Now, here’s an interesting bit of wisdom from the 17th century, as discussed in “The Truth Behind the Bible Code”:
“Pascal’s wager” is his application of statistical mathematics — not quite rigorously, but more than metaphorically — to the question of God’s existence: that in the absence of certainty, the odds of His existence, and of the benefits of His existence, generally outweigh the odds against — and the price of disbelief. It was, in effect, the first cost-benefit analysis, as applied to the most important kind of cure: that of the soul. For the scrupulously rational man, he concluded, faith is the more, not less, rational choice. ‘The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.’ This famous aphorism comes from a man whose mind operated at the very pinnacle of rational clarity, precision, and brilliance.
On the night of November 23, 1654, eight years before his death, Pascal underwent a two-hour-long mystical experience, the details of which he recorded on parchment. To the end of his days, Pascal kept this parchment sewn into the tunic he wore. When one tunic wore out, he transferred it to the next. It begins:
Fire
God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of philosophers and scholars;
Certainty, certainty, heartfelt, joy, peace . . .
How was Pascal able to reconcile the seeming contradiction between faith and reason, and to maintain such a high level of each? A careful reading of his writings on miracles provides the answer: Pascal understood intuitively that the material world was intrinsically probabilistic; that it was not, as the emerging Enlightenment philosophy implicitly presumed, deterministic, that is, a gigantic machine who every subsequent state was wholly determined by its preceding ones. For that reason Pascal was able to attain such keen insights into statistics before so many others. (page 103)
It’s not difficult to see why Pascal was such a visionary: the Yod pointing to Pluto supported by Neptune and the Ascendant. And yet is the triplicity of planetary couplets that shows his genius: the Moon conjunct Mercury @ 28 Cancer; Jupiter and Saturn conjunct around 3 Leo; and finally Venus conjunct Uranus around 10 Leo (inconjunct Mars @ 13 Capricorn). Chiron is @ 18 Pisces in the 3rd House of knowledge. A veritable spider’s web of energy.
Equally, the chart for his mystical experience demonstrates a similar Yod, this time pointing at the Moon in Libra, supported by Jupiter and the Midheaven.
It’s only when you compare the two charts that the bigger picture emerges. The only Yod between the charts points back at Pluto in Pascal’s chart. This time the transiting Sun (conjunct his natal Ascendant) is lined up with the transiting Mars (conjunct his natal Neptune). There are other inconjuncts (five in total) that support this ‘revelation’. This moment of his life was monumental. It eclipses his death chart completely. (I haven’t included that one because it is superfluous to our task at hand.)
Are there any Holocaust deniers left in the world?
I had one of those days yesterday: I read chapter five of “The Truth Behind the Bible Code” entitled ‘The Black Fire of Holocaust’; and last night I watched the final episode of the Netflix series “Five Came Back” which contained George Stevens’ disturbing Dachau images from the liberation of Europe from Nazi control at the end of World War II.
When two (or more) bits of information coincide on the same day, that synchronicity is my inner guide’s way of saying, “Pay attention, here.”
Weissmandl and Ultra
All the effort that goes into breaking a code is lost the moment the enemy realizes that it has been broken. (Hence the shattering security implications of the quantum cryptographic keys mentioned above.) Cracking a really difficult cipher is therefore only half the job; the other half is keeping the fact hidden. Unfortunately, one of the fastest and easiest ways to let the cat out of the bag is to give evidence of knowing something that can only be known by reading the cipher. One of the most dreaded decisions facing any military strategist is whether to refrain from acting upon a discovery — and so perhaps allowing a terrible price to be paid by others — for fear that action would result in a far higher price later.
At one time one of Turing‘s Enigma decryptions had been too directly acted upon, and as with the Americans’ near disaster with the Japanese code previously, it almost reversed the course of the British victory at sea. By playing off German ignorance of the decryption, the Allies fooled many (but even so not all) of the Nazi high command into believing that a feint on D-Day was the actual invasion. Success depended almost wholly on the Allies knowing what the Germans knew (and thought); and upon the Germans knowing neither what the Allies knew nor that the Allies knew. By the time Berlin figured out what was going on, it was too late. (Rommel, sensitized to the extraordinary value of decryption, had long before figured it out — but Hitler would not listen to him.)
As Rabbi Weissmandl sat in the bunker, immersing himself in the ancient codes discovered by the kabbalists, he agonized over the Allies’ failure to respond to his pleas to save his people from destruction. Why did they not bomb the rail lines to Auschwitz? It wasn’t that they disbelieved his smuggled information: He had letters acknowledging it. In the years after the war, the Allies repeatedly claimed that it was simply because such bombings would have done no good in the larger scheme of things. The Germans would just rebuild immediately.
