http://www.guardian.co.uk - NSA Taps... 

(Click link above for the full article posted at The Guardian's website)

NSA taps everything from Verizon Conversations to Facebook Posts

(The name of the classified information gathering project, and I believe their logo.)

To anyone from the forums located in that dank and dark corner of the internet who post about conspiracies of all sorts, the government's involvement in these social networks and communication corporations is a no brainier. But, now that the Guardian has just picked up the story, I think more then just the Internets keyboard clicking political theorists will be paying closer attention to this extreme invasion of privacy.

The term "Conspiracy Theorist", I believe, is a word that needs to be dropped from peoples vocabulary, as it has a bad connotation and puts an image into peoples minds of a crazy guy in a trailer typing away while pulling his hair out as he constantly twitches and sporadically looks over his shoulder in a state of paranoia. 

(Graph from The Guardian article)

"It also opens the possibility of communications made entirely within the US being collected without warrants.

Disclosure of the PRISM program follows a leak to the Guardian on Wednesday of a top-secret court order compelling telecoms provider Verizon to turn over the telephone records of millions of US customers." - The Guardian

(Chart from The Guardian article )

"Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU's Center for Democracy, that it was astonishing the NSA would even ask technology companies to grant direct access to user data.

"It's shocking enough just that the NSA is asking companies to do this," he said. "The NSA is part of the military. The military has been granted unprecedented access to civilian communications.

"This is unprecedented militarisation of domestic communications infrastructure. That's profoundly troubling to anyone who is concerned about that separation." " - The Guardian

So, anyone want to join my group on Facebook to band Facebook? 

Egyptian Exile to Europe

National Post DNA test results

Michael Tsarion goes to great lengths to push this theory of the Ahkenaten's family link to Ireland and Europe, and here seems to be more evidence to support it....Linked Above

Akhenaten and his Aten (sun) cult of materialism

 Akhenaten with the phallic head dress. Representative of Aten (the Sun). The Sun is destructive when not properly balanced with the night. Light must be diffused, or you will be blinded to true Gnosis and Reason. The Good comes from the scales balancing the 2 opposites.

 

Notice the hands of Aten (Sun) taking material objects

Akhenaten (soul of Aten or soul of the Sun) saw only materialism in my opinion. He left behind the important aspects of Egyptian Theology, such as, balance, mind, mythological metaphors, zodiacal elements etc. (Enead/Ogdoad). So, it is then, easy to see why his new Aten Cult caused such an uproar with the High Priests of Egypt. Those theological ideals that he ignored were extremely important when it came to understanding the workings of man's Mind, the Cosmos, and the equilibrium that must be sustain within the Universe and Humanity.

"On each day, the Royal Family approached the temple on chariots after riding up and down the Royal Road,^[4] and entered the temple precinct and presented offerings in front of the Gem-Aten.^[1] The King and Queen then consecrated their offerings with the hrp while their daughters rattled instruments called sistra.^[1] The family then passed through the pylons of the Gem-Aten and mounted the steps of the High Altar where there were offerings of meat, poultry, vegetables, and flowers already laid out and surmounted by three pans of burning incense.^[1] As the King and Queen officiated, priests then placed offerings on many of the other altars for the public people while music was played. The Princesses continued to rattle the sistra while four male chanters sang hymns to the Aten within the Gem-Aten court.^[1] Outside the Gem-Aten were female musicians who performed along with the temple choir which was made up of blind singers and a blind harpist. These musicians performed at intervals throughout the day and were never allowed beyond the outer court.^{[1]  "    - Wikipedia}

More images of Aten (the Sun) taking material objects as sacrificial offerings. In this piece Akhenaten is pictured in the same way as Isis with baby Horus on lap. This would, in my opinion, be outrageous to see as a Priest who holds Isis/Horus/Osiris and their esoteric spiritual meanings in high regard.

Thanks to Michael Tsarion for bringing me to this subject.

 Ouroboros 

 

"self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return" - Wikipedia

 

 The Mind is a great Serpent (Dragon) with it's tail in it's mouth. (Ouroboros)

Also, it is Representative of the cycle of the Sun and Zodiacal progression back to its start...Aries. This can also be interpenetrated as a veil. It, in my opinion, can be considered a type of "star gate" and one must break through it to reach the divine or to progress to the highest of spiritual levels.

