Rule 2: Science Equals Magic

Around 960 BCE, The Hebrew conqueror David was succeeded by his son, Solomon, as King.  Like his father David before him, Solomon’s kingdom was one of pan-religious tolerance, and cultural egalitarianism.  If the Talmud can be trusted, and “Song of Solomon” is an authentic work of his, then it would be safe to assume he was a cosmopolitan king, and something of a libertine.  Solomon, a worldly man, kept temples devoted to many different gods, including those of his many foreign wives (in the book of Kings, Solomon was purported to have 700 wives and 300 concubines), along with a Canaanite bull god’s temple. This deity, called Yahweh (Tetragrammaton:  יהוה), was the fertility and war god venerated by Canaanite Melchizedek priests of Salem (Later Jerusalem),  to which the Hebraic victory over the Philistines was credited, as opposed to the mountain and rain god venerated by the Essenes, El-Shaddai.

Venus, in all of its deified incarnations, be it Ishtar, Astarte, Lucifer, Innana, Pietho, or Yahweh, is something of a watermark of ancient systems of worship.  Venus’ depiction as a bull in the guise of the Canaanites’ Yahweh is no accident.  As the morning star, rising in the east, Venus’ path forms a horn with a sharp point.  As the evening star in the west, it mirrors its morning path and forms an identical horn on the opposite side of the compass, completing the image.  This is a common thread amongst ancient astrological based religions, and is the reason Vikings wore horns on their helmets.

Solomon’s Temple to Yahweh was built in perfect alignment with an astronomical alignment of Venus and Jupiter, 480 years after the Old Testament events of the Exodus from Egypt, supposedly during the reign of Ramses II. This alignment was so bright that it could be seen during the day, rising in the east.   The surviving priesthoods of Enoch kept astronomical records, from possibly megalithic antiquity and therefore were the keepers of time in the ancient Hebraic Levant.  These astronomical events were the secrets of the priestly class in most early civilizations, and the ability to predict such events granted the bearer great power in the ancient world.  Time can tell a people when to plant and harvest, and, perhaps ominously, predict solar eclipses.

What would you do with that kind of power in the ancient world?  Can you imagine it?  Walking into a village, prophesying god’s will and telling the people that you and your deity will darken the sun as a show of power – it must have happened at least a few times…such ‘feats’ were common fodder (and ironically the bane) of miracle workers for centuries to come…

About 960 years later, another conjunction of Jupiter and Venus occurred on August 12th, 3 BCE about an hour and twenty minutes before sunrise, and again, in the east.  960=480×2…that’s exactly 2 Venusian epochs; that is, 24 processions of Venus cycles – very significant in Hebraic astrological traditions.  This conjunction is known as the Shekinah amongst priests.

…Twenty days later, Mercury arose in conjunction with Venus.  That was enough to set the Melchizedek priesthood, the El-Shaddai worshipping Essenes, and at least 3 Zoroastrian Magi on a search for the prophesied messiah.  We tend to find what we are looking for, no?