Paracelsus

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THEOPHRASTUS BAUMBAST VON HOHENHEIM,
Commonly known as Paracelsus, Swiss
Physician, Alchemist and Occultist of the sixteenth century,
Born on the 10th November, 1493, at Sihlbrücke,
Near Einsiedeln, Canton Schwyz,
Died on the 24th September, 1541, at Salzburg.

"Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven."

Japan's cavalier approach to its nuclear crisis has forced one government official to give up his post. Bloomberg reports that Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan accepted the resignation of  a nuclear advisor today.


The government accepted the resignation of Toshiso Kosako, a professor at the University of Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a press conference in the capital today. The adviser disagreed with the maximum annual radiation exposure allowed in elementary schools, Edano said, adding there was a “misunderstanding.”...
Kosako resigned in protest against the government’s “impromptu” handling of the crisis and delays in bringing the situation under control, Kyodo News reported, citing comments made by the adviser at a press conference yesterday. Kosako disagreed with the maximum annual radiation exposure of 20 millisieverts allowed by the government in elementary schools, according to Edano.
“We’re not saying it’s OK for children to get exposed up to 20 millisieverts,” he said. “We’re trying to reduce children’s radiation exposure as much as possible. Our plan would be much lower than 20 millisieverts a year.”

It was only a misunderstanding. Ignoring laws and prolonging the crisis is a "misunderstanding." What I do not understand is why the Japanese government has been so stingy with information on radiation emanating from the wreck at Fukushima Daiichi. What I do not understand is why the government of Japan has not frog-walked TEPCO executives to jail for falsifying information and ignoring safety rules. But I suppose their reasons are the same reasons no Wall Street crooks have been arrested here in the United States. Governments are now wholly owned subsidiaries of the corporations. Our politicians have no sympathy or empathy with the people, they only obey their Masters in the hidden mansions and  board rooms of the world. 

"The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars."

The Mainichi Daily News reports that a member of a panel advising the government on earthquake reconstruction plans does not want Fukushima prefect to continue to produce nuclear power. 

"I want Fukushima to make the decision to abandon nuclear power, independent from government policy discussion," the 57-year-old panel member, Norio Akasaka, told the Mainichi.

Watch your back, Norio.

Bloomberg reported this week that radiation readings inside the reactors are the highest yet. I suppose that means radiation escaping the reactors must be pretty pretty high. But it is difficult to come by such information.

"It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians."

The New York Times tells us that old nuclear plants are "cash cows" because they can be bought much more cheaply than new ones can be built. I might ad that these buyers of nukes have no liability for damages they inflict on the people or the planet since the government has hoodwinked the people into indemnifying these dangerous monstrosities for free. Let's start sending insurance bills to the nuclear industry based on real potential for damage, death and loss. Or, the people could simply stop indemnifying any nuclear plant, or at least those operating after their posted lifespans. The market for old nuclear plants will then collapse.

Meanwhile, there is no investor sentiment to invest in new nuclear plants. Only the United States government seems enthusiastic about pouring billions of dollars it does not have into the nuclear industry for construction. Someone ask our President at his next press conference about this. Please. 

The 19th Figure

'Thou art leaping about in thy garden and art well pleased with thyself; but giving up thy wisdom and following thy pleasure thou makest bad use of thy leapings. Therefore shall it happen to thee even as thou art lying there, and those that should be thy peace will hunt thee and force thee to leap high. But take thought with thyself and consider that human things are vain. Then wouldst thou become altogether changed and wouldest be safe from the misfortune into which thou doest daily walk. Bethink thyself that pride and ill-manners never ended well.'-The Nineteenth Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus

Euthanization of animals starving and neglected in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone has begun.

The 16th Figure

'A child that goes to school and learns, when it arrives at years of discretion is ashamed of its childish work and destroys it. Thus shall it also happen to thee. As thou writest in such a manner thine own work shall be nought. For which reason there will be much labour for nought and in vain. For the time teacheth and giveth knowledge that not every pearl is a true pearl that is alleged so to be. Therefore a hand shall fall upon thee that will tear thee to shreds.'-The Sixteenth Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus

Two senior Japanese officials stated that four of the six reactors at Fukushima Daiichi  have a chance of further catastrophic events and are remain volatile. 

