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[Ancient-Mysteries] 33 Degrees- Number of the Master

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

33 Degrees

 

Number of the Master.

 

© Olga Morales

 

 

 

Why is 33 degrees associated with Mastery? This was the question I

 

asked myself when I delved into Masonic symbolism while researching

 

my novel Eclipse of the Soul. Being an astrologer, I was convinced

 

it was a celestial reference, for we measure positions of the

 

planets and stars in degrees, minutes and seconds. The astrological

 

circle equals 360 degrees – 12 zodiacal houses of 30 degrees each.

 

The clue I needed was found in a Vedic (Hindu) astrology book where

 

it stated that the Moon was exalted at 3 degrees of Taurus and

 

debilitated in 3 degrees Scorpio. Exaltation was considered to be

 

the optimum position, where the planet is strong and potent and

 

debilitation was the opposite. Why 3 degrees of Taurus, I wondered?

 

In Vedic astrology, the Lunar Zodiac is based on the Moon's movement

 

against the brightest stars divided into 27 Nakshatras of 13 degrees

 

and 20 minutes each. 3 degrees of Taurus corresponds with the

 

Nakshatra called Krittika – which we know as The Pleiades and 3

 

degrees of Scorpio corresponds with the Nakshatra called Vishakha

 

which we know as the North and South Scale of Libra called Tula in

 

Sanskrit. If you plot 3 degrees of Taurus on the great wheel of 360

 

degrees starting with zero degrees Aries, 3 Taurus equals 33

 

degrees. This was the answer I was looking for. Alcyone is the

 

brightest star in the Pleiadian cluster and thus Alcyone is 33

 

degrees – the number of Mastery. Further, I discovered that by using

 

Etymology (origins of words) when the word Master is divided into

 

two becomes Ma / Ster and it means Mother Star. Thus, Alcyone is the

 

number of the Mother Star – 33 degrees.

 

The Pleiadian star system has been one of the most revered cosmic

 

objects in history, poetry and mythology across all cultures.

 

According to the cultural traditions, the seven visible stars of the

 

Pleiades have been referred to by many names, such as the Seven

 

Sisters, Krittika, Kimah, Flock of Doves, Hens, Virgins of Spring,

 

Sailor's Stars and the seven Atlantic Sisters. `The Pleiades were

 

known as Seven Sisters by indigenous people in North America,

 

Siberia and Australia and this common heritage means they were

 

described more than 40,000 years ago.' 1

 

`The Pleiades seem to be among the first stars mentioned in

 

astronomical literature, appearing in the Chinese annuls of 2357 BC,

 

Alcyone, the lucida, then being near the vernal equinox…. And their

 

beginning of the year gave rise to the title `The Great Year of the

 

Pleiades' for the cycle of precession of about 25, 900 years. " 2

 

Professor Charles Piazzi Smyth in the late 19th century suggested

 

that that the seven chambers of the Great Pyramid of Giza

 

commemorate these seven stars. 3 `And here is a wonderful

 

corresponding fact, that the date of the Great Pyramids completion,

 

at midnight of the autumnal equinox…the Pleiades were distributed

 

over the meridian of this pyramid, with Alcyone precisely on the

 

line. " 4

 

What if the Great Pyramid was actually built in honour of

 

the Pleiades when they rose near the vernal equinox 2357 BC and

 

completed by 2170, as suggested by Siess.

 

According to Albert Churchward the name of the Great Pyramid

 

was `Khuti,' which denoted the seven Lights, or Glorious Ones.

 

Likewise, the Tower of Babel with its seven tiers was also

 

symbolical of the `Great Altar Stairs,' by which men climbed

 

heavenward.

 

Many ancient traditions state that Alcyone was the Central Spiritual

 

Sun, the Mother Sun that emits creative Light, that which births

 

great teachers of Light into the world. It was believed to be the

 

centre of the Universe around which our own solar system revolves.

 

Our current astronomers do not support this idea although in the

 

1850's it well accepted. `Science has at last discovered that the

 

Sun is not a dead centre, with planets and comets wheeling around it

 

but itself stationary. It is now ascertained that the Sun is also in

 

motion, around some other and vastly mightier centre. Astronomers

 

are not fully agreed as to what or where that centre is. Some

 

however believe that they have found the direction of it to be the

 

Pleiades, and particularly Alcyone. To the distinguished astronomer,

 

Prof.J.H, Maedler belongs the honour of having made this discovery.

