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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

#14 - Egyptian & Greek Mythology Demistified Via Psychedelics

History Moves West
Changing As It Does

"Herakles is the first great “master in the earth” from Genesis, Nimrod, transplanted to Greek soil. The Hebrew word for Nimrod means rebel. Greek artists depicted Herakles as carrying out a successful rebellion directed against Nereus, the Greek Noah. At that time, Noah’s was the only system to rebel against. Victorious rebels become heroes and replace one system with a different one. The meaning of the great hero’s name in Greek explains his new system as concisely as possible: Herakles means “the glory of Hera.” Hera’s glory was her place in the Greek pantheon as the queen of all mankind. Herakles’ rebellion replaced the authority of Noah with the authority of the gods of Zeus-religion." - The Parthenon Code  

As we have seen, knowledge of the three humans esteemed as Gods Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz (generally a bad idea) was effectively transferred to Egyptians under the titles Osiris, Isis and Horus.  Further documented evidence of this cultural transfer comes from the numerology found in both stories.  In both accounts it was 72 "conspirators" who gathered together to bring an end to Nimrod/Osiris.  There is a lot more connecting the Biblical account of Nimrod to Egypt's Osiris - such as that each were cut into 14 pieces at their deaths - but alas I haven't got Egyptian history on the plate today.

However, what we are going to look into is the way the legacy of Nimrod was taken into the West by the Greek's and Etruscan's.

Now Nimrod, was a mighty hunter before the Lord (that is to say against God).  It was Nimrod who initially slew the lions and predatory animals from around the villages in the flood planes of ancient Samaria.   This you would think is a good thing - and it certainly earned him the good will of the people in the villages.  However, he took this vested interest and set himself up as their king - before that every man was as a king and every woman a queen in their own house hold.  He constructed the first walled cities - as testified to in the surviving 5000 year old records - the Dead Sea Scrolls.

After his demise at the hands of his uncle and the 72 conspirators - the people, were then abouts left unable to communicate effectively and split up into different factions - probably from the low level consumption of sacraments without proper faith as evidenced in the silver dish showing one man on the back of another constructing a tower with fish and mushrooms all around.  Granted - the use of Psilocybin at low levels most always gives you additional strength/energy and some added creativity - but used outside the Dusty's prescription - one tends to wonder off into ones own private universe - there being no common rule of thought.  Out of this disbanded people the Greeks and Etruscan's moved west into modern day Greece and Italy. They carried with them the legends of a 'strong man' who faced many trials.  This man was always clothed in lion skins (which Nimrod gained his fame for slaying).  Below are some of the relics from Etruscan and Greek art history.

But first a little geography - the first waves of Etruscan migrants arrived around 2000 BC.  Early records indicate that these people came from the Anatolia region - which is modern day Turkey and the location of Noah's Ark.  This idea has been debated but both the DNA studies of the descendant cattle they brought to Italy match Anatolia and the historical data found in Herodotus indicate Anatolia.  It would like wise appear that the Etruscan's arrived first - for it was their people who when the Greek and Etruscan cultures combined had the earliest kings. 

As stated above both cultures - Greek and Etruscan - carried with them legends of a lion skin wearing warrior named Hercules.  Now the name Hercules (Roman) comes from the Greek word Heracles, which means 'for the glory of Hera' - a title that will prove important later.  As the case stands - one of Hercules tasks was the over throw of a being called Nereus.  Now this Nereus is an interesting cat - his name means 'The Wet One.'  The West Point graduate Robert Bowie Johnson's book The Parthenon Code shows that the Greek's and Etruscan's flipped the story of the Garden of Eden around to show it in a positive - human/ancestor deifying light.  In his work he carefully illustrates that Nereus was Noah who had survived the Flood.  So it is from Noah/Nereus that Greek version of Nimrod/Hercules is shown repeatedly in art - taking the mantle of authority from and forcing Noah to tell him the way of Cain and the secret knowledge of the Winged Serpent (Lucifer) - often shown as a Bearded Serpent in Greek culture - This winged or bearded ("wise") serpent is a reference to the LSD like Serpent Plant or Morning Glory.  Below artworks show this struggle:


Nimrod shown subduing Noah as Nersus (often denoted by the Fish Symbol).  While below this Hercules - whose name again means  'For the Glory of Hera after the deification of the fallen Eve or Athena - extracts the knowledge of the Flying Serpent Plant from Noah's head (knowledge).

