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December 30, 2018

The Power Faiths Today.



The late Theodore Parker is said to have replied to a Calvinist who sought to convert him: "The difference between us is simple: your god is my devil."

And so is my dilemma.  I am no longer a Christian.  Having never been a Muslim, Mormon, Later-day Saint, etc., I don't hold them responsible for pushing lies on me like I do the Christians and so write a lot about the Christians, but the other Power Religions are no better.   Truth is, however,  if the Christian church would have remained the Buddhist like religion it once was that said things like, "Politics is below us, we answer to a higher power," I might still be converting souls for them.  As it is, they did show their true colors when they became a political party telling it's followers to support Wars, which,  even the Fictional Jesus they created would have disproved of.    

So for those of you who are Christians and read my blog, now you know why I so often point out the problems with your faith.  Your faith is the bad-parent faith that raised me and so now I have cut them out of my life after years of therapy, and EsotericDaily.com is my therapy.

A couple nights ago I woke up and saw the planet Venus.  It was a weird night in Dallas where there wasn't a cloud in the sky and so the planet sparked like the giant "Morning Star" she was believed to be back in the mythical writing days.  "Is that the star the three kings were suppose to have followed," I asked, more importantly, "Who the fuck were the three kings, and why were they used in the Jesus myth?"

So I pulled a David Wilcocks and I went to the internet for facts, and I found a lot of explanations of how there was a Super Nova around the year 12 BC.  Which is fine, except for one thing, the story is bullshit.  There probably wasn't a Jesus and the story that we first really start seeing written anywhere other than the fictional bible starts around 300 AD when pagan kings started using the Christian God in battle and when he gave their victories, voilà, the Loving Savior!

"I read it on the internet, it has to be true!"

To put this in perspective, when I was a Christian, I was taught that the Muslim god Mohammad, was a phony, made to bring the people together to defy Christians.  Yes, no shit, that's what they believe.  The more radical Christians believe Satan led Mohammad to build his faith.  Of course, the radical Muslims believe Christians are the Great Satan, and so we have a vibrant War Profit Machine in the USA, and loonies with bombs strapped to their ass in the Middle East.  



So let's look at early religion before it became the big war-profiting political party it is today -- and unfortunately has been since Christianity and Islam became the faith of the masses.  Before that, god was the sun.  The giver of light, who occasionally got pissed and made things dark.  The people would gather in their caves and huts and sing hymns until the sun came back out and then called it a miracle.  From the start, I imagine, there were a few who said, "This is bull shit."  And what did they do with that knowledge?   You got it, used it to their advantage.  This hasn't changed from the television evangelists asking for money to the politicians claiming they believe in Jesus when by the very fact that they are politicians condemns them to the hell Jesus spoke of.  True is: they don't really believe but know you do and so use it for power.  



Gregory the Great wrote to his missionary in Britain, the Abbot Mellitus, second Bishop of Canterbury, that 'whereas the people were accustomed to sacrifice many oxen in honor of demons, let them celebrate a religious and solemn festival, and not slay the animals to the devil (diabolo), but to be eaten by themselves to the glory of God.  



This, my brothers and sister, is the Power Faiths of today.  You know them by their deeds.  

 ~~ Eso Terry Joe



December 28, 2018

Venus Called Me Last Night





This is bizarre.  This morning, around 5am, I heard someone call my name in the distance.  It woke me up.  Of course, being in my fifties, I took the opportunity to piss.  On the way back to my bed, for some strange reason I decided to look out my window up at the sky, and there in the dark sky was a glowing white star.  I thought it might be a helocopter because it was way bigger than the usual stars.  "Could this be a planet," I asked. 

So I got my iPHone and opened my Skyview Free application and pointed it to the glowing dot and sure enough, it was Venus.  

I knew instantly that that is what had called me and it meant something.  

This morning I looked up what it might be on the Internet, most said something like:

 Venus is the planet that represents love and a Goddess of the same nature. When you have dreams of Venus – either the planet or the Goddess – then you can bet that changes (for the better or worse) are on the horizon for you in the romance department.

 But I also found this on the Botticelli "The Birth of Venus" painting:



Botticelli The Birth of Venus is one of the most famous paintings of all time. One that never ceases to capture our imaginations. Here we take a closer look at this masterpiece and some of the fascinating stories that surround it.

