Day 10

From Gold to Stone

We can summarize history up to this point in the book of Thomas Bulfinch’s Mythology. "The world being thus furnished with inhabitants, the first age was the Golden Age. Truth and right prevailed, though not enforced by law, nor was there any magistrate to threaten or punish. The forest had not yet been robbed of its trees to furnish timbers for vessels, nor had men built fortifications round their towns. There were no such things as swords, spears, or helmets. The earth brought forth all things necessary for man, without his labor in ploughing or sowing. Perpetual spring reigned, flowers sprang up without seed, the rivers flowed with milk and wine, and yellow honey distilled from the oaks." The Golden Age was a time in the first earth, before the ‘fallen third’ and it was also the conditions in the land of the Adamic people before the Nephilim came upon them.

Thomas Bulfinch goes on to say, "Then succeeded the Silver Age, inferior to the golden, but better than that of brass. Jupiter shortened the spring, and divided the year into seasons. Then, first, men had to endure the extremes of heat and cold, and houses became necessary. Caves were the first dwellings, and leafy coverts of the woods, and huts woven of twigs. Crops would no longer grow without planting. the farmer was obliged to sow the seed and the toiling ox to draw the plough." The Silver Age is equivalent to the period of time between the creation of the Sixth Day races to the time just before the Nephilim began to do evil among the Adamic men of earth. I know some may be thinking that Nimrod could not have been Jupiter here because Nimrod didn’t exist at this time. However, I believe Nimrod was Jupiter and like Jesus Christ is the First and the Last; the incarnation of God, the people passing on the tradition of this story thought likewise, that Nimrod was the incarnation of a god.

Mr. Bulfinch continues: "Next came the Brazen Age, more savage of temper, and readier to the strife of arms, yet not altogether wicked. The hardest and worst was the Iron Age. Crime burst in like a flood; modesty, truth, and honor fled. In their places came fraud and cunning, violence, and the wicked love of gain. Then seamen spread sails to the wind, and the trees were torn from the mountains to serve for keels to ships, and vex the face of the ocean. The earth, which till now had been cultivated in common, began to be divided off into possessions. Men were not satisfied with what the surface produced, but must dig into its bowels, and draw forth from thence the ores of metals. Mischievous iron, and more mischievous gold, were produced. War sprang up, using both as weapons; the guest was not safe in his friend’s house; and sons-in-law and fathers-in-law, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, could not trust one another. Sons wished their fathers dead, that they might come to the inheritance; family love lay prostrate. The earth was wet with slaughter, and the gods abandoned it, one by one, till Astraea alone was left, and finally she also took her departure."

The Brazen Age and the Iron Age remind me of the rivers and springs that turned to blood in the book of Revelations. After the rivers and springs, one third of sea turned to blood and every living creature in the sea died. The rivers and springs are symbolic of the spiritual corruption beginning with a few rebels. When the sea turns to blood is when the spiritual corruption has gone out of control into the whole world. Most everyone had gone into a spiritual slumber and many were spiritually dead. In the Iron Age, we read that people were claiming land as their own property and making ships to sail the seas. At this point, they could have sailed around the Mediterranean and/or have gone East as far as the Pacific Islands. Finally, the gods left the earth with the goddess Astraea as the last to leave. We can look at this final statement on different levels: It could be the period with the ‘fallen third’ at the end of the first earth just before the Ice Age, or it could be the period with the Nephilim of Noah’s time just before the Great Flood, or it could be when the Adamic people no longer lived for hundreds of years. I say the last possibility because Nimrod’s wife reigned after his death and her generation was one of the last with exceeding longevity. In one way or another, it’s all three, but with further reading in this story, Noah’s era without a doubt, appears to be the intended period.

Astraea, the goddess of justice, innocence and purity to the Greeks, was before to the Phoenicians, called Ashtoreth, the goddess of love and increase. This was one of the same ‘Mysteries’ religions that King Solomon eventually got hooked into.

Continuing where we left off: "Jupiter, seeing this state of things, burned with anger. He summoned the gods to council. They obeyed the call, and took the road to the palace of heaven. The road, which any one may see in a clear night, stretches across the face of the sky, and is called the Milky Way. Along the road stand the palaces of the illustrious gods; the common people of the skies live apart, on either side. Jupiter addressed the assembly. He set forth the frightful condition of things on the earth, and closed by announcing his intention to destroy the whole of its inhabitants, and provide a new race, unlike the first, who would be more worthy of life, and much better worshippers of the gods. So saying he took a thunderbolt, and was about to launch it at the world, and destroy it by burning; but recollecting the danger that such a conflagration might set heaven itself on fire, he changed his plan, and resolved to drown it."

