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maybe backwards is actually backwards
So really then the only order one should align with is natural order itself, Jovis Optimus Maximus, or some equivalent, perhaps the Runes will guide you in that direction.
Theus-Ares (i. e. Dousares): this is the god Ares in Petra of Arabia. The god Ares is worshipped among them, for they honour him especially. The image is a black stone, square, unshaped (atypotos) , and this identification or combination is further confirmed by the fact that Dushares in Bostra is identified with the local god A‘ra,
The black cube is also associated with the horned-deity Baphomet. In 1856, occultist Éliphas Lévi drew the first depiction of Baphomet that took the form of a hermaphrodite half-human-half-goat which was adopted by the 1910 Devil Tarot Card. Éliphas’s drawing showed Baphomet perched on top of a black cube
The term "baityl/baetyl/betyl" derives from the Greek . Philo of Byblos in the second century A.D. explains that betyl were invented by the god Ouranos when he managed to create animated stones, which fell from the heavens and possessed magical power.
The Greek word betyl itself is related to the Semitic "beth-el which means "dwelling/house/temple of god/EI," and seems to refer to openair sanctuaries.
The term betyl for round, black sacred stones may occur in the lost work of Sotakos from the third century B.C., from which we have a quotation in Pliny We do not know whether the term to describe particular sacred stones as fallen from the heaven and animated with divine power has an older Eastern tradition or is in its precise meaning rather a Hellenistic erudition. It was but a small step to connect "beth-el" with the sense of the "dwelling of the god" ' as the presence of the god in the stone. That is precisely what a betyl represents.
A fabulous precious stone believed to cause the phoenix to renew her youth. According to Wolfram von Eschenbach, the Lapis exilis was synonymous with the Holy Grail.
Indeed, the stone which renewed the phoenix recalls the Lapis Aquila, which, according to another, tradition, was sought by the eagle and used to assist the hatching of its eggs.
Perhaps a better word for this ancient stone would be ‘The Enigma Stone’, as everything about it seems shrouded in mystery.
Over the centuries, this stone, the ancient crowning stone of the Scots, has been known by many names; among them ‘The Eastern Stone’ mentioned in the Gaelic poem ‘The Birth of Aedan Mac Gabhrain’ around 1060 A.D., ‘the Royal seat of Marble’, ‘the Pharaoh’s Stone’, ‘the Stone of Celebrated Memory’, ‘the Stone of Scotland’, ‘the Regal Stone’, ‘the Stone of Scone’, ‘Jacob’s Pillow’, ‘the Coronation Stone’, and the name by which it was known in Gaelic - the 'Lia Fail’ - translated as the ‘Stone of Destiny’.
Irish legends inform us that the Lia Faileas was one of the four great treasures given to the Celts by the De Danaans, a mythical god-like people of early Ireland; the other three treasures being an invincible sword, a fiery spear red with blood, and a cauldron of plenty from the fabled cities of Gorias, Finias and Murias respectively. The Lia Faileas, exclusively for use in the coronation of kings, was gifted from the city of Faileas, which means ‘the Place of Shadow’.
Now the Great House of the Hidden Places stands in Kahemu. It is built to last forever and stands up strongly towards Heaven, high above the heads of men. It is covered with white stones; the white stone of Rehakom was cut for it, and above it is topped with copper. It is not the copper of men, but the copper of God. Within it lies the Womb of Rebirth used by the Twice Born of the Enlightened Ones. Men enter its portals to die and come out restored to life, reborn as gods. Beside it stands the Temple of the Radiant Ones, many-pillared and walled about. Here is the Great Portal of Entry into Life, and above it, on a great stone, these words may be seen: From the Children of God to the Children of Men. Behold, we found you in bondage to mortal bodies and bestowed upon you the gift of everlasting life.
The thoughts of Setshra ever turned about within himself and… he… conceived a plan whereby the multitude would be admitted to participate in the Sacred Mysteries hitherto kept exclusive for the worthy ones among men. He gathered together a following… and promised… that the knowledge of sacred things hitherto kept from them should now become available… The new teachings grew in strength and spread throughout the whole land… Though the followers of Setshra could not discover the higher secrets, they learned the lower ones and these were twisted… Thus was developed the worship of dark spirits… that perverted the thoughts of the people… they rose up, clamouring for the blood of the righteous ones.
Upon the mountain, there is now a grove of trees and a temple built in the form of a circle of white stones, where the people remember the day of their deliverance. But what they recall and what happened are not the same; nor is the cause in their minds the true cause. They say, "We are the children of Atuma who saved us." Many who have gone often to the Temple of Deliverance say they have seen two shades, one radiantly beautiful and one gloriously handsome, wandering hand in hand through the trees or sitting in the sunlit glades. All about is now a place of peace.
At the heart of the Egyptian books lies a mysterious ritual recorded (to my knowledge) nowhere else. In The Book of the Sons of Fire it is called ‘the Hibsathy’ or ‘the Ritual of the Twice-Born‘.
in the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and the guardian cherub drove you out from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
18 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought forth fire from the midst of you; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who saw you.
Ḥer(em)-Bethel will lower, will bear you onto the bedspread; El, onto embroidered sheets. In his heavens, may Mar from Rash bless, Mar, a blessing, before Bethel everlasting.
While Marah is expressly an epithet for Nanay or Nanaya, the identification of Mar in the papyrus is more difficult. It is possible that “Mar” is a theonym by analogy with deities from the Roman and Parthian periods who are called Marnā or Māran, “our Lord,”
Jacob, fleeing from the wrath of his brother Esau, falls asleep on a stone and dreams of a ladder stretching between Heaven and Earth and thronged with angels; God stands at the top of the ladder, and promises Jacob the land of Canaan; when Jacob awakes he anoints the stone (baetylus) with oil and names the place Bethel. Another account, from Genesis 35[8] repeats the covenant with God and the naming of the place (as El-Bethel), and makes this the site of Jacob's own change of name to Israel. Both versions state that the original name of the place was Luz, a Canaanite name.