Mauro Biglino - MI-KA- EL: THE ARCHSTRATEGYST - 12-29-2021
Episode Summary:
"Let's talk about MI-KA-EL" by Mauro Biglino delves into the figure of Archangel Michael, exploring his biblical significance and broader cultural impacts. The book begins with the author's personal experiences, visiting Michael's cult centers and observing the increasing number of devotees. Biglino examines Michael's appearances in scriptures like Daniel, where he is depicted as a supreme leader, and the Book of Revelation, portraying him as a great military commander and protector. The discussion transitions to the peculiarities of Michael's worship sites, distributed along a perfect line from Ireland to Israel, each with unique stories of apparitions and miracles.
In examining these sites, Biglino unravels the complex interplay between Michael, other celestial beings, and historical figures. He reflects on Michael's association with healing, warfare, and protection, noting the overlap between Michael and deities from different cultures. The book also explores the relationship between Michael and significant biblical characters like Moses, delving into texts like the Assumption of Moses and accounts by Josephus Flavius.
The author critically analyzes the positioning of Michael in theological contexts, comparing his perceived authority to other divine figures and questioning the need for an intermediary protector for Israel. Through visiting sites like Skelling Michael and Mount Carmel, Biglino contemplates the deeper meaning of these sacred spaces and their historical significance. He concludes with a reflection on the implications of Michael's veneration and its role in understanding human spirituality and divine interaction.
Key Takeaways:
- Michael is revered as an ancient and powerful figure in biblical and extrabiblical texts.
- He is depicted as a supreme leader and protector, especially for Israel.
- His role extends into apocalyptic narratives, commanding the forces of good.
- Michael's cult centers are strategically located across a line from Ireland to Israel.
- The sites reflect a mix of ancient worship, Christian devotion, and mythological overlaps.
- Biglino challenges conventional interpretations of biblical figures and invites deeper inquiry into religious symbolism and history.
Predictions:
- The book does not focus specifically on predictions but discusses the ongoing and future significance of Michael's cult centers and their influence on cultural and spiritual practices.
- It implies a continued reverence and exploration of Michael's role in various religious, historical, and cultural contexts.
Mauro Biglino - MI-KA- EL: THE ARCHSTRATEGYST - 12-29-2021
Good morning.
Let's have this chat dedicating it to a rather particular character who is important both biblically and I would say also outside the Old Testament. Today we start talking about Michael, the archangel Michael, also known as Saint Michael, which has always amazed me because I have always wondered how you can make an angel holy but it doesn't matter.
For some years, both reading, studying, meeting people, and hanging out in person one of its centres, let's call them cult centres, I frequent it as it is a very fun gym for me because it is demanding, it takes about 500 meters of altitude difference which I do constantly, I've done it hundreds and hundreds of times, I continue to do it and there I see a phenomenon for example.
Over the years I have witnessed an exponential increase in the number of people who go to this center and who also go there on foot, therefore making this climb quite demanding, but I have seen it really increase in numbers that I did not expect and so I decided to talk about it also because there is something particular about planet Earth that concerns him and now we see it. In the meantime, let's see how it appears in the Old Testament. is mentioned in the book of Daniel, in the tenth chapter, where Daniel tells of an individual dressed in wine who comes to speak to him, he tells him a whole series of things and at a certain point he writes he told me do not fear Daniel because from the first day in which you tried to understand your words were heard and I came in response to your words but the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for 21 days but Michael one of the supreme princes came to my aid".
One of the supreme princes translates the Hebrew expression which means precisely one of the leaders, the first. Now Rishon in Hebrew has a a meaning that has above all a temporal value, perhaps the first understood in terms of time, which suggests a very ancient figure, a figure known since the origins, that is, ever since, his name being Mikael, who as an El, ever since the Els operated on earth or rather the Elohim knowing that there are also executed dictionaries that say that the root El and the root Elohim, one singular the other plural, could have had a common contemporary origin but could also have slightly different values so this Mi-Ka-El could identify a particular category and sometimes I almost have the impression, when I read this and more, that Mika'el has been given considerable importance, even sometimes I have the feeling of reading him almost as superior to Yahweh, even if Yahweh, as we know, was made to become God, but Yahweh we know in the Exodus is defined as Ishim the Hama that is man of war and Yahweh, the Bible tells us, the book of Genesis, appears on the scene not immediately but at a later time.