The 2nd Figure

'A flower groweth to the destined height. He that causeth her to grow also causeth her to fade. This happens to thee, for Magic hath therewith adorned thee, that thy coming up should be known, and also how thou has come to nought. For before thou wast, Magic hath known thee and therefore compared thee to a flower, that to-day is in bloom and to-morrow is withered. Wisdom and Fear of God would have preserved thee, but thou has overlooked it, thine own wisdom hath seduced thee.'-The Second Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus

Information about the spread of radioactivity in Japan is being suppressed. 


The chief of the Meteorological Society of Japan has drawn flak from within the academic society over a request for member specialists to refrain from releasing forecasts on the spread of radioactive substances from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
In the request posted March 18 on the society's website, Hiroshi Niino, professor at the University of Tokyo, said such forecasts, which he says carry some uncertainty, ''could jumble up information about the government's antidisaster countermeasures unnecessarily.''.....
Niino later said in commenting on the intention he had in issuing the statement, ''If (society members') forecasts were announced, it would have carried the risk that ordinary people may panic.''

But Toshio Yamagata, another University of Tokyo professor who is a member of the society, said meteorological scientists have the responsibility to encourage the government to take the right course of action by announcing their forecasts ''especially when a country is going through a critical situation.''
''Our society has degenerated into a bureaucratic entity,'' he warned.

That says it all. 

The Japanese bureaucracy has relaxed hair cutting laws to allow barbers to cut hair in evacuation shelters instead of approved barber shops.

The 11th Figure

'Although the sun did once shine upon thee, and thou hast glutted thyself with food and plunder, and wast sitting among the honeycombs, yet thou hast not wisely considered the end, and hast forgotten the winter; therefore he taketh away thy pleasure, and will compel thee to suck thine own paws. For as thou art bear-like, and has no further reason, Magic hath driven thee into the toils that thou shouldst be known. But if the wit of man had been thine, the winter would not have overtaken thee.'- The 11th Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus


Back home more tornadoes have continued to kill more people (339 at last count)  and destroy more churches of those who strongly believe in Jesus and disbelieve in climate change in a part of the country run by politicians who hate the federal government but are now asking for its help. 

Reports of looting are widespread in the afflicted areas. 

'Thou hast divided duty into left and right, as if it were oppressing thee. Both sides will cause thee anxiety and hatred shall altogether overcome thee. For a harlot divideth her wantonness and for a while she hath her way, but woe to her when her deceit is discovered. Then cometh true the saying, "no love without pain." Although thou didst mightily rejoice that thou art without a head, a head shall be placed upon thee and thou shall become a limb, though thou art not accustomed to it. But against thy will shalt thou swallow and eat what is not thy natural food.'- The Fourth Figure of the Prophecies of Paracelsus

The 4th Figure

Links: The Prophecies of Paracelsus

Oliver Cromwell, attributed to Anthony Van Dyck

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Presented with the assistance of Oliver Cromwell 
b.25 April 1599 – d.3 September 1658
Called "Old Ironsides" he was a Puritan and a Roundhead soldier in the Civil War,
who brought down the Monarchy,
oversaw the execution of Charles I,
which he called a "cruel necessity" and,

Became Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Within two years of his death the Monarchy was restored, 
His body was disinterred from Westminster Abbey, 
Hung on the gallows then beheaded by Charles II.
His head was publicly displayed on Westminster Hall for 25 years. 

Ollie's Wax Death Mask in the British Museum

"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."

The death toll is now 178 and rising [now at 292 at 7PM EDT Thursday]  in the wake of the latest round of tornadoes to rip through the South this week.
155 tornadoes were reported in the United States  yesterday by the Storm Prediction Center, bringing the number to over 800 this month.
Monday in Pulaski County Arkansas the Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church was destroyed.
The Mamre Baptist Church near Peek's Hill, Alabama was destroyed and a man was found dead in the debris, one of 65 who died in the storms in the state.
The Ford Chapel United Methodist Church in Harvest, Alabama, the oldest of that denomination in the state was destroyed yesterday.

The New Bethel Baptist Church in Cherokee County, Alabama lost its roof and steeple. 

