11. THE COAT OF MANY COLORS

The Gospels record that Joseph of Arimathea was a member of the Sanhedrin, the council of Jewish Elders who ruled Jewish affairs in Jerusalem. Flavius Josephus, a contemporary historian, recorded that Joseph was a wealthy tin trader.¹

Flavius traced his activities as far away as the British Isles. His nephew, according to legend, accompanied him on several of these trips during his so-called ‘missing years’ between boyhood and his reappearance in Jerusalem.

As a secret disciple of Jesus,² Joseph’s deepest ambition, more than making money, was to help the young man whose life’s mission revolved around saving the world. Christian myths say that after the Crucifixion Joseph traveled to England with a flowering rod and the Holy Grail containing the Holy Blood (the soma) which he deposited at Glastonbury Tor, perpetuating his nephew’s mission.

Who is this double agent, Joseph of Arimathea, and what is this flowering rod? It is widely claimed that Joseph was a title rather than a first name. Joseph of Arimathea or AMOR-thea literally means “a Joseph belonging to the Goddess-mother Ari or Mari,” the goddess whose story we looked at a moment ago.

Yet another Joseph who shared this title and was associated with a flower(ing) rod was the husband of Jesus’ mother, Mary. The Christian legend of Joseph’s flower rod said he was chosen to be Mary’s husband out of group of suitors by a symbolic test of fertility. All candidates laid their (phallic) rods on the (female-symbolic) altar. Joseph’s rod burst into bloom. The sacred dove came down and perched on Joseph’s rod, signifying the Goddess accepted him.³

The same dove appeared over the head of Jesus at his baptism as a symbol for wisdom and the Holy Spirit.

Like Jesus’ father Joseph, the French History of the Grail claims the aged Joseph of Arimathea was the father to a son who was born by divine intervention: Galahad, the last pure knight of the Holy Grail. Galahad was born to Joseph and his beloved Galaad, whose name is strikingly similar to the biblical Gilead, which with the addition of an ‘h’ becomes Galahad.

Still another story is that of Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors (c. 1800 B.C.). Joseph was placed in the Pit where an ‘evil beast devoured him’.⁴ Does this story sound familiar? After Reuben pleaded for Joseph’s life, the Egyptians stripped Joseph of his Coat of Many Colors that was on him, and they took him and cast him in the Pit: and the Pit was empty, there was no water in it.”

According to Barbara Walker,⁵ Joseph earned the Coat of Many Colors before he went into the Pit of Abaton.


SCALA DEI
After his initiation in the Pit Joseph was given the name Scalit.⁶ Scalit means ‘wise man‘ and comes from slt, assistant to the High Priest.⁷ Fascinatingly, Scala means a ladder or flight of steps.⁸ Lit means light or to illuminate.

We have already encountered this term in Scala Dei, meaning “Ladder to God,” as another name for the Cross. Modern physicists have resurrected this word for use in describing energy as Scalar energy, i.e. shaped like a spiral ladder.

Joseph’s father Jacob laid his head on a stone and dreams he sees a ladder reaching into Heaven.⁹ Was this a scalar or spiral ladder of light? Did it emerge from an unspecified Pit? Why is this scene so eerily reminiscent of the Davenport Stele found in Iowa and depicting a spiral tube emerging from a ladder?

In Jacob’s story, which runs through six chapters of the Genesis, he sees a fiery image at the top of the ladder. On the right and left of each of the ladder’s twelve steps he sees a statue or bust of a man. Angels are ascending and descending this ladder. From atop the ladder God calls to Jacob. He promises that the land on which he is sleeping will be his and that his descendents shall be blessed.¹⁰

Tracing the word scalit backward, as did Godfrey Higgins, we learn the root sclt comes from saca, which is the same as the Hebrew word ske, imaginari, and scio, to contemplate. The root sk, became skl, wisdom, and our skill or knowledge or scientia (wisdom).¹¹

The Davenport Stone depicting the Pillar of Osiris
 

As we have seen, the word Druid means ’skilled’. The etymology of this word suggests that when Joseph went into the Abatton Pit he emerged with skill or wisdom, hence the name Skill or Skilly.

This word fossil, Skilly, resurfaced in Britain as a name for the Blessed Isles, the surviving islands of Atlantis in British lore. Atlantis was also known as Ultima Thule. This is the same name as the Druid homeland, suggesting the Druids may have carried the seed name Skilly to England and planted it in the ground there. Located off the English coast at Land’s End, the Isles of Skilly (pronounced silly) are a series of islands which today are known for their charming residents who spend their lives fishing and growing flowers. The gardeners of the Skillys have bred a blue flower that is almost electric in its dark glow.¹²

This, according to some, is the land of king Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, the land of the Holy Grail. Joseph of Arimathea is said to have owned land here.¹³ His tin mines were here. Today those mines are under the sea. To others the Skilly’s are the home port of “the people of the sea,” traders and pirates who came here long ago. The poet Alfred Tennyson lived here when he wrote “The Idylls of the King” in which he brought Camelot to life.

