Being  a  student  of Theosophy/Blavatsky   - re  August  25th,  I found this viewpoint  interesting  - hope you do too.    Winifred August 23, 2007 Though I rarely, if ever, publicly comment upon the research of our Sisters, I felt that a recent report by Sister Adriana-Maria from Belgium is worthy of your attention. Sister Adriana-Maria is a theoretical linguist who for the past three years has been researching the works of the 19th Century Russian Seer Helena Petrovna Hahn, or as better known to the Western World as Madame Blavatsky, and who was the Co-Founder of the Theosophical Society which is accorded the status as creating the schism between Christianity and what is termed as ‘New Age’ thought in today’s Western World. In her report titled "Astrological Algorithms Contained In Isis Unveiled", Sister Adriana-Maria states her discovery of a polyalphabetic cipher contained in Madame Blavatsky’s 1877 book, Isis Unveiled, that seemingly points to an horrific cataclysmic event occurring during this weekends Triple Conjunction of the Sun, Venus and Saturn. According to Sister Adriana-Maria, Madame Blavatsky in 1877 foresaw the catastrophic volcanic explosion of the Island of Krakatoa, and which exploded with such force that it is believed to have been the loudest sound in recorded history, and which occurred on August 27, 1883. But, not only did Madame Blavatsky foresee the 1883 Krakatoa event, she ‘looked’ further into the future, 130 years to be exact, to the year of 2007, and the date of August 27th, and which she ‘foresaw’ and even greater event which in her decoded cipher described as ‘…never before have these [humans] seen such horror and destruction’. Of astronomical events to occurring during the time period that Madame Blavatsky indicates, between the dates of August 26-28, 2007, it is interesting to find the following: 1.      As previously mentioned, this time period finds the Sun, Venus and Saturn in a Triple Conjunction. 2.      At 0800 UT (3:00 AM US Eastern Seaboard) on August 27th the Planet Mars will rise in the Eastern sky alongside Aldebaran the giant red star located in the constellation Taurus and resembling ‘two eerie, unblinking eyes’. 3.      During the early morning hours of August 28th one of the longest lunar eclipses in recorded history will occur with our Moon becoming completely immersed for nearly 90 minutes, and which will be visible to the entire World. It is more than interesting to note, according to Sister Adriana-Maria, the association of Aldebaran in both Madame Blavatsky’s cipher prophecy and its upcoming paring with Mars as the kabalistic symbol for this ancient star of the Persians, known as the Bulls Eye, for its being located in the head of Taurus the Bull, in that all pasts associations of Aldebaran and Mars have seen great destruction and turmoil upon our Planet. Greatly accentuating the conjoining of Aldebaran and Mars, in what the ancient kabbalists termed the “Cross of Blood”, as evidenced by their symbol, is the nearly simultaneous Lunar occultation of almost historic time length, and which many researchers attribute to being the cause of great earthquakes. Though firm scientific research on the linking of Lunar eclipses and earthquake activity is sorely lacking, their does remain abundant anecdotal evidence of an association as great earthquakes are known to occur within a short time period either immediately prior to, or immediately following, total Lunar eclipses, to include: January 9, 2001 Total Lunar Eclipse: 7.6 magnitude earthquake in India killing nearly 20,000 May 16, 2003 Total Lunar Eclipse: 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Turkey killing nearly 200/ 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Algeria killing nearly 2,500/ 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan with no deaths November 9, 2003 Total Lunar Eclipse: 6.1 magnitude earthquake in China destroying over 10,000 homes and killing 9 May 4, 2004 Total Lunar Eclipse: Yellowstone Caldron earthquake swarm lasting 3 days and causing over 400 small quakes October 28, 2004 Total Lunar Eclipse: 6.7 magnitude earthquake in Japan killing nearly 30 August 28, 2007 Total Lunar Eclipse: 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Peru killing nearly 600 Sister Adriana-Maria cautions in her report that though earthquake activity, or other such catastrophic natural disasters, does seem to be indicated in her research of Madame Blavatsky’s ciphers, it by no means rules out other types of disasters, including those caused by war.

