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Post by Goldenfleeced on May 30, 2014 19:13:18 GMT
Alchemically, Salt is derived from the union of Elemental Earth and Elemental Water (or Assiah and Yetzirah), the Secret Fire is ‘hidden’ in the Salt (material body) and represents the unconscious, instinctual forces that seek release. It is sometimes called “Hellfire” in that if uncontrolled, or poorly released, it can reek havoc on the body and psyche of the student, via its purifying effects. This is illustrated by the 31st Path, or Path of Fire, sometimes mistaken for “Purgatory” or “Hell” by the un- regenerated who pass through this Path after death. This Path is also under the direction of Mercury and Shin, the symbols of spiritual guidance and evolution. For those interested in Notarikon, Shin shares the same numerical value, 300, as the Hebrew phrase, “The Spirit of the Living God.”
“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance; but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.” Matthew 3:11www.hermetics.org/Secret_Fire.htmlWildfire... Hellfire... Hellfire Club, you say...? Maybe just 'riders on the storm'... hold on tight, now. We're about to reap the whirlwind... 
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Post by Goldenfleeced on May 30, 2014 19:56:07 GMT
And then... there's this...
Bergère pas de tentation. Que Poussin Teniers gardent la clef. Pax DCLXXXI (681). Par la croix et ce cheval de dieu. J'achève ce daemon de gardien à midi. Pommes bleues.
In English:
Shepherdess no temptation. That Poussin [and] Teniers keep the key. Peace 681. By the cross and this horse of God. I finish off this guardian daemon at midday. Blue apples.
Gardent la clef is often translated as 'hold the key', but this introduces a double meaning that doesn't work in French and which could lead English-speaking researchers astray. Gardent la clef is often translated as 'hold the key', but this introduces a double meaning that doesn't work in French and which could lead English-speaking researchers astray.
For example, it has been suggested that it is a reference to a painting of someone holding a key. Garder means 'to guard' or 'to keep', but not literally 'to hold'.
J'achève means 'I complete' or, euphemistically, 'I kill'. Most commentators take the latter meaning, but here it is translated 'I finish off', as this covers both interpretations.
Although midi means both 'midday' and 'south', the most likely reading of à midi is 'at midday'. (My own thoughts on mid-day concern a time, and times, and half a time... if a day equals 1000 (years), then the half-day, or 'midi,' 'mid-day' occurs... right about now... if we time the days from the anniversary of the first Council Meeting as I counted out for you on another thread.. and then, of course, there is the 'Southern Cross' which might be considered here, as well.)
Working out the meaning of entire message has exercised many minds for decades. The usual interpretations of the individual references are:
• Shepherdess: A reference to Nicolas Poussin's painting The Shepherds of Arcadia
• No temptation: A reference to David Teniers's painting The Temptation of St Anthony
• Poussin and Teniers: Reinforces the above references
• Peace 681: Sigebert IV, the Merovingian survivor, was said to have brought to Rennes-le-Château in the year 681 www.bibliotecapleyades.net/merovingians/merovingios_renneschateau08.htmThis is based on another tune, titled (interestingly) "Seven League Boots"... |
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Post by Goldenfleeced on May 30, 2014 20:06:38 GMT
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Post by Goldenfleeced on Jul 17, 2014 7:24:17 GMT
I think that I might have found my 'Wildfire'...   This is one of the riders of the Apocalypse, from the Bamberg Apocalypse, printed in 1020... the third, I believe. Notice the balances... As to the Hellfire Club, now... it may have been somewhat misunderstood, as well. I found this information to be quite enlightening, mzinly due to the association with the Rosicrucians, generally, and their feelings in regard to the Catholic Church, specifically, with which I find myself to be rather 'sympathetic'... Monks, indeed... or Monk-ees... I should think that would be a 'monk in training'... lolol... Anyway, take a look at this... What is now known as "Hellfire Club" was founded in 1746 by that remarkable character, Sir Francis Dashwood (1708-1781). It was officially known as "The Knights of St Francis" or, more informally, as the "Medmenham Monks": "Hellfire Club" was a name bestowed upon it by critics of Sir Francis and his followers. "Hellfire" Francis was a remarkable character in a remarkable era: he was an MP for over 20 years, he held various important offices (Treasurer to King George III, Postmaster General etc), he was widely believed to be a Jacobite secret agent and a Rosicrucian. He traveled widely during his youth and many believe that his dislike of Catholicism led him to found a mock monastic order.
