Sciences in Genesis
I wrote the following comparison on the text from Genesis creation, and visualised it actually happening a week or two ago, and since decided to add these first two pictures.
I am trying to show the difference in how we understand things, and in that visual perception find new ways of seeing.
The picture below was taken at the same time, possibly a couple of seconds later, yet the light was different in that moment.
I used approximately the same photoshop settings.
I am trying to show the difference in how we understand things, and in that visual perception find new ways of seeing.
The picture below was taken at the same time, possibly a couple of seconds later, yet the light was different in that moment.
I used approximately the same photoshop settings.
It's strange how I have quite different perceptions about these photos.
The One above I feel has a Japanese look to it, yet this one in the red specrum looks more Chinese.
Well this wasn't just me being all arty. I like looking at photos this way, I find them calming for some reason.
I actually did these two photos to try and get more of the sense of the sphere in the next photo, which is in it's original form.
I know this is just a trick of the light, the reflections, the moment...
But they are illustrations to the manic ramble coming up.
I just can't get them to load in the text. I need to remember to put little photo opportunities in as I go along.
GeoScience in Genesis
Does the idea of parallel universes hold Water?
This is a lovely picture, but not balanced. A couple of months ago I experienced a few moments of perfect equanimity. It was breathtaking. We were on a walk with the dog by the canal in Dinan, and as I approached the little bridge in the gorge, there was a moment of complete symmetry.
By the time I had raised the camera in my hands to capture it, a shower of rain hit the water. I realised this was for my eyes only, as the sky was blue, and I still have no idea where the rain came from. It was gone in a few moments.
I guess I ought to explain what I mean and think about parallel universes.
It is very easy to get caught up by looking at an objective from only one discipline.
We are more than science, maths, biology, chemistry, literature, art, and theology, however when we see the same thing from each other's perspective, and agree that we are talking about the same thing but explaining it in a different way we can peice together a symmetry that is a far superior model than any one viewpoint.
I chose this picture to share, because it seems as though in the center there is a slightly out of focus sphere within the context of the picture. A focal point, a ground in which the context of the picture is clarified.
One of my favorite thoughts is 'does it hold water'?
By this I mean;
Has this idea got a leak somewhere?
Is it a 'truth' (something which does not need further examination?)
Does it need an explanation?
Is it self evident?
Will it stand any kind of bombardment?
Has it withstood previous scrutiny?
Have I tested it?
Do I need to test it?
Do I need to simply accept this is the best anology so far? (Other people call this theories)
Well I could go on, but this pretty well sums up the 'does it hold water' question.
I am experientially driven. I like the experience of things rather than a cerebral discourse. However I can be lured out of my den. A good discussion is very entertaining.
(For Short, Planned, Periods of coherence, where other people alow me time to formulate a response). That's why writing things is easier for me, as I can concentrate on a subject as long as it needs explanation.
Then where should I begin?
Perhaps with the sentience of our own being?
The myth of Atlantis is a 'reality' we deny ourselves in present mind. I will come back to this idea later.
If we observe the story of creation in Genesis, (NIV) as this is my usual translation. G ch1 v 1 and 2 describes an already existant potential. It is the most beautiful introduction to 'The Beginning' of a Created Order.
Verse 3 says "Let there be light", and there was light. Now, in my understanding and actual visual and perceptual discernment, there is a lot more light spectrum than we are able to physically 'see' within the perameters of biological visual accuity. As far as I am aware, most of my retinas are pretty well burned out. However I 'see' perfectly well. I see a lot more than other people see, and I pay attention to what I see. I have been given a gift of 'sight'. I have been using it since the first eclipse of the sun I saw as a child, and couldn't look away. Wonderful. But not reccommended. I have no idea why this 'sight' shoud be a gift to me.
So I do not 'see' like other people 'see'. I am seeing an energy spectrum. This is simply translated by my brain into 'normal' vision, because I could 'see' as anyone else 'sees' before this eclipse. Don't ask me why, that's just how it is. I pick up things that other people feel are hot, and they are not hot to me. warm perhaps? This is just how it is.
(I just got a grain of cooked rice stuck in my teeth during supper and it hurt like a bomb going off in my head).
Gen 1 v4. God saw that the light was good, and He seperated the light from the darkness. This is crucial.
Science (Astroscience) within the last couple of months confirms how little 'dark matter' is required to sustain the universe.
1st year science at secondry school shows Brownian Motion. The simple effect of sitting in a darkened room with a shaft of sunlight through the curtains.
(shows how much dusting you will need to do tomorrow to get everything shiny!) (Again).
I prefer to leave a layer of dust, it's great for writing quick notes to yourself.
Light does not exist without matter. It 'shines in the darkness' John 1 v5. The light has shone in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
I smoke in a darkened shed. When I do not smoke, the light is not diffused throughout the room.
There has to be matter for light to be evident. or in other words, something has to have (or be) 'matter' before light is revealed. - (The Potential).
The old question arises, if two ships traveling at/faster than the speed of light were approaching each other would they see each other's headlights? The answer is NO!
Eyes in the darkness perhaps?
Faster than the speed of visible light, means that you are travelling in a different energy signature. You are travelling as a potential. A thought, an emination that is not realised in conceptual consciousness. Perhaps this is why I find Orthodox Iconography so useful. In perfection it (Iconography) is a two dimensional construct that my clever old brain translates into three dimensions. For me sometimes each sense is acutely aware, but vary seldom all at once, and only for a margin of experience.
I have had complete brain shutdown. A sense of being with no perception. Selenium is essential to my welfare!
Well back to Atlantis.
We were not as we are now.
God seperated the 'waters of creation' Genesis ch 1 v 6. And God said, "Let there be an expanse between Waters; to seperate water from water. (I have changed the punctuation from the NIV) I think this is ok, as it is a translation from Hebrew into Greek and then into English. Sometimes little bits get lost in translation, but these guys did a pretty good job in modern vernacular.
