Chapter Eight of "The Turtle Talks Torah"

Chapter Eight: Esau and Jacob; Rome and Yisrael

            Twins called Teomim in Hebrew, emerge from the womb of the Jewish matriarch Rebecca. One called Esau is big and red and hairy and his foot is being clutched by the hand of the other one. The other one second to be born is a nerdy, nervous skinny child who is later to be called Yaakov, meaning he clutched the heel. Esau is said to become the progenitor of the nation of Edom who is usually explained by the Jewish sages as the people of Rome. A great saga begins within a continual turmoil and struggle between these two twin brothers that Torah tells us even began in the womb, in the great waters of all life. Esau like the later Roman Empire is a great accumulator of wealth and territory. He is a successful empire builder as well as cunning and wise with things of the very real world of men and land and ownership. He is powerful and subdues others by the sword easily. In the writings and tradition of the Kabbalists Esau has a nation angel or guardian. There are 72 of these angelic sarim or princes who rule the 72 nations and languages of the world.

Astro wheel with 72 angel sarim/guardians and their zodiacal five degree correspondences

As we discussed in the chapter about the Jewish Shamanic lineage, the work for the practical kabbalists has been to unite all of these nation “roots” or soul lines together and this is the work within the Hebrew lineage in connection to other great traditions/religions. This is one explanation for why the Jews have been exiled from their original homeland and made to wander the world. In order to help bring these soul lines of the nation’s together. This is called in the Kabbalah of the Arizal(Isaac Luria) the yechidum or unifications of soul sparks The drama of the exodus from Egypt in the Torah is in a sense an archetypal form of the people of Yisrael “swallowing” and transforming the soul root/guardian of another people and ancient wisdom lineage. Hence we have the famous event of the staff of Aaron becoming a Tanin, a great dragon and swallowing the staffs of the Egyptian magicians that had transformed also into a tannin/dragon.

ח  וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה, אֶל-מֹשֶׁה וְאֶל-אַהֲרֹן לֵאמֹר.	8 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:
ט  כִּי יְדַבֵּר אֲלֵכֶם פַּרְעֹה לֵאמֹר, תְּנוּ לָכֶם מוֹפֵת; וְאָמַרְתָּ אֶל-אַהֲרֹן, קַח אֶת-מַטְּךָ וְהַשְׁלֵךְ לִפְנֵי-פַרְעֹה--יְהִי לְתַנִּין.	9 'When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying: Show a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent/Tanin-Dragon.'
י  וַיָּבֹא מֹשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן, אֶל-פַּרְעֹה, וַיַּעֲשׂוּ כֵן, כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְהוָה; וַיַּשְׁלֵךְ אַהֲרֹן אֶת-מַטֵּהוּ, לִפְנֵי פַרְעֹה וְלִפְנֵי עֲבָדָיו--וַיְהִי לְתַנִּין.	10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so, as the LORD had commanded; and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a tanin/dragon.
יא  וַיִּקְרָא, גַּם-פַּרְעֹה, לַחֲכָמִים, וְלַמְכַשְּׁפִים; וַיַּעֲשׂוּ גַם-הֵם חַרְטֻמֵּי מִצְרַיִם, בְּלַהֲטֵיהֶם--כֵּן.	11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their secret arts.
יב  וַיַּשְׁלִיכוּ אִישׁ מַטֵּהוּ, וַיִּהְיוּ לְתַנִּינִם; וַיִּבְלַע מַטֵּה-אַהֲרֹן, אֶת-מַטֹּתָם.	12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became taninim/dragons; but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

 The dragon(and serpent) has always been referred to as a symbol of a wisdom lineage among other qualities. Here we have the word Tanin translated as serpent but serpent in Hebrew is Nachash, not usually tanin. This work is in part what the great 16^th century ce. Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Luria called the yechidim or unifications and raising of the holy sparks that fell amongst the nations and into the material realm.

In Jacob's vision of the angels up and down the sulam/ladder we have the seed of the unifications
of the Sarim/guardians of the nations throughout history according to midrash

The blood lines of these different nations could facilitate this joining if there was actual intermingling of the people and languages with the Jewish people and their respective ceremonial calendar rhythms. . This happened throughout the African and European continents. During these migrations of this shamanic/priestly people there were four distinct occupations of the people according to the Jewish sages. The first was the Babylonian exile. The second was the Persian occupation. The third was the Syrian-Greek from which we have the famous Hanukkah story.