 Above we see the classic Greek symbols denoting not only Nimrod/Hercules but also the Morning Glory snake like symbol - which are it's tendrils - remarkable because this "snake plant" could not stand up on it's own (think Genesis).   Below is a discovery made by Richard Evens Schultz - once head of the Harvard Botany Department from his book Plants of the Gods - The statue is of Xochipilli - Prince of Flowers - which I have dubbed 'The Rosetta Stone of Psychedelics.'

 
 Nereus struggling with Heracles, detail from a Greek water jar found at Vulci, c. 490 bc. A discerning eye will notice the Morning Glory flowers and tendrils at the jar bottom.

Here we see that Nereus holding the Fish Symbol but is being displayed not in his symbolic form as a Merman but was indeed a man as most all of the Greek gods were men and women - deified ancestors and gods as Plato called them (the method of this "transcendence" is called Apotheosis - that is, to become a "God" by the Mystery Schools who follow the New World Order typed out in their book - The Learned Elders of Zion.  

What a mouth full...  Sheesh sorry bout that

One last transformation that the Greek and Etruscan histories preformed is that of telling us about the Biblical line of Seth.  Seth's line were the first to start calling on The Name of the Lord (Psilocybin) after Eden but before the Flood.  Both the Egyptians and the Greeks kindled a special hatred for this line - who preformed the Giant task of building the Great Pyramid to warn and educate us & to survive the Deluge).  The Greek/Etruscan legacy remolds Seth's line as the Centaurs while the Egyptian's refer to Seth as the evil god sometimes called Set who killed and dismembered Osiris.  
Now horses were probably chosen because Seth's Line learned to love and tend to these animals and not the least of which reason was for that which grew on their dung.  The wood chips are commonly used to control horse manure stench.


Sometimes a picture is worth a 1000 words...





Tuesday, May 8, 2012

# 10 - Egyptian History & the Psychedelic Religions



As we step into Egyptian history we are faced with a challenge; some research suggests that Egyptian history was pre-deluge in origin.  Still, as with this example of the Narmer plate, we don’t know exactly how old it is.  As such it seems better to except the possibility of Egypt’s history being older than 3,200 B.C.  Anyway, let’s begin with the Bull,  classically associated with Amanita muscaria—Known to the ancient East Indians as “The Red Bull of the Mountain.”  Narmer is considered to be the first Pharaoh of united Egypt.  Here we see him marching with the crown of the South—The symbol of the Morning Glory—its spiral tendril so carefully depicted on Xochipilli the Aztec statue deciphered by the Harvard Botinist Richard E. Shultez.  Hence, Xochipilli has become the Rosetta Stone of Psychedelics.  Notice the Egyptians taming of the long necked lions…  Lions and lionization are closely linked to Psilocybin as we say in the Olmec culture (prior to the blending).  In front of Narmer walks a “long haired shaman” with “mushrooms hanging from his neck” as Adrian Morgan points out in Toads and Toadstools.  There are other symbols tied into this early Pharaoh’s record of conquest, but for now the Bull, the Lions, and the Spiral Tendril will foot the bill so to speak.
 
Khufu (2589-2566 BC) was the 4th Dynasty (2613-2498) Pharaoh who is claimed to have been the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Originally, the Great Pyramid stood 481 feet (146.6 m) tall. Although commonly called Cheops (and also Suphis) because of the late Greek influence on Egypt, the name Khufu is the original ancient Egyptian name for this king as demonstrated by his own cartouche (where was the cartouche found?  The author did not say) Khufu, seems to have reigned for approximately 24 years.

Although the Great pyramid has such fame, little is actually known about its builder, Khufu. Ironically, only a very small statue of 9 cm has been found depicting this historic ruler. This statue, pictured above, was not found in Giza near the pyramid, but was found to the south at the Temple of Osiris at Abydos, the ancient necropolis...

