Dubai And The Ta'Wiz Of Balinas

Waaa?!

Balinas? Who's that?

...Ah the fingers go tapping - off they go, 'Google-Searching' again.

Apollonius of Tyana.

In the Arabic recensions he is called 'Balinas.' 'Ta'Wiz' is simply the Arabic for 'talisman.'

The great tower of Dubai - the Burj Khalifa - was designed by Adrian Smith but it is based on most ancient towers of Babylon, of course. This is actually, a real 'talisman' of the kind Apollonius caused to be built. Today, we think of talismans as something small, maybe something to encircle your wrist.

Oh yum!

But in the past, they could be mighty structures, to serve as gigantic meaningful 'guide stars' as it were, to all the people around -, both those who lived there, as well as visitors and merchants travelling to the place for business.

On the one hand, you will find countless modern-day 'preachers' who all decry this Dubai tower, suggesting it is some sign of the End Days - but it is not that at all. Because on the other hand I say it is something Apollonius might have approved.

It is a highly auspicious structure. And will benefit its ruler, the city and all of the people who live there.

In his day, Apollonius caused certain quite large structures to be built by the rulers of various cities - and these were for the protection of those places and of the people who dwelt there.

Apart from the biography of Apollonius written by Philostratus, and which work merely dealt with the places Apollonius was said to have visited, and to the external things that he was reputed and even recorded in a small handful of instances, to have done - most of the writings on the internal teachings of Apollonius are radically false. 

Even so, most contain, of necessity, some superficial hints about what Apollonius really did, on account of that they necessarily had to refer to the obvious material artifacts he caused to be made.

Note the athletic driving shoes.
See, Nuno? Remember for next
time when you take that wager with
Habibi...

None of the texts available to us today have the slightest clue of what Apollonius really knew or taught to his disciples.

And this is because, after all, the Pythagoreans were a secret group, and although our history today is calling this Apollonius (of Tyana) a 'neo-Pythagorean,' he was just a Pythagorean.

No members either of any of the Eleusinian Mystery cults, or of the Pythagoreans, have ever been attested in history to have revealed the secret inner teachings.

So how do they propose, the writers of any of the supposed books on the knowledge and teachings of Apollonius, to be able to declare anything about what he knew or held to be true, or taught?

These works are mere speculations. 

But despite this, as I just also said, some genuine clues do exist within those texts.

Only those who really are members of such secret groups can have accurate knowledge though, of any details and real authentic and full explanations.

Because after all, Apollonius was reputed to have had rare although not quite unique powers and abilities - though at least, such powers as no one commonly ever had, if they were ordinary human beings. So we can see that if many people ordinarily had such powers, the ways and means, mechanisms and processes of employing such powers would be known to all, and there would be no need for speculations - which are what you will find in the available recension texts.

And, when you compare those, to what you will read here - you will quickly realize that those ancient texts are all false and mostly lies and speculations!

Dubai And The Talismans Of Apollonius

What you will read in that linked short text, is quite astonishing, especially for Arabic people, who likely will not be aware of the remarkable connections between Arabic culture and those ancient, rather mysterious goings-on, that Philostratus first chronicled, and the people involve at the highest levels.

But if you really earnestly want to have great and good fortune when it comes, especially, to all property and real estate matters, you simply must concern yourself with the teachings of the Master of Talismans (Sahib al-Tilasmat) - Apollonius of Tyana.

Soon, perhaps we shall include on these pages, the full and complete details of the secret internal teachings of Apollonius of Tyana and of the so-called 'neo-Pythagorean school.'

The Elven Priestess

More than two thousand years ago, a man rowed a boat out to sea, carrying two large gold tablets with him in his small craft.

At about eleven miles out to sea from shore - by the reckoning of good sailors there at the time - the man and his boat were lost from view and neither one was ever seen again.

Now...

No doubt you are a very high and mighty professor from some top ten research grant receiving University in the world somewhere, and you have heard of the name of a certain sage's disciple - one, 'Sustumon Thalasson.'

A little rowboat is a humble
little thing by comparison with
today's vessels of the wise...

LOL

Right?

Because you would be just another foolish echo-chamber voice, same as any one of hundreds of thousands of them.

You could, if you had the mind to - because you certainly would have the money to - mount an expedition, out to that particular stretch of water, those eleven miles out to sea, you know, just to see if you could locate the gold thing-ys and raise them to the surface so that you could make a name for yourself and collect some cash from rich academic benefactors.

Except you wouldn't find anything.

The only person, who would know, however, where a certain 'Sustumon Thalasson' (because he was a disciple, right? ...Of that guy, that other guy) had actually secreted the gold after having retrieved it in the first place...