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Well water in my book of listed components so far, is H O. Great stuff. Very rarely drink it neat. Used it a lot for washing people's hair though.
So He (God) added a Hydrogen Atom! Now we are talking, didn't see that coming. Just popped up out of nowhere? So we had HO, what's that? Ho Ho Ho... ?
Please excuse me for ranting, but occasionaly I need to have a personal and loud rant. (Which everybody gets to hear).
I am ranting, furious, and definately not going to be placated.
Who was it that took perfectly good Christian mystery plays and turned them into corporate advertising?
Thankyou Coca Cola. You managed to Hijack the whole of the 20th century. And then British mail joined in with the red 'Santa Clause'.
Very few people know that 'Santa' was an adverising construct back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. We were simply brainwashed into a 'new kind of Christmas'. The original 'Santa' as advertising material was dressed in blue, but early advertising gurus found that a Red Santa was far more effective at getting the corporate advertising message across. And this is effectively the catalyst for the large scale advertising we have today. It worked, we bought more of their product because the 'colour' made it more attractive.
If you want to know what the real 'Father Chrismas' model is, please look at the Orthodox St Nicholaus. He was a Third Century Bishop from Myrna who secretly gave doweries so that young women could marry. Without a Dowery a woman could not marry and was forced into prostitution. He was giving any actual money he had, to stop an injustice that had been endemic in his society for generations.
This is why there is a tradition of giving small gifts at Christmas, in memory of the selflessness of
St Nicholas.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
If you wish to observe Christmas, please make it an Orthodox festival. Santa Clause, Chrismas trees, and faeries do not have any part of the actual Christmas story.
I don't have a problem with Christmas trees, It's just that they didn't grow in the place Jesus was born. We do have a tatty chrismas tree in the garden, but enjoy simply lighting up any old tree outside for fun any time of year. The idea of putting a Star at the top of the tree is to symbolise the star that the Wise men followed. If you like dressing up cindy or action man and want to put him/her on top of the tree, why not make him/her the Angel Gabriel.
Our Litugical Calander is at variance by celebrating Chrismass on the 25th December. This time is usually the 'Feast of Lights' in the Jewish Calender. Litugical calanders are governed by the phases of the Moon, which is why Easter and Pentecost are at different times each year. Origionally everybody celebrated 'Chrismass' using the 'Orthodox' Calender. Note that mount Athos still uses the Julian calender.
http://russian-crafts.com/customs/christmas.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Calender
Jesus, Shepherds, Angels, Mary and Joseph, Donkeys, Sheep, Oxen, Crib, Stable, Wise Men, Herod,...and a rather large scale genocide of young infants under the age of three years old is the real picture.
Very few people read the Bible with a desire to truly understand what is being said. It's easy to read and find it is difficult to get into, but every verse is jammed packed full of meanings and when, in the context of it's 'story' it has an ability to literally re-program our thinking and awareness it becomes the greatest instruction manual ever written. This is why it is called the 'Living Word'. Deep calls unto Deep, is the expression that comes to my mind from a commentary I am reading at the moment.
We do not easily have access to our subconscious, part of the job the Bible does is to act as a guide to this realm of our being. In denying our subconscious a freedom of expression in a structured way, we are gradualy losing our tenure on the reality that runs parallel to our conscious mind. Both of these mind activities, our 'dreaming and waking' need to be in harmony. When they are in conflict then we become ill. We manifest physical symptoms of an inner 'dis-ease'.
When we are 'at one' with ourselves, we are also in harmony with each other, and with our Creator and Sustainer.
We have a tendancy to take the air we breath, the chair we sit on, the mere breath that fills and expells from our lungs as our 'right'.
All of this is formed from a potential in each moment, that is sequentially given as a continuity.
We each have been given an expanse, a lifetime, an ability to know ourselves, from where we came; and to where we shall end.
None of us knows the day of the ending of our 'lifetime'.
But I am completely reassured that when my bones are laid to rest my 'Spirit' will be soaring with God in the heavens.
Please do not wrap 'Christmas' in pretty packaging. Christmas as described in the Gospels is an awful reminder of what causes Genocide... And it is the 'glossed over' part of the story of the infant Christ Jesus, whether you believe he is your saviour or not.
The Mystery plays do not usually include this aspect of the story, and certainly not the desperate escape Mary and Joseph made to Egypt with the Christ Child.
Simply this, if you can give someone a present today, just give it. Don't wait for Christmas.
In my life, I don't celebrate Christmas. I partake of Chrismass. The memory of the massacre.
I am always deeply depressed over the week before and after Christmas. It is simply that I feel sick seeing the needless waste of the commercial 'Christmas' we now 'celebrate' without even a reading of the Bible story, or observing any kind of 'preparation'. When I walk around the shops from the beginning of November I am simply reminded I live in a in a secular; 'What's God got to do with it' Society.
It is my opinion, that the rememberance of the Chrismass story is a solemn rememberance of grievious sin against the very foundations of humanity, as well as the birth of the possibility that we all might have an opportunity to know and understand a wise and Loving God, who want's to protect his own creation (us) from a desire to annhilate itself.
The 'Christian' covenant did not come into being until the crucifiction, so why are we 'celebrating' Christmas?
The 'plot' thickens, a half truth is worse than an outright lie. It has been difficult to discern what has been corrupted, from what is good and true, upright and just.
The Law of Moses, the Covenant made with The Jewish people is the foundation for our belief as Christians. Jesus said that He had NOT come to abolish any part of the law, yet we have been spoon fed a corruption that this is so. In the last few centuries it has become 'fashionable' to say that Jesus abolished this covenant.
Jesus Came to show us that this Law was something more than a set of 'rules'. It was something that could be internalised, written in our hearts and minds, so that in every way we could become 'at one' with God, our Father in Heaven, and with each other.
There is no 't' in Chrismass, because Christ had not yet been crucified.
