Monday, July 21, 2014
FORBIDDEN SECRETS OF THELABYRINTH Part Number 2
PART 2 - The Lowly Initiate
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All things are implicated with one another, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything unconnected with any other thing. For things have been coordinated, and they combine to form the same order. For there is one universe made up of all things, and one God who pervades all things, and one substance, and one law, one common reason in all intelligent animals, and one truth.
At the end of thirty-two months of study at a college (Latin:collegium, “the connection of associates”) or university (Latin:universitas, “the whole, aggregate”),[ii] the degree candidate seldom thoughtfully considers the esoteric meaning of the graduation ceremony. All participants don academic-style caps and gowns. The cap, described as a “mortarboard,” has a peculiar flat, square-sectioned top over an eggshell-like head cover with a tasseled string hanging over one edge. During the ritual, the graduate must ascend an elevated stage from the left to meet an individual wearing a black, five-sided, Tudor-style cap. This dean or head artisan offers a scroll or diploma (Greek: δίπλωµα, “folded paper”) indicating the degree earned with his left hand, and he shakes the graduate’s hand with his right. Descending the stage from the right, participants move the tassel string from one side of the mortarboard in an arc from the right to the left, mimicking the arching path of the sun from horizon to horizon, and forming the lower portion of the Masonic square and compass symbol.
What the new graduate may not know is that he or she is merely partaking in an initiation ceremony, and to one with understanding, the meaning of the ritual confirms the participant’s vulgar (Latin vulgus, “the common people, the multitude, a crowd, the throng”) status. This initiation is not to some higher intellectual class; it simply allows an offering of humble symbolic mortar to the artisans as a lowly apprentice or hod carrier. The priesthood of those who are able to bestow degrees considers the graduates as base laborers involved merely in carrying supplies to the more skilled bricklayers or stonemasons of the mystic “work.”
Consider the individual symbolic components of the graduation. The hawk or hod that the graduation cap symbolizes is a tool used to temporarily hold mortar so that a bricklayer can apply it to a surface using a different tool. Like the cap, it consists of a board about nine inches square, but with a perpendicular handle fixed centrally on the opposite side. In a similar manner as the dean who hands the diploma to the graduate, the bricklayer artisan holds the hawk horizontally with the left hand and applies the material on the hawk with a tool (engages the “tool,” who is the graduate) held in the right.
Most people today are unaware of the fortunate time in which they live. Literature, mythology, and volumes of historical research have been made available to everyone on earth. There are etymology tools available for Latin, ancient Greek, and Hebrew. The works of Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Pythagoras, Strabo, and Josephus can be rapidly searched for specific words, and the words themselves can be deciphered from their original language down to the letter. In contrast, a person fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew who might have had access to all the libraries of Europe during the Renaissance would have been unable to duplicate the amount of research in a lifetime that the average person could do today from his or her computer in the course of a few months.
Imagine how much Isaac Newton would value what most people take for granted if he had lived today. Such a wealth of freely obtainable information back in the seventeenth century would have been unfathomable. While the availability of information is miraculous in the sense of its mere existence, it is unfortunate that the activities of the average person living today are centered primarily on the base pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain.
Since the Middle Ages, mythology has been an important part of a classical education, along with the required language skills in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Pythagoras taught that thinking skills were necessary for the serious study of philosophy and theology (i.e., mythology). A student prepared by first studying grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and then moving on to the quadrivium, or the “four subjects”—arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and music.[iii] The intellectual pursuit of knowledge of the highest rank or class (classical works) was the mythology of the ancient Mediterranean world. It was the highest class of knowledge and was sacred in the sense that students could approach it only after they had proven worthiness. After this stage, the student then required an equally worthy mentor.
Today, typical college graduates complete a course of study with the singular goal of becoming sufficiently enabled to do some job. They are lucky to have received anything more than just a cursory survey of ancient mythology. Today, the serious study of these subjects is left out intentionally. It must be this way because of the fact that current information available is levels of magnitude greater than it was during the last two thousand years, and learning about and understanding the meaning behind mythology, as it was once taught, is only for the chosen few.
