Why It's All Hidden

I was going to say 'sometimes it's very important;' in fact, all the time, it is important for us to look outward when interacting with people, and concern ourselves with them and their matters, and not us ourselves!

The time for concerning ourselves with our own selves is when we have the personal time and are in enough physical seclusion from the world to go into the interior, as it were (and yes, I have been re-visiting Jung and those who followed closely in his footsteps -, Marie Louise von Franz and so on) and consult with the 'unconscious.' ...If that is even feasible.

Jung of course, gives very little credibility to the actual materialization of otherwise - according to his own thinking - real figures from the realm of the human unconscious.

He does say these figures are not at all mere symbols, but are in fact real; except that we cannot be made aware of them in our consciousness in the ordinary state of things.

As educated people we have to take note of the historical fact, that Jung predicted the rise of an heroic, mythic figure in Germany who would plunge the whole world into a cataclysm. And then, we must know that he also envisaged a similar moment around about now, emanating from America or at least the American-led so-called 'Western World' and in this case he predicted the actual end of the world. Those who were the recipients of the details of this prediction say that he only foresaw vast parts of the world totally destroyed...

Well I am not going to confirm that what Jung said is really going to happen, at least not like that. But what I will say is that despite massive attempts by odd characters to try and 'de-bunk' what the Federal Legislative Representative for New Hampshire, Henry W. McElroy said in his personal witness testimony upon retiring in 2010 - the fundamental contents of what he said are certainly true and correct. Which is namely that Eisenhower, President of the United States from 1953 - 1961 was clearly officially aware of the existence of extraterrestrials here and that they would be available to consult with to seek advice and assistance from should such a thing become necessary.

In this disclosure via personal witness testimony, it was also affirmed that the US officially believed at that time, that no threat at all was being posed then, nor had it ever been posed in past history and nor would it ever be posed, against humans on this planet.

And this is markedly different to the narratives emerging from the Pentagon now.

But nevertheless, I want to go back to Jung and underscore how he originally came by his views about the imminent rise of a 'Hitler-type' character, before such a person in fact appeared.

He said that when a broad section of any particular society all at the same time starts having 'dreams' or feelings of foreboding, which can be quite vague (and it's worse still, if these are rather vague, because it implies they are coming from the feminine collective unconscious), then this is the manifesting of real things existing inside the unconscious, and that the trajectory of such manifestations in the mind, end up with material physical effects in the external physical world.

And so, where I am going with this, is to suggest that concepts such as 'bug-out bags' and 'Doomsday Prepping' are exactly those unconscious forces manifesting in the minds of people. Typically, if you are a student of psychological forces producing material effects, you will know that the pre-sentiment drops off suddenly first, and then this is a clear indicator that it is about to be actually realized in matter -, that is, in a material way out in the material experience itself.

As little as fifty years ago, if someone were bombing a nuclear energy facility, this would be an international crisis immediately, with massive military and diplomatic effects ensuing right away.

Today however, this existential fact of someone - in fact both sides - bombing nuclear facilities, is playing second fiddle to the raid by the armed, mostly masked, jack-booted criminal thugs in the employ of the Wokey-people, on one of the residences of a past President of the United States.

Second fiddle? What am I saying?? Nobody cares.

What is quite certain to happen now though, is that no sooner will have the Republicans wrested control of Congress and the Senate thoroughly come this November, than retributions will commence.

And then we will descend in total chaos (it's only mostly chaos in the enforcement of powers against a weakened civilian population now) into a full-blown Civil War, with armed insurrections, mostly by Antifa at first, quite openly, rather than as in the past covertly just using metal pipes to bash people and smash cars and business windows. All actions fully protected by the FBI.

There is actually no way around having to say this now.

Not for nothing is the George Soros (superficially it is run by Soros) 'Civil Society' movement called that, because it is exactly anything but that.

'A merchant found a pearl of great price...'

Well but so what. We know all these things. At least hopefully though, none of you will be caught up thinking of wielding any kid of weapon at all. It's a bad idea.

What's a good idea is to admit that this is indeed 'where it's all at' right now.

If you posed the question to someone who sits firmly on the side of those who procured a criminal warrant against a recent ex-President, and likely candidate again - how is it that a nuclear war is less of an issue for the FBI to concern itself with, than your animus against Donald Trump - you're not going to get any kind of sensible answer.

