Кто Санта-Клаус, на самом деле?!:)
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oio11Re: "Алиас St. Nick '
Мэтью Белл
Джим с Брендоном
автор Weird Америки
и Возрождение Pan
Как дневного света истощается и даже холод осени начинает казаться нам теплую память, мы окружать со всех сторон плохие новости. От безжалостных Центров по контролю и профилактике заболеваний паникерства гриппа на неоднократные предупреждения о неизбежной угрозе экономической катастрофы - на этом, 100 - й "день рождения" год Федеральной резервной системы - мы, кажется, заражен ужасной "сезонного аффективного расстройства. "для того, чтобы поместить его менее клинически, наши духи флаг и ледяные пальцы зимы простираются от их полярного оплот затянуть их сцепление на нашей коллективной шее. О, "... [г] есмотря! Отсрочка и успокоительное ... ". [1] Раздражение гонит вопрос:" Господи, к кому нам идти " [2]
Когда, "что наши удивленными глазами должны появиться" , но находящихся под угрозой исчезновения видов архитектурной бурлеска, современный собор потребительства , что является торговый центр.
Сотни несчастных карабкаться внутри. В каждом сердце есть надежда обмена комок быстро обесцениванию наличных денег для всего лишь немного вкуса Рождественское приветствие.
Но, Ло! Кто это посреди этого суетящимся, безмятежно восседающего, на броской кресле, в показной яркий рубиново-красный наряде?
В "нормальных" условиях, по- видимому , такая ужасная мода чувственности предупредит стиле сознательных Mavens 21 - го Америки - вечный наличие психического расстройства. Тотчас начнется предсказуемый процесс социального остракизму - перемежается, пожалуй, с 50000 вольт трещит вперед от Taser некоторой возбудимой новобранец полиции или прокат коп зарядной вперед к красной угрозы , как разъяренный бык после Мулета .
Здесь, однако, среди окружает этого пышно украшенных Галериа, фигура Одетые в блестящей алого и белоснежный наряд имеет все животное очарование живого магниту. Толпа разбросано вокруг него, замирает - как кусочки железа, замороженных под невидимым влиянием огромного красного магнита.
А дети - как они толпятся открытое пространство! Каждая крошечная форма медленно и неумолимо тянет в сторону весёлый толстяк, как обреченного маленькой планете, пойманной в гравитационном поле красного гиганта. Наиболее примечательно то, при ударе, они проливают их маленькие кишки, некоторые рыдала дико, а другие шепчут тайные желания на ухо этого незнакомца!
Является ли это последним в заявке Агентства гнусных Surveillance, чтобы следить за американцев? Является ли это какой-то секретный агент, маскируясь о, надевая эту абсурдную маскировку и поднося под вымышленным именем? Это современный пересказ вековой истории о волке собирается на охоту в овечьей шкуре?
Нет! Это Санта-Клаус, конечно. Алиас Kris Крингл. [3] Алиас Рождество Отца. [4] Алиас ... Saint Nick! Так проверить это как "веселый старый эльф," является cartoonized в хищного кота лижет его отбивные над восхитительных мышей - или детишкам? -.. от Санта-скептиков в MGM в начале 1935 года, как (Вы, возможно, потребуется увеличивать громкость немного на этом Кроме того, не забудьте проверить сноску, чтобы увидеть, что эти люди в кино делали в своей собственной студии рождественские праздники Взрослые только, пожалуйста!) [5]
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Кто Санта-Клаус, на самом деле?
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Консалтинг популярный источник Wikipedia, один узнает о уточненного происхождении Санта-Клауса в голландской фигуре меченого синтаклаас. Предположительно бастардизация Синт Nikolass ( "Святой Николай"), синтаклаас , как утверждается, ссылка на 3 - й -4 - го века епископ Ликиэн назвал Николай Мирликийский. [6]
Хорошо известный 19 - го века новеллист, Вашингтон Ирвинг, включал сюрреалистический виньетки в его Истории Нью - Йорка (1812 г. изд.), Причудливую псевдо-истории голландских поселенцев в Нью - Йорке впервые опубликован на Николы День в 1809 году, что изображен святой Николай взлетая. [7]
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( "Святой Николай во славе," Лоренцо Лотто (1529). [8] )
Согласно этой версии, наш любимый Санта-Клауса, таким образом, как говорят, шестнадцать сотен лет возврат к реальной жизни христианского святого человека со склонностью к возмутительной великодушия - ярким примером которых участвуют, как история идет, мешками золота делая их веселыми пути вниз дымоход [9] (на которых более ниже), традиционно "углу дьявола" в европейском фольклоре, экономя три гроша дев из жизни унизительной блуда.
Кажется, что возведен на трон в наших торговых центрах щедрости персонифицируется: старый добрый сам Ник (или разумное факсимиле от него).
Или это?
Некоторые утверждают , что есть что - то зловещее скрывается под этими классическими чертами Санта. [10] Вы знаете , те , которые мы имеем в виду. Как было предусмотрено theologian- диплом -poet, Клемент Кларк Мур (или это мог быть Генри Ливингстон, младший?), И популяризировал, сначала открытки пионер Луи Пранг в конца века Америки, а затем и Coca-Cola компания в обширных рекламных кампаний в течение 1930-х годов, мы ссылаемся на эти мерцающие глаза, румяные щеки, вишневый нос, рот чудной, снег, как борода, и пухлый живот.
Является ли это лицо зла?
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Gadshill: "Sirrah, если они встречаются не с клерками Святого Николая, я дам тебе эту шею."
Чемберлен: "Нет, я не буду ни один из них: Я прошу тебя держать , что для палача; ибо я знаю , ты worshippest святой Николай , как по- настоящему , как человек фальши может ". [11]
Рассмотренный как анаграммы, буквы его имени - A - N - T - A, могут быть перестроены , чтобы сформировать собственное имя сатаны. [12] Этот пункт был сделан особенно памятно на живого персонажа в субботу ночью, церковь Богоматери ( Дана Карви).
Could it Be.....
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"Церковь Леди: Привет, Я Церковь леди, и это 'Церковь чат. Ну, вы знаете, сезон отпусков прибыл. И с ним, немного письмо из Толедо, штат Огайо. Давайте прочитаем, что мы будем?
"[Чтение] 'Дорогая Церковь леди: Я шокирован количеством людей , которые приводят своих детей к общему количеству незнакомых людей в районе Санта - костюмы, и позволяют им прочно удерживать свои молодые на своих тазовых регионах, предлагают им конфеты и шёпот, Дон' бойся сказать мне , что вы действительно хотите! Что вызывает эту массовую истерию? Подпись, Элейн.
"Ну, Элейн, давайте рассмотрим слово« Санта », мы должны? [Держит доску с "Санты прописана через него в съемных букв] Санта. Давайте посмотрим, что мы имеем здесь? У нас есть S и A, н, Т, а другой А. Хм .. [переставляет буквы] Кто мог бы вызывать все эти круги, чтобы подпрыгивать вверх и вниз с любопытством? Кто бы помочь взрослые мужчины очистить фокус от младенца Иисуса на его день рождения? Кто это может быть, я просто не знаю. Может быть .. [эхо] Сатана?!?! [Буквы Теперь пишется сатаной '] " [13]
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Существует гораздо больше. "Старые добрые" Сент - Ник "кличка эхо популярной кличкой для самого дьявола: Old Nick. Интернет Морфологические словарь рассказывает , что это использование "Ника" была на месте "... от 1640 - х годов" , добавив , что "... причина этого неясна." [14]
Терри Гиллиам включает этот целеуказатель в его нечетной 2009 Флик, Воображариум доктора Парнаса. В противном случае известный как злополучной "Joker" -actor последнем фильме Хита Леджера (он умер на полпути через съемок), дьявол-герой Гиллиама называется "Mr. Ник."
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Этот зловещий ток в традиции Санта имеет некоторые тревожные синхронистичности. Рассмотрим, например, печально известный - и до сих пор нерешенной - убийство шести-летней девочки, JonBenet Рэмси.
Основные контуры инцидента довольно широко представлена следующим образом. 26 декабря 1996 года бездыханное тело "красота театрализованного принцессы" был обнаружен в подвале дома своей семьи в Боулдере, штат Колорадо. Ее дата смерти теперь дается как Рождество.
Кроме того, родители ребенка, Джона и Пэтси Рэмси, многочисленные подозреваемые были предложены. Одним из таких кандидатов был: "Уильям" Билл "Макреинолдс, отставной Университет Колорадо профессор журналистики , который получил нежелательную известность как человек , который играл в Санкт - Ник [15] . Для семьи JonBenet Рэмси ..." [16]
"Макреинолдс и его жена Джанет, оба пришли под каким-нибудь пристального внимания в качестве потенциальных подозреваемых ..., не только потому, что он был в доме незадолго до убийства JonBenet, но и потому, что полиция обнаружила две жуткие параллели между жизнью в McReynold в и детали из Рэмси дело.
"С одной стороны, было обнаружено, что дочь Макреинолдс, плюс еще одна молодая девушка, когда-то были похищены в Лонгмонте [, Колорадо, северо-востоку от Боулдер] неизвестным assailment. Вторая девушка была приставал. Макреинолдс девочка, 9 в то время, не было. Оба были освобождены в течение нескольких часов. Дата инцидента был 26 декабря 1974 - 22 лет [17] в день до открытия убийства JonBenet в.
"Кроме того, полиция узнала , что Джанет Макреинолдс написал пьесу в 1977 году, Эй Рьюба, [18] на основе 1965 пытками убийства в Индиане или подростковом возрасте девочки , которая - как JonBenet. - Был найден мертвым в подвале" [ 19]
Что касается реальной жизни, кажущееся похищение своей дочери, Джанет Макреинолдс сообщила, что похититель "... имел изменение сердца. Он плакал и сказал: "Дьявол заставил меня сделать это." Он водил девушек обратно к краю города и освободил их. " [20]
Хотя сам синтаклаас обычно брошено как «... защитника детей", [21] агрессия в отношении детей является компонентом в знаниях синтаклаас в «помощника». [22] В этом ключе, мы должны изучить голландской традиции, периодически денонсировал от предсказуемых кварталов как «расист» изображать синтаклаас с "темным помощником." Названный Zwarte Пита, то есть "Черный Пит," Загадочная фигура, который теперь выполняет безобидные такие задачи, как бросание сладостей ( snoepgoed ) к детишки после того , как выполняется более антагонистическими роли наказания ne'er делать лунки. [23]
" 'Синтерклаас' едет из Испании на лодке, в сопровождении своей белой лошади и маневренный мавританский раба под названием" Черный Питер ". ... Для озорной, нет ничего. И совсем плохо, ужасная судьба ждет, как Блэк Питер ищет их в ночное время, даже если они пытаются скрываться под кроватью. Когда он находит их, он запихивает их в холщовый мешок и тащит их обратно в Испанию, где они тонут в чернильницу или нуля в перце ". [24]
По некоторым свидетельствам, Черный Пит обязан своим темным цветом на то, что он и не особенно синтаклаас, получает вход в различных домах путем их сажей подкладке дымоходов. Есть башенных наставничества с Тором (см ссылку выше [25] ) и Гарри Поттер, как недавно показано в нескольких блокбастерах, а также с заклятым масон, Джон Теофил Desaguliers, который, помимо того , что великий мастер Гранд Ложа Англии и раннего дня ученого, а также занялся изучением дымовых труб. [26]
Chim Chim Cher-ee - Mary Poppins (Dick Van Dyke)
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Возможно, как Клейтон Л. Райт игриво представил в своей сатирической "Масонская Рождественская открытка":
"..." Почему Санта! крикнул он и опустил лезвие, | "Я вижу, что ты масоном! Тайлер ретранслируется | ... Украшенный как мастер, в комплекте со знаком | Из 'Lodge номер один, Северный полюс "на одной линии! ... ". [27]
"Сажа" , в свою очередь, этимологически связано с мифическим египетского повелителя хаоса, множество. Даже о самом Санкт-Ник, мы читаем в упомянутом выше стихотворении, "Визит Святого Николая" (ныне более известный под названием, взятым от его открытия линии, "Однажды ночью перед Рождеством"):
"... Он был одет во все меха, от его головы к его ноге | И его одежда была вся запятнана с пеплом и сажей ... ». [28]
Это описание, по-видимому действует в Санта-художественных работах карикатуриста Томас Наст, чья ранняя живописания иконе Рождества был больше похож на смуглого дымоход спелеолог, Пит, чем безупречном красный подходит парень мы думаем сегодня. Некоторые исследователи Санта таким образом были привело к предположению , что Санта может быть кусок с Big Foot или скандинавской дикарей. [29]
Ordo Templi Orientis оккультист Кеннет Грант делает заманчивую комментарий, касающийся слово "копоти" ( что означает черный) , что "[о] Ур слово« копоть »производный от этого несоизмеримо древнее название [Set]. Набор был изначальным богом египтян; не ранее , существует в записанном истории нынешней человеческой расы ". [30]
"В средневековой иконографии, святой Николай иногда представляется как приручение прикован дьявола, который может или не может быть черным ."
Что это древнеегипетский магическое имя, или, вернее, его производная, делая в стихотворении о Рождестве? Является ли Черный Питу приручили дьявол? Пользуется ли Санкт - Ник владычество над демонической области , как , видимо , и другие символы , такие как Санкт - Дунстан и Санкт - Elegius? [31]
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Или еще хуже, может дело быть сделано , что Санта - Клаус не что иное , как черный Пит, сам дьявол? Эти и многие другие вопросы прижимаются на внимательных культурных наблюдателей.
Помимо типографских ошибок и потенциально нерасполагающим тенор евангельской "preachiness," внушительное резюме подлого доказательств против Санта можно прочитать на веб - странице Терри Уоткинса, в " Санта - Клаус: Великий самозванец " . [32]
Кроме того, северная обитель Санта имеет зловещие символический подтекст. "И сказал мне Господь : от севера откроется бедствие вперед на всех жителей земли." [33]
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Проницательный космологическая писатель Дэвид Тэлбот, видел вещи с точки зрения сатурновых:
"В древнем ритуале Сатурн предстает как неподвижности Солнца или центрального огня на северном полюсе мира. Когда Сатурн правили миром, его дом был вершиной мировой оси: с этой точки все основные традиции великого отца [Сатурн, [34] по его мнению] согласен. Даже сегодня, в нашем праздновании Рождества, мы живем под влиянием полярного Сатурна. Ибо , как отмечает Мэнли П. Холл, "Сатурн, старик , который живет на Северном полюсе, и приносит с собой сынов человеческих веточку вечнозеленых (Рождественская елка), знаком маленьких людей под именем Санта - Клаус " . [35]
Франкмасонского авторитет Альберт Макки, пишущий в своей важной Энциклопедии масонства, объясняет , что: "Север Masonically называется местом тьмы. ... Восток был местом ежедневного рождения солнца, и, следовательно, весьма почитаемый; на севере место его ежегодной смерти, к которому он подошел только потерять свою потрясающую тепло, и облечь землю в темноте долгие ночи и скукой зимы. " [36]
Это суждение, возможно, подтверждается как еврейской и христианской традиционной символике, по словам летописцев. В первом случае , "[а] огласно к [ранней каббалистической] книга Бахир, к северу обитель зла; и сатана, принцип искушения и зла приходит с севера ». [37] В последнем случае , на севере постоять" ... область Люцифера и силами зла ... ». [38]
Святой Августин , как сообщается, прямо заявил: ". Дьявол имеет свою обитель на Севере" [39]
Если не дьявол, то кто он? [40] Разве мы проходим слишком быстро по возможности того, что Санкт - Ник привидение или правительство действует какой - то? Кажется, что мандат Санта действительно включает наблюдение.
"... Он видит тебя, когда ты спишь | Он знает, когда ты не спишь | Он знает, что, если ты был плохим или хорошим | Так что быть хорошим ради бога! | Так! Вы лучше следить ... " [41]
Как, скажите на милость, делает Санта "знать" вещи такого рода? Есть ли у него возможность удаленно активировать наши веб-камеры и сотовые микрофоны? Ну, это было направленность поп - музыки сатирик Рэй Стивенс в его веселый 70 - ых пародия, Санта - Клаус Watchin 'Вы [еще доступны как MP3 от Amazon] , в котором старина чувак действительно глава ЦРУ, и слежка боль в приклад к практически всем.
"Абсурд! Как ты смеешь? ", Вы говорите?
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Необходимо учитывать, здесь, тот факт , что в "полете" 2013 Санта от Северного полюса [42] будет - от взлета до окончательной посадки - находиться под контролем (с оперативной точки зрения), североамериканским командования воздушно - космической обороны, иначе известный как объединенное командование ПВО североамериканского континента
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После того , как гордые жители тринадцати подземных люксов глубоко в сердце этого примы synchromystic ориентир, Шайенн Маунтин (Колорадо), который прославился в 1983 WarGames кино, в эти дни NORAD занимает скромные кварталы, внутри Питер сына Air Force Base на восток от Колорадо - Спрингс , Что касается Шайенн Маунтин, гораздо позже , но сейчас, думаю , Stargate ...
В любом случае, военные попали в крышевание Санта назад, когда NORAD был известен как континентального командования ПВО (Conad). Одна роковая Рождество еще в 1955 году, в том же году, что доктор Эмметт Браун "первый" проверил его теперь известный "конденсатор потока" успешно посылать молодых Marty McFly "назад" в 1985 году, хорошо смысл, но неаккуратно редактор копия сделал исторический ошибка. [43] Лица , неизвестный разместил Sears (возможно, маркетинга сошка был провидцем) реклама поощрения детей к телефону Санти и листинг, вместо того , что один считает бы номер телефона для некоторого специального центра обработки вызовов Рождество, номер " ... к Conad главнокомандующий по операций «горячую линию». "Ошибки случаются. (Каковы шансы, да?)
В настоящее время можно было бы опасаться, что несанкционированная телефонные звонки "для Санта" в сверхсекретном установки правительства, от шлепка счастливым детей (любого возраста), вполне может быть истолковано федералов как приглашение, чтобы сломать входные двери какого-то домовладельца для немного времени качество чрезвычайная выдача. Но 1950-е годы была более спокойной эпохи. (Гм.)
Target You (1950s Nuclear propaganda US Govt. film)
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"Директор по операциям в то время," добродушный полковник по имени Гарри Shoup, просто отмахнулись, что мы представляем себе, возможно, был нескончаемый череда детских запросов, и перенаправлены сложный (для того времени) радиолокационного оборудования Conad и хорошо обученных (мы предположим) персонал к задаче "проверить [я] ... для показаний Санта ...". Ребята, это история не только сладкое, это сахарин сладкий, я бы сказал.
У них не было ничего другого чрезвычайно важно происходит в ту ночь.
Но каковы бы ни было, отслеживание событий Санта превратился в феерию. В ходе операции, которая, кажется, становятся все более обширным с каждым годом, NORAD выкатил сложный - и вновь торговую марку - сайт для того, чтобы приспособить (то, что они утверждают, что это) внимание во всем мире. "Даже сейчас, когда Пентагон работает , чтобы сократить $ 1 трлн из своих сундуков, миссия Санта продолжается." [44]
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http://www.noradsanta.org/
Можно задаться вопросом : почему?
Является ли это просто дешевый способ подключить американское военное превосходство? [45] Или есть что - то большее?
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Змей, как Наги (выше). [46]
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Орла как Гаруда, который любит поесть наги, как он появляется на национальной эмблемой Индонезии, Гаруда Pancasila (выше). [47]
В то время как вы потягивая гоголь-моголь - и вы можете захотеть его шип с джином для остальной части этого - вот некоторые размышления для вашего экзамена.
Вопрос: Является ли NORAD в настоящее время принятия ритуал загадочно неуплаты "полярный бог" по- разному , идентифицированного как Драко (как представлено в созвездии с таким именем и популяризировал как персонаж в франшизы Гарри Поттер) или, среди каббалистических евреев, так как Te'li ? [48]
Санта, конечно, имеет юридический адрес на Северном полюсе. [49] Хотя настоящее север звезда Полярная, в древние времена, личность полюса звезды была другой. Дрейф от звезды к звезде с течением времени из - за того , что земля слегка наклонена (около 23,5 °), и вращается с небольшим «раскачивания». [50] Эти вещи создают эффект называют " осевым прецессию ."
Во всяком случае, ранее, путеводная звезда была α-Draconis, также известный как Thuban (какая звезда, кстати, "белый гигант"). Драко, дракон или великий змей, является циркумполярная созвездие, а это значит, что он никогда не заходит с точки зрения -это всегда выше Санта в то время как он и его мифические эльфы (злой разнообразие которых являются главными антагонистами в последнем Thor фильма) делают игрушки в старой мастерской. Существует некоторые основания полагать , что древнеегипетская иконография могут быть связаны с этим древним полярном узлом. [51]
К тому же , казалось бы , неискренний слово есть это , что некоторые из самых мощных cryptocrats в мире может действительно быть частью "измененными очертаниями группы рептильных потомков из созвездия Дракона". [52]
Другой любопытный морщин приходит путем бывшего ВВС США офицер разведки, Джордж А. Filer III, который однажды сообщил следующее. "Я думаю , что Уолтер Ширра на борту Меркурия 8 был первым из космонавтов использовать кодовое название" Санта - Клаус " , чтобы показать наличие летающих тарелок рядом с космическими капсулами." [53]
Жак Валле, математик, ученый, астроном и уфолог , который "... служил в качестве модели в реальной жизни для характера изображаемого Франсуа Трюффо в фильме Близкие контакты Стивена Спилберга третьего рода", [54] написал , что в сентябре 28, 1954 в Сен-Николя-де-Редон во Франции, "[а] т 'La Butte Rouge' два железнодорожных инженеров, Бернард и Potraux, которые привозили локомотив из Нанта в Оре, увидел темный объект снять с Пурпурное свечение и следовать за ними в течение 15 секунд, прежде чем сворачивающих. Potraux пришлось обратиться к врачу. " [55]
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Дополнительные возможные наставничества неисчислимы. Рассмотрим, например, символ дерева, поэтому видную в течение этого сезона. Мифические деревья иногда связаны с драконами. Дракон Ladon охраняли еще одно дерево в саду Гесперид, от которого висели легендарные золотые яблоки. [56]
Волшебные деревья иногда возникают в голливудских постановках, а также. Я имею в виду, например, ссылки на Иггдрасиль , мировое дерево, в Капитан Америка: Первый мститель . (2011) [57]
Еврейская мистика также - довольно лихо - имеет каббалистическую ". Дерево жизни" [58] ". Мистерии" Рождественская елка, история его, ведет свое происхождение обратно в "райское дерево" в средневековой Рай Дерево должно было , по меньшей мере , одного лютеранского ученого, чтобы было представление дерева , из которого Адам и Ева вкусили, способствуя их гибели. [59]
Как уже упоминалось ранее, существует еще одна еврейская-ассоциация с Драко. [60]
По словам раввина и исследователь Арье Каплан Te'li - каббалистикой представление великого полярного дракона, Драко - это очень важно в эзотерической космологии. [61]
В качестве дополнительного лексического морщин, название для центра Каббалы, на немецком языке , Клаус, [62] , какое слово имеет очевидное сходство с квази-фамилию Санта, Клаус. Эти центры, более широко известный как Домов изучения (Бет ha'Midrash) - по- видимому , для Талмуда или Каббала - "... в сторону от использования для изучения, также используются для мониторинга вопросов , представляющих общественный интерес ..., чтобы сделать расчеты для религиозных целей ... и поставить общественную поминальную панегирик ... а дом обучения обладает святостью и присутствие Бога можно найти там ... " [63] Бет ha'Midrash, таким образом, своего рода Святого Клауса - это" Санта - Клаус. "
Что "вопросы общественного беспокойства" или "религиозных расчетов" или "восхваляя" может быть происходит в Свято-Клаусом обряде НОРАД, можно только догадываться.
Ученый эксперт Каббала и профессор Гершом Шолем объясняет , что в "практической каббалы": ". [T] он колдун рисует вперед дух нечистоты из kelippot и смешивает чистый и нечистый вместе" [64]
То, что в мире "kelippot"? Мы рады, что вы спросили!
В комплексе каббалистической системе 16 - го века раввин Исаак Лурия, что "... klipah, kelipot" являются "Раковины ... демонической стороне" творения , что "... [...] неясного божественный свет». [65] это очищает вещи прямо, не так ли? Важно отметить, что в этих рамках лурианской, "Язычники приходят из этой темной стороны ...". [66]
Кроме того, "... сила kelippah ...", "... представляют [ред] ..." на "... дракон или демоническая рептилия," [67] должен "... быть покорена через соблюдение Торы и мицвот ...". [ 68]
Предполагается ли церемония Санта нарисовать вниз небесной или супер-небесные силы? Все ли зрелища рассчитывается - кем - то или что - то - для психологического эффекта? [69]
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Или эффект более элементарный?
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Можно утверждать, что Санта-Mythos содержит все исходные материалы, необходимые для какой-то алхимической работы. Принимая во внимание классическую схему Гиппократа и Галена, когда объединено в правильном порядке и в нужное время, четыре стихии - земля, вода, воздух и огонь - выход прима Materia ( "первый вопрос").
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Безрадостный полярный климат Санта подпадает под сферу действия воды. [70] Его способны оленей неоспоримо командовать над воздухом, который элемент также включает в себя эльфов, так как эльфы "духи воздуха," хотя "они исходят из земли и воды". [ 71] Наконец, хорошо известные ссылки на дымоходы и копоти в знаниях четко ассоциировать Санта с огнем.
Что нужно сделать из всего этого Санта-мании?
Мы не уверены, но мы рекомендуем вам дать ему немного подумать - мы услышали сказать , что Санта - Клаус приходит в город , рядом с вами ... в ближайшее время !
Springsteen "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" Buffalo 11-22-09
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[1] Эдгар Аллан По, "Ворон" 1845, воспроизводится в < http://www.houseofusher.net/raven.html >.
[2] Джон 6:68.
[3] "После того, как почти полтора века это синоним Санта - Клауса до сих пор слышал, даже если слова не имеют ничего с Санта. Термин возник в Америке в 1830 и была прописана Krisskring'l , прежде чем принимать его нынешнем виде. Krisskring'l вытекает из непонимания слова Christkindlein используется немецкими иммигрантами, его смысл не "Санта - Клаус" , а "Ребенок в сене "или" маленький Христос ребенок "," Роберт Хендриксон, "Крис Крингл," Энциклопедия слова и фразы происхождение, Нью - Йорк: QPB, 2004, p.418.
[4] В современной американской культуре, название "Дед Мороз" (хотя редко) принимается как синоним "Санта - Клауса" . Например, Роберт Хендриксон, пишущий в своей энциклопедии слова и фразы Происхождение, обозначает Отец Рождество " [т] он предпочитает британский название для американского имени Санта - Клауса ", соч. соч., стр. 254.
Тем не менее, кажется, что это поверхностное уравнение встречает сопротивление некоторых европейцев. В недавней статье , опубликованной в газете Telegraph [UK] содержит подзаголовок "Германия директор музея считает , что Дед Мороз породил в Германии находится под угрозой со стороны более современного Санта - Клауса , связанный с Coca-Cola». Объясняя , что Отец Рождество символов в конечном счете "черпает от "Святого Николая Мирликийского, директор баварского Рождественский музей, Фелиситас Höptner, говорит , что" ... немецкий Дед Мороз, или "Weihnachtsmann" был изобретен как светская фигура после Реформации , когда протестанты отвергнутого поклонение святым и искал альтернативный дарителя к священным Николаса с митры своим епископом и неправдами ", Дэвид Crossland," Германия движется требовать "под угрозой" Деда Мороза "15 декабря 2013 года , < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews~~HEAD=pobj /europe/germany/10518864/Germany-moves-to-claim-under-threat-Father-Christmas.html >.
[5] Хью Харман и Рудольф Изинга, "Алиас Санкт - Ник," Happy взаимосоответствий, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1935. MGM, конечно же , являются инициалами Metro Pictures, контролируемой Маркус Лоев, после чего инициалы фамилий Самуэль Голдвин (НЭ Szmuel Gelbfisz) и Луис Б. Майер (НЭ Лазарь Меир).
Что касается Майера пресловутые рождественские праздники, которые он якобы только кратко присутствовал, мы читаем следующее. "В основном студия была все дела, за исключением того, во время ежегодных рождественских вечеринок. Рано в канун Рождества, первые несколько часов были потрачены доставки подарков - агентов руководителям отделов, производителей и других важных видов. ... К 11:00, каждый отдел был бар собирается. Примерно в это же время, Майер будет делать вид, смонтировать трибуну, и обещают еще один замечательный год, как только что прошел. И тогда он оставил бы в студию. Как родитель выходя из дома, это был сигнал для партии детском пнуть на высокую передачу. Проекция комната в звуковом отделе начал работать мальчишников фильмы, и рано днем, вспомнил Уоллес Worlsey младший, разбирательство превратилась в "оргии , которая бы сделала Калигула чувствовать себя как дома", "Скотт Eyman, лев Голливуда: Жизнь и Легенда о Луи Б. Майер, Нью - Йорк: Simon & Schuster, 2008, р. 218.
В подобной сезонной сексуального духа, хотя немного более ручными чем "XXXmas" выходками Голливуда, можно отметить популярную "Факел песни", "Santa Baby", в котором о так соблазнительно женский 1940-х годов в стиле шансонье детали ее " хотите список "к (предположительно) недостижимой головы эльфа. Смотрите выдач от Эрта Китт , Мадонна , Тейлор Свифт и другие .
[6] Праздник день Святого Николая, однако, 6 декабря, а не 25 декабря.
[7] "Когда История Нью - Йорка был выпущен для публики 6 декабря 1809 года, День святого Николая, авторстве Ирвинга можно только догадываться. День Святого Николая был день, на котором некоторые голландские нью-йоркцы честь покровителя иногда называют "Sancte Клауса. Ирвинг организовал все отлично. Двухтомник работа была объявлена как "нашли в камере г Diedrich Кникербокер" и "опубликованы в целях выполнения определенных долгов , он оставил позади", "Эндрю Бурштейн, The Original Никербокер: Жизнь Вашингтон Ирвинг, Нью-Йорк: Basic Books, 2008, стр. 72.
[8] "Санта - Клаус стал святым Манхэттена и гений западного коммерческого Рождества. Святой Николай, его аватар, был одним из самых любимых святых средневековой Европы. Во Франции, собор в Шартре рассказывает историю о своих приключениях и чудесах на южном портале и в четырех витражей. В Англии, 385 церквей были посвящены ему до конца пятнадцатого века, по сравнению с 202 покровителя страны, Сент-Джордж ", Марина Уорнер," The Original Santa: Введение в Благотворительного святителя Николая Мирликийского, Бари, и Северный полюс, "Гурман, декабрь, 1985, р. 94 ..
