I was taken by the dream to Caer Paravel…and Aslan
The Deep Magic – Dream Follow Up
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1747 – Dream Follow Up
The date mentioned in the dream the other day was 1747.
Typing 1747 into Google started this thread…..
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Asie
12 mars, Tibet : mort du général Pholané ; son fils Gyurme Namgyal lui succède à la tête du gouvernement tibétain (fin en 1750). Il complote avec les Dzoungars contre l’occupant chinois.
9 juin : Momozono succède à Sakuramachi comme empereur du Japon (fin en 1762).
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From a Treasury of Lives
ཕོ་ལྷ་ནས་བསོད་ནམས་སྟོབས་རྒྱས།
Polhane Sonam Tobgye
b.1689 – d.1747
Polhane Sonam Tobgye (pho lha nas bsod nams stobs rgyas) was born on an auspicious day in the autumn of 1689. His mother Dolma Butri (sgrol ma bu khrid) was the daughter of a well-known artist, and his father Pema Gyelpo (padma rgyal po) was a government official who served variously as a soldier and civil official. While little is known of the extended history of Polhane’s family, his namesake estate—Drum Polha (‘brum pho lha), near Gyantse (rgyal rtse)—was a gift for his grandfather’s service to the Fifth Dalai Lama (ta la’i bla ma 05, 1617–1682) during a rebellion of Tsangpa officials in the late 1650s.
Before his birth, a local lama instructed the boy’s parents to call him Gonkyab Dorje (mgon skyabs rdo rje) and declared him the reincarnation of Ganden Tsewang (dga’ ldan tshe dbang), a recently deceased Mongol war hero and erstwhile monk at Tashilhunpo Monastery (bkra shis lhun po). This identification was affirmed in auspicious meetings with the Fifth Paṇchen Lama, Lobzang Yeshe (paN chen 05 blo bzang ye shes, 1663–1737) and Desi Sanggye Gyatso (sde srid sangs rgyas rgya mtsho, 1653–1705).
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Sonam Tobgye also left a mark on Tibet as a patron of religious institutions. Aside from the aforementioned protection of Nyingma institutions, he endowed and restored monasteries all around central and western Tibet, including Ganden (dga’ ldan), Sera (se ra), and Drepung (‘bras spungs), Tashilhunpo, Nartang (snar thang), Reting (rwa sgreng), and many smaller institutions in his home region of Upper Nyang (myang stod). From 1729 onward he increased the scale of the Great Prayer Festival (smon lam chen mo) in terms of alms, food offerings, and overall attendance.
Polhane sponsored the production of the first printed canon in central Tibet, the Nartang Kangyur, published in 1730–32, and Tengyur, in 1741–42. He also underwrote the Golden Manuscript Tengyur (gser bris ma), an ornate 225 volumes composed entirely in golden ink, which remains in Ganden Monastery to this day. These projects were far from economical and speak to the king’s desire to outdo his predecessors in the eyes of the clergy. His biography emphasizes that neither Lhazang Khan, Taktsepa, nor Kangchenne were able to complete the Kangyur, a project initiated under the Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (tA la’i bla ma 06 tshangs dbyangs rgya mtsho, 1683–1706). Such sponsorship of Buddhist foundational material was key to his performance as king of Buddhist Tibet; in practical terms, reproducing the scriptures was a necessary step in his obligation to his Buddhist subjects.
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Shortly after the Prayer Festival of 1747, a boil appeared on the king’s neck, and after a short bout with illness, he passed away. Several years later, his remains were laid to rest in a reliquary in Ganden Chokhor Ling Monastery (dga’ ldan chos ‘khor gling) in the Yarlung Valley. His presence remains in Lhasa as well, where an unassuming maṇi wheel (bar skor ma Ni lha khang) he sponsored as a young official has been rebuilt on the Barkhor following its destruction in the Cultural Revolution, standing directly between the former ambans’ office in the Tromsikhang (khrom gzigs khang), the Nangtseshar, or Lhasa City Court (snang rtse shar/shag), and the Jokhang; a fitting locale for this larger-than-life diplomat, administrator, and patron.
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J. Arya Moallem is a PhD candidate in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University. His dissertation research focuses on the life and times of Miwang Polhane Sonam Tobgye, and works to situate his particular mode of lay kingship within Qing, Inner Asian, and Early Modern contexts.
Published March 2022
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The Tengyur or Tanjur or Bstan-’gyur (Tibetan: “Translation of Teachings”) is the collected commentaries by great buddhist masters on Buddha Shakyamuni’s teachings. The Tengyur is included in the Tibetan Buddhist Canon, which consists of all of Buddha Shakyamuni’s teachings together with the commentaries on the Buddha’s teachings. The Canon also includes the Kangyur, which is repository of the Buddha’s recorded teachings, placed before the Tengyur in the Canon.