 

Alcyone, then, as far as science can perceive, would seem to be

 

the " midnight throne " in which the whole system of gravitation has a

 

central seat, and from which the Almighty governs his universe.' 5

 

An astronomer will tell you this is complete rubbish but I want to

 

go back to the ancient traditions. Alcyone was called Al Wasat, the

 

Central One by the Arabs and Temennu, the Foundation Stone by the

 

Babylonians. The next quotation I found in a wonderful book on

 

ancient constellations called The Mazzaroth. `Wasat, an Arabic name

 

of Alcyone, transmitted by Ulugh Beigh from early Arabian astronomy,

 

is the centre. It thus testifies, like that of Alcyone, to the

 

knowledge of the first astronomers of the long lost but lately

 

removed fact, that in this group is the centre of the revolving,

 

contains the same reference, if explained by its primitive roots.

 

The ancient name Alcyone, now so celebrated in the annuals of

 

science, is evidently of Oriental origin, having the Arabic and old

 

Hebrew article Al, prefixed to its root Cyon, centre. Its meaning,

 

centre, foundation, anticipates one of the greatest achievements of

 

modern astronomy, the discovery that to this point, this centre,

 

gravitates the whole magnificent arrangement of the stars called the

 

Galaxy, to which our sun belongs.' 6 Does Cyon not sound like

 

Sion/Zion - the heavenly city of God? `Glorious things of Thee are

 

spoken, Zion city of our God.' Psalm 87. The Hebrews believed it to

 

be the City of David- the City of the Lord- the City of Foundation.

 

I found an intriguing article by ken Raines called Jehovah: Ancient

 

Astronaut from the Pleiades'7 Apparently for 62 years, 1891 – 1953,

 

the Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witness) taught that God resided

 

on the star Alcyone in the Pleiades constellation and that from this

 

star he governed the universe. It was also stated that the City of

 

Zion in heaven was Alcyone. The original Watchtower magazine was

 

called Zion's Watchtower. In Micah 4:8 of the Old Testament, it

 

reads, `And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the

 

daughter of Zion, unto thee shall come, even the first dominion; the

 

kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.' Remember the

 

Pleiades were most frequently represented as a flock of doves.

 

At this point I want to briefly divert to the Priory of Sion and

 

its reported reverence for Mary Magdalene. The clue is in her name,

 

which seems to mean `of Magdala' – with some possible interpretation

 

as `place of the dove', `place of the tower' and `temple-tower'. 8

 

In the Woman with the Alabaster Jar Margaret Starbird writes

 

that `tower of the flock' in the above Biblical reference is

 

translated into Magdal-edar.9 So was Mary Magdalene just a secret

 

Pleiadian code and the Priory of Sion was actually the Priory of

 

Alcyone? The so-called sacred Merovingian bloodline between Mary

 

Magdalene and Jesus might actually refer to their Pleiadian cosmic

 

origins. For example, like many other ancient cultures, the Mayans

 

of Meso-America called the Pleiades `the cranary' for it was the

 

seedbed of their civilisation and the cosmic star mother who gave

 

her children the codes of light.10 The Merovingians founded and

 

named the city of Paris after Prince Paris, the son of King Priam of

 

Troy. In the Iliad, Electra (one of the seven Pleiades) was the

 

mother of Dardanos, the founder of Trojan race and according to

 

David Icke, the Merovingian bloodline is traced back to Troy -

 

another Pleiadian connection.

 

In The Templer Revelation, the authors suggest that Mary Magdalene

 

and Jesus were Initiates of the Cult of Isis. Isis was the most

 

venerated Egyptian goddess – the creatress from whom all arose. The

 

sign of Isis is a circle with horns exactly like the sign of Taurus.

 

Her dance of the seven veils corresponds with the seven stars of the

 

Pleiades. I believe she was often portrayed as veiled because of the

 

nebula around the western side of the Pleiades. I found this quote

 

by J.R. Skinner in The Celestial Ship of the North by E.Valentia

 

Straiton. `Isis, Issa, is the Virgin mother of the gods. Neith,

 

Isis, Hathor, Venus and others are all one and the same. Issa, or

 

woman, or Egyptian Isi-s, Isis…but Isi was Jesse, the father of

 

David, who was the father of Jesus, as Isi. So, indeed Isis in

 

Egyptian was the feminine form of Isi, or Jes-, as a form of aish,

 

man, was Jes-us.' 11

 

This quote was very exciting because Nicholas Notovitch, a Russian

 

traveller- who while in a monastery in Tibet in 1887 was shown a

 

manuscript by the head Lama claiming Jesus did not die on the cross

 

however he travelled to India and Tibet and was known as Saint Issa.

