Let's forget about today's news that Russia promised a cease fire with Ukraine but then bombed the shit out of them. It happens in a greedy world where everything the top 1% touches turns into gold, or wars. Let's focus on March 7th itself. What a day, what a day.
As with any day in history, we will start with the persecution of woman.
In the year 1770, the English Parliament debated a law to punish wily women.
Perfidious females had been seducing His Majesty's subjects and tricking
them into matrimony using such evil arts as "scents, paints, cosmetic
washes, artificial teeth, flase hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops,
high-heeled shoe or bolstered hips."
The authors of these frauds, the bill said, "shall incur the penalty of
the law in force against witchcraft and the like misdemeanors and the
marriage, upon conviction, shall stand null and void."
Given the technological backwardness of the times, the bill failed to
mention silicone, liposuction, Botox, plastic surgery and other medical
and chemical innovations.
--Eduardo Galeano Of course, when it comes to persecution of the lower classes woman are not alone. On this day in 1932 four labor protesters were shot to death by Henry Ford's militant Christian Knights in Satan's Army (Ford was an Episcopalian and once said, "With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end"). This sure made the top 1% happy to see peasants like you and me put in our place when asking for more money from their profits. Don't think this move hasn't been thought about by today's Starbucks and Amazon as they see their power being threatened by the rising labor movement. Speaking Christian Knights in Satan's Army (Yeats remained a Protestant his whole life), on this day in the year 1890, the poet William Butler Yeats was initiated into the Isis-Urania Temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. There, he studied the magical
arts and took the magical name Daemon est Deus Inversus (The Devil is
God Reversed.")
Dr. John Kellogg might not have been a Knight in Satan's Christian Army, but he was a 7th Day Adventist, and on this day in 1897 served his first
cardboard (cornflakes) breakfast to its first customers: mental
patients in a Battle Creek Michigan hospital who seemed to like the cereal way
better than the dirt on the floor they had been eating for breakfast -- according to my spirit guide Viola.
Finally, a man who tried to point out the evil plan of the Christian Knights in Satan's Army in his films, Stanley Kubrick, died on this day in 1999. Personally, I haven't been able to watch another America film since. Sad, but true.
~~
Dr. TV Boogie
I leave you with these still shots from some of my favorite Kubrick films.
So you want to be a Numerologist? You've ordered the How To Be A Numerologist kit from the back of your favorite health magazine and believe you are ready to go, but are you? Are you really prepared to know the numbers as so many of we Esoteric types know the numbers? Let's see.
First of all, what Numerology isn't is math, well, not really. There is some of that math stuff like the math I flunked out of in high school and had to retake as a developmental class in junior college, but the math is just basic addition and division, so don't worry. Secondly, what numerology is is the effects and affects numbers have on one's life. That's all, for in the end like George Orwell warned us in his book 1984, we are nothing more than numbers for number are everywhere and in everything, and by understanding the numbers, we understand our selves and the world that surrounds us.
Like many of the esoteric arts, it is hard to tell where numerology got it start. There are records in ancient Egypt and Greece telling about the power of 3's, as well as the Mayans and Persians mathematicians who conceived a zero while Europeans were still counting sheep on their fingers and toes; however, those of us in the esoteric know, know with certainty that the numerology we use today has been handed down to us from the secret teachings of Pythagoras. Yes, Pythagoras.
Pythagoras was born around 570 BC on the Greek island of Samos.
Pythagoras made influential contributions to philosophy and religious teachings in the late 6th century BC.
Many mathematical and scientific discoveries were attributed to him, as well as discoveries in the field of music, astronomy, and medicine, but Pythagoras is best known for the Pythagorean Theorem which bears his name.
The Pythagorean Theorem simple stated is... well, math so we're going to skip it.
Pythagoras and his disciples were the conceives of the "Golden Ratio" which is 1.618, the perfect analogy of the universe. More math, so we won't go into this either.
Pythagoras started a liberal school where the students weren't allowed to talk for a year or look into a mirror beside a candle. He taught them reincarnation, and the power of numbers.
Pythagoras and his disciples were the first to use the concept of "cosmos" and point out that the earth rotates around the sun.
