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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.8.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:31:46 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>TANATA</title><subtitle>Journal</subtitle><id>http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/atom.xml"/><updated>2009-11-07T17:02:01Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.8.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>The Master Stone</title><id>http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/25/the-master-stone.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/25/the-master-stone.html"/><author><name>Eliakim</name></author><published>2009-10-25T17:40:12Z</published><updated>2009-10-25T17:40:12Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p><B><I>A Screenplay In Progress &#8212; <span class="caps">SYNOPSIS</span></B></I></p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL PENLEY,</span> 35, a conspiracy theorist, researcher, writer and a student of Bible prophecy, is recruited by a secret organization to gather intelligence on the modus operandi of the Illuminati and to prove the existence of a mysterious man, also 35, purported to be an incarnation of Marduk Ra and a “redeemed” Lucifer, whom insiders say is laying the groundwork for the Allied Union, a global confederation of regional states. Aided by a lifelong friend, <span class="caps">BUZZ LANCE,</span> 55, a former Naval intelligence specialist, <span class="caps">DARRELL </span>simultaneously pursues answers about his own roots and the mysterious death of his father, whose involvement with the Urantia Book and the mysterious death of ex-Secretary of Defense James Vincent Forrestal and <span class="caps">JFK </span>are cryptically referenced in newly discovered diaries. In the course of his research, which takes him finally to Antarctica and the underground world of Agarthi, <span class="caps">DARRELL </span>realizes that he is destined to confront the man he is researching so that he and <span class="caps">BUZZ, </span>secretly in search of the powerful Master Stone, may fulfill their presumed roles as human civilization draws to a close. </p>

<p><B><I><span class="caps">THE MASTER STONE </span>&#8212; Continuously Being Revised</B></I></p>

<p><span class="caps">FADE</span> IN</p>

<p><span class="caps">EXT. </span> A <span class="caps">BEACH</span> IN <span class="caps">FLORIDA </span>&#8212; <span class="caps">NIGHT</span></p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ LANCE,</span> 55, is lying on the beach looking up at the stars next to his sister <span class="caps">PAM LANCE,</span> 50.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Don’t you ever feel a little embarrassed that you write such elaborate stories which really don’t make any sense?</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
I’m selling them, so I must be doing something right. </p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
It’s the pretty pictures people buy your comic books for. You could write the Iliad backwards &#8230; and there would be people who would gush.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Like what in particular of my work do you find so objectionable?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
It’s the same problem that I have with a lot of comics. Take Alan Moore and Watchmen &#8230;</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Which is a classic which changed how the world views comics. It has a unique symmetry.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Like a horseshoe. I’ve tried to read it. It’s rambling and self-indulgent. It’s not literature as some people would like to call it. It’s very disjointed. Sometimes you can’t tell certain characters apart because they’re drawn so similarly. And the storyline is all over the board.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
And you’re using this description for my stories, too?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
The ones I’ve read. Sorry, but &#8230; Whatever happened to good storytelling?</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
So give me an idea for a story with memorable characters which would convince me that you know what you’re talking about. Something current.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Why has no one done the story of the Antichrist from a biblical perspective? Now there is a conflict and a story which people could sink their teeth into.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
A Bible story? You&#8217;re not serious?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Which doesn’t pull any punches. Make it as raunchy as you want.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Who would be the protagonist? Besides Jesus?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Some bum off the street who becomes a hero. Who is among the first to figure out who the Antichrist really is.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
For the purpose of doing what?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
To kick him in the balls. Mock him. Make fun of him. Show him up as a loser, a buffoon.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
I actually like that idea. Where did you come up with that?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
I dunno. Darrell&#8217;s material.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
He’s a very conflicted individual.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
He’s sort of devoted himself to this topic.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
To what? The Antichrist?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Yeah. He’s put it upon himself to reveal who he is. And what the Illuminati might have to do with him.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Why would the Illuminati have anything to do with the Antichrist?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Are you kidding? They&#8217;re up to their ears in satanism, or so we&#8217;re told. I mean, if the elite are occult oriented &#8230; he would be their man, right?</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
But he is defeated in the end, if I&#8217;m reading things correctly.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
They&#8217;re Luciferians. They must not think so. They must have a dim view of Jesus.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Then, they have a varying view of biblical prophecy.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
A distorted one &#8230; based on gross misinterpretations of what the book of Revelation says, for instance. That&#8217;s my take.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
They actually believe they&#8217;re descended from Jesus, some of them, right?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Yeah. Which is nothing you&#8217;d boast about if he was a mere man.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Interesting.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
They will perhaps fulfill prophecy by having misinterpreted it, by making Lucifer their messiah.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Are you convinced that there will be one? Is Darrell?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
I can’t imagine that there would be one if everybody is looking for one. I mean &#8230; would the Antichrist know that he is the Antichrist? Who would want to admit that he was the Antichrist?</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
That would depend on whether the person who was the Antichrist knew what the prophecies were concerning the Antichrist, right? You’re reversing your good idea, you know that don’t you?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
I just think it would be a good story. Timely. The ultimate good versus evil conflict. Whether there will actually be such a person, I don’t know. Ask Darrell. He can tell you better than I can.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL PENLEY,</span> 35, is riding in his car when his cell phone rings.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PHONE RINGS</span></p>

<p>He answers it.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Hello?</p>

<p>On the line is <span class="caps">GRETA,</span> 37.</p>

<p><span class="caps">V.O.</span><br />
Hi, Darrell. It’s me. I thought we ought to get together soon. Tonight.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
(Preoccupied) <br />
Why did you think that? </p>

<p><span class="caps">V.O.</span><br />
I had what I think is a confirming dream last night.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Greta, we can’t meet every time you have a dream.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p>We see <span class="caps">GRETA </span>talking on the phone.</p>

<p><span class="caps">GRETA</span><br />
But this meant something. Visually it was stunning. And the location, I think, is worthy of your consideration.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p>In a flashback we see a giant revolving box hovering in a blue light in a large cave. A face turns toward us &#8230; and we see a <span class="caps">REPTOID </span>creature.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p>We see <span class="caps">DARRELL </span>on the phone.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
I have some research to do. Can you write it up and email it to me?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p>We see <span class="caps">GRETA </span>on the phone.</p>

<p><span class="caps">GRETA</span><br />
Yes. Why do I feel like I’m being stiffed?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p>We see <span class="caps">DARRELL </span>on the phone.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
I have a lot of my mind, Greta. The group I’m working for wants something more concrete from me. </p>

<p><span class="caps">V.O.</span><br />
I’ll type it up. But call me when you get it. Bye.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Bye.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL </span>hangs up.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ </span>and <span class="caps">PAM </span>continue their conversation while walking along the beach.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Speaking of Darrell &#8230; what ever became of the novel the two of you were going to write?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
It was progressing, I thought, until he went off on this new tangent.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
I thought your idea had merit. Camelot In Ruins, right?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
How the sixties have bled into all of the decades which have followed <span class="caps">THEM.</span> I think the project only exacerbated his interest in eschatology. He became even more obsessed with secret societies. </p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
So, tie that into the novel.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
He got this gig.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Doing what?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Working for some online rag. Plus, he wouldn’t leave the questions alone about his father.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Who was murdered?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Yeah.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Tie that in, too. Mark Twain said to write what you know, what’s in your sphere of experience.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p>In a flashback we see <span class="caps">DEXTER PENLEY,</span> 42, walking hand in hand along an ocean boardwalk with a young <span class="caps">DARRELL,</span> 5, and his sister <span class="caps">MARY,</span> 7. Both children are holding balloons. <span class="caps">BUZZ </span>appears in the crowd, walking several paces behind them.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DEXTER </span>suddenly looks behind, to his left and right, and sees two men approaching him. He throws his hand into the air and makes a fist.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ, </span>at 25, swoops up the two children and begins to run with them, as <span class="caps">DEXTER </span>hustles away through the crowd. </p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
I’m Buzz. And I’m a friend of your father. You’re safe with me. </p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p>We see <span class="caps">DEXTER </span>lying face down in the sand and surf, surrounded by police.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ </span>and <span class="caps">PAM </span>continue their conversation, walking up steps leading to a luxury hotel.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Maybe you’d like to collaborate? On a graphic novel. With me as the protagonist.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Ha. A spy thriller?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Yeah. Only all the spies are superheroes.</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
Plot it out. I’ll take a look at anything you come up with.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Really?</p>

<p><span class="caps">PAM</span><br />
What are successful sisters for?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p><span class="caps">INT.   DARRELL PENLEY</span>’S <span class="caps">BEDROOM </span>&#8212; <span class="caps">NIGHT</span></p>

<p>In a darkened bedroom, we see bookshelves lining the walls filled with books about secret societies and Bible topics. We pan around the room until we come to a small table on which sits a Bible open to the book of Daniel. The pages are illuminated by the moon. The wind through the window turns the pages from Daniel to the book of Revelation.</p>

<p>Panning further around the room, we see <span class="caps">DARRELL </span>and his wife <span class="caps">MEREDITH,</span> 34, asleep in bed. Suddenly, <span class="caps">DARRELL </span>sits up straight in bed, his eyes wide open.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
That’s it! I understand now.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MEREDITH </span>stirs.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MEREDITH</span><br />
Understand what?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Who the Illuminati think they are. Collectively.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MEREDITH</span><br />
We shouldn’t have eaten all that chocolate. I can’t sleep either.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
No. Don’t you see? They understand prophecy as well as I do, only their interpretation is skewed.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MEREDITH </span>sits up.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MEREDITH</span><br />
Try to go back to sleep, Darrell. I have to get up early.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
I don’t think I can. I’ve figured out how the Tribulation and its judgments are supposed to play out.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MEREDITH</span><br />
I know you’re working on an assignment, Darrell. But you have to find a way to give this stuff a rest. It’s controlling your life.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
They think they’re God. That all the gods collectively are God. And the Illuminati believe it is their responsibility to make the book of Revelation come true. The bowl and woe judgments &#8230; will be brought upon the earth by the enlightened ones.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MEREDITH</span><br />
Okay. Go back to sleep.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
God is a creator &#8230; not a destroyer. If the world population is supposed to be decreased by two-thirds, as Revelation says &#8230; they will be the ones to make it come to pass. </p>

<p><span class="caps">MEREDITH</span><br />
Goodnight.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
I’ve figured out their <span class="caps">M.O.</span> They do need to be stopped. But how? </p>

<p>We see the Bible on the table in the moonlight. Panning up we see the full moon outside <span class="caps">DARRELL</span>’s bedroom window.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p><span class="caps">INT. </span> A <span class="caps">GRAND LODGE</span> IN <span class="caps">THE WOODS </span>&#8212; <span class="caps">SAME</span></p>

