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Seth in Japan, Japanese Children of Seth

2012-02-12T15:11:00.000-08:00

In Abrahamic traditions, Seth the prophet is the forefather of all humankind. However, this is interesting because the mythology of Susa-no-o (須佐之男) is rather similar to the mythology of Set/Seth of Egypt and the occult. Also, before the Masonic president (and thus Horus-worshiping president) dropped the atomic bombs on innocent Japanese civilians for having the audacity to hold onto an ideology and spirit that did not allow surrender, the Japanese considered themselves descended from the gods (Emperor: Amaterasu, the population Susa-no-o et al. kami). The way the Japanese were treated and fear-mongered and forced to renounce their national spirit is much in the same way the West has been handling Islam. Japan lost the emperor and the Muslim Ummah lost the khilafah (Islamic State). There is even a little known history between the Islamic world and imperial Japan because of such similarities. The Ummah had already lost its political power symbol (khilafah) at that time, and Japan (in big brother, little brother fashion) offered to bring it back.

"On his part, Susa-no-wo decided to leave the residence of the gods and just like many other divine heroes who lived on earth, he became a monster-slayer. One day he saw a huge dragon about to devour a young maid. He came to her rescue right away and killed the dragon. He eventually married her and became the forefather of several large Japanese noble families. Knowing that the dragon had a sword inside his stomach, Susa-no-wo cut it open and claimed it for himself."*

*Savitri Devi, "Shinto -- La via degli dei," Arya, no. 4 (July 1980). Trans. Guido Stucco. Savitri Devi's essay "Shinto -- The Way of the Gods" was written in English in New Delhi in 1979. It was then translated into Italian by Vittorio De Cecco for the Italian-language NS periodical Arya, published in Montreal. The English original of the essay is lost; the text above is Guido Stucco's translation of a translation. Portions of Savitri's "Shinto" may have first appeared in Asit Krishna Mukherji's Eastern Economist, which was published in collaboration with the Japanese from 1938-1941. (Source)

"The rival Izumo clan is descended from Susanoo, and so it can be seen as part of the divine plan that they should have a subordinate role." (Source)

Rudra Chakrin: King of the World, Tantric Apocolyptic Redeemer, and Dajjal

2012-02-10T09:20:00.000-08:00

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'Behold [Dajjal] is in the Syrian sea, or the Yemeni sea. Nay, on the contrary he is in the East, he is in the East, he is in the East,' and he pointed with his hand towards the East.
(Sahih Muslim, Book #041, Hadith #7028)

We hurriedly went on till we came to [a] monastery and found a well-built person there with his hands tied to his neck and having iron shackles between his two legs up to the ankles. We said: Woe be upon thee, who are you? And he said:...I am going to tell you about myself. I am Dajjal and would be soon permitted to get out... (ibid)

In 1921, Polish explorer Ferdynand Ossendowski published Beasts, Men, and Gods, an account of his travels in the Far East during the time of the Russian Revolution. In section V of the work (Chapters 46-49), Ossendowski recounts how, after a strange presence was felt in a Tibetan valley which disturbed his guides and upset their animals, he was told the legends of the "Brahytma", the World-King of Tibetan Buddhism.

More than sixty thousand years ago a Holyman disappeared with a whole tribe of people under the ground and never appeared again on the surface of the earth. (pg. 302)

This kingdom, the lama goes on to explain, was visited by many saints and mystics, including the Sakyamuni Buddha (the historical founder of Buddhism). Its location is obscure, but the kingdom is known to be a veritable heaven on earth, and ruled by an all-powerful man:

All the people there are protected against Evil and crimes do not exist within its bournes. Science has there developed calmly and nothing is threatened with destruction. The subterranean people have reached the highest knowledge. Now it is a large kingdom, millions of men with the King of the World as their ruler. He knows all the forces of the world and reads all the souls of humankind and the great book of their destiny. Invisibly he rules eight hundred million men on the surface of the earth and they will accomplish his every order. (ibid)

Another Lama added further detail on the World-King, telling him that the king and his companions have the powers “of the earth, of inferno and of the sky and […] can do everything for the life and death of man”, and that "by his order trees, grasses and bushes can be made to grow; old and feeble men can become young and stalwart; and the dead can be resurrected." (pg 304).

In short, the Brahytma is seen as a living God who rules over a perfect, paradisiacal kingdom called either Agharti or Shambhala.

Shortly before finishing his book, Ossendowski was told by a high ranking Lama that the King of the World had appeared before the monks of his monastery in 1891 and given them a dire "prophecy". Mostly, it was a generic doomsday warning, but one part referred specifically to Muslims:

The 'Crescent' will grow dim and its followers will descend into beggary and ceaseless war. Its conquerors will be stricken by the sun but will not progress upward and twice they will be visited with the heaviest misfortune, which will end in insult before the eye of the other peoples. (pg. 313)

The prediction ended with the words "...Then the peoples of Agharti will come up from their subterranean caverns to the surface of the earth." (pg. 314)

Prophecies about the emergence of the people of the subterranean kingdom, along with their all-powerful king, are an integral part of Tibetan Buddhist eschatology. The Kalachakra Tantra, a central scripture of Tibetan Buddhism, prophesies that in the last age, the last King of Shambhala/Agharti, Rudra Chakrin ("wrathful wheel turner"), also known as Rigden Djapo, will emerge from his kingdom to slay the wicked, conquer the earth, and make the true doctrine reign supreme over all. The sixth Panchen Lama described this scenario in the following prayer to Rudra Chakrin:

Thee, great lama, who lives in this paradise land and who is constantly in prayer, shall adopt the title of Rigden Djapo and shall defeat the armies of lalo. Thy army shall include people of many nations. Thee shall have 40,000 large wild elephants, four millions of mad elephants, many warriors, and Thee shall pierce the heart of the king of lalo... Thy people shall tame the lalo's protectors, and the lalo's influence shall be totally gone. And then the time shall come when the true faith spreads all over.” (Red Shambhala, pg. 5)

The "lalo" being referred to in these prophecies are described in Tibetan Buddhist texts as a group of "barbarians" that Rudra Chakrin will destroy, along with their "false doctrines". "Lalo" is a Tibetan equivalent of the Sanskrit term "mleccha", and is used to refer to all people of non-Dharmic faiths. It is used, more specifically, in the Kalachakra Tantra to refer to the followers of "Adam, Noah, Abraham, and five others – Moses, Jesus, the White-Clad One, Muhammad, and Mahdi [...]" (Verse I.154, The Abridged Kalachakra Tantra). They are said to have been the propagators of the false dharma (path, religion) of the mlecchas. The message they brought is referred to as "tamas" (literally "darkness", but it is used more specifically in Buddhism to refer to teachings which are utter falsehood).

The Shambhala/Agharti myth with its vision of an occult rulership of the world and terrifying apocalyptic narrative, has fascinated Western mystics since the nineteenth century and figures prominently in the thought of the Theosophical Society, the Russian painter and explorer Nicholas Roerich, the French “Synarchist” Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, and the Traditionalist/Sufi philosopher Rene Guenon.

In his book Lord of the World, Guenon implicitly identifies the Brahytma with the “Qutb” (axial saint, pole of the age) of Sufism (pg. 19), and puts forth the idea, common in nineteenth and early twentieth century occultism, of Shambhala/Agharti as the true center of all initiatic tradition, with the hidden King of the World as the head of the “highest circle” of the “initiatic hierarchy” (pg. 23). This “highest circle” corresponds to the “secret chiefs” of much of Western occultism (especially prominent in the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), the “Mahatmas” of Theosophy, and the Aqtab of Sufism.

Naturally, many people (especially Muslims, Christians, and Jews) will be disturbed that Tibetan Buddhism envisions an apocalyptic scenario in which all forms of monotheism are violently destroyed, and that said destruction is seen as the key to universal peace and tranquility. This is made especially disturbing for Muslims by the way that many of the descriptions of the King of the World resemble the statements related from the Prophet Muhammad (May God bless him and grant him peace) about the coming of al-Masih ad-Dajjal (the False Messiah/Antichrist).

In brief, the Dajjal is a false savior who presents himself as the true and living God, comes as a figure of world peace and unification, but perpetrates brutal war against the true believers. His reign culminates in the second coming of Jesus (peace be upon him), who slays the Dajjal and establishes a true era of peace and Godliness. The Brahytma’s earthly paradise, Shambhala, and his powers over the inferno remind one of the following statement of the Prophet (PBUH):

He (Dajjal) will have a paradise and a hell with him, but his paradise will be a hell and his hell will be a paradise. (Sahih Muslim, no. 5222)

Like Brahytma, the Dajjal shows strange powers over the earth and can appear wherever he pleases:

Under the feet of the Dajjal the earth will be rolled up as the skin of the ram is rolled up from wool. (Hakim al-Nishaburi, Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain, 4; 529-530)

The expression “rolling up the earth” (tayy al-ard) is used in Arabic to refer to a sort of travel (similar to teleportation) where, rather than moving to a destination, the destination moves to you.

The lama’s statements about Brahytma’s powers over the sky and vegetation call to mind this statement about Dajjal:

Then he will command the sky to rain, and the earth to bring forth vegetation, and their cattle will come back to them in the evening, with their humps very high, and their udders full of milk, and their flanks stretched. – (Sahih Muslim, 5228)

The Dajjal also possesses the apparent power over life and death ascribed to the King of the World:

Part of his fitnah will be that he will say to a Bedouin, 'Do you think that if I resurrect your father and mother for you that you will testify that I am your lord?’ He will say, ‘Yes.’ So two devils will appear to him in the image of his father and mother, saying, ‘O my son, follow him for he is your lord.’ (Sunan Ibn Majah, no. 4067)

The deification which the Brahytma receives from Tibetan Buddhism and occult groups parallels the deification the Dajjal will receive when he presents himself to the world as king. The powers he is ascribed in Tibetan legend parallel those of the Dajjal in near-exact detail, and the world conquest and mass-slaughter of Muslims by Rudra Chakrin, Brahytma’s final incarnation, seem to put the resemblance beyond mere coincidence. The Brahytma’s place in western occultism as the supreme God and central figure of all initiation connect him with the Egyptian deity Horus, who, as other posts on this blog have shown, also possesses a strong identification with the Dajjal. Taken together, all these factors make it easy to conclude that the Brahytma/Rudra Chakrin is the Dajjal of Islamic eschatology.

The Suicide Cult of Lady Gaga Redemptrix

2012-02-08T10:13:00.000-08:00

There is a phenomenon occurring in America that many people know about, but surprisingly no one has commented on despite its disturbing nature and creepy correlations: Homosexual boys are killing themselves and they're dedicating their suicides to Lady Gaga while claiming that Lady Gaga had saved them.

While celebrities are not responsible for the actions of their fans, this has to be brought to attention because no one, absolutely no one, is saying don't fucking kill yourself. Instead, a suicide trip in Lady Gaga's name will bring you immortality and apotheosis vis-a-vis the Redemptrix herself and all of her "little monsters." It's so strange and disturbing that it seems to be part of a larger public mystery cult rather than simply the consequences of a ditsy celebrity not knowing how to address people with a penchant for copycat suicide (choosing to focus on bullying rather than her own indirect influence). Meanwhile, the drugged-up, addled populace with its desire for bandaid emotion-driven feel good solutions jumps on the bullying bandwagon and on a much larger scale contributes to the martyrization of such children rather than focus on making children get suicide out of their head, which would include other children with higher suicide rates who don't kill themselves because of bullying or LGBT issues (such as American Indian children across nations and tribes).

Most people can agree that bullying is not only wrong, but can be highly damaging to a person. The problem is that, in typical Western fashion, instead of addressing bullying at its root, false solutions are sought like criminalization and putting all of the blame on the bullies rather than the person who made the decision. Everyone forgets that suicide is a form of murder.

While making laws against bullying feels good and seems right, how could it ever be implemented without dragging innocent people down with it? Nevermind that it doesn't directly address suicide. A person who would kill themselves because of bullying would kill themselves for another reason if necessary because there's no value system in place to tell them that suicide is never the answer. Also, Lady Gaga doesn't really seem to have a problem with bullies anyway. The grandest bullies of all are American politicians. She has no problem serenading them one-on-one, nor does she have any problem with encouraging people to join the military to physically bully, rape and kill innocent civilians.

What we have with Lady Gaga is a woman who utilizes intense and extreme occult imagery and symbolism into every single thing that she does, while being accessible to her fans, bringing her fans into her and into the world of manipulation, obfuscation, and power. It should be of no surprise, then, that when she takes up causes the problems only amplify when her name is invoked, not diminish.

Art is magic, especially music. When one thinks of what's involved in making music, one can realize that music is a form of alchemy, in a sense. Some of the most beloved initiates were composers and musicians, Mozart being an easy example. Like those before her, Lady Gaga invokes Horus in almost every performance, and as a result becomes Isis--the mother goddess--for her fans. She's a Magna Mater, a "Fame Monster Mother" to her "Little Monster" worshipers. In our secular world that no longer has functional, powerful monarchs, she--in celebrity fashion--has filled in the subconscious cultural need for the sacred queen mother--the Isis, the Cybele, the virgin and mother, the female and male, the Mary who can save you. That is why these children thank her before they kill themselves. Like the goddess consort Attis, in death, she redeems them. Through her and in death do they find comfort and release from the prison of the world. For them, the queen, the goddess, the redemptrix sings.

“Why is there such fighting within the monster family? Isn’t the point that we are connected because of our humanity and the freedom we’ve found in Gaga?” – A Little Monster

"Don't forget me when I come crying to heaven's door," wrote Jamey Rodemeyer on his Facebook page while posting lyrics from her song "The Queen."

"Thank you so much Lady Gaga, for being the fearless, relentless, proud LGBTQ advocate the world needs. You make me so proud. You are my biggest inspiration. Continue to light the fire that illuminates the darkness in so many lives." - EricJames Borges

It Gets Better, I promise! - Jamey Rodemeyer

"Hold your head up and you'll go far. Because that's all you have to do, just love yourself and you're set."- Jamey Rodemeyer

Lady Gaga makes a tribute, redeems Jamey Rodemeyer by saying that suicides go to heaven, and that he's "not a victim." He's buried in a Lady Gaga t-shirt with a unicorn on it (traditionally a symbol of Jesus Christ connected to Mary's intercession on his behalf). "He was so much for her message...she was the biggest influence in his life."

@ladygaga bye mother monster, thank you for all you have done, paws up forever

Over 22 Million Drug Users in America (not counting legal perscription drug use)

2012-02-08T04:18:00.000-08:00

Anyone who has watched the show Intervention is probably already familiar with the 2010 statistic that states that over 22 million people in America are addicts since that forms the introduction of the show. I don't mean to be repetitive with information that's already out there, but I think it's important for people to dwell on it and really take it in.

I would wager that the statistics are actually lower than the reality. From my own experiences, it really seems like that there is no way that only 9% of the population uses or has used drugs. Almost every single person I have ever met in my life has used drugs sometime in their life, or is actively using drugs. Many of them were or are very heavy users, too.

I'm bringing this up because of what it means for society and the world. I sometimes feel like that I had been the only one who ever learned that drugs (and alcohol) permanently affect your brain, and that there is no healing of it. When you Google that, however, you'll be flooded with a ton of articles that not only say alcohol doesn't kill brain cells, but that alcohol actually HELPS your brain, and that various drugs are good for you (yay for the internet where you can find an article or study that "proves" anything). This is completely asinine and very likely propaganda put out by those who would benefit. All the heavy drug and/or alcohol users I have ever met have noticeable and severe cognitive impairment particularly in certain areas relating to societal and peer pressure/following of the status quo, and personal beliefs. What I mean is, whatever is the path of least resistance and general superficial popularity, that is what the majority of them follow. Some examples include espousing agnostic beliefs (historically unprecedented at such levels) and extreme liberal opinions that don't make much sense, but are nevertheless parroted as the mark of progressiveness and intellectualism i.e. "legalizing marijuana will make drug use go down and stop Mexican drug lords beheading everyone even though their money is in the hard drugs." I'm not picking on liberals, the other side is extreme bigoted and highly simplistic beliefs based on heresay or flat out lies that are nevertheless published and accepted as truth when any basic research would prove otherwise. Both liberal and conservative drug users essentially believe what they read--question very little. Those are just some examples.

Drugs are not entirely to blame for the beliefs, attitudes and decisions (as in, they don't come out of nowhere as a result of drug use), but I believe the addled states of mind make people more prone to the power of suggestion and thus controlled and easy to control in other situations.

Intellectuals have bemoaned the weak mentality of the masses since the beginning, but it needs to be seriously understood that when a significant amount of the population is not in a natural state of mind--is controlled or guided by a substance--the ramifications are disturbing to think about. It's like being the sole sane and clear-minded person in the world, and you're the one in a mental hospital.

Alien Deception

2012-02-07T18:18:00.000-08:00

And on the Day when He will gather them (all) together (and say): "O you assembly of jinn! Many did you mislead of men..."
Qur'an 6:128

With the History Channel spewing out the garbage of Erich von Däniken and his apostles at record pace to make a buck and to whip everyone up into an imaginative frenzy, the truth must be told about so-called extraterrestrials. One of the best non-Muslim sources for this is John Keel.

Removing the bias of belief from his investigations, Keel documented numerous incidents in his book The Mothman Prophecies without the presupposition of what the incidents were i.e. alien encounters. As a result, he not only was able to present a clearer and stranger picture of what was going on, but he was able to reach some conclusions that, in the mainstream realm, were atypical.

Human beings are generally considered the superior intelligence and dominant life-form on Earth. Since UFOs appear to involve a different, seemingly greater, intelligence, it has been widely speculated that they come from another planet using advanced technology. The Ultraterrestrial concept proposes instead that there is a more advanced intelligence co-existing on Earth but beyond our normal perception, just as an ant might only be vaguely aware of humans as an intimidating or overpowering presence, and whose true nature is beyond their comprehension. Source

Interestingly enough, nothing of what he said contradicted what Islam had always asserted about the supernatural. Namely, that there are other creatures of high intelligence that exist (and Islam explains have existed before us) who are different from us, but similar in the mundane aspects of life. They share the earth with us in ways we don't fully understand, and often interact with us, especially in the realm of deception.

One mundane example of Keel's documentations and Islam's assertions is as follows:

Keel

In earlier times, fairies, demons, and even human witches practicing their Black Sabbath rites, chose gravel pits, garbage dumps, cemeteries and crossroads for their appearances. Modern hairy monsters and UFOs select the same sites, and quite a few UFO contacts have occurred near crossroads or on highways still under construction at points where old highways once intersected. Derenberger's first contact with Cold was on a newly completed highway yards from an old intersection. - The Mothman Prophecies, 103

Islam

The jinn live where we don't live on this earth. They are mostly to be found in ruins and unclean places like bathrooms, dunghills, garbage dumps and graveyards. Hence the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) taught us to take precautions when entering such places, by reciting the adhkar (mentioning Allah’s Name) prescribed by Islam. - Shaykh Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid

It has been drilled into people's minds that only aliens from space could have civilizations and cultures and families and high technology most likely because it's easier to imagine than, say, alternate complex dimensions that coexist with ours.

Three thousand years ago a small group of brilliant men investigated and solved the mystery of unidentified flying objects. Since then a great many others have approached the same mystery from different perspectives and solved it over and over again. Unfortunately, their staggering solutions were obfuscated by intellectual extrapolations and the ponderous terminology of philosophy and theology. Few modern UFO enthusiasts have the educational background to understand such literature. They choose, as an alternative, to deal with the phenomenon on a materialistic level, assuming that the presence of unlikely objects and entities in our atmosphere is evidence of some extraterrestrial civilization. - The Mothman Prophecies, 28

What's most important to know, however, is that for a number of reasons, including their own cultural-religious beliefs (that being Islam's standpoint, not Keel's), these beings can be master deceivers. While we are stuck in one plane of existence and are entirely material they are not, and can be fluid in their appearance even though they live generic lives like us. As a result they can easily appear to a human and claim to be anything from an angel to an alien from outer space, and the average person, lacking the proper knowledge, would be inclined to believe them on the mere fact that the situation was out of the ordinary and so must be as advertised.

To the regret of the true believers, the majority of the witnesses to chimerical events were alone at the time of their experience. While the amateur investigators tend to concentrate on the very subjective descriptions of the observers, I probed deeper and studied the witnesses themselves. Many, I found, suffered certain medical symptoms such as temporary amnesia, severe headaches, muscular spasms, excessive thirst and other effects, all of which have been observed throughout history in religious miracles (the appearances of religious apparitions), demonology, occult phenomena, and contacts with fairies. All of these manifestations clearly share a common source or cause. While chimeras can come in all sizes and shapes, ranging from twenty-foot giants to animated tin cans only a few inches in height, the most fascinating type is one who has appeared in almost every country on earth. In other ages he was regarded as the devil incarnate. He dressed in black and rode a black horse. Later he arrived in black horsedrawn carriages, even in hearses. Today he steps out of flying saucers in remote farm fields. He is built exactly like us, stands from five feet six inches to six feet tall, looks very human but has high cheekbones, unusually long fingers, and an Oriental cast to his features. His complexion is olive or reddish. He speaks every language, sometimes mechanically as if he is reciting a memorized speech, sometimes fluently. He has trouble breathing, often wheezing and gasping between words. Like our dinosaurs and hairy bipeds, he often leaves a few footprints behind ... footprints which suddenly end as if he had vanished into thin air. - The Mothman Prophecies, 29

In Islam the beings are collectively referred to as jinn. When non-Muslims hear of that they think of genie (root word being jinni, masculine singular of jinn) and put them in a cultural Orientalist box of limited demographics and limited abilities. That is not an accurate portrayal, however, as jinn includes everything from the hairy bipeds, snake people, fairies (peris), flying creatures, demons, spirits and ghosts to the so-called aliens. I find it unfortunate that many people are ignorant of this information, and continue to rely on guessing games. Even when just categorizing the supernatural, jinn are either almost always left out or are described as merely an Arab cultural phenomenon (either as jinn or genies). It's so ridiculous that it's almost as if there's a conspiracy to keep such knowledge from the past repressed.

...as more and more people believe in flying saucers from other planets, the lower force can manipulate more people through false illumination. I have been watching, with great consternation, the worldwide spread of the UFO believe and its accompanying disease. If it continues unchecked we may face a time when universal acceptance of the fictitious space people will lead us to a modern faith in extraterrestrials that will enable them to interfere very overtly in our affairs... - The Mothman Prophecies, 109

Project Monarch or Borderline Personality Disorder?

2012-02-07T13:18:00.000-08:00

Many, many celebrities exhibit the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder, although if diagnosed with a psychiatric condition, are diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, a similar but also very different condition. For some reason, perhaps because of the stigma attached to the diagnosis, very, very few celebrities are diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder despite the fact that it's not uncommon for it to be thrown out as a diagnosis for an average person exhibiting the same behaviors. As a result, those who have no contact or experience with "BPD" (short for Borderline Personality Disorder and not Bipolar Disorder, which is BD), come to unusual conclusions about the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder when manifested in celebrities.

The entertainment industry with its wonderful ability to destroy souls and preoccupy everyone with wordily things that have little spiritual benefit practically guarantees Borderline Personality Disorder, especially in the acting realm where people have to live as others over and over (as in don't act, be). Additionally, many troubled people seek fame out to fill that emptiness that plagues people with BPD, and some are successful. With their money and condition, they are able to engage in self-destructive behaviors that are par for the BPD course.

There are numerous links on celebrities and Borderline Personality Disorder. Here are a few:

So what does this have to do with Project Monarch? This has to do with Project Monarch because it's a conspiracy theory that tends to see individuals who are probably "BPD" as victims of a global conspiracy where all of the things they go through and do is intentionally done in order to program the public into changing their values and priorities (among other things).

For more information on what people believe Project Monarch to be, check out these links:

Not a single person who discusses Project Monarch ever brings up Borderline Personality Disorder. Rather, they conceive of the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder that are manifested in celebrities as proof of an arduous and lengthy process of abuse and conditioning that results in alter egos and manifestations of evil agendas. It is not realized that minor abuse in childhood, or even the complete absence of abuse, produces all of the actions of the celebrity "slaves" that are supposed to be part of the conspiracy, including the emergence of alternate personae. All that's really required for a person to manifest these things is BPD with or without a history of mental or physical abuse.

I'm sure there are people out there who aren't going to believe me and think I've been "programed" to spread disinfo about Project Monarch. Others might assert that Project Monarch conspiracy and Borderline Personality Disorder are not mutually exclusive. My stance is that the conspiracy came about due to a lack of understanding regarding the existence of Borderline Personality Disorder and its symptoms (and people selling lies, or because MK-ULTRA was real so everything else must be too etc.). Other non-BPD aspects of the conspiracy like Alice in Wonderland symbolism, sex kitten motifs, to me, are just dot connecting and complete and utter distraction and possible disinformation from real and substantial conspiracies.

Roots of the Christmas Tree

2010-12-23T17:10:00.000-08:00

Rome borrowed most of its mythology from its conquered people, primarily the Greeks. However the Saturnalia has strong roots in the central Egyptian mythological story.

The Sun-god Osiris and his consort, Isis, together with Re-Atum, the "Father of the Gods," were regarded by the ancient Egyptians as the supreme rulers of a Golden Age of plenty called Zep Tepi or the "First Time." Their kingdom ended abruptly when Osiris was murdered by his evil brother, Seth. The childless Isis searched for the dismembered body of Osiris, which she then reassembled and resuscitated long enough to conceive a son named Horus. Horus was believed to be the reincarnation of Osiris, and the new husband of Isis, whose destiny it was to repossess the Kingdom of Osiris from the control of Seth.

The tradition of the Christmas tree symbolically portrayed the death and reincarnation of Osiris in his son, Horus:

The Christmas tree, now so common among us, was equally common in Pagan Rome and Pagan Egypt. In Egypt it was the palm tree; in Rome it was the fir; the palm-tree denoting the Pagan Messiah, as Baal-Tamar, the fir referring to him as Baal-Berith. The mother of Adonis, the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity, was mystically said to have been changed into a tree, and when in that state to have brought forth her divine son. If the mother was a tree, the son must have been recognized as ‘Man the Branch.’ And this entirely accounts for putting the Yule Log into the fire on Christmas Eve and the appearance of the Christmas tree the next morning. As Zero-Ashta, ‘The seed of the woman,’ ...he has to enter the fire on ‘Mother night,’ that he may be born the next day out of it, as the ‘Branch of God,’ or the Tree that brings divine gifts to men.

Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons or The Papal Worship, Loizeaux Brothers, 1916

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Some Uncommon Masonic Tracing Boards

2010-10-26T07:57:00.001-07:00

The Occult in The Secret of Kells

2010-10-26T06:43:00.001-07:00

The animated film, The Secret of Kells, is a highly esoteric film. Here's a pretty thorough plot summary from the Internet Movie Database:

Young Brendan lives in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids. But a new life of adventure beckons when a celebrated master illuminator arrives from foreign lands carrying an ancient but unfinished book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers. To help complete the magical book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the enchanted forest where mythical creatures hide. It is here that he meets the fairy Aisling, a mysterious young wolf-girl, who helps him along the way. But with the barbarians closing in, will Brendan's determination and artistic vision illuminate the darkness and show that enlightenment is the best fortification against evil?

I knew this when renting it but was surprised to see it open with what appeared to be an Egyptian obelisk only later to be shown fully as a tower.

However, it was no coincidence that it looked like an obelisk. It's shown again in a very different scene in full:

If the design looks familiar it's for good reason. Here's the Vatican's obelisk:

And Columbus Circle of Manhattan:

There is Set imagery in how the Vikings are portrayed (always shown in black as if shadows with red backdrops and demonic voices).

Also there is Set imagery when the main character enters the sanctuary of Crom Cruach (sorry no screen capture). That whole scene looks like it was taken out of an Egyptian mysteries initiation ritual where the initiate has to walk down the corridor with columns on either side of him in order to face the dreaded "Dark One" deity and his demonic shadowy minions before an eye shines down on him, protecting him (in the film it's a glowing circular symbol that was either the Eye of Columcille or the Eye of Crom Cruach). Crom Cruach was a solar deity much in the form of the beloved solar deities to Freemasons, although he is the Dark One in this.

There are also subtle references that can pass unnoticed because of the basic setting of the story. For instance, "he must be a stone mason," and "you used to be an illuminator."

Here is what follows a stereotypical falling down initiation scene that involves a Jormungander or Apep type serpent from whom he steals an eye (this image is from the graphic novel but pretty much the same in the film):

Another scene with the eye:

There is so much in this film that I don't have the time to cover it all as I've hardly had the time to blog in general, but maybe getting the subject out there will bring it to the attention of others who can focus on it more.

Servitude - What's Expected of a Sincere Mason

2010-09-05T07:00:00.000-07:00

Most Masonic literature reads like any other spiritual tradition and is hardly anything to be criticized. After all, helping humankind is good, using your God-given brain is good, rejecting materialism is good, heck even how they describe the Creator and other religious principles is sometimes good. Probably for most Masons, especially those who come into it just for the connections or whatever, that's the extent of the Craft for them. However, I've come across a couple blurbs from Manly P. Hall's The Lost Key of Freemasonry which may illuminate their involvement in certain events, even if minor.

The true brother of the Craft, while constantly striving to improve himself, mentally, physically, and spiritually through the days of his life, never makes his own desires the goal for his works. He has a duty and that duty is to fit into the plans of another. He must be ready at any hour of the day or night to drop his own ideals at the call of the Builder. The work must be done and he has dedicated his life to the service of those who know the bonds of neither time nor space. He must be ready at any moment's notice and his life should be turned into preparing himself for that call which may come when he least expects it. The Master Mason knows that those most useful to the Plan are those who have gained the most from the practical experiences of life. It is not what goes on within the tiled lodge which is the basis of his greatness, but rather the way in which he meets the problems of daily life. The true Masonic student is known by his brotherly actions and common sense.

Every Mason knows that a broken vow brings with it a terrible penalty. Let him also realize that failure to live mentally, spiritually, and morally up to one's highest ideals constitutes the greatest of all broken oaths. When a Mason swears he will devote his life to the building of his Father's house and then defiles his living temple through the perversion of mental power, emotional force, active energy, he is breaking a vow which imposes not hours but ages of misery.

It goes on:

All true Masons know that their work is not secret, but they realize that it must remain unknown to all who do not live the true Masonic life. Yet if the so-called secrets of Freemasonry were shouted from the housetops, the Fraternity would be absolutely safe; for certain spiritual qualities are necessary before the real Masonic secrets can be understood by the brethren themselves.

Clearly, these blurbs are highly idealistic but when you have Masons denying their connections to Zionism (or claiming that having such connections is antisemitic!) even though their hand is deeply in it and publically so i.e. Harry Truman; Israel's Supreme Court etc. the above quotes are only validated. Things are rarely secret but us "profane" won't ever understand the greater good and blah blah. I've already pointed out their ideal of serving in the army of Horus. These other events/calls to duty are stepping stones towards that goal just like the Fundamentalist Christians who actively work towards making the Rapture happen.

Horus in Freemasonry (Brief)

2010-09-01T15:04:00.000-07:00

A few blurbs take from Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians as now commonly found in the The Lost Keys of Freemasonry by Manly P. Hall. The page numbers correspond to that newer compilation.

Isis, by magic--for the initiated priests were all magicians--resurrected the dead god and through union with him brought forth an order or priests under the collective title of Horus, the hawk, the all-seeing bird. These were the Herj Seshta or the companions of Horus, and the chief of these, called by Lewis Spence "the Chief of the Mysteries par excellence," appears to have worn the dog-headed mask of Anubis. Anubis was the son of Osiris by Nephthys, the material world, therefore represents the divine man or the mortal being who rose to enlightenment. (pg 151)

Just an aside for those new to the blog, Anubis (Anush or Enos) was actually the son of Set (Seth, Shith etc.) according to traditions in Islam and Christianity and not the bastard child of Osiris from an adulterous liaison as occultists maintain. They have to do so in order for their interpretations to be valid, notably the assertion that Seth was the epitome of evil.

Freemasonry as an institution is Isis, the mother of Mysteries, from whose dark womb the Initiates are born the mystery of the second or philosophic birth. Thus all adepts, by virtue of their participation in the rites, are figuratively, at least, the Sons of Isis. a Isis in the widow, seeking to restore her lord, and to avenge his cruel murder, it follows that all Master Masons or Master Builders, are widow's sons. They are the offspring of the institution widowed by the loss of the living Word, and theirs is the eternal quest--they discover by becoming.

In Egyptian rites Horus is the savior-avenger, son of Isis, conceived by magic (the ritual) after the brutal murder of Osiris. Hence he is the posthumous redeemer. Freemasons are Hori, they are the eye of Osiris, whose body, therefore, is made up of eyes. Each Initiate is a Horus, each is a hawk of the sun, and for one reason is each raised and that is that he may join in the army which is to avenge the destruction of wisdom, and restore the reign of the all-seeing lord. Each one is dedicated to the over-throwing of the reign of Typhon*. The great battle, in which the sons of the hawk rout the hosts of darkness, is the mysterious Armageddon of Revelation, the Kurukshetra of the Mahabharata, and the Ragnarok of the Eddas. In this battle the hosts of the Adversary shall be routed forever.

The day must ultimately come when the Hori, by virtue of their royal purpose, accomplish the consummation of the Great Work.

Out of the Hidden House, guarded by the silent god, must some day issue the glorious and illumined Horus, the very incarnation of his own father, the personification of the lord of Abydos, the avenger of all evil and the just god in whom there is no death. (pgs 153-5)

* The reign of Typhon is a reference to fighting the supposed Evil One (Masons rarely refer to Typhon as Set or Seth and this is because Seth is the "Anointed One" so they have to use their own namesake to better fit the teachings that he is Satan). Typhon is allegedly the master of the material world, a master of all the things we hate about it: greed, selfishness, oppression, ignorance and more. Maybe someone should let Kayne West in on that...

Reblogging: Masonic Propoganda on PBS in Arthur

2010-08-31T05:00:00.000-07:00

Propaganda in Children's TV: Arthur - 'FurMasons' Created and Control the 'Sock Market' to Steal Peoples 'Socks' so that Humans Must Work Endlessly To Buy More

"Si, I'm stealing your socks. But it's for a good cause."

"The Furmasons were dedicated to finding new ways of helping people."

"We take their socks, they buy more, it's good for the economy"

For more information: The New York Stock Exchange and Masonic Astrology

Osiris was Nimrod, Set was a Prophet -- Christian Version

2010-08-27T07:08:00.001-07:00

PREFACE

I've already blogged enough on Set being the heavily corrupted version of the prophet Seth (as) as described in Islam, and that all characters involved in that particular Egyptian myth cycle with all its contradictions were based on actual human beings. The more I read esoteric writings, the stronger I have of this belief.

No matter how one interprets Isis and Osiris, or even groups such as the Freemasons and their rituals, it always comes back to only a select group of people are entitled to the divine knowledge of the universe and thus happiness, contentment and bliss in the next life before supposed reincarnation. Those select people are almost always the rich or otherwise affluent, people who have the time and ability to travel all over and have access to things most people cannot get and in modern days. They are also heavily comprised of white people looking for something New Agey or exotic in their quest for spiritual meaning--something that can't be adequately done by those who are truly imprisoned by the world and its materialism because they have to worry about survival or what have you.

This whole idea of special elites with the truth being hard to find contradicts the teachings of both Muhammad (saaws) and Jesus (as), and most likely other prophets as well who emphasize that it's those whom society despises and who do their best to be good people who will enter the gates of Heaven. Islam specifically states that the truth that is important for humans to know is simple and thus meant for everyone.

Another reality of this esoteric tradition that demonizes Seth is that up until modern times, such truth was given only to men. Whether occultists or priests and later Templars and Freemasons. The scattered female mystic or saint here and there was an exception.

In this world of Isis and Osiris-centric mysticism, Kabbalah often has a big role. Islam via the Qur'an explains where Kabbalah came from and why it is false. Whenever magick books were introduced to a people, such as with the Etruscans, it's done so not through a prophet of God whom esotericists also revere, generally, but through a supernatural being who often just disappears. Very strange for something that's supposed to be extremely important. There is always this underlying belief that Allah/Jehovah (Ya Huwa) is just an evil corrupter out to confuse mankind by saying things like those creatures are devils trying to lead humans astray, but God has given more beautiful teachings and has helped people--especially the poor and downtrodden--more than Isis and Osiris ever claimed to or could do!

Then there is the issue of reincarnation. For all the alleged reincarnated people, none of them claimed themselves to have been the reincarnated individual(s). It was always deemed so by someone else, especially after their death, and this even includes the story of Nimrod! To make it worse there are often contradictions. People can't decided who was really who. One person will assert it was definitely this way and another will say something very different. The psychological factors behind asserting reincarnation seem obvious just like when human beings are worshiped as gods by their followers. Nowadays there are documentaries like Unmistaken Child that supposedly show or prove reincarnation but throughout the whole thing it's obvious that the child, a mere toddler, was being coached. Why wouldn't a child be interested in sparkly beads? Furthermore, the monk looking for him seemed to be a very insecure person who couldn't cope with his master's death.

Another argument is made that because certain things have survived and been popular in Western culture especially, that shows that they acknowledge certain truths that people subconsciously pick up on. Does it really? In Islam and probably in Judaism and Christianity as well, it is taught that the prophets and their teachings are often rejected. Noah (as) is one of the best examples of this. He traveled all around the world and lived for a long time, but was mostly mocked, at least in the exoteric tradition. That theme is repeated over and over. Even in stories that would have great significance with esotericists, like the story of the Boy and the King. After all, it's a lot nicer to believe that we can become gods and will just keep reincarnating and making our own lives hell than it is to believe in a Judgment Day where it will be like a nightmare (who wants to be punished, or believe in a severe punishment that cannot be perceived with the senses just because a "prophet" allegedly speaking for God said so?)

One final point before the article is that for all the eschewing of the material that is said to lead men astray, there certainly is a heavy focus on it. Both Jesus (as) and Muhammad (saaws) led very simple lives. The first mosque was leaky and small. Many who learned the secrets changed that by getting fancy not only with architecture but in the arts as well. How can one be free of the dunya (world) if they are so focused on making it appeal to your basic senses? I once heard a saying that the introduction of food coloring to the Muslim world was a sign of its spiritual downfall. I'm just arguing the point of esoteric belief that if you must distance yourself from the world then you shouldn't be making it more beautiful with things. Yes, creation is beautiful but using the religio-spiritual logic, it's there to show off the work of the Creator and to make your task of distancing yourself from it for something better not so easy. If people are trying to lure you into it, people who worship or revere Isis and Osiris in whatever cultural form, then it needs to be reevaluated because it is for that reason they claim Seth (as) was evil--they make him a power-hungry materialist even though it was quite clear who was in power and who was exploiting and who had the ego and who wants the world to look beautiful with material things.

OSIRIS AS NIMROD

The article has been taken without permission from here. Although the article is from an exclusively Christian perspective, it makes a lot of the same points I have previously.

In Gen. 10:11, we read that Nimrod built the city of Nineveh. This little item of Bible history enables us to identify Nimrod with the king Ninus of classical writings. The name Nineveh literally means "The habitation of Ninus." The historian Apollodorus expressly states that "Ninus is Nimrod." (Apollodori, Fragm. 68 in Willer, Vol. i, p. 440) In the ancient records of Justin and Diodorus Siculus, Ninus is credited with similar kingly powers as are attributed to Nimrod by the Scriptures. (Justin, Hist. Rom. Script., Vol. ii, p. 615; Diodorus, Bibliotheca, lib. ii, p. 63) Ninus was the son, as well as the husband, of Semiramis. According to Eusebius these two reigned as king and queen in the time of Abraham; but the great chronologist Clinton, and the celebrated Excavator and Linguist Layard, both assign an earlier date to the reign of Ninus and Semiramis.

While in "Babylon the Great," the principal subjects of devotion are the Madonna and her child (said to be the virgin Mary and Jesus), so in typical Babylon the popular worship was extended to a goddess mother and her son, who had their origin in Semiramis and her son Ninus (the Hebrew word for "son" is nin). Remembering the religious influence which proceeded from Babylon, we have here the explanation of the universal adoration of the "Mother and Son." In Greece they were worshipped as Ceres the great mother, with the babe at her breast; or as Irene the goddess of Peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms. In Pagan Rome as Fortuna and Jupiter-puer, or Jupiter the boy. In Asia as Cybele and Deaius. In India as Isi and Iswara; and even in Thibet, China, and Japan, missionaries were astonished to find the exact counterpart of the Madonna and her child as devoutly reverenced as in Papal Rome itself. In Egypt the Mother was worshipped as Isis, and the Son as Osiris, though more often as Horus. Regardling Osiris, Bunsen shows that he was represented as at once the Son and Husband of his mother, and actually bore as one of his titles of honor the name "Husband of the Mother." (Bunsen, Vol. i, pp. 438, 439) This serves to identify Osiris with Ninus who married his own mother.

The account of the death of Osiris as given in the Egyptian Book of the Dead (a copy of which is frequently found entombed with mummies), is as follows: While Osiris was absent on a certain occasion, his enemy, who was named Sem, entered into a conspiracy with 72 of the leading men of Egypt to put Osiris to death. The plot succeeded. Osiris was slain, and his body was torn into 14 pieces which were scattered throughout the country. Isis greatly lamented her husband's death, and searched about for the pieces of his body. Wherever she discovered a piece, she buried it and erected a shrine over it.

Wilkinson shows (Vol. v, p. 17) that Sem was one of the names of the primitive Egyptian Hercules, who was said to have, by the power of God, fought and overcome the giants who had rebelled against heaven. In plain language, this mythical tale simply means that the Hercules Sem or Shem (see Luke 3:36), the great opponent of idolatry, was enabled by the power or spirit of God to so convince the tribunal of 72 supreme Judges of Egypt of the enormity of the offence of Osiris or Nimrod, as to persuade them to condemn and put that "mighty one" or giant to death and to send parts of his dismembered body to the various cities as a solemn declaration in their name, that "whosoever follows the example of Nimrod (Osiris) shall meet with a like penalty." In following this course Shem was acting according to a recognized judicial custom, instances of which are found in the Scriptures.--See Judges 19:29; and 1 Samuel 11:7.

Afterwords, the upholders of the idolatrous religious system of Egypt stigmatized the leader of the "conspiracy" as Typho, or the "Evil One." One of the most noted names by which Typho was called, was Seth. (Epiphanius, Adv. Hoeres, lib. iii) The names Seth and Shem are synonymous, both alike signifying "The appointed one."

This persuasive power of Shem, by which he caused the great Nimrod to be condemned to death, was symbolized by the tusks of a wild boar. We read in Mythology that the god Adonis perished by the tusks of a wild boar. Now Adonis is identical with the god Tammuz, and Tammuz with Osiris. (Kitto's Illustrated Commentary, Vol. iv, p. 141; Wilkinson's Egyptians, Vol. v, p. 3) In Egypt, the pig was the symbol of evil; and as the horn is the ancient symbol of power, being so recognized in Scriptures, the tusks in the mouth of the male pig signifies that it was by the "power of his mouth" that the evil one, Seth, caused Adonis (Osiris) to be put to death. In memory of this deed, the peoples of many countries have caused countless boars to lose their heads in sacrifice to the outraged god. This explains why the boar's or pig's head is even at this day a recognized dish at the Christmas dinner in Britain, though the reason for the custom has long been forgotten. In India, a demon with a "boar's face" is said to have gained such power through his devotions, that he oppressed the "devotees" of worshippers of the gods, who had to hide themselves. (Moor's Pantheon, p. 19) Even in Japan there seems to be a similar myth.

Thus the righteous Shem, blessed by Jehovah, has been stigmatized and misrepresented in all the heathen religions of the world; while the idolatrous Nimrod who led men away from the true God, and who was justly condemned to death because of his evil deeds, has been exalted to the status of a god himself. This turning of things upside down, however, shall not stand, for Jehovah shall now soon vindicate himself on behalf of his righteous servants.

We are reminded here of what the Egyptian historian Manetho wrote regarding the builders of the Great Pyramid: "There came up from the East, in a strange manner, men of an ignoble race, who had the confidence to invade our country, and easily subdued it by their power without a battle. All this invading nation was styled Hyksos--that is, Shepherd Kings." He adds that this people afterwards departed for Judea and built there a city named Jerusalem. The head of these Shepherd Kings has been recognized as the patriarch Shem, and Shem as Melchizedec, king of Salem. (Heb. 7:1,2) It is certainly quite in keeping with the exalted methods of this "king of peace" that he subdued the Egyptians without a battle, persuading them only by the spirit or power of God to close their idolatrous temples and do his bidding. (See Great Pyramid Passages, Vol. i, pars. 4-6.) It shows how wonderful was the godly influence which this venerable king and "priest of the most high God" exercised in the early stages of the "present evil world." He was indeed a fit type of Christ in the Millennial Age, whom God sware would be a "Priest forever after the order of Melchizedec." (Psa. 110:4) In face of such great power for righteousness, one can see how the iniquity instigated by Satan, the "god of this world," would require to be very warily conducted. Hence the term "mystery" or "secret," of iniquity.

When the mighty Nimrod was violently put to death in the midst of his career, great indeed must have been the lamentation among his followers. Semiramis would, naturally, experience the greatest grief and loss. She had shared with him his kingdom and glory, but now all this honor had suddenly come to an end. Semiramis, however, was a woman of unbounded ambition, and she by no means intended to quietly step aside without a bid for fame on her own account. That she succeeded in making a name for herself is fully attested by the pages of ancient history. A most daring suggestion was advanced which she seized upon and resolutely carried out--namely, that she should claim that her dead son was none other than the promised "seed of the woman" who had been destined to bruise the serpent's head, and who, in doing so, was to have his own heel bruised! Formerly her son had been honored as the mighty hunter and benefactor of the world; but though he was now dead she would declare that he had risen and had been deified, and thus have him worshiped as a god!

Source of reference:

Mythology and the Bible
by Morton Edgar

Blatant Horus Reference from Kanye West

2010-08-20T19:43:00.000-07:00

Not surprising since Horus represents power, elitism and all that in addition to the sun god imagery and Osiris reincarnate angles that are emphasized the most (when Horus is not just an abstract symbol for providence or the pineal gland or what have you).

The video and symbolism has already been analyzed in two posts elsewhere:

* Kanye West’s “Power”: The Occult Meaning of its Symbols

* KANYE WEST’s POWER: Symbols of the End of America, the Rebuilding of Solomon’s Temple & the Rising Phoenix – The Blazing Star Sun God!

Edit : I've decided to remove the tangent I had below as further reading has proved some of it to be inaccurate.

Dajjal-Like Names (Heiti) of Odin

2010-08-04T11:03:00.000-07:00

I often feel bad when I write about Odin because he's a deity that is actively worshiped by a number of good-mannered people (although in America many support the wars or the soldiers fighting the wars and have charities for them thinking they're doing their god's work but anyway...). At the same time, however, there are things about Odin that cannot be ignored.

I want to reiterate this one point I have: For all we know, Arabs of Muhammad's (saaws) time did not have interaction with Germans or Scandinavians and so the concept of Dajjal is unique and has no cultural precursor. Even if pre-Islamic Arabs did have connections to people who venerate Odin, it would have been minor contact i.e. trade, and it makes no sense for an Antichrist figure to come from some foreign deity insignificant to Arabs rather than something that had existed among the Arabs or Judeo-Christian tradition.

For those who don't know what the Dajjal is, in sum, he is the Antichrist at the End of Times who is one-eyed, will be a massive deceiver (the best...dajjal means deceiver) who manipulates with magick, illusions and mind control, who has supernatural powers, a love of violence and warfare, an anger management problem and has a massive following of women (I think Christian tradition adds he's a seducer of women). He will start out by claiming to be human and eventually from there will proclaim his godhead and demand worship. He will be able to wander into every home and part of his deception is that he will have jinn (spirits, creatures, whatever you want to call them) who will shapeshift into dead relatives (like ghosts) in order to bring people to his side (at that time there will be much chaos and desperation). There will be a great war and eventually he will be killed by the true messiah (Isa aka Jesus) with a spear. Yes, a spear.

For those who know Odin, much of those qualities match his character. The one-eye situation with Dajjal is a little different than Odin's but that can be explained away by one or the other tradition having an error concerning the nature of his blindness because the similarities are otherwise too profound. To emphasize my above points, here are some of Odin's 102 (some say 200) names:

Atriðr, Atriði - Attacking rider, 'At-Rider'

Auðun - Friend of wealth

Báleygr - Flaming Eye

Bileygr - Flashing Eye or Wavering Eye

Blindi, Blindr - Blind

Böðgæðir - Battle Enhancer

Bölverkr - Evil Worker or Evil Deed

Draugadróttinn - Lord of the undead

Eylúðr - The ever booming

Fjölnir - Concealer

Gangráðr - Contrary advisor

Gapþrosnir - The one in gaping frenzy

Geirlöðnir - Spear inviter

Geirtýr - Gore/Spear God

Ginnarr - Deceiver

Gizurr - Riddler

Gestumblindi - Blind Guest

Glapsviðr - Swift in Deceit, Maddener, Wise in magical spells

Göllnir, Gollorr, Göllungr - Yeller

Grímnir - Hooded, Masked One

Grímr - Mask

Herteitr - War-merry

Hildolfr - Battle Wolf

Hjaldrgegnir - Engager of Battle

Hjaldrgoð - God of battle

Hjarrandi - Screamer

Hnikarr - Overthrower, Thruster

Hoárr - One Eyed

Hrjóðr, Hveðrungr - Roarer

Njótr - User, enjoyer

Ófnir - Inciter

Óski - God of Wishes

(Here's a contradiction) Saðr - Truthful

Sigtýr - War god

Skilfingr - Trembler

Skollvaldr - Ruler of treachery

Þrasarr - Quarreler

Viðrímnir - Contrary screamer

Viðurr - Killer

Yggr - Terrible One

Why would someone worship a deceiver? How do you know he is not deceiving you when he is openly admitted to having such a nature...and not only that but openly is addressed as being evil? I don't understand that, especially when he's a god of the elite and historically, a god feared by soldiers for a variety of reasons (he could give madness in battle, or cause an enemy to win etc.) and so was not very "down to earth" with men except in his wanderings.

Army Praises ODIN

The Dajjal is going to cause mass starvation and storms and things and then wait for people to come to him in order to provide relief. Then engage in massive warfare. Collecting the souls of the dead could also be metaphorical and not literal i.e. when you die you will be judged with whom you followed and died for. If you died for a deceiver that is your own price.

I want to conclude that I'm only emphasizing this because of the striking similarities between Odin and traditions concerning the Dajjal. If Odin had none I wouldn't even mention anything relating to this. I also don't put these kind of disclaimers when I talk about Horus because he is embraced by occultists and the like who are actively trying to further the Aeon of Horus and other nefarious things.

The Wedjat and Horus of the New Order

2010-06-23T05:48:00.000-07:00

The Wedjat Eye
by Wim van den Dungen

A pretty simple and straightforward article on the importance of the wedjat (Eye of Horus) in Egyptian mythology.

Here are some quotes from it:

The Osiris drama unfolded in mythical (enneadic) times, but on a personalized level (as a family conflict unfolding in a mythical "perfect" kingdom) and in the fourth generation of gods. While the Atum-cycle refers to cosmogonical and royal themes (the Eye of Re), Osirian beliefs are anthropological (the emotional, funerary family drama) and vitalistic (the yearly revival of nature). Moreover, they are common beliefs (the Wadjat Eye of Horus was a very popular amulet).

Osiris was the victim, the helpless one, but also the dead land to be revived. He suffered, like the little man, with all mortality, had been murdered and sojourned unhappily in the Netherworld. His unfortunate death had been followed by a deadly afterlife. He called out to be revitalized by his son, Pharaoh Horus so as to resurrect as a soul and become the spirit of life itself. In this way, he would be the ultimate power of revival and fertility, the eternal cycle of birth (in this world : the fertility of the land) and rebirth (in the Netherworld : no "second death" but spiritualization).

His son Horus was his heir and avenger. As avenger, he had to confront Seth and subdue him. Then, as "beloved son" he could take care of the "Ka" of Osiris (who was depleted). Revitalized, Osiris achieved beatification and became the spirit of life. As heir, Pharaoh Horus would rule. He had Seth beneath his sandals, serving the new order.

The Wedjat Eye-cycle represents the process whereby Horus is injured by Seth (the empty eye), fights the foe, is healed (the Eye of Thoth), crowned (by the deities) & empowered by this "green" Eye of Wellness, which he gives to Osiris. Her great magic is able to resuscitate the dead god who is dying his "second death" in the realm of the dead. For Osiris is sleeping his "great sleep" in the "desert place" in which he came. By descending into the Netherworld and giving his Wedjat Eye to Osiris, Horus revives his father, i.e. pulled him out of this state of "second death". Reborn as a soul in the realm of the dead, Osiris is now able to move and transform himself into the spirit of eternal rejuvenation. The rescue of Osiris by Horus the Redeemer, is the rising of the flood waters and the advent of the New Year.