Pythagoras was a vegetarian.
And most importantly for us, Pythagoras was a number freak and taught us that numbers are everywhere and in everything.
Now, for simplicity sake, numerology is nothing more than breaking numbers down to their simplest numerical form. For instance, today's date is February 18, 2022. That is 02-18-2022. To get the numerical value we just add each digit separately like this:
0+2+1+8+2+0+2+2 = 17
So the numerical value for today's date is 17. Since 17 can be reduced further to get the simplest numerical value, we must add 1 + 7 to get 8. And so the numerical value of February 18, 2022 is 8. So to understand what the numerological qualities of 8 are, we consult our favorite source which can be anything from an easy google search, to my favorite source, the the I Ching.
According to Affinitynumerology.com, "the 8 number represents energy that supports a rise in efficiency and
realistic outlook. It's a day for large public works and big business to make agreements."
Not bad, but I prefer my I Ching which warns me "Closeness is auspicious. If those with whom one associates closely are basically always upright and steadfast, then there will be no fault."
So if I combine the two together I would say today is a good day for a big project with people I trust.
Now, I know, there are those of you who are saying, wait a minute, a number can't tell the world for everyone. To which I answer, you are wrong, yes it can. Just as we all breath the same oxygen to survive, we all share the same numbers to exist. Furthermore, just like with divination cards, it works if you want it to, and doesn't if you don't want it to. It's internal true: that spot deep in your stomach, just under your heart and above your spline that knows. If you follow and allow what you know to be true to lead, it will guide you, if you deny it, it will fail you. It's the esoteric law of truth. It's the difference between the sages of light versus the toothless e.i.e.i.o's of darkness. In other words, follow that feeling inside and it will guide you and show you the power of numbers in life.
Of all the numbers you can break down as I showed you for today's date, there is none more important than the Life Path Number which tells you where you've been and where you are going. To get this number you simply reduce the numbers of your full birthday. In my case, it is November 21, 1959, which is 11-21-1959, which is 1+1+2+1+1+9+5+9 = 29, which is 2 + 9 = 11, which is 1 + 1 = 2.
Woo, all that to get to 2. So, in this example the Life Path Number in is 2, which means when I walk into a bathroom, odds are the second stall is best for me. Not always, but should be my default. And if I look at the internet for meanings, I find on Seventhlifepath.com that "People
with a Life Path of 2 are natural peacemakers, and because they see all the
viewpoints in any situation, handle difficult situations with grace,
and tend to be persuasive rather than forceful when trying to get their
point across, people may often look to them to be a mediator in any
argument."
So, isn't is obvious that I am a peace/equality loving person trying to get his point across in a esoteric blog? Seems so to me.
According to the I Ching, the number 2 is "The Receptive" number that "Strays at first, but then finds his/her direction."
Is it any wonder that I am an older gentleman who is finally getting this video/blogging thing down? I think so.
Now, beside using numbers in numerology, we can also use letters, which brings us to the Pythagorean chart. The Pythagorean chart is a chart that places a number by each letter of the alphabet. This allows us to place a number value to any word, title, sentence, paragraph, etc. Ouch, think of all the fun you can have with this. For one you can get your destiny number by converting your FULL birth
name (including any middle names) into numbers using the Pythagorean
chart.
In my case, I can use the Pythagorean chart to convert my name Eso Terry thusly:
E = 5
s = 1
o = 6
T = 2
e = 5
r = 9
r = 9
y = 7
_________
Total 44, 4 + 4 = 8
My life number is 8, which we've already defined.
Using this Pythagorean chart you can also get your personality number by calculating the consonants in your full name. In my case it would be as such:
E
S = 1
O
T = 2
E
R = 9
R = 9
Y = 7
____________
Total = 28, 2 + 8 = 10, 1 + 0 = 1
My Eso Terry Personality number is 1, and a quick internet search tells me that I am "fiercely independent, competitive, determined,
and value my freedom." Ouch, so me! Now you see how I bring light to the esoteric with liberty, peace, and freedom for all people even the Bubbas who hate me!
Bubbas at work.