The 'animus' - from the dark shadow side of the collective unconscious, has already fully taken over their minds...

: )

The kind of chaos that eventually overtook ancient Athens, or Persia or Rome, does not happen so quickly that one needs to personally, in a private life role, run and hide anywhere.

The complexity of the human persona and personal 'self' is so intensely woven into its recognizable patterns of development to a different stage intelligence, that to intervene while that is happening, denies the creature its natural right to unfold to what it will be.

We say, that is, ordinary people are inclined to say - 'we are entitled to think what we want, do what we want, be how we choose to be.' And they are in fact doing none of those things at all. They are merely following a known path to do with how things grow through stages and cycles.

To imply that humans are 'intelligent' is beyond the merely ridiculous. They are systematic, pattern-following animated creatures with absolutely no actual intelligence at all.

Moment-to-moment (and this is the stance of psycho-analysis too), human beings, whether individually, or as a group, are living in a dynamic circumstance of combined forces and energy being thrown up into the experiential 'now.' A person suffering a psychic pathology is not doing so in the past (the mistake that Freud made, albeit that was because he at least saw some of the originating pre-conditions) - he is doing so in the present!

'Merchant of Venice' brand.

And so either you will deal with the present psychic situation, in present terms, or you will let it deteriorate by its own necessary trajectory into its own demise - literally its death.

Okay so there are Elves, and there are ET Aliens and there are a few other kinds of beings around the place and we generally speaking do not see them.

'If' they are there, and they are much more advanced and intelligent, then - just like the assumption that there is a God - we are back to the question of Theodicy; but in this case, unlike God who has not appeared on any Mount Sinai for a number of centuries at least, if He even did that way back then, we have many official people saying that in fact they are not only there and thought to be there, but that they have actually met with leading figures on the planet, such as General Eisenhower.

And this means 'they' are making a moral choice not to intervene and not to speak openly to large numbers of the general public or let's even say 'the whole world' as such nowadays, since we have the internet.

In other words, the moral equation is this: it is better, that the human race organize its own extinction event...

I mean in any case, what could be more poetic?

Your scientists, who know everything, are now about to reach the 'Shiva point' of absolute extinction - all by themselves. With no one forcing them to do it.

There's no scientists organizing open letters to which hundreds of great prize-winning identities are signatories, asking the UN to stop anything that is going on right now.

In fact it's even too late now, for them to try and do anything as mediocre and weak as that.

You are probably worried that some kind of effectual material 'blow-back' will adversely affect your lives and your lifestyles. But it won't.

The problem with assuming that much of the human race really is intelligent, is in failing to perceive that they are quite unable to use geometry in their mental calculations.

They cannot see the trajectories of shapes.

What they typically do is yell and scream - like monkeys - about the previous trajectory of something that just hit them, not seeing what is about to hit them. Or seeing where they are going on the thing they are riding on.

French vanilla butter cream and lilac
cream...

...I could point out something from the immediate last Blog piece here and that would simply be 'feeding those in the cages.' But some people picked it up though. The rest are going to have to pick up speed with dynamic geometry really fast or go the way of most of the world as we have witnessed what it was.

It's old, and dried out, and dead.

Truth is well-hidden. You either discover it yourself, or you die in the clouds of other people's prognostications - their 'sci-entific' pronouncements on everything. They don't know anything, but they are willing to teach courses in Universities for money.

Don't know... ...anything.

Not anything at all. At this point, it is clear they were so far up the creek without a paddle, that literally you can say now 'didn't know a damn thing at all.'

If someone can tell me, what the problem is with some of the posted comments from the last Blog piece, I will maybe slightly alter my tune about where things are headed and headed real fast! How many times already do I need to say 'you can't read' or if you can, you certainly are having difficulties comprehending what your eyes are seeing and giving to your brain!

Arielle Maren. Below:

And what do you think? Do you think ET Aliens and so on have a higher respect or view of the people in the White House - or in Harvard today?? Are you crazy? Wait, are you crazy.

And what if they took the view that militant stupidity was a matter of actual maliciousness?

