Stargates Part 1

Stargates,              Ancient Rituals, And Those Invited Through 
             The Portal (Pt. 1)

Metaphysical nonsense, or              high-tech mechanisms built by "the gods"?

By Thomas Horn, author of The Ahriman Gate

In Matthew              16:18, Jesus Christ said he would build his church; "and the              gates of hell shall not prevail against it."

 Putting the word              "hell" in context here is important because whereas the later              meaning of the Greek word a/&dhß (transliterated "Hades"              hah'-dace) was confused with death and the grave (Thanatos              [also see Re 1:18]) at the time              Jesus chose to use this word, the reference was to the person              of Hades or Pluto, the god              of the lower regions, and Orcus, the nether world and realm of the              dead.

Why would Jesus mention a Greek              deity, as if Hades were a personal, sentient combatant? Perhaps              there is more than meets the contemporary religion-student's eye.

Backing up

These were the children of Gaia, who gave birth to the "elder" gods              by cohabiting with Uranus.

n Hesiod's Theogony we are told of              twelve pre-Olympian gods known as Titans, who ruled the Universe.

The important Titans included Oceanus,              Tethys, Mnemosyne, Themis, Hyperion, Lapetus, and Atlas.

When Uranus              attempted to imprison the Titans within the body of his wife (the              earth), Cronus, "the youngest and most terrible of her children,"              conspired with his mother and castrated Uranus with a sickle. The              mutilation of Uranus separated Heaven from Earth and succeeded in              freeing the Titans.

When the powerful Cronus later cast the severed              genitals of his father into the sea, a white foam enveloped them              from which Aphrodite was born; thus the name aphros, or              "foam-born."

Six famous god-children were              born of their union: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and              Zeus.

As the newly crowned king of the              gods, Cronus married his sister Rhea.

Mother Earth and Father Uranus warned Cronus that his              offspring would someday try to overthrow and replace him as the king              of the gods. Cronus therefore attempted to circumvent the              possibility of threat by swallowing each child whole as it was born.

Rhea was displeased and, "cunning as the night air," replaced baby              Zeus with a cloth-wrapped stone which Cronus unwittingly swallowed              instead.

She then hid Zeus at Crete where he was fed on the milk of              the goat Amalthaea and remained until adulthood, protected by the              nymphs.

Years later, Zeus made Cronus              regurgitate his brothers and sisters. A fierce ten-year war ensued,              and the younger, more powerful Olympians overthrew the elder Titans,              casting them down into Tartarus where they (except for Hecate) were              to remain fettered forever.

Eventually Zeus reconciled with the              Titans and proclaimed Cronus the ruler of the Golden Age.

Meanwhile              he summoned his brothers, Hades and Poseidon, and decreed that the              universe should thereafter be divided among them.

The sky became the              dominion of Zeus; Poseidon was chosen to rule over the sea, and the              inner-earth or underworld was declared the haunt of Hades;              notwithstanding the surface of the earth was determined neutral              grounds—a place where sky, sea and underworld joined, and where all              deities could merge.

Sky, sea, and underworld inhabited by              "gods", with earth the mutual gathering ground? The Bible mentions              the same as where powerful spirits are separated.

Hades and the Mystery Rituals

The Thesmophoria was the most popular of the              ancient Greek fertility festivals.

Held in honor of Demeter—whose              cult secrets were the most protected of the mystery religions—the              rituals were performed inside of the inner sanctum of the Temple of              Demeter (the Telesterion) and were so well-guarded by the Temple              devotees that little survived to enlighten us as to what actually              occurred there. Only those portions of the Thesmophoria held outside              the Temple were recorded, providing a sparse historical record.

What              is known is that the rituals of the Thesmophoria were based on the              mythology of the abduction and rape of Persephone (Proserpina), and              of Demeter's (Persephone's mother) subsequent actions in searching              for her daughter.

One day as Persephone plucked flowers in a grassy              meadow, Hades swooped down in his chariot and dragged her into the              underworld, where he forced her to become his bride.

Above ground,              Demeter was distraught by her daughter's disappearance and searched              the earth in vain to find her.

With the help of Helios and Hecate,              Demeter finally discovered the truth about what had happened. In her              fury, she demanded Hades release her daughter. When he refused, she              sent horrific famine upon the earth. Plants dried up; Seeds refused              to sprout, and the gods began to suffer from a lack of sacrifices.

Finally, Zeus dispatched Hermes to intercede with              the lord of the underworld. After great debate, Hades agreed to              release Persephone if she would eat a pomegranate seed.

What              Persephone didn't understand was that by eating the pomegranate seed              in the mystical location of the underworld, divine symmetry was              created that bonded her with Hades.

This ensured that the goddess              would automatically return to the underworld for a third part of              each year (in the winter), during which time the seeds of the ground              would not grow.

