Around the time in 1979 or 1980 during my studies for my master’s in physics in Aachen, Germany, I woke up in the middle of the night and ‘knew’ Isaiah 45:2 and that it was important. I had to wait until I went to my mom’s house on the following weekend to look it up in our Lutheran family Bible, since I did not have a Bible in my apartment. I didn’t go to church, although I was brought up Lutheran and went to Bible school when I went to elementary school. The big churches didn’t seem to offer what I was looking for. What I read then in our family Bible showed itself to be a significant message (New International Version):
Isaiah 45:1-4
1.”This is what the LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:
2. I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.
3. I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.
4. For the sake of Jacob my servant, of Israel my chosen, I summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honor, though you do not acknowledge me.
(I printed it through line 4, since in the German Lutheran Bible the sentence starts from 2 and ends on line 4.)
Before I finished my master’s in 1984, I met Prof. Reinhard Bruch in Freiburg, Germany, in 1983. He just received an offer for a tenure-track position at the Univeristy of Nevada–Reno and offered me the opportunity to be his first PhD student. I had traveled the western part of the USA together with my two brothers and my mother a couple of years earlier and knew the area. I had swum in Lake Tahoe then, and so I thought, “What an opportunity that may be!”
So I came to Reno in January 1985, and I received my PhD in physics in May 1991. I was working as a postdoc in Reno when I met Robert Roy, in 1992, who was a member of the International Community of Christ, Church of the Second Advent but didn’t press me to attend. We immediately became close friends. We shared a lot of interests—alternative medicine and spiritual themes. In 1999, after a nice evening with Robert and some deep philosophical and spiritual discussion, I drove home and just entered the intersection at Keystone Avenue and Seventh Street in Reno, when a thought entered my consciousness: “Be careful that your light doesn’t go out,” and all of a sudden the yellow sodium high-pressure lamps that illuminated the intersection went out and the intersection was all dark! I took that as a hint, and I attended service the next Saturday at the University Chapel! Soon, I would become a member. I attended the Sunrise Services at the Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary and studied the solar techniques. Then I thought, “I should reread chapter 45 from Isaiah” to see if there is anything that relates to this church. And I could not believe my eyes: Chapter 45, verse 6 says: “So that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no other.”
Which is exactly what our community is about! We observe the sunrise and the sunset and take in the Sun. Then Isaiah 45:2 talks about tossing open the brass doors and breaking the iron locks. I puzzled over this for many years. I wondered whether there is a deeper meaning, especially the metal brass (or copper) and iron. What is going to get unlocked? Then our Music Professor, Gary Buchanan, from our Community gave me an explanation when I asked him whether he could see any relationship if one would consider that the metals are related to the planets (in alchemy and astrology); copper is related to Venus and iron is related to Mars. He wrote back, and here is what he had to say:
Stephan,
In analyzing ancient scripture we can always find several different meanings; e.g., physical, psychic, spiritual, etc. I usually look first for the Kabbalistic meaning. For example, the “five worlds” of Isaiah can also be the higher realms of the Sephiroth Tree, etc.
In this 45th chapter from Isaiah, the verse 12: “Most Hidden of All Hidden” (in God’s Light) is the physical world. It receives only a fraction of the divine revelation, so to speak.
If Venus is brass and Mars iron, then for sure the “pentacle,” astronomically/astrologically, is the path Venus inscribes in its orbit. (I have attached the chapter from my book that addresses that … beginning around page #350.)
In traditional interpretations of the chapter it is believed to refer to Cyrus the Great and Babylon — Iraq. Cyrus was the “brass man” with the “iron armies,” etc. The prophecy was also written 150 years before it actually took place; i.e., with the return of the Jews to Israel and the rebuilding of the Temple there/Solomon’s house.
Similarly, parts of our being have metallic symbolism … and let’s not forget our seven mounts of metal at Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary … the seven-fold light, etc. The four “Masonic Elements of Masonic/Rosicrucian/Euclidean Mysticism” are gold, brass, iron, and silver.
Okay, so there will be a major transit of Venus on June 6, 2012 (Pentecost) 198 days before the Winter Solstice on December 22. The planet will pass directly over the face of the sun— thus introducing Isaiah’s “darkness,” only in actuality a heightened “Shekinah” effect on us as we do sunrise services. This, of course, will be the 50th, or Jubilee, year since 1962 when the Sun of Righteousness first appeared.
As the “morning star, “Venus is the appropriate marker of all great calendars, e.g., the Aztec, Mayan, Incan, Mayan, Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, etc.
The relationship of Venus and Mars during the June 6 to December 21 period during 2012 is discussed at several web sites; e.g.,
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/inter2008/germany/Secklendorf/Secklendorf2008a.html
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=209990
Of course, on the solstice all the planets will be lined up with the sun and center of the Milky Way…which is “dark,” but full of “treasures.” So, this might be the “making of all lines straight,” leveling the valleys, smoothing the waves, etc.
