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https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=psilocybe

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cubensis

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=magic+mushrooms

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https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+esoteric

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+esotericism

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+hermetic

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+hermeticism

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+alchemy

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+esotericism

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+woodcut

todo: my woodcut book cover image analysis

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+esoteric

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+esoteric

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https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+%22greek+art%22

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+%22greek+myth%22

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+%22greek+mythology%22

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushrooms+greek+mythology

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushrooms+greek+myth

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Selected Related Pages

• Gallery of Mushrooms in Greek & Christian Art
  https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/gallery-of-mushrooms-in-art/
  The present page. Dup the fav photos, only, to here. Link to all other pages; sync with such a link-list at the Site Map page.
• Resources for Researching Mushrooms in Greek & Christian Art
  https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/resources-for-researching-mushrooms-in-greek-christian-art/
• Images of Mushrooms in Greek & Christian Art
  • Images of Mushrooms in Christian Art
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/images-of-mushrooms-in-christian-art/
    • Additional Images of Mushrooms in Christian Art
      https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/additional-images-of-mushrooms-in-christian-art/
  • Images of Mushrooms in Greek Art
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/images-of-mushrooms-in-greek-art/
    • Additional Images of Mushrooms in Greek Art
      https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/additional-images-of-mushrooms-in-greek-art/
  • Images of Mushrooms in Western Esotericism Art
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/images-of-mushrooms-in-western-esotericism-art/
• Photo Galleries
  • Photos of Psilocybe cubensis Mushrooms, to Identify Mushrooms in Greek & Christian Art
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/photos-of-psilocybe-cubensis-mushrooms-to-identify-mushrooms-in-greek-christian-art/
  • Photos of Liberty Cap Mushrooms (Psilocybe semilanceata), to Identify Mushrooms in Greek & Christian Art
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/photos-of-liberty-cap-mushrooms-psilocybe-semilanceata-to-identify-mushrooms-in-greek-christian-art/
  • Photos of Amanita muscaria Mushrooms, to Identify Mushrooms in Greek & Christian Art
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/photos-of-amanita-muscaria-mushrooms-to-identify-mushrooms-in-greek-christian-art/
• Cloth
  • Billowing Cloth Theme in Greek Art, Indicating the Ecstatic Altered State
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/billowing-cloth-theme-in-greek-art-indicating-the-ecstatic-altered-state/
  • Lifted Garment & Mushroom Folds in Christian & Greek Art, Indicating the Ecstatic Holy Spirit Altered State
    https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/lifted-garment-mushroom-folds-in-christian-greek-art-indicating-the-ecstatic-holy-spirit-altered-state/

Pages Containing Images

See the images in the following articles/pages:

At my sites:

Defining “Compelling Evidence” & “Criteria of Proof” for Mushrooms in Christian Art
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/compelling-evidence-criteria-of-proof-for-greek-bible-mushrooms/

Canterbury Psalter Mushroom Inventory
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/canterbury-psalter-mushroom-inventory/

Christian Mushroom Trees
Gallery for my Plaincourault Wasson/Allegro article. Italian Pine tree photos, Psilocybe photos, a few Christian art images
http://www.egodeath.com/christianmushroomtrees.htm

The Entheogen Theory of Religion and Ego Death
Egodeath main article.
http://www.egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm

At other sites:

The Psychedelic Origin of Christianity
12 images
A gallery page, Sam Woolfe, 2013
https://www.samwoolfe.com/2013/04/the-sacred-mushroom-and-cross-by-john.html
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_biblianazar/biblianazar84a_02.jpg

Canterbury Psalter
At Ancient Psychedelia site which launched January 2019
~15 images at this one page:
https://www.ancientpsychedelia.com/canterbury-psalter/
Ancient Psychedelia : Alien Gods and Mushrooms Goddesses

Cybernetics in pre-modern Art in Greece, Egypt, Turkey
Cyberdisciple – Gallery of primarily Greek art from study travels
https://cyberdisciple.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/cybernetics-in-pre-modern-art-in-greece-egypt-turkey/

Mushroom in Christian Art, Chapter 3
John Rush
Keep expectations low, have to click each link to see (not skimmable like a Web Search: Images page)
http://www.clinicalanthropology.com/mushroom-in-christian-art/mushroom-in-christian-art-chapter-three/

Links to Individual Images

A large Y-branching dual mushroom, depicting the central message revealed in gnosis, about branching
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ade0d-thedarkchurchbyzantine11thcenturyfresco.jpg

Demeter holding out a mushroom to Persephone
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fe/dc/6b/fedc6bf260b988a8c63dfd2b30e29ab0.jpg

in Brown’s book
https://psychedelicgospels.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/11.8-Chartres-62-St-Eustace-2.jpg

reads as culinary, no hints of mythemeland
https://mykosan.com/wp-content/uploads/ancient-romans-ate-mushrooms-aquileia-basilica-mosaic-1024×672.jpg

This image looks as if it’s pages from a book on the topic of mushrooms in art:
http://www.evolveandascend.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/815bnLB-gpL-1.jpg

Page with plans for a book on the topic of mushrooms in art:
Carl de Borhegyi – familiar to me somehow. Maya, not Western, mostly.
https://mayamushroomstone.wordpress.com/
This image URL is associated with the above:
https://mayamushroomstone.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/dionysus-the-greek-god-of-the-vine-and-winemaking-and-ritual-madness-and-religious-ecstasy.jpg
Stylized grape vines with mushroom-shape bunches.

Selected Research Links

You can paste-in an image or a URL of an image, in a Web search engine such as Bing, to find other copies or croppings of the image if it’s online and crawled, to find info about it.

Image Search Links

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom%20greek%20arthttps://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Jesus+mushroomhttps://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Christ+mushroomhttps://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Christian+mushroomhttps://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Christianity+mushroomhttps://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+religious+arthttps://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushrooms+in+religious+arthttps://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom%20esotericismhttps://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Eden+mushroomhttps://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Eve+mushroomhttps://www.bing.com/search?q=amanita+christianityhttps://www.bing.com/search?q=amanita+christianhttps://www.bing.com/search?q=amanita+christhttps://www.bing.com/search?q=psychedelic+christian

High-Resolution Complete Canterbury Psalter
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item
High quality images, can be zoomed in a great deal without loss of resolution.
The hanging-man image is on folio 62v: 
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f134.item

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Contents:

