The Ancient Religion of the Sacred Fire: Sun-Gods and their Progeny

THE ANCIENT RELIGION OF FIRE-WORSHIP AND SUN-GODS

THE ANCIENTS OF THE EAST ERECTED HIGHPLACES, from the pyramids of Giza through Ramah, Philistine, Shiloh, Beth Shemesh, Moab and to Babylon, sacred to Baal, Adon, Iao, or El, the Sun (a High-God). What is the mystery of the “Sun-God” worshiped by those who held fire as sacred?

The ancients believed in gods that first evolved from the flaming fire or the purely formless, and invisible primordial flame we find describes as the Primordial or Noumenal Fire, Aether or Chaos. A most archaic and sacred reference to fire is owed to these ancient civilizations from which their religious systems hid a common philosophy of spirit and dynamic power, built on the distinction between spirit and matter. The immortal light of fire fashioned from the terrestrial-matter more life. All life were fructified by the one substance, spiritus, or pneuma. It was from the “Crown” of heaven (the light of heaven), that the planets and their spheres (planes) received their light and powers. The true Sun (metaphysically), the formless, electric fire of all Life, beyond manifested Nature in the Mysteries is spoken of as triple.

This astronomical religion of the Chaldeans (Assyrians), Syrians, Persians, Arabs, in the Mysteries of the Jews, Phoenicians, and Egyptians also depicted tales of Seven-Rayed Gods, like Mithra-Bel, the Logos, that transferred its quality and power through the Seven Spheres and “seven classical (sacred) planets,” which danced and circled around the King of heaven. The Logos is the manifested deity with every old nation and people. Its concealed and inscrutable nature is related to sound, and thus to speech, language, thought (mind) and its activity.

THE LORD IS A CONSUMING FIRE

The records of the Hebrews contain this fire-worship.

“The Lord is a consuming Fire.” (Deuteronomy 4:24)

“The Lord shall be revealed with his mighty angels [asdt] in flaming fire.” (2 Thessal., 1:7, 8)

In the Theogonies of these creative Gods, the first “Primordials” that descend from the eternal Fire are known as the Aions (Archangels) in a number of the religions from these regions. These asdt were the first gods called ‘the Ancients generally, or collectively, the Aions (a Gnostic term).

The origins of the Mysteries are ignorantly regarded as devilish (unholy) WISDOM, proceeding from “those evil Babylonians” and Moloch-sacrificers. These are in-fact religious systems shared by the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Indians, Parthians, Arabs, Medes, Gebers, Elamites, Galileans, and across the world. The fire-worship of antiquity remains passed into the Jewish offspring of the Mysteries in Christianity, and other doctrines, and refashioned. This so-called fire-worship became modified and articulated in accordance with the Jewish national-cultus.

The gods of SYRIA, of Moab in Jordan, of the Philistines, the numerous versions of VENUS (Astarte)-worship, the SEVEN AIONS and their “hosts” are in many other traditions around the world.

In both the Simonian and Blavatsky system, the “Primordials” are described as the Fathers (“minds”), the graduated emanations descending lower and lower into matter from the primordial “Fire,” or the root-substance of all the innumerable hierarchies of beings. 

THE TRIPLE-GOD IS A SECRET TEACHING OF THE MYSTERIES

As to the Logos, the ancient civilizations spoke of it as the vitality from which the physical or visible sun draws its power in the manifested Solar System.

“None of the ancients, the sun-worshipers included, regarded our visible sun otherwise than as an emblem of their metaphysical invisible central sun-god.”

It is this Sun, the allegorical Sun (Sol, Iao, Abraxas), the ancient religions of “fire-worship” truly refer to as the King, or “Father-Sun,” many-eyed and omniscient. The allegorical Sun is represented symbolically as the point in the middle of the six-pointed-star, which radiates seven principal Forces called “Rays.” The substance or energy from which they spring is called spirit, pneuma, the invisible electric Fire, divine MOTION, and divine BREATH.

The visible Sun in our system is but its representative, and the equinoxes, solstices and phases are its symbols.