Sackcloth

Isa_50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Rev_6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

Image 1 Black Hole / Cosmic Cave
Image 2 Black Hole / Sackcloth
An image based on a supercomputer simulation of the cosmological environment where primordial gas undergoes the direct collapse to a black hole. The gas flows along filaments of dark matter that form a cosmic web connecting structures in the early universe. The first galaxies formed at the intersection of these dark matter filaments . Credit: Aaron Smith/TACC/UT-Austin

The cave is both a place of burial and a place of rebirth, and in the story of Jonah the whale plays precisely this double part. Besides, cannot one say that the Matsya-avatara himself appeared first in the baneful guise of harbinger of a cataclysm before becoming the saviour in this very cataclysm? On the other hand, the malefic aspect of the whale is manifestly akin to the Hebrew Leviathan. 5 But it is especially represented in the Arab tradition by the ‘daughters of the whale’ (banat al-Hut) who from the astrological point of view are the equivalents of Rahn and Ketu in the Hindu tradition, especially insofar as concerns the eclipses, and who, it is said, ‘will drink the sea’ on the last day of the cycle, on that day when ‘the stars will arise in the West and will set in the East’.

... death and birth are after all two aspects of one same change of state; ... the passage from one state to another is always considered as having to be effected in darkness. 3 In that sense, the cave would be, more precisely, the very place of the passage; but this, though strictly true, is only one side of its complex symbolism.

The Solstitial Gates

We have said that the zodiac’s two gates which are respectively the entry to and exit from the ‘cosmic cave’, and which certain traditions designate as the ‘gate of men’ and the ‘gate of the gods’, inevitably must correspond to the two solstices. We must now state more explicitly that the first corresponds to the summer solstice, that is, to the sign of Cancer, and the second to the winter solstice, or to the sign of Capricorn. In order to understand the reason for this, it is necessary to refer to the division of the annual cycle into two halves, the one ‘ascending’ and the other descending’. The first is the period of the movement of the sun towards the North ( uttarayana), going from the winter to the summer solstice; the second is that of the movement of the sun towards the South (dakshinayana), going from the summer to the winter solstice.1

In the Hindu tradition, the ascendant phase relates to the (deva-yarn, and the descendant phase to the pitri-yana,2 which coincides exactly with the designations of the two gateways we have just mentioned. The ‘gate of men’ is that which gives access to the pitri-yana, and the ‘gate of the gods’ is that which gives access to the deva-yana. They must therefore be respectively at the outset of the two corresponding phases, that is, the first must be at the summer solstice, and the second at the winter solstice. But in this case it is not really a question of an entry and of an exit, but of two different exits, inasmuch as the point of view is different from that which relates in a special way to the initiatic function of the cave, even though it is perfectly compatible with that function. In fact the ‘cosmic cave’ is here considered as the place of manifestation of the being.

After being manifested here in a certain state, such as the human state for example, this being will go out from it by one of the two gates according to the spiritual degree which it has reached. In one case, that of the pitri-yana, it will have to return to another state of manifestation which naturally will be represented by a re-entry into the ‘cosmic cave'. In the other case, on the contrary, that of the deva-yana, there is no further return to the manifested world. One of these two gates is thus both an entry and an exit, while the other is a final exit; but, as regards Pitṛyāna (पितृयान).—The path to the underworld of the ancestors through the gateway of death is called the Pitṛyāna; from the epic period onwards this is increasingly seen as contrasting with the Devayāna which involves liberation from existence through wisdom (jñāna).

This division into ancestral (lunar) and divine (solar) ‘vehicles’ corresponds to the two sects Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava: “Devayāna is Viṣṇu’s path, the path of the Pitṛyāna is dark; these are the two paths after death—the one leading upwards, the other below” (Mahābhārata XII, 315.30).

