True Knowledge IS Arcane

The Intel Corporation and Lady Gaga are collaborating on a series of projects this year to promote some new technology or innovation. It is likely to be either artificial intelligence stuff or advanced robotics (IE a synthetic human) or a hologram which uses artificial intelligence.

Now what reason I put my own knowledge of the arcane world down to, is partly my own family, but partly the simple fact that I have been a reader and collector of books for years and years. It really is unavoidable that at some point you begin to acquire quite sophisticated lists dealing with arcane subjects - if you have a decently broad collection scheme in the first place.

In our coming 'Dark Ages,' there
will be Cyber Cities, with cyber 'people.'

You will have noticed me say this several times before - there is an incredible amount of repetition across the internet that multiplies errors or mistakes or misunderstandings of some arcane or even occult item of ancient 'lore.' 'Hermetic knowledge' is one of these. So is the idea that the Old Testament contains references to 'angelic interference' in the DNA of humans. And another is that there is something sinister about the ancient Egyptian goddess 'Isis,' or even that there is a genuinely arcane body of 'Luciferian' knowledge that involves something to do with a 'seeing-eye' motif. I mean to say, anyone who notices pop culture cannot have failed to notice people like Lady Gaga go down this route of using 'seeing-eye' symbolism. And then there is the usual 'Baphomet' goat thing - why, there even is a statue somewhere in the US recently having been placed dedicated to Satan or Lucifer or something and which literally IS this 'Baphomet' figure.

Sadly, the very last music video of David Bowie delves into some of these themes - and introduces the rather new reference to the Temple of Amun.

And they are all rubbish.

You see you have to understand something here - MY FAMILY LITERALLY COMES from a place where there are still relatives of Alexander The Great; my wife's family has an ancestral history that by repute of where they come from, traces to one of Alexander's generals. In the town where they have their family roots in the 'relatively' modern world - there quite literally is an artifact still in place, in situ of where it was originally placed, that is said to be a large wooden door actually made by the hand of Daedalus himself.

I've done this pic before - but it's a good
series, though!

Daedalus, albeit having come not from Sicily, but Ithaca - where my mother's family comes from - is supposedly by repute of the place where she hailed from, meant to be literally an ancestor of mine!

So I should, to be frank with you, know one helluva a darnsight more than Mr. David Bowie or any living 'Grand' or otherwise, 'Mason' - about the Temple of Amun, where Alexander The Great was consecrated to the mythic protecting herd of goats that kept the infant Zeus from harm when he was hiding from Typhonic forces out to destroy him. There is no Baphomet Goat; there is a goat same as Christians have a lamb, which features in a temple of Zeus in Memphis, in ancient Egypt. 'Baphomet,' is a misheard word spoken by the Templar, Jacques de Mollay under torture.

It is being claimed that people like Lady Gaga are depicting occult ideas to do with some kind of Luciferian agenda to produce 'nephilim' (?!) hybrids from an Isis-serpent-Satanic 'mother' and so on and enslave the human race.

For a start, Isis is not a sinister figure. But, because it is something from the very ancient past, and no one knows much about it anymore, apparently this gives people the right to go around and chuck any old aspersion at it. 

Bowie himself, in his last video 'Black Star' depicts some very peculiar 'possession'-like symbolism of women under the power of 'something else.'

But for me, the iconic figures that Lady Gaga and Bowie are portraying in this way, are neither female, nor certainly not, woman, as such. 

Danni Wang, 'it' actress of 2016 -
a little bit androgynous, but unlike the Intel
AI robot, she is real.

There are many - in fact most pop-oriented atheists around the place at the moment - quoting Bowie, especially in his last few main works, suggesting that he despises Christianity in particular, and religion in general, and of course, there are those on the opposite side of the fence, as it were, who say he is blaspheming against Christ and Christianity.

I don't personally see this...

No. But I do see him blaspheming against women - and it is VERY strident, too. Same with the Lady Gaga work. The figure being depicted is not feminine, not female, not exactly androgynous either. Androgynous, being another one of these Greek words, has a specific meaning, it is not the one that Bowie or Gaga are showing you. If something is human-like but pretty or finely good-looking, it can be androgynous - the cup-bearer to Zeus, whose name is Hebe, is androgynous. But SHE, is the wife of Heracles. Ganymede, is also androgynous, but HE, is a youthful male cup-bearer to Zeus. Hebe is the goddess of eternal youth.

