Thursday 26 March 2020

On Returning To Normal


I see that Pres. Trump is making a big deal of ‘shooting’ for the scare of the coronavirus pandemic to be over by Easter - ‘a very important day, for a lot of people’ -  and the country being back to work by then, for a sort of double celebration.

Okay.  But beyond the Resurrection of life in the spring, and the annual celebration of that seeming miracle around the world for many peoples for millennia, let’s look at other such seeming miracles.

For example.  There have been at least a half dozen saviors/god men in Earth’s history with their birthdays ‘reckoned as’ - purported as being on - December 25th.  Why?  Because of what is called ‘astrotheology’: People attempting to make some sense of life by relating to their surroundings, including ‘the heavens’.  In this  case, the Sun appears, in the northern hemisphere, to be 'buried in the tomb of the Earth’ - i.e., disappears below the horizon - for three days at the winter solstice, and somewhat miraculously appears to be ‘born again’ on that date of our Western calendar.  And peoples all over the world for a very long time would celebrate that (seemingly miraculous) rebirth; and it would be personified in various ‘sons/suns of god,’ to give people something more tangible to relate to.  Hence the following list of such ‘world saviors’/god men who were purportedly born on December 25th:  

Attis of Phrygia
Buddha in the MiddleEast
Dionysus of Greece
Horus of Egypt  
Krishna of India
Mithra of Persia 

And other aspects of the ’Jesus’ story are as well included in - to say, more accurately, borrowed from - their ‘histories’.  Including such specific features as:

* being born of a virgin, in a cave or manger, and sometimes his earthly father even being a carpenter;
* his birth being announced by a star in the east, and being attended by three wise men;
* his life being threatened by a king, and being of royal descent;
* teaching in the temple at the age of 12 (and having 12 disciples);
* being baptized in water;
* a traveling teacher who performed miracles and wonders, including walking on water; 
* being crucified (usually on a tree; and sometimes even between two thieves), buried for 3 days in a tomb, and resurrected in the spring;
* being transfigured on a mount, and in front of his disciples.

And even specifically being slain ‘for the salvation of mankind’.

What to make of all this.

At the minimum:

that it is all fable.

Presumably, meeting some sort of deep need in the human psyche.  

A sense of making something more of life than just its surface appearance.

To reflect the ‘fact’ - 

the intrinsic sense - that 

the point of life is not to make money.

That ‘We do not live in order to eat and sleep.  We eat and sleep in order to live’.

And may we all awaken to that fact.  As we

return

to normal.

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For an excellent 'report' on this astrotheology business, see:
'The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold' by 'Acharya S'.  (The pen name for a woman named D.M. Murdock.)

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