Wiki Is Rubbish

And just quickly, to demonstrate the logic and force of my argument, if you look at the Wikipedia entry for the 'History of the Knights Templar' you will see this totally illogical jump (in the paragraph titled 'Rise Of') from the moment Hugo de Payens forms the group in Champagne in France, to go along with pilgrims and to protect them - to some point quite a long time afterwards and which encompasses numerous battles along the way with Saladin, when de Payens has established some troops finally, inside the Temple of Solomon (so-called now, because there's really no such thing since after Tiberius Caesar), following which this group is referred to THEN as 'Templars.' But not before. They could have been called 'Knights Pilgrimers,' but not Knights Templars at the beginning, where they were nowhere near a temple and had no clue they would ever end up there at that specific one in particular in Jerusalem. It is not, for instance, the location of the birthplace of their deity - Jesus Christ.

'Coins of The Templars' you can get today
with a lot of accurate detail in them

Knights of the Temple of Solomon is not what they called themselves.

And so it's pretty foolish of these modern day people to appropriate what is in every respect, in the first place, a false name...

And then there's all this added nonsense about the Kabala or the so-called Jewish 'MerKaBah.' In actuality, the signs and symbols on the walls and ceilings of the Chapel of Montsaunes, are all to do with the Constantine labaron or labarum (in Latin). They have nothing whatsoever to do with any Jewish occult symbolism, which is entirely meaningless and powerless in an occult sense, and rather everything to do with certain astro-symbolic depictions about human spiritual composition, the Egyptian temple priests employed. 

You see, no one can really establish anything significant and substantial that creates strong group bonds and generates wealth and political and military power unless the ideas they are using genuinely have some actual and decisive, function. They cannot be just, albeit learned, speculation, whether philosophical or metaphysical - as the Jewish Kabala (and/or MerKaBah) symbology, if I may use that word, is.

And if the ideas are simply 'group or mass psychology' techniques - as so much of modern popular entertainment and culture is - then one need not subscribe to the presences of any 'secrets' or occult practices or powers.

Al Aqsa mosque today - where there is armed violence
taking place now... In some occult circles, a signal of
some terrible event of global import.

There is no record that Hugh de Payens was some sort of spectacular orator or charismatic leader. What there is is a persisting suggestion that he was deeply involved - and his entire Order as well - in some sort of occult or magical practices and beliefs and ideas. With the result of amassing a marvelous fortune still supposed to be around to this day albeit in some covert form or in secret locations. 

Against this folklore, lies the fact of the Order's destruction and murder by Philip of Navarre. And so, it seems that their 'power' had its limitations.

The lesson here though, is one about keeping one's wealth extremely quiet, for it seems that nothing is more true in this world, than that there are always very dangerous and powerful as well as malicious forces, ever ready to take what is not theirs, and to do away with the real owners. As in, to murder them for profit and for gain, both of more power and of their victim's estates and even to steal their fame as if it belonged to the thief in the first place.

They Don't Know

One of the most insidious aspects of the internet is the sheer amount of repetition of a complete falsehood that of course is eventually bound to become its own cultural or social reality, falsely-based though it is.

To make matters worse still, if a subject is trampled all over by 'academics' then the error is likely never to be even considered by any objective publicly-known mind because it will never see the light of day via the public's internet 'real truth' consciousness, if I may put it that way. I have previously questioned how it is, for example, that male commentators are giving their renditions in a lot of modern history, of what went on inside an exclusively female, and highly secretive, sanctuary - that of the Parthenon. To put it bluntly, what you read everywhere about what was taught there and what went on there - is categorically wrong. Nevertheless though, this male folkloric vision of one particular historical matter (just one example of many), is now 'academically' sanctioned 'truth.' But it's rubbish.

The Parthenon as it really was

Right now there is a global underground, well not really underground, movement, of latter day 'Knights Templar,' who want to go on modern era crusades using automatic rifles and modern military equipment and this kind of thing. They have adopted signs and symbols of the olden days' Templar Knights without having a single correct clue about what any of it represents.

The so-called 'secrets revealed' of Masons too, often from the very Masonic lodges themselves really shows you this tendency to repeat some apparently credible belief, which if you apply common sense to, cannot be true at all, yet it is believed even by the modern day members of these official organisations. For example - just one example - the letter 'G' inside the compass and set-square... I mean you even see it in Westminster Abbey, on the mosaic groundwork - architectural figures and motifs, none of which make real sense to anyone from any of the genuine aristocratic Houses, but that are treated with great reverence and some very misguided belief as to their 'hidden meanings.' There are none, other than that the person who drew them or designed them and caused them to be built there hadn't a clue about what he was talking about. Yes there IS a geometric square 'idea' or 'concept' that has some importance and some covert meaning to aristocrats - but it is not the one in Westminster Abbey.

