During the call, I could hear recorded mantra chants being played in the background which sounded for all the world like “Bereshit bara Om” — that is, the opening words of the Hebrew Bible, only with the holy syllable Om replacing the word Elohim. But it obviously couldn’t be that! I kept trying to hear the mantra as Sanskrit rather than Hebrew, but I just couldn’t.
Finally I said, “Excuse me, but what’s that mantra you’re playing? I can’t quite make it out.”
“Oh, that? You know it. It’s the Vajrasattva mantra.”
As soon as she said that, something clicked, a perceptual shift occurred, and I could hear the chant for what it was: “Om Vajrasattva hum” endlessly repeated. In my defense, Vajrasattva is actually pretty phonetically similar to bereshit-ba.
I record this because errors like these are always potentially meaningful, what I’ve sometimes called “Jungian slips.” In the Fourth Gospel, Moses’s famous beginning is adapted as “In the beginning was the Word . . . All things were made by him,” and this Word goes on to incarnate as a Man. “Om isn’t just a sound,” I was once told. “It’s a person.”
Since I’ve just read The Silmarillion, I thought also of the Ainulindale and of the Moody Blues’ take on the music of creation:
And to name the chord is important to some,
So they give it a word, and the word is OM.
11 comments:
Yes, it can't be emphasized strongly enough that discerning syncs isn't Wissenschaft, and a wissenschaftliche approach (getting everything precisely right, e.g. etymologies)--is ultimately misapplied. At least prospectively, errors have validity too--and for purposes of the sync stream, maybe more validity than accuracies.
To speak to the substance of the post, it seems to harken to the idea of connection between biblical (and the Ainulindale is plausibly on the continuum of biblically-inspired texts) and Buddhistic religion--a kind of "universalist" conception, if you will. In this context, the focus on the term "and" (or its foreign equivalent)--the term for connection par excellence--is interesting.
In Elvish, "Om" means Voice.
I only remember this because of the work I did on Saruman's name, in which I flipped Curumo (Saruman's Quenyan name) backwards to make Om Uruk. That gave us "Orc/ Goblin Voice", and seemed relevant since it was his Voice that gave Saruman such power.
Stripped of that context, though, Om seems to match up to how you articulated here, with the additional meaning of "resonance of chords" jiving with the Moody Blues take and the connection to the music of creation in the Ainulindale.
Looking up Voice in Etymonline also connects the Elvish "OM" directly to "Word". Here is an excerpt:
French voiz "voice, speech; word, saying, rumor, report" (Modern French voix), from Latin vocem (nominative vox) "voice, sound, utterance, cry, call, speech, sentence, language, word"
OM is then an interesting word that connects and contrasts The Word of Creation with Saruman. You may not remember, but I had guessed Saruman was the other being who had not been chosen in the council captured in the Books of Abraham and Moses in the PGP, when the Gods were portrayed as preparing for the creation of this world.
In fact, when "Tim" first appeared to you, I had used his name to link him to Saruman. Tim means "God's Honor", and it was that unnamed, evil Being in that council that requested that he be given God's Honor. He would later demand that Moses call him The Only Begotten, or the Word.
William,
You wrote on your comment in your previous
The Gorming of Jeff post : "Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Gorming is at hand."
My response:
And speaking of comings and goings ( the ouroborus)
and gormings
and in the beginnings and Bereshit and hummings and
ommmm 'ings and 'tonings' Oh My! check this out:
West Side Story - Something's Coming (1961)
****although not a Kelly green coat, note the green dresses.
Tony ( Tone meaning sound ) ( the protagonist in West Side Story )
also wears a blue greenish shirt.
Note the symbolic 'laundry' hanging on the clothes line.
Symbolic perhaps of the meaning : 'new i.e. clean clothes'.
Note at the end of the video Tone'y points up
to the laundry.
Who Knows.... or is it whose nose?
Wasn't one of your recent posts about a nose?
Also an interesting connection to Bereshit, and
beginnings. Wasn't one of your recent posts about
Robins?
Aren't Robins harbingers of spring??
I agree, something's humming. Perhaps it's MO(M)
the mother of creation and new beginnings giving birth ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOQPMjKLQQU&t=55s
Rockin' Robin--Bobby Day 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLF3YZIjucs
William,
And speaking of word., speech, sound/Tone.
Oh My!! check this out.
Note the 11 (EL )
copy and paste : asterisks mine
"Bereshit, “In the Beginning”
“In the very beginning (Bereshit), God created…” (Genesis**** 1:1)
God is before, in existence, prior to the start of anything.
These first words of the Bible are, in a way,
an indictment against our human self-sufficiency
and tendency to attempt things ourselves.
God is the only one who starts a new beginning.
Turn a few pages in Genesis, and we land at the story
of the Tower of Babel. It is here that the people go
from being industrious to greedy, as they seek
to build a city, complete with a great tower
that reaches to the heavens,
“so that we may make a name for ourselves…
” (Genesis ****11:4). This plan didn’t work out too
well for the people, or their pride."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
https://firmisrael.org/learn/where-do-i-begin-the-hebrew-meaning-of-bereshit/
William,
I forgot to add this to my previous post about
the song Rockin' Robin and the connection
to word, speech, sound/ tone.( Tone'y )
Note in the song the chorus lyrics" Tweedly Dee
or could it be Tweedly Bee ? .... as bees certainly
creates sound buzzzzzzz
( Interestingly how things 'connect' to MANY others )
Rockin Robin ( partial lyrics )
(Tweedly-deedly-dee, tweedly-deedly-dee)
(Tweedly-deedly-dee, tweedly-deedly-dee)
(Tweedly-deedly-dee, tweedly-deedly-dee)
(Tweet, tweet, tweet-tweet)
He rocks in the treetop all the day long
Hoppin' and a-boppin' and a-singin' his song
All the little birds on Jay Bird Street
Love to hear the robin go tweet-tweet-tweet
Copy and paste meaning of Tweedle ( see link )
Tweedle" primarily means to sing or whistle
in a modulated or high-pitched manner,
or to play lightly or negligently on a musical instrument.