I must not fear... Fear is the mind killer

Esoteric Gnosis of DUNE

 

 

 Bondage of the Mind and Freewill

   
The teacher will tell me what to do, the Pope is telling me what to believe.... It is Bondage, you are safe and secure. You do not need any freewill. You are re-leaved. These are the guidelines to death of mind. You do not have to think for yourself. The system thinks for you. (paraphrased Michael Tsarion)

Viewing Reality

My Writings on the non entity, minds subconscious, imagination and more.

When I mention reality here I am referring to what we view as our outside reality. Everything Material outside out mind.

The Human being cannot see the full spectrum of the world. This is know to be true visually, and in hearing. But, also, man cannot grasp mentally what he would receive and intake without a buffer that has been created in the mind. Dopamine serves this purpose by "numbing" the senses. For instance, in schizophrenics, dopamine and serotonin levels are so unbalanced that they are flooded by the outside world. It is a deluge of inputs and signals into their conscientiousness. Everything can look alien because of the different "energy" objects put off from the overdose of the visual sense and subconscious mind.

Man in homeostasis is similar to a Man in a space suit. Protected by the onslaught of outside reality. Homeostasis also saves the mind from its self, so to say. The functions of the brain must work at a level the individual can handle on a day to day basis. We know, from the ingestion of LSD, that one can take in information at a much faster rate then when not under it's influence. Tho, this does not work well in the long term, as it takes too high a toll on the mind and body. So, the automation of the body must keep chemical equilibrium. The schizophrenic lacks this balance becoming overwhelmed. Man, also, can be overwhelmed by a society, which in it's self is made up of the insane, and he simply rejects it. By rejecting it, he is looked upon by the outside as mentally unstable. He may be, or he may not be. But, the point is, society's projections of insanity onto him are what drove his mind to this point.

Just a Theory

  What is real, and what is not real can only be experienced by the individual. A person cannot re-create reality, in whatever medium, for another individual. It would, then, not be reality, but an attempt to resemble reality from that person's perspective. Each mind is it's own universe, and there exists no other universe, but the one formed in that mind.This, to me, can be considered Logos. This, possibly, is the true Mind of Hermetic Tradition. The Mind/Logos has the ability to reflect the world back onto itself and form this "sphere" of consciousness. As above, so it is below. The great Dragon/Serpent eating it's tail can be considered Logos when looking at it in this manner. Could It be "God",Thoth, Hermes, or the first Movement? Does not, in the human reality, the initial movement comes when the Individual's mind is able to define, or come to a realization that movement "is" possible or happening? Logos, Mind, Reason, The Organizer, The Initial  Movement that brings forth reality could all be tied to the Individual reality seen from inside man.

The sense of sight gives us a glimpse into the outside world by capturing instances of reality through time.  Once that moment in time passes, the "captured image" is then diffused into the mind's sub conscience, or short term / long term memory centers. The data that has been internalized is then put back into the conscience and re formed by imagination into a non entity that depicts, for example, an apple, that was viewed. Mixed with the information from the sense of sight, is also, past experiences with the color, shape, representation, form, ext. of the apple. For instance, if you were to look at the apple and then close your eyes, you will never see the apple as it exactly was. You will create an interpretation of that apple based on your subconscious definition of what an apple is and the experiences you have had with apples and their attributes. All this effects the development of the final non entity, which will exist only as long as the mind is able to keep it in form, in the imagination.

Coil Guns!!!

While checking a favorite YouTube channel...., I came across these crazy little contraptions. I immediately contacted one of the makers about a kit. I can see this making a very exciting project! After looking around a bit more, I was impressed to see a lot of people that are involved with electrical engineering as a hobby or small business. Anyways, take a look at these videos. Very cool!

This is the kit I was talking about.

Gotta love the music and the way that RC Car blew apart!

Looks like a weapon from Quake.

Sexy.....

 The 'Pine Cone' in Hermetic Tradition

 Excerpt from G.R.S. Mead's Thrice Greatest Hermes Vol. 1 Prolegomena

MACROBIUS ON “THE DESCENT OF THE SOUL FROM THE HEIGHT OF COSMOS TO THE DEPTHS OF EARTH”

 

"Let us first turn to the commentary of Macrobius on the famous “Dream of Scipio,” which Cicero introduces into his Republic (Bk. VI.), just as Plato appends the Vision of Er to his. Macrobius devotes the twelfth chapter of his First Book to a consideration of “The Descent of the Soul from the Height of Cosmos to the Depths of Earth,” and professes to base himself on Pythagorean and Platonic traditions. His dissertation covers more ground than the precise subject of the zones with which we are more immediately concerned; but as the whole scheme is of interest to our present
p. 414
studies, we will append a translation of practically the whole chapter.
“[According to Pythagoras] when the Soul descends from the Boundary where the Zodiac and Galaxy [or Milky Way] meet, from a spherical form, which is the only divine one, it is elongated into a conical one 1 by its downward tendency."