Another number you can get from the letters in your name is your Soul Number by using only the vowels in your name, in my case it is easy:
E = 5
S
O = 6
T
E = 5
R
R
Y
_______
Total 16, 1 + 6 = 7.
So 7 is my Soul Number which even those who don't follow numerological events understand is a powerful number. According to google the number 7 is "...a quest for knowledge,
and it's actually considered significant in virtually every major
religion — consider the seven days of creation in the Bible or the seven
basic chakras in eastern traditions."
Man, I have esoteric written all over me.
Okay, so we have to stop here. I told you that this wasn't math and it isn't, but there are times when we don't reduce numbers to their simplest form and so I actually was wrong in breaking down my birthday. That's right, if you remember I started earlier in this blog that my birthday is November 21, 1959, and when I reduced it it came to the number 11, which I then broke down to 2 by adding the 1 + 1 = 2. I should have stopped you there and told you we don't reduce an 11 because it is a Master number. I didn't because I wanted to keep it simple. Truth is, we don't reduce Master numbers. Master numbers are 11, 22, or 33. They have deep and
powerful meanings of their own. The true meanings can be good or bad depending on the
context, and shouldn't be broken down -- as I did on purpose so I could have this chilling ending to today's post.
Master number 11 can relate to “instinct” and “faith.” Similarly, it
could signify fear and anxiety, and so has to be carefully read.
Number 22 is the Master Builder. It is the most powerful indicator of
ambition and success, though often requires guidance or different
perspectives.
The number 33 has various meanings as one of your core numbers i.e.
Life Path, Expression, Personality, etc. Not forgetting that all of
these master numbers can be combined to form entirely different meanings
in partnership with others, or as a triangle of enlightenment.
So, my birthday number of 11 actually is considered a Karmic number in numerology, which means that it is associated with spiritual awakening. This mystical number is said to offer insight, higher energy, inspiration, and creativity to those who use it in numerology.
Well, I think that pretty much sums my credentials on the subject.
And in closing, go ahead and have fun with numbers, that's all.
A = 1
L = 3
L = 3
______
Total = 7
(...the number seven represents curiosity and a quest for knowledge).
War of Choice Buds, Vladimir Putin (on the left) and George Bush (on the right).
The Russia invasion of Ukraine is still in high gear. The Russian Defense Ministry said yesterday that 2870 Ukrainian troops have been killed. Nice try Vladimir, we all know it is way more if you include the woman and children killed from collapsing buildings, or elderly people dying of weather conditions as they wait to get into Poland or Romania.
This is no war. This is genocide. Putin is trying to do to Ukraine what President George Bush and his Dark Knight in Satan's Christian Army, Vice President Dick Chaney, tried to do in Iraq back in 2003: demolish it and rebuild it the way it should be. In George Bush's War of Choice, Bush wanted the oil -- as best as I can see, I mean, did he really think the people of Iraq would become good America citizens like Japan and Germany did after their defeats? He probably did -- Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, knows there is little chance that the Ukrainian people including the 25% Russian speaking folks in the East will become Russian voluntarily because who wants to be made to shut-up and not speak your mind for a tyrannical government? NO one. So Putin is just going to kill everyone and move in Russia people willing to suck his Peter the Great, or should I say his Dick Chaney? Doesn't matter, its a Bend-Over-And-Take it government. The one those USA Republicans supporting Putin want in the USA because, well, they are idiots who don't understand freedom.
Tsar Alexander II, photo by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky, 1881 (The Di Rocco Wieler Private Collection, Toronto, Canada)
Funny
that Russia is stirring up so much shit on this 3rd of March, for it was on the 3rd of March way back in 1861 that Alexander II freed the Russian serfs. The
serfs were slaves bound to landowners much as the African slaves were
bound to landowners in the USA during the same period. Alexander
published his Emancipation Manifesto with its seventeen accompanying legislative acts,
which freed the surfs from their enslavement and gave them things like
wages and healthcare. All of which Vladimir Putin wants back today.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
It is March 1st again boys and girls and I am re-posting my favorite March 1st blog from the past. No time for anything new today for I am busting my ass studying up on the esoteric meaning of this Ukraine/Russia shit. I am also chanting for the happiness of all the deaths. What a mess.