So, these are only a few of the things that come to mind this morning … I am sure there are other details that could be mentioned.
Overall, Isaiah was talking about the coming of the Christ Light, in the Sun of Righteousness, as taught by the Essene Prophets at Mount Carmel. The esoteric symbolism has to be taken within the context of the solar teachings…the Light, first and foremost, no?
Love & Light,
Gary
(More on that subject in Gary’s Cymatics book SONA, chapter 28.)
An interesting thing happened during one winter sunrise service. I stood next to Robert Roy, and I thought I should move my eyes up and down then left and right, etc., to imprint a cross on my retina, when the focused sunlight would ‘write’ on the retina. After the service Robert approached me and said: “Did you see the sun today? It moved up and down and up and down, then left and right and left and right!” Then I told him that he must have picked up my exercise—quite amazing! I am not sure, but I think I had my self-made circular polarizing glasses on and possibly I mounted them the “wrong” way. They were supposedly to give left-circular polarized light but by mistake I mounted them wrong, when I took it apart and switched the quarter-wave plate around such that they were right-circular polarizing. Possibly the right-circular polarizing light is for “sending” and the left-circular polarizing light for “receiving.” Although Robert did not wear any glasses, only myself, I can’t recollect whether I was wearing my polarizing glasses or not and whether at that morning I had them mounted the other way. I didn’t realize at the time but later found out that I had swapped direction of the circular polarization. I learned from the teachings of two aspects of the Sun’s light. One is good; the other is “dark.” I immediately related that to the two circular polarizing directions that light can have. Further I related that to the two Swastikas; the Nazis used the counter-clockwise turning, which I connected to the right-polarized light as we see it when it moves towards us. That is an ancient symbol and stands for the Moon and death, while the clockwise Swastika (left-circular polarized light) stands for the Sun and life!
Another interesting synchronistic event happened after I wrote to our late Head Bishop, Gene Savoy Sr., about how I thought of the workings of “intent” on synchronicity. I compared it with the spinning of a spider web. The strings are so fine, you can’t see them. But overnight dewdrops collect on the fibers, and when the sun rises, you suddenly see the spider web with its sparkling dewdrops! Two weeks later I came by Hans Frischeisen’s natural foods and vitamin store, Everlasting Health, in Reno. A “life coach” there was giving free Tarot card readings. I thought this might be amusing, and I went to see her. I told her how I thought the Tarot card reading works. I told her it is a “dowsing system” (an expression I learned from dowsers, who use a method to “program” their dowsing rod or pendulum); it works through intent and synchronicity. It requires a random event, so here the random drawing of Tarot cards from a mixed card stack. One poses a question; best even if one writes it down. Then one draws the cards and the meaning of the cards give you a meaningful answer because of synchronicity. So I picked seven cards and on two of them was the spider web with the dewdrops in the morning sun! I had to laugh – sometimes the synchronicity shows its kind of humor!
Just before the Venus crossing the Sun in June 2012, I became worried that maybe these “bronze gates” could open, since according to another myth, about 40 demons were locked up in the Sun. Then a strange number of synchronistic events happened. A colleague of mine, Prof. Jim Henson, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, asked me whether I would give one or two lectures about fusion and fission, to which I agreed. I asked a colleague from the Physics Department, Prof. Ron Phaneuf, who had given lectures about this subject, if he had any material that he could share with me, which he did. He gave me a long Power Point presentation about fission. The first slide showed Pandora’s Box, an ancient Greek myth about a woman that was given a box by the Gods where demons were locked up. But the Gods also made Pandora very curious, so she could not resist and opened the box to release these demons. When she closed the box again, all the demons were gone, but hope was the only thing left in the box. When I read about this myth, which I did not know about, I suddenly realized that it may have something to do with the demons locked up in the Sun and the upcoming Venus crossing. I got a little worried. Then I encountered the words “Pandora’s Box” several times—I saw it as part of a Windows installation, while watching an antivirus program displaying names of files it was checking. I saw it on TV, on car radios at the electronic outlet store BestBuy (it is all related to the Pandora’s Internet music service), and the final event was during an emergency faculty meeting that was about a graduate student failing the exam for the second time; her advisor wanted her to pass. To continue our meeting, we had to move from the department conference room downstairs into an unoccupied classroom (classes were over for the semester). When the discussion was heated up, our Russian colleague, Prof. Victor Kantsyrev, who sat in front of me, turned around and said with great sincerity right into my face in his Russian accent: “If we allow this student to pass, then we open Pandora’s Box!” And I froze instantly…
Well, the June Venus crossing came, my son Phillip and I watched it on Interstate 395 at the end of Washoe Valley, and it was an exciting moment! But other than that, nothing happened. So, again, my mental focus created these events, and they manifested through synchronicity.
