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[Article by SOTT] Connecting the Dots: The Axis of Evil Steps on the Bear's Tail Under a Nuclear Fallout

2008-09-03T01:12:00.000-07:00

Source - 2 Sept 2008

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"Take the pawn and I'll take your knight."
"Yeah, but the Middle East will be open for check."
"We'll see about that. Nice ceremony."

While the world slept through the month-long cyclic dream of the Olympic Games, the Axis of Evil took the opportunity to move its pieces onto Russia's doorstep. The Eastern bear responded, and the US/UK/Israeli propaganda machine went into overdrive.

As usual, ordinary people paid a heavy price for this deadly game of global chess.

Playing chess with Russia at the expense of the human race

A month ago we observed the signs of a New 'Cold War'. The first salvo seems to be the proxy war in South Ossetia and Georgia, not unlike the one in Afghanistan back when the Taliban were "freedom fighters" and the "headquarters of terrorism" was Communist Moscow. The basic dynamics at play are rather obvious and have been explained by a number of writers whose articles have been reproduced on SOTT in the last few days. But to make it crystal clear, there are at least four key pieces of information that need to be known to have a fairly complete picture:

1. Georgia stepped into South Ossetia before Russia stepped into Georgia, although the Western media is attempting to convince the world that precisely the opposite is true.

2. Georgia is a puppet of the Axis of Evil (US, Israel, UK and allies) and only one element in a series of movements to get Russia under control and/or provoke it.

3. An oil pipeline which runs through Georgia connects Central Asian producers to Western markets.

4. The conflict coincides with a US-Poland treaty for the installation of an anti ballistic missile system on Polish land.

5. There are reports of a large number of US ships heading towards the Persian Gulf.

So let's have a closer look at these points:

We'll start with a summary of the basic facts of the Georgian conflict, which we quote from this article (emphasis added):

The American-armed and trained Georgian army swarmed into South Ossetia last Thursday, killing an estimated 2,000 civilians, sending 40,000 South Ossetians fleeing over the Russian border, and destroying much of the capital, Tskhinvali. The attack was unprovoked and took place a full 24 hours before even ONE Russian soldier set foot in South Ossetia. Nevertheless, the vast majority of Americans still believe that the Russian army invaded Georgian territory first.

The BBC, AP, NPR, the New York Times and the rest of the establishment media have consistently and deliberately conned the public into believing that the violence in South Ossetia was initiated by the Kremlin. Let's be clear: it wasn't. In truth, there is NO dispute about the facts except among the people who rely on the western press for their information.

Isn't the power of the media a real wonder to behold? One thing is what really happened; what we were led to believe is something entirely different. To be fair, the media didn't have it that difficult, since 90% of the world's attention was focused on medals and world records broken by mere fractions of a second. Indeed, the skillful hand of television is faster than the public eye. A single example from Fox News will suffice:

"Before I say anything else, I just want to say that I was running from Georgian troops bombing our city. Not Russian troops. I want to say thank you to the Russian troops that were helping us out." - Amanda Kokoeva

This is certainly not what a Fox News anchor expected to hear from his guests, Amanda Kokoeva and her aunt Laura Tedeeva-Korewiski, SF Bay residents who have been visiting family in South Ossetia when the war broke out.

The background footage for this short live interview had obviously been prearranged for a different message.

As Amanda openly blames the Georgian troops for the conflict, the anchor can be heard coughing and mumbling repeatedly.

These important details are lost in the sea of information and the images and headlines that bombard us daily. The rest is just a matter of endlessly repeating a biased interpretation of the facts to convince us all that a) Russia is evil, and b) it's up to good old 'democratic' US and its stooges to surround the Eastern bear with anti ballistic missile systems (see below).

The paragraph cited above mentions that the US armed the Georgian army. It has been quietly doing it for 15 years now. For a detailed chronology of the nature and amount of the military aid see here.

But, guess who else was handing a gun to Georgian President Saakashvili, albeit covertly? Here's a hint: the Georgian Defense Minister Davit Kezerashvili is a former Israeli citizen, and fluent in Hebrew. With the knowledge and approval of the Israeli Defense Ministry, an Israeli company, Defense Shield, trained Georgian soldiers in preparation for the operation in Ossetia and Abkhazia. Furthermore, the training also involved officers from Israel's Shin Bet secret service. Since 2000, Israel has sold hundreds of millions of dollars in arms and combat training to Georgia, all of it with full approval from the Israeli Defense Ministry. The Russians took notice of Israel's involvement, and in turn, the Israeli Foreign Ministry made an effort to try to distance itself from the conflict by recommending that defense contractors freeze their supplies to Georgia. Too late, though; they had already been caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

If you still believe that it is a mere coincidence that the Axis of Evil has armed Georgia, and that neither the US nor Israel had anything to do with the decision of starting this little war, consider that Joseph R. Wood, Cheney's deputy assistant for national security affairs, was in Georgia shortly before the war began. The official story is that he was part of a team preparing for a visit by Cheney to Georgia. But are we expected to believe that Georgia would go to war without the full approval of its sponsors, who happened to be visiting while the events were taking place? In fact, it sort of sounds like Darth Cheney sent his aide to oversee the whole operation.

Consider as well that the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain, Randy Scheunemann, received $290,000 from the Georgian regime of Saakashvili through Scheunemann's firm, Orion Strategies.

So why are the Ziocons targeting Putin's Russia? (Yes, Putin's, not Medvedev's). The most obvious answer is that Putin has refused to play by the rules of the "War on Terror™". Two years ago Putin made a speech in Munich in which he rejected a unipolar world, with a clear reference to the center of power in Washington. He also spoke against "unilateral and frequently illegitimate actions" and the "almost uncontained hyper-use of force" (Iraq anyone?). With those words, it wasn't necessary for him to openly name who he was talking about, but he did:

One state and, of course, first and foremost the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way. This is visible in the economic, political, cultural and educational policies it imposes on other nations. Well, who likes this? Who is happy about this?

Indeed. Whether Putin has a further agenda of power of his own or not, the fact is that he spoke aloud what many in both the Western and Eastern hemispheres have in their minds since at least 2003, with the brutal invasion of Iraq. Too bad this was not reprinted in Western media.

But even before the Munich speech the Neocons had Putin in their cross-hairs. Back in 2003, Putin confronted Russia's corrupt oligarchs by having Mikhail Khodorkovsky, owner of the oil company YUKOS and one of the wealthiest men on the planet, arrested for fraud and tax evasion. Prominent Neocon Richard Perle - also fondly known as "the Prince of Darkness" - reacted by demanding Russia be thrown out of the G8.

But there are further specific reasons for fomenting the Georgian conflict. Georgia is a highly strategic location from the point of view of the global power-brokers. It turns out that the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, runs through Georgia. Considered the only alternative to trans-Russian transport of Central Asian oil and gas to Western markets, it opened in May of 2006. Israel in particular has proposed that the pipeline be extended to the Israeli port of Ashkelon for transshipment to south and east Asia.

Useless and infuriating missiles in Poland

Right on the heels of a missile defense agreement between the US and the Czech Republic, a similar deal was reached with Poland. Washington plans to place 10 interceptor missiles in Poland which are to be coupled with a radar system in the Czech Republic. At least temporarily, American soldiers are to staff air defense sites in Poland oriented toward Russia, and the US would be obliged to defend Poland in case of an attack with greater speed than required under NATO.

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Russia was always going to react negatively, but few expected the severity of the words of Russian general Anatoly Nogovitsyn when he said that Poland was not only exposing itself to a military strike, but also to a possible nuclear attack. Game of hard-ball anyone? The potential nuclear nightmare that is facing us all is being clearly spelled out. There are also reports of Russia considering arming its Baltic fleet with nuclear warheads to counter American plans for a missile defense shield in Europe, while the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Russia's response would go "beyond diplomacy". Even President Dmitry Medvedev spoke of a military reaction, and declared that Russia was not scared to go back into the Cold War if necessary, as he recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

It's almost surreal that the superpowers are bringing back to life the specter of a nuclear war over this issue, considering that the missile defense system does not work. At best it is very unreliable, but even if it were reasonably efficient, an attacking nation would need only to launch several missiles at once to regain the upper hand. Especially because the plan is to install only ten launchers in Poland. After all, only one nuclear missile needs to hit the target to destroy an entire city.

Therefore, it is not true that the ABM system disrupts the balance of nuclear power; it is not true that Russia's nuclear capability ceases to be a deterrent; and thus it should be a non-issue for both sides. But that's not how they behave. Instead, both Russia and the US seem quite eager to make outrageous threats against each other and millions of helpless citizens.

So why would they want to bring the world back to the times when we all lived under the constant fear of the enemy and a nuclear catastrophe?? Well... maybe that is the whole point. How could superpowers engage in the theft of other countries' natural resources without the fear of an enemy to justify it? How could they ask their populations to give up their rights and freedoms 'for their own safety' without an enemy for them to be "safe" from?

It always goes back to the Middle East

Just as the Olympic games provided a distraction from the Georgian conflict, the Georgian conflict provided a distraction for further movements in the Middle East. War is based on deceit, secrecy and feints, after all.

We read with some concern a report that a massive US naval armada is heading for Iran. We couldn't find many articles confirming this information, so we are left thirsty for important details. Because if there is a US armada heading for the Persian Gulf, while Russia is busy in Georgia, it strongly suggests that a strike on Iran is going ahead. We could even estimate the likely moment of attack if we knew exactly when they are due to arrive. Stay tuned.

By the end of August, additional smoke and mirrors appear to further obscure the picture. Haaretz reports the shocking "news" that the US refused to sell new refueling planes to Israel, because (brace yourselves for this one!) they don't want this sale to appear like the US is backing Israel for an attack on Iran! Knowing that when Israel says "jump", the US immediately responds, "How high?", we are having a hard time believing any of it. After all, if Israel wants to attack Iran, they can do it from Georgia without a need to refuel at all. Moreover, since the last week of August, different commentators from around the world have been insinuating that an attack on Iran by the US is imminent. Among them is Russian Col. Gen Leonid Ivashov, president of the Academy of Geopolitical Studies, who states that a war with Iran is becoming possible with "each passing day". Then US based Weekly Standard editor, Bill Kristol, asserts that the Bush administration will more probably attack Iran if they believe that senator Obama will win the elections, and an Azerbaijani pro-government analyst (with an obvious inability to grasp reality) foretold that America would attack Iran before the Ramadan (September 1st). No cigar on that one. Add Daily Kos into the mix, which quoted the controversial Dutch De Telegraaf, on a curious story about a Dutch intelligence operation in Iran being canceled due to the imminent attack in the country, and things are not looking good. Then again, it has been known since Aesop's times that if you cry "Wolf!" often enough, when the wolf comes, the people will have stopped believing, even those who do see him coming.

Interestingly, Russia sent its only aircraft carrier to Syria (right next door to Israel, by the way). It must be important then! The mission - which includes several submarines and a missile cruiser - comes after Syrian President Bashar Assad said he is open to Russia building a base in the area. Assad also expressed support for Russia's intervention in South Ossetia, and an interest in the establishment of Russian missile defense facilities on his land. This is one guy who is paying attention to the chessboard.

What's next?

It didn't make any sense for Georgia to try to snatch South Ossetia knowing that Russia would strike back. It was a little war that Georgia had no chance to win. So obviously, winning was not the intention at all. On the contrary, the purpose was to lure Russia into the conflict and find a way to keep it going for as long as necessary, while more interesting events would be taking place elsewhere, perhaps in the Middle East.

Putin is no fool, and he surely understands the danger of getting entangled for too long. Therefore, we can safely believe the Russians when they say that they intend to leave Georgia (not South Ossetia and Abkhazia, though) and that they believe that Georgia is planning more armed actions. Following the same argument, it makes sense that the US and its new buddy Sarkozy insist that Russia is not complying with the ceasefire. They need to convince their respective publics that Russia is bent on making war. When the situation turns into a guerrilla war, people will blame it on Russia. NATO has already vowed to help the Georgian military and has ships in the Black Sea under the excuse of "exercises". Tension is already rising as NATO and Russian ships share the same waters.

If we are reading the scenario correctly, we can expect other satellite states, ex-soviet republics and Eastern European nations to cause all sorts of trouble for the big bear - as much as needed to allow the US and Israel to invade another Middle Eastern country or two, undisturbed by major players.

One thing is certain: the New Cold War is now officially on. Russia has ended its cooperation with NATO and the US has refused to hold joint naval exercises with Russia.

Packing up the 9/11 fraud - Musharraf included

Officially, the Bush/Cheney cartel are due to pack up their tent and move into private lives in a few months time. "Officially", we say, because things look rather volatile at the moment. We could have one or more "October surprise" any time now, anywhere from Georgia to US soil, passing through the Middle East. But whatever their real plans, elements in the background are working hard to tie up as many of 9/11's loose ends as possible, in order to cover Bush/Cheney backs.

First we had the story of the mad Army scientist who committed suicide, conveniently serving as an explanation for the anthrax terror scare of the last months of 2001. A single bad apple in US military labs and nothing more. Then, a federal "scientific" agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, came up with the ludicrous conclusion that the WTC Building 7 collapsed as a result of a "new phenomenon" known as thermal expansion! Well, of course, the only way anyone can still maintain that the official conspiracy theory of 9/11 is correct is by arguing that the 'old' laws of physics were suspended that day.

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Now we're waiting to be entertained with some official and conclusive explanation for the disappearance of a passenger plane into the small hole in the wall of the Pentagon. Stay tuned.

It is interesting that the "explanations" came after Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for a "third time within a week [...] publicly raised doubts" in regards to the 9/11 official story.

It's a bit coincidental as well that Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf found himself in enough political trouble to decide that it was best to resign; let's not forget that Pakistan's ISI played a role in the events of 9/11, or at least in its cover up. Indeed, it was Pakistani intelligence service ISI which wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, while the chief of the ISI, General Mahmoud Ahmad, was having breakfast with Senator Bob Graham, former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, while the airplanes were hitting the towers.

Was Musharraf's involvement in 9/11 the reason that he had to leave before Bush's official presidency came to an end? And was his departure prepared by a series of events and articles that hurt his image? Shortly before his resignation we read that US media reported that Pakistan's ISI was involved in the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul. Likewise, we read that according to a US senior terrorism analyst, the world's favorite database - al-Qaeda™ - has "an increasingly secure haven in the mountainous tribal areas of Pakistan"; while the Mr. Magoo of terrorism, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called on the people of Pakistan to support the jihadist movement - although, strangely enough, he chose to do so in English. Naturally, Pakistan's arch-enemy India grabbed the opportunity to capitalize in its favor.

Now, here's a crazy idea. If there is indeed a trend that indicates that the Bush gang is engaged in a renewed effort to put an end to all 9/11 doubts, could it be that they fear the possibility that in the not too distant future secret information could be leaked? We find it hard to picture Obama as president sponsoring a serious inquiry. But maybe foreign players, feeling that they have been painted into a corner, would be ready to spill the beans? A threatened Russia might find itself in such a position. They obviously are well aware of what really took place on 9/11, and if NATO pushes them hard enough, they may want to leak, for example, satellite images of the object that hit the Pentagon and Flight 77.

Nuclear leaks

With the rebirth of the Cold War, we grimly contemplate the resurrection of the nuclear nightmare. Strangely enough, this seems to have 'resonated' on the world arena, as we have seen a number of incidents related to nuclear energy. Is the Universe trying to send a message? Is it our own 'collective unconscious'? Are 'black-operators' working on a plan? Or is it all of the above?

At the end of July there was a nuclear contamination incident in southern France (proceeded by another one beginning of the month), and at the same time a crane accident, caused the shutdown of one of Germany's atomic reactors. Then early August, the Japanese government reported that a US submarine may have leaked radiation in Japan, but that the "amount of radiation was too small to be considered harmful".

Revealing radioactive leakage from a US ship to the people who suffered the consequences of two US atomic generated some strong emotional reactions. Meanwhile, so many other nuclear incidents are overlooked by armies that we might guess that this revelation was made voluntarily and serves a purpose. Maybe the Japanese officials are looking for a solution to justify the end of US ship presence within its territorial waters without creating a diplomatic incident?

But this is when we find ourselves following a thread and going deeper into the labyrinth.

From France to Japan, and then a few days later, outside Vienna, Austria, a "small amount of plutonium has leaked from an aging International Atomic Energy Agency laboratory", again reported as not harmful to the environment. A recent Belgian radioactive iodine leak however, turned out to be worse than initially thought, the worst in Belgian history. From India to US, nuclear and chemical plants are leaking like crazy while governments stay quiet about the incidents.

Not only that; at the end of July, SOTT editors found one little curious news item about Egypt border authorities denying access to an Israeli truck loaded with radioactive material.

Egyptian officials seized the goods at the Al-Oja border crossing after radiation detection equipment showed a high presence of radioactive material in the cargo, the official told AFP.

In June, Egypt sent back to Israel a delivery of 32 tons of tiles because it was emitting high levels of radiation."

It is pretty clear that the fact that Israel has nukes can't be denied anymore. But let's play devil's advocate for a moment and ask ourselves if it is possible that an entire shipment of ceramic tiles could be radioactive and have no relation whatsoever to the 'non existent' Israeli nuclear weapons? Well, the answer isn't in Israel's favor. Apparently, starting from the beginning of this century, ceramics have been experimented with as containment for nuclear waste:

The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has demonstrated that certain ceramic materials with structures similar to fluorite crystals hold up well to radiation damage. Internal radiation can cause radioactive host materials to swell or crack, making the stored waste unstable and susceptible to leaching, but the atoms of these ceramic materials can shift to accommodate defects caused by radiation damage.

"Fluorite-type ceramic materials show promise as safe, radiation-proof materials and should be further developed for containing nuclear wastes," Kurt Sickafus, head of the team developing the materials, wrote in a study published in the August 4th issue of Science."

Albeit and evidently not very successfully.

Scientists developing ways to dump Britain's nuclear waste underground may have to think again after new research revealed that radioactivity could leak out much earlier than expected.

Writing in Nature, the scientists say the resulting radiation disrupted the atomic structure of the material some five times more than expected. Zircon canisters used to store waste, the scientists say, might start leaking after only 1,400 years. The most radioactive wastes will remain dangerous for up to 250,000 years.

It is highly probable that Israel was trying to sneak nuclear waste out of the country disguised as coffee mugs or plant pots. In this case, they should have done their homework first.

But there are still many unclear points surrounding this leaky issue. Taking into account that we have numerous 'rogue elements' who are busy moving all the 'missing' and 'misplaced' nukes and nuclear components, we are forced to speculate that all those leaks are a disguise for some other hidden activity, be it a preparation for a false flag operation or another kind of 'smoke and mirrors' operation to hide the increasingly-hard-to-hide changes to our planet and its atmosphere. Something wicked may be already here, present and apparent for some who don't have our best interests at heart.

As you may understand, it is difficult to draw an exact picture for all of this, especially when there are still many puzzle pieces missing and waiting to be discovered. Let's hope we will have enough time to do it before we see mushroom clouds or fireballs on the horizon.

Show must go on...

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Meanwhile, in the US of A, the election soap-opera continues with all the garishness that we have come to know and detest.

A new "interesting" character enters the Obama camp, who is proud to have been the architect of Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995, on which the Patriot Act was later built, and other such policies of hegemony. Senator Joe (or Josef) Biden, is chosen by Obama - or that's what we are told - to be the democratic VP candidate, though his policies on Iraq appear to match closely those of the republicans. The "show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are" adage is lost on the majority of the sleeping crowd, who continue to consider Obama their Hope for Change. But not all are asleep. As Robert Dreyfus of the Nation wrote:

Obama, whose mushy Iraq plan excites no one, is marrying his own flawed ideas -- which mostly revolve around beefing up US forces in Afghanistan and unilaterally attacking Pakistan -- with Biden's discredited notion of partitioning Iraq into three squabbling mini-states.

In another excellent article, we read:

Joe Biden's acceptance speech was indeed a remarkable performance -- bellicose and delusional and deceitful by turns. If you closed your eyes, there were moments when you would have thought that you were back in the Cow Palace in 1964, listening to Barry Goldwater belching fire and threatening doom for all those who challenge America's uniquely exceptional special unquestionable morally superior dominance of the world.

This is Joe Biden ladies and gentlemen, who indeed looks good on screen as he proudly avows that he is a Zionst! And that is the least of the qualifications needed to get a prime time slot on 'Shalom TV'.

Further, the daily series plot thickens as the subtle insinuation that Obama might not be a US citizen, thus not eligible for the US presidency, enters the script. The audience always loves to see some drama played against its favorite protagonist, and the PTB are well aware of how to keep the sheeple focused on a "movie production", so they can work unhindered on their more important "projects".

Three aspects are worthy of note about this story: 1) it was barely mentioned by the major news providers in the US, 2) the suit was filed only a few days before the Denver Democratic convention, and 3) the suit is filed by Philip Berg, a Clinton supporter, a fact that gave rise to various speculations. Here at SOTT, we see this insider-generated suit as a calculated attack on Obama. It adds to his credibility by making him appear as a "true outsider" coming to Washington. However, his actions so far have made that pretty laughable, given his pledges to AIPAC, Israel and the GWOT (and frankly, if anyone is to question Obama's nationality, they should start with the numerous Bush administration officials, who have dual Israeli/American nationality).

So what else does a character need to become the favorite of the people? How about aplot against his life by white supremacists? What better way to associate him with the last great leaders America has seen, those loved and trusted? It definitely works, let's pack it up and sell it! Yup, the Denver Democratic Convention sounds like a good place.

Absent from that Denver episode is McCain and co., whose story continues to unfold as well, even if not as spectacularly. But wait a minute! We indicated above that McCain might have used a whole war to promote his political campaign and the plans of the NeoCons:
McCain Adviser Was Lobbyist for Georgia
McCain: 'We are all Georgians'
And None Dare Call It Treason - McCain Advisor's Georgia Connection
Cindy McCain flies to Georgia for talks with Mikheil Saakashvili

It was his VP choice nonetheless that shocked the most, from inside his party even. Sarah Palin arrived next to McCain after a "rocketing ascent", though it is said that "she has more experience catching fish than dealing with foreign policy or national affairs"

She brings a strong anti-abortion stance to the ticket and opposes gay marriage - constitutionally banned in Alaska before her time - but exercised a veto that essentially granted benefits to gay state employees and their partners.

Not only does Palin seem to fit the Republican mold, she brings two missing aspects to the McCain campaign vis a vis Obama: 1) she is young, and thus will appeal to the younger generation of voters, and 2) as Obama is the first black candidate for president, Palin is the "first female running mate on a Republican presidential ticket".

This selection is no doubt to raise the TV ratings of the show. Palin's history includes a beauty contest nomination, a family vendetta scandal, and the most attention grabbing of all, that the news sites and blogs have been "munching on", Palin announced that her 17 year old unmarried daughter, Bristol, is 5 months pregnant and plans to keep the baby, plus marry the father. Now, rumor on the web has it that this is not Bristol's first pregnancy, and that she might also be the biological mother of Palin's baby son, Trig. Hmmm.... If Trig was born on April 18th of this year, he would be 4 months today, so if Bristol is 5 months pregnant, it is impossible for her to be his mother, right? Or is this announcement for the purpose of damage control? A complicated plot, even for a soap.

Hurricane Gustav killed 95 people but did not cause the cancellation of the Republican National Convention after all, though Bush, Cheney and others will "skip it".

It appears so far that whoever 'wins' the election, the likely outcome for the American people is an administration even worse than the Bush's. But it's only a soap, right? And while Americans are glued to their TVs watching it, US soldiers are killing women and children in Afghanistan on their behalf. In the White House, while he still holds his chair, "Bush quietly seeks to make war powers permanent, by declaring indefinite state of war" upon all humanity.

Manufactured Famine

We all are feeling the pangs of the psychopathic economic system in our lives, no matter where we live (well, unless we are among the elite 1% of the population), yet it became even more murderous than before in some countries:

In Africa, UK aid agency ActionAid created a report based on "detailed assessment" by its staff all over the region where

It warns that "time is running out for the Horn of Africa," which it says has been "hit by the combined impact of failed harvests and global increases in the price of food."

"With millions facing hunger and destitution, the region is now reaching a tipping point with increasing numbers of people unable to cope," ActionAid says.

"Altogether five countries -- Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea and Djibouti -- are affected. The situation could easily become catastrophic."

For some reason, other starving African countries are missing from the report. Added to continuing drought, the psychopathic politics of Mugabe left Zimbabweans with wild fruits and roots for meal. Uganda is also threatened by famine, with "over 3.5 million Uganda citizens at risk of dying from hunger", and so is Ethiopia, where the world "famine" was changed into "acute malnutrition" under a clueless and conscienceless regime, provided with billions of dollars and military aid by US and EU to perpetrate war crimes against neighboring countries.

In Asia, famine plaguing Chin state in western Burma killed 44 children, due again to a government that does not care for its own people plus a rat attack on rice and maize. Same conditions left the people hungry next door, in India's Mizoram.

Note that the Western's world "aid" in these countries has long stopped bringing any relief to the suffering people, and as Times' Alex Perry succinctly explains:

"Western governments are loath to halt programs that create a market for their farm surpluses, but for countries receiving their charity, long-term food aid can become addictive. Why bother with development when shortfalls are met by aid? Ethiopian farmers can't compete with free food, so they stop trying. Over time, there's a loss of key skills, and a country that doesn't have to feed itself soon becomes a country that can't. All too often, its rulers use resources elsewhere - Ethiopia has one of Africa's largest armies."

Where pathocratic corporate interests rule, there's no prospect for creative and moral thinking to rise, consequently entropy, suffering and death will inevitably result.

Programmed to Kill

Recent weeks saw some particularly horrific and disturbing murders around the globe, with the most brutal occurring within a few days of each other toward the beginning of the month. One might wonder if there were not something 'in the air' triggering this cluster of killings? It seems hardly a month goes by without yet another high school classroom shooting in the U.S.

As tensions rise here on the big blue marble are psychopaths beginning to 'pop' in the heat?

24 July Canada: Man stabbed, beheaded on Manitoba bus

26 July Brazil: Man accused of killing, dismembering girlfriend

28 July France: 11 year old boy stabbed 44 times, police suspect psychotic serial murderer

31 July Man arrested in river ambush on 3 Wisconsin swimmers

1 August Boy, 12, arrested in mother's slaying

3 August Greek chef cuts off girlfriend's head with cleaver

9 August UK: Gruesome murder of Chinese couple

21 August Tennessee: American student shoots classmate at school

As the Mayor of Santorini put it in reaction to the chef severing his girlfriend's head: "It's hard to believe that people like this circulate among us". Hard to believe, yes, but that is the reality and it is to understand it.

Six percent of the world's population are born genetic psychopaths, these examples represent only a small proportion of those "failed psychopaths" who for some reason are triggered to kill in ways that expose them. The vast majority remain hidden, gaining ever greater power over others, killing by proxy even, ways that are more believable for the Mayor of Santorini no doubt.

Planes, Trains & Buses acting up

It has been a grim month for plane, train and bus accidents. In fact this might be one of the deadliest months for plane crashes world-wide in quite a while:

"Cost-cutting" leads to neglecting the maintenance of infrastructure and machinery, poor training of operators, not to mention general loss of service. Sixty years ago, one could travel by train nearly anywhere in the US. Then buses filled the gap for those who couldn't afford to fly. Adding in the other indignitiesinvolved in travel (for example here), one might be forgiven for thinking that this is one more factor in play to limit the ability or willingness of people to travel. The fences get stronger and higher.

True, some of these accidents can be traced to lack of operator attention. Given the level of general anxiety that has been deliberately fostered these days, it's almost not surprising.

A small sample of August's transportation incidents:

California: Plane landing at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank crashes
Small plane crashes into Las Vegas neighborhood
Mid-air panic as plane plunges 26,000 feet over France
68 die, 22 survive airliner crash in Kyrgyzstan
Ten killed in Guatemala small plane crash
Fiery plane crash at Madrid airport kills 153
Germany: Plane arriving from Tehran clips bus at Frankfurt airport; no injuries
Easyjet A320 near Cyprus experienced violent shaking
Pilot dies after plane crashes in eastern Arizona
2 dead in eastern Arizona plane crash; 2nd this week
Newcastle Airport in chaos as RAF jet crash-lands
UK: Virgin plane makes precautionary landing
Sheriff: 10 dead in plane crash at Moab, Utah
Three Die When Plane Smashes Las Vegas Home, Sparking Blaze
Massachusetts: 3 killed in small plane crash in Easton
German plane with 265 people on board lands in Kenya after fuel leak
Australia: Qantas plane makes emergency landing in Sydney
Canada: 5 dead in plane crash on Vancouver Island
Australia: Barry Hempel feared dead in Stradbroke Island air mishap
Australia: Two dead in glider crash at Toogoolawah near Brisbane

Trains:

UK: Train derailment near Calvert
Texas: No injuries in train derailment in downtown Austin
Passenger Train Derails In Portugal
Train catches fire after derailment in Oklahoma

Bus accidents

Authorities: Tire failure may be behind Nevada bus crash
Texas: Bus crash kills at least 13
Six remain critical after north Texas bus crash
Mississippi crash survivors say bus slipped on wet road
40 killed in India as bus goes into river
One Man Dies, More Than 60 People Injured in U.K. Bus Crash
Bus of Marseille soccer fans crashes, two dead

Chilling out...

Remember the spotless sun?

©©Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)

The paper by Livingston and Penn paper: "Sunspots may vanish by 2015″ outlines the development of a situation not seen on earth since the "Maunder Minimum" of the mid-1700's. This period is, coincidentally, the middle of a climate period known as the Little Ice Age. And now a new 60 - 80 year "little ice age" may be coming as a result of the decrease in solar activity.

Then we have this from The Australian:

Sorry to Ruin the Fun, but an Ice Age Cometh

The scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.

What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot.

Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.

All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.

There is also plenty of anecdotal evidence that 2007 was exceptionally cold. It snowed in Baghdad for the first time in centuries, the winter in China was simply terrible and the extent of Antarctic sea ice in the austral winter was the greatest on record since James Cook discovered the place in 1770.

So much for all that arctic ice disappearing. Nature keeps the balance.

It is generally not possible to draw conclusions about climatic trends from events in a single year, so I would normally dismiss this cold snap as transient, pending what happens in the next few years.

This is where SOHO comes in. The sunspot number follows a cycle of somewhat variable length, averaging 11 years. The most recent minimum was in March last year. The new cycle, No.24, was supposed to start soon after that, with a gradual build-up in sunspot numbers.

It didn't happen. The first sunspot appeared in January this year and lasted only two days. A tiny spot appeared last Monday but vanished within 24 hours. Another little spot appeared this Monday. Pray that there will be many more, and soon.

The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and Earth's climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790.

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There is no doubt that the next little ice age would be much worse than the previous one and much more harmful than anything warming may do. There are many more people now and we have become dependent on a few temperate agricultural areas, especially in the US and Canada. Global warming would increase agricultural output, but global cooling will decrease it.

Millions will starve if we do nothing to prepare for it (such as planning changes in agriculture to compensate), and millions more will die from cold-related diseases.

There is also another possibility, remote but much more serious. The Greenland and Antarctic ice cores and other evidence show that for the past several million years, severe glaciation has almost always afflicted our planet.

The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years.

The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue. We also know that glaciation can occur quickly: the required decline in global temperature is about 12C and it can happen in 20 years.

The next descent into an ice age is inevitable but may not happen for another 1000 years. On the other hand, it must be noted that the cooling in 2007 was even faster than in typical glacial transitions. If it continued for 20 years, the temperature would be 14C cooler in 2027.

By then, most of the advanced nations would have ceased to exist, vanishing under the ice, and the rest of the world would be faced with a catastrophe beyond imagining.

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All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.

It will be difficult for people to face the truth when their reputations, careers, government grants or hopes for social change depend on global warming, but the fate of civilisation may be at stake.

Some of the more immediate consequences:

Global Cooling in Action: Three dead in Australian snow accidents

New Zealand: Ski resort claims deepest snow base ever

Snow Accumulation Drifts Towards Record

Snow in June: Spokane, Washington reverts to winter-like weather

And then of course comes the pathocratic squelching of scientific inquiry on the subject:

American physicists warned not to debate global warming

There's a lot of data floating around right now which both sides of the debate are grabbing onto to bolster their case. Given that the drive to concentrate power and resources into the hands of the few, looking at which side of the debate is being funded should prove enlightening. You don't think Al Gore tours the world on grass-roots donations do you?

For the comprehensive long-range analysis of climate change data, we recommend the reader to check here and here.