Why, if Khufu of the Egyptians was the builder of the Great Pyramid is there only one tiny statue of him left to us from history? 
Here is what scholars say about the antiquity of the Great Pyramid:
“Other researchers have observed radio carbon dating that places the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx at much older, pre-deluge dates.  In the words of one researcher: “the builders were either the Ice Age Civilization of 36,525 to 11,600 years ago, or, at the latest,  a part of a global Early Human Civilization that broke up about 6,000 years ago, and that the Giza Sphinx and Pyramids were already built about 5,100 years ago when Menes reunited Lower Egypt, including Giza, with Southern Upper Egypt.
 Mark Lehner also says "... Since most of the outer casing [of the Great Pyramid] is missing what you see now  is the step-like structure of the core.... they didn't join the [core] stones very accurately.
      ... I noticed that in the interstices between the stones and in this mortar was embedded organic material, like charcoal, probably from the fire that they used to heat the gypsum in order to make the mortar. ...we saw in many places ... fragments of tools, bits of pottery ... characteristic of the Old Kingdom. ... we did a first [radiocarbon dating] run in 1984 ... of some 70 samples from a whole selection of pyramids of the Old Kingdom ... getting dates ... that were on the average 374 years too old for the Cambridge Ancient History ... dates [such as 2550 BC for Khufu]."
 Mark Lehner in 1986 said (Hancock and Bauval, Message of the Sphinx, Crown 1996, p. 307) that 15 mortar samples from the Great Pyramid were dated by radioactivity at ... dates [that] run from 3809 BC to 2869 BC ... significantly earlier than the best Egyptological date for Khufu ... almost like a Bell curve ... when you cut it down the middle ... 400 to 450 years too early ..."
 In my opinion, when Menes reunited Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, with a capital in the Abydos-Luxor-Thebes region, around 5,100 years ago, the Southern Upper Egyptians (whose culture was more advanced technologically in areas from copper working to constructing walled cities) came into control of the Giza area and its preexisting Pyramids and Sphinx. “
 
The discovery of this boat buried at the base of the great pyramid suggests what author Noah Hutchings states in his book “The Great Pyramid—Prophecy in Stone.”  Namely that one of the two pillars erected by the sons of Seth before the flood was the Pyramid itself.  It is recorded in Scripture that one monument of clay and one of fire was built to the survivors of God’s cleansing.  The visionaries of Seth's line saw the destruction of the world by either fire or flood—unable to decide which they built a monument of clay and one of stone.  Stone survives water while clay withstands fire…  A boat buried at the base of the Great Pyramid of stone could indicate an awareness that only a boat could survive the deluge. 
Since this Pyramid stands on the old border that divided Lower and Upper Egypt it could well have been a standing monument when the Egyptians first arrived.  One thing is for certain, no Egyptians ever has built a monument of equal caliber to it.  The Prophet records the following in reference to it:
Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee…  Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day –Jeremiah 32:17,20
“During the first dynasty Egypt was divided into two kingdoms.  Because of its great antiquity, no one knows the exact date the first Egyptian dynasty began.  The twelfth dynasty was already established, according to the Egyptian historian Manetho, in 2000 B.C., at the time of Abraham.  Some place the first dynasty as far back as 4000 B.C., long before the flood.  However, according to Dr. Zaki Y. Saad, noted scholar of Egyptian history, the first dynasty began in about 3200 B.C.  King Aha of the first dynasty ruled over Upper Egypt and Queen Neithetep ruled over Lower Egypt.
 
The Pharonic ruler of Egypt was crowned with either the Upper, Lower or both the Double crown of both—depending on where he ruled.  The double crown of ancient Egyptians was generally referred to it as sekhemti, the “Two Powerful Ones.”   The Upper Crown, Psilocybin grew in the Marshes of the Goshen Valley.  The Lower Crown or Morning Glory was traded for in the South of Egypt—the Crown reflecting its tendrils.  Speaking of the crowns or “Stones of Pharaoh,” a study on contrast between the right handed path and the left handed path is found in Sting’s “Why Should I Cry For You.” - If North be true

Genesis chapter 3:22 states “Then the LORD God said “Behold the man has become like one of us to know good and evil and now lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life let us cast him out of the garden…” Interesting that the Yale University society “Skull & Bones” has the number 322 upon its door.  Here we see the ancient tradition of the Brahmin, Pharaoh and Cesar, in this case it is an Egyptian Queen sitting down to eat of Amanita muscaria in order to gain god-like knowledge by which “Care” or empathy is put to death…  The ancients now doubt believed that by eating of this bright red “fruit” they would, as the beguiling serpent had told Eve—gain eternal life and knowledge unto apotheosis…  That is godhood and eternal life.  Notice the icon showing the Ankh and the Amanita muscaria called the “Was” scepter.  

