We are not from this place.

That Sagittarian galaxy collided with the Milkey way and our solar system was captured. That is why the disk of the Milkey way is inclined as viewed from Earth.

Hmmm... we ARE among aliens in this galaxy. I love it.

Book Club Selection (Mysterion's book of the month)

The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
By Adrienne Mayor

"Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father."

"Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now no modern historian has recounted the full story of Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged the power of Rome in the first century BC. In this richly illustrated book--the first biography of Mithradates in fifty years--Adrienne Mayor combines a storyteller's gifts with the most recent archaeological and scientific discoveries to tell the tale of Mithradates as it has never been told before." SOURCE

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more, say no more.

Whose Epiphany is it?

The Epiphany is another odd event. English epiphany, like Japanese Satori is that first perception of the Buddha-Nature or True-Nature of someone. Thus, when the three wise men met the youthful future Fish-Man, they could perceive his Buddha-Nature. THAT is the Epiphany. A Jung Man knows this - by recognizing the pattern.

There is MUCH you can read for yourself and weigh the evidence. But to cut to the chase, this man of Zeus (Ixeus pronounced as in Greek 'fish' Ick Theus) would later quote a plethora of Buddhist parables, wow the washless with wonderment, and advocate love, not war.

A monk making the proclamation of Buddhist pacifism, as a policy, in the Levant. What a concept. THAT is the 6th. MORE

Quoting Buddha

Nowhere is it more obvious that Paul is quoting the Buddha than in 2 Corinthians 5:1.

1. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a... house not made with hands, eternal in (nirbana) the heavens.
4. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan (suffer), being burdened (with suffering). source

Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni spoke:

"Looking for the tabernacle maker,
through the many cycles of birth.
And in not finding him,
painful are the cycles of birth.

No more, maker of tabernacles,
for you [Mara] have been seen.
You shall make my tabernacle no more.

The rafters are broken,
the ridge-pole is sundered,
the mind approaches the Eternal.

I understand peace in the extinction of desire."

— Dhammapada - verses 153 & 154

round-about source here

Four Truths for Nobles

"Cattari-ariya-saccani" is "Four Truths for Nobles."

1st: Pali - dukkha, rebirth is caused by samsara - wandering.
The forms of suffering are birth, aging, sickness, and death.

2nd: Pali - samudaya, mistranslated as "craving" is actually wandering, lost, or ignorance.

3rd: Pali: nirodha, cessation of suffering or the vulgar nirvana.

4th: Pali: magga, "the path" to the cessation (nirodha) of rebirth (dukkha).

Be aware that "suffering" (Pali dukkha) also means impermanence (of cessation) or imperfection (of wisdom). Without cessation, one is born again into this place of suffering. Without wisdom (wallowing in ignorance) one is born again into this place of suffering. The Buddhist equivalent of Hell, this place of shadow and light is the realm of suffering.

These "Four Noble Truths" are, in fact, The Four Truths for Noble People (of Wisdom). Implied is an extensive education followed by the development of wisdom (through meditation). Sorry about that.