• Intro
• 2020 Library Images Are Dark/Dull, 2022 Are Colorful/Bright
• Folio 11 – 4 rows, 3 cols – 15 mushroom trees, 1 lifted garment
  • God Creates Plants – Fresh Colors
  • Folio 11 row 1 right – 4 mushroom trees
    • Mushroom tree #1
    • Mushroom tree #2
    • Mushroom tree #3
    • Mushroom tree #4
  • Folio 11 row 2 left – 4 mushroom trees
    • Mushroom tree #5
    • Mushroom tree #6
    • Mushroom tree #7
    • Mushroom tree #8
  • Folio 11 row 3 middle – 1 mushroom tree
    • Mushroom tree #9
  • Tree of Knowledge – Fresh Colors
  • Folio 11 row 3 right – 3 mushroom trees
  • Mushroom tree #10
  • Mushroom tree #11
  • Mushroom tree #12
  • Folio 11 row 4 middle – Toiling: Eve Weaving, Adam Digging (3 mushroom trees; 1 hybrid vine-leaf/mushroom tree)
    • Mushroom tree #13
    • Mushroom tree #14
    • Mushroom tree #15
• f12 Folio 12 – 4 rows, 3 cols – 4 mushroom trees, 2 lifted garments
  • Folio 12 top – Cain Abel – 2 mushroom trees, 1 lifted garment
    • Mushroom tree #16
    • Mushroom tree #17
  • Folio 12 row 3: Sacrifice of Isaac (Mushroom Thicket)
  • Folio 12 row 3 – Ram Caught in Mushroom Thicket – 1 mushroom tree (mushroom thicket), 1 lifted garment
    • Mushroom tree #18 – Sacrifice of Isaac (Mushroom thicket)
• f13 Folio 13 – 12 panels – Burning Bush – 1 mushroom tree
  • Mushroom tree #19
  • Bestiary – Roasting Salamander Dancing Man
  • f14 Folio 14 – 3×4 panels – 0 mushroom trees, 0 vine-leaf tree – Moses
• f15 Folio 15 – panels – 7 mushroom trees, 1 vine-leaf tree
  • Folio 15 – Devil – 3 mushroom trees (1 hybrid mushroom/vine-leaf tree)
    • Mushroom tree #20
    • Mushroom tree #21
    • Mushroom tree #22
  • Folio 15 – Leper – 4 mushroom trees
    • Mushroom tree #23
    • Mushroom tree #24
    • Mushroom tree #25
    • Mushroom tree #26
• f16 Folio 16 – 3×4 Image Panels
• f16 Folio 16 – 12 panels – Bird Nests – 1 mushroom tree
  • Mushroom tree #27
• f17 Folio 17 – Image Panel, Many Circles
• f18 Folio 18 – 3×4 Image Panels
• f20 Folio 20 – 4 panels – 1 mushroom tree, 2 lifted garments
  • Folio 20 row 1 center: Jesus and Sophia dancing, 2 lifted garments
  • Folio 20 row 2 – Hanging from tree by arm, water source – 1 mushroom tree
    • Folio 20 row 2 zoom – 1 mushroom tree
    • Mushroom tree #28
• f21 Holding Scrolls
• Folio 21 – bookish – 0 0 0?
• Folio 22 -field of mushroom trees – 10 mushroom trees, 1 vine-leaf tree
  • Folio 22 left, zoom – 2 mushroom trees (this zoom shows one of them)
    • Mushroom tree #29
    • Mushroom tree #30
  • Folio 22 middle – 5 mushroom trees
    • Mushroom tree #31
    • Mushroom tree #32
    • Mushroom tree #33
    • Mushroom tree #34
    • Mushroom tree #35
  • Folio 22 right – 3 mushroom trees
    • Mushroom tree #36
    • Mushroom tree #37
    • Mushroom tree #38
• f23 Folio 23 – the letter ‘Q’ – 000 Q tail is Serpent Like Golden Psalter – resume here, adding heading for every image folio
• f25 Folio 25 – Absalom – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees, 2 lifted garment
  • Mushroom tree #39
• f27 YI Tree Touching Tower – King sitting up in ossuary – 0 0 0 ?
• f29 Folio 29 – Jaws of hades – 1 mushroom tree
  • Mushroom tree #40
• f32 Folio 32 – Jaws of Hades beds – 2 mushroom trees, 1 vine-leaf tree
  • Mushroom tree #41
  • Mushroom tree #42
• f34 Folio 34 – God’s sword and bow – 4, no 5, mushroom trees
  • Mushroom tree #43
  • Mushroom tree #44
  • Mushroom tree #45
  • Mushroom tree #46
  • Mushroom tree #47
• f38 Folio 38 – Red bird and fish – 2 mushroom trees, 3 lifted garment
  • Mushroom tree #48
  • Mushroom tree #49
• f40 Folio 40 – Lion in furnace – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees, 6 lifted garments
  • Mushroom tree #50
• f47 Folio 47 – Scales – 2 mushroom trees, 1 lifted garment
  • Mushroom tree #51
  • Mushroom tree #52
  • f47 Demolition
• f49 Folio 49 – Wheels – 2 mushroom trees, 2 vine-leaf trees, 3 lifted garments
  • Folio 49 left – 1 mushroom tree
  • Folio 49 middle – Gavel
  • Folio 49 right – Detail (a scroll is above it) – 1 mushroom tree
    • Mushroom tree #53
  • Folio 49 – Billowing Holy Spirit Garment Lifting – 1 mushroom tree, 1 vine-leaf tree, 1 lifted garment
    • Mushroom tree #54
• f51 Folio 51 – Laser flashlight, Left Branching, Right Non-Branching – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees, 1 lifted garment
  #55
  • Folio 51 zoom – 1 mushroom tree
• f53 Folio 53 – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees, 1 wheat tree
  • Folio 53 detail – Branching Left, Debranched Right – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees, 1 wheat tree
    • Mushroom tree #56
• f55 Folio 55 – Book pillow – 3 mushroom trees, 2 vine-leaf tree, 1 lifted garment
  • Folio 55 detail – 3 mushroom trees, 1 vine-leaf tree
    • Mushroom tree #57
    • Mushroom tree #58
    • Mushroom tree #59
• f57 Folio 57 – Three beds – 1 mushroom tree, 1 vine-leaf trees, 1 lifted garment
  • Mushroom tree #60
• f60 Folio 60 – Cracker on tables – 3 mushroom trees, 2 vine-leaf trees, 1 lifted garment
  • Mushroom tree #61
  • Mushroom tree #62
  • Mushroom tree #63
• f64 Folio 64 (not shown) – Torch down – 2 vine-leaf trees, 1 raised garment
• f73 Folio 73 (not shown) – Water pipe – 2 mushroom trees (small brown shiny), 3 raised garments
  • Mushroom tree #64
  • Mushroom tree #65
• f76 Folio 76 detail – God holding bow – 1 mushroom tree
  • Mushroom tree #66
• f78 Folio 78 detail – Cross furnace – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees
  • Mushroom tree #67
• f82 Folio 82 (not shown) – Three mothers – 1 vine-leaf tree, 1 raised garment
• f88 Folio 88 (not shown) – Pitcher table – 3 vine-leaf trees
• f90 Folio 90 (not shown) – River boats – 1 lifted garment
• f92 Folio 92 – Point to book scroll – 2 vine-leaf trees
• f96 Folio 96– Fountain scourges – 1 vine-leaf tree
• f98 Folio 98 – 1 mushroom tree, 1 vine-leaf tree
  • Folio 98 detail – Three lasers – 1 mushroom tree
    • Mushroom tree #68
  • Folio 98 detail – 1 vine-leaf tree
• f102 Folio 102 detail – Fire pit – 2 vine-leaf trees
• f104 Folio 104 – Wind storm – 5 vine-leaf trees
• f107 – 1 mushroom tree, 2 YI vine-leaf trees, One Touching Sun, one Touching Moon
• f107 – Lifted from Ossuary
• f107 Folio 107 – Lift from ossuary – detail – 1 mushroom tree, 1 vine-leaf tree – f107 – YI tree with scroll opened touching non-branching I
  • Mushroom tree #69
• f109 – 1 mushroom tree
• f109 Folio 109 – Net – detail – 1 mushroom tree
  • Mushroom tree #70
• f115 Folio 115 – Banner – 000
• f118 Folio 118 – Musicians – 1 vine-leaf tree
• f122 Folio 122 – Crucified up side down – 2 lifted garments
• f126 Folio 126 – Double lion – 2 vine-leaf trees
• f131 Folio 131 – Filling fountain – 000
• f134 Folio 134 – Leg-hanging mushroom tree with sword – 1 mushroom tree, 1 vine-leaf tree, 1 lifted garment, mushroom hem folds
  • Folio 134 Detail – 1 mushroom tree, 1 vine-leaf tree
    • Mushroom tree #71
• f141 Folio 141 – Leper demons – 000
• f145 Folio 145 – Light bulb – 1 mushroom tree, mushroom eaves
  • Folio 145 Detail – Right-side Debranched – 1 mushroom tree
    • Mushroom tree #72
• f149 Folio 149 – Two dogs (154 first non-Eadwine art)
• f156 Folio 156 Detail – An Almost Tree-Looking Tree (not Eadwine)
• f159 Folio 159 – Harp
• f161 Folio 161 – God in bed
• f166 Folio 166 – Horn spill – 1 lifted garment
• f177 Folio 177 – Right arm leg; right-hand Debranched – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees, 1 left/right hand
  • Folio 177 Detail – 1 mushroom tree, 1 vine-leaf trees, 1 left/right leg
    • Mushroom tree #73
• f186 Folio 186 – Two bulls altar – 2 lifted garments
• f190 Folio 190 – Hold half blue – 2 vine-leaf trees, 1 lifted garment
• f193 Folio 193 – 2 mushroom trees, 1 lifted garment
  • Folio 193 left – Two heads – 1 mushroom tree
    • Mushroom tree #74
  • Folio 193 detail right – Garment Lifted – 1 mushroom tree, 1 lifted garment
    • Mushroom tree #75
• Hybrid or Borderline Vine-Leaf/Mushroom Trees (move up into per-folio sections)
• f107 – YI tree with scroll opened touching non-branching I

Intro

done: make a new gallery page that includes all images/panels, regardless of whether they include a mushroom tree 😵 ⚰️

All of the Eadwine images:
Eadwine Images in Great Canterbury Psalter (Catalog Gallery)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/06/07/eadwine-images-great-canterbury-psalter-catalog-gallery/

Found 75 mushrooms trees in the Great Canterbury Psalter, numbered below.

Also found 45 vine-leaf trees and 39 lifted garments. To tally, summed the bold # in parent items only, in the Contents section; skipped child subheads.
Proof that the Canterbury Psalter’s Leg-Hanging Mushroom Tree Is Psilocybe; folio 134 below proves that these are psilocybe.

For a focus on each of the 75 mushroom trees and their morphology, see
The 75 Mushroom Trees of the Canterbury Psalter.

Contents, above, lists 1 item for each folio from Eadwine team; lists all of the Eadwine plates in Great Canterbury Psalter. On each, list how many:

• msh caps,
• msh trees, or
• other msh shapes/forms,
• raised garment
• other items of note for Transcendent Knowledge
• take notes/inventory each image/folio. account for all eadwine folios.

2020 Library Images Are Dark/Dull, 2022 Are Colorful/Bright

To see what year a picture was captured by me and uploaded to the WordPress gallery, right-click picture, Copy Image Address, paste into address bar, see year in URL.

f11 Folio 11 – 4 rows, 3 cols – 13 mushroom trees, 1 lifted garment

The First Image Folio = 11, Which Is the First Page that Has Content aside from an inserted text page

God Creates Plants – f11 Row 1 Right – Fresh Colors

Crop by Cybermonk, uploaded to gallery Feb. 14, 2023
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/eadwine-creator-of-plants-2023-02-15.png, local: “Eadwine Creator of Plants 2023-02-15.png” 3.7 MB [12:50 a.m. Feb. 15, 2023]
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom#

[4:08 p.m. April 2, 2023] added here

Folio 11 row 1 Right – 4 mushroom trees [old dark colors, 2020]

Mushroom tree #1

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/#1

Mushroom tree #2

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/#2

Mushroom tree #3

Mushroom tree #4

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/#4

Folio 11 row 2 Left – 4 mushroom trees

Mushroom tree #5

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/#5

Mushroom tree #6

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/#6

Mushroom tree #7

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/#7

Mushroom tree #8

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/the-75-mushroom-trees-of-the-canterbury-psalter/#8

Folio 11 row 3 Middle – 1 mushroom tree

Mushroom tree #9

Tree of Knowledge – Fresh Colors

Crop by Cybermonk, uploaded to gallery Feb. 20, 2023
https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/tree-of-knowledge-canterbury-f11-row-3-right.jpg, local: “Tree of Knowledge Canterbury f11 row 3 right.jpg” 468 KB [6:15 p.m. Feb. 20, 2023]
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f11.item.zoom#

[4:08 p.m. April 2, 2023] adding here above, b/c sick of not having it where it’s supposed to be, WTF!!

Folio 11 row 3 Right – 3 mushroom trees [dark colors 2020]

url https://egodeaththeory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-63.png –

Mushroom tree #10

Mushroom tree #11

Mushroom tree #12

Folio 11 row 4 middle – Toiling: Eve Weaving, Adam Digging (3 mushroom trees; 1 hybrid vine-leaf/mushroom tree)

f12 Folio 12 – panels – 2 mushroom trees (1 mushroom thicket, 1 mushroom ram), 1 lifted garment

Folio 12 Top – Cain Abel – Two Mushroom Trees – 2 mushroom trees, 1 lifted garment

Mushroom tree #16

Mushroom tree #17

f12 Folio 12 row 3: Sacrifice of Isaac (Mushroom Thicket)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f12.item.zoom

Folio 12 row 3 – Mushroom Ram Caught in Mushroom Thicket – 2 mushroom trees (1 mushroom thicket, 1 mushroom ram), 1 lifted garment

Mushroom tree #18 – Sacrifice of Isaac (Mushroom thicket)

f13 Folio 13 – Burning Bush (1 mushroom tree)

Mushroom tree #19

Roasting Salamander Dancing Man

f14 Folio 14 – 3×4 panels – 0 mushroom trees, 0 vine-leaf tree – Moses

url https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f14.item.zoom

f15 Folio 15 – panels – 7 mushroom trees, 1 vine-leaf tree

Folio 15 – Devil – 3 mushroom trees (1 hybrid mushroom/vine-leaf tree)