Merging of Greek religion of the Muses and the Hebrew angelic realms/planetary spheres/sephirot

The last and final was the Roman occupation where the Roman armies destroyed the second temple and the Jews were eventually forced under the evil emperor Hadrian into the diaspora or wandering exile throughout Europe. The Kabbalists have always linked the end of this last Roman occupation with the end of the entire exile of the people of Israel and the beginning of the era of redemption. This is in part what we have sought to explain in this writing. This is in part why the Creator has established different religions developing out of ancient wisdom traditions. We all have played a crucial part. Exactly how this last occupation has ended from a view of the global wisdom tradition or lineage of initiation we are explaining. What is very incredible is that at the very beginning of this fourth and last Roman occupation of Israel, is the story of the life of a Jewish Rabbi named Jesus and the beginning of a new and very successful religion. In the deepest sense the Jewish wisdom is a line of initiation. That initiation is a place of being an initiate, a person who is particularly called Israel because she has struggled with the divine guardian of his/her brother Esau, in the desert and overcame him. This has many interpretations. He was named Jacob and after this struggle was given a new name, Israel. The place of Israel within the context of kabbalah, is that of a seat or place of initiation as much as a great person who lived long ago. In this sense the legendary Rabbi Jesus of Christian teachings speaks out to us with a profound life and profound words. He is very much an initiate who may have carried the name and neshamah soul spark of ISRAEL. So we see the Christian drama beginning as a meeting of the two brothers Israel (Jesus) and Caesar (Rome) at least on a symbolic level that is a mirror of historical events. What the Romans called the “Jewish wars” were hard fought from both sides and the Romans were deeply occupied with subduing these troublesome Jews. This drama is a major part of a new epoch that had brought some of the Jewish teachings and wisdom to billions of people. There is a section in the Sefer HaZohar in the commentary on the Torah portion Terumah that speaks of a certain celestial prince who rules over 1990 firmaments or expanses/raqian. When I first read this line in the 1980’s I somehow knew that this really was a Gregorian Christian secular year date and somehow something big would happen in the year 1990. After the coming of the sacred comet in the spring of 1990 as related in chapter one and my experience with that event then I was able to reflect on how accurate this hidden prophecy was. A celestial prince making a direct connection to Eliyahu who comes on a fiery chariot - star fire comet. Then I have also figured something special about this one date, since speaking with ultra-orthodox Jews who will deny that there ever could be a Christian date in a holy writing like the Zohar. In this instance it is so perfect because I have come to understand that with the return of Elijah by way of the sacred chariot/comet this year 1990 marked the very end of the fourth or Roman occupation of the Jewish people. We had entered the period in time called the kibbutz goliot, the ingathering of exiles even from the farthest reaches of the heaven/spirit world. How proper that a Roman year/date would be used in the Zohar to signal this exceptional event. Also the corresponding year 5750 is discussed in Zohar in regards to the 6 millennial periods and how 750 years into the sixth thousand (5750) is like 3/4 of the way through the day before Sabbath Eve or Friday noon. This means that in the scheme where the seventh millennium in the Hebrew dating is the great millennial Sabbath, that 5750 means we are like at noon on Friday afternoon already welcoming the coming Sabbath at any moment. Another commentary on the six archetypal days of creation place the eating of the forbidden fruit by Adam equal to the year 5750 in the expansion of the first six days through historic time as each equals a thousand years. The day of HaShem equaling a thousand years is mentioned in the book of Psalms. Psalms 90:

ד  כִּי אֶלֶף שָׁנִים, בְּעֵינֶיךָ--    כְּיוֹם אֶתְמוֹל, כִּי יַעֲבֹר; וְאַשְׁמוּרָה    בַלָּיְלָה.

