New and Revealing Facts about Jesus
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The Testament of the Magi is a book that can claim to be genuinely unique. Readers will decide that either it presents the true birth data of Jesus and events of the Easter week resolving many questions and mysteries around Jesus and his life, or it doesn't.
Enlarging upon paths opened up by reputable scholarly and astronomical theory on the birth of Christ, the mass of evidence presented (which reaches far beyond my earlier Signs for a Messiah and is much more popularly accessible) is so persuasive, even to seeming as exact as a fingerprint for Jesus, that easy dismissal won't be an option. A shorter Part Two, less astrology linked, looks at three disciples of especially modern relevance, the Magdalene, John the Beloved Disciple and the traitor, Judas.
The opening paragraphs of the book are included below. A few more excerpts of the book will be available on the fReado site (enter author's name or book title) from the end of the month.
The Testament of the Magi will be available on American Amazon from the end of November (Nov 28th).
A Revolution of Consciousness
Despite the scholarly underpinnings of the book a revolution of consciousness might be required of readers to absorb all the implications for Jesus, religion, life and fate in what's conveyed through the book's 378 pages and 22 diagrams and which takes the reader further than might be expected into Jesus' self-understanding. It's hard enough today to absorb the implications for fate and psychology in the natus of a contemporary figure like Prince William which shows asteroids Diana and Camilla conjunct on the same degree and asteroid Kate in his relationship house. But it's still more surprising to take in how Jesus' messianic ancestry itself is shown in his house of origins and his names and titles compose a super-conjunction in the heavens.
These are only a few of the wonders of the still little used micro-astrology of name, place, and concept asteroids and the definitions possible via the so-called Arabic Parts like the Parts of the Father and Mother (Testament employs 430 asteroids and around 70 Parts in its micro-astrology). Moreover the data of Jesus' chart live. They have continued to trace Jesus-relevant issues and events across history. One of the more astonishing if speculative claims of the book is to be able to trace the disciples' last question to Jesus and its apparently very clear answer in the foundation day of modern Israel, itself represented, by its own asteroid, Israel.
The Season, Means and Possible Spiritual Implications of Publication
Although the data and theories of Testament are not limited to Christmas themes and Jesus wasn't born in December, the Christmas season seemed like the most appropriate time to be issuing the book. So, with the help of friends as far as cover design and diagrams were concerned, I've gone ahead. Not until I'd made the decision and begun working towards it did I realize on the astrological plane, how appropriate the timing appeared to be. Last Aug 6th's lunar eclipse conjuncted a sensitive point in Jesus natus, one I've long linked to specifically the Magi. By the rules this would mean that within six months some already existing issue around the Magi should be resolved. I then realized that in late November and early December Jupiter's current transits would conjunct Jesus' reputation Midheaven, a better time than some to be thinking and talking about his identity and meaning.
My really crucial decision was to publish direct onto Amazon at all rather than wait further upon publishing which might produce the more perfectly produced and edited work. Increasingly today houses and agents, (the latter virtually essential for entry to America, the main focus of religion and astrology publishing) religion and spirituality projects are refused consideration. Roy William's God, Actually, now a mini best-seller, went through 36 publishers and many agents prior to acceptance. Though much of Testament's information is new both clinching and expanding what I've long known, I first discovered the data for Christ over two decades ago. After so long I feel both personally and even out of respect for the subject - surely astrology's grail - that I can't and shouldn't wait longer. There's a time to come to term. Plus I have begun to feel uneasy, as though an insult to God were involved, to be taking a begging bowl to merely dismissive individuals. As an already published author what's called vanity publishing wouldn't be appropriate but I hadn't been aware of the new possiblities for direct publication until advised by a magazine editor who himself had used it to issue information he was concerned couldnât pass the usual hurdles quickly enough.
I chanced to receive the editor's suggestion the same week a deeply spiritual individual of my acquaintance told me she had petitioned God for an answer to the delays and intransigence I had been up against. So, the decision appears right and approved. Whatever, I trust the book will be enlightening to some, perhaps many, at this season some of us call Christmas - not, American style, the Winter Holidays.
Unless I am seriously mistaken, I believe that some of the book's information is intended to be known at this time both in response to issues that have arisen, and that I suspect will arise before long. People, including those who write plays and novels about Jesus, are increasingly just Bible and Jesus illiterate, unaware of the facts and what, if they want to imagine Jesus, can reasonably be speculated about him. The possibilities today for spiritual pollution through serious distortion and disinformation become legion. It is increasingly vital to have clear ideas of just who Jesus is and what he represents. In an unusual and unprecedented ways Testament does this.
Testament of the Magi as a Reading Experience
Testament provides a very special often meditative reading experience assisted in part by the — for many people — unfamiliar, but in this instance by no means inaccessible, language of astrology, especially the micro-astrology, of numerous asteroids. Theirs is almost always a direct, unmissable speech though occasionally they produce what I call "astro-speak", as in the case of the Betlem asteroid which by place, context and sign simply has to represent Bethlehem in absence of a specific Bethlehem asteroid to compliment the presence on the lists of a Jerusalem one.
Testament is and isn't a fifth Gospel — most essentially it's a portrait of Jesus done not in bold strokes but gradually built up through a mass of telling, often unexpected details which allow us to know how Jesus saw himself and other saw him. Sometimes the perspectives are new but there is quite enough of the known to certify no other than Jesus could possibly be the person who animates and is described by the data. But the study is by no means limited to the function of a portrait. This is a quest, which includes events and so called Event Charts. Some chapters are wholly devoted to just events, the remarkable and troubling patterns for the time of crucifixion (the book aims definitively to settle all questions about the dating of the Easter Week) and the inter-play of people and happenings of Easter morning.