Well, that would be interesting because there is no one recorded in history who knows anything about that or has ever even suggested such a thing.

But y'all don't believe any such thing.

Not really mead, is it?
Because mead is the drink of fairies and elves.

You could ponder the possibilities of how anyone living today could know such things - but you would pretty quickly dismiss all of those since they all go against 'sci-ence.'

Except not in the mind of Professor Kevin Knuth, who acknowledges that the Orbis Clipeo - or in some ancient texts also described as being 'orbis clipei flagrantes' - would be going backwards and forwards from the time of any number of the Emperors of Rome (notice on this occasion I did not say a 'Caesar...') to right now here today, as if it were just two weeks having passed because of time-space dilation effects.

The Goths tore apart the pathetic last days of the Western Roman Empire, as you know.

Goths. Germanic. Blondie people. Blue-eyed. All that kind of thing. Eastern Germanic, though. They were not really Vikings although later on they became mixed up with the Swedes - where there certainly were some Vikings. But still part of the general folkloric traditions right across the northern regions of Europe.

It's a game. Nothing but a game.

Into it walks the guy with the tablets (or the disciple with the tablets; either one will do).

Always the same.

Estonian Elven Priestess, Kerli Koiv.
Says so on her Twitter account.

No one there at the time notices a thing.

An Empire falls. Many Empires fall.

And still, no one much notices a single thing.

The game has an ending though.

It goes to a final end-point.

And then, the rubbish is thrown away into the fire.

The silver and the gold is refined, the rubbish discarded.

Remember the silver...

First the silver though, right? Because, don't be greedy.

By the way, would you like me to post up the date when we had some pictures here of volcanic lightning and massive eruptions? And then you 'sci-entists' could go back and check when the 'sci-entists' said anything was 'happening.' As if they know. LOL

'Eyes on the skies?' No one saw a thing. Now, the silver elves. The Gothic silver elves.

...Was the 3rd of October with the 'blue lava.' Can't even remember now when the volcanic lightning was first mentioned. Helluva warning if you think about it in your actual back-yard instead of some place no one gives a damn about.

So hot the lava is actually blue because of the energy frequency. Coming up here soon, will be such impressive declarations, that you will be stuck thinking of ways out of the inevitable conclusions. 

Don't Mess With Food (Much)

So the rule is, never mess with food. Don't mess around with the ingredients, and don't imagine though, that what is written and proclaimed everywhere as the ingredients, and/or 'how you do it' - really is all that true.

It is not important for now how people gather the genuine authentic ways to do things. Don't worry about that.

Just sit back, and partake...

The reality is, you need really good dinner companions, and I have often found though that consists of just one person - you.

'Shanghai style' - beef soup.
Influenced by the Russians
of course.

Look I could, go over a list of most interesting table companions that I have had down through the years. But let's not do that.

Let's just take a look at what we're doing tonight.

Plain ordinary beef soup, or stew, whatever.

Okay fair enough, it's expensive fillet steak that we're using. Fillet is pretty tasteless I find, in comparison to other cuts, and it is regularly way more expensive too, but in this case, it'll be what we want, because we are looking for it to be very tender - which fillet gets to be pretty easily and quickly.

...But nothing much else out of the ordinary: just burn the outsides of the steak - after adding some pepper and salt - then chop it up, chuck it into a larger cooking utensil and throw your stock in.

Boil some small potato slices, parsnip slices, and carrot slices in another container. And when they're done, get rid of the water and add those bits in with the steak bits and stock.

Maybe you can even add so 'au jus' in with the stock. But you don't have to if you haven't got that. A little bit of sweet vermouth. Cracked garlic pods, skins on. A handful of sliced plain mushrooms. Paprika.

Three tablespoons of tomato concentrate. I like to use some fennel seeds and a couple of bay leaves towards the end there. ...A few spoons of black winter truffle salsa.

Now.

Now you make sure the person you are giving this to is watching you, see.

And you let them see you pour in a goodly amount of cognac.

If you want to go Hungarian, you can spoon in sour cream when you are serving the thing -, even some dried Kashmiri (or Hungarian) chilis. Or not, but I would. (I've left out any onions because my Russian interpreters for some reason don't like onions - which, usually, you would always have in there!!)

The French tend to put pearled onions in as well. Up to you.

But then, just as you are about to serve the thing, you have this eye-dropper, see, with Amanita Muscaria decarboxylated extract. And you make sure they see you placing a good three or four drops into their dish, or bowl.

And they go 'what is that?' 

And you just open the Yalumba The Octavius - and let that sit on the sideboard for them for a while as they decide whether they are going to eat the soup or just stare at it.