Androgynous means youthful. And thus, of male and female - HUMAN. Although somewhat pre-gender mature. It doesn't mean of actual mixed sex or semi-female or male-like woman. This is a modern English interpretation. These things are explained explicitly in the texts of Hesiod and Plato and so on but never considered by modern English people, mostly because they have never actually read those texts fully - or at all, in many cases.

Here is another thing... They say, you cannot take it with you when you die.

Really?

And they also say, no one can do miracles. Really?

Try me.

Are there aliens and extraterrestrials who have/or who had, at some ancient time in human history interbred with humankind and who are some kind of competing, over-powering agency even to this day...? Well, that is indeed what the New Testament actually says, if you read the original Koine Greek or the Aramaic Arabic texts. But it doesn't say they are all bad, or that aliens are evil or anything like that. And nor does it say that Lucifer or Satan is some kind of opponent or actual literal 'opposite number' or opposite and counter-force to God - AS THE NOW DEAD DAVID BOWIE ACTUALLY SAYS in his last music video clip, in self-justification of his life as a (supposedly) Grand-Master of the Ordo Templi Orientis or whatever. 

Did David Bowie himself believe himself to be an alien-human hybrid? I think probably he did.

Was he?

Well, I think, probably he was.

Was he Satanic or demonic...? Up to a point, yes I think he was. But I don't think the feather falls on the wrong side for Bowie - he's far too earnest and well-meaning.

No, when you want to talk genuinely dangerous, you need to talk about people such as myself, and what my folkloric family history is all about. By local cultural and folkloric belief, one of my ancestors, went down to Hades to retrieve something, and succeeded in talking the King of the Underworld himself into tying himself up to his own throne.

Don't. Do not get smart with people like me if you think you are going to take over this planet. And I don't really care if you are Lord Rothschild himself. Or Lucifer. Or Satan. And that's an open challenge.

End Of The World? Heralded by Lady Gaga and Intel and so one - all the Illuminati chieftains? You know, with aliens coming down and offering Mankind 'technology' and everything - this is the talk doing the rounds (as I'm sure you must all know by now) across the web. Big black cube like the thing in Mecca. Images of Saturn, the dark force in the Solar System...

Bring it on. There is a vague hint of a smile on my lips.

So should I be some kind of billionaire hiding from the world? Should I be so wealthy that I have an apartment in Park Avenue, on the Manhattan-side?

Asymmetry and Conditions

I'm not sure, have you noticed this about virtually everything that projects itself as special 'knowledge' or 'motivation programming' or some or other 'New Age-y' or even well, any, system of learning something that will make you better, richer, smarter, stronger...? 

They've all got conditions. And mostly, those conditions take up time to be able to fulfill, and then, somewhere along the way, well, you can forget about actually getting to the original objective ever because you will be so caught up in fulfilling the conditions!

Waiting for your tailor to work their craft involves the
condition of time, yes - but the end-point is a known quantity;
and quality.

Then there's the asymmetrical philosophical propositions - and this occurs almost everywhere, including in fairly major world religious philosophies: Transcendentalism is strictly male-oriented, for instance, 'God' is apparently, male, or has this clearly-defined male perspective on everything. Even Islam has this strange asymmetrical characteristic, and so does Zoroastrianism, and modern Christianity and Judaism definitely whether modern or traditional. Forget all this nonsense about matrilineal inheritance of property being some kind of 'inclusive' basis for these cultures and philosophies - that's rubbish; underlying the ideas, the Cosmological descriptions of 'everything,' is plainly just one-sided perspectives all the time.

It's everywhere. Not just in old - very old - mainstream religions. New Age narratives are full of it, even though it is often disguised behind rubrics on 'female energies.' 'Energies' - this is another great catchall word. Okay fine I understand why it is used to steer away from the hidebound regulated world of 'medicine' and 'academia' and everything else that has gatekeepers. But what is the idea of having to 'keep repeating some mantra for thirty days (or ten years, for that matter), morning and night, AND THEN, so-and-so will happen - as I come into alignment, etc., with 'the Universe?' Why can't I seduce the natural material Universe the same way as I do a woman (being a man, as I am)? Do you see what I'm saying? 

These things are all wrong. No wonder none of them work.

