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THE POSITIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA of APPLIED
KNOWLEDGE - (P.E.A.K. P.E.O.P.L.E.)
GENERAL INTRODUCTION: Volume One
Each individual volume is meant to be readable on its own from front to
back as a presentation or building of a thought and many themes; however
each entry will also make sense in most situations, although some must be
integrated. The entire prevailing paradigm is debunked and history or
science is questioned for what we have believed or been led to believe. It
is not an effort to appease or find 'easy' answers. Open-minded and true
thinking and seeking is our approach and hopefully what the reader will be
encouraged to achieve in their personal life. One academic with fourteen
years post-secondary education and many doctorates who read some of the
first book said it was ‘occultist', and included 'crackpot conspiracies'.
(1) Many others are much more charitable and go so far as to say I am
performing an important function for humanity and compiling research for
authors everywhere.
We are proud of his response given the fact that academics generally
promote and create the exact issues we (as a society) are suffering under,
in our present unethical and often immoral technocracies. There will be
occasions when every reader may demand more authority or proof and in most
cases we have the research to back it up as the books proceed. Some of the
personal experiences may strike a resonant chord with only a small
percentage of readers. Hopefully they are presented in a manner that you
will not boggle at continuing the very quest every human has been
undertaking since man first walked on the earth, or swung among the
branches of trees. We do not have all the answers and what little actual
closed-end beliefs you may interpret, are the passion of the moment and
the lack of craft and cogent skill at giving the true sense of awe I feel
blessed to be part of, in this overly materialistic realm. With science
there can be little real quarrel. Scientism is another matter. Nothing in
what science has discovered controverts the existence of realms other than
the one with which it deals. Meanwhile our growing understanding of the
scientific method shows us that there are things science bypasses. Whether
these neglected items belong to a distinct ontological scale, scientism,
of course, often does not say; or it says nothing whatever about them.
These passions that cause us to lose our overall sense of impartiality
or ecumenicism are few and far between I hope. Certainly I apologize in
advance for all the sacred cows and decent ideas that no bad intention or
person tries to foment which we must question in our effort to be fair and
scholarly. In most cases we have chosen complete contextual quotations by
recognized and decent scholars rather than try to put words in their
mouths; and we allow that our own opinions are subject to greater
elucidation just as these authors might feel they deserve when we
challenge or question the opinion they have presented. The difficulty and
misuse of language has been an ethical morass for society. Perhaps that is
part of what Marshall McLuhan meant when he said if he had control of the
media for fifteen years he would control all of society. Did he also
intend to suggest the personal thoughts and aspirations of each man and
women?
Volume One: HARD, HIDDEN AND COMMON SCIENCE
INTRODUCTION
"Everyone is entitled to an opinion!” A TV ad for a major Canadian
newspaper says, before it finishes; after having people say things like
"AIDS is God's way of punishing deviates". But is it INFORMED?
Sensationalism is not their forte and their readership has been the elite
since my father ghost-wrote book reviews for the regular writers in the
1930s. But one can sincerely ask - do they debate real issues or present
alternatives impartially? Their approach is to appeal to their readers
existing prejudices and the political 'norm' rather than extend horizons
through challenging the thinking process by fair presentation of opposing
views. Is that "positive"?
By the time most people are entitled to take subjects like comparative
religion or political science they are already convinced THEY have the
answers to some degree. This perception appeals to the ego of man but does
it "apply" knowledge in an open-minded creative manner? There are many
potential benefits to the "global village" we now live in; yet avoidance
of possibility-thinking and trying to make everyone accept the answers or
programs of our leaders is a real problem. The average person is justified
in being confused when they know there is a difference between what is
said and what is done. Being able to detect all the various perspectives
or sides to any issue is hard enough - fewer are they who actually see the
motivations and creative approaches not being given a fair chance.
It is often said we vote in publicity contests arranged for our
consumption; but who is doing the arrangements or manipulating our
opinion? Is it possible that this confusion of points of view is some
Machiavellian or Hegelian dialectical approach "managed" with technocratic
expertise at our expense? The "expense" is not just monetary. We promise
to provide a veritable plethora of new information from science,
archaeology, etc.; and integrate it in interesting ways. Who cares if it
threatens the prevailing conventions? The important thing is to grow and
change. Fortunately Nobel scientists like Einstein and Heisenberg or the
String-Chaos Theorists and astrophysicists as well as many other respected
authors who have risen above mere professorial status; present us with the
insight to prove the mystical and old theologies aren't "crackpot
conspiracies”. "If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find
it." – Heraclitus (A Basilidae elite family member who is a well regarded
scientific observer from Miletus or Ionian Greece.)
We see a lot of coverage about trendy issues like gene therapy but who
has addressed the societal impacts of this ability that Scientific
American had many researchers saying would extend the potential of human
life to 480 and maybe soon as much as 900 years, in the science of the
year 2070. Nanotechnology and robotics draws top and knowledgeable people
like Kurzweil who won the 1999 technology medal in the US, which Bill
Clinton awarded him in March 2000: to say he (and Bill Joy) can visualize
that humans will be obsolete or redundant in thirty-some years. The whole
of a human brain’s contents was dumped into a chip in 1999 by Stanford
according to Time magazine's Future issue just after the millennium.
Our contention that egalitarian models and equality for genders were
more prevalent before macho Empires may not be anthropologically in vogue
but we think our facts will convince you it is largely true and even if it
wasn't; it should become the way we approach the future. James Joyce said
the last 5,000 years are a record of horror he termed a 'nightmare'. He
would find the Rwandan crisis that the International Commission headed by
Canada's Stephen Lewis and the Organization of African Unity laid at the
feet of the Catholic and Anglican Church just more of the kind of thing
that outstrips the Holocaust in places like the Ukraine and Cambodia.
