Korach's Argument And Aharon's Magical Staff

Korach

וְהִנֵּה פָּרַח מַטֵּה-אַהֲרֹן, לְבֵית לֵוִי; וַיֹּצֵא פֶרַח וַיָּצֵץ צִיץ, וַיִּגְמֹל שְׁקֵדִים
and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and bore ripe almonds ... Bamidbar 17:23

The Magical Staff - the Essence Witchcraft, the Old Religion

The almond is native to the Mediterranean region as far eastward as the Indus Valley, the very cradle of human civilization. Inhabited since 470,000 BCE, through the Indus Valley came the essence of Witchcraft, the Old Religion.

The Flower of Korach

In the Old Religion of the Indus Valley civilization of Sind, as in ancient and modern Witchcraft, there was no centralized ordained clergy (page 23). Each person was her or his own priestess or priest. Each home had its own shrine. There were group gatherings and festivals for the Sun, Moon and seasonal celebrations. The people revered the mother Goddess.

The Bud of Celtic Witchcraft

Interestingly, down through the golden threads of sacred time, the ancient figure of Celtic Cernunnos (first photo) bears a striking resemblance to the figure (second photo) of Indus Siva (from which Hindu Shiva derives) found on an ancient seal dated c.2500-1500 BCE excavated at Mohenjo-Daro.

Giving birth to Celtic culture, the sacred mother Danube river was named for the Celtic mother Goddess Danu. Danu is also the name of an early Hindu mother Goddess of primeval waters. The descendants of the Goddess Danu, in both Celtic and Hindu culture, are called Children of Danu.

Mounting evidence, both religious and archeological, clearly links the origin of ancient Celtic culture with the ancient Dravidian culture of the Indus Valley. Evidence also suggests that the earliest civilizations of Mesopotamia, including biblical Ur, the mother city of the Semitic peoples, were themselves colonial outposts of a mother civilization from the Indus Valley.

The Ripe Almonds - People of the Book

As Jews are people of the Torah, as Christians are people of the Bible, and as Muslims are people of the Koran, so too are Witches people of the Book. In a witch's Book of Shadows, Goddess continues to write and weave Her magic down through golden threads of time. Unlike the newer patriarchal religions, the Mother's Old Religion still to this day, unencumbered by caste or rank or political power, bestows priestesshood and priesthood upon each individual who practices it in her or his own dwelling, before her or his own Earthy shrine to the Divinity of which we are all made.

The Argument of Korach and the Magical Staff of Aharon

Importantly, taking all this together, we can see that within the history and modern reality of Witchcraft, both the argument of Korach (containing an element of the idea that everyone among the congregation is a priest/priestess) and the magical staff of Aharon (which flowered, budded and bore ripe almonds to demonstrate chosenness for priesthood - and priestesshood) are One.

So mote it be. אמן

The Circles Of Life And Light

Tazria-Metzora

וּשְׁלֹשִׁים יוֹם וּשְׁלֹשֶׁת יָמִים
three and thirty days ... Vayikra 12:4

וְשִׁשִּׁים יוֹם וְשֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים
threescore and six days ... Vayikra 12:5

The time of purification offered by a mother in intercession for a son is three and thirty days. The time of purification offered by a mother in intercession for a daughter is threescore and six days (three and three and sixty days). The difference between these two amounts of time is not only three and thirty days, it is two magical letters lamed.

The Circle of Life

Three is a number of the Goddess. As a female, a daughter is a living incarnation of the Divine Feminine principle. On account of this, through her mother's intercessory period of purification and recovery from childbirth, a daughter enters into an extra three days specifically set aside through which is purified her incarnate connection to the Divine Feminine principle. At her birth, a daughter is already directly connected into to her own Divine Feminine source. Her mother's intercessory time provides space in time for that connection to become purified in a world made with time. This is the reason a woman does not have to undergo brit milah (circumcision in time, in Jewish tradition) to reconnect to the Divine source. A female is born already connected to Her source and to the endless Divine circle of life. The ritual period observed by a daughter's mother purifies the daughter's born connection within the context of spacetime. A female is born a priestess of Goddess. Threescore days are equal to sixty days directly corresponding to the magical letter samech, the creation letter corresponding to ordination and to the endless cycle of life.

The Circle of Light

The two extra magical letters lamed (each with a value of thirty) contained within the time of a mother's intercession on behalf of her son come together to create the number of magical samech (with a value of threescore or sixty), the number of connection into the feminine circle of life and light (sovev kol almin). Through his mother's time of intercessory purification and recovery from childbirth a son becomes encircled and protected by the encircling Divine Feminine Light called sovev kol almin, the encircling encompassing Divine energy which is perceived as universally permeating yet transcendent, supraconscious and elusive by the masculine mind. Thus, the perceptually transcendent Divine Light (as taught by many patriarchal religious teachings) is actually a Light of the Divine Feminine, and while it may be perceived as transcendent by the masculine mind, to the feminine mind, there is no separation in the Light - it is ever whole and complete.

Taken together, the differences between the purification periods observed by a mother for her daughters and sons reflect the fact the a mother is acting as a priestess of the Divine Feminine with these observances. Through the days of a female, a daughter is herself ordained a priestess of the Divine Feminine. Through the days of a male, a son is encircled and protected by the Light of the Divine Feminine.