XXXVIII THE GOLDEN AGE

by William Bond   Comments by Rasa Von Werder

"Ancient myths and beliefs describe the female as the stronger sex, one endowed with magical powers" - Marija Gimbutas

(RASA SAYS:  INDEED.  WE HAVE MAGICAL POWERS - I DO.  IN CHRISTIANITY THEY ARE CALLED 'THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.'  THESE ARE MAIN GIFTS FOR WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING, DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS,  TEACHING, MINISTERING, 'FEAR OF THE LORD,' ETC.--ALL YOU NEED TO SAVE YOURSELF & OTHERS WHEN YOU'RE OF GOD.   THE 'GIFTS OF POWER' ARE HEALING & MIRACLES.  THERE ARE AUTHENTIC STORIES ABOUT MANY FAITH HEALERS FROM THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTIANITY, STARTING WITH JESUS.  THE GREATEST HEALER WAS A FEMALE - AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON.

I KNOW THAT ALL RELIGIONS FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME, ALL PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WOMEN, HAD THESE POWERS, BY LOGICAL DEDUCTION.  IN DIFFERENT RELIGIONS THEY DEFINE & EXPLAIN THEM DIFFERENT WAYS.

TO DESCRIBE HOW MY SPIRITUAL POWER WORKS.  IN THE OLD DAYS I USED TO PRAY FOR HOURS.  NOW, HAVING ENTERED ANOTHER ZONE CALLED 'NONDUALITY' ALL A DESERVING PERSON HAS TO DO IS TELL ME THEIR PROBLEM, & WITHOUT MY EVEN BEING AWARE OF IT, THE POWER GOES TO THEM & THE PROBLEM IS REMOVED. {SIMILAR TO THE LADY WITH THE ISSUE OF BLOOD WHO BELIEVED IF SHE TOUCHED THE HEM OF JESUS' GARMENT SHE WOULD BE HEALED & IT HAPPENED}.  TWO OF MY FRIENDS WERE HEALED OF CANCER THIS WAY.  BUT THEY HAVE TO BE AMENABLE TO ME, IF THEIR DISPOSITION ISN'T RIGHT, THE HEALING DOES NOT OCCUR--MOSTLY IF THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN MY SPIRITUAL ABILITY OR FOR SOME REASON RESIST MY ENERGY, DON'T LIKE ME {PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE ONE ANOTHER, THEY HAVE SHOWN IN KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY, THE ENERGY CIRCLES BACK TOWARD THEMSELVES, THEY DO NOT OPEN UP TO THE OTHER'S ENERGY}--& THAT INCLUDES GOOD FRIENDS & RELATIVES.)

In Greek Legend there is a story of an ancient Golden Age where people lived in peace and prosperity. To quote: 

"The first age was an age of innocence and happiness.  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 around their towns. There were no such thing as swords, spears, or helmets.  The earth brought forth all things necessary for man, without his labour in ploughing or sowing. Perpetual spring reigned, flower sprang up without seed, the rivers flowed with milk and wine, and yellow honey distilled from the oaks."

After that came the Silver age, where everything wasn't so good, then the Brazen age where things got worse and finally the Iron age, which is really our present age of warfare and violence.  The whole concept of this myth is that everything has become slowly worse and worse for human kind since the Golden Age.

(RASA SAYS:  THE ANALOGY IS JUST LIKE ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI DESCRIBED HIS FUTURE MONKS, FIRST GOLD, LASTLY IRON.  THE MONKS ARE NOW IRON WHICH MEANS THEY ARE NOT SPIRITUALLY VALUABLE.)

Yet the myth of the Golden age doesn't only come from Ancient Greece. Probably the most ancient religion that survives today is Taoism in China. Again this religion talks about a Golden age in the past. As explained repetitively in the Tao-Te-Ching written by Lao Tzu .

(RASA SAYS:  I WAS TOLD THE TAO, TAOISM, ORIGINATED FROM A FEMALE RELIGION BUT RIGHT NOW CAN'T FIND THE REFERENCES.  WE KNOW ALL MEN'S RELIGIONS CAME FROM THE FEMALE'S.)  

The concept of the Golden Age is also in the story of the Garden of Eden which again seems to have been a paradise. This came to an end when Eve listened to what a serpent told her and eats the forbidden fruit. The serpent would be a phallic symbol so it means she listened to a con-man who probably deceived her. So because she ate the forbidden fruit Adam and Eve were banished into the waste land and Adam had to work "by the sweat of his brow".

