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Seal of the
living God:
The Jesus Design®
Journey to the Center
of the Seal
by Peter Kapnistos
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Seal of God: in metaphorical use - the biblical signet-ring (Esth. 8:8) - inscription engraved on stones - the use of clay impressed with the seal, in sealing papyrus - an emblem of authority or, as in the Gospel of John, the evidence of a covenant: Do not
work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal
life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has
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During the 19th century, Ellen G.
White, writing for the Seventh-day Adventists, argued that the seal of God represents
the works of Sabbath keeping. And since the Sabbath is "Saturn's Day"
she reportedly once had a vision of the seal of God as a journey through a
"sea of glass" or, as her husband also believed, the rings of Saturn. Ellen
G. White is the most translated woman writer in the entire history of
literature, and the most translated American author of all time.
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MISSION STATEMENT: The winter of 1973 was marked by the passing of a comet around the sun on Christmas day, perceived by some as a portent of the Second Coming. The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 destabilized the Middle East after Egypt and Syria attacked Israel. The American presidency was caught in the Watergate scandal. I was in Athens that year and unexpectedly found myself at the Polytechnic University demonstrations that brought down the military dictatorship of the Greek Colonels. Troubled by the emotional shock of escaping tanks, teargas, and political violence, I abstained from certain food and traveled in the spring to the Patmos group of islands, where I experienced the force of what is sometimes called a crisis apparition. |
On the early morning of Saturday, April 20, 1974, as I sat near the port of the Aegean island of Mykonos, I met a man in black who telepathically revealed to me a metal seal, the cap of a well pipe in the flagstone near my feet, with the design of what he described as “the universe” engraved on it. |
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I heard the loud
trumpet-blast of a ship's horn, but I didn't see a large vessel in the
dock. He walked towards me and said "Know the faith," as he passed by
my chair. Then he vanished into the labyrinth of village footpaths behind
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Such experiences are generally referred to as "crisis apparitions" because they are associated with projections of the subconscious mind, usually due to stress or emotional shock. But in this case the psychological "illusion" had an effect on external matter - the center of the seal was broken - and I later photographed it to have a record. My own feeling is that the resurrected Christ is in the world. The well seal was an ancient symbol of the hydrogen atom. Its broken nucleus signifies binary fission, the strongest force in nature.
A secret nuclear arms race began in the spring of 1974. Within days, India conducted its first atomic bomb test, code-named Smiling Buddha. Pakistan would eventually develop the Islamic Bomb and allegedly extend nuclear proliferation to suspected terrorist sponsors, such as Libya and Iran. A final confrontation named Armageddon was gloomily foreseen in the Middle East involving Israeli warheads produced in the Negev desert.
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Uri-El is the Archangel of salvation. Legend says it is Uriel who stands at the gate of the Lost Eden, with a fiery sword. He was the dark angel (Genesis 32) or man in black who wrestled with Jacob at Peniel ("face of God"). Jacob asked him, "Do tell me your name, please." He answered, "Why should you want to know my name?" Uriel then gave Jacob his new name, Israel. Uriel is noted in the 2nd century BC Book of Enoch (chapter xxi), as the Archangel who helps us with natural disasters and is called for to avert such events, or to heal and recover in their aftermath. He is the great instructor who teaches us that art and study are for experiencing the joy of liberation that comes as wisdom is gained. Among his symbols are the scroll and the book (with seven seals). The name Uri-el probably predates the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur (ouranos is the sky or light of heaven). Uriel was the legendary Sumerian Lord (El) of Ur, or the Archangel who conveyed the faith of monotheism to Abram and gave him his new name, Abraham. According to an Apocalypse of Peter once ranked next in popularity to the canonical Apocalypse of St. John, it is the Archangel Uriel who will resurrect the dead when appealed so by the Lord: "And soul and spirit shall the great Uriel give them at the commandment of God; for him hath God set over the rising again of the dead at the day of judgment." For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
Uri-el is one of the four great Archangels, the other three being Gabri-el, Micha-el, and Rapha-el.