In order to 'ratify' an 'adoption' process of people who were not recognised as decendants of Jacob, God used his own blood to sign the agreement. We are all 'Children of Abraham'. In the same way that Jacob did not identify with his Father Isaac, but with Abraham his Grandfather. We are now aware of Genetic sequencing, and that it points to one man being the 'Father' of the whole human race.
The Cross, at it's centre is about making this possible for all of us. In belief of the Death of Jesus on the cross for me, I am joined with Him in union with this heritage, and I am given full access to redemption from a corrupted past. (A healing of my timeline, might make sense to some people).
This is a new start, NOT a 'cart blanche ticket' to live in some sloppy stupour, of emotional, spiritual, and ingnorant, mental blancmange.
The covenant of Christ was specifically given so that the 'Gospel' could be preached throughout the world.
Once 'The world' knows itself through Christ, (the particulate matter), It can it know it's antithesis, The 'Uncreated Potential'.
'For God created the world through him'.
Why on earth do we refer to Jesus, as Jesus 'H' Christ?
(Because 'Jesus' was the 'possibility' of an extra Hydrogen atom.' H ').
The doubling of the potential of God's name, which is expressed in the first verses of Genesis.
In Verse 1 of Genesis 1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. This verse is expanded throughout verses 3 - 25.
In Verse 2 of Genesis 1. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
This points to a duality within a complete personality, a consciousness and subconsciousness, and an expression of a complete personality by the act of creation. Why does an artist create art? Because art is an expression of the subconscious, filtered through the conscious 'presence of mind' and physical presence of the artist. So in the first two verses I see a consumate artist at work, gathering together, and preparing to make it possible to express Himself fully and completely in an act of designed and coherent objectivity something that has been forming 'In His Mind's Eye' for a very long time.
EEEK! I know I am not making sense to anyone.
ADVERTISING. Corporate and political exegence.
Nothing like a good hijack of the law of God to disrupt the nuances of time.
I don't have to be liked, very few people have 'liked' me, and only two people enduringly love me.
That's my Husband and God. And where God is concerned, He is the Boss.
And I guess I take the responsibility for both my Husband and myself.
If what I say here makes us a target from people who like wrapping presents, then that's what we are here for.
He should be dead already, and I should have drowned in a well of sh-t when I was a child.
Actualy we both have some spectacular 'should be dead already' experiences, so I guess we only get to make an exit when God has decided it's our time.
I don't want to underline all that I have said, but it is the truth. From the gospels that I have read, and the Bible that I read.
I will come back to this tomorrow when I am more composed, and can get rid of the underline that has interrupted a perfectly uneventful chat about how the universe began.
Well tomorrow is Now. It's some horrible hour in the morning, and I would rather be asleep.
there was a moment of complete symmetry.
If you are reading this at any time, I just want to make it clear that I am regurgitating the whole Hamburger, the lettuice, and a piece of rancid bacon that has been metaphorically, and probably metaphysically and physically stuck in my mental digestive system for a very long time. Don't expect this verbal vomit to come up as a whole hamburger with a side of fries, on a well dressed plate.
Well back to Atlantis.
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.org/10/1555/2010/acp-10-1555-2010.html
This is what happens over an ocean now. A few thousand millenia things were different. There was yet to be precipitation.
Gen 1 v 5 note we still do not have a moon. We have night and day, so we have a spinning world, but this can't be stable. Nor can it have any 'seasons', because there will not be sufficiant gravitational variance to cause tides, or affect the magnetic polarity of our planet, nor keep us in a stable orbit around the Sun (Which is still also getting it's act together). Probably a good idea, because we might have been toast before we got started.
Gen 1 v6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, to seperate water from water. (Sorry we have had this bit before, but I got sidetracked). So God made the expanse and seperated the water under the expanse from the water above it.
Hmmm, sounds like he decided what his boiling point was going to be. Anything under zero turns to ice. We get steam at 100celcius at sea level, and any higher up, water boils at much lower temperatures.
Well, knowing what a critical event water goes through during these processes does help in hindsight. Interesting that some parts of Jesus's ministry were conducted close to 400ft below sea level. Seems he was operating outside the norm there a bit, what with a slght margin of leeway on God's freezing out point... sorry thats rambling.
So once the Sun and solar system were stable, and things were nice and temperate we started to develop an atmosphere. Gen 1 v 7.
We haven't actualy got to the end of the second day of creation here. In Gen v8: God called the expanse "sky". And there was evening and there was morning the second day.
So we now have a planet with the potential of bringing forth life, it isn't stable as an environment, it is not in a fixed orbit, and it doesn't have a moon. (It's probably trying to get it's act together as well). We probably have a lot of gaseous fog. (rather than a nice blue sky at this stage).
Gen 1 v9 And God said "let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear. And it was so.
Well we have started to spin nicely, probably a bit wobbly as we still don't have a stable moon orbiting around us.
Gen 1 v10 God called the dry ground "land", and the gathered waters he called seas. And God saw that it was good.
Well my school geology teacher said when the world was young it was smaller than it is now, and most of the land was just one big chunk. Then we got the drift... and a lot of volcanic activity pushing the tectonic plates apart, which is always going to be happening.
We still don't have a moon that is behaving well.
Gen1 v11. (Sorry God, its late... ) La La La.. about the seed bearing and trees on day three... And it was good.
Yummy verse 14! Day Four.
And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to seperate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and the days and the years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth". And it was so.
So our atmosphere is settling because we now have a Moon that has settled into a remarkable orbit, and a Sun that has an established relationship with all the other planets in our solar system. And we are just beginning to see stars twinkling in the sky. So how long does it take for light from the nearest star to reach us?
La la la up to the end of the fourth day. You have got to read this stuff it's riveting if you know what it's about.
Ok so I will go get some sleep.
This is a lovely picture, but not balanced. A couple of months ago I experienced a few moments of perfect equanimity. It was breathtaking. We were on a walk with the dog by the canal in Dinan, and as I approached the little bridge in the gorge, there was a moment of complete symmetry.
