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What Is Satsang?

"Satsang" is a Sanskrit word meaning "gathering in truth." The Universal Church of Metaphysics offers free video satsangs through the Internet.

Winter Retreats, Satsangs and Workshops

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Featured Affirmation

Evergreen trees are symbols of immortality and being free from the past and future.


I now remember
the enlightenment I was born with,
knowing myself as
Divinity in the flesh.

What are Affirmations?

Affirmations are words of power that have a healing effect on those who use them. Words truly do have the power to heal, and they can change your life. The Universal Church of Metaphysics invites you to explore the spiritual healing power of affirmations.

Symbol Dictionary: Father/Sun Gods

Father/Sun Gods: For most cultures the sun represented the life-giving father while the moon or earth represented the mother. Often, the Father God is the Consort of the Mother or Triple-Goddess Goddess, sometimes in the simple form of the moon or earth, such as Artemis or Gaia, sometimes as the Great Goddesses such as Astarte or Hathor.

Apollo (Greek and Roman): Born of the Moon-Goddess Artemis (as most gods are born of moon, sea, earth or heaven goddesses), Apollo is the Greek (and Roman by the same name) sun god. He is symbolized by the totem animals wolf as Apollo Lycaeus, mouse as Apollo Smitheus, golden-maned lion as Apollo Chrysocomes, and when Apollo took over the Goddess’s powers of prophecy, music, magic, poetry, and healing such as at the Oracle of Delphi, he became the Great Serpent, Apollo Python/Sol Niger (Black Sun). In the Bible he is called Apollyon, “Spirit of the Pit,” and the Egyptians knew him as Apep or Apophis, “the serpent of darkness,” according to Barbara Walker, in her book, The Woman’s Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets (1983). See UMS Gods, Goddesses and Mythology course.

Baal: Consort of the Mother Astarte, the Semites recognized Baal as the Lord. Barbara Walker, in her book, The Woman’s Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets (1983) explains, “Every god was a Baal. The title was introduced into Ireland via Phoenician colonies in Spain, and became the Irish Bel or Bial, Lord of Beltain.” Baal-Berith was “God of the Covenant;” Baal-Gad was the Goat-Lord, another Pan; Baal-Hadad was the “Lord of the Hunt”; Baal-Hamman was “Lord of the Brazier” or fire; Baal Peor was “Lord of the Cleft” as the “Phoenician phallic god coupled with Asherah’s yonic ‘cleft,’” as Walker explains; Baal-Zebub as “Lord of Flies,” “Lord of Death,” or “Conductor of Souls;” and the female equivalent was Baalat as the Middle-Eastern “Lady” Goddess. See UMS Gods, Goddesses and Mythology course.


Cronus

Cronus (Greek)/Saturn (Roman): This Titan God, son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth), predated the Greek Gods and would later castrate and replace his father Uranus. Trying to prevent the same fate, Cronus tried to swallow all his children, but Zeus (his son) eventually succeeded in deposing of Cronus as the recognized father (Walker, 1983). Cronus means time and according to Rowena and Rupert Shepherd in their book 1000 Symbols: What Shapes Mean In Art And Myth (2002), “In its glyph the cross of matter presses on the crescent of the soul.” See UMS Gods, Goddesses and Mythology course.


Haschezhini


Haschezhini: A Navaho Black God of fire and creator of the stars and constellations, “Haschezhini came into being with the earth and is an ancient, dark and masculine force,” according to Rowena and Rupert Shepherd in their book 1000 Symbols: What Shapes Mean In Art And Myth (2002). Haschezhini wears a black mask and sows the Pleiades on his left forehead. Being quick to anger, it is said that he caused the people to migrate from the first to this fifth world by setting it on fire.


Iao: Iao is the name of God, speculated by Orphics to be the same as Dionysus, firstborn of the gods. In her book The Woman’s Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets (1983), Barbara Walker explains that Iao is “One of the most common and most revered ‘secret names of God’ for use in spells, charms, and invocations, adopted from Neoplatonic mystics who called it the essence of the [pagan] Logos.” See UMS Gods, course.



Poseidon

Poseidon (Greek)/Neptune (Roman): Sea God Neptune, its glyph is Neptune’s trident, according to Rowena and Rupert Shepherd in their book 1000 Symbols: What Shapes Mean In Art And Myth (2002). Neptune was a consort of the Triple Goddess and his trident represented his triple phallus (Walker, 1983). See UMS Gods, Goddesses and Mythology course.

Ra: Ra, the Egyptian Sun God is the father of every pharaoh by virtue of his coupling with the queen mother. Often confused as the supreme deity, Ra is the son of the Egyptian Divine Mother, called by Nut, Hathor, Isis, the Great Cat, and Mehurt. While there are scriptural attempts to erase the Goddesses in Ra’s birth, calling him “self-begotten and self-born,” the same sources later state he is “the Disc within they mother Hathor… made strong each day by thy mother Nut,” according to Barbara Walker, in her book, The Woman’s Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets (1983). See Eye. See UMS Gods, Goddesses and Mythology course.


Sin

Sin: Born of Inanna or Nanna, the Virgin Queen of Heaven, Sin was the Moon-god of Mount Sinai, “Mountain of the Moon,” and the ruler of the Land of Sinim, “land of the lunar moon,” (Walker, 1983). According to Barbara Walker, in her book, The Woman’s Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets (1983), “He was the god who received the Tablets of Law from the primal Mother of Creation, Tiamat. As Moses’ God, he still had the same mountain-throne and the same tablets. A biblical scholar has pointed out that ‘the Jehovah of the Hebrews’ was merely another transformation of ‘the primitive lunar deity of Arabia.” See UMS Gods, Goddesses and Mythology course.

 

Tetragrammaton


Tetragrammaton: The secret name of God in Hebrew, yod-he-vau-he or YHWH, was the Tetragrammaton or “four-letter word.” The root of the Tetragrammaton was HWH meaning “being,” life,” and “woman” interchangeable, which was in Latin EVE (Eve). Barbara Walker, in her book, The Woman’s Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets (1983), explains, “Thus the so-called inner meaning of the Tetragrammaton was really Eve, Mother of All Living, the real creator of the world and mother of Adam, according to Gnostic scriptures.” Important to the Cabala, the Tetragrammaton was confused by uneducated medieval writers as a magic charm or name of a demon.


Uranus (Greek and Roman): Representing Heaven, Uranus is the consort of Gaia (Tellus in Rome), the primordial mother, Uranus fathered Saturn (who later overthrew him) and the Titans, including Cronus. See UMS Gods, Goddesses and Mythology course.


Zeus


Zeus (Greek)/Jupiter (Roman): Ruler of the pantheon and Father Heaven, Consort to Hera or Gaea (the Great Mother Goddess), Zeus was not originally the patriarch or ruler of Mount Olympia. That honor was left to his wife, as Gaea Olympia and Great Mother. Only later did he try to usurp her life-giving powers (Walker, 1983). This same god was called Jehovah by the Jews. According to Rowena and Rupert Shepherd in their book 1000 Symbols: What Shapes Mean In Art And Myth (2002), “Its glyph shows the soul (crescent) crossed by matter (the cross).” See UMS Gods, Goddesses and Mythology course.