<p>We see the full moon as it shines over a lake and a luxurious lodge.</p>

<p>Two ageless mysterious figures, <span class="caps">CARLOS </span>and <span class="caps">MAX, </span>glowing but invisible, are observing a meeting of men seated around a table.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CARLOS</span><br />
They persist on referring to God as the Demiurge.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAX</span><br />
Are you surprised?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CARLOS</span><br />
Surely one of these people has encountered grace.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAX</span><br />
They&#8217;ve succeeded by graft and greed through the course of their lives and have had no need of grace. They&#8217;ve broken the rules to get where they are. They&#8217;re reliant only upon one another. And so blessings to them are not from God but spoils achieved at their own hands.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CARLOS</span><br />
And that prompts them to see God as both good and evil?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAX</span><br />
Or not to regard him at all. Those who allow for God believe that God kills the humble, the stupid, the poor, starves them, punishes them for being lazy, for having no guile. And, so, they have a twisted perception of death and judgment. When such people die at their hands &#8230; they believe they&#8217;re doing God&#8217;s work to rid the world of undesirables. And yet they&#8217;re very moralistic in extreme, contradictory ways. They don&#8217;t believe that the poor deserve to fall in love and have sex which can result in one more useless eater.  </p>

<p><span class="caps">CARLOS</span><br />
They seem to be obsessed with death.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAX</span><br />
It is a mystery they can&#8217;t fathom, so they mock it. And they recklessly use it as a means to an end.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CARLOS</span><br />
Why don&#8217;t they fear it?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAX</span><br />
Desperation isn&#8217;t part of their experiences or common emotions. It&#8217;s foreign to them. They&#8217;ve never exercised that part of their conscious selves. Their brains are not programmed for it. When an obstacle presents itself &#8230; they solicit help from one of the brothers and dance on. Plus they can afford to put death off &#8230; but there are other avenues open to them, and that&#8217;s why we came here to listen in.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CARLOS</span><br />
What? Why?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAX</span><br />
They&#8217;ve been seduced, some of them, into believing that they can have eternal life, both physical and spiritual.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CARLOS</span><br />
Though they&#8217;ve violated all of the standards which qualify them to live eternally?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAX</span><br />
Not according to those who have seduced them. They’ve appealed to their pride, their unabated pride.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CARLOS</span><br />
I don&#8217;t understand.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAX</span><br />
There are other realms, solely occupied by proud spirits. Even they have been seduced. They&#8217;ve operated freely &#8230; and they assume such will always be the case. And they&#8217;ve promised to those whom they&#8217;ve seduced &#8230; the same light which now they possess &#8230; but which will be extinguished.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CARLOS</span><br />
I continue to hear that &#8230; but that light has not subsided. Look at them &#8230; they&#8217;re laughing even as they plot the death of two-thirds of the world’s people &#8230; even as they plan to destroy the earth.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAX</span><br />
Do you note the spirits around them, facilitating them?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CARLOS</span><br />
No.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAX</span><br />
Let me open your eyes.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p><span class="caps">INT. </span> A <span class="caps">GRAND BALLROOM </span>&#8212; <span class="caps">SAME</span></p>

<p>A gathering of men in tuxedos and Masonic regalia draw closer to a large winding staircase in a dimly lit ballroom.</p>

<p>In close-up, we see a golden mask in shadow. Out of the shadows steps a man <span class="caps">SUPREMUS DAVID ROCKEFELLER,</span> 35, wearing the golden mask and a red cloak, with a hood and cape. He begins to descend the staircase.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CHARLES,</span> 45, at the base of the staircase, lifts a glass of champagne and speaks in reverent tones. </p>

<p><span class="caps">CHARLES</span><br />
The Priesthood of Amen is assembled. We beckon you, lord. We welcome you. Join us in your incarnate form from a thousand years hence.</p>

<p>The gathering applauds softly as the man in the mask descends.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p><span class="caps">INT. </span> A <span class="caps">BEDROOM </span>&#8212; <span class="caps">SAME</span></p>

<p>From the perspective of a fluid camera, in and out of focus, we see <span class="caps">MICHEL PRESTON,</span> 33, in a tuxedo, reflected in a full-length mirror, holding a ring with a large black stone to his forehead. He raises his other hand, palm in, before him in an occult gesture. <span class="caps">REX,</span> 25, is holding the camera.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
You were in Eden, the garden of God, and every stone adorned you. You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. You walked among the fiery stones &#8230;</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS, </span>holding his golden mask in his hand, opens the bedroom door, throws back his red cape and steps in.</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
Are you referring to me?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
Supremus! No.</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
Why are you wearing my ring, Michel?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
Am I? I am, yes. To honor you. </p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
You might have honored me with your presence at the party. Who is this?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
Rex.</p>

<p><span class="caps">REX</span><br />
Yes.</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
Rex? &#8230; There can only be one. And I am he.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DISSOLVE</span> TO:</p>

<p><span class="caps">EXT.   OUTSIDE DARRELL PENLEY</span>’S <span class="caps">HOME </span>&#8212; <span class="caps">DAY</span></p>

<p>A black 1947 Buick pulls up in front of <span class="caps">DARRELL</span>’s home &#8230; and two <span class="caps">MEN</span> IN <span class="caps">BLACK </span>get out. They walk up to the front porch and ring the doorbell. <span class="caps">DARRELL </span>comes to the door.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAN</span> IN <span class="caps">BLACK</span><br />
Mr. Penley?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Yes?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAN</span> IN <span class="caps">BLACK</span><br />
Hi. We, my partner and I, are with a &#8230; secret organization. </p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
The Mormons?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAN</span> IN <span class="caps">BLACK</span><br />
No.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Jehovah’s Witnesses? Because we’ve already reported &#8230;</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAN</span> IN <span class="caps">BLACK</span><br />
No, we don’t have a name. Per se. And we have orders to bring you in for questioning. Regarding your work.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
And if I refuse?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAN</span> IN <span class="caps">BLACK</span><br />
Then there will be heck to pay, because we’ll all be working against the team’s objective, its universal mission, its raison d’etre. </p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Which is what?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MAN</span> IN <span class="caps">BLACK</span><br />
Well, working as a team.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Let me get my coat.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p>After a long walk down a darkened corridor, <span class="caps">DARRELL </span>and the two <span class="caps">MEN</span> IN <span class="caps">BLACK </span>reach a door, which one of the men unlocks by punching in a code on a key pad, allowing <span class="caps">DARRELL </span>to go inside. The apparently spacious office is completely dark except for the light on a desk, where <span class="caps">JAMES CROWLEY,</span> 65, sits, and a spotlit chair some distance from the desk.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Have a seat, Darrell.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL </span>sits down in the spotlit chair. </p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Here? (Nervously) Thank you.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
First of all, Darrell, let me say what a thrill it is to find a researcher and writer of your caliber with so much enthusiasm and paranoia regarding the future of your nation and your planet.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Well &#8230; thank you. So, I’m not in any trouble?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
No, no. Our men in black only seem menacing.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
So, you haven’t brought me here to torture or kill me?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Heavens, no. We want to encourage you. Exploit you &#8230; explore with you some common objectives.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Working as a team?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Precisely right. I love writers. You’re so perceptive.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
To do what?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
To surveil the surveillers. Is that a word? Infiltrate the infiltrators. </p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Which ones?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Well, we’re having a hard time narrowing down the list. There are so many.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Other secret societies?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Right again. </p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Well, who’s on your list?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Well, take your pick, right? The Great White Brotherhood, the Cult of the Serpent, the Brotherhood of Venus, Nagas, the Cult of Kali, the Druids, the Knights Templar, the Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Knights of Malta, the Los Alumbrados, the Skull and Bones Society, the Bohemian Grove, the Order of the Golden Dawn, the Bilderbergs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, the Trilateral Commission, the <span class="caps">FBI, </span>the <span class="caps">CIA, M15,</span> Mossad, the <span class="caps">KKK,</span> Shriners, the Tree of Life Kabbalah Boys Klezmer Band and Guild.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
That’s a new one.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Tragic. The Knights of Columbus, Hollywood, the Corporate Dictatorship, Opus Dei, the Jesuits, the Catholic Church, the Lords of the Black Stone, the Lords of the Master Stone, the Priesthood of Amen, the Thule Society, the Theosophical Society, the Three-Hundred, the Club of Rome, the Club of One-Thousand and One, the Vril Society, the Nephilim and, of course, the Anunnaki, not to mention the New Age Daughters of the American Revolution and the Walker County Lions Club.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
What about the Ordo Templi Orientis?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
How could I have left them out? And to show our appreciation, our organization met recently in our board room bunker and voted to present you with this plaque of commendation for your billboard campaign, and &#8230;</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Thank you. Yes?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Of course your online writings. Especially your hypothesis about the judgments listed in the book of Revelation.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Yes, I’m rather proud of that. Although I can’t take full credit. It hit me while I was having a very vivid dream.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
So you’re a visionary?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
In my dream the Illuminati had stormed the island of Patmos &#8230; where the former Soviet Union had built missile launchers with nuclear warheads.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Patmos is where Saint John wrote the book of Revelation.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
And now more than ever &#8230; I think it’s important that we identify who this mysterious man named John was, because that never has been resolutely determined by scholars.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Why do we need to know about John?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Well, if John wrote Revelation on behalf of Jesus and God the Father, then the Illuminati could not be the God who is to bring these judgments upon the earth, though they might think that they are.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Interesting.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
However, God may allow these evil men to perform the destruction of the earth, which will only bite them in the ass. Asses.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Well, we’ll kick that around. But let’s get down to business.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
All right.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
The president is clearly not the <span class="caps">AC.</span> He’s a socialist, but he’s not the foretold son of perdition, at least not until he can do signs and wonders as well as he shoots a basketball.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
I would agree with that.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
The jury, of course, is still out, as it must always be, but for now &#8230; he ain’t him. But we very much believe there is one. I mean, how could there not be? We’re headed for a one-world government, ten horns with little crowns, as Revelation has told us we would be &#8230; so we’re betting that the whole sordid mess is going to play itself out, with one lame brain calling the shots. We need for someone to nail the identity of this sucker down.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
And what do you want me to do?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
In a word &#8230; go to Antarctica. To relieve our correspondent. </p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
For what reason?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Just to snoop around. And then file a report on whether the earth is really hollow with caves inhabited by either the Vril-Ya, giant amazon women, Aryans or highly evolved reptilian races. Our present correspondent has turned out to be more skittish than we were originally led to believe.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Antarctica. Why Antarctica?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Well, Darrell, you should know that &#8230; that’s where all the action is. If there is to be an <span class="caps">AC, </span>we don’t use the “A” word, then he’s probably freezing his butt off up there putting his evil minions through their paces.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Would you want me to go alone?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
No, you can take a guest.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Weapons?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
We’d prefer not. Just a pen &#8230; or pens. Unless you can get the Internet up there to file your reports. Will you consider it?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Well, sure, I’ll consider &#8230;</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Good. I have your plane tickets and your itinerary right here.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
You indicated that you wanted to identify the AC?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Yes. That would also be part of your mission. And, to that end, we have some new faces emerging among the ranks of the occult elite whose names you might recognize.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Jay-Z?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Who?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Occult hip hopper.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
No, but I&#8217;m not surprised. I hate even to mention this one name it upsets me so much.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Lady Ga Ga.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
No. Who?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
She’s a Madonna wanna-be who drenches herself in blood onstage. I think she’s banging all the elite. Like a twenty-first century Marilyn Monroe.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Madonna? Does she wear one of those metal viking bras with the pointy tips?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
No, you’re thinking of Beyonce. Beyonce?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Well, our board doesn’t know any of these people. No, this new false messiah may be the real one. His name is Rockefeller.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Which one? There are so many.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
He actually isn’t really a biological Rockefeller; he was adopted by them.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Not Bill Clinton?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
No, he’s Bush’s bitch.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Right. That’s a marriage made in hell.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Don’t get me started. No, this man is named Supreme David.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
I think I ordered that once in a Jewish pizzeria.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Anyway, we’d also like to hire you to research this man and file a report. Flush him out.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
That could dangerous.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Not if he doesn’t exist.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
What do you mean?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Well, unlike Maitreya &#8230;</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Whatever happened to him?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Right. Scratch him. Unlike Sun Myung Moon or David Ickes, this man is visibly keeping a low profile. If he exists at all. Will you take the job? Please say yes. The future of civilization hangs precariously in the balance.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Bagging a Rockefeller would be a real feather in my cap &#8230;</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
So you’ll do it?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
If he doesn’t exist, and if he isn’t the one if he does exist, will I still get paid?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
Well, if he is the one, and if he doesn’t kill you, we’ll double your pay.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Done. Can my guest be a bodyguard?</p>

