Konstantin, goyacobol, Rima, thank you for your inputs regarding the
number 40.
This number seems to be significant in astronomy and religion.
These are just a few of my thoughts to add to the discussion:
40 days/years refers to a cycle of material existence, where transformation occurs. This cycle, I think, only concerns the first four lower dimensions from 1 through 4. It is like a transformation of a larva within a cocoon. If successful, a butterfly will break through the cocoon and spread its wings.
#40 has a connection to the womb/cocoon of the Universe (Mary, Inanna, Aphrodite, Ariadne, Ishtar, etc). It is some sort of a portal through which soul units proceed into generation and back. Let’s keep in mind that the average duration of pregnancy is about 40 weeks.
This
40-day period after death seems to be the domain of the Final Judgment, where animal souls are being sorted out from highly evolved souls that achieved a connection with higher non-material realms. The animal souls go back to the primal matter and the advanced souls “resurrect”, or move on. The resurrection of Christ has been celebrated around the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Ishtar, which is pronounced "
Easter", is the East Semitic Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess, equivalent to Mary. Ishtar or Easter is also a day that commemorated the resurrection of her son Tammuz (Jesus, Osiris etc, in other words an advanced soul.). When Tammuz was killed, Ishtar proclaimed a
forty-day period of sorrow each year. Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, a celebration of “Easter” was made. This event signifies the resurrection of the soul after going through a difficult period of change and Judgment.
The constellation of Pleiades can be seen throughout the year except in late April and May. The Arabs, especially, thought Pleiades forty days' disappearance in the sun's rays was the occasion of great harm to mankind, and Muhammad wrote that "when the star rises all harm rises from the earth." After the spring equinox the Pleiades can be seen in the west. The Pleiades heliacal rising in the Northern Hemisphere was widely recognized as the beginning of the new season of fertility and agriculture, in other words resurrection of life.
Pleiades in mythology and mystery religions have a strong connection to Naiades, the water nymphs. This ethereal moisture of the womb is an attribute of the lower spheres of material existence. Water represents the sphere of fluidity and instability. Souls proceeding onto generation are enveloped in ethereal humidity are called Naiades.
Going back to the subject of
Organic Portals.
As Laura suggested, the concept of the “second death” could be connected to the concept of the
40 days, which in many religions is the time of darkness, uncertainty, probation, rain, death. The importance of the "forty days" probably has to do with forty days' disappearance of the Pleiades. In ancient literature we can find links between Pleiades and the mythological virgins.
The C’s once also made a remark about the “wise virgins”, probably implying that we, as potentially souled individuals, should continue the work on our spiritual transformation and connecting our higher centers
A: Those who wish to participate in the future should "be prepared" like the wise virgins.
We can look at the
Parable of the Virgins under a slightly different angle. This parable is about the time of the Judgment and it gives us an idea about the difference between advanced souls as “wise virgins” and the “foolish” ones, which are the Organic Portals and potentially souled individuals, who did not connect to their higher energy centers.
I think lamp here is the light of reason, the divine energy that radiates through higher centers. Organic Portals don’t have that light, because they don’t have the soul of their own. Oil could represent knowledge. When the bridegroom came, the foolish ones wanted to borrow the light, just like the Moon borrows/reflects the light from the Sun.
Matthew 25 The Parable of the Ten Virgins
25 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4 The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’
7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.
8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ [This line did not have to be in the parable, unless, perhaps, it was included to provide a clue that there is a group of people, such as Organic Portals, who try to take light from the “wise”]
9 “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’
10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.
11 “Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’
12 “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’
13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