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But wait a minute! Aren't "angels" just biblical myths? If we look through some of the folklore and feathers acquired from the Middle Ages, we see that angels are defined in two main categories: Archangels were created before human beings. Having experienced considerably longer evolutionary time-spans in terms of modern physics, they represent a mathematically probable Type 3 Civilization, capable of harnessing energy from entire galactic systems. However, a more common angel is usually encountered in the form of a deceased good person who sometimes returns to the earth as a spiritual "messenger" and helper. Each year, millions of people claim to have had a near-death experience (NDE) or clinical death, which frequently includes an out-of-body experience that overpowers all fears of a second death. NDE reports are expected to increase sharply as global warming creates a greater number of climate refugees. According to this category, various people in the world today fit the second description. Whether believed in or not, they personify the inspired message of a continued existence beyond death.
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The White House (under the Carter administration) was informed of my 1974 meeting with the man in black and his striking disclosure of the metal seal. Since that occurrence, my story of the Mykonos seal has been published and retold (in more than one language) enough times to openly guess that over a hundred thousand people probably already know what this report is about.
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And thou
shalt make a plate of pure
gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE
LORD... And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the
iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all
their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted
before the LORD. - Exodus 28:36-38
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6th Seal:
Prerequisite for Knighthood? Did Mick Jagger spend long hours in Oxford's library reading Codex B, to be awarded a champion's title? Or did he and Keith Richards cast their long and lasting shadows over abyssos, the legendary well of Mycone?
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A few pages of the "Bruce Codex" (also called the Codex Brucianus) from the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford are available on the Internet. It contains 2nd century AD Coptic, Arabic, and Ethiopic manuscripts found in 1769 in upper Egypt by James Bruce, a Scottish traveler who explored the source of the Nile. The Bruce Codex manuscript was acquired by the British Museum and translated into English by Carl Schmidt (editor) and Violet Macdermot (translator) in 1892. It consists of the first and second Books of Jeu (comprising The Book of the Great Logos according to the Mystery) and three fragments - an untitled text, an untitled hymn, and the text On the Passage of the Soul Through the Archons of the Midst. The Two Books of Jeu are also mentioned in the Pistis Sophia (Askew Codex), an important Gnostic text acquired by the British Museum in 1795. Historians trace parts of the Bruce Codex to Valentinus, a theologian born in upper Egypt about 100 AD. He became a disciple of the Christian teacher Theudas who supposedly was a follower of St. Paul. Valentinus is often associated with "Saint Valentine" but the Catholic Church no longer lists the saint. One of the remarkable aspects of the Books of Jeu (also called Books of Ieou) is that they consist of mystic and esoteric diagrams. Each is related to either a "treasury of light" permeated with projections (probolh) of entombed archetypes, or a sacred well ("it welled up in him") central to a series of apostolic baptismal rites. As such, the diagrams are not "magic spells" but early Christian motifs of liturgical art, its spirituality and theology. The main character is the resurrected Christ, who transfers "seals" to his disciples. The brittle drawings exhibit faint charts of concentric circles and rectangles. Much of the original papyrus detail has been "injured by time." | |||
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In the Books of
Jeu the Saviour gave various seals to ascend to
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The drawings in the Books of Jeu may be illustrations of seals used on the door of Jesus Christ's tomb, as noted in numerous ancient sources, including the New Testament. The mystic diagrams are perhaps the schematics of a curious and elaborate contrivance, essentially Jewish, that consisted of internal loculi. (Plural of locule or loculus, a small cavity or space. Latin for "little place.") Loculi (kokh in Hebrew) were compartments or cubbyholes (long, narrow shelves or niches) that served as burial slots cut into the walls. But loculi were also used as vaults and niches for storing urns and precious objects. In some structures, loculi often served as storage places for imperial revenue and as safe deposits ("Treasuries of the Father") for the wealth of private citizens. Loculi also provided important engineering functions by enclosing mechanical locks and valves. Capped with metal plate seals, loculi were the sepulchre's "keyholes." In other words, the Jeu drawings may have come down to us from a Greek technical "owner's manual" for fastening a stone door to a Jewish nobleman's tomb.
