Sunday 5 December 2021
Friday 3 December 2021
Some Notes on Zen Meditation with Reference to the Founder of Quietism, Miguel Molinos.
From my new book. Coming very soon.
Stage 0 I would say is when you first sit down to meditate. The mind is cluttered with thoughts and impulses initially, distractions appear in the mind once you try to meditate. You feel hungry, perhaps worry that you haven’t turned off a tap somewhere in the house, or that you would be better off doing this at another time. If you persist with focussing on nothing you will reach stage 1.
Stage 1 is when you start to feel a little more relaxed, the mind has calmed a little and there are no immediate pressing thoughts trying to dissuade you from meditating like this. If you continue to meditate you will reach stage 2.
The next stage signals a tangible inner focus, whereas before you were aware of the outside world you now are becoming aware of the inner world. The world outside is now taking second place to an increasingly widening inner world which your mind appears to be filling. Thoughts will be significantly reduced and it is easy not to engage with them or wish to act on them. There is a tangible sense of a decrease in mental activity as you can almost start to count the neurons in the brain firing off with stray thoughts and impulsions which are becoming increasingly dampened down.
This is fittingly described by Molinos:
“By the way of Nothing thou must come to lose thy self in God (which is the last degree of perfection) and happy wilt thou be, if thou canst so lose thy self; then thou wilt get thy self again, and find thy self most certainly. In this same Shop of Nothing, Simplicity is made; interior and infused recollection is possessed, quiet is obtained, and the heart is cleansed from all manner of imperfections.”
The third stage of transcendental meditation would be what I call, approaching the Abyss. What I term the abyss and perhaps more in common with Molinos and less so with Crowley, is the sense that the focus of the mind is now wholly engaged inward and a large empty darkness approaches the mind. A friend of mine I spoke to about meditation said this actually scared him and made him leave off meditation altogether.
Molinos notes:
“Know then that the streightest, most perfect and secure way of proficients, is the way of darkness: because in them the Lord placed his own Throne; And (Psalm 18.) He made darkness his secret place. By them the supernatural light which God infuses into the Soul, grow and increases. Amidst them wisdom and strong love are begotten, by darkness the soul is annihilated, and the species, which hinder the right view of the divine truth, are consumed. By this means God introduces the Soul by the inward way into the Prayer of Rest, and of perfect contemplation, which so few have the experience of. Finally; by darkness the Lord purgest the senses and sensibility, which hinder the mystical progress…See now if darkness be not to be esteemed and embraced.”
I would hasten to add that here I assume that Molinos is speaking of the literal darkness of the mind in meditation and not in terms of a sort of Luciferian allegory for the forces of darkness.
This darkness seems to move closer to your mind and it is something tangible, not an absence perhaps but more a solid kind of emptiness. It moves closer and starts to fill the mind, like a rapidly incoming tide threatening to wash you, your mind and everything away into nothingness. Allow yourself to move into this darkness or it to move into you until it actually fills your whole mind, again Molinos has already been there and left a fitting description:
“O what infinite room is there in a Soul that is arrived at this divine Solitude! O what inward, what retired, what secret, what spacious, what vast distances are there within a happy Soul that is once come to be truly Solitary! There the Lord converses and communicates himself, inwardly with the Soul: there he fills it with himself, because it is empty; cloaths it with Light, and with his Love, because it is naked; lifts it up, because ‘tis low; and unites it with himself, and transforms it, because it is alone.”
Stage four is breaking through this darkness to the other side and what you thought was nothingness and negation and a total loss of the self turns out to be an infinite boundless space within yourself and total peace. Your mind has now left the physical world altogether and your mind is now operating wholly in, and exploring a higher realm of reality. Here you will feel interesting effects like a spinning around, as if your whole being is turning as if on a merry go round; this I believe is experiencing our electro-magnetic soul and its natural oscillation. You will also have a feeling of moving through this inner realm at great speed, as you explore this inner world which seems to be full of the whole universe and all past and present realities.
Some of these experiences Molinos describes thus:
“The fourth step, which is Illumination, is an infused knowledge, whereby the Soul contemplates sweetly the divine truth, rising still from one clearness to another, from one light to another, from knowledge to knowledge, begin guided by the Spirit Divine. The fifth is a Savoury Pleasure of the divine sweetness, issuing forth from the plentiful and precious fountain of the Holy Ghost. The sixth is a sweet and Admirable tranquillity, arising from the conquest of Fightings within, and frequent Prayer; and this, very, very few have Experience of. Here the abundance of Joy, and Peace is so great, that the soul seems to be in a sweet sleep, solacing and reposing it self in the Divine breast of Love. Many other steps of Contemplation there are, as Extasies, Raptures, Melting, Delinquium’s, Glee, Kisses, Embraces, Exultation, Union, Transformation, Expousing, and Matrimony, which I omit to explain, to give no occasion to Speculation…”
Aside from the inner peace and the exploration of what could be considered an antechamber to the Kingdom of Heaven one takes away many benefits from this kind of meditation into our daily lives in the physical realm. Such practise allows us to control the mind and emotions much better and remain calm and detached from events which would previously have had a negative impact on our mental well-being. We will also take this focus into our dreams which will become much more coherent and less chaotic as we will better be able to navigate and order the inner dreamscape.
The Strange and Terrible Truth....Can You Handle it?
More from coming book.
THE STRANGE AND TERRIBLE TRUTH
I have had to observe the terrible sounding truth that there are people out there who are able to read people’s mind. It is a terrible truth because for many, one’s private thoughts are considered an inviolable personal sanctuary and represent the ultimate idea of personal privacy.
I have had to observe the terrible sounding truth that there are people out there who are able to read people’s mind. It is a terrible truth because for many, one’s private thoughts are considered an inviolable personal sanctuary and represent the ultimate idea of personal privacy.
If one were to be exposed to people who demonstrated to you that they could read your mind then it is likely that a great fear might grow in you, perhaps you would wonder whether these people were really human, since they exhibited abilities long considered beyond humanity.
Fortunately, there are not many of them and most of them seem to acquire this ability as part of their initiations and training with the secret societies, and if some of the rumours about secret societies which have reached us over the years are correct, then part of the attraction of belonging to an occult secret society, and there really is no other kind, is the development of psychic powers and abilities.
In his book Freemasonry for Beginners, Freemason Robert Lomas writes:
"Your new skills may appear miraculous and uncanny to others. but it is a fact of our Masonic Science that new consciousness gives rise to new faculties."
According to the website: https://spiritwiki.lightningpath.org/index.php/Freemasonry.“The psychic-powers are awakened as part of a continuous initiatory process of progress through various levels, degrees and ‘kingdoms’ of which there are apparently five.” From Robert Lomas’ book:
In his book Freemasonry for Beginners, Freemason Robert Lomas writes:
"Your new skills may appear miraculous and uncanny to others. but it is a fact of our Masonic Science that new consciousness gives rise to new faculties."
According to the website: https://spiritwiki.lightningpath.org/index.php/Freemasonry.“The psychic-powers are awakened as part of a continuous initiatory process of progress through various levels, degrees and ‘kingdoms’ of which there are apparently five.” From Robert Lomas’ book:
“...every kingdom is self-contained. It is shut off, as though by closed bulkheads, and no leap from a lower to a higher kingdom is possible save on one condition - a previous death to the kingdom below.”
