Interestingly enough, that thing on the head of the priest, as with
the fish head hat of the RC pontiff and his cardinals, is actually a relic of ancient Egypt - around the time of Moses in fact; and it's purpose back then, offers some very enlightening insight into why it is still worn today by this bunch of self adoring religious 'leaders'.
Egypt had a pagan state enforced religious structure, that effectively romanced
Pharaoh into the understanding that by reason of his now being the leader of the world, he could expect to be the very next 'god' after his death. So eventually being placed in his pyramid, which was the engine that would soon see him being promoted into the heavens, and finally standing with an eternal life next to the head 'god', who was obviously 'the creator', and who now that work was complete, looked after the sun (the sun god). This sun god was in fact
Amen - indeed the very same 'Amen', who now happily sits at the end of every Christian prayer - absorbing that which everyone thinks they are passing on to another CREATOR.
Amen had a most unusual characteristic - that his head did not have a crown, because his brain was so huge that it needed to extend way above the normal skull of the rest of us. Naturally, since Pharaoh was a future 'god', he also (must have) had a larger than normal brain, although not yet as huge as Amen. Therefore to promote this concept, he needed to wear oversized hats, that emphasized and proclaimed his oversized brain, whilst protecting it until his ascension. Naturally, the Amen priesthood; being the exalted and wealthiest section of society, also needed to wear a similar head dressing.
So it is that, even today these oversized hats are all about proclaiming
the wearer as not mortal like the rest of us, but rather being a part of the pagan 'god' realm. So the heads of the various religions around the place who still enjoy this kind of show, are all about being more richly endowed with grey matter than the rest of us, and soon to be (if not already) a 'god' to be worshipped by us. And to further expand on this phenomenon, each pontiff also has an ornately bejewelled oversized formal hat, that he almost never wears out in public any more, for it created too many questions that were hard to explain away.
Nonetheless, he still has it - for ceremonial purposes, and more essentially it still today takes pride of place at the very top of every coat of arms of every pope. This hat, I notice has been explored here earlier, is known as the
'papal tiara', or the
'triple crown', and has the royal function of designating the wearer, as being the king; indeed the very 'god' of the three heavens - of;
1. The over-world (heaven)
2. The world
3. The underworld
So therefore, it might do us well to take another look into what it is that mankind actually worships en-mass - in these self exalted 'holy' men, and the form of worship they piously promote with apparent impunity - to all and sundry. For as we can see purely for the looking - theirs is NOT and never has been a monotheistic teaching, and despite the abundance of 'Jesus' depictions it shoves in our face, it truly was never about him at all.
Rather, it was and remains today, a religious adherance to the pagan theology that originally found root in Babylon, but later was concreted into the law of the land in ancient Egypt - as under Pharaoh's requirements to be 'god'. This indeed, was the heart of the 'slavery' of Egypt that we read about in scripture, for it was from this spiritual bondage that Moses called out 'his people' - not the physical variety in the granite quarries that we are led to believe, even though such physical servitude did offer a supportive-roll kind of service to the spiritual corruption at the core.
Unfortunately the people who followed Moses out of the place never actually woke up to the fact that it was the
spiritual slavery that was their enemy, and so had to endure 40 years of wandering in the wilderness as a result. But even after this period, when one or two of their children had opened their eyes to the lesson of true freedom, and so they finally entered their 'rest', even so they soon found themselves delighting to be back on the treadmill of ever deepening religious servitude - now by their own choice. As a result, their tree of 'rest' and 'freedom' never actually fruited for them, so they reacted each time they were again dragged off into slavery to other nations, by further increasing the religious burdens upon their own backs, rather than noticing the abundant freedom from religion that was time and again being offered them.
So today, we see those who propose to be the descendents of these people, as the most religious this planet has ever seen, because apparently we still choose to see the entire account as being according a (past) physical bondage - to Pharaoh; rather than the reality - which was (and still is currently) a decidedly spiritual bondage to the - ongoing priesthood of Amen, as depicted
here and
here.
"So knowledge isn't the main measure, love of Yahweh and of each other are."
Edited by user Monday, July 28, 2008 6:36:24 AM(UTC)
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