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Joseph of Arimathea, according to the Gospels, was a member of the Sanhedrin who donated his tomb for the burial of Jesus. A series of legends during the Middle Ages tied him to Britain and the Holy Grail. The long lists of "Watchers" in the Books of Jeu may represent centurions, soldiers, elders, and scribes (also mentioned in scriptures) who locked the sepulcher with seals and pitched a tent to "watch it." Papyrus lists of the names of locksmith engineers, together with schematic drawings of their sepulcher devices, may have been required by Pontius Pilate for Rome's bureaucratic records, especially those concerning the sudden disappearance of Jesus Christ's body, and the seals of his tomb. |
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The Greek word TUPOS means: a class, a group, or a trademark. It also means a carved or inscribed impression: "This is his imprint when he projects." After almost two thousand years, the thinnest lines of the Bruce Codex seal drawing (above) inevitably ceased to be visible. But its shape and contour outlines closely match the seal of Mykonos (below), which was also connected to an antiquated well system. |
The text says:
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Popular conspiracy theories such as Hugh Schonfield's Passover Plot (1965) suggest that some fanatical friends of Jesus secretly "rolled open" the door of his sepulcher and removed his body, or that of someone else who had been crucified in his place. These theories assume that the disciples (who warned us against wrongdoing) contrived to invent a lie and jump-start the Christian religion. |
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Such theories seriously lack any technical knowledge of the internal loculi seals used in Jewish tombs. Once shut, the stone doors were as impregnable as modern-day bank vaults, because the tombs of ancient nobles contained relics of great value. The idea that Christ's sepulcher could be easily rolled opened without the centurion's exactly-fitted spanner wrenches (keys for gripping and moving the bolts of locks or turning valves) is unwary and misleading. A straightforward, literary description of various manuscripts indicates that unique keys were used to seal the tomb of Jesus Christ. |
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A key wrench [bit] was probably cast as a heavy rod [shank] of iron (over a meter long) with two grip bars or a circular band [bow] for a handle ("And there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss." Revelation 9:1). To the inexperienced, such a key may have resembled a strange, heavy scepter. In medieval romance legends, the Holy Grail, originally a mystic plate, was usually seen with a ghostly "lance." From the top of the spear, blood dripped and would not stop until the day of judgment. A scepter of flowing liquid also suggests the notion of a pipe or tube.
The metal seals of ancient noblemen's tombs were made to last for many centuries under adverse climatic conditions. If removed, they could turn up anywhere but not be easily identified.
Our general understanding of the Books of Jeu is inspirited by a Coptic inscription, perhaps derived from an ancient Aramaic phrase containing elements of both the Greek abyssos which itself originates with Sumerian abzu ("pit"), and the Syraic abba ("father"). The inscription appears to paint two overlapping pictures. It may represent the union of two religious trends: Indo-European and Semitic, converging into a subconscious archetype.
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On one hand, the Jeu seal was a symbol of a bottomless pit, as the King James Bible calls it, emitting the smoke of a furnace for the second death. Beneath a fog of mystery, the seal was moved from a tomb to a bottomless void where its chasm draws the unwise like an Apocalyptic black hole. The abyssos of Greek mythology was envisaged as something unfathomably deep, a primitive ocean, the realm of the dead, or a prison for spirits. |
But on the other hand, we also find the Jeu seal on a hallowed well for the baptism of apostles. The disciples were immersed in a mystic fountain, where they were confronted with a vision of Christ's passion, and the unfathomable well became their symbolic spring of immortality. The transformed Abyss, from a realm of death to a fountain of life, probably represents a spiritual cleansing of the soul for Abba, or God the Father. The Church acknowledges that the service of baptism represents a seal. But the seal of the living God has its own particular purpose at the End Times.
The word abbey (from the Latin abbatia) refers to groups of rooms or huts collected about a common center. The inner courtyard, derived from the Roman atrium, usually held a cooking hearth and a water spring or a tank (impluvium) to receive rainwater. The water submission example (total immersion) had been already set in part by the Essenes in Judea (with John the Baptist, around the year 25 AD) and perhaps by the Therapeutae in Egypt (the mythological infant Achilles was dipped in Styx, a river of Hades). In early Christian monastic courtyards an abbot or an abbess conducted the first baptisms and served as the spiritual father or mother of the community.