And an elucidatory description on the website:
“The process ostensibly involves uncompromising repression of one's ‘human’ faculties. The process, which masons call the Secret Science of Initiation or Secret Science of Mystical Death is symbolized as death and resurrection, i.e. death of the human level/kingdom and the emergence of the trans-human.”
I can give three immediate personal examples of experiencing people reading my mind, and there are actually others however these three are the clearest and most evident.
The first one was in Tokyo when I had apparently signed up to the Devil’s Bargain to become a famous writer with a skeletal ghoul like figure from Yorkshire who ran what appeared to be a small language school in Tokyo.
The strange recruitment system of the Illuminati Freemasons meant that I was never solicited directly to join the Freemasons, just hints and allusions in a constant stream. For example, the man, whom I call the Demon King of DK for short, would roll up the trouser on his left leg frequently for no apparent reason and ask me if I knew who I was. He would have these strange imaginary phone-calls in the classroom next to mine which I could hear quite clearly, where he would be talking to someone, rather strangely, about me. He would never explicitly talk about me but he would allude to things he must have somehow found out about me, but then de-contextualise them so it would appear random and more startling. In these phone calls he would loudly refer to himself as ‘Mr Mason’.
The odd thing about these Masonic people who have reached a certain level of initiation is that they seem able somehow to read minds or at least use some highly accurate system based on uncanny synchronicity. For example, in my mind I would wonder ‘what did he just say?’ and strangely in the next room he would repeat it. I found that if he said something which I didn’t catch he would repeat himself in his imaginary conversation next door.
This was the first time I noticed this and on subsequent occasions have observed that some people are very definitely capable of reading minds, but this is not strictly accurate, it would be more accurate to say that they are ‘told’ what you are thinking. This is one of the results of serving what Manly P Hall the Masonic philosopher termed: the ‘arcanum arcanorum’, the secret mystery. An invisible and all-encompassing awareness that knows all and communicates to its servants in Freemasonry and other walks of life.
One speaks and acts without understanding, but is fed information and instructions from this mysterious source, so that other people involved understand the words and actions and their significance. When one serves these ‘invisible masters’ one is little more than a marionette, acting for unknown purposes and without any concern for the consequences of their actions; service to the unknown ‘force’ is the ‘be all and end all’ to these advanced Freemasons. This force is what people generally know as spirits or demons.
The second occasion came in Egypt when I met a Nile delta farmer who provided tomatoes and various salad vegetables to Sainsbury’s supermarkets. He seemed very well off and wore a suit; to say he was a farmer is probably over-stretching his role in the whole affair of growing vegetables but the fact is he was the smooth faced affluent and fluent English speaker who made all the deals and got all the money. He owned the farms and since he said he was providing for Sainsbury’s his network must have been rather a large one. Without remembering the specifics about the particular conversation, I came to the startling discovery as we chatted that he always seemed to say exactly what I was thinking; it was unusual because our backgrounds had been vastly different: different countries and cultures, yet somehow, he would say exactly what was in my mind only a couple of seconds after I had thought it.
When I stilled my thoughts and literally had nothing going on inside my head, he suddenly fell quiet. Until this point, he had been carrying on a machine gun fire of conversation lifted directly from my thoughts, suddenly he was still. He kind of looked at me as if beaten and shrugged. He said nothing more and left shortly afterwards.
It seemed there had been no information in my mind to feed on and as such he had no instructions to follow. It was as if this was how he talked to people, by lifting ideas and thoughts from their own minds and when he encountered someone like me who can enter the Zen state and stop their thoughts at will, he had no material to work with. It seemed to me at that point that the man was wholly possessed by the ‘arcanum arcanorum’ his every thought and action being a mere series of ‘suggestions’ from this force; always a reaction to the thoughts of the person he was speaking to, he simply had nothing of himself in any of his conversation because he no longer existed as an individual, he had become nothing more than a human interface with the hidden power.
A third example is highly instructive as to what kind of condition these people who can read minds might be dealing with. Far from being able to read people’s minds making you a superman or some kind of God amongst men it is much more likely to have the opposite effect and reflects something which has gone very wrong with natural human brain-chemistry.
“...every kingdom is self-contained. It is shut off, as though by closed bulkheads, and no leap from a lower to a higher kingdom is possible save on one condition - a previous death to the kingdom below.”
And an elucidatory description on the website:
“The process ostensibly involves uncompromising repression of one's ‘human’ faculties. The process, which masons call the Secret Science of Initiation or Secret Science of Mystical Death is symbolized as death and resurrection, i.e. death of the human level/kingdom and the emergence of the trans-human.”
I can give three immediate personal examples of experiencing people reading my mind, and there are actually others however these three are the clearest and most evident.
The first one was in Tokyo when I had apparently signed up to the Devil’s Bargain to become a famous writer with a skeletal ghoul like figure from Yorkshire who ran what appeared to be a small language school in Tokyo.
The strange recruitment system of the Illuminati Freemasons meant that I was never solicited directly to join the Freemasons, just hints and allusions in a constant stream. For example, the man, whom I call the Demon King of DK for short, would roll up the trouser on his left leg frequently for no apparent reason and ask me if I knew who I was. He would have these strange imaginary phone-calls in the classroom next to mine which I could hear quite clearly, where he would be talking to someone, rather strangely, about me. He would never explicitly talk about me but he would allude to things he must have somehow found out about me, but then de-contextualise them so it would appear random and more startling. In these phone calls he would loudly refer to himself as ‘Mr Mason’.
The odd thing about these Masonic people who have reached a certain level of initiation is that they seem able somehow to read minds or at least use some highly accurate system based on uncanny synchronicity. For example, in my mind I would wonder ‘what did he just say?’ and strangely in the next room he would repeat it. I found that if he said something which I didn’t catch he would repeat himself in his imaginary conversation next door.
This was the first time I noticed this and on subsequent occasions have observed that some people are very definitely capable of reading minds, but this is not strictly accurate, it would be more accurate to say that they are ‘told’ what you are thinking. This is one of the results of serving what Manly P Hall the Masonic philosopher termed: the ‘arcanum arcanorum’, the secret mystery. An invisible and all-encompassing awareness that knows all and communicates to its servants in Freemasonry and other walks of life.
One speaks and acts without understanding, but is fed information and instructions from this mysterious source, so that other people involved understand the words and actions and their significance. When one serves these ‘invisible masters’ one is little more than a marionette, acting for unknown purposes and without any concern for the consequences of their actions; service to the unknown ‘force’ is the ‘be all and end all’ to these advanced Freemasons. This force is what people generally know as spirits or demons.
The second occasion came in Egypt when I met a Nile delta farmer who provided tomatoes and various salad vegetables to Sainsbury’s supermarkets. He seemed very well off and wore a suit; to say he was a farmer is probably over-stretching his role in the whole affair of growing vegetables but the fact is he was the smooth faced affluent and fluent English speaker who made all the deals and got all the money. He owned the farms and since he said he was providing for Sainsbury’s his network must have been rather a large one. Without remembering the specifics about the particular conversation, I came to the startling discovery as we chatted that he always seemed to say exactly what I was thinking; it was unusual because our backgrounds had been vastly different: different countries and cultures, yet somehow, he would say exactly what was in my mind only a couple of seconds after I had thought it.