"414:1 Not into a mathematical cone, but into an egg-shaped or elliptical form resembling that of a pine-cone." 

Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages

“Sufficient similarity exists between the Masonic CHiram and the Kundalini of Hindu mysticism to warrant the assumption that CHiram may be considered a symbol also of the Spirit Fire moving through the sixth ventricle of the spinal column. The exact science of human regeneration is the Lost Key of Masonry, for when the Spirit Fire is lifted up through the thirty-three degrees, or segments of the spinal column, and enters into the domed chamber of the human skull, it finally passes into the pituitary body (Isis), where it invokes Ra (the pineal gland) and demands the Sacred Name. Operative Masonry, in the fullest meaning of that term, signifies the process by which the Eye of Horus is opened. E. A. Wallis Budge has noted that in some of the papyri illustrating the entrance of the souls of the dead into the judgment hall of Osiris the deceased person has a pine cone attached to the crown of his head. The Greek mystics also carried a symbolic staff, the upper end being in the form of a pine cone, which was called the thyrsus of Bacchus. In the human brain there is a tiny gland called the pineal body, which is the sacred eye of the ancients, and corresponds to the third eye of the Cyclops. Little is known concerning the function of the pineal body, which Descartes suggested (more wisely than he knew) might be the abode of the spirit of man. As its name signifies, the pineal gland is the sacred pine cone in man – the eye single, which cannot be opened until CHiram (the Spirit Fire) is raised through the sacred seals which are called the Seven Churches in Asia.”

-Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages

 Pine cone on the Staff of the pope.

Pine cone - Egyptian

ABRAXAS 

 G.R.S. Mead Vol. 1 Prolegomena 

ABRAXAS 

 The name Abraxas, which consisted of seven elements or letters, was a mystery-designation of the God who combined in himself the whole power of the Seven Planets, and also of the Year of 365 days, the sum of the number-values of the letters of Abraxas working out to 365. This mysterious Being was the “Year”; but the Year as the Eternity, also conceived of in a spatial aspect, as the Spirit or Name that extends from Heaven to Earth, the God who pervades and full-fills the Seven Spheres, and the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Zones, the Inner God, “He who has His seat within the Seven Poles—ΑΕΗΙΟΥΩ,” as the Papyri have it, and also without them, as we shall see.

The mysterious formula “the Name of which the figure is 365” meets us in such connections, that it cannot be taken to mean simply the “Year-God,” but is a synonym of the Highest God, a secret, mysterious Being. In brief it was, as we have seen, no other than the Lion-headed God, called in Greek Æon.
Indeed, we know from Philo of Byblos 2 that, at least in his day, the second half of the first century A.D. (and,
p. 403
for all we know, prior to it), there were in Phœnicia communities of the Æon—of the Highest and Supercelestial One.

THE ÆON LOGOS

G.R.S. Mead's Thrice Greatest Hermes Vol.1 Prolegomena

The

ÆON

Logos

 

Now though the Trismegistic tractate C. H., xi. (xii.) is evidently in literary contact with the Timæus, 1 it nevertheless purports to give more “esoteric,” or at any rate more precise, instruction than is to be found in Plato’s famous cosmogonical treatise. It does not follow Plato, but hands on an instruction that has already been formulated in a precise and categorical fashion. The ladder of existence is God, Æon, Cosmos, Time, Genesis;—each following one from the other.
Æon is the Power of God (§ 3), whereas Cosmos is God’s creation and work (§§ 3, 4). The Æon, standing between God and Cosmos, is the Paradigm, and so also the Son of God (§ 15), and the final end of man is that he should become Æon (§ 20)—that is, Son of God. Æon is thus evidently the Logos of God, or the Intelligible Cosmos, as distinguished from the Sensible Cosmos. This
p. 407
[paragraph continues] Æon is the Fullness in which all things move, and chiefly the Seven Cosmoi (§ 7).