On this day in 1692, in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Sarah Goode, Sarah
Osborne, and Tituba, an Indian slave from Barbados are charged with the
illegal practice of witchcraft. Later that day, Tituba, possibly under
coercion, confessed to the crime encouraging the authorities to seek
out more Salem witches. Hence, the start of today's pompous church in the US that is more concerned with finding witches than salvation. This is why I am a Buddhist.
Also
on this day in 1961, President John F Kennedy created the Peace Corp.
This was a volunteer organization that would go to underdeveloped
countries and help them without expecting anything in return. Boy did
this piss off the Christian missionaries too! They saw it as a threat
to their church building missions down there. Some bleeding-heart
liberals like myself believe it wasn't the Salem witch hunt that placed the Christian church in Satan's hands, but when Kennedy got in the way of their missionary-for-Jesus work. Other's, of course, still point to slavery and the KKK. Nonetheless, somewhere along the way the Christian faith became Knights In Satan Army, that much is obvious from their leaders like the crazy pillow guy.
Interesting that also on this day in the year 1888, the Hermetic Order
of the Golden Dawn (an influential Western occult order and secret
society) was established. It offered teachings on ceremonial magic,
divination, Kabbalah, and other occult oriented sciences. Many of its
rituals are still in use by modern-day practitioners of High Magic.
Aleister Crowley (one of the Golden Dawn's most famous members) was
initiated into the Order in the year 1898 but was later expelled.
Here's a video tribute to Aleister Crowley the Christian Knights in Satan's Army. Enjoy! ~~ Eso Terry
Here is something weird boys and girls, yesterday I got one of those Google Search Engine Warnings that said "Coverage Issue...Fix It."
So I researched and found out it was one of my "Future Dreams" post which I don't remember writing or posting. It was bad grammar, bad spelling, and run-on sentences, which, happens regularly, and I apologize and thank you for still reading, but this was really, really, really bad. And I really don't remember posting it, writing it, or ever having read it. I think maybe I posted it in a dream. Honest to God of Air and Earth (Osiris), I don't remember posting this. Here are some highlights:
I
had a vision of the future last night and it is so different than
today. Cities will be crowded, but better planned with autonomous cars below
ground and bikes and electric mopeds above. Restaurants will be empty
rooms with touch screens to select the food you want. You won't have to
use your credit card for your face will be recognized on entrance, your
account debited.
Walking
around in this new land, I saw that the people were seldom with like
races, sexes, or ages, and most shared the same looking clothes and
hair styles. There was little difference between them, the guys all had flattops and the woman all had bod cuts. They were in no
hurry, but then, seemed to be going somewhere.
All
the buildings were what we once called mixed-spaced lofts with
storefronts on the lowest level and family dwellings above. A few had
restaurants on the highest levels. Signs were all interactive. That is
to say, if you found yourself on an empty street with one of the large commercial signs staring back at you, it advertised your thoughts. If you were hungry, you saw food. If you were sick, it advertised a doctor, etc. Don't ask me how it knew this....
My dream went on from there to explain how China was the new leader of the world and paper books were outlawed to help with online-thought control. All the classics that threatened the government were deleted or edited. Yes, it was George Orwell's 1984, only not dark and flimsy, but bright and contagious, for if you followed the rules, things went pretty good.
I guess it was a good dream, and one I wish I remember having.
This morning I chanted that Putin find his Buddha nature and stop the killing in Ukraine. He hasn't yet. It is now the 3rd day of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
Per USA Today about half of the Russian forces are in Kyiv now and still finding resistance. "Resistance" means death, blood, human sacrifice.
What kind of person can voluntarily send people to die for his/her questionable actions?
Where is the humanity?
I will tell you: humanity died with truth. And that's the way the conservative oligarchs running the world want it. That's why 25 % of Republicans (Trumpians) are supporting the Russian despot leader who hates America.
Ukraine is now fighting for its Independence against Russia just as the USA did against England. And those Americans supporting Russia are enemies of the state: enemies of truth, freedom, and justice.
I chant for you. I chant you wake up and join the human race before it is too late.
Please, stop letting bad history repeat itself on this day.