When I stilled my thoughts and literally had nothing going on inside my head, he suddenly fell quiet. Until this point, he had been carrying on a machine gun fire of conversation lifted directly from my thoughts, suddenly he was still. He kind of looked at me as if beaten and shrugged. He said nothing more and left shortly afterwards.
It seemed there had been no information in my mind to feed on and as such he had no instructions to follow. It was as if this was how he talked to people, by lifting ideas and thoughts from their own minds and when he encountered someone like me who can enter the Zen state and stop their thoughts at will, he had no material to work with. It seemed to me at that point that the man was wholly possessed by the ‘arcanum arcanorum’ his every thought and action being a mere series of ‘suggestions’ from this force; always a reaction to the thoughts of the person he was speaking to, he simply had nothing of himself in any of his conversation because he no longer existed as an individual, he had become nothing more than a human interface with the hidden power.
A third example is highly instructive as to what kind of condition these people who can read minds might be dealing with. Far from being able to read people’s minds making you a superman or some kind of God amongst men it is much more likely to have the opposite effect and reflects something which has gone very wrong with natural human brain-chemistry.
I was working as a teacher at a Pupil Referral Unit in West London which is where the kids who get excluded or suspended from school end up. In almost all of these cases these students exhibit a range of various psychological issues and it is often the use of violence and a lack of self-control which has resulted with them being removed from the schooling system and sent, as a temporary measure, to a Pupil Referral Unit, while their return to school is being negotiated.
I was working as a teacher at a Pupil Referral Unit in West London which is where the kids who get excluded or suspended from school end up. In almost all of these cases these students exhibit a range of various psychological issues and it is often the use of violence and a lack of self-control which has resulted with them being removed from the schooling system and sent, as a temporary measure, to a Pupil Referral Unit, while their return to school is being negotiated.
One student, a young black boy of perhaps fourteen years old was throwing a tantrum and running around refusing to enter the classroom. I thought to myself how the boy seemed demon possessed. He then reported there and then that I had called him demon possessed. Obviously, I had not spoken those words but I had thought them, yet somehow, he had heard me. I was already at that stage, used to the possibility that some people might be able to read minds or somehow ‘hear’ what is being thought but for the first time I observed this phenomenon in someone who was clearly psychologically damaged and most likely schizophrenic.
Wednesday 1 December 2021
The Rosicrucians and the UFO cult. From new upcoming book.
The ROAD TO ELEUSIS
Vallee discovers a book written by a Frenchman called Raymond Bernard. Bernard was Grand Master of the Rosicrucians, the Templar Order and The Martinists, and during his life had done extensive work to spread the beliefs and tenets of the Rosicrucian order throughout all parts of the world, particularly in French speaking parts of Africa which most probably will be focussed on places like Morocco and Tunisia, as the countries with the strongest liberal current, not to mention a strong tradition of the occult, in the French speaking world.
The order claims to teach and preserve a genuine esoteric tradition, which is another word for pagan witchcraft and such occult practices which throughout the world usually involve the communication with and the possession by spirits. Vallee writes:
“True adepts of the Rosy Cross, it is said, are not of this Earth. They have transcended the bonds of time and space. They reach this exalted state, however, by a series of initiations that organizations such as AMORC claim to preserve as a body of "sacred knowledge." AMORC teaches it throughout the world, mailing its educational material from its lavish headquarters in San Jose, California.”
“…some techniques used by occult groups have indeed been preserved from the most ancient times. They include excellent operating knowledge of hypnosis, suggestion, the laws of forms, and their use for ritual and behavior control.”
According to Vallee, Raymond Bernard, using the initiatory techniques of transformation, had apparently made contact with a ‘superior being’ known as Maha who had the power to completely control him just with his eyes, apparently he was also able to communicate with Bernard solely using his eyes. Their first meeting seemingly took place in the somewhat prosaic venue of the Carlton Hotel in Amsterdam, and one hopes that the hotel’s conference facilities were up to the task of accommodating superior beings with psychic powers. In Jacques Vallee’s analysis, this ‘being’ is one of the ‘manipulators’ behind the UFO program and people like the Grand Master of the Rosicrucians are merely their servants.
The being goes on to state that the hotel is not a suitable place for their meeting and instead they made for a park full of flowers, so my suspicions that the conferencing facilities perhaps might be a disappointment were well-founded. Maha revealed he was a member of something called The High Council, also known as ‘A’ and perhaps this is a reference to the Arcanum Arcanorum.
His speech to Bernard was full of the typical new-age tropes that we all know by now, usually full of woolly, high-sounding nonsense but with a few ‘seeds’ thrown in, almost hidden amongst the generalities, perhaps all the better to hide the noxious things that might eventually grow from them. This is a form of subliminal neuro-linguistic-programming, say a lot of things that on the face of it, are completely reasonable, then on the tail of this cavalcade hide the real purpose of the programme like a furtive and fearful third world despot hides the car chauffeuring him amongst a dozen dummies.
The furtive president hiding himself from the public gaze in this case was: “the abolition of borders, and the death of nationalism,” without all of the New-Age embroidery presenting this, the message seems stark, radical and dangerous, and we are now living in the midst of this ‘dream’ and some of us are realising that it is a nightmare and what is more we have figured out ‘qui bono’. Which nations have to submit themselves to open borders and ‘the death of national identity’ and which nation does not? Which nation, or state, has been given a special dispensation to build walls and preserve its ethnic and religious identity at the barrel of a gun, while other nations have to obediently lay down the red carpet to welcome those who will dispossess them of their own lands.
What is interesting however is that Raymond Bernard, Grand Master and universal ‘Primo inter pares’ of the Rosicrucians seems to be only a small confused player in a much bigger game. In his book he relates how he went to Vienna in 1967 where he met a man with a car with the licence plates of the Diplomatic Corps who drove him to an isolated house near a forest:
“There was no outward sign of activity, but as they knocked on the door, it opened onto a circular room with a floor of black and white marble triangles, where twelve men were standing, dressed in white robes.
There, Bernard witnessed a ritual with several striking peculiarities. First, he suddenly failed to hear the words of the celebrants, although he saw their lips moving. Then he heard a mounting vibration - not quite the om sound used by Eastern meditators. He lost consciousness and was later puzzled by the whole experience. Reflecting upon it, Bernard came to the conclusion that he had been subjected to an examination. In fact, he has no proof that he had not been given posthypnotic suggestions or reinforcements of earlier suggestions, whose existence may be indicated by the frequent perceptual phenomena he experienced.”
Vallee observes that he does not question the experience nor appear suspicious that he apparently has no memory of what happened at the mysterious house during the ritual. One might fear the worst: that he was possessed by demons and even possibly took part in terrible acts of satanic worship. Who knows, but one would be right to be at least curious if not slightly fearful.