Mushroom tree #20

Mushroom tree #21

Mushroom tree #22

Folio 15 – Leper – 4 mushroom trees

Mushroom tree #23

Mushroom tree #24

Mushroom tree #25

Mushroom tree #26

f16 Folio 16 – 3×4 Image Panels

f16 Folio 16 – Italian Pine (with Bird Nests) – 1 mushroom tree

Mushroom tree #27 – nests tree

f17 Folio 17 – Image Panel, Many Circles

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f17.item.zoom#

f18 Folio 18 – 3×4 Image Panels

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f18.item.zoom

f19 – Text Only

f20 Folio 20 – 4 panels – 1 mushroom tree, 2 lifted garments

Folio 20 – Jesus Sophia dancing – 2 lifted garments

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/lifted-garment-mushroom-folds-in-christian-greek-art-indicating-the-ecstatic-holy-spirit-altered-state/#Jesus-and-Dancer

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/billowing-cloth-theme-in-greek-art-indicating-the-ecstatic-altered-state/

Folio 20 row 2 – Hanging from Italian Pine by Arm, Water Source – 1 mushroom tree

Folio 20 zoom – 1 mushroom tree

Mushroom tree #28 – right arm hanging saving life, left hand dangling leading to death – re-crop to show this situation

joke: Italian Umbrella Pines in Tree Canopy of One of the Italian Pines a.k.a. “Umbrella Pines” (Just to Clarify) a.k.a. “Parasols of Victory” for Those Really Astute Scholars

f21 Holding Scrolls

url https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f21.item.zoom

f22 Folio 22 – 10 mushroom trees, 1 vine-leaf tree

joke: Several Italian Pines, & Some Parasols of Victory as Well

Folio 22 Left – 1 mushroom tree (2 in left)

Mushroom tree #29

Mushroom tree #30

Joke: Detail of Italian Pine #2 of 10. Or of Parasol of Victory #2 of 10. Let the experts battle out this dispute amongst themselves. But DEFINITELY NOT mushrooms, Cubensis, Liberty Caps.

Folio 22 Middle – 5 mushroom trees

Mushroom tree #31

Mushroom tree #32

Mushroom tree #33

Mushroom tree #34

Mushroom tree #35

joke: 5 Italian Pines, 0 Parasols of Victory. Or the reverse. Anyways, Def Not Cubensis, Liberty Caps, & Amanita.

Folio 22 Right – 3 mushroom trees

Mushroom tree #36

Mushroom tree #37

Mushroom tree #38

joke: 0 Italian Pines, 5 Parasols of Victory. Or the reverse. Anyways, Def Not Cubensis, Liberty Caps, & Amanita.

f23 Folio 23 – the letter ‘Q’ – 000 Q tail is Serpent Like Golden Psalter

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f23.item.zoom

f24: text only

f25 Folio 25 – Absalom – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees, 2 lifted garment

Crop by Cybermonk
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https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f25.item.zoom

Old Dark Tones

Mushroom tree #39

f26

f27 YI Tree Touching Tower

Crop by Cybermonk
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https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f27.item.zoom

f28 text only

f29 Folio 29 – 1 mushroom tree

Mushroom tree #40

f32 Folio 32 – 2 mushroom trees, 1 vine-leaf tree

Mushroom tree #41

Mushroom tree #42

f34 Folio 34 – 5 mushroom trees

Mushroom tree #43

Mushroom tree #44

Mushroom tree #45

Mushroom tree #46

Mushroom tree #47

f38 Folio 38 – 2 mushroom trees, 3 lifted garment

Mushroom tree #48

Mushroom tree #49

f40 Folio 40 – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees, 6 lifted garments

Mushroom tree #50

f47 Folio 47 – 2 mushroom trees, 1 lifted garment

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• tearing down egoic thinking in loosecog
• scale balance king control agent
• branching Y’s touch demon control instability
• No left arm

f47 2020 Dark Colors

Mushroom tree #51

Mushroom tree #52

f47 Demolition

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f49 Folio 49 – 2 mushroom trees, 1 vine-leaf tree, 3 lifted garments

Folio 49 Left – 1 mushroom tree

Mushroom tree #53

Folio 49 Middle – Gavel

Folio 49 Right – Detail (a Scroll Is Above It) – 1 mushroom tree

Mushroom tree #54

Folio 49 – Billowing Holy Spirit Garment Lifting – 1 mushroom tree, 1 vine-leaf tree, 1 lifted garment

Dec 13 2020 9:17 a.m. — check John Rush book re: garment erection.

I propose that this theme of Christian art with garment lifted to the right, and looking back and up to the right, is equivalent to Greek art with billowing cloth.

Experiment to run; hypothesis: in Greek & Christian art, the billowing cloth indicating the the Holy Spirit altered state is usually to the left; to the figure’s right side.

f51 Folio 51 – Left Branching, Right Non-Branching Italian Pines – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees, 1 lifted garment

joke: Left Branching, Right Non-Branching Italian Pines – or Is It Parasols of Victory?? Only the Experts Know for Sure, But Definitely Not Mushrooms

Folio 51 Hi-Res Detail Zoom – 1 mushroom tree

Mushroom tree #55

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cubensis

f53 Folio 53

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f53.item.zoom

Folio 53 detail – Branching Left, Debranched Right – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees, 1 wheat tree

Mushroom tree #56

f55 Folio 55 – 3 mushroom trees, 2 vine-leaf tree, 1 lifted garment

Folio 55 Detail – 3 mushroom trees, 1 vine-leaf tree

Mushroom tree #57

Mushroom tree #58

Mushroom tree #59

f57 Folio 57 – 1 mushroom tree, 1 vine-leaf trees, 1 lifted garment

Mushroom tree #60

f60 Folio 60 – 3 mushroom trees, 2 vine-leaf trees, 1 lifted garment

Mushroom tree #61

Mushroom tree #62

Mushroom tree #63

f64 Folio 64 – 2 vine-leaf trees, 1 raised garment

deer with antlers

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f64.item.zoom#

f73 Folio 73 – 2 mushroom trees, 3 raised garments

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f73.item.zoom

Mushroom tree #64

Mushroom tree #65

f76 Folio 76 Detail – 1 mushroom tree

Mushroom tree #66

f78 Folio 78 Detail – Umbrella Pines in Tree Canopy – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees

Mushroom tree #67

f82 Folio 82 – 3 mothers – 1 vine-leaf tree, 1 raised garment

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f82.item.zoom

f88 Folio 88 (not shown) – Pitcher table – 3 vine-leaf trees

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f90 Folio 90 (not shown) – River boats – 1 lifted garment

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f92 Folio 92 – 2 vine-leaf trees

joke: Does Brinckmann Consider These to Be “Vine Leaves”? Vine = Non-Branching

f96 Folio 96- Fountain scourges – 1 vine-leaf tree

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f96.item.zoom

f98 Folio 98 – Detail – 1 mushroom tree

Mushroom tree #68

Folio 98 – Vine Leaf Tree Detail – 1 vine-leaf trees

f102 Folio 102 – Vine Leaf Tree Detail – 2 vine-leaf trees

f104 Folio 104 – 5 vine-leaf trees (broken from storm)

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f107 – 1 mushroom tree, 2 YI vine-leaf trees, One Touching Sun, one Touching Moon

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Features:

• The sun is above the I of the YI tree
• holding up in ossuary by right hand, like f177
• Note important lesson learned: I found this overall image by a scattered isolated crop of upper left vine leaf tree that looks like key tree in f177. PREVIOUS Previously I only extracted crops of msh tree – bad idea. Show entire panel especially if contains any msh trees.

f107 – Lifted from Ossuary

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f107 oh look at this, a YI tree with scroll opened touching non-branching I! touching sun light [9:21 a.m. April 4, 2023]

f107 Folio 107 Detail – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf tree

top is YI in middle: ~~

Mushroom tree #69

f108: text only

f109 – 1 mushroom tree

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Features:

• todo: analyze

f109 Folio 109 Detail – 1 mushroom tree

Mushroom tree #70

f115 Folio 115 – Banner – 0 0 0

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f118 Folio 118 – Musicians – 1 vine-leaf tree

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f118.item.zoom

f122 Folio 122 – Crucified upside down – 2 lifted garments

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f122.item.zoom

f126 Folio 126 – Double lion – 2 vine-leaf trees

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f131 Folio 131 – Filling fountain – 000

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f131.item.zoom

f134 Folio 134 – Leg-hanging Mushroom Tree/ Sword with Trained, Self-Threatening Psalter Reader – 1 mushroom tree, 1 vine-leaf tree, 1 lifted garment, mushroom hem folds

Hanging from Right Leg in Mushroom Tree (Canterbury Psalter f134) – Catalog of Image Crops
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/psalter-rows/

Proof that the Canterbury Psalter’s Leg-

Old Dark Dull Colors

Folio 134 Detail – 1 mushroom tree, 1 vine-leaf tree

Mushroom tree #71

old dull colors:

f141 Folio 141 – Leper demons – 000

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f145 Folio 145 -1 mushroom tree, mushroom eaves

Folio 145 Detail – Right-side Debranched – 1 mushroom tree

Mushroom tree #72

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cubensis

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mushroom+%22liberty+cap%22

f149 Folio 149 – 000

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f156 Folio 156 Detail – An Almost Tree-Looking Tree (not Eadwine)

f159 Folio 159 – Harp – 000

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f161 Folio 161 – God in bed – 000

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551125c/f161.item.zoom

f166 Folio 166 – Horn spill – 1 lifted garment

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f177 Folio 177 – 4 Horses, Right-Standing Guy, Egodeath Community, Storing & Weighing Out

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Features:

• Horses looking at non branching right trunk cap, and at right hands.
• The list is in my branching-message mushroom trees article, see that. Essentially cleared the way to decode entire image March 6, 2023.

Article title:
Branching-Message Mushroom Trees: Psychedelic Eternalism Depicted in Medieval Art as Branching Mushrooms, Handedness, and Non-Branching
Section:
Standing on Right Leg Supported by Right Hand (Canterbury)
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/branching-message-mushroom-trees-psychedelic-eternalism-depicted-in-medieval-art-as-branching-mushrooms-handedness-and-non-branching/#Extreme-Standing-Right-Leg

Right-hand Debranched – 1 mushroom tree, 2 vine-leaf trees, 1 left/right hand

Use unbeatably extreme lens of the Theory of Psychedelic Cybernetic Eternalism, don’t allow any more extreme interp to slip in.

