The Elephant God I saw this meme on fb: "The Bible teaches in 2 Cor. 4:4 that Satan is the god of this world. If you don't understand this then you will never grasp the truth behind the workings of the New World Order." Wrong. First, it says in II Corinthians 4:4 god not God, big difference, and in context which i explain at the bottom of this article. Second, never say never, "you will never grasp" is a curse and a very lame at that... In order to understand the passage correctly one needs some background in the divine tutelage. II. Corinthians, 4:2 "... by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." Now, notice it is said God (Host/body), not Lord (consciousness), and not god, since God is the reference to the Creator God of the Heavens and the Earth (in that order, Gen. 2:3) in seven days of creation, whose title is the God of Hosts, the physical body & needs. life/death critical systems, the foundations, the cause, the beginning and the end. In Hebrew scriptures this Creator God of Hosts is called Elohim, in plural form because it represents both the male (yin/yang) principles of the life/death forces; male (yang) order of the host/temple/home symbolised by Yahweh, "form of a cultic formula relating to El, the head of the Canaanite pantheon and the original god of Israel (el dū yahwī ṣaba’ôt, "El who creates the hosts,""*1 and female (yin) chaos of the nature/nurture, aka Goddess of Love (fertility) and War (destruction/change) Asthoreth. "Solomon paid occasional homage to her honour near Jerusalem (I Kings 11:5; II Kings 23:13). The plural form of her name is Astharoth, and this is used in conjunction with Baal as a collective name for the female divinities of the Canaanites (Judges 2:13; I Samuel 12:10). The biblical place-name Astharoth-Karnaim, i.e. 'Astharoth with the two horns', indicates that a horned goddess was visualized."*2 (p.42) Both of these principals are symbiotic dichotomy defining the unity of one being, such as the human body, in the image of God, along with the Holy Spirit (Spiritus means to breathe in Latin) / the Holy Ghost (space) aka Amun/Amen ('the hidden one') who represents the primeval forces of the ancient Egyptian Ogdoad, a company of eight primeval gods forming four couples (abyss, darkness, hidden, and eternity/infinity), and the medium within which this unity comes about. "In the Pyramid texts he is already mentioned as a primeval god, in association with his wife Amaunet. In Old Egyptian thought he was the moving agent in the invisible breeze; thus he was venerated as god of the wind and ruler of the air. From the eleventh dynasty onwards, Abraham is Amenemhat I ('Amen is the head') of the 12th dynasty, he is attested as god of Thebes. Here, he coalesces with the sun-god (Re) to become Amun-Re, and, as Thebes increased in power, he became king of the gods and tutelary god of the (Egyptian) empire. In his capacity as primeval god of creation he is venerated in the shape of a goose (the golden goose); otherwise, the ram is his sacred animal (shofar*3 / escape goat), a reference to his function as god of fertility. After the fall of Thebes his cult prospered in Ethiopia and among the oasis dwellers. (see Ammon)."*2 (p.24) The Lord (consciousness) in Hebrew is referred to as Adonai Elohaynu (Lord of Hosts, whose order of focus is from earth to heaven (in that order, Gen. 2:4), and who is the divine child of these two male/female God of Hosts principles, aka the elephant in the room, and who is awake to be "a king for a day" before going to rest for the evening & night/autumn & winter in order to repeat the cycle again the next morning & day/spring & summer. "Adonis -- Originally a Phoenician-Syrian god (the Semitic word 'adon' means 'master' (or Lord)). He embodies vegetation scorched by the heat of the summer sunshine, and was worshipped in the mystic cults as a god who dies and is resurrected. According to Greek legend, he was born from a myrrh tree, (the three wise men brought gifts for Lord Christ (anointed consciousness of God): myrrh (a prefiguring of death and embalming for future resurrection), frankincense (purity of the priestly role), gold (symbolising the divine kingship),*4 into which his mother had been changed. He was the beautiful lover of Aphrodite. When he was killed by a boar while hunting, (reference of the Orion the Hunter constellation with the three belt stars representing the three wise men who pint to the bright star in the East -- Sirius -- which indicates where the Sun is going to rise on the horizon, "On December 24th Sirius does indeed come above the horizon just after sunset when viewed from Jerusalem. The first question one might ask is what year I'm using as a reference point. The answer is simple - it doesn't matter. Sirius always comes over the horizon in the south-southeastern sky just after sunset on December 24th. In fact, Sirius appears in the eastern sky after sunset in November and in January as well."