subtle energy for over thirty years; and, I present these findings with the hope that others will at least take their information seriously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Agnihotra is the foremost remedy for neutralizing atmospheric fallout. It is an ancient Vedic science of healing and purification of the atmosphere by a ceremonial fire-- a Vedic (Yanja) Ritual or sacrifice that was revealed to the ‘Rishis’.whose earliest written records were from the Rig-Veda (circa 1400.B.C. (6) The Indian Vedic culture had expanded throughout the world thousands of years ago. Agnihotra’s true significance had been forgotten and neglected due to wars and ecological disasters which split India into separate warring tribes thus losing the important ecological reason behind the Yanja practices<u>.(7)</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.biodynamics.com/content/heal-atmosphere-neutralize-radiation">Agnihotra</a> involves creating a small fire in a copper pyramid of specific size and shape, at exactly sunrise and sunset each day, thus tuning into the energies of the Sun. A simple Sanskrit mantra is repeated, at exactly sunrise and sunset each day, which helps the uplifting vibrations. The materials burned are dried cow dung, ghee (clarified butter) and unpolished rice. During the fire healing energies emanates from the copper pyramid. The auric field is purified and enhanced around all people and plants within a certain distance from the fires. Other copper pyramids can be buried in the land to act resonance points which absorb and spread the energetic purification into the land and atmosphere. Agnihotra fires can benefit numerous applications--the ash can be used for folk medicines, or in agriculture as a purified nontoxic alkaline fertilizer that carries a large number of minerals. Plants, animals and humans become much more healthy and resistance to diseases within the range of Agnihotra fires . The fires help the mind to overcome depression and addictions (8). There are many individual stories of the important healing qualities of the alkaline ash when used topically or in addition with herbs .(9) The central point is through healing the atmosphere, the ecological environment and the people in the surrounding areas are also healed.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Vasant V. Paranjpe has been a tireless yogi and activist in spreading this knowledge. In the book “Homa Therapy, Our Last Chance” (chp3) he says that when Agnihotra is performed harmful radiation and pollution in the atmosphere is collected by the smoke on a very subtle level, neutralizing the particles of radiation. “Agnihotra ash totally solves the radiation problem. Even more, so Agnihotra negates its effect. Agnihotra neutralizes harmful radiation and cleanses the planet." (10) The healing properties of the fires are locked into the sacred ash; it can be added to water for drinking or for gardening, or taken with herbs to increase the medicinal properties. Ghee mixed with sacred ash will create poultices to heal the skin. Monicka Koch of Germany, a pharmacist, and Agnihotra researcher have written a book on this subject called Homa Therapy, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fire is an element of purification. Due to the geometric shape of the inverted pyramid used in Agnihotra the fire moves upward in a spiral pathway. The four equal sides of any regular pyramid direct subtle ethers to the center where a twin spiral develops and ascends upward against gravity to the apex of the pyramid. When a pyramid face is aligned north these energetic properties are increased. To paraphrase a book by Tony Busby“ The Secrets of the Bible “ he writes that if a light is projected into a glass pyramid in exact scale and proportion to the Great Pyramid, a rainbow serpent is created. The light creates a subtle energetic energy field in a vertical spiral. This relates to the quote by the Egyptian priesthood “A serpent lies coiled in the Great Pyramid.” (11)<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Countless books have been written speculating on the true significance of why the Egyptians put such a great effort into constructing monumental edifices such as the Giza pyramids. It comes down to sacred geometry and its resonance with the subtle ethers. A pyramid shape, whether inverted or upright produces an energetic spiral within its interior. This spiral can be adopted for use to raise and purify water or generate vibration by resonance in a crystal at its apex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After studying the concepts of numerous alternative energy researchers one discovers a general belief that the universe is constructed of subtle ethers that follow a curved pathway, smaller than what is generally conceived in particle physics but similar to subatomic whirlpools which are hollow in the center. Pier Lugia Ighina described these as magnetic particles that gave motion and form to all life. He invented the superior microscope that could bring such particles in view and also created weather modification devices using his knowledge. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Viktor Schauberger’s extensive writings also point to the fact the spiral pathway is the natural direction which nature utilizes to build up the elements of water, earth, and air. According to his observations when water is allowed to flow naturally it will curve, similar to rivers winding movement. The curving motion of water energizes its atomic structure by the energetic implosion of the atmospheric ethers that transforms water into a buoyant life-sustaining element.T he pathway that opposes the curve is the straight line, which creates heat, breaking the bonds of the water rendering it dead of any life. A straight line is an explosive and destructive pathway. Again heating water will purify it of microbes and toxins but at the same time, it destroys its life-sustaining properties. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why does this simple fire have so many healing and positive effects? The vessel is shaped in the form of an inverted step pyramid, usually constructed of copper, though gold is also an expensive alternative. I believe the reason is the spiral nature of the ethers are utilized by using an inverted pyramid-- the fire spins in a natural way following the same imploding spiral nature required for purification and renewal of the atmosphere and all four elements. So it is not that heat itself is destructive, but the direction of its path makes the difference. When a fire is turned in a spiral direction upward, due to the resonance within an inverted pyramid, it follows a natural spiral pathway that will subsequently purify the atmosphere and create the proper mineral balance in the ashes left over. The vessel in which the sacred fire takes place is called Kunda which is similar to the word Kundalini.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It has been said that the healing qualities of the Agnihotra fire are locked into the ash or in other words the fires attract minerals into the ash because of the implosive motion. Therefore, we can count four energetic aspects working in Agnihotra. First, the spiritual awareness the person brings to the practice, as this world is, in reality, a physical form of consciousness. Second, the vessel shape is an inverted pyramid that produces a corresponding purifying spiral in the Agnihotra fire. Third, the timing of the fire resonates with solar energies. Fourth, the materials burnt, Ghee, unpolished rice and cow dung.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It may seem odd that cow dung is burned, but this goes back to ancient cultural practices which were more in balance with nature. The cow has evolved in a symbiotic relationship with a man over a very long period, probably thousands of years. It is an animal with one stomach with four compartments to digest its diet of grass. The use of cow dung in treating sickness was very common in India; this is one reason why in Hinduism the cow is a sacred is revered animal… There are many medicinal properties to cow dung cakes that are released into the atmosphere after burning are Phenol, Indol, Menthol, and Ammonia. Formalin is contained in cow dung, these bacteriophages destroy pathogens. In addition to antibacterial properties (12), Some Indians use dried cow dung and cow urine as a disinfectant and medicine. Dried cow dung is considered to have antibacterial properties as Italian scientist Prof, GE Bea has proven. Malaria and tuberculosis germs can be killed by fresh cow dung. (13)<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now if Japan would start to take this ancient Eco-technology seriously, it would be proven in a very short time an Agnihotra fire and ash fertilizer has tremendous positive effects on agriculture including restoration of a clean atmosphere. Experiments could easily occur in small towns first, then proceed to use the ash at all radiation sites. The first action Japan should take is setting up large areas near the reactors where Agnihotra fires would burn 24 hours a day.The ash should then be placed around and in the reactors. Agnihotra has been ignored in the western media because of the lack of communication between cultures and no-doubt skepticism of the religious and scientific communities. There are no large corporations to fund its expansion as it is basically a competitor to their bottom line in medicine and fertilizer industries. But anyone with an open mind who reads the healing testimonies and Homa farm reports from Peru and India will understand this is a viable answer and practice. When it comes down to it the people themselves must wake up and make the decision to live in a clean environment and not leave it to someone else.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Reference Links:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://enenews.com/highest-level-radioactive-cesium-san-francisco-area-milk-august-2011-150-epas-maximum-contaminant-limit-chart">http://enenews.com/highest-level-radioactive-cesium-san-francisco-area-milk-august-2011-150-epas-maximum-contaminant-limit-chart </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/business/global/after-fukushima-disaster-a-confused-effort-at-cleanup.html?scp=1&sq=fukishim">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/business/global/after-fukushima-disaster-a-confused-effort-at-cleanup.html?scp=1&sq=fukishim </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14383832">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14383832 </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnihotra">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnihotra </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_worship">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_worship </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.agnihotra.org/content/what-agnihotra">http://www.agnihotra.org/content/what-agnihotra </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.terapiahoma.com/english/index.htm">http://www.terapiahoma.com/english/index.htm </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.agnihotra.org/sites/default/files/sat311.pdf">http://www.agnihotra.org/sites/default/files/sat311.pdf</a></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Titan, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Iapetos" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Iapetos" data-pwa-id="pwa-F39C1EFD79CE0E47B7BCF107384B1A36" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="airports~opiates~appetizer~Iapetus~opioids">Iapetos</pwa> was the father of Prometheus, and <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="his brother was called" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-F740228D1326B43E50F32030593B4033" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I called his brother~they called his brother~we called his brother~it called his brother~something called his brother~someone called his brother">his brother was called</pwa> Epimetheus. The ancient Greeks derived the name, Prometheus from the word (pro) which means before and ‘<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="matheno" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: matheno" data-pwa-id="pwa-D037742CF3D07A0FF74C1882720A55AD" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="mother~then~myth~than~method">matheno</pwa>’ (learn) plus the suffix–<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="(" data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '(' may require a space before it. Consider adding a space." data-pwa-id="pwa-1D2A6FDD47C624A1357F0210BAA48CEB" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=" (">(</pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="eus" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: eus" data-pwa-id="pwa-D11955AACE5CBE0A5E0799A297E18B3D" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="us~bus~ens~pus~ess">eus</pwa>), creating the epithet Pro-<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="methten" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: methten" data-pwa-id="pwa-E0F36B1F37AB40EF8317F652117BC52F" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="methane~motivation~mutation~imitation~mutton">methten</pwa>-<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="eus" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: eus" data-pwa-id="pwa-3F6B3C89C53863EA99F41689B365439F" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="bus~us~ous~pus~ers">eus </pwa>or ‘Forethinker'. Plato contrasted Prometheus -‘Forethinker’ with his brother Epimetheus which meant dim-witted or “<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Afterthinker" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Afterthinker" data-pwa-id="pwa-E3C9D6170AE93F94552775D016B6722E" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="After thinker">Afterthinker</pwa>”. (1) </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Modern linguistic research suggests the name Prometheus, which was derived from Proto-Indo-European root of the Vedic language; “par math” which means (to steal), therefore his name breaks down into pramathyu-s, the thief of fire. There is also an ancient Sanskrit Vedic hymn '<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Mātariśvan" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Mātariśvan" data-pwa-id="pwa-D981A0D5B30D649C9059E7CD3AE3AC67" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Madeiravine">Mātariśvan'</pwa> based on the theft of fire. Another connection to Indian origin is that the word “<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Pramantha" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Pramantha" data-pwa-id="pwa-598E4B40241CC9092B5700C090E43728" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Pramanta~Pramatha~paramount~paramountcy~Paramount">Pramantha</pwa>” in Vedic Sanskrit was a tool used to create fire. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Zeus and the Olympian gods gave Prometheus the power to create the first humans from the clay of the Earth. similar to the biblical Jehovah. Prometheus became the inspirational source for the discovery of new technologies which made civilization possible. He was particularly well known for his intelligence and as a protector of humanity, his actions resulted in a conflict with the reigning God Zeus. </span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> Prometheus is infamous for stealing fire from the Gods and giving it to mankind. Zeus punished him in two ways by staking staked him to the Caucus mountains, where an eagle ate his liver each night for thirty thousand years. Secondly , his brother Epimetheus created Pandora who let loose the evil into the world. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b><u>Mythology is Poetry of the soul</u>,</b> that originates from higher planes of consciousness, and which downloads specific symbols and motifs into the mind of the mystic, <span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1552593834985_2798954906397906" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span>to keep humanity on the path of spiritual evolution. </span>Higher consciousness contains unbelievable amounts of information and meaning, however, such subtle perceptions of the mystical realms are difficult to communicate by language alone. The ancients used the visual arts of painting, architecture, and dance ceremony dance to convey many spiritual insights. The ancient legends and myths act in the same way as music and bypass the rational mind to directly affecting the psyche. </div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> I will use two major themes to interpret Prometheus; The first method is from the microcosmic viewpoint of the individual evolution based on the Kundalini paradigm; </span>Referring to the path to enlightenment, by the process of reincarnation and self<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" – " data-pwa-hint="En-dashes should never have a space on either side." data-pwa-id="pwa-77DA3C2ED47AFF5802059C4AC4DA99C0" data-pwa-rule-id="EN_DASH_SPACING" data-pwa-suggestions="–~—"> – </pwa> observation, spiritual practice and love of God.</div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And second, is the macrocosmic viewpoint referring to the conscious forces behind creation. Most writers confuse the subtle differences between the inner transformation and the exterior world of elements because the ancients used the same symbol for both domains. On this cosmological scale, a similar spiral motion (of the serpent Kundalini) appears in creation myths as the world serpent twisted around the Mundane egg<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=")" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing parenthesis or bracket without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-AC25743D805FA731E7DFB59359C32F91" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">)</pwa>.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span> <span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1552599392794_5675917848085135" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1552599392941_743797234240045" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1552599398847_668275593780566" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><br />Prometheus <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was tasked" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-75C17358F48FD65A61F575816F838FFE" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was tasked</pwa> with the creation of man, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Consequently, the" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: The" data-pwa-id="pwa-13765CE488451E75F43B2653891C740A" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_814" data-pwa-suggestions="The">Consequently, the</pwa> two brothers divided up their responsibilities. Prometheus represented forethought (future) and Epimetheus afterthought (past). Prometheus formed man out of various mixtures of earth and fire within the interior of the earth. But before mankind could find the light of the day, Prometheus and Epimetheus had to distribute suitable qualities to the animals and mankind. Plato finishes the story by writing:<br /><br /><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1552599411625_13847228060904526" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“Epimetheus said to Prometheus: ‘Let me <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="distribute," data-pwa-hint="It appears that you have an unnecessary comma in a compound predicate. Consider removing it." data-pwa-id="pwa-CBF2338C3D0D322E16FB9FE2E8E030C1" data-pwa-rule-id="UN_COMMA" data-pwa-suggestions="distribute">distribute,</pwa> and do you inspect. ’<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="This was agreed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-F417D8F9AFCDCB0A3148877B20CD1678" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I agreed This~they agreed This~it agreed This~us agreed This~someone agreed This~something agreed This">This was agreed</pwa>, and Epimetheus made the distribution [of claws and fur and other attributes].<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" ." data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '.' may require a space after it, not before. Consider moving the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-53AFF58EA9D136CBBFA9A61EB22AE1A9" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=". "> .</pwa>Thus did Epimetheus, who, not being <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="very wise" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: wise, bright, clever, intelligent, smart" data-pwa-id="pwa-70933B0E6D926E823A274E12EC3AFD72" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2216" data-pwa-suggestions="wise~bright~clever~intelligent~smart">very wise</pwa>, forgot that he had distributed among the brute animals all the qualities which he had to give-and when he came to man, who was still unprovided, he <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was terribly perplexed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-CFC6EBC1D768C11DF6145371945A0253" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was terribly perplexed</pwa>. Now while he was in this perplexity, Prometheus came to inspect the distribution, and he found that the other animals <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="were suitably furnished" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-25ABE9EBB490BA78FAEF874D628D0096" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">were suitably furnished</pwa>, but that man alone was naked and shoeless and had neither bed nor arms of defense. The appointed hour was approaching when <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="man" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing determiner" data-pwa-id="pwa-71FC3C9EE6F0270A1AE45CC1FD4FD322" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_CG_2" data-pwa-suggestions="a man~the man">man</pwa> in his turn was to go forth into the light of day; and Prometheus, not knowing how he could devise his salvation, stole the mechanical arts of Hephaistos and Athene, and fire with them.”</span><span style="color: #e69138;"> </span>(2)<br /><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1552599420970_6015965957403648" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><br />The ancient Greek philosophers believed in reincarnation or ‘Metempsychosis.’ But before a soul reached the level of becoming a human being the ancients believed it had evolved through every lower form of existence, from the minerals to plants to an animal, finally incarnating as an individual man. This concept shows why Epimetheus distributed all the animal's characteristics first, and Prometheus had to uplift humanity by stealing the Kundalini fire.