THE ATON-TULA CONNECTION
The Pit of Abaton (or Pit of Aton) has a remarkable connection with Tula, Thule, Atlantis and hence, the Druids. It was said Thales, who speculated on the nature of the atom, received his intellectual skills from communion with the Goddess of Wisdom in an Ab-aton, the Greek word for Pit.¹⁴

The Sanskrit word for pit is tal, an anagram for tla or Tula. Interestingly:

• Ab is the Egyptian word for the heart-soul received from the mother.¹⁵

• Ab is also the Latin version of apo, and the English of, and denotes from, away or down from.¹⁶

• Aton is the Egyptian name for ‘Disk’ and for the Central Sun.

These definitions render the Pit of Ab-Aton as “Heart-soul of, or down from, Aton.” In other words, Ab-Aton is the heart-soul of the Central Sun, Tula. Apo is the root for hope: a desire for good.¹⁷ Apo-theosis refers to deification, or the act of making a god of a person.¹⁸ Apo-theosize means to elevate to the place of god.¹⁹ As we can see, a clear picture of the purpose of this Pit of Abatton emerges: it is a womb of transformation that brings the Heart or Core of Tula to Earth or elevates one to the Heart or Core of Tula.

In the ancient world the Heart of Aton was a place on Earth: Heliopolis, the City of the Sun in Egypt. Here, the wise heron gave advice. Here, the Old Testament Joseph earned his “coat of many colors” by undergoing a death and resurrection ceremony in the Pit.²⁰ Here, Jesus was taken during the flight from Egypt immediately after his birth.²¹

It may be said that those who put on the royal coat and experience the Pit of Abatton are a part of a project linking man and Aton, a Man-Aton project.

THE CLOAK AND THE PALLADIUM
Joseph’s Coat of Many Colors returns us to the robe or cloak worn by Jesus enroute to the Crucifixion. Mark’s Gospel says Jesus’ robe was purple²² and Matthew’s says it was scarlet.²³ Are both talking about the Scalit or Skilly robe of many colors? The ancients’ “royal purple” was not purple but a dark wine red, the color of blood. Royal purple meant the same thing as royal blood. When Jesus put on the robe along with the crown of the hare it seems to have given him the wise blood of the gods and the ability to ‘go far into the universe’.

Our earlier brief introduction to the story of Mari and the Palladium Pillar brings additional insight into cloak of Jesus. In order to appreciate this connection it is necessary to inject a few words from Flavia Anderson at this time about the Druid legend of the serpent’s eggs, the blue stones at Mari’s neck.

The serpent’s egg, says Anderson, was known to be a famous talisman of the Druids and appeared in effigy at Serpent’s Mound, Ohio.

Pliny gives an astonishing description of how the serpent’s eggs were made. The serpents (Druid instructors) meet on a certain day of the moon. They twist themselves into many convulsions and hiss, and their saliva form a bubble like a ring above the head of one of them, which the rest blow on till it comes off at the tail.²⁴

Let us imagine that the above is a description of the golden Palladium Pillar in use. The tip-off that it is the Pillar being described comes from Pliny, who says that even though set in gold (even though encased in the golden Pillar) the egg will float. As it comes from the tail of the serpent, the egg must be caught in mid-air into a cloak.²⁵

According to Higgins,²⁶ when a person was admitted to the highest Druid degrees, he received the Pallium or sacred cloak made of white lamb’s wool (the symbol of wisdom) to convey humility and authority. The white lamb’s wool is the Golden Fleece. This reveals the Pallium is probably the same as the PALA ruler’s garment worn by Inanna at Mari. From these early days it was passed along from initiate to initiate, until it reached Jerusalem in the time of Jesus.

It is easy to think that the above lines about the Druid cloak holding the serpent means that the wearer of the Cloak of Many Colors is the healing god or Great Physician, the serpent holder who is continuously reincarnating. The cloak wearers were related to the Therapeutae, or Physicians of the Soul. This is our link to Jesus, who was an Essene Therapeutae.

The Therapeutae are now thought to have been originated by E.A/Enki the first smith, and to have included Akhenaton and his followers who were representatives of his Aton religion. As we have seen, Aton is another name for Tula. Aton is also phonetically similar to Adon, or Adonis, the Lord.

Once again, we have stumbled upon linguistic evidence linking Akhenaton/Moses and Jesus with Tula.

• Could the fact that both of these teachers ‘held or lifted the serpent’, which we may actually be a ‘soul’, explain why the ancient Yesedes of Iraq thought (apparently mistakenly) that Moses, Jesus and Mohammed worshipped the Devil, who is more closely associated with the serpent?

• Did they not realize certain souls are serpent-shaped?

• And that instead of holding a demonic creature they were ‘holding‘ the soul of a profound and powerful teacher?

ELIJAH
Another claimant to this cloak was Elijah. When Elijah left his prophetic power to Elisha,²⁷ he conferred it on him or installed him in his office, by the investiture of the Cloak, or the Pallium. Jesus stated that John the Baptist was the reincarnated Elijah.

