Spirituality Guide

By Seeker

So what is Truth?

From the outset, all we know of the Ancients tells us that they venerated the quest for immortality, the search for the fundamentals of Life. Those fundamentals were apparently things beyond the merely physical.

The cave painters drew on the walls the symbols and visions they experienced while in altered states. Shamans reach into the otherness to find solutions for troubled lives. Mystics give up any shred of comfort or luxury in their quest to find the Real. The Egyptians apparently devoted their lives to ensuring their leader found his/her way into a realm called the Duat, (a very defined location in the sky) to dwell with Gods forever.

Along the way, most of these sought very specific knowledge. Knowing the details of the Precession of the Equinox, the steady progression of Ages through time was important. Knowledge of the Ages and when they end, and how they end, was apparently crucial.

It seems a strange mix of knowledge. What we have of the Ancients talks about knowing details that they, according to modern views on how primitive they were, couldn’t have known about the real world, right alongside images and instructions about how to act, where to go and what to know, after one died.

Religion seems to have been formalized as a way to pass down this sort of information. But it is carefully encoded; none but the Initiate can find the full meaning of the stories, the parables and allegory contained in the various ‘scriptures’ that have been passed down.

Over and over, similar stories are told across the races, the nations and religions. Look at the Noah story. For one from a Judaic religion, Noah is Truth, but the story is told over and over across realms never dreamed of by the Hebrews. And when we look, we find the evidence tells us, while the tale may be truth, it could not be so for the Hebrews – it is a story brought forward from older times and altered to fit in the new story of the Judaics.

The God of the Old Testament doesn’t make much impression in the realm of sanity unless one takes into account the possibility the He is an amalgam of a number of God stories from the Ancients. The times before the first Flood must have been marvelous, but after three or more such events, the remnants of knowledge were hard to retain. Myth and legend were brought in to play. Tell someone a dramatic story with the needed details encoded and they will pass it on almost unchanged, to their progeny.