Botticelli painted the Birth of Venus between 1484-85. It was commissioned by a member of the Florentine Medici family, most likely Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco who was a distant cousin of Lorenzo the Magnificent. He also commissioned the artist to illustrate Dante’s Divine Comedy and “Allegory of Spring”. The birth of Venus was hung in his bedroom in the Villa in Castello, near Florence.
This painting is one of the masterpieces of Italian Renaissance and one of the highlights of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

 
Birth of Venus painting

Botticelli The Birth of Venus – What is the meaning?

The painting shows the triumphant Goddess of Love and Beauty. The Romans knew her as Venus, while for the Greeks she was Aphrodite. She stands tall and naked at the centre of the canvas, looking ethereal and luminous. She seems to draw all attention to herself; a symbol of beauty, who is both physical and spiritual. If you believe the neoplatonic philosophers, contemplating her beauty is a way to elevate the human spirit and get closer to the divine.

 Representation of mythological subjects was trending in the Renaissance. Allegories taken from classical culture, olympian divinities and their mythologies were used to express humanistic values. And Botticelli’s city, Florence, was an important centre for humanist studies. Cosimo de’ Medici the Elder sponsored a Platonic Academy here, with philosopher Marsilio Ficino leading the way. With his Birth of Venus, Botticelli was following a trend, speaking the language of the cultured, and pleasing his patrons.   (For the complete article go Here).


Then I found this on the Mythological Venus:

In Greek mythology, Aphrodite was the goddess of love (equivalent to the Roman Venus, Egyptian Goddess Isis, the Phoenician Astarte and the Babylonian Ishtar).
She is known as the Daughter of Heaven and Sea, the child of Uranus and Gaia.
Her story tells of fertility, love and pleasure.
Venus is the goddess of Love and Beauty. She along with her son Cupid (Eros) became a metaphor for sexual love. 

Venus represents the feminine aspect in all of us. She is the creational Earth Mother.
Often seen as the bright, silvery morning or evening star, and is the brightest object in the sky after the sun and the moon. 

She is said to be either a daughter of Zeus or to have sprung from the foam of the sea.
There are two version of her birth. 

In the first version - Hesiod, she was older than Olympians. When the Titan Cronus severed his father's (Uranus) genitals and flung into the sea, the blood and semen caused foams to gathered and floated across the sea to the island of Cyprus. There Aphrodite rose out of the sea from the foam (hence her name came from the word aphros, which means foams). She had experienced no infancy or childhood. She was grown, young woman. The Clam Shell version.
In the second version by Homer, she was known as the daughter of Zeus and the Oceanid Dione. The Cherubs Version. 

She was married to Hephaestus (Vulcan) but had numerous affairs with gods and mortals, the most notorious of these, the goddess' long affair with Ares (Mars) god of war. She was the mother of Eros (Cupid), Deimus (Fear), Phobus (Panic) and Harmonia, wife of Cadmus. 

One of her mortal son, was Aeneas, by her lover was Anchises, king of Dardania. Anchises was crippled by thunderbolt from Zeus, when he revealed that he made love to the goddess.
She supported the Trojans during the war, not only because Paris awarded the apple to her as the fairest, but that Aeneas also fought with the Trojans. She tried to rescue her son, when Diomedes wounded him. Diomedes also wounded her and drove her off the battlefield. 

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So, I'll keep you updated on what happens over the next few days.  I mean, it isn't everyday a goddess wakes you up.  

By the way, I had a crystal hanging in that window which was between the planet and me when I looked up at it.  

Man, I haven't had this much fun since I stood nude under the full moon.   

It changes us. 

~~ Eso Terry Jo


December 24, 2018

North Park Mall Santa in Dallas Texas

If you grew up in Dallas, you know about the North Park Mall Santa, the PhD Santa.  Yes, Virginia, everything is bigger in Texas.  This is a lecture he gave a few years ago.  It's a beautiful brainy Christmas thing!

December 22, 2018

Away With The Manger, Merry Christmas, and That Stupid Wall.


It is Winter's Solstice, the shortest day of the year.  In old times, the village got together to share food with hopes that the Sun would return.  Let's all remember this today as we go outside to face the uncertainty of a government shutdown over a 5 billion dollar war which will certainly be the end of the US as we know it.  We don't have 5 billion dollars and unless we raise taxes, it will definitely be the turning point.  A wall won't keep people out.  We all know this. 