"In twice two hundred years; the Bear
The Crescent will assail;
But if the Cock and Bull unite,
The Bear will not prevail.
In twice ten years again -
Let Islam know and fear-
The Cross shall stand, the Crescent wane,
dissolve, and disappear."

ISIS UNVEILED - VOL I - PAGE 260

In Vol I. -page 260 - Helena Blavatsky says,"  In just twice two hundred years from the date of that prophecy, we had the Crimean war,
during which the alliance of the Gallic Cock, and English Bull interfered with the political designs of the Russian Bear. In 1856 the war
was ended, and Turkey, or the Crescent, closely escaped destruction.  In the present year (1876) the most unexpected events of a
political character have just taken place, and twice ten years have elapsed since peace was proclaimed. Everything seems to bid fair
 for a fulfillment of the old prophecy; the future will tell whether the Moslem Crescent, which seems, indeed, to be waning, will
irrevocably "wane, dissolve, and disappear," as the outcome of the present troubles.

In explaining away the heterodox facts which he appears to have encountered in his pursuit of knowledge, Mr. Proctor is obliged more
than once in his work, to fall back upon these "crious coincidences."  On of the most curious of these is stated by him in a footnote
as follows: "I do not here dwell on the curious coincidence - if, indeed Chaldean astronomers had not discovered the ring of Saturn -
 that they showed the god corresponding within a ring and triple . . . very moderate optical knowledge, such indeed, as we may fairly
infer from the presence of optical instruments among Assyrian remains, might have led to the discovery of Saturn's rings and Jupiter's
Moons. (Bel, the Assyrian Jupiter, was represented sometimes with four star-tipped wings.)  But it is possible that these are mere
coincidences. 

 (Do we believe in coincidences?) Ed.note.

On page 263 - Blavatsky says:  It may be easily proved that from time immemorial Saturn or Kronos, whose ring, most positively , was
discovered by the Chaldean astrologers, and whose symbolism is no "coincidence," was considered the father of Zeus, before the latter
became himself the father of all the gods, and was the highest deity. He was the Bel or Baal of the Chaldeans, and originally imported
among them by the Akkadians. Rawlinson insists that the latter came from Armenia; but if so, how can we account for the fact that Bel
 is but a Babylonian personification ofo the Hindu Siva, or Bala, the fire-god, the omnipotent, creative,a  nd at the same time, destroying
Deity, in many senses higher than Brahma himself?

"Zeus," says an Orphic hymn, "is the first and the last, the head, and the extremities; from him have proceeded all things. He is a man
and an immortal nymph (male and female element); the soul of all things; and the principal motor in fire; he is the sun and the moon; the
 fountain of the ocean; the demiurge of the universe; one power, one God; the ether, night, the heavens, Metis, the primeval
architecturess (the Sophia of the Gnostics, and the Sephirah of the Kabalists), the beautiful Eros, Cupid, all is included within the vast
dimensions of his glorious body!"

On page 265 - Blavatsky says:  Diana-Luna is the daughter of Zeus by Proserpina, who represents the Earth in her active labor, and,
according to Hesiod, as Diana Eileithyia-Lucina she is Juno's daughter. But Juno, devoured by Kronos or Saturn, and restored back to
life by by the oceanid Metis, is also known as the Earth. Saturn, as the evolution of Time, swallows the earth in one of the ante-historical cataclysms, and it is only when Metis (the waters) by retreating in her many beds, frees the continent, that Juno is said to be restored to
her first shape. The idea is expressed in the 9th and 10th verses of the first chapter of Genesis.

