The ancient cultures had names for the Sun disc: Aten (Egyptian), Helios (Greek) and Sol (Roman), which differed from the names of the Solar deities, which were Ra, Apollo and Mithra. Recently there has been renewed discussion about the portrayal of Jesus as belonging to the lineage of Solar deities. I am from a Christian background and will not contribute to any endeavour to detract from the mission of Jesus Christ. I have observed the ways in which Christianity (the religion, not the Christ) borrowed from the Solar tradition (especially that of Mithra).

The latest controversy springs from a book about a Lost Gospel based on an ancient vellum manuscript called The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor, archived in the rare books section of the British Library in London. It was acquired in 1847 from a trader who claimed it came from the St. Macarius Monastery in Egypt. At least 1,450 years old, the chronicle is written in Syriac, a later form of Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke. The Lost Gospel is a chapter from that book, called the Story of Joseph and Aseneth. This story chronicles the union of the Biblical Joseph and Aseneth, daughter of the Egyptian priest of On (Heliopolis). [Ref Genesis 41:45] This form of typology, in which Old Testament personages are said to represent or foreshadow the emergence of New Testament figures, was commonly adopted by Gnostic writers. Aseneth and Joseph are described in language more appropriate to Mary Magdalene and Jesus, and engage in rituals that have nothing to do with biblical Judaism and far more to do with Christianity. The connection, if correct, connects them to the Sun and its deities.

The city of On (a Hebrew name) was also known by the Greek name of Heliopolis, ‘The City of the Sun.’ It was established by the Solar deity Ra, and was located 10 miles from modern Cairo. The Helipolitan community of Ra peaked during the Fifth Dynasty (2480–2340 BC) and continued well into the third century BC. The ‘High Priest of On’ held the title of ‘Greatest of Seers.’ When Joseph married into this family, he joined a social class befitting a national leader. (For more about this lost Gospel, see: See article: http://www.timesofisrael.com/lost-gospel-depicts-a-married-political-activist-rabbi-jesus/)

The assumption that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were foreshadowed by Joseph and Aseneth not only connects them to the City of the Sun, but also to all the various Solar images (see a couple below) relating to this ancient couple. After the Pharaoh appointed Joseph as Vizier, the second most powerful man in Egypt, Joseph and Aseneth came to be seen as representatives of Helios and Artemis (Sun and Moon). Another theory suggests that Joseph is the historical character Amenhotep-Huy, Vizier of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, father of the monotheistic Pharaoh Akhenaten. (See:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_%28patriarch%29)

UPDATE - 22 October 2023:

It has been brought to my attention that the link to the article mentioned below is broken.
Readers can instead go to the another site which I have posted about on my new blog: https://www.solarancestor.com/regular-blog-posts/health-benefits-of-the-sun . Title: Discover the Powerful Health Benefits of Sun Exposure

I came across a brilliant article written by Marcus Julian Felicetti, which can be read in full at http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-5999/10-Healing-Benefits-of-the-Sun.html. Following is just an excerpt from it:
Atapa Snana is the yogic phrase for the healing science of Sun bathing. We live in a modern world that is bombarded with paranoid messages about how dangerous the Sun is. We should remember that the ancient yogis and many other cultures knew how to use the Sun to heal all kinds of illnesses, and bring about radiant health. In the West we also have a history of using Sunlight therapy that dates back to the ancient Greeks. It was called heliosis. Today, the name for Sunlight therapy is heliotherapy. We evolved as a human race … under the warmth and love of the Sun.
 