And:

Osiris resurrects in a special spiritual "soul-body", released after "the opening of the mouth" by Horus. Without Horus, the perfect son, Osiris would have continued to die (being a god, total annihilation could not happen). Without Osiris, no Pharaoh could guarantee the fertility of his land. This model was the mythical background of Pharaonism : the living Pharaoh was Horus, the son and heir of Osiris, the dead king, his father, resurrected as a soul and spirit of eternal life.

And:

Because of the care of his son (who vanquished the enemies of his father), the latter could become one with the soul of the original Osiris, and be "an Osiris" in the Netherworld. The living did not worship their ancestors, but hoped that some of their Ka-power could be transmitted for their own needs. By resuscitating Osiris in the Netherworld, Horus had guaranteed the fertility & growth in the re-established order on Earth for ever and ever.

A Peek at Odin as Hermes

2010-06-23T04:36:00.000-07:00

To better understand Hermes in Freemasonry when their primary god is represented as Horus with his one eye, I thought it would be interesting to briefly look to another one-eyed god (namely Odin of the Germanic peoples) to illustrate how he was viewed by the non-Germanic ancients who may have been involved in mystery cults.

Wikipedia states:

Less is known about the role of Odin as receiver of the dead among the more southern Germanic tribes. The Roman historian Tacitus probably refers to Odin when he talks of Mercury. The reason is that, like Mercury, Odin was regarded as Psychopompos, "the leader of souls".

Julius Caesar states in De Bello Gallico 6.17.1 that for the Gauls the worship of Mercury was the most important, or perhaps most widespread, out of all the gods.

Paulus Diaconus (or Paul the Deacon), writing in the late 8th century, tells that Odin (Guodan) was the chief god of the Langobards and, like earlier southern sources, he identifies Odin with Mercury (History of the Langobards, I:9). Because of this identification, Paulus adds that the god Guodan, "although held to exist [by Germanic peoples], it was not around this time, but long ago, and not in Germania, but in Greece" where the god originated. Wace also identifies Wotan with Mercury. Viktor Rydberg, in his work on Teutonic Mythology, draws a number of other parallels between Odin and Mercury, such as the fact that they were both responsible for bringing poetry to mortals.

Similarly, Ammianus Marcellinus most likely references Odin and Thor in his history of the later Roman Empire as Mercury and Mars, respectively, though a direct association is not made. This, however, underlines a particular problem concerning ancient Greek and Roman sources. Historians from both cultures, during all periods, believed the deities of foreign cultures to merely be their own gods under different names (see interpretatio graeca). Such an example may be found in Herodotus' association of an Egyptian Ram-headed god (most probably Amun) with Zeus. Later, Medieval historians followed the older tradition and likewise made such associations. However, there is no historical evidence to suggest that these are valid connections and as such they should not be taken as historical fact.

Odin as a leader of the souls is reflected in the tale of the Pied Piper (scroll to page 33). And here is a lengthy article on the connection between Odin and Hermes (Mercurius aka "Mercury").

Odin experienced two shamanic initiations. In one, he sacrificed one of his own eyes for the privilege of drinking from the Well guarded by the wise giant Mimir, in order to obtain awareness of the past--the name "Mimir" is related our word "memory"--and to acquire non- linear knowledge and intuition. His physical eyesight was partially sacrificed for another type of Sight or heightened awareness. Norse mythology has another Well, belonging to Urd, the first of the three Norse Fates, who rules the past. As Ralph Metzner states in his book The Well of Remembrance (Boston, MA: Shambala, 1994, p. 218), some critics believe that the two wells may have been versions of the same story. "Urd" means fate or destiny in old Norse, and Odin acquires knowledge of his essence, of the patterns that fate and destiny weave for gods and mortals alike, by drinking from this well.

The second shamanic initiation and sacrifice occurred when Odin hung himself on the world axle-tree Yggdrasil that connects the nine worlds, in order to attain knowledge of the Runes. Human sacrifices to the Norse gods were often hung on trees. During this initiation, Odin makes a sacrificial offering of himself to himself, while in shamanic folklore, a tree often symbolizes a ladder to another world or state of consciousness. Used as the alphabet in some Norse countries until roughly as late as 1000 CE, the Runes were more than just letters. They were an oracle, and each symbol had a divinatory meaning. (For more on the Runes, a good place to start is Edred Thorsson's Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, New York: Weiser, 1987).

Classical Mercury and Norse Odin both rule writing--but the Runes were invested with the power and numinosity of Logos in the ancient Northern European world, and they were won with suffering. In both of these initiation tales, knowledge carries a price. As C.G. Jung wrote, "There is no coming to consciousness without pain." Not the coming to this sort of non- ordinary consciousness. Here, Odin is a far cry from Hellenistic Mercury, who was more a bearer of other's messages than a seeker after inner truth.

The search for wisdom took Odin down other difficult roads: the god was a psychopomp, a guide of souls. Here he shows a much closer parallel to classical Mercury, who escorted Persephone back from the underworld. Half of those who perish honorably in battle belong to Odin and travel to his hall after their death, while his ravens are traditionally birds of the dead. Yet Odin was also a necromancer, one who attains magical knowledge by conversing with the departed. When Odin's son Baldur begins having nightmares about his own demise, Odin descends to the underworld to learn Baldur's fate, where he raises the ghost of a sorceress to question her. He travels there on his eight-legged horse, which some scholars have seen as a symbolic coffin carried by four people. Odin also frequents hangings in order to communicate with the spirit of the victim on its way to the next world.

Death is, among other things, a transition from one state of awareness to another. Besides literal death of the physical body, we can also see these attributes of Odin as related to the self-knowledge that may spring from a psychological death: the death of a defense or a denial, or the ending of a certain phase or stage of your life. Such potentially transformative self-knowledge is seldom won without facing the underworld. Here, Odin is involved with profound psychological work, what we may call "soul retrieval."

Both Odin and the fast-talking and light-fingered Mercury show elements of the Trickster archetype. The more famous Norse trickster, the fiery demigod Loki, is Odin's foster brother, perhaps a kind of not fully acknowledged sibling--the sort of secretive brotherly rapport that might exist between two tricksters. Odin and Loki are both wily characters, shapeshifters; while among Odin's many names are the Changing One, the Twofold One and the Hidden One. Not only is Odin's appearance unpredictable as he wanders the mortal realm in various disguises, but his gifts are unreliable. Odin's berserker frenzy may abandon a warrior in the midst of battle. Berserkers themselves were thought to be shapeshifters, a kind of were-bear--the name means "bear-shirt"--while other followers of Odin were hunters said to assume the form of a wolf. Besides ravens, wolves are Odin's other animal ally--even his non-human form is elusive.

The symbol of Odin was the Valknot, which represented the 9 worlds of the universe. Of course any three points not in a straight line can form a triangle, but this shows the power and symbolism inherent in triangles.

For more of the connections between Odin, Horus and ultimately Dajjal, check out these posts, and these posts for Hermes.

Dajjal Eye/Eye of Horus in Burton's "James and the Giant Peach"

2010-06-21T15:47:00.000-07:00

This came as a shock to me because there was no warning in the film that the eye was going to pop up. It seemed to be implying his alien origin, but I'm only guessing. I'm likewise guessing that this was not in the original book by Roald Dahl. It's evocative of the Dajjal eye (Eye of Horus) especially with it being the left eye, and is of a similar nature as flashed in other, later, films and cartoons also for no explained reason. This is the scene during which it briefly appears:

The grasshopper also has a black eye and a white eye.

This is not the first time Tim Burton has used one-eyed imagery:

An Example of Little Known History

2010-06-16T05:52:00.000-07:00

There is a lot that has happened in the past that is overlooked or goes unmentioned or is intentionally hidden or is distorted from imitation and parroting. While the example I'm providing below is not really conspiracy theory or controversial, it, at least, is something that is not discussed much and is somewhat connected to this blog (involving Isis mysteries and a sun god).

Let's take the Roman figure Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix.

In one of my books, Witchcraft: the Old Religion, there is a brief mention that Sulla was responsible for bringing the Cult of Isis to Rome. This is something that I had not read in the three biographies of Sulla I possess, and not even present in a fiction series about his life. With some research, I found the specific details (I lost the source info, I apologize):

About 80 B.C. Sulla founded an Isiac college in Rome, but their altars within the city were overthrown by the consuls no less than four times in the decade from 58 to 48 B.e., and the worship of Isis at Rome continued to be limited or suppressed by a succession of enactments which were enforced until the reign of Caligula. The Isiac mysteries were a representation of the chief events in the myth of Isis and Osiris - the murder of Osiris, the lamentations of Isis and her wanderings, followed by the triumph of Horus over Seth and the resurrection of the slain god - accompanied by music and an exposition of the inner meaning of the spectacle. These were traditional in ancient Egypt, and in their later development were no doubt affected by the Eleusinian mysteries of Demeter.

Sulla was also a major worshiper of Apollo, something he had inherited from his gens as it was common for a patrician family especially to focus their worship on a specific deity.

The Ludi Apollinares (Games of Apollo) were games which were first organized in 212 BC, when C. Sulla was P. Praetor.

And from Plutarch:

Sulla had a little golden image of Apollo from Delphi which he always carried in his bosom when he was in battle [Battle of Colline Gate], but that on this occasion he took it out and kissed it affectionately, saying: "O Pythian Apollo, will you, who have brought Cornelius Sulla Felix greatness and glory in so many battles and who have guided him to the gates of his native city, now cast him down here to perish most shamefully in the midst of his fellow citizens?"

For more information on the lesser known aspects of Sulla check out:
"The Clemency of Sulla" by Melissa Barden Dowling in Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Vol. 49, No. 3 (3rd Qtr., 2000), pp. 303-340. Published by: Franz Steiner Verlag

Why the Great Pyramid?

2010-06-15T18:08:00.000-07:00

Plato was initiated into the 'Greater Mysteries' at the age of 49. The initiation took place in one of the subterranean halls of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. The Isiac table* formed the altar, before which the Divine Plato stood and received that which was always his, but which the ceremony of the Mysteries enkindled and brought from its dormant state. With this ascent, after three days in the Great Hall, he was received by the Hierophant of the Pyramid (the Hierophant was seen only by those who had passed the three days, the three degrees, the three dimensions) and given verbally the Highest Esoteric Teachings, each accompanied with Its appropriate Symbol. After a further three months' sojourn in the halls of the Pyramid, the Initiate Plato was sent out into the world to do the work of the Great Order, as Pythagoras and Orpheus had been before him.

- Thomas Taylor (as quoted in The Secret Teachings of All Ages)
He's also responsible for: The Eleusian and Bacchic Mysteries: A Dissertation.

The Pyramid Mysteries
from: The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)

The word pyramid is popularly supposed to be derived from πῦρ, fire, thus signifying that it is the symbolic representation of the One Divine Flame, the life of every creature. John Taylor believes the word pyramid to mean a "measure of wheat, " while C. Piazzi Smyth favors the Coptic meaning, "a division into ten." The initiates of old accepted the pyramid form as the ideal symbol of both the secret doctrine and those institutions established for its dissemination. Both pyramids and mounds are antitypes of the Holy Mountain, or High Place of God, which was believed to stand in the "midst" of the earth. John P. Lundy relates the Great Pyramid to the fabled Olympus, further assuming that its subterranean passages correspond to the tortuous byways of Hades.

The square base of the Pyramid is a constant reminder that the House of Wisdom is firmly founded upon Nature and her immutable laws. "The Gnostics," writes Albert Pike, "claimed that the whole edifice of their science rested on a square whose angles were: Σιγη, Silence; Βυθος, Profundity; Νους, Intelligence; and Αληθεια Truth." (See Morals and Dogma.) The sides of the Great Pyramid face the four cardinal angles, the latter signifying according to Eliphas Levi the extremities of heat and cold (south and north) and the extremities of light and darkness (east and west). The base of the Pyramid further represents the four material elements or substances from the combinations of which the quaternary body of man is formed. From each side of the square there rises a triangle, typifying the threefold divine being enthroned within every quaternary material nature. If each base line be considered a square from which ascends a threefold spiritual power, then the sum of the lines of the four faces (12) and the four hypothetical squares (16) constituting the base is 28, the sacred number of the lower world. If this be added to the three septenaries composing the sun (21), it equals 49, the square of 7 and the number of the universe.

The twelve signs of the zodiac, like the Governors' of the lower worlds, are symbolized by the twelve lines of the four triangles--the faces of the Pyramid. In the midst of each face is one of the beasts of Ezekiel, and the structure as a whole becomes the Cherubim. The three main chambers of the Pyramid are related to the heart, the brain, and the generative system--the spiritual centers of the human constitution. The triangular form of the Pyramid also is similar to the posture assumed by the body during the ancient meditative exercises. The Mysteries taught that the divine energies from the gods descended upon the top of the Pyramid, which was likened to an inverted tree with its branches below and its roots at the apex. From this inverted tree the divine wisdom is disseminated by streaming down the diverging sides and radiating throughout the world.

The size of the capstone of the Great Pyramid cannot be accurately determined, for, while most investigators have assumed that it was once in place, no vestige of it now remains. There is a curious tendency among the builders of great religious edifices to leave their creations unfinished, thereby signifying that God alone is complete. The capstone--if it existed--was itself a miniature pyramid, the apex of which again would be capped by a smaller block of similar shape, and so on ad infinitum. The capstone therefore is the epitome of the entire structure. Thus, the Pyramid may be likened to the universe and the capstone to man. Following the chain of analogy, the mind is the capstone of man, the spirit the capstone of the mind, and God--the epitome of the whole--the capstone of the spirit. As a rough and unfinished block, man is taken from the quarry and by the secret culture of the Mysteries gradually transformed into a trued and perfect pyramidal capstone. The temple is complete only when the initiate himself becomes the living apex through which the divine power is focused into the diverging structure below.

W. Marsham Adams calls the Great Pyramid "the House of the Hidden Places"; such indeed it was, for it represented the inner sanctuary of pre-Egyptian wisdom. By the Egyptians the Great Pyramid was associated with Hermes, the god of wisdom and letters and the Divine Illuminator worshiped through the planet Mercury. Relating Hermes to the Pyramid emphasizes anew the fact that it was in reality the supreme temple of the Invisible and Supreme Deity. The Great Pyramid was not a lighthouse, an observatory, or a tomb, but the first temple of the Mysteries, the first structure erected as a repository for those secret truths which are the certain foundation of all arts and sciences. It was the perfect emblem of the microcosm and the macrocosm and, according to the secret teachings, the tomb of Osiris, the black god of the Nile. Osiris represents a certain manifestation of solar energy, and therefore his house or tomb is emblematic of the universe within which he is entombed and upon the cross of which he is crucified.

Through the mystic passageways and chambers of the Great Pyramid passed the illumined of antiquity. They entered its portals as men; they came forth as gods. It was the place of the "second birth," the "womb of the Mysteries," and wisdom dwelt in it as God dwells in the hearts of men. Somewhere in the depths of its recesses there resided an unknown being who was called "The Initiator," or "The Illustrious One," robed in blue and gold and bearing in his hand the sevenfold key of Eternity. This was the lion-faced hierophant, the Holy One, the Master of Masters, who never left the House of Wisdom and whom no man ever saw save he who had passed through the gates of preparation and purification. It was in these chambers that Plato--he of the broad brow---came face to face with the wisdom of the ages personified in the Master of the Hidden House.

Who was the Master dwelling in the mighty Pyramid, the many rooms of which signified the worlds in space; the Master whom none might behold save those who had been "born again"? He alone fully knew the secret of the Pyramid, but he has departed the way of the wise and the house is empty. The hymns of praise no longer echo in muffled tones through the chambers; the neophyte no longer passes through the elements and wanders among the seven stars; the candidate no longer receives the "Word of Life" from the lips of the Eternal One. Nothing now remains that the eye of man can see but an empty shell--the outer symbol of an inner truth--and men call the House of God a tomb!

The technique of the Mysteries was unfolded by the Sage Illuminator, the Master of the Secret House. The power to know his guardian spirit was revealed to the new initiate; the method of disentangling his material body from. his divine vehicle was explained; and to consummate the magnum opus, there was revealed the Divine Name--the secret and unutterable designation of the Supreme Deity, by the very knowledge of which man and his God are made consciously one. With the giving of the Name, the new initiate became himself a pyramid, within the chambers of whose soul numberless other human beings might also receive spiritual enlightenment.

In the King's Chamber was enacted the drama of the "second death." Here the candidate, after being crucified upon the cross of the solstices and the equinoxes, was buried in the great coffer. There is a profound mystery to the atmosphere and temperature of the King's Chamber: it is of a peculiar deathlike cold which cuts to the marrow of the bone. This room was a doorway between the material world and the transcendental spheres of Nature. While his body lay in the coffer, the soul of the neophyte soared as a human-headed hawk through the celestial realms, there to discover first hand the eternity of Life, Light, and Truth, as well as the illusion of Death, Darkness, and Sin. Thus in one sense the Great Pyramid may be likened to a gate through which the ancient priests permitted a few to pass toward the attainment of individual completion. It is also to be noted incidentally that if the coffer in the King's Chamber be struck, the sound emitted has no counterpart in any known musical scale. This tonal value may have formed part of that combination of circumstances which rendered the King's Chamber an ideal setting for the conferment of the highest degree of the Mysteries.

The modern world knows little of these ancient rites. The scientist and the theologian alike gaze upon the sacred structure, wondering what fundamental urge inspired the herculean labor. If they would but think for a moment, they would realize that there is only one urge in the soul of man capable of supplying the required incentive--namely, the desire to know, to understand, and to exchange the narrowness of human mortality for the greater breadth and scope of divine enlightenment. So men say of the Great Pyramid that it is the most perfect building in the world, the source of weights and measures, the original Noah's Ark, the origin of languages, alphabets,. and scales of temperature and humidity. Few realize, however, that it is the gateway to the Eternal.

Though the modern world may know a million secrets, the ancient world knew one--and that one was greater than the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one secret confers life, light, and truth. The time will come when the secret wisdom shall again be the dominating religious and philosophical urge of the world. The day is at hand when the doom of dogma shall be sounded. The great theological Tower of Babel, with its confusion of tongues, was built of bricks of mud and the mortar of slime. Out of the cold ashes of lifeless creeds, however, shall rise phœnixlike the ancient Mysteries. No other institution has so completely satisfied the religious aspirations of humanity, for since the destruction of the Mysteries there never has been a religious code to which Plato could have subscribed. The unfolding of man's spiritual nature is as much an exact science as astronomy, medicine or jurisprudence. To accomplish this end religions were primarily established; and out of religion have come science, philosophy, and logic as methods whereby this divine purpose might be realized.

The Dying God shall rise again! The secret room in the House of the Hidden Places shall be rediscovered. The Pyramid again shall stand as the ideal emblem of solidarity, inspiration, aspiration, resurrection, and regeneration. As the passing sands of time bury civilization upon civilization beneath their weight, the Pyramid shall remain as the Visible covenant between Eternal Wisdom and the world. The time may yet come when the chants of the illumined shall be heard once more in its ancient passageways and the Master of the Hidden House shall await in the Silent Place for the coming of that man who, casting aside the fallacies of dogma and tenet, seeks simply Truth and will be satisfied with neither substitute nor counterfeit.

*"The Isiac Tablet," writes Levi, "is a Key to the Ancient Book of Thoth, which has survived to some extent the lapse of centuries and is pictured to us in the still comparatively ancient set of Tarocchi Cards. To him the Book of Thoth was a résumé of the esoteric learning of the Egyptians, after the decadence of their civilization, this lore became crystallized in an hieroglyphic form as the Tarot; this Tarot having become partially or entirely forgotten or misunderstood, is pictured symbols fell into the hands of the sham diviners, and of the providers of the public amusement by games of Cards. The modern Tarot, or Tarocchi pack of cards consists of 78 cards of which 22 form a special group of trumps, of pictorial design: the remaining 56 are composed of four suits of 10 numerals and four court cards, King, Queen, Knight and Knave or Valet; the suits are Swords (Militaryism), Cups (Sacerdocy), Clubs or Wands (Agriculture), and Shekels or Coins (Commerce), answering respectively to our Spades, Hearts, Clubs and Diamonds. Our purpose is with the 22 trumps, these form the special characteristic of the pack and are the lineal descendants of the Hieroglyphics of the Tarot. These 22 correspond to the letters of the Hebrew and other sacred alphabets, which fall naturally into three classes of a Trio of Mothers, and Heptad of doubles, and a duodecad of simple letters. They are also considered as a triad of Heptads and one apart, a system of Initiation and an Uninitiate." - History of Magic

Of the Isiac Table, Alexandre Lenoir writes: "The Isiac Table, as a work of art, is not of great interest. It is but a composition, rather cold and insignificant, whose figures, summarily sketched and methodically placed near each other, give but little impression of life. But, if on the contrary, after examining it, we understand the purpose of the author, we become soon convinced that the Isiac Table is an image of the heavenly sphere divided in small parts to be used very likely for general teaching. According to that idea, we can conclude that the Isiac Table was originally the introduction to a collection followed by the Mysteries of Isis. It was engraved on copper in order to be used in the ceremonial of initiation."- The Isiac Tablet

Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes + Thoth) and His Vision

2010-06-15T06:54:00.000-07:00

Hermes Trismegistus (Thrice Great) is a huge subject and would be impossible to cover in great detail in just one post. It even has connections to Islam outside of the realm of Sufism with al-Masudi citing the Sabian belief that Hermes Trismegistus had been prophet Idris (as) aka Enoch. However, let me begin with this. For those who wish to understand the Freemasons and others in the occult (as this is not exclusive to people interested in Hermeticism) it's important to understand Hermetic beliefs or concepts and their varying influences. One very simple introductory article taken from a Rosicrucian website is: Thrice Great Hermes. Concerning the Vision of Hermes that I will get into below, it states:

The Vision is the most famous of all Hermetic fragments, and contains an exposition of Hermetic cosmogony and the secret sciences of the Egyptians regarding the culture and unfoldment of the human soul In concluding his exposition of the Vision, Hermes quotes “The sleep of the body is the sober watchfulness of the Mind and the shutting of my eyes reveals the true Light. My silence is filled with budding life and hope, and is full of good. My words are the blossoms of fruit of the tree of my soul. For this is the faithful account of what I have received from my true Mind, that is Poimandres, the Great Dragon, the Lord of the Word, through whom I became inspired by God with Truth. Since that day my Mind has ever been with me and in my own soul it has given birth to the Word; the Word is reason, and Reason has redeemed me. For which cause, with all my soul and all my strength, I give praise and blessing unto God the Father, the Life of Light. And the Eternal Good.

The Vision of Hermes, like all Hermetic writings, is an allegorical exposition of great philosophical and mystic truths, and its hidden meaning may be comprehended only by those who have been “raised” into the presence of the true mind.

The 1928 work The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall also has a blurb introducing the Vision.

The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus is one of the earliest of the Hermetic writings now extant. While probably not in its original form, having been remodeled during the first centuries of the Christian Era and incorrectly translated since, this work undoubtedly contains many of the original concepts of the Hermetic cultus. The Divine Pymander consists of seventeen fragmentary writings gathered together and put forth as one work. The second book of The Divine Pymander, called Poimandres, or The Vision, is believed to describe the method by which the divine wisdom was first revealed to Hermes. It was after Hermes had received this revelation that he began his ministry, teaching to all who would listen the secrets of the invisible universe as they had been unfolded to him.

The Vision is the most: famous of all the Hermetic fragments, and contains an exposition of Hermetic cosmogony and the secret sciences of the Egyptians regarding the culture and unfoldment of the human soul. For some time it was erroneously called "The Genesis of Enoch," but that mistake has now been rectified.

That books is an excellent source on the occult and I will be referencing it more later insha'Allah, however, it's chapter on Islam is ignorant and insulting so I am not linking directly to the entire work. For now, here is the Vision:

The Vision of Hermes

(as found in The Wisdom of the Egyptians by Brian Brown)

ONE day, Hermes, after reflecting on the origin of things, fell asleep. A dull torpor took possession of his body; but in proportion as the latter grew benumbed, his spirit ascended into space. Then an immense being, of indeterminate form, seemed to call him by name.

"Who art thou?" said the terrified Hermes.

"I am Osiris, the sovereign Intelligence who is able to unveil all things. What desirest thou?"

"To behold the source of beings, O divine Osiris, and to know God."

"Thou shalt be satisfied."

Immediately Hermes felt himself plunged in a delicious light. In its pellucid billows passed the ravishing forms of all beings. Suddenly, a terrifying encircling darkness descended upon him. Hermes was in a humid chaos, filled with smoke and with a heavy, rumbling sound. Then a voice rose from the abyss, the cry of light.

At once a quick-leaping flame darted forth from the humid depths, reaching to the ethereal heights. Hermes ascended with it, and found himself again in the expanse of space. Order began to clear up chaos in the abyss; choruses of constellations spread above his head and the voice of light filled infinity.

"Dost thou understand what thou hast seen?" said Osiris to Hermes, bound down in his dream and suspended between earth and sky.

"No," said Hermes.

"Thou wilt now learn. Thou hast just seen what exists from all eternity. The light thou didst first see is the divine intelligence which contains all things in potentiality, enclosing the models of all beings. The darkness in which thou wast afterwards plunged is the material world on which the men of earth live. But the fire thou didst behold shooting forth from the depths, is the divine Word. God is the Father, the Word is the son, and their union is Life."

"What marvellous sense has opened out to me?" asked Hermes. "I no longer see with the eyes of the body, but with those of the spirit. How has that come to pass?"

"Child of dust," replied Osiris, "it is because the Word is in thee. That in thee which hears, sees, and acts is the Word itself, the sacred fire, the creative utterance!"

"Since things are so," said Hermes, "grant that I may see the light of the worlds; the path of souls from which man comes and to which he returns."

"Be it done according to thy desire."

Hermes became heavier than a stone and fell through space like a meteorite. Finally he reached the summit of a mountain. It was night, the earth was gloomy and deserted, and his limbs seemed as heavy as iron.

"Raise thine eyes and look!" said the voice of Osiris.

Then Hermes saw a wonderful sight. The starry heavens, stretching through infinite space, enveloped him with seven luminous spheres. In one glance, Hermes saw the seven heavens stretching above his head, tier upon tier, like seven transparent and concentric globes, the sidereal centre of which he now occupied. The milky way formed the girdle of the last. In each sphere there rolled a planet accompanied by a genius of different form, sign and light. Whilst Hermes, dazzled by the sight, was contemplating their wide-spread efflorescence and majestic movements, the voice said to him:

"Look, listen, and understand. Thou seest the seven spheres of all life. Through them is accomplished the fall and ascent of souls. The seven genii are the seven rays of the word-light. Each of them commands one sphere of the spirit, one phase of the life of souls. The one nearest to thee is the Genius of the Moon, with his disquieting smile and crown of silver sickle. He presides over births and deaths, sets free souls from bodies and draws them into his ray.

