THE LAW OF THE GOSPEL
The initiate embarked upon his or her journey in a terrestrial state on the earthward side of the veil. Usually, after death, but sometimes while still in mortality, the initiate obtained a vision of celestial existence on the heavenly side of the veil, imagined as ORION ascended to heaven. The veil between the terrestrial and celestial kingdom, the MILKY Way tree of life, is continually guarded by two angels, GEMINI, who alone may grant the traveling soul safe passage if the sojourner is deemed worthy to penetrate the veil. The angels, or stars of GEMINI are the Two Olive Tree Witnesses, so named because they sprout from the trunk of the mother olive tree, or Milky Way ascending and arching across the vault of the sky.
Upon fully comprehending the initiation process, the initiate recognized ORION as an emblem of the initiate’s own transformation. In observing ORION from earth, the initiate perceived a mirrored counterpart above—a celestial twin. While the terrestrial initiate remained mortal and physical, the celestial twin represented the eternal, without beginning or end. Thus, one identity is terrestrial, the other celestial. The fundamental aim of temple initiation was to foster awareness of the initiate’s divine nature and the epiphany of his or her cosmic counterparts. Because it had always existed, and had seen the cosmos through an infinity of cycles, one’s celestial twin had experience and expertise unavailable to mere mortals and could reveal unspeakable eternal mysteries.
The initiate penetrated the veil only because the Marys at the veil anointed him. His mother was the first to anoint him by virtue of the ordinance of childbirth. By his birth to the Queen of Heaven, he was born with the potential to become as his mother and his father are- a queen and a king, a priestess and a priest of heaven.
In first century Roman Palestine, Philip, the apostle of Caesarea Maritima in the primitive Christian church, had two prophetess daughters who were a living type of the GEMINI constellation. Thus, Philip described the Marys in the family of Christ according to the celestial typology manifest even in his own household:
There were three who always walked with the Lord: Mary, his mother, and […] sister, and Magdalene, the one who was called his companion. His sister and his mother and his companion were each a Mary.
As for Wisdom, who is called “the barren,” she is the mother of the angels. And the companion of the [Savior was] Mary Magdalene. [The Savior loved] her more than [all] the disciples, [and he] used to kiss her [often] on the mouth.
-Gospel of Philip, saying 32 and 55
CANCER, whose element is water, particularly the water of the womb, is mother to the living soul. Her seals are on the front of the body and are especially evident in the womb and breasts. By contrast, VIRGO, or Wisdom, also called the Barren, is obtained to by ascending the seals of the spine. VIRGO is often shown holding sheaves of wheat represented by Spica, her most prominent star. Crucially to agriculturalists for millennia, the rising of Spica above the horizon in the spring meant the time for planting wheat. The setting of Spica below the horizon in the fall meant the time for the wheat harvest. VIRGO is closely associated with the constellation CRATER, the bitter cup. Hers is the path of the angels and the enlightened ones. It is a solo journey where marriage and children are not a part. Thus, VIRGO is mother to the angels, as described in Matthew 22:30 and surrounding verses. “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.” VIRGO and CANCER are the Barren and the Fruitful respectively. Although they are both kingdoms of glory their archetypal character is contrasted by barrenness or motherhood, as highlighted in the discourse of Jesus in Matthew 19:4-6, “And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder.”
On returning to the veil in adulthood, the ascending initiate has asked his bride for permission to enter in through the maternal matrix and into eternal life in the kingdom of God, or LEO, where a lion and a lioness rule as coregents. The birth anointing is the initiate’s descent into mortal life and the second, or marriage anointing is to the initiate’s resurrection, as described in each of the New Testament gospels with Jesus’ anointing by the Marys of GEMINI. Mary of Bethany whose mythical counterpart is Anat in Mesopotamia and Nephthys in Egypt, is his sister, called Wisdom the Barren. The other Mary in the pair representing the anointing angels of GEMINI is his bride Mary Magdalene:
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation…and they murmured against her. And Jesus said..She is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
-Mark 14: 3-9
The answer to why the olive tree witnesses wash and anoint the Lord’s feet for his resurrection is demonstrated in the Mari cylinder seal. Because he, ORION, has stood on the blood-soaked dirt of earth (TAURUS) and he wishes to penetrate the veil, he must be found worthy by the two olive tree witnesses to enter. Essentially, the initiate’s judges are his mother and his wife, the women who know how he treats women. In passing through the veil of the Milky Way Tree of Life and the river of everlasting life at its roots, ORION’s feet are washed in the very water of purification the feet of GEMINI are already immersed in. As one cleansed of the blood and sin of the sabbatical generation of TAURUS, the hunter shepherd may dare to gaze into heaven.
KAMRON COLEMAN ART 