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1552599489688_15798459836098777" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><br /><br /></span></div><div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Every form of life rises to a certain level of perfection and stops evolving if it cannot upgrade its physical form to embody a higher level of consciousness. For example, certain fish and animals that have not changed in 350 million years, having reached their final stage of growth and balance as a species. The world slowly evolves from gross forms to refined forms, which explains the disappearance of dinosaurs and other earlier monstrous expressions of divine consciousness. Mankind doesn’t have claws or fur; but applies its ingenuity and creativity to survive, as represented by the discoveries and arts which Prometheus <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="bestowed" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: gave" data-pwa-id="pwa-A02EC00F752F5C71DF7564396B511362" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2027" data-pwa-suggestions="gave">bestowed</pwa> on humanity. In the words of Theodore Roszak; Humans are an “unfinished <pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="animal,”we" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: animal,”we" data-pwa-id="pwa-B1F301E1E70EDBDD6CB3D7EBC218AA41" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="animal,”we" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: animal,”we" data-pwa-id="pwa-8571973239C783A79DEB0AF40B81A93D" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="">animal</pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="animal,”we" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: animal,”we" data-pwa-id="pwa-B1F301E1E70EDBDD6CB3D7EBC218AA41" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="animal,”we" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: animal,”we" data-pwa-id="pwa-8571973239C783A79DEB0AF40B81A93D" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="">,”</pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="animal,”we" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: animal,”we" data-pwa-id="pwa-B1F301E1E70EDBDD6CB3D7EBC218AA41" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="animal,”we" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: animal,”we" data-pwa-id="pwa-8571973239C783A79DEB0AF40B81A93D" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="">we</pwa></pwa> are one stage above the animal while striving toward a spiritual ideal. This ancient’s perception of evolution was the philosophical foundation underpinning ancient myths long before Darwin’s theory and was far more detailed and complex- as it involved the incarnation of consciousness into the physical matter. The Promethean fire is analogous to “Kundalini”, which continuously burns within all creation and is the intelligent power responsible for general evolution.<br /><br /><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1552599582075_7850298328579439" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span>In Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus adds additional details to mans’ creation myths:<br /><br /><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“After stealing fire from the gods Prometheus instructed mankind in the arts: Prometheus: Listen to the miseries that beset mankind--how they were witless before and I made them have sense and endowed them with reason. I will not speak to upbraid mankind but to set forth the friendly purpose that inspired my blessing. First of all, though they had eyes to see, they saw to no avail; they had ears, but they did not understand; but, just as shapes in dreams, throughout their length of days, without purpose, they wrought all things in confusion. They had neither knowledge of houses built of bricks and turned to face the sun nor yet of work in wood; but dwelt beneath the ground like swarming ants, in sunless caves. They had no sign either of winter or of flowery spring or of fruitful summer, on which they could depend but managed everything without judgment, I taught them to discern the risings of the stars and their settings, which are difficult to distinguish. Yes, and numbers, too, chiefest of sciences, I invented for them, and the combining of letters, creative mother of the Mousai’s (Muses’) arts, with which to hold all things in memory."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-A44FC8C0D65EA237C4FEB268E3FF3D87" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“After stealing fire from the gods Prometheus instructed mankind in the arts: Prometheus: Listen to the miseries that beset mankind--how they were witless before and I made them have sense and endowed them with reason. I will not speak to upbraid mankind but to set forth the friendly purpose that inspired my blessing. First of all, though they had eyes to see, they saw to no avail; they had ears, but they did not understand; but, just as shapes in dreams, throughout their length of days, without purpose, they wrought all things in confusion. They had neither knowledge of houses built of bricks and turned to face the sun nor yet of work in wood; but dwelt beneath the ground like swarming ants, in sunless caves. They had no sign either of winter or of flowery spring or of fruitful summer, on which they could depend but managed everything without judgment, I taught them to discern the risings of the stars and their settings, which are difficult to distinguish. Yes, and numbers, too, chiefest of sciences, I invented for them, and the combining of letters, creative mother of the Mousai’s (Muses’) arts, with which to hold all things in memory."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-3778B95D92EBB7F537761C754B67A815" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“After stealing fire from the gods Prometheus instructed mankind in the arts: Prometheus: Listen to the miseries that beset mankind--how they were witless before and I made them have sense and endowed them with reason. I will not speak to upbraid mankind but to set forth the friendly purpose that inspired my blessing. First of all, though they had eyes to see, they saw to no avail; they had ears, but they did not understand; but, just as shapes in dreams, throughout their length of days, without purpose, they wrought all things in confusion. They had neither knowledge of houses built of bricks and turned to face the sun nor yet of work in wood; but dwelt beneath the ground like swarming ants, in sunless caves. They had no sign either of winter or of flowery spring or of fruitful summer, on which they could depend but managed everything without judgment, I taught them to discern the risings of the stars and their settings, which are difficult to distinguish. Yes, and numbers, too, chiefest of sciences, I invented for them, and the combining of letters, creative mother of the Mousai’s (Muses’) arts, with which to hold all things in memory."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-C895CCF21D33B4ABF693909EAA92B626" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">“After stealing fire from the gods Prometheus instructed mankind in the arts: Prometheus: Listen to the miseries that beset mankind--how they were witless before and I made them have sense and endowed them with reason. I will not speak to upbraid mankind but to set forth the friendly purpose that inspired my blessing. First of all, though they had eyes to see, they saw to no avail; they had ears, but they did not understand; but, just as shapes in dreams, throughout their length of days, without purpose, they wrought all things in confusion. They had neither knowledge of houses built of bricks and turned to face the sun nor yet of work in wood; but dwelt beneath the ground </pwa></pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="like" data-pwa-hint="You might want to use a stronger verb" data-pwa-id="pwa-D9D441210B8FB691B5CBE36E5F6FED83" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2847" data-pwa-suggestions="enjoy"><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“After stealing fire from the gods Prometheus instructed mankind in the arts: Prometheus: Listen to the miseries that beset mankind--how they were witless before and I made them have sense and endowed them with reason. I will not speak to upbraid mankind but to set forth the friendly purpose that inspired my blessing. First of all, though they had eyes to see, they saw to no avail; they had ears, but they did not understand; but, just as shapes in dreams, throughout their length of days, without purpose, they wrought all things in confusion. They had neither knowledge of houses built of bricks and turned to face the sun nor yet of work in wood; but dwelt beneath the ground like swarming ants, in sunless caves. They had no sign either of winter or of flowery spring or of fruitful summer, on which they could depend but managed everything without judgment, I taught them to discern the risings of the stars and their settings, which are difficult to distinguish. Yes, and numbers, too, chiefest of sciences, I invented for them, and the combining of letters, creative mother of the Mousai’s (Muses’) arts, with which to hold all things in memory."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-3778B95D92EBB7F537761C754B67A815" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="like" data-pwa-hint="You might want to use a stronger verb" data-pwa-id="pwa-E8DC487094CB066B16B126193AC7566F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2847" data-pwa-suggestions="enjoy"><pwa data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="like" data-pwa-hint="You might want to use a stronger verb" data-pwa-id="pwa-D667F1219B33ADF274B2D900CD90CE3D" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2847" data-pwa-suggestions="enjoy"><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“After stealing fire from the gods Prometheus instructed mankind in the arts: Prometheus: Listen to the miseries that beset mankind--how they were witless before and I made them have sense and endowed them with reason. I will not speak to upbraid mankind but to set forth the friendly purpose that inspired my blessing. First of all, though they had eyes to see, they saw to no avail; they had ears, but they did not understand; but, just as shapes in dreams, throughout their length of days, without purpose, they wrought all things in confusion. They had neither knowledge of houses built of bricks and turned to face the sun nor yet of work in wood; but dwelt beneath the ground like swarming ants, in sunless caves. They had no sign either of winter or of flowery spring or of fruitful summer, on which they could depend but managed everything without judgment, I taught them to discern the risings of the stars and their settings, which are difficult to distinguish. Yes, and numbers, too, chiefest of sciences, I invented for them, and the combining of letters, creative mother of the Mousai’s (Muses’) arts, with which to hold all things in memory."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-C895CCF21D33B4ABF693909EAA92B626" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="like" data-pwa-hint="You might want to use a stronger verb" data-pwa-id="pwa-1631A89773D6A26226EE2DBD409ADF5E" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2847" data-pwa-suggestions="enjoy">like</pwa></pwa></pwa></pwa></pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“After stealing fire from the gods Prometheus instructed mankind in the arts: Prometheus: Listen to the miseries that beset mankind--how they were witless before and I made them have sense and endowed them with reason. I will not speak to upbraid mankind but to set forth the friendly purpose that inspired my blessing. First of all, though they had eyes to see, they saw to no avail; they had ears, but they did not understand; but, just as shapes in dreams, throughout their length of days, without purpose, they wrought all things in confusion. They had neither knowledge of houses built of bricks and turned to face the sun nor yet of work in wood; but dwelt beneath the ground like swarming ants, in sunless caves. They had no sign either of winter or of flowery spring or of fruitful summer, on which they could depend but managed everything without judgment, I taught them to discern the risings of the stars and their settings, which are difficult to distinguish. Yes, and numbers, too, chiefest of sciences, I invented for them, and the combining of letters, creative mother of the Mousai’s (Muses’) arts, with which to hold all things in memory."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-3778B95D92EBB7F537761C754B67A815" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“After stealing fire from the gods Prometheus instructed mankind in the arts: Prometheus: Listen to the miseries that beset mankind--how they were witless before and I made them have sense and endowed them with reason. I will not speak to upbraid mankind but to set forth the friendly purpose that inspired my blessing. First of all, though they had eyes to see, they saw to no avail; they had ears, but they did not understand; but, just as shapes in dreams, throughout their length of days, without purpose, they wrought all things in confusion. They had neither knowledge of houses built of bricks and turned to face the sun nor yet of work in wood; but dwelt beneath the ground like swarming ants, in sunless caves. They had no sign either of winter or of flowery spring or of fruitful summer, on which they could depend but managed everything without judgment, I taught them to discern the risings of the stars and their settings, which are difficult to distinguish. Yes, and numbers, too, chiefest of sciences, I invented for them, and the combining of letters, creative mother of the Mousai’s (Muses’) arts, with which to hold all things in memory."" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-C895CCF21D33B4ABF693909EAA92B626" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""> swarming ants, in sunless caves. They had no sign either of winter or of flowery spring or of fruitful summer, on which they could depend but managed everything without judgment, I taught them to discern the risings of the stars and their settings, which are difficult to distinguish. Yes, and numbers, too, chiefest of sciences, I invented for them, and the combining of letters, creative mother of the Mousai’s (Muses’) arts, with which to hold all things in memory."</pwa></pwa><br /><br /><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1552599592224_9227864097358773" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span><span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1552599598792_24160355049563087" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span>"<span class="rangySelectionBoundary" id="selectionBoundary_1552599602220_7705060712592562" style="display: none; line-height: 0;"></span>I, too, first brought brute beasts beneath the yoke to be subject to the collar and the pack-saddle, so <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-49BDE20E38AA521E1FDD21D5FB7D25B3" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1514" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">that </pwa>they might bear in men’s stead their heaviest burdens; and to the chariot I harnessed horses and made them obedient to the rein, to be an image of wealth and luxury. It was I and no one else who invented the mariner’s the flaxen-winged car that roams the sea. Wretched that I am—such are the arts I devised for mankind, yet have myself no cunning means to rid me of my present suffering... </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Enough about these arts, now as to the benefits to men that lay concealed beneath the earth—bronze, iron, silver, and gold—who would claim to have discovered them before me? No one, I know full well, unless he likes to babble idly. “Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word—every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” (3)</span><br /><br />Prometheus is credited with a majority of human advancements, such as knowledge of medicine and mathematics, to the occult arts and the discovery of metals. This is because Kundalini / fire is the intelligent mechanism behind humanities evoultion. A motif that mirrors the Indian scriptures, which defines the serpent power as the 'font of genius'. Another part of the myth, that indicates the fire is Kundalini, is that Zeus hid fire in the center of a giant fennel-stalk. Since most stalks are hollow and straight, it is a symbol of the human spine. A similar symbol appears in the, Dionysos myth , as he held a staff called a Thyros, topped with a pine cone dripping with honey- that symbolizes the spine as the pine cone refers to the pineal gland and honey to Soma-food of the gods.</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">One can find more links to this chain of thought in the history of Athena’s birth. As </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Prometheus struck the top of Zeus's head with a doubled sided ax, giving birth to Athena who arose out Zeus’s head fully clothed and ready for battle. This motif alludes to the character of Prometheus as Kundalini, which when awoken, rises upward in to the crown chakra, resulting in the birth of wisdom and knowledge.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Zeus had an inordinate desire to destroy <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the human race" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: humans, people, humanity" data-pwa-id="pwa-9D8333AD7C020CBCE923EA830023D785" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2910" data-pwa-suggestions="humans~people~humanity">the human race</pwa>, his own creation. Prometheus, therefore, helped save mankind from destruction.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanPrometheus.html">Aeschylus writes in Prometheus Bound (228 - 258<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" )" data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark ')' may not require a space before it. Consider removing the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-834B99A0DA4C58931DBF6CA414DE997D" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=")"> )</pwa></a>; </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"But of wretched mortals he (Zeus) took no notice, desiring to bring the whole race to an end and create a new one in its place. Against this purpose none dared make stand except me</span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="--" data-pwa-hint="Do you want to use an em-dash here?" data-pwa-id="pwa-289E3C1DA3AAEC7179F5593B80ED43E9" data-pwa-rule-id="EM_DASH_DOUBLE" data-pwa-suggestions="—" style="color: #2b00fe;">--</pwa><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I only had the courage; I saved mortals so </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-F83060C4ABAF559E6C4E5FCFBDA03962" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1514" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)" style="color: #2b00fe;">that </pwa><span style="color: #2b00fe;">they did not descend, blasted utterly, to the house of </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Haides" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Haides" data-pwa-id="pwa-5BEDB207E97673B13132FE75565F2055" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Baides~Haines~Hades~Haide~Haies" style="color: #2b00fe;">Haides</pwa><span style="color: #2b00fe;">."</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="This motif of the ruling Gods resentment of a “Divine Child” because of a possible dethronement and eventual demise repeats itself throughout religious literature, mythology, and legend. It is the most common motif found in Myth which I cover in my article “Gods Divine Birth in Religion and Myth." The God Cronus is opposed to the birth of his children, including Zeus; Krishna is opposed by the King Kamsa, Moses by the Egyptian Pharaoh, Christ by Herod and Horus by Set. Each King or God attempts to prevent the birth of a divine child or an enlightened being that doubles in meaning as a symbol for the next generation. " data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-43AE522E32E040515A4A3695BA9809F1" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="This motif of the ruling Gods resentment of a “Divine Child” because of a possible dethronement and eventual demise repeats itself throughout religious literature, mythology, and legend. It is the most common motif found in Myth which I cover in my article “Gods Divine Birth in Religion and Myth." The God Cronus is opposed to the birth of his children, including Zeus; Krishna is opposed by the King Kamsa, Moses by the Egyptian Pharaoh, Christ by Herod and Horus by Set. Each King or God attempts to prevent the birth of a divine child or an enlightened being that doubles in meaning as a symbol for the next generation. " data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-35C9C3A47D5A3F47A8BB9A48ED892A85" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">This motif of the ruling Gods resentment of a “Divine Child” because of the gods or kings </pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="This motif of the ruling Gods resentment of a “Divine Child” because of a possible dethronement and eventual demise repeats itself throughout religious literature, mythology, and legend. It is the most common motif found in Myth which I cover in my article “Gods Divine Birth in Religion and Myth." The God Cronus is opposed to the birth of his children, including Zeus; Krishna is opposed by the King Kamsa, Moses by the Egyptian Pharaoh, Christ by Herod and Horus by Set. Each King or God attempts to prevent the birth of a divine child or an enlightened being that doubles in meaning as a symbol for the next generation. " data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-43AE522E32E040515A4A3695BA9809F1" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="This motif of the ruling Gods resentment of a “Divine Child” because of a possible dethronement and eventual demise repeats itself throughout religious literature, mythology, and legend. It is the most common motif found in Myth which I cover in my article “Gods Divine Birth in Religion and Myth." The God Cronus is opposed to the birth of his children, including Zeus; Krishna is opposed by the King Kamsa, Moses by the Egyptian Pharaoh, Christ by Herod and Horus by Set. 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Each King or God attempts to prevent the birth of a divine child or an enlightened being that doubles in meaning as a symbol for the next generation. " data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-43AE522E32E040515A4A3695BA9809F1" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="This motif of the ruling Gods resentment of a “Divine Child” because of a possible dethronement and eventual demise repeats itself throughout religious literature, mythology, and legend. It is the most common motif found in Myth which I cover in my article “Gods Divine Birth in Religion and Myth." The God Cronus is opposed to the birth of his children, including Zeus; Krishna is opposed by the King Kamsa, Moses by the Egyptian Pharaoh, Christ by Herod and Horus by Set. Each King or God attempts to prevent the birth of a divine child or an enlightened being that doubles in meaning as a symbol for the next generation. " data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-35C9C3A47D5A3F47A8BB9A48ED892A85" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""> dethronement and death repeats itself throughout religious literature, mythology, and legend. It is the most common motif found in Mythology, which I cover in my article </pwa></pwa></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="http://mythicspiral.blogspot.com/2013/02/gods-divine-birth-in-religion-and-myth.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="This motif of the ruling Gods resentment of a “Divine Child” because of a possible dethronement and eventual demise repeats itself throughout religious literature, mythology, and legend. It is the most common motif found in Myth which I cover in my article “Gods Divine Birth in Religion and Myth." The God Cronus is opposed to the birth of his children, including Zeus; Krishna is opposed by the King Kamsa, Moses by the Egyptian Pharaoh, Christ by Herod and Horus by Set. Each King or God attempts to prevent the birth of a divine child or an enlightened being that doubles in meaning as a symbol for the next generation. " data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-43AE522E32E040515A4A3695BA9809F1" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="This motif of the ruling Gods resentment of a “Divine Child” because of a possible dethronement and eventual demise repeats itself throughout religious literature, mythology, and legend. 