<p><span class="caps">CROWLEY</span><br />
I believe our board would approve that. </p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
I know just the man. </p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p><span class="caps">INT.  BUZZ LANCE&#8217;S GARAGE </span>&#8212; <span class="caps">DAY</span></p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL </span>drives into the auto repair garage of <span class="caps">BUZZ, </span>at 55. <span class="caps">DARRELL </span>gets out of his car, approaches <span class="caps">BUZZ, </span>who is wiping grease from his hands, and tries to hand <span class="caps">BUZZ </span>a folder.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Here, Buzz, read this dossier. I may have a job for you.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ </span>holds up his hands to show they&#8217;re covered with grease.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Just tell me what it says. I’ll read it later.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
You’ll need to read it in context. It’s complicated material.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Give me the high points. And tell me what the objective is.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
The objective is to keep me from getting killed while I’m doing the research to find out if Agartha and this man exist.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Cinch. High points. Hit me.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Well, our boy is reported to have a high-tech chest implant, and he ingests a white powder, which is comprised of gold, platinum and sixty-eight other trace elements in their monatomic state. </p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
So, he’s a health food nut?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
The powder also contains sea bed deposits.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Who was a catfish in a previous life.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
The other two supplements he takes are a pure white gold powder, sometimes referred to as the Philosopher’s Stone, and the other one is a white gooey liquid that is pure platinum. </p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
And he does this because his last name is either Descartes or Cartier?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Rockefeller. Pay attention. All of this combined keeps him electrically charged, boosting his brain to full capacity. One-hundred percent.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
So, we need to carry a six-pack of Leyden jars? Or a lightning rod?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
And he has the Superman logo, you know, the big “S,” tattooed on his chest and his back.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Why not an “A”?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Because, his first name begins with an “S.”</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Okay, you win. I’ll read it, if you’re not going to give it to me straight.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
No, all of this is true, well, according to this material. I&#8217;m not kidding around here, Buzz.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
But he sounds like a comic book character.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
The likes of which &#8230; with which you’ve always wanted to tangle, right?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
One-hundred percent capacity? I’m lucky to get twenty percent on a good day.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
But he has weaknesses.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
I would imagine he spends a lot of time on the toilet prospecting.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
He’s a womanizer. And a big drinker, only alcohol doesn&#8217;t phase him. He can drink a fifth of vodka without batting an eye.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Sea bed deposits and alcohol could not mix, I would strongly imagine. I thought he wasn&#8217;t supposed to like women.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Yeah, I thought that, too. So, this may not be the guy.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
And so &#8230; Bozo the Clown gathered this intel? Where’s he live?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
He used to live in Tennessee.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
An electric hillbilly?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
But now they’re thinking Antarctica. He’s rich. Educated in England. </p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
That makes more sense. Well, okay, count me in. Sounds like I’m going to be paid for chasin’ a ghost.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
A ghost?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Someone who doesn’t exist.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Yeah, well, maybe not. He was born without a biological father. His mother became pregnant with him in Roswell, New Mexico after five aliens crashed near there.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Is &#8230; that a fact? She was raped by those little gray dudes with no genitals? Now you’ve crossed the line, you know, Darrell?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
I have that it was an immaculate conception. And that he has reptilian blood. Did I say he was born in Roswell &#8230; in 1974, the same year I was born. You act as if you knew that. </p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Roswell? No.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
The year I was born? You used to live in Albuquerque, right?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Near there. Well, okey dokey, Sherlock. I gotta get back to work. </p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Are you in?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
A virgin-born snake boy who craps precious metals? I&#8217;m wavering now.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Why?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
I’ve been all tuned up for a guy who looked like Vincent Price wearin’ a cape. Possessed by Apollyon or Abaddon from the abyss. This guy sounds like he crawled out from under a rock.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
He believes he’s an incarnation of Marduk Ra, the Egyptian sun god, and a redeemed version of Lucifer. </p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Well, that’s a little better. </p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
He&#8217;s torn apparently between doing good and evil.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
I&#8217;m takin&#8217; bets on which side he comes down on. Well, then hell, I’m gonna need a costume.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
A costume, why?</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
‘Cause. And I’m gonna need a new name. Better than Buzz Saw. How ‘bout The Prospector?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Buzz, this is serious. The fate of humanity hangs in the balance.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
So what if in the course of your research you actually confront this guy? Or we do? Do we offer nothing of resistance? No strength to match his? Or lay down?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
We&#8217;ll improvise. </p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Weapons?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Pens only. We don&#8217;t want to fight him. We just want to know if he exists.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
Tellin’ him we’re just a couple of reporters from Freemasonry Today?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Possibly. I hadn&#8217;t thought of that. And &#8230; there’s one possible other objective. It will depend on what we find when we get to Antarctica.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
What is it?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
We won’t know until we break the seal on the football we’ll be carrying.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
How will we know when to break the seal?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
If we find something called the Tesseract.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p><span class="caps">INT. </span> AN <span class="caps">UNDERGROUND BUNKER</span> IN <span class="caps">TENNESSEE </span>&#8212; <span class="caps">SAME</span></p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS </span>and <span class="caps">MICHEL </span>are speaking in an underground bunker surrounded by banks of equipment with blinking lights and radar screens. <span class="caps">MICHEL </span>is pacing, deep in thought.</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
What has you so agitated, Michel?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
I sense &#8230; dissatisfaction with your lordship.</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
What people think of me now is irrelevant.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
There are competitors.</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
And they will be revealed for what they are &#8212; impostors and frauds.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
When? How? </p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
When I have become the capstone, the destroying stone which puts all states under my command.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
You’re referring to the ten toes &#8230; of iron and clay?</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
Yes. Having the Master Stone gives me an advantage none of the impostors have. Have you finished filling out your grid?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
I need for you to review it, to see if I have made any mistakes. The symbolism is abstruse. I can’t make out the players, the actors and who will be doing what.</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
When you’re finished I’ll review it. You understand the woe and bowl judgments, correct? The seven seals?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
I have them identified and listed in the grid, yes. Who will be the angels who will deliver these judgments?</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
Those whom I will summon.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
To what extent will the ten horns have a say in how these judgments are carried out?</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
They’ll be observers like everyone else. They’ll watch as I advance the destruction, bringing them ultimately to their knees. So that when the new heavens and the new earth are created &#8230; there will be no other choice for the one to rule but me. Only I know the plan as to how all of this is to play out &#8230; as well as you, if you’re diligent in your study.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
I’ll have the grid for you to review shortly. Perhaps tomorrow.</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
Good. Your role in the destruction is essential. I cannot do it, Michel, by myself. There are two beasts.</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
I’ll be ready to play my part. Already I sense my acquisition of power.</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
We have no competitors, Michel. That will be proved. Have you gotten rid of Rex?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
He has been dispatched.</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
Banished? Never to return?</p>

<p><span class="caps">MICHEL</span><br />
Yes, your lordship.</p>

<p><span class="caps">SUPREMUS</span><br />
You’ll thank me one day that I’ve rid you of all your distractions.</p>

<p><span class="caps">CUT</span> TO:</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL </span>and <span class="caps">BUZZ </span>continue their conversation.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
There’s something about this little expedition that you’re not telling me.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
No there isn’t. I’m every bit as much in the dark as you are. If not more so. There are things you’re not telling me.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
I don’t like the plan, which amounts to following a guide to the North Pole to look for some mythical place and a passage to other dimensions. How many are there?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Densities. We don’t know. Four maybe. I don’t know if we will ever fully know.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
And how do we gain access, if there is some way in at all?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Salim is on it. He has a way.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
And these keys. What are they?</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
I don’t know. Salim knows.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
That’s not good enough. I’m bringing hardware.</p>

