Polar Axis

Ancient cultures reasoned if god is the governor of the universe and it revolves around an axis, then god must preside over the axis."

Plate II. The North Poles of the ecliptic and Equator with Precession



   
     This figure of the two trees; the tree of life, and of the knowledge of good and evil, when understood in the context of the Astronomy that God revealed to Adam, the first Biblical Patriarch, puts the record of the serpent’s temptation in an entirely different light. Figuratively, these 2 "trees" symbolized the bi-polar world axis, that originally set the relationship between God’s three-fold light in the heavens, revealed in His Word written in the Stars. Adam knew the details of these celestial oracles better than anyone, and he taught them to his offspring after the fall, personally for over 930 years of his life, following the Garden of Eden! We will be enlightened as we consider the view of these Patriarchal astronomers regarding the God-ordained precision of His collective symphony of the celestial gospel. They viewed the poles, ecliptic and Equator all relative to the orientation of Earth’s axis, showing the vast phenomena of the precession of the equinoxes as part of the Creator’s plan to illustrate a figurative geocentrism of the Earth’s symbolic central location in the firmament. This is part of the truth behind the Sun’s dual year, because the solar year depicts the Sun as the center of our solar system, featuring it’s daily illumination of the Earth, while the precessional cycle of the Sun’s 25,920-year retrograde motion through the zodiac, depicts the Sun’s light with respect to precessional ages, as dictated by the Earth’s slowly shifting axis orientation to the equatorial pole. Thus, the spiritual relevance of the precession of the equinoxes includes, not only the ages decreed by the Sun’s residence in a particular sign of the zodiac, but also Earth’s figurative central location in the firmament, as the garden home of Man, who is the reason for Creation. To emphasize this in the Creator’s Intelligent Design, the temporal order of all the celestial cycles are viewed relative to the orientation of the Earth’s axis, in context of the precession of the equinoxes. In this way, the view from our planet provides the lens through which the line-of-site truths of all celestial observation are revealed. The Creator's prevailing Symmetry becomes apparent here, since  the base 60 numbers are viewed as the basis of the numerical order of celestial cycles in our local solar system, so they also provide the basis of the order of the 12 signs of the zodiac and all their decans, in the prevailing context of precession. The Earth is thus the figurative center of Creation, as the object of the three-fold celestial light shed from the heavens. The purpose and beauty of this three-fold heavenly light is to illuminate the Earth, which God initiated with the two aspects of the Sun's annual and precessional cycles, as seen in Joseph’s two dreams in Genesis 37. Since the ancient view of this knowledge of the Solar cycles, celestial signs, eclipses, and asterisms were based on line-of-sight relationships, that only have meaning from an Earth-bound perspective, over time this devolved into the view that the Earth was the literal center of creation, forming the basis of later geocentric theories, like those of Ptolemy. Similarly, as the Sun was a symbol of the Source of life, which became literalized by the heathens, it resulted in the idolatry of Sun worship inherent through much of ancient mythology and religion. The Earth of course is not the literal center of Creation, but God created it to house man, who is the object of God’s caring acts of love for His human family.

Plate III. The Northern Polar Constellation Draco



      The concept of the bi-polar world axis, represented as the two trees exerting their influence over temporal domains, has survived intact throughout the mythology, art and religion of the world. For example, the Yggdrasil World Tree of Norse Myths arises from the center of the Earth, with its branches forming the heavens, and its roots as the foundations of the Earth and the underworld, with a serpent's coils wrapped around the Earth's core. This image of a world-tree is also found in the recent film rendition of "The Lord of the Rings," pictured as a tree with its roots in the underworld, its trunk in "middle-earth," and its branches connected to the stars. The premise common in most of these ancient myths is the integration of Heaven and Earth, where the various idols and ancient gods were worshipped in many aspects of tribal life and early mythology.