Letter Never Sent

The Father (Heavenly god, sun or sky God, remote and inscrutable) = El (Canaanite for ‘Lord’) = Yahweh = Allah = Zeus = Odin = Elohim = Osiris

And let us not forget that our God, the God of the desert religions, is like this El in yet another significant way – He is constantly being spoken to on mountains and high places. Where did Moses commune with God? Mount Sinai. Where was the Temple built? Mount Moriah. Where did Yeshua give the beatitudes and pray frequently to His Father? Mount Olivet. What was seen as one of the most sacred places in Jerusalem? Mount Tsion. El, our God and their God, is a God of High Places! Perhaps that is why Melchizedek and Abraham gave him the title El Elyon, or God Most High.

The Mother or Consort (Earth Goddess, immanent, nurturing, intercessor, mediatrix) = Asherah = Ea = Inanna = Isis = Demeter = Mary (virgin AND mother)

The Mother is the weeping Demeter, crying for her daughter, the mother-of-all Gaia, or the wife Hera. Her powers go to support her children or husband. In one form she is also Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. She is any mythological figure devoted to her child.

The Son (Intercessor, messiah, earthly incarnation, human, infant, sacrificial god, male fertility) = Jesus (Yeshua) = Ba’al = Marduk = Dionysus = Adonis = Amun

Dionysos, of course, explicitly combined all these aspects: at once the ecstatic ithyphallic god of orgy, the divine infant Iakchos and the sacrificial god who was torn to pieces to be resurrected. …

The interesting thesis of Mr. J.M. Robertson that a mystery play underlies the story of the Passion seems to receive support from the discovery of some cuneiform tablets relating to the Babylonian god Marduk, whose death and resurrection were dramatically represented long before the Christian era. Marduk, the son of Ea and intercessor with his father for mankind, was tried, condemned to death, slain, buried in a mountain cave, and raised to life. He is also said to have visited “the spirits in prison” (a curious parallel to I Peter iii. 19). Possibly some form of this dramatic mystery was known in certain heterodox circles of Judaism. …

DID YOU KNOW that Jesus made wine out of water like DIONYSOS; walked on water like POSEIDON; was born in a stable like HORUS; was buried in a rock tomb like MITHRAS; was born of a virgin on the eve of the winter solstice like TAMMUZ; was mourned and found by women like ATTIS; performed “medical” miracles like AESCULAPIUS; was arrested, sentenced, chastised. Put to death with another malefactor as the god in the BAAL-MARDUK legend; his mother became “Queen of Heaven” as ASHTORETH- ASTARTE (compare Jeremiah 7:18); he rose from the dead like MITHRA; was a “son of god” like PHARAOH, and all the pagan Roman Caesars etc.

The Daughter (Celestial female consciousness, fertility, intercessor) = Diana = Mary (virgin AND mother) = Anut = Isis = Ishtar = Aphrodite = Persephone

Everyone, who reads the Bible and sees how expressly it declares that, as there is only “one God”, so there is only “one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,” (1 Tim 2:5), must marvel . . . . “How it could ever have entered the mind of anyone to bestow on Mary, as is done by the Church of Rome, the character of the ‘Mediatrix’.” But the character ascribed to the Babylonian goddess as Mylitta sufficiently accounts for this. In accordance with this character of Mediatrix, she was called “Aphrodite”. . . . that is, “the wrath-subduer” * . . . . who by her charms could soothe the breast of angry Jove (the god Jupiter), and soften the most rugged spirits of gods or mortal-men. In Athens she was called Amarusia (PAUSANIAS). . . . that is, “The Mother of gracious acceptance”. ** …

The goddess has been interpreted in three aspects: the virgin, the mother, and the crone. The virgin is the youthful girl and young woman, the new moon of potential. The mother is the full moon, pregnant with life. The crone is the wise old woman, the waning moon, who understands death’s mystery. The virgin archetypes are ever popular, for they are pleasing to men. The mother archetype also pleases and serves men, for mothers take care of boys and men and give them children. In Christianity, where the trinity is cast in masculine terms, the goddess survives as Mary, a combination of virgin and mother. But the crone, the most powerful aspect of the feminine deity, has become invisible and unwanted ever since the goddess and her animals were declared profane.