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Before today I do not recollect hearing the word Tengyur
The EUV Saga and Dream Follow Up
I follow this with a tag line.
Why is the UK so shit at semiconductors and commercialisation?
Roll back the years two and a half decades I was an attendee at Semicon West Santa Clara and Semicon East nr Tokyo. At the former we spoke with ASML and at the latter I spoke with Nikon, Canon and started an approach to Gigaphton. I subsequently met representatives of Nikon in my hotel. I was not selling vacuum cleaner parts.
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In principle at the time we were investigating a technology of truly global importance. There was a functional EUV prototype in the basement and the UK government showed no overt interest. I’ll speculate that in the USA potentially geo-politically important technology is followed to varying extents by, let’s call them the CIA, or some such. The investment in Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) technology since that time has run into tens of billions of dollars involving behemoths like Intel, Samsung and TSMC. Uniquely a single company has EUV lithography monopoly, ASML. But this company is part owned by USA and they have a veto on to whom ASML can sell kit. State of the art high end semiconductor production technology is geo-politically very important. It provides, perhaps, the current AI edge over China.
Nobody in college understood what was in the basement nor the implications thereof. They were more interested perhaps in their own career advancement and local departmental politics.
The internal cheese and wine, bring your own booze, shenanigans at the internecine death knoll of the last Tory government consumed the attention of those involved. The Napoleonic criticism of a nation of shopkeepers applies. And one could list “invented in UK” commercialised elsewhere. That list contains some commercial crown jewels pawned at well below value. The Basil Fawlty mentality pervades. It is a repeating pattern. When I have mentioned this failure pattern people have deemed me nasty and critical. I do not want to be all back slappy and chummy, so I am mean. “Don’t piss on my fire.” A squib is not a fire.
It is not unreasonable to suggest that various security services cast an eye over attendees at high technology conferences. They will obviously focus effort. It is not infeasible that an eye was kept on who met ASML and when, particularly on home turf. Thus there could be an iota of reality to my dream in that a note exists somewhere. I may be en passant on file.
One of the ideas that I had for developing an EUV source which I never got around to verbalising was the notion of a low gain, EUV laser. I figured that by using a low cavity pass number it might be possible to get some gain out of the laser produced plasma gain medium. That would provide a narrowing of optical band pass and some added directionality. I never expressed this to the start-up I was involved with. Because I thought that the CEO had thought that he had sucked us dry of ideas and we were no longer needed. That was his approach, use us and dump us. He was explicit in trying to find someone else who understood nozzle technology so that he could side line me. He was a gobshite and there was a massive mis-match in personalities.
One could say that it was another chapter in missed opportunity for UK plc. The truth was that without hundreds of millions of investment and support we were never going to get “there”. I for one was not the right person to try to lead such an endeavour.
From time to time I have had a patent download session at ESPACENET. Who knows if that is monitored?
The major difference about Americans is that they are not worried about being seen brash. If they want something or want to know, they ask. I do not have a problem with that.
All in all sat here this morning it is a bit weird to have the “surveillance” theme rear its head again.
In my mind the future looks pretty simple. I will continue to recover {hopefully}. Then I will be back out in the garden. I may even be able to use the sit-on mower. We have a room upstairs which needs DIY. In January I meet the surgeon for him to assess his handiwork and all being well we might pencil in a date for spring for the next hip hop hip op.
That is about it…the scope.
Accreditation Problems – Dream Follow Up
In a previous life, well a part of this one actually, I worked in the UK university sector. A part of my job was to do with course quality and I sat on a number of fairly soporific committees in which syllabuses were given the OK. I entertained the external examiners and oversaw the award of degree in one year. I even signed it off for around 100 students. Universities do quality control on the degree courses of other universities. The “elite” accredit each other. It is my opinion that the quality and difficulty of degrees in UK Chemistry is subject to some variance. The exam papers at Oxford are peculiarly hard and esoteric in physical chemistry, I doubt students entering a course not requiring good maths would have a chance. Like all things once an exam is sat and a qualification gained, about 90% of it is forgotten. I learned more chemistry teaching “A” level as a private tutor than I did in my degree. It stuck better for having to explain.
Who accredits the new age teacher?
Who accredits a guru?
I do not know if there is any agreed syllabus and who hands out the certificate of enlightenment?
If one was trying to approach a new age bookseller or publisher it might help the marketability to have an endorsement from some establishment figure. Maybe a recommendation from Thurman or Gere would help sales. Without some provenance it would be a hard sell.
