July 31, Sir Thomas Malory, Defoe, and Blavatsky

Malory

On July 31st, 1485, Sir Thomas Malory published his masterpiece, Morte d'Arthur.  The legend of King Arthur. 

For those of us in the esoteric know, King Arthur was the Egyptian story of Osiris.  Did Malory plagiarize?  I doubt it, but he did tap into the collective consciousness of the gods, which is a beautiful thing.  As Graham Hancock and others have pointed out:

Osiris's sister Isis was a magician
Arthur's sister Morgan Le Fey was a sorceress

Arthur was murdered by his nephew Mordered
Osiris was murdered by his brother Seth

When Osiris was murdered, his casket was throne into the Nile
When Arthur died, he was placed in a boat that drifted away

The Fisher King's death revolves around fertility rituals
Osiris's death and resurrection involves fertility

The Fisher King is maimed in the thigh, which represents the phallus
Osiris's phallus was important in his myth

Arthur's name actually stems from Osiris: Arthur comes from Asur, also known as Attis, or Adonis. Adonis is also Osiris!...

That's his book, regarding the guy: 

Sir Thomas Malory wrote his book from a prison cell where he spent time in and out for crimes such as robbery, attempted murder, rape... Yes, rape!  Who did he rape?  Well, he raped Joan Smith of Coventry.  These charges were originally on a May 23, 1450, when he was 23.  He was arrested, but then escaped by swimming across the prison moat -- like we all haven't done this in a dream. While out of jail he goes back to the home of Joan Smith and rapes her again on August 6, 1450, and also, by the way, robs her husband while he's at it.  

Of course, now we see how he was arrested for rape, the charges were filed by her husband as property damages to his wife. 

Look how far we've come. 

In 1703, on another hot July 31, another English writer gets into trouble, this time it is author Daniel Defoe, who is put in the pillory for seditious libel due to the the publication of his pamphlet "The Shortest Way with Dissenters." 

The pamphlet was an attack on High Churchmen and other conservatives of the day.  Defoe called them out on their "occasional conformity" and "hypocrisies." Sound familiar?  Seems to be the problem with many world leaders today.  

Defoe was sentences to public humiliation in a pillory (a wooden framework with holes for the head and hands, in which an offender was imprisoned and exposed to the public).  According to legend, the publication of his poem Hymn to the Pillory caused his audience at the pillory to throw flowers instead of the customary harmful and noxious objects and to drink to his health. 

Spent summers in a well
Watching pale moons disappear alone
And crucifixion seems noble
When paradise is hell, atone
I think we're far from home

And now you're free, let go

Jump into white unknowns
But I can't shake it, I can feel it in my bones
I shut my eyes, our hands let go

Spent winters locked away
The snow would swallow everything and drown
A pendulum hangs over me
Forever swinging violently, come down
Please come down on me

And now you're free, let go
Jump into white unknowns
But I can't shake it, I can feel it in my bones
I shut my eyes, our hands let go

I think we're far from home  

Madame Blavatsky

Finally, July 31, 1831, Madame Blavatsky was born in the Ukraine.  She was a writer who after a visit to Tibet, had the mission of spreading "Spiritualism" through the world.  Like her or not, historically, she is more popular than any of the Popes from her time.  I'm just saying. 

~~ Eso Terry

Angels, We All Have Them So Act Like It

No matter what you are or what you do, 

there is an Angel right for you. 

No matter who you hate, or who you love

we all share angels up above,

so act like it! 

damn it!

~~ Eso Terry

I love to talk Angels.  For, they are everywhere. Mine spoke to me once when I was 24 years of age.  I was in a car accident and just before my 1963 VW bug was smashed by a hot rod tank, I felt arms around me and a voice that spoke into my left ear: "It's going to be alright."

I imagine the next time I hear that voice I'll meet her, for she has remained silently in the background since. 

So, let's talk Angels. 

Peace on earth and goodwill to all...  yes, easier said than done, that is, until you add in the one ingredient that could accomplish such a thing?   Angels. 

Why Angels?  you ask!  Well, they are the one common spiritual thing in us all.   That's right, from Jews, to Muslims, to Pagans, to Buddhist, to Erudite Scholars, we all recognize the angels.  

 
The Jews  seem to have the oldest writings on angels written around three-thousand years ago with the three angels that visited Abraham in in Genesis 18: 1-5.  Who were these masked crusaders?  I'm not sure, but it is funny that Abraham is the father of not only the Jewish faith, but the Christian and Muslim faiths.  Hmmmm, can you say Hedge-Your-Bets boys-and-girls?  But I digress, this is a loving, Esoteric Daily post for world peace. 