Sir Francis had a great passion for what we may now call theme clubs: previously he had founded two, the Dilettanti and the Divan Club. The Dilettanti was a club for men that had visited Rome: they dressed in togas and discussed Roman literature and antiquities. As such it has survived until recently. The Divan Club admitted only men who had visited the Othoman Empire: they wore in Turkish garb and met for dinner according to various pseudo-Oriental observances. He was also a member of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society (a prestigious learned society whose members included many Freemasons) and the Mount Haemus Grove (a neo-druidic order believed to have been founded at Oxford in 1245), whose members claimed connection with the so-called Mysteries of Ceridwen of Snowdonia.
The Knights of St Francis were founded and originally met in the "George & Vulture" public house in London, though earlier meetings among founding members may have taken place in Sir Francis' London home, located in Hanover Square. The "Knights" originally met in a reserved room dominated by a great "Rosicrucian" lamp Sir Francis had purchased for the purpose: this lamp was later presented to the West Wycombe church. The club having proven a great success, it was decided to move it to more suitable premises. Accordingly in 1750 Sir Francis leased Medmenham Abbey a few miles from his ancestral home at West Wycombe.
Medmenham was built for the Cistercian Order in the XIII century but was shut down by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of Monasteries (1536-1539), being sold to the Duffield family a little later. The Duffields were only interested in the lands and left the monastery to deteriorate. In 1595 they built a new house nearby, using stones and bricks taken from the abbey. By 1750 the house was very dilapidated and the abbey itself little more than a ruin.
Sir Francis set about the task of rebuilding Medmenham with the help of Nicholas Revett in the mixture of Gothic and Neoclassical styles then fashionable (see for example Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's mansion). The building was completely revamped and a cloister and a tower added. Most of the frescoes were painted by Giuseppe Mattia Borgnis, who had already worked on Sir Francis' West Wycombe manor.
The motto carved over the doorway "Fay �e que voudras"- "do what thou wilt"- has always been interpreted by malicious souls as an invitation to unrestrained excesses but really comes from Rabelais' Gargantua, Sir Francis being well-read in French literature. Rabelais used it as the motto of his imaginary abbey of Thelema by the Loire where monks, instead of the customary vows of poverty, celibate and obedience were all wealthy, married and free to pursue whatever activities they wished. This is probably a reference to the "vows" of the Medmenham "monks".
What the monks were pursuing can be gauged by the contents of the abbey itself: the chapter room contained a bookcase, whose contents ranged from love novels to religious literature, and was well furnished with backgammon tables, musical instruments and decks of cards. The abbey was well supplied with fine wines, claret and port being particular favorite of the English aristocracy which made up the bulk of the Medmenham "monks" but from the documents left it would appear that booze consumption was not out of the ordinary.
Hell on Earth?
In 1751 Sir Francis decided to have the St Lawrence Church restored: as many writers pointed out "an unlikely act for a Satanist". Apparently the main source of inspiration for the restoration was the Sol Invictus temple in Palmyra, recently rediscovered, and the whole church was now seen as a homage to Christ as "Light of the World", down to the large golden globe on the church spire. Despite the large sum spent many people didn't like the church's new looks: many felt it too "heathen" or even likened it to "an Egyptian hall", probably a reference to Freemasonic Lodges.
So what were the Medmenham Monks up to? What were their beliefs? It's hard to tell but, despite allegations to the contrary, Black Masses and Satan Worship definitely weren't practised at Medmenham. Rumours about the "brothers" got increasingly wilder over the years, culminating in 1979 with Martin Ebon's allegations about paedophilia being the main activity of the "monks". It's very difficult to trust many XVIII century sources, let alone the most recent ones. But from what we have been able to patch together it would appear that two different kinds of persons were part of the Knights. The first and most numerous were simply interested in drinking, singing bawdy songs, playing a game of backgammon while talking about horses or popular literature and meeting in privacy with their mistresses. The second, which included Sir Francis himself and others like the celebrated poet Paul Whitehead, were probably genuinely interested in the revival of some ancient "pagan" cults.
