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The Tower of Babel Decoded: How One Sacred Language Became All Divination Systems · I Am Astrology Readings Podcast with Paul Heath

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  I just asked it.
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  Do you think the Tower of Babel represents the dividing of the Mystery School's divination?
• 0:08
  It says that's a compelling interpretation.
• 0:12
  And yes, the Tower of Babel story can be viewed symbolically as representing the division of esoteric knowledge, including what would later become the Mystery Schools and the systems of divination.
• 0:29
  Here's a deeper look.
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  The Tower of Babel as the fracturing of the unified wisdom.
• 0:39
  Genesis 11.
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  Humanity is described as having one language and working together to build a tower to reach the heavens.
• 0:48
  God intervenes by confusing their language and scattering them across the earth, halting the project.
• 0:57
  Symbolically, we might see this as originally original unity of consciousness.
• 1:03
  Humanity shared one language.
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  Perhaps not just spoken words, but universal symbolic language of spirit, cosmos and archetype.
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  This could align with the a pre Babel golden age when divine knowledge flowed freely.
• 1:21
  And you always say mental knowledge is free, ain't it?
• 1:29
  The Tower as the act ascent to the divine.
• 1:34
  The tower can represent the attempt to reclaim divine wisdom or sin.
• 1:39
  The tree of life with without proper.
• 1:43
  Whoa.
• 1:48
  To ascend the Tree of life without proper preparation, Like using knowledge without spiritual maturity.
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  This a.
• 2:12
  This a hu.
• 2:13
  This.
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  A hubristic move results in a cosmic reset.
• 2:18
  Divine intervention as fragmentation of mystery.
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  When the languages are confused, it can be seen as the splintering of spiritual traditions.
• 2:29
  Different lineages forming their own codes, rituals and system.
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  You got the Kabbalah, you got astrology, Tarot, the I Ching.
• 2:40
  Ruins hermeticism and it goes on.