Above him, pale Mercury points out the path to ascending or descending souls with his caduceus, which contains all knowledge. Higher still, shining Venus holds the mirror of love, in which souls forget and recognize them in turn. Above her, the Genius of the Sun raises the triumphal torch of eternal beauty. At a yet loftier height, Mars brandishes the sword of justice. Enthroned on the azure sphere, Jupiter holds the sceptre of supreme power, which is divine intelligence. At the boundaries of the world, beneath the signs of the Zodiac, Saturn bears the globe of universal wisdom.

"I see," said Hermes, "the seven regions which comprise the visible and invisible world; I see the seven rays of the word-light, of the one God who traverses them and governs them by these rays. Still, O master, how does mankind journey through all these worlds?"

"Dost thou see," said Osiris, "a luminous seed fall from the regions of the milky way into the seventh sphere? These are germs of souls. They live like faint vapors in the region of Saturn, gay and free from care, knowing not their own happiness. On falling from sphere to sphere, however, they put on increasingly heavier envelopes. In each incarnation they acquire a new corporeal sense, in harmony with the surroundings in which they are living. Their vital energy increases, but in proportion as they enter into denser bodies they lose the memory of their celestial origin. Thus is effected the fall of souls which come from the divine ether.

Ever more and more captivated by matter and intoxicated by life, they fling themselves like a rain of fire, with quiverings of voluptuous delight, through the regions of grief, love, and death, right into their earthly prison where thou thyself lamentest, held down by the fiery centre of the earth, and where divine life appears to thee nothing more than an empty dream."

"Can souls die?" asked Hermes.

"Yes," replied the voice of Osiris, "many perish in the fatal descent. The soul is the daughter of heaven, and its journey is a test. If it loses the memory of its origin, in its unbridled love of matter, the divine spark which was in it and which might have become more brilliant than a star, returns to the ethereal region, a lifeless atom, and the soul disaggregates in the vortex of gross elements."

Hermes shuddered at these words, for a raging tempest enveloped him in a black mist. The seven spheres disappeared beneath dense vapors. In them he saw human spectres uttering strange cries, carried off and torn by phantoms of monsters and animals, amidst nameless groans and blasphemies.

"Such is the destiny," said Osiris, "of souls irremediably base and evil. Their torture finishes only with their destruction, which includes the loss of all consciousness. The vapors are now dispersing, the seven spheres reappear beneath the firmament.

Look on this side. Do you see this swarm of souls trying to mount once more to the lunar regions? Some are beaten back to earth like eddies of birds beneath the might of the tempest. The rest with mighty wings reach the upper sphere, which draws them with it as it rotates. Once they have come to this sphere, they recover their vision of divine things. This time, however, they are not content to reflect them in the dream of a powerless happiness; they become impregnated thereby with the lucidity of a grief-enlightened consciousness, the energy of a will acquired through struggle and strife. They become luminous, for they possess the divine in themselves and radiate it in their acts.

Strengthen therefore thy soul, O Hermes! calm thy darkened mind by contemplating these distant flights of souls which mount the seven spheres and are scattered about therein like sheaves of sparks. Thou also canst follow them, but a strong will it needs to rise.

Look how they swarm and form into divine choruses. Each places itself beneath its favorite genius. The most beautiful dwell in the solar region; the most powerful rise to Saturn. Some ascend to the Father, powers themselves amidst powers. For where everything ends, everything eternally begins; and the seven spheres say together: 'Wisdom! Love! Justice! Beauty! Splendor! Knowledge! Immortality!'"

"This," said the hierophant, "is what ancient Hermes saw and what his successors have handed down to us. The words of the wise are like the seven notes of the lyre which contains all music, along with the numbers and the laws of the universe, The vision of Hermes resembles the starry heaven, whose unfathomable depths are strewn with constellations.

For the child this is nothing more than a gold-studded vault, for the sage it is boundless space in which worlds revolve, with their wonderful rhythms and cadences. The vision contains the eternal numbers, evoking signs and magic keys. The more thou learnest to contemplate and understand it, the farther thou shalt see its limits extend, for the same organic law governs all worlds."

The prophet of the temple commented on the sacred text. He explained that the doctrine of the word-light represents divinity in the static condition, in its perfect balance. He showed its triple nature, which is at once intelligence, force, and matter; spirit, soul, and body; light, word, and life. Essence, manifestation, and substance are three terms which take each other for granted. Their union constitutes the divine and intellectual principle par excellence, the law of the ternary unity which governs creation from above downwards.

Having thus led his disciple to the ideal centre of the universe, the generating principle of Being, the master spread him abroad in time and space in a multiple efflorescence. For a second part of the vision represents divinity in the dynamic condition, i.e., in active evolution; in other terms, the visible and invisible universe, the living heavens.

The seven spheres attached to the seven planets symbolise seven principles, seven different states of matter and spirit, seven different worlds which each man and each humanity are forced to pass through in their evolution across a solar system. The seven genii or the seven cosmogonic gods signify the superior, directing spirits of all spheres, the off-spring themselves of inevitable evolution.

To an initiate of old, therefore, each great god was the symbol and patron of legions of spirits which reproduced his type in a thousand varieties, and which, from their own sphere, could exercise their action over mankind and terrestrial things. The seven genii of the vision of Hermes are the seven Devas of India, the seven Amshapands of Persia, the seven great Angels of Chaldæa, the seven Sephiroths of the Kabbala, the seven Archangels of the Christian Apocalypse. The great septenary which enfolds the universe does not vibrate in the seven colors of the rainbow and the seven notes of the scale, only; it also manifests itself in the constitution of man, which is triple in essence, but sevenfold in its evolution.

"Thus," said the hierophant in conclusion, "thou hast reached the very threshold of the great arcanum. The divine life has appeared to thee beneath the phantoms of reality. Hermes has unfolded to thee the invisible heavens, the light of Osiris, the hidden God of the universe who breathes in millions of souls and animates thereby the wandering globes and working bodies.

It is now thine to direct thy path and choose the road leading to the pure spirit. Henceforth dost thou belong to those who have been brought back from death to life.

REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE TWO MAIN KEYS TO KNOWLEDGE. This is the first: 'The without is like the within of things; the small is like the large; there is only one law and he who works is One. In the divine economy, there is nothing either great or small.' And this is the second: 'Men are mortal gods and gods are immortal men.' Happy the man who understands these words, for he holds the key to all things.

Remember that the law of mystery veils the great truth. Total knowledge can be revealed only to our brethren who have gone through the same trials as ourselves. Truth must be measured according to intelligence; it must be veiled from the feeble, whom it would madden, and concealed from the wicked, who are capable of seizing only its fragments, which they would turn into weapons of destruction. Keep it in thy heart and let it speak through thy work. Knowledge will be thy might, faith thy sword, and silence thy armor that cannot be broken."

The revelations of the prophet of Amon-Râ, which opened out to the new initiate such vast horizons over himself and over the universe, doubtless produced a profound impression, when uttered from the observatory of a Theban temple, in the clear calm of an Egyptian night.

The pylons, the white roofs, and terraces of the temples lay asleep at his feet between the dark clusters of nopals and tamarind trees. Away in the distance were large monolithic shrines, colossal statues of the gods, seated like incorruptible judges on their silent lake. Three pyramids, geometrical figures of the tetragram and of the sacred septenary, could be dimly seen on the horizon, their triangles clearly outlined in the light grey air. The unfathomable firmament was studded with stars. With what a strange gaze he looked at those constellations which were depicted to him as future dwellings!

When finally the gold-tipped barque of the moon rose above the dark mirror of the Nile which died away on the horizon, like a long bluish serpent, the neophyte believed he saw the barque of Isis floating over the river of souls which it carries off towards the sun of Osiris. He remembered the Book of the Dead, and the meaning of all the symbols was now unveiled to his mind after what he had seen and learned; he might believe himself to be in the crepuscular kingdom of the Amenti, the mysterious interregnum between the earthly and the heavenly life, where the departed, who are at first without eyes and power of utterance, by degrees regain sight and voice.

He, too, was about to undertake the great journey, the journey of the infinite, through worlds and existences. Hermes had already absolved him and judged him to be worthy. He had given him the explanation of the great enigma "One only soul, the great soul of the All, by dividing itself out, has given birth to all the souls that struggle throughout the universe."

Armed with the mighty secret, he entered the barque of Isis. Rising aloft into the ether, it floated in the interstellar regions. The broad rays of a far-spreading dawn were already piercing the azure veils of the celestial horizons, and the choir of the glorious spirits, the Akhimou-Sekou, who have attained to eternal repose, was chanting:

"Rise, Râ Hermakouti, sun of spirits! Those in thy barque are in exaltation. They raise exclamations in the barque of millions of years. The great divine cycle overflows with joy when glorifying the mighty sacred barque. Rejoicing is taking place in the mysterious chapel. Rise, Ammon-Râ Hermakouti, thou self-creating sun!"

And the initiate replied proudly: "I have attained the country of truth and justification. I rise from the dead as a living god, and shine forth in the choir of the gods who dwell in heaven, for I belong to their race."

Such audacious thoughts and hopes might haunt the spirit of the adept during the night following the mystic ceremony of resurrection. The following morning, in the avenues of the temple, beneath the blinding light, that night seemed to him no more than a dream . . . though how impossible to forget . . . that first voyage into the intangible and invisible!

Once again he read the inscription on the statue of Isis: "My veil no mortal hand hath raised." All the same a corner of the veil was raised, but only to fall back again, and he woke up on the earth of tombs.

Ah, how far he was from the goal he had dreamed of! For the voyage on the barque of millions of years is a long one! But at least he had caught a faint glimpse of his final destination. Even though his vision of the other world were only a dream, a childish outline of his imagination, still obscured by the mists of earth, could he doubt that other consciousness he had felt being born in him, that mysterious double, that celestial ego which had appeared to him in his astral beauty like a living form and spoken to him in his sleep?

Was this a sister-soul, was it his genius, or only a reflection of his inmost spirit, a vision of his future being dimly foreshadowed? A wonder and a mystery! Surely it was a reality, and if that soul was only his own, it was the true one. What would he not do to recover it? Were he to live millions of years he would never forget that divine hour in which he had seen his other self, so pure and radiant.

The initiation was at an end, and the adept consecrated as priest of Osiris. If he was an Egyptian, he remained attached to the temple; if a foreigner, he was permitted, from time to time, to return to his own country, therein to establish the worship of Isis or to accomplish a mission.

Before leaving, however, he swore a formidable oath that he would maintain absolute silence regarding the secrets of the temple. Never would he betray to a single person what he had seen or heard, never would he reveal the doctrine of Osiris except under the triple veil of the mythological symbols or of the mysteries. Were he to violate this oath, sudden death would come to him, sooner or later, however far away he might be. Silence, however, had become the buckler of his might.

On returning to the shores of Ionia, to the turbulent town in which he formerly lived, amidst that multitude of men, a prey to mad passions, who exist like fools in their ignorance of themselves, his thoughts often flew back to Egypt and the pyramids to the temple of Amon-Râ. Then the dream of the crypt came back to memory. And just as the lotus, in that distant land, spreads out its petals on the waves of the Nile, so this white vision floated above the slimy, turbulent stream of this life.

At chosen hours, he would hear its voice, and it was the voice of light. Arousing throughout his being the strains of an inner music, it said to him: "The soul is a veiled light. When neglected, it flickers and dies out, but when it is fed with the holy oil of love, it shines forth like an immortal lamp."

The Occult in Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" (The Death of Osiris)

2010-06-14T12:37:00.000-07:00

The overwhelming occult theme of Lady Gaga's strange video for "Alejandro" is that of a queen in mourning and the sexual transformation that happens thereof. More specifically, it's the story of the death of Osiris with Lady Gaga primarily in the role of Isis.

The video begins by flashing both a pyramid and a Star of David, the two very important symbols of Freemasonry and the occult. Circles are also present among the performers, perhaps symbolizing the ouroboros.

Here is Lady Gaga with a crown representing that she is queen (Isis). The whole video is somber with snow falling--cold--and she's in black.

Here is the symbolic funeral procession for Osiris with his coffin with Lady Gaga as Isis leading it, his heart in her hands (for the video the heart is marked with an A to represent the "Alejandro" of the song, but having said that, some transliterations of the name Osiris start with the letter A i.e. Ausare).

There is a very brief glimpse of this man sitting on the edge of Lady Gaga's bed, as she is dressed in a red and white outfit resembling a nun or the Virgin (Isis also being considered such although she technically wasn't). It should be noted that he has a golden gun between his legs. There is a much clearer image of this at the end. In the myth sequence, Osiris was cut into pieces and the only thing which could not be recovered by Isis was his phallus. As a result, she made a phallus ("gun") out of gold in order to resurrect him and it resulted in her becoming pregnant with Horus.

More of the queen imagery and this time, she is holding a smoking pipe in her left hand, perhaps a reference to the Left Hand Path of Aleister Crowley which venerated Horus and considers us to be in the Aeon of Horus, the previous one being of Osiris and before that Isis.

Some of Lady Gaga's infamous one-eye imagery, used to represent the Eye of Horus, especially in this context. One dark for the moon, the other lit for the sun which is also seen in other videos such as "Poker Face."

Previous to this clip, Lady Gaga put her hands together in prayer, then made the Sign of the Cross. Blatant Christian gestures for the Christian theme of the video (which is supposedly done to criticize the Church), but it could subtly be representing the trinity of Osiris, Isis and Horus, or even Osiris, Horus and Thoth.
Throughout the video there is a theme of violence and fascism. Some have said it's to get people comfortable with the thought of a police state. Possible, although it fits the standard and surface symbolism that it's about the "oppression" of homosexuals by the Church. However, relevant to the Osiris theme is the image of a world in chaos, an unbalanced world. The clip captured above is a little bit different. The dancers are separated into pairs and are fighting with one another as if good versus evil. And then, at 3:38, one dancer is slammed down to the ground violently and also homoerotically, twice. It's reminiscent of the conflict between Set and Horus in mythology in which Horus had to avoid Set's homosexual advances. The scene is even more evocative with Lady Gaga dressed as the red (life and magick) and white (purity etc.) Queen Virgin Isis saying, "Stop. Please. Just let me go." As if she wants them to stop fighting, and to be free without having to worry about Set. This is what she pleaded when Horus was going to kill Set during a fight, and instead Horus killed her, his mother.

Not the best screen capture, but in most of Lady Gaga's dance moves, there is a gesture where she covers or emphasizes one eye. This is one such move, which is repeated later on.

Here is Lady Gaga as Queen Virgin Isis standing amidst chaos. She's wearing a red inverted cross, which can mean a number of things in the context of the video (cast out, more Left Hand Path symbolism, the Church is Satanic etc.).

In the following scene, however, the symbolism is undeniable. She's concealing her eye to represent Horus (Dajjal) particularly with the two inverted crosses and the fire, which in this instance symbolize the Satanism of Crowley, which is consistent with her past fashion references to Baphomet. In the frame, it's almost as if he (Horus) will be savior.

In this scene, Lady Gaga abandons the role of Isis and in turn seems to take on the limp restored body of Osiris with the red inverted cross representing the missing phallus. Another interpretation, however, can be that the red inverted cross symbolizes Isis' red life-giving (menstrual) blood.

Pyramid capstone with rays of light hand gesture with arms as the body of the pyramid being done by Lady Gaga. Also, the black and white in this sequence symbolizing good and evil in typical Masonic fashion.

Better picture of the dance move that emphasizes one eye. Other moves in different videos and performances (not to mention interviews, snapshots and posed shots) have similar variations.

During this dance sequence, Lady Gaga as Isis is straddling another dancer and essentially riding him sexually while dressed in her robes (unlike in the other sex-heavy scenes) in order to create Horus using her magick.

And here is the final scene which shows the golden "gun" between his legs and the Virgin life-giving and magickal Isis (represented by the color red) together, posed. While the strings look like puppet strings, they are more reminiscent of the kind of lines found in paintings that come from a divine source and represent God's intervention such as with stigmata.

Not every scene from the video is mentioned and analyzed here, but these particular clips and scenes are the ones I personally found to be most significant. As for the androgyny in the video, check out my brief blog post on the subject.

Lady Gaga with the Eye of Horus from a performance:

Horus and Ladders, Osiris and Steps (Freemasonry)

2010-06-13T18:37:00.000-07:00

I've often seen the ladder symbolism used in Masonry referred to as "Jacob's Ladder." Like many things involving the occult, I find it more productive to go to sources that are not speculative or misleading; sources outside the realm and yet related i.e. ancient sources, sources about ancient symbolism and the like. For an understanding of the ladder and the staircase, I quote two excerpts from the 1923 work by Brian Brown called The Wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians.

The Ladder is a symbol of Horus, and was worn [as an amulet in ancient Egypt] to secure his assistance in overcoming and surmounting difficulties in the material world, as well as to form a connection with the heaven world, or land of light. The earliest traditions place this heaven world above the earth, its floor being the sky, and to reach this a ladder was deemed necessary. From the pyramid texts it seems there were two stages of ascent to the upper paradise, represented by two ladders, one being the ladder of Sut, forming the ladder of ascent from the land of darkness, and the other the ladder of Horus reaching the land of light.

The Steps are a symbol of Osiris, who is described as the god of the staircase, through whom it was hoped the deceased might reach the heaven world and attain everlasting bliss.

Very simple and straightforward.

Star Chamber of Isis and Sex Magick (very short blurb)

2010-06-12T07:28:00.000-07:00

Source: Esoteric Wisdom: The Pineal Gland And Shamanism

Ancient people knew of the importance of the pineal gland. Magician, Delores Ashcroft-Nowicki says that to the priests of Heliopolis, the embalmers of ancient Egypt (who were the forerunners of today's pathologists), the Star Chamber of Isis (the Holy of Holies) and the Halls of Anubis and Thoth were not just fanciful terms given to mythical locations but were actually places within the living brain where the priests and priestesses traveled to be taught by the gods.

The following is a description of The Star Chamber of Isis given by a priest of Isis undergoing the Rite of the Meeting of Mind with Mind:

“ The corridor is long and narrow and gleams like the inside of a shell drawn from the depths of the sea. The curtains that guard the entrance are of the softest gossamer, so fine that they seem like mist on a lake at dawn. As I pass through them I come into the presence of the Gods. The walls are of silver and give off a faint silver light that illuminates this holy place. Beneath my feet is the sandy silt of the sacred Nile, and all about me I hear the heartbeat of Isis . Behold, I dwell in the Star Chamber of the Goddess.”

The above sounds remarkably like the physical description of the pineal gland, which lies deep within the head, an important link to our deepest selves.

Tantric techniques attempt to produce enlightenment through sexual ecstasy. Pineal DMT release can mediate sexual ecstasy resulting from the strenuous exertion, intense emotions and pneumocatharthis (intense dynamic breathing). It is known that psychedelic features do emerge during orgasm. The link between conscious waking state and deep Shamanic consciousness is BLISS/RAPTURE, feelings associated with intense sexual pleasure.

(NOTE: The secret sex techniques of the Shamanka (female shaman) still in practice in certain rural areas of Brazil , Mexico and South America all, generally, involve breathing techniques.)

Reflections of Set and Horus in Yu-Gi-Oh!

2010-03-31T05:39:00.000-07:00

It is time for their world to be destroyed. It is time for a new age, the Age of Horus. - Marilyn Manson

A lot of the people that used to spam my blog with their hate and immaturity don't actually read my posts. Sometimes things that I mention are not even conspiracy theory, but people still don't want to hear it. Yu-Gi-Oh! is an example of this. The children's anime series is literally based on Aleister Crowley and the occult (Thelema etc that specifically involve ancient Egyptian aspects). This can be read in detail here. The purpose of this post is to just focus on this single image and what it is conveying for those who don't know Egyptian mythology and the modern idolization of Horus.

In this depiction, everything uses the Eye of Horus symbolism. That is unique to this show. They really want to drill the eye into the minds of children instead of having the Eye of Horus being specific to only one character. Again, all of that is discussed in the post above. At any rate, you have a dark character with red hair. Red hair is the distinctive characteristic of Set, the enemy though sometimes cooperative counterpart (depending on myth) to Horus. Horus is reflected in the other character with the colors blue and gold (the colors of Horus, just like red is the color of Set). In modern occult fashion, Horus is not just the god of the rulers and elite as he was in the ancient world, he is also king/ruler/supreme, the antagonist and antithesis to God in general. That is why out of all the possible manifestations, it was Horus who sent a messenger to convey his message to Crowley. My point is emphasized below:

Taken from The Age of Horus:

The Aeon Tarot card, reinterpreted by Aleister Crowley in his Thoth Tarot deck. Notably, among other Egyptian symbolism from The Book of the Law is Horus throned in the framed center; Horus, ruler of the New Aeon.

The website also mentions this:

Within Aleister Crowley's philosophy and in regard to The Age of Horus, the "old gods", those of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc, who are waning in their influence and reign over mankind. They are the "Dying Gods."

Egyptian Roots of Freemasonry

2010-03-24T11:55:00.000-07:00

Blurb is taken from: Tracing the Generation of the Third Degree by Adrian T. Taylor, Ph.D. Founding Member of the David A. McWilliams, Sr. Research & Education Lodge

It stresses Osiris and Thoth but I say Freemasonry stresses Horus most of all with Thoth second and Osiris third, which is briefly alluded to given Horus' domain. Also, Thoth's involvement in the setting up of Set (not mentioned in the article) briefly shows their connection. For Muslim readers a reminder: The Golden Ass, mentioned below, is the work that Lawrence of Arabia carried with him while he set about the destruction of the khilafah and later recommended that Iraqis be gassed for having the nerve of rebelling against British colonialism. That is the great tolerance that Freemason propagandists constantly speak of--forcing their New World Order agenda and irreligious beliefs on others in the name of intellectualism and superiority. The reality of said tolerance is that almost anyone can become a Mason because its its own religion with deity, mythos and secrets, and rituals of worship. What goes on in the world is a different matter entirely.

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During the dispensation of Desaguliers, Egypt was the eternal, attractive enigma, especially for Esotericists. Egypt was thought to be “the fount of all wisdom and the stronghold of hermetic lore.” However, the dispensation of Desaguliers was not unique. The fascination with Egypt started with the Greeks; was constitutive of the legendary founding of the Craft as portrayed by the Gothic Constitutions; and continues to this very day. People during the dispensation of Desaguliers learned about Egypt through existent texts/translations of the Greeks, and others, which informed hermeticism and alchemy (and its “imagined” institutional perpetuation via the Rosicrucians).

Though the hieroglyphs were not deciphered until 1822 by Jean-Francois Champollion, Egypt was not a complete enigma. Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe learned about Egypt through the works of Herodotus, Plato, Plutarch, Strabo, Diodorus, Iamblichus, Clement of Alexandra, Horapollo, Apuleius, and others; and texts like the tractate Asclepius, the Corpus Hermeticum, the Tabula Smaragdina, and the Rosicrucian text Fama Fraternitatis (The Rosicrucian Manuscripts). The latter texts kept the image of Egypt alive for the dispensation of Desaguliers, rooted in the mythos of hermeticism and alchemy.

The patron of Hermeticism is fictitious. Hermes never existed in his many purported guises. In the foundational text The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times, written by Egyptologist Florian Ebeling, we find that “The figure of this legendary Egyptian sage arose from the merging of two deities of highly divergent origin: the Egyptian god Thoth and the Greek God Hermes.”

For the Egyptians, Thoth (who the Egyptians called Tehuti) was mysteriously born in some accounts from the semen of the deities Horus and Set, containing within his being two warring elements. Thoth was typically symbolized by an ibis, a baboon, the head of an ibis on the body of a man, or as a human sage.

Thoth had many characteristics. In different dispensations, he was known as the deity of wisdom, inventor of writing/hieroglyphs, generator of sacred literature, superintendent of justice, inventor of the calendar, author of measurement, measurer of time, generator of rituals and sacred offerings, and inventor/practitioner of magic. In Egypt’s Hellenized (or Grecian) period (circa 332 B.C.E to 30 C.E.), his magical and/or “mysterious” elements became privileged, focused on easing one’s passage to the netherworld, such that it even became inappropriate to even speak his name.

After Alexander of Macedonia conquered Egypt in 332 B.C.E., Thoth became Hermes Trismegistus (thrice great), first portrayed by Akhmim in 240 C.E., though referred to as “twice great” around 570 B.C.E.

For the Greeks, Hermes was originally the “helpful messenger of the gods,” according to Ebeling. He had many attributes, from the god of community to the god of oratory. Similar to Thoth, “he conducted the souls of the dead in the netherworld… out of the shadowy realm and into the world above.” When he was merged with Thoth, he took on a new legend and attributes. He became the deity “of all wisdom, philosophy, and theology,” even teaching philosophy to the Greeks under his pseudepigrapha. He also became the deity of the “Egyptian Mysteries,” though there are grounds for a “hermetic lore” being rooted in Egypt.

Typically when people talk of the “Egyptian Mysteries,” they are appealing to notions of Egyptian secrets, sacred ritual, and ceremony—all attributed to Thoth. This brings us to “The Legend of Osiris,” and attendant ritual, ceremony and “mystery.”

Assessing the nature of the legend, we find the following amended account by the British Museum:

Osiris was the king of the earth and Isis was the queen. Osiris was a good king, and he ruled over the earth for many years. However, everything was not well. Seth [or Set/Typhon] was jealous of Osiris because he wanted to be the ruler of the earth. He grew angrier and angrier until one day he killed Osiris. Osiris went down into the underworld and Seth remained on earth and became king. Osiris and Isis had one son called Horus. Horus battled against Seth and regained the throne. After that, Horus was the king of the earth and Osiris was the king of the underworld

Ironically, at least during the Hellenized period of Egypt, if there were any secrets, they were out. The Legend of Osiris was public knowledge. As such, the “Egyptian Mysteries” were not so mysterious/secret. It was dramatically/symbolically depicted by Plutarch circa 100 C.E; viewed as a public morality play and seemingly derided by the Christian Minucius Felix circa 200 C.E.; and it was referenced as a three degree initiation ritual by Apuleius circa 200 C.E., though expressed cautiously. The words of Apuleius are instructive, given that his work appears to be the ancient foundation of Masonic ritual and ceremony:

Perhaps, curious reader, you may be eager to know what was then said and done [during the Mystery Initiation/s of Isis/Osiris]. I would tell you were it lawful for you to hear. But both the ears that heard those things and the tongues that told them would reap the evil results of their rashness. Still, however, kept in suspense, as you probably are, with religious longing, I will not torment you with long-protracted anxiety. Hear, therefore, but believe what is the truth. I approached the confines of death, and, having trod on the threshold of Proserpine, I returned there from, being borne through all the elements. At midnight I saw the sun shining with its brilliant light; and I approached the presence of the gods beneath and the gods above, and stood near and worshipped them. Behold, I have related to you things of which, though heard by you, you must necessarily remain ignorant.