*5) the goddess caused the Adonis rose to spring up from the blood, and she was able to secure his release from the underworld for six months in the year. The seeds of the so-called Adonis garden grow readily in a bowl or a box, and their blossoming and rapid withering were seen as symbolizing the life and death of the god. Adonis was taken over by the Etruscans under the name of Atunis."*2 (p.7) The Elephant God "One of Yahweh's biblical titles, Lord of Hosts, was derived from the elephant god Ganesha, whose name means exactly the same. An early version of Yahweh and his spouse (Asthoreth) were worshipped as Bull and Cow Elephants (see early synagogues mosaics depicting the elephants (God of Hosts -- symbolising the unity of the creative female/male, yin/yang, principles), a goose laying a golden egg (symbolizing the Holy Spirit, Amun, Amen, space/breathing (in & out)), and the lions (symbol of power and the kingdom/tribe of Judah)) by Jewish mercenaries of the fifth century B.C. at Elephantine on the Nile. The Indian elephant god Ganesha impregnated the Virgin Goddess Maya (represented by the constellation of Virgo), who subsequently gave birth to Buddah (means 'enlightened'). The same Virgin Goddess passed into China as Moye, mother of the primal culture hero Fu-Hi or Fu-Hsi; the white elephant god impregnated her by surrounding her with a magic rainbow as she walked near a river. In the West, the Virgin Goddess impregnated by the Lord of Hosts became the Greek's Maia, mother of Hermes the Enlightened One, and of course her more familiar Christian counterpart as well (see Mary, means 'beloved' in ancient Egyptian). Elephants were considered symbols of powerful sexual energy (kundalini) in ancient India. Shiva (the destroyer/change) sometimes took the form of an elephant or became the father of an elephant-headed Divine Child. Similarly, Krishna (the 8th reincarnation of Vishnu (the maintainer/nature/nurture) could metamorphose into an elephant in conjunction with his highly sexed consort Radha, whose name means "She-elephant." The famous "white elephant" (usually painted) of Hindu sacred ritual represented "the dormant sexual energy of the living power." The elephant-headed Ganesha was Christianized as the elephant-headed demon Behemoth, still represented sexual energy. Despite such diabolization, medieval traditions continued to regard elephant ivory as a powerful magic. A war norn made of such ivory was mentioned in the Chanson de Roland, where it was called an "oliphant." Similar "horns of ivory" figured largely in other medieval romances about knightly battles."*6 Thus, when we continue to read the II Corinthians 4:3 "But if our gospel ('good news') be hid, it is hid to them that are lost." (the lost souls) 4:4 "In whom the god (lower case indicating a pagan idol) of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, least the light of the glorious gospel of Christ ('anointed/enlightened mind'), who is the image (reflection) of God (the host/body), should shine unto them. The Satan, or Satana, is an adversary to one's coming to self-realization and enlightenment, also represents the anger, the sixth deadly sin, according to the Catholic tradition, with the opposite virtue being the patience, followed by diligence. The patience and diligence are needed to aid the God of Hosts to address the various needs and functions of the body/community temples on God's good earth. _____________________________________________________ *1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh *2 - Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons by Manfred Lurker. *3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shofar *4 - http://web.stanford.edu/group/religiouslife/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/20130106_UniversityPublicWorship_sermon.pdf *5 - http://www.tracer345.org/zeitgeist.html *6 - p. 372-373, The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols & Sacred Objects by Barbara G. Walker.