The more one pursues a knowledge of the Epics, the more one comes to understand the origins of present day religious concepts. The idea that we came to earth to experience adversity and deprivation as a form of purification of character was had millennia ago. It existed long before the Illead and Odyssey, before Homer and all the other Greek and Roman conquering heroes we are taught about in school. Just as Greek philosophy was a spinoff of Egyptian culture, so the Epics are a corruption of the earlier Saturnian Myths. You may get an introduction to the Myths on You Tube:
Mother Goddess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clq-GiqvL9o&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Cosmic Warrior
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=halMxf2Azbk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
All hail the conquering Hero! The warrior who vanquished the Dragon, slaying him and casting him down from the heavens. Sound familiar? It is a cultural story had among men over 10,000 years ago. It is the story about the fall of man from Paradise. But in actuality, Paradise as known in religion is the Golden Age in cultural history. The fall was the end of the Golden Age, when man was thrust out of Paradise, into a world of upheaval, distress, bitterness, and strife. The story of the passage of the earth out of the Golden Age into its present condition is retold through religious dogma, corrupted by ancient priests who took advantage of the social chaos to not just establish order in the world, but to ensure that order was theirs. Every principle of modern religious dogma is traceable back through the Epics to the Saturnian Myth.
Do we REALLY choose our life’s experiences before coming into mortality? Is there some redemption in experiencing dysfunctional relationships, all manner of abuse, torment, or deprivation? In truth, do these experiences make a better character, and do they purge from the soul all defect or evil tendency? If this be the case, what of those megalomaniacs and do-gooders who fostered upon the world terror and misery? If a soul is not purged in this world of their defects, then what of the opportunity to do so in the next? Should they go into the next world unencumbered with their hideousness, only to be forgiven and redeemed as though none of their offenses ever took place? And do they become lost forever because they failed to get the idea in this life? And if not, then how can they ever accomplish restitution?
Betty Eadie, Roy Mills, and a cornucopia of others would have us believe that we select what we experience here. Such a concept presupposes there is indeed a Life that precedes and follows our lives after death. The soul is Eternal. The idea is not new, having preceded these folks by Protestant beliefs older than 300 years. Is not this the Saturnian Myth, to come into this world and progress from innocence into knowledge, and in death finally conquer the dragon of dysfunctional behavior and spiritual impurity? To rise above all adversity, seen fit by the Gods who hurled them at Man as a byproduct of their capricious and scheming character is the story of the conquering warrior, who in vanquishing all enemies attains respect and stature among the Gods. This theme in one form or other winds its path through every Christian sect, every Islamic sect, every Hebraic law. It is the theme of impurity and impotency, and the extension of the belief that Man offended and offends the Gods, receiving punishment for his inadequacy and incompetence, obtaining clemency only after long deliberative propitiation.
Of course it is ludicrous to think that one person can obtain redemption for right living, while another must be cast away into hellfire. It is equally ludicrous to think those who strive for moral perfection will be joined by those who strove for ascendancy by dominion after they are pardoned by the Redeemer in the next world. Of all the religious dogmas that make any sense at all, is this one which Betty Eadie and others who have experienced the Out of Body event: to learn to love is the most important aspect of life. Such a concept stands above, and independent of all religious dogma. It stands above Humanism, Buddism, and all other creeds that attempt to piggyback upon it. As such, all religious and philosophical constructions are parasitical. The notion of another human, possessed of the same foibles and as fallible as the next, can perform intercession on this score with Man’s creator is the epitome of exploitation. In every case after thorough investigation, it is manifest that such beings who perpetrate these institutions do so because they do not have sufficient internal light to guide themselves. Hence their House is forever in disarray. You see it in the meditations of Thomas Aquinas, to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, to the highly celebrated person of Gordon Hinckley in Mormonism. You see it in political officers everywhere in every Age; abject mediocrity and inadequacy is the force behind the rise of such people into the world of Power. With such people, the greatest sin to be committed in this world is exposing their fraud as in the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes.
There is a great deal to be learned and understanding to be gained through knowledge of the Saturnian Myth. It is revolutionary not only in its historical implications (the world and Man’s existence is far older than Christianity allows), but in revealing the source of all the “saving” principles or graces we are told by priests were revealed to them by the Gods. It highlights the tendency of certain people to mitigate their failures, their ineptitude, their unremarkability by interjecting themselves into the human condition as parasitical facilitators of Transcendence.
Seth Smee