In the fourth chapter of Genesis, where the descent of the first two is told Adamites, we know that Adam and Deva had Cain and Abel, Cain kills Abel, Cain is driven out, Adam and Eve have another son called Seth, who has a son called Enosh and Bidia says then, that is, therefore at the time of Enosh, the name of Yahweh began to be invoked, which means that before it was not invoked, that is, Adam, Eve, Seth were evidently referring to other Els, they were not referring to him. and this is important, among other things it is explainable in the sense that the Elohim who worked in Gan Eden and the Elohim who worked to manufacture Homo Sapiens, to manufacture the Adamites were, that is to say, we would define them as genetic engineers, Yahweh was a man of war so it is clear that he can only enter the scene at a later time because, theoretically, he may not have had any functions in the manufacture of Adam.
And then we know that Yahweh, in the Bible, is presented in one way absolutely equal with his rival colleagues. Let us think of the Elohim who ruled over the Ammonites, the Moabites, that is, Milkom, Kamosh etc., who are given exactly the same importance. It is enough to read the Book of Judges to understand how Yahweh was absolutely not superior to them and how Yahweh was in fact entrusted with a very small population, that is, Jacob's family, and he finds it desperate, dispersed in the desert, that population that the Jewish scholar Lia Bat Adam, in her book Exodus, mentions and defines it as a bunch of landless people, so if you read these definitions, obviously in my feeling, I see an almost more important Michele.
Then, always continuing in the book of Daniel, the same individual is speaking to Daniel and says now I will return again to fight with the prince of Persia and says no one helps me in this except Michael your prince. Meaning what here says your prince and it is known that Michael is the protector of Israel Now, all nations have patron saints, as they say, Europe also has them, many associations, organizations have them, Michael among the other in Italy is also the protector of the police, but the strange and understandable thing is that nations, associations have a protector because because they need, as if to say, an intermediate figure but Israel is the people chosen by God, it would be the people chosen by God, it would be, as he said, my only begotten son and therefore what need does Israel have of an intermediate protector? that is, what need would Israel have of a protector who is halfway between itself and the Supreme given that Israel can turn directly to the Supreme?
This is something that surprises me a little. However Michael in his function as a great military commander also appears in the Apocalypse in chapter 12 where he is described as the commander of the hosts who will fight the final battle against the hosts of evil, obviously it will be a victorious battle for Michael and his men, but also precisely there he has this figure of a very important military commander who commands all the armies of good.
And then Michael appears, he is also mentioned, and here we remain in the New Testament,
we have seen the Apocalypse and here we are in the letter of Judas where in verse 9 it says the archangel Michael when in dispute with the devil and claimed the body of Moses did not dare to speak against him etc. etc. he claimed the body of Moses.
Here in Greek the body is indicated with soma, soma also indicates living body, be careful because dead flesh is indicated with sarx from which sarcophagus comes the one containing the corpse.
And so here Michael is represented contending with an adversary to dispute Moses. Now Moses is obviously described in the Pentateuch but is also described in an apocryphal text called the Assumption of Moses. where his death is discussed.
Unfortunately it is an incomplete text, very fragmentary and therefore we are missing, let's say, the final part but the title is evocative because it says the assumption of Moses, that is Moses as someone who was assumed. Let's see what Josephus says about this. Josephus, in Jewish antiquity, tells us about the death of Moses. You know, Moses could not enter the so-called promised land so he limited himself to looking at it from afar and, the Bible says, being in excellent health he went to die in the land of Moab. He goes to die accompanied by the elderly and accompanied by his two faithful ones. Eleazar and Joshua and let's hear how Josephus Flavius tells us the story.
Having reached the mountain called Abari, which is a hill located in front of Jericho, he dismissed the elders and while he was saying goodbye to Eleazar and Joshua, when he was still talking with them, suddenly a cloud descended on him and he disappeared in a valley but he himself wrote in the sacred books that he died for fear that because of his hyperbolic virtue someone would venture to claim that he has returned to divinity". Now here are some considerations very important. The first, he wrote that he died to prevent anyone from saying that he had gone away with the deities.
But then it means that dying does not mean returning to divinity. Returning to divinity is a different thing from dying. Here it is made clear that returning to divinity is an act that is performed alive, not dead.
