Pieces Of The Puzzle (II)

I don't know whether you realize this or not - but there are many things that even here in this fairly secluded place, I am not permitted to talk about. 

And that's sad for me, because one of my 'fears' is how far removed are people becoming, from genuine authentic factual knowledge of science and history and I suppose, human thinking as formalized by great figures of the past and even the present.

Idiosyncratically, a wide section of the public is easily attracted to 'darker' themes - magic, witchcraft, demonology, Satanism; all those sorts of subjects. Whether it is like rubber-necking, lurid details having their own magnetic properties to the human mind... ...likely it is that.

Let's go there soon, okay?

No one deliberately wishes mere harm and disaster upon themselves. 

And I would not be interested so much if they were proceeding with a good grasp on sound knowledge about these subjects and areas of research - except that too often, what they have (and it is especially so today, when YouTube channels tend to proliferate nonsense but with the tenor of a learned voice) is a very mistaken idea wrapped in some catchphrase or 'special' word.

Thus we cannot separate modern meanings of various words that originally meant quite other things than what are currently widely supposed in error.

Here's an example:

All the ancient writings about 'Alchemy' speak of chemical fire (aqua regia; nitric acid and hydrochloric acid) being able to solve the mystery of making gold from dross - and yet no one in the occult fields want to discuss 'dichroic glass,' and Florentine ruby glass as much as they want to talk about some other 'magical' purpose of 'Alchemical transmutation.'

And so to 'solve, dissolve, and resolve' are words/phrases which have taken on very arcane, metaphysical and mysterious meanings.

We are losing intellectual depth in our literature and in our cultural idioms.

The shawl is obvious, but the rest of the fabric is
gold shot Thai silk. Yeah - real gold.

Take the Bond Movie 'Goldfinger...' 

Goldfinger is the first time we actually hear Bond himself set out the iconic Bond instructions on the Martini. Dr No was the very first time we hear it in the films, but Dr No utters the famous words there, not James Bond.

We hear an immense amount everywhere among aficionados about Auric Goldfinger and about the gold tie-ins within the story - and I have never seen anyone that much pay attention to the glass Bond drinks the martini from in the movie, nor to the exotic style of tuxedo Goldfinger wears in the movie.

Transgenderism is not new by any means at all in our culture and mass entertainment: Fleming talks about it via the character 'Tilly Masterson' and in a number of other places in a variety of his books, including in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' which 'could have' been written by his wife Anne Rothermere, rather than by Fleming himself.

You could easily find yourself in a heated argument these days as to whether the producers actually realized what type of cocktail glass bond was using in Goldfinger, or if it was not simply an accident and a co-incidence...

Florentine glass-wear; it's hardly a typical Martini glass is it

So yes, it is tonight here the middle of the Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, and it is at the same time the Summer Solstice in the North where people will gather around the tables of the giants for what they think are rituals related to modern-day pagan ideas they have.

Stonehenge is a killing place and an eating place for gluttonous beings.

The more people 'celebrate' there, the more likely it is they will unleash some subtle metaphysical effect...

On the other hand, hidden in the most apparently inhospitable, deep and dark Winter reaches - even as it were an abyss itself - is a tiny advancing lantern...

To which will you go?