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The Planets: "Venus, the Bringer of Peace," Part 3 (of 10)Maureen's Musings - Friday, July 11th, 2008 My sisters and I may have been raised in the same home, by the same parents, but we've each turned out different from one another. Like human sisters that grow into distinctive individuals, "sister planets" Earth and Venus are radically different. They are nearly the same size (Earth is the bigger of the two) and study indicates that, like Earth, Venus was once covered by liquid water. But, current research shows two celestial bodies with drastically disparate environments. But before modern science exposed the truth about Venus's atmosphere and surface, the morning and evening star inspired humanity with its mysterious possibilities for millennia. The ancient Romans named the planet after their goddess of beauty, love, fertility, and femininity. Shukra, the planet's name in Sanskrit, means "'clear, pure' or 'brightness, clearness.'" "As one of the brightest objects in the sky," Venus impacted the cultures of ancient civilizations around the world. More recently, science-fiction authors imagined Venus as a possible second home for humans. C. S. Lewis's tale of paradise preserved Perelandra envisioned Earth's sister planet as a lush waterworld. It is interesting to note that the ancient Greeks' name for Venus's dawn appearance, Phosphoros, which means "bringer of light," was later translated into Latin as Lucifer, meaning "light bearer." Like the fallen angel that bears the same name, the real Venus is barren and incapable of supporting life. Far from being the pure beauty the ancients imagined, the second planet from the Sun is stopglobalwarming.org's worst nightmare, come true. Venus is shrouded in a thick atmosphere that's about 96.5% carbon dioxide. Due to Venus's incredibly slow rotation rate(in Earth terms, it takes Venus approximately 243 times longer to complete a rotation), the planet's surface lacks a sufficient magnetic field to protect it against solar winds. Some researchers suspect that this exposure to solar winds and ultraviolet radiations is responsible for stripping Venus of the water it once held; the same fate awaits any water deposited on the planet by comets. Surface temperatures measure at a balmy 800oF. Makes these southern California heat waves look like winter in Michigan. Like Mars, Venus exposes a sharp contrast between reality and imagination. With the Red Planet the contrast is between the hope with which we explore it and the malevolence we ascribe to it in fantasy. In Venus's case, the difference is between the planet's hellish, hostile environment and the attributes of beauty, purity, and love assigned to it in myth. Intriguingly, where Venus fails our expectations, Christ, the Creator of the planets, endures. Venus is hostile, not peaceful, but the Bible describes Christ as "a prince of peace." Venus houses a hell-like world, not love, but Christ is love. Christ is the true "bright morning star." Listen to "Venus, the Bringer of Peace" here. |
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The devil is not Lucifer
Please read Isaiah 14: 1-22 to get the context for the name Lucifer, or light-bearer. This is not speaking of an angelic being, it is speaking about the king of Babylon and the fall of that entire kingdom.
I also want to say that in Act 2: 38, Romans 6: 1-7 and other passages we are commanded to believe, repent and be baptized (immersed in water) for the forgiveness of our sins. Why should anyone think he can come to God on his own human terms? We are to submit our will to God's will and do what He says by faith.
May God Bless You All as You Seek and Do HIS WILL.
Christ-The bright true morning star
I assume the above essay's referral to Christ is the person many faiths call Jesus. I say this because my historical research has revealed that Christ is a greek word, and Jesus didn't speak greek. I submit he spoke aramaic. Christ is a title that means messiah, but this was not Jesus' last name.
He is referred to as the bright morning star (venus)because he was a follower and teacher of Enochian Judaism as opposed to Mosaic Judaism. This means that like the megalithic peoples of Ireland, Scotland, and Britain, Jesus had an uncanny understanding of all of the stars, constellations, and houses of the zodiac based on Enoch's calendar, and the fact that he was not born in December, but during the Spring Equinox. To determine when the spring equinox would occur to the day during Jesus' time, one had to have thorough understanding of the movements of the sun, moon, and the morning star (venus). He is the morning star becasue his birth was prophesized and planned to happen at the very moment of that equinox, not because of any mysticism or because he "claimed to be God."
Venus, the world's vision of
Venus, the world's vision of beauty is anything but that, however the true Bringer of Beauty is disregarded.
Today's score: Bible - 1, World - 0.
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