In the New Testament there are two angels named, Gabriel, who announces to Mary that she will bear a son who will be the promised Messiah (Luke 1: 26 - 38), and Michael, who fights against the Devil (Jude 9; Revelation 12:7).  Both angels had already been named in the Jewish book. 

Then there are the Islamist who's Quran is said to have been transmitted by Gabriel (Jibril) in chapter 2 verse 97.  Yes, the same angel who announced to Mary that she would bear the Messiah,  met up with Mohammad in the desert to give him the Quran.

 

And let's not forget the Buddhist, for my favorite Buddhist Reformist Monk, Nichiren Daishonin, writes of "Heavenly Messengers who have been with one since birth...."   

Although, less obvious, there are angels in Zoroastrianism/Hinduism symbol with its spread wings, and of course with the New Age/Paganism, we see angels in mind, body, and spirit of us all. 


Plato believed that between human beings and the gods were intermediate beings called 'daimons' who could inspire human thoughts and actions. 

So you see, angels are as common all spiritual life, no matter the belief system.  So, let's stop fighting and listen to them.  As I say whenever possible, "We are all in this together, so act like it!"

Come on: all angels are naked!  Gosh, get your mind out of the gutter.

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July 29th is the first day of the runic half-month of Thorn.  Nothern traditon honors the god known to the Anglo-Saxons as Thunor and to the Norse as Thor. 

July 28 The Yin and Yang of It.

Each day has a Yin and Yang, now I won't go into the definition of each, you know, light/dark, feminine/male, but know they are there.  What I will say is that Yin and Yang are a duality of energy that provides balance and harmony.  Yin energy holds the more dynamic yang energy in check, and yang energy keeps yin energy from slipping into stagnation.  Each force dominates and is then replaced by the opposing force in an infinite struggle for harmony.  Yin Yang energy is apparent in the world around us, appearing as opposites like night and day, hot and cold, summer and winter, bla, bla, bla....

And to keep the blog in a quick read, I usually go for one or the other.  Today, it was hard, on one side, on July 28 in 1794, we have Maximilien Roberspierre, a compulsively neat guy, righteous, and not one to drink alcohol or chase woman, and the most feared man in France as head of the Committee for Public Safety where he became the executioner during the French Revolution for sending men and woman to the guillotine like drops of wax from a candle. He called himself "a slave of freedom," in fact he was a mean and vindictive tyrant, who sent his political enemies to the guillotine more often than enemies of the state. 

On the morning of July 28 he was seized by French troops and shot in the lower jaw.  Later that day he was sentenced to death, and around 8pm that evening he was taken to the guillotine where the wrap was pulled off his face and his lower jaw fell open and blood poured from the gaping wound.  A witness said he "let out a groan like a dying tiger."  The blade severed his head from his body, and in a case of instant karma, justice was served. 

A few years later on July 28 in 1835, again in France, Giuseppe Marco Fieschi had an idea to assassinate King Louis Philippe.  He bound 20 guns together and fired the contraption at the king from an upper-story window.  One of the bullets killed the king's horse, another grazed the king's forehead, but the king and his family were unscathed. Fieschi wasn't so lucky, one of the guns backfired and nearly killed him, but didn't, the doctors saved his life so he could experience the same guillotine that Roberspierre had knelt for forty-one years earlier.  

So, that's the very masculine "Yang" of a July 28, then here are my "Yin" findings for this day:

First, on a hot July 28 in the year 1278, my favorite Buddhist reformist priest, Nichiren Daishonin, writes a letter to a lay nun which informs her that all the previous Buddhist teachings that said a woman had to reincarnate as a man before she could attain enlightenment, were bullshit (my words, not his), and that in fact, woman and men both were equal in attaining enlightenment.

Nichiren's letter seems to have set a very mystic finding for a July 28 for in 1893 on a not-so-hot July 28 in New Zealand, a massive women's suffrage petition with over 30,000 signatures was delivered to parliament demanding a woman's right to vote; of course, this would result in New Zealand being the fist developed country to allow woman to vote in September of that same year! 

Speaking of Empowering Woman, on a hot July 28, in the year 1903, Mary Harris Jones leads a protest march to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt to call attention to the abusive corporate practice of using children as laborers: "Hear the wail of the children..." she yelled from her bullhorn, "...children who never have a chance to go to school, but work ten to eleven hours a day in a textile mill!" 

The woman of whom I speak is none other than Mother Jones, who went on fighting for the working class and changing the practices of Corporate Profiteers who still cringe when they hear her name. 

On another hot July 28, in 2016, Hilary Clinton becomes the first woman to accept the nomination for president of a major political party -- unfortunately, I might add, this feat brought out the worse case of "Yang" energy the world has seen in years in the form of Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Donald Trump, but let's not go there, I promised my heavenly messengers I wouldn't discuss politics today.