Dashwood's interest in the ancient religions is well documented and many clues point in that direction: the Mount Haemus Grove has always been reputed the most "serious" of the neo-druidic orders, a whole wing of his West Wycombe mansion had been turned into a temple to Dionysus (who is not the same thing as Bacchus) and his involvement in the Dilettanti proves he was capable of serious research. If so what was their object of veneration?
As we have already seen Wilkes gave it away when he talked about the Bona Dea, one of the many names by which The Goddess, now so famous thanks the Wiccans, was known in Roman times before Isis worship became so widespread. Gardner himself wrote a lengthy essay about the caves' structure being a homage to The Goddess herself. He was probably wrong on this account but there's little doubt about who was Sir Francis' most beloved deity. More statues of Venus/Aphrodites than any other subject pepper Medmenham and Sir Francis had at least one painting of himself in religious attire worshiping Venus; Robert Graves and the other proponents of the "White Goddess" theory were still two centuries away but it was already known that before the Aryan invaders brought their masculine sky gods, a feminine, motherly goddess was the most worshipped deity in Europe, her cult being so widespread that the invaders could not wipe it out and had to simply take it over.
Lucianus of Samosata often boasted how infinitely superior was The Goddess to the pathetic Olympic deities with their petty squabbles and earthly preoccupations. Does this make Sir Francis and his Knights pagans? It must be understood that being "pagan" was deemed very fashionable among XVIII century gentlemen and learned persons. Even one of the greatest writers of the century, Wolfgang Goethe, often called himself "an old pagan" and his good mate, Friedrich Schiller, even went a step further by calling Christianity "the great swindle that contaminated the whole world".
www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/england/buckinghamshire/occult/the-hellfire-club.htmlInteresting, don't you think...? 'Wildfire' seems to make a fairly bright light... By the Cross and this horse of God, I conquer (complete) the daemon at mid-day...In hoc signo vinces... |
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Post by Goldenfleeced on Jul 20, 2014 22:18:00 GMT
There... that's better... Now, let's continue on our little ride, by letting me introduce you to my 'horses,' and why they are so important to me. The letters of the alphabet are known to the students of Torah as 'horses of fire.' The 'primeval Torah' (which is not the written Torah) is said to be written 'with black fire, written on white fire,' and this 'primeval Torah' is also identified with the Zer Anpin, or 'small face' of 'God.' His likeness, if you Will... And this brings us to the 'Word'... the 'expression' of 'God' in the physical, and by means of which, all that was created came into existence. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... Serendipitously, a new message appeared on the local church announcements board outside lately; it says: "In order to know God, you must know His Word" - CH Spurgeon It was a 'good' message, don't you think? And so true... So, it would seem that we must identify His 'Word'... and to do that, we are going to have to ride those 'horses of fire,' right back to the beginning, to the 'original issuer,' so to speak. In order to do that, we ought to be able to find some sort of a "maker's mark," don't you think? Something that tells us that this is the 'real thing'... and I think we can. ...the famed Hebrew scholar Gesenius noted that Tav was "a sign in the form of a cross branded on the thigh or neck of horses and camels." The form of the cross itself is the archetypal seal and elemental sign of ownership. God Himself used it to identity His faithful Remnant in a vision He gave to the Prophet Ezekiel:
"And the Lord said, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark (תו, tav) upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof..."
The actual Hebrew word translated as mark in this verse is tav, the name of the Twenty-Second Letter. Everyone marked with the Tav Cross was protected when God poured out his wrath on the apostates corrupting His Temple. Similar imagery appears in Revelation 7 when God sealed 144,000 of His servants in their foreheads against the coming judgment. All of this conspires to reveal Tav as the Covenant Letter which is the meaning recognized by both Christians and Jews since antiquity. It is here that we come to an ultimate understanding of the overall structure of Scripture and an answer to the question: Why is the entire Bible built upon the Number 22? It is the Divine Seal of Scripture - a perfect Circle, sevenfold symmetric perfection, sealed with the Cross...
