Seraphim: The Burning Angels of the Serpent

by Moe | Mar 20, 2014 | History of the Brotherhood, Meaning of Words

“These causes of our wickedness are derived from our parents, and from our constitutions, rather than from ourselves; for while we recoil from the works of our ancestors they are not idle.” – Plato

A spiritual battle has been fought on the earth and in the heavens for thousands of years. Many of us angels, good and bad who are living today, are born ignorant of this fierce war for our souls. Some of us will lose by default from our simple lack of knowledge, thus becoming ignorant tools used as spiritual weapons by either side. Other people will bare the sins of their parents and ancestors who had fallen like Lucifer, as they try to right the wrongs  in order to ascend to the light.

To understand this cosmic war, you must first try to comprehend the occult (hidden) nature and esoteric (secret) doctrines that govern it. Part of this understanding comes from knowledge of who you are, who your ancestors were, and the hierarchy of angels that hold government on the AS ABOVE, who thus direct the affairs of humans on the SO BELOW.

THE BURNING SERPENT ANGELS OF FIRE WHO GOVERN THE WORLD

Some of these angels on high who govern on low here on earth are known biblically as the “Seraphs or the Seraphim”. They are six-winged beings that fly around the Throne of God crying “holy, holy, holy.” The seraphs hold 5th rank of ten in the Jewish angelic hierarchy and the highest rank in the Christian angelic hierarchy of angels that govern this current world. The various spellings of the Hebrew name Seraphs are the Greek Hellenized version of the Egyptian Osiris-Apis which is spelled Serapis, Sarapis (Σάραπις, Dorian Greek), Sor-apis (Σέραπις, Attic/Ionian Greek), Serapin (Greek Ὄφις), and the name ‘Seraphim’ being the plural form.

These names all have similar meanings such as “the burning ones, burning spirits, fiery angels or burning angels.” The meaning of the name Seraph is also synonymous, with serpent and seraphim being the plural for serpents. They are the serpents who bit the children of Israel in the wilderness. Doctors and Scholars of the Jewish Church such as Rabbi Bechai had said this about the serpent who tempts Eve in Genesis (Gen. iii. 14); “This is the secret (or mystery) of the holy language, that a serpent is called saraph, as an angel is called saraph;” and ” hence the Scriptures called serpents seraphim (Numb. xxi. 6—8), because they were the offspring of this old saraph.”

These burning angels who are also known as serpents, are also mentioned as celestial beings in the Book of Enoch and the Book of Revelation. They are the fiery angels burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God as spoken of in Revelation 4:5 – “And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.”

In the Old Testament, the Prince of the Seraphim is named Beelzebub, and who holds office just below Lucifer who is King. In the New Testament and the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Archangel St Michael is placed over all the Angels as Prince of the Seraphim. But Christ is the head of all principalities and powers. (Col. ii. 10.)

The Greek historian Diodorus Siculus had said that Serapis is not only the same as the Egyptian Osiris, and Hammon, but also the same as the Greek Dionysus, Jupiter, Pan, and Pluto. Plutarch had said the earlier Serapis was none other than Osiris himself. (Plut.,de Sid., c. 28.). He also informs us that it was the Greco-Egyptain Pharoah, Ptolemy I who had introduced Serapis, or serpent worship from Sinope in Asia Minor to the East. It was at this time when Serapis had taken the place of all the Gods as the supreme deity during reign of the Ptolemy Pharaohs.  Ptolemy I was the ruler of Egypt from 323–283 BC and he was also the founder of both the Ptolemaic Kingdom, and the Ptolemaic Dynasty. In the year 305 BC he took the title of pharaoh.

Ptolemy I was also known as Ptolemy Soter. The meaning of the name Soter is savior. Hence, Ptolemy I was known as the Soter or savior of the East. Later during the reign of the Romans, and shortly after the death of Julius Caesar who was known in Rome as a God, his son Octavian Caesar would take the venerable name of Augustus to become their savior with his official anointing as both Pontifex Maximus and savior under PAX RAMONA. Thus becoming the first Vicar of Christ, cornerstone of the Catholic Church, and Christened as their savior of this new age under the New Testament (New Law). A moment in time, officially ending the reign of the Greco-Egyptian Ptolemaic empire, their Egyptian calendar, and the old Testament (Old Law). The meaning of the name Christ simple means anointed, and is the equivalent of the Hebrew word Messiah.