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Diagrams in the Books of Jeu present two primary themes: (1) The rectangular Place of Jesus (in the red highlighted area) is also called the Treasury of Light. A plane surface door, burial bench, or sealed sarcophagus (stone coffin), associated with the tomb of Christ, is shown directly below it, with a list of "watchers" to the right. Typical tombs of that period had rectangular, almost square low entrances with steps that led down to a rectangular standing pit lined on three sides with benches. (2) The small diagram on the far right (blue highlighted area) shows a concave "well" or receptacle, curved like the interior of a sphere. A second list of names is directly below it. The text says: "For these watchers do not belong to the ranks of the treasuries of the light." Instead, they "stand within the gates." The circular bowl may represent the sealed mouth of a well (abyssos), which at the End Times will give up its dead, in the same manner as Christ's tomb. The moving of seals from the holy sepulcher to an abysmal pit involves two phenomena in psychology: transference, a subconscious redirection of feelings, and enantiodromia, the process by which something becomes its opposite. But Christianity was not a special deal or Gnostic truce of dualism between the forces of good and evil. Instead, ultimate opposites become equal by the imposed victory of mutual annihilation or the harrowing of hell repressed in the seat of the world's collective consciousness. |
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The message that the seals from Christ's sepulcher were moved to a deep abyss is by no means restricted to the Bruce Codex or the Books of Jeu. Important apocalyptic manuscripts - ranging from AD 150 to the fourth century - unambiguously acknowledge that the authority to "set a seal" on the pit of Rev. 20:3 derives from the "sealing" of the tomb described in Mat 27:66. They are professedly the same seals.
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As for the mystery of how they were moved from a tomb to a well, the Books of Jeu signify that it was done by holy "watchers," under the superintendence of the resurrected Christ himself. It is an inexplicable matter of his anastash (anastasi) or rising from the dead. Festive village customs for the saints venerated in Patmos, Mykonos, Tinos, and other nearby fisherman islands have maintained a traditional, almost mystical, reception for XENO, the alien, stranger, traveler, or guest ("Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." Hebrews 13:1-2). The sacred cave of Patmos, known as the Grotto of the Revelation, is where St. John conversed with holy strangers and messengers when he composed the biblical Apocalypse and the Fourth Gospel. At Easter, the island of Tinos is a major pilgrimage destination for thousands who come to be blessed, healed, or baptized. |
Who has a record of the pilgrims and monks watching over the well shafts of the Patmos island group for the past 24 lifetimes? Or who can tell us how flattened metal cylinders became the common weights and measures for shutoff valves and outlets of ancient water springs? The little-known craft of making loculi plate seals was handed down to us from an ancestral prototype design recognized by only a few. Before ever reaching Spain, France, or Britain, representations of the Seal of God and descriptions of a Sacred Tryblion (or Holy Grail) were already active, visible, and mature in some islands of the Eastern Mediterranean. They were the first places of refuge for early Christians escaping Palestine. The Patmos group of islands is perhaps the best example.
The Bruce Codex is sometimes incorrectly identified with the Gnostic Nag Hammadi Collection (Nag Hammadi is a town in Upper Egypt where a collection of 13 ancient codices were discovered in 1945). A harsh, inflexible observance of Gnostic dualism, contrary to orthodox doctrine, was set in motion by followers of the Persian Prophet Mani, the Manicheans, and the Pre-Christian Mandaeans who still survive in Iraq and Iran. They commonly described the Old Testament Creator as an ignorant entity called the Demiurge, which they often weighed down with many of the properties of Satan. The general feeling of Egyptian Gnosticism was to deny the incarnation of God as the Son. We may therefore take it to be true that extracts from the Bruce Codex that proclaim "This is the true God, He will be called Jesus," are not of Gnostic or Coptic origin. They admittedly reflect the orthodox faith of St. John's Patmos Revelation and its nearby islands.
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Although some parts of the Bruce Codex describe a theory of emanations, the actual word they use for emanation (a thing brought forth) is probolh (provoli), which in modern terms really means projection. The inherent belief is simply this: The cosmos is a projection of God's will. A complete and unqualified characteristic of God's power to project is clearly expressed in the New Testament as Agio Pneuma (Agio Pneuma) or Holy Ghost. This idea was never seriously questioned by Christian society, and is not to be confused with the so-called emanated spirits and fluids (ectoplasms) of medieval cabbalists, or the Persian myths of Abraxas, the Gnostic source of "365 emanations" that threatened to destroy the Church in the second century. The projection of God's will may seem to differ from the traditional seven days of Genesis, since it makes an idea (thought) come forth as the light of resurrection. But Christ's rising from the dead provides us with a reinstated picture of the cosmos. The seven days of Genesis are the seven seals of a "new heaven and a new earth."