And this makes me think of Enoch, the patriarch who went back and forth with the Elohim and that the Elohim then took away, makes me think of Elijah, the prophet who climbed onto a muruach of the Elohim and the Elohim they took it away but then we return to Elijah and above all it makes me think of another consideration that the cloud is a term that in the Old Testament indicates the appearance of Yahweh with his Kabod, with what is defined as his glory but which I described in the books as being a completely one thing different.
Now, the root Anan in the Hebrew etymology dictionary is said to be it also means being seen with a certain speed and also producing a sort of dull noise, a continuous noise and being seen quickly recalls this statement by Flavius Josephus when he says that when he was still talking to them suddenly a cloud descended on him and he disappears, that is, he goes away and Michael is here, that is, Jude's letter says that Michael is present at that moment and disputes the person of Moses with an adversary, therefore perhaps almost as if it were necessary to establish who he should go away with.
Well, this is something that intrigues me a lot, as you know, I always pretend that what I read is true and all of this falls within the scope of a very cocre story. So we have a Michael who is a leader of leaders, a Michael who is a character known since ancient times, a Michael who is the protector of Israel and a Michael, and here we come to times closer to us, than in the course of centuries he has managed, I would personally say, to have cult centers reserved for him and these very important cult centers are strangely, curiously, wonderfully distributed on a perfect straight line from Ireland to Israel.
The first is located in Skelling Michael which is precisely in Ireland and is Michael's rock and the last is Mount Carmel in Galilee in Israel. In the middle there are the others. Now here Michael managed to have these centers of worship through different actions some of these places he showed himself, it is said that he appeared and this reminds me of when in the Bible it is said that Yahweh appeared, in reality in Hebrew there is it is always written that Yahweh made himself seen, therefore with the verbal formula which indicates precisely this act of making himself seen, not of appearing.
Appearing is a theological translation, let's think about it, you have a friend who you haven't seen for several years and they meet and you don't tell them how many years it has been since you appeared to me, no, you tell them how many years it has been since you don't show up, that's exactly how it is in the Bible.
So Michele also showed up, Benedictines showed up for example with regards to the mountain of San Michele which is located off the coast of Cornwall, Michele is also remembered for his abilities as a healer and for example in the Skelling Michael center they carried out this healing work, that is, intervention on diseases.
Among other things, Skelling Michael presents another curiosity, she was chosen by the director of the Star Wars saga to shoot the final scene of one of the films, the return of the force, and we know well that science fiction films are in reality nothing more that pre-science communications, that is, science fiction very often does nothing but anticipate what we will come to know later and it is curious that for Star Wars chose the location of Scaling Michael. Then going down we arrive at the mountain of San Michele in Cornwall, off the coast of Cornwall and between this other site, if you look at the photographs, seems like a sister site to Saint Michael of Normandy, much better known. In San Michele di Normandy, in that territory, Michael showed himself again, he showed himself to the bishop of Avraus, Bishop Oberto, who, let's say so, was not very inclined to build this place of worship for him.
Then Michele performed an action quite heavy also, in the sense that he left him alive but with a finger he touched his skull and pierced it and therefore the Bishop, so to speak, who following this action decided to build this cult center in he dedicated.
Among other things, it also became important from a strategic point of view, for example in the disputes between the Duchy of Normandy and the Duchy of Brittany, just as Mount San Michele was important from a Michele, the one from the Sacra di San Michele in the province of Turin, but we will talk about this again, we will dedicate a special video to him, among other things in a slightly different way than usual. Then still descending into Italy we arrive at Monte Sant'Angelo and then at the cult of Michael in Puglia.
Michele showed himself here too, there was the sacred cave dedicated to him, too here he showed himself to the bishop who was a bit reticent but then following a battle which took place, if I remember correctly, in 492 AD, thanks to the intervention of Michael, it was then won, thanks to the intervention of Michael , it was then finally decided to build him this great important center of worship which then also had to do with the Lombards just as the Sacra di San Michele had to do with the Lombards but we will return to it because the Lombards then tended to identifying Michael's characteristics with those of Odin and therefore Michael here also seen as a military man, as a protector of warriors.