“After Bernard toured the entire house and was told its role in the function of the Order, the ‘master’ spoke a single word of two syllables: upon hearing this keyword, Bernard again lost consciousness. He assumed once more that he was reaching a level of cosmic ecstasy induced by the high meditative state of his hosts.”
Vallee observes rightly that the man is clearly under hypnotic control and his loss of consciousness indicates that he had been hypnotised.
“Is there really such an organization as the ‘High Council’? Probably not. The name may have been picked for Bernard's purpose. Could the owners of the houses he describes be found? That, indeed, would be most interesting…”
It seems clear then that the secret societies and even their apparent leaders, Grand Masters, and super dupers, are only serving some other, much more mysterious organisation which has mastered the art of hypnotic suggestion and has an agenda dedicated to open-borders and an end to national identity. According to Bernard these conditions will be necessary before the ‘celestial knights of the macrocosm’ can come down to Earth. It seems like a strange agenda for aliens to be so interested in open-borders doesn’t it?
The Martinist Order is an advanced ‘psychic’ society within the framework of Rosicrucianism. A great deal of material from the so called Traditional Martinist Order, based in San Jose California presumably part of AMORC, was leaked onto the internet some years ago. Interestingly the symbol for the Martinist organisation is two triangles, one black and one white, interlocked to form a what is commonly called the Seal of Solomon or Star of David.
The following extract from this leaked material is from Associate Discourse number 14 and is interesting in that it shows that they acknowledge the changes in brain chemistry which higher initiates undergo and one must try to resist being drawn-in by the colourful new-age language employed to make some of the changes undergone seem generally beneficial and positive. For instance, the phrase ‘astral images’ can be translated as ‘hallucinations’: seeing things which are not there, and a common symptom of advanced psychosis and schizoaffective disorders:
"A very interesting point worth mentioning at this time is that the circulation of the nervous force within man puts him in communication with the universe. In highly evolved mystics, there occurs what in occultism is sometimes called the circulation of astral images. These astral images generally appear to be coming from the back of the head. This is not altogether exact, but it will give an idea as to the nature of this phenomenon….This will be important when we study the actions of the invisible world so important to every Martinist."
Similarly, the phrase ‘being put in communication with the universe’ sounds wonderfully exciting and like some jolly intergalactic adventure, but what it really implies is the hearing of voices and seeing beings which are not visible to other people: no different to the three ghostly forms at Barbara O’Brien’s bedside telling her she was now part of a secret experiment.
This psychic transformation is something which appears to be part of the UFO agenda: Vallee discover a group in Palo Alto California operating from the campus of Stanford University, which appeared to be a cross between new-age spirituality and UFO cult:
“They were seeking real truth. The text was signed by flying-saucer believers who called themselves H.I.M. or Human Individual Metamorphosis. The announcement continued: ‘...are attempting to completely rise above their human nature under the direction of individuals who are members of a kingdom above human who have come in at close range to the Earth to help.’ They compare this period of overcoming their human nature to the metamorphic process of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.”
Vallee attends a talk by the group and a bearded man speaks in terms of personal psychic transformation much like the Rosicrucian groups and possibly the kind of ‘transformations’ undergone by Evelyn Waugh and Barbara O’Brien:
“They are now just finishing completing their own physical metamorphosis. Their bodies have almost completely changed over physically, chemically, biologically. They look just like you and I on the surface. Within a few months there will be a demonstration. When we have changed our bodies over through this process, we no longer have to endure disease or decay or death.”
Vallee reports that one person who joined the group in 1975 left the group after two months having some concerns:
“These two people are dangerous. It is not hypnosis. It is thought transplant."'
And when during one of the talks someone from the audience asked:
"How do you know that you're not being deceived by demonic forces?"
The unconvincing response which Vallee reports may lead one to rightly ask whether this is the reality behind much of the UFO phenomenon which cannot be explained by secret American post war technology.
Vallee asks one of his friends who had attended a meeting of the Order of Melchizedek some questions about the order and its aims. His friend reported on someone called Dr Grace from the Order of Melchizedek who delivered lectures:
"I asked her if she had ever seen a UFO. She had. She described to me what she had seen once in the eastern part of the United States, with her husband. It was a craft, only fifty feet or so away, and she felt that the beings on board were communicating directly to her, into her brain."
If Dr Grace was telling the truth, then it would appear that the people who were leading the UFO and New-Age cults of the 1970’s were doing so under the instructions of voices in their heads. We have seen how Barbara O’Brien’s voices and hallucinations managed to create an extremely cogent continuum of reality, and at times there were even things which the voices told her which she herself could not possibly have known and which potentially helped save her from danger on several occasions.
Saturday 27 November 2021
Latest Excerpt from Latest Book.
The ROAD TO ELEUSIS
It’s quite possible and perhaps even likely that we are
all at home to these spirits one way or another, but they are so well
integrated into our consciousness that we think they are us. This reminds me of
the powerful scene from the Guy Ritchie movie Revolver where Jake is seemingly
enrolled on a path of self-discovery by two mysterious men who want him to
break free from his greatest enemy and they do this by repeatedly robbing him
and manipulating him to the extent that he is forced to abandon everything he
holds dear including his ego, after which he discovers that this is not his
authentic self but a parasite which only has its own protection and nourishment
in mind, pun not intended. This is what is known throughout the story as Sam
Gold: a mysterious enemy which is feared by everyone but has never been seen
and in the words of one of the mysterious men from the film who seem able to
read Jake’s mind:
“You’ve heard that voice for so long you believe it to be
you; you believe it to be your best friend.”
He then asks:
“Where’s the best place an opponent should hide?”
“In the very last place you would ever look.”
“He’s all up here pretending to be you, you’re in a game
Jake: you’re in THE game; everyone’s in his game and nobody knows it. And all
of this, this is his world. He owns it. He controls it. He tells you what to
and when to do it.”
“He’s behind all the pain there ever was, behind every
crime ever committed. And right now, he’s telling you he doesn’t even exist.”
“We just put you to war with the only enemy that ever
existed and you think he’s your best friend.”
More ominously, if we remember the fate of Joe Fisher “No
one lives and displeases Gold.” Many have interpreted the character of Sam Gold
to represent the ego, and within the context of the story this explanation
fits, but could it not also be that Sam Gold represents one of the Operators,
or one of the Tempters surreptitiously influencing us? The movie shows us that
Sam Gold is not the authentic self so then what is the ego? Could it not be a
convenient place for the discarnate entities to hide? As Avi, one of the two
mysterious men from the film says:
“Where’s the best place an opponent should hide? In the
very last place you’ve ever look, he’s hiding behind your pain Jake, you’re
protecting him with your pain embrace your pain and you will win this game.”
“If you change the rules of what controls you, you will
change the rules on what you can control.”
This is why the voices harassed Evelyn Waugh, playing on
his insecurities: in his youth Waugh had homosexual experiences and much of his
novel Brideshead Revisited seems based on the life he had at Oxford and
frequenting a circle of members of the elite and aristocracy and this is one of
the things the voices taunt him with. Once he seems to have ostensibly defeated
the voices by failing to be cowed by them and not even being afraid of the
bizarre prospect of being captured by the Spanish and drawing a virtue of noble
self-sacrifice from the prospect and finally by abandoning the nonsense of
Margaret’s phantasmagorical teasing and going to sleep, he emerges from his
cabin to find that the voices have left the confines of his cabin and now
appear to be amongst his fellow passengers:
“That’s Gilbert Pinfold, the writer.”