Devayana means the journey (yana) of the gods (devas or immortal beings). It refers to the path by which those who achieve liberation travel after they depart from here. You may also call it devapatha or the path of the gods or immortal beings. Devayana, is an original Vedic concept described in the earliest Upanishads such as the Chandogya, Brihadaranyaka, and Kausitaki Upanishads.

Rev_3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

‘Homer, Porphyry observes, did not limit himself to saying that this grotto had two gates. He specified that one of them faced to the North, and the other, more divine, faced South; and that one descended by the northern gateway. But he has not indicated whether one could descend by the southern gateway. He says only: it is the entry of the gods. Never does man take the path of the immortals’.

Homer, on the contrary, says that it is by the northern gate that the ‘descent’ is made, that is. the entry into the ‘cosmic cave’, or in other words, into the world of generation or of individual manifestation. As to the southern gateway, it is the exit from the cosmos, and consequently it is through it that the ‘ascent’ of beings on the way to liberation is accomplished. Homer does not say expressly if one can also descend by this gate, but that is not necessary, for in designating it as the ‘entry of the gods’, he tells us clearly enough what are the exceptional ‘descents’ which are made thereby, as we have explained in our previous study. Finally, whether the situation of the two gates be looked at in relation to the movement of the sun in the heavens as in the Greek tradition, or in relation to the seasons in the annual terrestrial cycle, as in the Hindu tradition, it is clearly always Cancer which is the ‘gateway of men’ and Capricorn which is the ‘gateway of the gods’.

The fact that Janus was the god of initiation is most important, not only in itself but also from out present standpoint, because there is an evident connection here with what we have said about the obviously initiatic function of the cave and of the other ‘images of the world’ which are its equivalents, and that is precisely what has brought us to consider the question of the solstitial gates. Furthermore, it is on this basis that Janus presided over the Collegia Fabrorum, these being the trustees of the initiations which, as in all traditional civilisations, were linked to the practice of the crafts: and what is altogether remarkable is that we have here something which, far from having disappeared with the ancient Roman civilisation, continued on without interruption into Christianity itself, and of which traces can still be found in our day, however strange that may appear to those who are ignorant about certain ‘transmissions’.
https://ia801305.us.archive.org/30/items/reneguenon/1962%20-%20Symbols%20of%20Sacred%20Science%20-%20Fundamental%20Symbols%20-%20The%20universal%20language%20of%20sacred%20science_text.pdf
Image 3 Janus
Image 4 Vatican Keys Logo

Two Saint Johns

In Christianity, the solstitial feasts of Janus became those of the two Saint Johns, and these are always celebrated at the same period, that is, within the immediate vicinity of the two solstices of winter and of summer: 1 and it is significant also that the esoteric aspect of the Christian tradition has always been considered as ‘johannite’, which confers on this fact a meaning that clearly goes beyond the simply religious and exoteric domain, whatever may be the outward appearances. The guilds moreover were made, by regular transmission, the successors of the ancient Collegia Fabrorum, and throughout the Middle Ages they maintained the same initiatic status. This applies in particular to the guild of the builders, which thus naturally had as patrons the two Saint Johns, whence the well-known expression of ‘Lodge of St John’ which has been preserved by Masonry, this in itself being nothing but the continuation by direct filiation of the organisations we have just mentioned. 2 Even under its modem ‘speculative’ form. Masonry has likewise always kept, as one of the more explicity testimonies of its origin, the solstitial feasts consecrated to the two Saint Johns, these feasts having been consecrated to the two faces of Janus previously; and it is thus that the traditional lore of the two solstitial gates, with its initiatic connections, has been maintained, still living even if greatly misunderstood, down to the modem Western world.
http://www.vermontlodgeofresearch.com/Publications/Official/22%20Lazarus%20Come%20Forth%20PDF%20files/3.%20The%20Symbolism%20of%20the%20Two%20St.%20Johns.pdf

Two Saint Johns Episcopal Church
Joh 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

