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Garry's Futurian Dinner TBS&E Number 49 - February to April 2012 1 Notes from my 4th. WEA Class, Mithras and Manichaeism Thursday November 10, 2011 Produced by Garry Dalrymple as a The Roman Mithras Cult contribution to mailing No. 267, of The figures below both represent the act of the Australian and NZ Amateur creation according to the Roman Mithras cult. Mithras kills the bull, and from the Bull’s blood Press Association. all creation springs (consider the Abrahamic sacrifice / Eucharistic transformative echoes Postal Address: Garry Dalrymple, of this). Mithras is wearing a Roman style tunic and a Phrygian style cap. The animals Local Post Office Box 4152, seen below the bull, Scorpion, dog, snake Bexley North NSW 2207 etc. represent astrological signs and powers. Home ph. (best after 7 pm) 02 9718- 5827 INCLUDEPICTURE "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1 Email; [email protected] 9/MithraReliefvert.jpg/320px-MithraReliefvert.jpg" \* MERGEFORMATINET Editorial – Here we go again! Yet another Restructure of the NSW Education Department in is underway, Aims and Objectives? Unstated, Outcomes expected – Who can say? It really is another one of those exercises in mass anguish and futility for employees affected, who have to try to guess / double guess what the final shape of the remaining functions will be before they try to plan their future careers. The only useful ‘fact’ known is that 70% ish of the remaining positions are ‘Policy adviser on ...’ i.e. few if any ‘doing’ positions and less clerical positions to support the same ‘core activities’ of the old structure. My position is very anomalous, as mostly I work on Naplan. Naplan isn’t on the chart. We have been told that Naplan will go to the Board of Studies (who do the HSC etc), but the INCLUDEPICTURE they haven’t been asked yet, and no one knows if "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1 their idea of ‘Naplan’ would necessarily include 9/MithraReliefvert.jpg/320px-MithraReliefvert.jpg" \* clerical staff like me. Also, while the rest of the department ‘settles’ into new positions, we are expected to stay and continue Naplan process into 2013 without positions in the new Department or the Board of Studies. I.e. we may not be unable to apply for any positions, until we have been declared ‘excess’, after everyone else is set? The usual process of Full, Frank and non-existent staff consultation is now taking place, as we are invited to help re-arrange the deck chairs to make it look less like a denial of service to schools and parents. No evidence of ‘Rivers of Gold’ or more ‘Resources’ heading off to Schools from this. 1 TBS&E Number 49 - February to April 2012 MERGEFORMATINET 2 Abrahamic Monotheistic religions as we currently know them, even though Manichaeism appears to have disappeared without trace and most of what we know of this religion comes from archaeological discoveries in China! The ‘Killer App’ of Manichaeism is that it sanctions and commends its followers to go clandestine, to outwardly conform to the precepts of other religions so as to be able to deliver Manichaeism scriptural DNA into the body politic of the other religions. In an environment where Manichaeism exists, then the Best Practicing Christian, Moslem or Jew might secretly be a Manichaen. Thus, the To ancient Persians / Parthians, prior to genius of Manichaeism is its ability to ‘work’ recorded history, Mitra was just one god of other religions, to its own theological many, with responsibilities for Justice, but he advantage. Manichaeism is known to our came to be associated with the invincible Sun, time as a heresy because the Christian Sol Invictus. Adopted for Roman use, this church at the time so labelled it (rather than was transformed into the basis of a Mystery as a ‘False’ Religion?) and following it’s cult, a cult with multiple levels of initiation and disappearance, most of what we know of it corresponding levels of understanding about comes from church controlled accounts. the teachings of the faith (like Scientology or Freemasonry?). It may be a case of Roman Writing on Manichaeism include Political assimilation policies, subsume, absorb ‘The Kephalae of the Teacher’ by Prof Iain and re-badge with a Roman veneer, extended Gardner (Sydney University), a scholar of to religious practices? It arose at much the Coptic matters, and ‘Gardens of Life’ by same time as Christianity, growing to rival it Amin Maalouf, a fictionalised biography of within the Roman Empire (spread within the Mani, which is fairly accurate to what we Roman Legions as they were rotated through know of his life and works. Some work on Europe?), it is impossible to say which came Manichaeism is also carried out at first, with Virgin Birth, Birthday on December Macquarie University. 