 Genesis: 9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so.
             10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

In the frequent matrimonial quarrels between Juno and Jupiter, Diana is always represented as turning her back on her mother and
smiling upon her father, though she chides him for his numerous frolics. The Thessalian magicians are said to have been obliged, during
such eclipses, to draw her attention to the earth by the power of their spells and incantations, and the Babylonian astrologers and magi
never desisted in their spells until they brought about a reconciliation between the irritated couple, after which Juno "radiantly smiled
on the bright goddess"  Diana, who encircling her brow with her crescent, returned to her hunting place in the mountains.

 It seems that the fable illustrates the different phases of the moon. We, the inhabitants of the earth, never see but one-half of our bright
satellite, who thus turns her back to her mother Juno. The sun, the moon, and the earth are constantly changing positions with relation to
 each other. With the new moon there is constantly a change of weather; and sometimes the wind and storms may well suggest a quarrel
between the sun and earth, especially when the former is concealed by grumbling thunderclouds. Furthermore, the new moon, when her
dark side is turned towawrds us, is invisible; and it is only after a reconciliation between the sun and the earth, that a bright crescent
becomes visible on the side nearest tot he sun, though this time Luna is not illuminated by sunlight, directly received, but by sunlight
reflected from the earth to the moon, and by her, reflected back to us.  Hence, the Chaldean astrologers and the magicians of Thessaly,
 who probably watched and determined as accurately as a Babinet the course of the celestial bodies, were said by their enchantments to
force the moon to descend on erth, i.e. to show her crescent, which she could do but after receiving the "radiant smile" from her mother-
earth, who put it on after the conjugal reconciliation. Diana-Luna, having adorned her head with her crescent, returns back to hunt in her mountains.

Night Sky Note for August 28, 2007 Tuesday, August 28, 2007 A total eclipse of the Moon happens this morning. As seen from East Lansing, Michigan, which is in the Eastern Time Zone, the Moon enters the Earth's shadow or umbra at 4:51 a.m. EDT. It's totally eclipsed by 5:52, the Sun rises at 6:58 and the Moon sets, while eclipsed, at 7:03 a.m. EDT. It will be interesting to see how long you'll be able to see the eclipsed Moon in the dawn twilight. For observers in the western states, the moon will set later, giving you more time to watch the lunar eclipse. Night Sky Note for August 27, 2007 Monday, August 27, 2007 Mars today is 1.17 a.u. from the Earth. That's about 109 million miles. The red planet's disk is only 8 arcseconds across. We are moving towards Mars with a close approach on December 19, 2007. At that time Mars will be about half as far away at 55 million miles, and appear twice as big, 16 arcseconds across. Watch over the next four months as Mars enlarges and moves closer to us. Don't be fooled by the bogus e-mail circulating. Mars will never look as large as the Moon. The full Moon is about ½° across, that's 1,800 arcseconds. Night Sky Note for August 26, 2007 Sunday, August 26, 2007 Venus and Mars are 68° apart. Look for Venus low in the east just before sunrise. Look for Mars high in the southeast near the constellation Taurus the Bull. Night Sky Note for August 25, 2007 Saturday, August 25, 2007 Venus rises 39 minutes before the Sun as seen from a latitude of 40°. Look very low in the east for a rising Venus. With binoculars, you'll see a 3% crescent Venus, 57 arcminutes across. Night Sky Note for August 24, 2007 Friday, August 24, 2007 Eighteen years ago today, the Voyager 2 space probe passed by the planet Neptune. Neptune is 2.8 billion miles from the Sun. Voyager 2 is still moving out. It's currently 7.7 billion miles from the Sun and moving at a rate of 1 million miles per day. Voyager 2 was launched 30 years ago this month on August 20, 1977. Night Sky Note for August 23, 2007 Thursday, August 23, 2007 Mars and Jupiter are 180° apart. When Jupiter sets in the WSW, Mars will rise in the ENE. Night Sky Note for August 22, 2007 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Mars is 4.6° north of the star Aldebaran. look for Mars in the ESE in the morning twilight. In the evening, look for the southern most Moon. When the Moon is due south, it will only be about 2 fist's width from the horizon. Night Sky Note for August 21, 2007 Tuesday, August 21, 2007 The gibbous Moon passes just below the star Antares in Scorpius. Five degrees above Antares is Jupiter. Saturn is in conjunction with the Sun today. You can't see it, but know if you look towards the Sun today, Saturn is just 1¼° above it. Night Sky Note for August 20, 2007 Monday, August 20, 2007 Mars is less than 2° from the star Epsilon Tauri in the Hyades. The Hyades is a "V" shaped cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus the Bull. Epsilon Tauri is the star at the other top of the "V" from Aldebaran. Look for Mars in the morning hours in the eastern sky. Mars is just a bit left of a line drawn through Aldebaran and Epsilon Tauri. Night Sky Note for August 19, 2007 Sunday, August 19, 2007 Jupiter is 5° away from Antares. This is as close as Jupiter will be from the star. In the coming months, watch as Jupiter moves westward, away from the star Antares.