What I'm talking about is why this strange... I mean, let's face it, if an alien species turned up on Earth and examined the typical human 'ways,' the first thing they might conclude is that there is something missing 'upstairs,' so to speak, with the human mentality. There is this strange insistence on some bizarre, one-sided, unnatural, and very forced, conception of the human Mind's application to reality. Reality is there, certainly, and it is one thing - but hey, we humans are going to make it fit into our mindsets at all costs! Aren't we?

The symmetry of the natural material Universe, see?

You can't pontificate about the nature of the Universe, or even about the 'scientific' nature of physics, quite frankly, unless you are prepared to look at the actual effective symmetry of material reality. 

I think because of the amazingly stubborn territoriality of all those clinging onto whatever ideology they have, or who try to hold the apex position over others when it comes to knowledge about social or political 'power' things - because of this sheer greed, and self-involvement, as far as I'm concerned, you have a race of beings who cannot progress very far forward. Facts are kept from everyone, including from the people at the top themselves because of their own myopia.

This myopia drags itself into the world of money - I must say I am very disappointed with all of the video clips I see everywhere on YouTube telling me about the 'luxury life' and the 'billionaires' and 'wealth' and so on - all I see are tasteless and overly-large houses, mixed-style interior design mess, impractical cars, cramped private jets (I've been on some - my wife's uncle has one), scrawny females, gambling, and bankrolls of US currency.

How is any of this an objective that I can fix my ambitious sights upon? 

The girl or the car?

You know if you look at the modern pop 'Illuminati Conspiracy' thing - I'm sure you're aware of how proliferated across the internet this idea is - and you accept for one minute that there is such a thing, then what you have is a group of insane people occupying some putative 'top' of the materialistic world, and of course therefore, these people also are and must be, the very fount of all wisdom and knowledge about how the world runs... After all, there they are, AT THE TOP. Where there is nothing but impractical cars, bad interior decorating, overly-large and ornate houses, scrawny females, and so on.

I don't think the motifs of success and of wealth, that abound in today's world, are an accurate depiction of wealth. They may be an accurate depiction of success in one specific, and quite narrow type of endeavor. But they do not accurately depict wealth.

Be My Vice

So this ex-chef of Kim Jong-Un tells the Daily Mirror that young Kim polishes off TWO - not one but TWO - bottles of Roederer Cristal champagne at a dinner sitting. He tells the newspaper that Kim is very fond of Cristal champagne. And Kobe beef. And, it sounds like, all kinds of expensive food.

And, I've noticed in pictures of him, that he wears top grade Panama hats and he is also regularly seen wearing brand new Charvet shirts... Sounds to me like he's read Peter Mayle's exquisite book 'Expensive Habits.' He must give his tailor bloody nightmares, though. Two, three state dinners and he's put on another 100 pounds.

It won't be the hydrogen bomb that'll be exploding in North Korea, it'll be young Kim himself.

Anyway there's something about Cristal champagne that I'd better explain to Kim - and to all those black rappers who apparently think this is a great drink - giving a bottle of Cristal to someone is a 'sign' among the elite of a certain tribe who shall not be named. 

A 'sign' that you're about to be bumped off. Or de-throned, anyway.

100 Years - Of Cool

So, as you know - I'm sure that you do know by now - John Malkovich has written a movie that he stars in directed by Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids), which will not be seen for a hundred years. It's a marketing concept and project conducted in partnership with Louis XIII Cognac (House of Remy Martin). The movie is locked away in a time capsule.

Louis XIII and
100-year old barrels

If you look at the comments below the YouTube teaser video clips about it, there is just an abundance of criticism about it all, from the usual raft of bitter cynics and so on.

On the one hand, as far as public appeal is concerned, it's probably not a good sign that I like something... And I like this.

The muse writes
from a 100 years in the future...

Malkovich is just a phenomenon. So many people apparently detest him. And for me, this is always a good sign. He may be difficult to deal with, I don't know. I don't know him. He may be egocentric, but I don't know that either. He may be whatever the hell they say or think that he is and I don't even care. If I were a producer or director I would have him any day. 

He's never had the scripts - or at least the stories - that would provide the entertainment paradise what is missing from this talent.

They're all out there, of course. Producers don't pay for writers anymore though. Which is why they just managed to kill off the Bond Franchise. Amazing. But these fools did it.

Well done guys! Like the barbarians that sacked Rome, you have become legends.