I kinda care about you; your problems, but no one says what their problems really are. They're all still playing cards as if they are going to 'win' in a throw-down hand show at some point. Well how are you going to do that? When is that going to happen - you know, with you, never mind me. I just played my hand. I'm still waiting to see what people are making of the last Blog piece. What they are researching; what they are finding. ??

I wanna see people really understand geometries and trajectories...

You better hope like hell this kind of song is written about people who deserve the meaning of it (otherwise there will be none of you left on this planet when we're finished, sorry sorry, when you're finished and nobody intervened):

I Could Easily Prove it, But...

Our single biggest problem - it is actually the problem - is that we are contained and constrained within a visual field and a sensation frame constructed from our body.

And we have convinced ourselves of a particular fantasy, which is namely, that our own personal identity is made up of the information in our brains.

Yet that is self-evidently not true by logic, and I will show you why:

A personal identity of the kind that humans have, consists of fictions constructed by the person in their head - but along with those fictions are intentions.

I mean seriously, do you want me to make it this
obvious to you?
Not Issey Miyake, is it?

None of these things - aside from their seeming physical causal sources - are in fact material at all; they are ideas.

But one person's complex idea in which there is held an intention - ends up with someone else being killed. And another person's complex idea ends up with a bridge being built.

I didn't invent that - psychologists say that it is so.

Further, when courts decide on evidence about whether or not to convict someone of a capital crime, for example, they completely accept that it is so and so you should you without arguing about it here, although there are many who will be inclined initially to do so, because that is always your first tendency.

Are you consciously an introvert, or an extrovert?

I don't know of course.

But the point is that you will be one of those, that is to say, more so one than the other.

The fiction of your conscious self-identity is a fiction because for one thing, there will be so many aspects of yourself that you are completely unconscious of.

Meanwhile however, you've already completely convinced yourself that you know who you are.

Let us go to the absurd 'fantasy' of the matter of 'Elves.' Elves exist outside of our common experience of time and space and place.

We, by contrast, are convinced that it is the Elves and not us, who have the right grasp of 'reality.'

Logwood dyed fabric.
It's not connected with anything
we are talking about...
...right now.

Let us leave off any of this 'Oh you won't be able to...' (Unless some condition or other). Because I won't say that -, because. Yes you will. Even you. But nevertheless, exactly how you will, requires to be considered rationally.

Some people are extrovert thinking people dependent upon sensations and physically-sourced 'observing.'

You carried out some physical actions: placed silver in the Moonlight.

Next, your expectation is that the Elves, having made use of the silver (which they certainly will have done) will now reward you in the same order of things that you advanced the silver out to them - which is by a material physical action. Fair enough.

They are far more intelligent and advanced psychologically, than most humans though.

Their business is literally to upgrade and enhance the intelligence of the human being who seeks it.

The purpose of 'feelings' in human beings, is to tell us if a thing is agreeable to us or not. Necessarily our feelings must be conscious ones to us, or else we will have no rational means to say why a thing is agreeable, or that it is not.

The way of intuition among some people, is that it comes to conclusions by ways and means of the unconscious.

The extrovert thinking person is employing material observation and their physical senses before they are able to say they 'perceive' something.

Oh, but I just want to buy the whole of 
Paris, that's all.

Notwithstanding nobody here said anything heavy-handed about how a person ought to approach dealing with Elves - I mean, in fact I actually did say something about it but I never made it a huge issue. Typically, we have not found any public comments here from anyone reporting they either saw anything or received anything.

What we got, was someone saying 'when' - maybe 'if/really??' aka I don't believe it.

Well, the minute you come up with a really good argument to counter psychologists who all say that humans invent fictions of their 'ego' and of their self/identity, made from conscious components and totally unconscious ones - then we will get you a lot of money from lawyers, particularly prosecutors.

It is a fiction of your own making, that you are even able to perceive one tenth of what really exists there with you, in your surroundings, in yourself, in those around you.

Elves, who are of a species much higher than humans, know this.

So let's say you 'suddenly' magically, as it were, 'miraculously' got some material reward for putting out some silver in the Moonlight (or just 'out,' it doesn't need to be in the Moonlight!) - what advance to your knowledge about yourself would that bring you?

It is completely easy, to 'see' Elves. Those individuals who fall further towards the introvert intuitive personality type, can easily do it.