Even though summer is generally considered as a joyful season and winter as a sad one, by the fact that the first represents in a way the triumph of light and the second that of darkness, the two corresponding solstices none the less have an exactly opposite significance. This may seem to be a rather strange paradox, but it is quite easy to understand that it should be so, once one has some knowledge of traditional teaching about the course of the annual cycle. Indeed, what has attained its maximum can thenceforth only diminish; and what has come to its minimum, on the contrary, can only begin to increase forthwith. 1 This is why the summer solstice marks the start of the descending half of the year, and the winter solstice, conversely, that of its ascending half; and it is also what explains, from the point of view of its cosmic meaning, this saying of St John the Baptist, whose birth coincides with the summer solstice: ‘He must increase, but I must decrease’.

Actually, they are placed a little after the exact dates of the two solstices [St John, Apostle and Evangelist, December 27, and St John the Baptist, June 24—these dates being those of the traditional Roman calendar. Tr.] which makes their significance still more apparent, for the descent and ascent have then actually begun. To this corresponds, in Vedic symbolism, the fact that the gates of the pitri-loka and of the deva-Ioka are said to be situated respectively, not exactly at the South and the North, but towards the Southwest and the Northeast.

Image 5 Saint Johns Episcopal Church
Image 6 Aurora North Pole
Image 7 Aurora South Pole

Twin Warriors - Two Witnesses- Sackcloth

The Twin Warriors - Hopi

When Pöqanghoya and Palöngawhoya stop Turning, the Earth will stop Rotating and this will be a Time for Great Changes.

Hopi Prophecy

So you may ask, "Pinuu'u, is this how we see the Serpent Brothers? To see Pöqanghoya we go to the North Pole and stand on the grinding Turning island of ice? To see Palöngawhoya we put on diving-suits and dive in the hot Weddell Sea?" This is a good way to feel the Power of the Warrior Serpent Brothers, but there is also a way to see the Serpent Brothers. The Spiral Force of Pöqanghoya which turns the Arctic ice is so Powerful it extends into Space. In other words, the Spiral Force coming from Pöqanghoya is Spiraling into Space over the North Pole and making a giant invisible Tornado going up into Space.

The same is happening in the South Pole, with His Spiral Force Palöngawhoya is making a giant invisible Tornado going up into Space. These giant invisible Tornadoes are different from other Tornadoes in two ways: First, they stay in one position, always over the Poles, never moving from Place to Place, and second, they are Turning more slowly than other Tornadoes, but always in a Spiral Motion like a giant funnel. Therefore if you go to the North Pole and stand on the Arctic ice, you will not feel or see the Tornado but you will know it is the Powerful Force which is making the Arctic ice grind and Turn and this Force is reaching up into Space.

Now I will tell you how to *see the Serpent Brothers. The Powerful Force which is Turning the Arctic ice and heating the Weddell Sea produces Energy. Sometimes these invisible Tornadoes are able to be seen when the Energy they produce causes Lights in the sky. Man calls these Lights the Northern and Southern Lights (Auroras) and these Lights are wonderful to see. I found a wonderful picture of Pöqanghoya on the Internet.

On this picture we can see Pöqanghoya as a *Double Serpent, this is a wonderful Symbol showing why Himo Sinom calls the Warrior Serpent Brothers "Twins". This is not a Hopi "legend", this is a Universal and Scientific Truth. It is said that when Purification Time comes the Serpent Brothers will stop Turning, this is also not a Hopi "legend", it is a Universal and Scientific Truth. It is said the Serpent Brothers keep this World Rotating, this is also a Universal and Scientific Truth.

When Pöqanghoya and Palöngawhoya stop Turning, the Earth will stop Rotating and this will be a Time for Great Changes.
https://hopi.cmsimple.sk/en/?Prophecies:Twin_Warriors

Two Witnesses

Isa_50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Rev 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

Rev 11:4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

Rev 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

Rev 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. (Black Hole or Nova - Apollyon)

Luk_10:19  Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Sir_39:30  Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, serpents, and the sword punishing the wicked to destruction.