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The ‘immortal priestess’, Herophile,
considered to be the greatest seer of pagan antiquity,
lived in a cave in Cumae, in Campania, Italy,
and delivered oracular prophecies while in a state of trance.
Three days later, the Sibyl returned, publicly burned three more volumes,
and then offered the three that remained to the king
at the original asking price for all nine.
The original collection was jealously guarded in the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus,
and frequently consulted by priests.
In times of peril and disaster, the original copies were entrusted to curators,
assisted by two Greek interpreters in reading the oracles aloud to the Senate.
Sometimes the statues were ceremoniously taken to the sea, and washed there.
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The originals perished in the fire that destroyed the Temple of Capitolinus
in 83 BCE, and were immediately replaced with copies from other temples.
All this demonstrated their legal status, and their immeasurable worth,
while misuse of the Sibyl’s oracles was punishable by death.
For at least the first four centuries CE, the Sibylline Books were held to be
the highest religious authority in the Roman Empire.
Church records state that Cerinthus ‘rewrote’ the original Sibyl’s prophecies
to create a falsified version, that was adjusted again in the fourth century,
when it was added to the New Testament.
A total of 278 verses of the Sibyl’s predictions are also found in the books
of Exodus, Psalms, Isiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Zecheriah,
indicating the high value placed on her forecasts by Old Testament authors.
An Old Slavonic version was also found, in the the Habsburg Royal Library,
and translated by Prof. Karl Fickler & Dr. Burgie Johansson.
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Numbers in the left margin below refer to the verses
in the biblical book of Revelation which correspond to,
having been constructed around, these passages.
The Mysteries
of Isis and Osiris.
1:7
Behold, the Spirit of the Air
shall bring Her, and every eye shall see Her.
1:8
“I am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end,
which was, and is, and shall be.”
1:12
A voice spoke, and I turned
to see who it was that spoke to me.
She spoke,
Her face streaming light,
blazing and golden,
like a thousand suns.
1:17
She said, “Have no fear.
I am the first, and the last.
I am the beginning, and the end.
1:19
Write the things which you have seen,
the things which are, which are yet to be,
the mystery of the seven stars which fill My hands,
and the seven golden candles, blazing with eternal light.
The seven stars are the Spirits of your father, the Sun,
and the seven candles are the Spirits of your mother, the Earth.
The Spirit of humanity is a flame, streaming between starlight and glowing candle,
a bridge of holy light, shining between the heavens and the Earth.”
1:20
She who said these things
holds the seven stars in Her hands.
4:1
Then I looked,
and behold, a door was opened in the heavens,
and a voice which sounded from all sides,
like a trumpet, spoke to me,
“Come up here,
and I will show you
what must be, in the future.”
5:1
Then I saw, in the right hand of the one
who sat on the throne, whose face was hidden,
a book, written within, and sealed with seven seals.
6:3
I opened the second seal,
and beheld the Spirit of Water.
6:7
I opened the fourth seal,
and beheld the Spirit of Joy.
Bowing over the Earth, She gave to man the song of Peace,
and peace and joy, like music, flowed through the soul of man.
6:9
I opened the fifth seal,
and beheld the Spirit of Life.
8:1
I opened the seventh seal,
and beheld the Spirit of Mother Earth,
“Woman, would you look upon the evil your kind have committed,
when you turned your faces away from the throne of the Almighty,
making no use of the gifts of the seven Spirits of your mother, the Earth,
and the seven Spirits of your father, the Sun ?”
8:6
The seven Spirits,
holding the seven trumpets,
prepared themselves to sound.
8:7
The first Spirit sounded, and there followed
a hail of ice and fire, mixed with blood.
The forests and trees were burnt up,
and all green grass shrivelled to cinders.
8:8
The second Spirit sounded,
and, as it were, a great mountain,
burning with fire, was cast into the sea.
10:5
The Spirit, standing
on the sea and on the earth,
lifted up his hand to the heavens.
But again the voice spoke, and again my eyes were drawn away
from the splendours of the realm of light.
“ Woman, you may step on the right path, walking in the presence of the Spirits.
You may sing of your Mother Earth by day, and of your Father Sun by night,
while through your being may course the golden stream of the Way.
The Woman clothed with the Sun reached out Her arms to the beast,
and the beast drew near and embraced Her.
14:1
As our fingers clasped, I saw in the distance a great city,
white and shining on the far horizon, glowing like alabaster.
Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
There fell upon men a great hail out of the heavens,
every stone about the weight of a gold talent.
The Spirit cried, “Fear the Almighty, and give glory to the Absolute,
for the hour of judgement is come.
His name
is the Word of Truth.
You shall walk in his paths, she shall teach you of her ways.
There shall be
no more fear of death,
neither sorrow nor crying,
nor shall there be any more pain,
for the former things are passed away.
The leaves of the Tree are for the healing of the people.
There is no night there, they need no candle, nor the light of the sun,
for the Almighty gives them light, and they shall live for ever and ever.
I have reached the inner vision, and by the grace of Your spirit within me,
I have heard Your wondrous secret.