Descending along this perfect line we arrive in the Dolecanese, that is, on the island of Simi in the town of Panormitis where there is a large monastery dedicated to Michael, here the cult arrived from Turkey, from the area of Colossi, Colossi is that city remembered in Paola's letters, the Colossians, and here the cult was established following the discovery of an image, that is, an icon representing Michael covered in stupendous metal armor and therefore once again represented as a warrior. But the Simi site together with the San Michele site in Normandy are curious for two facts.
The cult of Michael was installed on a previous center of cult to Apollo as well like San Michele in Normandy it was built in a territory that was sacred for the Celts, it was consecrated to their god Belenus who is always identified with Apollo. and perhaps it is no coincidence that there are sites dedicated to this line of Michael, of the American sites above all, which call this line Apollo Michael Sexis, that is, the line of Apollo Michael and therefore also this overlap, this identification between Michael, lord of wars, lord of armies and Apollo Greek God widely described by Homer for example , this overlap is very interesting because it is true that Apollo was a cultist of the arts but Apollo also certainly did not disdain going to war, just read the oneric poems and therefore this overlap which, among other things, I have discussed in the books written for Mondadori, also becomes interesting from this point of view.
Among other things, I was lucky enough to be able to visit the site of Simi thanks to a very dear friend, on that same occasion I also visited the island of Patmos where the Apocalypse of John was written, the one in which chapter 12 is mentioned Michele and among other things in Patmos, again thanks to this friend, I was able to enter the innermost part of the library which was opened specifically for me, I was able to talk to the curator, see, have the emotion of touching those books that are reserved for scholars, that is, the public and tourists cannot go there and therefore it was a fairly important, emotionally significant experience for me. Then going down we arrive at the other vertex of the line of Michael, that is, Mount Carmel in Galilee.
Now this Mount Carmel is a mountain recognized as important and sacred since ancient times, it is also cited for example in Egyptian texts from the fourteenth century BC, was conquered by the pharaoh Tullmose III, was visited by Pythagoras ancient writers tell us that when Pythagoras went to Egypt, you know to have initiations and therefore have access to particular knowledge, he had himself left on the coasts of Galilee and climbed Mount Carmel therefore also known by Pythagoras as a site of particular special importance.
On Mount Carmel among other things archaeologists have found the remains of human bones which they have attributed to the species Homo Sapiens and so far nothing particular except for the fact that they were dated over 150 thousand years before Christ, which if they truly belonged to the Sapiens would rewrite the history of what is known about the origins of the Sapiens but for me it would not be a surprise thinking, always pretending that it is true, of what the Elohim did in terms of experimentation genetics to get to produce us, in fact, and so it doesn't surprise me.
Mount Carmel, among other things, is also biblically important, Carmel means garden, vineyard or garden of an El, which also recalls the Mikael here, that is, the chi as an El and was, let's say, an almost constant place of residence of the prophet .
The prophetelia is best remembered for two important events, the first being the great one victory he achieved against the prophets of Baal when he accomplished that, let's say, that extraordinary action considered as the miracle of Elijah, that is apparently pouring water on an altar made of stones he set fire to these stones and the sacrificial victim that was placed on top.
It was actually a chemical miracle, I I described dedicating an entire chapter to it here in this book, The Violin of the Bible, so I won't talk about it now, but it was a very well-planned operation. Obviously those who were watching were greatly amazed because we know that magic arises where science is not known, but Elijah, who was one of those who was in close contact with the Elohim, knew a whole series of things very well, but the other thing important related to Elijah is that Elijah was another of the characters who was taken away by the Elohim, that is, with Enoch, the patriarch who went back and forth with the Elohim and who was then taken away, Moses to whom an apocryphal text attributes an assumption.
We have seen what Flavius Josephus describes, Elijah who was taken away by the Elohim, in short it makes us think that precisely here too this Mount Carmel had a particular meaning. By the way, Moses and Elijah are the two who appear, and I say it again as it is said in the sacred texts, but Jesus became present when Jesus had what we know as the transfiguration and in combination there, at that moment, Moses and Elijah arrive, that is, two, let's say, undead and we have just seen the Why.
So then we have this line which is a line which also comes from studied the energetic aspect and it is a line that is made up of seven points, that is, seven important cult centers, the one that is central, in the sense that it is between the first three and the last three, is that of the Sacra di San Michele but We will dedicate a special video to this in a slightly particular and original way.
Thanks bye.
