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Varuna - Varuna (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root vri to surround, envelop]
The all-enveloping sky; originally Varuna represented the waters of space, or the all-investing sky, akasa, but in later mythology he became the god of the ocean. In the Mahabharata he was one of the four guardians of our visible kosmos, the guardian of the West.
"Uranos is a modified Varuna, ''the Universal encompassor,'' the all-embracer, and one of the oldest of the Vedic deities -- Space, the maker of Heaven and Earth, since both are manifested out of his (or its) seed. It is only later that Varuna became the chief of the Adityas and a kind of Neptune riding on the Leviathan -- Makara, now the most sacred and mysterious of the signs of the Zodiac. Varuna, ''without whom no creature can even wink,'' was degraded like Uranos, and, like him, he fell into generation, his functions . . . having been lowered down from heaven to earth by exoteric anthropomorphism. As the same Orientalist [Muir] says, ''The attributes ascribed to Varuna (in the Vedas) impart to his character a moral elevation and sanctity far surpassing that attributed to any other Vedic Deity.'' But to understand correctly the reason of his fall, like that of Uranos, one has to see in every exoteric religion the imperfect and sinful work of man''s fancy, and also to study the mysteries which Varuna is said to have imparted to Vasishta. Only . . . ''his secrets and those of Mirat are not to be revealed to the foolish'' " (SD 2:268-9n).
Writing of Varuna, Muir says:
"The grandest cosmical functions are ascribed to Varuna. Possessed of illimitable knowledge . . . he upholds heaven and earth, he dwells in all worlds as sovereign ruler. . . . He made the golden . . . sun to shine in the firmament. The wind which resounds through the atmosphere is his breath. . . . Through the operation of his laws the moon walks in brightness, and the stars . . . mysteriously vanish in daylight. He knows the flight of birds in the sky, the paths of ships on the ocean, the course of the far-travelling wind, and beholds all the things that have been or shall be done. . . . He witnesses men''s truth and falsehood" (TG 360).
Varuna, essentially the all-encompassing ether of space, is the Vedic representative of cosmic spirit, and therefore has always been one of the noblest, most mysterious conceptions of divinity.
Zuvuya - Jose Arguelles'' word that he says is what the Maya called "the memory circuit hotline." Earth lies within this galaxy''s "experimental zone." The Maya really are galactic travellers who influenced early historical and evolutionary advances by, amongst other things, offering mankind the psychedelic mushroom, "Flesh of the Gods."
In 631 B.C.E. Pacal Votan, Galactic Agent 13 66 56, came to our world, where he remained for 52 years, as supervisor of human evolution. In 550 B.C.E. the Maya sent down another galactic scout (Buddha) who lived 52 years. Finally Kukulkan (Quetzacoatl) was sent. He also lived 52 years. He prophesied that the 13 heaven cycles would wind down in 1519 (the very year, it turned out afterwards, that murderous, enslaving Cortez arrived), whereupon nine 52-year hell cycles would ensue. In 1987, with the Harmonic Convergence, the final hell cycle was completed. In the aftermath of the hell cycles we see that "man is a cancer of the earth." His numbers must be reduced dramatically and permanently. The earth is a hologram of the sun and we are a hologram of the earth. Each of us must become a Mayan and a galactic recruit to this end. A mere twenty-five years are left for us to ready the earth for its transformation or it will be consigned to the rubbish heap of failed experiments.
At the center of the galaxy is Hunab Ku, broadcasting beams of different programs, like a radio station. Earth will phase out of this particular ray in 2012 C.E. Mayans call this the "acceleration synchronization beam." At the end, human activity is accelerated exponentially until it reaches a peak and synchronization occurs. Everyone then becomes aware of everyone else as one mind.
Says Hubatz Men, a young postmodern, contemporary Mayan who gives lectures through the southwest, "Zuvuya is the circuit by which everything returns to itself. Everything is the memory of itself."
Pentecost - The word comes from the Greek which means fifty. So, Pentecost was a celebration on the fiftieth day after Passover. It was a culmination of the feast of weeks (Exodus 34:22,23). Pentecost in the NT is the arrival of the Holy Spirit for the church (Acts 2). At Pentecost the disciples of Jesus were gathered and upon the filling of the Holy Spirit, they heard a great wind and spoke in tongues as tongues of fire that settled upon them. The significance of the fire can be found in recognizing it as a symbol of the dwelling of the Spirit of God (Exodus 19:18; 1 Pet. 4:14).