Talking about July 28, let's not forget that it was on a pleasant July 28th, in 1929, in Southampton New York, that Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born.  The most gracious wife of a world leader to date in the 20th century.

Finally, remember to relax on this hot July 28, for if you are reading this post in 2023, you might be experiencing a little more mental fatigue than normal, for Jupiter stations retrograde in Aries today; which means Jupiter appears to be moving backwards in its orbit.  This will make things fuzzy for few days, but then you'll adjust.  This happens every nine months. It's no big deal.  It's just a time to confront those parts of ourselves we have been neglecting, like, oh, I don't know,

~~ Eso Terry

A Hot July 26, Inquisitional Death and Aldous Huxley.

On a hot July 26 in 1826, the Spanish Inquisition had committed its last murder in the name of God. The secular arm of the church, i.e., the Conservative/Closed Minded/God Party of the day carried out the dirty deed done dirt cheap for the church since the church didn’t believe in murder. That's the "godly" way of doing things, and if you don’t see something wrong with this, my friend, you are not a kind, spiritual, loving person.

 

I'll stop there to avoid politics.  Simply stated: on a hot July 26 in 1826, Cayetano Ripoll was murdered for the grievous crime of insisting that the only necessary religious teaching in his classroom was the keeping of the Ten Commandments. Yes, he didn’t think kissing the Popes ring, attending mass, or condemning the pagans worshiping the heavenly deities on an alter in their homes, a thing to teach in school. Yes, Cayetno Ripoll was a kind, spiritual, loving person, and for that, he got killed for being heretic.  

 

Coincidentally, on this day in 1894, Aldous Huxley was born in England.  This is important on an Esoteric Day like today because, in his book "In Brave New World," Huxley warned of a capitalist-god government distorting truth and calling their hypocritical behavior ‘righteous indignation.’  Sound familiar?  Like a group of politicians today?  Hmmmm. 

Conversely, Huxley was a mystic who lived out his later life in America where he wrote, ‘Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.’ To avoid that capacity in himself, Huxley tried LSD, and he liked it! (EsotericDaily.com warning: LSD, and other psychedelic drugs, unless micro-dosed by a professional, should be taking only a few times in the presence of a Shaman. After a few times, it’s not healthy and can cause physical and/or spiritual death.)

In 1790 on this day the US Congress voted to locate the National Capital on its current site on the Potomac River. The river that Richard Nixon once swam naked in. Don't ask me how I know this, I just do. 

~~ Eso Terry 

July 25 and That Thing Between Your Legs

 

ON a hot July 25th, in 1917, Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle), the archetypal seductive female spy, was sentenced to death in France for spying on Germany's behalf during World War I. 

The history books pretty much say she was a slut, but, the truth is she was a complicated woman doing the best she could in a world where woman were the objects of men, which I believe she used that her advantage.  You see, she had been born poor in the Netherlands, but found her way out of her subservient life by answering a newspaper ad from a Dutch military officer living in Java.  Of course he was an abusive asshole and that marriage didn't work out, and so she escaped to Paris where she took the dances she had learned in Indonesia with her, and created the woman we now know as Mata Hari.  

Yes, she took the world by the balls, and made a name for herself in a world where stinky, bearded men with alcohol and cigar smoke on their breath, wanted a kiss, which she gave them, and the rest is history. 

Was she a spy?  Yes she was, definitely, she admitted it; but, the records of fact show that she was a spy for both sides.  And that, my esoteric friends, her crimes was that she played both sides against each other for her own benefit, which, if she had been a man would have made her a hero; however, since she was a woman beating men had their own game, she got hanged.

ON another hot July 25th, in 1978, Louise Brown was born.  She was the first in-vitro fertilized baby ever born.  Before her birth, all the other "test-tube babies" had ended it failure, something the doctors failed to tell her parents at the time, but that's another story, for another day.  

Louise grew up normal, and at the age of 43 she hasn't led anyone into the gates of hell, as the churches of the day had warned, but she has led thousands of woman to the Netherlands to get in-vitro vertilization, for Holland has the best success rate in Europe.  

Funny, that the same religious quakes telling woman they can't end a pregnancy of a fetus the size of a grain of salt, are also against a woman having a baby without a man's thing inside of her.  Makes you wonder about their whole argument.  I mean, is it really about the life of a baby, or that thing between a man's legs?  That thing Mata Hari knew a thing or two about.  

Speaking of which, on this day in 1984, Svetlana Savitskaya became the first person to walk in space without a thing between her legs.  Yes, the first woman to dangle her thing in outer space without a thing between her legs.