All of the popular 'revelations' about the Masonic 'secrets' say the letter 'G' stands for 'Grand Architect (of the Universe, no less) and for 'God.' But it does not. If the symbol represents an ancient 'G' then it would stand for the modern English letter 'C' because that is what 'Gamma' is. And, if it really stands for the letter where we now have the English alphabet 'G' then it would (and does, or at least should) stand for the Greek letter 'Theta.

Again, take for another example, the emblem of the Italian sports car company Alfa Romeo - everyone, even the official current era company bosses, says the emblem is the crest of Milan, and the biscioni (viper eating a Moor) crest feature of the Visconti Family. Well apart from my coming from a Venetian family personally, I am married into the major rival family of the Viscontis and in fact today, both of these families are linked together by many generations of marriage. I'm not a Johnny-Come-Lately to this.

In both cases - the Templar motif of red cross on white or black background, and the Visconti 'serpent eating a man or baby' - the symbols go back into primordial history to do with an ancient king, Cadmus, who established the first civilized cities in Greece. He killed some primordial dragons or serpents after which his future 'children' sprang from the red earth fully armed, once he had sown the golden teeth of the slain dragon. Hence the red-skinned figure coming out of the serpent's mouth in the emblem.

There is no such thing as 'Baphomet,' the strange idol associated with the Templar Order. There is a 'Vasymetis' or 'the thoughtful mind is king' moto of the original Templar Order - 'b' is sounded like a 'v' but written as a 'b' in Greek ('Basil' pronounced 'Vasil' in Greek, for 'king.' Under torture, the Templars may have said something that was misunderstood and turned up in the Inquisition records nonetheless as the 'truth' which has since, literally become the truth that people believe. And no one really seems to worry that something extracted by torture could not possibly have been true - which is something proven time and time again today.
  
And so you have all these 'expert scholars' and even numerous 'witches' and occult experts who carry on and will actually tell you in great detail all the 'hidden' meanings of the 'Baphomet' and of course, now, we even have African America rap stars employing the image and semiotic interpretations - basically to a non-existent historical thing.

The Templar Order was reputed to have amassed and retained a huge fortune. Missing, of course, by now... 

There is such a fortune, but you will not find it by going by any of the utter balderdash and illogical nonsense spread out all over the internet as if it is 'fact.'

A female archer outside the Parthenon

It is not, for instance, commonly told, even by supposed biblical and archaeological scholars, that some of the names of the Christian Gospel writers and some of the apostles and women in the stories - were written as cartouches, and not in words with letters in exact sequence or order as we write names today. And this really calls into question what some of the names actually were, especially 'John' in particular which also has this 'Theta/Iota' problematic configuration. And bearing in mind that the full title of the Knights Templar is or was 'The Military Knights of Saint John of The Cross,'* then the likelihood of modern appropriators having the single foggiest clue about what they are doing, is absolutely nil, if say for one extreme instance, the Templar Knights believed that it was possible to have women dressed as men, and yet still be highly militaristic and successful religious warriors... Joan of Arc? 

Based on the labarum of Constantine -
which was really, an 'Alpha' a 'Theta' a 'Hexa' and an 'Nu' inside a
cartouche 'O.'

If you want to know where the wealth of the Templar Order is today - don't go looking where there are men in charge. It isn't there. I'm sorry to say to all those Freemasons and modern Templars who think they know 'secrets...'

Italian and French, yes. Secretive, yes. Led by women, yes. Are you getting the picture yet?

*NB. I should add that this group did not start out as 'Templar Knights' (IE knights protecting the Temple of Solomon itself in Jerusalem) but knights protecting pilgrims on the way to Jerusalem. 'Knights Templar' is a bit of a colloquialism of the time, and well after their actual formation. Even to this day there is a huge overburden of fabrication about Solomon's occult importance, whereas in fact, if you really are involved inside the higher occult circles, there is no function or power implicit in anything to do with Solomon; this is a purely recent (since certain Jewish and Moslem occult philosophers and writers) invention. 

Words In A Lambic

Lambic is a Belgian beer made as the result of fermentation through wild yeasts. Lambo, of course, is the vehicle that I suggest I wanted to know what conversations went on inside of...