The story of the Garden of Eden comes from a Golden age story from ancient Mesopotamia but the original story and its meaning has been lost. There is a similar story from the Ancient Greeks where Pandora opens a jar or box she was forbidden to open and out come all the evils of our world. This again brings the end to an age of paradise.

(RASA SAYS:  I KNOW THE MEANING OF THE STORY & YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED, WILLIAM, AS YOU'RE SPEAKING ON THIS SUBJECT CONSTANTLY - 'THE ONE'.  IN LATE 1981 I HAD FINISHED READING THE FOUR VOLUME 'MYSTICAL CITY OF GOD' BY SAINT MARY OF AGREDA.  THE ALMIGHTY LIFTED ME TO A PLACE I THEN CALLED 'ABOVE IMAGES,' & I DID NOT KNOW THE DEFINITION OR MEANING OF THIS PLACE, BUT I DO NOW.

I HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT THIS REVELATION UNTIL I READ WILLIAM'S 'THE ONE.'  NOW I UNDERSTAND I WAS PLACED INTO THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ADVAITA / NONDUALITY.  

HOW I FELT:  IT WAS A PEACE I HAD NEVER KNOWN.  ALL THAT HAD GONE BEFORE ME, IN MY LIFE, FADED AWAY.  I DID NOT FORGET IT, IT WAS THERE BUT AS IF IN A DISTANCE.  {THAT IS ONE OF THE MARKS OF NONDUALITY, THE PAST, INCLUDING PAST PAINS, ARE NOW FAR AWAY, THEY DON'T HURT ANY MORE, IT'S AS IF YOU ASCENDED & WENT TO HEAVEN}.  I WAS IN A EUPHORIC STATE, INCAPABLE OF PAIN & MY MIND WAS CLEAN, CRYSTAL CLEAR, NOT BY ANY LABOR, HARD REPENTANCE, DISCIPLINE OR PRAYER, I JUST SIMPLY ASCENDED OUT OF MYSELF - OUT OF MY FLESH - & WAS IN A HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS.

THIS STATE LASTED FOUR DAYS & FOUR NIGHTS.  I WAS SORRY TO SEE IT GO.  BUT AT THIS TIME I HAD NEVER STUDIED NONDUALITY - NEVER HEARD OF IT, I HAD NOT GOTTEN DEEPLY INTO YOGA YET.  HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS.

WHAT IS MY POINT?

I RECALL THINKING STRONGLY 'THIS IS WHAT THE GARDEN OF EDEN WAS, WHEN MANKIND LIVED IN PEACE, JOY & LOVE.  THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT WAS TO DESCENED FROM THIS TYPE THINKING TO A LOWER FORM, WHERE ONE THEN LOSES THE JOY, BLISS & HAPPINESS.  YOU LEAVE THE HEAVEN ON EARTH, THE GARDEN OF EDEN IS A CONSCIOUSNESS, A MENTAL/EMOTIONAL STATE.  TO DWELL IN IT IS HEAVENLY.  TO FALL DOWN FROM IT IS TO SUFFER, AS DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE.)

Also in the few Aztec and Maya writing that have survived again there is a myth of a very ancient Golden Age ruled by a compassionate Mother Goddess. This is in contrast to the later age of warfare and human sacrifice. In fact most ancient cultures of the world have some myth of a golden age of the ancient past.

Up until recently modern academics have rejected these legends as pure myth. Not only do they sound too good to be true. Recorded history seemed to show a different story. Ancient history showed that the further you go back in history the more brutal and violent men behaved. After all we do not have human sacrifice anymore.

(RASA SAYS:  HUMAN SACRIFICE OF COURSE IS NOT AS BLATANT AS IT WAS BUT LOOKED AT HITLER GASSING PEOPLE--SENDING MEN INTO CERTAIN DEATH IN MANY WARS--ATROCITIES AGAINST CITIZENS IN WARS.  LOOK AT BIO-WARFARE, INVENTING AIDS FOR EXAMPLE & INJECTING MILLIONS OF AFRICANS WITH IT UNDER THE SMALLPOX VACCINE.  OTHER DISEASES ARE BEING INVENTED & INTRODUCED.  ALL THESE VACCINES ARE GIVING CHILDREN & ADULTS AUTISM & DEATH - THE AUTISM SINCE THESE VACCINES IS THIRTY TIMES HIGHER THAN IT USED TO BE.  THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING, DAMAGING & KILLING PEOPLE.)