In the passage above, we find Apuleius referencing a kind of dreadful death and “resurrection,” in this world, alluding to the immortality of the soul, in the next. Similar textual references can be found in Egypt, when tracing the travels of the sun god Ra and the tests of his companions in the netherworld by ferryman and the guardians of the gates.

Beyond ritual and ceremony, and the variety of texts that are attributed to Hermes, hermeticism was/is essentially a holistic-pantheistic philosophy, developed to communicate the following maxims: “That which is above is the same as that which is below;” and “all is part of one, or one is all.” Ritual ceremonies of initiation were contrived to make this ethos dramatically experiential, in Hellenized Egypt. Accordingly, this was the knowledge that was lost, which needed to be found. Informed by this “lost knowledge,” Ashmole, Newton (alchemist and purported Rosicrucian), Desaguliers and others in their dispensation, in the midst of the tensions between faith, reason and the State, would endeavor to recover and reconstruct the foundations for the idea that that there needn’t be any “false” distinctions between Man, Earth, and Cosmos. All is One, Spirit/Light.

Alchemy, rooted in spiritual transformation, through the metaphor of turning base metals into gold, is also traced to Egypt. It is important to account for given its practice during the dispensation of Desaguliers. According to the literature, it appears that alchemy “first flourished in Hellenistic Egypt in the first century.” It is an amalgamation of various philosophies, like the naturalist philosophy of Aristotle, the tenants of Stoicism, Gnostic doctrine, Babylonian astrological lore, “and motifs from Egyptian mythology, particularly the myth of Osiris.” The first recorded alchemical text is attributed to Zosimus. Valuing the hermetic doctrine, we find Zosimus communicating the following ethos:

In his Book on Immateriality, Hermes rejects magic [in opposition to Zoroaster] and says: ‘Pneumatic man, who has known himself, must neither achieve anything whatsoever with the help of magic, even if it is generally useful, nor must he defy necessity, but allow it to act according to its nature and its will. And he must now allow himself to be distracted along the way from his search for himself, to know God, and to understand the ineffable Trinity; and he must leave the filth subjected to him, that is, the body to Destiny, to do with it what it will.’

Later in the aforementioned text, laboratory experiments are on display for transforming base metals into finer substances. “But the spiritual side of alchemy predominates,” ultimately citing “the authority of Hermes Trismegistus.” As such, chemical metaphors are used to allude to “knowledge of self, God and nature.”

The latter realities were brought together, informed by the Scottish Enlightenment of the 17^th and 18^th Century, rooted in the Renaissance. The Renaissance, French for “rebirth,” was a period where Europe was effectively raised from the Dark Ages, imposed by ignorance, superstition and fear, into the light of the ancient world, as preserved by the Monastery, and the Moors from North Africa. It was at once a dispensation where “artistic, social, scientific, and political thought turned in new directions.”

In Eric Hornung’s text The Secret Lore of Egypt we find that the Renaissance becomes important because this renewed “encounter with Greek literature [e.g. Plutarch, Diodorus and Iamblichus], particularly in the framework of the Platonic Academy in Florence, awakened fresh interest in the classical accounts of Egypt and its superior wisdom.” Similarly, “There was a special focus on late antiquity, an epoch that was thoroughly imbued with Egypt, while classical antiquity remained in the shadows.” Overtime, “Renaissance Hermeticism quickly spread to England, where Thomas More wrote a biography of Pico della Mirandola and depicted a religion with expressly Hermetic traits in this Utopia (1516) and also propagated the idea of religious freedom.” These ideas were also foundationally advanced, and re-imagined in England, through the New Atlantis (1626) by Francis Bacon.

Rosicrucianism, rooted in Renaissance Hermeticism and alchemy, would also “spread to England,” committed to the “idea of religious freedom,” captured in the text Fama Fraternitatis. Though the founder (Christian Rosenkreutz) and the beginning of the order appear to be legendary, the following is clear about the Rosicrucians, for the purposes of this research: they emerged in the beginning of the 17^th century; they are rooted in hermeticism and alchemy; they trace their legendary roots back to ancient Egypt; and according to the illuminating work of Hornung, “The New Order proved to be attractive to many Freemasons,” especially informed by their religious tolerance.

Two Occult Books Worth Checking Out...

2010-03-23T18:34:00.001-07:00

There are a number of actual Luciferian books and Satanic books and various other Left Hand Path stuff that I'm not going to bother to mention at this time--most can be easily found on Amazon or at the Luciferian Apotheca website. Michel Ford is the big name in that genre. These two below are more relevant to this blog where I discuss connections to Germanic/Norse mythology:

The Fraternitas Saturni - Or Brotherhood of Saturn: An Introduction to Its History, Philosophy and Rituals
The Fraternitas Saturni is a Thelemite order which has shaped the modern occult scene in Germany since its foundation in 1928. This volume presents the history and doctrines of that order. Appendices include the texts of many actual rites performed by the FS as well as historical documents relating to Aleister Crowley's relations with the FS. This order is especially well-known for its use of sexual magic. This book was originally published in the early 1990s by Llewellyn under the title Fire and Ice. xii + 117 p.

Freemasonry and the Germanic Tradition
Here we have a multifaceted study consisting of five essays or articles the introductory piece is entitled "My Masonic (Mis-)Adventure" and details the author's brief interaction with a local lodge, then follow two articles: "Roots of Masonry in the Scandinavian Gild System" and "Reflections of Germanic Mythic Tradition in Masonic Ritual." These convincingly show the origins of the essence of Masonry not in the "Holy Land," but in Northern Europe. Appended is a translation of Guido von List's "Origin and Symbolism of Freemasonry" (1910). Finally there is a short concluding piece entitled "A Charge to All Worthy Brothers" in which the author calls on individuals to help restore the original spirit and mission of Masonry.

While I haven't actually read those books to testify to them personally, I have read Flowers' book on Hermeticism, and it was pretty solid for what it was (I'm a straight to the source person) so trust that these would similarly be.

Reblogging: Brief History of Freemasonry

2010-03-23T14:29:00.000-07:00

Short and to the point about the general history of Freemasonry, starting with its origins. It of course leaves a lot out, but again, think of this as a general overview for neophytes. One-eyed deities have always been associated with rulers and the elite of any given society that have had such a pantheon, and they always will be until the end when the one-eyed dajjal (antichrist) will come and assert his godhead as has been prepared for.

Un Chien Andalou - The Power of Eye Symbolism

2010-03-22T07:51:00.000-07:00

Everyone is free to find in my films anything he likes or whatever is useful to him.~ Luis Buñuel

Un Chien Andalou is a 16 minute short film from 1929 by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali that's thoroughly surrealist. As such, it's primary influence in life and dreams. Additionally, the images used in the film are only symbolic in a subconscious sense, although that can actually be debated given the very blatant anti-religion theme, which is common in Luis Buñuel's works overall.

The scene in the film that's relevant to this blog is perhaps the most famous scene of the entire film.

Wikipedia sums it up nicely:

The film opens with a title card reading "Once upon a time". What may be the film's conclusion unfolds; a middle-aged man, (played by Buñuel), sharpens his razor at his balcony door and tests the razor on his thumb. He then opens the door, and idly fingers the razor while gazing at the moon, about to be engulfed by a thin cloud, from his balcony. There is a cut to a close-up of a young woman, (Simone Mareuil), being held by the man as she calmly stares straight ahead. Another cut occurs to the moon being overcome by the cloud as he slits the woman's eye with the razor.

The inspiration for that specific scene came from a dream Luis Buñuel had where a cloud sliced the moon in half, which made him think of an eye being sliced by a razor.

While the blinding of Horus by a spear could be read as part of the symbolism in this, the greater commentary from the subconscious is the correlation between the eyes and the sun and the moon and the subsequent powerful presentation in mythology and occult, notably in Egyptian and Norse beliefs. Despite the graphic nature of the scene, it's of no surprise that it's the most enduring aspect of the film. The Eye of the Sun (Wedjat) and the Eye of the Moon (Wadjet) are potent references which have clearly endured in various forms, now most predominantly used by the Freemasons and Illuminati respectively to symbolize their deity. The imagery and symbolism is forced on us in various forms that it pops up all over the place regardless of the conscious intentions of its presence.

Freemasonry in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

2010-03-22T05:44:00.000-07:00

Just the other day was making jokes about seeing an A that looked more like a golden triangle so must have been a sign of the Illuminati and yadda yadda (because I don't always take myself so seriously). Well, sadly, the next morning I saw on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse something which was less than my imagination on an episode about...duh duh duh...triangles:

It's so corny it's hard to believe, but it's really there. I've only ever seen that use of the Eye of Horus that particular episode. It should also be noted that in this case, the Eye is without the triangle, making the reference to triangles less blatant and relevant to the episode but nevertheless connected. Also, it needs to be noted that the Eye is crowned. That goes along with the theme of Horus being the god of rulers (or Odin as the god of the elite), or alternatively, the rule of the one-eyed "god" Dajjal (antichrist). Lastly, the rays of illumination are present, sealing the reference to the Eye of Horus.

Also in that screen capture Mickey Mouse's hand can be seen holding three wrenches with different shapes in them. That's part of the triangle theme because the missing wheel on the skateboard has a triangle screw.

That's what makes the Eye of Horus relevant. As can be seen, there is also a star wrench, which could be argued is another intentional symbolic reference. Who knows, it could be very likely. But with stuff like this it's hard to argue intention. Was skateboard design the work of a bored artist who thought it'd be a fun adult reference to make just because he/she could? Or was it put there on purpose? My purpose is to just point out what I observe.

Androgyny in the Occult

2010-03-15T07:54:00.001-07:00

There are many references in the occult realm to androgyny. Even at the all-male Bohemian Grove, there had been cross-dressing, some for the performance of plays, others not. Even the Templars, the precursors to Freemasons, were accused of having some kind of bearded idol, as I've pointed out. Let me quote from Witchcraft: The Old Religion by Dr. Leo Martello on the subject:

Another belief was that the ancient Gods and Goddesses were androgynous, possessing the sex organs of both sexes, thus able to reproduce themselves. There are countless carvings, engravings, paintings, and statues depicting the ancient deities as hermaphroditic. Such figures have been discovered dating from the neolithic age in Spain, Yugoslavia, and elsewhere. A clay hermaphroditic idol was found in Yugoslavia and dated from the Bronze Age. The word itself is derived from Greek mythology: Hermaphroditus was a son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who while bathing became joined in one body with a nymph. There are many imaged of "bearded ladies," including the Goddesses Diana and Isis as two examples. The Goddess Neith with a fully erect male organ, as was the Nordic Venus, Friga (Freya); Venus, Aphrodite, Baal, Mithras, Zeus, Adonis, Dionysus, and countless other deities were described and portrayed as androgynous.

In my book Black Magic, Satanism, and Voodoo, I wrote, "In the oldest records of India, China, Babylon, Egypt and Greece the first gods are represented as bisexual. The Greeks often depicted Apollo as both male and female. Bacchus was similarly described. Prochus commenting on the Timaeus of Plato says: 'Jupiter (Zeus) is a man, Jupiter is an immortal maid.' Citing further Orphic verse it mentions that all things are contained 'in the womb of Jupiter.'

"In Cyprus, Venus, depicted as Aphrodite, sometimes had a beard! Diana or Artemis had characteristics of both sexes. Orpheus taught that since the gods possessed the generative powers to create all things, they were, of necessity, both male and female. Babylonian tradition described the first men as having one body and two heads. one male and one female. A Hindu scholar drew a figure of Brahma, during the act of creation, making him bisexual. The Babylonian God Tammuz was consecrated a Qedesha (Kedesha) which is a sacred prostitute (I Kings 19:24). Jahveh, the Hebrew God, is made up of Jah masculine and the second syllable from havvah, feminine. It comes from Yaw or Yah, the name of a prehistoric male-female moon-god venerated by South Arabian Semitic tribes. The Jews tagged on the feminine root making it Yahweh or Jahwah. The Christian Bible spells it as Jehovah because of an error in translation. The Books of Job and Isiah depict Jahwah as having the characteristics of both sexes."

(I don't necessarily endorse the last opinion, just including it to show what is believed)

Horus in Film - Immortel Ad Vitam (Immortal)

2010-03-14T16:42:00.000-07:00

Some superficial things to take into consideration in association with Horus symbolism. Namely, the pyramid, the one eye, face paint very vaguely reminiscent of a falcon to emphasize one eye, falcon (rarely present anywhere else, though) and the color blue. Those are all symbols of Horus that can be found elsewhere in the film and music industry to varying degrees where relevant. Even in cosplay related to the film, the woman covers one eye with her hair Lady Gaga-style instead of finding a way to actually have the character's short hair.

The plot: This surreal sci-fi flick posits a dystopian future where genetically engineered beings coexist with eugenically altered humans and ancient deities. The god Horus (voiced by Thomas M. Pollard) -- one of mankind's creators -- is set to be put to death but has a week's reprieve. To perpetuate his effect on the world, Horus plans to reproduce. The trouble is, he needs a host body to inhabit and a woman capable of carrying an unearthly child.

A review form IMDB adds: HORUS (the god of the sky), about to be executed by his peers, is given 7 days to visit Earth for the last time. He spends his time searching for a particular woman he wants to impregnate. To do that he needs a human body to act as his vessel (or container). An accidentally escaped terrorist (or we can call it a rebel) becomes it. The woman herself is having mysterious body changes and a complete lost of past memories. A lot of small events and characters are involved in the whole situation.

Personally, when I watched it a long time ago it put me to sleep. It's a big hit among people into the occult and the metaphysical. Lovers of the film naturally say that if you don't like it, you must be daft. Here are some screen captures:

The Veil of Isis or Mysteries of the Druids Online

2010-03-13T17:38:00.000-08:00

The Veil of Isis or Mysteries of the Druids

by William Winwood Reade.
1861

From Wikipedia: Reade was an atheist and a social Darwinist who believed in survival of the fittest and wanted to create a new civilization. Though, at the same time, at least in this work, he seems not too thrilled by Freemasonry.

All comments in brackets and bold are mine. A lot of this is generic to neopaganism/discussions thereof (more concerning syncretic traditions and less among purists who understandably argue that such generalizations deny the uniqueness of each culture). It's somewhat similar to Isis Unveiled by H.P. Blavatsky. Just selected four things from the work to highlight in particular. The work gives clues to certain things that I try to repeat from my own experiences, things that are considered significant to occultists in regards to using pagan traditions/beliefs:

"By the bright circle of the golden sun,
By the bright courses of the errant moon,
By the dread potency of every star,
In the mysterious Zodiac's burning girth,
By each and all of these supernal signs,
We do adjure thee, with this trusty blade
To guard yon central oak, whose holy stem,
Involves the spirit of high Taranis:
Be this thy charge."-MASON

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These two Deities, Isis and Osiris were the parents of all the Gods and Godesses of the Heathens, or were indeed those Gods themselves worshiped under different names. The fable itself was received into the mythologies of the Hindoos and the Romans. Sira is said to have mutilated Brahma as Typhon [Set] did Osiris, and Venus to have lamented her slain Adonis, as Isis wept for her husband-god.

As yet the sun and moon alone were worshiped under these two names. And as we have seen, besides these twin beneficial spirits, men who had begun to recognize sin in their hearts had created an Evil One who struggled with the power of light, and fought with them for the souls of men.

It is natural for man to fabricate something that is worse than himself. Even in the theology of the American Indians which is the purest of the modem world, there is found a Mahitou or dark Spirit.

Osiris or the sun was now worshiped throughout the whole world, though under different names. He was the Mithra of the Persians, the Brahma of India, the Baal or Adonis of the Phoenicians, the Apollo of the Greeks, the Odin Of Scandinavia [ODIN is actually closer to HORUS], the Hu of the Britons, and the Baiwe of the Laplanders.

Isis also received the names of Islene, Ceres, Rhea, Venus, Vesta, Cybele, Niobe, Melissa--Nehalennia in the North; Isi with the Indians; Puzza among the Chinese; and Ceridwen among the ancient Britons.

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There is scarcely a spot in the world in which the serpent has not received the prayers and praises of men. At first an emblem of the sun's light and power, it is worshiped in lands where the sun is not recognized as a Deity, for instance on the coasts of Guinea where the negroes curse him every morning as he rises, because he scorches them at noon.

The winged serpent was a symbol of the Gods of Egypt, Phœnicia, China, Persia, and Hindostan. The Tartar princes still carry the image of a serpent upon a spear as their military standard. Almost all the Runic inscriptions found upon tombs are engraved upon the sculptured forms of serpents. In the temple of the Bona Dea, serpents were tamed and consecrated. In the mysteries of Bacchus, women used to carry serpents in their hands and twined around their brows, and with horrible screams cry, Eva! Eva! In the great temple of Mexico, the captives taken in war and sacrificed to the sun, had wooden collars in the shape of a serpent put round their necks. And water-snakes are to this day held sacred by the natives of the Friendly Isles.

It was not only worshipped as a symbol of light, of wisdom and of health, personified under the name of God, but also as an organ of divination. Serpents formed the instruments of the Egyptian enchanters, the fetich of the Hottentots, and the girdles of the medicine-men of the North American Indians. The Norwegians, too, of the present day, when hunting will often load their guns with serpents to make them fortunate.

The serpent must have obtained this world-wide worship from its beauty, and its wisdom. Subtle in heart beyond all the beasts of the field; rapid and mysterious in its wary footless movements, to which the ancients were wont to resemble the aerial progress of the Gods; above all its eyes so bright, so lovely, so weird in their powers of facinations, no wonder that it should excite the awe and admiration of superstitious barbarians.

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I also discovered as I thought, a key to the tradition of Hiram Abiff, which I have just related, viz., that it was simply the story of Osiris (killed by Typhon the Evil Spirit [Set], buried in a coffin and found by Isis) so corrupted by modern Masons.

Some Brief Information on Project Monarch

2010-03-13T13:38:00.000-08:00

I'm very skeptical of a lot of the things attributed to Project Monarch, so am only posting a couple of links that do not deal so much in the personalities that have made it famous, or conjecture about who is or isn't involved etc.

Project Monarch: Serious. Torture. is an excellent starting point for learning more. It examines the claims and rather keeps away for the more out-there assertions. As the author states: In previous readings on Project Monarch, I had been fortunate enough not to come across O’Brien or Phillips’ controversial writings, nor even Martin Cannon’s article on the subject. In doing research for this writeup, I was especially careful not to use them as resources. There is some hard to believe stuff in it (and I don't believe everything included in it), like in other Project Monarch discussions, but this article focuses primarily on CIA activities that are known and related.

I guess one of my main problems with the way it is described is that it seems like a lot of trouble for nothing. I can go along with Manchurian Candidates and the like, people being programed to carry out certain functions in that way, but when it gets to sex slave stuff, it's harder for me to understand. Child prostitution is very real and those children don't need their personalities split in order for the abusers to assault them, even when the abusers are rich and powerful. A very good movie on the realities of child prostitution is Gardens of the Night. Not only does it show a rich and powerful pedophile, but it also addresses how the status of said sicko was used to raise the victim's self esteem (i.e. someone important wants you).

Nevertheless, for those who are specifically interested in learning more about that aspect of Project Monarch there is this article: MK-ULTRA Mind Control: Clinton Apology, Victim Testimony and More. It has some things in it that I haven't seen elsewhere, though again I don't accept everything it posts. Also on the bottom there are some links to similar articles like the Franklin Scandal.

Symbolism in Lady Gaga & Beyonce's Video "Telephone"

2010-03-12T13:16:00.000-08:00

I recently watched the video (with the sound off, the song annoys me) and saw a ton of things that I had to capture them all and point them out. This is one of the videos with the heaviest use of the one-eye imagery of Horus (Eye of Horus, dajjal, wadjet, wedjat) . I couldn't catch every single thing. I'm sure others will. For instance, I left out the poisoning theme of Lady Gaga and the skull and cross bones and bee symbolism. I'm also not going into the symbolism of the entire video. I don't do that because it's very subjective and could throw off the blatant symbols if wrong.

Onto the video captures (click for somewhat larger image):

In this clip one can faintly see the faux beauty mark under her right eye that is the beginning of the emphasis on one eye. It also introduces the constant theme of black and white clothing that's in this particular sequence of the video. It's convenient because of the prison environment (i.e. fashionably representing the stripes in various ways) but there is no doubt in my mind that it references the Masonic and occult obsession with duality.

Here Lady Gaga is draped in chains. Like the constant black/white imagery, it fits the prison theme. However, is it revealing something deeper, perhaps the tradition of the one-eyed Dajjal being chained? Even Loki in the Norse tradition was also chained (albeit with the intestines of his children, but similar concept).

Flashing of a triangle that has no valid reason to be there. Also it's diamond studded, which is common in videos.

That is a tattoo of the infamous demon Beelzebub. Lady Gaga eventually kisses that woman.

Closer shot of the earlier subtle emphasis on one eye (in a different outfit).

More of the one eye.

The a-okay symbol, that some believe to represent 666, but that I personally believe to be the Eye of the Moon aka Wadjet, the counterpart to Horus both with his own eyes and also attributed to the serpent goddess of the same name. It fits the obsession with duality.

Eye of Horus. again. Also, could argue the triangles present in the hat, though some may say it comes from the practicality of turning a phone into a hat. Also, it's a shade of blue. Blue is the color of Horus and also of the Norse one-eyed god Odin (though hard to imagine Odin with such a bright shade, his blue is more along the lines of her eye shadow).

Eye of Horus and the a-okay signs. Could argue that although the yellow is reminiscent of the police tape, it's also like the golden light typically around the Eye of Horus used by Freemasons.

Still more of the one eye imagery.

Now here's Beyonce giving tribute to the Eye of Horus and Wadjet with the a-okay sign, and even hand awkwardly bent into a partial triangle and her other eye emphasized by a star. Not captured is Lady Gaga with a big star under her eye. I couldn't catch it clear enough but it's the usual one eye obsession.

Here Lady Gaga is actually in blue (it's not lighting shining on white) and Beyonce is in black. That's a rather odd combination because white would be preferred although the blue matches with the yellow and Gaga's eyeshadow. But again, Horus' color is blue, just like Odin. The black could represent the occult concept of Set or Loki even though their primary color is red (remember, they are the counterpart to Horus and Odin).

The one eye thing never gets old for Lady Gaga, I suppose.

This clip is actually the reason I even bother with the blue/black symbolism. Here they are joining hands, joining the blue and the black in sisterhood. Well blue of Odin and the black of Loki were joined (by blood) into brotherhood. Horus and Set have a similar tradition later on in regards to rulers.

A Couple of Occult Principles in an Interpretation of Germanic Mythology

2010-03-11T05:48:00.000-08:00

For starters: The Teutonic Origins of the New World Order. That subject has to be tread with carefully, though, because some similar discussions are disinformation. There is a common and antisemitic claim that's intentional disinformation from Freemasons that Freemasonry was good and noble Anglo-Saxon-Germanic society until it was infiltrated by Jewish bankers. I guess that's why it used Egyptian mysteries, huh? Basically, it's completely untrue. What is true and causes the confusion, is that the Jews were considered the old "chosen people" and these new white occultists were the new chosen ones, institutionalizing the obsession with race, especially Judaism as a race. Here is it in their own words:

"Looking back into history, we can easily see that the Guiding Hand of Providence has chosen the Nordic people to bring in and unfold the new order of the world. Records clearly show that 95 per cent of the colonists were Nordics-Anglo-Saxons. Providence has chosen the Nordics because the Nordics have prepared themselves and have chosen God... Just as Providence has chosen the Jewish race - the Children of Israel - to bring into the world righteousness by carrying the 'Ten Commandments' which emphasize 'Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it holy,' so also Providence has chosen the Nordic Race to unfold the 'New Age' of the world - a ' Novus Ordo Seclorum'. " - Bro. C. William Smith's "God's Plan in America," in the September 1950 issue of The New Age Magazine.

Freemasons and their supporters will naturally argue that that is just the opinions of one man and that he doesn't speak for the rest. While that is true is of the generic Freemason, it's clear that it reflects the Masonic use and interest in Kabalah and especially the race-focused and anti-God ideology of Zionism, and other things.

While pursuing my hobby of looking deep into mythologies, I came across these excerpts from Viktor Rydberg's Teutonic Mythology. He was quite a notable writer and someone who would interest Freemasons, Luciferians and the like that would want deeper understandings and connections to various religious traditions. He's an especially good candidate because his writings and opinions concerning Germanic mythology were sometimes controversial and often debated.

Below are two fragments that illustrate occult concepts that may or may not be actually present in Germanic mythology.

The Heimdall blurb below seems to speak of a Lucifer concept, and one connected to Freemasonry by specifically invoking Odin as the "one-eyed old man," emphasizing that aspect of the god.

When Hadding in this manner had lost his companion, he considered himself abandoned by everybody; but the one-eyed old man had not forgotten his favourite. He sent him a faithful helper, by name Liserus (Saxo, Hist., 40). Who was Liserus in our mythology?

First, as to the name itself: in the very nature of the case it must be the Latinising of some one of the mythological names or epithets that Saxo found in the Norse records. But as no such root as lis or lís is to be found in the old Norse language and as Saxo interchanges the vowels i and y, [*] we must regard Liserus as a Latinising of Lýsir, "the shining one," "the one giving light," "the bright one". When Odin sent a helper thus described to Hadding, it must have been a person belonging to Odin's circle and subject to him. Such a person and described by a similar epithet is inn hvíti áss, hvítastr ása (Heimdall). In Saxo's account, this shining messenger is particularly to oppose Loki (Hist., 40). And in the myth it is the keen-sighted and faithful Heimdall who always appears as the opposite of the cunning and faithless Loki. Loki has to contend with Heimdall when the former tries to get possession of Brísingamen, and in Ragnarok the two opponents kill each other. Hadding's shining protector thus has the same part to act in the heroic saga as the whitest of the Asas in the mythology. If we now add that Heimdall is Hadding's progenitor, and on account of blood kinship owes him special protection in a war in which all the gods have taken part either for or against Halfdan's and Alveig's son, then we are forced by every consideration to regard Liserus and Heimdall as identical (see further, No. 82).

[* Compare the double forms Trigo, Thrygir; Ivarus, Yvarus; Sibbo, Sybbo; Siritha, Syritha; Sivardus, Syvardus ; Hiberniu, Hybernia; Isora, Ysora.]

This second blurb addresses the concept of androgyny that is a principle in Satanism ( best shown with Baphomet) but also elsewhere such as in Gnosticism. In this case, Satanism fits better since Loki is considered to be the agent of evil in a mythological system that doesn't normally quantify good and evil (which may be part of the controversial interpretations beyond the explanations of races and the like by Rydberg).