The great secret concerning the whole human race has been, at its quintessential base, required to be kept secret to all but those worthy.I…do hereby and hereon most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, that I will always hail, ever conceal, and never reveal, any of the arts, parts, or points of the hidden mysteries of Ancient Free Masonry, which may have been, or hereafter shall be, at this time, or any future period, communicated to me, as such, to any person or persons whomsoever, except it be to a true and lawful brother Mason, or in a regularly constituted Lodge of Masons.All this I most solemnly, sincerely promise and swear, with a firm and steadfast resolution to perform the same, without any mental reservation or secret evasion of mind whatever, binding myself under no less penalty than that of having my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by its roots, and my body buried in the rough sands of the sea, at low-water mark, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours, should I ever knowingly violate this my Entered Apprentice obligation.[iv]
The belief that the study of philosophy and mythology is the highest form of intellectual pursuit has never waned; the value of the quest for knowledge of the highest class has not been forgotten. A select group has had the answers to questions and concepts that the majority of people have never once considered. The keepers of the knowledge restrain it, because its nefarious source instructs them to do so.
Realizing the importance that the ancients attributed to the classics leads to the question: What can be gained through their understanding? A good way to prepare for the answer at this point is to pose the questions that this book will address:
- Is there meaning behind the various classical architectural forms used throughout the world and specifically in Washington, DC?
- Why is the Greek goddess Athena so often represented in art and architecture? When did she first appear in history?
- What is the meaning behind the triangle reference to Athena that the Pythagoreans so often used?
- Why are the characters and story of the Trojan War still remembered today even though the city of Troy had been thought fictional up to its discovery in 1868?[v]
- Why have the sacred symbols of ancient mystery religions of the Egyptian, Babylonian, and Anatolian civilizations been so readily adopted by the Greeks and Romans, and why do they remain in Freemasonry?
- What was the Roman cult of Mithras all about?
- How do the answers to these questions give insight to the meaning of the enigmatic symbols on the dollar bill, the currency of the United States?
We have the advantage of the information-rich time in which we live to help answer these questions. In addition, this exploration will begin with the unique perspective that there was a common beginning for every mythological legend and that there was a fundamental entity involved. The realization of the who, and the nature of the source, is extremely vital to gaining understanding of the history and destiny of our world. This source has suppressed the understanding of the highest class of knowledge, since it would be counterproductive to one of its paramount goals: to have as many as possible forget or never believe that acreator exists. Understanding the events of the past concerning man and the entity known as the “giver of knowledge” requires a belief in the God who created him. Conversely, learning that the giver of knowledge truly exists might well manifest into an unshakable faith in that creator God.
Like a maze, the stories in myth over the many millennia have been intentionally obfuscated in order to hide the secrets from the vulgar. Often, the paths that lead to the discovery behind the meaning of the stories, characters, and ideas in myth often come to abrupt ends where the student must retrace his steps back to alternate paths in order to gain understanding. The paths of a maze mimic the method of exploration and discovery used in this book, and are consistent with the nature of the subjects covered. In the account of Theseus and the Minotaur, Theseus was given a ball of thread known as the “clue” that led him through the Labyrinth. This book will be the thread or clue through the maze, where each subject explored will add to the unraveling of confusion and lay out a path so that anescape to understanding is possible.
In education, the practice of exposing the student to information in a global fashion but leaving out the various, meaningful relationships between concepts until enough has been surveyed to come suddenly to a more complete understanding is known as the gestalt (German: “essence or shape of an entity’s complete form”) method, from the nineteenth-century philosopher, Christian von Ehrenfels (1859–1932).[vi] Through exploration, the seeker of truth will find everything needed for a gestalt moment when understanding suddenly coalesces. This is the path through the maze where each subject explored brings new choices of direction.
