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Podcast 14: Mysteries of the Bible
What if, contained within the pages of the Four Gospels is actually a secret which far outweighs anything brought to you by Dan Brown and his literalist cohorts? What if that secret is nothing short of how to transform yourself, how to reunite with God? The secret, as far as I can tell, is that the Bible is actually an esoteric instruction manual on how to raise your kundalini energy and unite with the Godhead.
Some say that Jesus may have traveled to India and learned from Hindu sages, so perhaps it is posible historically. But more important than that even is the hidden allegorical references which are right out in front of us, but which most of us aren’t even aware of, because we’ve been so habituated into thinking of the Bible in a very narrowly cast and tightly controlled spectrum of interaction. We’re allowed to either think the whole thing is laughable superstitious trash. Or we’re allowed to believe in it in a very literal way where it is acceptable to go to Church once a week and sing songs and listen to a priest (which Jesus specifically warns against, right in the ordinary Bible) and then go home and forget about it.
But it seems to me that what we may have in our hands is a preserved but intentionally obscured esoteric revolutionary handbook to break free from all earthly bounds once and for all, and re-unite with your spiritual God granted birth-right, the ability to return to Eden once again.
This exciting possibility is explored in greater detail in my longest podcast to date, clocking in at just over 40 minutes. Enjoy and please include as links here any references and elaborations which might be useful to other people (and myself, of course) exploring this explosive interpretation of the Bible.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
just one quick note/question– are you gonna end up typing this stuff up? i used to be able to listen to podcasts, but currently suffer from a speakerless computer and very little free time for i-poddy goodness. will there be an option for those of us who prefer reading to listening, esp. for this really good sounding podcast?
November 28th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Some esoteric Revelations stuff:
The Work of the Chariot group uses the book of Revelations in a kabbalistic way:
http://www.workofthechariot.com/TextFiles/Translations-Revelation.html
I could hardly think more highly of these people, fwiw.
Michael Cecil’s writings may be interesting, they are certainly obscure. They were the first writings I ever read that tied the ’sevens’ in Revelations to the chakra system. Aside: while googling his usenet postings I found that he made an obscured ‘prophecy’ which I was never able to make head or tail of. If the event occurs, the code is supposed to allow an observer to confirm the prophecy in retrospect. Google groups search the phrase “coded prophecy” to see it.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20041205211...44/www.deadseanaghammadiresearch.com/
If you can track down James Morgan Pryse’s “The Apocalypse Unsealed”, (a source text for Crowley), it is a huge compendium of the Greek gematria correspondences in that text. He describes a scheme wherein the famous 666 is only keystone of a sequence of 111,222,…888=Christ. I have only read excerpts of this book, and it is different from one of the same title by some Baha’i.
The “Secret Symbols of the Roscicrucians” also contains commentary on the symbolism of Revelations. They are DIFFICULT to understand. In general, Rosicrucian and alchemical writings will contain esoteric interpretations of Biblical passages.
http://www.rosecroixjournal.org/resources/
Some (good!) exoteric analysis of esoteric correspondances can be found here:
http://freespace.virgin.net/vernon.jenkins/
His observations are inescapable, his interpretations are not. Likewise with http://www.biblewheel.com/, which, despite the fundie-esque worldview, has made me seriously reconsider exactly what things like ‘inspiration’ might mean.
Statements like this are somewhat misleading and unintentionally reductionistic. It would be better to say that some Bible passages and kundalini doctrine attempt to describe the same reality. Kundalini doctrine is not in any way ‘deeper’ than Biblical doctrine, but comes at things from another angle.
Researching the Christian mystics is incredible, even just the degree to which their writings are unknown to modern American Christians. The degree to which a culture can forget its roots is mindblowing!
November 28th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
No. I don’t have the time or interest to do so.
Yes, you are completely correct. Thats a much more accurate way of referring to it. Its not that Jesus is referring to Kundalini, but that both Jesus and Kundalini refer to the same thing.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
P: In the future, could you *not* change the http:’s into this hxxp thing that you seem to be doing? I have my links within comments set to “nofollow” anyway, so I’d rather I just be able to click on them. Cause its a pain to have to copy and paste and then change the URL. I have modified your comment above accordingly. Thanks!
November 28th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
After reading your last many posts about these experiences, it is very nice to hear your actual voice speaking about all of this. Great work.
Also, don’t shy away from the longer podcasts for our sake. Of course I cannot speak for everyone else, but I definitately prefer them over the shorter ones.
I’m excited to hear about your explorations of Kundalini Yoga.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
sorry Tim, hxxp is gone forevermore.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Tim,
This material is fascinating and dovetails nicely with my own Bible studies. I’ve also come to believe that the Bible is a handbook for spiritual revolution.
You speak at length about the symbolism of the serpent and it begs the question: What is the symbolism of the serpent in Genesis? He goads Eve into taking a bite of the forbidden fruit. Could this be interpreted within the kundalini framework as well? It certainly seems so. After Adam and Eve eat the fruit, the Bible says: “Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked…” (Genesis 3:7). Possibly this is a reference to the Third Eye?
In any case, this gives me a lot to ponder. Thanks for your insight.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Yes I have been pondering the Genesis connection as well: the Seven days of Creation, etc. I have a book waiting for me at the library which explores all this in more detail. I should go grab it
Also see Luke 11:34, which I’ve seen people reference as the third eye:
November 28th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Tim Boucher, you stop posting trash Man. My main man… Those were lies when you first posted them, you know that Jesus never looked like that Hindu guy! You can’t let yourself be decieved by this bro, it’s the truth that matters! Don’t let yourself fall down to the deception man, because it’s coming…Oh lord believe me, I can see it…The signs are here. Fastly, quickly approaching.
November 28th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
Seriously: shut up
November 29th, 2006 at 12:14 am
ROFLMAO
November 29th, 2006 at 9:10 am
but seriously the perspective on jesus that our order has is that he was a similar teacher to the buddha. his psychological yogic system was probably a little different with jewish rather than hindu roots, but ultimately with similar aims. i just take it for granted that much of what you say about his revolutionary agenda and historical significance is in fact true. i’m not sure about the kundalini thing, but you don’t need that to see a kind of bhakti or devotional yoga system in his words. it’s right there in relatively plain language.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Right I agree. I guess the thing is that I just wanted a way to frame what I was saying by way of another set of concepts that people could explore and compare and contrast. I think “P” above said it very well too.
November 29th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
[…] I’m not quite sure where I’m going with this, but there seems to be a connection between these thought-processes and Tim’s recent explorations of the Bible. Anyhow, expect more along these lines soon. […]
November 29th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
I’m on slow internet with a computer with basically no free-space on it, so I can’t listen, unfortunately. At least not now.
I know I said it before here (or I think I did), but in that wedding scene in the Last Temptation of Christ where one of the patrons insults Jesus by saying: “This is what happens to a man who never marries — his semen backs up into his brain!”
November 29th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
bah! looks like my comment got cut in half. whatever, that’s more concise.
November 30th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Interesting: was having a conversation with a guy on the plane after the holidays on Sunday about how I thought the Jesus’ story was a blueprint on the things an individual has to do to get free and then I come back and see this post. Cool stuff. Since, I’ve also found this link below. It’s some guy in NJ who looks to have come to the same conclusions as you and a few more–check for his answer as to what the two thieves at the crucifixion represent:
http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/crucifixion.html
Great podcast. Later, Tim.
November 30th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Hahah. Too true!
November 30th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
I just got an email from somebody who said they have been reading Manly P Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Apparently there is a chapter called “The Human Body And Symbolism” in whichh Hall writes:
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