... and feeling the sprinkles of the Cosmic Dust

The Perseid shower, otherwise known as St Lawrence's Tears, came on schedule again this August and left their mark on our planet:

Fireball over Cumberland County, Pennsylvania?
UK: Mystery fireball falls from sky
Kincardine, Canada: Unexplained explosions mystify
Canada probes mysterious Arctic blast
Australia: It came from the sky
US: Witnesses recount 'wild weather'
US: 'Shuttle-Like Sonic Boom' Heard Before Townhome-Destroying Fire
US: Earthquake rattles counties in Alabama, explosion reported
US: Witnesses recount 'wild weather'

A few - perhaps more subtle? - mysterious occurrences drew our attention. In the US, a mysterious foam emerged ashore at Madrona Beach in the beginning of the month, and at the same time a mysterious green layer appeared on a lake in Turkey. Though the two might not be related at all - or at least seemingly - we recalled cases in the past of "foamy" waters. Mysterious foam in water was reported from Italy and Australia. It was also the case, early July, about the greenish foamy Israeli lake.

Curious enough, "white foam" was included in Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets: Damages, Disasters, Injuries, Deaths, and Very Close Calls:

In addition to these shipboard fatalities, there have been several striking accounts of near disasters involving impacts very close to ships. Near midnight of 24 February 1885, at a latitude of 37 degrees N and a longitude of 170 degrees 15 minutes E in the North Pacific, the crew of the barque Innerwich, en route from Japan to Vancouver, saw the sky turn fiery red: "A large mass of fire appeared over the vessel, completely blinding the spectators; and, as it fell into the sea some 50 yards to leeward, it caused a hissing sound, which was heard above the blast, and made the vessel quiver from stem to stem. Hardly had this disappeared, when a lowering mass of white foam was seen rapidly approaching the vessel.

The mystery deepens when we read in an article about the lake in Israel, where the foam and greenish color is attributed by the scientists to a new species of weed that recently moved to the lake:

it was the first time the weeds, which created the foam and gave the water an olive green color, had been noticed in the Kinneret and the experts could not identify their exact scientific nature.

....the reason for the weeds' appearance is not clear. "The conditions were apparently suitable but what exactly these conditions are, we don't yet know because we are not familiar with this species and its biology."

But only a few days after they appeared, and even before the researchers had succeeded in classifying them or giving them a scientific name, the strange weeds disappeared from the shores of the lake, leaving behind only the mysterious and worrisome, greenish, foamy patches.

Though a lot of other as yet undiscovered natural explanations might account for the strange phenomena in water bodies all over the world, we wonder whether there is something in the atmosphere - an organic residue of some kind or something that facilitates bacterial growth - which could be the result of a localized overhead explosion. Could it even be due to the planet's movement through some comet dust cloud?

Keep also in mind, that many space bodies' impacts with the earth or its atmosphere go unreported. Consider this report by Gen. Simon Worden from US Space Command:

"Most of the world knew about this situation and watched and worried. But few know of an event over the Mediterranean in early June of this year that could have had a serious bearing on that outcome. U.S. early warning satellites detected a flash that indicated an energy release comparable to the Hiroshima burst. We see about 30 such bursts per year, but this one was one of the largest we've ever seen. The event was caused by the impact of a small asteroid - probably about 5-10 meters in diameter on the earth's atmosphere. Had you been situated on a vessel directly underneath the intensely bright flash would have been followed by a shock wave that would have rattled the entire ship and possibly caused minor damage."

We live in interesting times indeed!

On a cosmic scale, it seems that the crop circle that appeared mid August in Etchilhampton Hill, near Devizes town, in Wiltshire, might provide a picture of where humanity finds itself right now - at a crossroads:

©Frank Laumen

The wind of change that we felt last month, seems to be getting stronger and as we look around and collect clues, we note that there is an increase in polarization. The question that remains however is: which "face of god" will the majority of humanity choose to look upon?

The answer, at least for now, remains open.

[Article by SOTT] Connecting the Dots: A New Cold War Meets Chinese Lanterns Flying in the Wind of Change

2008-08-26T05:15:00.000-07:00

Source - 2 Aug 2008

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© Gary Varvel

There is a well-known Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. Judging from the rapid unfoldment of "interesting" world events, it is clear that we ain't seen nothing yet and whatever providence has in store for us, it surely is going to become curiouser and curiouser.

So what went on this month, other than more bloodshed, cynical manipulation and overt war propaganda?

The New Cold War

Many seemingly disconnected events of the month of July can be understood as manifestations of one grand theme: the alignment of countries and various power groups into two confronting gangs, in a way reminiscent of the Cold War. Perhaps you recall that last month Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov observed that his country and the US had more trust and respect for one another during the Cold War than they do now. He was right; some events have left us wondering if we inadvertently stepped into a time machine and popped out back in the 1960s. A case in point:

Russia would cross "a redline for the United States of America" if it were to base nuclear capable bombers in Cuba, a top US air force officer warned on Tuesday.
"If they did I think we should stand strong and indicate that is something that crosses a threshold, crosses a red line for the United States of America," said General Norton Schwartz, nominated to be the air force's chief of staff.

He was referring to a Russian news report that said the military is thinking of flying long-range bombers to Cuba on a regular basis. [...]

The newspaper Iszvestia on Monday cited an unnamed senior Russian air force official in Moscow as saying that Russia may start regular flights by long-range bombers to Cuba in response to US plans to install a missile defense system in eastern Europe.

Well, if it isn't the big guys playing chess with nuclear weapons again - assuming that they actually knocked it off for a while - and, in the process, exposing the lives of millions to instant and horrific deaths. Notice that this proves that it was never about rival political ideologies. Nope; it was about the pursuit of power, the only real motivation of psychopaths.

So we are going back to that ugly part of the human experiential cycle; although of course, cycles never repeat themselves in exactly the same way. This is a new version of the Cold War and we suspect specific reasons for this, as well as some sort of understanding among the parties at some level. But lets not get ahead of ourselves. Here is what the alignment is roughly looking like:

- The Axis of Evil: The United States, Israel, Great Britain and - alas - Sarkozy's France.

and, in the other corner:

- Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea.

Here's why we think it aligns this way, explained point by point:

The Missile Fever

Condoleezza Rice signed a missile defense deal with the Czech Republic which permits the siting of a tracking radar station on Czech soil as part of an extended US missile shield. The argument is that this is needed to ward off potential attacks by those pesky 'rogue' states - you know, such as Iran - who pose "a common threat in the 21st century". Condi says that the radar system is not aimed at Russia; the problem is that the Czech Republic is at the doorstep of Russia and, let's face it, Iran poses no real missile threat to anyone. So it is a case of 'listen Peter, here's a message for Paul'.

As expected, Russia reacted by pointing out that the deal "complicates security issues on a global scale". The Russian Foreign Ministry warned in a statement that they "will be forced to react not with diplomatic, but with military-technical methods". No wonder that Russia is also trying to put its feet at the doorstep of the US, as mentioned above. And no wonder that Russia's new president, Dmitri Medvedev, doesn't take criticism from the US in very good spirits.

Notice that Russia is now increasingly concerned about its security, and has called for a broad new security alliance, "possibly including India and China, that would deal with problems such as terrorism and crime from Vladivostok, on Russia's eastern border, to Vancouver". The proposal was mentioned in a meeting with NATO ambassadors and it was interpreted by the media as an attempt by the Kremlin to usurp other alliances dominated by the US and Europe (i.e. NATO itself) - an explanation which actually makes sense, since it is for the benefit of Russia's safety that the West does not ally against it.

The Spy Fever

British security services have been busy with their own propaganda campaign against Russia - and Iran, but that's not news. It is very convenient that they can 'leak' information to the media without providing their names nor giving specifics; the message gets across and no anonymous source needs to take responsibility for anything. The Times published:

Britain's security services have identified Russia as the third most serious threat facing the country, it has emerged before Gordon Brown's first meeting with President Medvedev.
Security officials say that only al-Qaeda terrorism and Iranian nuclear proliferation are greater menaces to the country's safety than Russia.

The services are understood to fear that Russia's three main intelligence agencies have flooded the country with agents, The Times understands.

Talk about neuro-linguistic programming! Now Russia is mentioned in the same sentence as Iran and - shivers - al-Qaeda™, universally recognized as the pinnacle of evil. Furthermore, an article in The Telegraph claims that the "distraction" of combating Russian espionage "makes it significantly more likely that one of the many Islamist terror plots will succeed". Well, they couldn't blame Russia for sponsoring al-Qaeda™, as that would be too ridiculous, so they settled for second best: Russian spies are a "distraction", so if another bomb goes off in the UK, you know who is to blame!

Again, Russia took notice and retaliated by accusing Christopher Bowers, the acting director of UK Trade and Industry, of espionage. The information also appeared through 'media sources', while Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) declined to make an official comment.

While this little propaganda war was taking place, Alex Allan, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee of the UK, became "very seriously ill", went into a coma and was found covered in blood. His illness was treated as non-suspicious by the Counter Terrorism Command investigating it. Still, when the spy chief of one of the world's powers goes into coma for no apparent reason, with so many interesting things taking place in the world, we should all take notice. We are tempted to posit that it is something more than a simple illness, but exactly what that is, we do not know. In any case, Allan regained consciousness after ten days and the official story was that he had pneumonia and it was the prolonged coughing that brought up blood.

British tabloids, on the other hand, have their own theory. Yes, you guessed it: they are speculating that it was a Russian assassination attempt. It's funny how speculation doesn't usually make it to the media unless the hypotheses are convenient for the establishment. Then it's just a matter of repeating them endlessly until they sink into people's minds as 'facts'. Think about Saddam's non-existent weapons of mass destruction, for a recent example with catastrophic consequences.

It is possible that latest tensions with Russia are just a continuation of the power games that got wide exposure with the Litvenenko affair, or mere theatre as distraction. We suggest that you read our report on the case to get a better idea of tangled web of power that leads all the way back to the Middle East.

My Enemy's Friend is My Enemy

Back in June, Russia moved closer to Iran by signing a $2.5 billion deal to build airliners. Maybe this 'closeness' is the main factor that has moved the Axis of Evil to launch a campaign against Russia. We do not know how close Russia really is with Iran, but it is quite clear that Russia is not following the script for the Middle East as written and directed by the Ziocons in Tel Aviv and Washington. That has got to enrage some who are counting on the prophecies of their bloodthirsty god to be fulfilled on the strict schedule of some time within the next five years. On the other hand, they could be following the script given them exactly, the point being to distract the masses with a "new cold war."

So, true or not, Israeli defense 'sources' - and here we go with those sources again - claim that Iran will receive an advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft system by 2009. The problem, they say, is that it "could help fend off any preemptive strikes against its nuclear facilities". This is the spin Zionist style: having established through years of propaganda that Iran is 'evil' and intends to build nuclear weapons, and that a preemptive strike is therefore 'good', Russia is behaving badly by making things harder for Israel. Furthermore, there is an urgent deadline for this (2009), so let the Israeli Air Force take care of things right away! Not in vain have Israeli warplanes been practicing in Iraq as preparation for a strike on Iran! Nor has it gone unnoticed that Iran has been test-firing missiles in the Persian Gulf!

On top of that, how dare the Russians get closer to Venezuela and Cuba, the two 'bad weeds' in the US backyard that is Latin America?

These new alliances appear to be one of the main reasons (scripted or not) for the new Cold War, but they are not the only ones...

It's the Natural Resources, Stupid!

Another location Russia has been rushing to clearly establish its presence in is the Arctic. Even a US Coast Guard official warned that Russia was winning the "Arctic race". With tests of new weapons and a military buildup in the area to protect its "national interests", we were reminded of the strategic significance of the North Pole during the Cold War - being a shortcut between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. But then we stumbled upon this article:

Riches in the Arctic: the New Oil Race

New geological surveys show as much as a fifth of the world's undiscovered but exploitable gas and oil reserves lie under the Arctic ice. As the ice melts, the pristine wilderness could become 'the new Houston'.

The future of the Arctic will be less white wilderness, more black gold, a new report on oil reserves in the High North has signaled this week. The first-comprehensive assessment of oil and gas resources north of the Arctic Circle, carried out by American geologists, reveals that underneath the ice, the region may contain as much as a fifth of the world's undiscovered yet recoverable oil and natural gas reserves. [...]

The significance of the report is that it puts firm figures for the first time on the hydrocarbon riches which the five countries surrounding the Arctic - the US, Russia, Canada, Norway and Denmark (through its dependency, Greenland) - have been eying for several years.

Indeed, natural resources have been openly declared as the real interest of Russia in the Arctic - something worth fighting a war for, according to Lt. Gen. Vladimir Shamanov, head of the Defense Ministry's combat training directorate.

Thus, we find again the issue of oil. Just as the war on Iraq and the coming war on Iran are not exclusively about oil, the New World War is not exclusively about oil and other natural resources, though these are one of the driving reasons.

Oh well, here is where we get a bit philosophical about human nature. Are these psychopaths simply extremely greedy? After all, they do have all the power and money they want, don't they? They are certainly not interested in making their fellow countrymen rich, as they like the economic pyramid as steep as it can get without toppling. So we wonder, having acquired everything already, why would they want even more? It's almost as if they are grabbing as much as they can in the knowledge that the game may soon be over.

And perhaps it will be. Maybe they do know that they need to take as much as they can now, so that they can survive and live as comfortably as possible when the cosmic weather catches up with our delicate planet. Yes, once again we would like to call your attention to the evidence pointing to our spherical home - the Big Blue Marble - having been cyclically bombarded by comets and fireballs, and therefore the probability that this will happen again, perhaps much sooner than we would care to consider.

The G8 Circus - Or is That the Real Thing?

We have two main camps fighting for the world's resources: the usual Axis of Evil players (US, Israel, UK) and Russia-China-Venezuela-Iran-Korea camp. So why does Medvedev manage to make such a warm display of friendship with the other Axis of Evil gangsters during the G8 meeting?

Isn't that touching? They are already thinking about their next war(s) - yet they can't help the camaraderie when they meet. A month ago Kissinger went to see Medvedev and performed the same fraternal routine.

Conventional wisdom would indicate that experienced politicians have no problem smiling for the cameras. And that is indeed correct. Psychopaths can do everything in their power to destroy you, yet they somehow manage to come across as friendly - even to their victims. But wait! What if, for a change, we are reading the equation backwards? What if the so called 'rivalry' is nothing but a circus performance for the public and their camaraderie is the real thing?

If that's the case, then the picture that emerges is as follows:

Pathocrats perceive the larger society of normal people as their real enemies. They can recognize other pathological characters as similar to themselves, and so they ally with them to further their own pursuit of power. The most successful psychopaths - such as those heading governments - are very clever, so they know that it is necessary to build a house of mirrors to keep the rest of us guessing about what is really going on. And what is going on is that wars are useful to grab resources from the people, while at the same time re-engineering entire societies for their easier control and management.

Sarkozy's NATO Fever: a Timeline

A suicide at Ben Gurion Airport during Sarkozy's visit, a French soldier shooting at civilians during an army show, several nuclear leaks, Ingrid Betancourt being finally released; viva la France! Sarkozy has recently been in the middle of seemingly unrelated events. And they all signal his alignment with the Axis of Evil.

June 24th: You may recall the event in Ben Gurion airport, when a soldier located on the roof of a building and holding an M16 killed himself when Sarkozy was just 100 meters from him. The official story was suicide.

SOTT's alternative hypothesis: Mossad sent a strong message to Sarkozy: support NATO and the agenda for the Middle East.

So Sarkozy decides to obey his masters, but he faces two major problems. First, the Gaullist culture of the French army will prevent any integration into NATO, second the French public opinion is against an attack on Iran.

June 29th: During an army show in Carcassone, a soldier shoots several civilians. The soldier supposedly mixed up real bullets and fake bullets. Though real bullets weigh much more, their container doesn't have the same color and they are systematically counted when going in and out of the arsenal. Of course, the contraceptive box found filled with real bullets raises some more suspicions. Official story: accident due to the army incompetency.

SOTT's alternative hypothesis: it was a manufactured accident, useful to discredit the French army - unsympathetic to Sarkozy's plans - and to legitimize its integration in NATO.

''A Strange Discovery''

July 1st: The French army's top officer, General Cuche resigns. Sarkozy accepts this resignation before any inquiry is conducted and before any judgment is pronounced. Sarkozy publicly scolds the army's representatives : "You're not professionals, you are amateurs".

Sarkozy amongst French troops he eventually stabbed in the back

July 2nd: Franco-Colombian politician and hostage Ingrid Betancourt is released from Colombian rebels and Mossad seems to have played a major role in the operation. Official story: Mossad helped with the operation in order to stay on good terms with Colombia and the US (two US hostages were also released).

SOTT's alternative hypothesis: Sarkozy has proven his compliance with Israeli orders by firing France's top General and taking one more step towards NATO; in exchange and as a sign of 'good will' Mossad helped him gain some points in the popularity charts.

July 14th: Bastille Day and its usual army ceremonies. After Sarkozy insulted the army, drastically and unilaterally cut its budget and acknowledged submission to NATO, French soldiers display a rather loose demonstration in front of Sarkozy and his privileged guest Bashar Assad, the Syrian dictator. After being invaded by Israel, the Lebanese people must have been delighted by this news.

July 18th: 28 kg of Semtex explosive are stolen. Official story: Some bad guys have taken advantage of the security weaknesses and stolen the explosives.

SOTT's alternative hypothesis: French citizens won't accept an invasion of Iran but a terror event à la 9-11 and the WTC attributed to an Islamist terrorist organization linked to Iran should change the French opinion right quick!

July 24th: Fillon, the French prime minister officially announces the reduction plan and the development of a Franco-German military unit. Who said embryonic European army? (These two articles are only available in French.) The days are numbered for the French army. Over the next three years 83 units will be destroyed.

July 30th : According to a survey conducted by CSA and Le Parisien, confidence in Sarkozy rose to 40% compared to 36% at the end of June.

No more explanations are needed; the sad case of a once strong and vitally important France becoming just another cog in the Fascist machine appears quite clear.

Some People Never Learn: Tony Blair Gets Another Warning

Apparently, Blair didn't get the first hint and required another reminder to be a good puppet. Who knew he would turn out to be such an undisciplined bad boy?

"Unfortunately Mr Blair has had to postpone his visit to Gaza due to a specific security threat which would have made it impossible to proceed," a spokesman for the former prime minister said of the last-minute decision...

An Israeli diplomatic source said Blair was informed by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak "that there was a threat that could materialise as he entered the Gaza Strip"...

"The story of security threats was only an Israeli invention to prevent the visit," Abu Zuhri said. "Blair should have not accepted these silly allegations."

The problem is that we know he has no real intentions of helping Palestinians or confronting the Zionists. He is pretty much aware of being nice to those who butter his bread, no doubt. So why do the Israelis even bother to orchestrate those demonstrations, unless the rules of the power game require a seasonal reminder of who's the biggest bully on the block?

But we do want to turn your attention to one particular detail mentioned in the Jerusalem Post article:

Hamas was to have provided security for Blair's trip. Although Hamas has mostly pacified once lawless Gaza, shadowy extremist groups are still believed to operate in Gaza.

And we wonder if this suddenly materializing threat from 'shadowy extremist groups' is not the notorious musta'ribeen - Arabic-speaking Israeli informants who prey on Arab innate hospitality and friendliness. Which brings us to another issue of the 'non-existent' but somehow 'ever present' al-Qaeda™:

The Sting: Israel and Arab students as Al Qaeda Agents

Apparently Israel decided this month that there is one specific area of Palestinian or Arab oppression that wasn't appropriately explored yet. Why should the US get all the glory for capturing and torturing the evil al-Qaeda™ agents? After all, Shin Bet taught the brave US sons everything they know about the "right treatment" of the Muslim part of the world population. Besides, it never hurts to deepen the demonization of Muslims and tighten the grip on Israeli Arabs, who should never forget that they are at Israel's mercy.

And so, at first two Bedouin from Rahat were accused of having links to al-Qaeda and planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel, and only two weeks later six Arab students who study at Hebrew University were accused of collecting information in an attempt to shoot down a helicopter carrying senior officials during Bush's visit to Israel. Not surprisingly, they have admitted to the suspicions against them. After receiving Shin Bet's special treatment they would probably admit to anything, even taking responsibility for the recent jellyfish invasion on Tel Aviv beaches for example. Wouldn't you?

So let us repeat, for the sake of those readers who are still not tired of reading it over and over, that al-Qaeda™ doesn't exist. The only al-Qaeda ever found was the phony Mossad' constructed' 'al-Qaeda cell in Palestine'. Musta'ribeen, remember? By way of deception, thou shalt maintain the myth of the Palestinian suicide bomber and orchestrate terror attacks against the population you were sworn to protect.

But there is one specific aspect of this story that we wish to emphasize. Haaretz' version of the two Bedouin story mentions this:

"The Shin Bet investigation had focused on Taher, who had turned toward radical Islam in recent years. The Shin Bet concluded that he had contacted Al-Qaida through the Internet and agreed to participate in terrorist activities inside Israel, offering details on the location of Israel Defense Forces camps, strategic installations and crowded public places that could be targeted."

Looks like Taher was duped or manipulated using the oldest trick in the book, called otherwise: The Sting. Another case of two naive Arabs who were used to 'create the reality' of an enemy that simply does not exist. We may never know the true details of both stories, but you can read Joe Quinn's article on the FBI version of the procedure.

It is clear that Israel makes every effort it can to tighten the rope around the already barely breathing Palestinian population. But let's hope that all those attacks against the flesh won't break the spirit. Also remember that what comes around goes around, and all that implies.

Modus Operandi: Suspicious Suicides and Military Rearrangements

While Sarkozy's recent military reshuffles indicate a degree of haste, the same process has been taking place in the US over the last few years, with some recent events indicating that activity is also being sped up. Back in March, Admiral William J. Fallon "resigned" and was replaced soon afterwards with war pimp David Petraeus. Then, in June, Gen. Norton Schwartz was appointed as the new US Air Force chief, replacing Gen. Michael Moseley who was fired over the Minot AFB "missing nukes" incident back in August 2007. Moseley wasn't the only departure - USAF General and CIA director Michael Hayden was also discharged from the Air Force, as well as Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne. But all this "incompetence" centered around Minot doesn't end there. It was recently reported that a three-member ballistic missile crew fell asleep while in possession of classified launch codes for nuclear missiles.

Of course we are told not to worry, as the launch codes "were old and had been deactivated, and there was no actual security breach". Given the recent history of Minot, we respectfully ask that our skepticism regarding this claim be forgiven. How exactly do three servicemen on duty all fall asleep on the same shift? Negligence seems to be an explanation that is a little "too easy" to accept here. And if that weren't enough, there was a report less than a week ago of the likely suicide of Brig. Gen. Thomas Tinsley, who was previously working as executive officer to Gen. Moseley. According to the report, his wife and daughter were home at the time which, although not ruling out foul play, suggests that perhaps something drove the General to commit 'suicide' quite impulsively. The burden of some awful secret perhaps? Or something "external", as in it not being suicide at all? These 'useful suicides' appear to be piling up of late.

Locking down the psychopathic legal system and clinching Presidential Immunity

It's not only the military that is being "reshuffled" in the US. Congress has again kowtowed to its pathocratic overlords by passing an update to the FISA bill that legalizes US government domestic spying (including via secret programs), provides new powers and guarantees immunity to any telecommunications companies involved. This will also enable the neocon persecution of innocent American Muslims to continue legally, despite evidence that they have been spying illegally for years. As Glenn Greenwald wrote so eloquently for Salon:

"...our political establishment is doing what it now habitually does: namely, ensuring that the political and corporate elite who break our laws on purpose are immune from consequences."

And yet again we see glimpses of the true Barack Obama via his support for the bill's revision. Given such Orwellian measures though, Obama might be deluding himself if he thinks the general elections are even going to occur at all. With the previously outlined movements taking place in the Middle East, a war with Iran (perhaps instigated via a false flag attack) could break out before the US elections can take place.

From the psychopathic Executive Branch, and ponerized Legislative and Judicial branches, we can also see further "reshuffling" taking place in the form of Right-Wing Authoritarians filling the ranks of law enforcement. Consider the recent spate of terrible police Taser attacks; in the last month alone:

A 21-year old man died after being tased 9 times.
A 16-year old boy was hospitalized after being tased 19 times with a broken back.
A 66-year old reverend was tased over a joke.
A newly-married couple were tased and arrested at their wedding reception.
A blind, diabetic woman with cancer was tased to "facilitate handcuffing".
A 27-year old man was tased after seeking treatment at a hospital for a sinus infection.
And a 17-year old boy died after being tased for 37 seconds continuously.

We can see from this small selection of articles that anyone can be a target for this kind of brutality - age, sex, race or health notwithstanding. And with a "terrorist" watch list now in excess of over a million names, blatant abuses of power by security personnel, rising incidences of paramilitary-style police home invasions, and outright confiscation of your personal property without any suspicion of wrongdoing, there can be little doubt that America is already a full-fledged police state, awaiting only the symbolic act that will make it a fascist dictatorship.

Suspicious Fires, Vancouver Explosion and Big Brother Reign

"Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are." This bit of ancient wisdom sounds relevant as never before when one of your friends is labeled as: 'Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.' And with friends like this, there is no need for any more enemies.

After reading all the above sections, you should have a clear picture that another false flag operation is just a matter of time. And we are pretty much running out of that. But why concentrate on just one location if there are many other lucrative opportunities waiting to be utilized? One of those opportunities involves the US nearest neighbor - Canada. And Canada is going to host the 2010 Olympics. Apparently, and quite expected in our current atmosphere, the Olympics are planned as a major Big Brother event, with cameras and radars in the air, 13,000 security personnel and military back up - makes sense if upcoming Martial Law is all the rage.

But since the devil is in the details, we found this small notion on the Israel-Canada Chamber of Commerce site:

"The Canadians have begun preparations for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The Trade Delegation has been in contact with the person responsible for security arrangements in the Organizing Committee of the 2010 Winter Olympics. With the help of the Export Institute a presentation will be prepared which will include details of Israeli companies capable of supplying products or services for Olympic Security."

Another project for Israeli companies that involves working on foreign security systems. Seems like this cat has no problem with getting his cream. Which is actually not surprising when in April Canada signed a special "Public Security" agreement with Israel.

Dear Canadians, feeling secure yet? Perhaps the following will ease your mind... or not.

On the 14th of July thousands of Vancouver residents experienced a power outage caused by an underground fire and explosion. Then 300 miles away in the British Columbia interior there was another similar explosion on 15th of July.

Amazing coincidence, don't you think? Even more interesting is to read people's comments on the event. This one for example found under the CBC version of the story:

"With the power out for more than 24 hours, most alarm systems' batteries would be run dry. That gives CSIS the perfect opportunity to set up their next terrorist attack against non-Conservative leaning Canadians."

Good to see that there are actually people who are paying attention. And in another comment we find two last paragraphs that talk about the Olympic related construction and 9/11.

Monday's fire in an underground power tunnel below downtown Vancouver caused an an early rush hour...

Beneath the camaraderie of shared experience, however, was the question: How could this happen in a city this size? How can this happen in a modern, first world country? But that was quickly followed by shared wonderment that it hadn't happened sooner with all of the major construction downtown.

Vancouver has nearly doubled in size in the past decade and now there's all this Olympic-related construction including the new rapid-transit line, convention centre, athletes' village, two new hotels downtown and dozens of condo projects.

And there's the lurking question from 9/11. If an accidental fire can wreak so much confusion, what would it be like if there were a planned and coordinated attack?"

Interesting, don't you think? For so many years Vancouver goes through a constant renovation and expansion, and never experienced any major outages due to 'accidental fires'. And only now, when many are busy with Olympic-related construction aided by Israeli security companies no less, there are two serious outages within two days. We hope you are thinking of what we are thinking here.

Yet another killer virus

Here's an alarming little item that caught our attention:

A newly discovered and highly lethal virus strain begins with symptoms similar to that of a cold but can quickly lead to severe respiratory crisis. [...]

The virus was discovered by infectious-disease expert David N. Gilbert, who noticed that otherwise healthy patients were being stricken by pneumonia so severe that they would die without oxygen treatment. The dangerous symptoms developed within only one or two days of initial cough and fever symptoms.

Since Gilbert's discovery of the virus in Portland, Oregon, outbreaks have been identified at military bases in Washington, Texas and South Carolina.

The disease is a variety of adenovirus, the family that includes 51 infectious agents responsible for diseases such as colds, pink eye, bronchitis and the stomach flu. A mutation has apparently occurred in a virus called adenovirus 14, making it much more lethal. In the first outbreak examined by Gilbert, seven of 30 hospitalized patients died.

"That's an incredibly high mortality rate," Gilbert said.

One would think that the appearance of a cold-like virus with an "incredibly high" mortality rate would make it to the mainstream media headlines, especially since the media has worked hard to scare us all with the bird flu in the past. But this wasn't the case; we searched for different versions of this article and came up almost empty handed, to the point that we initially wondered if this wasn't like one of those Pravda or Sorcha Faal fabricated disinformation 'news' items. A source was able to do a Nexis search and came up with this article from Internal Medicine News:

During the winter of 2006 and the spring of 2007, adenovirus 14 caused a community outbreak of respiratory disease in Oregon, with a fatality rate of 19%, Dr. Paul Lewis reported at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

"This seemed to come out of nowhere," Dr. Lewis, a public health physician with the state of Oregon and a pediatric infectious disease physician with Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, said of the outbreak. "In patients with serious respiratory illness without an identified etiology, clinicians should think about viruses."

The cluster was first identified in the spring of 2007 by his associate, Dr. David Gilbert, who was making rounds in the intensive care unit at Providence Portland Medical Center and thought it was odd that 4 of 13 patients had adenovirus infections, which are typically mild and self-limited.

"When we called other hospitals in the Portland area, we almost fell out of our chairs because they all had seen recent severe and fatal cases of adenovirus," Dr. Lewis said.

The researchers studied 45 cases of adenovirus that were detected in Oregon medical laboratories between November 2006 and April 2007. The adenovirus isolates were typed by hexon gene sequencing or by a novel adenovirus 14-specific real-time polymerase chain reaction assay.

More than 75% of all adenovirus cases were in male patients. Of the 45 cases, 31 (69%) were adenovirus 14, a serotype first identified in 1953 but seen infrequently and never in outbreaks since that time.

However, the article quoted from Natural News above did not appear on a suspicious site, it made reference to real people, and it was supported by a report from November last year that stated that months before "a so-called boot camp flu sickened hundreds at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. The most serious cases were blamed on the emerging virus and one 19-year-old trainee died." It added that it targeted "healthy young adults".

Apart from the obvious - that a killer virus emerging from military bases is highly suspicious - we should take note of its similarity to the Spanish flu of 1918-1919, which also preferred young and healthy victims. Curiously enough, in 2005 a group of scientists were able to recreate the virus.

So far, the only thing that appears to make the Spanish flu much more of a threat than the new virus is that the former was much more virulent. Viruses, though, tend to mutate, and we suggest to keep an eye on this one - just in case the connection with the military is not a mere coincidence, and therefore there is a likely intention of spreading it among the population, especially when taken together with the strange deaths of leading microbiologists. And you can add another to the list.

If such a criminal intention is real, then the criminals, acting from positions of power in the dark, are not dissimilar to the mafia, and like the mafia, it would make sense for them to send violent and intimidating messages to other players if needed. Could it be that the recent case of the two French biochemist students who were murdered in London was meant as a warning of sorts? It is unlikely that the work of any two students alone can make any difference on a global scale. But perhaps the work of the sponsoring institutions - the London Imperial College and the Polytech Clermont-Ferrard - could, or the work of the academic sphere as a whole.

The murder of the students was remarkable because of the apparent lack of motive, the unnecessary and extreme violence used, and the fact that each of them was researching a hot topic of our times: Laurent Bonomo was studying the proteins that cause infectious disease, while Gabriel Ferez hoped to become an expert in ecofriendly fuels.

Food for cars, not for people

Talking about ecofriendly fuels, we call your attention to the following bit of information:

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian. The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body.

The figure emphatically contradicts the US government's claims that plant-derived fuels contribute less than 3% to food-price rises. It will add to pressure on governments in Washington and across Europe, which have turned to plant-derived fuels to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce their dependence on imported oil. [...]

©David Levene

In Cité Soleil, one of Port-au-Prince's worst slums, making the clay-based food is a major income earner. Mud cakes are the only inflation-proof food available to Haiti's poor.
"Political leaders seem intent on suppressing and ignoring the strong evidence that biofuels are a major factor in recent food price rises," said Robert Bailey, policy adviser at Oxfam. "It is imperative that we have the full picture. While politicians concentrate on keeping industry lobbies happy, people in poor countries cannot afford enough to eat."

