The Scriptures and an Electric Universe - Part 1
12. The Cosmism Manifesto
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Using our blossoming awareness of a cosmic layer of the Gospel which elevates LIGHT through Christ in the cosmos as the main organizational and motive force - let’s take a look back at some events in the scriptures that may be deemed mysterious or miraculous generally. Consider this more acid testing of our Eternal Perspective.
SIDE NOTE: Here are some questions to consider at this point.
How will this synthesized paradigm of the electric universe and our new neo-catastrophism hold up to the Rod? (Constant acid testing)
How does a diligent study and synthesis of these things enlarge my understanding of Christ and His Plan?
Does this paradigm enhance my understanding of the Temple and of my Covenants with God and of Prophecy and of Symbolism?
Does this intentional syncretism strengthen my testimony of the Restoration through the Prophet Joseph Smith?
These are the driving questions that I continually ask myself - I witness that the answers to these questions become obvious in the positive as you engage in the test. That has been my experience and these examples below are the fruit of that work and test for me at a general glance.
I am confident that this list of scriptural events and doctrines we’re going to work through from my own notes - is going to be a fraction of what it could and eventually will be. But the main point of this essay is to provide many different examples of how our restored-cosmism perspective sheds additional light and depth to the witness of the scriptures. It further illuminates them.
Some of these events will require their own dedicated and focused study individually because there is just so much to say and so many rabbit holes to go down once you begin to look. So please consider their mention here as a possibility for future elaborations by someone at some point - but more so, consider this as an invitation to you to explore them in depth for yourself. I’m ultimately just identifying an abundance of what I find to be compelling evidence in favor of an electric universe (Light focused) tuned and synthesized paradigm. [Remember that this lens assumes catastrophism] This shift brings the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith further into the light as the truth, above all else.
These connections demonstrate to me a coherent cosmology that creates harmony of both ancient and modern traditions and witnesses while simultaneously expanding my understanding of prophecy and doctrine.
The current ‘mainstream’ consensus cosmology cult dismisses with contempt the ancient witnesses. Just as with Thales of Miletus (circa 600BC), their goal to sever a connection to the mythologies and religious witnesses and traditions of the past - in favor of new philosophies of men, mingled with scripture - is the same. It’s the Satanic severing of the ‘plumbline’ - the vain self-elevation and swing of the floating building.
We will see how an electric universe tint on the scriptures will reveal just how impotent the current mainstream cosmological/science perspective is in providing answers to the witness and record of seemingly miraculous things. This is an intentional and calculated fog of war by the enemy of your exaltation.
To me, the collective consideration of this all is overwhelming - AND - I know I won’t be able to articulate every detail or relevant connection or example, because I know that I know nothing and have much more to learn myself. So I hope this grows and breathes and expands and inspires in time.
Here’s a preview of the scriptural events/topics that we will start with.
Part 1: Adam to Abraham
The Body Electric - Resurrection/Transfiguration/Translation and Healing
Let There Be Light!
Enoch and the Ascension of Zion
Noah and the Flood - 7 days of Light / Old Heaven - Old Earth
Peleg - The Dividing of the Earth
The Tower of Babel
Melchizedek and the Ascension of Salem
The Brother of Jared - 16 Stones
Abraham & Sodom and Gomorrah
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THE BODY ELECTRIC - A REVIEW
Remember that the Prophet Joseph Smith encouraged us to meditate on death and resurrection and our future judgment to glory more than any other topic1 - so that’s a great place to start.
We just explored, in macro-view in the last essay, how we are progressing in form and body from Spirit/Light-body (premortal) to Spirit/Blood-body (mortal) to Spirit/Light-body (resurrected/glorified to a degree or a type of light: Celestial/Terrestrial/Telestial) as we are added upon through births and death and resurrection in the plan of ‘embodiment’(Salvation/Exaltation/Ascension)2.
Let’s ensure we synthesize this with our previous dive into the white stone and how the blood in our bodies is supplanted by a ‘Spirit/Light fluid’ in the Resurrection. This is the ‘glory’ we seek after - we want the Celestial body type that enables us to commune with and endure the environment of the Celestial Kingdom.
A body with this type of fluid would be considered a “Spiritual Body”.
Glorified bodies are intensely radiant, they are the focus of light that is often described as ‘brighter than the sun at noonday’ or as ‘lightning’ or in some other awe-inspiring and electromagnetic way. In a true sense - they are ‘light bodies’. As we look to the Scriptures - this light(spirit/glory)-focused synthesis is an important bedrock concept in understanding the doctrines of resurrection, of translation, and transfiguration (and others).
This is what we sing, “The Spirit of God - like a fire is burning”3, and we read:
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
“bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure…”
Think of that scripture and especially that verse (16) in context of Revelation 2:17 and also of the Exodus and the Deliverance of Israel as a temple motif. I see a clear allusion by Isaiah to Moses and Israel or Enoch and Zion or Christ and Israel/Zion at his 2nd Coming and deliverance. But in the context of the question - “Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?” > this is a Temple/Resurrection-focused prophecy.
bread shall be given him = mana/hidden mana = resurrected celestial body/Transfiguration/Translation
his water shall be sure = water/white stone = blood/light/glory of the body
We are born in flesh through a veil of forgetfulness, we are illuminated by the Spirit through faith unto obedience and eventually unto lifting the veil of forgetfulness to remembrance (“Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off”), then we die and we are resurrected to be judged and live again for eternity in a glorified bodily state compensatory to our works.
The first gospel ordinances [Baptism/Reception of Gift of Holy Ghost/Sacrament] express this theme in a symbolic snapshot: they are ordinances of rebirth [resurrection] through a death [burial] ritual in baptism by immersion in water for the remission of sins > to then receiving the possession or constant companionship (or presence, or connection, or wire) of the Gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands as a likeness and access key to the celestial light [glorification] available in the resurrection.
The Sacrament we take each week is in-kind a covenant ritual where we promise to be obedient and to always remember Him so that His Spirit may be with us. We eat the immortal work element and we drink the eternal life and glory element. Our bread is given, our waters can be sure.
We seek the same resurrection and glorification as our Savior and Mediator Jesus Christ - and we make covenants to endow us with the power to obtain it as we exercise our faith in the building up on our own bodily temple, line by line - stone by stone upon the Rock of Zion - Jesus Christ.
The Temple is the same conceptual snapshot. It is the ‘body’ filled with the Spirit and ‘presence’ of the Lord to facilitate covenantal reconnection to the Celestial Kingdom. An endowment of Light.
As you read the scriptures regarding the resurrection, transfiguration, and translation, and many other doctrines - this same pattern and concept is loudly highlighted or enhanced when my heart is tuned and aware of a light/electrical/plasma-cosmology which will count all of these instances (of Resurrection / Transfiguration / Translation) as a successful acid test. Light is the beginning and the end - and the source of that light is Christ.
Take the time to scan and study each of these with this in mind:
Resurrection: Guide to the Scriptures : Bible Dictionary : Topical Guide
Transfiguration: Guide to the Scriptures : Bible Dictionary : Topical Guide
Translated Beings: Guide to the Scriptures : Topical Guide
SIDE NOTE on HEALING: With regards to this idea that we are beings of light seeking greater light and power and ability to perform work to eventually endow light to others like our Father in Heaven does with his Immortal Glory - we can also view healing miracles of the body in a new light. I won’t go into this in detail here, but I want to plant the seed now as it rings harmonious with and is an essential layer of the ‘body electric’ topic.
Just consider some recent research on how more and more we are coming to understand that we are electromagnetic beings.
"The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life" by Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden reveals the compelling connection between electricity, electromagnetic fields, and living organisms. This exploration delves into how electric currents and fields influence essential biological processes, from tissue regeneration to mental health. Here’s a little summary I put together about some of the topics explored. I recommend the book.