Jesus was named after a concept dealing with 'The Brotherhood of Man'
which you have never heard about.
Rather than just managing differences we need to obliterate the essence
of what builds prejudice and leads to genocide and the war on women or the
abortion of the soul. In 1911 the Encyclopaedia Britannica described
torture by saying it was no longer relevant to the civilized future of
Europe. That kind of academic certainty should have disappeared with the
Patent Office official from 1898 who said they could close their offices,
because, "Everything is discovered!" Humanity would have a hard time
finding more massive horror and torture than the last century brought us
from the very place they claimed was so civilized. He who has a dog-ma has
a canine for a female parent. Our species has nursed on the teat of dog-ma
way too long.
Atomic Cafe and the 'duck and cover' recommendations or ‘Birth of a
Nation’ with the KKK marching up Pennsylvania Avenue to meet their Grand
Wizard Woodrow Wilson; who had been president of Princeton before holding
the same position for the whole United States, should be burned or etched
into the minds of every citizen. The treatment of women is still in the
'Dark Ages' throughout much of the world. Incest and medical mismanagement
pervade our culture but these books will not be able to do much more than
create a starting point for a full appreciation of their horrors. Many
people think because they hear about the situation in the media or on ‘60
Minutes’ that something is done about it. It usually is left to fester and
further rot the system.
The depth of horror is something SO incredibly disgusting that even the
journalists don't want to really address the problem; and most people hope
it will go away through some outside civilizing force that is not
apparent. The real issues of incest and family violence are not even asked
on questionnaires in the psychiatric intake centers, where women who want
to escape their arranged marriage partner who abuses them, are given ECT
(Electro-convulsive Therapy) to make them accept their life in supposed
highly civilized countries like Canada.
Knowledge in the hands of a few has always been corrupting. There is
knowledge that has always been withheld from the mainstream of society.
Mind control through mechanized thought-cloning and what is going to be
done with Time Travel now that we can achieve 300 times the speed of
light, are just two important details that must be discussed. If you were
to do a University thesis on the Phoenicians or the facts about aliens,
you would not get your degree in America. Why is that? Huge sums of money
on arcane studies into the sex life of fruit flys or the flatulence of
cows are commonplace while the Kensington Rune Stone and Pyramids are
ridiculed with obvious (you will see) intent.
In the 1950s Joseph Campbell wrote a series of books called The Masks
of God. One of them was Primitive Mythology, which documented the study of
linguistics starting in the 19th century that was a large part of the
elitism called Aryan philosophy. Wagner and Nietzsche joined other now
nefarious scholars in perverting an advanced nation into being able to
support Nazism. All 'isms' aren't bad and our chosen 'ism' is altruism. A
BBC documentary on the Wurzberg Gestapo files showed the citizens were
getting the government they wanted. Anti-semiticism was not exclusively
German at all. The movie ‘Ship of Fools’ tells a little part of the story
that includes Adolph Eichmann trying to set up a Jewish homeland prior to
the outbreak of hostilities. Who financed Hitler and Stalin and why was
Stalin given more than Hitler even wanted, in terms of land and people in
Eastern Europe?
The media kept the knowledge of FDR’s ailments and inability to walk
out of the mainstream voters’ awareness. They also didn't tell us about
Frank Lloyd Wright and Bernard Baruch who were chosen to run the real
affairs of import such as the war manufacturing complex and the
re-construction plan of Europe. Both of these close personal friends of
FDR were heavily involved in esoteric (Druidic and Gurdjieff) study. FDR
was a deeply involved member of what we are calling the Masonic 'octopus'
which includes the Rosicrucian Christian mystery school leaders like
Franklin, Paine and Lincoln. Time magazine speaks for the mainstream as
they quote historians who made FDR a hero in their millennium issue. What
would the Polish and other east Europeans think?
There are few to no scholars, who know the derivation of Hebrew even
though the great Egyptologist Sir Flinders Petrie knew there was a
pre-existing alphabet to hieroglyphics which has been shown in the Sahara
during the summer of the year 2000. The Father of Biblical Archaeology
says the Bible is the literary legacy of the Phoenicians whose name is
tied to the 'red-heads' who followed Finn and the Fianna of Irish lore.
Aryan actually might have derived from 'Eire-yann' or the people of Eire.
Ireland was ridiculed in the Roman name for it, through 'Ir' meaning
'lost'. These 'Eire-yanns' were the designers of the Great Pyramid and
traveled the whole world for many millennia along with the 'Red-Headed
League of Megalith Builders' who had a science relating to the earth
energy grid we are yet unable to fully comprehend.
Even if we are wrong about this there clearly has been a concerted
effort to eradicate the knowledge and the people of the Keltic (Few Roman
words began with 'K' thus we have Celts who are named after a type of
sword or knife used in Stone Age times.) clandoms in diverse places as far
away as New Zealand, and the Armenian or Ukrainian genocides. It is more
than simple irony, that all the anti-Semites are actually killing or
hating their once adept engineers and high priests named after the
language (Hebrew) the Kelts developed to keep the technology secret. This
technology or the trade routes, related to things like the Pyramid,
rock-making and Murrhine vases that turned salt water potable for the
purpose of travel on the oceans (even though it was probably still toxic)
and much more in fields like Harmonics.
