Yesterday, I quoted William Shakespeare in reference to the genocide of the Native Americans by Anglos. Today, we see Shakespeare historically for on a hot July 22nd, in 1598, The Merchant of Venice was licensed in a London registry office; conversely, a few years later on a July 22, in 1604, Bishop Bancroft and King James I of England developed the 14 instructions to the translator of a new version of the Bible. The instructions were designed to ensure that the work would be a Protestant Bible and leave out those Lost Gospels which showed Jesus had a wife and kids, along with the
75 other books called "apocryphal" for stating such things as written by the only guy who wrote anything denouncing homosexuality in the bible, Paul, in the apocryphal book titled"The Acts of Paul," where Paul talks to lions, tigers, and bears... or The Book of Adam and Eve, where Bartholomew ask Mary about her relationship with her son, and she agrees to tell him about her first date with God, but only if he held her legs and breasts securely so that she doesn't crumble into a pile of bones. And this just scratches the surface of the great stories left out of the Bible to make the book easily accessible to closed minds, or as Hemingway said about his Oak Park suburban home: "The Land of Wide Lawns and Narrow Minds."
Anyway, it is no secret that Shakespeare wrote much of the Bible (as I have written about in the past), and which has given the Bible its staying power in spite of its "Narrow" message for today's "Narrow Minds."
So what else makes this July 22 so esoterically stimulating to me?...
Well, in 1930 the first sighting of the famous Loch Ness monster was officially recorded in Scotland.
Not to be confused with another hot July 22, in 1934, when Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger, was led out of a theater by his date/FBI Informant named Anna Sage ('Sage' was her prostitute/madame name, her real name was 'Cumpānas'), who wore a red dress to alert the G-Men of their target. The dress was actually orange, but that's how history goes. Dillinger was murdered, and Anna Sage got what happens to all bad people who do bad things in history, (i.e, the baseball manger of the Houston Astros baseball team after they were caught cheating to win a championship), she was sent to Detroit, and then deported back to Romania in spite of the FBI's promise not to deport her if she helped them catch Dillinger. Ah, the good-old-days were bad guys were bad, and good guys were badder.
That's it for me, I'm going to go read some more of those apocryphal books to see what other smut was left out for the sake of a 'narrow minded' continuity, which I hope doesn't include you, but if it does, why are you here?
July 21, esoterically speaking, is a day of conflict. According to the I Ching, "7" is "Army," and "21" is "Biting Through." Together they spell "Conflict."
Is it any wonder that on this day in history the Dutch territory of New Netherlands (New York state) falls into English hands in a peace treaty from the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Of course, there is no mention of the Native Americans who never agreed to shit, and in any modern court of law would still be the legal owners of New Netherlands and the other 48 continental states due to a lack of "Consideration" according to contract law, i.e., what did the White Man offer in consideration for the Native's land?... Answer: Nothing! Nada! Jack Shit! Period.
Then in 1861 on another hot July 21, there was the Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the American Civil War which was fought on a strip of land still inhabited by the American Powhatan Confederacy, the most beautiful, peaceful, loving people ever: The Algonquian People. Where's that contract?
Okay, I'm not arguing to give the Americas back the original owners, because, well, like you, I like it here; but Goddamn, at least admit the documented genocide imposed on them by squatters like you and me.
What Shakespeare wrote regarding Henry IV's victory in defending his thrown from the Welsh on this day in 1403, seems to sum up the American Genocide perfectly:
Also, let's not forget that on a zero gravity day on July 21, in 1969, Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon wrote in his journal:
The blue color of my boot has completely disappeared now into this -- still don't know exactly what color to describe this other than grayish-cocoa color. It appears to be covering most of the lighter part of my boot....
Odor is very subjective, but to me there was a distinct smell to the lunar material -- pungent, like gunpowder or spent cap-pistol caps. We carted a fair amount of lunar dust back inside the vehicle with us, either on our suits and boots or on the conveyor system we used to get boxes and equipment back inside. We did notice the odor right away.
Okay, you are going to have to stay with me on this one today boys and girls, for it is so esoterically deep I fear sharing it with you might get us band from the cafeteria, but here it goes:
Today is July 17, and as I have demonstrated over and over again, each day is Esoterically encoded for those of us with eyes to see.
First of all, On July 17 in 1861, the U.S. Congress authorizes the printing of paper money for the first time ever. This, in fact, was the beginning of the "Federal Reserve," which as we all know is the tool of the top 1% (1%ers) and their Secret Societies which now control all money, and most information.