While I can’t detail the molecular/particular specifics regarding how miraculous healing happens - our light-focused paradigm gives us a consistent and robust theoretical framework for scriptural healings to exist and to be perpetuated by individuals who are filled with light/truth/power and authorized by God’s Priesthood to administer it in various degrees, either through healing/ministering or through ritual ordinance.
Let’s dive into some specific events.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
If I’m going to claim that we should seriously consider and understand that light is the motive and organizing force in the cosmos - then it would help if the creation story and the scriptures supported that. And they do. I’m going to spend more time here on this one so hold on. We read in Genesis 1:11-5:
When it comes to electric/plasma universe cosmology - stars and planets are typically organized in plasma Birkeland current z-pinches.
Let’s familiarize ourselves with this for a moment.
Recap of Kristian Birkeland - plasma universe/auroras
Birkeland currents form in filaments - double-layers/sheaths/concentric
Plasma review: Dark, Glow, Arc-mode plasma
Z-pinch explained - the crossing of filaments/fusion
Examples that we observe in space - observation and experimentation support this. [Ant Nebula, M29-Nebula, Herbig-Haro objects - HH34 Jet, our own Milky Way]
We’ll continue our familiarization here:
Jets observed in space - gravitationally focused theories fail to respectably predict or explain Herbig-Haro objects.
In 1913: Hannes Alfen predicts star formation along filaments like pearls on a string - due to the electromagnetic z-pinch effect.
His predictions have been validated by modern space imagery/observation. Where his predictions are confirmed, gravity-theories face impossibilities.
Pervasive existence of magnetic fields in the universe was not predicted by consensus Astronomy. (We talked about this as a Velikovsky win/validation as well)
The answer is in the behavior of an electric current in plasma. [LIGHT/SPIRIT through WATER]
Plasma is everywhere.
It is essentially the once dismissed ether/aether. An all-present medium through which light propagates - matter swimming through water, unorganized or organized. Unorganized, until a current comes through (voice) and begins to bind and organize the matter in pinches (let there be light).
Even amongst those who believe in a plasma universe there is plenty of healthy debate and speculation and theorizing about the Genesis of Earth and our system companions. I think it’s a great thing for the advancement of this interdisciplinary approach to revisiting our scientific foundations and uprooting the corruption.
There are several compelling theories given this paradigm as to how our Earth could have first been a satellite of Saturn who once was a brown dwarf star in a more active Herbig-Haro (or polar configuration as we’ve called it) type environment - to then arrive to be captured at present by Sol/Sun. It will be helpful to at some point highlight the various capture ideas/theories - but for now, I’d like to just try and demonstrate one way to envision how the creation story could have played out given a Saturnian/electric universe layer.
We’ll take a look at the final 10 minutes or so of this presentation by Ted Holden and Troy McLachlan who are the proponents of what they call the Ganymede Hypothesis, a sub-theory of Saturn theory that posits that life may have originated on Ganymede and migrated to Earth during the initial break-up of the polar Herbig-Haro column. I am not endorsing their theory - it is one of many that involve a ‘capture’ as I mentioned - but their video here will demonstrate how Earth could have started as a close familiar to Saturn in a polar alignment, and then end up captured into an equatorial orbit around a new star through a series of catastrophic electrical encounters.
Watch Part 2 from 24:11
At 27:46 - This is creation and organization within a Tree of Life - this column is The Tree/The Lotus Flower/The World Mountain - the Temple and Presence of the Lord, the Garden of Eden when it was “Good”.
At 28:43 - This in my mind is analogous to “The Fall” - when the mainline Birkeland current (Celestial Organizing Energy/Voice) is shut off and their worlds are ‘cut off’ from the Tree of Life.
Again - I’m not presenting this video as the answer. I’m only demonstrating how the Creation story that we know to be true can map onto the ideas being presented from these cutting edge, and often scolded as ‘pseudo-scientific’ perspectives. Yet as we’ve been discovering - these musings and alternative foundational paradigms elevate the Book of Abraham and Moses and Joseph Smith’s understanding and witness of Heavenly things such as the Temple and Resurrection to a whole new level that the popular world cannot understand. It is beautiful to me. Let there be more LIGHT!
ENOCH AND THE ASCENSION OF ZION
An electric perspective provides consistent theoretical space for a literal lifting of matter off of the face of the Earth during an interplanetary/cosmic catastrophe. It renders it plausible that a planet or material like a whole city could be suspended above the earth in literal space via electromagnetic means, like the quantum trapping that we’ve explored or a type of Marklund convection, just for the sake of an example. Let’s take a quick look at what that is.
Think of this convection like a conduit or a plasma transmission tube - a giant cable that both separates (divides) and gathers. We’ve just looked at this type of tube structure and plasma pinch at a stellar level, but its a similar principle to that which we see active at our planetary level with the auroras or in other places at even smaller scales that we’ll explore later (like the pillar of fire and smoke of the Exodus or the encircling flames of the Book of Mormon Transfiguration witnesses).
A Saturnian Genesis assumes a different Earthly environment before the discharge/Flood event where planets were in closer proximity and lifespans were much longer and all spoke one language and likely could communicate telepathically to a large degree thanks to the enhanced electromagnetic environment. These same principles we are highlighting would have been more obvious and perhaps more carnally interactive in the antediluvian ‘old heaven and old earth’ scenario. Remember - we have only a handful of chapters of actual scripture to go on when it comes to pre-flood dispensations. Regardless,
This story has to do with the doctrine of translation and being caught up into Heaven/Paradise/Zion - we’ve already connected translation to an affirmative/cohesive place in our electric paradigm. In some accounts there is even mention of ‘Chariots of Fire’ - which is another theme-positive for our paradigm as we’ve previously explored.
An electric paradigm opens the door widely to the causal means to make the story literal and end the ‘spiritual v. physical’ debate.
The Ascension of Enoch and his whole city takes place at a time of great wickedness
The Ascension of Enoch and his whole city takes place at a time of great natural upheaval - this fits our cyclical planetary new neo-catastrophism. Just as a tease - here are a few pages from Hugh Nibley’s Enoch the Prophet. There’s a whole chapter titled “World in Upheaval” (Sounds very ‘Velikovskian’!).
We’ll definitely have more to say about Enoch and his Zion in some future focused essays or in perhaps another work apart from this manifesto of introduction - I’d like to go over the Book of Enoch and Nibley’s Enoch the Prophet in the process. In each - we will continue to find similar connections in abundance to support a Restored Cosmism synthesis. And a big reminder - you don’t have to wait for me to write these essays - I’m documenting this here to hold myself accountable and follow through at some point, and I am having the time of my life as I’m enveloped in the work of aggregating all of this - but at the very minimum my primary intention is to also provide anyone interested the direction I will go and have gone so you can sprint ahead or work at your own pace to study these things in the same way.
NOAH AND THE FLOOD
This is another key scriptural event that has an important role in the Plan of Salvation and also according to a stellar capture-cosmology to not have it’s own dedicated essay apart from it’s mention here.
Here is a brief summary of some of the main points that support an electric universe filter on this - and especially a Saturnian Genesis. I’ll write a separate essay in the future were we go over Velikovsky’s notes on this subject in detail. They are worth the effort to digest.
In an electric universe - the universal flood event/myth of Noah’s day was caused by the atmospheric discharge (nova/flare) of Saturn as it and it’s moons/satellites/children were captured into a new electrical/stellar environment/configuration. A lower state. Saturn was bound with rings and stretched out (removed) to the empty place; and now the Earth hangeth upon nothing.4
Isaiah and a number of other mythological traditions commemorate 7 days of LIGHT that preceded the arrival of the waters of the flood. See Isaiah 30:26 [Read full context 25-33 = day of catastrophe/lightning/fire/wind]. The Festivals of Light like Saturnalia and the lighting of the Menorah and other New Year’s celebrations commemorate this transition of ages.