...To see an Elf in the material human context of body senses is a totally frightening experience, well outside of what you would even expect or imagine and far deeper down the 'rabbit-hole' than maybe right now you consider you are easily able to handle.

In any case, what are you going to do then? Who do imagine you will be able to tell your experience to?

Oloroso. Sherry, more or less.

It's a kind of lurid self-involvement on the part of humans, recently tricked into believing in 'science' as some be-all and end-all to understanding the Universe in which we live, that they widely do think, 'Oh you know what, let's say an Elf gave me fifty bucks, well then, just to prove it was really so and not co-incidence or chance being disguised as synchronicity, then I will conduct the process again so that they give me another fifty, and then keep going in order to prove it is really empirically true and a repeatable thing like so...'

So let me explain to you this. The Elf is going to give you a material reward.

And then what?

Don't play around with these creatures like as if they are some idiot off CNN.

They are not.

'Who,' was doing the 'ask?' Which identity self, went out and placed the silver there?

The feeling one, the sub-conscious one, the rational calculating (so it supposes) one, the pure physical sensation one?

You know, I would go with the pure sensation one. And I'll tell you why. Sensation shall not prejudice facts.

And 'facts' I'm afraid, are only just the things you have convinced yourself are 'real.'

But so then, even then, what sensation intention are you carrying with yourself?

What I am looking for from the people carefully reading here and bothering to implement, is their independent self-discovery of what I have already attained... I mean if you simply want to be told because somehow this is going to help with 'faith' (lol!) 1. That there are real Elves, materially real and physical, well yes there are, 2. Did Jesus really exist and did he pull a silver coin from the mouth of a fish, well yes He did that, 3. Can you make a lot of money if you wanted to, more or less by 'Elfin means' well absolutely you can.

It's not gold! This is a tiny bit of cupro-nickel
nothing.
Someone tell me the current price...
Come on, come on; let's do some
'fact checking.' LOLOLOLOL
I can do this every day, forever.
And don't you forget it.

I don't want to be the guy showing you the cache of Mars 2 dollar coins that could have... ...been bought for thirty bucks.

I could stand in for any Elf slow or negligent on the delivery of their silver, and I could do it over and over and over again. How about you though?

Isn't that what you wish to achieve for yourself - be able to do it yourself - or like someone who often comments here, wants 'agency' but gives no statement of equality as a guarantee of 'equivalency' of agency back.

Good luck to you if you are firmly of the mind to think that 'calculation' and 'scientific sensory observation' aka 'conscious thinking' is going to be able to bypass Vitarka.

What is Vitarka? You were not paying attention.

This track below, Xpander by Sasha, was written by Elves.

If you have been attempting to contact Elves, given the kinds of information delivered here, and you claim you haven't seen them yet or that they haven't 'exchanged' with you, you are lying, or else you just plain don't listen to what you are told and have pre-formed ideas in your head which are all wrong. Or, boy are you stuck in the conscious material sensory framework of silliness and nonsense. 

When Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, thousands of Germans had been seeing him in their dreams for years beforehand. Fact or not a fact, as far as you are aware right now?

You watch as the same mind-sets go reaching for 'explanations.' 'Sci-entific' explanations.

Don't give me 'the Elves haven't coughed up yet.' What's wrong with you??!

They gave me stuff - it took this time about three weeks. And they're not done yet; I know.

If I stopped scolding y'all for a moment and set things into some kind of perspective, take a broader look at the whole of your life currently. You don't have to squint for 'unexplained positive changes.' Just look at things through the windows of: feeling, intuition, sensation, and lastly of all, thinking and material observing. 

Live and Let...?

The second line of the Wicce Measure, starts off: 'Live and let live.'

So Fleming pens a novel (1954) heavily based on the Duvaliers and their influence in New York politics and banking via voodoo networks inside the rich elite and particularly among the wives of said. Francois Duvalier was originally, in part sponsored by the CIA itself and had been working to take over Haiti for several years before he finally did that in 1957. His voodoo family network had been active in New York for years already. 

Fleming takes from what he is obviously reasonably enough familiar with, which is namely the 'Wicce Measure' - although nowadays people call it the Witches' Counsel.

He takes the second line and turns it into 'Live and Let Die.'

