Good constellations.

 "If I told you that I knew about the Sun & the Moon, I'd be untrue." - Queens Of The Stone Age.

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  Helios ( Ἥλιος ) ; as us Sabians call it q'udul ( قودول ), and, poetically hammah ( هاماة ) meaning "heat".  

  The conceptions of our cousins, the Hebrews, with regard to physical phenomena, were those that they obtained among their neighbours, the sun being considered as a torch or light ("ma'or") suspended in the firmament. "The Hebrews, like the Egyptians and the Greeks, regarded the sun as the most powerful of the heavenly bodies, and they imagined that it moved by its own virtue, or that it was of the same nature with the other worlds, all created by the Lord." The Greeks then were more like their contemporaries the Egyptians, who considered the stars as light which emanated from the firmament of the sun; and the Hebrews, just like the other Greeks, were not ignorant of the phenomena of celestial motion; but, like the Greeks, they imagined the universe of the heavens was the emanation of the Word of God, for which reason they called God's works His creatures.  

In this sense the Hebrews regarded the sun, or light, as the maker, from whom all the worlds have emanated, because in them is manifested the glory of the Lord. God had created the sun from Himself, and it was He that created all the other worlds from His own light. If, however, the Hebrews, like the Greeks, thought the stars of celestial origin, they only regarded them as light, or "ma'or," suspended in the firmament, because there was no more to be seen of them than light, or "ma'or," and therefore they had no notion of their nature. The Hebrews, on the contrary, believed all the light that had been created from the firmament was the work of the Almighty, for it is said in the Old Testament: "When the sun is exalted, and the moon is darkened, and the stars fall from heaven, then shall the Lord turn the lights of heaven away from the earth, and from the heavenly places, and shall make them dark to the gaze of men."  

وعمل الله نورين عظيمين. النور الأعظم لحكم النهار ، والنور الأصغر لحكم الليل: صنع النجوم أيضا

The Zabur tells us that The Sun was created on the fourth day together with The Moon, the two constituting the great lights; and as the larger of them, the sun was given dominion over the day (136:2). The Sun gives light to the world, the Moon to the heavenly bodies, and, the Earth, the world. Thus, the Solar and Lunar worlds have their common end. The Sun is the first cause, so to speak, because the Sun is the cause of all beginnings. It governs every thing. But now we look to the lunar world. The lunar world is no more than the shadow of the earth, and that no more than a shadow of the earth. The earth is not an element of the sun. It is the sun or a little globe set in the water of the sky. That water may be said to be the sky. The Water of the heavens is, as it were, the mist which is thrown off from the sun at its setting, and this mist is divided into the water of the waters, or water of the sky, and water of the sea, or the water of the world. And the moon is, as it were, the shadow of the earth, which has been thrown off from the light of the sun, and this shadow is divided into the mists of the air and the smoke of the fire. Then, again, as the earth is of no use to the lunar sun, so too is the moon of no use to the terrestrial sun. The water of the heavens is the water of the world, and the air is the air of the world. For the elements of which the lunar globe is composed are water, air, and fire.  

The Sun has a tent (Zabur 19:5), and, a bridal chamber (Zabur 19:6); and, a palace in the midst of the gardens (Zabur 19:7).  

The sun has a tent, and a bed in the midst of the mountains. And a palace in the midst of the gardens.  

It may seem strange that the Sun had to have a mansion to live in; but there is a simple reason why the Sun may have needed a mansion; The Sun and its glory, may be said to have lived in the Sun's own shadow.  

The "fame of The Sun is everlasting" (Zabur 72:17).  

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  The Moon ( Luna ) ; as us Sabians call it jirig ( جعرعغ ), and, poetically limuhiz ( لعموحعز ) meaning "whiteness".  The New Moon is listed thrice in the Chronicles.  

In the narrative of the Creation, the moon is indicated, without any special name, as one of the two great luminaries. Relatively to the sun, it is "the lesser light to rule the night"; and it is to serve together with the sun for signs, seasons, days, and years. The moon is the starry body as great as the sun; the starry body of the moon stands above the sun as a "greater star," and, because it is "the little body," it is the "light of the world" and the "springtime of the world." Thus from the beginning, the moon, with the sun, is always seen at the same time in the same region in the sky. And this time of the moon's appearance, as well as its disappearance, is regulated by signs. This is the signification of the word "tide." And the moon is, as well as the sun, the "tide." And this same notion of the word "tide" serves for the meaning of "day," and likewise the derivation of the word "day" from "day." The time of the lunar month, then, is, to make the moon's disappearance synchronous with the moon's appearance at the same time in the same region.  

The Sun and The Moon are going round in circles!  

وقال الله لتكن انوار في جلد السماء لتفصل بين النهار والليل. ولتكن لآيات ومواسم وأيام وسنين

The Zabur tells us that it is expressly stated that the moon was created in order to indicate the seasons (104:19). However, when the moon appeared to be a different colour, no one believed that it had been created to indicate the seasons, so the creation story is a later addition and the moon was not created in order to indicate the seasons but simply because it appeared to be different from all other celestial bodies.  