 
Ah the “Was” Scepter...  There was a time when the “Was” was considered all that.  “Was” was the Egyptian name for the power staff of pharaoh, as you can see it has gills and a mushroom head and body.  the open bulbous bottom of the staff is typical of Amanita muscaria.  The “Was” is Amanita muscaria, that Tree of Knowledge which caused our fall into ego and death.  Amanita muscaria has close ties with Beelzebub, the Lord of Fly's—and this mushroom is also called Fly Agaric.  Amanita muscaria had all the stop-sign warning colors one would need to know not to eat it—Yet as Genesis chapter 3:22 states “Then the LORD God said “Behold the man has become like one of Us to know good and evil And now lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of Life…” Psilocybin is the other tree, is it therefore the Ankh?  Tree of Life depicted as the sign of life?  Perhaps… The ankh has been linked to the “bee plant” which as seen above often has the “bread” symbol with it.
Genesis 4:26 states that “after the birth of Seth and once Seth had a child, men began to call on the name of God again.”  Perhaps this was a ‘lets wait and see if those mushrooms make Seth’s child deformed.’  

According to ancient Egyptian legend nomadic tribes surrounding Egypt worship Seth, Osiris “evil” brother.  Algerian Rock art showing “Bee Shaman” maybe linked to his worship.  The Seth Animal is a composite of  a dog body, anteater head and a tell tale sign for tail.  Egyptian deities also had a secret or hidden worship in which powerful psychoactive Sacraments were used.  The Seth Animal’s arrow tail is meant to bring up ideas about the other half of the arrow, the pointed end.  Golden arrows springing from the ground is as clear a match for Psilocybin as those who have eyes to see need.  It is interesting how pastoral mankind (Able?) vanished suddenly, but agricultural Egypt (Cain?) kept going… While the line of Seth lingered on until the Flood (Greek art depicted Seth line as Centaurs). Notice the arrow-tail on the Seth Animal, it too will continue, having first been seen in the ancient stone carvings of India...  It will appear again when Rome converts to Christianity…  

The story of the death of Osiris the primary deity of Egypt for much of its history is a very large part of Occult history and Mystery School Religion - its Symbolism reveals much.  Osiris was tricked into climbing into a coffin by 72 servants of Set, he was then drowned in the Nile river.  His wife Isis then found him in a Cyprus tree in Babalos (from where the world Bible comes).  Set or Seth however then cut the body of Osiris into 14 parts and dispersed them.  Nimrod, who stood against the God of Noah was himself killed and cut into 14 pieces by his uncle who saw how Nimrod lay with his own mother and set himself up as king over the people against the God of Noah.

Isis found all but one of the 14 pieces of Osiris—the phallus which as eaten by the Oxythynchus fish.  Interesting that this fish is given the qualities of an ant eater like the Seth Animal symbolic of the deity Set.  Now Isis reinstituted the body of Osiris with the 13 pieces she finds and designs a phallus of gold to replace the missing piece.  While the Oxyrhynchus fish is crowned with the symbol of Hathor—cow horns with the solar disk set in it (it is from cows that the heavenly bread comes forth - thus the association of Oxythynchus with Hathor.

Among the Mason’s, there is a riddle used to draw fellow craft’s men up through their ranks.  It is the “Lost Word of Freemasonry” which is used like a carrot to entice the student of the Mystery Schools up the latter of degrees.  This Lost Word is sometimes called the Name of God…  Yet the “Royal Secret” is never actually imparted to the neophyte as it was lost to them;  remaining  only as golden images like this Egyptian one showing the phallus of Osiris, or the Obelisk and also the Circumpunct.

Meanwhile, Herodotus the Father of History records that this same Hercules (Nimrod), whose name means for the glory of Hera— “is an ancient god” known first by the Egyptians and also having temples in Tyre that extended back “two thousand three hundred years” to the founding of the city of Tyre of Phoenicia.  Since we know that Herodotus lived around 450 BC we can extend that period to the founding of Tyre at around 2750 BC about 250 years after the Noahdic Flood.  This would place Hercules (Latin) or Herakles (Greek) at about the time of  Nimrod.

 
Egyptian men and women in temple and tomb artwork were commonly displayed with the Psilocybin mushroom upon their heads.  Often the psychotropic Blue Lilly was also displayed, here we see the aphrodisiac fruit of  Mandrake in yellow which was also a popular spiritual tool mentioned by Solomon in the Bible.  The symbolic caps that the Bemushroomed attendants ware is the true ‘sun-kissed’ fruit atop their heads—it isn’t an acid.  ColdPlay's “Politik” describes this glowing state where love is poured out on us… While their song “Strawberry Swing” describes the strait line “perfect day” of LSD…  Elsewhere the band records “if you love— the swing is broken…”  Strawberries have become synonymous with Acid/LSD in po-music culture—see “Strawberry Fields Forever.”  Is it the acid content - by association or the bejeweled nature of the straw-berry? Who knows???