After describing the devastation of the flood, Mr. Bulfinch continues to speak of the mythological Noah and his wife: "Parnassus alone, of all the mountains, overtopped the waves; and there Deucalion (Noah), and his wife Pyrrha, of the race of Prometheus (Adam), found refuge - he a just man (Gen. 6:9), and she a faithful worshipper of the gods, Jupiter, when he saw none left alive but this pair, and remembered their harmless lives and pious demeanor, ordered the north winds to drive away the clouds, and disclose the skies to earth, and earth to the skies. Neptune also directed Triton to blow on his shell, and sound a retreat to the waters. The waters obeyed, and the sea returned to its shores, and the rivers to their channels. Then Deucalion thus addressed Pyrrha: "O wife, only surviving woman, joined to me first by the ties of kindred and marriage, and now by a common danger, would that we possessed the power of our ancestor Prometheus, and could renew the race as he at first made it!"

In describing how Noah and his wife increased with children, the story goes: "They veiled their faces, unbound their garments, and picked up stones, and cast them behind them. The stones (wonderful to relate) began to grow soft, and assume shape. By degrees, they put on a rude resemblance to the human form, like a block half-finished in the hands of the sculptor. The moisture and slime that were about them became flesh; the stony part became bones; the veins remained veins, retaining their name, only changing their use. Those thrown by the hand of the man became men, and those by the woman became women. It was a hard race, and well adapted to labor, as we find ourselves to be at this day, giving plain indications of our origin." The Stone race were the Adamic people that went about erecting the stone monoliths and megaliths around the world.

Stone Builders And Druids

One of the basic problems with how we understand the evolution of civilizations around the world is that we’re generally taught that cultures just sprouted up individually and developed independently, as if the early humans never really migrated far from where they originated. When science looks at societies like Sumer, Babylonia, Egypt, Greece and Rome and says, generally speaking, that compared to other cultures around the world, these people were far more advanced than other cultures of their time. I have to ask, what happened? If for example, the Egyptians were a highly civilized society, what happened to them? Why aren’t they comparably more advanced than the rest of the world today? Did they just stop caring and as a result, stop progressing? I’ll tell you what happened, they’re not there anymore, they moved. Over the course of several centuries, the original highly advanced culture of the Egyptians eventually migrated out of Egypt and the main body or spirit of that highly advanced culture became Greek. Then the Greeks over the centuries migrated out and many of them became the Romans.

About the same time as Abraham was fulfilling his destiny in the Middle-East, many of his cousins had already made their way to the British Isles. Actually, the Adamic people were reaching the British Isles at least twelve generations before Abraham. The ancient Chaldeans made their home in this new land and gave it their old name Caledonia. These were the ancient Celts. The belief attributed to these Celts was the Druidic faith and the Druidic priests were the administrators and teachers. The word Druid is believed by many to be derived from the word Druithin, meaning a servant of Truth.

Mr. Haberman writes: The ancient Welsh literature tells us that Hu Gadarn the mighty was the apostle of Druidism in Britain. He was a contemporary of Abraham and brought the knowledge connected with the Solar Year Cult into Britain, as well as the worship of the One God, Jehovah. Hu Gadarn was a man of culture and of peaceful pursuits. He was the first man, it is said, to express thought in poetry, and is the originator of the so-called Triads. The Welsh Triads laud him as one of the three benefactors of the race of the Cymri, one of the Three Primary Sages of his adopted land, one of the Three Pillars of the race of the island of Britain. He is also credited with the introduction of writing and manufacture of glass.

In the book Celt, Druid And Culdee, the author, Isabel Hill Elder writes: The educational system adopted by the Druids is traced to about 1800 B.C. when Hu Gadarn Hysicion (Isaacson), or Hu the Mighty, led the first colony of Cymri into Britain from Defrobane, where Constantinople now stands. In the justly celebrated Welsh Triads, Hu Gadarn is said to have mnemonically systematized the wisdom of the ancients of these people whom he led west from the Summerland. He was regarded as the personification of intellectual culture and is commemorated in Welsh archaeology for having made poetry the vehicle of memory, and to have been the inventor of the Triads. To him is attributed the founding of Stonehenge, and the introduction of several arts including glass-making and writing in Ogham characters.

R.W. Morgan, from his book St. Paul In Britain writes: All the prehistoric temples of Palestine, Persia, Italy, and Greece, commonly called Cyclopean or Pelasgic, were Druidic. Stonehenge, the Gilgal of Britain, is the wreck of four thousand years exposure to the elements. Its first founder was Hu Gadarn, B.C. 1800.

E. Raymond Capt notes in his book, Stonehenge and Druidism, "The conclusion that can be drawn from all the evidence is that the early Britons who erected Stonehenge and other great megalithic monuments were either Hebrews themselves or progenitors of the Hebrews. They were the ‘Building Race’ of the Bible, fathered by Shem. They built the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Down through the ages, groups of these people were continually moving westward, coming finally into the British Isles. They brought with them the knowledge, ability and acumen that enabled them to build Stonehenge."