Like the other celestial bodies, the moon was believed to have an influence on the universe. The moon was believed to be composed of five distinct layers: the dark earth beneath it, the ocean below it, the light above it, and the moon herself. The light above was believed to radiate an intense, bright white light. This was believed to bring good fortune. The dark earth was believed to be the source of evil in the world.  

The night sky was thought to be an illusion produced by the moon's light. On the earth, the moon was thought to shine brighter and therefore make the night sky appear brighter than it really was!  

Precious things are put forth by the moon; the growth of certain plants and the moistening of the dew. And those words of God, that they brought forth in their mothers' wombs, were written on the earth by means of men's hands." And, "The heaven is a book. The earth is a garden. The sea is the womb of the deep.  

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"Upskirting."

I try to read Torah everyday, now that I know I am a Sabian, yet, even from the very lineage of Jesus (through Miriam Magdalit "The Great") and their Merovingian Dynasty, smuggled out to France after the crucifixion of Christ and the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.

The Temple was never rebuilt.

I tried to find the first book I could about the Sabians, and found one book of history from the early 10th Century, written by the Jewish historian Yohanan Ben David. He called them the "Tribe of the Aeonians" with a capital Aeonian. He also referred to the Talmud in order to give the Sabians the names of their ancestors and what they looked like.

But, who is this Jesus? I hear an English lover ask. We've all heard the story, we know the Gospel, but the lineage has been shrouded since the day it was born in France, and for good reason, as it contains the most abominable blasphemous heresy, and it's all to do with how sexuality is considered holy.

Sex is a very personal thing. It's something you can have and want and enjoy, but there's something about it that, at least in Christian circles, is sacred, something very sacred, or holy.

We can't speak for the Pope, but we would be very intrigued if someone could give us a very short description of that "holyness," but for God's sake don't call it "love" and "fertility" and "worship" because you know these things don't apply in the Old Testament.

We believe that Christians will never have to make any of these sacrifices.

What are Christians called to do in the face of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer persons?

They are called to love them. They are called to love the LGBT community.

We are called to love all human beings. We are called to serve all people with everything we have, and to stand in awe of Jesus. And we believe that there is nothing wrong with loving someone who is different from you and isn't doing things in a right manner.

Love is a beautiful thing.

And so we are called to love and to serve those who are different from us. To show them love by not turning them away, by not mocking them, by not turning them into a joke. We are called to show them love by embracing them. We are called to love in the ways God has called us to love. And we are called to love them in the ways that we have been called to love.

The people who tell us that we shouldn't be able to love or serve the LGBT community as we should are wrong. It is in our Bible. It is in our history. We should love and serve them. It is important.

They don't give us any idea how to think. 

Don't call it "love", "fertility", or "worship"! Call it "holy"; and ask yourself why endogamy is holy? Neurounity. We'll have to explain this slowly. It's the act of sharing sacred space with the divine, which we call sharing. We want to use our own sacred space as our place of sanctuary. To us, our Sacred Space (our holy place) is not an empty space in some corner of a warehouse or our bedroom; it's a space that we have been in for many lifetimes, the part of our own self that is the center of our being.

We need to make a living space sacred: a space where we can feel very, very safe, where we can do what we love, that we are at home in. It's not like building a castle in our basement; instead, it's the living spaces of the self that we build into our own self, that we live in. Our home is the living space of our Self.

Sacred spaces are our home. In the center of our own home are our sacred places, our sacred people, our sacred rituals, our sacred places. This whole self is a set of sacred rituals, sacred people, sacred places, so sacred that we make a living space sacred.

When we create our own sacred space for ourselves, we make a living space sacred. It is ours, and we're entitled to keep it that way, without our own sacred self taking over, because we are only an expression of our Sacred Self. To use our sacred space to create our own self is to live our sacred self.

Living in sacred space is what allows us to be fully present to our own self and to experience our own self, and to experience Sacred being. It's a space where we feel as fully present as possible, and in which we have a safe home in which we can do what we love. It's a place where we can do what we love, because we know that what we love is right, that what we love is sacred, and so it's a sacred space where we can be our most sacred selves. 

But, ask yourself why endogamy is holy? Jesus was a man at age thirteen (Bar Mitzvah), the commandment to "be fruitful" was a commandment to enjoy the holiness of consummation with his endogamous peers (Bat Mitzvah). There was a time, a golden age, when the world was full of people who did not die, no matter how they lived. And we were like these people, too. We had no time, no energy, nothing but God, in us and God, in our world. This time, it is no different. Not even the most evil people are as dark as you think they are. We are not all the same, but all different. And we do not want you to understand that all different do not equal evil.