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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Next, to acting as an immortal God and trickster, Prometheus stole the eternal flame burning in the giant fennel-stalk<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="." data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '.' may require a space after it. Consider adding the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-8C58DE2B1F672C046609C1701E139188" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=". ">.</pwa><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This <pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="fennel stalk can also be symbolized by the backbone or spine which the kundalini fire flows through" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-7C5773070FD8D68B178F2F5F4F2F5CE3" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="the backbone or spine which the kundalini fire flows through can also symbolize fennel stalk"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="fennel stalk can also be symbolized by the backbone or spine which the kundalini fire flows through" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-13D1248D03E5EA8618F1129860A82D18" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="the backbone or spine which the kundalini fire flows through can also symbolize fennel stalk">fennel stalk can also be symbolized by the backbone or</pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="fennel stalk can also be symbolized by the backbone or spine which the kundalini fire flows through" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-7C5773070FD8D68B178F2F5F4F2F5CE3" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="the backbone or spine which the kundalini fire flows through can also symbolize fennel stalk"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="fennel stalk can also be symbolized by the backbone or spine which the kundalini fire flows through" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-13D1248D03E5EA8618F1129860A82D18" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="the backbone or spine which the kundalini fire flows through can also symbolize fennel stalk"> spin</pwa></pwa></span><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="fennel stalk can also be symbolized by the backbone or spine which the kundalini fire flows through" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-7C5773070FD8D68B178F2F5F4F2F5CE3" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="the backbone or spine which the kundalini fire flows through can also symbolize fennel stalk"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="fennel stalk can also be symbolized by the backbone or spine which the kundalini fire flows through" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-13D1248D03E5EA8618F1129860A82D18" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="the backbone or spine which the kundalini fire flows through can also symbolize fennel stalk"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">e which the kundalini fire flows</span></pwa></pwa>. Zeus <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was already angered" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-A467512BDAE3520E0E5726E1F3ADA32B" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was already angered</pwa> by Prometheus’ past trickery and thus handed out an outrageous punishment to Prometheus by chaining him to a rock on the Caucasus Mountains, where an eagle ate his liver every day, but then he regenerated every night. This cycle would have continued for eternity because <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="of Prometheus" data-pwa-hint="Remove extra space" data-pwa-id="pwa-516986F8E6558D06F750EB70B2D9F6C1" data-pwa-rule-id="EXTRA_SPACE" data-pwa-suggestions="of Prometheus">of Prometheus</pwa>’s immortality, but after 30,000 years of punishment, the Greek God Hercules, killed the eagle then unchained Prometheus and set him free.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="In addition to" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: Besides" data-pwa-id="pwa-C75ACBA21EC8AC7352736B5C6EFA6A24" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_674" data-pwa-suggestions="Besides"><br /></pwa></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="In addition to" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: Besides" data-pwa-id="pwa-C75ACBA21EC8AC7352736B5C6EFA6A24" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_674" data-pwa-suggestions="Besides">In addition to</pwa> Prometheus’s torture, Zeus punished him by creating Pandora, the first woman, who <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was destined to" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: would" data-pwa-id="pwa-59B6A8654E844A417D62F3520FBC484F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_859" data-pwa-suggestions="would">was destined to</pwa> bring misery to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the human race" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: humans, people, humanity" data-pwa-id="pwa-3CCD698EC3BC26486C98489CCB652A19" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2910" data-pwa-suggestions="humans~people~humanity">the human race</pwa>. Zeus summoned Hephaestus; the God of fire, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="metal" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing determiner" data-pwa-id="pwa-821CA0946A1FE2B2DD8E816F52125139" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_CG_2" data-pwa-suggestions="a metal~the metal">metal</pwa> craftsman’s and the art of sculpture to form her out of clay, while the four winds gave her life by their breath. Aphrodite <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="bestowed" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: gave" data-pwa-id="pwa-A5720734206CC76376DCC82B9FD31008" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2027" data-pwa-suggestions="gave">bestowed</pwa> beauty on her and <span style="color: blue;"><b>“shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs."</b></span> Hermes gave her the power of speech, putting in</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b> "lies and a crafty nature." </b></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Charities <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="bestowed" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: gave" data-pwa-id="pwa-BA8AA7AE8D617DFCFBD4986B00B6E441" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2027" data-pwa-suggestions="gave">bestowed</pwa> necklaces and Horae gave her a Golden Crown. Finally, Hermes named her <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“" data-pwa-hint="You have two opening quotation marks in a row before a closing one. If this is because you’re using nested quotation marks, the inner pair should be singles." data-pwa-id="pwa-AAA5181280B32FC35976C75CCFDDEF6C" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">“</pwa>Pandora” meaning all–gifted, since she received <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="numerous" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: many" data-pwa-id="pwa-319986A5F2CF67D893FC3166AF2B0FC5" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_3062" data-pwa-suggestions="many">numerous</pwa> gifts from so many Olympian Gods and presented her to Epimetheus, the younger and less intelligent brother of Prometheus to be his bride. Zeus had given Pandora a wedding present, a pithos or jar as a wedding gift which contained <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="all of the" data-pwa-hint="Consider using 'all the'." data-pwa-id="pwa-4EFAFF25768E708655E9F3FABED66594" data-pwa-rule-id="ALL_OF_THE" data-pwa-suggestions="all the">all of the</pwa> aforementioned gifts. Prometheus had cautioned Epimetheus not to accept any such gifts from Zeus (due to a fear of further punishments), but he didn't listen and accepted Pandora into his home when the Jar <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was opened" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-7F17EA01AFE49F3517A4FA15C9F22791" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was opened</pwa> the evil spread across the earth with only one item left inside-Hope.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #984806;"> </span>The Greek poet Hesiod in the eighth century BC wrote of Prometheus in his epic poem <u>Theogony;</u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-3EEA2012F1D52D212EB6F42FD6272B8B" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-F74A9B9EA121C55A86CED826C2ABE065" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">"The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid </pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-3EEA2012F1D52D212EB6F42FD6272B8B" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . 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But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-F74A9B9EA121C55A86CED826C2ABE065" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">it,</pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-3EEA2012F1D52D212EB6F42FD6272B8B" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-F74A9B9EA121C55A86CED826C2ABE065" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""> because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But </pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-3EEA2012F1D52D212EB6F42FD6272B8B" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-F74A9B9EA121C55A86CED826C2ABE065" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">afterward</pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-3EEA2012F1D52D212EB6F42FD6272B8B" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . 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But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-F74A9B9EA121C55A86CED826C2ABE065" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""> Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: </pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-3EEA2012F1D52D212EB6F42FD6272B8B" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. 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Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-3EEA2012F1D52D212EB6F42FD6272B8B" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-F74A9B9EA121C55A86CED826C2ABE065" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">apetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for </pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . 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But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-3EEA2012F1D52D212EB6F42FD6272B8B" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-F74A9B9EA121C55A86CED826C2ABE065" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">fire</pwa></pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. He hid fire; but that the noble son of Iapetos stole again for men from Zeus the counselor in a hollow fennel-stalk so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. But afterward Zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger: ‘Son of Iapetos, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire--a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. But I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may all be glad of heart while they embrace their own destruction.’" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-3EEA2012F1D52D212EB6F42FD6272B8B" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""The gods keep hidden from men the means of life . . . 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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Forthwith [Hephaistos, Hephaestus] the famous Lame God molded clay in the likeness of a modest maid, as the son of Kronos purposed. And the goddess bright-eyed Athene girded and clothed her and the divine (Charities, Graces) and queenly (Persuasion) put necklaces of gold upon her, and the rich-haired (Horae, Seasons) crowned her head with spring flowers. And Pallas Athene bedecked her form with all manners of finery. Also [Hermes] the Guide, the Slayer of Argos, contrived within her lies and crafty words and a deceitful nature at the will of loud thundering Zeus, and the Herald of the gods put speech in her. And he called this woman Pandora (All-Gifts), because all they who dwelt on Olympus gave each a gift, a plague to men who eat bread.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Only Elpis (Hope) remained there in an unbreakable home within under the rim of the great jar and did not fly out at the door; for <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="ere" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: ere" data-pwa-id="pwa-17772B5592B9C2482F2045156EA32FFB" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="were~here~are~ore~fere">ere</pwa> that, the lid of the jar stopped her, by the will of <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Ageis" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Ageis" data-pwa-id="pwa-7DB9EBC6FEF2E6D5114629AF55AB61D2" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Aegis~Ageia~Agriş~Bageis~Ages">Ageis</pwa>-holding Zeus who gathers the clouds. But the rest, countless plagues, wander amongst men; for the earth is full of evils and the sea is full. Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="”" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing double quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-405C086CCD30B2C995E5936A69AAF711" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">”</pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="(" data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '(' may require a space before it. Consider adding a space." data-pwa-id="pwa-6A6D32A62330D1A35F26C58E6908745A" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=" (">(</pwa>4).</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Here is <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="short" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing determiner" data-pwa-id="pwa-06FDA311252D89394F1CF9EC9EA43A0C" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_CG_2" data-pwa-suggestions="a short~the short">short</pwa> synopsis based on the Gnostic philosopher <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Samuel Aun Weors" data-pwa-hint="Incorrect named entity spelling: Samuel Aun Weors" data-pwa-id="pwa-A61DC2124E9C559A804630B2EC749E49" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Samael Aun Weor">Samuel Aun Weors</pwa>’ interpretation of “<a href="http://gnosticteachings.org/the-teachings-of-gnosis/lectures-by-gnostic-instructors/3209-prometheus-and-pandora.html">Prometheus</a>”. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Samuel Aun Weors" data-pwa-hint="Incorrect named entity spelling: Samuel Aun Weors" data-pwa-id="pwa-58B6D016DAA529B397146DF5636A993A" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Samael Aun Weor">Samuel Aun Weors</pwa>’ was a philosopher and author of seventy books on esoteric philosophy about the souls' evolution. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The Myth is explained" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-684C66931EBFE6D99CB1827D832D9467" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I explain the Myth~It explains the Myth~They explain the Myth~We explain the Myth~I explains the Myth~Someone explains the Myth~It explain the Myth~Someone explain the Myth">The Prometheus Myth is explained</pwa> in terms of how divine forces can transform the mind and give one the powers of creation and knowledge. They write of the Promethean fire as a symbol of Kundalini. While Pandora is the all-gifted Goddess who graces man only if she learns how not waste her gifts, as she represents water or the sexual fluids <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that are " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-EC52F93BC4FA89F3DDB7B1040171432E" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1603" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">that are </pwa>necessary for sublimation. Prometheus <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is chained" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-57659B0FC29530D93A12F85B9B840C93" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is chained</pwa> to matter - incarnated . He is then eaten by the eagle (negative desires and karma<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" )" data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark ')' may not require a space before it. Consider removing the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-F759D30F6E2B7FC3605D1E77B8325064" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=")"> )</pwa> until he is perfected by a purifying fire ( Kundalini) . With the help of Hercules - a hero-savior, another symbol for Christ consciousness), Prometheus escapes from an eternity of torture.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><a href="http://jennifersmyths.blogspot.com/2011/01/freuds-theory-on-prometheus-myth.html">Sigmund Freud’s</a></span></span> interpretation rested on his theory of on mans’ repressed subconscious desires, conflict with the conscious mind. he proposes that by taking back fire - Zeus was emasculating mankind. The fennel stalk symbolized the phallic element <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="which is closely connected" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-08197EEF6435F91D03A5B4BD6A927283" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it closely connects which~they closely connect which">which is closely connected</pwa> with water and is also an element that would threaten Zeus' powerful thunderbolt, a similar phallic symbol. Freud injects into the thesis the motif of mans’ overwhelming desire to urinate on fire which was a desire to overcome <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in order " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-5C4ED83E310724AFEFD714B641AC857B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_640" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">in order </pwa>to handle fire along with overcoming his repressed homosexual desires. The God Zeus was a symbol of man’s ID, in which originated primitive drives and instincts and made the battle of wills between Prometheus and Zeus a symbol of the conflict between the Id and Ego, as it could <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be interpreted" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-A3B027E59BA64DAB9B55354ADDB3E51F" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be interpreted</pwa> as an internal conflict to repress subconscious desires.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Both <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="of these " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-6D8A3C097C7B69ADD8D56241AA2BE93D" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1127" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">of these </pwa>interpretations ignore major motifs of the previous golden age of man, and also the unseen consequences of fires' discovery. Samael Aun Weor' interpretation seems to find a spiritual explanation for part of the narrative, (which I agree) while missing the understanding of its material connotations related to technology. Freud sees everything in terms of his psychological theories, that are based on humanities repressed human desires. Freud projects onto the Greek writers his own cultural bias while totally ignoring Zeus’s actual explanation for the punishment; the misuse of fire -technology. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Gnostic article on <a href="http://gnosticteachings.org/the-teachings-of-gnosis/lectures-by-gnostic-instructors/3209-prometheus-and-pandora.html">Prometheus</a> is very worth reading. </span>One <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="must " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-B3218D0ED64F00361A3602D198DF688F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1415" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">must </pwa>understand that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="there is several different ways" data-pwa-hint="Possible agreement error: the verb is and the noun ways should agree in number." data-pwa-id="pwa-C06B6EF61390F20FC633E38A0B99B2B6" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_BE_AGREE_CTX" data-pwa-suggestions="there are several different ways">there are</pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="there is several different ways" data-pwa-hint="Possible agreement error: the verb is and the noun ways should agree in number." data-pwa-id="pwa-C06B6EF61390F20FC633E38A0B99B2B6" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_BE_AGREE_CTX" data-pwa-suggestions="there are several different ways"> countless different paradigms from which to analyze the myths.( As </pwa>mythology is “Poetry of the Soul.” These myths have as much meaning as the clouds in the sky, which are much more than just water vapor floating as as each person will see something different - because the meaning changes with our own spiritual growth. Interpretations should be flexible to a certain extent and requires inner depth, but when analyzed holistically the research leads me to believe <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the clearest analysis is based" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-B88ACF3A633D9AFD344D5570B57C46B6" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="we base the clearest analysis~I base the clearest analysis~they base the clearest analysis~it bases the clearest analysis~it base the clearest analysis~something base the clearest analysis~I bases the clearest analysis~someone bases the clearest analysis~someone base the clearest analysis">the clearest analysis is based</pwa> on the thesis of the evolution of consciousnesses. </div></div></div></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The flame of Kundalini <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was stolen" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-AF500B28D4C00283F8D3D475FDAC0999" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was stolen</pwa> from the Gods and hidden in the fennel stalk which is a symbol of the human spine. In Greek myth, the Caduceus or Dionysus' </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">thyrsus are both rods that can heal and denote authority. In the Bible, the rod of Aaron and Moses <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are related" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-C2B1D18C3E7EDCBF472C8CC6EA342906" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are related</pwa> to this same motif. When Moses threw his rod <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="down" data-pwa-hint="Missing comma after subordinate clause" data-pwa-id="pwa-7ED6EAA66C31E715F834EC9823F1C999" data-pwa-rule-id="SUB_CLAUSE_2" data-pwa-suggestions="down,">down</pwa> it turned into a serpent that could work miracles. Similarly, Prometheus <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is chained" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-31A7A527AF73183EACCA390499A71ED2" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is chained</pwa> to a mountain, and <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="a shaft is driven" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-7B85602A15236F3B1238A6BEFAA34912" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I drive a shaft~they drive a shaft~we drive a shaft~it drives a shaft~it drive a shaft~someone drive a shaft~someone drives a shaft~I drives a shaft~something drives a shaft~we drives a shaft~they drives a shaft~something drive a shaft">a shaft </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is driven" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-93871B42D4FBBA5A416758D2C92F724D" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="a shaft is driven" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-7B85602A15236F3B1238A6BEFAA34912" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I drive a shaft~they drive a shaft~we drive a shaft~it drives a shaft~it drive a shaft~someone drive a shaft~someone drives a shaft~I drives a shaft~something drives a shaft~we drives a shaft~they drives a shaft~something drive a shaft">is driven</pwa></pwa> “through his middle<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="’" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing single quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-AE840DB6B5B4ED6DF6EB22EC3DEA2C96" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">’</pwa>’ which again is a link to spinal column running through the center of the body. The snake/serpent and stone appear in legends such as the Grail myth, as Arthur as must pull the sword embedded in the sacred stone to fulfill his destiny. The sword just like the rod or staff is metaphorically significant as a symbol for the spine that carries the power of awareness which needs to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be released" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-D6B8CD0D4CF5E1217594D00DECDB27A7" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be released</pwa> from its hold, or secret place within the stone of matter of the human body. It is capable of great gifts and miracles in the sense of changing the biology of the human body.