Thomas à Kempis

Also, on this day in 1471, Thomas à Kempis, a humble monk who quietly spent his life in a German monastery writing The Imitation of Christ, which is a great guide to more like Jesus and less like his followers.  Why is this esoteric?  Well, for one, the popular text on how to be a good Christian, was published anonymously in the same birth place as Mata Hari, the Netherlands; and two, when his tomb was opened years later, scratch marks were found inside the coffin where he had been buried alive.  

My thoughts on this, well, the central themes of Kempis' book was how Jesus had risen from the death. Was he that good of a Christian? Something to think about.

In closing, as stated in Michael Farquhar's book "Bad Days in History," George Washington feared the possibility of being buried alive, and so on his deathbed he said: "... do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead...."  Similary, the composer Frederic Chopin said as he was dying, "...swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."  

Yes, that was a thing back then and had the name: Taphephobia.  Taf of fo be ah. This is why some coffins came with air pipes to the surface, and others, had above-ground bells that could be rung from below if the occupant suddenly found himself, and it was a himself back then, alive.  Other people were even buried with weapons to finish the job. 

If that's not esoteric for a July 25th, I don't know what is.

~~ Eso Terry

Texans, O'Henry, and the Buddha Postures Defined.

O Henry

On this day in 1901, William Sydney Porter is released from prison after serving three years in jail for embezzlement from a bank in Austin, Texas.  In jail, he began writing stories to kill his time and earn money to support his young daughter.  Can you imagine how low of a time it was for this guy?  In prison?  No freedom.  A real major f*&k up!
Well, since Karma is as Karma does, prison made this man the writer we all became to know as O. Henry, who, after his release moved to New York and worked for the New York World, writing one short story after another.  In 1904, his first story collection, Cabbages and Kings, was published.  His second, The Four Million, contained one of his most beloved stories, The Gift of the Magi.

So, boys-and-girls, if you find yourself in a prison today, don't frown, there is a reason; and so, take a few breaths, meditate/chant, and see why the universe has you there.  It's all good! As the Buddha of the Later Days of the Law, Nichiren said, "Enjoy what there is to enjoy, suffer what there is to suffer."
 

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! O. Henry
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! O. Henry
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! O. Henry
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Speaking of Buddhas:

Images of the Buddha can be identified by distinctive physical characteristics, postures and hand gestures.  The unique physical features of a Buddha are known by the Sanskrit term lakshana.  The most conspicuous are the ushnisha, a cranial bump indicating special wisdom; the urns, a round tuft of hair between the eyebrows, indicating supernatural vision; short curled hair,indicating the renunciation of worldliness; and long pierced earlobes, indicating boiling (ancient Indian royalty wore huge pierced earlobes that stretched the lobes).  The ushnisha sometimes takes the form of a flame, indicating illumination and a gentle smile on the lips.

The Buddha may also be shown in various postures (asanas), which can be divided into sitting, standing and reclining poses.  The seated postures indicate stillness, as in mediation; the standing postures refers exclusively to the Buddha’s physical death (parinirvana).

Hand gestures (mudras) indicate a specific activity such as teaching, mediating or offering reassurance to specific incidents in the life of the historical Buddha.  In this standing Buddha figure from Sri Lanka, the Buddha’s right hand is raised, palm outwards with the thumb and forefinger together in the gesture of discussing the Dharma (Vitoria mudra).

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Simon Bolivar

In case you forgot, today is the birthday/anniversary of Simon Bolivar, who was born in Catracas, Venezuela on July 24, 1783.  His victories over the Spaniards won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.  In the Latin countries, Bolivar is referred to as The Liberator and the George Washington of South America.  

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Finally, for those of us in Texas experience the "cyclical" earth warming -- yeah, right, it F*(king Climate Change and we all know it -- here is what O Henry had to say about Climate Denying Texans:

The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and cowboys.  The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212. 
               
                                                                                                                            ~~  O. Henry 

July 22: Narrowed Minded Bible, Dillinger, and Detroit.

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?

~~ Eso Terry 

July 21: Shakespeare, Native Americans, Moonwalk.

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:

Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!

When that this body did contain a spirit,

A kingdom for it was too small a bound,

But now two paces of the vilest earth

Is room enough.

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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. 

(The Folio Book of Days, 2002.)

~~ Eso Terry

 

July 17, Secret Society Friendly Fire

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 by the 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. 

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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.

 

Happy Bastille Day, a Great Day to Be a Liberal!

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.  

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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!

Happy Bastille Day!

~~ Eso Terry

John Dee

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. 

July 12th and the Hungry Spirits on Disco Demolition Night in Chicago

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!

~~ Eso Terry 

July 11th and the Gift of Lessoning One's Karma in This LIfe Time.

 

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.

It's a gift.  Use it!

 

~~ Eso Terry