It is about trying to work out the intentions of the writers of the Gospels. To attempt to reconstruct how the gospels came to be written, we have to consider what the source documents were. The Gospels have an astrotheological framework grounded in observation of precession of the equinox. The interesting thing is that this framework has been suppressed and hidden for the last two thousand years. If we imagine Jesus Christ as the hidden genius responsible for this big idea that gave the impetus to the embroidered tales, we do come back to an evemerist reading, but one that is entirely different from conventional pictures. You can consider this a gospel according to Robert Tulip.
The most comparable modern writer in my view is
Milutin Milankovitch. He worked in complete isolation and great difficulty to develop a mathematical model of how orbital factors, primarily the Great Year of precession of the equinox, are the primary long term drivers of regularity in the cycles of terrestrial climate seen in glaciation. After being mocked and ignored, Milankovitch is now recognized in mainstream science as a brilliant genius.
If we think of Jesus in similar light as an astrotheological genius who studied the long term patterns of astronomy, we can imagine that he travelled from Israel to Egypt in his youth, and like Moses and Plato, learned the ancient wisdom of Egyptian star religion, with its amazing scientific precision and beauty, as the basis for understanding how the earth relates to the cosmos in terms of slow temporal cycles. The key and decisive observation at his time was that in the slow sweep of the stars against the seasons, the alignment had reached exactness in 20 AD, as predicted at Daniel 9 in the prophecy of the 69 weeks from Ezra to the Anointed One. This turning point of time, shown in the diagram below, marks the moment when the spring equinox passes from its location in the sign of the Ram, Aries, to the sign of the Fishes, Pisces.
If this observed change in the heavens is postulated to be reflected in world history, we then have an ancient basis to see Christianity as a new age religion, and can speculate that Christ wrote core lost texts that explained this vision. Here I wish to focus on two of these texts, the
feeding of the multitude in the miracle of the loaves and fishes and the prediction of the second coming in the
Olivet Discourse.
Feeding the Multitude: in this miracle, Jesus produces abundant resources by 'looking up to heaven', complaining that no one understands him, and transforming a few loaves and fish into enough food to feed thousands of people. Considered as astrotheology, as an allegory for the shift of precession into a new zodiacal age, loaves are the sign of Virgo while fish are the sign of Pisces. At the Jewish New Year at the spring equinox in March, the position of the sun was precessing from Aries into Pisces, while the position of the full moon (Easter) was precessing from Libra into Virgo. Based on the 'as above so below' Hermetic cosmology of Egypt, reflected in Jesus' prayer 'thy will be done on earth as in heaven', this decisive
syzygy was shifting the earth from an axis symbolized by balance and lamb to an axis symbolized by loaves and fishes. If the loaves are the Easter moon in Virgo and the fishes are the Easter Sun in Pisces, we have a cosmic framework for a new age, a roughly 2000 year long period that is only now ending. Similarly, the 4000 or 5000 men who are fed represent the stars of the sky. A further allegory is that the five loaves are the five visible planets, while the two fishes are the sun and moon. The twelve baskets of broken pieces left over are the twelve signs of the zodiac, the months of the year.
The parable here is that the old age of Aries/Libra had lost its creative dynamism, and that human spirituality had to orient to the emerging positions of the cosmos that would characterize the time to come in the then dawning age of Pisces.
If the loaves and fishes symbolize the Age of Pisces/Virgo, then the Second Coming symbolizes the future age of Aquarius/Leo. This is a model of time that finds strong reflection in Christian sources with the idea, through Peter and Augustine, that a day is as a thousand years to God. Augustine taught that there would be seven thousand years from creation to consummation of the cosmos, matching to the seven days of Genesis, with the last day as the sabbath day of peace as the time of the second coming of Christ. Setting this cosmology against the framework of precession, as shown below, we see that the mythic time of Adam is the dawn of the Age of Taurus, Abraham and Moses represent the Age of Aries, Christ is the avatar of the Age of Pisces, and the Second Coming of Christ inaugurates the millennium of global peace in the Age of Aquarius. The old estimate is two thousand years per age, producing a creationist history of the universe over 3.5 ages. It is possible to take this material out of its creationist milieu and understand it against the scientific observation of astronomy, seen in precession.
The Olivet Discourse coheres precisely with this framework as an explanation of "the end of the age". The term "age" here has a parsimonious and elegant scientific meaning as the period in which the spring equinox would occur when the sun is in the constellation of Pisces. In saying that the gospel of the kingdom of god would be preached to the whole inhabited earth and then the end would come, the prediction is that the story of the Age of Pisces would be that a message of its origin would become a basis for global religion before it would be explained correctly. The prediction is that the messiah would need to come twice, first to establish universal belief, at which time he would not be understood, and then to convert this universal belief into universal knowledge. So the first coming of Christ was essentially a time of preparation for an actual salvation of the world that will occur with the shift to the new age of Aquarius.
There are two plausible models for the timing of the Age of Aquarius. Precession has a period of 25765 years, giving an age period of 2147 years, suggesting a transition point more than a century in the future. However, using the findings of Milankovitch to see how this spin wobble drives the climate, we find that the whole orbit of the earth is processing around the sun, shortening the precession period to 21,636 years, as I explained
here. The real cycle of 21,636 years is how long it takes the solstices and equinoxes to travel around the earth's orbit from perihelion (closest to the sun) to aphelion (furthest from the sun) and back. We reached the low point in 1296 AD.
If we consider the Great Year to be the actual long term climate cycle driven by precession, the long term force that pushed sea level down by 140 meters 20,000 years ago and dumped a mile of ice on North America and Europe, then we see that precession considered alone does not drive terrestrial cycles, but it has to be seen together with the other orbital cycles measured by Milankovitch, and other non-periodic factors such as anthropogenic emissions. If we still consider there is a meaning in dividing this long term cycle by twelve, a question with no proven dynamic basis, but one that aligns to the old structure of astrology and the months, then we find that one twelfth of the period of the terrestrial light cycle of the Great Year is 1803 years. It all suggests that we are now reaching the time of the end of the age of Pisces predicted in the Olivet Discourse, as a time when a fundamental paradigm shift would align human thought to reality.
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