“That common little man? It can’t be.”
“Have you read his books? He has a very peculiar sense of
humour, you know.”
“He is very peculiar altogether. His hair is very long.”
“He’s wearing lipstick.”
“He’s painted up to the eyes.”
“But he’s so shabby. I thought people like that were
always smart.”
“There are different types of homosexual, you know. What
are called “poufs” and “nancies”—that is the dressy kind. Then there are the
others they call “butch”. I read a book about it. Pinfold is a “butch”.”
“Oh, Pinfold lives in great style I can tell you. Footmen
in livery.”
“I can guess what he does with the footmen.”
“Not any more. He’s been impotent for years, you know.
That’s why he’s always thinking of death.”
“Is he always thinking of death?”
“Yes. He’ll commit suicide one of these days, you’ll
see.”
“I thought he was a Catholic. They aren’t allowed to
commit suicide, are they?”
“That wouldn’t stop Pinfold. He doesn’t really believe in
his religion, you know. He just pretends
to because he thinks it aristocratic. It goes with being
Lord of the Manor.”
“…There he is, drunk again.”
“He looks ghastly.”
“A dying man, if ever I saw one.”
“Why doesn’t he kill himself?”
“Give him time. He’s doing his best. Drink and drugs. He
daren’t go to a doctor, of course, for fear he’d be put in a home.”
“Best place for him, I should have thought.”
Once the experience is over and he is safely returned to
England he consults with Dr. Drake who tells him:
“Lots of people hear voices from time to time—nearly
always offensive.”
If such a thing were the construction of one’s own
consciousness, why would they generally be offensive? From a psychological
perspective such a thing would make no sense. It would seem much more logical
that these voices are NOT part of the psyche and are inimical to it and somehow,
they benefit from attacking the person in question.
People as diverse as Philip K Dick, Mahatma Ghandi,
Winston Churchill, Anthony Hopkins and Brian Wilson had all reportedly heard
voices. Some relentlessly critical and offensive and some, ostensibly seeming
to be helpful, but in the case of Ghandi before the end of his life a voice
apparently told him:
“You are on the right track, move neither to your left,
nor right, but keep to the straight and narrow.”
It might have been more useful if the voice had told him
some crackpot was going to assassinate him. Ghandi also said, of the voice
which he attributed to God itself:
“Charitable critics impute no fraud to me, but suggest that
I am highly likely to be acting under some hallucination. The result for me,
even then, will not be far different from what it would be if I was laying a
false claim. A humble seeker that I claim to be has need to be most cautious
and, to preserve the balance of mind, he has to reduce himself to zero before
God will guide him. Let me not labour this point.”
“The hearing of the Voice was preceded by a terrific
struggle within me. Suddenly the Voice came upon me. I listened, made certain
it was the Voice, and the struggle ceased. I was calm. The determination was
made accordingly, the date and the hour of the fast were fixed…”
There are two things which ought to stand out in Ghandi’s
account, the fact that the hearing of the voice was ‘preceded by a terrific
struggle within’ which we can perhaps assume was a kind of hormonal crisis, the
kind we have seen with the story of Barbara O’Brien, we can therefore assume
that Ghandi may have experienced a similar condition to Barbara O’Brien, namely
Adrenochrome toxicity but also this seems to be a factor not only of secret occult
groups but also UFO groups as is referenced in Jacques Vallee’s book Messengers
of Deception:
“For every individual who is openly identified as a
contactee, how many more have received what they regard as a ‘secret
illumination’? It is apparent that the transformation they undergo can strike
at any place and at any age. Is it purely random, then, or do the UFOs select
their ‘victims’? Does it spread like an epidemic, or does it develop like a
psychosis?”
Anthony Hopkins went on record in a 1993 News of the
World interview:
“I’ve always had a little voice in my head, particularly
when I was younger and less assured…While onstage, during classical theatre the
voice would suddenly say, ‘Oh, you think you can do Shakespeare, do you?’
Recently, I was being interviewed on television and the voice inside my head
said to me, ‘Who the hell do you think you are. You’re just an actor, what the
hell do you know about anything’”.
Brian Wilson is one of the most high-profile people to go
on record about hearing voices, his voice was typically threatening:
“Well, a voice is saying: ‘I’m going to hurt you, I’m
going to kill you.’ And I’d say: ‘Please don’t kill me.’”
Like the Evelyn Waugh voices but seemingly more menacing,
I wonder if the tenor of the voice changes depending on how you react to them;
as we saw with Evelyn Waugh, he refused to be intimidated by the voices, even
though he was under the delusion they were actual physical agents, it was only
when he thought he was going mad that his defences seemed to crumble, but Waugh
despite his somewhat dissolute student life and obese drugged form in later
life, served in the Royal Marines and was given a position of command; he was
prepared to fight or even if all odds were against him surrender, but on his
own, noble terms. I suspect the voices see what they can get away with and if
their victim proves to be made of stronger stuff then they adapt their tactics,
though it would still appear that their final goal is either the destruction or
complete possession of their victim. Furthermore, in his conversation with the doctor
who has told him that they were part of his own subconscious Pinfold/Waugh is
puzzled:
“What I can’t understand is this…if I wanted to draw up
an indictment of myself, I could make a far blacker and more plausible case than
they did. I can’t understand.”
Mr. Pinfold/Evelyn Waugh never understood this; nor has
anyone been able to suggest a satisfactory explanation. I have an explanation.
What Pinfold means is that although the voices were insulting to him, if the
attacks were from his own mind, then he would have been able to draw up a far
stronger line of personal attack on himself. The attacks were very general:
attacking his excessive use of drugs and alcohol and his previous
homosexuality, but nothing very specific or damning about him as a person and
his decisions, just somewhat general comments about his lifestyle choices. The
reason might be that possibly the ‘voices’ can only hear your thoughts in the
present moment but do not have a deeper access to your memories and your past
deeds. Since they do not have that level of access to information one might
assume that they do not come from the self but are interlopers and opportunists
which exist in a kind of mental astral realm and can pick up on people’s
thoughts and in exceptional circumstances such as Waugh’s experiences with his
unique combination of drugs and personal stress, can in turn be heard
themselves, at which point presumably, knowing that they can be heard, they
start to mentally abuse and torture that person for their own demonic pleasure.
While shaving he hears the family of voices conversing
about him which develops from the lines that he drinks too much and to his own
suicide. The voices make no pretence at this stage that he is not a party to
their dialogue and they directly address him
“‘I know you can hear me Gilbert, why don’t you kill
yourself’ Then Goneril’s steely voice cut in: ‘I can tell you what he was doing
on deck. He was screwing up his courage to jump overboard. He longs to kill
himself, don’t you, Gilbert. All right, I know you’re listening down there. You
can hear me, can’t you, Gilbert? You wish you were dead, don’t you, Gilbert?
And a very good idea, too. Why don’t you do it, Gilbert? Why not? Perfectly
easy. It would save us all—you too, Gilbert—a great deal of trouble.’”