By the time I had raised the camera in my hands to capture it, a shower of rain hit the water. I realised this was for my eyes only, as the sky was blue, and I still have no idea where the rain came from. It was gone in a few moments.
I guess I ought to explain what I mean and think about parallel universes.
It is very easy to get caught up by looking at an objective from only one discipline.
We are more than science, maths, biology, chemistry, literature, art, and theology, however when we see the same thing from each other's perspective, and agree that we are talking about the same thing but explaining it in a different way we can peice together a symmetry that is a far superior model than any one viewpoint.
I chose this picture to share, because it seems as though in the center there is a slightly out of focus sphere within the context of the picture. A focal point, a ground in which the context of the picture is clarified.
One of my favorite thoughts is 'does it hold water'?
By this I mean;
Has this idea got a leak somewhere?
Is it a 'truth' (something which does not need further examination?)
Does it need an explanation?
Is it self evident?
Will it stand any kind of bombardment?
Has it withstood previous scrutiny?
Have I tested it?
Do I need to test it?
Do I need to simply accept this is the best anology so far? (Other people call this theories)
Well I could go on, but this pretty well sums up the 'does it hold water' question.
I am experientially driven. I like the experience of things rather than a cerebral discourse. However I can be lured out of my den. A good discussion is very entertaining.
(For Short, Planned, Periods of coherence, where other people alow me time to formulate a response). That's why writing things is easier for me, as I can concentrate on a subject as long as it needs explanation.
Then where should I begin?
Perhaps with the sentience of our own being?
The myth of Atlantis is a 'reality' we deny ourselves in present mind. I will come back to this idea later.
If we observe the story of creation in Genesis, (NIV) as this is my usual translation. G ch1 v 1 and 2 describes an already existant potential. It is the most beautiful introduction to 'The Beginning' of a Created Order.
Verse 3 says "Let there be light", and there was light. Now, in my understanding and actual visual and perceptual discernment, there is a lot more light spectrum than we are able to physically 'see' within the perameters of biological visual accuity. As far as I am aware, most of my retinas are pretty well burned out. However I 'see' perfectly well. I see a lot more than other people see, and I pay attention to what I see. I have been given a gift of 'sight'. I have been using it since the first eclipse of the sun I saw as a child, and couldn't look away. Wonderful. But not reccommended. I have no idea why this 'sight' shoud be a gift to me.
So I do not 'see' like other people 'see'. I am seeing an energy spectrum. This is simply translated by my brain into 'normal' vision, because I could 'see' as anyone else 'sees' before this eclipse. Don't ask me why, that's just how it is. I pick up things that other people feel are hot, and they are not hot to me. warm perhaps? This is just how it is.
(I just got a grain of cooked rice stuck in my teeth during supper and it hurt like a bomb going off in my head).
Gen 1 v4. God saw that the light was good, and He seperated the light from the darkness. This is crucial.
Science (Astroscience) within the last couple of months confirms how little 'dark matter' is required to sustain the universe.
1st year science at secondry school shows Brownian Motion. The simple effect of sitting in a darkened room with a shaft of sunlight through the curtains.
(shows how much dusting you will need to do tomorrow to get everything shiny!) (Again).
I prefer to leave a layer of dust, it's great for writing quick notes to yourself.
Light does not exist without matter. It 'shines in the darkness' John 1 v5. The light has shone in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
I smoke in a darkened shed. When I do not smoke, the light is not diffused throughout the room.
There has to be matter for light to be evident. or in other words, something has to have (or be) 'matter' before light is revealed. - (The Potential).
The old question arises, if two ships traveling at/faster than the speed of light were approaching each other would they see each other's headlights? The answer is NO!
Eyes in the darkness perhaps?
Faster than the speed of visible light, means that you are travelling in a different energy signature. You are travelling as a potential. A thought, an emination that is not realised in conceptual consciousness. Perhaps this is why I find Orthodox Iconography so useful. In perfection it (Iconography) is a two dimensional construct that my clever old brain translates into three dimensions. For me sometimes each sense is acutely aware, but vary seldom all at once, and only for a margin of experience.
I have had complete brain shutdown. A sense of being with no perception. Selenium is essential to my welfare!
Well back to Atlantis.
We were not as we are now.
God seperated the 'waters of creation' Genesis ch 1 v 6. And God said, "Let there be an expanse between Waters; to seperate water from water. (I have changed the punctuation from the NIV) I think this is ok, as it is a translation from Hebrew into Greek and then into English. Sometimes little bits get lost in translation, but these guys did a pretty good job in modern vernacular.
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Well water in my book of listed components so far, is H O. Great stuff. Very rarely drink it neat. Used it a lot for washing people's hair though.
So He (God) added a Hydrogen Atom! Now we are talking, didn't see that coming. Just popped up out of nowhere? So we had HO, what's that? Ho Ho Ho... ?
Please excuse me for ranting, but occasionaly I need to have a personal and loud rant. (Which everybody gets to hear).
I am ranting, furious, and definately not going to be placated.
Who was it that took perfectly good Christian mystery plays and turned them into corporate advertising?
Thankyou Coca Cola. You managed to Hijack the whole of the 20th century. And then British mail joined in with the red 'Santa Clause'.
Very few people know that 'Santa' was an adverising construct back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. We were simply brainwashed into a 'new kind of Christmas'. The original 'Santa' as advertising material was dressed in blue, but early advertising gurus found that a Red Santa was far more effective at getting the corporate advertising message across. And this is effectively the catalyst for the large scale advertising we have today. It worked, we bought more of their product because the 'colour' made it more attractive.
If you want to know what the real 'Father Chrismas' model is, please look at the Orthodox St Nicholaus. He was a Third Century Bishop from Myrna who secretly gave doweries so that young women could marry. Without a Dowery a woman could not marry and was forced into prostitution. He was giving any actual money he had, to stop an injustice that had been endemic in his society for generations.