THE ÆONIC IMMENSITIES OF EGYPT

Egypt, as we have already remarked, at a very early date arrived at the idea of eternal or at anyrate of enormously long periods of time, and had symbolised this conception in a primordial syzygy or pair of Gods. Indeed, the names of the primordial Time-pair, Ḥḥw (Ḥeḥu) and Ḥḥt (Ḥeḥut), are immediately derived from “Ḥḥ,” generally translated “Million,” but by Brugsch and others as Æon. 1 All the Egyptian Gods were Lords of the Eternity or of the Eternities. But not only so, the
p. 408
term “eternity” was used in connection with definite time-periods; for instance, “in a million (or eternity) of thirty year periods.” And again: “Thy kingdom will have the lastingness of eternity and of infinitely many hundred-and-twenty-year periods; ten millions of thy years, millions of thy months, hundred-thousands of thy days, ten-thousands of thine hours.” 1
Here we must remark the numbers 120 (that is 12 × 10) and 30; all essential numbers of the Gnostic Plērōma of Æons.
It is also of interest in connection with the Time-pair, to note that Horapollo, the Alexandrian grammarian, tells us that the Egyptians when they desire to express the idea of Æon write “sun and moon” 2 (i. 1), and when they want to write “year” they draw “Isis,” that is “woman” (i. 3).
We thus see that in Egypt there were Æons of Periods or Years, and Years of Æons. Above all these ruled the God of the Æons, the highest God of many a mystic community.

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Mithra / Cronus Connection

 

From, GRS Meads, "Thrice Greatest Hermes vol. 1"

THE “MITHRIAC ÆON”

The whole of this Orphic lore (in other words, the Chaldæan wisdom-teaching) seems to me to be summed up in one division of the symbolism of the Mithra-cult, as may be seen by an inspection of the monuments reproduced by Cumont, and especially those of the mysterious figure which he calls “la divinité léontocéphale,” and the birth of the God from the Rock; this seems to point, as we might very well suspect, to a strong Chaldæan element in the Mithriac tradition.
Cumont 1 tells us that although some scholars have rejected the name of “Mithriac Æon,” which was
p. 400
given by Zoëga to this awe-inspiring mystic figure, 1 in his opinion (and he knows more of the subject than any other authority) it may very well have been actually called Æon in the sacred books of the mysteries.
If, however, this was the case, the mystic meaning, says Cumont, was of such a nature that it was concealed from the profane.
Our classical authorities inform us that the Magi expressed the name of the Supreme God, which was in reality ineffable, by various substitutes. The general name for the Mystery Deity was Cronus, and Cronus in the sense of Time.
“The Mithriac Cronus is a personification of Time, and this fact, which is now fairly established, permits us immediately to determine the identity of this pseudonymous God.
“There is only one Persian divinity which he can possibly represent, and that is Zervan Akarana, Infinite Time, whom, from the time of the Achemenides, a sect of the Magi placed at the origin of things, and from whom they would have both Ormuzd and Ahriman to have been born.
“It was this God that the adepts of the mysteries placed at the head of the celestial hierarchy, and considered as the first principle; or, to put it differently, it was the Zervanist system that the Mazdæans of Asia Minor taught to the Western followers of the Iranian religion.”
This all seems to me to point not to a Persian origin
p. 401
of the Æon, as Cumont supposes, but to a Chaldæan element dominating the Mithriac form of the Magian tradition. 1

 

Osiris and Set - Mental Balance 

Duality, in the world, and the mind is essential to stability. Balance can not be had unless there are 2 sides to the scale. In Egyptian and the Hermetic esoteric tradition, contesting sides creating equilibrium, is a core logic. Opposing forces of day/night, dry/wet and birth/death are examples of physical balance the Earth requires. Without them, it would not be able to sustain life, or be as it is know to us today. Gazing into the mind, one can see the parallels. For instance, the mind must become balanced for spiritual progression. One must learn to walk a centered path, and come to a point where the Divine is proportioned with ones soul and sense of body. Until this is part of are persons life, they will not have what is required to sustain a spiritual life in the mind and body, or progress spiritually past a certain point.

There are so many facets of the mind, such as male/female, logic, conscious/subconscious, the hunger for that of the physical, making each persons journey for equipoise unique.

  Set battling Horus the son of Osiris

The Egyptians used the "Myth" of Osiris's battle with Set/Typhon as an example, or archetype, of this Gnosis of Balance through duality. Also, Horus's battle with Set served a similar purpose. 

Push and Pull until it is in the middle.