4 For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as a day when it is past, {N} and as a watch in the night.

. We also have the six days as referring to the six thousands years of the Hebrew calendar count as hinted at in six letters aleph/alephim mentioned in the first sentence of the book of Genesis. Each letter aleph is also as referring to the number one thousand as well as the usual number one.First verse of the Torah with six letter alephs representing the six thousand years of Jewish history:

1 בְּרֵאשִׁית

א  בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ.

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

This means that the year 5750 would be the appropriate year for the “rectification” of the eating from the tree of knowledge, which shifted the balance of the creation. Bringing in both Eliyahu ha Navi and the guardian prince of Rome into the Hebrew lineage would make for this rebalancing of creation. Samael is directly related to death and sex and Adam’s eating from the tree of knowledge. He is the guardian angel of Esau and Rome and has come to be equated with an evil “devil” but this is not a true spin. Yes he carries a deep power of the nephesh or soul level of desire but it is only the misuse of desire in hurting others that is really “evil”. Like many angel guardians he carries a quality that in itself is pure.

From the Book "The Early Kabbalah" Shochen books on "The Treatise of the Left Emanation"

"I will now set down the names of the princes of jealousy and enmity. Yet since their essence and their service is true and pure, their mouths are free from mendacity and neither lies nor falsehoods pass between them.

   The first prince and accuser, the commander of jealousy, is evil Samael, accompanied by his retinue. He is called "evil" not because of his nature but because he desires to unite and intimately mingle with an emanation not of his nature, as we shall explain.
   The second prince is called his deputy, and his name is Za'afi'el, accompanied by his entourage.
   The third prince is called third-in-command, and his name is Za'ami'el, accompanied by his staff.
   The fourth prince is Qasfi'el, accompanied by his retinue.
   The fifth prince is Ragzi'el, accompanied by his staff.
   The sixth prince is 'Abri'el, accompanied by his staff.
   The seventh is Meshulhi'el, accompanied by his staff. These latter comprise the delegation of evil angels.

   19. In answer to your question concerning Lilith, I shall explain to you the essence of the matter. Concerning this point there is a received tradition from the ancient Sages who made use of the Secret Knowledge of the Lesser Palaces, which is the manipulation of demons and a ladder by which one ascends to the prophetic levels. In this tradition it is made clear that Samael and Lilith were born as one, similar to the form of Adam and Eve who were also born as one, reflecting what is above. This is the account of Lilith which was received by the Sages in the Secret Knowledge of the Palaces. The Matron Lilith is the mate of Samael. Both of them were born at the same hour in the image of Adam and Eve, intertwined in each other. Asmodeus the great king of the demons has as a mate the Lesser (younger) Lilith, daughter of the king whose name is Qafsefoni. The name of his mate is Mehetabel daughter of Matred, and their daughter is Lilith.

   This is the exact text of what is written in The Chapters of the Lesser Palaces as we have received it, word for word and letter for letter. And the scholars of this wisdom possess a very profound tradition from the ancients. They found it stated in those Chapters that Samael, the great prince of them all, grew exceedingly jealous of Asmodeus the king of the demons because of this Lilith who is called Lilith the Maiden (the young). She is in the form of a beautiful woman from her head to her waist. But from the waist down she is burning fire--like mother like daughter."

Basically what is being expressed here in this chapter is that the angelic prince of Rome, who is named Samael by the Jewish Rabbis of old, has been brought in and connected with the Jewish lineage. This has been a very old arduous work that involved the appearance of Christianity and its influence throughout the entire world.  The kabbalists have explained that when this bringing in of Esau's guardian angel, Samael into the Hebrew lineage would occur, he himself would undergo a name change of sorts. Since he is the angel of death, som(samech-mem), the root word of his name, meaning both poison and elixir or potion of the divine and also the "blind of the divine", the letter mem would be removed from his name and he would have a new name = SAEL(samech-aleph-lammed). This name Sael is one of the 72 three letter names of the special holy Shemhamphorash of Kabbalah. It is written that death, as we know it anyway, would be vanquished and transformed and the world would be healed of the imbalance that has allowed so much suffering to exist.

