The concept of eternal life and a desire to halt aging has been the\u00a0central focus of many a soul. From the earliest of times, man and demi-god alike have sought after the elusive secret to\u00a0eternal life. \u00a0What better place to begin our quest than the book containing\u00a0the “Good News” sent from God to man; the bible.<\/p>\n
Bible, New Testament – The gospel according to Paul or so they say.<\/strong><\/p>\n Romans 4:17 (NIV) <\/strong> We seem to desire what lasts forever, not the temporary existence we see within the domain of our physical and\u00a0mortal\u00a0human kind. \u00a0Of these, we’ve seen them come and go before us.<\/p>\n With only our eyes to reveal what is truth, we long\u00a0to live forever in these bodies of ours. Without considering or ever thinking that we are already eternal souls, beings possessing the experiences of eternal beings, we abhor\u00a0the death of the body that\u00a0is seen.<\/p>\n In ignorance of an eternal soul, we are compelled to search for a\u00a0better state of\u00a0being. \u00a0We are driven by unquenchable desire for the ultimate prize of which in its sight all other\u00a0achievements,\u00a0no matter how great, mean nothing without. For,\u00a0if we can not\u00a0endure to enjoy what ever is achieved within, it is the same as all was\u00a0lost to begin. What is our\u00a0purpose, if not for our\u00a0achievements to\u00a0endure along\u00a0with\u00a0our being?<\/p>\n 2 Corinthians 4:18 (KJV) <\/strong> Some would say: in our hopelessness, we projected our desires of the unknown and formed our\u00a0gods in the\u00a0image of the known and made them\u00a0unseen. In the image of ourselves, formed we them and we gave them possession of that which seemed to elude us the most.<\/p>\n With\u00a0gods that can bestow the prize, and give us direction, we have a high calling and an obtainable goal worthy of\u00a0pursuit. We have purpose for working, for achieving, for being.<\/p>\n The Gods Give Purpose –\u00a0<\/strong>Epic of Gilgamesh<\/strong><\/p>\n In what\u00a0many consider the oldest known poetry,\u00a0The Epic of Gilgamesh is a poem written on stone tablets sometime around\u00a02700 B.C. in Mesopotamia.<\/p>\n Gilgamesh goes in search of immortality because he suddenly becomes aware of his own mortality after the death of his friend, Enkidu.<\/p>\n “BITTERLY Gilgamesh wept for his friend Enkidu; he wandered over the wilderness as a hunter, he roamed over the plains; in his bitterness he cried, \u2018How can I rest, how can I be at peace? Despair is in my heart. What my brother is now, that shall I be when I am dead. <\/strong>Because I am afraid of death<\/strong> I will go as best I can to find Utnapishtim whom they call the Faraway, for he has entered the assembly of the gods.’ So Gilgamesh travelled over the wilderness, he wandered over the grasslands, a long journey, in search of Utnapishtim,<\/strong> whom the gods took after the deluge; and they set him to live in the land of Dilmun, in the garden of the sun; and to him alone of men they gave everlasting life.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Yet, the gods of Gilgamesh were NOT gods made of stone nor were they made by the hand of man. The gods of Gilgamesh\u00a0were not made of the fertile imagination of one longing for the unobtainable. The gods of Gilgamesh were real, they were alive. They enjoyed physical life and had an appearance of mortality.\u00a0The gods\u00a0were not imaginary. See: The 12th\u00a0Planet<\/a>; \u00a0Zecharia Sitchin<\/a><\/p>\n Gilgamesh was a son, a son who’s\u00a0mother Nimah was one of the very gods he\u00a0would pursue and seek for advice. His story tells of how he sought their guidance and direction to the path of the grand prize and high calling of immortality. Yet in the story, Gilgamesh is never told of his immortal soul, that he will assuredly live again. Rather\u00a0Gilgamesh is manipulated to perform a feat and\u00a0prove himself worthy. He is given a task, that if he succeeds, he will obtain a plant that will restore his youth. Unfortunately, the plant is eaten by a snake before Gilgamesh can enjoy\u00a0it.