Given that Elijah conferred the royal Pallium Cloak to Elisha it is possible that this Cloak was passed along until the time of John when Elijah/John the Baptist reincarnated and reacquired it. Joshua, Joseph of the Coat of Many Colors, and Joseph of Arimathea are other Biblical figures who possessed this Cloak.

Is there something fishy going on here? Did the ancient priests, the Doves who tended the I Pillar of Peace, wear this cloak while conducting the Crucifixion ceremony? Was this the royal robe the fish skin of the Fisher Kings? Was this the robe Roman centurions rolled the dice to acquire? If so, what became of this Pillar and the related power tools, i.e. the fish suit?

I have endeavored to show that, if we look, history is replete with answers to these questions. When St. Augustin came to England he brought with him the holy sacred dress, called, in Latin Amphibolus. This word obviously refers to some form of amphibious or fish-like attire. According to Webster’s,²⁸ the word amphibian has numerous provocative levels of meaning, including:

• a reptile or a plant that lives and grows either on land or in water

• a person or thing of double or doubtful nature

• a tank or vehicle that can travel on either land or water.

Fascinatingly, an amphibia fossil is called an amphibiolite from amphi and bios, life, and lithos, stone.

Godfrey Higgins believed the Pallium was the remnant of an ancient superstition, the original meaning of which has probably been forgotten.

If only Higgins could have shared in the discovery of The Goddess With a Vase Statue. Then he would have known that the original meaning of the Cloak and the Pillar were not forgotten.

ELIJAH AND ATON
One question must be answered before continuing. Where did Elijah (in 800 BC) get the Pallium garment, which is also known as his “mantle“? The answer is found exactly where common sense tells us it should be, in the history of Akhenaton and A-ton.

As Ahmed Osman so concisely states,²⁹ after Akhenaton’s usurpation of their power the Amun (source of ‘Amen’) priests launched a counter offensive. This escalating battle threatened to get out of hand. To restore order Akhenaton was forced to appoint his brother, Semenkhkare, who was only about 20 at the time, as his co-regent at Thebes. This action cooled things down but only temporarily. Rumors in the royal court turned into actual fact: a rebellion was underway. The Amun priesthood, now in control of the army, wanted Akhenaton’s head on a platter.

With Egypt divided between Amen and A-ton, Aye (Aya or E.A.) Akhenaton’s minister and uncle proposed a compromise -- allow the old gods to be worshipped along with Aton. Akhenaton refused. He and Nefertiti were forced to abdicate the throne and flee for their lives. Along with a small group of followers and taking with him the symbol of his authority --the Key of Life --Akhenaton and Nefertiti disappeared into the Sinai Peninsula.

Akhenaton’s successor, Semenkhkare, was murdered within a few days, and was succeeded by Akhenaton and Nefertiti’s young son, Tutankhaten. As evidenced by the symbol of Tula on the back of his throne seat found in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the new Pharaoh worshipped Aton as did his father. As a compromise with the Amen priests, he reopened the ancient temples and legalized the worship and patronage of the ancient gods. As a final act of peace he changed his name to Tutankhamun recognizing Amun as the State god.

According to Ahmad Osman,³⁰ Tutankhamun traveled to the Sinai to meet his father to try to persuade Akhenaton and his followers to return to Egypt and live there in peace. The primary condition was that they had to accept the idea that the gods of Amen could become angels who could help the Egyptians become closer with God. Akhenaton refused. Tutankhamun was tortured and hanged by the Amun priest Panehesy, on the eve of Passover in April for betraying the religious beliefs of the Amen priesthood.

Interestingly, Osman makes a very compelling case that the figures playing out this ancient Egyptian drama are actually:

• Moses (Akhenaton)

• Joseph of Arimathea (Aye, Akhenaton/Moses’ uncle)

• Solomon (Akhenaton’s father)

• Mary (Nefertiti)

• Jesus (Tutankhamun)

If, indeed, Solomon was Akhenaton’s father, or even his relative, would this be the answer for where Moses/Akhenaton learned the alphabet previous to his encounter with the Lord on Sinai? Did he get it from his father, who had been taught this Language by God or by the father of the Queen of Saba?

If Tutankhamun is Jesus, this would explain the inexplicable statement in Revelation quoted above which explicitly states Jesus was (once?) crucified in Sodom and in Egypt (as Tutankhamun). It would further mean Akhenaton’s plan for bringing the Messiah to Earth in the form of his son, Tutankhamun, was a success.

This possibility potentially explains many things, not the least of which is the reason why the Cathars would have insisted the Gospels be understood in the Language of Ak, the Language of the god AK-HEN-ATON, who emerges as nothing less than a Bird Man of Tula.

In addition, it would explain why, shortly after his death, Jesus, along with three disciples, met Moses and Elijah on ‘Mount Sinai’. In Sunday School we are led to believe this was a symbolic meeting. In light of this hypothesis, the meeting of Moses (Akhenator) and Jesus (Tutankhamun) becomes an actual meeting of father and son. Elijah, who never died, but was carried to have in a “whirlwind“ came to joint him.

In answer to our present question of where Elijah acquired the Joseph’s --E.A’s --Coat of Many Colors, the answer appears to be he got it from Akhenaton.

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