[9] Другие версии говорят , "окно" .
[10] Предположительно, есть череп говорят , что Святого Николая в церкви Святого протектором на горе Афон является Греция. Это согласно непроверенной (и почти непроверяемый) свидетельство Юрия Воробьевского, "The Omega Point," Путь к Апокалипсису, т. 3, гл. 17.
[11] Уильям Шекспир, "Первая часть короля Генриха Четвертого," акт 2, сцена 1. "Санкт Николай был покровителем ученых; и Николас, или старый Ник, это косяк имя дьявола. Поэтому он называет двусмысленно разбойники, St. Клерки Николая ", пьесы и поэмы Уильяма Шекспира, Vol. 16, Лондон: FC и J. Ривингтон, 1821, р. 237, < http://books.google.com/books?id=hKrTAAAAMAAJ >, ср < Http://shakespeare.mit.edu/1henryiv/full.html >.
[12] Автор Люси W. Уотербери предлагает интересный анекдот о попытке, в одном случае, предположительно христианских миссионеров, чтобы ввести символ Санта - Клауса на собрание африканцев. "Попытка ввести Санта-Клаус не был успешным. He was greeted with shrieks and groans and cries of 'let me out,' 'it is the evil one,' 'it is the day of judgment.' The small fry caught the infection and fled to the bedroom [of the hosting house], while the black children crept under chairs and tables to hide themselves. Santa Claus was obliged to remove his disguise very hastily, and they were soon reassured and bean to laugh and chatter and nibble their cakes and fruits. One said that he thought that Elijah had returned, another that it was John the Baptist, and another that it was Satan, and all hi evil deeds rose up before him.” “Christmas in Heathen Lands,” Biblical World , vol. 10, нет. 6, Dec., 1897, p. 470.
[13] “Church Lady,” transcript, Saturday Night Live , season 13, episode 6, Dec. 5, 1987, < http://snltranscripts.jt.org/87/87fchurchchat.phtml >.
[14] Douglas Harper, “Nick,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php? term=Nick >.
[15] Another Santa-tie-in with this case is the fact that there was a mysterious “note” apparently associated with a “toy bear.” “A prophetic note was in a small pouch attached to a toy bear that authorities are seeking information about in the JonBenet Ramsey homicide investigation, according to the victim's aunt. …Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter sought help from the public in tracking down information about the foot-long stuffed toy bear dressed in a Santa suit. …[Pam] Paugh [the sister of JonBenet's mother Patsy Ramsey] speculated that the bear may have been used to lure JonBenet out of her room”, “Ramsey Relative Says Note was in Toy Bear Pouch,” Associated Press via Las Vegas Review Journal , Jan. 3, 1999, p. 6B.
[16] Charlies Brennan, “'Santa' Bill McReynolds Dies at 72,” Rocky Mountain News , Sept. 6, 2002, p. 4A. The Kabbalistic significance of the number 72 has been discussed elsewhere. See Matthew Bell with Jim Brandon, “Star Trek in Tenebris,” Bell Curve, Jun. 5, 2013, < http://curveofbell.blogspot.com/2013/06/star-trek-in-tenebris_5.html >.
[17] “Twenty-two[:] This number …symbolizes the manifestation of being in all its diversity and during its allotted span, that is, in both space and time. In fact, it is the sum total of the twenty-two [Hebrew] letters which, according to the Kabbalah, give expression to the universe. …[The Zoroastrian] Avesta was written in books each of twenty-two chapters and their collection of prayers contains twenty-two. The Revelation attributed to St. John comprises twenty-two chapters, too, while there are twenty-two major arcana in the Tarot”, Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant, Dictionary of Symbols , John Buchanan-Brown, trans., London: Penguin, 1996, p. 1046.
[18] “In carnival parlance, … 'Hey, Rube,' is a call for help”, Janet McReynolds, “Abduction, Play Recalled After JonBenét's Murder,” Denver Post , Mar. 26, 1997, p. 5F.
[19] Brennan, op. cit ., p. 10A.
[20] McReynolds, op. cit ., p. 1F.
[21] Warner, op. cit ., p. 96.
[22] This is not to say that anti-child violence doesn't crop up in the St. Nick lore. For example, consider Saint Nicolas cantata by the 20 th -century British composer, Benjamin Britten (with libretto written by Eric Crozier ). (Cf. William Henry Fry's “Santa Claus Christmas Symphony,” 1853, < http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559057 >)
Wikipedia’s helpful summary of part seven reads: “The seventh movement of Saint Nicolas depicts the legend of the Pickled Boys. Nicolas finds himself in an inn where a group of travellers have paused for the night. They invite the bishop to dine with them, but Nicolas stops them from eating, realising that the meat that they eat is in fact the flesh of three boys murdered and pickled by the butcher. Nicolas calls to the boys, 'Timothy, Mark, and John, put your fleshly garments on!' and the boys come back to life, singing 'Alleluia!',” “Saint Nicolas (Britten),” Oct. 20, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicolas_%28Britten%29#VII._Nicolas_and_the_Pickled_Boys >.
[23] In other accounts, Santa is accompanied by Knecht Ruprecht (“slave Rupert”). “To the Pennsylvania Dutch, he is known as Belsnickel. Other names for the same character are Pelznickle, ' Furry Nicholas ,' and Ru-Klas, 'Rough Nicholas.'”
See < http://www.av1611.org/othpubls/santa.html >. Ср “Knecht Ruprecht,” Wikipedia , < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knecht_Ruprecht >. On the “Bell” name, see Loren Coleman, “The Bell Name and Belltown Leprechauns,” Twilight Language,” Jun. 22, 2012, < http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2012/06/belltown-leprechauns.html >, Matthew Bell with Jim Brandon, “NASA's 33-Degree Kline-Konnektion,” Bell Curve , Sept., 8, 2012, < http://curveofbell.blogspot.com/2012/09/nasas-33-degree-kline-konnektion.html >, and Matthew Bell, “Belling the (Hurricane) Gilbert,” Bell Curve , Nov. 14, 2012, < http://curveofbell.blogspot.com/2012/11/belling-hurricane-gilbert.html >.
[24] Lance Gay, “In Europe, Children Can't Escape Watchful Eye of Santa: If You're Not Good, Bad Things Might Happen,” Scripps Howard via Gazette Telegraph , Dec. 14, 1992, p. D2. Gay further reports:
“In Germany, 'Sankt Nikolaus' brings with him the horrible dark servant called 'Knecht Ruprecht,' who carries a birch with which he beats bad children who don't say their prayers. Like Black Peter, Ruprecht also stuffs the very bad into his sack and carries them away, but no one in Germany knows where because no children have ever returned to say. In Austria, the bad actor is Krampus, who brings chains with him to lock up children. In Eastern Europe, Santa's enforcers are the Fool, the Witch, and Barteln, who gore bad boys to death and blacken the breasts of bad little girls. In Iceland, its Gryla, mother of the terrible Christmas monsters, whose diet consists only of bad children”, ibid .
[25] There are also supposed to be Santa-Odin associations as well, such as the latter's eight-legged horse, Sleipnir , fathered by Loki, which might be comparable, numerologically, to Santa's original eight reindeer (if we don't let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games). According to the Wikipedia article titled “Sleipnir,” the word reportedly means “slippy” or “the slipper” < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir >. We have no word on whether this accounts for why St. Nicholas is sometimes said to slip goodies into stockings, shoes, and other footwear (eg, one might imagine, slippers ).
[26] See, eg, < http://books.google.com/books/about/Fires_Improved_Or_A_New_Method_of_Buildi.html ?id=7ihRQAAACAAJ >. Reportedly, “[s]potting a chimneysweep at Christmas time and touching his coat always brings good luck”, Gay, loc. cit .
[27] < http://phoenixmasonry.org/masonic_christmas_card.htm >.
[28] < http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171924 >.
[29] See Loren Coleman's overview article “Santa = Wildman 2013,” CryptoZooNews , Nov. 30, 2013, < http://www.cryptozoonews.com/santa-wildman2013/ >.
[30] “Set,” glossary entry, The Magical Revival . Ср Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare , Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: Independent History & Research, 2001, p. 31.
[31] See “Jock Dempsey, Legends of St. Eligius and St. Dunstan,” Anvilfire , 2001, <http://www.anvilfire.com/article.php?bodyname=/21centbs/stories/steligius_stdunstan.htm>.
[32] Cf. < http://www.biblebelievers.com/watkins_santa/santa.html >. As an interesting coda to the St. Nick/Black Pete discussion, we note an episode in the life of the great 13 th -century philosopher and theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas.
“[T]he devil appeared [to St. Thomas] under the guise of a negro: 'How dare you come here to tempt me!' he shouted as he advanced with clenched fist; whereupon the fiend vanished. The year 1273 was drawing to a close when the pen dropped from his hand, before reaching his fiftieth year. It was on St. Nicholas Day, the 6 th day of December, and in that saint's [St. Nicholas's] chapel, that he [St. Thomas] has a long ecstasy while saying Mass; what was then communicated he never revealed, but from that hour 'he suspended his writing instruments,' as William de Tocco puts it.” John Placid Conway, Saint Thomas Aquinas, of the Order of Preachers (1225-1274): A Biographical Study of the Angelic Doctor , London: Longmans, Green, 1911, p. 95. Cf. Guillaume de Tocco, Ystoria sancti Thome de Aquino , 1323, reprint ed., Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies, 1996, p. 162.
After Aquinas's vision, in St. Nicholas chapel, on St. Nicholas day, this great doctor of the faith, to whom the Catholic Church is largely indebted for its Catechism, “…laid aside his pen and would write no more.” Daniel Kennedy, “St. Thomas Aquinas,” Catholic Encyclopedia , vol. 14, New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912, < http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm >.
[33] Jeremiah 1:14, King James Version .
[34] On some of the similarities between the representation of Saturn and another “Father” – Father Time – see, eg, Matthew Bell, “Now is the Time,” Bell Curve , Jan. 17, 2013, < http://curveofbell.blogspot.com/2013/01/now-is-time.html >.
[35] David N. Talbott, The Saturn Myth , Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980, p. 42. Emphasis in original.
[36] “North,” vol. 2, Chicago: Masonic History Co., 1956, p. 717.
[37] Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant, “North,” Dictionary of Symbols , trans., John Buchanan-Brown, London: Penguin, 1996, p. 705.
[38] JC Cooper, An Illustrated Encyclopædia of Traditional Symbols , London: Thames & Hudson, 1987, p. 112.
[39] Cited by Dennis Stillings, “Demon of Megaparsec Dimensions Discovered in the Northen Sky,” Artifex , vol. 6, нет. 2, Apr., 1987, p. 17, n. 1.
[40] What about Santa's apparent beneficence? Would Satanic a figure be associated with gift-giving and merry-making? One internet commentator is worth quoting in this regard. Asking the question: “Can the Devil be a bringer of good luck?” The author answers: “Yes, indeed, according to old European traditions.” See “The Devil,” <http://www.luckymojo.com/devil.html>.
[41] < http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jump5/santaclausiscomingtotown.html >.
[42] “Another symbol related to an aspect of the Grail legend and deserving special attention is Montsalvat (literally, 'mount of salvation'), represented as rising out of the midst of the sea in an inaccessible region behind which the sun rises, its peak situated 'on distant shores no mortal can approach.' It is at one and the same time the 'sacred isle' and the 'polar mountain,' two equivalent symbols…; and it is the 'land of immortality,' which is naturally identified with the Terrestrial Paradise”, René Guénon, The King of the World , Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, 2004, pp. 31-32.
[43] 1955 was, incidentally, also the year in which heartthrob actor James Dean died at the age of 24, in a car accident involving his Porsche 550 Spyder. This would be entirely irrelevant, in the present context, were it not that, as of this writing, the news media is abuzz with talk of the death of heartthrob actor Paul Walker in a car accident involving a Porsche Carrera GT. Although there are notable differences (Walker was 40 and not driving the Porsche), “Walker is being compared to actor James Dean…” Shamika Sanders, “Paul Walker Autposy Reveals He Was Alive After Crash & Touching Tribute Goes Viral,” Hello Beautiful , Dec. 6, 2013, < http://hellobeautiful.com/2013/12/06/paul-walker-tribute/ >. See Rex Reed, “A Career Cut Short: Fast and Furious Star Paul Walker Died in a Tragic Car Crash Last Weekend: In 'Hours,' he gives the performance of his life,” New York Observer , Dec. 6. 2013, < http://observer.com/2013/12/a-career-cut-short-fast-and-furious-star-paul-walker-died-in-a-tragic-car-crash-last-weekend/ >.
Curiously, Peterson AFB, the new home of NORAD, was so-named in the wake of a tragic accident. “[A] tragedy occurred that would indelibly affect the base. On 8 August 1942, 1st Lt. Edward J. Peterson, Operations Officer for the 14th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron and a native of Colorado, crashed while attempting to take off from the airfield when the left engine of his twin engine F4 (a reconnaissance variant of the P-38 Lightning) failed. A base fire department crew rescued Lt. Peterson from the burning wreckage. Unfortunately, Lt. Peterson sustained significant burns and died at a local hospital that afternoon, thereby becoming the first Coloradan killed in a flying accident at the airfield. Consequently, on 13 December 1942, officials changed the name of the Colorado Springs Army Air Base to Peterson Army Air Base in honor of the fallen airman.” “Peterson Air Force Base History,” fact sheet, Mar. 12, 2007, < http://www.peterson.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4507 >.
We note the reconnexion, in light of the NORAD Santa-tracking charade at this particular air base, of the “Pete” name with “St. Nicholas.”
[44] Tom Roeder, “Santa Claus Will be on NORAD's Radar Once Again,” Gazette [Colorado Springs, Colorado], Dec. 1, 2013, p. F1.
[45] “One goal this year, [Stacy] Knott[, a spokeswoman for the binational command,] said, is to show the world that NORAD has more missions than its best-known work Dec. 24. 'We're trying to make sure we have a balance between showing the operational side of NORAD and how we track Santa,' she said”, Roeder, op. cit. , p. F4.
[46] The serpent Nagini , in the Harry Potter series popularized a cognate of “ Naga .” Since we earlier enumerated several nick- names for the Devil, we might as well add to our list “ Old Serpent ” and “ Old Harry .” See Hendrickson, “Scratch, Old Scratch,” op. cit ., p. 642.
[47] “…Santa's escorts over North America are pilots flying other missions with Operation Noble Eagle , designed to prevent another 9/11-style attack”, Roeder, op. cit. , p. F4. Operation Noble Eagle is abbreviated ONE , which adds another layer of gnostic - neoplatonic symbolism .
[48] See Aryeh Kaplan, Sepher Yetzirah: The Book of Creation , Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1995.
[49] One of several North Pole mock-ups is located a few miles northwest of Colorado Springs, in the township of Cascade, at the foot of Pike's Peak. We're sure that it was only coincidentally installed at this location, near NORAD's Santa-thon headquarters, in 1956 – a year after the Santa tracking began.
In any case, called “Santa's Workshop in North Pole, Colorado,” the attraction was the brainchild of the curious personality, “…former Hollywood set designer, Arto Monaco”, Philip G. Terrie, Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks , Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2008, p. 161. Cf. Sarah Colwell, “North Pole Theme Park Makes Magic Happen,” Gazette [Colorado Springs], Dec. 24, 2004, “Metro” section, p. 1.
Monaco also designed a similar “ Santa's Workshop ” set up in Wilmington, New York. At the time of this writing, the Wikipedia stub titled “Santa's Workshop (amusement park)” indicates that this day-attraction “was one of the first theme parks in the United States”, Wikipedia , Oct. 7, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%27s_Workshop_%28amusement_park%29 >. “But half a decade before Disneyland , there was Santa's Workshop in Wilmington,” Brian Mann, “Arto Monaco: The King of Make Believe,” Dec. 20, 2002, < http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/2204/20021220/arto-monaco-the-king-of-make-believe >.
Before building Santa (and other fairy tale-themed) escapes, Monaco designed a replica German village for the US army, purportedly to prepare soldiers for an invasion of Germany. Here, however, the Wikipedia article erroneously – but synchromystically – records the location of the little Deutschland – actually named “Annadorf” – as “… San Claus , California …west of Santa Clarita Mountains”, “Arto Monaco,” Apr. 21, 2012, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arto_Monaco >.
Annadorf was located on the “…Big John Flats in the Angeles Forest, just twelve miles northwest of Wrightwood”, < http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/forum/index.php?topic=13911.0 >. We verified this by phone (Dec. 11, 2013) with John Lenau, the president of the Wrightwood Historical Society. The area is about 25 miles from the Vasquez Rock formation. (On the Vasquez, Devil's Punchbowl, and Mormon Rock formations, see Jim Brandon, The Rebirth of Pan: Hidden Faces of the American Earth Spirit , Dunlap, Ill.: Firebird, 1983, p. 109.)
[50] According to the physicist-alchemist Isaac Newton, precession works out to about one degree every 72 years. A quick and dirty summary on Wikipedia reads: “Isaac Newton determined the cause of precession and established the rate of precession at 1 degree per 72 years, very close to the true value, thus demonstrating the magnitude of the error in the value of 1 degree per century”, “Great Year,” Sept. 7, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Year >, citing Voltaire: “A degree is equivalent to seventy-two years…”, “On Infinites In Geometry, And Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology,” letter 17, < http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1778voltaire-lettres.asp#Letter%20XVII >.
[51] For a flavor of this quirky opinion, see “Terry,” “The Pyramid Builders & Draco Alpha,” < http://www.aloha.net/~hawmtn/pt_man.htm >; reproduced by David Icke, < http://www.davidicke.net/mysteries/pyramid/draco-alpha.html >.
[52] James Cusick, “Watch out Watford: Here comes the secretive Bilderberg Group,” Independent [UK], May, 21, 2013, < http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/watch-out-watford-here-comes-the-secretive-bilderberg-group-8626134.html >.
[53] George A. Filer, “NASA Flights Have Seen UFOs,” Filer's Files , no. 10, Mar. 3, 2000, reproduced as “It's A Great, Big, Wonderful World We Live On,” Rense , <http://www.rense.com/ufo6/big.htm>.
[54] “Jacques Vallée,” Wikipedia , Oct. 6, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vall%C3%A9e >.
[55] Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers , Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1969, pp. 212-213.
[56] “Drakon Hesperios,” Theoi, < http://www.theoi.com/Ther/DrakonHesperios.html >.
The age-old dispute between alchemy, which “consider[s] gold to be the symbol of perfection,” and Kabbalists, who give pride of place to silver, is resolved, so Johnny Marks might have imagined in the “silver and gold decorations” that one finds “on every Christmas tree.”
[57] But such symbolism also crops up in Thor (2011), The Fountain (2006), and other movies.
[58] Pages 625 to 626 in the 1972 edition of the Encyclopædia Judaica , in Gershom Scholem's article on “Kabbalah,” shows a representation of a stylized menorah, resembling a tree. This was the creation of the Christian Kabbalist, Guilame Postel, about whom see: Matthew Bell, “Going 'Postel': The Making of a 'Judeo-Christian',” Church Bell, Sept. 25, 2012, < http://bellofchurch.blogspot.com/2012/09/going-postel-makings-of-judeo-christian.html >.
[59] Richard P. Bucher, “O Christmas Tree: The Origin and Meaning of the Christmas Tree,” Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Nov., 2000, < http://www.orlutheran.com/html/chrtree.html >.
Bucher's capable summary is somewhat marred, however, by the disconnexion between his stated (and commendable) emphasis upon citation, and his failure to document a key passage. To be more specific, he begins his piece by lamenting the lack of sound scholarship on the history of the Christmas tree. He states:
“Many answers to these questions [about the origins of the Christmas Tree] have been offered on the Internet. Some are completely erroneous. Some make no distinction between history and legend. Unfortunately, none of them give sources for their assertions about the Christmas tree (a problem with most web articles!). Given that dependable scholarly sources about the history of the Christmas tree are hard to come by, citation-less Christmas tree web pages are understandable.”
Bucher then proceeds to document his points, systematically and nearly line by line, for several solid paragraphs. He loses a bit of steam when he gets to the alleged links between the Paradise Tree (which he had just claimed was banned by “the Church” in the 15 th -century) and the Christmas Tree, merely asserting – with no citations whatever – that: “The people had grown so accustomed to the Paradise tree, however, that they began putting their own Paradise tree up in their homes on Dec. 24.”
The oversight is unfortunate, since the above-quoted sentence is arguably the linchpin for his thesis. Hence, however plausible his speculations may be, without the requisite documentation (especially for the crucial point about “the people's” supposed psychological attachment to the Paradise Tree), from the standpoint of his text, they remain unsubstantiated conjectures.
[60] In passing, we also note that Saint Nicholas “…became the adopted saint of bankers, pawnbrokers, merchants, and shopkeepers. …The three bags of gold [in the case, discussed above, of the girls destined for prostitution] eventually migrated from piety to commerce and became the emblem of moneylenders, the familiar sign of the pawnbroker's shop”, Warner, op. cit ., p. 97.
Apart from curiosities such as the banking forays of the Knights Templar and the interest-free Franciscan monte di pieta , it is simply an historical facts that, for many hundreds of years in Europe, “...none but Jews were permitted by the law to practise usury”, Michael Adler, "The Jews of Bristol in pre-Expulsion Days," Nov. 12, 1928, transactions, Jewish Historical Society of England , vol. 12, 1928-1931, p. 133, < http://www.jhse.org/book/export/article/14482 >.
(Despite the prohibition on usury – lending money at interest – expressed in the Old Testament, eg, Exodus 22:25-27, rabbis allowed usurious moneylending by Jews to non-Jews. Actually, the authoritative Maimonides, the 12 th -century rabbi, physician, and philosopher, opined “...that for Jews to charge Gentiles interest is a positive command of the written law”, “Usury,” Jewish Encyclopedia , 1906, vol. 14, p. 615, < http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14615-usury >. The Shulchan Aruch , the Judaic “digest” version of enforceable Talmudic laws, softens this somewhat, stating that “...it is permitted to lend money to a non-Jew at interest”, ch. Yoreh De'ah , section 159, lines 1-3, < http://www.torah.org/advanced/shulchan-aruch/classes/chapter13a.html >.)
[61] Illustrations are from Kaplan, op. cit. , pp. 232 and 235. This business is repeated by Jay Weidner and Vincent Bridges on pages 93 ff of their 1999 book, The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye: Alchemy and the End of Time (Rochester, Vermont: Destiny, 2003 ed.). In this context, we must also bear Revelation 12:9 in mind: “The great dragon was hurled down – that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him”, New International Version , < http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search= Revelation+12%3A9 >.
[62] Scholem, op. cit ., p. 554. In Polish it is known as a Kloiyz .
[63] Shelomoh Yosef Zevin, “Beyth haMidrash, House of Study,” Encyclopedia Talmudica , vol. 4, Spring valley, NY: Feldheim, 1991, p. 111 and 108. The Beth ha'Midrash is a sacred space – possibly even outranking the synagogue in terms of holiness. At least, this was arguably the view of Rabbi Pappi – whose opinion, by the way, “[t]he law follows…” ibid ., p. 109. Although, “The Ḥasidim call their synagogue 'klaus'; and each of their miracle-workers maintains a klaus of his own, as do also his followers in other cities”, “KLAUS (German, 'Klause,' from the medieval Latin 'clusa'= cloister),” Jewish Encyclopedia , 1906, < http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9365-klaus >.
[64] Scholem, op. cit ., pp. 633-634. Based upon his reading of the Asclepius by “Hermes Trismegistus,” the neoplatonist, Marsilio Ficino, “…was convinced that humans were able to 'draw down the life of heaven' through the spiritus mundi which is infused throughout the universe and to place it into statues and idols.” Stefan Rossbach, Gnostic Wars: The Cold War in the Context of a History of Western Spirituality , Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1999, p. 123.
[65] Alan Brill, “The Exclusivist Tradition,” Judaism and Other Religions , New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, p. 165. Cf. Craig Heimbichner, "The Double-Mind in Occult Philosophy," lecture, audio recording, Independent History & Research.
In his Oration on the Dignity of Man, the 15 th -century Christian-kabbalistic magus, Pico della Mirandola, wrote that “Man was to be worshipped because 'he changes his nature into a god's, as if he were a god; he knows the demonic kind inasmuch as he recognizes that he originated among them.'” Rossbach, op. cit ., p. 122.
[66] Ibid .
[67] Gershom Scholem, “Demons, Demonology,” Encyclopædia Judaica , vol. 5, Jerusalem: Keter, 1972, pp. 1532-1533.
[68] Ibid ., p. 1532.
[69] “Practical Kabbalah is one way of dealing with evil. It is a form of magic, the dangerous art of gaining power over the psychological ( Yeziratic ) world through the use of symbols; …[c]ertain exercises can bring about deep changes in consciousness…” Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi, Kabbalah: Tradition of Hidden Knowledge , New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002, p. 47.
Все еще не уверены? Consider then, please, the 1964 blockbuster (<--sarcasm) movie, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians . Actually, in The Book of Lists (New York: Bantam, 1980), authors David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace, and Amy Wallace have the temerity to report (on p. 209) that this gem of a film is number seven on “The Ten Worst Films of All Time” list. (The list is attributed to Harry Medved and Randy Dreyfuss, p. 207.) I mean, although I've never seen the picture, I can scarcely believe it. Но я отвлекся.
In any event, the Wikipedia plot summary practically makes our case for us.
“The story involves …[an] ancient 800-year-old Martian sage [named] Chochem (a Yiddish word meaning 'genius'), …[who] advise[s] that the children of Mars are growing distracted due to the society's overly rigid structure; from infancy, all their education is fed into their brains through machines and they are not allowed individuality or freedom of thought. Chochem notes that he had seen this coming 'for centuries', and says the only way to help the children is to allow them their freedom and be allowed to have fun. To do this, they need a Santa Claus figure, like on Earth. Leaving the Chochem's cave, the Martian leaders decide to abduct Santa Claus from Earth and bring him to Mars.” Chaos ensues. Starting to get it, yet ?
[70] Furthermore, “Nixie” also known as Niks , an obvious etymology cousin to “Nick,” are “[l]esser water divinities” the “male water [spirit]” counterparts to the more famous female undines – which latter have middle eastern variants called “Drac.” See Patricia Turner and Charles Russell Coulter, Dictionary of Ancient Deities , Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000, pp. 350 and 156. HP Blavatsky writes: "Under the general designation of fairies, and fays, these spirits of the elements appear in the myth, fable, tradition, or poetry of all nations, ancient and modern. Their names are legion — peris, devs, djins, sylvans, satyrs, fauns, elves, dwarfs, trolls, norns, nisses, kobolds, brownies, necks, stromkarls, undines, nixies, salamanders, goblins, ponkes, banshees, kelpies, pixies, moss people, good people, good neighbors, wild women, men of peace, white ladies — and many more", Isis Unveiled , vol. 1, < http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu1-00in.htm >.
[71] Chevalier and Gheerbrant, op. cit ., p. 350.
Although the usual enumerations correlate gnomes with Earth , an unreliable source claims that elves are closely related elementals. “Elementals/Nature Spirits,” < http://natureelementals.com/NE1.html >.
Another unverifiable source claims that: “In Norwegian legend, …Vindicans (little people) …were craftsmen [who] lived in …toadstools and mushroom[s]. Pixies and Elves[,] along with Gnomes[,] are a direct relative [of] the Vindican”, “Santa's Village History,” < http://www.santasvillage.net/santas.village.history.html >.
More credible, perhaps, is the account published in a Colorado newspaper: “In pagan Scandinavia, people believed that house gnomes guarded them against evil. Mostly benevolent, gnomes could turn nasty is not properly treated. When Christmas became popular as a festive season during the mid-1800s, Scandinavian writers recast gnomes as the mischievous but true friends of Father Christmas. Santa's elves are the children of Gryla and Leppaludi . Some say that there are 13 elves, some nine, some six”, “World of Wonder,” Gazette , Dec. 6, 2004, “metro” section, p. 8.
However, we note that even the absence of an obvious candidate “Earth elemental” does not necessarily do violence to the alchemical account. In the Kabbalistic schema, earth and water are virtually equated, and the three main elements – water, air, and fire – are represented by the three “mother” letters: Aleph, Mem, and Shin. See Charles Poncé, Kabbalah , Wheaton, Ill.: Quest, 1997, p. 41. You may breathe a sigh of relief.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Greenwich: In the Mean Time
Matthew J. Bell
with Jim Brandon
author of Weird America and The Rebirth of Pan
“[T]he blowing up of the first meridian
is bound to raise a howl of execration.”
- Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent [1]
In the previous post, In Tenebris , we took on the topic of the layers of symbolism enveloping the City of London world financial center. Our treatment was occasioned by a fictional terrorist bombing there – perhaps near the intensely occultic Knights Templar church – as depicted in the new blockbuster movie, Star Trek Into Darkness (“ Into Darkness ”).
We now propose to explore further into – and in a moment, farther southeast of – this lurid Londoniana. Our primary setting will shift to Greenwich [2] (from the “...Old English Grenewic ...literally 'Green Harbor'.”), [3] where so-called “Universal Time” is officially based. “Time and space are measured from [Greenwich]” in the astute words of the unusual group called the London psychogeographers. [4]
This modern function is nevertheless in keeping with an ancient tradition, it seems. For “Greenwich was once an area of great sacred importance...” in the view of the insightful Aquarian Guide to Legandary London . [5] So, if science and its handmaiden technology have become the de-facto religion of the day, this area must be a veritable Vatican or Mecca. How the Greenwich conversion from the mythic or folkloric to the highly technical was made, at a critical turning point of European culture, will soon be told.
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( Image source ) ; Legendary king Brân.
As we noted in part one, the Prime Meridian of longitude was established at Greenwich “by high adepts of alchemy and occult orders.” Their starting point? The ominously portentous Tower of London, reputed site of the ancient British palladium of power, the buried head of the Celtic king, Bran. From the Tower precincts the adepts measured in English miles, to four decimal places, a number that is generated by every school child studying simple geometry and the ratio of the circumferance of a circle to its diameter. In short, pi : or 3.1416 miles due east to the new meridian at Greenwich.
That at least was the claim of a little-known Scottish geometry savant, Hamish MacHuisdean, whose unusual work coauthor Jim Brandon discovered by chance years ago. In a moment, we will be taking a close look at the chief MacH. contentions that the pi constant is discrete at 3.1416 and not an irrational or infinitely recurring decimal – and that the 31416 “series” is the secret derivation of 33, the master Mason degree.
All this and the Kabbalah, too. We will consider the tantalizing indications of a cryptic rôle played by the formidable Jewish esoteric complex in these undertakings of the British maguses.