But Weissmandl knew that most of the Nazi high officials were keenly aware of the price they would pay were the world to become aware of their secret crimes. If the lines to Auschwitz — of no military significance — had been bombed, the message to Berlin would have been unequivocal: We know, and you shall pay. The deportations and exterminations would have ceased immediately. And Weissmandl knew the Allies knew this, too. So why did they not act?
Only in 1996 was it finally revealed that even before Rabbi Weissmandl forwarded his smuggled map of Auschwitz, British and American intelligence already knew about the Holocaust — in excruciating, bureaucratic detail — from the Ultra Project, Enigma transmissions intercepted and decoded by the Allies in London. The British Americans knew about it in June 1941, seven months before implementation of the “Final Solution” would begin; six months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the foreknowledge of which the Americans did not believe. A calculation had been made, and agreed to by Churchill himself, long a friend of the Jews: Saving the Jews was not worth revealing to the Nazis the fact that their vaunted war-code had been penetrated. The Allies feared that the Nazis would conclude that the cracking of Enigma was the only way their dire secret could have been exposed. It would have been inconceivable to them that the deed had been done by a pathetic Slovenian rabbi.
But what seemed, and perhaps was, a heartless failure of the Allies to respond to the plight of his beloved Jewish people left Weissmandl himself a broken man. If it was true, as he believed and lived by, that “to save a single life is to save the world,” what could be said about a calculation that deliberately paid out one or two million of them? That the calculation itself was carefully kept from public knowledge until November 1996, and then forced into the open, not volunteered, suggests an answer.
The “hinge of fate” that won the war also closed the circle: The Jewish kabbalists had given the world cryptology and all its fruits; to keep secret the acquisition, Auschwitz would be allowed to operate until the very end. What would Weissmandl have thought had he lived to learn that there would subsequently arise a powerful movement that denies the Holocaust altogether; that points to the Allies’ failure to act on what they were told as prima facie evidence that the Holocaust never happened, indeed that claims the Holocaust was invented by one man: Rabbi Michael Ber Weisshandl? The Holocaust denial movement, or anything that could even vaguely be thought of as evidence for its claims, would never have had the opportunity to arise were it not for Allies’ decision to keep secret for more than fifty years its own extensive knowledge of it.
The ancient underground stream had come full circle; the primordial serpent had bitten its own tail: What more fitting image could their be than the bite of a serpent for such a cruel intersection of time and eternity as Rabbi Weissmandl had had to live through? Could the antivenin for the toxin of ultimate meaninglessness be extracted from the bite itself?
Indeed…
Nihilism
The basis of the word annihilation is from the Latin word “nihil”, meaning ‘nothing’.
Why would one race decide to annihilate another race as the ‘Final Solution of the Jewish Question’? What was the ‘Jewish Question’ anyway? What to do with them?
In the end, the ‘solution’ turned out to be the creation of the State of Israel to allow the resettlement of what was left of Europe’s Jewish population in their own homeland.
But now the Israelis are doing the same to the Palestinian people within their own borders, basically ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.’ Has nothing been learned?
Race Relations
It’s not as if Canada or the United States are free from such thinking. The First Nations people are treated badly on a daily basis in Canada, and being Black (or brown or yellow) in the States can bring a daily fear of reprisal, sometimes leading to death.
It seems that the five skin colours that separate us from each other need to become invisible. We are one another, we are humanity.
Political Points
Now the United States has a Presidential election looming where the colour lines are showing up in political rhetoric. Kamala Harris has been selected by Joe Biden as his running mate. The Black Lives Matter banner has been hoisted by one of the two white guys running for President. The other one is panicking, even though his whole political career has been focused on White Privilege. The lines are now clearer then ever.
The ‘race war’ that has been fought ever since Lincoln emancipated the slaves is now about to blow up in the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans of all colours.
Will the new ‘civil (and sometimes not-so-civil) war’ tear the United States apart?
Conclusion
The spiritual war of ‘good vs. evil’ has been painted with only two colours: black and white. But nothing is ever really just black and white. The shades of grey that exist between these two spiritual realities are where we all live on this earth, in this time.
If we cannot find our common ground and learn to support each other, we may just bring an end to this “grand experiment”. Is that what we really want?
This book is the first one of a series written by Ralph Ellis. I have not read the rest. But I feel that I have skirted the central premise of this work, mainly due to a ‘different’ reading of scripture (and also through a Gnostic point of view).