He emerges from his cabin, believing the voices are a
product of some old war-time inter-ship communication system which hasn’t been
decommissioned properly, and emerges onto the boat deck to find everyone
talking about him in an incessant dialogue.
They encouraged him to commit suicide but Waugh being a
Catholic and a fairly successful man, wealthy and probably in his own way,
quite pleased with himself, such an effort wouldn’t lead to their desired
results so instead they settle for continual abuse, except one of them, a
character called Margaret.
It seems that what the voices want from Gilbert is his
attention and when the threat of violence fails to cow him and he reveals that
he is prepared to physically fight, even in his infirm and bloated condition,
then the voices try a different approach.
This leads to the development of the character: Margaret
who reveals that she is impressed by how Gilbert bravely confronted the
prospect of hooligans which he faced down outside his door and how he nobly
chooses to offer himself as a sacrifice to preserve the security and safety of
the secret agent which the Spanish authorities were trying to capture. She
declares herself in love with him and ready to yield herself to him. This story
becomes increasingly bizarre until at one point Margaret is all ready to enter
Pinfold’s nocturnal bed chamber and yield herself to him utterly. Naturally she
never materialises.
The voices of Margaret’s family are overheard coaching
her and preparing her for her nuptials and things take a grossly comic turn:
“That’s my beauty.
Go and take what’s coming to you. Listen, my Peg, you know what you’re in for,
don’t you?”
“Yes, Father, I think so.”
“It’s always a surprise. You may think you know it all on
paper, but like everything else in life it’s never quite what you expect when
it comes to action. There’s no going back now. Come and see me when it’s all
over. I’ll be waiting up to hear the report. In you go, bless you.”
Pinfold then awaits her in the darkness, in his delirium,
expecting a girl he’d never met before whom he can hear speaking with her
family in her cabin and who can read his mind which is all somehow connected to
some kind of radio technology left over from the war, to come into his cabin
and have sex with him. There is some hesitancy however on her part in showing
herself and her father the General is surprised that things have not developed
to their natural conclusion.
“What the hell’s going on? You ought to be in position by
now. Haven’t had a Sitrep. Isn’t the girl over the Start Line?”
It would seem that although Margaret and the hooligans’
approach is radically different, the hooligans attempt to instil fear in
Pinfold while Margaret tries to instil love, in a manner of speaking they are
both doing the same thing, that is getting ‘attention’ and in that way drawing
a kind of energy from Pinfold.
Although Pinfold is unwell and heavily drugged it seems
something in his mind is able to perfectly well articulate a highly complicated
and serpentine plot, almost Dickensian in its colourful cast of characters and
their high levels of melodrama, but the one common thread which runs through
the whole experience is that of abuse, abuse and denigration of himself. Since
the experience and the organisation and colourful characterisation of the
voices are so similar to the voices which haunted Barbara O’Brien then we can
collate these experiences within the same category.
So, we might therefore draw the conclusion that Barbara
O’Brien’s analysis that the voices were from her own consciousness and were
there to help her become sane again, was incorrect since nothing of this nature
can be drawn from Evelyn Waugh’s similar experience.
So, if we can allow ourselves the belief that such a
thing as God exists, then logically there must be an invisible world of the
spirit which accommodates a varied flora and fauna of disembodied entities. Not
all of these entities have our best interests at heart and perhaps for some
unknown reason, they are directly opposed to us.
Sunday 21 November 2021
Fake UFO's and secret-society shenanigans.
The ROAD TO ELEUSIS
Excerpt from coming new e-book:
“In the sixties, according to conversations I had in the
Soviet Union, a leading plasma physicist was pushed under a Moscow subway train
by an ‘indirect contactee’ who had been instructed by a ‘voice from space’ to
kill that particular man. In 1975, a French contactee was arrested by the
police as he was entering the headquarters of the French television network,
carrying a carbine and fifty shells: a similar voice from space had instructed
him to kill a newsman who had written several books on UFOs.”
Furthermore:
“In 1968 a man named Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy in Los
Angeles. Sirhan was a member of AMORC Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis. He
had used the Order's technique for self-hypnosis while preparing his role in
this tragedy.”
While on the subject of unsavoury members of the
Rosicrucians not quite living up to their reputation of an enlightened and
advanced brotherhood, expert on all things Hermetic Mark Stavish writes on his
website how:
“’Baby Doc Duvalier,’ former dictator of Haiti, has been
photographed sporting an AMORC ring, said to have been given to him by Bernard
the elder.”
As well as:
“Several central African heads of state are also on the
list of well-known associates – and from a different line, Manuel Noriega,
former head of military intelligence and eventual de facto ruler of
Panama from 1983-1989 whose desk sported an array of AMORC paraphernalia after
his capture by United States forces.”
Vallee mentions the case of Gregory in order to clarify
the point that people with an interest in this domain are not necessarily
rudderless-crackpots but can be highly intelligent young professionals. Gregory
was a systems programmer and is described as working for one of France’s
leading Think Tanks.
“He quit his job to form a psychic center. He is now
publishing a newsletter devoted to his experiences with higher entities; he
believes that, in so doing, he follows the telepathic instructions of a
superior force.”
The psychic communication he received was of the
following tenor:
“On the eastern shore of the Peaceful Sea, God brought
forth the American Republic ... For the purpose of assembling the high
consciousness required to conceive and establish this new Union, God sent His
son Melchizedek, one time Lord of Salem, unto Christopher Columbus…”
Tied to the alien contact groups are various occult
groups, one in particular The Order of Melchizedek attracts Vallee’s particular
interest and he even finds himself strangely drawn into a disconcerting web of
synchronicity when, after investigating and actually being made an offer to
become a member, he returns to New-York and hailing a taxi cab, discovers that
the driver’s name is Melchizedek. This leads him to hypothesise an interesting
new approach to the nature of reality itself.
The leader of another saucer group told Vallee:
“The Earth is the property of one group of saucers that controls this end of the universe, and they call themselves the Brothers, and they are the ones who brought the Christ on Earth 2000 years ago ... If we get a little out of control, and maybe Russia would start to throw some missiles at us, from Cuba ... well, they might step in, if it got too bad, and help us out. They told us they would.”
Vallee met an enigmatic and mysterious man whom he calls
Major Murphy and appears to have been a high-level insider of military
intelligence during World War 2.
"‘In 1943,’ he said, as we sat in his study, ‘we
already had evidence that several countries were working on circular aircraft
that they hoped to develop into secret weapons. The Germans were also doing
advanced research on controlled electrical discharges and 'controlled
lightning,' and tried to combine these things together.
When we invaded Germany, a lot of hardware fell into our
hands, but the Russians had gotten most of the good stuff. Then people started
seeing the modern UFOs in Sweden in 1946….General James Doolittle was sent to
Sweden by the United States in 1946, apparently under cover of the Shell
Corporation. In fact, he was to investigate the 'ghost rockets' with the Swedish
authorities. Whatever came of that?’
Ghost rockets was the name given to some two thousand
reports of rocket shaped UFO’s appearing in the skies of Sweden between May and
December 1946. Radar tracked some of the objects as they fell to Earth and
fragments were discovered where they had impacted the ground. It seems likely
that the sightings were the result of Soviet testing of rockets taken from the
Nazi V2 construction base at Peenemunde.