The abundance of mythological evidence that correlates the planet Saturn and the disruption of it’s former reign as the north polar star of the Earth column/tree/constellation of planets to the cause of the flood. Here are three books that I suggest you add to your collection if you’re eager to dive into these myths and traditions and what others (outside of the Covenant) are guessing about the broad convergence of witness.
Resonance with 2 Peter 3 - “Old Heaven and Old Earth - standing in the water and out of the water” commentary. [Remember the planetary chiasmus of the Fall - and our Article of Faith 10 doctrine5]
Taken from a Larson lecture The Rainbow - a new sign/thing? Why? The nova/flare of Saturn altered the atmosphere and brought on the seasons in full and most of the oceans and many new seeds of life to the Earth through the flood. I see more than one meaning here - yes, rainbows as we experience them now didn’t occur prior to the flood event
According to Genesis II. 5-6 no rain fell on the newly created earth, which was watered only by a mist ascending from the ground and falling as dew. If this phenomenon persisted until the Deluge this would explain the novelty of the rainbow after the catastrophe.
Velikovsky - link above
- but this paradigm is also suggesting that the bow or rings around Saturn, which act as his chains/wrappings/veil in myth/tradition around the world - also act as a promise that the source of the flood of Noah’s day would not discharge or flare in the same manner unto flooding as long as the rings persisted. See more on Saturn bound here.
Saturn - the Emerald City Check the language and imagery in my “Follow the Prophets” remix. Lyrics are in the video description.
The Ark as Temple - symbolic stack
The Tsohar/window - glowing stone/glass that illuminated the ark (Genesis 6:16)
There’s more - but again, I’ll save it for a future dedicated dive. The Flood of Noah is a critical Scriptural event that is majorly enhanced and celebrated in a restored cosmism light.
DIVIDING OF EARTH IN THE DAYS OF PELEG
Peleg was the great-great-great grandson of Noah, son of Eber, born 101 years after the flood and his name literally means “division” (פֶּלֶג). His lifetime signaled and endured a dividing of the Earth on many levels. I’ll point out the levels that I can identify that map congruently or are explained/enhanced by our restored cosmism perspective.
Lifespan divided: Shem lives to be 600, the next 3 patriarchs live to be about 440 years old each — but then Peleg is born and only lived about half of that lifespan to 239. This also brings into context the much longer lifespans before the flood during the Golden Age of Saturn (Before the flood - lifespans were greatly extended. Consider Noah's grandfather Methuselah who lived to be 969 years old, or even Lamech, Noah's father who lived upwards of 770 years. Noah himself was 600 when the flood came and lived about 350 years after). The declining state of Earth and her atmosphere and stellar environment caused bodily devolution through process of time.
In an electric universe/capture cosmology - the catastrophes of Peleg and the Tower to Sodom and Gomorrah were likely induced by the movements and displacements of Jupiter and Mars and Mercury and other moons as well as the birth and movements of Venus during what is mythologically referred to as The Silver Age as we’ve previously discussed. The exact timing and ordering and situation of these things is still nebulously speculative for me and something I very much look forward to crystalizing through more research in the future and as more material and scripture is made available to synthesize.
I doodled this while reading Genesis 10-12 - but my original question was about Nimrod and if he could have been alive to both build the Tower of Babel and also persecute Abram/Terah as some sources suggest - and I determined that he could have. You can read my note above. Dividing generation: Peleg is the 5th son of Noah, dividing the 10 generations between Noah and Abraham or The Silver Age.
From Adam to Noah there were 10 Patriarchs.
Abel [murdered by Cain - blood cries]
Seth
Enos
Cainan
Mahalaleel
Jared
Enoch
Methusalah
Lamech
Noah (New Adam)
From Noah to Abram there were 10 Patriarchs
Shem
Arphaxad
Salah
Eber
*[Peleg]*
Reu
Serug
Nahor
Terah
Abram > Abraham (New Adam)
Language divided: The Tower of Babel confusion of languages took place during his life. If I was forced to guess - it would be appropriate that it happened when he was 118ish (halfway point of life, he lived to 239)
Nations divided: (Genesis 10-11) Same as above
Lands divided (East/West Hemispheres): catastrophe - See image/quotes below, at the 2nd coming and “Gathering” - even the very lands will gather together, and the water will again congregate in the north to a polar stream/envelope.
Earth officially separated/divided from Saturnian polar column
There’s also an Eliza R. Snow poem/hymn we can include as a witness to this:
Thou, earth, wast once a glorious sphere
Of Noble magnitude,
And didst with majesty appear,
Among the worlds of God
But thy dimensions have been torn
Asunder, piece by piece,
And each dismembered fragment borne
Abroad to distant space.
When Enoch could no longer stay
Amid corruption here,
Part of thyself was borne away
To form another sphere.
And when the Lord saw fit to hide
The "ten lost tribes" away,
Thou earth, wast severed to provide
The orb on which they stay.
And this, from time to time, they size
Has been diminished til
Thou seemest the law of sacrifice
Created to fulfill.
A "restitution" yet to come,
That will to thee restore,
By that grand law of worlds, thy sum
Of matter heretofore.
Extracts from Hymn 322, Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs, pop. 386-87.
In our Paradigm - the Philo Dibble diagram again also supports and adds context for this dividing as mentioned above by others but well as the scriptures about the dividing of the waters of creation and how they were held in the North and how those same waters (and the waters below) fell upon the Earth at the flood of Noah. And where will the oceans go when they recede to the North again? They will reconstitute the pillars of heaven when the stars fall and the planets return to transform the Earth.
THE TOWER OF BABEL
The same period of natural catastrophe of the dissolution of the polar column is the period in which the dividing of the land/hemispheres happens in the days of Peleg. This is also the period and environment in which the convulsion of peoples and the confusion of languages occurs to scatter them at the Tower of Babel.
First - a note about Nimrod, the founder of Babel and Babylon from the Old Testament Institute Manual.
Another way to express ‘division’, as in the meaning behind the name ‘Peleg’, is to describe it as ‘polarization’. This brings the electromagnetic backdrop more into focus - we see this polarization or division within the comparison of Nimrod’s tyrannical and Satanic methods at Babel v. Melchizedek’s authorized priesthood administration at Salem. We are seeing the rise and unveiling of the same polarized dynamic today. A Church of the Lamb v. a Church of the Devil.
So let’s revisit the story - seeing that it [the Tower of Babel] was an imitation Temple built by a wicked generation who would not heed God’s Word through the witness of the Patriarchs or his Messengers - let’s also add a few anecdotal comments from a couple Orson’s of early Church History, friends of the Prophet Joseph Smith to color the context of the situation.
In our paradigm this doesn’t sound preposterous - it fits the framework where there is room to embrace this type of physics that releases the shackles of gravitational limits once perceived. The polar configuration gradually fell away over many generations following the flood. So this all checks out as a possibility.
Whatever orb the City of Enoch and those who were translated were on, those who ascended into heaven, it could have very well been looming in close static orbit before leaving with the rest of the dissolving polar Saturnian column - to be stretched out into the empty space. Perhaps to be planted in another part of the new solar vineyard - in order to be stored up against the season6.
Another Orson had something similar to say (the word “planet” in this one below was added by Anthony Larson).
Now we read in Genesis 11:1-9:
Here are a few take-aways given our context:
Imitation Priesthood: They wanted to ‘make a name’ - we talked about that and what it infers a little bit in our last essay - they wanted to build a city-temple to reach Zion and be translated or become ‘immortal’ kings unto themselves - to take upon themselves the likeness and glory of God. They also wanted to escape any incoming potential catastrophe, like Zion had the flood.
Velikovsky insights
Confusion of Languages - worldwide witness
“the sun and wind” - keep in mind this idea of strong wind associated with this catastrophe when we explore the experience of the Brother of Jared as well.