                        It was not until I had made a deep study of Kabbalah with applied experience that I came to understand how the actual joining of the 72 nation roots could be accomplished from both mixing of the peoples and prayer and ceremony. The naming ceremony involving a blood covenant insured that there would be occasions when a child would be named in this ancient unbroken rhythmic ceremony on a holy and sacred day within all the other traditions of the various countries the people were living in. This rhythmic dovetailing between religious traditions and their respective calendars all geared to the same seven day week has been set up by the Creator to make the unifications of the soul roots a real possibility. This possibility of ceremonial synchronicity works in both directions between various religious traditions. 

Here is the sacred seven day week connected with the ancient kameas/magic square grids, the metals
planets, and heavenly spheres. The actual order of the days is originated here when you follow the path of the star. All religious traditions connected to this seven day week are part of the high "magic" work.

     

We in the nation of America have inherited a lot from ancient Rome. We have our Senate and representative republican form of government. We have a vast successful merchant and trade empire and a way of living based on agreed upon Laws. We have an eagle on top of our flagpole. Our 50 stars on the same flag is the number of the Yovel, the Jubilee period of release, redemption and freedom in the Jewish tradition. Our thirteen stripes is the number spoken of in the Zohar, the 13 streams of healing Balsam, the sacred dew of bdellium, that flows between worlds to flood this Earth with the waters of Love.

 

The angel  Samael, guardian of Rome, is foremost a being who governs sexual desire and hence the connection with the traditional Garden of Eden story, sex and death coming into the human world together. Christianity is the dominant religion within the United States. After Rome destroyed and overtook Judaea an upstart Jewish sect later to be called Christianity overtook all of Rome in a couple of centuries. Samael the guardian of Rome then became connected to this new Roman religion. He is also connected to their deity of the underworld called Pluto who has sometimes also been likened wrongly to a traditional "devil". There is a connection here between Rome as an empire where the ruler held the supreme socio-political and religious power like the sun at midday in relation to the Earth and sky. The kamea of the sun, one of the seven related by ancient peoples and kabbalists to the seven celestial bodies contains all numbers from one to thirty-six whose total value=666. This is a key to the mysteries of Christianity and the true meaning of this number mentioned in the Christian book of the revelation of John and now so much reviled as something terrible. We discussed earlier how this number represents the solar lightning spark and the male pole of generation, a centrifugal outward flowing power. This is how John Michell in his seminal book, City of Revelation describes the real meaning of the number 666,

The solar hierarchy of Gnostic numbers(from Revelation Greek) on the grid/Kamea of the Sun 

“We have already seen the importance of the number 666 in the dimensions of the Temple and in the ratios of metrology, reflecting the dominant position which this number occupies within the hierarchy of powers. 666 is the number of absolute positive energy, emanating from the nucleus to the satellites. Like all symbolic numbers it has no single identity or personification, being of Plato’s essences, a concept of the mind, invented to express a certain tendency, which is apparent within all classes of phenomenon.....As an elemental force, 666 represents the sun and the influence of solar radiation, corresponding in society to the emperor, and in the individual to the principle of intellect and will. 666 is the generative power of the male, it is the electric shock that orientates the molecular structure, the leader directing the masses, the word of command instinctively obeyed. Every situation in life contains an element, which corresponds to 666, the supreme solar representative within the hierarchy of numbers. Where the proportions are correct, the influence of the number 666 promotes fertility, gives life and colour, but where it becomes excessively dominant, the consequences are apparent in the tyranny of the self-willed governor, and in the development of a society obsessed with fantasies of violence, material wealth and power...The force of the number 666 is expressed by the Chinese in the symbol of the procreative dragon, relating to the first hexagram of the I Ching oracle. According to Wilhelm’s commentary, “the dragon is a symbol of electrically charged, dynamic arousing force that manifests itself in the thunderstorm. In winter this energy withdraws into the earth; in the early summer it becomes active again, appearing in the sky as thunder and lightning. Whoever acquires this elemental view of nature is not likely to attribute eternal values to the various theologies and moral codes of human invention, and for this reason the authority of the early Roman Church was in direct opposition to the science of the Gnostics, who encouraged their pupils to develop their sensitivity, and to perceive for themselves the interaction of cosmic forces...The Chinese dragon and the beast in revelation have the same origin, but the histories of the two creatures have widely diverged since the collapse of the former world order, in which both were represented by the number 666.”