 
The “wax cones” with their golden sun corona streaming down crown this Egyptian couples head too.  These ‘Cap Stones’ are the Egyptian way of saying “we are under the spirit of the Sacrament Psilocybin.”  Psilocybin has the additionally rare attribute of being one of the few Sacraments that has universally been given a set of eyes—denoting consciousness.  The Egyptian woman and the funeral flowers at center show these windows of the soul.  Besides Psilocybin, Blue Lilly and Mandrakes are also displayed above.  
This completes our study of Egypt and the tracing of the silver lining of Religion through this part of history.  Keep in mind the things you have learned as they will find niches all along the historical latter we are ascending and descending...  Next time we go to the East (the Mason's will like that) and India!



Monday, April 30, 2012

# 9 - History Begins: Noah's Flood & The Sumarian Civilization


Noah’s Ark today exists at the Durupinar site in modern day Turkey.  What would you expect a 5000 year old boat hulk to look like—one which was buried in mud for centuries?  ...Pretty much like the photo’s above.  The Ark slid down from higher above in a mud flow.  It seems God has preserved the Ark under the mud and uncovered it only recently so it could be seen and researched.  Stories of a flood are fairly universal like this one from the Michoacan tribe of Mexico:
“When the floodwaters began to rise, a man named Tezpi entered into a great vessel, taking with him his wife and children and diverse seeds and animals.  When the waters abated, the man sent out a vulture, but the bird found plenty of corpses to eat and didn’t return.  Finally, he sent out a hummingbird, which returned with a green bough in its beak.”

“The team says radiocarbon-dated wood taken from the discovery site—whose location they're keeping secret for now—shows the purported ark is about 4,800 years old, which coincides roughly with the time of Noah's flood implied by the Bible.” -National Geographic Daily News.
The Worshipers of  Oannes was Sumer’s first step into history, the dilated pupils suggest the way in which they worshiped.  “The Sumerian civilization developed on the Persian Gulf, growing to strength at around 4 - 3,000 B.C.  The 'Plain of the Land of Shinar' is the territory which after 2,000 B.C. became called Babylon.  The Greeks named the region Mesopotamia (The land between two rivers), most of which lies in the modern state of Iraq.  The exact origins of the Sumerians are unknown. They entered Mesopotamia c. 4,000 B.C.

    The original homeland of the Sumerians is unknown. It is believed that they came from the east (2), but whether by sea or from the highlands is unknown. We know that they are not local people because their language belongs to an isolated language group. During the 5th millennium B.C. a people known as the Ubaidians established settlements in the region later known as Sumer (Mesopotamia) The Ubaid 'Annunaki' c.4,000 B.C.

At around 3,250 BC, another people migrated from its homeland, located probably northeast of Mesopotamia, and began to intermarry with the native population. The newcomers, who became known as Sumerians, spoke an agglutinative language unrelated apparently to any other known language. (2)

Sumerian 'Priests' or 'Votive Statues' c. 3,000 - 2,500 BC.

By 3,100 B.C. the population of Sumer had increased to the point where people were living in cities.(2)

The first Sumerian ruler of historical record, Etana, king of Kish (flourished about 2,800 BC), was described in a document written centuries later as the "man who stabilized all the lands." (2)

The early dynastic period of Sumer covers the part of the third millennium from 2,800 to 2,400 BC, and ends with the conquest of Sumer by a Semitic king of the north, Sargon I of Akkad. (1)