Occasionally, a virgin archetype survives in popular culture. The half-woman/half-fish mermaid is associated with the goddess in her virgin, or maiden, aspect. The mermaid can swim in the realms of the unconscious and live in the watery world of mystery. Fear of the intuitive maiden’s power has resulted in trivializing the mermaid, or making her a temptress who lures men to their death. The maiden is also referred to as the nymph, a free-spirited child. But too often the maiden qualities, which are sexually attractive to men, become distorted and the nymph unfairly becomes the nymphomaniac.

From the BBC, Saudis lash out at Christian extremism:

One newspaper, Watani, said the international media had concentrated only on Muslim fundamentalism, forgetting that Christian fundamentalism was just as dangerous.

The paper said the influence of Christian extremists in America had increased since the attacks on New York and the Pentagon last year.

The paper said Christian fundamentalism in the US was particularly dangerous because it was capable of influencing American foreign policy to further its own interests which, the paper added, were identical with Israeli interests in the Middle East.

Another newspaper, The Saudi Gazette, said Christian fundamentalists in the US were raising what it described as “dust of hatred” about Saudi Arabia, and it called on President Bush to rein in elements whose agenda was to initiate a clash of civilizations.

Lunatic Christian fundamentalists are happy with current events. They expect armageddon any day now. This is scary, especially since Bush is one of these ‘born-again’ uber-fundamentalist Christians. Since I grew up as a Southern Baptist I can tell you that Bush really scares me. I went to a church full of ‘born-again’ hypocrites every week who treated religion like a ‘get out of jail free’ card. There’s nothing more sickening than being surrounded by insincere, stupid, creepy, self-righteous, and hateful people who think they belong to God’s special club of true believers. Growing up with religious fundamentalists can really make you feel insane. I still remember being about 11-12 and obsessed with the Rapture and Armageddon. I was terrified that the Anti-Christ would come and my family would be beheaded for being Christians while I would be branded with a ‘666’ on the forehead for not believing in God. I would often lie awake at night just absolutely petrified and anxious. I’m not sure how much I really believed in all that, but people around me were certain it is was going to happen, and it scared the crap out of me. To know Bush believes something similar is terrifying.

From Philip K. Dick’s Divine Interference by Erik Davis:

Just as William Blake condensed the coming horrors of industrialism into his image of “Satanic mills,” Dick’s Black Iron Prison imaginatively captured the “disciplinary apparatus” of power analyzed by historian Michel Foucault. Demonstrating that prisons, mental institutions, schools, and military establishments all share similar organizations of space and time, Foucault argued that a “technology of power” was distributed throughout social space, enmeshing human subjects at every turn. Foucault argued that liberal social reforms are only cosmetic brush-ups of an underlying mechanism of control. As Dick put it, “The Empire never ended.”

Related:

• Jerusalem by William Blake
• By networking information they are networking hierarchical observation on a global level. As philosopher Michel Foucault wrote before he’d even heard of the Internet:The perfect disciplinary apparatus would make it possible for a single gaze to see everything constantly. A central point would be both the source of light illuminating everything, and a locus of convergence for everything that must be known;… This idea is similar to Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, a prison he designed.
• The New Panopticon: The Internet Viewed as a Structure of Social Control
• War as a tool for social control: Near the end of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union was about to self-destruct, Boris Yeltsin made a very revealing comment to the US government. He said, “We are going to do something very terrible to you. We are going to deprive you of an enemy.” The forever ‘WAR against TERROR’ is the new paradigm of social control.