Not a coinkydink that on July 17 in 1945, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain met in secret to divide the world after WWII. Expediently, they left the fourth ally of war, China, out of the meeting. This is because the Western Secret Societies, the Freemasons, Illuminati, etc., met to divide the spoils of war amongst themselves, and not their number one competitor, the Eastern secret societies, most notably, the Heaven and Earth Society of China. Commonly known as the Chinese Triad, they began in the Qing Dynasty, and just like the Western Secret Societies, never went away, only became more invisible with more money. Xi Jinping who's family power/money history goes back to the Qing dynasty, is their puppet -- but that's for another post.
Yes, China was snubbed by the west and don't think they forgot it. More on this later, but first, let's go back to July 17, 1917. Li Yuanhong, was the leader of China with his progressive ideas which included, oddly enough, a paper dollar, or yuan (yoo'an), printed bythe American Bank Note Company (commissioned by the Bank of China),with his face on it. This dollar never made it to circulation because Li was ousted by a Nationalist party who wanted to Make China Great Again and build another wall. Yes, this set China back another 50 years but who's counting. Failed political parties build walls, create havoc, and fortunately, eat themselves alive.
Li Bank Note
July 17, 1995, what happened? The U.S., under President Bill Clinton, in response to China's aggression towards Taiwan -- they wanted their baby back, along with any land they've ever owned in the past two-thousand years -- sends the biggest military maneuver to Asian since the Vietnam War, in defense of Taiwan.
What really happened behind the scenes to deescalate this standoff we will never know, but the Taiwan/China issue just kinda, faded.
Or did it? You see, as I have written on before, on July 17, 1996, a sleepy,
seven-hour flight from New York to Paris burst into a
fireball and plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean. This has been a conspiracy since, some say Syrian-backed terrorist, some say US friendly fire, and some say Clinton did it himself to win reelection.
Today, I simply say, "add 'China's Secret Society payback' to the collection of theories."
You decide, I mean shit, it's a conspiracy.
One things for sure though, on this day in 1952, David Hasselhoff was born. That's a fact.
Here is the conspiracy as I reported a few years ago.
It was on this day (July 17, 1996) twenty-two years ago that a sleepy,
seven-hour flight from New York’s JFK airport to Paris burst into a
fireball and plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean. No one survived.
Two years after the flight, with no clear cause, conspiracies flew:
Syrian-backed terrorist shot it down and President Clinton suppressed
info to win re-election.
Clinton had it shot down because two of the passengers were Arkansas
troopers on their way to Paris to spill-the-beans on Clinton’s
corruption to Le Monde newspaper.
Then the most popular: a friendly-fire missile strike.
Pierre Salinger 1970
The missile strike rumor was mainly being splattered about by Pierre
Salinger: a World War II veteran turned spokesman for President John F
Kennedy, and finally, the character “Lucky Pierre” on the 60’s
television version of Batman. Salinger wrote a book and went on the
media-circuit tour stating he had proof the aircraft was shot down by
“friendly fire” from the USA. His proof from a video-still of a blip of
light headed for the aircraft just seconds before the crash. This
claim became more valued when 150 eyewitnesses came out and stated that
they had seen a light hit the plane before its crash.
Salinger as a crooked lawyer on Batman.
Following Salinger’s claims, James Sanders published his book on the
subject titled “The Downing of TWA Flight 800,” where he wrote about
having uncovered a few pieces of foam from the crash with reddish stains
on it. These stains, he wrote, were the stains from missile fire.
In the end, CIA investigators answered the call by stating that the
“strike of light” the witnesses saw, was just leaky fuel, which fuels
exploded from a bad wire, and that the aircraft had faulted wiring.
So that should have ended it, but then, why did the CIA get involved in commercial airline flight?
It’s a conspiracy.
July 14th is a great day to get things done as a group. In 1789 on this day the Liberals and Free Thinkers of the day had had enough of the king's militant rule and demanded a Democracy the only way one gets one: a F*(king Revolution.
The Bastille was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison.
King Louis XIV used the Bastille as a prison for the upper-class members of French society who had opposed or angered him. These were the Free Thinkers, Pagans, Artist, and Poets, mostly -- just as Vladimir Putin does today in Russia, and the Republican Party hopes to do in the USA if they reclaim the White House. (Wait and see.)
The revolution began when a mob of some 800 Parisians attacked the Bastille, and freed the prisoners. This action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were executed.