Eadwine Horses Looking Smiling at Non-Branching Cap and God Holding Up Guy by Right Hand
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2023/02/28/eadwine-horses-looking-smiling-at-non-branching-cap-and-god-holding-up-guy-by-right-hand/

Old Dull 2020 Version Before They Saw My Site and Fixed Their Colors

Folio 177 Detail – 1 mushroom tree, 1 vine-leaf trees, 1 left/right leg

Mushroom tree #73

f186 Folio 186 – Two bulls altar – 2 lifted garments

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f190 Folio 190 – 2 vine-leaf trees

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f193 Folio 193 – 2 mushroom trees, 1 raised garment

Folio 193 Detail Left – 1 mushroom tree

Mushroom tree #74

Folio 193 Detail Right – Garment Lifted – 1 mushroom tree, 1 lifted garment

Mushroom tree #75

Hybrid or Borderline Vine-Leaf/Mushroom Trees (move up into per-folio sections)

folio 102 upper right – round leaf caps:

126 top center (double lion):

f177 lower left, 3 leaf caps:

f107 oh look at this, a YI tree with scroll opened touching non-branching I! [9:21 a.m. April 4, 2023]

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Contents:

• Image Search Links

• Incoming Ideas/Materials

• Consciously Identifying with Mithras (Female/ Passive/ Control-Thought Receiver), Seeing Lack of Control Over Sol (Male/ Fate-Ruled Control-Thought Inserter)

• Jorjani Asserts Mithraism’s Wine Was Amanita

• Mithras’ Right Foot on Ground, Left Foot on Powerless Bull

• The Two Torches: {torch making perceptible what’s above}, {torch making perceptible what’s below}

• Brittle-minded Idiots with an 8th-Grade Level, 1-Dimensional Conception of “Evidence” & “Claims”

• Essay Eye to Eye, in book Eye to Eye, by Ken Wilber

• Mithraism — Think with the Female-Male Mind of Mithras, Look at Sol not Just Luna, Blade Ego-Bull and Its World, in Its Vulnerable Control-thought Receptacle

• All Mithraism Material from My 2006 Main Article
  • Fatedness and Control in Astral Ascent Mysticism
  • The Potential for Control Breakdown and Transformation
  • Sacrificing to End Battling the Thought-Source
  • Bibliography

• Ulansey: The Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras

• Ulansey: Lion Standing On & Outside of the Sphere of the Fixed Stars – Heimarmene-Eternalism

Image Search Links

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tauroctony

Incoming Ideas/Materials

Proof that I haven’t had any new ideas since 1997:

https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/egodeath-yahoo-group-digest-111/#message5629 — On November 23, 2011, I wrote:

Consciously Identifying with Mithras (Female/ Passive/ Control-Thought Receiver), Seeing Lack of Control Over Sol (Male/ Fate-Ruled Control-Thought Inserter)

We tend to see Mithras as someone other than ourselves, but actually, that’s a half-truth.

The altered-state mind identifies with not the usual self-concept, but identifies as god-mode thinking instead; god-mode thinking possesses the mind and the identity. The mind in altered state identifies as Mithras —
the higher, trans-personal, awareness of true ruler behind the scenes (sol)
rather than as the usual
lower, egoic, pseudo-autonomous, local locus of control.

Here I’m thinking the opposite of what I’d expect: I’m thinking that the mind, as personal control system, identifies with Mithras-thinking, and has no control over Sol. So I have 3 control-locsuses:

• Luna; the usual
  lower, egoic, pseudo-autonomous, local locus of control.
• Sol, the control-thought inserter, which is always uncontrollable
• The mind of Mithras; my local control system but now identified as *higher* local, personal thinking; aware of uncontrollability of Sol the male control-thought inserter.

To my surprise, the above breakout seems realistic. I expected something more like:

• An alien separate entity, Mithras, takes over the local mind, and local mind is alienated from Mithras, and takes a stance against Mithras. (that’s not what happens)
• As the local mind, I’m identified with Sol (control-thought inserter), against far-away Mithras who I’m not id’d w/. (But, that’s not what happens.)

Mithras on the bull is not the usual personal egoic control agent idenity; Mithras is you, but not the usual the ordinary state of consciousness identity of you; Mithras is one’s other, higher self-identity.

Mithras is the higher, awakened self-identity, in contrast to the accustomed, lower identity.

This does not mean that the mind now gains control over its control-thought inserter.

It just means that the mind-of-Mithras, which is now my mind/identity, is aware, of *not* having control over the control-thought inserter.

The mind of Mithras is a helpless female mind, that is made by Sol to see the workings of the mind, and thus to sacrifice.

Sol, the worldline of control-thought inserter of thoughts, is forced to makes Mithra (the mind’s identity in its awake mode) sacrifice and disprove false power.

In the pact of Sol and Mithras, it is debatable whether Mithras is dominant, or Sol is dominant.

Mithras (the mind’s way of thinking in altered state), turns to look back behind virtual egoic control system, to look at Sol, the control-thought inserter, and away from the usual Luna (the passive control-thought receptacle).

Another control-locus identity is the Lion/fire figure outside the Zodiac, outside the fate-ruled cosmos.

Mithras is not all-dominant as I thought/expected; Mithras is female, passive, and helplessly looking back at Sol, the control-thought inserter.

Mithras is made to see Sol, thus made to sacrifice the bull, the power-claim of the virtual egoic control agent.

General key:

• Mithras is you.
• Luna is you.
• Sol is you.
• Lion-headed snake-wrapped figure is you.
• The torch-holders are you.

Hope this helps.

• Mithras is which aspect of you? __ The higher, god-mode thinking, trans-personal identification.
• Luna is which aspect of you? __ The lower, egoic, pseudo-autonomous, local locus of control.
• Sol is which aspect of you? __
• Lion-headed snake-wrapped figure is which aspect of you? __
• The torch-holders are which aspect of you? __

Jorjani Asserts Mithraism’s Wine Was Amanita

Yet more incontrovertible proof that the mixed wine of all Hellenistic Mystery Religions is native Christmas shamans’ secret Amanita cult!

🎄🍄🦌🦌🦌🦌🛷🎅🎁

Right here, this proves there are no mushrooms in Christian art. I can apply the same quality of Reasoning that the Minimal Mushroom theorists use:

1. According to the mushroom theory of Christianity, there’s a “secret Amanita Christian cult”.
2. But here we have a non-Christian Mystery Religion using Amanita.
3. Therefore, the “secret Amanita Christian cult” theory is debunked.
4. Therefore, there are no mushrooms in Christian art.

Q.E.D.

Jason Jorjani asserts:
“They also drank wine at these Mithraeum communion banquets, and the wine was laced with Amanita muscaria mushrooms, which were intended to produce a kind of out-of-body experience.” 2:20
Video:
Mithraism with Jason Reza Jorjani
YT ch: New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIQ0i_1eoJ8&t=135s
Some say AM is a poor pick and Psilocybe is more ergonomic. Those people are heretics contradicting the prophet, John Allegro.

It’s a tautology to say “I agree with half and disagree with half of Jorjani.”

The important thing is, I AGREE WITH THE GOOD IMPORTANT HALF OF WHAT JORJANI GETS RIGHT: Mushrooms + David Ulansey’s theory of transcending fate & time.

42:40 “the god of time & fate, Mithra in combat with the lord of time and fate”

44:00 “overcoming fatalism, exteriorizing the dark side of the human psyche… fighting evil as if it’s an independent force outside of yourself is the worst form of fatalism.

“So, overcoming fatalism and reclaiming your free will and human self-determination is the same thing as being able to integrate the shadow side of the human psyche. That was the esoteric project of Mithraism.”

46:20 “amenable to taking elements of ancient israelite … monotheism that integrates the shadow side of the human psyche into a kind of programme for the cultivation of higher consciousness.”

“Shamanic Mithraic magic…” Calling Mystery Religion “shamanic” is like calling Christian contemplation “Meditation”.

32:20 “Mithraism is aiming for an integrated state of consciousness beyond dualistic; attempts to integrate the shadow side of the human psyche rather than suppress it.”

21:30 – “the god of time & fate, Chronos, is a lion-headed gorgon-headed deity whose body is entwined by a serpent. Perseus gives Mithras Perseus …. his harpe sword for Medusa’s head, or the dagger for Mithras slays bull as he looks away …”

Don’t say “Mithras looks away”; say “Mithras turns to look to the right, looking back behind him, and up, at Sol, who Mithras has made a pact with.”

If anything, Mithras looks away from Luna, not “looks away from the bull”.

Mithras
{born from rock holding torch light in one hand, dagger knife in other hand} = to perceive is to sacrifice
[3:28 p.m. December 12, 2020]

Video:
Cult of Mithras Explained
ch: ReligionForBreakfast, Apr 18 2017
Images of Mithras {born from rock holding torch light in left hand, dagger/knife in right hand} at 11:20 = 680s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlF0gVedODE&t=680s

Mithras’ Right Foot on Ground, Left Foot on Powerless Bull

Noticed today; discovered yesterday/today: [December 11 & 12, 2020]: Mithra’s:

• Right foot is on the ground.
• Left foot lifted resting on the bull which is dying.
• Right hand stabs (blade inserted into wound) the bull in the bull’s powerful shoulder.
• Left hand not visible.

How often is {billowing cape} shown to the right?

The Two Torches:
{torch making perceptible what’s above},
{torch making perceptible what’s below}

{torch upward} = seeing/observing/experiencing fatedness

{torch downward} = seeing/observing/experiencing the uncontrollable source of control-thoughts

____

{torch upward} makes cosmic fatedness perceptible.

{torch downward} makes the control-thought injector and its frozen worldline perceptible.

In the mushroom altered state.

____

{look underneath} = perceive the frozen pre-existing worldline of personal control-thoughts

{look back behind you} = perceive the uncontrollable control-thought injector

{look above you} = perceive cosmic fatedness, heimarmene, pre-existence; eternalism

• The control-thought inserter = Sol, the male locus of control, uncontrollable by Luna.
• The control-thought receptacle = Luna, the female locus of control; the egoic virtual locus of autonomous control-power.

Brittle-minded Idiots with an 8th-Grade Level, 1-Dimensional Conception of “Evidence” & “Claims”

THE EGODEATH THEORY WOULDN’T EXIST AND I WOULDN’T BE WRITING THESE PAGES, UNLESS I BELIEVED THAT EVERY BOOK AND COMMENTARY AND ARTICLE — AND DISCUSSION-AREA “MOD” — IS CLUELESS CRAP THAT’S HALF FULL OF SH!T.

MOVE OVER, INCOMPETENTS; I’M DRIVING THIS THING.

http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/display.php?page=cautes_and_cautopates

Torch upward makes visible cosmic fatedness.