We are making a whole generation Vitamin D deficient with fear of the Sun.
Ultra Violet light is just one frequency of light; there are eight others – infrared, and the seven spectrums of visible light. Each one has its own unique healing power!
Here are 10 benefits of getting a moderate amount of Sun exposure:
1. Sunlight and whole foods send breast cancer into remission. The American physician Dr. Zane Kime used sunbathing and nutrition to cure his patients. Even in terminal cases, Dr. Kime was able to completely reverse the metastasized cancer.
2. The Sun’s light kills bad bacteria. The German solders after WWI knew of the discoveries that had been made in 1903 by the Nobel Prize winner, Niels Finsen. They used Sunlight to disinfect and heal wounds.
3. Sunlight has a beneficial effect on skin disorders, such as psoriasis, acne, eczema and fungal infections of the skin.
4. Sunlight lowers cholesterol. The Sun converts high cholesterol in the blood into steroid hormones and the sex hormones we need for reproduction. In the absence of Sunlight, the opposite happens; substances convert to cholesterol.
5. The Sun’s rays lower blood pressure. Even a single exposure significantly lowers blood pressure in individuals with high blood pressure…
6. Sunlight penetrates deep into the skin to cleanse the blood and blood vessels. Medical literature published in Europe showed that people with atherosclerosis (hardened arteries) improved with Sun exposure.
7. Sunlight increases oxygen content in human blood. And, it also enhances the body’s capacity to deliver oxygen to the tissues; very similar to the effects of exercise. The Sun has a great effect on stamina, fitness and muscular development.
8. Sunlight builds the immune system. The white blood cells, which increase with Sun exposure, are called lymphocytes, and these play a major role in defending the body against infections.
9. Regular Sunlight exposure increases the growth and height of children, especially babies. Many cultures throughout history have recognized this fact. Studies have shown the amount of Sun exposure in the first few months has an effect on how tall the person grows.
10. Sunlight can cure depression. The noon Sunshine can deliver 100,000 lux. When we sit in offices for the best part of the day, out of the Sun, under neon and artificial lights (150-600 lux), we are depriving ourselves of the illumination of nature. Sunlight deprivation can cause a condition called seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a form of depression…

Image credits: (L) http://www.tealcheese.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sun-gazing.jpg
(R) http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4z8O8g7bRfk/U8OZjrWmp0I/AAAAAAAAdnw/ikvEaxs3sT8/s1600/sungazing-720x400.jpg

My latest article is out now in New Dawn magazine: Special Issue Vol.9 No.6 – it is called Life Patterns & Blood Lines: Reincarnation for the Western Mind. This edition is brimming with insightful articles, and among them is one titled “Practice Dying” – Plato (Wisdom from the Ancient World). The ancient Greeks were familiar with the concept of ‘Death before Dying,’ particularly in their mystery schools where the practice of ‘Incubation’ was taught. Ten years ago I contributed an article to Insight Magazine (August 2005 issue) called ‘The Ancient Wisdom of the West: Way of the Iatromantis.’ Here are three short excerpts from it:

“In Egypt, the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut still sits captivatingly against the hills of Thebes (Luxor) in an area known as Deir el-Bahri. It was built three and a half thousand years ago… there set in a garden among the colonnades and terraces of the temple enclosure, was a sanctuary where initiates indulged in a practice known as Incubation. … They invoked the name of Imhotep, one of the earliest luminaries in their already well-established history.”

“The Greeks accepted the ‘baton’ of esoteric teachings from the Egyptians and… the Greek version of it was to lie down in an enclosed space, often a cave, and enter a trance-like state that was somewhere between sleeping and waking. They likened it to the hibernation of animals and called the place where they lay down a lair.”

“The Greeks recognised the Underworld (Hades) to be a gateway to the higher realms. And not only was it a state to be reached upon dying – it was indeed possible to achieve a state of Death before Dying. The Greek name for an initiate of this practice was Iatromantis, someone who had been to the Underworld and returned to this plane. … The figurehead invoked by the Iatromantis was Apollo.”

The plane referred to here corresponds with the higher dimensional plane on which Solar beings dwell – among them, the ancient leaders Imhotep and Apollo.

Credit for image (L): Luxor Temple, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Entrance_of_Luxor_Temple.JPG
Credit for image (R): Temple of Apollo, http://www.crystalinks.com/TempleApolloRome.jpg

Elsewhere on these pages I have described the Sun as a giant ball of plasma. On a recent, new edition of Ancient Aliens, in a discussion about crop circles, it was suggested that they might be formed by ‘intelligent plasma balls.’ Some believe that UFOs are sometimes really craft made of plasma – while others suggest that ‘light orbs’ are intelligent beings whose form is composed of plasma. Since plasma is considered a fourth state of matter (beyond solid, liquid and gas), any intelligent consciousness that used plasma as its body would be considered to be Inter-Dimensional (ID).

Andrew Collins, in his book Light Quest, has proposed that natural plasma emissions play host to, or are the vehicles of  intelligent life forms – light-beings or electric-beings – who use plasma for temporarily manifesting into our dimension for short periods of time. The question he is unable to answer is whether they are native to planet Earth and/or from an adjacent brane (multiverse). My own understanding is that many (although not all) hail from our Sun and they do indeed dwell on an ID plane.