Though it has to be admitted we still have genocide and wars as we have seen with the Nazi and Po-Pot regimes. Yet it has been assumed by archaeologists that people in pre-historic times were even more brutal than people in historic times. But recent archaeology discoveries have challenged this assumption.

In the 1960s an archaeologists called James Mellaart lead a team to excavate a site in Anatolia in Turkey. This site turned out to be the oldest city ever discovered. Called Catal Huyuk it goes back over 9,000 years. What was discovered goes against all assumptions archaeologist have about people living in Neolithic times.

They couldn't find any fortifications to defend the city or any weapons of war. Neither could they find signs of violence committed on people buried in graves. It was also a city full of feminine imagery to the degree that Mellaart was force to say that the people worshipped the Ancient Great Mother.

So unsettling was these discoveries that the site was closed down for thirty years and the academic world ignored the implications of this find. But there was one archaeologist who was brave enough to challenge the accepted wisdom of the academic world.

(RASA SAYS:  HERE IS THE COVER-UP OF HER-STORY.  THIS IS YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHEN THEY FIND THAT WOMEN WERE GREAT, THEY WERE GODDESSES, THEY WERE WORSHIPED, THEY WERE POWERFUL - COVER IT UP.

WE ARE FORCE-FED HISTORY FROM GRADE SCHOOL OF WHAT MEN DID, BUT IT'S PRETENDED THAT WOMEN DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.  EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE REPRESSED THEY DID A LOT - BUT IT IS ERASED, SWEPT UNDER THE RUG, IGNORED, OR DENIED.  IF WOMEN FOUND OUT ALL THAT WOMEN HAVE DONE IN THE PAST THEY WOULD BE FORTIFIED & INSPIRED, & MEN AS WELL WOULD RESPECT WOMEN A LOT MORE.  I WISH WE KNEW MORE ABOUT WHAT WOMEN DID, BUT WE HAVE TO FIND ALTERNATIVE SOURCES.  ONE SUCH SOURCE IS

"THE WOMEN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYTHS & SECRETS" BY BARBARA G. WALKER, PUBLISHED IN 1983 BY HARPER/COLLINS PUBLISHERS.

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The late Mariji Gimbutas went digging in other Neolithic sites and found similar findings. She also highlighted the Neolithic findings that Soviet scientists had made in Transylvania. As well as Goddess civilizations found in Crete and Malta. All these excavations showed peaceful societies that worshiped the Great Mother. Gimbutas became a very controversial figure and her books and work was rejected by the academic world. But other archaeologist also found similar finds.

(RASA SAYS:  INDEED SHE WAS REJECTED, BUT SHE FOUGHT BACK & WON.  HOW DARE SHE TELL THE TRUTH?  THE MOSTLY MALE ACADEMICS WERE THREATENED BY THESE FINDINGS & WANTED TO HOLD THE LINE THAT ONLY MEN WERE IMPORTANT, ONLY THEY DID THINGS.  ABOUT HER:

********** Gimbutas  (1921-1994)  gained fame and notoriety in the English-speaking world with her last three English-language books: The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe (1974); The Language of the Goddess (1989), which inspired an exhibition in Wiesbaden, 1993–94; and the last of the three, The Civilization of the Goddess (1991), which, based on her documented archaeological findings, presented an overview of her conclusions about Neolithic cultures across Europe: housing patterns, social structure, art, religion, and the nature of literacy.

The Civilization of the Goddess articulated what Gimbutas saw as the differences between the Old European system, which she considered goddess- and woman-centered (gynocentric), and the Bronze Age Indo-European patriarchal ("androcratic") culture which supplanted it. According to her interpretations, gynocentric (or matristic) societies were peaceful, honored women, and espoused economic equality.

The androcratic, or male-dominated, Kurgan peoples, on the other hand, invaded Europe and imposed upon its natives the hierarchical rule of male warriors........................................................ 

Joseph Campbell and Ashley Montagu each compared the importance of Marija Gimbutas's output to the historical importance of the Rosetta Stone in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. Campbell provided a foreword to a new edition of Gimbutas's The Language of the Goddess (1989) before he died, and often said how profoundly he regretted that her research on the Neolithic cultures of Europe had not been available when he was writing The Masks of God. The ecofeminist Charlene Spretnak argued in 2011 that a "backlash" against Gimbutas's work had been orchestrated, starting in the last years of her life and following her death. ********** (end Rasa research, from Wikipedia.)