Angara - Angara, Angaraka (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root ag to move tortuously, wind (cf agni); or from the verbal root ang to go)
The planet Mars; also charcoal, as being a latent seat of fire. Ara is another name of the planet Mars (cf Greek Ares) as well as of the planet Saturn. In the Mahabharata Angaraka is variously listed as one of the world guardians; a planet; and one of the 108 names of the sun (vB 2:51, 228).
Pentecost - The word comes from the Greek which means fifty. It is a celebration on the fiftieth day after Passover. It was a culmination of the feast of weeks. In the book of Acts it says that on the day of Pentecost following the Passover upon which Jesus was executed, disciples of Jesus were gathered and they heard a great wind and spoke in tongues as tongues of fire that settled upon them. Christians interpet this as the reception of the Holy Ghost.
Boreas - Boreas (Greek) The north wind in Greek mythology, connected with the Hyperborean continent of the first root-race.
Tiamat - Tiamat (Chald.). A female dragon personifying the ocean; the "great mother" or the living principle of chaos. Tiamat wanted to swallow Bel, but Bel sent a wind which entered her open mouth and killed Tiamat.
Ruah Hay-yom - Ruah Hay-yom, Ruah Hayyah (Hebrew) The breath or wind of the day, or the cool part, the evening.
See also RUAH
Atmu - Atmu, Atum (Egyptian) (from tem to make an end of, complete)
Also Tem, Tum, Temu. A form of the sun god, represented as bringing the day to its close, thus associated with the evening sun -- whether of our ordinary day, or of the ending of a manvantara. "I am the god Tem, the maker of the sky, the creator of things which are, who cometh forth from the earth, who made the seed of man to come into being, the Lord of things, who fashioned the gods, the Great Gods, who created himself, the Lord of Life, who made to flourish the Two Companies of the Gods. . . . My coming is like unto that god who eateth men, and who feedeth upon the gods" (Egyptian Book of the Dead, Budge 258-60).
The Egyptian god Tem is connected by Blavatsky with fohat, for Tem is "spoken of as the Protean god who generates other gods and gives himself the form he likes; the ''master of life'' ''giving their vigour to the gods'' (chapter lxxiv.) He is the overseer of the gods, and he ''who creates spirits and gives them shape and life''; he is ''the north wind and the spirit of the west''; and finally the ''Setting Sun of Life,'' or the vital electric force that leaves the body at death, wherefore the defunct begs that Toum (Tem)
should give him the breath from his right nostril (positive electricity) that he might live in his second form" (SD 1:673-4).
Atabulus - Atabulus (Latin) Atabutos in SD. A hot southeast wind in Europe, now called the scirocco or sirocco.
Dhatu - Element; property, impersonal condition. The four physical elements or properties are earth (solidity), water (liquidity), wind (motion), and fire (heat). The six elements include the above four plus space and consciousness.
Time - Adeste, O Tempora Omnia! ("Be now, All Ye Times!") According to Merlin and others, mortals tend to face the opposite direction from that which time actually flows, as when we are seated in a train facing away from the engine. But it is the frozen past that unfolds, not the blazing future. We move away from becoming into the permanence of that which finally is. We alter continuously the shape of our history as we live it backwards. We watch the world recede rapidly as we move into the Nothingness of the Void and are swallowed up by it. However, this old linear view of time is abruptly being replaced by a new understanding of time as an exradiating web with ourselves at the center. The 20th Century has become the most time-obsessed period in history, and thus one of the most confused.
Kenneth Grant defines time as "subjectivity" and space as objectivity," the future as "implicit" and the past as "explicit." Despite the eye-opening insights these definitions provide, they still present time as having concrete existence.
FTL speeds flatten time to zero because light released only as electrons takes quantum leaps in the evolution of matter. In other words, electrons have to be released in order for matter to evolve (i.e., change), in fact, in order for matter to exist, period. Existence is a kind of "fire" or transmutation. And you know (see REALITY), photons appear only when someone actually observes (interacts with) them, because Being and Mind are one. We can''t separate the four elements (earth, air, fire, water) -- so if you could succeed in extracting "water" or "fire" you''d wind up with nothing at all. But part of "earth" (the 4th part) is also earth, that is, an infinite replification (hologram) of itself -- boxes inside boxes in infinite regression; and every part is exactly alike, each particle is the entirety.
Inside the holo-mind, the stoppage of time is a play-back of Zeno''s Paradox. That is, it decreases by infinite halves, except that one can no longer step out, is locked into halving. This is how annihilation is possible... but we digress.