Persephone thus became the upperworld goddess of              youth and happiness, and the underworld queen of the dead; a dual              role that depicted her as both good and evil.

On earth she was the              goddess of the young and the friend of the nymphs who appeared in              the blooming of the spring flowers (symbolizing her annual return              from Hades), and in the underworld she was the dreaded wife of Hades              and the Queen of Darkness who controlled the fates of deceased men.

The reenactment of such myth—the abduction and              rape of Persephone—was central to the rituals of the Thesmophoria,              and, as such, key to interpreting the bits of information known.

The festival of the Thesmophoria—sometimes called              the Eleusinian Mysteries—lasted between three and ten days. Each day              of the festival had a different name and included specific rites.

A              highlight of the festival was a procession from Athens to Eleusis,              which was led by a crowd of children known as ephebi.

The ephebi              assisted in carrying the hiera (sacred objects), and in pulling a              statue of Dionysus as a boy (Iacchos), and finally in the ceremonial              cleansing of the initiates (candidates of the mystery religion) in              the sea.

Upon arriving at Eleusis, the women organized the              first day of the celebration (anodos) by building temporary shelters              and electing the leaders of the camp.

On the second day (nesteia)              they initiated the Greater Mysteries which, according to myth,              produced the cult's magical requests (a fertile harvest).

Such              mysteries included a parody of the abduction and rape of Persephone              and the positioning of the female devotees upon the ground weeping              (in the role of Demeter for her daughter) and fasting for the return              of Persephone (the return of spring).

The setting upon the ground              and fasting also intended to transfer the "energies" of the women              into the ground, and thus into the fall seeds.

On the fifth day of              the festival the participants drank a special grain mixture called              kykeon (a symbol of Persephone) in an attempt to assimilate the              spirit of the goddess. The idea was to produce an incarnated              blessing of fertility, both of crops and children.

About this same time certain women called "antleriai"              were cleansed in the sea and sent down into the mountainside              trenches to recover the sacrificial piglets and various other sacred              objects that had been thrown into the hillside canyons several days              before.

The sacred objects included dough replicas of snakes and              genitalia, which were burned with the piglets and a              grain-seed-mixture, as an offering to Demeter.

The reason for casting of the piglets into the              mountainside cliffs has been thoroughly debated and no single              interpretation has emerged as final authority. While mystical              representations can be made of the symbology, and the dough replicas              are obviously fertility symbols, pigs blood was sacred to the gods              and thus the piglets are key to understanding the ritual.

Greeks venerated pigs because of their uncanny              ability to find, and unearth, underground items (roots, etc).

Some              scholars conclude from this that the ritual casting of the pigs              "into the deep" was a form of imitative magic based on the              underworld myth of Persephone and Hades.

That is to say, casting the              piglets into the deep canyon trenches, and fetching them out again,              represented the descent of Persephone into the underworld and her              subsequent return to the surface of the earth.

The piglets in the trenches may also have served              the practical purpose of supplying a host (body) for Persephone to              occupy until the antleriai women could assist her (by retrieving the              piglets) in her annual escape from the underworld.

Burning the              piglets later that night would, according to the ancient religious              idea that fire passes the soul from one location to another, free              the spirit of Persephone into the upperworld (compare children              sacrificed to Baal who "passed through the fire" from the physical              world into the spiritual).

Yet the New Testament position seems to be that              such pagan rituals were the worship of demons.

"The things which the              Gentiles sacrifice," Paul said, "they sacrifice to devils..." (1              Corinthians 10:20).

This makes one wonder if a connection between the              ritual casting of the piglets into the deep canyon trenches              (representing a descent into hell), and the biblical story of the              Gadarene demoniac, existed.

Consider Luke, chapter Eight:

And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes....And                when he [Jesus] went forth to land, there met him out of the city                a certain man, which had devils....When he [the demoniac] saw                Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud                voice said, "What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God                most high? I beseech thee, torment me not"....And Jesus asked him,                saying, "What is thy name?" And he said, "Legion:" because many                devils were entered into him. And they besought him that he would                not command them to go out into the deep [emphasis                added]. And there was there an herd of swine                [emphasis added] feeding on the mountain: and they besought him                that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered                them. Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the                swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into                the sea [emphasis added], and were choked. (Luke 8:26-33)

Since the              principle elements of the sea, the swine, and the deep were              employed; and since the Abyss (part of the underworld) was central              to the narrative; and further since the cult rituals of the              Thesmophoria were well known throughout Asia Minor and were              considered by the Hebrews to be activity of the devil

The word deep in this text is Abussos (the              Abyss), and refers to the underworld Bottomless Pit.

