Rome, 218 CECommon Era. Citizens and senate are under the shock: Caracalla, titular Emperor, was just murdered on the fringes of the empire. Taking advantage of his resemblance to Caracalla, a teenager from Syria is acclaimed emperor by the Roman legions. In his native Syria, his name is Elagabal or Heliogabalus. In Rome, he took the name of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
Legend has it that Heliogabalus was born in “a cradle of sperm.” It was in 204 A.D. in Antioch, Syria. And his entire existence will be a long sacrifice of sex and blood. Heliogabalus was a mad and excessive king, bathed in stupor, debauchery and excess. He conquered Rome with violence and ascended a throne of blood. Crowned anarchist according to Artaud, the tyrant, emperor of Rome, never ceases to strive for unity, in his own way. Heliogabalus, as king, is in the best possible place to reduce human multiplicity, and bring it back by blood, cruelty, war, to the feeling of unity. (Heliogabalus, or The Crowned Anarchist, Antonin Artaud, p. 45)” (source)
If this young man became the master of the Roman Empire, it is thanks to women. His mother and his grandmother, nicknamed the Syrian princesses, used his resemblance to the recently murdered Emperor Caracalla to appoint their puppet new Emperor of Rome.
Propelled at the head of an empire that covers almost the entire known world, the young emperor disdains temporal power. The teenager does not care about reigning. He willingly leaves the management of state affairs to the Syrian princesses. For four years, from 218 to 222 CE, it was they who reigned supreme over the huge empire.
For his part, the young emperor has a singular image of his greatness that pushes him to the worst atrocities. Every day, he imagines all kinds of free escapades and massacres.For four years, from 218 to 222 CECommon Era, these two women have reigned unchallenged on the huge and powerful empire. As far as he was concerned, the young emperor was engaged in all sorts of hilarious pranks and cruel jokes.
Without barrier or limit, he unleashed his evil nature. Nevertheless, his extravagance made him popular. The exceptional abundance that reigned then in Rome allowed him to cultivate a refined luxury, a pomp and a generosity that fascinated his guests. Sometimes the latter went away rich, carrying diamonds and pearls that the emperor did put in salads, sometimes they died like animals, victims of a floor that gave way in the middle of feast.
Without barriers or limits, possessed by a disproportionate ego, out of control, he gives free rein to his perverse character. So this spoiled kid invites the whole of Rome to sumptuous banquets, from which each guest can emerge covered in gold or in a coffin.
Yet his prodigality makes him popular. The Romans have already experienced so many atrocities that it takes more to shock them. The exceptional abundance that reigned in Rome allows him to cultivate a refined luxury, generosity and splendour that fascinate his guests. Sometimes they leave rich, taking away the diamonds and pearls that the emperor has put in the salads, sometimes they die like beasts, victims of a floor that steals in full feast.
Persuaded to be the reincarnation of a former god, he wants an offspring worthy of his divine status, so he has the great vestal removed to make him his legitimate wife. This lady is invested with a religious function which made her make a sacred vow, that of remaining virgin. The aims of the young Heliogabalus are totally unacceptable.
What his misconduct did not bring, his sacrilege, will succeed: after only four years of reign, the Senate has him murdered. Despite his young age, his reign was very brief.
Historians present him as a weak and capricious being, intoxicated by his omnipotence. To the account of his exploits, one would be tempted to think like them. And yet! Yet the truth is elsewhere.
Heliogabale he received the most powerful initiation, extremely rare at that time. For lack of guides, awakening has made him a silly Buddha. This calamity, alas, is topical. Many are the awakened from birth who waste their talents for lack of a sacred education whose science and tradition have been lost! This degradation of traditional teachings was already present at the time of Heliogabalus.
Like in terms of decadence we did not invent anything. Just accelerated.
Through his father, Heliogabalus was the heir of a very ancient solar cult, practiced in the temple that dominated the city of Emèse. This cult was none other than a variant of the mystery of Isis, an electro-magnetic initiation by the fire of the sky, ie lightning. The young man would become the pope, consecrated at the age of 13.
While many awakening techniques have been practiced since the Neolithic Age in Europe, the use of lightning as an instrument of awakening is attested in the Mediterranean basin from -6000. See among others my article on Solomon and his magic bath.
Undoubtedly from America before being introduced to Egypt by the Nubians and Mesopotamia by the Anounnaki, this cult of awakening by the fire of the sky was present in the 2nd millennium BC throughout the Mediterranean basin, Europe and Africa. For more than a millennium, it was the dominant religion.
The dazzling awakening was part of a solar cult: so Jupiter-Zeus, solar god par excellence, had lightning as his favorite weapon. Countless examples drawn from the main mythologies illustrate this kinship of sunlight and lightning. And most of these traditions, especially those of the Andes, Mesoamerica and the Mediterranean basin, recognize a close relationship between the solar star and the ball lightning, instrument of lightning awakening.
This incongruous amalgam is explained by the double sense of the Sun in antiquity. If this word designates the star of the day, when the ancients wrote it with a capital letter, it designated the divine planet, Hyperborea, hovering above the north pole, and whose dazzling light illuminated night and day the northern hemisphere. Thus the expression Son of the Sun pointed to the former gods, those who came from Ursa Major on this starlike mothership.
Like many others, the city of Emesis had its special solar cult dedicated to the local god of lightning, named Elagabal. This word can be broken down into El meaning god; aga meaning great chief, officer; bal, set for Baal or Bel, great chief of the former gods. It therefore means Bel, god of the gods.
Overlooking the city, a sacred temple housed an fireball or lightning stone, as it was then called. This stone was a betyl or bethyl, like the omphalos of Delphi that the Sibyl used to predict the future. Stone fallen from the sky, the bethyl is a meteorite of a particular nature, of a matt black with deep reflections, which recalls the obsidian, sacred stone of the Aztecs, the Incas and the Celts.
This stone has a Hebrew name beth-el, which means the House-God. In the Tarot of Marseille, the arcanum XVI The House-God represents awakening: the house where one becomes God, like Teotihuacan in the Mayan language.
God is in this stone, it has the power to attract lightning – that’s why it was called “lightning stone” – and lightning can transform us into gods.
But lightning can also kill us. The Ancients were wary of lightning, too dangerous. They were looking for the beneficial and less intense energy of lightning balls.
Thanks to its particular ductility, bethyl bursts the lightning, it crumbles it and transforms it into balls of lightning, the holy darlings, the awakeners. Therefore bethyles make precious lightning bursters; while sensors or lightning conductors are made of a conductive metal.
The temple of Solomon, like that of Elagabal, like the House of Life of Gilgamesh in Uruk, were built on a promontory and surmounted by a lightning rod to capture lightning.
The temple of Solomon was not satisfied with a single lightning rod, it numbered 24. The roof of the Temple, built in the Italian style and panelled in cedar wood covered with thick gilding, was trimmed from one end to the other with twenty-four long blades of pointed and gilded iron or steel.” (source)
Son of the Sun is a world title in antiquity. The Hyperboree sun, of course.
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