'So what was that best dinner and wine you ever had, you were telling me? At the Dolder Grand in Zurich, was it?

'And then, when was it - after that or before that or both - you were sleeping in the black volcanic rocks bed they have their in their spa?'

...After a few spoonfuls of the soup, whoever it is, is starting to feel like there is a soft pink cloud surrounding their body. And then, after you pour the wine out for them just a few moments later, they start to literally see colored metallic wrapping ribbon magically appearing and dancing in front of their eyes, then with one of those cheap Hong Tong toy Santa Claus battery-powered glow-light figurines - giant-sized but - standing right up close behind them going 'Ho Ho Ho...!'

You could be the richest rich kid of Dubai, and you have never experienced anything like that before in your life, unless you have been to Calvin's place.

True or not true, Bill Smith?

(I know you can't get too much internet coverage from where you are right now, so you don't have to answer here).

How 'bout thou, JES? : )

(...And when y'all gonna learn not to doubt the Calvin? LOL I know some of you are having fewer and fewer doubts. But let's leave that whole story about faith to one side; we are in the day and age of understanding. So let's try and see if we can get to there - understanding).

 

The Reasons Why

Anyone that studies the philosophical and religious ideas of Man, from our present-day position of having so much access to historical material and written texts and their translations - may at some point become disillusioned that anyone ever did 'work things out' at all, really.

And this despite history showing at various phases, movements of people who all gravitated around certain particular conceptions - thinking these or believing them, to be 'real and true.'

A relatively simple lifestyle...

Arguably though, we have ourselves recently lost the best vantage point for any such wider study, because the internet both atomizes people into special interest groups with inherent biases, as well as deprives everyone from actual access to libraries of actual texts. What we have are algorithms deciding what 'texts' or mostly though, which commentaries one may scan to decide whether to look into them further - leaving out what is really there in existence, as some kind of beneath-the-algorithmic-undergrowth mystery.

It is no stretch to tie the CCP Beijing people to places like Indonesia's 'Ring of Fire,' and to Tonga where they exert great influence via money, and then when you add into the mix stories about intense nuclear fusion reactors - the majority of CIA analysts will most certainly quickly reach the wrong conclusion that China has its own version of the HAARP Program and that it is using it. You might even find some 'discreet rumor-mongering' begin to go on in the general media against the CCP Beijing China people recklessly experimenting with advanced technology.

But even so, why?

Why not though, right? You have the technology, so you use it.

We've talked about 'something' going deep into the phreatic wells referred to in vulcanology, and developing the conditions for massive unexpected eruptions and then exploiting the water vapor and particulate matter rising columns in the atmosphere with static electricity discharges on massive scales to interfere with the ionosphere's rain-bearing cloud formation normal patterns.

Like Miguelito Loveless's 'Wizard Who Shook The Earth' or Meyer Dolinsky's 'Plato's Stepchildren' - anyone at the top of a super-powerful empire with all the resources nation-states have, and the (hypothesized) technology required, could easily 'shake the world.'

DJ Nuno from Lisbon blaming me (lol)

So what's this all about though, really...

Firstly, it's impossible to explain here.

Theoretically, if a handful of studious people were inside a well-appointed lecture theater and had the patience and the time, maybe -, all the fundamentals could be covered.

Structurally, one would be required to be firmly convinced first, of some key matters.

Otherwise you're never going to see the conclusion.

You need to accept that there is such a thing as actual human suffering, actual pain, actual hurt and harm, actual villainy, actual intentional wickedness - and that the human condition is not all wine-and-roses and that those who try to say that it is, provided that... (so-and-so whatever conditionality they are vending), are indulging in toxic positivity.

But you also need to perceive that there is an absolutely vast and complete spectrum of other things as well. It's the existential fact of the both things, that will get you to the functioning reality and to the functional reality that you have power over.

The Arabic philosopher Iamblichus, 
getting around in his chariot, and
thinking philosophical thoughts
from his simple vantage point.

You see, too many times in the admittedly great works (within limitations) of great people - as people go - their own position in human society has determined the spin they are allowing to go in in their own minds.

The historical Arabic writer Iamblichus (245 AD to 325 AD) is one such example. He was from a very wealthy family and he lived a very wealthy life. Now on the one hand that gave him the necessary luxury of time to think about things, but on the other hand, he cannot get away from the perspective his own social standing has forced onto him.

...He is not a homeless street-person.

He is not facing the pressure of solving how he will get his next means of immediate survival.

And so he imputes onto the Cosmos, the same idyllic framework for 'why' that he has the accidental luxury of actually living in himself.

Why it does what it does in the ways that it does them.

'It.' Although Iamblichus means 'them' - because he has posited in the running of the Cosmos a whole array of gods and demi-gods and all kinds of other beings too. 