Diane Tessman, on the website http://www.ufocasebook.com/2012/plasmatessman.html has said, “Remembering Science 101, lightning (electricity/light) travels across the sky and down to earth on plasma pathways or corridors. Here is another example of light/electricity traveling on plasma: The Army has a shiny new laser plasma lightning cannon. It shoots lightning bolts down plasma channels created by laser beams to disable electronics and blow up targets, too. It is a laser plasma lightning cannon. This is indeed the grandfather of Star Trek’s phaser.” It is reasonable to assume that the light-beings travel along plasma corridors.

Diane adds, “Project Condign was the name given to a top secret UFO study undertaken by the British Government's Defense Intelligence Staff (DIS) between 1997 and 2000. The report … concludes that the UFO phenomenon is caused by highly charged atmospheric plasmas. These were named unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs).”

Keep this information in mind if you are exploring phenomena such as UFOs, crop circles or ghosts!

Water is more prevalent in our Solar System than scientists have so far acknowledged. And so is Life! Why are scientists starting to look for ‘exoplanets’ that might have life outside of our Solar System? Because they have become convinced that the only Life in our system is here on Earth. They often say that amino acids are the “building blocks of Life,” but this only demonstrates that they don’t know (or want to know) what Life really is. The Vital Life Force as well as Spirit Energy can never be created by us, nor are they beholden to physical matter.

It is true that Life in the third-dimensional physical plane is closely related to the existence of water. It has been in the news lately that our scientists have come to recognize there is water on Mars… in fact there are 23 planets and moons in our system known to have water on them. (see: http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a14555/water-worlds-in-our-solar-system/) Two things need to be noted: Firstly, that Jupiter is host to a “system within a system,” having 64 moons – the largest, Ganymede, is the largest moon in our solar system, bigger than even the planet Mercury. We know an ocean lies beneath the 100-mile-thick ice crust at the surface, and in a new study, aurorae activity shows that the ocean is warm and salty.

The Second noteworthy point is that the “dwarf planets” host Life on both the three-dimensional and ‘Inter-Dimensional’ planes. While scientists have been trying to locate exoplanets, using theory rather than fact, they failed to spot another dwarf planet in our own system until now, because it sits 15° away from the ecliptic (or flat 2D plane) of the other planets in our system. They are naming the 1,000km wide body ‘V774104,’ and it is the most distant object so far observed in our Solar System. (It’s 9.6 billion miles from the sun, or 103 astronomical units [AU]. The previous ‘record-holder’ was Eris, 97 AU away). It is classified as an "inner Oort cloud object" - the Oort cloud is located thousands of AUs away from the Sun and is presumed to mark the boundary of the Sun's gravitational influence. Lately, dwarf planets like Ceres and Pluto, with its five fast-spinning moons, have provided more surprises to Earth scientists than any of the giants. Ceres is less a ball of rock and more a watery dwarf planet, with an icy mantle and a slushy ocean below. Located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it is the nearest world to Earth with an ocean. AND… to quote the latest news release about Ceres: “From the alien lights of Occator to the mysterious pyramid mountain -: scientists STILL don't know what the bright spots are!” (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3255404/Stunning-new-maps-reveal-mystery-alien-spots-pyramid-mountain-Ceres-unprecedented-detail.html).

What scientists and religionists alike should realize is that the Vital Life Force is not confined to physical bodies – it is omnipresent throughout our Solar System – it originates from our Sun and can enliven and animate matter anywhere. In August 2014 Russian cosmonauts discovered tiny marine creatures thriving in zero-gravity on the outside of the International Space Station. Vladimir Solovyev told the Russian Itar-Tass news agency that the tiny marine life-forms were not native to the launch site in Kazakhstan. Microbes are known to live in hostile environments and can survive in freezing temperatures and zero gravity. A type of microscopic invertebrate known as a tardigrade has survived the vacuum of space for 10 days.

On a final note – when we consider that the Life Force and Spirit Energy permeate our Solar System, the question naturally arises as to whether those energies have intelligence and consciousness. So it is interesting to note that the Storm Probe mission — two satellites investigating the famous Van Allen belts, have captured radio waves that sound just the same as the singing of whales which we have been able to record in our Earthly oceans. (The Van Allen radiation belts are donut-shaped rings of electrons that encircle our planet). Ham radio operators have been hearing the chorus in the background for years, but there's never been a recording this clear. "Our data is sampled at 16 bits, the same as a CD, which has not been done before in the radiation belts," says mission scientist Dave Sibeck. "This makes the data very high quality...”