It is so cold down here right now,
that there is snow on Bluff Knoll,
and I busted out my thick 'reader socks'
that I was saving to just look at forever...

Well, that was all back in the days when the FBI actually did their job, They publicly named the wives of prominent bankers who they said were being harassed by the Voodoo cult members, but what they really meant was to warn these women to lay off doing what they had actually been doing, which was placing spells onto the competitors of their husbands and so on.

In the end people did get charged too, mainly with using or attempting to use drugs to effect people without their knowledge.

These days, of course, the FBI has managed to quite easily convince people like 'KP' that 'Steve Bannon is bad' - notwithstanding that only just recently Bannon saved the great library of Monte Cassino with a lot of his own money.

And they would make a joke if you told them there really were black magic groups operating in Washington and Los Angeles and manipulating the political elites.

The respect for, nay the actual knowledge of, great literature and what the whole of modern Western society and culture ought to have been receiving as its rightful legacy - is absolutely nil.

I raised the name of Natalie Barney to demonstrate just how bad this situation has gotten now.

To imagine that being 'Woke' or being a modern feminist, whether 'radical' or any other 'acceptable' kind (as KP will affirm, is determined by people like him, who are clearly your moral superiors as well as your intellectual ones - 'acceptability' comes from those who signal to you what 'virtue' means and which virtues you are to have), whilst not knowing who Natalie Clifford Barney is in your life, speaks volumes.

Natalie Clifford Barney.
An actual real coven circle.

Natalie Barney knew and/or funded and published and marketed: Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Paul Valery, Cocteau, Scott Fitzgerald, Thornton Wilder, Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce...

The list goes on and on, and you could go on all day with filling out the list and talking about those luminaries of art and culture.

Barney was a super wealthy American who went to Paris to live, ostensibly, as a Paris 'neo-lesbian' among the salon set - and became one of the most celebrated salonierres herself.  

The most, and I mean the most horrific, revolting display that this human race has ever given, is what you are witnessing right now all over the place around you, where people who are - according to them - completely well-meaning - protest and 'get triggered' and show you their ugly aggression and it is far from 'passive' every time something comes up which is not on the page set them by actually evil 'front man' miscreants like Barack Obama.

No one who does not have a truly solid knowledge of the life and the lifestyle, and the art and the ideas of someone like Natalie Barnes - has any right at all to say 'gay,' or 'lesbian' or 'sex' anything!

And this has been completely affirmed by numerous scholars before me. Alhamdulillah!

In fact, on account of which rulings by actual authentic scholars, I hereby issue a fatwa against anyone who ever says 'gay or lesbian' again but cannot recite backwards the Wicce chant of Natalie Barnes, which she used when she was Witch Queen of Provence presiding over the main Mabon circle cast and was dressed in what fabric, Bill?

You can lead a horse to Provence fish stew,
but you can't make him...!

LOL

(Bill knows). He sent me some pics earlier today. 

...At the same time everyone is entitled to hold whatever views they want to and that they freely choose to hold because - 'live and let live, and think what you will because it will only hurt you yourself if you are being silly!'

The absolute test, is whether Steve Bannon would go along with Natalie Barnes... My guess is that he would, and that places the common popular current conception of for instance 'LGBTQ' politics - where, exactly?

 

Got to wait till around half way and hear the simple lyrics, and then consider if, same as Natalie Barney, people have been forced to lose touch with African-American modern culture. The sentiment is known among the Rave Culture elites as 'pronoia.'

 

Naughty Me

...Let's say some of y'all have been moving your personal 'sphere' of being, closer to these ET Aliens than you may have supposed. To their world.

As it says in the book of the Tao Te Ching - the wise person who wishes to rule here, consorts with the powers of heaven.

And that's what some of you have been doing, even though it might not have seemed obviously so to you at the time.

Arms folded, in the Harris Tweed.
LOL

You are not alone. You are no longer alone in your world, in this human world, although it may have seemed so.

You might indeed be 'hermiting' but you are decidely not alone at all.

But here's the thing though, see.

'You' (a person, not you) are someone high up in government, or in some media and advertising juggernaut organisation, and you know that the Russian military just completely annihilated several divisions of Ukrainian soldiers. That's a few thousand men and some women. Just then, last few days only. You know that and you also know that the reason there is a war out there at all, is because you have been using the country as a money laundering place for you and all those in the little middle class tribe that you belong in, as 'one of.'