In Mississippi the Smithville Baptist Church and neighboring Smithville United Methodist Church were both destroyed.

The First Baptist Church in Cullman, Alabama was heavily damaged. 

In Autaga County Alabama the Boone's Chapel Baptist Church was heavily damaged. 

Last week's tornadoes damaged or destroyed many other churches throughout the South including the Zoar Baptist Church in Deltaville, Virginia. The destruction did not deter Easter worshipers who held outdoor services. 

Christ Church in Wetumpka Alabama was destroyed April 24 last year on Easter Day. This Easter the church broke ground for a new nave and sanctuary. 

"No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged."

Slate Magazine asks the question "Did industry-government collusion contribute to Japan's nuclear disaster?" in an article title "Nuclear Incest" today which relies heavily on a report in yesterday's New York Times. "Culture of Complicity Tied to Stricken Nuclear Plant"

"A 10-year extension for the oldest of Daiichi’s reactors suggests that the regulatory system was allowed to remain lax by politicians, bureaucrats and industry executives single-mindedly focused on expanding nuclear power. Regulators approved the extension beyond the reactor’s 40-year statutory limit just weeks before the tsunami despite warnings about its safety and subsequent admissions by Tokyo Electric, often called Tepco, that it had failed to carry out proper inspections of critical equipment." -The New York Times

Meanwhile, the latest scheme to prevent radiation from seeping into the sea at Fukushima Daiichi is to build a gigantic holding tank at the site to hold all the radioactive water being created from the frantic cooling activities going on at several locations at the complex. There is no word on how long it will take to build such a huge tank or whether it will be engineered to be earthquake proof. 

TEPCO reports that one of their woman employees was exposed to high radiation at the site but she has not displayed any symptoms of radiation poisoning so far.

Meanwhile Goshi Hosono, Prime Minister Naoto Kan's special advisor on management of the nuclear crisis. said "There is no way Tokyo or Kyoto will come into harm's way." and that the crisis was receding.

"Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry."

General Electric has its best profit outlook  in a decade despite the uncertainty in the nuclear industry which is an important part of its business. All the plants at Fukushima Daiichi are of GE design and two were built by the company. 

Afterward..

"I have seen in this revolution a circular motion of the sovereign power through two usurpers, father and son, to the late King to this his son. For ... it moved from King Charles I to the Long Parliament; from thence to the Rump; from the Rump to Oliver Cromwell; and then back again from Richard Cromwell to the Rump; then to the Long Parliament; and thence to King Charles, where long may it remain."- Thomas Hobbes

Ambrose Bierce, as he appeared in 1892
 born June 24, 1842, disappeared December 26, 1913, 

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Assisted today by Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary

HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.

Authorities continue to withhold accurate radiation reading emanating from Fukushima Daiichi and spreading around the world. Only radioactive iodine is being somewhat monitored, which, with its relatively short half life,  is the least of our worries.

HEAVEN, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.


EX-SKF blogger gives us the fantastic story today that the symbol or mascot of the Fukushima Daiichi Plant 1  is the ostrich. He is not kidding. The Yomiuri Shinbun reports today, so far only in the Japanese edition as far as I can tell, that there is an ostrich farm with thirty of the pathetic creatures that have been left to die for lack of care in the evacuated area near the plant. Why the ostrich? Fukushima Daiichi public relations states:
"Just like an ostrich that grow big on small feed, the nuclear power plant that generates large amount of electricity with small amount of uranium"

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

The Wall Street Journal tells us that officials are inspecting wrecked Plant 1 for leaks today with robots.  I suspect this attempt to discover the location of leaks that must be patched before continuing with a scheme to fill the damaged and cracked plants with water in an attempt to stall the continuing meltdowns of reactor cores will unfortunately be futile. There are also leaks in the spent fuel rod pool at Plant 4 that must be repaired unless they are happy with a situation that requires constant addition of water to prevent waste fuel ignition, which creates tons and tons of new radioactive water which will end up in the Pacific Ocean. The more I think about it, the more I believe that this huge mangled beast will never be tamed. This mess is going its own way no matter what the authorities say. 

IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

Protesters in the UK are complaining about the Prince Charles' guest list for the upcoming nuptials of his son. They are upset that some of the royal attendees include various princes and kings from countries mostly in the Middle East and dictators from Commonwealth nations which are not quite up to their standards in granting civil rights to their people. 

Don't these people understand that their Royals created those Royals and dictators? 

From bad comes bad. 

Protest the fact that you have your Own Parasitical Royals, not the fact that they tend to hang out with their spiritual offspring. 

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

The Huffington Post presents to us a handy interactive map that shows the location of nuclear plants around the world. It makes it easy to check how close you live to a death dealing device from Hell and how old and dangerous it is. They try to suggest that "legal costs" helped prevent plants being built since Chernobyl, which is relatively insignificant in a totally subsidized industry.  Ignore the BS about how much greenhouse gas has been prevented by these plants. That is pure propaganda from the nuclear industry akin to telling someone he  has fortunately avoided further leg injuries since having that double amputation.

MEDAL, n. A small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic. It is related of Bismark, who had been awarded a medal for gallantly rescuing a drowning person, that, being asked the meaning of the medal, he replied: "I save lives sometimes." And sometimes he didn't.

TEPCO released a vague, poorly labeled and confusing radiation map of Fukushima Daiichi on April 23. 

OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.

The India Express quotes the determined Srikumar Banerjee, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) who says there is "no substitute" for nuclear energy and that the country is going forward with the Jaitapur project: 

“Around 40 per cent of the country’s population does not have access to electricity. If providing power to those deprived of it is important for growth, then there is no substitute to nuclear energy. Coal, for instance, won’t last forever. Also, if we consider coal as the option to produce energy, then we would be increasing the carbon dioxide emission by 50 per cent, which, on the backdrop of depleting environmental conditions is not feasible. Nuclear energy is thus sustainable energy, not for decades but for centuries. Also the volume of nuclear waste is very small.” 

Of course, they are doing it for the people. 

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Yesterday Emperor Akihito ate fish caught at the town of Kitaibaraki forty miles from the Fukushima Daiichi plant. "I felt calm when I saw His Majesty's face. Tear came to my eyes." said a 74 year old survivor at a shelter he was visiting yesterday. 

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

Young Mr. Crowley

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From the "Wickedest Man In the World" 
Aleister Crowley 1875 - 1947

"It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel; for that is the particular secret of each one of us; a secret not to be told or even divined by any other, whatever his grade. It is the Holy of Holies, whereof each man is his own High Priest, and none knoweth the Name of his brother's God, or the Rite that invokes Him."
Book 4, One Star in Sight

Hidden, hidden, hidden away in a small little story today in the Daily Yomiuri Online  we find the information that radiation from plant 1 alone is leaking into the atmosphere at 154 terabecquerels per day. Previously, on April 5,  authorities from the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission had assured the world that radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi complex was "less than 1 terabecquerel per hour."  Our imagination flies to the stars meditating on the nature of the occult knowledge the nuclear priests are guarding from the eyes of the uninitiated. 
Garnered from Japanese blogger EX-SKF via Natural News. 

"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach." 

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan is under pressure to step down after his Japan Democratic Party suffered defeats in local elections Sunday. A new puppet may be pulled out of the trunk but the Wizards behind the curtain will continue to pull the strings. 

“‘All in this kind are but shadows’ says Shakespeare, referring to actors. The Universe is a Puppet-Play for the amusement of Nuit and Hadit in their Nuptials; a very Midsummer Night’s Dream. So then we laugh at the mock woes of Pyramus and Thisbe, the clumsy gambols of Bottom; for we understand the Truth of Things, how all is a Dance of Ecstasy.”
-Commentary to the Book of the Law, II:9

High resolution photographs reveal in all its splendour the nuclear plant complex at Fukushima Daiichi. Blogger Lucas Whitfield Hixson walks us through the photographic evidence which reveals the extremely dangerous nature of the damage at the MOX fueled reactor at plant 3. He deduces that the top of the reactor and the containment vessel itself was blown off by the hydrogen explosion that occurred within the reactor itself, releasing plutonium and spent fuel into the atmosphere. 

"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."