The Minotaur of myth, the half-man, half-bull monster, is said to have waited in the center of the Labyrinth of Knossos. We shall see that we do not need to kill the Minotaur to find our way out of the maze as Theseus did. We can do much more: We can understand what the complex maze of mythology represents, as well as the mystical identities of the characters involved and how they relate to our existence.
The information in this book offers a path showing the way that offers freedom from ignorance, and is quite different from that desired by an initiate to the mystery schools. The clues provided are meant for the nonelite and nontapped, as the goal is contra to those of the elite.
The great secret concerning the human race that has been kept hidden to all but those who are worthy concerns the process of becoming “god-like.” Going farther and finding the origin of the genesis of this secret will bring us to the understanding of the true path, which leads to eternal life.
The door we must open to gain entrance to the Labyrinth is also the place of the genesis of humanity, the Garden of Eden.[vii]
Locus amoenus—Eden
The locus amoenus or “place of delight” was an idyllic place of romance, comfort, and safety. The Latin term endured into medieval romance literature and typically consisted of three elements—trees, grass, and water—usually depicted within a walled enclosure.
According to the Judeo-Christian theology, God created humanity in the Garden of Eden:
And the Lord God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. (Genesis 2:7–8)
It was in the garden (Hebrew: gan, גַּן, “enclosed garden, enclosure,” from the root, ganan, גָּנַן, “to defend, cover, surround”) where God walked with His new creation in harmony. The perfection of this state where man and God coexisted was the absolute definition of paradise. “Eden” in Hebrew means “delight.”
Metamorphoses (Latin: Metamorphoseon Libri, “Books of Transformations”) was written by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC—AD 18), or Ovid, and is considered one of the most influential works of literature in Western culture. It is made up of 250 myths that chronicle the history of the world from Creation to the glorification of Julius Caesar. The first English translation of the original Latin hexameter was by William Caxton in 1480.
In Metamorphoses, Ovid described various situations occurring in “pleasant gardens” (locus amoenus) that would change to sites of violence or calamity (locushorridus), accentuating the pain and loss experienced by the characters involved. The book of Genesis describes the first garden that underwent a change from perfection to calamity:
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2:8–9)
There was only one command from God to man concerning what he should not do, and that was to refrain from eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil:
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Genesis 2:16–17)
Adam and Eve could not have understood death, since the Tree of Life was accessible and since they had never seen, heard of, or experienced death in any way. Eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil caused the transformation from locus amoenus to locus horridus.
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. (Genesis 3:24)
God would not have made Adam and Eve incapable of appreciating His creation or His presence. He did not create paradise and somehow limit its inhabitants’ abilities to experience joy, peace, love, vitality, the appreciation of beauty, and harmony with Him. The tree did not simply offer the knowledge of evil, but evil along with good. In other words, the fruit did not cause the earth to become a place of absolute evil or outer darkness, but a place likened to one where the subtlety of evil would be allowed to infect it.
According to the account in Genesis, a creature that obviously had been created before man entered the realm of heaven on earth in order to convince Eve to try the fruit of the tree. In Hebrew, the name for the creature isNachash. It is important to understand that Nachash was the creature’s name before it appeared to Eve in the garden.
Credit to raidersnewsupdate.com
HOW THE GLOBALISTS WILL FORCE AMERICA INTO THE AGENDA 21 URBAN AREA GHETTOS
As a result of my contact with confidential sources, in relation to the present illegal immigration crisis and the presence of MS-13, who double as assassins for the Sinaloa and Los Zeta cartels, I have received inside information on who the globalists will ultimately for Americans to abandon their homes and seek safe refuge within the planned urban refugee centers which will be springing up under policies devised by Obama’s people.
The Easy Way and the Hard Way
Anyone who studies Agenda 21 policies does not need a primer on the fact that the globalists ultimately plan to herd six million Americans into 11 mega-cities and we will all live in micro apartments, give up our cars, adopt public transportation, have our every move monitored and forever be the property of the state. And there are two ways that the globalists are going to get us to accept our ultimate fate. There will be the easy way, which will consist of following the money incentives designed to force Agenda 21 policy compliance upon us. There will be a second method used just in case more passive methods of forcing rural/suburban to dense urban relocation are not successful. These methods involve violence and intimidation.