Torch downward [9:08 am December 12, 2020] makes visible the worldline of the control-thought injector, in the covered basket underneath the {egoic bull personal control system; personal virtual egoic control agent}.

One image, below, shows a cista mystica snake basket.

PantherX rightly comments “Couldn’t the torchbearers just as well symbolize spiritual enlightenment? [instead of literal astrological events]”

A fkkin DUMBASS “MOD”🔫 says a dimwit half-truth in response:

“Mithras studies are bedevilled by speculation. We cannot make such claims unless we have some actual evidence, and we do not.”

F*ck you, idiot — Mithraism studies would be NOWHERE without various types of what you maliciously and 1-dimensionally smear as “claims“, together with various types of “actual evidence”.

You’re full of sh!t, and the gist of PantherX’ comment is correct, spot-on, and supported by evidence of appropriate type.

Who the f made you gatekeeper, dumbass retard, trying to retard Mithraism studies: “We do not.” What fkking 1-DIMENSIONAL THINKING!

Either we “have evidence” or “do not have evidence”, according to this puerile 8th-grade-level argumentation/wording.

Jesus, hasn’t anyone read Ken Wilber’s great article, at start of his book Eye to Eye?

F*cking DUMBASS THOUGHT-BLOCKING MODs like this is why I broke-off and created the Egodeath Yahoo Group, from the GnosticsMillenium & JesusMysteries discussion groups.

Go to hell, idiot mods! Fkking retards. What a thought-blocking jerk.

The article itself reports speculations including:

• The torch-bearers represent the light of the sun rising & the light of the sun setting.
• Cautopates represents death; Cautes represents new life.

PantherX’s basic decoding-hypothesis,
{torch} = spiritual enlightenment
is much closer to correct and pertinent, than the proposals reported in the article/page.

{torch upward} = mushrooms make the mind able to see fatedness

{torch downward} = mushrooms make the mind able to see the normally hidden, uncontrollable source of control-thoughts

___

{torch upward} = seeing/observing/experiencing fatedness

{torch downward} = seeing/observing/experiencing the uncontrollable source of control-thoughts

Is the “Mod” going to censor the article, too, because “actual evidence … We have none” so therefore “We cannot make such claims“?

That’s his brittle, obnoxious word, his namecalling of PantherX’s decoding-proposal as “claims”.

What a HORRIBLE, INEFFECTIVE model of figuring sh!t out, this “Mod” has!

Science would make *no* progress with such a brittle, hamfisted “no thinking allowed” mentality like his.

Essay Eye to Eye, in book Eye to Eye, by Ken Wilber

The below section is copied from my WordPress page
Perennialist Religionism vs. Scientific Hanegraaffism
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/10/21/perennialist-religionism-vs-scientific-hanegraaffism/ —

Ken Wilber’s first two essays in the book Eye to Eye (1983) disprove the false dichotomy, the incorrect notion that “observation” only applies to material science. I read this book around 1988. In the 2001 3rd Edition Preface, Wilber writes (condensed), in two fully quotable paragraphs:

“The essay “Eye to Eye” uses the simple three (the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of contemplation) and suggests how even that simple scheme can shed considerable light on many recalcitrant philosophical and psychological dilemmas. “Eye to Eye” is still one of my favorite essays; the points it makes are more crucial than ever, since the orthodox mind, still embedded in scientific materialism, is deft to higher or deeper truths.”

[‘deft to’ — Wilber must mean ‘deaf to’ or possibly ‘daft regarding’ (silly; foolish). ‘deft’ means skillful, quick, adept”]

“The essay “The Problem of Proof” presents a full-spectrum empiricism: sensory, mental, and spiritual experience, all of which are equally experiential and can be validated, with evidence that is open to confirmation or rejection by the community.”

Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm
Ken Wilber
3rd Ed. (with new Preface)
https://amzn.com/157062741X

/ end of section about eye to eye copied from my other WordPress page

Mithraism — Think with the Female-Male Mind of Mithras, Look at Sol not Just Luna, Blade Ego-Bull and Its World, in Its Vulnerable Control-thought Receptacle

Shine torch light on the snake in the covered basket underneath the projected-image, “virtual egoic control agent” mask layer.

Remember the worldline of the control-thought injector, don’t forget that experiential perspective and revert to reincarnation into soul-thinking; freewill-premised, branching-possibilities-steering control-thinking.

The mind perceiving its puppethood to Heimarmene-Fatedness-Eternalism, is to “transcend” eternalism, to transcend its puppethood.

Article:
The Roman Cult of Mithras
http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/display.php?page=main

The shine-light-on-hidden-sh!t-going-on-in-your-control-power-center that snake underneath the empty mask as if the puppet/reflection local locus of control were autonomous when contrrol-thoughts are coming in unstoppably and uncontrollably, light makes visible through elevated –

Female-&-male Mithras turns to look back behind the mask of personal egoic control agent at Sol the real source of control , local control is at its mercy, at the mercy of whatever pre-existing control thoughts are in the near-future in the worldline of the control-thought inserter, at that time.

The mind is eternally laid out with those control-thoughts inserted at each time along the worldline of the control-thought-inserter — the snake we’re at the mercy of.

Mithras turns to remember and hang onto eternalism-thinking , and not turn to look left toward Luna and forget, and fall back into soul freewill possibilism-thinking and forget

DON’T FORGET ETERNALISM-THINKING

The mind seeks clear thinking regarding the personal control system, leads to purify/ purge/ disprove-away/ un-pollute.

If the goal is to get rid of or break free from possibilism-thinking, because it’s powerless and unstable and leads to cybernetic death/cancellation/complete overcoming of control/ loss of ballast of control.

This is actually can be similar to why McFakea stopped using the flesh of christ, he described meaningless of life but in some ways that’s similar to becoming able to, made able to think anything, to will anything, having no values, transcending usual thinking, values, ballast; shipwreck storm while possibilism-thinking remains.

possibilism-thinking + altered state = giving birth to a lion-faced serpent monster.

Female-&-male god Mithras instead of looking at Luna, he now looks at the hidden behind his projected mask of Luna, who was virgin, turns to the right in the eternalism-thinking direction, turning to look back to the right at Cybernetic theory.

Thinking with the mind of Mithras, torch light raising awareness and looking down at the double worldline of the distinct control-thought receptacle and control-thought injector.

The mushroomed mind now is brought to perceive the true locus of control, the hand hidden inside the puppet, now illuminated, made visible by the mushroom sacred self-sacrificing meal, the poison meal poisoning any remaining impurity, pollution, traces of egoic possibilism-thinking.

The mental conversion from possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking.

From the possibilism mental worldmodel of time, self, possibility, and control, to the eternalism mental worldmodel of time, self, possibility, and control.

TRANSFORMED FROM BRANCHING-POSSIBILITIES-THINKING TO PRE-EXISTENCE-THINKING.

“Branching-possibilities” = possibilism-thinking.

“Pre-existence” = eternalism-thinking.

That is verbose common words common parlance to say with pro jargon, efficiency, conciseness, of uncommon words used by the mind jammers. uncommon yet there are other meanings of these tech terms.

transformed from possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking

transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking

cista mystica snake basket
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cista+mystica+snake+basket
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cista+mystica

Established clearly: “Look down underneath” definitely means “look at the cista mystica; the normally hidden snake-carved-in-rock”; “look at hidden worldline underneath/behind the mind’s personal control-thinking, frozen snake-shaped source of personal control-thoughts.

{look underneath] = perceive the frozen pre-existing worldline of personal control-thoughts

{look back behind you] = perceive the uncontrollable control-thought injector

{look above you] = perceive cosmic fatednes, heimarmene, pre-existence; eternalism

WAY TOO EASY TO OVERLOOK: THE MEDIUM. THIS SNAKE IS CARVED FROZEN IN ROCK.

WE ARE LITERALLY SEEING, PERCEIVING, & LOOKING AT — LIT BY TORCH LIGHT IN THE UNDERGROUND DARK ROCK MITHRAUM CAVE,

A SNAKE EMBEDDED FROZEN IN ROCK, MADE VISIBLE BY TORCH LIGHT POINTED DOWN UNDERNEATH

A LITERAL CARVING OF A SNAKE EMBEDDED FROZEN IN ACTUAL LITERAL ROCK, MADE VISIBLE BY ACTUAL LITERAL TORCH LIGHT

caduceus = message, about two worldlines intertwined, male and female serpent king & queen co-rulers, rebis one body has Mithras but a female nature sacrificed the luna crescent bull.

The personal control system is revealed to consist of two distinct centers of power or apparent control locuses:

• the control-thought injector
• the control-thought receptacle

Look away from luna as locus of control, look toward the true ruler – the control-thought inserter along its worldline, Sol. virtual egoic control agent (consciously structured/modellled around the ctrc control-thought receptacle mis-taken as-if autonoumous, looks away; does not see the snake basket, the control-thought injector.

The control-thought injector is made visible to Sol.

Sol = the mind when aware of the control-thought injector.

Sol, unlike Luna, is able to see the workings of control in the mind, because the torch-bearer, giver of perceptibility, hands Sol a drinking horn of mushroom-wine. Mushroom = make perceptible rock snake in basket carved in rock.

The bull’s shoulder is its egoic locus of control power.

The egoic locus of control power is vulnerable to the control-thought inserter spear, become visible now in the snake in a basket.

• blade = control-thought inserter,
• serpent = the worldline of personal control-thoughts, of the blade, of the control-thought inserter, of the female+ now consciously is arrived the male part, the true ruler, the real locus of control & power. Not the projected and powerless female, control-thought receiver.

All Mithraism Material from My 2006 Main Article

Fatedness and Control in Astral Ascent Mysticism

Heimarmene or universal fatedness was centrally important in ancient astrological cosmology (Barton 1994), and was a major theme in Hellenistic-Roman astral ascent mysticism and religion (Cumont 1960).

Transcending astral fatedness involved ingesting holy food, ambrosial water, and astrological medicine (Fowden 1986).

Astral ascent mysticism centers around the dangerous gateway or “fatal” boundary crossing – the sphere of the fixed stars – representing the apprehension of Heimarmene and its control of one’s thoughts.

The stars wind around the world in a spiral pattern over time; this pattern is depicted by the Heimarmene-snake wrapped around the cosmos, cosmic egg, or Mithraic lion-headed gatekeeper figure.

The Potential for Control Breakdown and Transformation

Julius Caesar was authorized for power by his seizures, and the bull in his military’s Mithraic mystery-cult was wounded in the side, so the figure of Jesus was shown as similarly authorized by the spear-wound in his side, and the figure of the apostle Paul was portrayed as suffering from seizures.