If the New Testament life of Jesus of Nazareth is actually a work of fiction, through and through, who was this individual, really? This book attempts to explain his true identity.
In looking at The Pagan Christ, Tom Harpur’s book, I came to see the myth that needed to play out in order for belief in Jesus’ divinity to take hold. But if he really was a descendant of an Egyptian Dynasty, he was a king already. There was no need to create a ‘new’ image of his mission on earth.
Maybe Ra really is the true God of the Israelites. And maybe the Torah is his document.
In 1996, when I compiled the manuscript bearing this name, and drew up astrological charts, I was trying to reconcile what the Bible says to be true (about his birth, death, resurrection and ascension) with what seems to be the energy of those times (6 BC to 30 AD). The Last of the Pharaohs tries to show that the timing of these events was actually out by almost 40 years, two generations later. And that the Roman destruction of the temple and the scattering of the people were due to Jesus’ acting as the High Priest in Jerusalem. Could that be why the fiction of his earthly life was created, to hide this fact?
But does this make what I compiled wrong? Because I relied on Gnostic traditions, a lot of what has been written is spiritual in context, not rational, and definitely not factual.
Like everything else, you can believe what you choose to believe. The good guys will win, anyway.
We all know that war is hell. So how do you get your country to support the war effort when it becomes a necessary evil? You make documentary films.
This Netflix limited series is a brilliant demonstration on how to motivate the masses without lying to them. Frank Capra, in particular, after watching the 1934 Nazi film “Triumph of the Will”, felt totally defeated: he was supposed to make a series of documentary films called “Why We Fight” and he could see that the Germans were much better at everything, including propaganda. Then he got the bright idea of using their films to show Americans what they were up against. As he said in this series, he saw Hitler as a Charlie Chaplin character, Mussolini as a buffoon, and Hirohito as a 19th century warlord. He saw how utterly ridiculous they were. He thought the American people would agree.
But Hollywood had already got the joke years earlier:
I’d avoided this film until last night. I know why, of course, but I suppose I just wasn’t ready for it. Turns out that I couldn’t sleep for half the night after seeing it.
(From IMDb:) Life is going well for Bob Jones: great job, beautiful loving wife and a baby on the way. Then he finds out that he has kidney cancer that will leave him dead within months. He sets out to videotape his life’s acquired wisdom for his child, and ends up on a voyage of self-discovery and reconciliation.
I only have one complaint about the film: everybody talked in hushed tones (as if Bob was already dead), so it became quite difficult to hear the dialog, but I knew what they were saying, anyway.
Everybody carries around their anger and frustrations about missed opportunities and feelings of disappointment, especially from childhood. Bob’s anger is because God didn’t give him a circus in his back yard on his sixth (?) birthday. He’d even prefaced the prayer request with the saying kids recite when they see the first star at night:
Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have this wish I wish tonight.
Bob didn’t repeat this procedure until it was looking unlikely that he would live long enough to see his son born. This time he asked God to let him live.
In the meantime, he started getting some healing from Mr. Ho.
Every time Mr. Ho worked on Bob’s body, focusing on the cancer, he discussed the need for Bob to clear his anger issues, and the need for forgiveness. During each session, Bob would see a star pattern in his vision and feel sensations that made him bolt upright from the table. (In my terms, the healing was having a positive effect, but Bob’s knee-jerk reaction may have short-circuited the healing benefits.)
The other problem Bob had stemmed back to childhood, too, when he was sick as a dog after riding a roller coaster. He finally decides to try it again as an adult, and gets through the ordeal with ‘flying colours’. Then he has this realization…
Bob Jones: Today’s D-Day. Death day. I’m supposed to be dead by today. From now on, I’m living on borrowed time.
Then he and Gail have a slow waltz in the middle of the Midway.
When the baby, to be named Brian, finally arrives, Bob is so mesmerized by the birth process he forgets to video record it. Only after Brian is in Gail’s arms does Bob snap out of his reverie.
Then his world falls apart: the cancer has spread to his brain and he begins having coordination problems, causing him to require a hospice nurse.
Bob’s family fly out to California and they are all reconciled finally. And his parents finally make his wish come true by giving him a circus in his back yard. The delight in his eyes looked genuine.
Of course, in the end, Bob dies, but with his dying comes a return to the roller coaster, but this time, he’s on his own, and he’s no longer holding onto the vehicle. As it rolls down the steep drop, he seems to soar toward his visual starburst. He is free.