However, some of the sightings apparently reported
objects which moved without leaving any exhaust trail while others moved
horizontally and a hissing sound was sometimes heard accompanying the moving
object.
Major Murphy believes that the UFO’s might be
‘psychotronic devices’ and goes on to say:
"‘Research had already been done in great secrecy by 1946
concerned mind control and the effects of electromagnetic radiation (what we
now call ELF, or Extremely Low Frequency) on the human body… suppose somebody
had obtained a device by the end of the war, which perhaps wasn't a very
effective weapon. Perhaps it couldn't fly very effectively, couldn't carry guns
and bombs, but had other properties. For instance, it could emit radiation that
caused paralysis and hallucinations as it flew over an area, so that witnesses
exposed to it would think they saw the phantasms of their own imagination. Did
somebody test that kind of a device in Sweden in 1946, and in the States in
1947, and find it to be ineffective as a flying machine, but very useful as a
means of propaganda? Has such a group already understood what UFOs were, and
are they confusing the issue by simulating UFO waves? Or is the entire
phenomenon under their control?’
‘I can only tell you that silent, disk-shaped flying
machines can be built. If they are equipped with the right devices, they can
create astonishing effects and be reported as flying saucers. I wish I still
had my files on the German experiments.’
‘You have V2s in 1944, and you have the Atlas rocket in
the '60s. You have foo-fighters in '43, and the green fireballs of New Mexico
nine years later. A lot of people got involved. Industrial concerns.
Laboratories engaged in psychotronic research. The Nazi research on microwaves
was child's play compared to the sophistication of modern experiments. If
someone is using this technology, we can assume they have also mastered
pharmacology, the use of drugs to distort the memories of witnesses, the use of
mind control to suggest stories, to plant fake observations. Don't you think
people should try to get some information about that before believing in
friendly space visitors?’
‘It's hard to believe that these techniques would already
be applied on this kind of scale,’ I said."
Friday 12 November 2021
The Secret Manipulators who Pull the Strings.....
An extract from my coming book.
The ROAD TO ELEUSIS
In a biography
of Swedenborg, I discovered a hint about what may have been one of the
‘Manipulators’ of his time. Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk was an 18th Century
Kabbalist who narrowly avoided being burned at the stake in Westphalia after
being charged with sorcery.
In her
research paper entitled: Dr. Samuel Jacob Falk: A Sabbatian Adventurer in the
Masonic Underground, Marsha Schuchard provides us with some interesting information:
“Falk spent
his early years in Podhayce and Fürth, centers of secret Sabbatianism, where he
had access to the antinomian Kabbalism of Baruchia Russo, who advocated ‘holy
sinning’--especially in sexual and ritual matters--in order to bring about a millenarial
reversal of reality. Falk was said to be gifted in: “practical magic, hypnotic
techniques, alchemical metallurgy, and folk medicine.” Furthermore:
“Falk boldly
defended the Chewish religion, predicted a universal war, and an approaching
messianic consummation.”
The online Blake
Quarterly describes Falk as:
“a Chewish alchemist and Cabalist, who became revered and feared as one of the “Unknown Superiors” of illuminist Masonry. Falk instructed Swedenborg in Cabalistic trance techniques and sexual magic, which they believed would usher in a spiritual and political millennium.”
The
following incident involving, reported in Nesta Webster’s book, involving Falk
and a hypnotised Swedenborg recalls the strange events of the Rosicrucian Grand
Master Raymond Bernard and mysteriously falling into hypnotised unconsciousness
in the company of the twelve men in white robes:
“According
to a later Swedenborgian freemason, Swedenborg was in the company of some
unnamed Chews when he went into a trance or ecstasis, and they allegedly
stole his watch….Swedenborg defended 'these good Israelites', and he developed
messianic fantasies of preaching in their synagogue about the return of
regenerated Chews and Christians to Jerusalem.”
The latter
is something we are now having to deal with and the messianic fantasies and
fancies of people such as Swedenborg in their high-minded meddling have
unleashed on our present age and we have seen that none of this seems in any
way beneficial to anybody except the Chews who presently appear to be the very
masters of the Earth: dictating American foreign policy, given a free-hand in
Israel and using British and American armies to dispatch their enemies and also
dictating an agenda of mass-immigration, censorship and demonisation of white
identity.
In an article entitled: “Kabbalist or Charlatan? The Life and Times of Dr Samuel Falk The ‘Baal Shem of London’ on the Chewishhomela website Rabbi Pini Dunner gives us some insight into the mysterious Dr Falk which may explain his apparently mysterious rise to eminence:
“For a few
years he struggled, and his faithful assistant records that his personal life
was fraught with difficulties as he and his wife constantly argued about
finances. Eventually things began to change for the better. People were
surprised at his sudden change of fortune. How was it possible that someone who
had been so insolvent that he was forced to pawn all his belongings had
suddenly achieved such incredible material success? Rumors began to spread that
he possessed mystical powers that he used to attain wealth. The truth was more
mundane. Falk was an exceptionally charismatic individual and particularly
attractive to the type of people who are drawn to enigmatic personalities. Two
of those people were the affluent Chewish banker Aaron Goldsmid, and his son
George.”
So it would
appear that Falk, who went on to become one of the secret masters of
Freemasonry, was bankrolled by Chewish bankers, according to Marsha Schuchard “He
also met the bankers Tobias and Simon Boas who were both Scottish Rite Freemasons.”
There is
oblique reference to some ‘peculiar rituals’ and such activity appeared to be
common knowledge amongst the Chewish community in which Falk operated, also from
Rabbi Dunner’s article:
“Remarkably,
although he was not considered a scholar, this in no way detracted from his
reputation as a Kabbalist, nor did the fact that he performed extremely
peculiar rituals prevent senior community leaders – including Chief Rabbi David
Tevele Schiff – from considering him their friend.”
One of these
peculiar rituals is referenced in Nesta Webster’s classic book: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements and
refers to a letter published in the September 1762 edition of The Gentleman. The
editor relates that they are publishing the letter just as they received it,
noting that several peculiarities of style indicate that the letter was written
by a foreigner. What is fascinating indeed about this letter is that it gives
us a first-hand account of somebody who was enthralled by a character we can strongly
presume to be Samuel Falk, as the particular description of the man recently
arriving from Germany align with the events in the life of Falk. Here we may
see some of the mysteries of the Kabbalist and his practices exposed and seen
clearly for what they really are.
The letter
begins with a man going to a tavern where he encountered several people
discussing the existence of witchcraft and whether it exists or not. One of the
men, a man of reputation asserts that Cabbala and magic are ‘pretended arts’
and ‘contrivances of tricks and frauds, which pick the pockets of fools..and
always end in bankruptcies’.
At which
point the author of the letter recalls a story told to him three months ago,
over a bottle of wine, by someone who experienced the same thing. The narrator
recounts how, four years ago a gentlemen came from Germany with his numerous
family, and claimed to be the greatest physician and cabalist. The man he said,
was a Christened Chew and ‘the biggest rogue and villain in the world’ who has
been imprisoned everywhere and banished out of Germany and at some time
publicly whipped ‘that his back lost all the old skin and became new again’.