This is why there is a tradition of giving small gifts at Christmas, in memory of the selflessness of
St Nicholas.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
If you wish to observe Christmas, please make it an Orthodox festival. Santa Clause, Chrismas trees, and faeries do not have any part of the actual Christmas story.
I don't have a problem with Christmas trees, It's just that they didn't grow in the place Jesus was born. We do have a tatty chrismas tree in the garden, but enjoy simply lighting up any old tree outside for fun any time of year. The idea of putting a Star at the top of the tree is to symbolise the star that the Wise men followed. If you like dressing up cindy or action man and want to put him/her on top of the tree, why not make him/her the Angel Gabriel.
Our Litugical Calander is at variance by celebrating Chrismass on the 25th December. This time is usually the 'Feast of Lights' in the Jewish Calender. Litugical calanders are governed by the phases of the Moon, which is why Easter and Pentecost are at different times each year. Origionally everybody celebrated 'Chrismass' using the 'Orthodox' Calender. Note that mount Athos still uses the Julian calender.
http://russian-crafts.com/customs/christmas.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Calender
Jesus, Shepherds, Angels, Mary and Joseph, Donkeys, Sheep, Oxen, Crib, Stable, Wise Men, Herod,...and a rather large scale genocide of young infants under the age of three years old is the real picture.
Very few people read the Bible with a desire to truly understand what is being said. It's easy to read and find it is difficult to get into, but every verse is jammed packed full of meanings and when, in the context of it's 'story' it has an ability to literally re-program our thinking and awareness it becomes the greatest instruction manual ever written. This is why it is called the 'Living Word'. Deep calls unto Deep, is the expression that comes to my mind from a commentary I am reading at the moment.
We do not easily have access to our subconscious, part of the job the Bible does is to act as a guide to this realm of our being. In denying our subconscious a freedom of expression in a structured way, we are gradualy losing our tenure on the reality that runs parallel to our conscious mind. Both of these mind activities, our 'dreaming and waking' need to be in harmony. When they are in conflict then we become ill. We manifest physical symptoms of an inner 'dis-ease'.
When we are 'at one' with ourselves, we are also in harmony with each other, and with our Creator and Sustainer.
We have a tendancy to take the air we breath, the chair we sit on, the mere breath that fills and expells from our lungs as our 'right'.
All of this is formed from a potential in each moment, that is sequentially given as a continuity.
We each have been given an expanse, a lifetime, an ability to know ourselves, from where we came; and to where we shall end.
None of us knows the day of the ending of our 'lifetime'.
But I am completely reassured that when my bones are laid to rest my 'Spirit' will be soaring with God in the heavens.
Please do not wrap 'Christmas' in pretty packaging. Christmas as described in the Gospels is an awful reminder of what causes Genocide... And it is the 'glossed over' part of the story of the infant Christ Jesus, whether you believe he is your saviour or not.
The Mystery plays do not usually include this aspect of the story, and certainly not the desperate escape Mary and Joseph made to Egypt with the Christ Child.
Simply this, if you can give someone a present today, just give it. Don't wait for Christmas.
In my life, I don't celebrate Christmas. I partake of Chrismass. The memory of the massacre.
I am always deeply depressed over the week before and after Christmas. It is simply that I feel sick seeing the needless waste of the commercial 'Christmas' we now 'celebrate' without even a reading of the Bible story, or observing any kind of 'preparation'. When I walk around the shops from the beginning of November I am simply reminded I live in a in a secular; 'What's God got to do with it' Society.
It is my opinion, that the rememberance of the Chrismass story is a solemn rememberance of grievious sin against the very foundations of humanity, as well as the birth of the possibility that we all might have an opportunity to know and understand a wise and Loving God, who want's to protect his own creation (us) from a desire to annhilate itself.
The 'Christian' covenant did not come into being until the crucifiction, so why are we 'celebrating' Christmas?
The 'plot' thickens, a half truth is worse than an outright lie. It has been difficult to discern what has been corrupted, from what is good and true, upright and just.
The Law of Moses, the Covenant made with The Jewish people is the foundation for our belief as Christians. Jesus said that He had NOT come to abolish any part of the law, yet we have been spoon fed a corruption that this is so. In the last few centuries it has become 'fashionable' to say that Jesus abolished this covenant.
Jesus Came to show us that this Law was something more than a set of 'rules'. It was something that could be internalised, written in our hearts and minds, so that in every way we could become 'at one' with God, our Father in Heaven, and with each other.
There is no 't' in Chrismass, because Christ had not yet been crucified.
In order to 'ratify' an 'adoption' process of people who were not recognised as decendants of Jacob, God used his own blood to sign the agreement. We are all 'Children of Abraham'. In the same way that Jacob did not identify with his Father Isaac, but with Abraham his Grandfather. We are now aware of Genetic sequencing, and that it points to one man being the 'Father' of the whole human race.
The Cross, at it's centre is about making this possible for all of us. In belief of the Death of Jesus on the cross for me, I am joined with Him in union with this heritage, and I am given full access to redemption from a corrupted past. (A healing of my timeline, might make sense to some people).
This is a new start, NOT a 'cart blanche ticket' to live in some sloppy stupour, of emotional, spiritual, and ingnorant, mental blancmange.
The covenant of Christ was specifically given so that the 'Gospel' could be preached throughout the world.
Once 'The world' knows itself through Christ, (the particulate matter), It can it know it's antithesis, The 'Uncreated Potential'.
'For God created the world through him'.
Why on earth do we refer to Jesus, as Jesus 'H' Christ?
(Because 'Jesus' was the 'possibility' of an extra Hydrogen atom.' H ').
The doubling of the potential of God's name, which is expressed in the first verses of Genesis.
In Verse 1 of Genesis 1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. This verse is expanded throughout verses 3 - 25.
