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Podcast / VIBE RANTEPISODE 35 · Apr 17, 2022 · 2h 24m
Aries Rams and Biblical Symbolism

Aries, Arise, Two Rams Without Blemish (with Joshua Donohew)

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Aries, Arise, Two Rams Without Blemish (with Joshua Donohew)

Joshua Donohew is a highly knowledgeable Servant of Source and a fellow brother born under the sign of Aries. On this Vibe Rant, we'll get to know Joshua a bit better while benefiting from his wealth of symbolic and biblical insights on the magical realm of creation we all share.

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Core themes

5 themes
1

Cicadas, Passover, and Spiritual Sovereignty

Joshua opened with the cicada, describing its long underground life, prime number emergence cycles and high mercury content, and linking it to Hermes and to Plato's tale of singers who never needed to eat. He tied the insects' spring song to Passover, first fruits and the lamb. Joshua argued that the lamb's blood was a ransom from spiritual captivity and that real sovereignty was spiritual rather than financial. He also said the ram's head stood for the temple, that the aim was activating the pineal gland, and that the feast days were meant to keep the body a clean vessel. These were his own interpretations.

2

Fiction, World Mind, and Seeded Narratives

Chance floated the idea that competing stories of a coming pole flip might have been seeded across society to alchemically transmute the world mind and draw fiction into reality. Gordy, calling in, tied this to the invisible college notion of symbology as an incorruptible language, and compared superhero comics to a new set of gods. Joshua added that the Fabian Society, which he said drew many fiction authors, may have softened minds for new ideas, and compared the process to bread and circuses. A stained glass image of two smiths striking a molten world was also described.

3

Callers, Stones, Dowsing, and the World Turtle

Callers joined the Aries evening. One caller joked that a sheep was a domesticated ram, so the caller was no sheeple but a rambler. Gordy showed magnetic Moki marbles he said he found in the desert by asking the stones to show themselves and then dropping magnets where his dowsing sense pointed. A listener's story about a river turtle whose shell patterns gave rise to the I Ching was read aloud, and participants linked the shell's thirteen and twenty eight plates to lunar months and to a world resting on a turtle's back.

4

Taxes, Tithes, and Render Unto Caesar

Tax day sparked a long talk about money and authority. One caller argued that taking tax straight from a paycheck put government ahead of God, so that tithing from take home pay meant giving to God second. Several speakers offered competing readings of render unto Caesar, including that it meant handing back the legal persona, or the coin itself. One participant showed a 1928 silver certificate and said it was not a federal reserve note and not debt, and a caller recommended a documentary arguing that the Wizard of Oz was an allegory of the silver movement.

5

Rams, Hiram Abiff, and the Lion and Lamb

Reading from a Gnostic Warrior page on the ram, Joshua argued that the ram carried divine thought while the bull carried divine speech. He retold the Masonic story of Hiram Abiff, saying the lost word meant only a skeleton could be raised, which one of the hosts then tied to the idea of legal personhood. Joshua also said the name Aries echoed the word for lion, and that the lion and lamb pairing came from a muddled memory of Isaiah, where it was a wolf and a lamb. Another speaker connected wolfram, a name for tungsten, to a swapped wolf and lamb.

Quotes

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“Happy Wednesday, my favorite day of the week for so many reasons, but Vibe Rant is the number one reason. Flow State, number two reason. But just because this is my thing, I guess.”
“Kind of want to know more about you, man. So this is my way of getting a chance to get a little more information about who you are, where you came from, because you just popped in out of left field into our community, and you always have had such awesome things to say and very appropriate and well-timed meows. We all love you a lot.”
“And so I think that the lamb, the cicada, these things all teach like a sovereignty, but a spiritual sovereignty. We tend to think of sovereignty as like, oh, I'm fiscally independent or whatever. But the whole concept of the Passover and the lamb's blood is about, it's a ransom paid to free us from spiritual bondage, spiritual captivity.”
“And for me, it became like a love for wisdom. I'm not really good at art or music, but it helped me become a better person in some ways. So I think if you can't make art, make yourself art, if possible.”
“To me, it's also possible that that isn't the thing and that we have various versions of the narrative of that seeded across scientism, across society in order to further an attempt to alchemically transmute the world mind to bring fiction into reality, through the mechanism of human beings in our thoughts, behaviors and actions to create further stagnation into fiction, further separation from the real.”
“That's why we were forced to use symbology, because it's the one thing, the incorruptible language kind of thing. You know, a thing means what it means.”
“There was no apology for saying that these are our new gods, that the comic book superhero things like Jack Kirby's, one of his biggest when he went back to D.C. His biggest thing was called the New Gods. And he created the whole storyline of celestials and all that stuff.”
“I'll go out there and ask them, ask it to find them. And I'll take a set of magnets out and just kind of go over to wherever I think they'd be and drop the magnet in there. And a lot of times it just pulls these things right out of the sand.”
“So anyway, the ram became like the prototype for the human in a sense. And in the Egyptian stories that really do focus on this mound of earth, there's a ram entity known as Khnum, I think, that fashions humans on the potter's wheel. And you find that symbolism a lot in the Bible where it says that our creator fashions us as clay vessels.”
“And of course, bulls are like the decrees of the most high. So I've always found that interesting because the ram is more like the thought, the divine thought, and then the divine speech comes with the bull. So, you know, first the blueprints are conceived in the mind and then the orders are given with the mouth, to carry out the work.”
“The way I kind of view time is like it's all cycles. Every second is a cycle, every minute, every hour, every day, every week, so on and so forth. The way we measure time is just a collection of these cycles.”
“And then they go and find him and they try to resurrect him. But because he died with the word, nobody knew what the word was to say to reanimate him. So all they could do is resurrect his skeleton. They couldn't bring his spirit back.”
“This is exactly the same story of the fictional personhood. The skeleton means a form.”
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Co-host of Vibe Rant; teacher of occult symbolism & tarot

Gabriel, known on air as Slick Dissident, co-hosts InnerVerse's Vibe Rant show and is a longtime recurring guest on the podcast. He teaches occult symbolism and tarot on his YouTube channel, ranging across the Major Arcana, the esoteric Enneagram, mythology and archetype, mystic linguistics, and the symbolism hidden in popular film. He is best known for Tarot-tories, his own system mapping the 22 Major Arcana and zodiac archetypes onto the geography of the United States.

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