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The Bruce Codex manuscript functions on two levels, intricately bound together. Its practical aspect is as a ceremonial guide (soteriology). It contains illustrated directions for fastening seals to the locking devices of an ancient tomb or well concerning Jesus Christ's resurrection. But its theoretical aspect is one of intelligent design (cosmology). The seal is also a map of empirical reality or the kingdom of God; an accurate representation of space, describing the structure of the indivisible, and the totality of what exists. |
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Text in the Bruce Codex calls the Father "the indivisible one." In the nucleus: "The three lines which are thus," Three parallel lines of force make a rotating center (kernel or nucleus): a alpha (the first), w omega (the last), beta b (the middle). The Greek word ATOMO means: indivisible, the smallest monad or particle. It also means a single being, an individual or person. "This is he who has never divided." |
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Notice above how
the ancient tryblion (plate
measure) symbol looks like the Latin word Ju. The
most important Bruce Codex manuscripts are called (by all
means) the Books of
Jeu. But to those who
recognize the meaning of TU in the middle of the disc diagram, a coiled serif
base is compelling because the esoteric names may now be interpreted as
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To suggest that the well seals found near the monastery of Patmos and its nearby island churches were put there by "Gnostic magicians" is nonsense, because Patmos is the spiritual base of St. John's Revelation (Apocalypse). |
The early Church Fathers never set restrictions to seeking Christ as "Lord of the atom." After all, atom means person in Greek, and atomic means personal. Democritus and Leucippus were known in the days of Jesus. |
Inquisitors of the Middle Ages objected to pompous talk of Jesus as "Son of the atom." Defenseless offenders were persecuted and the atomistic ideas of Pythagoras, Democritus, Plato, and other philosophers were prohibited. |
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Not until the 19th century was more light shed on the matter of the Seal of God, from a fragment discovered in 1884 in a tomb at Akhmim in Egypt. A Gospel of Peter dating back to at least A.D. 150, says that after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ the elders and scribes asked Pilate to appoint soldiers to guard the tomb:
And Pilate gave them Petronius the centurion with soldiers to watch the sepulchre; and the elders and scribes came with them unto the tomb and when they had rolled a great stone to keep out (al. together with) the centurion and the soldiers, then all that were there together set it upon the door of the tomb; and plastered thereon seven seals; and they pitched a tent there and kept watch.
The above verse is an elaboration of Matthew: "So they went, and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone, and setting the watch." (Mat 27:66) The seven seals (metal plates) were "locking devices" attached with cementing material to the door of Christ's tomb.
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Jewish tombs for the wealthy were prepared beforehand. Their sepulchres were sometimes marked by pillars or cherubim and were often "closed by a very curious and elaborate contrivance." This elaborate contrivance, essentially Jewish, but hardly known elsewhere, consisted of loculi (small cavities) around the inside of the burial apartment. Like hollow columns, the enclosing walls of the loculi were high enough to support the stone door that covered the tomb. The stone door was fitted to the end, luted into a groove which existed there, and sealed with locking devices through its internal loculi keyholes. |
The opening of the seven seals is symbolic of resurrection and eternal life. But when the door of Christ's tomb was opened, what actually became of the seven seals? According to records like Paul's Epistle to Timothy, the apostles guarded the whereabouts of the seals after Christ's resurrection and made the Seal of God a part of their rites:
Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. - 2 Tim. 2:19
The text says: His
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Other sources say:
"Give me the seal of Jesus Christ"
"that I also may receive the seal and become an holy temple and he may dwell in me."