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The mountain is used" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-D1A084E227AB2D79B0FB13AF95467448" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I use the mountain~We use the mountain~They use the mountain~It uses the mountain~I uses the mountain~It use the mountain~Someone uses the mountain~They uses the mountain~We uses the mountain">The mountain is used</pwa> in <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="quite " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-1A932B29E3EB306E1EAA8C875F87D6ED" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_464" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">quite </pwa>several narratives, but I feel it is analogous to the symbol of the stone in mythology. It is a metaphor for the deepest layer of unconsciousness that lies within the physical <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="realm," data-pwa-hint="Remove comma before this essential relative clause" data-pwa-id="pwa-158639D169BF5D6F822DDBC52A861D06" data-pwa-rule-id="GR_33" data-pwa-suggestions="realm">realm,</pwa> <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="which can only be transformed by an equally deep expression of consciousness" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-D22CF63392EABB122C9F38ECD46B55B3" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="an equally deep expression of consciousness can only transform which">which can only be transformed by an equally deep expression of consciousness</pwa>. It is the resistance within matter <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="itself that chains Prometheus to the “Stone” mountain, denoting the terrible suffering that one must endure through countless life’s before one is allowed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-4D792E3D75C0D18007C7B950FD7D0CCC" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="they allow it~I allow it~us allow it~I allows it~us allows it~someone allows it~something allows it~they allows it~someone allow it">itself that chains Prometheus to the “Stone” mountain, denoting the terrible suffering that one must endure through countless life’s before one is allowed</pwa> into the bliss higher consciousness.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="In a similar fashion" data-pwa-hint="Consider replacing "In a similar fashion" with adverb for "similar"; e.g., "in a hasty manner" with "hastily"." data-pwa-id="pwa-5CE32149AA3010B6E3BBF37ED23E0D8E" data-pwa-rule-id="IN_A_X_MANNER" data-pwa-suggestions="">In a similar fashion</pwa>, the Medusa had her hair turned into serpents by Virgin Athena, for having a sexual union with Poseidon in one of her temples. Medusa possessed the power to turn anyone into stone who just gazed at her, a motif <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that is " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-57F5073AAD636FAF60DE82A08BAF31EB" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1603" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">that is </pwa>analogous to Pandora's release of evil spirits and Prometheus' punishment on the Caucasus mountains. Pandora lost her positive qualities after <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the jar was opened" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-C715D18178567A3813498181A435E84A" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I opened the jar~it opened the jar~they opened the jar~we opened the jar~someone opened the jar~something opened the jar">the jar was opened</pwa>. The underlying formula here is the emphasis on purity and chastity which if not followed leads symbolically to the release of Pandora's evil and the materialization of the mind (stuck in stone like Medusa). The jar of Pandora carries all of humanity's good and bad traits and refers to the creative side of the feminine energy that will only transform <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="an initiate" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: a start" data-pwa-id="pwa-EB4DBD0F6814E99D0A015C421168FCE0" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2063" data-pwa-suggestions="a start">an initiate</pwa> if <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="it is kept" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-9967C15E42068C372F1A7704F66E7C13" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I keep it~they keep it~us keep it~I keeps it~someone keeps it~something keeps it~us keeps it~someone keep it~they keeps it~something keep it">it is kept</pwa> closed, that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is" data-pwa-hint="Missing comma after interrupter" data-pwa-id="pwa-99402F32AA1B26B9CA32671C1B3BB1D4" data-pwa-rule-id="INTERJECTION_COMMA" data-pwa-suggestions="is,">is</pwa> if <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the sexual and emotional prana is recirculated" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-1CFC12EDBA498A72E5F574F5EF4E6763" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it recirculates the sexual and emotional prana~they recirculate the sexual and emotional prana~we recirculate the sexual and emotional prana">the sexual and emotional prana is recirculated</pwa> throughout the body. It was an afterthought; literally, Epimetheus who in some versions opened the jar as <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="most of humans" data-pwa-hint="After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the humans') or simply say 'most humans'." data-pwa-id="pwa-FD5A2A9B11F7BC5E97C3106CCFFD729D" data-pwa-rule-id="MOST_SOME_OF_NNS" data-pwa-suggestions="most of the humans~most humans">most of </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="most of humans" data-pwa-hint="After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the humans') or simply say 'most humans'." data-pwa-id="pwa-FD5A2A9B11F7BC5E97C3106CCFFD729D" data-pwa-rule-id="MOST_SOME_OF_NNS" data-pwa-suggestions="most of the humans~most humans">humans</pwa> puts pleasure before consequences.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"></span><b><span style="color: #b45f06;"> P <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="A N" data-pwa-hint="Should you be using 'an' instead? This could be an exception to the normal rule if the word 'N' starts with a vowel sound." data-pwa-id="pwa-95D4E19308AF017A79A09B7DFB8DB03F" data-pwa-rule-id="INDEFINITE_ARTICLE" data-pwa-suggestions="An N">A N</pwa> D O R A</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBujaJ65i5k-EFSQbwVfK3cizH6cpqapX9vBniHvjO4oK6djAXZkXU7Sta6Odj_aDwWzMLYBC-sFH1LUR_MEpzmWxDyQcKhAXzGtR2sifQPqtkCH7R5ZH9q8Qyr3JT1hzJa5wsYAEjGPvH/s1600/Pandora_Loison_cour_Carree_Louvre.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBujaJ65i5k-EFSQbwVfK3cizH6cpqapX9vBniHvjO4oK6djAXZkXU7Sta6Odj_aDwWzMLYBC-sFH1LUR_MEpzmWxDyQcKhAXzGtR2sifQPqtkCH7R5ZH9q8Qyr3JT1hzJa5wsYAEjGPvH/s400/Pandora_Loison_cour_Carree_Louvre.jpg" width="180" /></a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I can understand Pandora on the energetic and psychological level as a personification of femininity, associated with fertility and the gift of life. Energetically she is <pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="mixture" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing determiner" data-pwa-id="pwa-68374ADDA13565E1704FABE48938B396" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_CG_2" data-pwa-suggestions="a mixture~the mixture">a m</pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="mixture" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing determiner" data-pwa-id="pwa-68374ADDA13565E1704FABE48938B396" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_CG_2" data-pwa-suggestions="a mixture~the mixture">ixture</pwa> of water and earth, as</span><span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="color: blue;">“Hephaestus make haste and mix earth with water”</span><span style="color: #b45f06;">.</span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> She represents coolness, inward flow of subtle energies. Every gift she received from the Gods also had its opposite attached like <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="some " data-pwa-hint="This is often not necessary" data-pwa-id="pwa-1641EFE48DFF3DBFEE06677FDA019509" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_345" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">some </pwa>dark shadow, which <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is emphasized" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-64BDC56F870D6AEB9FEAF61444F23EAA" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is emphasized</pwa> by the words of Hesiod. The jar Pandora carries symbolizes the gifts of the spirit, originally it held all that was good but as soon <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="it was opened" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-F928A01FBD1923FF3DCFA3AA9D69987C" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I opened it~they opened it~someone opened it~us opened it~something opened it">it was opened</pwa>, the dual nature of each gift became a curse. The unopened jar is a symbol reflecting on virginity and chastity of Pandora, who like the Virgin Athena is an aspect of the </span><a href="http://mythicspiral.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-hidden-meaning-of-virgin-birth.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Virgin Goddesses</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">, as both Goddesses provided their followers with every blessing imaginable. The gifts become curses when the vessel or bottle <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is opened" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-39266D8A333D39D76B48EB24E25FCD16" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is opened</pwa> signifying humanities devaluation of sexual energy and <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="its'" data-pwa-hint="An apostrophe is never used to form possessive case pronouns. Did you mean: 'its'?" data-pwa-id="pwa-C199A8659878772046D33E41CA047F33" data-pwa-rule-id="YOURS_APOSTROPHE" data-pwa-suggestions="its">its'</pwa> sublimation.</span></div>
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The metaphor of the Serpent and its release of poison occur in the Krishna narrative and among many others, He tamed the serpent Kaliya, who previously poisoned the waters of Yamuna River, thus leading to the death of the cowherds. Each time prana rises and falls creating a circuit in the body, (symbolically portrayed by the Ouroboros) the depth and intensity of awareness expand, but the body must be purified of toxins and physically prepared. In a similar vein, Hercules fought the serpent Landon to obtain the golden apple of higher consciousness, just as St. George who fought the dragon." data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-DC0058940A024FF195803C6BFCAD205C" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Now, why does an eagle devour Prometheus’s liver each day, which then regenerates at night. 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The metaphor of the Serpent and its release of poison occur in the Krishna narrative and among many others, He tamed the serpent Kaliya, who previously poisoned the waters of Yamuna River, thus leading to the death of the cowherds. Each time prana rises and falls creating a circuit in the body, (symbolically portrayed by the Ouroboros) the depth and intensity of awareness expand, but the body must be purified of toxins and physically prepared. In a similar vein, Hercules fought the serpent Landon to obtain the golden apple of higher consciousness, just as St. George who fought the dragon." data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-0EC150B3721A70EF0DC89C2BF8A5F0DC" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=""> the golden apple of higher consciousness, just as St. George who fought the dragon.</pwa></pwa></span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The motif also relates to the mythic founding of Delphi, which states that the God Apollo slew the Drakon Pytho. The serpent in Prometheus’ case is <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="a metaphor for the lower desires, physical inertia, ego and adverse forces that must be conquered before the gold of higher consciousness is achieved" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-AE87F4AE4F85E81AA98F0A517F207173" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="they achieve a metaphor for the lower desires, physical inertia, ego and adverse forces that must be conquered before the gold of higher consciousness~we achieve a metaphor for the lower desires, physical inertia, ego and adverse forces that must be conquered before the gold of higher consciousness~it achieves a metaphor for the lower desires, physical inertia, ego and adverse forces that must be conquered before the gold of higher consciousness~I achieve a metaphor for the lower desires, physical inertia, ego and adverse forces that must be conquered before the gold of higher consciousness~it achieve a metaphor for the lower desires, physical inertia, ego and adverse forces that must be conquered before the gold of higher consciousness~someone achieves a metaphor for the lower desires, physical inertia, ego and adverse forces that must be conquered before the gold of higher consciousness~someone achieve a metaphor for the lower desires, physical inertia, ego and adverse forces that must be conquered before the gold of higher consciousness~I achieves a metaphor for the lower desires, physical inertia, ego and adverse forces that must be conquered before the gold of higher consciousness~something achieves a metaphor for the lower desires, physical inertia, ego and adverse forces that must be conquered before the gold of higher consciousness">a metaphor for the lower desires, physical inertia, ego and adverse forces that must be conquered before the gold of higher consciousness is achieved</pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="." data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '.' may require a space after it. Consider adding the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-EC846D8E4B5AC09A823A61ACC61B32CD" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=". ">.</pwa></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">When interpreted as a symbol of a Kundalini awakening, the Prometheus torture represents the initiates psychological and physical transformation. First, his misuse of fire by sexual excess <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is delineated" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-49BB71278EEE3BF93F6F8E637E082135" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is delineated</pwa> by Pandora's evil, while he suffers being <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="staked" data-pwa-hint="Possible confused word" data-pwa-id="pwa-21D1F1E277306C94503230A56813573F" data-pwa-rule-id="CRFSR_STAKED_38" data-pwa-suggestions="stalked">staked</pwa> to the mountain of material existence until his liver purifies his blood and Hercules unchains him, which is symbolic of reaching higher consciousness. The second motif associated with the misuse of Fire <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is explained" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-E4F866D352C2EB090C00782990B4837D" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is explained</pwa> by applying <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="ones" data-pwa-hint="Possible confused word" data-pwa-id="pwa-727FFBBFE1709612764D2240429960F0" data-pwa-rule-id="ONES" data-pwa-suggestions="one's">ones</pwa> intelligence and inventiveness for destructive means, that is by trying to dominate nature with technology instead of respecting its feminine nature as "Mother Earth".</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Hesiod writes that long before man’s discovery of fire there <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="existed" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: was" data-pwa-id="pwa-67C2F9D40BE4C514139C34D498B58328" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_3069" data-pwa-suggestions="was">existed</pwa> a golden age. When reverent men “worked hard and ate from abundant groves of fruit”, which implies that before fires' discovery mankind survived by eating uncooked or raw foods: that is probably fruits, greens, herbs, and nuts. Also, the myth says the “gods keep hidden from men the means of life [crops].” The knowledge of fire is a prerequisite for the planting <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="of any of" data-pwa-hint="Consider simply using 'of' instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-49E46DF00FE393EF6C9DD877C5E36F14" data-pwa-rule-id="OF_ANY_OF" data-pwa-suggestions="of">of any of</pwa> the grains (crops) such as wheat, barley, which need to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be cooked" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-19DE5B8DC678A6BC728CAD314ABC1110" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be cooked</pwa>. Whether grains are actually a </span><a href="http://www.freefromgluten.com/blogs/health-and-welness/2790712-the-history-of-gluten-in-the-human-diet" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">wholesome food</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> has now come into the question itself along with eating meat, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="which is depicted" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-079C61279E59EB6DB178BB8287D2ED28" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it depicts which~they depict which~I depict which~it depict which~I depicts which~us depict which~us depicts which">which is depicted</pwa> in Prometheus’s stealing the burnt sacrificial animals and feeding mankind the best cuts. The philosophy of vegetarianism has <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="a very" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: an" data-pwa-id="pwa-C2A793EF650A646365087906AD47E910" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_297" data-pwa-suggestions="an">a very</pwa> ancient history among the Greek philosophers, the list includes, Plato, Plotinus, Pythagoras, which <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is closely tied" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-733ABEA152545932D74F04549E6FEF99" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is closely tied</pwa> in with their ideas of non–violence and living on only what nature provides. Their beliefs about diet were probably just as diverse as modern practices, with only several small voices questioning the eating and cooking of sentient animals. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The stealing of the best meat for humanity instead of the Gods could point to the beginning of man's fascination with cooking meat; and, this was also one reason for Prometheus' torture. This interpretation of Prometheus’s punishment, from a dietary standpoint, still leaves an interesting question why Zeus or any God required the blood of a slaughtered animal as a burnt offering or holocaust as they called it, a religious practice (burnt sacrifice) which <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was found" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-F0940141D9B0853F054338183257D315" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was found</pwa> throughout the world.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">While there are the purifying actions that fire wields, the destructive power is just as great. It can easily destroy anything it touches including humans. The element of Fire depletes the life force of seeds and fertilized eggs by scrambling the DNA. Common sense will show a boiled egg or cooked nut/seeds cannot grow any further, thus stopping the growth cycle of life. In the same way, too much heat is <pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="adverse" data-pwa-hint="
