and the spirits of the wicked shall they be called. The habitation of the spirits in Heaven shall be in Heaven; but upon earth shall be the habitation of terrestrial spirits, who are born of earth.
Abraham’s theology, as described in the Sefer Yetzirah, does not differentiate terrestrial spirits from Heavenly spirits in this manner. In other words, every man’s immortal soul incarnates in a physical body, and then is liberated either through death or through the sacred practice, but only man’s soul is able to travel between Heaven and Earth. Abraham’s writings, therefore, contradict any notions of demons or bodily resurrection, and they clarify that people who die before purifying their body have pure souls that live in bodies tainted by sin. However, we certainly would not call them demons, since that would imply that most, if not all of mankind, is demonic. Adam is the archetype of sinful man, but how can we apply Christianity’s exaggerated notions of Hell to Adam, since Adam symbolizes the common man. The freakish and cannibalistic “Giants” who drank the blood of birds and reptiles in the Book of Enoch, does not, in any way, represent the plight of the common man. And further, it is completely inconsistent with the Hebrew Scriptures. Describing a race of cruel and evil giants is a problem rooted in the mistranslation of the word Nephilim based on unauthoritative, non-Canonical Enochian fantasy.
The Book of Enoch was excluded from both the Hebrew and Christian Canons, and thus, cannot be considered authoritative from the perspective of Orthodox religion, and rightly so.80 It might be a useful exercise to consider what the world might have become if the Nephilim were remembered as “men of renown” or “heros of old.” What if the Book of Enoch’s “Watchers” and their offspring were valued for all they taught mankind, rather then degraded as cannibalistic, vampire demons. One unfortunate result of this text’s influence is the Church’s long-standing opposition to the advances of mathematics and science. I believe the wedge between Christianity and the other two monotheistic religions began here.
Without the Book of Enoch, we can speculate that Christianity might not have been so quick to condemn Gnosticism and Moksha as the Gnostic and Arian heresies, respectively. Instead, the Church’s exaggerated notions were further influenced by such imaginative writings as Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost.81 In this tradition, the demonology in today’s movie theaters reflect an other-worldly science-fiction imagination that boggles the mind and bombards the senses. Religion may have begun as a meditation practice to purify the body and liberate the soul, but Christianity has become dominated by a moralistic fervor driven by distorted notions of Satan and Hell.
God punished Adam by banishing him to wander the cursed Earth in the path of the cursed serpent, man’s alter-ego. Adam was in Hell as he wandered the Earth in exile from Heaven. It required no further embellishment. Christianity’s “Hell” has become seriously distorted by man’s active imagination. Clarifying these distorted ideas requires the Biblical mathematics described in Chapter 14. Hebrew notions of Sheol as the “abyss of the serpent” describes “the greatest possible distance from Heaven” (Job 11:8). The Bible borrows a bit from Egyptian notions of Hades as navigable rivers under the Earth, where the dead descend, and the revived ascend. It is from this perspective that David recites Psalm 30: “O LORD, you brought me up from Sheol, preserved me from going down into the Pit.”
The serpent’s abyss finds the serpent coiled 3½ times at the base of the spine. It is the unrealized Self in the dormancy of Hades often associated with death and darkness. Meditation uncoils the serpent energy, “awakening” the meditator as it climbs out of the abyss and up the spine. It vitalizes our Soul, saving us from sinful distractions and spiritual blindness. As man continues this spiritual practice, the abyss of Hell (unrealized dormancy) is ultimately transformed into “Enlightenment” at the Gates of Heaven. Thus, Sheol ambiguously defines the Gates of both Heaven and Hell — sin and salvation — and both are associated with the ayanamsa as the precessional gap or portal. From Abraham’s perspective, we experience Hell whenever we are not One with the Divine energies that live within us. We are all tormented souls until we stop our mind’s distracted wanderings and allow the sacred meditation practice to return us to the Paradise that has long been equated with the soul’s liberation. The mathematical prototype of Heaven and Hell has ancient Aryan origins. The oldest extant writings articulating these concepts can be found among the numerous Sumerian and Babylonian cuneiform clay tablets. The Hebrew Scriptures never considered Adam or mankind evil or cursed, just inherently sinful, and morally obligated to find his way back to Heaven by learning to open the “gate” to the spiritual “path” known as Jacob’s Ladder.
Kramer tells us that the pre-Sumerian tribes were the true founders of civilization who should be credited with the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and religion. With this historical background under our belt, we can now turn our attention to understanding the mathematical and scientific details of the Aryan legacy. In order to accomplish that, we must first solve two ancient mathematical riddles: “the Riddle of the Sphinx” and “a Circle and the Square Within.”82 In the following chapter, Mastering the Elements, we will see how the Aryan fathers addressed the first riddle, and in the subsequent chapter, Mastering Time, we will see how they addressed the second.
Chapter 3: Mastering the Elements
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Most people became aware of the Riddle of the Sphinx in the writings of Homer. Oedipus, the mythical Greek King of Thebes, became the protagonist in the epic literature of Homer, in a play by Sophocles, and in variations by other ancient Greek authors and poets. During this period, the “Riddle of the Sphinx” took the following basic form: “What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?” Oedipus answered: “Man: as an infant, he crawls on all fours; as an adult, he walks on two legs and; in old age, he relies on a walking stick.” Oedipus answered the riddle correctly causing the Sphinx to throw itself into the sea, freeing Thebes. Of course, the Egyptian Sphinx was constructed long before Homer lived (circa 850 BCE). And, although “man” is the correct answer, we need to understand the derivation of the myth in order to properly understand its mathematics and meaning.
Vedic astronomy divides the celestial dome of stars into four quadrants. All Mesopotamian ziggurats (Figure 9), and later, all Egyptian pyramids (Figure 32), were similarly constructed to align with four “fixed” constellations and the four cardinal directions on the first day of spring (vernal equinox). These constellations symbolize the four primordial elements: Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire, that were considered the building blocks of the cosmos:
• Taurus (Bull/Cow/Ram/Lamb): Earth sign
• Leo (Lion/Leopards): Fire sign
• Aquila/Opiuchus (Eagle/Vulture): Originally the Wind sign, was later replaced by Aquarius as the Wind sign
• Aquarius (Man): Originally the Water sign, was later replaced by Scorpio as the Water sign
Like all of Creation, man is a hybrid of these four elements, while the technology of Moksha uniquely empowers man to integrate these elements in a way that purifies the body and liberates the soul. Those who were able to master the elements with their mind became the stuff of legend — the so-called “gods on the mountain.” These enlightened and wise “masters” included priests, wizards, magicians, healers, prophets, kings, and gods.
Figure 9 - Mesopotamian Ziggurats & Early Step Pyramids of Egypt
Figure 10 - Göbekli Tepe’s Inner Pillars: the Oldest Monumental Architecture (10,000 BCE)
Adorned with Lions, Bulls, Snakes, and Vultures, symbolizing Fire, Earth, Water, and Air