The half-burnt heart, accordingly, contains the evil woman's soul, and its influence upon Loki, after he has swallowed it, is most remarkable. Once before when he bore Sleipnir with the giant horse Svaðilfari, Loki had revealed his androgynous nature. So he does now. The swallowed heart redeveloped the feminine in him (Loki lindi af brendu hjarta). It fertilised him with the evil purposes which the heart contained. Loki became the possessor of the evil woman (kviðugr af konu illri), and became the father of the children from which the trolls (flagð) are come which are found in the world. First among the children is mentioned the wolf, which is called Fenrir, and which in Ragnarok shall cause the death of the Asa-father. To this event point Njord's words about Loki, in Lokasenna 33: áss ragr er hefir börn of borið. The woman possessing the half-burnt heart, who is the mother or rather the father of the wolf, is called Angurboða (ól úlf Loki við Angurboðu). N. M. Petersen and other mythologists have rightly seen that she is the same as "the old one," who in historical times and until Ragnarok dwells in the Ironwood, and "there fosters Fenrir's kinsmen" (Völuspá 40), her own offspring, which at the close of this period are to issue from the Ironwood, and break into Midgard and dye its citadels with blood (Völuspá 41).

Some Random Modern Art with Dajjal, Eye of Horus, Bohemian Owl and Horned God

2010-03-10T19:25:00.000-08:00

Probably nothing as artists pull from a variety of sources, after all, but these things I found on a blog caught my eye and thought it couldn't hurt to share.

Eye of Horus pyramid. Shirt says "Future Primitive." From this site.

Bohemian Owl + Horned god+ Cthulhu references or just random?

Dajjal/Eye of Horus reference for Zionist movie?

Reblogging: Horus in Mainstream Children's Anime

2010-03-10T11:07:00.000-08:00

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Occult Symbolism for Children

An educated look at the imagery used in Yu-Gi-Oh! reveals the heavy influence of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema and its inherent symbolism. As seen above, the O.T.O. has been historically involved in the making of Hollywood productions and bestseller books to apparently propagate its philosophy in popular culture. Is Yu-Gi-Oh! part of that plan? The presence of symbolism that is considered sacred and extremely powerful by occultists in a product that is intended for children is rather disturbing. Isn’t this what we call “indoctrinating the youth”? It has been proven that the minds of men must be captured at a young age in order to influence their thinking over the course of their lifetime. Are the youth being prepared for the “Aeon of Horus”?

A Brief Revealing of Paganism, Magick and Alan Moore

2010-03-09T04:22:00.001-08:00

I recently came across these videos on Facebook and thought they were pretty good for understanding the basics of things from the perspective of a pagan or practioner of magick (regardless of path), and especially from someone whose works of art discuss conspiracies. They are in line with everything I had learned before Islam. Alan Moore is a good source. I first learned about him when I was much younger when I heard a track from The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, although I never officially knew who he was.

At any rate, let me start with the basics: paganism.

The short video below goes into the basic idea behind paganism, the basic reason that many people convert to paganism and why even if they are in one tradition only, they will still research the others to learn about their own origins and beliefs. This is key and relevant to conspiracy stuff because there are tie ins. Notably, the idea of monotheism being oppressive and heavy and the world being loaded with "spirits" who want nothing more than to always be friendly and accommodating to you as long as you give them pleasing offerings whether it's in the form of incense/smoke, animal blood, food, drink, music, singing or dancing with or without the use of mind altering substances. As the video alludes to, many prophets, especially Jesus (as), were considered to have been nothing more than shamans or magicians. It is common in some circles like in stregheria, to see "Christ the Magician" thrown around. The video also briefly alludes to Hermetic Qabalah and its paganism, which is essentially the basis for Freemasonry. Despite a historical antagonism between Hellenism and Judaism which is where antisemitism originates from (West = light and freedom, Judaic monotheism = darkness and oppression), this was not applied to Qabalah because of its magical nature (if it teaches something allegedly hidden it must be good, is the idea) and so both were combined to form the syncretic tradition.

Now briefly onto magick:

This video is specifically about an alternate way of looking at magick, namely how art is considered magick. This is again something pretty standard that is learned by thinking pagans et al., and more of a cultural observation if anything, a justification for dabbling in a magical path. Of course, as a Muslim I don't take it literally, that all these things are magical arts and so haram (forbidden). However, it sheds light on how the arts can be construed as tools that can used to control mankind (which Alan Moore explains). Also, this is consistent with certain Masonic teachings, namely that everything is magick, something which is explained in The Mysteries of Magic: a Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Lévi by Éliphas Lévi and Arthur Edward Wait. The significance of that it offers a further basis for why occult and Masonic images, symbols and words/concepts are repeated. It's not simply to get people used to them, it's a magical technique in and of itself. Rituals and spells often involve repetition. The repetition is necessary for the ultimate manifestation of will--the more something is repeated the stronger one's will is for the event to happen. Television , movies and music work especially well for this because of the states they put a person in i.e. people are more subconsciously receptive.

I want to conclude with Alan Moore's opinion of conspiracies:

In sum, it is his belief that there is some crazy stuff out there that's going on, but there is no unified system to it. It's pretty much chaos. You see this in the game Illuminati, where the creator, Steve Jackson, explained how he came across so many theories and bad guys that he made the game be such that you play different types of groups vying for control of the world (some completely fictional though). I've seen this elsewhere in some video game promotion where different groups thought they were controlling everything. In my opinion it seems to make the most sense. The common denominators from my personal observations are: money (average people contributing to bad things for a pay check, for instance), placing desires above all else (which is fickle and creates chaos around a person and ultimately in the world) and control (manipulation and/or physical or mental subjugation of others).

The Nebra Sky Disk Mystery

2010-03-07T08:08:00.001-08:00

One of the things I love is unexplainable or "anomalous" archaeological finds. Though such things are often polluted with forgeries, it's still a fascinating subject. It often changes how others view the ancient and even paleolithic peoples and their level of advancement. Because of social Darwinism and ethnocentrism, it is always assumed that people of the past were less intelligent and more primitive than us (primitive being a loaded term that can signify a number of things both mentally, culturally and technologically). The more accurate way of thinking of the past is that is was simply different and accommodated to the technology available to the cultures that was most beneficial, and to the belief systems that dominated.

Some time ago I saw a documentary on this Sky Disk from the Únětice Bronze Age culture in Germany circa 1600 B.C. Unfortunately, I am not well-versed in astronomy so will have to rely on links to best convey information about this artifact. It doesn't take a knowledge of astronomy, though, to understand how unique of a find this is.

The Nebra Sky Disk

Since the Nebra Sky Disk (also known as the Nebra Sun Disk) of Germany emerged into public knowledge in about the year 2000, archaeologists and astronomers have put forward their theories about how it worked and what it meant to the ancient society that fabricated it.

I have assessed it from the standpoint of the scientific knowledge that was encoded into ancient European megalithic sites or early edifices, such as those of the Giza Plateau, and so will now give an account of how I, personally, would have used this artefact as a memory device, based upon easily decipherable, ancient mathematical methodologies.

The Mysterious Nebra Star Disk: Archaeological Wonder of Bronze Age Europe

But because no advanced civilization this advanced in astronomy had ever been found in Europe, many archeologists assumed that this was brought to Europe from the East by travelers or traders. By analyzing the copper and gold on the, however, scientists were able to verify that the disc was made in Europe and not brought from Egypt or Mesopotamia.

Looking closer at the disc, researchers began to recognize other parts of the picture. There is a curved line that is believed to represent what historians call a sun-ship, a prehistoric religious symbol that was thought to have originated in Egypt with the myth of the sun-god Ra. Golden bands on either side of the disc represented the solstices, with an angle that measures 82 degrees. It is only in that specific location, near the Mittelberg, in Germany, that the sun would rise and set at those particular angles on the solstices.

BBC: Secrets of the Star Disk

I nearly had tears in my eyes because it came to as a surprise to all of us because we would imagine such a find in Egypt or Mesopotamia but not in central Europe, central Germany. And so it was fantastic to all of us and I nearly had tears in my eyes yes.

Decipherment of the Nebra Sky Disk as Depicting a Solar Eclipse at the Pleiades and the Vernal Equinox Point on April 16, 1699 - LexiLine Journal 394

(A different opinion on the astronomical significance)

According to the clear and incontrovertible evidence of the Latvian Dainas, which represent an archaic status of Indo-European astronomical knowledge in northern Europe, the Sun is in the solar boat by night only, and not by day. Hence, the Nebra Sky Disk can only represent the sky by day and thus the disk can only be the representation of a solar eclipse, since the Sun, Moon and Stars are all depicted together on the disk, something which occurs only during the rare phenomenon of a solar eclipse.

Wikipedia's entry for it

If authentic, the find reconfirms that the astronomical knowledge and abilities of the people of the European Bronze Age included close observation of the yearly course of the Sun, and the angle between its rising and setting points at summer and winter solstice. While Stonehenge and the Neolithic "circular ditches" such as the 5th millennium BC Goseck circle were used to mark the solstices, the disk is the oldest known "portable" instrument to allow such measurements.

Youtube also has multiple videos related to it that can be found with a simple search.

Openess to "Truth" Gone Amuck

2010-03-06T19:41:00.000-08:00

This is highly opinionated...so don't say you weren't warned!

I don't know what's in the water this week, but I think a new record has been set for the types of videos people are spreading around on Facebook as hidden truths. The gullibility of people is depressing. You don't need to exert that much energy into disinfo for people to believe it and spread it, apparently. Or to just make something up off the top of your head and for it to gain a cult following.

Firstly there have been numerous people who spread, liked and even commented on a a news reports from The Onion News Network as if it were true. Aside from that as some people, especially those not in America may have just been ignorant of the validity The Onion News Network, the video was an obvious fake.

Secondly, David Icke's wonderful contribution to the world is once again flaring in intense cult following in spite of his own wavering views on whether there are actual Reptilians or just Reptilian-minded people (and don't forget, hate religion too). Videos and websites are being shown to me and are flooding my Facebook's wall like there's no tomorrow. And the best part about them is that they are so silly. All the various shape-shifting videos are obvious fakes. Like, not only that but the work of an amateur.

Thirdly, as "Illuminaist" Steve Jackson has pointed out, there are many contradictions yet people spread these contradictions without any forethought. For instance, considering Zeitgeist disinformation while David Icke not (who preaches a similar message mixed into an obsession with the original V serious--sorry that's my sleeper mind speaking again, silly me). Or: Queen Elizabeth was the victim of Jesuits/Catholic Church and at the same time part of the evil bloodline originating from Tribe of Dan whom the Jesuits/Catholic Church supposedly protect.

Fourthly, there's the whole mind-control [insert project name here] stuff that is getting way out of control. I've looked into the claims of some of the popular individuals (like Cathy O'Brien), and they are loony, at best. I don't even know why they are given the time of day. It reminds me when I would prank my classmates in Middle School into believing I was actually a real vampire. Imagine my success now if only I had kept it going and dropped a few famous names into the mix as well as some sordid details, with a mind to get a publisher! At any rate, nowadays everyone is mind-controlled, everyone is a disinformation agent or false flag. Everyone that has ever been involved in something political was part of a greater conspiracy (I've seen it stretched all the way back to John Wilkes Booth...which is confusing at best because most "conservatives" back then hated Abraham Lincoln in almost the exact same vein as Obama regardless of what he did or thought of about bankers). For the record, this doesn't mean I don't believe in false flags or creepy government or intelligence agency experiments and what not, I'm just pointing out the knee-jerk reaction to cry wolf about this stuff, and to automatically accept everything without a skeptical lens.

Fifthly (and not really on a conspiracy theory note, but it's in a similar vein), I was recently spammed with a recommendation that went into details about Alexander the Great being the prophet Dhul-Qarnayn and all that. It's one of my least favorite subjects to deal with because so many people enjoy it and no matter what you say, they have arm fulls of "evidence" to prove me wrong. It doesn't matter that Alexander's contemporaries asserted his paganism, or that he had many incidents of shirk, or that he was homosexual and even got called out on it by a disgusted satrap. It doesn't matter that displaying ram horns to symbolize god would never be kosher/halal, let alone being nicknamed because of said pagan symbolism. It doesn't matter that the Alexander Romance is a book of fables compiled after Alexander's death, or that he never preached monotheism, or that Aristotle is associated with being a believer despite (in Islam) the sects that adopted his teachings were often heretical by generic standards, and that he taught unIslamic opinions like women being a colder and lesser species. None of it matters because it's accepted by many scholars and so they must be right (because scholars are also experts in history, too, I guess).
I want to conclude this by saying that I am not dismissing stuff based on them just being hard to believe. I'm doing so on logic, evidence and common sense that comes from my personal life experiences. I do believe in many things that are considered weird or even taboo. Hell, I believe in UFOs (in relation to jinn) while most conspiracy theorists of the generic and more modern kind dismiss them altogether as disinformation to keep the masses distracted for either an alien invasion or a non-existent issue. I even believe in "Reptilians" and even blogged about them in a now lost blog, but not in the way David Icke handles them--I did so from an anthropological point-of-view, while keeping belief in the jinn in mind, keeping it very simple and without any mention of NWO or anything.

As I believe I've pointed out before, people seem to be seeing something that sounds cool and are accepting it and passing it on. Few seem to be looking at things with a critical eye unless it comes from the mainstream media.

Solomon (as) was Not a Magician or a Pagan

2010-03-05T13:24:00.000-08:00

The Freemasons and other groups consider their teachings to have many origins with the prophet Solomon (as) and his life, namely the construction of the Temple. To this day Solomon is associated with magick, no thanks to the help of Freemasonry and the like. Luckily, we have the other side of the story:

They followed what the evil ones gave out (falsely) against the power of Solomon: the blasphemers were not Solomon but the evil ones teaching men magic, and such things as came down at Babylon to the angels Harut and Marut. But neither of these taught anyone (such things) without saying: "We are only for trial; So do not blaspheme." ~ Qur'an, 2:102

When one looks up Harut and Marut online, Encyclopedia Britannica tells a very different story, essentially considering it mythology and not even adopting the mainline stance--that they brought mankind magick as a test of devotion, which was later imitated by other forms especially the kind of magick that was attributed to Solomon (as). Imagine if the notable Encyclopedia did something similar to traditions from the Bible! It would be unheard of. Yet, for some reason, this story must be passed on in a distorted way...

At any rate, how this was specifically connected to Solomon (as) is further explained by various scholars. In sum, Solomon was protecting mankind from the tribulations of magical texts, yet because they were in his possession and, as a prophet, he did notable things, the books were believed to have been the reason for his success.

That Sulayman use to follow up what was in the hands of the devils of magic, and he took it from them and put it all under his throne in his treasure house. The devils were not able to reach it, so they came to the men and said "Do you want the knowledge by which Sulayman used to subjugate the devils and the winds and other (things)?" They said, "Yes", and so the devils directed them to the treasure house, under the throne. So the men found it and then began acting upon it. This (false claim) continued until the people of Hijaz said that Sulayman used to also practice this, and that this is magic. Then Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, revealed, upon the tongue of Muhammad (alayhis salaam) the exoneration of Sulayman from that. (related by Saeed bin Jubair)

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That the devils wrote books on types of magic, after they knew of Sulayman's death, and so they wrote "Whoever wishes to attain such and such, let him do such and such", and they put all of this into a book, and then placed a seal on it upon the seal of Prophet Sulayman and they wrote as its title, "This is What Aasif bin Burkhyaa the Friend of the King Sulayman Wrote of the Kept Treasures of Knowledge". Then they buried it beneath his throne. Later, some of the Children of Israel found this book and they said, "By Allaah Sulayman's kingdom was not except by way of this (magic)". So they spread this magic amongst the people, they learned it and taught it, and magic is not found amongst anyone more than amongst the Jews... (related by Muhammad bin Ishaaq bin Yasaar)

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The devils innovated a book in which there was magic and they spread it amongst the people teaching it to them. When Sulayman (alayhis salaam) heard of it, he followed up those books, took them and buried them under his throne, hating that the people would learn from them. When Allaah took Sulayman away, the devils took out those books from where they were and taught them to the people. They (the devils) said that this is the knowledge that Sulayman used to conceal and keep to himself. So Allaah excused Sulayman and exonerated him, saying, "Sulayman did not disbelieve, but the Shayaateen (devils) disbelieved, teaching men magic." (related by Qatadah)

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The most detailed version:

"Whoever wants to arrive at such and such let him turn to the sun and let him say such and such. And whoever wants [to be able] to do such and such, let him face his back to the sun and let him say such and such." So they wrote the likes of this and put it in a book, and gave it the same title as mentioned by Ibn Ishaq above (Key of Solomon, Seal of Solomon etc). Then they buried it under Sulayman's throne. When Sulayman died, Iblees stood as a khateeb and said, "O people, verily Sulayman was not a prophet, but he was a magician, so hold to his magic which is in his place of retreat and in his houses", then he showed them the place in which it was buried, and when they found it they said, "By Allaah, Sulayman was a magician, and this is his magic, with it shall we worship, and through it shall we subdue (others)". However, the believers amongst those Jews said, "Rather, he was a Prophet, a believer". Then, when Allaah sent the Prophet Muhammad (alayhis salaam), he mentioned the Prophets, until he mentioned Dawud and Sulayman, so the Jews said, "Look at Muhammad, mixing truth with falsehood, he is mentioning Sulayman along with the Prophets, he was merely a magician who would carry the winds", so Allah revealed the verse, "Sulayman did not disbelieve, but the Shayaateen (devils) disbelieved, teaching men magic..." (related by Ibn Hawshab)

More detailed information on the subject, with a line-by-line breakdown of the verse concerning Solomon (as) can be read here.

For more information on the magick attributed to Solomon (as) and its symbolic use by the Freemasons and Illuminati, this website seems to be a very good source, at least what was popularized by disinformation agent Dan Brown (there is so much there, I could only scan it). There are tons and tons of information out there analyzing the symbolism of Masonry, in particular the Temple imagery and all that. Here is a brief article on Masonic symbolism. And here is an article about the (alleged or at least, understood by the Masons) symbolism of Solomon's temple.

The Wadjet: A Different Take on the Strange Use of the A-Okay Sign

2010-03-04T13:19:00.000-08:00

I've surprisingly never seen any discussion concerning the wadjet in conspiracy circles. Before the Eye of Horus (wedjat) there was the Eye of the Moon (wadjet), which belonged to the Egyptian snake goddess so named Wadjet.
Now, Horus at the same time is associated with both the sun and the moon with his eyes (like Odin of Norse mythology). So, not only does the duality exist within Horus, but also outside of Horus in a more stereotypical fashion of sun god (Horus) and moon goddess (Wadjet).

Similar to the Greek sun god Apollo, Wadjet had an oracle center where she (as the serpent) was central (at Apollo's oracle center at Delphi, he slayed the serpent).
In addition to this, Wadjet is considered a protector of Horus and rulers, and has the epithet of the Lady of the Flame (she could bring forth fire) and the Lady of Truth and Justice.

It should be noted that she is also the Green goddess. For the record, I'm not referring to the copper Statue of Liberty above, unless the idea was for her to eventually oxidize to green then maybe there is a case. Wadjet's eye is the green eye and potentially the origin of the Evil Eye of jealousy and ill-will. What's interesting is that in modern Egyptian folk tradition, like elsewhere in the Mediterranean, a blue/cerulean eye charm is used to ward off that negative green eye. While blue is also associated with Wadjet, it's more closely associated with Horus, which furthers the dualism of Horus being light and Wadjet being the darker counterpart thus bringing a balance when combined.

At any rate, I think Wadjet may have something to do with the a-okay symbol that is flashed by pop stars. Granted, this theory is reliant on the basis that there really is an obsession with Horus spawned by connections to Freemasonry, Thelema and similar occult groups because it would take some digging to learn about Wadjet. She is not your generic Egyptian goddess taught in childrens' Egyptian books or anything.

I was never entirely satisfied by the 666 explanation. While rock stars and their followers may flaunt "devil horns" it's almost always purely imitation, cultural mimicry i.e. we are at a concert and like the music so this is what we do. They are not truly giving a salute to the devil or anything in their minds unless the concert is actually Satanic. It originated in the claims that rock music was from the devil. The a-okay symbol is stranger. It has no cultural explanation like rock music does. It's left unexplained just like the music industry's obsession with all things one-eyed. You also don't see it used by Satanists. Sure, the Beast is different from Shaytan but for modern Satanists there is a devotion to Aleister Crowley who considered himself the Beast, and making that sign would be a good homage.

Lady Gaga makes the best case for the Wadjet eye with the way that she uses the a-okay hand sign.

In the video for Poker Face, for instance, the encircled eye is darkened, not lightened, and the fingers are not shown altogether. The Eye of Horus symbolism is in the left eye while the darkened right eye fits Wadjet (Eye of the Moon) better giving the light/dark symbolism that is prevalent in Masonry, Satanism and the occult.
Remember, the 3-fingered hand sign is actually the ancient Roman hand sign for 2, representing duality hence the light and dark moons and in connection to the right (light) and left (dark) hand paths of magick. The breasts symbolize his androgyny, again duality. Baphomet's phallic symbol of eternal life is also significant in relation to Wadjet. She is sometimes considered the origin of the caduceus because she was often depicted wrapped around a papyrus stem or rod and is sometimes depicted with wings. Here is an example of Wadjet wrapped around something:

More examples of Lady Gaga using the a-okay hand sign:

Let me conclude that this is just speculation on my part. For all I know it's connected to Kabbalah. I never studied it. My occult interests laid more in the ancient world and less in Judeo-Christian traditions such as that.

The Slandering of al Mahdi by Christians

2010-03-03T12:59:00.000-08:00

The truth of the matter is that the conspiracy scene is ultimately dominated by Christian Fundamentalists of all flavors. Even when Muslims gathered together to make their own conspiracy documentaries (The Arrivals, etc), they often took from Christian sources because that is what is out there. At any rate, the Protestant Christian dominance means that one can find the kinds of information that line Chick Tracts or flood certain Christian forums (i.e. don't have anything with dragons on it because that's Satanic). Even notable radio personalities and the like are Christian and vocal about their perceived war on faith and even bigotry towards Muslims, and the big theme is that "true Christianity" (which no one can agree on) gets attacked the most by the Illuminati so on that basis alone Christianity is the enemy of the NWO. Instead of just being able to work together towards a common goal, as usual, differences are not only pointed out but must be "debunked" and more importantly demonized. Case in point: the antichrist traditions in Islam.

These theories and assertions were not created or discovered merely by some "observant" conspiracy theorists. There are many popular and highly rated books that do nothing more than claim that Muslims are the followers of the antichrist and that Islamic traditions support this which in turn allegedly validate claimed Biblical interpretations and speculations on occult symbolism. In sum, the ultimate message is that Islam is a demonic religion and Muslims are better dead or converted (but mostly dead). That might not be what is overtly stated, but when you peal back the layers of pseudo-political correctness, it's the hidden message. It's further justification for the ongoing genocide against Muslims. Now granted, for some conspiracy theorists who are not Christian fundamentalists and yet adhere to this concept of Muslims being the standard bearers of evil, it's more about accepting some traditions and rejecting others just like paganism is picked apart.

One of the logic problems of this is the fact that suddenly, a supposedly false religion is revealing truths that point to something real. Atheists don't accept an antichrist of any flavor, for instance, and that's because they reject the beliefs entirely as inaccurate superstitions. With this attack on Islam, the same attitude is not there with Christians--their assertion is that the Islamic traditionss are real but the interpretations are wrong. Whether inspired by Salman Rushdie's poor attempt at intellectual writing, or Martin Luther's slanderous statements about Muhammad (saaws) concerning the involvement of demons, it's pretty weird to have outsiders assert what Muslims apparently didn't get. Unlike with the doctrines of the trinity and the like where Christians may differ in belief, there are no Islamic disagreements except by "modernist" Muslims who are not really interested in Islam, and the Sunni/Shia split that has different understandings but similar endings.

Another logic problem with this opinion of Islam is that it's based purely on speculations and corrupted sources. Namely, speculations concerning the occult symbolism prevalent in society and the alleged hidden messages given about the antichrist in said symbolism. The origins of most interpretations concerning things like the double-headed eagle discussed in this Mahdi slandering video originate from Christian conspiracy theorists and not even those who had formally been introduced to the meanings behind such symbolism. How do they know for sure the occultist intention behind the symbol? I've seen other symbols misrepresented and mislabeled even to arrive at a sinister conclusion. At the end of the day, it's only speculation and dot-connecting used to come to an allegedly hidden truth. As for the corrupted source, I'm talking about the big B. I've never seen a reputable claim that the Bible is uncorrupted, even though there are Christians and some Jews that believe that. Something that has been distorted by man from superstitions, misunderstandings and mistranslations is not a trustworthy source that can be solely used to disprove something. It can be used in general, as I even do sometimes, but it should not be the single source.

The main logic problem is the picking and choosing of Islamic traditions to paint this supposed picture of evil. The Mahdi comes when tyranny rules the world, and he comes to put an end to it. He comes when Muslims are being oppressed. He comes and only has about 300 followers according to some traditions because people will be so misguided. He comes and has the best manners and is the most just and ultimately restores order to the world. Clearly, he is an evil person who manipulates and misguides others with lies (astaghfirAllah). If he is not putting an end to tyranny, how can it be the Mahdi? The antichrist doesn't put an end to tyranny, he puts an end to the problems he creates...he causes people to starve and then offers them relief. We see this kind of manipulation today. Muslims are taught not to take from him no matter what he offers and what he claims. If we were secretly following the religion of the antichrist we would be told to take when someone offers relief from starvation, and can perform miracles and other things. It's not that difficult to understand, but people like to twist things around to justify their own conceptions.

While the Mahdi is engaging the armies of the antichrist (Dajjal), Jesus (as) will descend and destroy the cross (get rid of idolatry), kill the swine (pork was always forbidden...Jesus came to fulfill the law, not replace it which is why it was Paul who said to eat away) and to remove the tax because there will be a unified peace (unfortunately any talk of unification means the New World Order and not maybe genuine peace). This aspect of the Islamic Jesus (as) is what sets these anti-Islam people off the most because they believe it's an attack on their faith and so clearly the actions of someone who is not Jesus (as) and yet claims to be so. My remarks in parentheses are there to explain what the actions mean. Do Christians deny that idolatry is forbidden? That generally, pork was forbidden until Paul said it wasn't? That a society that lives in peace, without any form of tyranny is a good thing?

One weird argument is that the Mahdi won't call himself Jesus and the predictions state that the antichrist won't either so the Mahdi = antichrist. Well, that is a catch-22. Why would he say he was Jesus (as) when he is not? So, if he says he's Jesus (as) than he will not be evil? Come on! I don't think the antichrist in Islam ever claims to be Jesus (as), he claims to be a prophet and then a god. He's antichrist because he's mistaken for the Messiah, not the personage of Jesus (as) except for some misguided few who think Jesus IS God, hmm...