The fishing industry in Japan may have been dealt a fatal blow by the tsunami and its related issues reports the San Francisco chronicle:
"Thirty years ago we used to think Japan was the number one fishing country in the world, with the best catching and processing methods, but that's really no longer the case," Ryosuke Sato, chairman of the Kesennuma Fisheries Cooperative Association, said in an interview in the town, 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Tokyo. "We've been in terminal decline."


"Every serious or spiritual thought is made a jest; poets are thought "soft" and "cowardly," apparently because they are the only boys with a will of their own and courage to hold out against the whole school, boys and masters in league as once were Pilate and Herod; honour is replaced by expediency, holiness by hypocrisy. Even where we find thoroughly good seed sprouting in favourable ground, too often is there a frittering away of the forces. Facile encouragement of a poet or painter is far worse for him than any amount of opposition."

- Energized Enthusiasm


The market for silver has taken off. The $1500 per ounce price of gold is at an all-time high in our magick fiat dollars, yet many have just realized that the price of silver related to the price of gold is at a historical low, despite the fact that at $44 an ounce, silver is also at an all time high. This reveals about a 34:1 gold to silver price ratio. Over the centuries this ratio has coursed around 14:1. This fact alone tells us that silver has a long way to go before it reaches its natural value. (The cynic might say that gold has a long way to fall.) Silver is more important industrially than gold in our day and it is required for many of our electronic toys, your high definition TV and cell phone being two of them.
Silver has also been the precious metal whose value has been repressed for a hundred and fifty years by the teeter-tottering modern banking system headquartered in the City of London.
$100 an ounce silver is a very reasonable expectation.
Some are predicting much higher prices. 

There, in that sanctuary of silences,

There is a Word,

The Word that built the city, never heard

By any of those archangel phalanxes,

Unuttered even in the holy heart

Of God, or breathed by its own lightning breath,

Since from all being it stands ever apart,

Its name being Life, and that name's echo Death.

 The City of God

We find out that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and his colleagues proposed in 2010  that the early universe had one dimension and acquired more as the universe developed and expanded until it reached the three dimensional nature we are familiar with today. The Universe may assume a four dimensional nature in an expanded future. 

"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty."

Authorities in Malaysia are sending boys with feminine mannerisms to a boot camp designed to train them in proper masculine behaviour reports OnIslam.net

"This is a character-building program,” Daud was quoted by The New Straits Times as saying.
“We hope the students will emerge stronger, physically and mentally, after attending the camp.
The minister said that the camp is the first of many series in the program.
“The first batch is made up of boys, aged between 13 and 17, who happen to display some feminine characteristics."
Daud said the camp does not aim to change the students' sexual preferences and has nothing to do with anti-gay sentiments.
"These boys were without many friends before but chances are, after the camp, they will be much stronger and emerge with a higher level of self-confidence." The minister denied that the camp was a military-style, adding that students only march in unison every morning.
"But the rest of the day would be filled with activities such as jungle trekking, paintball, aerobic workouts and several other fun activities," [State education department director Razali] Daud said.
The program also includes religious lectures, visits to local mosques and interaction with local residents.
"They would be divided into groups and each group would be assigned tasks, including hoisting the national flag and reciting the Rukun Negara (a national ideology which is supportive of religion),” the minister said.


 This is a heartwarming tale. The boys will make friends for life at this camp. 

SWEET, sweet are May and June, dear,
        The loves of lambent spring,
      Our lamp the drooping moon, dear,
        Our roof, the stars that sing;
      The bed, of moss and roses;
        The night, as long as death!
        Still, breath!
      Life wakens and reposes,
        Love ever quickeneth!

Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden,
        The motley months of gold,
      Swoop down with sunlight laden,
        And eyes are bright and bold.
      Life-swelling breasts uncover
        Their warm involving deep --
        Love, sleep! --
      And love lies with lover
        On air's substantial steep.  

  Venus, TANNHAUSER

"Lam" 1918, portrait by Aleister Crowley of the extra-dimensional entity he invoked, used as the frontispiece to his commentary on Blavatsky's, The Voice of the Silence, with this description: "LAM is the Tibetan word for Way or Path, and LAMA is He who Goeth, the specific title of the Gods of Egypt, the Treader of the Path, in Buddhistic phraseology. Its numerical value is 71, the number of this book."