From 1984: Theory of Hierarchical Society by Emmanuel Goldstein

Chapter 4: God is Power

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And so it remains true that the first critique is the critique of religion; the first revolt is against the supreme tyrannies of theology and the phantom of God. Ever since the fantasy of a Divine Being took shape in humanity’s imagination, God — all gods, and among them above all the God of the Christians — has always taken the side of the strong and the rich against the ignorant and impoverished masses. Through his presence, he has blessed the most revolting privileges, the basest oppressions, and the vilest of exploitations.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth, and our reason and ability to create our own lives will be annulled. As long as we believe that we must unconditionally obey — and, vis-a-vis God, no other obedience is possible — we must of necessity passively and totally submit, without the least reservation, to the holy authority of all his agents, messiahs, prophets, divinely-inspired lawmakers, emperors, kings, and all their functionaries and ministers, representatives and consecrated servants of the two greatest institutions which impose themselves upon us, and which are established by God himself to rule over men and women — namely, the Church and the State. All temporal or human authority stems directly from spiritual and/or divine authority.

Authority is the negation of freedom, of human self-determination and self-management. God, or rather the fiction of God, is the consecration and the intellectual and moral source of all slavery on earth, and the freedom of humanity will never be complete until the disastrous and insidious fiction of a heavenly master is annihilated. To annihilate totally hierarchical power and thereby bring about human equality, it is necessary to annihilate God; to “kill” God, it is necessary to annihilate totally hierarchical earthly power. This is the inner secret of the slogan GOD IS POWER.

From The Guardian, flag-burning, peacenik orthodox jews. Awesome.:

The group is part of Neturei Karta, an anti-Zionist sect of the Orthodox Jewish community which is passionately opposed to the state of Israel and its government’s treatment of the Palestinian population. Since they are forbidden to use transport on the Sabbath, a few of its younger, fitter members have made the two-hour journey from Stamford Hill on foot in their Saturday dress of prayer shawls and fur-rimmed hats. Despite their prominent position in full view of the thousands below, they seem perfectly composed, holding a Palestinian flag and a placard bearing the slogan ‘End the occupation’. They don’t want to speak, so one of the organisers reads a statement on their behalf. It condemns, in no uncertain terms, the ‘atrocities committed by the Zionist regime’, lamenting ‘the plight of the Palestinian people’. …

It is the largest event that 35-year-old Alter Hochhauser, one of the four, has ever attended. He breaks into a smile when he recalls afterwards, in slightly halting English, what making such a public statement meant to him. ‘I was feeling very good. I always thought the Arab people have nothing against the Jews, only Zionism. The Zionist propaganda is so strong, that the Arabs would kill the Jewish people, but I knew it was not true. Now I saw it with my own eyes, how happy they were with us.’ His friend Elhanan Beck is also heartened by the impact of their presence. ‘I think many people changed their mind about Jewish people when they saw us,’ he says. …

And the power of peace-making and love.

And for Hochhauser, recalling his big day out at the demo, it’s worth it. ‘Somebody came to me; he said for 39 years he had hated the Jews. And now, when he saw us, he felt he had to come and shake hands with us. There were tears in his eyes.’

I have a few things to say for you. Haven’t we learned anything? Non-violence tastes great and is less filling. Remember the Sermon on the Mount from Sunday School?

• Matt 5:5: Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.
• Matt 5:7: Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy
• Matt 5:9: Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.
• Matt 5:20: Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment.
• Matt 39: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
  40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy
  coat, let him have thy cloak also.
  41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
  42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
  43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
  44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
  45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
  46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
  47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
  48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Pretty nice article. Makes me want to read that book.

A French Philosopher [Jean Baudrillard] Talks Back to Hollywood and ‘The Matrix’

This apocalyptic message owes something to the work of the science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-82), a cult figure who wrote extensively about the moral problems that result when the distinctions between the natural and synthetic began to blur through cloning, artificial intelligence and android technology. Mr. Dick foresaw a future in which synthetic beings were mass-produced to be used as soldiers, assassins, Stepford-style love slaves and synthetic families next door, manufactured to keep settlers company when humans colonize other planets.

His most widely known novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” ? made into the wildly successful film “Blade Runner” ? centered on synthetic beings that escape servitude to pass as human, only to be tracked down and “retired” by a bounty killer. Hollywood’s indifference to the moral fine points was evident by the way it changed the plot. The bounty killer in Mr. Dick’s novel returns home to a realistically problematic marriage and a flesh-and-blood wife. In the movie, he falls in love and runs away with a synthetic woman manufactured by a firm whose motto is “More human than human.” Since “Blade Runner,” erotic involvement between humans and androids has evolved into a new form of soft-core cinema porn.