 

Also, Jesus in Arabic and in the Koran was known as Isa.12 His tomb

 

is said to be in Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, described as the

 

tomb of the prophet. Why would Jesus have been buried specifically

 

in Srinagar – which means Great Serpent? The clue I believe is found

 

in the word naga, which means serpent. In original Aramaic, Jesus

 

was referred to as a naggar13 actually mistranslated into a

 

carpenter in the Bible, when in actual fact I have found the word

 

for carpenter to be nanger. Jesus was a naggar – a serpent of

 

wisdom. Serpents were the symbol of High Initiates in the mystery

 

schools of Isis in Egypt. `Be ye as wise as serpents and as peaceful

 

as doves' Matthew 11:16 `Many Gnostic traditions identified the

 

Serpent with Jesus. In the Pistis Sophia, Jesus was the serpent who

 

spoke to Eve `from the tree of knowledge and the tree of life, which

 

were in the paradise of Adam.'' 14

 

Mark Amaru Pinkham in his book The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom,

 

examines the worldwide migration of serpents, some from Mu

 

(Lemuria), and others from Atlantis. They were called Nagas,

 

Naguals, Nacaals, Adders, Djedhi, Amarus, Levites, Lung Dragons and

 

Quetzlcoatls. There are many traditions, which also state that the

 

Serpents were Extra-terrestrials. ` Some of the Interstellar

 

Serpents on Atlantis came from the Celestial Serpent, the Pleiades.

 

[According to Dhyani Ywahoo] the records of Cherokees, these

 

androgynous Serpents are known as the `sacred seven,' and said to

 

have traveled from the universal seat of Divine Mind, the Pleiades,

 

in order to instill within developing humankind the spark of the

 

individuated mind. Once on the Earth the Pleiadian missionaries

 

mated with the human population and their progeny spread throughout

 

Atlantis.' 15 (Could this be the source of the Fallen Angels in The

 

Book of Enoch?) This Pleiadian and Atlantean mating was also

 

mentioned by Greek Historian Diodorus who claimed that Celoene and

 

Alcyone, two of the seven Pleiadian sisters, had mated with

 

Poseidon, King of Atlantis and their offspring populated Atlantis.

 

Now back to the Watchtower society. According to David Icke, 16

 

Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Watchtower Society was a

 

high degree Mason. Why am I going here? Because secret societies

 

keep ancient wisdom behind locked doors and Masonry is based on the

 

Egyptian Mysteries. I have a book by Robert Hewitt Brown; a 32-

 

degree Mason called Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy. On page

 

54 is a picture of a mystic ladder that leads to the seven stars of

 

the Pleiades. He explains, `This Masonic emblem, has a direct

 

allusion to the vernal equinox, and thus becomes a beautiful symbol

 

of immortality, reminding us, also, of that starry home beyond the

 

grave to which the soul of man aspires. It was for these reasons

 

that, of all the `hosts of heaven' the Pleiades were selected as an

 

emblem by our ancient brethren.' 13 The ladder is also made of seven

 

step in the Scottish Rite Ritual and ascends from a red room, that

 

which is said to represent the Great Mother. A red cross was placed

 

over the heart of the candidate for red is sworn to in Masonry. I

 

believe the symbol of the red cross is the same as the rosi-crux of

 

the Rosicrucians and all symbolic of Alcyone and the Pleiades. The

 

first Grand Lodge of the Scottish Rite in America, was formed at

 

Charleston, South Carolina, in 1783: a Supreme Council and it lies

 

exactly on the 33rd parallel of latitude. The highest Masonic degree

 

is 33 degrees – the Grand Master. If you break up the word Mason

 

into two - Ma/Son it equates to Mother Sun. It is interesting to

 

note that one of the Pleiades was named Maia by the Greeks. Maia was

 

the virgin mother of Hermes, the Enlightened One. Maya, was the

 

virgin mother of Buddha, the Enlightened One. Mary, was the virgin

 

mother of Christ, the Annointed one. May is the month of

 

Maia/Maya/Mary when the Sun is in Taurus and thus conjunct the

 

Pleiades. May Day celebrations are in honour of the Pleiades.