So, instead of building a wall, lets meditate on love.  I am. 

                           

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Meanwhile, I say Merry Christmas and it is for the season as a whole.  Especially, it's roots -- sorry Christians, it started long before the Jesus myth.  

Here is as presented in the book "Merry Christmas! A History of the Holiday" by Patricia Bunning Stevens.  

Long before the Jesus thing was here, the Egyptians watched the movements of the dog star Sirius, a brilliant object in the sky.  Its first appearance on the horizon each h year coincided with the rising of the Nile, and the Egyptians believed that the star caused the waters to overflow.  They declared Sirius to be the “creator of all green growing things,” and eagerly watched for it in the half-light before the dawn.  Clouting the days between one appearance of the star and the next, the priests discovers that the year was made up of 365 days.  They chose the star’s annual day of reappearance in midsummer as the first day of the year. 

Reassuring as it was to be able to predict the time of the river’s overflow, a year of 365 days posed problems.  At an even earlier period the Egyptians had had a lunar calendar based on the new moon’s appearance every twenty-nine or thirty days.  How could the old lunar calendar be reconciled with a year of 365 days?  The Egyptians solved their problem by dividing the year into twelve months of thirty days each, and then adding on the extra five days at the end of the year.  These days that belonged to no month, days that were spent awaiting the appearance of Sirius, became a festival time. 





Wonder and laughter were a part of every Egyptian festival.  The first days were spent mostly in preparation.  On New Year’s Eve the temples were rededicated.  In the capital city the pharaoh himself performed the ceremonies, accompanied by the queen and numerous high priests.  Fire was newly kindled and, as twilight deepened, throngs flocked to the temple courtyards to watch torchlight processions leave and begin to wind their way through the darkened streets.  The next day, the first day of the New Year, was the Egyptians’ most important holiday. 

both food and drink were abundant and people wore their finest clothes.  Small gifts, perfume bottles or amulets inscribed au ab nab (all good luck), were exchanged between friends. Custom demanded that peasants and leaseholders present more sizable gifts to the lord whose land they worked, but these too were given in a holiday spirit.  New Year’s night was taken up with more torchlight processions, and only when exhaustion drove the crowds home was the festival officially ended.

In ancient Mesopotamia life was more uncertain.  The land lay between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; crops, and therefore survival, depended on the annual overflow from the rivers.  But the Tigris and the Euphrates were not nearly as dependable as the Nile, nor as predictable.  The people could not know exactly when the rivers would rise, nor how much water they would bring.  They only knew that at certain times of the year the earth was parched and dry, that all growing things were dead, and that if water did not come again they would face eventual starvation. 




These early Mesopotamians believed that the land was barren because Tammuz (later Marduk), the god of all growing things, was imprisoned in the underworld—held captive by the dragon Tiamat.  it was the duty of the whole nation, and most especially the king, to help Tammuz fight his way back to each so the crops would grow again. 

This battle became the theme of the Mesopotamian New Year’s festival which, like the Egyptian holiday, began almost five thousand years ago.  The celebration lasted for twelve days, and the mood was more somber than in Egypt, at least for the first days of the feast.  Excitement, anticipation, but most of all fear, marked the beginnings of the ritual. The god Tammuz must be mourned.  Even the kind did penance, assuring the god that he had carried out his duties, that he had “not destroyed Babylon” (the great capital city).  There was great commotion in the streets as crowds searched for the missing god and groups of men staged mock battles on his behalf.  bonfires were built, and in them were burned wooden effigies of the dragon Tiamat.  Tension ran high.  Tammuz must be found and freed; life must return to the land. 


The dragon Tiamat.


Finally, on the sixth day, the god triumphed.  Rescued by his son, the god Nabu, he returned to earth victorious, and married Ishtar, the goddess of battles.  The king, now impersonating the god, appeared amid wild rejoicing.  Bands of costumed men roamed the city, forming torchlight processions at nightfall.  For the next six days, gaily decorated wagons, filled with the statues of gods and goddesses were paraded down the great avenues.  More bonfires were built, and feasting and drinking went on all night.  In the daylight hours friends visited each other and exchanged gifts.  finally, on the twelfth day, the statues of the gods and goddesses were returned to the temples.  The people’s fate had been decided for yet another year, and good had conquered evil.  On the twelfth night one last and most uproarious feast ended the holiday season.  

