THE FOREHEAD CONCENTRIC CIRCLE, THE SACRED SYMBOL OF THE GODMAN
Having established that Qa-in is the Hebrew name of Canaan – the Quenites being the Canaanite tribe from which Moses took a wife. (Sitchin, Ibid., p. 200), we turn again our attention to the forehead concentric circle. This symbol is both the mark of the smith and of the Sons of the Sun. Incidentally the smiths saw themselves as members of the lineage of Sons of the Sun. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures were a collection of thirteen papyrii codices belonging to the centuries immediately following the death of Jesus Christ. These collection of hitherto lost writings of the Gnostics, were found buried near the city of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt – containing among other writings, a sizable collection of the hidden works of Jesus and his disciples, throw much light on the hidden meanings of the teachings of Jesus and his disciples. Codex three titled The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, says that “the mysteries of truth are made known in symbols and images” (p. 185); and that the “holy people (are) conceived by the holy spirit through symbols and images” (p. 265).
Another Nag Hammadi book, Marsanes, describes the process whereby symbols define the configurations of the Divine Soul. The spiritual configuration of the Divine Soul is said to constitute of two concentric circles – one going around the other “the first (sphere), the self-begotten Soul (God the Father/Mother) goes around” the second sphere, the Son. “It is in (the) configuration (of the second inner sphere) that the only-begotten soul resides”. (p. 642) Ordinary human souls on the contrary are said to constitute of three spheres, while the only begotten soul of the Son of God constitutes of two spheres uniting the Father with the Son or the Eternal Mother with the Divine Child as the case may be, for God in The Nag Hammadi is both Father and Mother and is actually referred to as “She”.
The Hebrew Cabbala also holds the idea that the double concentric circle is the secret symbol of God the Father and God the Son: the concentric spheres are the sephirot (divine emanations of the deity) … when the sephirot emanated from Ein Soph (the Infinite) they first took the form of Adam Kadmon (Qua-dmon/Qa-dmon) … (this is) the first concentric sphere … called Keter (the Father) … (It) forms another concentric sphere within itself called Ho-khm-ah (Son), the Primordial Man … Adam Kadmon was the –primordial image and likeness of God … his body is the blueprint for the bodies of all sons and daughters of God. (Elizabeth Claire Prophet, Kabbalah, 1997, p. 74-75)
The symbol borne on the forehead of the male figure on the Igbo Ukwu sacred object in plate 2 is a double concentric circle – the identity mark of the Only Begotten Son of God! Indeed “the mysteries of truth are made known in signs and images”. By their marks (symbols) we shall know them! Tribes and cultures identify themselves by their marks or rather by the same symbolic forms through which their gods are manifest. Nations were identified through their gods and goddesses. The identity of a people was made known through the identity of their deity. This point is central to our theses.
Another Nag Hammadi book, Marsanes, describes the process whereby symbols define the configurations of the Divine Soul. The spiritual configuration of the Divine Soul is said to constitute of two concentric circles – one going around the other “the first (sphere), the self-begotten Soul (God the Father/Mother) goes around” the second sphere, the Son. “It is in (the) configuration (of the second inner sphere) that the only-begotten soul resides”. (p. 642) Ordinary human souls on the contrary are said to constitute of three spheres, while the only begotten soul of the Son of God constitutes of two spheres uniting the Father with the Son or the Eternal Mother with the Divine Child as the case may be, for God in The Nag Hammadi is both Father and Mother and is actually referred to as “She”.
The Hebrew Cabbala also holds the idea that the double concentric circle is the secret symbol of God the Father and God the Son: the concentric spheres are the sephirot (divine emanations of the deity) … when the sephirot emanated from Ein Soph (the Infinite) they first took the form of Adam Kadmon (Qua-dmon/Qa-dmon) … (this is) the first concentric sphere … called Keter (the Father) … (It) forms another concentric sphere within itself called Ho-khm-ah (Son), the Primordial Man … Adam Kadmon was the –primordial image and likeness of God … his body is the blueprint for the bodies of all sons and daughters of God. (Elizabeth Claire Prophet, Kabbalah, 1997, p. 74-75)
The symbol borne on the forehead of the male figure on the Igbo Ukwu sacred object in plate 2 is a double concentric circle – the identity mark of the Only Begotten Son of God! Indeed “the mysteries of truth are made known in signs and images”. By their marks (symbols) we shall know them! Tribes and cultures identify themselves by their marks or rather by the same symbolic forms through which their gods are manifest. Nations were identified through their gods and goddesses. The identity of a people was made known through the identity of their deity. This point is central to our theses.