Rising food prices have pushed 100m people worldwide below the poverty line, estimates the World Bank, and have sparked riots from Bangladesh to Egypt. Government ministers here have described higher food and fuel prices as "the first real economic crisis of globalisation". [...]

So there it is. As we had already pointed out, the global food crisis has been manufactured by those who hold the strings of the world financial system, in pure Shock Doctrine style. Did you notice that our leaders want to hear nothing about the fact that biofuels are causing a food crisis? Why would they support something that harms people under the argument that it helps the environment (and therefore the people), while knowing that is not the case? Why are the leaders of the G8 countries showing such a lack of real concern for ending poverty?

Why, because it is not in their personal best interest, of course!

Place Your Bets and Look Up the Sky

Last month we shared with you our puzzlement with lack of adequate news coverage of possible sightings of our fiery messengers from space. But not all was lost and the Taurid shower did happen after all, even if with a bit of delay.

Only one day after the anniversary of Tunguska we've got a small demonstration of what those uninvited guests are capable of. As was reported in the previous article:

Dry weather, fires, spontaneous combustion? As it turns out the Taurid meteor event was not a complete bust, more like a combustion:

1st of July 2008 - Witnesses across Southern California say they saw an object 'moving very fast across the northern sky' and falling near the San Bernardino Mountains. Officials have no firm answers on what it was.

From Hollywood Hills to the Nevada state line, people reported seeing a fireball streaking across the sky and falling near the San Bernardino Mountains this morning. But explanations of the mysterious object were scarce.

San Bernardino County Fire Dispatch reported receiving dozens of calls related to what was described as fireball moving at high speed and falling in northwest sky around 10:40 a.m.

"We got quite a few reports. It started with a gentlemen in the Lake Arrowhead reporting a fireball in the Meadow Bay area and then we started getting calls from all over," said San Bernardino County dispatch supervisor Tom Barnes. "Fire crews in Barstow and on I-15 near Stateline came up on the radio and reported an object in the sky moving very fast across the northern sky and described it as yellowish green in color with streaks of debris. It looked like it burned up before it hit the ground."

Now isn't it a "coincidence" that California became engulfed, at its peak, in 1,783 fires across the state, scorching over 527,000 acres, including one in the San Bernardino mountains. Firefighters are still battling over 300 fires. Yet, all the fires are being blamed on "unusual early-summer lightning storms".

But California wasn't the only location engulfed with flames that day. There was another curiously similar event in Washington, also explained as triggered by lightning. But we can't really expect them to report anything with the word 'meteorite' attached to it, right? It makes things much more interesting, especially when one of those 'bright objects' may be mistaken for a nuclear missile.

©Chronicle photo by Al Camp

Fire lights up the night sky as it burns over a long line just outside Okanogan

Speaking of missiles: At the beginning of the month an 'unexpected meteor' (that's what happens when none of the astronomers are paying attention or doing their job) streaked across the Israeli sky and sparked fears that the country was under attack by Iran.

Israeli newspapers did their best to use the opportunity and add more confusion by making a connection between the sighting and Iranian missile testing. According to the speculations, Iran launched a missile without a warhead in order to test if it can reach Israel. Obviously military sources didn't bother to refute such handy propaganda delivered from the sky like a wrapped birthday gift.

The only thing we may add about it, is that we were offered yet another valuable demonstration of how such events may be used to further the murderous pathocratic agenda, especially when the next 'unexpected meteorite' actually falls on a populated area and causes damage similar to what happened in California.

And apparently the same object was also seen crossing the Cyprus sky. The witness accounts and 'questionable' nature triggered quite a discussion between our readers. At least no one implied that this was flare or a Chinese lantern. But that's when the work of identifying the nature of sightings becomes a little bit tricky for yours truly.

Since we are in the middle of a 'flap' (and we will go into that in much detail in the next section) many news reports of 'objects in sky' carry confusing details, leaving us wondering if those multiple simultaneous sightings of 'flares' are signs of a possible meteorite storm or another kind of uninvited and no less hostile guest?

With everything happening in the sky this month, we might as well pick a number and spin the roulette wheel.

And while you are busy gazing into the stars, let us share with you one last piece of information for this section which signifies that humanity is not the only one going through changes. Looks like our home planet is currently under maintenance. Watch out and don't stand under the scaffolding.

Rapid changes in the churning movement of Earth's liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet's surface, a new study says.

"What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take place in the Earth's magnetic field," said study co-author Nils Olsen, a geophysicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen.

The findings suggest similarly quick changes are simultaneously occurring in the liquid metal, 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) below the surface, he said.

Attack of the Chinese Lanterns

In case you haven't noticed yet, there is a UFO flap. Most of it is taking place in the UK, but it is also happening in other places, such as Canada and the Middle East. Either that, or you believe that Chinese lanterns have suddenly become really popular all over the globe and are regularly released to float around every other night. Indeed, "paper lanterns" is the new official explanation for a number of sightings of orange objects in the skies. No doubt this will become a favorite of debunkers along with the more classic explanations of "planet Venus", "weather balloons" and "swamp gas", and you are certainly free to choose to believe that, if you must.

©Matan

If, on the other hand, you share with us a conviction that there is more than enough evidence that many of the sightings do not have conventional explanations, then you may find it interesting to know that this summer British sightings have been at 'bizarre' levels; that Canada experienced a high increase of sightings in 2007; and that Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has publicly declared that UFOs are real, that insiders know the truth and alien bodies discovered are being studied.

There have been so many sightings of UFO and related phenomena lately that perhaps it's best to make a list of the ones we caught in the last five days or so, for a sample:

Canada: Sasquatch sighting has Grassy Narrows in a buzz (Big foot sightings are often related to UFOs.)
Argentina: Mutilations in Rosario del Tala (Cattle mutilations are also often related.)
Strange lights spotted in Israeli sky: Mossad's masters are calling?
UFO sightings in Stevenage, England
UK: Orange UFOs puzzle Birmingham
UK: Mysterious speeding object leaves UFO experts puzzled
UK: Mysterious lights over Sheffield
More Mystery lights spotted in UK skies
Weird lights in the sky set pulses racing across the UK
UK: Our Garden was Buzzed by a UFO!

While we cannot have any certainty about the real nature of the phenomena, we are pretty certain that this is not a reason to celebrate, as festive as Chinese lanterns may be. Quite the contrary; anyone who has studied the UFO phenomena impartially will conclude that for the most part, the intelligence behind it cares not about the well being of humanity.

A brief note on a scandal

Since we are on the subject of the bizarre, sinister and widely ignored 'elephants in the living room', we would like to make a brief news announcement which should be a scandal.

More than 2,000 US children reported missing per day

"According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 797,500 children were reported missing in a recent 12-month period. The department estimates about 2,100 children are reported missing each day."

This is more than enough reason to be shocked and horrified. And that's just within the U.S. How does a nation lose 800,000 children a year?? We would like to get more information on this issue, and if anyone out there has resources to look into this, we would be grateful.

Cui bono?

Those of you who read SOTT on a daily basis know that in order to get to the truth one has to go through layers and layers of lies and manipulation. But in many cases lies are so deep that at some point the process of peeling the onion involves wandering into a zone of many loose ends without any apparent connection between them. But since we know that this world is maintained by individuals who feed on power and total control, it becomes clear that there is a yet to be discovered layer of master puppeteers who prefer the role of back room operators and behind-the-scenes strategists. And as 'there is no honor among thieves', the front stage players along with the rest of the population are nothing but chess pieces, utilized for the sole purpose of furthering the desired agenda.

©Unknown

But we didn't exactly shake your world by the above assessment, right? The Internet is full of sites talking about 'the shadow government', 'new world order', 'the Illuminati', etc. Each offers their unique point of view on how we are being duped. Well, we are not going to go that far, but we are going to indulge ourselves, just this time, and speculate on a somewhat high probability of another hidden layer of the current world events. Looks like those loose ends can be connected after all. Obviously, keeping in mind that whoever they are, they are pushing their plans according to a schedule.

There is a well known strategic technique: leading your ally to do the dirty work for you. But what happens when an ally is nothing but a useful, if indeed powerful, idiot? Let's see if we can spot someone like this by zeroing on our usual Axis of Evil players.

What better way to control the population than through the stomach. It is a given that everyone has to eat. Now that food production has been centralized, the breadbaskets of the world are either struggling to deal with unprecedented floods, dying in drought or succumbing to rust and terminator seeds which are here to stay, certain leaders won't think twice about killing off a few billion and bowing down before their masters, whoever they are. Looks like Svalbard opened just in time in case things get too carried away before the comet strikes...

Comet strikes? Sorry, we got carried away. Back to the issue at hand. So who's responsible for this turmoil other than the usual suspect, i.e. the banking system?

During the last interview with Andrzej M. Łobaczewski, he gave away a rather curious piece of information:

Q: And who in your opinion is on the top? What do you mean by the "order"?
A: The "Order"? Well, I cannot know who is there in the "order".
Q: Well, you think something about it, so what is your opinion?
A: I have a certain opinion. Well, this "order" is the center [of the pathocratic 'brotherhood'], which is located in England outside of London... The Trilateral Commission belongs to that center.

We have to admit that gathering objective facts on those guys was and is quite difficult. Nonetheless, we are left to wonder about what decisions are made somewhere in the corridors of the banks in London. And perhaps history can assist us in filling in some blanks as 'they' fill their bank accounts (and if they can't do that, they'll do it the 'old fashioned way')?

History takes us to the time of the Balfour Declaration, when many enlightened leaders thought that it would be a good idea to place Jews (read Zionists) in Palestine. But for what purpose? What is the interest of introducing a completely different culture into an Arab dominated region other than to make sure that the local power structures (numerous Arab countries) are prevented from becoming too powerful and holding an enormous amount of potential resources? It should be clear that a conflict was about to erupt. Or was it intentional?

These days we find ourselves in the situation where an increasing war-mongering climate is designed to give Israel the confidence to get out there and make a strike against Iran when, in fact, no one may actually intend to give them more than token backup with the hopes that all this war and fighting will basically reduce the populations - both Arab and Jewish - to almost nothing (if not nothing), so that the oil is then available to be grabbed by the "superpowers". If resources they want, resources they'll get - at any cost.

Is that too much of a stretch?

It is no secret that US is mainly dominated by pro-Zionist lobby, and in addition encouraged by the UK. This is something that may weaken the US and ultimately destroy it. There is no doubt that if the US chooses to engage Iran on Israel's behalf it will be so stretched that it will certainly collapse.

Cui bono?

It seems that the increasing price of oil is controlled and intended to be used as the reason for genocide. Notice how everyone of us is expected to make sacrifices, even if it means decreasing the content of our daily meals!

No doubt that those events are going to make an impact on other essential things like limiting our ability to travel. What if all airlines have to shut down or raise prices so that only the wealthy elite can travel because the price of oil is so high? Only the wealthy can eat. Only the wealthy can do anything at all because the price of oil - which underlies the price of everything else - keeps going up. But that won't stop them from flying their Lamborghinis 6,500 miles for an oil change.

We are not your garden variety conspiracy alarmists, mind you.

But we can't ignore the clear signs of an overt manipulation. Even the brightest of us are caught up in this spectacular five-ring display of diplomatic circus. So it seems that this is the time to utilize perspicacity and our own abilities to read the objective state of reality.

The bottom line is, what if they (those who walk London's or other corridors) are using the price of oil to control things? And what if the war-mongering is designed to lure Israel and possibly the US into another useless war so as to decimate both the Arab and Israeli populations, while the main plot is to grab as many resources as possible before it's too late? Too late in this case would be defined as before we have bigger problems to face, such as an impending cosmic catastrophe.

It's Magic Time!

We hope you didn't think that we would end this 'connecting the dots' installment on such a gloomy note. Because hope is exactly what helps us to maintain this small lighthouse of ours.

Despite all the darkness, there is much beauty and magic in things that are patiently waiting to be discovered. And we are happy to share with you one such thing - a picture of one of July's magnificent crop circles.

©Temporary Temples

Thank you and good night.

*» [Hostage to the Devil]

2008-08-10T01:19:00.001-07:00

Recently I've been also reading the book 'Hostage to the Devil'. I haven't finished it yet, but I must say it's quite interesting! I will post (copy/paste) here some passages that I think might be interesting (or even important) info. I also might make a little clear summary myself of some quotes. I also have added some pics along the way to make reading more comfortable (I hope it does)
[emphasis mine]:

And without the grace that is born of true faith, Satan does what he does best-he ceases to exist in the eyes of those who do not see. [p.4]

Given the general conditions that surround us in our present society, it becomes all the more important to realize that even in the worst conditions, no person can be Possessed without some degree of cooperation on his or her part.

[...]

The effective cause of Possession is the voluntary collaboration of an individual, through his faculties of mind and will, with one or more of those bodiless, genderless creatures called demons.

[...]

Demonic Possession is not a static condition, an unchanging state. Nor does one become Possessed suddenly, the way one might break an arm or catch the measles. Rather, Possession is an ongoing process. A process that affects the two faculties of the soul: the mind, by which an individual receives and internalizes knowledge. And the will, by which an individual chooses to act upon that knowledge. [p.6-7]

Ample experience with the Possessed has clearly demonstrated that there are certain identifiable factors that dispose an individual to collaborate, in mind and will, with a Possessing demon. Disposing factors, therefore.
The presence of such disposing factors in a person's life does not in itself portend that the person will surely one day be numbered among the Possessed. At the same time, and with only rare exceptions in my experience, one or several of these disposing factors are operational in genuine cases of Possession. Some of the most common disposing factors have been with us for a long time, while others are of more recent vintage.
Some are in the nature of "instruments" outside the individual -the Ouija Board, for example, and the Spiritual Seance. Others are in the nature of "attitudes," whether taugh or self-learned, that are interiorized by the person - Transcendental Meditation and the Enneagram Method are two of the most prominent in this category. In the context of Possession, all disposing factors produce within a person a condition of those two faculties of soul - mind and will - that is most aptly described as an aspiring vacuum. Vacuum, because there is created an absence of clearly defined and humanly acceptable concepts for the mind. Aspiring, because there is a corresponding absence of clearly defined and humanly acceptable goals for the will.
In the case of the Ouija Board, or that of the Seance or TM or the Enneagram Method, the participants must dispose themselves precisely with a view to being opened up; to becoming desirous and accepting of whatever happens along.
The very term, Ouija, for example, is a display of this opening up for the term is composed of the French and German words - Oui and Ja - for Yes. The attitude of the participant in Ouija is literally "Yes, yes." The mind is to be made receptive to whatever suggestions or concepts are presented. If participants also dispose their wills to accept those concepts and act on them, then the predisposing circuit is complete.
The aspiring vacuum is operative and is powerful enough to flood the mind with appropriate concepts that can make a lid for the will's assent.
Often enough, the mind and the will are opened up in precisely this fashion in view of Possession.
Among the vast array of disposing factors likely to lead to Possession, the Enneagram Method is nowadays far and away the most common and pernicious. Given the general state of religion, it is not surprising that the Method's popularity is enormously enhanced by its having been enthusiastically adopted and propagated by Catholic theologians and teachers from the major religious Orders-Jesuit, Dominican, and Franciscan -and by some of the official organs used by the bishops of the United States and Canada charged with teaching religious doctrine to young and adult Catholics. [p. 6-7]

True to its name - enneagram means "nine points," or "marks"- the Enneagram is a nine-pointed mandala-type figure within a circle. The mandala character of the Enneagram is meant to represent the lotus and, as described by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, is "a symbol depicting the endeavor to reunite the self."
The Enneagram came to the West from a now dead Asianic spiritual master, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff claimed in turn that it originated with the Sufi Masters of Islam. It reached the United States via "spiritual teachers" in Chile, Bolivia, and Peru and in the early 1970s was first broadcast here from the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and Loyola University in Chicago. There is now abundant literature on the subject.
According to Enneagram teaching, there are exactly nine types of human personality, each of which is represented by one of the nine points of the Enneagram figure. Each human being is inalterably confined to one, and only one, of those personality types. But within his or her type, each person is infinitely self-perfectible.
Two characteristics of the Enneagram Method comprise moral teachings that are irreconcilable with the basic moral teachings of Catholics in particular and Christians in general.
The basic presumption presented to the mind by the Enneagram Method is that each individual is self-perfectible, morally speaking, within that individual's personality type.
This presumption is in reality a late revival of an ancient heresy known as Pelagianism. It is at odds with the basic Christian teaching that we absolutely depend on the action of divine grace for all moral perfection. Of ourselves, we are helpless. Not only are we not infinitely self-perfectible; we will never of ourselves even escape the grip of our sinful nature. Only supernatural grace enables us to do that. And that grace is simply gratuitous on God's part.
The teaching of the Enneagram Method cuts both God and his grace out of the loop. In fact, there is no longer any loop at all. The individual is cut off from effective knowledge of his or her dependence on God and his supernatural grace for ultimate perfection. He or she is confined to an inalterable personality type, which has been laid out by Enneagram Masters.
The second faulty moral characteristic of the Enneagram Method completes the damage caused by the first. Having fatalistically accepted one's own category, the participant is dependent for perfection on the Enneagramatic exercises suitable for one's personality type. In other words, the soul of the Enneagram disciple is opened out and made docile, with the goal of receiving the promised self-knowledge congruent with his or her type. The soul becomes an apt and classic receptor-an aspiring vacuum -ready for the approach of an intending Possessor.

I have a comment to make here. I haven't yet read Gurdjieff's teachings about the Enneagram, anyhow I think that 'self-perfectible' is a word that can be interpreted in many ways. The way explained by the author here is just one way. And this way, or idea of being self-perfectible, might be a way that might get one open for a Possessor 'to get in'. Just like using an Ouija Board. And that's why knowledge and info is important before one even tries to use these kind of 'instruments'. And being 'helpless' or not depends on how someone thinks, knows, understands and interprets, I think. Carrying on:

In such a setting, the intending Possessor may come as what St. Paul described with dramatic precision as an Angel of Light. But the danger is all the more insidious for that. For in such a situation, the condition commonly called "perfect Possession" may be the result.
As the term implies, a victim of perfect Possession is absolutely controlled by evil and gives no outward indication, no hint whatsoever, of the demonic residing within. He or she will not cringe, as others who are Possessed will, at the sight of such religious symbols as a crucifix or a Rosary. The perfectly Possessed will not bridle at the touch of Holy Water, nor hesitate to discuss religious topics with equanimity.
If convicted of crimes against the law, such a victim will frequently acknowledge "guilt," and even the moral "badness" of the acts committed. More often than not, such a person will petition that his physical life be forfeited; that he be executed for his crimes. Thus, in his own way, he voices the insistent Satanist preference for death over life, and the fixated desire to join the Prince in his kingdom.
Because there is no will left to call the victim's own -and because some part of the victim's will is necessary for any hope of successful Exorcism - remedy is unlikely to succeed even in the event the Possession should somehow be uncovered and verified as the problem. [p.8-9]

In a very real sense, all of us - the Possessed, the professionals who must so frequently deal with them; the parents who fear for their children; everyone who lives in a society degraded by happenings that were only recently unimaginable to us -all are in the same boat.

[...]

Of the five Exorcees whose cases are recounted in Hostage to the Devil, none was perfectly Possessed. Hence, they were all apt subjects for the Rite of Exorcism. Their fortunes and lives have varied considerably since their individual Exorcisms. None fell back into Possession.
Marianne K. took training as a dental technician, married, and lived for nearly seventeen years. She died of cancer in the early 1980s.
Jonathan Yves is retired from the active priesthood. He entered the field of computers for a time, but has since abandoned that work and now lives with relatives. He never married.
Richard O. led a very active life as a counselor and therapist for a number of years in the United States before he migrated to Europe, where he died at the end of the last decade.
Jamsie Z. pursued his career in radio and is now semi-retired as the president of a company he founded.
Carl V. tested his religious vocation in more than one monastery before he decided to live almost as a hermit in a remote part of the United States.

More than the other four Excorcees described in Hostage to the Devil, Carl attained what more than one of his acquaintances readily call holiness. In the last two or three years of his life, he was graced with a special insight into the spiritual anguish of men and women who sought him out for counsel. Many of them speak of the radiance in his look and the power he had to bring peace to troubled minds.
Of the Exorcists who presented themselves as hostages to Satan for the liberation of his victims,
Father Peter,
Father David M.,
and Father Gerald are dead.
Father Mark A. is living in a home for retired priests.
Father Hartney F. may be the only one to reach the age of one hundred. Still living and retired to a nursing home, Father Hartney is afflicted with severe arthritis and is able to say Mass only with intense difficulty. [p.9-10]
All five of these Exorcists trained several other men and included in their instruction the wisdom and the selflessness needed for anyone who would voluntarily give himself as hostage in order to liberate another from the bondage of Possession.
The epitaph on the tombstone of the gentle Father Gerald is testimony to the vocation of all these men, and it is witness to the source of their strength. For that epitaph is from the mouth of the loving Lord in whose glory Gerald now rests: "Greater love than this no man hath, than that a man lay down his life for his friend."

Malachi Martin New York April 1992
How are you fallen from Heaven, Lucifer!
Son of the Dawn! Cut down to the ground!
And once you dominated the peoples!
Didn't you say to yourself: •
I will be as high as Heaven!
I will be more exalted than the stars of God!
I will, indeed, be the supreme leader!
In the privileged places!
I will be higher than the Skies!
I will be the same as the Most High God!
But you shall be brought down to Hell, to the bottom of its pit. And all who see you, will despise you. . . . -Isaiah 14:12-19
. . . "Lord! In your name, even evil spirits are under our control!"
And He said to them: "I saw Satan falling like lightning from Heaven.
You know: I gave you power . . . over all the strength of Satan. . . .
Nevertheless, don't take pride in the fact that spirits are subject to your control, but, rather, because you belong to God . . .
The Father has given Me all power. . . ." -Luke 10:17-22 [p.10]

Michael Strong - Part 1

Possession is not a process of magic. Spirit is real; in fact, spirit is the basis of all reality. "Reality" would not only be boring without spirit; it would have no meaning whatsoever. No horror film can begin to capture the horror of such a vision: a world without spirit.
Evil Spirit is personal, and it is intelligent. It is preternatural, in the sense that it is not of this material world, but it is in this material world. And Evil Spirit as well as good advances along the lines of our daily lives. In very normal ways spirit uses and influences our daily thoughts, actions, and customs and, indeed, all the strands that make up the fabric of life in whatever time or place. Contemporary life is no exception.
To compare spirit with the elements of our lives and material world, which it can and sometimes does manipulate for its own ends, is a fatal mistake, but one that is very often made. Eerie sounds can be produced by spirit-but spirit is not the eerie sound. Objects can be made to fly across a room, but telekinesis is no more spirit than the material object that was made to move. One man whose story is told in this book made the mistake of thinking otherwise, and he nearly paid with his life when he had to confront the error he had made. [p.13-14]

The exorcist is the centerpiece of every exorcism. On him depends everything. He has nothing personal to gain. But in each exorcism he risks literally everything that he values. Michael Strong's was an extreme example of the fate awaiting the exorcist. But every exorcist must engage in a one-to-one confrontation, personal and bitter, with pure evil. Once engaged, the exorcism cannot be called off. There will and must always be a victor and a vanquished. And no matter what the outcome, the contact is in part fatal for the exorcist. He must; consent to a dreadful and irreparable pillage of his deepest self.' Something dies in him. Some part of his humanness will wither from such close contact with the opposite of all humanness-the essence of evil; and it is rarely if ever revitalized. No return will be made to him for his loss. This is the minimum price an exorcist pays. If he loses in the fight with Evil Spirit, he has an added penalty. He may or may not ever again perform the rite of Exorcism, but he must finally confront and vanquish the evil spirit that repulsed him.
The investigation that may lead to Exorcism usually begins because a man or woman-occasionally a child-is brought to the notice of Church authorities by family or friends. Only rarely does a possessed person come forward spontaneously.
The stories that are told on these occasions are dramatic and painful: strange physical ailments in the possessed;
marked mental derangement;
obvious repugnance to all signs, symbols, mention, and sight of religious objects, places, people, ceremonies. Often, the family or friends report, the presence of the person in; question is marked by so-called psychical phenomena:
objects fly around the room;
wallpaper peels off the walls;
furniture cracks;
crockery breaks;
there are strange rumblings, hisses, and other noises', with no apparent source.
Often the temperature in the room where the possessed happens to be will drop dramatically.
Even more often an acrid and distinctive stench accompanies the person.
Violent physical transformations seem sometimes to make the lives of the possessed a kind of hell on earth.
Their normal processes of secretion and elimination are saturated with inexplicable wrackings ; and exaggeration.
Their consciousness seems completely colored by the violent sepia of revulsion.
Reflexes sometimes become sporadic or abnormal, sometimes disappear for a time.
Breathing can cease for extended periods. Heartbeats are hard to detect.
The face is strangely distorted, sometimes also abnormally tight and smooth without the slightest line or furrow.
When such a case is brought to their attention, the first and central problem that must always be addressed by the Church authorities is: Is the person really possessed?
Henri Gesland, a French priest and exorcist who works today in Paris, stated in 1974 that, out of 3,000 consultations since 1968, "there have been only four cases of what I believe to be demonic possession." T. K. Osterreich, on the other hand, states that "possession has been an extremely common phenomenon, cases of which abound in the history of religion." The truth is that official or scholarly census of possession cases has never been made. [p.15]

Certainly, many who claim to be possessed or whom others so describe are merely the victims of some mental or physical disease. In reading records from times when medical and psychological science did not exist or were quite undeveloped, it is clear that grave mistakes were made. A victim of disseminated sclerosis, for example, was taken to be possessed because of his spastic jerkings and slidings and the shocking agony in spinal column and joints. Until quite recently, the victim of Tourette's syndrome was the perfect target for the accusation of "Possessed": torrents of profanities and obscenities, grunts, barks, curses, yelps, snorts, sniffs, tics, foot stomping, facial contortions all appear suddenly and just as suddenly cease in the subject. Nowadays, Tourette's syndrome responds to drug treatment, and it seems to be a neurological disease involving a chemical abnormality in the brain. Many people suffering from illnesses and diseases well known to us today such as paranoia, Huntington's chorea, dyslexia, Parkinson's disease, or even mere skin diseases (psoriasis, herpes, for instance), were treated as people "possessed" or at least as "touched" by the Devil.
Nowadays, competent Church authorities always insist on thorough examinations of the person brought to them for Exorcism, an examination conducted by qualified medical doctors and psychiatrists.
When a case of possession is reported by a priest to the diocesan authorities, the exorcist of the diocese is brought in. If there is no diocesan exorcist, a man is appointed or brought from outside the diocese.
Sometimes the priest reporting the exorcism will have had some preliminary medical and psychiatric tests run beforehand in order to allay the cautious skepticism he is likely to meet at the chancery when he introduces his problem. When the official exorcist enters the case, he will usually have his own very thorough examinations run by experts he knows and whose judgment he is sure he can trust.
In earlier times, one priest was usually assigned the function of exorcist in each diocese of the Church. In modern times, this practice has fallen into abeyance in some dioceses, mainly because the incidence of reported possession has decreased over the last hundred years. But in most major dioceses, there is still one priest entrusted with this function-even though he may rarely or never use it. In some dioceses, there is a private arrangement between the bishop and one of his priests whom he knows and trusts.
There is no official public appointment of exorcists. In some dioceses, "the bishop knows little about it and wants to know less"-as in one of the cases recorded in this book. But however he comes to his position, the exorcist must have official Church sanction, for he is acting in an official capacity, and any power he has over Evil Spirit can only come from those officials who belong to the substance of Jesus' Church, whether they be in the Roman Catholic, the Eastern Orthodox, or the Protestant Communions. Sometimes a diocesan priest will take on an exorcism himself without asking his bishop, but all such cases known to me have failed.
It is recognized both in the pre-exorcism examinations and during the actual exorcism that there is usually no one physical or psychical aberration or abnormality in the possessed person that we cannot explain by a known or possible physical cause. And, apart from normal medical and psychological tests, there are other possible sources for diagnosis. However rickety and tentative the findings of parapsychology, for example, one can possibly seek in its theories of telepathy and telekinesis an explanation of some of the signs of possession. Suggestion and suggestibility, as modern psychotherapists speak of them, can account for many more.
Still, with the diagnoses and opinions of doctors and psychologists in hand, it is often discovered there are wide margins of fluctuation. Competent psychiatrists will differ violently among themselves; and in psychology and medicine, ignorance of causes is often obscured by technical names and jargon that are nothing more than descriptive terms.
Nevertheless, the combined medical and psychological reports are carefully evaluated and usually weigh heavily in the final judgment to proceed or not with an exorcism. If according to those reports there is a definite disease or illness which adequately accounts for the behavior and symptoms of the subject, Exorcism is usually ruled out, or at least delayed to allow a course of medical or psychiatric treatment.
But finally, reports in hand, all evidence in, Church authorities judge the situation from another, special point of view, formed by their own professional outlook. [p.15-16]

They believe that there is an invisible power, a spirit of evil; that this spirit can for obscure reasons take possession of a human being; that the evil spirit can and must be expelled-exorcised-from the person possessed; and that this exorcism can be done only in the name and by the authority and power of Jesus of Nazareth. The testing from the Church's viewpoint is as rigorous in its search as any medical or psychological examination.
In the records of Christian Exorcism from as far back as the lifetime of Jesus himself, a peculiar revulsion to symbols and truths of religion is always and without exception a mark of the possessed person. In the verification of a case of possession by Church authorities, this "symptom" of revulsion is triangulated with other physical phenomena frequently associated with possession-
the inexplicable stench;
freezing temperature;
telepathic powers about purely religious and moral matters;
a peculiarly unlined or completely smooth or stretched skin, or unusual distortion of the face, or other physical and behavioral transformations;
"possessed gravity" (the possessed person becomes physically immovable, or those around the possessed are weighted down with a suffocating pressure);
levitation (the possessed rises and floats off the ground, chair, or bed; there is no physically traceable support);
violent smashing of furniture,
constant opening and slamming of doors,
tearing of fabric in the vicinity of the possessed, without a hand laid on them; and so on.
When this triangulation is made of the varied symptoms that may occur in any given case, and medical and psychiatric diagnoses are inadequate to cover the full situation, the decision will usually be to proceed and try Exorcism. [p.16]

There has never been, to my knowledge, an official listing of exorcists together with their biographies and characteristics, so we cannot satisfy our modern craving for a profile of, say, "the typical exorcist." We can, however, give a fairly clear definition of the type of man who is entrusted with the exorcism of a possessed person.
Usually he is engaged in the active ministry of parishes.
Rarely is he a scholarly type engaged in teaching or research.
Rarely is he a recently ordained priest.
If there is any median age for exorcists, it is probably between the ages of fifty and sixty-five.
Sound and robust physical health is not a characteristic of exorcists, nor is proven intellectual brilliance, postgraduate degrees, even in psychology or philosophy, or a very sophisticated personal culture.
In this writer's experience, the 15 exorcists he has known have been singularly lacking in anything like a vivid imagination or a rich humanistic training.
All have been sensitive men of solid rather than dazzling minds. Though, of course, there are many exceptions, the usual reasons for a priest's being chosen are his qualities of moral judgment, personal behavior, and religious beliefs-qualities that are not sophisticated or laboriously acquired, but that somehow seem always to have been an easy and natural part of such a man. Speaking religiously, these are qualities associated with special grace.
There is no official training for an exorcist. Before a priest undertakes Exorcism, it has been found advisable-but not always possible or practical-for him to assist at exorcisms conducted by an older and already experienced priest.
Once possession has been verified to the satisfaction of the exorcist, he makes the rest of the decisions and takes care of all the necessary preparations. In some dioceses, it is he who chooses the assistant priest. The choice of the lay assistants and of the time and place of the exorcism is left to him.
The place of the exorcism is usually the home of the possessed person, for generally it is only relatives or closest friends who will give care and love in the dreadful circumstances associated with possession. The actual room chosen is most often one that has had some special significance for the possessed person, not infrequently his or her own bedroom or den. In this connection, one aspect of possession and of spirit makes itself apparent: the close connection between spirit and physical location. The puzzle of spirit and place makes itself felt in many ways and runs throughout virtually every exorcism. There is a theological explanation for it. But that there is some connection between spirit and place must be dealt with as a fact.

I wonder why this would be [place - spirit].