 

In the Mazzaroth, Frances Rolleston connects the Hebrew alphabet

 

with the constellations and Pleiades is said to be associated with

 

the Hebrew letter Ayin, the pictograph being an eye. Immediately, I

 

thought of the `All Seeing Eye' used so prolifically in Masonic

 

imagery, especially above the apex of the Great Pyramid, even on the

 

American dollar bill. Remember, Seiss' belief that the Pyramid was

 

built as the midnight throne celebrating the midnight culmination of

 

the Pleiades – could this be symbolised by the Pyramid and the Eye?

 

I went a little further and located the letter Ayin on the Kabala

 

tree. It is found on the 26th pathway and connected with the sign of

 

Capricorn and the Tarot card of the Devil. In the Aleister Crowley

 

Thoth Tarot Deck, the Devil is represented in the traditional form

 

of the Goat, however there is some unusual imagery that I found very

 

intriguing. The goat has a third eye and his head is adorned with a

 

bunch of grapes. (Wine had a mystical relation to the Dove (the

 

Pleiades) which is the Holy Spirit or the Shekinah in Hebrew.)

 

Below him, is a winged caduceus (Hermes) and under its hoofs are two

 

balls with humans inside going through what I assume to be symbolic

 

creation. You can see the DNA chromosomes and mitosis occurring.

 

Behind this, is a shaft piercing a cosmic ring in the heavens. Most

 

horned creatures like Pan represented fertility and creation and the

 

May Time celebrations of Beltane incorporated this celebration. The

 

Maypole had seven ribbons, I believe representing the seven sisters

 

of the Pleiades. `Pan was an important model for medieval pagans'

 

Horned God, whom the church called Satan. The devil always displayed

 

Pan's attributes of goat-hoofs, horns, and unremitting lust;

 

sometimes also a goat head and an attendant throng of satyrs.'14

 

When the Knights Templer were accused of heresy in the 14th century,

 

it was based on their worship of Baphomet – a bisexual idol pictured

 

with hoofs, a goat's face, with both male and female features, and

 

thus they were called `devil worshippers'. Could it simply have

 

been another Pleiadian connection?

 

`With November, the Pleid-month, many primitive people began their

 

year; and on the day of the midnight culmination of the Pleiades,

 

November 17, no petition was presented in vain to the ancient Kings

 

of Persia; the same event gave the signal at Busiris for the

 

commencement of the feast of Isis, and regulated less immediately

 

the celebrations connected with the 52 year cycle of the Mexicans.

 

Australian tribes to this day dance in honour of the `Seven

 

Sisters'. 15 The months of May and November and their numerous

 

festivals and celebrations are all associated with the Seven

 

Sisters. Their rising in November marked the time for worship of

 

deceased family and friends. `Egyptian texts allude to Pleiades'

 

archaic significance as Krittitas, judges of men, assigning them

 

also to seven planetary spheres as the seven Hathors. The dead had

 

to speak the names of these Goddesses to pass their `critical'

 

examination and enter paradise.' 16

 

I believe this is the source of the Judgement of the Dead linked

 

with the month of November, when the Pleiades are high in the night

 

sky. In the Halls of Judgement, the goddess Maat weighed the souls

 

of the dead against her ostrich- feather of truth as the ibis-headed

 

scribe Thoth stood to record the judgement. In Christian

 

iconography, Archangel Michael holds a pair of scales on the Day of

 

Judgement recognised as All Soul's Day on the 2nd November. The

 

ancient Celtic civilisation gathered to celebrate the festival of

 

death `Samhain' during the dark night of October 31st and at

 

midnight, a time of death to the old year and birth to the new, it

 

was the Celtic New Year. November is the month of the dead and

 

Scorpio and ruling planet Pluto are all connected with death and

 

rebirth. The Persians called November Mordad, or `Angel of Death.'

