I've just published a new video entitled "Celestial foundations of Revelation 9."
In it, I discuss the pivotal importance of an assertion found in Appendix 36 of Hamlet's Mill, referring to the work of previous scholars including philologist and astro-mythologist Franz Boll (1867 - 1924), who believed that the figures and events depicted in the Revelation of John (the final book in the conventional arrangement of the canonical New Testament, so-called) are based on the stars and constellations in the region of the Milky Way.
Although the authors of Hamlet's Mill (Professors Hertha von Dechend [1915 - 2001] and Giorgio de Santillana [1902 - 1974]) do not actually walk the reader through the specific celestial correspondences in the texts of the Revelation, their mention of the events described in Revelation chapter 9 (in which the "fifth angel" is given the key to the bottomless pit, from which arises "smoke as the smoke of a great furnace," and from the smoke "locusts upon the earth," who are given "power, as the scorpions of the earth have power") and their suggestion that this passage -- along with the rest of the events in the book of the Revelation, as argued by Franz Boll -- is celestial in nature was absolutely pivotal in my own journey of realization that the characters and episodes of the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments (so-called) can be shown to be based on celestial metaphor virtually from start to finish.
I feel it is particularly important to realize that the texts of the Revelation of John (also anciently called the Apocalypse of John -- the word "Apocalypse" being derived from Greek and meaning "unveiling" and the word "Revelation" being derived from Latin and also signifying "unveiling" or "revealing") are not literal in nature but rather metaphorical, esoteric, and celestial.
The world's ancient wisdom, given to virtually every culture around our planet upon every inhabited continent and island, is not about literal and external personages and events, but rather about each and every man and woman in this life, and about our own internal and ineluctable connection to the infinite realm: the realm of spirit, the realm of pure potential, the realm of the gods.
I hope this latest video will be helpful and worthwhile to others. Please feel free to share with friends and family members who might find this discussion to be of value. And, as always, you can "subscribe" to my YouTube channel to receive notification whenever I publish a new video.
I feel it is particularly important to realize that the texts of the Revelation of John (also anciently called the Apocalypse of John -- the word "Apocalypse" being derived from Greek and meaning "unveiling" and the word "Revelation" being derived from Latin and also signifying "unveiling" or "revealing") are not literal in nature but rather metaphorical, esoteric, and celestial.
The world's ancient wisdom, given to virtually every culture around our planet upon every inhabited continent and island, is not about literal and external personages and events, but rather about each and every man and woman in this life, and about our own internal and ineluctable connection to the infinite realm: the realm of spirit, the realm of pure potential, the realm of the gods.
I hope this latest video will be helpful and worthwhile to others. Please feel free to share with friends and family members who might find this discussion to be of value. And, as always, you can "subscribe" to my YouTube channel to receive notification whenever I publish a new video.