Traditional Aspects of Time
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( Image source ) One manifestation of the Creator-Destroyer duality is the Hindu deity, Shiva, [6] whose statue stands outside of the particle accelerator at CERN [7] (top). Kali, Hindu goddess of death and time, [8] is one of Shiva's consorts. [9] Another manifestation of the same idea, as represented in a Masonic Lodge (middle). [10] Duncan's legend reads: “1. Candidate prays. 2. First stop. 3. Second stop. 4. Third stop. 5. Room where candidates are prepared. 6. Ante-room where members enter the lodge. 7. Hall. 8. Doors. 9. Door through which candidates are admitted into the lodge. 10. Door through which members enter. 11. Altar. 12. Treasurer. 13. Secretary. 14. Senior Deacon. 15. Worshipful Master. 16. Junior Warden. 17 and 18. Stewards. 19. Senior Warden. 20. Junior Deacon. 21. Tyler.” [11] The same east ( oriens ), west ( occidens ), noon ( meridies ) layout appears on the Rosicrucian Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum (1618, bottom).
For now, since “Time is of the essence” at Greenwich, we need to lay groundwork. Time, considered as a deity, is both “[t]he Creator and Devourer. ...it is... the revealer of Truth.” [12] Midway between the poles of creation and destruction is the vast middle ground over which operates a maintaining or sustaining force that keeps the present order. Hence, “In all the ancient mythologies there were triads...a creator, a preserver, and a destroyer. ...[In the heathen system of] the Indian, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva... This system of triads... has become... in Freemasonry... the triad of three governing officers... [t]he Master and the two Wardens... We must...look for the origin of the triads... to the three positions and functions of the sun. The rising sun or creator of light, the meridian sun or its preserver, and the setting sun or its destroyer...”. [13]
( Image source ) “In the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the Thirteenth Degree or Knights of the Ninth Arch is properly an écossais [ie, Scottish] Degree.” [14] “While there is no longer a working astronomical observatory at Greenwich, a ball still drops daily to mark the exact moment of 1 pm...”. [15] 1 pm Is the 13th hour .
To the Freemason, “Time ...is ...the symbol of well-directed perseverance in the performance of duty.” [16] And the “great object of a Freemason's labor” is to “at last obtain the true Word which is the symbol of Divine Truth.” [17] The “true Word” was, according to Freemasonic legend, rediscovered “...at the hour of meridian...”. [18] Importantly, “[t]he cessation of time is the break-through to enlightenment; eternity.” [19]
This complex tissue of subtle symbolism was not lost on famed novelist, Joseph Conrad. His story, The Secret Agent , depicts an attempted bombing “...attack on the Greenwich meridian...”, which target represents “...a displaced attack on the empire...”. [20] Conrad explicitly describes the plot to detonate a bomb at the prime meridian in terms of “...rendering of cosmic chaos...”. [21] However, it is not simply the return to chaos – as the Joker-character seemingly wants, as an “agent of chaos” [22] in The Dark Knight Batman movie (2008). [23] Rather, what is in view is a combination of “chaos and eternity,” [24] exactly along the symbolical lines one would expect from a plot, not simply to blow up a landmark, but to control or harness the occult power of Time (Cronos/Saturn [25] ) itself. [26] Although not about Greenwich, specifically, the reader may find it useful to ponder the comment of award winning English author (and psycho-geographer), Peter Ackroyd: “There are parts of London where time has actually hardened and come to an end.” [27]
Actual Terrorism Near Greenwich
Our present study is not merely concerned with thriller novels or science fiction movies, however. Within the last few weeks, the United Kingdom experienced its first terrorist attack since the 7/7 Bombing of 2005, when a British soldier (with duties in the Tower of London) was hacked to death at 2:20pm, Greenwich-time, on a street in the district of Woolwich. Woolwich is now “located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.” [28]
About the selection of the attack location, journalist Andrew Gilligan writes the following.
“ The site of Wednesday's attack was not random , nor in all probability was it chosen simply because there was a barracks nearby. Woolwich, as not many people seem to have realised, is one of the cradles of al-Muhajiroun . ...Woolwich is at the join of yet another extremist-related ley line . It is not just a major military garrison; it is not just one of the spawning-grounds of al-Muhajiroun ; it is also, of course, home to the main Category-A prison where accused terrorists are held, and the main court, attached to it for security reasons, where terrorist trials take place.” [29]
Despite the fact that Gilligan's use of the phrase “ley line” arguably is merely artistic, it nevertheless brings the idea of mystical alignments into the public arena.
Also worthy of mention is a so-called “...French plot to change the way we tell the time...”. [30] This might be thought nothing more than a foofaraw, were it not for the the potent symbols swirling around Greenwich as well as the fact that this dispute over time-keeping must be set against the historic dispute over longitude-determination. “The French clung to the Paris meridian as a rival to Greenwich until 1911 for timekeeping purposes and 1914 for navigation. To this day, French cartographers continue to indicate the Paris meridian on some maps.” [31] And it may be recalled that a representation of this line, inlaid in the floor of an important Paris church, was shown in the recent film, The DaVinci Code .
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( Image source ) John Harrison, from Into Darkness (top); John Harrison, solver of the “longitude problem” and inventor of the “marine chronometer” (bottom).
But we are getting ahead of ourselves. Let us back up and consider Into Darkness . As previously noted, the main villain in this latest Star Trek is Khan. But Khan is introduced under the alias John Harrison . “John Harrison” also names a historical personage, in this case, the man remembered for having solved the “longitude problem.” (Incidentally, this study was also a part-time occupation of Emmanuel Swedenborg. See HERE .)
The “longitude problem” is simply a label for the difficulty, in an era predating satellites and fancy techno-gadgetry, of determining one's longitude on the open sea. It turns out that every 15 degree movement – due east or west – has the effect of adding or subtracting one hour from one's local time. Hence, if one can compare one's local time, which local time can be gleaned from the position of the sun, to a reference time at a location with a known longitude, one can calculate the longitude of one's current position. [32]
Siting the Meridian Line
Greenwich, England was selected for the longitude reference position. Towards this end, a project was begun – involving alchemist and physicist, Isaac Newton – to establish a line of 0 degrees longitude, running through Greenwich. [33]
(Image source: MacHuisdean, The Great Law , p. 86, figure 15.)
(Image source: MacHuisdean, op. cit. , p. 47.)
How was this done? We wouldn't have had a clue, except that, as we noted at the outset, a Scottish geometer and arithmetician named MacHuisdean (MacH for short) had published in the 1920s and '30s a curious and offbeat book that he called The Great Law . [34] When Jim Brandon, by sheer chance, found a copy of this in the amazing old Atlantis Bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles years ago, he immediately saw its value in relation to the Prime Meridian. This imaginary but world-historically-important symbol construct had piqued his curiosity since reading Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent as a kid.
Quite discursive in nature, MacH's book will quickly be found to have a fascination if not a monomania for the pi factor, citing a vast number of instances in which 3.1416 or variants up to 31416 recur in sites of geodetic interest to the author. These are primarily around the British Isles and by far the most important is the one shown above, asserting the pi-miles distance from the Tower of London's adjunct Salt Tower to zero Greenwich. MacH tosses off this highly significant finding tersely, only citing “the Ordnance Survey Office in Southhampton” as his source and offering no insights on why or by whom the mileage was selected. [35]
Verifying these claims has turned out to be a major work in progress, since what MacH seems to be talking about must be maps published three-quarters of a century ago by the British agency in question but locating them now in this country has not been fruitful. Also, the distance given by the Google mapping service from Salt Tower to Greenwich varies slightly depending upon where one places the ruler points. However, from the (“eye-balled”) center of the Salt Tower to roughly the center of “Prime Meridian Walk,” is 3.16019 miles, by our quick-and-dirty Google calculation.
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One can obtain MacH's pi -distance by placing the first ruler point on the easternmost edge of the Salt Tower. However, one ends up slightly to the west of “Prime Meridian Walk.” Perhaps the street name is a misnomer.
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In resolving this discrepancy there are several possibilities. 1 – MacH correctly read his Ordnance map which was itself correct, but the current Google distance is wrong. 2 – MacH was correct reading the map but the map itself was wrong, and Google is right. 3 – Google is right and MacH, by error or (heaven forbid!) design, misrepresented the map which had no pi distance and substituted his favorite number. 4 – MacH correctly read his Ordnance map, which was itself correct, but the Google distance calculations are at variance with MacH because the relevant measurements are sensitive to the exact exact trajectory line MacH used, and this line is unknown to us. However, to round out our last possibility, we may suppose that were MacH's trajectory lines known, Google would confirm MacH's distance computations.
So, considering all of that and on the offchance that there really was a “ pi distance” plotted out by God knows whom for this key geodetic link-up of the Tower palladium to the Greenwich node for time and space – and just imagine what psycho-geo novelist Peter Ackroyd could do with that image of the King Bran head still ritually venerated in a crypt under the Tower – we will examine 3.1416 a bit further. Surprisingly, this will involve a major Kabbalah connection, bringing in that high-voltage Jewish mystical aspect, which was certainly in the air at the time of Isaac Newton and the Royal Society clique and nascent Freemasonry in the late 1600s.
The Kabbalah will be found to embody the pi factor as a coordinate regulating the spatial aspects of creation. As this will be a considerable side trip from our present topic, however, we must consign that account – plus some further aspects of the seat-of-the-pants kabbalism of Hamish MacHuisdean – to the notes. But the fundamental point to remember is that it is entirely possible that the Prime Meridian may have been placed according to kabbalistic principles. [36] , [37]
The Greenwich Royal Observatory was established for the purpose of precisifying moon observation data, one step on the road to making possible longitude determination at sea. [38]
“King Charles II founded the Royal Observatory in 1675 to solve the problem of finding longitude at sea. If an accurate catalogue of the positions of the stars could be made, and the position of the Moon then measured accurately relative to the stars, the Moon's motion could be used as a natural clock to calculate Greenwich Time. Sailors at sea could measure the Moon's position relative to bright stars and use tables of the Moon's position, compiled at the Royal Observatory, to calculate the time at Greenwich. This means of finding Longitude was known as the 'Lunar Distance Method'.” [39]
We encountered King Charles II previously. He is the monarch who provided for ravens to populate, in perpetuity, the grounds in front of the White Tower. He also established, in 1660, the Royal Society of London. Authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh note that “Charles II was deeply interested in alchemy...”. [40]
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John Harrison, also the name of a chief protagonist in the recent movie, Star Trek Into Darkness , provided another piece of the puzzle. He invented a clock (the marine chronometer) that would keep fairly accurate time, despite the disrupting motion of ocean waves.
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( Image source ) Top: “The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose [41] surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft”; [42] Bottom: “Saturn's mysterious northern vortex, a vast hexagon-shaped storm , [43] dominates this photo taken Nov. 27, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.” [44]
The fascination with time is echoed in Into Darkness . In the movie, the home planet of the Klingon race “...is both spelt and spoken as Kronos”. [45] “KRONOS (or Cronus) was the Titan god of time and the ages...”. [46] He is identified with the Roman deity Saturn .
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( Image source ) If a regular pentagon is divided into 5 triangles, the central angles will each measure 72 degrees.
We already reported the prominence, in the film, of the mystical number 72. It may not shock the reader to learn, therefore, that 72 has mythological ties to both Kronos and the moon. “Thoth, in an Egyptian creation myth, wins a 72nd of each day of the year from the Moon in a game of draughts, as a favour to Nut, the Sky Goddess. He uses these portions to make the five intercalary days on which the remaining Gods and Goddesses are born.” [47] “The god Kronos (Geb) and the goddess Rhea (Nut) had illicit intercourse. Helios (the sun god) tried to prevent Rhea from giving birth at any time in the year. However, Hermes (Thoth) managed to add five days to the year by beating the moon in a game of draughts. These became the birthdays of five deities - Osiris, Apollo (Horus the Elder), Typhon (Seth), Isis and Nephthys.” [48]
Another 72 tie-in relates to Earth's axial precession (a fancy phrase designating our planet's polar “wobbling”), which undergoes a complete cycle approximately every 26,000 years. The wobble is said to inch along at a pace traditionally reckoned – according to the calculations of Isaac Newton [49] – at “1 degree per 72 years”. [50] We note that this precession has further connexions with dragon lore. Specifically, as we reported in our prior installment, Jay Weidner has argued that the constellation Draco had prime importance for ancient astronomers.
All of this seems to fit in rather snugly with other aspects (to be mentioned shortly) of Saturnian time-obsession since authors Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock allege (in their book Keeper of Genesis , 1996) that various Egyptian-Masonic “...rituals symbolised the 'turning back' of the precessional cycle to a remote ancestral time known as Zep Tepi ('first time')...”. [51]
This “turning back the clock” theme has arguably cropped up before. [52] The fabled Tower of London has itself been called “a kind of time-machine”. [53] In addition, it may be that the White Mound, ancient location of the present Tower complex, “...was the site of a prehistoric observatory...”. [54]
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In any case, the Royal Observatory at Greenwich was designed by the famous architect and Freemason, Christopher Wren. [55] In passing, we note that Wren's structures sometimes incorporated the remains of dead cats, quite probably “...placed in buidings as foundation sacrifices...”. [56] Locations known to have contained such macabre features include a “...a house built...between 1666 and 1723 in the Tower of London...” and “...the church of St. Michael Royal, College Hill, London.” [57]
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Wren also designed the iconic St. Paul's Cathedral, [58] which is visible on various Into Darkness promotional posters. (See, again, our earlier post, HERE .)
Why Greenwich?
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In the first place, we note that Greenwich has been associated with the “initiation” (broadly and artfully construed) of numerous post-Plantagenet monarchs and rulers. Henry Tudor, otherwise known to history as Henry VII, ended the nearly 360 year reign (1126-1485 [59] ) of the House of Plantagenet. “ Henry VII built Placentia – whose name means 'pleasant place to live' [60] – on the banks of the Thames at Greenwich in 1500. The palace was a favorite haunt of his son, Henry VIII, some of his ill-fated wives, and his daughter, Elizabeth I. ” [61] In fact, it was the “...royal residence where Henry VIII and his daughters Mary and Elizabeth were born and where son Edward VI died.” [62]
The Stuart King James I had Greenwich Palace remodeled and given to his wife, Queen Anne of Denmark. This “Queen's House” at Greenwich, was “...designed by Inigo Jones and is one of the most perfect examples of Palladian architecture in England.” [63] The important Freemason, James Anderson, refers to the architect as “...our great Master-Mason Inigo Jones”. [64]
It seems natural, therefore, that the Queen Ann house has been called “...a site of key masonic importance...”. [65]
“King Charles the First resided occasionally at Greenwich, before the breaking out of the civil war: his Queen, Henrieta Maria, employed Inigo Jones to finish the building, which Queen Anne of Denmark had begun. It was completed in 1635... On the 21st of December 1651, it was resolved [by Parliament] that Greenwich house should be kept for the Lord Protector...”, Oliver Cromwell. [66]
As we have mentioned, Charles II founded the Royal Observatory in Greenwich in 1675. Wikipedia notes that “...George III granted the Queen's House to the Royal Naval Asylum (an orphanage school)...”. [67] Some might fairly regard this as an alarming conjunction in the era of impressment. [68]
At fifty-four years of age, George I, “...arrived in Greenwich on September 29, 1714, with a full retinue of German friends, advisors and servants (two of which, Mohamet and Mustapha, were Negroes captured during a Turkish campaign).” [69]
Amongst his other titles, Queen Elizabeth II's consort, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is also Baron Greenwich . [70]
( Image source ) The Isle of Dogs, circa 1740.
Greenwich, partly in virtue of supposed ley line connexions, [71] is symbolically tied to the Isle of Dogs, slightly to its west. This is a place of crypto-political power, in the richly associative view of the London psychogeographers, that has been termed the “Omphalos of the British Empire.” [72] “Omphale” and its cognate “omphalos” (or, Latinized, omphalus ) designates a “navel” [73] or “central point”. [74] In ancient physiology, the omphalos was believed to be the point around which the embryo formed, and from which the embryo “receive[d] nourishment”. [75] It is a “Cosmic Centre...both cathartic and apotropaic [ie, evil-averting]... the place of communication between the three worlds...”. [76] Significantly, from the perspective of empire, “[i]t is also the point of expansion...”. [77]
The origin of the name “Isle of Dogs” is disputed. [78] One source links it to Herne the Hunter and a legend of a hapless nobleman and his young bride who perished in the primeval swamps in the area. [79] Another interesting factoid is that “Isle of Dogs” was “...the title of a notorious satirical play [1597] of 'very seditious and slandrous' content, written by Thomas Nashe in collaboration with Ben Jonson and others... . Now lost, the play was outrageous enough to lead to Jonson's imprisonment and Nashe's fleeing London. The Isle of Dogs of the title, however, was no doubt a metaphor for Britain...”. [80]
There is, to invoke AJ Bell's Fortean neologism, [81] an apparent LexiLink , or verbal synchronicity, with the Canary Islands . Known in yesteryear variously as the Fortunate Isles or the Blessed Isles , [82] the island cluster, lying west of Africa, bears a name that means, “...literally 'island of dogs' ( canis ...), so called because large dogs lived there. [83] The name was extended to the whole island group ( Canariæ Insulæ ) by the time of Arnobius (c.300).” [84]
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( Image source ) In what might fairly be called an open-air crypto-ritual – for who is to prove the negative – on October 1, 2007, at “ 23 feet tall… [this] five-ton golden replica of a statue of Anubis , the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of the dead, was transported along the River Thames past the Tower Bridge in London”, which leads directly into the Tower complex to its north. [85] , bottom); “One of the traditional duties of Anubis was to guide the dead” into the Occident (the West). [86]
Of course, the Egyptian “Land of the Dead” was also called “the west” ( imenet ). “For the ancient Egyptians, the west (specifically the desert west of the Nile) was the destination of the dead. This is because the sun died every day in the western horizon, only to be reborn the next morning in the east. Most Egyptians were buried to the west of the Nile with their heads facing the west.” [87]
The Alchemical Salt Tower?
Image source: MacHuisdean, op. cit. , p. 47.)
Returning to MacHuisdean's unexplained emphasis on the Salt Tower as the starting point for siting the Prime Meridian, we note that salt has some relevant connexions that might go some distance towards explaining the Salt Tower's rôle.
“[T]he salt-cellar partook of the nature of a holy vessel, associated with the temple in general, and more particularly, with the altar.” [88] Salt was both an emblem of “welcome” and “safety” when sitting at table with guests. [89] Additionally, the “salt cellar [served] as a boundary”. [90] In terms of seating arrangements while dining, “the salt dish served as a boundary” – separating individuals of different classes and stations, and “...indicating rank and social position...”. [91]
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( Image source ; Alchemical Salt is, along with Mercury and Sulfur, one of the "Three Essentials.")
Additionally, Salt – along with Sulfur and Mercury – is one of the “three essentials” in alchemy. [92] Note the capital letters. What is in view is something different from the garden-variety items that answer to the common names salt , sulfur , and mercury .
“Paracelsus defined the Three Essentials by how they behave in fire. Sulfur is seen as what fuels the fire or what is changed in the fire. ...Mercury is the volatile watery essence of the fire that Paracelsus called 'phlegma' and is represented by the flames, light, heat, and smoke issuing from the fire. The new principle of Salt exhibits the fixed essence of the substance burning that resists the fire and is found in the ashes. ...As Paracelsus put it: 'The fire is Mercury; what is burnt is Sulfur; and all ash is Salt.” [93]
Salt is something of a Phoenix. “Like the First Matter, Salt shows up at both the beginning and the end of the work. ...The alchemists described the First Matter as a 'poisonous dragon' whose fire can instantly reduce us to ashes.” [94]
( Image source ; The Three Essentials represented as a three-headed dragon inside of an alchemical vessel.)
In this context, it seems profitable to keep two facts in view. Number one, we should bear in mind the dragon iconography that literally frames the City of London.
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Number two, we should recall the “Great Fire” that occurred in London in the ominous year 1666. [95]
Given the historical context, the pi -distance to Greenwich calculation would certainly have been made only under the supervision of such Royal Society luminaries as the physicist-alchemist Sir Isaac Newton, and the royal astronomer, Sir John Flamsteed.
(Image source: Oestmann, loc. cit .)
Although Flamsteed is often said to have been staunchly anti-astrology, he nevertheless personally cast a horoscope for the setting of the Greenwich Observatory's foundation-stone. [96]
As Greenwich is the locus for the prime meridian , the word “meridian” deserves our careful attention. [97] Literally, “meridian” designates “noon,” and derives from the “... Latin meridianus 'of midday, of noon, southerly, to the south,'.” [98] “Figurative[ly]...[the word] suggest[sa] 'point of highest development or fullest power'.” [99]
Indeed, in Freemasonry, the meridian (or noontime) sun represents the so-called “Raised” Mason – the initiate into the Third Degree who now shines “...like the sun at its meridian.” [100] As touched on above, “[t]he government of a Maon's Lodge...is vested in three superior officers, who are seated in the East, West, and South, to represent the rising, setting, and meridian sun.” [101]
The important 19th century Masonic historian and encyclopedist, Albert Gallatin Mackey, states that the word Zohar (title of the well-known Kabbalistic treatise, which word means, literally, “splendor” or “radiance”) “...signifies the meridian light, the brightest effulgence of day...”. [102] Introduction of Kabbalistic Judaism immediately recalls the Kabbalist-hermeticist, the Baal Shem of London, Dr. Falk, and dovetails, yet again, with the mystical numerology of 72. “The degrees of the Jacob's ladder were to the number of 72, according to the Zohar.” [103]
Crowley Cavortings on the Meridian?
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The established meridian may be thought to identify mystical line, having importance something akin to that attributed to “ley lines” [104] or, perhaps, the 33rd degree of parallel latitude. [105]
Hence, one might expect to discover strange goings on all along the 0-degree line. In fact, it is possible that no less a figure than Aleister Crowley might be summoned (no occult pun intended) at this point to ground this speculation. Crowley's doings in Africa are often given in vague terms, locatively speaking, using phrases like “in the desert,” etc.
Researcher Alex Owen is more specific. “In late 1909, two Englishmen [Aleister Crowley and Victor Neuburg], scions of the comfortable middle classes, undertook a journey to Algiers. ...It was at Crowley's instigation that the two men began to make their way, first by tram and then by foot, into the North African desert to the southwest of Algiers; and it was Crowley's decision to perform there a series of magical ceremonies that prefigured his elaboration of the techniques of sex magic, or, as he was later to call it, Magick. In this case, the ceremonies combined the performance of advanced ritual magic with homosexual acts. ...A little over two weeks after arriving in Algiers, Crowley and Neuburg reached Bou Saada. ...It was here that Crowley, acting on instructions from previous angelic interlocutors, made the appropriate Call and attempted to enter the fourteenth Aethyr.” [106]
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These locations are in northern Algeria. But it is interesting to note that the intersection of the 0-degree line of longitude and the 33-degree line of latitude occurs in Algeria, just northeast of Ain Sefra. It is unclear how much “wandering” Crowley and Neuburg did through the Algerian desert, or how far they managed to go. It is intriguing, however, to speculate as to a possible intention to conduct a ritual along the meridian. One notes, for example, that Neuburg and Crowley reunited in Paris in 1913 for the so-called “Paris Working.” [107] Paris is famous for many things, but as we have already mentioned, one of those things is having an alternate “prime meridian.” [108] To be sure, various factors could have informed Crowley's decisions regarding ritual locations. One would have to consult authorities sifting through the vast amounts of Crowleyana. Still, it seems worth raising the possibility that Crowley, being a high-level initiate of many systems, may have, to some degree (pun intended this time), been keyed in on the meridian-wavelength.
Early Standard Time in US
“In October 1884, at the behest of the President of the USA, 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, DC, for the International Meridian Conference. They decided to adopt a single world meridian, passing through the principal Transit Instrument at the observatory at Greenwich, as the basis of calculation for all longitude and a worldwide 24-hour clock. The Greenwich motion passed 22-1; San Domingo voted against it; France and Brazil abstained.” [109]
It turns out that railroads agitated for the standardization of clock times. [110] There was a very pragmatic reason. With different towns all keeping difficult local times, keeping a train “on schedule” was an extremely tricky affair.
It may not surprise the reader, therefore, that in 1860 an important railroad city in Mississippi, the site of the junction of the the Mobile & Ohio and Southern Railways, was named Meridian . [111]
One of the early railroad tycoons, who was also a steamship magnate, controlling the Hudson River (1864), New York Central (1867), and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern (1869), was Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt. [112] “...In the 1860s, Vanderbilt shifted his focus from shipping to the railroad industry, which was entering a period of great expansion. He gained control of a number of railway lines operating between Chicago and New York and established an interregional railroad system.” [113]
Interestingly, Vanderbilt lived in what is today called Greenwich Village , New York. “In the 1840s, Vanderbilt constructed a large brick home for his family at 10 Washington Place, in Manhattan's present-day Greenwich Village neighborhood.” [114]
In any case, it was Vanderbilt ( inter alia ) whose influential railroad corporations elicited “...a major transformation of the railroad network, which previously had been fragmented into numerous short railroads, each with its own procedures, timetables, and rolling stock. The creation of a coherent system spanning several states lowered costs, increased efficiency, and sped up travel and shipment times.” [115]
Part of this drive towards efficiency included “Universalizing” time. Official credit for the suggestion of standardized “time zones” goes to the Scottish-Canadian inventor, Sir Sandford Fleming. [116]
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“Vanderbilt was the driving force behind the construction of Manhattan's Grand Central Depot [left], which opened in 1871. The station eventually was torn down and replaced by present-day Grand Central Terminal [right], which opened in 1913.” [117]
Заметки:
[1] Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 35.
[2] For an overview, see: “Greenwich,” Wikipedia , < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich >.
[3] Douglas Harper, “Greenwich,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Greenwich >.
[4] “Nazi Occultsists Seize Omphalos,” London Psychogeographical Association Newsletter , no. 6, Beltaine, 1994. “Pychogeography,” in general, has to do with “the interconnection between landscape and the mind.” Under this description, the subject can be traced back to the 19th-20th century Welsh author, Arthur Machen, whose story The Great God Pan (1890, 1894) remains a horror classic. Psychgeography has fascinated a number of prominent United Kingdom-based writers, including author Iain Sinclair (who is also a British filmmaker), journalist Will Self, and the biographer and novelist Peter Ackroyd. A number of groups have sprung up persuing various psychogeographical investigations. One such group is the London Psychogeographical Association, whose initial founder was the English artist, Ralph Rumney (d. 2002). This association was revamped, and given an anti-Masonic and anti-Royalist orientation, decades later by an anarcho-syndicalist named Fabian Tompsett, under the pseudonym “Richard Essex.” London is not the only city home to persons displaying psychogeographical interest, however. A San Francisco-centric internet gaming community, SFZero , included a sub-group called “BART Psychogeographical Association.” For quotation and more information, see: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/arthur_machen>, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/london_psychogeographical_association>, and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sfzero>.
[5] Chesca Potter, “Gazetteer of Sacred Sites in London,” John Matthews and Chesca Potter, eds., The Aquarian Guide to Legendary London , Wellinborough, UK: Aquarian Press, 1990, p. 226.
[6] The many-named Shiva has various aspects. “He is a creator god, moon god..., fertility god, lord of the cosmic dance, god of the arts and learning, god of truth, god of luck, god of the rivers, god of the forests, god of death, of yoga, of cremation grounds, and the lingam”, Patricia Turner and Charles Russell Coulter, “Shiva,” Dictionary of Ancient Deities, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 427. Disturbingly, especially in light of its placement beside the controversial Large Hadron Collider, which some fear might destroy the earth (or worse), Shiva is perhaps best known for “represent[ing] the destroyer”, Ibid . Although, Mackey associates “Siva” with “the meridian sun”, in the Southern, preserving, position. See Albert G. Mackey, “SUN,” Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry , vol. 2, Chicago: Masonic History Co., 1956, p. 988. On the worries regarding the Hadron collider, see Clara Moskowitz , “Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy Earth?” LiveScience , October 26, 2012, < http://www.livescience.com/32204-will-the-large-hadron-collider-destroy-earth.html >. This “destroyer of worlds” motif also dovetails with the Atomic Bomb rite at the Trinity Site in New Mexico, along the Jornada del Muerto , as James Shelby Downard first noted. See Jim Brandon, "Sirius Rising," interview with James Shelby Downard, with commentary, audio recording, ca. 1976.
[7] Fritjof Capra, “Shiva's Cosmic Dance at CERN,” June 2004, < http://www.fritjofcapra.net/shiva.html >. In addition to the statue, CERN also employs (or did employ) a piece of equipment called the “Shiva router,” see: “Spectrum: Shiva Router Management Guide,” CableTron Systems, 1998, < http://it-div-cs.web.cern.ch/it-div-cs/private/spectrum/Docs/Pdf_docs/shiva_router.pdf >.
[8] Turner and Coulter, “Kali,” op. cit ., p. 257.
[9] Shiva's “consorts are aspects of the Great Mother Goddess Devi who appears as Gauri, Sati, Parvati, Uma, Durga and Kali”, Turner and Coulter, “Shiva,” op. cit. , p. 427.
[10] The original image, from < http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/dun/img/00800.jpg >, has been rotated and additional text supplied, for emphasis. The basis of my interpolations comes from Albert G. Mackey, “SUN,” Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry , vol. 2, Chicago: Masonic History Co., 1956, pp. 987-988: “The Master ...in the East is a symbol of the rising sun; the Junior Warden in the South, of the Meridian Sun; and the Senior Warden in the West, of the Setting Sun.”
[11] Malcom C. Duncan, Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor , New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1866, p. 8, < http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/dun/dun02.htm >.
[12] JC Cooper, “Time,” Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols , London: Thames & Hudson, 1979, p. 173.
[13] Mackey, “TRIAD,” Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry , vol. 2, Chicago: Masonic History Co., 1956, pp. 1051-1052.
[14] Mackey, “ECOSSAIS,” op. cit. , vol. 1, стр. 308.
[15] “Greenwich,” Wikipedia , < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich >.
[16] Mackey, “TIME,” op. cit. , p. 1040.
[17] Ibid .
[18] Mackey, “ECOSSAIS,” op. cit. , vol. 1, стр. 308. The word had been “...engraved...upon a triangle of pure metal...”, ibid .
[19] Ibid .
[20] Michael Whitworth, “Inspector Heat Inspected: The Secret Agent and the Meanings of Entropy,” Review of English Studies , new series, vol. 49, no. 193, February, 1998, p. 55.
[21] Conrad, op. cit. , p. 40. This, and the subsequent, reference are owed to Whitworth, supra .
[22] “The Dark Knight (2008): Quotes,” Internet Movie Database , < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/quotes >.
[23] The Dark Knight, 2008, Internet Movie Database , < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/ >.
[24] Conrad, op. cit. , p. 179.
[25] Cooper, “Time,” loc. cit .