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Prometheus <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was punished" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-CC018E2DDE3EEB9573D75B9D19578EE0" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was punished</pwa> for multiple felonies against the spirit of life, both for his theft of fire, trickery and disobedience to Zeus, <span style="color: #b45f06;">(who in Greek Mythology <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was actually worshiped" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-41578FDFD1E3831AF15BADF865D2F4EC" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was actually worshiped</pwa> as a transfigured serpent)</span><span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span>(5)<span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span> Zeus’ prophetic judgments came from a place of inner knowledge of humanities true path while Prometheus’ ignorance of the future consequences of fire technology and the hubris it entails was the real message hidden in the bottle. Misusing the life force for inferior<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" purposes" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-066BE43B9A54AA341F0A9D12551FF329" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_512" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)"> purposes</pwa>, for power and comfort both inwardly and outwardly one, resulted in being chained to the mountain of material forces. When Aion, (Father Time) addresses Zeus: he comes to the same conclusion about Prometheus; Saying that instead of using a fire outwardly, with all its negative results, Prometheus should have taught mankind how to create the sweet nectar or "Soma" inside their body which would have quenched mankind’s desires:</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">There are several mystics who believed electricity to be fire, Sri Aurobindo, Rudolph Steiner, and Goethe just to name three. All of them understood that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the world is made" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-EBACF248B97D4FCC6EA8642A1CF028C8" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it makes the world~they make the world~we make the world~I make the world~it make the world~someone makes the world~I makes the world~something makes the world~someone make the world~they makes the world~something make the world~we makes the world">the world is made</pwa> from a matrix of consciousness which could only <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be transformed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-33BE5FB8D1CB02799B34F313A9291B36" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be transformed</pwa> by imitating natural lifestyle and not through mechanical or electrical apparatus, which would eventually move us away from developing our spiritual potential.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Did man" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: Manned" data-pwa-id="pwa-F4940A6DA566F707A765FFB8AE69E26E" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_626" data-pwa-suggestions="Manned">Did man</pwa> really understand fires’ destructive properties as Zeus warned? Do the scientific elite of today know anything about the subtle energetic transformations that occur in nature, as one form of matter grows into another? What are modern sciences theories of the elements regarding the use of fire- there is no philosophical speculation, no peer-reviewed papers, it’s a process <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="which is overlooked" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-390BA0AC2F92ED12760B433CDE51DFF3" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it overlooks which~they overlook which~I overlook which~us overlook which~it overlook which~us overlooks which~I overlooks which~someone overlooks which">which </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is overlooked" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-7A9068D8592947BA643EA27C4572975F" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="which is overlooked" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-390BA0AC2F92ED12760B433CDE51DFF3" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it overlooks which~they overlook which~I overlook which~us overlook which~it overlook which~us overlooks which~I overlooks which~someone overlooks which">is overlooked</pwa></pwa>, under the assumption that we are separate from nature and fire has no detrimental <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="effects." data-pwa-hint="Wrong Punctuation. Should you use a question mark?" data-pwa-id="pwa-99391621629471E96C4429E477E98594" data-pwa-rule-id="WRONG_PUNCT" data-pwa-suggestions="effects?">effects.</pwa> But here we are in the middle of <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="possible " data-pwa-hint="Possibly redundant word" data-pwa-id="pwa-6A23896D430E46E5B919450734C2F815" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2886" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">possible </pwa>destruction of the world ecosystems because of the burning of carbon products that saturate the atmosphere with enormous amounts of carbon dioxide that a deforested planet cannot convert into oxygen quickly enough.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The continued advancement of nuclear power, (which is nothing more than a giant steam turbine to create electricity), is detrimental because <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="subatomic particles and radiation are known" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-7D3EC7E18E3B3711FC4D777DA5D2D867" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I know subatomic particles and radiation~we know subatomic particles and radiation~they know subatomic particles and radiation~it knows subatomic particles and radiation~I knows subatomic particles and radiation~it know subatomic particles and radiation~someone knows subatomic particles and radiation~someone know subatomic particles and radiation~we knows subatomic particles and radiation~they knows subatomic particles and radiation~something know subatomic particles and radiation~something knows subatomic particles and radiation">subatomic particles and radiation are known</pwa> to destroy the life force of the planet and fertility. There is the problem of electromagnetic and electrical seepage causing <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="numerous" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: many" data-pwa-id="pwa-D57C81824666EA5ED8088C8E36FF8C97" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_3062" data-pwa-suggestions="many">numerous</pwa> unnamed biological problems. Electronic control of the mind through implementing subconscious symbolism by television, radio, internet, microchips, is another disorder. Radar involves electromagnetic waves that can disturb the natural energies of the atmosphere. Don’t forget the control of weather through secret program HAARP. They base each of these innovations on electricity or some explosion, which is a destructive fire or electrical process.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Our modern paradigms, particularly scientific, won’t acknowledge that a feminine creative force even exists. This results in the belief that everything in the universe eventually loses order or entropies, which begs the question of how the universe <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was ever created" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-2F8212F546B97C2C4B676F5C5B80BDD9" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was ever created</pwa>. The same reasoning applies to the big bang theory, which again assumes that a giant explosion created the Universe. Each paradigm requires theories based entirely upon the explosive element of fire resulting in the misunderstanding of life itself and humanity’s place on the blue planet.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A fire has both destructive consequences and purifying actions. The ancient Greek philosophers and alchemists understood the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and ether to be the building blocks of the universe, each element supporting the next in a transformative cycle which creates nature. They defied the forces of Nature in their myths to explain the seasonal changes, a cold winter proceeded a fertile spring and summer. They weren't the only thinkers who understood the limits of technology, there are many western philosophers who thought <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in a similar fashion" data-pwa-hint="Consider replacing "in a similar fashion" with adverb for "similar"; e.g., "in a hasty manner" with "hastily"." data-pwa-id="pwa-C0C7DCB74FE9119A5A19A15AB598AC8F" data-pwa-rule-id="IN_A_X_MANNER" data-pwa-suggestions="">in a similar fashion</pwa>, two of these are Rudolph Steiner and Viktor Schauberger.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">For a more modern perspective of subtle energies, we must delve into the works and theories of <a href="http://www.lightnet.co.uk/frontier/viktor.htm">Viktor Schauberger</a> (June 1885–September 1958), who was an Austrian forester, naturalist, philosopher, and subtle energy researcher. They consider him the father of <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="implosion" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing determiner" data-pwa-id="pwa-62045BA97ED040AD7ED11EEDC9B81800" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_CG_3" data-pwa-suggestions="an implosion~the implosion">implosion</pwa> technology. His theories took into account the inward flowing path of a water vortex. He discovered by observing nature in its pristine condition that fish could stay motionless in streams because of their rounded egg shape as water flowed around the surface effortlessly creating suction behind their body <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="which was used" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-82BFACD3ADB009E0918BEBF4A8F401AA" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I used which~they used which~it used which~us used which~someone used which~something used which">which was used</pwa> to propel them forward. He researched deeply into the curved path which air and water follow in nature and then developed <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="a number of" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: several" data-pwa-id="pwa-F3720AF2AACD00E1A27424C69FA110EE" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1365" data-pwa-suggestions="several">a number of</pwa> inventions, called <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Eco" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Eco" data-pwa-id="pwa-DD6275353A5E144770911DBBED2EC7CB" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="ECO~Ego~Edo">Eco</pwa>-Technologies that applied the implosion principle or creative feminine force.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">An important concept he championed was his idea that water is the lifeblood of the earth, a living entity that gave life to Gaia. Schauberger found that cold water is densest at the +4 C degrees anomaly point during a full moon, as this water would become more buoyant than heated water. When water flows through vortices while moving down a winding river it pulled in the cosmic prana which increased the life force, as opposed to running water through straight pipes or turbines which depleted the waters fertility <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="due to" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: because of, for" data-pwa-id="pwa-47139C38E375347A788DB9079B2D718F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_3_1768" data-pwa-suggestions="because of~for">due to</pwa> the heat of friction. His conclusion was that practically all of our current forms of technology will eventually destroy the water table quality and reduce the oxygen in the atmosphere leading to an Ice age.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">He condemned the modern university scientists and their shortsighted theories eventually paying a high price for his writings by being institutionalized for a short period. This what Schauberger thought of our modern Fire Technology;</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe;">"In contrast, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Schauberger">all 'technical' machines,</a> i.e. all dynamos, turbines, pressure pumps, propellers, explosion and steam-driven engines, all furnaces, gas and electric heating appliances, all soil-tilling and harvesting machinery, etc. provide a developmentally harmful ex-pulse to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="initiate" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: start" data-pwa-id="pwa-AC66F76DF257F2700263AF6FDD64C8B6" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2063" data-pwa-suggestions="start">initiate</pwa> motion. Because of this and without exception, the atom lattice thus moved ruptures, resulting in the disintegration of the molecular (bacteriophagous) formations in suspension. In unnaturally moved air or water decadent stresses appear, causing the decay of the decisive energy-concentrates. This leads to the build-up of decadent potential and the decomposition of the blood of the Earth, and thus to a total economic collapse along the whole course of development." (7)</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Other mystics have mentioned a connection between fire and electricity. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Sri Aurobindo was an enlightened Indian master <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="whose influence will be felt" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-8B5C8FC19ECA42E7900693AC8CD7549A" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="it will felt whose influence~they will felt whose influence">whose influence will be felt</pwa> for centuries. His writings on the evolution of consciousness are very extensive. In the book </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i><pwa class="pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“Adventures in Consciousness," a concise biography of Aurobindo’s major philosophical points are reviewed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. 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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/19230128p01.html">Rudolph Steiner</a> with other spiritual philosophers such as Goethe believed electricity was a destructive force, one that would disturb natural spin of the elements. It is energetically the opposite of the feminine force or cool vortex and suction that creates life. Steiner thoughts on electricity were more reflective of ancient mythology than modern scientific theories. The ancients personified the forces of nature, giving each a unique myth and place in our world, for example, Iris was the Virgin Goddess of the rainbow, and the sun God was Apollo, the sky God, Zeus. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The forces of nature were conceived" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-F6F1CB898F517254EC2F3BB81C0CA10B" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I conceived the forces of nature~They conceived the forces of nature~We conceived the forces of nature~It conceived the forces of nature~Someone conceived the forces of nature~Something conceived the forces of nature">The forces of nature were conceived</pwa> as conscious beings that did whatever was necessary to keep order in the Universe. Now Steiner’s thoughts were similar in labeling electricity with the epithet of Evil.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Prometheus wasn't reverent to the Gods compared to the great men of the golden age, who “worked hard <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“" data-pwa-hint="You have two opening quotation marks in a row before a closing one. If this is because you’re using nested quotation marks, the inner pair should be singles." data-pwa-id="pwa-1B1BB34A94441C5B39BA1DEF4631B984" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">“</pwa>and ate the fruits of nature. His misuse of fire deflowered Pandora, the first women to lose all her gifts. The beauty of nature, the coolness of water, even our own survival instinct has flown away burned by ignorance of not just the outward flame but the inward light. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The world stands at the beginning of the twenty-first century facing the greatest fire, nuclear destruction. We continue along in a daze, unable to face the gigantic changes about to befall humanity, immune to the feminine energy of creation. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">There is only “HOPE” left in Pandora’s’ little bottle. </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A “HOPE” portrayed by the hero and savior Hercules. who symbolizes the next stage of higher consciousness. This mythic journey of Prometheus can <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be summed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-878B83591BB9EB3D392F8CEF80B90883" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be summed</pwa> in the understanding that the fire within ourselves must <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be developed" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-2EB649B36764040BD75A6A6DB4C95667" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be developed</pwa> and grown through mediation and a natural lifestyle close to the earth, and only then, when humanity comes into balance with fire and water or the destructive and creative energies (anger and sex) within ourselves will civilization enter the Golden age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>(2) Satprem, <u><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Sri Aurobindo" data-pwa-hint="Incorrect named entity spelling: Sri Aurobindo" data-pwa-id="pwa-9903C59D56F308C8EE56D05C83658A2A" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Sri Aurobindo">Sri Aurobindo</pwa> or the Adventures of Consciousness,</u></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanPrometheus.html">http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanPrometheus.html</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>(1) <span style="color: #b45f06;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus</a></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>(3)<b> </b>Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 441 ff (trans. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C 5th B.C.):</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A great number of Gods and Goddesses were conceived in a unique and supernatural manner, consequentially their “Virgin Birth” stands as a central theme in the world’s sacred texts. The reason behind the virginity of their Mothers has kept the faithful guessing on its' real significance for ages. No doubt this is because religious beliefs originated from the depths of the human psyche and can only be understood through parables, symbols, and allegory. There was never any eyewitness account of the ancient Gods and their virgin births, except in the form of sacred stories.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ancient myths are more akin to "<b>poetry of the soul</b>" than literal history. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />A common misunderstanding of the enigmatic “Virgin Birth” trope is due to the literal interpretation of ancient metaphors. This statement doesn't mean that God doesn't exist, only that their dimension of reality is more within than without, more abstract and therefore has to be symbolized.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />It is essential to find a reasonable explanation for such epithets as the “Virgin Birth,” “Virgin Mother,” “Twice–Born” and “Reborn” since these supernatural births are glaring contradictions of the essential facts of life, yet have these metaphors have managed to become an unquestioned doctrines within Christianity, the largest religion in the world. <br /><br />Ultimately a multidisciplinary group of researchers should verify that the sublimation of sexual energy, is a biological process related to the evolution of the brain and an important aspect of a Kundalini awakening. Thus the phrase “Virgin Birth” would denote the birth of higher consciousness brought about by reversing one's sexual energy. <br /><br />A general analysis of the most popular supernatural births in Mythology reveals a typical pattern that depicts the “Virgin Birth” of a “Divine Child.” When stripped of their cultural components, each of the ancient civilizations possessed a religion cult featuring a virgin birth, for example, Krishna, Christ, Buddha, Mithra, Horus, and Dionysus were all begot without regular physical intercourse and were considered “Virgin Born” or “twice-born”.<br /><br />In Hinduism, Lord Krishna is believed to be virgin born even after his mother Devaki had five previous children. The Virgin Mary birthed Christ, while Buddha was born of the Virgin Maya. Egyptians worshiped Isis as the Virgin Goddess and Mother of Horus. In Greek mythology, there was Myrrh the Virgin Mother of Adonis, while Dionysus was revered as a 'Twice Born.' Mithra is an Indo-Persian-Roman God whose birthday is celebrated around the winter solstice December 25 as he was Virgin born in a cave for an egg-shaped stone. There is an endless trail of miraculous events leading to the birth of each God, mystifying aspirants with a sense of awe and wonder even to this day. <br /><br />Edward Carpenter comes to the same conclusion in his book “Christian and Pagan Creeds” but has no explanation for the widespread dissemination of this particular motif. He had written, “A Virgin-Mother was, therefore, a quite imaginable (not to say 'conceivable') thing; and indeed a beautiful and fascinating thing, combining in one image the potent magic of two very wonderful words. It does not seem impossible that considerations of this kind led to the adoption of the doctrine or legend of the virgin-mother and the heavenly father among so many races and in so many localities--even without any contagion of tradition among them. Anyhow, and as a matter of fact, the worldwide dissemination of the legend is most remarkable."<br /><br />It was Almighty Zeus, "The father of the gods and men" impregnated the mortal Semele, in the form of a thunderstorm; she gave birth to the great savior and deliverer Dionysus. In another myth, Zeus impregnated Danae in a shower of gold; her child became Perseus, who slew the Gorgons (the powers of darkness) and saved Andromeda (the human soul. Devaki, the radiant Virgin of the Hindu mythology, became the wife of the god Vishnu and bore Krishna, the beloved hero, and prototype of Christ. <br /><br />"With regard to Buddha St.Jerome says, "It is handed down among the Gymnosophists, of India that Buddha, the founder of their system, was brought forth by a Virgin from her side." The Egyptian Isis, with the child Horus, on her knee, was honored centuries before the Christian era and worshiped under the names of "Our Lady," "Queen of Heaven," "Star of the Sea," "Mother of God," and so forth. Before her, Neith, the Virgin of the World, whose figure bends from the sky over the earthly plains and the children of men, was acclaimed as the mother of the great god Osiris. The savior Mithra, too, was born of a Virgin, as we have had occasion to notice before; and on the Mithras monuments the mother suckling her child is a not uncommon figure.’’<br /><br />"The old Teutonic goddess Hertha (the Earth) was a Virgin but was impregnated by the heavenly Spirit (the Sky), and her image with a child in her arms was to be seen in the sacred groves of Germany. The Scandinavian Frigga, in much the same way, being caught in the embraces of Odin, the All-father, conceived and bore a son, the blessed Balder, healer, and savior of mankind. Quetzalcoatl, the (crucified) savior of the Aztecs, was the son of Chimalman, the Virgin Queen of Heaven. Even the Chinese had a mother-goddess and virgin with a child in her arms, and the ancient Etruscans the same.” (1)<br /><br />When interpreting the ancient texts one needs to acknowledge the mythical accounts were created when humanities mental processes were still very subjective. A rationalistic attitude of mind along with its’ literal interpretations fails to understand that symbols carry a great number of layered meanings. One had to be initiated into the ancient mysteries before a full exposition was revealed. A process that required moral and physical trials which only a few select initiates achieved. This fact along with the initiates’ vow of silences partially explains the misinterpretation of the ancient's worldview. While another factor results from mythology being a visual language that our own modern mind does not grasp fully because humanities experiences of higher consciousness are still in the process of unfolding and evolving. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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It is this spiritual transformation of body and mind, that is the foundation on which religions, mythology, and legends are built.