In the blog there is various dreaming “evidence” for some prior incarnations which would not be accepted as proof in a court of law. Within that context the “fact” that I can remember at all might suggest some experience in at death mind transference. We could extrapolate that I might know how to do this. I do not mix in the circles where I could be accredited by some authority figure or other.
We get a chicken or egg situation. I could not get an audience to teach dream yoga to until I had an audience / client list willing to testify positively. It could only be by “Trustpilot” like reviews that I could develop any credibility. Nobody would know for sure that I did not make these up myself.
How would one start?
How would one ensure good quality control?
How would one police appropriate behaviour?
How could one get insurance in case people went stark raving mad?
From my prior background there are quite a few questions. There are clear problems with accreditation and there are no results league tables. Which has more enlightened graduates, Zen, Theravada or Mahayana? What about the casualty rate in Vajrayana?
Buddhism is established and has a long track record.
Viewed from a perspective of Higher Education the entire new age sector looks poorly organised and a bit flaky. Maybe Trump should charge a tariff on the sales of Snake Oil?
I have met a number of so-called Lucid dreamers and they have used a bizarre expression “dream teacher”. That made me question their clarity / sanity. A lot try to draw from dream psychology and blend this hybrid with new age-y / dream yoga type jargon. Some weird kind of hotch-potch with pseudo-scientific credibility as an add on.
There are real problems with accreditation and by inference quality control. Anybody, perhaps including me, could set themselves up on a soap box.
Six Yogas of Naropa – First Pass – Dream Follow Up
Following on from the dream this morning here is Naropa with his teacher Tilopa.
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It seems that Naropa was involved in the concept of:
Mahāmudrā (Sanskrit: महामुद्रा, Tibetan: ཕྱག་ཆེན་, Wylie: phyag chen, THL: chag-chen, contraction of Tibetan: ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་, Wylie: phyag rgya chen po, THL: chag-gya chen-po) literally means “great seal” or “great imprint” and refers to the fact that “all phenomena inevitably are stamped by the fact of wisdom and emptiness inseparable”. Mahāmudrā is a multivalent term of great importance in later Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism which “also occurs occasionally in Hindu and East Asian Buddhist esotericism.”
And that Naropa is known for his six yogas one of which is dream yoga.
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The dream suggests that I might teach on things related to Naropa. At first pass I see some commonality of experience. The notion of void is inherent in his yoga and some crossover similarity might be possible.
This dream is the first dream in a long while to suggest something for me to do….
Unemployable
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“lacking the skills, abilities, or qualities that are necessary for becoming or remaining employed”
“someone who is unemployable does not have the qualifications or skills needed to do any kind of job”
“lacking the skills, abilities, or qualities that are necessary to get or keep a job : not employable”
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Above are three English language dictionary definitions of the word unemployable.
In principle I have a last century bachelor’s qualification in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics. If I am to believe the pieces of paper in my folder. My technical experience is twenty years out of date. My language skills in France pretty much preclude.
Because of the modern approaches to employment where there are check lists, grids, criteria and most often a requirement for referees, even though I may have residual skills, I am unemployable. The chances of me getting an interview for just about any job are very close to zero. Using the definitions above I probably do not have the skills to remain employed or keep a job. Sooner or later I will offend some ego or other.
It is kind of amusing to me that the chances of me getting venture start-up funding to the tune of hundreds of thousands of Euros are small yet significantly higher than me getting a “proper job”.
Believe me I have done hundreds of experiments…
There is no way any company or institution with a human resources department could approve of hiring someone like me. I have zero track record aside from private tutoring for the past two decades. I stopped that end of 2017. OK, I wrote a hobby patent application. I doubt that cuts the mustard.
Someone would have to be in a really dire shit hole with zero options…
As part of the down sizing thought line I estimate that I could build up a small “A” level science tutoring clientele in the UK. Though the on-line fee-taking agencies are more strict on background checks these days, some want guarantors and referees. I would not appear on a UK criminal background check these days which might look odd. Where have I been? In a Thai prison with Gary Glitter?
I could make a web site and offer my services without a middle-person-thing {pick your woke expression of choice}. I might be difficult to insure. It could be a slow starter.
Watching “Killing Eve” the British Security services are portrayed as comedy ramshackle, maybe they are in need…
On one level and in some people’s eyes, perhaps it ought not to be like this. But it is. No matter my tangential associations in the past they are timed out and essentially irrelevant. Besides I have lived hermit like for way too long now. I could not hack being around people.
This reality might not be easy to accept. It is easy for me because it is actually real.
I wonder what bizarre dreams might arrive during the night….