[26] James Shelby Downard also made mention of “Call to Chaos” sex magic rites. See, eg, his contribution “The Call to Chaos” in Adam Parfrey, ed., Apocalypse Culture , revised ed., Los Angeles: Feral House, 1990, pp. 307-327. In Downard's idiom, there are sex and death rites – Call to Chaos and Killing of the King, respectively – that form the core of the novus ordo magic of the Freemasons. The Call to Chaos ritual, which Downard also designates a “sex circus,” is apparently a sort of orgiastic “...[rite] intended to conjure up a theurgic influence of occult forces of elemental nature”, ibid ., p. 323. This seems to comport with JC Cooper who defines “Orgy” in the following terms: “Re-entry in chaos, the primordial state before creation; cosmic night; dissolution; the lower potentialities of beings...”, op. cit. , p. 123. Additionally, both Downard and Cooper link chaos-rites to Saturnalia and the “Lord of the Misrule.” See ibid.
[27] Quoted in Barry Hugill, “Mystics of Avalon, San Francisco Examiner , September 11, 1994, p. A10. (Reprinted from Barry Hugill, “Cultists Go Round in Circles, The Observer , August 28, 1994, p. 3.) The Ackroyd name also crops up in searches on the Tower of London. David Ackroyd narrated Melissa Jo Peltier's production titled “The Bloody Tower of London,” an installment of the History Channel 's series “History's Mysteries” (season 6, episode 3, 1999).
[28] < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolwich >.
[29] “Woolwich attack: 'Lone wolves' who run with the pack,” Telegraph , May 25, 2013, < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10080864/Woolwich-attack-Lone-wolves-who-run-with-the-pack.html >.
[30] Clive Aslet, “Can the clock really be ticking for GMT?” Telegraph (UK), October 3, 2011, < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8803144/Can-the-clock-really-be-ticking-for-GMT.html >.
[31] “Paris Meridian,” Wikipedia , April 12, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_meridian >.
[32] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude#Problem_of_longitude .
[33] Here I wish to make the interested reader aware of a possible complication. In referring back to Newton, one has to bear in mind that – alchemy aside – Newton's physical theories notably diverge from the Einstein-inspired relativistic physics that was formulated in the 20 th century. For one thing, Newton was a substantivalist about time and space. "In the substantival description, space itself is a substance in which the objects of the universe exist and move. ...[Space is]the container, so to speak. ...A similarly substantival description of time is possible. ...Contrast this...with a more relational descrption in which time simply is the changes in physical objects. ...[And space is nothing more than the] physical things [that] exist." Peter Kosso, Appearance and Reality , Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998, pp. 34-35 and ff .
I quote now from a classic Fortean exploration: “In considering my data it would be helpful to consider a dictum of Einsteinian physics – a science few would accuse of fanaticism or irrationality (although the charges could certainly be made from a rather unconventional perspective): 'Time relations among events are assumed to be first constituted by the specific physical relations obtaining between them',” James Shelby Downard & Michael A. Hoffman II, King Kill 33 , Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: Independent History & Research, 1998, p. 11.
Downard and Hoffman invoke Einstein. I have traced the embedded quotation to Adolf Grünbaum: “In regard to simultaneity, there, Einstein's conceptual innovation can be summarized as follows: Time relations among events are assumed to be first constituted by specific physical relations obtaining between them . These physical relations, in turn are postulated to be such that the topological simultaneity of events at spatially separated points P1 and P2 is not a uniquely obtaining relation. Metrical simultaneity is thus left indeterminate by topological simultaneity and by the behavior which the STR postulates for transported, adjacently synchronized clocks”, Adolf Grünbaum, “Reply to Hilary Putnam's 'An Examination of Gruenbaum's Philosophy of Geometry',” Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science , Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky, eds., Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science , vol 5, 1966-1968, p. 92.
Grünbaum goes on to explicitly contrast the Einsteinian conception of simultaneity with the conception that follows from Newtonian principles alone. “Therefore, a conventional choice or synchronization rule for which there was no scope in Newton's theory must be invoked over and above the relevant physical facts to assert that a given event at P2 sustains a uniquely obtaining equality relation of metrical simultaneity to an event at P1. In this sense the relation of metrical simultaneity is not an objectively obtaining physical relation in the STR but depends on a conventional choice. For any given event E2 at P2, this conventional choice consists in the selection of a unique event at P1 as metrically simultaneous with E2 from within the infinite class of those events at P1 which are topologically simultaneous with E2. And this choice is implemented by the rule for setting the clock at P2. In brief, Einstein's innovation is that the physical relatedness which makes for the very existence of the temporal order has a structure that precludes the existence of objectively and uniquely obtaining relations of metrical simultaneity. Thus, the failure of our measuring operations to disclose relations of absolute simultaneity is only the epistemic consequence of the fact that these relations do not exist”, ibid ., pp. 92-93
Elsewhere, Grünbaum summarizes: “For on Newton's theory, our events E and E' are simultaneous according to its clock readings, and yet they are connectible by Newton's fastest causal chain (gravitation) and only by such a chain. By contrast, the STR requires its clocks to be set so as to issue in the non -simutaneity of any two events which can belong only to the career of its fastest causal chains (light), even though these events cannot both be on the world-line of a single clock”, “Simultaneity by Slow Clock Transport in the Special Theory of Relativity,” Philosophy of Science , vol. 36, no. 1, March, 1969, pp. 21.
Perhaps the simplest takeaway from this abstruse discussion is this: Whatever it is was that Newton took himself to have been doing alchemically or mystically, in terms of coordinating and grounding a standard time, may not automatically carry over to contemporary adepts who are perhaps apt to understand temporal relations along relativistic lines, as opposed to substantivalist ones.
[34] Erlestoke, Wiltshire, UK: Erlestoke Press, 1937.
[35] MacHuisdean, ibid ., p. 84.
[36] The Kabbalah Connection to pi – The Jewish Kabbalah can't be a complete unknown even to the mass audience now when popular singer Madonna Louise Ciccone has taken to wearing the red wrist cord of a highly commercialized Kabbalah cult group. We owe to the Israeli mathematics historian, Rabbi Marc-Alain Ouaknin, a number of key insights which tie the pi factor to Kabbalah. The latter, he writes, “designates the mysteries of the mystical Jewish tradition” and he stresses “the essential link of Kabbalah with mathematics.” See Marc-Alain Ouaknin, The Mystery of Numbers , New York, NY: Assouline Publishing, 2004, pp. 153-54. Как так?
One of the key kabbalistic concepts is the idea that, for the world to be created, God first “withdrew from himself into himself…thus creating a space for the future world”, ibid. , p. 277. However, once the space was opened, it then became necessary to maintain the void and allow the universe to survive. For this a force arose “that kept the light of the infinite at the periphery. In Hebrew, this 'no return' force is named shadai, a word that means 'enough, sufficient' … Shadai is the name of God, the self-limiting…(in kabbalistic Hebrew, this limitation is called din) whose purpose is to make the Creation possible and therefore to balance entropy and the expansion of the world…”, ibid. , p. 279.
Geometry entered the picture when an early Spanish Kabbalist considered the episode (Genesis 3:24) in which God stationed an angel at the Garden of Eden with a revolving sword tracing a fiery circle, and he was inspired to assert “the circle is built from the name shadai.” From that image of the sword (the radius) and the circle it traces, kabbalists extrapolate the equivalent of pi, since the area of the circle is of course determined as pi times the radius squared. Ouaknin explains that, in gematria, in which each Hebrew letter also has a numerical equivalent, shadai equals 314, commenting “Strange coincidence: 314 represents the proximate value of pi multiplied by 100.”
He quotes one Leon Ashkenazi, a contemporary Kabbalist who wrote “Pi is precisely the relationship between the forces that make possible the delimitation in the physical world, a delimitation that exists through the name shadai at a metaphysical level.” It is tempting to surmise that such delimitation is part and parcel of the marking off of the entire globe with the symbolical net based at Greenwich.
The function of time, so primary at Greenwich, enters with a link to another fundamental kabbalistic principle: the creation of the universe through manipulation of the Hebrew alphabet. Ouaknin: “The rational value of pi is 22/7. For the Kabbalists, this number suggests the articulation of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet (of which there are twenty-two) and the numeral 7, whose first meaning is the rhythm of time in biblical thought. Thus, pi (22/7) means the ratio between the alphabet and time, ie the word. Indeed, what it does is to put the alphabet in motion, thanks to the combination of the letters”, ibid. , p. 280.
Finally, our author concludes: “The ratio that exists between, on the one hand, a tendency toward entropy, deployment and expansion – known by the kabbalistic name of hessed – and,on the other hand, a tendency toward order and limitarion – din – is on the order of pi”, ibid ., p. 282.
[37] More on MacHuisdean – Jim Brandon is inevitably reminded of the old kids' rhyme “Simple Simon met a pieman…” but there is nothing simple in Hamish MacHuisdean's work-ups. Essentially an anti-establishment geometer, he bases his bona-fides on demonstrated prowess in what were apparently regarded as impossibilities: squaring the circle, trisecting the angle and doubling the cube.
Actually, circle squaring is now not that unusual and has been published in a number of recent sources, and not by methods bearing any resemblance to MacH's quite intricate procedure. Doubling of the cube has also purportedly been achieved, although a claimed method seen by JB in a publication in the 1990s seemed similar to the version first published by MacH in the 1920s. Trisection of the angle may be unique to our author, but as with all of the diagrams given in his books, no attempt has been made by us to verify with our own examples that these techniques really work as he claims.
The most intriguing spin-offs from MacH's neo-geometry, however, are his assertions on the pi factor. By far his most significant claim is that pi is not a so-called irrational number, meaning one whose “decimals are infinite and unforeseeable…” That is how Ouaknin defines it and follows up with a summary of ongoing attempts reach the end of the series: “Today we are up to more than 200 billion decimals of pi” ( ibid ., pp. 196, 206) with no end in sight. MacH dismisses this with the claim – which would seem to have revolutionary impact in the maths world if true – that, no, pi ends at 3.1416, period.
He bases this on a complex and, for us, as yet unresolvable series of geometrical diagrams in his book, Yesterday's Impossibilities (Dunbartonshire, Scotland: Fraser, Edward & Co., 1943). As we mentioned earlier, the present essay is much a work in progress and not a little of that would apply to MacH's corpus which will be submitted to qualified mathematician-geometers for perusal, as time permits.
Lastly, the Freemasonic connection. Surprisingly reminiscent of the kabbalistic equation of the key Hebrew term shadai to number 314 is MacH's much-lauded 31460, the 10,000 multiple of his self-contained 3.1416 pi. As an example of his typical development, here is what he produces when considering the “Ratios of the Musical Scale”: “The 2nd note [Re or D] is 432 [vibrations per second: actually, 432 1/8, but he omits the 1/8] or 6 x 6 x 6 by 2. The 13th note [sol or G] is 1296 [vps, also ignoring the extra 1/8] or 6 x 6 x 6 x 6. <>bThe 33rd note is 7776 [vps, omitting 1/8] or 6 x 6 x 6 x 6 x 6. 33 is the Master Mason degree, as all numbers from 1 to 33 added up total 561; and 561 squared and minus 561 yield 314160, the pi ratio series” (Hamish MacHuisdean, The Great Law, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, UK: The Erlestoke Press, 1937, p. 160. Emphasis supplied.)
Any reader who wishes to pursue this possible, but not probable, geo-mathematical revolution can probably find MacH's books through book-finders or interlibrary loans, with a little effort.
[38] Nota bene : The calculation of space (navigational position, longitude, etc.) and time depends upon the sun and moon. This dual-dependence on the sun and moon is very important in alchemy and sex magic as well. See our earlier post: “Neil Armstrong: Astronaut or Alchemist?” HERE .
[39] J. O'Donnell, “John Harrison and the Longitude problem,” Royal Museum Greenwich , November 15, 2002, http://www.rmg.co.uk/harrison .
[40] The Temple and the Lodge , New York, NY: Arcade, 1989, p. 155.
[41] I take the “rose” reference in mathematical, rather than botanical, terms (since the relevant flowers “by any other name” have five petals, rather than six). See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rose_(mathematics)>.
[42] “Saturn's Massive Northern Hurricane,” NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI , photo 1, < http://www.space.com/18674-saturn-vortex-hexagon-storm-photos.html >.
[43] “The hexagram, like the pentagram, was and is used in practices of the occult and ceremonial magic”, “Hexagram,” Wikipedia , May 27, 2013, < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram >.
[44] “Saturn Hexagon Vortex Storm,” NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI , photo 6, < http://www.space.com/18674-saturn-vortex-hexagon-storm-photos.html >.
[45] < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon#Homeworld >.
[46] “Kronos,” Theoi , < http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanKronos.html >.
[47] < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/72_%28number%29 >.
[48] George Hart, Egyptian Myths , Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, pp. 40-41, < http://books.google.com/books?id=K78L_vGn2E4C&pg=PA40 >. Relatedly, Typhon's plot “to overthrow Osiris” involved “seventy-two fellow conspirators”, Hart, op. cit ., p. 41.
[49] < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Year >.
[50] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession#Ancient_Egyptians .
[51] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession#Ancient_Egyptians .
[52] See the previous post: < http://curveofbell.blogspot.com/2012/12/threats.html >.
[53] Caitlin Matthews, “The Guardian Head – Sacred Palladiums of Britain,” John Matthews & Chesca Potter, The Aquarian Guide to Legendary London , Wellingborough, UK: Aquarian Press, 1990, p. 36.
[54] John Wilcock, A Guide to Occult Britain , London: Sphere Books, 1977, p. 35.
[55] “Christopher Wren – architect and astronomer,” Royal Museum Greenwich , January 28, 2005, < http://www.rmg.co.uk/explore/astronomy-and-time/astronomy-facts/history/christopher-wren-architect-and-astronomer >.
[56] Margaret M. Howard, “Dried Cats,” Man , vol 51, November, 1951, p. 149.
[57] Ibid .
[58] “Sir Christopher Wren (1632 – 1723),” BBC , < http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wren_christopher.shtml >.
[59] “House of Plantagenet,” Wikipedia , June 1, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Plantagenet#Henry_VII.2C_the_Tudors_and_the_Plantagenet_descendants >. See also Michael Hoffman, “Conspiracy Against a King,” Revisionist Review [weblog], April 4, 2013, http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2013/04/conspiracy-against-king-michael-hoffman.html .
[60] This meaning is commonly given. Lewis and Short's standard reference, A Latin Dictionary (Oxford, 1879) p. 1382, notes that “Placentia” was also a city in ancient Gallia populated with pagan practitioners of hepatomancy (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruspex ;). The city is now called Piacenza and is in northern Italy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piacenza . The Wikipedia article just cited says that the name implies a “good omen”. Although Lewis & Short ( loc. cit. ) also indicate that the root placer can designate being “...pleased or satisfied with oneself, to flatter oneself, to pride or plume oneself...”, and this is rarely mentioned in conjunction with the Tudor palace, but seems relevant. Finally, “placentia” is arguably very close to placenta , a word (meaning “cake”, esp. “[f]or an offering...” Lewis & Short, Ibid .) that is obviously connected to the omphalos (since the navel is a relic of one's connexion to one's mother via the umbilicus ), < http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/lint/facts.htm >.
[61] Kate Ravilious, “Henry VIII's Lost Chapel Discovered Under Parking Lot,” National Geographic News, February 9, 2006, < http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0209_060209_london_chapel.html >.
[62] “Greenwich,” Collier's Encyclopedia , vol. 11, Crowell-Collier, 1964, p. 441.
[63] “Greenwich,” Collier's Encyclopedia , loc. cit . There word “Palladian” derives from the name of the “Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580)”, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladian_architecture >. It is, however, tantalizingly close to being a LexiLink with the word “Palladium,” about which see In Tenebris . HERE .
[64] The Constitution of Freemasons , 1723; quoted in Frances A. Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment , London: Routledge, 1972, p. 271.
[65] “May 10 th , National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,” London Psychogeographical Association Newsletter , no. 6, Beltaine, 1994.
[66] Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London, second ed., London, 1811, p. 504, http://books.google.com/books?id=JJcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA504 . “During the English Civil War, the palace was used as a biscuit factory and prisoner-of-war camp. Then, in the Interregnum, the palace and park were seized to become a 'mansion' for the Lord Protector”, “Greenwich,” Wikipedia , < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich >.
[67] Ibid .
[68] “ Impressment , colloquially, 'the Press', refers to the act of taking men into a navy by force and with or without notice. It was used by the Royal Navy, beginning in 1664 and during the 18th and early 19th centuries, in wartime, as a means of crewing warships, although legal sanction for the practice goes back to the time of Edward I of England”, “Impressment,” Wikipedia , May 17, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment >. Ср Michael Hoffman, They Were White and They Were Slaves , Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: Independent History and Research, 1993, < www.amazon.com/They-Were-White-Slaves-Enslavement/dp/0929903056/ >.
[69] “George I (1714-27 AD),” Britannia, < http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon53.html >.
[70] “Baron Greenwich,” Wikipedia , March 11, 2013, < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Greenwich >. According to the aforementioned London Psychogeographical Association [LPA], "Queen Elizabeth, "Her majesty[,] is top dog in the 'occult establishment' - a secret body of Freemasons, many of them titled, who run Britain", Hugill, op. cit. Further, again according to the LPA, the Queen has participated in various Masonic goings on at Greenwich, in and around the Queen Mary palace. See ibid .
[71] Specifically on “The Greenwich Line,” see: “What are ley lines?” London Psychogeographical Association Newsletter , no. 6, Beltaine, 1994.
[72] “Nazi Occultists...”, loc. cit . Additionally, “In Roman times the Thames was narrower at this point, and it is thought that there may have been a ford connecting Greenwich to the Isle of Dogs, where the foot tunnel now runs”, Chesca Potter, loc. cit .
[73] Robert Graves, The Greek Myths , London: Penguin, 1992, p. 772.
[74] Douglas Harper, “Omphalos,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=omphalos >.
[75] Raphael Patai, Man and Temple in Ancient Myth and Ritual , New York, NY: Ktav, 1967; cited by William N. Grimstad, “The Freemasons and the Drive to Rebuild Solomon's Temple,” unpublished monograph, 2005, p. 2.
[76] Cooper, “Omphalos,” op. cit., p. 122.
[77] Ibid .
[78] One author handily summarizes the “two main theories about how the Isle of Dogs got its name...”: (1) “...Henry VIII kept his dogs on the island and brought them to his palace at Greenwich by boat if he needed them for hunting” and (2) “...when the Dutch engineers drained the marshes in the 17th century and claimed back the land lost to the 1488 flood, it became known as the Isle of Dykes”, which name survives only in corrupted form. < http://barryoneoff.co.uk/html/the_island.html >.
[79] Chesca Potter, loc. cit .
[80] Hermione Hobhouse, ed., “The Isle of Dogs: Introduction,” Survey of London , vols. 43 & 44, 1994, pp. 375-387; at British History Online , < http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46507 >.
[81] See A[nthony]. J. Bell, “Lexi-Links: Nature's Play on Words,” Fortean Times , August 17, 1976. Mr. Bell has no known relation to the present writer.
[82] Theodore J. Cachey Jr., “Canaries (Fortunate Islands),” < http://www.english.upenn.edu/~dwallace/europe/nodes/canaries.html >.
[83] There is a vast amount of dog-related arcana. We note that “...dogs were sacrificed to [the Greek goddess] Hekate...” who was herself often depicted as dog-headed, Sorita d'Este and David Rankine, Hekate: Liminal Rites , London: Avalonia, 2009, pp. 24 & 71, et alia . We mentioned Hecate in our prior post, In Tenebris (HERE). The Egyptian counterpart to Hermes – the Hermetic god – is Thoth (Tehuti). Although usually represented as a stylized Ibis, “[a]nother of the commonest symbolic forms of Thoth is the dog-headed ape”, GRS [George Robert Stowe ] Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes , vol. 1, London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906, p. 55, < http://www.sacred-texts.com/gno/th1/th106.htm >. The star Sirius is “...often known as the Dog Star as it is in the constellation Canis, or 'Dog'...”, Robert KG Temple, The Sirius Mystery , Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books, 1987, p. 58. “'[T]he Dog Days'...[follow] the heliacal rising of Sirius in the summer”, ibid . My awareness of this owes to Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare , Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: Independent History and Research, 2001. The conscientious researcher should note yet another obfuscatory word game. Canicula , which means “...literally: little dog...”, is often reported to be “...another name for Sirius”, “Canicula,” The Free Dictionary , < http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Canicula >. On the other hand, “...Procyon was sometimes termed Canicula by the Romans...”, William Smith, ed., “Astronomia,” A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities , p. 153. Now Procyon (of the constellation Canis Minor ) is composed of pro -, which means “before,” and kyon (or “dog”). As I commented in another place, Procyon is most often said to be so-called (the “dog before” or the “before-dog”) because (at least at one time) it was supposed to have risen prior to Sirius (of Canis Major), thus heralding Sirius' arrival. See, eg, Smith, op. cit. , p. 152. However, in other places, the meaning for Canicula/Procyon is given as “little bitch” and carries the connotation of (to put it delicately) “the dog in front” ( pro - cyon ), Nicolaus Copernicus, “On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres,” in Stephen W. Hawking, ed., On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy , Philadelphia, Running Press Books, 2002, p. 129. On this latter construal, the depiction of Canis Minor “in front of” or “before” Canis Major could be taken as a symbolic-astronomic sexcapade, writ large in the stars. This sort of sexual language (talk of a "bitch," etc.) is echoed in the so-called “BDSM community,” which is, in out view, pagan sex magic with a secular veneer. This brief sketch barely scratches the surface. (There is also the possibility of taking a LexiLink approach, here. The root siri , eg, appears in the name Osiris – O-siri-s, maybe siri-os? Additionally, Cardinal Giuseppe Siri is an important player in some variations of Catholic sedevacantism, see < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri_Thesis >. Apple computer has a “Siri” operating system < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri_(software )>, and Sirius XM satellite radio is well known < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_XM_Radio >.) For a bit more information on the star Sirius and related recondite information, see: Jim Brandon, “Sirius Rising,” audio series, ca. 1976; Robert Temple, The Sirius Mystery , < http://www.amazon.com/Sirius-Mystery-Scientific-Evidence-Contact/dp/089281750X >; Michael Hoffman, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare , < http://www.amazon.com/Societies-Psychological-Warfare-Michael-Hoffman/dp/0970378416 >; Loren Coleman, “Dark Knight Shooting,” Twilight Language , July 20, 2012, < http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2012/07/dark-knight-shooting.html >; and “Sirius Rises,” Visup , July 22, 2012, < http://visupview.blogspot.com/2012/07/sirius-rising.html >.
[84] Douglas Harper, “Canary,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=canary >.
[85] “Pictures of the day, Oct. 1,” New York Times , October 1, 2007, < www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/10/01/nytfrontpage/20071001POD_12.html >.
[86] “Egyptian god floats up Thames,” BBC , October 1, 2007, < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7022829.stm >.
[87] April McDevitt, “The West (imenet),” Ancient Egypt: The Mythology , < http://www.egyptianmyths.net/west.htm >.
[88] Robert Means Lawrence, The Magic of the Horse-Shoe: With Other Folk-Lore Notes, Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1898, ch. 10, < http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/mhs/mhs41.htm >. Here is a curious tie-in with our previous study of the Tower of London and our ongoing investigation of Charles II. “In the room containing the crown jewels, in the Tower of London, are to be seen eleven magnificent golden salt-cellars, the oldest dating from the reign of Elizabeth. Of these the so-called state salt-cellar, which is a model of the White Tower, was presented by the city of Exeter to King Charles II., and was used at coronation banquets”, ibid .
[89] Ibid .
[90] Ibid .
[91] Ibid . Lawrence gives the example of a “haughty wife...[who] could hardly be imagined as sitting 'below the salt...”, ibid .
[92] John Reid, “The Three Essentials,” John Reid's Course on Practical Alchemy , part 1, ch. 2, < http://www.levity.com/alchemy/reid1-2.html >.
[93] Dennis William Hauck, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Alchemy , New York, NY: Penguin, 2008, p. 96-97.
[94] Ibid ., pp. 97 & 78.
[95] “Great Fire of London,” Wikipedia , February 26, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London >.
[96] Günther Oestmann, “John Flamsteeds Horoskop für die Grundsteinlegung der Sternwarte Greenwich,” Sudhoffs Archiv , bd. 86, h. 2, 2002, pp. 129-137.
[97] There is a possibly relevant magnetic phenomenon, namely, the “magnetic meridian” (and declination). “In Magnetism. When a magnetic needle is suspended by a fibre or pivot at its centre it assumes a definite direction by reason of the earth's magnetic force. It lies in a line that is called the magnetic meridian at that spot on the earth's surface, and the more northerly end points to what is called the magnetic north. As a rule the magnetic north at any place will not coincide with the true or geographical north – the magnetic meridian will not be identical with the geographical meridian. The angle between these two directions is called the declination. Thus in London the declination is about 17° west of north; it increases up to a certain limit as one travels westwards, subsequently diminishing to zero in the region of Hudson's Bay. Beyond this the declination is east of north. There are slight daily variations, as well as steady long-period changes, in the declination at any place. Lines drawn on the earth's surface to mark those points where the declination is of the same value, are called isogonic lines. Lines of no declination, where the magnetic and geographic meridians coincide, are called agonic lines. ...”, “Declination,” Encyclopedia123 , < http://www.encyclopedia123.com/D/Declination.html >.
“The most remarkable phenomenon of the magnet, in relation to the earth, is the variation of the magnetic meridian in most parts of the globe, upon which depends the declination of the needle. Accurate observation of this phenomenon has ascertained the following facts: There are certain points on the earth where no declination exists. The lines formed by their series, however, do not coincide with the geographical meridians; but, on the contrary, deviate from them very irregularly. According to the most recent observations, there exists a line without declination in the Atlantic ocean, between the old and the new world. It intersects the meridian of Paris, at a southern latitude of about 65°; thence it mounts to the northwest, to about 35° W. longitude from this meridian, or 32° 39' 37” from Greenwich, as high as the latitude of the coast of Paraguay; after which, becoming again almost north and south, it skirts the coasts of Brazil, and proceeds to the latitude of Cayenne. Then, turning suddenly to the northwest, it takes the direction of the U. States, and thence proceeds to the northern parts of the American continent, which it traverses in the same direction. The position of this line on the globe is not immutable ; at least for a century and a half, it has been tending considerably from the east to the west. It passed London in 1657, and Paris in 1664. Thus, in its present direction, it has traversed in the latitude of these places, nearly 80° of longitude in 150 years. But there is no doubt that this change is not uniform. It is even very unequal in different parallels”, “Magnet,” American Encyclopedia , 1851, < http://www.agepedia.org/wiki/MAGNESIA >.
[98] Douglas Harper, “Meridian,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=meridian >.
[99] Ibid . The noon and midnight hours are also called the “high” and “low twelves.” “The language of Freemasonry, in reference to the hours of labor and refreshment, is altogether symbolical. The old lectures contained a tradition that our ancient Brethren wrought six days in the week and twelve hours in the day, being called off regularly at the hour of high twelve from labor to refreshment. In the French and German systems, the Craft were said to be called from labor at low twelve, or midnight…[I]n the system of Zinnendorf, it is said that there are in a Mason's Lodge five hours, namely, twelve struck, noon, high noon, midnight, and high midnight…”, Mackey, op. cit. , vol. 1, стр. 466.
[100] Mackey, “RAISED,” op. cit. , vol 2., p. 829.
[101] George Oliver, Signs and Symbols of Freemasonry , p. 204; quoted by Albert G. Mackey, “DEDICATION OF A LODGE,” Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry , vol. 1, Chicago: Masonic History Co., 1956, pp. 267-268. Mackey subsequently states that “it is a needless task to cite authorities or multiply instances to prove how intimately the sun, as a symbol, is connected with the whole system of Freemasonry”, ibid . But not the sun only. For Mackey reveals that “[t]he sun...[is] obedient to the all-seeing eye...”, ibid . Manly Palmer Hall writes: “The initiate in the mysteries was always instructed concerning the existence of three suns...[T]he disciple is told to revere the invisible sun even more than the visible one”, Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire , Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1996, p. 12 (see also p. 18). Mackey writes about the “three sons of Saturn” – Jove (Zeus), Neptune (Poseidon), and Pluto (Hades) – amongst whom “the Universe was divided”, Mackey, “SUN,” op. cit. , p. 988. Of course, this is an analog of the Triple Goddess ( Trivia ) – Luna, Diana, Hecate, ibid . We covered this in In Tenebris , HERE .
[102] Mackey alluding to the commentary of “Doctor Jarvis,” in “ARK, NOAH'S,” Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry , vol. 1, Chicago: Masonic History Co., 1956, p. 103. Going on, it is stated that the Zo-har of the “Ark of Safety” (ie, Noah's Ark) is not merely a “... window ...but a source of light itself”, ibid .
[103] < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/72_%28number%29 >. The aforementioned Wikipedia article makes mention of “[t]he 72 old men of the synagogue, according to the Zohar.” I am unaware of the meaning of this reference. There are also 72 hours over the course of three days; 72 pillars outside of the National Archives; 72 bricks on the pyramid of the reverse of the dollar bill; etc. For more "72s," including the crucial 72 divine names in Kabbalah, see Star Trek In Tenebris HERE .
[104] “The Classic Book on Ley Lines”: Alfred Watkins, The Old Straight Track , London: Abacus, 2009.
[105] Cf. Downard & Hoffman, op. cit ; as well as Jim Brandon, The Rebirth of Pan , Dunlap, Ill.: Firebird Press, 1983, pp. 170 ff .
[106] Alex Owen, “Aleister Crowley in the Desert,” excerpted from The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern , < http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/642011.html >.
[107] “Aleister Crowley,” Wikipedia, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley >.
[108] “Paris Meridian,” Wikipedia , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_meridian .
[109] Douglas Harper, “Greenwich,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Greenwich >.
[110] “Philosophy of Time: Philosophers Speak,” part 1, Philosophical Installations , University of Oregon, < http://philinstall.uoregon.edu/video/1317/ >.
[111] Douglas Harper, “Meridian,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=meridian > and “Meridian, Mississippi,” Wikipedia , < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian,_Mississippi >.
[112] “Cornelius Vanderbilt,” Wikipedia , June 1, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Vanderbilt >.
[113] “Cornelius Vanderbilt,” History , < http://www.history.com/topics/cornelius-vanderbilt >.
[114] Ibid .
[115] TJ Styles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt , quoted in Ibid .
[116] “Sanford Fleming,” Wikipedia , May 15, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandford_Fleming >; ср “Universal Time, Wikipedia, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time >.
[117] “Cornelius Vanderbilt,” History , loc. cit .