On this day in:
1577 -- Eric XIV, the insane and deposed king of Sweden, ate his last meal in prison -- a bowl of poisoned pea soup. 1616 -- Galileo is told to stop teaching "truth" by the Roman Christian Church. 1815 -- Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile to wreak 100 more days of havoc -- until his final defeat at Waterloo. 1860 -- 100 members of the peaceful Native American tribe of Wiyot are slaughtered as they slept by white settlers. 1918 -- 600 people are killed when stands collapse and catch fire at a Hong Kong horse track. 1936
-- a Japanese revolt led by 1,400 army persons attacks the prime
minister's residence and other government and military buildings killing
many of their leaders. 1965 -- President Lyndon Johnson approved US ground troops in Vietnam. 1987
— The Iran-Contra Tower Commission report proves President Ronald
Reagan was involved in the scandal to sell arms to Iran for the release
of American hostages “after his election.” Yes, Reagan worked with Iran
to help him get elected — now you know where Donald Trump got the
idea. 1993
— An al Qaeda-planted truck bomb was detonated in the parking garage of
the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Six people were killed. 1995 — Barings, Britain’s oldest bank and the place where Queen Elizabeth II kept her money, collapsed. 2022 — Health Minister Viktor Liashko said on Saturday that 198 Ukrainians,
including three children, have been killed during the Russian invasion.
What makes up a February 25? Have you ever wondered that?
In 1451 on this day Pope Nicholas V banned all social contact between Christians and Jews to prevent Christians from converting to Judaism. In many Catholic countries the penalty for conversion was death — of the Jew of course, not the Christian.
On this day in 1949 American actor Robert Mitchum was released from prison after serving two months for possession of marijuana. And we still haven’t legalized marijuana.
In 1964 Cassius Clay shocks the boxing world by defeating heavyweight champ Sonny Liston. Two weeks later Clay would change his name to Muhammad Ali and go on to be the greatest ever.
Thank you Vladimir Putin for setting the record straight this February 25, 2022. It’s all about you. Wah, wah, wah.
“I take shirt off and make war for fun….”
Not all is lost, for February 25th is also the day of the year George Harrison of the Beatles was born back in 1945; and as he sang in one of his songs, “With all these mistakes we must surely be learning…” I think we finally might be learning, for in today’s New York Times headline there is hope: “Thousand of Russians Protest Russian Invasion.”
Could this peace protest in Russia be the start of something big? Something like maybe we all come together and give peace a chance? Wouldn’t that make this 25th of February a very special day?
Februarya 23rd was the date that the ancient Romans celebrated the god Terminus in the Terminalia festival by offering him a pig or lamb as a sacrifice while they drank wine and rubbed bellies. That’s right boys and girls, on this day the Romans honored the god Terminus to protect their boundary markers. To do this they would place a statue of Terminus on a pole and stick it in the ground and say, “This land is now mine.” Sound familiar? It should, it is what the Bare Chested Russian Warrior is doing today, and even more disturbing, has the support of former president Donald Trump in doing so: “Putin is a genius invading Ukraine… (I paraphrase),” Trump said about the invasion.
Does Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump know that the day Russia has decided to invade its neighbor is the same day Romans celebrated the Feast of Terminalia, the god of boundaries? Who knows. What is important is that we know, we the lovers of white light know that the dark gods are being given sacrifices of human blood on this day by their evil forces. In Roman days they gave them pigs, today, they give them human blood. It’s the same today as it was on this day in 1933 when Japan invaded Manchuria and began beheading, raping, and pillaging in the name of state; it’s the same as on this day in 1933 when Hitler declared a national emergency to obtain complete control of Germany and begin his genocide of Jews. And just as with Japan and Germany back then, those of us not worshipping the evil gods of greed and lust must call on the heavenly deities to stop the darkness before it swallows us all as it has tried to do over and over only to be defeated over and over by light. We need to stand up and fight. We need to flood the evil with chants and prayers of light. We can defeat this force as we have in the past, but we need to stay forcused. For me, I will be chanting daily for truth to come to light and overshadow the Putin/Trump darkness that is gaining force in the world. It is now or never.