<br /><br />There is a long historical precedent in the ancient religious practices which considered chastity and celibacy an indispensable practice for spiritual advancement. Even to this day, Catholic and Buddhists monks take a vow of celibacy. Different religious sects had understood the link between sublimation of sexual energies and spirituality but through the long march of history have lost its significance. While in Yogic and Taoist Philosophies this knowledge of the biological nature of recirculated sexual essences has never been forgotten and is taught openly. Western patriarchal religions regard sexual procreation as a legitimate avenue open to expression, but <a href="http://en.allexperts.com/q/Celibacy-Abstinence-3564/2010/5/preventing-formation-semen.htm">Urdhva–Retas </a>, (i.e., sublimation) does not factor into their belief system except in a subconscious manner. There are particular faiths such as the Catholic religion that still practices celibacy but without any link to higher consciousness.<br /><br />The ancient philosophers believed that humanity was a reflection of the universe, as indicated in their universal motto, "As Above so Below." Interpreted in this way, the Gods, Goddess, and Divine child become personifications of psychological forces within oneself. Therefore the trinity of forces exists within, as the Virgin Goddess is a personification of Kundalini. She is the dormant <a href="http://www.sanatansociety.org/hindu_gods_and_goddesses/shakti.htm">Shakti</a>, whose feminine creative energy (Shakti) rises upward to meet the archetypal masculine God, that flows downward from the heavens starting with the crown chakra. Once the two opposites are purified, conjoined and married,(symbolized by the sacred marriage), a Divine Child (spirit) is born within. <br /><br />In India, Kundalini is worshiped as a Goddess. Her activities, actions, and wisdom portray the effects of an intense awakening. The emphasis on virginity teaches purity, restraint, chastity, and self-discipline because these efforts are an integral part of the biological and psychological conditions necessary for enlightenment. Similarly, the Greek Virgin Goddess Athena and Egyptian Isis have the same function in denoting in mythic form the proper practices for further evolution. Arthur Avalon presents an insight into this aspect in his book “Serpent Power.”<br /><br />“Man is a microcosm, (Ksudra-Bramanda).3 the world is a microcosm (Bramandra), there are numberless worlds, each governed by its own Lords, though there is one great mother of all whom these Lords themselves worship, placing on their heads the dust of her feet. In everything, there is all that is in anything else. There is thus nothing in the universe which is not in the human body. There is no need to throw one’s eyes into the heavens to find god. He is within, being known as the ‘’ ruler within ‘’ (Antarymina) or “Inner Self” (Antaratma).” (2)<br /><br />The birth of the Divine child takes place by the power of the “Great Mother of All,” the Goddess, Kundalini. When she rises up the Sushumna into the crown chakra the individual experiences, an expansion of consciousness which lasts until the Pranic energy in the form sublimated essences (Ojas) is expended. Brahmacharya is a major biological factor responsible for spiritual enlightenment; it is the energetic component bonding together two ends of spirit and matter. Without a considerable amount of Ojas obtained from sexual essences, no expansion of consciousness can occur. It has been stated in yogic philosophy that continuous celibacy over a period of twelve years is required for a permanent state of Samadhi. Yoga and Taoism have understood the intimate connection between the physical body and higher awareness. Yogic practices such as Brahmacharya and The Taoist “Microcosmic Orbit’’ are based entirely on re-circulation and sublimation of sexual essences.<br /> <br />Physical postures (<a href="http://www.yogabasics.com/yoga-postures.html">asana</a>) along with pranayama were predicated on the knowledge gathered through observing initiates spontaneous awakenings. By repeating the exact movements, the yogi could attune the body to the increasing intensity of the Pranic spectrum. Why would anyone believe that the physical stretching (asana) or Breathing (Pranayama) could affect the spiritual unless of course the human body itself is saturated with cosmic intelligence? The yogic system is focused on merging individual consciousness with Brahman; the vital energy for this is provided in Brahmacharya; to understand the symbol of the "Virgin Birth" one needs to be conversant with Yogic Philosophy. Sri Swami Sivananda has written these thoughts on Brahmacharya:</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Brahmacharya literally means Achara or conduct that leads to the realization of Brahman or one’s own self. It means the control of semen, the study of the Vedas and contemplation on God. The technical meaning of Brahmacharya is self-restraint, particularly mastery of perfect control over the sexual organ or freedom from lust in thought, word, and deed."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The great Isis of the Egyptian pantheon is a Virgin Goddess portrayed with the lunar orb above her head between two horns of a cow while nursing her son Horus. Isis is the prototypical Virgin Goddess, who existed centuries before Christianity and the only Goddess worshiped equally in all of Egypt. Additionally, images in hieroglyphics reveal Isis wearing a crown made of cypress branches with a serpent interwoven in a circle among olive leaves, biting its own tail. Here is the legendary myth of the virgin birth of Horus,</span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />“Set held a banquet for Osiris in which he brought in a beautiful box and said that whoever could fit in the box perfectly would get to keep it. Set had measured Osiris in his sleep and made sure that he was the only one who could fit the box. Several tried to see whether they fit. Once it was Osiris's turn to see if he could fit in the box, Set closed the lid on him so that the box was now a coffin for Osiris. Set flung the box in the Nile so that it would drift far away. Isis went looking for the box so that Osiris could have a proper burial. She found the box in a tree in Byblos, a city along the Phoenician coast, and brought it back to Egypt, hiding it in a swamp. But Set went hunting that night and found the box. Enraged, Set chopped Osiris's body into fourteen pieces and scattered them all over Egypt to ensure that Isis could never find Osiris again for a proper burial."<br /><br />“Isis and her sister Nephthys went looking for these pieces, but could only find thirteen of the fourteen. Fish had swallowed the last piece, his phallus, so Isis made him a new one with magic, putting his body back together after which they conceived Horus. The number of pieces is described on temple walls variously as fourteen and sixteen, and occasionally forty-two, one for each Nome or district.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis#cite_note-books.google.co.uk-13">[13]</a>” (5)</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Athena's birth from the head of Zeus </b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A cursory glance of Athena’s mysterious birth presents us with a motif that closely resembles the principal themes in world mythology. She is intimately related to the practices of chastity, Virginity, and Purity and secondly, Athena was predicted to be more powerful than her father (Zeus). These two common motifs appear in over <a href="http://mythicspiral.blogspot.com/2013/02/gods-divine-birth-in-religion-and-myth.html">18 different world myths</a>. Both reveal their secrets from an evolutionary point of view, as each expresses an important aspect of the Kundalini thesis. Athena’s virginity is symbolic of sexual sublimation, while Zeus’s reluctance to her birth portrays the adverse forces fighting against the higher embodiment of the spiritual.<br /><br />Technically speaking Athena wasn't “Virgin Born”, she was a Virgin Goddess, a distinction in specific details that clarifies her position as a personification of the Kundalini paradigm. Her evolutionary function as “Virgin Goddess’’ promotes the idea of sexual sublimation and parallels the Virgin Mary, Isis, Maya, and other Virgin Mothers. While the objects and animals which surround her express many aspects of a transformation, such as a serpent shield, covered with gorgons. Most importantly Athena’s birth sequence is a metaphor that presents the Greeks' progression of thought in regards to religious worship, that developed over the centuries to a more balanced attitude, thus balancing out the three thousand year reign of Zeus. </span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"They said that Athena was the daughter of Zeus not from intercourse, but when the god had in mind the making of a world through a word (Logos) his first thought was Athena" (6) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A primary doctrine of Christianity and Islam is the belief in Christ’s virgin birth by his Mother Mary, called “The Mother of God” and Jesus “was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary.” It was a universal Christian belief by the third century among all the different sects. The ancient statues depict her in a blue robe, a string of seven or twelve gold stars around her head with heavens above while standing on the head of a serpent. Christian writers would have us believe that she is standing on the devil who is in the form of a serpent. But actually, the image simply depicts the negative aspects of serpent power (lower desires and karma), while Goddess Mary is the positive aspects of Kundalini who is responsible for enlightenment. She conquers the serpent through sublimation which leads to higher awareness, symbolized in the virgin birth of the divine child "Jesus Christ."<br /><br />Out of all the ancient narratives, the least amount of interest in the Feminine Goddess is shown by the early Christian writers. The biblical texts record her pregnancy by the overshadowing of the holy spirit. The Virgin Mary never exceeds her boundary as a Mother. When comparing her abilities with the Feminine Goddesses Athena or Isis, the Virgin Mary appears as an orphaned child who was awarded little respect or power which historically surrounded Shakti. This probably reflects more on the patriarchal mindset of the Old Testament than it does anything else, whereas all other Gods except Jehovah were eliminated entirely. The same attitude of the early Jewish Christians saturates the new testament, as we create the gods in our own image as much as God creates us.<br /><br />If one takes a literal view of the Virgin Birth, we are struck with the conclusion that a considerable portion of humanity believes blindly in complete contradiction to the essential facts of life, in a definition of virginity that results in childbirth, which is a physical impossibility. A number of researchers have written that ancient tribes were unaware of the connection between sexual intercourse and childbirth. Therefore they personified feminine fertility by creating the Virgin Goddess, and consequently, this idea expanded over the world. So their explanation for the "Virgin Birth" would be predicted on the ancients ignorance. <br /><br />James Frazer (1854-1941) in his influential book, The Golden Bough, "thought the belief in the Virgin Birth without regards to sexual intercourse was a common if not universal, among mankind at a certain stage of social evolution."<br /><br />I'm sure these essential facts of life were well-known in ancient civilization, as some of the most significant philosophers were living at that time. We have inherited a tremendous record of political discourse from the Greeks, religious philosophy from India, the constitutional law of Rome. Assuming they were ignorant of the basic facts of conception is just poor research. The explanation denies the allegorical nature of mythology while considering the most magnificent civilizations of the ancient world were ignorant of life. Frazer’s statement fits into the modern era’s mindset that religion is the “opiate of the masses” while the traditional explanation for the virgin birth relies on unseen miracles. The only solution to the problem of is research into the biological aspects of the Kundalini.<br /><br />Finally, the practice of celibacy without sexual sublimation would be just as destructive as sexual licentious. Why would someone who reached a higher state of consciousness not have children? It would be going against the natural law of evolution, that seeks to have the most evolved procreate. In fact, during the Vedic Period, there were hundreds of enlightened masters that married and had children. The real point here is that sexual energy (Shakti) is the force behind both religion and evolution.</span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><u></u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a conscious force behind humankind's evolution as our development is not an accidental combination of random molecules. The human brain is designed to reach a higher state of awareness because our own immortal consciousness forms the physical structure of the body over endless reincarnations. As our consciousness expands the body and mind/brain follows. According to the ancient Rishis, this evolutionary process stems from Kundalini Shakti-the primal feminine power that guards and leads human evolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, the use of enigmatic symbols and literary analogies has been the preferred method to express spiritual enlightenment. This allegorical way of writing has obscured the reality of the actual physical transformation of the nervous system and enlightenment. Motifs such as the divine child, virgin birth, death, and resurrection, tree and serpent have been used throughout world religion to express the biological factors caused by a Kundalini awakening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this blog, we will explore one particular mythological motif: the evil backlash of Kings and Gods to the birth of a “Divine Child.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">A Kundalini awakening is symbolized in myth as the birth of a ‘Divine Child,’ a metaphor that refers to connecting to one's soul or higher self. The ‘Virgin Birth’ refers to the sublimation of sexual energy. The virgin mother is not an ordinary person but a force of Kundalini that the religious texts deified into the Virgin Goddess. Once the transformation begins, Prana from all parts of the body is channeled by the Nadis upward into the brain. Sexual energy being the most potent form of the life force is alchemically transmuted into ‘Soma’ called the food of the Gods in the Vedas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Dionysus faced death soon after his birth. By the Cretan account of Diodorus Siculus, Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Persephone. Hera, Zeus’s jealous </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wife,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> sent the Titans to kill the child. Dionysus was torn into fourteen pieces</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">; only</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> his heart was untouched. Zeus found the heart of his son and stitched it into his thigh; where Dionysus matured and was born. Dionysus was called “twice-</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">born</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. That is, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">born </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from the tryst between Zeus and Persephone and again from the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">thigh</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> of Zeus. Dionysus birth follows the same pattern, he is </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">twice-born,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Hera attempts to murder him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The significant motifs that underpin the foundation of Christian faith are Jesus Christ’s virgin birth, baptism, miracles, and his death and resurrection as a sacrifice for the atonement for humanities sins. The biblical story of his Divine birth follows a similar pattern to other religious myths. Herod the Great was the appointed Roman king of Judea heard of Christ’s birth from the three Magi, after hearing a dire prophecy that a “Divine Child“ would be born and become “King of the Jews “leading to his own downfall, Herod ordered all the young males in the area of Jerusalem murdered. Joseph was warned in a dream of the danger and moved the family to Egypt until Herod passed away, then finally moved to Nazareth in Galilee. This episode of infanticide is called by Christianity, “The Massacre of Innocents.” Jesus Christ is ‘virgin born,’ Herod tries to murder him; he is then brought up in a small village.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Romulus and Remus were twin brothers who were central to founding Rome, before their birth Amulius usurped his brother Numitor, the King of Alba Longa to capture the throne consequently killing Numitor’s male heirs and compels his daughter Rhea Silvia to become a Vestal Virgin sworn to chastity, in order to prevent her from bearing any sons who could become King. But Rhea Silvia becomes pregnant with twins from either the God Mars or Hercules. (There weren't DNA tests in ancient Rome). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The evil king Amulius finds the twins then have them abandoned in the river, the Tiber in order to murder them by neglect, but they are incredibly lucky when the river carries them without harm to a distant shore. A she-wolf finds nurses the twins while a woodpecker brings food. They are found by a humble Shepherd family and brought up as their own sons until they reach adulthood. Then set out into the world, where they attract many disciples because of their natural leadership. Upon discovering their real birth parents, they kill Amulius and reward Numitor his lost kingship, then proceeded to found Rome.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">“The standard saga itself may be formulated according to the following outline: The hero is the child of most distinguished parents, usually the son of a king. His origin is preceded by difficulties, such as continence, or prolonged barrenness, or secret intercourse of the parents due to external prohibition or obstacles. During or before the pregnancy, there is a prophecy, in the form of a dream or Oracle, cautioning against his birth, and usually threatening danger to the father (or his representative). As a rule, he is surrendered to the water, in a box. He is then saved by animals, or by lowly people (shepherds), and is suckled by a female animal or by a humble woman. After he has grown up, he finds his distinguished parents, in a highly versatile fashion. He takes his revenge on his father, on the one hand, and is acknowledged, on the other. Finally, he achieves rank and honors. (<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mbh/mbh17.htm#fn_90">1</a>)”</span></div>
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<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Cronus </span></b></li>
<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Zeus </span></b></li>
<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Dionysus </span></b></li>
<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Athena </span></b></li>
<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Perseus </span></b></li>
<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Krishna </span></b></li>
<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Horus </span></b></li>
<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Moses </span></b></li>
<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Jesus Christ </span></b></li>
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<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Cyrus </span></b></li>
<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sargon </span></b></li>
<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Gilgamesh </span></b></li>
<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Tristan </span></b></li>
<li><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Hercules </span></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One’s perspective can be lost in analyzing these various ancient myths, but if one interprets the symbolic language from a verified theory of evolution and the yogic concepts of kundalini, then a clear understanding begins to take shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> There was once upon a time a poor widow who had an only son named Jack, and a cow named Milky-white. And all they had to live on was the milk the cow gave every morning, which they carried to the market and sold. But one-morning Milky-white gave no milk, and they didn't know what to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"We've tried that before, and nobody would take you," said his mother; "we must sell Milky-white and with the money start shop, or something."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So he took the cow's halter in his hand, and off he started. He hadn't gone far when he met a funny, looking old man, who said to him: "Good morning, Jack."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Oh, you look the proper sort of chap to sell cows," said the man; "I wonder if you know how many beans make five."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"What!" says Jack's mother, "have you been such a fool, such a dolt, such an idiot, as to give away my Milky-white, the best milker in the parish, and prime beef to boot, for a set of paltry beans? Take that! Take that! Take that! And as for your precious beans here they go out of the window. And now off with you to bed. Not a sup shall you drink, and not a bit shall you swallow this very night."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The beanstalk grew up quite close past Jack's window, so all he had to do was to open it and give a jump on to the beanstalk which ran up just like a big ladder. So Jack climbed, and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed till at last, he reached the sky. And when he got there he found a long broad road going as straight as a dart. So he walked along and he walked along and he walked along till he came to a great big tall house, and on the doorstep, there was a great big tall woman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Nonsense, dear," said his wife, "you're dreaming. Or perhaps you smell the scraps of that little boy you liked so much for yesterday's dinner. Here, you go and have a wash and tidy up, and by the time you come back your breakfast will be ready for you."</span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then Jack crept out on tiptoe from his oven, and as he was passing the ogre he took one of the bags of gold under his arm, and off he pelters till he came to the beanstalk, and then he threw down the bag of gold, which of course fell into his mother's garden, and then he climbed down and climbed down till at last he got home and told his mother and showed her the gold and said: "Well, mother, wasn't I right about the beans? They are really magical, you see."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So they lived on the bag of gold for some time, but at last, they came to the end of it, and Jack made up his mind to try his luck once more up at the top of the beanstalk. So one fine morning he rose up early and got on to the beanstalk, and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed till at last, he came out on to the road again and up to the great big tall house he had been to before. There, sure enough, was the great big tall woman a-standing on the doorstep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Go away, my boy," said the big tall woman, "or else my man will eat you up for breakfast. But aren't you the youngster who came here once before? Do you know that very day, my man missed one of his bags of gold."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, the big tall woman was so curious that she took him in and gave him something to eat. But he had scarcely begun munching it as slowly as he could when thump! thump! thump! they heard the giant's footstep, and his wife hid Jack away in the oven. All happened as it did before. In came the ogre as he did before, said: "Fee-fi-fo-fum," and had his breakfast off three broiled oxen. Then he said: "Wife, bring me the hen that lays the golden eggs." So she brought it, and the ogre said: "Lay," and it laid an egg all of gold. And then the ogre began to nod his head, and to snore till the house shook.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman," cried out the ogre. "I smell him, wife, I smell him."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Do you, my dearie?" says the ogre's wife. Then, if it's that little rogue that stole your gold and the hen that laid the golden eggs he's sure to have got into the oven." And they both rushed to the oven. But Jack wasn't there, luckily, and the ogre's wife said: "There you are again with your fee-fi-fo-fum. Why of course it's the boy you caught</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /> In general, Fairy-tales are extended allegories that use metaphors and symbolism to signify the psyches path toward self-knowledge. In this particular story, the theme depends on the process of Jacks’ individualization and transformation of consciousness. Of course, the connections are hard to figure out without any knowledge of Kundalini, and its power to transmute the body and mind. In any case, physical and psychological effects unfold in a particular pattern that occurs after an awakening of Kundalini. This pattern begins with the motif of a missing parent, as Jack has no father figure to guide him in life. (Joseph Campbell called his pattern of themes and symbols the “monomyth”)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A historical review of ancient cultures of India, Egypt, and Europe finds the cow was an important animal in humanities early survival plus an integral member of the family. The cow produces many types of food including milk, cheese, and butter ensuring sustenance of an extended family. Even cow dung is considered sacred, which is used in the Hindu fire ceremony, Agni-Hotra. There are three separate ways to interpret the cow “Milky White “as a symbol, one indicates the protagonist’s inner consciousness has achieved a milestone in which the inner light appears as luminous white, secondly it points to the sublimation of sexual energy upward into the brain, and third, as a symbol of the cosmic Pranic energy or “ocean of milk”.</span></div>