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Мэтью Белл
Джим с Брендоном
автор Weird Америки
и Возрождение Pan
Как дневного света истощается и даже холод осени начинает казаться нам теплую память, мы окружать со всех сторон плохие новости. От безжалостных Центров по контролю и профилактике заболеваний паникерства гриппа на неоднократные предупреждения о неизбежной угрозе экономической катастрофы - на этом, 100 - й "день рождения" год Федеральной резервной системы - мы, кажется, заражен ужасной "сезонного аффективного расстройства. "для того, чтобы поместить его менее клинически, наши духи флаг и ледяные пальцы зимы простираются от их полярного оплот затянуть их сцепление на нашей коллективной шее. О, "... [г] есмотря! Отсрочка и успокоительное ... ". [1] Раздражение гонит вопрос:" Господи, к кому нам идти " [2]
Когда, "что наши удивленными глазами должны появиться" , но находящихся под угрозой исчезновения видов архитектурной бурлеска, современный собор потребительства , что является торговый центр.
Сотни несчастных карабкаться внутри. В каждом сердце есть надежда обмена комок быстро обесцениванию наличных денег для всего лишь немного вкуса Рождественское приветствие.
Но, Ло! Кто это посреди этого суетящимся, безмятежно восседающего, на броской кресле, в показной яркий рубиново-красный наряде?
В "нормальных" условиях, по- видимому , такая ужасная мода чувственности предупредит стиле сознательных Mavens 21 - го Америки - вечный наличие психического расстройства. Тотчас начнется предсказуемый процесс социального остракизму - перемежается, пожалуй, с 50000 вольт трещит вперед от Taser некоторой возбудимой новобранец полиции или прокат коп зарядной вперед к красной угрозы , как разъяренный бык после Мулета .
Здесь, однако, среди окружает этого пышно украшенных Галериа, фигура Одетые в блестящей алого и белоснежный наряд имеет все животное очарование живого магниту. Толпа разбросано вокруг него, замирает - как кусочки железа, замороженных под невидимым влиянием огромного красного магнита.
А дети - как они толпятся открытое пространство! Каждая крошечная форма медленно и неумолимо тянет в сторону весёлый толстяк, как обреченного маленькой планете, пойманной в гравитационном поле красного гиганта. Наиболее примечательно то, при ударе, они проливают их маленькие кишки, некоторые рыдала дико, а другие шепчут тайные желания на ухо этого незнакомца!
Является ли это последним в заявке Агентства гнусных Surveillance, чтобы следить за американцев? Является ли это какой-то секретный агент, маскируясь о, надевая эту абсурдную маскировку и поднося под вымышленным именем? Это современный пересказ вековой истории о волке собирается на охоту в овечьей шкуре?
Нет! Это Санта-Клаус, конечно. Алиас Kris Крингл. [3] Алиас Рождество Отца. [4] Алиас ... Saint Nick! Так проверить это как "веселый старый эльф," является cartoonized в хищного кота лижет его отбивные над восхитительных мышей - или детишкам? -.. от Санта-скептиков в MGM в начале 1935 года, как (Вы, возможно, потребуется увеличивать громкость немного на этом Кроме того, не забудьте проверить сноску, чтобы увидеть, что эти люди в кино делали в своей собственной студии рождественские праздники Взрослые только, пожалуйста!) [5]
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Кто Санта-Клаус, на самом деле?
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Консалтинг популярный источник Wikipedia, один узнает о уточненного происхождении Санта-Клауса в голландской фигуре меченого синтаклаас. Предположительно бастардизация Синт Nikolass ( "Святой Николай"), синтаклаас , как утверждается, ссылка на 3 - й -4 - го века епископ Ликиэн назвал Николай Мирликийский. [6]
Хорошо известный 19 - го века новеллист, Вашингтон Ирвинг, включал сюрреалистический виньетки в его Истории Нью - Йорка (1812 г. изд.), Причудливую псевдо-истории голландских поселенцев в Нью - Йорке впервые опубликован на Николы День в 1809 году, что изображен святой Николай взлетая. [7]
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( "Святой Николай во славе," Лоренцо Лотто (1529). [8] )
Согласно этой версии, наш любимый Санта-Клауса, таким образом, как говорят, шестнадцать сотен лет возврат к реальной жизни христианского святого человека со склонностью к возмутительной великодушия - ярким примером которых участвуют, как история идет, мешками золота делая их веселыми пути вниз дымоход [9] (на которых более ниже), традиционно "углу дьявола" в европейском фольклоре, экономя три гроша дев из жизни унизительной блуда.
Кажется, что возведен на трон в наших торговых центрах щедрости персонифицируется: старый добрый сам Ник (или разумное факсимиле от него).
Или это?
Некоторые утверждают , что есть что - то зловещее скрывается под этими классическими чертами Санта. [10] Вы знаете , те , которые мы имеем в виду. Как было предусмотрено theologian- диплом -poet, Клемент Кларк Мур (или это мог быть Генри Ливингстон, младший?), И популяризировал, сначала открытки пионер Луи Пранг в конца века Америки, а затем и Coca-Cola компания в обширных рекламных кампаний в течение 1930-х годов, мы ссылаемся на эти мерцающие глаза, румяные щеки, вишневый нос, рот чудной, снег, как борода, и пухлый живот.
Является ли это лицо зла?
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Gadshill: "Sirrah, если они встречаются не с клерками Святого Николая, я дам тебе эту шею."
Чемберлен: "Нет, я не буду ни один из них: Я прошу тебя держать , что для палача; ибо я знаю , ты worshippest святой Николай , как по- настоящему , как человек фальши может ". [11]
Рассмотренный как анаграммы, буквы его имени - A - N - T - A, могут быть перестроены , чтобы сформировать собственное имя сатаны. [12] Этот пункт был сделан особенно памятно на живого персонажа в субботу ночью, церковь Богоматери ( Дана Карви).
Could it Be.....
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"Церковь Леди: Привет, Я Церковь леди, и это 'Церковь чат. Ну, вы знаете, сезон отпусков прибыл. И с ним, немного письмо из Толедо, штат Огайо. Давайте прочитаем, что мы будем?
"[Чтение] 'Дорогая Церковь леди: Я шокирован количеством людей , которые приводят своих детей к общему количеству незнакомых людей в районе Санта - костюмы, и позволяют им прочно удерживать свои молодые на своих тазовых регионах, предлагают им конфеты и шёпот, Дон' бойся сказать мне , что вы действительно хотите! Что вызывает эту массовую истерию? Подпись, Элейн.
"Ну, Элейн, давайте рассмотрим слово« Санта », мы должны? [Держит доску с "Санты прописана через него в съемных букв] Санта. Давайте посмотрим, что мы имеем здесь? У нас есть S и A, н, Т, а другой А. Хм .. [переставляет буквы] Кто мог бы вызывать все эти круги, чтобы подпрыгивать вверх и вниз с любопытством? Кто бы помочь взрослые мужчины очистить фокус от младенца Иисуса на его день рождения? Кто это может быть, я просто не знаю. Может быть .. [эхо] Сатана?!?! [Буквы Теперь пишется сатаной '] " [13]
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Существует гораздо больше. "Старые добрые" Сент - Ник "кличка эхо популярной кличкой для самого дьявола: Old Nick. Интернет Морфологические словарь рассказывает , что это использование "Ника" была на месте "... от 1640 - х годов" , добавив , что "... причина этого неясна." [14]
Терри Гиллиам включает этот целеуказатель в его нечетной 2009 Флик, Воображариум доктора Парнаса. В противном случае известный как злополучной "Joker" -actor последнем фильме Хита Леджера (он умер на полпути через съемок), дьявол-герой Гиллиама называется "Mr. Ник."
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Этот зловещий ток в традиции Санта имеет некоторые тревожные синхронистичности. Рассмотрим, например, печально известный - и до сих пор нерешенной - убийство шести-летней девочки, JonBenet Рэмси.
Основные контуры инцидента довольно широко представлена следующим образом. 26 декабря 1996 года бездыханное тело "красота театрализованного принцессы" был обнаружен в подвале дома своей семьи в Боулдере, штат Колорадо. Ее дата смерти теперь дается как Рождество.
Кроме того, родители ребенка, Джона и Пэтси Рэмси, многочисленные подозреваемые были предложены. Одним из таких кандидатов был: "Уильям" Билл "Макреинолдс, отставной Университет Колорадо профессор журналистики , который получил нежелательную известность как человек , который играл в Санкт - Ник [15] . Для семьи JonBenet Рэмси ..." [16]
"Макреинолдс и его жена Джанет, оба пришли под каким-нибудь пристального внимания в качестве потенциальных подозреваемых ..., не только потому, что он был в доме незадолго до убийства JonBenet, но и потому, что полиция обнаружила две жуткие параллели между жизнью в McReynold в и детали из Рэмси дело.
"С одной стороны, было обнаружено, что дочь Макреинолдс, плюс еще одна молодая девушка, когда-то были похищены в Лонгмонте [, Колорадо, северо-востоку от Боулдер] неизвестным assailment. Вторая девушка была приставал. Макреинолдс девочка, 9 в то время, не было. Оба были освобождены в течение нескольких часов. Дата инцидента был 26 декабря 1974 - 22 лет [17] в день до открытия убийства JonBenet в.
"Кроме того, полиция узнала , что Джанет Макреинолдс написал пьесу в 1977 году, Эй Рьюба, [18] на основе 1965 пытками убийства в Индиане или подростковом возрасте девочки , которая - как JonBenet. - Был найден мертвым в подвале" [ 19]
Что касается реальной жизни, кажущееся похищение своей дочери, Джанет Макреинолдс сообщила, что похититель "... имел изменение сердца. Он плакал и сказал: "Дьявол заставил меня сделать это." Он водил девушек обратно к краю города и освободил их. " [20]
Хотя сам синтаклаас обычно брошено как «... защитника детей", [21] агрессия в отношении детей является компонентом в знаниях синтаклаас в «помощника». [22] В этом ключе, мы должны изучить голландской традиции, периодически денонсировал от предсказуемых кварталов как «расист» изображать синтаклаас с "темным помощником." Названный Zwarte Пита, то есть "Черный Пит," Загадочная фигура, который теперь выполняет безобидные такие задачи, как бросание сладостей ( snoepgoed ) к детишки после того , как выполняется более антагонистическими роли наказания ne'er делать лунки. [23]
" 'Синтерклаас' едет из Испании на лодке, в сопровождении своей белой лошади и маневренный мавританский раба под названием" Черный Питер ". ... Для озорной, нет ничего. И совсем плохо, ужасная судьба ждет, как Блэк Питер ищет их в ночное время, даже если они пытаются скрываться под кроватью. Когда он находит их, он запихивает их в холщовый мешок и тащит их обратно в Испанию, где они тонут в чернильницу или нуля в перце ". [24]
По некоторым свидетельствам, Черный Пит обязан своим темным цветом на то, что он и не особенно синтаклаас, получает вход в различных домах путем их сажей подкладке дымоходов. Есть башенных наставничества с Тором (см ссылку выше [25] ) и Гарри Поттер, как недавно показано в нескольких блокбастерах, а также с заклятым масон, Джон Теофил Desaguliers, который, помимо того , что великий мастер Гранд Ложа Англии и раннего дня ученого, а также занялся изучением дымовых труб. [26]
Chim Chim Cher-ee - Mary Poppins (Dick Van Dyke)
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Возможно, как Клейтон Л. Райт игриво представил в своей сатирической "Масонская Рождественская открытка":
"..." Почему Санта! крикнул он и опустил лезвие, | "Я вижу, что ты масоном! Тайлер ретранслируется | ... Украшенный как мастер, в комплекте со знаком | Из 'Lodge номер один, Северный полюс "на одной линии! ... ". [27]
"Сажа" , в свою очередь, этимологически связано с мифическим египетского повелителя хаоса, множество. Даже о самом Санкт-Ник, мы читаем в упомянутом выше стихотворении, "Визит Святого Николая" (ныне более известный под названием, взятым от его открытия линии, "Однажды ночью перед Рождеством"):
"... Он был одет во все меха, от его головы к его ноге | И его одежда была вся запятнана с пеплом и сажей ... ». [28]
Это описание, по-видимому действует в Санта-художественных работах карикатуриста Томас Наст, чья ранняя живописания иконе Рождества был больше похож на смуглого дымоход спелеолог, Пит, чем безупречном красный подходит парень мы думаем сегодня. Некоторые исследователи Санта таким образом были привело к предположению , что Санта может быть кусок с Big Foot или скандинавской дикарей. [29]
Ordo Templi Orientis оккультист Кеннет Грант делает заманчивую комментарий, касающийся слово "копоти" ( что означает черный) , что "[о] Ур слово« копоть »производный от этого несоизмеримо древнее название [Set]. Набор был изначальным богом египтян; не ранее , существует в записанном истории нынешней человеческой расы ". [30]
"В средневековой иконографии, святой Николай иногда представляется как приручение прикован дьявола, который может или не может быть черным ."
Что это древнеегипетский магическое имя, или, вернее, его производная, делая в стихотворении о Рождестве? Является ли Черный Питу приручили дьявол? Пользуется ли Санкт - Ник владычество над демонической области , как , видимо , и другие символы , такие как Санкт - Дунстан и Санкт - Elegius? [31]
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Или еще хуже, может дело быть сделано , что Санта - Клаус не что иное , как черный Пит, сам дьявол? Эти и многие другие вопросы прижимаются на внимательных культурных наблюдателей.
Помимо типографских ошибок и потенциально нерасполагающим тенор евангельской "preachiness," внушительное резюме подлого доказательств против Санта можно прочитать на веб - странице Терри Уоткинса, в " Санта - Клаус: Великий самозванец " . [32]
Кроме того, северная обитель Санта имеет зловещие символический подтекст. "И сказал мне Господь : от севера откроется бедствие вперед на всех жителей земли." [33]
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Проницательный космологическая писатель Дэвид Тэлбот, видел вещи с точки зрения сатурновых:
"В древнем ритуале Сатурн предстает как неподвижности Солнца или центрального огня на северном полюсе мира. Когда Сатурн правили миром, его дом был вершиной мировой оси: с этой точки все основные традиции великого отца [Сатурн, [34] по его мнению] согласен. Даже сегодня, в нашем праздновании Рождества, мы живем под влиянием полярного Сатурна. Ибо , как отмечает Мэнли П. Холл, "Сатурн, старик , который живет на Северном полюсе, и приносит с собой сынов человеческих веточку вечнозеленых (Рождественская елка), знаком маленьких людей под именем Санта - Клаус " . [35]
Франкмасонского авторитет Альберт Макки, пишущий в своей важной Энциклопедии масонства, объясняет , что: "Север Masonically называется местом тьмы. ... Восток был местом ежедневного рождения солнца, и, следовательно, весьма почитаемый; на севере место его ежегодной смерти, к которому он подошел только потерять свою потрясающую тепло, и облечь землю в темноте долгие ночи и скукой зимы. " [36]
Это суждение, возможно, подтверждается как еврейской и христианской традиционной символике, по словам летописцев. В первом случае , "[а] огласно к [ранней каббалистической] книга Бахир, к северу обитель зла; и сатана, принцип искушения и зла приходит с севера ». [37] В последнем случае , на севере постоять" ... область Люцифера и силами зла ... ». [38]
Святой Августин , как сообщается, прямо заявил: ". Дьявол имеет свою обитель на Севере" [39]
Если не дьявол, то кто он? [40] Разве мы проходим слишком быстро по возможности того, что Санкт - Ник привидение или правительство действует какой - то? Кажется, что мандат Санта действительно включает наблюдение.
"... Он видит тебя, когда ты спишь | Он знает, когда ты не спишь | Он знает, что, если ты был плохим или хорошим | Так что быть хорошим ради бога! | Так! Вы лучше следить ... " [41]
Как, скажите на милость, делает Санта "знать" вещи такого рода? Есть ли у него возможность удаленно активировать наши веб-камеры и сотовые микрофоны? Ну, это было направленность поп - музыки сатирик Рэй Стивенс в его веселый 70 - ых пародия, Санта - Клаус Watchin 'Вы [еще доступны как MP3 от Amazon] , в котором старина чувак действительно глава ЦРУ, и слежка боль в приклад к практически всем.
"Абсурд! Как ты смеешь? ", Вы говорите?
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Необходимо учитывать, здесь, тот факт , что в "полете" 2013 Санта от Северного полюса [42] будет - от взлета до окончательной посадки - находиться под контролем (с оперативной точки зрения), североамериканским командования воздушно - космической обороны, иначе известный как объединенное командование ПВО североамериканского континента
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После того , как гордые жители тринадцати подземных люксов глубоко в сердце этого примы synchromystic ориентир, Шайенн Маунтин (Колорадо), который прославился в 1983 WarGames кино, в эти дни NORAD занимает скромные кварталы, внутри Питер сына Air Force Base на восток от Колорадо - Спрингс , Что касается Шайенн Маунтин, гораздо позже , но сейчас, думаю , Stargate ...
В любом случае, военные попали в крышевание Санта назад, когда NORAD был известен как континентального командования ПВО (Conad). Одна роковая Рождество еще в 1955 году, в том же году, что доктор Эмметт Браун "первый" проверил его теперь известный "конденсатор потока" успешно посылать молодых Marty McFly "назад" в 1985 году, хорошо смысл, но неаккуратно редактор копия сделал исторический ошибка. [43] Лица , неизвестный разместил Sears (возможно, маркетинга сошка был провидцем) реклама поощрения детей к телефону Санти и листинг, вместо того , что один считает бы номер телефона для некоторого специального центра обработки вызовов Рождество, номер " ... к Conad главнокомандующий по операций «горячую линию». "Ошибки случаются. (Каковы шансы, да?)
В настоящее время можно было бы опасаться, что несанкционированная телефонные звонки "для Санта" в сверхсекретном установки правительства, от шлепка счастливым детей (любого возраста), вполне может быть истолковано федералов как приглашение, чтобы сломать входные двери какого-то домовладельца для немного времени качество чрезвычайная выдача. Но 1950-е годы была более спокойной эпохи. (Гм.)
Target You (1950s Nuclear propaganda US Govt. film)
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"Директор по операциям в то время," добродушный полковник по имени Гарри Shoup, просто отмахнулись, что мы представляем себе, возможно, был нескончаемый череда детских запросов, и перенаправлены сложный (для того времени) радиолокационного оборудования Conad и хорошо обученных (мы предположим) персонал к задаче "проверить [я] ... для показаний Санта ...". Ребята, это история не только сладкое, это сахарин сладкий, я бы сказал.
У них не было ничего другого чрезвычайно важно происходит в ту ночь.
Но каковы бы ни было, отслеживание событий Санта превратился в феерию. В ходе операции, которая, кажется, становятся все более обширным с каждым годом, NORAD выкатил сложный - и вновь торговую марку - сайт для того, чтобы приспособить (то, что они утверждают, что это) внимание во всем мире. "Даже сейчас, когда Пентагон работает , чтобы сократить $ 1 трлн из своих сундуков, миссия Санта продолжается." [44]
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Можно задаться вопросом : почему?
Является ли это просто дешевый способ подключить американское военное превосходство? [45] Или есть что - то большее?
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Змей, как Наги (выше). [46]
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Орла как Гаруда, который любит поесть наги, как он появляется на национальной эмблемой Индонезии, Гаруда Pancasila (выше). [47]
В то время как вы потягивая гоголь-моголь - и вы можете захотеть его шип с джином для остальной части этого - вот некоторые размышления для вашего экзамена.
Вопрос: Является ли NORAD в настоящее время принятия ритуал загадочно неуплаты "полярный бог" по- разному , идентифицированного как Драко (как представлено в созвездии с таким именем и популяризировал как персонаж в франшизы Гарри Поттер) или, среди каббалистических евреев, так как Te'li ? [48]
Санта, конечно, имеет юридический адрес на Северном полюсе. [49] Хотя настоящее север звезда Полярная, в древние времена, личность полюса звезды была другой. Дрейф от звезды к звезде с течением времени из - за того , что земля слегка наклонена (около 23,5 °), и вращается с небольшим «раскачивания». [50] Эти вещи создают эффект называют " осевым прецессию ."
Во всяком случае, ранее, путеводная звезда была α-Draconis, также известный как Thuban (какая звезда, кстати, "белый гигант"). Драко, дракон или великий змей, является циркумполярная созвездие, а это значит, что он никогда не заходит с точки зрения -это всегда выше Санта в то время как он и его мифические эльфы (злой разнообразие которых являются главными антагонистами в последнем Thor фильма) делают игрушки в старой мастерской. Существует некоторые основания полагать , что древнеегипетская иконография могут быть связаны с этим древним полярном узлом. [51]
К тому же , казалось бы , неискренний слово есть это , что некоторые из самых мощных cryptocrats в мире может действительно быть частью "измененными очертаниями группы рептильных потомков из созвездия Дракона". [52]
Другой любопытный морщин приходит путем бывшего ВВС США офицер разведки, Джордж А. Filer III, который однажды сообщил следующее. "Я думаю , что Уолтер Ширра на борту Меркурия 8 был первым из космонавтов использовать кодовое название" Санта - Клаус " , чтобы показать наличие летающих тарелок рядом с космическими капсулами." [53]
Жак Валле, математик, ученый, астроном и уфолог , который "... служил в качестве модели в реальной жизни для характера изображаемого Франсуа Трюффо в фильме Близкие контакты Стивена Спилберга третьего рода", [54] написал , что в сентябре 28, 1954 в Сен-Николя-де-Редон во Франции, "[а] т 'La Butte Rouge' два железнодорожных инженеров, Бернард и Potraux, которые привозили локомотив из Нанта в Оре, увидел темный объект снять с Пурпурное свечение и следовать за ними в течение 15 секунд, прежде чем сворачивающих. Potraux пришлось обратиться к врачу. " [55]
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Дополнительные возможные наставничества неисчислимы. Рассмотрим, например, символ дерева, поэтому видную в течение этого сезона. Мифические деревья иногда связаны с драконами. Дракон Ladon охраняли еще одно дерево в саду Гесперид, от которого висели легендарные золотые яблоки. [56]
Волшебные деревья иногда возникают в голливудских постановках, а также. Я имею в виду, например, ссылки на Иггдрасиль , мировое дерево, в Капитан Америка: Первый мститель . (2011) [57]
Еврейская мистика также - довольно лихо - имеет каббалистическую ". Дерево жизни" [58] ". Мистерии" Рождественская елка, история его, ведет свое происхождение обратно в "райское дерево" в средневековой Рай Дерево должно было , по меньшей мере , одного лютеранского ученого, чтобы было представление дерева , из которого Адам и Ева вкусили, способствуя их гибели. [59]
Как уже упоминалось ранее, существует еще одна еврейская-ассоциация с Драко. [60]
По словам раввина и исследователь Арье Каплан Te'li - каббалистикой представление великого полярного дракона, Драко - это очень важно в эзотерической космологии. [61]
В качестве дополнительного лексического морщин, название для центра Каббалы, на немецком языке , Клаус, [62] , какое слово имеет очевидное сходство с квази-фамилию Санта, Клаус. Эти центры, более широко известный как Домов изучения (Бет ha'Midrash) - по- видимому , для Талмуда или Каббала - "... в сторону от использования для изучения, также используются для мониторинга вопросов , представляющих общественный интерес ..., чтобы сделать расчеты для религиозных целей ... и поставить общественную поминальную панегирик ... а дом обучения обладает святостью и присутствие Бога можно найти там ... " [63] Бет ha'Midrash, таким образом, своего рода Святого Клауса - это" Санта - Клаус. "
Что "вопросы общественного беспокойства" или "религиозных расчетов" или "восхваляя" может быть происходит в Свято-Клаусом обряде НОРАД, можно только догадываться.
Ученый эксперт Каббала и профессор Гершом Шолем объясняет , что в "практической каббалы": ". [T] он колдун рисует вперед дух нечистоты из kelippot и смешивает чистый и нечистый вместе" [64]
То, что в мире "kelippot"? Мы рады, что вы спросили!
В комплексе каббалистической системе 16 - го века раввин Исаак Лурия, что "... klipah, kelipot" являются "Раковины ... демонической стороне" творения , что "... [...] неясного божественный свет». [65] это очищает вещи прямо, не так ли? Важно отметить, что в этих рамках лурианской, "Язычники приходят из этой темной стороны ...". [66]
Кроме того, "... сила kelippah ...", "... представляют [ред] ..." на "... дракон или демоническая рептилия," [67] должен "... быть покорена через соблюдение Торы и мицвот ...". [ 68]
Предполагается ли церемония Санта нарисовать вниз небесной или супер-небесные силы? Все ли зрелища рассчитывается - кем - то или что - то - для психологического эффекта? [69]
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Или эффект более элементарный?
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Можно утверждать, что Санта-Mythos содержит все исходные материалы, необходимые для какой-то алхимической работы. Принимая во внимание классическую схему Гиппократа и Галена, когда объединено в правильном порядке и в нужное время, четыре стихии - земля, вода, воздух и огонь - выход прима Materia ( "первый вопрос").
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Безрадостный полярный климат Санта подпадает под сферу действия воды. [70] Его способны оленей неоспоримо командовать над воздухом, который элемент также включает в себя эльфов, так как эльфы "духи воздуха," хотя "они исходят из земли и воды". [ 71] Наконец, хорошо известные ссылки на дымоходы и копоти в знаниях четко ассоциировать Санта с огнем.
Что нужно сделать из всего этого Санта-мании?
Мы не уверены, но мы рекомендуем вам дать ему немного подумать - мы услышали сказать , что Санта - Клаус приходит в город , рядом с вами ... в ближайшее время !
Springsteen "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" Buffalo 11-22-09
Die Wiedergabe wird auf diesem Gerät nicht unterstützt.
[1] Эдгар Аллан По, "Ворон" 1845, воспроизводится в < http://www.houseofusher.net/raven.html >.
[2] Джон 6:68.
[3] "После того, как почти полтора века это синоним Санта - Клауса до сих пор слышал, даже если слова не имеют ничего с Санта. Термин возник в Америке в 1830 и была прописана Krisskring'l , прежде чем принимать его нынешнем виде. Krisskring'l вытекает из непонимания слова Christkindlein используется немецкими иммигрантами, его смысл не "Санта - Клаус" , а "Ребенок в сене "или" маленький Христос ребенок "," Роберт Хендриксон, "Крис Крингл," Энциклопедия слова и фразы происхождение, Нью - Йорк: QPB, 2004, p.418.
[4] В современной американской культуре, название "Дед Мороз" (хотя редко) принимается как синоним "Санта - Клауса" . Например, Роберт Хендриксон, пишущий в своей энциклопедии слова и фразы Происхождение, обозначает Отец Рождество " [т] он предпочитает британский название для американского имени Санта - Клауса ", соч. соч., стр. 254.
Тем не менее, кажется, что это поверхностное уравнение встречает сопротивление некоторых европейцев. В недавней статье , опубликованной в газете Telegraph [UK] содержит подзаголовок "Германия директор музея считает , что Дед Мороз породил в Германии находится под угрозой со стороны более современного Санта - Клауса , связанный с Coca-Cola». Объясняя , что Отец Рождество символов в конечном счете "черпает от "Святого Николая Мирликийского, директор баварского Рождественский музей, Фелиситас Höptner, говорит , что" ... немецкий Дед Мороз, или "Weihnachtsmann" был изобретен как светская фигура после Реформации , когда протестанты отвергнутого поклонение святым и искал альтернативный дарителя к священным Николаса с митры своим епископом и неправдами ", Дэвид Crossland," Германия движется требовать "под угрозой" Деда Мороза "15 декабря 2013 года , < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews~~HEAD=pobj /europe/germany/10518864/Germany-moves-to-claim-under-threat-Father-Christmas.html >.
[5] Хью Харман и Рудольф Изинга, "Алиас Санкт - Ник," Happy взаимосоответствий, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1935. MGM, конечно же , являются инициалами Metro Pictures, контролируемой Маркус Лоев, после чего инициалы фамилий Самуэль Голдвин (НЭ Szmuel Gelbfisz) и Луис Б. Майер (НЭ Лазарь Меир).
Что касается Майера пресловутые рождественские праздники, которые он якобы только кратко присутствовал, мы читаем следующее. "В основном студия была все дела, за исключением того, во время ежегодных рождественских вечеринок. Рано в канун Рождества, первые несколько часов были потрачены доставки подарков - агентов руководителям отделов, производителей и других важных видов. ... К 11:00, каждый отдел был бар собирается. Примерно в это же время, Майер будет делать вид, смонтировать трибуну, и обещают еще один замечательный год, как только что прошел. И тогда он оставил бы в студию. Как родитель выходя из дома, это был сигнал для партии детском пнуть на высокую передачу. Проекция комната в звуковом отделе начал работать мальчишников фильмы, и рано днем, вспомнил Уоллес Worlsey младший, разбирательство превратилась в "оргии , которая бы сделала Калигула чувствовать себя как дома", "Скотт Eyman, лев Голливуда: Жизнь и Легенда о Луи Б. Майер, Нью - Йорк: Simon & Schuster, 2008, р. 218.
В подобной сезонной сексуального духа, хотя немного более ручными чем "XXXmas" выходками Голливуда, можно отметить популярную "Факел песни", "Santa Baby", в котором о так соблазнительно женский 1940-х годов в стиле шансонье детали ее " хотите список "к (предположительно) недостижимой головы эльфа. Смотрите выдач от Эрта Китт , Мадонна , Тейлор Свифт и другие .
[6] Праздник день Святого Николая, однако, 6 декабря, а не 25 декабря.
[7] "Когда История Нью - Йорка был выпущен для публики 6 декабря 1809 года, День святого Николая, авторстве Ирвинга можно только догадываться. День Святого Николая был день, на котором некоторые голландские нью-йоркцы честь покровителя иногда называют "Sancte Клауса. Ирвинг организовал все отлично. Двухтомник работа была объявлена как "нашли в камере г Diedrich Кникербокер" и "опубликованы в целях выполнения определенных долгов , он оставил позади", "Эндрю Бурштейн, The Original Никербокер: Жизнь Вашингтон Ирвинг, Нью-Йорк: Basic Books, 2008, стр. 72.
[8] "Санта - Клаус стал святым Манхэттена и гений западного коммерческого Рождества. Святой Николай, его аватар, был одним из самых любимых святых средневековой Европы. Во Франции, собор в Шартре рассказывает историю о своих приключениях и чудесах на южном портале и в четырех витражей. В Англии, 385 церквей были посвящены ему до конца пятнадцатого века, по сравнению с 202 покровителя страны, Сент-Джордж ", Марина Уорнер," The Original Santa: Введение в Благотворительного святителя Николая Мирликийского, Бари, и Северный полюс, "Гурман, декабрь, 1985, р. 94 ..
[9] Другие версии говорят , "окно" .