Does it help present a different picture of history if we can show
motivations of trade and power developing throughout history which made it
necessary to blame the Jews for "Killing our Saviour"? Does it provide any
meaningful basis for the Roman desire to build empire that included their
British or 'Bruttii' brothers of a continuing Empire which we saw was
still part of the Rwandan crisis? We will develop these alternative views
of history and show how "the only begotten" is counter to the fulfillment
of personal potential or divine soulful nature that Jesus called "the
living father within". Good deeds will lead to salvation more than
confessionals and special dispensations given by people who get money in
return.
This hegemony of the Roman and British who were given full Roman
citizenship by Julius Caesar continued long after the Roman Empire grew
when they decided to end the participation of the people of Italy and the
Senate. The Roman Empire did not fall with the invasion of the Goths.
Where did the Ostrogoths disappear to? We will show a South American
connection. This Empire of macho attitudes was still alive and well during
the Crusades and long after the fall of the Byzantine interlopers who sold
the crown of thorns that Jesus wore. It was very much alive when James I
(the editor, who some say had eight scribes killed while refusing to
re-write the Bible his way) carried out his part of the final destruction
of the Kelts who would not kowtow to Empire.
It may even have been part of the reason why the pre Ice Age home of
the Kelts was the site of the worst genocide during the tyranny of Stalin
that some have the nerve to call communism. Yes, the Ukrainians of the
Danube and Don and the home of Gimbutas' Old Europeans are Kelts like the
Amazons found in graves all the way to the Great Wall of China.
Archaeology is our prominent proof but the esoteric and linguistic
knowledge lights our way in the annals of what we are literarily
designating as 'PRE -'his'-story. It is both a story concocted by men as
well as a story woven around the life of Jesus. His story is a key part to
what we might appropriately model our lives after, if we would pierce the
veils of propaganda. The Treaty of Tordesillas split the whole world up
between two vassals of the Vatican just after Columbus returned. His real
name was Colon and the colon - izers of colonial empires will be connected
to the Bilderbergs and Illuminati. It will take until the second volume
termed 'mysteries' before a lot of the groundwork has been established and
we can really get down to details - so please bear with us - we are
telling a story of human culture and knowledge with few boundaries.
Sir John Davies was one of the paladins of the Stuart king of England
who crafted a new Bible. The Stuart/Jacobin intrigues of war and
aristocracies are just one aspect of an interesting alternative history
that might make sense of why prejudices were fostered rather than
collective pride and joy in learning and growing as a human family. Sir
John was the Attorney General of Ireland under James I and he observed:
“There is no nation of people under the sun that doth love equal and
indifferent justice better that the Irish, or will rest better satisfied
with the execution thereof, although it be against themselves, as they may
have protection and benefit of the law when upon just cause they do
deserve it. His Master of the Court of Wards, Sir William Parsons said:
"We must change their (Irish) course of government, apparel, manner of
holding land, language and habit of life. It will otherwise be impossible
to set up in them obedience to the laws and to the English empire."
Clearly it wasn't just a racial thing because the English had already
achieved the suppression of brotherhood and freedom among the ethnic
populations under their own aristocracies. However, race was a useful tool
in the denigration and subsequent re-institution of the laws which suited
the English overlords. Ireland and its people have suffered more than just
the loss of life.
The Pope may beg "for forgiveness and renewal" as he did in 1999 while
allowing some of the heinous acts of the past two millennia to be
admitted. But there is no day care center in the Vatican or female bishop,
or even a priest who can hold her head up in the company of these MEN! In
addition to eliminating ethical laws like the Brehon Laws and making it
illegal to own a book of Irish lore or literature the Empire had to
eradicate the last vestiges of pre-'his'-story! Is this part of the reason
why the site where Kennewick Man was discovered was destroyed and covered
over (up?) despite a Congressional law about to take effect the next day?
The realm of science is similarly infected with a need to claim some
Euro-centric ascendancy of culture and learning. Our souls are capable of
awesome and miraculous deeds that we are told only Jesus could perform, or
some other sainted personage. Our very souls have been grabbed through the
ritual of hypnotic propaganda. The Pyramids are a proof of advanced
science and recent archaeological evidence brings us Peruvian Pyramids
from a century before the Egyptologists tell us the Great Pyramid was
built {or any other pyramid on Giza). This site or city is in the
mountains north of Lima, Peru and dates to 2627 BC according to an article
in The Toronto Star of May 27, 2001 titled Scientists squabble over sacred
ruins by Daniel Flynn of Reuters.
If the Peruvian remnants of Col. Churchward's MU were the main body of
the cultural missionaries called Phoenicians it would not surprise us.
There is a site of special importance shown in high precision videos of a
site off the coast of Cuba. It is 2200 feet below the surface of the
water! Here we find an urban civilization including pyramids as well. The
Reuters article on the Cuban site was not picked up by any newspapers or
other normal media, to our knowledge, when it was announced on May 14th,
2001.
At this depth it would appear a whole plateau would not sink and retain
its cohesion or integrity with mere volcanic or the erosion of underlying
limestone. Could there have been a tectonic plate or continental shift
while humans were this civilized? The Carolina Bays event which occurred
around 8350 BC may explain the similarly important Bimini finds that are
not open to inspection near the Bahamas but they are near enough to the
surface that I've seen airplanes take videos that show the megalithic
stones and roads. We are excited enough to think Fidel Castro will not
keep this under wraps and that the history of human civilizations are
going to finally become seriously considered. This too will dovetail with
what I think could be El Dorado rather than any one site of Atlantis. Yes,
the historians who once decried all legends were mere myths have been
proven wrong many times by satellite imaging and archaeology.
There are so many aspects of society that we will show common sense and
informed consumers can really do a better job than our seemingly
ever-present purveyors of propagandized pablum called expert.