“In the Book of Jubilees it is said that “the Lord sent a mighty wind against the tower and overthrew it upon the earth.” (7)
The Babylonian account, as transmitted by Abydenus (Greek historian), tells that once men “built a high tower where now is Babylon, and when it was already close to heaven, the gods sent winds and ruined the entire scheme. . . . and men, having till then been all of the same speech, received [now] from the gods many languages.” (8)
Other accounts give the impression that a strong electrical discharge—possibly from an overcharged ionosphere—found a contact body in the high structure. According to a tradition known to the twelfth century traveler Benjamin of Tudela, “fire from heaven fell in the midst of the tower and broke it asunder.”
More witnesses from around the globe - “In each case the entire population of the world is said to have been affected”
“Observations of the movements of the heavenly bodies may have provided a warning of a new catastrophe and large structures were built for refuge. But when the event came, the structures were overwhelmed and destroyed by hurricanes and powerful electrical discharges.”
“The characteristic of this catastrophe was its influence upon the mental, or mnemonic, capacity of the peoples. The description of it, as told by many tribes and peoples, if it contains authentic features, arouses the surmise that the earth underwent an electromagnetic disturbance, and that the human race experienced something that in modern terms seems like a consequence of a deep electrical shock.
The application of electrical current to the head of a human being often results in a partial loss of memory; also a loss of speech may be induced by the application of electrodes to specific areas of the brain.(20)”
Mercury, once a satellite of Jupiter or Saturn, was pushed from its orbit and directed to the sun. It may have been seen as a comet, which is memorialized by the entwined snakes of the caduceus. Contact between the magnetospheres of Mercury and Earth may have overcharged the Earth’s ionosphere and caused the fire/lightning/wind and confusion of languages and dispersal of peoples.
Mercury as Nebo (Babylonian son of Marduk[Jupiter] / Thoth / Odin / Hermes / Enoch - these characters were associated with planets and had command over speech and memory and knowledge.
THE BROTHER OF JARED - 16 STONES
We have the account in the book of Ether of the Brother of Jared and his interface with the Lord during the same cosmic catastrophe we have been describing above. The Book of Mormon is an additional corroborating witness of the Lord’s dealings with his children at the time of the Tower. In Ether 1:33-35:
The story goes on - but a few points:
This whole scenario fits the recurring theme of Exodus=Apocalypse, the pride cycle overlapped with the catastrophe cycle and how the Lord leads his faithful children into a promised land because of his Covenants with them. Read Ether 4 - the whole chapter and look for this pattern in Moroni’s summary and prophecy. I discern a topical chiasmus here also where the revelation of Christ and his covenants are the focus/peak/pinch.
v1-3 : From the Mount and his presence to hiding up the record in the Earth in this promised land of the Jaredite and Josephite (Lehite) and Gentile exoduses
v6-8 : First principles to sanctification - invitation to revelation
v9-12 : Witness of Heavenly power and source - “he that will not believe my words will not believe me—that I am;
v13-16 : Invitation to Gentiles and Israel in the Last Days (us) - to come up to [Sinai] for ourselves - seek the covenant of he Fathers
v17 : Book of Mormon as fruit of this final chapter having begun - start John’s Revelation
v18-19 : Millennial Promised Land [Kingdom of God] as destination
The Lord goes before them in a cloud also described as the “presence of the Lord” are electromagnetic/plasmatic in nature. Ether 2:5, 14
Like as in the Exodus 
From the Prince of Egypt - depictions are very electric/plasma universe 16 Glow Stones - In this part of the Jaredite Exodus, the Brother of Jared is commanded to build 8 arks or barges (think of the symbolism of 8 and the Flood and of baptism as they were buried in the ocean - Israel was also symbolically baptized collectively too as they passed through the water of the Red Sea and again through Jordan with the next generation) they use to cross the ocean to the American Hemisphere. But as they were created like submarines, there was an issue among others of how to light the ships during the journey.
The solution that the Brother of Jared employs fits within an electromagnetic paradigm where stones hold and transmit light > the fact that they are “charged” by the finger of Jehovah (a Light-being) completes the circuit. This is a possible echo of the Tsohar of Noah’s Ark, perhaps Mahonri had knowledge of that detail and drew upon it as a solution for a catastrophic/boat situation. Go back up and see how Genesis 6:16a even references this very comparison.
I’ve said this before - but your LED or LCD screen is a technology that uses stones/crystals to store and transmit light. Today there are many examples of crystal luminescence (or even concepts like piezoelectricity as we understand it today when considered honestly, brings seemingly strange or miraculous scenarios like these 16 stones more aligned with the realities we have discovered and use in recent post-Restoration history). We now know the ability of certain stones/crystals to hold and transmit light and energy exists and is extremely useful. This isn’t the radical narrative that many portray it as when they attack or mock our faith and Joseph Smith in particular. Seeing stones and light are part of the fabric of eternal reality. Remember I’m out here talking about the white stone and a crystal heart to hold Celestial Light.
Brother of Jared and the 16 stones Check out how it is depicted in the OG Living Scriptures animation.
Brother of Jared sees Jehova Ether 3:19-28 : Urim and Thummim. Right on queue - we have another instance of electromagnetic/crystal-light stones as a supportive node.
Last point for this event/story - it is the context that it is taking place during a cosmic catastrophe (BoM scriptures for: Tower of Babel - “tight like a dish” - conditions of the winds and sea) Ether 2:24-25 , 5:6-8.
Ionic winds that dry things up and cause famine and plague are a hallmark of a cosmic plasma/electric event. For a sample of what I’m getting at here’s a video in the vein of ‘electric geology’ that expresses the power of the ‘wind’ and it’s electric origin. For the read, we’ll listen to the first few minutes is all to get the abstract - then you can watch the rest on your own.
I also found a dozen or so pages from Hugh Nibley that I will read for the podcast version that support this point with power. You can follow along or read it for yourself in Nibley’s Collected Works Volume 5 pages 163-181.
While the whole book is great and has many gems that we could point out and connect - I’m only going to read 4 short essays/letters from Nibley in the The World of the Jaredites section titled; The Tower, The Stolen Garment, The Dispersion, A Note on the Weather.
ABRAHAM & SODOM AND GOMORRAH
I’m going to spend a little more space on this one. Even before Sodom and Gomorrah - there are some stories around the life of Abraham that map well into the paradigm we are acid testing. From Jewish legend and other Latter-day ‘sacred’ textual findings - there is the idea of the persecution of young Abraham by Nimrod, both at his birth (in the same pattern as the astrologers to Pharaoh in Moses’ day or to Herod in Jesus’ day), and also as he is older and destroys false idols and is taken to Nimrod by his father Terah. Let’s check those stories out at a glance:
Signs in Heaven at Abram’s Birth:
Like the birth of Christ and Herod and like Moses and Pharaoh, apparently the sorcerer-astrologers of Nimrod interpreted the cosmic sign at his birth and sought to take his life. They did this understanding that the sign heralded the advent/birth or restoration of a true Priesthood authority from God who could threaten both the throne of kingship from Nimrod and the priestly administrative monopoly of the the sorcerers and their priestcraft.
A sign (a star or planet or the Sun [a redundancy in the prophetic tradition] moving or appearing irregularly) in the heavens to precede the restoration of God's covenantal promises of Zion. This archetypal pattern fits prophecy as well as our cosmic-electric paradigm.
Before Christ’s final advent and restoration at his 2nd Coming, this same pattern is prophesied to manifest again on global/cosmic layers and scale. See also the foreshadowing first advent of Christ to America in the Book of Mormon and the signs and cosmic catastrophe that accompanied that event - we’ll explore this in Part 2. I also consider the elevation of abortion in this American land (and the global world at large) over the last many decades as an in-kind parallel of the mass child-slaughter by wicked kings and pharaohs of the past that precedes and is enshrouded in plague and famine and cosmic catastrophe as a response from God.