A fact not often mentioned in history books, is the fact that Thomas Jefferson was the United States
minister to France when the revolution happened, and Jefferson became an ardent supporter of the French Revolution, even allowing his residence to be used as a meeting place for the rebels. Freedom was in the air!
So if you are celebrating Bastille Day today, do so with pride in knowing it is a liberal cause, founded on liberal principles, in a liberal country that has been hijacked by Conservative Anti-Progress Greedy Haters.
As a footnote to this beautiful day, in agent Egypt on this day the falcon-headed god, Horus, was honored with the lighting of blue candles, frankincense, and myrrh.
Uruz Ruin
Also, the runic half-month of Ur commences on this day. Ur represents primal strength and collective action, and the month of Ur is the time when society's powers are best applied to projects that serve the common good.
Stay strong, history proves again and again that the people win in the end, no matter how Elon Musk and his Oligarcy friends try to bully us. We're winning!
On July 13th 1527, the noted magician & astronomer, who studied
at Cambridge, John Dee, was born. He was a brilliant man
who was accredited for being a Mathematician, Astronomer, Astrologer,
Imperialist, Occult Philosopher, Diviner and so much more. John Dee lived
his life somewhere between Science and the world of Magic.
He
served the court of, Queen Elizabeth I, as a consultant, and used his
position to create the largest personal library in all the world.
John Dee spent his entire life studying the Occult and Magic. While
many tried to murder him for being of the devil, Queen Elizabeth I, made
sure that their wishes of execution never happened. While no one could
burn him alive while the Queen lived, after her death in 1603, John Dee
was instead forced to die as a pauper five years later in his home at
Mortlake, after being shunned by James I, the Queen’s successor. He at
least was able to shut his eyes one final time among the many books and
literary wonders he had spent his entire life collecting.
I've written about John Dee before, he was a man before his time brave enough to look beyond the empty religions of his day.
On July 12th, 1271, the Daishonin writes a letter to a most loyal follower about hungry spirits. IN his letter, the Daishonin exposes how hungry spirits are divided into thirty-six kinds, among which the most popular are the Caldron-Shaped hungry spirits with no eyes or mouth. They got this way because in the world of the living they robbed people of their food. This might not have been the actual action of stealing food out of someone's pantry, but stealing food from their livelihood by doing such evil things as not paying them a fair wage for their labor -- think about that you profit grabbing capitalist at the top wanting to keep us down.
Another interesting Hungry Spirit, is the Law Devouring hungry spirits. They are those who renounce the world and spread religion. They think that if they preach the Law people will respect them, and because of their ambition for fame and profit, they spend their entire present lifetime striving to be thought of as better than others. They use religious teachings to satisfy their own desires.
There are many examples, but the bottom line is don't be a greedy, self absorbed, asshole; instead, be a loving, giving, kind person. It's easier than you think.
Other points to ponder in referencing Hungry Spirits on a July 12th:
In 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne, Protestant forces defeat the Roman Catholic army. This battle for power would go on for years until the two would realize they have more in common than apart when compared to Muslims and Buddhist, and so they joined hands as Christians Against the World -- especially in the USA after the 80's. How wonderful it will be in another 400 years when we realize all religions have more in common than apart and come together as humans. One can only dream for now.
In 1843 on a hot July 12th night in the USA, the leader of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, approves the practice of polygamy as a result of a divine revelation. Hmmmm, not sure what to say here, but to each their own, hungry spirit or not.
Perhaps the greatest example of the force of Hungry Spirits in a group, happened on this day in 1979 when there was an anti-disco promotion at a baseball game in Chicago. The wealthy owners wanting to increase profits (most Hungry Spirit stories begin this way), wanted to fill the seats of a baseball stadium for a losing team and so dubbed a baseball game "Disco Demolition Night."
Deeply discounted tickets to Comiskey Park would be given to people who brought along a disco record to be destroyed. Of course, it turned out to be a Hungry Spirit conference with more people turning out than expected, and they started throwing firecrackers and empty bottles onto the field. They also threw the vinyl disco albums that had not been collected at the gate.
The night climaxed with a popular dics jockey, Steve Dahl, driving onto the field in a jeep before announcing, "This is now officially the world's largest anti-disco rally!... Now listen, we took all the disco records you brought tonight, we got 'em in a giant box, and we're gonna blow 'em up reeeeeeal goooood."
With that, a massive blast sent fiery shards of vinyl 200 feet in the air. The crown roared and thousands of people rushed the field. Anything that wasn't destroyed by the explosion, the mob finished, stealing bases, pulling down batting cages, and dancing manically around the burning remnants of disco anthems.