Post-Modernized beliefs that all ideas and everyone’s insight have
validity are welcome to us. The academics like Professor Wiseman who
writes for Archaeology often decry and demean the 'unsubstantiated
speculation' of people like myself and Peter Lye who helps on the
research. He learned much about the hallowed halls and ivory towers of
academia as he got his degree in Classical history. This publication just
had an article all gussied up with photos of naturally occurring Sphinx
and Pyramidal structures that suggested all they are is imitations of
nature.
Every area of science from chemistry through mathematics and chaos
science will show the knowledge they seek to suppress was known to the
ancients. Alternative or wholistic medicine and psychological
neurophysiological research will contribute heavily as we run the gamut of
open-minded considerations from cold fusion to steam-aided acupuncture
with the occasional steam engine like that of the Phoenician born Thales
that some would think are anomalies.
The 'cell-diffusionists' like Campbell, Bernal and Gimbutas have become
increasingly right as more evidence rolls in. The probability of world
wide intercourse and trade is being proven in genetics such as the
Southwestern U.S. Pima Indians who have Berber blood. The professors who
hole up in academic foxholes with little real interest in knowing the joy
of discovery we feel, will not easily accept the truth. Clovis and the
Bering Bridge theory is dead since 1991 and it took National Geographic
and Scientific American until Jan/Feb 2001 to begin a more realistic look
at how long (or how important) ago all people traveled to the Americas.
Why did Archaeology Magazine choose to review an article of the same time
from Atlantic Monthly rather than these more highly credible sources? Why
were there so many articles all at once that still suggest 'no cultural
impact'?
The Atlantic Monthly article was titled ‘The Diffusionists Have Landed’
and it obviously speaks more eloquently to the possibility of cultural
impact when it presents a case for King Arthur in America. However tenable
the proof may be it went to the heart of the issue whereas the other fine
and worthwhile approaches were almost skirting the issue: but obviously if
Africans, Chinese and others have been coming along with the enigmatic
Phoenicians for up to 30,000 years we have some reason to say that the old
paradigm and Archaeology Magazine have some explaining to do. What tall
tales they will tell had better be better than the pyramids under the
Caribbean having some natural landforms to imitate.
You can decide for yourself if you choose to read the article by James
Wiseman in Archaeology magazine whether his revival of Erich von Daniken’s
Chariots Of The Gods was a scholarly hatchet-job due to Von Daniken's
status as a provider of facts who then goes beyond the pale of the merit
these facts might provide by talking about 'easy' answers like aliens. The
quote suggests "fantasy" is the nature of such possibilities when it says;
"Fantastic? Of course, but does that mean it is impossible?” (1)
Personally I enjoyed and learned a lot from von Daniken even if I
didn't accept his alien theories. He actually brings facts together from
allover the world, and many sciences, just as Thor Heyerdahl has done with
botany. On the scale of truth who is more honest? Proclamations of old
opinions based on erroneous interpretations are the stock and trade of
Prof. Wiseman when he touches on the Kensington Rune Stone in this same
article designed to deflect thinking through application of some high-falutin'
authority. The truth we will show was actually gone over in detail of the
November (before he wrote his article) meeting at the Midwest
Archaeological Conference in Minnesota. All but one of the varied experts
assembled (including chemical engineers) were of the opinion the Runestone
is authentic.
The symbols and regalia of our society include many ostentatious
representations of grandiose and sublime nature. The sceptres of the popes
and kings or their grandiloquent garb add to the effect they wish to
impact unknowledgeable people through these impressive costumes and
titles. There is no hierarchy of genetic or other type which entitles one
man to lord it over another. How can we alter the symbols we charge with
our energy and soul? The Peace symbol is a fine example of the
concentrating effect that can be created. Our leaders do not shy away from
keeping us in the dark.
Are they intent on keeping us in the dark and treating us like
mushrooms for some ulterior reason? Mushrooms thrive on manure but humans
perform better when provided firsthand information rather than manipulated
trite and false statistics that compare us against others. We must
authenticate authority and it must demonstrate a creative and loving
purpose before we entitle it to lead us into the vast horizons of creative
universe which aren’t (and never were) limited by some Malthusian economic
model. They also aren't limited by the potential to destroy us, when you
consider biotechnology, nanotechnology, mind-control, robots with human
and other biological components as well as the usual greed and power needs
of insecure deviates.
This introduction is far too specific to give much of an appreciation
for the scope of what we address in this book or the ones that follow.
Volume One: HARD, HIDDEN AND COMMON SCIENCE
ENCYCLOPEDIA SAMPLES
A:
- 'Alpha' is the easiest vowel for the physiology of man and the first
vowel our vocal chords learned or could produce according to science.
ACUPUNCTURE:
- Early application of physical components and soulful energy
that we associate with the Indian sub-continent. It is now quite accepted
by Western science and society since it works, even though we are only
beginning to understand why. MRI technology tracks the firing of brain
connections to illustrate the parts of the body which are affected when
other parts are pricked or pressured. The California medical system has
allowed elective acupuncture rather than anaesthetics for a long time and
the mortality rate is about one fourth as high for people receiving
surgical operations over the age of fifty. Sports medicine was one of the
areas that needed results and turned to acupuncture with people like Fran
Tarkenton. Yet insurers and public health programs are still mired in old
prejudices against what doctors want or perhaps because many doctors know
so little about it.
AFFINITY:
- Attraction between related things including even the harmonic
forces that pre-exist matter. String Theory tells us ‘one-dimensional
harmonic forces’ are the basic building blocks of all aspects of the
universe whether visible or not. Jean-Paul Sartre used this phrase to
describe love which is a vital part of affinity (or vice versa): "Love is
absent space."