Consider the layer of the Latter-day Church and Revelation 12 where the ‘man child’ is the very Government(Kingship) of Christ for his Millennial Reign that will cast down the thrones of the kings of modern Mystery Babylon.
Consider also there are prophecies ‘shaking of the heaven’ and signs and wonders and the persecution of the Saints by the dragon are to precede the birth and initiation of the Millennial Reign of Christ as King of Kings and High Priest of Priests. We're watching these patterns unfold clearly as the times wrap up.
Abram cast into the furnace [Transfiguration]:
As an instance of transfiguration - this is by default a fit in our electric body paradigm. I'll repeat it generally again, all instances of translation, transfiguration and resurrection are pillars of support for the electromagnetically focused cosmological lens we test.
Abraham and Pharoah of Egypt - delivered by catastrophe:
The events I included from extra-canonical sources above assume a timeline around Abraham’s birth and youth. In our Book of Abraham from the Lord through Joseph Smith - we find yet another attempt at the life of Abraham, this time by the Egyptian Pharoah’s Idolatrous Priest. It’s still a bit blurry for me here whether there were multiple attempts on Abram’s life or if perhaps through time - these collectively witness of the same event. Either way - these extra stories still find a supporting substrate in our cosmic paradigm.
Now - let’s focus on a cosmic reading of what the Restoration has given us (and Joseph presented these ideas many years before some of the other sources known today were even uncovered - see Nibley’s writings on Abraham for more information - especially An Approach to the Book of Abraham, you can read the pdf for free here). We’ll skim through Abraham 1 in the Pearl of Great Price. Abraham is living in Ur and his father is still worshipping the pagan planetary gods of the cursed priests of the lineage Ham. So when he decides to seek for the Patriarchal Priesthood of his righteous ancestors (Zion), he finds grave opposition. People around him seek to take his life as they won’t listen to him, so he finds he needs to relocate - and he becomes a wanderer - a stranger in foreign lands.
From Abraham 1:
Elder John A. Widtsoe (1872–1952) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles wrote:
“The family of Abraham had turned from righteousness and had become idolators. Abraham therefore, himself a follower of God’s truth, preached righteousness to them but without avail. For his insistence upon the worship of the only true and Living God, he was persecuted and his life sought. So intense was the hatred of the idolators that it was only by the intervention of the Lord that he was saved from being offered up as a sacrifice to the idols of the people,”.
(Evidences and Reconciliations, arr. G. Homer Durham [1960], 398)
Here’s a couple interesting tidbits regarding Egyptian human sacrifice mentioned in Joseph’s Book of Abraham.
Let’s set this up a little geographically. Why is the Priest of the Pharoah of the Kingdom of Egypt in Ur of Mesopotamia?
Here’s the map from our Bible:
Here’s an estimated map of Ancient Egypt to note how it doesn’t quite reach up into even the possible northern location of Ur - but from what I can tell it’s all a bit of a guessing game even to modern scholars when you get this far back.
The Pearl of Great Price Institute Manual provides a compelling answer; I also consider how both Nimrod and the Pharaohs of Egypt are descendants of Ham, so having sympathetic false priesthoods makes sense.
Nibley allows for even more wiggle room - he says that it was likely all part of the Egyptian kingdom at the time. He has a few other cool points that add (like the throwaway Alexander the Great as Son of Zues-Ammon to conquer it back comment - this whole theme of false kings and kingdoms is consistent regarding our Babylon v Zion binary at play and Abraham is the ‘Adam/Noah/Osiris’ of our current ‘heaven and earth’) into what I’m trying to express in this section:
Now back to the story with this all fresh in mind:
Abraham not only takes time to describe what the altar and ritual looked like - but he drew a depiction with obvious symbolic depth - to me, this signals that it was important.
This image was designed to symbolize more than just a terrestrial scene of attempted ‘ritual’ murder.
When we engage Facsimile 1 according to our restored cosmic paradigm - we can map the altar and the human sacrifice that is depicted there as a symbolic stack of the same sacred COSMIC throne (planetary configuration) of sacrifice and redemption that fell apart at the flood (and that will return at the Millennium to consume the current and initiate the new heaven and the new earth) - and then answers begin to fall into place. This was the ritual death and resurrection of the King, of Osiris (A Saturnian parallel as we've explored with the Thunderbolts Project and Velikovsky), so naturally it would need to take place after the same symbolic manner.
[Cosmic Throne Doctrine tether here]
This altar of sacrifice and associated rituals (like nearly all of our Temple rituals) are symbolically depicted in ‘cosmic throne’ scenery in correspondence (as above so below - as in heaven, so on Earth) to the ancient Priesthood/Kingship archetypes that Pharoah so desperately sought to imitate7. The altar is the cross, or intersection of kingdoms, the gathering point which is also the throne and seat of treasure (x marks the spot!) around which all things circumambulate (circle and rotate/move). Birth, creation, government, sacrifice, and even the resurrection of Osiris all occur at this seat of power, the vesica of the cosmos. The Temple itself is this same archetype - we’ve explored this in the Circle and the Square essay, but it warrants a reminder as to how it directly relates in this context - here again from Hugh Nibley’s article titled The Circle and the Square in Temple and the Cosmos.
The cutting of the sacrifice at the center of the temple/throne is the ultimate “singularity” of ritual. This is why we make covenants on and before altars and witnesses that mimic this same environment. The sacrifice is supposed to be in similitude of Christ - the Lamb of Atonement and Restitution, as Adam and on down to Noah surely knew.
Let me present images side by side that depict the same collective altar of sacrifice - then I’ll explain how I see the Saturnian throne of God imagery in all of Abraham’s facsimiles and in Joseph’s explanations of them.
I’m going to work my way up from the bottom of Facsimile 1 and explain how each figure translates to a Saturnian paradigm, in doing so, we’ll see how the above images are connected and reflecting the same covenantal ideal and sacrificial echo of paradise lost(the fall) and redemption.
Fig.11 and the pillars of heaven make logical sense in an electric paradigm. Consider the light pillars/structures we witness today near aurora latitudes where the atmosphere is charged by the Birkeland current from the Sun at the poles.
Nibley also counts them as 12, as in the 12 gates of the Temple and of Jerusalem - think of the twelve divisions of the solar journey (each month[12] the sun travels 30 degrees along the ecliptic). I suspect that this is the case since the tabernacle and the temple are mirrors of what was witnessed above - the difference to keep in mind here is that while these ‘gates’ are presented horizontally, or linearly : they could also correctly be places in a cross of 4 quarters of 3 gates, like the 4 arms of the compass and how Israel was camped around the tabernacle.
It’s possible that these light pillars or perhaps a similar plasma phenomenon were a more regular feature in ancient skies and seen in other places when the configuration of planets by their movements and realignments (think also pass over) [over]charged our atmosphere. The assumption for me is that this type of display will return in obvious form and increased frequency as millennial paradise is restored to the Earth. We’ll experience auroras and light pillars and other atmospheric signs at irregular latitudes as the Earth’s electric dialogue with other bodies is increased during ‘the great day of [the Lord’s] wrath’ (Apocalypse) and the lead up to it.
Pharaoh (in general) is a copy or proxy of a Osiris/Adam/Christ/King/High Priest/Father figure. The corrupt kings of spacious-building alternate paths always attempt to take the glory and titles and names and authorities of what they are forbidden or unauthorized to have. Like Nibley made mention - the Pharoah is the self proclaimed cosmocrator.
In Facsimile 1, Figure 9 - The idolatrous god of Pharaoh is depicted as the serpent or crocodile of Heaven (because he’s clearly chilling there within the ‘expanse’, Figure 12). In context of the apostate/idolatrous planetary worship of antiquity - and considering the Saturn myth and Osiris and the Serpent/Ouroboros of creation - this symbolic assignment is appropriate.