<p><span class="caps">DARRELL</span><br />
Suit yourself.</p>

<p><span class="caps">BUZZ</span><br />
I have my own keys.<br />
 <br />
<I>&#8230; to be continued</I></p>
]]></content></entry><entry><title>On Conspiracy Paranoia</title><id>http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/25/on-conspiracy-paranoia.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/25/on-conspiracy-paranoia.html"/><author><name>Eliakim</name></author><published>2009-10-25T16:03:02Z</published><updated>2009-10-25T16:03:02Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<h3><em>Who Has Been In Control, Who Is &#8230; and Who Will Be?</em></h3>
<p><span>In the discussion over the so-called New World Order and how best to define it, the roles of Israel, the Jews and Zionism (not to mention Jesus as being the originator of dynastic bloodlines in Europe) frequently come up. We&rsquo;d like to comment generally about this strange topic which won&#8217;t go away online, though we are not Jewish. However, we have studied the Bible, both the Hebrew scriptures (Tanakh) as well as the New Testament, being ourselves Christians. We have worshiped with Jewish people in a temple setting. We have studied Hebrew. We have contemplated converting to Judaism without renouncing our belief in Jesus as the Messiah. However, we have not read in any intensive way the Talmud and other rabbinic materials which are valued by some Jewish people. All we know about Zionism or care to know is that &ldquo;Zion&rdquo; is a word used by the prophets to designate the Land of Israel and Jerusalem. We recognize that the word Zionism means different things to different people: for instance, there are very orthodox, Zionist Jews who view non-Jews as anathema or untouchables; and there are people who consider themselves Christian Zionists, which may be a gross contradiction in terms for many Jews who consider themselves Zionists, even as it is a term which offends some Christians. Our view is that anybody has a right to call himself anything he or she wishes and live in peace.</span></p>
<p><span>As for us, with all the crazy things we digest online to better inform (or distract) you as a reader of this drivel, being fascinated by human madness, individual and collective, we don&#8217;t know what the hell to think. So buy your ticket and take your chances.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span>The question has frequently come up in discussions about the New World Order or a one-world government which addresses the degree to which Zionist Jews are at the heart of such an elitist effort, which presumably will consolidate all of the nations of the world under one central governing body. There are some people who believe that Zionist Jews presently control the media and the entertainment industry and the financial centers of the world commerce. All of these things may be true, wholly or in part. Who knows (or may care)? But our view is that if this is the place that Zionists presently occupy, it is a temporary arrangement which won&rsquo;t last. Whatever the present or future status of world governance may be, whether elite Jews or non-Jews are in control or will be, we believe that any and all governments on earth will give way to a messianic kingdom for believers as it is described in the prophets, Psalms and Daniel, by Jesus, and by John, the writer of the book of Revelation. Jesus wins. Yea!</span></p>
<p><span>We define a believer as someone who subscribes to the view &#8212; now or later &#8212; that the God of Israel has a plan of redemption and restoration for the people of Israel and the world, the living and the dead, which will include a final resurrection with rewards to follow. (What do you really care?)</span></p>
<p><span>But our purpose for writing this piece is not to argue the rightness of our personal beliefs which no doubt contrast with those of a lot of people, but to offer clarification and a response to questions which have been raised by some commentators online about presumed occult foundations of Israel and therefore her occult destiny. We define the word &ldquo;occultism&rdquo; as the study of divination, sorcery and communicating with spirits of the dead for the purpose of practicing these things to gain advantages &#8212; which are opposed by God as stipulated by the Mosaic Law as it is presented in the Torah, specifically in Deuteronomy and Leviticus. We believe that Christians as well as Jews are bound by relevant laws or commandments in the Torah which are reasonably applied in our present society. Jesus lived and encouraged others to live in accordance with the covenant laws expressed relevantly in the Torah, adding that to love one&rsquo;s neighbor as oneself, freely forgiving others who have wronged us, was to love and please God. (You&#8217;ve no doubt heard it all before.)</span></p>
<p><span>What has prompted us to write this piece are a series of questions which were recently put to a commentator, researcher and writer who is fairly well known online and very prolific as pertains to the so-called New World Order and the global and/or occult elite as they may operate to control the world behind the scenes. His views are &ldquo;illuminating&rdquo; but extreme to a fault in many cases, it seems to us. So we take all of his views with a grain of salt. However, we do not doubt that there are wealthy and powerful elitists with global objectives; nor do we doubt that there are subhuman beings, perhaps inhabited by demonic spirits (perhaps in all cases), which possess high levels of intelligence. We believe these beings will all ultimately be destroyed by God &#8212; at least that is our hope.</span></p>
<p><span>The questions put to Wes Penre by a man who identifies himself as MAD and his answers are as follows. Our running commentary is provided in italics.</span></p>
<p><strong>MAD</strong><span>: I am of the belief as well that the war we are fighting, is, and must be won, is one of a spiritual nature. So many people are unaware of their own spiritual potentials and capabilities, let alone that they are engaged in a metaphysical battle for their very souls, and the future of the planet. And this spiritual battle does indeed take place on multiple levels of consciousness and awareness. Due to constant manipulation and deceit, it&rsquo;s been fairly easy for the Illuminati to suppress and control our spiritual development over the past millenniums through restrictive dogma and tactics of oppression.</span></p>
<p><span>Awareness comes from personal experience and our subtle, spontaneous human interconnectedness, emotions, and relationships; not from the obsessive compulsive rituals held within prison-like confines of death-worshiping churches, or at the seat of a sacrificial altar. You are correct too in the fact that mainstream and alternative religions can potentially teach people positive life lessons, though it&rsquo;s more commonly used not only as a crutch for the psychologically dependent, but also as a way to set faction against faction, and keep us divided in our differences instead of united in our commonalities.</span></p>
<p><span>Another subject of which we have many agreements, and that you touched upon in your comments regarding Scientology, is the near total control of not only the mass media and corporate run news-stations, but over Hollywood and the entertainment industry as well. In particular, you&rsquo;ve done a lot of extremely interesting research into the psyops (propaganda) tactics and &ldquo;satanic&rdquo; symbolism behind rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll.<br /> <br /> Rap and hip-hop are starting to come under this same scrutiny as well, as more and more entertainers become involved with Freemasonry and incorporate &ldquo;Illuminati&rdquo; style subject matter in their lyrics and artwork. I don&rsquo;t know if I believe that all of these people are CIA mind-control slaves, but I wouldn&rsquo;t debate the fact that many of them are controlled assets of the military-industrial-complex, and social engineering institutions such as Tavistock.<br /> <br /> Most of these entertainers are probably unaware of the plot, and just perform the music they are given, and take the roles their agents sign them up for, not realizing that they are being used for a major corporate takeover connected to the agendas of the government and military.<br /> <br /> I also wouldn&rsquo;t question the fact that some of these well known entertainers actually ARE involved in MK-ULTRA or PROJECT MONARCH like programming, beginning at a very early age and perhaps running through multiple generations of celebrity families in Hollywood. Could you go into a little detail on this subject, and how deep do you think the rabbit hole goes regarding the entertainment industry and Hollywood propaganda techniques?<br /> <br /><strong> WES</strong>: I have a certain section of my website specifically dedicated to music, art and entertainment: (<a href="http://www.illuminati-news.com/art-and-mc/index2.htm"><span>http://www.illuminati-news.com/art-and-mc/index2.htm</span></a>). I noticed early on that the one part of the Illuminati Agenda that people have the hardest time believing is that the music industry is manipulated and controlled by the Illuminati. Before I go into details, I just want to throw out some food for thought: If we agree that this world is to a great extent controlled by the Brotherhood (which these days is quite easy to prove), why on Earth would it be so hard to realize that the music industry and Hollywood are controlled, too? After all, if I were a top Illuminist, one of the first places I would look into and try to control and manipulate would be the music and film industries. Why? Because from there I can reach the whole world at once with my propaganda! Whatever your message is, if you own the media, the music industry and the film industry, you have the PERFECT propaganda machine! Don&rsquo;t think for a second that the Illuminati didn&rsquo;t think about that. They are not that stupid. Even L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology, had the same idea. If Scientology could recruit enough celebrities, the church would BOOM. So he and his successors did exactly that, and the churched BOOMED!<br /> <br /> This subject is so hot that many researchers don&rsquo;t even want to touch it, it seems like. Not even the well known researchers, such as David Icke and Alex Jones have touched the subject of rock music and mind-control in Hollywood. Very strange, I must say, because it is such an important part of the Illuminati agenda. Perhaps, they don&rsquo;t want to look in that direction because they like the music and therefore have a blind spot to the subject. I don&rsquo;t know. I have tried to alert them on this problem, and although I usually get communication back, I never got any replies to my emails about rock music.<br /> <br /> Anyway, here is the thing, and here is the myth: Rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll is rebellious and a weapon against corruption and greed; with rock &rsquo;n&rsquo; roll we can change the world. Now, here is the reality: Rock music was an Illuminati experiment from the beginning to the end, to see how easy it would be to manipulate, degrade and drug down the masses. Illuminati puppets like the CIA sponsored Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary and others started promoting LSD, while other government plants, including the rock stars themselves, promoted other kinds of drugs as well. From there we had the hippie movement. All those young, good-hearted people let their hair grow, thinking they could change the world with drugs, peace demonstrations and rock/pop music. Instead, people became more and more introverted and apathetic as time went on. Many got stuck in drugs and quite a few died from it &#8212; including the rock stars themselves.</span></p>
<p><span>(<em>Of what ultimate benefit to a commerce-driven elite is a world not of productive young people and adults, which oils the world economy, but of drugged-out, apathetic people? People took and take drugs because they wish to escape from the boredom of the everyday life these two men say the elitists somehow control. Rock &lsquo;n&lsquo; roll has been spontaneous, and in most cases rebellious against the very establishment these two men say are running the show. &#8212; rcg</em>) <br /> <br /> Dr. John Coleman wrote an excellent book called &ldquo;The Committee of 300&rdquo;, about the Tavistock Center and how they, within that facility and behind locked doors, did advanced mind control experiments on people. According to Coleman and other researchers as well, it was here the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were &ldquo;created.&rdquo; (Reading the histories of both bands and their slow and gradual seminal growth, with a lot of hard knocks and misses, not hits, along the way refutes this ridiculous theory. &#8212; rcg) The Beatles were presented as the &ldquo;good guys&rdquo; (who turned rebellious and bad? &#8212; rcg) and the Stones were the &ldquo;bad guys,&rdquo; who took drugs and were generally degraded (Beatles, of course, took drugs too, but it was done behind the scenes, at least at first). This is typical Illuminati agenda: to create two sides of the same coin to have a game going. Which group do you like, the Beatles or the Stones? You almost had to choose sides back in the 1960&rsquo;s. John Lennon, supposedly, in a late interview, actually admitted to that the Beatles were a CIA experiment, although I haven&rsquo;t been able to verify if this is a true or just disinformation. (<em>Then why bring it up? What Lennon said was that if the government created LSD to enslave people, it had the opposite effect of setting people &ldquo;free,&rdquo; including himself, who refused to be bound, personally or creatively &#8212; a case in point being the song &ldquo;Revolution,&rdquo; which poked fun at the establishment and social engineers. &#8212; rcg</em>)<br /> <br /> One thing people are not aware of is that the back beat and the rhythm in rock music have very occult origins and go back to the Mystery Schools of old Babylon. But even if we stay within the 20th Century, we find that rock music is something that was born out of the occult traditions. Modern rock music can be traced back to the teachings of the 20th Century occultist, illuminist and &lsquo;Satanist&rsquo; Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). This is why so many rock stars are into Crowley&rsquo;s stuff. The Beatles were into him, and so are/were the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Sting, Jim Morrison, David Bowie, Elton John, Led Zeppelin and many, many more. Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin, by the way, is probably the most fanatic Crowley disciple in the music industry, ever. He once had the 2nd largest Crowley collection of books and occult material in the world, and even bought Crowley&rsquo;s old residence near Loch ness in Scotland. Some people say Crowley was not an Illuminist, but that is not true. He was a 99th degree of the Order of Memphis and Misra&iuml;m, which actually is the REAL Illuminati Order, where a few selected people go after have completed the 33 degrees of Freemasonry. More on the Illuminati degrees can be studied here: <a href="http://www.illuminati-news.com/112606c.htm"><span>http://www.illuminati-news.com/112606c.htm</span></a>. Crowley was a black magician, no matter what people think. His magick (spelled with a k at the end to separate it from stage magic, and some &lsquo;evil tongues&rsquo; say the k also stands for black, like in black magick) is commonly used by the black magicians within the Illuminati.<br /> <br /> There is a lot to say about rock music, and there is no time to go into it all here. For more details, I suggest people read the <a href="http://www.illuminati-news.com/art-and-mc/index2.htm"><span>&ldquo;rock and roll and mind control&rdquo;</span></a> section of my website. However, there are a few details I would like to mention:<br /> <br /> I want to emphasize that before people make their own conclusions about what I have to say about rock music, it is important that they at least skim through most of the articles I have posted on the subject. Too many people read a headline and a paragraph or two, then they email me and say I am a piece of shit for trying to have them stop listening to their favorite music, and that I am a Christian fanatic. That &ldquo;accusation&rdquo; only proves they haven&rsquo;t read much, because I am not even Christian, which I make pretty clear. Now, I am NOT trying to have people stop listening to their favorite music at all &ndash; I want to make sure everybody understands that. Personally, I still listen to many of my favorite bands, although I know what is going on behind the scenes. However, we all NEED to know what this is all about, otherwise we will not understand the whole picture, and what is affecting us subconsciously. And if we don&rsquo;t understand this vital subject, we will never be free from their manipulation. Therefore I say, go ahead and listen to whatever you want as long as you know what&rsquo;s behind it. When you know the truth, you are unlikely to be manipulated &ndash; at least that&rsquo;s my theory. And you will listen to the music with totally new ears &ndash; I do! It&rsquo;s still often great music.<br /> <br /> Most people have heard the phrase: &ldquo;I sold my soul for rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll&rdquo;. With other words, the artist supposedly sold his/her soul to Satan in exchange for glory and fame, riches, drugs, rock and roll and an abundance of sex. We say: &ldquo;OK, but that&rsquo;s just a myth and a good story&rdquo;. But is it really? Why don&rsquo;t we ask the artists themselves? Many of them have actually come out and confessed that this is actually what they have been doing, and they are serious about it! Take Bob Dylan as an example. He was interviewed by late Ed Bradley on &ldquo;60 Minutes&rdquo; just recently. This interview was posted on video-google until a few weeks ago, when it was taken down for unknown reasons. In this very interesting interview, Bradley asked Dylan how he could write such incredible songs in the 60&rsquo;s, and Dylan said he had no idea (<em>Dylan was being coy and humble. Often his lyrics were political and anti-establishment, not at all flattering of those who might have programmed him &#8212; rcg</em>) He was convinced he didn&rsquo;t write them. They were &ldquo;written for him&rdquo; by &ldquo;someone else,&rdquo; and he did not mean another composer, but something from the spiritual world (<em>a muse, which is just a way of describing one&rsquo;s conscious imagination? Of course he would take credit if forced to. He certainly wouldn&rsquo;t give businessmen credit for anything he did: he loathed them &#8212; rcg</em>) He started quoting the lyrics from his masterpiece: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s alright ma, I&rsquo;m only bleeding.&rdquo; He said something to the effect: &ldquo;You just don&rsquo;t write lyrics like that. They were magically written.&rdquo; <em>(The mind is a mysterious thing, given us by God, imbued with free will, which defies even our abilities to understand it. Dylan was and is the ultimate free thinker. &#8212; rcg)</em><br /> <br /> Then he goes on and accidentally mentions that he sold his soul to the devil a long time ago <em>(A euphemism for the industry artists much operate in. Dylan is a Christian. In the same interview he gave credit to &ldquo;his Captain,&rdquo; a reference to Jesus. &#8212; rcg)</em> When he realizes that his tongue had slipped, he found himself and stopped in the middle of a sentence. Bradley did not let the mistake on Dylan&rsquo;s part pass unnoticed, though, and elaborated on it. Dylan then admitted he had to continue being on the road, year after year, as a part of the bargain he had with the &ldquo;Lord of this World,&rdquo; which Christians know is the devil <em>(who imposes on us the need to survive unlike what was once found in Eden, to which we will return. &#8212; rcg)</em> Excerpts from this interview can be read here: <a href="http://www.illuminati-news.com/art-and-mc/field-of-art.htm"><span>http://www.illuminati-news.com/art-and-mc/field-of-art.htm</span></a>. Scroll down to the Bob Dylan section.<br /> <br /> Dylan is just one in a crowd of artists that have messed with the occult and made a bargain with the demonic realms and been possessed by entities who are actually helping them write their songs. <em>(If he ever did, he doesn&rsquo;t now, and hasn&rsquo;t since the mid-70&lsquo;s &#8212; rcg)</em> Elton John admitted to the exact same thing when it comes to his music. He said something to the effect that writing an album like &ldquo;Yellow Brick Road&rdquo; in the mid 70&rsquo;s was out of his league. He has no idea how that album came about. <em>(Another humble reference to the mystery of imagination. What was he going to say? Yeah, I wrote it, and I&rsquo;m great? Stream of consciousness creation by an artist does not in any way suggest mind control. Art is free &#8230; or it doesn&rsquo;t happen. &#8212; rcg)</em><br /> <br /> My research has led me to believe that most (if not all) of the super artists that have really been trend makers, are mind controlled slaves, created by the Illuminati to complete a certain task, and often enough, their managers are their handlers and controllers. These artists are, like I said, the trend makers, whom all the rest follow.<br /> <br /> You have to have a certain attitude to make it in the music industry, and you have to be willing to be manipulated and controlled. Young artists think they can be famous by doing &lsquo;their thing&rsquo;, and the record companies will adjust to that. That only occurs if the artist happens to have the exact approach that the music industry is looking for at the moment. If not, THEY will decide how the artist should perform his/her stuff. If you don&rsquo;t conform &ndash; no deal (all big labels are owned by the Illuminati, by the way &ndash; easy to verify).<br /> <br /> For those who doubt the satanic, occult overtones in rock/pop music, I would strongly recommend the book: &ldquo;Lucifer Rising&rdquo; by Gavin Badderley, who happens to be the head of Church of Satan in Great Britain. His book exposes the satanic rock industry, and you would be surprised how many rock stars are members of Church of Satan! Badderley himself is interviewing artist after artist in the book, and they all admit to being Satanists. The book should be available in any well sorted bookstore.<br /> <br /> So what is the purpose with the occult rock music? The purpose is to reach the minds of our youth. Of course, death metal for example is openly satanic, and so is Marilyn Manson, both in their lyrics and music, but this is not often the case with the rest of the rock/pop music genre. Instead, the occult/satanic messages are hidden in the lyrics or in backward messages, also called &ldquo;back-masking.&rdquo;<br /> <br /> Here is another important thing: For those who don&rsquo;t know what a &ldquo;riff&rdquo; is in rock music, I&rsquo;ll try to explain it here in a few words. A riff is a beat or a sequence or a pattern, played in a certain order over and over again as a part of the background rhythm; it sometimes has the form of a melody itself. We have a typical example of a riff in &ldquo;Satisfaction&rdquo; by the Rolling Stones (same pattern repeated over and over by Keith Richard&rsquo;s electric guitar). These riffs can be pretty seductive and put us in a light trance. This, plus the back beat, is what is so attractive and great about rock music, and no matter if people know what a riff or a back beat is or not, they just feel great without knowing why. Nothing&#8217;s wrong with that, as long as it stops there. However, if you add occult or satanic messages upon that, when the listener is in a state of light trance, the lyrics go right into your subconscious mind and may affect your way of thinking, without you even noticing it. So, to simplify it, the purpose of rock music is to have our youth interested in the occult, degrade them and have them rebel against their parents to destroy the family unit (a major goal for them), create violence and apathy and to be brought down to a certain level of consciousness, where they are easily manipulated. They are trying to create a generation that can easily accept the New World Order as something good.<br /> <br /> Most teenagers these days don&rsquo;t listen to the lyrics, and therefore they say the lyrics won&rsquo;t affect them. Nothing could be further from the truth! In fact, if you DONT listen to the lyrics, you are more prone to be negatively affected by hidden messages than if you listen to and analyze the lyrics. What you don&rsquo;t consciously absorb goes directly into your subconscious mind and will affect you unconsciously.<br /> <br /> The question is: did these artists ACTUALLY make a pact with the Devil, or what is really going on here? Personally, I think it all comes down to mind control. I know for sure many of our greatest and most popular artists have multiple personalities, most certainly made such through trauma based mind control. I am corresponding with, and have corresponded with, a whole lot of mind controlled slaves in general, who have escaped, or were in the process of escaping, from the Illuminati. They have, independently from each other, pointed out the same artists as being multiples. How do they know? Well, if anybody would know, it would be them. They recognize things in others that we don&rsquo;t necessarily notice.<br /> <br /> According to those people, Bob Dylan is definitely a multiple, so are/were Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Britney Spears, Joan Baez, Curt Cobain, Elton John, Elvis Presley and many more. These artists have been specifically pointed out, both by the mind controlled slaves and different researchers, among them Fritz Springmeier, he himself a multiple.<br /> <br /> However, I am not saying that all artists are mind controlled or directly part of the agenda; only the ones who are the real trend makers and super artists. These are heavily promoted by the industry and the media. The rest, the majority, just jump on the bandwagon, making a similar kind of music that the record industry is looking for at the moment, and they go through their careers quite ignorant of what is happening on a higher level. By the way, another important thing: the whole country music industry is nothing but a huge drug smuggling front for the Brotherhood. And most of the artists in Memphis are drug smugglers and mind controlled slaves, programmers or handlers. Don&rsquo;t believe me? Again, read Springmeier&rsquo;s books, plus TranceFormation of America, by Cathy O&rsquo;Brien (former mind control slave) and Mark Phillips. After having read the latter, there can be little doubt in anyone&rsquo;s mind that this is the truth. Also, there are videos on video.google and YouTube, where you can watch Cathy O&rsquo;Brien and Mark Phillips in action, trying to find justice. It is very moving and very, very real.<br /> <br /> There is much more to know, and I suggest that people check out an article I wrote a few years ago, which I constantly update: <a href="http://www.illuminati-news.com/art-and-mc/field-of-art.htm"><span>&ldquo;Mind Control in the Field of Art&rdquo;:</span></a> and also <a href="http://www.illuminati-news.com/art-and-mc/artists-index.htm"><span>&ldquo;Artists under Scrutiny,&rdquo;</span></a> which confirms what I&rsquo;ve been talking about here.<br /> <br /> One last thing I want to add: it&rsquo;s not just rock music. We have the same agenda going on here, regardless if it&rsquo;s punk, rap, rave, hip-hop, and grunge or whatever. No difference, same thing.<br /> <br /><strong> MAD</strong>: It reminds me of the old legend of Robert Johnson (1911-1938) selling his soul to the Devil at the Crossroads so he could play the blues. Arguably the first musician of the rhythm and blues era to die at twenty seven, he was a huge influence on groups like Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Dylan, and The Rolling Stones. Moving into a related subject, how do you see the topic of Zionism as fitting into the structure of the media, Hollywood, and the entertainment industry?<br /> <br /><strong> WES</strong>: Many people think that Zionism is the religion of the Jews. Nothing could be more wrong. Zionism is not a religion, first of all, but a political movement, and has nothing to do with the ordinary Jew. In fact, most Jews oppose Zionism as being evil and want to have nothing to do with it.<br /> <br /> One thing I had a hard time grasping was why Christians are whole-heartedly supporting Israel, the Zionist state, although they know about the New World Order, and that Israel was founded by the Illuminati to create a Zionist state for their own purposes. [Interestingly enough, as a side line, the word Israel can be split up into three words: Is-Ra-El, where Is stands for Isis, the occult goddess, Ra for Ra, the Sun God, worshipped by the Illuminati, and El for Saturn, which is no one less but Satan himself. Quite something].<br /> <br /> I asked quite a few Christians about this contradiction, but I never got a straight answer, until I asked one particular Christian, whom I did some research with in the past. He said that &ldquo;God is working in mysterious ways, and he is probably using his enemies to build God&rsquo;s chosen Country&rdquo;. He didn&rsquo;t sound too sure about it, like if he&rsquo;d been wondering about this himself, but at least I now understood how Christians, who know about the Agenda, may think about Israel and why they support it.<br /> <br /> Some say the Zionists are the ones behind the New World Order, but I don&rsquo;t agree. Yes, they are a big and important part of the whole Illuminati network, and many Illuminists are also Zionists, but to say that Illuminism is equivalent to Zionism is simply not correct. It is very interesting, though, to read from The Talmud. It is extremely anti-Semitic in the sense that it looks down on everyone who is not a Zionist. It&rsquo;s shocking to read it. As an example, it says a Jew can lie as much as he wants to non-Jews, and killing a non-Jew is not a crime. There are worse things than that even, mentioned in this evil book.<br /> <br /> For those who want to know more about the true nature of Zionism, please read this shocking article from my website: <a href="http://illuminati-news.com/rosenthal-interview.htm">The Harold Wallace Rosenthal interview</a>. Even I was shocked! <em>(Haven&#8217;t read it, yet. MORE TO COME &#8212; rcg)</em><br /></span></p>