Michell continues to explain in his book how the early Roman church attempted to discredit the force of the electrical "dragon", by tearing down the steeple houses, and attacking the ancient celebrations of this power in stone monuments and maypole celebrations and the like amongst the folk of old Europe. In the tyranny of the early church they themselves were acting out the tyrannical imbalance of this radiative dragon like power within human society. Michell's outlines the true meaning of the New Jerusalem and the holy city within the book of Revelation. He does a superb job and all students of the mysteries need to study his work. He goes deeply into the Greek gematria or number values encoded in the Christian scripture and the importance this was to the Gnostic initiates who understood the inner meanings. About the value of 666 itself he has something, which really relates to our writing here and says it all in a way. Since I have related the few lines about 666 in the book of Revelation to the inner line of initiation associated with the Jewish wizard king Solomon, a value of the Greek gematria for the words, “and his number is six hundred threescore and six” is calculated by Michell to equal 2368. Michell gives the Greek words and breaks down the calculation of their letters and the total value. He then tells us that this number value 2368 is the number that is most revered by Christian mystics since it is the value of the Greek name, “Ieousos Christos” Jesus Christ. Michell then tells us that

“following the cabalistic system of replacing words and phrases of sacred texts with others of the same numerical value, Revelation 13:18 can be read, ‘Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the living animal-Therion in greek(mis-translated as “beast”: for it is the number of a man;2368,Jesus Christ.”

This association of the 666 with the solar oriented gnostic Jesus as an initiate in the wisdom lineage of King Solomon is in close alignment with the theme of this writing. This however emphasizes that Jesus here is besides being an historical individual and rabbinic teacher is also the symbol of the place and attainment of the initiation of an “Israel” within the solar power paradigm with all that means within in the context of the ancient whispered tradition we call Kabbalah and how this is also related to the moon and the Earth as an embodiment of the divine. The Christian church involving billions of people over two thousand years has played a critical part in this bigger work of transformation. They have brought their hearts to the eucharist and prayer ceremonies in a rhythmic prayer form geared to the solar calendar and the same seven day sacred week of the Jewish people. In the biblical book of 1 Kings, X,14 we read that it was 666 talents of gold that came to King Solomon in one year of the census. 

Kings I- chapter 10: verse 14:
יד  וַיְהִי מִשְׁקַל הַזָּהָב, אֲשֶׁר-בָּא לִשְׁלֹמֹה בְּשָׁנָה אֶחָת--שֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹת שִׁשִּׁים וָשֵׁשׁ, כִּכַּר זָהָב.	14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

This value of the wise solar King is intimately connected to Solomon and the wisdom lineage that he is a big part of. His work according to the teachings of the Rashbi in the sepher HaZohar is to “complete the moon”. This is the aligning of the Chayah or living lunar soul level of the Earth with all of humanity.

Sun Kamea/Magic Square using Hebrew letters as numbers

            The number 666  is also the total value of the number square or kamea of the sun. These number squares we have mentioned before being a must study for people serious in the study of the mystery school traditions. This language of numbers and math cross language and cultural boundaries and provide a deep level of knowledge about the true wisdom traditions. The square of the sun is a 6 X 6 magic square (contain plate with values), which contains the numbers 1 through 36. If we add up the numbers 1 through 36 we get 666, the obvious total power of the grid.

the Kamea/Magic square of the sun

A great study of these grids in the Gnostic tradition can be found in (Jesus is the sun of God) a little book (will add author's name). The epitome of this solar power in a political/economic environment would be the image of the early high Caesars of Rome, their power and dominance being unvanquished but of course easily corrupted and misused as we see it happening in the decline of Rome as a civilization. In the story of the brothers Esau and Jacob we see Esau with this possibility of raw totalitarian power and Jacob learning to struggle with it and incorporate within his own person in a balanced way. Actually this is the meaning behind the name change to Israel. The Christian story in its early years continues this struggle and transformation as Israel and the meaning of Israel as a place or seat of initiation develops on the greater world scene. We really need to discuss the chapters in the book of the Revelation of John to better understand the 666 and the Christian - Jewish story and dance. This book is the only book in Christian scripture to have TWENTY TWO chapters which are numbers of the HEBREW letters and hints at those as a key to unlock it's seal so to speak. The only other book in all Jewish and Christian scriptures that has Twenty Two chapters is the Hebrew Book of  1 Kings.

