Beauty Of Existence

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According to myth, Saturn was Lord of the Mill,
dethroned by his son called Zeus, known as
Jupiter, he threw Saturn off his chariot and
banished him in chains to an island; being
immortal Saturn could not die, sleeping in
funerary linen until the time comes to be
reborn as a child

Delightful to learn that John the Baptist, Jesus Christ
and Saul who became Paul, knew about precession
wove tales of beautiful visions based on these facts
using details of equinoxes changing to explain the
redemption of man after the Old Testament
doomed mankind to eternal hell for
breaking God’s law

Though they must have known original myths were
based on astronomical observation, they created
a new creed to make men feel saved once they
accepted the universe was good, held together
by love, they showed that love was laying
down one’s life for others and their
future well-being

Creating the miracle play of a god coming to earth to
atone for men’s sins to illustrate how people could
forgive themselves and everyone else, to help all
accept the origin of the universe and their own
selves as good; but men used the teaching to
subject other human beings - no creed can
ever change anything

Only a personal choice for spiritual love for the self
and ALL forms of existence can bring us joy, no
amount of cajoling or enforced coercion can
ever change anyone into a joyous being,
discerning the beauty of existence
wherever we look….

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Twilight of the Gods: Once there was
a Golden Age. Why and how did it come
to an end? It is refracted in a hundred myths,
explained in sorrow, nostalgia and despondency.

Why was the Garden of Eden lost? The answer is
because of ‘sin’. Yet the theory of Adam and Eve
being guilty is not very old.

The authors of the Old Testament developed a
conceit while Christianity rescued and restored
the cosmic proportions, insisting God alone
could offer himself in atonement.

In archaic times this was self-evident. Gods
alone could reign over or wreck the universe.
THAT is the origin of ‘evil’.

Evil remains a mystery, it is not innate in nature.
The all-powerful machine of the heavens should
yield only harmony and perfection, a reign of
justice and innocence while rivers flow with milk
and honey. It did, then everything changed.

Why did history begin? History is terrible. Men
claimed when Pure Being is confronted with
Non-Being, the result is Becoming, which is
uninsurable.

The archaic answer was derived from heavenly
motions. In myths, the stars and planets are gods,
the divine enclosing the whole of nature.

Ancient myths reflected cosmological information:
Chaos, struggle and violence; portraying the forces
which shaped the cosmos.

“The Fixed stars are the essence of Being, their
assembly stands for the hidden counsels and
unspoken ruling the Whole.”

“Planets are gods, representing Forces and Will:
All forces are aspects of the heavenly power and
the ruthless necessity and precision expressed
by heaven.”

http://www.believeallthings.com/4667/hamlets-mill/#ixzz0qGOvODKd

“Hamlet's Mill”
An essay on myth and the frame of time
GIORGIO de SANTILLANA & HERTHA von DECHEND
David R. Godine Publisher Boston 1977
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