]]></content></entry><entry><title>British Official: Obama Plans to Sign Treaty Ceding U.S. Sovereignty</title><id>http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/20/british-official-obama-plans-to-sign-treaty-ceding-us-sovere.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/20/british-official-obama-plans-to-sign-treaty-ceding-us-sovere.html"/><author><name>Eliakim</name></author><published>2009-10-20T18:26:35Z</published><updated>2009-10-20T18:26:35Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p><strong>by R. Carter Gray</strong></p>
<p><span>President Barack Obama may not be the Antichrist but reportedly he is poised to do something momentous which may reveal him to be grossly ignorant of Christian eschatology and the biblical warnings about the formation of a one-world government.&nbsp;A former adviser to ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is the bearer of the news that will no doubt be troubling to a majority of Americans: the U.S. president intends to sign a U.N.-backed &ldquo;climate debt&rdquo; treaty in December in Copenhagen which will bring the so-called New World Order one step closer to reality, ceding, some pundits say, U.S. sovereignty to a global entity.</span></p>
<p><span>&ldquo;I read the treaty,&rdquo; Lord Christopher Monckton told members of a free-market institute event held recently in St. Paul, Minnesota. &ldquo;And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created.&rdquo; Lord Monckton explained that the global climate-related treaty will transfer wealth &ldquo;from the countries of the West to third-world countries,&rdquo; a transfer of wealth which he said would be governed and enforced by a world body.</span></p>
<p><span>&ldquo;So, thank you, America,&rdquo; Lord Monckton said in his keynote address. &ldquo;You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free. But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your humanity away forever. And neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span>He continued, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen this stuff about (world) government and climate debt and enforcement. They are going to do this whether you like it or not.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span>A copy of the treaty may be accessed at wattsupwiththat.com, according to a report.</span></p>
<p><span>In a question-and-answer session following his address the former high-ranking British adviser suggested to his audience that Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;potential illegitimacy as president&rdquo; might be an option open to Americans opposed to the treaty. However, he reiterated, &ldquo;Once he&rsquo;s signed it and ratified it, and your Senate ratifies it, you&rsquo;re bound by it.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span>Lord Monckton said that the White House is concerned that it might not have the 67 votes in the Senate &#8212; a two-thirds majority &#8212; necessary to ratify the treaty, which he said would be signed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.</span></p>
<p><span>The international agreement, which European and other world leaders are expected to &ldquo;rubber stamp, will have three &ldquo;basic pillars,&rdquo; Lord Monckton said. &ldquo;The scheme&rdquo; for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention will feature &ldquo;a facilitative mechanism, a financial mechanism, and the basic organization&rdquo; which will allow for enforcement by a global executive board responsible for the management of the new funds and related &ldquo;facilitative processes and bodies.&rdquo; This portion of the treaty, he said, bears the heading &ldquo;World Government.&rdquo;</span></p>
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]]></content></entry><entry><title>Mayan Elder: 2012 Theories Are Fantasies of the West</title><id>http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/18/mayan-elder-2012-theories-are-fantasies-of-the-west.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/18/mayan-elder-2012-theories-are-fantasies-of-the-west.html"/><author><name>Eliakim</name></author><published>2009-10-18T17:20:38Z</published><updated>2009-10-18T17:20:38Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<div class="snap_preview">
<p><span class="full-image-float-right ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://aftermathnews.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/apolinario-chile-pixtun-2012.jpg?w=229&amp;h=344&amp;__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1255886529520" alt="" /></span><span class="thumbnail-caption" style="width: 229px;">In this photo taken Oct. 3, 2009, Guatemalan Mayan Indian elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun poses for a portrait at the Iximche ceremonial site in Tecpan, Guatemala. Archaeologists, astronomers and modern-day Mayas shrug off the popular frenzy over the date of 2012, predicting it will bring nothing more than a meteor shower of new-age &lsquo;consciousness,&rsquo; pseudo-science and alarmist television specials. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)</span></span></p>
<p><strong>by Mark Stevenson</strong></p>
<p>MEXICO CITY &ndash;- Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly &ldquo;running out&rdquo; on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it&rsquo;s not the end of the world.&nbsp;Or is it?</p>
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<div class="snap_preview">Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. &ldquo;I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff.&rdquo;&nbsp;It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood&rsquo;s &ldquo;2012&Prime; opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.</div>
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<p>At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the &ldquo;Curious? Ask an Astronomer&rdquo; Web site, says people are scared.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s too bad that we&rsquo;re getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they&rsquo;re too young to die,&rdquo; Martin said. &ldquo;We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn&rsquo;t live to see them grow up.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.</p>
<p>A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.</p>
<p>But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes &ldquo;predictions&rdquo; from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks: &ldquo;Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?&rdquo;</p>
<p>It may sound all too much like other doomsday scenarios of recent decades &mdash; the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, the Jupiter Effect or &ldquo;Planet X.&rdquo; But this one has some grains of archaeological basis.</p>
<p>One of them is Monument Six.</p>
<p>Found at an obscure ruin in southern Mexico during highway construction in the 1960s, the stone tablet almost didn&rsquo;t survive; the site was largely paved over and parts of the tablet were looted.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s unique in that the remaining parts contain the equivalent of the date 2012. The inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation.</p>
<p>However &mdash; shades of Indiana Jones &mdash; erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible.</p>
<p>Archaeologist Guillermo Bernal of Mexico&rsquo;s National Autonomous University interprets the last eroded glyphs as maybe saying, &ldquo;He will descend from the sky.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Spooky, perhaps, but Bernal notes there are other inscriptions at Mayan sites for dates far beyond 2012 &mdash; including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.</p>
<p>And anyway, Mayas in the drought-stricken Yucatan peninsula have bigger worries than 2012.</p>
<p>&ldquo;If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldn&rsquo;t have any idea,&rdquo; said Jose Huchim, a Yucatan Mayan archaeologist. &ldquo;That the world is going to end? They wouldn&rsquo;t believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The Mayan civilization, which reached its height from 300 A.D. to 900 A.D., had a talent for astronomy</p>
<p>Its Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 B.C., marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a special anniversary of creation,&rdquo; said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. &ldquo;The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they&rsquo;re just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Bernal suggests that apocalypse is &ldquo;a very Western, Christian&rdquo; concept projected onto the Maya, perhaps because Western myths are &ldquo;exhausted.&rdquo;</p>
<p>If it were all mythology, perhaps it could be written off.</p>
<p>But some say the Maya knew another secret: the Earth&rsquo;s axis wobbles, slightly changing the alignment of the stars every year. Once every 25,800 years, the sun lines up with the center of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun&rsquo;s lowest point in the horizon.</p>
<p>That will happen on Dec. 21, 2012, when the sun appears to rise in the same spot where the bright center of galaxy sets.</p>
<p>Another spooky coincidence?</p>
<p>&ldquo;The question I would ask these guys is, so what?&rdquo; says Phil Plait, an astronomer who runs the &ldquo;Bad Astronomy&rdquo; blog. He says the alignment doesn&rsquo;t fall precisely in 2012, and distant stars exert no force that could harm Earth.</p>
<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re really super-duper trying to find anything astronomical they can to fit that date of 2012,&rdquo; Plait said.</p>
<p>But author John Major Jenkins says his two-decade study of Mayan ruins indicate the Maya were aware of the alignment and attached great importance to it.</p>
<p>&ldquo;If we want to honor and respect how the Maya think about this, then we would say that the Maya viewed 2012, as all cycle endings, as a time of transformation and renewal,&rdquo; said Jenkins.</p>
<p>As the Internet gained popularity in the 1990s, so did word of the &ldquo;fateful&rdquo; date, and some began worrying about 2012 disasters the Mayas never dreamed of.</p>
<p>Author Lawrence Joseph says a peak in explosive storms on the surface of the sun could knock out North America&rsquo;s power grid for years, triggering food shortages, water scarcity &mdash; a collapse of civilization. Solar peaks occur about every 11 years, but Joseph says there&rsquo;s evidence the 2012 peak could be &ldquo;a lulu.&rdquo;</p>
<p>While pressing governments to install protection for power grids, Joseph counsels readers not to &ldquo;use 2012 as an excuse to not live in a healthy, responsible fashion. I mean, don&rsquo;t let the credit cards go up.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Another History Channel program titled &ldquo;Decoding the Past: Doomsday 2012: End of Days&rdquo; says a galactic alignment or magnetic disturbances could somehow trigger a &ldquo;pole shift.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;The entire mantle of the earth would shift in a matter of days, perhaps hours, changing the position of the north and south poles, causing worldwide disaster,&rdquo; a narrator proclaims. &ldquo;Earthquakes would rock every continent, massive tsunamis would inundate coastal cities. It would be the ultimate planetary catastrophe.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The idea apparently originates with a 19th century Frenchman, Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, a priest-turned-archaeologist who got it from his study of ancient Mayan and Aztec texts.</p>
<p>Scientists say that, at best, the poles might change location by one degree over a million years, with no sign that it would start in 2012.</p>
<p>While long discredited, Brasseur de Bourbourg proves one thing: Westerners have been trying for more than a century to pin doomsday scenarios on the Maya. And while fascinated by ancient lore, advocates seldom examine more recent experiences with apocalypse predictions.</p>
<p>&ldquo;No one who&rsquo;s writing in now seems to remember that the last time we thought the world was going to end, it didn&rsquo;t,&rdquo; says Martin, the astronomy webmaster. &ldquo;There doesn&rsquo;t seem to be a lot of memory that things were fine the last time around.&rdquo;</p>
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]]></content></entry><entry><title>My Jesus On TV</title><id>http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/18/my-jesus-on-tv.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/18/my-jesus-on-tv.html"/><author><name>Eliakim</name></author><published>2009-10-18T13:14:21Z</published><updated>2009-10-18T13:14:21Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p>With all the halls behind me, I sing a sadder tune<br />
I read about the Antichrist and stare up at the moon<br />
And if it never turns blood red, well that’s all right with me<br />
If I live long enough I’ll see my Jesus on TV</p>