            In chapter 10 of the book of Revelation we see the angel...who has the voice of the seven thunders:

Revelation 10 King James Version (KJV)

10 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not."

 This angel comes down to earth, one foot on the ocean, one foot on earth. He tells John a vision of the entire future. As the scribe is about to write this incredible all encompassing vision down that he heard in the great voice the angel tells him to not write what he uttered h but instead to write what he tells him to write.  And so we have the rest of the revelation to John as he was told to write, obviously different from what he was told by the angel originally. 

There have always been different possibilities of how the great mystery play of human life on earth could develop. This would of course be dependent on how successful the wisdom schools would be in the yichudim, the unifying, of the 72 soul sparks that are distributed to the various language groups or nations. Perhaps we could see then what the angel showed John would be the outcome promised to Israel from old dependent on the success of the initiatory  line of Israel through the Jewish people and the other religious lineages. Of course what John was told to write including the horrible sight of Armageddon would possibly happen only if the work of the wisdom schools was not successful. This is just like how the Hopi Indian prophesy reads, the two roads that humanity could travel on and the different outcomes

Hopi Native Prophecy rock and two paths for humanity in the time of "purification"

from each.The zigzag road that leads to oblivion or the good road of Peace that leads to the new world where corn grows in plenty. 

 In the biblical story of Noah and the flood, the descendants of the Hebrews and the world are made a promise. The Creator would never destroy the world again as in the time of the flood. The rainbow would be a sign of this promise and a remembrance of our help and guidance. The Hebrew Scriptures talk of the final conflagration of gog and magog and the commentaries on this by the rabbinic sages say that there would be three distinct phases of this final battle. This parallels exactly the three stages of the great purification in the Hopi prophetic tradition(see image Hopi above with three circles of change).. The first two world wars(first two circles) and our times right now being the third and final phase of purification. The Hopi elders have always said as the ancient Hebrew sages and other wise sages from around the world, that the purification and movement to a new “world” would not have to be violent. This would be dependent on our level of accomplishing the beautiful vision of bringing care, kindness and balance into our Earth world.

            In looking at chapter 13 of the Christian book of the Revelation of John we find the source quote for the degradation and defamation of a particular important number in the Gnostic and kabbalistic traditions. The number "666" is a sacred number in ancient Jewish tradition. We are shown a “beast” arising from the sea. Then we are shown a “beast” arising from out of the earth and this creature causes all to worship the image of the first “beast” from the sea. I again highly recommend the reading of John Michell’s book; City of  Revelation. The word beast(therion in Greek) itself is hopelessly mistranslated and misunderstood. These are not necessarily horrible creatures that the idea/word of beast means for us today. Remember that the high angelic beings called in Hebrew the Hayyoth HaKodesh, or holy creatures, are sometimes translated as living beasts or animals. At least one way of interpreting these two “beasts” could be that the first one is the consciousness of the oceanic soul world called the dragon in ancient traditions and the Taninim Gedolim in the Torah.

כא  וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הַתַּנִּינִם הַגְּדֹלִים; וְאֵת כָּל-נֶפֶשׁ הַחַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת אֲשֶׁר שָׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם לְמִינֵהֶם, וְאֵת כָּל-עוֹף כָּנָף לְמִינֵהוּ, וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב.	21 And God created the great sea-dragons, and every living creature that creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

 The book of Revelation tells us that the first beast mentioned gets his authority from the dragon. The dragon is the power of the original elements and forces of the physical creation as mentioned in the Torah/Genesis. The initiatic seat of a Jesus/Israel himself involves becoming conscious of these powers and balancing their influence in the human world. Dynasties and world powers and leaders often get their authority from tapping into these original creative powers. These are aligned with the name of the 72 parts, the shemhamphorash of Kabbalah, sometimes called the guardian angels of the 72-nation/language groups of the world(see image at top of page). These are also called the Sarim and there individual powers may be related to the power of the female water dragon. The second “beast” mentioned in Revelation that causes all to worship the first could actually be a form of the Christian church that makes an image of the first “beast” Jesus/Israel and cause many to worship this image into to capture the place of authority and power for the church as an organization. This according to John Michell was a way the gnostic authors of the book were hinting at the dominant and tyrannical power of ancient Rome and the Church it took over.The last lines tell us:

 “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred three score and six.” 

