MacLir you are a very advanced student of this stuff you are you know

Your words about the two sides about stuff (the male sender and female reciever) was something that I had never thought about. I am at the place where the Divine Mother and the Divine Father are in "a perfect love embrace." And this place is the entrance into the Divine. Recieving is also giving and giving is also recieving (I am sure that you understand what I am trying to say because it is hard to put into words).

Understanding the recieving part of things is crucial relative to this Divine Door. I am inclined to not allow the recieving to be a gift of the sending, which is why I have been hung up at this door . So anyway MacLir your words about that (in another topic) were extremely helpful to me! Things are beginning to go nicely now . I love your wisdom!

love you,

sunmystic

This isn't as much a myth as a tale, but I love the story of the shoemaker and the elves, and wish my elves would finish my projects overnight

In this post I want to bring a topic from one of my most favorite movie ever: "Beauty & The Beast".
    To begin, start by imagining that the story is happening inside us. There are two main characters, one is the most attractive--The Beauty, the one that attracted almost our whole attention--all the persons inside us, and the other is The Beast, the animal. Animals live mainly on their automatic mechanism, their physical abilities--on contrary with us humans, that using reason, our mind. Egyptian deities were often depicted also with animal forms to symbolize the specific power that they have. So, The Beast in "our world" is the hidden power, the abilities that still untamed; somehow we know or believe that we have it, but we don't know how to control or use it. To make it simple, it is our dream, hope, ambition, etc, that is still unfulfilled, a tremendous--but chaotic--power that raging inside us.
    A little deviation from our topic; speaking of Egyptian deities, it reminds me to Sphinx, an animal with human head. It symbolizes Science, Magick, the power(animal body) that had been revealed & available(human head). A famous psychic, Edgar Cayce made a prophecy that somewhere around 1997, the Science of Atlantis(which is far more sophisticated than ours & beyond our comprehension) would be found at the feet of The Sphinx. Years have passed since then, & still nothing has been found there. I believe it's the mistake of the interpretation. The feet means a beginning. So, the interpretation should be: around 1997, The Science of Atlantis was starting to emerge. And as Edgar Cayce has predicted, we began to know--& use--digital players, cellular phones, compact discs,internet & Nano-Technology around that era. Humanity seems entering a whole new era, a new dimension of reality. Shri Sathya Sai Baba also added, that the year 1999 is the beginning of The Golden Age.
    There's a joke that I heard from someone not long ago. If someone from primitive area came to a big and modern city, and see many people around him using cellular phones, especially  with hand-set, he may thinks, "Are those people crazy? Who are they talking to?". He may also thinks that there are many shaman, witch doctors, who can communicate with spirits because many are talking to unseen person.
    Now we're also heading to 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar, that for some means Armageddon--the end of the universe--like the movie that's on the peak right now: "2012", but I do not agree. For me, the year 2012 would be the time when the whole system of the universe change; just like a change of a system of government or like the time when Industrial Revolution started. And, I believe it already has begun, with the what so called global warming. In my country which has only two seasons, rainy season now started late. How about yours?
    Yes, the global warming/climate change is caused by humans, but let's see it this way: our body--& even mind--& everything around us are made of atoms(energy) & atoms also made up physical forces that determine how celestial objects move & act. So, the change on the movement of celestial objects would change us & our environment....or, should I say the other way around? Let each one decides. It's not my duty to decide it. I just simply hold to the words of wisdom from Thoth/Hermes Trismegistus: "As above, so below".
    Back to the track. In the story, Belle has been boring with her life & is desiring for something new. When she met Beast, she found something new, something interesting, though it felt unpleasant at the beginning. Isn't it just like what we feel when we start to wanting something, especially something hard to get? When we're wanting something seems impossible to get, we often want to let go & forget, but the urge, the passion, "The Beast", won't yield that easily.
It is a great struggle that can be won only after The Beast dies, resurrected to human form, & be united with The Princess, "The Beauty"; the moment when we are no longer unable to fulfill what has became our desire. Weakness turns into power.
    What I have explained is just a simple help to gain understanding from the story & how to use it for spiritual development. And the method of visualizing the story to be happening  inside ourself is a way to discover the hidden mystery(the "Sod"/Mystery in Pardes) of any sacred story. But that's not all, that visualization technique can also be used for pathworking. I would discuss about it in my next post.
    I will conclude this post with my another interpretation of a prophecy, this time from Nostradamus: The year 1999, seventh month, 9th day
                                                                                                                                                   From the sky will come a great King of Terror:
                                                                                                                                                   To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols,
                                                                                                                                                   Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.  
                                                                                                         
    So, at July 9th, 1999, many people were staring to the sky, but nothing happened. The mistake is on the word 7th month. Originally, the 7th month is September, from Septem in Roman or Sapta in Greek. Because of Julius Caesar, followed by Oktavianus Augustus that wanted to be deified, September has became the 9th month, 'till now. For the month has to be added by 2, so must the date & the year. As result, we get September 11th, 2001. Almost everyone knows what had happened that day, The Day That Shook The World.
    That prophecy is related to this quatrain: Ruin for the Volcae so very terrible with fear,
                                                               Their great city stained, pestilential deed:
                                                               To plunder Sun and Moon and to violate their temples:
                                                               And to redden the two rivers flowing with blood.      

    There is a place or precisely a country which is known as The Land Of Two Rivers, that is Iraq, with its rivers: Euphrat & Tigris. We know what happened to it not long after the September 11th.

"Ruin for the Volcae so very terrible with fear,
                                                              Their great city stained, pestilential deed:
                                                              To plunder Sun and Moon and to violate their temples:
                                                              And to redden the two rivers flowing with blood."

the above is actually talking about Paris and France. And Iraq is just getting started the kings of the east have not actually started moving yet

But cool post MacLir!

love,

sunmystic