Michael the Archangel is the White Light of the new-born sun (born in Winter) marrying the Dark Venus, the Earth, for the propagation of physical progeny and for physical fertilization of Nature.
Jesus Christ is the Dark Light of the Soul (the Black Sun) marrying the White Light of Venus, the Moon, the Mother, the Virgin Mary – and this procreation is a spiritual not a physical procreation – giving birth on Earth to Jesus Christ and the 7th Man, the Savior, and the Lord of Judgment at the End of Time. Venus-Hesperus plays the same role as the Virgin Mary, as Isis, as every Virgin goddess in the history of ancient myth: the Virgin Moon, from whom is born the Night Cycle – the Afterworld of Soul.
- The Lady Justice – Libra/Venus – has almost always been portrayed graphically with the same two images I say belong to the dual-symbol of Michael and Jesus Christ: the Sword and the Scales of Balance (Justice being balance in its broadest sense). Of course, Lady Justice, Libra, and Venus are all connected.
Venus-Lucifer, the Morning Son, who marries Adam, Michael the Archangel, the Warrior, plays the same role as Eve, Adam’s wife.
- The Garden of Eden is the Earth on the First Day – and the Earth on the Last Day.
The Garden of Eden is governed by Love Energy; and Venus, the Goddess of Love, always watches closely over the Earth, the Garden, for Venus and the Earth are like one woman looking at her own reflection in the mirror.
Michael the Archangel always carries both a sword in one hand (the sign of Mars), and a scale of justice and measuring in his other hand (the sign of Libra). So does Jesus Christ, who came to Earth, as he proclaimed, as both Judge of the living and as spiritual warrior (Mars carries war into the objective world as Michael the Archangel – the Holy White Knight – on the First Day and Mars carries war into the subjective world as Jesus Christ on and after the Seventh Day, the Sabbath).
Jesus says in Matthew 10:34-36,
“Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.“
Jesus comes to bring civil war to the world. Jesus comes to the Earth to judge the rich and the powerful – and to save only those who are lost, the weak, the poor, the spiritually meek and helpless. Jesus was a socialist, to borrow language from the current and continuing American political debate.
From Luke 19:10:
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save. Therefore he went to lodge with the publicans and (with) the sinners in order to save (them)….
‘Publican‘ does not mean ‘rich Republican‘. ‘Publican’ is from the Latin ‘publicus‘: ‘of the people‘. Jesus came to save those who were lost, not those who were ‘found’ or even those already ‘born again’ – not the rich and power, individuals or nations.
Jesus, the anti-hero, identifies and lives with the ‘degenerates‘, with those who have turned their backs on civilization and have begun their travels down the dark side of the tree or mountain. Joshua, or Yeshua, we are told, is ‘the son of Nun‘ – and nun also means ‘to degenerate‘.
Jesus leads the degeneration process – because he is leading the world through the Night-Cycle ‘de-generation’ process – leading the world through the Black Forest. Jesus is the psychopomp, like Mercury, like Michael the Archangel, like all the Sun-Heroes and Sun-Gods in fact, including Mithra, Dionysus, Dionysus-Apollo, Osiris-Horus – leading the world through the Darkness of the degenerative Night-Cycle and, ultimately, back toward the Light of Day, as Moses lead the Israelites through the degenerative Night-Cycle, back toward the Dawn.
Moses is a psychopomp figure. He does not go into the Promised Land with his followers. The job of Moses is never finished. He, like the Michael-Jesus Christ compound, will appear again in the Autumn and lead the helpless and fearful and weak, the Losers, back down through the Night-Cycle de-generation and then back up toward the light of re-generation. The Old Testament begins with the Book of Genesis because this book is about the re-creation.
This is what the psychopompos does. He leads the Dead toward the Light; he leads the Living into the Darkness. He leads those who are purified back toward Heaven. He leads those who need to be purified down into the waters of purification.
Hermes-Mercury is the Greek god who most closely represents this idea of the Soul, for Mercury spends the Day in Heaven with the gods and spends the Night in the Underworld leading the lost and the Dead through the Underworld back toward Heaven (in this way, Mercury and Moses and Michael/Jesus Christ are alike.)
Helena Blavatsky writes of Michael the Archangel in her enigmatic Secret Doctrine, connecting Michael with the Hindu Sanat-Kumara (Sanat being an original of Satan/Saturn/Kronos), the Kumaras being the Lords of Karma who refuse to propagate the world that they see as corrupt. She also connects Michael to the Seventh and Final Day, Judgment Day, the Sabbath:
They themselves (the Kumaras), being the “Virgin-Ascetics,” refuse to create the material being MAN. Well may they be suspected of a direct connection with the Christian Archangel Michael, the “Virgin Combatant” of the Dragon Apophis, whose victim is every soul united too loosely to its immortal Spirit, the Angel who, as shown by the Gnostics, refused to create just as the Kumaras did… Does not that patron-Angel of the Jews preside over Saturn (Siva or Rudra), and the Sabbath, the day of Saturn?
Is he not shown of the same essence with his father (Saturn), and called the “Son of Time,” Kronos, or Kala (time), a form of Brahma (Vishnu and Siva)?” And is not “Old Time” of the Greeks, with its scythe and sand-glass, identical with the “Ancient of Days” of the Kabalists, the latter “Ancient” being one with the Hindu “Ancient of Days,” Brahma (in his triune form), whose name is also “Sanat,” the Ancient?
Every Kumara bears the prefix of Sanat and Sana; and Sanaischara is Saturn, the planet (Sani and Sarra), the King Saturn whose Secretary in Egypt was Thot-Hermes (Mercury) the first. They are thus identified both with the planet and the god (Siva), who are, in their turn, shown the prototypes of Saturn, who is the same as Bel, Baal, Siva, and Jehovah Sabbaoth, the angel of whose face is MIKAEL “who is as God”).
He [Michael] is the patron, and guardian Angel of the Jews, as Daniel tells us (v. 21); and, before the Kumaras were degraded, by those who were ignorant of their very name, into demons and fallen angels, the Greek Ophites, the occultly inclined predecessors and precursors of the Roman Catholic Church after its secession and separation from the primitive Greek Church, had identified Michael with their Ophiomorphos, the rebellious and opposing spirit.
This means nothing more than the reverse aspect (symbolically) of Ophis – Divine Wisdom or Christos.
Michael is the ‘reverse aspect (symbolically) of … Divine Wisdom or Christos” – that is, of Jesus Christ. Blavatsky concludes by suggesting that Michael is the ‘king of the deep‘, as Moses apparently is also, the Leviathan. Michael is also called the ‘High Priest‘ and the ‘Holy Scribe‘ of Heaven – as wellhttps://econintersect.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/maya5.png as the psychopomp (from the Greek psyche, Soul, and pompos, Conductor or Guide.)