Once chosen, the ,room where the exorcism will be done is cleared as far as possible of anything that can be moved. During the exorcism, one form of violence may and most often does cause any object, light or heavy, to move about, rock back and forth, skitter or fly across the room, make much noise, strike the priest or the possessed or the assistants. It is not rare for people to emerge from an exorcism with serious physical wounds. Carpets, rugs, pictures, curtains, tables, chairs, boxes, trunks, bedclothes, bureaus, chandeliers, all are removed.
Doors very often will bang open and shut uncontrollably; but because exorcisms can go on for days, doors cannot be nailed or locked with unusual security. On the other hand, the doorway must be covered; otherwise, as experience shows, the physical force let loose within the exorcism room will affect the immediate vicinity outside the door.
Windows are closed securely; sometimes they may be boarded over in order to keep flying objects from crashing through them and to prevent more extreme accidents (possessed people sometimes attempt defenestration; physical forces sometimes propel the assistants or the exorcist toward the windows).
A bed or couch is usually left in the room (or placed there if necessary), and that is where the possessed person is placed. A small table is needed. On it are placed a crucifix, with one candle on either side of it, holy water, and a prayer book.
Sometimes there will also be a relic of a saint or a picture that is considered to be especially holy or significant for the possessed. In recent years in the United States, and increasingly abroad as well, a tape recorder is used. It is placed on the floor or in a drawer or sometimes, if it is not too cumbersome, around the neck of an assistant.
The junior priest colleague of the exorcist is usually appointed by diocesan authorities. He is there for his own training as an exorcist. He will monitor the words and actions of the exorcist, warn him if he is making a mistake, help him if he weakens physically, and replace him if he dies, collapses, flees, is physically or emotionally battered beyond endurance-and all have happened during exorcisms. The other assistants are laymen. Very often a medical doctor will be among them because of the danger to all present of strain, shock, or injury. The number of lay assistants will depend on the exorcist's expectation of violence. Four is the usual number. Of course, in remote country areas or in very isolated Christian missions, and sometimes in big urban centers, there is no question of assistants. There simply is none available, or there is no time to acquire any. The exorcist must go it alone. [p.18]

An exorcist comes to know from experience what he can expect by way of violent behavior; and, for their own sakes, possessed people must usually be physically restrained during parts of the exorcism. The assistants therefore must be physically strong. In addition, there may be a straitjacket on hand, though leather straps or rope are more commonly used.
It is up to the exorcist to make sure that his assistants are not consciously guilty of personal sins at the time of the exorcism, because they, too, can expect to be attacked by the evil spirit, even though not so directly or constantly as the exorcist himself. Any sin will be used as a weapon.
The exorcist must be as certain as possible beforehand that his assistants will not be weakened or overcome by obscene behavior or by language foul beyond their imagining; they cannot blanch at blood, excrement, urine; they must be able to take awful personal insults and be prepared to have their darkest secrets screeched in public in front of their companions. These are routine happenings during exorcisms. Assistants are given three cardinal rules: they are to obey the exorcist's commands immediately and without question, no matter how absurd or unsympathetic those commands may appear to them to be; they are not to take any initiative except on command; and they are never to speak to the possessed person, even by way of exclamation.
Even with all the care in the world, there is no way an exorcist can completely prepare his assistants for what lies in store for them. Even though they are not subject to the direct and unremitting attack the priest will undergo, it is not uncommon for assistants to quit-or be carried out-in the middle of an exorcism. A practiced exorcist will even go so far as to make a few trial runs of an exorcism beforehand, on the old theory that forewarned is forearmed-at least to some degree.
Timing in an exorcism is generally dictated by circumstances. There is usually a feeling of urgency to begin as soon as possible. Everyone involved should have an open schedule. Rarely is an exorcism shorter than some hours-more often than not ten or twelve hours. Sometimes it stretches for two or three days. On occasion it lasts even for weeks. Once begun, except on the rarest occasions, there are no time outs, although one or other of the people present may leave the room for a few moments, to take some food, to rest very briefly, or go to the bathroom. (One strange exorcism where there was a time out is described in this book. The priest involved would have preferred one hundred times going straight through the exorcism rather than suffer the mad violence that caused the delay.)
The only people in an exorcism who dress in a special way are the exorcist and his priest assistant. Each wears a long black cassock that covers him from neck to feet. Over it there is a waist-length white surplice. A narrow purple stole is worn around the neck and hangs loosely the length of the torso.
Normally, the priest assistant and the lay assistants prepare the exorcism room according to the exorcist's instructions. They and the exorcee are ready in the room when the exorcist enters, last and alone.
There is no lexicon of Exorcism; and there is no guidebook or set of rules, no Baedeker of Evil Spirit to follow. The Church provides an official text for Exorcism, but this is merely a framework. It can be read out loud in 20 minutes. It merely provides a precise formula of words together with certain prayers and ritual actions, so that the exorcist has a preset structure in which to address the evil spirit. In fact, the conduct of an exorcism is left very much up to the exorcist. [p.18-19]

So far, quite interesting huh?! Well this part that comes up is even more interesting, check it out [I will post this in a different color, because I think it might be important for research later or for looking up etc] [p.19-23]:

Nevertheless, any practiced exorcist I have spoken with agrees that there is a general progress through recognizable stages in an exorcism, however long it may last. One of the most experienced exorcists I have known and who was in fact the mentor of the exorcist in the first case related in this book, gave names to the various general stages of an exorcism. These names reflect the general meaning or effect or intent of what is happening, but not the specific means used by the evil spirit or by the exorcist. Conor, as I call him, spoke of Presence, Pretense, Breakpoint, Voice, Clash, and Expulsion. The events and stages these names signify occur in nine out of every ten exorcisms.

Presence:

From the moment the exorcist enters the room, a peculiar feeling seems to hang in the very air. From that moment in any genuine exorcism and onward through its duration, everyone in the room is aware of some alien Presence. This indubitable sign of possession is as unexplainable and unmistakable as it is inescapable. All the signs of possession, however blatant or grotesque, however subtle or debatable, seem both to pale before and to be marshaled in the face of this Presence.

There is no sure physical trace of the Presence, but everyone feels it. You have to experience it to know it; you cannot locate it spatially- beside or above or within the possessed, or over in the corner or under the bed or hovering in midair.

In one sense, the Presence is nowhere, and this magnifies the terror, because there is a presence, an other present. Not a "he" or a "she" or an "it." Sometimes, you think that what is present is singular, sometimes plural. When it speaks, as the exorcism goes on, it will sometimes refer to itself as "I" and sometimes as "we," will use "my" and "our."

Pretense:

Invisible and intangible, the Presence claws at the humanness of those gathered in the room. You can exercise logic and expel any mental image of it. You can say to yourself: "I am only imagining this. Careful! Don't panic!" And there may be a momentary relief. But then, after a time lag of bare seconds, the Presence returns as an inaudible hiss in the brain, as a wordless threat to the self you are. Its name and essence seem to be compounded of threat, to be only and intensely baleful, concentratedly intent on hate for hate's sake and on destruction for destruction's sake. In the early stages of an exorcism, the evil spirit will make every attempt to "hide behind" the possessed, so to speak-to appear to be one and the same person and personality with its victim. This is the Pretense.

The first task of the priest is to break that Pretense, to force the spirit to reveal itself openly as separate from the possessed-and to name itself, for all possessing spirits are called by a name that generally (though not always) has to do with the way that spirit works on its victim.

As the exorcist sets about his task, the evil spirit may remain silent altogether; or it may speak with the voice of the possessed, and use past experiences and recollections of the possessed. This is often done skillfully, using details no one but the possessed could know. It can be very disarming, even pitiful. It can make everyone, including the priest, feel that it is the priest who is the villain, subjecting an innocent person to terrible rigors. Even the mannerisms and characteristics of the possessed are used by the spirit as its own camouflage.

Sometimes the exorcist cannot shatter the Pretense for days. But until he does, he cannot bring matters to a head. If he fails to shatter it at all, he has lost. Perhaps another exorcist replacing him will succeed. But he himself has been beaten.

Every exorcist learns during Pretense that he is dealing with some force or power that is at times intensely cunning, sometimes supremely intelligent, and at other times capable of crass stupidity (which makes one wonder further about the problem of singular or plural); and it is both highly dangerous and terribly vulnerable.

Oddly, while this spirit or power or force knows some of the most secret and intimate details of the lives of everyone in the room, at the same time it also displays gaps in knowledge of things that may be happening at any given moment of the present. But the priest must not be lulled by small victories or take chances on hoped-for stupidities. He must be ready to have his own sins and blunders and weaknesses put into his mind or shouted in ugliness for all to hear. He must not make excuses for his past, or wither as even his loveliest memories are fingered by ultimate filth and contempt; he must not be sidetracked in any way from his primary intention of freeing the possessed person before him. And he must at all costs avoid trading abuse or getting into any logical arguments with the possessed. The temptation to do so is more frequent than one might think, and must be regarded as a potentially fatal trap that can shatter not only the exorcism, but quite literally shatter the exorcist as well.

Breakpoint:

Accordingly, as the Pretense begins to break down, the behavior of the possessed usually increases in violence and repulsiveness. It is as though an invisible manhole opens, and out of it pours the unmention-ably inhuman and the humanly unacceptable. There is a stream of filth and unrestrained abuse, accompanied often by physical violence, writhing, gnashing of teeth, jumping around, sometimes physical attacks on the exorcist.

A new hallmark of the proceedings enters as the Breakpoint nears, and ushers in one of the more subtle sufferings the exorcist must undergo: confusion. Complete and dreadful confusion. Rare is the exorcist who does not falter here for at least a moment, enmeshed in the peculiar pain of apparent contradiction of all sense.

His ears seem to smell foul words. His eyes seem to hear offensive sounds and obscene screams. His nose seems to taste a high-decibel cacophony. Each sense seems to be recording what another sense should be recording. Each nerve and sinew of onlookers and participants becomes rigid as they strive for control. Panic-the fear of being dissolved into insanity-runs in quick jabs through everyone there. All present experience this increasingly violent and confusing assault. But the exorcist is the one who rides the storm. He is the direct target of it all.

The Breakpoint is reached at that moment when the Pretense has finally collapsed altogether. The voice of the possessed is no longer used by the spirit, though the new, strange voice may or may not issue from the mouth of the victim. In Thomas Wu's case, the alien voice did come from the possessed's mouth; and that was why the police captain was so startled. The sound produced is often not even remotely like any human sound.

At the Breakpoint, for the first time, the spirit speaks of the possessed in the third person, as a separate being. For the first time, the possessing spirit acts personally and speaks of "I" or "we," usually interchangeably, and of "my" and "our" or "mine" and "ours."

Voice:

Another very frequent sign that the Breakpoint has been reached is the appearance of what Father Conor called the Voice.

The Voice is an inordinately disturbing and humanly distressing babel. The first few syllables seem to be those of some word pronounced slowly and thickly-somewhat like a tape recording played at a subnormal speed. You are just straining to pick up the word and a layer of cold fear has already gripped you-you know this sound is alien. But your concentration is shattered and frustrated by an immediate gamut of echoes, of tiny, prickly voices echoing each syllable, screaming it, whispering it, laughing it, sneering it, groaning it, following it. They all hit your ear, while the alien voice is going on unhurriedly to the next syllable, which you then try to catch, while guessing at the first one you lost. By then, the tiny, jabbing voices have caught up with that second syllable; and the voice has proceeded to the third syllable; and so on.

If the exorcism is to proceed, the Voice must be silenced. It takes an enormous effort of will on the part of the exorcist, in direct confrontation with the alien will of evil, to silence the Voice. The priest must get himself under control and challenge the spirit first to silence and then to identify itself intelligibly.

As in all things to do with Exorcism of Evil Spirit, the priest makes this challenge with his own will, but always in the name and by the authority of Jesus and his Church. To do so in his own name or by some fancied authority of his own would be to invite personal disaster. Merely human power unadorned and without aid cannot cope with the preternatural. (It is to be remembered that when we speak of the preternatural, we are not speaking about what are known as poltergeists.)

Clash:

Usually, at this point and as the Voice dies out, a tremendous pressure of an obscure kind affects the exorcist. This is the first and outermost edge of a direct and personal collision with the "will of the Kingdom," the Clash.

We all know from our personal experience that there can be no struggle of single personal wills without that felt and intuitive contact between two persons. There is a two-way communication that is as real as a conversation using words. The Clash is the heart of a special and dreadful communication, the nucleus of this singular battle of wills between exorcist and Evil Spirit.

Painful as it will be for him, the priest must look for the Clash. He must provoke it. If he cannot lock wills with the evil thing and force that thing to lock its will in opposition to his own, then again the exorcist is defeated.

The issue between the two, the exorcist and the possessing spirit, is simple. Will the totally antihuman invade and take over? Will it, noisome and merciless, seep over that narrow rim where the exorcist would hold his ground alone, and engulf him? Or will it, unwillingly, protestingly, under a duress greater than its single-track will, stop, identify itself, cede, retire, disappear, and be volatilized back into an unknown pit of being where no man wants to go ever?

Expulsion:

Even with all the pressure on him, and in fullest human agony, if the exorcist has got this far, he must press home. He has gained an advantage. He has already forced the evil spirit to come out on its own. If he has not been able to until now, he must finally force it to give its name. And then, some exorcists feel, the exorcist must pursue for as much information as he can. For in some peculiar way, as exorcists find, the more an evil spirit can be forced to reveal in the Clash and its aftermath, the surer and easier will be the Expulsion when that moment comes. To force as complete an identification as possible is perhaps a mark of domination of one will over another.

It is of crucial interest to speculate about the violence provoked by Exorcism-the physical and mental struggles that are so extreme they can bring on death. Why would spirit battle so? Why not leave and waft off invisibly to someone or someplace else?

For spirit itself seems to suffer in these battles.

Time and again, in exorcism after exorcism, there occurs that curious thing to do with spirit and place, the strange puzzle mentioned previously in connection with the room chosen for the exorcism. When Jesus expelled the unclean spirits, those spirits showed concern for where they might go. In record after record, as well as in several exorcisms recounted in this book, the possessing spirits wail in lament and questioning pain: "Where shall we go?" "We too have to possess our habitation." "Even the Anointed One gave us a place with the swine." "Here . . . we can't stay here any longer."

Evil Spirit, having found a home with a consenting host, does not appear to give up its place easily. It claws and fights and deceives and even risks killing its host before it will be expelled. How violent the struggle probably depends on many things; the intelligence of the spirit being dealt with and the degree of possession achieved over the victim are perhaps two one could speculate about.

Whatever determines the actual pitch of violence, once the exorcist has forced the invading spirit to identify itself, and sustained the first wordless bout of the Clash, and then invoked its formal condemnation and expulsion by the Exorcism rite, the immediate result is generally a struggle tortuous beyond/imagining, an open violence that leaves all subtlety behind.

The person possessed is by now obviously aware in one way or another of what possessed him. Frequently he becomes a true battleground for much of the remainder of the exorcism, enduring unbelievable punishment and strain.

It is sometimes possible for the exorcist to appeal directly to the possessed person, urging him to use some part of his own will still free of the spirit's influence and control, and engage directly in the fight, aiding the exorcist. And at such moments no animal pinned helplessly to the ground struggles more pathetically against the drinking of its life's blood by a voracious and superior cruelty. The very nauseous character of the possessed person's appearance and behavior appears to be a sign of his desire for deliverance, a desperate sign of struggle, evidence of a revolt where once he had consented.

Increasingly what had possessed him is being forced into the open, all the while protesting its victim's revolt and its own expulsion. The violence of the contortions and the physical disfigurement of the possessed can reach a degree one would think he could not possibly withstand.

The exorcist, too, comes in for full attack now. Once cornered, the evil spirit seems able to call on a superior intelligence, and will try to lure the exorcist on to a field boobytrapped and mined with situations from which no human can extricate himself.

Any weakness in the religious faith that alone sustains the exorcist or any fatigue will allow the exorcist's mind to be flooded with a terrible light he cannot fend off-a light that can burn the very roots of his reason and turn him emotionally into the most servile of slaves desperate to be liberated from all bodily life.

These are only some of the dangers and traps that face every exorcist. His pain is physical, emotional, mental. He has to deal with what is eerie but not enthralling; with something askew, but intelligently so; with a quality that is upside down and inside out, but significantly so. The mordant traits of nightmare are there in full regalia, but this is no dream and permits him no thankful remission.

He is attacked by a stench so powerful that many exorcists start vomiting uncontrollably. He is made to bear physical pain, and he feels anguish over his very soul. He is made to know he is touching the completely unclean, the totally unhuman. All sense may suddenly seem nonsense. Hopelessness is confirmed as the only hope. Death and cruelty and contempt are normal. Anything comely or beautiful is an illusion. Nothing, it seems, was ever right in the world of man. He is in an atmosphere more bizarre than Bedlam.

If, in spite of his emotions and his imagination and his body-all trapped at once in pain and anguish-if, in spite of all this, the will of the exorcist holds in the Clash, what he does is to approach his final function in this situation as an authorized human witness for Jesus. By no power of his, on account of no privilege of his own, he calls finally on the evil spirit to desist, to be dispossessed, to depart and to leave the possessed person.

And, if the exorcism is successful, this is what happens. The possession ends. All present become aware of a change around them. The sense of Presence is totally, suddenly absent. Sometimes there are receding voices or other noises, sometimes only dead silence.
Sometimes the recently possessed may be at the end of his strength;
sometimes he will wake up as from a dream, a nightmare, or a coma.
Sometimes the former victim will remember much of what he has been through;
sometimes he will remember nothing at all.
Not so for the exorcists, during and after their grisly work. They carry nagging doubts and bitter conflicts untellable to family, friend, superior, or therapist. Their personal traumas lie beyond the reach of soothing words and deeper than the sweep of any consoling thoughts.

They share their punishment with none but God. Even that has its peculiar sting of difficulty. For it is a sharing by faith and not by face-to-face communication. But only thus do these men, seemingly ordinary and commonplace in their lives, persevere through the days of quiet horror and the nights of sleepless watching they spend for years after as their price of success, and as abiding reminders that, once upon a time, another human being was made whole, because they willingly incurred the direct displeasure of living hatred.

Here he writes a little more about the upcoming 5 cases he's gonna write about:

The following five case histories are true. The lives of the people involved are told on the basis of extensive interviews with all of the principals involved, with many of their friends and relatives, and with many others involved directly or indirectly in minor ways. All interviews have been independently checked for factual accuracy wherever possible. The exorcisms themselves are reproduced from the actual tapes made at the time and from the transcripts of those tapes. The exorcisms have necessarily been cut for reasons of length; all of the exorcisms recorded here lasted more than 12 hours.

I have chosen these five cases from among a greater number known and available to me because, both singly and taken together, they are dramatic illustrations of the way in which personal and intelligent evil moves cunningly along the lines of contemporary fads and interests, and within the usual bounds of experience of ordinary men and women. No fourteenth- or fifteenth- or sixteenth-century case, for all its possible romantic appeal, would have any relevancy for us today. On the contrary, it would remain a simple matter for us to dismiss such cases as fables made up to suit the fears or fancies of "more ignorant" people of "less sophisticated" times. Each case presented here includes as an important element some basic attitude or attitudes popular in our own society. In the possessed person, it is pushed to a narrow and frightening extreme.

In the first case, Zio's Friend and the Smiler, the insistence is that there is no essential difference between good and evil, and ultimately no difference between being and nonbeing; that all values are subject only to one's personal preferences.

In Father Bones and Mister Natch, the compelling idea that was seized by Evil Spirit seemed to be that all mysteries can and are resolved in "natural" (i.e., rational or scientific or quantifiable) explanations; that there can be no relevance for the modern person in anything that cannot be rationally understood; and that there can be no truth important to man beyond what is rational.

In The Virgin and the Girl-Fixer, the battle concerned some of the great, deep, and mysterious "givens" of our very nature and our society-in this case, gender and human love. The priest in this case said to me a few months before he died, in one of the most profound conversations of my life: "A bird doesn't fly because it has wings. It has wings because it flies." We will ignore that mysterious truth in its applications to our sexuality and our gender only at our great peril, I believe.

In Uncle Ponto and the Mushroom-Souper, we have an example of what may be happening to many in our modern society-without their realizing it and without those around them taking cognizance of it. For it seems that there is an individualism, a purely personalistic interpretation of human life abroad today, which exceeds by far the bounds of what used to be known as selfishness and egotism. It has produced in thousands of people an aberrant and idiosyncratic behavior which is truly destructive.

In The Rooster and the Tortoise, the fatal confusion (and in this case it was literally almost fatal) was between spirit and psyche; between those parts and attributes of ours that are quantifiable, and yet through which spirit most easily makes itself known. If everything we have taken to be of spirit can be made to seem a product merely of the human psyche, with no meaning or significance beyond its factualness, then love can be made to seem only a chemical interraction, and love's paradigm is killed. [p.23-24]

In each case, one basic note of possession is confusion.
Sex is confused with gender.
Spirit is confused With psyche.
Moral value is confused with absence of any value.
Mystery is confused with untruth.
And, in every case, rational argument is used, not to clarify, but as a trap, to foster confusion and to nurture it as a major weapon against the exorcist.
Confusion, it would seem, is a prime weapon of evil.

There is much more to be observed and said about the meaning of possession. Not everything can be covered in a single volume. But possession and Exorcism are not themselves mere fads with no interest beyond the bizarre and significantly frightening. They are tangible expressions of the reality which envelops the daily lives of ordinary people. No study of possession and Exorcism cases within the Christian optic would be adequate without a minimum of explanation -from the Christian point of view-about that reality: what takes place in possession, and how that degrading process develops in a particular individual. Such an explanation occupies the final section of this book.

This study makes no attempt to answer the ultimate puzzle of possession: why this person rather than that person becomes the object of diabolic attack which can end in partial or perfect possession. The answer certainly does not lie in psychological probings, in heredity, or in social phenomena. A final answer will include, as prime ingredients, the personal free choice which each individual makes and the mystery of human predestination. About free choice we know the essentials: I can choose evil for no other reason or motive than that I choose evil. Some apparently do. About predestination we know little or nothing. The puzzle remains.

All of the men and women involved in the five cases reported here are known to me personally; they have given their fullest cooperation on the condition that their identities and those of their families and friends not be revealed. Therefore, all names and places have been changed, and other possible pointers to identity have been obscured. Any similarity between the cases reported here and any others that may have occurred is unintentional and purely coincidental.

You'll have to read the stories yourself in the book if you want to know them! I'm gonna copy some pieces from the 5 stories here that I think might be important or significant etc. I am however gonna post the 1st story, to see if it might be better or not to copy the whole story or just some pieces of it. Just experimenting here.

The Cases

1. Zio's Friend and the Smiler

[In the first case, Zio's Friend and the Smiler, the insistence is that there is no essential difference between good and evil, and ultimately no difference between being and nonbeing; that all values are subject only to one's personal preferences.]

Victim: [Marianne K. took training as a dental technician, married, and lived for nearly seventeen years. She died of cancer in the early 1980s.]

Peter took one more breath of fresh air. He was reluctant to pull the open window shut against the uproar on 125th Street 15 stories below. It was the first time in history that a Roman Pope was driving through New York streets, and the very air was alive with excitement. The Pope's motorcade had already passed over Willis Avenue Bridge into the Bronx on its way to Yankee Stadium. The crowds were still milling around. Some nuns scurried about like frenzied penguins blowing whistles and marshaling lines of white-clad schoolgirls. Hot-dog vendors shouted their prices. A dowdiry dressed young woman and her child peddled plastic little popes to passersby. Two policemen were removing wooden barriers. A garbage truck snorted and honked its way through the traffic. Father Peter closed the window finally, drew the curtains together, and turned back toward the bed.

The room was quiet again, except for the irregular breathing of twenty-six-year-old Marianne. She lays on a gray blanket thrown over the bare mattress. With her faded jeans, yellow body-shirt, auburn hair straggling over her forehead, the pallor of her cheeks, and the aging, off-white color of the walls around her, she seemed part of a tragically washed-out pastel. Except for a funny twist to her mouth, her face had no expression.

To Peter's left, with their backs to the door, stood two bulky men. One: an ex-policeman and a friend of the family, a veteran of 32 years on the force, where, he thought, he had seen everything. He was about to find out that he hadn't. Sixtyish, balding, clad in dungarees, his arms folded over his chest, his face was a picture of puzzlement. The other the closest acquaintance of Marianne's father, whom the children called uncle, was a bank manager and a grandfather in his midfiftie red-faced and jowled, in a blue suit, his arms hanging by his sides, fixed on Marianne's face with an expression of helpless fear. Both the men, athletic and muscular, had been asked to assist at the exorcism of Marianne K., to quell any physical violence or harm she might attempt. Marianne's father, a wispy man with reddened eyes and drawn face, stood with the family doctor. He was praying silently. Peter always insisted on having a member of the family present- at exorcism. As if in contrast to the others, the young doctor, a| psychiatrist, wore a concentrated, almost studious look as he checked the girl's pulse.

Peter's colleague, Father James, a priest in his thirties, stood at the foot of the bed. Black-haired, full-faced, youthful, apprehensive, his black, white, and purple robes were a uniform for him. On Peter, with his tousled gray hair and hollow-cheeked look, the same colors melted into a veiled unity. James was dressed up ready to go. Peter, the; campaigner, had been there.

On a night table beside James two candles flickered. A crucifix rested between them. In one corner of the room there was a chest of ; drawers. "Should have had it removed before we started," Peter thought. The chest, originally left there in order to hold a tape recorder, had become quite a nuisance. Probably would continue to be until the whole business was finished, Peter thought. But he knew better than to fiddle with any object in the room, once the exorcism had begun.

It was a Monday, 8:15 P.M., the seventeenth hour into Peter's third exorcism in thirty years. It was also his last exorcism, although he could not know that. Peter felt sure that he had arrived at the Breakpoint in the rite. In the few seconds it took him to cross from the window to her bed, Marianne's face had been contorting into a mass of crisscrossing lines. Her mouth twisted further and further in an S-shape. The neck was taut, showing every vein and artery; and her Adam's apple looked like a knot in a rope.

The ex-policeman and her uncle moved to hold her. But her voice threw them back momentarily like a whiplash:
"You dried-up fuckers! You've messed with each other's wives. And with your own peenies into the bargain. Keep your horny paws off me!

"Hold her down!" Peter spoke peremptorily. Four pairs of hands clamped on her. "Jesus have mercy on my baby," muttered her father. The ex-policeman's eyes bulged. "YOU!" Marianne screamed, as she lay pinned flat on the bed, her eyes open and blazing with anger, "YOU! Peter the Eater. Eat my flesh, said she. Suck my blood, said she. And you did! Peter the Eater! You'll come with us, you freak. You'll lick my arse and like it, Peeeeeeeetrrrrrr," and her voice sank through the "rrrr" to an animal gurgle.

Something started to ache in Peter's brain. He missed a breath, panicked because he could not draw it, stopped and waited, swaying on his feet. Then he exhaled gratefully. To the younger priest he looked frail and vulnerable. Father James handed Peter his prayer book, and they both turned to face Marianne.

Almost a year later, in 1966, on the day Peter was buried in Calvary Cemetery, his younger colleague, Father James, chatted with me after the funeral service. "It doesn't matter what the doctor said" (the official report gave coronary thrombosis as cause of death), "he was gone, really gone, after that last to-do. Just a matter of time. Mind you, it wasn't that he wasn't brave and devoted. He was a real man of God before and after the whole thing. But it took that last exorcism to make him realize that life knocks the stuffing out of any decent man." Peter had apparently never emerged from a gentle reverie after the exorcism of Marianne; and he always spoke as if he were talking for the benefit of someone else present. It was as exasperating as listening to one side of a telephone conversation.

"He was never the same again," said James. "Some part of him passed into the Great Beyond during the final Clash, as you call it." Then, after a pause and musingly, almost to himself: "Can you beat that? He had to be born in Lisdoonvarna" sixty-two years ago, be reared beside Killarney, and come all the way over here three times-just to find out the third time where he was supposed to die; and how, and when. Makes you think what life's all about. You never know how it's going to end. Peter did not become an American citizen, even. All that travel. Just to die as the Lord had decided."

Peter was one of seven children, all boys. His father moved from County Clare to Listowel, County Kerry, where he prospered as a wine merchant. The family lived in a large two-story house overlooking the river Feale. They were financially comfortable and respected. Their Roman Catholicism was that brand of muscular Christianity which the Irish out of all Western nations had originated as their contribution to religion.

Peter spent his youth in the comparative peace of "the old Rritish days" before the Irish Republican Brotherhood (parent of the IRA), the Irish Volunteers, and the 1916 Rebellion started modern Ireland off on the stormy course of fighting for the "terrible beauty" that lured Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, Eamonn De Valera, and the other leaders into the deathtrap of bloodletting, where, 50 years later, in Peter's declining years, blood was still being shed.

School filled three-quarters of the year for Peter. Summers were spent at Real Strand, at Ballybunion seaside, or harvesting on his grandfather's farm at Newtownsands. One such summer, his sixteenth, Peter had his only brush with sex. He had lain for hours among the sand dunes of Beal Strand with Mae, a girl from Listowel whom he had known for about three years. That day, their families had gone to the Listowel races.

Innocent flirting developed into simple love play and finally into a fervid exchange of kisses and caresses, until they both lay naked and awesomely happy beneath the early-evening stars, the warmth undulating and glowing sweetly through their bodies as they huddled close together. Afterward, Mae playfully nicknamed him "Peter the Eater," To calm his fear she added: "Don't worry. No one will know how you made love to me. Only me."

For about a year afterward, he was interested in girls and particularly in Mae. Then early in his eighteenth year, he began to think of the priesthood. By the time he finished schooling, his mind was made up. Peter had told me once: "When we said goodbye, that summer of 1922, Mae teased me: 'If you ever leave the seminary and) don't marry me, I'll tell everyone your nickname.' She never told a; human soul.

But, of course, they knew." Peter's sole but real enemies were the shadowy dwellers of "the Kingdom" whom he vaguely called "they." He gave me a characteristic look and stared away over my head. Mae had died in 1929 of a ruptured appendix.

Peter started his studies at Killarney Seminary and finished them at Numgret with the Jesuits. He was no brilliant scholar, but got very good grades in Canon Law and Hebrew, which he pronounced with an Irish brogue ("My grandfather was from one of the Lost Tribes"), acquired a reputation for good, sound judgment in moral dilemmas, and was renowned locally because with one deft kick of a football he could knock the pipe out of a smoker's mouth at 30 yards and not even graze the man's face.

Ordained priest at twenty-five, he worked for six years in Kerry. Then he did a first stint in a New York parish for three years. He was present twice at exorcisms as an assistant. On a third occasion, when he was present merely as an extra help, he had to take over from the exorcist, an older man, who collapsed and died of a heart attack during the rite.

Two weeks before he sailed home to Ireland for his first holiday in three years, the authorities assigned him his first exorcism. "You're young, Father. I wish you'd had more experience," was the way he recalled the bishop's instructions, "but the Old Fella won't have much on you or over you. So go to it."

It had lasted 13 hours ("In Hoboken, of all places," he used to say whimsically), and had left him dazed and ill at ease. He never forgot the statement of murderous intent hurled at him by the man he had exorcised. Through foaming spittle and clenched teeth and the smell of a body unwashed for two years prior, the man had snarled:

"You destroy the Kingdom in me, you shit-faced alien Irish pig. And you think you're escaping. Don't worry. You'll be back for more. And more. Your kind always come back for more. And we will scorch the soul in you. Scorch it. You'll smell. Just like us! Third strike and you're out! Pig! Remember us!"

Peter remembered. But a two-week vacation in County Clare restored him to his energy and verve. "God! The scones running with salty butter, and the hot tea, and the Limerick bacon, and the soft rain, and the peace of it all! 'Twas great."

Most of Peter's wounds were not inflicted by the harsh realities of the world around him; but, deep within him, they opened as his way of responding to the evil he sometimes sensed in daily life.

Those who still remembered him in 1972 agreed that Peter had been neither genius nor saint. Black-haired, blue-eyed, raw-boned in appearance, he was a man of little imagination, deep loyalties, loud laughter, gargantuan appetite for bacon and potatoes, an iron constitution, an inability to hate or bear a grudge, and in a state of constant difference of opinion with his bishop (a tiny old man familiarly called "Packy" by his priests). Peter was somewhat lazy, harmlessly vain about his 6' 2" height, and a lifelong addict of Edgar Wallace detective stories. "He had this distinct quality," remarked one of his friends. "You felt he had a huge spirit laced with cast-iron common sense and untouched by any pettiness."

In normal circumstances, Peter would have stayed on permanently in Ireland after his vacation of scones and soft rain. He would have worked in parishes for some years, then acquired a parish of his own. But there was something else tugging at his heart and something else written in his stars. When he left for New York at the outbreak of the Korean War in order to replace a chaplain who had been called up, he recalled the exorcism in Hoboken. "Third strike and you're out! Pig! Remember!"

He remarked jokingly to a worried friend who knew the whole story: " 'Tis not the third time yet!"

