MYTHS OF CREATION
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14. As Above, So Below
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All in all, this sequence of events
was most often considered to be predictably predicated or even directly instigated by battles among cosmic powers — a shifting of the bodies moving in the heavens around the Earth recurring over long intervals of time — triggered by disastrous conjunctions among the wandering stars. In all mythopoeic peoples’ cosmovisions there was a long-standing commonly perceived relationship between Astronomical & Geophysical forces — in that, every time Earth was destroyed by earthquakes, floods & fires, & subsequently reformed during the chaotic aftermath, the impulses for these great changes always came from the skies. The perceived kinship of Creation always proceeded vertically — from top, down: — w/ every disaster between astral deities in the cosmic order above signaling & inaugurating parallel reformations & new transformative developments among the geological & ethnological domains of life on Earth below. — And thus it was held then & has been held ever since, that a every new theophany (or ‘appearance of the sacred’) always brings forth a new order of the Ages. The overall message — As Above, So Below: Astronomical events directly effect changes on Earth & Humankind at periodic intervals. — And those transformations taken together as a whole, from Macrocosm to Microcosm, are precisely what once signified the advent & constituted the arrival of each new Cosmic era, World Age & Generation of Man. |