LIFE is an attribute of the Field that permeates our 3D material reality.

Credit for Plankton image (L): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11049504/Sea-plankton-found-living-outside-International-Space-Station.html
Van Allen image (R): Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2286560/Third-Van-Allen-belt-Earth-Space-probes-shed-new-light-hazardous-space-regions-filled-killer-electrons.html#ixzz3rS7KTQck

Following on from last week’s blog, let’s look at the forms encountered in Hyperdimensional Physics, which is based on geometric and mathematical foundations involving other spatial dimensions. The field itself was started by 19th- Century mathematicians and physicists who delved into theoretical "non- Euclidian" geometries (geometries involving spatial dimensions in addition to "length, breadth and height"), and a set of corresponding physical interactions of energy and matter.

As pointed out in the last blog, a Sacred Geometry based on three points starts out as just a two-dimensional plane, then a three-dimensional model can be formed by adding a fourth point - a tetrahedron, which is a pyramid with an equilateral triangle base (See figure 1). This shape has been claimed by author Richard C Hoagland to be the primary message encoded in the geometry of the Cydonia complex on Mars, as well as on the Moon. Tetrahedral Geometry, according to Hoagland, is how the Hyperdimensional energy interacts with our dimension.

"Here is how it works: Put an imaginary tetrahedron in a sphere with one of the vertices touching the north and south pole. And if the size of the tetrahedron is just right so that the other three vertices touch the surface of the sphere, the contact points will be at 19.5 degrees North/South latitude. Then if you rotate this sphere at a high speed, something weird happens that cannot be explained by our current physics. It creates energy within the sphere out of nowhere. Richard Hoagland suspects this tetrahedral form is an energy conduit within planets. At 19.5 degrees, where the tetrahedron touches the surface of the sphere, is coincidentally the area where most dramatic planetary activities take place. Those are probably the physical manifestation of the tetrahedral energy grid within planets/stars."
(Source: http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/life_on_mars_now.htm)

This includes our Sun: The peak latitude of the 11-year Sunspot cycle and Solar temperature emission occurs roughly at 19.5 degrees N. & S.
Furthermore, the Great Red Spot on Jupiter is roughly at 19.5 deg. S. latitude;
And the Great Dark Spot on Neptune is also roughly at 19.5 deg. S. latitude.

As stated in closing last week, the contemplation of Sacred Geometrical symbols can act as an aid in your quest toward consciousness raising! And the double interlocking tetrahedron shaped energy field that spins around the human body is well-known to followers of Drunvalo Melchizedek as the Mer-Ka-Ba.

Figure 1 (Left) Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Tetrahedron-2-3D-balls.png
Figure 2 (Right) Source: http://www.karmicecology.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tetrahedron.jpg?797e9f

A whole range of ‘tools’ are available to those seeking to reconnect to the super-consciousness of the OverSelf. Natural tools such as breathing techniques, chanting intonations, sound waves that take the brain deeper than the usual beta range, meditation, visualization and the contemplation of certain symbols, enable you to access all areas of your Psyche. You need to choose whatever works for you. The guidance I have received on my own personal journey reveals a Sacred Geometry based on three points that start out as a two-dimensional plane… by adding a fourth point, a three-dimensional model can be formed or, if retained on a flat two-dimensional plane, the addition of the fourth point enables one right-angle figure to suddenly become four right angles. Meditating on Sacred Geometry takes me from our starting point of the human as a trinity, to what we are capable of becoming on the fifth dimension.

In my article ‘Dimension Hacking (http://www.solarancestor.com/dimension-hacking.html) I looked at a number of symbols that incorporate two interlocking right-angled arrowhead forms.  In my last blog (27 Oct 2015) a picture of Urfa Man appeared, showing him wearing a double-V neck, i.e. two right angles. This was not a ‘Star-Trek’ uniform from 13,500 years ago, but rather a display of the significant symbolism of the two right-angles. Author Drunvalo Melchizedek has sometimes indicated that the way to the next dimension is by a 90 degree turn.

Amis Shah, a pioneer in metaphysics, is fond of the symbol known as the Sri Yantra which, he points out, contains Pi, The Golden Ratio, The Fibonacci Sequence and elements of Sacred Geometry. The image below is from his article at https://projectyourself.com/prosperity-formula-posts-symbols-part-2/ He says, in part, “Most amazing of all is this: In physics, there is a complex 8-dimensional structure called the Polytope, which belongs to the E8 gauge group in mathematics. And if you were to build a physical model of the polytope, shine light through it, and rotate it to just the right angle… you would see a shadow that looks exactly like the Sri Yantra! How can a 12,000-year-old symbol be inside a structure known only to modern scientists? This is a sublime example of both the power of symbols… And of ancient wisdom and modern science coming together… to give us a new, enlightened model of reality.”