Nabu, the old-time myth god.

 So, when you hear me and those others Truth Seekers say Merry Christmas this year, remember some of us do follow the old religion.

Peace to all, Merry Christmas, and Away With The Manger....

Dr TV Boogie


December 20, 2018

Liberal Christmas

 
No one can serve two masters....


The Earth as we know it is about to change.  I've seen it.  If you are a Christian, you know that line in there about how you can't serve two master, both god and money, well, it has something to do with that and how you've totally turned your back on Jesus supporting Donald Trump.  

It's not too late, but to correct this you'll have to vote Democrat the rest of your life to balance things out and repent for your sins. 

On a lighter note, that Asteroid that is coming right for us I keep warning you about, well...


According to NASA, the asteroid’s closest approach to Earth will equal 0.01372 astronomical units (au).


NASA asteroid WARNING: Monster asteroid headed to Earth on Boxing Day at 20,000 MPH

 

MerryChristmas Everyone, oh, btw, we liberals do say Merry Christmas, you know, peace on Earth and good will to all.... 


It's a very liberal sentiment. 

Have a very liberal Christmas, just as Jesus would do, and oh, by goddy, have a jolly, very Merry Christmas, year!!!!




December 4, 2018

Mary Celeste gone missing and the number 64


On this day (December 4th) in 1872, the Mary Celeste was found in the Atlantic Ocean, about 400 miles (640km) east of the Azores, with some of the sails still set but no sign of life anywhere.  In a fictional recounting of the incident in 1884, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- be still my beating heart -- would write an embellished retelling of the story stating that there still being half-eaten meals in the cabins, hot coffee on the stove, and cigar smoke in the air.  These details were a fabrication, but is true about the story is the ten crew members were never seen again and the ships cargo (1,700 barrels of commercial-grade alcohol) untouched. 

There were no signs of force or mishap, just the silent ship floating on echo-less waters.

The ship was found on the other side of the Atlantic ocean, and so we can rule out the Bermuda Triangle, what we can't rule out though is....



In other news, Space X launched its Falcon 9 with 64 satellites on it.  Why 64?  Am I the only one to see something funny in this number?  I mean, there are 64 condons in our DNA code?  The I Ching has 64 Hexagrams?  And if you really want to get down to it:


  • As a product of 8 x 8, it is the expression of a realized totality and perfect.
  • According to R. Allendy, this number represents the "static realization - even number - of the cosmic unit - 6 + 4 = 10 - in the blooming of the beatitude. It is the final liberation which allows to the being to realize its full individuality after its cycle 4, in the links of the cosmic Karma, 60". It would represent also the natural forces acting in union with the providential determinations of the Cosmos.
  • Being the cube of 4, the number 64 represents the physical world of the four elements to the third power, in the plenitude of its expansion.
  • According to Claude of Saint-Martin, this number represents the "complement of the octagonal circle where the powerful number, after having covered all the depths of area and of the existence of the beings, restore the unit in its simple number, there where it was divided, and the action where reigned the nothingness and the death".
  • Symbol of the paramount chaos.

Bible


  • It is the number of generations from Adam until Jesus according to the Gospel of Luke.