 

I often wonder how the zodiac signs acquired their symbolism, for

 

example why Scorpio and its eight house and ruler Pluto are all

 

linked to death and rebirth? What I have found through my research

 

into The Pleiades, might be the answer. It has been recorded in the

 

Babylonian Talmud that the flood of Biblical Noah was the result of

 

two stars falling from Khima (the Pleiades) towards Earth. Could

 

this correspond with the legend of the lost pleid? Was this the

 

sinking of Mu/Atlantis and the end of the Golden Age and thus we

 

still mourn the dead in November? I discovered some very confirming

 

evidence in the book When the Earth Nearly Died by Allen and Delair.

 

They argue that the world experienced total catastrophe in 9500 BC

 

when a Vela supernova exploded and the Earth's axis subsequently

 

tilted to 23 and a half degrees and the Age of Darkness took hold.

 

What I found in the book was this. `Chinese traditions similarly

 

tell how, during the time of the legendary emperor Ya-hou: `a

 

brilliant star issued from the constellation of Yin' prior to a

 

tremendous global upheaval.' 17 I searched my Chinese Astrology book

 

and found the Yin Star to correspond with Beta Scorpionis (Graffias,

 

a triple star situated in the head of the Scorpion) and connected

 

with plenty of water (flood). The symbol of Yin and Yang thus

 

represents Scorpio (Yin) and its opposite sign Taurus (Yang).

 

Remember in November, the Sun is in Scorpio but at night The

 

Pleiades are high in the sky, in Taurus. The Maya/Aztec called the

 

Pleiades the tzab rattle – that of a snake and every 52 years, in

 

the middle of November, when the Pleiades were directly at the

 

zenith at midnight at Mexican latitude, it was believed that the

 

world would end; it had already been destroyed and re-created four

 

times in the past. The New Fire Ceremony was held once they knew

 

that they were safe for another 52 years. Thus, the specific

 

symbolism of the constellations, zodiac signs and planets seem to

 

reflect actual historical events, similarly recounted in many Myths.

 

What I have presented above is just the tip of the iceberg of what I

 

have discovered. It is obvious from legends and myths that the

 

Pleiadian Star System was the locus of our cosmic inheritance and

 

the source of the mystical wisdom known by the High Initiates of the

 

Mystery Schools of Isis.

 

 

 

Footnotes.

 

 

 

1. Hand Clow, Barbara. Catastrophobia, Vermont: Bear and Co., 2001.

 

pg 101

 

2. Allen, Richard Hinckley. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning. NY:

 

Dover Pub. 1963. pg 392.

 

3. Ibid., pg 399

 

4. Seiss, Joseph A. Miracle in Stone: or the Great Pyramid of Egypt

 

(1877). Reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, USA.

 

5. Ibid, pg

 

6. Rolleston, Frances. Mazzaroth Reprinted by Kessinger Publishing,

 

pg 28.

 

7. www.premier1.net/~raines/jehovah.html

 

8. Picknett, L & Prince, C. The Templar Revelation, NY: Touchstone

 

1997, 248.

 

9. Starbird, Margaret, The Woman with the Alabaster Jar, Santa Fe:

 

Bear and co, 1993 pg 50.

 

10. Polich Bluestone. Judith. Return of the Children of Light.

 

Vermont: Bear and Co, 2001. Pg. 12.

 

11. Straiton Valentia, E, Celestial Ship of the North, Kessinger

 

Publishing, 1927, pg. 101.

 

12. Hatcher Childress, David, Lost Cities of China, Central Asia and

 

India, USA; Adventures Unlimited, 1985, pg. 271.

 

13. See note 8, pg. 235.

 

14. Walker, Barbara G. Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets.

 

NY: HarperCollins 1983, pg. 803.

 

15. Pinkham, Mark Amaru. The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom. USA:

 

Adventures Unlimited Press, 1997, pg. 231.

 

16. Icke, David. Children of the Matrix. USA: Bridge of Love

 

Publications, 2001, pg. 328.

 

17. Brown, Robert Hewitt, 32 degrees. Stellar Theology and Masonic

 

Astronomy. Reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, pg. 51.

 

18. See note 14, pg. 765.

 

19. See note 2, pg. 401

 

20. See note 14, pg. 803

 

21. Allan, D.S and Delair, J.B. When the Earth nearly died. Bath:

 

Gateway Books, 1995. Pg. 212.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Olga Morales is an Australian astrologer and author of Eclipse of

 

the Soul, a novel inspired by much of the information contained in

 

the article above. For more information, visit www.booksurge.com.

 

Olga can be contacted by email at olgam@n...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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