[10] Предположительно, есть череп говорят , что Святого Николая в церкви Святого протектором на горе Афон является Греция. Это согласно непроверенной (и почти непроверяемый) свидетельство Юрия Воробьевского, "The Omega Point," Путь к Апокалипсису, т. 3, гл. 17.
[11] Уильям Шекспир, "Первая часть короля Генриха Четвертого," акт 2, сцена 1. "Санкт Николай был покровителем ученых; и Николас, или старый Ник, это косяк имя дьявола. Поэтому он называет двусмысленно разбойники, St. Клерки Николая ", пьесы и поэмы Уильяма Шекспира, Vol. 16, Лондон: FC и J. Ривингтон, 1821, р. 237, < http://books.google.com/books?id=hKrTAAAAMAAJ >, ср < Http://shakespeare.mit.edu/1henryiv/full.html >.
[12] Автор Люси W. Уотербери предлагает интересный анекдот о попытке, в одном случае, предположительно христианских миссионеров, чтобы ввести символ Санта - Клауса на собрание африканцев. "Попытка ввести Санта-Клаус не был успешным. He was greeted with shrieks and groans and cries of 'let me out,' 'it is the evil one,' 'it is the day of judgment.' The small fry caught the infection and fled to the bedroom [of the hosting house], while the black children crept under chairs and tables to hide themselves. Santa Claus was obliged to remove his disguise very hastily, and they were soon reassured and bean to laugh and chatter and nibble their cakes and fruits. One said that he thought that Elijah had returned, another that it was John the Baptist, and another that it was Satan, and all hi evil deeds rose up before him.” “Christmas in Heathen Lands,” Biblical World , vol. 10, нет. 6, Dec., 1897, p. 470.
[13] “Church Lady,” transcript, Saturday Night Live , season 13, episode 6, Dec. 5, 1987, < http://snltranscripts.jt.org/87/87fchurchchat.phtml >.
[14] Douglas Harper, “Nick,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php? term=Nick >.
[15] Another Santa-tie-in with this case is the fact that there was a mysterious “note” apparently associated with a “toy bear.” “A prophetic note was in a small pouch attached to a toy bear that authorities are seeking information about in the JonBenet Ramsey homicide investigation, according to the victim's aunt. …Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter sought help from the public in tracking down information about the foot-long stuffed toy bear dressed in a Santa suit. …[Pam] Paugh [the sister of JonBenet's mother Patsy Ramsey] speculated that the bear may have been used to lure JonBenet out of her room”, “Ramsey Relative Says Note was in Toy Bear Pouch,” Associated Press via Las Vegas Review Journal , Jan. 3, 1999, p. 6B.
[16] Charlies Brennan, “'Santa' Bill McReynolds Dies at 72,” Rocky Mountain News , Sept. 6, 2002, p. 4A. The Kabbalistic significance of the number 72 has been discussed elsewhere. See Matthew Bell with Jim Brandon, “Star Trek in Tenebris,” Bell Curve, Jun. 5, 2013, < http://curveofbell.blogspot.com/2013/06/star-trek-in-tenebris_5.html >.
[17] “Twenty-two[:] This number …symbolizes the manifestation of being in all its diversity and during its allotted span, that is, in both space and time. In fact, it is the sum total of the twenty-two [Hebrew] letters which, according to the Kabbalah, give expression to the universe. …[The Zoroastrian] Avesta was written in books each of twenty-two chapters and their collection of prayers contains twenty-two. The Revelation attributed to St. John comprises twenty-two chapters, too, while there are twenty-two major arcana in the Tarot”, Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant, Dictionary of Symbols , John Buchanan-Brown, trans., London: Penguin, 1996, p. 1046.
[18] “In carnival parlance, … 'Hey, Rube,' is a call for help”, Janet McReynolds, “Abduction, Play Recalled After JonBenét's Murder,” Denver Post , Mar. 26, 1997, p. 5F.
[19] Brennan, op. cit ., p. 10A.
[20] McReynolds, op. cit ., p. 1F.
[21] Warner, op. cit ., p. 96.
[22] This is not to say that anti-child violence doesn't crop up in the St. Nick lore. For example, consider Saint Nicolas cantata by the 20 th -century British composer, Benjamin Britten (with libretto written by Eric Crozier ). (Cf. William Henry Fry's “Santa Claus Christmas Symphony,” 1853, < http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559057 >)
Wikipedia’s helpful summary of part seven reads: “The seventh movement of Saint Nicolas depicts the legend of the Pickled Boys. Nicolas finds himself in an inn where a group of travellers have paused for the night. They invite the bishop to dine with them, but Nicolas stops them from eating, realising that the meat that they eat is in fact the flesh of three boys murdered and pickled by the butcher. Nicolas calls to the boys, 'Timothy, Mark, and John, put your fleshly garments on!' and the boys come back to life, singing 'Alleluia!',” “Saint Nicolas (Britten),” Oct. 20, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicolas_%28Britten%29#VII._Nicolas_and_the_Pickled_Boys >.
[23] In other accounts, Santa is accompanied by Knecht Ruprecht (“slave Rupert”). “To the Pennsylvania Dutch, he is known as Belsnickel. Other names for the same character are Pelznickle, ' Furry Nicholas ,' and Ru-Klas, 'Rough Nicholas.'”
See < http://www.av1611.org/othpubls/santa.html >. Ср “Knecht Ruprecht,” Wikipedia , < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knecht_Ruprecht >. On the “Bell” name, see Loren Coleman, “The Bell Name and Belltown Leprechauns,” Twilight Language,” Jun. 22, 2012, < http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2012/06/belltown-leprechauns.html >, Matthew Bell with Jim Brandon, “NASA's 33-Degree Kline-Konnektion,” Bell Curve , Sept., 8, 2012, < http://curveofbell.blogspot.com/2012/09/nasas-33-degree-kline-konnektion.html >, and Matthew Bell, “Belling the (Hurricane) Gilbert,” Bell Curve , Nov. 14, 2012, < http://curveofbell.blogspot.com/2012/11/belling-hurricane-gilbert.html >.
[24] Lance Gay, “In Europe, Children Can't Escape Watchful Eye of Santa: If You're Not Good, Bad Things Might Happen,” Scripps Howard via Gazette Telegraph , Dec. 14, 1992, p. D2. Gay further reports:
“In Germany, 'Sankt Nikolaus' brings with him the horrible dark servant called 'Knecht Ruprecht,' who carries a birch with which he beats bad children who don't say their prayers. Like Black Peter, Ruprecht also stuffs the very bad into his sack and carries them away, but no one in Germany knows where because no children have ever returned to say. In Austria, the bad actor is Krampus, who brings chains with him to lock up children. In Eastern Europe, Santa's enforcers are the Fool, the Witch, and Barteln, who gore bad boys to death and blacken the breasts of bad little girls. In Iceland, its Gryla, mother of the terrible Christmas monsters, whose diet consists only of bad children”, ibid .
[25] There are also supposed to be Santa-Odin associations as well, such as the latter's eight-legged horse, Sleipnir , fathered by Loki, which might be comparable, numerologically, to Santa's original eight reindeer (if we don't let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games). According to the Wikipedia article titled “Sleipnir,” the word reportedly means “slippy” or “the slipper” < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir >. We have no word on whether this accounts for why St. Nicholas is sometimes said to slip goodies into stockings, shoes, and other footwear (eg, one might imagine, slippers ).
[26] See, eg, < http://books.google.com/books/about/Fires_Improved_Or_A_New_Method_of_Buildi.html ?id=7ihRQAAACAAJ >. Reportedly, “[s]potting a chimneysweep at Christmas time and touching his coat always brings good luck”, Gay, loc. cit .
[27] < http://phoenixmasonry.org/masonic_christmas_card.htm >.
[28] < http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171924 >.
[29] See Loren Coleman's overview article “Santa = Wildman 2013,” CryptoZooNews , Nov. 30, 2013, < http://www.cryptozoonews.com/santa-wildman2013/ >.
[30] “Set,” glossary entry, The Magical Revival . Ср Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare , Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: Independent History & Research, 2001, p. 31.
[31] See “Jock Dempsey, Legends of St. Eligius and St. Dunstan,” Anvilfire , 2001, <http://www.anvilfire.com/article.php?bodyname=/21centbs/stories/steligius_stdunstan.htm>.
[32] Cf. < http://www.biblebelievers.com/watkins_santa/santa.html >. As an interesting coda to the St. Nick/Black Pete discussion, we note an episode in the life of the great 13 th -century philosopher and theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas.
“[T]he devil appeared [to St. Thomas] under the guise of a negro: 'How dare you come here to tempt me!' he shouted as he advanced with clenched fist; whereupon the fiend vanished. The year 1273 was drawing to a close when the pen dropped from his hand, before reaching his fiftieth year. It was on St. Nicholas Day, the 6 th day of December, and in that saint's [St. Nicholas's] chapel, that he [St. Thomas] has a long ecstasy while saying Mass; what was then communicated he never revealed, but from that hour 'he suspended his writing instruments,' as William de Tocco puts it.” John Placid Conway, Saint Thomas Aquinas, of the Order of Preachers (1225-1274): A Biographical Study of the Angelic Doctor , London: Longmans, Green, 1911, p. 95. Cf. Guillaume de Tocco, Ystoria sancti Thome de Aquino , 1323, reprint ed., Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies, 1996, p. 162.
After Aquinas's vision, in St. Nicholas chapel, on St. Nicholas day, this great doctor of the faith, to whom the Catholic Church is largely indebted for its Catechism, “…laid aside his pen and would write no more.” Daniel Kennedy, “St. Thomas Aquinas,” Catholic Encyclopedia , vol. 14, New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912, < http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm >.
[33] Jeremiah 1:14, King James Version .
[34] On some of the similarities between the representation of Saturn and another “Father” – Father Time – see, eg, Matthew Bell, “Now is the Time,” Bell Curve , Jan. 17, 2013, < http://curveofbell.blogspot.com/2013/01/now-is-time.html >.
[35] David N. Talbott, The Saturn Myth , Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980, p. 42. Emphasis in original.
[36] “North,” vol. 2, Chicago: Masonic History Co., 1956, p. 717.
[37] Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant, “North,” Dictionary of Symbols , trans., John Buchanan-Brown, London: Penguin, 1996, p. 705.
[38] JC Cooper, An Illustrated Encyclopædia of Traditional Symbols , London: Thames & Hudson, 1987, p. 112.
[39] Cited by Dennis Stillings, “Demon of Megaparsec Dimensions Discovered in the Northen Sky,” Artifex , vol. 6, нет. 2, Apr., 1987, p. 17, n. 1.
[40] What about Santa's apparent beneficence? Would Satanic a figure be associated with gift-giving and merry-making? One internet commentator is worth quoting in this regard. Asking the question: “Can the Devil be a bringer of good luck?” The author answers: “Yes, indeed, according to old European traditions.” See “The Devil,” <http://www.luckymojo.com/devil.html>.
[41] < http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jump5/santaclausiscomingtotown.html >.
[42] “Another symbol related to an aspect of the Grail legend and deserving special attention is Montsalvat (literally, 'mount of salvation'), represented as rising out of the midst of the sea in an inaccessible region behind which the sun rises, its peak situated 'on distant shores no mortal can approach.' It is at one and the same time the 'sacred isle' and the 'polar mountain,' two equivalent symbols…; and it is the 'land of immortality,' which is naturally identified with the Terrestrial Paradise”, René Guénon, The King of the World , Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, 2004, pp. 31-32.
[43] 1955 was, incidentally, also the year in which heartthrob actor James Dean died at the age of 24, in a car accident involving his Porsche 550 Spyder. This would be entirely irrelevant, in the present context, were it not that, as of this writing, the news media is abuzz with talk of the death of heartthrob actor Paul Walker in a car accident involving a Porsche Carrera GT. Although there are notable differences (Walker was 40 and not driving the Porsche), “Walker is being compared to actor James Dean…” Shamika Sanders, “Paul Walker Autposy Reveals He Was Alive After Crash & Touching Tribute Goes Viral,” Hello Beautiful , Dec. 6, 2013, < http://hellobeautiful.com/2013/12/06/paul-walker-tribute/ >. See Rex Reed, “A Career Cut Short: Fast and Furious Star Paul Walker Died in a Tragic Car Crash Last Weekend: In 'Hours,' he gives the performance of his life,” New York Observer , Dec. 6. 2013, < http://observer.com/2013/12/a-career-cut-short-fast-and-furious-star-paul-walker-died-in-a-tragic-car-crash-last-weekend/ >.
Curiously, Peterson AFB, the new home of NORAD, was so-named in the wake of a tragic accident. “[A] tragedy occurred that would indelibly affect the base. On 8 August 1942, 1st Lt. Edward J. Peterson, Operations Officer for the 14th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron and a native of Colorado, crashed while attempting to take off from the airfield when the left engine of his twin engine F4 (a reconnaissance variant of the P-38 Lightning) failed. A base fire department crew rescued Lt. Peterson from the burning wreckage. Unfortunately, Lt. Peterson sustained significant burns and died at a local hospital that afternoon, thereby becoming the first Coloradan killed in a flying accident at the airfield. Consequently, on 13 December 1942, officials changed the name of the Colorado Springs Army Air Base to Peterson Army Air Base in honor of the fallen airman.” “Peterson Air Force Base History,” fact sheet, Mar. 12, 2007, < http://www.peterson.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4507 >.
We note the reconnexion, in light of the NORAD Santa-tracking charade at this particular air base, of the “Pete” name with “St. Nicholas.”
[44] Tom Roeder, “Santa Claus Will be on NORAD's Radar Once Again,” Gazette [Colorado Springs, Colorado], Dec. 1, 2013, p. F1.
[45] “One goal this year, [Stacy] Knott[, a spokeswoman for the binational command,] said, is to show the world that NORAD has more missions than its best-known work Dec. 24. 'We're trying to make sure we have a balance between showing the operational side of NORAD and how we track Santa,' she said”, Roeder, op. cit. , p. F4.
[46] The serpent Nagini , in the Harry Potter series popularized a cognate of “ Naga .” Since we earlier enumerated several nick- names for the Devil, we might as well add to our list “ Old Serpent ” and “ Old Harry .” See Hendrickson, “Scratch, Old Scratch,” op. cit ., p. 642.
[47] “…Santa's escorts over North America are pilots flying other missions with Operation Noble Eagle , designed to prevent another 9/11-style attack”, Roeder, op. cit. , p. F4. Operation Noble Eagle is abbreviated ONE , which adds another layer of gnostic - neoplatonic symbolism .
[48] See Aryeh Kaplan, Sepher Yetzirah: The Book of Creation , Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1995.
[49] One of several North Pole mock-ups is located a few miles northwest of Colorado Springs, in the township of Cascade, at the foot of Pike's Peak. We're sure that it was only coincidentally installed at this location, near NORAD's Santa-thon headquarters, in 1956 – a year after the Santa tracking began.
In any case, called “Santa's Workshop in North Pole, Colorado,” the attraction was the brainchild of the curious personality, “…former Hollywood set designer, Arto Monaco”, Philip G. Terrie, Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks , Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2008, p. 161. Cf. Sarah Colwell, “North Pole Theme Park Makes Magic Happen,” Gazette [Colorado Springs], Dec. 24, 2004, “Metro” section, p. 1.
Monaco also designed a similar “ Santa's Workshop ” set up in Wilmington, New York. At the time of this writing, the Wikipedia stub titled “Santa's Workshop (amusement park)” indicates that this day-attraction “was one of the first theme parks in the United States”, Wikipedia , Oct. 7, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%27s_Workshop_%28amusement_park%29 >. “But half a decade before Disneyland , there was Santa's Workshop in Wilmington,” Brian Mann, “Arto Monaco: The King of Make Believe,” Dec. 20, 2002, < http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/2204/20021220/arto-monaco-the-king-of-make-believe >.
Before building Santa (and other fairy tale-themed) escapes, Monaco designed a replica German village for the US army, purportedly to prepare soldiers for an invasion of Germany. Here, however, the Wikipedia article erroneously – but synchromystically – records the location of the little Deutschland – actually named “Annadorf” – as “… San Claus , California …west of Santa Clarita Mountains”, “Arto Monaco,” Apr. 21, 2012, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arto_Monaco >.
Annadorf was located on the “…Big John Flats in the Angeles Forest, just twelve miles northwest of Wrightwood”, < http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/forum/index.php?topic=13911.0 >. We verified this by phone (Dec. 11, 2013) with John Lenau, the president of the Wrightwood Historical Society. The area is about 25 miles from the Vasquez Rock formation. (On the Vasquez, Devil's Punchbowl, and Mormon Rock formations, see Jim Brandon, The Rebirth of Pan: Hidden Faces of the American Earth Spirit , Dunlap, Ill.: Firebird, 1983, p. 109.)
[50] According to the physicist-alchemist Isaac Newton, precession works out to about one degree every 72 years. A quick and dirty summary on Wikipedia reads: “Isaac Newton determined the cause of precession and established the rate of precession at 1 degree per 72 years, very close to the true value, thus demonstrating the magnitude of the error in the value of 1 degree per century”, “Great Year,” Sept. 7, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Year >, citing Voltaire: “A degree is equivalent to seventy-two years…”, “On Infinites In Geometry, And Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology,” letter 17, < http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1778voltaire-lettres.asp#Letter%20XVII >.
[51] For a flavor of this quirky opinion, see “Terry,” “The Pyramid Builders & Draco Alpha,” < http://www.aloha.net/~hawmtn/pt_man.htm >; reproduced by David Icke, < http://www.davidicke.net/mysteries/pyramid/draco-alpha.html >.
[52] James Cusick, “Watch out Watford: Here comes the secretive Bilderberg Group,” Independent [UK], May, 21, 2013, < http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/watch-out-watford-here-comes-the-secretive-bilderberg-group-8626134.html >.
[53] George A. Filer, “NASA Flights Have Seen UFOs,” Filer's Files , no. 10, Mar. 3, 2000, reproduced as “It's A Great, Big, Wonderful World We Live On,” Rense , <http://www.rense.com/ufo6/big.htm>.
[54] “Jacques Vallée,” Wikipedia , Oct. 6, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vall%C3%A9e >.
[55] Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers , Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1969, pp. 212-213.
[56] “Drakon Hesperios,” Theoi, < http://www.theoi.com/Ther/DrakonHesperios.html >.
The age-old dispute between alchemy, which “consider[s] gold to be the symbol of perfection,” and Kabbalists, who give pride of place to silver, is resolved, so Johnny Marks might have imagined in the “silver and gold decorations” that one finds “on every Christmas tree.”
[57] But such symbolism also crops up in Thor (2011), The Fountain (2006), and other movies.
[58] Pages 625 to 626 in the 1972 edition of the Encyclopædia Judaica , in Gershom Scholem's article on “Kabbalah,” shows a representation of a stylized menorah, resembling a tree. This was the creation of the Christian Kabbalist, Guilame Postel, about whom see: Matthew Bell, “Going 'Postel': The Making of a 'Judeo-Christian',” Church Bell, Sept. 25, 2012, < http://bellofchurch.blogspot.com/2012/09/going-postel-makings-of-judeo-christian.html >.
[59] Richard P. Bucher, “O Christmas Tree: The Origin and Meaning of the Christmas Tree,” Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Nov., 2000, < http://www.orlutheran.com/html/chrtree.html >.
Bucher's capable summary is somewhat marred, however, by the disconnexion between his stated (and commendable) emphasis upon citation, and his failure to document a key passage. To be more specific, he begins his piece by lamenting the lack of sound scholarship on the history of the Christmas tree. He states:
“Many answers to these questions [about the origins of the Christmas Tree] have been offered on the Internet. Some are completely erroneous. Some make no distinction between history and legend. Unfortunately, none of them give sources for their assertions about the Christmas tree (a problem with most web articles!). Given that dependable scholarly sources about the history of the Christmas tree are hard to come by, citation-less Christmas tree web pages are understandable.”
Bucher then proceeds to document his points, systematically and nearly line by line, for several solid paragraphs. He loses a bit of steam when he gets to the alleged links between the Paradise Tree (which he had just claimed was banned by “the Church” in the 15 th -century) and the Christmas Tree, merely asserting – with no citations whatever – that: “The people had grown so accustomed to the Paradise tree, however, that they began putting their own Paradise tree up in their homes on Dec. 24.”
The oversight is unfortunate, since the above-quoted sentence is arguably the linchpin for his thesis. Hence, however plausible his speculations may be, without the requisite documentation (especially for the crucial point about “the people's” supposed psychological attachment to the Paradise Tree), from the standpoint of his text, they remain unsubstantiated conjectures.
[60] In passing, we also note that Saint Nicholas “…became the adopted saint of bankers, pawnbrokers, merchants, and shopkeepers. …The three bags of gold [in the case, discussed above, of the girls destined for prostitution] eventually migrated from piety to commerce and became the emblem of moneylenders, the familiar sign of the pawnbroker's shop”, Warner, op. cit ., p. 97.
Apart from curiosities such as the banking forays of the Knights Templar and the interest-free Franciscan monte di pieta , it is simply an historical facts that, for many hundreds of years in Europe, “...none but Jews were permitted by the law to practise usury”, Michael Adler, "The Jews of Bristol in pre-Expulsion Days," Nov. 12, 1928, transactions, Jewish Historical Society of England , vol. 12, 1928-1931, p. 133, < http://www.jhse.org/book/export/article/14482 >.
(Despite the prohibition on usury – lending money at interest – expressed in the Old Testament, eg, Exodus 22:25-27, rabbis allowed usurious moneylending by Jews to non-Jews. Actually, the authoritative Maimonides, the 12 th -century rabbi, physician, and philosopher, opined “...that for Jews to charge Gentiles interest is a positive command of the written law”, “Usury,” Jewish Encyclopedia , 1906, vol. 14, p. 615, < http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14615-usury >. The Shulchan Aruch , the Judaic “digest” version of enforceable Talmudic laws, softens this somewhat, stating that “...it is permitted to lend money to a non-Jew at interest”, ch. Yoreh De'ah , section 159, lines 1-3, < http://www.torah.org/advanced/shulchan-aruch/classes/chapter13a.html >.)
[61] Illustrations are from Kaplan, op. cit. , pp. 232 and 235. This business is repeated by Jay Weidner and Vincent Bridges on pages 93 ff of their 1999 book, The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye: Alchemy and the End of Time (Rochester, Vermont: Destiny, 2003 ed.). In this context, we must also bear Revelation 12:9 in mind: “The great dragon was hurled down – that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him”, New International Version , < http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search= Revelation+12%3A9 >.
[62] Scholem, op. cit ., p. 554. In Polish it is known as a Kloiyz .
[63] Shelomoh Yosef Zevin, “Beyth haMidrash, House of Study,” Encyclopedia Talmudica , vol. 4, Spring valley, NY: Feldheim, 1991, p. 111 and 108. The Beth ha'Midrash is a sacred space – possibly even outranking the synagogue in terms of holiness. At least, this was arguably the view of Rabbi Pappi – whose opinion, by the way, “[t]he law follows…” ibid ., p. 109. Although, “The Ḥasidim call their synagogue 'klaus'; and each of their miracle-workers maintains a klaus of his own, as do also his followers in other cities”, “KLAUS (German, 'Klause,' from the medieval Latin 'clusa'= cloister),” Jewish Encyclopedia , 1906, < http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9365-klaus >.
[64] Scholem, op. cit ., pp. 633-634. Based upon his reading of the Asclepius by “Hermes Trismegistus,” the neoplatonist, Marsilio Ficino, “…was convinced that humans were able to 'draw down the life of heaven' through the spiritus mundi which is infused throughout the universe and to place it into statues and idols.” Stefan Rossbach, Gnostic Wars: The Cold War in the Context of a History of Western Spirituality , Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1999, p. 123.
[65] Alan Brill, “The Exclusivist Tradition,” Judaism and Other Religions , New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, p. 165. Cf. Craig Heimbichner, "The Double-Mind in Occult Philosophy," lecture, audio recording, Independent History & Research.
In his Oration on the Dignity of Man, the 15 th -century Christian-kabbalistic magus, Pico della Mirandola, wrote that “Man was to be worshipped because 'he changes his nature into a god's, as if he were a god; he knows the demonic kind inasmuch as he recognizes that he originated among them.'” Rossbach, op. cit ., p. 122.
[66] Ibid .
[67] Gershom Scholem, “Demons, Demonology,” Encyclopædia Judaica , vol. 5, Jerusalem: Keter, 1972, pp. 1532-1533.
[68] Ibid ., p. 1532.
[69] “Practical Kabbalah is one way of dealing with evil. It is a form of magic, the dangerous art of gaining power over the psychological ( Yeziratic ) world through the use of symbols; …[c]ertain exercises can bring about deep changes in consciousness…” Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi, Kabbalah: Tradition of Hidden Knowledge , New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002, p. 47.
Все еще не уверены? Consider then, please, the 1964 blockbuster (<--sarcasm) movie, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians . Actually, in The Book of Lists (New York: Bantam, 1980), authors David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace, and Amy Wallace have the temerity to report (on p. 209) that this gem of a film is number seven on “The Ten Worst Films of All Time” list. (The list is attributed to Harry Medved and Randy Dreyfuss, p. 207.) I mean, although I've never seen the picture, I can scarcely believe it. Но я отвлекся.
In any event, the Wikipedia plot summary practically makes our case for us.
“The story involves …[an] ancient 800-year-old Martian sage [named] Chochem (a Yiddish word meaning 'genius'), …[who] advise[s] that the children of Mars are growing distracted due to the society's overly rigid structure; from infancy, all their education is fed into their brains through machines and they are not allowed individuality or freedom of thought. Chochem notes that he had seen this coming 'for centuries', and says the only way to help the children is to allow them their freedom and be allowed to have fun. To do this, they need a Santa Claus figure, like on Earth. Leaving the Chochem's cave, the Martian leaders decide to abduct Santa Claus from Earth and bring him to Mars.” Chaos ensues. Starting to get it, yet ?
[70] Furthermore, “Nixie” also known as Niks , an obvious etymology cousin to “Nick,” are “[l]esser water divinities” the “male water [spirit]” counterparts to the more famous female undines – which latter have middle eastern variants called “Drac.” See Patricia Turner and Charles Russell Coulter, Dictionary of Ancient Deities , Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000, pp. 350 and 156. HP Blavatsky writes: "Under the general designation of fairies, and fays, these spirits of the elements appear in the myth, fable, tradition, or poetry of all nations, ancient and modern. Their names are legion — peris, devs, djins, sylvans, satyrs, fauns, elves, dwarfs, trolls, norns, nisses, kobolds, brownies, necks, stromkarls, undines, nixies, salamanders, goblins, ponkes, banshees, kelpies, pixies, moss people, good people, good neighbors, wild women, men of peace, white ladies — and many more", Isis Unveiled , vol. 1, < http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu1-00in.htm >.
[71] Chevalier and Gheerbrant, op. cit ., p. 350.
Although the usual enumerations correlate gnomes with Earth , an unreliable source claims that elves are closely related elementals. “Elementals/Nature Spirits,” < http://natureelementals.com/NE1.html >.
Another unverifiable source claims that: “In Norwegian legend, …Vindicans (little people) …were craftsmen [who] lived in …toadstools and mushroom[s]. Pixies and Elves[,] along with Gnomes[,] are a direct relative [of] the Vindican”, “Santa's Village History,” < http://www.santasvillage.net/santas.village.history.html >.
More credible, perhaps, is the account published in a Colorado newspaper: “In pagan Scandinavia, people believed that house gnomes guarded them against evil. Mostly benevolent, gnomes could turn nasty is not properly treated. When Christmas became popular as a festive season during the mid-1800s, Scandinavian writers recast gnomes as the mischievous but true friends of Father Christmas. Santa's elves are the children of Gryla and Leppaludi . Some say that there are 13 elves, some nine, some six”, “World of Wonder,” Gazette , Dec. 6, 2004, “metro” section, p. 8.
However, we note that even the absence of an obvious candidate “Earth elemental” does not necessarily do violence to the alchemical account. In the Kabbalistic schema, earth and water are virtually equated, and the three main elements – water, air, and fire – are represented by the three “mother” letters: Aleph, Mem, and Shin. See Charles Poncé, Kabbalah , Wheaton, Ill.: Quest, 1997, p. 41. You may breathe a sigh of relief.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Greenwich: In the Mean Time
Matthew J. Bell
with Jim Brandon
author of Weird America and The Rebirth of Pan
“[T]he blowing up of the first meridian
is bound to raise a howl of execration.”
- Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent [1]
In the previous post, In Tenebris , we took on the topic of the layers of symbolism enveloping the City of London world financial center. Our treatment was occasioned by a fictional terrorist bombing there – perhaps near the intensely occultic Knights Templar church – as depicted in the new blockbuster movie, Star Trek Into Darkness (“ Into Darkness ”).
We now propose to explore further into – and in a moment, farther southeast of – this lurid Londoniana. Our primary setting will shift to Greenwich [2] (from the “...Old English Grenewic ...literally 'Green Harbor'.”), [3] where so-called “Universal Time” is officially based. “Time and space are measured from [Greenwich]” in the astute words of the unusual group called the London psychogeographers. [4]
This modern function is nevertheless in keeping with an ancient tradition, it seems. For “Greenwich was once an area of great sacred importance...” in the view of the insightful Aquarian Guide to Legandary London . [5] So, if science and its handmaiden technology have become the de-facto religion of the day, this area must be a veritable Vatican or Mecca. How the Greenwich conversion from the mythic or folkloric to the highly technical was made, at a critical turning point of European culture, will soon be told.
( Image source ) ; Tower of London.
( Image source ) ; Legendary king Brân.
As we noted in part one, the Prime Meridian of longitude was established at Greenwich “by high adepts of alchemy and occult orders.” Their starting point? The ominously portentous Tower of London, reputed site of the ancient British palladium of power, the buried head of the Celtic king, Bran. From the Tower precincts the adepts measured in English miles, to four decimal places, a number that is generated by every school child studying simple geometry and the ratio of the circumferance of a circle to its diameter. In short, pi : or 3.1416 miles due east to the new meridian at Greenwich.
That at least was the claim of a little-known Scottish geometry savant, Hamish MacHuisdean, whose unusual work coauthor Jim Brandon discovered by chance years ago. In a moment, we will be taking a close look at the chief MacH. contentions that the pi constant is discrete at 3.1416 and not an irrational or infinitely recurring decimal – and that the 31416 “series” is the secret derivation of 33, the master Mason degree.
All this and the Kabbalah, too. We will consider the tantalizing indications of a cryptic rôle played by the formidable Jewish esoteric complex in these undertakings of the British maguses.
