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~According to The Penguin Concise English Dictionary, a pagan is “(1) a follower of polytheistic religion (2) an irreligious person.” If we now apply the word pagan to the indigenous peoples of Europe, and accept paganism as a generic term for the religious orientation of those people, this definition will have to go. One possible alternative: pagan, (1) a follower of animistic religion who recognizes many divinities in a living cosmos, hence, a devotee of the religion of nature; (2) more specifically, a member of the diverse indigenous cultured of pre-Christian Europe.

…From the “Golden Age” that dawned around 600 b.c.e., Greek philosophers and scientists took long years of apprenticeship in Egypt. In Black Athena, Martin Bernal argues that the entire Western European intellectual tradition derives from African origins. Hew says that for Plato and other Greek intellectuals, “if one wanted to return to the ancient Athenian institutions, one had to turn to Egypt.” Bernal cites many examples of famous Greeks who spent years of apprenticeship in the Egyptian Mystery Schools. 

…Gnostics in Egypt, the Levant, and the Near East were instructors and guides to the Greeks who launched the Western intellectual tradition, and they were something more as well. They were for the indigenous peoples of Europe the first line of defense against the salvationist ideology originating from Palestine. 

…There is not even a generic name for these people, but “Native Europeans” will perhaps do. Europeans today inhabit bordered nation-states, but this was not the case for the pre-Christian indigenous people who composed a vast mosaic of diverse cultures and ethnic-linguistic groups living in unbordered regions throughout Europe…

 The origin of the word Europe occurs in a myth liked to ancient Crete. King Agenor of Tyre, an island off the coast of Lebanon, had a daughter called Eoropa who attracted the attention of the lusting Olympian deity Zeus. To seduce her, Zeus assumed the form of a magnificent white bull. Taking Europa on his back, he ran to the seacoast and swam to Crete. There she bore him sons, including Minos, who became the king of Crete and gave his name to the Minoan civilization that flourished on that island. Europe was named after a goddess from the Levant where the core of the Gnostic movement was located. 

…The evangelism of the New Testament arose in the Near East, in Palestine, but it was spread throughout the Old World by Hellenistic Europeans. There is a historical twist hidden in the wordplay here, because the “good news” of the Gospels had nothing to do with the “natural goodness” of Pagan Europe and, in fact, was designed to deny and defeat the native orientation at every turn. When Europeans were evangelized, their sense of place was destroyed, their spirituality suppressed, their sacred sites coopted, and their tribal histories overwritten by a totalitarian script imported from a faraway land. 

…the Cretan myth offers the word Europa for the continental expanse of pre-Christian Europe… The time span for Europa would be from the close of the Ice Age, around 5900 b.c.e., until the post-feudal period when nation-states began to emerge— say, 1400 c.e. That Pagan values of Europa still survived into the Renaissance, even though put under enormous stress by the repressive measures of Roman Christianity. Assaults against the indigenous people included the campaigns against the Cathars and Albigensians in the twelfth century, the Inquisition launched in the fifteenth century, and the witch hunts that raged across Europe between 1450 and 1750, claiming untold numbers of lives…

 European cultures present close parallels to those of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Europeans “knew that life was equated with the earth and it’s resources.”, that their habitat was a natural paradise… Anyone who travels in Europe sees the evidence of people who have lived for centuries in a sustained relation to their environment… Everywhere one goes outside outside the urban conglomerations in modern Europe, the land has been touched and shaped by human hands, skillfully, even lovingly managed. For centuries the Pagan inhabitants all across the wide, fertile continent exerted special effort to preserve and enhance the bounty of nature.

The Neolithic, Copper Age, and Bronze Age peoples of Europa were hardly different from Native Americans who survived into the nineteenth century, four hundred years after being invaded. Yet the invaders of the New World were so alienated from their own root that they saw all American tribes as savages to be slaughtered, converted and enslaved, rather than as counterparts of themselves from a distant time.

AsWithin

SoWithout

“The religion of the extraterrestrial 'father god' ruptures humanity’s empathetic bond with the earth, Sophia embodied, yet it is that same religion that have given humanity in the Western world its historical and spiritual identity.” ~John Lash

*The chapter from this post is taken from John Lash's groundbreaking book: Not in His Image- Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief. I consider it essential reading for any'one' wishing to deconstruct the shadows of duality, and the divisive, Archontic implants that come with them. ~InLight555

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