<\/p>\n Gilgamesh, I shall reveal a secret thing, it is a mystery of the gods that I am telling you. There is a plant that grows under the water, it has a prickle like a thorn, like a rose; it will wound your hands, but if you succeed in taking it, then your hands will hold that which restores his lost youth to a man: When Gilgamesh heard this he opened the sluices so that a sweet water current might carry him out to the deepest channel; he tied heavy stones to his feet and they dragged him down to the water-bed. There he saw the plant growing;; although it pricked him he took it in his hands; then he cut the heavy stones from his feet, and the sea carried him and threw him on to the shore. Gilgamesh said to Urshanabi the ferryman, `Come here, and see this marvellous plant. By its virtue a man may win back all his former strength. I will take it to Uruk of the strong walls; there I will give it to the old men to eat. Its name shall be “The Old Men Are Young Again<\/strong>“; and at last I shall eat it myself and have back all my lost youth.’<\/p>\n These gods\u00a0were not imaginary. They knew how to assign a quest, a task and\u00a0to give direction and a calling to it. They knew they could\u00a0solve\u00a0the dilemma of Gilgamesh and provide him a sense of purpose, but instead they gave him work, toil and task at which he must strain. But, he now\u00a0had a goal and a purpose for being; he would rise up to meet the “high callings” of god.<\/p>\n We like Gilgamesh already have\u00a0eternal life. But instead, for the purpose\u00a0that so-called ‘gods’ can\u00a0have cheap labor, we are\u00a0NOT told of what we already possess. Rather we are\u00a0denied\u00a0eternal life unless they, those calling themselves gods, first have their tithes or taxes, palaces, temples and kingdoms or goddoms.<\/p>\n The story of Gilgamesh, is a story of betrayal, of exploitation, of slavery. Man was created in the image of the gods, but not for the benefit of mankind. In actuality, Mankind was created in the image of humankind\u00a0calling themselves\u00a0gods that mankind\u00a0might work and serve the humankind masters.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n As the new humankind masters found ever so new desires\u00a0to pursue, hoards\u00a0of mankind would find themselves recruited to\u00a0join the legions assigned to each new task. As\u00a0the tasks multiplied and varied, so a\u00a0new legion would be\u00a0given a new task and formerly tasked legions would be\u00a0re-tasked once their usefulness was wanted elsewhere.<\/p>\n The hoards\u00a0had a purpose: to seek a sake that was not to be forsaken. Mankind was not without a cause. Life was good, or so it seemed. But man changed and also the gods.<\/p>\n The\u00a0number of dedicated\u00a0legions multiplied through out the land. New pursuits and crusades would be commissioned, leaders appointed and dispensed. With each would come a new dispensation\u00a0while\u00a0the humankind masters conceived ever new sakes\u00a0for\u00a0even more\u00a0religions.<\/p>\n Yes, the hoards of mankind found themselves tasked and re-tasked into new legions and religions of old. Today few new legions are necessary as there are\u00a0religions a plenty.<\/p>\n The Ageless Body<\/strong><\/p>\n Today, I too find myself seeking the path to immortality or at least to the obtaining of a body that does not age or exhibit the forms of weakness and the debilitated state we observe in our\u00a0aged ones as we see them age in\u00a0our\u00a0sight.<\/p>\n Possibly I am again in\u00a0pursue of the elusive plant that once eaten may restore youth to our bodies that the Old Men Are Young Again.<\/p>\n Age Symbols – Form following a Pattern<\/strong><\/p>\n Could it be there is nothing more required of us than to recognize time is a persistent illusion, that our\u00a0eternal\u00a0soul forms our body as a symbol given a form that progressively changes? That our\u00a0form changes in order\u00a0to provide\u00a0the soul with\u00a0a\u00a0form of various life perspectives<\/strong>\u00a0called\u00a0ages<\/em>?<\/p>\n I believe it is. \u00a0Aging is NOT the deterioration of the body breaking down and wearing out. The ages of the human species and mankind\u00a0are a progression of adventures in consciousness following a long\u00a0established routine of observations known for their ability to provide a fulness of value fulfilling enhancement to\u00a0the soul.