<p>The past was like a whirlwind; I made a lot of dough<br />
I kissed the fancy women before and after shows<br />
But I’ve hung up my rhinestones, they don’t shine anymore<br />
I might build me a villa on the Riviera shores</p>

<p>But what I have won’t be enough to bring you back to me<br />
I don’t have nothing really, but this banjo on my knee<br />
Oh, Susanna don’t you cry, but still I hope you do<br />
Remember when I held you tight and told you I love you?</p>

<p>Everyday the mail comes in the way it always has<br />
People send me letters, photos, want my autograph<br />
They ask me if I plan to tour and write some happy songs<br />
But since the world is gonna end I won’t string them along</p>

<p>They say the oil will all be gone somewhere ‘bout twenty ten<br />
Some think that this will be a signal to the aliens<br />
They’ll want to make us think that they can save our way of life<br />
They’ll want to take our women; they can start here with my wife</p>

<p>I’ve never met a Mayan; and I don’t care if I do<br />
If they’re so smart how come we don’t see Maya in our schools?<br />
I think the leaders gave their souls to Satan long ago<br />
When Jesus comes to raise the dead, I’m gonna stand and crow!</p>

<p>The paradox is in effect: humble trump powerful<br />
Just like my Jesus said they would, and so my heart is full<br />
He told ‘em in advance and said the way it’s gonna be<br />
And every eye will see him when My Jesus’s on TV</p>
]]></content></entry><entry><title>Is 2012 Bullshit?</title><id>http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/15/is-2012-bullshit.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/15/is-2012-bullshit.html"/><author><name>Eliakim</name></author><published>2009-10-15T22:57:25Z</published><updated>2009-10-15T22:57:25Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p><span>It&#8217;s all a person can do to keep up with the madness that passes for &#8220;pop prophecy&#8221; these days. Stomaching </span><em>The Da Vinci Code</em><span> and trying to discern the motivations for a team of editors, researchers and ghostwriters to write a novel which makes wholly unsubstantiated claims in an effort to smear Jesus has been bad enough. (The Last Supper, having apparently been vandalized as the floating hand with a dagger shows, was grossly under-researched and misinterpreted.) Now there are these two guys &#8212; Thomas Horn and David Flynn &#8212; who efficiently but very questionably have managed to do what Dan Brown and company do not do in </span><em>The Lost Symbol</em><span>, which is tie the Great Seal of the United States to the date December 21, 2012 and the Mayan long-count calendar, which has been discussed and debated </span><em>ad nauseam</em><span> online and on the tube.</span></p>
<p><span>Horn, whose still-unpublished book </span><em>Apollyon Rising 2012</em><span> is all the rage, has taken the unfinished pyramid on the back of the one-dollar bill and identified its 13 levels of bricks with the 13 baktun cycles in the Mayan calendar. Starting with the date 1776 which appears in Roman numerals at the bottom of the Great Seal, Horn finally arrives at the uncompleted top of the pyramid, which he says corresponds to the year 2012. From there he makes the claim that the destiny of the United States of America is and has always been the destiny of the world, which, in Horn&#8217;s opinion, ain&#8217;t good. And he says it ain&#8217;t good because America is going to give us and the world the Antichrist.</span></p>
<p><span>It&#8217;s not been easy working our way through Daniel and Revelation in recent months. We frankly did it somewhat reluctantly, not wishing to delve into highly symbolic, apocalyptic material that scholars and kooks have tried and often failed to interpret since the 2nd century. But it is Holy Writ, we believe (written by an obscured author?), and we believe Daniel does stand up as divine. Where Revelation is concerned, who&#8217;s to know whether someone has failed or not, since interpretations of bowl and woe judgments and the sounding of trumpets and the breaking of seals are largely left up to the individual imaginations and strained hermeneutics of anyone who wants to have a go. The only real link between Daniel and Revelation, that we can see, is the description of the Son of Man, who has hair &#8220;like pure wool,&#8221; interestingly, and that of the arrogant &#8220;horn&#8221; or &#8220;beast,&#8221; who, according to some online commentators, will lead the New World Order&#8217;s effort to reduce the world&#8217;s population by 1 to 3 billion people. The leg that people like Horn and Flynn have to stand on stems from their claim that there exists an occult elite which has infiltrated government and secret fraternal organizations for whom Jesus is anathema. The reality that such Gnostic leanings are present among the ranks of the powerful and the rich cannot be disputed. So, what do the occult elite have to do with 2012?</span></p>
<p><span>Will the powerful and rich occult elite do the bidding of some evil voice which has been whispering in their ears to kill off the useless eaters in an attempt to save the world for themselves? Is this what 2012 will be, a self-fulfilled prophecy, involving manmade catastrophes, which evil has been plotting since the origins of America if not the origins of humanity? Ludicrous.</span></p>
<p><span>But, there is the matter of the Islamic prophecy from three or four centuries ago that describes &#8220;a tall black man&#8221; rising in the West and commanding the world&#8217;s largest army, who will lead a final Islamic world revolution as Islam&#8217;s Imam or Mahdi, i.e. messiah. Unless the Muslims who claim to possess this prophecy are lying, this is rather stunning. But does this mean that Barack Obama is the so-called Antichrist, who will be the brutal tyrant inhabited by the spirit of Satan as Antiochus IV Epiphanes, King Herod, Nero and Hitler arguably were? Does this mean Obama will be the man who possesses supernatural gifts, enabling him to perform signs and wonders, after having been raised from the dead? Present reality says no. It says hell, no. Even though Obama requested that Christian symbols during his address at Georgetown University be covered to make the setting more secular, even though he may be a Muslim in Christian&#8217;s clothing, even though he was photographed recently standing with Russia&#8217;s president reportedly in front of a golden all-seeing eye of Horus, which adorns the one-dollar bill &#8230; Obama is confronted with not supernatural challenges but political ones, like health care and Iran. No magic wands have been whipped out yet, as far as we can tell, and no ouija boards or mediums or astrologers have been consulted, presumably, in the tradition of</span><span>&nbsp;Nancy Reagan. &nbsp;And can anyone see Obama, a leftist and socialist, leading an army to nuke anyone who stands in his way, most particularly Israel?&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span>Something new and dramatic will have to happen first for any of this to begin to play out. Horn says something is happening and will really begin to happen when a demonic force rises from the pit, &#8220;the abyss,&#8221; to empower the AC (a.k.a. Apollo, Nimrod, Gilgamesh, Osiris) and presumably the rest of the First Family. Imagine those little girls with the devil in their eyes or them and Michelle holding daddy by the edge of his coat, begging him not to go out anymore on a militaristic rampage to satisfy his lust for innocent blood. What a great idea for a novel. It </span><em>could</em><span> happen, if evil has been holding back or has been held back and is on the verge of making its grand entrance. For now, it&#8217;s all ludicrous. It all depends on God, as everything else does, and how angry he is that the people who are supposed to be leading us are actually plotting to kill and eat us. We do believe in hell and demons &#8230; and weird shit living underground which isn&#8217;t human. So who knows?</span></p>
<p>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of 2012, the AC and the like, we thought we would offer some questions which seem to us to be interesting ones:&nbsp;</p>
<p><span>If the Great Tribulation begins when the Antichrist facilitates a peace treaty between Israel and her enemies, will that peace treaty be signed on December 21, 2012?</span></p>
<p><span>Is it significant that the death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a forerunner of the Antichrist, initiated Hanukkah, and that Hanukkah will fall on December 21 in the year 2011?</span></p>
<p><span>If the New Agers are talking up 2012, will the God of Israel in his wrath have any role in anything which might destructively occur in 2012? Or will man kill, maim and pillage the world&#8217;s most expendable &#8230; and blame it on God?</span></p>
<p><span>Does 2012 have anything to do with what the Hebrew prophets call the Day of the Lord?</span></p>
<p><span>Will the Day of the Lord have anything to do with 2012?</span></p>
<p><span>Whom do we trust &#8230; the Maya or the Hebrew prophets?</span></p>
<p><span>To restate a previous question, do the occult elite intend to try to fulfill biblical prophecy by bringing wrath upon the earth, either in 2012 or sometime thereafter?</span></p>
<p>Will the occult elite and the fallen angels, i.e. demons, combine to make sure that something destructively happens on December 21, 2012?</p>
<p>Will God punish the occult elite for trying to play God?</p>
<p><span>Are 2012, the Antichrist and America linked?</span></p>
<p><span>If 888 is the number for Jesus &#8230; and if 888 is the number for Apollo &#8230; is it significant that 888 plus 888 equals 1776?</span></p>
<p><span>Is it significant that 1948 plus Daniel&#8217;s 70 years equals 2008, the year Obama was elected?</span></p>
<p><span>Did the American forefathers believe that America was a New Eden, as Christopher Columbus did, as the Puritans did? And did they believe that America&rsquo;s destiny was the destiny of the world?</span></p>
<p><span>Will the occult elite be surprised by the Rapture, if there is to be one?</span></p>
<p>Will the Antichrist be a vicious warmonger &#8230; or a moron who unintentionally triggers World War III?</p>
<p>Is 2012 bullshit?&nbsp;</p>
]]></content></entry><entry><title>For What Prince Does Ishtar Moan?</title><id>http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/15/for-what-prince-does-ishtar-moan.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/15/for-what-prince-does-ishtar-moan.html"/><author><name>Eliakim</name></author><published>2009-10-15T13:30:46Z</published><updated>2009-10-15T13:30:46Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p>Barely speaks so all can hear:<br />
Things are not as they appear.<br />
Son of Adam, Abraham &#8230;<br />
Who does this one say I am?</p>

