Jesus Christ at the Sacred Center

 

Dr. Alice C. Linsley

Long before Judaism emerged (c. 580 B.C.) the Hebrew of the Bible believed in God Father, God Son, and the Life-generating Spirit. The Father and Son were known by different names depending on where the widely dispersed Hebrew were living. The Hebrew of Mesopotamia referred to the Father as An or Anu and his son was called Enki. The Hebrew of the Nile Valley referred to the Father as Re which means "father" in proto-Egyptian. Re's Son was called HR (Horus in Greek). In proto-Egyptian HR means "Most High One".

At Giza, the great east-facing Sphinx was viewed as "HR in the Horizon" and it lay between the twin peaks of the giant akhet (horizon/mountain) formed by the pyramid of Khufu and the horizon/mountain of the pyramid of Khafre. Between the legs of the Sphinx, is a tall granite slab erected by Pharaoh Thutmose IV in 1401 B.C. It is known as the Dream Stele or the Sphinx Stele.

The carving on the "Sphinx Stele" shows Tuthmosis IV making offerings to twin sphinxes which represent HR of the two horizons. HR's name appears above the animals' heads. The sphinxes are back-to-back with the winged sun hovering between them. In this image, the son of God, is depicted at the sacred center. HR, the beginning (east/alpha) and the end (west/omega), is also present at the sacred center.

The solar arc from east to west was a sign of God's sovereignty over all the earth. High noon is the one time when there are no shadows, so this is the temporal sacred center. James refers to this, saying: "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows" (James 1:17).

A sacred center can be both temporal and spatial. The temporal sacred center is measured by the Sun's movement to high noon. The spatial sacred center is between Heaven and Earth at the top of a sacred mountain. The spatial and temporal sacred centers are where encounters take place between God and Man. They are centers of both judgment and redemption.

The Eternal Light of the World

The early Hebrew also referred to the Son of God as šw (Shu), meaning light. According to the Nilotic Hebrew (4200-2000 B.C.), the first act of the Creator was this eternal, uncreated light associated with the High God's son Y-shu (Yeshua), as proclaimed in John's Prologue and in Genesis 1:1.

Yeshua is the name that was given to the son of the Virgin Mary who was conceived by divine overshadowing as the Angel declared to Mary in Luke 1:35. Gabriel explained to Mary: "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God."

Related reading: The Cardinal Directions in the Bible; The Hebrew were a Caste; The Religious Symbolism of Green Malachite; Territorial Ambitions of the Early Hebrew; Why So Many Names For God?