And now ask yourself what kind of people, those who say "Endogamy is evil", why don't they say "Endogamy is sinful"? Why don't they say, "Endogamy is wicked"? Why don't they want you to understand this?

Endogamy is sinful.

It is a sin.

It is the same as all the sin you will see in the Bible. The same as a man who lies with a man, who has intercourse with another man's wife, or takes another man's wife. The same as any sexual sin in the Bible. And we are the same as all of them. We have no time to sin. We have no energy. We have no joy, no desire, no reason to sin. All of that can be found in God. And not one of them wants you to know this.

You may have had a religious awakening while reading this, a spiritual awakening. But if your awakening was caused by a "spiritual awakening", it is too late to go back to god. You must find God, with the Bible. If your awakening was caused by a "mystical awakening", it is also too late to go back to god. You must find God, with the Bible. 

So, what you have to understand is that it is both things. Endogamy is holy but it also permits sin. 

So the principle is, in God's economy, everything is holy in God's sight. All things are acceptable. All things are blameless. And yet, they are only acceptable if they lead to salvation, so that they are holy, and if they lead to sin, they are blameless. This is the way of God. It is all very complicated. It is a very rich, intricate thing, but that's what is meant. 

And so Mary Magdalene (the mother of the Christ) was the Mother of all Christ's Motherhood. That's why you've got, in the gospels (and throughout the New Testament), Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Mary sitting around, drinking tea, and sharing all the things they've been through together. You've got Jesus and Mary Magdalene and Mary Magdalene and Mary Magdalene's children, and you've got Mary Magdalene's family, and you've got Jesus' family, and all the rest of it (all the people who, like Jesus, drank tea together - "to the degree of the cup"). It's all connected. 

And so, who was The Heavenly Father if not Joseph a stone's throw away from the waters of Jesus's baptism, exclaiming in the spirit, projected by the heavens "this is my beloved son, in whom I am well-pleased"? But then, who was Satan if not Jesus's master, His father, testing the aptitude of His knowledge of the scriptures when offering his son all the kingdoms of the earth when he ascended to Temple heights alongside Him?

When we return to the story of Joseph and the stone and the waters and the words that they spoke to each other, then our hearts are open. We do not just see the stone and the waters but the words they uttered to each other in that moment. We see them at the time and place and then see them again later in the morning as they walk to work together. We see them again and again as they share a cup of tea in the parlor of the house of Moses. We see them again as they are invited over by Mary and Joseph. We see them again as they are shown their wedding bands on the Sabbath. We see them as they are given their blessing by the patriarch Abraham and again by the prophets Noah and Job. We see them again as we see their friends and enemies all the time, in all places and time. We see them in the heart. We see them in the heart and hear them and behold them. And then, in the heart, we realize that we do indeed see the stone and the waters, the words they spoke to each other, and the heart of God. We see the stone and the waters as they are seen in a vision of the future. And so, through the revelation of the Lord God to the Joseph, we see and understand that they are what they claim to be, but in the heart we do know that they are what they are said to be. 

In conclusion, how do we reveal the Merovingian secret or else bastardize our faith with blasphemy? What is holy is not blasphemy; such was endogamy - since then, we have had the prohibition of incest. However, if Jesus Christ was the most graceful lover, the demon exorcist of His Mother, then it is my speculation that his copulated with her and so was born in France their son Yehoudah (who was the patriarch of the Frankish Kings)?  

And this must be the reason that the Pharisees rent their clothes in twain and why Joseph the father could not look upon the cross.  

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What is a Tzabien (Sabian)?

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The Holy Qur'an states: "The believers, the Jews, the Christians, and the Sabians - all those who believe in God and the Last Day and do good - will have their rewards with their Lord" (Qur'an 2:62).  

So, who exactly is it that believes in God? Those who love. Those who have a feeling that their own lives are not entirely their own, that they can't control the course of events without God's help, and that God might see them in need of help and comfort. Those who are a little freer, but not yet willing to let go of self-sufficiency. Those who are more confident, but still worried about their own safety. And those who are less confident, still worried about the safety of others. So, it makes sense that we'd be more likely to be believers if we've had fewer doubts than those who have a strong sense of belief.  

The Sabians are a monotheistic religious community of disparate believers amidst the mainstream of the main bodies of Abrahamic faiths.  Christianity: the religion of The Sun; Judaism: the religion of The Moon; Islam: the religion of the stars; Sabianism: the religion of all constellations.  We are protected from religious persecution by Islamic law.  Idris (Enoch) was our prophet.  Since his translation to heaven, without tasting death, we are awaiting his arrival to herald the coming of messiah.  "We raised him to a high position" (Qur'an 19:57).  

Because we are People of the Book, upholding both Torah and Gospel, our sins are taken away and we are brought into the Gardens of Delight (Qur'an 5:65).  We are under God's protection.  Until the Day of Resurrection.  Air, trees, water, animals.  

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