The hero of “The Matrix,” played by Keanu Reeves, has the dignity to decline when offered an intimate digital encounter with a virtual blonde. This is a nice touch ? and one of many references to Mr. Baudrillard’s theories ? but not enough to keep the movie from succumbing to the techno- and cyber-chauvinism that the philosopher hammers away at in “Simulacra and Simulation.”

1. Reality of Simulation Great Baudrillard site
2. America, America . . . (From Paraxysm, Verso 1998 – A great collection of Interviews by Philippe Petit) interview with Baudrillard
3. Buy it online at amazon

lyrics by Woody Guthrie

Let’s have Christ for President.
Let us have him for our King.
Cast your vote for the Carpenter
that you call the Nazarene.

The only way we can ever beat
these crooked politician men
Is to run the money changers out of the temple
And put the Carpenter in
O It’s Jesus Christ for president
God above our king
With a job and a pension for young and old
We will make hallelujah ring

Every year we waste enough
to feed the ones who starve
We build our civilization up
and we shoot it down with wars
But with the Carpenter on the seat
away up in the capital town
The USA would be on the way prosperity bound!

Interesting article in The London Times on new evidence relating to the destruction of the Knights Templar by the Vatican and Prince Philip the Fair. This episode is the main reason the Masons have a historical animosity towards the Catholic Church:

Vatican file shows pope pardoned massacred Knights

L’Avvenire, the Catholic daily, said that the record of the Pope’s investigation was thought to have been lost when Napoleon looted the Vatican during his invasion of Italy in the 18th century, and that its rediscovery was an exceptional event.

The Templar Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, was burnt at the stake on the orders of Philip IV of France (known as Philip the Fair), who coveted the Templar order’s land and treasure and began a campaign of dawn arrests and torture in 1307. At least 2,000 Knights were killed in an attempt to obliterate the order altogether. It was revived in the 18th century as part of the masonic movement, which is said to have inherited some of the Templars’ secret rituals.

Barbara Frale, a researcher at the Vatican School of Paleontology, said that the consensus among historians was that Clement V, who was himself French and a former Archbishop of Bordeaux, had been pliant and weak, and had colluded in Philip the Fair’s scheme to wipe out the Templars and seize their fortune. But documents found in the Vatican archives, including a long-lost parchment, proved that the Pope had in fact manoeuvred ‘with skill and determination’ to ensure that his own emissaries questioned de Molay and other leading Templars in the dungeons of Chinon castle in the Loire in 1308, in what amounted to a papal trial.

Signora Frale, who is writing a book based on the Chinon parchment, told the Italian monthly Hera, a journal of historical mysteries, that the result was the complete exoneration of the Knights.

The Pope had accepted the Knights� explanation that the charges against them of sodomy and blasphemy were due to a misunderstanding of arcane rituals behind closed doors which had their origins in the Crusaders� bitter struggle against the Muslims, or Saracens. These included �denying Christ and spitting on the Cross three times�, as well as �kissing other men�s behinds�. Adriano Forgione, editor of Hera, said that these were intended to simulate the kind of humiliation and torture that a Crusader might be subjected to by the Saracens if captured. They were taught how to abuse their own religion �with the mind only and not with the heart�.

The Knights Templar � properly called The Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon � were founded during the early Crusades in the 12th century, when they protected pilgrims to the Holy Land, together with the Hospitallers (or Knights of St John). The Templars were so called because they were given part of the former Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem as their headquarters.

Noting that de Molay and the Knights had asked his pardon, the Pope wrote: �We hereby decree that they are absolved by the church and may again receive Christian sacraments.� Signor Forgione said that the Pope had failed to make this absolution public because the scandal of the Templars had aroused extreme passions and he feared a church schism. Philip IV had de Molay and other Templar leaders put to death before the Pope�s verdict could be published, and it was subsequently lost.

.heramagazine.net/home2.html”>Hera Magazine of Archaeological Mysteries I hope you can read Italian. If not you might try translating it with google.