The Jesus birth story in the Biblical book of Matthew wanted to make sure the reader understood that Jesus was teaching in the magical tradition:
(March 15, 2024) Palmyra (modern Syrian city of Tadmor) used to be an important link in the trading network known as the silk connecting east and west. It became a part of the Roman empire between 0 and 100 CE but it was treated as an autonomous province. A branch of this trade into Egypt was siphoned off from Tyre when Herod the Great built the port town of Caesarea Maritima. This new trade route passed through the new custom's town of Capernaum where Jesus lived. Jesus would have been exposed to the magical practices promoted by the Palmyra temple.
See the text translations in this section here.
Palmyra Plaque Now at the Louvre, Number AO 18200. Online at: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010123474
(March 3, 2024, update December 10, 2025). This plaque was found at Palmyra. The letter style of this text is Aegean Island Hellenistic which derives from the Aegean Island tradition. Yet this letter style retains some Aegean Island elements making it slightly older than what appears of the Rosetta Stone which is dated to 200 BCE. Notice the many mentions of Yahu/Yahweh which was the national god of Israel at this time. Su is the dark new moon god associated with astrology-magic.
It is describing the functions of various divine powers. This text says:
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No complete works of Heraclitus exist today yet his work is the earliest evidence of the eastern idea of yoga as an attunable emotional/spiritual network moving west. All we have are quotes found in later texts such as:
(December 10, 2025) Ancient Druid culture had a unidirectional network for the life class of powers in which divine commands triggering life manifestations flowed down to earth. Ancient Druid culture also had a bidirectional network for the magical motion/emotion powers. "Emotion powers" even had their own word in Druid Akkadian. This word is Awen from the singular Akkadian word A'u and Awu (Ayin tends to slur into /w/ over time).
In order to engage with the bidirectional emotion/emotion power network one must attune to these conscious powers. This is the whole idea of emotional focus (considerations) in rituals. The Druid Akkadian word for this is LG in the runic texts which can be read as Lagu.
Greek Philosopher Heraclitus adopted Lagu into Greek as "Logos" by giving it a Greek word ending. Heraclitus introduced his concept of Logos into Greek cultures within 30 years after the Persians conquered his home city of Ephesus in 522 BCE. At that time he would have been exposed to Persian magi culture which seems to have been essentially Druid.
Roman era Stoics believed that logos was one of the three characteristics of Divine mind along with nous (reasoning as the chaining together of facts) and ettistnun (knowledge of the facts). The dualist but still Stoic author Epictetus (c.50 – c.135 CE) and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) write these:
Notice that the stoic philosophy of this era was starting to be permeated with enforced personifications of spiritual powers.
The Bible incorrectly translates logos as “word” or “message.” The author of the Gospel of John uses "word" for Logos below:
The Apostle Paul also used “logos” in 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 Here Christian translators again translate it incorrectly as "message." They deliberately do translation fraud (translating it differently in different places) so they can put their own theological spin on the original text.