Manes was the founder of the Gnostic religion of the 3rd-4th centuries A.D., known as Manichaeism. He had taught his followers serpent worship under the name of early Christianity. He had said; ” Christ was an incarnation of the Great Serpent, who glided over the cradle of the Virgin Mary, when she was asleep, at the age of a year and a half.”

The Seraphim are the intellectual angels with a divine consciousness, who are burning up of self-awareness that accompanies deep spiritual comprehension of divine reality. Some of these angels include Saint Michael, Gabriel, and St. Francis who was the founder of the Cordeliers and the Franciscans. He was known as the Seraphic Father and Seraphic Saint, for he was on fire for the Lord. In 1224, St. Francis had received the stigmata, making him the first recorded person to bear the wounds of Christ’s Passion. A companion of Francis, Brother Leo had left us the first definite account of the phenomenon of stigmata.”Suddenly he saw a vision of a seraph, a six-winged angel on a cross. This angel gave him the gift of the five wounds of Christ.”

The 15th century Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher, St. Bonaventure is called the Seraphic Doctor for his love and zeal of St Francis. Our current Pope had taken his name after the Seraphic Saint Francis, and his actions as the Vicar of Christ prove his fiery zeal for the Lord. In the year since he has become Pontifex Maximus, he has more than lived up to his chosen name.

With the symbol of Jesus, St Mark informs us, “With the form of a serpent, He kills the serpent, for the serpent made out of the rod swallowed up the other serpents.”  Hence, “The power of the serpent of Egypt was broken on the cross.” – Justin Martyr

An angel brought supernatural food to Elijah. 1 Kings xix. 5.

Angels in the form of fiery horses and chariots attended Elijah at his ascension. 2 Kings ii. 11.

Angels as fiery horses and chariots encamped around Elisha in the mount. 2 Kings vi. 17.

Isaiah had a vision of the Seraphim. Isa. vi. 2.

Ezekiel had a vision of the Cherubim. Ezek. x. 3.

An angel was the agent of deliverance to the three holy children in the burning fiery furnace. Dan. iii. 28.

The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire. – Isaiah 4:4

Saint Paul in Corinthians had said; “Satan is transformed into an angel of light.” (2 Cor. xi. 14)

Moe

Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.

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The Great Dragon of the Book of Revelation

by Moe | Mar 5, 2014 | History of the Brotherhood, Meaning of Words

“The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.” – Revelation 12:9

(This is Part 1 in a series of articles on The Great Dragon) – Some theologians say it is not the devil or demons who created evil, but that they were cast forth from heaven by the orders of good angels for their pride. There are many cultures such as the Hebrew, Assyrian, Greek, Egyptian and Arabian which agree with these theologians. Pherecides the Syrian describes the fall of the devils, and that Ophion, that is the devilish serpent was the head of the rebelling army.

An army whose origins are from Athens and the island of Crete in Greece.

The connection of the devilish serpent who ruled the rebelling armies can be traced back to the time before Rome had became a super power, when Greece had ruled much of the world. The first law giving king that held the office of Archon in the Capital of Greece at Athens was named Draco. He had given the Athenians their first written laws in blood, and this is the time when ‘draconian laws” were introduced to the world. From this same name of Draco, we get the modern English word ‘dragon.’ A name that means a “large serpent.”

WORSHIP OF THE SERPENT AND DRAGON

The Ancient Greeks and Egyptians like many other cultures around the world had venerated the serpent, and in particular, a serpent god that I believe to be the Great Dragon found in the bible. In the book of Ezekiel, the Bible calls the king of Egypt ‘the great dragon that lie in the midst of his rivers’. In ancient Greek mythology, there was a Dragon King known by the Latin name of ‘Ophion.’ The meaning of Ophion is serpent, and in Hebrew: נחש‎, nachash. He was known as one of the five builders of Thebes and the first Titan Kings who ruled over the whole world from the Sacred Mountain called today, Mount Ida (Dicte), and in mythology, Mount Olympus located on the Holy Island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea.