Money laundering place, drugs manufacturing and distribution place, sex trafficking place, illegal weapons dealing place, illegal chem labs place. 

...So, you accidentally get dragged along to a friend of a close friend's Sedona-based 'meditation group' with some hot females in there.

And suddenly, at some point in the evening, the 'Divine Light' descends upon the off-beat group and you can actually see it, and you figure, okay, they have some drug they've pumped into the atmosphere or slipped into our kambucha teas or whatever.

The light however, is the real thing, and it goes into your head and finds that you have 'deliberate malice and injustice' installed in you as part of your whole actual personality and being, and that your life and livelihood depends on the fact that you can freely lie cheat steal and literally organize mass murder too. Now this is 'God light' right, actual 'God' thing... 

So it doesn't stay in you, in your head. It gets the hell out ASAP. It cannot remain in there, because then it would be participating in your wickedness, let's say, if it helped various different other and more seemingly benign aspects of 'you.'

Not the Tao, but...
Well, is the Tao, really!
Great photography and digital
art by Charlie DiAngelo.

So then 'God' has no place in you. The 'life' force is not in you. You are actually dead but you have a mechanical sort of 'life' going on there until the bits and pieces wear down and self-destruct over time.

You've convinced yourself you are alive and that you can think and feel and so on, but it's not really true.

...Now there's another person in there where you are, and that person has a fully-integrated, correctly-functioning, internal mind structure. They are genuinely objective about 'truth' and 'facts,' and actively seek to increase their knowledge and information base. They use the thinking and considering and 'foresight' part of their brain to make judgments and in that way form decisions to undertake their intelligent 'actions.' They use their appetite to organize ways to feed the physical organism of their body, and they use their creativity to find new solutions to any presenting problems.

Their stance is to do good wherever they practically can do so, both to themselves as well as to others, and they can self-observe as well as objectively observe others. They are highly sensitive to legitimate concepts of fairness and equality and they can comprehend 'equivalence' versus natural material hierarchies - and their consistent aim is to implement those decent standards of things.

Suddenly, they have this rare and unusual 'light thing' inside them. But this thing is not actually so austere as to be incapable of 'human qualities' as such - or better said, in fact it is capable of giving agency over enormous power, that aids and abets very human behaviors.

By contrast, a 'walk-in' (as they are called) is a thing that has taken up residence inside a person, where there are no nodes of thinking or judging in operation -, apart from basic appetites and rages.

Natalie Barney,
with Zibellino.

A 'walk-in' can only make use of and manipulate, the ordinary, mechanistic faculties and aspects of a human body. At the same time though, we should observe that this also shows us just how extremely powerful, are those 'basic mechanistic' aspects - they can make someone walk or run without food or drink for days, live without sleep, have seemingly 'super-human' strength, and the body will only eventually give up and expire long after one might have expected it to. That's why even mainstream 'insane institution' workers are told do not try and physically counter or over-power a crazy person on your own - because you won't be able to do it.

A 'walk-in' can only...

Whereas the other thing can do anything at all.

Hmn. So, 'Florian' (lol, I laugh at him) Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck...

And, without giving the game away about some of my father's aunts, and grand-aunts, let us compare and contrast Florian Graf HvD with (well, no, I'm not even going to give him the time of day at all) Natalie Clifford Barney (born 1876, passed 1972). Same era as my own grandmothers, and one of those actually outlived Natalie Barney by a few years.

Tell me, oh thou wokey people and 'super feminists' that you have heard of Natalie, right?

Oh, ineffable light of
the Cosmic Super Intelligence, 
bring Lamborghini s-o-o-o-o-o-n.

Her mother was originally engaged to Henry Morton Stanley, and whether fortunately or not, who can say, did not marry him but while he was sailing around Lake Victoria in a boat he named after Alice Barney, she married instead a wealthy railway car manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio.

See the problem with people such as me - and now you too - is that if we are standing before some idiot from Oxford, Cambridge or anywhere, we could go on like this all day long and keep our hand on that person's hold of their iPhone.