It is Twosday! Wow, what a great day to be alive. Not only is it the 22nd day of the 2nd month of the 22nd year, the date is also a palindrome, which means the same forwards and backwards. This alone would make it an esoteric wonder, but wait, there is more. It is the thin veil of High Priestess card in the Tarot; the “Change” hexagram in the I Ching; and most ominous, the day Pluto begins its Transit with promises of upheaval and change. So hold on to your seats boys and girls, for today is the beginning of the promise of Aquarius which will be played out in Russia, Ukraine, China, Taiwan, and the USA.
The number “2” is the number of relationships. Personally this means get your ass out of bed because this is a good day to look at your relationships and let them flourish. Let them go will they will for the outcomes will be doubled. Call that family member you haven’t in a while and just say, “Happy Twosday,” you will be amazed. Anything socially this day will be ordained by the High Priestess. And why? Well, as I told you in my post on numerology, “22” is a master number and can not be reduced. It is the root of all numbers, the basic of all change. In other words, “22” will rock our world today.
The number 2 Tarot care is the High Priestess. She shows up in your reading when the veil of the underworld is thin. She stands between the pillars of good and evil where she is the third pillar, the path forward. She also wears the crown of Isis because she is a believer in magic. According to Labyrinthos.com, “The card itself shows a night-time scene, meaning that the world in which she protects and guards is one that may at first seem frightening, but has the potential to lead us into the growth we seek.”
The major event that makes this day such an object of change in the world, i.e., the escalation of the Russian/Ukraine conflict and China/Taiwan struggle, is that 2-22-22 is the day that Pluto returns in the US astrological chart after a 248 year absence. The last time Pluto was in the USA natal chart was in 1776, the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Most esoteric thinkers agree this means the USA needs to get off its ass and act, for democracy is on the verge of a breakdown and will fall to the evil autocratic forces rising in the world from Russia, China, and most disturbing of all, the Trumpers wanting to do away with fair elections in the USA, if the USA doesn’t rise to the occasion, despotism will swallow us all.
If not today, then one day soon the USA and rest of the world who want to live in country living in the world of the freedom of the Declaration of Independence, will have to step up and take a stance. If Russia is allowed to take control of Ukraine, we fail. If China is allowed to take Taiwan’s independence away, we fail. It Trumpers are allowed to overturn a fail election in the USA, we fail.
Today, everything changes. We either go forward or backwards.
According to the I Ching the number “2” is Receptive, and the number “22” is Grace. My spirit guide tells me that this is the position the US is in on this Eve of war. There’s nothing we can do. The Year of the Tiger and its “masculine” energy can not be denied. Hold on tight for February 22, 2022 is the first day of a new world.
In the end, when this is over, peace will come to those of us who want it.
Let’s chant for peace, protect the weak, and feed the poor. We are all in this together.
Spirit Land is that place we go before reincarnating. How do I know this? It was revealed to me from the other side, from my spirit guide, Viola, who in mortal terms, was my grandmother before crossing over in 1972.
She comes to me with a flowery scent which alerts me to stop, think, and look to avoid an accident, or see an opportunity; other times she visits me in dreams, and sometimes she whispers to me from just behind my right ear. You see, I come from a long line of mystics who no one has ever heard of or seen, and that is not by accident. The most recent, Viola, who lived in the West Virginia and died having attained no wealth or popularity. Today she tells me how fortunate she was to have not attained any riches or fame in this lifetime for if she had, she wouldn't be with me now.
I have always had the ability to connect with my spirit guides, only couldn't recognize it until I was in my fifties. I guess you could call it a gift, but I only consider it as a gift to those who recognize it early in life, for we all have the ability from the day we are born. The spirits are everywhere, good spirits, bad spirits, light spirits, dark spirits. If you are fortunate like me, you will have a guide who will guide you away form the dark spirits and into the light spirits. I have had two spirit guides watching over me in this life. The first was Marvin, my decease uncle who died in a terrible car accident a year before I was born, and then my grandmother, Viola.
My grandmother was dying of cancer when I was twelve. I visited her a few times on her death bed and each time she called me Melvin. My grandfather said it was because I reminded her of her oldest son. Others said it was the cancer in her head. Today, I know she saw me more completely than anyone else in the room for she saw my spirit guide beside me who she would soon be replacing. After she died, I began to smell the flowery scents she would use to announce her presence when she needed my attention.