By the way, did your brain just catch the math error? Eleven megacities, with six million people each, equals 66 million total Americans. America presently has a population of approximately 315 million people. Where did the 251 million Americans go?
The Hard Way
As a result of my investigation into the role and extent that the SANCHEZ-Paredes cartel and the Peruvian military control the arms and drugs shipments to the Sinaloa cartel and ultimately the Los Zeta’s and MS-13, I learned how Peru has accomplished much of its population shift away from being a rural nation only 25 years ago to becoming a nation of mostly urban dwellers in 2014.
The capital city of Lima, Peru, has grown from 2 million residents to 8 million residents in less that one generation. There were two primary means employed in Peru in which to force a massive relocation of the Peruvian people from their historic rural homes and farms to the dense inner city, micro apartments of Lima.
According to the United Nations research and scientific studies, nearly two-thirds of the entire population inhabiting the planet will face severe, life-threatening water shortages by the year 2025. The reasons most often cited for the water shortages are waste and poor planning which will result in uneven distribution. Peru has been one of these effected countries where water has been privatized and directed away from areas that the Peruvian, Agenda 21 based leadership wants people to avoid living. If you want to drink water and you live in Peru, you will move where they send you. In Peru, water and finance are intertwined in order to force relocation of rural populations to urban centers.
To some extent, this water management scheme designed to get people off of there rural land is in use in Southern Oregon and Northern California. The problem of obtaining water access for the residents in these rural areas has become so bad, due to EPA and BLM communist based land management policies, that many of the residents are giving up and relocating to the cities in search of a job. Many of the residents are exploring the feasibility of an idea which would lead people to form a 51st state, known as the State of Jefferson.
There is a second method being used to force people from rural areas in Peru to the stack and pack city of Lima and that is through abject violence. The Shining Path, or more commonly known as SENDERO LUMINSO has been murdering Peruvian rural residents. Their favorite tactic is to behead groups of people, throw their decapitated bodies into a stream and when they wash up downstream, they serve as a stern warning that it is not safe to live in a rural environment. The SENDERO LUMINSO uses this method to keep their cocaine fields free for the SANCHEZ-Paredes cartel in order to have use of the land to harvest cocaine. Secondly, the Peruvian government and the Agenda 21 policies receive a boost because the more independent rural population moves to the cities where they are easier to control and this lessens the threat of a popular uprising.
Coming to your neighborhood armed with IED’s, anti-tank weapons, automatic weapons and WMD’s
This kind of violence, in order to force Agenda 21 compliance, was previously unthinkable in the United States, until the recent immigration crisis reared its ugly head. While the MSM focuses on children who are refugees, we should be focusing on what the Border Patrol is quietly telling us; we are being invaded by MS-13, Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel. They are well armed, supplied with anti-tank weapons, RPG’s and automatic weapons. They have already fired upon the American Border Patrol. They are brazen and are more powerful than any local police force. I have come to learn that this paramilitary group will become a Fifth Column and violently carry out the edicts of their sponsors. This means that the rural residents that the BLM and the EPA cannot move from their land, will be forcibly removed. We are looking at the American version of the SENDERO LUMINSO entering our country. Soon our rural sheriffs will be claiming that they out-manned and out-gunned. These activities appear to the be the failsafe policies of the globalists with regard to creating an urban center concentration.
For now, Americans are being nudged into Agenda 21 by what I call the easy way. Financial incentives are being created to “encourage” relocation from rural/suburban to urban living.
The Easy Way
Obama’s plans for his second-term plans includes an initiative to systematically redistribute the wealth of America’s suburbs and rural areas to the inner cities. It’s a transformative communist idea and it is one that is already underway as these words are being written.