You could say to them: 'You've heard of Natalie Barney and Alice Barney, haven't you?' ...And hold their hand down hard as they struggle for air, and then suffocate and die.

We speak of this, next time here. We expand.

    

    

 

Hot Chocolate In Paris

...Where I have not been. Been more or less just about everywhere else across Europe - never ever been to Paris.

Anyway, so Angelina Jolie's mother, Marcia Lynne Bertrand, a French-Canadian, used to proclaim rather strongly that her mother at least, 'was as far away from French Parisian as you can get,' and that may well have been quite true. Her husband, and therefore Jolie's grandfather, Rolland Bertrand, was French enough though, if you wanted to make a thing of it.

I think it was John Voight who may have been more intent on preserving the French connection here, since he gave his daughter the name 'Angelina.'

Angelina's is a famous tea rooms in Paris, that is famous in fact, more for their hot chocolate than their actual tea.

What are they doing serving Scotch whisky 
at Agent Provocateur's in Paris?

And then of course, Angelina's is just as famous for being the favored hang-out of Coco Chanel and her friends.

You know, there is just so much more to all of these characters of history than the common history and narratives even have the knowledge to say...

If I started to go into my grandmother's sisters' (on my father's side) history in Europe we will not only be here all day, but some of these people's live were not only 'larger than life' but so far beyond the sheer scandalous, that the highest of society were in awe.

The Greffuhles were endowed with female members of such social prowess - in every possible sense - that... ...well, their salons, especially the one run by Elaine (Bill? Are you following? LOL) openly 'tolerated' the emergent new 'class' of well-heeled American lesbian with massive inheritances, who themselves were eventually taught how to run these things. And they did that. You know, to put it rather crudely here - out of which many great personages of modern times, like Karl Lagerfeld, sprang fully-armed, as it were.

Coco Chanel in the end was a partner with one of the female denizens of this grade of society -, who was a major dancer at the Moulin Rouge and also 'expensive friend' of some of the boys and girls of the salon set. And what were they partners in? Well, asylums for women and children and poor men as well. She and her friend invested heavily, considerable sums, in fact, in these places throughout the latter parts of their very successful lives.

All the while somehow also being able to attend morning coffee at Angelina's, or in this case, hot chocolate.

They bring the hot chocolate out to you in silver or ceramic jugs, right - and then you have that poured out for you into cups with lots of cream on top and also sometimes coffee underneath as well.

...Why am I telling you all this?

Well because we like hot chocolate! 

Don't we?

I must say - Adele Charvet, eh. Very impressed.

Salons, by the way, are not about sex-for-money or even anything like that. Money is there because well, rich people have money.

They came about, quite frankly, because these super wealthy women who were all incredibly sophisticated and highly educated in the highest aristocracy, were being frozen out of 'academies' that were being strictly open to males only at the time. 

Still, it's all too easy for those who wish to be lurid about things to impute many false ideas about what is going on with these women. But there was never any implication by anyone that Elisabeth Greffulhe, for instance, was any kind of 'mistress' to anyone, and never certainly to Edward VII, who always dined informally at her house when he was in Paris.

I tell you all these things for a reason.

Nothing changes:
Plus ca change...
Google says 'the fundamental immutability
of human nature and 
institutions.' 

How do these people, these kinds of people know to conduct their private lives with this person and not with that one? You cannot really say Prince Andrew, for example, is in fact educated in these things at all, really.

Look - why was Andrew hanging with the crowd he was hanging around with, when he might have seemingly as easily been where say Karl Lagerfeld was, for example, and it is no secret to say by extension then in context of the Kaiser, where, oh, Caroline of Monaco was... They don't seem to get into trouble. How come he did?

There are high aristocrats, and they are still around today -, and there are others.

They know because they know the court slippers of Balthazar in the Merchant of Venice.

They know because they know when you wear a certain type of socks.

They know when - if you are a woman - you have zibellino around your neck.

So, Andrew, did your so-called 'friends' in mercantile London do you any favors, did they, Andrew? Money buys you what, then?

There are people here reading this Blog who will have the wit to go and watch Pacino's Merchant of Venice (it is the best one; not that he has particularly distinguished himself recently with any public pronouncements on this or thon...) again now. 

And why not? There could be a salon in their town and they are simply getting ready.