General


  • The mother of Buddha had, according to the tradition, to born in a family endowed of 64 species of qualities.
  • Age of the Virgin Mary when she died, according to visions of Ann-Catherine Emmerich.
  • The mathematician W. R. Ball reports the following legend: In a temple of Benares, there is a dome under which a plate of bronze marks the center of the world. On this plate, there are three vertical stems of one cubit height. During the creation of the world, God placed on one of the stems 64 discs of gold of different sizes, the largest at the basis, the others going decreasing. In top, the smallest disc. This accumulation is the tower of Brahma. Night and day, without stop, the priests relay to transfer the discs from a stem to another. Only one disc must be take at once and it is forbidden to place a disc on another of lower diameter. When the 64 discs will be transferred from the tower of Braham to an other stem, the temple and the Universe will crumble. This will be the end of the world.
  • The Chinese tradition wants that Confucius has had 64 generations since Hoang-ti, founder of the dynasty.
  • The 64 devas of the Abhavara class, at the Indians.
  • The 64 Koua (hexagrams) of the Yi-King.
  • To the funerals of Alexander the Great, the mortuary chariot was dragged by 64 mules.
  • The 64 persons in China who carry the skin of the defunct emperor.
  • The 64 "tantras" (books) of the "tantrism", which is a form of Hinduism.
  • The magic square using the first sixty four numbers is associated with the Mercury planet and has for sum 260.
                           64  7  6 60 61  3  2 57
                           49 55 11 13 12 14 50 56
                           41 18 46 21 20 43 23 48
                           32 34 27 37 36 30 39 25
                           40 26 35 29 28 38 31 33
                           17 42 22 44 45 19 47 24
                            9 15 51 52 53 54 10 16
                            8 63 62  4  5 59 58  1
    
  • The 64 nucleotides of the genetic code.
  • The 64 squares of a game of chessboard.





December 2, 2018

I Ching advise for President Trump for the month of December 2018.

So, in preparation one my 2019 I Ching reading for the USa, I decided to do a divination toss for the Month of December.  And what a mysterious thing.  Or, is it?  

The first coin toss was the feminine Yin, the rest... wait for it... all Yang.  Here is the Hexagram:



In the translation I use (Cheng Yi translated by Thomas Cleary) this Hexagram for the USa in the month of December, stands for Meeting.  Other translations are "coupling" and "coming to meet."  Regardless, its inner trigram is ☴ (巽 xùn) ground = (風) wind, and its outer trigram is ☰ (乾 qián) force = (天) heaven.  "Heaven" is above and "wind" is below; wind blows under heaven.  What is under heaven are myriad beings, which are all touched by the wind as it blows. 

What kind of meeting?  Well, one yin has just been born, and will henceforth grow gradually to fullness.  This is the woman growing strong.  When yin grows, yang wanes; when the woman is strong, the man is weak.  

Continuing on with my quotation from Cleary's translation, Meeting is the hexagram in which yin first arises and is going to grow.  When one yin arises, it grows gradually to fullness.  When yin grows, then yang wanes; such is the growth of the ways of petty people. 

What?  Who ever could he mean by "petty people" that will "wane" from the growth of the feminine Yin?  

Moving on, jumping to the 4th yang line, it says: In a time of meeting, the fourth line, in a high position, loses its subordinates.  The alienation of its subordinates is due to its own loss of virtue.  The fault of the fourth line is that it is not balanced correctly.  When those in high places are not balanced and upright, they lose their citizenry, and therefore have trouble. 

So, seems like Donald Trump is in a world of hurt if he doesn't find his balance.  I for one, hope he does.  My advise to you, sir, go into the Rose Garden and contemplate on what you are doing.  Take a few deep breaths and go inward for a second.  Let go of your ego, and find your Way; for if you don't, as the Hexagram says: Because the fourth line is out of harmony with those below, speaking in terms of government and citizenry, this means that people in superior positions will inevitable run into trouble when their subordinates become alienated from them. 

In the fifth Yang, it is written that there will be a meeting, and the superiors and subordinates come together out of mutual need.  The willow is a tall tree with large leaves, representing great people in high positions who are able to embrace others.  Willows are beautiful.  A melon is a plant with its fruits on the bottom.  Excellence in low positions characterizes wise people of low status.  The fifth yang, honored in the position of leadership, still seeks wise people among the lower ranks.  For those in the highest position to seek those in the lowest position is like wrapping a melon in the willow leaves.  This means that the leaders are able to humble themselves in this way.   

So, if Trump wants to make it through this, he needs to humble himself.  It would be great for the USa if he did so.  His political survival might depend on it; however, and warning: When leaders are humble to seek wise people, if the leaders' qualities are not right, the wise will despise them.  Therefore it is imperative to "embody beauty," in the sense of inwardly developing supreme sincerity.  Then "there will be a descent from heaven," which means that the objective will be attained.  Since ancient times, whenever leaders have sincerely humbled themselves and sought wise people in a balanced and correct way, they have never failed to find them. 

Now, what are the chances of this happening?...  I don't think even the I Ching can go that low.  

~~ Eso Terry Joe








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