(the              inhabitants of Hades were known as 'Demeter's people,' and Hecate,              the goddess of witchcraft, was Perserphone's underworld guide during              the rituals);

one could easily surmise that Jesus was either mocking              the Thesmophoria, or revealing to His followers that such rituals              were the consort of devils. It may be a stretch to interpret the              biblical story in this way, but clearly the similarities and              historical proximities are startling, especially given that the              demons requested entry into the swine.

Why would demons make such a plea?

There are two possible connections with the Thesmophoria:

1) the demons believed              that by entering the swine they could escape the underworld deep (as              in the magical Persephone escape ritual described above); and 2)              Jesus, by granting the request of the devils, was illustrating that              the Thesmophoria ritual of casting piglets into the deep was              inherently demonic.

Obviously there are other possible              interpretations of the narrative. Yet since this is the only record              of Jesus granting the petition of demons, it seems possible that a              powerful social commentary on a popular pagan idea, like the              Thesmophoria of Demeter, was made by Christ.

Once upon a time there was this Titan that escaped Hell

Hecate, the Titan earth-mother of the wizards and              witches, illustrates, perhaps better than Demeter, the connection              between sky, earth, underworld,              and the realm of evil supernaturalism.

She was the mother of the wizard, Circe, and              the witch, Medea. She characterized the unknown and night-terrors              that roamed the abandoned and desolate highways.

As the daughter of Perses              and Asteria, Hecate (Hekate) was the only Titan to              remain free under Zeus.

Hecate              was often depicted as a young maiden with three faces, each pointing              in a different direction, a role in which she was the earth-spirit              that haunted wherever three paths joined.

As the "goddess of three              forms" she was Luna (the moon) in heaven, Diana (Artemis) on earth,              and Hecate of the underworld.

At midnight, Hecate's devotees would leave food              offerings at intersections for the goddess ('Hecate's Supper'), and,              once deposited, quickly exit without turning around or looking back.

Sometimes the offerings consisted of honey cakes and chicken hearts,              while at other times, puppies, honey, and female black lambs were              slaughtered for the goddess and her strigae

(strigae were deformed              owl-like affiliates of Hecate who flew through the night feeding on              the bodies of unattended babies. During the day, they appeared as              simple old women, folklore that may account for the history of              flying witches.

The same hid amidst the leaves of the trees during              the annual festival of Hecate, held on August 13, when Hecate’s              followers offered up the highest praise of the goddess).

Hecate’s devotees celebrated festivals near Lake              Averna in Campania where the sacred willow groves of the goddess              stood, and they communed with the tree spirits (earth spirits,              including Hecate, were thought to inhabit trees) and summoned the              souls of the dead from the mouths of nearby caves.

It was here that              Hecate was known as Hecate-Chthonia ("Hecate of the earth"), a              depiction in which she most clearly embodied the popular              earth-mother-spirit that conversed through the cave-stones and              sacred willow trees.

Yet Hecate had other, more revealing names, and                these are the subject of our interest for the time being. These                included: 1) Hecate-Phosphoros ( "The Light Bearer" [recalling                another powerful underworld spirit whose original name was                Lucifer, "the light bearer"]); and 2) Hecate-Propylaia ( "The One                Who Guards The Gate").

Ancient deities known as "light bearers" guarding gates?

In the                Book of Revelation, chapter nine and verse fourteen, we read of                "the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates."

Bible scholars agree that sky, sea, and physical                earth contain spiritual forces behind barriers or 'gates'.

Likewise, in Job 26:5, the literal Hebrew translation says, "The                Rafa (fallen angels) are made to writhe from beneath the waters."

Additional biblical references indicate that the subsurface earth                is a prison or holding tank where God has bound certain fallen                entities.

That such spirits might seek to                move beyond their confines through human intervention or                invitation, is defined in Scripture. The Hebrew people were warned                not to communicate with spirits seeking to emerge from darkness (                Deut. 18:11), and, as an example, when the witch of Endor                communicated with the same, they ascended up from "out of the                earth" (1 Sam. 28:13).

Based on such scriptures, it seems reasonable                that an intelligent, functioning dynamic exists beyond or behind                mythology, which according to Christian doctrine is identical with                legions of fallen spiritual forces held within spiritual                boundaries.

It also appears that, by invitation, they can "ascend"                or transcend these gateways, presenting themselves as 'light                bearers' or angels of light (2 Cor. 11:14).

Following an interview with Stephen Quayle this last week, I received substantial email from people wanting to know more about my book The Ahriman Gate and the subject of inter-dimensional doorways.

Some wondered of "metaphysical" stargates where astral                soul projection could occur while others had questions about                etheric energy alignments between points in interstellar space                allowing vibrational energies to pass through distances of space                along the space-time continuum.

This is what I was talking about                from the moment I mentioned time-dimensional doorways, and the                entities that can and do move through them.

Since the beginning of                time and on every continent of the world the record bears the                frightening image of those who often come through:

Stargates Part 1

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