In January 1952, he was asked to do his second exorcism. His effectiveness in the first exorcism and the resilient way he had taken it recommended him to the authorities.

The exorcism took place in; Jersey City. And, in spite of its length (the better part of three days and three nights), it took very little out of him physically or mentally.

Spiritually, it had some peculiar significance for him.

"It was a sort of warmer-upper for the 1965 outing," he told me in 1966. "The ceremony lasted too long for my liking, was hammer and tongs all the way, almost beat us. But there was no great strain inside here [pointing to his chest]." And he added with a significance that eluded me then: "Jesus had a forerunner in the Baptist. I suppose; darkness has its own."

Looking back on his role as exorcist today, it is clear to me that first two exorcisms prepared him for the third and last one. They were three rounds with the same enemy. The exorcee that January was a sixteen-year-old boy of Hispanic origin who had been treated for epilepsy over a period of years, only to lie finally declared nonepileptic and physically sound as a bell by a team of doctors from Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Nevertheless, on the boy's return home, all the dreadful disturbances started all over again in a much more emphasized way, so the parents, turned to their priest.

"If he met the Devil at the top of the stairs one morning and saw; Jesus Christ standing at the bottom," added another, "he wouldn't turn his back on the one in his hurry to get down to the other. He'd back down. Just to be sure."

"They tell me you've a ... eh ... a sort of a way with the Devil, Father," said the wheezy, red-faced monsignor, grinning awkwardly as he gave the necessary permissions and instructions to Peter. Then, stirring in his chair, he added grimly as a bad Catholic joke: "But don't bring him back here to the Chancery with you. Get rid of him or it or her or whatever the devil it is. We have enough of all that on our backs here already."

It had gone well. The boy became Peter's devoted friend. Later he went to Vietnam and died in an ambush late one night outside Saigon. His commanding officer wrote, enclosing an envelope with Peter's name on it which the dead man had left behind. It contained a piece of bloodstained linen and a short note. Over a decade previously, just before his release from possession, in a final paroxysm of revolt and appeal, he had clawed at Peter's wrist, and Peter's blood had fallen on his shirt sleeve. "I kept this as a sign of my salvation, Father," the note said. "Pray for me. I will remember you, when I am with Jesus."

Peter was then forty-eight years old and in his prime as a priest. Yet in himself, he suffered from a growing sense of inadequacy and worthlessness. He felt that, in comparison with many of his colleagues who had attained degrees, qualifications, high offices, and acknowledged expertise, he had very little to show by way of achievement. "I have no riches inside me," he wrote to a brother of his, "just black poverty. Sometimes it darkens my soul." When his turn for a parish of his own came around, he was passed over. (Packy was dead already; but, some said, the dead bishop had made sure in his records that Peter would be passed over.)

Peter, in fact, was a maverick. The normal priest found him inferior in social graces but superior in judgment, lacking in ecclesiastical know-how and ambition but very content with his work. Sometimes his protestations of being "poor inside," of having "no excellent talents" sounded hollow when matched with his stubborn and opinionated attitudes. Anyway, the normal bishop would take one look into his direct gaze and decide that his own authority was somehow at stake. For Peter's stare was not insolent, but yet unwavering; it acknowledged the demands of worth but was devoid of any subservience. It said: "I respect you for what you represent. What you are is something else." Such a man was unsettling for the absolutist mind and threatening for the authoritarian bent of most ecclesiastics.

Beyond the occasional funny remark, such as "The higher they go, the blacker their bottoms look," Peter gave no outward impression of discontent or anxiety. A lack of self-confidence saved him from revolt or disgust. And he bore it all lightly. "Well, Father Peter," one bishop joshed him as he left to do a three-month stint in London parish work, "off you go to hell or to glory, eh?" Peter laughed it off: "In either case, bishops get the priority, my lord."

Had he raised protests and used the influential friends at his disposal, he would doubtless have retired in good time to the rural repose of a peaceful Kerry parish and the extraordinary autonomy of a parish priest. (A pope or a bishop approached any settled "P.P." with care. Only his housekeeper could make a frontal assault on a parish priest's autonomy. But, then again, Irish housekeepers were a race unto themselves.)

As Peter was and as he chose to remain-in strict dependence on ecclesiastical whims and never striking out to seek a fixed position-he was available to be tapped for a temporary visit to Rome and an accidental meeting that changed him profoundly.

After his second exorcism, there were ten more years of "helping out" in various dioceses, practically always on a temporary basis as substitute for other priests. And then a chance breakfast in late September 1962 brought him together with a West Coast bishop who, on his way to the opening of the Second Vatican Council in Rome, stayed a few days in New York. The bishop was well known for his sympathy with mavericks and his welcome for "hard cases." Like all the bishops who went to the council, he needed one or two experts in theology to be his advisors in Rome. He needed, in particular, a theologian counselor skilled in pastoral matters.

The next day Peter was aboard a TWA flight with the bishop enroute to the Eternal City. But for that trip, he probably would not have been at the side of Marianne three years later. And he certainly would never have come close to two men who had a sudden, deep influence on the rest of his life. In Rome, Peter performed his duties as a counselor during his ten-week stay there. But what mattered much more to him personally and affected him deeply were his experiences with Father Conor and with Paul VI, then Monsignor Montini.

Father Conor was a diminutive Irish Franciscan friar, bald-headed, sharp-eyed, and voluble, who taught theology at a Roman university. He wore rimless glasses, trotted and never walked, and spoke with a very strong brogue which made his Latin lectures all but unintelligible.

He held court for students, professors, foreign visitors, officials, and friends in his monastery room after siesta hour, three or four days a week. There, any bit of gossip in Rome could be learned, tested, and assessed for its rumor value. For half of Rome always feeds on rumors about the other half. And speculation is the stick which continually stirs the pool of rumor. "They till me, me frind, that . . ." was a frequent opening of Conor's conversation.

Conor spent his summers fishing around Lough Corrib, Ireland, was an expert on Waterford glass, and had a lifelong fascination for all politics, civil and ecclesiastical, a fascination that made Vatican Council II appeal to Conor as catnip to a cat. He had studied demonology ("Mostly ballyhoo," he pronounced in his thick brogue), witchcraft ("A lotta junk, if y'ask me"), Exorcism ("A mad bizniz"), and possession ("The divil's toe-rag"). He served as a consultant to one Roman office that dealt with cases of possession; and on 14 occasions he had conducted exorcisms (but always protested that he "wouldn't touch wan wid a barge pole, unliss they ordher'd me teh"). According to an in joke about Conor that always made him furious, he induced devils to leave the possessed by threatening to "send them back to Ireland."

Outside Roman clerical circles, Conor's activity as an exorcist-was relatively unknown. Indeed, he was regarded by his fellow clergy in Ireland as a bookworm and by his lay friends as a "grand, simple, innocent man, slightly dotty about the Middle Ages."

Peter and Conor were approximately the same age. They shared a love of Ireland and a passion for Rome's ruins. And Conor sensed in Peter a mind never tarnished by the baser ambitions he saw eating into those who gyrated and jockeyed around him in Rome on the political treadmill. He also felt Peter's sense of his own worthlessness. He found Peter's exorcism experiences enormously interesting. For Peter had "the touch," he used to say-a natural ability to weather exorcism's storms. On the other hand, Peter found in Conor a friend of practical experience and advice. Rambling in the Roman suburbs, sitting in the cortile of Conor's monastery, visiting the sights of Rome, sipping coffee in the Piazza Navona, they gradually assumed the roles of master and disciple. Peter put questions; Conor answered them. He explained. He theorized. He instructed. He warned. He corrected. He encouraged.

In the area of Exorcism, Conor had things reduced to a recognizable pattern of behavior: how the possessed behaved; how the possessing spirit acted; and how the exorcist should react and conduct the exorcism. During the long walks and talks with Conor, Peter crystallized his own first impressions and learned some valuable guidelines.

He had never realized the radical distinction between the perfectly possessed and the revolters. Nor had he understood the revolters as victims of possession who, partly with their own connivance, surely, had become hostage and were now trying, on the one hand, to give some sign, to summon help, but who in that struggle also became victims of a violent protest against such help-a protest made by the evil thing that possessed them.

Peter was able to adjust and correct his techniques immediately, even without conducting further exorcisms, once Conor explained that the major portion of every exorcism was taken up with shattering a pretense, dispelling a smokescreen; that the most dangerous period lay in the Breakpoint of that Pretense and in the clash of wills that followed at once between the exorcist and the thing that tortured the possessed; and that the "Grate Panjandhr'm" (Conor's epithet for the Devil) intervened only rarely.

In Conor's view, the world of evil spirits was like an autocratic organization: "Joe Shtaleen used to sind Molotov to do his dirty work. So the Grate Panjandhr'm sens his hinchmin."

Conor taught Peter tricks and ruses; and he gave him tags-phrases, words, numbers, concepts-to label perilous phases, capital moments and events in an exorcism. He made available to Peter some of his own practices: the use of "teaser texts," for instance. At certain awkward gaps in the exorcism, there was no way to contend head to head with the possessed and with what was possessing them. The possessing spirit literally hid behind the identity of the possessed. It had to be flushed out into the open. Conor had the habit of reading certain texts chosen from the Gospels, until such time as the spirit made mistakes or arrogantly threw aside its disguise.

Conor's advice was always concrete and vivid, and always in Peter's mind echoed with that warm, fresh brogue they both shared like a piece of common turf: "The t'ing is beyond yer mind. It's a sperrit agin vnors. The reel camuflin' starrts inside in yeh. And yeh'r just an ole toe-rag, unless Jesus is wid yeh."

But, above all else, Conor reconciled Peter to the inevitable drain mi the exorcist. He explained in simple terms what wounds he could receive as an exorcist, what wounds he should avoid, and what wounds were incurable once inflicted on him. All these wounds were "internal" to spirit and mind and memory and will. Peter had received some minor ones already. He now realized what he could undergo.

Conor refined Peter's primitive idea of "the Devil" and of "Devils," expressing in simple terms what to most moderns is an enigma if not downright nonsense: how that which has no body can be a person, have a personality. And he dealt curtly with psychoanalysts: "Down the road a bit, they're goin' to find out that the whole thing is entoirely differr'nt; and then they'll put Siggy and company up on the shelves as histhorical lave-overrs, like Galen on bones or Arishtot'l on plants."

But it was not Conor who rid Peter of his lack of confidence. He could never give Peter a reason to trust his own judgment. It was the man who in two years would become Paul VI who made that change in him.

Peter never exchanged one sentence with Giovanni Battista Mon-tini, then Archbishop of Milan. Montini had been relegated from the Vatican to the political wilderness of Milan by Pope Pius XII, had survived it, and now was back in Rome-"still listening to his voices" (as the Roman wags described the ethereal gaze of Montini and the impression he gave of having shutters over his eyes to hide the light within)-and was deeply involved in the council.

tbc

*» Het grote Universum 'project' [Dutch]/[English]

2008-07-05T11:28:00.000-07:00

In de yahoo groep waarin ik zit, werd de vraag over de ''Creator'' gesteld, 7d, over hoe alles is gecreëerd enz.
Een van de members liet een stuk tekst van het boek "Beëlzebubs verhalen aan zijn kleinzoon" zien waarbij er wordt gepraat over hoe alles gemaakt werd. Letterlijk of niet en hoe het helemaal in elkaar zit, gebruik ik dit bericht voor. Om mijn aantekeningen en schetsen te laten zien, voor mezelf en voor anderen. Vergeet niet dat dit schetsen zijn, het betekent niet dat ik het juist heb, ik ben enkel aan het onderzoeken; ik weet niets.

De member zei [klik om te vergroten]:

Ik begreep deze post binnen het ''kennis'' die ik toen bezat. (Niet veel kennis, tenminste niet over Gurdjieff's ideeen over het Universum. (Later kwam ik erachter dat G.: eigenlijk dus het commentaar van de member was, het was niet letterlijk van het boek genomen, het was meer van wat hij ervan begreep, maar dit begreep ik toen niet, ik dacht dat Gurdjieff dat zei) Ik antwoordde:

Nou ik heb tot nu toe wel wat meer info verzameld betreft het stuk van Gurdjieff's stukje uit het boek Beëlzebub.. die dezelfde member na deze reactie postte:

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>> Ik begon met het analyseren van dit stukje om te kijken wat ik er van begreep (toen begreep ik het nog gebaseerd op mijn kennis van toen, maar daarna had ik wat onderzoek gedaan en nu schrijf ik wat ik er nu van begrijp, maar betekent niet dat wat ik er nu van begrijp juist is. Ik ga beginnen om elk stukje te proberen te begrijpen):

.... But even before you can understand this, you should understand why souls exist in the Universe at all, and why souls, as well as the whole of the Universe, were created by Our Almighty Creator. "So listen attentively and try to assimilate these ideas into yourself. "Our Creator was compelled to create the Universe for the following reason: "When nothing else as yet was in the World, in the whole of the Universe, only the Sun-Absolute existed, and there on this Sun-Absolute, Our Almighty God existed with only His Cherubim and Seraphim.

? > Ik weet niet echt goed wat hij bedoelt met Zijn ''Cherubim'' en ''Seraphim'', maar misschien wordt dat nog duidelijk als ik doorga met mijn onderzoek.

Purgatory 2"Our Endlessness, Almighty God, once observed that the Sun-Absolute, itself, on which He existed was, owing to Time, diminishing gradually but perceptibly in volume, and He decided immediately to review all the Laws maintaining the existence of the Sun-Absolute. "In the course of this search, He discovered that the cause of the diminution of the Sun is the Heropass, that is to say, Time, which gradually diminishes the substance of every force. "

Hier kan je lezen dat 'the Sun-Absolute' steeds kleiner werd en dit kwam door Tijd (Heropass).
Ik zei nog een keer:

So if Our Endlessness wanted to create anything, it would mean that the potentialities will decrease. And this would then diminish the volume of the SA itself. So he had to think of something that would maintain the 'existing potential state'.

Iemand anders zei:

I think this is a good way of looking at. I would think that for anything to `happen' in the Sun Absolute (such as a creative act or even a `thought') then there will be a change of potential since for anything to happen there it must happen in some kind of `time'. So if the potential is diminished when the Sun Absolute does anything, thenthe the Sun Absolute must `shrink.' That might be one way of looking at it.

G spoke of the "forced need" for the Sun Absolute to create the existing universe.

Plato in Timaeus spoke of time as the "moving image of eternity." He also spoke of `necessity' in the design of the universe and this might relate to G's "forced need."

#EDIT (wat iemand zei op zijn site) [red emphasis mine]:

[One more comment: according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the entropy in a closed system is increasing, the chaos is increasing with time. That is how I read "Our Endlessness, Almighty God, once observed that the Sun-Absolute, itself, on which He existed was, owing to Time, diminishing gradually but perceptibly in volume..." The "volume" stands here, I think, for "order". But the second law of thermodynamics does not apply to an open system. On the other hand an open system is unpredictable. Which is a danger, but also a hope.]

En op die site van Second Law of Thermodynamics staat [emphasis mine]:

One of the most common criticisms of evolutionary theory is that it supposedly violates the second law of thermodynamics. This law states that in a closed system, disorder grows and less energy is available for work. A good example of this is a battery; it breaks down as it works, and, in fact, breaks down even when it is not working.

Evolution, on the other hand, appears to be doing the exact opposite: life is evolving from the simple to the complex, and everywhere we look we see increasing order, not disorder. The key to the creationist's confusion here is the forgotten phrase in a closed system. A closed system is one that receives no fresh inputs of energy from an outside source. An open system does. For example, consider a lava lamp. When a lava lamp is turned on, incoming energy in the form of electricity heats the base of the lamp. This creates a gas bubble out of the lava, which then rises to the top. This in turn drives the cooler lava down to the bottom, which then turns into another gas bubble. Soon a circular flow is established. There is a high degree of order to this open system. But turn the lava lamp off, and the circular flow stops. Without incoming energy, disorder grows, and all traces of a system disappear.

As for the earth, it is not a closed system. It receives an endless supply of energy from the sun, which fuels the life process and creates growing order. It may certainly be true that the universe as a whole is a closed system, and its stars will burn out billions of years from now, creating the disorder predicted by the second law of thermodynamics. But it is obvious there are variations at many local levels, including our own solar system. This subsystem should remain open for another 5 billion years, when our sun is predicted to die out.

Some creationists try to confuse the subject, with arguments along the lines of: "It doesn't matter if it's open or closed. The sun can shine a million years on a rock, but it isn't going to turn that rock into organic life." But this is a different argument, an argument of chemistry. The original argument was one of thermodynamics, which claims that there is not enough energy to fuel life's processes. We've just shown that there is; problems of chemistry are a different issue which should be addressed in separate arguments.

"As this question was very serious, He became thoughtful, and in these Divine reflections of His, He saw clearly, that, if this Heropass should continue to reduce the volume of the Sun-Absolute in this way, then sooner or later, it would eventually be to its complete destruction. Our Endlessness was then compelled to undertake several appropriate measures, so that this destruction of the Sun-Absolute from the Heropass should be averted.

Hij zag in dat er iets verandert moest worden. Hij moest enkele beslissingen nemen, zodat deze vernietiging van de 'Sun-Absolute' kan worden voorkomen (of juist dat de rollen kan worden omgedraaid).

"After great labours, He completely averted the whole of the threatened danger; and He accomplished this, in the following way: "You must know that up till then the Sun-Absolute had in itself, for its existence, only the force of the 'Autoegokrat'; that is, an independent force depending on nothing external itself. This same force, in its turn, was formed only of two Laws, namely, the Law of 'Triamonia' and the Law of 'Eftologodiksis'. To these two Laws, Our Creator added the third force, called 'Fagolgiria', by means of which the 'Autoegokrat' became the 'Trogoautoegokrat', that is, a force depending on other forces exterior to itself.

Dus de 'Sun-Absolute' had in zichzelf alleen de kracht of force van de 'Autoegokrat':
'an independent force depending on nothing external itself', dus eigenlijk een onafhankelijke kracht. Deze zelfde kracht of force was gevormd uit twee Wetten, namelijk de Wet van 'Triamonia' en de Wet van 'Eftologodiksis'. Bij deze twee Wetten, voegde Onze 'Creator' een derde kracht of force, genaamd 'Fagolgiria' en hierdoor werd 'Autoegokrat': 'Trogautoegokrat' en 'Trogautoegokrat' is a force depending on other forces exterior to itself, dus een afhankelijke kracht. Dus effe een ruige schets:
Triamonia + Eftologoiksis + Fagolgiria = Trog > Trogautoegokrat

Or, as it might be said, after the addition of the Fagologiria, the Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis could function only by feeding on the substances and forces coming from without. "When I shall explain later, pay special attention, and try to understand very clearly these Laws of Triamonia and Eftologidiksis, since a complete understanding these two Laws will enable you to understand completely all other laws, both of the Creation, as well as of the maintenance of the Universe.

! > Deze twee Wetten schijnen zeer belangrijk te zijn. Met behulp van het boek Beelzebub en andere artikelen zal ik hierna proberen een zo goed mogelijk betekenis van deze twee Wetten proberen neer te zetten. Ook lees je hier dat door toevoeging van Fagolgiria, de twee Wetten, Traimonia en Eftologodiksis alleen konden functioneren door zich te 'voeden' op de substanties en krachten die van buiten komen.

"I have already told you that the Sun-Absolute formerly existed only owing to these two independent Laws. "The first of these two laws was just the Triamonia, or as it is also called, the law of 'Threefoldness'. This Law of Threefoldness, in its turn consists of three forces, called 'Surpotheos', 'Surpakiros', and 'Surpathanatos'. But, for convenience, mathematics calls these three forces of the Law of Threefoldness,
the force 'Plus', the force 'Minus', and the force 'Neutralizing'; or 'Pushing', 'Resisting', and 'Equilibrium'. On certain planets, these three forces are also called 'God the Father,' 'God the Son' and 'God the Holy Ghost'. "The second Law maintaining the Sun-Absolute is the law of Eftologodiksis; and this law is a force constantly evolving and involving in itself. The highest physico-chemical knowledge formulates this force as follows: 'The flowing of the line of a force which constantly deflects according to the law, with its ends meeting again.'

! + ? > Dus Wet van Triamonia (of Threefoldness): vb.:

Plus +
Minus -
Neutralizing .

! + ? > Dus Wet van Eftologodiksis (a force constantly evolving and involving in itself):

'The flowing of the line of a force which constantly deflects according to the law, with its ends meeting again.'

Purgatory 3"When our Endlessness decided to make the existence of the Sun-Absolute Trogoautoegocratic, since forces, or substances, coming from outside were necessary for such an existence, He decided first of all to create the sources
whence these forces and substances could come.

Allereerst besloot Hij om de bronnen te maken waaruit deze substanties en krachten komen voor de 'Sun-Absolute' nu die Trogautoegocratisch is.

"He created them in the following way: He directed the action of the Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis, which had been in the Sun-Absolute itself, from within the Sun-Absolute to without, and from this resulted what is now called, 'The Word God' or 'Emanation.' From that moment, the Sun-Absolute began to emanate from itself the action of the forces of the Triamonia and the Eftologodiksis, and this same
emanation began to spread everywhere in the Universe.

Zo maakte hij de bronnen:
Hij 'verwees' de 'acties' van de Wet van Triamonia en Eftologodiksis van binnenin de Sun-Absolute, naar buiten. En hieruit resulteerde, wat we nu noemen: 'Het Woord God' of 'Emanatie'. Vanaf dat moment, begon de Sun-Absolute vanuit zichzelf de acties van de krachten van Triamonia en de Eftologodiksis eruit te laten 'vloeien' en deze zelfde emanatie begon zich overal te spreiden in het Universum.

"It is necessary to tell you, that when Our Creator directed the forces of the Sun-Absolute from within out, the emanations obtained from this had not at first, for a reason which I shall afterwards explain, the possibility of containing all three forces of the Triamonia in a vivifying state. Only two of these were vivifying, namely, the
Positive Force and the Negative Force.

? > "The emanations obtained from this had not at first [...] the possibility of containing all three forces [...]" Dus eerst hadden de emanaties niet de mogelijkheid om alle drie de krachten te kunnen bevatten. Alleen twee waren ''levend'', namelijk de Positieve Kracht en de Negatieve Kracht.

Our Almighty Endlessness was therefore obliged to vivify the third force, the Neutralising Force, during the First Creation by the force of His Own Will. And having concentrated this, His force of Will, He created from the emanations issuing from the Sun-Absolute certain fixed points. And later, at these fixed points, again by the force of His Will, and with the help of the Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis, which were already formed in these fixed points, Our Endlessness began to create gradually the 'corresponding', as the result of which the Suns were formed which exist at the present time.

! > Dus was onze Almachtige Eindeloosheid verplicht om de derde kracht te verlevendigen (de Neutraliserende Kracht), tijdens de Eerste Creatie door de kracht van Zijn Eigen Wil. Door te concentreren, creëerde hij van de emanaties die uit de Sun-Absolute kwamen bepaalde 'geconcentreerde' punten. En later op deze 'geconcentreerde' punten, weer door de kracht van Zijn Wil and met behulp van de Wet van Triamonia en Eftologodiksis (die al gevormd waren in deze punten), begon onze Eindeloosheid de 'corresponding' te creëren, en als resultaat werden de Zonnen gevormd.

After the creation of all that was necessary on these suns, the latter began to emanate also. They became as the Sun-Absolute, but as Absolute of the 'Second Grade.'

Nadat de creatie van alles, dat noodzakelijk was op deze zonnen, begon ook het laatste te 'manifesteren'. Ze (de zonnen) werden net als de Sun-Absolute, maar dan Absolute van de 'Tweede Graad'.

"The emanations of the Absolutes of the second grade having been established, everything thereafter was created without the Will of Our Creator taking part in it. Further creations began to be formed automatically owing only to the Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis and chiefly because these laws were now 'fagolished,' that is, could everywhere function only owing to the forces coming from without.

Nu de emanaties van de Absoluten van de tweede graad 'gedaan' is, werd alles erna gecreëerd zonder 'gebruikmaking' van de Wil van Onze Creator. Verdere creaties begonnen automatisch gevormd te worden alleen 'door' de Wetten van Triamonia en Eftologodiksis en vooral doordat deze wetten nu 'fagolished' zijn, m.a.w., ze kunnen overal functioneren alleen 'door' de krachten komend van buiten.

From that time forward, the Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis began to make their cycles in all their octaves, both inside the suns and outside. "The automatic creation of the suns proceeded further in the following way: the emanations of the newly-created suns became to each other as positive and negative, and the emanations of the Sun-Absolute itself became neutralising for these emanations of the newly created suns.

? > Vanaf toen, begonnen de Wetten van Triamonia en Eftologodiksis hun cyclussen in al hun octaven, zowel binnen de zonnen als buiten. De automatische creatie van de zonnen verliep verder zo: de emanaties van de nieuw-gecreëerde zonnen werden voor elkaar als positief en negatief, en de emanaties van de Sun-Absolute zelf werden neutraliserend voor deze emanaties van de nieuw-gecreëerde zonnen.

Owing to this established Law of Triamonia, and like-wise to the Law of Eftologodiksis, which already began to make its outer chief cycle, there began to concentrate around each newly created sun, further new fixed points, in which and upon which again, owing to the same laws, 'The corresponding' gradually began to be created. As a result, suns again were formed, but suns of the third grade. "Further, upon these suns of the third grade, on the basis of the chief cycle of the Law of Eftologodiksis, and on the basis of the greatest deflection contained in this law, the smallest likenesses of the Megalocosmos began to be formed; and, still further, owing to a law, also cosmic, called the 'Accumulation of Similarities,' forms of these smallest similarities of the Megalocosmos were grouped together.

Rond elke nieuwe gecreëerde zon begonnen zich verder nieuwe punten te concentreren, in welke en op welke, weer, 'door' dezelfde wetten, 'de corresponding' gecreëerd begon te worden. Als resultaat, werden er weer zonnen gevormd, maar zonnen van de derde graad. Verder,

op deze zonnen van de derde graad,
op de basis van de 'opperste' cyclus van de Wet van Eftologodiksis
en op de basis van de grootste 'buiging' gevestigd in deze Wet,

begon de kleinste 'likenesses van de Megalocosmos' te vormen; en, steeds verder, 'door' een wet, ook kosmisch, genoemd de 'Opeenhoping van Similarities', vormt deze kleine 'similarities van de Megalocosmos' werden 'gevoegd' (groep) bij elkaar.
Zonnen van de derde graad > likenesses van de Megalocosmos > opeenhoping van Similarities

Having thus accomplished its chief outer cycle, Purgatory 4 the Law of Eftologodiksis
thenceforward entered quite within the cosmoses created on different scales, and began to make its evolutions and involutions in them.

Na het voltooien van zijn 'opperste' buitenste cyclus, trad de Wet van Eftologodiksus, van die tijd af binnen (thenceforward), in de kosmoses gecreëerd op verschillende schalen, en begon zijn evoluties en involuties in hen te maken.

"The part subsequently played by these cosmoses of differing scales, consisted, how shall I tell you, in their becoming something like machines in the Universe, in which
machines, owing to these two fagolised laws, that is Triamonia and Eftologodiksis, the cosmoses began to convert, or as it is said, to transform all the substance-matters of the Universe of all densities and all rates of vibration; that is to say, those machine-cosmoses began to convert substance-matters from one degree to another degree in the chief octave of the cosmic substances.

! > Deze kosmoses van verschillende schalen werden zoiets als machines in de Universum. 'Door' deze twee fagoliseerde wetten, dus Triamonia en Eftologodiksis, begonnen de cosmoses al de substantie-materie van de Universe om te zetten of te transformeren; dus begonnen de machine-cosmoses de substantie-materie om te zetten van een mate/graad naar een andere in de 'opperste' octaaf van de kosmische substanties.

"Thus, owing to these machine-cosmoses, all substances began to evolve and involve and from this arose the exchange of substances owing to which a reciprocal feeding resulted in all the cosmoses. In this reciprocal feeding, the Sun-Absolute also took part. In this manner Trogoautoegokrat was established in the Universe and all the cosmoses began to maintain the existence of each other by this reciprocal feeding. "Each cosmos itself began, either to serve as food, or to prepare matters through itself for other cosmoses. And by this Trogoautoegokrat that constant equilibrium was established which now deprives the Heropass of the possibility of doing
anything unexpected to our Sun-Absolute.

Dus, 'door' deze machine-kosmoses, begonnen alle substanties te evolueren en te involueren en hieruit voortkwam de uitwisseling van substanties 'dankzij' een resulterende wederkerige voeding in alle kosmoses. In deze wederkerige voeding, nam de Sun-Absolute ook deel. Op deze manier was Trogautoegokrat gevestigd in de Universum en al de kosmoses begonnen het onstaan van elkaar in stand te houden door deze wederkerige voeding. Elke kosmos begon, of te dienen als voedsel, of materie voor te bereiden door/uit zichzelf voor andere kosmoses. En door deze Trogautoegokrat was constante evenwicht/equilibrium gevestigd, die nu de mogelijkheid ontnam van de Heropass om iets onverwachts te veroorzaken aan onze Sun-Absolute.

"Names were then given to these cosmoses, and these names exist even to the present day. "Thus our whole Universe had been called 'Megalocosmos' since then: and this Megalocosmos consists of seven cosmoses, these seven cosmoses are called as follows: ?1) The Sun-Absolute itself: 'Protocosmos'. ?2) All the newly created suns together: 'Mecrocosmos'. ?3) Each newly-created sun individually: 'Defterocosmos'. ?4) The third grade suns called: 'Messacosmos'. ?5) Those smallest similarities of the Megalocosmos, which were formed on the Messacosmoses were called 'Microcosmoses' ?6) Those forms accumulating from these Microcosmoses were
called: 'Tritacosmoses'.

Namen werden gegeven aan deze kosmoses, en deze namen ontstaan zelfs tot nu. Dus onze hele Universum werd genoemd 'Megalocosmos' op dat moment: en deze Megalocosmos bestaat uit zzeven kosmoses, deze zeven kosmoses worden genoemd:

1. De Sun-Absolute zelf: 'Protocosmos'

2. Al de nieuwe gecreëerde zonnen samen: 'Mecrocosmos'

3. Elk nieuw-gecreëerde zon individueel: 'Defterocosmos'

4. De derde graad zonnen genoemd: 'Messacosmos' > Planeten

5. Die kleinste 'similarities van de Megalocosmos' die gevormd werden op de Messacosmoses werden genoemd 'Microcosmoses'

6. Die vormingen 'komend uit' deze Microcosmoses werden genoemd: 'Tritacosmoses' > Wezens die de planeten bewonen

"By the way, you must know that the Messacosmoses are just those points of the Universe, which we now call planets, and Tritacosmoses are just those forms, now called beings, which inhabit the planets. "Names were given then also to the emanations and radiations of the suns of all three grades. The Emanations of the Sun-Absolute were called, 'Ayalogos'; the emanation of the newly-created suns, 'Okidonos'; and the radiations of the planets were called 'Dinamodonis'.

Er werden ook namen gegeven voor de emanaties en radiaties van de zonnen van alle drie de graden.

Emanaties van de Sun-Absolute > Ayalogos
Emanatie van de nieuw-gecreëerde zonnen > Okidonos
Radiaties van de planeten > Dinamodonis

Purgatory 5"When all had become regulated in these cosmoses and their harmonious mechanical reciprocal maintenance, through reciprocal feeding had been finally established, then, my dear Hassein, in one of these cosmoses, namely, in the Tritacosmos, owing to the fact that this Tritacosmos had received its form on the surface of the Messacosmos, that it, of the planets, and owing to the fact that this surface by chance afforded suitable possibilities and conditions, and, of course, also, owing to the fact that this cosmos was a part of the fulfilment of the Trogoautoegocrat, that is, could exist owing to the support of other cosmoses, and in turn served to produce substances for support of other cosmoses, - owing to all these reasons, on certain planets, among these Tritacosmoses, the possibility of mechanical
movement on the surface of those planets was obtained.

Wanneer alles werd 'gereguleerd' in deze kosmoses en hun harmonieuze mechanische wederkerende 'onderhoud', die door wederkerend voeding, eindelijk werd gevestigd, toen, in een van deze kosmoses, namelijk in de Tritakosmos, '

dankzij' het feit dat deze Tritacosmos zijn vorm had ontvangen op de vlakte van de Messakosmos (planeten),
en 'dankzij' het feit dat deze vlakte door kans geschikte mogelijkheden en condities opleverden, en, natuurlijk, ook 'dankzij' het feit dat deze kosmos een deel was van de voltooiing van de Trogautoegocrat, m.a.w., kon ontstaan 'dankzij' de steun van andere kosmoses, en omgekeerd diende om substanties te produceren voor de steun van andere kosmoses, -

dankzij al deze redenen, op sommige planeten, rond deze Tritakosmoses, was de mogelijkheid van mechanische beweging op de vlakte van die planeten verkregen.