Try using the contemplation of Sacred Geometrical symbols to aid in your own personal quest toward consciousness raising!

The Solar Ancestor site is primarily devoted to the ancients we called ‘deities’ who came from our Sun. But, since our upcoming article (due early November 2015) will be about Interstellar Conflicts, it is useful to make comparisons with artifacts connected to visitors from other stars. One such artifact is a two-meter high limestone humanoid-looking figure discovered in Sanliurfa, Turkey - formally named the Balıklıgöl statue, but better known as Urfa Man. It is the oldest human-size statue yet discovered in the world and depicts a male holding his genitals with both hands. The haunting appearance of his face features obsidian-filled eyes that stare into the distance, yet a mouth is conspicuously absent. Housed in a Neolithic temple, the site was established 2,000 years earlier than the nearby Göbekli Tepe settlement, which is to say that the Balıklıgöl statue dates back to 13,500 years ago.

There have also been detached stone phalluses discovered at this site. Urfa Man is said by researchers to represent ‘the god of eroticism’ or ‘the god of reproduction,’ making it comparable to the Egyptian god Osiris, who mysteriously germinated early humanoids from the invisible realm. This ancient civilization in Turkey, pre-dating dynastic Egypt, was known as the Osirians. Urfa man is wearing a top, which sports a double-V neck. This along with his rather unattractive features, is meant to depict the Osirians, who hailed from the star Sirius. Although we owe some gratitude to ancient visitors from stars such as Orion, Sirius and Aldebaran, it became necessary over time to reassert the dominance of beings from our own Sun on the spiritual and interdimensional levels. Urfa Man, in addition to leaving reminders about ‘interstellar interbreeding,’ represents very early lessons by ancient visitors in teaching humans how to work with stone.

Image credits:
(Left) Urfa Man – 13,500 years old: http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2012/08/GT1.jpg
(Right) Göbekli  Tepe - 11,500 years old: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/arqueologia/gobekli_tepe05.htm

While much attention gets focused on ‘above-ground’ megaliths such as those in Egypt, Puma Punku and Baalbek, we also find precision-sculpted marvels underground – the legacy of our Solar Ancestors and various visitors from other Stars. One such site is located near the village of Shiyan Beicun in Zhejiang province, China. Here lie the Longyou caves - an extensive underground complex considered in China as ‘the ninth wonder of the ancient world.’ Constructed by our Solar Ancestors 2,800 years ago, this base with Solar portal served as a station for the Children of the Sun, and hosted state visits by the Neters and Solar Archangels. They, just like visitors from other Stars, usually preferred to stay underground rather than on the surface – it was only the Watchers and Grigori who stayed long-term above ground, mingling with humanity. (See article on this site: http://www.solarancestor.com/invisible-beings.html ).

Thirty six grottoes have so far been uncovered and drained of water in the past quarter-century, covering a massive 30,000 square metres. Carved into solid siltstone, each grotto descends around 30 metres underground and contains stone rooms, bridges, gutters and pools. There are pillars evenly distributed throughout the caves which support its roof, and the walls, ceiling and stone columns are uniformly decorated with chisel marks in a series of parallel lines. The scale of the grottoes is momentous, the design is delicate and scientific, the construction sophisticated, and the precision is indicative of superior craftsmanship.  More than 1 million cubic metres of stone had to be removed during construction, although today’s researchers have no idea where that rubble went to. The Solar Ancestors used a form of lighting that we are no longer familiar with, because the cave mouths are very small, and Sunlight could only shine into the caves at a certain angle during limited periods.

This series of magnificent chambers and ballrooms was never a mine or a silo; nor was it ever meant as hiding place for troops or an emperor’s tomb. Its grandeur reminds us of its real use as a temporary dwelling and workplace for the higher ranks of our Solar Ancestors. Today’s Earth scientists fail to acknowledge that there existed superior races with long-forgotten technologies on this planet thousands of years ago. If you are interested in reading more about China’s caves, please look at:
http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena-ancient-places-asia/ten-enduring-mysteries-longyou-caves-001248#ixzz3p5Is3ypq (Images below are from this site).
AND
http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/chinalongyou.htm