Moses

Moloch and the Bible

Moloch (or Molech) is an evil concept that’s plagued Judeo-Christian continuities for quite a long time. Usually depicted as an idol that looks like a minotaur, with a bovine head, there are accounts of people doing atrocities in the name of Moloch. These are grievous to recount, including attacks on very young children.

The word Moloch appears to be related to the word “melech” (Hebrew for king), making it somewhat euphemistic, similar to the name “Baal” being an honorific like “lord” or “master”.

One curious aspect of the tragic history involving Moloch is that in the Bible, the God of Israel repeatedly says “I did not tell you to do this”, “these were not my commands to you”, etc. when commenting on the atrocities associated with Moloch. God expresses hatred for everything to do with what is done in Moloch’s name, and quite rightly calls these abominations, but there’s something very haunting about the insistence that they were not mandated by Him, almost as if there was a misunderstanding on that point somehow.

The semiotics of the bull head may give one clue as to why that might be, considering that a sect of Israelites escaping slavery in ancient Egypt identified with a bovine deity, which they rendered as a golden calf upon their exodus from Egypt.

Something the Israelites would have associated with their main deity at that time was the series of miraculous attacks known as the plagues of Egypt. In one of these plagues, many families were said to have lost their first-born children. This story may have experienced some kind of distortion over time, and become connected with the atrocities of the bovine idol Moloch.

A seemingly more recent association of the name or honorific Moloch with the symbol of an owl may be, among other things, an esoteric hint to exercise wisdom in unpacking any Moloch lore, the owl being a symbol of wisdom.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Yugas and Ages

Neither yugas nor astrological ages are entirely standardized. They come when they come, and they tend to leave when it’s time.

Yugas are part of a very long cycle, and have evolutionary significance. When the world is due to turn from one yuga to another, the signs are extremely dire. Things become highly untenable. Usually mistakes are made that hint at decay in the old paradigm and the coming of a new one. The mistakes have solutions, and the new yuga grows alongside those solutions and the natural realignments that occur.

Some of us experienced yuga turns in past lives in other star systems or here on Earth. Earth records show that humans physically evolved on Earth during the Dvapara Yuga. The Dvapara Yuga ended with the Fall of Eden, along with various other mistakes that happened around that time. Gaining the Satya Yuga will require enough people making sure things go very right, since Kali Yuga to Satya Yuga is a huge leap in quality otherwise unknown. All the other yuga turns are actually downgrades, but the quality of existence itself in each past yuga (and during the main part of the Kali Yuga, when it was not too decayed) is still much better than the current bottoming out we’ve been experiencing in the late, late Kali Yuga.

Ages are a shorter cycle. The Kali Yuga has been in progress for multiple ages straight now. The Age of Pisces is ending. The signs that an age is decaying are subtler than with yugas. Ages often last more than a thousand years, and the distinctions between them have more to do with specific spiritual needs and subtle influences that come to the forefront as the energy of the previous age ebbs away. As the next age blossoms, new archetypes and iconographies come into sharper focus. The ages go in reverse zodiacal order (like North Node in astrology usually moves, with brief direct periods analogous to the retrograde periods occasionally observed in planets).

The story of Moses banning a gold statue of Apis (or another polytheistic sacred bull or calf) is often interpreted as both a statement about monotheism and its importance right then and as an intuitive understanding that the old Age of Taurus was over, and a new way must be sought.

Similarly, Christianity’s association between Satan (or the devil) and goats may have been a conscious or unconscious statement that the old Age of Aries and some of its ways contained pitfalls during the Age of Pisces.

There isn’t supposed to be any Satan nor devil (nor even Eshu) in the Age of Aquarius (and therefore no witchcraft). No lords of illusion here, out of the Piscean Age’s slippery grasp. No backwardness. The Age of Aquarius is that much about order and collective good.

So it isn’t really about how many years each age and yuga lasts. It’s more like watching a climate shift throughout the year and seeing weather systems roll through. The timing is more naturalistic than clockwork.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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The Ten Commandments

I am the Lord your God.
1) Thou shalt have no other gods before me

God exists. This is good news. God seems mysterious to human beings. If you experience God through another deity, it’s best not to forget God. That deity knows of the universal God and worships the universal God, or they are not divine.

2) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
This commandment talks about how the God of Israel was not expressed during the time of Moses using devotional art. Monotheism and polytheism were in conflict often around this time. A syncretic model that puts gods under God is one way to harmonize monotheism and polytheism. If you connect with God through an object somehow, it’s best not to forget God.

3) Thou shalt not take the name of thy Lord in vain
God and human vanity have a difficult relationship. God must take precedence over vanity. God has very little patience for toxic vanity. When you claim that you are like God or the godly without it being true, your vanity is getting in your way. When you speak of God as if God doesn’t matter, your vanity is getting in your way.

4) Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy
It’s a good idea to set aside time for God. It’s a good idea to recenter your life around God periodically.

5) Honor thy father and thy mother
Good and honorable families are beloved of God. The people who make and maintain those kinds of families deserve respect. We need good and honorable people. Do not revolt against that which is both familiar and righteous simply because it is familiar.

6) Thou shalt not murder
It is wrong to kill an innocent person. God hates it. Your inner being hates it.

7) Thou shalt not commit adultery
It is wrong to misuse sexuality (or romance) so that it ruins the righteous relationships you want to keep, including with God, including with yourself. God hates child sexual abuse. God hates incest.

8) Thou shalt not steal
It is wrong to steal and wrong to take maliciously or deceptively. It hurts someone immensely to take that which they cannot afford to lose (and will most likely require fair restitution). It hurts your relationship with God to take unfairly.

9) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor
It is wrong to lie about anything serious without clear justification. Lying unjustly about another person is especially hated by God.

10) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house nor thy neighbor’s wife (nor husband) nor his sins nor his assets nor anything of him (or her, etc.)
Toxic envy can ruin your entire life. God is grieved to see people doing this, and God does not tend to side with them.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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