"This mechanical movement was specially helped by the fact that the need of food of this, as well as of all other cosmoses, was not continuous but periodic. "When our Endlessness observed this unforeseen phenomenon, the idea first arose in Him for the governance of the enlarged Universe, to create for Himself from these Tritacosomoses, a certain help......

Deze mechanische beweging was vooral geholpen door het feit dat de noodzaak van voedsel van deze, en ook van alle andere kosmoses, niet continu was maar periodiek. Wanneer onze Eindeloosheid deze onvoorziene fenomeen observeerde, kwam eerst het idee in Hem op om voor de regeling van de vergrote Universum, om voor Hemzelf van deze Tritakosmoses, enige hulp te creëren...

Ik had een vraagje over deze 'periodieke noodzaak van voeding' i.p.v. de continu voeding.

" I still don't quite get what is meant with: that the need of food was 'periodic' and not 'continuous'. Maybe further reading could help me out. Or maybe you guys came up with new thoughts and/or ideas!"

Waarbij iemand antwoordde:

"I could be wrong but it sounds to me like it means any creature that's able to move about doesn't have to feed themselves 24/7. They feed when they're hungry etc., as opposed to static things like trees which could be thought of as continually feeding off the soil and sunlight. creatures that don't have to constantly feed would probably be of more potential help because they could do other things."

Waarop ik antwoordde:

"Hmm yes, that could be a good explanation. Maybe we also have an "existing (potential) state" which 'needs' to be sustained by "influences from outside". And this happens periodically, because, as you said, we don't have to be fed 24/7. Only when we're hungry." And I think this excerpt of ISOTM kind of relates to this.. :

p.84-85
{...} = italics

G:
["But by studying himself, the manifestations of his thought, consciousness, activity—his habits, his desires, and so on—man may learn to observe and to see in himself the action of the three forces. Let us suppose, for instance, that a man wants to work on himself in order to change certain of his characteristics, to attain a higher level of being. His desire, his initiative, is the active force. The inertia of all his habitual psychological life which shows opposition to his initiative will be the passive or the negative force. The two forces will either counterbalance one another, or one will completely conquer the other, but, at the same time, it will become too weak for any further action. Thus the two forces will, as it were, revolve one around the other, one absorbing the other and producing no result whatever. This may continue for a lifetime. A man may feel desire and initiative. But all this initiative may be absorbed in overcoming the habitual inertia of life, leaving nothing for the purpose towards which the initiative ought to be directed. And so it may go on until the third force makes its appearance, in the form, for instance, of {new knowledge}, showing at once the advantage or the necessity of work on oneself and, in this way, supporting and strengthening the initiative. Then the initiative, with the support of this third force, may conquer inertia and the man becomes active in the desired direction.]

Vertaald (p.91):

"Maar door zichzelf te bestuderen, de uitingen van zijn denken, bewustzijn, werkzaamheid, gewoonten, verlangens, enzovoorts, kan de mens in zichzelf de werking van de drie krachten leren waarnemen en zien. Laten wij ons bijvoorbeeld eens voorstellen dat iemand aan zichzelf wil werken om bepaalde eigenschappen te veranderen, een hoger zijns-niveau te bereiken. Zijn verlangen, zijn initiatief is de actieve kracht. De inertie van zijn gewone psychische leven die zich tegen zijn initiatief verzet, vormt de passieve of negatieve kracht. De twee krachten zullen of elkaar in evenwicht houden, of de een zal de ander geheel overwinnen maar dan te zwak worden voor enige verdere actie. Zo ziullen de twee krachten als het ware om elkaar heen blijven draaien waarbij de een de ander absorbeert zonder een enkel resultaat op te leveren. Dit kan een geheel leven zo voortduren. Iemand kan een verlangen voelen tot het nemen van initiatief. Maar alle kracht van dit inititaief kan worden verbruikt aan de inspanning voor het overwinnen van de gewone traagheid van het leven zodat er niets overblijkft voor het doel waarop het initiatief gericht zou moeten zijn. En dit kan zo doorgaan totday de derde kracht optreedt, bijvoorbeeld in de vorm van een nieuw weten dat onmiddellijk het voordeel of de noodzaak van werken aan zichzelf in het licht stelt en op deze wijze het initiatief steunt en versterkt. Dan kan het initiatief met de steun van deze derde kracht de inertie overwinnen en de mens wordt ctief in de gewenste richting.

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Alle vragen oid op een rijtje:

Wat hij bedoelt met Zijn ''Cherubim'' en ''Seraphim''
Meer info over de twee wetten Triamonia en Eftologodiksis
Waarom er eerst de derde kracht niet 'levend' was (Neutraliserende)
Wat er precies bedoeld werd dat de Eerste Creatie door Zijn Wil gecreëerd kon worden
Meer info over de kosmoses van verschillende schalen
Voor de zekerheid: waarom periodiek wel en niet continu

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>> Nu neem ik info uit het boek "Op zoek naar het wonderbaarlijke"/"In search of the Miraculous". Dit vakje kan met de tijd worden vergroot omdat ik het boek nog niet helemaal uit heb.

Ik kopieer eerst het stukje die ik zelf heb geschreven en dan ga ik er verder op in (**...** is mijn commentaar) [...] is tekst uit het boek OZNHW/ISOTM:

["Before examining these influences," began G., "and the laws of transformation of Unity into Plurality, we must examine the fundamental law that creates all phenomena in all the diversity or unity of all universes.]

**He said: "The Laws of transformation of Unity into Plurality" (which reminds me of the creation of the whole of the Universe)**

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["This is the 'Law of Three' or the law of the three principles or the three forces. It consists of the fact that every phenomenon, on whatever scale and in whatever world it may take place, from molecular to cosmic phenomena, is the result of the combination or the meeting of three different and opposing forces.]

**Okay so: Every phenomenon is the RESULT of the COMBINATION or the
MEETING of three different and opposing forces. Reading 'Law of Three' reminded me of the law of Triamonia (the law of Threefoldness).
This is what I thought of, looking at the excerpt from Beelzebubs tales:**

""It is necessary to tell you, that when Our Creator directed the forces of the Sun-Absolute from within out, the emanations obtained from this had not at first, for a reason which I shall afterwards explain, the possibility of containing all three forces of the Triamonia in a vivifying state. Only two of these were vivifying, namely, the Positive Force and the Negative Force."

**Note: ONLY TWO were vivifying, the positive and the negative. (Why this was the case, I wonder too)**

"Our Almighty Endlessness was therefore obliged to vivify the third force, the Neutralising Force, during the First Creation by the force of His Own Will."

**Note: OBLIGED and FIRST CREATION.
So this 'first creation' is a phenomenon which is the result of the COMBINATION or the meeting of the three different and opposing forces. So maybe that's why he was obliged to add the third force. Because only a combination of the three forces can cause a phenomenon.**

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Now I go on with what was said in Part IV of ISOTM:

[Contemporary thought realizes the existence of two forces and the necessity of these two forces for the production of a phenomenon: force and resistance, positive and negative magnetism, positive and negative electricity, male and female cells, and so on. But it does not observe even these two forces always and everywhere. No question has ever been raised as to the third, or if it has been raised it has scarcely been heard.
"According to real, exact knowledge, one force, or two forces, can never produce a phenomenon. The presence of a third force is necessary, for it is only with the help of a third force that the first two can produce what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere.]

**Here again G. explains that only THREE forces can produce a phenomenon.**

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[ [...] "Returning to the world in which we live we may now say that in the Absolute, as well as in everything else, three forces are active: the active, the passive, and the neutralizing. But since by its very nature everything in the Absolute constitutes one whole the three forces also constitute one whole. Moreover in forming one independent whole the three forces possess a full and independent will, full consciousness, full understanding of themselves and of everything they do. [...] "The three forces of the Absolute, constituting one whole, separate and unite by their own will and by their own decision, and at the points of junction they create phenomena, or 'worlds.' These worlds, created by the will of the Absolute, depend entirely upon this will in everything that concerns their own existence. In each of these worlds the three forces again act. Since, however, each of these worlds is now not the whole, but
only a part, then the three forces in them do not form a single whole. It is now a case of three wills, three consciousnesses, three unities. Each of the three forces contains within it the possibility of all three forces, but at the meeting point of the three forces each of them manifests only one principle—the active, the passive, or the neutralizing. The three forces together form a trinity which produces new phenomena. But this trinity is different, it is not that which was in the Absolute, where the three forces formed an indivisible whole and possessed one single will and one single consciousness. In the worlds of the second order the three forces are now divided and their meeting points are now of a different nature. In the Absolute the
moment and the point of their meeting is determined by their single will. In the worlds of the second order, where there is no longer a single will but three wills, the points of issue are each determined by a separate will, independent of the others, and therefore the meeting point becomes accidental or mechanical. The will of the Absolute creates the worlds of the second order and governs them, but it does not govern their creative work, in which a mechanical element makes its appearance.]

**Ok, so this is really awesome.
G. says that "The will of the Absolute creates the worlds of the second order and governs them, but it does NOT govern their creative work, in which a mechanical element makes its appearance."

and in Beelzebub we can read:

"After the creation of all that was necessary on these suns, the latter began to emanate also. They became as the Sun-Absolute, but as Absolute of the 'Second Grade.' "The emanations of the Absolutes of the second grade having been established, everything thereafter was created without the Will of Our Creator taking part in it."

And now we can understand this (the latter) better, because now we can understand that the 'Absolute of the 'Second Grade'' has THREE WILLS instead of just one single will (and/or consciousness).

En ook dat alles erna automatisch werd gecreeerd omdat er nu drie willen zijn en dus deze drie willen kunnen niet hetzelfde willen, en als deze drie willen plotseling bij elkaar komen, is dit dus toeval. Een ''ongelukje''.

Maybe this part:

""The automatic creation of the suns proceeded further in the following way: the emanations of the newly-created suns became to each other as positive and negative, and the emanations of the Sun-Absolute itself became neutralising for these emanations of the newly created suns."

corresponds to the Three Wills.**

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["Let us imagine the Absolute as a circle and in it a number of other circles, worlds of the second order. Let us take one of these circles. The Absolute is designated by the number 1, because the three forces constitute one whole in the Absolute, and the small circles we will designate by the number 3, because in a world of the second order the three forces are already divided.

"The three divided forces in the worlds of the second order, meeting together in each of these worlds, create new worlds of the third order. Let us take one of these worlds. The worlds of the third order, created by the three forces which act semimechanically, no longer depend upon the single will of the Absolute but upon three mechanical laws. These worlds are created by the three forces. And having been created they manifest three new forces of their own. Thus the number
of forces acting in the worlds of the third order will be six. In the diagram the circle of the third order is designated by the number 6 (3 plus 3). In these worlds are created worlds of a new order, the fourth order. In the worlds of the fourth order there act three forces of the world of the second order, six forces of the world of the third order, and three of their own, twelve forces altogether. Let us take one of these worlds and designate it by the number 12 (3 plus 6 plus 3). Being subject to a greater number of laws these worlds stand still further away from the single will of the Absolute and are still more mechanical. The worlds created within these worlds will be governed by twenty-four forces (3 plus 6 plus 12 plus 3). The worlds created within these worlds will be governed by forty-eight forces, the number 48 being made up as follows: three forces of the world immediately following the Absolute, six of the next one, twelve of the next,twenty-four of the one after, and three of its own (3 plus 6 plus 12 plus 24 plus 3), forty-eight in all. Worlds created within worlds 48
will be governed by ninety-six forces (3 plus 6 plus 12 plus 24 plus 48 plus 3). The worlds of the next order, if there are any, will be governed by 192 forces, and so on.

"If we take one of the many worlds created in the Absolute, that is, world 3, it will be the world representing the total number of starry worlds similar to our Milky Way. If we take world 6, it will be one of the worlds created within this world, namely the accumulation of stars which we call the Milky Way. World 12 will be one of the suns that compose the Milky Way, our sun. World 24 will be the planetary world, that is to say, all the planets of the solar system. World 48 will be the earth. World 96 will be the moon. If the moon had a satellite it would be world 192, and so on.

"The chain of worlds, the links of which are the Absolute, all worlds, all suns, our sun, the planets, the earth, and the moon, forms the 'ray of creation' in which we find ourselves. The ray of creation is for us the 'world' in the widest sense of the term. Of course, the ray of creation does not include the 'world' in the full sense of the term, since the Absolute gives birth to a number, perhaps to an infinite number, of different worlds, each of which begins a new and separate ray of creation. Furthermore, each of these worlds contains a number of worlds representing a further breaking up of the ray and again of these worlds we select only one—our Milky Way; the Milky Way consists of a number of suns, but of this number we select one sun which is nearest to us, upon which we immediately depend, and in which we live and move and have our being. Each of the other suns means a new breaking up of the ray, but we cannot study these rays in the same way as our ray, that is, the ray in which we are situated. Further, within the solar system the planetary world is nearer to us than the sun itself, and within the planetary world the nearest of all to us is the earth, the planet on which we live. We have no need to study other planets in the same way as we study the earth, it is sufficient for us to take them all together, that is to say, on a considerably smaller scale than we take the earth.

"The number of forces in each world, 1, 3, 6, 12, and so on, indicates the number of laws to which the given world is subject. "The fewer laws there are in a given world, the nearer it is to the will of the Absolute; the more laws there are in a given world, the greater the mechanicalness, the further it is from the will of the Absolute. We live in a world subject to forty-eight orders of laws, that is to say, very far from the will of the Absolute and in a very remote and dark comer of the universe.]

What we can learn from this piece is that the fewer laws there are, the nearer it is to the will of the Absolute. Since our world is subject to 48 orders of laws it kinda means that our 'mechanicalness' is quite high.

Beelzebub:

"owing to all these reasons,on certain planets, among these Tritacosmoses, the possibility of mechanical movement on the surface of those planets was obtained. "This mechanical movement was specially helped by the fact that the need of food of this, as well as of all other cosmoses, was not continuous but periodic. "When our Endlessness observed this unforeseen phenomenon, the idea first arose in Him for the governance of the enlarged Universe, to create for Himself from these Tritacosomoses, a certain help......"

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"The process of the growth and the warming of the moon is connected with life and death on the earth. Everything living sets free at its death a certain amount of the energy that has 'animated' it; this energy, or the 'souls' of everything living—plants, animals, people—is attracted to the moon as though by a huge electromagnet, and brings to it the warmth and the life upon which its growth depends, that is, the growth of the ray of creation. In the economy of the universe nothing is lost, and a certain energy having finished its work on one plane goes to another. [p.98]

Dus:

De energie die vrijgemaakt wordt, door laten we even zeggen de micro- en tritacosmoses, wordt aangetrokken door de maan. En dit betekent dus dat er sprake is van een soort 'voeding'. Voeding van andere substanties.
"In de huishouding van het heelal gaat niets verloren en als een bepaalde energie haar werk op het ene plan verricht heeft, gaat zij over naar een ander plan."

"The souls that go to the moon, possessing perhaps even a certain amount of consciousness and memory, find themselves there under ninety-six laws, in the conditions of mineral life, or to put it differently, in conditions from which there is no escape apart from a general evolution in immeasurably long planetary cycles. The moon is 'at the extremity,' at the end of the world; it is the 'outer darkness' of the Christian doctrine 'where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

"The influence of the moon upon everything living manifests itself in all that happens on the earth. The moon is the chief, or rather, the nearest, the immediate, motive force of all that takes place in organic life on the earth. All movements, actions, and manifestations of people, animals, and plants depend upon the moon and are controlled by the moon. The sensitive film of organic life which covers the earthly globe is entirely dependent upon the influence of the huge electromagnet that is sucking out its vitality. Man, like every other living being, cannot, in the ordinary conditions of life, tear himself free from the moon. All his movements and consequently all his actions are controlled by the moon. If he kills another man, the moon does it; if he sacrifices himself for others, the moon does that also. All evil deeds, all crimes, all self-sacrificing actions, all heroic exploits, as well as all the actions of ordinary everyday life, are controlled by the moon. [p.98]

"Alle bewegingen, alle handelingen en alle uitingen van mensen, dieren en planten zijn afhankelijk van de maan en worden door haar beheerst."

"The liberation which comes with the growth of mental powers and faculties is liberation from the moon. The mechanical part of our life depends upon the moon, is subject to the moon. If we develop in our selves consciousness and will, and subject our mechanical life and all our mechanical manifestations to them, we shall escape from the power of the moon. [p.99]

"Als wij in onszelf bewustzijn en wil ontwikkelen en daaraan ons mechanische leven en al onze mechanische uitingen onderwerpen, zullen wij aan de macht van de maan ontkomen."

>><<Nu gaat het over materialiteit>><<

"The next idea which it is necessary to master is the materiality of the universe which is taken in the form of the ray of creation. Everything in this universe can be weighed and measured. The Absolute is as material, as weighable and measurable, as the moon, or as man. If the Absolute is Cod it means that God can be weighed and measured, resolved into component elements, 'calculated,' and expressed in the form of a definite formula. [p.99]

"Alles in dit heelal kan worden gewogen en gemeten."

"But the concept 'materiality' is as relative as everything else. It we recall how the concept 'man' and all that refers to him—good, evil, truth, falsehood, and so on—is divided into different categories ('man number one,' 'man number two,' and so on, it will be easy for us to understand that the concept 'world,' and everything that refers to the world, is also divided into different categories. The ray of creation establishes seven planes in the world, seven worlds one within another. Everything that refers to the world is also divided into seven categories, one category within another. The materiality of the Absolute is a materiality of an order different from that of 'all worlds.' The materiality of 'all worlds' is of an order different from the materiality of 'all suns.' The materiality of 'all suns' is of an order different from the materiality of our sun. The materiality of our sun is of an order different from the materiality of 'all planets.' The materiality of 'all planets' is of an order different from the materiality of the earth, and the materiality of the earth is of an order different from the materiality of the moon. This idea is at first difficult to grasp. People are accustomed to think that matter is everywhere the same. The whole of physics, of astrophysics, of chemistry, such methods as spectroanalysis, and so on, are based upon this assumption. And it is true that matter is the same, but materiality is different. And different degrees of materiality depend directly upon the qualities and properties of the energy manifested at a given point.
"Matter or substance necessarily presupposes the existence of force or energy. This does not mean that a dualistic conception of the world is necessary. The concepts of matter and force are as relative as everything else. In the Absolute, where all is one, matter and force are also one. But in this connection matter and force are not taken as real principles of the world in itself, but as properties or characteristics of the phenomenal world observed by us. To begin the study of the universe it is sufficient to have an elementary idea of matter and energy, such as we get by immediate observation through our organs of sense. The 'constant' is taken as material, as matter, and 'changes' in the state of the 'constant,' or of matter, are called manifestations of force or energy. All these changes can be regarded as the result of vibrations or undulatory motions which begin in the center, that is, in the Absolute, and go in all directions, crossing one another, colliding, and merging together, until they stop altogether at the end of the ray of creation. [p.99 - 100]

"...Dat het begrip 'wereld' en alles wat op de wereld betrekking heeft eveneens in verschillende categorieën is onderverdeeld. De scheppingsstraal schept zeven niveaus in de wereld, zeven in elkaar besloten werelden."
"De materialiteit van Het Absolute is van een andere orde dan de materialiteit van 'alle werelden'."
"De materialiteit van 'alle werelden' is van een andere orde dan die van 'alle zonnen'.
"De materialiteit van 'alle zonnen' is van een andere orde dan die van onze zon."
"De materialiteit van onze zon is van een andere orde dan die van 'alle planeten'."
"De materialiteit van 'alle planeten'' is van een andere orde dan die van de aarde."
"De materialiteit van de aarde is van een andere orde dan die van de maan."

Het Absolute > Alle werelden > Alle zonnen > Onze zon > Alle planeten > De aarde > De maan

"Materie is altijd hetzelfde, maar materialiteit is verschillend."
"En de verschillende graden van materialiteit zijn rechtstreeks afhankelijk van de hoedanigheid en de eigenschappen van de energie die zich in een gegeven punt openbaart."
"Materie of substantie veronderstelt noodzakelijkerwijs het bestaan van kracht of energie. Dit impliceert echter niet de noodzakelijkheid van een dualistische wereldopvatting. De begrippen materie en kracht zijn even betrekkelijk als al het andere. In het Absolute, waarin alles één is, zijn materie en kracht ook één. Maar wij beschouwen materie en kracht in dit verband niet als werkelijke beginselen van de wereld als zodanig maar als eigenschappen of kenmerken van de door ons waargenomen wereld der verschijnselen. Om met de studie van het heelal te beginnen, is het voldeonde een elementair begrip van materie en energie te hebben zoals wij dit verkrijgen door de onmiddelilijke waarneming met behulp van onze zintuigen. Het 'constante' beschouwen wij als materieel, als materie, en 'veranderingen' in de toestand van het 'constante', of van de materie, worden uitingen van kracht of energie genoemd. Al deze veranderingen kunnen worden beschouwd als het resultaat van trillingen of golfbewegingen die uitgaan van het middelpunt, dat wil zeggen van het Absolute, en die zich in alle richtingen verspreiden, elkaar kruisen, botsen en samenvloeien, todat zij aan het einde van de scheppingsstraal geheel tot stilstand komen."

> Het 'constante' = materieel, materie
> 'Veranderingen' in de toestand van het 'constante' (of van de materie) = uitingen van kracht of energie

Trillingen of golfbewegingen die uitgaan van het middelpunt (het Absolute) > verspreiden zich in alle richtingen > kruisen elkaar, botsen en samenvloeien >
totdat zij aan het einde van scheppingsstraal geheel tot stilstand komt > resultaat kan : ('veranderingen' in de toestand van het 'constante' of van de materie)

"From this point of view, then, the world consists of vibrations and matter, or of matter in a state of vibration, of vibrating matter. The rate of vibration is in inverse ratio to the density of matter.
"In the Absolute vibrations are the most rapid and matter is the least dense. In the next world vibrations are slower and matter denser; and further on matter is still more dense and vibrations correspondingly slower. [p.100]

"Uit dit gezichtspunt beschouwd bestaat de wereld dus uit

trillingen
materie

materie in een toestand van trilling, trillende materie.''

''De snelheid is omgekeerd evenredig aan de dichtheid der materie.''
"In het Absolute zijn de trillingen het snelst en is de materie het minst dicht. In de volgende wereld zijn de trillingen langzamer en is de materie dichter; en nog verder is de materie nog dichter en zijn de trillingen evenredig langzamer."

" 'Matter' may be regarded as consisting of 'atoms.' Atoms in this connection are taken also as the result of the final division of matter. In every order of matter they are simply certain small particles of the given matter which are indivisible only on the given plane. The atoms of the Absolute alone are really indivisible, the atom of the next plane, that is, of world 3, consists of three atoms of the Absolute or, in other words, it is three times bigger and three times heavier, and its movements are correspondingly slower. The atom of world 6 consists of six atoms of the Absolute merged together, as it were, and forming one atom. Its movements are correspondingly slower. The atom of the next world consists of twelve primordial particles, and of the next worlds, of twenty-four, forty-eight, and ninety-six. The atom of world 96 is of an enormous size compared with the atom of world 1; its movements are correspondingly slower, and the matter which is made up of such atoms is correspondingly denser. [p.100]

'' 'Materie' kan worden beschouwd te bestaan uit 'atomen'. Atomen worden in dit verband opgevat als het resultaat van een tot het einde toe doorgevoerde deling van de materie. In iedere orde van materie zijn het eenvoudig uiterst kleine deeltjes van de gegeven materie die alleen op het gegeven plan ondeelbaar zijn. Alleen de atomen van Absolute zijn werkelijk ondeelbaar. Het atoom van het volgende plan, dat wil zeggen, wereld 3, bestaat uit drie atomen van het Absolute; met andere woorden, het is drie keer zo groot en zo zwaar en zijn bewegingen zijn dienovereenkomstig langzamer. Het atoom van wereld 6 bestaat uit zes atomen van het Absolute die als het ware zijn samengesmolten en één atoom vormen. Zijn bewegingen zijn naar evenredigheid trager. Het atoom van de volgende wereld bestaat uit twaalf oorspronkelijke deeltjes en die van de daaropvolgende werelden uit vierentwintig, achtenveertig en zesennegentig deeltjes. Het atoom van wereld 96 is van enorme afmetingen vergeleken met het atoom van wereld 1; zijn bewegingen zijn dienovereenkomstig langzamer en de stof die uit dergelijke atomen is opgebouwd is naar evenredigheid dichter (zie fig)."

"The seven worlds of the ray of creation represent seven orders of materiality. The materiality of the moon is different from the materiality of the earth; the materiality of the earth is different from the materiality of the planetary world; the materiality of the planetary world is different from the materiality of the sun, and so on. [p.101]

"De zeven werelden van de scheppingsstraal stellen zeven orden van materialiteit voor. De materialieit van de maan is verschillend van de materialiteit van de planetaire wereld; de materialiteit van de planetaire wereld is verschillend van die van de zon, enz."

"Thus instead of one concept of matter we have seven kinds of matter, but our ordinary conception of materiality only with difficulty embraces the materiality of worlds 96 and 48. The matter of world 24 is much too rarefied to be regarded as matter from the scientific point of view of our physics and chemistry; such matter is practically hypothetical. The still finer matter of world 12 has, for ordinary investigation, no characteristics of materiality at all. All these matters belonging to the various orders of the universe are not separated into layers but are intermixed, or, rather, they interpenetrate one another. We can get an idea of similar interpenetration of matters of different densities from the penetration of one matter by another matter of different densities known to us. A piece of wood may be saturated with water, water may in its turn be filled with gas. Exactly the same relation between different kinds of matter may be observed in the whole of the universe: the finer matters permeate the coarser ones. [p.101]

''Zo hebben wij in plaats van één begrip 'materie' zeven soorten materie, maar onze gebruikelijke opvatting van materialiteit omvat alleen maar, en dan nog met moeite, de materialiteit van werelden 96 en 48. De materie van wereld 24 is veel te ijl om volgens het wetenschappelijke standpunt van onze natuur- en scheikunde nog als materie te worden beschouwd; een dergelijke materie is praktisch hypothetisch. De nog fijnere materie van wereld 12 mist, voor het gewone onderzoek, alle kenmerken van materialiteit. Al deze soorten materie die tot de verschillende orden van het heelal behoren, zijn niet in lagen gescheiden maar zijn vermengd, of liever: zij doordringen elkaar. Wij kunnen ons een voorstelling van een soortgelijke onderlinge doordringing van materies van verschillende dichtheid vormen door de analogie met de penetratie van een ons bekende materie door een van van andere dichtheid. Een stuk hout kan doordrenkt zijn met water en het water kan op zijn beurt verzadigd zijn met gas. Precies dezelfde betrekking tussen verschillende soorten materie kan in het hele universum worden waargenomen: de fijnere materies doordringen de grovere.''

"Matter that possesses characteristics of materiality comprehensible to us is divided for us into several states according to its density: solid, liquid, gaseous; further gradations of matter are: radiant energy, that is, electricity, light, magnetism; and so on. But on every plane, that is to say, in every order of materiality, similar relations and divisions of the various states of a given matter may be found; but, as has been already said, matter of a higher plane is not material at all for the lower planes. [p.101 - 102]

''De materie die de voor ons begrijpelijke kenmerken van materialiteit bezit, wordt naar gelang van de dichtheid onderverdeeld in verschillende toestanden:

vast,
vloeibaar en
gasvormig;

verdere gradaties van de materie zijn:

stralingsenergie, dat wil zeggen elektriciteit, licht, magnetisme, enzovoorts.

Soortgelijke verhoudingen en onderverdelingen van de verschillende toestanden van een gegeven materie kunnen op ieder niveau worden gevonden, dat wil zeggen in iedere orde van materialiteit; maar, zoals reeds is gezegd, materie van een hoger niveau is in het geheel niet materieel voor de lagere niveaus.''

"All the matter of the world that surrounds us, the food that we eat, the water that we drink, the air that we breathe, the stones that our houses are built of, our own bodies—everything is permeated by all the matters that exist in the universe. There is no need to study or investigate the sun in order to discover the matter of the solar world: this matter exists in ourselves and is the result of the division of our atoms. In the same way we have in us the matter of all other worlds. Man is, in the full sense of the term, a 'miniature universe'; in him are all the matters of which the universe consists; the same forces, the same laws that govern the life of the universe, operate in him; therefore in studying man we can study the whole world, just as in studying the world we can study man. [p.102]

''Alle materie van de ons omringende wereld, het voedsel dat wij eten, het water dat wij drinken, de lucht die wij ademen, de stenen waarvan onze huizen zijn gebouwd, ons eigen lichaam - alles wordt doordrongen van alle materies die in het heelal bestaan. Het is niet nodig de zon te bestuderen of te onderzoeken om de materie van de zonnewereld te ontdekken: deze materie bestaat in onszelf, zij is het resultaat van de deling onzer atomen. Op dezelfde wijze hebben wij de materie van alle andere werelden in ons. De mens is, in de volle betekenis van het woord, een 'heelal in miniatuur'; in hem zijn alle materies aanwezig waaruit het heelal bestaat; dezelfde krachten, dezelfde wetten die het leven van het heelal beheersen, zijn in hem werkzaam; daarom kunnen wij door de mens te bestuderen de hele wereld bestuderen, precies zoals wij door de wereld te bestuderen de mens kunnen bestuderen.''

Dit lijkt erg op wat de C's hier zeiden:
A: The entire sum total of all existence exists within each of you, and vice versa.

"But a complete parallel between man and the world can only be drawn if we take 'man' in the full sense of the word, that is, a man whose inherent powers are developed. An undeveloped man, a man who has not completed the course of his evolution, cannot be taken as a complete picture or plan of the universe—he is an unfinished world. [p.102]

"Een volledige parallel tussen de mens en de wereld kan echter alleen worden getrokken wanneer wij de 'mens' nemen in de volle zin van het woord, dat wil zeggen een mens wiens inherente vermogens ten volle zijn ontwikkeld. Een niet-ontwikkelde mens, een mens die zijn evolutie niet heeft voleindigd, kan niet worden beschouwd als een volledig beeld of model van het heelal - hij is een onvoltooide wereld."

"As has been said already, the study of oneself must go side by side with the study of the fundamental laws of the universe. The laws are the same everywhere and on all planes. But the very same laws manifesting themselves in different worlds, that is, under different conditions, produce different phenomena. The study of the relation of laws to the planes upon which they are manifested brings us to the study of relativity.
"The idea of relativity occupies a very important place in this teaching, and, later on, we shall return to it. But before anything else it is necessary to understand the relativity of each thing and of each manifestation according to the place it occupies in the cosmic order.
"We are on the earth and we depend entirely upon the laws that are operating on the earth. The earth is a very bad place from the cosmic point of view—it is like the most remote part of northern Siberia, very far from everywhere, it is cold, life is very hard. Everything that in another place either comes by itself or is easily obtained, is here acquired only by hard labor; everything must be fought for both in life and in the work. In life it still happens sometimes that a man gets a legacy and afterwards lives without doing anything. But such a thing does not happen in the work. All are equal and all are equally beggars. [p.102 - 103]

"De wetten zijn overal en op alle niveaus dezelfde.'' (fundamentele wetten van het heelal)
(Deze onveranderlijke wetten brengen verschillende verschijnselen voort al naar gelang zij in verschillende omstandigheden, werkzaam zijn.)
Studie der relativiteit : de studie van het verband tussen de wetten en de niveaus waarop zij werkzaam zijn.
Vóór alles dienen wij de relativiteit van ieder ding en ieder verschijnsel dat zich openbaar te begrijpen volgens de plaats die het in de kosmische orde inneemt.

Dit heeft niet veel verband maar een mooie stuk vind ik zelf:

,,Wij bevinden ons op de aarde en zijn volkomen afhankelijk van de wetten die op aarde werkzaam zijn. Kosmisch gezien is de aarde een zeer slechte plaats - zo iets als het meest afgelegen deel van Noord-Siberië dat overal ver vandaan ligt, het is er koud en het leven is er erg hard. Alles wat elders vanzelf tot stand komt of gemakkelijk wordt verkregen, kan hier alleen maar door moeizame arbeid worden verworven; voor alles moet worden gevochten, zowel in het leven als in het werk. In het leven komt het nog wel eens voor dat iemand een erfenis krijgt en dan kan leven zonder iets uit te voeren. Maar zo iets gebeurt niet in het werk. Daarin zijn allen gelijk en allen zijn gelijkelijk bedelaars.