The ability to make self-control seize or cancel itself dramatically is an afflicting thorn (2 Cor. 12:7-10), hole, or wound in our side, the innate cybernetic governance-failure through which the new, transformed life is born.

The new transcendence-aware self is given birth through the pride-killing disproof-wound in the side.

Jupiter Optimus Maximus means ‘all-good’ and ‘all-powerful’, as is hoped for from a protective deity when one is vulnerable to awareness of Heimarmene in the intense mystic altered state.

Mithras demonstrates that his arm wields control over the power of the bull’s shoulder. Sol is reconciled with Mithras in a pact, and given transcendent power. [ERROR – RECOGNIZING THAT SOL NOT LUNA WAS IN CONTROL THE ENTIRE TIME]

Sol becomes [IS NOW RECOGNIZED AS THE] an authorized charioteer, steering the quadriga with Mithras, guided by Mercury (or Hermes), who is holding a Fatedness-snake on a time-pole.

[ouch another “time-pole” half-on-target decoding — my December 2, 2013 lecture decoded {caduceus} message as:

the pre-existing injecting of control-thoughts by the control-thought source
+
the pre-existing reception of control-thoughts by control-thought receiver …
along the time-pole axis; “time-pole” = “pre-existence of future worldline of ctri & control-thought inserter + control-thought receiver, thus demonstrably no control… the mind of Mithras is the seeing of the fated unstoppability of control-thought injection.

if I (the local virtual egoic locus of control) have no ability to stop my future pre-existing control-thoughts that my control-thought inserter is pre-existing injecting, ….

i not only see powerlessness of control-thought receiver, i see relative powerlessness of control-thought inserter, ruled by Fate.

I see a hierarchy of power/powerlessness.

Breaking-Up the Quadriga Carving into 3 Scenes, to Describe the Elements of Each Isolated Scene

top:
Sol in altered state (billowing cape) steers the quadriga. Sol is the steersman.
his steering is cast in rock.
Able to perceive that Sol is the steersman carved into rock.
Hermes in altered state makes Sol fly high to the perception of the real control-source, the sun.
The mentality of Mithras turns to look back behind him to see this situation.

middle:
female-male Mithras shakes hands with Sol the steersman cast in rock, able to see the workings of fate-ruled control levels (both the control-thought inserter + control-thought receiver)

bottom
female-male Mithras with right hand controls, behind his mentality, control of the bull’s shoulder, control over personal control system’s power, Mithras stands (stability, groundedness), Sol kneels (perceives and remembers looking right, and sees the situation that Sol is the steersman controller frozen in rock with Mithras’ mentality in control over the will of the control-thought inserter (Sol).

A New, Clarifying Approach:
Arrange the Tauroctony Elements into a Hierarchy of Control-Power:
What Is the Revealed Chain of Control?

1. God the ultimate creator/controller of the block-universe world
2. the block-universe world
3. the control-thought inserter/injector
4. the control-thought receiver/receptacle

WHAT IS THE PERCEIVED/REVEALED CHAIN OF CONTROL?

The perceived/revealed levels of control; chain of control

(debatable/unclear – FIGURE IT OUT! — DONE.)

In terms of Core theory / the Cybernetic theory:

1. creator of the fate-controlled, pre-existing world
2. fate-controlled, pre-existing block-universe {rock} world
3. control-thought inserter/injector
4. control-thought receiver/receptacle

It turns out that
the bull (the seemingly autonomous personal control system)
is actually, under the hood/cover,
a control-thought receiver/receptacle
that is controlled by
the control-thought inserter/injector {sol}
which is controlled by
the pre-existing worldline of personal control-thoughts
which is controled by
god/ Zeus/God/ the Creator/ the Lion
outside the fate-controlled cosmos

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The mind changes:

From: this simple-single locus-of-control:
the bull (the seemingly autonomous personal control system)

To: this control-hierarchy:
God/ Zeus/ the Creator/ the Lion
the pre-existing worldline of personal control-thoughts
the control-thought inserter/injector {sol}
a control-thought receiver/receptacle

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In terms of Mystery Religion mythemes:

1. The trans-cosmic lion born outside of the rock
2. The block universe/ snake (or m/f snake-pair)-in-rock/ pre-existence/ Fatedness
3. Mithras
4. Sol/charioteer
5. Luna/ bull/ local virtual egoic locus of control, in the ordinary state of consciousness

[11:37 a.m. December 14, 2020] – chariot drawn by 2 Drakones =
the mind’s personal control system is controlled by 2 snakes =
controlled by 2 worldlines =
controlled by 1 Male worldline + 1 Female worldline =
the control-thought inserter/injector +
the control-thought receiver/receptacle
This perception of control-reality occurs in the fate-ruled sphere-and-gateway of the fixed stars (Heimarmene);

Creator-> fate-> control-thought inserter> control-thought receiver [cfir]
replaces
childhood simple monolithic “autonomous control-agent” thinking [csm]
monolithic “autonomous control-agent” thinking [macat]
“autonomous control-agent” thinking [acat]
monolithic autonomous control-agent [maca]
autonomous control-agent [aca]

Creator-> fate-> control-thought inserter> control-thought receiver
replaces
monolithic “autonomous control-agent” thinking

Creator-> block universe-> control-thought inserter> control-thought receiver

Creator-> block universe-> control-thought inserter> control-thought receiver
replaces
simple monolithic autonomous control-agent [smaca]
simple monolithic control-agent [smca]
monolithic control-agent [mca]

Creator-> block universe-> control-thought inserter> control-thought receiver
replaces:
simple monolithic autonomous control-agent

Tauroctony elements for Creator-> block universe-> control-thought inserter> control-thought receiver:

snake in rock =
the fate-controlled worldline frozen into the pre-existing block universe [fwfb]
the worldline frozen into the block universe [wfbu]
the worldline of control-thoughts frozen into the block universe [wctfbu]

1. Lion outside fixed stars/heimarmene
2. snake in rock – the fate-controlled worldline frozen into the pre-existing block universe
3. Sol – the control-thought inserter/injector
4. Luna – the control-thought receiver/receptacle

self-sacrificing, self-threatening, ending the dominance/claim of lower thinking, sacrificing the centrality/origin-claim of the egoic locus-of-control power claim/assumption. by demonstrating the threatening of it, acknowledges the actual control-chain:

1. God the ultimate creator/controller of the block-universe world
2. the block-universe world
3. the control-thought inserter/injector
4. the control-thought receiver/receptacle

Hekates’ chariot drawn by pair of drakones

Sacrificing to End Battling the Thought-Source

‘Sacrifice’ is a mental attitude of cooperative dependence on that which gives thoughts, your will having been overcome and made to will its own demise as an empty delusion, turned against itself by now-revealed transcendent power.

Sacrifice offers up and hands over your claim to effective independent power, as opposed to battling against your near-future self and the inherently overpowering source of all thoughts and movements of will. [a fate-ruled source of personal control-thoughts — at once, the control-thought inserter is all-powerful over the mind, and yet at the same time, that control-thought inserter is itself powerlessly subject to the Creator/ block universe/ even higher hidden source of control. in altered state becomes perceptible the whole chain of 3 levels of control:

1. the Creator
2. the pre-existing block universe
3. the control-thought inserter/injector
4. the control-thought receiver/receptacle

The mind in altered state switches from “simple autonomy of control” thinking (the bull, Luna, the Maiden), to “multiple (like 4) levels-of-control” thinking:

simple “virtual egoic autonomous locus of control” thinking:

the ordinary state of consciousness: simple virtual egoic autonomous locus of control

the altered state: multi-level control, with local non-control:
The mind of Mithras (the Mithras-mode, Mithras-shaped mind; God-mode thinking) perceives and enables demonstration of this chain-of-control situation.

1. Creator/god outside Fatedness; creator of the fate-controlled, pre-existing world
2. the fate-controlled, pre-existing block-universe {rock} world
3. the control-thought inserter/injector
4. the control-thought receiver/receptacle

practiced “[acro]/keyboard shortcuts” listing only:

1. creator of the fate-controlled, pre-existing world
2. fate-controlled, pre-existing block-universe {rock} world
3. control-thought inserter/injector
4. control-thought receiver/receptacle

“Sacrificing your autonomy-claim, acknowledging your dependency on that which ultimately gives you your thoughts, brings mental peace and harmony and calms turmoil.

You are relieved from increasing your attempt to grasp and secure power over your own power.

You are relieved from testing the power of your autonomy and the limits of your self-control thoughts.

Roman sacrificial altars are typically shown with a libation of concentrated, psychoactive unmixed wine being poured on the altar, which opens up a channel to the gods, along with the sacrificial animal such as the unresisting, cooperative bull.

The sacrificer pouring the libation has a cloth behind the head, representing the spiritual ecstatic state, where awareness is positioned outside of the usual mind, perceiving its functioning.

Mithras overpowering and sacrificing the bull represents the delusion of self-originated control-power being given over to the transcendent level, with Mithras’ arm wielding the bull’s shoulder and his knife piercing and fatally wounding it.

The wound in the bull’s side indicates Mithras demonstrating his power over the bull’s control-power.

Mithras wrestles and overpowers the initiate’s control of their will, reconfiguring their understanding of control-power to account for the transcendent givenness of one’s thoughts.

Sol represents the mind’s awareness, which in the dissociative state is positioned ecstatically outside the mind’s functioning.

The mind is possessed and overtaken by Mithras.

Pure awareness passively watches the sacrificial disproof of the mind’s claim to wield independent personal control-power.

A tauroctony fresco in a Mithraeum shows the self-command bull being sacrificed near the shoulder.

A Heimarmene-snake is inevitably drawn toward ingesting the entheogenic blood; often the snake approaches a wine-mixing bowl below the bull instead.

A blue-stemmed Psilocybe mushroom appears in Mithras’ leg and garment, with the stem proceeding through 7 steps, up to the stars.

The billowing cape behind Mithras indicates the ecstatic state.

The sphere of the fixed stars is shown on Mithra’s cape, inside the underworld cave.

The god forcefully pins the bull, who is paralyzed and unable to stand.

Mithras’ feminine features indicate the soul abducted and married by divine power.

Mithras turns to knowingly look back behind the conventional self-concept to see the source of thoughts and movements of the will.

Bibliography

Hoffman, M. A., C. A. P. Ruck, and B. Staples. “The Entheogenic Eucharist of Mithras”. Entheos 2.1:13-46 (2002).

Ulansey, D. “The Eighth Gate: The Mithraic Lion-Headed Figure and the Platonic World-Soul”. Forthcoming; online.

