Stirb und werde! (Die and to Become!)

As I was reflecting upon the themes introduced and dealt in the film, 'The Fountain', I was brought back to the common theme I did reflect some years back among the disappearing of the bees, the discovery of the hexagonal shape of the planet Saturn, and the Mayan Civilization and of 2012....etc...


In the film, there was a mention of the Mayan civilization....a dying culture honoring the dying stars - a galaxy within the Orion constellation. While 3 individuals Hugh Jackman had portrayed were trying to overcome and / or to defy Death (as a form of disease), the message of the Mayans were the acceptance of it....as Death(dissolution - letting go - sacrifice) led to the new Creation.


Many of us have heard about the end of the Mayan Calender and possible catastrophic events relating to it. While I do feel the possibility of Solar Wind affecting the global communication, etc., I do not feel the disaster to be equal to the ending of human civilization. ...even to take the recent natural disaster in Northern Japan into consideration.


With each ending, there is, and has been a new beginning. 
Even if our solar system is now traveling beneath the Galactic Equator, it is not the same as Andromeda galaxy colliding with our Milky Way...which may / most likely to happen 3 billion years from now.


It is interesting to note that it was about 4 years ago that the phenomenon of the disappearing of the bees and the discovery of the hexagonal image on the planet Saturn were reported....along with the premiere of the film 'The Fountain.' 
If my memory is correct, the disappearing of bees did happen about 50 years ago as well...along with the event of the high solar wind. 


The planet Saturn has been feared by many, bearing the 'bad' name, although, I feel the opposite about it, for Saturn is the just vice...a huge mirror which shows our unfinished Karma. It is not the Saturn that brings misery, but we do....karma is our own doing or un-doing...until we realize from our karma and learn from it, we are reminded of it. So, cosmically, Saturn may be reminding us of our collective karma.
While bees had left its colonies / hives, the hives were not destroyed....the building (hives) remained intact. This reminded me of how Mayans disappeared into the wilderness, leaving the buildings that represented the civilization. Perhaps they realized that no-thing is eternal...in fact, all the great civilizations of the past had not continued keeping and remaining the same (old) way...transformation is the part of the natural law. 


It is interesting that Aztecs could not accept the death of civilization from greed, fear, and attachment, and they became obsessed with the longevity, sacrificing the fellow humans by hundreds each day to pray to the Sun to give them life force to continue....and they were, in the end, destroyed....forced to accept its death.


In Vedic astrology / Jyotish, Kurma (कुर्म ), a divine turtle, an avatar of Lord Vishnu is associated with Saturn (Shani/Sani). It was through the churning of the divine ocean on the back of this Kurma turtle that the extraction of the divine nectar (Amrita) was done....and the central section of the back of the turtles is in the shape of the hexagon. 
Then, this shape appearing on (or avail itself to be viewed by humans) Saturn... and the shape of the individual cell of the bee hive is hexagon....both the Hebraic Holy Seal and the ancient Japanese Kagome / 籠目（かごめ） shape (...and also in the I Ching) are intertwining 2 large equilateral triangles forming the hexagram and creating the 6 smaller equilateral triangles with hexagon at the center...and many more...
The water crystal is built on the hexagram(with the hexagon in the middle). 


Death symbolize not only the 'end' but the separation.
..but the separation is the illusion...we are one....not just among the humans but with the entire universe...
'As above, so below'


Perhaps these phenomenons remind us that the old way is coming to an end...perhaps very soon...only to have the new sprout out with its vitality.


"Stirb und werde! (Die and to Become!)" - Goethe 


Let us ponder about these reminders...and appreciate the gifts we are given.


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20070327.html

Mother Earth and our mission

I feel compelled to share a few observation I have made in regards to the element Earth. As we know, the humans have tried to understand and harness the forces of Earth and her cohabitants. What has been happening is that some humans have tried to rule the earth by force and tried to not only subjugate her but to even violate her (to the point of reaching very close to the point of no return...meaning that it is taking the toll on the ability of our Mother Earth to purify/regenerate herself 'in time'...)

This tendency to treat the Earth without high respect may have come from the misunderstanding of the first two chapters of Genesis. In Chapter 1:28, humans (plural -meaning both male and female) were told to 'subdue' Earth. The word for 'to subdue' in original Hebrew is 'Kabash/כבש', and it does have the meanings: to force, to subdue, to keep under, violate, dominate...etc. ...while the word used for the Earth is ('Ha)Erets/ ארץ'.

The many have used this verse as the backup to try to control the nature and the ecosystem and violated the Mother Earth for countless decades.

Yet, no one seem to realize that this commandment was given to "divine/un-fallen" Adam (humans) before the "FALL!" 

After the fall of humans, they/we have lost the divine connection to the divine Mother Earth. We also have lost the way to rule her properly and divinely. She has become an object of human greed, and the humans are no longer able to perceive her as divine gift from above - Elohim. Consequently, we no longer posses the right nor authority to rule the Mother Earth.

Now, when we read the Chapter 2:5, it is different. This section is usually translated as that "there is not a human to 'till' the 'ground'." When we research the word used as 'to till', it is 'abad / עבד' in Hebrew, and it has various meanings other than 'to till'. It means: to work, to till, to cultivate....and TO SERVE! [...and the word used for the ground is not 'Erets' but '(Ha)Adamah / אדמה'.]

On top of that, the word 'kabash' is not a popular word. It only appears once in the entire Torah section (the First 5 Books of Moses) of Tanakh (Old Testament)...and that one time appearance is in Gen. 1:28. Even to include all the different meanings in that word, this word appears only about 15 times in the entire OT.

On the other hand, the word, 'abad, is popular enough that it appears more than 300 times in the entire OT. ...of which only about 10 times is this word used as 'to till'. Amazingly, as the meaning 'to serve', this word appears over 160 times, and if I were to include the past tense of 'served' and the meaning, 'service' etc., it appears more than 230 times!

When I consider the above fact, I tend to want to understand the 'assignment' given to the humans in regards to the Earth is TO SERVE the Mother Earth and not to violate her. ... and we humans must shift our consciousness from this subconscious level (of wanting to subdue earth) and understand the true meaning of the commandment.

I was once told by an eminent Vedic Astrologer Guru of Gurus that one of my missions during this life is TO SERVE the "old" mothers of the world. I understood to include the legendary/mythical mothers...and of course, the ancient Mother Earth herself. This is my first step...to attempt to 'clear her name', and 'to give her back as much glory as possible'...

Blessings to all of you.

(LOHAS is possible!)