Sobek, a crocodile deity in ancient Egyptian mythology, was considered to be an aspect of Osiris; the god of the afterlife, resurrection, agriculture and fertility. Sobek was also associated with the life-giving waters of the Nile, which provides fertility and creation to the land in its annual cycles. The relationship between Sobek and Osiris is complex and varies across different texts and beliefs, but it is not disputed that Sobek was a figure adopted by the pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom during the time of Abraham.
In plainness, the Egyptian Pharaoh assumed the role of cosmic center stem or stream, the pole-position. Like Christ as the cornerstone of Zion, which is the resting place of the Alpha and Omega, he becomes the “Heaven Man” - divine - and his body is also reverenced as the very enclosure or structure of his Kingdom. I want to repeat that again, his body is also the enclosure or structure of his Kingdom. Think of the parallels with regards to how we speak of the body of Christ as members of a church, or a house, or a temple. Stack onto this how we speak of the heavenly temple/throne being a collection of planetary bodies in a polar grouping or alignment with the Earth as the footstool - the cosmic throne is a planetary Megazord in harmony.
If you don’t know what the Megazord is from Power Rangers, I forgive you.
And check out the plasma sword and laser eye beams.. fits the archetype.
Back to the Facsimile - check out this graphic I made to highlight how Figure 9 represents the plasma pillar and middle section between heaven and earth.
In a Saturnian reconstruction - the Pharaoh’s face would represent Mars (they would sometimes paint the face of the pharaoh red) and the crown would be Venus and her brilliant discharges, the radiant crown of protection. Because of the morphology of the planetary configuration - the crown and face of the ‘heavenly god’ was revered as different shapes and forms or combinations of the planets Saturn/Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Mercury and perhaps others as they were removed from their prior positions and stretched out ‘over the empty place, [when the Lord] hangeth the earth upon nothing’.
The beard or goatee (or tassels, cords, ropes, ribbons) that hangs down from the face or head or shoulders is the reciprocal plasma column or ‘waters/clouds’ that would come down to connect with and water the Earth.
Moses’ staff (like Pharaoh’s) also represents this same pillar of mediation and judgment (like the plumbline/iron rod) - and what did it turn into before Pharaoh and his magicians? A serpent - which in the end ate up the other serpents of the false priests. Remember also the fiery seraphs of the desert and Moses’ brazen serpent that cured their illness? It is all connected.
Remember now also Satan’s appearance in the paradise of Eden with her 4 streams/rivers as the serpent and this same creative form and cosmic figure of mediation and regeneration.
Note how the Garden is depicted with the Tree of Life (and the Tree of Knowledge) being the center, or “in the midst” (literally in the middle) with the rivers/water flowing out, quartering the garden, and then they also enclose/encircle it. For more on this concept read this article. [Read]
Consider all of this with how we currently construct our Temples in mind - here are a few select examples among many more:
Like Christ is the Living Waters and the figure in the midst - the crocodile/serpent is symbolic of flowing/encircling waters of creation - and also in very physical form of the plasma squatting man or the cosmic thunderbolt (the ‘let there be light’). This correlates perfectly too with the Earth previously encased by water at the poles and how Peter spoke of how before the flood the Earth was both standing in and out of the water - in the transfiguring Birkeland current/river of Paradise or the Saturnian polar alignment.
Eden was a cosmic state - the paradisical ‘Earth’ is a MEGAZORD Temple and Throne, or a family body of resonating planets sharing the same sustaining input current of Light from Christ.
If you haven’t already, take some time to observe plasma in a ball, or as the aurorae today - they can take the very appearance of water, or snakes or ropes or tassels, or layers of fabric, or many other figures that appear in Prophecy and what we’ve been babbling on about. Here’s a good list I like from Anthony Larson of a few motif’s that plasma in an electric universe can manifest as.
From the bottom of a polar column (footstool position) - looking up from the Earth to the planetary bodies ‘stacked’ over the the northern pole, certain planets would cause major plasma discharge morphologies that manifested and caused chaos in both heaven and on earth.
We’ve touched previously on how the planet Venus as an aspect or version of the ‘sun’ (in this Egyptian context as; Isis/Hathor/Eye of Ra/Crown and Throne of the King) and through the various stages of her plasma morphology was witnessed along the polar column and later in her erratic course that crossed paths Mars and Mercury and with the Earth’s orbit later (during the Exodus and later encounters - this is what Worlds in Collision by Velikovsky starts with, the age in which Venus as the ‘sun’ made pass over).
Her train and coma and plasma streamers would spiral to form the whirlwind and the encircling ouroboros - the dragon. The crooked serpent.
I’m sure other planets or bodies have taken the same form, not just Venus. Just as an example - take a look at how comets are depicted in "The Comet Book" [Kometenbuch] from 1587.
Why go on about this again? Because the Facsimiles in the Book of Abraham place many of the same elements of the Saturnian Megazord (Celestial Throne - creative configuration of heaven and earth) in their correct context - and Joseph Smith’s explanations for them are Prophetic, supportive and revelatory.
Let’s layer in some of David Talbott’s research, he writes this about this figure/symbol of the circular serpent in context of the Saturn Myth, from his book of that title:
So now let’s refocus and synthesize this to what we’ve already been discussing in previous essays. This next section reinforces the Megazord analogy > and again, that’s important because the individual elements of Facsimile 1 are collectively, appropriately presented and explained by Joseph Smith according to a Saturnian cosmology.
There is no way not to tie Adam to this primordial ‘Heaven Man’ and King - in this I find great excitement and Gospel harmony. It even makes certain statements by Brigham Young that are stumbling blocks for some - nodes of confirmation and reverence once you get to this point.
Moving on up Facsimile 1.
The 5 ‘gods’ mentioned here (Elkenah, Libnah, Mahmacrah, Korash, and Pharaoh) remind me of the 5 mentioned in the Nimrod encounter (fire, water, [clouds], wind, and Nimrod) - at the very least in pattern, 4 variants and a central ruler/king/cosmocrator.
These 4 figures are the same 4 Sons of Horus - (4 + Horus = 5). Before Horus it was Osiris as we read in the Talbott excerpt.
In our paradigm - with either Osiris or Horus as the ancient Northern heaven man - his enclosure of Heaven is supported by the 4 winds or rivers or legs of his throne - the 4 cardinal points/directions of the compass. Joseph Smith correctly identified these figures as the 4 quarters of the Earth in their upside down position on the Hypocephalus of Facsimile 2:
Consider the Calgary Temple aerial we’ve already explored in this context where the Earth is the upside down footstool of the heavenly cross (the center of the Temple and seat of the Mercy/Judgment Seat = throne):
Compare it to the Facsimile 2 hypocephalus now - also, take note at how in other hypocephalus that have been recovered a 4-headed figure appears on what we call Kolob.
These figures as jars are more modernly thrown around as “Canopic jars” and are associated with mummification. This was a huge criticism initially from the snobby gallery of modern Egyptologists against Joseph Smith’s suggestion that it (Facsimile 1) was a scene of human sacrifice. Hugh Nibley’s works regarding Abraham and these facsimiles refute these things with witty voltage. If you’re not already - make collecting Nibley’s works and studying them a priority in your personal studies. I have been better able to understand and follow his writings and musings with joy because of this cosmic/electric/catastrophic synthesis.
While the Wikipedia scribes consider the Canopus connection a ‘mistake’ - it doesn’t need to be in a Saturnian cosmology. It fits! Why? Because Canopus was the captain of the mythological Argo Navis! That fits the Saturnian wheel motif - the 4 streams or legs of the throne turned the wheel and the crescent ship/ark about the heavenly waters. Mythological quests are most often interpreted as a memory or allegory of the events of the dissolution of the ancient heaven and earth, they are usually a quest to restore the lost "Golden Age" (Paradise). The story of Jason and the Argonauts (where Canopus is the captain of the ark) is no exception. I encourage you to reread the myth (and all myths basically) from this perspective once you’ve started to grasp the main concepts as we’ve been discussing them.