The ancient Rabbinical tradition calls Tav the Seal of God, the Seal of Truth, and the Seal of Creation. Rabbi Ginsburgh, in his article on Tav, identifies the seal as truth (אמת, emet), spelt with the first, middle, and last of the sacred letters. He then says:
The last letter or seal of the word emet, "truth," itself - the seal of G-d's seal - is the letter tav, simple faith, the conclusion and culmination of all twenty-two forces - letters - active in Creation.
www.biblewheel.com/Wheel/Spokes/tav_seal.phpLamentations 4:22
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished (tamam), O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.More good news... In hoc signo vinces |
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Post by Goldenfleeced on Jul 20, 2014 23:18:04 GMT
Now... with the thought of letters as 'horses of fire,' let's press on to our 'Wildfire.' To my way of thinking, 'Wildfire' represents something like 'wild horses,' or, in other words... wild speech... 'crazy talk,' if you Will... strange words. And so they are. Very wild horses, to be sure... What I have to tell you is going to be strange, I'm afraid... to say the least. As a matter of fact, it is something that you will not likely have heard before... anywhere... unless you've been practicing reading between the lines, as well... and to be sure, the Sefir Yetzirah has something to say about that, as well... and we'll get to that, too. Now, that has to do with hair, believe it or not, and on that topic, there is a lot to cover... lolol... Just as an aside on the subject of 'hair,' and believe me, it is actually important in some ways that you probably had never considered... for instance, the word 'Phe-roe' or 'Pharoah' has two meanings, according to what I have read; the first means 'great house,' which seems significant for more and lesser obvious reasons, and the second meaning is 'long hair.' How do you like that? This should be at least suspiciously familiar by now to students of Torah and Kabbalah, and really smacks of 'beginnings,' don't you think? As long as we're on the subject of long hair, there is also Samson, and the lesser-known Merovingians... who were known (among other things) as the 'long-haired kings.' Just something to consider, since we're looking at symbols and signs... But, back to our 'wild horses'... I intend to ride them back home. David advises reins... but I might drop them for a bit; just like you wanted it... |
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Post by Goldenfleeced on Jul 21, 2014 0:51:02 GMT
Now, let's jog back a pace, and pick up the trail where we left the Hellfire Club. There's definitely a connection between our paths, and I suspect that you're beginning to see it, too, although goodness knows, these paths that we'll be taking have been passed by for broader thoroughfares for many, many years and so, they have been left to the 'weeds,' or 'tares,' for the most part, such as some of the members of dear Sir Francis's 'Hellfire Club' seem to have been. In fact, the narrow path that we are seeking has become something of a 'goat-track,' for lack of use. And somehow, this trail leads us to the Pyrenees (Mountains of Fire), and Mari... Mari was the supreme goddess of the ancient Basque religion, and she was also known as Maia. Her cosmic symbol was the sun and its graphical representation was the solar disc called 'lauburu' (it means 'four heads'). The 'lauburu' can vary the number of its arms, although the most widespread and known by the Basques is the one with four arms. The solar discs are found in all the ancient Eurasian cultures from the Iberian peninsula to Alaska and even in the ancient American civilizations, with their respective modifications. The 'lauburu' or Basque cross is easily found today in the tombstones of the Basque Country cemeteries instead of using the christian cross, a custom that still remain since the ancient rites of Mari's religion...
