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SYMBOL
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:49 am
by nobackspacebutton
Hey Bree,
Take a look at this symbol. Daniel found this in his recent video--at your house. Do you know what it means? Have you seen it before?
Your help would really be appreciated. Thanks.
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:15 am
by Beckers
found this info:
source 1: The infinity symbol in the diagram represents The "Center of Being of the Earth Spirit." The Earth Spirit is part of a larger spiritual hierarchy corresponding to other planets and the Sun. In turn, the solar system is a member of an even larger Universal Hierarchy going out to Infinity. The realm of the Earth Spirit corresponds to what Hubbard termed the 8th dynamic, represented with the same infinity symbol.
source 2: The messages dictated to Rael explain how life on Earth is not the result of random evolution, nor the work of a supernatural "God". It is a deliberate creation, using DNA, by a scientifically advanced people who made human beings literally in their image. References to these scientists and their work, as well as to their symbol of infinity can be found in the ancient texts of many cultures. For example, in Genesis, the biblical account of creation, the word "Elohim" has been mistranslated as "God" in the singular, but it is a plural, which means "those who come from the sky".
source 3:Although both the lemniscate as symbol and as concept of infinity come to us from the start of human civilisation, its introduction into modern scientific usage only dates back to medieval times. The term lemniscate refers to the shape itself, and the Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) first called the shape a lemniscus (Latin for ribbon).
Use of the lemniscate and its family of related symbols can be traced back to ancient esotericism. The symbol was described by Plato in The Timaeus, with later commentaries by Latin writer and philosopher Macrobius and the Stoics, and eventually this symbol becomes the gyres (a circular or spiral motion or form) of St. Thomas Aquinas (describing the circular movement of angels) and the divination tables of English mathematician and magus John Dee.
On the origins of the lemniscate, Symbols.com state that "the most common similar medieval symbol is the snake biting its own tail, or the empty circle [...]. It is as if [the symbol] represents a double endlessness or eternity."
The snake devouring itself, the ouborous or ouroboros, also takes the form of a lizard or a dragon. The symbol is emblematic of ancient Egypt and Greece, represented with its tail in its mouth, continually devouring and being reborn from itself. A Gnostic and alchemical symbol, ouroboros expresses the unity of all things, material and spiritual, which never disappear but perpetually change form in an eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation. In the 19th century, a vision of ouroboros gave the German chemist Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz the idea of linked carbon atoms forming the benzene ring.
source 4: "the infinity symbol has two meanings, the joining of two cultures and the existence of a people forever."
I think this is enough for now
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:32 am
by Broken Kid
Beckers wrote:found this info:
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I think this is enough for now
Is this intended for Bree or as a discussion of the symbol? If it's for bree, that's fine, but if it's for the discussion with the rest of us fans, there's a thread in the Plot Discussion forum. This is great info...you should post it there!