How about this?

"What's the best beer in the world, Salim?"

"Oh, I don't know. I don't drink beer."

"Westvleteren" - a most euphonious name

Okay. There you go, that's the Dubai kids in London in their Lambos.

And now, my friend Chopper Mahoney from 'Destination Materialism:'

"What's the best beer in the world, Stuey?"

"Westvleteren."

This week, or next week or around now, anyway - the 'world's best beer' title is going to be given to the Belgian Trappist Monks who make the small supply of 'Westvleteren XII.' 

Now here's the best CEO of an global beer company - ABinbev (formally Anheuser-Busch) - the Brazilian, Carlos Brito. There's his pic there.

Carlos Brito, certainly one of the world's leading
industrialists and CEO's.

Let's get something straight, these big corporations do know how to make beer. That's just a fact - their beers are consistent and pretty good, and some are great. Heineken, AB, all these people make great products, no question.

But the thing is, neither can the good muslim indulge in a beer handmade by Trappist monks, nor can they shoot an infidel with the latest Crusader rifle smeared with bacon oil, and neither can any modern era industrialist understand why Trappist monks make good beer. And believe me, they do make good beer! One of my absolute favorites is the abbey-beer Leffe, which is a brand owned by ABinbev today.

"Stuey -"

"Yes, Chops."

The inside of a Lamborghini

"Don't you think it's a bit perverse, that these Trappist monks dedicate their whole lives to making beer for the likes of you and me?"

"Well. no, Chops. I feel blessed each time I drink the stuff. I derive a lot of pleasure from their beer. It makes me happy. And as you know, Stu, any place that is inaccessible to the public, means that there, there is something of enormous value, which the inhabitants desire to keep secret from everybody else...

"On the other, Chops, it might be perverse and that is the very reason the stuff keeps getting acclaimed as the 'world's best beer,' because the rich folk just have to take nasty pokes at the rest of us all the time, seems to me." 

...said Stewart, as he pushed his foot down hard on the accelerator, knocking the undercarriage loudly against the poorly-maintained plebeian thru-way. 

From Outside In

You see... people want to see death and destruction and the obvious outward effects of force and power - and this is really the standard of 'proof' and 'evidence' that most people (and I do say most) desire before they will change their minds over a silly proposition or idea. It doesn't matter that something is patently on its face silly - they want to see the sturm und drang.

However, what business do I have with a street urchin, for example? Why do I even stoop to explain to him or her that if they get in the way I will just run them over...? I have an expensive fast car and I am an important and well-dressed person...(!)

City of Power and Light...
And money

There is an old saying that there is no tyrant like a freed slave. But then, seldom do you hear about the slaves who woke up one day to find their masters missing.

Where did they go? Why did they go there? Or, that is, for what reason did they leave? And leave so abruptly.

You even have a common idea today abroad (naturally, in the internet) among the modern religious, that 'when so-and-so comes ba-a-a-ack, there will be hell to pay for (usually our) opponents' - of course.

See? More of this sturm und drang.

Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening.

Even Bush the first Prez did it with his 'shock and awe.'

What a stunningly composed shot

If you are a slave race and all you know about your masters is what you construe from your perspective 'below' or from the outside looking in, then what hope do you really have of ever portraying any event or events as they might have actually happened at the elite level, or of understanding any of the real reasons behind the behaviour of your masters?

I just want to know what is actually said inside the Lamborghini. Not what some people have surmised from outside of it. Don't you?

"Pull, pull and now I wake up
My foreboding
As soon as all come
Nothing, nothing
I saw the lake and our failings
But present time is over, over

Fever like river
You don’t find my life here

Pull, pull and now I break up
We are feeling
It is not the end
But nothing, nothing
I saw the space and our failings
But present time is over, over

Fever like river
You don’t find my life here"

  

Humans All Think The Same...?

Sometimes I remind myself not to even get close to assuming that other people automatically think in ways that I might otherwise take for granted are 'normal.' (Or my kind of normal, I must add here).

The media, politics, commercial product marketing - all these things are constantly before us operating from an assumption that the next person more or less thinks, given similar data and stimulus, in roughly the same kinds of ways within a broad range we deem 'sanity,' or rationality, and so on.

When there was high unemployment (lol).
And James Clapper knew where to wittingly get info
(pic courtesy Pinterest)

What I mean is that confronted with the exact same facts and from the same base conditions, two 'normal' human beings might come to similar conclusions and make broadly similar decisions as to suitable actions. You would suppose.