There is research going on in the deep mine site formerly used by
International Nickel Company (INCO) in Sudbury, Canada where they have
separated muons or small cosmic particles. When one half is charged by the
research team - the other half responds the same way! Such a response must
have a vehicle for communication, could it be ESP exists with the most
basic of energy and material? Perhaps this is the 'non-force info packets'
that Tesla proposed to explain much of what has been prejudicially called
paranormal. Here is a response of mine to a debate in a quantum physics
forum which I belong to.
Dear Xojo and Twister
First of all, can I post this initial thread elsewhere?
I think the words are part of the problem for some people, but let me
try to put into words what I think we are all saying (except Don, who is a
nay-sayer that challenged me to explain what the physicists were saying)
here.
In the beginning there was energy in dimensions that the
astrophysicists tell us had the properties of hot and cold which came into
proximity or shared space. There may be other properties in the primordial
cosmic soup but they say this conjunction of energy lead to the creation
of matter.
They also say that Dark Matter and Dark Energy constitute 95% of the
energy in our known universe and that it is returning to a state of Dark
Matter gradually over the next trillion or more years, but I think that
depends on creative forces which are as yet not even contemplated in their
model which may have been existent in the lattices and inter-relationships
of that primordial soup which continue to operate according to laws or
principles we are on the verge of understanding.
Dr. Don Robins tells us the macrochips of megalithic time on earth
actually contain -and presumably their builders understood - much of this
lattice attunement knowledge. He is a Doctor of Solid State Physics and
has developed and invented workable equipment in the thermoluminescence
field which archaeology now uses. He sees this 'chasm' across which we
must travel to regain this knowledge.
That knowledge is in the Harmonic structures of all energy and it has
principles inclusive of the ability to communicate as the two muons
separated were demonstrated to show while shielded from all other energy
in the deep nickel mines of Sudbury Ontario.
How this communication occurs is something I call affinity which
operates on the basic building blocks of all energy and matter that String
Theory says is a 'one dimensional harmonic force'. There is a universal
constant of light in harmonic but that word constant is a weasel word.
Yes, we can mathematically formulate for observations and predictions
through that fine use of pure language called math but there are some
elements or variables not yet understood to the full nature of the
purposeful design in our reality. Purposeful design - loaded words - YES!
Why not? Think along these lines, if you will let yourself take a trip
on the light fantastic as I often did in the 60s and 70s while these
things were uppermost in my mind. Dark Matter and Energy had nothing doing
for billions or trillions of years but they had the inter-connections of
these affinite communications. The interplay of these energies wore out
what could be likened to neural paths as there was no real change - this
is what happens in our brains when we do not grow too. But across these
lines or lanes of energy transference there were attractions and
repulsions of the magnetic sort, which of course still occurs.
The design built or grew and the awareness of what was non-affinite
grew. The 'other' energy reached out or responded (YOUR word 'response' is
born) and it became a principle of the five motions including mass which
is at the dross level of what is seen.
If affinity is just one of the laws of nature in the harmony of the
spheres as Shakespeare might have described it, there are many evidences
for this Purposeful Design or what is called Intelligent Design. Here is a
little part of the synchronicity all around us from the Washington Post
and New Scientist.
“A New Science Looks at Things in Sync
By LOUIS JACOBSON
The Washington Post
[...] Synchrony appears throughout the natural world. It is most
obvious in schools of fish turning suddenly in unison, or birds wheeling
through the sky in formation, or in the perfectly timed chirping of
crickets. At Elkmont, for two to three weeks every June, groupings of
hundreds of male fireflies flash together four to eight times, with a
brief pause between flashes. Then the flashing stops for six to 10 seconds
before the cycle begins once again. The display starts at dusk and lasts
for hours. [...]
‘It's a theme you see a lot in biology,’ Strogatz says, and not just in
birds and fish and crickets. Heart cells beat in synchrony; women who live
or work together may find their menstrual cycles coinciding due to subtle
chemical communications, and certain kinds of cicadas emerge in unison
every 17 years. Odder still is the synchronous behavior often seen in
inanimate systems: lasers, electrical grids, quantum mechanics, flows of
automobile traffic. [...]
‘Mindless things can synchronize by the millions,’ Strogatz says. ‘It
doesn't take a mind, or even have to be alive. Simple laws could lead to
groups being in sync. It's counterintuitive, because the usual thinking
was that things get more disordered over time.’ [...]” (1)
ALCHEMY:
- The origins of alchemy and hermetics are hotly contested among
scholars. There are many non-alchemists who like to regard it as having
begun in 200 AD. David V. Barrett wrote 'Secret Societies' after his time
with the British Secret Service doing a job similar to what Aleister
Crowley performed for the Allies during WWII. He is one of those people
who want us to think they are really new to science. He doesn't mention
much about Crowley's work for MI-6 and certainly doesn't try to
rehabilitate Crowley’s image. It is important to note that Barrett freely
admits he honors the Official Secrets Act in his life and the writing of
this book.
"Alchemy, 'the Royal Art', has always been a mixture of the scientific
and the spiritual. Both the ancient Egyptian alchemists and their
Renaissance descendants were actually chemists - and physicians, and
astronomers, and mathematicians, physicists, botanists and biologists -
all within the terms of their own day. Those who carelessly dismiss them
as deluded or fraudulent magicians should remember that they were, in
effect, the first scientists. They were the first ones to discover that a
polished lens of glass could focus the light of the Sun to a hot, burning
point, or could magnify what is seen through it {Which would make them
around in La Venta, Mexico a very long time before he thinks, according to
recent archaeological discoveries.}. They were the ones who studied
physiology, and who worked out, sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly, how
the human body worked, and what the various parts of it were for. They
were the ones who studied plants, and learned which ones were beneficial
and which poisonous, and which lethal ones could, in tiny doses, heal.
