“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
- O’Brien, 1984
These pictures come from the church of the Gesu, headquarters of the Jesuits in Rome. The symbolism here couldn’t be any more apparent. This is the architecture of men who pretend to serve God, but who in reality believe themselves to be gods.
[Editor's note: I actually wrote this in February but the only thing that has changed between now and then is that it is more obvious now than it was then. It will only continue to get more and more obvious as time goes on.]
Roosevelt’s dramatic “bank holiday” gave many people the idea that something fishy was happening. Now, we are watching our economy being completely re-engineered in front of our faces. We are going through wave after wave of interest rate cuts. We are watching the Federal Reserve loaning tens of billions of dollars to the major banks (the banks that, coincidentally, own the Federal Reserve) who can use their fractional reserve power to turn it into hundreds of billions of dollars and overwhelm our economy.
People cheer as Wall Street rallies, but they should be crying. Wall Street’s investments are being protected to the detriment of every person living on any sort of fixed wage or income (everybody at the bottom) whose spending power is evaporating. The main beneficiaries of inflation are the big guys who get the low interest rate loans and can invest for high returns.
Some of us have watched these overextended banks struggle for liquidity to pay their bills for quite a while now. The big ones like Citibank are notorious for laundering huge amounts of drug money. Now they are getting huge slashes in interest rates, every few weeks more of the big ones take out about ten billion or so, and the latest headline I saw said another 50 BILLION dollars was secretly loaned to the big banks by the Fed. Thanks to fractional reserve, that can become up to 500-600 of interest bearing loans (which will “pay off” that 50 billion they created out of thin air in no time flat). The new indentured servitude laws were set up well in advance by the “bankruptcy reform” package passed a few years ago in fatter times — you will owe your creditors for life, and they will control your assets.
What I’m saying is, on page one they’re telling us news every bit as big as Roosevelt’s bank holiday, that our economy is being completely re-engineered and centralized on a scale we have never seen before. On page two, Britney Spears’ latest breakdown. On page three, Lindsay Lohan is taking her clothes off. So people don’t even realize.
Am I saying it’s time to get up, get pissed, get aggressive and protest? Not really. But it is time to know. Money serves its creators. That’s why the faces of their gods, and their alchemical symbols are plastered all over the Federal Reserve Note. It carries their mark, their brand. This doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Humanity was perfectly fine, and much healthier morally, before the creation of this thing called money. We can become that again, or even stronger, if we do not allow the banker class to stage-manage this economic collapse to their own ends.
Speaking of marks, brands, and branding, I plan to get into that in an upcoming post.
As will probably become apparent pretty quickly, I am interested in symbols and in all the different meanings symbols are given over the ages. I have dabbled through reading alchemical texts, and there is a basic understanding of the meanings behind the symbols that must be understood to get much out of them.
A common theme in alchemy is the (re)union of man and woman back into the singular form, the Hermaphrodite (child of Hermes and Aphrodite). This is the symbology of the “chemical marriage” of the Sun and the Moon. In this old alchemical picture, the different shapes presumably correspond to the man and the woman depicted standing in the middle. As you can see, an architect or “builder” has put the man and the woman together on the wall and encircled them in one form.
I could speculate more about the symbology here, but for someone at my level of understanding, it would be just that - speculation. For the moment, what really interests me about this picture is that I know I have seen something like that before. Lo and behold, I trundled off to a nearby public restroom and took some photos (of the outside of the door, mind you). Either this Grand Architect was designing the first Unisex chamber pot, or whoever designs the restroom signs nowadays is well-versed in their alchemical symbolism. Or, I need more sleep.
I have some more original content in development. I have some ideas for short entries with pictures, as well as longer essays I’ve been batting around in my head which may take some extensive reading and time to put together, but I feel a need to get these ideas out of my head, and perhaps others will want to revisit some bits of popular culture with new eyes.
I’ll be using music clips to illustrate some points as well, once I have enough material to justify using them. In music especially, so many songs have both an exoteric and an esoteric meaning for those who explore such things.
I’ve opened this blog up for user accounts. Someday there might actually be a benefit to this, as in, additional content available to users only. No benefit at the moment beyond the ability to modify your own posts.
Look on the sidebar, under “Meta,” for the Register link.
If you’ve done one Wordpress blog, you’ve done a million. I will investigate OpenID, soon.
This film is one of the first documentaries that really, really moved me. Aaron Russo has since passed on after a long struggle with cancer.
I have a feeling the topic of ID chips (mentioned late in the film) will be a dominating topic in our lives.
Some off-the-cuff Aaron Russo, having real interactions with real people, behind the cut –
Now that I’m starting to build up a small audience, I am so ready to alienate them with weird stuff!
You’ve seen the demolitions analysis of 9/11, the socio-political analysis of 9/11, now you must take in the “synchromystic” analysis of 9/11. This is for the people who are curious about the occultism that seems to run through the ranks of our rulers.
If George Carlin was one inspiration for this site, this man was the other.
I love this bit of Bill Hicks especially because it reminds me of the moment in my own life when I said, as in the clip, “Oh my GOD!!! It’s a totalitarian government which rules the world via the airwaves, partitioning information to the masses!!!” I consider it my First Awakening.
The bit about Jesus is unforgettable, too. “Get Pilate to release the fuckin’ files! Quit washing your hands and release the files! Who else was on that Grassy Golgotha that day? Oh yeah, the three Roman peasants with the $100 sandals…”
Another good Parenti talk, in this one he gets into the incestuous relationship between church and state. He makes a great point about how the term “materialism” is abused by religious organizations.
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Alan Watt is an internet radio personality whose talks I have learned quite a bit from. I discovered him not long after I really started tuning into Alex Jones and “conspiracy culture” and had begun to really grapple with the questions that were coming up for me. It’s comfortable (I use the term loosely) to think that something went wrong in the Bush era, or when Kennedy was whacked, or a hundred years ago.
The truth is far less comfortable. As long as humanity has been settling in numbers, we have dealt with this problem of an elite who fancy themselves climbing the mountain to godhood on the backs of the humanity below. Alan Watt ties together history (and hidden history), linguistics, science, art, philosophy (including Plato!), mythology, symbolism, and a splash of the occult, casting a bit of light on the hidden religion of the elite and their symbolic language.
Whenever sharing a talk about “The Masons” and so on, I have to share my personal view that rank and file Freemasons are no more and no less duped than the members of any other religion. Christians and Masons especially love to get at each other’s throats; all I see in both cases are hierarchical power structures and obedience to them. The symbology mentioned here supercedes Freemasonry and all of the other esoteric groups of our time.
Alan started with blurbs and videos, but now has his own show on RBN.
Eugenics was very popular in the United States, even after Hitler made it a dirty word. Many states had adopted eugenics programs, forcing sterilization on “undesirables” on the idea that the last thing the world needed was more [Indians|Blacks|Mexicans|retarded|poor] people.
Eugenics is still practiced, but through less overt means (ie, they use social/economic pressure rather than force). Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood fame was a supporter of eugenics, and as Michael Parenti points out in one of his talks, abortion was always acceptable in right wing circles because it meant less minority children (poor people have more abortions than rich people) until it was recognized that it was an issue that could be used to bring in Catholic Democrats (formerly a strong backing — think Kennedy).
North Carolina and California were the two biggest offenders in state-sponsored sterilization in the United States. The following is a brave feature by the Winston-Salem Journal, a North Carolina paper, on their state’s eugenics program. This was the feature that got me interested in this topic to begin with. I’ve yet to see a publication in open-minded, freedom-loving California which has spoken as candidly about our state’s scientific oppression.