FROM: http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/nightskynotes/index.php

As to calling in questions the intrinsic knowledge of the ancients on the ground of their "superstitious deductions from natural
phenomenon," it is as appropriate as it would be if, five hundred years hence, our descendents should regard the pupils of
Professor Balfour Stewart as ancient ignoramuses, and himself a shallow philosopher. If modern science, in the person of this
gentleman, can condescend to make experiments to determine whether the appearance of the spots on the suns' surface is in
any way connected with the potato disease, and find is is' and that moreover, "the earth is very seriously affected by what takes
place in the sun," why should the ancient astrologers be held up as either fools or arrant knaves?  There is the same relation
between natural and judicial or judiciary astrology, as between physiology and psychology, the physical and the moral. If in later
centuries these sciences were degraded into charlatanry by some money-making impostors, is it just to extend the accusation to
those mighty men of old who, by their persevering studies and holy lives, bestowed an immortal name upon Chaldea and Babylonia? 
 Surely those who are now found to have made correct astronomical observations ranging back to within 100 years from the flood,"
 from the top observatory of the "cloud-encompassed Bel," as Professor Draper has it, can hardly be considered impostors.  If
 their mode of impressing upon the popular minds the great astronomical truth differed from the "system of education" of our
present century and appears ridiculous to some, the question still remains unanswered:  which of the two systems was the best? 
With them science went hand in hand with religion, and the idea of God was inseparable from that of his works. And while in the
present century there is not one person out of then thousand who knows, if he ever knew the fact at all, that the planet Uranus is
next to Saturn, and revolves about the sun in eighty-four years; and that Saturn is next to Jupiter, and takes twenty-nine and a
half years to make one complete revolution in its orbit; while Jupiter performs his revolution in twelve years; the uneducated
masses of Babylon and Greece, having impressed on their minds that Uranus was the father of Saturn, and Saturn that of Jupiter,
considering them further-more deities as well as all their satellites and attendants, we may perhaps infer from it, that while
Europeans only discovered Uranus in 1781, a curious coincidence is to be noticed in the above myths.

 On page 570 Blavatsky says:  The Teraphim of Abram's father, Terah, the "maker of images," were the Kabiri gods, and we
see them worshipped by Micah, by the Danites, and others. Teraphim were identical with the seraphim, and those were serpent-
images, the origin ofo which is in the Sanskrit sarpa (the serpent), a symbol scared to all the deities as a symbol of immortality,
Chiun, or the Khiyun, worshipped by the Hebrews i the wilderness, is Siva, the Hindu deity) as well as Saturn.  The Greek story
shows that Dardanus, the Arcadian, having received them as a dowry, carried them to Samothrace, and from thence to Troy; and
they were worshipped far before th days of gory of Tyre or Sidom, though the former had bee built 2760 B.C.  From where did the
Dardanus derive them?