He's not really all that much different to Swedenborg.

I mean I will try and point out a direction in which a more accurate and correct explanation lies.

And it is in the Norse narratives on the Existential Cosmos. There, we can hear about the Norn Sisters - Urdr, Verdandi, and Skuld.

See the thing is, going back to acceptance of the existential reality of intentional harm - 'Urdr' has a catalog of that. Verdandi has a live-stream of everything that is, going on.

And Skuld points the direction to the future, based on the necessary settling up (things that should be; morally, and because of Justice) of old scores.

Every mythology on the planet, posits some 'leading actor' position, some role, some 'ruler,' some throne - and from which throne all power proceeds.

Ragnarok is over - I invite whoever's
left to some slow-cooked beef soup.

In the case of the Norse narratives, Odin is no longer there, because of the Ragnarok - the Twilight of the Gods, and the destruction of most of them. This is told to Odin by a Volva (female seer) and but then though - how does the writer come to know of the story unless all the events have already transpired?

Ragnarok is over. 

Ragnarok was caused by Loki revealing all of the 'sins' of the gods to them all as a gathered group and they ending up bickering and fighting among themselves on account of the 'evening up of scores' then until finally they are all so split apart that Loki takes advantage of their weakened state as a group and releases primal monsters that had previously been chained up.

And then mostly, everyone dies.

The Throne is Empty.

...This piece of music takes a good four or five listening-to's before someone arriving at it new will 'get it.'

And you might be at the present moment, in not quite the frame of mind to absorb the placid pacing, the calmness, the inherent resolution. You might be searching for quick, even instant solutions to very difficult and pressing material problems in your life.

I wonder how many people are going to make the 'intellectual leap' from the ending of the Ragnarok and the implications of the Norns.

Alberta Plains Mounds

I won't dwell on this because there are many other 'interesting' things happening right now albeit behind the scenes as far as the corporate media is concerned.

However, interestingly, or strangely -, not sure which(!) the BBC had a huge long article just last night about the pre-historic stone mounds of Alberta...

Why they wanted to cover it I have no idea. I know why I did.

Canadian 'barrel-aged' maple syrup.

Naturally the first thing they went straight to was what modern 'sci-entists' and archaeologists and so on 'know' that the mounds or medicine wheels as they are also called, were all about in those ancient times before science existed - however as you know they are able to go back in time and thus declare for certain what was going on.

Because they know. Right?

By the same token, and regardless that the Native Tribal or 'First Nations' people have a strong contemporary culture going on - it is not all that clear that even they know what was going on back then.

Theoretically, ancient Siberian people - hunters - from what is now termed 'Beringia' (starting from around the Lena River in Russia) would cross the land bridge and eventually ended up, some of them, staying in Canada and North America permanently as those places are called today. 

All the way across the other side of the world, the same ancient practices went on, in which people covered themselves in red and yellow ochre either during mysterious 'spirit' ceremonies, or when they prepared a body for burial.

I have to make brief mention of this, though - if you go search on the internet for the word, the Greek word, 'Herm,' you will find a formal statue like a short obelisk with the head of a man on the top. And this is not a 'Herm.' It has come to be called a 'Herm' because these statues were later on, much much later on, placed nearby the Herms, and they are presumed to be of the young God Hermes.

A very good use of black truffles.

But if you go to Mount Hermon in Lebanon - where the 200 Watchers came down and formed liaisons with human women - you will also find a 'Herm.'

A Herm is a mound of ordinary stones, onto which only the rightful king and his family are permitted to lay stones, and according to which ritual act, they hold claim to the land and to the manifestation of their kingdom realm - which is not of this Earth. And which is why they place Earth stones there... 

'Manifest your kingdom realm,' are in fact the actual source words that have been translated in the Lord's Prayer as 'Thy Kingdom Come.'

Now, these are just plain ordinary stones. There is absolutely nothing at all different or significant about them.

...Someplace else, in absolute secrecy known only to the rightful king and his usually very small group, there is another place, where there is another ceremony that takes place, parallel to the 'external ceremonies' that are made at the 'Herms' or stone mounds.

And, you can fake being a king all you like, but unless you have access to the other place, all your efforts against the real king and his people will come to naught.

'Human' beings are contested space. They are primitive, animal-like creatures, with a lot of intelligence and moral comprehension and consciousness. They are capable of being 'en-souled' - which is a much more complex phenomenon than you might casually suppose.

There are many other beings, who 'sharpen knives' against both human beings and the kings who arrange the affairs of human beings. And their knives are blunted and their plans come to nothing in the end. According to the times and to the rituals undertaken at the secret Herms...