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 and Geophysical forces — in that, every time Earth was destroyed by earthquakes, floods and fires, and 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: — with every disaster between astral deities in the cosmic order above signaling and inaugurating parallel reformations and new transformative developments among the geological and ethnological domains of life on Earth below. — And thus it was held then and 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 and Humankind at periodic intervals. — And those transformations, taken together as a whole, from Macrocosm to Microcosm, are precisely what once signified the advent and constituted the arrival of each new Cosmic era, World Age and Generation of Man. |