In Verse 2 of Genesis 1. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
This points to a duality within a complete personality, a consciousness and subconsciousness, and an expression of a complete personality by the act of creation. Why does an artist create art? Because art is an expression of the subconscious, filtered through the conscious 'presence of mind' and physical presence of the artist. So in the first two verses I see a consumate artist at work, gathering together, and preparing to make it possible to express Himself fully and completely in an act of designed and coherent objectivity something that has been forming 'In His Mind's Eye' for a very long time.
EEEK! I know I am not making sense to anyone.
ADVERTISING. Corporate and political exegence.
Nothing like a good hijack of the law of God to disrupt the nuances of time.
I don't have to be liked, very few people have 'liked' me, and only two people enduringly love me.
That's my Husband and God. And where God is concerned, He is the Boss.
And I guess I take the responsibility for both my Husband and myself.
If what I say here makes us a target from people who like wrapping presents, then that's what we are here for.
He should be dead already, and I should have drowned in a well of sh-t when I was a child.
Actualy we both have some spectacular 'should be dead already' experiences, so I guess we only get to make an exit when God has decided it's our time.
I don't want to underline all that I have said, but it is the truth. From the gospels that I have read, and the Bible that I read.
I will come back to this tomorrow when I am more composed, and can get rid of the underline that has interrupted a perfectly uneventful chat about how the universe began.
Well tomorrow is Now. It's some horrible hour in the morning, and I would rather be asleep.
there was a moment of complete symmetry.
If you are reading this at any time, I just want to make it clear that I am regurgitating the whole Hamburger, the lettuice, and a piece of rancid bacon that has been metaphorically, and probably metaphysically and physically stuck in my mental digestive system for a very long time. Don't expect this verbal vomit to come up as a whole hamburger with a side of fries, on a well dressed plate.
Well back to Atlantis.
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.org/10/1555/2010/acp-10-1555-2010.html
This is what happens over an ocean now. A few thousand millenia things were different. There was yet to be precipitation.
Gen 1 v 5 note we still do not have a moon. We have night and day, so we have a spinning world, but this can't be stable. Nor can it have any 'seasons', because there will not be sufficiant gravitational variance to cause tides, or affect the magnetic polarity of our planet, nor keep us in a stable orbit around the Sun (Which is still also getting it's act together). Probably a good idea, because we might have been toast before we got started.
Gen 1 v6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, to seperate water from water. (Sorry we have had this bit before, but I got sidetracked). So God made the expanse and seperated the water under the expanse from the water above it.
Hmmm, sounds like he decided what his boiling point was going to be. Anything under zero turns to ice. We get steam at 100celcius at sea level, and any higher up, water boils at much lower temperatures.
Well, knowing what a critical event water goes through during these processes does help in hindsight. Interesting that some parts of Jesus's ministry were conducted close to 400ft below sea level. Seems he was operating outside the norm there a bit, what with a slght margin of leeway on God's freezing out point... sorry thats rambling.
So once the Sun and solar system were stable, and things were nice and temperate we started to develop an atmosphere. Gen 1 v 7.
We haven't actualy got to the end of the second day of creation here. In Gen v8: God called the expanse "sky". And there was evening and there was morning the second day.
So we now have a planet with the potential of bringing forth life, it isn't stable as an environment, it is not in a fixed orbit, and it doesn't have a moon. (It's probably trying to get it's act together as well). We probably have a lot of gaseous fog. (rather than a nice blue sky at this stage).
Gen 1 v9 And God said "let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear. And it was so.
Well we have started to spin nicely, probably a bit wobbly as we still don't have a stable moon orbiting around us.
Gen 1 v10 God called the dry ground "land", and the gathered waters he called seas. And God saw that it was good.
Well my school geology teacher said when the world was young it was smaller than it is now, and most of the land was just one big chunk. Then we got the drift... and a lot of volcanic activity pushing the tectonic plates apart, which is always going to be happening.
We still don't have a moon that is behaving well.
Gen1 v11. (Sorry God, its late... ) La La La.. about the seed bearing and trees on day three... And it was good.
Yummy verse 14! Day Four.
And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to seperate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and the days and the years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth". And it was so.
So our atmosphere is settling because we now have a Moon that has settled into a remarkable orbit, and a Sun that has an established relationship with all the other planets in our solar system. And we are just beginning to see stars twinkling in the sky. So how long does it take for light from the nearest star to reach us?
La la la up to the end of the fourth day. You have got to read this stuff it's riveting if you know what it's about.
Ok so I will go get some sleep.
Back to Genisis 1 verse 11
I like this picture, there are some nice prehistoric plants in Jaque Prevert's Garden.
Pity this house is so close to the biggest Nuclear reclamation facility in Europe.
Verse 11. Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit and seed within it, according to their various kinds". And it was so.
So God had already produced Marine plantlife. Lots of lovely plant soup. Shiny glowing stuff.
A kind of multi coloured flourescent soup. A paintbox! Scintillating, Effervescent, Exciting!
All being slowly rocked by this very slow and gentle orbiting Earth, in a kind of figure of eight. (I'ts a mathematically inverted cube, pretty much the same size as the Ark of the Covenant). Well I guess that's a mathematical equsion, and this is supposed to be Geosciences.
The first bit of recorded Maths to my recollection is in The account of Noah's Arc, Gen 6 verses, 15 - 16. Then a much more refined and explicit verision in Exodus 25 v 10 to Exodus 27 end.
***Slight digression from the Geoscience bit.
I am having a bit of a moment here, because I always read the tent pegs were silver, but in Exodus 27 verse 19, My translation explicitly says all the articles used in the service of the Tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze.
There used to be a huge copper mine in Soloman's time. I am just going to look up the instructions for making of the First Temple. I wonder why everything in the Temple ...
Ok, so the Temple description is of a huge 'Ark of the Covenant' in 1Kings: Chapter 6 (All of it).
Then there's the description of the furnishings in 1 Kings Ch 7 v 13 to 47. All cast in Bronze.
Then 1 Kings Ch7 Verse 48 to v 50.
