Theos-Talk Archives (October 2003 Message tt00380)

Hallo Bart and all of you,

My views are:

Yes.
But the year is still at least 1732 isn't it ?
Look at item 4.

I didn't say, that is wasn't earliere. Allright: Maybe my lingvistics
arn't - so very - interesting, so what.
Read my email or don't read it...
Even the online Theosophical wordbook has the view, that the word has an
origin from Greeck or Latin.
http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/ctg/at-az.htm


1.
Maybe this one will help some readers even more - quoting Geoffrey Higgins:
"Page 86"...

"In the Dyonysiacs, of Nonnus, the God Bacchus is feigned to have fallen in
love with the soft genial breeze, under the name of Aura Placida. Out of
this they have made the saints Aura and Placida. This festival in on the
fifth of October, close to the festival of St. Bacchus, and of St. Denis the
Areopagite."
(Geoffrey Higgins: "ANACALYPSIS" 1883
http://members.tripod.com/~pc93/anacv2b2.htm )

2.
Further we have some ordinary historical facts:
"Dionysus was surnamed Eleutheros, as the founder of the first mysteries,
and two festivals were celebrated in his honor, one in the city, urbana, the
other in the fields, rusticia. During these feasts a day was dedicated to
Demetrius, King of Macedon, who gave to Dionysus his daughter Aura-Placida
(" the light breeze ") as wife. Now curiously enough, on October 4th was
venerated S. Aura, V., Abbess, at Paris; on October 5th S. Placidus, Mk.
M.,' on October 7th S. Bacchus, M., on October 8th S. Demetrius, M., on
October 9th SS. Dionysius, Eleutherius, and Rusticus, and again a S.
Demetrius. Till last century, the festival of the vintage, the legacy of the
old pagan feast, was celebrated at Paris on the 8th and 9th of October, and
it has been thought that as on this occasion wine made the merry-makers lose
their heads, the fable of the martyrdom of S. Dionysius had reference to
this phenomenon. But this argument is too plausible to satisfy. S. Placidus,
though much fable has attached to his name, was a real personage, so was S.
Aura, abbess at Paris in A.D. 63I. Her existence as a real person and not as
an embodiment of pleasant breezes, can be very satisfactorily established.
The S. Demetrius of October 9th was Bishop of Alexandria, and pronounced
sentence of exile on Origen. It is quite possible that there may have been a
Dionysius, bishop and apostle of the Parisians. "
http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/medart/texts/saints/Baring-Gould/SBG-LS-Dyonysis-Bishop.html

Now there is was again in the text "...lose their heads". >:-) But what can
I say, just keep on scratching and see where it leads.
Sometimes we have an 'itch' for some reason or another.
Esoteric "Wine" is faster. Esoteric Wine - meaning Esoteric intoxication,
and not to get drunk like the materialists. (smile...)
There is the religion of "Pleasant" or "Pleasant Breezes" and then there is
the Swimmers and Shipbuilders among THE ISLANDERS - (
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/13178 - THE ISLANDERS Part
1of 3.)


3.
Online Mythological wordbook named Pandora:
"Aur Aura(37) Aural Aurelian Aureola Aureus Aurora Borealis Aurous"
http://www.consultsos.com/pandora/aureola.htm
AUR~ prefix for AIR
denotes several relationships
as in EAR and AURICULAR sug> AUDIENCE
also GOLD as in AUREUS
id+ | GUILDED DAWN or AURORA |
sc> symbol for gold is AU
~ AURA id+ | SOAR |
id+ | PREMONITION as in PRODROME |
as if " I FEEL IT COMING " or
PRO DROM = RUNNING BEFORE
as in sug> DRUM
gr AENAI = AIR TO BREATHE
BREEZE
med> AN UNREAL SENSATION
RISING FROM SOME
PART OF THE BODY AS A PREMONITION
ofte may PRECEDE or SIGNAL
AN IMPENDING EVENT or
A SENSE OF MOTOR or MOTION or MENTAL STATE
as in an EPILEPTIC or SEIZURE or CONVULSIVE ATTACK or
hx> WELL DESCRIBED BY
GALEN [#] AND OTHER EARLY PHYSICIANS
note AURA IS NOT related to gr OURA = TAIL
myth> AURA WAS THE GODDESS OF THE MORNING WIND
WHO MADE ADVANCES TO KEPHALOS WHO
WITHSTOOD HER AND IN REVENGE SHE STIRRED
DISCORD BETWEEN HIM AND HIS WIFE PROTKIS
later KEPHALOS KILLED PROTKIS BY ACCIDENT
~ AURAL PERTAINS TO EITHER AURA or AURICULAR
~ AUREOLA id+ EMANATING ENERGY as in a
HALO RADIANCE
from lat AUREUS = GOLDEN
AURUM GOLD
sc> HALO from REFLECTED ILLUMINATION OF CLOUDS or
OTHER BODIES
myth> IN CHRISTIANITY A HALO
MOSTLY AROUND THE HEAD
DENOTES SANCTITY or GLORY
also USED BY MUSLIMS HINDU and BUDDHISTS
also USED BY SOLAR CULTS TO DENOTE SOLAR ENERGY
also denotes SPIRITUAL ENERGY or
AN EMANATION OF SPIRITUAL LIGHT
art> SHOWN IN PICTURES OF IMPORTANT PEOPLE


Pandora: "Classic Etymology - Medicine - Mythology - Arts - Sciences -
Medical Etymology"
http://www.consultsos.com/pandora/intro.htm

Actually the word "Aura" - as mentioned by Blavatsky comes from "AUREOLA"
according to ancient mythology in Greece
The word AUR has the meaning "Light". Blavatsky mentions the AIN-SOPH-AUR -
"Limitless Light".
(An example on AIN-SOPH-AUR
http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/ListOfCollatedArticles/TheKabbalah-Part3of3.html )
.
Aur meaning the "first light" of the primordial Elohim viewed esoterically,
also called "Ob" or "Od".
(--- H. P. Blavatsky: Secret Doctrine Vol 1. 76, 354)

We here have the path to the origins of the word as it was then and is
today.


4.
There is also something on Halloween a word which relates to HALO and AURA.
It was originally celebrated 31th october in - CELTIC DRUID TRADITIONS -
which - HELD THAT THE FEAST OF SHAMHAI to be celebrated 31th october.
Some "Popes" later moved this to another date and called it something else:
http://www.consultsos.com/pandora/word.htm



Any comments ? Bart ?
Did it help ?



from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bart Lidofsky" <bartl@sprynet.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:26 AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: re Jesus, Pistis Sophia, "garment"


> That's the term, aura, NOT the human aura. Note that the first
> definition has nothing to do with human energy fields.
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> Morten Nymann Olesen wrote:
> > Hi Bart and all of you,
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> > The online Meriam Websters Dictionary tells a different tale.
> > 1732 !!!
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> >>:-)
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> > One entry found for aura.
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> > Main Entry: au·ra
> > Pronunciation: 'or-&
> > Function: noun
> > Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, puff of air, breeze, from Greek;
> > probably akin to Greek aEr air
> > Date: 1732
> > 1 a : a subtle sensory stimulus (as an aroma) b : a distinctive
atmosphere
> > surrounding a given source <the place had an aura of mystery>
> > 2 : a luminous radiation : NIMBUS
> > 3 : a subjective sensation (as of lights) experienced before an attack
of
> > some disorders (as epilepsy or a migraine)
> > 4 : an energy field that is held to emanate from a living being
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