"Holy Cow!" the famed sports announcer Harry Caray called out to the crowd over the loudspeaker, asking them to take their seats. When the plea received nothing but a taunting response, the ballpark launched into the song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Then the riot police came in and the mob dispersed. The Sox forfeited the game to the Detroit Tigers. Go Tigers!
On July 11th in 1274, Nichiren Daishonin, the Japanese Reformist monk who gave us the form of Buddhism that changes karma in this lifetime by chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo (please try for yourself), writes a letter to a follower (WND, vol1, page 456-459) in which he tells her, "Neither heaven or hell exists outside oneself; both lie only within one's own heart. Awakened to this, one is called a Buddha; deluded about it, one is called an ordinary person. The Lotus Sutra reveals this truth, and one who embraces the Lotus Sutra will realize that hell is itself in the Land of Tranquil Light (heaven)."
He concludes this letter by saying, "...you should base your mind on the ninth consciousness, and carry out your practice in the six consciousnesses."
As I have said before, Nichiren gave us the greatest gift by a religious leader, the gift of changing our lives no matter what we have done in the past. To create a true happiness now, in this life by suffering what there is to suffer, and enjoying what there is to enjoy. The "ninth" consciousness of which he speaks of is nothing more than the nine levels of discernment. The first five consciousnesses correspond to the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. The sixth consciousness integrates the perceptions of the five sense into coherent images and makes judgments about the external world. The seventh consciousness corresponds to the inner spiritual world and generates awareness of the self and the ability to distinguish good from evil. The eight consciousness, called alaya-consciouness, receives the results of one's good and evil deeds and stores them as karmic potentials or 'seeds,' which then produce the rewards of either happiness or suffering accordingly. The ninth consciousness, called amala-consciousness, which remains free from all karmic impurity, is defined as the basis of all life's functions and is identified with the Buddha nature."
In a nut shell, this is how the Lotus Sutra allows us to change past karma today, this moment, and live out a nature, happy life overcoming past karma retribution by simply chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.
In 52 B.C. on July 8th, before it was called "July" after Julius Caesar, July conquered a fishing village called Lutetia Parisiorum. Under Roman rule this city became quite popular and was eventually renamed "Paris." As such, July 7th is still credited as the founding day of Paris. To the victor goes the spoils.
Speaking of the Spoils of War, on this day in 1853 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.S. government, sails into Tokyo Bay, Japan, with a squadron of four vessels. Under threat of attack, the Japanese accepted letters from President Millard Fillmore, making the United States the first Western nation to establish relations with Japan since the slaughter of the Christian Missionaries known worldwide as the Martyrdom of Nagasaki, when Japan turned the Missionaries away and avoided losing their beautiful culture which is still with us today (maybe that's why the U.S. dropped the unnecessary nuclear bomb on Nagasaki to end a war they had already won?).
The Christian martyrs of Nagasaki. 16th/17th-century Japanese painting.
"So what is so esoteric about July 8,"you ask? July 8th, 2022, is the date that Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan was shot over his beliefs in the Unification Church from South Korea. The Unification Church was founded on the standard Christian beliefs left in Korea by the Missionaries that Japan had turned away. The young man, Tetsuya Yamagami, was pissed at the church he once belonged to because his mom gave away most of her earnings to the church, and in the mind of Yamagami, had little to show for it. Yes, the circle was unbroken.
All not bad on July 8th, on this day in 1918, Ernest Hemingway was shot in the ass driving an ambulance for the America Red Cross. In the hospital he did like most wounded soldiers at war do: he fell in love with his nurse, and subsequently, used this experience in his great novel, A Farewell to Arms. A novel I actually counted the word "hand" written over a hundred times. Needless to say my professor wasn't impressed with my work and so gave me an "E" on the paper for "Excellent." That's when I decided I would rather blog, that write. It is a far, far, better thing I do now.... or as Hemingway opened his novel with:
"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in the village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves."
Is it any wonder July 8th just happens to be the day that Percy Bysshe Shelley died in 1822. I'm not sure how many "hands" Percy used in his works, but he did have an interesting take on the Christian missionary saviors of yesterday:
"Christianity
indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the
extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children
have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at
public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and
pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of
the most merciful God."
"I'm not 'Peter the Hermit,' but I am in the Public Domain. So, yes, I am the Hermit Man of which you speak."