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One of the Book of Jeu diagrams looks like the schematic plan of a beveled, flat piece of solid material, sliding into a hollow track. It may represent the door of Christ's tomb as it was luted [Latin lutum mud] into a groove with a substance for sealing joints. The vertical lines at the bottom may indicate the position of a loculus seal. |
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The door was a flat, even-surfaced lid with sloping edges, which opened and closed by sliding in and out of a groove at the entrance of the sepulcher. According to the Book of Jeu text, three watchers were assigned as guards over the object depicted in the diagram, with various ranks below them. Following the example of the cherubim of God's throne, it apparently took 12 men to move or slide the object, with "six heads on this side and six on that, turned towards each other." The text says: I will take for myself twelve out of those ranks and place them so that they serve me. "Did the tomb of Jesus have a circular stone that blocked its entrance, as is so often imagined? The odds are against it. Professor Amos Kloner
of Israel's Bar-Ilan University thinks that the Greek word kulio used in Mark, Matthew and Luke and usually translated as “rolled,” can be also translated simply as “moved,”
[in fact, kulio actually means "slid" in Greek] bringing it in line with John’s Gospel that says the stone was taken
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Entering the rectangular Place of Jesus (Treasury of Light) from the unsealed door, one encounters a low entranceway supported by a structure of flat steps leading down to a standing pit lined with burial benches "from one side after another of each treasury." The entrance passages of elaborate Jewish tomb complexes of the second temple period were probably designed with certain dead-ends as a puzzle for tomb raiders. The hidden passageway to the inner sarcophagus or burial chamber may be the small hint of a line concealed within the red highlighted area.
The text says: It radiated within him through this small idea (thought) ' which came forth from the treasuries of my Father. |
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What became of the seven seals from the tomb of Christ?
In a fourth century Apocalypse of Paul, after seeing a vision of New Jerusalem, he is transported to the west of Jerusalem, to a sea or body of water. From there, Paul is finally taken by an angel to a place or island beyond the ocean:
And he took me from the north side (to the west, Syr.) and set me over a well, and I found it sealed with seven seals. And the angel that was with me answered and said unto the angel of that place: Open the mouth of the well, that Paul the dearly beloved of God may behold; for power hath been given unto to him to see all the torments of hell.
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In some books, the seals from the tomb of Christ are found on a well which represents the bottomless pit, for the harrowing of hell or the last judgment. They are no longer in Jerusalem, but somewhere to the west ("the way of the sun setting"), mysteriously transplanted to a place or island beyond "the ocean that beareth the foundation of the heaven." (i.e. the keys of the kingdom shall be given to another nation). The seals are attached to the water shaft of abyssos, symbolic of the unconscious mind. The Seal of God is connected with the initiation of baptism or holy water from a sacred well. Until the 1960s, a well was the main water supply for the Monastery of St. John the Theologian, on Patmos. |
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Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. - 2 Cor. 1:21-22
Other narratives say:
For verily I say unto you: whosoever shall hear you and believe on me, shall receive of you the light of the seal through me, and baptism through me.
And he said: Thou best and alone holy one, it is thou that hast appeared unto us, O God Jesu Christ, and in thy name hath this man now been washed and sealed with thy holy seal.
In one account, Peter baptizes Theon with the seal of the Lord:
And when she was baptized and clad, he break bread and took a cup of water and made her a partaker in the body of Christ and the cup of the Son of God, and said: Thou hast received thy seal, get for thyself eternal life.
In another manuscript Paul speaks to Longus and Cestus as he is about to be beheaded:
"Come quickly unto my grave in the morning and ye shall find two men praying, Titus and Luke. They shall give you the seal in the Lord."
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Drawings in the Books of Jeu exhibit two basic forms: (1) The rectangular Place of Jesus (in the red highlighted area) is also called the Treasury of Light, a familiar denotation for the tomb of Christ. The projection of divine light corresponds to his rising from the dead. According to tradition, a spark from the Holy Sepulchre lights the flame of the Orthodox Easter ceremony of worship. (2) The circular diagram (blue highlighted area) is identified in the text with "springing up," as from a well or fountain. The round well basin is divided into sectors, like the designs sometimes found on Passover seder plates (kaarah or tryblion). The small dots in the circle correspond to the six points of a double-triangle, known in Hebrew as the star or shield of David (Magen David). The medieval Sigil of Ameth (Sigillum Dei Aemeth) was a circular symbol with six-pointed figures and the names of God and various angels inscribed thereon. Alchemists of Elizabethan England called it the "Seal of God's Truth."
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Seals and pipe dreams?