It is an easy matter to assign an age to ruins on merely the external evidence of probabilities; it is more difficult to prove it.
Meanwhile the rock-work of Ruad, Berytus, Marathus, resemble those of Petra, Baalbek, and other Aethiopian works, even
externally. On the other hand, the assertions of certain archaeologest who find no resemblance between the temples of Central
America and those of Egypt and Siam, leave the symbologist, acquainted with the secret language of picture-writing, perfectly
unconcerned. He sees the landmarks of one and the same doctrine in all of these monuments, and read their history and
affiliation in signs imperceptible to the uninitiated scientist. There are traditions also; and one of these speaks of the last of the
king-initiates (who were bu rarely admitted to the higher orders of the Eastern Brotherhoods), who reigned in 1670.  This king of
Siam was the one so ridiculed by the French ambassador de la Loubere, as a lunatic who had been searching all his life for the
philosopher's stone.

To find these connections, its in their numbers: See: http://www.greatdreams.com/gem1.htm

On page 578 - Blavatsky says: Now we have to remember that Siva and the Palestinian Baal, or Moloch, and Saturn are identical;
 that Abraham is held until the present day by the Mohammedan Arabas as Saturn in the Kaaba; that Abraham and Israel were
 names of Saturn; and that Sanchoniathon tells us that and even circumcised himself and forced all his household and allies to do the
same; to trace unerringly the Biblical myth to its source. But this source is neither Phoenician nor Chaldean; it is purely Indian, and
 original if it may be found i the Mahabharata. But whether Brahmanical or Buddhistical, it must certainly be much older than the
Jewish Pentateuch, as compiled by Ezra after the Babylonian captivity, and revised by the Rabbis of the Great Synagogue.

In Volume II of Madame Blavatsky's ISIS UNVEILED, on page 256, she states:

It is well known, the the earliest Christian emblems - before it was ever attempted to represent the bodily appearance of Jesus - were
the Lamb, the Good Shepherd, and the Fish. The origin o the latter emblem, which has so puzzled the archaeologists, thus become
comprehensible.

The whole secret lies in the easily ascertained fact that, while in the Kabalah, the King Messiah is called 'Interpreter' or Revealer of
the mystery, and shown to be the fifth emanation , in the Talmud - for reasons we will now explain - the Messiah is very often designated
 as 'DAG' or the Fish. This is an inheritance from the Chaldees, and relates - as the very name indicates - to the Babylonian Dagon, the
man-fish, who was the instructor and interpreter of the people, to whom he appeared. Abarbanel explains the name, by stating that the
sign of his (Messiah's) coming "is the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the sign Pisces.  (The Gnostics, gives the figure of a
Christian symbol, very common during the middle ages, of three fishes interlaced into a triangle, and having the FIVE letters (a most
sacred Pythagorean number)  I.X.O.T.E. engraved on it. The number five refers to the same kabalistic computation.)

Therefore, as the Christians were intent upon identifying their Christos with the Messiah of the Old Testament, they adopted it so
readily as to forget that its true origin might be traced still farther back than the Babylonian Dagon. How eagerly and closely the ideal
 of Jesus was united, by the early Christians, with every imaginable kabalistic and Pagan tenet, may be inferred from the language of
Clement of Alexandria, addressed to his brother coreligonists.

When they were debating upon the choic of the most appropriate symbol to remind them of Jesus, Clement advised them in the following
words: "Let the engraving upon the gem of your ring be either a dove, or a ship running before the wind (The Argha), or a fish."  Wash
 the good father, when writing this sentence, laboring under the recollection of Joshua, son of Nun (called Jesus in the Greek and
Slavonian versions); or had he forgotten the real interpretation of these Pagan symbols?

Joshua, son of Nun, or Nave (Navis) could have with perfect propriety adopted the image of a ship, or even of a fish, for Joshua means
 Jesus, son of the fish-god; but it was really too hazardous to connect the emblems of Venus, Astarte, and all the Hindu goddesses -
 the argha, dove, and fish - with the 'immaculate birth of their god!  This looks very much as if in the early days of Christianity but little
difference was made between Christ, Bacchus, Apollo, and the Hindu Krishna, the incarnation of Vishnu, with whom the first avatara this
symbol of the fish originated.