Sarkolatræ: Vlad Savchuk, The Book of Revelation (Simply Explained) PT. 2; Review By MythWisdom!
The Drama of the Mysteries: Gerald Massey’s Reconstruction of the Egyptian Revelation 1. Massey’s Central Thesis: From History to Astronomical Mythology The Book of Revelation represents the strategic climax of a long-standing process of intellectual degradation: the transformation of “Egypto-gnostic remains” into a literalized, historical narrative. Gerald Massey contends that this text is no record of future prophecy nor a document of nascent Christian history, but is rather a “drama of the mysteries” and a “mythical catastrophe” derived entirely from the Kamite mother-source.
Massey directs his most scathing polemic against the “Sarkolatræ”—the worshippers of the word made flesh—identifying these “carnalizers” of the Egypto-gnostic Christ as the primary agents of a fatuous attempt to turn hidden wisdom into prophecy. In their hands, the ancient science of the heavens was made nonsense of; the “debris of ancient wisdom” was turned to account as data for a spurious history, destroying the true gnosis.
To the Masseyan scholar, Revelation is the terminal wreckage of an astronomical system misunderstood by Patristic obfuscators who mistook a precessional “ending of the world” for a literal day of doom. To recover the revelation, one must bypass the carnalized personality and return to the uranographic “sign-language” of the Egyptian Ritual.
2. The Methodology of the Gnosis: Astronomy and the Ritual The foundational methodology of the Egyptian Gnosis rests upon the “sign-language” approach, wherein mythic narratives are not products of human fancy but are dictated with scientific precision by celestial phenomena. This system posits that the “unveiling” ascribed to John is in truth a dramatic enactment of solar and stellar movements across the cycle of the Amenta. …
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