The whole race of Titans were subject to the Serpent-King and Great Dragon who is known as Ophion.

It was said that Ophion had enlightened Man. In Egypt, serpents were called Agathodemones. A name that means “Good Demons.” From Crete, Greece and into Egypt, these were the lands where the  great dragon Ophion had ruled with his Queen of the Titans, Eurynome. The meaning of his queen’s name Eurynome is “wide ruling.” Hence, together with his queen, “the serpent Ophion and Dragon is wide ruling.”

THE GREAT DRAGON OF CRETE AND GREECE

Not many people today are aware that Crete was at one time, the most important and sacred islands in all the world. Crete was once called Arcadia and the people, the Arcadians (Children of the Ark of the Covenant). Crete was known as Keftiu by the Ancient Egyptians who called them also by the name of the Sea Peoples. In the bible, this island is known under the Hebrew “Kaftor or Caphtor”, and the Arabs had called it Kerith.  The Latins changed the name to Cappadocia, and later the Europeans had named it Candia. However, after the Turks conquered the island, they changed the name of the island to its current name ‘Kriti’, which is Greek for the English word Crete. In the bible, they are known as the Canaanites, Amorites and Philistines. In myth they are known as the Minoans, and in history books they are often called the Phoenicians.

For thousands of years, the Cretans with their serpent God had played a huge role in forming the world we see today. They invented maritime commerce and international trade through their mastery of arts, crafts, and the sea as the first true Navy that had operated through their vast network of cities around the world such as Knossus, Athens, Thebes, Rome and Sicily. After all, the name Crete is derived from the Greek word Kriti (Kri-ti), which means ‘creation.’ The meaning of the English word Cre’ate,  is “to form out of nothing, to creo, creatum – cause to exist.” Hence, FIAT LUX.

Crete is also well known in myth as the birthplace and home to the greatest of all Gods, Zeus (Jove or Jupiter) who was hidden there in a cave on Mount Ida (Zion) by his mother Rhea. It was here, where the infant Zeus was entrusted to the care of the Priesthood of Jupiter. Pliny had mentioned, they were called the Curetes (Kuretes, Kri’ti). The Curetes were also known by several names such as the Priest of Pan, Priests of Cybcle, Luperci,  Corybantes, Dactyls, Cabiri, and Telchines.

In myth, Crete is home to the mythical king Minos and the Minoans. The meaning of the name Minos, is “Son of Zeus.” Several Cretan kings were known to have taken the name Minos. The Minoans would be the children of Zeus, who are also known mythologically as the Titans.

In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek: Τιτάν—Ti-tan; plural: Τιτᾶνες—Ti-tânes) were a primeval race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia (Earth or Rhea) and Jupiter (Lord and Soul of the World), that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. They were immortal giants of incredible strength and were also the first pantheon of Greek gods and goddesses. The whole race of Titans were subject to the Serpent-King and Great Dragon who is known as Ophion.

These were who the Ancient Greeks had called Gods, Goddesses, Daemons, and in mythology, Titans. Both Ophion and Eurynome are who some people would call today in English, ‘demons.’ To the Greeks of old, these demons were not all evil or all bad. If you research the true meaning of the English word demon, you will find that it comes from the Latinized version, dæmon and daimôn which is derived from the original Greek δαίμων. According to Plato, in his Cratylus, the etymology of daimôn/daēmones (δαίμονες: deity/daêmôn δαήμονες) means “knowing, wise or intelligent.”

Manly P. Hall wrote about these demons and the views of the Christian Church in his book, “The Secret Teachings of all Ages;”

The Christian Church gathered all the elemental entities together under the title of demon. This is a misnomer with far-reaching consequences, for to the average mind the word demon means an evil thing, and the Nature spirits are essentially no more malevolent than are the minerals, plants, and animals. Many of the early Church Fathers asserted that they had met and debated with the elementals.