/ end of Mithraism material from my 2006 Main Article

Ulansey: The Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras

Article:
The Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras
David Ulansey
move the pole star, transcend Heimarmene.
http://www.mysterium.com/mithras.html

Ulansey: Lion Standing On & Outside of the Sphere of the Fixed Stars – Heimarmene-Eternalism

Article:
The Eighth Gate: The Mithraic Lion-Headed Figure and the Platonic World-Soul
David Ulansey
http://www.mysterium.com/eighthgate.html

[Below is a copy of this Ulansey article for markup. My comments in square brackets. Emphasis added. Condensed for clarity. -mh]

In the Barberini mithraeum in Rome, a serpent-entwined figure standing on a globe is depicted floating in the center of a zodiac which arches above the bull-slaying scene. Or, to be more precise, the globe on which the figure is standing is located in the zodiac, while the figure’s body extends above the zodiac into the region just beyond it.
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Mithraic leontocephaline or lion-headed figure always has a snake winding around him.

[within the snake-wrapped cosmos, in the altered state, we perceive that we are rock, wrapped in a rock snake, imprisoned in our {rock worldline prison/jail}; a person’s life is embedded imprisoned captive in rock, along a snake-shaped path -mh]

His position at the level of the zodiac [sphere of the fixed stars; Heimarmene] and just beyond suggests that there is a special connection between the leontocephaline and the region of the zodiac [fatedness; being ruled and controlled helplessly by fate, by eternalism].

The body of the leontocephaline is decorated with the zodiac, or stands on a globe representing the sphere of the fixed stars, on which the zodiac is located.

____

This connection between the leontocephaline and the zodiac can be clarified by noticing that in Origen’s Contra Celsum, Celsus describes a Mithraic symbol consisting of a ladder with seven gates, each associated with one of the seven planets [first the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, then Saturn], while at the top there is an eighth gate associated with the sphere of the fixed stars and leading to the region beyond that sphere.

[Beyond stars = level 9 or 10, the Empyrium, the dwelling place of God and of all the Elect; see my page:
Ptolemaic Astral Ascent Mysticism
https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/ptolemaic-astral-ascent-mysticism/ ]

The leontocephaline holds the key to the celestial gates

[the key = transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism to eternalism. This key gets the initiated mind into the domain of eternalism and of transcending eternalism. The key to the gateway to enter “the Eighth and Ninth” spheres/regions -mh]

The leontocephaline is never linked in Mithraic iconography with any of the planets [spheres-and-gateways #1-7], but is clearly associated with the zodiac [sphere-and-gaetway #8], he has a special connection with Celsus’ eighth gate— that of the sphere of the fixed stars *AND* the realm beyond it— since it is on that sphere that the zodiac lies.

[It is a fallacy, to separate:

• The 7th, final planetary sphere-and-gateway, Saturn, scyther-away of childhood-thinking, from
• The 8th sphere, the sphere-and-gateway of the fixed-stars, which rules over the cosmos with fatedness/ eternalism/ heimarmene.

The spheres-and-gateways of Saturn and fixed stars are one and the same.

Saturn = sphere of fixed stars = the mind is made to sacrifice possibilism-thinking while the mind is made to enter the domain of eternalism-thinking (no-free-will/ heimarmene/ dependent puppethood/ eternalism).

Of course this proposal is tantamount to collapsing the entire model of “sequence of initiations” into a single moment-of-complete- all-at-once initiation.

The function of separating the Saturn gateway from the fixed-stars Zodiac gateway, is to express “initiation / purification by stages, in a series of 9 initiations”.

–mh]

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In addition, the painting at Barberini depicts the region outside of the zodiac— into which the leontocephaline’s body extends– in a specific way: above the zodiac is an arch containing a row of six altars with fires burning on them.

Scholars have often assumed that these fires represent the planets. However, there are two decisive arguments against this explanation.

First, the fires are depicted as lying beyond the zodiac, which is of course contrary to all Greco-Roman astronomy, in which the planets are understood as being closer to the earth than is the sphere of the fixed stars on which the zodiac is located.

And second, of course, there are only six fires, while the planets are always seven in number.

In response to the problem of there being only six fires, it has been suggested that the leontocephaline either hides or substitutes for a seventh fire.

However, this suggestion is untenable, since a Roman relief from the Esquiline remarkably resembling the Barberini painting, there are clearly only six fire-altars above Mithras.

In fact, there also exist tauroctonies in which there are nine fire-altars or four fire-altars above Mithras, indicating that the specific number of altars was not fixed.

____

the Mithraists understood the cave in which Mithras kills the bull as symbolizing the cosmos, since in the Esquiline relief the arch separating Mithras from the six fires above is the roof of the cave, while in the Barberini painting exactly the same position and role are filled by the arch of the zodiac.

____

Second, the Esquiline relief also includes a second set of fire-altars, this time indeed numbering seven, at the very bottom of the image. Most scholars are now agreed that
the animal figures in the bull-slaying icon
represent
a series of constellations located on the sphere of the fixed stars.

the seven fires placed in the Esquiline relief below the bull-slaying — that is, below the sphere of the fixed stars– are in the proper astronomical location for the planets.

Thus the lower set of fires agrees both in number and position with the planets, and thus most likely does represent the planets, while the upper set of fires does not fit with the planets either in number or in position.

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But if the six upper fires in the Esquiline relief and the Barberini painting do not represent the planets, what do they represent?

An obvious answer to this question is immediately apparent if we merely take seriously the fact that the fires in the Barberini painting are clearly located outside of the zodiac, and hence beyond the sphere of the fixed stars. For throughout antiquity there existed a widespread belief that the outermost region of the cosmos was occupied by a realm of fire.

[{fire} = the Psilocybe altered state burns away any possibilism-thinking pollution remaining

cow-dung blue-stem mushrooms = Psilocybe cubensis
liberty cap mushroom = Psilocybe semilanceata
-mh]

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Deriving from the experience of the light-giving quality of the stars and planets, the light- and heat-producing quality of the sun, and the upward-moving tendency of fire, the earliest Greek philosophers already identified the sky as a realm of fire.

As Charles Kahn says, “Both Parmenides and Anaxagoras seem to have identified the aither or sky with elemental fire….” and Anaximander’s cosmology placed a sphere of flame at the outer boundary of the universe.

The Pythagorean Philolaus appears to have held a similar opinion, since according to Aetius he said that in addition to the existence of a fiery “hearth” at the center of the universe there is “…again another fire at the uppermost place, surrounding the whole.”

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Plato as well seems to have adopted the idea of fire as existing in the furthest region of the cosmos in Timaeus 62D-63E, since, as F.M Cornford notes in his commentary on this passage, for Plato the elements are here understood as arranged “in a definite order: fire around the circumference (where it is the chief constituent of the stars’ bodies), next the spheres of air and water, and earth at the center.”

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The idea of a fire at the outermost boundary of the universe later became a commonplace in Stoic thought.

Cleanthes, for example, according to Cicero taught that “the most unquestionable deity is that remote all-surrounding fiery atmosphere called the aether, which encircles and embraces the universe on its outer side at an exceedingly lofty altitude.”

Chrysippus, notes David E. Hahm, speaks of “the aether, which is the name he gives to the fire at the periphery of the cosmos.”

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Among the Middle and Neo-Platonists there was also a widespread belief that the outermost region of reality was a fiery domain.

Based on Plato’s famous allegory of the cave and of the sun-filled realm outside of it, the doctrine arose that beyond the universe– in the “place beyond the heavens” (hyperouranios topos) of Phaedrus 247B-C– there existed a hypercosmic sun or light (I have discussed this in detail in my article “Mithras and the Hypercosmic Sun“).
Article:
Mithras and the Hypercosmic Sun
David Ulansey
todo: also could excerpt and comment on. {born from rock} = {born from rock-snake-wrapped rock egg} = “outside the sphere-and-gateway of the fixed stars (Heimarmene)”; transcending eternalism; ransomed/redeemed and set free from imprisonment in the frozen-rock eternalism-prison.
Journal print page layout:
https://c225284de2bfd8ddba3a-1f65ea6b54cffc44ac06d29d1bbf1a1c.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/ws_02_ulansey.pdf
Ulansey’s webpage of the article:
http://www.mysterium.com/hypercosmic.html

An early example is found in Philo’s De Opificio Mundi VIII.31, where he speaks of

a star above the heavens, the source of those stars which are perceptible by the external sense, and if any one were to call it universal light he would not be very wrong; since it is from that the sun and moon, and all the other planets and fixed stars derive their due light….[10]

And a bit further on, in XXIII 69-71, Philo pictures a mind journeying through the world and then up through the heavenly spheres until it [the mind] passes the outermost boundary of the universe [ie the sphere-and-gateway of the fixed stars; the Zodiac -mh], at which point “rays of divine light are poured forth upon it [the mind] like a torrent, so as to bewilder the eyes of its [the mind’s] intelligence by their splendour.”

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Finally, an exact parallel to the picture in the Barberini mithraeum of a fiery realm outside the cosmos is found in the Chaldaean Oracles.

In the Chaldaean cosmology, the highest world is beyond the cosmic sphere (hyperkosmios or hyperouranios)[12] and is called the fiery cosmos or the “Empyrean” realm (kosmos pyrios or empyrios).

[good, the expected confirmation of my Theory/prediction/understanding — “the Empyrean” = outside the cosmos = outside the sphere-and-gateway of the fixed stars (Heimarmene); Empyrean = transcending eternalism or eternalism-thinking. -mh]

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Given all of this evidence for the ancient belief in the presence of a fiery realm at the outermost place in the universe, the depiction in the Barberini painting of fires just outside the boundary of the cosmos makes perfect sense.

Indeed, additional support for a connection between the leontocephaline and the aetherial cosmic fire can be found in the fact that the Mithraic leontocephaline, as is well known, is frequently associated with fire-symbolism in a variety of ways, extending even to the existence of statues of the leontocephaline apparently designed so that fire could be sent shooting out of its mouth.

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However, an additional factor in the Barberini painting may help us gain further clarity about the significance of the Mithraic leontocephaline.

It is notable that the placement of the leontocephaline at Barberini seems designed to emphasize the concepts of boundary and boundary-crossing.

The globe on which the figure stands is located exactly on the arching zodiacal boundary of the universe, while the figure itself extends beyond that boundary as a kind of incarnation of the process of boundary-crossing.

[see Key Mythemes catalog: {gateway} -mh]

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The leontocephaline has a connection with the idea of a cosmic boundary, then crucial pieces of his cryptic symbolism take on a new importance.