Traditional Aspects of Time
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( Image source ) One manifestation of the Creator-Destroyer duality is the Hindu deity, Shiva, [6] whose statue stands outside of the particle accelerator at CERN [7] (top). Kali, Hindu goddess of death and time, [8] is one of Shiva's consorts. [9] Another manifestation of the same idea, as represented in a Masonic Lodge (middle). [10] Duncan's legend reads: “1. Candidate prays. 2. First stop. 3. Second stop. 4. Third stop. 5. Room where candidates are prepared. 6. Ante-room where members enter the lodge. 7. Hall. 8. Doors. 9. Door through which candidates are admitted into the lodge. 10. Door through which members enter. 11. Altar. 12. Treasurer. 13. Secretary. 14. Senior Deacon. 15. Worshipful Master. 16. Junior Warden. 17 and 18. Stewards. 19. Senior Warden. 20. Junior Deacon. 21. Tyler.” [11] The same east ( oriens ), west ( occidens ), noon ( meridies ) layout appears on the Rosicrucian Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum (1618, bottom).
For now, since “Time is of the essence” at Greenwich, we need to lay groundwork. Time, considered as a deity, is both “[t]he Creator and Devourer. ...it is... the revealer of Truth.” [12] Midway between the poles of creation and destruction is the vast middle ground over which operates a maintaining or sustaining force that keeps the present order. Hence, “In all the ancient mythologies there were triads...a creator, a preserver, and a destroyer. ...[In the heathen system of] the Indian, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva... This system of triads... has become... in Freemasonry... the triad of three governing officers... [t]he Master and the two Wardens... We must...look for the origin of the triads... to the three positions and functions of the sun. The rising sun or creator of light, the meridian sun or its preserver, and the setting sun or its destroyer...”. [13]
( Image source ) “In the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the Thirteenth Degree or Knights of the Ninth Arch is properly an écossais [ie, Scottish] Degree.” [14] “While there is no longer a working astronomical observatory at Greenwich, a ball still drops daily to mark the exact moment of 1 pm...”. [15] 1 pm Is the 13th hour .
To the Freemason, “Time ...is ...the symbol of well-directed perseverance in the performance of duty.” [16] And the “great object of a Freemason's labor” is to “at last obtain the true Word which is the symbol of Divine Truth.” [17] The “true Word” was, according to Freemasonic legend, rediscovered “...at the hour of meridian...”. [18] Importantly, “[t]he cessation of time is the break-through to enlightenment; eternity.” [19]
This complex tissue of subtle symbolism was not lost on famed novelist, Joseph Conrad. His story, The Secret Agent , depicts an attempted bombing “...attack on the Greenwich meridian...”, which target represents “...a displaced attack on the empire...”. [20] Conrad explicitly describes the plot to detonate a bomb at the prime meridian in terms of “...rendering of cosmic chaos...”. [21] However, it is not simply the return to chaos – as the Joker-character seemingly wants, as an “agent of chaos” [22] in The Dark Knight Batman movie (2008). [23] Rather, what is in view is a combination of “chaos and eternity,” [24] exactly along the symbolical lines one would expect from a plot, not simply to blow up a landmark, but to control or harness the occult power of Time (Cronos/Saturn [25] ) itself. [26] Although not about Greenwich, specifically, the reader may find it useful to ponder the comment of award winning English author (and psycho-geographer), Peter Ackroyd: “There are parts of London where time has actually hardened and come to an end.” [27]
Actual Terrorism Near Greenwich
Our present study is not merely concerned with thriller novels or science fiction movies, however. Within the last few weeks, the United Kingdom experienced its first terrorist attack since the 7/7 Bombing of 2005, when a British soldier (with duties in the Tower of London) was hacked to death at 2:20pm, Greenwich-time, on a street in the district of Woolwich. Woolwich is now “located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.” [28]
About the selection of the attack location, journalist Andrew Gilligan writes the following.
“ The site of Wednesday's attack was not random , nor in all probability was it chosen simply because there was a barracks nearby. Woolwich, as not many people seem to have realised, is one of the cradles of al-Muhajiroun . ...Woolwich is at the join of yet another extremist-related ley line . It is not just a major military garrison; it is not just one of the spawning-grounds of al-Muhajiroun ; it is also, of course, home to the main Category-A prison where accused terrorists are held, and the main court, attached to it for security reasons, where terrorist trials take place.” [29]
Despite the fact that Gilligan's use of the phrase “ley line” arguably is merely artistic, it nevertheless brings the idea of mystical alignments into the public arena.
Also worthy of mention is a so-called “...French plot to change the way we tell the time...”. [30] This might be thought nothing more than a foofaraw, were it not for the the potent symbols swirling around Greenwich as well as the fact that this dispute over time-keeping must be set against the historic dispute over longitude-determination. “The French clung to the Paris meridian as a rival to Greenwich until 1911 for timekeeping purposes and 1914 for navigation. To this day, French cartographers continue to indicate the Paris meridian on some maps.” [31] And it may be recalled that a representation of this line, inlaid in the floor of an important Paris church, was shown in the recent film, The DaVinci Code .
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( Image source ) John Harrison, from Into Darkness (top); John Harrison, solver of the “longitude problem” and inventor of the “marine chronometer” (bottom).
But we are getting ahead of ourselves. Let us back up and consider Into Darkness . As previously noted, the main villain in this latest Star Trek is Khan. But Khan is introduced under the alias John Harrison . “John Harrison” also names a historical personage, in this case, the man remembered for having solved the “longitude problem.” (Incidentally, this study was also a part-time occupation of Emmanuel Swedenborg. See HERE .)
The “longitude problem” is simply a label for the difficulty, in an era predating satellites and fancy techno-gadgetry, of determining one's longitude on the open sea. It turns out that every 15 degree movement – due east or west – has the effect of adding or subtracting one hour from one's local time. Hence, if one can compare one's local time, which local time can be gleaned from the position of the sun, to a reference time at a location with a known longitude, one can calculate the longitude of one's current position. [32]
Siting the Meridian Line
Greenwich, England was selected for the longitude reference position. Towards this end, a project was begun – involving alchemist and physicist, Isaac Newton – to establish a line of 0 degrees longitude, running through Greenwich. [33]
(Image source: MacHuisdean, The Great Law , p. 86, figure 15.)
(Image source: MacHuisdean, op. cit. , p. 47.)
How was this done? We wouldn't have had a clue, except that, as we noted at the outset, a Scottish geometer and arithmetician named MacHuisdean (MacH for short) had published in the 1920s and '30s a curious and offbeat book that he called The Great Law . [34] When Jim Brandon, by sheer chance, found a copy of this in the amazing old Atlantis Bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles years ago, he immediately saw its value in relation to the Prime Meridian. This imaginary but world-historically-important symbol construct had piqued his curiosity since reading Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent as a kid.
Quite discursive in nature, MacH's book will quickly be found to have a fascination if not a monomania for the pi factor, citing a vast number of instances in which 3.1416 or variants up to 31416 recur in sites of geodetic interest to the author. These are primarily around the British Isles and by far the most important is the one shown above, asserting the pi-miles distance from the Tower of London's adjunct Salt Tower to zero Greenwich. MacH tosses off this highly significant finding tersely, only citing “the Ordnance Survey Office in Southhampton” as his source and offering no insights on why or by whom the mileage was selected. [35]
Verifying these claims has turned out to be a major work in progress, since what MacH seems to be talking about must be maps published three-quarters of a century ago by the British agency in question but locating them now in this country has not been fruitful. Also, the distance given by the Google mapping service from Salt Tower to Greenwich varies slightly depending upon where one places the ruler points. However, from the (“eye-balled”) center of the Salt Tower to roughly the center of “Prime Meridian Walk,” is 3.16019 miles, by our quick-and-dirty Google calculation.
(Image source: Google Maps.)
One can obtain MacH's pi -distance by placing the first ruler point on the easternmost edge of the Salt Tower. However, one ends up slightly to the west of “Prime Meridian Walk.” Perhaps the street name is a misnomer.
(Image source: Google Maps.)
In resolving this discrepancy there are several possibilities. 1 – MacH correctly read his Ordnance map which was itself correct, but the current Google distance is wrong. 2 – MacH was correct reading the map but the map itself was wrong, and Google is right. 3 – Google is right and MacH, by error or (heaven forbid!) design, misrepresented the map which had no pi distance and substituted his favorite number. 4 – MacH correctly read his Ordnance map, which was itself correct, but the Google distance calculations are at variance with MacH because the relevant measurements are sensitive to the exact exact trajectory line MacH used, and this line is unknown to us. However, to round out our last possibility, we may suppose that were MacH's trajectory lines known, Google would confirm MacH's distance computations.
So, considering all of that and on the offchance that there really was a “ pi distance” plotted out by God knows whom for this key geodetic link-up of the Tower palladium to the Greenwich node for time and space – and just imagine what psycho-geo novelist Peter Ackroyd could do with that image of the King Bran head still ritually venerated in a crypt under the Tower – we will examine 3.1416 a bit further. Surprisingly, this will involve a major Kabbalah connection, bringing in that high-voltage Jewish mystical aspect, which was certainly in the air at the time of Isaac Newton and the Royal Society clique and nascent Freemasonry in the late 1600s.
The Kabbalah will be found to embody the pi factor as a coordinate regulating the spatial aspects of creation. As this will be a considerable side trip from our present topic, however, we must consign that account – plus some further aspects of the seat-of-the-pants kabbalism of Hamish MacHuisdean – to the notes. But the fundamental point to remember is that it is entirely possible that the Prime Meridian may have been placed according to kabbalistic principles. [36] , [37]
The Greenwich Royal Observatory was established for the purpose of precisifying moon observation data, one step on the road to making possible longitude determination at sea. [38]
“King Charles II founded the Royal Observatory in 1675 to solve the problem of finding longitude at sea. If an accurate catalogue of the positions of the stars could be made, and the position of the Moon then measured accurately relative to the stars, the Moon's motion could be used as a natural clock to calculate Greenwich Time. Sailors at sea could measure the Moon's position relative to bright stars and use tables of the Moon's position, compiled at the Royal Observatory, to calculate the time at Greenwich. This means of finding Longitude was known as the 'Lunar Distance Method'.” [39]
We encountered King Charles II previously. He is the monarch who provided for ravens to populate, in perpetuity, the grounds in front of the White Tower. He also established, in 1660, the Royal Society of London. Authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh note that “Charles II was deeply interested in alchemy...”. [40]
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John Harrison, also the name of a chief protagonist in the recent movie, Star Trek Into Darkness , provided another piece of the puzzle. He invented a clock (the marine chronometer) that would keep fairly accurate time, despite the disrupting motion of ocean waves.
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( Image source ) Top: “The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose [41] surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft”; [42] Bottom: “Saturn's mysterious northern vortex, a vast hexagon-shaped storm , [43] dominates this photo taken Nov. 27, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.” [44]
The fascination with time is echoed in Into Darkness . In the movie, the home planet of the Klingon race “...is both spelt and spoken as Kronos”. [45] “KRONOS (or Cronus) was the Titan god of time and the ages...”. [46] He is identified with the Roman deity Saturn .
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( Image source ) If a regular pentagon is divided into 5 triangles, the central angles will each measure 72 degrees.
We already reported the prominence, in the film, of the mystical number 72. It may not shock the reader to learn, therefore, that 72 has mythological ties to both Kronos and the moon. “Thoth, in an Egyptian creation myth, wins a 72nd of each day of the year from the Moon in a game of draughts, as a favour to Nut, the Sky Goddess. He uses these portions to make the five intercalary days on which the remaining Gods and Goddesses are born.” [47] “The god Kronos (Geb) and the goddess Rhea (Nut) had illicit intercourse. Helios (the sun god) tried to prevent Rhea from giving birth at any time in the year. However, Hermes (Thoth) managed to add five days to the year by beating the moon in a game of draughts. These became the birthdays of five deities - Osiris, Apollo (Horus the Elder), Typhon (Seth), Isis and Nephthys.” [48]
Another 72 tie-in relates to Earth's axial precession (a fancy phrase designating our planet's polar “wobbling”), which undergoes a complete cycle approximately every 26,000 years. The wobble is said to inch along at a pace traditionally reckoned – according to the calculations of Isaac Newton [49] – at “1 degree per 72 years”. [50] We note that this precession has further connexions with dragon lore. Specifically, as we reported in our prior installment, Jay Weidner has argued that the constellation Draco had prime importance for ancient astronomers.
All of this seems to fit in rather snugly with other aspects (to be mentioned shortly) of Saturnian time-obsession since authors Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock allege (in their book Keeper of Genesis , 1996) that various Egyptian-Masonic “...rituals symbolised the 'turning back' of the precessional cycle to a remote ancestral time known as Zep Tepi ('first time')...”. [51]
This “turning back the clock” theme has arguably cropped up before. [52] The fabled Tower of London has itself been called “a kind of time-machine”. [53] In addition, it may be that the White Mound, ancient location of the present Tower complex, “...was the site of a prehistoric observatory...”. [54]
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In any case, the Royal Observatory at Greenwich was designed by the famous architect and Freemason, Christopher Wren. [55] In passing, we note that Wren's structures sometimes incorporated the remains of dead cats, quite probably “...placed in buidings as foundation sacrifices...”. [56] Locations known to have contained such macabre features include a “...a house built...between 1666 and 1723 in the Tower of London...” and “...the church of St. Michael Royal, College Hill, London.” [57]
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Wren also designed the iconic St. Paul's Cathedral, [58] which is visible on various Into Darkness promotional posters. (See, again, our earlier post, HERE .)
Why Greenwich?
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In the first place, we note that Greenwich has been associated with the “initiation” (broadly and artfully construed) of numerous post-Plantagenet monarchs and rulers. Henry Tudor, otherwise known to history as Henry VII, ended the nearly 360 year reign (1126-1485 [59] ) of the House of Plantagenet. “ Henry VII built Placentia – whose name means 'pleasant place to live' [60] – on the banks of the Thames at Greenwich in 1500. The palace was a favorite haunt of his son, Henry VIII, some of his ill-fated wives, and his daughter, Elizabeth I. ” [61] In fact, it was the “...royal residence where Henry VIII and his daughters Mary and Elizabeth were born and where son Edward VI died.” [62]
The Stuart King James I had Greenwich Palace remodeled and given to his wife, Queen Anne of Denmark. This “Queen's House” at Greenwich, was “...designed by Inigo Jones and is one of the most perfect examples of Palladian architecture in England.” [63] The important Freemason, James Anderson, refers to the architect as “...our great Master-Mason Inigo Jones”. [64]
It seems natural, therefore, that the Queen Ann house has been called “...a site of key masonic importance...”. [65]
“King Charles the First resided occasionally at Greenwich, before the breaking out of the civil war: his Queen, Henrieta Maria, employed Inigo Jones to finish the building, which Queen Anne of Denmark had begun. It was completed in 1635... On the 21st of December 1651, it was resolved [by Parliament] that Greenwich house should be kept for the Lord Protector...”, Oliver Cromwell. [66]
As we have mentioned, Charles II founded the Royal Observatory in Greenwich in 1675. Wikipedia notes that “...George III granted the Queen's House to the Royal Naval Asylum (an orphanage school)...”. [67] Some might fairly regard this as an alarming conjunction in the era of impressment. [68]
At fifty-four years of age, George I, “...arrived in Greenwich on September 29, 1714, with a full retinue of German friends, advisors and servants (two of which, Mohamet and Mustapha, were Negroes captured during a Turkish campaign).” [69]
Amongst his other titles, Queen Elizabeth II's consort, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is also Baron Greenwich . [70]
( Image source ) The Isle of Dogs, circa 1740.
Greenwich, partly in virtue of supposed ley line connexions, [71] is symbolically tied to the Isle of Dogs, slightly to its west. This is a place of crypto-political power, in the richly associative view of the London psychogeographers, that has been termed the “Omphalos of the British Empire.” [72] “Omphale” and its cognate “omphalos” (or, Latinized, omphalus ) designates a “navel” [73] or “central point”. [74] In ancient physiology, the omphalos was believed to be the point around which the embryo formed, and from which the embryo “receive[d] nourishment”. [75] It is a “Cosmic Centre...both cathartic and apotropaic [ie, evil-averting]... the place of communication between the three worlds...”. [76] Significantly, from the perspective of empire, “[i]t is also the point of expansion...”. [77]
The origin of the name “Isle of Dogs” is disputed. [78] One source links it to Herne the Hunter and a legend of a hapless nobleman and his young bride who perished in the primeval swamps in the area. [79] Another interesting factoid is that “Isle of Dogs” was “...the title of a notorious satirical play [1597] of 'very seditious and slandrous' content, written by Thomas Nashe in collaboration with Ben Jonson and others... . Now lost, the play was outrageous enough to lead to Jonson's imprisonment and Nashe's fleeing London. The Isle of Dogs of the title, however, was no doubt a metaphor for Britain...”. [80]
There is, to invoke AJ Bell's Fortean neologism, [81] an apparent LexiLink , or verbal synchronicity, with the Canary Islands . Known in yesteryear variously as the Fortunate Isles or the Blessed Isles , [82] the island cluster, lying west of Africa, bears a name that means, “...literally 'island of dogs' ( canis ...), so called because large dogs lived there. [83] The name was extended to the whole island group ( Canariæ Insulæ ) by the time of Arnobius (c.300).” [84]
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( Image source ) In what might fairly be called an open-air crypto-ritual – for who is to prove the negative – on October 1, 2007, at “ 23 feet tall… [this] five-ton golden replica of a statue of Anubis , the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of the dead, was transported along the River Thames past the Tower Bridge in London”, which leads directly into the Tower complex to its north. [85] , bottom); “One of the traditional duties of Anubis was to guide the dead” into the Occident (the West). [86]
Of course, the Egyptian “Land of the Dead” was also called “the west” ( imenet ). “For the ancient Egyptians, the west (specifically the desert west of the Nile) was the destination of the dead. This is because the sun died every day in the western horizon, only to be reborn the next morning in the east. Most Egyptians were buried to the west of the Nile with their heads facing the west.” [87]
The Alchemical Salt Tower?
Image source: MacHuisdean, op. cit. , p. 47.)
Returning to MacHuisdean's unexplained emphasis on the Salt Tower as the starting point for siting the Prime Meridian, we note that salt has some relevant connexions that might go some distance towards explaining the Salt Tower's rôle.
“[T]he salt-cellar partook of the nature of a holy vessel, associated with the temple in general, and more particularly, with the altar.” [88] Salt was both an emblem of “welcome” and “safety” when sitting at table with guests. [89] Additionally, the “salt cellar [served] as a boundary”. [90] In terms of seating arrangements while dining, “the salt dish served as a boundary” – separating individuals of different classes and stations, and “...indicating rank and social position...”. [91]
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( Image source ; Alchemical Salt is, along with Mercury and Sulfur, one of the "Three Essentials.")
Additionally, Salt – along with Sulfur and Mercury – is one of the “three essentials” in alchemy. [92] Note the capital letters. What is in view is something different from the garden-variety items that answer to the common names salt , sulfur , and mercury .
“Paracelsus defined the Three Essentials by how they behave in fire. Sulfur is seen as what fuels the fire or what is changed in the fire. ...Mercury is the volatile watery essence of the fire that Paracelsus called 'phlegma' and is represented by the flames, light, heat, and smoke issuing from the fire. The new principle of Salt exhibits the fixed essence of the substance burning that resists the fire and is found in the ashes. ...As Paracelsus put it: 'The fire is Mercury; what is burnt is Sulfur; and all ash is Salt.” [93]
Salt is something of a Phoenix. “Like the First Matter, Salt shows up at both the beginning and the end of the work. ...The alchemists described the First Matter as a 'poisonous dragon' whose fire can instantly reduce us to ashes.” [94]
( Image source ; The Three Essentials represented as a three-headed dragon inside of an alchemical vessel.)
In this context, it seems profitable to keep two facts in view. Number one, we should bear in mind the dragon iconography that literally frames the City of London.
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Number two, we should recall the “Great Fire” that occurred in London in the ominous year 1666. [95]
Given the historical context, the pi -distance to Greenwich calculation would certainly have been made only under the supervision of such Royal Society luminaries as the physicist-alchemist Sir Isaac Newton, and the royal astronomer, Sir John Flamsteed.
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Although Flamsteed is often said to have been staunchly anti-astrology, he nevertheless personally cast a horoscope for the setting of the Greenwich Observatory's foundation-stone. [96]
As Greenwich is the locus for the prime meridian , the word “meridian” deserves our careful attention. [97] Literally, “meridian” designates “noon,” and derives from the “... Latin meridianus 'of midday, of noon, southerly, to the south,'.” [98] “Figurative[ly]...[the word] suggest[sa] 'point of highest development or fullest power'.” [99]
Indeed, in Freemasonry, the meridian (or noontime) sun represents the so-called “Raised” Mason – the initiate into the Third Degree who now shines “...like the sun at its meridian.” [100] As touched on above, “[t]he government of a Maon's Lodge...is vested in three superior officers, who are seated in the East, West, and South, to represent the rising, setting, and meridian sun.” [101]
The important 19th century Masonic historian and encyclopedist, Albert Gallatin Mackey, states that the word Zohar (title of the well-known Kabbalistic treatise, which word means, literally, “splendor” or “radiance”) “...signifies the meridian light, the brightest effulgence of day...”. [102] Introduction of Kabbalistic Judaism immediately recalls the Kabbalist-hermeticist, the Baal Shem of London, Dr. Falk, and dovetails, yet again, with the mystical numerology of 72. “The degrees of the Jacob's ladder were to the number of 72, according to the Zohar.” [103]
Crowley Cavortings on the Meridian?
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The established meridian may be thought to identify mystical line, having importance something akin to that attributed to “ley lines” [104] or, perhaps, the 33rd degree of parallel latitude. [105]
Hence, one might expect to discover strange goings on all along the 0-degree line. In fact, it is possible that no less a figure than Aleister Crowley might be summoned (no occult pun intended) at this point to ground this speculation. Crowley's doings in Africa are often given in vague terms, locatively speaking, using phrases like “in the desert,” etc.
Researcher Alex Owen is more specific. “In late 1909, two Englishmen [Aleister Crowley and Victor Neuburg], scions of the comfortable middle classes, undertook a journey to Algiers. ...It was at Crowley's instigation that the two men began to make their way, first by tram and then by foot, into the North African desert to the southwest of Algiers; and it was Crowley's decision to perform there a series of magical ceremonies that prefigured his elaboration of the techniques of sex magic, or, as he was later to call it, Magick. In this case, the ceremonies combined the performance of advanced ritual magic with homosexual acts. ...A little over two weeks after arriving in Algiers, Crowley and Neuburg reached Bou Saada. ...It was here that Crowley, acting on instructions from previous angelic interlocutors, made the appropriate Call and attempted to enter the fourteenth Aethyr.” [106]
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These locations are in northern Algeria. But it is interesting to note that the intersection of the 0-degree line of longitude and the 33-degree line of latitude occurs in Algeria, just northeast of Ain Sefra. It is unclear how much “wandering” Crowley and Neuburg did through the Algerian desert, or how far they managed to go. It is intriguing, however, to speculate as to a possible intention to conduct a ritual along the meridian. One notes, for example, that Neuburg and Crowley reunited in Paris in 1913 for the so-called “Paris Working.” [107] Paris is famous for many things, but as we have already mentioned, one of those things is having an alternate “prime meridian.” [108] To be sure, various factors could have informed Crowley's decisions regarding ritual locations. One would have to consult authorities sifting through the vast amounts of Crowleyana. Still, it seems worth raising the possibility that Crowley, being a high-level initiate of many systems, may have, to some degree (pun intended this time), been keyed in on the meridian-wavelength.
Early Standard Time in US
“In October 1884, at the behest of the President of the USA, 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, DC, for the International Meridian Conference. They decided to adopt a single world meridian, passing through the principal Transit Instrument at the observatory at Greenwich, as the basis of calculation for all longitude and a worldwide 24-hour clock. The Greenwich motion passed 22-1; San Domingo voted against it; France and Brazil abstained.” [109]
It turns out that railroads agitated for the standardization of clock times. [110] There was a very pragmatic reason. With different towns all keeping difficult local times, keeping a train “on schedule” was an extremely tricky affair.
It may not surprise the reader, therefore, that in 1860 an important railroad city in Mississippi, the site of the junction of the the Mobile & Ohio and Southern Railways, was named Meridian . [111]
One of the early railroad tycoons, who was also a steamship magnate, controlling the Hudson River (1864), New York Central (1867), and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern (1869), was Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt. [112] “...In the 1860s, Vanderbilt shifted his focus from shipping to the railroad industry, which was entering a period of great expansion. He gained control of a number of railway lines operating between Chicago and New York and established an interregional railroad system.” [113]
Interestingly, Vanderbilt lived in what is today called Greenwich Village , New York. “In the 1840s, Vanderbilt constructed a large brick home for his family at 10 Washington Place, in Manhattan's present-day Greenwich Village neighborhood.” [114]
In any case, it was Vanderbilt ( inter alia ) whose influential railroad corporations elicited “...a major transformation of the railroad network, which previously had been fragmented into numerous short railroads, each with its own procedures, timetables, and rolling stock. The creation of a coherent system spanning several states lowered costs, increased efficiency, and sped up travel and shipment times.” [115]
Part of this drive towards efficiency included “Universalizing” time. Official credit for the suggestion of standardized “time zones” goes to the Scottish-Canadian inventor, Sir Sandford Fleming. [116]
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“Vanderbilt was the driving force behind the construction of Manhattan's Grand Central Depot [left], which opened in 1871. The station eventually was torn down and replaced by present-day Grand Central Terminal [right], which opened in 1913.” [117]
Заметки:
[1] Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 35.
[2] For an overview, see: “Greenwich,” Wikipedia , < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich >.
[3] Douglas Harper, “Greenwich,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Greenwich >.
[4] “Nazi Occultsists Seize Omphalos,” London Psychogeographical Association Newsletter , no. 6, Beltaine, 1994. “Pychogeography,” in general, has to do with “the interconnection between landscape and the mind.” Under this description, the subject can be traced back to the 19th-20th century Welsh author, Arthur Machen, whose story The Great God Pan (1890, 1894) remains a horror classic. Psychgeography has fascinated a number of prominent United Kingdom-based writers, including author Iain Sinclair (who is also a British filmmaker), journalist Will Self, and the biographer and novelist Peter Ackroyd. A number of groups have sprung up persuing various psychogeographical investigations. One such group is the London Psychogeographical Association, whose initial founder was the English artist, Ralph Rumney (d. 2002). This association was revamped, and given an anti-Masonic and anti-Royalist orientation, decades later by an anarcho-syndicalist named Fabian Tompsett, under the pseudonym “Richard Essex.” London is not the only city home to persons displaying psychogeographical interest, however. A San Francisco-centric internet gaming community, SFZero , included a sub-group called “BART Psychogeographical Association.” For quotation and more information, see: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/arthur_machen>, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/london_psychogeographical_association>, and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sfzero>.
[5] Chesca Potter, “Gazetteer of Sacred Sites in London,” John Matthews and Chesca Potter, eds., The Aquarian Guide to Legendary London , Wellinborough, UK: Aquarian Press, 1990, p. 226.
[6] The many-named Shiva has various aspects. “He is a creator god, moon god..., fertility god, lord of the cosmic dance, god of the arts and learning, god of truth, god of luck, god of the rivers, god of the forests, god of death, of yoga, of cremation grounds, and the lingam”, Patricia Turner and Charles Russell Coulter, “Shiva,” Dictionary of Ancient Deities, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 427. Disturbingly, especially in light of its placement beside the controversial Large Hadron Collider, which some fear might destroy the earth (or worse), Shiva is perhaps best known for “represent[ing] the destroyer”, Ibid . Although, Mackey associates “Siva” with “the meridian sun”, in the Southern, preserving, position. See Albert G. Mackey, “SUN,” Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry , vol. 2, Chicago: Masonic History Co., 1956, p. 988. On the worries regarding the Hadron collider, see Clara Moskowitz , “Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy Earth?” LiveScience , October 26, 2012, < http://www.livescience.com/32204-will-the-large-hadron-collider-destroy-earth.html >. This “destroyer of worlds” motif also dovetails with the Atomic Bomb rite at the Trinity Site in New Mexico, along the Jornada del Muerto , as James Shelby Downard first noted. See Jim Brandon, "Sirius Rising," interview with James Shelby Downard, with commentary, audio recording, ca. 1976.
[7] Fritjof Capra, “Shiva's Cosmic Dance at CERN,” June 2004, < http://www.fritjofcapra.net/shiva.html >. In addition to the statue, CERN also employs (or did employ) a piece of equipment called the “Shiva router,” see: “Spectrum: Shiva Router Management Guide,” CableTron Systems, 1998, < http://it-div-cs.web.cern.ch/it-div-cs/private/spectrum/Docs/Pdf_docs/shiva_router.pdf >.
[8] Turner and Coulter, “Kali,” op. cit ., p. 257.
[9] Shiva's “consorts are aspects of the Great Mother Goddess Devi who appears as Gauri, Sati, Parvati, Uma, Durga and Kali”, Turner and Coulter, “Shiva,” op. cit. , p. 427.
[10] The original image, from < http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/dun/img/00800.jpg >, has been rotated and additional text supplied, for emphasis. The basis of my interpolations comes from Albert G. Mackey, “SUN,” Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry , vol. 2, Chicago: Masonic History Co., 1956, pp. 987-988: “The Master ...in the East is a symbol of the rising sun; the Junior Warden in the South, of the Meridian Sun; and the Senior Warden in the West, of the Setting Sun.”
[11] Malcom C. Duncan, Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor , New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1866, p. 8, < http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/dun/dun02.htm >.
[12] JC Cooper, “Time,” Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols , London: Thames & Hudson, 1979, p. 173.
[13] Mackey, “TRIAD,” Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry , vol. 2, Chicago: Masonic History Co., 1956, pp. 1051-1052.
[14] Mackey, “ECOSSAIS,” op. cit. , vol. 1, стр. 308.
[15] “Greenwich,” Wikipedia , < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich >.
[16] Mackey, “TIME,” op. cit. , p. 1040.
[17] Ibid .
[18] Mackey, “ECOSSAIS,” op. cit. , vol. 1, стр. 308. The word had been “...engraved...upon a triangle of pure metal...”, ibid .
[19] Ibid .
[20] Michael Whitworth, “Inspector Heat Inspected: The Secret Agent and the Meanings of Entropy,” Review of English Studies , new series, vol. 49, no. 193, February, 1998, p. 55.
[21] Conrad, op. cit. , p. 40. This, and the subsequent, reference are owed to Whitworth, supra .
[22] “The Dark Knight (2008): Quotes,” Internet Movie Database , < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/quotes >.
[23] The Dark Knight, 2008, Internet Movie Database , < http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/ >.
[24] Conrad, op. cit. , p. 179.
[25] Cooper, “Time,” loc. cit .