It is noteworthy of the student to see that the hat of the Pope, that of Dagon is in the form of a fishes head...
The story of Oannes or the “Man Teaching Fish” arose first among the Babylonians.  Of whom the Tower of Babble is attributed.  Above at left you can see the “Fish” deity who taught the first civilization how to live.  “This Being was accustomed to pass the day among men; but took no food at that season; and he gave them an insight into letters and sciences, and arts of every kind.  He taught them to construct cities, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge.  He made them distinguish the seeds of the earth , and shewed them how to collect the fruits; in short, he instructed them in every thing which could ten to soften manners and humanize their lives.  From that time, nothing material has been added by way of improvement to his instructions…”  -Hall, 1988: LXXXIV.  Yet as you see, once “Eve” was tricked by those seeds of iniquity she led “Adam” or mankind away from the Golden Teacher—that Spirit behind the ‘Hand of God.’ See "Years Go By," Neil Finn.
Research has show that Civilizations formed around Religion, but Religion itself formed around Psilocybin.  .  The Sumerian’s, priest-historian Berossus left to us an account of Oannes, the half-man, half-fish you see in the above Sumerian clay seal.  Oannes was said to have the gift of writing, sciences and every kind of art.  It was Oannes who taught the early inhabitants of Mesopotamia the arts of civilization.  The fish stands by the tree of life over which the crescent moon and an eagle winged set of three deities reside.  Behind the talking fish rise the symbols for the Blue Lotus and the Poppy.  The Pope still wares the fish headed hat called the hat of Dagon. 
Many of the practices of and beliefs of Sumer were passed to the Babylonians and Assyrians then through contact and deliberate borrowing to the Hittites, Phoenicians and finally to the Greeks.  Some like the hat of Dagon have come down to reach us today others have not but are being uncovered.
Psilocybin was displayed at the palace of Ashur-nasir-pal II at Nimrud, in the 9th century BC. In ancient times the city was called Kalou. The Arabs called the city Nimrud after the Biblical Nimrod.  The first mention of Nimrod is in the Table of Nations. He is described as the son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and great-grandson of Noah.  A great builder, a Mason which in French means ‘the sons of light’ -but which light?   Notice this Tree of Life’s Scallop shelled fountain head with the pearl of ‘great worth’ within.  Jewish tradition and artwork will later include these keys as well some of the Mystery Schools history such as the Jewish month of Tamuz…
Ashur, son of Shem was one of Noah’s nephews. The Assyrians traced themselves to the god-ancestor Ashur and the city he founded by that name on the Tigris. In Plato's Euthydemus, Zeus, Athena, and Apollo are called his 'gods,’ 'lords and ancestors'.  Pay close attention not only the the scallop laced fountain of life but also the head dresses of king Ashurnasirpal II—it is the ‘mortar and pestle’ used to crush the head of the serpent—literally the Morning Glory seeds.


 
We’ve all heard the story of the Golden Calf, but few have heard why the Golden Calf was the image most recognized in the raw golden lump pulled from the furnace.  Here we see the causal links of association in this Assyrian artwork.  The human mind we it tries to discern the origin of the Sacrament Psilocybin, quickly deducts that it has no visible seed and not much in the way of roots.  So where does it come from?  We’ll it comes from the cow pie or horse dung, but the cow pie specifically produces the largest and most stately of the 184+ species of Psilocybin.  So then the reasoning mind (not being satisfied with “the divine mushroom of manure”), realizes that it is the Cow that produced the dung which produced the mushroom.  While that certainly contributed to why Cow’s were holy in India, it was the next step of reasoning that led to the golden calf idol…  The origin of the Cow is the calf, there was no earlier traceable material source for this magical golden manna that the Jew’s were all baptized into at the crossing of the red sea…  Thus through human reason we failed to know the source—the hidden God and worshiped instead the Golden Calf.
The Fall of Ancient Babylon. In 539 BCE (540 BC), the kingdom of Babylon was invaded in one night when Cyrus dammed up the river Euphrates, this dried up the Euphrates river and the soldiers entered the city under the walls and conquered the empire. He placed Darius the Mede as the ruler.

The Largest Army. Before the Greeks conquered Persia, Darius III assembled the largest army ever created to try and stop the progress of the Greeks (over 1,000,000 men from 40 different nations). He was still defeated by Alexander, who had no money and only 35,000 men, in the Battle of Arbela (also known as the battle of Gaugamela). Alexander was only 25 years old. The independent, warring Greek states allied themselves to fight for their freedom.

Too few have studied history, but if they had they would find that like our age, it is full of betrayal and failure to learn the lessons of history.  Among the Persians there came to be a king who had a son (Cyrus) that in a dream deposed him.  This king had the new born son disposed of by his first in charge.  The first in charge however gave the boy to a Shepard to keep.  When the king discovered this he secretly had the capital man eat his own child.  Later this Persian General turned on the king and joined the army of the Medes led by Cyrus.  It was this Cyrus that freed the Jews from captivity and according to his experiential spirituality with God, he was told to provide the means to rebuild the holy temple at Jerusalem which he did.  God has said that he raised up Egypt so that all the world might know His Name.  What does a pyramid with a long white walkway leading up to it look like?  Or what do fish and mushrooms have in common?  Scales, gills and dependence on water...  Next we will step into ancient Egypt and see where the path leads.