The 4 sons of the horizon are the 4 cardinal directions and the 4 legs of the wheel-throne of God, the 4 vital organs within His body (hence the canopic jars for the viscera) - the four faces or aspects of the Sun and the 4 spokes of the helm of the once heavenly ark.
Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist who lived during the first and second centuries AD - check out this passage from his well known "Moralia."
“Moreover, they give to Osiris the title of general, and the title of pilot to Canopus, from whom they say that the star derives its name; Falso that the vessel which the Greeks call Argo, in form like the ship of Osiris, has been set among the constellations in his honour, and its course lies not far from that of Orion and the Dog-star; of these the Egyptians believe that one is sacred to Horus and the other to Isis.”
This concept of the 4 quarters/faces of Heaven and of the Earth is foundational. It stacks onto what is called the Tetramorph; once you begin to understand these things I’m weaving together in a Saturnian framework, it will enhance your ability to understand prophecy. Why? Because - the tetramorph [Read] is featured prominently in throne doctrine and prophecy, in both the Alpha and the Omega aspects of it (meaning new creation and apocalypse/death/rebirth).
While I don’t agree with or endorse every video or idea from this channel in particular - this is a great video that already exists to glean more understanding of this concept as I’m synthesizing it.
The tetramorph will be a fun topic to elaborate on alone in the future. So I don’t want to go into too much more detail other than to present again how these symbols are always placed in the correct Saturnian context not only in Abraham’s facsimiles - but also in early and modern Christian art and discussion. The tetramorph is often associated with the 4 Gospels as 4 aspects of Christ - a metaphorical compliment to the physical cosmic layer. It is all throne doctrine. Prophecy is throne doctrine. Zion is a place and this Earth is the footstool of that throne. The re-establishment of this condition and cosmic throne is the physical reality of the Apocalypse and the restoration of the Earth to a paradisical state. The “Golden Age (fleece)”, the Sabbath.
This is why Israel was camped this way around the Tabernacle. As in heaven - so on Earth.
At the base of the Tabernacle is the Altar of Sacrifice. Notice the same familiar form? It’s a horned cube. When a 6 sided cube is opened up you get a cross.
Consider our temple baptismal fonts - which are after the manner of the bronze laver of Solomon’s Temple and mimic the same 3x4 constellation of Israel around the tabernacle in the wilderness.
Baptismal fonts of the Latter-days:
Sealing rooms/altars of the Latter-days:
Celestial Rooms of the Latter-days:
I hope the images convey the message. I will elaborate with some thoughts in the podcast - but I invite you to let the Spirit of God work on your mind and heart while you consider the symbolism of the temple the perspective the Cosmism Manifesto brings to enhancing the meaning of the temple and throne of God.
One last thought or blast of imagery on the lion chair/bed that the sacrifice is ritually performed on. The lion is the symbol of the apex of hierarchy - the summit of protection and equally consumption (being at the top of the food chain and a solar symbol). The sacrificial lamb was ritually put to death and consumed on the altar - The below snaps are from Nibley’s An Approach to the Book of Abraham.
These lyrics and these scripture come to mind,
“How blessed the day, when the lamb and the lion Shall lie down together without any ire And Ephraim be crowned with his blessing in Zion As Jesus descends with his chariot of fire! We'll sing and we'll shout, with the armies of heaven Hosana, hosana, to God and the Lamb! Let glory to them, in the highest be given Henceforth and forever, amen and amen!" From The Spirit of God
And,
Alright - we’ve come to the point where I can skip elaborating on figures 1 and 3 for now and zoom out again. Look now at Facsimile 1 and how it corresponds to our ultimate symbolic stack of the polar configuration interpretation of the conference rooftop symbol and the new symbol of the Church.
Now, we’ve gone on a large tangent - but it will be critical for you and me to continue to harp on and hone in on this connection as this tetramorph throne of God is the same Merkabah that Ezekiel, John, Daniel and others see return at the Millennium with the Lord at his 2nd Coming. It is a central and critical part of prophecy. Not only does Facsimile 1 parallel the planetary polar throne of God - but Facsimile 2 and 3 also present it all in a manner that can be equally discerned as we’ve already touched on a bit previously.
It’s already a win for our perspective that this central temple theme is so coherently recognized and explained.
Let’s jump back into Abraham 1 where we left off.
Along with this transfiguration (presumably) of Abraham and the vision he was filled with - there was a physical catastrophe that broke down the altar and killed the officiating false priest.
And what followed?
Famine. Environmental changes - which caused Abraham and his nephew Lot to migrate south, eventually to near unto Sodom and Gomorrah. Before moving on to that episode - three more points I’d like to include here. First, this quote from Nibley from An Approach to the Book of Abraham pages 582-584.
To avoid looking seriously into the countless possible explanations of this or that figure, the Egyptologist today can shrug his shoulders and declare with some impatience that, of course, anybody who is determined to do so can make out a case for Joseph Smith or anything else.
Whether this is true or not (and we seriously doubt it) , the man who makes such a statement has painted himself into a corner; for as long as one can make out a case, no matter how flimsy, for Joseph Smith, the case against him cannot be considered closed. The writer’s own purpose in snooping around in the stacks has been simply to throw out suggestions and hint at possibilities. Not for a moment does he insist that any of his own explanations, for example, of the figures in Facsimile 1, is correct. It is enough that an explanation is conceivable, enough to show that many possibilities remain to be considered, to keep the door open. Until far more work has been done, the idea of discrediting Joseph Smith on the strength of one completely demonstrated point must yield to the opposite reasoning: Whenever any evidence favors the Book of Abraham, conflicting evidence may be discounted until further investigation, since the chances of such agreement are much rarer than the almost unlimited possibilities of disagreement.
We frankly prefer the big picture to the single-shot solution, having found it to be far more foolproof than any little picture. Composed as it is of thousands of little images, the big one can easily dispense with large numbers of them without suffering substantially. It is a huge overall sort of thing, supported by great masses of evidence, but nonetheless presenting a clear and distinct image. No one can be sure of a little picture, on the other hand; at any moment some new discovery from some unexpected direction may wipe it out. Let us take a brief distant view of the big picture of Abraham that is just beginning to emerge from the fog. Here is a long-forgotten body of apocryphal stories about the patriarch, the oldest and most important being of recent publication—and neither this author nor any of his colleagues had ever heard of them before 1968!
We read of desperate people seeking security in a world of drought and famine by rushing to the supplication of idols.
We read of their great ceremonial assemblies at huge ritual complexes, of the royal victims offered, of princesses compelled to compromise their virtue or suffer death.
We read of kings insecure on their thrones and determined to establish and retain a royal line, seeing their worst enemy and opponent in Abraham.
We read of constant tension between matriarchal and patriarchal traditions; of a king who coveted priestly authority above all things and tried to buy it from Abraham; of hungry migrants driven from place to place and crisis to crisis; of rites and ordinances all directed to combating an all-pervading drought and assuring the fertility of the land and prestige of the king.
We read of Egypt in Canaan and Canaan in Egypt—culturally, politically, and especially religiously.
We read of a peculiar altar built for the sacrificing of Abraham, of how he prayed for deliverance and at the last moment was rescued by an angel, who accomplished his mission by smiting the assembly with a disastrous earthquake.
We read of the strange humiliation and conversion of the king and of Abraham’s yet stranger refusal to let him share in his priestly functions.
We read of kings and princes doing obeisance to Abraham, clad in royal insignia at the behest of the king, who shortly before had tried to put him to death.
We also read of Isaac and Sarah going through much the same experience as did Abraham, placed upon the altar or the lion couch, praying in a single voice with Abraham for deliverance, saved at the last moment by an angel.