The Indus Valley civilization in Pakistan was again an Ancient society that archaeologists could find no signs violence or weapons of war.  Even more recently in Caral in Peru the oldest city ever discovered in South America, going back to 5,000 years, the same thing was discovered.  Given the violent history of later South American civilizations with mass human sacrifice archaeologists expected to find the same thing.  But no matter how hard they looked they couldn’t find any evidence of human sacrifice, warfare or any other indication of violence.  And they had to conclude that this civilization existed in peace for thousands of years.

More recently scientists have discovered the Yamnaya people whom they claimed, were “the most murderous people of all time” as they embarked on a violent conquest of Europe 5,000 years ago. It seems it was these people brought a violent end to the peaceful Neolithic age in Europe.

(RASA SAYS:  THE PATRIARCHS WON THE 'GENDER WAR' & THE VICTORS CONTROL THE VERSION OF WHAT HAPPENED.  THEY DON'T WANT US TO KNOW WE USED TO LIVE IN PEACE & THEY, THE WARMONGER-MEN, ATTACKED THE PEACEFUL & IMPOSED, OVER TIME, THE DOG EAT DOG WORLD WE HAVE TODAY.  THEY ARE HYSTERICAL ABOUT THE TRUTH BEING KNOW.  I HAVE SEEN THE REACTION OF MEN ESPECIALLY IN THE BEGINNING OF MY WORK - YOU COULD HEAR THEM SCREAM - THEY ARE FRIGHTENED.)

So would this be the fate of any future matriarchal society or religion? It might thrive for awhile but eventually be violently destroyed by a patriarchal people. That could be true but it doesn’t have to be like this.

The whole patriarchal age is a warning from history. If all the knowledge about the patriarchal age is preserved then it is a clear warning of what can happen if men are allowed to rule the world.

(RASA SAYS:  THERE IS NO CHANCE OF THAT HAPPENED, WE CANNOT TURN BACK.  I REFER TO THIS MAN A HUNDRED TIMES & WILL DO SO ANOTHER HUNDRED:  DR. BRYAN SYKES, WORLD'S LEADING GENETICIST, "ADAM'S CURSE, A FUTURE WITHOUT MEN."  HE SAYS THAT HUMAN MALES WERE A 'GENETIC EXPERIMENT' THAT 'DID NOT WORK' & BECAUSE OF THIS, NATURE IS NOW REMOVING THEM.  HE EXPLAINS IN GREAT DETAIL HOW MALES ARE PRODUCED, HOW ALL HUMANS ARE FEMALE IN THE BEGINNING, & WHEN THE FETUS IS THE SIZE OF A GRAPEFRUIT SEED IT'S REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL IS TRUNCATED & THE FETUS FORMS INTO A MALE.

  BOTH HE & ASHLEY MONTAGU CALL THE HUMAN MALE A 'PARASITE ON THE BODY OF THE WOMAN.'  HE CANNOT REPRODUCE BUT INJECTS HIS DNA INTO THE FEMALE TO DO SO.

IT IRKS ME TO THINK OF THE EARLY GREEK PLAYWRITE SOPHOCLES  IN 'OEDIPUS REX,' WHO SAID THAT  THE WOMAN IS NOT THE 'MOTHER OF THE CHILD', ONLY THE MALE IS THE PARENT, THE FEMALE IS NO MORE THAN AN 'INCUBATOR'.  IT'S JUST THE OPPOSITE, AS STATED, MALE IS THE PARASITE, WOMAN IS THE PARENT.

DR. SYKES EXPLAINS THAT IN FUTURE WOMEN WILL REPRODUCE WITHOUT MEN.  ONE WAY IS TAKING 23 CHROMOSOMES FROM THE EGG OF A WOMAN & INJECTING THEM INTO THE EGG OF ANOTHER - YOU HAVE A PERFECT FEMALE CHILD.  HE DID NOT MENTION PARTHENOGENESIS  (THAT'S HOW WE FIRST CREATED MEN I CONCLUDE) OR SPERM BANKS.  HE SAID THAT THE FUTURE WILL BE ALL FEMALE.  I GUESS DEAD MEN CAN'T CREATE ANY MORE TROUBLE.

The end of the last matriarchal age happened when women became complacent and allowed themselves to be tricked by ambitious men. But if the history of the last five thousand years is preserved, then women will be less likely to be so complacent in the future.