{I agree, and that would make them around with their shaman brothers in
the very ancient past long before the Ice Age before the last one. But, he
is not saying this except through my interpretation.}
If they also believed in the influence of the planets, and in the four
elements, and in the humors, which cause modern scientists to smile
condescendingly, such beliefs did not hold back their quest for scientific
knowledge; indeed, there is plenty of evidence to show that they actually
stimulated this pursuit of knowledge. If the alchemists used
classification systems which today are seen as invalid, at least they were
using classification systems - and, within their own terms, these worked.
In short, they studied the world within their current world-view, which
is no different from what the great nineteenth-century chemists and
physicists did {Or their current soul-mates who were called 'atom-mysticists'
- the quantum theorists.}, or what scientists of today do. A 'difference
does' exist, however, in that today's rigid professional stratification
did not exist in medieval and Renaissance times, except in the craftsmen's
guilds. Scientists then were also priests, monks, philosophers, poets,
artists.
Two of the greatest teachers of the thirteenth century, Albertus Magnus
(1193-1280) and Roger Bacon (1214-92) were both monks and scientists {It
was safer than being out of the church if you wanted to beat the heresy
trials and 'staked' your purpose in life to something more than fire.}.
Albertus was a Dominican who, despite his magical researches and his
lifetime studying Aristotle {Who is someone he should also regard as an
alchemist, and few actually do outside of the hermetic circles. More on
all of these things and people later.}, rose to become a bishop {He didn't
have the money to become Pope like the de Medici's.}. Bacon, was a
Franciscan, is credited with inventing eye-glasses and the 'scientific
method' (i.e. personal observation of phenomena rather than simply
accepting the received wisdom of authority), and spent the last fourteen
years of his life in a dungeon for his supposed heresies. Depending on the
source, both are credited with owning a speaking brazen head; Thomas
Aquinas {The Thomists in the Catholic church of today are still the
majority, I hear. He incorporated the teaching of Aristotle into Catholic
dogma and became a Saint.}, who studied under Albertus, is said to have
smashed the head because it disturbed his studies.
{There are other stories, to be sure. Including a more believable one
that has Aquinas being inspired enough by the Inquisitor's questions, to
claim it was 'the talking-head of Jesus'. What Divine Inspiration, it is
the equal of Constantine and Augustine, almost. This head would be a
scryring skull; and others have it, that they had built a homonunclus.}
Another important name of the period is that of Ramon Lull (1232-1315)
a Spanish philosopher who encountered both the Spanish Cabalists
{Sephardic Jews that I think are more appropriately called Kaballists.}
and the mystical Muslims of northern Spain. Lull drew together the
teachings of the ninth-century Irish scholar John Scotus Erigena {Means
Irish-born, and he is greatly admired by Bertrand Russell in his book on
Western Philosophy.}, the concept of the four elements {Even older than
Aristotle - by FAR!} (earth, water, fire and air) and their qualities (dry
and cold, cold and moist, hot and dry, and hot and moist), the seven
planets and twelve zodiacal signs {We shall see are in Bahamas undersea
caverns long before Christ - who never claimed to be the 'Chriost'.} of
astrology, the three spheres (supercelestial, the realm of the angels;
celestial, the realm of the stars; and material, the realm of man), the
Jewish and Muslim emphasis on the Divine Names (or Attributes) of God, and
much more besides, into one complex system known as Lullian Art,…” (2)
You can easily see why it takes an Encyclopaedia to be able to follow
what is going on from just this little quote. There are many twists and
turns to follow in the pursuit of knowledge and its power that has been
the purpose of many secret agencies since 'his'-story began. Even before
the records of history that extend (by way of stones and symbols) to the
beginnings of man's thoughts. These beginnings did not start with language
due to some God-given gift and they did not need alphabets or other form
and structure such as Locke's 'tabula rasa' would have us believe. Here we
see the Jewish and Muslim as well as Catholic myth-makers were involved in
cryptic or coded information. It is important to remember that the Islamic
people didn't have as complete a 'Dark Ages' destruction of knowledge
despite the efforts of Caliph Omar. Hermes Trismegistus is reckoned by
many to have been the cause celebré or namesake of Hermetics and yet
Barrett would have us believe he and his work did not exist until the
Catholic Churchians had developed Hermeneutics. Talk about 'revisionist
history' or Hellenized plagiarization!
"Hermes Trismegistus
There is considerable doubt as to when the works of Hermes Trismegistus
were written, but it is certain that no one person by that name ever
existed. The name means Hermes the thrice-greatest, Hermes being the Greek
God of the spoken word - the 'logos' - identified with Mercury, the winged
messenger God of the Romans, and with Thoth, the Egyptian God of writing,
itself a magical activity not understood by the common man {Emphasis
added.}.(Note that Mercury - both the astrological planet and the liquid
metal - was of supreme importance in alchemy.) Thoth was the historian,
and the creator of the all-important calendar by which not only history,
but the movement of the Sun, Moon and stars could be measured. {Marshack
is a well-respected authority and has proven a 15-30,000+ year old
calendar of great precision existed in the Iberian region of Portugal.} As
the scribe of the Gods Thoth was the custodian of all knowledge. Knowledge
is power; knowledge known only to the few is even more so. Under the
intermingling of philosophers and religious scholars of different cultures
{Read propagandists or myth-makers}, Thoth/Hermes became the God of
esoteric knowledge and power. A priest, philosopher or magician whose
works were ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, was the human amanuensis of
the Gods.