>><<Een stukje over de wet van drie>><<

"Returning to the law of three, one must learn to find the manifestations of this law in everything we do and in everything we study. The application of this law in any sphere at once reveals much that is new, much that we did not see before. Take chemistry, for instance. Ordinary science does not know of the law of three and it studies matter without taking into consideration its cosmic properties. But besides ordinary chemistry there exists another, a special chemistry, or alchemy if you like, which studies matter taking into consideration its cosmic properties. As has been said before, the cosmic properties of each substance are determined first by its place, and secondly by the force which is acting through it at the given moment. Even in the same place the nature of a given substance undergoes a great change dependent upon the force which is being manifested through it. Each substance can be the conductor of any one of the three forces and, in accordance with this, it can be active, passive, or neutralizing. And it can be neither the first, nor the second, nor the third, if no force is manifesting through it at the given moment or if it is taken without relation to the manifestation of forces. In this way every substance appears, as it were, in four different aspects or states. In this connection it must be noted that when we speak of matter we do not speak of chemical elements. The special chemistry of which I speak looks upon every substance having a separate function, even the most complex, as an element. In this way only is it possible to study the cosmic properties of matter, because all complex compounds have their own cosmic purpose and significance. From this point of view an atom of a given substance isthe smallest amount of the given substance which retains all its chemical, physical, and cosmic properties. Consequently the size of the 'atom' of different substances is not the same. And in some cases an 'atom' may be a particle even visible to the naked eye. [p.103]

Ik zal dit stukje geheel overschrijven in het Nederlands, gekopieerd uit de Op zoek naar het wonderbaarlijke /nederlandse versie/ (opsommingstekens door mij) :

,,Wij keren terug tot de wet van drie. Men moet leren de manifestaties van deze wet te onderkennen in alles wat wij doen en in alles wat wij bestuderen. De toepassing van deze wet, in welke sfeer ook, zal ons onmiddellijk veel nieuws doen zien, vele dingen die wij tevoren niet vermoed hadden. Neem bijvoorbeeld de chemie. De gewone wetenschap kent de wet van drie niet en zij bestudeert de materie zonder haar kosmische eigenschappen in aanmerking te nemen. Maar behalve de gewone chemie bestaat er een andere, een speciale chemie - of alchimie zo u wilt - die de materie wel met inachtneming van haar kosmische eigenschappen bestudeert. Zoals reeds gezegd, worden de kosmische eigenschappen van iedere substantie bepaald, ten eerste

door haar plaats
ten tweede door de kracht die op het gegeven ogenblik er doorheen werkzaam is

Zelfs op een en dezelfde plaats ondergaat de aard van een bepaalde substantie een grote verandering afhankelijk van de kracht die zich er doorheen manifesteert. Iedere substantie kan de geleider van elk van de drie krachten zijn en kan dus

actief
passief
of neutraliserend

zijn. En zij kan noch actief, noch passief, noch neutraliserend zijn wanneer op het gegeven ogenblik geen kracht zich er doorheen manifesteert of als zij niet in verband met manifestatie van krachten wordt beschouwd. Zo verschijnt iedere substantie als het ware onder vier verschillende aspecten of in vier verschillende toestanden. In dit verband dient te worden opgemerkt dat, wanneer wij over materie spreken, wij het niet over chemische elementen hebben. De speciale chemie waarover ik spreek, beschouwt iedere substantie die een afzonderlijke functie heeft - zelfs de meest samengestelde - als een element. Alleen op deze wijze is het mogelijk de kosmische eigenschappen van de materie te bestuderen, omdat alle samengestelde verbindingen haar eigen kosmische doel en betekenis hebben. Vanuit dit gezichtspunt is een atoom van een gegeven substantie de kleinste hoeveelheid van deze substantie waarin al haar chemische, fysische en kosmische eigenschappen nog behouden zijn. Dientengevolge zijn de 'atomen' van verschillende substanties in grootte niet gelijk. En in sommige gevallen kan een 'atoom' een deeltje zijn dat zelfs met het blote oog zichtbaar is.

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>> Nu ga ik paar 'artikels' uit de glossary erbij halen en bekijken.

Eerst het artikel "STO and STS" (dikgedrukt etc door mij)

The concepts of service to others (STO) and service to self (STS) are the central cornerstone of the teaching of first Ra and then Cassiopaea. We find these same fundamentals expressed in different terms throughout esoteric culture. The fundamental nature and extreme breadth of these concepts makes them difficult to define since these are in one way or another reflected in all things.
Ra said that for the human level, speaking of STO vs. STS was the most appropriate terminology because humans tend to think in terms of action and its ethical basis. The concepts of absorption for STS and radiance for STO could also be used as a metaphor. At any rate, the principles are beyond words.

Cosmologically, the Cassiopaeans speak of 'dual emergence' from the One. This is the source of all which is and this is where the first duality comes into being. The principle of free will, at its various levels of manifestation, mediates between these. This can be compared to Gurdjieff's first triad, the Sun Absolute dividing in three at the start of the ray of creation. In the most abstract sense, the existence of two dissimilar forces or tendencies plus free will is the simplest basis for an open universe. All the forms of creation follow from these, through a series of increasingly restricted or mechanical levels of being. These levels correspond to the densities of Ra and Cassiopaea or the cosmoses of the 4th Way.

? > Dus twee 'niet dezelfde' krachten PLUS vrije wil? Dus negatief en positief PLUS vrije wil? Is vrije wil dan de neutraliserende kracht?? Of Fagolgiria? Of De Wil van God /our Endlessness/?

[...]

Gurdjieff discusses STO and STS in Beelzebub's Tales as follows:

'. "If the notions recorded on this Boolmarshano were put into ordinary language, they could be stated in the following words: "'Evidently we men, also like all the existing units of the World, are formed and always consist of the same three independent forces, by means of which the process of reciprocal maintenance of everything existing proceeds; namely, of the following three independent World forces: "'The first of these forces constantly arises from the causes which proceed in the Prime Source itself and from the pressure of the newly arisen, and issuing from it by momentum flows out of that Prime Source. "'The second World force is what this first force be- comes, when, after having spent the momentum which it has received, it strives to reblend with the source of its arising, according to the fundamental World law called "The effects of a cause must always re-enter the cause." "'Both of these forces in the general process of reciprocally maintaining forces are entirely independent, and in their manifestations have always and in everything their own properties and particularities. "'The first of these two fundamental forces, namely, that one which for compelling reasons always manifests outside the source of its arising, must constantly involve; and the second one, on the contrary, striving to blend with the cause of its arising, must always and in everything evolve. "'Owing to the fact that the first of the mentioned three independent forces arises from vivifying actions proceeding in the very foundation of the cause of everything existing and thus receives in its presence the germ of the possibility of manifesting vivifyingness, it may be considered as "Good," that is, as a factor for the actualizing of the backward-flowing effects which in relation to this first force can and must be considered as "Evil." "I Moreover, the first of these forces, which is manifested from inevitable and compelling causes arising in the Prime Source itself, can from this point of view be considered as passive. And the second backward-flowing force, because it must constantly resist in order to have the possibility of penetrating backward or at least the possibility of withstanding the opposite-flowing first passive force which has received its momentum from the Prime Source causes, must be regarded as active. "And as for the third independent World force, this force is nothing else but only the result of the clash everywhere and in everything of these two fundamental descending and ascending independent forces. "'Although this third independent force is only the result of both first fundamental forces, it is nevertheless the spiritualizing and reconciling source of every World formation. "'And it is the spiritualizing source of every World formation because it arises and must exist in them as a presence all the time while the given results exist which arise from various unusual mutual resistances occurring between the said two fundamental forces flowing in entirely opposite directions.' "And so, my boy, it was in this sense and in this meaning that the words 'Good' and 'Evil' were first used by this unfortunate Makary Kronbernkzion.' [End quote]

The first of these forces constantly arises from the causes which proceed in the Prime Source itself and from the pressure of the newly arisen, and issuing from it by momentum flows out of that Prime Source.
always manifests outside the source of its arising, must constantly involve
''Good''
Passive

The second World force is what this first force be- comes, when, after having spent the momentum which it has received, it strives to reblend with the source of its arising, according to the fundamental World law called "The effects of a cause must always re-enter the cause.''
striving to blend with the cause of its arising, must always and in everything evolve
''Bad''
Active

And as for the third independent World force, this force is nothing else but only the result of the clash everywhere and in everything of these two fundamental descending and ascending independent forces.
And it is the spiritualizing source of every World formation because it arises and must exist in them as a presence all the time while the given results exist which arise from various unusual mutual resistances occurring between the said two fundamental forces flowing in entirely opposite directions.

Nu het artikel ''Karma and the Principle Of Equilibrium'' (dikgedrukt etc door mij)

The following is but one simplistic interpretation of Gurdjieffs cosmology. This brief description, that is written below, is given so it can be used as a frame of reference to better understand the 'Principle Of Equilibrium' that is described by Boris Mouravieff. Excerpts from Mouravieff's book on the 'Principle Of Equilibrium' is also given below.

In the Gurdjieff cosmology, before the creation of the universe, there existed a primordial state of things that he called 'The Absolute' or 'Endlessness' where All was One and One was All. The Absolute was completely independent. There was only one Law in the Absolute, that is, the Absolute was a law unto itself. It depended on nothing external to itself and was completely self sufficient.

However, in order for The Absolute to create anything it needed a residence or "sole point of concentration" to focus its creative activity.

The Absolute then 'begot' a "local residence" that Gurdjieff called the 'Sun Absolute' (The term "begot" is used here since this was all before the creation of the Universe).

The Sun Absolute was held together and maintained by independent forces that consisted of two interlocking laws. In the Sun Absolute these two laws, 'The Law Of Three' and 'The Law Of Seven', were perfectly balanced with respect to each other. This perfect blending of these two primordial Laws is what kept the Sun Absolute stable without any need for influences from outside to sustain it

However, nothing ever could change in the Sun Absolute since it was perfectly balanced and static. Nothing could happen there since the Sun Absolute was in a pure potential state of 'Eternal Unchanging.'

In order for anything to happen within the Sun Absolute, that is, in order for The Absolute to create anything, then the infinitude of potentialities that comprised it would have to give way to the finitude of actualization. This dynamism is what Gurdjieff called the "merciless Heropass," that is, this is what he called the FLOW OF TIME. The diminution of potentialities that would result whenever anything 'happened' or was 'actualized' within the Sun Absolute, threatened the infinite reservoir of potentialities existing within it, thereby threatening to diminish the volume of the Sun Absolute itself.

The Sun Absolute was now threatened by the "merciless" flow of Time.

In order for the Sun Absolute to maintain its infinite state of potential so as not to suffer a progressive diminuation of potentialities due to their actualization, the Absolute, out of necessity, adjusted or modified the two fundamental laws that comprised the Sun Absolute, so that any created thing would send a counter flow of energy back into the Sun Absolute and maintain its existing (potential) state over time.

It was from this changing of these two fundamental laws, where they no longer operated independently but were now dependent on outside forces, that the original independent maintenance of the Sun Absolute became altered into a mutual exchange of force with all created materials.

The result of changing the function of these two fundamental laws directed their actions from within the Sun Absolute outwards into the space of the universe. The redirection of these two fundamental laws outwardly, by the Will of the Absolute, is what Gurdjieff calls the "Theomertmalogos or Word-God," which is, according to Gurdjieff, an "'Emanation-of-the-Sun-Absolute'" which is an 'utterance' or vibration which organizes the undifferentiated Etherkrilno into repeating yet varying patterns of matter/form. This sound vibration, like light and all oscillations, is an energy vector that continuously moves from positive to negative through 'zero', the point of equilibriation between those two directions.

Once these two fundamental laws were changed, then the three forces that comprised the Law Of Three, which were originally united within the Absolute, were now SEPARATED from each other in the phenomenal universe, since they are no longer part of one Whole and can now only be brought together by the PARTS of the whole, due to the division and differentiation that arises from the diversity of phenomenon that comprise the existing universe.

The separation of these three forces, which caused creation, would now spark an inherent striving for these three forces to REBLEND and be reconciled back into the primordial perfection and unification of the Absolute.

Thus, for the ABSOLUTE the three forces are united. But for the UNIVERSE the three forces are separated, and always striving for an equilibration that mirrors their unity within the Absolute.

Hier moet dus duidelijk zijn, dat als onze Eindeloosheid iets wilde creëren verminderde het aantal 'potentialities' en het creëren van iets, gebeurt in een bepaald soort 'tijd', waardoor de Sun-Absolute steeds kleiner werd. Het artikel gaat verder, maar dan met een stuk uit Mouravieff's boek Gnosis I:

The below excerpts are taken from Mouravieff's book Gnosis Vol.I. pp. 126-134 that relate to The Principle Of Equilibrium and the Law Of Karma:

To summarize, we can say that Life is the effect of a vibratory play at every step of the Universe, a play which in every case takes the form of a perturbation (storing) of equilibrium, followed by its restoration.

These perturbations are possible because all that exists in the Universe, though equilibrated, is in unstable equilibrium.

The principle of Equilibrium finds its practical application in compensating for perturbations. Yet rare are the cases where this compensatory action succeeds in reestablishing exactly the ante-actum situation. In general this would not be desirable. As a result of the principle of Imperfection, that exists is in a state of movement. Especially in organic life, the vibratory play - perturbation - compensation - often takes the form of an open cycle -a spiral.

Here we can again constate the perfect logic of the system. know, in fact, that a translational movement - such as evolution - always difficult. The spiral slows the rate of progress, yet makes it easier. In case of a fall, it brakes the regression.

Time, Space and Equilibrium, the three preliminary conditions of the, Manifestation and Creation of the Universe, have given birth to the forces in the created Universe: active, passive and neutralizing, as already mentioned.

The principle of Equilibrium takes dynamic form in the their category, as a reactive force with the task of compensating perturbations to restore the balance. Its manifestation always has the character of unilateral (eenzijdig) reaction. Applied to the whole of the Universe, the principle of Equilibrium acts mechanically and is initiated automatically. As a result, all action, in every place, in every cosmos, is necessarily counterbalanced.

The above considerations allow us to understand and grasp the meaning of certain phenomena which remain unexplained by positive science. To begin with, the great problem of death. As life is born from perturbation, death is necessary because of the principle of Equilibrium. In every case without exception, the perturbation has to be compensated, an equilibrium reestablished. It is by death that compensation is made. Birth on all planes, is the work of a revolutionary and perturbing act which Love. Love itself is born before Creation, with the appearance - in consciousness of the Absolute-of the idea of You, which necessarily arise from that of 'I'. This was the first perturbation of the stable pre-eternal equilibrium. That is why we have good reason, even if only instinctively, contrast Death with Love, and not with Life. It is with equally good reason - against all evidence of the thinking mind - that the human heart feels that

Love is the superior force which is able to overcome Death.

To overcome Death, that is the watchword of esoteric science. But let us early come to a common understanding of the true sense of this expression.

As they propagate themselves, the three forces act throughout the universe. They manifest in the following manner in the System of Cosmoses and the Rays of Creation: Love appears as the active perturbing force, death as the passive stabilizing force, and life as the neutralizing force, which measures out existence between limits defined by the first two. From the preceding, death is an indispensable (onmisbaar) condition of existence - and therefore of life - the fruit of which, in a later triad, is posterity (nakomelingschap). The question is whether the fight against death to win eternal life - humanity's highest hope, as preached by all religions - can in reality be undertaken with reasonable chances of success. The question is complex. To resolve it, one must examine it from many points of view. Religions treat this on the plane of belief, and make an article of faith out of it. But now that we are on the threshold of a new Era, that of the Cycle of the Holy Spirit, such a position is no longer entirely satisfying to enlightened minds. They now want to grasp and understand something that yesterday was still considered as an article of Belief.

[active perturbing force] = [Love]
[passive stablizing force] = [Death]
[neutralizing force] = [Life]

It is certainly easier to ask true believers to trust on this question, rather than attempt to explain something so difficult to explain. But esoteric science proposes an answer to the question.

The face of the world changes. The Cycle of the Son, as happened before with that of the Father, is coming to its end. With Christ, the Law received long ago by Moses, came to an end and was replaced by the rule of Faith, Hope and Love. At the present time, with the wars and revolutions of this century, and with the extraordinary progress of positive science, we have entered a period of transition whose purpose is to give us entry to the Cycle of the Holy Spirit. During this period, Faith will be progressively replaced by Knowledge, and Hope will end in Accomplishment. This will be the final triumph of Love; 'For Love will never perish, - even though prophecies will end, tongues will be no more, and knowledge will be abolished."

Doet me denken aan: God the Father (plus) ,' 'God the Son' (minus) and 'God the Holy Ghost' (neutraal)

In the Tradition, we mean by victory over Death the victory of our perfected Personalities over Death. This is the meaning of Salvatio object of prayers and aim of the religious practices of Christianity. We have already quoted the words of St Paul:
'Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall all die but we shall all be changed.'

The underlying meaning of the word 'changed' in this sentence lies the fact that all exterior men, as well as those who have reached the levels 5 or 7, will sooner or later be called to leave their physical bodies.

The difference is that the latter will do it as one abandons an old suit to that of another, while the death of the physical body for men 1, 2 or 3 will result the decomposition of their foetal - Personalties. Death is an astral abortion Salvation comes with the second Birth, when the entirely developed at born Personality is indissolubly joined to the real 'I' to form Individuality. Once born, this Individuality no longer depends on the physical body, in the same way that the child who has been born does not die even if his birth has been at the cost of his mother's life. It is this to which the apostle alluded, saying, we shall not all die.

[...] We have established that death is one of the manifestations of principle of Equilibrium, which automatically reacts to the perturbing action of carnal (vleselijk) love in the created world. The latter, although perfect, then gives birth to life. Human love is imperfect because it is instinctive and impulsive. As long as man automatically follows his impulses, his love will serve only the cosmic goals of the ensemble. pleasure he always gains from this is as much an equilibrating element as a reward. As it is, it will not serve his esoteric evolution in any way. Love is the surest and most powerful means of achieving this evolution, This is because Love is the one objective element in our lives. That objectivity remains true in all Love's many aspects, and through all variety of its manifestations.

[...] (klik hier als je dit stuk ook wilt lezen)

Once karmic action is launched automatically and acts mechanically, compensates for each perturbation on its own plane. Compensation made for each account individually, as in a ledger, and not between totals of good and bad results.
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>> Nu kopieer ik het relevante stuk (eigenlijk geheel) van de quote waarmee ik begonnen ben, maar dan in het Nederlands, zoals het geschreven is in de Nederlandse versie van het boek ''Beëlzebubs verhalen aan zijn kleinzoon".

blz 687 van engelse versie
blz 542 van nlse versie

Maaaaaaar voordat ik dat doe, wil ik toch even eerst naar deze thread kijken, klik hier:

[...]

My hypothesis here is more risky, it is just a working hypothesis.

Our Universe is a complex system. The degree of its complexity is rather high. In this complex system, in some yet to be understood way, "programs" are operating. There is no reason for assuming that these programs are free of bugs. Thus it is not excluded that the Universe has also "debugging mechanisms". Consciousness, intelligence, life itself, may also have - among others - such functions. Therefore the role of intelligence may be this: to discover these bugs in the programs that run in the Universe, and to debug the Universe.

Therefore I am going beyond the pure "self-replication" as the meaning of life (as in Dawkins "Selfish Gene"). Self-replication may be a tool, but not the goal. The goal may be different: to debug the Universe. The time needed for that may be quite long. Moreover, the positive outcome may be not guaranteed. It may well be like with the Halt Problem: there is no way to predict the outcome, what remains is to let the debugging programs run, to allow for its self-modifications.

If we admit this hypothesis, then the question about the role of the intelligence and the meaning of life takes on new colors.

One may ask: but what can we - such "small" creatures - accomplish in the grand scale of the Universe?

An interesting question. Yet we know that in complex systems small changes can lead to unexpected global "phase transitions". We can't exclude that something like this can happen. We can't exclude that admitting such a hypothesis can change completely our perspective on the problem of responsibility of the human kind - this would be just a logical conclusion from our premises

As I wrote above, this is just my working hypothesis, a hypothesis that I am using on a daily basis. It seems to me interesting, it fits all the knowledge that I have (physics, mathematics, philosophy, genetics, biology, psychology). But if I discover new data, then I will re-think my hypothesis again. After all, in order to debug the Universe, we first need to debug ourselves. And here we are coming back, again, to the question of the "truth" and "objectivity".

Dus de reden waarom alles bestaat, is misschien wel, om de ''foutjes'' van de Universe te ontdekken en die te ''debuggen''. Maar voordat je dat kan doen, 'moet' je eerst jezelf ''debuggen''.

Later:

[...]
Here it is very important to notice well in your consciousness that in the Law of Eftologodiksis, during the process of movement from one center of gravity to another, to the final completion of the whole process, there are gaps, or as they are called 'intervals', in two places, at which intervals there was 'all', when Our Endlessness made the existing, self-supporting and independent forces for the existence of the Sun-Absolute dependent on the foreign forces from without; that is to say, He transformed the Autoegokrat into the Trogoautoegokrat. Well, then, Our Endlessness made, but only in this Law of Eftologodiksis, two gaps or intervals through which forces or substances coming from without should enter. From the time of this change, the Law of Eftologodiksis could no longer completely evolve or involve without foreign help coming through its two intervals. And this according to this property of the Law of Eftologodiksis, by means of these two intervals, it now effects the evolution and involution of substances in the beings composing the Tritacosmoses. That is to say, during the transition of substances from one centre of gravity to another, substances of the fundamental cosmic Triamonia of quite other densties, must, without fail, help in two places. And in those organic machines, such a help proceeds in the following way.[...]

As far as I understand the above "Trogoautoegokrat" is an open system, that is one where it is impossible to "predict" anything - because it is open to "external" influences. But, because of this, there is a hope. we are the "organic machines" that can do something during the "two gaps" - whenever they happen in any cycle. Or, expressing it in somewhat different terms: we, the organic machines, have a "Free Will", which we can use to "fill the gaps", and to push the Universe this way or another way. Or, still in another way: if a hacker comes to your computer and deletes or corrupts an important system file to introduce chaos, you can restore the file and add something to the system that will create even more order than it was before. But in order to be able to do this - a good knowledge of the operating system is needed. That is why "Knowledge Protects" - not only "us", but also, and more importantly, the System we are functioning in.

Whether my interpretation is correct or not - I do not know. But, knowing all what I know today, I am giving it a rather high probability of going into the right direction. In this way my idea of "debugging the universe" is a re-phrasing, in modern language, of the old idea in Belzebub.

One more comment: according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the entropy in a closed system is increasing, the chaos is increasing with time. That is how I read "Our Endlessness, Almighty God, once observed that the Sun-Absolute, itself, on which He existed was, owing to Time, diminishing gradually but perceptibly in volume..." The "volume" stands here, I think, for "order". But the second law of thermodynamics does not apply to an open system. On the other hand an open system is unpredictable. Which is a danger, but also a hope.

En hier kunnen we lezen (dikgedrukt door mij):

So, I think that Reality is multi-faceted and multi-leveled and we are consciously experiencing only one (or a few) of the existing levels and/or facets. The multi-leveled and multi-faceted Realit includes: many worlds, many realms, parallel and perpendicular universes, higher dimensions, higher levels of intelligence and of perception, and very likely a consciousness of which we cannot even conceive.
Some of these concepts have already been integrated into theoretical physics (many worlds, parallel universes, higher dimensions), and can be studied - at least theoretically - with mathematical rigor; while those dealing with mind, consciousness, intelligence, are yet to be integrated. Once that is done, once we admit and realize that that material existence is not all that can be thought of and dealt with using mathematical rigor - new vistas, new hopes and new goals will appear on the horizon. And by doing this, WE will take charge of the evolutionary development of life. BY doing this we will choose to obey our own call from the future. By doing this we will make real what is now only virtual.

I believe that the Universe has Purpose, that it is much like a computer program of great complexity, and that "we" - the IGUS-es - have a role in its evolution. For a while our role can be described simply as "debugging units." In short, my present answer to the question "why are we here?" reads: DEBUGGING THE UNIVERSE.

Universes without life, without feedback from the "observers" have only virtual existence, their future is closed; while "our" future, as well as the future of "our universe," is in my opinion, to large extent, OPEN.

The question of existence of other forms of life is, in particular, one of these tricky questions whose answers are "open". YOU, the Reader, can choose to live in a universe with a "no" answer, but you can also choose to live in a "yes" universe.

I am not saying the choice is going to be easy, or possible at all. Every choice needs an effort. The more important the choice, the more effort it needs. Without making this effort we are simply machines, and then the choices are being made for us - either by pure chance or by others.

So, what I am saying here relates, to some extent, to some of the ideas expanded in Jung's " Flying Saucers. A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies ." Let me quote from an article by John Fraim :

' Jung concluded that "news affirming the existence of UFOs is welcome, but that skepticism seems to be undesirable. . .to believe that UFOs are real suits the opinion, whereas disbelief is to be discouraged.... There is a tendency all over the world to believe in saucers and to want them to be real, unconsciously helped along by a press that otherwise has no sympathy with the phenomenon." Jung then asked a most incisive question: "Why should it be more desirable for saucers to exist than not?"

'For Jung, the "desirability" of UFO existence relates to a psychic need and is connected with signaling the end of one era and the beginning of another. It was not a new phenomenon but, rather, one that manifested the change of archetypes that constellate around the end of one age and the beginning of another. As he wrote in the introduction to Flying Saucers: "It is not presumption that drives me, but my conscience as a psychiatrist that bids spare those few who will fulfill my duty and prepare those few which are in accord with the end of an era."

'Jung found precedence for these archetypal harbingers of change in preceding periods of history that involved the collective psyche: As we know from ancient Egyptian history, there are manifestations of psychic changes which always appear at the end of one Platonic month and at the beginning of another. Apparently they are changes in the constellations of psychic dominants, of the archetypes, or "gods" as they used to be called, which bring about, or accompany, long-lasting transformation of the collective psyche.

'The changes in archetypes seem to have a connection to major movements in astrological houses. "This transformation, " noted Jung, "started in the historical era and left its traces first in the passing of the aeon of Taurus into that of Aries, and then of Aries into Pisces, whose beginning coincides with the rise of Christianity. We are now nearing that great change which may be expected when the spring-point enters Aquarius."'

Ik begin het al een beetje te begrijpen. De woorden zweven nog een beetje in mijn hoofd.

Laat ik verder gaan met de blz van het (in het Nederlands vertaalde) boek:
(de stukjes die bepaalde dingen misschien kunnen verduidelijken, schrijf ik op)
(I'll only copy the parts that might make some things clear)

Dutch version - English version

Dit systeem van krachten was eveneens gebaseerd op de twee fundamentele heilige kosmische wetten waardoor het geheel van onze tegenwoordige Megalokosmos in stand wordt gehouden, dat wil zeggen de oorspronkelijke heilige kosmische wetten die de naam dragen van ''heilige Heptaparaparshinokh' en 'heilige Triamazikamno'.

This system was based on those two fundamental sacred cosmic laws by which the whole of our Megalocosmos is still maintained, namely, on the two primordial cosmic laws called the sacred 'Heptaparaparshinokh' and the sacred 'Triamazikamno.'

Dus Heptaparaparshinokh = Eftologodiksis
En Traimazikamno = Triamonia

Van de eerste oorspronkelijke heilige kosmische wet, de wet van de heilige Heptaparaparshinokh, geeft de objectieve kosmische wetenschap de volgende formulering:
"De stroom van krachten die steeds op regelmatige afstanden wordt onderbroken en waarvan de uiteinden zich weer verenigen''
De lijn volgens welke deze heilige kosmische wet zich uitdrukt vertoont zeven punten van afbuiging, of zoals men ook wel zegt zeven 'zwaartepunten'; en de afstand tussen twee punten van afbuiging of 'zwaartepunten' heet 'stopinder van de heilige Heptaparaparshinokh''.
Het volledige proces van deze heilige wet die op alles wat bestaat vanaf de verschijning ervan zijn werking uitoefent, omvat dus steeds zeven 'stopinders'.

"The first of these fundamental primordial sacred cosmic laws, namely the law of Heptaparaparshinokh, is formulated by cosmic Objective Science in the following words:
'The flow of forces follows a line that constantly deflects at specific intervals and unites again at its ends. '
"According to this primordial sacred cosmic law, the line of the flow of forces has seven points of deflection or, as is otherwise said, seven 'centers of gravity,' and the distance between two consecutive points of deflection, or 'centers of gravity,' is called a 'stopinder of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh.'
"The complete process of this sacred law, acting through everything newly arising and existing, is always made up of seven stopinders.

En dit doet me denken aan:

[Here it is very important to notice well in your consciousness that in the Law of Eftologodiksis, during the process of movement from one center of gravity to another, to the final completion of the whole process, there are gaps, or as they are called 'intervals', in two places, at which intervals there was 'all', when Our Endlessness made the existing, self-supporting and independent forces for the existence of the Sun-Absolute dependent on the foreign forces from without; that is to say, He transformed the Autoegokrat into the Trogoautoegokrat. Well, then, Our Endlessness made, but only in this Law of Eftologodiksis, two gaps or intervals through which forces or substances coming from without should enter. From the time of this change, the Law of Eftologodiksis could no longer completely evolve or involve without foreign help coming through its two intervals. And this according to this property of the Law of Eftologodiksis, by means of these two intervals, it now effects the evolution and involution of substances in the beings composing the Tritacosmoses. That is to say, during the transition of substances from one centre of gravity to another, substances of the fundamental cosmic Triamonia of quite other densties, must, without fail, help in two places. And in those organic machines, such a help proceeds in the following way.]

Maar waar zijn die twee gaps eigenlijk? Laten we verder gaan.
EN OOK misschien dat 'periodically feeding' hier iets mee te maken heeft?

Wat de tweede oorspronkelijke kosmische wet betreft, die van de heilige Triamazikamno, de objectieve kosmische wetenschap formuleert haar in de volgende bewoordingen:
"Alles wat nieuw ontstaat komt voort uit wat reeds bestaat door de 'harnel-miatznel', dat wil zeggen door een versmelting waarvan het proces zich als volgt voltrekt: wat boven is verenigt zich met wat beneden is teneinde door deze vereniging wat in het midden is voort te brengen en dit wordt dan tegelijkertijd het hogere voor het erop volgende lagere en het lagere voor het eraan voorafgaande hogere.''
Ik heb je al gezegd dat deze heilige Triamazikamno drie onafhankelijke krachten omvat die de volgende namen dragen: [door mij erbij genoteerd:]
de eerste, 'Soerb-Otheos'; 'Bevestigende Kracht', of 'Aandrijvende Kracht' of eenvoudigweg 'Kracht Plus' : 'God de Vader'
de tweede, 'Soerb-Skiros'; 'Ontkennende Kracht' of 'Weerstandbiedende Kracht' of eenvoudigweg 'Kracht Min'; 'God de Zoon'
de derde, 'Soerb-Athanatos'; 'Verzoenende Kracht' of 'Evenwichtskracht', of ook wel 'Neutraliserende Kracht': 'God de Heilige Geest'
"And as regards the second fundamental primordial cosmic law, namely the sacred Triamazikamno, cosmic Objective Science formulates it in these terms.
'A new arising from the previously arisen through the "harnel-miatznel," the process of which is actualized thus the higher blends with the lower in order together to actualize the middle, and thus to become either higher for the preceding lower or lower for the succeeding higher.