Another weird aspect is the idea that there will be a false antichrist before the real one. Well, in Islam there will be at least 30 minor dajjals before The Dajjal. The Mahdi is not one such person!!! So, that is taking from the religion and distorting its teachings to fit an outside belief.

Now, on a cultural level, there is this point: what religion is in power in the world? What people claim to be members of said religion and yet engage in cults that worship the antichrist concept??? What religion is bringing chaos to the world in the form of colonialism, genocide and control while also screwing up and controling its own people? What members of a certain religion engaged in mass murder in the form of nuclear weapons and long wars? My point is not to bash Christians, but to point out it's rather silly that the people who are suffering the most from religious oppression and genocide are considered to be the most evil and the would-be followers of the antichrist. God in Judaism, Christianity and Islam always loved the OPPRESSED and not the OPPRESSOR. Both Jesus (as) and the Prophet (saaws) came to the people who were looked down upon the most in society. Take a minute and think about just who that is.

Debunking the Illuminati Card Game

2010-03-01T16:05:00.000-08:00

I want to begin with the fact that every time I saw this game, I got freaked out by it. I thought it was weird, thought it predicted things and all that. This was actually until very recently, as in the last few days.

In addition to the creepy cards, there were additional rumors surrounding it and its creator, Steve Jackson. I accepted all of these until I investigated it, rather superficially to boot (as it's easy to find the information), and am now rather skeptical about it. Here is why:

Once upon a time, I was a gamer. Not computer or video game "gamer" but LARP and pen and paper RPG gamer with card and board games thrown in. My primary games of choice were from the company White Wolf (the old stuff) and then I did some Cthulhu stuff as well, briefly. For a long time my main circle of friends were gamers. Long story short, like other subcultures and groups, there are certain stereotypes and personalities that dominate the group. While I don't know him personally, based on what is available on the web, Steve Jackson is your stereotypical gamer i.e. quirky, loves sci-fi, follows a religion about nonsense/causing chaos that's popular among gamers (Discordianism), loves or at least incorporates H.P. Lovecraft/Cthulhu into his products, LARPs or at least does some kind of costume thing, sarcastic, critical of others' beliefs/society/people in general, highly skeptical to be smarter-than-thou etc.

He uses "Fnord" all through his website. That should be a major clue about the type of person you're dealing with.
I remember that being thrown around when I was in high school combined with Monty Python quotes and Cthulhu references--obnoxious to say the least.

The history of the game can be read here with Steve Jackson's own opinions about conspiracy theories and theorists and the creation of the game. Again, it all fits the personality:

Researching something like the Illuminati is not the easiest thing to do. After all, if there is such a thing as a secret conspiracy to overthrow the world, it's not going to advertise itself. On the other hand, hordes of people are going to write about it - each one adding more speculations and misconceptions. I soon found that there was no shortage of historical information and conjecture about the dread Illuminati. Most of it was utterly contradictory. Well, so much the better; I could believe whatever I liked. All the other writers certainly had! I've distilled a bit of Illuminated history for the interested reader; you'll find it (wherever you put it, Tim). If you want more, there's a bibliography in the Illuminati rulebook. Suffice it to say that I found plenty of sources, ranging from the Encyclopedia Britannica to a collection of underground comics.

So, what of the game? It predicts the future etc.

Well, when you research the game, it has some major non-accurate elements. Namely, the conspiracy groups that are at odds with one another. Last I check, few in the conspiracy realm take UFOs/Alien Agenda and H.P. Lovecraft's "elder gods" and all that seriously. Those that do predict stuff are rather generic taken in the context of someone making a card game about taking over the world based on actual conspiracy theories and beliefs.
Alex Jones predicted 9/11, so did many other media. Does that mean they had insider knowledge? Or were the events rather easy to speculate on? What about the possibility of life imitating art instead of the other way around? I don't think I've heard that option. The game is one of many 9/11 references made before 9/11, too, so why is it singled out?

Even though it was made in the 80s, stuff hasn't changed that drastically. Nevermind the expansion packs and new editions. Whenever I played a game that had a new addition, a lot of stuff tended to be updated to fit the time period and to make for better game play. It makes sense. Do we know when the Twin Tower's card was made? Could it have been after the first attack?

Gamers eat these kind of games up. It's fun to pretend to take over the world, after all, or to be devious. I did it even in Model UN in high school! People that tended to play such characters in average RPGs generally like to get really into it--deep into the information that's necessary to properly portray the character.

These types of games in particular are critical of "those stupid people" (mainly Christians) and their "stupid illogical beliefs." The whole thing is tongue-in-cheek, just like the books about the Illuminati that he apparently likes. When people believe that it's a secret game imparting secret truths, the joke is on the people, not the creator who has been "figured out for what he is."

What about the Secret Service raid and subsequent lawsuit? Well, in typical geek fashion, that was connected to wanna-be hackers and that whole forum subculture inspired by William Gibson and the new technology and other fads at the time. The Secret Service gets involved in those type of cases. And as usual, it fits the gamer types. If you are unfamiliar with such types and even just RPGs the stuff seems more sinister than it actually is.

I'm surprised no one has pointed to the old White Wolf games, actually. They reveal why some cities are bad and trashy and others are not, for instance. Or why weird things are spotted, who controls the world, major use of symbols, all of that...just has supernatural creatures weaved into it. It's the same concept and it has a lot of information just called the "World of Darkness" rather than "Illuminati." Hell, a conspiracy could be made about why they completely did away with the old books and made a whole new version of it that's less like reality as much as dark fantasy can be.

Lady Gaga's Eye Lightning Bolt -- An Alternate Explanation

2010-03-01T06:04:00.000-08:00

This is of course major speculation. The seemingly superficial purpose of the lightning bolt is the emphasis placed on one eye, much like Lady Gaga's other actions that do so (notably her covering her eye with her hand in the middle of interviews...for no good reason). While others have gone into the significance of the lightning bolt and its use by David Bowie, I'm offering some possible alternative symbolism/significance of it that, as usual, goes ultimately back to Horus.

First, let me show one of the better examples that will illustrate my point:

In the practically unmentioned religion of the ancient American Southeast peoples (Mississippian cultures, mostly) do you see this type of eye painting, at least in artistic renderings. With the way Lady Gaga's lightning bolt is done in the above picture, it looks strikingly like the "forked eye" motif found in said art (known in full S.E.C.C. forked eye surround motif, the abbreviation for Southeastern Ceremonial Complex).
The design is supposed to be based on the eye pattern of the peregrine falcon, as a symbol of a being from this world/dimension, specifically of the sky.

The falcon in this belief system is also a symbol of warfare, "high-stakes gaming," elitism, and the rising of the morning star. Severed heads are also closely associated with falcon imagery ( a warrior holding heads, that sort of thing).
The falcon is the main symbol of Horus, given that, like with the above, Horus was a god of the sky, encompassing both the sun and moon with his eyes. In many depictions the coloring around the eyes is also there although it has a much different pattern to it.

As I've expounded on numerous posts now, Horus is closely connected to the concept of the antichrist (Dajjal) and is a beloved in the occult realm, both among Crowley-types and in Freemasonry. Horus represents a god of light, revealing and savior-hood that, in general, contrasts with Jesus (as). Even with well-meaning atheist conspiracy theorists, Horus is believed to have been the "original" Jesus (as). In Thelema we are considered to be in the Aeon of Horus.

If this has any basis, it would not be the first time someone in the music industry copied Native American eye paint symbolism. Marilyn Manson first utilized it when he wore a solid black line across his eyes, which was somewhat later copied by members of My Chemical Romance.

For more information about Mississippian traditions and how it may interest occultists, check out this post. It should be noted that there are some photographs of Bohemian Grove members "playing Indian" with a giant tipi that's decorated in scenes that remind me of the Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii. Tipis would be, of course, inappropriate for representations of Southeastern traditions, but who knows...

Conflicting Conspiracies and Junk Speculations Made Fact

2010-02-26T12:27:00.000-08:00

One of the number one complaints about conspiracy theories and/or theorists is that the information is conflicting and often contradictory.

That alone can easily be explained by the very fact that theorizing conspiracies is not limited to a single segment of the population or followers of a certain encompassing ideology. Basically, people will come to their own conclusions based on their experiences and belief systems. For Protestant conspiracy theorists, for instance, Queen Elizabeth was a victim of the Catholic church. For other conspiracy theorists, she was just another corrupt ruler--victim to no one but herself. That's a rather mundane example. A more extreme example is in the discussion of bloodlines. Some people believe that some bloodlines have been existence since the beginning of time and they are the ones from whom the various evil personages emerge. Some say they are Babylonian, others Jewish/Khazar and still others not even human but Reptilian.

Unfortunately, in order to compensate for these conflicting beliefs and theories people immediately assume that the other party/theory/perspective is naturally disinformation/a disinformation agent or alternately works for the CIA or some other intelligence organization. Granted, disinformation is real, and has been spoken about as a necessary tool to keep "conspiracy theorists" in check. I'm not mocking that fact. However, I am mocking the knee-jerk reaction to anything that's floating around that seems wacky or is just different than one's own perspective.

A lot of conspiracy theorizing is connecting the dots. That is how anyone can become a conspiracy theorist. What separates the amateurs from the professionals, generally, is the use of evidence to build and support an argument. Evidence, in this case, is something concrete and definite, such as an official contradicting a story, video footage etc. and not just dot-connecting because things may appear to reflect something [for the record I place myself in the amateur category because for most things in the conspiracy realm, I can only state what I believe appears to be the case]. The other thing, though, that means success or failure is the ability to appeal to a broad audience. Sometimes, this includes audience manipulation via flashy videos with little information or just books that are packed with stuff that sounds good or different--it can even be packed with "content." These last mediums in those uses should be discouraged and not supported. After all, isn't it the "Illuminati agenda" to fluff things up so that emotions are pulled to attract or repel you to or from something, and books are written that may seem good but are actually quite lacking in substantial argument and proof?

One of the other predominate complaints about conspiracy theories and/or theorists is that everything is taken to be a conspiracy with varying degrees of who is in on it. One of the most blatant examples of this that continues to this day is the blaming of HAARP for every single weather anomaly (or phenomenon) or natural disaster. It doesn't matter that no one can specifically narrow down what HAARP can actually do--that only gives fodder for HAARP being responsible for every major natural event. The generic suspicion about HAARP is justified, and it probably does involve some kind of weather control. It just gets odd when every thing becomes the result of HAARP. That is what, unfortunately, shuts people out to any mention of HAARP altogether. Some people don't realize that natural disasters have always occurred, and that some events are just weird and unexplainable. These used to be known (and I guess are still known) as Fortean events (also collectively and categorically known as Forteana). Weird things have been seen in the sky and weird things including goop, colors, blood, animals etc. have rained from the sky since, it seems, recorded time.

What also needs to be taken into account too is the very real fact that there are mentally ill people. Conspiracy theories, New Age stuff and the paranormal tends to attract them a great deal. What's more is that extreme paranoia is a subcategory/type of schizophrenia and usually these delusions involve government agents and spying and chip implants and the like. There are common delusions, oddly enough. For instance, it is very common to hear a paranoid schizophrenic explain that something is inside their television recording them or watching them somehow. One symptom of generic schizophrenia is obsessive writing. Conspiracy theorizing and publishing fits that lifestyle well. Mental illness of this nature is rarely subtle, though. It can generally be discerned when someone is just misguided or strongly believes in something and when someone is delusional. But if one doesn't come in contact with the person it can be masked in their productions or writings, to a degree. Unfortunately, mental illness is what is used to label conspiracy theorists the most, namely with the quip of time to put on my tinfoil hat. It's just a thought-terminating cliche used to silence an individual and to crush any chance of his making a point.

So, why am I even making this post? What's the point? The point is to hopefully get more people aware of what they are viewing and accepting as fact or "good information." It's too often that I have seen people spread around stuff that is contradictory, or speculate on something that has no substantial argument. There is also a trend in believing people who claim to be ex-Illuminati or former Freemasons or the victims of government mind control and the like. I would argue that what any such types say should be taken with a grain of salt. Like, how many apostate 33 degree Masons are there? Why is it so common to quit after having gone that far? I've even heard of higher degrees! Likewise, in the past I have read a debate concerning whether or not some guy had actually been a Manchurian supersoldier in the past, someone that was clearly lying and concocting fiction for the purposes of money-making (or was merely delusional) yet people couldn't decide this for themselves despite the fact that this super smart, super strong guy refused to demonstrate any of his abilities.

I just hope, if anything, I can instill a healthy sense of skepticism so that information can be better filtered to weed out the "junk" theories that are floating around (yes, in the end it's all subjective...the unfortunate rub).

Zombies and Ghosts, Oh My!

2010-02-26T05:45:00.000-08:00

It's borderline annoying how overused things in the media get. If something turns out to be successful there always has to be a knock-off. This is especially prevalent in the mainstream horror genre where it's hard to find something that is truly original either in concept or execution. I believe that some of these overused subject matter have some subconscious significance that underlie the various known symbolic associations of, in particular, the use of zombies and ghosts. As usual, I am discussing this from an Islamic perspective. However, I believe there is much overlapping.

Let's look at zombies, for instance. They're always popular, and it extends beyond the film industry. Thousands of people participate in organized zombie walks, which is essentially zombie roleplay out in public. While I know there are a number of reasons people think zombies are cool, or that just doing something like that is fun, there seems to be something deeply subconscious about the desire to be an ambulatory corpse. Take for instance subconscious knowledge concerning the Resurrection. Zombies always look the way they did when they died, they generally crowd together, they generally moan or some other thing and generally want to take others down by consuming them/are driven by base desires--namely the act of consuming. While the latter can represent a return to a "natural" state, the other aspects fit the imagery. Namely, being raised as how one died (or before one died) amidst a large populace, moaning from helplessness, and having no friends to help one another and desiring to bring others down too, at least until rendered naked and sweating with faces darkened or lightened and all that. It's especially fitting given that the people that indulge in that sort of thing generally have the most to worry about concerning the Hereafter...and it's common for such serious ideas and events to be mocked in one form or another.

When it comes to the issue of ghosts, things get more complicated. While zombies can be tools used to represent a variety of things on the surface, ghosts have a more defined purpose that is is completely overlooked in society, mostly because of their popularity, the things they suggest, and the numerous amount of first-hand experiences and sightings. People that have a set belief in the Hereafter know better about ghosts regardless of what they personally experience. Death may not be the end, but the dead stay dead. It's like George Carlin once mocked, people, for some reason or another, believe that the dead have nothing better to do than to concern themselves with the people that are still living. Not only that, but they only seem to come from the upper echelons of society and only certain time periods. I mean, there is so much that could be discussed about ghosts from an Islamic perspective. We know that both angels and jinn can shapeshift, that jinn are the world's tricksters and that the devils among them are the devils that are popularized in culture. So, why would jinn appear as dead people? What could possibly be the motive?

Aside from boredom, attachment to a human being, or the ease of which to convey an important message, there is a more devious reason, namely misguidance and disbelief. People often say that because of ghosts they believe there's "something more" when we die. Rarely can they say what, but if they do it's usually a New Age concept or some pseudo-Christianity. Also, for some it establishes the idea that no one goes to Hell, or that Hell is only for serial killers. Basically, just "go to the light" and everything will be alright. No mention of the angel's role in carrying the soul or anything or that you will be held accountable for what you do in life (meaning as long as you don't kill anyone or something similar, you're going to Heaven). It continues further...

In Islam, we have a tradition about the antichrist (Dajjal). Namely, that one of the ways he will win people over is that in their time of need, when they have lost a loved one, he will have a jinni transform itself to look like the deceased so that he can claim to have resurrected the individual and also to get the deceased to encourage the living to follow and support him. The concept is very simple. It's even been used in movies and television shows where an illusion of a dead person is used to manipulate the emotions of someone who's vulnerable. It should be noted that the one-eyed god of Freemasonry, the Horus, the Dajjal, is considered by them to be a resurrector. That is one of his epithets and praises according to former Masons especially those who turned to Christianity (because of its mockery of the miracles of Jesus (as)). It should be of no surprise, then, to see the Eye of Horus pop up as a symbol of paranormal groups such as the one above and one of the more popular ones, the Paranormal Research Society, whose imagery is even more disturbing as the Eye of Horus is a aflame and being cradled by a pair of hands.

One clear sign of the ghost fraud involves psychics. Anyone that has delved deep into the cult knows well about jinn, regardless of what they call them i.e. spirits being the most common reference (they often put jinn into a separate category but that is not accurate, jinn is a catch-all term). In Islam, we know that so-called psychics work by having a jinni companion who whispers who mixes some truth in a lot of falsehood. The use of a guide is something that is readily admitted by psychics and it goes further, which should be a flashing red light to anyone absorbed with ghosts. Psychics need a "spirit guide" that is "not dead" to help them communicate with the dead. This is admitted and not conspiracy--this is what some of the most famous psychics that aren't completely making things up have explained and is also what I had personally dealt with when I worked with all of this (mine called himself Daniel). Even on the show Psychic Kids, one girl is shown hers, who is named something like John. It doesn't make sense that if ghosts are just everywhere, imparting messages to people or tormenting them, or acting like tricksters for no good reason, why there needs to be some completely non-human intermediary that whispers the things to you and helps you to sense things and all that. Granted, not everything paranormal is attributed to dead people...sometimes they concede that they are dealing with "entities" and other things. This of course fits with Islam because we know jinn live their own lives and often it clashes with ours. It's not always in the form of the ghost fitnah (tribulation). A lot of "shadow people" phenomenon gets attributed to ghosts without further support, for instance. At any rate, I'm stressing the current cultural obsession with ghosts because it could be mentally paving the way for what is to come i.e. if you accept the possibility of ghosts now, it will be rather easy for the Dajjal to use it to deceive you into following him, something that has been warned about well before the modern mythology of ghosts and the other revelations from ghost hunting.

Osiris and Hiram Abiff in Freemasonry

2010-02-24T13:23:00.000-08:00

Hiram Abiff = Osiris

...in Masonry or at least in the Cryptic Degrees/Cryptic Masonry. I would like to add, though, that there is an element of Horus to his story as well. I say Horus and not merely Osiris because of Hiram being known as the Widow's Son. In the context of the story of Hiram Abiff as a parallel to some of the teachings of (unknown) mystery schools of Egypt, the Window's Son was Horus, not Osiris. Horus is the one who's father was dead when he was born, thus being the son of a widow. This works well with the general Masonic obsession with Horus in all other spheres...namely the use of the Eye of Horus and related symbolism. But with Hiram Abiff Osiris is more significant. The version of the Osiris myth that is passed on in Masonry is as follows:

Scripture informs us that there were some Jews in bondage in Egypt, and that they were influenced by some of the beliefs of the Egyptians. Some of the Jews even studied and learned under the wise Egyptians. In Egyptian mythology there is a story about a great ruler named Osiris. According to the story this great ruler was the victim of a conspiracy by his brother, Seth. Legend has it that Osiris' brother Seth invited Osiris to a banquet that was in his honor. Prior to the banquet, Seth and his co-conspirators made a chest exactly to the measurements of Osiris' body. During the entertainment, Seth presented the chest and promised to give it to anyone whose body could most conveniently fit into it. The legend goes on to say that after several people tried unsuccessfully to fit into it, Osiris gave it a try and it fitted him perfectly. Immediately after he laid down in the chest, Seth and his seventy-two conspirators rushed to the box, clamped the cover and nailed it shut. The chest with Osiris in it was then cast into the Nile River.

According to the Myth, there were those who loved Osiris and respected his leadership abilities and his great qualities. One such person was his sister-wife Isis. We are informed that when she heard of Osiris' death, she cut off one of the locks of her hair and put on the "mourning apparel of widowhood." Isis searched diligently all throughout Egypt, questing everyone she came in contact with. She is finally informed by some young children that the chest or coffin was lodged in the branches of a bush of the tamarind tree, and that the chest was concealed in the trunk of the tree. Isis retrieved the chest and took Osiris' body back to Egypt.

Later, Seth came upon the body of Osiris and this time being more determined to get rid of Osiris, cut his body up into fourteen pieces, and scattered them throughout Egypt. Isis then began another search, except this time she was not just looking for one body, she was looking for fourteen pieces of the body. It is said that she found every piece except one, the phallus (penis). Being unable to recover the original organ, she made a substitute phallus of gold. pgs 85-6, Freemasonry, Ancient Egypt and the Islamic Destiny by Mustafa El-Amin

Albert Pike also adds:

Isis was also aided in her search by Anubis in the shape of a dog. He was Sirius or the Dog-Star, the friend and counsellor of Osiris, and the inventor of language, grammar, astronomy... pg 376, Morals and Dogma

The significance of these myths can be superficially found in the various other orders that are out there such as: the Order of Alhambra, the Daughters of Isis, the Daughters of the Nile, the Daughters of the Sphinx and the Ancient Egyptian Order of Sciotis to name a few. I also want to stress that these are their interpretation of the events that happened and not the only way the myths can be understood as I've discussed in previous posts and my video about Set(h). Nevertheless this understanding of the myth has parallels to the murder of Hiram Abiff and other more esoteric factors concerning it all. The theory behind this is that it came about from the cultural exchange between the Egyptians and the Jews, with Jews being the inheritors of the Egyptian mysteries and attention subsequently shifted from North Africa to the Judeo-Christian tradition.

"The Jews took the story of Osiris and changed it to the story of the mythical Hiram Abiff."

C.W. Leadbeater explains, "Although our modern Freemasonic rites and symbols are derived from Egypt...they have reached us for the most part through the Jews." (pages 86-7 in Freemasonry, Ancient Egypt and the Islamic Destiny)

An important point to also make is that Jesus (as) is considered the incarnation of Horus and the continuation of the mythos. Unfortunately, many sources have disinfo that links "Jesus" with Osiris and not Horus. The confusion is moreso again because of Hiram Abiff being called the Widow's Son. That epithet doesn't apply to Jesus (as). At any rate, all you have to do is search "Horus" in YouTube and you will get several videos saying that Horus is the original Jesus. One is even titled "Christianity is a[n] Egyptian Myth." But, I've already compared Jesus (as) to Horus, showing Horus is the incarnation of the dajjal i.e. antichrist.

Quotes from Éliphas Lévi and Arthur Edward Waite Concerning Freemasonic and Illuminati Beliefs

2010-02-24T06:06:00.000-08:00

Quotes taken from:
The Mysteries of Magic: A Digest of the Writings of Éliphas Lévi.

Arthur Edward Waite is from whom we get the classic Waite tarot deck that is the standard upon which other tarot are based (granted that tarot comes from la Vecchia Religione of Italy).

There are many things I could quote from this work. It brings up some of the basic points surrounding the occult in its various manifestations but rarely blatantly (when connected to Judeo-Christian beliefs). In sum, a lot of it is explaining the inherent use of magick in everything, which is part and parcel of the more secretive belief of Jesus as a sort of magician and "Lucifer" as a savior (some traditional pagan traditions replace Lucifer with Diana Luciferans) and the not-at-all-secret assertion that predominates the occult world today, and even popular culture, that Soloman (as) was the father of Kabbalah and magick (astaghfirAllah to these lies--all of which Islam addresses especially concerning Solomon not being an idolater or magician and why people say he was).

On Solomon (as):

There are two classes of seers, the instinctive and the initiated. This is why children, ignorant persons, shepherds, and even idiots have more tendency to natural divination than shcolars and thinkers. The simple herd-boy David, was a prophet even as Solomon, the King of the Kabbalists and Magi. pg 223

On the importance of the Pentagram:

But the Pentagram, profaned though it may be by men, shines unclouded for ever in the right hand of the Word of truth, and the inspired voice promises to whomsoever shall conquer, that he will give him the morning staar--a solemn restitution held out to the star of Lucifer. pg 140

On the importance of Kabbalah:

All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabbalah and return therin; whatever is scientific and grandiose in the religious dreams of all illuminati--Jacob Boehmen, Swedenborg, Saint Martin, and the rest--has been borrowed from the Kabbalah; all masonic associations owe their secrets and their symbols thereto. The Kabbalah alone consecrates the alliance of universal reason and the Divine Word: it establishes by the counterpoise of two forces in apparent opposition, the eternal balance of existence; it reconciles reason with faith, power with liberty, knowledge with mystery; it has the keys of the present, past and future. pg 18 (Introduction)

One reason why T.E. Lawrence (i.e. "Lawrence of Arabia" who set the foundations for the collapse of the Islamic State) carried The Golden Ass of Apuleius with him:

After the colossal fable of Oedipus we find the graceful poem of Psyche, of which Apuleius was certainly not the inventor. The Great Magic Arcanum reappears herein under the image of the mysterious union between a god and a weak mortal, who is abandoned naked and alone upon a rock. Psyche must remain ignorant of the secret of his ideal royalty and if she behold her husband, she must lose him. Here Apuleius annotates and interprets the allegoires of Moses, but did not the Elohim and the gods of Apuleius alike issue from the sanctuaries of Memphis and Thebes? Psyche is the sister of Eve, or rather, she is Eve spiritualised. Both desire to know and lose innocence for the honour of the trial. Both deserve to descend into Hades, one to carry away the antique box of Pandora, the other to seek and to crush the serpent's head, the symbol of time and evil. Both commit the crime which must be expiated by the Prometheus of ancient days and the Lucifer of Christian legend, the one delivered by Hercules the other conquered by the Saviour. After the wonderful gold ass of Apuleius we find no more magical epics. pg 15 (Introduction)

On use of sun/moon imagery and light symbolism:

The Great Magic Agent is the fourth emanation of the life-principle, of which the sun is the third form (see the initiates of the Alexandrian School and the dogma of Hermes Trismegistus) for the day-star is only the reflection and material shadow of the sun of truth which illuminates the intellectual world and which itself is but a gleam borrowed from the Absolute. The sun of the divine world is the infinite, spiritual and uncreated light; this light is, so to speak, verbalised in the philosophical world, and becomes the focus of the souls and of the truth; then it is incorporated and changed into visible light in the sun of the third world, the central sun of suns, of which the fixed stars are the immortal sparks.

Thus the world's eye, as the ancients called it, is the mirage of the reflection of God, and the soul of the earth is a permanent glance from the sun which the earth concieves and conserves by impregnation. The moon concurs in this impregnation of the earth by projecting towards her a solar image during the night so that Hermes was correct when he said, speaking of the Great Agent, "The sun is its sire, the moon its mother."...