Inquiry and Surveillance Dreams – Dream Follow Up
Well yet another dream which has the theme of surveillance and/or security type services in. I swear that I am not sitting here all paranoid that I am being spied upon. Intellectually I know that this is both possible and at the same time not very likely. Common sense suggests that I am under mass surveillance just like everyone else on the planet. Because of my dreams I do have words like “MI6” on my blog. This may pop up preferentially in some search algorithm. I have stated before that I am linked by blood to someone who has security vetting and will therefore be at the periphery of radar.
If someone is waiting for me to do something radical they will be waiting a long time. I will do some painting tomorrow and I could live stream a web cam looking at it drying.
We had another snatch team theme this morning.
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If I were to disappear the only person who would notice would be the wife. She would probably be witness to any kidnap. Being absurd they could get someone to carry on this blog so that there was no gap.
In previously released material the CIA has had an interest in parapsychology and “things that go bump in the night”. It is not an absurd extrapolation to suggest that they are not alone in this. Thus it is not completely beyond the pale to suggest that there is an interest in my ramblings here. Which might make me more likely to suffer surveillance than your common or garden person. This means that intelligence players unknown may be aware of my former institutional affiliation { Bedlam, Friern Barnet Mental Hospital, Imperial etc.}
Under extreme duress and threat I could possibly do some muscle memory martial arts. It is very unlikely that I could win a contest against any fit and able younger person. If they were silly enough to let me get a choke hold on, that might not be so good for them.
Whose responsibility might I be? I am a UK national and French resident. Any jurisdiction would be theirs in the first pass.
My gut feeling is that the prevalence of snatch teams is over estimated in the movies, this with the exception of the middle East. The Israelis have a track record.
I can’t really see a benefit in kidnapping me.
I am 100% sure that any intelligence player could contact me should they wish. It is not complicated. I pay taxes and have standard bank accounts. I use a well-known public ISP and my ‘phone number is even in the French yellow pages.
But I don’t know what we might talk about.
The nature of secret is non-overt. If they must monitor me and run surveillance then there is nothing I can do about it. It is a bit of a drag…It is a bit heavy…man…
In the most fanciful of scenarios I could become a pawn is some far-fetched drama to which I am without knowing a party.
I have no idea what might be going on in the minds of others, what weird trips they might be on.
I can’t come up with a logical psychological reason as to why I have these dreams…
It is tyring and a little boring..
Angelic Script – Dream Follow Up – Khandro Da-yig
I am not a great fan of how the search algorithms on Google and YouTube are evolving. It seems hard to find pukka information.
Following up from the dream on angelic script which said seraph / seraphim in but which looked more like dakini script I have found a number of things on the web. One by someone who did a Ph.D. in archaeology at Cambridge.
“Kuenga Wangmo: National identity and the dzong: investigating the role of dzong in the construction of Bhutanese national identity. PhD (2012), Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University.”
An another by someone who has MAs from both King’s College and Hamburg.
I wrote to Bhikkhu Anālayo at Hamburg about my Bakula dream ( click here) which has dakini like elements. Anālayo was kind enough to reply being something of an “expert” on Bakula.
The talk by Wangmo is of Goldilocks length – 15 minutes.
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And Adele Tomlin has put together a web site with a lot of source material which seems very thorough
Dakini Publications and Translations (click here)
There is not a great deal readily available elsewhere.
Given I have had dreams about Senzar and with various Tibetan Tertöns {Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche} it is kind of weird that this theme has cropped up and that people connected to UK academia in some way have interests.
In Toltec terms there is also talk of Toltec “time capsules” hidden to be found when the time is right…
I am not sure what to do in respect of getting in contact…
Hmnn…
Strong Conclusion – Loose Hypothesis
This morning’s dream pointed at a couple of things, the first being that it is unwise to offer any advice to the self-diagnosed omniscient. To do so is a no win situation. The second is that my addled mind seems to recall a number of occasions when I gave advice which was ignored. This advice could have given a “better” more pleasant outcome if it had been heeded. People need to learn. They learn best through personal experience {in theory}. My inclination to advise has been reduced in a semi-permanent stepwise manner.
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As an adolescent I already had differences in outlook to my family. I was very keen on “Monkey” about the journey of a monk Tripitaka. My family disliked this programme. I was a fan.
It is my experience that many express adamant opinions and points of view which they can easily mistake for fact. In some situations decibel count is correlated with degree of imagined fact, the more often you say it, the louder you say it the more it MUST be true. A lot of people conclude, rigidly and dogmatically so, before the forming of a strong conclusion is warranted. I call these concluding kangaroos who are prone to jump from one conclusion to the other.