Stonehenge is an excellent example for what is called a ‘Cromlech,’ which is Celtic for ‘stone circle.’ The Celts have two other types of stone structures called, Menhirs (high stones) and Dolmens (table stones). Menhirs were tall solitary standing stones and the Dolmens had a large flat stone sitting across the top of sometimes a few or many standing stones. Druids used the Cromlechs primarily as an observatory. They were set up similar to the way Joshua set up the twelve stones at Gilgal after wandering in the desert forty years and crossing over the Jordan. And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day. (Joshua 4:9) With the circle of stones, the Druids could precisely know the day of the winter and summer solstice. They could also accurately predict solar and lunar eclipses.

Hu Gadarn the Mighty, is given credit as the founder of the Druidic faith and established the orders of the faith into three classes: Druids, Bards and Ovates. The Ovates studied the properties of nature under the supervision of a Druid and helped in the sacrificial ceremonies. The Bards were the instructors and organizers of music, poetry and literature. The Druids were the intellectuals who gave insight to philosophy and the physicians who gave advice in matters of church and state. No public office could be held by anyone that had not completed the educational process of the Druidic faith.

How did the Druid’s philosophy relate to this concept of Three World Ages?

They believed at one time there existed only two sentient states of being, that which only God could occupy and control and that of His children. His children resided in a paradise created by their Father just for them. The only rule was not to go into the state which God resided in and try to do those things that only God can do. Eventually a group of children did go into God’s place. By their own actions and God’s reaction to show mercy, He created a world where His children could learn suffering to the point that it would bring them back to their original state of being.

In their state of suffering, they had to experience every possible kind of suffering, from the smallest form of life; existence without choice, to humanity; existence with choices. After their life of humanity, if they had learned all suffering, confessed guilt of any crimes committed and are willing to pay the penalty, they may return to their original state or they could return to humanity (through rebirth) to further help mankind. This would be an honorable sacrifice. If they had not learned all suffering, they repeated the cycle from the smallest form of life. Once all of God’s children learned all suffering, then this world of suffering would no longer exist and existence would return to the two original sentient states of being. God’s children would never again desire to cross into His place.

The Druids also believed in a Holy Trinity; a Triune God symbolized by three golden rays of light and also by a cross. The vertical (or center) line of the cross was called Taranis (or Taran), the right branch called Hesus (or Yesu), the left branch called Belenus (or Beli) and above the cross was the name of God, Thau (or Duw).

E. Raymond Capt notes: "Through the ministry of the Druids, the same doctrines were believed, with the expectation of the same Saviour, Hesus (Jesus). In the ancient British tongue, ‘Jesus’ had never assumed its Greek, Latin or Hebrew form, but remained the pure Druidic ‘Hesus’ or ‘Yesu.’ Talisen, a Welsh bard of the sixth century wrote: ‘Christ, the Word from the beginning was in the beginning our Teacher, and we never lost His teachings. Christianity was a new thing in Asia, but there never was a time when the Druids of Britain held not its doctrines.’"

In comparing the Druidic faith of the Celts with the faith of Israel in the Old Testament, one will find many similarities: The sacrificial altars for both were made of unhewn or uncut stones; Their doctrine of blood atonement was identical; The arch-druid and the high priest were also almost identical in function and in dress uniform; The Druids and the Levitical priests were both exempt from war and taxes and both were waiting for the Savior.

Druid Motto:
Truth Against The World

A partial list of Druid Triads:

The three things that God alone can do: endure the eternities of infinity, participant of all being without changing and renew everything without annihilating it.

There are three Primeval Unities and more than one of each cannot exist: one God, one Truth and one point of Liberty where all opposites preponderate.

Three things proceed from the three Primeval Unities: all of life, all that is Good and all that is Power.

The three primary principles of Wisdom: wisdom to the laws of God, concern for the welfare of mankind, suffering with fortitude all the accidents of life.

The three primary ornaments of Wisdom: love, truth and courage.

The three things that make a man equal to an angel: the love of every good, the love of exercising charity and the love of pleasing God.

There are three men that all ought to look on with affection: he that with affection looks on the face of the earth, he that is delighted with rational works of art and he that looks lovingly on little infants.

The three duties of every man: worship God, be just to all men and die for your country.

The three foundations of Druidism: peace, love and justice.

The three grand articles enjoined by the Druids: To reverence the Deity, abstain from evil and behave valiantly.

There are three things free to a country and its borders: the roads, the rivers and the places of worship.

The Triads were a way to remember facts and philosophies when writing or writings weren’t always available. The same logic is also applied in their songs and poetry, which is partly the reason the British Isles’ history isn’t as well known or as vividly recorded as the Greek’s or Roman’s; aside from the fact that the Romans destroyed most of the ancient historical records of the British Isles. The Romans were also the originators of the myth that the Druids participated in human sacrifices. There’s no history of these sacrifices in the British version of its own country. The common understanding of the Druids today is mixed with mythology and the occult, and this is largely due to the false history the Romans have painted for Britain. The British were nowhere near the ‘savages’ Roman history records them to be.

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