Viola has showed me so much over the years, things I can only now write about, and the first is how the curse of fame and fortune in this lifetime will be paid for in the next. For those who have the most in this life will have the least in Spirit Land. Every time the money they left behind is circulated, they will feel shame; anytime their name is mentioned in idolatry, they will feel shame; and anytime their image is shared, or song sung, they will feel shame. The shame Viola speaks of is like no shame we have in our mortal existence, it is a shame that will makes it impossible to connect with anyone living or in Spirit Land until the next incarnation.
This warning Viola tells me of is mentioned in one way or another in all of the spiritual teachings. The ancient Vedas text calls it a negative energy that will be swallowed up by the good in the afterlife; the Buddha teachings call it karma retribution; and here in the West, the Christian bible says, "...it is easier to thread a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter heaven" -- I paraphrase.
Viola tells me that those of us who have not gained a lot in this lifetime should not despair for we will have the most in the next by being able to contact those left behind and their children's children for 250 generations to come; while those who died with everything, will sit in shame, lost, alone, unable to contact anyone of light. Their only contact will be with the other dark spirits, a room filled with Rock Stars, Movie Stars, Rockefeller's, and DuPont's.
"But not all are lost for the rich and famous," she tells me. "There are those who secretly give away their fortune to the needy, like Chuck Feeney, who saw the curse of his wealth before he died, and so now watches his friends and family in bliss, but few are as strong as Feeney, for society in run by the dark spirits, and all wants are dark.
Into the shadowy world of Ouija boards, seances and ghostly rapping from
beyond, there once sauntered a controversial character whose was known for her mystical powers and beautiful theories on religion, the cosmos and lost
civilizations; yes the mother of today's Esoteric.
Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, known to legions of devoted followers as
Madame Blavatsky, was a guiding force behind the spiritual renaissance
of the late 1870’s that saw reputations—and financial fortunes—of
mediums and mystics surge to new heights of respectability.
At one point, this chain-smoking, hot-tempered daughter of Russian
nobility and founder of the Theosophical Society would boast that she
was more popular than either the king of England or the president of the
United States, and to people like you and me, she was.
In spite of her great popularity, however, there were those who insisted
that Madame Blavatsky was nothing more than a fraud and a vulgar
adventuress.
She once wrote: “I am repeatedly reminded of the fact that as a public
character, as a woman who, instead of pursuing her womanly duties,
sleeping with her husband, breeding children, wiping their noses,
minding her kitchen and consoling herself with matrimonial assistants on
the sly and behind her husband’s back, I have chosen a path that has
led me to notoriety and fame; and that therefore I had to expect all
that befell me.”
Born Helen Petrovna Hahn in czarist Russia, the future spiritual leader showed an early interest in fantasy and make-believe. One of her
favorite childhood games was to entertain friends by telling them stories
about invisible companions she called “hunchbacks.” Her storytelling
skills were said to be so great that she often frightened the other
children and made them have nightmares.
When she was sixteen, Helene married Nikifor Blavatsky, the minor
government official thirty years her senior. The marriage lasted only a
few months, and as she wrote "was never consummated." Heading out on her own she would style herself forever as Madame Blavatsky.
While still in her teens, Madame Blavatsky—a tall, striking beauty with
dark hair and exceptionally blue eyes—embarked on a series of global
travels and adventures that would eventually take her to America. For
the next twenty-five years, she wandered the world visiting hidden
monasteries in Tibet and the catacombs of Rome and Paris and studying
the secrets of the Egyptian pyramids, eventually winding up in New York
in June 1873.
Her timing couldn't have been better, Madame Blavatsky now plump and
graying, was immediately caught up in the wave of spiritualism and
interest in occult phenomena sweeping the nation. At a seance in
Vermont she met Colonel Henry S. Olcott, a newspaperman, lawyer and ardent spiritualist.
Olcott
The pair teamed up to form an organization called the Theosophical
Society, after the Greek words for “god” and “wisdom.” The society’s
stated purpose was to investigate ancient mysteries, such as the secrets
of the pyramids and the “nature of people of the distant past.”