Verse 51 denotes that all this preparation was to be a repository for the things Soloman's father David had dedicated. Not until these things were done was the Temple fit for housing The Ark of God's Covenant with Moses.
***Interesting that at this time in 1 Kings ch 8 v 9, my translation says there was nothing in the Ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt. Wonder where the manna went? Besides, I thought the Ark of the Covenant wasn't to be opened, so how come they knew that only the two tablets were all there was in it?
In verses 20 and 21, Solomon says "The lord has kept the promise he made: I have suceeded David my father and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised, and I have built the temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel. I have provided there a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with our fathers when he brought them out of Egypt.
***I have a another scan through what was put in the Ark of the Covenant during the description in Exodus, and I can't find a reference to the manna being put into the Ark with the stone tablets that God wrote on.... I need to phone a friend.
*** I am going to leave this element as part of this Essay, as I want to research it and come back to it.
I digress. The mathematics of all this is beautiful. Divine proportion and all that.
Back to the Geosciences in Genisis.
Genesis 1 Verse 12: The Land produced vegitation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Actually this is the 'Frank Sinatra' verse! I was soooo... good, He said it twice.
Verse 13; And there was evening and there was morning - the third day.
Pity this house is so close to the biggest Nuclear reclamation facility in Europe.
Verse 11. Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit and seed within it, according to their various kinds". And it was so.
So God had already produced Marine plantlife. Lots of lovely plant soup. Shiny glowing stuff.
A kind of multi coloured flourescent soup. A paintbox! Scintillating, Effervescent, Exciting!
All being slowly rocked by this very slow and gentle orbiting Earth, in a kind of figure of eight. (I'ts a mathematically inverted cube, pretty much the same size as the Ark of the Covenant). Well I guess that's a mathematical equsion, and this is supposed to be Geosciences.
The first bit of recorded Maths to my recollection is in The account of Noah's Arc, Gen 6 verses, 15 - 16. Then a much more refined and explicit verision in Exodus 25 v 10 to Exodus 27 end.
***Slight digression from the Geoscience bit.
I am having a bit of a moment here, because I always read the tent pegs were silver, but in Exodus 27 verse 19, My translation explicitly says all the articles used in the service of the Tabernacle, whatever their function, including all the tent pegs for it and those for the courtyard, are to be of bronze.
There used to be a huge copper mine in Soloman's time. I am just going to look up the instructions for making of the First Temple. I wonder why everything in the Temple ...
Ok, so the Temple description is of a huge 'Ark of the Covenant' in 1Kings: Chapter 6 (All of it).
Then there's the description of the furnishings in 1 Kings Ch 7 v 13 to 47. All cast in Bronze.
Then 1 Kings Ch7 Verse 48 to v 50.
Verse 51 denotes that all this preparation was to be a repository for the things Soloman's father David had dedicated. Not until these things were done was the Temple fit for housing The Ark of God's Covenant with Moses.
***Interesting that at this time in 1 Kings ch 8 v 9, my translation says there was nothing in the Ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt. Wonder where the manna went? Besides, I thought the Ark of the Covenant wasn't to be opened, so how come they knew that only the two tablets were all there was in it?
In verses 20 and 21, Solomon says "The lord has kept the promise he made: I have suceeded David my father and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised, and I have built the temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel. I have provided there a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with our fathers when he brought them out of Egypt.
***I have a another scan through what was put in the Ark of the Covenant during the description in Exodus, and I can't find a reference to the manna being put into the Ark with the stone tablets that God wrote on.... I need to phone a friend.
*** I am going to leave this element as part of this Essay, as I want to research it and come back to it.
I digress. The mathematics of all this is beautiful. Divine proportion and all that.
Back to the Geosciences in Genisis.
Genesis 1 Verse 12: The Land produced vegitation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Actually this is the 'Frank Sinatra' verse! I was soooo... good, He said it twice.
Verse 13; And there was evening and there was morning - the third day.
Done Gen 1 verse 14.
well I think I need to write from verse 14 again, because verse 15 is part of the same sentence.
V14 + 15. And God said "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to seperate the day from the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and the days and the years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so.
So at the start of day four, which remember is night time, as the day is counted from the evening, we get a full panoply of stars, and a moon that is reflecting the light of the sun.
The sky has cleared enough to see stars, so we have a stable atmosphere, a geosynchronus orbit from the moon, and the Sun has settled down enough not to turn us into toast.
V16 confirms this; God made two great lights - the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
Note the passed tense. I think the original text probably uses a different expression, as there is a kind of 'perfect' tense in Hebrew, but as I haven't got round to learning any, and I don't think there is any way of translating it into any other language I am a bit stuck here. I was going to use a bit of nasty Latin but didn't like it.
Verse 17 + 18; God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to seperate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
So at this point it seems as though the whole firmament is established. It is ordered. Prepared. It is has become a reflection of the unconscious in verses one and two. It is ready for population with the creatures.
Verse 19; And there was evening and there was morning - the fourth day.
V14 + 15. And God said "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to seperate the day from the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and the days and the years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so.
So at the start of day four, which remember is night time, as the day is counted from the evening, we get a full panoply of stars, and a moon that is reflecting the light of the sun.
The sky has cleared enough to see stars, so we have a stable atmosphere, a geosynchronus orbit from the moon, and the Sun has settled down enough not to turn us into toast.
V16 confirms this; God made two great lights - the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
Note the passed tense. I think the original text probably uses a different expression, as there is a kind of 'perfect' tense in Hebrew, but as I haven't got round to learning any, and I don't think there is any way of translating it into any other language I am a bit stuck here. I was going to use a bit of nasty Latin but didn't like it.
Verse 17 + 18; God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to seperate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
So at this point it seems as though the whole firmament is established. It is ordered. Prepared. It is has become a reflection of the unconscious in verses one and two. It is ready for population with the creatures.
Verse 19; And there was evening and there was morning - the fourth day.
I feel like a bit of picture around here.
Something diversionary... I was looking for a great picture of Lisa Simpson that some walkers raked on the beach in Gurnesey last week.