It can also mean to lure or entice someone
, often by using music or deception."
~~~~~~~~
Note the reference to deception.
Everything has a dual nature, no?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tweedle
https://genius.com/Bobby-day-rockin-robin-lyrics
William,
I forgot to add that in the West Side Story video clip
note that about marker 1:50--1:55 Tony turns his back
and across his back appears
( at least on my computer monitor )
a very faint greenish stain on his shirt. It appears to be
on the front shoulders too?
Symbolic and nod to Atlas perhaps? If so
perhaps another Atlantis sync?
Copy and paste:
"According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod,
Atlas stood at the ends of the earth in the
extreme*** west***.
~~~~~~
West Side Story?
Also although I've never really been a fan of musicals
West Side Story was a bit different for me because it
has personal connections.
Here's the back story:
At the elementary school on the WEST side of Dayton
where I grew up, one of the new teachers taught
5th grade Art class. She was White and young
and very nice.
I've forgotten her name.
I liked her as I always loved creativity and art.
One day she told the class of a new musical
called West Side Story, and the class was very excited
probably because it had West Side in its title.
The teacher played the album and announced that
she was planning auditions for a West Side Story play
program which would be performed for teachers,
other classmates and parents
and scheduled at night.
It was a big deal, at least to me.
I auditioned for the part to play Maria ( which in
the screen play Maria was played by Natalie Wood )
and the teacher
picked me even though I was terribly shy and wasn't
the best choice. I think she chose me to help
me with my lack of self-esteem.
She had scripts printed out to give all
of us actors!
We had rehearsals after school for several weeks
and I talked my mother into buying the album
which I wore that album out!
I loved it and have always loved West Side Story
because of that experience.
It changed my trajectory in life at that young age.
I haven't seen West Side Story for many many years
and when I read your comment about a Second Gorming,
it made me think of the song Something's
Coming.
I've never noticed the scene with the laundry
and the green dress and Tony's blue shirt with
the green stain before,
of course not, but isn't it interesting to see something
clearly when before you couldn't?
IMO Everything is
connected and because the soul can transcend
linear time and space , everything, past , present
and future is already known.
There's nothing new under the sun.
If it wasn't for my 5th grade art teacher having the alternative
and visionary mindset to present to a group of
Black children on the west side of Dayton Ohio
to another perspective of the world,
I wouldn't be here on your blog having this conversation.
Everything has its reason and season.
Maybe this West Side Story sync's message
is one of Atlas:
to uphold, support, ENDURE.
IMHO, of course;-))
Check out this Atlas wiki page
and note the photo of a sculpture
of Atlas inside the Royal Palace, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Note the 'world' Atlas carries looks very blue-green.
Dem sync fairies are still very much busy.
Never underestimate them. They've always shown
up for me at the time when I need them to
so as to help me navigate through this jungle/matrix/illusion.
and in this case to remind me to 'endure'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)
Repost
West Side Story - Something's Coming (1961)
Look for the green on Toney's blue shirt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOQPMjKLQQU
Wade, for the ways in which I do and do not take a "universal" view of religion, see this old post:
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2022/09/we-ought-not-to-think-that-godhead-is.html
Saruman and him being an "Anti-OM" must have been working on my mind still while I was sleeping, because I woke up thinking of Saruman and his "Coat of Many Colors".
That Coat is another great example of him taking a symbol that has been ascribed elsewhere to Creation (or at least a Creator), inverting or usurping its meaning, and adopting it for his own.
I had briefly linked Saruman wearing his new robe, and wanting Gandalf to call him by his new "name", Saruman of Many Colours, to Joseph and his Technicolor Dream Coat last year, but hadn't really fully thought through the implications of this shared symbol.
As Saruman tells Gandalf, he adopts his new name and wears his new fancy robes to show that Light can be broken. Basically, undoing or atomizing Light, returning it to its individual components.
This would, in my opinion, be the opposite reason for what such a robe or coat would be attributed to Joseph, who as Ausir, I have as the Father of Light.
The Pied Piper was also known by his attire, and while Browning limited the multi-colored aspect of his coat to two colors (Red and Yellow), the original Grimm tale describes it in the same way that Saruman's and Joseph's coat is - Many Colored.
If we trace Saruman all the way back to the beginning of this creation, and if the guess is accurate that he wanted to be the one who was 'sent', then him going out of the way to adopt this Coat as his symbol makes complete sense.
As he declares to Gandalf:
"The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken."
I am sure Saruman would still love to overwrite the "White Page".
William, in response to the piece you linked, perhaps this would be a convenient time for me to register the fact that I am not myself fond of the "Semi-god" idea--nor do I suppose there would be much point in supplying arguments against it.
As regards your views concerning universal religion, I'm always willing to entertain your notions thereon, but I'm not fully persuaded that they would be entirely relevant to your post above. There, you relate a sync (I believe) and what matters in that case is what the sync means, right? And it seems to me that it's wanting to indicate a mutual interrelatedness between the Bible (and related materials, like the Tolkien story you adduced)--maybe the creation account, specifically-- and Buddhistic (or maybe Indo-Oriental) religion. Incidentally, I'm not saying that I myself endorse such a view. Cum grano salis.
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