“A Theosophist,” Madame Blavatsky once wrote, “is one who gives you a
theory of God or the works of God, which has not revelation, but an
inspiration of his own for its basis. In this view every great thinker
and philosopher, especially every founder of a new religion, school of
philosophy, or sect, is necessarily a Theosophist.”
“Hence,” she concluded, “Theosophy and Theosophists have existed ever
since the first glimmering of nascent thought made man seek
instinctively for the means of expressing his own independent opinions.
Theosophy is...the archaic Wisdom-Relgion, the esoteric doctrine once
known in every ancient country having claims to civilization.”
In 1875 Madame Blavatsky published her first book, an enormous volume called Isis Unveiled. Critics snickered and were
generally harsh in their reviews, but the massive work did succeed in
gaining large numbers of occult-minded followers.
Highly successful, the book was followed by another in 1888 called The Secret Doctrine. In this landmark two-volume book, Madame Blavatsky
reported that revelatory spirits from the Orient had taught her about
the lost continents of Atlantis and Lemuria. Scholars and critics were
quick to claim that much of the work was stolen from books by other
occultists and crank scholars like Ignatius Loyola Donnelly’s book on Atlantis.
Donnelly
Nevertheless, the book sold extremely well, earning Madame Blavatsky
immortality among die-hard followers of mysticism and popular lost
worlds’ theories. Written in the same lofty style of her
other works, The Secret Doctrine sets out the author’s view that the
Lemurians were the third of seven “root” races of mankind. The fourth
race was the Atlantans, who were said to have evolved from the Lemurians
as Lemuria San beneath the sea several thousand years ago.
Atlantis, which occupied a spur of ancient Lemuria, was destroyed about
ten thousand years ago during a cataclysmic upheaval. Madame Blavatsky
believed that refugees from the disaster escaped to Central Asia where
they evolved into modern Hindus and Europeans. She also suggested that
survivors might have fled to America, where they intermarried with
Indians and gave them the technology to build the great monuments of
Mexico and elsewhere.
It was in India while researching her book that Madame Blavatsky was
introduced to the “Masters,” or “Mahatmas.” The Mahatmas were spirit
forces that dwelled in the mysterious and remote mountains of Tibet.
According to Madame Blavatsky, these kindly “lords of the unseen world”
confided great secrets to her during their travels together—spectacular
secrets about out-of-body travel, archaic history and the cosmic future
of mankind.
Among the “fundamental truths” taught to her by the Mahatmas was
reincarnation, the belief that “all people living on the planet are
brothers immortal, living and reliving their lives.”
By the late 1880’s Madame Blavatsky was at the pinnacle of her
international fame and fortune. But fate was gearing up to deal her a
crushing blow. A report written by famed English psychic investigator Richard Hodgson
wrote, “we regard her neither as the mouthpiece of hidden seers, nor as
mere vulgar adventuress, we think that she has achieved a title to
permanent remembrance as one of the most accomplished, ingenious and
interesting imposters of history.”
Even devout Theosophists began to regard their former leader with
suspicion. Some questioned her stability, while others called her “a
potentially dangerous woman.” Growing numbers argued that Olcott should
take her place as head of the organization.
Weary and frail, the once-powerful mystic agreed to step aside and then
retired to a friend’s house in London. On May 8th, 1891, Madame Blavatsky
died quietly in her sleep. The old Theosophists body was cremated at
Woking Crematorium in Surrey, England.
Finally, Madame Blavatsky's breakdown with the Theosophist Society was
not long lived and today she is still considered the mother of their
reasoning. In 1924 the then leader of the society, G De Purucker,
lectured on Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine; eventually, he simplified her
works in a book called Fundamentals of the Esoteric Philosophy. A great
read called FUNDAMENTALS OF THE ESOTERIC.
Speaking Christian Knights in Satan's Army (Yeats remained a Protestant his whole life), on this day in the year 1890, the poet William Butler Yeats was initiated into the Isis-Urania Temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. There, he studied the magical
arts and took the magical name Daemon est Deus Inversus (The Devil is
God Reversed.") 