Whoever or how many people 'he' was {If Moses, then it would have
involved his sister Mariae, who has alchemic treatises intact and credited
to her, it might mean 'he' is a 'she'.}, Hermes Trismegistus was the
author of what became known as the Hermetic texts, or the 'Corpus
Hermeticum', a vast amount of writing on esoteric religion. (The complete
'Corpus Hermeticum' in English translation fills three large volumes.) {We
will see more factual reference to thirteen.}
It was thought at one time that Hermes Trismegistus lived at around the
time of Pythagoras, or perhaps of Moses; references in the Hermetic texts
to the teachings of Jesus {Iesa would have been the original name in
another language. Jesus of Nazareth was named after this concept of the
sun [son] and 'Brotherhood of Man'.} were believed to be prophetic
foreshadowings of these great truths. {If Jesus studied to find discipline
and truth 'within' 'the living father' so should everyone. Thus the idea
of an easy and accessible, by 'special dispensations’ and confessions type
of 'Salvation' would not have such credibility or market acceptance.
Pardon my coarse use of business terms to apply to the effort of these
'religious scholars' who like to be thought of as having 'Divine
Inspiration'.} Later scholarship, however, has shown that the 'Corpus
Hermeticum' was written sometime in the first five centuries AD, largely
in Egypt, as a fusion of Greek and Egyptian esoteric teachings.
{But Michael Grant, in his well-respected 'The Rise of the Greeks'
makes note that the cult of Thoth/Hermes and its equivalent 'Imhotep/Asklepios'
was the main intellectual belief during the time of Pythagoras. Others
know Pythagoras as a Therapeutae ['Dead Sea Scrolls Deception' by Baigent
and Leigh, as well as Rabbis galore.] which is the origin of the Essenes
that Gardner tells us are an outgrowth of 'The Great White (not racial)
Brotherhood of Master Craftsmen'. The real answer is far more ancient, as
we shall see, but for now it is important for you to know these things at
a minimum, in order to judge what is being said.}
The Hermetic texts were known to Islamic scholars in medieval times,
but it did not come to the attention of the West until they were
translated into Latin in 1471 {There are others who even dispute this
date. How did Albertus, Aquinas and Bacon get their knowledge? etc.} by
the Italian Marsilio Ficino. The texts included works on religion,
philosophy, magic, medicine, alchemy and astrology, all of which were
closely linked. They include among many others the 'Emerald Tablet', or 'Tabula
Smaragdina', which begins with the saying usually shortened to 'As Above,
so below', {There is a great book of recent date by this name in New Age
bookstores. Barrett uses the Dictum of Hermes Trismegistus on his back
cover flap as it is taken from Macoy's 'General History, Cyclopedia and
Dictionary of Freemasonry', 1850.} and which discusses the Philosopher's
Stone; 'Poimandres', 'The Good Shepherd', a Gnostic text about the
infinite light of God, and man's journey to enlightenment, and the
'Perfect Sermon of Asclepius {A variant of Asklepios which was mentioned
before.} which speaks of the divine Unity above a hierarchy of spiritual
beings, and of man, who possesses both body an spirit, having a divine
nature." (3)
Thus you see the 'living father within' that Jesus taught about; and
even Barrett admits the 'Source' of the teaching of Jesus is the Grail
which has a lot to do with the Dag (or Nag) Hammadi 'finds’. These were
deciphered from Coptic in 1971 and I highly recommend 'The Gospel of
Thomas'. So the 'churchians' in hot pursuit of this knowledge the Gnostics
hid in protective urns when they were defending Alexandria's Library
through four attacks, also wanted to keep people 'ignorant'. Jesus did
not! The Cathars were later genocidally dealt with in a Crusade. This IS
serious business, and it was not long ago that anyone speaking such things
would be the victim of 'Blasphemy Laws' (ended in 1951 in England) or
worse. I can attest to major problems in my own life despite our apparent
freedoms; but this is not the forum for such digressions.
It is important to deal with his assertion that Islamic scholars 'in
medieval times' knew hermetics or alchemy. He seems to suggest in a
back-handed way that there was no earlier date for these things even in
the relatively free Islamic world. This is a lot like the 'flat earth' and
a host of other fictions that seek to minimize knowledge before the
obvious Empire-builders had destroyed the egalitarian (Gaian or
matriarchal in some cases) truth, of even better times. Better than any
yet achieved, not just better than Greeks who made an art of slavery and
Romans who the Greeks correctly called 'barbarians'.
Forensic analysis is the science and art of detective work. It comes in
handy to have been an owner of a Public Relations firm (after being an
auditor) for twelve years as I wade through the possibilities of
'spin-doctoring' at work by the Bible Exegesists. They sometimes call
themselves hermeneuts or other high-falutin' names that would get any bum
a coffee, and some change. Here is the real perspective of the Arab
scholars from a highly credible Encyclopedia from 1996:
"THE SOURCES OF ALCHEMY AMONG THE ARABS
Pythagoras is often mentioned in Arabic philosophy and in gnomic
literature. Jaldake calls him 'al-mu' lallim al-awival' because he
acquired the science from hermetic texts.