The real brains behind the coming Agenda 21-inspired mass migration from the suburbs to the inner cities is Mike Krulig and his new group of community advisors, Building One America. Their secretive agenda has been mostly achieved by Obama’s appointment of like-minded community activists to his staff. In fact, Krulig was one of Obama’s original community organizing mentors from the President’s Chicago Southside days. The word stealth applies because a damning photo depicting Krulig and Obama meeting at the Whitehouse in 2011 which appeared on the Building One America website. (The photo is displayed above). However, this type of publicity would not have been good for the swing voters living in America’s suburbs. Obama’s people had the video scrubbed as well as the search engine links. However, the Breitbart people retained a copy of the picture. This begs the question, if the Building One America plan is so good for America, why would the Obama people conceal his affiliation with Krulig and his group of Agenda 21 social engineers?
Kruglik’s Agenda 21 friendly group, Building One America, proposes the creation of a regional tax-base sharing revenues in which suburban tax money is directly redistributed to nearby cities and economically depressed concentric zones of inner-ring suburbs. Building One America also seeks to move the poor out of cities by imposing mandatory low-income-housing quotas for middle-class suburban developments.
Krulig’s group also seeks to export the controversial regional tax-base sharing scheme currently in place in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area to the rest of the country. Under this program, a portion of suburban tax money flows into a common regional pot, which is then effectively redistributed to urban, and a few less well-off “inner-ring” suburban, municipalities. The Minneapolis-St. Paul area regional government is run by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats who are out of control. It is critical to know that removing the election process from this endeavor was deliberate for reasons that will become obvious as the reader will discover.
Kruglik’s group also favors a variety of policies designed to force people out of their cars and force suburbanites, robbed of their own tax money, to relocate into densely populated stack and pack cities. Among Kruglick’s strategies to separate people from their cars is the Vehicle Mileage Tax (VMT). Road pricing for the VMT would be implemented to force drivers out their cars. This will impact all drivers except for the Obama inspired exemption of low income drivers.
The VMT is designed to give favored status to certain groups. These groups represent organizations that want to transfer wealth through the heavy hand of regional government interfering in the housing, transportation and land use market place.
This tyranny is also being beta tested in the Bay area in a project entitled One Bay Area Plan. One Bay Area Plan is a 25 year plan which combines housing, transportation, and Agenda 21 land use policies. The public cover story is that the project is designed to save the planet by reducing Green House Gasses. The generated revenue, estimated at $15 million/day, would be used to fund further Agenda 21 transportation schemes such as buses, trollies and light rail which only a few people presently ride.
This plan also calls for Upzoning which would expland the plan to even more areas in the Bay. This would mean even more requirements for high density housing in cities that do not have their “fair share” of low income people. This will result in more 200 square foot apartmentsbeing constructed near public transit lines.
This Bay Area Agenda 21 plan also contains a concept referred to as tthe Communities of Concern (read low income and communities of color) would receive funds from these windfall profits that the region would receive. (is Obama trying to provoke a race war?). Additionally, development fees would be eliminated for affordable housing developments, while subsidies would be used for favored activities such as the creation of more micro apartments and the construction of low income housing in the suburbs.
Most people mistakenly believe that the reality of the megacities concept in which we are all herded into the stack and pack cities is decades down the road. On the contrary, as you have seen, the program is being beta tested in two large metropolitan areas. These schemes will soon be coming to a neighborhood near you.
We are going to get Agenda 21 one way of the other. The question remains as to whether America is going to be transitioned into an Agenda 21 society by using less aggressive methods, or will we be doing things the hard way?
Credit to Common Sense
Five IDF task forces begin driving into Gaza City.
The IDF’s Shejaiya operation in the Gaza Strip continues apace, carried forward by five task forces now heading for the center of Gaza City amid casualties on both sides. Sunday, July 20, Israel’s crack Golani Brigades lost 18 fighters, without slowing down, compared with 170 Palestinian fatalities.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that each task force, the size of half a division, is an integrated amalgam of air, armored, artillery and engineering forces, capable of operating almost autonomously in field combat. The buildup of the last 24 hours has expanded Israel's fighting strength in the Gaza Strip to a total of 75,000 men, the largest ever fielded in this territory. Because of its scale, Israeli leaders are referring to Defensive Edge as a war rather than an operation.