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The colors of black, white, red (gold) are important colors that appear in alchemical literature and in fairy tales indicating the progressive stages of the inner light. In ordinary consciousness no internal light is observed when the eyes are closed (except in dreams), this would be considered the first phase of awareness symbolized by the black color. The second phase occurs when the bio-energy or Prana increases in intensity becoming luminous; lighting the interior of the mind, symbolized by the color white. This progression of colors delineates the psychological and spiritual stages within the interior consciousness of the hero. The beanstalk and milk exist together, to reflect the psycho-spiritual effects of Kundalini on the body. This sublimated sexual energy (Milky White) ascends the spine (beanstalk) just as Jack climbs the beanstalk. “Into the Sky”, that is higher consciousness. </div>
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Fire is, therefore, the element used to separate the good from the bad, the impure from the pure, as the element of purification fire appeared in all ancient alchemical texts. In Vedic hymns, the god Agni is synonymous with fire. On a personal level, the Chinese Taoist purify their minds and body by practicing the microcosmic orbit for the defined purpose of raising the chi up the back through the spinal cord and down the front where it finally rests one and a half inches below the navel. Different sections of the body were labeled according to the amount of heat (Agni) it held. The triple burner is situated in the lower chakras where strong vital heat is produced; the Japanese call this the Hara center. Internal fire is released and magnified by circulation of the Chi through the major chakras. The fire as symbolized by Jack hiding in the oven is part of the overall spiritual message of the tale.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A singing Golden Harp is the last object stolen by Jack. It has been observed and written in much of yogic literature about the internal sounds or music that is heard after a spiritual awakening. The golden harp which produces beautiful melodies is a symbol for the final stage of inner transformation, in that Pranic energy becomes visible as a golden light and sound. Sometimes this sound is described as a group of bees or an internal river. In the yogic tradition, the sound is called “nada” while the Chinese mystics called it “Hu.“ This internal sound varies it may deliver symphonic melodies completely finished when the bodies Pranic system is pure, as in the case of Mozart who stated he heard the specific melody of every symphony internally. This internal melody is created by the increased intensity of the Pranic energy flowing through the blood and reaching certain brain centers associated music and hearing. Gopi Krishna believed that all species were governed by their own Pranic spectrum which generated the group’s common traits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Little Snow White" is a classic European fairy tale, transcribed by the brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in 1812. This version <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was published" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-4483B1C67BB1316C4D4347FC58F52625" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">was published</pwa> by the Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia in 1927 and edited by Francis J<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="." data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '.' may require a space after it. Consider adding the space." data-pwa-id="pwa-599D96A01CF30FFBE3F55DA2EAB0BB27" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=". ">.</pwa>Olcott. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, when flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a Queen sat by the window sewing, and the frame of the window was made of black ebony. And whilst she was sewing and looking out the window at the snow she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow, and the red looked pretty upon the white snow, and she thought to herself,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #783f04;">“Would that I had a child as</span> <span style="color: red;">wh</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;">ite as snow, as red as blood and as black</span> <span style="color: #783f04;">as the wood of the window frame.” Soon after that a little <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="daughter," data-pwa-hint="Remove comma before this essential relative clause" data-pwa-id="pwa-C0F3A556E8174B55CB77B85FFA654A4F" data-pwa-rule-id="GR_33" data-pwa-suggestions="daughter">daughter,</pwa> who was as white as snow, and as red as blood and her hair was black as ebony. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="She was therefore called" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-F5FE2583B83C95AE438301F001478E65" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I therefore called her~They therefore called her~It therefore called her">She was therefore called</pwa> little Snow-White. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While the Dwarfs are working in the mountains, the Queen disguises herself, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="in an attempt " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-EAA72951F1B2DF1D37BC8509C19AA23A" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1517" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">in an attempt </pwa>to kill Snow-White. First, dressed as an old peddler, the Queen offers Snow, stay-laces for her dress, and tie them so tight that Snow White faints. The wicked one leaves her for dead and returns to the castle. However, Snow White recovers when the dwarfs loosen the laces. Next, the Queen dresses in different clothes and convinces Snow White's to brush her hair with a poisoned comb. Snow White faints once more but the Dwarfs bring her back to life. </span></div>
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the third time the wicked one succeeds. Disguised as an old lady the Queen
offers Snow a poisoned apple. But this time Snow hesitates, so the Queen cuts
the apple in half and eats the white part, and gives the poisoned core to Snow
White. She naively takes a bite and falls into a dead stupor. This time the
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Prince traveling through the land rides by the coffin and becomes enchanted by Snow
White’s beauty and falls in love. The dwarfs, persuaded by his extreme concern
for Snow White, allow the prince to take the glass coffin to his castle. While
servants are carrying the coffin they stumble on some tree roots. This causes
the piece of poisoned apple to dislodge from Snow White's throat, which brings
her back to life. The Prince then declares his love for her, and soon a wedding
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later versions of the tale, the Prince kisses Snow White. The wicked Queen,
believing that Snow White was dead, asks her Looking Glass who is the fairest
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wicked Queen hears of the Princes’ wedding but is ignorant that the Prince's
new bride is indeed her stepdaughter, Snow White. The wicked Queen arrives at
the wedding, with a heart filled with dread, for some unknown reason. And when
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every event and character in some symbolic manner pertains to the central theme of Snow’s individualization and spiritual transformation. Fairy tales use a literary technique that personifies each aspect of the protagonist’s psyche and transforms each into surrounding characters. Keeping this technique in mind, we will focus on the psychological and physical rebirth of the feminine protagonist; Snow White.</span></div>
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psyche or soul. The wicked Queen plays the role of an antagonist and Snow White’s
shadow or unconscious. Her absent father represents Snow White’s lack of a
positive male figure in her life, while the Huntsman is the first male that
provides a drop of courage. The seven dwarfs are symbolic representations of
the seven chakras and are her first mentors. The prince signifies the ultimate
example of the archetypal male.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The Interpretation of" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: Interpreting" data-pwa-id="pwa-5CECF1A62DE3F8511A03821FA96A4C2B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1611" data-pwa-suggestions="Interpreting">The Interpretation of</pwa> the three colors</b><br /><br /> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first motif that needs an explanation is the three colors: black, white and red, As Snow White mother says: <br /><span style="color: red;"><br />“Would that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood and as black as the wood of the window frame.”</span><br /><br />The same three colors are mentioned later in the story as well as in other fairy tales and must be of some importance. In addition, the colors are found in alchemical texts, Indian philosophy, and Egyptian culture. For instance; note the sayings from the alchemical tract, <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/alc/goldtrac.htm">The Golden Tractate of Hermes Trismegistus</a>,<br /><span style="color: red;"><br />“I am the White of the Black, and the Red of the White, and the Citrine of the Red, and behold I speak the very truth.”</span> (5)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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progressive purification of matter and mind. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The three colors are used to symbolize psyche’s
evolution into higher consciousness. Let me explain: Most meditators upon
closing their eyes see nothing but black. After decades of practice, or even
lifetimes, the next level of a successful spiritual practice occurs when the
internal Pranic energy illuminates the interior of the brain in a beautiful
white light. Even the external world takes on a stunning luster with subtle
tones; Gopi Krishna<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>has written of this
experience in his autobiography. Ultimately one’s mind is bathed in a beautiful
red than gold color along with an enduring sense of immortality, increased
health and intelligence. This state of mind, (called enlightenment or
self-realization) is referred to in symbolic terms by the color gold and can be
seen in the golden treasures, harps, hair and dresses that the childlike
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transformative meaning of the three colors cannot be decoded without
understanding alchemy. In a short review, we find the alchemists believed that
the material world is divided into a vegetable, animal, and mineral kingdom.
Each kingdom creates a unique type of seed, when placed into the feminine
matrix that reproduces its own kind. Plant seeds only produce other plants.
Animal seed, in the form of sperm, can only reproduce other animals. Minerals
contain a male (sulfur) and female (mercury) principal when combined together
reproduce by crystallization and slow growth. </span></span></div>
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alchemists spoke of Sulfur, it was not the actual mineral, but a symbol the
masculine energies within all matter, containing the properties of warmth and
dryness. When Alchemists used the word "mercury" they did not mean
the metal quicksilver. They were speaking poetically by coining the phrases:
"Our mercury" or "mercury that does not wet the hand,"
which were metaphors referring to the feminine principles of coldness,
creativity, and expansiveness. The salt was the perfected conjunction of the
two principals. The oil obtained from the distillation of an herb, contains the
soul or male aspect, while the liquid contains its spirit and the salt its
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ideas were applied to transmuting regular common herbs to advance medicines.
For example, in the plant kingdom, an herbal elixir can be created when
high-grade alcohol or wine is distilled seven times and mixed with five pounds
of dried herb; this menstruum sits in a warm place fermenting for forty days.
When removed from the egg-shaped vessel and burned; the ashes turn black,
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the three colors, black, white than red, which in an unknown manner, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>are <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>within the essence of physical<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>matter, waiting to become activated after
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learned from metaphysical teachers. Therefore any use of the colors in fairy
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escaped one murder attempt, Snow-White ran until she came to a small cottage in
the forest belonging to the Seven Dwarfs. Inside she discovers a white
tablecloth with seven dishes, seven cups, and seven beds. The number three
denotes the soul or heavens, and number four refers to the body and earth –
Three added to four results in seven, the number of perfection. Snow Whites
young age of seven originates from the astrological belief motif of seven-year
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seven dwarfs are linked to perfection as they represent the seven chakras, that
help the soul (Snow White in this case) achieve perfection, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As the seven dwarfs are her mentors in one
sense as they support Snow-Whites growth in awareness by learning to
discriminate between <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>good and evil, a
process that leads to her ultimate triumph. They represent all the energies
below the crown chakra which Snow White must become aware of before reaching
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #783f04;">“a powerhouse in the way each generates and stores energy, with the energy from the cosmos pulled in more strongly at these points. The main Nadis, Ida, Pingala and <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Shushumna" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Shushumna" data-pwa-id="pwa-7DE2BEE8B2A56DCA66AD5F0C20F8A445" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Shoshone~Shoshoni">Sushumna</pwa> (sympathetic, parasympathetic), and central nervous system run along the spinal column in a curved path and cross one another several times. At the points of intersection, they form strong energy centers known as chakras. In the human body, there are three types of energy centers. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The lower or animal chakras are located" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-832B0E60FEAFCF9C227FF2C4F91B1142" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I locate the lower or animal~It locates the lower or animal~They locate the lower or animal~I locates the lower or animal">The lower or animal chakras are located</pwa> in the region between the toes and the pelvic region <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="indicating" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: showing" data-pwa-id="pwa-2461DBE6B7A37527F35E30B3419C93CA" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2061" data-pwa-suggestions="showing">indicating</pwa> our evolutionary origins in the animal kingdom. The human chakras lie along the spinal column. Finally, the higher or divine Chakras <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are found" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-499E6D4EC502D0A4F2C01AFBF9DB875A" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are found</pwa> between the top of the spine and the crown of the head.”<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="(" data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '(' may require a space before it. Consider adding a space." data-pwa-id="pwa-5B992F7CE6F090BFC85D015195752E94" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=" (">(</pwa>7)</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">Once Snow White enters the dwarf’s cottage, she
tastes a small portion of food from each plate and wine from each glass, but
nothing satisfies her. Isn’t this a reflection of the inability of our lower
chakras to completely fulfill one's desires? In numerous myths, the first six
levels are only steps toward the seventh level, where the soul encounters
divine bliss and immortality. (Depending on the philosophy there are seven or
eight main chakras).</span></span></div>
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three lower centers are connected to negative emotions, such as greed, anger,
and hatred. These negative movements may dominate the mind for lifetimes until each
level of consciousness is integrated with the higher centers. Then the soul experiences
good health and vitality. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">The opening of the heart chakra brings love
and kindness, the throat chakra brings creativity, and the third eye opening
allows for visions and a sense of immortality. The crown chakra vibrates to the
highest plane of consciousness and liberates the mind from separation and
suffering. This concept of the crown or eight chakras as being the epitome of
perfection <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>is symbolized by Snow White’s
rejection of all the beds and glasses except the last one that fits perfectly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since the chakras below the crown are linked to perceiving the physical world, We can also interpret the questions that the dwarfs ask,, such as who’s been eating, drinking and sleeping, as related to the physical senses. Snow Whites dislike of all the food and drink implies her dissatisfaction with the limits of the sense organs.<br /><br />The same motif can be found in mythology. For example, the Greek deity, Cronos feared that he would be deposed by his children as foretold in prophecy, so he swallowed his first five children as each was born; until Zeus was born as the king of men and of gods. In a similar vein, Krishna the eighth son of his mother Devaki and father Vasudeva was predicted to overthrow the evil King Kansa, (Devaki’s brother). Kansa imprisoned Krishna’s parents and killed his first six siblings but was unsuccessful with one sister who ascended. Both stories repeat a plot which involves the first five or seven children’s death and attempted murder at the hands of an evil god, King or Queen with the last child being saved, with the help of another. <br /><br />The same explanation can be used, as each mythic narrative implies the lower chakras, and their links to the material world are the first steps on the evolutionary ladder. As the lower levels of consciousness must be thoroughly experienced and integrated before the highest state of consciousness is reached. Therefore, each sibling is superseded by the next, in an evolutionary progression, until the most evolved or youngest child is born, such as Zeus or Krishna. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">“The Seven
dwarfs come home from work and are astonished to find little Snow-White
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explained that the wicked Queen wished to have her killed, but the huntsman
spared her and had run the whole day until at last, she found their little
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replied; “If you will take care of our house, cook, make the beds, wash, sew
and knit, and if you keep everything neat and clean, you may stay with us, and
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little Snow-White, ‘‘with all my heart,” And she stayed with them."(9)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">Snow-White
escaped a terrible death by fleeing into the forest away from a comfortable and
indolent life as a princess. She agrees without hesitation to act as a faux
Mother, a cook, cleaner, and washer. Snow will make the beds and serve the
dwarfs in exchange for protection, shelter, and a loving home. This is the
traditional feminine path to happiness, sacrificing personal vanity for the
greater good of the extended family, no castles, no grand ceremonies, just the
mundane tasks which require continued concentration over the years, and
learning how to be content in the present moment. (Actually no different for
men). The simple atmosphere of the cottage and her hard works helps to develop