Verder wordt er verteld dat er dus bronnen van buiten nodig waren enz. als hij de wetten die de Sun Absolute in stand houden afhankelijk wilden maken.
Dus van Atoëgocraat > Trogautoëgocraat

Toen onze Gemeenschappelijke Eeuwige Eén-Wezenlijke Vader besloten had het beginsel te wijzigen op grond waarvan het bestaan van deze unieke kosmische concentratie, de verblijfplaats van zijn Glorierijk Wezen, in stand werd gehouden, begon Hij de functionering zelf van deze twee oorspronkelijke heilige wetten te veranderen en wel in het bijzonder die van de heilige Heptaparaparshinokh.
De belangrijke wijziging die Hij in de functionering van de heilige Heptaparaparshinokh aanbracht had betrekking op drie van haar stopinders en bestond in een verandering van de 'subjectieve werking' daarvan. Hij verlengde de duur van de ene, verkortte die van de andere en disharmoniseerde die van de derde.
Teneinde aan de stopinder die gelegen is tussen het derde en vierde 'punt van afbuiging' de vereiste eigenschap te verzekeren om voor haar functionering de automatische toestroming van alle omgringende krachten op te nemen, verlengde Hij de duur ervan.
Dat is nu juist die stopinder van de heilige Heptaparaparshinokh welke men 'mechanisch-samentreffende mdnel-in' noemt.
Wat de stopinder betreft die Hij verkortte, deze is gelegen tussen het laatste 'punt van afbuiging'' en het begin van een nieuwe cyclus van het proces van de Heptaparaparshinokh. Door deze verandering, die was bedoeld om het begin van de nieuwe cyclus te vergemakkelijken, verleende Hij aan deze stopinder een functionering die uitsluitend afhankelijk is van de toestroming van uitwendige krachten welke de resultaten van de werking van de kosmische concentratie waarin het algehele proces van deze fundamentele heilige wet zich voltrekt, haar doen toekomen.
En het is deze stopinder van de heilige Heptaparaparshinokh die men ook in onze tijd nog de 'doelbewust tot stand gebrachte mdnel-in'noemt.
Wat de derde stopinder betreft waarvan Hij de 'subjectieve werking' veranderde, die de vijfde is van de reeks en 'harnel-haoet' wordt genoemd, de disharmonisatie daarvan voltrok zich vanzelf als gevolg van de verandering der beide andere stopinders.
Deze disharmonisatie van haar subjectieve functionering, die het gevolg is van haar relatieve asymmetrie in het geheel van proces van de heilige Heptaparaparshinokh, bestaat hierin:
Wanneer het proces van deze heilige wet zich voltrekt onder zodanige omstandigheden dat het onderworpen is aan de werking van talrijke trillingen voortgekomen uit 'velerlei oorzaken' die er vreemd aan zijn, dan geeft het alleen maar uiterlijke resultaten.
Maar als ditzelfde proces zich voltrekt in volkomen rust en in totale afwezigheid van trillingen voortgekomen uit velerlei oorzaken die er vreemd aan zijn, dan blijven alle gevolgen van zijn werking binnen de concentratie waarin het zich voltrekt en deze gevolgen zijn alleen uiterlijk waarneembaar in geval van rechtstreeks en onmiddellijk contact.
Wanneer in de liip van dit proces geen van deze beide diametraal tegengestelde voorwaarden de overhand heeft, verdelen de gevolgen van de werking ervan zich gewoonlijk in uiterlijke en innerlijke.

"Our Common Father Uni-Being Endlessness, having decided to change the principle of the maintenance of existence of that still unique cosmic concentration and sole place of His Most Glorious Being, first altered the functioning itself.
of these two primordial sacred laws, and He made the greater change in the law of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh.
"This change in the functioning of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh consisted in the alteration of what is called the 'subjective action' of three of its 'stopinders.' In one He lengthened the law-conformable duration, in another He shortened it, and in a third, disharmonized it.
"To provide the stopinder between the third and fourth 'points of deflection' with the required property of absorbing for its functioning the automatic inflow of all surrounding forces, He prolonged its duration.
"And this is the stopinder of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh which is still called the 'mechano-coinciding mdnelin. '
"And the stopinder that He shortened is between the last 'point of deflection' and the beginning of a new cycle of the completing process of this sacred law By this shortening, in order to facilitate the beginning of a new cycle, He predetermined that the functioning of this stopinder would depend solely upon the influx through that stopinder of external forces resulting from the action of that cosmic concentration itself in which the completing process of this primordial sacred law is flowing.
"And this stopinder of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh is the one that is still called the 'intentionally actualized mdnelin. '
"As regards the third stopinder which was changed in its subjective action and which is fifth in the series and called 'harnel-aoot,' its disharmony came about by itself, simply as a result of the change of the other two stopinders.
"This disharmony of its subjective functioning, resulting from its 'asymmetry' in relation to the whole process of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh, consists in the following:
"If the completing process of this sacred law flows in conditions in which it is subject to many 'extraneously' caused' vibrations, its functioning produces only external results.
"But if this same process takes place in absolute quiet, in the absence of any extraneously caused vibrations whatever, all the results of the functioning of this stopinder remain within that concentration in which the process is completed, and these results only become perceptible to the outside on direct and immediate contact with it.
"But if during the functioning of this process neither of these two sharply opposite conditions predominates, the results of its action usually divide into the external and the internal.
"Thus from that time on, the actualization of the primordial sacred law of Heptaparaparshinokh began to proceed in the greatest as well as the smallest cosmic concentrations with the subjective action of its stopinders changed in this way.

Nou... het wordt er niet gemakkelijker van, alhoewel het wel steeds interessanter wordt. Ik heb hierbij een schetsje gemaakt, die natuurlijk ook helemaal fout kan zijn, maar dit is wat ik er ONG van begreep [this sketch could be completely wrong, but this is kind of what I could understand while reading the text above]:

However I do think that this sketch is quite incorrect because the harnel-aoot did not change and the 1st and 4th stopinder did, which I think is not correct. So I think that perhaps a mathematical formula could make this sketch correct which can make sure that the 5th stopinder only changes due to the two other changes (7th and 3rd).. perhaps

En zo, mijn jongen, begon de heilige wet van Heptaparaparshinokh vanaf het ogenblik waarop Onze Eeuwige Schepper haar aan deze ingrijpende wijziging die betrekking had op de subjectieve werking van de stopinders onderwierp, in te werken op het realisatie proces van alle kleine en kosmische formaties.

Ik zeg het je nog eens, mijn lieve Hassein, probeer goed alles in je op te nemen wat betrekking heeft op deze beide fundamentele kosmische wetten, want de kennis van deze twee heilige wetten en vooral de bijzonderheden van de Heptaparaparshinokh zal het je dan mogelijk maken om alle wetten van de tweede en de derde orde die betrekking hebben op de 'schepping van de wereld' en het 'bestaan van de wereld' volledig en zonder moeite te begrijpen.

Want bij ieder tri-cebebraal wezen, wat ook de vorm van zijn uiterlijke bekleding is, ontwikkelt de diepere kennis van deze heilige wetten de mogelijkheid om in tegenwoordigheid van welke van hem onafhankelijke kosmische factor dan ook -- of deze nu gunstig of ongunstig is -- na te denken over de reden van zijn bestaan en de gegevens te verkrijgen die nodig zijn om te komen tot het inzicht en de erkenning van het 'individuele conflict' dat in het algemeen bij tri-cerebrale wezens ontstaat door de tegenstrijdigheid tussen de concrete gevolgen van het proces van alle kosmische wetten en die waarop hun 'gezonde verstand' hen doet rekenen en die zij zelfs met zekerheid verwachten. Zo kunnen zij door de wezenlijke betekenis van hun eigen presentie op de juiste waarde te schatten, zich bewust worden van hun werkelijke plaats in het geheel van deze kosmische realisaties.

Met andere woorden, door zich een globaal begrip van het functioneren van deze beide fundamentele heilige wetten eigen te maken, kristalliseren zich tenslotte in de presentie van de tri-cerebrale wezens elementen waaruit de voor ieder normaal tri-cerebraal wezen onontbeerlijke goddelijke eigenschap ontstaat die bekend staat onder de naam 'semoeniranoes' , de eigenschap waarvan je gunstelingen bij benadering een voorstelling hebben en die zij 'onpartijdigheid' noemen.

"I repeat, my boy, try very hard to understand everything relating to both these fundamental cosmic laws, since knowledge of these two sacred laws, especially knowledge of the particularities of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh, will help you later to understand very well and easily all the second-order and third-order laws of 'world-creation' and 'world-existence. '

"Furthermore, an all-around awareness of everything concerning these sacred laws makes it possible for three-brained beings, irrespective of the form of their exterior coating, to become able, in the presence of all surrounding cosmic factors not depending on them, whether favorable or unfavorable, to ponder on the sense of their own existence, and so to acquire data for the elucidation and reconciliation in themselves of that 'individual collision,' as it is called, which often arises in three-brained beings from the contradiction between the concrete results flowing from the processes of all the cosmic laws and the results presupposed and even definitely expected by their 'sane logic ' And so, correctly evaluating the essential significance of their own presence, they become capable of being aware of the place truly corresponding to them in these common-cosmic actualizations.

"In short, the transubstantiation in themselves of an all-around understanding of the functioning of these two fundamental sacred laws leads to the crystallization in the common presence of three-brained beings of data for engendering that divine property, indispensable to every normal three-brained being, existing under the name of 'semooniranoos.' Your favorites also have an approximate representation of this, and they call it 'impartiality. '

Hier wordt denk ik gesproken over de vele Ikken in een mens en dat als men de wetten bestudeerd die op hen werken, (afhankelijk of niet), zichzelf beter zal kennen en er zo misschien wel een Ik te kristalliseren is. Natuurlijk is hiervoor observatie enz nodig dat ik hieronder (vorige message) heb geschreven.

Nu komt een stuk die we voorheen al hebben gelezen, maar misschien dat het nu wat meer duidelijker wordt.

En zo, mijn lieve jongen, toen Onze Gemeenschappelijke Vader en Almachtige Schepper de taak ondernam om het functioneren van de twee oorspronkelijke heilige wetten te wijzigen, richtte Hij hun werking die voortkwam uit het inwenige van de Absolute Zon op de universele ruimte en schiep aldus de 'Uitstraling van de Zeer Heilige Asolute Zon', die tegenwoordig 'Theomertmalogos' of 'God het Woord' wordt genoemd.

Vooruitlopend op bepaalde verklaringen die ik je later zal geven moet ik hier opmerken dat de goddelijke 'Wilskracht' va Onze Eeuwigheid alleen maar bij het allereerste begin aan het scheppingsproces van de tegenwoordige wereld deelnam.

De schepping vond daarna automatisch, uit zichzelf, voortgang zonder enige deelname van Zijn goddelijke 'Wilskracht', uitsluitend door de werking van de twee op deze wijze veranderde fundamentele kosmische wetten.

Dit scheppings-proces voltrok zich in deze volgorde:

Dank zij de nieuwe bijzonderheid van de vijfde stopinder van de heilige Heptaparaparshinokh oefenden de van de Absolute Zon uitgaande stralingen in bepaalde punten van de ruimte van het Heelal hun werking uit op de oorspronkelijke kosmische substantie 'ethernokrilno' en verdichtten zodoende, dank zij het geheel van de oude en nieuwe bijzonderheden van de oorspronkelijke heilige wetten, zekere duidelijk bepaalde concentraties.

Vervolgens verkregen deze concentraties, dank zij deze zelfde factoren, haar eigen wetten van Heptaparaparshinokh en Triamazikamno die onderling verbonden waren doordat zij wederzijds op elkaar inwerkten; en vanaf die tijd kristalliseerde zich in deze concentraties geleidelijk aan alles uit wat nodig was voor het onststaan van die grote kosmische concentraties welke tegenwoordig nog bestaan en waaraan wij de naam geven van 'Zonnen van de Tweede Orde'.

Toen deze nieuwe zonnen volledig gerealiseerd waren en de functionering van hun twee fundamentele wetten definitief in hen veranderd was, begonnen zij naar het voorbeeld van de zeer Heilige Absolute Zon hun eigen resultaten te transformeren en uit te stralen en deze verenigden zich in de ruimte van het heelal met de uitstralingen van de Zeer Heilige Absolute Zon en werden op hun beurt realiserings-factoren van het fundamentele kosmische proces van de heilige wet van 'Triamazikamno'.

Anders gezegd:

De Zeer Heilige Theomertmalogos manifesteerde zich in de hoedanigheid van de derde heilige kracht van de heilige Triamazikamno, de gevolgen van de werkzaamheid van elk van de nieuwe 'Zonnen van de Tweede Orde' dienden als eerste heilige kracht, en de op elk van deze nieuwe 'Zonnen van de Tweede Orde' door al de andere gezamenlijk uitgeoefende resultaten dienden als tweede heilige kracht van deze heilige wet.

(dit doet me denken aan:

""The automatic creation of the suns proceeded further in the following way: the emanations of the newly-created suns became to each other as positive and negative, and the emanations of the Sun-Absolute itself became neutralising for these emanations of the newly created suns."

)

Toen het kosmische proces van de heilige Triamazikamno eenmaal op deze wijze in de ruimte van het Heelal gevestigd was, begonnen zich, uitgaande van de oorspronkelijke ethernokrilno, kristallisaties van verschillende 'dichtheid' te vormen en deze groepeerden zich rondom elk der Zonnen van de Tweede Orde om nieuwe concentraties te vormen -- en zo verschenen nieuwe Zonnen die ditmaal 'Zonne van de Derde Orden' werden genoemd.

Deze kosmische concentraties van de Derde Orde noemen wij tegenwoordig 'planeten'.

"And so, my dear boy, when in the beginning our Common Father Creator Almighty changed the functioning of both these primordial sacred laws, He directed the action of their forces from within the Most Most Holy Sun Absolute into the space of the Universe, whereupon there came into being the 'Emanation of the Sun Absolute,' which is now called 'Theomertmalogos' or 'Word-God.'

"For the sake of clarity in certain of my further explanations it must be remarked here that, in the process of creation of the now existing world, the 'Force of the Divine Will' of our Endlessness participated only at the very beginning.

"The subsequent creation went on automatically, of its own accord, entirely without the participation of the 'Force of His Own Divine Will,' thanks only to these two changed fundamental cosmic laws.

"And the process of creation then took place in the following sequence:

"Thanks to the new property of the fifth stopinder of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh, the emanations issuing from the Sun Absolute began to act at certain definite points of the space of the Universe upon the prime-source cosmic substance 'ethernokrilno,' and thus, by means of the totality of the old and new properties of the sacred primordial laws, certain definite concentrations began to take form.

"Further, thanks to those factors these definite concentrations acquired their own laws of Heptaparaparshinokh and Triamazikamno, which began to exert their action upon each other, and there were gradually crystallized in these concentrations everything necessary for the appearance of those large concentrations which still exist and are now called 'second-order suns.'

"When these newly arisen suns had been completely actualized and both fundamental laws with their own functioning had been finally established in them, then, in the same way as in the Most Most Holy Sun Absolute, their own results began to be transformed and radiated, and these, uniting with the emanations of the Most Most Holy Sun Absolute in the space of the Universe, became factors for the actualization of the common-cosmic fundamental process of the sacred law of Triamazikamno .

"That is to say:

"The Most Most Holy Theomertmalogos began to manifest itself in the quality of the third holy force of the sacred Triamazikamno, the results of the action of any one of the newly arisen 'second-order suns' began to serve as the first holy force And the results of all the newly arisen 'second-order suns' as a whole, acting upon the given newly arisen 'second-order sun,' began to serve as the second holy force of this sacred law.

(Which reminds me of:

""The automatic creation of the suns proceeded further in the following way: the emanations of the newly-created suns became to each other as positive and negative, and the emanations of the Sun-Absolute itself became neutralising for these emanations of the newly created suns."

)

"As soon as the process of the common-cosmic sacred Triamazikamno was thus established in the space of the Universe, crystallizations of different 'densities' were gradually formed out of that same prime-source ethernokrilno, and began to group themselves around each of the second-order suns, giving rise to new concentrations—and in this way more new suns appeared, but this time 'third-order suns.'

"These third-order cosmic concentrations are those which at the present time are called 'planets. '

» 'Ken uzelf' [Dutch] - ISOTM

2008-06-22T07:49:00.000-07:00

,,Het beginsel 'ken uzelf' is zeer rijk van inhoud. In de eerste plaats is het nodig dat iemand die zichzelf wil kennen, begrijpt wat dit betekent, wat ermee samenhangt, en waar het noodzakelijkerwijs op berust.

[...]

,,Studie van zichzelf is het werk, of de weg die naar zelfkennis voert.
,,Maar om zichzelf te bestuderen, moet men eerst leren hoe te studeren, waar te beginnen, welke methoden te gebruiken. Een mens moet leren hoe zichzelf te bestuderen en hij moet de methoden bestuderen van studie van zichzelf.

De machines zijn in alle mensen min of meer van dezelfde makelij; daarom moet de mens vóór alles zijn organisme bestuderen :

de bouw van zijn organisme
de functies van zijn organisme
en de wetten van zijn organisme

Zo is het nodig bij het observeren van de functies van de menselijke machine de juiste indeling van de waargenomen functies te begrijpen en in staat te zijn deze nauwkeurig en onmiddellijk te onderscheiden.

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Er bestaan twee methodes van zelfwaarneming:

analyse

[of poging daartoe, dat wil zeggen pogingen om antwoorden te vinden op de vragen waarop een bepaald iets berust en waarom het gebeurt]

registreren

[eenvoudig een innerlijke notitie maken van wat op een bepaald ogenblik wordt waargenomen]

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'Registreren', dat wil zeggen vastleggen van het resultaat van directe waarneming van hetgeen zich in hem afspeelt, levert het belangrijkste materiaal in het werk der studie van zichzelf.
Wanneer een bepaald aantal 'notities' zijn verzameld en tegelijkertijd tot op zekere hoogte de wetten zijn bestudeerd en begrepen, wordt analyse mogelijk.
(dus 1. 'Registreren' 2. Analyse)

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Alle werkzaamheid van de menselijke machine is onderverdeeld in 4 groepen scherp omlijnde functies, die ieder bestuurd worden door een eigen 'brein' of 'centrum'.

Namelijk de:

intellect- of denkfunctie
emotie- of gevoelsfunctie
bewegingsfunctie
instinctfunctie

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De denkfunctie werkt altijd door middel van vergelijking. Intellectuele conclusies zijn altijd het resultaat van vergelijking van twee of meer indrukken.

Gewaarwording* en gevoel redeneren niet en vergelijken niet; zij onderscheiden een indruk eenvoudig zoals deze zich voordoet als aangenaam of onaangenaam in een of andere zin, naar kleur, smaak of geur. Gewaarwordingen kunnen bovendien neutraal zijn - warm noch koud, aangenaam noch onaangenaam; 'wit papier', 'rood potlood'. In de gewaarwording van wit of rood ligt niets aangenaams of onaangenaams. Er hoeft althans met de een of andere kleur niets aangenaams of onaangenaams verbonden te zijn. Deze gewaarwordingen, die van de zogenaamde 'vijf zinnen' en andere, zoals het gevoel van wamte, koude enzovoorts, zijn instinctief. Gevoelsfuncties of emoties zijn altijd aangenaam of onaangenaam; neutrale emoties bestaan niet.

"Sensation and emotion do not reason, do not compare, they simply define a given impression by its aspect, by its being pleasant or unpleasant in one sense or another, by its color, taste, or smell. Moreover, sensations can be indifferent—neither warm nor cold, neither pleasant nor unpleasant: 'white paper,' 'red pencil.' In the sensation of white or red there is nothing either pleasant or unpleasant. At any rate there need not necessarily be anything pleasant or unpleasant connected with this or that color. These sensations, the so-called 'five senses,' and others, like the feeling of warmth, cold, and so on, are instinctive. Feeling functions or emotions are always pleasant or unpleasant; indifferent emotions do not exist.

* gewaarwording = het bewust worden van indrukken

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Door middel van het verstand zien wij één aspect van de dingen en gebeurtenissen, door middel van de gevoelens een ander aspect en door middel van de gewaarwordingen een derde aspect. De meest volledige kennis die voor ons van een gegeven onderwerp mogelijk is, kan alleen worden verkregen als wij het gelijktijdig met ons verstand, onze gevoelens en onze gewaarwordingen onderzoeken. Een ieder die juiste kennis wil verwerven, moet streven naar de mogelijkheid van een zodanig onderzoeken.

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Bestuderen is één ding, veranderen een ander.

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Verandering is onder gewone omstandigheden onmogelijk, omdat een mens wanneer hij iets wil veranderen, alleen dit ene wil veranderen. Maar alles in de machine is onderling verbonden en iedere functie wordt onvermijdelijk in evenwicht gehouden door een andere functie of door een hele reeks andere functies, hoewel wij ons niet bewust zijn van deze onderlinge verbondenheid van de verschillende functies in onszelf. De machine is op ieder moment van haar werkzaamheid in al haar onderdelen uitgebalanceerd. Als iemand in zichzelf iets ontdekt wat hem niet aanstaat en zich inspanningen getroost om dit te veranderen, zal hij misschien een zeker resultaat bereiken. Maar tegelijk met dit resultaat zal hij onvermijdelijk een ander resultaat verkrijgen dat hij niet in het minst verwachtte of wenste en dat hij niet kon hebben vermoed. Door er naar te streven alles te vernielen en te vernietigen wat hem niet aanstaat, door zijn inspanningen voor dit doel, verstoort hij het evenwicht van de machine. De machine streeft ernaar het evenwicht te herstellen en zij herstelt dit evenwicht dor een nieuwe functie te scheppen die de mens niet had kunnen voorzien.

Daarom moet iemand die op de juiste manier aan zichzelf werkt de mogelijkheid van compenserende veranderingen in aanmerking nemen en daarmee bij voorbaat rekening houden. Alleen op deze wijze is het mogelijk ongewenste veranderingen, of het optreden van eigenschappen die lijnrecht in strijd zijn met het doel en de richting van het werk, te vermijden.

Maar in het algemene systeem van werken en functioneren van de menselijke machine zijn bepaalde punten waarin een verandering kan worden teweeggebracht zonder dat dit aanleiding geeft tot het optreden van nevengevolgen.

Het is nodig deze punten te kennen en te weten hoe ze te benaderen, want als men niet met deze punten begint, worden ofwel in het geheel geen ofwel verkeerde en ongewenste resultaten bereikt.

Nadat een mens in zijn eigen geest het verschil tussen de intellect-, de emotie- en de bewegingsfuncties heeft vastgelegd, moet hij, wanneer hij zichzelf waarneemt, onmiddellijk zijn indrukken in de betreffende categorie onderbrengen. En aanvankelijk moet hij alleen die waarnemingen in zijn geest noteren waarover hij helemaal niet in twijfel verkeert, dat wil zeggen die waarvan hij onmiddellijk ziet tot welke categorie ze behoren. Hij moet alle vage en twijfelachtige gevallen terzijde laten en zich alleen die herinneren welke aan geen enkele twijfel onderhevig zijn. Als het werk op de juiste wijze wordt verricht, zal het aantal niet aan twijfel onderhevige waarnemingen snel toenemen. En wat eerst twijfelachtig scheen, zal weldra blijken duidelijk te behoren tot het eerste, het tweede of het derde centrum.

Ieder centrum heeft zijn eigen geheugen, zijn eigen associaties, zijn eigen denken. In feite bestaat ieder centrum uit drie delen:

het denkende
het voelende
het motorische

Maar wij weten heel weinig van deze kant van onze natuur af. In ieder centrum kennen wij slechts één deel. Zelfwaarneming zal ons echter heel spoedig tonen dat ons geestelijk leven veel rijker is, of in ieder geval dat het meer mogelijkheden bevat, dan wij denken.

Tegelijkertijd zullen wij bij het gadeslaan van het werk der centra behalve hun juiste ook hun verkeerde werking opmerken, dat wil zeggen het werken van het ene centrum voor het andere:

de pogingen van het denkcentrum om te voelen of te doen alsof het voelt,
de pogingen van het gevoelscentrum om te denken
en de pogingen van het bewegingscentrum om te denken en te voelen.

Zoals reeds eerder werd gezegd, is het soms nuttig als het ene centrum het werk van een ander overneemt, want dit waarborgt de continuïteit van onze psychische werkzaamheid. Maar wanneer dit een gewoonte wordt, wordt het tegelijk ook schadelijk: het begint de juiste werkzaamheid te verstoren doordat het ieder centrum de kans geeft zijn eigen directe plichten te verwaarlozen en te doen, niet wat het zou moeten doen, maar wat het op het ogenblik het liefste doet. In een normaal gezond mens doet ieder centrum zijn eigen werk, dat wil zeggen het werk waarvoor het speciaal bestemd is en dat het daardoor het beste kan verrichten.

Er doen zich in het leven situaties voor die alleen door het denkcentrum op de juiste wijze behandeld kunnen worden en waarvoor alleen dit centrum een uitweg kan vinden.

Als op dit moment echter het emotie-centrum begint te werken in plaats van het denkcentrum, zal het alles in de war sturen, en het resultaat van deze inmenging zal hoogst onbevredigend zijn.

In een onevenwichtig mens heeft dit overnemen door het ene centrum van het werk van een ander vrij voortdurend plaats, en dit is precies wat men 'onevenwichtig' of 'neurotische' noemt. Ieder centrum streeft er als het ware naar zijn werk af te schuiven op een ander en probeert tegelijkertijd het werk van een ander centrum te doen waarvoor het net is toegerust.

»["Mens" onderverdeeld volgens de trappen van de evolutie] [Dutch]

2008-06-03T04:47:00.000-07:00

** Mens nummer 1, 2 en 3 vormen de mechanische mensheid: dit zijn de mensen die op het peil zijn blijven staan waarop zij werden geboren. **
( > = de overhand hebben op)
( het weten )
( iedereen wordt geboren als mens nummer 1, nummer 2 of nummer 3)

Mens nummer 1: is de mens bij wie het zwaartepunt van zijn psychische leven ligt in het bewegingscentrum. Het is de mens van het fysieke lichaam, de mens in wie de bewegings- en instinct-functies voortdurend de overhand hebben op de emotie- en denkfuncties.
Dus: [bewegings- en instinct-functies] > [emotie- en denkfuncties]
Een weten dat gebaseerd is op nabootsing of op instincten, of dat uit het hoofd is geleerd, ingepompt of ingestampt. Een mens nummer 1, indien hij werkelijk een mens nummer 1 in de volle zin van het woord is, leert alles als een papegaai of een aap.

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Mens nummer 2: staat op hetzelfde peil van ontwikkeling, maar bij hem ligt het zwaartepunt van zijn psychische leven in het emotiecentrum; de mens dus bij wie de emotie-functies de overhand hebben op alle andere: de gevoelsmens, de emotionele mens.
Dus: [emotie-functies] > [bewegings- denk- en instinct-functies]
Enkel het weten van wat hij prettig vindt; wat hij niet prettig vindt, wil hij niet weten. Altijd en in alles wenst hij iets prettigs. Of, als hij ziek is, wil hij omgekeerd enkel weten wat hij niet prettig vindt, wat hem afstoot en wat angst, afschuw en walging in hem oproept.

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Mens nummer 3: staat ook op hetzelfde ontwikkelingspeil, maar bij hem ligt het zwaartepunt van zijn psychische leven in het intellect-centrum; met andere woorden, de mens in wie de denkfuncties de overhand hebben op de bewegings-, instinct- en emotie-functies; de verstandsmens, die overal een theorie voor heeft en altijd uitgaat van verstandelijke overwegingen.
Dus: [denkfuncties] > [bewegings-, instinct- en emotie-functies]
Een weten gebaseerd op subjectief logisch denken, op woorden, op letterlijk begrip. Het is het weten van boekenwurmen, van schoolse geleerden. Mens nummer 3 hebben bijvoorbeeld geteld hoeveel maal iedere letter van het Arabische alfabet in de Koran voorkomt en hebben daarop een heel stelsel van Koran-interpretatie gebouwd.

** Mens nummer 4 is een tussenstadium. **

Mens nummer 4 wordt niet kant en klaar geboren. Hij wordt geboren als nummer 1, nummer 2 of nummer 3 en wordt pas mens nummer 4 als gevolg van inspanningen van zeer bepaalde aard. Mens nummer 4 is altijd het produkt van schoolwerk. De mens kan niet als zodanig worden geboren, noch zich toevallig of als resultaat van de gewonde invloeden van opvoeding, onderwijs en cultuur tot mens nummer vier ontwikkelen. Mens nummer 4 staat reeds op een ander niveau dan mens nummer 1, 2 of 3; hij heeft een duurzaam zwaartepunt dat bestaat uit zijn denkbeelden, uit zijn besef van de waarde van het werk, en uit zijn relatie tot de school. Bovendien zijn zijn psychische centra reeds begonnen in evenwicht te komen; één centrum kan in hem niet meer zo de andere overheersen als bij de mensen van de eerste drie categorieën. Mens nummer 4 begint zichzelf reeds te kennen en begint te weten waarheen hij gaat.
Het weten van mens nummer 4 is een heel ander soort weten. Het is een weten afkomstig van mens nummer 5, die het ontvangen heeft van nummer 6, die het op zijn beurt weer van nummer 7 heeft ontvangen. Natuurlijk neemt mens nummer 4 van dit weten alleen datgene op waartoe zijn vermogens hem in staat stellen. Maar vergeleken met mens nummer 1,2 en 3 begint mens nummer 4 vrij te komen van de subjectieve elementen in zijn weten en het pad op te gaan naar het objectieve weten.

** Mens nummer 5 is een voor ons onbereikbaar menselijk niveau, want hij heeft eenheid bereikt.**

Mens nummer 5 is reeds uitgekristalliseerd; hij kan niet meer zo voortdurend veranderen als mens nummer 1, 2 en 3. Opgemerkt dient echt te worden dat mens nummer 5 zowel het resultaat van juist werk als van verkeerd werk kan zijn. Hij kan nummer 5 zijn geworden na nummer 4 geweest te zijn en hij kan 5 zijn geworden zonder eerst 4 te zijn geweest. In dit laatste geval kan hij zich echter niet verder ontwikkelen, kan hij geen nummer 6 of 7 worden. Om nummer 6 te worden, moet hij zijn reeds uitgekristalliseerde essentie weer oplossen, moet hij doelbewust zijn 'zijn' van mens nummer 5 verliezen. En dit kan alleen door vreselijk lijden worden bereikt. Gelukkig komen deze gevallen van verkeerde ontwikkeling heel zelden voor.
Het weten van mens nummer 5 is één geheel en ondeelbaar. Hij heeft nu een-en-ondeelbaar Ik en al zijn kennis behoort tot dit Ik. Hij kan niet een 'ik' hebben dat iets weet wat een ander 'ik' niet weet. Wat hij weet, weet hij met zijn gehele wezen. Zijn weten staat dichter bij het objectieve weten dan dat van mens nummer 4.

** Mens nummer 6 staat heel dicht bij mens nummer 7. Hij verschilt enkel hierin van hem, dat sommige van zijn eigenschappen nog niet duurzaam zijn geworden.**

Het weten van mens nummer 6 is het volledige weten dat voor de mens mogelijk is; maar het kan nog verloren gaan.

** Mens nummer 7 is een mens die ten volle de ontwikkeling heeft bereikt die voor de mens mogelijk is en alles bezit wat de mens kan bezitten, dat wil zeggen: wil, bewustzijn, een duurzaam en onveranderlijk 'Ik', individualiteit, onsterfelijkheid en vele andere eigenschappen die wij onszelf in blindheid en onwetendheid toeschrijven. Alleen wanneer wij tot op zekere hoogte mens nummer 7 en zijn eigenschappen begrijpen, kunnen wij ook de geleidelijk te doorlopen stadia begrijpen waarlangs wij hem kunnen benaderen, dat wil zeggen het voor ons mogelijke ontwikkelingsproces. **

Het weten van mens nummer 7 is zijn eigen weten dat hem niet meer ontnomen kan worden; het is het objectieve en volledig praktische weten van Alles.

2008-06-03T04:34:00.000-07:00

Now the exams are over and I finally have some free time, I decided to write down what I have learned so far etc.

What really 'woke' me up that made me think of my blog was this piece from [In Search of the Miraculous]:

"Fusion, inner unity, is obtained by means of 'friction,' by the struggle between 'yes' and 'no' in man. If a man lives without inner struggle, if everything happens in him without opposition, if he goes wherever he is drawn or wherever the wind blows, he will remain such as he is. But if a struggle begins in him, and particularly if there is a definite line in this struggle, then, gradually, permanent traits begin to form themselves, he begins to 'crystallize.'

And if you look at my previous post:

"I'll go where the wind takes me."

So I decided to keep on writing, so that I don't forget the questions I have, because further reading, networking and observing can maybe answer those questions.

Up Date - message

2008-01-06T10:09:00.000-08:00

It's been a long time since I have posted anything. It is because many things have happened, I had to cut some of my connections, because they seemed to be clearly Petty Tyrants.

Now I have made a planning for myself to keep myself reading and doing The Work.

I'll go where the wind takes me.

¤ * De kometen zijn op weg. The comets are on their way.

2007-11-06T04:45:00.000-08:00

Zie hier het youtube filmpje gemaakt door de Signs of the Times team:

Zie ook de blog van de SOTT team over Meteorieten en Vuurballen :
Klik hier.

C's:

The only defense needed is knowledge. Knowledge defends you against every possible form of harm in existence. The more knowledge you have, the less fear you have, the less pain you have, the less stress you feel, the less anguish you feel, and the less danger you experience of any form or sort. Think of this very carefully now for this is very important: Where is there any limitation in the concept behind the word "knowledge"? Being that there is no limitation, what is the value of that word? Infinite. Can you conceive of how that one concept, that one meaning frees you from all limitation? Use your sixth sense to conceive of how the word, the term, the meaning of knowledge can provide with all that you could possibly ever need. If you think carefully you will begin to see glimpses of how this is true in its greatest possible form.