And that is not so, and I haven't found it to be so in any business situation I have ever been in that involved other people. In fact, I can literally count on the fingers of one hand, those business-people I know who shared the same basic traits as myself when it came to making decisions at various particular points in the flows of daily commercial and financial business. 

Over the years I have constantly had my head spun around by what people make of the facts and the data they are given, and then, what decisions they make and what prompts or motivates them to those decisions.

In my view it is perfectly useless to try and unpick between the various contenders for instance, for the current Republican Presidential nomination. I am an experienced deal-making business person myself and whilst I can comprehend what a Donald Trump is mostly about, I cannot say the same of any of the others. The only thing that stands out to me is the number of them with lop-sided mouths or faces and one eye squinting slightly tighter than the other...

Trump seems to have a bit of an over-bite but otherwise his mouth seems straight to me. And by straight I have to tell you that my impression about certain kinds of people is that the fixture of their facial muscles is grooved in over years and years - of something, I won't say lying necessarily because sometimes it is a question of someone simply trying to overcome a lot of social anxiety.

Modern politicians do not eat sharks fin soup.

Now you might be thinking to yourself hey but what if you're just observing that many people are motivated by gain and they have various layers that hide it - and that accounts for the way they make decisions. But no, I mean I have  - and you may have too - watched or encountered (although I tend not to personally encounter it directly in my business affairs) people whose real goal was exclusively to cheat or to in some underhanded way achieve a benefit, and that it is the cheating, and not the benefit, they are interested in...

You may not believe me but I have countless examples of people who have knowingly foregone massive and facile profits, in order to pursue a deliberately underhanded and yet complex strategy of work and action and the expenditure of a lot of energy, inclusive of the prospect and often the facts, of financial failure, just in order to secure some private and sly 'effect;' again, I'll not even say, some 'gain.'

Psychologists can put it down to human psychology. I don't. What I conclude is that human beings do NOT all think the same way and are not motivated by what they continually tell you they and me and you and we are all supposed to be thinking about as human beings and wanting.

People will tell you they want sex. People will tell you they want money. People will tell you they want a house with a paid mortgage. Some people will tell you they want a fast car or an expensive new saloon. Some people will tell you they want power or to lead the country or to help other people.

All nothing but cover stories...

These are all cover stories.

It is the most important thing you will ever learn or know about human beings at large and as this big monolithic social group. People speak lies.

Watch instead what they do...

You see, say you told someone right up front what I just said, namely that you believe all humans speak lies but act their truths - and then listen and watch their reactions. It would be an interesting experiment if you were prepared to be objective about the results of what you said to them.

In this blog I speak. Figuratively, this is me speaking here. And just for the sake of the exercise I am going to keep using words, but I'm going to ask you to suspend that bridge of disbelief and assume that what I tell you next, however, is an outside observer's report of my actions:

Now look, a couple of weeks ago I hinted at there being some obvious thing going on in the markets and that The Fed had made a grave miscalculation and a mistake. The way I acted, on my perceptions of things -  was that I shorted the gold price temporarily, as I saw first the platinum price sink what I construed as having been too far, and I also went a little long on platinum at that moment. And the two prices of the two related but different commodities, started to converge. 

This kind of thing is a fairly quick, and time-limited market position to have, and it doesn't constitute what we kinds of directional end-game thinkers would consider the way to conduct our business. It may have a short term positive profit entailed, but it isn't what I am thinking about as the reason that I play around with money and finance in the overall way that I do.

See, the following are a number of things I actually do and why I do anything at all:

1. I buy and use Shahtoosh shawls (an illegal woven cashmere-type of thing made from the endagered Chiku Tibetan antelope;

2. I definitely order and eat shark's fin soup - which is now broadly regarded as borderline illegal because of the over-fishing of shark in many places;

3. I have some real versions of what is mostly now the synthetic 'Ambrox' - which is made from ambergris if it is the real sort;

4. And I have a few broken virus tulip plants as well. Which is said to be illegal in a number of countries.

 

Nearly, a broken virus tulip, but not.

But it is the things I don't tell you about and can't tell you about that mark me out as someone 'different' from the crowd 'normalcy.'

Of course they are illegal things, in the minds of many people.

And I am so very skilled at what I can do...

I leave calling cards where I have been and no one gets them. Well you might get them... If you see them.

What I do is nearly illegal.