Another chapter is devoted to some real detective work directed upon the story of Jesus' departure and the disciplesâ reported last question. The author examines is there anything that astrology could say or discover in this area given that the art of horary astrology (the astrology of questions) does exist and key words of the disciples last question can now be found in the asteroid lists? Some very real surprises emerge and the inquiry leads naturally to issues regarding the modern and prophetic relevance of the Jesus data and towards Part Two. This is about how certain disciples saw and related to Jesus and why these disciples, the Magdalene, John and Judas, fill our spiritual and imaginative horizons more today than perhaps previously. As I have tried to indicate, if this is a book for the Christmas season it is still more one for all seasons not least the end of the Piscean era which the arrival of the Magi may be said to have inaugurated.
The following is the book's Contents and following I add a few paragraphs from the beginning.
Contents
Part One:
The Long Quest For Evidence
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Introduction:
| The Scandal of Ignored Evidence
| 9
| | Chapter One:
| After Two Millennia of Mystery
| 15
| | Chapter Two:
| Revelations of the Asteroid Signatures
| 48
| | Chapter Three:
| Religious Symbolism of the Planets
| 150
| | Chapter Four:
| Testing Chart Data and Dating Jesus Ministry
| 166
| | Chapter Five:
| Locating the Easter Week
| 177
| | Chapter Six:
| A Good Thursday Crucifixion
| 185
| | Chapter Seven:
| Burial and the Remarkable Events of Sunday | 206
| | Chapter Eight:
| Patterns of Departure and Return
| 224
| | Chapter Nine:
| Reading the Chart of Christ for Today And Tomorrow | 241
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Contents
Part Two:
Two Apostles Whose Time Has Come and
a Traitor Whose Spirit Resurfaces
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| Chapter Ten:
| Mary Magdalene
| 273
| | Chapter Eleven:
| John the Beloved
| 300
| | Chapter Twelve:
| A Question of Rivals and Some Mysteries of Mark | 317
| | Chapter Thirteen:
| Jesus between Lover and Traitor
| 330
| | Appendix:
| Planets, Parts and Asteroids
| 357
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Introduction: The Scandal of Ignored Evidence
Modern Israel regularly turns up precious archaeological finds, but even their most sensational or just obvious implications may get overlooked. When in August 2005 archaeologists announced they had unearthed the earliest Christian church in Israel at Megiddo (Armageddon) it was revealed they had discovered a floor mosaic with two fishes. It was stated the significance was that the fish was an early Christian symbol of Jesus. Undeniably the ICYTHUS fish sign was a secret code among Christians — but this mosaic showed two fish swimming in opposite directions. It was the zodiacal sign of Pisces.
Except that most academics simply arenât familiar with and donât even wish to be familiar with astrology, the significance should have been plain enough. Unlike modern Christians who regard astrology as either a superstition to ignore or a forbidden and dangerous "divination" to avoid, early Christians believed in the same astrology they associated with the Redeemer's birth. They probably also believed that the Christian era would last about as long as the approximately two thousand year Piscean era because at least some early writers such as Barnabas and Lactantius did assume around two thousand years as being the church era.
It was therefore ironic, if not a special synchronicity or sign in itself, that this reminder of early Christian beliefs should be unearthed after two millennia in of all places the region of Armageddon, supposed site of the last battle of the era. It was arguably a sign of another kind that standard publishing and agencies have never really been interested even to look at the kind of related claims I have made regarding era symbolism and the astrology of Christâs birth. Though my own researches have radically enlarged upon ideas of others already published and to some acclaim, my subject was ănot of public interestä as the receptionist at a Sydney literary agency informed me, refusing even to let her boss see a blurb. (This part of my story might be said to have more affinity for the "no room at the inn" side to Jesus' birth narratives!).
At the Turning of the Ages
Wanted or not, the unexpected data I shall be dealing with here, a continuation of a field of research opened up by scholars and astronomers in especially the last decades of the last century, return to us in no uncertain terms the Magi and the mysteries they represent. Having heralded the onset of the Piscean age these shadowy stargazers flee Herod and disappear into the night leaving us with a message half understood or not understood at all, the key to their mysteries apparently lost. Indeed, lost to the point that many rationalist theologians, forgetting that oriental Magi were so familiar to the Roman world the Emperor Constantine banned them, have decided the Magi must represent a myth or literary flourish of the birth narratives only. But now, at the end of the same era whose consciousness the Magi helped inaugurate, they and what they witnessed to confront us anew, requiring us to come to terms with their knowledge, to recover and reassess it. Also perhaps enlarge upon it since we can now know rather more about the skies they observed.
So this book is an inquiry both into what the Magi knew and what, based on that, we can hope to know about Christ today along with perhaps just a little about our own times. Even starting out years ago with quite modest analytical aims for my inquiry I would soon find the results truly remarkable, almost a fifth gospel in itself or a species of more meaningful and accurate Bible Code with answers to many questions currently surrounding Jesus. Indeed, however unusual the evidence, it is a genuine novum in relation to the well tilled field of historical Jesus studies, particularly its ongoing third wave which has become more interdisciplinary in approach. But while quest perspectives keep changing, the data on which they are based remain familiar unless perhaps increasingly to include ideas from the basically a-historical Gnostic gospels. My own quest beyond the purely textual has in its way felt more like a labour of careful archaeology or sometimes, as when describing the day of crucifixion, it feels not unlike taking a camera to the event. "As above, so below", said the Ancients. The skies are truly a mirror.
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