The rogue
attempted to become acquainted with the man who describes himself as
‘enchanted’ and was no more master of his senses. The Cabalist told him that he
had spent 16 months with three adepts and has learned all the mysteries and
secrets of nature. He had sworn an oath to the adepts not to reveal any of the
secrets for a certain length of time, but that time apparently was soon coming
to an end. Naturally this made the man very curious as he says, and he forgot
all precautions and fell in with all his proposals to the extent that he ended
up buying several secrets from the Cabalist which amounted to more than a 1000
pounds, which in the 18th century was an extraordinary sum, and he declares
that all the ‘said secrets were nothing but cheats and deceits’. The man grew
angry at being cheated whereupon the Cabalist offered to teach him the secrets
he had been taught by the adepts and of which the period of secrecy was soon
coming to an end. The condition was that he must avoid all churches and public
worship as ‘unclean’ for half a year, and the Cabalist said that for this
reason he and his family had never once attended church since their arrival in
England, in order that he always be ready to begin the so called ‘Godly
mysteries’.
He also told
the man to tell everyone in his house to swear an oath that they will speak
nothing of what they witness. He then told the man that he must procure a
Hebrew Bible stolen from a zealous protestant, whom the man duly robbed, the
Cabalist then asked for a Bible in English, it happened that the man he robbed
had a Bible in English and one in Hebrew and so he robbed him of all his
personal effects by some kind of cunning ruse, leaving him destitute which the
Cabalist demanded of him. He then asked the man to procure one pound of the
blood of an honest protestant. He was in some consternation at this for he had
the suspicion that the Cabalist was trying to incite him to murder. He then
reasoned that he himself was an honest Protestant and so he bled himself and
once he had roughly three quarters of a pound he gave this to the Cabalist. The
Cabalist then demanded another 400 pounds which the man had to borrow, once he
had procured the sum he paid it into his hands. The Cabalist then sent everyone
out of the house except for themselves.
The next
night at 11pm they went out into the man’s garden and the Cabalist then put a
cross tainted with the man’s own blood at each corner of the house, and in the
middle of the garden the Cabalist put a threefold circle made of paper, about
three yards in diameter. In the first circle all the names of God in Hebrew; in
the second all the names of the angels; and in the third the first chapter of
the holy gospel of Saint John, again all written in blood.
The Cabalist
laid both Bibles in the circle which created a protection which the devil could
not enter. The Magician then brought a billy goat which he had prepared and led
him backwards through the circles. The man noticed that the belly of the goat
was extremely big and looked as if it would burst open, but the man reasoned
that the Cabalist must have somehow filled the beast’s belly full of wind with
some kind of blow pipe. He then covered the goat in crosses drawn in blood and
tied his legs together and at that the wind came out of his belly in strange murmuring
tunes. Then the Cabalist began to speak strange words and conjured the devil to
appear and satisfy their desires and demands. Then the man began to hear
strange sounds and voices coming from the region of the crosses in the corner
of the garden, which he afterwards reasoned was performed by the conjurer’s
children who had hidden themselves without his knowledge, but at that time he
was feeling his hairs standing on end. The night was cloudy and suddenly
lightning flashed and thunder roared and he lost his senses. Then the ground
under his feet started to shake and his body trembled violently and he thought
it was the last minute of his life and the devil would come and take him, the
goat and the cabalist and break all their necks at once.
It was impossible for him to stay there any longer and he ran out of the garden and into his house and shut the door behind him. A short while later the Cabbalist came in too and the man asked him if he had been successful. The Cabalist answered no, but that he had seen the demon and it had a beautiful look, shining like glittering gold and diamonds, and the spirit told him that he had done everything correctly except that the blood was not of an honest protestant but of a rogue and a villain. At this the man lost his temper and he beat the magician and drove him out of his house. Therefore, the man was defrauded and he dared not prosecute the Cabalist because then everything would become known, so he had to remain silent and hide everything and not quarrel with that damned rogue. The man was utterly ruined and had to cheat his creditors.
The
following description about Falk comes from the Chewishhomela website and one
cannot help but notice the description of men in white robes, could these be of
the same cult which Raymond Bernard would encounter 200 years later?
“On one occasion
he withdrew into his home for six weeks, and allowed it to be known that he was
not eating or sleeping for the entire period. After six weeks had passed, he
sent for a group of ten men to join him – but only after they had immersed
themselves in a mikvah. The men arrived at midnight and were asked to clothe
themselves in white robes, and also to remove their shoes. With that they were
invited into a large room lit only by flickering candlelight.
One of the
ten men later wrote in a letter to his son that upon entering the room, “the
saintly man was seated on his throne arrayed like an angel of heaven, diademed
with a golden miter, a golden chain round his neck reaching to his waist, from
which hung a great star, and holy names were engraved on the star. His face was
covered with a star-shaped veil, and his headgear was marvellously fashioned
out of parchment, with holy names written on it. A star of pure gold was
fastened on each corner of his turban, and names were engraved on them. Who
could possibly describe the beauty of the painting on the tapestries that were
hung on the walls, with sacred figures, as on the heavenly throne in Ezekiel’s
vision….
The letter describes the strange ‘throne room’ as having been divided into an inner section and an outer section delineated by silver chains. Falk instructed five men to sit within the chains, and the other five to sit outside of them, following which he took out an engraved shofar and an engraved trumpet, and presumably blew on them. The letter writer and his nine companions were overwhelmed by this melodramatic scene, and became Falk’s avid devotees.”
The
description of being ‘overwhelmed’ and becoming ‘avid devotees’ suggests
something of the techniques of cult mind control and a form of hypnosis. The
whole performance was staged within the context of the Judaic rite of
purification by taking a mikvah bath and also the blowing of the Shofar horn
which is traditionally only blown at the start of the Chewish new-year, at the
end of the holiest day of the Chewish year Yom Kippur. The ritual significance
of the Shofar cannot be understated and goes back the Exodus of the Chews and
was heard coming from the thick clouds on Mount Sinai and kept the Israelites
rapt in awe.
It seems the
whole performance was designed precisely to create the transformative effect
and so instil the idea that Falk was more than just a man and the religious
trappings were clearly intended to convey the idea that Falk was something like
part of the line of Patriarchs and perhaps the latest incarnation of a leading
figurehead for Chews in the world.
However the
opinion that Falk was just a charlatan and a conman was one that was even held
by certain Chewish Rabbis themselves. In a letter to a colleague, leading German
Rabbi, Rabbi Yakov Emden who extolled Orthodox Judaism and was critical of the
growing Sabbatean movement wrote of Falk:
“Some rich
non-Chews also believed in him, thinking that he could discover treasure for
them. Using trickery he succeeded in entrapping one wealthy non-Chewish captain,
who spent his entire fortune on him and has now been reduced to poverty, and he
is only able to survive as a result of Falk’s charity. Incredibly this captain
continues to praise him among wealthy Christians, so that they give him a lot
of money. In this way the Baal Shem is enabled to live as a man of wealth, and
he uses his money to bribe his close followers so that they continue to spread
his fame.”