Myth is built on metaphor so what is the metaphor of the Jesus story? What are the similes between this story and other stories and situations that this group may have wanted to send down the stream of time? Taking this thought experiment to its logical conclusion we must begin top speculate on what is similar and metaphorical about the myth. First off there is the metaphor of the son and the sun. Jesus in Hebrew means Jesse or 'Fire'. Let us -- for a moment assume that instead of 'son' they are referring to the 'sun'. Then let us consider the twelve apostles. Do they represent more than just twelve men? For a moment let us consider that this actually refers to the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Now for a moment let us consider Jesus' mother Mary. Mary in Hebrew means sea or seawater, she is also associated with a crescent moon. It is well known that the moon controls the tides and therefore seawater. Is it possible that Mary is a metaphor for the moon? So let us consider what we have here. We have Jesus, or Fire, moves through the twelve men or signs. Just as our sun moves through the twelve signs of the zodiac. What is the missing astrological element? The moon of course. And along comes Mary to fill this void. Does this mean that the story of Jesus, Mary and his band of disciples is the story of some kind of astrological situation? Is it possible that this is what is happening -- at least on a metaphorical level? I think so. This is what I mean by re-thinking these myths in a metaphorical way. This is in no way meant to denigrate the Christian religion or anyone's belief in Jesus, Mary and the disciples as real men. The point that is being made is that there are metaphorical links to this story that are just as important as the human links. The names, and the numbers of their names, of these people involved in this story are important. Actually they are too important to be ignored -- for it was within the names and the numbers inside the structure of these myths that a true understanding of what they are about can actually occur.
 

There is another point that needs to be considered. The number seven in Scripture often refers to completeness. For example, the creation of the world occurred in six days with God resting upon the seventh. Consequently, Israel was told to work for six days and to rest on the seventh because this was the pattern set by creation.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; you shall not do any work-you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it (Exodus 20:9-11).

Seven days completes the creation and work week. In the same manner the reference to the seven Spirit refers to the completeness of the Person and work of the Holy Spirit

"In Proverbs 9, Wisdom sends out her handmaids to invite everyone to her feast of wisdom. These seven virgins, inherited perhaps from Manichaean cosmology, are the assessors of Wisdom. The Middle Ages transformed them into the daughters of Sophia, the Sophianic examining board of the Seven Liberal Arts. It was the English cleric Alcuin (735-804) who associated Wisdom's house with seven pillars as analogous to the Seven Liberal Arts. These consisted of the trivium: Rhetoric; Dialectic (logical thought) and Grammar, and the quadrivium; Music; Arithmetic; Astronomy and Geometry. These formed the basis for Western academic education up until the sixteenth century. These handmaidens of Sophia are depicted on the right hand doorway of the Portail Royal at Chartres. The central image is of the Black Virgin, copied from the original pagan statue in the crypt, for according to Albert the Great (1200-1280), Mary herself was the possessor of the Seven Liberal Arts. As Black Virgin of Wisdom, Mary is surrounded by seven female figures representing the Liberal Arts who are accompanied by seven historical exponents of each art: This is the Classical Klimax Heptapulos, the seven-fold ladder which underlay the Mysteries of Mithras, and the many Gnostic sects, elements of which passed into alchemical usage. The purification of the soul through the seven planetary experiences was common to many cultures and traditions. This spiritual journey became a mundane study; an ascent through the seven academic studies necessary for complete wisdom."

The concept of the Triple Goddess associated with the Seventh Spheres found in the Virgin Mother can be seen in our Lady of Sorrows

Mary has been worshiped as Our Lady of Sorrows since or before the 3rd Century although the Catholic Church did not formalize this as one of Mary's titles until the 14th Century. The Church has formally recognized The Seven Sorrows of Mary as: 1. The prophecy of Simeon that her heart would be pierced with swords (Luke 2:34-35); 2. The Flight into Egypt when her infant son's life was threatened by Herod (Matthew 2:13-21); 3. The Loss of Jesus for Three Days when he was a twelve-year-old boy (Luke 2:41-50); 4. Jesus' Ascent to Calvary bearing the cross (John 19:17); 5. The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus (John 19:18-30); 6. Jesus Taken Down from the Cross (John 19:39-40); 7. Jesus Laid in the Tomb (John 19:39-42). However, people (especially women) around the world throughout the ages have been happy to share their sorrow with Mary and to identify their sorrow with hers.



A portion of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene describes a soul's journey after death and the challenges it overcomes. These passages are much like The Tibetan Book of the Dead which reveals the Peaceful and Wrathful Dieties a soul encounters during its journey after it has separated from the body at death. This is very similiar to this portion of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, " When the soul had overcome the third power, it went upwards and saw the fourth power, (which) took seven forms. The first form is darkness, the second desire, the third ignorance, the fourth is the excitement of death, the fifth is the kingdom of the flesh, the sixth is the foolish wisdom of flesh, the seventh is the wrathful wisdom. These are the seven {powers} of wrath."

Seven in reference to Mary Magdalene means that rather then being just a lost nobody once riddled with demons; She is at once both the historically fallen and now redeemed Church (Bride), without spot or blemish and in fact complete in perfection and full of grace, she is Apostle to the Apostles and the true Bride! She is Queen!

Wisdom hath builded Her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. PROV 9:1 CHRIST CASTS OUT THE SEVEN DEMONS OF ISRAEL(THE PHARISEES) BY WISDOM/WOMAN AND CASTS OUT THE SEVEN DEVILS FROM THE CHURCH/WOMAN (LUKE 8:2) If Jesus cast out the seven unclean spirits then the one unclean spirit is cast out, hence this is a statement of Mary's attaining to a pure state.(MATTHEW 12:22-45, LUKE11;26)
MARY TRANSCENDS THE SEVEN SPHERES TO PERFECTION THROUGH CHRIST/SOPHIA (filled with wisdom and grace  (MARY HAS CHOSEN THE BETTER PART; LUKE 10:42, PROVERBS 9:1)) THROUGH THE SEVEN BRIDAL ORBITS (Matthew: 26;13, Mark: 14;9 John 12;3) OF THE S'FEROT OR MYSTICAL SHPERES OF THE SOUL THAT CORRESPOND TO THE SEVEN ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. (JEREMIAH 31:22)
ALSO SEVEN IS USED IN REFERENCE TO BRIDES OR GROOMS

 

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