SOCRATES {Teacher of Plato and Aristotle, also mentioned as an
alchemist in Mark Haeffner's 'Dictionary of Alchemy along with these same
people. Yet no anthology of Aristotle in my local library mentions his 'Secretum
Secretorum'.}
Socrates is considered not only as a wise man but also as an alchemist
{HIS teacher Archelaos was too.}. Jabir calls him 'the father and mother
of all philosophers' and considers him as the prototype of the real
chemist. From Socrates to Jabir, there is a continuous tradition which
attributes entire treatises to him {All kept from unwarranted viewers.}.
Jabir affirms that Socrates was opposed to writing down of alchemic
knowledge to avoid its exposition to the ignorance of the masses. Most
references to Socrates refer to his arithmetical speculations (theory of
balance) and also to artificial generation {Homonunclus to be covered more
later.}.
PLATO
In reference to his book the 'Liber Quartorum' he says: 'The contents
of this book are mainly alchemic but it contains also information on
geometry, physiology and astrology. The ancient authors cited are
Aristotle, Ptolemy, Hipparchus, Proclus, the Sophists {Not alchemists and
too open about their knowledge for the liking of Socrates who compared
them to prostitutes who sell their beauty for money.}, Ostanes, Hermes,
Asclepius and Hippocrates
ARISTOTLE
He wrote a book on alchemy for his disciple Alexander… It includes
three chapters (l) About the great principles of alchemy; (2) Alchemic
operations; (3) The elixir. Pythagoras, Democritus, Asclepiades, Hermes,
Plato, Ostanes, and Balinās are mentioned in the text. We also have a
dialogue between Aristotle and the Indian Yūhīn sent by the Indian king as
messenger to Alexander...
Zosimus and his contemporaries {Third century AD. much after these
others, and in line with what Barrett says.} who collected their
predecessors' traditions insist on their connections with the Egypt of the
Pharoahs or with the Persia of Zoroastra and Ostanes. We can find texts
under the name of Agathodaiman compared with Hermes. Some written pieces
even say that alchemic texts were engraved in hieroglyphs on steles
{Stones that could be rubbed with charcoal and parchment would pick up the
symbols and formulas - thus ancient libraries.) but it was absolutely
forbidden to divulge them.
HERMES AND HERMETIC LITERATURE
According to Ibn al-Nadim (351, 19) Arab alchemists considered the
Babylonian Hermes as the first one to have mentioned the art of alchemy.
Exiled by his countrymen, he came to Egypt where he became king {Guilds
and knowledge were prerequisites to achieve high office in ancient times,
for example the Tuatha de Danaan leader - Lugh.}. He wrote a certain
number of books on alchemy and was equally interested in the hidden forces
of nature.
The 'Fihrist' gives a list of thirteen books of Hermes about alchemy
but in fact some of them are about magic." (4)
At the very least we can be assured that someone knows alchemists
weren't hermits hiding in caves working on making manure into gold. That
is the way many books and even Time/Life Video portrays them. They called
Carl Jung an alchemist as well. That may be, in some definitions of the
word; but I never read where Jung thought of himself in that manner even
though he wrote a book on Psychology and Alchemy. His interest was more in
the archetypal primordial symbology, and the truth aspects of it. If we
were to accept Jung as an alchemist, then all Masons or at least the high
level ones in Rosicrucianism are alchemists. It is true that some of the
attendees at Eranos were alchemists and that Jung was a hermeticist, I
suppose. It is not an easy title to throw around and I have been a student
of these things for many years, but still wouldn't call myself an
alchemist and certainly not a Spagyricist.
Many of the items and people mentioned will be dealt with as we proceed
but there are many others who have traveled this awesome road in pursuit
of something less than what is right. Personally I agree with Mr. Barrett
about no one person being able to truly know so much. The
'Thrice-greatest' appellation is either psychopompous braggadocio or a
guise to mislead. The Three laws of the magi require intense study and two
would likely be the maximum that anyone has actually achieved unless we
are to go back to the designer of the Great Pyramid. The application of
all knowledge that exists in that one monument is beyond the perception of
all but a few writers, among the hundreds of thousands who hold forth on
its meaning.
It would be interesting if the Russians really did have the
'Philosopher's Stone' that some claim they are selling under the name of
'Red Mercury'. Atomic research is only one way of getting this kind of
knowledge and I believe it requires spiritual knowledge and attunement as
well. This perception is shared by alchemists who I have befriended, and
by Rosicrucian inner sanctum people who think highly of my knowledge in
the area. Paracelsus was a prodigy in the field and I have his formula for
making the 'Stone'. It would not avail me any good to try to make it,
unless I had prepared myself in the manner attributed to Jesus as he spent
forty days in the desert without food and water. For esoteric scholars who
have not traveled any distance along the path towards such attunements it
makes little sense for them to comment on alchemy. Israel Regardie was
Aleister Crowley's personal secretary and he wrote books on the subject as
well as an educational approach from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
(HOGD). In his book 'The Philosopher's Stone' he said the whole meaning
was metaphoric for a spiritual transmutation only. Twenty-some years later
when he did a reprint, he knew better.
He had seen the transmutation of metals and an actual 'Stone' in Salt
Lake City. As Sir Isaac Newton said in his book, the 'Principiae
Mathematica' - 'this is much more than I should give, but much less than
there is!' Intellect will provide a great deal but there are other aspects
of our 'Triune Nature' (such as the soul) that provide even more. Beyond
that there is the 'collective' nature of all soulfulness beyond even human
soulfulness. There are adepts outside of what is called alchemy that have
achieved great things in these areas and they are alchemists before
Newton, or Da Vinci, who all experts know were alchemists. For any author
or journalist who would produce a TV documentary on the subject and not
even interview a hermeticist (much less an alchemist) it is obvious their
intent was not to educate.
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