Ashur, the Man--Our Imagination--Inside the Sun
Well, it is exciting to me:
I realized this morning that the man inside the sun disc in the Assyrian pictograph of Ashur must be the imagination. If you have never seen the pictograph of Ashur, you can see one at http://www.v-a.com/ashurai/. It looks very much like a bird's wings and tail, but the body of the bird is the sun disc and a hero is standing/rising in the sun.
I am under no illusions as to the elements in the pictograph. The man is Ninus, or Nimrod*, the heroic founder of Ninevah; the sun is a depiction of Cush, the father of Nimrod; and what looks like feathers in the wings and tail are fiery waves of glory. Altogether they are Ashur, and the man inside the sun (from which life comes) is the creative force of imagination.
Ashur** was the second son of Shem, who was the third son of Noah. Are you with me so far? There were no people. I believe Noah is a meditative state, the state of being at the verge of sleep and completely released from the cares of this world--at the brink of falling asleep . . . but still alert and in control of your thoughts. Shem is usually translated as "name," but it means the nature of a thing. Shem is the definition of a desire, the identity of what is wanted while you are floating in this careless state.
Ashur means "successful," and comes from the idea "to be straight, level, right, or happy." To be "level" with God, to be right like he is? Should make you happy. It also means "to prosper." Do I hear 'Jethro' here? Jethro means "his jutting-over, his excellence" and is what drew Moses to the realization of the burning bush--that God is our inner man and is becoming via our imagining: "AHIYEH ASHUR HIYEH" (Exodus 3: 14, Aramaic): "I COME--ASHUR--HIS COMING."
The Angel of God in a burning bush, the heroic son in a sun disc, and the Glorious Power and Wisdom of God in Jethro (the "Serpent" in Genesis 3; i.e., Christ)--do I see a pattern here?
The first son of Shem was 'Elam***, "hidden, distant," from 'Alam, "to veil from sight, to conceal." The same word in Chaldee means "remote time," and is the same word translated as "eternity," "the ages," or "the world" in Ecclesiastes 3: 11: "also He hath set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." But 'Elam also means "something kept out of sight, a stripling, a lad." A youth, the "child" in Proverbs chapter 8. Neville Goddard believed it was this lad, the Son of God--the imagination, whom God has hid in our hearts.
A child kept out of sight "so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." Yet the lad is the Beginning of God's works. The Hidden Son in us is the imagination. He makes us right with God. He is our success. By him we prosper.
Well, it excited me, anyway.
*See Garnier, Col. J., 1909, The Worship of the Dead, or the Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry and Its Bearing Upon the Early History of Egypt and Babylonia. London: Chapman and Hall; p. 25-28.
**Also Asshur, pronounced Ashshur; Strong's 804/833.
*** (Strong's 5867/5956/5957/5958)
I realized this morning that the man inside the sun disc in the Assyrian pictograph of Ashur must be the imagination. If you have never seen the pictograph of Ashur, you can see one at http://www.v-a.com/ashurai/. It looks very much like a bird's wings and tail, but the body of the bird is the sun disc and a hero is standing/rising in the sun.
I am under no illusions as to the elements in the pictograph. The man is Ninus, or Nimrod*, the heroic founder of Ninevah; the sun is a depiction of Cush, the father of Nimrod; and what looks like feathers in the wings and tail are fiery waves of glory. Altogether they are Ashur, and the man inside the sun (from which life comes) is the creative force of imagination.
Ashur** was the second son of Shem, who was the third son of Noah. Are you with me so far? There were no people. I believe Noah is a meditative state, the state of being at the verge of sleep and completely released from the cares of this world--at the brink of falling asleep . . . but still alert and in control of your thoughts. Shem is usually translated as "name," but it means the nature of a thing. Shem is the definition of a desire, the identity of what is wanted while you are floating in this careless state.
Ashur means "successful," and comes from the idea "to be straight, level, right, or happy." To be "level" with God, to be right like he is? Should make you happy. It also means "to prosper." Do I hear 'Jethro' here? Jethro means "his jutting-over, his excellence" and is what drew Moses to the realization of the burning bush--that God is our inner man and is becoming via our imagining: "AHIYEH ASHUR HIYEH" (Exodus 3: 14, Aramaic): "I COME--ASHUR--HIS COMING."
The Angel of God in a burning bush, the heroic son in a sun disc, and the Glorious Power and Wisdom of God in Jethro (the "Serpent" in Genesis 3; i.e., Christ)--do I see a pattern here?
The first son of Shem was 'Elam***, "hidden, distant," from 'Alam, "to veil from sight, to conceal." The same word in Chaldee means "remote time," and is the same word translated as "eternity," "the ages," or "the world" in Ecclesiastes 3: 11: "also He hath set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." But 'Elam also means "something kept out of sight, a stripling, a lad." A youth, the "child" in Proverbs chapter 8. Neville Goddard believed it was this lad, the Son of God--the imagination, whom God has hid in our hearts.
A child kept out of sight "so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." Yet the lad is the Beginning of God's works. The Hidden Son in us is the imagination. He makes us right with God. He is our success. By him we prosper.
Well, it excited me, anyway.
*See Garnier, Col. J., 1909, The Worship of the Dead, or the Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry and Its Bearing Upon the Early History of Egypt and Babylonia. London: Chapman and Hall; p. 25-28.
**Also Asshur, pronounced Ashshur; Strong's 804/833.
*** (Strong's 5867/5956/5957/5958)
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