It was in our Local Jersey Evening Post on Saturday 21st May page 9.
Can't find it online. Seems there are a lot of lookalikes in the world.
Here's one of flying fish, with M.Moreau coming to watch the party.
He has already had breakfast, so the little fishes are safe for now.
Gen 1 v 20 + 21.
And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let the birds fly above the earth and across the expanse of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to it's kind. And God saw that it was good.
We are moving on pretty fast here. There is no discrepancy that life started in complex form in the oceans, although it is implicit that there was also a land based development of flying birds. Both are happening at the same time. An interdependent ecology.
Verse 22 + 23. God blessed them and said "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water and the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." And there was evening and there was morning - the fifth day.
An incredible bio diversity. The propensity for 'Fresh' water fish in the land, and 'Salt' water fish in the oceans. Birds that were land based, and a natural pecking order.
We still have little fish that can exist in incredibly acid environments. I kind of imagine the whole water was pretty much acidly based, although I have a sneaky feeling that the land had high alcalinity.
In order to get all this off to a good start, the first creatures would need to be highly specialised to live in this environment. Tough leathery skins and scales. Or complex biological systems that could internally neutralise this toxicity. The 'air' was still completely different to what we have now, although the vegitation and processes taking place would be gradually changing this atmosphere... Ready for verse 24.
Verse 24; And God said; Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals each according to it's kind." And it was so.
Well we have got some pretty amazing fossels of what was going on during this period. I haven't got a problem with the idea of the Bible calling a few million years a 'Day'.
Who knows what God's day is like? In fact we are being pretty cheeky to think one orbit round the sun in approximately 365.25 days is a 'year' in God's diary.
It is more likely that God's year is a complete rotation of the universe, and if He hasn't finished making it yet ... (because he is still busy making stars)... we are still in year dot. See the story of Job.
Verse 25; God made the wild animals according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
These two verses seem to me to use a subjective and objective description of the making, and the observing of the making.
It's like in verses 9 and 10. There is this affirmation. A 'ching' moment when the crystalisation of this perfection suddenly resolves into pristine order.
We are still only part way through the sixth day here. To complete this creation God has yet to place man in his own image and likeness into this prepared environment.
Yet all this preparation before he could put His own Image and Likeness into this Creation.
Note the three aspects of this.
God has an Image, a Likeness, and a Creation.
Fin.
Well I am not going to add to this essay, Because we get to doing Human Biology next.
I don't feel in any way that I want to 'unpack' what God says about creating a reflection of His very Holy self.
Although I would just like to write 1 Gen 27 as my NIV translation says this;
So God Created man in his own image, (Potential)
in the image of God he created him, (Potential + Particulate 'H' )
male and female he created them. (Creation)
There are a lot more gramatical relationships going on here, but that's not Geoscience.
OOPS! Forgot to mention 'Atlantis' again. I am pretty sure this is the subconscious recollection of our primordial soup stage.
The whole of creation was and is conscious of herself, and we are stardust, and Spirit of God.
And no I wasn't using 'Atlantis' as a Red Herring or a 'Flying space Halibut'.
We are moving on pretty fast here. There is no discrepancy that life started in complex form in the oceans, although it is implicit that there was also a land based development of flying birds. Both are happening at the same time. An interdependent ecology.
Verse 22 + 23. God blessed them and said "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water and the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." And there was evening and there was morning - the fifth day.
An incredible bio diversity. The propensity for 'Fresh' water fish in the land, and 'Salt' water fish in the oceans. Birds that were land based, and a natural pecking order.
We still have little fish that can exist in incredibly acid environments. I kind of imagine the whole water was pretty much acidly based, although I have a sneaky feeling that the land had high alcalinity.
In order to get all this off to a good start, the first creatures would need to be highly specialised to live in this environment. Tough leathery skins and scales. Or complex biological systems that could internally neutralise this toxicity. The 'air' was still completely different to what we have now, although the vegitation and processes taking place would be gradually changing this atmosphere... Ready for verse 24.
Verse 24; And God said; Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals each according to it's kind." And it was so.
Well we have got some pretty amazing fossels of what was going on during this period. I haven't got a problem with the idea of the Bible calling a few million years a 'Day'.
Who knows what God's day is like? In fact we are being pretty cheeky to think one orbit round the sun in approximately 365.25 days is a 'year' in God's diary.
It is more likely that God's year is a complete rotation of the universe, and if He hasn't finished making it yet ... (because he is still busy making stars)... we are still in year dot. See the story of Job.
Verse 25; God made the wild animals according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
These two verses seem to me to use a subjective and objective description of the making, and the observing of the making.
It's like in verses 9 and 10. There is this affirmation. A 'ching' moment when the crystalisation of this perfection suddenly resolves into pristine order.
We are still only part way through the sixth day here. To complete this creation God has yet to place man in his own image and likeness into this prepared environment.
Yet all this preparation before he could put His own Image and Likeness into this Creation.
Note the three aspects of this.
God has an Image, a Likeness, and a Creation.
Fin.
Well I am not going to add to this essay, Because we get to doing Human Biology next.
I don't feel in any way that I want to 'unpack' what God says about creating a reflection of His very Holy self.
Although I would just like to write 1 Gen 27 as my NIV translation says this;
So God Created man in his own image, (Potential)
in the image of God he created him, (Potential + Particulate 'H' )
male and female he created them. (Creation)
There are a lot more gramatical relationships going on here, but that's not Geoscience.
OOPS! Forgot to mention 'Atlantis' again. I am pretty sure this is the subconscious recollection of our primordial soup stage.
The whole of creation was and is conscious of herself, and we are stardust, and Spirit of God.
And no I wasn't using 'Atlantis' as a Red Herring or a 'Flying space Halibut'.
Having thought about this for about a week I am not up for it.
I Kind of came to the conclusion that it is all about synchronicity.
If I can hold two thoughts together, + 2 .......