[26] James Shelby Downard also made mention of “Call to Chaos” sex magic rites. See, eg, his contribution “The Call to Chaos” in Adam Parfrey, ed., Apocalypse Culture , revised ed., Los Angeles: Feral House, 1990, pp. 307-327. In Downard's idiom, there are sex and death rites – Call to Chaos and Killing of the King, respectively – that form the core of the novus ordo magic of the Freemasons. The Call to Chaos ritual, which Downard also designates a “sex circus,” is apparently a sort of orgiastic “...[rite] intended to conjure up a theurgic influence of occult forces of elemental nature”, ibid ., p. 323. This seems to comport with JC Cooper who defines “Orgy” in the following terms: “Re-entry in chaos, the primordial state before creation; cosmic night; dissolution; the lower potentialities of beings...”, op. cit. , p. 123. Additionally, both Downard and Cooper link chaos-rites to Saturnalia and the “Lord of the Misrule.” See ibid.
[27] Quoted in Barry Hugill, “Mystics of Avalon, San Francisco Examiner , September 11, 1994, p. A10. (Reprinted from Barry Hugill, “Cultists Go Round in Circles, The Observer , August 28, 1994, p. 3.) The Ackroyd name also crops up in searches on the Tower of London. David Ackroyd narrated Melissa Jo Peltier's production titled “The Bloody Tower of London,” an installment of the History Channel 's series “History's Mysteries” (season 6, episode 3, 1999).
[28] < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolwich >.
[29] “Woolwich attack: 'Lone wolves' who run with the pack,” Telegraph , May 25, 2013, < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10080864/Woolwich-attack-Lone-wolves-who-run-with-the-pack.html >.
[30] Clive Aslet, “Can the clock really be ticking for GMT?” Telegraph (UK), October 3, 2011, < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8803144/Can-the-clock-really-be-ticking-for-GMT.html >.
[31] “Paris Meridian,” Wikipedia , April 12, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_meridian >.
[32] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude#Problem_of_longitude .
[33] Here I wish to make the interested reader aware of a possible complication. In referring back to Newton, one has to bear in mind that – alchemy aside – Newton's physical theories notably diverge from the Einstein-inspired relativistic physics that was formulated in the 20 th century. For one thing, Newton was a substantivalist about time and space. "In the substantival description, space itself is a substance in which the objects of the universe exist and move. ...[Space is]the container, so to speak. ...A similarly substantival description of time is possible. ...Contrast this...with a more relational descrption in which time simply is the changes in physical objects. ...[And space is nothing more than the] physical things [that] exist." Peter Kosso, Appearance and Reality , Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998, pp. 34-35 and ff .
I quote now from a classic Fortean exploration: “In considering my data it would be helpful to consider a dictum of Einsteinian physics – a science few would accuse of fanaticism or irrationality (although the charges could certainly be made from a rather unconventional perspective): 'Time relations among events are assumed to be first constituted by the specific physical relations obtaining between them',” James Shelby Downard & Michael A. Hoffman II, King Kill 33 , Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: Independent History & Research, 1998, p. 11.
Downard and Hoffman invoke Einstein. I have traced the embedded quotation to Adolf Grünbaum: “In regard to simultaneity, there, Einstein's conceptual innovation can be summarized as follows: Time relations among events are assumed to be first constituted by specific physical relations obtaining between them . These physical relations, in turn are postulated to be such that the topological simultaneity of events at spatially separated points P1 and P2 is not a uniquely obtaining relation. Metrical simultaneity is thus left indeterminate by topological simultaneity and by the behavior which the STR postulates for transported, adjacently synchronized clocks”, Adolf Grünbaum, “Reply to Hilary Putnam's 'An Examination of Gruenbaum's Philosophy of Geometry',” Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science , Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky, eds., Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science , vol 5, 1966-1968, p. 92.
Grünbaum goes on to explicitly contrast the Einsteinian conception of simultaneity with the conception that follows from Newtonian principles alone. “Therefore, a conventional choice or synchronization rule for which there was no scope in Newton's theory must be invoked over and above the relevant physical facts to assert that a given event at P2 sustains a uniquely obtaining equality relation of metrical simultaneity to an event at P1. In this sense the relation of metrical simultaneity is not an objectively obtaining physical relation in the STR but depends on a conventional choice. For any given event E2 at P2, this conventional choice consists in the selection of a unique event at P1 as metrically simultaneous with E2 from within the infinite class of those events at P1 which are topologically simultaneous with E2. And this choice is implemented by the rule for setting the clock at P2. In brief, Einstein's innovation is that the physical relatedness which makes for the very existence of the temporal order has a structure that precludes the existence of objectively and uniquely obtaining relations of metrical simultaneity. Thus, the failure of our measuring operations to disclose relations of absolute simultaneity is only the epistemic consequence of the fact that these relations do not exist”, ibid ., pp. 92-93
Elsewhere, Grünbaum summarizes: “For on Newton's theory, our events E and E' are simultaneous according to its clock readings, and yet they are connectible by Newton's fastest causal chain (gravitation) and only by such a chain. By contrast, the STR requires its clocks to be set so as to issue in the non -simutaneity of any two events which can belong only to the career of its fastest causal chains (light), even though these events cannot both be on the world-line of a single clock”, “Simultaneity by Slow Clock Transport in the Special Theory of Relativity,” Philosophy of Science , vol. 36, no. 1, March, 1969, pp. 21.
Perhaps the simplest takeaway from this abstruse discussion is this: Whatever it is was that Newton took himself to have been doing alchemically or mystically, in terms of coordinating and grounding a standard time, may not automatically carry over to contemporary adepts who are perhaps apt to understand temporal relations along relativistic lines, as opposed to substantivalist ones.
[34] Erlestoke, Wiltshire, UK: Erlestoke Press, 1937.
[35] MacHuisdean, ibid ., p. 84.
[36] The Kabbalah Connection to pi – The Jewish Kabbalah can't be a complete unknown even to the mass audience now when popular singer Madonna Louise Ciccone has taken to wearing the red wrist cord of a highly commercialized Kabbalah cult group. We owe to the Israeli mathematics historian, Rabbi Marc-Alain Ouaknin, a number of key insights which tie the pi factor to Kabbalah. The latter, he writes, “designates the mysteries of the mystical Jewish tradition” and he stresses “the essential link of Kabbalah with mathematics.” See Marc-Alain Ouaknin, The Mystery of Numbers , New York, NY: Assouline Publishing, 2004, pp. 153-54. Как так?
One of the key kabbalistic concepts is the idea that, for the world to be created, God first “withdrew from himself into himself…thus creating a space for the future world”, ibid. , p. 277. However, once the space was opened, it then became necessary to maintain the void and allow the universe to survive. For this a force arose “that kept the light of the infinite at the periphery. In Hebrew, this 'no return' force is named shadai, a word that means 'enough, sufficient' … Shadai is the name of God, the self-limiting…(in kabbalistic Hebrew, this limitation is called din) whose purpose is to make the Creation possible and therefore to balance entropy and the expansion of the world…”, ibid. , p. 279.
Geometry entered the picture when an early Spanish Kabbalist considered the episode (Genesis 3:24) in which God stationed an angel at the Garden of Eden with a revolving sword tracing a fiery circle, and he was inspired to assert “the circle is built from the name shadai.” From that image of the sword (the radius) and the circle it traces, kabbalists extrapolate the equivalent of pi, since the area of the circle is of course determined as pi times the radius squared. Ouaknin explains that, in gematria, in which each Hebrew letter also has a numerical equivalent, shadai equals 314, commenting “Strange coincidence: 314 represents the proximate value of pi multiplied by 100.”
He quotes one Leon Ashkenazi, a contemporary Kabbalist who wrote “Pi is precisely the relationship between the forces that make possible the delimitation in the physical world, a delimitation that exists through the name shadai at a metaphysical level.” It is tempting to surmise that such delimitation is part and parcel of the marking off of the entire globe with the symbolical net based at Greenwich.
The function of time, so primary at Greenwich, enters with a link to another fundamental kabbalistic principle: the creation of the universe through manipulation of the Hebrew alphabet. Ouaknin: “The rational value of pi is 22/7. For the Kabbalists, this number suggests the articulation of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet (of which there are twenty-two) and the numeral 7, whose first meaning is the rhythm of time in biblical thought. Thus, pi (22/7) means the ratio between the alphabet and time, ie the word. Indeed, what it does is to put the alphabet in motion, thanks to the combination of the letters”, ibid. , p. 280.
Finally, our author concludes: “The ratio that exists between, on the one hand, a tendency toward entropy, deployment and expansion – known by the kabbalistic name of hessed – and,on the other hand, a tendency toward order and limitarion – din – is on the order of pi”, ibid ., p. 282.
[37] More on MacHuisdean – Jim Brandon is inevitably reminded of the old kids' rhyme “Simple Simon met a pieman…” but there is nothing simple in Hamish MacHuisdean's work-ups. Essentially an anti-establishment geometer, he bases his bona-fides on demonstrated prowess in what were apparently regarded as impossibilities: squaring the circle, trisecting the angle and doubling the cube.
Actually, circle squaring is now not that unusual and has been published in a number of recent sources, and not by methods bearing any resemblance to MacH's quite intricate procedure. Doubling of the cube has also purportedly been achieved, although a claimed method seen by JB in a publication in the 1990s seemed similar to the version first published by MacH in the 1920s. Trisection of the angle may be unique to our author, but as with all of the diagrams given in his books, no attempt has been made by us to verify with our own examples that these techniques really work as he claims.
The most intriguing spin-offs from MacH's neo-geometry, however, are his assertions on the pi factor. By far his most significant claim is that pi is not a so-called irrational number, meaning one whose “decimals are infinite and unforeseeable…” That is how Ouaknin defines it and follows up with a summary of ongoing attempts reach the end of the series: “Today we are up to more than 200 billion decimals of pi” ( ibid ., pp. 196, 206) with no end in sight. MacH dismisses this with the claim – which would seem to have revolutionary impact in the maths world if true – that, no, pi ends at 3.1416, period.
He bases this on a complex and, for us, as yet unresolvable series of geometrical diagrams in his book, Yesterday's Impossibilities (Dunbartonshire, Scotland: Fraser, Edward & Co., 1943). As we mentioned earlier, the present essay is much a work in progress and not a little of that would apply to MacH's corpus which will be submitted to qualified mathematician-geometers for perusal, as time permits.
Lastly, the Freemasonic connection. Surprisingly reminiscent of the kabbalistic equation of the key Hebrew term shadai to number 314 is MacH's much-lauded 31460, the 10,000 multiple of his self-contained 3.1416 pi. As an example of his typical development, here is what he produces when considering the “Ratios of the Musical Scale”: “The 2nd note [Re or D] is 432 [vibrations per second: actually, 432 1/8, but he omits the 1/8] or 6 x 6 x 6 by 2. The 13th note [sol or G] is 1296 [vps, also ignoring the extra 1/8] or 6 x 6 x 6 x 6. <>bThe 33rd note is 7776 [vps, omitting 1/8] or 6 x 6 x 6 x 6 x 6. 33 is the Master Mason degree, as all numbers from 1 to 33 added up total 561; and 561 squared and minus 561 yield 314160, the pi ratio series” (Hamish MacHuisdean, The Great Law, Erlestoke, Wiltshire, UK: The Erlestoke Press, 1937, p. 160. Emphasis supplied.)
Any reader who wishes to pursue this possible, but not probable, geo-mathematical revolution can probably find MacH's books through book-finders or interlibrary loans, with a little effort.
[38] Nota bene : The calculation of space (navigational position, longitude, etc.) and time depends upon the sun and moon. This dual-dependence on the sun and moon is very important in alchemy and sex magic as well. See our earlier post: “Neil Armstrong: Astronaut or Alchemist?” HERE .
[39] J. O'Donnell, “John Harrison and the Longitude problem,” Royal Museum Greenwich , November 15, 2002, http://www.rmg.co.uk/harrison .
[40] The Temple and the Lodge , New York, NY: Arcade, 1989, p. 155.
[41] I take the “rose” reference in mathematical, rather than botanical, terms (since the relevant flowers “by any other name” have five petals, rather than six). See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rose_(mathematics)>.
[42] “Saturn's Massive Northern Hurricane,” NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI , photo 1, < http://www.space.com/18674-saturn-vortex-hexagon-storm-photos.html >.
[43] “The hexagram, like the pentagram, was and is used in practices of the occult and ceremonial magic”, “Hexagram,” Wikipedia , May 27, 2013, < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram >.
[44] “Saturn Hexagon Vortex Storm,” NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI , photo 6, < http://www.space.com/18674-saturn-vortex-hexagon-storm-photos.html >.
[45] < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon#Homeworld >.
[46] “Kronos,” Theoi , < http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanKronos.html >.
[47] < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/72_%28number%29 >.
[48] George Hart, Egyptian Myths , Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, pp. 40-41, < http://books.google.com/books?id=K78L_vGn2E4C&pg=PA40 >. Relatedly, Typhon's plot “to overthrow Osiris” involved “seventy-two fellow conspirators”, Hart, op. cit ., p. 41.
[49] < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Year >.
[50] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession#Ancient_Egyptians .
[51] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession#Ancient_Egyptians .
[52] See the previous post: < http://curveofbell.blogspot.com/2012/12/threats.html >.
[53] Caitlin Matthews, “The Guardian Head – Sacred Palladiums of Britain,” John Matthews & Chesca Potter, The Aquarian Guide to Legendary London , Wellingborough, UK: Aquarian Press, 1990, p. 36.
[54] John Wilcock, A Guide to Occult Britain , London: Sphere Books, 1977, p. 35.
[55] “Christopher Wren – architect and astronomer,” Royal Museum Greenwich , January 28, 2005, < http://www.rmg.co.uk/explore/astronomy-and-time/astronomy-facts/history/christopher-wren-architect-and-astronomer >.
[56] Margaret M. Howard, “Dried Cats,” Man , vol 51, November, 1951, p. 149.
[57] Ibid .
[58] “Sir Christopher Wren (1632 – 1723),” BBC , < http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wren_christopher.shtml >.
[59] “House of Plantagenet,” Wikipedia , June 1, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Plantagenet#Henry_VII.2C_the_Tudors_and_the_Plantagenet_descendants >. See also Michael Hoffman, “Conspiracy Against a King,” Revisionist Review [weblog], April 4, 2013, http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2013/04/conspiracy-against-king-michael-hoffman.html .
[60] This meaning is commonly given. Lewis and Short's standard reference, A Latin Dictionary (Oxford, 1879) p. 1382, notes that “Placentia” was also a city in ancient Gallia populated with pagan practitioners of hepatomancy (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruspex ;). The city is now called Piacenza and is in northern Italy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piacenza . The Wikipedia article just cited says that the name implies a “good omen”. Although Lewis & Short ( loc. cit. ) also indicate that the root placer can designate being “...pleased or satisfied with oneself, to flatter oneself, to pride or plume oneself...”, and this is rarely mentioned in conjunction with the Tudor palace, but seems relevant. Finally, “placentia” is arguably very close to placenta , a word (meaning “cake”, esp. “[f]or an offering...” Lewis & Short, Ibid .) that is obviously connected to the omphalos (since the navel is a relic of one's connexion to one's mother via the umbilicus ), < http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/lint/facts.htm >.
[61] Kate Ravilious, “Henry VIII's Lost Chapel Discovered Under Parking Lot,” National Geographic News, February 9, 2006, < http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0209_060209_london_chapel.html >.
[62] “Greenwich,” Collier's Encyclopedia , vol. 11, Crowell-Collier, 1964, p. 441.
[63] “Greenwich,” Collier's Encyclopedia , loc. cit . There word “Palladian” derives from the name of the “Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580)”, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladian_architecture >. It is, however, tantalizingly close to being a LexiLink with the word “Palladium,” about which see In Tenebris . HERE .
[64] The Constitution of Freemasons , 1723; quoted in Frances A. Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment , London: Routledge, 1972, p. 271.
[65] “May 10 th , National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,” London Psychogeographical Association Newsletter , no. 6, Beltaine, 1994.
[66] Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London, second ed., London, 1811, p. 504, http://books.google.com/books?id=JJcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA504 . “During the English Civil War, the palace was used as a biscuit factory and prisoner-of-war camp. Then, in the Interregnum, the palace and park were seized to become a 'mansion' for the Lord Protector”, “Greenwich,” Wikipedia , < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich >.
[67] Ibid .
[68] “ Impressment , colloquially, 'the Press', refers to the act of taking men into a navy by force and with or without notice. It was used by the Royal Navy, beginning in 1664 and during the 18th and early 19th centuries, in wartime, as a means of crewing warships, although legal sanction for the practice goes back to the time of Edward I of England”, “Impressment,” Wikipedia , May 17, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment >. Ср Michael Hoffman, They Were White and They Were Slaves , Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: Independent History and Research, 1993, < www.amazon.com/They-Were-White-Slaves-Enslavement/dp/0929903056/ >.
[69] “George I (1714-27 AD),” Britannia, < http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon53.html >.
[70] “Baron Greenwich,” Wikipedia , March 11, 2013, < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Greenwich >. According to the aforementioned London Psychogeographical Association [LPA], "Queen Elizabeth, "Her majesty[,] is top dog in the 'occult establishment' - a secret body of Freemasons, many of them titled, who run Britain", Hugill, op. cit. Further, again according to the LPA, the Queen has participated in various Masonic goings on at Greenwich, in and around the Queen Mary palace. See ibid .
[71] Specifically on “The Greenwich Line,” see: “What are ley lines?” London Psychogeographical Association Newsletter , no. 6, Beltaine, 1994.
[72] “Nazi Occultists...”, loc. cit . Additionally, “In Roman times the Thames was narrower at this point, and it is thought that there may have been a ford connecting Greenwich to the Isle of Dogs, where the foot tunnel now runs”, Chesca Potter, loc. cit .
[73] Robert Graves, The Greek Myths , London: Penguin, 1992, p. 772.
[74] Douglas Harper, “Omphalos,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=omphalos >.
[75] Raphael Patai, Man and Temple in Ancient Myth and Ritual , New York, NY: Ktav, 1967; cited by William N. Grimstad, “The Freemasons and the Drive to Rebuild Solomon's Temple,” unpublished monograph, 2005, p. 2.
[76] Cooper, “Omphalos,” op. cit., p. 122.
[77] Ibid .
[78] One author handily summarizes the “two main theories about how the Isle of Dogs got its name...”: (1) “...Henry VIII kept his dogs on the island and brought them to his palace at Greenwich by boat if he needed them for hunting” and (2) “...when the Dutch engineers drained the marshes in the 17th century and claimed back the land lost to the 1488 flood, it became known as the Isle of Dykes”, which name survives only in corrupted form. < http://barryoneoff.co.uk/html/the_island.html >.
[79] Chesca Potter, loc. cit .
[80] Hermione Hobhouse, ed., “The Isle of Dogs: Introduction,” Survey of London , vols. 43 & 44, 1994, pp. 375-387; at British History Online , < http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46507 >.
[81] See A[nthony]. J. Bell, “Lexi-Links: Nature's Play on Words,” Fortean Times , August 17, 1976. Mr. Bell has no known relation to the present writer.
[82] Theodore J. Cachey Jr., “Canaries (Fortunate Islands),” < http://www.english.upenn.edu/~dwallace/europe/nodes/canaries.html >.
[83] There is a vast amount of dog-related arcana. We note that “...dogs were sacrificed to [the Greek goddess] Hekate...” who was herself often depicted as dog-headed, Sorita d'Este and David Rankine, Hekate: Liminal Rites , London: Avalonia, 2009, pp. 24 & 71, et alia . We mentioned Hecate in our prior post, In Tenebris (HERE). The Egyptian counterpart to Hermes – the Hermetic god – is Thoth (Tehuti). Although usually represented as a stylized Ibis, “[a]nother of the commonest symbolic forms of Thoth is the dog-headed ape”, GRS [George Robert Stowe ] Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes , vol. 1, London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906, p. 55, < http://www.sacred-texts.com/gno/th1/th106.htm >. The star Sirius is “...often known as the Dog Star as it is in the constellation Canis, or 'Dog'...”, Robert KG Temple, The Sirius Mystery , Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books, 1987, p. 58. “'[T]he Dog Days'...[follow] the heliacal rising of Sirius in the summer”, ibid . My awareness of this owes to Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare , Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: Independent History and Research, 2001. The conscientious researcher should note yet another obfuscatory word game. Canicula , which means “...literally: little dog...”, is often reported to be “...another name for Sirius”, “Canicula,” The Free Dictionary , < http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Canicula >. On the other hand, “...Procyon was sometimes termed Canicula by the Romans...”, William Smith, ed., “Astronomia,” A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities , p. 153. Now Procyon (of the constellation Canis Minor ) is composed of pro -, which means “before,” and kyon (or “dog”). As I commented in another place, Procyon is most often said to be so-called (the “dog before” or the “before-dog”) because (at least at one time) it was supposed to have risen prior to Sirius (of Canis Major), thus heralding Sirius' arrival. See, eg, Smith, op. cit. , p. 152. However, in other places, the meaning for Canicula/Procyon is given as “little bitch” and carries the connotation of (to put it delicately) “the dog in front” ( pro - cyon ), Nicolaus Copernicus, “On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres,” in Stephen W. Hawking, ed., On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy , Philadelphia, Running Press Books, 2002, p. 129. On this latter construal, the depiction of Canis Minor “in front of” or “before” Canis Major could be taken as a symbolic-astronomic sexcapade, writ large in the stars. This sort of sexual language (talk of a "bitch," etc.) is echoed in the so-called “BDSM community,” which is, in out view, pagan sex magic with a secular veneer. This brief sketch barely scratches the surface. (There is also the possibility of taking a LexiLink approach, here. The root siri , eg, appears in the name Osiris – O-siri-s, maybe siri-os? Additionally, Cardinal Giuseppe Siri is an important player in some variations of Catholic sedevacantism, see < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri_Thesis >. Apple computer has a “Siri” operating system < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri_(software )>, and Sirius XM satellite radio is well known < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_XM_Radio >.) For a bit more information on the star Sirius and related recondite information, see: Jim Brandon, “Sirius Rising,” audio series, ca. 1976; Robert Temple, The Sirius Mystery , < http://www.amazon.com/Sirius-Mystery-Scientific-Evidence-Contact/dp/089281750X >; Michael Hoffman, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare , < http://www.amazon.com/Societies-Psychological-Warfare-Michael-Hoffman/dp/0970378416 >; Loren Coleman, “Dark Knight Shooting,” Twilight Language , July 20, 2012, < http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2012/07/dark-knight-shooting.html >; and “Sirius Rises,” Visup , July 22, 2012, < http://visupview.blogspot.com/2012/07/sirius-rising.html >.
[84] Douglas Harper, “Canary,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=canary >.
[85] “Pictures of the day, Oct. 1,” New York Times , October 1, 2007, < www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/10/01/nytfrontpage/20071001POD_12.html >.
[86] “Egyptian god floats up Thames,” BBC , October 1, 2007, < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7022829.stm >.
[87] April McDevitt, “The West (imenet),” Ancient Egypt: The Mythology , < http://www.egyptianmyths.net/west.htm >.
[88] Robert Means Lawrence, The Magic of the Horse-Shoe: With Other Folk-Lore Notes, Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1898, ch. 10, < http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/mhs/mhs41.htm >. Here is a curious tie-in with our previous study of the Tower of London and our ongoing investigation of Charles II. “In the room containing the crown jewels, in the Tower of London, are to be seen eleven magnificent golden salt-cellars, the oldest dating from the reign of Elizabeth. Of these the so-called state salt-cellar, which is a model of the White Tower, was presented by the city of Exeter to King Charles II., and was used at coronation banquets”, ibid .
[89] Ibid .
[90] Ibid .
[91] Ibid . Lawrence gives the example of a “haughty wife...[who] could hardly be imagined as sitting 'below the salt...”, ibid .
[92] John Reid, “The Three Essentials,” John Reid's Course on Practical Alchemy , part 1, ch. 2, < http://www.levity.com/alchemy/reid1-2.html >.
[93] Dennis William Hauck, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Alchemy , New York, NY: Penguin, 2008, p. 96-97.
[94] Ibid ., pp. 97 & 78.
[95] “Great Fire of London,” Wikipedia , February 26, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London >.
[96] Günther Oestmann, “John Flamsteeds Horoskop für die Grundsteinlegung der Sternwarte Greenwich,” Sudhoffs Archiv , bd. 86, h. 2, 2002, pp. 129-137.
[97] There is a possibly relevant magnetic phenomenon, namely, the “magnetic meridian” (and declination). “In Magnetism. When a magnetic needle is suspended by a fibre or pivot at its centre it assumes a definite direction by reason of the earth's magnetic force. It lies in a line that is called the magnetic meridian at that spot on the earth's surface, and the more northerly end points to what is called the magnetic north. As a rule the magnetic north at any place will not coincide with the true or geographical north – the magnetic meridian will not be identical with the geographical meridian. The angle between these two directions is called the declination. Thus in London the declination is about 17° west of north; it increases up to a certain limit as one travels westwards, subsequently diminishing to zero in the region of Hudson's Bay. Beyond this the declination is east of north. There are slight daily variations, as well as steady long-period changes, in the declination at any place. Lines drawn on the earth's surface to mark those points where the declination is of the same value, are called isogonic lines. Lines of no declination, where the magnetic and geographic meridians coincide, are called agonic lines. ...”, “Declination,” Encyclopedia123 , < http://www.encyclopedia123.com/D/Declination.html >.
“The most remarkable phenomenon of the magnet, in relation to the earth, is the variation of the magnetic meridian in most parts of the globe, upon which depends the declination of the needle. Accurate observation of this phenomenon has ascertained the following facts: There are certain points on the earth where no declination exists. The lines formed by their series, however, do not coincide with the geographical meridians; but, on the contrary, deviate from them very irregularly. According to the most recent observations, there exists a line without declination in the Atlantic ocean, between the old and the new world. It intersects the meridian of Paris, at a southern latitude of about 65°; thence it mounts to the northwest, to about 35° W. longitude from this meridian, or 32° 39' 37” from Greenwich, as high as the latitude of the coast of Paraguay; after which, becoming again almost north and south, it skirts the coasts of Brazil, and proceeds to the latitude of Cayenne. Then, turning suddenly to the northwest, it takes the direction of the U. States, and thence proceeds to the northern parts of the American continent, which it traverses in the same direction. The position of this line on the globe is not immutable ; at least for a century and a half, it has been tending considerably from the east to the west. It passed London in 1657, and Paris in 1664. Thus, in its present direction, it has traversed in the latitude of these places, nearly 80° of longitude in 150 years. But there is no doubt that this change is not uniform. It is even very unequal in different parallels”, “Magnet,” American Encyclopedia , 1851, < http://www.agepedia.org/wiki/MAGNESIA >.
[98] Douglas Harper, “Meridian,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=meridian >.
[99] Ibid . The noon and midnight hours are also called the “high” and “low twelves.” “The language of Freemasonry, in reference to the hours of labor and refreshment, is altogether symbolical. The old lectures contained a tradition that our ancient Brethren wrought six days in the week and twelve hours in the day, being called off regularly at the hour of high twelve from labor to refreshment. In the French and German systems, the Craft were said to be called from labor at low twelve, or midnight…[I]n the system of Zinnendorf, it is said that there are in a Mason's Lodge five hours, namely, twelve struck, noon, high noon, midnight, and high midnight…”, Mackey, op. cit. , vol. 1, стр. 466.
[100] Mackey, “RAISED,” op. cit. , vol 2., p. 829.
[101] George Oliver, Signs and Symbols of Freemasonry , p. 204; quoted by Albert G. Mackey, “DEDICATION OF A LODGE,” Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry , vol. 1, Chicago: Masonic History Co., 1956, pp. 267-268. Mackey subsequently states that “it is a needless task to cite authorities or multiply instances to prove how intimately the sun, as a symbol, is connected with the whole system of Freemasonry”, ibid . But not the sun only. For Mackey reveals that “[t]he sun...[is] obedient to the all-seeing eye...”, ibid . Manly Palmer Hall writes: “The initiate in the mysteries was always instructed concerning the existence of three suns...[T]he disciple is told to revere the invisible sun even more than the visible one”, Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire , Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1996, p. 12 (see also p. 18). Mackey writes about the “three sons of Saturn” – Jove (Zeus), Neptune (Poseidon), and Pluto (Hades) – amongst whom “the Universe was divided”, Mackey, “SUN,” op. cit. , p. 988. Of course, this is an analog of the Triple Goddess ( Trivia ) – Luna, Diana, Hecate, ibid . We covered this in In Tenebris , HERE .
[102] Mackey alluding to the commentary of “Doctor Jarvis,” in “ARK, NOAH'S,” Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry , vol. 1, Chicago: Masonic History Co., 1956, p. 103. Going on, it is stated that the Zo-har of the “Ark of Safety” (ie, Noah's Ark) is not merely a “... window ...but a source of light itself”, ibid .
[103] < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/72_%28number%29 >. The aforementioned Wikipedia article makes mention of “[t]he 72 old men of the synagogue, according to the Zohar.” I am unaware of the meaning of this reference. There are also 72 hours over the course of three days; 72 pillars outside of the National Archives; 72 bricks on the pyramid of the reverse of the dollar bill; etc. For more "72s," including the crucial 72 divine names in Kabbalah, see Star Trek In Tenebris HERE .
[104] “The Classic Book on Ley Lines”: Alfred Watkins, The Old Straight Track , London: Abacus, 2009.
[105] Cf. Downard & Hoffman, op. cit ; as well as Jim Brandon, The Rebirth of Pan , Dunlap, Ill.: Firebird Press, 1983, pp. 170 ff .
[106] Alex Owen, “Aleister Crowley in the Desert,” excerpted from The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern , < http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/642011.html >.
[107] “Aleister Crowley,” Wikipedia, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley >.
[108] “Paris Meridian,” Wikipedia , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_meridian .
[109] Douglas Harper, “Greenwich,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Greenwich >.
[110] “Philosophy of Time: Philosophers Speak,” part 1, Philosophical Installations , University of Oregon, < http://philinstall.uoregon.edu/video/1317/ >.
[111] Douglas Harper, “Meridian,” Online Etymology Dictionary , < http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=meridian > and “Meridian, Mississippi,” Wikipedia , < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian,_Mississippi >.
[112] “Cornelius Vanderbilt,” Wikipedia , June 1, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Vanderbilt >.
[113] “Cornelius Vanderbilt,” History , < http://www.history.com/topics/cornelius-vanderbilt >.
[114] Ibid .
[115] TJ Styles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt , quoted in Ibid .
[116] “Sanford Fleming,” Wikipedia , May 15, 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandford_Fleming >; ср “Universal Time, Wikipedia, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time >.
[117] “Cornelius Vanderbilt,” History , loc. cit .
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