Some of these good wise demons were considered as Gods to the ancient Titans, whom they had venerated such as Ophion and Eurynome. According to Plutarch, “that according to a divine nature and justice, the souls of virtuous men are advanced to the rank of daemons; and that from demons, if they are properly purified, they are exalted into gods, not by any political institution, but according to right reason.” Hesiod had said, “when those happy men of the first and golden age of the world were departed from this life, great Jupiter promoted them to be demons, that is, keepers and protectors, or patrons, of earthly mortals, and overseers of their good and evil works.” Plato had said this about these demons, “that when the great leader Jupiter drives his chariot swiftly in the heavens, he marches first, as disposing and taking care of all things, a vast host of gods and demons then follow, distributed into twelve parties, but that Vesta alone remains in the mansion of the gods.”

They had ruled the world from Crete until they were eventually dethroned by the God Kronos (Saturn) and Goddess Rhea (Discharge or Flow) who had banished the Titans to the darkness of the earth-encircling river Oceanus. This event is described in the mythology of Apollonius of Rhodes, in his Argonautica (1.495f) summarizes a song of Orpheus:

He sang how the earth, the heaven and the sea, once mingled together in one form, after deadly strife were separated each from other; and how the stars and the moon and the paths of the sun ever keep their fixed place in the sky; and how the mountains rose, and how the resounding rivers with their nymphs came into being and all creeping things. And he sang how first of all Ophion and Eurynome, daughter of Oceanus, held the sway of snowy Olympus, and how through strength of arm one yielded his prerogative to Cronos and the other to Rhea, and how they fell into the waves of Oceanus; but the other two meanwhile ruled over the blessed Titan-gods, while Zeus, still a child and with the thoughts of a child, dwelt in the Dictaean cave; and the earthborn Cyclopes had not yet armed him with the bolt, with thunder and lightning; for these things give renown to Zeus.

DID THE GOOD DRAGONS JOIN THE CHURCH TO DO BATTLE WITH THE REBELLING DRAGONS

Crete is the same holy island and sacred mountain where the god Zeus (Jove or Jupiter) was hidden in a cave by his mother who was also the goddess of the earth, Rhea. She had hid him there in order to protect Zeus from his vengeful father Cronos (Saturn). It was here on the island of Crete where Rhea had entrusted the care and education of the infant Zeus to the Priesthood of Jupiter, who were also known by many other names such as the Priests of Pan, Ophites, Idaean Dactyli, Luperci, Curetes and Telchines, to name a few. After they were conquered and banished by the Romans, these same priests eventually had become part of the Roman Empire as the Levites. The 7th Century Doctor of the Catholic Church and Father to English History, the Venerable Saint Bede (Beda)  had written on the Levites being connected to the Catholic Church in his book, “On Ezra and Nehemiah;” “Allegorically, the Levites represent those attached to the Catholic Church.”

In Egypt, the Levites were the only tribe that remained committed to God. During the Exodus, the Levite tribes were particularly zealous in protecting the Mosaic law in the face of those worshipping the Golden Calf, which may have been a reason for their priestly status.

In the Book of Malachi, God explains why he chose the Levites to be his priests. This would make sense, since the high priests for judgment of the New Testament are the Levites. The root in Hebrew means “to join,” to “‘ bind ” (see Lui-than “snaky-monster “). When the land of Israel was apportioned among the tribes in the days of Joshua, the Tribe of Levi, being chosen as priests, did not receive land (Joshua 13:33, (14:3). However, the tribe of Levi were given cities. Six cities were given to the tribe as refuge cities for all men of Israel, which were to be controlled by the Levites. Three of these cities were located on each side of the Jordan River. In addition, 42 other cities (and their respective open spaces), totaling 48 cities were given to the Tribe of Levi. (Numbers 35).

The Levites would now be part of a new Roman army under their messiah of the New Testament (New Law), Jesus Christ. The other tribes of Israel and various serpent cults ruled by the dragon would be the rebelling army, whom under Roman Law would be subject to the Levitical priesthood and brotherhood who hold the keys of Saint Peter.

Revelation 20:2 – Satan Bound the Thousand Years: Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

Moe

Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.

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Meaning of Cosmos – ORDO AB CHAO

by Moe | Feb 20, 2014 | History of the Brotherhood, Meaning of Words

The word cosmos, or kosmos (Greek κόσμος) means “beauty of arrangement.” The meaning of the word was first applied to creation by one of the greatest Greek philosophers and mathematicians ever, Pythagoras of Samos. Today, the English standard version of the meaning is order, good order, orderly arrangement, along with other meanings you can also find which are “Order of Creation,” and “Order of the World.”