The battle for Shejaiya waged Sunday burst into public prominence because of the heavy losses suffered by the Golani Brigades, but it is not the largest engagement underway at present. The other ongoing IDF battles, their progress, the units involved and their locations, are kept secret. We can only point to their general locations as being around Beit Hanoun in the north; Zeitun, south of Gaza City and the Shati refugee camp to the north.
More arenas are scheduled to be added to the list of battle zones Monday.
Rather than causing despondency, the high IDF casualty toll Sunday – the highest in a single engagement since the 2006 Lebanon War – has invigorated the fighting forces in the field, making them more determined than ever to get the better of Hamas with all possible speed.
Whereas their orders on Sunday were to advance warily and slowly, meanwhile testing the strength of Hamas resistance and observing their tactics, the tempo went into high gear at dawn Monday, when the troops were told to speed their advance from the outer fringes of Gaza City into its center.
Their performance in Shejaiya and other engagements Sunday deeply impressed Israel’s war leaders and made them confident enough to step up the rate of advance.
This upbeat mood was evident in the comments made Sunday night by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and, from the field, by Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz. While condoling deeply with the bereaved families of the 18 soldiers who died in combat, they were full of praise for the troops’ performance “in defense of our home” which outdid all expectations.
The following decisions were reached in consequence:
1. Gen. Gantz would stay in the field and lead the forces from there, rather than from staff headquarters in Tel Aviv.
2. The prime minister and defense minister would manage the war, without constant recourse to security cabinet sessions to obtain its approval of every stage of the plan of operation, the final goal of which DEBKAfile has learned, is Israel’s military takeover of the Gaza Strip.
3. As the military operation unfolded, the three war leaders were convinced more than ever that demolishing Hamas’ terror tunnel complex was not optional, any more than wiping out the rocket menace hanging latterly over five million Israelis and, for nearly a decade over the million people living directly in the shadow of the Gaza border. Publicity guidelines were to be built around this conclusion.
International statesmen are flitting busily around regional capitals, including Jerusalem, in search of an opening to broker a ceasefire in Gaza hostilities. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been holding meetings and US Secretary John Kerry will try and reach the Middle East in the coming days, according to a White House directive – unless he again cancels at the last minute.
According to DEBKAfile’s sources, the requisite political and military conditions for a ceasefire are not yet in place because of a number of circumstances, not least of which is Hamas’ refusal to contemplate a halt.
Israel, for its part, is fighting for the first time in its history with solid Arab backing from the Egyptian-Saudi-United Arab Emirates bloc. So determined are its members to obliterate the Muslim Brotherhood that they have virtually blacklisted Qatar for supporting the Brothers and for patronizing the Palestinian Hamas, regarded as the MB’s paramilitary arm.
This rift has put a spoke in the diplomatic effort to set in motion effective mediation for a Gaza ceasefire predicated on co-opting Qatar.
A bid to make Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas the bridge between the Egyptian-Saudi-UAE grouping and Qatar has likewise foundered. And there isn’t much Secretary Kerry can do if and when he comes over to try his hand.
US President Barack Obama’s suggestion, when he called Netanyahu Sunday, to build a new Gaza ceasefire around the 2012 formula concocted by the US, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey - and accepted by Israel and Hamas - for ending Operation Pillar of Defense, shows him to be cut off from the fundamentally altered diplomatic and military realities of the current Gaza conflict.
He declines to recognize the emergence of a powerful new Arab bloc. It will be necessary to twist the arms of each of its members, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE, to gain their consent for a bid to cut the Israeli offensive short to rescue Hamas from defeat. And even then, they will stall.
And although anti-Israel demonstrations are being staged in some parts of the world, the most violent in Paris, hardly any world governments have openly condemned the Israeli operation – as yet.
Credit to DEBKAfile
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