Next - after this episode, the Lord again appears unto Abraham and makes with him what we know as the Abrahamic Covenant - but it was the same promise made to Adam and to Noah. Notice the cosmic language that I’ve highlighted that poignantly suggests in our paradigm that Jehovah is identifying himself again as the very God that the Egyptians pretended to know, but did not, by using the same ‘cosmic throne’ imagery and language.
Third - it was in Ur that Abraham received the Urim and Thummim - with which he was educated in cosmism and the true nature of the throne of god, of the universe and of the Plan of Exaltation.
There is more that we can evaluate and synthesize with our cosmic layer in the Book of Abraham - but this is good for now. Let’s advance the timeline.
SODOM AND GOMORRAH - COSMIC DESTRUCTION
Abraham and Lot make it down to the area of the Plains cities - then we read the account in Genesis 18 and 19 where Angels come down and warn Abraham and Lot and destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone from heaven.
Points here to consider in favor of our cosmic acid test:
In a broad general consideration - note the same pattern of "Exodus" like as Jared/Lehi/Noah/Enoch/Adam : where you have overt and majority wickedness in a collective, Angels come down and warn the righteous to flee - there is destruction/catastrophe/capture - and a simultaneous or previous leading away of a new nation(s), a new Adam. This is very much congruent with our synchronized pride and cosmic catastrophe cycles.
The Angels blind the wicked with weaponized light/sight/vision - Genesis 19:11
[Not a huge point, but] A possible reading of 19:15-17 could imply that the Angels teleported Lot and wife and daughters out of the city. Teleportation is what light/spiritual beings can do. This also makes the reaction of Lot’s wife more understandable to me in this context - because if her heart was not truly set on following the command of the Lord through his messengers, she would have turned to run back to the city she was just blinked out of, causing her to get caught in the fire and brimstone and lightning storm.
Fire and Brimstone from heaven - (Genesis 19:23-25). A prime example of planetary catastrophe. We will explore this a bit more when we dive into the Exodus.
Pillar of Salt (Lot’s wife) - She turns back and is crystalized. Transformed - the water in her body evaporating quickly - like petrification by electrical discharge perhaps. (Genesis 19:26) The land itself is used as a cautionary message from the Lord to those who choose the floating building of antichrist or Babylon, or of the cities of the plain - which is absolutely desolate and a salt filled “Dead Sea” eventually after the catastrophes and anger of the Lord there - I can fit in another layer of interpretation that puts that saying in parallel to how the righteous who overcome, and who don’t turn back to the carnal man, are made pillars in the Lord’s temple.
Revelation 3:12
12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the aname of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is bnew Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
There is more to include - like the fact that Jupiter and the thunderbolt and a earthly pole reversal may have been involved in the late bronze age collapse and destruction of the the cities of the plain that Abraham lived through. If you want to dive down this rabbit hole before I write something in depth about it later, read the entire Part IV in Immanuel Velikovsky’s book, In the Beginning. You can read the text at the Velikovsky archive, click this picture below. We’ve already explored the essay titled “Zedek” previously, so it should be familiar. Note: his ideas about Venus being ejected from Jupiter are a hot topic of dispute even amongst electric universe proponents. Just be aware of that and keep and open mind.
Last thing I want to point out with regards to Sodom and Gomorrah: our cosmic layer, again, places cosmic catastrophe in parallel and harmony with the pride cycle - so Exodus is Apocalypse. This was an end of world (Apocalypse) and exodus scenario for Lot and his family. Their behavior again is seen in a more understandable context when you realize that Lot’s daughters may have feared the 'end of the world' because of the catastrophe, confused by their mother’s abandonment and assumed that they were alone and needed to replenish, fill, the Earth. The morality of it is not what I’m focused on - its the reality of the catastrophe and the extreme behavior that is expected and typical of a planetary catastrophe. (Genesis 9:30-38) To even be able to consider this all in this interconnected light is compelling evidence that the fruit of our lens/filter, is good.
Thank you for sticking around - this concludes Part 1: From Adam to Abraham.
Before we go - let’s again review the background questions I asked at the start:
How will this synthesized paradigm of the electric universe and our new neo-catastrophism hold up to the Rod? (Constant acid testing)
Very well so far
How does a diligent study and synthesis of these things enlarge my understanding of Christ and His Plan?
See above lol
Does this paradigm enhance my understanding of the Temple and of my Covenants with God and of Prophecy and of Symbolism?
Ibid
Does this intentional syncretism strengthen my testimony of the Restoration through the Prophet Joseph Smith?
Yes! I know that Joseph Smith is a true Prophet of God! Not only is the Book of Mormon true, but his Bible Translation and the Pearl of Great Price, and the Doctrine and Covenants and, and… and he did it all in such a short period of time through God’s power.
I know that Jesus lives, and he loves me and he loves you. I pray that my efforts and testimony here strengthen your own love for and relationship with the Lord. I hope your desire to feast upon the Word of God is increased. I hope and pray that you enjoy a larger portion and awareness of the Gift of the Holy Ghost.
May we all increase in light and knowledge.
Until the next episode.
“All men know that they must die.
And it is important that we understand the reasons and causes of our exposure to the vicissitudes of life and of death, and the designs and purposes of God in our coming into the world, our sufferings here, and our departure hence.
What is the object of our coming into existence, then dying and falling away, to be here no more? It is but reasonable to suppose that God would reveal something in reference to the matter, and it is a subject we ought to study more than any other.
We ought to study it day and night, for the world is ignorant in reference to the matter, and it is a subject we ought to study more than any other. We ought to study it day and night, for the world is ignorant in reference to their true condition and relation.
If we have any claim on our Heavenly Father for anything, it is for knowledge on this important subject. Could we read and comprehend all that has been written from the days of Adam, on the relation of man to God and angels in a future state, we should know very little about it. Reading the experience of others, or the revelation given to them, can never give us a comprehensive view of our condition and true relation to God.
Knowledge of these things can only be obtained by experience through the ordinances of God set forth for that purpose.
Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.”
-The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 324
See also The White Stone Thesis
See previous Essay, “Of Kings and Kingdoms”
4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Article of Faith 10: We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
See Jacob 5
Abraham 1: 27 Now, Pharaoh being of that lineage by which he could not have the right of aPriesthood, notwithstanding the Pharaohs would fain bclaim it from Noah, through Ham, therefore my father was led away by their idolatry;
Merkabah mysticism (which is the pre-Kabbalah Jewish mysticism) is very very focused on God's throne, so much so that it's sometimes just called "Throne Mysticism"
"Its essence is not absorbed contemplation of God’s true nature, but perception of His appearance on the throne, as described by Ezekiel, and cognition of the mysteries of the celestial throne-world. The throne-world is to the Jewish mystic what the _pleroma_, the “fullness”, the bright sphere of divinity with its potencies, aeons, archons and dominions is to the Hellenistic and early Christian mystics of the period who appear in the history of religion under the names of Gnostics and Hermetics."
Central to this was the ascension narrative whereby the soul passes the "gate-keepers" (there are always 7 (4+3)).
"Every new stage of the ascension requires a new seal with which the traveller “seals himself” in order that, to quote a fragment, “he shall not be dragged into the fire and the flame, the vortex and the storm which are around Thee, oh Thou terrible and sublime.” The “Greater Hekhaloth” have preserved a quite pedantic description of this passport procedure; all the seals and the secret names are derived from the Merkabah itself where they “stand like pillars of flame around the fiery throne” of the Creator."
These quotations are from "Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom Scholem
Along the lines of Peleg in succession of Patriarchs: I see why you carved it the way you did but I was thinking about it later and see 3 sets of 7. Enoch was the 7th patriarch from Adam. Enoch was divided from the Earth in his day with the city of Zion. Peleg is 7 from Enoch. The Earth was divided in his day. Jacob/Israel is 7 from Peleg and can be considered the final Patriarch in the covenant line with his many sons to carry the covenant. 7 & 3 - special in their own ways.
Love the reads and the thoughts that continue to come.