This was an accidental find yesterday. I was researching the Zapruder film of Kennedy’s assassination and ran across some YouTube videos discussing the Umbrella Man, as he has become known to the world. Here’s the NY Times video I found:
From Wikipedia: “After an appeal to the public by the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Louie Steven Witt came forward in 1978 and claimed to be the “umbrella man”. He claimed still to have the umbrella and did not know he had been the subject of controversy. He said that he brought the umbrella simply to heckle Kennedy, whose father, Joseph, had been a supporter of the Nazi-appeasing British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. By waving a black umbrella, Chamberlain’s trademark fashion accessory, Witt said he was protesting the Kennedy family appeasing Adolf Hitler before World War II.”
Witt died on November 17, 2014.
This film was first released in June, 2014, and then re-released in 2016, probably to include Witt’s death, but the problem is that the film is set in 1983:
From IMDb: “Set in 1983 Pittsburgh, PA, Peter and Annie Brennan face the tragic death of their young son. The boy’s death and the subsequent acquittal of his killer, kindles a conspiratorial paranoia in Peter that threatens his sanity, and marriage. While trying to discover more about the killer of his son, Brennan becomes fixated on the story of The Umbrella Man, a suspected shooter in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. His decent into the underworld of conspiracy theorist sub-culture provides a place of emotional refuge for Peter, yet also contributes to his psychological undoing. From a Moose Lodge in Swissvale PA, to Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, The Umbrella Man is one couple’s story of love, loss, and the ‘against all odds’ survival of their relationship.”
Now, anyone who has read some of my blogs for the past few years knows I love a conspiracy theory or two. But paranoia is the element that is the harmful side effect of these theories. And, as we have seen, the trust in the government is threatened when stuff is covered up, especially if the coverup is to ‘protect the people’ (meaning, keep the people from rising up in anger). Peter’s mental health in this story is severely tested by the knowledge he discovers in his research. In the end, he comes to his senses, with the realization that the past cannot be changed, even if some sense of justice was handed down. In Peter’s case, the loss of his son made him cry out in anger and frustration at the ‘system’. The tears from his eyes were washed away by a rainstorm at Dealey Plaza.
Beirut Blast (August 4th, 2020 @ 6:07 pm local time)
All through this year, we are being subjected to a combination of planets that would be best illustrated by this blast in Beirut, last Tuesday evening. But I cannot see why Lebanon should bear the brunt of the situation. Just lucky, perhaps? I’m certain they would not think that way about what happened.
The conjunction of Jupiter/Saturn/Pluto in Capricorn has been a thorn in our flesh for most of this year. I tried looking up if any of these three planets are connected with Beirut (or Lebanon) but got nowhere. (Even my trusty Encyclopedia of Astrology by Nicholas deVore does not have a listing that includes this location.) It makes me think that the roots of the explosion were caused by the storage of ammonium nitrate 6 years ago. Who did that, then? It turns out the Rhosus, whose cargo was impounded after the ship was found to be unseaworthy, was a Russian owned ship.
Russia is ruled by Aquarius, which in turn is itself ruled by Uranus, the planet of sudden change. This means that Uranus @ 10 Taurus 39 was in opposition to the Midheaven and Jupiter (the co-ruler of Aquarius) symbolic of huge events was conjunct the Ascendant @ 19 Capricorn 44. That’s like two tumblers of a combination lock clicking into place. Mars @ 20 Pisces 47 is sextile both Jupiter and the Ascendant, and Mars, representing accidents, is the third tumbler of the lock. Mercury @ 29 Cancer 02 is conjunct the Part of Fortune, while opposing the Jupiter/Pluto/Saturn combination: fourth tumbler. The fifth and final tumbler is Venus @ 17 Gemini 18, conjunct the North Node and inconjunct Saturn. Probably this was the only day that all five tumblers of the lock were opened at the same time.
Venus Inconjunct Saturn
(This needs to be read and understood as representative of Beirut and its relationship to the world: with the world coming together with financial aid for the charities already associated with the area, the sense of being a valuable member of the United Nations is finally being recognized. I wonder why it took so long?)
You need and want love, but you may not be able to get it easily. You may feel that your parents, teachers or other persons in authority make demands on you that you must fulfill before they will give you any love and support. If that is true, it is unfortunate, because you deserve respect and love as much as anyone. Although everyone must fulfill certain social demands, this should not be the condition for being loved. If this demand is carried to an extreme in your case, you will become cold-hearted and unable to love others even when you want to. You may also feel that you cannot indulge yourself in any pleasure or even love. When you are older, you may feel that duty and ambition must come before love and human relationships. Unfortunately, if you follow that path, you will become very lonely, and when you realize that you belong to no one and nothing, you will go through a spiritual crisis.
Before and after satellite views of Beirut Port (courtesy of NY Times)