Time is not some abstract "duration" imposed from outside but is built into the structure of things. There is a secret known to very few initiates, that one of the elements is fictitious, i.e., an abstraction devised merely to connect the others. Our postmodern problem is that we can''t decide whether that''s Time or Space, because they called it simply "Air." I guess we can work backward -- the nature of air, unlike that of the other elements, is for molecules in its medium to repel other molecules. Earth doesn''t repel. It attracts. Water doesn''t repel, it allows molecules to pass across one another''s paths without obstruction, to flow. Fire doesn''t repel, it fuses and spreads. Air alone moves towards separation and disintegration, as the present constantly disengages from past moment to past moment. (Future never does come into existence, does it? Tomorrow literally never comes. It is a physical impossibility).
The "duration" of an ice cube is not really it''s "fourth" dimension, but simply a description of water moving from one form (ice) to another (water) and it is at "no time" anything other than H2O. The "duration" of a life is almost meaningless. What has "endured"? The mewling babe or the grizzled old hunchback? What I''m getting at is that duration is such a philosophical term that sub specie aetemitatis it eventually ceases to have any pragmatic importance.
Well, then, if there is no future, how did I get here from the Past? The billions scream for illusions. And through the medium of herbs and drugs, the minds of ages past, present and potential can and do intertwine. It is called the principle of bilocalism, or being in two places at the same "time." As I lie upon my lion rug, dreaming of the 20th Century in my hut with the crossed spears over the doorway, I have entered one of the spirit worlds where time no longer counts. In the same way, I can entrance myself into "the year 1999" or (with a final twist) the year "2013" and this sorcerors have done since any of us can remember. But there is a wall that begins to thicken as we approach the 21st Century. Beyond this it soon becomes impossible to pass (apart from the 2013 "bubble"). That outer wall has been known to exist, since the seers of Egypt and Babylon first perceived it, thousands of years ago. It is the limit of this Aeon -- and it is a ring-pass-not of dense, dark flame.
Of course it''s all an illusion. There is no future. What we''re looking at is always the present. Infinite knowledge? Well, yes, obviously omniscience has always been there. All you have to do is walk into it. And, yes -- the crossing of infinite parallel lines -- all outcomes equally probable. But, again, it''s the "improbable" that always has the edge. The world will actually "end" long before 1999 or 2012 -- the "Implosion" is building up and up. Those are only the uttermost limits. The Three are already at hand.
Peri - Peri (Persian) Pairika (Avestan?) A class of elemental or nature spirits corresponding in many ways to what Europeans call fairies.
Just as in other national mythologies, the peris in ancient Persian thought are representative of those classes of conscious, self-conscious, and quasi-conscious beings who range all the way from simple sprites in the lower ranges, up to and including the classes of lower monads which are the psychological and even physical ancestors of the human race. They are, therefore, families of evolving monads in various grades of development, from the human down to the elemental kingdoms.
The earlier races of peris, which in Persian mythology reigned for 2,000 years on earth, correspond to the progenitors of the first root-race. The later races of peris, occasionally looked upon as inimical in the Avesta, although smaller in stature than the devs -- giants, strong and wicked, who reigned for 7,000 years -- were wiser and kinder, and their king was Gyan. Here the devs and peris correspond to the Atlantean giants and the Aryans (SD 2:394).
In the Avesta, the pairikas "in the shape of worm-stars, fly between the earth and the heavens, in the sea Vouru-Kasha," (Tir Yasht 5, 8), i.e., in the waters of space. They were flung by Angra Mainyu "to stop all the stars that have in them the seed of the waters." But Tishtrya, "the bright and glorious star who moves in light with the stars that have in them the seed of the waters, afflicts them, he blows them away from the sea Vouru-Kasha; then the wind blows the clouds forward, bearing the waters of fertility, so that the friendly showers spread wide over, they spread helpingly and friendly over the seven Karshvares" (Ibid. 46, 39-40).
Corresponding in origin to the Indian apsaras, the pairikas correspond to the elementals of the air, rather than water, called sylphs by the medieval Fire-philosophers. The rain-bestowing god Tishtrya corresponds to the sixth principle in man, buddhi, which fructifies the fifth and fourth principles. Thus it is only when the lower passions, the pairikas, have been mastered, that the light of Tishtrya -- the buddhic splendor -- may shine in the temple (Theos).
In the Persian mythology of the Arabian period, the peri is an elf or fairy, male or female, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from Paradise till their penance be accomplished.
Hwyl - Hwyl (Welsh) Sail; the method of chanting used in Wales for poetry and rhetoric, the idea being that the inspiration drives and fills the spoken words with a certain vibrant, singing quality of sound, as the wind fills, swells, and drives the sails of a ship.
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