This says that this number is the number of a man. This is the initiatic seat of the line of a Jewish King. The previous lines tell us his exact identity, at least who he is related to. Much of the Hebrew and Christian bibles depend on a thorough knowledge of the entire scriptures. This sentence is taken from a quote in the book of Kings about King Solomon. 

1 Kings Chapter 3:

And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing.
יא  וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים אֵלָיו, יַעַן אֲשֶׁר שָׁאַלְתָּ אֶת-הַדָּבָר הַזֶּה וְלֹא-שָׁאַלְתָּ לְּךָ יָמִים רַבִּים וְלֹא-שָׁאַלְתָּ לְּךָ עֹשֶׁר, וְלֹא שָׁאַלְתָּ, נֶפֶשׁ אֹיְבֶיךָ; וְשָׁאַלְתָּ לְּךָ הָבִין, לִשְׁמֹעַ מִשְׁפָּט.	11 And God said unto him: 'Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern justice;
יב  הִנֵּה עָשִׂיתִי, כִּדְבָרֶיךָ; הִנֵּה נָתַתִּי לְךָ, לֵב חָכָם וְנָבוֹן, אֲשֶׁר כָּמוֹךָ לֹא-הָיָה לְפָנֶיךָ, וְאַחֲרֶיךָ לֹא-יָקוּם כָּמוֹךָ.	12 behold, I have done according to thy word: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

  Solomon only asked for wisdom and understanding and this is referring to a MAN, a human being who for those who are understanding the gist of this whole writing is an initiate in the wisdom lineage very much and often associated with the Jewish King Solomon. Solomon was also the son of David, Ben David in Hebrew and so this reference to a man who has calculated the number 666 is related to the work of what is known as the building of the third holy temple. As Solomon built the first temple so is the initiate referred to here by the number associated with that king also involved with that number. We also can now understand that the 666 would mean the potential for a person to carry the solar lightning, the very spark of radiative light from within the EARTH that is related to one of the polarities of being associated with the male. In Tibet this lightning spark would be called the Dorje Chang and in Native America this is the twin brother of the hero twins called Flint Boy or Monster Slayer. The other brother, Born of Water carries the power of the feminine element of water which sometimes is referred to as the dragon of the sea.

            Christianity adopted some of the old sacred calendar dates of Rome and pagan Europe in order to spread the influence and magic of it's creed. In fact there were early pagan Europeans who believed and accepted that Jesus was an incarnation of their moon goddess who is the being or very soul of the mother Earth. This struck a chord in that the seat of initiation of an Israel, which is one way to view the life and person of Jesus, involves the joining together of the being of the Earth, Her Chayah or higher soul as mentioned in chapter 7 on the shechinah, needed to be brought into the human world and married to her own lower nephesh soul which the human soul tree is rooted in. So pagan Europe is really very connected to the roots of Christianity. The ancient pagan/European new year, November first became transformed from the old European New Year to all Saints day. The New Year was moved to January first and the Christian Roman church celebrated the eight-day bris and naming ceremony of their messiah/Jesus on this New Year day, the eighth day after Christmas and the end of the Roman festival of the Saturnalia.

We will end this chapter which really is a succinct summary of all that Rome and Christianity and Judaism and Yisrael is about with a quote from the prophet Isaiah Chapter 11. Remember that the wolf is an ancient symbol for Rome,

Ancient coin with the wolf as a symbol for Rome

 the legend tells us that the twin brother Romulus and Remus, progenitors of Rome were orphaned and suckled by a she wolf. The lamb is an ancient symbol for Israel and also for a transformed Christianity:

ו  וְגָר זְאֵב עִם-כֶּבֶשׂ, וְנָמֵר עִם-גְּדִי יִרְבָּץ; וְעֵגֶל וּכְפִיר וּמְרִיא יַחְדָּו, וְנַעַר קָטֹן נֹהֵג בָּם.	6 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.