I have very few, if any, strong conclusions. I have a lot of operative loose hypotheses. They can be used to explain or provide a working narrative for elements of my recollection of life, of my dreams and of measurable physical plane reality. In a sane world our conclusions might depend upon the quality of the data and the observations which we use to conclude from. If our data is sparse, sketchy and our observations few we might have only very weak putative conclusions.
Until about half an hour ago I had one strong conclusion. It was that the dreams in the blog are unusual and maybe unique. It occurred to me that I have no real basis for this, no comparative data. For all I know there could be loads of people out there who have dreams like mine. So I have down graded that from conclusion to a speculation. It seems possible that this speculation is not entirely unreasonable but I have no data set with which to compare.
Based upon measurable Word Press statistics very few people read this blog. I can conclude with a fair level of confidence that this is true. Why would anyone hide the fact they view a free public domain blog? There is nothing overly dodgy herein.
On this basis it is easy to suggest that the wider impact of my life is minimal. It is very likely to remain so. I am powerless to do much about it and certainly not motivated to change this.
Unless the pieces of paper in my medical folders are figments of my imagination I am due an operation in two weeks time. I can conclude with some confidence that this is the current plan. According to what I recall being told I may be in the hospital for ~ 48 hours or less. This is by way of prediction based on prior experience at the hospital.
Aside from these fairly basic things there are a number of explanations or narratives which I consider as loose hypotheses as to a number of “events” or “happenstances” in what my memory tells me may or may not have happened. There is no way of proving these things. I could for example look at an academic publication which has a name on it that matches the one in my passport. I may have been involved in the preparation of that paper or I may be another “Madelaine”.
People like “proof” and certainty where none may, in fact, exist. It is entirely possible that my so called memories are complete fabrication on my part. It is not particularly likely. I can speculate with high confidence that others will recall and interpret these putative happenstances differently. Accuracy of recall and interpretation is moot and subjective.
The current working hypothesis is that I will have an operation, attempt recuperation and then ask for a second operation. We will deal as best we can with whatever transpires and that is about the sum total of what is on the cards for me. The wife has her breast cancer and Myeloma follow ups scheduled before “Christmas” too. By the new year we may have some more data moving forward upon which to formulate.
There is not a lot to conclude about…
Seraphim – Over Interpretation or What?
The obvious response to getting the word seraph of seraphim in a dream for someone with my background is to do a little research. Despite all the hoo-ha it seems seraphim are only mentioned twice in the canonical bible. It occurs in Isaiah 6.
For something that only gets two call outs or mentions there is a lot about seraphim in the collective consciousness.
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Isiah 6 – King James Version
1In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
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If you look on the web there is a great deal of near verbatim cut and paste about the root of the word seraph pertaining to burning and perhaps some kind of serpent / snake. Plagiarism?
I immediately thought of naga or nāgas in the Indian and Buddhist traditions.
The seraphim are angels mooted variously as a messenger of God and/or powerful non-mundane beings. There are some weird ideas about angels and much art dedicated thereto. Often where there are angels devils and demons are mentioned too. There can be some kink associated. You can buy costumes…
Our collective views of angels etc. perhaps stems from centuries old religious painting and has been expanded by modern media. You can get training on how to converse with angels 😉…
Seems that there is one huge over interpretation. A couple of words in “the book” have spawned much.
« La plupart des historiens de la Bible considèrent que les seraphim bibliques sont dérivés des uraei égyptiens, ces cobras dotés d’ailes symbolisant la fonction protectrice. »
The uræus protecting the pharaoh is not entirely unlike the nāgarāja protecting Siddartha Gautama.
The spooky part of my dream
I realise that the script is in fact Angelic script and that the “s” is silent phonetically therein. Thus the word is seraph of seraphim. I place the now silky-linen cloth in to my left hand shirt pocket after having inhaled it while lovingly holding it in both hands. It is close to my heart.
Has a similarity to verse seven of Isiah 6.
“And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.”
Although I once did read the entire bible it most certainly is not on my bedside table. I found it mostly boring. I am unlikely to have remembered and I don’t recall it being a question on “University Challenge” {Since we have been watching a lot of historical episodes I have started to remember some of the questions and answers.}
The angelic script in my dream looks like none of the ones you can find claimed on the web and is more akin to ḍākinī script than Hebrew or roman. It certainly had tadpole like hanging down “tails”. It reminds me of when I bought a book on the Indus valley script and spent a while exploring therefrom. I did play with hieroglyphs for a while.
It is all a bit strange…
I am really surprised to find that the word seraphim is seemingly down to only two direct quotations in the canonical bible. Seems a lot has been extrapolated…..
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