[Ulansey identifies the mytheme of {transcending the sphere-and-gateway of the fixed stars (Heimarmene)} but he doesn’t exactly identify the referent; the specific item in “things that are observed and experienced in the altered state”, in terms of Psilocybe-induced loosecog, altered-state transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking. -mh]

The key that he always holds — the key is one of the most appropriate of all symbols of boundaries and boundary-crossing.

Thus the goddess Hekate, mistress of boundaries and crossroads, was from Hellenistic times on often associated with the symbol of the key.

And in his work On the Genius of Socrates 591 A-C, Plutarch describes how the three Fates guard the thresholds between cosmic realms, each of them holding a key.

[“the three Fates” — there’s my number 3 that I was looking for to decode {the three snakes}; the chalice cup of 3 snakes

{three snakes} = Fatedness-awareness; experiencing/ observing/ perceiving/ seeing Fatedness

[8:23 a.m. December 12, 2020] -mh]~~

Significantly, the first of these cosmic thresholds, presided over [ie guarded] by the Fate Atropos, is that which separates what is outside the cosmic sphere from what is inside it.

[2nd & 3rd??]

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The key held by the Mithraic leontocephaline, then, indicates his role as a type of boundary guardian: specifically, as we have seen, the Barberini symbolism shows that he is associated with the boundary between what is inside and what is outside the cosmic sphere.

But what could be the significance of this boundary such that the Mithraists were motivated to personify it in the form of a powerful divine being?

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An answer to this question can be found in the fact that the Mithraists were surprisingly not alone in the seemingly peculiar act of personifying the cosmic boundary.

For in the Chaldaean Oracles (where, as we saw earlier, it is taught that there exists beyond the universe a realm of fire) the boundary between the cosmos and what is beyond was personified in the figure of the goddess Hekate, a central divinity in the Oracles’ religious system.

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The figure of Hekate in the Chaldaean Oracles derives ultimately from speculations on Plato’s description of the World-Soul in his dialogue Timaeus.

There, Plato says that the Demiurge– the creator of the universe– as part of the process of creation made a soul for the cosmos as a whole.

Plato says that the Demiurge set this “World-Soul” in the center of the cosmos “and caused it to extend throughout the whole and further wrapped [the body of the cosmos] round with soul on the outside….”

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The World-Soul of Plato became the object of extraordinarily complex and far-reaching speculations in subsequent Platonic and other Greek philosophy, but it always retained its role as the boundary of the cosmos and the mediator between the cosmos and the realm beyond.

The fact that in the Chaldaean Oracles this abstract entity became personified as the goddess Hekate shows that it is at least plausible that the Mithraic leontocephaline could represent a similar personification of the cosmic boundary.

[lion-in-rock-on-Zodiac = crossing boundary — REGARDLESS OF WHETHER we describe that as:

• Transcending possibilism-thinking to reach eternalism-thinking.
• Transcending eternalism-thinking to reach ultra-transcendent thinking.

{fire} = altered state = crossing boundary (regardless of issue of “transcending eternalism”) -mh]

This plausibility is strengthened by the fact that the Chaldaean Hekate, like the Mithraic leontocephaline, is constantly associated with an array of symbols involving fire.

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But the key piece of evidence supporting our hypothesis that the leontocephaline is a symbol of [crossing] the cosmic boundary, and that he is linked, like the Chaldaean Hekate, to the Platonic World-Soul, lies in the most consistent of all of the attributes of the leontocephaline: namely, the snake wrapped around him.

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Many explanations for the presence of the snake wrapped around the leontocephaline have been offered, focusing on the snake as a solar symbol, as a symbol for cosmic time, or as a symbol of the celestial ascent of the soul.

However, the connection between the leontocephaline and the cosmic boundary and World-Soul that we have been tracing here suggests an additional factor: for there exists solid evidence that the World-Soul in its role as boundary of the universe was symbolized as a serpent.

[
{snake} = boundary between possibilism-thinking & eternalism-thinking
Pretty equivalent:
{snake} = boundary between eternalism-thinking & transcendent-of-eternalism-thinking
The radical thing for mind to deal w/ is, in general, transformation of the mental worldmodel from possibilism-thinking to eternalism-thinking. eternalism-thinking could include “t’ding eternalism”. -mh]

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This evidence is found in Origen’s Contra Celsum, immediately following his discussion of the Mithraic eight-gated ladder.

In Book VI, chaps. 24ff., Origen discusses the teachings of the Gnostic sect of the Ophites or serpent-worshippers as expressed in certain diagrams of theirs.

In one of these diagrams, he says, was “a drawing of ten circles, which were separated from one another and held together by a single circle, which was said to be the soul of the universe and was called Leviathan.”

Origen goes on to explain that this Leviathan is a great serpent, symbolizing the soul [‘soul’ implies freewill thinking; not spirit] that permeates the universe.

That this serpent specifically represents Plato’s World-Soul is proven by the fact that according to Origen the diagram showed Leviathan twice, once in the center and once around the circumference, just as in the Timaeus Plato said that the World-Soul was placed in the center of the cosmos and also wrapped around the outside.

Other Gnostic systems also made use of this symbol of a serpent wrapped around the outside of the universe: according to the Pistis Sophia, “The outer darkness is a great dragon, whose tail is in his mouth, outside the whole world and surrounding the whole world.”

[ulan doesn’t mention “outer darkness”, he was talking about “world soul” ??]

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Here we see the Platonic World-Soul as boundary of the cosmos symbolized by an encircling serpent.

The parallel with the Mithraic leontocephaline as the serpent-entwined symbol of the cosmic boundary

there is in Mithraic iconography another figure besides the leontocephaline who is depicted as entwined by a serpent: namely, the god Oceanus.

Oceanus is often depicted in the tauroctony beside the image of Mithras ascending in the chariot of the sun, and is easily identifiable by associated watery symbols such as waves, a boat, an oar, a vase, or a sail.

[sail = billowing cloth altered state]

However, a number of times the figure beside the image of Mithras in the chariot is depicted as entwined by a serpent in exactly the same way as the leontocephaline.

As Manfred Clauss and M.L. West have noted, this serpent-entwined figure must also be Oceanus.

But why is he entwined by a snake exactly like the leontocephaline?

Fig. 7: Oceanus (on right) with waves and holding sail over head (CIMRM 2244)

Fig. 8: Oceanus (on right) entwined in serpent (CIMRM 1958)

Our discovery of the leontocephaline’s connection with the boundary of the cosmic sphere provides an obvious answer to this question, for of course the most important function of Oceanus in antiquity was as a symbol of the outermost circular boundary of the world.

The fact that both the leontocephaline and Oceanus are identically entwined by a serpent, therefore, makes perfect sense: the serpent around each of them symbolizes their roles as ultimate boundaries.

And, conversely, the fact that in Mithraic iconography Oceanus– the boundary of the world– is entwined by a serpent provides remarkable support for my claim that the serpent-entwined leontocephaline also symbolizes the cosmic boundary— and hence the Platonic World-Soul– as indicated by the Barberini painting.

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In the Acts of Thomas, the same text that includes the famous Gnostic Hymn of the Pearl, the apostle Thomas is confronted by a serpent.

The serpent speaks to him, and at one point says, “I am son of him who girds the sphere about; and I am kinsman of him who is outside the ocean, whose tail is set in his own mouth.”

[
{ouroboros} = eternalism/ heimarmene/ fatedness/ no-free-will
-mh]

Here, exactly as in the Mithraic evidence, we find an enclosing serpent related simultaneously to the world-containing ocean and to the boundary of the cosmic sphere.

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If the leontocephaline did indeed function partly as a symbol for the ultimate boundary of the universe, this would be in complete harmony with the theory I proposed in my book The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries that Mithraism began as a religious response to Hipparchus’s discovery of the precession of the equinoxes.

[ie Mithraism uses mythemes as a symbol/analogy to describe things that are observed and experienced in the altered state -mh]

Mithras represented the force responsible for moving the entire cosmic sphere in the way revealed by Hipparchus’s discovery

Mithras was understood as a divinity whose essential power lay in the hypercosmic realm.

[personal control power isn’t based in possibilism-thinking;
personal control power is based in eternalism-thinking & hyper/trans eternalism-thinking).]

A symbol for the division between the cosmic and hypercosmic realms would have come to play an important role in the iconographical repertoire of his worship.

/ ulansey lion article

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Experiment: I’m starting this WordPress page to look into this site. As feared, worst-case: 404, for the .org domain. Looks like they went with the .com domain instead: http://ancientesotericism.com –

Curious: even the .com website, in its About texts, says “.org”, but looks like they lost that domain.

The only thing I know about this website is that it’s mentioned in a 2015 newsletter of esotericism scholarship:
The Newsletter of
the European Society for
the Study of
Western Esotericism.

The site is about Western Esotericism as manifested in ancient Mediterranean religion.

Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity

http://ancientesotericism.org <– false; .com instead.

Dylan M. Burns —

“In 2014–15, Sarah Veale and I both focused our energy on continuing to develop and update the NSEA website, ancientesotericism.org. [sic; .com]

Traffic and subscriptions increased significantly in the past year.

The site has also begun to be used by members outside of the ESSWE and has garnered mention in the ancient religious blogosphere more widely.

It is succeeding in fulfilling its purpose as a bridge between scholars working in:

• Western Esotericism.
• Ancient Mediterranean religion.”

Website upper left About text:

“AncientEsotericism.org is the website for the Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity (NSEA), a thematic group associated with the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).

Our website provides resources and information for students and specialists of ancient esoteric thought, history, and literature.”

About page:
https://ancientesotericism.com/about-2/

Ancient Esotericism.org is the website for the
Network for the Study of Ancient Esotericism (NSEA),
a thematic network associated with the
European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).
NSEA specializes in the study of
esoteric phenomena of the ancient period
and provides contact for
specialists of
ancient esoteric thought, history, and literature.

This website is intended as a resource for scholars and students.

While

the ancient sources (Gnostic, theurgic, Neoplatonic, Hermetic, etc.) of Western Esotericism

possess enormous importance for
the development of
esoteric currents from the fourteenth century onwards,
there remains only a minimum of interaction between the antiquity experts and their (proto)-modern colleagues.

The Network therefore is intended to:

• Introduce scholarship on ancient esotericism to students of Western Esotericism.
• Serve as a forum in which to exchange ideas, notes and references, etc. outside of other professional bodies which are not concerned with esotericism per se.
• Provide a junction of the many resources online that can serve as aids in the study of this fascinating and difficult material (dictionaries, textual corpora, blogs, etc.).

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