Sun Worship, Ancestor Worship. Here’s a fun thought. They are one and the same. How so? Because the stars are our ancestors! Let me explain.

Our Sun is a third generation star, the “grandson” of the very first primordial Sun the Singularity. The Singularity can be thought of as the first physical Sun because it was an infinitely dense point of immeasurable heat and energy. We can also call this point the Absolute or the Monad, from which (within Gnostic thought) all things emanate. Emanation occurred through the Big Bang which began the expansion of the Universe, photons (Light) being the first particle that came into being. Though Light was everywhere, it was still dark because matter had not yet formed to absorb or reflect the Light. When the expanding Universe began to cool, matter started to form through the creation of the elements, the first being hydrogen. Other early elements were helium and lithium.

These early elements in the form of cosmic gas clouds condensed and clumped together through gravitational forces, giving formation to the very first stars. These first stars were massive in size, some estimates going to the high extreme of a thousand times more massive than our own Sun. It was within the core of these first stars that the heavier elements were made. When these stars went supernova or exploded, the energy and material dispersed from them spread all throughout the Universe, giving birth to the endless sea of galaxies, stars, and planets in our Observable Universe today, including our own Sun.

The formation of our Sun gave birth to our solar system and the planets within it, including the Earth. When the Sun was first formed, space dust containing elements like iron, aluminum, magnesium, silicon, oxygen, and carbon revolved around the Sun due to its gravitational pull. Some have suggested that the organic molecules necessary for the formation of life existed in this dust even before the formation of the Earth. Over hundreds of millions of years these elements would clump together forming the planets and their moons. The Earth during its early formation would be impacted by an object thought to be the size of Mars in which the debris from this impact created our Moon. Eventually when the solar system and the Earth cooled down some more, the conditions were right and set for Mother Earth to give birth to all the life on this planet through the energy radiated to her from the Father Sun.

In this way, you can then see how one can metaphorically say that the Sun and the stars are our ancestors, for we are very much linked to them and they are our origin. Without them, we wouldn’t be! When one considers the Hermetic Principle of Mentalism which states “The Universe is Mental”, perhaps the stars being our ancestors is more literal than metaphorical. That’s something to think about.

Ancient people that venerated the stars, the Sun, the Moon, and their ancestors. Looks like they knew more than modern man thinks.

Peace, Love, & Balance

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