<\/p>\n Hear again Seth as he touches upon this subject almost as a given within the greater context\u00a0of dreams and the use of physical symbols within them.<\/p>\n Within your own personality all facets of your consciousness converge, whether or not you are aware of it. To some extent, all of these are small examples of the mobility of your consciousness<\/strong>, and the ease with which it can be used. In a strange manner, symbols can be regarded as samples<\/strong> of the way you perceive<\/span><\/strong> its various levels of consciousness. Their changing guises<\/strong> can be used as signposts.<\/p>\n All symbols<\/strong> are an attempt to express feelings, feelings that can never be expressed adequately through language. Symbols represent the infinite variations of feelings<\/strong>, and in various stages of consciousness<\/span><\/strong> these will appear in different terms, but they will always accompany you. \u00a0Seth Speaks Ch 18 Book Pg 255<\/p>\n He is still dealing with physically oriented symbols, … Physical objects are the most obvious of your symbols, and precisely for that reason you do not realize that they are symbols at all. Some such symbols stay with you for life. Some in periods of great change may also alter their character, bringing forth a certain feeling of disorientation as these unconsciously familiar symbols undergo transformation. The same sort of thing applies to your physical living.\u00a0Ibid Ch 18, PDF Pg148<\/p>\n These symbols will change, therefore, in various stages of consciousness. Again, the logical sequence is not present, but the intuitive creation will change the symbols<\/strong> much in the way that an artist might change his colors.<\/p>\n All symbols stand for inner realities, therefore, and when you juggle symbols, you are juggling inner realities.<\/p>\n To some extent this transmutation of symbol<\/strong> can be observed in various stages of waking consciousness also.<\/p>\n Now even as you go about your day, your consciousness fluctuates, and you can catch yourself “symbolizing” in these different ways if you get in the habit of observing but not interpreting the state of your mind. Each physical event that has happened to you is filed away within your psyche as a definite group of symbols. These do not represent the experience, they contain the experience.<\/strong> These represent your personal symbol bank as far as your present life is concerned.Ibid Ch 18, PDF Pg149<\/p>\n
\n17 <\/sup>As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed–the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.<\/p>\n
\n18 <\/sup>While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are<\/em> temporal; but the things which are not seen are<\/em> eternal.<\/p>\n
\nConsciousness can be turned in many directions, obviously, both inward and outward. You are aware of fluctuations in your normal consciousness, and closer attention would make some of this quite clear. You expand or narrow the scope of your attention constantly. You may focus upon one object almost to the exclusion of everything else at times, …<\/p>\n
\nThe physical body all the while is greatly benefitted, because the beneficial feelings automatically renew and replenish its recuperative abilities.\u00a0These symbols are the changing scenes characteristic of consciousness at various stages. The experiences are to be considered as creations; creative acts all native to consciousness at various stages.<\/p>\n
\nAt different levels, consciousness works with different kinds of symbols. Symbols are a method of expressing inner reality. Working in one direction the soul, using its consciousness, expresses inner reality through as many symbols as possible, through living, changing symbolism. Each symbol itself then is to its own extent conscious, individual, and aware<\/strong>.
\nIn so doing, the soul continually creates new varieties of inner reality to be explored. Working in the opposite direction, so to speak, the soul divests itself of all symbols, all representations, and using its consciousness in a different way learns to probe its own direct experience<\/strong>. Without symbols to come between it and experience, it perfects itself in a kind of value fulfillment<\/strong> that you presently cannot understand except symbolically. \u00a0Ibid Ch 18, PDF Pg147<\/p>\n