And finally, on July 8, 1115, that great guy Peter the Hermit dies. Peter the Hermit is fondly remembered in the Christian history books for killing Jews. Yes, the Nazis Patron Saint.
Despite having been loved for
his strength during WWII, Winston Churchill is voted out of office on
this day in 1945. Seems all the returning war veterans knew that the
Conservative Hard-Ass was good for war, but not good for workers.
They must have remembered all his union-busting, Tory activities before
the war, more precisely his sending in armed soldiers anytime workers
threatened to ask for better working conditions or wages. The most
notable was Churchill’s sending in soldiers to stop a strike by the
Tonypandy minors in 1910. This worked so well in defending the
corporate elite, that Churchill used it again a year later in
Liverpool where two strikers would be shot-down in cold blood simply for
asking for better working conditions. There are other reasons
Churchill probably didn’t get re-elected in 1945, the world was becoming
less racist and Churchill was definitely not. This is obvious from such statements of his as, “I do not
admit that a wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America...By the
fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race
has come in and taken their place.”
Other racial slurs by Churchill include, “I cannot understand this
squeamishness about the use of gas” — this was in regards to his use of nerve gas to beat back an Iraqi revolt in 1920. Then who can forget
Churchill’s distaste for one of the greatest men of the 20th century,
Mahatma Gandhi, who Churchill considered a “fake” and had hoped he would
starve to death (Don’t believe me? Google it).
Okay, Churchill did probably save the world as we know it. I’ll give him that, but in a roundabout way, Churchill gave us something men would adore for years to come, because exactly one year later on July 5th, 1946, French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit inspired by the U.S. atomic test that took place off a Bikini island, Reard dubbed the new fashion bikini. However, this bikini was nothing knew for Churchill, for British women had already worn a bikini that consisted of a halter top and shorts in the 1930's when wartime rationing of fabric saw the removal of the skirt panel and other superfluous material.
So, in a very strange way we have Churchill to thank for the bikini, now don't we?
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In ancient Egypt, July 5 is sacred to the goddess Maat, who presides over truth and wisdom.
July 4th, yes, time to play with fireworks. So, here goes it: no one,
and yes I mean no one understands the Fourth Way, yet, they soon
will. For the times they are a changing, the Nazi emblem is spinning,
and capitalism is going the road of other 'myth' religions. The same
aggressive right-to-be here attitude that gained America from the Native
Americans is now claiming America from the claimers. MAGA is a lunch bucket filled with baloney sandwiches and Capri-Sun
drinks. The USA is not a nationalistic movement. Never has been,
never will be. Grow, Tonto, grow. For the lord of tomorrow is
today.
And all the angels joined in to oppose the Christofascist in love with power.
-- heavenly angelic creature
Lady Liberty
Why is the hotdog one of America's favorite foods?
Besides being associated with the esoteric "Dog Days of Summer," the term dog has been used as a synonym for sausage since the
1800s, with one thought being that it came from accusations that sausage
makers used dog meat, starting in at least 1845.In the early 20th century, consumption of dog meat in Germany was common.The suspicion that sausages contained dog meat was "occasionally justified." Enjoy your meat this summer you ferocious meat eaters. The Reason You Will Drink Too Much Beer This Day, eat Dog Meat, and possibly blow off your index finger with a firecracker?
The Declaration of Independence. Yes, that liberal doctrine that
provided the ideological foundations for the democratic government of
the United States, promoting the idea that the government exists to
serve the people, who elect representatives to express their will. A
"social contract" between people and their rulers, which can be
dissolved if rulers fails to promote the people's welfare for a group of
white supremacist -- I added the last part.
Least you forget, please read the following section out loud today and
take a deep breath, it really is okay to be liberal boys-and-girls, it
is the basis for the founding of this great country: “We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
—
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their Safety and Happiness.”
In ancient times, the 4th of July was the date that Pax, the Roman
goddess of peace and harmony, who was also identified with the Greek
goddess Concordia, was honored with a considerable amount of feasting
and revelry.
We've all grown up hearing the words, "The Dog days of summer." Well, they begin on July 3rd in Northern Tradition. You see, the Pagans of old, long before they were forced to convert to a single god theory or lose their family, looked up at the sky and saw Sirius, the brightest star in the sky alongside the sun in the Northern hemisphere and knew this was no coinkidink, but a sign from thegods.