25 etc. as the ‘beginning’ of each religion, when it became publicly prominent, differs The Elchasites and Mani greatly from the dates claimed scripturally for Manichaeism has to be considered to be a it’s commencement. All you can say is that it Judeo-Christian heresy. Its founder, Mani, narrowly predated Christianity in the Roman was inducted into his father’s Elchasite West. The Bull imagery may or may not religious sect soon after birth and was raised have drawn on pre-existing ideas, such as the by them, possibly with the intention that he Apis Bull of Memphis, Hathor, the grow up to become some sort of Messiah Mycenean Bull cult or it might go back as far figure for the Elchasite cause. How Mani as the Ghod of the first Pastoralists and their came to be involved in this movement is not newly domesticated Aurochs. Mitras was clear, as he was a Parthian living in also associated with the Zodiac sign Taurus Mesopotamia, as Christianity was emerging and it’s perceived qualities. from it’s Hebrew origins yet not fully moved into the Gentile mainstream under the Manichaeism (Syncretism of Faith) leadership of Paul. With it’s central For this meeting we discussed Manichaeism message of renunciation of the world, instead of Mazdakism as an understanding of Manichaeism is an alien doctrine to the usual the motives and drives of Manichaeism is Persian / Iranian worldview that life and essential to any understanding of the creation is _Good_ and to be celebrated. 2 TBS&E Number 49 - February to April 2012 3 The Elchasites practised a monastic and King Sharpur the First, however Sharpur’s renunciate way of life (similar to that of the successor (a son) wasn’t as tolerant about an Essenes?). On reaching Adult hood Mani empire with multiple competing religions, completely rejected Elchasite teaching, allowing Mani to be arrested, tried and jailed proposing his own Theology and Cosmology. by the Zoroastrian Magi Kartir. Mani His first convert was ... his own Father! ended his life in chains, indignities performed Why did he reject the Elchasites? Possibly on his body posthumously. On the other because he was lame, and under Jerusalem hand, Mohammad specifically denounced Temple rules therefore unfit to enter the Manichaeism in the Koran perceiving it to be temple? Or possibly he had a personal falling linked to Zoroastrianism. This religion out with the leader of the Elchasites. thrived for 1,000 years and then apparently it Manichaen Theology / Cosmology disappeared, or possibly it just got smarter Mani saw the World, Matter and Flesh to be and went further underground? evil as it represents an imprisonment of a St. Augustine of Hippo and elements spark of the divine that can only be released through death and the destruction of this world of Manichaeism into Christianity? as we know it. His creation story was, ‘Real The significance of Augustine of Hippo to the Ghod up top, many layers down a ‘lesser Established Christian church is profound. It Ghod’, Sophia, who created the World as we is his explanation of Christian doctrines that know it to raise him/herself up a level and or to explains the big questions for the uneducated impress the Real Ghod up top. This creation masses within the Church. It is his got contaminated (by the countering identity to explanations for Original Sin, the Fall of Sophia?) and the Real Ghod up top saw that it Rome, the need for the Christ’s Crucifixion was a horrible place, but offered it redemption etc., doctrines the church follows to this day. through an injection of a spark of his/her own However, he had been a Manichaen in his essence into this creation. Thus a Jesus like early life, and this was not just as a brief or one off intervention, _that can’t be repeated_ passing interest as is frequently depicted. in the form of a second coming. Sophia would For nearly a decade he had been a senior be the Biblical Ghod / Ghod of Abraham, priest within that movement, responsible for creator of Adam and Eve, etc, so the whole set instructing others in the details of Mani’s faith, of ‘Abrahamic’ Monotheist religions that follow consequently, following his conversion to in the Bible, Talmud and Koran would have to Christianity, his denunciations of be false religions! This act of Grace is a Manichaeism, especially on the heretical ‘loaner’ and it is up to us as good subjects of parts were quite detailed and to the point, to the Upper Ghod to end it all and send the the extent that the best image of Manichaeist spark back to the upper Ghod where it beliefs and practices we have today come belongs. from Augustine’s pen. However, (like Pauls Mani preached that the salvation of the world second Titus which injects ‘Roman’ civic came via this act of Liberation (parallels with virtues into Christianity) Augustine also eastern teaching of enlightenment through the introduced a number of issues that were not renunciation of connections with the world, to be found in Gospel accounts of Christ’s life passions and possessions, particularly terminal and teachings, and considered to be at some starvation in Jainism) distance from the spirit of Christ’s teachings, Mani entered a crowded market for religious issues such as; ideas but was singularly well equipped and Original Sin educated in Religious matters, so his new Predestination religion spread widely, to Europe and to China, The elect of the saved with Doctrines, Temples and Clergy all The peril of limbo to unbaptised babies established in his lifetime.
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