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Like the common skeleton key, well seals and their spanner wrenches are still in use and have changed little since Roman times. Internal loculi spaces beneath the seals are keyholes for shutoff valves and outlets. The oldest known lock is estimated to be 4,000 years old. It was a forerunner to a pin tumbler type of lock. On the islands of Patmos and Mykonos, subterranean wells were the main sources of drinking water until the 1960s. The seals from Christ's tomb being moved to a well shaft may seem odd at first. But in Jewish tombs, hollow cavities were like stone tubes. Sealing the door of the tomb was like capping water well pipes. Christ's stay in the tomb was symbolic of the descent to hell, manifest in the last days as going through an ancient well named abyssos. |
A Well with Pipes. From a writing attributed to Bartholomew which contains ancient elements, the original Greek text, of which we have two manuscripts at Vienna and Jerusalem, may be as old as the fifth century. Latin fragments of the "Questions of Bartholomew" date to the sixth century. In this manuscript, we find the Apostle Bartholomew fleeing from a monstrous apparition of the Antichrist. But a vision of Jesus immediately intervenes, instructing Bartholomew not to fear the Antichrist, but to "tread upon his neck and ask him what is his power."
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"And he smote his teeth together,
gnashing them, and there came up out of the bottomless pit a wheel having
a sword flashing with fire, and in the sword were pipes. And I (he)
asked him saying; What is this sword? And he said: This sword is the sword
of the gluttonous: for into this pipe are sent they that through
their gluttony devise all manner of sin; into the second pipe are
sent the backbiters which backbite their neighbour secretly; into the
third pipe are sent the hypocrites and the rest whom I overthrow by
my contrivance. (Lat. And Antichrist said: I will tell thee. And a wheel
came up out of the abyss, having seven fiery knives. The first knife hath
twelve pipes (canales)... Antichrist answered: The pipe of
fire in the first knife, in it are put the casters of lots and diviners
and enchanters, and they that believe in them or have sought them, because
in the iniquity of their heart they have invented false divinations. In
the second pipe of fire are first the blasphemers... suicides...
idolators... In the rest are first perjurers... (long
enumeration)." |
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In the New Testament an angel laid hold of Satan and "cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him" (Rev. 20:3). From various sources we learn that water pipes or canales are connected to the well which is sealed with seven seals. The Seal of God is modeled after a plate worn on the forehead of the high priest Aaron (Exodus 28:36-38). The seven seals are like seven plaques; the caps of water pipes connected to an ancient well system, located somewhere west of Jerusalem, beyond the great sea.
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Notice that the seal set over the bottomless pit (Rev. 20:3) was placed there by an angel of God, and should not be confused with the mark of the beast. Infamous signs of iniquity, wickedness, and gross injustice are the Skull and Crossbones and the Nazi Swastika. The death's head symbol was displayed as the poison warning of "Jolly Roger" on the flags of pirate fleets. It was probably originally known to crusaders as Bloody John or Mato-Gianni, representing the severed head (baphomet) of John the Baptist, after some of the Templars (Knights of St. John) abandoned sanctimony and took to piracy. In the 20th century, a death's head became the official hat insignia (mark of beast on the forehead) of the Nazi SS. Traces of the baphomet sign are found in death's head signet rings (mark of beast on the hand) and pugnacious arm bands or tattoos. As a modern benchmark of who can "buy and sell" global power, it is also reflected in the name of Yale's Skull and Bones fraternal crypt society. Shocking videos from the Middle East showing masked men beheading their hostages have invoked public concern. Skull and Bones allegedly keeps a gruesome skull collection, including the head of the Apache Indian chief Geronimo. |
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Holy Grail legends: The blood of Jesus pouring into a cup
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"The Parable of the Boiling Pot" from the book of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 24) provided an additional basis for the romanticized idea of a sacred "cup of indignation" (Rev 14:10) or Holy Grail. |
"Father, if thou be willing, remove this [grail] cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine be done." - Luke 22:42
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In early sources and in some later ones, the Holy Grail is something very different from the cup of the Last Supper. The term "grail" comes from the Latin gradale, which meant a dish. The corresponding Greek diskopothro (diskopotiro) is a disc-vessel. Another name for the Holy Grail is the Sacred Tryblion or Ieron Trublion (as in the Latin tribulum "threshing sledge," from terere "to rub, turn or throw"). The common household or "megista" tryblion was a flat disc-shaped receptacle with a small, concave bowl or "well" in its middle, curved like the interior of a sphere, often used by doctors to measure out small quantities ("spoonfuls") for prescriptions. |
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