her identity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />But the Queen, believing that little Snow-White was dead cannot but think that she herself was again the first and most beautiful of all. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i style="text-align: left;">Who in this land is the fairest of them all?</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><i>And the Glass answered, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“" data-pwa-hint="Make sure that all of the quotations and brackets in this paragraph are closed." data-pwa-id="pwa-89238B9BD4154E0676006AE2A82FBB2B" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">“</pwa>Oh, Queen, thou art the fairest I see,</i></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><i><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Little Snow-White is alive and well,</span></i></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>And none is as fair as She.<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="”" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing double quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-1CC42C03CFB269F050F15CE66B214F97" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">”</pwa> </i>(10)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Astounded by the answer the Queen hatched another plan to murder Snow-White. She sold Snow White some pretty lace straps then laced them so tightly Snow White almost died. When the seven Dwarfs returned home found Snow on the ground <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="completely " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-E53D8C58CBC16B706C99623FCAAA3ED4" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2264" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">completely </pwa><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="white," data-pwa-hint="Unnecessary comma before a subordinate conjunction." data-pwa-id="pwa-80AC270315865E045609F628F93DEC04" data-pwa-rule-id="COMMA_IF" data-pwa-suggestions="white">white,</pwa> as if dead. They cut the tight laces and Snow’s breathing returned thankfully, as the Dwarfs saved her life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""When the dwarfs heard what happened they said: “The old peddler was no one else than the wicked Queen. Take care and let no one come in when we are not with you.” (11)" data-pwa-hint="You've mixed curly and straight quotation marks in this paragraph." data-pwa-id="pwa-693906A049C998C6B313064C466D5E3C" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">"When the dwarfs heard what happened they said: “The old peddler was no one else than the wicked Queen. Take care and let no one come in when we are not with you.” (11)</pwa><br /><br />The same sequence occurs two more times. The second time Snow-White naively allows <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="her hair to be touched by the poisoned comb purchased from the disguised queen" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-33C0DC1A741BF97AD1FA83702B8E0693" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="the poisoned comb purchased from the disguised queen to touch her hair">her hair to be touched by the poisoned comb purchased from the disguised queen</pwa>. Once Again, the seven Dwarfs return home to find her senseless on the floor and remove the poisoned comb saving her life. The Dwarfs caution her against the Queen’s deceptions. <br /><br />Now at the castle, the Queen asks her looking-glass which replied that Little-Snow is alive and well, and “none is as fair as she.” When she heard the Glass speak thus, she trembled and shook with rage. Now the wicked one returned and offers Snow White an apple and cleverly tricks her by tasting a small bit of the safe outer portions.<br /><br />Snow White bites into the poisoned apple core, then falls into a death-like sleep. Then the Queen looked at Snow White with a dreadful Look, and laughed out loud, and said: <br /><br /><span style="color: red;">“White as Snow, red as blood, black as Ebony wood!<br />This time the Dwarfs cannot wake you up again!<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="”" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing double quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-41F29BCBEC9022D3BC6C5DDBF97B9717" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">”</pwa></span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="(" data-pwa-hint="The punctuation mark '(' may require a space before it. Consider adding a space." data-pwa-id="pwa-72738E95F01FEE0188A620AA6C7E4D4F" data-pwa-rule-id="WHITESPACE" data-pwa-suggestions=" (">(</pwa>13)<br /><br />The seven Dwarfs tried to revive her but were unsuccessful. For three days they cried in sorrow, then agreed to bury her body, even though Snow-White still had rosy cheeks and a vibrant complexion. The Dwarfs placed her in a glass coffin with the words 'Kings Daughter' written in golden letters on the side...<br /><br /><i>"And now Little Snow-White lay a long, long time in the coffin. She did not change, but looked as if she were asleep; for she was white as snow, as red as blood, and her hair black as black as Ebony..... It happened, however, that the Kings’ Son came into the forest and went to the Dwarfs’ house to spend the night. He saw the coffin on the mountain, and beautiful little Snow-White within it, and read <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="what was written" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-F081F440E32BEA194E250637A300854F" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="what I wrote~what they wrote~what we wrote~what it wrote~what someone wrote~what something wrote">what was written</pwa> upon it in golden letters<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=""" data-pwa-hint="In dialogue you should always have a punctuation mark, usually a comma before a closing quote mark." data-pwa-id="pwa-1F84A52B0DF4F0E8EBA3829133C2443F" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions=","">"</pwa>. (14)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>THE RULE OF THREE</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />There is a motif called the rule of three that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is used" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-A2AC3B3EDD3984CAD4E2F14CD77213EE" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is used</pwa> in fairy tales to <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="indicate" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: show" data-pwa-id="pwa-7AAED41609966A0DCB32D26945FAA577" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_2061" data-pwa-suggestions="show">indicate</pwa> a task or action cannot enter reality until it <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is repeated" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-ACBEE2952C794D577291D5F70656B707" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">is repeated</pwa> three times. If some <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="sort of " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-7EA88FC0ED419AF60E61551AAA27920B" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1942" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">sort of </pwa>event only occurred twice, <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="it was considered" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-82295B720321A146EFC58BACDA1741EF" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="they considered it~I considered it~something considered it~us considered it~someone considered it">it was considered</pwa> unfinished, only the third time succeeds in the fairy realm. The Latin phrase "<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="omne" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: omne" data-pwa-id="pwa-22D479368515B013687E9241AC4E4B6B" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="one~omen~omni">omne</pwa> <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="trium" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: trium" data-pwa-id="pwa-13CF29444CCBC812ABB7CE59DEF2E2FA" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="trim~atrium">trium</pwa> <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="perfectum" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: perfectum" data-pwa-id="pwa-67C4377416FB8D1D62D1C27DC2516DB8" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="perfect um">perfectum</pwa>" (everything that comes in threes is perfect, or, every set of three is complete) conveys the underlying meaning of the rule. <br /><br />For example, the Queen travels to the dwarf’s cottage three times and tries to murder Snow White each time. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The three alchemical colors, black, white and red are mentioned" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-BD79724137832329F03DBA4AC7A8E52E" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I mention the three alchemical colors, black, white and red~We mention the three alchemical colors, black, white and red~It mentions the three alchemical colors, black, white and red~They mention the three alchemical colors, black, white and red~I mentions the three alchemical colors, black, white and red~Someone mentions the three alchemical colors, black, white and red~Someone mention the three alchemical colors, black, white and red~It mention the three alchemical colors, black, white and red">The three alchemical colors, black, white and red are mentioned</pwa> three times in the story, and in some other versions of Snow White, there are only three dwarfs instead of seven. Motifs such as the ‘rule of three,<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="”" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing double quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-8D1A9D7A4F176A72900131DAD1EBAD9F" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">”</pwa>helps to understand the minds of the ancients and the literary techniques they used to embody abstract ideas.<br /><br /><b>A PRINCE ARRIVES</b><br /><br />The young prince fell in love with Snow-White at first sight. 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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The King's Son, full of joy, said: “You are with me.” and told her what had happened, and said, '‘I love you more than anything in the world. Come with me to my father’s palace, you shall be my wife.<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="”" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing double quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-8431FBB90F7155B8B130C17F587DEFDB" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">”</pwa><br /><br />And little Snow-White said yes! <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The wedding was held" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-5DC13D32CA6A2317ED8E26570B3463D4" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I held the wedding~They held the wedding~It held the wedding~We held the wedding~Something held the wedding~Someone held the wedding">The wedding was held</pwa> with great show and splendor. But <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the wicked Queen was also forbidden" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-758D69839FEF4521B582DAD61879D448" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="they also forbid the wicked Queen~I also forbid the wicked Queen~we also forbid the wicked Queen~it also forbid the wicked Queen">the wicked Queen was also forbidden</pwa> to join the feast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have reached the point where Snow tastes the poisoned apple and falls into a deep stupor, she may even be dead, as it looked that way to the seven dwarfs when they mourned for three days and laid her into a glass coffin. What does the apple signify in sacred literature? An apple may look red on the outside, white on the inside, and in the center is a black seed, so once more we have the three transformative colors. <br /><br />In Genesis, Eve eats the forbidden fruit, which causes death to enter the world; <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="consequently, " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-D7FDD3CFCDCCBABBB3652EA2B36E7662" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_814" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">consequently, </pwa>humanity cannot <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="be saved" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-83EABB740AAA2F68B61A54D90F24B22F" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">be saved</pwa> until Christ returns. This whole scenario is analogous to Snow White’s fake death from eating the apple and her subsequent revival with the help of the Prince. <br /><br />“In Norse mythology 'apple trees' were a sacred symbol of rebirth and beauty. A Celtic myth includes a story about <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Conle" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Conle" data-pwa-id="pwa-357B66C53F63BC0F8CCA0C4849A50010" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Colne~Coble~Conlie~Coyle~Cole">Conle</pwa> receiving an apple that feeds him for a year and gives him an irresistible desire for a fairyland. I would interpret this from the perspective that the apple, when cut in half, looks the same as the cave-like structure in the brain’s center where the pineal gland sits. This cave is where the mind experiences immortality. In fact, in ancient India, the area called the <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="“" data-pwa-hint="You have two opening quotation marks in a row before a closing one. If this is because you’re using nested quotation marks, the inner pair should be singles." data-pwa-id="pwa-4715F32BC735BFF5F7F40A2279AE8EF0" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">“</pwa>Cave of Brahman”. Thus the apple <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="is tied" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. 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So here we have three myths that associate an apple with, immortality, and which supports the main theme of the ego's death, rebirth through the process of self-discovery. <br /><br />The young prince fell in love with Snow-White at first sight. The Dwarfs acknowledged his deep love and let him take the coffin back to his <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="kingdom," data-pwa-hint="Unnecessary comma before a subordinate conjunction." data-pwa-id="pwa-93F1AF83146572C90809A769C7949386" data-pwa-rule-id="COMMA_IF" data-pwa-suggestions="kingdom">kingdom,</pwa> where he could protect and cherish the body. (<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Of course, taken" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: Taken" data-pwa-id="pwa-9D080CD5D10AAEF6EC594F89E5757B3F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_242" data-pwa-suggestions="Taken">Of course, taken</pwa> literally, we have a prince obsessively in love with a dead girl, the origin of the zombie genre.) During the journey home the Prince's servants, carrying the coffin, stumbled on a tree stump. The shock dislodged a piece of the poisoned apple in Snow's throat. Before long, Snow-White was sitting up alive and well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Oh, where am I?” She cried.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The King's Son, full of joy, said: “You are with me.” and told her what had happened, and said, '‘I love you more than anything in the world. Come with me to my father’s palace, you shall be my wife.<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="”" data-pwa-hint="You have a closing double quotation mark without an opening one." data-pwa-id="pwa-0D8F1CD21180B63ADD0B1C2AEF594F1A" data-pwa-rule-id="STRUCTURED_PUNCTUATION" data-pwa-suggestions="">”</pwa> <br /><br />And little Snow-White said yes! <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="The wedding was held" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-AC6BC98DF7F78C23EC9ACE304D69E87F" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I held the wedding~They held the wedding~It held the wedding~We held the wedding~Something held the wedding~Someone held the wedding">The wedding was held</pwa> with <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="great" data-pwa-hint="Possible missing determiner" data-pwa-id="pwa-B347088475AB80058AF9F960C23BEC51" data-pwa-rule-id="DET_CG_2" data-pwa-suggestions="a great~the great">great</pwa> show and splendor. But <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="the wicked Queen was also forbidden" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-786372143C6DB51C6EFD3510F2967412" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="they also forbid the wicked Queen~I also forbid the wicked Queen~we also forbid the wicked Queen~it also forbid the wicked Queen">the wicked Queen was also forbidden</pwa> to join the feast.</span><br />
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<b><br /></b> <b>SACRED MARRIAGE </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />How can a child of seven years old marry, probably because Snow White represents the psyche, the Greek word for <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Soul." data-pwa-hint="Possible Wrong Punctuation" data-pwa-id="pwa-BC07E70AA4D94535C937ECB085F6F6CA" data-pwa-rule-id="QUESTION_DETECTION" data-pwa-suggestions="Soul?">Soul.</pwa> We are not talking about a real person but the female principal of consciousness that is trying to achieve a unified balance by merging with the masculine counterpart. The same alchemical marriage of opposites occurs when mercury and sulfur <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are combined" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-394A986349B47C9E09F17909E5C74922" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are combined</pwa> to form a herbal elixir. And <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="of course, " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-E3CDBCB3FF39DB3B8D59B75DD776353C" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_242" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">of course, </pwa>the conjunction occurs internally, creating a new <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="type of " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-6A3428075C59A0B7D829F07D5BFBDC7F" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1942" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">type of </pwa>person<pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="grammar" data-pwa-dictionary-word=" – " data-pwa-hint="En-dashes should never have a space on either side." data-pwa-id="pwa-A9D664FB6F844F8B08EFD5961CD11E0B" data-pwa-rule-id="EN_DASH_SPACING" data-pwa-suggestions="–~—"> – </pwa>reborn from the ashes of their former life, as it is <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="very " data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-67E7A33AC4738575EC29540E6CEF67EA" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_297" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">very </pwa>common to end fairy tales, with a sacred marriage</span>.</div>
<b><br /></b><b>THE QUEENS HOT SHOES </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Looking -Glass, Looking-Glass on the wall, Who is the fairest of them all? <br /><br />”And the Glass answered: “Oh, Queen, of all the fairest art thou, But the young Queen is fairer by far, <br /><br />"Then the wicked Queen uttered a curse and was so wretched, so utterly wretched, that she knew not what to do. At first, she would not go to the wedding at all, but she had no peace and must go see the new Queen. And then she went in she knew little Snow-White, and she stood still with rage and fear, and could not stir. But iron slippers had already been put upon the fire, and they were brought in with tongs and set before her. Then she was forced to put on the red-hot shoes, and danced till she dropped down dead" (15)…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Queen’s dancing demise is a metaphor on <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="spelling" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Pranic" data-pwa-hint="Unknown word: Pranic" data-pwa-id="pwa-CD2C64EC11921C1CF5FA544EB44419CB" data-pwa-rule-id="SIMPLE_SPELLING" data-pwa-suggestions="Pranie~Panic~Vranić~Drănic~Ranic">Pranic</pwa> flow. As the nerves in the feet and hands are the final areas of the body that <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Prana is pulled" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-73300C061EB456695679E1297F9E738F" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="I pull Prana~they pull Prana~we pull Prana~it pulls Prana~it pull Prana~someone pulls Prana~someone pull Prana~I pulls Prana~something pulls Prana~something pull Prana~they pulls Prana~we pulls Prana">Prana is pulled</pwa> from to supply the brain with enough energy to enter higher consciousness. This streaming Prana feels very warm, which is why the feet <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="are depicted" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-EA9BAB1D7E315BFC6988E1B26A7DEE8E" data-pwa-rule-id="null" data-pwa-suggestions="">are depicted</pwa> as burning. <pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="Consequently, the" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by using: The" data-pwa-id="pwa-A004B894CDEC73B3614FDA9714A230ED" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_814" data-pwa-suggestions="The">Consequently, the</pwa> Queen's death symbolizes the ego’s death and ends the transformative process. <br /><b><u></u><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"><b>One</b>:
Snow-White is a typical fairy tale based on the feminine path through<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>self-discovery and transformation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"><b>Two</b>:
The alchemical colors black, white, red -gold denote the evolution of matter
and consciousness.</span></span><br />
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The seven dwarfs are connected with the seven chakras and Snow White
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"><b>Four</b>:
The wicked Queen embodies the ego and adverse external as forces opposed to her
conscious evolution.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"><b>Five:</b>
The sacred marriage of Prince and Princess occurs with the opening of the crown
chakra when the individual consciousness merges with the divine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">Little
Snow-White is on the path to self-discovery; her mother is dead and father
neglectful. Their absence forces Snow White, to develop her own identity
without any interference….. or guidance for that matter. Their absence implies
that Snow White will evolve beyond her the restrictive consciousness of her ancestors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">There
are four types of men; a neglectful father, courageous huntsmen and the seven
dwarfs that mentor her and give advice - while the prince symbolizes the
perfected inner masculine archetypal energy that will balance her consciousness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">Snow White is tempted three times, like Christ.
She fails each time, because of <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>vanity. Her failures point to an ongoing
obsession with in her own beauty just like the wicked Queen. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However Snow White overcomes these lower
drives with her selfless service to the seven dwarfs (lower chakras). As for
the shadow, the wicked Queen is the antagonist that dies at the finish of the
story when Snow White becomes completely conscious.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">Snow
White finally achieves happiness by balancing her feminine and masculine
qualities, a motif depicted by her marriage to the prince.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The hidden power in humans, Ibera Verlag, page 54, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3850521974">ISBN 3-85052-197-4</a></span></div>
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