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Thanks for the additional information, Robert! I found more about Aion at wiki. Apparently there are two versions of Aion, one Hellenistic and and the other Gnostic.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aion_%28deity%29 "... Franz Cumont positioned Aion as Unlimited Time (sometimes represented as the S...

Hi, Robert. I've read through the thread and was struck by one thing, for the moment. ...In considering the astral symbolism of the loaves and fishes , the blood moon total eclipse on Tuesday night will be in the exact same area in the sky, at the foot of the woman, as the Passover Blood Moon seen ...

I cannot demonstrate that a midrashic analysis is ... incompatible with the Jesus is Caesar theory. That is a piece of rhetorical exuberance, to put it kindly, that shows why your contributions in this thread are largely useless except as false statements that deserve correction. I suppose it is un...

The Lord's Prayer and the line you quote has nothing whatever to do with any concept of social contract. I don't think you understand the term at all. Sorry, I was not talking about the social contract when mentioning parallels. I should have separated the paragraphs. I simply used social contract ...

Neil, your comments are rather superficial and condescending, failing to engage on content. I am aware of the history of the concept of social contract. It has ancient antecedents. The parallels I am describing are exactly the ones required for the Lord's Prayer statement of Gospel intent, let thy w...

The idea of raising the lowly and debasing the mighty is an imperial motif woven throughout the proclamations of emperors and kings from Mesopotamia through Egypt and Macedonia to Rome. (See The Christ Myth by Thomas L. Thompson) Kings are traditionally understood as the representative of the peopl...

What criterion can I use to assess whether Carotta's or Robert Tulip's thesis is the more likely? Thank you Neil, this is a good question which also occurred to me. Astrotheology seeks to understand how the writers imagined a rational cosmic genius Christ. The superiority of an astral reading to th...

Textual commentary on Mark 8:8-21 8:8 They ate, and were filled. • The escahatological theme of fulfilment or pleroma appears again, with the idea that the magical creative genius of Jesus provides a transforming and liberating ability to tune in to the cosmos, engaging with the presence of a new he...

9 April 2014 To challenge your blank assertion that Adam is not astral, Adam is sometimes interpreted as the avatar of the Age of Taurus, with Abraham/Moses as the avatar of the Age of Aries, Jesus Christ as avatar of the Age of Pisces, and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ as avatar of the Age of A...

Ulan, I am sorry I read your second post in isolation from your first. As you say, you were referring to Kugler and Thompson. Studying this further, an excellent paper published by the Journal of the British Astronomical Association is Origins of the Ancient Constellations: 1. The Mesopotamian Tradi...