Nonetheless, here is where July 3 gets its Yin and Yang:
In 1775, on a hot July 3, George Washington formally takes command of the Continental Army by drawing his sword; in 1957 on a July 3, Nikita Khrushchev takes control of the Soviet Union by orchestrating the ouster of his most serious opponents.
In 1969, the founder of the rock band, The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, dies. The guy who played sitar on the song Paint It Black, and the recorder on Ruby Tuesday, is found dead in a swimming pool; in 1971 on this day, Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, a group whose name was a reference to breaking through the doors of perception, is found dead in a bathtub of water.
According to the I Ching, "3" is defined as, "From difficulty there is a great development...." The Yin: "Weak people at the culmination of difficulty, in extreme danger, without any helpers...." The Yang: "If the leadership is correctly oriented, and has the assistance of wise people who are strong and clear minded, then it is possible to solve difficulties."
As a Yin and Yang fresher: Yin and Yang is a Chinese philosophical
concept that describes opposite but interconnected forces. In Chinese
cosmology, the universe creates itself out of a primary chaos of
material energy, organized into the cycles of yin and yang and formed
into objects and lives. In a nut shell, Yin and Yang is the Mystic Law esoteric and exoteric Buddhist obtain by chanting the words "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo."
July 1st, the beginning of the month of July, the seventh month of the current Gregorian calendar and derives its name from Julius Caesar.
The traditional birthstone amulet of July is the ruby; and the larkspur and water lily are the month's traditional flowers.
July is shared by the astrological signs of Cancer the Crab and Leo the Lion, and is sacred to the following Pagan deities: Apt (or Apet), Athena, Sothis, Spider Woman, and Rosea.
In Napal on July 1st people celebrate the festival of Naga Pachami, which is devoted to the snake gods called Nagas. Sacred snake images are adorned with flower garlands and displayed on religious altars, and offerings are made at snake holes. People line the streets for elaborate parades featuring beautifully costumed participants and live serpents.
Roosevelt and His Rough Riders
In history, July 1st is known for, among other things, how in 1898 Theodore Roosevelt and his volunteer cavalry, the Rough Riders, won the Battle of San Juan Hill, the decisive battle in the Spanish-America War. In his book "On This Day in History," Carl M. Cannon quotes Roosevelt's daughter when she said, "her father (Teddy Roosevelt) was someone who never attended a wedding without wishing he was the bride or a funeral without wishing he was the corpse." So history only tells the Roosevelt story; however, there is another important story we're missing: The Buffalo Soldier story. That's right, alongside Roosevelt's fighting militia were the black army men of the 9th Calvary. They were the first to take the hill to victory. Of course, history doesn't show it this way, and Teddy Roosevelt never mentioned the fighting black men in his recounts of the battle. Hmmmm, indeed, a day of snakes. Is it any wonder that July 1st is also the day the television station NBC aired the first official TV commercial in America, creating our modern Orwellian reality of of lies, half-truths, exaggerations, and plain, outright, character assassinations of anyone speaking truth to power!
Bob Marley "Buffalo Soldier" lyrics (Excerpted for the Esoteric)
If you know your history
Then you would know where you're coming from
Then you wouldn't have to ask me
Who the heck do I think I am
I'm just a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America
Stolen from Africa, brought to America
Said he was fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Said he was a Buffalo Soldier, in the war for America
June 30th, if you are like me you are busy as hell. But get this, so what! On this day in 1864 Abraham Lincoln was busy as hell too accepting the nomination of his party for a second term, along with the resignation of his Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, and informed his general fighting the Civil War for him had just lost a gruesome battle at Cold Harbor.
So what does busy Abraham Lincoln do on this day? He reconfirms his call for a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, as well as, signs legislation setting aside a track of land in California that couldn't be used for mining and hunting which gave us our first National Park, Yosemite National Park.
So no matter how busy you may be fighting a war, do something great. Abraham Lincoln wanted it that way.
July is a special month for special people for special reasons.
To
begin with, July 4th is the day that the USA gained its independence
from the British Empire. Now if that isn't special, I don't know what
is.
Americans Revolt
Another special thing about July regarding my Nichiren faith, is that on July 3rd of 1945 a leader of the Soka Gakkai (Josei Toda) was released from prison after refusing to give up his Buddhist faith during the Japanese militarist authorities.
And finally, it was in July of 1921 that Mao Zedong and a dozen other delegates gathered together in secret to form a new political party. That's right, the Chinese communist party...
oppsss,
sorry, anytime I mention Mao Zedong my computer crashes and I get this
message from the Republican Party asking for a donation?... Not sure
what that means.