It is interesting that the compound word Kos’mos, may also have another ancient hidden meaning that has never been revealed, until now. This meaning would come down to us from Pythagoras, who happened to also reside and worship Apollo on an island that was once named Kos or Cos. In various books that have been written about Pythagoras, it is said he traveled to Crete in order to be initiated in the cave where the God Zeus was hid and educated by the  Idaean Dactyls, also known as the “Curetes, Telchines, Priesthood of Jupiter or Pan.”

After his initiation into this ancient priesthood, Pythagoras then traveled to the island across from Crete called Delos, in order to worship at the bloodless alter of the God Apollo, at the House of Asklepios (iEsculapius). This island Delos has also went by many names throughout history such as Cos, Kos, Lemnos, and now, Dia which is an ancient name for Zeus or Jupiter.

Kos, or what is now called Dia, is a dragon shaped island that sits just 7 miles across the sea from the island named after creation, Crete. This island is where the original Hebrew Cohen Levite Priesthood had originated, or one of their homelands before they were eventually banished from Crete and Kos by the Romans. Back around the time of Pythagoras, the family and people from this island were simply known as the Koans (Koans or Kohens) of Kos (Cos or Coos). The people from the ancient island that was once known as Kos, (Cos, Coos, Ceus, Zia etc) are mentioned in the time of Alexander the Great as some of the most powerful people in the Mediterranean Sea. I have written many articles on the Kohen of Kos such as The Origins of the Kohen Priesthood, The Lost Priesthood of the Kohen, and Kohen Levite DNA.

A Kohen or Kohain; Hebrew: כֹּהֵן, pl. כֹּהֲנִים Kohanim is simply a Hebrew (Phoenician) word for priest. Kos (Dia) is the same island, where about 100 years after Pythagoras had visited there, the Father of Modern Medicine and a great philosopher himself, Hippocrates was practicing his medical craft and laying the foundations of truth and knowledge in his school, not only on the island of Kos, but also around the world. The Apostle Paul had also visited this island of Kos (Coos) as described in Acts 21: “And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara.”

THE COSMOS OF HUMANITY MANAGED VIA ORDO AB CHAO

The Freemasons, along with various Knight orders working more often than not at times and directed by the Church, were the custodians of this hidden knowledge from people such as Pythagoras. This would make them the defacto masters of the SO BELOW kosmos, which is almost all humanity, since after all like Carl Sagan had once famously said, “we are all made of star-dust.” He also said, “A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars—billions upon billions of stars.(Carl Sagan, Cosmos, page 3) Just like a galaxy, our human bodies are composed of the same billions of cells, gas and chemical energies found in the heavens. This order of the SO BELOW star-dust of humanity is an orderly plan from chaos based on the heavens which is simply an AS ABOVE, SO BELOW event. Hence, the Latin phrase which is the motto of the 33rd Degree of Freemasonry, “ORDO AB CHAO.” In English this means, “ORDER FROM CHAOS.”

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COSMOS (KOSMOS)

The meaning of the word Kos is Order, and Mos means “to manage, to direct, or I direct my will for you.” In English, the phrase “to tread in the steps of another.” This is why poets such as Shakespeare say all the worlds  a stage and we all play our parts, or in modern media with the movie ” the Matrix”, where the newly awoken slave, Neo has a cool handler named Morpheus (God of Dreams & Sleep) who calls this world “the Matrix” and tells Neo that he can choose his own reality with the red pill or the blue pill.

COSMIC HUMAN COSMOPOLITE CONCLUSION

A type of man-made ORDO AB CHAO stage or game, where each one of us gets to not only choose our roles we wish to play, but also between mortality or immortality. Hence, you can choose to strive for the spiritual balance of the AS ABOVE light of the cosmos, and live a truly cosmic life with the combination of the darkness of materiality in our incarnated bodies on the SO BELOW as a ‘cosmopolite’, or what I like to call myself,  “a citizen of the world.” A world citizen, in a New World Order that has been planned for thousands of years by the priesthood from Kos who were one of the first developers of the true “Order of the World.”

SOURCES:

Minerva’s Web and Gnosis

Moe

Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.

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