The Astral Light was the instrument of the omnipotence of Adam, and afterwards became that of his punishment, being disturbed by his fall which intermingled an impure reflection with those primitive images that composed, for his still maiden imagination, the book of universal knowledge. The fall of Adam, according to the initiators, was an erotic intoxication which rendered his generation the slave of the fatal light; all amorous passion is a whirlpool of this light which draws us towards the abyss of death. pgs. 76 & 78

More on light imagery and significant symbols:

The Great Magical Secret is represented by the lamp and poniard of Psyche, the apple of Eve, the fire stolen from heaven by Prometheus, the burning sceptre of Lucifer, but also by the Cross of the Redeemer. It is the ring of Gyges, the Golden Fleece, the allegorical picture of Cebes, which is its most audaacious demonstration. It is also represented by the lingam, for the Great Arcanum is connected with the mystery of universal generation, and by the serpent pierced with an arrow, which formed the seal of Cagliostro. pg 89

Again, there is much more in that work. I'm just giving pieces of it. I've seen some of this book quoted elsewhere, such as here, but the version that I have access to does not have the material that is mentioned on that site. I don't know if its a mis-identification of the source or slightly different publican or what.

Why America for the New World Order?

2010-02-22T09:49:00.000-08:00

This is just me piecing different things together based on my Islamic beliefs about the antichrist and what not. There are many mundane reasons for why America is the land of the Freemasons and the Illuminati agenda such as it being a fresh start, it being initially dominated--power and influence-wise--by Freemasonic planters et al. I'm not discounting the validity of those. I'm just suggesting that their could be even further reasons. I'm asserting this not because of basic dot-connecting, but because of an incident well before the European "discovery" of what became America. Certain things stand out to me as clues.

Other individuals have pointed out that America merely inherited a legacy from Britain and Europe. They've done more research on it then me and are way more pious than me, so let me refer to one to expand awareness : Dajjal - The False Messiah by Imran Husein (clips from this long lecture have been featured in many videos).

To understand the points I'm going to bring up, you must first familiarize yourself with the hadith discussing an incident that happened to some Arab(?) Christians. It is greatly discussed in a work of Ibn Kathir, but unfortunately I do not know Arabic and the English translation varies depending on the publisher. Basically, it's his work about the End Times, signs of it and what will come. The hadith in question, generally known as the Hadith of Fatima, can be read here in full. Important points:

They came to an island after being presumably lost at sea for about a month

There was a mysterious hairy creature on the island

There was a monastery and inside of it was chained the dajjal (antichrist)

If the story is accurate, and for this post the argument is made that it is, all we know is that it took them about a month to reach the island. We know nothing about from where they left, or what the island looked like or even what the monastery looked like.

The hadith further goes on to explain that the dajjal will be from the East and that was repeated for emphasis, meaning get it in your head, he's coming from the East. Another, much shorter, hadith says the same but specifically points to Khurasan and adds that his followers will have faces that are flat "like shields." Others say that he will emerge with Jewish followers from Isfahan, Iran. So much for the East vs West conflict that is propagandized. Yet, for some reason despite the emphasis on East, Imran Husein says dajjal was in Britain during the incident and was simply just moved. If movement is possible, or if he ever became unchained and does not simply rise up as Dajjal when the time is right, my argument is that it wasn't Britain, but America that the lost Christian sailors landed on. Here is why:

1. Columbus' unintentional voyage to America took 29 days from the Canary Islands, which are off the coast of North Africa, to the Bahamas/Turks/Caicos. IF the travelers left from somewhere around there, America is very plausible landing site for getting lost at sea for a month.

2. North America was generally considered an island by the indigenous population. This really became popular in the '70s where to counter the ethnocentric white "discovery of America," some Native Americans en mass began to refer to the continent as its original pan-nation/tribe designation (for some, not all Native Americans of course) Turtle Island. This is still in use today.

3. There is no denying the fact that North America is the home of hairy bipedal creature legends i.e. Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Skunk Ape and all other varying terms more so than any other country that shares the same folklore and slightly similar sightings. Not only that, but the sightings described generally involve the creature running away, or throwing rocks or boulders and other such things that result in hiding or sneaking around. The one in the hadith called himself al Jassasah, meaning spy. That's a good name for a creature that acts furtively in eyewitness descriptions! Unfortunately though, the creature generally does not speak in any sightings. With the speech it almost resembles Enkidu of Mesopotamian mythology. Perhaps, though, it simply has nothing to say to anyone else that sees it.

4. In the ancient Southeast region of America during the Mississippian era, there was a belief system in place (formally known as the "Southern Death Cult") that utilized significant one-eye imagery and, as far as we know, a good god and a horned snake god. The one-eyed imagery is strange in that it's often connected to a circle symbol that resembles a vulva (think of the a-okay sign made by Lady Gaga and co.). It's generally associated with supernatural forces/other spheres of existence. The other strange factor is that it has a close resemblance, in some depictions, to the hamza or hand of Fatima prevalent in North Africa and originating in the occult traditions of the ancient Phoenician pagans, who believed it to have been a representation of their supreme deity. This eye/vulva connection existed in the Phoenician belief system as well (image below is from the Mississippian tradition):
In addition to the one-eyed imagery, there was a major character known to us as the "Birdman" who appeared in the form of a falcon, much like the Egyptian Horus, whom I've already connected to the Dajjal and Freemasons/Illuminati in great detail. I don't believe that the Egyptians came over and gave the Mississippians a belief in Horus. It seems to be more of a repeated theme based on certain occult truths. Luckily, Wikipedia goes into great detail about all that we know about it publicly (I'm sure a lot is kept among family traditions, like with other esoteric religions that survive today). I highly recommend checking out what Wikipedia has for it. It describes the belief in Red Horn, who also bears the epithet Morning Star, just like Shaytan/Lucifer in his various incarnations.

5. There is evidence to suggest that ancient people had been stumbling upon North America for a long time. A Google search of "ancient coins found in America" will generate some links on the subject. It's rather taboo because of its use by Mormons and others to suggest that Native American cultures are just borrowings of other cultures, or that Jesus (as) came to everyone and various other theories. Although there are a number of false claims out there, this subject is often covered a lot in publications that deal with non-mainstream archaeology/"forbidden archaeology." I think it is reasonable to suggest that people could have gotten shipwrecked or whatever on North America and left behind traces of their presence. This gives strength to the possibility that the Christians were one such people.

6. This may be stretching it, but the Disney film, The Road to El Dorado, which, like the film Stargate, is a direct copy of the movie The Man Who Would Be King, and is blatant Masonic propaganda set in "The New World" without utilizing any one culture. The original film is about white men coming to "primitive people" who worship a one-eyed god and see Sean Connery with a Masonic Eye of Horus necklace and consider him god. "Hijinx" as the Bohemian Grove members would say, soon ensue. It's overall extremely strange that this concept would be transferred directly to a childrens' movie about El Dorado (mythical City of Gold) but it was despite Stargate having already directly used the concept. Could be suggestive of the importance of "the New World" (blurred between Meso and South America and fictional Atlantis) to the Freemasons. This website goes into great detail about the repeated adaption of The Man Who Would Be King in films, with a side-by-side analysis of The Road to El Dorado with it.

7. Some of the inheritors of the "Southern Death Cult" (pretty insulting name for an entire religion, unless it was merely a cult and not the primary belief system in place) became known by the early whites as being part of the "Civilized Tribes"--a status given to them for their ability to easily conform to white culture, attitudes and behaviors. Of course, they were never good enough which makes one wonder the exact reason for such designation if the attitude was "once an Indian always an Indian." It was also common for their mounds to have been raided, with ceremonial artifacts stolen. In one episode of the television show Paranormal State, I saw an obelisk monument on top of or parallel (can't remember) one such burial mound. Likewise, burial mounds that are desecrated are synonymous with hauntings and demon activity in popular culture. You don't see this anywhere else. When Israelis build things over Palestinian graves, there are no reports of supernatural activity despite them also being an "other."

The only things that can't be explained off-hand are the "monastery" and the chains if America was the "island" of the Dajjal. Other cultures, of course, had their own monasteries--it's not a purely Christian concept. But, I know of none having existed in ancient America. As for the chains, if the Dajjal is moved around or was bound long ago, that could explain that anomaly. Even in Norse mythology the "devilish" Loki is said to have been bound until the End Times, when he will break free and lead the world into the final battle so it is at least not unique to Islam.

Whether my speculation that the island with Dajjal was actually America is right or not , I really just wanted to bring certain details into light, especially the "Southern Death Cult" and its similarity to the beliefs of the ancient Phoenicians and Egyptians. Perhaps some more investigation can come from it, which is always beneficial in my opinion.

Reblogging: Illuminati - New World Order Game (1995)

2010-02-22T05:50:00.000-08:00

The video below came from this blog post at New World Order Thesis, which has more videos posted. The card game, in my opinion, is rather creepy. While some of it can be explained as merely tailoring the game to conspiracy theory beliefs and politics, other parts cannot.

The old World of Darkness games by White Wolf sometimes incorporated stuff that came from the occult or the realm of "conspiracy theory" or just the structure of secret societies, but it was always scattered and wrapped in fantasy. Like, for instance, there was a 'Council of Seven" vampires that ruled the controlling/manipulating kind of vampires and were the ones who really had the power and information and everything to keep those other manipulating vampires doing what they wanted. That is similar to the structure of Freemasonry, where no one knows the topmost Seven and all that. Likewise, real magick stuff was intermixed into the fantasy to create a whole race of "Mages." For instance, I see a lot of conspiracy pages talk about the movie Metropolis because of illusions to it by Lady Gaga and others. Well, in the game Metropolis was a Sons of Ether-type deal where magick is mixed with technology. There is a group of martial arts-focused mages known as the Akashic Brotherhood, but Akashic comes from theosophy and its belief in the akashic records, which is sort of like al Lawh al Mahfud in Islam, but that is more about everything and not accessible to humans, and akashic records are about occult knowledge and all that.

There are many videos out there about 9/11 predictions in popular culture. Some can be explained as coincidences but others not so much. Take for instance, 9/11 being predicted in The Lone Gunman.

Merenptah: Firaun of Musa (as) -- Video

2010-02-22T05:24:00.000-08:00

My second video, inspired by my less-detailed post on the same subject. For convenience I used the Arabic names. Firaun = Pharaoh, Musa = Moses.

Occult References in Shutter Island

2010-02-20T18:45:00.001-08:00

No significant discussion of plot i.e. no major spoilers. Just things I observed in the background, with two exceptions.

In the psychiatrist's office were the following things that seemed peculiar to me:

bookcase dedicated to the so-called Venus figurines of the paleolithic era (but scaled larger) and other mother goddess figurines

statue of Pan

statue of Silenus

statue of Marcus Aurelius (probably unimportant but they focused on it in a scene)

In a mausoleum:

Masonic Eye of Horus in stained glass, looking down at the characters

Dove with rays of light shining down, forming a pyramid
(not longer after the characters are blasted by extremely bright light)
There was a single obelisk in the cemetery but they are so common it could be just for decor.

In an inmate's cell:

Upside-down pentagram with Baphomet's head inside of it, plain as day in one shot. There were also two airplanes, I think, but I was distracted by the symbol. The atomic bomb was mentioned multiple times in the film, so could have been a possible reference to that.

Reference to both the Dajjal & Masonic Beliefs/Imagery (VERY MINIMAL PLOT DISCUSSION):

A pryomaniac man is mentioned as having two different colored eyes. In my head I was imagining the usual: one green, one blue. Instead the man had one blue and one defective i.e. white...like in my Facebook icon except not bulging. He also had a nasty scar. Anytime I see this kind of thing with scars, I imagine it being used as an excuse for why Dajjal's forehead could have KFR on it. But I digress...

So, this one-eyed man was obsessed with fire, burning things. Most importantly, it was repeated that he would be found in a LIGHTHOUSE. Ironically, I was watching this film in a movie theater across from the Masonic memorial that was designed to look like the Lighthouse of Alexandria. For more of a dajjal reference, the whole thing is on an island, though of course the lighthouse was farther out.

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There is a strange scene in which dialogue is exchanged about God and violence. The antagonizing character naturally makes a Satanic argument, "God loves violence, look at this..." (meaning violence of the natural world i.e. a hurricane) and goes on about men being violent and that's what we are because of God "God gave us violence to wage in His honor." The main character argues that God gave us moral laws and the man asks where are the moral laws "in this" (meaning natural world). The conversation ends with a reference to the fight between Horus and Set and possibly the Masonic incarnation of Horus: "If I were to sink my teeth, right now, into your eye, would you be able to stop me before I blinded you?"

The pagan stuff found in the office seem to correlate well with these speculations on God, human nature, the natural world and free will.

Set, An Islamic Perspective (Experimenting with Video Making)

2010-02-19T19:45:00.001-08:00

I've never made a YouTube video before--this is my first. I decided to go with an easy subject, a basic summary of Set versus Horus and how Horus and his modern day worship relates to the Dajjal (antichrist).

Please feel free to spread it around and to discuss it. I couldn't fit much text into each frame, so I summed it all up as best as I could.

Horus at the Oscars

2010-02-17T14:39:00.001-08:00

A link worth checking out:

Osiris, the Oscars and the Babylon Gate

What fascinates about the mysterious origin of Horus is the presence of very similar Sun gods in distant parts of the world, who seem to have echoes of Horus in both appearance and name.

And what of Oscar himself? Well, as others have pointed out, he bears a very strong resemblance to Ptah, the god of craftsmen (read: "masons") and often syncretized with Osiris. Oscar is also reminiscent of some depictions of Osiris himself, all the more fascinating when you consider his Egyptian name is the pseudo-homophonic Ausur. Or that no one can seem to agree where the name "Oscar" actually came from.

For more information on Ptah and Horus:

Who was the Pharaoh of Moses (as)

Understanding the Egyptian God Set from Islamic Standpoint

Lady Gaga as the Lady in Red

Jay-Z and the Eye of Horus

All Dajjal Roads Lead to Horus -- Horus as Antichrist & Crowley's God

Lady Gaga - wHore for Horus

Horus as Dajjal -- Comparison with the Christ (as)

Horus as the Dajjal (Antichrist) -- Comparison with the Christ (as)

2010-02-17T05:39:00.000-08:00

I just need to preface to new readers and people who haven't noticed my profile blurb that I am not Christian, but Muslim. I accept Jesus (as) as prophet, but not as God. I do personally believe that some paganism got mixed into Christianity, but unlike the Zeitgeist film and some websites, I do not believe that that justifies claiming there was no Jesus (as). Prophets and their lives have been distorted since time immemorial and I'm almost 100% that Jesus (as) was not the first prophet to have been deified as I make references to in my posts about the Egyptian Set having originally been Seth (as).

I've discussed the case for the Egyptian god Horus having his roots in the actual Dajjal (antichrist) in many of my posts. Some people, however, look at it rather differently. They say that Horus was the Christ. Such is the case in this blog post: Just in time for the holidays...Attention: Your Jesus is a Crock. Well, that only makes it even easier for me to justify "Horus" as being the one-eyed antichrist! Let me quote their reasons for the assertion that the only Jesus (as) that existed was Horus:

*Horus was born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a cave/manger with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men.

*His earthly father was named "Seb" ("Joseph"). Seb is also known as "Geb": "As Horus the Elder he...was believed to be the son of Geb and Nut." Lewis Spence, Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends, 84.

*He was of royal descent.

*At age 12, he was a child teacher in the Temple, and at 30, he was baptized, having disappeared for 18 years.

*Horus was baptized in the river Eridanus or Iarutana (Jordan) by "Anup the Baptizer" ("John the Baptist"), who was decapitated.

*He had 12 disciples, two of whom were his "witnesses" and were named "Anup" and "Aan" (the two "Johns").

*He performed miracles, exorcised demons and raised El-Azarus ("El-Osiris"), from the dead.

*Horus walked on water.

*His personal epithet was "Iusa," the "ever-becoming son" of "Ptah," the "Father." He was thus called "Holy Child."

*He delivered a "Sermon on the Mount" and his followers recounted the "Sayings of Iusa."

*Horus was transfigured on the Mount.

*He was crucified between two thieves, buried for three days in a tomb, and resurrected.

*He was also the "Way, the Truth, the Light," "Messiah," "God's Anointed Son," the "Son of Man," the "Good Shepherd," the "Lamb of God," the "Word made flesh," the "Word of Truth," etc.

*He was "the Fisher" and was associated with the Fish ("Ichthys"), Lamb and Lion.

*He came to fulfill the Law.

*Horus was called "the KRST," or "Anointed One."

*Like Jesus, "Horus was supposed to reign one thousand years."

Furthermore, inscribed about 3,500 years ago on the walls of the Temple at Luxor were images of the Annunciation, Immaculate Conception, Birth and Adoration of Horus, with Thoth announcing to the Virgin Isis that she will conceive Horus; with Kneph, the "Holy Ghost," impregnating the virgin; and with the infant being attended by three kings, or magi, bearing gifts. In addition, in the catacombs at Rome are pictures of the baby Horus being held by the virgin mother Isis--the original "Madonna and Child."

Just some things I should point out since it gets repeated over and over:

Isis was not technically a virgin. She gave birth to Horus using magick when she fashioned a phallus and had sex with it. The "immaculate conception" came about from the magick, which involved stealing Ra's power. That is the original reason for why Set killed Osiris because Set was originally a defender of Ra (or sometimes Amun...basically--defender of the Creator). Horus would then be an abomination to Set (albeit people prefer to portray Set as sex-hungry for Horus).

Also, making the case for Seb being "Joseph" is weak at best. There was a Joseph that lived in Egyptian and he was known by variations of Yusuf. If one wants to break the name up and make it more Egyptian, the case would be stronger with "Sef." Additionally, the fish connection seems weak to me. It was Set who in popular mythology became a fisherman, not Horus. But again, when there are so many contradicting variations of all the Egyptian mythologies, maybe their is a line somewhere that puts the fishing onto Horus. Lastly, I'm skeptical that Horus had the epithet of "Messiah." That is a purely Hebrew concept.

IF the rest is true, then the case for Horus as the antichrist is even stronger. This is even moreso given the occult obsession with Horus in his various forms and its repetitive use and references in the media. The fact that one of his epithets was allegedly Iusa is especially convincing given that in Islam, Jesus (as) is known as Isa for linguistic reasons. In that epithet, Horus is also connected to Ptah. Well, I have previously connected Ptah worship to Firaun (Pharaoh) of Moses (as)--The Pharaoh being Merenptah with Moses as Amenmesse, so if all that is accurate, then it would a repeated theme of the evil individual claiming godhead being associated with Ptah.

One major and important difference between the real Christ (as) and Horus as the antichrist is that Horus was the god of kings, i.e. the god of the elite much like how the one-eyed Odin of Norse mythology was likewise a god of kings and the elite.

Associating Isis with Mary and Horus with Christ is not something Zeitgeist discovered on their own. It forms part of the teachings of theosophy and Madame Blavatsky, (presumably) later adopted by the Freemasons to further justify their adoption of the one-eyed god of the powerful under a Christian-friendly context.

And yes, there are other pagan deities and figures who are similar in their mythology to the Christian traditions of Jesus (as), but for the vast majority of them, if not all of them, there is very little connection to the dajjal i.e. antichrist like can be made with Horus. Various reasons can be given as to why they exist simultaneously with Jesus (as). At this time, I have little interest in expounding on it as it can be turned into its own post.

Diana in Bohemian Grove

2010-02-15T19:03:00.000-08:00

Cross-dressing Bohemians performing some sort of play that includes a scene at an Artemis or Diana sanctuary.

Diana of the Roman pantheon is almost always associated exclusively with women except in certain sectors--traditional Italian witchcraft (stregheria) and Dianic Wicca. I'm highly skeptical that Bohemian Grove exists to worship Diana, especially on the basis of a photograph of a performance that may not have any sacred or ritualistic meaning. But, I'm offering the possibility that it may have some basis in truth.

According to this website, Diana, to the Freemasons, is a "symbol of imagination, sensibility, and the creative insanity of poets and artists." That seems kind of weird--outside of her realm unless you view her as the all-encompassing Mother Goddess figure. But then again some deities do overlap and some of their minor traits and associations get overshadowed over others. Perhaps that explains the display unless, of course, it was merely a single scene from a "Grove play." The ones that would fit are: The Hamadryads: A Masque of Apollo, The Atonement of Pan: A Music-Drama and Apollo: a Music-Drama but I'm really just guessing. I don't know the time period of the photograph, don't know if the list of plays on wikipedia are even accurate, and don't know that some other play couldn't have had that scene. The Masonic description of Diana, however, sets her up almost like the female opposite of Apollo moreso than traditional mythology does. That would fit the sun/moon duality of Freemasonry, Apollo representing the ultimate sun god (the sun being the most common thing worshiped as god, hence why in Islam certain times are avoided for prayers to not confuse with sun worship). Even before the formal existence of Freemasons, Apollo-worship was a noted characteristic of dictators and the like, even when they were brutal and bloodthirsty: Apollo in Roman Political Propaganda: Marians vs Sullans.

While the owl is not sacred to Diana per say, it is often associated with Hecate, whose aspects have often been blended into Diana's. If the two goddesses were combined, it'd be safe to say that the owl does represent knowledge as the Bohemian's claim, in addition to the much more obvious "dull cares" or alternately just "care." Unlike the owl of Athena/Minerva though, the knowledge that Diana/Hecate's owl represents is the knowledge of the obscure and the occult. It's where the word "trivia" comes from. Trivia is another Roman name of Hecate that is in relation to her three-fold nature and her also being the goddess of the crossroads (tri + via).

Hecate is certainly no stranger to the Freemasons/Illuminati. The Statue of Liberty was, oddly, based upon her as depictions of Hecate utilized both the unique pointed crown, and the torch. Hecate often carried two torches, albeit in representation of the "morning star," as one of her Greek epithets was Phosphoros (light-bringer aka the Morning Star). Morning Star is an alternate reference to Lucifer (light-bearer, Latin version), and one of the primary aspects of Diana is Lucifera aka Diana Lucifera aka Diana, the light-bearer. While two torches would fit better for dualistic purposes, the one torch is a much more powerful symbol.

Reblogging - Ron Paul & the Illuminati Agenda

2010-02-13T16:29:00.000-08:00

Change doesn't come in the form of a black president, and it certainly doesn't come in the form of someone--an elite--who would be using the same, broken system. That's not what revolution has ever been about. Revolutions are most successful from the bottom up, not the top down. When it's the top down--like the American revolution--the stage is set for future oppression. The way that is done is through nice lingo that is not actually implemented in full--ever. The exception is when the revolutionary ideology has a major flaw (usually one involving idealism)--in which case a bottom up revolution will also be oppressive.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves - Stalin

While Stalin was hypocritical and sociopathic, he was speaking the truth there. Even in Islam silk is forbidden to men for the purposes of humility and simplicity--getting rid of the arrogance, elitism and class disconnect to offer an alternative that favors the poor and the helpless, those who have no voice in an oppressive society. Aside from the class reference, the quote also means "without getting dirty." Of course, that's not to be taken in an ends justify the means way in my use of the quote. Malcolm X summarizes the idea nicely:

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-other-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as nonviolent revolution. Revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

Ron Paul - Illuminati Hand Signs and Handshakes.

Google Search Results: Ron Paul + Mason

Beware disinformation--it's real and is almost always presented as something mundane i.e. some truth mixed with falsehoods. That is how devils have always worked. If disinformation were always obvious (i.e. always just "out there" theories), what good would it serve in causing confusion and leading people astray?

Starbucks is the Devil, Literally?

2010-02-13T15:25:00.000-08:00

I just want to say that I never go to Starbucks, so would never have come to this conclusion without some help. One of my friend's pointed this out, and it's really hard to miss. The revised Starbucks logo looks like the head of Baphomet upside-down. Not only that, but it's flanked by two inverted (filled in) pentagrams. Seriously.

Given its support for the murderous state of Israel (not antisemitism, I believe the US is worse), not all that surprised.

Brief Thoughts on Modern Mother Nature Worship

2010-02-12T12:07:00.000-08:00

This is an observation I've had for some time that many people are not even aware of. When it comes to things in the natural world, it's almost always attributed to nature. Sometimes it's specified as "Mother Nature," which actually personifies it not only as an obscure force, but as an entity. When a natural disaster occurs, it's acceptable to say "Mother Nature must be angry" and our crime is always "because we disrespect the planet" or "because we litter" or because "there are too many of us." The majority of people who say this are the wealthy, by the way.

In the children's book Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief, because of man's propensity to disrespect the earth, the "great god Pan" is in hiding. Of course the book makes absolutely no mention of the true nature of Pan, or of satyrs in general, or of the fact that littering is nothing new but the exploitation of so-called "third world countries" is. The idiotic and drug-addled fiend Aleister Crowley loved Pan. So did some folks of Bohemian Grove. Really appropriate for children's books. The books also replace "rape" with "dating" further establishing that promiscuity is okay, but also confusing them about the actual nature of the myths--myths that should not be praised as they put the worst qualities of humanity onto deities. (As a further aside, the books also teach neopaganism 101--how to give a modern sacrifice in the Hellenic tradition)

Nothing is ever about how people treat one another, and nothing can ever be attributed to God even if it's in a generic non-religious way. It's not Allah, God, the Creator that created everything, it's Mother Nature or alternately, Nature with a capital N (explained on one episode of Sesame Street where the guest comedian was pretending to be a survivalist). Somewhat related, this is why atheism is nonsensical--they replace God with other things in an attempt to be intellectually superior, that's all.

What's worse is that aboriginal people are exploited and held up to be the standard carriers for the call to respect and recognize Mother Earth. It doesn't matter that the majority of indigenous religions were not "Mother Earth/Father Sky" worshipers, but were worshipers of a Creator. This is of course lost given what knowledge survives colonialism and cultural fads, and what doesn't. Hollywood's current biggest hit, Avatar, is an example of this. Mother Earth is suffering and unless you stop exploiting Mother Earth, nothing will be right. Humans are always the last priority. It's Earth --> Animals --> Humans despite the claim that everything is interconnected.

It should also be noted that when "Mother Earth" in various forms was worshiped by civilizations, humanity suffered. Women were oppressed--not even considered on the same level as men--humans were sacrificed, enslaved, countries taken and plundered, and in the case of the tree-loving Druids, humans were sacrificed and even eaten in some cases. Worshiping or respecting Mother Earth has historically never changed the inner aspects of men, did not make the world a better place, not even for womankind. While people may argue that that is the same with the monotheistic faiths, the reality is that those who are sincere and willing to put knowledge into practice, are seriously transformed: spiritually, mentally and sometimes even physically by adopting attitudes such faiths teach that are not taught by the others (or are taught but never emphasized. For instance: fill your stomach with 1/3 food, 1/3 water and 1/3 air (nothing) and give your food freely to the poor and the needy and your neighbors even if it means that you will go hungry for a night.