When the structure of the Imperial Rome collapsed and the Germanic invasions began, a reaffirmation of the Basque culture against the Latin status arose in the Pyrinean area in view of the new situation. The union of the different Basque tribes against the Germans did not only cause the emergence of Common Euskara for all the Basques, but also the standardization of the religious worship since the legends about Mari are common to both sides of the Pyrenees. Those legends also keep remains of ancient gods like Ortzi (similar to the Scandinavian Thor), with some variations of his name like Urtzi, Ost, Ortz, Egu, In or Inko, which are present in the root of the nouns that are used to name the days of the Basque week: 'ostegun' (day of the sky = Thursday) or 'eguen' (day of the sky = Thursday in Biscayan), as well as the weather incidents like 'inar' (beam of light, spark), 'inusturi' (thunder), 'inontz' (dew), 'ortziri' (thunder) or 'osti' (storm), among others. This suggests a sky worship since that is the meaning of the name Ortzi and its variants, where we can observe a clear Indo-European origin that was possibly introduced by the Celts. This worship was the most geographically widespread after the cult of Mari. It is likely that the cult of Mari was spread or reinforced by the Vascones of Navarre in the areas in which this religious worship was previously held, as a consequence of their leadership on the Basque tribes. This expansion would involve the reaffirmation of the local deities against the ones of foreign origin. The Basque religious worship, of prehistoric origin and with a matriarchal profile, had many similarities with the one of the Minoan Crete (of prehistoric origin as well) and represented a subterranean deity as a supreme goddess, as opposed to the Indo-European gods that were mostly celestial and with a patriarchal profile. This cult that was progressively enriched by the influence of Iberians and Celts over the centuries, would finally impose on the other Basque gods of Celtic, Roman or Iberian origin during the Frankish-Visigothic period, and even on the Indo-European Ortzi (celestial deity), although this god would not disappear completely: the Codex Calixtinus, wrote by the Gaul cleric Aumeric Picaud in the 12th century during his pilgrimage to Santiago, shows a passage in which the writer indicated that the Basques he met in his way referred to God as Urcia.
The goddess Mari usually takes zoomorphic shapes when she is at her underground dwelling (bull, ram, billy-goat, horse, snake, vulture...) and becomes human when she is out. Her appearance corresponds to a long-haired, beautiful and slim woman dressed in a red tunic that extends down to her feet. She also wears a golden ribbon on her forehead and holds a golden castle in her right hand. A dragon (Herensuge) winds itself around her feet, over which stands the figure of Mari. Her underground dwellings are placed in the highest mountains of the Basque Country: Anboto, Oitz or Txindoki, among others. Mari changes her home every seven years and when she moves to her new dwelling, she becomes a sickle of fire that flies through the sky with a great noise. This religion had a trinity, which comprised Mari and her two sons: Atarrabi (who represented the Good) and Mikelats (the representation of the Evil), from whom the rest of deities and spirits, both good and bad, arose. Mari also had a husband called Sugaar (the 'Male Snake', that was translated to medieval Romance as 'Culebro'), that was also known as 'Maju'. The resemblance of the names Maju and Maia (the other name of the goddess) suggests that Maju or Sugaar was nothing more than the masculine representation of Mari. Therefore, this was the way of expressing that every existing being came from Mari and was part of her nature. - See more at: www.kondaira.net/eng/TEuskara0017.html#sthash.rm6yz4Qm.dpufSo... we can probably associate the 'Hellfire Club' with one of the earliest versions of the 'Bona Dea' (sounds a lot like Bon Dieu, yes? Yes...); Mari. And we can associate Mari with a symbol, known as the 'Lauburu.' perhaps the 'original' version of your four-armed cross, or Tau (Tav). Here it is... in situ, as it were...  And here, you see it sketched... and 'between the lines,' I imagine that you can find other symbols 'buried;' for instance, the yin-yan, and even the German swastika...  So, Mari is 'The Lady in Red'... and what do you know? Here's one now, also known as 'Mary'... this is a painting of Mary, the Magadalene... or, Mary, the Alchemist... or is it Mary, the Prophetess...?    I thought that the above bolded portions were worth pointing out... Notice the similarity mentioned in the first passage to your mythical 'Enki,' as well as the name 'Urcia,' which is nearly the same as Ursa, or Bear... Right, Arthur? I believe that's right... Baaahahaha... |
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Post by Goldenfleeced on Jul 21, 2014 2:36:41 GMT
Lolol... 'stone' ponies... My pony's name was 'Sparky;' Caroline Kennedy's pony's name was 'Macaroni.' Just sayin...  |
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Post by Goldenfleeced on Jul 21, 2014 2:41:51 GMT
Where a 'friend' is a friend...
*sighs*
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