There are three primary witnesses of the eternal ordinances of the Kingdom of God. Authority was substantiated by corroboration between all three of these witnesses. The rest of hierarchical administrations have been conventions of human agency, for good and bad. The witnesses of eternal ordinances are:
- The heavens (the cosmos),
- The stones (temples), and
- The clay (the human body)…
APOTHEOSIS SCROLL ABSTRACT
The mysteries of godliness are as old as the archaeological record of human civilization. From culture to culture the mysteries of godliness have revolved around the cyclical production and consumption of the Bread of Life, through saving the seed of the soul and transforming it into that very bread. The transformation of the soul was accomplished through the opening of astronomical seals in ascending order. For thousands of years and all around the world, an individual’s initiation in certain mysteries was the most transcendent, transformational, and holy experience in that individual’s life. Additionally, the performance of these celestial ordinances ratified the divinization of a civilization’s ruler while maintaining social order. The metaphysical cycling of the Bread of Life in the eternal human soul was rooted in the soil of this profane and glorious world where immortal gods came down from heaven to mingle, celebrate, and even suffer with humankind. These mysteries of great antiquity were an international phenomenon until the Roman Church eradicated them in the fourth century AD.
Among the most demanding priorities for the Roman state in the first century was the suppression of the Jewish revolt and the assimilation of Israel into the Roman body politic. Even while messianic Jews anticipated a ruler who would deliver them from Rome’s oppression, the Jewish sacrifice of the paschal lamb became a crucial element of the greater Roman mystery. As an element of Roman Mithraism, the Christian mystery expanded the almost superhuman spiritual and stoic capacity of a flayed and crucified historical man, a miracle-working Jew named Jesus, into a cosmic principle. In every astronomical age, the savior archetype of the past age is sacrificed, and, in its stead, a new archetype of the same eternal god is born. The Lamb, whose sacrifice would close out the age of Aries, was the savior of the world and the rising Sun to occupy the age to come. The Son of God theology attributed to Jesus undermined the militant monotheism of the Jewish revolt by cleaving Judaism along its monotheistic and more ancient polytheistic fault line. A generation of slaughtered Jews was saved from total elimination if they forsook their zeal for monotheism and the Law of Moses and acquiesced to Roman rule and the pluralistic values described in the New Testament.
The Christian mystery was a new variety of grain in the Bread of Life. It taught that the essence of Christ is the spark of divinity in everyman and even every slave. It was likewise with the disenfranchised women whose intrinsic value was culturally suppressed. For those with ears to hear and eyes to see, the Gospels cast the Marys in roles of ancient mystery archetypes performing celestial ordinances of ascension and deification from birth to resurrection. In an innovative and antithetical reformulation of messianic prophecy, the kingdom of God was restored through Israel’s pre-exilic familial polytheism still sacred and unforgotten to many of Abraham’s descendants.
The Apotheosis Scroll explores the ancient basis for the radical democratization of theosis Jesus exemplified, and why the Roman military deliberately legitimized and spread the primitive Christian mystery through Mithraism. The Christian mystery had more in common with the ancient mystery traditions of all of the world’s great cultures, including greater Israel and Samaria, than it did with the monotheistic institutions of Judaism. Similarly, the Christian Church, a totalitarian Platonist bureaucracy, was a later development that oscillated in its relationship to the original Christian mystery. The Apotheosis Scroll demonstrates the astronomical conceptualization and religious syncretization that may have produced ancient mystery motifs and the Christian mystery in particular. Though the language has been obscured and the stars darkened, the earth is a resurrection and divinization machine, and the clockworks of ascension have never slowed.
KAMRON COLEMAN ART 