<p>Has the truth been hid away,<br />
So the One’s not known today?<br />
Well before this last election,<br />
He suggested His complexion.</p>

<p>Does the new king now confirm<br />
That the Savior’s skin was burned?<br />
Virgin born, miraculous<br />
Adam’s Son was slain for us.</p>

<p>An Islamic prophecy,<br />
Eastern leanings we all see,<br />
Not at war with those at war,<br />
Will he close or open doors?</p>

<p>Eyes proceed down racial lines,<br />
Pharaohs black with grand designs.<br />
Pyramid lacks a capstone &#8230;<br />
For what prince does Ishtar moan?</p>

<p>What other race would Jesus be?<br />
What’s confirmed for you and me &#8230;<br />
If the new king breaks new ground<br />
And his skin is glistening brown?</p>

<p>Who was Jesus, his best friend?<br />
Raise those questions yet again!<br />
Speak so they can barely here:<br />
Things are not as they appear.</p>

<p>Does it help or hinder things<br />
If his words are given wings<br />
So men know what to expect<br />
And men know who to reject?</p>

<p>“We are watching you,” he said.<br />
Look, a cloud climbs overhead.<br />
Cloud of witnesses for me? &#8230;<br />
Do they see the things I see?</p>

<p>Have they taken it to heart,<br />
Unlocked puzzles, prophet’s art,<br />
Or is so much not yet clear?<br />
Things are not as they appear.</p>

<p>By what we have recommended<br />
Are there things to be commended?<br />
Does race tell another&#8217;s race?<br />
Is this found in just one place?</p>

<p>If the world should know these things<br />
Would you give these few words wings?<br />
Or leave us in isolation<br />
Till the world usurps God&#8217;s nation?</p>
]]></content></entry><entry><title>O Ba Ma (He is with us?)</title><id>http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/14/o-ba-ma-he-is-with-us.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/14/o-ba-ma-he-is-with-us.html"/><author><name>Eliakim</name></author><published>2009-10-14T17:35:06Z</published><updated>2009-10-14T17:35:06Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p><strong>by AMIR TAHERI</strong><span>, </span><em>author of 10 books on Iran, the Middle East and Islam</em></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><span><em>(This article appeared in the Oct. 26, 2008 issue of Forbes Magazine, so it is not new information.)&nbsp;</em></span></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><span>Is Barack Obama the &#8220;promised warrior&#8221; coming to help the Hidden Imam of Shiite Muslims conquer the world?</span></p>
<p><span>The question has made the rounds in Iran since last month, when a pro-government Web site published a Hadith (or tradition) from a Shiite text of the 17th century. The tradition comes from <em>Bahar al-Anvar</em> (meaning Oceans of Light) by Mullah Majlisi, a magnum opus in 132 volumes and the basis of modern Shiite Islam.</span></p>
<p><span>According to the tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (the prophet&#8217;s cousin and son-in-law) prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of the Mahdi, the Ultimate Saviour, a &#8220;tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West.&#8221; Commanding &#8220;the strongest army on earth,&#8221; the new ruler in the West will carry &#8220;a clear sign&#8221; from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: &#8220;Shiites should have no doubt that <em>he is with us</em>.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span>In a curious coincidence Obama&#8217;s first and second names&#8212;Barack Hussein&#8212;mean &#8220;the blessing of Hussein&#8221; in Arabic and Persian. His family name, Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, reads O Ba Ma, which means &#8220;he is with us,&#8221; the magic formula in Majlisi&#8217;s tradition.</span></p>
<p><span>Mystical reasons aside, the Khomeinist establishment sees Obama&#8217;s rise as another sign of the West&#8217;s decline and the triumph of Islam.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span>Tehran&#8217;s penchant for Obama, reflected in the official media, increased when the then-Illinois senator chose Joseph Biden as his vice-presidential running mate. Biden was an early supporter of the Khomeinist revolution in 1978-1979 and, for the past 30 years, has been a consistent advocate of recognizing the Islamic Republic as a regional power. He has close ties with Khomeinist lobbyists in the U.S. and has always voted against sanctions on Iran.</span></p>
<p><span>Ahmadinejad has described the U.S. as a &#8220;sunset&#8221; (ofuli) power as opposed to Islam, which he says is a &#8220;sunrise&#8221; (toluee) power. Last summer he inaugurated an international conference called World Without America &#8212; attended by anti-Americans from all over the world, including the U.S.</span></p>
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]]></content></entry><entry><title>Apollo: Perdition's Son?</title><id>http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/13/apollo-perditions-son.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/13/apollo-perditions-son.html"/><author><name>Eliakim</name></author><published>2009-10-13T18:18:59Z</published><updated>2009-10-13T18:18:59Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p>I.<br />
E pluribus unum, the many into one:<br />
Does it refer to the New Eden?<br />
No? Will he rise, Apollyon?<br />
From the pit, perdition’s son?</p>

<p>Osiris, Gilgamesh and Nimrod, too:<br />
One demon-god with many names.<br />
Is he coming to trample, thresh?<br />
Should we give Saturn (Satan) the blame?</p>

<p>Daniel’s fourth beast with four horns:<br />
Out of them rises the arrogant one,<br />
Son of Zeus, what hell hath borne &#8230;<br />
Is the tall Black Head Apollyon?</p>

<p>Or is he a forerunner of Apollo,<br />
Sworn in with a Freemason’s gaze,<br />
Fulfilling Islamic prophecy,<br />
Hastening the end of days? <I>(&#8212; Eliakim)</I></p>

<p><span class="caps">II.</span><br />
&#8220;Now the last age by Cumae’s Sibyl sung Has come and gone, <br />
And the majestic roll Of circling centuries begins anew: <br />
Justice returns, returns old Saturn’s reign, <br />
With a new breed of men sent down from heaven. <br />
Only do thou, at the boy’s birth in whom <br />
The iron shall cease, the golden race arise, <br />
Befriend him, chaste Lucina; ‘tis thine own Apollo reigns. …</p>

<p>&#8220;He shall receive the life of gods, <br />
And see Heroes with gods commingling, <br />
And himself Be seen of them, <br />
And with his father’s worth reign o’er a world …  </p>

<p> &#8220;Assume thy greatness, for the time draws nigh, <br />
Dear child of gods, great progeny of Jove [Jupiter/Zeus]! <br />
See how it totters—the world’s orbed might, <br />
Earth, and wide ocean, and the vault profound, <br />
All, see, enraptured of the coming time!&#8221; <I>(&#8212; the poet Virgil)</I></p>

<p><span class="caps">III.</span><br />
Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition (Apollo?), who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.</p>

<p>Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.</p>

<p>But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle. </p>

<p>Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work. <I>(&#8212; the apostle Paul, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17)</I></p>
]]></content></entry><entry><title>Whatever Happened to the Novel 'The Solomon Key'?</title><id>http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/13/whatever-happened-to-the-novel-the-solomon-key.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2009/10/13/whatever-happened-to-the-novel-the-solomon-key.html"/><author><name>Eliakim</name></author><published>2009-10-13T15:14:41Z</published><updated>2009-10-13T15:14:41Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<h3>DID DAN BROWN GET COLD FEET, AS MAUREEN DOWD SUGGESTS?</h3>
<p>We have not read the new novel attributed to Dan Brown <em>The Lost Symbol</em>, and we may not anytime soon, being unwilling to spend the nearly $40 to reward this preppie heretic and his publisher. But we have read reviews of the novel, including one by Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, in which she suggests that Brown and his team of editors/ghostwriters/researchers with this work has in effect kissed up to the Masons. She tells us in her column, which can be accessed on the <a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://www.thecryptex.com/" target="_blank">Cryptex.com</a> website, that Brown has disclosed no secrets and written nothing unflattering which might make him a target of Freemason henchmen, if such people exist. The Cryptex site also runs a letter from Brown declining to appear before a Scottish Rite gathering (do they wear kilts?) in which he suggests that he has considered joining the spooky secret society for boys only.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But none of that, including how the novel reads, is really what interests us. What we&#8217;re interested in is what happened to <em>The Solomon Key</em>, the novel so named which was supposed to have been published several years back &#8230; but apparently was scrapped. The title has obviously changed, but was the whole novel reworked along with the original title? And what was the Solomon key as it was to have been featured in the novel which was reportedly ready years ago? The only thing associated with the word or name Solomon that we get in <em>The Lost Symbol</em> are several characters whose last names are Solomon. So where is the key? What was the key? Are there any references to Solomon &#8220;keys,&#8221; or <em>Solomonis Clavicula</em> (a handbook on witchcraft), or Solomon&#8217;s temple in the new novel? (Freemasons are into Solomon&#8217;s temple, Masonic temples being replicas of it. And then there is all that Hiram Abiff stuff, he having been a king of Tyre, a merchant, a bearer of some great secret who was killed by three Ethiopians.)</p>
<p>Is there any reference in the novel to the circular talisman covered with runes which correspond to the Washington Monument and other ancient sites around the world which align themselves with the constellation Orion &#8212; as this South African guy Wayne Herschel predicted on his website KeyofSolomon.net? Herschel refers to this talisman as the Key of Solomon. But it appears that Herschel has mispredicted the focus of Brown&#8217;s new novel. Well, did he have it right with the previous novel, if there was a previous novel different than the one we have now? The title <em>Solomon Key</em> would seem to suggest that what we have in <em>The Lost Symbol</em> is a brand new novel. We&#8217;ve set email to Herschel with no success, but we&#8217;ll stay on this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Since the title <em>The Solomon Key</em> was scrapped &#8230; will we ever see a novel from Brown with that title? And if the novel was scrapped and then rewritten &#8230; why was it? So far we can&#8217;t find anyone who has any answers.</p>
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