100 years from now... Some Philip K. Dick is telling us right now what it will be like and no one is watching. Or, no one has had the opportunity to hear from them. Why is that? Really, why?

This is what I mean by 'we're entering a new Dark Age.' You CANNOT convince those who have domineered over the public purse, the academic frontier, the political discourse, and the general media, that they need to slash their wrists for what they have been worth to human race - which is exactly nothing. The Dark Ages come when clever people abandon the worn out, and embrace the new, and the exciting. It's not that 'science' or 'progress' is wrong, it's that the wrong types have claimed it as some province over which they have ownership and absolute control. Metaphorically, across all walks of life, people placed Dracula@BloodBank, and then expected that the 'proof' and the 'evidence' would still contain some semblance or life and reality - whereas it's all just wraiths and wisps of smoke now. 

One hundred years from now...

What Do Morals Give Us?

One of the long-term regular contributors on the private finance discussion site WallStreetBear.com - 'WRS' - just posed the interesting question: 'Well, what do morals get us?!'

Great question I suppose, given the present context for banking and finance and market capital.

He made much the same sort of points about equities rising for absolutely no good reason, errant banks endlessly bailed out by the taxpayer, the Fed not giving two hoots about moral hazard... and on and on. 

Egerton Hotel afternoon tea, in
Knightsbridge, London

And this last weekend, I found myself - as you do over the holidays - in the midst of the richer side of the family, several members of which are key 'players' in the high-end luxury automotive dealer and distributorships around the city here. Casting my eye over price lists here and overseas, I came to the conclusion (to myself only, of course) that high-end car prices were a reflection, not of the design inputs and the manufacturing costs and so on, but of the insanely fast and steeply-rising prices of London real estate! London, as you must know, is the money center of the super-wealthy and tax-savvy people of the world. It's not New York; it has never been New York. 

One fellow I vaguely 'know' maintains an horrendously expensive pad in Knightsbridge, but I don't believe he's been there more than once - ever - and then for only a couple of weeks.

To the best of my knowledge not a single actual functioning business he's ever been involved in has ever made him any money but because of his father being in a government somewhere, and access to bank lending without too much cashflow scrutiny, he has managed to 'make' literally tens of millions of pounds from London real estate. He lives part of the year in Dubai.

And he owns several Lamborghinis.

Is this really worth $800,000?
I don't think so...

When I bought my first Lamborghini, back in the 1980's, it cost me a bit over $40,000. Today's Aventador is going to set a buyer (although not me) back over $750,000.

What has changed? Prices of good steak are actually lower. Dividends are meager. Yields are worse.

I watch television programs about the supposedly 'super wealthy' and I can't imagine a more boring lot. It's ridiculous. I mean there's nothing in their heads. Their taste (just look at the interior decorating styles) is horrible. Their conversation is virtually that of illiterates with a lot of money and pretension to education. And then they get enthused about the prices of real estate.

This week a couple of old stockbrokers mates are finishing their Sydney-to-Hobart yacht races. I swear I heard old Craig Carter - a name from the old go-go-fund days - waxing lyrical about how 'grueling' the yacht race is... 'Grueling?!' Surely that's not a word taken from the noun 'gruel?' What on earth would he know about gruel?! He must have heard it off one of those Christmas season movies...

The thing about these kinds of rich people, is this assumption and belief they have that everything else is also open to them, so long as they just have that 'big smash' as the bookmakers call it. And the only game in town is this fall-off-the-log billionaire gift of the never-ending rising of the London property market.

Altara by Johan Vilborg (Nigel Good remix)

One of the people at this family function I was at, asked me what was on my digital playlist, and I quoted them a few tracks and artists, and played one of them, and you could see by the facial expression it was outside of their comfort zone.

And I realized that there is a stark difference between various classes of people's minds on this planet. I really don't think he understood what he was listening to. But for me, if you asked me, which is more valuable, this packet of digital information in a sound form that is available to some human beings - and a fifty million dollar apartment in Knightsbridge - it's 'no contest.'

Morals affect your brain, especially when society is progressing, as it has done every now and then in the past. What defines wealth is of course, money, but in the end, it's survival too. And when the waters rise, the dumb sink and drown. Most people today can't see that the waters are rising. I could have talked to him about Schumann resonances and stuff, and that would really have lost him.